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EDITOR'S NOTEBOOK | BY DAVID ANDREATTA

Wegmentia. Wegnesia.

Discomwegmanated.

It’s a Rochester thing.

Have you ever shopped at a Wegmans, gone through the check out, and exited the store only to be stopped in your tracks at the pumpkins or the firewood or (insert seasonal display here) on the patio by the thought: Where am I?

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Not, where did I park? But, where am I? As in, what Wegmans am I at?

It happened to me the other morning at the Wegmans on Route 31 in Perinton. I bought an egg sandwich and a bottle of orange juice on my way to work, walked out, and wondered, momentarily, why the Country Club Diner wasn’t across the street.

Until I walked out that door I could have sworn I was in the East Avenue Wegmans in Rochester.

This happens to me occasionally. Maybe a few times a year, about as often as one might experience déjà vu.

Indeed, these spells are somewhat like déjà vu in that they’re weird and fleeting. I pause briefly to bask in their strangeness, then move on. My surroundings feel simultaneously familiar and slightly off – reversed or inverted – like being in a Bizarro World.

After I left this world the other day, I shared my journey on Twitter. I asked if there was a term for this experience and speculated that I couldn’t be the only person in Rochester to encounter it.

Rochester is home to Wegmans and has the highest concentration of stores than anywhere else. Consider that there are 17 Wegmans in Rochester and its suburbs, and 18 in all of Pennsylvania. Given their proximity, chances are you’ve shopped at more than one. I shop at three regularly.

The response was validating. Hundreds of people “liked” my tweet and enough of them claimed to have had the same experience for me to conclude this is a bona fide “Rochester thing” – like Garbage Plates and the Red Wings and the Lilac Festival and, of course, Wegmans.

“I have experienced it many times!” “So true!”

“I’ve had this exact thing happen,” “Yes! 100! 100!

100!” “I’ve had this experience,” “OMG Yes,” “All the time,” were typical responses.

Many people described having the experience in the midst of a Wegmans shopping trip, rather than at the end of one, like me. The feeling typically comes upon them, they said, when they’re at what they called an “away” or “road” Wegmans, as opposed to their “home” Wegmans.

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Early voters say they liked it

The League of Women Voters of New York found overwhelming support for early voting in a survey of nearly 1,800 voters across the state.

New York allowed early voting for the first time this year; voters were able to cast ballots from October 26 through November 3. Monroe County had seven locations that brought in 13,892 early voters. Statewide, 256,000 voters took advantage of the program.

The League’s report sought to determine the success of early voting based on voter experience.

It surveyed 202 voters in the Finger Lakes region, a region that includes Monroe, Cayuga, Livingston, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben and Wayne counties. The vast majority of the respondents — 94 percent — said they would vote early again.

Of the local people surveyed, 96 percent said finding information about early voting was easy.

Print media was their top source of information about early voting.

Most of the Monroe County voters said it took them less than 15 minutes to cast their ballot.

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They also said that the polling places were easy to get to, with 9 percent reporting their polling place was not accessible by public transportation.

However, 3 percent reported they were unsure if it was accessible or not.

The survey report also detailed several snags in the program’s pilot run, from staffing issues to problems with the new electronic poll books.

One voter at the Culver Ridge Plaza polling place in Irondequoit said the new electronic poll book rejected their signature four separate times. Another voter at the Marketplace Mall location said two of the three printers were down, which caused a standstill in the line.

A third voter, this time at Monroe Community College’s Downtown campus, said two voters with the same address were issued ballots at the same time, causing the voting system to stall. It took poll workers 20 minutes to resolve the situation.

Across New York, 93 percent of respondents said they would participate in early voting, with 11 percent reporting complaints or concerns with the program.

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News CIVIL RIGHTS | BY JEREMY MOULE

Dozens of speakers blast harassment law

Roc/ACTS President Gayle Harrison speaks out against a county law that makes it a misdemeanor to intentionally “annoy, alarm or threaten the personal safety of” a first responder.

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Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo signed a law Monday to make intentionally annoying a police officer a crime over the objections of dozens of speakers at a public hearing.

Dinolfo didn’t attend the hearing in the legislative chambers of the County Office Building, where 36 speakers warned that the bill would divide police and civilians, was likely unconstitutional, and could set the county up for costly litigation down the road.

The county executive had been unwavering in her support for the legislation, which makes it illegal for a person to intentionally “annoy, alarm or threaten the personal safety of ” a police officer or other first responder.

“I certainly trust that the law will be applied as intended and I trust our law enforcement officers will do the right thing as they apply this law,” Dinolfo said earlier in the day, after lighting the county Christmas tree.

Republican legislators, who unanimously passed the bill, were also

absent from the hearing.

Local defense attorneys, civil liberties groups, social justice activists, defense attorneys, Democratic legislators, and community members see a law that has potential for abuse and that could undermine gains in police-community relations.

Several elected officials from outside of county government have also registered their objections.

The fight over the legislation won’t end with Dinolfo’s signature. Local defense attorneys have made it clear they will challenge it in court, and activists are already mobilizing to protest the measure.

“We will be shutting down every single County Legislature meeting that we can,” said Ashley Gantt, an activist and an organizer with the Genesee Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

Jeremy Moule is CITY’s news editor.

He can be reached at jmoule@rochestercitynews.com.

WXXI News reporter James Brown contributed to this story.

On Friday, Rochester-area students intend to walk out of their schools and join their peers across the U.S. and other countries in a strike protesting continued government inaction on the climate crisis.

The strikes will coincide with a UN climate conference in Madrid.

CLIMATE | BY JEREMY MOULE

Students plan climate strike The United Nations recently issued a bleak report on climate change that found countries have failed to halt the rise of greenhouse gas emissions, despite warnings from scientists.

The Emissions Gap Report, produced by the United Nations Environment Program, revealed that every single country that signed the 2016 Paris climate agreement has increased its emissions, instead of cutting them back, with China and the United States being the worst offenders.

As a result, the authors wrote, “deeper and faster cuts are now required.”

That is exactly the message that Rochester-area students will convey on December 6, when they intend to walk out of their schools and join a global climate strike, which coincides with a UN climate conference in Madrid. In a news release announcing the action, the students said the walkout would happen “in protest of continued government inaction on the climate crisis.”

Brighton will serve as the anchor of the strike. Students from the Brighton middle and high school — including members of the Brighton High School Climate Club — are slated to march to Twelve Corners at 3 p.m.

There, they’ll be joined by members of the following groups: Rochester Youth Climate

Leaders, New York Youth Climate Leaders, Webster Thomas Earth Club, Rochester Earth Guardians, Honeoye Falls-Lima Green Team, School of the Arts Green Crew, and McQuaid Climate Club.

The event is open to anyone concerned about climate change.

The young climate activists said they want to propel the momentum created by the global climate strikes in late September.

Rochester’s September 27 demonstration drew more than 1,000 people of all ages.

While the recent UN agency report paints a troubling picture about emissions, it also strikes a couple of notes of hope.

It points out that at the end of the UN secretary general’s climate action summit in September, 65 countries and “subnational economies” committed to achieving netzero emissions by 2050.

The Trump White House has been dismissive of climate change and hostile toward efforts that would reduce emissions.

Administration officials barely participated in the summit and President Donald Trump has moved to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement.

But New York state, which has an economy roughly the size of South Korea’s, passed laws requiring utilities to provide increasing amounts of renewable and carbon-

free power, and setting a target for the state to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

The UN report also mentions “encouraging developments” taking place.

One of them: “the political focus on the climate crisis is growing in several countries, with voters and protestors, particularly youth, making it clear that it is their number one issue.”

The Rochester-area Students played a major role in organizing the September 27 strike will be part of the Rochester Climate Strike, and many of the participants were December 6 U.S. National young people. PHOTO BY NEAL GANGULI Climate Strike, which have controlled the executive’s office is backed by a national, and the legislature rebuffed the call. student-run group, Sunrise Movement.

County Executive-elect Adam Bello, The organization launched in 2017 with a Democrat, embraced the idea of a the goal of building public support for climate action plan and made it part government action on climate change, of his campaign. Bello will be under and to organize public demonstrations. pressure to follow through on his It’s now trying to show politicians that proposal, under which he’d establish voters, including a new generation of a climate advisory board to help his them, see climate action as a priority. administration develop a plan touching Young climate activists from the on everything from county purchasing Rochester area have urged Monroe to land use and smart growth objectives.

County officials to develop a plan Jeremy Moule is CITY’s news editor. He can be for reducing countywide carbon reached at jmoule@rochester-citynews.com. emissions, though the Republicans that

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HIV stigma, misinformation prevalent among young Americans Nearly 40 years since the first cases of what became known as AIDS were reported in the United States, a new study reveals stigma toward HIV-positive people is widespread among Americans too young to remember the early days of the epidemic – and the public education campaigns around the disease.

More than a quarter of HIV-negative millennials have avoided hugging, talking to, or being friends with someone with the virus, and almost a third said they would prefer not to interact socially with someone with HIV, according to the study.

The study, sponsored by the pharmaceutical company Merck and the Prevention Access Campaign, surveyed nearly 1,600 Americans between the ages of 18 and 36.

Among members of so-called Generation Z, those respondents aged 18 to 22, the study found that 41 percent classified themselves as either “not at all” informed or “only somewhat” informed about HIV. Less than a quarter of millennials, 23 percent, felt the same.

The results may seem counterintuitive given the advances in HIV education and treatment over the decades, but

people working in the field were not surprised.

Cameron Kinker, a community engagement coordinator for the Prevention Access Campaign, said the distance between the youngest generations of adults and the height of the AIDS epidemic can provide a breeding ground for misinformation.

“I’ve been aware that a lot of this is in the ether, but actually having the data points will help us come up with new opportunities to educate people,” Kinker said.

Sam Jett, who works as a prevention navigator at Rochester’s Trillium Health, said stigma is generational.

“It gets passed down, and when you don’t actively counter it, it gets reestablished in every generation,” Jett said.

The number of new HIV cases in New York has fallen in recent years and leveled off nationwide at about 39,000 diagnoses annually after years of steady decline, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC reports the decline has plateaued because effective HIV prevention and treatment are not reaching those who could benefit from them most.

William Valenti, Trillium Health’s co-founder and current innovation chief.

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Between 2010 and 2016, according to the agency, the number of new HIV infections yearly decreased among people aged 13 to 24 and 45 to 54, but rose among people aged 25 to 34. The number of infections remained stable among people 33 to 44.

Peter Sklar, Merck’s director of clinical research, said many doctors need to be better at informing patients about HIV. “We have a lot of work to do to get clear messages out there,” Sklar said.

“We need to not just be telling people information but making sure we deliver it in a manner that sticks.”

William Valenti, Trillium Health’s co-founder and current innovation chief, said communication about HIV needs to meet people where they are.

“What we’re talking about is giving people information that is in bite-size pieces, and also in ways that resemble how people communicate. This is the era of the smartphone,” Valenti said.

“Hookup apps, meeting apps, dating apps - that’s how people communicate.

We have a large digital initiative that gives people HIV prevention information using dating apps.”

HIV can only be contracted by coming into direct contact with certain bodily fluids, like blood and semen, of a person with a detectable viral load, according to the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The virus cannot be spread through casual contact or saliva.

The viral load describes how much HIV is in the blood of a person

carrying the virus. If the viral load is undetectable, the virus cannot be transmitted. Carriers of the virus can usually maintain an undetectable viral load through a strict regimen of daily medication.

Valenti said one of the most important messages for people to hear is “U equals U”: Undetectable equals untransmittable. But, he added, taking medication correctly and consistently can be challenging.

“There’s more to taking medicine than my handing the patient a bottle of pills and saying ‘Come back in a month,’” he said. “There are social issues, such as mental health, housing, health insurance, employment issues, transportation, family issues - the kinds of things that determine whether a patient is able to stay on treatment as directed.

Part of Jett’s job at Trillium is working to keep patients on track - or to stop them from becoming patients in the first place. He said the continued stigma around HIV makes that difficult.

“Stigma around, like, HIV, or even, just, like, sex and sexual health in general, will keep people from seeking education, seeking services - a lot of times out of fear,” Jett said.

Brett Dahlberg is WXXI’s health reporter. WXXI is a media partner of CITY. Dahlberg can be reached at bdahlberg@wxxi.org.

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STUDENT UNREST OVER CHINA POLICIES SIMMERS ON CAMPUS 8 CITY

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U OF R BECOMES A BATTLEGROUND IN CHINA, HONG KONG FRICTION

BY EFUA AGYARE-KUMI

T

he dozens of students who gathered in a stretch of the University of Rochester’s elaborate tunnel system on a recent Sunday night wore all black, save for the blue surgical masks over their mouths.

They were in battle fatigues for the latest salvo in a series of conflicts on campus that had been simmering for months over opposing views on all things China – the Hong Kong protests, the status of Taiwan and Tibet, democracy, and human rights.

They came armed with paint, brushes, and rollers and executed their mission in relative silence, each targeting a patch of concrete wall in the tunnel spanning hundreds of feet under the Eastman Quadrangle in the center of campus.

Painting the tunnel has been part of campus culture for nearly 50 years.

Student groups mostly put brush to wall to advertise upcoming events. But every so often, the tunnel becomes a battleground for political discourse.

Four days earlier, a group of unidentified students covered nearly the entire tunnel with colorful messages supporting the Hong Kong protests, backing autonomy for Tibet and Taiwan, and condemning the ethnic cleansing of Uighurs in Xinjiang.

One section depicted a Taiwan flag beside a countryball of Hong Kong and a flag of East Turkestan, the region from which Uighurs hail.

A day later, it had all disappeared Students mobilized by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association - a Chinese student organization with close ties to the Chinese government and with branches at dozens of schools around the country - painted over the art with their own messages portraying China as a loving and peaceful nation.

“I was like, ‘How could you do this?’” sophomore Andrew Vascellaro said.

“This is support for oppressed peoples and you just come in and basically contribute to oppression.”

He was among the dozens of students who had come to the tunnel to set things right by recreating the original artwork.

“I came when the tunnels were first painted with all the messages and I thought that was so amazing,” Vascellaro said, angling his elbow so his brush wouldn’t drip white paint on the floor.

A stretch of the University of Rochester's elaborate tunnel system has been a canvas for political discourse over tensions related to China politics.

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The news of the back-and-forth “cover ups” hit the university’s popular meme pages online, which, like the tunnels, have become avenues for political expression. Debates raged in the comments sections. Students from mainland China who took offense to the initial paintings asked why theirs was the only country being called out. Tangential threads of pushback ensued.

More than 600 students signed a petition that cast the unidentified student artists as victims of Chinese oppression and refugees of state-sponsored violence, and demanded the university administration condemn the “censorship” and what the petition called “past offenses.”

The petition went further to call for the CSSA to be barred, and for the university administration to hang the flags of Taiwan and Hong Kong in a section of a campus lounge reserved for flags representing the make-up of the student body.

The administration had recently relocated the flags, which hung in a section of Hirst Lounge in the Wilson Commons building reserved for “Flags of UN Recognized States,” to another section reserved for “Other Countries and Regions.”

CHINESE STUDENTS SURGING A war of words at the University of Rochester over paintings and flags is a far cry from blackclad students hurling gasoline bombs and bricks at the riot police storming Hong Kong university campuses. The U of R is not under siege. The sanctity of higher education here is intact.

But the tensions at U of R linked to the broad conflict overseas illustrates how the turmoil in China can play out on American college campuses, where students from China and its sphere of influence are studying in greater numbers. Similar disputes have surfaced on campuses across the country, from Boston University to UCLA. In 2018-19, colleges in the United States enrolled a record 1,095,299 foreign students, a nominal uptick over the previous year but an increase of roughly 50 percent from the beginning of the decade, according to the latest “Open Doors” report from the Institute of International Education.

Chinese students lead this surge, accounting for almost 34 percent of foreign students at American colleges. In other words, one of every three international students in the United States holds a Chinese passport.

At U of R, the rate is much higher. The university reports hosting 4,250 international students, who account for about a third of the student body. More than half of those students – 2,270 – hail from China.

In October, China Daily, a state-run English-language newspaper published in China, reported the U of R plans to recruit more Chinese students “to enrich their international experiences via specialized degrees.” The newspaper quoted the dean of the Simon School of Business, Andrew Ainslie, as saying the school has been working hard to help applicants through the visa process.

TIBET AS A FLASHPOINT Tensions on campus first rose in September when College Republicans advertised an upcoming event: “Tibet dialogue: Democracy-in-Exile and the future of Tibet.” The group aimed to showcase Tibet as a model of American democracy abroad and the event featured Ngodup Tsering, a representative of the Dalai Lama, as the keynote speaker.

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“The Dalai Lama supports freedom of speech and freedom of religion which are values that are central to the Republican party,” College Republicans president Anthony Pericolo said.

In China, however, the “Tibet question” is fraught with disagreement over the region’s right to sovereignty.

Many Tibetans favor independence, and resent the erasure of their culture, religion, and language under Chinese government policies. Meanwhile, many in mainland China consider Tibet as rightfully belonging to China.

Sampson Hao, president of the Chinese Students’ Association, a campus student cultural group distinct from the CSSA, emailed university administration officials to voice concern about the event.

“The speaker is here to talk about a controversial topic that belittles the Chinese government and the people,” his email read. “How would audiences with limited understanding about China view the Chinese community after listening to the speech? Imagine: your understanding of the culture and the history of the United States is a blank sheet of paper, and someone gives an agitative speech on the holding camp of Japanese by U.S. in California during World War II after Pearl Harbor. Then what is your reaction towards the U.S.? Hostility is aroused so easily when you are innocent to the whole picture.”

Underscoring Hao’s objections lay themes that would prove to resonate throughout the conflicts that followed: Friction between people from different countries holding different values, and the desire to be heard.

Hao criticized the College Republicans for casting the event as “a dialogue” when it only represented one viewpoint - a fact the president of the College Republicans has since unapologetically acknowledged.

“I’ll be honest, the event was kind of one-sided,” Pericolo said. “We’re College Republicans. We wanted to represent the American values that the Dalai Lama supports.”

Hao contrasted the event to another on the Hong Kong protests co-hosted weeks earlier by his organization and the Hong Kong Students Association, which opened the floor for students and invited them to speak their mind.

Pericolo denied CSA’s request to see the panel questions or give a speech at the event, but allowed CSA to submit questions for the Q&A session. Hao said CSA tried to schedule a meeting with the College Republicans. When that failed, CSA did not pursue the matter further.

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In China, the "Tibet question" is fraught with disagreement over the region's right to sovereignty.

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But someone else did.

Soon, flyers advertising the College Republicans’ event with a decidedly pro-China stance began popping up around campus. The flyers renamed the event, “Tibet: Freedom or Terrorism?” and depicted a grisly image of a man engulfed in flames - some Tibetans have practiced self-immolation to protest Chinese rule.

The flyers were the handiwork of a student, Yifan Xu. He attended the event and during the open session, when the audience could ask questions, laid out his arguments on why Tibet needed to remain part of China.

His views were greeted with widespread disapproval. One audience member interrupted Xu, shouting, “Don’t rely on Wikipedia!” The mic runner shook his head as Xu ran over his allotted time.

Tensions were high, but did not boil over. An organizer of the event, graduate student Se Hoon Kim, even shook Xu’s hand afterward. “That would have been the end of it,” Kim said.

Then the Starbucks incident happened.

THE ‘STARBUCKS INCIDENT’ Recalling the incident, Kim sighed, removed his glasses and rubbed his face.

At the time of the Tibet event — and by coincidence — some Tibetan monks were in town visiting with members of Rochester’s Nepalese Buddhist community. Kim, who has connections to representatives of the Dalai Lama, invited the monks to U of R to meet Tibetan students.

While the monks and some students discussed meditation and school over coffee at a campus Starbucks, a Chinese student placed a sign near them that read: “TIBET IS PART OF CHINA.” “What are you trying to instigate?” Kim recalled asking the student.“Why are you doing this?” Feeling his guests were not welcome, Kim escorted the monks out.

A Facebook post went up within hours, saying that Tibetan monks had been “harassed and chased out of Starbucks.” Uproar in the comments section swiftly ensued. Xu later published a different account of the incident

that claimed Kim ripped up the sign and threatened the student. His post garnered hundreds more comments.

Hao, president of the CSA, said his group didn’t have a hand in the Starbucks incident.

But he said that Chinese students were beginning to feel unsafe on campus and that he feared another upcoming event organized by the College Republicans, this one on the persecution of Uighurs in China, could result in hostility against Chinese students.

Uighurs are a minority Turkic ethnic group, are largely Muslims, and their persecution by the Chinese government has been well documented.

Hao sued the College Republicans in campus court to push the group to modify its event on the Uighurs. When word of the suit was leaked online, which happened within hours, the College Republicans promptly filed a countersuit and called for an investigation into the CSA, which it accused of colluding with Tibet agitators.

Both groups later dropped their suits, but the publicity from their dispute had the ancillary effect of making the Uighur event more popular.

Hundreds of people packed the venue.

VALUES IN CONFLICT Anthropology professor John Osburg, who studies contemporary China, said the recent events have pitted U of R’s values against each other, as the campus community strives to understand how people and groups can speak freely without disrespecting cultures.

Not helping matters, Osburg said, are barriers to having productive conversations about China’s politics. One of them is philosophical. Historically, Osburg said, mainland China has not held the same views on human rights as the west. China’s dominant philosophy, Confucianism, emphasizes obligations and duties that exist within certain relationships: parents to children, husband to wife, ruler to subjects.

This philosophy also emphasizes the wellbeing of the community over that of the individual, and a strong sense of identity between individuals and their country. Osburg said Chinese Communist Party responses to Western critiques are often framed as attacks on both the government and the people.

As Xu put it: “You have been attacked if the group has been attacked.”

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On-campus stereotypes of Chinese students, often based on the words and actions of a few, can also cause disagreements to get ugly, particularly in social media comment sections.

Xu recalled being surprised by the aggressive responses to his post about the Starbucks incident. He described watching it rack up over 200 comments in just a few hours, with some respondents calling him blind or brainwashed.

“It was the worst feeling,” Xu said.

But the wounds of the Starbucks altercation have also been slow to heal for some students.

None Gongyal, who was at Starbucks that day and had been blessed by the Tibeten monks with a ceremonial scarf, said he felt the same tensions at U of R that he felt in his native Tibet.

“Now I feel like I’m also under threat by the Chinese government even in a country like this,” he said.

Flags hang in the Hirst Lounge of Wilson Commons. The Tibet and Hong Kong flags, top left corner, are separated from the flags representing countries recognized by the United Nations.

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FLAG DISPUTE In mid-November, a few weeks after the Uighur event, the university moved the Hong Kong and Taiwan flags in the Hirst Lounge from the main body of flags to an area reserved for countries and regions not recognized by the United Nations.

Dean of Students Matt Burns explained that the university last year adopted the UN list of member nations - of which Hong Kong and Taiwan are not part - as its criteria for the placement of flags in the lounge. He said the two flags were moved for International Education Week, which began November 18.

But the timing was viewed by many on campus within the lens of the China-related conflicts and added to what pro-Hong Kong, pro-Taiwan, and pro-Tibet students saw as a barrage of slights over the course of the semester.

“There’s a very strong Chinese government influence on campus it feels like,” said Amber Hu, a first-year student from Taiwan. “It just feels very oppressive and now the U of R is doing this.”

A few weeks earlier, news broke that the Eastman School of Music, part of the university, agreed to go forward with an orchestral tour of China despite that country’s refusal to grant visas to three South Korean members of the orchestra.

The school later reversed course and canceled the tour after an outcry by students, alumni, and the wider Rochester community, with many critics accusing the university of bowing to China.

Warish Orko, who helped paint the first set of tunnel murals, said he did so to support students who felt isolated by the administration’s lack of response to the incidents.

“It makes victims feel invisible, like they don’t matter,” Orko said.

Last week, Burns and another dean, Jeff Runner, issued a joint statement addressing the flag flap that reaffirmed the university’s neutrality on recent China-related tensions.

The statement signaled a possible end to the flag display, which has hung since 1994 and has been a source of controversy for years.

“I am concerned for our students from Hong Kong whose loved ones are in a difficult struggle,” Burns said in an interview, adding that he was also concerned for mainland Chinese students. “They’re starting to feel frustrated, they feel like they don’t belong here.”

NO ADMINISTRATIVE INTERVENTION Burns said none of the disputes on campus to date warranted administrative intervention, and attributed the vitriol to a small number of students.

He added, though, that free speech is a “messy enterprise.”

“The language may have been offensive to some. But you get to say offensive things from time to time,” Burns said. “We have tried to impose as few limits on freedom as possible because without it we would cease to be the culture that we are.”

Instead, Burns said, students need the tools to handle uncomfortable discourse.

He encouraged students to reframe online disagreements by responding to hurtful comments with inquiry instead of condemnation. For example, “Why would you say that?” instead of “Get out!”

There have been olive branches amid the tension.

On Monday, the university’s Hong Kong Students Association set up a display under the Hirst Lounge flags hoping to defuse friction around the tunnel painting back-andforth, particularly a pro-Hong Kong mural.

Many Chinese students had felt offended and targeted because the mural had been written primarily in Chinese.

But the association hoped to show that the artist had written in traditional Chinese and Cantonese — which are widely spoken in Hong Kong — and that the messages contained no hate. They only expressed support for Hong Kong students and Hong Kongers abroad.

The association’s president, Selina Xu, said she hoped the display could help heal the divided community. She said she was already seeing signs of this, referencing a student who had spent a long time reading through the interpretation of the wall and recent events.

“He was really confused and he came with a lot of questions,” she said. “That conversation helped him to know more about what happened on campus and what is really happening in Hong Kong.”

Efua Agyare-Kumi is a third-year student at the University of Rochester majoring in English and political science.

PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE

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This is another “Rochester thing” – “home” and “away” Wegmans stores. The “away” stores can throw a shopper off his game much like an “away” athletic venue can to a visiting sports team.

A shopper will be walking down what he believes to be the cereal aisle looking for a box of Lucky Charms only to find shelves full of canned yams or laundry detergent.

They had all sorts of names for the sensation, most of them plays on feeling forgetful, sideways, or upside down.

The most popular were “Wegnesia,” “Wegzheimers,” “Wegmentia,” and “Discomwegmanated.” There was also “Wegnility,” “Wegtigo,” “Weglirium,” and “Wegfusion.” Others were “Wegmorphia,” “Wegtoxicated,” “Wegnomenon,” and, alternatively, “Wegma vu” and “Déjà Wegman.”

I prefer discomwegmanated. It doesn’t have the ring of wegnesia, wegzheimers, or wegmentia, but discomwegmanated perhaps best describes what’s actually going on inside the afflicted shopper’s head.

The other three words are derivatives of amnesia, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia, each of which is associated with debilitating memory loss.

That’s not what’s affecting most Wegmans shoppers who have to take a moment in the middle of the dog food aisle or outside with the Christmas trees to recalibrate.

We’re only temporarily confused. We’re discombobulated. We’re discomwegmanated.

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according to experts. Not all memory lapses are created equal. Forgetting where you left your car keys, for instance, isn’t the same as forgetting what car keys are for. Calling your daughter by your wife’s name is different than forgetting you have a daughter.

Absent-mindedness, which seems to be at the heart of discomwegmanation, is one of six “normal” memory problems as we age, according to the Center for BrainMind Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

Stress and lack of sleep are contributing factors, too. So is multitasking. Think about all the ways we overload our brains. There are smartphones and social media and, in a Wegmans, 50,000 to 70,000 products, according to the company.

The average supermarket carries about 40,000 items, according to the Food Marketing Institute, a trade group.

The same group notes that the typical supermarket is 46,000 square feet, whereas Wegmans stores run 75,000 to 140,000 square feet.

Each Wegmans is its own self-sustaining city, like an airport. And like cities and airports, each Wegmans is designed a little differently. Everything a visitor needs is there, just not where they might expect.

Wegmans now has an app to ease discomwegmanation. The app pinpoints items in specific stores.

But when that peculiar feeling strikes, now there’s a name for it, too.

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

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

URBAN ACTION This week’s call to action includes the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.)

Climate disaster focus of talk

Extinction Rebellion Rochester will present “Heading for Extinction (and what to do about it),” a public talk on the global climate crisis, at 5 p.m. on Sunday, December 8. The program will take place at the Rochester Zen Center, 5 Arnold Park.

Ward and Maria Ogden from Extinction Rebellion’s Southern Vermont chapter will be the featured speakers. They’ll share the latest climate science and talk about where our planet is heading. They’ll also discuss some of the current psychology around climate change and offer solu-

tions through the study of social movements.

Extinction Rebellion focuses on a series of climate-related demands.

It calls on the U.S. government to “tell the truth about the climate and wider ecological emergency” as well as to enact policies and laws that would cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2025.

The organization has several other demands, which includes a call for a just transition of the economy that prioritizes the most vulnerable people and indigenous sovereignty.

Alternative Fair this weekend

Metro Justice will hold its 37th annual Alternative Fair from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, December 6, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m on Saturday, December 7. The fair will be held

at First Unitarian Church of Rochester, 220 South Winton Road.

The event is meant to help people shop with a conscience, according to Metro Justice. It’ll feature thousands of unique fairtrade, earth-friendly, and locally produced goods.

There will be pottery, textiles, jewelry, fine art, toys, games, ornaments, personal products, and more.

This year, the fair will include an expanded area of informational booths from local activist and advocacy groups.

There’s a suggested $3 entry fee for the fair and free care for children under 8. The building is wheelchair accessible.

Information: metrojustice. org/alternative_fair19.

Dining & Nightlife

Clockwise from left: loaded nachos, deep-friend pickles, and the Country Sweet pizza. Come for a pint, stay for the cozy "flannel" interior.

PHOTOS BY JACOB WALSH

A cozy Kodak spot Black Bear Pub 380 WEST RIDGE ROAD MONDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, 11 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT 413-1265; @BLACKBEARPUBROC [ REVIEW ] BY CHRIS THOMPSON

I initially had a little trouble finding Black Bear Pub. It wouldn’t show up on the erstwhile trusty Google Maps, but to be fair, it just opened its doors on November 15. And it’s a little bit farther from the center of the city than many new bars. Located on West Ridge Road, Black Bear Pub is walking distance from Kodak Center, just a few feet from the area’s staple, California Brew Haus. The menu features a variety of pub fare, from wings to pizza and burgers.

I will level with you: Black Bear Pub is a “bro bar.” But that’s a good thing! “Bro bar” gets thrown around too negatively. People hear the term and think of venues that have an oddly specific dress code, exclude a certain group of people, and are full of jerks hyped up on energy drinks and brown liquor, who are ready to brawl at the brush of a shoulder.

But Black Bear Pub is a sports bar where the bartenders treat you like long-lost siblings, where you and friends can discuss your days over a pint and a shared nacho plate while watching a game. Sure, you can do that at many places in the city, but Black Bear Pub is owned and operated by a local artist with a vision. Also, there are so many bears!

Vanessa Sheldon bought the building where Black Bear Pub resides in 2017, shortly after finishing a commission for the Fairport Industry Development Agency. For that project she made a sundial along a walkway of the Erie Canal, constructed from stones salvaged from the original canal construction. Since then, she’s been creating more art and renovating the space, mostly by herself.

This once-booming area has been a bit depressed since Kodak shrank, but it’s ready for a comeback. Many people (including me) have ignored this section of Ridge Road when pursuing night life. But imagine this: a place where there is plenty of free parking, where you can have a decent meal and a brew, and you can still get home within about 10 to15 minutes. Black Bear Pub has a lot of potential, and the two times I visited

before writing this review, it was filled with customers gleefully tapping that potential.

And did I mention the bears?

“Oh this is cute,” I thought, when I entered the pub. There’s a stuffed bear in the window with a Santa hat on. ‘Tis the season, after all. I’d wager he’ll have angel wings and heart shaped arrows in February, and a little green hat and a pot of candy gold in March.

The dining area and bar combined look quite small, but there was plenty of space for the five groups of people there to belly up to the bar or grab a table comfortably, and there was still space for more folks.

The whole atmosphere is cozy; the wood floor and wall panels make it look like you’re in a log cabin, complete with a large fireplace and brick mantle in the dining area. The color scheme of the painted parts of the wall and ceiling seem to be “flannel.” Deep reds and black tones made the place feel dark, warm, soft, and comfortable. I ordered a pint and perused the menu while chatting with other patrons, as this is the type of place where strangers are friendly.

Even when I eventually went to the facilities, I saw them: there are bears

everywhere. There are pictures of bears all over the walls, doing non-bear things.

There’s a bear bench-pressing a log of wood.

Behind me was a bear squaring up with a lumberjack. Over the entry door is a bear playing beer pong. To the left of the bar is a bear arm wrestling (paw wrestling?). I almost wondered if this was a bar for actual bears.

But even more amazing: there was more bar! The darkness and coziness of the front section contrasted with an entire back area housing a skee-ball machine, a dome hockey unit, a pool table, and, of course, more bear pictures. As I looked around this game room, I saw that there was a door leading out to a 1,400-square-foot patio. Black Bear Pub is full of surprises, and I was impressed even before I got my food!

There’s a decent selection on the menu, and they are not stingy with the servings. On my first trip, I ordered a non-conventional pizza, the Country Sweet ($16), which has a Country Sweet sauce base, chopped fried chicken tenders, and cheddar. I expected a personal sized pie, but was presented with a 14-inch sweet, cheesy behemoth, which provided me with leftovers for two meals. I must say, the chicken was as crispy and tender the next day as it was at the bar. The patron next to me ordered the fried pickle appetizer ($8), and he received a veritable bucket of crispy dill medallions interspersed with banana peppers.

On a second visit two days later, my friend and I ordered the loaded nachos ($10) and added chicken (+$3), and we could have stopped there. I believe that they were the best nachos I have had in the city. The tortillas were buried under tomatoes, olives, cheddar, jalapenos, spicy queso, and chopped onions.

Nearly every bite had some well-seasoned chicken. Sheldon has put as much effort into Black Bear’s menu as she did the aesthetic.

The reason for all the bears and the cabin vibe is that Sheldon is originally from the Adirondacks, so this is a little taste of her old home in her current one. She had hoped to provide a place in the old Kodak area for people from different areas to visit and enjoy, from folks leaving a show at Kodak Center, to people who just wanted a pint and a game of darts. In the spring and summer, she looks forward to hosting musical performances and other events there. I doubt she’ll have much trouble finding an audience; it’s already a perfect place to watch a championship game with friends. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 13

Upcoming

Music

[ VOCAL-TRADITIONAL ]

An Evening of Irish Song and Dance Featuring Ronan Tynan Thursday, March 12, 2020.

Hochstein Performance Hall. 50 N. Plymouth Ave. $50 general admission, $75 VIP. 7 p.m. 484-1964. cccsrochester.org/bwf.

Christoph Irniger’s Pilgrim

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5 BOP SHOP RECORDS, 1460 MONROE AVENUE 8 P.M. | $20 AT DOOR, $15 FOR STUDENTS BOPSHOP.COM; CHRISTOPHIRNIGER.COM [ JAZZ ] When the Bop Shop presents Christoph Irniger’s Pilgrim, local jazz fans will get a chance to witness the best of Swiss jazz. A Zurich-based tenor saxophonist, Irniger studied with Dave Liebman and Mark Turner, and has played with Dave Douglas, Nasheet Waits and many others. The quintet Pilgrim — with pianist Stefan Aeby, Raffaele Bossard on bass, guitarist Dave Gisler, and Michi Stulz on drums — is simpatico and virtuosic. All of the ensemble’s compositions involve near-telepathic group improvisations at the highest level.

— BY RON NETSKY

White Hot Brass Band FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 THE SPIRIT ROOM, 139 STATE STREET 8 P.M. | $5 FACEBOOK.COM/THESPIRITROOMROCHESTER FACEBOOK.COM/WHITEHOTBRASS [ BRASS BAND ] The White Hot Brass Band is New Orleans-style jazz, done funky. Now it isn’t that this Western New York band is big (there are only six pieces), but The Spirit Room’s stage fills up fast. It’s gonna feel like that famous “crowded cabin” scene from The Marx Brothers’ “A Night at the Opera.” There’ll be dancing on the ceiling, if there’s still room.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

PHOTO BY GIAN MARCO CASTELBERG

An Evening in Granada

The guitar music of Spain Saturday, March 21, 2020 The Hochstein Performance Hall

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Grammy Award winner Jason Vieaux

[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]

[ WED., DECEMBER 4 ]

Televisionaries

AMERICANA

‘Ram-A Lam-A’ Hi-Tide Records televisionaries.bandcamp.com

Tom Waits Tribute Shows THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, AT 7 P.M. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, AT 8 P.M. IRON SMOKE DISTILLERY, 111 PARCE AVENUE, SUITE 5B $7 GENERAL ADMISSION, $25 VIP | IRONSMOKEDISTILLERY.COM [ ROCK ] Tom Waits is a man who has penetrated every rag-tag genre of music, even going so far as to create a few new genres along the way. He’s turning 70 on December 7, and a lineup of Rochester musicians has assembled to play the Waits songs that are influential to them. Presented by Tommy Brunett and Brian Williams, the show will feature artists such as Hannah PK, Richard Storms, Brian Lindsay, Suzi Willpower, Todd Krasz, and WXXI’s own Jeff Spevak.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Ross Holmes and Carl Miner WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 THREE HEADS BREWING, 186 ATLANTIC AVENUE 8 P.M. | $10 | THREEHEADSBREWING.COM; ROSSHOLMES.NET CARLMINER.COM [ HOLIDAY-BLUEGRASS ] This holiday-themed show next

Wednesday at Three Heads Brewing features two of the best behind-the-scenes musicians in the business. Fiddle player Ross Holmes is a member of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and has performed with Bruce Hornsby, Warren Haynes, and Mumford & Sons. Guitarist Carl Miner is a two-time nominee for The Academy of Country Music’s “Musician of the Year” who has played with Trisha Yearwood, Boys II Men, and Fiona Apple.

Holmes plays with a fluid, virtuosic fiddling style, and Miner has a lush, detail-oriented approach to the guitar. It’s top-flight bluegrass and folk music with a festive twist.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

Don’t call it a throwback. Televisionaries’ new seven-inch record, featuring the three Lake brothers, is a flat-out gas and is as much ado about now as it is about then. It’s a future classic. It’s four rockin’ ditties from yestermorrow. It’s splendiferous.

“Ram-A Lam-A” takes a page from the classic rock ’n’ roll cookbook, in which everything from reverb to a steady backbeat gets slathered on liberally. It’s all just a tease to get asses shakin’ all over the place. And the fact that all three members are brothers just shows you how loose tight can be when there’s rock ‘n’ roll in the bloodstream.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Yarms ‘Lugaroo’ Self-released yarms.bandcamp.com

Good lyrics seem to work best in clusters of cohesive thoughts or themes. They add up to create impact. Rarely does it come down to just a line or two, until now. Ryan Yarmel — or Yarms as the kids call him — has released a new EP of self-aware acoustic introspection entitled “Lugaroo.”

This five-song solo journey has one of the finest lines of prose ever: “I was counting on you to see my heart on its toes,” Yarms sings on the title track — driving the spike home just sturdy enough to skirt the apparent frailty. But it isn’t quite what you’d call surrender.

And put the stories aside for a sec, if you can, and dig the warm tones from Yarms’ guitar, his rollicking lines serving as little finger-picked treasures in their own right. Yarmel sings gentle and somewhat narcotic while his guitar gently weeps. It’ll touch your heart.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

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

The Slocan Ramblers.

Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 7:30 p.m. $10.

BLUES

Blues & Roots Night.

B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane.

Fairport. 315-3003. 7 p.m.

Reverend Kingfish: House Party of the Damned. The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 8 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Eastman Wind Orchestra, Wind Ensemble. Kodak Hall

at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m.

Live from Hochstein: Eastman Horn Choir.

Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 454-4596. hochstein.org.

12:10-12:50 p.m.

JAZZ

Laura Dubin Trio. 80W, 7 Lawrence St. 730-4046. 7 p.m.

New Jazz Ensemble.

Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m.

The Rita Collective. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

POP/ROCK

John Akers & Erik Welsch.

Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 9 p.m.

SEASONAL

Bill Kirchen’s Honky Tonk Holiday. Lovin’ Cup, 300

Park Point Dr. lovincup.com.

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Must be nice Started out Saturday evening at Three Heads Brewing, adding my head to the pile of heads bobbin’ away to the legendary one-drop spectacle put on

by The Majestics. The band locked in rapidamente and held on as the groove washed over the multitude. The area in front of the bandstand soon became a dance floor. The band delivered a flagrant groove, good for your wailin’ sciatica and any other joints giving you the business.

Alright, alright, alright. I get older, the kids at the Bug Jar stay the same age. I can’t think of a better lineup than Saturday’s rock ’n’ roll triple-header: Televisionaries, with Alex Patrick & His Noise Boys (culled from the ranks of Dangerbyrd), and The Abyssmals, straight outta the Capital Region. The Noise Boys brought all the jukebox hits for the ride, with tunes from Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, what sounded like The Count Bishops, and the MC-5.

Patrick’s lead guitar work was manic and explosive, which made it hard to hear.

I ran into a young man who seemed quite angry with me and proceeded to tell me why, but I couldn’t hear a word he said.

The only thing I could make out was “Must be nice.” So, to the angry young man at the Bug Jar: please email your entire diatribe to me here at CITY, so we can put this to rest and be friends. F out.

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

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Guitarist Tommy Stinson is best known a member of the influential alternative rock band The Replacements, but he’s showed no signs of slowing down since the band last parted ways in 2015. PHOTO PROVIDED

Tommy Stinson is irreplaceable WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 BOP SHOP RECORDS, 1460 MONROE AVENUE 7 P.M. DOORS | $25 GENERAL ADMISSION TOMMYSTINSON.COM [ FEATURE ] BY FRANK DE BLASE

While tripping over the aftermath of a kids’ sleepover party, veteran rocker Tommy Stinson sat down to chat on the phone from his home in the Hudson Valley. Stinson’s life is a colored one to say the least, and he repeatedly colors outside the lines. He’s gregarious and self-deprecatingly hilarious.

When he laughs, he laughs loud.

Stinson is currently in the studio banging out a new record for his band Cowboys in the Campfire along with John Doe, Chops LaConte, and Stinson’s former uncle-in-law, Chip Roberts.

Tommy Stinson. Man, I’m tellin ya, the cat’s got a lot of history packed into the 53 years he’s been stompin’ on this planet. Just dig this: He has fronted the frenetic, poptweaked alternative rock bands Bash & Pop

and Perfect; he’s played as a member of Soul Asylum, and he’s been on Axl Rose’s speed dial as bass player for Guns N’ Roses. But most importantly, he’s a founding member of The Replacements.

In spite of themselves, The Replacements’ legacy is locked tight. With its loud guitars, beautiful command of melody, and lyrical prose, The Replacements stand alone as altrock pioneers. Founded in Minneapolis in 1979, there is no denying the band’s influence on alternative rock and rock music in general.

It was a rough-hewn, at times, punk take on rock ‘n’ roll, one that each member of the band adhered to and adopted for their own.

After the band’s break up in 1991, solo records by Stinson, Paul Westerberg, Slim Dunlap, and Chris Mars started bubbling up with a distinct undercurrent of accessibility that sounded like The Replacements. They were influenced by their own influence. They were not impervious to their own band’s hooks. And who could blame them? It’s just who and what they were. Especially Stinson.

“I’ll tell you what,” Stinson says. “From the time I was in The Replacements until now

— I hate to say this, and it sounds kind of gratuitous — there’s a little Tommy Stinson in everything I played on.

“And as I get older and change up my thing a bit, everything that I do now still has traces of things I learned or played on in The Replacements days. I really haven’t evolved that much. I’m not a Neanderthal anymore.

I’m more of a chimp, or a chump anyway. I haven’t changed a whole lot.”

Stinson carries himself proud and righteous. It’s what his fans have come to expect from the man.

“I think they expect me to be me, the best I can be,’ he says.” And I think that’s pretty much the bottom line.” But did he fit in that aforementioned stint as bass player with Guns N’ Roses?

“I didn’t. And that was kind of the point,” Stinson says. “That’s the beauty of what Axl did on that record. He went to the Island of Misfit Toys: ‘These are the guys I should be making a record with.’ So he threw a bunch of misfits together to see how bad it could get. Yeah, that was the genius he had in that realm.”

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Resonanz & Northern Appalachian Wind Symphony: Home for the Holidays. Hochstein Performance

That version of G’n’R is now kaput, with most of the original members back playing together and “doing their thing,” according to, and thanks in part, to Stinson.

“I actually had to walk away,” he says. “I had some personal issues that I had to attend to.

And I think that forced Axl’s hand. ‘OK, let’s do this thing,’ and he and Slash and Duff had it out and got it out and figured out what to do.”

Regardless of what band or genre he’s playing in, Stinson knows it’s always been about the songs. His songs are little power pop-rock jewels that sparkle whenever and however they are played. But Stinson doesn’t have a set way for creating them.

“It’s really informal and haphazard,” he says.

For instance: a dream.

“I woke up from a dream at four in the morning,” Stinson says. “In the dream these kids were making fun of me. And we were walking in this mall, and I heard this pop song by a young female artist. I thought the song stunk but I liked the melody. And I remembered the melody and started making it into a song. I had the whole song written by 6:30 which is completely bananas to me — following the dragon into that cave. But it worked out and I like it.”

Though the songwriting is a bit of a magical mystery, the demise of The Replacements is not.

“Part of the problem we had was as people, not as the band,” Stinson says. “Part of the thing we couldn’t do was shake hands and do the record company thing. ‘Whose dick do you have to suck to be a pop star?’ I hate to be crass but that’s really what it came down to. We weren’t good at pretending we’re something we ain’t.

“There are scant moments of influence by popular bands, but we just weren’t good at conforming in any way. Our best stuff was when we were the most honest. I don’t think the cards were stacked against us. We just couldn’t play the game.”

Stinson concedes that wounds were selfinflicted. Maybe if they’d played along a little they would’ve been bigger than they ever were.

But maybe not. “We might not have had the legacy we have if we had been really huge,” he says.

From 2012 to 2015, The Replacements had a brief but successful reunion and subsequent tour, but Stinson balks at there being another one.

“I don’t know,” he says. “I don’t know. I never say never say never. But I don’t see it.”

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

CLASSICAL

Eastman Rochester Chorus, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m.

Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 473-2234. hochstein.org.

7:30 p.m. $20.

SUNY Geneseo Wind Ensemble.

[ THU., DECEMBER 5 ]

University Chamber Orchestra & Choir: 150 Years of Baseball. UR,

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

The Archive Ravens. Abilene, 153

Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

7:30 p.m. $5.

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

Evan Meulemans. Happy Earth Tea, 650 South Ave. 245-0242. 7 p.m.

AMERICANA

The Crooked North. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $5.

BLUES

Deep Blue. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge

Wadsworth Auditorium, 1 College Circle. Geneseo.

245-5516. 7:30 p.m.

Strong Auditorium, River Campus.

275-9397. 8 p.m.

JAZZ

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

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

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

641-0340. 7 p.m.

Todd East & The Hot Sweets. The Penthouse, 1 East Ave, 11th floor.

775-2013. 8 p.m. $10/$15.

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

White Hot Brass Band. The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595.

8 p.m. $5.

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

Hanna PK. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

FUNK/GROOVE

Kung Fu, Pine Needle Soul. Photo

City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 8:30 p.m. $20.

CLASSICAL

Eastman at Washington Square.

First Universalist Church of Rochester, 150 Clinton Ave S. esm. rochester.edu/lunchtime. 12:1512:45 p.m. Piano Extravaganza II. JAZZ

Christoph Irniger Pilgrim. Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. 271-3354. 8 p.m. $15/$20.

Nazareth College Jazz Ensemble & Lab Band. Nazareth College Glazer

HIP-HOP/RAP Pop Smoke. Main Street Armory, 900 E. Main St. 232-3221. 10 p.m.

METAL

Metal-Core Festival. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 7 p.m. $10-$25.

POP/ROCK

Jester’s Alibi. Nashvilles, 4853 W

Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 8 p.m. $5.

Henrietta Rd. Henrietta.

334-3030. 9 p.m.

Josh Netsky. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210.

5:30-7 p.m.

Mesh, Code 75-4. Pineapple Jack’s, 485 Spencerport Rd. Gates.

247-5225. 9 p.m.

Paul Strowe. Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E. 245-3006.

7:30 p.m.

Pile, Calyx, Full Body. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

9 p.m. $14.

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Relaxer, Great Red, Aweful Kanawful. Rosen Krown, 875

Music Performance Center, 4245 East Ave. 389-2700. 7:30 p.m.

POP/ROCK

The Stone Lows, Stupid November, Bird Up. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $5/$8.

Tom Waits Birthday Tribute. Iron

Smoke Distillery, 111 Parce Ave Suite 5b. Fairport. 7 p.m. $7/$25.

Underground Thursdays: Local Showcase. Photo City Improv, 543

Monroe Ave. 271-7050. 9 p.m.

Soular Plexus, Dead Flowers.

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Brooks Williams. Golden Link Folk Singing Society, 2750 Atlantic Ave. Penfield. 857-9265. 7:30 p.m. $10-$20.

Sarah Eide, Adrianna Noone.

Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima.

624-2080. 7 p.m.

Temple Bar & Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. 10 p.m.

Tom Waits Birthday Tribute. Iron Smoke Distillery, 111 Parce Ave Suite 5b. Fairport. 8 p.m. $7/$25.

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

BLUES

R&B/ SOUL

Bureau Cats. Brue Coffee Co., 960

Genesee St. 313-2559. 6 p.m.

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CLASSICAL

Woodwind Quintet. Hatch

Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000.

1:30 p.m.

JAZZ

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

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7:30 p.m.

Jon Seiger & The All Stars.

Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

Laura Dubin Trio. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

8 p.m.

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If you’re a fan of engaging songwriting played through an acoustic-American roots lens, you don’t want to sleep on Golden Link Folk Singing Society’s concert series. This Saturday’s concert, featuring veteran singer-guitarist Brooks Williams, is a case-in-point. Touring on the strength of his most recent album “Lucky Star” and the 27 other solo records he’s made since 1990, Williams combines a warm and endearing folk singer’s voice with blues progressions and timbres. The result is a brand of Americana that feels authentic and grounded in the great roots music tradition.

Brooks Williams will perform Friday, December 6, 7:30 p.m. at Rochester Christian Reformed Church, 2750 Atlantic Avenue, Penfield. $15-$22; students $10; free for children 12 and under.

857-9265. goldenlink.org; brookswilliams.com.

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Noble Vibes. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m.

SEASONAL

The Blind Boys of Alabama.

Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St. Geneva. thesmith. org. 7:30 p.m. $10.50–$46.50.

Concerts on Park: The Bill Welch Band. Immanuel

Baptist Church, 815 Park Ave. 473-7664. 7 p.m.

Holiday Carillon Concert. UR Eastman Quadrangle, 500 Wilson Blvd. 7:30 p.m.

The Music of Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas.

Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. Check schedule for times & tix. $20/$25.

Prism: Let There Be Light.

Browncroft Community Church, 2530 Browncroft Blvd. houghton.edu/prism.

7:30 p.m. $5/$10.

RIT Orchestra & RIT Singers: Advent Lessons & Carols.

Allen Chapel, Schmitt Interfaith Center, RIT, One Lomb Memorial Dr. 475-2411.

5 p.m.

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VOCALS Skylark. Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603.

7-9 p.m.

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Don Christiano & Walt O’Brien.

B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane.

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

Ukulele Sing & Strum. Central Library, Kusler-Cox Auditorium, 115 South Ave. 428-8380. First Saturday of every month, 10:15 a.m.

AMERICANA

A Girl Named Genny, Milkweed, Copper Hill. Flour City Station,

170 East Ave. 413-5745. 9 p.m. $7/$10.

Joe Crookston. The Cracker Factory, 35 Lehigh St. Geneva. 8 p.m. $10/$12.

The Probables. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 2441224. 8 p.m. $10.

BLUES

Arlen Roth. Fanatics, 7281 W

Main St. Lima. 624-2080.

7 p.m. $20.

Joe Beard & His Band. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3153003. 8 p.m.

JAM BAND

Delilah Jones. Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 155 Pattonwood Dr. 342-6780. 9 p.m.

METAL

Malignancy, Total Fucking Destruction, Derkéta, Necrostalker. Bug Jar, 219

Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

8 p.m. $10-$17.

Metal-Core Festival. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 6 p.m. $10-$25.

POP/ROCK Branded. Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta.

334-3030. 9 p.m.

The Cantaloupe Option. The Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 413-1125. 10 p.m.

Diggler’s Bridge. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090.

10 p.m.

Donna the Buffalo, The Swamp Kids. Abilene, 153

Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

8:30 p.m. $22.50.

Exit 24. Sticky Lips, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544.

9 p.m. $5.

The Fakers. Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E. 2453006. 7:30 p.m.

Free Agent. Johnny’s Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990.

8:30 p.m.

Holiday Bash with Dial Up. The Penthouse, 1 East Ave, 11th floor. 775-2013. 7 p.m. $15/$20.

The Old Souls Band, Centenary Road. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 8 p.m.

Random Accents. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 2441224. 1 p.m. $5 suggest.

SEASONAL

CLA Performing Arts Ensembles. Ingle Auditorium at

RIT, 1 Lomb Memorial Dr. 4754121. 7 p.m.

Holiday Carillon Concert. UR Eastman Quadrangle, 500 Wilson Blvd. 7:30 p.m.

Christmas Cantata & Messiah Sing-Along. First Presbyterian

Greece Symphony Orchestra & Greece Choral Society. St.

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If you are an aficionado of octave-spanning guitar solos reminiscent of the great Wes Montgomery, you won’t find a better practitioner than Rochester’s own Melvin Henderson. When Henderson gets together with Hammond B-3 organ wizard Gerry Youngman and precise drummer Sean Jefferson, the Grammy-nominated trio is known as Paradigm Shift. Collectively, the band’s three members have played with R&B greats like Martha Reeves, The Drifters, and Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, not to mention jazz stars including Al Jarreau, Jack McDuff, and Dr. Lonnie Smith.

Paradigm Shift performs Friday, December 6, 7-10 p.m. at Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place, Pittsford. Free with one drink minimum. Reservations are strongly suggested.

641-0340. winebarinpittsfordny.com; psjazz.com.

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Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. Dec. 8. Check schedule for times & tix. $20/$25.

Rochester Gay Men’s Chorus: Treasured Traditions. Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. hochstein.org.

7:30 p.m. $10-$25.

VOCALS

Finger Lakes Camerata. FLCC Auditorium, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Canandaigua.

7:30 p.m.

WORLD

Eastman Global Music Concert. Ray Wright Room (ESM 120), 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 10 a.m.

[ SUN., DECEMBER 8 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Aaron Lipp. The Daily Refresher, 293 Alexander St. 360-4627. 5-7 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Classical Guitar Night. Little

Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

7 p.m.

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

Geneseo Chamber Singers, Spectrum Women’s Ensemble.

Charles Borromeo Church, 3003 Dewey Ave. 473-6711.

3 p.m. $5 suggested.

Holiday Carillon Concert. UR Eastman Quadrangle, 500 Wilson Blvd. 6:30 p.m.

Holiday PRISM Concert.

Nazareth College Glazer Music Performance Center, 4245 East Ave. 389-2700. 3 p.m.

The Music of Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas. Lovin’

Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. Check schedule for times & tix. $20/$25.

New Horizons Holiday Concert. UR Alumni &

Advancement Center, 300 E River Rd. rocnewhorizons.org.

2 p.m.

Rochester Gay Men’s Chorus: Treasured Traditions. Hochstein

Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. hochstein.org.

3 p.m. $10-$25.

Rochester Theater Organ Society: Christmas Follies.

Eisenhart Auditorium, Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. rtosonline.org. 2:30 p.m. Tim Schramm & friends. $15.

St. Michael’s Church, 23 Main St. Geneseo. 245-5824. 3 p.m.

Going for Baroque. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900. 1 & 3 p.m. W/ museum admission: $6-$15.

Finger Lakes Camerata. FLCC Auditorium, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Canandaigua.

7:30 p.m.

Silvertones Flute Ensemble & Resonance Dulcimer Ensemble.

ZYDECO

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. eastman.org. 3 p.m. w/ museum admission: $5-$15.

JAZZ

Sunday Gumbo: Steve Shay.

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

METAL

Alien Autopsy, Crimson Edge.

Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 7 p.m. $7.

POP/ROCK

Bob Dietch: The Piano Bar.

Out Alliance, 100 College Ave. Second Sunday of every month, 2-4 p.m. $5.

Single Mothers, Taking Meds, California Cousins, Pomelo.

Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9:30 p.m. $10.

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Bar & Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. 6 p.m.

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John Stowell / Bob Sneider Duo. Bop Shop Records, 1460

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Presbyterian Church of Brockport, 35 Main Street.

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Bill “Sauce Boss” Wharton.

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CLASSICAL

Collegium Musicum: Le Carnaval de Venise. Kilbourn

Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000.

7:30 p.m.

Tuesday Pipes.. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 4543878. 12:10 p.m. Lunchtime concerts by Eastman organists.

JAZZ

Gray Quartet Jazz Sessions.

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

VOCALS

CJ Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band, Todd East, Central Air. The Beer Hall Grill & Taps, 1517 Empire Blvd.

Webster. 347-4450. 4 p.m.

Benefits National Center For Missing & Exploited Children. $25.

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GOSPEL

Spiritus Christi Gospel Choir & Band. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 7 p.m. $5.

METAL

Metal Meltdown. Record

Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. Second Tuesday of every month, 5-9 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Goalkeeper, 20 SomeThing, Early Retirement, Aidan Snyder, bloom.. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $8/$10.

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Watkins & the Rapiers. Little

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7 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Eastman Philharmonia. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m.

Raphael Feuillatre. Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, 597 East Ave. 244-6065.

7 p.m. $10/$15.

SEASONAL

Lindsey Stirling. Kodak

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TRADITIONAL

Alyssa Rodriguez. Little Café,

240 East Ave. 258-0400. 8 p.m.

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I’ve learned from past experience that, if you want to talk to Lewis Black when he is calm, and displaying socially acceptable behavior, it must be in the morning.

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But when I call him at his New York City apartment at 10:30 in the morning, I’m already too late. He’s been watching the impeachment hearings.

“You elect somebody who doesn’t, who never took a civics class,” Black says, his voice rising with his anger, “and then you’ve got a portion of the country THAT DOESN’T UNDERSTAND HOW THE GOVERNMENT IS RUN?” Common decency has been lost. Those behaviors you were supposed to learn, maybe in Sunday school, Black says, where they tell you, “‘Hey, this the way you’re supposed to act, SO TRY OR YOU’RE GOING TO HELL!’”

A slight pause, maybe for breath, or to head off a coronary embolism. “I’m sorry, it’s really unbelievable.”

Black, the comedian who is to anger management what chum is to sharks, returns to Rochester for an 8 p.m. Friday show at Kodak Center on West Ridge Road. His anger is familiar to us. Perhaps first from his appearances on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart. Stewart’s gone off to other projects, but Black still makes occasional appearances on the show. “They don’t put me on enough to do the kind of damage I think I might be able to do,” he says.

So he chips away at our fragile psyches with cable comedy specials and books and acting roles. On TV he has played a porn-film director and an entomologist, and he’s been the voice of Santa Claus on an episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants.” And for the animated film “Inside Out,” in which the voices of different actors depict a young girl’s emotions, Black was, of course, “Anger.”

He says he spends little time reading internet news sites, and his exposure to television news events such as the impeachment hearings is limited. He compares it to wallpaper, “I kind of float in and float out of it,” Black says. He prefers his news to be curated by professionals. “I still read papers, and I think it’s important to read a newspaper,” he says. “Because they’re the last place on Earth that apparently, when it comes to news, someone is in an office who gets a résumé, and, so they read the résumé and they hire on the basis of that.”

Black also says that he keeps Trump out of his show as much as humanly possible.

“Because people are binge-watching it, no matter what side they’re on,” he says. “So I stay away from it because it’s too much. It’s the first time in my life that, I come offstage – the first time ever – where there are people who will say I talked too much about him or I didn’t talk enough about him.”

But isn’t Trump comedy gold?

“I watched him here for 40 years,” Black says of his fellow New Yorker. “I said when he started to run that he’s good for comedy in the way that a stroke is good for a nap.”

Is there something that news organizations can add to their presentations that would help interpret these times? “Barnyard animals would be,” he says. “They show something, they show a clip and they turn to, like, a lamb, and they say ‘Lamb, political commentator, what do you think?’ The lamb goes, ‘Baaaa,’ and that’s the end of it.”

Black has defined himself as a socialist. And Americans have heard for decades that socialists are to be feared.

“All nine of us,” Black says. “Me and the other eight play softball on Saturdays when we can get a team together.”

And that’s Bernie Sanders on first base.

Socialism, like all isms, is a dichotomy of intentions. “There are these two things that go on here,” Black says. “How are we gonna help people, and yet make all of the money we possibly can? And it’s a constant kind of a tension that occurs.” He recalls seeing the 1960 Edward R. Murrow documentary, “Harvest of Shame,” about migrant workers in America, “and it changed my life,” Black says. “This documentary about the people who get us our food and can barely get enough money to eat, and live in horrific conditions. And who wants to help them. And the only ones who want to help them are the socialists.”

Maybe Black is making his anger work for him when he lends his name to causes that fight cystic fibrosis or autism. Or the “Children of the Forest College Fund,” raising money to help kids in Thailand attend college. “It’s not that much money, $25,000 a year, and it sends a number of kids off to school,” he says, “And those kids come back to go to work in the village.”

It’s a societal ripple effect. Like the “52nd Street Project,” an arts-based organization in New York City. “You work with that small group of kids,” Black says, “and that small group of kids will affect other groups of kids, and now it’s grown into this kind of extraordinary organization.”

But what can the ripple do against a tidal wave?

“This too shall pass,” Black says. “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

“You go from Bush to Obama, from Obama to this? Seriously, you don’t think we’re going to go back? That is what we do.”

The 71-year-old Black believes his is the last generation to be trapped in today’s “bound-in nonsense.”

“It’s like Sisyphus, you know, the United States of Sisyphus,” he says. “We pushed the rock up to the top, nearly got it to the top of the mountain, and then a bunch of people together said, ‘OK, I’m tired,’ and let it slide to the bottom of the mountain. Now we’re pushing it up again, and we’ll get it up faster, because a lot of these kids aren’t burdened with that nonsense. It’s a lot of the reason gay marriage finally passed the Supreme Court, and they kind of went, ‘Oh…’ All

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of a sudden, you can’t argue with kids who have been born and raised and are now the first generation living proof that it’s not damaging, no matter what your religion tells you, and why we have separation of church and state because of that. Schmuck!”

Unexpectedly, Lewis Black has evolved over a 10-minute phone conversation into a different man. “I’ve always been an optimist,” he says. “I wouldn’t be screaming if I was a pessimist. I’ve always believed it could be better, and I believe it will be better. It’s like the Second Ice Age. These are dinosaurs dying, and these are their last screams.”

In tribute to tributes

Tribute shows are not confined to Rochester, but we do seem to have more of them than your average American city.

The Bob Dylan Birthday Bash has been going on for a couple of decades, we’ve had celebrations for Johnny Cash, George Harrison, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Woodstock, Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” and The Band’s “Last Waltz.” There’s one coming up for Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter on December 12 at Record Archive and another for Richard Thompson on December 28 at Abilene Bar & Lounge.

I have witnessed people roll their eyes at the announcement of a new one. Why is this? I think they’re marvelous.

Next up. The Tom Waits Birthday Tribute & Repeal Prohibition Party at Iron Smoke Distillery in Fairport. They had one there last year. Dozens of local musicians doing Waits songs, from romantic crooning to discordant, antisocial, spoken-word murder ballads. This time around the sun, Waits gets two days. Thursday starting at 7 p.m. is the Repeal Prohibition night, celebrating the 21st amendment, which on December 5, 1933, brought an end to the unpopular anti-alcohol 18th Amendment, which had left America dry for 14 years. Friday at 8 p.m. is the Birthday Tribute for Waits, who turns 70 on Saturday.

There’s a special $25 VIP ticket that includes drinks, a signed poster and a place to sit.

Otherwise, admission’s $7, you can order them on the Iron Smoke Distillery Facebook page.

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

[ OPENING ] 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Sheridan Vincent: Round & About Rochester. Dec. 9-Jan. 19. Reception Dec 13, 5-8pm. 546-8400.

Anthony Mascioli Gallery, Central Library, 115 South Ave. Art of the Book. Mondays-Saturdays.

Through Feb 1. 428-8350.

AsIs Gallery, Sage Art Center, 835 Wilson Blvd. The Backyard: Senior Works in Progress. Dec. 9-Jan. 19.

Reception Dec 11, 6pm.

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

Mondays-Fridays. Reception Dec 5, 5-7pm. 398-0220.

Fuego Coffee Roasters, 1 Woodbury Blvd. Will Cornfield: Imperfect Perfections. Dec. 6-31. Reception Dec 6, 6-9pm.

270-9214.

My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt Hope Ave. Mary Ann Sawyer-Wade: This & That, Here & There. Dec. 9-Jan. 19.

Reception Dec 12, 5-7pm.

RIT Bevier Gallery, 90 Lomb Memorial Dr., Booth Bldg 7A. Graphic Design Senior Capstone Show. MondaysSaturdays. Reception Dec 5, 4-6pm. 475-2646.

RIT City Art Space, 280 East Main St. R. Roger Remington: Formation. Thursdays-Sundays.

Reception Dec 6, 6-9pm.

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

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Studio 402, 250 N Goodman St. The Art of Giving. Dec. 6-27. Reception Dec 6, 6-9pm.

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Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. vsw.org. Courtney Asztalos: Encore. TuesdaysSundays.

Whitman Works Co, 1826 Penfield Rd. Penfield. Magic & Mayhem. WednesdaysSaturdays. Reception Dec 7, 6-9pm. 747-9999.

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Reception Dec 5, 5-7pm.

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540WMain, 540 W Main St. Shakiyla: Existence Over Extinction. Through Dec. 8.

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THEATER | ‘ROUSLANA & JELENA’

THEATER | ‘IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE’ RADIO PLAY

The press release had me at “The tale of tsar-crossed lovers.”

This week local theater collective DVC (Dream/Visualize/Create) will present “Rouslana & Jelena: A Modern-Day Russian Revolution,” which uproots William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” from 14th century Verona and plants the story in contemporary Moscow. And the title characters are women, so their love isn’t just thwarted by their families’ beef, they must also contend with an extremely intolerant culture. Same-sex marriage is not legal in Russia, and a 2015 Pew study found that 86 percent of Russians said homosexuality should not be accepted by society (that’s up from 60 percent in 2002, and 74 percent in 2013).

But before Americans feel too smug, we should remember that only one decade ago New York State voted no to legalizing gay marriage, and LGBTQ+ folks are still subject to discrimination and hate-based violence. Let’s hope a happier ending was envisioned for Rouslana & Jelena than The Bard’s ill-fated pair.

For some reason, holiday stories have this tendency to be simultaneously bleak and sentimental, entertaining dark themes before the central character conquers cynicism and turns it all around — usually with the help of some supernatural element.

The ones that immediately come to mind are “A Christmas Carol” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The latter story, first introduced to audiences with the 1946 Frank Capra film starring James Stewart, will be presented for one performance this week at Nazareth College. Central to the story is George Bailey, a family man who is desperately frustrated with his life and plans to end it. His guardian angel steps in to show him an alternate reality in which he never existed. The four-person Immediate Theatre Project will present the story as a play-within-a-play, performing as the members of WVL Radio Theatre try to present “It’s a Wonderful Life” live on-air during a Christmas Eve blizzard.

Thursday, December 5, through Friday, December 6, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, December 7, 2 & 7:30 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Avenue. $9 general admission in advance, $12 at the door, $5 for students. muccc.org; dvctheatre.com.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Art Center of Rochester, 563 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. Chloe Smith & Kaitlin Roney: Nothing Ethereal About Her. Through Jan. 17, 2020. 435-4677.

Arts Center of Yates County, 127 Main St. Penn Yan. Celebration.

Mondays-Saturdays. (315) 536-8226.

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

Through Jan 17. flcc.edu/ artspace36.

AsIs Gallery, Sage Art Center, 835 Wilson Blvd. Senior Seminar.

Through Dec. 11. 273-2267.

Bertha VB Lederer Gallery, 1 College Dr. The Landscape: Exterior/Interior. WednesdaysSaturdays. Through Dec 7.

245-5841.

Cad Red Gallery, 34 Main St. Pittsford. Laurence E. Keefe: Water & Color. Through Dec. 11. Candlelight party Dec 3, 5-9pm. 532-2100.

Casa Italiana at Nazareth College, 4245 East Ave. Angela Possemato: Images of Southern Italy. Mondays-Fridays.

Through Dec 15. 389-2525.

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.

Chocolate & Vines, 757 University Ave. Gale Karpel & Evelyne Albanese: Photography & Paintings. Through Dec. 30.

340-6362.

Colleen Buzzard Studio, 250 N Goodman St, #401 Anderson Arts. Revisiting home, Roberley Bell. Fri., Dec. 6, 6-9 p.m.

Dansville ArtWorks Gallery, 178 Main St. Dansville. Winter Exhibit. Thursdays-Saturdays.

335-4746.

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

The Worth of Water. MondaysSaturdays. Through Dec 7. hws.edu/davisgallery.

Davison Gallery, Cultural Life Center, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr. Kyle Lascelle: Schoenhal’s Symposium. MondaysSaturdays. 594-6442.

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Saturday, December 7, at 8 p.m. Callahan Theater, Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Avenue. $25-$50. 389-2170; artscenter.naz.edu.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. 244-1730. Good Things..come in small packages.

Through Dec. 21.; MudBooks.

Through Dec. 20.; Photography & Politics. Through Dec. 14.

Frank Argento Studio, 510 Park Ave. Dance: A Mixed Media Exhibit. Wednesdays-Saturdays.

512-4904.

Frontispace @ Art & Music Library, 755 Library Rd. Rebecca Aloisio: Z AXIS. Through Dec. 11. Reception Dec. 6, 5-7pm. 273-2267.

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.

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 Dec 30. thegeiselgallery.com.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. eastman.org.

Lena Herzog: Last Whispers.

Tuesdays-Saturdays. Through Jan 1. eastman.org/lastwhispers.; Tanya Marcuse: Woven. Tuesdays-Sundays.

Through Jan 5.; Anderson & Low: Voyages and Discoveries,.

Tuesdays-Sundays. $5-$15.; Relocating to America: A History of Photography through the Immigrant Lens. TuesdaysSundays. Through Apr 19.; Peter Bo Rappmund: Tectonics.

Tuesdays-Sundays. Through Jul 6.; Penelope Umbrico: Everyone’s Photos Any License.

Tuesdays-Sundays.

Go Art!, 201 E Main St. Batavia. goart.org. Debra Paprocki Heale & Washboard Dave Paprocki | Andrew Dumar | Members’ Challenge.

Wednesdays-Saturdays.

Through Dec 7.; Members’ Show. Thursdays-Saturdays.

GO Art: Salih Gallery, 24 E Bank St. Albion. 4X4 Exhibit. Fridays, Saturdays. Through Dec 21.

343-9313.

Hartnett Gallery, UR Wilson Commons, River Campus. Kelli Rae Adams: Work / Study.

Tuesdays-Sundays. Reception Dec 6, 5-7pm. 275-4188.

Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Holiday Show 2019. Tuesdays-Sundays.

Through Dec 22. 271-2540.

INeRT PReSS, 1115 East Main St. Far East. First Friday of every month and Thursdays.

Through Dec 26. 482-0931.

International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. David Kerstetter: Red Dahlia. Through Dec. 31. 264-1440.

Irondequoit Town Hall, 1280 Titus Ave. Irondequoit Art Walk. Mondays-Fridays.

Through December. irondequoitartclub.org.

Little Café, 240 East Ave. Working with Wax 2019.

Through Jan. 3, 2020.

258-0400.

Lockhart Gallery at SUNY Geneseo, 28 Main St. HandPicked: Art Expression of Farmworkers Who Feed Us. Wednesdays-Saturdays.

Through Dec 7. 245-5813.

Lumiere Photo, 100 College Ave. Small Show: The Large Show of Small Works.

Tuesdays-Saturdays. Through Dec 29. 461-4447.

Main Street Arts, 20 W Main St. Clifton Springs. The Cup, The Mug. Tuesdays-Sundays.

Reception Dec 7, 4-7pm.

Through Dec 14. (315) 462-0210.; Small Works 2019. Tuesdays-Saturdays.

Reception Dec 7, 4-7pm.

(315) 462-0210.

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.

Mercer Gallery at Monroe Community College, 1000 E. Henrietta Rd. Past & Present: Art about Guatemala, Drawings, Paintings, Relief Prints & Photos By Marilyn Anderson.

Mondays-Fridays. Through Dec 12. 292-2021.

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

Annual Members Exhibition.

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

More Fire Glass Studio, 36 Field St. Amanda Parry Oglesbee: Beings. Tuesdays-Saturdays.

Through Dec 23. 242-0450.

MuCCC Gallery, 142 Atlantic Ave. Valerie Berner: Making the Scenes. Through Dec. 29. muccc.org/artgallery.

My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt Hope Ave. The Hochstein School: Expressive Arts Show.

Through Dec. 8. 546-8400.

NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. rit.edu/ ntid/dyerarts. 6x6 Deaf Pride | Tactile Art. Mondays-Saturdays.

Through Dec 14.; Color to the Cube. Mondays-Saturdays.

Through Dec 14.

Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. Autumn Moods. TuesdaysSaturdays. Through Dec 7. oxfordgallery.com.

Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery, 71 S Main St. Canandaigua. Holidays at the Gallery. Through Dec. 31.

Through Dec 31. 394-0030.

Rare Books & Special Collections, Rush Rhees Library, UR River Campus. Victoria: A Ruling Image | Arthur Sullivan & the Royal Family: An Exhibition. Mondays-Saturdays.

Through Dec 20. 275-4461.

Roz Steiner Art Gallery, GCC, 1 College Rd. Heather Jones: M is for Mindful. WednesdaysFridays. Through Dec 12. genesee.edu/gallery.

Tower Fine Arts Center, 180 Holley St. Brockport. BFA Thesis Art Exhibition. MondaysFridays, Sundays. 395-2805.

University Gallery, Booth Hall, RIT, 166 Lomb Memorial Dr. William Keyser: Painting & Sculpture. Mondays-Saturdays.

Through Dec 20. 475-2866.

UUU Art Collective, 153 State St. Mathilde van Duffel d’Heynsbroeck: Photograph It Before You Eat It?. TuesdaysSundays. Through Dec 7.

434-2223.

Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. vsw.org. The Velvet Noose. Through Dec. 22.

Performance Dec 6, 6-9pm.

Williams-Insalaco Gallery 34 at FLCC, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Print Club of Rochester: 88th Annual Exhibition. Through Jan. 17, 2020. 785-1369.

Call for Artists [ WED., DECEMBER 4 ] 2020-2021 Exhibit Season.

Through Dec. 31. Roz Steiner Art Gallery, GCC, 1 College Rd genesee.edu/gallery.

Request for Proposals: Temporary Public Art Installations on East Ave. Through Jan. 31, 2020.

Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. To commemorate major women’s rights anniversaries in 2020 461-2222.

Art Events [ THU., DECEMBER 5 ] 16th Annual Empty Bowls Rochester. 5:30 p.m. Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. $30. kodakcenter.com.

Alphonse Mucha: Star Power, Posters, & Paintings. 7 p.m.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900 Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, ESM & UR w/ museum admission: $3-$7.50. [ FRI., DECEMBER 6 ] Anderson Arts Open Studios.

First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. Holiday Gala. Anderson Arts Building, 250 N. Goodman St. andersonartsbuilding.org.

Believe or Behave!. 5-9 p.m.

Cat Clay, 1115 E. Main St, #242 catclay.com.

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First Friday. First Friday of every month, 7-9 p.m. Gallery Q, 100 College Ave 244-8640.

First Friday Feature. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m Bonnie Gloris. Sylvan Starlight Creations, 50 State St., Bldg C. Pittsford 209-0990.

First Friday with Jason Dorofy. 8 p.m. Nox, 302 N Goodman St 318-2713.

Krampus Does Hungerford. 5-9 p.m. The Hungerford, 1115 E Main St. 414-5643.

Smells Like Teen Spirit: Adolescence in the Late Middle Ages. 4-5 p.m. UR Rush Rhees Library, 755 Library Rd 275-5804.

PHOTO BY BRADLEY BUTLER The Velvet Noose. 6-9 p.m.

Visual Studies Workshop, 31 LITERARY | SULFUR BOOKS GRAND OPENING Prince St. vsw.org .

A lot has changed in my blink-and-you’ll-miss-it hometown of Clifton Springs since I moved to Rochester. In 2013, the tiny Victorian village gained Main Street Arts, an art gallery that would have thrilled adolescent me. Aside from presenting fantastic exhibits of work by regional and national artists, the spot hosts film screenings and other cultural programming, and has its own artist residency program. And following a month-long renovation, last weekend Main Street Arts opened its newest initiative, Sulfur Books, a bookstore that will enrich the area even further with its emphasis on small press and translated texts and robust literary programming under the coordination of Rachel Crawford (who is a CITY freelanc[ SUN., DECEMBER 8 ] er). This weekend is the store’s grand opening, featuring a book Glass Works: Meet the signing and reading by Rochester author Brian Wood (6 p.m.).

Composer. 2 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Wood will read from his new book of short stories, “Joytime Killbox” 276-8900 .

(BOA Editons). And just down Main Street, the gallery will present [ MON., DECEMBER 9 ] an opening reception of its annual national juried “Small Works” Museum Mondays for Seniors: exhibition, as well as its vessel-focused exhibition, “The Cup.” [ SAT., DECEMBER 7 ] Native American Winter Arts Festival. 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Ganondagan State Historic Site, 7000 County Rd 41 .

Tiny Trunk Show. 11 a.m.-5 p.m Sylvan Starlight Creations, 50 State St., Bldg C . Pittsford 209-0960.

Ujamaa Marketplace. First Saturday of every month, 1-5 p.m. Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. 563-2145.

Butterfly Garden Experience. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Saturday, December 7, from 4 to 7 p.m. Sulfur Books, 18 East Sq. $10. 263-2700.

Comedy [ THU., DECEMBER 5 ] Chris Franjola. 7:30 p.m.

Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $12-$17. 426-6339. [ FRI., DECEMBER 6 ] The Italian Chicks. 8 p.m.

Downstairs Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place $25/$30. 325-4370.

Lewis Black. 8 p.m. Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. $39.50 & up. kodakcenter.com.

Dance Events [ THU., DECEMBER 5 ] DANSCORE. 7:30 p.m. Hartwell Dance Theatre, Hartwell Hall,, Kenyon St Brockport $9-$17.

395-2787.

Fall Dance Review. 7:30 p.m.

Callahan Theater at Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave 389-2170. [ SAT., DECEMBER 7 ] Blue Christmas. 9:30 p.m.

Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. $20/$25. 258-0400. [ SUN., DECEMBER 8 ] Vis Viva Dance Company. 7:30 p.m. Panara Theatre, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. 475-6254.

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Main Street, Clifton Springs. Free admission. 315-462-2665; instagram.com/sulfurbooks.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Theater Annie. Fri., Dec. 6, 7 p.m., Sat., Dec. 7, 2 & 7 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 8, 2 p.m.

Cobblestone Arts Center, 1622 NY 332 $15-$20. 398-0220.

A Christmas Carol: One-Man Show by Kim Tenreiro. Sun., Dec. 8, 2 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd Benefits Children Awaiting Parents $10. 426-6339.

A Christmas Carol. Thu., Dec. 5, 6:30 p.m. Cobblestone Arts Center, 1622 NY 332 Prologue 5:45pm $8/$10. 398-0220 Wed., Dec. 4, 7 p.m., Thu., Dec. 5, 7 p.m., Fri., Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Dec. 7, 2 & 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 8, 12 & 5 p.m. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd $12.50-$82. gevatheatre.org.

Christmas Eve from Radio City.

Sun., Dec. 8, 4:30 p.m. Bruce Legacy Theatre, 75 Stutson St. $12/$15. 802-8683.

It’s a Wonderful Life: Live From WVL Radio Theatre.

Sat., Dec. 7, 8 p.m. Callahan Theater at Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave $25-$50. 389-2170.

The Marvelous Wonderettes.

Fri., Dec. 6, 8 p.m., Sat., Dec. 7, 2 & 8 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 8, 2 p.m. Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave Studio Theater A48 $7. 389-2170.

Raging Skillet. Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, 2 p.m JCC Hart Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Ave. $20-$33. 461-2000.

Rouslana & Jelena: A ModernDay Russian Revolution. Thu., Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m. and Sat., Dec. 7, 2 & 7:30 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave DVC Theatre Co $5/$9. muccc.org.

The Santaland Diaries. Fri., Dec. 6, 7 p.m. and Sat., Dec. 7, 2 p.m. Bristol Valley Theater, 151 South Main St $20. bvtnaples.org.

Twelfth Night. Thu., Dec. 5, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m. and Sat., Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m. Tower Fine Arts Center, 180 Holley St Brockport $9/$17. 395-2787.

Holiday

PHOTO BY TOMAS FLINT

SPECIAL EVENT | ROC HOLIDAY VILLAGE

The weekend the second annual Roc Holiday Village kicks off, and continues each weekend through the new year. A City of Rochester initiative, the winter celebration converts Martin Luther King Jr. Park into a festive outdoor shopping village with appearances from Santa, free ice skating and other activities, live music, crafts, pop-up restaurants, a petting zoo, and celebrations of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, and Three Kings Day. The festivities incorporate regular downtown Roc holiday traditions such as the Lighting of the Liberty Pole, while bringing together loads of local businesses and organizations for activities, workshops, and holiday cheer.

Fridays through Sundays, December 6-8, December 13-15, December 27-29; Thursday through Sunday, December 1922; and Tuesday, December 31. Hours vary. MLK Park, 353 Court Street. For a full schedule and more information, visit rocholidayvillage.com.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Activism [ WED., DECEMBER 4 ] Project Drawdown: Solutions to Reverse Global Warming. 7-8:30 p.m. Henrietta Public Library, 625 Calkins Rd 359-7092. hpl.org. [ FRI., DECEMBER 6 ] Rochester Youth Climate Strike.

3 p.m. Twelve Corners Gazebo, Winton & Elmwood . [ SAT., DECEMBER 7 ] 2019 NY HempLab Conference.

9 a.m.-4 p.m. University of Rochester, 250 Hutchison Rd $15-$40. 430-2352. [ SUN., DECEMBER 8 ] Extinction Rebellion Rochester: Heading for Extinction (and What to Do About It). 5-7 p.m.

Rochester Zen Center, 7 Arnold Park 473-9180.

Kids Events [ WED., DECEMBER 4 ] Animal Encounters. noon.

Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $21.

263-2700.

Book & Beast. 11-11:30 a.m Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Free with paid Zoo admission. 336-7200.

Wildlife Action Crew: Polar Bears & Climate Change. 6-8 p.m Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St $45/$50. 336-7200.

Wildlife Rockstars. 11:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. rmsc.org. [ SAT., DECEMBER 7 ] The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Musical. 7 p.m. Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. $30 & up. kodakcenter.com.

Robin Flanigan & Heather Jones: M is for Mindful. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Hipocampo Children’s Books, 638 South Ave 461-0161.

Train Rides: The Polar Express.

11 a.m.-6 p.m. Medina Railroad Museum, 530 West Ave. $36-$51. 798-6106. [ SUN., DECEMBER 8 ] 2nd Sunday Storytime. Second Sunday of every month, 2 p.m. The Avenue Blackbox Theatre, 780 Joseph Ave. avenuetheatre.org.

Havana Hop. 2 p.m. Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St .

Geneva $6.50. thesmith.org. [ MON., DECEMBER 9 ] Storytime Club. 10:30 & 11:30 a.m Holidays Around the World.

Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. w/ museum admission: $16. 263-2700.

26th Annual Holiday Open House. Thu., Dec. 5, 5-9 p.m.

Park Ave, Alexander to Culver 576-0042.

Annual Holiday Artisans Fair & Sale. Sat., Dec. 7, 12-8 p.m. Arts Council for Wyoming County, 31 S. Main St artswyco.org.

Breakfast with Santa. Sat., Dec. 7, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 8, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St $5-$17.50. 336-7200.

Christmas Around The World.

Dec. 7-8, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Lake Ontario Wine Trail, 4287 Jersey Rd., Williamson $30. (315) 5898733. lakeontariowinetrail.com.

Dickens Christmas. Sat., Dec. 7, 12-6 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 8, 12-6 p.m. Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion, 151 Charlotte St .

Canandaigua $8. sonnenberg.org.

Genesee Keg Tree Lighting.

Fri., Dec. 6, 5-9 p.m. Genesee Brew House, 25 Cataract St. 263-9200.

Gifted, II. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Thursdays, 3-7 p.m Create Art 4 Good, 1115 E. Main St, Suite #203, Door #5 210-3161.

Glass-Blowing Demos & Holiday Sale. Fri., Dec. 6, 4-8 p.m., Sat., Dec. 7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. More Fire Glass Studio, 36 Field St. 242-0450.

Holiday Art Bazaar. Fri., Dec. 6, 5-9 p.m., Saturdays, Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 8, 10 a.m.-2 p.m The Yards, 50-52 Public Market attheyards.com.

Holiday Bazaar. Sat., Dec. 7, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Geneseo United Methodist Church, 4520 Genesee St. 243-3160.

Holiday Boutique. Fri., Dec. 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sat., Dec. 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Museum of Wayne County History, 21 Butternut St waynehistory.org.

Holiday Studio & Seconds Sale.

Saturdays, Sundays, 12-4 p.m Rochester Folk Art Guild, 1445 Upper Hill Rd rfag.org.

Holidays at the Market.

Sundays, 8 a.m.-2 p.m Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. 428-6907.

Holly Days. Sat., Dec. 7, 1-3 p.m. and Sun., Dec. 8, 1-3 p.m. Hinchey Homestead, 634 Hinchey Rd $5. 464-9740.

Holly Trolley. Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m NY Museum of Transportation, 6393 E. River Rd $8-$10.

533-1113.

Jingle Mingle. Fri., Dec. 6, 5:30-9 p.m. Victor Town Hall, 85 East Main St. 576-0042.

Metro Justice Alternative Fair. Fri., Dec. 6, 5-9 p.m. and Sat., Dec. 7, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd $3 suggested. 271-9070.

Roc Holiday Village. Dec. 6-29. MLK Jr. Memorial Park, 1 Manhattan Sq. Closed Christmas Day.

Sweet Creations Gingerbread Display. Through Dec. 16.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. eastman.org w/ museum admission: $6-$15.

Tabletop Tree Display & Silent Auction. Tuesdays-Sundays George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. eastman.org Through Dec 17 w/ museum admission: $6-$15.

Winter in the Village. Sat., Dec. 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. GCC Dansville Campus Center, 31 Clara Barton St . Dansville 343-0055.

Recreation [ SAT., DECEMBER 7 ] Family-Friendly Winter Nature Walk. 10 a.m. Montezuma Audubon Center, 2295 State Rt. 89 . Savannah $5/child, $10/adult, $25/family. (315) 365-3580.

Saturday Snowshoeing. 1-3 p.m Helmer Nature Center, 154 Pinegrove Ave $3/$5, $15/ family. 336-3035.

Special Events [ THU., DECEMBER 5 ] 2nd Annual Rochester Pitch Competition. 6 p.m. Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. rmsc.org. [ FRI., DECEMBER 6 ] ZooBrrrew. 5-8:30 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St $35-$40. 336-7200. [ SAT., DECEMBER 7 ] Star Wars Episode IX Celebration. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. $3-$18. rmsc.org. [ SUN., DECEMBER 8 ] Toy & Collectible Show. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Village Gate Square, 274 N. Goodman St. 442-5700.

Culture Lectures [ THU., DECEMBER 5 ] Stage Whispers: Conversations with Theatre Professionals.

10 a.m. Casey McNamara: Costumes & Characters. Tower Fine Arts Center, 180 Holley St Brockport 395-2787.

Literary Events [ THU., DECEMBER 5 ] Ocean of Coffee Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. The Dalai Java, 157 S Main St . Canandaigua Featuring poetry & translations

by Leah Zazulyer 394-2065. [ FRI., DECEMBER 6 ] Sonja Livingston: The Virgin of Prince Street. 6-9 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave wab.org. [ SAT., DECEMBER 7 ] Brian Wood: Joytime Killbox.

6 p.m. Sulfur Books, 18 East Main St . Clifton Springs (315) 462-2665.

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Film

Noah Jupe in “Honey Boy.” PHOTO COURTESY AMAZON STUDIOS

Of film and honey “Honey Boy” (R), DIRECTED BY ALMA HAR’EL OPENS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6 [ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

If art offers a means to process life experiences and give an audience a glimpse at the world through the eyes of its creator, actor (and now screenwriter) Shia LaBeouf has clearly taken that to heart with the deeply personal “Honey Boy.” A tour through the performer’s troubled past, the film lets viewers join in what amounts to an extended therapy session. The result is more compelling than it might sound, a moving exploration of art, trauma and the connection between the two.

Having been performing nearly his entire life, LaBeouf grew up in front of the cameras and over the years has proven himself a gifted

actor. Living in the public eye is never easy, but eventually his talent on screen threatened to be eclipsed by his increasingly dismaying behavior off of it, culminating in an arrest after a drunken altercation with police in 2017.

That episode resulted in a court-mandated stint in rehab, during which time the actor was assigned by a counselor to write about his childhood, providing the origins of the script for “Honey Boy,” a lightly fictionalized filmic account of his experiences. It’s an act of cinematic exorcism, allowing LaBeouf to confront the history of addiction that has afflicted his family through several generations.

His stand-in in the film is actor Otis Lort, who we meet as a young man (played

by Lucas Hedges) in 2005 while shooting a “Transformers”-esque action extravaganza.

In his own words “an egomaniac with an inferiority complex,” Otis lands in rehab following a car accident while under

the influence. There he’s guided by his psychologist (Laura San Giacomo), reckoning with his both memories of childhood, and relationship with his father.

The narrative cuts back and forth to 1995 when Otis (played by an excellent Noah Jupe) is a rising child actor with a gig on a successful television sitcom. During that period, Otis is being accompanied to sets by his father James (played by LaBeouf himself ) and living out of a rundown motel. A former Vietnam vet, registered sex offender (due to his actions during a blackout-drunk bender years prior), and former rodeo clown performer, James is deeply invested in his son’s career.

“Honey Boy” gets its title from the name Otis is called by his father, a phrase that coming from him is as much a put down as it is a term of endearment. The “bad dad” tropes are familiar, but it all feels genuine, with raw and honest emotion behind it.

We see him drilling Otis on his lines and debating which readings are likely to get the most laughs. He’s pushy, and at times his extremes can turn physically and verbally abusive. Insisting he’s Otis’s “cheerleader,” James points out how he’s pooled everything into his son’s career while claiming the boy’s mother has gotten a job in case Otis fails as an actor. He’s immensely jealous and prideful, taking the presence of Tom (Clifton Collins Jr.), Otis’s Big Brother mentor, as a personal affront and feeling humiliation at the fact that his own son pays his salary.

A natural talent, Jupe gives a soulful performance as a young boy forced to take on roles well beyond his years. Otis may be the family breadwinner, but he still desperately needs his father to be in charge and act like, well, a father.

Their dynamic is a relationship rooted in trauma, and the pain inflicted on Otis by his father became a permanent part of him, both emotionally and artistically. But that pain also provided the roots from which Otis’s talent grew — his father is most likely the reason he became an artist in the first place. There’s a devastating scene where James refuses to get on the phone with Otis’s mother, leaving the boy to act as go-between, and as he relays the invectives each parent spits at one another, he takes on their mannerisms, providing glimpses of the gifted actor he’ll grow to become.

Singer-songwriter and dancer FKA Twigs gives a sweet, economical performance as a sex worker who also lives in the dingy motel where Otis and his father reside. Her quiet, but almost motherly presence offers Otis the affection he’s been starved of.

Between this and “The Peanut Butter Falcon,” LaBeouf is having a very good year.

One might be tempted to dismiss “Honey Boy” as navel-gazing, but there’s a vulnerability to what LaBeouf is doing. Giving one of his finest screen performances, he doesn’t completely vilify his father, treating him with compassion and clear-eyed understanding.

An extended version of this review is online at rochestercitynewspaper.com. Adam Lubitow is a freelance writer for CITY. Feedback on this article can be directed to becca@rochester-citynews.com.

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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT COUNTY OF HORRY CIVIL ACTION NO. 2019-CP-26-04254 In Re: Estate of William Johnson SUMMONS QUIET TITLE ACTION AND PARTITION ACTION OF REAL PROPERTY Eddie Johnson, PLAINTIFF vs. Elizabeth Carr, Bessie Carr, Sarah Carr, Carrie Hemingway, Calvin Hemingway, Lawrence Knox, Michael James Knox, Alphonza R. Knox, Lawrence Knox, Jr., Ray Anthony Knox, Barry Lynn Knox, Mary Lena Sparkman, Debbie Sue Knox, Connie Knox, Gregory Johnson, Kenneth Johnson, Danzel Poracha, Alexis Pena Poracha, Danzel Poracha, Jr., Michael Greene, Ellis Johnson, Eunice Johnson, Nellie Mae Perkins, James Chancy Johnson, Carl Johnson, Patricia Johnson, Jacqueline Johnson, and All persons Unknown Who are or might Claim to be heirs at law of WILLIAM JOHNSON, and being designated as John Doe and Jane Doe, and Including Any Unknown Persons in the armed forces of the United States of America, any minors and persons under a disability of any kind or nature, John Doe and Jane Doe, Representatives of any Unknown Heirs, DEFENDANTS. TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the subscribers, Law Offices of N. David DuRant and Associates, P.A. at their offices, 1801 Glenns Bay Road, Post Office Box 14722, Surfside Beach, South Carolina 29587, within thirty (30) days after the service hereof, and if you fail to answer the Complaint within the time aforesaid, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court for a judgment by default against you for the relief demanded

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Notice of Formation of PML Properties LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) October 22, 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 the LLC at 123 Hale Haven Drive, Hilton, NY 14468. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of LOST DRAFT PROCESSING, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/26/19.

Office location: Orleans County. Princ. office of LLC: 3008 Crandall Rd., Albion, NY 14411. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Tyler J. Allport at the princ. office of the LLC. As amended by Cert. of Amendment filed with SSNY on 10/15/19, name changed to LOSS DRAFT PROCESSING, LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MHB Property Solutions Residences, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) September 26, 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 40 Amann Rd, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MK Consulting & Training, LLC filed Article of Organization with the Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/5/2019.

Office in Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Christine Merle, 170 Orchard Park

Notice of Formation of Narvaez Transportation, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 11/1/2019. 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 6887 Forth Section, Brockport, New York 14420. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ]

[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of RBG PROPERTIES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/15/2006.

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 Michael Radigan, 14 Concord Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of REC 298, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/6/19.

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, 1858 Jackson Rd, Penfield, NY 14526.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Redstart Solutions LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/04/2019. 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 United States Corporation Agents, Inc, 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ]

location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 1169 Howard Road, Rochester, NY 14624.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of formation of River’s Edge Party House, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/1/2019. 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, 92 Colin St, Rochester, NY 14615. Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Formation of ROC FIT Collective LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 09/26/19.

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 281 Elwood Drive, Rochester, NY 14616.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Top Shelf Capital, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/01/19.

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 300 Hylan Drive, Ste 6-130, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of SLS Select Properties LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/16/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 9621 Hallett Lane, Hammondsport, NY 14840. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Valerie Goodberlet Travel LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) September 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 74 Grandview Dr Fairport NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Speedy Pomegranate Studios, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/11/2019.

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 1661 Shallow Creek Trl Webster, NY 14580 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SRS2 of New York, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/5/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 1169 Howard Road, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SRS3 of New York, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/5/19. Office

Notice of Formation of SUN RAINE LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10-18-19 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 200 WESTVIEW COMMONS BLVD #B Rochester NY 14624 Purpose any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Wind Song Cottage, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 9/27/19.

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 P. O. Box #444, Brockport, NY 14420.

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 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.

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Notice of Formation Onda Capital LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 10/18/19.

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 P.O. Box 750, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Qualification of GCP REIT IV MLO, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/30/19.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/30/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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

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

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

[ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 1037 Jay St. Rochester NY 14611 on Friday 12-20-19, 9:00 am. The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents. NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, Leroy Colbert Unit 109-8 owes $288, Carlene Andrews Unit 114 owes $308, Natali, Lopez-suarez Unit 133 owes $288, Gregry Simmons unit 148 owes $308, Christopher Flores Maldonado Unit 201 Owes $288, Ahmed Alarmi Unit 206 owes $$288, Kenneth Smith Unit 231 Owes $220.00, Leslie Bushnell Unit 306 owes $228, Aziz Saleh unit 339 owes $184, Ayria Lawson unit 340 owes $184, Russell Brewster unit 345 owes $368. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Public Auction being held at Chester’s Self Storage 600 W Broad St. Rochester NY 14608 on Friday, 12/20/19, 9:00 am. The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents. NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, Bernadette Preson Unit 21 owes $328.00. [ 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 JB Electric and Solar LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/25/19.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Florida (FL) on 9/5/13.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the FL address of LLC: 96 Willard St, Ste 205, Cocoa, FL 32922.

Arts. of Org. filed with FL Secy of State, 500 South Bronough St, Tallahassee, FL 323990250. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of North Ponds Apartments (Phase II) Owner KofP LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/24/19. 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 Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of PARK AVENUE PORTFOLIO TIC HOLDER LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/17/19. Office location: Monroe County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/16/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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

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Legal Ads filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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

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Notice of Qualification of Park, East & Meigs Apartments Owner KofP LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/15/19. Office location: Monroe County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/09/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808.

Renovation Consulting, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/27/17.

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 2604 Elmwood Ave., #113, Rochester, NY 14618. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] ROC EZ AUTO LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State

To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com (SS) on 11/15/2019.

LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to 5018 Ridge Road West, Spencerport, NY 14559. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] Belhseine Ridge Road, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 10/24/19. 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 745 Titus Avenue, Annex Building,

Rochester, NY 14617.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] D&T Rents Dansville LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 11/18/19.

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 P.O. Box 92280, Rochester, NY 14692. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] EcarsUSA Service, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 10/24/19.

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 745 Titus Avenue, Annex Building, Rochester, NY 14617.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] FEENEYS AUTO LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 10/08/2019.

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 4992 W Ridge Rd. Spencerport NY 1459.

The purpose of the Company is Automotive repair. [ Notice of Formation ] KatieCreative, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 10/11/19. 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 503 Brixton Trail, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: TC ROC Holdings, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on October 23, 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 One S Clinton Ave., Suite C200, Rochester, NY 14607, Attn: Member.

Purpose: any and all lawful activities.

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[ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of Formation of HOOKEDUP CHARTERS, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/24/2019. 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, 29 White Hill Drive, Rochester, NY 14625.

Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of Formation of Royal Wash Holdings, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/5/2019.

Office location: Monroe County SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whomprocess 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 OF GREENVESTMENTS, LLC ] Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY l 0/16/2019 Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may mail copy of process to 131 TRYON PARK, ROCHESTER, NY 14609. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) is 950 Reynolds Associates LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on November 1, 2019. Office location is Monroe County, New York. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 16 East Main Street, 950 Reynolds Arcade Building, Rochester, New York 14614. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] 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 ] EZ Dumpster, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 11/5/2019 with an effective date of formation of 11/5/2019.

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 100 Owens Road, Brockport, NY 14420. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Goaltender Development LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 11/12/2019 with an effective date of formation of 11/12/2019.

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 32 Wilelen Road, 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 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ Notice of Formation] Hodge Property Management, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 10/23/2019. Office location: Orleans County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 2414 Center Road, Kendall, NY 14476. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. E2019009160ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Betty J. Newman, Deceased, any persons who are heirs or distributees of Betty J. Newman, Deceased, and all persons who are widows,

grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be deceased, and their husbands, wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; Elizabeth A. Newman; Catherine D. Newman, a/k/a Catherine Chandler; New York State Department of Taxation and Finance; United States of America; “John Doe” and/or “Mary Roe”, Defendants. Location of property to be foreclosed: 1043 Ogden Parma Town Line Road, Town of Ogden, Monroe County, New York TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State.

The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof.

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

Speak to an attorney or go to the Court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: September 23, 2019 MATTHEW RYEN, ESQ. Lacy Katzen, LLP Attorney for Plaintiff Office and Post Office Address The Granite Building 130 East Main

Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION: The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by Plaintiff recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on October 19, 2004 in Liber 19235 of Mortgages, page 398 in the amount of $25,000.00; and mortgage recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on January 20, 2009 in Liber 22139 of Mortgages, page 100 in the amount of $25,000.00; and Consolidation Extension and Modification Agreement recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on January 20, 2009 in Liber 22139 of Mortgages, page 108. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, The plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action except for Betty J. Newman.

To the above named Defendants: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. J. Scott Odorisi a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated November 15, 2019 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage. The premises are described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Ogden, County of Monroe and State of New York, as distinguished as being the northwest corner of Lot 3 in said Town and more particularly bounded and described as follows: Commencing in the center line of Ogden Parma Town Line Road at the northeast corner of the premises heretofore conveyed by Mary G. Clement, et al, to Carlton E. Schleede by deed dated November 30th, 1949 and recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 2583 of Deeds, at Page 281; thence southerly along the easterly line of the said Schleede premises to Salmon Creek; thence in a northeasterly direction along the bank of said Creek until it intersects the north line of said Lot 3 at the center of the aforesaid highway at the bridge; thence west along the center of said highway to the place of beginning. Excepting therefrom premises conveyed by Deed recorded in Liber 9525 of Deeds, Page 369.

Property Address: 1043 Ogden Parma Town Line Road, Spencerport, NY 14559 Tax Account Number: 085.02-1-23

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