CITY Newspaper, January 8, 2020

JAN. 8 2020, VOL. 49 NO. O. 17

Will the real

please stand up?

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Send them to feedback@rochestercitynews.com with your name, your address, and your daytime phone number for verification.

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Comments of fewer than 500 words have a greater chance of being published, and we do edit selections for publication in print.

We don’t publish comments sent to other media.

Kudos to the focus on local news

I was relieved and heartened by the explanation as to the intermittent absence of a Feedback page in recent months (“Is the art of letter writing dead?” Feedback, December 11). I’m an activist who has had many letters published in CITY and who has looked forward each week to CITY’s latest edition. So, I’ve been concerned that this outlet for progressive opinion had disappeared with the departure of Mary Anna Towler and Tim Macaluso.

I recently submitted a letter to CITY suggesting that President Trump’s phone call with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which led to the murderous abandonment of Syrian Kurds and outrage from Senate Republicans, might more likely lead to Trump’s Senate conviction of impeachment than his Ukraine call. I never heard back from CITY and concluded that CITY had perhaps, quite reasonably, turned its focus to more local news.

Again, I thank CITY for the explanation about the Feedback page and look forward to a further confirmation of your new focus on local rather than national/global news and opinion.

DOUG NOBLE, ROCHESTER

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Keep the columns coming

When I read that David Andreatta would be taking over as the editor of CITY, I was a little sad because I greatly enjoyed his insightful and cheeky columns in the Democrat and Chronicle.

However, I see that I had no reason to worry because his signature wit is still being published regularly in great columns like, “Wegnesia. Wegmentia.

Discomwegmanated. It’s a Rochester thing” (December 4) and “Let us have lettuce in Webster” (December 18).

His columns always manage to share important local news, while also giving the reader reason to laugh out loud. I am very thankful that Mr. Andreatta has continued to share his perspective and sense of humor and I look forward to seeing more of the same in future editions of CITY. ADAM SMITH, ROCHESTER

Hydroponics is no substitute for soil

The world should not abandon soil agriculture in favor of hydroponics because healthy soil teems with microorganisms that build soil fertility and sequesters carbon, which helps to stop global warming while producing more nutritious food (“Let us have lettuce in Webster,” December 3).

Factory farming relies on genetically modified organisms that include pesticides and chemical fertilizer that destroy soil and produce unhealthy food. Hydroponics, dependent on liquid fertilizer in water, lack soil’s health-producing properties.

Further, the amount of food grown worldwide is increasing faster than the rate of global population growth.

The problem is not the lack of food but its distribution

to those most in need. The amount of food grown is and will be enough to feed 10 billion people, the population expected by 2050.

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food has advocated structural reforms and a shift from monoculture to agroecology and locally-based food economies as the best way to combat poverty and hunger.

Agroecology emphasizes crop diversity and rotation, which achieves the most sustainable results. It also increases productivity of soils degraded by conventional agriculture.

The corporate entry into hydroponics is hurting, not helping, small farmers, the very people we should be encouraging.

not a contractor, and could not take the mileage deduction, and that my customer would have to pay my FICA. This did not sit well with them, and my services were soon no longer required.

In the years since, I have occasionally taken similar work, but mostly through agencies that specialize in contract work. I’ve been cautious about taking independent contracting jobs, where there’s no temp services company involved. I tried to meet the criteria spelled out by the IRS, to keep my independent status and thus be allowed to deduct expenses.

AUDREY NEWCOMB, BRIGHTON

Thanks to Jeremy Moule for his article, “RCSD students to lose role models with cutting of black, Latino teachers” (December 18).

As a teacher who is white in a school of mostly black students, I appreciate the idea that students of color benefit from having qualified teachers who look like them and have been raised in their culture.

I also appreciate that many teachers who are not of color, nor of the students’ culture, are capable and highly effective at their jobs.

We clearly have work to do, however. In the article,

IRS took a bite out of my “gig” work

The Editor’s Notebook column, “Some gig workers are ‘dependent’ contractors” (December 11), brought back memories of my own experiences with what’s now called “gig economy.”

Back in the mid-1980s, we called it “independent contract work.” I took a gig at a company an hour’s drive from Webster, and all went well until my tax preparer told me that I was eligible to deduct my commuting expenses, which were considerable. He pointed out that the deduction could offset a big chunk of the selfemployment tax I had to pay.

I filed my return, and a couple months later I received a letter from the IRS questioning the mileage deduction. Enclosed was a questionnaire that was to be filled out and returned. The questions pertained to my work arrangement, such as my hours, provided work space, etc.

A couple weeks after I mailed in the form, the IRS contacted me and said that I was considered an employee,

FRANCIS J. CALANDRA, WEBSTER

Open up about race and prejudice

Moule states, among other things, that, “Several studies and policy briefs also found that teachers of color tend to have higher expectations for students of color [than teachers not of color].” That is highly concerning. Clearly there are some unconscious prejudices at play, and I’m willing to humbly admit that I am not immune.

What can we do? It is in everyone’s best interest to examine the pitfalls in our own perceptions of other cultural groups. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

I challenge my community to make discussion of race and prejudice less taboo (I know this is already happening, but not enough). Let us not accuse each other, but question each other’s ideas and examine our own thoughts and behaviors and in what ways they may be inaccurate or harmful. It is uncomfortable, but necessary.

Let us try to understand one another more deeply.

Even if it hurts our pride; even we are afraid of initial disagreement, guilt, sorrow, regret and anger. Let’s be willing to change if need be.

Our shared future is at stake, and society cannot rise without everyone taking responsibility.

GRETCHEN SCHWARZMUELLER, EAST ROCHESTER

News. Arts. Life.

Greater Rochester’s Alternative Newsweekly January 8 - 14, 2020 Vol 49 No 17 On the cover: Illustration by Ryan Williamson 280 State Street Rochester, New York 14614 themail@rochester-citynews.com phone (585) 244-3329 rochestercitynewspaper.com Publisher: Rochester Area Media Partners LLC, Norm Silverstein, chairman. William and Mary Anna Towler, founders EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT themail@rochester-citynews.com Editor: David Andreatta News editor: Jeremy Moule Staff writer: Gino Fanelli Arts & entertainment editor: Rebecca Rafferty Music editor: Daniel J. Kushner Music writer: Frank De Blase Calendar editor: Kate Stathis Contributing writers: Rachel Crawford, Roman Divezur, Katie Halligan, Adam Lubitow, Ron Netsky, Katie Preston, David Raymond, Leah Stacy, Chris Thompson, Hassan Zaman CREATIVE DEPARTMENT artdept@rochester-citynews.com Creative director/Operations manager: Ryan Williamson Designer/Photographer: Jacob Walsh Digital content strategist: Renée Heininger ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT ads@rochester-citynews.com Sales manager: Alison Zero Jones New business development: Betsy Matthews Advertising consultant/ Project mananger: David White Advertising consultant/ Classified sales representatives: Tracey Mykins OPERATIONS/CIRCULATION kstathis@rochester-citynews.com Business manager: Angela Scardinale Circulation manager: Katherine Stathis Distribution: David Riccioni, Northstar Delivery CITY Newspaper is available free of charge. Additional copies of the current issue may be purchased for $1 each at the CITY Newspaper office. CITY Newspaper may be distributed only by authorized distributors. No person may, without prior written permission of CITY Newspaper, take more than one copy of each weekly issue.

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK | COMMENTARY BY DAVID ANDREATTA

NY’s high-speed rail fail Every few years for the past 30 years, a New York politician asks us to get on board the high-speed rail train.

The latest request comes from Governor Andrew Cuomo, who will announce during his State of the State address on Wednesday a panel of engineers that he said will “re-examine past high-speed rail plans, question and rethink every assumption and method, and recommend a new plan for how to build a faster, greener, more reliable high-speed rail in New York.”

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As part of their research, the engineers ought to visit the new Rochester train station named for Louise Slaughter, the late congresswoman who was also known to fire up the high-speed rail defibrillator on occasion.

What they would see is a $44 million facility that, on the outside, is equipped to handle faster trains and, on the inside, hasn’t been able to rent out its two retail spaces in the more than two years since it opened.

An Amtrak leasing agent said there hasn’t been much interest in the spaces, which don’t include sewer or water hookup. The spaces rent for between $2,500 and $3,900 a month. One Amtrak clerk called them “sad, empty retail spaces.”

That there isn’t enough foot traffic to support (at least not at that rent) a coffee shop or a deli or a convenience store at the new train station — the nicest building in a neighborhood where those amenities are few and far between — leaves one to wonder about the market for high-speed rail service upstate.

Of course, any traveler of the so-called Empire Corridor, that 463-mile stretch of track from Niagara Falls to Albany and New York City, would appreciate a faster ride.

Right now, the train pokes along at an interminably slow 50 to 60 mph. Trips from Rochester to New York City take anywhere between 7 and 9 hours — and that’s if the trains are on time.

Just 70 percent of Empire Corridor trains are on time, according to Amtrak’s own report card.

That’s mostly because the trains run on tracks

What Cuomo is talking about isn’t true high-speed rail. It’s higher speed rail, and it still costs more than New York appears to be able to afford. The state faces a budget deficit of $6 billion.” owned by the freight carrier CSX Corp., which prioritizes its own traffic over that of Amtrak.

So, naturally, a faster ride would be welcome. But how many of those Empire Corridor travelers really need faster service? Are they willing to pay for it? Would the benefits outweigh the cost?

What is the cost? That depends how fast we want the “high-speed” rail service to go.

The last study of the matter was a 2014 joint state and federal report that found increasing the average speed to 77 mph, while topping out at 125 mph, would cost $15 billion. Getting from Niagara Falls to New York City would take 6 hours on an express train and 8 hours, 40 minutes on a regional train.

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[ NEWS IN BRIEF ]

Top state officials hedging on bail reform law Top state officials who supported a new law that ends cash bail for misdemeanors and many felonies considered non-violent, appear to be softening their stance since the law took effect January 1.

Most notably, Attorney General Leticia James said the Legislature and the governor should revisit the law, which has faced vocal opposition from law enforcement and prosecutors, who say dangerous people are being set free as they await adjudication of their cases.

Opponents locally have pointed to Tyquan Rivera as the most glaring example.

Rivera, 25, who shot and severely injured a Rochester police officer in 2009, was released from custody on drug charges last week.

They say a major shortcoming with the law is that it does not allow judges to apply discretion to ascertain whether the accused is a threat to society, and therefore a danger if released.

Speaking to reporters in Rochester on Saturday, James said that lack of discretion was problematic.

“Taking away judicial discretion has always been a challenge for me, for all of us,” she said. “I can

remember the Rockefeller drug laws, where we complained about the lack of judicial discretion. And so, here we are now, again, with the lack of judicial discretion and I would hope that the Legislature would go back and revisit bail reform.

“It has already presented some issues and challenges, and I am confident that the Legislature, both the Assembly and Senate, will pass it and the governor of state of New York will sign it.”

A spokesperson for Governor Andrew Cuomo, who backed the law, called it “a work in progress” and said the governor would support adding hate crimes to the list of offenses still requiring bail.

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ENVIRONMENT | BY GINO FANELLI

Rochester housing court to open

Monroe County, Rochester won’t tax paper bags

Renters in Rochester will soon have more leverage against landlords who neglect to repair their properties.

The state judicial district covering Monroe County is introducing a specialized housing section in Rochester City Court.

The section will permit tenants to bring small claims cases against and have them heard as soon as legally permissible, usually 22 days after being filed, according to the supervising judge, state Supreme Court Justice Craig Doran.

Neither Monroe County nor the city of Rochester will impose a 5-cent tax on paper bags when a state ban on singleuse plastic bags takes effect in March.

The administrations of County Executive Adam Bello and Mayor Lovely Warren made their opposition to the tax known Monday after Wegmans announced it would stop packing groceries in plastic at its New York state stores on January 27 and would charge 5 cents per paper bag.

Like the tax, the Wegmans charge is not mandated by law. Wegmans said it was imposing the charge to incentivize customers to bring their

own reusable shopping bags and that the proceeds would be donated to a local food bank.

The law banning plastic bags begins March 1, and gives counties and cities the option to impose a 5-cent tax on each paper bag used.

The localities could keep 2 cents of the tax, and the remaining 3 cents would go to the state’s Environmental Protection Fund.

“I have no plans to introduce the optional paper bag fee that accompanies the measure,” Bello said in a statement. “While I’m in favor of efforts to encourage the use of reusable bags, adding another fee is

not the right way to go about it.”

His predecessor, former County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo, had previously said she would not support the tax, calling it an “insult to every New York family.”

Alex Yudelson, the chief of staff to Warren, said her administration had no plans to opt-in to the tax. Yudelson said the city’s resources are best spent increasing access to food, not adding another financial burden on residents.

“We really don’t see any benefit to opting in,” Yudelson said.

Gino Fanelli is a CITY staff writer.

He can be reached at gfanelli@rochestercitynews.com.

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The former RG&E Station Four could be the site of the first official pedestrian accessible High Falls scenic overlook in 13 years, if a feasibility study finds the long-empty building on the east side of the falls, owned by Greentopia, safe for rehabilitation.

DEVELOPMENT | BY GINO FANELLI

Former RG&E plant could become falls overlook A decrepit former RG&E hydro station could serve as a new High Falls scenic overlook, if it can be made safe enough for people to use.

Rochester City Council is set to vote on a $150,000 feasibility study for the potential High Falls overlook when it meets on Tuesday, January 21. The study will look at repurposing the long-empty RG&E Station Four at 275 St. Paul Street, just south of the Genesee Brewery.

The city is hiring Hunt Engineers, Architects, Land Surveyors, & Landscape Architect to do the study. The costs will be reimbursed by Empire State Development through the ROC the Riverway initiative.

As it stands, the building is not safe for public use. But it has potential to play a vital role in making High Falls and the area around it into a tourist destination.

“High Falls is one of the largest urban waterfalls in America,” said Rachel Laber, director of market communications and public relations at Visit Rochester, Monroe County’s tourism agency. “When I bring people here they’re just amazed that we have this resource right in the center of the city.”

Greentopia purchased the station in 2013 and, according to a request for proposals issued by the city in August,

the building is in pretty bad shape. The structure was built in the late 1800’s and it is missing floor joists, has compromised bedrock anchors, and has structural beams that are rotted, rusted, or outright broken.

If City Council approves the overlook feasibility study, Hunt will perform a full-fledged analysis of the building, including a topographic survey and an examination of erosion and drainage problems, as well as other constraints of the property. It’ll use the findings to advise the city on whether it should demolish the station and not rebuild, demolish and rebuild a new structure, rehabilitate the station into a scenic overlook, or simply do nothing.

Just what the overlook will look like is up in the air. City Department of Environmental Services Commissioner Norman Jones leans towards an “interpretive center” design.

“I leave how it will look up to the artistic discretion of our landscape architects,” Jones said. “How it will function is the more important piece.”

There are currently several places that offer a view of the falls—the Pont De Rennes bridge, the Genesee Brew House upper deck, or High Falls Terrace Park, to name a few. But there’s no direct overlook

of the falls and there hasn’t been one for some time. In 2002, the City closed the former overlook at Granite Mills Park on Browns Race, citing concerns about its structural integrity.

The overlook would serve as the southern tip of the “Brewery Line Trail,” a collection of improvements along the east side of the falls capped at the north by the Pont De Rennes The former RG&E station Four purchased by Greentopia in 2013 could be converted to an overlook. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH foot bridge. The city made improvements trying to capitalize on that and create a to High Falls Terrace destination here,” Popp said.

Park in 2018 and 2019. In total, ROC the Since autumn 2018, the brewery Riverway has committed $1 million to the has held its ROC the Falls concert series trail and park. at High Falls Terrace Park. Attendance Having good access to the falls is fluctuates between 2,000 and 6,000, invaluable for the Genesee Brewery, said depending on the weather, Popp said.

Mary Beth Popp, director of corporate “From the turnout we get, people relations for its parent company, FIFCO obviously love coming to this area and USA. Popp serves on the ROC the enjoying the falls,” Popp said.

Riverway advisory board.

Gino Fanelli is a CITY staff writer. He can “The falls are the second most popular tourist spot in Rochester, and we’re

be reached at gfanelli@rochester-citynews.com.

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POLITICS | BY JEREMY MOULE

Vacancies complicate 2020 elections

County Executive Adam Bello took the oath of office on Saturday, January 4. His election as county exec left the county clerk seat vacant and a potential Democratic primary is developing around the opening. PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE

The 2020 election schedule in Monroe County already had its share of moving parts.

Then state Supreme Court Justice Matthew Rosenbaum added another when he declined to take the seat to which he was re-elected in November amid a state investigation into misconduct allegations against him.

And elections officials will at some point have to contend with vacancies in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office, opened by the election of Adam Bello to county executive, and in the 27th Congressional District, left when Chris Collins resigned and then pleaded guilty to insider trading-related charges.

“We’re just waiting for our marching orders is all,” said Republican Monroe County Elections Commissioner Doug French.

New York has three big election days coming up this year: the presidential primary on April 28, the regular primary on June 23, and the November 3 general election. But the vacancies have made the schedule more complex.

The vacancy left by Rosenbaum will likely be the simplest for elections and party officials to handle. The seat will stay empty for the year and be filled through the general election, French said. Officials will plan on having four judicial positions on the general election ballot instead of the three there were planned.

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Potentially creating bigger waves will be how Governor Andrew Cuomo responds to the vacancy in the clerk’s office and the congressional seat.

It is expected that Cuomo will appoint someone to the clerk’s office, which, in turn, will touch off a potential primary among the handful of people who have already declared their candidacies for the office, and, later, a general election.

Cuomo is also expected, at some point, to declare a special election for Collins’s former seat. That will send elections officials and party machines scrambling to prepare for what will be a high-stakes contest.

The 27th District special election

Collins resigned on September 30 and his seat has remained vacant ever since. The sprawling, Republican-leaning district covers much of western New York and includes the Monroe County towns of Hamlin, Wheatland, Rush, and Mendon, as well as a part of Clarkson.

Republicans and Democrats in the district have asked Cuomo to call a special election. Cuomo has said he’s leaning toward scheduling the election for April 28, the day of the presidential primary, because doing so would save money. But the idea hasn’t sat well with Republicans.

French points out that Democrats have a big, multi-candidate presidential primary that’ll draw lots of party voters to polls that day. Republicans won’t have a comparable contest on the ballot that day so they wouldn’t have the same draw.

That dynamic doesn’t seem fair, French said.

State Republican Party chair Nicholas Langworthy is suing the governor as a way to force him to set the election and, he hopes, schedule it before the presidential primary. In the complaint, he and two other Republican activists argue that the approximately 750,000 residents in the 27th Congressional District “are being denied their right to representation in the U.S. Congress” because of the governor’s refusal to call the special election.

Holding the special election on presidential primary day would, as Cuomo has argued, save Monroe County a little money. Elections officials estimate a special election for the 27th District would cost about $20,000 and French figures holding it on the day of the presidential primary would cost about $15,000.

When Cuomo does call the race, both parties have candidates in the waiting.

Democrats have mostly settled on former Grand Island Supervisor Nate McMurrary, who narrowly lost his challenge against Collins in 2018.

McMurray’s never really stopped campaigning ever since.

Republicans are narrowing down a field that includes state Sens. Chris Jacobs and Robert Ortt, Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw, and others.

Monroe County clerk

When Democrat Adam Bello took over as Monroe County executive on January 1, he left his position as county clerk vacant.

Democrats want to hold on to the seat to give the party a firmer grasp on county government (it lacks a majority in the County Legislature).

The vacancy doesn’t require a special election, since Cuomo will appoint someone to it. But whoever he picks — likely another Democrat — will have to run for office to stay in the job past December 2020.

Already, a Democratic county clerk primary is developing. Assembly member

Jamie Romeo has said she’s not running for re-election and will instead seek the clerk position. Jennifer Boutte, who works as director of development and community engagement for CDS Life Transitions, has also declared her candidacy for the seat.

But the clerk contest is just one of several Democratic primaries this year.

Aside from the presidential primary, they’ll all happen in June.

In the 25th Congressional District, Representative Joe Morelle is up against Brighton Town Board member Robin Wilt. Both candidates ran in a four-way primary for the seat in 2018, though Morelle ultimately won.

Most of the likely Monroe County Democratic primaries would be in state legislative races. They include: • The 136th Assembly District, which is currently held by Romeo. Justin Wilcox, a county legislator and Romeo’s legislative director, and Jaclyn Richards, the former National Organization for Women Rochester chapter president who ran against Romeo last year in a Democratic primary, have both declared their candidacy for the seat.

• The 138th Assembly District, where five-term incumbent Harry Bronson faces a challenge from Alex Yudelson, chief of staff to Mayor Lovely Warren.

• The state Senate’s 56th District, which is currently held by Republican Joe Robach, who is not seeking re-election.

Jeremy Cooney, who challenged Robach in 2018, is running for the seat, as is former Ibero-American Action League CEO Hilda Rosario Escher and Sherita Traywick, a professor of criminal justice at RIT and first-term school board member in the Greece Central School District.

• The state Senate’s 55th District, which is currently held by Republican Rich Funke, who is not seeking re-election.

Jen Lunsford, a lawyer from Penfield who unsuccessfully challenged Funke in 2018, is running for the seat again. Samra Brouk, a Rochester resident who has worked in nonprofit leadership and fundraising, has also declared her candidacy.

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

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Will the real

please stand up?

BY GINO FANELLI

More than 70 years after Genesee Brewery launched its iconic “Jenny” ad campaign, the identity of who portrayed Jenny is still challenged from time to time.

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nyone who has spent enough time in and around Rochester knows Jenny — the fresh-faced, beautymarked woman of the vintage Genesee beer ads.

Alternately wearing a black-and white barmaid dress or a white number with red trim, Jenny has pushed Genesee beer while water-skiing, driving a convertible, lacing up a pair of ice skates, and presenting a freshly-poured pint on a platter under the timeless tagline, “Ask for ‘Jenny.’”

Forever wholesome, always versatile, and never judgemental, Jenny is as synonymous with Rochester as the Flower City logo and the Garbage Plate. Indeed, most Rochesterians know Jenny. Or do they?

In the 70 years since her debut, challenges to the identity of the woman who portrayed Jenny rise from time to time. The latest surfaced in October, when a Texas man named Gary Johnson tweeted at Genesee claiming his late mother, Irene McKinley, was the “original Jenny girl.” He posted a photo of a Genesee beer keychain bearing a close-up image of Jenny, saying, “This is her.”

“I’m convinced my mother was the first Jenny girl,” his sister, Kristy Johnson, said in a phone interview from her Texas home. “That was always her claim, and she’d be ticked not to be credited for it.”

Genesee Brewery records suggest the Jenny of the ubiquitous ads was a Greek-born model named Daphne Dore.

But that has not stopped claims to the Jenny throne from trickling in over the decades. Complicating matters is that countless women personified “Jenny” at promotional events over many years, leading to more assertions that “Jenny” was someone other than Dore.

“People come in every so often, it’s not an everyday thing, but a few times a year someone might mention they knew somebody, or a relative played the role over the years,” Genesee retail manager and archivist Paul Constantine said. “It’s true, a lot of people played the role for us, but all indications point to Daphne as the original.”

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Daphne Dore as Jenny. PHOTO PROVIDED

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Jenny is born The years after World War II were for many Americans a hopeful and prosperous time. It was a good time, too, for the Genesee Brewery, then under the leadership of John Wehle, who would come to turn the company from a local mainstay to the seventh-largest brewery in the nation.

In 1953, Genesee launched what it still deems its “most successful advertising campaign” with “Miss Jenny,” according to company records. The idea, company officials explained, was to give the brewery a face and personality that would resonate with the country’s growing middle class.

“The one side of her was to be a community advocate,” Janine Schoos, brand director for Genesee, said. “A lot of the articles I’ve read showed her going out into the community to be a good corporate citizen. It wasn’t even necessarily about the beer, it was about, ‘This is how the people of Genesee act.’”

A single model was tapped to be the “official” image of Jenny. Genesee records show her to be Dore, who was working out of New York City at the time. She would be the basis for the photos and illustrations that graced posters, billboards, and magazine pages.

But in time, Jenny would morph from a two-dimensional character to a real-life mascot of sorts, Constantine explained.

Troops of “Jennies” led parades, visited local bars, and engaged with Genesee beer drinkers everywhere.

“Over the years, people have asked me if we have any sort of records, and unfortunately we don’t, that indicate who was hired to appear as Jenny over the years,” Constantine said. “I don’t really have anything to say who played her when, but all of the available evidence points to Dore being the original (Jenny of the ads).”

While documentation from the era is hard to come by, there is some strong evidence that Dore was the one and only Jenny of the ads.

Genesee’s archives contain a letter from the Rogers & Porter ad agency dated 1956 that describes Dore as the model for the Jenny marketing campaign and a “charming young lady born in Greece” who speaks five languages.

An Oneonta Star newspaper article from that year also references Dore as “Jenny.” Dore reportedly led the town’s fireman’s parade.

The man who created Jenny, former Genesee advertising manager James P. Duffy, told the Democrat and Chronicle in 1980 that Dore had been plugging Lincoln-Mercury cars before she was tapped to be the first Jenny in a billboard ad.

From the start, though, Jenny was never wholly one — and only one — person.

The article read that the artist hired to paint the billboard “didn’t like the way her legs looked,” so “a second model with more acceptable legs” served as the muse for Jenny

from the waist down. “So the first Jenny girl billboard was actually two girls,” Duffy reportedly said.

Eventually, Duffy noted, “several Jenny girls came and went” as Jenny graduated from billboards to television. Robert Wehle, the brewery’s treasurer, even married a Jenny girl, according to the article.

Considering the available evidence, Costantine said he is “90 percent certain” the Jenny known to Rochesterians is Dore.

Irene McKinley Irene McKinley, the woman claimed by her children in Texas to have been the original Jenny, died in 1998 at the age of 68.

Her daughter, Kristy Johnson, said McKinley was born in Berlin to a mother of Jewish lineage as the Nazis came to power.

She married an American Air Force sergeant, Ernest McKinley, as the war came to a close, and emigrated to the United States in 1951, Johnson said.

Johnson said McKinley was selected by Genesee to portray a real-world version of Jenny because she closely resembled the Jenny of the early ads, all of which were illustrations — portraits the company insists were based on Dore, or at least the top half of Dore.

There is a notable curiosity, however, in the photo of the Genesee beer keychain bearing Jenny’s image that McKinley’s son posted on Twitter and purported to be his mother. In it, Jenny’s characteristic beauty mark, typically high on her right cheek bone in most ads, appears on the left side of her face. The image on the keychain appears to be a mirror image of another Jenny portrait used by Genesee.

Johnson said the beauty mark was drawn on with pencil. She provided early modeling photos of her mother, as well as pictures of her taken later in life, to be compared to the Jenny ads. There is a close resemblance.

“I’m convinced she was,” Johnson said. “It was a story she always told, and it was something she said started her modeling career.”

The march of time

“She was a woman that knew what beautiful looks could do to a man, she understood that very thoroughly and enjoyed every bit of it,” Johnson said. “She didn’t abuse it, but she just loved it, she loved being a woman, being a pretty woman.”

McKinley was a popular model in the Rochester area during the height of the Jenny campaign. She was profiled in a May 1954 Democrat and Chronicle article that retraced her journey from Germany — a trek replete with eluding the Gestapo, forging passports, and distributing “antiNazi propoganda” — and cast her as a rising model. She had been named “Miss Electrical Industries of 1953” and “Miss Easter Lily of Baker Company” of the 40th Infantry Division in Korea. A photo from another article, from 1955, showed her modeling a new Plymouth at a car show at the Culver Road Armory.

There are no contemporaneous records that suggest McKinley was the Jenny of the ads. A 1995 Democrat and Chronicle article referred to her — then named Irene Holden after remarrying — as being a “Jenny” in the 1950s. But that piece was about the many real-life Jennies played by numerous women around Rochester.

Genesee ran the last official Jenny ad in 1962 ; but Jenny never officially retired.

The brewery had plans in the mid-2000s to launch a modern version of Jenny, but that idea fell away with a change in management, representative said.

Thus, Jenny remains a relic of time, a sliver of Rochester history forever beckoning beer drinkers from posters and paraphernalia hung above racks of glassware and taps.

Schoos, the company’s brand director, denied that Jenny was ever intended to be a sex symbol. She acknowledged, though, that Jenny simply wouldn’t fit with the image Genesee is trying to project today.

Mary Beth Popp, vice president of corporate relations for Genesee’s parent company, FIFCO USA, said now is not the right time for Genesee to hire a new mascot.

Genesee’s current ad campaign — “That’s how it’s done” — encourages Genesee fans to send the company videos or photos of them swinging a hammer, mowing the lawn, doing chores, repairing their cars, or any other assorted manual labor. The company then posts the images on its social media accounts, along with those of brewery workers going about their jobs.

“We have so many authentic people here, and we often use our own employees as ambassadors to the community that know our history, that have their own stories, that are passionate, that I’d hate to see us bring in somebody from the outside,” Popp said. “We have these awesome brewers that can talk about the beers they’re making.”

Jenny graces the Genesee Brewhouse. PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

If Jenny is to remain a remnant of the past, does it even matter who inspired the original?

Dore is neither prominently mentioned on any of the brewery’s merchandise nor routinely brought up as a piece of brewery history. Rather, she is a footnote.

And many Jennys came after. Together, they formed not a single person, but composites of a single character, not unlike the actors who have portrayed James Bond or Batman. While Genesee officials said they believed Dore to be deceased, CITY was unable to confirm a whereabouts or date of death for her.

To the question of “Who was the first Jenny?” an answer to satisfy all may not

exist. But to the question of “Who was Jenny?” the well from which to choose the answer runs deep. “(McKinley) probably was Jenny,” Constantine said. “She probably did represent the brewery at some point. It may have been for several events for all I know.

“It’s just cool that people are out there and want to be associated with it, and I take them at their word.”

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

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Two slower “high-speed” alternatives that would average speeds of 61 and 63 mph, respectively, and reach top speeds of 90 and 110 mph, respectively, were projected to cost $5.6 and $6.3 billion.

The report rejected as too expensive the fastest high-speed rail options — those bullet trains that zip around Europe at 190 mph and the magnetic levitation, or “maglev,” trains in China and Japan that top out at 225 mph. The report put their price tag at nearly $45 billion.

So, what Cuomo is talking about isn’t true high-speed rail. It’s higher speed rail, and it still costs more than New York appears to be able to afford. The state faces a budget deficit of $6 billion.

Proponents of high-speed rail, like the governor, claim the service can transform economies. Academic studies have shown mixed results, however.

While high-speed trains reduce travel time, traffic congestion, and pollution, long-term economic effects are conditional on other factors, such as city size, industry, amenities, and distance from the most popular destinations on the route.

Investments in high-speed rail between heavily-congested, popular destinations within close proximity make sense. The Empire Corridor doesn’t have such places, not really.

In 2009, a national infrastructure planning group identified Rochester and New York City as among the best city pairs for a high-speed rail route. But the route was 50th out of 50 on the list. Buffalo and New York was 43rd. The best pairing was, unsurprisingly, New York City and Washington.

Also near the top was Los Angeles and San Francisco, where work on a 438-mile highspeed rail line linking those cities by trains traveling 164 mph was modified last year after the completion date of 2020 was extended to 2033 and the estimated cost of $33 billion swelled to $77 billion. The project is now reportedly confined to a truncated stretch of track in the Central Valley.

Before New York sinks billions of dollars it doesn’t have into a route of similar length, Cuomo’s panel of experts must consider whether there’s a market to support it.

Amtrak would not divulge the number of intercity passengers on the Empire Corridor. A spokesperson would only say that 132,434 people either boarded or disembarked a train in Rochester last year.

That translates to 363 passengers entering or leaving the station each day.

Apparently not enough to support a coffee shop or a deli or a convenience store.

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

Dining & Nightlife

Not your usual flash-fried squid: the Calamari di Roma is sautéed with cherry peppers, onions, garlic, and tomato sauce. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH

Inland wharf Union Tavern

4565 CULVER ROAD TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY: 11 A.M. TO 10 P.M.; THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY, 11 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT; SUNDAY, NOON TO 10 P.M. 563-7304; UNIONTAVERNSEABREEZE.COM [ REVIEW ] BY CHRIS THOMPSON

My winter hunt for cuisines that remind me of summer continued the last week of 2019, with a slight complication: holiday closings. The season can be a bit difficult for me to navigate anyway — I don’t really have immediate family, and I wasn’t planning to go to my hometown to see old friends.

Most of my local friends were off to spend time with their families, and I am not one to intrude (and likely witness arguing with curmudgeon uncles).

Were I back in Baltimore, I’d be cozied up to a bar, chowing down on fresh seafood dishes in a pub that was converted from a bicentennial-era bed and breakfast in the Canton neighborhood (AKA the nontouristy version of Fell’s Point). Sadly, we don’t have Chesapeake Bay here, but we do

have Lake Ontario. So on Christmas Eve, I met some friends who hadn’t yet started their mini-family reunions, and we ventured up to the lake to try out a new restaurant on Culver Road.

Marshall Street Bar and Grill owners Don and Kelly Bush bought the former Reunion Inn and re-opened it as Union Tavern this past summer. It’s located directly across the street from Seabreeze Amusement Park, but that’s not the first thing I noticed. As I drove up Culver, I could see a shimmer of the early afternoon sun bouncing off the surface of Lake Ontario. I was so enchanted by the sight that I nearly missed my turn to enter the tavern’s lot.

I parked and stood before the solidlooking, two-story brick building, painted white with hunter green trim, which resembles a wharf-side village tavern from the 1800s. Incidentally, I later learned from the owners that the structure sits on land with 200 years of significant history (including rumors of involvement with the Underground Railroad and Prohibition-era bootlegging), so my hunch was actually on target.

Atop the tavern is a widow’s walk, or more positively, a good view of the lakeshore scene. The first floor interior is nearly all lacquered wood, including the bar, and despite the dark hues of the walls, the space was warm and welcoming. I half expected fishing crews to fill the bar and treat each other to rounds of beer and embellished tales of their marine adventures. The upstairs is almost a different world, with light green walls, tan wood floors, and flowery art hanging on the walls. It resembles a New England bed and breakfast dining room on a spring morning, illuminated by a glowing sun. My friends and I got a table in the corner so that we could take advantage of as much natural light as possible.

The menu is a decent mix of pub fare and fine dining, including fries, burgers, and wraps, but also calamari, steak, and swordfish.

We decided to start with the pub fries ($6), coconut shrimp ($9), crispy calamari ($9), and Calamari di Roma ($11). I normally wouldn’t order two of the same type of item, but both calamari dishes intrigued me. The crispy calamari is made the way most folks recognize: breaded and flash fried. It’s quite

delicious, but the Calamari di Roma is a unique treat, sautéed with cherry peppers, onions, garlic, and tomato sauce and served in a bowl with a grilled lemon and a piece of bread from Seabreeze neighbor Giuseppe’s Restaurant. The rings of squid absorbed the flavors of the peppers, onions, and garlic, and the tomatoes and lemon juice added a zesty finish. For those who don’t eat calamari, the tavern offers the same preparation with hearts of palm.

The coconut shrimp was sweet and crisp, and the pub fries are in the running to be a mainstay for my future visits. I cannot resist a decent fry, and these were nearly potato wedges in size, and neither undercooked nor fried to oblivion. My main course was the Seafood Tuscany ($16), a dish of swordfish and fatty tuna belly cooked with asparagus, onions, and tomatoes in a butter-wine sauce.

I’m usually skeptical of anything too buttery, it’s usually too rich for me to enjoy.

But this sauce was light, almost clear. The tuna was cooked rare and soaked up the flavor to yield a combined mild and sharp flavor. The swordfish took up the flavors as well, but there was no denying its signature sweet and hearty nature.

My friends ordered the Asian glazed salmon ($18) and the ribeye steak ($23).

Though I did not sample the steak, I can say that it’s a large portion that I would not have expected for the price, and its accompanying potatoes and green beans were delicious. The salmon was a huge steak of fish with even larger flavor.

Eating all of this good seafood brought me back to Canton; I could almost smell the Inner Harbor air with each bite. The chef who created the menu, Andrew Bush (no relation to the owners), attended culinary school in Rhode Island and traveled around the world, training and honing his craft.

As we descended the stairs to the exit, the bar area was filled with folks reuniting with friends and family from out of town.

Whether you’re from the coast and want a taste of home or an inlander and like a good meal reminiscent of a seaside wharf, Union Tavern is a good bet. On top of that, it’s a great place to get together with family, related or not.

Chris Thompson is a freelance writer for CITY. Feedback on this article can be directed to becca@rochester-citynews.com. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 13

Upcoming

Music

[ ALT-COUNTRY ] Rhett Miller Tuesday, February 4.

Abilene Bar & Lounge. 153 Liberty Pole Way. $25 advance, $30 day of show. 8 p.m. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com; rhettmiller.com. [ NERDCORE/HIP-HOP ] MC Lars, Schäffer the Darklord Wednesday, February 26. Bug Jar. 219 Monroe Avenue. $15. Ages 18 and over. 9 p.m. 454-2966. bugjar.com; mclars.com; schafferthedarklord.com.

Laveda

FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $8 | AGES 18 AND OVER | BUGJAR.COM FACEBOOK.COM/LAVEDAMUSIC [ INDIE POP ] Laveda is the unassuming, Albany-based duo of Jake Brooks and Ali Genevich. And though their music is drenched in dreamy digital textures and silky pop production, you won’t want to sleep on this band. The sound has its share of lo-fi and shoegaze elements, but the result is always intentional, polished and filled with momentum. Laveda will be playing an official showcase at SXSW Music Festival this March in Austin, in advance of its forthcoming album “What Happens After,” to be released in late April via the label Color Station. For fans of retro80’s aesthetics mixed with danceable but moody powerpop.

Catch Laveda before these folks break out. Free Casino, Charit Way, and Stupid November are also on the bill.

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Joe Kaplan THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 THE DAILY REFRESHER, 293 ALEXANDER STREET 7 P.M. | FREE | THEDAILYREFRESHER.COM [ SINGER-SONGWRITER ] Joe Kaplan is best known

around these parts as the guitarist for the reggae-rock outfit Personal Blend, and as the frontman for the folk-leaning reggae band The Forest Dwellers. But on Thursday, he’ll be playing solo as part of the singer-songwriter showcase series at The Daily Refresher. In this more intimate acoustic context, Kaplan’s crafty guitar work and melodious roots reggae vocal affectation get even more of the spotlight.

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ACOUSTIC/FOLK Jackson Cavalier. 80W, 7 Lawrence St. 730-4046. 7 p.m.

Justice Choir ROC Sing. Arnett Branch Library, 310 Arnett Blvd. 428-8214. Second Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m.

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Herb Heinz and the Turbines THURSDAY, JANUARY 9 THREE HEADS BREWING, 186 ATLANTIC AVENUE 8 P.M. | $5 | THREEHEADSBREWING.COM [ ROCK ] It’s hard to simply refer to an artist as “versatile,”

especially when there’s no foreseeable limit to that artist’s talent.

Take one Herb Heinz, for example. Whether he’s working as a guitar-playing sideman and backing up a musician such as singer-songwriter Teressa Wilcox, or playing straight-ahead rock ‘n ’roll, reggae, and other styles with his band, the Turbines, this unassuming guy mystifies to the core. Heinz can and does play everything, with a composer’s attention to detail and a matador’s bravado. Olé.

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[ AMERICANA ] When Buffalo musician Tyler Westcott comes

into Rochester, as he does regularly, there’s no telling which of his bands he’ll be bringing with him. But fans in the 585 will have plenty of options this month: the Django-inspired jazz quartet The Paper Roses, the bluesy roots music dynamo that is Folkfaces, and the old-timey hot swing outfit Banjo Juice Jazz Band, among them — during “A Very Hairy January,” Westcott’s weekly residency on Wednesdays at The Little Theatre Café. On January 15, Westcott’s Americana sextet The Observers play some warm, feel-good folk and bluegrass-tinged tunes that get the toes tappin’ in no time.

Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

8 p.m. $8.

Tyler Westcott & Friends. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

7 p.m. The Paper Roses.

POP/ROCK

Paul Strowe. B-Side, 5

Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 6 p.m.

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

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15 THE LITTLE THEATRE CAFÉ, 240 EAST AVENUE 7 P.M. | FREE; DONATIONS SUGGESTED | THELITTLE.ORG/MUSIC ARTISTECARD.COM/THEOBSERVERS

AMERICANA

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The Observers

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Nod’s first release way back in 1992, simply titled “Nod,” is a got-damn classic of delirious dissonance. And it’s now available on Spotify and other streaming platforms. Catching Nod live is a bit of a gamble: You don’t know whether you’ll catch the genius of Scrappy Joe (guitar, vocals), Tim Poland (bass), and Brian Shafer (drums), or a band on a bad day. Sometimes, it’s a little bit of both.

It’s the same for the band’s recorded output.

You roll the dice and drop the needle and dig the vibe of one of this city’s greatest bands. Or at the very least, you can freak out your neighbors. The songs, like the Iggy Pop-infused “Summertime” or the driving, disjointed “We Didn’t Meet,” however, are brilliant and withstand the quasi-sabotage that Nod employs.

Jeff Riales & Friends. Abilene,

Do you like Tool? Do you dig abstract time signatures that serve the chaos appropriately?

Do you like heavy bands that are heavy with a purpose, and aren’t just there as a soundtrack to a botched autopsy? Rochester’s CHRMR keeps it dark and dirty throughout the eight powerful tracks on its latest release, “Warbirds.”

It’s a plunge into grunge that isn’t necessarily overwrought, but pretty f****ng emotional at the same time. Amidst the album’s total crash and bang, CHRMR weaves a velvety and heavy tapestry that varies from song to song. “Victoria” sounds like it was recorded underwater, while “Deep Fade Event” is just that — an apocalyptic event. CHRMR includes members of Sulaco, Old Boy, Low Ton, and Bughouse. There’s a lot of heavy here in the 585.

Oughta make for one hell of a cage match.

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BLUES

Roots & Blues Night. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 7 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Annual Russian Friendship Concert. Kilbourn Hall, 26

Gibbs St. 274-1000. 7:30 p.m.

Eastman at Washington Square Lunchtime Concert.

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

12:15-12:45 p.m. ECMS Faculty Showcase.

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Ska brother number one Friday night was some night for Some Ska Band at Flour City Station. The band, numbering virtually in the teens, nearly exceeded the parameters of the stage with its crushing groove. As a musical style, ska has its limits. Sometimes there’s not enough subtlety perpetrated by its purveyors...but sometimes there is.

Some Ska Band plays like the Harlem Globetrotters being introduced to flubber: It’s bouncy, it’s jazzy, and at the same time, a little snotty. What sews it up for me is originality. And Some Ska Band rocks the original compositions with maximum booty-shake appeal. But they ain’t too stuck up that they won’t touch stuff by The Specials, The Clash, and Madness, as they did with manic bursts of excitement and brass. Speaking of brass, to the delight of fans, the band has amped up its horn section, led by ska brother number one, Charles Benoit. Get some.

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

Rochester composer David Temperley combines rock music influences with classical mannerisms.

PHOTO BY MAYA TEMPERLEY

Having it both ways HEAR HIS MUSIC AT DAVIDTEMPERLEY.COM [ FEATURE ] BY MONA SEGHATOLESLAMI

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A heavy electric guitar riff is answered by a group of string players with a more classical-sounding set of phrases. The riff then develops in a manner you might expect from a composer of Mozart or Beethoven’s time — if they had grown up listening to Led Zeppelin and The Supremes.

A cello plays a melody that gradually ascends, and the piano supports it with chords — giving it a feeling at turns hopeful

and bittersweet, evoking a country waltz or a pop ballad.

As in these two musical moments from his guitar quintet and his second cello sonata, David Temperley composes tuneful, expressive pieces in a classical mold. But he also draws on influences from the popular music he grew up listening to on the radio.

These inspirations included disco, The Rolling Stones, James Taylor, and The Police.

Each piece that he writes normally starts with an idea that sneaks up on him when he is doing something else. “I’m in the shower or I’m driving to work or doing the dishes, and something will come into my head that I

really like,” Temperley says, “and that will be the motivation to write a piece.”

Temperley’s wide-ranging musical background helps shape these ideas. He remembers that when he was growing up in Central Illinois, classical music “always seemed like a living thing.” His father, a musicologist and amateur pianist, would have people over to play chamber music in their home.

David started listening to rock music when he was 12 as a way to seem cool, but soon discovered that he really liked the music. He has fond memories of hearing an eclectic mix of music on WLS, a Top 40 AM radio station out of Chicago. He played piano, had a brief stint as a keyboard player in a rock band and started writing songs, but decided to study history in college instead. Then he moved to New York City, where he worked as a pianist for ballet classes.

“And in ballet,” Temperley says, “they really want you to play very pretty classical-sounding music, and it’s all got to be 16-measure chunks.

Very rhythmically square chunks.”

He soon got tired of what he describes as “playing existing music,” and decided that he would improvise everything that he would play, while still staying within the lines so that it fit the dance class. He challenged himself: “You’ve got to play something classicalsounding that’s 32 measures long. How are you going to make it interesting?”

Temperley developed his compositional style while working out the answers to that question, working elements of popular music into the classical forms and “gently pushing at the boundaries of the style,” he says.

He decided he wanted to do more with music than bang out accompaniments for ballet classes, and write more music beyond his dance class experiments. He went back to school to study composition at Columbia University. He knew what sort of music he wanted to write, but he found that didn’t fit in with what his teachers expected. “I think they all thought I was kinda weird,” he says. “And I was…in that context.”

Temperley says that in academic circles, creating compositions that are new, different, and mold-breaking is a priority. “I think there are original things about my music, but they’re rather subtle,” he says. “I might use a progression in a different way than a classical composer would, or do something different with form or phrase structure, but it’s not something I could point to as a radical innovation.”

In the realm of “serious composition,” Temperley experienced pushback, causing him to rethink the idea of choosing the career of an

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Herb Heins & The Turbines.

Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 7 p.m. $5.

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

The Dean’s List. Iron Smoke Distillery, 111 Parce Ave Suite 5b. Fairport. 8:30 p.m. $5.

DriVen. Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta.

334-3030. 9 p.m.

Hey Mabel. Johnny’s Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. 8:30 p.m.

Kids In The Basement.

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

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Laveda, Free Casino, Charit Way, Stupid November. Bug Jar,

JAZZ

Mark Kellogg Quartet. Little Café,

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

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

academic composer. So he switched to music theory, the study of how music works: melody, rhythm, harmony, phrases, structure, and form.

Success followed.

He has written extensively about music theory, language, and cognitive science. These pursuits brought him to Rochester. David Temperley has been a professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music for the past 20 years.

His research still draws on his shared love of classical and pop music. His third and most recent book is “The Musical Language of Rock.”

“There hasn’t been a lot of theory of rock,” he says in summary. “There have been a lot of analyses, but there isn’t a sort of consensus about the basic principles of how the styles work, as in classical music.”

While Temperley acknowledges that many rock musicians and songwriters don’t have a background in music theory, he says that his writings detail how their music is structured, even if they are doing it subconsciously.

Writing his own music remained important to Temperley, but he mostly put it on hold for about 12 years as he was building his career as a music theorist: teaching, researching, and publishing articles and books. Now, that Temperley is more established and tenured, he has felt free to take more time for composing.

His vision has held true. The music he is writing now is in a similar style to what set him apart as a student: tuneful, well-constructed classical chamber music with elements of pop and rock interwoven throughout.

Recent compositions include a sonata for clarinet and piano, which he premiered at an “Eastman at Washington Square” concert with clarinetist Andrew Brown last year, and a horn sonata written for W. Peter Kurau. He’s also performed his songs as part of the Rochester Fringe Festival, and he’s planning a concert this fall with composer and Nazareth College professor Octavio Vazquez.

“My style hadn’t changed,” Temperley says.

“And I still wanted to write the same kind of music that I had been writing in the old days.

Whether that means I am stubborn or incapable of evolving — or have a very constant aesthetic vision — I don’t know. You could look at it in both ways.”

Mona Seghatoleslami is an announcer/producer for WXXI Classical 91.5. You can reach her at classical@wxxi.org.

POP/ROCK

Earthtones. Iron Smoke Distillery,

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Big Blue House. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

5:30 p.m.

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

Patrick Glantz. Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603.

7 p.m.

Shawn Thompson. Boulder Coffee, 100 Alexander St. 4547140. 7 p.m.

Teagan & The Tweeds. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $5.

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

BLUES

Mike “Cotton Toe” Scrivens.

Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 4-7 p.m.

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

COUNTRY

Shades Of Grey. B-Side, 5

Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3153003. 8 p.m.

What About Jane. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

9 p.m. $5.

DJ/ELECTRONIC

AlienFam: Roaring 20’s Party.

Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 8 p.m. $10.

JAZZ

Chris Potter Jazz Trio. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s, 1675

Penfield Rd. 385-9202. 7:30 p.m.

JAM BAND

Dead Night: Genesee Ted.

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

POP/ROCK

Alex Goettel. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003.

5-7 p.m.

219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

9 p.m. $8.

Police Cars. 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Rd. 247-0079.

8:30 p.m. Tribute to .. The Police & The Cars.

The Side Doors. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 10 p.m.

Doors music.

Uptown Groove. Sticky Lips, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. 9 p.m.

Winter Sizzler: Sophistafunk, Pine Needle Soul, Lespecial.

Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. 8 p.m. $18/night; $30/weekend.

REGGAE

The Buddhahood. Lux Lounge, 666 South Ave. 232-9030. lux666.com. 9 p.m. $5.

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JAZZ | LEVIN BROTHERS

After studying at Eastman School of Music, bassist Tony Levin was enlisted by Chuck Mangione. But that was just the beginning of a career that would include work with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, John Lennon, Pink Floyd, and many other top artists. Meanwhile, Tony’s brother Pete Levin was playing various keyboards with stars such as Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Jaco Pastorius and Paul Simon. Between them, the two brothers have recorded hundreds of albums with others, but it wasn’t until a few years ago that they released their first album together. At Lovin’ Cup, they’ll be joined by drummer Jeff Siegel and guitarist Jeff Ciampa.

The Levin Brothers play Saturday, January 11, 8 p.m. at Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Drive. $20 advance, $25 day of show.

292-9940. lovincup.com; thelevinbrothers.com.

— BY RON NETSKY

Celtic Soul. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080.

7 p.m.

VOCALS

If All Rochester Wrote the Same Song: “No One Will Ever Know”. Hochstein Performance

Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. rochestersongs.com. 7:30 p.m.

Rick Staropoli, host. $20.

[ SAT., JANUARY 11 ]

CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL

Concentus Women’s Chorus: Moon, Stars & Northern Lights.

Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, 597 East Ave. 244-6065. concentus.org. 7 p.m. $10/$15.

COUNTRY

METAL

Automb, Hubris, Dark City. Bug

Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

8 p.m. $10.

Murder In Rue Morgue, Ebony Sorrow, Inhumatus, Ire Clad, Spit Nickels, Ancient Crown, Machine Moon, God Astray.

State Line. Nashvilles, 4853 W

Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 6 p.m. $10.

JAZZ

Acoustic Brew. B-Side, 5

Henrietta Rd. Henrietta.

334-3030. 9 p.m.

POP/ROCK ACOUSTIC/FOLK Ethos Unplugged. The Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 4131125. 10 p.m.

George Scherer. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080.

7 p.m.

Buffalo Brass Machine. Abilene,

153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

9:30 p.m. $7.

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s, 1675

Penfield Rd. 385-9202. 7:30 p.m.

The Levin Brothers. Lovin’ Cup, BLUES

The Dave Riccioni Band. The Beer Hall Grill & Taps, 1517 Empire Blvd. Webster.

347-4450. 8 p.m.

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

CLASSICAL

ECMS General Recital. Eastman School of Music, Howard Hanson Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 3 p.m.

300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com.

8 p.m. $20/$25.

Paradigm Shift. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

HIP-HOP/RAP

Syndicate DJs: A Taste of Hip Hop. Photo City Improv, 543

Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 1-9 p.m. $10.

Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 8 p.m.

Animal Sounds. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $5.

ConArtist. Brickwood Grill, 250 Monroe Ave. 730-8230. brickwoodgrill.com. 9 p.m. $5.

Diggler’s Bridge. The Coach Sports Bar, 19 W Main St. Webster. 872-2910. 9 p.m. $5.

Don Christiano & Walt O’Brien: The Beatles Unplugged. B-Side,

5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 5-7 p.m.

Mr. Mustard. Johnny’s Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. 8:30 p.m.

Northside Johnny. Iron Smoke Distillery, 111 Parce Ave Suite 5b.

Fairport. 8:30 p.m. $5.

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

rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 17

Music

Jeff Riales (standing) shares his version of “No One Will Ever Know” with the house band for this year’s “If all Rochester Wrote the Same song” concert.

PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE

Same title, different songs [ COMMENTARY ] BY JEFF SPEVAK

January is Jeff Riales’s month. He’s in the midst of a month-long residency, every Thursday night at Abilene Bar & Lounge. And Friday night at Hochstein Performance Hall, he returns to the event that he inadvertently helped to create, “If All Rochester Wrote the Same Song.”

About a decade ago, local singer-songwriter Scott Regan, the host of the weekday morning show “Open Tunings” on WRUR-FM (88.5), was snooping around Riales’s basement. Relax, Regan had been invited; it was a party. And he couldn’t have picked a better basement. Regan found a notebook Riales keeps of song lyrics and ideas, and in particular, the line “Don’t Go Drinkin’ on an Empty Heart.” It was nothing — just a title for a song yet to be written, Riales said. Regan asked if he could give it a try.

Regan wrote the song. Other local songwriters picked up the title and wrote their own. “The next thing I know, there’s three people who’ve got the song written, and I haven’t finished mine yet,” Riales says.

Riales, Sarah Long Hendershot, Steve Piper, Sarah Eide and Kelly Izzo Shapiro are all local 18 CITY JANUARY 8 - 14, 2020

musicians who were on Evan Dawson’s WXXI talk show “Connections” last week, chatting about Friday’s fifth edition of “If All Rochester Wrote the Same Song.” Through the window that separates the studio from the room where I’ve been confined to an office cubicle, I could see their mouths moving. I turned on the radio so I could hear what they were saying. This was easy journalism pickings.

“I moved here because I felt the music scene fit me,” Eide was saying. She came to Rochester a year ago. “I need to live in a cheap place,” she chuckled, “that still has a thriving arts scene.”

The first version of “If All Rochester Wrote the Same Song” came together slowly.

But after those first three or so songs, that thriving arts scene that Eide was looking for kicked in. Hendershot, lead singer of the local band The Jane Mutiny, decided there were enough versions of “Don’t Go Drinkin’ on an Empty Heart” floating around to create a show. Twenty-six, in fact. It played to a packed Bernunzio Uptown Music during the Rochester Fringe Festival.

That was 2015. The next year was two sold-out nights at Bernunzio for “If All

Rochester Wrote the Same Song,” with local songwriters picking up the challenge of “You’ll Thank Me Later.”

Having outgrown Bernunzio, the next year the show moved to Hochstein Performance Hall for “How Did We Get Here?” Last year it was, “I’m a Fool for This Town.”

And this Friday, “No One Will Ever Know.”

Twenty-two songs, 21 performers. Kerry Regan, Scott’s brother, and who also plays in Watkins & the Rapiers, snuck in two songs.

They’re all voted in. The last few years, it’s been a four-person, anonymous panel voting on the entries. At an undisclosed location, of course. This year, it took the panel seven and a half hours to listen to every note of the 62 entries. And it wasn’t simply a matter of voting on the best. The judges were charged with creating a show that hit on multiple genres. Not too much country, not too much blues, not too much Joni Mitchell.

The announcement of the show’s title is what writers call a prompt. Prompts come in all shapes. As Eide notes, February is Album Writing Month, with songwriters challenged to write 14 songs. Very similar to November’s

NaNoWriMo, or “National Novel Writing Month.” Closely related to September’s TaYok92ThaDisco, or “Take Your Dog to the Disco.”

Hendershot figures the five editions of “If All Rochester Wrote the Same Song” have inspired 200 original songs, some of which have been recorded and released by Rochester musicians.

The versions by Riales and Eide are introspective, suggesting a deeply buried secret; Riales doesn’t even reveal the secret.

He’s allowed that privilege, but you can tell from the words that it’s honest, and real.

Words that often reflect his growing up in Memphis, the cars he’s owned, the chill of watching the National Guard come to his street during race riots, the secret to picking winning lottery numbers. Superb songs, free of clichés, in a voice that falls somewhere between Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings.

For my money — an inconsequential bet — Riales is the best songwriter in Rochester.

Some of these “No One Will Ever Know” compositions go in dark directions.

Yet Regan and Connie Deming wrote one that isn’t dark at all, but an appreciation of being alone with nature. Fred Vine’s is a swinging jazz number that brings to mind Kurt Elling. Richard Storms — co-owner of Record Archive — composed the “InA-Gadda-Da-Vida” of tangos, a sprawling narrative of anarchist Emma Goldman, complete with dancers.

Half of this year’s musicians are newcomers to the show. But they’re not new to songwriting. Kelly Marie teaches orchestra at The Harley School. She decided to write 100 songs in 2019. No. 73 was “No One Will Ever Know,” an ode to gas-station coffee that’s as challenging as one of Laurie Anderson’s experimental pieces. Another new face, Kelly Izzo Shapiro, began writing one every day while at college. She’s still at it, giving herself a little break here and there, but notes: “It’s good to keep the muscle warm.”

They’ll all start flexing on Friday, January 10, 7:30 p.m. at Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 North Plymouth Avenue. Tickets ($20), are available at Record Archive, Bop Shop Records, rochestersongs.com and brownpapertickets.com.

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

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

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

JAZZ

Sunday Gumbo: Steve Shay. The

Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. Second Sunday of every month, 6 p.m.

PSST. Trying to see more live music?

Of course you are. Our music calendar is here to help.

POP/ROCK

Bob Dietch: The Piano Bar. Out Alliance, 100 College Ave. 244-8640. Second Sunday of every month, 2-4 p.m. $5.

SEASONAL

Boar’s Head & Yule Log Festival.

Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St. 271-6513. 4 p.m.

PHOTO PROVIDED

CLASSICAL | WILLIAM WARFIELD SCHOLARSHIP CONCERT

One hundred years after William Warfield was born, the Rochester vocalist’s legacy is still spreading. “My uncle’s career as a singer was really because of the generosity of others,” William’s nephew and singer Thomas Warfield says. With that idea in mind, the William Warfield Scholarship Fund was created in 1977 to offer financial support for African American students to attend Eastman School of Music. With this auspicious centennial, the annual scholarship concert — and its continued goal of raising funds to further educational opportunities for musicians — has added import. This Sunday concert’s notable performers include the world-renowned soprano and Eastman alumnus Nicole Cabell, baritone Robert Sims, current scholarship recipient and tenor Jonathan Rhodes, and RPO trumpet player Herb Smith. Additionally, tenor George Shirley will receive the William Warfield Legacy Award, and Thomas Warfield will emcee the event.

The William Warfield 100th Birthday Celebration and Scholarship Fund Benefit Concert takes place Sunday, January 12, 3 p.m. at Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs Street. $25 in advance, $30 at door, $10 for students. 2473000. eastmantheatre.org; williamwarfield.org.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

[ MON., JANUARY 13 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Honest Folk: William Prince.

Good Luck, 50 Anderson Ave. 737-7446. 6 p.m. $25.

CLASSICAL

Pizzicatomus String Quartet.

Central Library, 115 South Ave. 428-8380. 5:30 p.m. 80’s-90’s pop covers.

POP/ROCK

The Lustre Kings, Mark Gamsjager. Record Archive, 33

1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210.

6 p.m.

WORLD

Forró Estrelas do Norte. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

7 p.m.

[ TUE., JANUARY 14 ] AMERICANA

Bluegrass Tuesdays. The Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 413-1125. 8 p.m.

Peg Leg Ida. Murph’s Irondequoit

Pub, 155 Pattonwood Dr. 342-6780. 9 p.m.

Shotgunn Wedding. Pineapple Jack’s, 485 Spencerport Rd. Gates. 247-5225. 9 p.m.

Something Else. Fairport Brewing Co., 1044 University Ave. 481-2237. 8 p.m. $5.

Uptown Groove. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 10 p.m.

Winter Sizzler: Dr. Fameus, The Emporium, Litz. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. 8 p.m. $18/night; $30/weekend.

SEASONAL

Boar’s Head & Yule Log Festival. Third Presbyterian

Church, 4 Meigs St. 271-6513.

4 p.m.

ECMS General Recital. Eastman

BLUES

School of Music, Howard Hanson Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 4:30 p.m.

Going for Baroque. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900. 1 & 3 p.m. Free with gallery admission.

Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima.

624-2080. 7 p.m.

Opera Guild of Rochester: Beat the Blahs. Temple B’rith Kodesh,

Tuesday Pipes.. Christ Church,

2131 Elmwood Ave. 385-6971. 1 p.m. “Don Pasquale,” introduced

by Carol Crocca. Screening & docent talk series. $10.

RPO: Mostly Mozart. Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. hochstein.org. 2 p.m. $30-$44.

William Warfield’s 100th Birthday Celebration. Kilbourn

Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000.

3 p.m. $10-$34.

[ SUN., JANUARY 12 ]

CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL

CLASSICAL Compline. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878.

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 28 Lincoln Ave. Pittsford. 586-0580.

3 p.m. $10/$15.

Concentus Women’s Chorus: Moon, Stars & Northern Lights.

Junior Watson & Dean Shot.

CLASSICAL 141 East Ave. 454-3878. 12:10 p.m. Lunchtime concerts by Eastman organists.

IN PRINT & ONLINE

JAZZ

Gray Quartet Jazz Sessions. The

Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 7:30 p.m. $5.

METAL

Metal Meltdown. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210.

Second Tuesday of every month, 5-9 p.m. Gates or Paradox.

/ MUSIC

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Art

An illustration showing what will be the new entrance to the Eastman Museum, which places the entrance’s visitor center and pavilion closer to the museum’s parking lot. PHOTO PROVIDED

Eastman Museum reveals ambitious renovation plans [ FEATURE ] BY JEFF SPEVAK

As a longtime Rochester resident facing a roomful of city and county movers and shakers, Thomas Tischer alluded to the piles of architectural renderings whose promise never sees the light of day.

“Beyond plans,” he said, sitting in the Dryden Theater Monday morning, “you want reality.”

And with that, ambitious plans were unveiled for the George Eastman Museum and its attendant Dryden Theatre. A shimmering glass entryway, a new visitor’s center, gift shop and café. Repairs to structures in the gardens.

Even the restoration of the windows in what had been the stable where Eastman kept his horses. That room, known as the Curtis Theatre until now, will become an education room and meeting hall. Eastman’s horses could never have imagined the new technology that will, with the 20 CITY JANUARY 8 - 14, 2020

flip of a switch, screen out the light from those windows when the room is in use.

The plans are unfolding into reality after last summer’s $1 million grant from the ESL Federal Credit Union, and $1 million from the New York State Council of the Arts, working with the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council. And another $1.5 million from Tischer.

“You may wonder,” Tischer said, “Who is this person?”

Indeed. Tischer moved here in 1961 to work as a research chemist for the Eastman Kodak Company. A longtime Greece resident, he retired in 1992, but kept his hand in photography by supporting a handful of the museum’s initiatives, including the longrunning “Wish You Were Here” photography lecture series. He is joined by a handful of other private and corporate sponsors of these Eastman Museum improvements.

collaboration,” said Monroe County Executive Adam Bello.

“We all know that these projects take a village,” said Mara Manus, executive director of the New York State Council of the Arts.

Rochester Deputy Mayor James Smith called such “secret sauce” collaborations one of the keys to “bringing in brilliant minds” from places such as Tischer’s native Wisconsin. Referring to the vast history of photography here, Smith called the Eastman museum, “an homage to all of the men and women in this community who made these pictures happen.”

The swarm of community leaders also included State Senator Joe Robach, Assemblyman Harry Bronson and Don Jeffries, president and CEO of visit Rochester.

The new glass and steel entryway — to be called the ESL Federal Credit Union Pavilion — will preserve the outside façade of what was once George Eastman’s garage.

This construction, as well as ongoing renovations to the colonnade and the glass windows overlooking the gardens, will affect the George Eastman Museum’s hours.

The museum will remain closed through January 30. The mansion itself is also closed, reopening on February 14 for the Dutch Connection floral show. The Dryden Theatre and café will be closed through June 3, reopening for the Nitrate Picture Show festival.

Future fundraising, Barnes said, could address plans such as an 18-foot by 60-foot outdoor screen that would accommodate the Kodak Colorama photos once displayed in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal.

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

Bruce Barnes recalled a conversation with Tischer in the museum’s café during the fall of 2012, just after Barnes had taken over as the museum’s director. Tischer was pushing for a more-welcoming entry to the museum than the current door, which is a long walk from the parking lot. Especially, as Barnes wryly noted, considering Rochester’s “occasionally inclement weather.”

The groundbreaking for George Eastman Museum’s renovation took place on “This is a Monday. The museum will be closed through January 30, the mansion will great example of reopen on February 14, and the Dryden Theatre and café will be closed through a public-private June 3. PHOTO PROVIDED

ART BY MOLLIE WOLF

PHOTO BY BECKETT WOOD

ART | MOLLIE WOLF ‘ART WORK THEN AND NOW’

SPECIAL EVENT | WINTER WARMTH SOUPER BOWL BENEFIT

City Hall’s Link Gallery is currently hosting “Art Work Then and Now,” a retrospective showcase of the work of Mollie Wolf. The Rochester based artist and educator taught for the Rochester City School District as well as the Memorial Art Gallery’s Creative Workshop, and with Young Audiences of Rochester.

Her work has been widely exhibited at various cultural and educational institutions around town as well as many national venues, and her portrait of Louise Slaughter was displayed in Slaughter’s congressional office in Washington during the congresswoman’s lifetime. Wolf was also instrumental in getting artwork installed on traffic utility boxes in Rochester, and has painted more than a dozen of them herself, along Art Walk in NOTA and in the North Winton and Susan B. Anthony neighborhoods. The exhibit at Link Gallery spans more than 60 years of Wolf’s work, and features a wide range of media, from painting to sculpture, felting, and jewelry.

Cat Clay’s annual empty bowl benefit, “Winter Warmth” is back this week, with 100 percent of the event’s proceeds going to Sanctuary House, which provides emergency shelter to Rochester women and children. For a donation of $20, visitors get to pick a hand-made bowl of their choice from more than 200 donated by Rochester artists, including Richard Aerni, Cathy Barry, Christin Bentley, Kelly Brenner Justice, Mike Carroll, Carolyn Dilcher-Stutz, Gayle Erwin, Andrew Foster, Hodaka Hasebe, Hailey Kenton, Anina Major, Eleanor Newton, and Beckett Wood. Complementary appetizers are also provided. Last year the event raised close to $4,000. The line fills up quickly for the popular fundraiser, so early arrival is recommended.

Continues through Monday, January 27, in Link Gallery at City Hall, 30 Church Street (second floor). Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free admission. cityofrochester.gov/linkgallery.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Arts & Performance Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] Davison Gallery, Cultural Life Center, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr. Schoenhal’s Symposium: Nery Gabriel Lemus. MondaysSaturdays. Reception Jan 23, 5-7pm. Through Feb 27.

594-6442.

Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. 244-1730. Eyeto-Eye. Mondays-Saturdays.

Reception Jan 10, 6-9pm.

Through Feb 29.

NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. rit.edu/ ntid/dyerarts. Nancy Rourke & David Call. Mondays-Saturdays.

Through Feb 22.

University Gallery, Booth Hall, RIT, 166 Lomb Memorial Dr. Susan Ferrari Rowley: Suspension vs Gallery.

Mondays-Fridays. Reception Jan 18, 4:30-6:30pm. Through Mar 7. 475-2866.

Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. vsw.org. Cecily Culver | Evening Album by Christine Elfman. Jan. 8-Feb. 2.

[ CONTINUING ] ART EXHIBITS 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Sheridan Vincent: Round & About Rochester. Through Jan. 19.

546-8400.

Anthony Mascioli Gallery, Central Library, 115 South Ave. Art of the Book. MondaysSaturdays. Through Feb 1.

428-8350.

Art Center of Rochester, 563 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. Chloe Smith & Kaitlin Roney: Nothing Ethereal About Her. Through Jan. 17. 435-4677.

ArtSpace36, 36 Main St. Canandaigua. Student Portfolio Show. Thursdays-Saturdays.

Through Jan 17. flcc.edu/ artspace36.

AsIs Gallery, Sage Art Center, 835 Wilson Blvd. The Backyard: Senior Works in Progress. Through Jan. 19.

Barnes & Noble, 3349 Monroe Ave. 15th Annual Genesee Valley Plein Air Painters Show.

Through Jan. 31. 586-6020.

Friday, January 10, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., at Cat Clay, Suite 242, Hungerford Building, 1115 East Main Street (take door 2, by the loading docks). Parking is available in the Hungerford lot, with overflow space in Greenovation’s lot just down the street.

414-5643; catclay.com.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Central Library, Local History & Genealogy Division, 115 South Ave. Everyday People: The Dinkle Family & Rochester’s African American Past.

Mondays-Fridays. Through Dec 30. 428-8370.

Cobblestone Arts Center, 1622 NY 332. Works by David Cowles. Mondays-Fridays.

398-0220.

Friendly Home’s Memorial Gallery, 3156 East Ave. Works

by Carol Schott & Niesdri Welsh. Through March 31.

789-3152.

Gallery at Kodak Center, 200 W Ridge Rd. The Power to Move Us: Celebrating Railfans, Rail Photographers, & Our Own Kodak Park Railroad History.

Mondays-Saturdays. Through Jan 31. 254-0181.

Gallery Q, 100 College Ave. HIV: Does it Really Matter?.

Mondays-Fridays. 244-8640.

Ganondagan State Historic Site, 7000 County Rd 41.

Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women: From the Time of Creation. TuesdaysSundays, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $3$8. ganondagan.org.

Geisel Gallery, 2nd Floor Rotunda, Legacy Tower, One Bausch & Lomb Place.

Victoria Savka: Not Your Average Menagerie. MondaysFridays. Through Jan 31. thegeiselgallery.com.

Go Art!, 201 E Main St. Batavia. goart.org. Members Challenge: Absence. Thursdays-Saturdays.

Through Mar 7.

Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. The Magic of Light 2020. TuesdaysSundays. Through Jan 26.

271-2540.

INeRT PReSS, 1115 East Main St. Max Beerbohm. Thursdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Through Mar 26.

482-0931.

International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Roberto Salas: Iced Orange. Through Jan. 31. 264-1440.

Link Gallery at City Hall, 30 Church St. Mollie Wolf: Art Work Then & Now. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Jan 27.

271-5920.

Little Café, 240 East Ave. Jono Peterson & Richard Harvey: Faces & Figures. Through Jan. 31. 258-0400.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900.

De’VIA: The Manifesto Comes of Age. Wednesdays-Sundays.

Through Feb 16. Tours Thursdays 6-7pm. $6-$15.; Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau. WednesdaysSundays. Through Jan 19. $6-$15.; Ja’Tovia Gary: Giverny I (NÉGRESSE IMPÉRIALE).

Through April 5.

Mendon 64, 1369 PittsMendon Rd. Mendon. Nils R. Caspersson: 20 Paintings, Winter ‘20. Through Feb. 2.

Reception Jan 21, 6-8pm.

433-9464.

Mill Art Center & Gallery, 61 N Main St. Honeoye Falls.

Annual Members Exhibition.

Wednesdays-Fridays. Through Jan 31. 624-7740.

MuCCC Gallery, 142 Atlantic Ave. Valerie Berner: Making the Scenes. Through Jan. 26. muccc.org/artgallery.

My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt Hope Ave. Mary Ann SawyerWade: This & That, Here & There. Through Jan. 19.

RIT City Art Space, 280 East Main St. R. Roger Remington: Formation. ThursdaysSundays. Through Jan 25.

Gallery talk Jan 24, 6pm. cityartspace.rit.edu.

Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. 29th Annual Members Exhibition | Earthen. Wednesdays-Sundays.

Through Jan 12. 461-2222.

UUU Art Collective, 153 State St. Muhammad Zaman: Repetitive Resilience.

Tuesdays-Sundays. Through Jan 14. 434-2223.

William Harris Gallery, 3rd Floor Gannett Hall, RIT. MFA Photography & Related Media Work Share. Mondays-Fridays.

475- 2716.

Williams Gallery at First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd. Katherine Weston: Before There Was Yonder.

Mondays-Fridays. Reception Jan 10, 5-7pm. Through Jan 13. 271-9070.

Williams-Insalaco Gallery 34 at FLCC, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Print Club of Rochester: 88th Annual Exhibition. Through Jan. 17. 785-1369.

Art Events

Call for Artists

Dance Events

[ WED., JANUARY 8 ] Make Some Noise!. Through May 1. Create Art 4 Good, 1115 E. Main St, Suite #203, Door #5 $10. 210-3161.

Politits Art Coalition: We Want As Much. Through Jan. 20. The Yards, 50-52 Public Market $15. attheyards.com.

Request for Proposals: Temporary Public Art Installations on East Ave. Through Jan. 31. Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. To commemorate major women’s rights anniversaries in 2020 461-2222.

[ SAT., JANUARY 11 ] Sirens & Stilettos: Jazz Age Burlesque. 9 p.m. Skylark Lounge, 40 South Union St $8$20. 270-8106.

[ FRI., JANUARY 10 ] Winter Warmth Souper Bowl Benefit. 5-7 p.m. Cat Clay, 1115 E. Main St, #242 All proceeds go to Sanctuary House $20 donation. catclay.com. [ SAT., JANUARY 11 ] Second Saturdays. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The Hungerford, 1115 E Main St. 469-8217 Second Saturday of every month, 3-6 p.m. Cornerstone Gallery, 8732 Main St., Honeoye. A variety of open venues in Honeoye Falls baierpottery.com. [ MON., JANUARY 13 ] Museum Mondays for Seniors: Butterfly Garden Experience. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $10. 263-2700.

Comedy [ THU., JANUARY 9 ] Jimmie Walker. 7:30 p.m.

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

426-6339. [ FRI., JANUARY 10 ] Sky Sands. 8 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $15. 426-6339. [ SAT., JANUARY 11 ] Jim Gaffigan. 8 p.m. Blue Cross Arena, One War Memorial Sq $53 & up. bluecrossarena.com.

Polite Ink: Seven Year Twitch.

7:30 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave $8-$15. muccc.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 12 ] Comedy Cocoon. 7 p.m. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. [ MON., JANUARY 13 ] 585 Viral Open Mic. 7:30 p.m.

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

Comedy Open Mic. 8 p.m.

Boulder Coffee, 100 Alexander St. 454-7140. [ TUE., JANUARY 14 ] Hidden Talents. 9 p.m. The Hideaway, 197 Park Ave. $10.

434-0511.

[ TUE., JANUARY 14 ] Dancing with the Stars Live.

8 p.m. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. $49.50-$125. rbtl.org. continues on page 22

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[ THU., JANUARY 9 ] January City Walk. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Village Gate Square, 274 N. Goodman St. Ages 21+.

Registration required $12. rochesteralist.com. [ FRI., JANUARY 10 ] Owl Prowl. 6 p.m. Sterling Nature Center, 15380 Jenzvold Rd (315) 947-6143.

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SPECIAL EVENT | SOBER BAR CRAWL

THEATER | ‘STUPID F***ING BIRD’

Let’s face it: sobriety is not necessarily what comes to mind when the East End is mentioned. But this Friday night, a number of venues in the nightlife district are coming together to co-host a Sober Bar Crawl, featuring specialty mocktails, food specials, discounted games, entertainment, swag, and no hangover. Participating venues are Rochester Contemporary Arts Center (RoCo), RIOT ROOM, Locals Only, POP ROC, Axes & Ales, Brass Bar, and POP UP by Faux Bar & Guild. Each space has agreed not to serve alcohol for the hour the crawl is present. Participants will receive a free drink ticket and custom t-shirt printed that night, and the evening wraps with a comedy show. Whether you’ve resolved to leave booze in 2019 or just want to take a break, sign up for the event (only 75 tickets are available, and only wristband holders can participate in the crawl). Peer advocates will be available all night.

Back in October, The College at Brockport’s Department of Theatre and Music kicked off its 2019-2020 theatrical season with “Stupid F***ing Bird” by Aaron Posner, a 2013 play based loosely on Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull.” Posner’s critically-acclaimed play is set in modern times, and LA Weekly called it “the most authentic, self-aware, playful... world-wise adaptation of Chekhov.” Provided info states that the show’s themes include “life’s age-old contradictions: Old vs. New. Old vs. Young. Truth vs. Fiction. Show-biz vs. Reality. Parents vs.

Children. Life vs. Death. And, of course, all-caps LOVE. All the while learning about LIFE, how to remain connected, and the passage of time.” Brockport’s production has been chosen to represent the College at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Region II). But before the show hits the road, local audiences have another chance to check it out, as the department will present the play once more in a free performance this coming week.

Friday, January 10, 6 p.m. to midnight. Various venues in the East End. 18+, photo ID required. $20, registration required. supercityrochester.com; eventbrite.com.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Theater The Scavengers Daughter.

Through Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m.

MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave $15/$18. muccc.org.

Slow Food. Tue., Jan. 14, 7:30 p.m. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd $25-$71. gevatheatre.org.

Stupid F***ing Bird. Mon., Jan. 13, 2 p.m. Tower Fine Arts Center, 180 Holley St Brockport 395-2496.

Theater Audition [ MON., JANUARY 13 ] Chez Wellington: An Evening of One Acts. 6 p.m. Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh St. Everyone’s Theatre Company 727-1373.

Activism [ THU., JANUARY 9 ] Rally: Peace in the Middle East. 4 p.m. Rochester Federal Office Building, 100 State St.

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[ SAT., JANUARY 11 ] Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/Serve Food. 3:30-6 p.m. St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality, 402 South Ave. 232-3262. [ MON., JANUARY 13 ] ColorBrightonGreen: Solar Energy Panel Discussion. 6:30 p.m. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 784-5310.

Kids Events [ WED., JANUARY 8 ] Book & Beast. 11 a.m Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St 336-7200.

DC Super Heroes: Discover Your Superpowers. Through Jan. 19. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $16.

263-2700.

Wildlife Action Crew: Elephants & Poaching. 6-8 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Ages 13-18 $45/$50. 336-7213. [ THU., JANUARY 9 ] Read With a Furry Friend!. 6 p.m. Gates Public Library, 902 Elmgrove Rd. 247-6446.

Monday, January 13, 2 p.m. Tower Mainstage, The College at Brockport, 350 New Campus Drive, Brockport. Free. 3952787; fineartstix.brockport.edu.

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[ FRI., JANUARY 10 ] KinderZoo: Animal ABC’s.

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

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

Preschool Dance Party. 10 a.m. Gates Public Library, 902 Elmgrove Rd. 247-6446. [ SAT., JANUARY 11 ] ASL Storytime. 11 a.m.

Irondequoit Library, 1290 Titus Ave Ages 1-5 336-6062.

Believe in Unicorns. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $16.

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Iron Chef. 1:30 p.m. Gates Public Library, 902 Elmgrove Rd. Ages 8-18 247-6446.

Tail Waggin’ Tutors. 11 a.m.

Winton Branch Library, 611 N Winton Rd. 428-8204. [ SUN., JANUARY 12 ] 2nd Sunday Storytime. Second Sunday of every month, 2 p.m. Theme: MLK. The Avenue Blackbox Theatre, 780 Joseph Ave.

Budding Signers Storytime. 1:30 p.m. Irondequoit Library, 1290 Titus Ave 336-6062.

Sensory-Friendly Sunday. 9 a.m.-noon. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $11/$16. 263-2700. [ MON., JANUARY 13 ] Storytime Club. Winter Wonderland. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. w/ museum admission: $16. 263-2700.

Teen Escape Room. 4 p.m.

Irondequoit Library, 1290 Titus Ave 336-6062. [ TUE., JANUARY 14 ] Teen Tuesdays. 2:30-4 p.m Penfield Public Library, 1985 Baird Rd. 340-8720.

Recreation [ WED., JANUARY 8 ] Outdoor Ice Skating. Through March 15. MLK Jr. Memorial Park, 1 Manhattan Sq. $2-$10.

[ SAT., JANUARY 11 ] Beginner Birder Trip: Irondequoit Bay, Lakeshore, & Genesee River Outlet. 8-11 a.m.

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Family Outdoor Time: Climate Watch. 2-4 p.m. Montezuma Audubon Center, 2295 State Rt. 89 . Savannah Registration required $5-$7, or $15-$20/ family. (315) 365-3580.

Winter Weekend Wild Walks. 11 a.m Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. $7. rmsc.org. [ SUN., JANUARY 12 ] Winterfest. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Mendon Ponds Park, Route 65.

Mendon monroecounty.gov/ parks-winterfest.

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Nature of Montezuma Lecture Series: The History of Howland’s Island. 10 a.m. Montezuma Audubon Center, 2295 State Rt. 89 . Savannah $5/$10.

(315) 365-3580. [ SUN., JANUARY 12 ] Sunday Forum. 9:50-10:50 a.m. Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh St. Exploring Gender & Spirituality, Part 2: Acceptance, Pride, Synthesis 325-4000. [ TUE., JANUARY 14 ] History of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. 7 p.m. Greece Public Library, 2 Vince Tofany Blvd. 225-3760.

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Before Your Quiet Eyes, 439 Monroe Ave. 563-7851.

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10 a.m.-3 p.m. Webster Columbus Center, 70 Barrett Dr. 872-6090.

[ THU., JANUARY 9 ] Pure Kona Poetry Series. Every 7 days, 7-9 p.m. Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603.

[ MON., JANUARY 13 ] This Old House 40th Anniversary Celebration. 6:30 p.m.

Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. $30 $ up. hochstein.org.

[ SAT., JANUARY 11 ] Kathleen Blasi: Hosea Plays On. 9 a.m.-noon. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St Book launch 637-2260.

Workshops [ WED., JANUARY 8 ] 2020 Vision Workshop: Set Your Sights for an Extraordinary Year.

3-5 p.m. ONE Wellness Center, 2349 Monroe Ave, 2nd Floor 645-4221.

Fun with Mindfulness & Meditation. 6:30 p.m. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 784-5310. [ MON., JANUARY 13 ] Recharge Your Creativity. 6:308 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 3349 Monroe Ave. 586-6020. [ TUE., JANUARY 14 ] Networking Done Right at 50+: A Workshop for the Shy & Reluctant. 10 a.m.-noon.

Fairport Library, 1 Village Landing 223-9091.

Culture Lectures [ THU., JANUARY 9 ] Paranormal Investigation & Haunted Rochester. 6 p.m.

Nox, 302 N Goodman St $22.

318-2713. [ FRI., JANUARY 10 ] Dick Lawrence: Walking the Camino De Santiago. 11 a.m. Irondequoit Library, 1290 Titus Ave Registration required 336-6062.

[ SUN., JANUARY 12 ] The Beatles, The Bible & Manson: Reflecting Back with 50 Years’ Perspective. 2:30 p.m. Penfield Public Library, 1985 Baird Rd. Book talk & signing with authors Tim & Deb Smith 340-8720.

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Speak Easy Birthday Party. 1-3 p.m. Cheshire, 647 South Ave. $7. 205-8529. [ TUE., JANUARY 14 ] Genesee Reading Series: Rachel Hall & Sonja Livingston. 7:30 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave wab.org.

Iron Book Discussion Group.

7 p.m. Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Astrophysics for People in a Hurry” Irondequoit Library, 1290 Titus Ave 336-6062.

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George MacKay in “1917.” PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSAL PICTURES

Along for the ride “1917” (R), DIRECTED BY SAM MENDES OPENS FRIDAY, JANUARY 10 [ PREVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

Back in October of last year, director Martin Scorsese faced some backlash following an interview with Empire Magazine in which he expressed the opinion that the massively popular superheroes movies put out by Marvel Studios aren’t, by his definition, true “cinema.” He went on to praise the skill with which those films are made, but stated that he feels they are closer to theme parks than actual movies.

I thought of his comments while watching “1917,” the new World War I epic from director Sam Mendes (“Skyfall”). The movie is an astonishing feat of filmmaking: exciting, impeccably crafted, gorgeously shot, and well-performed by its cast. But in many ways it feels like the prestige picture equivalent of that thrill ride experience Scorsese was talking about.

George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman play Schofield and Blake, British lance corporals who are tasked with a

dangerous mission to cross into enemy territory. They’re sent to deliver a message to stop another battalion from walking straight into a deadly trap laid by the Germans, and hopefully prevent the deaths of 1,600 of their fellow soldiers — Blake’s own brother among them.

What sets “1917” apart from other, similar war epics is Mendes’ decision to shoot in a way that makes the entire film appear to be comprised of one single, unbroken shot.

Obviously that’s not really the case (the film’s made up of many shorter shots, digitally stitched together to create the impression that each is connected), but aside from one obvious break when a character loses consciousness and the screen briefly cuts to black, the effect is pretty seamless. Mendes’ direction, along with cinematography, blocking, choreography, and special effects, work together to create something jaw-dropping.

Much of the film unfolds in real time, building up the tension. The one-take technique creates a heightened immediacy and urgency to the action, and we’re right there with the two men for every step of their journey. Schofield and Blake’s race-againsttime mission leads us across the battlefields of Northern France, through bombed-out

villages, and down into the trenches. All the while, the men are forced to keep constantly moving forward in an attempt to stay one step ahead of death. It’s harrowingly visceral, immersing us in the men’s physical and existential terror.

Mendes doesn’t aim for gritty realism, and the film begins to take on a strangely dreamlike texture as it goes on. The script, cowritten by Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns, maintains an episodic structure. There’s a certain video game-like quality as well, with the men moving from one situation to the next, encountering mini-missions that require them to utilize different skills before they get to the next challenge. Unstick a transport vehicle from the mud, now deliver an item to one of the non-playable characters, now take out that sniper.

Brief cameos from a few recognizable faces (Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, and a memorable Andrew Scott among them) as significant but minor characters can be jarring, even though they deliver good performances.

Trauma and death become such a fact of life for these men that they’ve grown almost immune to the casual horrors they witness.

Climbing over the bodies of fallen soldiers is a

fact of survival; dead horses and corpses become just landmarks to determine location.

The cinematography of legendary director of photography Roger Deakins is often stunning, utilizing as much natural lighting as possible. Deakins finds a richness in the barren landscapes and creates some arresting images, like a journey through the rubble of a bombed out village, lit only by flames and flashes of artillery fire overhead. Thomas Newman’s score adds a ticking-clock suspense to the journey; you can hear the influence of Hans Zimmer’s work on Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” in the music.

“1917” succeeds in conveying the brutality and horror as well as the deep sorrow of war.

MacKay’s everyman performance — playing a young man plucked from obscurity to take on a heroic task — is particularly effective. But the script puts Schofield and Blake through so much, at a certain point it starts to undercut the film’s attempt to honor the bravery of ordinary soldiers by making the two men feel like something more.

There are times when the one-take gimmick does feel like just that. It creates a certain awareness in the viewer, and there are moments when I was taken out, wondering how the filmmakers achieved a particular shot instead of remaining fully invested in the story.

The technical skill it took to make “1917” is undeniably impressive and as a formal exercise, it’s impossible not to admire. But when it comes to that crucial emotional connection, it left me feeling stranded in no man’s land.

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

Film Listings Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. “Boss: The Black Experience in Business” Fri., Jan. 10, 7 p.m. $7 suggested. 563-2145.

Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. RPO: “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” Fri., Jan. 10, 7 p.m. and Sat., Jan. 11, 7 p.m. Live film accompaniment. $30-$126.

Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. “What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael” Tue., Jan. 14, 6:30 p.m. $4$9. thelittle.org.

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

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

purchase, inheritance, lien or inheritance, any right, title or interest in or to the real property described in the Complaint, ERNEST L. DOUGLAS, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF LORETTA CRUMITY A/K/A BETHLY L. DOUGLAS, TYNISA MCCULLOGH, AS HEIR TO THE ESTATE OF LORETTA CRUMITY A/K/A BETHLY L. DOUGLAS, MIDLAND FUNSING LLC, STONY CREEK APARTMENTS, GE MONEY BANK, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, and “JOHN DOE” and “JANE DOE”, the last two names being fictitious, said parties intended being tenants or occupants, if any, having or claiming an interest in, or lien upon the premises described in the complaint, Defendant(s). TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the plaintiff’s attorney(s) within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. J. Scott Odorisi, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Monroe County, granted on the 26th day of November, 2019, and filed with the Complaint and other papers in the office of the County Clerk of Monroe County.

THE OBJECT of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by LORETTA CRUMITY to WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. recorded on February 17, 2006 in Book 20302, Page 660, MTG# M# CW 038499, in the Office of the Clerk of the County of MONROE, which was thereafter modified by agreement dated March 31, 2008 creating a new modified principal amount of $88,618.69, which was then assigned by assignment executed April 23, 2014 to U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR SASCO MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-WF2 and recorded on April 25, 2014, in Book 1753, Page 602, covering premises known as 4181 Mount Read Blvd, Greece, NY 14616 AKA 4181 Mount Read Blvd, Rochester, NY 14616 (Section 60.09, Block 6 and Lot 11). ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Greece, County of Monroe and State of New York. To the above named Defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. There is due and owing to plaintiff the sum of $76,883.10, with interest thereon at 5.73100% per annum

adjusted from July 1, 2014. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above.

UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/ CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully.

You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and nonprofit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options,

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Legal Ads including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by New York State Department of Financial Services’ at 1-800-269-0990 or visit the Department’s website at http://www. dfs.ny.gov Rights and Obligations YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. You have the right to stay in your home during the foreclosure process.

You are not required to leave your home unless and until your property is sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale. Regardless of whether you choose to remain in your home, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY and pay property taxes in accordance with state and local law. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home.

There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Aldridge Pite, LLP. Attorneys for the Plaintiff, Fifteen Piedmont Center, 3575 Piedmont Road, N.E., Suite 500, Atlanta, GA 30305 Our File 117527471B [ NOTICE ] East Henrietta Plaza LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/27/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Law Office of Anthony A. Dinitto, LLC, 2250 West Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] G And W Realty Group LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 8/9/16. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom

process may be served & mail to 114 Birr St Rochester, NY 14613 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Gilletek LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/5/2019.

Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 707 Mendon Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Honest Properties LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 11/9/15. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 249 Cherry Creek Ln., Rochester, NY 14626.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Ingerson Stone Homestead, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/9/2019. Cty: Monroe.

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

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Little Button Craft LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/2/20. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 658 South Ave., Rochester, NY 14620.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] MEGHAN L. FOX, PSY.D., P.L.L.C. filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on June 5, 2019. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has

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To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com 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 1580 Elmwood Ave, Suite D, Rochester, NY 14620. The purpose of the Company is psychological services. [ NOTICE ] MGD Ventures, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/5/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 64 Commercial St., Suite 401, Rochester, NY 14614. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] MSZ PROPERTIES LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/5/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 919 Culver Road, Attn: Michael S. Zwas, Rochester, NY 14609.

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

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY DESIGNATED AS AGENT OF LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to 316 Valley Road, Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license, pending, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Liquor, Beer & Wine retail in a food and beverage operation under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at: 1891 Ridge Rd Webster, NY 14580 - On Premises Consumption Liquor License for Moma Lor’s Cafe Inc / dba Moma Lor’s Cafe [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of SMOOTH CHOICE, LLC (the “LLC”). Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of NY (SSNY) on 12/10/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom

process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 516 Locust Ln, East Rochester, NY 14445.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of R&M Properties of NY LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/21/2019; Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 7617 Fourth Section Road, Brockport, New York 14420. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 1343 Fairport Nine Mile Point Road, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/15.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1343 Fairport Nine Mile Road, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 5707 East Lake Road, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/12/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1 Grove St, Ste 200, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ANCHOR SECURE, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/17/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 58 WEST AVE., SPENCERPORT, NY 14559 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Brand 52 LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/23/19. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 135 Brannon Lane Webster NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of COLLERAN CONSULTING LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 09/03/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 4278 East Ave, Rochester NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Forest Ink LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/21/2019.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 471 N Goodman ST., Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of formation of KMB Investors, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/25/2019.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, P.O. Box 12551, Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of formation of Otis Creek Estate LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/8/2019.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o 12 Silent Meadows Dr, Spencerport, NY 14559.

Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Formation of ICON PRODUCTIONS LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/06/2019. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 16 Colonist Lane Rochester NY 14624 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of DIETRICH MANAGEMENT, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/26/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 45 White Village Dr., Rochester, NY 14625.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Digital Infrastructure, LLC (the “LLC”).

Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 1/25/19. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 780 Ridge Rd, Ste. 4, Webster, NY 14580. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of E&A HOTEL, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/5/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 762 Brooks Avenue, Rochester, NY 14619. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Ezekiel Properties LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/20/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 99 Orchard Street Webster, NY 14580 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

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[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of JDR Distributing LLC (the “LLC”). The LLC was formerly known as Digital Creative Distributing, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 1/28/19.

The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 780 Ridge Rd, Ste. 4, Webster, NY 14580. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JLD ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/30/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 111 Colby St., Rochester, NY 14610.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of KeySpoke Software LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/14/2019. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 620 Park Ave #328 Rochester NY 14607.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of LADS Properties LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/3/19.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the LLC, 486 Spring Water Lane, New Canaan, CT 068406009. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lucid Garden LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/29/2019. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1100 Pittsford Mendon Ctr Rd Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Mark M Hills Remodeling, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 1/25/19.

The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 780 Ridge Rd, Ste. 4, Webster, NY 14580. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of NATURE NEVER LIE LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/27/2019 Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 15 Henry Street, Rochester Ny 14605 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of RR Street Grill, LLC. Art.of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 12/9/2019.

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

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 67 Branchwood Lane, Rochester NY 14618.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Seven 5 Realty LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1219-19 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 629 WHISPERING PINES CIRCLE ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 14612.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sibley Mercantile OF MM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E 42nd St, 18th Fl, NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sibley Mercantile OZ LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/19.

Legal Ads Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E 42nd St, 18th Fl, NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ]

upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 734 Grand Avenue, Rochester NY 14609. The purpose of the Company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ]

Notice of Formation of Sibley Redevelopment 2 of MM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E 42nd St, 18th Fl, NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of TOP SHELF HOCKEY TRAINING, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) November 8, 2019. Office location: Monroe County. 10 Falcon Trail, Pittsford, N.Y. 14534/ SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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

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Notice of Formation of Sibley Redevelopment 2 OZ LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E 42nd St, 18th Fl, NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Wolf Development, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the NY Dept. of State on October 3, 2019. Office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served.

NYSS may mail a copy of process to the LLC at: 1643 Shallow Creek Trail, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of SITO’S SWEETS, LLC. Art.of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 12/9/2019.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 30 Rosemont Circle, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SK-NY Estates LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/17/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 12 Boulder Brook Ct, Belle Mead, NJ 08502. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Soulstainable Living LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Department of State on 09/20/2019. Its office is located in Monroe County. The United States Corporation Agents, Inc. has been designated as agent

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of 640 Fishers Road LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/19.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of DENALI ROI, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/22/19.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Arkansas (AR) on 04/24/17. Princ. office of LLC: 3308 Bernice Ave., Russellville, AR 72802. 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. Cert. of Form. filed with AR Secy. of State, Attn: Corporations, 500 Woodland Ave., Little Rock, AR 72201.

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

Arts. of Org. filed with NE Secy of State, P.O. Box 94608, Lincoln, NE 68509-4608. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Rose & Associates LLC. Fictitious name in NY State: Rose Surgical Products LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/19.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/26/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 401 Allens Creek Road, Rochester, NY 14618.

DE address of LLC: The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Ruff Mutts Grooming, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/25/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 204 Paddy Hill Dr, Rochester, NY 14616. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS IN TAX LIEN FORECLOSURE– SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF MONROE – TLF NATIONAL TAX LIEN TRUST 2017-1, Plaintiff, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF PHILIP R. MANDELL JR. Defendants. Index No. 008742/16. To the above-named Defendants –YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty days after service is completed if the summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county in which the property a lien upon which is being foreclosed is situated. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. J. Scott Odorisi, J.S.C., dated October 22, 2019, and entered on November 21, 2019. The object of this action is to foreclose a Tax Lien covering the premises located at Section 104.10, Block 1, Lot 35 on the Tax Map of MONROE County and also known as 27 Jordan Avenue, Rochester, New York. Dated: December 19, 2019 BRONSTER, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff, TLF NATIONAL TAX LIEN TRUST 2017-1 By: Yan Borodanski 156 West 56th Street, Suite 1801 New York, New York 10019 (347) 2464647 [ NOTICE ] TheChocolateCo And Bake Shop LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/20/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig.

as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1330 Drake Rd., Brockport, NY 14420. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Tokin Management, LLC. Authority filed SSNY on 11/25/2019 Monroe CO LLC formed Wyoming 10/18/2019 exists 30 N Gould St STE N. Sheridan, WY 82801 . SSNY design agent for process Et shall mail a copy of process to: 763 Linden Ave, Suite 2, Rochester, NY 14625 General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] TRACK ONE, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 5/6/2003. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 1800 Chase Square, Rochester, NY 14604. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Wraithmarked Creative, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/14/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 21 Goodway Dr Rochester, NY 14623 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Wyers Point, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/25/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Attn: Tricia L. Vantucci, 5 Ampor Beach, Hilton, NY 14468. General Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] EASTSIDE MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY, LLC filed Articles of Incorporation as a professional service LLC, with the New York Department of State on 11/05/19. 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 The LLC, 625 Panorama Trail, Rochester, NY 14625.

The purpose of the LLC is to provide Marriage & Family Therapy.

[ Notice of Formation ] Gryska Agencies, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 11/20/19 effective 1/1/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 1567 East Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14623.

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

Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of Formation of 1384 Bellagio LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/3/2019. Office location: Monroe County SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to principal business location: The LLC, 2851 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity [ Notice of Formation ] West General Contractors, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 1/13/10. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 37 Richmond St., Rochester, NY 14607.

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

Office of LLC: 498 Manitou Beach Rd., Hilton, NY. 14468; SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it

may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Princ. Office of LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PIERSALL CONSULTING LLC ]

[ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ]

Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 12/09/2019. Office in Monroe County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to PIERSALL CONSULTING LLC, C/O JEFFREY S. PIERSALL, 720 ADMIRALTY WAY, WEBSTER, NY 145803910. Purpose: any lawful activity.

The name of the LLC is Echem Tech LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 11/21/19. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 3 Fletcher Road Pittsford NY 14534. The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] 33-39 Ellicott St, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 12/10/2019 with an effective date of formation of 12/10/2019. Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served.

A copy of any process shall be mailed to 695 Howard Rd., Rochester, NY 14624.

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

Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County.

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

A copy of any process shall be mailed to 1755 Gloria Drive, Fairport, NY 14450. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law.

[ Notice of Intent to Acquire Property ] Under Article 5, Section 233.aa of the New York State Education Law, the Rochester Historical Society hereby asserts its intent to acquire title to the following property: Flags: Red Cross flag 8’x11’; US flag 45 stars 1896-1908 5’x8’; US flag 43 stars 6’x12’ 1890-1891; US flag 48 stars 8’x12’; US flag 38 star 18771890 18’x32’; nations of Europe circa 1914 32”x24” quantity 32; Spanish flag 8’x12’.

Clothing: Dress, silk circa 1840; woman’s jacket circa 1860; wedding dress, satin, circa 1865; Dress, silk circa 1865; dress, silk, circa 1870; dress, silk circa 1880; dress, velvet circa 1880; woman’s skirt velvet circa 1880; Woman’s skirt & bodice circa 1890 (6); woman’s skirt and bodice, velvet, circa 1890; woman’s dress, silk circa 1900 (3); Dress, cotton circa 1900 (5); Riding habit, wool circa 1900; dress, cotton circa 1910 (4); woman’s coat, silk 1910 (3); Bodice, velvet circa 1910; dress, silk circa 1910; skirt, cotton circa 1910; woman’s jacket, silk circa 1910 (2); smock, cotton circa 1970; Project Hope uniform circa 1970; cape, wool circa 1920; dress, satin circa 1920 (2); dress, silk circa 1920; dress, cotton circa 1960; overskirt, cotton circa 1900; dressing gown, cotton circa 1900 (2); petticoat, cotton circa 1900; slip, cotton circa 1900 (2); wedding dress, silk & satin circa 1910; child’s apron, cotton circa 1940; child’s slip circa 1880; child’s dress, wool circa 1840 (2); woman’s coat, wool circa 1890; woman’s jacket, cotton circa 1900; woman’s

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Legal Ads bodice, silk circa 1890; woman’s uniform circa 1940; child’s coat, wool circa 1940; child’s coat, cotton circa 1950; child’s dress, cotton circa 1900; man’s tux trousers, wool circa 1940 (2); man’s vest, silk & velvet circa 1900 (2); man’s jacket, satin circa 1913; man’s tux with tails, wool circa 1920; man’s tux with tails, wool circa 1960; man’s coat, wool circa 1960; winter overcoat, wool circa 1890; man’s tux with tails, wool circa 1900; man’s trousers, wool circa 1900; man’s formal jacket, wool circa 1960; dress, cotton circa 1960; bodice, wool circa 1916; cape, satin & lace circa 1890; Jacket, wool circa 1860; lace jacket, cotton circa 1900 (2); cape, silk circa 1890 (4); jacket, velvet circa 1890; evening coat, velvet circa 1930 (2); bodice, silk circa 1902; bodice, silk circa 1910; 2 piece waist, satin circa 1870 (2); 2 piece waist, velvet circa 1890; bodice & skirt, wool & velvet circa 1860; wedding dress, satin & lace circa 1940; 2 piece dress, satin circa 1880 (2); military pants, black; Army jacket and pants WWI, uniform, black; sailor suit, blue; British air raid jacket WWII; Objects: cradle circa 1860 L36” H 27.5” W 21”; Carpet bag 14”x20” circa 1860; Wooden bandbox circa 1826, blue with windmill design 19”l 15”w 12”h; hall tree, black iron H 73.5” w 26” d12”; Wicker child’s rocker H24” H24” w14.5”; hobby horse H25” w8” l27”; Rocking chair, black wood H32” L28” W17”; wooden baby carriage L39” W14” H26”; wooden animal carrier L32” W21” H28”; Pedestal table H15”, Dia 21”; library ladder chair H37” W18” D16”; round pedestal table, walnut, H27” D21”; Round pedestal table H25” dia.19”; Metal tub L32” W26” H28”; Desk, pine marked Lewis Platt Smith 1843-1872 L27” W23” H34”; Blanket chest, pine L36” W17” H34”; Table top mirror with drawers L19” W7.7” H20”; 2 bed warmers wood and brass L43” Dia.12”; Smith & Bros. typewriter L14” W14” H13”; Carved end table, oak initial ABD L18” w16” H32”; Stereoscope Alex Becker’s patent #890 L14” 1” H20”; Child’s piano L20”

W10” H10”; Gorham flatware chest initialed JMS L25” W18” H9”; melodeon L20” W11.5” H6.5”; Tabernacle mirror L33” W20”Mechanical drawing set with invoice London 1839 L17” W9” H5.5”; Pitcher and bowl set, ceramic green stripe L15” w8” H 15” & L17” w12” H8”; Compote, ceramic white, pierced L16” W10” H13”; Lamp shade, colored glass H8” Dia 16”; Cut glass vase H.20” Dia9”; black marble clock L9.5” W5.5” H9.5”; Wood black columned clock L9.5” W5” H18”; Picture viewer L6.5” W5” H5.5”; Urn, black and white H8.5” dia5.5”; Small child’s chair slit wood seat 23”H 14”W 11”D; Sewing machine, Wheeler & Wilson makers L16” W12” H13.5”; Ear trumpet L 13”, H4”; marble dog figurine L8” H5”; Mortar and pestle H8.5” Dia5.5”; wooden hay fork H66”; Reed and wood horn L95”; quiver and 10 arrows L27” W8”; wicker rug beater L28”; iron peel L36”; iron fire place hooks L28”; Wooden candle mold L19” W15” D6.5”; waffle iron L37”; Fireplace tongs and poker, silver color L30”; Top of pilaster L27.5” W8.5” H9”; Glass vase with silver feet and handles stamped Tiffany L12” W5” H9”; Wooden doll cradle L18” W16” H14”; wicker picnic basket set L12” W11” H7.5”; Clear glass vase with etchings L6.25” W4.5” H8”; Coffee urn silver plate patented 1866 H19” dia. 8”; McCoy aqua vase H9”; White Wedgewood cover tureen L14” W9” H8”; Hotel desk bell H5”; Images: Stereo views 7”x3.5” various subjects quantity 92; Daguerreotypes various sizes, anon men and women 69; ambrotype various sizes, anon men and women 30; Tin types various sizes anon men and women quantity 66; Chromolithograph anon children quantity 2; Photographs, USgeneral, unidentified people and places 1729; photographs, foreign unidentified places 102; cabinet cards unidentified people and places 204; carte de visite unidentified people 224; US post cards 271; cabinet cards of the 1889 Universele Exposition 1889; Foreign post cards 149;

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To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com holiday post cards 65; Reines Cathedral post cards 60; If you claim and can demonstrate ownership to this property, you must contact the society in writing to make arrangements to collect the property; send correspondence to William Keeler/Librarian Archivist, Rochester Historical Society, 121 Lincoln Ave., Rochester, NY 14611. If you fail to do so within one hundred eighty (180) days, the museum will commence proceedings to acquire title to the property. If you wish to commence legal proceedings to claim the property, you should consult an attorney. [ NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ] NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing pursuant to Article 18-A of the New York State General Municipal Law will be held by the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency d/b/a Imagine Monroe (the “Agency”) on Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 11:45 a.m., local time, at the Ebenezer Watts Conference Center, 49 S. Fitzhugh Street, Rochester, New York 14614, in connection with the following matter: BUCKINGHAM PROPERTIES LLC, a New York limited liability company for itself or a related entity formed or to be formed (collectively, the “Company”) has requested that the Agency assist with a certain Project (the “Project”), consisting of: (A) the acquisition of a leasehold interest in a portion of an approximately 2.12-acre parcel of land located at 1040 University Avenue in the City of Rochester, New York 14607 (the “Land”); (B) the renovation of an existing approximately 49,000 square foot building thereon including, but not limited to, roof work, replacement windows, renovation of common area and various other interior renovations (collectively, the “Improvements”); and (C) the acquisition and installation therein, thereon or thereabout of certain machinery, equipment and related personal property (the “Equipment” and, together with the Land and the Improvements, the “Facility”), to be subleased to Calero

Software, LLC (the “Tenant”) for use in its business as a communication software provider developing and marketing a range of communications lifecycle management software for telecom and wireless expense monitoring, unified communications, collaboration analytics, call accounting and reporting, and managed mobility services.

The Facility will be initially operated and/ or managed by the Company.

The Agency will acquire a leasehold interest in the Facility and lease the Facility back to the Company. The Company will operate the Facility during the term of the lease. At the end of the lease term the Agency’s leasehold interest will be terminated. The Agency contemplates that it will provide financial assistance (the “Financial Assistance”) to the Company in the form of sales and use tax exemptions consistent with the policies of the Agency, and a partial real property tax abatement.

The Agency will, at the above-stated time and place, present a copy of the Company’s Application (including the Benefit/Incentive analysis) and hear all persons with views in favor of or opposed to either the location or nature of the Facility, or the proposed financial assistance being contemplated by the Agency. In addition, at, or prior to, such hearing, interested parties may submit to the Agency written materials pertaining to such matters.

Dated: January 8, 2020. COUNTY OF MONROE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY D/B/A IMAGINE MONROE [ NOTICE] JLT OPERATIONS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/3/2019.

Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 140 Floral Dr., Rochester, NY 14617, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK – COUNTY OF MONROE INDEX

# E2019006716 FILED: 07/19/201 Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises are situated. NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING, Plaintiff(s), against SHANNON A. YOUNG, ESL FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to Plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendant(s). TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until sixty (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

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

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. SENDING

A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage dated June 01, 2005, executed by SHANNON A. YOUNG to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for HSBC Mortgage Corporation (USA) to secure the sum of $79,200.00 and recorded in Book 19702 of Mortgages at page 181, in the Office of the CLERK of the County of MONROE on June 01, 2005, which mortgage was assigned to NEW PENN FINANCIAL LLC DBA SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING N/K/A NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELLPOINT MORTGAGE SERVICING, by assignment of mortgage which was executed on October 17, 2018, covering premises known as 379 FRENCH ROAD, PITTSFORD, NY 14534 (Section 150.16, Block 1 and Lot 16).

ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in Town 64, Township 2, Range 4, Town of Pittsford, County of Monroe, State of New York. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. J. Scott Odorisi, JSC of the State of New York, and filed along with the supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Monroe on 12/18/2019. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. There is now due and owing from the Borrower to the Plaintiff, the principal sum of $56,583.55, plus interest thereon from October 01, 2018, in addition to those accumulated late charges and those recoverable monies advanced by Plaintiff and/or Plaintiff’s predecessor-in-interest on behalf of SHANNON A. YOUNG together with all costs, including but not limited to, attorneys’ fees, disbursements,

and further allowances provided pursuant to the underlying loan documents and applicable law in bringing any action to protect the Mortgagee’s interest in the Subject Property. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above.

UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/ CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and nonprofit organizations that you may contact for information about

possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at 1-800-269-0990 or visit the Department’s website at HTTP://WWW. DFS.NY.GOV. Rights and Obligations YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. You have the right to stay in your home during the foreclosure process. You are not required to leave your home unless and until your property is sold at auction pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale. Regardless of whether you choose to remain in your home, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY and pay property taxes in accordance with state and local law. FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home.

There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services.

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