CITY Newspaper, January 3-9, 2018

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Cobbs Hill Village project deserves your support

Our non-profit, Rochester Management, is very proud of our ability to provide quality, affordable housing to those in need in Rochester, including senior citizens, veterans, students, and low-andmiddle income individuals.

However, one critical project, the redevelopment of our affordable senior housing community Cobbs Hill Village, has not yet begun. As someone deeply committed to serving those who are often overlooked, I feel compelled to speak out about the need for this modernization and expansion project to commence.

There is a dire need for affordable housing for seniors. Anyone who is looking for themselves or who has searched on behalf of a relative aged 55 and older will readily tell you that there are no immediate openings available at this time unless you can afford market-rate rents. We have hundreds of seniors on our waiting lists for senior communities in Rochester. If we have the resources to help address this shortage, we have the responsibility to do so.

Cobbs Hill Village has been a part of this community for decades.

It has served as an ideal location for affordable senior housing for 60 years, and we should rebuild the community now in order to better position it for long-term sustainability. It is situated next to the Monroe County Water Authority and has no other homes immediately adjacent to it. This non-parkland parcel has been zoned high-density residential use since 1957. We have no desire to change that. The modernized Cobbs Hill Village will remain on this same parcel, not infringing in any way on the park.

We are committed to improving the living conditions for our 60 current residents and to serving more seniors in Rochester through our modernization plan. The current 10 buildings, with cinderblock interior walls, outdated mechanicals, 2 CITY

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and limited square footage, do not allow seniors to continue to live independently with ease and dignity. Our plans to replace these outdated buildings with two modern multi-unit buildings and a row of townhomes will allow us to add modest amenities that will greatly improve the lives of our elderly residents. Improved accessibility, energy efficient HVAC systems, a small fitness room, and computer lab are just a few examples.

Our seniors are important members of this community who have worked and volunteered for many businesses and organizations that serve everyone in the community. If we have the ability to help our seniors retain their independence and age in place, that is exactly what we should do.

This redevelopment of Cobbs Hill Village must begin. We cannot allow the voices of people who are only thinking of themselves and keeping others out of their neighborhood to distract us from doing the right thing. All people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, economic resources, or disability, must be allowed to continue to live in this beautiful area of Rochester… just as they have since 1957.

PEGGY HILL

Hill is president and CEO of Rochester Management, Inc., which operates Cobbs Hill Village.

Merry Christmas to all. . .

You have to hand it to those pragmatic Republicans: they see a problem and set about trying to fix it. The problem? “Today, the top 1 percent of households own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined” (The Washington Post).

The fix? Massive, permanent tax cuts to the top 1 percent. That way, we can create a permanent American aristocracy of inherited wealth, and look forward to the incompetent sons of the wealthy class ruling us forever. Sound a bit like the England of George III, from which our forefathers and -mothers revolted? . . . and to all a good night.

JONATHAN BALDO

Sinclair’s propaganda isn’t ‘news’

On our report on Sinclair Broadcasting’s

“must run” conservative segments on its local television stations, including Rochester’s WHAM 13: Thank you for

“Masked Media,” your important, well-done December 20 cover story.

It’s an example of how actual local journalism works.

However, you’re too generous in the sub-head describing Sinclair-Channel 13 as promoting “a conservative view.”

More accurately, as the article itself notes, Sinclair is presenting as “news” what is slanted, biased propaganda promoting racial and ethnic stereotypes that fit a right-wing agenda.

Sinclair is merely following a variation on the Murdoch FoxWall Street Journal business model.

Today’s broadcast and cable news is about infotainment, which isn’t to be confused with journalistic integrity seeking accuracy and observable truth.

Channel 13’s general manager, Chuck Samuels, cleverly elides the Sinclair-mandated content issue by stating that corporate HQ hasn’t told Channel 13 to slant local news stories. What integrity!

Of course it’s hard to slant coverage of fires, weather, and highschool sports. But, as Samuels knows, that’s not what either the article or national stories about Sinclair’s injection of mandated content into its local stations refers to.

Samuels clearly has memorized the Sinclair corporate’s PR talking points about “different views” being showcased in the segments shown locally as mandated by Sinclair.

Different? Mark Hyman and Boris Epshteyn’s are offset by what contrasting views? I guess they are different than Michael Savage or Sean Hannity, at least in name.

On the other hand, Samuels was honest about what local broadcasting “news” is about: numbers and the advertising dollars that follow; if it works and makes money, who cares if it’s full of halftruths and re-enforces bigotry?

Sinclair is just the latest outcome of eliminating the Fairness Doctrine, along with successive administrations allowing six conglomerates to own 80 percent of the media, including the “news” sources that most Americans use.

The result? Coverage of celebrities and “on the one hand, on the other” sports-like commentary by paid pundits: marketing and PR not to be mistaken for journalism in the age of digital media.

ROBERT SHEA

I have had enough of the local news broadcasts for various reasons. One of the local stations had the leadin as “Live, Local, and Up to the Minute.” The local newscasts are anything but that. I now call it the Commercial Hour.

Channel 13 recently started the newscast with four minutes of local news. It then had a full two minutes of national news re-hashed followed by another two minutes of commercials. The next segment of two minutes was again a re-hash of national news, and so on. All total, there were seven minutes of national news and 13 minutes of commercials.

There was a lot of the “Stay tuned at 6 or 11 for the full story.” You either get half of the news story or half of the weather report. Who has the time to watch a “local newscast” for a whole hour to get all of the details when we can get it all with the click of a mouse on the web?

Everything is “Breaking News.” It is like the boy who cried wolf.

Channel 10 has laid off its best news and weather people. Now Channel 13 is using the far-right, subversive technique of putting on the propaganda segments “Full Measure” and “Terror Watch,” subliminal messages similar to the ones used in brainwashing. Respected anchors like Don Alhart, Ginny Ryan, and Norma Holland have lost their integrity with the corporatemandated editorial shift to the right.

I just do not trust Channel 13 anymore. Its integrity is gone.

JIM VAN HOESEN

The “Terrorism News Alert” clued me in to a change at WHAM. The article says “Samuels dismisses that it feeds a Republican or conservative viewpoint.” What it is is fear-mongering that perpetuates distrust and hate of certain groups of people associated with Isis. It never mentions home-grown white supremacist terror that has caused me more worry than any other kind of terror in the US. I also became tired of the national news’ apocalyptic tone. Every night, there was something to be afraid of, whether a rain storm or a terror attack. I was a lifetime WHAM viewer. Now I watch the local news and weather and then change the channel, or I change it immediately when the “Terrorist News Alert “ comes on.

DEBBIE ADAMS

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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

Mayor Warren’s goal for a poverty-stressed city The start of a new year is a time for making resolutions. And in her New Year’s Day speech marking the beginning of her second term, Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren laid out a huge one for the community: attacking economic inequality.

The city’s poverty rate is one of the highest in the nation. And many Rochesterians are poor even though they are employed. They just don’t earn much money. Some are in double-standard jobs, earning less than other employees doing the same job in the same company.

Others are in the kinds of jobs that don’t pay much, period.

It’s not news that the Rochester area has lost a lot of manufacturing jobs.

Many of them paid good wages and didn’t require high-level skills. The jobs that have replaced them seem to be falling into two categories. Some pay very well but require advanced education and skills. Others require less education and few skills, but they don’t pay enough to lift the workers out of poverty.

A report published last summer by the Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative, SEIU 1199, and the mayor’s Office of Innovation had disturbing news. Many of the low-paying jobs are in two employment sectors that have become the largest in the Rochester area.

Educational services, which includes child-care workers, is one. Health care and social assistance (hospital workers, home health aides) is the other.

That’s where many of the working poor are employed. And many of them are women, people of color, and people with disabilities. People of color in particular are over-represented in those areas.

Educational level, obviously, is linked to salary level. But people with few skills used to be able to earn a decent living in the country’s factories. That’s no longer true.

In her inaugural speech, Warren quoted from Martin Luther King’s “Where Do We Go from Here” address.

“What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter,” King asked 50 years ago, “if he doesn’t have enough money to buy a hamburger and a cup of coffee?”

King spent the last months of his life focused on economic justice, organizing the Poor People’s Campaign. The poverty in Rochester and many other cities shows how far we still have to go to fulfill King’s dream.

In her speech on Monday, Warren said she wants Rochester to continue King’s

People with few skills used to be able to earn a decent living in the country’s factories. That’s no longer true.” work. But as she said, she can’t pull that off by herself. Neither city nor county government can, although each can do things that help.

But if Rochester is to sharply reduce poverty, the private sector will have to help. And there, current leaders can follow the example of the late Xerox president Joe Wilson, whom Warren singled out in her inaugural speech.

Wilson tried to improve employment opportunities for African Americans, at his own company and in the community.

Rochester needs that kind of leadership now, and Warren has met with the leaders of some local businesses and institutions to discuss their role in reducing poverty. These people can have a huge impact, not only on their own workforce but by changing the mindset of their peers. (A good place to start: Unshackle Upstate, a business effort that continues to object to the minimum wage increase, paid family leave, and other measures that can help the poor.

Among its leaders: former Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy.)

Will Rochester do more than applaud Warren’s call for economic justice? Will we do more than just talk about economic inequality? More than form a committee to work on it? Our recent history doesn’t inspire hope.

But this year is the 50th anniversary of the Poor People’s March on Washington and the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination. And the region will spend the year observing the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass.

It’s hard to think of a better year to try. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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New year brings new laws and worker benefits

Now that 2018 has come around, some new state laws affecting workers have taken effect. The minimum wage for Upstate New York will increase to $10.40 an hour, the latest bump-up in the gradual rise to a $15 minimum wage in 2021. Fast-food workers will see a boost in their minimum wage to $11.75 an hour.

The state’s paid family leave law also took effect on January 1. Private-sector employees will receive a portion of their wages when they take time off to care for a newborn child or an ill family member, or to assist family in the event of a military deployment abroad.

The benefits are funded with payroll deductions.

Warren finishes the revisions to her top staff

Mayor Lovely Warren completed the reworking of her top-administrative staff, leaving most of her key management team in place as she started her second term.

Warren announced the last of her administrative changes early last week:

Marisol Ramos-Lopez, the Commissioner of Recreation and Youth Services, and John Merklinger, Director of Emergency Services, are leaving. The administration has already interviewed candidates for Ramos-Lopez’s position, and there’ll be a national search for Merklinger’s replacement, Warren spokesperson James Smith said.

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Homicide rate drops in Rochester

The number of homicides in the City of Rochester dropped sharply in 2017, to 29 compared to 42 in 2016. Guns were used in more than half of last year’s homicides, which is consistent with the deaths of the last 10 years, according to the city.

While the number of homicides went down sharply in 2017, however, the number of reported shootings increased to 180, up from 157 in 2016. The Rochester Police Department has implemented several antiviolence efforts in recent years, including a Gun Involved Violence Elimination Initiative. The state-funded program focuses on reducing violence in the most crime-ridden neighborhoods.

City Roots Community Land Trust raised $15,000 to help Elizabeth McGriff buy back her foreclosed home.

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ACTIVISM | BY JEREMY MOULE

Housing group hits fundraiser goal Elizabeth McGriff is one big step closer to buying back her Cedarwood Terrace house from the bank that foreclosed on it. And City Roots Community Land Trust is crucially close to a step that’ll advance its work in affordable housing.

City Roots started a fundraising campaign to help McGriff with her purchase, and the morning after Christmas the group hit its $15,000 goal. On its fundraiser page, the group said details are coming about how McGriff’s home will be secured. And in an e-mail thanking supporters and donors, it issued a call for additional contributions so it can continue its broader work.

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“The city of Rochester needs to join in, and commit to growth from the ground up, rather than trickle-down, tax breaks to the wealthy,” says the e-mail from City Roots. “Let’s give our communities back their voices.”

McGriff agreed to transfer her land to the trust once she buys back her property from the bank, though she’ll retain ownership of the house. Trusts in other cities often retain some right to buy back houses if owners decide to sell. City Roots, which is run by a board of community members, sees the arrangement as a way help keep residents from being priced out of their neighborhoods.

The mortgage owner, MidFirst Bank, has offered to sell McGriff the house. Initially it wanted more than she owed on the loan, but it came back with a lower price, which she agreed to.

McGriff first fell behind on her mortgage payments when she lost her job with the US Postal Service.

She’s spent roughly five years fighting her foreclosure and resisting several eviction notices. Take Back the Land, a housing activism group that played a key role in forming City Roots, protested the scheduled evictions and formed blockades to prevent them.

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Rochester Management’s plan for new senior housing inside Cobbs Hill Park would replace single-story buildings with two- and three-story ones. The plan has drawn support from agencies serving seniors and the poor – and opposition from neighborhood groups, nearby residents, and environmentalists.

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Cobbs Hill Village plan heads to a vote At its January 8 meeting, the City Planning Commission will consider one of the most controversial development proposals it’s dealt with recently: Rochester Management’s proposal to demolish the buildings at Cobbs Hill Village – a senior housing complex inside Cobbs Hill Park – and replace it with new, more modern buildings for seniors.

Rochester Management says the development, which it has been trying to get under way for more than a year, would help address a serious shortage of affordable housing for people over 55. But a large group of opponents has been fighting it.

Cobbs Hill Village currently consists of 60 apartments in six one-story buildings on Norris Drive. Rochester Management wants to replace them with 98 units in five two and three-story buildings on the same parcel of land.

The current apartments were built in 1956 on land carved out of Cobbs Hill Park.

Rochester Management says the units are outdated and can’t be sufficiently upgraded.

The new buildings would include larger kitchens, better appliances, better laundry facilities, a fitness room, a computer lab, an indoor community space, and improved heating and air-conditioning.

The site itself is no longer parkland, but its surroundings are, and the critics argue that that the proposed development is incompatible with the adjacent park. They also argue that the current units can be updated without being replaced and that in the new project, rental rates will be higher, and fewer apartments will be affordable for the lowest-income seniors.

As opposition mounted, Rochester Management officials met with critics and revised its plans somewhat, which they say added $2.5 million to construction costs and delayed the start of work by a year. But opposition has continued.

The city’s planning and zoning staff have been reviewing the application since July – and well over a thousand letters and petition signatures from supporters and opponents.

Support has come from officials at the Urban League, Action for a Better Community, Catholic Charities Community Services, ARC of Monroe, Ibero American Action League, PathStone, and Lifespan, and from some Cobbs Hill Village residents.

Opponents include the Cobbs Hill Village tenants’ association, neighborhood associations from around the city, the Elder Justice Committee of Metro Justice, and two environmental groups.

Prior to the January 8 meeting, city staff will meet with Planning Commission members to discuss the staff ’s review – and to advise them on what they can consider when they vote.

Architect’s rendering of a proposed new Cobbs Hill Village building The land is already on Norris Drive in southeast Rochester. ARTWORK PROVIDED zoned R-3 – highdensity residential – so be the end for the proposal. But if the the increased density and building height commission gives its OK, both City don’t require approval. But Rochester Council and the mayor will also have to Management’s use of the land isn’t agree. The reason: to build the new units, permanent. It’s supposed to end in 2041, and Rochester Management wants to refinance then the land is supposed to go back to the the mortgage, and that requires city city. Rochester Management can own and government’s approval. And both the mayor operate the apartments until then, but the and City Council have a broad latitude in city’s Planning Commission has to approve what they’ll consider, the city’s attorneys say. any changes to the current buildings.

The Planning Commission’s January The city’s law department is advising 8 meeting, which will include a public commission members that they can hearing on the Cobbs Hill Village proposal consider issues such as whether the and other agenda items, will be at 6:30 p.m. project will “dominate the immediate in City Council Chambers. vicinity” or would have an adverse impact on the character of the area.

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POLITICS | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

Exit interviews: reflections from four city leaders Rochester has faced serious challenges during the last several decades: a rapid decline of manufacturing jobs, a deteriorating downtown, a declining tax base, a poverty rate that is one of the highest in the nation, and a school district with distressingly low test scores and graduation rates.

Four longtime elected officials who have dealt with those challenges left office at the end of the year. In “exit interviews” in late December, City Council members Carolee Conklin and Dana Miller and school board members Malik Evans and José Cruz discussed what they’ve seen in their time in office and shared their thoughts about the city’s challenges their successors face.

Between them, the four have more than 50 years of experience in community service, and they’ve worked with a succession of mayors and school superintendents coping with dramatic changes in the city. And while there has been notable progress in some areas – the tax base has edged up, and downtown development has increased sharply – other daunting problems remain.

Chief among them: the Rochester school district. While the four officials have different perspectives on the challenges in the school district, all cited the district as a primary concern. The future of the city and the district are intrinsically linked, they said.

Without a strong school district, Rochester can’t reach its potential.

Carolee Conklin is closing out a lengthy career in City Hall. She served three terms on City Council and prior to that was city clerk and deputy treasurer. An expert in city finances, Conklin has chaired Council’s finance committee. And she has been a feisty, outspoken, sometimes blunt Council member, something she exhibited as she talked about the city and some of the unfinished business she leaves behind.

One major unfinished piece of city business is the proposal for a performing arts center for the Rochester Broadway Theatre League, which Council may vote on early in 2018. Conklin supports building a performing arts center, but she has qualifications.

“It’s got to be able to operate without any taxpayer subsidy,” Conklin said. She’s not convinced that mixing a theater with housing, as the RBTL proposal does, is a good idea. And she isn’t sold putting it on Midtown’s Parcel 5, as the current proposal does.

“I honestly don’t know my position on Parcel 5,” she said. “That kind of development: that’s a very large foot 6 CITY

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print on a small parcel. My personal preference is to let Parcel 5 sit there for three to five years.”

Also facing city officials: deciding whether the time has come for the city to stop subsidizing downtown development.

Conklin says it has.

“At the end of the Duffy administration, nobody wanted to give you two cents for downtown property,” Conklin said. “But that’s changed. I think we have to be cautious, and I don’t think we need to pour more city money into downtown. I think the time has come to end priming the pump and direct more funds into the neighborhoods.”

Another piece of unfinished business as Conklin leaves office: City Council’s study of police oversight.

Conklin favors a more independent review board to oversee complaints of police misconduct. “Every elected official I know of supports some kind of independent review board,” Conklin said.

Carolee Conklin: “I don’t think we need to pour more city money into downtown.” FILE PHOTO But she is concerned about an “us against them” mindset that has emerged between the public and the police. of Rochester, which is tax exempt. I think On police oversight: Miller said he’s “Anybody who works in fire and police any reasonably sane person who wants to see confident that City Council will make has the toughest job in public service,” she this area thrive again needs to be thinking significant changes to the civilian review said. “I don’t see how we’re going to solve a seriously about metro government.” board, making it more independent and problem overnight that’s been festering since transparent. There’s broad agreement the 1960’s.” that changes are needed. But Miller is Dana Miller served three terms on City Conklin, a long-time and often harsh also cautious: every organization has Council and hoped to serve a fourth, but he critic of the Rochester school district, said failed to win re-election in November. Sitting individuals who have poor attitudes that in many ways the city’s future is tied to at a table at Brue Coffee, an establishment on and aren’t good at their jobs, but improving the city school district. that shouldn’t lead to a wholesale Genesee Street that Miller co-owns, he said “Our city’s schools are failing miserably, condemnation of the Rochester police his first day on City Council was one of his and it’s not because our kids are dumb,” force, he said. most memorable.

Conklin said. The district doesn’t have a great That day, he was appointed to the “I don’t think anybody wants to live in a record at managing its finances, Conklin said, management board for the fast ferry, Rochester without a police department, but and there’s a lot of administrative bloat. which was controversial from the the process for reviewing complaints against She’s especially concerned about the debt start. “To this day,” he said, “I still police officers has to change,” Miller said. the district carries, which can impact the believe it was a wonderful idea poorly Another huge concern for Miller is the city’s financial rating. executed. People would say, ‘Why would city’s concentration of poverty, a problem “Their balance of debt never decreases,” anybody from Toronto want to come to he attributes to an underperforming school Conklin said. “The city and district are Rochester?’ But that wasn’t the point. We system and the disappearance of jobs that pay bound together. If the school district doesn’t were creating a whole new way to come a living wage. decrease that debt, the city has to pick up to the US.” “There’s very little that City Council that debt. The city and district have more But trash-talking Rochester, finding fault can do about the school district, even than a $1 billion budget, and some of it in though we hear the concerns every day,” in every proposal, seems to be our favorite the district is just not being spent wisely. I Miller said. And he, like Conklin, criticizes pastime, Miller said. The same has been know it’s not what people want to hear, but the district: “We give them $119 million true about downtown development. The I’m quite used to the criticism.” every year, which is more than Buffalo and transformation of downtown wouldn’t be A low-performing school district isn’t happening without the foresight some people Syracuse give their districts,” he said, “and the city’s only problem, Conklin said. showed, Miller said, and he offered a long list there’s little to show for it.”

A shrinking tax base has also been a of the area’s well-known developers.

Miller agrees that the severity of serious problem.

“Center City has gone from a place Rochester’s poverty has worsened in recent “This area’s economy until recently was years, which was accompanied by a decline that everybody considered was dead to a fueled by manufacturing, which was the in manufacturing. transformation that, along with filling the source of our tax base,” Conklin said. “But Inner Loop, will be felt for a long, long time,” “Rochester is not Atlanta,” he said. “We now our biggest employer is the University Miller said. don’t have a corporate giant like Coca-Cola.”

Dana Miller: “Center City has gone from a place that everybody considered was dead to a transformation that will be felt for a long, long time.” PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

But improving the city’s education outcomes continues to be the area’s biggest challenge, Miller said. And he thinks the model presented by Great Schools 4 All – county-wide magnet schools that cap the student poverty rate at 40 percent – is a step in the right direction.

“We have to have parents pushing for the best education options for their children,” Miller said. The alternative fuels cycles of poverty instead of opportunity for students, families, and neighborhoods, he said.

“If you can’t be involved in the legal economy, you become involved in the illegal economy, where younger people are recruited as foot soldiers because the adults know they will receive lighter sentences,” Miller said.

Malik Evans is leaving the school board, but

he’s not leaving elected office. He’s now one of the five at-large City Council members, a seat he won in November. He was elected to the school board in 2003 at the age of 23, making him the youngest person ever elected to that position, and he was president from 2008 to 2013. With that background, he brings an understanding of the school district that few City Council members have had.

Evans has long been involved in numerous youth and family organizations and activities, and he’s well-known and approachable.

During a recent early-morning interview at a local diner, a server took his order and then asked: “Your name is Malik Evans, isn’t it?”

“Yes,” Evans said. “How do I know you?

Didn’t we help your daughter with something?”

“Oh, yes, you did,” the server said, “and she still talks about you. She’s a manager at McDonald’s now and doing well.”

This happens a lot, Evans said afterwards.

He and other school officials helped the server’s daughter through a rough patch and convinced her to stay in school and graduate.

But school board service isn’t always that pleasant, given some perceptions the public has about the Rochester school district.

“You’ve got to have thick skin if you want to be in this business,” Evans said. “Politics isn’t for everyone. Things like that remind you of why you do this work, because after getting beat up at a board meeting, you’ll ask yourself, ‘Why am I doing this?’ And that right there is why. You can help someone make better choices that will lead to a better life.”

People have every right to be concerned about the low academic performance in some city schools, Evans said.

“I think there are some areas where we have not made progress, and that’s inexcusable,” Evans said. “Special education is one of them, but you also have to look at what we’ve accomplished with universal pre-K and our summer learning programs. There are bright spots in the district, too, and we need to build on them.”

Some criticism of the school district is simply uninformed and counterproductive, Evans said.

José Cruz: Suburban districts don’t have nearly the number of families with employment, health care, and housing issues that the Rochester district has. FILE PHOTO

“Our households are so challenged,” he said. “I would urge some of our community leaders and worst critics to visit our schools and spend the day with some of our principals. See for yourself what’s going on in those buildings and what our kids bring to school with them every day. People have no idea about the brokenness of our families.

Off the top of my head I can think of a grandmother, an older grandmother, raising six kids on her own.”

Education, Evans said, is a three-legged stool, and each leg – schools, home, and the community – has to play a role for the stool to be stable. The Upstate economy has left many families behind, creating complex challenges for the district.

“The average district kid moves something like four times a year,” Evans said. “Yes, the district needs to do its job, and it needs to be held accountable, but you can’t possibly look at problems this serious in a vacuum.”

Evans himself had two parents who stressed the importance of education, and going on to college was never optional, he said.

“I learned how to read before I got to school,” Evans said. “It used to be that school reinforced what you learned at home. There were six of us and we all went to college, and five of us earned advanced degrees.”

Many of the school district’s children, he said, don’t have that kind of advantage.

José Cruz, who served two terms in the Monroe County Legislature, is leaving the school board after two terms. In his interview, he focused on the complexity of the district’s problems – and the perception of some critics that solutions are simple.

“A lot of people will say, ‘You guys need to do this or that, and everything will be better,’” Cruz said. “I get this all the time, but it’s not that simple. There are challenges you have to deal with, and sometimes it’s like trying to squeeze jelly into a square, but it just comes out the sides.”

He’s frequently asked why the district doesn’t just replicate some of its highest performing schools: School 23, School Without Walls, School 58, and School of the Arts, for example.

“Here’s the challenge,” Cruz said. “If you look closely at the schools that do well – the SOTAs, the 58’s, the 23’s – they aren’t just different school models. They have different support systems. SOTA, for example, is very unique. You have parents who involve themselves in everything, and nothing happens in that school that parents generally don’t know about. The same is true at 58 and 23. What’s the common denominator in our most successful schools? It’s parents.”

It’s not realistic to expect all parents to be that engaged in their child’s school, Cruz said.

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Malik Evans: With deep experience on the Rochester school board, he has a unique perspective as he moves to City Council. FILE PHOTO

homework is not as important to me as making every possible effort to make sure that child is attending school at least 90 percent of the time,” Cruz said.

Nor is it reasonable to blame teachers and unions, Cruz said. Suburban districts have teachers with similar qualifications, and they have unions, but they don’t have anywhere nearly the number of families with employment, health care, and housing issues, Cruz said.

“How we get beyond that is probably one of the most critical questions you can ask about urban education today,” he said.

“Think about what we do on a daily basis.

We transport the children to school, provide them with breakfast, snacks, instruction, free lunch, after-school activities, and transportation home.”

Many children go home to parents who can support them with their homework and daily needs, and they do a great job, Cruz said. “But we also have challenged families where at the end of the day, that child enters into a whole different reality – anything from unstable housing, family trauma, and even hunger.

This isn’t one or two kids. This is a large percent of the population.”

Cruz is particularly concerned about the needs of Latinx students and their families, and he said the district has largely fallen short at helping them – a reflection of disagreements about 8 CITY

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approaches to teaching English.

“A lot of our students come here from outside of this community with varying degrees of education,” Cruz said. “Some are coming here and their education has been interrupted many times. Others are well educated and are performing at grade level, but don’t speak English. We just haven’t been very good at figuring out the best model for making that transition into a second language.”

A good example of the special needs of Rochester’s Latinx community, Cruz said, is the recent influx of Puerto Rican students after Hurricane Maria. The school district has already enrolled nearly 500 students from Puerto Rico since the hurricane struck the island, and it’s ramping up to accept as many as 500 more.

The difficulty of enrolling a huge number of students in the middle of the school year is compounded by the difficulty of helping the students adjust to a mainly English-speaking environment.

And that’s an illustration of the complexity of the problems the school district faces. “One of the things I walk away with,” Cruz said, “is a true understanding of just how complicated the Rochester school district is. Once you realize how complicated the district is, you begin to understand that the solutions are sometimes going to be as complicated as the problems we’re trying to solve.”

URBAN ACTION This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities.

(All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.)

Workshops focus on addressing climate change

Color Brighton Green and Pachamama Alliance will host a workshop on climate change, titled “Introduction to Drawdown,” on Wednesday, January 10. The event is based on Paul Hawken’s research and book “Drawdown – the Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warning.”

Hawken identifies as many as 100 steps that can be taken to deal with the climate-change crisis. The workshop will identify steps many participants can begin taking immediately.

The event will be held at Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Avenue, at

6:30 p.m. Pachamama Alliance is also holding a four-session workshop on Hawken’s research on Thursdays, January 4, 11, 18, and February 8.

Those workshops will be held at Mercy Spirituality Center, 65 Highland Avenue, at 6:30 p.m.

The sessions are free and open to the public, but donations are accepted.

Registration: suestar1@ rochester.rr.com.

Assessing the backlash to Obama

The Moving Beyond Racism Book Group will discuss “White Rage: the Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide” by Carol Anderson on Monday, January 8. Anderson looks at the 2008 election of President Obama and how it unleashed one of the most virulent backlashes in recent American history.

The two-term election of America’s first black president led to the rise

of the birther movement, open disrespect of Obama by some members of Congress, and the exposure of the nation’s unresolved racial tensions. Anderson contends that the election of Donald Trump, one of the birther movement’s biggest proponents, and his attacks on Muslims, Mexicans, and women’s rights signal a new and troubling era in American history.

The discussion will be held at Barnes and Noble, Pittsford Plaza, at 7 p.m.

Dining & Nightlife

No single item on the breakfast menu at Busy Bee Restaurant is more than $6. PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

Institutions, but definitely not institutional Busy Bee Restaurant 124 WEST MAIN STREET 232-4991 MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 7 A.M. TO 3:30 P.M.; SATURDAY, 7 A.M. TO 2 P.M. [ FEATURE ] BY DAVE BUDGAR

They’re everywhere, but they generate little buzz. Diners are an icon of American culture — throughout the Northeast and Midwest you’ll typically find at least one in every town — yet they’re relatively inconspicuous. Steadfastly riding out fads and trends, a home-awayfrom-home for many, they often serve as social backbones in their communities.

Richard Gutman, possibly America’s foremost authority on diners, describes them in “A Life Devoted to the American Diner” as “a friendly place, usually mom-and-pop with a sole proprietor, that serves basic, home-cooked, fresh food, for good value.” In an essay Gutman penned for the “What It Means to Be American” project — a national, multi-platform, multimedia conversation hosted by The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and Arizona State University — he argues: “Over

their long history, diners have been a subtle part of our built environment and also our inner landscapes. They are as familiar as the language we speak and the comfort food we eat. Everyone loves diners.”

Although familiar and beloved, diners tend to fly under the radar in terms of media coverage and public consciousness. Starting with this issue, CITY will begin to explore local diners that have established themselves as institutions.

In doing so, we’ll show how such places cultivate ongoing loyalty and endure the ebb and flow of changing American tastes to remain viable in the volatile restaurant industry.

According to the Smithsonian article, the evolution of diners began in the latter part of the 19th century as “lunch wagons.”

Drawn by horses, pulling up to industrial workplaces, “coming out at dusk, the lunch wagons would pick up business after restaurants closed, serving late-shift workers, newspapermen, theatergoers, and anyone out and about after dark and hungry for an inexpensive hot meal. A fellow would get his food from the wagon’s window and eat sitting on the curb,” Gutman writes. Sounds much like today’s food trucks.

Serving breakfast and lunch, Busy Bee Restaurant (124 West Main Street; 2324991) has moved around some over the course of its history, but has never been pulled by draft animals. It opened on Central Avenue in 1958, but has operated near Rochester’s Four Corners for about 18 years, consistently owned and operated by three generations of the Hassos family.

Stepping into the Busy Bee catapults you back in time. According to co-owner Steve Hassos, the building dates to 1890.

Once inside, you’re greeted by an empty mid-20th-century cigarette vending machine with pull handles. On the right is a long golden-yellow counter with orange stools, booths are on the left, and lavender stucco walls — with cornices of sculpted heads — surrounds the space. Behind the counter sits an anachronistic keg-shaped vessel that servers use to dispense cream into coffee.

Busy Bee’s prices (note: it’s cash-only here) are also reminiscent of a bygone era. Consider the all-day, everyday breakfast special: two eggs, home fries, and toast for $2.78; or an egg-andcheese English muffin for $0.92. I ate breakfast like royalty for under $6.

Starting with hot, slightly grayish coffee (a bottomless cup for $1.15) in a hefty mug, I followed with a breakfast sandwich ($3) of a fried egg, a copious amount of thinly-shaved ham, and melty cheese on hard roll. It came out hot and pleasantly salty with a side of home fries ($1.45) — small dices of potato with some coveted blackened crust (though not as crispy as I’d asked for, and in need of seasoning). My friend Kent ordered French toast (three slices for $3.25). On the upside, plenty of egg batter was used, but the dish was a bit undercooked and mushy.

We returned another day to indulge in Busy Bee’s lunch menu, disappointed that no homemade soups were available, but on Fridays Busy Bee offers a haddock fish fry (with cole slaw, French fries, and bread for $7.75; or a fish sandwich for $5.50) instead of soup. Kent enjoyed a buttery, golden-brown grilled turkey (generously portioned) and cheese sandwich ($4.25), while I acted on our brusque server’s recommendation, ordering a hot beef sandwich with French fries ($5.25) — an easy sell, as one of my bellwethers for diners is the quality of their hot (turkey, roast beef, or meatloaf) sandwiches with gravy.

Served on white bread, the roast beef was freshly sliced and plentiful, and importantly, the gravy was abundant, with plenty for the fries, but too salty for me. Still hungry, I also put down a cheeseburger ($2.70), foregoing the homemade hot sauce and opting for grilled onions. This was a standard, thin, flat-topgrilled, greasy diner burger — something I appreciate — though it was a tad bland, and I was disappointed that no pickles existed for my burger.

Busy Bee survives and thrives, according to Steve Hassos, because of his and his brother Paul’s commitment to low prices (the highest-priced item on the breakfast menu is $6), homemade food, and their drive as owners to work hard and do some of everything necessary: sweeping, mopping, washing, and of course, cooking. Each time I was there, I noticed a steady stream of regulars — the lifeblood for this type of restaurant — many whom the server knew by name and order. Many people also seem to make the Busy Bee a regular stop for their morning take-out coffee.

Despite a relative consistency in approach, when digging beneath the surface, successful diners like Busy Bee offer more than cheap eats and long counters. They provide value, menus catered to local populations (note the Busy Bee’s homage to the Garbage Plate, the Turletava Plate — a term loosely translated from Albanian and Turkish meaning a mixture of things cooking together), and an appealing individuality and sense of camaraderie that you’ll never find at rigidly-standardized chain or franchise restaurants. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Four women cooks carve out a space in Rochester’s food scene [ DINING FEATURE ] BY KATIE LIBBY | PHOTOS BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

The lack of diversity in the restaurant industry is not news. Recent media attention in the form of certain white, male chefs and restaurant owners being exposed for sexual harassment has brought the issue to the surface, but the statistics have told the same story for years. According to data from the 2015 American Community Survey, 79 percent of chefs and head cooks employed in the United States were men, 59 percent of those men were white.

And Rochester doesn’t escape this inequity. Four women chefs and cooks were interviewed for this story. They come from diverse backgrounds and different levels of culinary experience, but share some commonalities: Fond memories of being in the kitchen with relatives and learning food traditions from them, graduating from college and wondering what the hell comes next, and starting a career and realizing that it wasn’t what they’d expected it to be.

Their particular experiences also vary — some of them are mothers, and some have had different experiences of life behind the line.

These women each shared their stories about how they came to cooking and their insights on how the kitchen climate is for women in the culinary world. The strongest link between them is the hard work and passion that they put into the food they create and their unwillingness to take any bullshit thrown their way.

Andrea Parros, owner of The Red Fern (283 Oxford Street), grew up outside of Boston in a Greek family that loved to cook. Following her mother around the kitchen, she learned how to make soups and Spanakopita, and always had a curiosity for the culinary process.

“I was very curious about where our food comes from, how it gets put together on a plate,” Parros says.

She pursued a music business major at Northeastern University in Boston, but when Napster and other music-sharing software exploded onto the scene, she knew that the industry was going to be forever changed.

After graduating and beginning the early20’s “what am I going to do with my life” crisis, she decided to apply for a position as a dishwasher at a café she frequented in Boston.

Parros says that she was confronted about her willingness to do the job, “They were very

clear to me: ‘Are you sure? This is a really dirty job’ — almost like, ‘Are you sure can do this?

You’re a girl. You sure you want to do this?’”

After reassuring them that she was interested in the position, despite the possibility of getting dirty, she was hired.

About a week in, the brunch cook quit and Parros jumped at the opportunity to take on the position.

“It was the kind of place where no one had any formal training,” she says. “You learned the ropes by watching your co-workers. I loved the fast pace; I loved that you had to be accurate because if you weren’t the servers would scream at you. I really liked how technical and fast you had to be.”

Parros spent two years at the café learning the ropes of both the kitchen and the business, working as a prep cook, waitress, and shift supervisor, followed by a brief stint working in

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Hawaii — which informed the kind of food that Parros would cook going forward.

She developed a severe rash in Hawaii and after returning to the mainland, visiting a dermatologist, and going through rounds of allergy testing, it was discovered that she had an allergy to wheat and dairy.

“I was vegetarian at that point,” Parros says. “Basically everything I was eating — yogurt, bread — I was allergic to.”

She began experimenting with vegan recipes and finding that the options available for vegans were less than desirable, to say the least. “Everything I would buy at the store, I would say ‘this is disgusting, this bread tastes like cardboard, this cheese is like rubber,’” she says. “That inspired me, I don’t want to feel like I’m missing anything. And the other factor was that I felt like I couldn’t go out to eat anywhere with anyone because there was nothing I could eat.”

Parros met her then-boyfriend Jeff Ching while working at the Boston restaurant, and the two of them decided to relocate to his hometown of Rochester and open a vegetarian restaurant that became The Owl House — after the Atomic Eggplant closed, they recognized the lack of vegetarian options in Rochester.

If you were to compile a list of things that couples shouldn’t do if they wanted to stay together, opening a restaurant together would probably be at the top of the list. They ended their relationship, Parros left the business, and she spent five months in mourning and meditating on what to do next. She considered opening another vegetarian restaurant, and when a friend asked her why she wouldn’t serve strictly vegan food — when that was all she could eat herself —The Red Fern was conceptually born.

“The menu was designed with the idea that I wanted food that everyone was already familiar with, just vegan versions,” Parros says. You’ll find macaroni and cheese nachos on the menu, as well as a “steak” bomb sandwich.

“I think people that hear the word ‘vegan’ get immediately turned off,” Parros says. “What I wanted to do was take all the comfort foods, all the foods I loved to eat as a kid, and just make a vegan version.”

Parros’s experience working in the kitchens influenced the kind of environment that she wanted to create at her own restaurant.

“My first job was in an Italian restaurant in the town next to where I grew up,” she says. “I worked there for two years, as a dishwasher and making salads and appetizers, that’s where I saw what a real kitchen dynamic is usually like — where you have sexist chefs yelling and saying inappropriate things to the servers, but it’s all a part of the culture — it’s all supposed to be funny.”

Parros says she’s always been like “one of the guys,” so she never encountered anything that made her feel personally uncomfortable.

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Haley Rosen.

But she’s seen the harsh environment’s effect on others — where chefs lose their tempers, for example — and knew she didn’t want that kind of climate in her own kitchen.

“For me, cooking is like a way of healing.

It’s medicine,” she says. “So when you’re cooking for yourself or someone else you are sharing a piece of yourself with them — it can be really healing for people. When you eat a really good meal that’s really well made with heart and soul, you feel it. I wanted a place where people could come — anyone that had similar experience with their food allergies, or someone who is a vegan — a place where people could come and feel good healing energy and a good sense of community and good ethically-based food.”

Candace Doell landed at The Owl House (75 Marshall Street) in her late-20’s. She had worked in pizza shops, in customer service, and front-ofhouse positions in restaurant, but hadn’t found

any profession that made her happy. She started to hone her culinary skills at The Owl House under the tutelage of then-Head Chef Brian Van Etten.

“He kind of took me under his wing and showed me a lot of technique that I needed to know,” Doell says. “I always had the creative ideas but I didn’t know how to execute them.”

For the first year, she washed dishes, made salads, and cooked lunch. She considered culinary school, but the $35,000 for a 10-month program was not feasible, so she learned the profession “hard-knocksstyle,” as she puts it.

“One year into it, the 60-hour work weeks started,” Doell says. “It was exhausting, but I really loved what I was doing and for the first time in my life I felt proud and really happy in what I was doing.”

She says the opportunity to work with fresh ingredients and cook with meat and produce from local sources was inspiring.

“If you are a budding cook or chef it’s amazing to be able to hone your skills with really good quality ingredients,” she says. “You can fuck up, but it’ll probably taste good.”

Doell took maternity leave from The Owl House in 2015, and has since adjusted her work schedule so she can spend time with her daughter.

“I’m there now during the days and I get to prep all the food,” she says, “which at a place like Owl House is really important because 90 percent of what we do is from scratch. I get to write a lot of the recipes for what we make so I still get to have a lot of creative thinking.”

That includes creating three or four vegan and gluten-free soups per week for the menu.

“I don’t think I’ve ever made the same soup twice,” she says.

Working in the kitchen at The Owl House has been a positive experience for Doell, but she’s seen the other side of things while working in a front-of-house position in New York City.

“The kitchen staff was really aggressive, sexist, and it made me feel really shitty when I would go home,” she says. “It would make me feel anxious to go to work — and while I’m not glad I experienced that ‘cause it fucking sucks, I’m glad that I had that to look back on so that I don’t treat other people that I work with that same way.”

Doell says she recognizes both a lack of diversity in terms of women and people of color in leadership roles in the kitchen.

“If you look at the restaurant industry as a whole, it’s something that I really get disappointed in,” she says. “You have restaurants opening in the Public Market that don’t even employ a single person of color and if you look at the statistics of people living in that area you wonder what the fuck is going on here. Restaurant owners and managers need to be more conscious of their hiring practices. If we’re not giving people those opportunities then it’s always going to be like this, and that fucking sucks.”

Doell eventually wants to open a small catering kitchen, and offer culinary classes to women who are released from prison, teaching them basic culinary technique.

“It’s important to give back to your community — more people need to think about these things,” she says. “And that’s where it’s good to have a female presence and a female voice because I feel like women really do look out for each other and we care about the future, the world that our kids are going to grow up in.”

Hayley Rosen has been cooking with her dad since she was little. She attended Philadelphia University first for fashion design before switching to industrial design. After graduating, she returned to Rochester to be close to family and started cooking at her father’s restaurant, The Mendon House, where she fell in love with the profession.

Rosen left The Mendon House and started working at Branca in Bushnell’s Basin, where she was eventually promoted to sous chef.

“It was a big learning experience,” she says, “a big step up from being a cook and not having that much experience — that’s how I learned how to cook. I enjoyed the responsibility and experience from it. I think it’s taught me more; how to manage things.”

After two years, she left Branca, and after a brief stint at Wegmans’ Amore, she landed at Restaurant Good Luck.

“I love the creative aspect of cooking,” Rosen says. “I’m a very giving person — I enjoy when people enjoy what I do, what I cook, and have a great experience.”

Rosen says that her background in design has informed her culinary experience: “I found myself enthralled with how artistic food can be — how flashy you can make it look with fancy garnishes and sauces and frills,” she says. “After working with various chefs I found that my ideas on food were evolving — they went from something that was perceived to be ‘cool’ or ‘trendy’ to something thoughtful and well-orchestrated.”

Rosen says she’s never distinctly noticed being treated differently as a woman behind the line.

“I have come across people saying ‘women have no place in the kitchen,’” she says. “I’ve always just kind of laughed at that. What basis do you have to make these assumptions or remarks? I’ve never had anything said to me — or felt that I don’t belong. I’ve felt that my work ethic and what I bring to the table is more valuable than whether I’m a woman or not. I’ve always been grateful that everyone that I work for has felt the same way.”

Since this interview, Rosen has left Good Luck to help open an upcoming beer garden in Rochester.

Kimberly Roth may be the most recognizable female chef in Rochester due to her appearance on the 16th season of Gordon Ramsay’s “Hell’s Kitchen.” Out of the 18 contestants on the cooking competition show, she finished in fourth place.

“I worked at a burger place when I was around 15 years old and they didn’t want me to cook because I was a girl,” Roth says. “‘I can’t cook you burgers and fries, but I can cook beef Wellington for Gordon Ramsay! How do you feel now?’” she says with a laugh.

Roth grew up cooking with her grandmother and her father but never thought she would make a career out of it. She started nursing school and dropped out three different times; healthcare just wasn’t for her. She got the opportunity to learn how to make sushi at California Rollin and really found her niche.

“I like being in the kitchen; I like cooking,” she says, “I like the satisfaction of seeing a person smile when I gave them something great. I like knowing that I did that to them. Being in the kitchen and creating works of art — some of the stuff that people do, including what I do with the sushi, it’s gorgeous to look at — it’s pretty awesome.”

Kimberly Roth.

She gave birth to her daughter while she was working for California Rollin, and says she was told to be back at work in three weeks or lose her job.

“My daughter was born November 11 and December 8 was my first day back,” she says, “And it was hard being a young mom — I wanted to make sure we had money for Christmas.”

Roth says she was unable to breastfeed her daughter due to the stress she was putting on her body from the long work days, and credits her kid’s father for being there when she was unable to be during that first year.

She left California Rollin to help her daughter’s father start his sushi food truck,

Stingray Sushifusion. Five years after working on the truck, she was chosen to compete on “Hell’s Kitchen.” Roth was the only contestant during that season who hadn’t been formally trained at a culinary school, and says she relied on independently-acquired skills to try to impress Ramsay.

“I try to stay well-versed in everything,” she says. “It was just a love and passion of cooking that helped drive me and fuel my career.”

Today, Roth is an in-demand personal chef and has started her own company, The Bamboo Panda Catering Company. She’s partnered with Casa Larga Vineyards to host Sip and Sushi at Casa Larga, an often sold-out sushi-making class.

Roth says that in working for herself, she has found a balance between her business and clients and family time — she’s able to put dinner on the table every night, be there in the morning when her daughter wakes, and put her on the bus.

“That means a lot to me,” she says, “having that freedom right now with my career to do what I still need to do for us to survive financially, but also be surviving as a family.”

As for the future, Roth is looking for something a bit more tropical: “I would like to have a brick-and-mortar location that is all mine, nice hours, perfect location,” she says, “where people can get their feet wet in the sand, and have a sushi bar on the beach.” rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 13

Upcoming [ HIP-HOP ]

Music

Tyler The Creator. Wednesday, February 21. Main Street Armory, 900 East Main Street. 7:30 p.m. $39.50-$105. mainstreetarmory.com; twitter.com/tylerthecreator. [ ROCK ]

Toward Space. Thursday, March 8. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe

Avenue. 9 p.m. $8-$10. bugjar.com; facebook.com/ towardspace.

[ POP ] Kesha. Sunday, July 22. Darien Lake PAC, 9993 Allegheny Road. 7 p.m. $22-$115. darienlake.com; keshaofficial.com.

Immortal Bird THURSDAY, JANUARY 4 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $10 | BUGJAR.COM; IMMORTALBIRD.BANDCAMP.COM

[ METAL ] My instinct when listening to Immortal Bird’s

“Empress/Abscess” is to steadily keep hitting that volume up button. Every time. I don’t notice I’m doing it until the song ends and — holy shit, why are my ears ringing? It took a few spins of the Chicago band’s debut full-length to realize why it’s happening: There’s a lot going on — a lot of dark, ferocious beauty to dissect — and it’s compulsive to turn it up to capture it all. Immortal Bird starts at blackened death metal, but there’s sludge, thrash, crust, and a little prog thrown into the mix — also the word “greasy” gets tossed around a lot. There’s a brutal mass of powerful sub-genres and influences swirling around, and Immortal Bird beats it all into its will. Mavradoxa, Ferus Din, and Dark City also perform. 21 and older show.

— BY JAKE CLAPP

Dave DiPrimo Band SATURDAY, JANUARY 6 LOVIN’ CUP, 300 PARK POINT DRIVE 8 P.M. | $5 | LOVINCUP.COM; DAVEDIPRIMO.COM [ ROCK ] Digging in deep to get all those hard-to-reach sub-genres, The Dave DiPrimo Band comes up with funky, bluesy, jazzy, folky rock and gives it an indie twist. And even though I accused it of being indie, the band is so much more as it doesn’t specifically glom on to too many of those musical styles — that way it won’t risk capsizing the boat. See ‘em. They’re one of the good ones, — BY FRANK DE BLASE

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JAZZ

“Go Outside” Self-released lianaband.bandcamp.com

The Brothers Blue WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10 DOWNSTAIRS CABARET THEATRE, 20 WINDSOR STREET 7 P.M. | $10 | DOWNSTAIRSCABARET.COM; THEBROTHERSBLUE.COM [ BLUEGRASS ] Though it all blends in the end,

The Brothers Blue — brought to you as part of the Rochester Folkus concert series — have a lot going on onstage. With three instruments brandished by three musicians singing three-part harmonies, this is an oldtime fiddle music fan’s dream. Just dig the percussive picking and tonal fluidity that the trio expertly bounces between. Playing with David Ianni.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Doug Hanson and Philip Nash THURSDAY, JANUARY 4 FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, 150 SOUTH CLINTON AVENUE 12:15 P.M. | FREE | 274-1400; ESM.ROCHESTER.EDU [ CLASSICAL ] This week, Eastman at Washington

Square kicks off its Thursday Lunchtime Concerts in the New Year with pianist Doug Hanson — also the accompanist with Genesee Chorale — and flutist Philip Nash. The half-hour recital focuses on 20th century selections, with illustrious composers Francis Poulenc and Sergei Prokofiev at the forefront of the program. In a Rochester classical music season that will feature everyone from Bach and Beethoven to Thelonious Monk and Elvis Presley, this small concert is a great opportunity to experience modern classical works in a relaxed chamber music setting.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

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Rochester-area native Liana Gabel’s latest album, “Go Outside” — written during a residency at the Sanctuary Arcata in California — is surprising. The music is more than just standard indie singer-songwriter fare. The exuberant Gabel sings about love gone awry, ecological preservation, and the nature of creativity, all while wasting no time in accentuating her unconventional strengths. On quirky tunes like album opener “Oh Ma,” “folk, indie – Journey,” and the title track, Gabel showcases her talent as a tap dancer. Idiosyncratic and intricate tap shoe rhythms warmly meld with minimal, chamber pop instrumentation.

The album’s strongest songs are also its most stylistically refreshing. Elements of gospel, smooth jazz, and soul elevate “Fly Away” and “Magic Powers.” With an earnest, soulful voice somewhere between languishing and liberated, Gabel variously channels singers like Joni Mitchell, Regina Spektor, and Rubblebucket’s Kalmia Traver. Gabel’s charm especially shines on “Do to you,” in which she embodies water in an impassioned plea to humanity that is both sobering and funny. With plenty of authenticity and emotional vulnerability to spare, “Go Outside” seems designed to shorten the distance between people and affirm the life that unites us.

Gabel and her band will play an album release show with Ben Morey at South Wedge Mission on February 24.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 5-8 p.m.

Mike Kaupa Quartet. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org.

7-9 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Mystic Stew and Dust in Bone.

Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 585-448-0354. 8 p.m.

Resonant Freqs. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 585315-3003. fairportbside.com.

7-10 p.m.

[ THU., JANUARY 4 ] JAZZ

Annie Wells Trio. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m.

Groove For Thought. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street.

585-448-0354. rochester. funknwaffles.com. 8 p.m. $5.

METAL

Immortal Bird, Mavradoxa, Ferus Din, Dark City. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 8 p.m. $10.

The Saplings

“The Saplings” Self-released thesaplingsmusic.bandcamp.com

[ FRI., JANUARY 5 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard anything quite like The Saplings’ eponymous EP. It’s pop without too much sweet. It’s nine-part harmony without setting foot in church. This Rochester-based nonet’s record is gutsy and smart; I mean, what an oddly beautiful choice of melody and interwoven harmony. It positively shines with innocence.

Production-wise, “The Saplings” comes off not so much dense as lush. It has plenty of pop appeal with the promise of hearing new things after multiple listens. This is largely due to the constant melodious swirling amidst the pleasantly adroit instrumentation. It meanders but never sounds lost or disingenuously complex. And Jesus, check out the horns, why don’t ya?

The Saplings’ brass section adds bold blasts of color when appropriate, while at other times honking a call and response that is a downright healing procedure and practice that some horn-centric bands forget. The band has the power to blow doors off, but rather it opts for a casually reserved take. The band is going places, trust me.

The Saplings are perfect and so is this record.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Derek Knott Happy Hour Show. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge

Lane. Fairport. 585-315-3003. fairportbside.com. 5-7 p.m.

The Last Revel, Slocan Ramblers. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204

N Water Street. 585-448-0354. rochester.funknwaffles.com.

9 p.m. $10-$13.

VOCALS

The Yale Russian Chorus Performs Slavic Music. Calvary St. Andrews, 68 Ashland Street.

752-5790. facebook.com/ FoCSAroc. 7:30-9:30 p.m.

JAZZ

Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes. Embark Craft Cider

Works, 6895 Lake Ave. Williamson. 315-589-8099.

EmbarkCraftCiderWorks.com.

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Music

NYC punk rock trio Jackknife Stiletto is good for rock ‘n’ roll’s health. PHOTO BY MESCOLE PHOTOGRAPHY

Loud, fast, and greazy Jackknife Stiletto FRIDAY, JANUARY 5 RECORD ARCHIVE, 33 1/3 ROCKWOOD STREET 5 P.M. | FREE | RECORDARCHIVE.COM; JACKKNIFESTILETTO.COM [ INTERVIEW ] BY FRANK DE BLASE

Say it with me kids: greazy. Not “greasy,” but “greazy.” It just sounds a little greasier, doesn’t it?

And that’s how New York City punk power trio Jackknife Stiletto serves it up: loud, fast, and greazy. As a guitar-driven trinity, the band plays hard rock with a punkish edge. It’s rough, and it’s raw. It’s up your butt, and in your face.

The band — vocalist and guitarist Annie Stoic, drummer and backing vocalist Mel Funk, and bassist Foxy Roxy — has been burning up the map across the US, sharing the bill with acts like Cheap Trick, NOFX, Anti-Flag, and Murphy’s Law. The band has also singed eyebrows with barn-burning appearances at Warped Tour and SXSW. Jackknife Stiletto has just released its debut EP, “Volume 1,” the first in a series called “Chronicles of Jane,” on Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records imprint.

CITY got in touch with Stoic to discuss who started it, the health of live music, and how cool Cheap Trick is. An edited transcript follows.

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CITY: What does your band bring to the table that no one else does?

Annie Stoic: To be honest, we’re not

reinventing the wheel over here. Yep, I said it.

We’re playing rock ‘n’ roll with a punk attitude.

The fact that we are females, yes, it might set us apart a little. But there are amazing musicians out there, male and female. All we can say is we are fun, hard-working, determined, and genuine. We think that comes across in our music and our stage performances.

What’s working with Joan Jett like?

Working with Joan Jett and the entire team at Blackheart Records has been amazing.

They’ve been so supportive and helpful during the whole process. We can’t tell you how honored and thrilled we are that they put out “Chronicles of Jane: Vol. 1,” and we can’t wait to see where this road will take us.

Give me a little background: Who started it?

A few years ago, Mel and I met in college, and after a few lineup changes, we met Roxy last year. We took her on tour last October and it went awesome, so we kidnapped her.

List a few influences.

We’ve all been in different bands over the years and have a varied taste in music. We can’t really say there’s a certain band or influence that started this band. It was more the situation of a few girls who wanted to form an all-girl rock-

punk band, work as hard as we could to get our music out there, and tour a lot.

What can someone expect at a Jackknife Stiletto show?

That you can come out to shows and have an awesome time. We want to have fun and be your new friends. So to us, it’s really about coming together, not judging anyone, and having a great time listening to music.

How do you feel about the current health of live rock ‘n’ roll?

It’s tough out there. It’s hard to get new people out to a venue to see bands they’ve never heard of. We had someone tell us recently that they “didn’t want to spend $5 on the door to see bands they didn’t know.” Well, how are we supposed to get these “music fans” to shows where we can really show them who we are and get to meet them in person?

We just can’t stress enough, along with a lot of other bands out there, that you need to get off of your devices, go to shows, and check out new music. The bands and venues are all struggling with this battle. We can only hope it will get better.

Your new record is out. How’s it being received?

Amazing! The college radio scene has been really supportive of the new record. We’ve debuted on over 20 stations and charted on

the Top 200 NACC College Radio charts at number 117. For our debut EP, we couldn’t be more excited that it’s being received so well. We can’t wait to see what comes next.

Where are the best audiences so far?

We just recently opened for Cheap Trick and their audience really loved us, which was really cool. To add onto that cool factor: All the members of Cheap Trick came off stage during their set to tell us how much they loved our set. Plus, we want to give a shout out to our favorite hometown spots in Long Island and Staten Island, New York.

Tell me a funny road story.

Let’s just say it’s quite amusing when you see three chicks stumbling out of a minivan at a truck stop in PJs, go take showers, and come out in fishnets and boots, ready to rock.

Tell me a not-so-funny road story.

We’ve been pretty lucky so far to not have any horrendous road stories, besides that time I choked on a burrito and Mel had to pull a New Jersey slide across five lanes on the highway in Los Angeles during rush hour.

What’s on your to-do or bucket list?

We are working hard in the studio right now to record our next album. So we will be working on finishing that up as well as a lot more touring.

R&B/ SOUL

Remembering Marvin: Experience The Music of Marvin Gaye. Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 4544403. hochstein.org. 8 p.m.

Tickets available at Wegmans. $35-$40.

POP/ROCK

The Chinchillas. B-Side, 5

Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 585315-3003. fairportbside.com.

8-11 p.m.

Jackknife Stiletto. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 5-8 p.m.

Seth Faergolzia, Superty Dupes, Paxtor, The Ryan Sutherland Band. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 8 p.m. $6.

Woody Dodge. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 8-10 p.m.

[ SAT., JANUARY 6 ] BLUES

Bill Schmitt & the Bluesmasters.

Buta Pub, 315 Gregory St. (585) 563-6241. 10 p.m.

Hanna PK. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford. 6410340. viagirasole.com. 7-10 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Hey Mabel. Whiskey River Pub

and Grill, 421 River Street. 585417-6231. 9 p.m.-midnight.

Some Ska Band, Vintage Pretty.

Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 585-448-0354. rochester. funknwaffles.com. 9 p.m.

PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH

FOLK/ROCK | SINGER-SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND

Cafe Veritas’s Singer Songwriters in the Round series is an ideal way to hear the meanings behind the original music being crafted by talented locals. This Saturday, the lineup is a loaded one, with four distinctive songwriters throwing their creative hats into the ring. Folk-soul chanteuse Cammy Enaharo, up-and-coming Madeleine McQueen, WXXI radio host Scott Regan — also of Watkins and the Rapiers — and country-folkster Steve Piper will trade songs and stories in this personal, intimate concert.

Singer-Songwriters in the Round takes place on Saturday, January 6, at Cafe Veritas at First Unitarian Church of Rochester, 220 South Winton Road. 7:30 p.m. $10-$18.

271-9070; cafeveritas.org.

Hochstein Performance Hall 50 N. Plymouth Avenue Tickets $35 at Wegmans $40 at door

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

The Spring Street Family Band & The Tombstone Hands. Bug

Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 454-2966.

9-11:45 p.m.

[ SUN., JANUARY 7 ] CLASSICAL

Classical Guitar Night. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 2580400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m. .

William Warfield Scholarship Benefit Concert. Kilbourn Hall,

26 Gibbs St. esm.rochester.edu/ calendar. 4 p.m.

[ MON., JANUARY 8 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

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

5-8 p.m.

[ TUE., JANUARY 9 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Spring Chickens. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m. Featuring music from Connie Deming, Steve Piper, and Scott Regan.

POP/ROCK

Frands, Project Magnificent, The Sugargliders, Indoor Time.

Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 8 p.m. $6-$8.

PHOTO PROVIDED

AMERICANA | THE LAST REVEL

Traditional Americana is a wide-reaching, all-encompassing description for music that sounds traditional, but ain’t necessarily. Minneapolis trio The Last Revel are lyrically full of front porch folk tales, and musically full of light shot forth in rock ‘n’ roll splendor. Live, the band sets limits in the length of its jams, although it loosens up a bit to give various angles to hear what it does and how. Wilco will come to mind.

The Last Revel plays with Slocan Ramblers on Friday, January 5, at Funk ‘N Waffles Music Hall, 204 North Water Street. 9 p.m. $10-$13. rochester.funknwaffles.com; thelastrevel.com.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

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Culture

The Baobab Cultural Center’s Executive Director Terry Chaka. PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

Let the dollars circulate The Baobab Cultural Center 728 UNIVERSITY AVENUE 563-2145; BAOBABCULTURAL.ORG [ FEATURE ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

The Baobab Cultural Center, an arts and cultural hub focusing on African world history and diaspora, in early December announced that unless it raised $10,000 by the end of 2017, it would close its doors.

A GoFundMe campaign, one of several fundraising avenues, in support is close to being fulfilled — it’s currently at $8,300 — but efforts will be ongoing. Executive Director Terry Chaka says the initial drive was to get through the rest of 2017, but the center will need to keep raising operational funds going into 2018.

The organization in the past relied heavily on grants and volunteers, Chaka says. “But as we grew, it became evident that you really need to have staff and have more than grant money in order to operate.” The Baobab is turning to the community for long-term support, she says, and will need to hire a 18 CITY JANUARY 3 - 9, 2018

grants writer and create paid full-time and part-time positions.

Chaka was originally The Baobab’s gallery manager, but she’s been operating the space alone for almost two years.

Before that she had a volunteer administrative assistant who was also a grants writer and graphic designer.

“The two of us did a lot of things,” including cleaning the space and rearranging furniture between events, Chaka says. “We were paid sometimes, when funds were available. We just basically did it for the love of it.”

The center’s work, Chaka says, is especially important now. “When you see the conversations that are happening,” she says, “the stress that people are under, the direction the country is taking, the way that the world is going…you know that people need to understand one another better. And it’s not about accusing one group or another — it’s about actually learning the history, finding out how we got here. There’s no instant solution to things. Sometimes people ask, ‘Well, how do we fix this?’ Well, first you have to know what you’re really dealing with.”

The education most people have had about African history has been incomplete, she says, and infusing the other side, the lost parts of history, is an important starting point.

The space, located on University Avenue in the Neighborhood of the Arts, was founded in 2005 by Dr. Moka Lantum and Dr. Cheryl Kodjo as a gallery to share their growing African art collection. It grew to become a hub for promoting a deeper understanding of African culture, from ancient traditions and early migration to its enduring influence and contributions to the world.

The Baobab doesn’t currently have regular hours, but still functions as a resource center, and despite its fiscal troubles, currently offers regular film screenings, yoga classes with Jim Thompson, West African drumming taught by Fana Bangoura, and African World History classes with Michael Campbell. The center also hosts speakers, poetry readings, and author events, which in the past have included Thomas DeWolf, the decedent of the richest slave trader in the US; Joy DeGruy, author of “Post

Traumatic Slave Syndrome”; and New Jersey Poet Laureate and activist Amiri Baraka. The space is also used by groups such as Showing Up for Racial Justice.

Lining many of the space’s walls is a series of educational panels called “Magnificent Africa,” an enlightening permanent exhibit that tells the arcane and often suppressed histories of ancient African civilizations, the diaspora, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, political and social movements, and African and African American arts and music.

Chaka’s presentation of the material takes about 90 minutes, but can easily fill up more time. In school, we learn depthy accounts of European history and exploits in the world, but the information about Africa’s empires, philosophy, inventions, and other important contributions — information that is available, but is usually glossed over or omitted. This fact is both infuriating and depressing, but the material is also marvelous and inspiring; such is the importance of this center and what it offers to the community.

The exhibit was created in-house as a teaching tool for school groups that come through the space, but Chaka says that it’s also used by social and racial justice groups that visit. Chaka plans to expand and update the exhibit as well as the series of short videos that accompany it. But first, fundraising continues.

Dr. Lantum is still involved with the space, but semi-remotely — he splits his time between Rochester and Kenya, where he has a health care technology company, Chaka says. There’s also an advisory board which is currently going through some transitions.

Aside from creating paid positions, Chaka’s goals for the center moving forward are to expand programs of cultural enrichment for youth, including an after school program; to expand partnerships with local social justice groups; and host more regular art shows, drawn from a list of artists she’d like to exhibit. She’s also considering hosting art collecting workshops, programs to promote literacy skills, and seminars on culinary injustice.

“I could wake up every day with a new idea,” Chaka says. “There’s that much, because I continue to read, I continue to grow, and I continue to share with people.”

Contribute to The Baobab’s survival: gofundme.com/support-the-baobab.

Media production of media is a great way to make the media you consume feel more accessible by recognizing how the labor that goes into it fits together. And there are plenty of places where you can take classes and workshops to see how the media sausage is made. For instance, after taking a workshop to hone your wordsmithery at Writers & Books, you can learn to print and bind your own books in the Flower City Arts Center’s extensive printmaking and book arts center.

Once you’ve made some media of your own, you might consider sharing your work in an annual event, like the Rochester Contemporary Art Center’s 6x6 exhibition, in which all entries simply have to meet the criteria of being a six-by-six-inch square. Or bring your home movies to the Visual Studies Workshop for its annual Home Movie Day. You can even share your media making skills with others by signing up to teach a class at Rochester Brainery.

Pay more, [consume] less [media] ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

Consuming local: media dieting tips for the New Year [ RESOLUTIONS ] BY ANDREW SALOMONE

During a recent guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey introduced the term “sheet caking,” which she used to describe the practice of eating an entire cake in response to upsetting news coverage. And although her satirical remarks led to a public debate about the ethics of joking about the use of dessert foods as a substitute for actual civic engagement (including a panel discussion about the incident on WXXI’s Connections with Evan Dawson), nobody seemed to argue with the assertion that the media we consume can influence our eating habits.

So, as many Rochestarians begin implementing their New Year’s resolutions, rather than simply focusing on eating better and exercising more, it might be worth taking some time to address our media diets to ensure that we don’t derail our healthy efforts by “sheet caking.”

In his book “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” celebrated food journalist

Michael Pollan explores the complex systems involved in U.S. food production, and the ways that technologies force us to make difficult, and sometimes harmful, decisions about the way that we eat. Similarly, one of the challenges to regulating the media we consume is the diversity of choices readily available to us. Between books, magazines, radio, TV, movies, websites, and social media, it’s easy for us to become overwhelmed by the sheer volume of media we experience on a daily basis.

Pollan ultimately suggests that one of the best things we can do for ourselves, and the world in general, is to eat locallysourced foods — a concept that has certainly been embraced in Rochester.

After the popularity of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan wrote Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual, featuring a list of 64 simple eating guidelines, in response to readers who asked him “What should I eat?” So, here are some suggested applications of Pollan’s own food rules to help you design your own local media diet this year.

Eat [Consume media] when you are hungry [engaged], not when you are bored.

Being engaged with the media you consume doesn’t have to mean getting dressed and going out to sit in a theater, but it does mean that you probably shouldn’t consume all your media while lying with your laptop on your belly.

A good place to ease into your local media diet is a branch of the Monroe Public Library. Even if you just want to check out a few DVDs, it’s nice to get into the habit of going to the public library and curb the temptation to escape reality by binge watching TV in bed –just like going to the public market is a great way to limit the amount of junk food you buy.

Eat [Consume] all the junk food [media] you want as long as you cook [make] it yourself.

In the same way that a chef might start out as an adventurous eater, consuming media can also be part of the process of making your own media. Being involved with the

This is a food rule that may not be completely applicable to local media consumption habits because so much great local media can be very cheap or even free (like the paper you’re reading right now!).

Many of the cultural institutions in Rochester have membership programs which easily pay for themselves in reduced prices or free admission and other member benefits. But whether you choose to donate or not, you can enjoy local commercial-free radio at WAYO 104.3 and Rochester Free Radio 106.3 any time.

Luckily, Rochester’s rich film history provides plenty of opportunities to experience new and classic movies, including original prints and curated film series at local staples, such as The Little Theatre, The Dryden Theatre, and Visual Studies Workshop. These events sometimes include discussions by the filmmakers or a panel of guests, and admission is often as little as $5, donation-only, or free.

And if you feel like you just need a break, don’t forget that the Strasenburgh Planetarium at The Rochester Museum and Science Center is outfitted with seats that recline to a practically horizontal position from which you can be fully immersed in the deliciously virtual environments of night skies, underwater seascapes, and laser shows. At least for a little while. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 19

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.

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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

Raising the stakes “Molly’s Game”

(R), DIRECTED BY AARON SORKIN OPENS FRIDAY, JANUARY 5

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

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[ PREVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

Geneseo Square Mall, 243-2691, rochestertheatermanagement.com

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

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

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

Aaron Sorkin brings all his signature flourishes as a writer — the rapid-fire, walkand-talk banter, the moralistic protagonists, and impassioned speeches — to his directorial debut, the tremendously entertaining, truelife poker drama “Molly’s Game.”

Jessica Chastain stars as Molly Bloom, a one-time Olympic-hopeful skier who, after an injury brought her career to an

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

unexpected end, reinvented herself as the runner of one of the world’s most exclusive high-stakes underground poker games.

Putting her law school plans on hold, she found herself riding high as the game attracted rich and powerful players from the worlds of show business, finance, and politics. She earned a fortune and had quite a life until her games also gained the attention of a few unsavory individuals, which led to drugs, the involvement of the Russian mob, and ultimately caused Molly to become the target of a massive FBI investigation.

It’s an instantly absorbing story, welltold by Sorkin. With a crackling energy, the narrative jumps back and forth between scenes that allow us to see exactly how Molly’s high-stakes gambling empire was born, and those following her arrest, as she works to convince lawyer Charlie Jaffey (Idris Elba) to take on her case.

Jaffey’s baffled and frustrated by her refusal to

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Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba in “Molly’s Game.” PHOTO COURTESY STX ENTERTAINMENT

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give up any of her clients in exchange for a reduced sentence, but as the two become a team, he comes to admire the idealistic center that motivates her actions.

Chastain and Elba are supremely charismatic performers, and they’re both terrific — it’s a ton of fun watching them deliver Sorkin’s rat-a-tat banter.

Happily, the film side-steps his tradition of problematic female characters: Molly is a force of nature, and Chastain’s cool intelligence makes a perfect fit for Sorkin’s hyper-verbal world.

While Chastain and Elba are the stars of the show, the film also finds time for a plethora of fun supporting turns from performers like Michael Cera, playing a malicious high-profile actor known as “Player X” (supposedly a stand-in for Tobey Maguire), Brian d’Arcy James, and Chris O’Dowd, who’s a scene-stealer as a sympathetic sad-sack who might be more trouble than he’s worth.

Sorkin acquits himself well as a firsttime director. The film has a competent (if somewhat unremarkable) visual sense; it’s not surprising that most of the film’s stylistic flourishes are reserved for the words. It gains a fast-paced energy thanks to the zippy editing, which cuts to the rhythm of the dialogue and weaves in footage of whatever subject the characters are

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Worlds apart “All the Money in the World” (R), DIRECTED BY RIDLEY SCOTT NOW PLAYING [ REVIEWS ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

discussing, in a style that calls to mind Adam McKay’s approach to “The Big Short.”

Without a David Fincher or a Danny Boyle to rein in his usual impulses, Sorkin goes for broke on the heightened, stylized dialogue. It feels quintessentially Sorkin — both for better and occasionally for worse — but for the most part it all works. That is, all the way up until the film’s nearly derailed by its misguided emotional climax.

At that point we get a cringe-worthy scene in which Molly’s demanding psychologist father (Kevin Costner) shows up for a heartfelt reunion and proceeds to psychoanalyze his daughter, explaining to Molly that her lifelong drive to succeed at any cost can be traced back to daddy issues.

It feels like Sorkin can’t help but shoehorn in a scene where a man has to explain things to a woman — even her own behavior. But up until that moment, the film is a riveting, wildly exciting ride, and it’s undeniably satisfying to see Chastain’s no-nonsense character put the powerful men around her in their places.

If you’re not a fan of Sorkin’s work, “Molly’s Game” isn’t likely to do much to change your tune. But on the other hand, if you get a kick out of his unique brand of storytelling, you’re likely to be all in.

Just a few short months ago, Ridley Scott’s new crime drama “All the Money in the World” faced disaster when the career of Kevin Spacey — who played one of the film’s major roles — imploded spectacularly in the wake of several allegations of sexual misconduct. The behind-the-scenes shake-ups threatened to overshadow the film completely, but rather than delay the release or scrap the project entirely, Scott made the unprecedented decision to recast Spacey’s part, despite the fact that the film had already been completed. Hiring Christopher Plummer, the director set about reshooting and replacing all the actor’s scenes with less than two months before the film was set to hit theaters.

Watching the film, you’d never know the change had taken place.

The film is a stylish, glossy thriller inspired by the 1973 real-life kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), the 16-year-old grandson of oil tycoon John Paul Getty (the

Christopher Plummer in “All the Money in the World.” PHOTO COURTESY SONY PICTURES

role played by Christopher Plummer).

The scoundrels demand a $17 million ransom, an amount that young John’s mother, and Getty’s former daughterin-law, Gail (an excellent Michelle Williams) has no hope of paying, thanks to her decision a year prior to refuse the Getty family fortune in exchange for maintaining custody of her children. But that decision now makes her dependent on Getty, and the ruthless cheapskate refuses to pay.

As John’s ordeal stretches on for weeks and then months, we follow Gail’s desperate efforts to get her son back, with the help of Getty’s head of security, a former CIA operative named Fletcher Chase (Mark Wahlberg — fine, if somewhat miscast). Despite knowledge that his own blood relative is facing torture and even death, the elder Getty remains monstrously nonchalant about the whole thing. He has his reasons for his refusal, but at a certain point, the most obvious appears to be his own deep dysfunction.

I was a bit surprised just how large a role Christopher Plummer has — this isn’t just some extended cameo. His presence is pretty seamless, and only one moment — a brief long shot of Getty in the desert that appears to utilize green screening — looks out of place. It’s a remarkable achievement (all the more impressive considering “All the Money in the World” is the second film the 80-year-old Scott delivered in 2017, after the underrated “Alien: Covenant”), and it will be interesting to see whether the filmmaker is rewarded for his efforts come Oscar time.

Plummer was reportedly the director’s first choice for the role of John Getty, and he turns out to one of the best parts of the film. It’s a cold, but fully-rounded performance and he brings a gravitas to this engrossing and sadly relevant tale revolving around a powerful, but unstable man to whom wealth matters more than compassion. The backstory is fascinating, but his work stands all on its own.

“World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts” (NR), DIRECTED BY DON HERTZFELDT AVAILABLE FOR RENT ON VIMEO

From the absurdist humor of “Rejected” to the bittersweet melancholy of “It’s Such a Beautiful Day,” animator Don Hertzfeldt has made a career of combining minimalist, almost crude drawings with big ideas that tilt toward the existential.

His latest film, “World of Tomorrow Episode Two: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts,” is Hertzfeldt’s follow-up to his original Oscar-nominated short masterpiece (if you need to catch up, that first episode is currently available on Netflix), set in a distant future where humans have achieved immortality through cloning.

The story begins as the first film’s sweetly oblivious heroine, a little girl named Emily Prime (voiced by Hertzfeldt’s niece, Winona Mae) is once again visited by one of her adult clones from the future. This time, the unexpected guest is Emily 6 (Julia Pott) who it turns out is an incomplete backup copy of a third generation clone, and needs Emily Prime’s memories to make her whole.

The new film presents Hertzfeldt with the opportunity to further explore the complex, strange universe he’s created, as Emily Prime is led on a tour through the bizarre, lonely existence of a clone and witnesses what’s to become of humanity in the generations to come.

For a film consisting solely of stick figures wandering through abstract digital environments, “World of Tomorrow Episode Two” achieves a prolonged silliness, punctuated with moments of profound and sometimes devastating insights about the nature of identity, memory, and consciousness. The effect is simultaneously hilarious, deeply sad, oddly touching, and endlessly quotable in a way that only a Don Hertzfeldt film can be.

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THEATER | ‘THE OTHER JOSH COHEN’

SPECIAL EVENT | ‘VICTORIA’ SCREENING

HOLIDAY | TRULLA NAVIDEÑA

Life hasn’t exactly worked out for Josh Cohen, the protagonist in David Rossmer and Steve Rosen’s musical comedy “The Other Josh Cohen.” Overweight, underemployed, unlucky at love — on the edge of Valentine’s Day, to boot — and clinging on to an out-of-date mustache, Cohen can’t get ahead. Then his apartment is burgled; but at least they left behind a single Neil Diamond CD. It looks like it can’t much worse, until a letter comes that could have an impact on his life. “The Other Josh Cohen” opened Off-Broadway in 2012, and was nominated for six Drama Desk Awards, including for outstanding musical. Rosen (a Pittsford native) will reprise his role as Josh, and Alan Schmuckler will portray the acoustic guitar-wielding, mustache-less “Narrator Josh.” Directed by Hunter Foster; Jonathan Spivey, musical director.

Fans of TV period dramas will probably already know about the coming second season of “Victoria,” Daisy Goodwin’s series that’s been airing as part of PBS’ “Masterpiece.” The show’s first season — about the rise, coronation, and early reign of Queen Victoria (played by Jenna Coleman) as she fights for power, personal freedom, and romance — was a hit, and the second season just aired in the UK last fall. Season two, which follows Victoria adapting to new motherhood and facing international conflicts, premieres in the US on January 14 (9 p.m. on WXXI), but The Little Theatre and WXXI will host a free screening of the season’s first hour a week early.

The Rochester Puerto Rican Festival on Saturday, January 6, will host its annual Trulla Navideña party in celebration of the New Year and Three Kings Day. Trulla Navideña, which has roots in Puerto Rico and other Latin American countries, is a tradition of seasonal cheer in which a group of revelers gather on the doorsteps of friends to play instruments and sing folk Christmas songs, parranda style (with acoustic guitars, drums, scrapers, shakers, and turtle shell percussion). The musicians are invited in for refreshments, and the party will often move on to the next home, continuing through the night.

“The Other Josh Cohen” begins previews on Tuesday, January 9, and opens Saturday, January 13. Continues through February 4. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Boulevard. Tickets start at $25. For specific dates, times, and prices, call 232-4382 or go online to gevatheatre.org.

— BY JAKE CLAPP

Arts & Performance Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. All Natural.

Through Feb. 18. A display of nature and landscape by Peter Blackwood. 546-8400. episcopalseniorlife.org.

Davison Gallery, Cultural Life Center, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr. Landscape. Through Feb. 15.

Opening reception and artist talk Fri. Jan. 12, 5-7 p.m. Art

by Constance Mauro and Judy Gohringer. 594-6442.

Lumiere Photo, 100 College Ave. You Want it Darker.

Through Jan. 31. Works by JFK/AJVK and Sasha Rose Herbert. Opening reception Fri. Jan. 5, 6-9 p.m. Live music by Matt Sauer and Eric Witkowski.

461-4447.

The Owl House, 75 Marshall St. Aura and Stock. Through Feb. 19. Opening reception Mon. Jan. 8, 6-9 p.m. Art by Rebecca Aloisio. 360-2920. owlhouserochester.com. [ CONTINUING ] Axom Gallery, 176 Anderson Ave., 2nd floor. Embracing the Landscape. Through Jan. 13.

Paintings by Rick Muto. 2326030 x23. axomgallery.com.

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A Different Path Gallery, 27 Market St. Brockport. Works

by D Scally and J Retallack.

Through Jan. 4. 637-5494. differentpathgallery.com.

Gallery 384, 384 East Ave. Winsome Winter Wishes.

Through Jan. 28. Featuring live music by Chet Catallo. Art

by Wendy Menzie, Margaret Miyake, and more.

Gallery Q, 100 College Ave. Take the Long Way Home. Through Jan. 25. Work by Nancy Topolski and Allen C. Topolski.

Gallery r, 100 College Ave. Patricia Russotti: Marking Matters in Time. Through Jan. 21. Photography and installation by Patricia Russotti.

585-256-3312. galleryr.rit.edu.

GO ART! Seymour Place, 201 E Main St. Batavia. Cabel and Zen. Through Feb. 3, 2018.

An exhibit of Photography and Illustration by Jim Burns.

343-9313. ghallock@goart.org. goart.org.

International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Vanishing Horizon. Through Jan. 31.

Watercolors by Arno Arrak. internationalartacquisitions.com.

My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Visions for the Season. Through Jan. 21. A display of photography by members of Camera

Episode one of “Victoria” season two will screen Sunday, January 7, at The Little, 240 East Avenue. 10 a.m. Free, but reservations required. 258-0200; wxxi.org/events.

— BY JAKE CLAPP

Rochester. 546-8400.

EpiscopalSeniorLife.org.

Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. Holiday Exhibit. Through Jan. 13. Holiday themed paintings

by Patricia Tribatone, Anthony Dungan, Rosemary Lyons, and more.

Patricia O’Keefe Ross Gallery at St. John Fisher, 3690 East Ave. ELEMENTS. Through Jan. 5. Recent works by Jappie King Black, Bill Stephens, and Bill Judkins.

RIT Bevier Gallery, 90 Lomb Memorial Dr., Booth Building 7A. After the Ball. Through Jan. 6. Exhibition focuses on selected costumes from the annual Beaux Arts Ball.

Schweinfurth Art Center, 205 Genesee St. Quilts=Art=Quilts.

Through Jan. 7. A display of quilts. 315-255-1553. myartcenter.org.

Williams Gallery at First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd. Nature’s Beauty. Through Jan. 15. Photography by Joseph Woody.

Call for Participants [ MON., JANUARY 8 ] Sing with the Rochester Oratorio Society. 6:30-9 p.m Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Ave 4732234. rossings.org.

Art Events [ WED., JANUARY 3 ] Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters 2018 Art Show.

Through Feb. 1. Barnes & Noble, 3349 Monroe Ave. Through Feb. 1. Opening reception Sun., Jan. 7, 3-5 p.m. Features 75 paintings created by artist members in the Greater Rochester 5866020. gvpap.com.

[FRI., JANUARY 5 ] First Friday Gallery Night GalleryQ. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. Gallery Q, 100 College Ave .

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.

First Friday’s at the Paula Crawford Gallery. First Friday of every month. Paula Crawford Gallery, 11 Goodman Street North 585-749-5329. pcrawford21@gmail.com. paulacrawford.com.

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

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

Artist in residence: Kristen “The Pep” Cavanaugh. 6-10 p.m.

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

Comedy [ THU., JANUARY 4 ] Andrew Rivers. 7:30 p.m.

Comedy at the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $9. carlsoncomedy.com.

The PR Fest’s celebration takes place at Ray Ray’s Bar and Grill, 2260 Clifford Avenue. The group Carrion y sus Parranderos will perform. 7 p.m. Free admission. Ages 21 and up. 234-7660; prfestival.com.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

[ FRI., JANUARY 5 ] Focus Theater’s Student Showcase. 8-10 p.m. Focus Theater, 390 South Avenue, Suite C 585-217-6170.

Jubal Flagg. 7:30 & 10 p.m.

Comedy at the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd Fri. & Sat. Jan. 5, 6, 7:30 & 10 p.m carlsoncomedy.com. [ SAT., JANUARY 6 ] Comedy Night with Madelein Smith. 7 p.m. Cobblestone Theatre, 1622 State Route 332 . Farmington Reservations required $20. 398-0220. sarah. cobblestonearts@gmail.com. cobblestoneartscenter.com. [ TUE., JANUARY 9 ] Backdraft II: Laughdraft. 8-11 p.m Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 902-2010. thefirehousesaloon.com.

Dance Events [ SAT., JANUARY 6 ] Boyz Night out. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. thefirehousesaloon.com. [ MON., JANUARY 8 ] 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 $7-$8. 315-926-5652. jccrochester.org.

Theater The Devil, the Witch, and the Blacksmith. Jan. 3-13. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Tues.-Sun. Jan. 3-7, 9-13, 8 p.m. Starring David Jacobs. Directed by Kevin Dedes $15-$25. 4549371. muccc.org.

The Crossing of the Captive.

Sun., Jan. 7, 6:30-8:15 p.m. Impact Theatre, 1180 Canandaigua St. Free dessert theatre 315-597-3553. impactdrama.com.

Community Activism [ SAT., JANUARY 6 ] Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/ Serve Food. 3-6 p.m. St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality, 402 South Ave. 585-232-3262.

Film [ SUN., JANUARY 7 ] Victoria, Season 2 Premiere Screening. 10-11:30 a.m. Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. 2580200. interactive.wxxi.org.

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

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 375 Averill Ave., Rochester, NY 14620.

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In some cities, bungalows are a dime a dozen. But here in Rochester they’re rather rare. So it’s especially exciting to find one with untarnished character, untapped potential, and—best of all—unpainted woodwork. At 76 Henley Street in Charlotte, you’ll find just that. The house has been rented for a number of years and could use the attention of a loving and attentive homeowner but the asking price reflects that and there is plenty to work with.

From the street, this bungalow has a cozy and tidy look but once inside, the rooms and layout are surprisingly spacious, feeling larger than the home’s 1,260 square feet.

Throughout the home you’ll find original woodwork, original solid wood doors with glass knobs, and the original wood windows.

The front entrance opens to an enclosed, three season porch with the original porch floor and beadboard ceiling. From there, you proceed into the living room, where the fun begins. A bank of four windows lights the large space. Unpainted crown moldings, baseboards, and the original hardwood floors add warmth and character. A brick fireplace with a heavy wooden mantle and tiled hearth serves as the focal point of the room, flanked by built-in shelving and a leaded glass window. It’s easy to picture oneself entertaining or settling in for a quiet winter’s night in this room.

An archway opens to the dining room, which boasts its own charm— beautiful wainscoting and a leaded glass window above the spot where you’d put your sideboard/buffet.

The kitchen is a serviceable size with some original cabinetry and a cute alcove for your refrigerator. Some updated countertops and maybe a backsplash to match the cabinets would really make this room stand out. Off the kitchen, the first of four bedrooms also connects back to the living room. This room could also function as an office, playroom, or cozy den.

A short hallway leads past some built-in cabinets (for linens or food) to the second bedroom, the full bath, and the stairs.

Upstairs, you’ll find two more bedrooms and lots of closet and storage space tucked under the eaves of the home.

The basement and side entrance are accessed off the kitchen. Outside, there’s a long driveway, a relatively rare detached two car garage, and a small backyard.

Just a few blocks off Beach Avenue, Henley St. is a quiet residential street in Charlotte.

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Legal Ads > page 24 [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Aerial Imageworx, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 09/26/2017.

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 10 Briar Patch Rd, Rochester, NY 14618 .

Purpose: Photography. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of AUTOMATED BOOKS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/20/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Bernadette S. Davis, 5B Myrtlewood Drive, Henrietta, NY 14467.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BDM REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/22/17.

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, 38 Quail Ln., Rochester, NY 14624.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of BILLINGS DEVELOPMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/2017.

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, PO Box 22743, Rochester, NY 14692. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Cinema Theater of Rochester LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) Nov. 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 43 Seager St. Rochester NY 14620 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ 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 DO Enterprises of NY, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/20/17.

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, 59 North Main St., Hoyeoye Falls, NY 14472. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Elite Mind Technologies, 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 against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 4566 Hemingway Hwy, Hemingway, SC 29554.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of GRAY CABIN LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/13/2017.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1111 Ogden Parma Townline Rd., Spencerport, NY 14559.

Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation

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 of JAMES CARS OF GREECE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/17/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Frank W. Tessitore, O’Donnell & Tessitore LLP, 76 Bedford St., #38, Lexington, MA 02420.

Purpose: Any lawful activity [ 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 KATCom, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/24/17. Office in Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 320 Washington St N, Suite 101, East Rochester, NY 14445. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Kedimar LLC, Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/1/2017.

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 Northwest Registered Agent, LLC, 90 State Street, Suite 700, Office 40, Albany, New York 12207 [ 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.

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SSNY shall mail copy of process to: P.O. Box 30278, Rochester NY 14603 Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of MDM MAC Properties Farmington LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/6/2017.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1000 Sanford Rd. N, Churchville, NY 14428. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Mizrahi Equities LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/27/2017 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 241 Lark St. Rochester, NY 14613 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of MR. GADGET ENTERPRISES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/18/2008.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: PO Box 60694, Rochester NY 14606.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of NBREW ENTERPRISES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/13/2017.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 689 Regina Dr., Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of NBSS Enterprises, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 11/17/17.

The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 63 Thatcher Rd., Rochester, NY 14617. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of RALLOD LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 18 Esternay Ln., Pittsford, NY 14534.

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 ROC HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/17/2017. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to ELISSA L JOHNSON 32 WEBBER CIRCLE ROCHESTER, NY 14626 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ROC MANAGEMENT LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) December 18, 2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at PO BOX 24340, Gates, NY 14624.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ 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 Law Offices of Kevin D. Fitzgerald, PLLC Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/7/2017.

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 7 Caywood Lane, Fairport, New York 14450.

Purpose: Practice of law. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TOMANDA PROPERTIES, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 12/12/2017. Office in Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to TOMANDA PROPERTIES, LLC, C/O THOMAS S. GRAFF, 31 TYNEDALE

WAY, NORTH CHILI, NY 14514. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Turnkey Automation Solutions LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/2017. 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, 211 Black Walnut Dr., Greece, NY 14615. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Tuxedo Corner, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/17/17. 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, 9 Bramblewood Circle, Rochester, NY 14624.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of WILY HOLDINGS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/1/2017.

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, 375 Averill Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Plaza Street Fund, IX, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Missouri (MO) on 11/21/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the MO address of LLC: 9237 Ward Parkway, Ste. 230, Kansas City, MO 64114. Arts. of Org. filed with MO Secy. of State, 600 West Main St., Jefferson City, MO 65101.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Rochester-Dewey FDS 715464, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in North Carolina (NC) on 3/6/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205.

NC address of LLC: 106 Foster Ave., Charlotte, NC 28203. Arts. of Org. filed with NC Secy. of State, 2 South Salisbury St., Raleigh, NC 27601.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity.

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Notice of Qualification of TLH BEAUTY LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/14/17. Princ. office of LLC: 100 Chestnut St., Ste. 1803, Rochester, NY 14604. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. Of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity

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 Qualification of WATCO SUPPLY CHAIN SERVICES, L.L.C. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/17. Office location: Monroe County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/21/14. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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

DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Freight brokerage services and any other lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] RED BARN MANAGEMENT, LLC Arts of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on Nov 9,2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to 9 Aldwick, Fairport, N.Y. 14450.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Steven Braun, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/9/17.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 3 Red Plank Way Rochester, NY 14624 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] The Vaeth Group 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 20 Mt Eagle Dr Penfield, NY 14526 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Tune Yourself, LLC Filed 12/19/17 Office: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 5 Sheldon Drive, Spencerport, NY 14559 Purpose: all lawful

[ NOTICE ] W26 SAG LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/19/2017. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 26 Saginaw Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] 898 Ridge Road LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 7/17/2003, with an effective date of formation of 7/17/2003. 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 8 Skytop Lane, Pittsford, NY 14534.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] 960 East Ridge Rd, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 12/11/2017 with an effective date of formation of 12/11/2017. 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 104 Angels Path, Webster, NY 14580. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Moonlighting on Edisto LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 12/7/2017 with an effective date of formation of 12/7/2017. 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 21 Hillsboro Rd., Rochester, NY 14610.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law.

[ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF MONROE BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff -againstJAMES F. STEWART, JR., LINDA J. STEWART, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein and dated October 12, 2016, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Monroe County Hall of Justice, 99 Exchange Blvd, Lower Level Atrium, Rochester, NY on January 11, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. premises situate in the Town of Irondequoit, County of Monroe and State of New York, known and described as Lot No. 19 of Irondequoit Village, Section 1, Ellinwood Drive, as shown on a map thereof filed in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 144 of Maps, Page 5.

Said Lot No. 19 is situate at the Northwest corner of Ellinwood Drive and Sandcastle Drive and is of the dimensions as shown on said map. Section 77.17 Block 2 and Lot 27. Said premises known as 95 SANDCASTLE DRIVE, ROCHESTER, NY Approximate amount of lien $238,746.24 plus interest & costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment and Terms of Sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Index Number 11134/2013. LARA R. BADAIN, ESQ., Referee David A. Gallo & Associates LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 99 Powerhouse Road, First Floor, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577 File# 9026.70 [ SUMMONS WITH NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 17/8665 RJI No.: Assigned Judge: Hon. Daniel J. Doyle, J.S.C. CITIZENS BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, -againstJohn Roe and Jane Roe, said names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiffs, the persons or parties intended being all unknown heirsto-law and next-of-kin of Larry R. LaDue, deceased, late of the Town of Greece, County of Monroe, State of

New York, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12”, the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to the 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 UNKNOWN HEIRS of LARRY R. LADUE: 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: December 19, 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: UNKNOWN HEIRS of LARRY R. LADUE: 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 27th day of November, 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 Larry R. LaDue, deceased, to Citizens Bank, N.A. f/k/a RBS Citizens Bank, N.A. in the original amount of $69,000.00 with interest, dated May 2, 2013, recorded May 3, 2013, in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber

25072 of Mortgages at Page 158. 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 112 Willowbrook Road, Town of Greece, Monroe County, New York (Tax Map No. 060.42-1-21). A complete legal description is as follows: **See Schedule Annexed** Dated: December 19, 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 SCHEDULE A DESCRIPTION OF MORTGAGED PREMISES ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Greece, County of Monroe and State of New York known and described as Lot 82 on

a map of Willowbrook Subdivision as shown on a map filed in Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 49 of Maps at page 35. Said Lot 82 fronts on the east side of Willowbrook Road, and is 50 feet in width, front and rear, and 150 feet deep, according to the dimensions shown on said map. [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. E2017000484 TOWER DBW V TRUST 2015-1, Plaintiff, v.

ROBERT N. RUSCHER; WILLIAM J. RUSCHER A/K/A WILLIAM J. RUSCHER, JR., if living, or if he be dead, his wife, heirs- at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-ininterest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said WILLIAM J. RUSCHER A/K/A WILLIAM J. RUSCHER, JR., 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; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE and “JOHN DOE #1” THROUGH “JOHN DOE #100”, Defendants.

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

the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject premises.

Dated: December 6, 2017 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an Order of Honorable Daniel J. Doyle, a Justice of the Supreme Court, dated November 27, 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 226 Hilltop Road, Town of Greece, New York and identified as tax account no.: 060.34-1-24 (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 $7,135.81, 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 V TRUST 2015-1 28 East Main Street Suite 1400 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone: (585) 238-2000

Fun [ NEWS OF THE WEIRD ] BY THE EDITORS AT ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION

Sad tunes

All-American Weirdos

Puzzle by J. Reynolds

Two American tourists, Joseph Dasilva, 38, and Travis Dasilva, 36, of San Diego, were arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, on Nov. 28 and detained in an immigration detention center after they posted a “butt-selfie” on Instagram, taken in front of the Buddhist temple Wat Arun, or Temple of the Dawn. The pair’s Instagram account, traveling_butts, showcased their hindquarters at tourist sites around the world, but it was deleted shortly after the arrests. District police chief Jaruphat Thongkomol told Reuters that the two would also be fined for a similar photo at a different temple.

But Why?

In Birmingham, England, renowned 53-year-old surgeon Simon Bramhall pleaded guilty on Dec. 13 to branding his initials onto human livers using an argon beam during transplant surgeries.

A colleague first noticed the initials “S.B.” in 2013 on an organ during a follow-up surgery, which sparked an investigation, the Guardian reported.

Bramhall resigned in 2014 and acknowledged that marking his patients’ livers had been a mistake. But former patient Tracy Scriven of Dyrham, Wiltshire, told the Birmingham Mail that he should be reinstated. “Is it really that bad? I wouldn’t have cared if he did it to me.

The man saved my life.”

Inept Santa Moves

Jesse Berube, 32, of Rocklin, California, tried using a favorite trick of Old St. Nick -- but he got stuck in the chimney of a Citrus Heights business he was trying to rob on Dec. 13 and had to call police for help. ABC News reported that Sacramento firefighters responded and used special equipment to free Berube, who now faces one count of burglary. Citrus Heights police said Berube “does not have the same skills as the real deal.”

Awesome!

An unnamed newborn boy underwent surgery at the Scientific Research Institute of Pediatrics in Baku, Azerbaijan, to remove a small remainder of a parasitic twin that had attached itself to the baby’s back: a penis. Gunduz Agayev, head of the institute’s neonatology department, reported to Metro News in December that the baby “has a normal sexual organ where it is supposed to be” and “the penis on the back ... has been surgically removed.” The newborn was not traumatized by the surgery and is already at home with his parents, the doctor said.

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