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Domestic partner benefits strengthen families.”

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Redistricting plods along.

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Mayoral control redux.

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MCC: Long wait ahead.

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Designs on a better Rochester Good urban design isn’t alchemy. But, then again, maybe it is. The right building in the right spot with the right elements — see-through windows, a clearly marked, welcoming entryway — can have a powerful, transformative effect, almost like magic.

Good design in action: the Flatiron Building on University Avenue. The makeover of that building helped invigorate the University-Atlantic area, says Joni Monroe, executive director of the Rochester Regional Community Design Center (pictured above).

The not-so-good: the Brooks Landing project, which, Monroe says, looks like someone picked up a piece of Henrietta and set it down in the Brooks Avenue-Genesee Street neighborhood.

A transformation of Rochester and its neighborhoods will take time, commitment, investment, and an understanding that change doesn’t happen overnight and that doing something is better than not doing anything, Monroe says. Most of all, she says, it will take a well thought out plan that the whole community participates in and believes in.

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Mayoral control redux

On Assembly member David Gantt’s plan to re-introduce mayoral-control legislation: The

schools reflect the city. Gantt has done nothing to improve the city and he will not do anything to fix the schools.

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Government downsize has to occur. Mayoral control is a step in the right direction.

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I’m not sure what (if anything) government downsizing has to do with running a school system.

But I suggest you look into the effects mayoral control has had on other cities, such as NYC, DC, and Chicago. It’s done nothing to raise student achievement whatsoever.

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I’m a conservative, but I’ve got to say it’s refreshing to see a politician of any political party around here take a strong stand on something. Usually all we get is trite pap about how whatever do-nothing policies they support are “for the kids” or are “investing in the future” or some other meaningless catch phrase. Go Gantt!

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Mr. Gantt seems to be ignorant of the link between poverty and education results. He also does not understand how the mandates which the state has imposed on districts makes the costs so high.

As an assemblymen these would be things he should be working on.

Instead he is distracting us with talk of mayoral control without any argument why an appointed board would be better than an elected one. This is particularly odd as 6 of the 7 members of the current board were selected by the Democratic Party committee. Are there really better people who the Democratic committee is holding in reserve? It is terrible that we have to waste time fighting such an awful political stunt.

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Debating fracking

On our December 27 article on the negative impact of naturalgas drilling: The long-term effects

of environmental and human health destruction are not figured into the “positives” of this unconventional shale gas. It is new and is not proven safe. We are just guinea pigs. Just like cigarettes and slavery were “allowed” unrestrained, we found out they were bad, but it took too long. Sing with me now: “Old school fossil fuels, makes a few rich and the rest of us fools”!

KIM FEIL

Natural gas is the cleanest burning fossil fuel; until we advance algae-based fuels to commercial level, we must produce more fuel in America. We need to become self-sufficient and relieve our dependence on Middle East oil.

We need to demand technological solutions to complaints aired in this story.

MEREDITH MARSHALL

Fracking has been around for a long time, and you only hear of the bad things about it. Toyota sells cars that are recalled everyday, but the public doesn’t stop buying them. I have been on both sides of drilling for 20 years (gas, oil, and environmental); all I can say is, keep an open mind to fracking. Stop and think of something in your life that does not revolve around some form of fossil fuel (heat your home, fill your gas tank, transport food to the store and all the forms of plastic in your life; yes, Walmart bags, too).If you don’t want to live like humans did thousands of years ago, stay open-minded.

JASON TOJDOWSKI

Insuring partners

On our December 21 article on the University of Rochester’s health-insurance coverage for domestic partners: As a UR

employee with a different-sex partner, I have been extremely frustrated with the “marriageonly” policy for benefits. Previously, benefits were only extended to different-sex partners if they were married, whereas same-sex partners could access the benefits without the legal license.

Now that marriage is available to all, there is still an outright bias towards marriage, which is becoming less and less popular (and feasible) for many Americans,

according to new data from the Pew Research Center. It comes down to this: employees deserve equal pay for equal work. Those in long-term, committed relationships, regardless of whether they hold a marriage license, deserve access to the same benefits as those in a legally sanctioned marriage.

Domestic partnership licenses are available through the city for the same cost as a marriage license, but with less stringent parameters that meet the needs of far more people. According to the Human Rights Campaign, of the US companies that offer domestic partnership benefits, 95 percent extend them to both same- and different-sex partners. That means the UR is in the 5 percent of those who discriminate against those who choose not to be married for financial, ethical, or practical reasons. How many people are we losing in recruitment solely because their partners would not be eligible for coverage?

I’m going with my partner today to become domestic partners, and I hope in the New Year the University’s policy will have shifted towards progressive inclusion.

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I think it is always better be more inclusive rather than restrictive.

Each couple has their own reasons for whether marriage is right for them. Just like heterosexual couples, each situation is a personal decision. Allowing domestic partners to have access to benefits is only in the best interest of the employee and employer. Health insurance rates are so high that having a partner without coverage puts the couple at financial risk with medical bills that can not be paid without insurance coverage. Domestic partner benefits strengthen families. Is it not in the best interest for all to have flexibility and access to health care? Especially from a health-care institution. I long for the days of community-rated health insurance.

SUE COWELL

The University of Rochester shares the concerns of the people quoted in this article.

Let us emphasize that our samesex domestic partners policy is currently under review. We will have more to say when our review is completed.

SHARON DICKMAN

Dickman is spokesperson for the University of Rochester.

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COMMENTARY | BY JEREMY MOULE

On Keystone, Obama should just say no President Barack Obama should flat-out reject TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The proposed 1,700-mile pipeline would link Canada’s Alberta tar sands to refineries and ports on the Gulf of Mexico.

Obama has less than 60 days to decide whether to approve the project, thanks to Congressional Republicans who tacked the 60-day ultimatum onto the payroll tax-cut extension passed last month.

Obama isn’t expected to consider authorizing Keystone XL until environmental reviews are completed. But he should just kill it. There are plenty of good reasons to do so, most of them related to the potential environmental damage.

For starters, the pipeline’s current proposed route crosses through Nebraska’s vast Ogallala Aquifer. Many Nebraskans, including some elected Republicans, have rightly expressed concern about the prospect of spills within the aquifer, a major source of drinking and irrigation water.

Environmentalists also worry about the effects that extracting oil from tar sands could have on the areas surrounding the mining sites, including water pollution and deforestation.

But the pipeline proposal is, at its core, an international climate issue. Keystone XL would increase export opportunities for tar-sands crude by providing a direct route from the sands to Texas refineries and ports.

Compared to conventional oil production and consumption, tar sands are dirtier and generate substantially more greenhouse gas emissions. Some studies estimate that a barrel of tar-sands crude generates several times the greenhouse gas emissions of a barrel of conventional oil.

The tar sands — which technically do not contain tar — yield a petroleum source called bitumen, which is essentially a molasses-like heavy crude. The bitumen is extracted in one of two ways.

One method is to dig up the sand, then use hot water to separate the bitumen from it.

But for deeper bitumen, high-pressure steam is forced into the deposit, thinning the bitumen so the sludge can be sucked up to the surface. That’s an energy-intensive process that consumes natural gas.

In fact, a 2009 Greenpeace report says natural gas is used in almost every step of producing oil from tar sands. For example, the bitumen is too thick to pipe to refineries, so facilities called upgraders have to thin it. That process uses natural gas.

A better solution than the pipeline would be to invest in and advance energy conservation and renewable energy sources.”

The same report says US refineries consume higher amounts of energy when they process the tar-sands crude.

The tar sands aren’t the only unconventional fossil-fuel source that energy companies are interested in. Stateside, it’s been shale gas, as in Marcellus Shale. A Cornell University professor’s study showed that shale gas, from production to consumption, generates more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas. There’s also serious concern that the favored extraction method, hydraulic fracturing, can lead to contaminated water supplies.

See a pattern here?

Companies and countries have already tapped the easy reserves. In the process, populations across the world got hooked.

Consumption keeps increasing, whether through fuels or manufactured products like fertilizer and plastics.

The US Energy Information Administration predicts that in 2035, global energy consumption will have doubled since 1990. The EIA also predicts that global greenhouse gas emissions will increase substantially; that’s bad news for the climate.

Global dependence on fossil fuels, however, means money for energy companies. That’s why they’re looking at tar-sands oil and shale gas. Even a decade ago, these sources were not economically practical for companies to exploit.

Now that prices are higher and demand remains strong, however, the companies can turn a tidy profit from these products. That happens at the expense of the environment.

There’s a strong case to be made that the pipeline, and oil from the tar sands, isn’t in the best interests of the US and also the world. A better solution would be to invest in and advance energy conservation and renewable energy sources.

Let’s hope Obama sees it that way too.

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Get the frack out of town

Brighton Town Board members approved a one-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing and related activities within town limits. The law is largely symbolic, since Brighton is not within the Marcellus Shale formation, though it does lie on top of the deeper Utica Shale formation. Energy companies want to extract gas from the shale using a combination of deep wells, horizontal drilling, and fracking.

The law is a way for the town to put its opposition to the process on record.

City school district ends DP benefits

The Rochester school district has stopped offering domestic partner benefits to its employees now that same-sex marriage is legal in New York. But LGBT groups are critical of the decision, concerned that it may coerce couples to marry in order to obtain benefits. DP benefits are also used by opposite-sex couples.

RCSD seeks budget input

The Rochester school district is seeking public input on its 2012-2013 budget through a survey, which is

available on the district’s website: www.rcsdk12.org.

The survey asks for recommendations about what is most important, as well as information about the survey-taker’s relationship to the district.

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Kodak’s board resignations

Three Eastman Kodak directors on the company’s board resigned within days of each other, fueling questions about the struggling company’s future.

Laura Tyson is the latest director to resign. Adam Clammer and Herald Chen resigned earlier last week.

Occupy Rochester draws about 30 to 50 people a day to Washington Square Park. Photo by MIKE HANLON

Leadership change on City Council

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City Council member Dana Miller is Council’s new vice president, replacing Council member Elaine Spaull. Lovely Warren remains Council president. The switch was announced the same day that newly re-elected Council people were sworn in for their new terms. The change in leadership was apparently a mutual decision.

Sworn in on Tuesday were: Adam C. McFadden, South District; Carla Palumbo, Northwest District; Elaine Spaull, East District; and Lovely Warren, Northeast District.

Deadline approaching for Occupy Rochester Occupy Rochester plans to stick around and the city seems willing to let it…for now.

January 11 marks the expiration of the agreement that lets Occupiers stay in Washington Square Park around the clock.

But the agreement, signed by Mayor Tom Richards and Occupy Rochester in November, includes language allowing for renewal, two months at a time, as long as Occupiers are in “substantial compliance with the terms” of the pact. The pact sets conditions on the Occupation, including prohibiting alcohol and firearms.

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Occupy Rochester sent a letter to a city attorney last week requesting a renewal, says Ryan Acuff, Occupy Rochester’s park-use liaison to the city. The letter emphasized that Occupiers have complied with the agreement’s terms, he says.

Richards says he doesn’t know whether the city will renew the agreement. He does say, however, that he’s happy with how the agreement has worked out so far, and that Occupiers have lived up to their end of the deal to the best of their ability.

“That doesn’t mean this can go on forever,” he says. “There has to be some end to this. Hopefully we

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can come to a mutual agreement [about the conclusion].”

Occupy Rochester is still drawing 30 to 50 people a day to Washington Square Park, Acuff says, and about 10 to 15 stay overnight. The cold weather, however, has required some adjustments.

“We’re trying to move most of our stuff indoors,” Acuff says. And by “stuff,” he means events like teach-ins.

The Occupiers hope to continue through the spring when it’s likely that more people would gather in and flow through the public space, Acuff says.

Legislators could have an independent commission draw the new district maps. During the 2010 elections, that’s what many legislators pledged to do. Assembly and Senate leaders and some rankand-file members, however, have gone back on that promise. Governor Andrew Cuomo has said he’ll veto any map that’s not independently drawn.

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Redistricting plods along

MCC: next steps

More than a year ago, the US Census Bureau released the data necessary to start the legally required statewide and congressional redistricting process. But the State Legislature begins 2012 without new district lines or even a proposal to vote on.

It’s not that legislators have ignored redistricting — the process of redrawing legislative district lines to account for changes in population. Since late December 2010, a joint Assembly-Senate task force has held hearings and its staff has analyzed data. State of Politics, a political blog, says lawmakers plan to release maps next week.

Several factors have delayed the process.

For example, the federal government is suing New York over its primary election date. The decision in that case will affect the deadline for the maps, as well as other election timelines.

And Senate Republicans sued — unsuccessfully — to overturn a 2010 law that says inmates must be counted at their last addresses, and not at the prisons where they are housed. The GOP hasn’t yet exhausted its appeals.

Legislators also have to decide which two congressional districts they’ll eliminate. New York has to get rid of the seats because the state lost population.

It could be three years before the Kodak site is ready to accept MCC students.

The site has to undergo a thorough environmental review, says Ken Goode, president of MCC’s Board of Trustees. | “We’re hoping the environmental review will happen within six months to a year,” he says. “Once those environmental approvals are met, the County Legislature has to approve the project and about $35 million in bonds, which is the county’s share of costs.” | But the Legislature’s approval isn’t a given. Some Democrats say they agree with Mayor Tom Richards that MCC should stay in the Sibley Building. And at least two Democratic votes are needed to borrow the money for the project. | SUNY has already approved the balance of the roughly $72 million project, Goode says. But SUNY also has to approve the board’s selection of the Kodak site. | Despite all the steps involved, Goode says he hopes there is a way to accelerate the project by a year. | “That’s providing there’s nothing that causes a hiccup,” he says. | The MCC board voted last month to move the college’s downtown campus to Kodakowned property on State Street and Morrie Silver Way.

State Assembly member Joe Morelle, who also chairs the Monroe County Democratic Committee, says he’s not sure what will happen with Joe Morelle. FILE PHOTO redistricting.

During the 2010 elections, many legislators pledged to have an independent body draw the new lines.

Assembly and Senate leaders and some rankand-file members, however, have gone back on that promise.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has said he’ll veto any map that’s not independently drawn.

A gubernatorial veto could lead to de facto independent redistricting, says Bill Mahoney, research coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group — NYPIRG. If the governor vetoes maps passed by the Legislature, then the process will likely be turned over to a judge. The judge then appoints someone to draw the districts.

A judge may end up overseeing redistricting anyway. Senate Democrats and a legal group have each filed a federal lawsuit seeking to put the process in the court’s hands.

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Mayoral control redux: Gantt relights the fire

Assembly Member David Gantt: “We know that what we have now is a failure.” FILE PHOTO

The mayor doesn’t want to deal with it now.

Rochester’s interim schools superintendent doesn’t want to deal with it now. The State Assembly member who co-sponsored the legislation in 2010 says this isn’t a good time for it. And parent activists, school district unions, and the school board are ready to attack it again.

So if State Assembly Member David Gantt introduces legislation to put the mayor in charge of the school district, as he said last week that he’ll do, it will almost certainly be dead on arrival in Albany.

Gantt says he’s bringing the issue up again because Rochester’s children aren’t receiving a good education under the current system. And he blames the school board, which ultimately is in charge. But given the turmoil that erupted in 2010, the most immediate question might be whether this is a battle worth fighting. If there were proof that mayoral control improved student achievement, it probably is. In 2010 there was no such proof, though, and there still isn’t, says Hunter College public-policy professor Joseph Viteritti, who has done extensive research on the topic.

In some mayoral-control cities, achievement has improved, Viteritti said in an interview last week; “in some, not.” Among the “nots”: New York City, where national test scores have stayed flat since mayoral control was instituted more than eight years ago.

“There is no discernable pattern where cities with mayoral control are doing better than cities without it,” Viteritti said.

Why even consider it, then? Mayoral control can “create a capacity for change,” Viteritti said, and in the right hands, the results can include improved achievement.

It may make it easier to make major changes in curriculum, in school organization, and in teacher training and assessment, for example.

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Teachers union President Adam Urbanski: No chance of supporting mayoral control. FILE PHOTO

And there are other advantages. It focuses accountability onto a single elected official — the mayor — rather than on a seven-member school board whose members can be at odds with one another. And, said Viteritti, it solves a problem Rochester mayors have complained about for years: the mayor has no control over how the school district spends its money. In New York State, the large urban school districts don’t submit their budgets to taxpayers the way they do in the suburbs. Instead, the mayor must propose a tax rate that will both fund city services and provide millions of dollars for the school district. Mayoral control, notes Viteritti, “puts the responsibility for achievement in the hands of the person who raises the money for that achievement.”

“And in some cases,” said Viteritti, “that has led to an increase in funding for education.” That has been true in New York City, Boston, Washington DC, and Chicago, he said.

On the down side, there are plenty of hurdles and risks. There’s no one version of mayoral control, Viteritti noted, and to be successful — and keep community support — the new system must include checks and balances, through City Council, perhaps, to prevent the mayor from having too much control. The new system also must guarantee that parents and the larger community have access to decision makers.

And perhaps most important: Even if the state legislators approved mayoral control, if there was strong local opposition — from teachers, from parents, from other parts of the community — carrying out the changes that would lead to academic improvement would be very difficult.

Mayoral control for Rochester has even more

strikes against it now than it did in 2010. The school board is in the early stages of looking

Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas: “I can’t get distracted in any way.” FILE PHOTO

for a new superintendent, and uncertainty about who’ll be in charge of the school district would almost certainly complicate the search.

In addition, conflict over the proposal would be a distraction for the mayor and the interim superintendent at a time when both have more than enough on their plates. In fact, a fight over mayoral control could sap the focus from other efforts to improve education — and from attempts to mend the rift between City Hall and the school district.

In the past, Mayor Tom Richards has supported the idea of mayoral control, although he said when he became mayor that it wasn’t high on his list of priorities. Late last week, Richards said that he doesn’t think mayoral-control legislation has “any kind of chance of success in the near future” and that it wouldn’t be wise for him to spend time and energy on it.

“What I’ve observed” from the 2010 attempt, he said, “is that everything else stops. I don’t want to do that.”

And, he said, “I don’t think anybody ever thought it was a panacea.” City and school officials can work on other issues that are impeding progress, he said, and it’s better to spend energy on them.

So far, Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas, like his predecessor Jean-Claude Brizard, has chosen not to comment on mayoral control or Gantt’s plans. And he said last week that he won’t get pulled into a discussion about it.

“I can’t get distracted in any way,” Vargas said. “I can’t take my focus away from the school district even for a minute.”

School board President Malik Evans, who helped lead the opposition to Gantt’s previous legislation, hasn’t softened his opposition to mayoral control. And he disagrees with Gantt’s assessment that the board is the problem.

Mayor Tom Richards: “I don’t think anybody ever thought it was a panacea.” FILE PHOTO

“I think it’s not fair; I think it’s divisive,” Evans said last week.

Also ready to fight Gantt: teachers union President Adam Urbanski. If Gantt and Assembly Member Joe Morelle — who cosponsored the legislation in 2010 — were truly interested in improving student performance, Urbanski said, they could make more money available for health and social services for city students and their families.

And even Morelle isn’t siding with Gantt on the issue this time. “I do appreciate David’s concerns,” he said. “There’s no question that the fortunes of the children of Rochester have not gotten appreciably better.” But, he said, the mayor didn’t request state legislation.

“This is the kind of proposal that ought to be advanced at the request of the city and in the form and the design that the city has asked for it to be introduced,” Morelle said.

Gantt’s move, he said, wasn’t “entirely fair to the city.”

Gantt is obviously aware of all that. And

clearly something’s wrong: far too many children are leaving school without an education that prepares them for college or a job. Gantt says he doesn’t know whether mayoral control is the answer to the district’s problems, but he says he has to do something.

“Over 50 percent of our kids are failing,” he said last week. “Listen, the fact is we know that what we now have is a failure. Why would I want to continue to do the same thing?”

He also sees the district’s low graduation rate in terms of a low return on tax dollars.

“What’s happening to our money?” Gantt said. “I don’t mind paying taxes, but I want to get what I’m paying for.”

The school board’s mismanagement of a nearly $700 million budget, he said, is the central problem. Gantt cited students going continues on page 10

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JONI MONROE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE RRCDC | PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK

Good urban design isn’t alchemy. But, then again, maybe it is. The right building in the right spot with the right elements — see-through windows, a clearly marked, welcoming entryway — can have a powerful, transformative effect, almost like magic.

Good design in action: the Flatiron Building on University Avenue.

The makeover of that building helped invigorate the UniversityAtlantic area, says Joni Monroe, executive director of the Rochester Regional Community Design Center.

The not-so-good: the Brooks Landing project, which, Monroe says, looks like someone picked up a piece of Henrietta and set it down in the Brooks Avenue-Genesee Street neighborhood. Or the Rochester Riverside Convention Center, with its extended blank wall on Main Street.

“What you’re going to get is a deadened, long block in the middle of your downtown that is going to be rife with problems because people object to walking there,” Monroe says. “It’s lifeless. It lacks vibrancy.”

The nonprofit RRCDC is made up of design professionals, planners, and citizens whose primary function is to offer design guidance and recommendations through cooperative planning with neighborhood organizations, city officials, and other groups.

Recently, the RRCDC coordinated design charrettes for the Corn Hill and Plymouth-Exchange neighborhoods — helping each group create a vision for their community. That can include plans for land use, public art, lighting, public safety, zoning, and myriad other elements.

“What they need is a form-giver to their ideas,” Monroe says.

“That’s really what we do. We give form to people’s ideas in ways that makes them understood and expresses them with a certain intelligence and integrity.”

Transformation, Monroe says, takes commitment, investment, community participation and ownership, and an understanding that change doesn’t happen overnight and that doing something is better than not doing anything.

Most of all, Monroe says, it takes a plan — something Rochester doesn’t have. Monroe says she hopes that will change through the work of the Downtown Task Force, which is spearheaded by Marcia Barry, director of planning and zoning for the city. The task force meets monthly and is working on updates to the downtown master plan, which was adopted by City Council in 2004. A follow-up design charrette in 2007 built on the plan.

“Every American city that is successful right now, they all have vision plans,” Monroe says. “You have to have a blueprint for the future. If you develop your city and your neighborhoods on a fragmented level, on a project by project basis, it’s a recipe for reactivity and spinning your wheels and wasting time.”

In a recent interview, Monroe talked about the principles of good design, the importance of preservation, and how to transform Rochester and its neighborhoods. An edited version of that discussion follows.

COVER STORY | BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN

CITY: You talk a lot about the principles of good design. How do I, as someone who has not been schooled in design, know that something has been designed well?

Monroe: There are certain things that I think all good buildings in a community setting should have. Permeable windows: I can see what’s going on inside. I feel really odd about a building with either a blank wall, or a building that has something over the walls where I can’t see in. Am I going to go in there? No. Having an identifiable entryway where, even if you have dual entryways, they’re celebrated as entrances. Many [modern] buildings have entryways you have to go down to, or all these strange contortions. And really, what you want to do is make a building fairly easy to get into, and you want to celebrate this idea of having the entryway because it’s where you’re greeted, where there’s some kind of reception into the building, even if it’s a very humble building or somebody’s house or apartment.

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And then there’s a certain scale to the building: where you feel that the windows and doors have human scale.

They’re not outrageous.

The new Eastman wing is so beautiful. It’s obviously a modern building, but it’s a great building as an example of having a permeable front: you can see right into it. It has a very distinct entryway, and it’s welcoming. And you come into that great atrium. You feel like, “I’m in an important place.” Which it should say. Buildings should talk in the way that they’re designed, so you don’t need a sign to tell you where the entrance is.

When you look at that building, it has a relationship to the buildings around it. It takes its place on the street. And those are qualities that well-designed buildings have, no matter what style.

These rules are thousands of years old. I didn’t invent them. They are things that have worked since the beginning of time.

What is Rochester getting right, in terms of design?

Certainly there are projects that we have done well in recent years in terms of mixed-use kinds of things.

In the South Wedge, I would say the new Abeles Building and the addition of housing there is very well thought out. It subscribes to good principles of design in that it fits into its context, it’s providing a function, and it contributes to the street.

There are some projects that are being done by the Urban League on State Street.

They’re reutilizing the beautiful historic buildings on the corner of Brown and State.

Do they have inhabitants yet for the main floor? No. Will that happen in time? Yes. Retail comes last.

The Sagamore is a really lovely addition to the downtown, and it has that mixeduse quality. You have the ownership of very high-end condominiums, then you have

some businesses that inhabit those main floors. There’s the wonderful music store Bernunzio’s, providing instruments and opportunities for performance. All those great things help to invigorate a city.

If you took the environment on Gibbs Street and you multiplied it out, there are certain rules that have been followed, certain things it offers from a physical environment standpoint that make it extremely attractive to be there. You can see into all the buildings. There’s parking along the street, and there are some wonderful businesses and street-level kinds of activities going on.

And the Eastman Theatre has this wonderful canopy that makes you feel sheltered and comfortable walking there.

What do you feel when you’re standing on Main Street?

Right now, the Main Street is extremely disjointed. And our gateways need

to be accentuated. Gateways can be very complex. They can be extremely monumental with sculptures, plantings, and the street can change shape and all that. Some can be quite simple.

But to build gas stations at the gateway? To allow the cruddiest architecture in the world at the gateway to your downtown? It says volumes about how we feel about our downtown.

If you want people to respect the downtown, you can’t just say, “Respect the downtown.” Or, “Come downtown!” You have to figure out why someone would want to come downtown, and what do you put there? Do you put an IMAX theater downtown? Maybe you just work your tail off trying to get some retail establishments.

There’s a lack of connectivity downtown.

We have a concentrically zoned city. If you start at the very center of the downtown and you work out, you can see how our corridors go out from the downtown like a wheel. And all those corridors have a personality that’s very different from the one that’s next to it on the wheel.

We need to redevelop those corridors, accentuating those personalities, supporting the development on the street, reconnecting the streets back into those neighborhoods.

St. Paul and Main is a primary intersection of our city, along with Exchange and Main, Clinton and Main — major nodes within our downtown. I would say that if we were doing a vision plan for downtown, we would start to address these major nodes. We don’t have to do them all at once. But at least address St. Paul and Main. You have visitors coming in from out of town and staying at the Hyatt, the Radisson. How unpleasant to come out of your hotel and be standing on St. Paul and Main.

You have to have standards. If you don’t have standards as a person, certain things are going to unfold in your life as a result of that. And if you don’t have standards as a community, the same thing is going to happen.

You can go to communities that really have standards and see Rite Aid stores that are unrecognizable, like the Rite Aid we have on Monroe and Goodman. That did not arrive there accidentally. That was because of huge input by the citizens about how it was going to be designed. And now it’s the urban model.

ESL was originally going to be much more suburban looking. But people politely but firmly said, “No, this is our neighborhood and this is what we want.”

What about Midtown? We’re planning the future of arguably the most crucial parcel in the city.

[You can’t just look] at that site as a nine-acre site. [You have to look at] everything around it. How it connects or doesn’t.

One of the reasons Midtown failed in the first place was it was very insular. It had no permeability, and it didn’t connect to anything around it.

Following the rules of good design, you would permeate the site with some streets.

Inside, Midtown was our public green.

I would venture to say it’s our public green now. [We should] look at that metaphor and say, “How can this function again as the heart and soul of our community?”

And what does public green mean? Does it literally mean green space? Maybe.

And maybe that becomes something.

Maybe part of that space does stay open and green. Maybe you have a festival place. Maybe you have a place for the Jazz Festival every year.

The RRCDC has entered the battle to save the Cataract Building from demolition.

Some people say you can’t save everything.

The estimate is that it would cost close to $10 million to stabilize and make that building reusable.

The Flatiron building may have been cost-prohibitive to do, but what does it do in terms of its catalytic value for the entire neighborhood? That’s where you look at the context of the Cataract Building and what that building could do for St. Paul Street, for the downtown, and the side opposite High Falls. Nobody does that.

Look at where that building is. Are there any cities in this country that have a 100-foothigh waterfall in the center with a historic brewery and all the buildings mostly intact, that could be redeveloped, that could be world famous? Why would we squander that?

Seriously, do you put a dollar value on it? I’m not saying that you don’t have to be practical. I’m just saying that what we need as a community is to have more time with these projects. We need to deal with them before they become a project. We needed to have been dealing with that site — even though it’s privately owned, it’s in the public context of our city.

I think the major difference between Rochester and other successful cities is that these other cities do take action on things, they do have a plan in place.

In other cities, they even will stabilize buildings that may not be able to be developed today. If a roof had been put on the Cataract Building….

Let’s stabilize some of these buildings that are significant and then down the line when they have to be redeveloped, they won’t cost $7 million or $8 million.

How many people do you hear talk about how horrible it was that we took away the Bragdon train station? They’ll cry about it. My God, if you don’t stand up for these buildings and these communities, then they are going to be taken away. Who’s going to do that?

It’s a tough argument to make, though, spending that kind of money when the city is cutting police officers, the school district is laying off teachers, and the rest of it.

I understand, but you’re comparing apples and oranges. If you’re talking about the built environment, talk about the built environment. What can we do in the built environment to strengthen the overall economy? To increase the number of jobs?

Make it better overall for us as a tax base?

We have a budget related to our police and a budget related to our physical environment.

I guarantee that if people made an investment in the Cataract Building and did it tastefully and beautifully, there would be investment — if the city also made an investment in that section of St. Paul Street in the public realm — there would be private investment, because there already has been private investment in some of those buildings.

It’s very easy to come back with statements about budgets. It’s very easy to come back

with statements about poor economic times. It’s very easy to come back with something that just puts a wall up. What we’re trying to do is break some of those walls down.

I think we lose sight of the fact that things can be done in phases. It’s that slow, steady working toward something and turning it around. We’re a society that has become absolutely insatiable in our desire to turn things around quickly.

In Grand Rapids, they’re re-establishing the old brick streets. Are they doing all of them? No, they can’t afford to do all of them.

Are they doing them when they can? Yes. So when you go to their downtown, it’s just absolutely beautiful.

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without books to take home and many needing extra instructional help just to pass as clear evidence of the board’s failure.

It’s questionable whether Rochester would

ever accept mayoral control. Teachers union President Adam Urbanski said he can’t envision any circumstance in which the union would embrace it, and in Albany, the powerful teachers union NYSUT is equally adamant in its opposition.

Maybe there’s another route, another way to both improve student achievement and solve the conflict between City Hall and the school district.

Rochester can’t watch another generation of children going through school and not getting a good education without doing something, said Assembly Member Joe Morelle. “The question is: What’s that something? And can we build consensus around it?”

Both Morelle and Richards sounded hopeful that city and school district leaders will be able to find common ground, working on such things as afterschool programs, school modernization, maybe even funding. Richards has been talking with both Vargas and Urbanski, and all three say the discussions have been positive.

“We now have a mayor that has consistently said that he believes in collaboration between the city and the school district,” Urbanski said. “My hope is that he will continue to hold that position.”

And Richards talked about the need to let Vargas focus on education. “Here’s this guy, an interim superintendent — it’s critical that he be successful,” said Richards. “What I should be trying to do is make this guy successful.”

“If I get off onto something else that has little chance of succeeding” but that reignites emotions and hostility between City Hall and the district, “he has no chance,” Richards said.

Would Richards ever consider supporting mayoral control?

Maybe, off in the future, he said. Right now, he’s focusing on “slow, steady progress.”

“That’s what we can hope for,” he said.

Nothing is going to “revolutionize things and solve the problem in a year or two,” he said.

Eventually, if collaboration doesn’t work, would he support mayoral control?

“I suppose,” Richards said. “But what I’d like to say to the community is: Look, we’ve tried.”

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

Urban Action This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities.

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

A talk about Arab-Israeli environmentalists

The Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester will present “The Environment: Arabs and Israelis Work Together to Protect the Region’s Resources,” a talk by Alon Tal at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, January 9. Tal is a visiting professor in the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University, and he is co-chair of Israel’s Green party. His talk is at Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Avenue.

Fracking discussion in Rush

The Rush Methodist Church will host the discussion, “The Impact of Hydrofracking on the Town of Rush

at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, January 10. Jordan Kleiman, associate professor of history at SUNY Geneseo, will describe fracking and why there is public concern about it. And attorney David Slottje will talk about safeguarding the community in the face of industrialscale drilling. The event is at 6200 Rush-Lima Road (Rte. 15A) in Rush.

Mentor training sessions

The Judicial Process Commission will hold mentoring training sessions for adult volunteers interested helping men and women successfully return to the community after incarceration. The training sessions will be held on Monday, January 16, and Tuesday, January 17, at Friends Meeting House, 84 Scio Street. The sessions are from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. and include dinner. Attendance at both training sessions and registration are required. Contact: Valerie White-Whittick, 325-7727.

Forum on tax liens

Rochester City Council will host a public forum on tax liens at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, January 12. City administrators and staff from American Tax Funding Services will be available to answers questions.

To speak, call 428-7538, or sign up that evening.

The forum is at City Hall, Council Chambers, 30 Church Street.

Film on climate change in Rochester

Progressives in Action will present a screening of “Comfort Zone,” a documentary film that is still in production about how Rochester will be impacted by climate change.

Filmmakers Kate Kressman Kehoe, Dave Danesh, and Sean Connelly will show their film at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 10, at the Grapevine Restaurant, 122 Chestnut Street in East Rochester.

Dining own farm, which in turn produces the food that he serves at the restaurant.

Anyone who has ever squinted at the fine

At Samba Café: feijoada, a Brazilian stew served only on Fridays (pictured left); a fruit smoothie (pictured right). PHOTOS BY MATT DETURCK

Eat like a Brazilian farmer Samba Café 350 State St. 287-5700, sambacafeauthenticbrazilian.com Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-5 p.m. [ REVIEW ] BY JAMES LEACH

Winter has returned to Rochester at long last.

Our two-month reprieve from snow and ice came to an abrupt end last week, and within a day I started thinking about escaping to somewhere warm and sandy. At such times, I’ll often gravitate toward Latin-American food, particularly the food of the islands — I’ll seek out Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican food (the latter two cuisines are well-represented in our city).

And then one wet afternoon, with the sky spitting snow, I stumbled on the cheery green, yellow, and blue sign outside Samba Café on State Street, right across the street from Kodak’s headquarters. It was lunchtime — open only until 5 p.m. weekdays, Samba Café is not really a dinner kind of place — and most of the folding chairs in the sparse dining room were full

of happy people working their way through massive plates of food that looked very much like the sort of thing you’d see at most Puerto Rican joints in town, with one crucial difference. Where the food at most Puerto Rican and Dominican take-outs glistens with juicy fat and abundant gravy, the plates I saw here were lighter looking.

The meat was grilled rather than stewed, the greens sautéed rather than boiled, the rice white and fluffy rather than annatto-tinged and dense. Intrigued, I wandered up the counter, and grabbed a menu.

If you’ve ever heard of Brazilian food, it’s

likely been in the context of a churrascaria, a Brazilian steakhouse where waiters wander around with long skewers of grilled meat, slicing off bits of this and chunks of that for diners. There are no skewers, no open grill, and no waiters at Samba Café. What owner Paulo Botelho offers is the food that the waiters in those high-end restaurants are probably eating in the kitchen at the end of their shifts — black beans, rice, greens or salad, and simply grilled meat served with chopped tomato and onion, with a bottle of hot sauce close at hand to liven things up

a bit. This, Botelho explains, is the food he grew up with in the state of Minas Gerais in southern Brazil. It is cooking he learned from his grandmother on the family farm as a child.

In the same way that Americans have Southern food, Brazilians have cozinha mineira, simple comfort food distinct from the flashier fare served at churrascaria and high-end restaurants. This style is long on rice and black beans, the former enriched with little more than butter and salt, the latter dolled up with fresh garlic, black pepper, and onions — no cumin, hot pepper, or pork fat, as is almost universally found elsewhere. It isn’t poverty food, but it’s not the food of the idle rich, either.

It is food meant to keep a body moving through afternoons of hard work on a farm. And that’s exactly where Botelho hopes to end up. As he tells it, keeping the business going so far hasn’t given him the opportunity to develop a close relationship with a local farmer (he does a fair amount of his shopping at the Public Market), but he eventually wants to own a farm of his own, setting up a self-sustaining system in which the profits from the restaurant support his

print that reads “pre-cooked weight” under the name of their favorite “quarter-pound” burger can tell you that grilling can drastically reduce the mass of a piece of meat. In many cultures where meat is grilled, the pieces are small and served on skewers as a sort of condiment to vegetables and starch. All of the meat at Samba Café is grilled and then sliced into bite-sized pieces. Botelho has a masterful touch at the grill, putting beautiful marks on beef, chicken, and pork, and cooking them just right — the steak a gorgeous mediumrare, the pork and chicken done but still tender and juicy within.

The pork is particularly worthy of praise.

Since pork is lean and tender, and therefore easily overcooked, Botelho marinates the meat before tossing it on the grill and then dresses it with a nice quantity of lime while it is resting.

(Adding it to a marinade would toughen the meat, and hasten drying over open flame.)

Samba offers a fairly extensive menu, but it’s this grilled meat that deserves your attention. Served either on a plate with rice, beans, and either salad (Brazilian plate, $8.50), or sautéed collard greens (Miniero plate, $8.50), or in a tortilla (Brazilian wrap, $7.50), lunch at Samba won’t set you back more than $10, and even then you are likely to have leftovers. The wraps, particularly, are gigantic. My companion, who was overwhelmed by the size of the dish put in front of her, proclaimed that her lunch was “stomach sized” — a fair description of an entrée that hung over both sides of the plate.

Big is something of a theme at Samba.

Half of a chicken panini with bacon and cheese ($7), beautifully grilled on what tasted like a real Cuban roll — dense and sweet with a good crust on the outside — was easily six inches wide and seven inches long. A thick and gooey quesadilla ($5-$7) was so large that at first we thought that Botelho had made a mistake and given us two orders rather than one. Even the salads are big, easily split between two people and full of all sorts of good things including house-pickled beets, crunchy greens, hearts of palm, and shredded mozzarella cheese (a nod to Botelho’s native queijo minas, a cheese similar in texture to both Mexican queso fresco and Italian ricotta salata), along with Botelho’s own balsamic-lime dressing to zip things up. If this is how farmers normally eat in Brazil, I think I know where I’ll be taking my vacation this winter.

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Upcoming [ Reggae/Hip Hop ] Aer Saturday, February 11. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 7 p.m. Ticket price TBA. 325-5600. waterstreetmusic.com. [ Folk/Rock] David Wax Museum Wednesday, February 29.

Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 8 p.m.

Ticket prices TBA. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com.

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[ Country ] Lady Antebellum Sunday, June 3. CMAC, 3355 Marvin Sands Drive, Canandaigua. 7 p.m. $30-$59.50.

393-4880. cmacevents.com.

Teddy Geiger

Friday, January 6 Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 7 p.m. | $17 | 325-5600, waterstreetmusic.com [ POP/ROCK ] Rochester’s own Teddy Geiger rose to

national fame in 2005, when he appeared on VH1’s “In Search of The Partridge Family” and toured with Hilary Duff, and had a huge pop-radio hit with “For You I Will (Confidence)” the following year. Since then Geiger has released a nearly constant stream of music, while also trying his hand at acting. (He was in 2008’s “The Rocker” and the TV show “Love Monkey.”) Geiger is busy working on his next release, “The Last Fears,” with help from PledgeMusic, where fans assist with funding the album’s creation. — BY ANDY KLINGENBERGER

RPO Pops: “Carousel” Friday-Saturday, January 6-7 Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 8 p.m. | $15-$87 | 454-2100, rpo.org [ BROADWAY ] Since its premiere in 1945, Rodgers and

Hammerstein’s “Carousel” has delighted audiences with a story of love and all that can go wrong — and right — in its name. “Carousel” includes favorite songs “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and “If I Loved You.” The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra production will feature Ben Crawford as Billy Bigelow and Alexandra Silber as Julie Jordan. Silber, who trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, won the British 2009 Theatrical Management Association Award for Best Actor in a Musical for this very role. — BY PALOMA CAPANNA

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Wednesday, January 4

[ CLASSICAL ] South of St. Petersburg, Russia, lies

Veliky Novgorod, one of Rochester’s sister cities. This Sister City Connection celebration event features faculty and students from the Eastman Community Music School performing works by Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Kabalevsky, and others. Concert goers will also be treated to photographs of Novgorod and artwork inspired by Russian folk tales and mythology.

Following the concert, there will be a reception with Russian treats and sweets. Assisting with the event is Linkages of Rochester, Inc. — BY PALOMA CAPANNA

Mike Kaupa Monday, January 9 Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 7:30 p.m. | Free | thelittle.org/cafe.php [ JAZZ ] Just back from club gigs in Barcelona, Spain,

trumpeter extraordinaire Mike Kaupa is bringing his Duo Project to the Little Theatre Café every Monday in January. A featured soloist in the Dave Rivello Ensemble, Kaupa has also lent his gorgeous tone to Ray Charles, Steve Gadd, Gary Bartz, and others. In the spirit of jazz adventurousness, Kaupa will take on a different partner each week. Rising star guitarist Gabe Condon joins him January 9. Then he’ll duel with pianists Nick Weiser on January 16 and Bill Dobbins (January 23) before closing out the month with bassist Ben Thomas (January 30). — BY RON NETSKY

[ Blues ] Open Blues Jam w/Nate Coffee. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe.com, 2714650. 7:30 p.m. Call for info.

Ringing in your ears [ review ] by frank de blase

The year 2012… Christ, if I thought I’d live this long I would’ve taken better care of myself — my ears, anyway. All the bands I’ve loved over the years come to bed with me at night in the form an incessant ringing in my ears. This week, the nocturnal airraid siren got goosed once again by visits to several high-octane, high-volume shows.

Dub-step and drum-and-bass elude me to a certain extent; I’m not sure exactly what I’m supposed to feel, but I enjoy its swirling dynamic. I’m also amazed at its impact on revelers who ride the lightning and interpret the music with a sort of freeform gesticulation that resembles trying to fly, shrink, or get out of a straitjacket.

This was all going on during the RIPROC extravaganza Friday, December 30, at Water Street Music Hall. DJs ping-ponged sets between the two stages as the crowd continued to grow. Girls in gasmasks, guys in stormtrooper helmets, kids with hula hoops, and folks clearly on their own planet kept the vibe high. My one complaint wasn’t so much the volume, but rather the complete lack of mid-range; it was all subsonic lows with shrieking high tones. In between? Tumbleweeds.

Slipped over to Abilene to catch

Krypton 88’s second set full of croonin’,

swoonin’, and twang. While guitarist Jim Via picks casual and cool, vocalist Jenna Weintraub works it like she owns it, and drives it like it’s a rental. She will take you for a ride. Hold on to something, or someone.

Saturday night was the show I had been waiting for: the Trashcan Records Reunion at the Bug Jar. Muler was airborne when I pulled in; the energy was palpable as the band worked through a set of its punkish indie rock. But it was pop-rockers The Quitters that I was particularly fired up to see. Like the Jam and Cheap Trick before them, this band finds melodies The Beatles overlooked (probably when they were hanging out with Ravi), skewer them with a blistering hook, and top it off with lyrics dipped in self-deprecation and wit.

The Thundergods followed, and what do you know? It was loud as hell. Brilliant, three-chord power rock that left me and the crowd spent.

Happy new year! And to all the bands I bring to bed this year, stay away from my wife, and don’t hog all the pillows.

[ DJ/Electronic ] DJ. One, 1 Ryan Alley. 5461010. 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Babi Katt/Dancehall Reggae. Blueroom, 293 Alexander St. 730-5985. 10 p.m. $5 after 11 p.m.

DJ Cosmo. Bay Bar & Grill, 372 Manitou Rd, Hilton, NY. 392-7700. 10 p.m. Free.

DJ Keyyo. TC Riley’s, 200 Park Point Dr. tcrileysparkpoint.com, 2729777. 10 p.m. Call for info.

DJs Jared & Mario B. Venu Resto-Lounge, 151 St Paul St. 232-5650. 9 p.m. $5.

DJs NaNa & PJ. Vertex, 169 N Chestnut St. 232-5498. 10 p.m. $3-$8.

Teen Set 45 Party. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 542-8336.

Midnight. Free. [ Jazz ] Bob Hanley. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137. com, 385-8565. 6 p.m. Free.

Jam w/Chet Catallo & Friends. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Road 14623. stickylipsbbq. com. 9 p.m. Free.

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[ Acoustic/Folk ] Dave McGrath @ The Cottage Hotel of Mendon. Cottage Hotel, 1390 PittsfordMendon Rd, Mendon, NY. dave@davemcgrath.com. 7 p.m. Free.

Stains of Newark. Tala Vera, 155 State St. tala-vera.com, 546-3945. 8 p.m. $5, or free w/dinner.

String Theory. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. dinosaurbarbque.com. 9 p.m. Free.

Tommy Gravino. Rio Tamatlan, 5 Beeman St, Canandaigua.

394-9380. 6:30 p.m. Free.

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Keep it in the blue The Electro Kings Saturday, January 7 Salinger’s, 107 East Ave. 10 p.m. | Free | 546-6880 theelectrokings.com [ PROFILE ] By Frank De Blase

It’s the same all over: everybody’s got the blues. Every major metropolis, jerk-water burgh, or wide spot in the road has its share of legends, mavericks, and mainstays. There’s no shortage of guitar slingers, harp blowers, and howlers. But not every town has a band capable of such nonchalant elegance and ease as Rochester’s The Electro Kings.

Since 2000 this band has worked the local club scene with its take on classic blues, in particular that era when the blues was getting more and more rambunctious. The music calls back to the time when rock ’n’ roll first reared its head, still not ready for prime time.

An era of twilight between Howlin’ Wolf and Elvis Presley. An era that spawned everything — like The Electro Kings.

“As Muddy Waters said,” says Electro Kings front man, Luca Foresta, “the blues had a baby and named it rock ‘n’ roll.’”

Harmonicat-crooner Foresta cuts a mean two-tone, gabardine profile beneath the crown in this electro kingdom. His harmonica is clearly a homage to Little Walter. He sings casual and cool, but in such a way that carries as much wallop as Big Joe Turner used to, howling with the band from across the room. On any given night, in the gin joint du jour, the walls could be dripping with the dance floor’s steam heat. Yet The Electro Kings hardly break a sweat; unruffled, their hair remains perfect. Foresta — and the 14 City JANUARY 4-10, 2012

whole band for that matter — makes it look good, and makes it look easy. And it’s the little joints where the band shines.

“For me,” says Foresta. “I love the small clubs — compact, intimate, people are listening, hopefully there’s room to dance.

I like the closeness of the audience, having them right up in my face.”

Over the years Foresta has dealt with a rotating crew. However, the current line-up is solid and looks like it should reign for a while, as it blends so well with a swinging get-up and jump. You can blame a good deal of that on Mike Graham, the man with the big hands on the upright bass. Graham comes from more of a slap-style rockabilly background and applies it brilliantly, along with drummer Aron Nacman (Nacman spent some time drumming for John Mooney).

Switching from rhythmic chops to the slide guitar is Aleks Disljenkovic, a well-known slinger around the scene, who has played in groups including The White Hots.

Though surrounded by the blues, Foresta

didn’t really take notice of the music until 1989. That was the year he saw James Cotton at the long gone and legendary BK Lounge on West Main Street.

“I remember watching him,” Foresta says. “And that opened up my eyes as far as what to do on stage, how to sound.”

It was a defining moment, but not the only one. In 1990 Foresta went to the Chicago Blues Festival, where he saw Charlie Musselwhite playing with Honeyboy Edwards, Sunnyland Slim, Willie Dixon — the list goes on.

It was then that Foresta picked up the harmonica. His style developed quickly,

what with his broad appreciation of the various styles. He listened to the masters but didn’t want to be a copycat.

“I find it’s hard for me to follow someone right to the T and do exactly what they do,” he says. “Maybe it’s just that I can’t retain everything they do. I just get the basic idea and go off on it with my own riffs. By listening to different players, you get your own mix.”

Hot rodding your own harmonicas helps, too. “I rebuild them,” Foresta says. “I make new combs out of different wood, like Brazilian or ebony, for different tones. I also build my own amps.”

Foresta’s incredible tone starts with one of his custom harmonicas blown through a Green Bullet mic and out either one his homemade amps. It’s a beautiful tube amp sound, born out of necessity.

“I can’t afford to buy the vintage ones,” he says.

But being flush or having lean green, blues is more of a feeling to him. “It’s the stories,” he says. “The feeling I get playing the blues… I feel like I have a close connection to the blues. It’s a very down-to-earth music, it tells a story of a person’s accomplishments, their economic level — or the lack thereof.

Blues is a feeling. You hear it and then you feel it. You start playing and it comes out.”

Foresta says an Electro Kings album will be out sometime in the coming year. With band members stretched thin with families and other bands, the recording process has been slow going. The inevitable disc will aim to capture the band’s trademark blue flirtation with early rock ’n’ roll. And though it will no doubt jump and swing, as the band does nightly onstage, Foresta promises to “keep it in the blue.”

Weekdays through January!

Wednesday, January 4 Open Jam w/The King Bees. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe. com. 7:30 p.m. Free.

Paradigm Shift. Pomodoro Grill & Wine Bar, 1290 University Ave. 271-5000. 7:30 p.m.

Free.

Robert Chevrier. Pomodoro Monroe Ave, 3400 Monroe Ave. 586-7000. 6:30 p.m. Free.

Soul Express. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net, 6625555. 6 p.m. Free.

Uptown Groove. Little Theatre Cafe, 240 East Ave. thelittle. org. 7:30 p.m. Free. [ Open Mic ] Acoustic Open Mic. Pub 511, 511 E Ridge Rd. 266-9559. 8 p.m. Free.

All About the Song Open Mic. Starry Nites Cafe, 696 University Ave. songwriter1955@gmail.com.

7:30 p.m. Free. Sign up at 7 p.m.

Open Acoustic Mic Night w/ Mandy. Shorts Bar & Grill, 35 N Main St, Fairport. 388-0136. 9 p.m. Free.

Open Jam w/Big Daddy Blues Band. Deweys, 1380 Lyell Ave. 254-4707. 9:30 p.m. Free.

Open Jam w/Justin Gurnsey. Jukebox, 5435 Ridge Rd W, Spencerport. 352-4505.

10 p.m. Free.

Open Mic. Boulder Coffee CoSouth Wedge, 100 Alexander St. 454-7140, bouldercoffeeco. com. 8 p.m. Free.

Open Mic. Dr’s Inn Grill & Tap Room, 1743 East Ave. 2710820. 5 p.m. Free.

Open Mic w/Jam Shack Music.

Stoneyard Bar & Grill, 1 Main St, Brockport. 637-3390. 9 p.m. Free.

Open Mic w/Steve West. Muddy Waters Coffee House-Geneseo, 53 Main St, Geneseo. 2439111. 7-10 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Mr. Boneless w/Seth Faergolzia, All Of Them Witches. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bistro135.net, 662-5555. 8 p.m. $6-$8.

Thursday, January 5 [ Acoustic/Folk ] Chris Wilson Songwriter Showcase. Tala Vera, 155 State St. tala-vera.com, 546-3945. 8 p.m. $5, or free w/dinner.

John Akers & Elvio Fernandes.

Easy on East, 170 East Ave. 325-6490. 8 p.m. Free.

Live Band Thursdays. Blueroom, 293 Alexander St. 730-5985. 8 p.m. Free.

Nancy Perry. Mythos Cafe, 77 Main St, Brockport. 637-2770.

6 p.m. Free.

Paul Strowe. Cottage Hotel, 1390 Pittsford-Mendon Rd, Mendon, NY. 624-1390. 7-10 p.m. Free.

Reggae Night. Elite Bar & Grill, 398 W Main St. 527-8720. 9 p.m. Call for tix.

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HOLIDAY | Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival

Beefeaters, ladies-in-waiting, and shepherds visiting the holy family — these are just some of the characters and scenes that await you at this year’s “Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival” at the Third Presbyterian Church. The festival will include Christmas carol settings for choir and orchestra, with opportunities for the audience to join in. Musical selections will feature works by composers Andrew Carter, John Rutter, Paul Halley, Jonathan Dove, and Gustav Holst. An equally festive reception will follow both performances, and may even include mince tarts and plum puddings.

The Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival takes place Saturday and Sunday, January 7-8, starting at 4 p.m. each day, at Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St. Free. 271-6513, ThirdPresbyterian.org. — BY PALOMA CAPANNA blueroomrochester.com, 7305985. 8 p.m. Call for info. [ Blues ] Doubletake Blues Band.

Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. dinosaurbarbque.com. 9 p.m. Free.

The Fakers. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe. com, 271-4650. 7:30 p.m. Call for info. [ Classical ] ECMS Russian Friendship Concert. Eastman School of Music-Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. esm.rochester.edu. 7:30 p.m. Free.

Gibbs & Main. Reformation Lutheran Church, 111 N Chestnut. gibbsandmain.com. 7 p.m. Suggested $10 donation. [ DJ/Electronic ] Swagglerock, The Blackened Blues. Dub Land Underground, 315 Alexander St. RIPROC@ me.com. 10 p.m. $5.00 cover / $10 additional @ the door if you are under 21. [ Jazz ] Anthony Gianavola. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137.com, 385-8565. 6 p.m. Free.

Dave Rivello Ensemble. Village Rock Cafe, 213 Main St, E Rochester. 586-1640. 8 p.m.

Free.

Jazz/Wine Happy Hour w/The Swooners. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 5:30 p.m. Free.

Joe Santora Trio w/Emily Kirchoff. Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield R, Penfield.

383-8260. 7 p.m. Free.

Nate Rawls Group. Little Theatre Cafe, 240 East Ave. thelittle. org. 7:30 p.m. Free.

The John Palocy Trio. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net, 662-5555. Call for info. Free.

[ Open Mic ] First Thursdays Open Mic. Theatre 101, 101 Main Street, Mt. Morris. theatre101@live. com. 7 p.m.; performers sign in beginning at 6:30. Free.

Open Blues Jam w/Alex D & Jimmie Mac. PJ’s Lounge, 499 West Ave. 436-9066. 9 p.m.

Free.

Open Jam. Pub 511, 511 E Ridge Rd. 266-9559. 8 p.m. Free.

Open Jam w/Beau Ryan & Amanda Ashley. Firehouse Saloon, 814 Clinton Ave S. 244-6307. 9 p.m. Free.

Open Mic. Towpath Cafe, 6 N Main St, Fairport. 377-0410.

6:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic at Park Ave Boulder. 739 Park Ave. inneriotband@yahoo.com. 8 p.m. Free.

Open Mic w/Jed Curran & Steve Piper. Flipside Bar & Grill, 2001 E Main St. 288-3930. 8 p.m. Free.

Open Mic w/Mark Herrman.

California Brew Haus, 402 Ridge Rd W. 621-1480. 8 p.m. Free.

Rochester Ukulele Support Group. Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave. 473-6140, bernunzio.com. 7 p.m. Free.

Venu Studio Cafe Open Mic Hosted By Empress D & Lu Highsmith. Venu, 115 St. Paul St. emporessdierdre@tmo. blackberry.net. 7 p.m. Free.

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Music & Lyrics by Maury Yeston Book by Peter Stone

January 9 & 10 7-10pm Christ the Good Shepherd Church 1000 N. Winton Rd. www.everyonestheatre.com

It’s been 100 years... be a part of history Performances April 14-22, 2012 at West Irondequoit HS Produced by Special Arrangement with Tams-Witmark (www.tams-witmark.com) 560 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10226

[ Pop/Rock ] Benefit Concert for Haiti Mission w/PRISM Youth Band. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RIT. lovincup.com, 292-9940. 8 p.m. Call for info.

Doubletake. McGhan’s, 11 W Main St, Victor, NY. 924-3660.

Call for info. Free.

Hypnotic Clambake. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Road 14623. stickylipsbbq. com. 9 p.m. Free.

Jeff Elliott. Irondequoit Ale House, 2250 Hudson Ave. 544-5120. 5 p.m. Free. continues on page 16 rochestercitynewspaper.com City 15

Thursday, January 5 Jim Lane. Six Pockets, Ridge Hudson Plaza. 266-1440. 7 p.m. Free.

Les Racquet w/Right Turn Racer, The Greener Grass Band. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar. com, 454-2966. 8 p.m. $5-$7.

Teddy Geiger. House of Guitars, 645 Titus Ave. houseofguitars. com, 544-3500. 5 p.m. Free.

Friday, January 6 [ Acoustic/Folk ] Claire Fornarola. Boulder Coffee Co. - Park Ave. bouldercoffeeco. com. 8 p.m. Free.

Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad w/White Woods. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N Water St. waterstreetmusic.com, 3255600. 9 p.m. $12.

Jeff Slutsky. Boulder Coffee Co. -Alexander Street. bouldercoffeeco.com. 8 p.m.

Free.

Jim Lane. 58 Main, 58 Main St, Brockport. 637-2383. 6 p.m.

Free.

Loaded Goat. Towpath Cafe, 6 N Main St, Fairport. 377-0410, reverbnation.com/loadedgoat. 8 p.m. Call for info.

Ralph Louis. Rochester Plaza Hotel, 70 State St. rochesterplaza.com. 6 p.m. Free.

Tom Gravino. Tandoor of India, 376 Jefferson Rd. 427-7080. 7 p.m. Free. [ Blues ] Billy Joe & the Blues Gypsies w/Dave Riccioni. Six Pockets, Ridge Hudson Plaza. 2661440. 6-9 p.m. Free.

Celler Dwellers. Beale Street Cafe-Webster, 1930 Empire Blvd, Webster. bealestreetcafe.com, 216-1070. 7:30 p.m. Call for info.

Dave Viterna Band. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m.

Free.

Gap Mangione New Blues Band. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa.com, 3814000. 7:30 p.m. Free.

Steve Grills. Blueroom, 293 Alexander St. blueroomrochester.com, 7305985. 8 p.m. Call for info.

The Mama Hart Band w/Tivoli Skye. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RIT. lovincup.com, 292-9940.

9 p.m. $5 GA, $3 student.

Third Degree. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe. com, 271-4650. 7:30 p.m. Call for info. [ Classical ] John Ballings. Hedges, 1290 Lake Rd, Webster. 265-3850.

6:30 p.m. Free.

RPO: Carousel. Eastman Theatre-Kodak Hall, 60 Gibbs St. rpo.org. 8 p.m. $15-$87. [ Country ] Mike Snow. Sandra’s Saloon, 276 Smith St. 546-5474. 9:30 p.m. Free. [ Jazz ] Bobby DiBaudo Trio. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net, 6625555. 6 p.m. Free.

Taran. Anchor Bar Marketplace. anchorsportsbar.com, 2729333. Call for info.

The Robert Zimmerman Philharmonic w/Driftwood Sailors. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. abilenebarandlounge. com, 232-3230. 8 p.m. 21+ $6, unders $8.

METAL | Sirens & Sailors

JAZZ | Bill Welch Band

Local hardcore/metal outfit Sirens & Sailors released its most recent album, “Still Breathing,” back in November 2010. The album is an amalgam of hardcore styles, from guttural growling to the singing vein of screamo; the band doesn’t stick to a single style, and it’s not averse to using more than one in a single song. Since forming in 2005 the band has honed its chops by playing in venues up and down the Eastern seaboard, and is kicking off its next tour at the Water Street Music Hall this Saturday.

Maybe one way to describe the Bill Welch Band is to say that it reminds me of the Doobie Brothers song “Jesus is Just Alright.” After all, the local sextet’s influences include genres like gospel and jazz. It incorporates keyboards, Latin percussion, and saxophone to create moments of mellow 70’s grooves.

Welch is a top-grade singer with Christian roots whose expressive voice resonates with a soulful vibe. But I think comparing the body of work of this group’s 20-year career to one song won’t do it any justice. This band is too deep. There is sincerity in the Bill Welch Band’s words and deeds, whether it’s the lyrical themes of compassion and gratitude or the group’s dedication to charitable causes. Blue Jimmy shares the bill.

Sirens & Sailors performs Saturday, January 7, 6:30 p.m. at Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. $10-$12. 325-5600, waterstreetmusic.com. — BY ANDY KLINGENBERGER Captain Marvel. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137.com, 385-8565. 7 p.m. Free.

Joe Santora Trio w/Emily Kirchoff. Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield R, Penfield.

383-8260. 7 p.m. Free.

Johnny Matt Band w/Jon Seiger. Wegmans-Eastway, 1955 Empire Blvd, Webster.

671-8290. 5:30 p.m. Free.

Ryan T Carey. Thali of India, 3259 S Winton Rd. 427-8030.

7-9 p.m. Free.

Sofrito. Little Theatre Cafe, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. 8:30 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Bandito Bullet, Cindy Sams Band. Nola’s BBQ, 4775 Lake Ave. nolasweb.com, 663-3375.

9 p.m. Call for info.

Cosmos. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut Plaza. frontgatetickets. com, themontagemusichall.com.

8 p.m. $7.

Kevin McCarthy. TC Riley’s, 200 Park Point Dr. tcrileysparkpoint. com, 272-9777. 6 p.m. Call for info.

Mansfield Ave w/Sultans of Swing. Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd, Rochester, NY. johnnysirishpub.com, 2240990. 5 p.m. Free.

Sam Deleo. Perlo’s Italian Grill, 202 N Washington St, East Rochester. 248-5060. 6:3010:30 p.m. Free.

Small Town. TC HooligansGreece, Greece Ridge Ctr. tchooligans.com, 225-7180.

9:30 p.m. Call for info.

Something Else. Anchor Bar Marketplace. anchorsportsbar. com, 272-9333. Call for info.

Teagan & The Tweeds. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Road 14623. stickylipsbbq.com.

9:30 p.m. Free.

Teddy Geiger. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N Water St. waterstreetmusic.com, 3255600. 7 p.m. $17.

That Party Band. A-Pub Live, 6 Lawrence St. 262-2063.

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10:30 p.m. Free before 10 p.m., $5 after.

The Waffle Stompers, Uncle Joel’s Comb, 4 Point 0, The Steakouts. Flying Squirrel, 285 Clarissa St. facebook.com/ thewafflestompers. 6 p.m. $10.

Within Creation. California Brew Haus, 402 Ridge Rd W. 6211480. Call for info. [ R&B ] Carlton Wilcox Live. Tala Vera, 155 State St. tala-vera.com, 546-3945. 8 p.m. $5.

Old School R&B. Elite Bar & Grill, 398 W Main St. 5278720. 9 p.m. Call for tix.

Saturday, January 7 [ Acoustic/Folk ] An Evening with Ben Sheridan.

Studio 440 (Spotlight Studios) 3 Railroad St, Fairport, 14450.

410.2752. 7 p.m. $10.

John Akers Project. A-Pub Live, 6 Lawrence St. 262-2063.

10:30 p.m. Free before 10 p.m., $5 after.

Latin Band. Tapas 177 Lounge, 177 St Paul St. 262-2090. 11 p.m. Free.

Mosaic Foundation. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Road 14623. stickylipsbbq. com. 10 p.m. Free.

Steve Bartolotta. Pittsford Pub, 60 S. Main St., Pittsford. 5864650, pittsfordpub.net. 9 p.m.midnight. Free.

Tom Gravino. Thali of India, 3259 S Winton Rd. 355-8206.

7 p.m. Free.

Unplugged Dinner Music Series. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RIT. 292-9940, lovincup. com. 6 p.m. Free. [ Blues ] Bill Brown. Brown Hound Bistro, 6459 Rt 64, Naples.

374-9771. 7 p.m. Free.

Gap Mangione New Blues Band. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa.com, 3814000. 7:30 p.m. Free.

Sunday, January 8

Bill Welch Band performs Saturday, January 7, 8 p.m. at Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. $3-$5. 292-9940, lovincup.com.

— BY ROMAN DIVEZUR Fire Wheel w/The Deep Blue Dream, TAO. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut Plaza. themontagemusichall.com, 232-1520. 9 p.m. $5.

The Crawdiddies. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe.com, 2714650. 7:30 p.m. Call for info. [ Classical ] Hochstein Alumni Orchestra 2nd Annual Concert. Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. hochstein.org. 7 p.m. Free.

John Ballings. Hedges, 1290 Lake Rd, Webster. 265-3850.

6:30 p.m. Free.

RPO: Carousel. Eastman Theatre-Kodak Hall, 60 Gibbs St. rpo.org. 8 p.m. $15-$87.

The Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival. Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St. thirdpresbyterian.org/music. 4 p.m. Free. [ DJ/Electronic ] Superchumbo w/Jon Herbet. Tilt Night Club, 444 Central Ave. tiltroc.com, 232-8440. 10 p.m.

21+ $5, unders $15. [ Jazz ] Bob Sneider Trio. Tala Vera, 155 State St. tala-vera.com, 546-3945. 8 p.m. $5, or free w/dinner.

Connie Demming. Little Theatre Cafe, 240 East Ave. thelittle. org. 8:30 p.m. Free.

East End Jazz Boys. Havana Moe’s, 125 East Ave. 3251030. 9 p.m. Free.

Jazz Cafe. Monty’s Korner, 363 East Ave. 263-7650. 7:30 p.m.

Free.

Jazz at Jazzy’s. Jasmine’s Asian Fusion, 657 Ridge Rd, Webster.

216-1290. 8:30-11 p.m. Free.

Joe Santora Trio w/Emily Kirchoff. Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield R, Penfield.

383-8260. 7 p.m. Free.

The Bill Welch Band and Blue Jimmy. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RIT. lovincup.com, 292-9940. 8 p.m. $5 GA, $3 student.

The Westview Project.

Pomodoro Monroe Ave, 3400 Monroe Ave. www. mypomodoro.com. 7 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Amanda Ashley. Beale Street Cafe-Webster, 1930 Empire Blvd, Webster. bealestreetcafe. com, 216-1070. 7:30 p.m. Call for info.

Dog House. Landing Bar & Grille, 30 Main St, Fairport.

425-7490. 9:30 p.m. Free.

Ezra & the Storm. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m.

Free.

Gary Rose (Skycoasters), Rob Smith (Zero Gravity). Flaherty’s Webster, 1200 Bay Rd. flahertys. com, 671-0816. Call for info.

Gentlemen of Song ft. Tony Ferra & Tom Cometa. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137.com, 385-8565. 7 p.m. Free.

Glass Hero. Boulder Coffee Co. -Alexander Street. bouldercoffeeco.com. 8 p.m.

Free.

Los Doggies w/Liana Gable, The Absolutes, and Walri. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar. com, 454-2966. 9 p.m. $6-$8.

Limited entry for unders.

Me & The Boyz. Shooters Sports Bar & Grill, 1226 Fairport Rd. shootersny.com, 924-9914.

Call for info.

Mr. Mustard. Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. johnnysirishpub.com, 2240990. 8 p.m. Free.

Sirens & Sailors. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N Water St. waterstreetmusic.com, 3255600. 6:30 p.m. $10.

Steve Bartolotta. Pittsford Pub, 60 S. Main Street, Pittsford. pittsfordpub.net, 586.4650. 9 p.m. Call for info.

[ Acoustic/Folk ] Celtic Music. Temple Bar & Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000.

7 p.m. Free. [ Blues ] Open Blues Jam w/Nate Coffee.

Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe.com, 2714650. 7 p.m. Call for info. [ Classical ] Going for Baroque Organ Recital. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900.

1 & 3 p.m. Free w/admission.

The Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival. Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St. thirdpresbyterian.org/music. 4 p.m. Free. [ Hip-Hop/Rap ] R&B HipHop Spring Edition. Cafe Underground Railroad, 480 W Main St. 2353550. 8 p.m. $5-$10. [ Jazz ] Bill Slater Solo Piano - Brunch. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa.com, 3814000. Call for info. Free. [ Open Mic ] Acoustic Sunday w/Fred Goodnow. Brown Hound Bistro, 6459 Rt 64, Naples. 374-9771.

11 a.m. Free.

Open Country Jam. Sandra’s Saloon, 276 Smith St. 5465474. 4-8 p.m. Free.

Open Jam w/Bodega Radio. Jukebox, 5435 Ridge Rd W, Spencerport. 352-4505. 5 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Bowie Birthday Bash ft. Beople w/Jahnhenri, Jenna Weintraub and George Grady, Ryan Webster. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com, 454-2966. 8 p.m. $6-$8.

Monday, January 9 [ Acoustic/Folk ] Irish Waltzes, Reels & Jigs practice. McGraw’s Irish Pub, 146 W Commercial St, East Rochester.

348-9091, mcgrawsirishpub. com. 6 p.m. Free. [ Jazz ] Mark Bader. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net, 6625555. 5:30 p.m. Free.

Mike Kaupa Duo Project. Little Theatre Cafe, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. 7:30 p.m. Free.

The Chris Hollywood Pro-Am Jam. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. abilenebarandlounge. com, 232-3230. 9:30 p.m. 21+ free, unders $5.

The Westview Project. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa.com, 3814000. 5:30 p.m. Free.

Tony Gianavola. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. 2714650, bealestreetcafe.com. 7 p.m. Free. [ Open Mic ] Lovin’ Cup Idol: Live Auditions. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RIT. lovincup.com, 292-9940. 8 p.m. Call for info.

Open Jam w/ Refreshunz.

Clarissa’s, 293 Clarissa St. 2323430. 8 p.m. Free.

Tuesday, January 10 [ Acoustic/Folk ] Fritz’s Polka Band. Sevens, Rt 96, Farmington. 924-3232.

12:30-2:30 p.m. Free.

Jeff Elliott. Norton’s Pub, 1730 N Goodman St. 266-3570. 5-8 p.m. Free.

Johnny Bauer. Cottage Hotel, 1390 Pittsford-Mendon Rd, Mendon, NY. 624-1390. 7-10 p.m. Free.

Teagan Ward. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe.com, 2714650. 7 p.m. Call for info. [ Classical ] Barbershop Harmony. Harmony House, 58 E Main St., Webster, NY. chorusofthegenesee.org. 7 p.m. Free. Open practices/try outs. [ Jazz ] Ballroom Dance Series w/live music. Edgerton Community Center, 41 Backus St. cityofrochester. gov/ballroomdanceseries. 7:30 p.m. $3. See website for full line up.

Norman Tibbils. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137.com, 385-8565. 6 p.m. Free.

Tinted Image. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa.com, 3814000. 5:30 p.m. Free. [ Open Mic ] Golden Link Singaround. Twelve Corners Presbyterian Church, 1200 S Winton Rd. goldenlink. org. 7:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic Night. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RIT. 292-9940, lovincup.com. 8:30 p.m. Free.

Open Mic w/Jim Lane. Hooligans Eastside Grill, 809 Ridge Road, Webster. hooliganseastsidegrill. com, 671-7180. 8 p.m. Call for info.

Open Mic w/Rapier Slices.

Clarissa’s, 293 Clarissa St. 4542680. 7-11 p.m. $3-$5.

Open Mic w/String Theory.

Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990, johnnysirishpub.com. 8 p.m.

Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Egg Man’s Traveling Carnival. Hatter’s Pub, 5 W Main St, Webster. 872-1505. 6 p.m. Call for tix.

Mark Gamsjager and the Lustre Kings. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. abilenebarandlounge. com, 232-3230. 8 p.m. $6.

DJ/Electronic | Superchumbo

To the world he may now be known as Superchumbo, but to Upstate New York he will always be Tom Stephan. A former student of Rochester Institute of Technology (and the London International Film School), Stephan has had worldwide success, remixing tunes from artists including Missy Elliott, Kylie Minogue, and Yoko Ono, and his own work has been supported by the likes of David Guetta, Tiesto, and Danny Tenaglia, just to name a few. No stranger to dance floors in New York City, London, and Tokyo, Stephan returns to Rochester, bringing his globetrotting experience with him. DJ Jon Herbert opens, with performances by Sasha Sashay and Jenna Saisquoi.

Superchumbo performs Saturday, January 7, at 10 p.m. at Tilt Nightclub, 444 Central Ave. $5-$15. 232-8440.

— BY WILLIE CLARK

Wednesday, January 11

[ Open Mic ] Acoustic Open Mic. Pub 511, [ Acoustic/Folk ] 511 E Ridge Rd. 266-9559. 8 Dave McGrath @ The Cottage p.m. Free.

Hotel of Mendon. Cottage All About the Song Open Hotel, 1390 Pittsford-Mendon Mic. Starry Nites Cafe, Rd, Mendon, NY. dave@ davemcgrath.com. 7 p.m. Free. 696 University Ave. songwriter1955@gmail.com.

Jim Lane. Norton’s Pub, 1730 7:30 p.m. Free. Sign up at N Goodman St. 266-3570. 8 7 p.m. p.m. Free.

Open Acoustic Mic Night Rob & Gary Acoustic. Woodcliff w/Mandy. Shorts Bar & Grill, Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 35 N Main St, Fairport. 388woodcliffhotelspa.com, 3810136. 9 p.m. Free.

4000. 5:30 p.m. Free.

Tommy Gravino. Rio Tamatlan, 5 Open Jam w/Big Daddy Blues Beeman St, Canandaigua. 394- Band. Deweys, 1380 Lyell Ave. 254-4707. 9:30 p.m. Free.

9380. 6:30 p.m. Free. Salsa Open Jam w/Justin w/Shelia dancing during the Gurnsey. Jukebox, 5435 Ridge performance.

Rd W, Spencerport. 352[ Blues ] 4505. 10 p.m. Free.

Open Blues Jam w/The King Open Mic. Boulder Coffee Bees. Beale Street Cafe, 693 Co-South Wedge, 100 South Ave. bealestreetcafe.

Alexander St. 454-7140, com, 271-4650. 7:30 p.m. Call bouldercoffeeco.com. 8 p.m. for info.

Free. [ Jazz ] Open Mic. Dr’s Inn Grill & Tap Bob Hanley. Lemoncello, 137 Room, 1743 East Ave. 271W Commercial St, E Rochester. 0820. 5 p.m. Free. lemoncello137.com, 385-8565. Open Mic w/Jam Shack 6 p.m. Free.

Music. Stoneyard Bar & Grill, Chris Teal’s Open Jam. Tala 1 Main St, Brockport. 637Vera, 155 State St. tala-vera.

3390. 9 p.m. Free. com, 546-3945. 8 p.m. $3, Open Mic w/Steve West. free w/dinner.

Muddy Waters Coffee Open Jam w/The King House-Geneseo, 53 Main St, Bees. Beale Street Cafe, 693 Geneseo. 243-9111. 7-10 South Ave. bealestreetcafe. p.m. Free. com. 7:30 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Paradigm Shift. Pomodoro Grill Count Blastula. Dinosaur & Wine Bar, 1290 University Ave. 271-5000. 7:30 p.m. Free. Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. Rick Holland Evan Dobbins Little dinosaurbarbque.com.

9 p.m. Free.

Big Band. Tala Vera, 155 State St. tala-vera.com, 546-3945.

8 p.m. Dinner required before 9 p.m.

Robert Chevrier. Pomodoro Monroe Ave, 3400 Monroe Ave. 586-7000. 6:30 p.m. Free.

Uptown Groove. Little Theatre Cafe, 240 East Ave. thelittle. org. 7:30 p.m. Free. rochestercitynewspaper.com City 17

Theater

Art Exhibits

Steve Marsocci, Elizabeth West, Dawn M. Sargent, and Nicholas D. Rogers (pictured left to right) in Blackfriars’ “Tom Foolery.” PHOTO courtesy dan howell

I never tire of satire “Tom Foolery”

Through January 7 Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St. $27 | 454-1260, bftix.org [ REVIEW ] BY ERIC REZSNYAK

Toward the beginning of “Tom Foolery” — a musical revue based around the songs of satirist Tom Lehrer — a cast member explains that if the evening inspires even one audience member to insult a good friend or slap a loved one, it will all have been worth it.

That’s a good summary of the kind of humor you’ll find in this cabaret-style production at Blackfriars. It’s good-natured, mean-spirited fun set to jaunty tunes, brought to life by a group of talented local performers.

A math professor at Harvard University, Tom Lehrer became nationally known in the 1950’s and 1960’s for his satirical songs. Lehrer used his piano training and apparent gifts for melody and snark to concoct catchy little ditties that lovingly mocked the awfulness of human beings. Through his music Lehrer tackled such important topics as love, war, politics, and pigeoncide. Generation X-ers might recognize a couple of his songs from the influential PBS children’s show “The Electric Company.”

Although Lehrer no longer performs or records (he has been quoted as saying that Henry Kissinger winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 made political satire obsolete), much of his decades-old work remains surprisingly relevant. “Tom Foolery,” adapted by Cameron 18 City january 4-10, 2012

Mackintosh and Robin Ray, with musical arrangements by Robert Fisher and Chris Walker, includes more than 20 of Lehrer’s songs served up in brisk, entertaining fashion.

children’s song “Silent E,” and goes brogue with “Irish Ballad.” West gets a chance to shine with “The Peddler,” a sweet lullaby about the neighborhood drug pusher.

“Tom Foolery” feels very much like a cabaret.

As with any song showcase, certain pieces

There is no plot, just some light banter and connective tissue between songs. Even the set suggests an intimate song-and-dance club, with a bar off to the side, a few tables and chairs (and paper pigeons) on the stage, the performers occasionally interacting with the audience members sitting among them.

The show features four primary performers — Steve Marsocci, Nicholas D. Rogers, Dawn M. Sargent, and Elizabeth West — and a live musical trio led by David Labman on piano and vocals, and also including Greg Gascon on percussion and Chris Labman on double bass. Blackfriars’s Producing Artistic Director John Haldoupis directed the show and designed the costumes and set.

The bulk of the songs go to Marsocci and Rogers, who have the big voices and big personalities required to pull them off.

Marsocci in particular seems born for this kind of role. He’s a true showman; he’s hammy in exactly the right way, and he knows how to work a crowd. Bonus points to him for playing the accordion for one song, “Irish Ballad.”

Rogers is somewhat more staid, but ably gets laughs in a variety of numbers, especially for his over-the-top performance in “Hunting Song.”

The women in the show are given less of the spotlight, with only a few lead parts between them. Sargent runs with the fun

will hit better with an audience than others.

Marsocci’s exhausting recitation of the periodic table of elements set to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Major-General’s Song” received big applause, as did the upbeat group numbers “Vatican Rag” and the timely pro-Armageddon send-up “We’ll All Go Together.” Other numbers received a more tepid response, but the level of performance throughout the night was consistently high.

While watching the show I kept flashing back to “Gorey Stories,” a similar project featuring poems and songs based on the macabre work of Edward Gorey that Blackfriars presented in the fall of 2010.

When I reviewed that show I bemoaned that, despite a talented cast, the material failed to hold the audience’s attention, and it turned dull and repetitive fairly quickly. That was never the case with “Tom Foolery.” Perhaps it’s because Lehrer’s work is more universally accessible, or the music more upbeat even when dealing with topics like Nazi scientists or sexually transmitted diseases (just a few examples). But I was engaged and entertained for the entirety of the show, and consistently charmed by the wit of Lehrer’s work. It made me wonder what he’d have to say about the ripe-for-lampooning socio-political situation in which we currently live.

[ OPENING ] “Another World” by Leonard Urso Fri Jan 6. Arts & Cultural Council Gallery, 277 N Goodman St. 5-9 p.m. 473-4000, artsrochester.org.

“Four by Fourteen” featuring Richard Harvey, Valerie Larson, Dan Neuberger, and Antoni Ooto Fri Jan 6. Black Radish Gallery, Village Gate, D Entrance, 274 N. Goodman St. 6-10 p.m. arenaartgroup.com “The Magic of Light 2012” Fri-Sat Jan 6-7. Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Fri 5-9 p.m., Sat 2-5 p.m. 482-1976, imagecityphotographygallery.com.

Paintings by Ikahl Fri Jan 6.

Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. 6-9 p.m. 5632145, thebaobab.org. “soulSELFspirit,” a collection of self portraits by local artists Fri Jan 6. Stella Art Gallery & Studio, 350 West Commercial St., East Rochester. 6-10 p.m. stellaartgalleryandstudio.com.

Steven Foster Fri Jan 6. Spectrum Gallery at Lumiere Photo, 100 College Ave. 6-10 p.m. 461-4447, lumierephoto.com.

“Broken Lenses,” photo show and fundraiser for the Roc City Park Mon Jan 9. Owl House, 75 Marshall St. 6-9 p.m. 360-2920, owlhouserochester.com. [ CONTINUING ] 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor 1570 East Ave. Through Jan 4: “Drawing From Life.” Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and weekends by appt. 770-1923.

1975 Gallery at Surface Salon, 661 South Ave., Suite B. Through Jan 28: “Happy Hour,” New Works by Amanda Clarke. Visit site for hours. 1975ish.com Arts & Cultural Council Gallery 277 N Goodman St. Through Jan 27: “Another World” by Leonard Urso. Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

473-4000, artsrochester.org.

Baobab Cultural Center 728 University Ave. Opens Jan 6: Paintings by Ikahl. Thu-Fri 5:30-9 p.m., Sat 2-4 p.m. 563-2145, thebaobab.org.

Black Radish Gallery Village Gate, D Entrance, 274 N. Goodman St. Jan 6-30: “Four by Fourteen” featuring Richard Harvey, Valerie Larson, Dan Neuberger, and Antoni Ooto. Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat 12-5 p.m. arenaartgroup.com Bug Jar 219 Monroe Ave. Through Jan 31: THE LOBBY Presents: “Remote Control” group exhibit. Mon-Sun 8 p.m.2 a.m. 454-2966, bugjar.com, lobbydigital.com Community Darkroom Gallery 713 Monroe Ave. Through Jan 7: “Positive Negatives,” photographs by David Johnson.

Mon 9 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Tue-Thu 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; Fri 12-5 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 2715920, geneseearts.org.

Davison Gallery at Roberts Wesleyan College 2301 Westside Drive. Jan 9-31: “Art Faculty Showcase: Jeffrey Grubbs and Romy Hosford.” Mon-Fri 11 a.m.5 p.m.; Sat 1-4 p.m. 594-6442, roberts.edu/davisongallery.

Fusion Salon 333 Park Ave. Ongoing: “RetroGrade” with St. Monci and Hannah Betts.

Mon & Tue 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Thu Noon-8 p.m., Fri 9a.m.-6 p.m., Sat 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 271-8120, fusionsalonnewyork.com.

Genesee Center for the Arts and Education 713 Monroe Ave. Through Jan 28: “WinterCraft: Annual Holiday Sale.” Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat noon-4 p.m.

244-1730, geneseearts.org George Eastman House 900 East Ave. Through Feb 19: “The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection. Tue-Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Thu 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Sun 1-5 p.m. $4-$12. 2713361, eastmanhouse.org Gilded Square Picture Framing & Gallery 714 University Ave. Continuing: “Framed” artwork

by Keith Uhrich & Michelle Michael. Tue-Fri 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 461-2808, gildedsquare.com.

High Falls Fine Art Gallery 60 Browns Race. Through Jan 6: “Treasures,” “Phillip Lange: Five Continents,” “Jim Mott: ROC ART,” and “Scott Grove: 111111.”

Wed-Fri 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sat Noon-5:30 p.m.; Sun 1-5 p.m.

325-2030, centerathighfalls.org.

Image City Photography Gallery 722 University Ave. Jan 4-22: The Magic of Light 2012.”

Wed-Sat 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun noon-4 p.m. 482-1976, imagecityphotographygallery.com.

JGK Galleries 10 Vick Park A. Through Jan 20: Anita Lewis “Dancers.” Tue, Thu, Sat-Sun 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Wed 4-8 p.m. 7346581, jgkgalleries.com.

Little Theatre Café 240 East Ave. Through Jan 6: Richard Margolis.

Sun 5-8 p.m. Mon-Thu 5-10 p.m.; Fri-Sat 5-11 p.m. 2580403, thelittle.org.

Livingston Arts Center 4 Murray Hill Driv e. Through Feb 12: 2011 Exhibit for Peace. Mon-Fri 1-5 p.m., Thu 1-8 p.m., Sat 11 a.m.3 p.m., Sun 12-5 p.m. 243-6785, livingstonartscenter.org.

Memorial Art Gallery 500 University Ave. Through Jan 15: “Extreme Materials 2.” | Lucy Burne Gallery: Through Feb 9: “Adult Student Show.” Wed-Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Thu until 9 p.m., $5-$12. Thu night reduced price: $6 from 5-9 p.m. 276-8900, mag.rochester.edu.

Mill Art Center & Gallery, 61 N Main St, Honeoye Falls. Through Feb 25: “Dry Pigments and Eggs,” paintings by Robert Wisner. Mon-Fri & Sat 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Fri 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Free.

624-7740, millartcenter.com.

My Sister’s Gallery The Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Jan 9-Mar 9: “Some Things Old, Some Things New” mixed media by Cheryl and Don Olney.

Daily 10 a.m.-8 p.m. 546-8439.

Owl House 75 Marshall St. Opens Jan 9: “Broken Lenses,” photo show and fundraiser for the Roc City Park. Tue-Sun 11 a.m.-4 p.m. & 5-10:30 p.m. 360-2920, owlhouserochester.com.

Oxford Gallery 267 Oxford St. Through Jan 7: “Mid-Winter Dreams” group exhibition. Tue-Fri Noon-5 p.m; Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

271-5885, oxfordgallery.com.

Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery 71 S Main St, Canandaigua. Through Jan 6: “Holiday Happenings.” MonTue 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Wed-Fri 10 a.m.-8 pm.; Sat 10 a.m.-6 p.m.;

COMEDY | Canary in a Coal Mine

“It may make you laugh, it may make you cry, it may make you sick, but most importantly it’ll make you feel.” That’s the slogan of the Canary in a Coal Mine sketch crew. It may intimidate you, it may intrigue you, but most importantly it should motivate you to check out the group’s upcoming shows. Featuring four local comedic talents — BJ Scanlon, Jeff Andrews, Kirk Stevens, and Angela Prodrick — the group will perform three shows this week at The Space in the Hungerford Building (1115 E. Main St.) on Friday, January 6, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, January 7, at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.

Tickets cost just $5. For more information, visit facebook. com/CanaryCoalMine. — BY ERIC LACLAIR Sun 12:30-4 p.m. 394-0030, prrgallery.com.

Phelps Art Center 15 Church St., Phelps. Through Jan 7: “It’s Only a Medium” featuring Barron Naegel and Liz Brownell. ThuSat 1-4 p.m. 315-548-2095, phelpsartcenter.com.

Rochester Contemporary Arts Center 137 East Ave. Through Jan 8: 21st Annual Members Exhibition & Celebration. Wed-Sun 1-5 p.m., Fri 1-10 p.m. 461-2222, rochestercontemporary.org. $1.

Roz Steiner Art Gallery 1 College Rd., Batavia. Through Jan 6: The Art of Joseph Whalen. Call for hours. 343-0055 x6448, genesee.edu.

Rush Rhees Library Rare Books and Special Collections University of Rochester River Campus, Rush Rhees Library, Wilson Blvd. Through Jan 5: “Kenneth Patchen.” Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 475-6766.

Spectrum Gallery at Lumiere Photo, 100 College Ave. Jan 6Feb 25: Steven Foster. Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

461-4447, lumierephoto.com.

Spot Coffee 200 East Ave. Through Jan 15: A Collection of Mixed Media Work by Allison J. Nichols. Mon-Thu 6 a.m.-11 p.m., Fri 6 a.m.-midnight, Sat 7 a.m.-midnight, Sun 7 a.m.-11 p.m. 613-4600, spotcoffee.com Stella Art Gallery & Studio 350 West Commercial St., East Rochester. Opens Jan 6: “soulSELFspirit,” a collection of self portraits by local artists.

Thu 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Fri 9 a.m.-9 p.m., Sat noon-9 p.m. stellaartgalleryandstudio.com.

University Gallery 90 Lomb Memorial Drive. Booth Building, 7A. Through Jan 13: “Design in Fiber.” Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 475-2404, jleugs@rit.edu.

Williams-Insalaco Gallery 34 at FLCC, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua. Through Jan 23: “A Few of Our Own” Biennial Alumni Art Exhibit. Mon-Thu 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri 8:30 a.m.-5

p.m., Sat-Sun noon-5 p.m. 3943500 x7369, gallery34@flcc.edu. [ CALL FOR ARTWORK ] 2 Pages/2 Voices Short Play Competition. Deadline January 10. For info visit wab.org. Calls for seating and bike rack designs.

For details, visit cityofrochester. gov/artwalkextension/ Call for Entries: “Once Upon a Dumpster…” Deadline January 13 for February exhibit. Create artwork from garbage for Outside the Box Art Gallery exhibit. For information, call 377-0132.

Call to Artists: “Unconditional Love: Cats and Dogs.” Deadline January 16 for February show at The Shoe Factory Art Co-op exhibit. For information, visit shoefactoryarts.com.

“THAW” submissions accepted for themed show in the therapeutic and artistic process.

Deadline January 6; submit work which visually represents your work as a therapist and artist, as it relates to the process of helping clients “thaw” and open to the therapeutic practice. Email gallery@equalgrounds.com for information.

Art Events [ Friday, January 6 ] First Friday Citywide Gallery Night.

Various. firstfridayrochester.org.

6-9 p.m. Free.

A New Year’s Painting Marathon!

The Shoe Factory Co-op 250 N. Goodman St., Studio 212. studio212@shoefactoryarts.com, shoefactoryarts.com. 6-9 p.m.

Donations encouraged. Eight local artists will set up canvases and easels in the gallery, along with samples of their work, to do a live painting demonstration. [ Sunday, January 8 ] What’s Up: “Beyond Description.”

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900, mag. rochester.edu. 2 p.m. Included in gallery admission: $5-12. continues on page 20

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[ Tuesday, January 10 ] Hydrofracking. Central Library, 115 South Ave. 428-8350.

12:12-12:52 p.m. Free.

Public Forum on Hydro-fracking.

Rush Methodist Church, 6200 Rush-Lima Rd. Ted Barnett, 5331368, ted.d.barnett@gmail.com or Jordan Kleiman, 533-2025, jorbenk@gmail.com. 7 p.m. Free.

KIDS | “ImaginOcean”

It finally happened: snow has at last arrived, and it sure does look pretty. But before long, the outdoor environs of Rochester will start to take on a bleak, unappealing appearance, provoking our typical bemoaning of our climate. Those of us anchored to the north for the bulk of the season will begin to long for the stimulating hues and warmth of spring. Time to seek out the liveliness and colors of the stage.

Bundle up the wee ones and head over to Nazareth College Arts Center (4245 East Ave.) on Saturday, January 7, and take in one of two performances of John Tartaglia’s “ImaginOcean” at 2 p.m. or 4 p.m. This live, glow-in-the-dark, musical puppet show features the magical, treasure-seeking, undersea adventure of three friendly fish: Tank, Bubbles, and Dorsel.

The 50-minute show is recommended for grades pre-K to second grade; ages 4-7. Tickets are $11-$17; to reserve your spot or gain more information, call 389-2170, visit artscenter. naz.edu, or visit the box office. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Comedy

Kids Events

[ Thursday, January 5Saturday, January 7 ] Rich Vos. Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd, Webst. 671-9080, thecomedyclub.us. Thu 7:30 p.m., Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 p.m. $9-$12.

[ Friday, January 6 ] Tea With Cinderella. Gates Public Library, 902 Elmgrove Rd., Gates. 247-6446. 2-2:45 p.m. Free, register.

[ Friday, January 6 ] Holy Laughter with God’s Comic, Brad Stine. Hope Church, 1301 Vintage Lane, Greece. 3923325, info@climbingforchrist. org. 8 p.m. $20.

Search Engine Improv Presents Monsssstrocity. The Space, 1115 E. Main, Suite 248.

Contact@searchengineimprov. com. 9-11 p.m. $8 online, $10 door. The [ Friday, January 6Saturday, January 7 ] Canary in a Coal Mine: A Sketch Show. The Space Theater, Hungerford Building, 1115 East Main St., Door 2, Floor 2. Jeff Andrews 607760-0422. Fri 8 p.m., Sat 8 & 11 p.m. $5. [ Sunday, January 8 ] The Roast of Mike Dambra.

Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd, Webster. 671-9080, thecomedyclub.us. Call for details.

Festivals [ Saturday, January 7Sunday, January 8 ] The Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival. Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St. thirdpresbyterian.org. 4 p.m. (doors 45 mins prior). Free, donations appreciated.

[ Saturday, January 7 ] Science Saturday: Wegmans ZooMobile. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. 271-1880, rmsc.org. 12-2 p.m. Included with museum admission: $10-12. [ Sunday, January 8 ] Sunday Movie Matinee at the Library. Central Library, 115 South Ave. 428-8150. 2 p.m.

Free. Ages 13+

Lectures [ Thursday, January 5 ] The Honeoye Falls/Town of Mendon Historical Society.

Mendon Community Center, 167 N Main St, Honeoye Falls. townofmendon.org.

7:30 p.m. Free. “Sentiment and Sarcasm: Victorian Valentine Traditions” by Chris Bensch. [ Monday, January 9 ] Guild Opera Lecture Series.

Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 784-5300, brightonlibrary.org. 7-9 p.m.

Free. “Bizet’s Carmen” with Rosalba Pisaturo.

Israel 2012 Lecture Series: “The Environment: Arabs and Israelis Work Together to Protect the Region’s Resources” with Dr. Alon Tal. Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave. 461-0490, jewishrochester.org.

7:30 p.m. Free.

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[ Wednesday, January 11 ] Science on the Edge Lecture Series: “Drilling Marcellus Shale and its Impact on the Geology and the People.” Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. 697-1942, rmsc.org. 6-7 p.m. $7-$15 single tickets.

Literary Events [ Thursday, January 5 ] Book Discussion: Books Sandwiched In: “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”

by Wes Moore and “Unlikely Brothers” by John Prendergast & Michael Mattocks. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 784-5300, brightonlibrary. org. 12:10 p.m. Free. [ Friday, January 6 ] First Friday Readings & Performances. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave. 473-2590.

6-9 p.m. Free. [ Sunday, January 8 ] Write, Publish & Promote Your own Book Seminar. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St, Brockport. 637-2260, liftbridgebooks.com. 1 p.m. $30, two for $45, register. [ Monday, January 9 ] Book Discussion: Ideas ‘n’ Authors Book Discussion: Any Sherlock Holmes novel by Arthur Conan Doyle. Gates Public Library, 902 Elmgrove Rd., Gates. 247-6446. 7 p.m. Free.

Poetry Reading: Free Speech Zone Series. Tango Cafe, 389 Gregory St. 260-9005, bit.ly/rochpoets.

8 p.m. Free. Featured poet or musician followed by open mic. [ Tuesday, January 10 ] Book Group: UnitarianUniversalist Book Club: “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” by Barbara Ehrenreich. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St, Brockport.

637-2260, liftbridgebooks.com.

6:30 p.m. Free.

Writing Class: Lifting Spirits Writers Guild. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St, Brockport.

637-2260, liftbridgebooks.com.

6:30 p.m. Free. [ Wednesday, January 11 ] Book Group: Women Who Love to Read: “Room” by Emma Donoghue. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St, Brockport.

637-2260, liftbridgebooks.com.

7 p.m. Free.

Recreation VISIT OUR ONLINE CALENDAR FOR RECURRING WINTER RECREATION EVENTS. [ Wednesday, January 4 ] Snow Cheap Trail Race Series.

Cobbs Hill Park at the corner of Culver Road and Norris Drive.

697-3338, fleetfeetrochester.

com. Register 6:45 p.m. at Lake Riley Lodge, start time 7:15 p.m. Call for details. [ Thursday, January 5 ] Half and Full Marathon Training Program Info Session. Fleet Feet Sports, Erie Canal Commons, 2522 Ridgeway Ave., Greece.

697-3338, fleetfeetrochester. com. 7:15 p.m. Free.

Monthly Meeting of the Rochester Nordic Ski Club. Carmen Clark Lodge, Brighton Town Park, 777 Westfall Rd. kehahn@frontiernet. net. 7 p.m. Free. What is going on: Learn to Wax workshop. [ Saturday, January 7 ] GVHC Hike. Seneca Park Zoo lot, by playground. Jim K. 8657835, gvhchikes.org. 10:30 a.m. Free. Easy 5 mile hike, Seneca Park to O’Rorke bridge.

Snowshoe Workshop. Genesee County Park & Forest Interpretive Nature Center, 11095 Bethany Center Rd., E. Bethany. 344-1122. 10 a.m.noon or 1-3 p.m. $8, register.

Snowshoes and instructions provided. Dress for the weather. [ Sunday, January 8 ] GVHC Hike. I-390, exit 11, Rush, park & ride lot. Sheila 671-6359, gvhchikes.org. Noon. $3 carpool.

Moderate/hilly 5 mile hike in Genesee County Park.

GVHC Leisurely Hike. Black Creek Park, Union St., W. Chili,

by Woodside lodge. Ann B. 3195794, gvhchikes.org. 1 p.m.

Free. Leisurely 1.5-2 hour hike.

Half and Full Marathon Training Program Info Session. Fleet Feet Sports, 2210 Monroe Ave. 697-3338, fleetfeetrochester. com. 6 p.m. Free.

Sunday Park Hikes: Pulaski Park.

Meet at corner of Avenue D and Carter Street. cityofrochester.gov/ winteradventures/. 1-2:30 p.m.

Free, free snowshoe rental. [ Wednesday, January 11 ] Night Ski. RMSC Cummings Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd, Naples. 374-6160, rmsc.org.

5-7:30 p.m. $15, plus $15 ski rental, register by 2/8. After the outdoor journey, skiers return to the visitor’s center for a light dinner.

Special Events [ Through January 7 ] The Wonder Land of Trees.

Holland Land Office Museum, 131 West Main St., Batavia. 3434727, hollandlandoffice.com.

Call for info. $1-$3. [ Through January 8 ] Lamberton Conservatory Annual Holiday Poinsettia Show.

Lamberton Conservatory, Highland Park, 180 Reservoir Ave. 753-7270, monroecounty. gov/parks. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $2-$3 admission, free to children age 5 and under. [ Wednesday, January 4 ] Film: “Tambien la Lluvia”/ ”Even the Rain.” Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N Fitzhugh St. interconnect_ mott@frontiernet.net. 6:30 p.m. Free.

Highland Park Winter Farmers Market. Cornell Cooperative ExtensionRochester, 249 Highland Ave.

FILM | “The Veteran Experience”

The long-awaited — I daresay long-demanded — end of the American occupation of Iraq has recently been announced by our detached leaders, resulting in mixed reactions and dubious expectations from the rest of us. Politics aside, it seems to be an eternal truth that the soldiers themselves are too-frequently forgotten in post-war considerations. The reasons that individuals volunteer to go to war are many and varied, but the effects of battle on the fragile human body and psyche must be accounted for while leaders and communities wallow, consciously or not, in the spoils of war.

On Wednesday, January 11, join the community for a screening of “The Veteran Experience on Film” at the Otto Shults Center Community Forum at Nazareth College (4245 East Ave.). The event is part of the Veterans Outreach Center’s Coming Home from War: Veteran Discussion Series, and will be presented by Jerome Denno, associate professor and coordinator of English education in the English Department at Nazareth College. The event kicks off with a 5:30 p.m. social hour, and the program will commence at 6:30 p.m.

Learn more and register for the free-but-limited-seating event at veteransoutreachcenter.org/cominghome.asp. The next program in the series is scheduled for March 28, on the topic of “Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury.”

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY highlandwintermarket.com. 3-6 p.m. Free admission. [ Thursday, January 5 ] 4th Annual Greater Rochester Career Conference and Job Fair. Monroe Community College, Flynn Campus Center, Building #3, 1000 E. Henrietta Rd. rochesterworkscareerconference2012.eventbrite.com.

9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. [ Friday, January 6 ] Winter Warmth: A Soup(er) Benefit. Crocus Clay Works Gallery, 1115 E Main St. crocusclayworks.com, healthysisters.org. 5-7 p.m. $20, register. $20. All proceeds will go to benefit Healthy Sisters’ Soup & Bean Works. Soup mixes and dips will also be available for purchase. [ Saturday, January 7 ] 2011-2012 FIRST Robotics Kick Off event. Kodak Theater, 200 Ridge Road West. usfirst.org. 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Free.

Rochester City School District’s School of Choice Expo.

Rochester Riverside Convention Center, 123 E Main St. rcsdk12. org. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Free.

Rochester Nordic Ski Club Special Event. Mendon Ponds Park, Stewart Lodge. Ken Hann 586-5205. 10 a.m.2 p.m. Free mini- lessons and Crosscountry Ski tours, (limited loaner skis available).

The Irondequoit Theatre Guild Presents “Got Talent?” St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 4536 St. Paul Blvd. 266-4574, irondequoittheatreguild.org. 6 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. performances. $5, free to ages 5 and under. [ Sunday, January 8 ] Gothic Cathedral Tour. St. Michael’s Church, 869 Clinton Avenue North. 325-4041, saintmichaelsofrochester.org. 2 p.m. Donations appreciated. [ Tuesday, January 10 ] “Tie One On” Auction. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. 271-1880, rmsc.org. Call for details. Call for details. A fundraiser for Women’s Council Kitchen.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz.

Jeremiah’s Tavern, 1104 Monroe Ave. 461-1313, jeremiahstavern.com, geekswhodrink.com. 8 p.m.

Free.

Young Women’s College Prep Charter School Information Night. Arnett Branch Library, 310 Arnett Blvd. jgkourlias@ youngwomenscollegeprep.org.

5-7 p.m. Free. 11-15. Parents of 5-6th grade girls are invited to come and learn about YWCP’s academic program. [ Wednesday, January 11 ] Coming Home From War: The Veteran Experience On Film.

Sports [ Friday, January 6Sunday, January 8 ] Advance Auto Parts Monster Jam Thunder Nationals. Blue Cross Arena, 100 Exchange Blvd. 800745-3000, ticketmaster.com.

Fri 7:30 p.m., Sat 7:30 p.m., pit party 4:30-6 p.m., Sun 2 p.m., pit party 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $18-$40, pit parties $5-$10.

Theater SPECIAL EVENT | Healthy Sisters

During your First Friday travels this week, stop by the Hungerford Building for art, food, and an opportunity to benefit a worthy local organization. On Friday, January 6, 5-7 p.m., Crocus Clay Works (Suite 225 in the Hungerford Building, 1115 E. Main St.) will host the annual Winter Warmth Soup(er) Benefit. Handcrafted bowls may be purchased for $20, which includes a meal of soup, bread, rice, a hot beverage, and dessert. Soup mixes and dips will also be available for purchase. All proceeds from this dinner benefit the Catholic Family Center’s Healthy Sisters’ Soup & Bean Works, a work program through which women who come from backgrounds of chronic unemployment, poverty, or displacement can earn a steady paycheck, develop self-confidence, and learn job skills needed to enter or re-enter the workforce.

For more information about the event, visit crocusclayworks. com. To learn more about Healthy Sisters’ Soup & Bean Works, visit healthysisters.org. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY Nazareth College-Shults Center, 4245 East Ave. alexis.ganter@ veteransoutreachcenter. org. Light fare reception 5:30 p.m.; discussion 6:30 p.m. Free, register. veteransoutreachcenter.org/ cominghome.asp Genesee Valley Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club Meeting. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. 987-1717, gvc-adk. org. 7:30 p.m. Free. Close

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Highland Park Winter Farmers Market. Cornell Cooperative ExtensionRochester, 249 Highland Ave. highlandwintermarket.com. 3-6 p.m. Free admission.

Weaving & Fiber Arts Center Open House. Studio 1940, Piano Works Mall, 348 West Commercial St., East Rochester. weaversguildofrochester.org.

2-6 p.m. Free.

“Bathing in Bette.” Fri Jan 6-Jan 8. Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. Fri-Sat 8 p.m., Sun 3 p.m. $21. 325-4370, downstairscabaret.com.

Cindy Miller’s “You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet.” Fri Jan 6-Jan 7.

Downstairs Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place.

8 p.m. $21-$24. 325-4370, downstairscabaret.com.

“Hollywood Sings.” Thu Jan 5-Jan 8. Continues through Jan 15.

Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave. Thu 7 p.m., Sat 8 p.m., Sun 2 p.m. $18-$26. 4612000 x235, jcccenterstage.org.

“Incident at Vichy.” Thu Jan 5-Jan 8. Continues through Jan 14. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave. Thu-Sat 7:30 p.m., Sun 2 p.m. $10-$20. 234-1254, muccc. org. Holocaust Survivors to speak after performances on Jan 7, 8, 12 & 14.

John Tartaglia’s ImaginOcean.

Sat Jan 7. Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave. 2 & 4 p.m. $11-17. 389-2170, artscenter@ naz.edu, jlong2@naz.edu.

“Perfect Wedding” Previews. Tue Jan 10-Jan 11. Continues through Feb 12. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd. Previews Tue-Wed Jan 10-11 7:30 p.m.

Tickets start at $25. 232-4382, gevatheatre.org.

“Tom Foolery.” Wed Jan 4-Jan 7.

Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E Main St. Thu 7:30 p.m., Fri-Sat 8 p.m. $17-$27. 454-1260, bftix.com.

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Thu Jan 5-Jan 8.Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. Thu 7 p.m., Fri 8 p.m., Sat 5 & 8:30 p.m., Sun 3 p.m. $29-$40. 325-4370, downstairscabaret.com.

Theater Auditions [ Wednesday, January 4 ] “Imagining Madoff.” Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave, Rochester, NY. 461-2000 x235, jcccenterstage. org. 7 p.m. Free. Roles for one woman 30+ and 2 men ages 50+. Reading scripts available through the JCC Arts Dept. [ Wednesday, January 4Thursday, January 5 ] “A Man’s Home...A Ode to Kafka’s “The Castle.” Bread & Water Theatre, 243 Rosedale St. 271-5523, breadandwatertheatre.org. 8-10 p.m. Free. Performances dates Feb 24, 25, March 2, 3, 9, 10. [ Saturday, January 7 ] “The Idea Man.” Working Class Theatre Company. Webster Public Library, 980 Ridge Rd, Webster.

643-0836, workingclasstheatre. net. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Free, by appointment. Seeking (1) actor 30s-50; (1) actor 50-60s; and (1) actress 30s-late 40s.

Open Casting Call: The Vagina Monologues. Planned Parenthood, 114 University Ave. vdayrochester@gmail. com. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. We are currently seeking womanidentified actors of all ages and backgrounds. We encourage first-time actors to audition!

Scripts will be provided. [ Monday, January 9Tuesday, January 10 ] “Titanic, the Musical.” Everyone’s Theatre Company. Christ the Good Shepherd Church, 1000 N Winton Rd. info@everyonestheatre.com, everyonestheatre.com/index.

THEATER | “Hollywood Sings!”

For the ninth installment in the American Songbook series at the JCC CenterStage, performers will “go Hollywood,” singing some of the most popular songs from American cinema.

Whether it be the timeless “Over the Rainbow” from “The Wizard of Oz,” or the catchy “Under the Sea” from “The Little Mermaid,” the show will feature some of the most memorable numbers from mainstream cinema.

The American Songbook series was conceived and performed by local talent. The series has grown to a two-week run this year; “Hollywood Sings!” is currently playing and will close on Sunday, January 15. This week performances take place Thursday, January 5, at 7 p.m., Saturday, January 7, at 7 p.m., and Sunday, January 8, at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $18-$26. For more information, including a full schedule of shows, visit jcccenterstage.org. — BY ERIC LACLAIR php/Shows/. Registration begins at 6 p.m., auditions begin at 7 p.m. Free. [ Tuesday, January 10Wednesday, January 11 ] “Tom Sawyer.” Stages, Auditorium Center, 3rd Floor, 875 E. Main St. 935-7173, mjtstages.com/ auditions.html. By appointment only, 6-9 p.m. Free. Calling Actors Grades 4-12.

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Canandaigua Theatres 396-0110 Wal-Mart Plaza, Canandaigua THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (3D): 7, 9; also Fri-Sun 5; also Sat-Sun 1, 3; ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED: 7, 8:45; also Fri-Sun 5; also Sat-Sun 1, 3; THE DARKEST HOUR: 9:10; also Fri-Sun 5:10; also Sat-Sun 3:10; THE DEVIL INSIDE: 7:10, 9:10; also FriSun 5:10; also Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:10; THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: 7:15; also Frisun 4; also Sat-Sun 1; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL: 7, 9:30; also Fri-Sun 4; also Sat-Sun 1:15; THE MUPPETS: Sat-Sun 12:45, 2:50; NEW YEAR’S EVE: 7; also Sat-Sun 1; SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS: 7:10, 9:35; also Fri-Sun 4; also Sat-Sun 1; TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN 1: 7:10; 9:20; also Fri-Sun 4:50; WAR HORSE: 7, 9:35; also Fri-Sun 4; also Sat-Sun 1; WE BOUGHT A ZOO: 7:10, 9:30; also Fri-Sun 4; also Sat-Sun 1:30.

The boy reporter and the drunken skipper [ REVIEW ] by George Grella

“The Adventures of Tintin” (PG), directed by Steven Spielberg Now playing

Generations of children all over the world, and not a few adults as well, know the illustrated books of the Belgian writer Hergé, starring the boy reporter Tintin and his dog, Snowy. Until in recent years the cognoscenti began calling such works graphic novels, they were simply known as hard-cover comic books, in fact one of the most successful series of such works in the world. Their appeal depends upon a number of ingredients — the plots, which usually involve

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a fanciful mystery, the exotic settings, the charm of the pictures, the sly humor, and the collection of markedly eccentric characters, who appear in almost all the books; those ingredients combine to make the Tintin comics attractive to audiences of all ages and nationalities.

Steven Spielberg’s new animated feature, “The Adventures of Tintin,” quite accurately captures just about all the elements that make the series so successful. The animation, which follows contemporary fashion in mixing both cartoonish and naturalistic styles of presentation, looks very like the pages in any of the books. Equally important, the story, its people, its movement all reflect the characteristic Hergé manner and tone.

Set somewhere in the 1930’s, “The Adventures of Tintin” opens with the young journalist (in the voice of Jamie Bell) purchasing a beautiful model of a 17th century ship, the Unicorn, at an open-air market. As soon as he acquires the model, for unknown reasons everybody wants it. A thuggish

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American warns him that the purchase will endanger his life; a suave gentleman named Sakhanne (Daniel Craig) offers to buy it at any price, but Tintin refuses and takes the ship home. The American shows up at Tintin’s door again, where he immediately suffers multiple perforations from machine gun bullets; after that the reporter finds his apartment ransacked and the ship gone, which naturally sets off one of the typical Tintin searches.

Along the way Tintin encounters some of the characters who inhabit the many books, especially the obtuse twin detectives, Thompson and Thomson, and most important, the irascible, crapulent Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis), who accompanies the reporter on most of his adventures. Tintin sobers up the mariner, whose ancestor commanded the Unicorn, and following the usual nonsense involving a hidden map and a secret code, the pair embark on a quest to recover the treasure the ship carried.

Like the books, the movie consists mostly of pure plot, which means that one exciting incident and one narrow escape follow closely on the heels of another, with Tintin, Snowy, and Haddock confronting numerous villains, led by the sneering Sakhanne, intent on finding the treasure for themselves. Using a lifeboat and later an airplane, the pair escape from the bad guys, who have commandeered Haddock’s freighter, traverse a desert, and wind up at a sultan’s palace in North Africa,

Black and white [ REVIEW ] BY DAYNA PAPALEO

“War Horse” (PG-13), directed by Steven Spielberg Now playing

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where after considerable difficulty and violence, they discover the solution to the code and, consequently, the treasure.

Readers familiar with the books will recognize the primary source of “The Adventures of Tintin” in a volume titled “Red Rackham’s Treasure,” but the movie includes allusions to other books in the series. The prima donna Bianca Castafiore, the Milanese Nightingale, shows up, for example, and plays a pivotal role in the revelation of the code — she appears in other stories as well, including “The Castafiore Emeralds.” At the sultan’s palace a beautiful fountain in the shape of a crab spouts water from its claws, a visual reference to another Tintin book, “The Crab With the Golden Claws.” That title, like many others — e.g., “King Ottokar’s Sceptre,” “The Cigars of the Pharaoh” — evokes some of the mystery and exoticism of the stories.

Shooting the film in a three-dimensional format works most successfully for the Hergé visual style. The flat figures of comic book art and comic book characterization quite literally stand out from the backgrounds and gain depth in 3-D; further, the three dimensions allow the rich background action and scenes — landscapes, city streets, the sultan’s palace, and so forth — to project a detailed and convincing reality. Since the movie ends with the promise of more adventures, Tintin in three dimensions should continue to captivate a new audience of children and adults.

Ever since getting my heartstrings expertly plucked last week by the sappy “We Bought A Zoo,” I’ve been giving serious thought to the notion of emotional manipulation via moving picture. It’s arguably art’s job to make us feel something, but when agenda trumps honesty and the seams start to show, that’s where it gets problematic, because no one likes to feel used. Perhaps all that reflection was to ready myself for what I knew would be the melodramatic assault of Steven Spielberg’s “War Horse,” a surprisingly unengaging World War I epic by a typically shrewd storyteller whose past efforts (“E.T.,” “Schindler’s List,” “Saving Private Ryan,” etc.) hint at a secret controlling interest in Kleenex, Inc. Long story short, I spent the first two hours of “War Horse” bored to tears, and the last 30 minutes bathed in them.

Jeremy Irvine in “War Horse.”

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Breathtaking flyover shots of the English countryside open “War Horse,” which drops in on a stubborn Devon farmer (the peerless Peter Mullan) who pays too much money for a spirited horse that no one believes can pull a plow. But even though the man’s equally headstrong son Albert (Jeremy Irvine, dewy and dull) patiently finds a way to coax the best out of the smart pony he calls Joey, the family is forced to sell the animal, and Joey winds up in the British cavalry, destined for service in the Great War. Thus begins Joey’s odyssey across France as others attempt to lay claim to the horse, a charismatic animal who acts as the common thread among those trying to comprehend the bizarre practice of human beings killing each other to prove a point.

So it’s that classic road-movie construction with the added (yet conspicuously bloodless) gravity of war, as well as the benefit of spectacular photography from master cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. Though without a truthful, well-developed character to guide us, it’s difficult to care. Of course we encounter some compelling souls, like the sad-eyed British captain (Tom Hiddleston, Loki from “Thor”), the naïve German soldier Gunther (David Kross, “The Reader”), and the kindly French grand-père (leonine Gallic treasure Niels Arestrup, “A Prophet”). But because our time with them is too brief for any real dramatic investment, their ultimate fates barely register. And Albert, who resurfaces in the continental trenches in the hunt for his horse, may be the weakest character of all, his obsession with Joey a little too hardcore for empathy.

But just as I was ready to write off “War Horse” as tedious baby-boomer Oscar bait, trading on our dual love of both cute critters and Hollywood nostalgia, Spielberg shanked me with what I’ll call the barbed-wire scene.

From then on it was so-called enemies putting aside their differences, improbable

reunions, and miracle recoveries, all as I perched on the edge of my seat to let my tears pelt the floor. How can you defend against that emotional onslaught? Should you? Or are you supposed to be cool with an artist pulling out every cheap, dubious stop in the name of a wistfully ever after?

Recognizing that his “War Horse” is an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 novel, my issue with Spielberg has long been his refusal to acknowledge anything but the black and the white, when it’s the greys that shade the most vivid art.

Long before the current Meso-Kardashian

Era, regular folk have gotten weird kicks out of witnessing falls from grace, and newspapers have made gobs of money trafficking in that fascination.

The salaciously absorbing “Tabloid,” by Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris (2004’s “The Fog of War”), explores the toxic dependency between the famous and the media through the curious tale of Joyce McKinney, a former beauty queen accused of abducting and raping Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson in 1977 England. “That’s like putting a marshmallow in a parking meter,” McKinney demurs of the latter charge during “Tabloid,” in which she paints herself as an innocent young Southern belle who was simply trying to save her one true love from a brainwashing cult.

Predictably, the British media was more concerned with the sex angle than facts or justice, and when the naked bondage pictures of McKinney inevitably surfaced, it was like manna from heaven. But McKinney comes off as a willing participant in her own myth throughout the coverage, and in Morris’s direct but vaguely taunting interviews throughout “Tabloid” she continues to, at once defiant, weepy, coquettish, and convinced that her version of outrageous events is the right one, even if the whole truth lies somewhere nearby.

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Geneseo Theatres 243-2691 Geneseo Square Mall THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (3D): 7, 9; also Sat-Sun 1 3, 5; ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED: 7; also SatSun 1, 3, 5; THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: 7:15; also Sat-Sun 1, 4; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL: 9:25; also Sat-Sun 4; SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS: 7:10, 9:30; also Sat-Sun 1; WAR HORSE: 7, 9:35; also Sat-Sun 1, 4; WE BOUGHT A ZOO: 7:10, 9:30; also Sat-Sun 1:30, 4.

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ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED: 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:15; also Fri-Sat 9:15; also Sat-Sun 10:45 a.m.; THE DARKEST HOUR: 5:30; THE DESCENDANTS: 1:45, 4:30, 7:20; also Fri-Sat 9:50; also Sat-Sun 11:10 a.m.; THE DEVIL INSIDE: 1, 3:45, 5:55, 8:30; also Fri-Sat 10:30; also Sat-Sun 10:20 a.m.; THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: 12, 3:30, 7; also Fri-Sat 10:10; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL: 2:15, 5, 7:50; also Fri-Sat 10:35; also Sat-Sun 11:30 a.m.; THE MUPPETS: 1:30, 4:15, 7:10; also Fri-Sat 9:30; also Sat 11 a.m.; MY WEEK WITH MARILYN: 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:25; also Fri-Sat 9:40; NEW YEAR’S EVE: 2:45, 8; also Fri-Sat 10:25; also Sat 11:45 a.m.; SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS: 1:20, 4:20, 7:30; also Fri-Sat 10:20; also Sat-Sun 10:30 a.m.; WAR HORSE: 1:10, 4:05, 7:05; also Fri-Sat 10 a.m.; also Sat-Sun 10:10 a.m.; WE BOUGHT A ZOO: 2, 4:40, 7:40; also Fri-Sat 10:15; also SatSun 11:20 a.m.

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Writers & Books Wide Open Mic T H I S M O N T H O N LY: Richard Margolis - Photography B&W Photography JANUARY 6 HIGHLIGHTS: • Members Exhibition/Burning Man 2011 at RoCo • Benefit: Healthy Sisters Soup & Bean Project at Crocus Clay Works • Open Studio at ACTucker Art Gallery • Open Studio at Galvin/Davis Studio/Gallery • Open Studio at Richard Margolis - Photography • Dark Road at The Gallery@Equal=Grounds • Dancer at JGK Galleries • Remote Control at The Lobby at Bug Jar • Wide Open Mic & "Dracula" at Writers & Books • WinterCraft at Genesse Center for the Arts • Year of the Panda at Pandaman First Friday is a monthly citywide gallery night that encourages collaboration between non-profit, university, and commercial art venues in Rochester, NY. This initiative showcases area artists and arts institutions by promoting the First Friday evening of each month from 6-9pm as a community night for experiencing art. First Friday ensures a healthy art scene and a healthy city through regular exchange and discussion between venues, artists and patrons. First Friday Rochester was initiated, and is administered by Rochester Contemporary Art Center.

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Film Previews Full film reviews available at rochestercitynewspaper.com. [ OPENING ] 4 ADVENTURES OF REINETTE AND MIRABELLE (1986): From the late French auteur Eric Rohmer comes this quartet of summery stories centered around the evolving friendship between the naïve Reinette and the cynical Mirabelle. Dryden (Tue, Jan 10, 8 p.m.)

BLACKBOARD JUNGLE (1955): Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow play a couple of the rebellious students in this classroom drama from writer-director Richard Brooks that stars Glenn Ford as the former soldier trying to educate them.

Dryden (Wed, Jan 4, 8 p.m.)

THE DEVIL INSIDE (R): More fauxdocumentary supernatural horror, this one about a woman who travels to Italy in hopes of learning the truth about her mother, who murdered three people during demonic possession.

Canandaigua, Webster HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955): This Tokyo-set noir from legendary director Sam Fuller stars Robert Stack as an investigator infiltrating a gang of dishonorably discharged GIs who now make up a crime syndicate led by Robert Ryan. Dryden (Sat, Jan 7, 8 p.m., and Sun, Jan 9, 5 p.m.)

THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (1943): Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, and Anthony Quinn lead the cast of William Wellman’s Western about a couple of drifters who get mixed up with townspeople

out for vigilante justice. Dryden (Thu, Jan 5, 8 p.m.)

TABLOID (2010): The latest from Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris explores society’s fascination with scandal through the story of a young model accused of kidnapping and imprisoning a Mormon missionary. Dryden (Fri, Jan 6, 8 p.m., and Sun, Jan 8, 2 p.m.)

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (R): Gary Oldman stars for Swedish director Tomas Alfredson (“Let the Right One In”) as John le Carré’s timeless hero George Smiley, here on the trail of an MI6 mole who could be Tom Hardy (“Inception”), Irish treasure Ciarán Hinds, or Oscar winner Colin Firth. Little, Pittsford [ CONTINUING ] THE DESCENDANTS (R): Alexander Payne’s long-awaited follow-up to 2004’s “Sideways” is this bittersweet comedy starring George Clooney as a father who travels to Hawaii to reconnect with his daughters but instead discovers a life-changing secret.

With Matthew Lillard and Judy Greer. Little, Pittsford, Webster THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (R): David Fincher directs Steven Zaillian’s adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s popular novel about a journalist (Daniel Craig) investigating a missing person’s case with the help of the unpredictable young hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). With Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgård, and Christopher Plummer.

Canandaigua, Geneseo, Little, Pittsford, Webster MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL (PG-13): Director Brad Bird (“Ratatouille”) makes his live-action feature debut with the franchise’s fourth installment, in which Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the rest of the IMF team go rogue to clear their names after being accused of bombing the Kremlin. With Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, and Jeremy Renner.

Brockport, Canandaigua, Geneseo, Pittsford, Webster MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (R): Michelle Williams plays Norma Jean herself in this adaptation of Colin Clark’s memoir about the time he spent with Monroe as Sir Laurence Olivier’s assistant during the filming of 1957’s “The Prince and The Showgirl.”

Co-starring Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, and Dame Judi Dench. Webster THE WAY: Emilio Estevez directs dad Martin Sheen in this roadmovie drama about a man who walks the ancient pilgrimage route on the El Camino de Santiago, stretching from France to Spain, with the remains of his son. Little YOUNG ADULT (R): Director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody follow up their awardwinning “Juno” with this dark tragicomedy about a novelist (Charlize Theron) who returns home to small-town Minnesota and tries to rekindle a romance with her high-school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson), now a happily married father. Co-starring Patton Oswalt. Little, Pittsford

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789 Thurston Road The streetscape of Thurston Road, in southwest Rochester’s 19th Ward neighborhood, transforms from a bustling commercial center to a tree-lined residential area of early 20th century houses. A variety of architectural styles are represented, including the Craftsman style house at 789 Thurston Road.

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The steeply pitched gable roof with decorative brackets and the wide covered front porch with tapered columns are elements that make 789 Thurston a classic Craftsman style bungalow.

The residence, built in 1925, is entered from the front porch through a vestibule to the living room. The vestibule includes a coat closet and leaded-glass window with a diamond design.

The large living room features a bay window that spans the front of the house. On the other side of the room is a five-shelf builtin bookcase. A focal point in the adjacent dining room is the built-in china cabinet with decorative pediment. This cabinet may be lit from the inside to highlight eye-catching china or other shimmering collectables. Hardwood flooring and a leaded glass window make this a cozy room for enjoying delicious meals.

Accessed from the dining room, the userfriendly kitchen includes plenty of counter and cabinet space for easy food preparation. Stairs to the basement and to the side entrance of the house are located off the kitchen.

On the second floor are three bedrooms, each with a ceiling fan, and a full bathroom.

The master bedroom has a hardwood floor and a spacious walk-in closet. The bathroom has a claw-foot bathtub with shower as well as an updated vanity. Built-in shelves provide extra room for storing towels and bathroom supplies. The attic and basement offer ample space for storage.

The 19th Ward neighborhood is home to a diverse community of doctors, lawyers, pastors, shopkeepers, students, professors, and factory workers. The house at 789 Thurston Road is located within easy walking distance to a coffee shop at Brooks Avenue and Genesee Street and to the River Campus of the University of Rochester. Also within walking distance are a pharmacy, post office, hardware store, and YMCA, along Thurston Road. Minutes away by car or by RTS bus are the airport and the businesses and entertainment of downtown Rochester. To learn more about the 19th Ward, visit the 19th Ward Community Association at 19wca.org.

Perfect for a first-time homebuyer, the 1,243 square foot house at 789 Thurston Road is listed at $74,900. The 40 by 117 foot lot includes a separate two-car garage. For more information please visit rochestercityliving.com/ property/R170598 or contact Pam Lambiase of Nothnagle Realtors at 585.747.2697.

by Padraic Michael Collins-Bohrer Mr. Collins-Bohrer grew up in the 19th Ward. He currently lives and works in Downtown Rochester.

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Position ultimately reports to company HQ; telecommuting for U.S.-based duties acceptable from any location. Send resume to Eleanor Lathan, Carestream Health, Inc., 150 Verona Street, Rochester, NY 14608, ref: 12011122.

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Legal Ads [ AMCETD, LLC ] 1: The name of the Limited Liability Company is AMCETD, LLC. 2: The Articles of Organization were filed on December 13, 2011 with the Secretary of State. 3: The Office of the LLC is in Monroe County.

4: The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company is to be served.

The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is: 17 Lanaray Park, Fairport, New York 14450. 5: The purpose of the business of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which the LLC may be organized under the Limited Liabilty Law for the State of New York. [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Name of limited liability company: Building 29 LLC (“LLC”). Date Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (“SSNY”) December 19, 2011. LLC organized in Delaware on November 3, 2011. NY county location: Monroe. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process c/o the LLC, One Circle Street, Rochester, New York 14607.

Address required to be maintained in jurisdiction of organization or if not required, principal office of LLC: 874 Walker Road, Suite C, Dover, Delaware 19904. Copy of formation document on file with: the Secretary of State of Delaware, P.O. Box 898, Dover, Delaware 19903.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] A DIFFERENT PATH GALLERY, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/21/2011. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Corporation Service Company 80 State St. Albany, NY 12207.

Registered Agent: Corporation Service Company 80 State St. Albany, NY 12207 Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Bell Company of Rochester, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on November 21, 2011.

Its principal place of business is located at 125 Humphrey Road, Scottsville, New York 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 125 Humphrey Road, Scottsville, New York 14546. 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 ] CS-LT Acquisition, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/15/2011. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 300 Lucius Gordon Dr., W. Henrietta, NY 14586.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] CWH ENTERPRISES, LLC. filed Art. of Org. with NY Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/13/11. Office is in Monroe County. SSNY is desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy to the LLC, 59 Appleton St. Rochester, NY 14611. Any Lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] GBU ENTERPRISES, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/8/11.

LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 53 Genesee Park Blvd., Rochester, NY 14611. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Not. Of Form. Of Documents Plus LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with NY Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/12/11.

County: Monroe. SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, P.O. Box 31762, Rochester , NY 14603.

Purpose any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of FLAWLESS PROPERTIES, LLC, Art. of Org. filled Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/11/2009.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC. 231 Michigan Street, Rochester, NY 14606 Purpose: any lawful purpose [ NOTICE ] Not. Of Form. Of JAGOAL PROPERTY

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Legal Ads > page 29 MANAGEMENT LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with State Secretary NY 11/01/11. County: Monroe. SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 155 Collenton Dr. Rochester NY 14626.

Purpose any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of K & A Enterprises, LLC, Arts.of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/03/11. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC. 6 Eisenberg Place, Rochester, NY 14620.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of Royal Service I LLC, Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/22/11. Office location Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of process to 30 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester,

NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Not. Of Form. Of SolarMAX LLC (Fictitious Name: SolarMAX - BRAYLO LLC). Art. Of Org. filed with NY Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/18/11. County: Monroe. SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 217 Kingsboro Road Rochester, NY 14619.

Purpose any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license, number not yet assigned, for a full on premise beer, wine & liquor license has been applied for by EMPIRE BAR & GRILL LLC. dba EMPIRE BAR & GRILL, 2014 Empire Blvd., Webster, NY 14580, County of Monroe, Town of Penfield for a bar & grill. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of Healthy Magazine Franchising, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with NY Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 9/20/2011. 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: 8 Ridgeview Ct. Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of ROC ACTUARIAL, LLC (the “LLC”). Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of NY (SSNY) on 11/9/11. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 103 Gregory Park, Rochester, NY 14620.

Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CALAMARI CONCESSIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/21/11.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Falzone, 4 Englewood Hill, Pittsford, NY 14534-2517. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process

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to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ENCHANTED DIALYSIS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/06/11.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 601 Hawaii St., El Segundo, CA 90245.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Kidney dialysis services. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of HONY Associates, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/22/11.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Paul Frank + Collins P.C., One Church St., PO Box 1307, Burlington, VT 05402. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of KEYMAN MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/21/11.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 683 Pittsford Victor Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Joseph A. Fiorie at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: NORTHEAST CAPITAL VENTURES LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 9/6/2011. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, P.O. Box 10803, Rochester, New York, 14610.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of M101 GROUP, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/7/11. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 26 Peaceful Harbor Lane, Webster, NY 11480. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Merriman Properties, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/8/11. 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 18 Lambeth Loop, Fairport, NY 14450.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of NORTH STAR INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/9/11.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to princ. bus. loc.: 26 Peaceful Harbor Lane, Webster, NY 11480. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of OVBT, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/1/11. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 124 S. Main St., Fairport, NY 14450.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of STEPHEN AND LYNN NATAPOW FAMILY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/07/11.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 2300 Buffalo Rd., Bldg. 100D, Rochester, NY 14624. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Surrey Hill Properties, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/21/11. 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 18 Lambeth Loop, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION of SVT LLC (“LLC”) Art. of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (“NYSOS”) on 12/20/2011, pursuant to Limited Liability Company Law Section 203. Office location: Monroe County.

NYSOS designated as agent for LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSOS shall mail copy of process served to: 2070 Lyell Avenue, Rochester, NY 14606. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Trail Ready Communications, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/08/2011.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LCC to whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at 107 Probst Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of YOU JIA, DDS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/28/11.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of PLLC: 420 Westfall Rd., Apt. 1, Rochester, NY 14620. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of 1575 Marketplace Drive, LP. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/28/11. Office location: Monroe County.

LP formed in California (CA) on 11/22/11. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The Partnership, 5900 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. 2600, Los Angeles, CA 90036, also the address to be maintained in CA. Name/address of genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Cert. of LP filed with CA Secy. of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Cornerstone Records Management, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/21/11. Office location: Monroe County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 10440 Little Patuxent Pkwy., Ste. 900, Columbia, MD 21044. LLC formed in DE on 2/28/08. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400,

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Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of NRG Experimental, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State: 12/14/11.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in NC: 6/13/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 20 Piccadilly Sq., Rochester, NY 14625.

NC addr. of LLC: 1700 Talbot Ridge St., Wake Forest, NC 27587. Cert. of Org. filed with NC Sec. of State, 1 S. Salisbury St., Raleigh, NC 27601.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Rainbow Lot, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/17/11. Office location: Monroe County.

Princ. bus. loc.: 3445 Winton Pl., Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623.

LLC formed in Minnesota (MN) on 11/9/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to the MN address of LLC: 12 South Sixth St., Ste. 715, Minneapolis, MN 55402. Arts. of Org. filed with MN Secy. of State, 60 Empire Drive, Ste. 100, St. Paul, MN 55183. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Rochester Silver Works, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 9/23/11. Office location: Monroe County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 750 W. Ridge Rd., Rochester, NY 14615. LLC formed in DE on 9/21/11. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served.

DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] STONE ROAD PROPERTIES, LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/8/11. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Mark

Roskey, 626 Stone Rd., Rochester, NY 14616.

General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] The Verstand Group, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/30/11. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 Triple Diamond Way, Webster, NY 14580, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license, number not yet assigned, for a beer & wine license has been applied for by YUMMY HOT POT & GRILL INC. dba YUMMY HOT POT & GRILL, 2411 West Henrietta Rd, Rochester, NY 14623, County of Monroe, Town of Brighton, for a restaurant. [ NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY OF FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the foreign limited liability company is Fun Services of Western New York, LLC (the “LLC”). The Application for Authority was filed with the New York Department of State (“NYDS”) on November 23, 2011. The LLC was organized with the Ohio Secretary of State (“OSOS”) on October 31, 2011. The office of the LLC is located in Monroe County. The NYDS has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and a copy of any process shall be mailed to Day Ketterer Ltd. c/o Blake R. Gerney, 5 East Main Street, Hudson, Ohio 44236. The principal office of the LLC is 4650 Allen Road, Stow, Ohio 44224. The LLC’s Articles of Organization were filed with the OSOS at 180 East Broad Street #16, Columbus, Ohio 43215. The LLC was formed for the purpose of engaging in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed under Section 1705.01 et seq. of the Ohio Revised Code. [ NOTICE OF ARTHUR ALAN MEDIA, LLC ] Arthur Alan Media, LLC was filed with SSNY on 5/6/2011. Office: Monroe County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. P.O. address which SSNY shall mail any process against the LLC served upon SSNY: 1279 Chili Avenue, Rochester, New

Legal Ads York 14624. Purpose is to engage in any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: INDUSTRIAL PACK & CRATE LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/21/2011. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: INDUSTRIAL PACK & CRATE LLC, 111 Parce Avenue, Fairport, New York 14450. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION BISEN TECH LLC ] Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 11/22/2011. Office in Monroe County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to BISEN TECH LLC, C/O JOHN S. HERBRAND, ONE CHASE SQ., SUITE 1900, ROCHESTER, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] NORTH GOODMAN RESTAURANT LLC has filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on November 3, 2011.

Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to 495 North Goodman Street, Rochester, NY 14609. Its business 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 Act. [ NOTICE OF GENFRA PROPERTIES, LLC ] GenFra Properties, LLC was filed with SSNY on 11/16/2011. Office: Monroe County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. P.O. address which SSNY shall mail any process against the LLC served upon SSNY: P.O. Box 18041, Rochester, New York 14618. Purpose is to engage in any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the Limited Liability Company is New York

Pioneer Holdings LLC (the “Company”). The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on December 15, 2011. The office of the Company is located in Monroe County, New York. The Secretary of State of New York has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served.

The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any such process is P.O. Box 10495, Rochester, NY 14610. The business purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful activity for which a limited liability company may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Law. [ NOTICE OF SALE ] ACTION TO FORECLOSE / A MECHANICS LIEN INDEX NO. 11/10239 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE SHLOMO GABAY Plaintiff, VS. EASTWEST ENERGY CORP., EASTWEST USA CORP Defendants. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure to foreclose a mechanics lien and sale dated December 8, 2011 I will sell at public auction at the front vestibule at the County Office Building, 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New York on January 17, 2012 at 9:30 AM premises known as 342-344 Portland Avenue, Rochester, NY 14605.

Said property is located in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, known and described as: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe, State of New York, known and described as Lot 14 and the westerly 38.2 feet of Lot 13 of the Konitz & Hoehn Subdivision, as filed in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 1 of Maps, Page 138.

Said Lot 14 and the westerly portion of Lot 13 fronts 46.75 feet on the east side of Portland Avenue and are 158.2 feet along the south side of lrondequoit Street.

Also conveying all that tract or parcel of land, beginning at a point on the easterly ROW line of Portland Avenue at the southwest corner of said Lot 14 of the Konitz & Hoehn Subdivision, said corner being the Point

or Place of Beginning; thence Easterly, along said south line of Lot 14, a distance of 99.81 feet to a point; thence Southerly, parallel with said Portland Avenue, a distance of 43.39 feet to a point thence Westerly, parallel with said Lot 14, a distance of 99.81 feet to the said east line of Portland Avenue; thence Northerly, along said east line of Portland Avenue, a distance of 43.39 feet to the Point or Place of Beginning.

Subject to covenants, easements or restrictions of record, if any. The property is sold subject to the following terms and conditions as stated in the Judgment of Foreclosure filed in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on December 14, 2011 (a) Covenants, restrictions, easements and agreements of record, if any; (b) Any state of facts an accurate survey might show; (c) Existing tenancies and/or occupancies, if any; (d) Violations in any state, village, or municipal department; (e) Statutory right of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to redeem within one hundred twenty (120) days from the date of sale, if any; (f) Any and all prior mortgages, liens and encumbrances; (g) Taxes, tax liens, tax sales, water rates, sewer rents, and assessments effecting said premises set forth thereon; (h) Rights of the public and others in and to any part of the premises that lies within the bounds of any street, alley, highway, right of way or road, restrictions and easements of record and the terms of sale, together with statutory interest from October 7, 2011 to the date of sale. Property address: 342-344 Portland Avenue, Rochester, NY 14605, Tax Account #106.42-2-44.001 Judgment amount: $16,873.44 Upset amount: $16,873.44 plus $3.68 per day from October 7, 2011 to sale date .Dated: December 15, 2011 Dean J. Fero Esq. REFEREE 183 E. Main Street Rochester, NY 14604 Telephone: (585)3254600 David Berlowitz LLP Attorney for plaintiff 222 Council Rock Avenue Rochester, New York 14610 Telephone: (585-330-4716) [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 201010749 SUPREME

COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Carmine R. Salvatore; Stephanie R. Salvatore, f/k/a Stephanie R. Porcelli; ESL Federal Credit Union; Our Lady of Mercy High School; Casa Larga Vinyards, Inc.; United States of America, Internal Revenue Service; New York State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated November 30, 2011 and entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the front vestibule of the Monroe County Office Building, 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New York, County of Monroe, on January 11, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Perinton, Monroe County, New York, known and described as Lot 141 of Black Watch Hill, Section 4, as shown on a map filed in Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 183 of Maps, page 20. Said Lot is situate on the south side of Canon Ridge and is of the same dimensions as shown on said map. Tax Account No. 179.08-355 Property Address: 5 Canon Ridge, Town of Perinton, New York Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $102,403.95 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: December 2011 Betsy Album, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767

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