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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

Some unsolicited advice on Parcel 5: just chill The drama around Parcel 5 hasn’t gone on as long as the drama around a new theater for the Rochester Broadway Theatre League (about four years compared to at least 20 years for RBTL). But it has certainly gotten the public’s attention.

And that’s a good thing. Parcel 5’s a key piece of land in a key part of downtown Rochester. The fact that people continue to argue about its use means that a lot of people care about downtown and want to be involved in planning its future.

Parcel 5 used to be a significant part of the bustling core of Rochester’s downtown. And given its location, it’s also a prime development site, presumably. And yet eight years after Midtown Plaza was demolished, city officials are still looking for something to put there.

Maybe it’s time for a reality check.

The city has received exactly one commercial development proposal for Parcel 5: Andy Gallina’s plan for a mixed-use tower, offices and retail on the lower floors, residential condominiums above. The Warren administration was apparently ready to sell Parcel 5 to Gallina until RBTL added Bob Morgan’s apartment building to its theater proposal. At that point, it looked as if Warren could get three things she wanted: more downtown residents, a venue that would draw people downtown for entertainment, and new jobs.

When the FBI’s investigation into the Morgan company killed the apartment building, RBTL tried to get other residential developers interested. No one has stepped forward. And now city officials are looking for other things that might work. The latest idea: an entertainment-retail complex similar to one they saw on a recent trip, Kansas City Live.

As I understand it, KC Live is a big open space with a stage at one end, an arched covering over the top, and around the sides, structures housing bars, small restaurants, small retail, that kind of thing. Those uses open onto the center area and onto the streets outside. Warren administration officials think something similar might work on Parcel 5. And the center of Parcel 5 could be used

Eight years after Midtown’s demolition, city officials are still looking for something to put there.

Maybe it’s time for a reality check. for concerts, festivals, big-screen sports viewing, and other events year round.

It’s early in the city’s investigation into KC Live, and city officials aren’t ready to make a decision about it. They’ll be seeking public input – so here’s mine: If I were the folks at City Hall, right now, I’d chill. Let Parcel 5 sit there for a while.

Pretty it up. Plant grass. And leave it alone for a bit.

Right now, several new housing developments are underway downtown, and several more are planned. This is a region with a flat population trend. So far, the new housing units downtown are filling up, but the supply of people wanting to live downtown isn’t unlimited.

And another thing: Is there a demand for a new bar and restaurant district?

Or will it simply draw customers from existing businesses? Is Parcel 5 – currently nearly surrounded by apartments – a good place for bars and concerts and their late-night, often boisterous patrons?

I understand the mayor’s eagerness to find something that will bring more people downtown. And city government certainly has a role in boosting development. But thanks to the city’s help and the willingness of several developers to take risks, a lot has been going on downtown. Maybe we need to let the new stuff settle in, and let demand, not hope, tell us what the next step should be at Parcel 5.

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Council presents its police oversight plan City Council unveiled a proposal for a Police Accountability Board on Monday, and as expected, it differs in some key areas from the proposal Mayor Lovely Warren announced in late December.

In particular, Council’s legislation gives the Accountability Board the power to determine the discipline police have violated department policies or procedures.

In Warren’s legislation, discipline authority remains with the police chief, which Warren and the city’s attorney insist state law and the union contract require. But Council President Loretta Scott and other Council members insist that their legislation is both legal and necessary.

Asked at a press conference on Monday whether she thinks the city might be sued if Council’s legislation is adopted, Scott said, “We may.” But, she said, “We’ll just have to face that if it happens. We can’t not do this out of fear of being sued.”

And while Warren could veto Council’s version, Scott said that all nine members of Council have signed on to the legislation, so presumably the six votes necessary to override her veto would be assured.

Council’s proposed Accountability Board would: • Be an independent, autonomous office of city government; • Develop a “disciplinary matrix” outlining discipline for specific levels of misconduct; • Have the authority to “investigate and adjudicate complaints of misconduct” against the Rochester Police Department and everyone in it, based on the disciplinary matrix; • Have the power to investigate police actions if it believes that’s necessary, even if a complaint hasn’t been filed; • Have access to “all documents and evidence including but not limited to RPD personnel files.”

Council’s legislation provides for a nine-person board. The mayor would appoint one member and City Council would appoint four, one from each district.

Council would select the remaining four from a group of 12 people nominated by the Police Accountability Board Alliance, a group of individuals and community organizations that have been pressing for major reform of Rochester’s police oversight system. continues on page 12

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The city expects to start construction on the Elmwood Avenue-Collegetown cycle track this year. The project will create a two-way, bike-only corridor along Elmwood between Wilson Boulevard and Mt. Hope Avenue. DRAWING COURTESY OF THE CITY OF ROCHESTER.

TRANSPORTATION | BY JEREMY MOULE

Rochester bike projects roll on For close to a decade, the City of Rochester has methodically worked to become more bike friendly. Officials have tried to incorporate bike lanes and cycle tracks into road resurfacing and reconstruction projects whenever possible. They designed a series of alternate routes that cyclists can take instead of car-packed main roads.

They launched a bike-share program.

And they’ve tried to make sure that people have a place to lock up or securely store their bikes when they get to their destination.

That work will continue this year. Construction is set to begin on several key projects, and design

work will start on other important bike infrastructure, including some trail work and connections that will be part of Roc the Riverway.

“This is all about getting to a low-stress bike network in the city,” says Erik Frisch, a transportation specialist for the city.

After several delays, construction will begin this year on the Elmwood Avenue-Collegetown cycle track, Frisch says. The twoway track is a dedicated passageway for cyclists – neither pedestrians nor cars can use it – and it’ll lie directly alongside the three-quarter mile stretch of Elmwood between

Wilson Boulevard and Mt. Hope Avenue. The project was supposed to be Rochester’s first cycle track, but the one built along Broad Street as part of the Inner Loop East fill-in is already finished.

The city has several resurfacing projects that will include the addition of bike lanes: Beach Avenue in Charlotte, Dewey Avenue north of Ridge Road, Alexander Street, and Scio Street. The state is resurfacing Mt. Read Boulevard between Lyell Avenue and Buffalo Road, and bike lanes will be added there as well, Frisch says. continues on page 12

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A new addiction treatment unit will be the first large-scale drug and alcohol program at the downtown jail. Inmates with opioid or alcohol abuse problems will have access to medication assisted treatment.

SUBSTANCE ADDICTION | BY JEREMY MOULE

Jail launching drug treatment unit The Monroe County Jail will open its first medication-assisted treatment unit on January 22. The unit will provide dedicated housing and services for inmates with substance abuse problems – specifically opioid and alcohol addiction – who are voluntarily seeking treatment.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office operates a full chemical dependency program at its correctional facility on East Henrietta Road in Brighton.

That includes opioid addiction treatment programs using methadone and Suboxone, and alcohol addiction treatment using Vivitrol. But the new medication-assisted treatment unit will be the first large-scale drug and alcohol program at the downtown jail, says Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Jail Bureau Captain Dale Erne.

The ultimate goal of the medicationassisted treatment unit is to prevent both relapses and recidivism, Erne says. It’s intended to help people start “straightening out their lives and getting back to be productive citizens,” Erne says, and to provide support that they may not otherwise get out in society.

Dr. Tisha Smith, the Jail Bureau’s director of inmate drug and alcohol programs, estimates that between 85 and

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90 percent of the people entering either the jail or the correctional facility have some sort of substance use disorder, but only a small portion want to enroll in available treatment programs.

The jail program, which will be based around a physical unit located adjacent to its existing Veteran’s Unit, will be voluntary because it involves compliance with medication, Smith says.

Every person who is housed in the jail goes through a medical screening when they arrive, and anyone volunteering for medication assisted treatment will have to meet certain medical requirements. The program will be open to both male and female inmates.

The jail’s medical provider and Sheriff’s Office drug counselors will handle different aspects of the initial treatment. A yoga teacher from the correctional facility will be involved, as will some people who do work around trauma, Smith says.

Housing services providers, especially treatment houses, will visit to work with the inmates before they’re released, Smith says. And each individual will be linked up with a casework from a community organization, who will help them line up things such as addiction treatment

services and a primary medical care provider. Those caseworkers will continue working with the individuals once they’re released from the jail to the community.

“From a rehab standpoint, we’re in the business of educating and motivating people to lead healthier and sober lives when they get out,” Smith says. “In addition to that, a lot of what we do is helping to provide some sense of self-worth so that they can see themselves in recovery.”

The program includes some post-release supervision for the participating inmates.

Jail officials have wanted to start a treatment unit for quite a while, says Erne, who’s worked there for 25 years. They found a supporter in Sheriff Todd Baxter, who helped pursue the $262,500 grant from the University of Baltimore that’s helping to fund its start-up, Erne says.

The University of Baltimore manages a larger grant from the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy, which targets the development of community-based programs that reduce opioid overdose deaths. Researchers from the university will track data through the Monroe County Jail program on individual compliance and recidivism after release.

Captain Dale Erne of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Jail Bureau, and Dr. Tisha Smith, the Jail Bureau’s director of inmate drug and alcohol programs, say a new drug treatment unit at the downtown jail is meant to help people turn their lives around.

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The planetarium’s new Digistar 6 full-dome projection system is part of the institution’s renovations.

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SCIENCE | BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Renovated planetarium takes us into space Rochesterians are in for an enhanced experience of wonder.

The Rochester Museum and Science Center’s Strasenburgh Planetarium reopened last weekend after three months of renovations — the first since the building first opened in 1968.

And in addition to renovations to the lobby area and new, moveable seating in the Star Theater, the planetarium now has state-of-the-art digital projection technology that will provide an incredibly immersive experience of the Earth, our solar system, and the universe beyond.

Next weekend, the planetarium will present programming to celebrate the total lunar eclipse that takes place on Sunday, January 20, from about 10:30 p.m. to almost 2 a.m. During that time the planetarium will be open for viewing the eclipse, both with a telescope from outside tower, and in a simulation under the theater’s dome. Both the museum and planetarium will be open on Monday, January 21, a school break day for Martin Luther King Day. When the planetarium opened in September of 1968, the technology was cutting edge, says RMSC’s new CEO, Hillary Olson. “It was right before the moon landing in 1969,” Olson says.

“So everyone was looking up, everyone was thinking about astronomy, what’s happening in the skies, what’s happening with the moon.”

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But from the mid-90’s onward, other planetariums have grown by leaps and bounds, she says. “So as we did an assessment with what we could be doing in the planetarium, what the Strasenburgh could be offering to the public, we realized that what we were offering was a little bit old, a little bit outdated, and we needed to change that.”

Before now, projections on the dome were just spots of light, because “Carl” – the Carl Zeiss starball projector original to the planetarium – had lights on the inside and projected dots of light onto the dome, or the moon as a sort of larger-looking yellow dot, Olson says.

“Now we can zoom in and out using real data, real NASA information,” she says. “And you’re fully immersed in it. It feels like you’re on the moon, it feels like you’re on Saturn, it feels like you’ve zoomed in to the sun. We’re using real-time data, so we can project Earth with realtime weather patterns.”

Planetarium director Steve Fentress tweaks details in Star Theater’s control booth.

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“What you’re going to see when you come to see a show is not a video. It is not a movie,” says Strasenburgh Planetarium director Steve Fentress. “It is a visualization of a giant supply of Big Data supplied by publicly funded space missions and research projects from NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation.”

A rack of computers in a small room behind the planetarium’s control booth

RSMC president and CEO Hillary Olson looks up at Star Theater’s dome. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH

contains detailed models of all of the planets in our solar system, all of their known moons, three-dimensional locations of 100,000 stars, exoplanet systems, labels and names for all kinds of celestial bodies, and millions of galaxies outside of ours.

“What the software does is to fly through this virtual universe any place at will,” Fentress says. “So it is a way of using Big Data. There’s so much in there, it will take us years to explore all of it.”

For example, Fentress can set the program for a specific moment in time, then zoom in to an up-close view of a planet, say, Saturn. And the correct arrangement of shadows on Saturn from its rings would be displayed on the dome above.

“That’s what I mean by it being a data visualization system,” he says. “We could change it to some other date, and the shadows would change. We can see stars through the rings. The density of the rings is correct. Some of them block the starlight more than others.”

With this level of immersion, you get a sense of the solar system and universe from different perspectives, not just from Earth.

Aside from outer-space simulations, the software can show light and other atmospheric conditions anywhere on our planet. “So the model of the atmosphere, the sky color, is not made up artistically.” Fentress says. “It’s calculated by the expected physical effect of the sun at that particular angle, at that particular time of day.”

The system paints features – the terrain, buildings – on a topographic map of the surface of the Earth, but it doesn’t have threedimensional models of the buildings. “That’s a project for somebody who wants to do it in

the future, to make digital 3D models of the buildings, at least in our area, and we could add them to this,” Fentress says.

And we can do this on the moon, on Mars, on Ceres, on Pluto, because those things have all been mapped in detail with space missions, he says. It’s a similar principle to Google Earth, and it may even use some of the same data, Fentress says: “When you go in close to a certain area on the planet, it goes out and gets the data that it needs to render that little section.”

During planning for renovations, a survey was conducted among staff, community members, and the visitors to the Strasenburg, Olson says. And the consensus was that though the projection system has been upgraded to a digital format, the planetarium shouldn’t retire the beloved starball projector, “Carl.”

“Carl will be coming out at the end of every show,” Olson says. “It’s a nice comparison to see between what the Digistar program can do digitally and what Carl can do. Carl’s a little dimmer, he’s a little old, he’s 50. But he’s still active, and he’ll be part of every single show that we do. And we will have that monthly Stars with Carl program,” beginning in February.

The museum and planetarium staff are thinking beyond immersive star projections.

The new digital technology is not a planetarium-only tool; this becomes a tool for art, for science, it becomes a tool to project anything in your imagination onto this dome, Olson says.

“So we use it to project stars and to tell a story of astronomy and discovery, but what we can use it for is to show other things,” she says. “You could be under the ocean and have whales going by. You could be at the top of Mt. Everest. You could be watching a movie in here.

Anything is possible. You could have a dance troupe do something where the minute you put your arms up and you throw something, fireworks go all the way up. It just has to be timed. This space can become a venue. It can become anything anyone needs it to be.”

There will also be opportunities for students and other creators to test their creations on the dome during what the staff are calling Dome Lab sessions. The sessions will happen maybe one evening per month, when there’s no programming happening, Fentress says.

Partnerships the staff has considered include the MAGIC Center, the Laser Lab, the Institute of Optics, Fringe Festival, and a few art ensembles in Rochester “who have delivered the goods before,” he says.

That program is set to kick off in the spring The staff wants the planetarium “to be something people are proud to come to because of what it is in the present, not just because of what they remember from third grade,” Fentress says.

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JEROME UNDERWOOD

The Action for a Better Community President & CEO on racism, poverty, and education INTERVIEW | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO | PHOTOS BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

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I

t was almost exactly a year ago that Jerome Underwood learned he had been selected to succeed James Norman, who was retiring as the long-time president and CEO of Action for a Better Community. It was a prestigious honor and the most important milestone in Underwood’s career, Underwood says. And the night before his selection was made public, as he was home preparing remarks for a press conference, he says, he thought of the black community leaders he wanted to acknowledge “for their experience and historic work in this community.”

Constance Mitchell, Minister Franklin Florence, Sr., Dr. Walter Cooper: “because those literally are the giants whose shoulders I’m standing on.”

But then Underwood turned on the television set and heard that President Trump had questioned why the US should accept immigrants from “shit-hole countries,” apparently referring to Caribbean, Central American, and African nations.

“I’m from one of those shit-hole countries,” Underwood says now. “I looked at what I was writing for my remarks, and I just threw it all away. I said, ‘That’s how I have to begin the press conference.’”

Underwood was born in Antigua, what locals there call “Little Paradise.” One of eight children from a poor family, he immigrated to the US in the mid-1980’s.

“I know that I improve the community that I live in,” he says. “And a lot of my friends are also immigrants, and we know that we add value by the lives that we live and the example we set. So I was particularly offended by the president’s comments, because he was talking about people like me.”

Underwood is a tall, athletic-looking man with graying dreads, and though he’s lived in Upstate New York for many years, he’s lost little of his Caribbean patois. In many ways, he was the ideal choice to lead ABC at this time. He has a youthful quality about him that’s fresh and relatable. And he’s been involved with ABC for years, so he knows the people the agency serves, the resources they need, and the role ABC needs to play in the Rochester community.

“The mission of this agency is what attracted me to come and volunteer here years ago,” Underwood says. He later held a seat on ABC’s board, and when current City Council President Loretta Scott stepped down from her position as ABC’s board president, Underwood took her place. continues on page 10

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But it’s Underwood’s experience in business development, organizational management, and education – he served in senior-level positions under three Rochester school superintendents and one interim superintendent – that in many respects aligns with ABC’s mission.

ABC must be an intervening force against some of the challenges city children and families are facing, he says. One of the most serious challenges is poverty, he says, which affects more than 90 percent of the Rochester children.

“Very simply put, we exist to eliminate or reduce poverty,” Underwood says. The overarching goal of ABC’s many programs is to help low-income individuals and families achieve self-sufficiency, he says.

ABC currently employs nearly 400 people.

“The biggest thing that we do is education,” Underwood says, “because we have six Head Start centers that we oversee with just a little shy of 1,100 3and 4-year-olds,” he says. “That’s where the magic happens.”

But ABC provides a boatload of other services. It provides GED training and job-readiness training. It operate two substance abuse clinics through a program called New Directions.

ABC also operates Action Front Center, which provides social, emotional, and economic support to people in the black and Latino communities living with HIV and AIDS. And a home weatherization program helps people afford to stay in their home through energy-saving steps like replacing old windows, water heaters, and furnaces.

Besides the programs it directly oversees, ABC has an advocacy role in the community.

For instance, ABC was among a group of allies that supported Rochester Management’s plans to redevelop the senior housing complex Cobb’s Hill Village.

The project has faced bitter opposition, but ABC supported it. “We know that it is going to benefit people living in economically marginalized situations,” Underwood says.

Underwood’s career wasn’t a straight line

in the non-profit and human service field leading to ABC. But a common thread in his experience has been an evolving understanding of racism in America and how it often intersects with poverty. That education has at times been painful and began almost from the moment he arrived in the US. Underwood has always been passionate about most sports, and it was his soccer skills that helped him get into St. John Fisher as an undergrad and later become a US citizen. He got to Fisher through the college’s 10 CITY JANUARY 16 - 22, 2019

participation in the Partners of the Americas program and the efforts of David Ocorr, a former coach and dean at the college.

“I was a soccer player, and a pretty darn good one,” Underwood says. “Literally that’s what got me here and paved the path for me to go to St. John Fisher.” But it almost didn’t happen. Ocorr was impressed when he saw Underwood on the field, but the coach told him the college couldn’t offer him financial assistance based on soccer alone.

“Something inside me died,” Underwood says. But then the coach asked: “How are your grades?”

Despite coming from a poor family, Underwood had excelled in school, and he told Ocorr: “If you like my soccer, you’re really going to like my grades.”

“I tell young people all the time that soccer opened the door for me, but it was my grades that got me here,” he says.

The thrill of playing soccer at Fisher was short-lived. Underwood had been in the US for only a few weeks when an opposing team member called him the N-word during a game.

“I was so full of rage,” he recalls, “because I’m just six weeks off the boat from Antigua, where 99 percent of the people are black, and I’m like, ‘Oh, hell no.’” He knew that hearing the word was a predictable side to living in the

US, “but not that quickly,” he says, “and not on what is a sacred place to me, a soccer field.”

After earning his bachelor’s degree, Underwood went on to work for Marine Midland Bank. The company, which later became HSBC, made him a vice president within a few years, recognizing his talent for working with small and medium-size businesses that needed loans and banking services.

Even though state and federal banking regulations had begun targeting discriminatory lending practices, minorityowned businesses were an ignored market.

Unlike some of his colleagues, however, Underwood sought out black and Latino business owners as well as white ones, going into city neighborhoods looking for people who needed banking services.

“As a lending officer,” he says, “I didn’t know until somebody called to my attention that I had the most diverse portfolio.”

Underwood was later responsible for designing commercial lending programs that worked for business owners in low-income neighborhoods across New York State.

Underwood went on to earn his MBA at the Rochester Institute of Technology while working for Datrose, a local business services company.

Underwood also has a long history of working with children. He coached roughly

600 children ages 8 to 14 in the Flower City Soccer League, where he used sports to teach young people life skills, he says. And despite having no formal training in education, his experience with children plus his business background attracted the attention of thenSuperintendent Jean-Claude Brizard.

Brizard hired Underwood to supervise the Rochester school district’s IT department, and later made him head of operations, which included food service and transportation, two of the district’s largest and most complex services. And successive superintendents have seemed to seek him out because of an innate ability to navigate different organizations and cultures.

He helped organize former Superintendent Bolgen Vargas’s efforts to boost lagging attendance rates. And he worked with interim Superintendent Linda Cimusz and, up until a year ago, Barbara Deane-Williams.

After nearly 10 years working in the Rochester

school district, Underwood has developed some strong, sometimes controversial views about why the district has struggled to improve.

He agrees with the district’s stateappointed Distinguished Educator, Jaime Aquino, that turnover in the district’s leadership is a major concern. But that’s not Underwood’s main concern about the district.

Turnover isn’t unique to the Rochester district, he says, and it shouldn’t be viewed in isolation. “There’s a significant challenge across the country in these urban districts,” he says. “This work is not for the faint of heart.”

The pressures of running a large district are extreme, he says, and they become more extreme when student performance is low and progress is lagging. Stress comes from every direction and seems to feed on itself, he says.

“Nobody who has any sort of common sense is satisfied with the student outcomes coming out of the city school district,” Underwood says. “There’s no silver bullet, so the question is, ‘What do we do?’”

“There’s no one simple answer,” Underwood says.

But, he says: “Let me put this out there: I happen to think that the Rochester City School District is adequately funded.” The challenge, he says, is allocating money in a way that’s equitable. Some schools receive too few resources to address the needs of their students, he says, while other schools receive too much.

One of his biggest concerns, however, is systemic racism in the Rochester school system.

“Every institution, every corporation, has to be overtly anti-racist as opposed to non-racist,” Underwood says. “The difference is basically action. A non-racist is going to see or hear something and sort of close the shades. But an anti-racist is going to say, ‘Hell, no! Not here, not ever are we going to allow that kind of behavior or treatment.”

Though there’s been a lot of discussion over the years about the fact that most teachers in the Rochester school district are white and the majority of students are black or brown, that’s not Underwood’s main concern, either. He’d like to see more teachers of color in city schools, but the more important issue, he says, is cultural competency.

“I am convinced that regardless of who the teacher is, you can have success with the children in city schools,” he says. “I’ve seen it happen. I’ve also seen black teachers who should not be in classrooms, and I’ve seen white teachers who should be.”

What’s important, he says, is “the relationship between the teacher and the student.”

Underwood is a huge supporter of educational consultant Joy DeGruy and her theory of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, a condition she says is the result of multigenerational oppression of Africans and their enslaved descendants.

DeGruy argues, and Underwood agrees, that healing the syndrome – which is affecting many city school children and their families –

leaves a “chemical mark” on the genes, which is passed on to subsequent generations. Research about trauma suffered by prisoners or soldiers of the Civil War, the Holocaust, and World War II seems to suggest that some type of genetic reshuffling occurs. If epigenetic transmission is possible, the Times article says, (and some scientists argue that the evidence is thin), it could mean that “past human cruelties affect our physiology today.”

Certainly Underwood believes that they do.

But does that mean that all kinds of student disruptive behavior are the result of PTSS? Of course not, says Underwood. But teachers who have anti-racism training and cultural competency can learn how to build relationships with their students. They teach their students with a curriculum that’s culturally relevant rather than one that’s Eurocentric.

And they’re more apt to understand some of their behavior and guide them through restorative justice or provide the appropriate interventions rather than resort to punishment.

requires an understanding of the cultural and philosophical differences between people of European and African descents.

Underwood’s African heritage is so important to him that he sometimes refers to himself as an African living in America instead of as an African American. And he was instrumental in bringing DeGruy to the Rochester school district for training in cultural competency and anti-racism. The goal was to get past the emotionalism of discussions about racism and look at the data.

For instance, even black teachers over-suspend black students, Underwood says.

DeGruy’s critics argue that PTSS serves as an excuse for student behavior problems and low test scores and doesn’t help black students improve.

Underwood isn’t moved by those arguments. Instead, he cites research suggesting that intergenerational trauma could be trapped in an individual’s DNA. Trauma, that research says, may not be entirely environmentally driven. It may be passed on physically in our cells.

The issue was explored in a 2018 New York Times article, “Can We Inherit Trauma?” Trauma, some research says,

Another concern for Underwood is the push to have city students attend schools that are racially and economically diverse. He’s among a group of educators and community leaders critical of the Urban-Suburban Program, for instance because it doesn’t address the systemic racism in the Rochester district. And he argues that in suburban schools, students are taught that the Eurocentric version of the world is better, that they’re taught to become what he calls “Negropean.”

“When that person comes back to the black or Latino community, that’s what they’re bringing back to us, as opposed to grounding their education in their history or culture,” Underwood says.

“If you’re not teaching students about their history and culture, what are you graduating?”

Underwood says.

He also doesn’t support Great Schools 4 All, the effort to create a magnet school that would draw both low-income students from the city and higher-income students from the suburbs.

“The argument is that an economically diverse classroom is better for everybody,” he says. “That’s not my experience, because hey, I went to school in Antigua. Everybody in my class was poor.”

The evidence of racism in city schools is undeniable, says Underwood. He cites

Tyquan Rivera as an example of a lack of a sense of urgency among many district teachers and administrators. Rivera was

convicted of shooting Rochester police officer Anthony DiPonzio in the head in 2009. Rivera was only 14 at the time, and he hadn’t been attending school for two years.

A more recent example is Trevyan Rowe, the 14-year-old who walked away from school one morning last year and drowned in the Genesee River. Although he never entered the school that day, some of his teachers marked him present.

These types of events are examples of what can happen in a school culture with racist, low expectations, Underwood says. “You think some shit like that could happen in Pittsford, Greece, or Fairport and there not be complete and total outrage?” he says.

“There are some awesome people working in the district,” he says, “but I saw a number of people who were just disconnected from the mission.”

The community’s continuing struggle to eliminate racism makes ABC’s job

of reducing poverty tougher. Statistics concerning Rochester’s poverty fall alarmingly along racial lines, he says. The two issues are clearly interconnected.

And even though Rochester non-profit agencies have spent millions of dollars over decades trying to reduce Rochester poverty, new Census data show that the city’s child poverty rate is growing worse.

Mayor Lovely Warren was spot on, Underwood says, when she talked about Rochester’s experience being a “tale of two cities” in her first campaign for mayor. A mile and half from ABC’s office, there’s abject poverty, Underwood says; a few miles in the other direction is Brighton. And the two communities are worlds apart.

To reduce poverty, Underwood says, the community needs to come up with new strategies. Poor people should have more voice in determining what would help them become self-sufficient rather than being told to sign up for specific programs.

And there, too, he says, racism is an issue.

Rochester is a very generous town when it comes to philanthropy, he says. But too often, those providing the money have a “missionary mentality,” insisting they know what’s best for poor people.

“Those days are over,” he says.

Underwood loves reggae music, and he refers to the lyrics to a Burning Spear song to make his point.

“The lyrics go, ‘Share your riches with the poor before they share their poverty with you,’” says Underwood.

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A project along the Genesee River’s west wall near Corn Hill will start this year; when construction is completed in 2020, cyclists will have a better connection between Corn Hill and Ford Street, Frisch says.

The city will also begin construction on 10 miles of bicycle boulevards; each route was identified as a priority in a previous city plan. The bike boulevards are meant to serve as alternate routes that run parallel to busy streets that can be difficult for cyclists to use.

Wayfinding signs direct cyclists through the route, and pavement markings and traffic-calming measures are installed to keep drivers’ awareness up and their speed down.

The bike boulevard projects will occur in every quadrant of the city, Frisch says. One boulevard in the northwest part of the city will center around North Plymouth Avenue and Fulton Avenue.

In the southeast, the city will work on a boulevard that uses Averill Avenue. Also on the east side, the city will work on a bike boulevard along Garson Avenue.

City planners will also be designing more bike boulevard projects for construction next year.

“We’ll be way ahead of schedule in building out the whole bike boulevard network,” Frisch says.

Town of Brighton officials are working with the city on the Highland Crossing Trail project, and the town is taking the lead on construction. The trail will start in Brighton Town Park off of Westfall Road and will end at McLean

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Street, off of Mt. Hope Avenue near Mt. Hope Cemetery. Construction on that trail, which will link the Erie Canal trail in Brighton with the Genesee Riverway Trail in Rochester, will start this year.

City planners will be working on designs for several other trail projects this year. They’ll finish up designs for the first phase of the Eastman Trail, which will connect the Route 390 trail at the border with Greece to Mt. Read Boulevard. The trail will ultimately connect with the Genesee Riverway Trail after future phases.

Staff will also work on designs for the Brewery Line Trail along the rim of the Genesee River gorge at High Falls Terrace Park.

And the city will finish construction of the Erie Harbor promenade, which connects to Court Street near Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. The promenade is part of the city’s Roc the Riverway project, which is meant to better tie in downtown to the Genesee River.

Roc the Riverway also includes plans to redevelop Court Street by removing the deck above the Erie Canal aqueduct and closing the area to traffic. The project will create a pedestrian-oriented area, but it will also create a hub for multi-use trails coming in from different directions, including the Genesee Riverway Trail. That central connection will provide cyclists with easier access to downtown and other parts of the city, Frisch says.

“It really brings everything together,” Frisch says.

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During Monday’s press conference, Scott emphasized the need to build trust between police and the community. The public’s trust has been damaged, she and other Council members said, and strong reform of the current oversight system is essential.

“We’re concerned that the public is seeing police policing themselves,” Scott said. “It’s hard for people to trust that.

We have many good police officers, but a lot has happened to change that trust.”

The core of the issue, said Council members Adam McFadden and Mitch Gruber, is transparency around the discipline of officers. Currently, no information about discipline is made public.

“We’re not anti-police,” said Council 12 CITY JANUARY 16 - 22, 2019

member Willie Lightfoot, “and we’re not against the chief.”

Council is including its proposal in its packet of legislation for its February meetings and will hold three forums on it, Scott said. Details on the forums are still being worked out, but one will be held on the east side of the city, one will be held on the west side, and one will be held downtown, Scott said. And she said people who want to provide comments prior to the forums can submit them to Council@cityofrochester.gov.

The current legislation is a draft version, and Council could make changes based on public comments during the forums, McFadden said.

For more Tom Tomorrow, including a political blog and cartoon archive, visit www.thismodernworld.com

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.)

Saving the planet

The National Council of Jewish Women’s Greater Rochester Section will present “Repairing the Planet II: Hope through Action,” on Wednesday, January 23. A follow-up to a 2016 event, the program will offer action that can be taken now to reverse climate change and preserve a livable planet for future generations.

Panelists will be Norma Polizzi, a local environmental attorney and member of former Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, and Sue Staropoli, an environmental activist and member of Rochester Pachamama Alliance. The event will be at Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Avenue, at 7

p.m. Cost: $5. Registration requested: ncjwgrs.org or 234-3475.

Protecting women’s health

The National Organization for Women’s Rochester chapter and Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York will present a program marking the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade on Wednesday, January 23.

Representative Joe Morelle will discuss Congressional Democrats’ plans to fight the Trump Administration’s attempts to limit women’s access to birth control and abortion. Jessica Coleman, community health educator with Highland Family Health Planning, will discuss the barriers to reproductive health services.

And Steven Eisinger, a Rochester obstetrician and gynecologist, will share his experience providing

reproductive health services to women. The event will be held at First Unitarian Church, 220 Winton Road South, at 7 p.m.

Deaf patients’ health care

The New York Deaf Patient Care Council will hold a public forum on health challenges care on Wednesday, January 23. Deaf Rochesterians can wait as much as a month for care if an interpreter is needed, the council says, while hearing patients often receive same or next-day care.

Topics will include patient-staff communication, video remote interpreting, finding qualified interpreters, and working toward equality in scheduling and general care. A voice interpreter will be available. The event will be held at NTID/ RIT Panara Theatre, LBJ Building, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Dining & Nightlife

Bagged goods: Crab legs, salt potatoes, and sweet corn on the cob at Juicy Seafood. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH

Curb your crab craving Juicy Seafood 3020 SOUTH WINTON ROAD DAILY, NOON TO 10 P.M. 622-9468; FACEBOOK.COM/JUICYSEAFOODROCHESTER [ REVIEW ] BY JAMES A. BROWN

Just past the diverging diamond on South Winton Road sits Juicy Seafood. Its exterior does not stand out from many of its neighbors in the Winton Place location, but its approach to its cuisine, service, and environment does. The idea for Viet-Cajun fare stems from a series of restaurants in the

Southern US that fuse Vietnamese cuisine and seafood.

Juicy Seafood serves a mix of fried and baked seafood, including oysters, shrimp, calamari, mussels, and clams. Other seafood staples, such as blue crab, are offered seasonally.

There are only a few sides on the menu.

It’s easy to miss what makes Juicy Seafood’s décor different than what you’d find in a typical suburban strip mall. At first glance, the tables, chairs, and walls all check out as average. As I waited for the lemonade I ordered, the difference creeped up on me. The booths and walls are covered with customer names and comments, written mostly in sharpie.

Restaurant manager Jim Wang says he allowed customers to write on the surfaces for the restaurant’s first four months in business.

They would continue it, he says, but they ran out of space.

“It adds a special touch for customers,” Wang says. “A memory. You were here when we started.” He says that Juicy has many repeat customers, some who visit multiple times a week. I visited the restaurant on a Saturday afternoon, when it bustled at about 75 percent capacity.

When customers are seated in a booth, the servers unravel a table-wide sheet of brown paper and top it with enough silver metal buckets for your party. Inside the buckets are

bags filled with plastic bibs with giant orange crabs printed on them, gloves, crab-crackers, and forks. Prepare to get messy. You’ll likely need all of the above.

When your order is ready, your server will bring you yet another plastic bag. This one is see-through and carefully carried on a silvertoned platter. The server stands at the edge of your table, braces the bottom of the platter while holding the holding the folds of the bag closed. Watching servers approach first-time customers is telling and entertaining. Some customers are amused, others are bewildered as they watch the staff jostle their meal in the bag with the sauce of their choice, like balls in a lottery machine. Hot air clouds the bag as the server sets it before you and unfurls it.

There are four seasonings to choose from: Garlic butter, Cajun-garlic butter, lemon pepper, and the Juicy special, which is a blend of all three flavors. You also have an option of spice levels of mild, medium, hot, extra hot, or no spicy. On the back of the menu, I checked off medium and chose a half-pound of crawfish, a half-pound of crab legs, and a half-pound of snow crab, with baked salt potatoes and a small-ish portion of sweet corn on the cob (a nice haul for $24.99). A closeup look at inside bag reveals millimeter-deep, lemon pepper-dominated waves of orangecolored sauce.

For the uninitiated, eating shelled seafood can be a jarring experience. Accessing the juicy meat inside each shellfish is a skill unto itself.

The head of each crawfish should be twisted and pulled off without damaging the chewy, slim sliver of meat inside. The next step is breaking the tail. “It’s a lot of work for a little bit of meat.” Wang says. “But it’s worth it.”

When eating snow crab, you pinch the tail and yank it off, then peel away the rest of its shell. In order to access sweet meat inside crab legs, Wang advises that the legs should be broken at the joints first. Depending on the thickness of the center, you can crack open the shell with your hands, teeth, or a crab cracker.

Smaller forks are available upon request if you can’t pull the meat out any other way. Dip the meat into your sauce and enjoy.

The baked salt potatoes showed no hint of greasiness, and the sweet corn on the cobb was a great compliment to the savory nature of the sauce’s seasoning — which remains a mystery even to Wang.

The seasoning is sourced from down South, he says, and its makers won’t disclose the ingredients. “It’s a secret recipe,” he says. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 13

Upcoming

Music

[ POP ]

America’s Voices on Tour Saturday, February 16.

Auditorium Theatre. 885 E. Main St. $23-$102. 8 p.m.

222-5000. rbtl.org.

[ POP ROCK ] Bad Suns Monday, April 22. Anthology. 336 East Ave. $20-$25. 8 p.m. 484-1964. anthologylive.com; badsuns.com.

RPO with Vadym Kholodenko

THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 7:30 P.M. SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 8 P.M. KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE, 26 GIBBS STREET $24-$106 | RPO.ORG; VADYMKHOLODENKO.COM [ CLASSICAL ] The Russian pianist and 2014 Van Cliburn

winner Vadym Kholodenko has become a popular soloist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the vehicle for his RPO return is Maurice Ravel’s scintillating Concerto in G Major – a jazz-inflected work that requires a virtuoso technique and an elegant touch. This concert introduces Rochester to New Zealand-born conductor Gemma New, leading Debussy’s sultry, sunlit “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and Rimsky-Korsakov’s popular symphonic suite “Scheherazade.”

— BY DAVID RAYMOND

The Lynnes SATURDAY, JANUARY 19 ROCHESTER CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH, 2750 ATLANTIC AVENUE, PENFIELD 7:30 P.M. | $10-$22; FREE FOR CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER | GOLDENLINK.ORG; THELYNNES.COM [ SINGER-SONGWRITER ] The vocal duo of Lynne Hanson and Lynn Miles – The Lynnes – has a twinharmony approach that only adds to the music’s minorkey ache. The title track of the dynamic duo’s new album “Heartbreak Song for the Radio” easily sums it up with its “Got lemons? Make lemonade” approach. With an Everly Brothers-esque harmonic stance mixed with good ol’ Americana grit. The Lyness rock the house using minimal instrumentation and maximum giddy-up-and-go.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

PSST. Out of touch? Out of tune?

See our music reviews from Frank De Blase.

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[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]

Soviet Dolls ‘Dream in Rhythm’ Self-released sovietdolls.com

Continental Drift FRIDAY, JANUARY 18 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $7 | AGES 21 AND OVER | BUGJAR.COM; CONTINENTALDRIFTMUSIC.COM [ AFROBEAT ] In a multilayered ocean of sound, Continental

Drift delivers a funky wave of Latin jazz, psychedelia, soul fusion, Afrobeat, and electronica. Crashing in from Austin, Texas, the band has toured extensively since forming in 2014, celebrating a self-titled, debut EP in 2015 and a full-length album in 2017.

Continental Drift’s music is mostly instrumental, peppered with atmospheric vocal echoes and a complex spectrum of percussive timbres. Provocative horn lines, ripping keyboard solos, and electrifying guitar riffs all punctuate the underlying drumbeats.

Kids in the Basement and Treasure Plate will also perform.

— BY KATIE HALLIGAN

Extended Family THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 THREE HEADS BREWING, 186 ATLANTIC AVENUE 8 P.M. | $5 | THREEHEADSBREWING.COM; FACEBOOK.COM/ EXTENDEDFAMILYMUSIC [ JAM ROCK ] Enjoying each other’s company since 2004,

the members of local jam band Extended Family are currently working on a much-anticipated third studio album. A tightknit inclusiveness is reflected in Extended Family’s music, with songs about perseverance, hope, being grateful, and building community. The band blends folk with pop, alternative rock, and roots music, transitioning from quietly contemplative journeys to electrically charged party music with the crash of a cymbal. A strong mix of male and female vocals keeps the sound refreshingly different in each song, backed by a powerhouse of spectral vocal harmonies. Ben Rossi will also perform.

— BY KATIE HALLIGAN

Soviet Dolls has pierced a hole into the Rochester music scene with its blend of trippy electronic beats and cosmic songwriting style. Its debut, full-length album, “Dream in Rhythm,” is a collection of previously unreleased tracks as well as remastered versions of older tracks. Listeners can enjoy familiar songs like “Dreams” and “Broken Laces” with added arrangements, while new songs like “Nothing Is Forever” offer a more pop-oriented sound filled with densely textured electronic production and catchy melodies.

Soviet Dolls bridges unlikely sections together in a provocative pop experience.

— BY KATIE HALLIGAN

[ WED., JANUARY 16 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Annie Wells Band. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Amy Montrois Trio. B-Side,

5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 7 p.m.

Sam Nitsch. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 2441210. 6-8 p.m.

Upward Groove. Temple Bar & Grille, 109 East Ave. 2326000. 10 p.m.

REGGAE/JAM

Rochester Reggae Revival.

Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. 9 p.m. $10.

[ THU., JANUARY 17 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Ryan Sutherland ‘SleepWalker’ Self-released ryansutherland.bandcamp.com

Rochester’s Ryan Sutherland is a down-toearth, folk singer-songwriter with ripping slide guitar skills. He blends elements of country with folk, blues, roots music, and old-timey Americana in his second studio album, “SleepWalker.” Songs like “Ballad of the Trap Man” and “Yuletide Regrets” are surging with soulful vocal jumps that tug at the heartstrings, while “Bar Weirdos” and “Twisted Liz” offer more upbeat sonic adventures. Sutherland writes inspirational lyrics and tenderly bittersweet melodies, playing with genuine intention and heartfelt honesty.

— BY KATIE HALLIGAN

Aaron Lipp, Dave Chisholm.

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

CLASSICAL

RPO, Vadym Kholodenko: Scheherazade. Kodak Hall at

Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m. Pre-concert chat: Jan 19, 7pm. $24$106.

JAZZ

Mike Kaupa & Gordon Webster Jazz Duo. Via

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

Tyler Westcott & Friends.

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

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Music Describe your creative process.

I tend to get an idea, start a project, and leave it there for weeks, months and even years. If I don’t feel the inkling to continue it or finish it at that point, it sits there until I get some sort of inspiration to come back to it or start something new. I don’t really have an exact process. It’s more that I’m seeing now, my creative process feels like it’s emotionally based.

Talk about your new EP “Breathe.”

“Breathe” came about because of some bad stuff I was going through in 2017. I had just gotten out of a seven-year relationship and I was in a bad place with my music career, feeling like I wasn’t doing much at that time. There was a lot going on emotionally for me, so I was writing that whole time, expressing everything I was going through. And I wanted to get it out and put it all on the table.

What was the inspiration behind your song “Obeah”?

Rochester singer-songwriter Charles Emanuel says acoustic music is “very centered, and you have no choice but to feel the vulnerability and feel what’s going on.” PHOTO BY ROMAN DIVEZUR

Learning to breathe Charles Emanuel WITH DAVE CHISHOLM THURSDAY, JANUARY 31 THE DAILY REFRESHER, 293 ALEXANDER STREET 7 P.M. | FREE FACEBOOK.COM/THEDAILYREFRESHER; CHARLESEMANUEL.BANDCAMP.COM [ INTERVIEW ] BY ROMAN DIVEZUR

Charles Emanuel has a knack for smooth melodies. He draws from coffeehouse genres, often writing introspective ear-pleasers that are pretty much impossible to dislike.

Charles Emanuel Miller, Jr. moved to Rochester in 2014 from St. Kitts, West Indies to pursue a career in music, dropping his last name for the stage. Emanuel’s local performances caught the attention of soul singer Danielle Ponder, who invited him to join her European tour last year.

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Now a 28-year-old singer-songwriter, Emanuel released a debut EP in 2016 called “The Healing Process” – mostly a collection of songs written in his teens. Released last November, Emanuel’s sophomore EP “Breathe” underscores the reflections honed in “The Healing Process” with acoustic songs that highlight his vocal talents. Stand-out track “Obeah” swings elegant, the dream pop of “First Love” is reminiscent of bands like The Sundays, and “One Inch from Perfect” floats along with ease.

In a recent interview, Charles Emanuel discussed his upbringing, his music, and touring in Europe. An edited transcript follows.

CITY: How has growing up in St. Kitts influenced your songwriting?

Charles Emanuel: It really has, because

back home a lot of our music is inspired by African traditions like calypso and reggae. I find that a lot of times the influence does not come out as strong as it would, but there are

Obeah is a religion that stemmed from Africa but then got wiped out or just tarnished. The name got tarnished by Christianity. The song is more so about not being able to trust love when you’ve been hurt many times, that when something good comes along you ask, “Is this real? Are you playing with me? Have you done something to me to make me feel this way?”

Are you working on new songs?

inklings of it. I have written for other artists where that influence would be a little bit stronger, but in terms of my own music, I tend not to force it. But once it does come out, it comes out in droves.

What was it like growing up there?

There’s beaches, rain forests, dormant volcanoes, coconut trees. It’s a really cool place to live, but the music that I do doesn’t catch the ear of a lot of people. So when I would try to do my acoustic stuff, I would only get so far. I would have to try to mimic the styles out there just to fit in, and it just didn’t work. But growing up there, I wouldn’t trade my youth for anything.

What has drawn you to acoustic music?

With acoustic music, you have no choice but to pay attention. It’s very centered, and you have no choice but to feel the vulnerability and feel what’s going on.

I am, but more so writing for other artists. In terms of my own material, I have been writing for quite some time. There’s material I have been writing for years that isn’t finished yet. This year, I want to put out a couple of singles maybe.

What was it like touring in Europe?

It was otherworldly. It was the furthest I’ve ever been from home, doing music. It was so beautiful.

What was your favorite show?

The first one we did in Zamora, Spain. I was supposed to do one song. So I do the one song, which was “Flow” from my first EP, and it goes well. And I’m about to unplug my guitar and the audience chants “One more, one more.” I’m getting an encore in a non-Englishspeaking country for my material, so I stood there and I was just like, “O.K., I guess I can play one more.”

[ SUN., JANUARY 20 ]

The Telos Trio: Gathering Light. Asbury First United

Methodist Church, 1050 East Ave. telostrio.com. 4-5 p.m.

CLASSICAL

COUNTRY

Museum, 900 East Ave. eastman.org. 3 p.m. With museum admission.

Dolly Parton Birthday Bash.

Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 8:30 p.m. $6.

DJ/ELECTRONIC

Army Of Bass: First Blood.

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ROCK | FLUX CAPACITOR

No two shows are the same for the ever-developing local jazz-rock quartet My Vegan Uncle. Formed in 2017 at Roberts Wesleyan College, My Vegan Uncle performs heavy and quirky soul-funk fusion, with its talented members weaving in and out of complex chord progressions with fluidity and fervor. The light-hearted musical chemistry between the band members projects a positive energy that’s palpable. Singer-songwriter Kara Fink has a warm, luscious alto voice with a fluttery vibrato similar to Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane, while drummer Chris Ramsden, bassist Jeff Brouck, and keyboardist Parker Story puzzle together jazz soundscapes.

Since forming in 2007, Flux Capacitor has toured internationally and celebrated four studio albums, including its 2018 release, “Set to Gravitate.” The trio of brothers – guitarist Peter Specht, keyboardist Michael Specht, and drummer Jason Specht – shares an almost telepathic musical chemistry, playing complex individual parts so closely intertwined, it’s hard to tell where one ends and the other begins. Flux Capacitor merges rock with colors of psychedelia, funk, and jazz to create a supersonic kaleidoscope that will keep you on your toes from start to finish.

My Vegan Uncle will perform along with Rafael Encisco Band on Friday, January 18, 9 p.m. at Abilene Bar and Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. $5. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com; myveganunclemusic.com — BY KATIE HALLIGAN

POP/ROCK POP/ROCK

Ben Rossi, Extended Family.

Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 7 p.m.

Big Martha. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 8 p.m. Allman Bros tribute. $10.

Carpool, California Cousins, Lily Grave, 20something. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar. com. 9 p.m. $8/$10.

Flux Capicitor. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 4135745. 9 p.m. $5/$10.

[ FRI., JANUARY 18 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Doctor’s Orders. The Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603. 7 p.m.

Guitars in the Round: Bob Sneider, Petar Kodzas, Kinloch Nelson. Downstairs

Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370. 8 p.m. $20.

AMERICANA

Aaron Welcher Band, Zan & the Winter Folk, Brindamor.

Small World Books, 425 North St. 7 p.m. $5.

Jackson Cavalier. Fanatics Pub

& Pizza, 7281 W Main St. Lima.

624-2080. 8 p.m.

Kubick’s Rubes. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

8 p.m.

BLUES

Bill Schmitt & the Bluesmasters. Whiskey River

Pub & Grill, 421 River St. 4176231. 9 p.m.

Vinyl Orange Ottoman. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 8 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Fernando Laires Piano Series: Seong-Jin Cho. Kilbourn Hall,

26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m. $24-$36.

JAZZ

Calabrese, Chwazik & Curry.

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

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202.

7:30-10 p.m.

My Vegan Uncle, Rafael Encisco Band. Abilene, 153

Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 9 p.m. $5.

POP/ROCK

JAZZ

Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9:30 p.m. $8/$10.

1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202.

7:30-10 p.m.

Jimmie Highsmith Jr.. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7:30 p.m.

Brody George Schenk, Old Souls. Abilene, 153 Liberty

Something Else. ButaPub, 315 Gregory St. 563-6241. 10 p.m. $5.

Pole Way. 232-3230. 5:30 p.m.

Continental Drifft, Kids in the Basement, Treasure Plate. Bug

Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar. com. 9 p.m. $7.

Dave Riccioni & Friends. M’s 4300 Bar & Grill, 4300 Culver Road. 467-2750. Third Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

Eli Flynn. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 2441224. 8 p.m. $5.

The Fallen, Johnny 9 & the Scream. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 8 p.m. $7.

Funktional Flow, Space Junk.

Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. 8 p.m. $7/$10.

Latriste & Frequency. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 8:30 p.m. $5.

The Lizards. Anthology, 336 East Ave. 484-1964. 8 p.m.

Phish tribute. $15.

Sam Nitsch. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3153003. 5-7 p.m.

Shag Mantra, False Pockets, The Boomhauers. Firehouse

Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. 9:30 p.m. $5.

Significant Other. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. 9 p.m. $5.

VOCALS

RPO, Leslie Odom, Jr.. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 8 p.m. $50-$130.

We Are (A)Live. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave. 7:30 p.m. $5-$10.

[ SAT., JANUARY 19 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK The LYNNeS. Rochester Christian Reformed Church, 2750 Atlantic Ave. Penfield. goldenlink.org. 7:30 p.m. $10$22.

BLUES

Bill Schmitt & the Bluesmasters. Summerville

Grill, 5370 St Paul Blvd. 2664800. 7 p.m.

East End Drifters. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3153003. 8 p.m.

Hope & Things, Jakals, Embers, Dive. Bug Jar, 219

VOCALS

Eastman Chorale, Oberlin College Choir. Kilbourn Hall,

26 Gibbs St. 274-1000. 4 p.m.

[ MON., JANUARY 21 ]

METAL

Heavy Metal Steve’s Annual Birthday Show. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $10.

AMERICANA

Harper & Midwest Kind.

Fanatics Pub & Pizza, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080.

7 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Flux Capacitor will perform on Thursday, January 17, 9 p.m. at Flour City Station, 170 East Avenue. $5-$10. Ages 21 and over.

413-5745. flourcitystation.com; fluxcapacitorband.com.

— BY KATIE HALLIGAN

Schola Cantorum Compline.

Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. 9-9:30 p.m. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 4543878. 9-10 p.m.

Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. 9 p.m. $5.

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s,

JAZZ FUSION | MY VEGAN UNCLE

Lilac Quartet. George Eastman

90s Party: Dial Up. Flour City

Station, 170 East Ave. 4135745. 9 p.m.

acousticpunkcrazypalooza.

California Brew Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. 7 p.m.

Con Artist. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 2321520. 8 p.m. $7.

Crabapples, Scott Austin, Sisters of Murphy. Rosen

Krown, 875 Monroe Ave. 2717050. 8:30 p.m.

Don Christiano & Walt O’Brien.

B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane.

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

Elvis Returns. Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta.

623-3725. 1 p.m. Elvis tributes & Memphis buffet. $30.

Ryder. House of Guitars, 645 Titus Ave. 544-3500. 3 p.m.

Stereo Nest Album Release.

ButaPub, 315 Gregory St. 5636241. 9 p.m.

Timeline. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 2925544. 9 p.m. $2.

REGGAE/JAM Noble Vibes. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 2441224. 8 p.m. $5.

JAZZ

The SmugtownStompers with Carol Mulligan. Radisson

Hotel, 175 Jefferson Rd. flowercityjazz.org. 6:30 p.m. $12.

Ted Perry Ibeji Quartet. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

[ TUE., JANUARY 22 ] BLUES

Reverend Kingfish. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 2323230. 7:30 p.m. $3.

CLASSICAL

Publick Musick. St. Paul’s

Evangelical Lutheran Church, 28 Lincoln St. Pittsford. 2445835. 7 p.m.

Tuesday Pipes. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. 1212:45 p.m.

JAZZ

Grove Place Jazz Project.

Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370. 7 p.m. $10.

POP/ROCK

TRADITIONAL Crossmolina. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

8 p.m.

Cory Wong. Flour City Station,

170 East Ave. 413-5745. 8 p.m. $20.

CLASSICAL

RPO, Vadym Kholodenko: Scheherazade. Kodak Hall at

Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 8 p.m. Pre-concert chat: Jan 19, 7pm. $24-$106.

ZYDECO

Mo’ Mojo. Harmony House, 58 East Main St. Webster. 7274119. 7:15 p.m. $10-$18. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 17

Dance

Arts & Performance Art Exhibits

Christopher Morrison. PHOTO PROVIDED

Community remembers Christopher Morrison [ MEMORIAL ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Rochester lost a beloved dancer, choreographer, and teacher this past weekend. After months of battling pancreatic cancer, Christopher Morrison died in New York City on Saturday. News of his death sent waves of grief through the Rochester community, which remembers the Jamaicanborn artist for his time on Rochester stages with Garth Fagan Dance, Borinquen Dance Theater, and BIODANCE, and as a teacher at the Hochstein School.

Bill Ferguson, executive artistic liaison with Garth Fagan Dance, was often partnered in duets with Morrison, whom he had met when Morrison joined the company in 1990.

“Chris was a real force because of his facility 18 CITY JANUARY 16 - 22, 2019

and presence on stage,” he says. “He really made a splash. There are many times when I stopped and looked at Chris and thought, ‘I wish I could do that.’”

Morrison was loved by many people, Ferguson says, “not just because he was a beautiful person, but because of his ability to teach, and the way he taught. He was able to get people to go beyond their comfort zone without being overbearing or over-aggressive.

He had the right touch.”

When Morrison retired from Garth Fagan Dance in 2005, he taught modern dance at Hochstein, where he was an active performer in faculty showcases.

“I regarded Chris as an extraordinary dancer, a beautiful human being in every way,”

says Hochstein executive director Peggy Quackenbush. “And he was so creative, and enthusiasm just oozed out of every cell. He had this bright smile, this beautiful light that he shared with everybody, and he inspired so many students I know to take dance as part of themselves and then to share it out with other people, but to really live with it and love it.”

Though he wasn’t trained as a therapist, Morrison also worked with Maria BattistaHancock, Hochstein’s department chair for expressive arts, to help students in need of movement therapy.

“He worked with some of the students in my department who have some physical disabilities, some cognitive disabilities, and he was just incredible,” Battista-Hancock says. “Very, very attentive, always being curious about how much they could do, how much he could expand their range of motion, their interest, things like that. The most powerful story for me, and the one that we collaborated mostly on, is the one with Clara Ooyama.”

Ooyama had survived pancreatic cancer, but her chemotherapy treatments had been detrimental to her brain function. “When she started working with me, she couldn’t even walk a straight line, because the corpus callosum was highly deteriorated,” Battista-Hancock says. “I had slowly put some movements together and some dance routines that I could do with my training, but I needed more, somebody like Chris.

And Chris stepped in, and you could see them: she could focus on his voice, she could focus on his steps. And he would make her feel safe, just his smile, and explaining what he was doing, just his grace and compassion.

Slowing things down. And basically they created a bond. And she took off and took lessons with him. And grew and became more and more at ease with the dance.”

Ooyama worked with Morrison between 2013 and 2017, and she says that during that time she went from celebrating double-digit steps to performing a solo.

“He just worked with me on what I could do, and just always pushed me a little harder,” she says. “The last performance we did was a dance he wrote for me to perform solo, based on my story. And the first performance I did, I couldn’t even walk out on stage by myself. Nothing akin to what four years later we had accomplished.”

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[ OPENING ] Davison Gallery, Cultural Life Center, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr. Rhythms of Being: Andrea Marquis, Angela To, Christine Vogel. Mondays-Saturdays.

Through Feb 28. 594-6442.

Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Trees.

Tuesdays-Sundays. Reception Jan 25, 5-8:30pm. Through Feb 17. 271-2540.

NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. Rise Up: Silent Margins. Mondays-Saturdays. rit.edu/ntid/dyerarts.

Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery, 71 S. Main St. Canandaigua.

Emerging Artists & Their Mentors. Jan. 19-Feb. 16.

Reception Jan 19, 5-7pm.

394-0030.

RIT Bevier Gallery, 90 Lomb Memorial Dr., Booth Building 7A. Start Here High School / Middle School Student Art. MondaysSaturdays. Through Feb 2.

475-2646.

Roz Steiner Art Gallery, GCC, 1 College Rd. Muhammad Zaman: Finding Amal.

Tuesdays-Thursdays. Through Feb 22. genesee.edu/gallery.

Call for Artists [ WED., JANUARY 16 ] 3rd Annual Juried Show: The Art of the Rural. Jan. 16-March 9. GO ART!, 201 E Main St .

Batavia Original works in any media, no larger than 3’ by 4’ $30. 343-9313. goart.org/ juriedshow.

8th Annual Finger Lakes Plein Air Competition & Festival.

Through Feb. 1. Finger Lakes Plein Air Competition & Festival, 71 S. Main St Canandaigua Applications due Feb 1, 2019 $45. 394-0030. fingerlakespleinair.com/callfor-entries/.

Letchworth Arts & Crafts Show. Through March 15.

Due March 15 237-3517. artswyco.org/lacs/.

Mayday! Underground.

Through Jan. 31. Spring Show: April 27 $75. maydaycraft.com/artist-info.

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship.

Through Jan. 22. $7K cash awards in 15 different disciplines for NYS artists.

Current cycle applications due Jan 23 nyfa.org.

Regional Writers Showcase 2019. Through Jan. 31. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd Partnership with Writers & Books; seeking full-length & one-act plays written by regional playwrights. Due Jan 31 wab.org/regional-writersshowcase-2019.

Scriptitude: Short Screenplay Competition. Through Feb. 28.

Deadline Feb 28. Rochester Association for Film Arts $25. filmfreeway.com/scriptitude.

Wall-to-Wall Member Exhibition. Through Feb. 21.

Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. Entry drop-off dates: Feb 19-21 244-1730.

Art Events [ THU., JANUARY 17 ] Furry Friends DeTOUR. 6-7 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900.

Visual Music: An Evening of World-Premiere Film & Music Collaborations. 7:30 p.m.

Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St 274-1000.

Comedy [ WED., JANUARY 16 ] Buta Bucket. 9 p.m. ButaPub, 315 Gregory St. 563-6241.

It’s Just Comedy Competition.

7:30 p.m. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave $5.

451-0047. [ THU., JANUARY 17 ] Felipe Esparza. 7:30 p.m.

Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $17-$25.

426-6339.

Ilhan Ali’s Open Mic. 8 p.m.

The Pillar, 46 Mt. Hope Ave. 298-6273.

It’s Just Comedy Festival:Ladies of Laughter. 7:30 p.m. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave $20-$30. (914) 308-9251.

Way Back Attack. 8:30 p.m.

Skylark Lounge, 40 South Union St $5. 270-8106. [ FRI., JANUARY 18 ] It’s Just Comedy Festival: Tommy Davidson, Talent, & Friends. 7:30 & 10 p.m. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave $30-$40. (914) 308-9251.

New Comic Night II. Jan. 18.

Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd 8pm signups; 9pm showtime 426-6339. [ SAT., JANUARY 19 ] It’s Just Comedy Festival: Joe Clair, Talent, & Friends. 7:30 & 10 p.m. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave $25-$35.

(914) 308-9251.

Nuts & Bolts: Escape From Planet Fatness. 8 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $10. 426-6339.

Polite Ink: Is It Six Already?

7:30 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave $8-$15.

Ron White. 8 p.m. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. $42$62. rbtl.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 20 ] Comedy Cocoon. 6:30 p.m.

Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. [ MON., JANUARY 21 ] 585 Viral Open Mic. 8 p.m. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave Co-hosts Yolanda Smilez & Juicy La Carla $5. 451-0047. [ TUE., JANUARY 22 ] Backdraft II: Laughdraft. 8 p.m. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832.

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SPECIAL EVENT | ‘ART OF CIRCUS’

Works of art from throughout human history come alive this week, when touring acrobatic group Cirque-tacular presents its ‘Art of Circus’ to Rochester audiences. The troupe will interpret and ‘animate’ 30 iconic paintings, including works by Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keefe, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Leonardo da Vinci, Henri Matisse, and the makers of the Lascaux Cave Paintings. The athletic storytelling is accompanied by live music written by award-winning composer Jesse Elder (of Postmodern Jukebox).

“Art of Circus” takes place Saturday, January 19, at 7:30 p.m. in Nazareth College’s Callahan Theater (4245 East Avenue).

Recommended for ages 5 and older. Tickets are $25-$50. 2892170; artscenter.naz.edu.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Dance Events [ FRI., JANUARY 18 ] Halfway to Summer Rooftop Silent Disco. 9 p.m. The Penthouse, 1 East Ave. $10/$15. 775-2013. [ MON., JANUARY 21 ] International Folk Dance Club of Rochester. 7:30-10 p.m.

JCC of Greater Rochester, 1200 Edgewood Ave $7-$8.

315-926-5652.

Theater 2 Pages / 2 Voices. Tue., Jan. 22, 8 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave wab.org.

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Tue., Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. $43+. rbtl.org.

Forever Plaid. Fri., Jan. 18, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 20, 2 p.m. Bruce Music & Theatre Academy, 75 Stutson St $18.

750-7588.

Greater Tuna. ThursdaysSaturdays, 7:30 p.m. and Sundays, 2 p.m The Avyarium, 274 N Goodman St, # 242 $27/$32. wallbyrd.com.

Hard Cell. Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., Fridays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 & 7 p.m., Saturdays, 4 & 8 p.m. and Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd $25-$69. gevatheatre.org.

Peter Pan. Fri., Jan. 18, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Jan. 20, 2 p.m. Hale Auditorium, Roberts Cultural Life Center, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr $17-$23. 594-6008.

Theater Audition [ FRI., JANUARY 18 ] Exhilaration. Jan. 18.

Rochester Dance Theatre, 250 Cumberland St, Suite 250 Jan 18, 6-8pm: adults 17+. Jan 19, 2:30-3:30pm: ages 8-11; 3:30-4:30pm: ages 12-16 rdtny.org. [ SAT., JANUARY 19 ] Matilda: The Musical. Jan. 19. Bruce Music & Theatre Academy, 75 Stutson St 7507588. brucemusicademy.com.

Special Events [ SAT., JANUARY 19 ] Grand Re-Opening Celebration.

Jan. 19. Strasenburgh Planetarium, 657 East Ave 697-1945.

Homegrown Ocho. noon. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. Local music & vendors $40-$50. lovincup.com.

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MAX of EASTMAN PLACE MAX CHOPHOUSE Lunch: Mon - Fri Lunch: Closed 11:30AM - 2:30PM Dinner: Tues - Sat Dinner: Mon - Thurs 5PM - 10PM 5PM - 10PM Sunday 4PM - 9PM Friday & Saturday 5PM - 11PM

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Community Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day [ SAT., JANUARY 19 ] 19th Ward Celebrations. Jan. 19. Arnett Branch Library, 310 Arnett Blvd. 12pm: County Legislator Lashay Harris. 6-9pm: Luminary evening throughout 19th Ward 328-6571.

Live the Dream: Storytelling with Almeta Whitis. 12-3 p.m. King’s Bend Park, 170 W Jefferson Rd Pittsford North Lodge. [ SUN., JANUARY 20 ] PHOTO BY JOSE GUZMAN 6th Annual MLK Worship Celebration. 4 p.m. Pentecostal THEATER | ‘THERE’S ALWAYS TIME FOR A COCKTAIL’ Miracle Deliverance Church, 923 Portland Ave. William A. Johnson, Jr.: Where Do We Go Beloved Rochester drag performer, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” From Here?. 454-0077. alum, and “celebrity housewife” Mrs. Kasha Davis (Ed Popil) [ MON., JANUARY 21 ] will this week perform her original one-man/woman autobiBlackstorytelling League of ographical play, “There’s Always Time for a Cocktail.” Filled Rochester. 11 a.m. Brighton with music, anecdotes, and party games, the play tells the Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. free. 784-5300. story of Popil’s youth in Scranton, Pennsylvania, through the journey of self-acceptance, to the present day. Directed by Community Celebration. 9-11 a.m. Kodak Hall at Eastman Ralph Meranto and featuring Edward Rubenacker on piano, Theatre, 60 Gibbs St . the show launches on the local stage this week before hitting Let Freedom Ring: the road for a tour of Northeast cities.

Commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 10:30 a.m. Ingle Auditorium at RIT, 1 Lomb “There’s Always Time for a Cocktail” will be presented on Memorial Dr. 475-4121.

MLK Day Celebration: Relevant Wednesday, January 23, at 8 p.m. at JCC CenterStage, 1200 Black Churches. 5-7 p.m.

Edgewood Avenue. $20 general, $18 JCC members, and $15 The Reentry & Community students. 461-2000; jcccenterstage.org.

Development Center, 437 — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY North St. $7/$10. 967-0640.

MLK Day Commemoration: The Other America. 10:30 a.m.12:30 p.m. Callahan Theater at Nazareth College Arts Center, GLOW Women March. 10 a.m.

La Luna, 60 Brown Race.

4245 East Ave Keynote: Dr. Jackson Square, Jackson St., “Frozen” Sat., Jan. 19, 6 p.m.

Laurence Thomas, Syracuse Batavia facebook.com/glow.

Little Theatre, 240 East University 389-2170. womenmarch.

Ave. Bolshoi Ballet: “The MLK Day Free Dance Classes.

Women March in Seneca Nutcracker” Sun., Jan. 20, 11 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Garth Falls. 10 a.m. Women’s noon and Tue., Jan. 22, 6 p.m.

Fagan Dance, 50 Chestnut St Rights National Historical $18-$20. thelittle.org.

Pre-registration advised 454Park, 136 Fall St Seneca Falls Memorial Art Gallery, 500 3260. garthfagandance.org/ Feminist Music Fest, 12:30pm University Ave. “The Life & Art mlkjr-class. womenmarchsenecafalls.com. of David Bowie” Thu., Jan. 17, [ TUE., JANUARY 22 ] 6:30 p.m. 276-8900. [ MON., JANUARY 21 ] Tuesday Topics: Racial Equity Pittsford Library, 24 State St. Justice, Post Douglass: A & Justice After Martin Luther Pittsford. “The Courage to Community Meeting. 7 p.m.

King Jr.’s ‘Dream’. noon.

Love” Thu., Jan. 17, 6:30 p.m.

540WMain, 540 W Main St Central Library, Kate Gleason 248-6275.

540westmain.org.

Auditorium, 115 South Ave. Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 428-8350.

Elmwood Ave. Opera Guild Film Screening: Richard Strauss’s Baobab Cultural Center, 728 “Arabella” Sun., Jan. 20, Activism University Ave. “Selma” Fri., 1-5 p.m. Talk: Peter Dundas. [ FRI., JANUARY 18 ] Jan. 18, 7 p.m. 563-2145. $10 suggested donation. operaguildofrochester.org.

Discussion: Gay & Trans Panic Brighton Memorial Library, Defense. 7 p.m. Metro Justice, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 1115 E Main St 397-3540.

“Christopher Robin” Mon., Kids Events Jan. 21, 2 p.m. 784-5310.

Stay in Your Own Back Yard: [ WED., JANUARY 16 ] A Long Table Conversation & Dryden Theatre, 900 East Ave. Installation. 6:30 p.m. Gallery “Jersey Boys” (2014). Wed., Book & Beast. 11-11:30 a.m.

74, 215 Tremont St, Building Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m. $5-$10.

Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. 3, 3rd Fl. Part of the series “At eastman.org.; “Namastey Paul St. 336-7213. the Crossroads: Activating the London” (2007). Thu., [ THU., JANUARY 17 ] Intersection of Art & Justice” Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m. $5-$10. $15. stayinyourownbackyard. eastman.org.; “Burning” Disney On Ice: Worlds of bpt.me.

(2018). Fri., Jan. 18, 7:30 Enchantment. 7 p.m. Blue p.m. $5-$10. eastman.org.; Cross Arena, One War [ SAT., JANUARY 19 ] “Fatal Attraction” (1987). Sat., Memorial Sq $15-$100. 758Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/ Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m. and Tue., 5300. bluecrossarena.com.

Serve Food. 3:30-6 p.m. St. Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m. $5-$10.

Winter Wonderland. 6:30-7:30 Joseph’s House of Hospitality, eastman.org.; “Broadway p.m. Gates Public Library, 902 402 South Ave. 232-3262.

Danny Rose” (1984). Sun., Elmgrove Rd. Registration Jan. 20, 7 p.m. eastman.org. requested 247-6446.

PSST. Unlike Godot, we won't keep you waiting.

[ SAT., JANUARY 19 ] The Bubble Man. 12p.m.

Cobblestone Theatre, 1622 Ste Rte 332. Farmington ​Kids $8; parents free 398-0220.

Corduroy. 11 a.m. & 2 p.m JCC Hart Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Ave. TYKEs & PUSH Physical Theatre $16/$18. 461-2000.

Ice Skating Lessons. 11 a.m MLK Jr. Memorial Park, 1 Manhattan Sq. Registration required 428-7541. [ SUN., JANUARY 20 ] KinderZoo: Animal Colors.

11:30 a.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Ages 3-5 yrs. Registration suggested.

336-7213.

KinderZoo: Gripping Geckos.

10:15 a.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Ages 18 mos–3 yrs. Registration suggested. 336-7213.

Musical Mystery Tour. 2 p.m.

Hochstein School of Music & Dance, 50 N. Plymouth Ave. $3-$10. hochstein.org.

Wild Winter Woods. 10 a.m.-4 p.m Genesee Country Nature Center, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford $5 suggested.

538-6822. [ MON., JANUARY 21 ] Celebrating Diversity. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. museumofplay.org. [ TUE., JANUARY 22 ] Bebop to Bach. 2 p.m. The Harley School, 1981 Clover St $5-$10. 442-1770, x3049.

Holiday [ SAT., JANUARY 19 ] Epiphany (Timqet) Celebration.

9 a.m. St. Mary’s Ukrainian Church, 3176 St. Paul Blvd Irondequoit.

Recreation [ SAT., JANUARY 19 ] Beginner Birder Trip: Songbird Trail. 9:30 a.m. Mendon Ponds Park, Route 65 . Mendon Meet at Visitor’s Center on Pond Rd 787-0507.

Full Moon Snowshoe & Hike.

6:30 p.m. Sanctuary at Crowfield Farms, 2480 Arcadia Zurich Rd., Newark. trailworks. org/events.

Weekend Wild Walks. 11 a.m Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. rmsc.org.

Workshops [ THU., JANUARY 17 ] Health Behaviors, Lifestyle Choices, & Cancer Risk. 12:1012:50 p.m. Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. 428-8350. [ SAT., JANUARY 19 ] Saturday Morning Meditations. 9-11 a.m.

Dharma Refuge, 1100 S Goodman St 434-4652.

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ART | ‘PERCEPTION OF TIME’

A new group exhibit at Main Street Arts features the work of seven regional artists, each using the notion of time as a starting point in their respective works. The first show of the 2019 exhibition season, “Perception of Time” includes work by Rochesterians Carol Acquilano, Sue Leopard, Richard Margolis, Nick Marshall, and Sabra Wood, as well as Jim Garmhausen (Ithaca), and Nancy Wiley (Canandaigua). The show includes paintings, prints, artist books, found object sculpture, photography, and ceramics. On the second-floor, check out “Fauna and Flora,” featuring paintings and sculptural work by Kurt and Judy Feuerherm.

“Perception of Time” and “Fauna and Flora” continue through Friday, February 15, at Main Street Arts Gallery, 20 West Main Street, in Clifton Springs. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free. 315462-0210; mainstreetartsgallery.com.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Culture Lectures [ WED., JANUARY 16 ] Civil War Balloon & Observation Post by Chris Lynn. 7:30 p.m.

Antique Wireless Museum, 6925 NY-5 & US-20 . E Bloomfield $5/$10. [ SUN., JANUARY 20 ] Halfway to Heaven: Songs About Suburbia. 2 p.m.

Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Ave Michael Lasser historicbrighton.org.

Michael Klaper, MD: The Keys to Healing in the 21st Century.

Brighton Town Park Lodge, 777 Westfall Rd 5:30pm: vegan potluck; lecture at 7pm.

Bring a dish to pass & place setting $3. rochesterveg.org.

Michael Ruhling; The Word Made Flesh Made Music in Haydn’s Masses. 8 p.m.

Christ Church, 141 East Ave 454-3878.

Healthy, Unhealthy & Dangerous Relationships- A Conversation on How to Offer Support. 9:45 a.m. Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh St. Sunday Forum series 325-4000.

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Literary Events [ THU., JANUARY 17 ] Iron Book Discussion Group: “Alexander Hamilton” by Ron Chernow. 3-4 p.m.

Irondequoit Library, 1290 Titus Ave 336-6060.

Stories ROC: Mistakes Were Made. 7 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave $10. wab.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 20 ] Poetry & Pie Night: Golden. 7 p.m. The Spirit Room, 139 State St $5. 397-7595.

Rochester Poets: Michael Ketchek. 2 p.m. Legacy at Cranberry Landing, 300 Cranberry Landing Dr. 260-9005.

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Film

Ah-in Yoo, Jong-seo Jun, and Steven Yeun in “Burning.” PHOTO COURTESY WELL GO USA ENTERTAINMENT

Smoke and ash “Burning” (NR), DIRECTED BY LEE CHANG-DONG SCREENS FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 7:30 P.M. AT THE DRYDEN THEATRE [ PREVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

Based on Haruki Murakami’s short story “Barn Burning,” South Korean director Lee Chang-dong’s “Burning” is an indelible, slowburn thriller that begins as a quiet character study, detours into an enigmatic tale of

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romance and jealousy, then finally emerges as a chilling and unsettlingly elusive mystery.

“Burning” tells the story of quiet, unassuming country boy Jong-su (Ah-in Yoo).

He has vague dreams of becoming a novelist, but in the meantime works as a delivery driver in big-city Seoul. By chance, one day he runs into Hae-mi (Jong-seo Jun), a young woman who says they knew each other as children growing up in the same provincial village.

Some brief conversation unexpectedly leads to sex, and afterward Hae-mi tells Jong-su that she’ll be leaving on a mission to Africa. She

asks him to look after her cat while she’s gone; with little else to do, he accepts.

The film takes its time in this early section, allowing us to observe Jong-su and get a sense of his rather sad little world. His mother walked out when he was just a child, and his lonely military veteran father is imprisoned and awaiting trial for assaulting a police officer. On his own, Jong-su’s left to tend to the family’s tiny, rundown dairy farm. But he continues to honor Hae-mi’s request, and in her absence she grows into an object of fantasy for the increasingly obsessed young man.

So he’s crushed when Hae-mi returns and she introduces him to her mysterious new friend Ben (Steven Yeun), whom she met while abroad. Ben is wealthy, cultured, handsome, and witty — in short, everything Jong-su is not. As the relationship between the three grows into something of a love triangle, Ben’s air of entitlement and superiority begins to get under Jong-su’s skin. One night, the three get stoned and Ben confesses to Jong-su that he has a secret hobby of burning abandoned greenhouses to the ground. Shortly thereafter, Hae-mi vanishes without a trace.

Suspecting Ben has something to do with Hae-mi’s disappearance, Jong-su takes it upon himself to solve the mystery.

Bubbling under the film’s surface are the tensions of a disenfranchised working class — snippets of news broadcasts about skyrocketing unemployment rates and Donald Trump sound bites we hear warbling from Jong-su’s television aren’t there by accident. The narrative smolders with jealousy, thwarted masculinity, and class resentment; the growing tension between them all creates a feeling of doomed inevitability.

Most of all, “Burning” traffics in ambiguity.

Every new detail of its narrative only makes the truth that much murkier. Facts gets distorted and memories are never as clear as their owners claim.

It’s a puzzling psychological character study of three distinct individuals that grows cloudier as we realize our impressions of two of them have been filtered through the third’s skewed perspective.

Chang-dong’s deliberately-paced direction builds the narrative slowly before tightening its vice-like grip on its way to its shocking ending.

What it all means is open to interpretation: Is “Burning” a portrait of alienated youth?

An exploration of simmering class divides? A murder-mystery involving one or maybe three sociopaths? Wherever you land, the picture it paints is a difficult one to shake.

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[ NOTICE ] 2019whittierny, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/7/18. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 27 Irvington Dr North Chili, NY 14514 General Purpose

has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 3366 Clover Street Pittsford, NY 14534. The purpose of the Company is any lawful activities.

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[ NOTICE ] F2 MANAGEMENT LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/12/2018.

LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to c/o the LLC, 1 Chattingham Court, Pittsford, New York 14534. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

38FOSTER LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/7/2019. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS shall mail a copy of any process to 26 Saginaw Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] 85 JAY STREET, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/14/2018. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 15 Sunview Dr., Rochester, NY 14624, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] CHUCK AND ARBOR LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/13/2018. Office loc: Orleans County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 3699 N. Main Street Rd, Holley, NY 14470. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE ]

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CIRCLE W TRUCKING LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/15/2018. Office loc: Orleans County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 4634 Salt Works Rd., Medina, NY 14103. Reg Agent: Scott R. Wengewicz, 4634 Salt Works Rd., Medina, NY 14103. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE ] CRP Properties LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 11/7/2018. Its office is located in Monroe County.

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[ NOTICE ] First General Services Of Monroe County, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/21/2018. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1008 Parma Center Rd., Hilton, NY 14468. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] JIJ Properties LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 11/26/18. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS will mail a copy of any process to 3 Kings Way, Rochester, NY 14624.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] LUCY LESTER SENIOR LIVING CONSULTANT, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 11/21/2018. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 939 Cannon Cir, Rochester, New York 14580-8972.

The purpose of the Company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] MARKRIS PROPERTIES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/1/2018. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process

to 40 Woodedge Ln., Rochester, NY 14626, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Medi’S Auto Sales LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/28/18. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to princ address 85 Donovan St Webster, NY 14580 RA: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] MJ Cooper LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/31/2018. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to P.O. Box 393, 3740 Pittsford Palmyra Rd., Fairport, NY 14450-9995. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license, Serial Number pending for beer, liquor, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned* to sell beer, liquor, wine, and cider at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 1900 Clinton Ave. S, Store #510, T/O Brighton, Rochester, NY 14618 in Monroe County for on premises consumption. *Mesquite Mexican Grill Inc [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license pending, has been applied for, to consume liquor, beer, and wine at retail in a bar/ restaurant, under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, at 1759 EMPIRE BLVD WEBSTER, T/O PENFIELD, NY 14580.

In Monroe County for consumption. *THE PEPPERED PIG OF ROCHESTER, INC* *DBA* *THE PEPPERED PIG* [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of BARNES ROAD, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/03/19.

Office in Monroe County. SSNY has been

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 14 1/2 Fireside Ln Fairport, NY, 14450.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Barranco Holding Company, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/3/18. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 32 N. Main St., Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Blue Horizon Resources, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/06/18. 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 76 Goldfinch Drive, W. Henrietta 14586 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Boone Properties, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on December 19, 2018.

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 50 Old Hojack Lane, Hilton, NY 14468. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; Name of LLC: Gore Mountain Chalet, LLC; Date of filing: December 19, 2018; Office of the LLC: Monroe Co.; The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served.

NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at P.O. Box 528, Fairport, New York 14450; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; Name of LLC: OGRE LLC; Date of filing: November 15, 2018; Office of the LLC: Monroe

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Legal Ads Co.; The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served.

NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at P.O. Box 528, Fairport, New York 14450; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of EMPIRE X-RAY & SILVER RECYCLING LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/15/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to David L. Bourne, P.O. Box 24785, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of GREGORY SUMMIT PROPERTIES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/2018.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 55 Branch Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Himalayan Housing, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 12/24/2018. 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 14 Doncaster Road, Rochester, NY 14623.

Purpose: Real estate related lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Hotel Partners, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/26/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Silver & Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of KALEIDOSCOPE WELLNESS, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 10/1/18. 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 303 TROY RD, ROCHESTER, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lazor Sales Associates, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/5/18. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 20 Stoney Clover Lane, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: Sergi Capital LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 14, 2018. Office location, Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: P.O. Box 440, Fishers NY 14453 Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of LMI Enterprises LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/26/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 42 Thorntree Circle, Penfield, NY 14526.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION of Main-Orchard Properties LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS): 11/20/2018; office in: Orleans County; NS is designated as agent upon whom process may be served; NS to mail copy of process to 2289 Oak Orchard River Rd., Waterport, NY 14571; purpose is any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of OFC CREATIONS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/16/2018.

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, P.O. Box 26346, Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful act.

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To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of POTOMAPLE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/10/2018. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, P.O. Box 60377, Rochester, NY 14606.

Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of RENT A SPACE LLC. Arts of Org, filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on December 21, 2018 Office Location: Monroe County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to princ. bus. Loc: 90 Centre Drive, Rochester, NY 14623; Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rochester Commissary LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/5/18. 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 Rochester Downtown Development Corporation, Five Star Bank Plaza, 100 Chestnut St., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sarge’s Hauling & Excavating LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/4/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 61 Landau Drive, Rochester, NY 14606.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of SMALL WORLD BOOKS, LLC. Art.of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 1/1/2019. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 425 North St., Rochester, NY 14605. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Sutherland Holdings, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/16/2018.

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, 6448 Brockport Spencerport Rd., Brockport, NY 14420.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of T W J RENTALS, LLC Arts. of Org, filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on October 4, 2016 Office location: Monroe County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to princ.bus. loc.: 683 Gillett Rd., Spencerport, NY 14559.Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Tri City Transportation LLC. Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 11/27/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 74 Halford St. Rochester, NY 14611. The purpose of the Company is Medicaid Transportation. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Ubertas Group LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/10/19. Office location: Monroe County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 45 Glenhill Dr Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Waycor Properties, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/7/18. Office location: Monroe County.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION of Whiskey Delta Bravo LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS): 10/23/2018; office in: Orleans County; NS is designated as agent upon whom process may be served; NS to mail copy of process to 2289 Oak Orchard River Rd., Waterport, NY 14571; purpose is any lawful purpose.

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NOTICE OF FORMATION Upstate of Mind, LLC. Arts of Org Filed 10/5/18.

Office: MONROE Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 56 Newcomb Street.

Rochester, NY 14609.

Purpose: General.

NOTICE OF QUALIFICATION of Oak Orchard Media LLC (OOM). Application for Authority filed with NY Secretary of State (NS): 11/26/2018; office in: Orleans County; NS is designated as agent upon whom process may be served; NS to mail copy of process to 2289 Oak Orchard River Rd., Waterport, NY 14571; purpose is any lawful purpose; OOM organized in DE: 11/20/2018, filed with DE Secretary of State @ 401 Federal St. #4, Dover, DE 19901; OOM DE office @ CGI, 850 New Burton Rd., Ste. 201, Dover, DE 19904.

[ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 1037 Jay St. Rochester NY 14611 on Thursday, 01/31/19 at 12:00 pm.

The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents.

NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, and cancel or adjourn the sale.

Name of tenant: Hareth Zindani #104 owes $327, Kashea Johnson #335 owes $327, Dominque Warnick #346 owes $537, Jimmie Manor #323 owes $370, Brandy Sheppard #242 owes $477, Makeywa Johnson #141 owes $477 [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Dahlia Partners, LLC. App. For Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/19/18.

Office location: Monroe Co. LLC formed in Nevada (NV) on 4/12/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 2300 Clover St., Rochester, NY 14618. NV address of LLC: c/o The Entity Company, LLC, 2248 Meridian Blvd, Ste H, Minden, NV 89423. App. For Auth. filed NV Secy of State, 101 North Carson St, Ste 3, Carson City, NV 89701. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of NY IROND SELF STORAGE, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/18. Office location: Monroe County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/12/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Real estate investment in self storage facility.

[ NOTICE ] ONE EIGHTY REALTY LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/8/2019. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS shall mail a copy of any process to c/o the LLC, Attn: Member, 180 St. Paul Street, #406, Rochester, NY 14604. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Perigaud LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 8/20/18. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 1024 Arnett Blvd Rochester, NY 14619 RA: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Real Estate Advisors of New York, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 12/18/2018. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 2171 Monroe Ave., Rochester, New York 14618. The purpose of the Company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] ROADIES PIZZERIA AND SPORTS BAR LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/08/18.

Office: Orleans County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 1939 Oak Orchard Road, Albion, NY 14411.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

[ NOTICE ] Shiage Do Martial Arts LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 10/2/18. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to princ address 1238 Clarkson Parma Tl. Rd Brockport, NY 14420 RA: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Your Home Solutions L.L.C. Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/8/18. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to Joziak Ramos 56 Sawyer St Rochester, NY 14619 General Purpose [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] 104-105 Elmore Drive, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/20/18. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 320 5th Avenue, 7th Floor, NY, NY 10001. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Birnbaum – State Street, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/18/18. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 2850 Clover Street, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of Formation of Royal Wash West Seneca, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on December 4, 2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to principal business location: The LLC, 2851 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Rochester Eat In LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/17/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process

against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 2 Continental Dr., Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Citizen Media NYC LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on January 8, 2019. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 135 Corporate Woods Ste 300 Rochester NY 14623.

The LLC is managed by its member. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is My Wine and Cheese Bar, LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 12/17/18. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 65 Cardiana Dr. Rochester NY 14612. The LLC is managed by a manager.

The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WILMOT DEVELOPMENT GROUP, LLC ] Wilmot Development Group, LLC (the “LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with NY Secretary of State (SSNY) 12/5/18. Office location: Monroe County, NY. Principal business location: 3 Fitzmot Glen, Pittsford, NY 14534. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3 Fitzmot Glen, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ SECURED PARTY PUBLIC SALE ] 100 shares of the common stock of F.M. BUTT HOTELS CORP., a New York corporation (the “Shares”), together with other related collateral described in a certain Pledge Agreement dated as of May 12, 2017 in favor of the secured party, Access Point Financial, Inc., 1 Ravinia Drive, 9th Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30346, (404)850-9622

Legal Ads Secured Party will conduct a public sale of the collateral described above at the following time and place: 11:00 A.M., January 28, 2019 at the offices of Thompson Hine LLP, counsel for secured party, Two Alliance Center, 3560 Lenox Road, Suite 1600, Atlanta, Georgia 30326 The pledgor represented in the referenced Pledge Agreement that the 100 shares of common stock constitute 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of F.M. Butt Hotels Corp. F.M. Butt Hotels Corp. owns and operates the Ramada Plaza by Wyndham Rochester Airport, 911 Brooks Avenue, Rochester, New York 14624. Certain information relating to the collateral to be sold may be obtained by prospective bidders, subject to execution of a nondisclosure agreement, from John F. Isbell, Esq., Thompson Hine LLP, at the firm’s address set forth about, phone 404541-2913, email: John.

Isbell@ThompsonHine. com . Prospective bidders are invited to submit bids in writing prior to the sale. The sale is with reserve and is made on an “AS-IS” basis. The price is payable in cash in immediately available funds upon completion of the sale. The sale may be cancelled or rescheduled in the discretion of the secured party. The secured party may bid at the sale.

The Shares will be sold only as a block to a single purchaser and will not be split up or broken down. The purchaser, if any, of the Shares will be required to represent that it is taking the Shares with investment intent only, that the Shares are being acquired for the purchaser’s own account and not with a view to the sale or redistribution thereof and will not be sold unless pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and applicable state securities law or under a valid exemption from such registration.

Certificates for the Shares, if the Shares are certificated, when issued to the purchaser will bear an appropriate legend to the effect that the Shares may not be sold unless pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and applicable state securities laws or under a valid exemption from such registration.

If the Shares are uncertificated, an appropriate notation to similar effect respecting the Shares as held by the purchaser will be made in the share transfer records of F.M. Butt Hotels Corp.

[ SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE INDEX NO.E2018003882 Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial, situs of the real property The address of the real property is: 199 SHERMAN STREET, ROCHESTER, NY 14606. EB 1EMINY, LLC Plaintiff, ‑against‑ STEVEN J. KELLY AS POSSIBLE HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ALICE M. KELLY; THERESA J. PACHIN AS POSSIBLE HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF ALICE M. KELLY; THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF ALICE M. KELLY, if living and if they be dead, any and all persons who may claim as devisees, distributees, legal representatives, successors in interest of the said defendants, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained; SIGNAL MORTGAGE CORP. OF N.Y.; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE CIVIL ENFORCEMENT; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (WESTERN DISTRICT); COUNTY OF MONROE; TOWER DBW II TRUST 2013-1 A/K/A TOWER CAPITAL; US BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC A/K/A PROPEL TAX; AMERICAN TAX FUNDING, LLC (AMTAX DEBT ACQUISITION COMPANY, LLC, AS SECURED PARTY); PROPEL FINANCIAL 1, LLC; ADMAR SUPPLY CO., INC., MIDLAND FUNDING LLC A/P/O CITIBANK, N.A., “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #20” the last twenty names being fictitious and unknown to Plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default

Fun for the relief demanded herein. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the tax lien holder who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the tax lien holder will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (TAX LIEN HOLDER) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. STAGG, TERENZI, CONFUSIONE & WABNIK, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 401 Franklin Avenue, Suite 300 Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 812-4500 The object of this action is to foreclose tax liens covering: 199 Sherman Street, Rochester, NY 14606 JUDGMENT IN THE APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF $9,063.65 plus interest [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the situs of the real property.

The address of the real property is 48 Riverview Place, Rochester, New York INDEX NO.E2018002341 EB 1EMINY, LLC, Plaintiff, -against- LISA POST, if living and if she be dead, any and all persons who may claim and devisees, distributees, legal representatives, successors and interest of the said defendants, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, AGNES SAMPLE, if living and if she be dead, any and all persons who may claim and devisees, distributees, legal representatives, successors and interest of the said defendants, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, US BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC

A/K/A PROPEL TAX, TOWER DBW II TRUST 2013-1 A/K/A TOWER CAPITAL, AMERICAN TAX FUNDING, LLC, PROPEL FINANCIAL 1, LLC, COUNTY OF MONROE, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (WESTERN DISTRICT), Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded herein. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the tax lien holder who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to the tax lien holder will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (TAX LIEN HOLDER) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. STAGG, TERENZI, CONFUSIONE & WABNIK, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 401 Franklin Avenue, Suite 300 Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 812-4500 The object of this action is To foreclose tax liens covering: 48 Riverview Place, Rochester, NY 14608 JUDGMENT IN THE APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF $5,330.91 plus interest

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