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#MeToo moment

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After Seligman

On Joel Seligman’s resignation as University of Rochester president: I am not a part of

the university, but it seems to me that having a new president might be great. Dr. Seligman has done so much, and he has a great legal mind, but perhaps the UR would benefit from having a leader who is NOT a great legal mind. Maybe someone who is more emotional could help the university show more compassion and sensitivity to one and all. Just a thought from an outsider.

HARRY PEARLE

Malls and us

On “What Now,” our look at the future of shopping malls in the Greater Rochester area:

“and if there isn’t demand for retail at a specific location, you still have this piece of infrastructure, this building, that can satisfy a lot of alternative uses. So it comes down to the owner getting creative and figuring out what will work.”

What will work for whom?

The developer? Or the public (i.e. the taxpayers)? That retail is a non-starter at Irondequoit Mall – I mean Melody Center – oops, make that Skyview on the Ridge – is obvious. So now we have to ask, how many millions of scarce tax dollars are we ultimately going to have to spend to subsidize a nonretail project? And will we be getting value for our money?

Or will we simply be enriching a developer whose only interest is making a buck?

Did our elected officials learn nothing from such debacles as the ferry and Sibley Tower, where tens of millions of tax dollars were wasted?

ARTHUR HURRAT

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Jobs and kids

On our “exit interviews” article, a discussion about Rochester’s challenges with public officials who left office at the end of December: Several statements

in this article resonated, but one key statement really stood out: former City Council member Dana Miller’s “If you can’t be involved in the legal economy, you become involved in the illegal economy, where younger people are recruited as foot soldiers because the adults know they will receive lighter sentences.”

Sadly, we know all too well where this leads: incarceration, which leads to a never ending loop of incarceration for the overwhelming percentage of people. Not all, but way to dang many.

Jobs, people. The kids need jobs, or at least the promise that the jobs will be there. Hard to do in this economy, but not impossible.

One key area would be getting kids to accept that service jobs, although not they are not the “gangsta” money, are acceptable. In my small company, we face two key issues: finding people with serviceable math skills and the ability to show up for 40 hours a week. Really? How hard is that? Yet my company and many others, because we are all competing for the same workforce applicants, simply cannot find these applicants.

The city school district needs to focus on that. It would go miles toward graduating students and increasing the tax rolls.

KWAI CHANG

Brain matter

On Urban Journal’s “The President Doesn’t Read”: An

aide to presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson is purported to have said something like “You have the support of every thinking person in America.” To which the twice-failed candidate said: “Yes, but I need a majority.”

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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

Martin Luther King and Donald Trump Martin Luther King Day dawned on Monday with Washington politicians and the media focused on Donald Trump’s “shithole” slur: yet another of his despicable comments. This isn’t the first time the country has been led by a racist, but still... having Trump as the immediate successor to our first black president has shocked a lot of us.

Maybe it shouldn’t have, though. Racism is rampant in the United States, and not just in the hearts and minds and utterances and policies of the rednecks of the red states.

White people and people of color alike have condemned Trump’s remarks. But black journalists, commenting on both Trump and King, brought a perspective that should be required reading for white Americans – on the left as well as the right.

Andre Perry at the Brookings Institution pointed to journalists and others who say it’s time to call Trump the racist that he is. “I agree,” Perry wrote. “Trump is a racist.”

“Trump’s words have revealed his character,” Perry wrote. “However, it’s what’s not being said by others that’s bothering me. There are major organizations and people who are relegating themselves as bystanders of oppression, having offered no public statements (not even a tweet) condemning any of the President’s racist and sexist behaviors.”

“Therefore,” said Perry, “on this year’s MLK Day, in observation of the 50th anniversary of his assassination, I’m not investing too much energy into Trump. And I’m no longer interested in hearing voices who state the obvious about Trump. I am, however, listening for institutional silence, wherever it might originate. Too many stand in silence and complicity as Trump abuses the office of the presidency with the weapons of bigotry and divisiveness.”

At the Washington Post, DeNeen Brown focused on Martin Luther King’s “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.” Writing on scraps of paper in his jail cell, King lashed out at white moderate ministers who professed to agree with his goals but disagreed with his actions, which, they said, were “untimely.”

“We know through painful experience,” King wrote, “that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was ‘well timed’ in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation.”

“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion,” King said, “that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-

Racism is rampant in the United States, and not just in the hearts and minds of the rednecks of the red states.” er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice....”

The day before that commentary in the Post, DeNeen Brown had written about King’s relationship with Malcolm X, and she quoted Malcolm X’s comments about King’s March on Washington: “Yes, I was there,” he wrote. “I observed that circus. Who ever heard of angry revolutionists all harmonizing ‘We Shall Overcome. . .Suum Day. . .’ while tripping and swaying along arm-in-arm with the very people they were supposed to be angrily revolting against? Who ever heard of angry revolutionists swinging their bare feet together with their oppressor in lilypad park pools, with gospels and guitars and ‘I Have A Dream’ speeches? And the black masses in America were –and still are – having a nightmare.”

That was in the 1960’s. Donald Trump is now.

The Martin Luther King we celebrated on Monday was considered radical and dangerous when he was alive. And I don’t know that the general public attitude would be any different if he were leading protests today. (The hostility toward black athletes kneeling during the National Anthem certainly didn’t inspire hope.)

“Donald Trump is America’s id,” Pastor William Lamar of Washington’s Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church told the New York Times. “He is as American as baseball and apple pie.”

“America has to think long and hard about whether it wants something different,” Lamar said. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Underwood is ABC’s new president

Action for a Better Community has named Jerome Underwood as its new president, succeeding James Norman. Underwood, who assumes the role on February 2, has been the city school district’s director of family initiatives and previously served as its senior director of operations. He chaired ABC’s board of directors for seven years and has been active in several community organizations and efforts, including the United Way’s African American Leadership Program and the Rochester-Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative.

Charter schools streamline applications

Rochester area charter schools have created an online common application at www.goodschoolsroc. org. The new centralized system replaces the paper application process that required families to go to each school individually to apply. Many applicants lacked the time and transportation flexibility to apply in person to one or more schools. Families using the new online system can apply for multiple schools simultaneously and from their own homes. Charter school applications for the 2018-2019 school year must be completed before noon on April 2, 2018.

LeBron and Funchess join school board

The Rochester school board has selected two new members: Beatriz LeBron and Melanie Funchess. LeBron, a community health worker with Rochester Regional Health, unsuccessfully ran for a school board seat in last September’s Democratic primary.

Funchess is director of community engagement for the Mental Health Association. One of the seats opened up because Malik Evans was elected to City Council, the other because Mary Adams resigned; Adams cited greater responsibilities at her job as the reason for stepping down.

Republicans announcing for House seat

Dr. Jim Maxwell, head of neurosurgery at Rochester General Hospital and an East Rochester resident, announced his plans to run for the House of Representatives seat held by Democrat Louise Slaughter.

Maxwell is a Republican and could end up facing Gates Supervisor Mark Assini in a primary contest. Assini, who challenged Slaughter in the past two elections, is making an announcement about the race on January 24.

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Plans for redevelopments of Cobbs Hill Village apartments have been delayed again. FILE PHOTO DEVELOPMENT | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

Cobbs Hill plan still pending A vote on Rochester Management’s proposal to demolish the six singlestory apartments at Cobbs Hill Village and replace them with five two- and three-story buildings has been delayed again. After meeting last week, Planning Commission members said they want to see changes that would enhance the design of the senior housing project, says Zina Lagonegro, the city’s manager of zoning.

One of the commission’s biggest concerns was that the buildings lacked variation and looked monolithic, Lagonegro says. No changes are recommended to the square footage, she says, or the number of units (98).

But there are concerns about the color palate and a lack of connectivity between the new development and its surroundings, Lagonegro says.

The commission wants to see more amenities, such as picnic tables and sitting areas. Also, the development should relate more to Norris Drive and avoid having buildings overlooking the parking lot, she says.

The Planning Commission will formalize its recommendations in a letter that will be sent to Rochester Management shortly, says Lagonegro.

In a statement released after the meeting, Rochester Management president Peggy Hill said that she and her agency “applaud” the commission’s decision to provide

suggestions for design improvements and that the agency willl “work through” those suggestions.

The delay follows a packed Planning Commission public meeting on January 8. The proposal’s supporters argue that the current buildings are outdated, renovations would be too costly, and they help address the affordable-housing shortage. Opponents say the buildings can be updated and that the development will ruin the park aesthetically and increase traffic.

If the Planning Commission eventually approves the project, it will still need the approval of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and City Council.

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Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration is exploring a switch from income to payroll taxes because businesses can deduct those payments from their federal returns without worrying about a cap. Lawmakers in California and New Jersey have floated similar ideas.

POLITICS | BY JEREMY MOULE

Questions dog Cuomo tax gambit Governor Andrew Cuomo has railed and railed against the federal tax overhaul that took effect this month. It’s an “all-out direct attack on New York state’s economic future,” he said during his State of the State address recently.

Cuomo’s heavily criticized the law’s $10,000 cap on the amount of state income tax and local property tax payments taxpayers can deduct if they itemize their federal returns. And Cuomo says New Yorkers will have to shoulder a bigger tax burden because of that cap.

So Cuomo’s floating an idea to game the new law. The state could overhaul its tax code to reduce reliance on personal income taxes and instead adopt a statewide payroll tax system. He tossed the idea out during his State of the State and could include more details in his budget proposal, which he was set to release Tuesday afternoon.

Any new payroll tax would be paid by businesses and would, as the name implies, be based on the amount of employers’ payrolls; Cuomo left unaddressed whether the employers would be able to deduct any of that obligation from employee paychecks.

The governor is exploring a switch from income to payroll taxes because businesses can deduct those payments from their federal returns without worrying about a cap. Lawmakers in California and New Jersey have floated similar ideas.

“As Washington has shot an arrow aimed at New York’s economic heart, the best plan is to get out of the way before it hits,” Cuomo said during his speech.

But Cuomo’s idea has since been met with caution and even questions about its plausibility. Spokepersons for Republican Senators Joe Robach and Rich Funke, as well as for Democratic Assembly member Harry Bronson, said they want to see details, and they’ll look to see if Cuomo includes any in his budget.

“I think it’s feasible and it’s worthy of review,” says Ron Deutsch, executive director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, a labor-aligned think tank. “That’s what we’re doing right now.

Deutsch says he commends the governor for trying to creatively address a problem caused by the new tax laws, but his organization wants to make sure any plan doesn’t hurt lower-income workers.

It also wants to make sure the state would have adequate funds to support critical

programs, he says.

Deutsch and E.J. McMahon, a tax expert at the conservative Empire Center think tank, both point out that the state’s income tax is progressive – people pay different rates at different income levels – but payroll tax rates are flat.

One way to come at the problem, and keep a progressive tax system in New York, would be to set a base payroll tax and then have an income tax for earnings over a certain amount, Governor Andrew Cuomo FILE PHOTO Deutsch says.

McMahon is warier. for different employees that vary by Any attempt to replace the personal things such as family size or marital income tax with a payroll tax “would be status, he writes. fraught with mind-bending complications “Businesses (not to mention the state’s and virtually impossible to implement,” he own tax collectors) would no doubt wrote in a recent blog post. find this added administrative burden The only way to create a payroll tax intolerable,” McMahon writes. “It’s system that’s roughly as progressive as difficult to imagine any state would get far the income tax would be to set rates trying to impose such a system.”

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ACTIVISM | BY JAKE CLAPP

A year of Trump: activists see fatigue, but stay hopeful A year ago next Sunday, around 2,000 people turned out for the People’s Solidarity Rally in Rochester’s Washington Square Park. Simultaneously, millions of people around the world — an estimated 500,000 in Washington, D.C., alone — participated in Women’s March protests the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Organized and led by women, the national movement focused on women’s rights and reproductive rights, but many protests grew to include a range of issues threatened by Trump and his administration: immigration, LGBTQ rights, civil rights, disability rights, health care, climate change, police accountability, anti-fascism.

Jenny Muhl, an organizer of the local People’s Solidarity Rally, said the Rochester protest’s name was intentional since there were concerns around so many issues.

Speakers at the rally included representatives from Rochester NOW, the Islamic Center, B.L.A.C.K., the Gay Alliance (now the Out Alliance), Worker Justice Center, and politicians like Mayor Lovely Warren and Assemblymember Harry Bronson. The message: that a Trump presidency was dangerous on numerous fronts.

Local activists and organizations say it’s been an intense, frightening year since Trump’s inauguration. And a bombardment of news and actions has created real fatigue for many. But there is also optimism in the growth of the number of people becoming involved in social action.

“All of these movements preceding this have sort of congealed into one big voice,” said Laurie Kash, a local filmmaker, writer, and advocate who often works with Enough is Enough. “That’s what makes me feel good.”

Kash went to Washington for the Women’s March and made a short documentary focusing on ordinary people, particularly people of color, marching through the street. Trump’s election, Kash said, was a shock, but it woke up many people and led to them speaking out against injustices on multiple fronts.

Rallies are the beginning, said Jenny Muhl, who also helped organize the People’s Climate Movement rally last April. “It’s a morale boost, and it’s a way to get people involved,” she said, “but a rally in and of itself — it’s not changing policy. It’s motivating people. It’s their first step.”

A Women’s Rally, organized by Indivisible Rochester and SUNY Brockport’s Gender Equality Movement, is planned for Saturday, January 20, beginning at 11 a.m., at 6 CITY

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Washington Square Park. (Information: facebook.com/IndivRocNY.) And a “Women March in Seneca Falls” will take place Saturday, 10 a.m., beginning at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls. (Information: facebook. com/WomenMarchSenecaFalls.)

In interviews last week, advocates and organizers talked about the first year of Trump, how national actions have impacted Rochester communities, and what they expect in 2018.

NYCLU

Iman Abid, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union’s Genesee Valley Chapter, let out a heavy sigh: The first year of Trump’s presidency has been “an incredible whirlwind,” she said.

“As soon as you try to understand something,” she said, “whether it’s an internal memo that’s been released by the Department of Homeland Security or it’s a new testimony the Attorney General has The Trump administration’s executive order banning immigrants from several mostly Muslim countries been giving — every day, something has sparked large protests around the country, with more than 500 people rallying in Washington Square been changing.”

Park. FILE PHOTO In 2017, the American Civil Liberties Union has sued the federal government also hopes to make sure the organization and an energy supply contract — advocates push over numerous issues, including those working with it have the energy needed for renewable energy options — for residents Trump’s Muslim ban, the directive banning to perform actions throughout the year. and businesses. transgender people from serving in the Fedele said she has also seen more people military, and the decision to end the Deferred get involved with climate and environmental Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Environment issues in the last year, but she emphasizes that But the pace of the Trump administration’s The last year has seen an assault by the it will take everyone to enact change, pushing actions, Abid said, has left a lot of confusion.

Trump administration on laws and leaders to make climate action a priority.

The Muslim ban, for example, has made local regulations that protect the environment In 2018, the RPCC will work to develop refugee populations unsure about whether and reduce carbon emissions. Trump relationships with more municipal and they can travel and whether their families can has issued order after order rolling back come into the country.

Obama-era climate policies, has announced business decision makers, Fedele said, “so that we can see climate change action starting to That confusion has also impacted local plans to withdraw the US from the Paris protestors, she said, and slowed momentum climate accord, and appointed Scott Pruitt, happen on a scale that is commensurate with the magnitude of the climate crisis.” that built up post-election. Early on, the who sued the Environmental Protection NYCLU chapter saw about 500 new people Agency 14 times while he was Oklahoma asking them how to help locally, Abid attorney general, to head the agency.

Immigration said, but “the level of energy hasn’t been It has made local, regional, and state Immigration has been a central part of sustained over the course of the last year. I action all the more important, said Linda Trump’s platform since he announced his think it’s because people are still new to what Isaacson Fedele, a member of the bipartisan candidacy, and the last year has brought organizing means and what it takes — which Rochester People’s Climate Coalition real frustration, depression, and fear in the is completely OK. People are starting to leadership team. And locally, there have been undocumented immigrant community, said think back on what it is they need to focus good things happening. Last May, the City of John Ghertner of the Greater Rochester specifically in on.”

Rochester passed a climate action plan with Coalition for Immigration Justice.

Rochester has long been a socially active a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions The Obama administration deported city, Abid said, and she has noticed more from 2010 levels by 40 percent by the year more than 800,000 people a year in 2009 coalitions being built as groups work together 2030. And in August, Mayor Lovely Warren and 2010 — earning him criticism from on common issues. signed the Sierra Club’s “Mayors for 100 immigration advocates. And while arrests and In the next year, Abid said, the NYCLU Percent Clean Energy” vision and announced deportations under Trump are well below chapter will continue to keep watch and her intention to pursue options for a that, enforcement of new policy has been work to connect for people how various Community Choice Aggregation program, more draconian, Ghertner said. Fewer people issues intersect — especially in policing. She which allows local governments to negotiate continues on page 12

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#MeToo ANALYSIS | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

moment

The highly anticipated report on sexual misconduct charges

Jaeger’s behavior and suggests that the university could have

at the University of Rochester’s Brain and Cognitive Sciences

handled things a bit better, it says Jaeger didn’t violate university

department has been released, concluding, on the whole, that

policies in effect at the time.

university administrators acted appropriately in their handling

For the university and everyone involved in the case, however,

of the accusations. While the report criticizes Professor Florian

the story is far from over.

continues on page 10

What the Debevoise report found The investigation into sexual misconduct at the University of Rochester concluded that the university properly handled accusations against UR Professor Florian Jaeger and that Jaeger did not violate university policy.

But it also criticized Jaeger for what it said was “inappropriate, unprofessional, and offensive” behavior.

The university’s board of trustees commissioned the investigation, by the New York City-based law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLC, in response to complaints from some current and former UR graduate students and faculty members, who have also filed a lawsuit against UR President Joel Seligman and the university’s provost, Robert Clark.

The investigation was led by Debevoise & Plimpton’s senior chair, Mary Jo White, a former US Attorney.

The investigators’ report, released on January 11, was careful to draw the line between legal or policy requirements and acceptable behavior. “We emphasize that this is a legal conclusion (not a moral or social judgment),” the report says, “based on applying the governing legal standards to the facts as we understand them.” And, it says: “By providing our legal conclusion, we do not imply that Jaeger’s conduct

was acceptable or presume to opine on questions of moral culpability.”

The report says that investigators did not find that Jaeger created a hostile work environment, as some students and faculty members have charged. It concluded that some of Jaeger’s actions were inappropriate and “harmful to some in the university community.” But, it said, “the governing ‘severe or pervasive’ legal standard for hostile environment harassment is a demanding one, and we do not believe any claimant or plaintiff would be able to show that it was met as to her.”

The report also says investigators found no evidence that university officials retaliated against people who had filed complaints against Jaeger, and it cites several actions — promotions of some of the faculty members involved, for instance — to refute that charge.

The report says that some of the complaints against Jaeger were “unduly sensationalized” and that other allegations were false. And, it says, Jaeger’s inappropriate behavior took place before 2014, particularly in the early years after he became a professor, when he seemed to have trouble shedding the behavior he had exhibited as a graduate student.

Since 2014, the report says, his “personal and professional behavior has shifted substantially.”

In a press conference following the report’s release, Mary Jo White repeatedly noted that the investigation’s conclusions are based on legal standards and the university’s policies at the time of the complaints.

The report is not an exoneration of Jaeger, she said in response to a reporter’s question.

And she repeatedly said that Jaeger’s conduct had been inappropriate and praised the men and women who complained about it. The report recommends changes the university should make, including developing a trained group of advisers to assist people in sexual misconduct cases, reviewing the current mandatory training of staff on sexual harassment, and publishing an annual report of complaints of sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

White said the university should refine its policy and do it soon. Action, she said, will be important.

The full report and a video of the press conference, which was live-streamed, are available at www.rochester.edu/ independent-investigation/.

UR faculty member and complainant Celeste Kidd. PHOTO BY JEREMY MOULE

Complainants denounce the report Current and former faculty members and students who have filed a lawsuit over sexual misconduct at the University of Rochester are repudiating the report on the university’s handling of their complaints.

At a press conference at the Strathallan Hotel late Thursday afternoon, the complainants sharply criticized the report on the behavior of Professor Florian Jaeger and the university’s actions in response.

They challenged the accuracy of some of the investigation’s findings and said they will introduce evidence in court, including audio recordings, that conflicts with those findings.

“The report appears comprehensive, but in fact it is not,” said Ann Olivarius, the attorney representing the complainants in their suit against the university, UR President Joel Seligman, and UR Provost Robert Clark. “Important factual incidents we relayed are absent or ignored,” said Olivarius.

The investigators “interviewed many witnesses but missed others,” Olivarius said.

And, she said, the report has a “fundamental flaw” because it lacks testimony from key sources, the complainants, who couldn’t participate because of the lawsuit.

The report, said Celeste Kidd, an assistant professor in the UR’s Brain and Cognitive Science department, “confirms a lot of the things that I have been saying for more than a year – first, internally, and when that failed, publicly.”

“It confirms he [Jaeger] used demeaning and derogatory comments to humiliate women, that he undermined his students,” Kidd said. “He did these things to me and to other women in BCS I know. The report continues on page 10 rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Report

continues from page 9

Keturah Bixby, a Ph. D candidate in UR's Brain and Cognitive Sciences department, is one of the complainants in a lawsuit against UR President Joel Seligman and provost Robert Clark.

PHOTO BY JEREMY MOULE

admits students suffered from his actions.

I suffered. More than a dozen of my fellow women students suffered.”

“The report admits that he blurred professional boundaries with sexual banter, crossing lines,” Kidd said. “This made me uncomfortable, and 15 others. And it was unwanted.” The report agrees “that people left his lab because of it,” Kidd said.

The report tries to convince people that as terrible as some of Jaeger’s actions were, neither he nor the administration did anything wrong, said Richard Aslin, a former UR Brain and Cognitive Sciences faculty member who left because of the university’s handling of the case. “We couldn’t disagree more,” Aslin said.

The nine complainants also sent a letter to the UR Faculty Senate Executive Committee, criticizing the White report.

The report attacks the women who brought the complaint, the nine wrote, and slanted the presentation of evidence.

“Several witnesses have told us that their testimony, beliefs, and evidence were misrepresented,” the complainants wrote. “We also have heard previously from people whose testimony we now can see was suppressed – including most notably many individuals who came to Ms. White [investigation head Mary Jo White] to talk about the culture of retaliation at UR, both relevant to their own cases and relevant to ours.”

And, the nine wrote, when the report was first posted online, some material contained the names of people who had asked to remain anonymous. And, they wrote: “the naming convention used by White’s firm explicitly linked their real names to the pseudonyms in our EEOC complaint, against explicit and repeated promises of confidentiality to witnesses. The witnesses whose identities were revealed are now terrified. This act by the firm UR employed will discourage victims from coming forward.”

“The report moves UR, and women, backwards,” the complainants wrote.

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Attorney Mary Jo White (right), who led the investigation into sexual misconduct charges at the University of Rochester, at last week’s press conference on the investigation’s findings. PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

• A lawsuit is proceeding against the university, President Joel Seligman, and Provost Robert Clark, filed by nine current and former BCS faculty members and students. In their suit in federal district court, the nine charge that they were subjected to a hostile work environment and suffered retaliation and defamation. And at a press conference Thursday afternoon, after the investigative report was released, several of the complainants said they will introduce evidence in court that conflicts with the report’s findings.

• From the outset, the complainants in the lawsuit have challenged the legitimacy of the report, saying that it couldn’t be thorough because the lawsuit made it impossible for investigators to interview the people with the most important first-hand knowledge: the complainants. And they charge that the investigation – which was commissioned by the UR trustees and was conducted by the New York City-based law firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLC – wasn’t independent and impartial but instead was designed to protect the university.

On Saturday, the complainants sent a letter to the Faculty Senate and media saying that some of the people interviewed for the report say that “their testimony, beliefs, and evidence were misrepresented” and that some testimony before the investigators was suppressed.

• UR students – many of whom had staged protests against Seligman and other

administrators last fall, were still on winter break when the report was released last week.

But they’re back now, and its a possibility that protests could happen.

• The Campus Times, the UR student newspaper and website, has begun a series of articles called "When the Process Fails," detailing the stories of students "who found trouble in reporting their assaults and harassment to the University." The first of those articles is online at whentheprocessfails.com.

• The university has to find a new president to replace Seligman, who announced his resignation a few hours after the report was released.

• Prominent faculty members have left BCS, weakening the department, and the conflict has seriously damaged its reputation and that of the university, both of which have to compete with other institutions for faculty and students.

The UR case has become a prominent part of the #MeToo movement, and it has received widespread national media coverage.

Two of the complainants, Celeste Kidd and Jessica Cantlon, were among the women featured in Time Magazine’s 2017 Person of the Year profiles.

With the UR case and many of the other

sexual-misconduct cases that have been in the news, there’ve been suggestions from some observers that “times have changed,” that people are being criticized for behavior that

was once considered acceptable – or, if not acceptable, at least not a major transgression.

It isn’t that times have changed, however, or that standards of acceptability have changed. The behavior was never acceptable.

What has changed is that large numbers of people who have endured sexual misconduct have begun to speak out, and to name names.

One issue in the UR case, then, is whether Jaeger’s behavior was so egregious that it should be considered harassment and that it created a hostile work environment.

The complainants say that over a period of several years, Jaeger made inappropriate sexual comments to and about women, had sexual relations with students, socialized with students and created the sense that their participation was required, and pressured women students to go to his home alone.

His actions, the complainants say, created a hostile work environment.

The Debevoise report, however, draws a distinction between Jaeger’s behavior from 2007 to 2013 and since 2014. The division is significant, because in 2014, Greg DeAngelis, then the director of BCS, counseled Jaeger about his behavior. The university also strengthened its policy regarding sexual misconduct.

Since then, the report says, Jaeger’s behavior has improved markedly and investigators could find no evidence of harassment.

The report says that the behavior prior to 2014 was “inappropriate, unprofessional, and offensive” – and that for some people it was “harmful.” But, it says, it didn’t violate the university’s policy at the time. And it “does not meet the standard for sexual harassment, as currently defined by law.”

Prior to filing their lawsuit, the nine faculty and students in the case had filed a complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Here’s what the EEOC’s website says about sexual harassment: “It is unlawful to harass a person (an applicant or employee) because of that person’s sex. Harassment can include ‘sexual harassment’ or unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature.”

Ann Olivarius is the attorney for the complaitents.

“Harassment does not have to be of a PHOTO BY JEREMY MOULE sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a person’s sex. For example, it is illegal to harass a woman by The UR case is not rare. Concern about making offensive comments about women sexual misconduct by university faculty in general.” members is widespread. A January article “Although the law doesn’t prohibit simple in the Chronicle of Higher Education cited teasing, offhand comments, or isolated assault and harassment charges at Columbia, incidents that are not very serious, harassment the University of Arizona, University of is illegal when it is so frequent or severe Texas, Central Washington University, that it creates a hostile or offensive work University of California Davis, UC Berkeley, environment or when it results in an adverse Columbia College Chicago, Stanford, employment decision (such as the victim Oregon State, UC Santa Cruz, University of being fired or demoted).”

Virginia, Indiana University, Northeastern, “The harasser can be the victim’s Dartmouth, Michigan State, University of supervisor, a supervisor in another area, a coWisconsin, Boston University.... worker, or someone who is not an employee An August 2016 Atlantic article cited a of the employer, such as a client or customer.”

2015 survey by the Association of American How would a university official Universities conducted at “267 elite private determine whether behavior was “severe” and public research universities” which found enough that it created a hostile or offensive that “roughly one in 10 female graduate work environment? students states that she has been sexually The EEOC’s website suggests a “reasonable harassed by a faculty member.” person” standard: Would a reasonable person “Academia,” said the Atlantic article, “is conclude that someone’s conduct was sexual particularly fertile territory for those who in nature or offensive? Would a reasonable want to leverage their power to gain sexual person feel that an employee’s comments favors or inflict sexual violence on vulnerable created a hostile work environment? individuals.”

However, the EEOC’s guidance adds this: And, says the Atlantic article: “Students “The reasonable person standard should seeking doctorates, those hoping to advance consider the victim’s perspective and not from adjunct or instructor to tenure track, stereotyped notions of acceptable behavior. and those who are on the cusp of a tenure For example, the Commission believes that decision are particularly vulnerable....” a workplace in which sexual slurs, displays of ‘girlie’ pictures, and other offensive conduct Where does the university go from here? abound can constitute a hostile work The path ahead won’t be easy. In six environment even if many people deem it to weeks, Seligman will leave office, and the be harmless or insignificant.” university will be led by an interim president, The Debevoise report confirms during Richard Feldman, who served for 10 years as Jaeger’s early years as a BCS professor, multiple dean of the UR’s College of Arts, Sciences, women chose to avoid him both socially and Engineering before resigning in June. and academically because of his reputation (Feldman has already helped lead the or his behavior. And the report agrees that university through controversy; two years “some students had to endure behavior and ago, he co-chaired the university’s Presidential inappropriate remarks that they should never Commission on Race and Diversity following have had to.” protests about racism at the university.)

But the report says that in interviews As the case against Seligman and with students and faculty members about Clark proceeds in federal court, their association with Jaeger since 2014, the university will presumably be they did not find evidence of inappropriate working on updating its policies and behavior and were not told that students procedures, with the Debevoise report’s were avoiding him.

recommendations in mind. Drawing up those policies and providing training won’t happen overnight; meantime, the university will need to rebuild trust among students and faculty.

The university’s Faculty Senate has already criticized the administration for not acting more quickly. In a December letter to faculty, students, and staff, published in the Campus Times, the Faculty Senate’s executive committee said “victims of harassment and sexual misconduct at the university still feel vulnerable, and the university has not revised its policies.”

The Faculty Senate had previously urged the administration to take specific steps. Among them: increasing protections for people who allege harassment or sexual misconduct, providing protections from retaliation and intimidation, and identifying patterns of repeated harassment and misconduct.

The university failed to implement changes that are basic practices at other universities, the December Senate letter said, and the administration should now have “broad-based oversight from faculty, staff, and students” as it handles harassment and sexual misconduct complaints.

A lot will depend on what lessons the university administrators and trustees learn from all this. Will they consider the report to be the end of the matter?

An exoneration of the way the university handled this crisis?

Will they consider the continuing outcry from parts of the university community to be simply a distraction? Or will they take it seriously, listen to critics, and have those critics’ concerns in mind as they look for a new president?

In its “conclusion” section, the Debevoise report urges the university to “look beyond the specifics and details of this matter and turn toward the future.”

“In our view,” says the report, “the University and all involved here now have a unique opportunity to make such amends as can be made, heal and work hard to become the thought and moral leader for the academic community in preventing and dealing fairly with allegations of sexual harassment and all forms of discrimination in the academic workplace.”

It’s lofty language, but the university has a key role in the community – not only as an academic institution and medical center but also as the region’s largest employer, a powerful leader whose actions and statements can affect things far beyond academia.

“Set the bar and set it high,” the report’s conclusion said.

The bar has already been set. The next months will give the university community, and the Rochester community, an indication of whether the institution’s leaders recognize the height of that bar, and how badly they want to reach it.

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Seligman’s local record Joel Seligman, who resigned last week as president of the University of Rochester, has led the institution in a period of major expansion, not only in size but also in community influence.

He became the university’s president in 2005, a time when the Rochester economy was struggling to reinvent itself. Since then, the UR has grown in size– becoming the region’s largest employer – and intensified its focus on biomedical engineering and optics, the liberal arts, cancer and HIV/AIDS research, cardiovascular care, and neuromedicine. He oversaw the building of the Golisano Children’s Hospital and the renovation and expansion of the Eastman School of Music. In 2016, the university completed a campaign raising $1.3 billion, the largest in its history.

But it’s also been Seligman’s ability to steer the university into a stronger businessdevelopment and community resource that distinguishes his leadership. The UR played a strategic role in the development of Brooks Landing and College Town. Seligman agreed to partner with the Rochester City School District to turn around a failing East High School, and he co-chaired the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council in an effort to revitalize the Upstate economy.

He fought hard for downtown Rochester to be the seat of photonics research. In what at times became a tough rivalry with SUNY Albany’s Polytechnic Institute, Seligman imagined a photonics center downtown and Rochester taking the lead in the $600 million pledged for project by the federal and state governments.

His tenure, however, has not been without controversy. Shortly after he began, Seligman condemned a Washington Post op-ed by Arun Gandhi, whose nonprofit MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence was located at the UR. A grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, Arun Gandhi was critical of the US and Israel in the article, and Seligman’s criticism led to Gandhi’s resignation from the institute, which he had founded.

More recently, Seligman had to confront racism on the UR campus, something some students said was not adequately addressed.

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are being released from the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility before their court dates, and more people are being charged with illegal reentry into the US, a federal crime.

Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals has had a harsh impact on the population Ghertner works with in Wayne County. “There’s no leniency for anything,” he said. “That has had the biggest impact: the lack of leniency, the draconian measures to deal with the population.”

Local action has been taken to push back in the last year. Rochester updated its Sanctuary City status in March, and Ghertner said, there’s been a resurgence of people actively engaged with defending immigrant communities.

“Unaffected community members are stepping up to the plate in a way I haven’t seen in many years,” he said. And the community of affected people has also become emboldened in a sense; immigrant students are protesting and appealing to politicians to act.

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“It has been a real challenging year for the LGBTQ community here in Rochester as well as around the country,” said Out Alliance Executive Director Scott Fearing.

“In Rochester we have a city that has shown strong support, especially for the trans community. But to have the national leadership suddenly say, ‘We don’t want you in the military; we’re not going to protect you’: that has been a real challenge.”

“There’s been an empowering of folks who are opposed to our communities,” Fearing said. “Our communities are wrestling between being fearful and remaining strong to stand up to the challenges we’ve been facing.”

City leadership has been important, he said, but the state needs to pass the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, which adds protections for gender identity and expression to the state’s hate-crimes laws.

GENDA has been voted down at every legislative session since 2003.

In the two weeks following the election, roughly 250 people called the Out Alliance to volunteer, Fearing said, most of them straight allies. And more people have been using the alliance’s services.

But given the chaos of the administration, fatigue and complacency are challenges. Fearing hopes that in the coming year people will be “vigilant and watchful of what’s going on and thoughtful of where something that may seem unrelated could lead.”

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.)

Protecting women’s rights

Rochester NOW, Planned Parenthood of Western and Central New York, and the First Unitarian Church will present “Roe v. Wade 45th Anniversary: Protecting our Reproductive Rights,” on Monday, January 22. A panel discussion will focus on how to protect access to safe, reliable, and affordable birth control and abortion.

The panelists will include Iman Abid, director of the Genesee Valley Chapter of the NYCLU; Dr. Rachel Phelps, medical director for Planned Parenthood; and attorney Lauren Deutsch, executive director of Healthy Baby Network. The event will be held at First Unitarian Church, 220 Winton Road South, at 7 p.m.

ROC women marching in solidarity

Indivisible Rochester and Gender Equality Movement of SUNY Brockport will hold a “Women’s Rally” on Saturday, January 20.

The rally is being held in solidarity with similar women’s marches and rallies across the country. The rally will be held in Washington Square Park, 10 St. Mary’s Place, Rochester, from 11 to noon. Also, Rochester NOW members will be heading to the “Per-SISTERS for Women’s Equality” march and rally in Seneca Falls, NY, on Saturday, January 20. The event, which is expected to draw supporters from around the state, will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, such as travel instructions: 512-8801; or info@ rochesternow.org.

Art’s influence on Rochester

Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library will present “The Health of Arts and their Impact on Rochester,” on Tuesday, January 23.

The National Center for Arts Research called Rochester one of the country’s top 20 arts communities in 2017.

Dawn Lipson, chair of Arts and Cultural Council will talk about the importance of the arts and how much it supports this community.

The event will be held at the Central Library’s Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Avenue, from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m.

Dining & Nightlife Quick bites

The Gate House (274 North Goodman

Brooklyn Ramen's Spicy Miso Tonkotsu. PHOTOS BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

Brooklyn broth [ CHOW HOUND ] BY KATIE LIBBY

When Michael Goode was handing out tickets at MCC as a parking enforcement officer, he never would have imagined that within a few years he would be standing behind a counter making ramen for the masses. A chance visit by his mother to a ramen shop in New York City was the beginning of the path that led Goode to open Brooklyn Ramen Rochester (215 Alexander Street).

Goode’s mother is from Japan and was wowed with the ramen she had at one of Brooklyn Ramen’s shops in New York City.

She came home and announced to her son that he had to go down there and try it himself — two weeks later he did just that. Goode and his mother met with the owners of the ramen consulting company, which is based in Long Island City. The owners have a combined 50 years of experience making ramen and decided Vegan Miso Ramen. to take Goode under their wing and teach him how to make ramen their way.

It was a trial by fire, but soon Goode was The training process took eight months. making and serving ramen in a small shop “I was commuting back and forth to New near Times Square, where a typical lunch rush York City every week doing like 18-hour days brought in more than 200 people. learning how to make the broth, how to put “What they did for me was something together the ramen,” Goode says. amazing,” Goode says, adding that they “let me

in on their style of making bone broth, making ramen, sharing that passion.” The result of his training are the four ramen options available at Rochester’s Brooklyn Ramen.

The menu is small, and includes just six items. Four of those are ramen; the other two are dishes created by his mother. The gyoza (Japanese dumplings, 5 for $5) are filled with pork, ginger, scallion, sesame oil, Napa cabbage, and garlic. The beef curry ($8) includes beef, potatoes, carrots, onion, and garlic and is served over rice.

The ramen comes in four varieties, including the the Vegan Miso Ramen ($10), which mixes vegetarian miso broth, soy cream, wavy noodles, scallion, sweet corn, wood ear mushroom, bamboo shoot, and sea weed. Also notable is the The Spicy Miso Tonkotsu ($12), which combines a creamy pork bone broth, miso paste, wavy noodles, pork, scallion, sweet corn, Ichimi spice, and sesame oil.

“I come in everyday and have a lot of fun doing it and people come in and enjoy it — it’s pretty humbling,” Goode says.

Brooklyn Ramen is located at 215 Alexander Street, and is open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. 434-5551. Find them on Facebook at Brooklyn Ramen Rochester.

Street) in Village Gate is now serving brunch on Sundays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mimosas and Bloody Marys will be offered along with menu items like a Chicken and Waffles Panini, Huevos Rancheros, and Asiago Grits. Visit thegatehousecafe.com/brunch/ for the full menu.

Speaking of mimosas, Joey’s (561 East Main Street; 325-9223) will celebrate National Blueberry Pancake Day (there really is a day for everything) on Sunday, January 28. Joey’s will provide the pancakes, mimosas, and a build-your-own Bloody Mary Bar. January’s Beer Pairing Dinner at Genesee Brew House (25 Cataract Street; 263-9200, geneseebeer.com/brewhouse) will take place on Tuesday, January 23, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets for the dinner are $45 and include a four course food and beer pairing. Selections from the menu include fried calamari with roasted red peppers, banana peppers, basil lemon cream sauce and Sriracha aioli and ostrich steak served with mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus.

Tickets are available at eventbrite.com.

540WMain Learning Academy (540 West Main Street; 420-8439, 540westmain.org) will offer a Foods of the World: Nigeria & Somalia class on Monday, January 22, from 7 to 9 p.m.

Chef Calvin Eaton will take participants on a virtual food tour of Nigeria and Somalia and provide samples of the most popular foods that are used for celebrations and religious observances.

The class is $25 per person and advanced registration is required. Tickets are available at eventbee.com.

Openings

Tin Roof Bar & Grill (1155 South Plymouth Avenue) is now open.

Crazy Bowl Café (352 North Goodman Street) is now open in Village Gate.

Mina Tapas Lounge (3400 Monroe Avenue) is now open in Pittsford Colony Plaza.

Closings

The Soup Spoon (1378 Mt. Hope Avenue) has closed.

Monroe Kabob (201 Monroe Avenue) has closed.

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Music

Roses & Revolutions. Saturday, February 3. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue. 8 p.m. $7. bugjar.com; rosesandrevolutions.com. [ POP ]

Amanda Ashley. Wednesday, April 4. Sticky Lips Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Road. 6:30 p.m. Free. stickylipsbbq.com; amandaashleymusic.com. [ ROCK ]

Brian Fallon & the Howling Weather. Wednesday, April 25. Anthology, 336 East Avenue. 8 p.m. $25-$30. anthologylive.com; facebook.com/thebrianfallon.

Aaron Neville

FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 THE VINE AT DEL LAGO, 1133 STATE ROUTE 414, WATERLOO 8 P.M. | $27-$125 | DELLAGORESORT.COM; AARONNEVILLE.COM [ R&B/SOUL ] How can one man sing so pretty yet look

so mean? I mean, he’s got a dagger tattoo … on his face. Regardless, Neville is one of the more recognizable members of the Neville Brothers dynasty. Since his first hit single with “Over You” in 1960, he’s gone on to four Platinum-certified albums, four Top 10 hits, and worldwide acclaim for his soaring falsetto.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Black Death Resurrected SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $10 | BUGJAR.COM; FACEBOOK.COM/BLACKDEATHRESURRECTED [ HEAVY METAL ] The tale of Black Death, arguably

the first heavy metal band with all African-American members, is a wonderfully lascivious one littered with seedy venues and mountains of cocaine. Still, frontman and mastermind Siki Spacek toiled in rust belt obscurity alongside his motley crew of speed-metal troubadours from ’78 until calling it quits around ’84, with only one (fantastic) record to their name. Now, Spacek has revived the project with a group of new musicians under the banner Black Death Resurrected. Playing with Orodruin, Fatal Curse, and Gates of Paradox.

— BY ALEXANDER JONES

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Brian Mulligan and The Lonesome Angels

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Derek Knott. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 2580400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m.

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TMT Trio SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 BOP SHOP RECORDS, 1460 MONROE AVENUE 8 P.M. | 271-3354; BOPSHOP.COM; TMT-TRIO.BANDCAMP.COM [ JAZZ ] Pianist Cat Toren won the 2013 JUNO

Award for Best Instrumental Album of the Year.

Saxophonist Angela Morris leads everything from a pop group to a 17-piece big band. When the two musicians came together in the Brooklyn apartment of versatile drummer Anthony Taddeo, they found the musical chemistry to form the avant-garde TMT Trio. $15 general; $10 students. — BY RON NETSKY

O’Connor Band FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE, 60 GIBBS STREET 8 P.M. | $26-$71 | 274-3000; EASTMANTHEATRE.ORG; OCONNORBAND.COM [ BLUEGRASS ] Led by renowned country and

bluegrass musician Mark O’Connor, this truly is a family band — with his wife Maggie and daughterin-law Kate joining him on fiddle along with son Forrest on mandolin. In the three years since the O’Connor Band began, the accolades have poured in, with a Grammy win for Best Bluegrass Album, performances at the Grand Ole Opry, and topping Billboard’s Bluegrass Albums chart. Chris Wilson plays in support. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

“The Old Family Farm” is so pleasant, warm, and inviting it’s as if it were recorded on flannel. Brian Mulligan and The Lonesome Angels’ new album plays out like yesteryear without getting too stuck in the syrup.

It all kicks off with some mellow roots that fly fleetly right into the subtle acceleration of track three, “Sparkle and Shine,” complete with some NASA excerpts and a six-string nod to The Byrds. And while we’re on the topic of The Byrds, it’s clear to me that the ghost of Gram Parsons haunts “The Old Family Farm.” Perhaps the Angels aren’t lonesome, but rather grievous.

Where the band really shines is in how it avoids the clichés of sounding period and geographically correct. In fact, there are few rockers on here. And the band’s members understand you don’t need to be Woody Guthrie to be heard, nor do you need a totally vintage performance to earn respect. You just need to put out a swell record like “The Old Family Farm.” — BY FRANK DE BLASE

Stay the Plow, Michael Jerling. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204

N Water Street. 585-4480354. rochester.funknwaffles. com. 8 p.m. $10.

BLUES

CottonToe Three. B-Side,

5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

585-315-3003. fairportbside. com. 7-10 p.m.

Upward Groove. Temple Bar and Grille, 109 East Ave. 2326000. templebarandgrille. com. 10 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Carolyn Wonderland.

Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 8 p.m. $25-$30.

[ THU., JANUARY 18 ] Ryan Keberle and Frank Woeste “Reverso — Suite Ravel” Phonoart ryankeberle.bandcamp.com

“Reverso — Suite Ravel,” the new album by New York City trombonist Ryan Keberle and French pianist Frank Woeste, is a decidedly contemporary take on Maurice Ravel’s musical ideas. The notion of top jazz players drawing inspiration from the music of Ravel is payback of a sort, alluded to in the album’s title. When the great French composer visited the US in 1928, he said, “You Americans take jazz too lightly … it is jazz that will give rise to the national music of the United States.” He was right.

But this album is more complex than just a jazz version of Ravel. The largely improvised work explores “Le Tombeau De Couperin,” a six-movement piano suite that was Ravel’s homage to French Baroque music as exemplified by the work of François Couperin. Occasionally Ravel’s themes surface, especially in “Ostinato (Prelude)” and “Alangui (Forlane),” but the album is a highly abstract excursion, launching from Ravel but reaching its own heights. Adding color to the rich aural palette are cellist Vincent Courtois and drummer Jeff Ballard. — BY RON NETSKY

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Jim Lane. Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. 342-6780.

8 p.m.

PhatKats. 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road.

5852470079. 5-8 p.m.

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Eastman at Washington Square. ,. esm.rochester.edu/

community. 12:15-12:45 p.m.

COUNTRY

Brian Mulligan and the Lonesome Angels. Little

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

JAZZ

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Music

Passive Aggressives Anonymous will play its new record, "The Mauve Album," in its entirety at a Photo City Improv show on Saturday, January 20. PHOTO COURTESY JOHN VALENTI

The suave album Passive Aggressives Anonymous PERFORMING “THE MAUVE ALBUM” WITH YARMS AND SUPERTY DUPES SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 PHOTO CITY IMPROV, 543 ATLANTIC AVENUE 9 P.M. | $6 | FACEBOOK.COM/PHOTOCITYIMPROVCOMEDYCLUB; PAABAND.BANDCAMP.COM [ FEATURE ] BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

Chalk it up to inexplicable style. When John Valenti sings, he sounds like a man who perpetually walks around with cocktail-inhand as he haunts some candlelit speakeasy.

Depending on the song, he could be laying on the charm with a date, or sitting at the end of the bar in dejection and ennui. That may sound melodramatic, but it’s not far off from the persona Valenti has crafted for himself as frontman for the chamber pop band Passive Aggressives Anonymous.

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the Rochester singer-songwriter projects a personality that’s slightly off-center. Singing songs laden with good intentions and selfinvolvement alike, Valenti is both sensitive and cynical; self-effacing but utterly unapologetic; tongue-in-cheek but completely earnest.

The persona will be on full display Saturday, January 20, at Photo City Improv, when Passive Aggressives Anonymous plays its new full-length affair, “The Mauve Album,” in its entirety.

Although Passive Aggressives Anonymous is Valenti’s lyrical outlet, the songs are fleshed out by the band’s lush, cinematically sweeping arrangements. More so than on its previous EP, “Not so long songs of longing,” the group — which features bassist Reilly Solomon Taylor-Cook; keyboardist Chris Coon; cellist John Delmonico; violinist Elena Ryck; and Evan Wormwood on drums — has released a truly collaborative album that accurately captures its live sound.

The album also benefits from additional compositional contributions from Coon, whose two-part “Mauve Waltz” instrumental and the closing track, “I’m Not in Love With You,” only add to the allure.

“Finally we’ve got a compilation of songs that we all feel comfortable releasing as one thing,” Valenti says. “So we’re doing it. I don’t know if I would call it a point of departure or anything like that. I think as soon as I write a song, I wanna do something different in the next song that I write.”

The album includes new tracks, material from Valenti’s 2012 solo album, “Passive Aggressives Anonymous” — which set the tone for the band before its inception in 2014 — and previously unreleased tunes the group has been kicking around for a while. A mainstay throughout is the deadpan satire of Valenti’s lyrics. The humor is often evident in the song titles themselves, like “Sex in Space” and “Middle Class Male Cry.” Valenti hones his distinctive blend of poignancy and farce on “I’m Laughing Because I’m Devastated,” a ballad that would have sounded right at home in the Cole Porter songbook. With an almost faux-sympathetic tone, Valenti succinctly pokes holes at the misogyny, apathy, and fickleness that can lurk beneath male loneliness: “If I go out and cut a rug / And find a pretty slut to hug / Don’t be silly,

I’m really just frustrated / I’m laughing because I’m devastated.”

Valenti the singer-guitarist seems to find musical inspiration more directly from the past than from the present, citing classic jazz from the 1920’s and 30’s and songwriters like Irving Berlin as influences. Stylistically, though comparisons to singers like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra make certain sense, the connection is a facile one that Valenti is quick to avoid.

“I won’t deny the fact that I’ve been sort of seduced by that gloss in the past, and found it really funny, too, and wanted to reproduce that for my own sardonic purposes,” he says. “But ultimately, I think the Nina Simones and the Billie Holidays of the world are what really grip me.”

Valenti is not one to linger on some previous, proven formula, but instead seems fixated on the thrill the music gives him. “I think it’s important to push yourself and do new things, and this band has always excited me,” he says. “That excitement has not gone away thus far.”

Thursday, January 18

Lisa Winter. Via Girasole Wine

Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford.

641-0340. viagirasole.com.

7-10 p.m.

POP/ROCK Big Martha. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 8 p.m. $10.

Leah & The Upheaval. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

585-315-3003. fairportbside. com. 7-10 p.m.

Monkeyjunk. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 585-4480354. rochester.funknwaffles. com. 9 p.m. $10.

JAZZ

Cousin Vinny. Salvatore’s

Pizzeria and Pub, 1217 Bay Rd. Webster. 671-9420. 8-11 p.m.

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

PHOTO BY NICK MARSHALL

[ FRI., JANUARY 19 ]

ELECTRONICA | CD-ROM

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

With some Sports and Green Dreams in its blood, CDROM plays with a casual brutality that is so much more than just good, old fashioned anger. This five-piece Rochester band is letting off more than a little steam. Think Romeo Void if you can reach back that far. This is the prefect mash of antiquated, or rather classic, synthesizers and punk. A fun dance party in purgatory.

Meg Gehman Happy Hour Show. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge

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

O’Connor Band with Mark O’Connor. Kodak Hall at

Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. 274-3000. eastmantheatre.org.

8 p.m. $26-$71.

Sam Nitsch. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org/cafe. 8-10 p.m.

1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. charleybrownspenfield.com.

TMT Trio. Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. 271-3354. bopshop.com. 8 p.m. $10$15.

REGGAE/JAM

CD-ROM plays with Vacation Manor on Tuesday, January 23, at Radio Social, 20 Carlson Road. 8 p.m. Free. radio-social.com; cd-rom-band.bandcamp.com.

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Gratefully Yours. Funk ‘n

Waffles, 204 N Water Street.

585-448-0354. rochester. funknwaffles.com. 9:30 p.m.

METAL

Heavy Metal Steve’s 30th Birthday Show. Bug Jar, 219

Monroe Ave. 309-3997. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Live music: Black Death Resurrected, Orodruin, Fatal Curse, and Gates of Paradox. $10.

BLUES

POP/ROCK

Bill Schmitt & The Bluesmasters. Stromboli

The Accidentals. The Historic

Express, 130 East Ave. 5462121. 7-9 p.m.

The Occasional Saints .

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

6 p.m.

REGGAE/JAM 204 N Water Street. 585-4480354. rochester.funknwaffles. com. 9:30 p.m. $5-$10.

315-3003. fairportbside.com.

8-11 p.m.

Ponder The Giraffe. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. thefirehousesaloon. com. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

POP/ROCK

[ SAT., JANUARY 20 ]

The Medicinals, Double Tiger, Joe Kaplan. Funk ‘n Waffles,

Coupe De Ville’s. 585 Rockin

JAZZ

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

Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road.

5852470079. 8:30-11:30 p.m. $5.

Hypnotic Clambake. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 585-

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Connie Deming. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org/cafe. 8-10 p.m.

German House Auditorium, 315 Gregory Street. 563-6241. thehistoricgermanhouse. tunestub.com. 8-11 p.m. $15.

The Band Last Night. 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road. 5852470079. 8:3011:30 p.m. $5.

Crabapples. Jeffrey’s, 3115 E. Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 4864937. 9 p.m.

The Grove Street Band. The Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 413-1125. 10 p.m.-1 a.m.

Hojack and friends. Firehouse

Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. thefirehousesaloon. com. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. Other acts: PAWNER, Ryan Sutherland, Big Logic, and Truth Serum.

Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 8 p.m. $5.

[ SUN., JANUARY 21 ]

Kilbourn Concert Series: Camerata RCO. Kilbourn Hall,

CLASSICAL

CLASSICAL

26 Gibbs St. esm.rochester. edu. 8 p.m. $65-$100.

Compline, performed by the Schola Cantorum. Christ

JAZZ

Church, 141 East Ave. 4543878. christchurchrochester. org. 9-9:30 p.m.

Nazareth College Piano Quartets. Nazareth College

Wilmot Recital Hall, 4245 East Avenue. 389-2700. naz.edu.

3-4:30 p.m. A performance of Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony.

Ying Quartet with Masumi Per Rostad. Kilbourn Hall,

26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. eastmantheatre.org. 3 p.m.

[ MON., JANUARY 22 ]

Grove Place Jazz Project.

Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370. downstairscabaret.com. 7 p.m. Featuring a different set of Eastman School of Music Students and other area jazz artisans every Tues. $10.

REGGAE/JAM

Dead Night with Roc and Rye Band. Funk ‘n Waffles,

204 N Water Street. 585448-0354. rochester. funknwaffles.com. 8 p.m. $5.

POP/ROCK

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Happy Hour with Stormy Valle.

Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-8 p.m.

Vinyl Night: Psychedelic Journey Of Sound. B-Side, 5

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

6-9 p.m.

POP/ROCK

The Mighty High and Dry.

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

7-9 p.m.

Songwriters in the Round: Katie Preston. Funk ‘n Waffles,

204 N Water Street. 585-4480354. 7 p.m. Songwriters share their stories, what inspires them, and new music. $5.

[ TUE., JANUARY 23 ] BLUES

Joe Beard. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty

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Theater

Arts & Performance Art Exhibits

Alan Schmuckler as Narrator Josh in “The Other Josh Cohen.”

PHOTO COURTESY GOAT FACTORY MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT

Diamond in the rough “The Other Josh Cohen” REVIEWED SUNDAY, JANUARY 14 CONTINUES THROUGH FEBRUARY 4 WILSON STAGE AT GEVA THEATRE CENTER, 75 WOODBURY BOULEVARD TICKETS START AT $25 | 232-4382; GEVATHEATRE.ORG [ REVIEW ] BY LEAH STACY

The performance begins before patrons even sit down. The house lights are up; people are streaming down the aisles, some fidgeting with wrapped candies (which should always happen before, not during, a show), and others balancing their plastic tumblers of wine as they check and double check their seat numbers. It isn’t until most of the audience is settled that they notice two black-clad figures on stage with a garbage bag. What could easily be mistaken for a last minute stagehand task is, upon closer inspection, a robbery — and a shabby apartment is slowly being emptied of 18 CITY JANUARY 17 - 23, 2018

household wares, electronics, clothes, and refrigerator contents.

Once the entire apartment is bare except for a Neil Diamond CD, the stage has been set (or, rather, unset) for “The Other Josh Cohen,” which runs through February 4 at Geva Theatre.

Writers Steve Rosen, a Rochester native, and David Rossmer based “The Other Josh Cohen” on personal life experiences, and premiered it at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2010 under the title “V-Day,” to great response. An off-Broadway production followed in 2012, garnering six Drama Desk Award nominations and the Lucille Lortel and Off-Broadway Alliance Award nominations for Outstanding Musical. The writing duo had done this before, sort of: together, they created “Don’t Quit Your Night Job,” an ongoing benefit cabaret show that features Broadway stars and has raised more than $50,000 for Theatrical Development Fund’s Open Doors program for high school students.

“The Other Josh Cohen” chronicles nearly a year in the life of Josh Cohen (played by Rosen), an overweight, mustachioed, single

temp worker living in New York City. As the show opens, it’s a few days before Valentine’s Day and his apartment has just been robbed. A future version of Cohen (played by Alan Schmuckler) appears, and says Cohen’s luck will change within the next year — it’s just not clear how or when.

What follows is 90 minutes (with no intermission) of high-speed plot development, witty banter, more than 10 finger-snapping tunes, and a seriously multitalented ensemble.

The musician-actors play every song live — a drum kit rolls easily in and out of Rosen’s living room — and the instruments woven into the plot feel like the musical “Once,” if it had the cultural humor of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.”

Cohen is Jewish, and both his lineage (explored in the song “Samuel Cohen’s Family Tree”) and immediate family play into the plot in hilarious ways (listen for the long voicemail message). There’s also prominent hat tipping to Neil Diamond throughout the musical styling, as well as in the songs “Neil Life is Better than Real Life” and “Hang On.” Geva favorite Hunter Foster returns to direct, and he’s an apt fit for musical comedy.

This is a storyline that relies on whip-fast pace and seamless transitions sprinkled with a bit of deadpan. Foster and associate director Whitney G-Bowley, who specializes in choreography, guide the cast through each scene, keeping the movement snappy but clearly leaving room for each actor to develop their many characters. Hunter’s wife, Jen Cody — another Geva favorite — has a cameo opposite Geva Artistic Director Mark Cuddy on a creative pre-show announcement disguised as a public radio show, projected onset through late-90’s-era stereo.

The ensemble — Sarah Bishop, Allison Ann Kelly, James David Larson, Angel Lin, Rochester native Megan Loomis, and Jonathan Spivey — not only nails the comedic genre, but also plays an instrument (or three) throughout the show. Add to this costume and wig changes, accents and movement, and the six-person ensemble is not only entertaining; they’re downright impressive. Spivey, in particular should be commended, as he is also the production’s musical director.

As narrator Josh (Schmuckler) and pre-life change Josh (Rosen), the leads are likeable and formidable as well. Geva regulars may remember native Rosen from last year’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” in which he won over audiences in the role of Pseudolus. The ambient set design by Paul Tate dePoo III creates a fun, blank canvas for the story, and costumes and wigs by Nicole V. Moody and J. Jared Janas expertly aid in fabricating the many personas in the plot.

Aside from the local ties of Rosen and Loomis, there’s nothing inherently well-known about “The Other Josh Cohen.” But those who make the snowy trek to see the show will be rewarded with 90 minutes of sharp comedy and a profoundly talented cast. And it’s OK that it’s not Valentine’s Day yet — this bright musical warms an unusually cold January and just might leave patrons game-planning for the big day.

[ CONTINUING ] Gallery 384, 384 East Ave. Winsome Winter Wishes. Through Jan. 28. Art by Wendy Menzie, Margaret Miyake, and more.

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

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

256-3312. galleryr.rit.edu.

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

Through Jan. 21. A display of photography by members of Camera Rochester. 546-8400.

EpiscopalSeniorLife.org.

Art Events [ WED., JANUARY 17 ] Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters 2018 Art Show. Through Feb. 1. Barnes & Noble, 3349 Monroe Ave. Through Feb. 1.

Features 75 paintings created by artist members in the Greater Rochester 586-6020. gvpap.com. [ THU., JANUARY 18 ] Starvin’ Artist Presents: Talk Ya Talk. 7:30 p.m. The Spirit Room, 139 State St Open mic for artists to come and talk 5853977595. [ FRI., JANUARY 19 ] Gallery Talk with Patricia Russotti & Jamie M. Allen. 6-7 p.m. Gallery r, 100 College Ave 256-3312. galleryr.rit.edu.

Comedy [ THU., JANUARY 18 ] Dean Edwards. 7:30 p.m.

Comedy at the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd Through Jan. 20. Thurs.-Sat. 7:30 p.m.

Additional 10 p.m. show Fri. & Sat. Jan. 19, 20 carlsoncomedy.com. [ SAT., JANUARY 20 ] Focus Theater’s Long Form Improv Comedy Night. 8-10 p.m. Focus Theater, 390 South Avenue, Suite C Focus Theater’s house team, The Applicators; and special guests Thank You Kiss $5. 217-6170. focustheater.us. [ TUE., JANUARY 23 ] Backdraft II: Laughdraft. 8-11 p.m Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 902-2010. thefirehousesaloon.com.

Film [ SAT., JANUARY 20 ] Film Screenings, High Tea, and Q&A: Ajay Bhardwaj and Mara Ahmed. 2:30-6:30 p.m.

Indian Community Center, 2171 Monroe County Line Road . Macedon Screenings of ‘Milange Babey Ratan De Mele Ta,’ and ‘A Thin Wall.’.

Recreation [ THU., JANUARY 18 ] Memories of a New Year’s Day. 7 p.m. Event begins at the intersection of Frederick

Douglas and Adams Streets.

A walking tour theater performance devinneyjim42@ gmail.com.

Meetings [ MON., JANUARY 22 ] SURJ ROC Chapter Meeting. 6 p.m. Out Alliance, 100 College Ave. “Islamophobia is Racism” will be the primary topic.

Featuring Pakistani American artist and filmmaker Mara Ahmed surjroc.org.

Special Events [ WED., JANUARY 17 ] Networking & Mingle for All. 6-8:30 p.m. 540WMain, 540 W. Main Street This networking event highlights Rochester For All, the Political Action Committee founded by Rachel Barnhart 420-8439.

540westmain.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 21 ] Industry New Year’s Eve. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. The Playhouse // Swillburger, 820 Clinton Ave S A happy hour token and drink special geared towards food service workers who don’t get to celebrate New Year’s Eve theplayhouseroc.com.

Culture Lectures [ WED., JANUARY 17 ] Brunch & Book Discussion: Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936–1968. 9:30-11 a.m. University of Rochester, River Campus Registration required. Located in the Natapow Conference Room, 1-9545 275-0419. Jenny_ Hernandez@urmc.rochester. edu. sas.rochester.edu.

PHOTO BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

MUSEUMS | MUSEUM SELFIE DAY Once upon a time, you’d get scolded for taking photographs of artwork in museums and galleries. That was, of course, before social media became what it’s become and art houses had the revelation that snap-happy visitors were actually helping get the word out about their exhibits and collections.

These days it’s not uncommon to see signage alongside an artwork that urges the viewer to snag a selfie or directs them to use a specific hashtag when sharing the pic. Now there’s a thing called Museum Selfie Day (which seems to have manifested in 2014, and falls on Wednesday, January 17, this year), a worldwide event during which culture enthusiasts are encouraged to take and share selfies while playfully interacting with the art and objects.

Join CITY’s Museum Selfie Day challenge by snapping a selfie at a Rochester museum or gallery, and posting it to Instagram or Twitter and tagging @roccitynews throughout the day. We’ll repost the best ones.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

[ THU., JANUARY 18 ] History of Veganism in Black Cultures. 7-8:30 p.m. 540WMain, 540 W. Main Street $5. 4208439. 540westmain.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 21 ] 3rd Sunday Lecture Series.

8:15-8:45 p.m. Christ Church, 141 East Ave “The Pipe Organ, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” lecture by Edoardo Bellotti 4543878. christchurchrochester.org. [ MON., JANUARY 22 ] Foods of the World: Nigeria & Somalia. 7-9 p.m. 540WMain, 540 W. Main Street $25. 4208439. 540westmain.org.

Theater School of Rock!. Fri., Jan. 19, 7-9 p.m. and Sat., Jan. 20, 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. Greece Olympia School, 1139 Maiden Lane Through Jan. 27. Fri. & Sat. Jan. 19, 20, 26, 27, 7-9 p.m.

Sat. Jan. 20, 27, 2-4 p.m $12.

966-5175. jennifer.r.ward@ greececsd.org.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Fri., Jan. 19, 7:30-9:30 p.m. and Sat., Jan. 20, 2-4:30 & 7:309:30 p.m. Webster Thomas High School, 800 Five Mile Line Rd $15. 670-8000.

WebsterTheatreGuild.org.

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ART | ‘DREAMING IN COLOR’ It may be difficult for most people to recall or conceive of a time before color film graced the silver screen. But we can peep artifacts from the early years of cinema and the transition to color technology, thanks to Italian film historian Davide Turconi, who preserved frames of 35mm films — made in the late 19th century to early 20th century — that were collected by Jesuit priest and cinephile Josef-Alexis Joye. “Dreaming in Color: The Davide Turconi Collection of Early Cinema,” on view through June 24 at George Eastman Museum, exhibits about 600 digital reproductions of some of Turconi’s 23,000 original nitrate frames of 35mm films.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Avenue. Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. $5-$15. 327-4800; eastman.org.

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

Movies

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

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

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

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

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

Summer lovin’ “Call Me By Your Name” (R), DIRECTED BY LUCA GUADAGNINO NOW PLAYING

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

Geneseo Theatres

[ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

Geneseo Square Mall, 243-2691, rochestertheatermanagement.com

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

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

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

Arriving like a warm summer breeze to offer a balm for these endless winter days, “Call Me By Your Name” is a generous, vividly-drawn comingof-age story that captures both the exhilaration and melancholy ache of first love. Directed by Luca Guadagnino (“A Bigger Splash”) from a script by the legendary James Ivory — based on the 2007 novel by André Aciman — it’s one of 2017’s most purely pleasurable films.

At the heart of this tale is 17-year-old Italian-

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

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

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

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

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

American, Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet).

Multilingual and something of a musical prodigy, Elio is precocious but self-conscious in the way most teenagers are, acutely aware that for all his book smarts he’s still woefully unprepared for the things that really matter to the mind of a perpetually horny teenager.

Elio spends holidays with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg) and mother (Amira Casar) at the villa vacation home they own in Northern Italy.

Each summer, Elio’s father, a professor of GrecoRoman culture, welcomes a new graduate student to assist with his research, inviting them to live with the family for six weeks. This year’s intern is Oliver (a terrific Armie Hammer), a strapping, movie star handsome, 24-year-old American.

Golden boy Oliver appears to be everything Elio is not: gregarious and naturally confidant in a way that leaves the teen annoyed and irrationally resentful, but also undeniably attracted to him.

As Elio realizes exactly what he wants, he feels some shame in desiring it so much.

He also already has an on-and-off-again girlfriend, Marzia (Esther Garrel), but as much as he

Timothée Chalamet in “Call Me By Your Name.” PHOTO COURTESY SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

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enjoys being with her, he’s drawn in Oliver in a much different way.

The film becomes a study of behavior and interaction as we watch Elio and Oliver flirtatiously circle one another, sizing each other up and waiting to see when or if the other will make their move. It takes Elio some time to express his desires out loud; by the time either do anything about it the feeling is bittersweet, and all the more meaningful because of the knowledge that their time together is fleeting.

The Perlmans are a family of privileged academics, and the film uses their world to its advantage. There are languorous days spent lounging in the sun discussing music and art, late afternoon swims with breaks for fresh-squeezed apricot juice, bike rides into town, and al fresco dinners under the trees. The atmosphere couldn’t be more conducive to a blossoming summer love.

Guadagnino is the most sensual of filmmakers, creating stories that one feels able to touch, taste, and even smell. Its characters are constantly making physical contact; caressing, grazing, running their hands over their surroundings, and often each other. With every lingering glance, the filmmaker keeps us attuned to the hidden emotions and desires underneath. We sense Elio and Oliver’s need to savor their every moment together.

The film’s heightened sound design, color, and lush lensing from Thai cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom completes the effect.

Editor Walter Fasano lets scenes play out in long, leisurely takes, capturing the feeling of

Tainted love “Phantom Thread” (R), DIRECTED BY PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON OPENS FRIDAY, JANUARY 19 [ PREVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

intoxicating summer days that stretch out forever.

The film isn’t exactly explicit, and it’s drawn some criticism from some quarters of the gay community for lacking a more full-bodied exploration of first love, though it suits the sort of story Guadagnino is telling. It’s also the rare gay love story where the characters face no fraught coming out confessions or outright discrimination.

Everyone is free to pursue their bliss, and no one is left traumatized for it.

Its idyllic nature is deliberate, the love story at its center is the type of experience one looks back on in their later years, sometimes with smile and sometimes through tears. It’s formative experience for Elio, molding and shaping the person he’ll eventually grow to become. Despite any pain he feels in the moment, it’s clear he has no regrets.

He discovers something about himself and the pleasures, joy, and inevitable heartbreaks that await him in life. The film’s wisdom and kindness about such matters are fully expressed by Elio’s father, in pitch-perfect monologue delivered late in the film.

Chalamet delivers a remarkable performance for someone still so early in their career. The fact that he’s already given memorable performances in 2017 alone (in “Lady Bird” and “Hostiles,” respectively) makes it plain to see there’s a lot more to come from the young actor. It’s a less showy performance than a lot of others in this year’s awards conversation, but it does get a wonderful showcase in the film’s emotional final shot, when we witness Elio’s realization that the end of one narrative is just the beginning his own, as he takes his first steps forward into a life that’s open and full of endless possibility.

The eighth film from director Paul Thomas Anderson is a masterfully told love story, one that’s as sweet and strange as you’d expect from the maker of “Punch Drunk Love.” Set in 1950s London, “Phantom Thread” tells the story of renowned (and impeccably named) highend dress designer Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis), and the woman with whom he finds a surprising connection.

It’s a subversive and peculiar romance with a Gothic tinge, as writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson plays with our expectations of how we assume a typical “great man” story might play out.

Shortly after his last paramour has left (or rather, been removed from) the picture, Reynolds meets Alma (Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps) when she serves him breakfast at a small inn during a countryside getaway.

Immediately taken with the young woman, he asks her to join him for

Daniel Day-Lewis and Vicky Krieps in “Phantom Thread.” PHOTO COURTESY FOCUS FEATURES

dinner. From the start, Reynolds makes no attempt to hide his demanding nature; during their meal he wipes off her lipstick, stating that he likes “to see who I’m talking to.” She doesn’t seem to mind.

Soon Alma’s become his muse, modeling his clothes and being spirited off to live in the House of Woodcock along with Reynolds’ sister and steely business partner, Cyril (Lesley Manville, channeling Mrs. Danvers). A man of considerable ego, Reynolds possesses an infantile fussiness and is quick to anger when anyone dares disrupt his routine. But Alma finds herself growing accustomed to his fastidious nature and particular appetites — Reynolds’ hunger becomes a key component of their relationship.

Cyril believes Alma to be just the latest in Reynolds’ line of female companions, women who Cyril — in addition to running her brother’s business affairs — is tasked with dismissing once they’ve outstayed their use. But Alma has a rebellious streak, refusing to play the role she’s been assigned. During their first evening together, she notices his intense gaze and tells Reynolds matter-of-factly: “If you want to have a staring contest with me, you’ll lose.”

These unanticipated reservoirs of strength lead her to some unexpected methods in making herself an indispensable part his life. The rest of the film revolves around the shifting power dynamics between Alma and Reynolds as they find a certain parity in their psychological gamesmanship and constant jockeying for position.

Taking place in the world of haute couture, the film shares that meticulousness in its construction.

There’s an attention to every detail, from the lovely costumes designed by Mark Bridges, to Jonny Greenwood’s gorgeous orchestral score, and the beautifully understated 35mm cinematography by

Anderson. But there’s a lightness and a playfulness to Anderson’s storytelling; the film has a devilish sense of humor that’s frequently laugh-out-loud funny.

At its center are three perfectlycalibrated performances. Day-Lewis plays Reynolds with a disarming charisma despite the character’s dark, demanding nature. There’s a warmth to Reynolds when he’s in one of his good moods that comes out just often enough to draw you in. It’s a marvelous performance, and if the actor’s claims of retiring after this film are to be believed, he’ll have gone out on a high note. But really, it’s the women who truly shine. Krieps goes toe-to-toe with Day-Lewis and is every bit his match. Manville is a master of withering glances and the cutting retort, practically stealing every scene in which she appears.

In telling this most unusual romance, Anderson draws inspiration from early David Lean films like “The Passionate Friends” and “Brief Encounter,” and injects a streak of Hitchcockian menace.

There’s also a bit of “The Duke of Burgundy” to the story, exploring as it does the odd compromises that are required in any long-term relationship.

“Phantom Thread” would make an excellent companion to “mother!,” another cautionary tale about entering into a relationship with a temperamental creative type. It feels personal and, like Darren Aronofsky, the filmmaker has something to say (and perhaps apologize for) about the realities of living with someone in constant pursuit of perfection.

This isn’t to say the film is entirely homage; it feels like something all its own. It’s a tribute to the weird little worlds couples create for themselves, and as it reveals its unexpected layers, “Phantom Thread” becomes something deeply strange, oddly charming, and immensely satisfying on every level.

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More information at www.sas.rochester.edu/dan or call 585 273-5150 Registration is necessary before participation in workshops.

All events are first-come, first serve.

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CALLING ALL MUSICIANS OF ALL GENRES the Rochester Music Coalition wants you! Please register on our website. For further info: www.rochestermusiccoalition.org info@rochestermusiccoalition.org 585-235-8412 GROOVY, JAZZY, FUNKY new group in search of a Keyboard player. Playing Winehouse, Badu, daft punk. Practice in Irondequoit Mondays @ 6.

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Find your way home with TO ADVERTISE CONTACT TRACEY TODAY! CALL 244-3329 X10 OR EMAIL TMYKINS@ROCHESTER-CITYNEWS.COM Greece; 3065 Mt Read Blvd. $84,900 Townhome, part of Pine Ridge Townhome development.

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The 19th Ward is our city’s largest and most culturally diverse neighborhood, and is largely defined by its plentiful early twentieth century housing stock lining its many streets.

Kirkland Road’s relatively short four-block length is crowned at its western end by two complementary Colonial Revival style homes standing across from one another. Warren Huther, who lived just around the corner on Wellington Avenue, hired architect Frederick Brockett to design the two homes at 181 and 186 Kirkland around 1914. Soon after, Mary Kirk and her four adult children moved into their new home, which her eldest daughter would retain until 1960.

and oak floors that also carry throughout.

The kitchen is largely open with traditional scored plaster walls, access to the rear porch, basement stair, and rear entry door.

The symmetrical street facade is a feast for the eyes with its broad front porch, intricate trelliswork, and arched attic window. A concrete walk to either side leads to the front and rear doors. The formal front door with its sidelights and transom beneath an elliptical hood hints at the detail found within. The formal vestibule beyond has a mosaic penny tile floor and leads to the central foyer with its grand open staircase and modern half-bath.

Through a broad opening to the right is the large light-filled living room with its matching pairs of French doors to the front porch, the wood burning brick fireplace flanked by built-in bookcases and arched windows, oversized stained oak moldings that carry throughout the home, and original brass light fixtures.

To the left of the foyer is the dining room with French doors to the rear porch, oak paneled window bay, door to the original butler’s pantry,

The walk-up attic is well lit and partially finished with a small bedroom and cedar closet. The basement is open and has updated mechanicals. This elegant 1,784 square foot diamond in the rough has retained the majority of its irreplaceable original features, from its countless wood windows to its unpainted oak woodwork. It will require a thoughtful touch to harness its potential and polish it to a shine.

Contact realtor Nils W. Miner with Howard Hanna Real Estate Services at 585-2676032 for more information and make it your home for $49,900.

An elegant Palladian window lights the landing to the second floor, which features four generous bedrooms each with multiple windows, more original brass light fixtures, unpainted oak woodwork, and closets. A large sleeping porch is shared by two of the bedrooms and is the third exterior space of the home. The built-in linen closet, shared bathroom with its original fixtures, and stair to the attic round out the second floor.

by Christopher Brandt Christopher is a member of the Young Urban Preservationists and blogs about his own historic home at www. myperfectlittlemoneypit.com.

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Creates marketing assets for print applications, presentations, video and web. Reference job #1446, send resume to James Bulmahn, Eastman Kodak Company, 343

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LS3P IS SEEKING a Specifications Writer for our office in Charlotte, NC. Qualified applicants possess a Bachelor’s or Associates Degree in design or construction related field preferred.

An ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of experience in assembling specifications for projects of wide ranging design and scope. http://www.ls3p.com/ opportunities/ Rochester Institute of Technology. Associate Scientist - Rochester, New York. Perform technical research in the area of Imaging Science in support of both cultural heritage imaging and remote sensing projects.

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Volunteers CARING FOR CAREGIVERS Lifespan is looking for volunteers to offer respite to caregivers whose loved ones have been diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer’s Disease. For details call Eve at 244-8400 Contact Urban League Of Rochester today to become a mentor to the youth in our community! Email Charisma Dupree at cdupree@ulr.org to get started.

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

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

ST. JOHN’S HOME s looking for volunteers to transport residents on Tuesday mornings to and from Catholic Mass within our home. Please call volunteer office at 760-1293 for more information.

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Legal Ads [ DUSTER PROPERTIES, LLC ] Notice of formation of limited liability company (“LLC”) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on November 11, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 90 West Forest Drive, Rochester, NY 14624.

Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] \ NOTICE OF FORMATION of 2401 MONROE AVENUE LLC . Arts. of Org. were filed with Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 12/28/2017. Office in Monroe County.

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

SSNYshall mail copy of process to the LLC a t 845 Finnell Dr, Webster , N Y 14580 . Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] 127-129 Randolph LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/21/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Po Box 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] 55 Electric LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/12/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Po Box 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Articles of Organization with respect to Ambassador Transportation, LLC, a New York Limited Liability Company, were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on December 1, 2017.

The County in New York State where its office is located is Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of Ambassador Transportation, LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a

copy of any process against Ambassador Transportation, LLC served upon him or her is 7272 W. Henrietta Road, West Rush, New York 14543. There are no exceptions adopted by the Company, or set forth in its Operating Agreement, to the limited liability of members pursuant to Section 609(a) of the Limited Liability Company Law of the State of New York. Ambassador Transportation, LLC is formed for the purpose of operation of a limousine service and for all other lawful activities that may be conducted by the Company. [ NOTICE ] Chianfoni & Brockler, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on November 29th, 2017. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 984 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620.

The purpose of the Company is retail herbal store. [ NOTICE ] Daniel Green Construction, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/27/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Daniel Green 74 Sheffield Rd Rochester, NY 14617 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Enalas Holdings LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 11/30/2017 with an effective date of formation of 11/30/2017 and a name change to Fulcrum Holdings LLC effective 12/4/2017.

Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served.

A copy of any process shall be mailed to 14 Vantage Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law.

[ NOTICE ] J. Madeline’s Quilt Shoppe LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/27/2017. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Attn: Manager, 73 Parkmere Rd., Rochester, NY 14617. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Kislev Holdings LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/6/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to POB 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] L&L General Construction LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/15/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 19 Trotters Field Run Pittsford, NY 14534 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Lakeview Building, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/17/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 217-45 Hempstread Ave Queens Village, NY 11429 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license, 3160146 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 289 Alexander St., Rochester, NY 14607 in Monroe County for on premises consumption. *Swan Dive 289, LLC DBA Swan Dive [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of GT4 PROPERTIES, LLC (the “LLC”). Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of NY (SSNY) on 11/8/16.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13TH AVE, SUITE 202, BROOKLYN, NY 11228. Purpose: any

lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Stowe Enterprise LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/27/2017; Exist Date: 1/1/2018.

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 52 Nichols Street, Spencerport, New York 14559. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Aerial Imageworx, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 09/26/2017. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 Briar Patch Rd, Rochester, NY 14618 .

Purpose: Photography. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of AST Ventures, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 793 S. Goodman St., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BDM REAL ESTATE MANAGEMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/22/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 38 Quail Ln., Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of BILLINGS DEVELOPMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, PO Box 22743, Rochester, NY 14692. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ]

Legal Ads Notice of Formation of Cinema Theater of Rochester LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) Nov. 21, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 43 Seager St. Rochester NY 14620 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DEANA LAWSON LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/22/17.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 170 Waring Rd., Rochester, NY 14609.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office.

Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Elite Mind Technologies, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/13/2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 4566 Hemingway Hwy, Hemingway, SC 29554.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JAMES CARS OF GREECE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/17/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Frank W. Tessitore, O’Donnell & Tessitore LLP, 76 Bedford St., #38, Lexington, MA 02420.

Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JOJO WEBSTER, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/04/18.

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, 16 N. Main St., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ]

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

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Northwest Registered Agent, LLC, 90 State Street, Suite 700, Office 40, Albany, New York 12207 [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of LJF PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 11 Gillet Rd., Spencerport, NY 14559.

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

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

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

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 (“SOS”) on 11/17/17.

The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 63 Thatcher Rd., Rochester, NY 14617. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of NEW VINE INDUSTRIES LLC. Art. of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 12/26/2017. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 24 Winthrop St., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of RALLOD LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 18 Esternay Ln., Pittsford, NY 14534.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ROC MANAGEMENT LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) December 18, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at PO BOX 24340, Gates, NY 14624.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of The Brick Lab, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 1/5/18. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 44 Quail Lane, Rochester, NY 14624. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ]

Notice of Formation of THE DRINKSMITHS LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 12/28/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 26 Engel Place, Rochester, New York 14620. Purpose: any lawful activities [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Law Offices of Kevin D. Fitzgerald, PLLC Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/7/2017.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 7 Caywood Lane, Fairport, New York 14450. Purpose: Practice of law. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TOMANDA PROPERTIES, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 12/12/2017. Office in Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to TOMANDA PROPERTIES, LLC, C/O THOMAS S. GRAFF, 31 TYNEDALE WAY, NORTH CHILI, NY 14514. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Turnkey Automation Solutions LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 211 Black Walnut Dr., Greece, NY 14615.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Plaza Street Fund, IX, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Missouri (MO) on 11/21/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the MO address of LLC: 9237

Ward Parkway, Ste. 230, Kansas City, MO 64114.

Arts. of Org. filed with MO Secy. of State, 600 West Main St., Jefferson City, MO 65101.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of PORTRAIT STUDIO LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/27/17.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/11/17. 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 Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Rochester-Dewey FDS 715464, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/17.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in North Carolina (NC) on 3/6/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave., Ste. 100, Albany, NY 12205. NC address of LLC: 106 Foster Ave., Charlotte, NC 28203. Arts. of Org. filed with NC Secy. of State, 2 South Salisbury St., Raleigh, NC 27601.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of TLH BEAUTY LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/17.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/14/17. Princ. office of LLC: 100 Chestnut St., Ste. 1803, Rochester, NY 14604.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy.

Of the State of DE, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of WATCO SUPPLY CHAIN SERVICES, L.L.C. Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/29/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/21/14. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Freight brokerage services and any other lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] RED BARN MANAGEMENT, LLC Arts of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on Nov 9,2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to 9 Aldwick, Fairport, N.Y. 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Roc Photonics LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/11/17. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS, as designated agent, will mail copy of any process to the LLC to 141 Mulberry St, Rochester, NY 14620.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] SIMCONA LIGHTING AND VALUE ADD SOLUTIONS LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/27/17. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 275 Mt. Read Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14611.

LLC’s purpose: any

lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] The Vaeth Group LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 9/27/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 20 Mt Eagle Dr Penfield, NY 14526 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Tune Yourself, LLC Filed 12/19/17 Office: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 5 Sheldon Drive, Spencerport, NY 14559 Purpose: all lawful [ NOTICE ] Ua2us Transport, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 10/30/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 180 Sedgley Park West Henrietta, NY 14586 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] W26 SAG LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/19/2017. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 26 Saginaw Drive, Rochester, NY 14623. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Wags to Rich’s, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/8/2017. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Richard W. Allen, Jr., 783 Britton Rd., Rochester, NY 14616. General Purpose. [ Notice of Formation ] Paragon Compliance, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/11/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to P.O. Box 217, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] Trailynn Victor LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with

the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/19/17.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 3349 Monroe Ave., Suite 334, Rochester, NY 14618-5513.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] 960 East Ridge Rd, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 12/11/2017 with an effective date of formation of 12/11/2017. Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served.

A copy of any process shall be mailed to 104 Angels Path, Webster, NY 14580. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Moonlighting on Edisto LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 12/7/2017 with an effective date of formation of 12/7/2017. Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to 21 Hillsboro Rd., Rochester, NY 14610. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Parkside Professionals, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 01/02/2018 with an effective date of formation of 01/02/2018. Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as

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A copy of any process shall be mailed to 17 Charter Oaks Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Straight Edge Construction Group, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 01/04/2018 with an effective date of formation of 01/04/2018. Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County.

The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served.

A copy of any process shall be mailed to 850 Saint Paul St., Ste. 17, Rochester, NY 14605.

The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 2017-5680 ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs.

Mykhaylo Zhylyak, Defendants Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated December 26, 2017, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will

sell at public auction in the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, New York, in the County of Monroe on February 14, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Irondequoit, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 277 Taft Avenue, Rochester, NY 14609; Tax Account No. 092.37-1-69. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $94,934.60 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: January 2018 Clark J. Zimmermann, Jr., Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 2017-5673 ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff vs.

Edwin Herbert Manzer a/k/a Edwin H. Manzer

Defendants Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated December 26, 2017, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, New York, in the County of Monroe on February 14, 2018 at 10:30 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 36 Glendale Park, Rochester, NY 14613; Tax Account No. 105.35-1-22. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $21,892.95 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: January 2018 James Napier, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ]

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SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 201612909 ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Paula J. Corter Gabrielle Corter; Marissa Corter; Tianna Corter, Defendants.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated December 26, 2017, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, New York, in the County of Monroe on February 14, 2018 at 11:00 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Village of Hilton, Town of Parma, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 122 Sherwood Drive, Hilton, NY; Tax Account No. 032.093-20. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $133,695.10 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: January 2018 Christopher Calabrese, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 3245767 [ SUMMONS WITH NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 17/8665 RJI No.: Assigned Judge: Hon. Daniel J. Doyle, J.S.C. CITIZENS BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, -againstJohn Roe and Jane Roe, said names being fictitious and

unknown to plaintiffs, the persons or parties intended being all unknown heirs-to-law and nextof-kin of Larry R. LaDue, deceased, late of the Town of Greece, County of Monroe, State of New York, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12”, the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to the plaintiffs, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, Defendants. : TO UNKNOWN HEIRS of LARRY R. LADUE: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to serve upon plaintiff’s attorneys an answer to the complaint in this action within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if the summons is not personally served upon you within the State of New York. The United States, if designated a defendant on this action, may appear or answer within sixty (60) days of service. In case of your failure to answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. The basis of the venue designated is that the mortgaged property is located in Monroe County. Dated: December 19, 2017 COOPER ERVING & SAVAGE LLP Albany, New York BY:/s/ Michael A. Kornstein Michael A. Kornstein, Esq. Attorneys for Plaintiff 39 North Pearl Street, 4th Floor Albany, New York 12207 (518) 4493900 TO: UNKNOWN HEIRS of LARRY R. LADUE: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Daniel J. Doyle, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New

York, dated the 27th day of November, 2017, and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Office of the Clerk of Monroe County.

This is an action for foreclosure of a mortgage made

by Larry R. LaDue, deceased, to Citizens Bank, N.A. f/k/a RBS Citizens Bank, N.A. in the original amount of $69,000.00 with interest, dated May 2, 2013, recorded May 3, 2013, in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 25072 of Mortgages at Page 158. The relief sought is the foreclosure of the mortgage lien and the public sale of the mortgaged premises and in case of your failure to appear, judgment may be taken against you extinguishing any interest or judgment lien you may have in the mortgaged premises.

The premises indexed in this action are described and commonly known as 112 Willowbrook Road, Town of Greece, Monroe County, New York (Tax Map No. 060.421-21). A complete legal description is as follows: **See Schedule Annexed** Dated: December 19, 2017 COOPER ERVING & SAVAGE LLP Albany, New York BY:/s/Michael A. Kornstein Michael A. Kornstein, Esq. Attorneys for Plaintiff 39 North Pearl Street, 4th Floor Albany, New York 12207 (518) 449-3900 SCHEDULE A DESCRIPTION OF MORTGAGED PREMISES ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Greece, County of Monroe and State of New York known and described as Lot 82 on a map of Willowbrook Subdivision as shown on a map filed in Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 49 of Maps at page 35.

Said Lot 82 fronts on the east side of Willowbrook Road, and is 50 feet in width, front and rear, and 150 feet deep, according to the dimensions shown on said map. [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE ]

THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index #2017/7708 Date Filed: 12/27/2017U.S. Bank National SUPREME COURT OF Association as Trustee successor in interest to Wachovia Bank, National Association as trustee for GSMPS 2004-1, Plaintiff,-againstSilvia Quiroz, if she be living or dead, her spouse, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff, CACV of Colorado LLC; The United States of America acting through The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; State of New York; and “JOHN DOE”, said name being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of premises being foreclosed herein, and any parties, corporations or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged premises, Defendants.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 108 Petrossi Drive, Rochester, NY 14621 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 a notice of appearance on the attorneys for the Plaintiff within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service.

The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Daniel J. Doyle, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Monroe County, entered December 27, 2017 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT OBJECT of

the above captioned action is to foreclose a Consolidation and/ or Modified Mortgage (hereinafter “the Mortgage”) to secure $32,475.00 and interest, recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on April 15, 2015, in Book 26072 of Mortgages, page 535 covering premises known as 108 Petrossi Drive, Rochester, NY 14621 a/k/a Section 091.83, Block 3, Lot 64. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT

BY SERVING A COPY OF ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: October 27, 2017 Frank M. Cassara, Esq. Senior Associate Attorney SHAPIRO, DICARO & BARAK, LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624(585) 247-9000 Fax: (585) 247-7380 Our File No. 17064270#93909

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But He Started It!

Tennis instructor Osmailer Torres, 30, of Miami, was arrested in July 2016 after hitting a 5-year-old with the child’s pint-sized tennis racket and causing a bruise on the boy’s arm and a lump on his eyebrow, reports the Miami Herald. But now Torres believes he has a grand-slam defense: Florida’s Stand Your Ground self-defense law.

Defense lawyer Eduardo Pereira told the Herald the child was the “initial aggressor” who had participated in “various violent altercations” against other children, and Torres had acted “reasonably in trying to prevent harm” to others. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Oscar Rodriguez-Fonts will consider the claim in an upcoming hearing.

Family Values

Mazen Dayem, 36, of Staten Island, New York, obtained a restraining order against his father-in-law, Yunes Doleh, 62, in September after Doleh repeatedly tormented him by waving his hairpiece at Dayem, provoking Dayem’s greatest phobia -- the Tasmanian Devil of Looney Tunes fame. Not easily deterred, Doleh was arrested on Nov. 5 for violating the order after he “removed his wig (and) made hand gestures” at a funeral the two attended, Dayem explained to the New York Post.

“It’s just a very large fear of mine, his damn wig. ... I have nightmares.”

Court papers say Doleh “proceeded to grimace, snarl, gurn and gesticulate.”

He was charged with criminal mischief in Staten Island County court, and then sued his son-in-law for defamation after photos from the arrest appeared on social media.

Least Competent Criminals

Teller County (Colorado) Sheriff Jason Mikesell listed his SUV for sale on Craigslist in November, and he was a little perplexed when he received a response from Shawn Langley, 39, of Vail, offering to trade the SUV for four pounds of marijuana. Langley even provided photos of his black market booty and boasted about its quality, reported The Colorado Springs Gazette. “I saw that text, and I started giggling,” Mikesell said. Detectives set up a meeting and arrested both Langley and Jane Cravens, 41, after finding the promised four pounds of marijuana in their car.

Sheriff Mikesell has removed his SUV from Craigslist.

Hiding in Plain Sight

On Nov. 27, 27-year-old Corey Hughes, who was due to be released from prison in February after serving most of a weapons charge, walked away from a San Joaquin County sheriff’s work crew in Stockton, California, according to the Fresno Bee. It took police almost a month to track him to a home in Stockton, where they surrounded the dwelling and apprehended him without incident -- which might not be so remarkable were it not for the distinctive, wholeface tattoo Hughes sports, which makes his face look like a human skull. He was booked into the San Joaquin County Jail.

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[ LOVESCOPE ] BY EUGENIA LAST ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’ll have a change of heart.

Before you make promises to someone, consider how sincere and dedicated you really are. If you have any doubt, don’t make a commitment that will be difficult to get out of once made.

When it comes to love, proceed with caution.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your zest for life will attract attention.

Someone you meet through work is likely to send you mixed messages. An interest in an old acquaintance will prompt you to reconnect. A short trip or attending a reunion will renew your faith in love and romance.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): An

emotional interest in someone will lead to a change of heart.

Hiding your feelings will be difficult if you have unfinished personal business to tend to before you pursue your latest crush. How you handle a messy situation will speak volumes about the type of person you are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Expect the unexpected when it comes to love and romance.

Just because someone was raised with different beliefs or traditions doesn’t mean you cannot find common ground and learn to appreciate what you both bring to the relationship. Expand your search and someone unique will enrich

your life.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your heart is in the right place.

Offer thoughtfulness, kindness, loyalty and understanding, not lavish gifts and excessive outings. Love cannot be bought, so put your wallet away and choose to make the person you are attracted to love you for who you are, not what you have.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s time to play and show your lighter side to someone you are trying to win over. It’s good to present that you are reliable, but if you can also make someone laugh you will fair much better when it comes to building a long-lasting relationship.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’ll face conflicting feelings when it comes to affairs of the heart.

Choose intellect as your most valued stimulant. If you fall in love with someone’s mind first, your relationship will have a greater chance of growing into something that can take on the test of time.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You’ll mesmerize whomever you decide to pursue. Your unique way of communicating and your powerful input into everything you do will encourage potential partners to step up and stand beside you. Don’t feel you have to make a commitment immediately. Take your time and see who can keep up.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You have to be honest about the way you feel. Living a lie or not being realistic when it comes to your romantic expectations will not help you find the right partner. Feeling that there is always someone better waiting on the sideline will deter you from making a commitment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Stability will be your prime concern. If you don’t think you are with someone you can spend the rest of your life with, move on. Don’t let anyone pressure you into making a promise. Question your feelings and consider what you want in the future.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are best to focus on personal changes for now. Take your time and plan to have fun with friends until you feel you are ready to get involved in a one-on-one relationship.

Avoid making your personal life complex. Keep life simple and put your needs first.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Inconsistency will make it difficult for you to make up your mind when it comes to love and romance. Your expectations will be high, and anything less will lead to disappointment. Be upfront about your likes and dislikes, and most of all, don’t lead anyone on.

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