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Monroe Y in jeopardy?

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Cuomo’s DNA. NEWS, PAGE 5

No teacher evaluations, no money.

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FEATURE | BY CASEY CARLSEN | PAGE 16 | PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK

Building a better dance scene This weekend five leading local dance companies will put on a collaborative dance concert at Geva Theatre with the goal of furthering what they recognize as the flourishing dance scene in Rochester. The five groups participating in the so-called Fabo Callabo are Bill Evans Dance, BIODANCE, FuturPointe Dance, Geomantics Dance Theatre, and PUSH Physical Theatre. Their work can all be categorized as contemporary dance, but within that realm they occupy very different niches.

There is the renowned rhythm tap and modern dance of Bill Evans Dance; the multi-genre, urban-themed performances of FuturPointe Dance; and the gently

nuanced, fine-tuned choreography of Missy Pfohl Smith’s BIODANCE, which often addresses social issues. The contemporary choreography of Geomantics Dance Theatre’s Richard Haisma contains strong theatrical elements, while PUSH Physical Theatre (pictured above) straddles the fence between dance and theater, consistently folding mime and physical theater into the company’s work.

In anticipation of Fabo Callabo, the leaders of the five troupes sat down with City to discuss their work, dance in Rochester, and the importance of collaboration.

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‘Facts were missing from fracking story’

Regarding Jeremy Moule’s “Gas Well Impacts Add Up” (December 28): I agree with the headline. Jobs will be created in record number. New York will prosper with renewed economic vitality. We’ll see a construction boom with new homes, hotels, restaurants, and stores. Entrepreneurs will open more locally-owned stores. Restaurants will serve more customers. New York may gain population instead of bleeding college grads to other states.

From where I sit, it’s all good.

However, your article doesn’t tell this story. In fact, some essential facts are missing, replaced with unattributed half-truths and doomsday speculations. Yes, an amped-up natural gas industry will increase truck traffic. However, the operator is required to repair all roads where damage is caused, and in most cases post bonds. Often, as our neighbors in Pennsylvania will tell you, roads are more quickly and thoroughly repaired than normally trod roads waiting for state hired-work crews.

Storm-water runoff can affect water quality. Last year water near some organic farms suffered, not because of the oil and gas industry, but because increased planting cycles and the detritus created left unhealthy deposits in freshwater.

City reporter Jeremy Moule’s article quoted two respected environmental activists, but failed to seek equally credible sources from the natural-gas industry. The science and the facts were sorely missing from this story — and it’s the science and facts that hold the key to a better New York.

JOHN HOLKO, ALEXANDER, NEW YORK

Holko is president, Lenape Resources.

The brewery’s Cataract plans

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The Genesee Brewing Company owns three landmark buildings on Cataract Street, and they want to demolish two of them. Your recent editorial confessing ambivalence about their preservation and reuse is, at best, puzzling (Urban Journal, December 28).

First, the buildings are not massive, nor are they weird, as you suggest. The best of the landmarks, 13 Cataract Street, is five stories tall, and

features a small tower with majestic views of the High Falls (and is majestic viewed from the High Falls).

It has a bunch of nasty appendages, which should be removed, revealing it for what it is: a gem. Designed by our nation’s leading brewery architect, AC Wagner, in the late 1880’s, this lovely little building is nearly perfect. It is nuanced, rooted to the particularities of its urban setting, deftly positioned at the edge of the High Falls gorge and the Pont de Rennes, and with its neighbor at 7 Cataract Street, the building the brewers plan to reuse, will create a sensational urban space east of the river.

If these buildings are absent, we lose a significant piece of our urban narrative, a beautiful expression of the best of 19th-century industrial architecture, and a chance to create another anchor for the unified redevelopment of the High Falls.

But here is what is really puzzling: why let the brewery off the hook for the care of these landmark buildings?

Instead, why not invoke civic responsibility and good urban stewardship as reasons enough for them to insure that these buildings remain? Abandoned by their owners, left to swoon and decay, these buildings, by virtue of their status as landmarks, belong in part to all of us. We have created laws to protect these assets, and claiming that they are too far gone to save is oxymoronic. The buildings’ owners have let them decline, and they should be held responsible for their revival.

Then it would be both/and, instead of either/or. Both preserved and ready for a useful future, instead of either an eroding pile, or gone.

We have long passed the time when tearing down the city is ever a good idea. It was the 18th-century French author Fontenelle who said, “It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.”

HOWARD DECKER, FAIA

For the record, the buildings’ current owners, North American Breweries, bought the brewery in 2009.

According to the brewery’s website, the buildings were abandoned more than 25 years ago.

In response to “Preservation Rules and the Brewery” (December 28): You tell us that local preservationist Jean France stated, with regard to “really important buildings,” that in England or Europe, “They wouldn’t think of tearing them down. They put up with the inconvenience and the discomfort, because that’s how they think.”

A cursory look at London, Paris, or Brussels, to list just three European cities of some importance, proves that the opposite is true. These three

western capitals have immensely rich architectural histories, but a huge amount of their Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque architecture was torn down over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries alone (and I am not alluding to the destruction wrought by wars or the elements).

In the 19th century, the Medieval walls surrounding certain cities made way for broad boulevards — witness Florence and Brussels. On the orders of the Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussmann cut huge swaths through densely built Paris to make way for the wonderful boulevards we so love, which avenues and their buildings are indeed safer and cleaner than what stood there before.

Victor Horta’s Maison du Peuple in Brussels? Gone. Les Halles in Paris? Torn down in 1971 and replaced by a ghastly mall. Florence’s old ghetto? Erased to make way for the bombastic Piazza della Repubblica. The list goes on and on.

In order to remain relevant, cities need to keep on moving along, and much of the old needs to make way for the new. Hard, but fully informed and historically responsible choices need to be made. Venice and Bruges are exceptionally beautiful and important places, but these cities remain firmly anchored in the past.

Brussels, which was a lovely city before World War II, has lost a great deal of its charm as a result of the economic boom of the 50’s and 60’s, which led to the evisceration of entire neighborhoods and the erection of too much appallingly bad architecture, only to be surpassed by the architectural calamities that keep on popping up near the heart of the city ever since it became the seat of the European Union.

I was once told that students in urbanism were urged to travel across great distances to Brussels to learn what they should never do.

Having said this, I would like to note that Brussels happily still has lovely streets, avenues, and squares with wonderful or oddly fascinating architecture, despite the many entrepreneurs so lacking in taste and historical perspective who vandalized the capital of Belgium.

However, one should not always trust what one sees. In the 80’s, when I was a student in Brussels, façades of select old buildings of distinction were preserved, and everything behind these was destroyed to make place for new, supposedly more practical interiors (which were too often of far lesser distinction than what was obliterated). Although it was claimed otherwise, that does not constitute architectural preservation.

MICHAEL AMY

Amy is an art history professor at RIT.

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Cuomo’s jobs vision: casinos and conventions Oh, me.

With the national news media hinting at bankruptcy for Kodak, it’s a somber time here. So I was hoping our full-speed-ahead governor would announce something big in his State of the State address last week.

I was hoping he had exciting ideas for popping up the state’s economy — maybe even something for us up here in the Forgotten City by the Lake.

But no. There wasn’t much to shout about in the Cuomo vision for growing the economy. He wants to repair the state’s infrastructure — replace the Tappan Zee Bridge, fix other some bridges, fix the roads…. All of these need to be done, but they’re short-term job boosters. They’ll provide construction jobs for awhile, but then they’ll go away.

Nor is there a big pot of money sitting in Albany to pay for all this. The governor envisions public-private partnerships to fund the projects. Money from union pension funds, for example, would help pay for the Tappan Zee project. According to Gannett reporter Joe Spector, a Cuomo official says that in the partnerships, “investors would gain equity in a state asset, but not ownership.”

So… what? Union names and corporate logos will start adorning highways and bridges and parks around the state?

Cuomo did offer ideas for longer-lasting job growth, but here, too, I’m holding my head in pain. He wants to build a new convention center in Queens. He promises that it’ll be the biggest convention center in the nation.

Coincidentally, just a few days before Cuomo gave his speech, the Wall Street Journal published a fascinating op-ed piece headlined “Have We Got a Convention Center to Sell You!” The gist of the article: This is risky business indeed.

There’s an enormous glut of convention centers in the US, dating back to before the recession, said the Journal piece. And it keeps getting worse. While the number of convention-goers has dropped precipitously, cities have been expanding their convention centers and building new ones.

Chicago enlarged its McCormick Center — which is now operating at 55 percent capacity. The State of Massachusetts funded a new center in Boston that opened in 2004, with officials promising a healthy increase in the number of visitors and a big increase in hotel occupancy. Neither happened, so now the state wants to double the size of the center.

When I think about improving the state’s economy — really improving the economy — I think about medical research, high-tech businesses, science, manufacturing” “The whole thing is a racket”: That’s the Journal article’s quote from Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby.

And it made me a little twitchy to read in a Times article last week that the big convention center in Queens will be “a joint venture with a subsidiary of the gambling company Genting Group.”

Casinos themselves are another of Cuomo’s proposed jobs boosters. He wants gambling allowed at locations other than Indian reservations. Yes, casinos could create new jobs (which Cuomo says will pay well). But casino complexes often include restaurants and hotel rooms, which compete with nearby restaurants and hotels.

Job losses at the older businesses can offset the new ones at the casinos.

It’s just discouraging. And maybe I’m naïve, but when I think about improving the state’s economy — really improving the economy — I don’t think about opening casinos and building a big convention center. (I don’t think about repairing roads and bridges, either. That’s simple household maintenance.)

When I think about improving the state’s economy — really improving the economy — I think about medical research, hightech businesses, science, manufacturing.

If we really want to boost the economy of New York State, we ought to be investing in education, in research and development.

To be fair, Cuomo didn’t completely ignore those things in State of the State.

He promised a second round of regional economic development awards, some of which, presumably, will go to projects with long-term potential.

But Cuomo’s own vision is of casinos and the biggest convention center in the nation.

And that’s a small vision indeed. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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State funding for off-ramp

After leaving Rochester out of his State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced $100 million for an interchange at I-390 and Kendrick Road. The interchange has been a goal of University of Rochester and government officials for some time.

Rochester to host state GOP

The state Republican Party announced that it will hold its annual convention in Rochester, on an unnamed date. The convention is being held to designate a candidate to run against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, says a press release from the county GOP. That will be the only statewide race on the ballot this year.

Brooks, Doorley make appointments

to a temporary position.

On paper Green is head of the Appellate Bureau. But Green says he won’t be acting in that capacity and is instead aiding Doorley with her transition.

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Kodak’s troubled financial picture

Eastman Kodak saw its stock drop below 40 cents a share, and its credit rating cut

by Moody’s Investors Service after rumors of a bankruptcy picked up steam. The company has been trying to raise cash by selling some of its imaging patents.

NEIGHBORHOODS | BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN

Neighbors mobilizing to save Monroe Y

Walsh out

Susan Walsh resigned as director of the county airport. She was charged with driving while intoxicated after an accident in East Rochester. Walsh was driving a county-owned vehicle at the time, but, officials say, was not on county business.

Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks appointed former County Attorney Bill Taylor back to the position. Taylor left the job to run an ultimately unsuccessful race for district attorney.

Also in legal news: New DA Sandra Doorley, a Democrat, appointed former DA Mike Green

If a new YMCA opens in the Mt. Hope Collegetown project, what does that mean for the Monroe Y, 797 Monroe Avenue (pictured)?

Some neighbors are worried.

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Some residents in the area of the Monroe Avenue YMCA say they’re worried the branch may be in danger of closing, and they’re organizing to fight that move.

The YMCA of Greater Rochester is in talks with the University of Rochester about creating a new Y in the Mt. Hope Collegetown project, and Monroe Y neighbors worry that the proximity is such that their Y would close. But no decision has been made about either a Collegetown Y or the future of the Monroe Y, says Mary Kay Polston, vice president of marketing for the YMCA of Greater Rochester.

Carolyn Curry, head of the Monroe Village Task Force, says the Monroe Y is essential to the surrounding community.

“It’s the quintessential YMCA,” she says. “It helps people from age 87 down to newborns.”

The Monroe Y is a neighborhood center, Curry says, giving teenagers a safe place to go, and providing some senior citizens their only contact with the outside world. The Monroe Y serves the Monroe Avenue, Highland Park,

Park Avenue, Swillburg, and Lock 66 neighborhoods primarily.

Curry says neighbors have asked her to “do something” to save the Monroe Y, so she’s organizing a group and they’ll form some sort of attack plan soon.

Polston says even if a Y opened in Collegetown, it wouldn’t automatically mean the Monroe Y would close.

“We would do a very in-depth study of urban service delivery before we made any kind of decision to close any facility in our system,” Polston says.

Neighbors would be involved in the process, she says, and there would be public meetings.

The study would look at things like duplication of services, she says, and whether neighbors would be better served by a more modern facility. Polston points out that the Monroe Y is not handicapped accessible and because of its location, expansion and renovation of the building are not feasible. Parking at the Monroe Y is also very limited.

Geographically, there might not be much distance between the Monroe Y continues on page 8

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Governor Cuomo wants legislation that

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would require anyone convicted of a felony or penal-law misdemeanor to submit a DNA sample for the state database. Thomson Reuters says that if Cuomo’s proposal becomes law, New York would be the first state in the country to expand the database so broadly.

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Cuomo is latest to call for DNA database expansion

Occupy agreement down to the wire

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal for an all-crimes DNA database, which he made in his State of the State address last week, isn’t getting the attention it deserves.

Cuomo wants legislation that would require anyone convicted of a felony or penallaw misdemeanor to submit a DNA sample for the state database. Thomson Reuters says that if Cuomo’s proposal becomes law, New York would be the first state in the country to expand the database so broadly.

Previous governors, as well as some legislators, have pushed for some form of DNA database expansion.

In 2010, State Assembly member Joe Morelle and Senator Jeff Klein, both Democrats, introduced a bill that would have required anyone arrested and charged with certain felonies to provide a DNA sample. Critics argued that it infringed on Fourth Amendment unreasonable search-and-seizure protections. The bill stalled in the Legislature, though a separate measure that expanded the list of eligible crimes passed.

Proponents of DNA database expansion stress the crime-solving advantages. DNA can help identify suspects and, in some cases, it can exonerate people wrongfully convicted of crimes. In his remarks, Cuomo said the state

By the time you read this, Occupy Rochester may know whether city officials will let them stay in Washington Square Park. | Occupy Rochester’s agreement with the City of Rochester for 24-hour Occupation of the park expires today (January 11). Occupiers have requested a renewal, and Ryan Acuff, Occupy’s park-use liaison, says city officials are discussing the possibility. Officials have assured him, Acuff says, that they wouldn’t suddenly uproot or spring anything on the Occupiers. | Mayor Tom Richards has said that the agreement is working well and that Occupy Rochester has complied with conditions the city put on the agreement — such as banning alcohol and firearms in the park — as best it can. | Richards, however, hasn’t committed to renewing the agreement. He says he wants to know how long the Occupiers plan to stay in the park. | Occupiers were arrested on two separate days last fall after they tried to stay in the park past its 11 p.m. closing time. All were charged with trespassing, and some were charged with an additional violation. One of the groups is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday, potentially for trial.

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is failing to use “the most powerful tool we have to exonerate the innocent.”

Database expansion critics focus on civil liberties, privacy, Andrew Cuomo. FILE PHOTO and due process.

The New York Civil Liberties Union hasn’t come out expressly against Cuomo’s proposal, but in a statement, NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman stressed that DNA evidence is not infallible. She said the NYCLU is encouraged that the governor recognizes the need for safeguards in the database.

“The possibility for error, fraud, and abuse exists at every step from the moment that DNA is collected,” Lieberman said. “We need rigorous quality-assurance protocols to ensure the integrity of the state’s DNA databank.”

Lieberman also said that the DNA profiles need to be accessible “beyond our state’s DAs [district attorneys],” that way wrongly accused or convicted people have a chance to prove their innocence.

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EDUCATION | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

Teacher evaluations holding up funds City schools and Rochester Teachers Association officials are scrambling to come up with a teacher evaluation plan that meets the state education commissioner’s approval.

Millions in federal funds for city schools hang in the balance.

Commissioner John King rejected the evaluation plans — which are part of a grant application for federal money — for all 10 of the state’s struggling school districts, including Rochester’s. The reasons why are unclear. In a January 3rd letter to Bolgen Vargas, interim superintendent of Rochester city schools, King said the district failed to meet requirements “related to teacher and leader evaluation and support in schools.”

The district has 30 days to appeal the decision, and school officials are in talks with King’s office about exactly what information is needed, and how to best present that information.

It would be a shame, says RTA President Adam Urbanski, if the money were held up “because of dotting i’s and crossing t’s.”

The new evaluations, which link student performance to teacher evaluations for the first time, represent the biggest change in education in years, Urbanski says. And so initial hurdles aren’t surprising, he says.

One of those hurdles has to do with measuring student performance, which, under the new law, counts for at least 20 percent of a teacher’s evaluation.

The challenge, Vargas says, is to measure performance in a way that supports students and is fair to teachers.

“The state is requiring us to use state tests,” he says. “How are we going to measure student growth until we know for sure what constitutes growth on a state test?”

Vargas says the state should offer more guidance in this area because measuring student performance by test scores doesn’t work in all situations. For example, a fourthgrade student might fail the state English exam, but still show dramatic improvement over a given period of time.

Some teachers’ union critics applaud King’s decision. They say the state’s largest unions agreed to rigorous evaluations with the student performance factor in order to obtain federal funds, and now they want to change the fine print.

Rochester’s proposed evaluations have drawn scrutiny because they allow teachers to be observed for review purposes by the building principal or a qualified peer teacher.

Giving the teachers a choice is fair, RTA President Urbanski says, because principals usually aren’t experts in every subject area.

“Let’s say I taught physics, but my principal was an English teacher,” he says.

“Wouldn’t you rather have a master teacher who understands physics observe you?”

Another concern has to do with student attendance. Rochester’s evaluations said

RCSD student Tyiesha Polland in math class. PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK

teachers aren’t responsible for the performance of chronically truant students. How can you hold a teacher accountable for a student that isn’t in the classroom long enough to learn the subject matter? Vargas asks.

Federally funded school improvement grants represent roughly $3 million in the city school district’s budget: money that is targeted to go to East High School and Dr. Freddie Thomas High School.

The new teacher evaluations were a requirement to qualify for the Obama administration’s Race to the Top grants, which is how they became part of New York State Education law. An inability to reach a

consensus with King on the evaluations puts millions more at risk.

Even if the SED eventually accepts Rochester’s plan, Vargas says that an effective teacher evaluation system is largely dependent on consistent and thorough implementation. And it would still be a relatively lengthy and arduous process to remove ineffective teachers once they’ve received tenure — a frustration for reformers who say the evaluations are big on teacher development and short on accountability.

unanimous, but I’ve heard that behind closed doors, Council wasn’t nearly united on the matter.)

Miller also praised Spaull’s service as a member of Council and as vice president.

And Spaull seems to be putting on a brave face, saying she would have liked to continue in the role, but is OK with not being vice president.

Spaull says she’s plenty busy as executive director of the Center for Youth and as a member of Council, as well as with her other activities. Spaull is well-known for her seemingly limitless energy and for attendance at countless events and functions.

City Council has also named Spaull to head up the newly created Arts and Culture in the Center City Committee. Spaull says conversations about that committee’s role are under way.

So while Spaull seems OK with losing the vice presidency, one insider says that Eastside Democrats, an influential and involved bunch, are mightily ticked off by the switch.

Spaull represents the East District on Council and is widely respected there. I’m not sure what recourse the Eastside Dems have, however. It’s hard to believe this issue will still be around by the next election cycle. The next Council election isn’t for two years.

POLITICS | BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN

Inside Council’s VP switch I don’t believe for a minute that Elaine Spaull gave up the City Council vicepresidency willingly. It’s not in her nature to go gently into that good night.

Council voted last week to give the vice presidency to longtime Council member Dana Miller. Lovely Warren remains president.

It’s not like the vice presidency is a rare and precious post that comes with tons of power and perks, or even a stipend. I think the local high-school homecoming court has more duties, frankly. Can you even name the person who preceded Spaull in the position?

(It was Bill Pritchard, but it took me a long

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time to come up with that name.) It has to be a psychological blow to Spaull and her supporters, however, to lose the title.

It’s no secret that Miller has long wanted a leadership post, and he told me he lobbied other Council members for support. Miller has been on Council for six years and has been involved with or has chaired nearly all of Council’s committees at one time or another.

“I was interested in contributing to Council in a different way,” Miller says, of his decision to seek the vice presidency. “I talked to Council members, and enough were willing to support me for me to be elected.” (The vote to make Miller VP was

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and a new Collegetown Y, Curry says, but it may as well be on the other side of the planet for some people.

“I’m sure it wouldn’t be bad for the people who can get there,” she says. “But there are a lot of people who can’t get there. It’s about an hour bus ride. You have to go downtown, transfer, and then ride out again. For anybody who doesn’t have a car, they’re not going to do it.”

If your only experience is with a modern YMCA, a visit to the scaled-down Monroe Y would probably give you culture shock

with its comparatively small exercise rooms — equipment taking up nearly every inch of available space.

“It’s just way different than having a huge facility,” Curry says. “It’s a family Y. The bigger they get, the less they have that feeling.”

Curry says neighbors are distraught about the possibility of losing “their” Y. “Everybody, not just in my little neighborhood but over in Park Avenue, has been talking about it,” she says.

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Public hearing on I-390 changes

The Upper Mt. Hope Neighborhood Association will hold a public hearing on the proposed reconstruction of the I-390 Exit 16. The project is located in both the city and in Brighton near the University of Rochester.

The forum will be held on Tuesday, January 17, at Monroe Community Hospital, 435 East Henrietta Road. NYS Transportation Department representatives will be available to answer questions from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. The for-

Correcting ourselves

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Penfield home energy workshop

The Town of Penfield will host the “Penfield Home Energy Workshop” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 12, 3100 Atlantic Avenue.

Discussion on voter turnout

The League of Women Voters will present “Increasing Voter Participation: A Public Conversation” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 12, at Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Avenue.

ary 14, at Monroe County Democratic Headquarters, 1150 University Avenue, building 5 (in the rear of the complex). The meeting is to begin planning and organization.

Permaculture documentary

The Brighton Memorial Library will host a screening of the documentary film “Permaculture: The Growing Edge,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, January 11.

The film interviews key figures in the permaculture movement. It will be shown at the library, 2300 Elmwood Avenue.

Obama 2012 planning meeting

Rochester Seniors for Obama 2012 will meet at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Janu-

There was an error in our January 4 story on redistricting. New York is not losing two congressional seats because it lost population. Rather, the Legislature has to eliminate seats because New York’s population grew at a smaller rate than the populations of other states.

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Dining

Eli roll (left) and bourbon-maple-glazed Berkshire pork belly (right) at Nikko. PHOTOS BY MATT DETURCK

Upscale, downtown [ CHOW HOUND ] BY DAYNA PAPALEO

The deluge of new sushi spots in the last couple of years probably had lovers of raw fish thinking that all their culinary desires were being fulfilled. They had best think again and pop over to Nikko, which quietly opened last month at the corner of Capron Street and that tiny offshoot of South Avenue tucked under the entrance to 490 East. Well, “quietly opened” may not be totally accurate; once the foodie underbelly of Rochester began whispering about the eclectic menu and imaginative drinks at the sophisticated new downtown eatery, the buzz got quite loud.

Nikko is the creation of Mark Chiarenza (he also co-owns Murphy’s Law) and Marco Muoio, who did stints on the line at Tastings and Tony D’s before trading in his whites to manage the day-to-day operations at his fledgling restaurant.

A warm, stylish space built of bricks and beams, Nikko is anchored by a glowing bar, with a sleek open kitchen purring in the corner. That’s also where you’ll find the sushi bar, where Chef Ching Imperial Bolima and his assistants are slicing gorgeous cuts of fish into both jewel-like sashimi as well as inventive rolls like the Sumo ($12), consisting of Dungeness crab, asparagus, avocado, fresh mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, and rice paper with Himalayan rock salt. And those who’ve sworn off the white stuff should rejoice: Nikko not only offers brown rice, but multigrain rice, too.

Chef Jeremy Nucelli, late of Warfield’s High Point, heads up Nikko’s kitchen, complementing the sushi bar’s offerings with some artistry of his own, often with an Italian bent that is as unexpected as it is harmonious.

Besides crostini, pasta, and deliciously inspired takes on caesar salad, porchetta, and chicken cacciatore, Chef Nucelli also does a fantastic charcuterie plate ($16, and if you’re lucky it’ll include Nikko’s dreamy duck-liver pâté) as well as a mighty burger ($16), made from house-ground beef topped with Maytag blue and Gruyere cheeses, smoky onion jam, roasted garlic aïolï, and arugula, and served with pommes frites. The cocktails run the gamut from classic potions like a luscious Sazerac ($7.50) to original concoctions like The FDR ($8), a blend of Nikko’s smoked-bacon bourbon, Amaro CioCiaro, Carpano Antica vermouth, and bitters, while the globally sourced wine list is ambitious yet accessible.

Actually, “ambitious yet accessible” might be a fitting description for Nikko itself. “We’re gonna push the envelope,” Muoio says. “I want to keep things interesting.”

Nikko is located at 1 Capron St. Dinner prices range from $8 to $27. The restaurant serves Monday-Wednesday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Thursday-Friday 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-11 p.m.; and Saturday 5-11 p.m.

Bar open late. For more information, call 4542908 or visit restaurantnikko.com.

Wheat watchers

Some are gluten-free by necessity, whereas some have banished wheat and other grains from their diet by choice. And some fall into neither category; they’re merely intrigued by the creative and nutritional possibilities that exist when a baker takes the typical ingredients out of the equation. But all those people should know about a few bakeries around town that are keeping the oft-neglected gluten-free in mind.

Maybe you’ve already enjoyed a little something from Donna Marie’s GlutenFree Bakery (164 Newbury St., 254-0706, donnamariesbakery.com), which, since 2009, has supplied places like Wegmans and Starry Nites Café, along with augmenting the inhouse bakery at Lori’s Natural Foods. But Donna Marie’s also has a fully stocked location of its own, selling, among other things, muffins ($2.15), breads (the cinnamon-raisin loaf is $5.15), and pizza shells ($4.89).

The recently opened Ellie’s Gluten-Free Bakery (1000 Turk Hill Road, Fairport, 2236411, elliesglutenfreebakery.com) specializes in gluten-free/dairy-free/soy-free baked goods, like both cream and fruit pies ($12), cutout cookies ($1.50), and layer cakes (8” cake, $34). Ellie’s can also accommodate vegan custom orders.

The Mooseberry Café (2555 Baird Road, Suite E, Penfield, 348-9022, mooseberrycafe. com) is a new venture by the Mooseberry Soap Co., and though it’s not strictly gluten-free — the café also has an impressive menu of breakfast and lunch items, as well as juices and smoothies — Mooseberry showcases GF and vegan desserts (like an organic GF chocolate fudge cake, $4.95/ slice), and offers the full-sized versions of the treats for sale through its website.

New brew

Drinking responsibly can also mean going easy on the planet. So toast to your own environmental consciousness with the Rochester-made Kyoto Protocol, a collaborative beer by local artisans Roc Brewing Co. and Joe Bean Coffee Roasters. The latter provides the fair-trade and organic Sumatra Gayo coffee to the former, who infuses its IPA with the colddripped brew. The results are now on tap at Roc Brewing Co. Roc Brewing Co. is located at 56 S. Union St. It is open Thursday-Friday 510:30 p.m. and Saturday 3-10:30 p.m. For more information, call 794-9798 or visit rocbrewingco.com.

Back to life

Longtime Rochester bar owner Jeff Boscarino (Bosco’s Bombay Bicycle Club, Penny Arcade, Paradise Alley) has revivified the formerly defunct downtown mainstay Richmond’s.

The tavern once again serves a full menu, and I do mean full: soups, pizzas, salads, and sandwiches, along with the usual range of bar food (wings, rings, sticks, poppers) and more substantial entrees like fettucini carbonara ($14.95) and steak au poivre ($17.95).

Richmond’s is located at 21 Richmond St. Food prices range from $4.95 to $21.95.

It is open daily 11 a.m.-2 a.m. For more information, call 270-8570. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Upcoming [ Hip-Hop/Rap ] Rick Ross Saturday, March 10. Main Street Armory, 900 E. Main St. 8 p.m. $40-$60. 232-3221. rochestermainstreetarmory.com.

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My Brightest Diamond Saturday, January 14 Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 8 p.m. | $10-$12 | 454-2966

[ Alternative ] Shara Worden, a.k.a. My Brightest

Diamond, has proven that with talent, hard work, and a bit of wanderlust, many things are possible. After earning a degree in opera from the University of North Texas, the Michigan chanteuse has performed at venues including Lincoln Center and the Sydney Opera House. It’s the classically trained and dramatic quality of Worden’s voice that has made her a star and a serial collaborator with a Who’s Who of alternative music artists, including David Byrne, The Decemberists, and Sufjan Stevens. Mikaela Davis and Bogs Visionary Orchestra open. — BY ROMAN DIVEZUR

Old Tapes Thursday, January 12 Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 7 p.m. | $8-$10 | bugjar.com [ INDIE ] I haven’t heard anything quite so beautiful

in a long, long time as Old Tapes’ Tympanogram EP “This Is Goodbye.” A little less atonal than the Velvet Underground with Nico, and even dreamier than Mazzy Star, this relatively new trio — Lisa Kribs (that’s right, the DJ), her brother Michael Kribs, and David McGinnis — weaves a sonic tapestry of lush simplicity. However, this doesn’t necessarily come off as minimalism, as the imagery and swoon the music evokes is epic. Has psychedelia found a friend in lullabies? Old Tapes and Dave & Marissa open for Joywave. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

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Wednesday, January 11 [ Acoustic/Folk ] Dave McGrath. Cottage Hotel, 1390 Pittsford-Mendon Rd, Mendon, NY. dave@ davemcgrath.com. 7 p.m.

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Jim Lane. Norton’s Pub, 1730 N Goodman St. 266-3570. 8 p.m. Free.

Rob & Gary Acoustic. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa.com, 3814000. 5:30 p.m. Free.

Thunder Body Medicine Wednesdays. Dub Land Underground, 315 Alexander St. facebook.com/ thunderbody. 10 p.m. $5 21+, $10 unders.

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

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

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Blue Jimmy played Lovin’ Cup Saturday, January 7. PHOTO BY FRANK DE BLASE

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When you rock ’n’ roll, you get thirsty. When you drink beer, you want to rock ’n’ roll. This wheel of perpetual joy is going to spin as Three Heads Brewing, Custom Brewcrafters, Rohrbachs, Naked Dove, Roc Brewing, and Rogers Beer pour samples of their assorted lagers and ales to the hippy-happy jams sounds of Extended Family, soaring exploratory rock of The Goods, Friday in America, the raga-jazz-sonic freak-out of The Moho Collective, lowdown and filthy barroom rock from The Filthy McNastys, super-soul with a side of jam from AudioInflux, and the intense dub step of RootsCollider. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

Enter the Haggis Sunday, January 15 Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Drive 8 p.m. | $15 | lovincup.com [ CELTIC ROCK ] It’s funny, but some of the new

music on Enter The Haggis’s new CD, “Whitelake,” is a whole lot more than just the exuberant strain on traditional instruments to which we’ve all grown accustomed. It still burns bright, but the band’s incorporation of a rock rhythm section, and fewer regional strains, has opened up the possibilities and ETH’s overall reach. On the scene worldwide for the past 10 years, the Toronto-based Enter The Haggis has blended and blurred Celtic tradition with an unorthodox glee and curiosity. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

New kind of lonesome [ review ] by frank de blase

Rested, invested, and road-tested, Teddy Geiger returned to Water Street Music Hall to pack the club side with adoring fans Friday, January 6. Geiger’s fan base has grown up, as I spied a lot more heels and make-up in the audience than his previous teen-idol status might have implied. Also grown up is the music on his new album, “The Last Fears.” It was a less-mopey Geiger who thrilled the crowd of about 300 with his introspective simplicity. It was nice, but I’ve had my fill of nice lately. Maybe I’m the only one — it wouldn’t be the first time — but I’d like to hear Geiger get tough. I’d like to hear Geiger get mean.

Meanwhile, back in the jungle, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad was on the big stage, replacing its big one-drop with a swinging acoustified 2/4 two-step.

That’s because the band’s new album, “Country,” is just that: country. This isn’t just a lark. Honestly, it’s as if GPGDS had always been a country band in the vein of, say, The Flying Burrito Brothers.

Though the punch wasn’t quite the same — not better or worse, just different — the intensity and harmonic layering at the show was simply beautiful. This just furthers my prediction that this band is going to be huge. What will these cats do next?

It was out to the Lovin’ Cup with not one, but two blonde arm charms to catch Bloomfield boys, Blue Jimmy. Life has a way of getting in the way and the band hasn’t played out in a while. The rest must have done them good, because they were chomping at the bit while nursing pre-gig brews before taking the stage, and immediately hit on all eight cylinders.

The harmonies were sweet over the band’s effortless twang ’n’ bang. As far as pickers go, Greg Gefell is a brilliant doublethreat, whether slinging a guitar or parked behind the pedal steel, where he painted a picture of a whole new kind of lonesome.

It still hurts a little bit as I write this. I think it’s supposed to.

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Chris Teal’s Open Jam. Tala Vera, 155 State St. tala-vera. com, 546-3945. 8 p.m. $3, free w/dinner.

El Rojo Jazz. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net, 6625555. 6 p.m. Free.

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

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Rick Holland Evan Dobbins Little Big Band. Tala Vera, 155 State St. tala-vera.com, 5463945. 8 p.m. Dinner required before 9 p.m.

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

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Uptown Groove. Little Theatre Cafe, 240 East Ave. thelittle. org. 7:30 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Count Blastula. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. dinosaurbarbque.com. 9 p.m.

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“I mean, who’s going to write a song about Judge Reinhold?” asks Matthew Mischief, drummer for The Anderson Stingrays. The Anderson Stingrays is a relatively new local pop-punk trio that adheres to the sacred rule of three chords, speed, and lyrics that don’t make you sit down and think. They want you to get up and get down with songs like “Judge Reinhold” or “Rock ’n’ Roll Party In Space,” which, according to guitarist-singer Aaron Stingray is, “Just a good rock ’n’ roll song about wanting to have a rock ’n’ roll party in space.” No metaphor, no agenda, no bullshit.

It is what it is, and it all comes down to the Stingray’s tried and true recipe: “Come up with a song title,” he says. “Base it off of that.

Throw a 1-4-5 chord progression in there, a repetitive verse, a ‘wuh-oh,’ maybe a girl’s name, and you have a song.”

“We’re not trying to reinvent the wheel,” says bassist Cale Lunchbox. “We just want to play and make music as accessible as possible.

We’re not elitist about playing music only for cool people.”

But the band is going to get its chance.

After seeing The Queers play in Rochester at the Echo-Tone Music parking lot in 2009, a then-bandless Stingray contacted head Queer, Joe Queer.

“I said, ‘Hey, I dig the music, I like to play the same style.’ And he said he wanted to hear some demos,” says Stingray.

Stingray got busy quick-like and laid down some tunes to tape and e-mailed them to Queer. Queer dug it. Stingray found himself in the position a lot of young punk bands dream of: getting the thumbs-up from somebody big in the game. He just needed a band — a band that had prospects before it existed.

“Joe was like, ‘Hey, I want to record you when you get a band together,’” Stingray says.

Stingray and Lunchbox had already begun working together when Mischief came along.

The band hammered out a dozen originals, then hammered down to Atlanta to record for three days with Queer at The Factory Studios.

Three days later “Rock ’n’ Roll Party In Space” was done. It’s a tightly wound platter that has punk energy and irreverence, but also a certain degree of that transistor-radio pop that punk set out to revive in the first place.

The Anderson Stingrays celebrated the release

of “Rock ’n’ Roll Party In Space” this summer

with the wrong CD. The band excitedly tore into the shipment of discs only to discover the manufacturer had swapped theirs with a band from New Jersey called Viking Viking Viking, which was anxiously awaiting its CDs while on The Warped Tour. But in true punk-rock style, The Anderson Stingrays even considered selling the other band’s CDs at the show.

“But they were, like, progressive metal,” Mischief says. “And their fans wouldn’t have been happy with ours.”

Now, with the new album in tow, the band is trying to get a foothold on the home front with likeminded Rochester punk rockers Stolen Bikes and The Emersons. It is also heading off to Watchmen Studios in Lockport to record a song to be featured on a Screeching Weasel tribute CD. The boys in the band also want to hit the road to elsewhere for some rock ’n’ roll adventure, to get the music out there, and to meet Marty.

“We have an unofficial super fan in North Carolina,” says Lunchbox. “Marty White. As soon as we had an internet presence of any sort, he was the first guy that found us and became a fan.”

“Yeah,” Mischief says, considering the group’s other supporter. “And that drunk guy at Monty’s Krown.”

Wednesday, January 11 Jefferson Rd. stickylipsbbq. com. 9 p.m. Free.

Thursday, January 12 [ Acoustic/Folk ] John Akers & Elvio Fernandes. Easy on East, 170 East Ave. 325-6490. 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. [ Blues ] Elvis B-day Bash w/Lustre Kings. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. dinosaurbarbque.com.

9 p.m. Free.

The Beale Street Blues Band. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. stickylipsbbq. com. 9 p.m. Free. [ Classical ] ECMS Community Chamber Singers. Eastman School of Music-Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. esm.rochester.edu. 7 p.m. Free. [ Jazz ] Anthony Gianavola. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137.com, 385-8565. 6 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. 3838260. 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, 6625555. 6 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Darwin. Blueroom, 293 Alexander St. blueroomrochester.com, 7305985. 8 p.m. Call for info.

Jeff Elliott. Irondequoit Ale House, 2250 Hudson Ave. 544-5120. 5 p.m. Free.

Jenn McMaster. Boulder Coffee Co. -Alexander Street. bouldercoffeeco.com. 8 p.m.

Free.

Jim Lane. Six Pockets, Ridge Hudson Plaza. 266-1440. 7 p.m.

Free.

Joywave w/Old Tapes, Dave and Marissa. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com, 454-2966. 7 p.m. $8-$10.

Little Feat w/Tinted Image. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N Water St. waterstreetmusic.com, 3255600. 8 p.m. $30-$35.

The Mighty High and Dry. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe.com, 271-4650.

7:30 p.m. Call for info.

Friday, January 13 [ Acoustic/Folk ] Dave McGrath. Sully’s Pub, 242 South Ave. 232-3960. 7 p.m.

Free.

JAZZ | Madeline Forster

Madeline Forster’s voice bridges the best of both worlds. She studied classical voice at the Eastman School of Music and then took off for York University in Toronto, where she majored in jazz studies, so her classical chops are enhanced with a jazz flair. If her recent album, “Just You, Just Me,” is any indication, Forster will be cruising through some standards from the Great American Song Book with a side trip to Brazil. At her performance at Bistro 135 she’ll be joined by a stellar band: John Nyerges on piano, Dan Vitale on bass, Tim Forster on flute, and Chris Teal on drums.

Madeline Forster performs Saturday, January 14, 7 p.m. at Bistro 135, 135 W. Commercial St., East Rochester. Free.

662-5555. — BY RON NETSKY Decomposers. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137.com, 385-8565.

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Jeff Slutsky. Boulder Coffee Co. - Park Ave. bouldercoffeeco.com.

8 p.m. Free.

Jim Drew. Jukebox, 5435 Ridge Rd W, Spencerport. 352-4505.

10 p.m. Call for info.

Michael Lasota. Starry Nites Cafe, 696 University Ave. 716-8090948. 8 p.m. Free.

Owl Creek - A Capella Dinner Show. Boulder Coffee Co. -Alexander Street. bouldercoffeeco.com. 6 p.m.

Free.

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

String of Pearls. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. abilenebarandlounge.com, 2323230. 6 p.m. $4.

Tom Gravino. Tandoor of India, 376 Jefferson Rd. 427-7080. 7 p.m. Free.

Virgil Cain w/Acoustic G. Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. johnnysirishpub.com, 224-0990.

5 p.m. Free.

Willie & the Cole Men. McGraw’s Irish Pub, 146 W Commercial St, East Rochester. mcgrawsirishpub. com, 348-9091. 5 p.m. Free. [ Blues ] Billy Joe & the Blues Gypsies w/ Dave Riccioni. Six Pockets, Ridge Hudson Plaza. 266-1440. 6-9 p.m. Free.

Dan Schmitt and the Shadows. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe. com, 271-4650. 7:30 p.m. Call for info.

Mick Hayes. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. dinosaurbarbque. com. 10 p.m. Free. [ Classical ] John Ballings. Hedges, 1290 Lake Rd, Webster. 265-3850. 6:30 p.m. Free. [ Country ] David Pronko. Sandra’s Saloon,

276 Smith St. 546-5474. 9:30 p.m. Free. [ Hip-Hop/Rap ] Dom Brown w/Reason. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N Water St. waterstreetmusic.com, 3255600. 6:30 p.m. $10-$12. [ Jazz ] Alana Calhoon. Grill at Strathallan, 550 East Ave. strathallan.com, 454-1880. Call for info. Free.

Bobby DiBaudo Trio. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net, 6625555. 6 p.m. Free.

Joe Santora Trio w/Emily Kirchoff. Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield R, Penfield. 3838260. 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.

Soul Express. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa.com, 3814000. 7:30 p.m. Free.

Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes. Glengarry Inn at Eagle Vale, 4400 Nine Mile Point Road, Rt 250, Fairport. EagleVale.com, 598-3820. 6:30 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Boneyard w/My Panalen, Evil Twinn. California Brew Haus, 402 Ridge Rd W. 621-1480. 10 p.m. $5-$7.

Brass Taxi. Shooters Sports Bar & Grill, 1226 Fairport Rd. 3859777. Call for info.

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Friday, January 13 Jim Drew & Humble Soul. Jukebox, 5435 Ridge Rd W, Spencerport. 352-4505. 9 p.m. $5.

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

Mochester w/Oxford Train. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RIT. lovincup. com, 292-9940. 9 p.m. $5 GA, $3 student.

Sam Deleo. Perlo’s Italian Grill, 202 N Washington St, East Rochester. 248-5060. 6:30-10:30 p.m. Free.

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

Call for info. Free.

Smooth Groove, No Boundaries. Blueroom, 293 Alexander St. blueroomrochester. com, 730-5985. 8 p.m. Call for info.

Something Else. A-Pub Live, 6 Lawrence St. 262-2063. 10:30 p.m. Free before 10 p.m., $5 after.

That Party Band. Pub 511, 511 E Ridge Rd. 266-9559. 9:30 p.m.

Call for info.

The Gowns w/Inner Planets. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut Plaza. themontagemusichall.com, 2321520. 8 p.m. Call for info.

The Love Tunnels w/The Dads, White Bison, and Abandoned Buildings Club. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com, 4542966. 8 p.m. $7-$9.

The Po’ Boys Brass Band. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. stickylipsbbq.com.

9:30 p.m. Free.

Saturday, January 14 [ Acoustic/Folk ] Ache. Tapas 177 Lounge, 177 St Paul St. 262-2090. 11 p.m.

Free.

Acoustic Brew. Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. johnnysirishpub.com, 224-0990.

8 p.m. Free.

Eric Carlin. Flaherty’s Webster, 1200 Bay Rd. flahertys.com, 671-0816. Call for info.

John Akers. Flaherty’s Honeoye Falls, 60 W Main St., Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. flahertys.com, 497-7010. Call for info.

Mike & Sergei. Don’s Original Pub, 2055 Fairport Nine Mile Point Rd. 377-1040. 8 p.m. Call for info.

Shawn Welch. Boulder Coffee Co. - Park Ave. bouldercoffeeco.com.

8 p.m. Free.

Steve Bartolotta. Pittsford Pub, 60 S. Main St., Pittsford. 586-4650, pittsfordpub.net. 9 p.m.-midnight.

Free.

Ted McGraw. McGraw’s Irish Pub, 146 W Commercial St, East Rochester. mcgrawsirishpub. com, 348-9091. 5:30 p.m. 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.

CLASSICAL | Pageantry for the Festival of Epiphany

Michael Unger is both director of music and organist at the Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word. In his doctoral studies at ESM, Unger has already earned an double masters in organ and harpsichord, he won first prize and audience prize at the American Guild of Organists’ National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance, and he’s won prizes from Japan to his native Canada. Join Unger this weekend for an evening concert of medieval poetry and pageantry combined with music from “The First Nowell,” a 1958 nativity play by Ralph Vaughan Williams that includes his arrangements of several, traditional holiday carols.

Pageantry for the Festival of Epiphany takes place Sunday, January 15, 7 p.m. at Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, 597 East Ave. Free. 244-6065, MusicAtIncarnateWord.org.

— BY PALOMA CAPANNA Wendell Ferguson. Harmony House, 58 E Main St., Webster, NY. heartlandconcerts.org. 8 p.m. $17 adv, $20 doors. [ Blues ] Bill Brown. Brown Hound Bistro, 6459 Rt 64, Naples. 374-9771. 7 p.m. Free.

Luca Foresta and the Electro Kings. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe.com, 271-4650. 7:30 p.m. Call for info.

The John Cole Blues Band. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. stickylipsbbq.com.

10 p.m. Free. [ Classical ] John Ballings. Hedges, 1290 Lake Rd, Webster. 265-3850. 6:30 p.m. Free. [ Country ] Alysia Groth Band. Finger Lakes Racetrack, 5857 State Rd, Rt 96, Farmington, NY. 924-3232. Call for info. [ Jazz ] Adrian DiMatteo. Grill at Strathallan, 550 East Ave. strathallan.com, 454-1880. Call for info. Free.

Amanda Montone Jazz Trio. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137.com, 385-8565. 7 p.m. Free.

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. 325-1030.

9 p.m. Free.

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

Free.

Joe Santora Trio w/Emily Kirchoff. Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield R, Penfield. 3838260. 7 p.m. Free.

Madeline Forster. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net, 6625555. 7 p.m. Free.

Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes. Jasmine’s Asian Fusion, 657 Ridge Rd, Webster.

JasminesAsianFusion.com, 216-1290. 6:30 p.m. Free.

Tinted Image. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa.com, 3814000. 7:30 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] 50/50. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N Water St. waterstreetmusic.com, 325-5600.

9 p.m. $7.

Amanda Ashley. Jeffrey’s, 3115 E. Henrietta Rd., Henrietta. jeffreysbar.com, 486-4973. 9 p.m. Call for info.

Evan Prewitt Band. A-Pub Live, 6 Lawrence St. 262-2063. 10:30 p.m. Free before 10 p.m., $5 after.

Figure 8. California Brew Haus, 402 Ridge Rd W. 621-1480. 9:30 p.m. $5-$7.

Floor Of Eyes w/Fleshburn, Buried in Concrete. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut Plaza. themontagemusichall.com, 232-1520. 8 p.m. Call for info.

Gypsy Mojo. McGraw’s Irish Pub, 146 W Commercial St, East Rochester. mcgrawsirishpub.com, 3489091. 8 p.m. Free.

House on a Spring. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m.

Free.

My Brightest Diamond (solo) w/Mikaela Davis, Bogs Visionary Orchestra. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com, 454-2966. 9 p.m. $10-$12.

My City My Secret w/The Silence Broken, Tidings They Brought, The Fear Of Falcons, and Momento Mori. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N Water St. waterstreetmusic.com, 325-5600.

6 p.m. $10.

Polluted Moon. Anchor Bar Marketplace. anchorsportsbar. com, 272-9333. Call for info.

Rochester Homegrown. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RIT. lovincup. com, 292-9940. All day. $10. See website for full line up.

School Without Walls Benefit Concert. Firehouse Saloon, 814 Clinton Ave S. dandrmacich@ yahoo.com. 8:00 p.m. $5-$10 (Suggested Donation).

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

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

The Skycoasters. Nola’s BBQ, 4775 Lake Ave. nolasweb.com, 663-3375. 10 p.m. Call for info.

The Tombstone Hands. Boulder Coffee Co. -Alexander Street. bouldercoffeeco.com. 9 p.m.

Free.

Sunday, January 15 [ Acoustic/Folk ] Celtic Music. Temple Bar & Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. 7 p.m.

Free.

Enter the Haggis. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RIT. lovincup.com, 2929940. 8 p.m. $15. [ Blues ] Open Blues Jam w/Nate Coffey. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe.com, 271-4650. 7 p.m. Call for info. [ Classical ] Amadeus Chorale w/ Fusion. Brockport United

[ DJ/Electronic ] Making Music on a Mac w/Patrick Blackburn. Eastview Mall, 7979 Pittsford-Victor Rd, Victor, NY. 421-6070. 5 p.m. Call for info.

Live performance/demonstration at the Eastview Apple Store.

Old School DJ. Clarissa’s, 293 Clarissa St. 454-2680. 8 p.m.

Free.

POP/ROCK | Josh Netsky

Local folk-rock artist Josh Netsky is set to release his most recent project, an album and DVD entitled “The Spirits,” Tuesday at the Bug Jar. The release features Netsky exploring various abandoned towns and buildings in the American northeast, from Centralia in Pennsylvania to Moonville in Ohio. The accompanying DVD, filmed by Netsky’s brother, features the songwriter playing a song from the album while in the place that inspired it. Cuddle Magic and Stoney Lonesome and The House of Lights will also perform.

Josh Netsky performs Tuesday, January 17, 8 p.m. at the Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. $7-$9. 454-2966, bugjar.com.

— BY ANDY KLINGENBERGER Methodist Church, 92 Main St., Brockport. showtix4u.com. 7 p.m. $10.

Juanita Wallace Jackson in Concert. Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Ave. 271-1050 x103. 3:00 p.m. $10 GA, $5 students and seniors.

Music at Incarnate Word: Pageantry for the Festival of Epiphany. The Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, 597 East

Avenue. 244-6065. 7:00 p.m. $10 Freewill offering.

The Wilmont Wind Quintet presets A Musicale from Europe. St Mary’s Church, 15 St Mary’s Pl. 2667030. 3 p.m. Free.

William Warfield - A Legacy of Music: A benefit Concert for the William Warfield Scholarship Fund. Eastman School of Music-Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. esm.rochester.edu. 4 p.m. $15.

[ Jazz ] Bill Slater Solo Piano (Brunch). Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa.com, 3814000. Call for info. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Latin for Truth w/Keaton, Suit ‘Em Up, and So Many Ways. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N Water St. waterstreetmusic.com, 3255600. 6:30 p.m. $10.

Like Vintage w/There I Say Is Lightening, Red Hands, and Alberto Alaska. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com, 4542966. 8 p.m. $5-$7.

Winter Sounds w/ Triggers. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. abilenebarandlounge. com, 232-3230. 7 p.m. $3.

Monday, January 16 [ Jazz ] Gap Mangione & The Solo Piano Series. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa. com, 381-4000. 5:30 p.m. Free.

Mark Bader. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net, 662-5555. 5:30 p.m. Free.

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

Smugtown Stompers. Green Lantern Inn, 1 E Church St, Fairport. flowercityjazz.org. 6:30 p.m. $12.

Tony Gianavola. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe. com, 271-4650. 7 p.m. Call for info. [ Pop/Rock ] Dorkbox. Boulder Coffee Co. -Alexander Street. bouldercoffeeco.com. 8 p.m.

Free.

Tuesday, January 17 [ Acoustic/Folk ] Irish Music. Shamrock Jack’s, 4554 Culver Rd. 323-9310. 9 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, 271-4650. 7 p.m. Call for info.

Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net, 662-5555. 6 p.m.

Free.

NY. chorusofthegenesee.org. 7 p.m. Free. Open practices/try outs.

Rochester Women’s Community Chorus Open Rehearsals. Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N Fitzhugh St. therwcc.org, 2344441. 6:30 p.m. Free. [ Jazz ] 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. [ Pop/Rock ] Cuddle Magic w/The Josh Netsky Band (album release), and Stoney Lonesome and the House Of Lights. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com, 454-2966. 8 p.m. $7-$9.

Don Christiano - With A Little Help from My Friends: The Beatles Unplugged. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230, abilenebarandlounge.com. 8 p.m.

Egg Man’s Traveling Carnival. Hatter’s Pub, 5 W Main St, Webster. 872-1505. 6 p.m.

Call for tix.

[ Classical ] Barbershop Harmony. Harmony House, 58 E Main St., Webster,

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[ FEATURE ] BY CASEY CARLSEN

BUILDING A BETTER DANCE SCENE

Top photo: Bill Evans Dance members Leanne Rinelli and Kathy Diehl performing “Colony.” Photo by kevin colton Bottom photo: members of BIODANCE performing “IT.” Photo by kevin colton

16 City JANUARY 11-17, 2012

Fabo Callabo, the title given to this weekend’s collaborative dance concert at Geva Theatre, was organized cooperatively by five leading local dance companies seeking to further what they recognize as the flourishing dance scene in Rochester. The five groups in the event are Bill Evans Dance, BIODANCE, FuturPointe Dance, Geomantics Dance Theater, and PUSH Physical Theatre. Their work can all be categorized as contemporary dance, but within that realm they occupy very different niches.

There is the renowned rhythm tap and modern dance of Bill Evans Dance; the multi-genre, urban-themed performances of FuturPointe Dance; and the gently nuanced, fine-tuned choreography of Missy Pfohl Smith’s BIODANCE, which often addresses social issues.

The contemporary choreography of Geomantics Dance Theater’s Richard Haisma contains strong theatrical elements, while PUSH Physical Theatre straddles the fence between dance and theater, consistently folding mime and physical theater into the company’s work.

Mark Cuddy, artistic director of Geva Theatre Center, has opened his doors to contemporary dance several times in the past several years, hosting several local dance companies on Geva’s Nextstage theater.

“I want the Nextstage to be the home for small, dynamic dance/movement companies that ultimately make a terrific complement to our own theater productions,” he says. “If we can establish a consistent venue for them, I believe their audience will grow.” Cuddy expects the Fabo Collabo performances to sell out.

At Fabo Callabo, each group will show two pieces or excerpts that will total up to 15 minutes of performance time. In the name of fairness, and to ensure a smoothly flowing collaboration, the order of the pieces was determined by outside curator Elizabeth Zimmer, a longtime dance critic for New York City’s Village Voice.

“People in our industry are very connected to their own aesthetic,” says Darren

Stevenson, artistic director of PUSH Physical Theatre. “When you’re dealing with eight choreographers who have developed distinct bodies of work, we realized that we needed an outside eye to program the work.”

Speaking from New York City, Zimmer told City that she had already been familiar with some of the choreographers’ work based on her attendance at Nazareth College Arts Center Dance Festival this past July.

“A lot of the performers are fine dancers, and some of the choreographers quite interesting,” she says.

of this mini-dance renaissance in Rochester is contagious and inspiring.”

Smith cites the number of local festivals featuring dance in collaboration with other arts — such as Vision of Sound at Hochstein School, Image/Movement/Sound at RIT, and the newer Nazareth dance festival in the summer — as further fuel for the fire.

As further proof of the vitality of dance in Rochester, she reports that this past summer, the New York State Dance Force — a group dedicated to increasing exposure for dancers across New York — held its annual meeting in Rochester, requesting not It was Geomantics’ Richard Haisma who only a showcase of local dance companies, instigated Fabo Collabo. His big idea was to but also a panel of choreographers to discuss contribute to the gathering force of the local how and why dance is working so well in a dance scene by presenting a multi-company mid-size city like ours. dance concert in which each group would PUSH’s Darren Stevenson agrees that benefit from exposure to the others’ audiences.

Rochester is a great place for dance. Born and The common thread uniting the companies raised in England, he has lived and danced in was that they had all performed on Geva’s stage cities across the United States, including St. at some point in the recent past.

Louis, Charlotte, and Atlanta.

Also of significance, 17 of the dancers who “Rochester is an arts-friendly city,” he says. will be performing in Fabo Collabo are currently, “This is the first place I’ve lived where people or were once, students at SUNY Brockport’s seem to understand what I do for a living.

Department of Dance. Haisma has taught at Usually, people ask what I do for a living after the college in the past; Bill Evans is currently I’ve told them what I do for a living. Not in a professor there, and he once taught Heather Rochester. It’s the first place.”

Roffe of FuturPointe Dance. BIODANCE’s Each company in Fabo Collabo recognizes Smith told City that she thinks the high the upswing of quality dance in the area, level of dance education in and expresses a commitment to the area — her company furthering that movement. includes graduates of “Art doesn’t happen in both Brockport a void,” says Roffe, and Hobart and one of the three William Smith directors of Featuring Bill Evans Dance, BIODANCE, Colleges — is FuturPointe FuturPointe Dance, Geomantics Dance a contributing Dance. “The Theater, and PUSH Physical Theatre factor in the more we put Thursday, January 12-Sunday, January 15 steady growth in the bucket, Nextstage, Geva Theater Center, of Rochester the fuller the 75 Woodbury Blvd. dance in over bucket gets.” the last “CrossThu 7 p.m., Fri 7 p.m., Sat 2:30 & 7 p.m., few years. pollination is Sun 2:30 p.m. | Tickets start at $25 Smith began crucial,” says 232-4382, gevatheatre.org BIODANCE in fellow director New York City in FuturePointe director 2002, but in 2004 N’Jelle Gage. she relocated with the FuturPointe is the company to Rochester, where newest group performing in she has been ever since. “Dance has Fabo Collabo. The company formed beautifully infiltrated the Rochester arts and in 2009 with the goal of broadening the culture scene,” Smith says. “The excitement appeal and spectatorship of contemporary

Fabo Callabo

dance. The group’s eclectic work, rife with urban, cultural, and international flavors and influences, throbs with upbeat energy and intelligent humor. Members hail from farflung locales including Jamaica, Guyana, the Ukraine, and New Orleans, as well as New York City. Guy Thorne, another director, left burgeoning fame with Garth Fagan Dance to follow his own path, seeing part of the mission of the new company as widening the appeal of dance and broadening its audiences.

“We actively try to pull people into dance as an art form,” says Thorne. “We kindle their interest and appetite. Get them fired up, create a buzz.”

The directors of FuturPointe argue that the future of dance is in collaboration, and that is something they embrace within their company, within the dance world, and within the wider art world. To date, FuturePointe has infused visual art, opera, fine cuisine, and fashion into its performances. The company has danced on sidewalks, along the canal towpath, and in art galleries and restaurants.

The artistic directors involved in Fabo

Callabo have a wide range of experience.

FuturPointe is a youngster — a talented youngster, but a youngster nonetheless — compared to Bill Evans Dance and Geomantics Dance Theatre. Evans started his company in Seattle more than 35 years ago; Haisma was already touring with the Murray Louis Dance Company in the 1970’s, performing with Rudolf Nureyev to Louis’s choreography on Broadway. Geomantics evolved from the local Calabash Dance Theatre, which Haisma started in 2000.

During the 1980’s and 90’s, he toured his own solo, evening-long performance throughout Europe and the United States.

Haisma sat down with City recently to discuss the works he will be showing in Fabo Collabo. His longer piece is called “Do Animals Meditate V,” the latest version of the dance project he’s been creating and recreating for more than 15 years, performed to the live music of local experimental rock band Night Gallery. Haisma wants to be crystal clear on one point: at no time in his piece do the dancers imitate animals. Only the mental images he uses to stimulate production of his choreography contains animals — animals gathered around a lake at twilight.

“All choreographers use images to help them,” Haisma says. “I imagine this symphony of animals all connected, the ensemble of human communication.”

Geomantics Dance Theatre’s other piece in the program is “Truck Stop,” a solo by Whitney Denesha danced to the music of My Brightest Diamond. This theatrical piece portrays a figure whose life is filled with drudgery, and her desire to transcend it.

“I wanted to risk doing an emotionally powerful dance without being overly sentimental,” said Haisma.

Bill Evans is a recognized expert in rhythm tap, an improvisational-based tap form that he has studied, borrowed from, and added to for a good portion of his life.

“After years of living this work, I’m fluent in conversing in the style now, creating in the style,” Evans says.

At Fabo his company will perform one rhythm-tap piece, his 1997 work “Los Ritmos Calientes,” along with the longer work “Colony,” created by Evans as a result of his work with the Kahurangi Maori Dance Company in New Zealand.

“Colony” addresses the fate of indigenous people around the world who are stripped of language, belief systems, and traditional ways of living through colonialism.

“When I was in New Zealand, the young dancers took me to their sacred community center and showed me photographs of their ancestors,” Evans says. “These images of those Polynesian warriors with tattooed faces, dressed in British Victorian clothing and posing in stiff British-style tradition, are forever burned into my memory.”

Evans has received a Guggenheim fellowship and lifetime achievement awards from both Dance Teacher magazine and the National Dance Education Organization.

Duets will highlight FuturPointe’s time onstage in Fabo Collabo. In “Sahdji,” an African love story with an urban twist set to William Grant Still’s ballet for chorus and orchestra, Thorne will perform with Melinda Phillips. The company premiered the piece last year with Buffalo Opera Unlimited to live choral and orchestral music.

FuturPointe will also present two sections of Roffe’s “Tangere,” including “Symbiosis,” a duet she dances with Thorne.

The choreography is inspired by Roffe’s love of Argentine tango; she has taught master classes in the art form for years. “Tangere” is the Latin word for “to touch, physically or emotionally.”

One of BIODANCE’s pieces for Fabo Callabo is “Absent Presence,” choreographed

by Smith in 2004 and reworked in 2007. The work uses movement to explore the dualities of freedom and intimacy, weakness and strength, and closeness and conflict.

“At times we shut out those who need us the most and disallow the intimacy we, in actuality, need and crave,” Smith says. “Emotions change without warning between aggression, passivity, indifference, playfulness and intimacy.”

BIODANCE will also be presenting “IT” — as in “information technology” — which was choreographed by Smith in 2009. “‘IT’ is a dance that ponders the effects of technology on our humanity, relationships,

and development as it slowly replaces human encounters with nature and with one another,” Smith says.

The work will feature live, commissioned music for computer, keyboard, and percussion by composer Mark Olivieri, video by NYC filmmaker Jesse Spielman, and a set by Smith.

Smith has performed and taught dance all over the world. She currently serves as University of Rochester’s Director of the Program of Dance and Movement.

Top photo: FuturPointe Dance.

Photo by Ralph Thompson

Middle photo: Geomantics Dance Theater.

Photo by rick shannon

Bottom photo: members of PUSH Physical Theatre rehearsing “Web.” Photo by matt deturck

Stevenson formed PUSH with his wife, Heather, in 2000. The company’s latest work, “Web,” premieres at Fabo Collabo. Stevenson calls it a departure from PUSH’s standard work because it involves props.

“Almost always we deal with just our bodies,” he says. “If we need a set and props we make them out of our bodies. But with ‘Web’ we’re using climbing harnesses and ropes to attach performers to each other. This creates a web of humans attached to humans, both literally and figuratively.

It’s disturbing imagery. People no longer free to be themselves.

Tethered.”

“In violent confrontation you end up with these fairly intimate connections with a person you don’t want any connections with. This can last years after the incident occurs. In this piece we are exploring what aggressive posturing looks like, what nurturing looks like, what makes people feel safe or unsafe in a relationship,” Stevenson says.

The work is intended to raise openended questions. Stevenson expects audience members to personalize the work based on their own life experiences. He pondered the point that even to portray violence on the stage, a certain level of it had to be utilized.

“To show violence, we have to do just the opposite,” he says. “We have to be in control, respectful and careful of each other’s bodies and emotions. Even so, our dancer Jonathan [Lowery] would get rope burns and bruises.

We could only rehearse so long before he would need to heal.”

PUSH’s accomplishments include “-abled,” an exploration of addiction using medical equipment such as crutches and walkers, which had a sold-out two-week run at Geva in 2008. In 2009, the year Stevenson and his wife received the Performing Artist of the Year Award from Arts and Cultural Council of Greater Rochester, PUSH returned to Geva with its rendition of “Dracula.” The company has been doing education outreach in schools for years; recently it became affiliated with Young Audiences of Rochester.

Stevenson compares the opportunity to see so many varied dance works in one evening to a wine tasting. “You get to sample each company’s work and find out whose aesthetic excites or pleases you the most. Then you go back and see them again throughout the year.”

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ART | “Subtle Intentions” by Damon Johnson

KIDS | Musical Mystery Tour

COMEDY | Jeff Dunham: “Controlled Chaos”

After Rochesterian and art enthusiast Tippi Watson was introduced to NYC-based graffiti writer and collage artist Damon Johnson, she knew she wanted to expose Rochester audiences to his work. In effect, Watson will present Damon Johnson’s show, “Subtle Intentions,” at Rochester Contemporary Art Center (137 East Ave.), which opens on Thursday, January 12, 6-9 p.m.

Getting kids into music and dance at a young age can help them in developing confidence, as well as a passion for creative exploration. On Sunday, January 15, bring the little ones to Hochstein’s annual Musical Feast event, which this year includes a Musical Mystery Tour at Hochstein School of Music & Dance (50 N. Plymouth Ave.). Kids can become a musical “super sleuth” and search for clues throughout the building to solve a mystery and win a prize. In addition, tykes can take in student performances, make musical instruments, try dance steps, join a drum circle, visit the instrument petting zoo, and enjoy treats.

Comedian Jeff Dunham and his cohort of puppets are a sight to see. His foam-rubber costars include Walter the grumpy retiree, Achmed the dead terrorist, Bubba the drunk redneck, and Peanut the purple creature — quite a mixed crew. Dunham’s “Controlled Chaos” tour will make a stop at the Blue Cross Arena (1 War Memorial Square) on Sunday, January 15, at 5 p.m. With four Comedy Central specials to his name, and numerous DVDs and CDs, Dunham has packed in crowds for his best-selling national and international tours in recent years. For his new tour, Dunham introduces two new sidekicks, Achmed Junior and Little Jeff, that will bring even more laughter to crowds.

Tickets are available for $51.25. For more information, visit bluecrossarena.com or jeffdunham.com.— BY ERIC LACLAIR

Johnson combines influences of graffiti, tattoo, and skate cultures, comic-book art, and abstract expressionism to create bold and dramatic scenes. His work graces the walls of several nightclubs in New York, and is part of the permanent collections at the Patterson, Hamilton, and Chelsea art museums.

The artist has collaborated with local upcycled-materials fashion accessories company, EvenOdd Creative, and three tote bags featuring Johnson’s art will be sold opening night at Rochester Contemporary. “Subtle Intentions” remains up through Sunday, January 15, with hours by appointment. Rochester Contemporary’s hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 1-5 p.m.; to view the show with Watson, make an appointment. For more information, call 461-2222, or visit rochestercontemporary. org. To preview works and writings by Johnson, check out royalcrush.com. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] Art Faculty Showcase: “War & Consumerism” by Jeffrey Grubbs and Romy Hosford Thu Jan 12. Davison Gallery at

Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Drive. 7-9 p.m. 5946442, roberts.edu/davisongallery.

Damon Johnson “Subtle Intentions.”

Thu Jan 12. Rochester Contemporary, 137 East Ave.

The event takes place 2-4 p.m. and tickets are $2 per child, $5 per adult, and $10 maximum per family. For more information, call 454-4596 or visit hochstein.org. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY rochestercontemporary.org, royalcrush.com. 6-9 p.m. Free.

“Invitational Exhibition: CIAS Faculty & Students” Thu Jan 12.

Gallery r, 100 College Ave. 7-9:30 Phelps Art Center, 15 Church St., Phelps. 7-9 p.m. 315-548-2095, phelpsartcenter.com.

“Ancient Observations: Artwork by Allie Hartley.” Fri Jan 13. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 6-9 p.m. alayna@recordarchive.com.

“Power of Portraits: Intimacy & Distance,” featuring Jolene Beckman, Sarah Hart, and Diane Elmslie Fri Jan 13. A Different Path Gallery, 27 Market St., Brockport. 6-9 p.m. 637-5494, differentpathgallery.com.

“The Annual Studio II Student/ Teacher Exhibit” Sat Jan 14. Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery, 71 S Main St, Canandaigua. 6-8 p.m. 3940030, prrgallery.com.

A Holiday Art Show Sat Jan 14.

I-Square Visions, 693 Titus Ave., Irondequoit. 7-9 p.m. 943-1941. [ CONTINUING ] 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. 4734000, artsrochester.org.

Black Radish Gallery Village Gate, D Entrance, 274 N. Goodman St. Through Jan 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. Jan 13-Mar 2: “Faceless,” group exhibit

by Community Darkroom Monitors. 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. 271-5920, geneseearts.org.

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 Image City Photography Gallery 722 University Ave. Through Jan 22: The Magic of Light 2012.” Wed-Sat 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun noon-4 p.m. 482-1976, imagecityphotographygallery.com.

Are you A Cancer Survivor

With Trouble Sleeping?

We are seeking cancer survivors who are having difficulty falling or staying asleep for a study testing two methods for reducing sleep problems and fatigue.

How may you benefit

All participants will receive a behavioral treatment for sleep problems, at no charge, either as part of the study or after.

Half of the participants will receive a drug called armodafinil that may be helpful in reducing daytime tiredness and fatigue.

Eligibility (partial list)

• Be between the ages 21 and 75 • Have finished radiation treatments and/or chemotherapy • Insomnia began or got worse with the onset of cancer or treatment

Please call Jenine Hoefler (585) 276-3559 or Joseph Roscoe, Ph.D. (585) 275-9962 at the University of Rochester James P. Wilmot Cancer Center for more information about this research study 18 City january 11-17, 2012

International Art Acquisitions 3300 Monroe Ave. Through Jan 31: Original drawings by French artist Henri Matisse. Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun Noon-5 p.m. 264-1440, internationalartacquisitions.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 Feb 3: Jansa Bogdanovska. Sun 5-8 p.m. MonThu 5-10 p.m.; Fri-Sat 5-11 p.m.

258-0403, thelittle.org.

Livingston Arts Center 4 Murray Hill Drive. 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.” 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. Through Mar 9: “Some Things Old, Some Things New” mixed media

by Cheryl and Don Olney. Daily 10 a.m.-8 p.m. 546-8439.

Oxford Gallery 267 Oxford St. Jan 14-Feb 18: “Curriculum Vitae,” work by Philip Bornarth and Wayne Williams. Tue-Fri Noon-5 p.m; Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 2715885, oxfordgallery.com.

Phelps Art Center 15 Church St., Phelps. Jan 12-Feb 25: Fourth Annual Ontario County Art Teachers Show. Thu-Sat 1-4 p.m. 315-548-2095, phelpsartcenter.com.

Rochester Contemporary Arts Center 137 East Ave. Jan 1215: “Subtle Intentions” by Damon Johnson. Wed-Sun 1-5 p.m., Fri 1-10 p.m. 461-2222, rochestercontemporary.org. $1.

Rochester Regional Community Design Center Hungerford Complex/E. Main Business Park.

Door 3B. Continuing: “Corn Hill: What’s Next?” Mon-Fri 8:30 a.m.5:30 p.m. 271-0520, rrcdc.com.

Roz Steiner Art Gallery 1 College Rd., Batavia. Jan 17-Feb 27: “Convivium” by ceramic artist Kala Stein. Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

343-0055 x6448, genesee.edu.

Spectrum Gallery at Lumiere Photo, 100 College Ave. Through Feb 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. Continuing: “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.

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. 394-3500 x7369, gallery34@flcc.edu.

Art Events [ Saturday, January 14 ] Holiday Second Saturday Open House. Anderson Alley Artists, 250 N Goodman. andersonalleyartists. com. 12-4 p.m. Free.

Space. The Space, Door 2 Floor 2, The Hungerford Building, 1115 East Main St. lawtarello@ gmail.com, thespacerochester. com. 9-11 p.m. Email for details. [ Thursday, January 12Saturday, January 14 ] Adam Hunter/Chet Wild. Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd, Webster.

671-9080, thecomedyclub.us.

Thu 7:30 p.m., Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 p.m. $9-$12.

Comedy

[ Sunday, January 15 ] Jeff Dunham. Blue Cross Arena, 100 Exchange Blvd. 800-7453000, ticketmaster.com. 5 p.m. $47.50.

[ Thursday, January 12 ] Stand Up Show Case: Jokes in

[ Wednesday, January 18 ] Search Engine Improv Presents:

Harold Night. The Space, Door 2 Floor 2, The Hungerford Building, 1115 East Main St. lawtarello@ gmail.com, thespacerochester. com. 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5.

Technology, Lomb Memorial Dr. ntidtix@gmail.com. 7:30 p.m.

Free.

Dance Events

[ Sunday, January 15 ] 17th Annual WinterFest at Mendon Ponds. Mendon Ponds Park. 753-7275, mendonpondswinterfest.org. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Most events are free.

Demos, activities, vendors.

[ Thursday, January 12Sunday, January 15 ] Fabo Collabo. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd. 2324382, gevatheatre.org. Thur 7 p.m., Fri 7 p.m., Sat 2:30 & 7 p.m., Sun 2:30 p.m. $22-$25. [ Friday, January 13Saturday, January 14 ] Performance: Peter Cook & Keith Wann. Robert F. Panara Theatre, Rochester Institute of

Festivals

Kids Events [ Friday, January 13 ] Trulla Navideña (New Year and Three Kings Day). Thomas Ryan Center, 530 Webster Ave. prfestival.com. 5:30 p.m. Free.

[ Saturday, January 14 ] “The Wiz of the West.” Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave. 461-2000 x235, jcccenterstage.org, tykestheatre. org. 1 & 3:30 p.m. (latter interpreted for the hearing impaired). $11.

Berenstain Bears 50th Birthday Party. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. 2632700, museumofplay.org. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Included with museum admission: $11-$13. [ Sunday, January 15 ] “A Year with Frog and Toad” Audition. Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave. 3850510, rochesterchildrenstheatre. continues on page 20

In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream that my ...children will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

We salute the following students for the example they have set with their lives in school and in the community by living the ideals of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King Recipients 2012 School #4 School #5 School #7 School #8 School #9 School #12 School #15 School #16 School #20 School #28 School #33 School #34 School #35 School #36 School #39 School #41

– Cyone Marble – Wah K Bru Htoo – Marquis Reed – Samyla Seymour – Denishla Rodriguez – Jocelyn Brillian – Tyree Jacobs – Sentrail Gibson-Graham – Deja Waters – Zataisha Wilson-Sims – Cedric St.Louis – Olivia Moore – Savon Scott – Michela Pifer – Victoria Torres – Nilaya Ocasio-Rivera

School #42 School #43 School #44 School #45 School #46 School #50 BF Montessori East Edison BFE Edison IIT Franklin Jefferson Marshall SOTA Stem High School

– Nusaibah Abdul-Hakim – A’najah Ford – Tyiasha Jackson – Elyse Spencer – Myles Moore – Enis Santos – Sierra Edwards – Isaiah Evans – Aaron Grimes – Aleeya Burwell – Jack Pratt III – Malgarita Hernandez – Josiah Thomas – Emmett Tross – Andrew Hytton

The 29th Martin Luther King awards ceremony will be held at School of the Arts, on January 17th, 6:30pm. The Public is invited.

Rochester Teachers Association Human Relations Committee

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Theater

Kids Events

“examinations”) wrestles with his conscience in the face of his unspeakable orders.

Given that “Incident at Vichy” is basically

Andrew Cowen, Stephen Elliott, Roger Gans, and Charles Weckworth (pictured, left to right) in “Incident at Vichy.” Photo PROVIDED

Conquered territories “Incident at Vichy” John W. Borek Presents Through January 14 MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave. $10-$20 | 234-1254, muccc.org [ REVIEW ] BY ERIC REZSNYAK

You would hope that by the year 2012, the American public would be fairly well educated about the Holocaust. In addition to the historical records and stories from survivors, there have been countless works of art that have illuminated that dark chapter in human history. And yet, according to Michael Arve, director of the production of Arthur Miller’s “Incident at Vichy” currently on stage at MuCCC, he received several “disturbing messages” on the reservation phone line saying that the Holocaust is a myth. It is remarkable how far the human mind can go in rationalizing and distorting the facts to suit individual realities.

That is, ironically, one of the points that “Incident at Vichy” drives home.

Set in German-occupied France during World War II, the show’s specifics deal with the Holocaust. But its themes and messages go much deeper, beyond a specific place or time. It raises questions about how people — even, to an extent, the victims — can go along with such seemingly unthinkable horrors, some of which are still happening today. It is a powerful, thought-provoking work that has lost none of its relevancy.

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“Incident at Vichy” takes place in real time, in just one scene, in just one place: a holding room in Nazi-occupied France in the early 1940’s. The play opens with nearly a dozen men getting rounded up off the streets and placed in the room without any explanation.

Slowly, the men, led by the artist Lebeau (Kevin Indivino), try to piece together why they are being held (hint: it has to do with their religion), and what it could mean for them given the rumors swirling around Europe about Germany’s labor camps in Austria. Some of the men smugly argue that the idea of death camps could not possibly be true.

It’s inhuman, for one, and impractical for another — why would the Nazis waste free labor? Some get increasingly hysterical as the potential finality of the situation sinks in. Some say nothing at all. And some start to think about escape.

While the situation itself is intense, the real drama of the play comes from watching the characters react to their plight and interact with one another. It’s not a particularly rosy portrait of humanity.

Classism and racism rear their heads almost immediately in several ugly, petty displays, even among the potential victims themselves. Certain characters embrace their fatalism, while others talk themselves in and out of accepting what’s going on instead of fighting against it. And most interestingly, the Nazi soldier assigned to oversee the proceedings (with the help of a spectacularly creepy turn by Jim Valone as the “professor” in charge of the

all dialogue — there are no scene changes, and very little action — it requires a cast capable of delivering Miller’s exacting, insightful words. The large cast put together for this production is, for the most part, up to the task. Several members of the 15-man cast have practically no lines, while others carry the bulk of the show.

Especially impressive are David Spiro as the psychiatrist Leduc, Roger Gans as the Austrian Wilhelm Von Berg, Tom Bigiongiari as the actor Monceau, Carl Webeck as the German officer, and Jamie Burrows as Bayard the electrician.

Spiro is relatable, exuding a detached intellectual curiosity in his role as the imprisoned psychiatrist. It’s a pivotal role, essentially prompting the rest of the captives to express and defend their arguments, and then checking and rechecking the mental somersaults they all go through (including himself ). Spiro executes it all nearly without flaw, and his heavy late-play conversations with Gans’ Austrian prince are so understated that they remain believable.

(A minor note: toward the end of the show I attended, Spiro started to deliver some of his lines with his back toward the audience, making him difficult to hear.)

Gans is noble and aristocratic through and through; he never breaks character for even a second. Even when he says nothing, Bigiongiari’s actor character projects an air of snooty prissiness, and that’s a compliment. Carl Webeck manages to make a Nazi at least partially sympathetic, which is no easy task. And Jamie Burrows does the proletariat proud with his thoughtful, observant electrician.

The trick with a play so reliant on dialogue is that every line must be delivered exactly right. At the production I saw the rhythms had a tendency to go slightly off, especially in the beginning of the play, robbing the proceedings of a bit of intensity. This got better as the number of actors on the stage dwindled. Additionally, there were several minor line-reading bobbles — nothing major, but enough to tell that the actor was stumbling over his words. It’s understandable given the complicated script, but it’s a reminder to the audience that they are watching a play, instead of existing as part of a living, breathing scene.

Note that select performances — including Thursday, January 12, and Saturday, January 14 — will feature post-play talkbacks with survivors of the Holocaust.

org. 5 p.m. Free. Auditions held in Theatre A-13. March 10-18 production.

Prevention 1st Student Poster Session. Central Library, 115 South Ave. 428-8150. 1-4 p.m.

Free. Students K-12. [ Monday, January 16 ] Take a Break for BIRDS! A Program for Kids. Braddock Bay Raptor Research, 43 Overland Trail, W. Henrietta. 267-5483, bbrr.org. 10 a.m.-noon. $2 suggested. Grades 2-5.

Lectures [ 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. [ Thursday, January 12 ] Trans Panel Discussion. Gay Alliance Youth and Community Center, Auditorium Center, 875 E Main St. gayalliance.org. 7-9 p.m. Free. [ Saturday, January 14 ] Civil Rights Champion Biographer Anne Emanuel. Country Club of Rochester, 2935 East Ave., Pittsford. cornellclubrochester.org.

11:30 a.m. $10-$30, register. [ Sunday, January 15 ] Dividing the World Into Us and Them: Cultural Anthropologist Bonnie Lloyd asks “Can we escape the divisions built into our minds?” Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N Fitzhugh St. 3254000, downtownpresbyterian. org. 9:50 a.m. Free.

Where Do I Get My Organic Veggies? Brighton Town Park Lodge, 777 Westfall Rd. 2348750, rochesterveg.org. 5:30 p.m. vegan potluck, 7 p.m. progra.m. $3 nonmembers, bring vegan dish to pass. [ Monday, January 16 ] Guild Opera Lecture Series: “Siegfried 101” with Peter Dundas.

Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 784-5300, brightonlibrary.org. 7-9 p.m. Free. [ Tuesday, January 17 ] Tuesday Topics: The Occupy Movement with Colin O’Malley.

Central Library, 115 South Ave. 428-8350. 12:12-12:52 p.m. Free. [ Wednesday, January 18 ] Science on the Edge Lecture Series: “Twilight of the Big Bang: Revolutions in Human and Cosmic Time” with Adam Frank. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. 271-1880, rmsc.org.

7:30 p.m. $7-$15 single tickets.

Literary Events [ Thursday, January 12 ] Poetry Reading: Just Poets: Ann C. Putnam. Barnes & Noble Pittsford, 3349 Monroe Ave. 586-6020, barnesandnoble.com. 7 p.m. Free. [ Monday, January 16 ] 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.

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

2-6 p.m. Free. [ Wednesday, January 11Thursday, January 12 ] RocStock: Three Days of Celebration with Occupy Rochester. Washington Square Park, Downtown Rochester. occupyrochester.org. Wed 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Thu 12-9 p.m. Free.

SPECIAL EVENTS | MLK Jr. Day Events

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is Monday, January 16, and many local institutions and venues will hold commemorations and celebrations to honor the life of the civil rights leader. The hard work is not over, and many continue to be inspired by King’s civil-disobedience approach to defy oppression. The following are events that came to our attention; feel free to add anything we might have missed in the comments section of this article online at rochestercitynewspaper.com. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY Thursday, January 12-Monday, January 16: Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day with Rochester: Innovation Station. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. 271-1880, rmsc. org. Included with museum admission: $10-$12.

Discover the important role played by AfricanAmericans in Rochester’s rich history of invention and innovation.

Sunday, January 15: Pre-King Day Reception.

City Hall Atrium, 30 Church St. 654-8062 or 428-6896. 4-6 p.m. Free. Featuring a variety of performances by local youth to honor the life and legacy of MLK. Sunday, January 15: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration. First Community Interfaith Institute, Inc., 219 Hamilton St. 461-0379. Doors at 4 p.m. Minister Lawrance Lee Evans Sr. will give an analytical collective review of books by MLK and more.

Sunday, January 15: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration. Arnett Branch Library, 310 Arnett Blvd. 19thward@19wca.org. Noon. Free.

Monday, January 16: 31st Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration. Whipple Auditorium, UR Medical Center, 260 Crittenden Blvd.

244-0830 x318. 11:30 a.m. Free. Keynote by Gregory Galluzzo.

Monday, January 16: Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration. Cleary Family Auditorium, Kearney Building, St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Ave. sjfc.edu. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Keynote speaker is the Reverend Harvey Clemons, Jr., from Pleasant Hill Ministries in Houston, Texas.

Dance performance by Fisher students, poetry readings, and a scholarship presentation.

Monday, January 16: Blackstorytelling League of Rochester. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 784-5300, brightonlibrary.org.

10:30 a.m. Free. Stories of history, heritage, and culture in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Monday, January 16: MLK Day Dance Classes.

Garth Fagan Dance Studios, 50 Chestnut St., 3rd Floor. 454-3260, info@garthfagandance. org, garthfagandance.org. 10-11 a.m. for ages 5-7; 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. for ages 8-12; 11:30

Recreation search our online events calendar for recurring winter activities. [ Saturday, January 14 ] GVHC Hike. Whiting Road Nature Preserve lot, Webster.

a.m.-1 p.m. beginning level (ages 13+); 1:15-2:45 p.m. intermediate level; 3-4:15 p.m. (ages 30+).

Free. Pre-registration online is recommended, or students can also sign up 20 minutes prior to the class. Participants asked to wear footless tights and a leotard or form-fitting attire. No shoes or socks. Participants under 18 years old must have a parent/guardian sign registration forms.

Monday, January 16: Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Penfield Public Library, 1098 Baird Road, Penfield. 340-8720, penfieldlibrary.org. 6-8 p.m. Free, register. MCC History Professor Njeru Murage leads discussion around the theme of “Penfield’s Recollections of the Civil Rights Era.” Monday, January 16: MLK Celebration. Nazareth College, 4245 East Ave. 389-2073, naz.edu. Free.

Celebration of the legacy of Dr. King held at Golisano Academic Center 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. From 4:30-5:30 p.m., a lecture by Charles W. Eagles, professor of history at the University of Mississippi and author of several books about the Civil Rights movement, at Nazareth College Arts Center.

Monday, January 16: Martin Luther King Day Community Worship Celebration. Eastman TheatreKodak Hall, 60 Gibbs St. esm.rochester.edu.

8:45-10:30 a.m. Free.

Monday, January 16: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration. 19th Ward Neighborhood.

19thward@19wca.org. 6-9 p.m. Free. Luminaries will light the streets throughout the neighborhood.

Hot chocolate stands, bonfires, and other activities will greet neighbors as they stroll.

Monday, January 23: “Expressions of King’s Legacy.” Rochester Institute of Technology, Gordon Field House, 149 Lomb Memorial Dr. 475-6546, diversity.rit.edu. 12-2 p.m. Free, register. Keynote Speaker, Dr. Cornel West and performances by Award Winning Poet Joshua Bennett.

Friday, January 27: Annual MLK Dinner Gala Celebration. RIT Inn & Conference Center, 5257 W Henrietta Rd. USA.RBEA.Exec.

Board@xerox.com. 6 p.m. $55, register. Guest speakers Dr. Iris Banister, Wakili Moore and Bill Davis Jr.

Mike & Kathy 201-0065, gvhchikes.org. 10 a.m. Free.

Moderate/hilly 5 mile hike. [ Sunday, January 15 ] GVHC Hike. Mendon Ponds Nature Center lot. Dave B. 4219209, gvhchikes.org. 10 a.m.

Free. Moderate 5 mile hike on Quarker Pond Trail.

Special Events [ Wednesday, January 11 ] Coming Home From War: The Veteran Experience On Film.

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.

[ Friday, January 13 ] World Premiere of “Sophomore.”

Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. 258-0400, thelittle.org, sophomoremovie.com. 7 p.m. $25. [ Saturday, January 14 ] Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser for the Pilato Family. Applebees, 1955 Empire Blvd, Webster. dawnindovin@gmail.com. 8-10 a.m. $5.

Second Saturdays for Social Justice! Equal Grounds Coffee House, 750 South Ave. metrojustice.org. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Trulla Navideña (New Year and Three Kings Day). Flat Iron Cafe, 561 State St. prfestival.com. 7 p.m. Free. [ Sunday, January 15 ] Cesar Millan. Auditorium Theatre, 875 E Main St. 800745-3000, ticketmaster.com, info@rbtl.org. 7 p.m. $35.75$45.75. [ Monday, January 16 ] Rochester Ken Russell Film Festival: “The Devils.” Flying Squirrel, 285 Clarissa St. rochrussellfilmfest@groups. facebook.com. 7-9 p.m. Free, donations benefit Occupy Rochester.

Screening: “Forks over Knives.”

Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave. 234-8750, rochesterveg.org. Call for details.

Free. [ Tuesday, January 17 ] Monthly Meeting of the Mineral section of the Rochester Academy of Science. Brighton Town Hall, 2300 Elmwood Ave. Stephen Busschaert 288-5683, sbusschaert@msn.com, rasny. org/mineral. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. [ Tuesday, January 17Saturday, January 21 ] American Coin Buyers Guild Event.

Holiday Inn Hotel Rochester, 911 Brooks Ave. 217-726-7590. TueFri 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Call for details. [ Wednesday, January 18 ] Rochester Chapter of Hacks/ Hackers Meeting. Rochester Institute of Technology, Center for Student Innovation, Lomb Memorial Dr. meetup.com/ HackshackersROC. 7-8:30 p.m.

Free, RSVP.

Theater “Cinderella.” Fri Jan 13-Jan 15. Continues through Jan 22. Roberts Wesleyan College, Andrew B. Hale Auditorium, 2301 Westside Dr. Fri-Sat 7:30 p.m., Sun 3 p.m. Visit web for details. roberts.edu.

RECREATION | Mendon Ponds Park Winterfest

While winter is off to a slow start, the organizers of the Mendon Ponds Park Winterfest promise a great time, even if there is no snow on the ground. With events ranging from demonstrations by retailers and clubs, to crafts and children’s activities, Winterfest is designed to have something for everybody. Some of the more popular events for the day include an appearance by the Wegmans ZooMobile, horse and wagon rides, and weather permitting, cross-country ski lessons and tours.

The Mendon Ponds Winterfest takes place on Sunday, January 15, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Refreshments will be available at the Nature Center, Stewart Lodge, and East Lodge, and if it is too cold or wet, plenty of indoor activities will be available in the lodges as well. Admission to most events is free. For more information, visit mendonpondswinterfest.org. — BY ERIC LACLAIR “Foggerty’s Fairy.” Fri Jan 13-Jan 15. Off-Monroe Players. Good Shepherd Lutheran. Fri-Sat 8 p.m., Sun 2 p.m. Free, RSVP. 232-5570, off-monroeplayers.org.

“Hollywood Sings.” Thu Jan 12-Jan 15. Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave. Thu 7 p.m., Sat 8 p.m., Sun 2 p.m. $18-$26. 461-2000 x235, jcccenterstage.org.

“Incident at Vichy.” Thu Jan 12Jan 15. Continues through Jan 14. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave. Thu-Sat 7:30 p.m. $10-$20.

234-1254, muccc.org. Holocaust Survivors to speak after performances on Jan 12 & 14.

“Perfect Wedding” Previews & Opening. Wed Jan 11-Jan 18.

Continues through Feb 12. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd. Previews Wed Jan 11-Thu 7:30 p.m., Fri 8 p.m., Sat 2 p.m., opening Sat 8 p.m., performances Sun 2 & 7 p.m., Tue-Wed Jan 18 6 p.m. Tickets start at $25. 2324382, gevatheatre.org.

“You Say Tomato, I Say Shutup.”

Thu Jan 12-Jan 15.Continues through Jan 29. 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.

“The Wiz of the West.” Sat Jan 14. TYKEs. Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave. 1 & 3:30 p.m. (latter interpreted for the hearing impaired). $11.

461-2000 x235, jcccenterstage. org, tykestheatre.org.

Theater Auditions [ Wednesday, 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.

Rochester Children’s Theatre.

Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave. 385-0510, rochesterchildrenstheatre.org.

5 p.m. Free. Auditions held in Theatre A-13. March 10-18 production.

“Grey Gardens: The Musical.”

Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E Main St. 454-1260. 7 p.m. Free.

Seeking two girls ages 8-11, 3 females 16-65, 4 males ages 16- 55. [ Mondays in January ] Rochester Oratorio Society announces auditions for its Spring, 2012 season. 4732234, ROSsings@atnmail.com, ROSsings.org. By appointment on Monday evenings, Jan 1630. Free. Area vocalists with good musical skills are invited to join Rochester’s premier choral ensemble. [ Tuesday, January 17 ] “No One Is Alone.” Rochester Women’s Community Chorus.

Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N Fitzhugh St. therwcc. org. 6:30 p.m. (rehearsals on Tuesdays). Free. [ Tuesday, January 17Wednesday, January 18 ] “Parade.” Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave. 461-2000 x235, jcccenterstage. org. 7 p.m. Free. Roles for 20 adult and high school age musical theatre performers including some African American characters. Singers must come with 32 bars of two contrasting songs with sheet music in the correct key.

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A meditation on treason and loyalty [ REVIEW ] by George Grella

“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” (R), directed by Tomas Alfredson Now playing

Among other themes, over his long, brilliant career John le Carré has examined the infinite permutations of betrayal, focusing most notably on the British Secret Services, a subject he often uses to symbolize the state of his nation, even the state of the West in general.

His richest works concern the Cold War, in which various intelligence services fought their battles in the shadows and, as his novels show, very little separated the major antagonists in

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morality or conduct — each side willingly sacrificed the values it pledged to defend.

The screen adaptation of one of his most thoughtful books, “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” demonstrates the ways in which the author approaches material that usually receives some version of the familiar blockbuster treatment.

Set in the 1970’s, the movie deals with the search for a mole, a Soviet spy in the highest circles of MI6, British Intelligence. As both history and le Carré instruct us, the usual spy is not some highly trained agent who infiltrates some level of the military or the government, but in fact a traitor within that organization who transmits information to an enemy.

At the request of a cabinet minister, George Smiley (Gary Oldman), who serves as the moral center of several of the novels, embarks on a quest to find the mole among the small group of men in charge of MI6. Previously squeezed out, along with Control (John Hurt), the head of the service, and a handful of others, Smiley conducts his own surreptitious research. He gathers

Gary Oldman in “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.” PHOTO COURTESY FOCUS FEATURES

information, not always legally, from classified files, interviews several former colleagues, and backtracks over a series of events that resulted in the shooting and torture of an English agent sent

by Control on a special mission in Hungary.

As he proceeds through his arduous task, which provides the central plot of the picture, the people he interviews supply bits of information about the shooting incident in a series of flashbacks. Their stories reveal that the wounded agent, Jim Prideaux (Mark Strong), was betrayed by the mole that Smiley searches for, bringing him ever closer to a truth he suspected all along. His exploration of the past also becomes a painful personal journey, as virtually every step recalls to him his wife’s infidelity, and he relives another kind of betrayal bound up with the actions of the traitor.

Appropriately for an author deeply committed to a kind of philosophical rather than merely physical approach to the intricacies of espionage and counterespionage, the film moves through labyrinths of understated dialogue and muted emotion. The subdued tone makes the moments of actual violence more shocking than the stunts and pyrotechnics of most motion-picture thrillers. The intercutting and parallel actions, the movement back and forth through time, never call attention to themselves, but appear naturally and absolutely seamlessly within the several narratives.

Typical of le Carré, the movie also suggests some unpleasant truths about organizations,

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“The House of Pleasures” Written and directed by Bertrand Bonello Screens Friday and Sunday at the Dryden

institutions, and bureaucracies of any kind, showing the corruption and mendacity of the powerful and the consequent vulnerability of any individual with any integrity. It hints at Smiley’s own doubts about the righteousness of his side, populated by people very much like the enemy, with a similar willingness to sacrifice anything and anyone necessary to accomplish their own dubious designs.

“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” succeeds in many ways, for many reasons, not least because it is so satisfyingly an actor’s movie. The only certified leading man in the cast, Colin Firth, occupies a relatively small role among an ensemble of character actors, whose faces and accents reflect a convincing reality, as if they were indeed the people they play. Although John Hurt, looking even more unhealthy than ever, turns a bit hysterical as Control, all the other actors display precisely the smug, sneering superciliousness of high-level bureaucrats and department chiefs everywhere.

The real triumph of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,” however, belongs to Gary Oldman, who turns in an uncanny performance, speaking only rarely and precisely, demonstrating that the essence of acting is reacting. The history and outcome of Smiley’s search, the heartbreak of his personal betrayal, even the ambiguity of his victory appear as subtle marks on his calm, passive countenance, allowing us to read the book of his pain.

Reality television wouldn’t be the moneymaking juggernaut that it is if people didn’t get a thrill out of witnessing others at their worst. Seeing someone behave badly usually helps us feel better about our own flaws, and, in a way, it’s vicariously cathartic. Conflict resolution through respectful communication is all well and good, but who hasn’t secretly fantasized about punctuating a disagreement with a torrent of profanity or a swift jab to the nose? Or at least being able to say what’s really on your mind without worrying what others might think of you? The quartet at the heart of Roman Polanski’s problematic “Carnage” couldn’t be more polite to one another at the film’s outset, but it doesn’t take long for the gloves to come off.

Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly play Penelope and Michael Longstreet, who

Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, and Christoph Waltz (left to right) in “Carnage.”

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have invited Alan and Nancy Cowan (Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet) to their nicely appointed Brooklyn apartment one day to discuss a dispute between their young sons. The Cowan boy recently smacked the Longstreet kid with a stick, knocking out two teeth, and now the parents are trying to hammer out the next move; perhaps an apology? Relations are very cordial, even a little smug, and the Cowans are about to leave when Michael, high on liberal bonhomie, invites them back inside for espresso and cobbler. The repressed, brittle Penelope is the first to crack, seemingly defending her son but clearly preserving her own ego. She’s egged on by the all-id Alan, who freely admits his non-involvement in his son’s life.

Meanwhile, Michael and Nancy are the peacemakers...until they’re not.

As the afternoon wears on in a real-time haze of scotch, vomit, and Alan’s constantly ringing cell, marital alliances give way to gender alliances, which in turn disintegrate into a passive-aggressive free-for-all as each party airs their frustrations — with their spouse, with society itself — to whoever is in bitching distance. But the longer you spend with these unsatisfied people and their petty grievances, the more the questions begin to nag. How did everyone get so drunk so quickly? And why don’t the Cowans just leave? (Or, as Nancy wails at one point, “Why are we still in this house?”) Polanski and playwright Yasmina Reza adapted the chatty, contrived script for “Carnage” from her Tony-winning play, and its roots show in the film’s confined staginess and the occasionally clunky line deliveries.

Under seeming non-direction from Polanski, it’s Foster who actually delivers the film’s weakest performance, though she’s saddled with a shrill, humorless character who voices her indignation and hurt through alarmingly clenched teeth. Reilly doesn’t seem a realistic match for Foster, but it’s a kick to see the relief in Michael’s eyes once the blue-collar

salesman gets to drop his progressive act and be the knuckle-dragger that Penelope resents. Winslet and Waltz fare much better; her performance is more nuanced and controlled (and she’s an ultra-convincing barfer), while he might actually be the most entertaining. Waltz’s Alan stays on an even keel throughout the film, the only character who doesn’t degenerate because he was, in his own rude, thoughtless way, perhaps the most evolved to begin with.

It’s common knowledge by now that

“Pretty Woman” was originally written as a dark drama about prostitution in NYC and not the ridiculous Hollywood fairy tale that made little girls all over believe that the world’s oldest profession might also be a viable one. Set in an elegant brothel in turn-of-the-century France, Bertrand Bonello’s absorbing, mournful “House of Pleasures” is gorgeous to look at, with sumptuous fabrics, ornate furniture, and beautiful women. But it doesn’t do the disservice of prettying up the job, a minefield of disease, drugs, and especially violence, with one character sidelined early by a savage cutting that will earn her the sobriquet “The Woman Who Laughs.”

Nothing much really happens in “House of Pleasures”; Bonello leisurely guides us through the prostitutes’ mundane days and nights of commerce with clients who treat them with a mix of adoration and condescension. The story here is the loving, sisterly camaraderie among the women, from differing backgrounds but united in their individual debts to the house, a vicious cycle of obligation that they can only hope to fulfill if a wealthy man buys them. Either way, they’re chattel, commodities to be liquidated once the increasingly strapped house closes its doors. Bonello’s use of anachronistic music is oddly potent, with the Moody Blues’ wistful “Nights in White Satin” deployed in one scene to heartbreaking effect.

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Boasting stunning 35mm cinematography, split screens, von Sternberg-worthy sets, and a soundtrack featuring, among others, The Moody Blues, Bertrand Bonello’s House of Pleasures (previously titled House of Tolerance) was one of the most divisive films at last year’s Cannes. An episodic look at an upscale brothel in turn-of-the-century France, House follows its filles de joie as they deal with clients, their Madam, and each other, capturing the elegance of the grand maison while exposing its harsh realities.

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The first thing this dedicated city dweller noticed about the Tudor Revival style Cape Cod at 124 Iroquois Street was its classic brick exterior and pleasant view of the park and elementary school across the street. Its location in the northeast section of Rochester, minutes from the expressway and down the street from Savoia Pastry Shoppe and Donuts Delite/Salvatore’s completed the package.

The realtor showed us in through the back door’s weather alcove and into the spacious kitchen that combines original cabinetry with a new tile backsplash and floor for a modern retro look. A pantry and shelving tucked in next to the fridge provide ample storage.

The rest of the first floor is open with wide archways from the kitchen to the well lit dining room and on to the living room with gumwood trim and a brick, wood-burning fireplace. Lighting fixtures throughout are new and add a fresh touch that blends well with the overall look.

dormer storage space that is much larger than it appears to be. Both bedrooms are light and feature original wood flooring, with the larger of the two being perfect for a play room or exercise area. The owner continued his dedication to preserving the home’s period features in the upstairs bath by restoring its original tile floor. A very large linen closet with two drawers is located in the bath so you won’t have to worry about running out of towels (as long as you’ve done the laundry).

After you’ve seen the first and second floors, this house has a surprise for you. Besides storage area, the basement has a fully finished room that’s original to the home’s design with another beautiful brick, wood-burning fireplace that is still in working condition, a room needing a little “love” that could become a bedroom and, to cover all the bases, a full bathroom waiting to be refurbished. If Junior wants to move back home, you’re all set.

A spacious first floor bedroom could also be used as a home office or play room.

A recessed nook in the wall provides a functional space for a dresser or desk while also adding to the room’s character.

A two-car garage and quaint backyard complete this property. This charming 1502 square foot house is listed at an affordable $69,900. If you’re interested in seeing it for yourself, call Laura Swogger at Keller Williams Realty, 585-301-7737.

The second floor has two additional bedrooms, which also feature recessed nooks, with pretty detail in the sculpting of the arches. In each nook there is access to

by Roberta Ryan Roberta is a Landmark Society volunteer; she and her husband, Ted, are proud northeast Rochester residents.

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[ 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. [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of GIGA Properties LLC, Arts. of Org. filed by Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/8/2011. Office location: County of Monroe. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon which process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process served to GIGA Properties LLC, PO Box 17218, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity. [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Norton Commons LLC, Arts. of Org. filed by Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/8/2011. Office location: County of Monroe. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon which process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process served to Norton Commons LLC, PO Box 17218, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity. [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ROC PROPS LLC, Arts. of Org. filed by Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/18/2011.

Office location: County of Monroe. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon which process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process served

to ROC PROPS LLC, PO Box 67468, Rochester, NY, 14617. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity. [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Valley Gorge Properties LLC, Arts. of Org. filed by Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/8/2011. Office location: County of Monroe.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon which process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process served to Valley Gorge Properties LLC, PO Box 17218, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity. [ LEGAL NOTICE PROALIGN, LLC ] Notice of Organization: Proalign, LLC was filed with SSNY on December 23, 2011. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. PO address which SSNY shall mail any process against the LLC served upon it: 120 Allens Creek Rd., Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose is to engage in any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] aDesignedPath for usabilitySolutions, LLC, filed with NY Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 9/16/11.

Location: Monroe County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to United States Corporation Agents Inc, 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn NY 11228. 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 ] Cimetics Pest Solutions, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/3/2012. 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 250 Mill St. Ste. 309-311, Rochester, NY 14614. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

[ 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 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 BROCKPORT GROUP ASSOCIATES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/29/11. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 77 Place One Dr., Rochester, NY 14626.

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: Own & manage real property. [ 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 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.

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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. [ 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 Passero Spoleta DesignBuild Maroc, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Secretary of State

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Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of any process to c/o Spoleta Construction 7 Van Auker St., Rochester, NY 14608. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of PILLAR MEDIA ENTERPRISES, LLC Art. of Organization filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11-03-11.

Office of Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2401 N. Clinton Avenue, Rochester, NY 14621. 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.

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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, Wilmington, DE 19808. 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 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 ] SPC PROPERTIES LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/18/11. 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, 750 Lee Rd, Greece, NY 14606. General 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 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 York 14624. Purpose is to engage in any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION BOODLEBAG, LLC ] Boodlebag, LLC was filed with SSNY on 12/21/2011.

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, 20 Castleman Road, Rochester, New York 14620. 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 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 FORMATION OF LLC ] DGA Vehicles, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on December 23, 2011. Its principal place of business is located at 333 W. Commercial Street, Suite 1500, East Rochester, 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 333 W. Commercial Street, Suite 1500, East Rochester, New York 14445. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF PLLC ] Maxwell Boev Medical Group, PLLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on December 23, 2011. Its principal place of business is located at Parnall Office Bldg, Ste 304, 1445 Portland Avenue, Rochester, 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 Parnall Office Bldg, Ste 304, 1445 Portland Avenue, Rochester, New York 14621. The purpose of the PLLC is to practice the profession of medicine and the providing of medical services. [ 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

Legal Ads 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)325-4600 David Berlowitz LLP Attorney for plaintiff 222 Council Rock Avenue Rochester, New York 14610 Telephone: (585330-4716) [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 2010-11620 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff vs. Daniel W. Taylor, New York State Commissioner of Taxation, ESL Federal Credit Union, HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A..; “Niva” Defendants.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated October 14, 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 February 9, 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 Greece, County of Monroe, State of New York, being a part of Great Lot Fourteen (14) bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the center line of Long Pond Road at a distance of one thousand five hundred forty-two and thirty-four hundredths feet (1,542.34) southerly from the center line of English Road; thence (1) easterly at an angle, in the southeast quadrant of eighty-nine degrees, fiftyfour minutes ten seconds (89º 54’ 10”) a distance of four hundred sixteen and sixty hundredths feet

(416.60) to a point; thence (2) southerly at an angle in the southwest quadrant of ninety degrees five minutes and fifty seconds (90º 05’ 50”) a distance of ninety feet (90.00) to a point; thence (3) westerly at an angle in the northwest quadrant of eighty-nine degrees fifty-four minutes ten seconds (89º 54’ 10” a distance of four hundred sixteen and sixty hundredths feet (416.60) to a point; thence (4) northerly at an angle in the northeast quadrant of ninety degrees five minutes and fifty seconds (90º 05’ 50”) along the center line of Long Pond Road, a distance of ninety feet (90) to the point of beginning. Said premises is also known as Lot 1 of the Wolpert Subdivision as the same is shown on a map filed in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 252 of Maps, Page 98; Tax Account No. 059.03-2-50.2; Property Address: 942 Long Pond Road, Town of Greece, 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: $57,936.60 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest.DATED: January 2012 Leonard Rosner, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ SUMMONS ] INDEX NO. 11-7288 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF MONROE NEIGHBORWORKS Plaintiff vs. Any unknown heirs, devisees, distributees or successors in interest of the late Rudolph Redding, if living, and if any be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees or successors in interest of such of them as may be dead, and their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributes and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; CHARLES MURRAY; LINDA D. MURRAY; CHARLES MURRAY, JR.; BARBARA J. REDDING; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE

INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Defendants This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. To the above named Defendants: You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the plaintiff’s attorneys within thirty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: September 7, 2011The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of Hon. Elma A. Bellini, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 7th day of September, 2011 at Rochester, New York. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage on the following property:ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, known and described as Lot No. 41 of the Samuel Blodgett’s Subdivision of Henry D. Schank’s Subdivision of part of Town Lot No. 42, as laid down on a map on file in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 7 of Maps, page 94.

Said lot fronts on the north side of Parsells Avenue in the City of Rochester and is 40 feet wide and 158 feet in depth. Subject to all easements and restrictions of record. These premises are also known as 416 Parcells Avenue, Rochester, New York 14609 John K. McAndrew, Esq. WOODS OVIATT GILMAN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 700 Crossroads Building 2 State Street Rochester, New York 14614

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