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We must have a serious conversation about this.” NEWS, PAGE 5

Frederick Douglass slept here. NEWS, PAGE 6

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Changing the way we eat It’s been a watershed year for Rochester’s food world, marking a moment in time when the foodie luxuries of thinking about exotic, artisanal, and locally sourced food became a bit more mainstream, and perhaps stole just a tiny bit of attention and market share from lower-priced “quick-service restaurants” and fast-food chains. The year may be remembered as a significant milestone in the way Rochesterians, affluent and less so, young and old, eat and think about food. The changes have been both gradual and subtle. Rochester is still very much a meat-and-potatoes

city with an overwhelming affection for hots and, inexplicably, all things “French.” But the increasing number and variety of restaurants offering specialized international cuisines — Shanghai street food rather than food that is generically “Chinese,” for instance, or the proliferation of farmers markets in the area, and the marked emphasis being placed by even large restaurant chains on fresh, local and sustainable food — suggest that significant changes are underway that could, over time, revolutionize the way we shop, cook, and go out to eat.

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The future of ‘Occupy’

On a reader’s “Open Letter to OWS” (Feedback, December 14):

While Nathan Jaschik seems to get the point of Occupy Wall Street, he then surprises me with an invitation to work my butt off to get Barack Obama re-elected. I worked for President Obama the first time around, but never again. Immediately upon taking office, he surrounded himself with Wall Street insiders; the people who helped the markets crash became the foxes watching the hen house. The writer shows that he, along with most of America, casts votes based upon a good amount of rationalizing. It doesn’t seem to matter if voters have ideals and convictions. We are constantly warned that certain people cannot win; therefore we must alter our choice to the lesser of the remaining evils. As long as voters continue to do this, there can be no credible threat to the status quo. Obama won’t feel any need to change if he knows Nathan is going to vote for him. I want my vote to make my statement: no compromise and no surrender. My vote in 2012 will be for Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein. Until the Republicans and Democrats feel the threat of a third party nipping at their heels, neither party will change to better serve us. TOM JANOWSKI

OWS will probably fade away. The movement’s primary interest seems only to be obnoxious to the community around them. Most of the supporters of the OWS movement are radicals that most Americans want no part of. Americans are tired of the economic mess we are in, and I think we can agree that we must change our path or ultimately fail as a country. I am a Tea Party supporter, and I believe I may share some of the goals of the radicals. We both know that business has an unacceptable influence on our government, but it doesn’t stop there. Unions, both public and private, are almost exclusively a Democrat Party money pump. They have driven jobs out of the country and are beginning to

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bankrupt states and communities. Environmentalists seem to want to shut down the energy industries in America. The corruption of Congress and our state and local governments by special interest groups of all stripes has gone on far too long. Why do we let businesses write tax-code legislation, or the Tides Foundation write healthcare laws and unions write labor laws? Why is it legal for Congress members to practice insider trading? The economy in the DC area is booming because of the lobbyists peddling their influence. Money is corrupting everyone. MAC MCCANN

When they’re together

On the WXXI-Little Theatre merger: The jury will be out for

a time, waiting to see. Let’s hope the two organizations remember: neither is broken and neither needs fixing. H.J. CRAVER

MCC’s choice

On MCC’s plan to move from the Sibley building to Kodak property:

Safety is a moot point; Kodak’s site offers scalability. Students are going to be experiencing High Falls, and I can easily see developer investment in downtown campus housing. I would rather have a solid foundation for growth than worry about the bickering of downtown developers. NICK

Cycling safely

On a recent forum on local cyclists’ concerns: If the local cycling com-

munity wants to get respect from the populace at large, we need to follow the rules of the road, and we need the police to fairly enforce these rules. Such practices as running through stop signs does nothing to help our public image, and riding without basic safety features such as brakes and lights after dark should not be ignored. These rules should be followed whether you are riding a $2000 road bike or are a can collector heading to Wegmans with your bags. Riding on sidewalks where the road is safe is also illegal, although there are certain locations (Elmwood near SMH comes to mind, with no shoulder, high curbs, and 2-footsquare drains) where no good alternative to riding in a very dangerous road exists. In places such as this, if

the city can’t seem to find the money to make a dedicated bike path, at least make the sidewalk there a “shared path,” with signs stating so. ALEX

I have been bicycling for over 50 years — racing, recreationally, and shopping. To my own observation, the vast majority of the “cycling community” to which the article refers are deliberately indifferent to the risk of injury they pose to pedestrians (Yes, the walkers on the Canal Path are pedestrians, too). How can you spot one of these callous bicyclists? Look for a bell on the handlebars. No bell means “don’t give a hoot about the injury they can cause to a pedestrian.” Verbal calls of “On your left,” “On your right,” “Behind you,” etc. are woefully inadequate. Voices are sudden, inconsistent, confusing to walkers in conversation, unclear to people with any hearing deficiency, and insufficient as a warning. J MANSOUR

J Mansour, I respectfully disagree. In an ideal world of aware pedestrians, your preference for bells or similar devices is reasonable. Having used both bells and voice, my experience is that bells usually prompt a pedestrian to look or turn around, causing an unpredictable movement (will they shift right or shift left?), which is a hazard. A loud, voiced “Hello, cyclist on your left!” produces a much more predictable response. Loud is critical; you must be heard over earbuds at a distance of 50 feet. The “Hello” part gets the pedestrian’s attention so he can focus on the following critical pieces: “cyclist” (I know what the approaching vehicle is) and “on your left” (I know where to expect the vehicle to pass me.). That said, it is the responsibility of the overtaking vehicle (the bicyclist) to ensure that the passing situation is safe and that the overtaken vehicle (the pedestrian) is aware of the situation — even if the cyclist is dealt the massive indignity of having to slow from 30 km per hour to walking speed or even stopping when passing. Bells do not solve the problem; courtesy and “same rules, same road” do. If you don’t like to slow down, don’t ride on a multi-use path. And, pedestrians, courtesy goes both ways. Please don’t ignore or deliberately interfere with bicycle traffic. SCOTT WAGNER

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Preservation rules and the brewery The plan to demolish an old building on the site of Genesee Brewing Company has me conflicted. The building in question is a massive structure. Imposing. A little weird. And it’s unique, for sure: in appearance and in location. Brewery officials say that they have no use for it and haven’t been able to sell it — and that it’s hopelessly deteriorated. But some preservation enthusiasts, including the Landmark Society, want the building saved. Maybe the brewery will find a use after all. Or maybe somebody else will buy it and restore it for something. I’m as ardent a preservationist as anybody, and I’ll be happy if the building is saved. But while I could be convinced otherwise, I don’t think I’ll go to the mat for it. We’ve certainly lost far too much of Rochester’s architectural history, and the loss of nearly every old building — large or small, architecturally valuable or ordinary — is a loss we should regret. But as a friend of mine says, we can’t save them all. I tested my wishy-washiness with that friend, Jean France, an architectural historian, active Landmark Society member, and leading local preservationist. Jean isn’t all riled up about the threat to the brewery building either. We can’t save them all. We ought to save what we can, Jean said — “if they have a use, and if somebody will finance it.” “But,” she said, “you have to start with ‘if they have a use.’” If the brewery doesn’t have a use for the building, who might? For what? Stranger things have happened, I guess, but I can’t picture this building, in a less-than-vibrant industrial neighborhood next to a brewery, becoming a residential or office building. Or a restaurant, unless the brewery decided that it could transform it into the microbrewery, pub, and visitors center that it plans in another building. Jean speaks fondly of the building. “I’m amazed that the brewery doesn’t want to do something with it,” she said. It’s “very lumpy,” very Bavarian; “It has a certain kind of twisted charm, if you’re fond of Wagner and you like twisted Gothic things.” It resembles, she said, the castle of “the mad King Ludwig of Bavaria.” “It doesn’t have an appeal for everybody,” Jean said, “but it does for me — and that is as a symbol for beer.”

I’ll be happy if the Cataract Street building is saved. But I don’t think I’ll go to the mat for it.” Perfect for the brewery, then, but…. Jean and I mused about the really important buildings we’ve lost: the Security Trust Building where the Convention Center is now. Certain houses on East Avenue and in Corn Hill. And the greatest loss of all, Claude Bragdon’s train station. “I think of England or Europe and think of the things they just use,” said Jean. “They wouldn’t think of tearing them down. They put up with the inconvenience and the discomfort, because that’s how they think. America doesn’t think that way.” Still, Rochester and its surrounding villages have saved a lot, and we have a lot to be proud of. As painful as downtown Rochester looks right now, there’s still a lot of old stuff there, thanks to farsighted preservationists (led by the Landmark Society), architects, developers, and yes, government officials. City government rescued a deteriorating old federal building and turned it into the spectacular City Hall we have now, and county government has carefully preserved its important building on Main Street. In the city’s eight preservation districts, in neighborhoods around the city and in the surrounding suburbs, Greater Rochester has saved an astonishing amount of its architectural fabric. We have done all this in the face of rampant suburban sprawl, which continues to try to bleed the life out of downtown Rochester, city neighborhoods, and the oldest suburban villages. I’m grateful for the preservationists who are pushing for a rescue of the Cataract Street building. I’ll be happy if they’re successful — but I hope they’ll not press for the unreasonable.

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Airport official charged with DWI

County airport director Susan Walsh was placed on administrative leave after being charged with driving while intoxicated. Walsh was charged with the misdemeanor after being involved in an accident in East Rochester. According to the Democrat and Chronicle, she was driving a county-owned vehicle at the time of the crash. Walsh was appointed airport director earlier this year after the previous director resigned amid controversy over questionable business expenses.

Eastman House to honor Gere

The George Eastman House announced that it will give actor Richard Gere the George Eastman Award on February 16. Gere is being recognized for his contributions to the art of film as well as for his global humanitarian work, according to GEH. The event is open to the public. Tickets go on sale January 17. Information: www.eastmanhouse.org or (585) 271-3361 Ext. 218.

No fracking in Binghamton

banned natural gas and oil extraction within its limits. That includes hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus and Utica Shales. The city also banned underground storage of natural gas, as well as the disposal of drilling and exploration wastes. The ban lasts for two years.

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Farash legal mess may be ending

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | BY JEREMY MOULE

The Democrat and Chronicle reported that two civil lawsuits against the heirs of Max Farash are close to being settled. Farash, one of Rochester’s most successful real-estate owners and developers, died in February 2010. His estate is reportedly valued at between $200 million and $300 million.

COMIDA pressured to rescind benefits package

EPA releases emissions regs

The federal government is acting to rein in mercury pollution from power plants, particularly coal-powered plants. The Environmental Protection Agency announced a new rule governing mercury emissions and a host of other heavy metals and particulate emissions. Most power plants will be able to meet new standards through existing technology, say EPA officials.

In a largely symbolic move, the City of Binghamton

Richard Lipsitz, political affairs coordinator for Teamsters Joint Council 46, has asked COMIDA board members to rescind benefits for Ward’s Natural Science. PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK

If a company gets tax breaks in one community and creates a few jobs there but later cuts even more jobs in another community, does it still deserve the incentives? The Monroe County Industrial Development Agency is faced with that question. In 2008, it gave Ward’s Natural Science a 10-year package of sales, mortgage, and property tax breaks to expand its warehouse in Henrietta. In exchange, the company committed to creating seven jobs. And it actually created 10, says Judy Seil, COMIDA’s executive director. But officials with Teamsters Joint Council 46, which represents Buffalo-area and Rochester-area locals, want COMIDA officials to rescind the incentives. The reason: Ward’s is closing a Tonawanda warehouse at the end of the year, which will eliminate 41 jobs, Teamsters officials say. During COMIDA’s board meeting last week, Richard Lipsitz,

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political affairs coordinator for the Joint Council, said that Ward’s is essentially shifting the work within the region, from a facility that wasn’t receiving tax breaks to one that is. That’s not supposed to happen under state law, he said. The reality, however, is that subsidized job shifting is common at local, regional, and statewide levels. Activist and good government groups, elected officials, and unions criticize the practice, yet it continues unenforced. Seil said that she couldn’t comment on the Teamsters’ request, since that was the first time she or any COMIDA official had heard about the Tonawanda closing. “We’re happy to take a further look at this and have further conversations with you,” COMIDA board chair Theresa Mazzullo told Lipsitz.

The cost of operating, maintaining, and staffing nearly 60 buildings is unsustainable, says RCSD Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas. While the district’s budget has remained fairly constant during the last five years, the costs of everything from energy to health-care benefits have steadily increased.

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More city school closings to come The controversy is still lingering over closing Rochester’s School 6, but more closings are likely coming soon. A shrinking student population will leave the district with more buildings than it needs, given enrollment projections for the future, Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas says. The cost of operating, maintaining, and staffing nearly 60 buildings is unsustainable, he says. While the district’s budget has remained fairly constant during the last five years, the costs of everything from energy to health-care benefits have steadily increased. Although no schools have been identified as likely targets, Vargas and some board members have been discussing the need for the additional closings. “It’s a natural conclusion from the enrollment data we’re seeing,” says board member Willa Powell. Powell says she doesn’t want any more schools closed in the district’s northeast zone, since that’s where School 6 is located. Schools in the south and northwest zones should be considered first, she says. Any decisions about closing schools will have to take place in the context of the building modernization plan already underway, Vargas says. And that won’t be easy, considering that the district is reconfiguring

some schools to from serving kindergarten through 6th grade to serving kindergarten through 8th grade, which has changed the space requirements in some buildings. “We’re also renting Bolgen Vargas. FILE PHOTO space,” says Vargas. “This is an inefficient use of our resources. We have to shrink, unless we want to cut someplace else, like our teachers.” Few events are as emotionally charged for students, parents, and teachers as school closings. “That’s because every single school has something good about it,” says Vargas. “Every school has students, families, and achievements, and we can’t dismiss that.” Vargas is not the first school official to be concerned about the district’s real estate problem. Former Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard often spoke about the need to “rightsize” the district. “We must have a serious conversation about this,” says Vargas. “It’s going to take leadership on my part and on the part of the school board.”

Rochester Institute of Technology will move from a quarterly to a semester system in fall 2013, says RIT spokesperson Bob Finnerty. The change, which RIT officials have been planning for about two years, will impact nearly every aspect of the institution. | But RIT’s students will not pay any more as a result of the change, Finnerty says. | Shifting to a semester calendar has many benefits, according to RIT’s website: www.rit.edu. Since most US colleges and universities operate on a semester calendar, the move will improve RIT’s interaction with other higher-education institutions by offering students more opportunities to study abroad, the website says. Graduation rates are expected to improve because students will have more time to prepare for final exams, or to recover from illnesses or other temporary study interruptions. | Another benefit: RIT will be aligned more closely with area colleges in terms of breaks: a convenience for students and their families. | The college will still offer its work-education cooperative, which is similar to an internship experience where students spend time with industry employers in the workplace.

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South Wedge studied for historic district Some South Wedge residents are rediscovering their neighborhood through a pair of historic surveys. The South Wedge Planning Commission has hired Bero Architecture to take an inventory of historic Wedge architecture, with the goal of creating one, possibly two, National Register historic districts. Being in a district carries a certain prestige, says Katie Eggers Comeau, architectural historian with Bero, and, under certain circumstances, residents may become eligible for tax credits to help fix up their homes. Eggers Comeau has been doing the leg work, visiting and researching properties from Comfort to Linden Street. She estimates that more than 400 buildings — residential and commercial — could be included in the new district or districts. “We try to get a sense of where the best concentrations of properties are that haven’t had a whole lot of alterations and where the streetscape is pretty intact,” Eggers Comeau says. “If you’re missing one property here or there, that’s probably OK.” The homes and commercial buildings don’t have to be museum quality, she says, and alterations like vinyl siding may not automatically disqualify your home. “But if every single house on the street has been altered with things like vinyl siding,

porch alternations, and things like that, then that wouldn’t be a great candidate for district designation,” Eggers Comeau says. The other consideration for inclusion in a district, she says, is if individual properties or streetscapes rise to a “higher level,” in that they have architectural or historic significance. An example of the latter would be the home at 271 Hamilton Street, which was once owned by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. The provenance of the home was lost to history until relatively recently. “It’s the only house he owned that still survives in the city,” Eggers Comeau says. The home, which will likely be in the new district, also still has a fireplace surround that was purchased by Douglass’s daughter and son-in-law. Eggers Comeau says she’ll compile a report with her findings and present it to the South Wedge Planning Commission and to the State Historic Preservation Office. Together they’ll determine the next steps. The state

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass once owned this home on Hamilton Street. It is the only surviving Douglass-owned home in Rochester. PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK

office awards state-level designation, Eggers Comeau says, and then the proposal goes to the National Park Service for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. The South Wedge already has a National Register historic district, encompassing 136 buildings on Linden Street and South Avenue. That designation was given in 2009. “It had a great impact on our neighborhood,” says Christina Jones, copresident of the Business Association of the

South Wedge Area. “We were eligible for some tax credits, and it really educated our neighbors about their houses.” Jones says she learned, for example, that her Linden Street home was built in 1882, and that writer Henry Clune once lived next door. “He wrote the book ‘The Rochester I Know’ based on his memories of this street,” Jones says.

water and natural resources program director for Environmental Advocates of New York. “You can’t solve problems that you don’t identify,” she says. The DEC did do some evaluation of broad range impacts, says Sarah Eckel, legislative and policy director for Citizens’ Campaign for the Environment. It looked at habitat fragmentation from wells, for example. And it also hired a consultant to conduct a social and economic analysis, though environmentalists don’t agree with the rosy picture it paints. “If you can do that sort of analysis, you should be able to do a cumulative-impact analysis,” Eckel says. There are real-world examples of what happens when natural gas production facilities are sited without cumulative impacts in mind. Penn Environment illustrated one

in a video that centers on the Hallowich family of southwest Pennsylvania. The family lives next to two natural gas facilities: one is a natural gas processing plant, the other a compressor station. Since they are owned by two different companies, each has its own air permits, says Stephanie Hallowich. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection didn’t consider the combined impact of the two operations when it issued the permits, she says. The result: the family members say they sometimes experiences bad smells, headaches, and burning in their eyes and throats, which they attribute to emissions from the gas operations. A 2010 National Geographic article says the Hallowiches are suing a drilling company and others over problems including the emissions.

ENVIRONMENT | BY JEREMY MOULE

Gas well impacts add up If state officials green-light high-volume hydraulic fracturing, and they probably will, the negative impacts associated with natural gas wells will add up. And environmental groups say that the state hasn’t done enough to study those impacts. They want the state Department of Environmental Conservation to include a comprehensive cumulative-impacts study in its draft environmental statement on highvolume hydrofracking. Now that the state has extended the comment period on the fracking environmental statement, these groups will have more time to make their case. (The DEC’s web page for commenting is http:// www.dec.ny.gov/energy/76838.html.) The effect of a well spread beyond its site. Truck traffic can cause wear on roads and harm air quality. Emissions from wells, generators, and drilling equipment can also City

harm air quality, as can compressor station emissions. Roads and transmission pipelines can segment or destroy habitats. And stormwater runoff can affect water quality. When a driller applies for a well permit, the state DEC will take all of those factors, and more, into consideration. But the agency’s review will be conducted on a well pad by well pad basis, which means it won’t look at the big picture. One well pad will generate emissions that will have an undesirable effect on air quality. Several well pads concentrated in one area will have a greater impact. Add in the emissions from trucks going to and from drilling sites and from compressor stations that feed pipelines, and the impact is even greater. Without a cumulative-impact assessment, the state won’t be able to develop good rules to lessen impacts, says Katherine Nadeau,

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Top photo: the Szechuan spicy fish special at Han Noodle Bar. Bottom photo: Han staff Laura Sutherby, Sean Sun, Junting “JT” Wu, and Tony Ko (pictured left to right). The recent addition to Monroe Avenue has seen brisk business selling unconventional, but affordable, Asian cuisine.

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The plate full of lamb tagine and cauliflower risotto I’m having for lunch cost me roughly $10. The loaf of raisinfennel bread sitting on my counter at home set me back about half that. My son is addicted to $4 orders of braised pork-belly buns. All of that adds up a bit over time, but looking back on 2011 I realize that it’s been a year of small indulgences rather than lavish multicourse excess. It’s also been a watershed year for Rochester’s food world, marking a moment in time when the foodie luxuries of thinking about exotic, artisanal, and locally sourced food became a bit more mainstream, and perhaps stole just a tiny bit of attention and market share from lower-priced “quick-service restaurants” and fast-food chains. The year may be remembered as a significant milestone in the way Rochesterians, affluent and less so, young and old, eat and think about food. The changes have been both gradual and subtle. Rochester is still very much a meat-andpotatoes city with an overwhelming affection for hots and, inexplicably, all things “French.” But the increasing number and variety of restaurants offering specialized international cuisines — Shanghai street food rather than food that is generically “Chinese,” for instance, or the proliferation of farmers markets in the area, and the

marked emphasis being placed by even large restaurant chains on fresh, local and sustainable food — suggest that significant changes are underway that could, over time, revolutionize the way we shop, cook, and go out to eat. These trends are nowhere more visible than in some of the area’s newest and most popular food venues, including the 10month-old Han Noodle Bar on Monroe Avenue, and the year-old Flour City Bread Company at the Public Market. But the change can also be seen in the transformation of the 2-year-old Max Market on the edge of Pittsford, where chef Ryan Jennings is reinventing the meal-replacement-style carry-out for a public increasingly tuned in to — and willing to pay for — fresh, locally sourced food for themselves and their families. It’s 10 o’clock on a Thursday

night, and Junting “JT” Wu, Tony Ko, and Sean Sun, the owners of Han Noodle Bar on Monroe Avenue, are closing up shop after a very busy evening. Sun is totaling up a 2” thick pile of receipts while Ko and Wu put things to rights for tomorrow morning -- they will be back at the restaurant in fewer than 10 hours. For the past 10 months, seven days a week, 12 to 14 hours a day, the trio has put nearly every waking moment into its fledgling restaurant. The eatery has only been closed four days since it opened: Thanksgiving, Fourth of July, Easter, and April 4, when the owners had to install new kitchen hardware. Pausing briefly in his work, Ko, a Chinese immigrant, RIT graduate, and former software engineer, tells me how the initial idea for a dumpling and steamed bun take-out evolved into one of the most innovative Chinese restaurants in Rochester — a place that is changing the city’s concept of Chinese food one pork-belly bun at a time. According to the National Restaurant Association, there are nearly 600 full-service restaurants in Monroe County, and between 53 and 73 of them identify themselves as “Chinese,” according to listings on Yelp and Rocwiki, respectively. But Han Noodle Bar is nearly unique in offering food identical to the stuff sold from carts and tiny stands all over China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong: lots of variety meats, unfamiliar vegetables and pickles, and far more saturated flavors than most American diners expect from their Chinese food. And according to Ko, patrons can’t get enough of it.

The current vogue for all things pork made the restaurant’s braised pork-belly buns an immediate hit with the public. But just as certain drugs are seen as a gateway to the hard stuff, pork bellies braised and slathered in hoisin and scallions on a fluffy bun naturally led customers to try pork stomach braised with sour pickled vegetables, or redcooked pork hocks, or cuttlefish, or beef tendon with daikon radish. At 10 months in, the restaurant is doing better than the trio had expected. In an economy where restaurants are closing left and right, and where dining-out dollars are increasingly harder to come by, they are even eyeing the possibility of opening up another location in the near future. What makes Han Noodle unique isn’t just the food, although that’s excellent. It’s that the owners have a serious sense of mission. Sun described “months of back and forth” on what to include in the menu. Ko told me that the three toured Chinatowns and restaurants in several cities, looking at food trends and briefly considering and then discarding the idea of opening up a high-end fusion place. In the end, they opted for opening a place that serves “dishes that have been around for more than 100 years,” giving everyone who walked into the restaurant access to the sorts of things that are usually included on Chinese-languageonly menus in restaurants across the country. And they wanted to keep the prices below $10 a person. In some ways, their move echoes the success of restaurateur-chefs like New York City’s David Chang, owner of the Momofoku family of restaurants. But in other ways the cuisine at Han Noodle is all their own — straightforward and simple, just like the dining room in which the food is served. And it’s certainly cheaper than the star-chef interpretations of Chinese street food. “No fusion. No gimmick. We cook the way we want to eat,” says the restaurant’s website. And that’s apparently just fine with the diners who crowd the restaurant most nights of the week. According to Ko, his meat vendor has told him that he moves more pork belly, hock, stomach, and beef tendon than all the other restaurants in the city. The restaurant does have a typical American-Chinese menu featuring variations on sesame chicken, kung pao chicken, and dishes like beef and broccoli drowned in brown sauce (it’s ironically called “traditional Chinese” on the Han website), but Sun says that

A croissant with mixed-berry jam, made by Flour City Bread Company at the Rochester Public Market.

they don’t sell much of it. He and his partners The combination of convenient, inexpensive, know the letter-number equivalents of the and local is a powerful driver for Rochester’s rest of the menu by heart, but they sell so foodie community. And those drives are not little sesame chicken (E1) that they have to lost on vendors and would-be producers look at the Cantonese cheat sheet on the wall who sell their wares at that perennial foodie on the rare occasion that someone orders it. and food-business incubator, the Rochester Television surely has had a role in the Public Market. Wander down to the Public transition. Food Network and other dining Market on any Saturday morning (and to and food shows have increased public a lesser extent on Tuesdays and Thursdays), awareness of international cuisines and opened and you will encounter throngs of shoppers some viewers’ eyes to new and different food out bargain hunting, who find themselves choices. Sean Sun says that a few of those going home with quite a lot more than they people end up converts to Han Noodle’s set out to buy. The attraction of unfamiliar brand of Chinese vegetables street food, like purchased for the bartender almost nothing from down the — $1 for street who came tatsoi, kohlrabi, to the restaurant dinosaur kale, a devotee of delicata squash, sesame chicken tomatillos, and and is now one similar exotica of the restaurant’s — poses little risk most adventurous to a customer’s customers. But bottom line many more if a cooking customers show experiment up knowing what goes awry. they are looking But in the for, or repeating same way that recommendations the Market from online — where many restaurant guides local chefs also or social-media shop for produce sites like Twitter — is an incubator and Facebook. for Rochester’s These people show food tastes, it is up because Han also a crucible Keith Myers, founder and baker at Flour City Bread Company, left a high-paying corporate job so that Noodle offers from which food he could pursue his passion for food. He has built them something businesses are his artisan bread company by keeping operations they’ve heard born. Capitalizing small and manageable, despite a passionate and about, something on the relatively growing following. they’ve seen or low overhead heard about other people eating with evident (some businesses start out as little more than relish, and the restaurant offers it without the an idea and some product on a card table in inconvenience of having to hie off to New one of the sheds), countless businesses that York City or Toronto. And, as if that weren’t have since become household names. Juan enough, it’s cheap. and Maria’s Empanada Stop, the Pierogie

Guy, and Jon John’s Bakery, to of the sourdoughs that Myers makes take name a few, got their start at two full days to develop, not including the the Market, offering homemade actual baking. Other items, like Myers’s or at least “artisanal” products excellent chocolate croissants, require at price points low enough to stunning amounts of prep time. As he slides encourage impulse buying. the first of many trays of finished croissants Since Thanksgiving 2010, into a proofing cabinet, Myers stops to say, chef and baker Keith Myers, “One thing that makes artisan ‘artisan’ is owner of the Flour City Bread time. And that’s the one thing that always Company based in the Public gets removed from the equation when Market, has been intimately bakeries get too big too fast.” connected with the seasonal ebb Despite the popularity of his bakery and flow of the Market. As he — on Saturday mornings the queue tells it, Myers didn’t exactly set snaking out the door of his shop resembles out to become a baker, although nothing so much as kids lined up to visit he did always hope to become Santa — Myers is growing his business a chef. Educated as an engineer, “deliberately and slowly,” he says. He wants Myers worked at Kodak to make sure that quality doesn’t suffer as developing package materials he moves toward wholesale and restaurant for a decade before giving up, production. Already he supplies some bread as he puts it, his “professional, to both Good Luck on Anderson Avenue high-paying, lots-of-vacation job for $8 an and Rocco on Monroe Avenue. For the hour at the Rio Bamba. With a 1-year-old. past year he has also baked bread for the And a wife in grad school.” Eight years later, Good Food Collective, a CSA that grew and with three kids at home at that point, Myers says that realized that he “needed to get out of the restaurant business. It’s not conducive to raising a family.” Myers paired his desire to get back to his family with an existing passion for bread, deciding to embark on a “personal quest for a loaf of bread I wanted to eat,” he says. He had always baked bread for the restaurants in which he worked, but Myers became convinced that the “only thing that was holding me back was not having the right type of oven.” So the former engineer petitioned the Irondequoit fire Cauliflower risotto from Max Market. marshal for a permit, and built his own wood-fired brick oven in his garage. Initially he only wanted to “bake good out of the South Wedge Farmers Market. bread for family and friends,” he says. But He’d like to do more, in part to sustain the at the urging of Sue Gardiner, coordinator momentum that Flour City Bread has built for the Brighton Farmers Market, he started up through the winter. But that goal seems selling some of his loaves at the Brighton to be secondary to his fundamental desire Long Season Market in the fall of 2009. to put good bread in the hands of people According to Myers, “it kind of took off.” who enjoy it. From a 14-hour-a-day chef job with maybe one day off per week, Myers — at Myers isn’t the only chef in town who has that point working by himself, and baking in staked his fortunes on the cachet of fresh, his garage — worked literally 30 consecutive local, and artisanal fostered at the Public hours to do production for the Brighton Market and the emergent, and somewhat Market each week, he says. He used the more rarified, markets in the South Wedge money he made at the market to purchase the and Brighton that attract well-heeled foodies special high-quality flour that he would use and those in search of organic produce at to bake the following week’s bread. reasonable prices. Chef Ryan Jennings, who Today, even with a staff of two full-time was installed as executive chef at the 2-yearbakers to back him up and a full-fledged old Max Market on Monroe Avenue early in bake shop behind his Public Market 2011, is banking on educated consumers who storefront, preparation for the weekend recognize the importance of quality markets starts on Tuesday mornings. Some continues on page 14 rochestercitynewspaper.com

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like Tom Tom Club, you might want to check out Rubblebucket. Both bands are groovy, led by couples, and share an affinity for polyrhythms and up-tempo dancehall styles. But whereas Tom Tom Club’s template draws from tropical music, Rubblebucket’s off-center arrangements give it a slightly psychedelic vibe. But what makes Rubblebucket special is a kick-ass horn section that pays so much homage to the late, great Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti, you’d swear this Brooklyn-based group is from Lagos. The Buddhahood opens. — BY ROMAN DIVEZUR

Dieselboy Friday, December 30 Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 7 p.m. | $10-$20 | waterstreetmusic.com [ DJ/ELECTRONIC ] Three years after the group first

brought him to town, RIPROC is bringing Dieselboy back for a show at Water Street Music Hall. Hailing from Brooklyn, Dieselboy — known to his mother as Damian Higgins — creates music in the oft-derided dubstep vein. But when you think of the Brooklyn artist, don’t think of James Blake or any of the mainstream purveyors of the genre. Think larger and heavier, like the sounds are being ground straight into your skull. Various artists, including Smash Gordon, Roots Collider, and Papi Chulo, also share the bill. — BY ANDY KLINGENBERGER

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(New York City) to the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), to Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and Rome, tenor Gregory Kunde departs from his Rochester home to travel the world, performing in operas and concerts. Kunde will be home for the holidays with his local chorale to perform works by PDQ Bach, Handel, Verdi, and British composer John Rutter. Rumor has it that the program might also include everything from humor and hijinks to a flash mob and audience participation. For tickets check ticketriver.com. — BY PALOMA CAPANNA

You know your fans are hardcore when they come out in the cold on a school night. Inugami unleashed a powerful set to a modest crowd Tuesday night at the Bug Jar. What’s great about this trio is that its originality comes from well-worn styles and riffs. It’s tough to work within such a rootsy style and sound fresh, while still being true to that genre. It’s actually harder than simply going off the deep end or Frankenstein-ing unrelated sounds. Inugami is progressively classic and a really good time. You ought to try it. Thursday night I high-tailed it on fumes and bald tires down to the Club at Water Street, but unfortunately missed young band Clearly From Negligence. Still Standing was on stage, barely into its second song. This three-piece originally out of Philadelphia, but now living on the left cost, takes hard rock and retrofits it with some punk looseness. It’s sort of like Buckcherry, just not as riff-heavy. I often view young bands with tattoos up to their jawbones as trying too hard, but these boys were clever. The Violent Femmes cover at the end — where Still Standing gave the 80’s original’s stopand-start arrangement a smooth and fluid re-working — was cool as hell. Chicago’s Madina Lake followed, with the stage resembling the Neon Boneyard.

It was poppy and happy and bright, and pretty much everything that bores me about modern rock. Where’s the menace? Where’s the bravado? Where was I? Leaving. I was fortunate enough to shoehorn myself into Abilene’s upstairs space to catch Walri tape its performance for WXXI’s “Onstage” series. Honestly, these guys have got to be some the best songwriters anywhere. The band’s humor, harmony, and delicate passages truly shined in this setting. Friday night Teagan and The Tweeds gave the crowd at the Dinosaur a salacious soul-shake hip quake. Front lady Teagan Ward is a study in contrasts; she’s sweet and pretty but sings dirty and mean. Oh, and she plays a Flying V — the ultimate in cock-rocker weaponry. With Grimey at the board, the sound was full. So was the dance floor, as the band shifted between rock and soul, rhythm and blues, originals and covers. By mid-set the joint was jumping. This is one fantastic bar band. Left the Dinosaur’s cool for some Abilene steam heat — my glasses fogged over the minute I walked in. The Hi-Risers were shaking the foundation to a sweaty throng of jitter-buggers, lindy-hoppers, and those that split their time equally between boogie and woogie. I copped a squat at the trough and dug the parade.

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Fifteen years ago the artist now known as Alexander Bogs created an entirely new identity through which to explore his art and music. PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK

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For some performers, music is an art. For some it’s a job. And for others, it’s just a way to wind down. Local musician Alexander Bogs doesn’t quite fit into any of those categories. He has become his music, crafting an entirely new persona dedicated to the performing arts. But he wasn’t always Bogs. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Sunset Park, Bogs, then Alex Talavera, shed his original identity, and name, years ago. For the past 15 years he has been living and performing as A. Bogs, a moniker that captures the eccentricity of the man and his music. Bogs is the front man — and sometimes only man — of Rochester-based folk circus Bogs Visionary Orchestra. He has performed at museums and coffee shops, colleges and music halls, spreading his blend of musical and visual art. The music is folk at its core, driven and anchored by Bogs’s banjo, guitar, and vocals. Other instruments may swirl around the banjo and Bogs’s equally twangy vocals, but that’s the center of the storm. It sounds like a higher-pitched William Elliott Whitmore, and Bogs is versatile enough to

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play through faster alt-country ditties and slower street-side performer ballads alike. The orchestra behind Bogs is ever changing, sometimes squeezing up to eight people on stage. The current line-up includes Reilly Soloman Taylor-Cook on bass, Paul Scota on drums, and Tom Montagliano on guitar. It’s part music and part musical theater, all combining into something that is neither art nor music singularly, but somehow both at the same time. “The fact that there’s an element of performance art-theater, it allows me to venture off in terms of sound,” Bogs says. “Where at one point in the performance, it can sound like noise, and another part of the performance it can sound like hillbilly mixed with rock.” Prior to taking on his new identity, Bogs was

an art teacher, helping students craft and shape their own artistic ideas. But he discovered that teaching was not his true calling; he struggled working under the idea that art had to be good or bad, this way or that way. He disliked that it had to be categorized, instead of something more organic. “I wanted to make art, not teach it,” Bogs says. “I saw it as a very simple idea. Make a sound, I could repeat that sound, I could change it, I could record, it, and I could do something else with the recording. I was thinking about it more kind of in a conceptual way, but also in a very basic way. And that’s how I started making music.” For Bogs the music was a changing point, and it provided a new canvas onto which he

could paint his creative energy. “I’ve been Bogs now for probably close to 15 years,” he says. “So when I committed to that ID I was pretty serious about sticking to it…. It was more out of necessity, I think. I created this A. Bogs character because I felt the need to start over. Maybe to have a new playing field, I guess.” With no formal music training, Bogs picked up the banjo and guitar and starting doing what felt right to him. No need to worry if the art or music was good or bad, with his new persona he became a channel of, as he puts it, “unbridled creativity.” He could be a musical artist, and simply create. “When I have an idea to do something, I feel like I can push through more as that character,” he says. But why the need for a character? For Bogs, personal relationships can strain and derail the creation of live music, such as when musicians stop between songs to give personal facts about their lives or wave to their family or friends in the crowd. “In a way that relationship kind of interrupts the experience of the art,” he says. “Having this character kind of allows me to push some of those boundaries of performance and not get stuck doing a certain formula.” Bogs Visionary Orchestra shows are far from formulaic. Sculptures and other visual art forms are all at home on the stage. So is poetry, or gaps in the music, where Bogs has done everything from laying on the stage to listen to the music he just played, or to go into the crowd to give flowers to audience members. He’s had the audience write their own lyrics to songs, and he’s stopped concerts to connect with audience members on a more personal level to tell them that they too are creative people. “There are very interesting and unplanned things that happened that for me confirmed the power of saying, ‘Hey, you’re creative too. You’re just not here to watch me do this performance, actually. You know, this is a shared experience,’” Bogs says. Most importantly though, is Bogs’s takehome message, be it through art or music: free the outsider within. Not so much a teacher, but more like a tour guide, Bogs has a goal to help people rediscover those childlike expressions of self and identity, and to show his audiences that they too can create and be artists. “It’s about creating maybe a world, or a moment, where they can exist as creative people while I am performing in front of them,” he says.

Wednesday, December 28 [ Jazz ] Chris Teal’s Open Jam. Tala Vera, 155 State St. tala-vera. com, 546-3945. 8 p.m. $3, free w/dinner. Jim Nugent. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net, 6625555. 6 p.m. Free. Open Jam w/The King Bees. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe. com. 7:30 p.m. Free. Paradigm Shift. Pomodoro Grill & Wine Bar, 1290 University Ave. 271-5000. 7:30 p.m. Free. Robert Chevrier. Pomodoro Monroe Ave, 3400 Monroe Ave. 586-7000. 6:30 p.m. Free. The Margaret Explosion. Little Theatre Cafe, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. 7:30 p.m. Free. The Smugtown Stompers. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RITlovincup. com, 292-9940. 7 p.m. Free, tips welcomed. [ Karaoke ] Karaoke. Southpaw Brew Pub, 315 Gregory St. 303-2234. 8:30 p.m. Free. Karaoke. Elite Bar & Grill, 398 W Main St. 527-8720. 9 p.m. Free. Karaoke. Pineapple Jacks, 485 Spencerport Rd. 247-5225. 9 p.m. Free. Karaoke. Jose & Willy’s, 20 Lake Shore Dr, Canandaigua. 394-7960. 8:30 p.m. Free. Karaoke. Monty’s Korner, 363 East Ave. 263-7650. 9.30 p.m. Free. Karaoke. Applebee’s-Fairport, 585 Moseley Rd, Fairport. 4254700. 9 p.m. Free. Karaoke. Mayfields Pub, 669 Winton Rd N. 288-7199. 9 p.m. Free. Karaoke. Sanibel Cottage, 1517 Empire Blvd, Webster. 6719340. 6 p.m. Free. Karaoke. California Brew Haus, 402 Ridge Rd W. 621-1480. 8 p.m. Free. Karaoke Night. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. 385-8565, lemoncello137.com. 9 p.m. Free. Karaoke w/Jimmy C’s Music Machine ft. Johnny Rocker. Sully’s Pub, 242 South Ave. sullyspubonline.com. 8:30 p.m. Free. Karaoke w/Mark. Flipside Bar & Grill, 2001 E Main St. 2883930. 8:30 p.m. Free. [ Open Mic ] Acoustic Open Mic. Pub 511, 511 E Ridge Rd. 266-9559. 8 p.m. Free. Open Jam w/Big Daddy Blues Band. Deweys, 1380 Lyell Ave. 254-4707. 9:30 p.m. Free. Open Jam w/Justin Gurnsey. Jukebox, 5435 Ridge Rd W, Spencerport. 352-4505. 10 p.m. Free. Open Mic. Boulder Coffee CoSouth Wedge, 100 Alexander St. 454-7140, bouldercoffeeco. com. 8 p.m. Free.

Open Mic. Dr’s Inn Grill & Tap Room, 1743 East Ave. 2710820. 5 p.m. Free. Open Mic w/Jam Shack Music. Stoneyard Bar & Grill, 1 Main St, Brockport. 637-3390. 9 p.m. Free. Open Mic w/Steve West. Muddy Waters Coffee House-Geneseo, 53 Main St, Geneseo. 2439111. 7-10 p.m. Free.

Elektrodisko. Vertex, 169 N Chestnut St. facebook.com/ vertexnightclub. 10 p.m. Free before 11:30 p.m. Mostly 80’s Night. Hatter’s Pub, 5 W Main St, Webster. 8721505. 6 p.m. Call for tix. Soul Sides Record Listening Party. Good Luck, 50 Anderson Ave. 340-6161. 9 p.m. Free. Thursday Night Shakedown. Bug Jar, 219 [ Pop/Rock ] Monroe Ave. 454-2966, bugjar. Love in Stockholm w/Turning com. 11 p.m. Free. Colors. Water Street Music Tiki Thursdays: Shotgun Music Hall, 204 N Water St. DJ. McGhan’s, 11 W Main St, waterstreetmusic.com. 9 p.m. Victor, NY. 924-3660. 7:30 $5. p.m. Free. Spacelords. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Road. Tilt-a-Whirl Drag Show. Tilt stickylipsbbq.com. 9 p.m. Free. Night Club, 444 Central Ave. 232-8440, tiltroc.com. 11:15 Teagan & The Tweeds p.m. & 12:30 a.m. $3. w/Marty Roberts. Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. [ Jazz ] johnnysirishpub.com, 224Anthony Gianavola. Lemoncello, 0990. 5 p.m. Free. 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137.com. Thursday, December 29 6 p.m. Free. Fred Costello, Roger Eckers [ Acoustic/Folk ] Duo. Porto Bello Restaurant, Beet Juice. Rabbit Room 1369 Pittsford-Mendon Rd. Restaurant, 61 N Main 624-7370. 8:30 p.m. Call for St, Honeoye Falls, NY. info. thelowermill.com. 6 p.m. Free. Jazz/Wine Happy Hour w/The John Akers & Elvio Swooners. Woodcliff Hotel Fernandes. Easy on East, 170 & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. East Ave. 325-6490. 8 p.m. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 5:30 Free. p.m. Free. Kate Lee & Friends. Johnny’s Joe Santora Trio w/Emily Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. Kirchoff. Michael’s Valley Grill, johnnysirishpub.com, 2241694 Penfield R, Penfield. 0990. 7 p.m. Free. 383-8260. 7 p.m. Free. Live Band Thursdays. Blueroom, Julie Ketchum Duo. Bistro 135, 293 Alexander St. 730-5985. 8 135 W Commercial St,, East p.m. Free. Rochester. bistro135.net, 662Mark Herrmann Acoustic Open 5555. 6 p.m. Free. Jam. California Brew Haus, 402 Live Jam w/Eastman School Ridge Rd W. 621-1480. 8 p.m. Students. Triple Deuces Bar & Free. Grill, 151 St Paul St. 232-3888. Nancy Perry. Mythos Cafe, 77 Thu 6 p.m., Fri 5 p.m. Free. Main St, Brockport. 637-2770. The Mike Kaupa Duo 6 p.m. Free. Project. Little Theatre Cafe, Pate Kane. McGraw’s Irish Pub, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. 7:30 146 W Commercial St, East p.m. Free. Rochester. mcgrawsirishpub. The Swooners. Woodcliff Hotel com, 764-0991. 7 p.m. Free. & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. Paul Strowe. Cottage Hotel, woodcliffhotelspa.com. 5:30 1390 Pittsford-Mendon Rd, p.m. Free. Mendon, NY. 624-1390. 7-10 [ Open Mic ] p.m. Free. The Songwriter Series Open Mic Reggae Night. Elite Bar & Grill, ft. Maynard. Towpath Cafe, 6 N 398 W Main St. 527-8720. 9 Main St, Fairport. 377-0410. p.m. Call for tix. 7:30 p.m. Free. [ Blues ] [ Pop/Rock ] Pro-Blues Jam w/ Rochester Achilles w/Such Gold, Blues Review. PI’s Lounge, 495 Raindance (MA/RI), Rational West Ave. 235-1630. 8 p.m.Animals, and School midnight. Free. Shootings. Bug Jar, 219 The Last Fruitcake Waltz ft. the Monroe Ave. bugjar.com, 454Public Market Band. MuCCC, 2966. 7:30 p.m. Call for info. 142 Atlantic Ave. muccc.org. Coup D’Villes. Dinosaur 7:30 p.m. Suggested Donation Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. $6. dinosaurbarbque.com. 9 p.m. [ DJ/Electronic ] Free. DJ Biggie. McKenzie’s Irish Jeff Elliott. Irondequoit Ale Pub, 3685 W Henrietta Rd. House, 2250 Hudson Ave. 334-8970. 9 p.m. Call for tix. 544-5120. 5 p.m. Free. DJ Mike Dailor. Vertex, 169 N Jim Lane. Six Pockets, Ridge Chestnut St. 232-5498. 10 Hudson Plaza. 266-1440. 7 p.m. $3-$8. p.m. Free. DJ Sal DeSantis. Center Cafe, MoChester. Sticky Lips BBQ 150 Frank DiMino Way. Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Road. iaccrochester.org, 594-8882. 7 stickylipsbbq.com. 9 p.m. Free. p.m. Call for info. Rubblebucket w/The DJs Designer Junkies, Etiquette, Buddhahood and Ginnis. One, 1 Ryan Alley. 546- Aqueous. Water Street 1010. 10 p.m. $3. continues on page 14

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Pictured left: Chef Ryan Jennings is currently overseeing the transformation of 2-year-old Max Market. Pictured right: a stuffed sweet potato from Max Market.

ingredients and careful preparation offered at fair prices to be his best customers. Where are those consumers coming from? Not restaurants, in Jennings’s opinion. “What goes on in restaurants isn’t changing the way people eat every day. The biggest impact anyone is going to find is going to the farmers’ markets,” he says. The growing popularity of farmers’ markets in the area, Jennings suggests, reflects a greater consciousness about food — really, a food culture — that can support what he’s doing at Max Market. Today, “it’s easier for the everyday person to have the same relationships with purveyors that restaurants have,” he says. That changes the way customers think about the food they buy. That, and the shrinking economy, have led to more people cooking at home, making it that much harder to sell what is referred to in the trade as “meal replacement” services, which has forced Jennings to reinvent Max Market for a new, pickier, clientele. “In the past,” the 27-year old graduate of the French Culinary Institute told me one afternoon as the lunch rush at the market was winding down, the Market “tried to cater to things that people were comfortable with. Now I’m offering food that you can’t make at home… food that showcases the talents of the company.” Tasked with reenvisioning the take-out shop and market, Jennings started with a simple concept: source as much product locally as possible and use it in dishes that customers can’t make themselves because they simply don’t have the time or the skill to do so. He is, in short, bringing what he describes as the “high-quality experience” his customers have come to expect of the 10-year-old Max brand of local high-end restaurants (including Max at Eastman

Place, Max Chophouse, and, most recently Max at the Gallery and Max on the Lake) to an informal setting at a somewhat lower price point than the other Max enterprises. In some ways, it’s as much of a gamble as the low-butter-low-fat cuisine Jennings was attempting to sell at Farm Fresh Kitchen, the now-closed Pittsford restaurant where he was head chef from 2008 through late 2009. Jennings’s work at Max Market — every takeaway container of mushroom bread pudding with sausage, or beet salad, or roasted root vegetables — is an argument for chef-prepared food in an age when people are spending less to eat out, and the market for meal-replacement restaurants like Boston Market and similar places is shrinking rapidly. At first glance, that looks like it could be a tough sell. At $15 per pound for chocolaty brown, silky-smooth lamb tagine, or $8 for a pound of creamy cauliflower risotto, it takes someone with a bit of imagination to see how this carry-out food is a viable alternative to your typical fast-food joint. But order up lunch from the case and you discover that an abundant meal — with leftovers — won’t run more than $10 per person. But, like a popular clothing chain, Ryan is hoping that an educated consumer is his best customer. “You can tell on my end of things how much better educated consumers are,” he says. “People know the importance of eating fresh and local.” What’s more, they expect it, and they are willing to pay a premium for it. What Jennings is offering, and hoping to offer more of, is an alternative to continuing “to shop at Wal-Mart and eating out of a box.”

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[ Acoustic/Folk ] Everheart. McGhan’s, 11 W Main St, Victor, NY. 924-3660. Call for info. Free. GP & Jim. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137.com. 8:30 p.m. Free. Gan Ainm w/The Three Kings of Orient. McGraw’s Irish Pub, 146 W Commercial St, East Rochester. mcgrawsirishpub. com, 764-0991. 5 p.m. Free. Jeff Riales & the Silvertone Express. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Road. stickylipsbbq.com. 9:30 p.m. Free. Ralph Louis. Rochester Plaza Hotel, 70 State St. rochesterplaza.com. 6 p.m. Free. Tom Gravino. Tandoor of India, 376 Jefferson Rd. 427-7080. 7 p.m. Free. [ Blues ] Billy Joe & the Blues Gypsies w/Dave Riccioni. Six Pockets, Ridge Hudson Plaza. 2661440. 6-9 p.m. Free. [ Classical ] Kunde Chorale: A Barely Verdi Kunde Christmas. St Mary’s Church, 15 St Mary’s Pl. 3777568. 7:30 p.m. $15 adv, $18 doors. Students-$10, children 12 and under free. 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. [ DJ/Electronic ] DJ. Coach Sports Forum, 19 W Main St, Webster. 872-2910. 9 p.m. Call for tix. DJ Cedric. Vertex, 169 N Chestnut St. 232-5498. 10 p.m. $3-$8. DJ Dream. Nola’s BBQ, 4775 Lake Ave. 663-3375. 10 p.m. Call for tix. DJ Mosart212. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RIT. 292-9940. 6 p.m. Free. Dieselboy and Smash Gordon w/ Roots Collider, Big Basha, Papi Chulo, and Skanntron. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N Water St. waterstreetmusic. com, 325-5600. 7 p.m. $10, additional $10 if under 21. Limited entry for unders. Jon Herbert, RipRoc. One, 1 Ryan Alley. 546-1010. 10 p.m. $3. Lube After Dark. Quaker Steak and Lube, 2205 Buffalo Rd. 697.9464. 9:30 p.m. Free. Reggaeton w/DJ Carlos. La Copa Ultra Lounge, 235 W Ridge Rd. 254-1050. 10 p.m. Call for tix. Salsa Night w/DJ Javier Rivera. Tango Cafe, 389

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If you like your salsa bold and rich, try Sofrito. No, this is not the food page; I’m talking about the music played by the Latin group by that name. And salsa isn’t the only ingredient; the combo also throws in a generous helping of bossa nova. Sofrito consists of four well-known local musicians: flautist Tim Forster, trumpeter/arranger Paul Gaspar, Mambo Kings bassist Hector Diaz, and Latin percussionist Tony Padilla. Sofrito performs Friday, December 30, 6:30 p.m. at Bistro 135, 135 W. Commercial St., East Rochester. Free. 662-5555, bistro135.net. — BY RON NETSKY Gregory St. 475-0249. 9 p.m. $5. What A Drag w/Samantha Vega, Kyla Minx & Pauly. Tilt Night Club, 444 Central Ave. 2328440, tiltroc.com. 11:15 p.m. & 12:30 a.m. $4-$12. [ Jazz ] Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Duo. Charley Brown’s Restaurant, 1675 Penfield Rd. fredcostello.com, 385-9292. 7:30 p.m. Call for info. Joe Santora Trio w/Emily Kirchoff. Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield R, Penfield. 383-8260. 7 p.m. Free. Johnny Matt Band w/Jon Seiger. Wegmans-Eastway, 1955 Empire Blvd, Webster. 671-8290. 5:30 p.m. Free. Last Friday Heritage Jazz Series presented by Dr. Carl Atkins. Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. baobab. center@yahoo.com; 563.2145. 7 p.m. $10. Ryan T Carey. Thali of India, 3259 S Winton Rd. 427-8030. 7-9 p.m. Free. Sofrito. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net. 6:30 p.m. Free. Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes. Glengarry Inn at Eagle Vale, 4400 Nine Mile Point Road, Rt 250 Fairport NY. 5983820, EagleVale.com. 6:30 p.m. Free. Tinted Image. Grill at Strathallan, 550 East Ave. strathallan.com. 8:30 p.m. Free. Uptown Groove. Little Theatre Cafe, 240 East Ave. thelittle. org. 8:30 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Bandito Bullet ft. Jeff Cosco, Dom Trinchini, Nick Iovine and Fabian Provenzo w/Cindy Sams Band. Nola’s BBQ, 4775 Lake

Ave. nolasweb.com, 663-3375. 9 p.m. Call for info. Fishbone Soup w/Michael J & Pat Kane. Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. johnnysirishpub.com, 2240990. 9 p.m. Free. Jet Black Berries w/The Pheromones, The Space Lords. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com, 454-2966. 9 p.m. Call for info. Krypton 88 w/Boss Tweed. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. abilenebarandlounge. com, 232-3230. 6:30 p.m. $4. Never Going Home, MoChester, Heading North. California Brew Haus, 402 Ridge Rd W. 6211480. 7 p.m. $5 adv, $7 doors. Run For The Roses. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut Plaza. themontagemusichall.com, 232-1520. 8 p.m. Call for info. Sam Deleo. Perlo’s Italian Grill, 202 N Washington St, East Rochester. 248-5060. 6:3010:30 p.m. Free. Tainted Minds. A-Pub Live, 6 Lawrence St. 262-2063. 10 p.m. $5. This Life. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RITlovincup.com, 292-9940. 9 p.m. $5 GA, $3 student. [ R&B ] Old School R&B. Elite Bar & Grill, 398 W Main St. 5278720. 9 p.m. Call for tix. Turnip Stampede. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m. Free.

Saturday, December 31 DUE TO THE HOLIDAY REOCCURRING EVENTS MAY NOT BE TAKING PLACE. PLEASE CALL AHEAD. [ Acoustic/Folk ] Acoustic Brew w/Smooth Talkers. Johnny’s Irish

Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. johnnysirishpub.com, 2240990. 8 p.m. Free. Thunder Body. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. abilenebarandlounge.com, 232-3230. 10 p.m. $8 21+, $12 unders. Watkins & The Rapiers. Little Theatre Cafe, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. 8:30 p.m. Freefirst come, first seated. [ Blues ] Gap Mangione New Blues Band (Horizons Lounge). Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa.com, 3814000. 7:30 p.m. Reservation only. Joe Beard w/Steve Grills and the Roadmasters. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m. Call for info. John Weil, Deep Blue. Beale Street Cafe-Webster, 1930 Empire Blvd, Webster. 2161070. 9:30 p.m. Call for info. The Fakers. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. 271-4650. 9:30 p.m. Call for info. [ DJ/Electronic ] 98.9 The Buzz w/DJ Turk. Nola’s BBQ, 4775 Lake Ave. nolasweb.com, 663-3375. 9 p.m. Call for info. DJ Darkwave Vertex, 169 N Chestnut St. 232-5498. 10:30 p.m. Call for info. DJ Flex. Tapas 177 Lounge, 177 St Paul St. 262-2090. 12 a.m. Free. 21+ New Year’s Eve 2012 w/DJ Wizz. Maxwell’s Resto Lounge, 169 St. Paul St. 325-5710. 9:30 p.m. Call for info. 21+. New Year’s Silver & Gold Party. One, 1 Ryan Alley. 5461010. 10:30 p.m. $10. 21+. New Year’s Eve Bash. Venu Resto-Lounge, 151 St Paul St. 232-5650. 10 p.m. $20.

Saturday Night Lights w/ DJ Bello. Blueroom, 293 Alexander St. 730-5985. 11 p.m.. $3 after 11 p.m. 21+. Tilt New Year’s Party. Tilt Night Club, 444 Central Ave. facebook.com/Tiltnightclub. 10 p.m. $10 21+, $20 unders. [ Jazz ] Alana Calhoon w/Andy Calabrese, Steve Curry, Peter Chwazik, and Vince Ercolomento. Grill at Strathallan, 550 East Ave.strathallan. com. 8:30 p.m. Free, RSVP encouraged. Captain Marvel. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137.com, 385-8565. 9 p.m. Call for New Year’s Eve pricing. Cool Club Jazz. Prosecco Italian Restaurant, 1550 Route 332, Farmington. proseccoitalianrestaurant.com, 924-8000. 7 p.m. Call for info. Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Duo. Charley Brown’s Restaurant, 1675 Penfield Rd. fredcostello.com, 385-9292. 7:30 p.m. Call for info. Club Jazzy. Jasmine’s Asian Fusion, 657 Ridge Rd, Webster. 216-1290. Call for info. $3 Lovin’ Cup’s Annual New Year’s Eve Bash ft. The Swooners. Lovin’ Cup, Park Point @ RITlovincup.com, 2929940. 6 p.m. Call for info. Orient Express (Woodcliff’s Ballroom). Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. woodcliffhotelspa.com, 3814000. 7:30 p.m. Reservation only. Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes. Jasmine’s Asian Fusion, 657 Ridge Rd, Webster. 2161290, JasminesAsianFusion. com. 6:30 p.m. Free. Uptown Groove w/Westview Project. Bistro 135, 135

W Commercial St., East Rochester. bistro135.net, 6625555. 5 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] 2012 Horse Ale New Years Eve Party w/Tommy Brunett Band, the Public Market Band. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Road. stickylipsbbq. com. 9:30 p.m. VIP Pass $12 adv, $15 doors. Friday In America and DJ Naps present the NYE in America Party. A-Pub Live, 6 Lawrence St. fridayinamerica@gmail.com. 10 p.m. $5. Happy New Year w/ Tryst. McGhan’s, 11 W Main St, Victor, NY. 924-3660. Call for info. Free. Intox, Horse Face, Stygian, One Step From Falling, and Just A Peace. California Brew Haus, 402 Ridge Rd W621-1480. 9 p.m. $5 adv, $7 doors. Mansfield Avenue w/Ted McGraw. McGraw’s Irish Pub, 146 W Commercial St, East Rochester. mcgrawsirishpub. com, 764-0991. 5:30 p.m. Free. New Year’s Eve w/Mr. Mustard. Corner Sports Bar, 122 Main St., East Rochester. 248-2040. 9 p.m. Call for reservations. Revolver. Anchor Bar Marketplace. anchorsportsbar. com, 272-9333. Call for info. Shaded Passion. Captain Jack’s Goodtime Tavern, 8505 Greig St, Sodus Point. captainjacksgoodtimetavern. com, 315-483-9570. 9 p.m. Call for info. Trashcan Records Class Reunion Show ft. NOD, The Thundergods, The Quitters, Muler, and Intrinsic. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave.bugjar.com, 454-2966. 9 p.m. $7-$9(limited entry for unders).

Sunday, January 1 DUE TO THE HOLIDAY MOST LOCATIONS ARE CLOSED. PLEASE CALL AHEAD.

Monday, January 2 [ Acoustic/Folk ] Irish Waltzes, Reels & Jigs practice. McGraw’s Irish Pub, 146 W Commercial St, East Rochester. 348-9091, mcgrawsirishpub. com. 6 p.m. Free. [ DJ/Electronic ] Manic Mondays DJs. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave.454-2966. 11 p.m. Free. [ Jazz ] Mark Bader. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net, 6625555. 5:30 p.m. Free. Mike Kaupa Duo Project. Little Theatre Cafe, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. 7:30 p.m. Free. Tony Gianavola. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. 2714650, bealestreetcafe.com. 7 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Dorkbox. Boulder Coffee Co. Alexander Street. bouldercoffeeco.com. 8 p.m. Free.

Tuesday, January 3 [ Acoustic/Folk ] 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. [ Classical ] Barbershop Harmony. Harmony House, 58 E Main St., Webster, NY. chorusofthegenesee.org. 7 p.m. Free. Open practices/try outs.

[ DJ/Electronic ] SIN Night. TC HooligansGreece, Greece Ridge Ctr. tchooligans.com, 225-7180. 9 p.m. Call for info. [ Jazz ] Ballroom Dance Series w/live music. Edgerton Community Center, 41 Backus St. cityofrochester. gov/ballroomdanceseries. 7:30 p.m. $3. See website for full line up. Norman Tibbils. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137.com, 385-8565. 6 p.m. Free. Penfield Rotary Big Band Swing Dance. Penfield Community Center Gym. 340-8644. 7:30 p.m. $1. [ Open Mic ] Golden Link Singaround. Twelve Corners Presbyterian Church, 1200 S Winton Rd. goldenlink. org. 7:30 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Don Christiano - With A Little Help from My Friends: The Beatles Unplugged. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 2323230, 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. Thrifter w/Machine Gun English, Feast Of The Superb Owl. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar. com, 454-2966. 8 p.m. $5-$7.

dinosaurbarbque.com. 9 p.m. Free. Tommy Gravino. Rio Tamatlan, 5 Beeman St, Canandaigua. 3949380. 6:30 p.m. Free. Salsa w/Shelia dancing during the performance. [ Jazz ] Bob Hanley. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. lemoncello137.com, 385-8565. 6 p.m. Free. Jam with Chet Catallo & Friends. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Road. stickylipsbbq.com. 9 p.m. Free. Open Jam w/The King Bees. Beale Street Cafe, 693 South Ave. bealestreetcafe. com. 7:30 p.m. Free. Paradigm Shift. Pomodoro Grill & Wine Bar, 1290 University Ave. 271-5000. 7:30 p.m. Free. Robert Chevrier. Pomodoro Monroe Ave, 3400 Monroe Ave. 586-7000. 6:30 p.m. Free. Soul Express. Bistro 135, 135 W Commercial St,, East Rochester. bistro135.net, 6625555. 6 p.m. Free. Uptown Groove. Little Theatre Cafe, 240 East Ave. thelittle. org. 7:30 p.m. Free. [ Pop/Rock ] Mr. Boneless w/Seth Faergolzia, All Of Them Witches. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bistro135.net, 662-5555. 8 p.m. $6-$8.

Wednesday, January 4 [ Acoustic/Folk ] Stains of Newark. Tala Vera, 155 State St. tala-vera.com, 546-3945. 8 p.m. $5, or free w/dinner. String Theory. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St.

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All events take place on Saturday, December 31. THEATER & FILM Blackfriars Theatre presents two showings of the Tom Lehrer-based musical “Tom Foolery” at 7 p.m. & 10 p.m.795 E. Main St. $27. 4541260, bftix.com. The Comedy Club hosts comedian Mike Dambra, plus a grand buffet dinner, champagne toast, and a DJ after midnight. Doors at 7 p.m., dinner at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m. 2235 Empire Blvd. $50. 671-9080, thecomedyclub.us. Downstairs Cabaret Theatre has many shows at its various locations. At the 20 Windsor St. you’ll get showings of “You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up” at 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Tickets cost $35-$40 and include desserts, party favors, and champagne toast at midnight. At the 540 E. Main St. location “Bathing in Bette” will play at 7 p.m. & 10:15 p.m. Tickets cost $30-$35 and include desserts, party favors, and a champagne toast at midnight. The 3450 Winton Place location will feature familyfriendly shows with “Marc Salem’s Mindgames” (5 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.) and “You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet” (8 p.m.) with Cindy Miller. Tickets cost $30-$40 per show and include desserts, party favors, and a champagne toast at midnight. NOTE: reservations required for all DCT New Year’s Eve shows. Call 325-4370 or visit downstairscabaret.com. Dryden Theatre’s annual New Year’s Eve double feature will feature “The Thin Man” (7 p.m.) followed by “After the Thin Man” (9 p.m.) featuring William Powell and Myrna Loy. George Eastman House, 900 East Ave. $6-$8. 271-3361, dryden.eastmanhouse.org. Geva Comedy Improv puts on its “New Year’s Eve Comedy Spectacular” at 7:30 p.m. & 10:30 p.m., with a dance party following the later show. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd. $20. 232-4382, gevatheatrecenter.org. JCC CenterStage puts on two special New Year’s Eve shows. “Hollywood Sings!” (5 p.m., $18-$26) explores a history of motion pictures through popular songs from famous films. The final show of “I Do, I Do!” (9 p.m.) has already sold out. JCC, 1200 Edgewood

Ave, $18-$26, 461-2000, jccrochester.org. Last Laff will host a triplecomedy party with three Rochester comics, Danny Liberto, Vinnie Paulino, and Joe Bruno at 9 p.m., plus New Year’s Eve dinner and drink specials. 4768 Lake Ave. $10 (show). 663-5233, lastlaff.net. MuCCC is hosting The Shakespeare Company as it presents “ShakeCo Radio Theater” at 8 p.m. This is a pay-what-you-want presentation, all proceeds benefit the MuCCC. 142 Atlantic Ave, muccc.org. Nazareth College Arts Center again welcomes the national political-comedy troupe The Capitol Steps, which will perform songs mocking Charlie Sheen, immigration, health care, the budget, partisan politics, the Tea Party, and more. Shows at 6:30 p.m. & 10 p.m. 4245 East Ave. $45$75. 389-2170, artscenter. naz.edu. Unleashed! Improv celebrates the troupe’s seventh anniversary with “The 7th Year Itches” at 8 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres and a toast are included with ticket price. The Lounge at the Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave. $12-$20. 4612000, jccrochester.org. Village Idiots Comedy Improv throws a New Year’s Eve Explosion party with three mega-improv shows at 7:30 p.m., 9 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. Pillar Theater, Village Gate, 274 N. Goodman St. $10. 797-9086, improvvip.com.

SPECIAL EVENTS Bristol Mountain Ski Resort hosts a New Year’s party with skiing, music, family activities, and fireworks 4-10 p.m. 5562 Route 64, Canandaigua. Admission included with lift ticket, $32-$37. 374-6000, bristolmountain.com. City of Rochester throws its annual family-friendly celebration at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center, with a DJ dance party, giant bounce houses, climbing wall, obstacle course, photo booth, airbrush tattoos, caricature artists, magician, clowns, and a grand firework finale. Event begins at 7 p.m., fireworks at 10 p.m. 123 E. Main St.

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Free. Call 311 for info or visit cityofrochester.gov. The Diplomat hosts its giant bash, with guests Ruby Shooz, a dinner buffet, hats, noisemakers, bar, and champagne toast, starting at 8 p.m. 1 Diplomat Way, Gates. $50.95. 647-1566, diplomatbanquetctr.com. Fair and Expo Center presents its Family New Year’s Eve Bash with a magic show, DJ dance party, karaoke, reptile exhibit, science tricks, face painting, fireworks, and more. 6-9:30 p.m. 2695 E. Henrietta Road. $5. fairandexpocenter.org. Golden Ponds Party House has a New Year’s package that includes a five-hour premium open bar, dinner buffet, DJhosted dance party, hats and noisemakers, plus coffee and pastries at 1 a.m. Bar opens at 6:30 p.m. 500 Long Pond Road, Greece. $45. 723-1344, goldenpondspartyhouse.com. Henrietta Public Library hosts a family New Year’s Eve bingo party for ages 4 and up. 2-3 p.m. 455 Calkins Road. Free. 359-7092, www3.libraryweb. org. Lemoncello will have live jazz music a dinner package for two (including wine, desserts, and after-dinner shots), plus a midnight champagne toast. 8 p.m.-midnight. 137 W. Commercial St., East Rochester. $100. 385-8565, lemoncello137.com. Little Theatre Café will be open on New Year’s Eve with live music by Watkins & the Rapiers 8 p.m.-1 a.m., complimentary pizza and snacks, plus a champagne toast at midnight. The cafe will stay open until 2 a.m. 240 East Ave, free but limited seating. 258-0400, thelittle.org. McGraw’s Irish Pub offers a special holiday menu; reservations required. Live music from Mansfield Avenue 9 p.m.-midnight. 146 W. Commercial St., East Rochester. 348-9091, mcgrawsirishpub.com. Radisson Rochester Hotel throws a big bash complete with open bar, dinner buffet, hats, noisemakers, live music from Smalltown, DJ sets, and a continental breakfast for those who stay overnight. Starts at 8 p.m. 120 E. Main St. $125-$325. 546-6400, rochesternewyearseve.com.

Rochester Public Library presents a New Year’s Eve party for the family with face painting, a wandering magician, games, crafts, and food, plus a countdown to noon for young children. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Kate Gleason Auditorium,115 South Ave. Free. 428-8324, www3. libraryweb.org. Rochester Razorsharks start its new season on New Year’s Eve with a basketball game against the Scranton Steamers starting at 7:05 p.m. Blue Cross Arena, 1 War Memorial Square. $5$25. razorsharks.com. Shea’s offers a special holiday menu with dinner starting at 5 p.m. 330 East Ave. Prices vary. 325-6595, sheasfoodwinetap. com. St Mary’s Church Hall will be home to a more relaxing celebration with a 10-piece orchestra playing international music for dancing. There will be cocktails, dinner, a champagne toast, plus snacks at midnight. Cocktails at 6:30 p.m. dinner at 8 p.m. 3176 St. Paul Blvd, Irondequoit. $25-$45 ($15 dance only), reservations required at 748-4202. Strathallan Grill & Hotel features a night of contemporary jazz with artist Alana Cahoon accompanied by Andy Calabrese, Steve Curry, Peter Chwazik & Vince Ercolomento. 8:30 p.m.midnight. 550 East Ave. 4615010, strathallan.com. Tandoor of India holds a bellydancing party as well as an all-you-can-eat buffet, plus lots of other holiday specials. 6-9 p.m. 376 Jefferson Road. $20. 427-7080, tandoorofindia. com. Tapas 177 offers a five-course meal with three different seatings (5:30 p.m., 7 p.m., 9 p.m.), followed by DJ Flex’s dance party and drinks until 4 a.m. 177 St. Paul St. $70, reservations required, 2622090, tapas177.com. Ukrainian Cultural Center throws a celebration with an open bar, hors d’oeuvres, a family-style dinner, zabava dance party, live music, a latenight buffet, and a champagne toast at midnight. 6:30 p.m.midnight. 1040 Jackson Road, Webster. $30-60 ($20-$25, dance only). Reservations required, 598-4580, uccofrochester.net.

Woodcliff Hotel & Spa hosts a New Year’s Eve Staycation with dinner, live music (Orient Express and Gap Mangione & The New Blues Band), dancing, sparkling wine toast, fireworks, and a deluxe room for two. Starts at 4 p.m. 199 Woodcliff Drive. $269-$380 for two. 3814000, woodcliffhotelspa.com.

BARS & CLUBS Abilene Bar & Lounge celebrates with live music from Thunder Body. Doors at 7 p.m., music at 10 p.m. 153 Liberty Pole Way. $8-$12. 232-3230, abilenebarandlounge.com. A-Pub Live will have live music from Friday in America and DJ Naps. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. 6 Lawrence St. $5. 262-2063. The Beale New Orleans Grille & Bar will celebrate New Year’s with live music at both its locations. In the South Wedge (689 South Ave.) you’ll get The Fakers, while in Webster (1930 Empire Blvd.) you’ll get John Weil & Deep Blue. Champagne toast at midnight. Music starts at 9:30 p.m. bealestreetcafe.com. Bug Jar is presenting GaragePop Records with Trashcan Records “Class Reunion Show” featuring Nod, The Thundergods, The Quitters, Muler, and Intrinsic. DJ El Destructo spins between sets. There is an attendance limit for those under 18. Music starts at 9 p.m. Open 8 p.m.-3 a.m. 217 Monroe Ave. $7-$9. 4542966, bugjar.com. California Brew Haus presents a NYE showcase with bands Intox, Horse Face, Stygian, One Step From Falling, and Just A Peace. 9 p.m. 402 Ridge Road W. $5-$7. 621-1480. Jeremiah’s Tavern is having a Jell-o shots party with lots of other fun and holiday drink specials, plus a champagne toast at midnight. 1104 Monroe Ave. 461-1313. jeremiahstavern.com. Lovin’ Cup has a NYE bash including a dinner special accompanied by jazz 6-9 p.m. After dinner there will be drink specials, a midnight toast, and live music with The Swooners. 6 p.m.-2 a.m. 300 Park Point Drive, Henrietta. Call for price. 292-9940, lovincup.com. Lux Lounge will party with unique drink specials, hats and noise makers, plus a champagne toast at midnight.

Lux will be open until 4 a.m. 666South Ave. 232-9030, lux666.com. Nola’s BBQ is teaming up with 98.9 The Buzz and DJ Turk for a New Year’s party. Barbeque buffet, champagne toast at midnight, and more. 9 p.m.-4 a.m. 4775 Lake Ave. 663-3375, nolasweb.com. The Old Toad will host its New Year’s Eve beer dinner. 277 Alexander St. $55 ($45 without beer). 6:30-9 p.m. 232-2626, theoldtoad.com. One Nightclub & Lounge is holding a silver-and-gold party, so dress accordingly. DJ Kalifornia will spin hip-hop, old-school, and Top 40 tracks downstairs, while upstairs Richie Salvaggio will play house and electric music. Watch the ball drop on a huge screen, enjoy the balloon drop at midnight downstairs, champagne toasts, noisemakers, etc. 10:30 p.m.-4 a.m. 1 Ryan Alley. 5461010, oneclublife.com. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint is home to the 2012-Horse New Year’s Eve Party with the Tommy Brunett Band and The Public Market Band. Watch the ball drop on a film screen. Call to reserve your VIP pass and get a commemorative Genesee 12-Horse Ale 2012 mug, hats, noisemakers, champagne toast, raffles and prizes. 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m. 830 Jefferson Road. $12-$15. 2925544, stickylipsbbq.com. Tap & Mallet holds a special New Year’s Eve beer social. Try select beers that have never been seen in Rochester, including Stillwater, Evil Twin, Emelisse, Cazeau and more. The event will include light food. The tasting is followed by live music from band Sports and DJ Tanner. 9 p.m. 381 Gregory St. $18, reservations required (for tasting only, no cover for music). 473-0503, tapandmallet.com. Tilt Nightclub is hosting its Massive New Year’s Party featuring $2.50 drinks until 11 pm., free champagne at midnight, plus a free continental breakfast at 2 a.m. There will be a $1500 “Confetti Prize Blast” at 1 a.m. Music courtesy of DJ Jon Herbert. 10 p.m.-4 a.m. 444 Central Ave. $4-$12. 232-8440. **Did we miss a New Year’s Eve event? E-mail eric@ rochester-citynews.com and we’ll add it to the online version of this article.**

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In the back room of the gallery space, Kronfeld’s other work, “Linked,” dominates the center of the room. Three big, rough, unpolished chunks of Georgia marble are islands connected by a chain of iron thorns, mostly rusted, some polished. Each link is a triangle with spiked ends. The links are small where attached to the rock, and grow to be hefty shapes as the chain moves from stone to stone. Karen Sardisco is the only artist featured in

“Nodulated Spiny Efflourescence,” a blown and sculpted glass sculpture by Robin Cass, is part of the “Prologues” show now at Gallery R. PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK

A new beginning “Prologues” Through January 4 Gallery R, 100 College Ave. Wed-Sun 1-5 p.m. (closed January 1) facebook.com (search Gallery R) [ REVIEW ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Roughly a year after Gallery R closed its doors on Park Avenue, Rochester Institute of Technology’s graduate-student-run, undergraduate-staffed teaching gallery has opened in a new location in the Neighborhood of the Arts. The College Avenue spot shares an entrance with Lumiere Photo’s relatively new digs, adding new interest to an already culturally bustling area of town. The debut of the new space was marked with the opening of “Prologues,” a strong all-female exhibit showcasing work by three Rochester-based artists and educators. There is a “very organic dialogue between the three,” says gallery director Zerbe Sodervick. It’s true that the work flows well together, the formal elements relating to one another in a natural way. Robin Cass, a professor in the glass program at the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at RIT, contributed nine works entitled “Curious Growths.” The blown, sculpted, and hand-painted glass pieces are groupings of textured fronds, pods, and flora shapes mounted high on the wall. Each mass reminded me of some botanical wonders found underwater, or the complicated, nearinvisible world of a microscopic organism. Cass intended this ambiguity, and is

“fascinated by the human inclination to seek out and gather odd and novel objects for personal contemplation and public display,” as per her artist statement. The artist began work on this series while on sabbatical in Japan, and these “wunderkammer”-inspired pieces are part of a larger series. The works are even titled as if scientific specimens: “Crested Vermillion Vibrissae” has parts that resemble sea sponges, others like snail eye stalks. “Polybrachius Ocular Cluster” is all spines and tentacles, with glass spheres capping the stems. “Nodulated Spiny Efflourescence” also has spines and ribbonfronds, with nubby tentacles and globes. Each of the nine objects, shimmering in the glare of the gallery spotlights, look as though they might gently sway in some invisible current, or expand slightly to draw in and process oxygen from the water. Elizabeth Kronfeld is an associate professor at RIT and a nationally known iron worker. In this show, Kronfeld’s work, “Empty Baskets,” is comprised of three large wheelbarrowshaped vessels, each set upon four stacked beams of railroad ties. The woven-rope baskets were cast in iron; though sturdy, the scoop-like forms will appear for ages in a delicate mid-unraveling state, as moss and sprigs of plant life have already taken hold of the wooden bases. The works speak of a conscious interplay of the handmade traditions and industrial materials and technique. “I am intrigued by the idea of containment; for protection or restriction, to support growth or restrain it,” Kronfeld writes in the provided artist statement.

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the exhibit to contribute two-dimensional works. Sardisco is an assistant professor at Monroe Community College, where she teaches drawing, painting, and design. Spread throughout the two rooms of the gallery are Sardisco’s 10 massive mixedmedia works on paper, layered abstracts made of the artist’s private symbolic language for her series, “Parts and Whole.” The works are about growing up in an Italian-American household and the artist’s memories of childhood. “As a secondgeneration Italian-American woman, I have found that the disconnect that existed between private experience and the day-today events of one’s life have fueled a dialogue that has provided much to explore,” says the artist in a provided statement. The drippy vagueness of the painted imagery reflects the artist’s imperfect memory. In “Proof,” a wrinkly brain is rendered, the colors shifting from pale to darker browns and golds. “The serious and the mundane collect together, bumping into each other in a primordial soup,” says the artist. “Devotion” has trinity knots, pink bull’s eyes, and anatomic hearts. “Whorl” is a grayscale work of layers upon layers of spirals and knots. “Happenstance” has geometric patterns, some forming hive-like shapes, spirals, leaves, and is dominated by a vague white wash. In addition to the two-room space, Gallery R will also have an on-site “dark gallery” designated for animation and film screenings, with seating for an upwards of 70 people, a classroom, storage, and prep space. The gallery runners are researching potential portable walls with which they will be able to manipulate the configurations of the space. The sales gallery aspect that took up one smallish room of the Park Avenue location has not yet been determined for this space, but there is talk of featuring publications and rotating alumni work. A grand opening for the new Gallery R will take place Thursday, January 12, 7-9:30 p.m., with an artist reception for an invitational exhibition of work by RIT’s Arts & Imaging Sciences faculty, as well as students nominated by those faculty members.

[ CONTINUING ] 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor 1570 East Ave. Through Jan 4: “Drawing From Life.” Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and weekends by appt. 770-1923. 1975 Gallery at Surface Salon, 661 South Ave., Suite B. Through Jan 28: “Happy Hour,” New Works by Amanda Clarke. Visit site for hours. 1975ish.com 2 Chic Boutique 151 Park Ave. Through Dec 30: Beyond the Racks: Group Show. Wed-Thu 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Fri 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 271-6111, 2chicboutique.com. A.R.T.S. Gallery at Aviv Café 321 East Ave. Through Dec 30: Worship Art. Fri 6-11 p.m., Sun 8 a.m.-1 p.m. 729-9916. Arts & Cultural Council Gallery 277 N Goodman St. Through Jan 27: “Another World” by Leonard Urso. Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 473-4000, artsrochester.org. Baobab Cultural Center 728 University Ave. Continuing: “Creative Hue.” Thu-Fri 5:30-9 p.m., Sat 2-4 p.m. 563-2145, thebaobab.org. Black Radish Gallery Village Gate, D Entrance, 274 N. Goodman St. Through Dec 30: Lucky Thirteen: small works by Arena Art Group. Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat 12-5 p.m. arenaartgroup.com Books Etc. 78 W. Main St., Macedon. Through Dec 30: “Where the Journey Begins,” the work of Kelly Ayer, D. Brent Walton, and Bev Owen. Wed-Sun Noon5 p.m. 474-4116, books_etc@ yahoo.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 Chait Fine Art Gallery 234 Mill St. Through Dec 30: “Across Time and Distance: a group show of old and new friends.” By appointment. 454-6730, schait@ chaitstudios.com. Community Darkroom Gallery 713 Monroe Ave. Through Jan 7: “Positive Negatives,” photographs by David Johnson. Mon 9 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Tue-Thu 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m.; Fri 12-5 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. 271-5920, geneseearts.org. Crossroads Coffee House 752 S. Goodman St. Through Dec 31: New Paintings by Rachel Dow. Mon-Fri 6 a.m.11 p.m., Sat 8 a.m.-11 p.m., Sun 8 a.m.-9 p.m. 244 6787, xroadscoffeehouse.com. Fusion Salon 333 Park Ave. Ongoing: “RetroGrade” with St. Monci and Hannah Betts. Mon & Tue 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Thu Noon-8 p.m., Fri 9a.m.-6 p.m., Sat 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 271-8120, fusionsalonnewyork.com. Gallery @ Equal=Grounds 750 South Ave. Through Dec 31: Christopher Bill “Dark Shadows.” Tue-Fri 7 a.m.-Midnight, SatSun 10 a.m.-Midnight. gallery@ equalgrounds.com.

Gallery r 100 College Ave. Through Jan 4: “Prologues.” Wed-Sun 1-5 p.m., closed Dec 25, Jan 1. galleryr.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 Gilded Square Picture Framing & Gallery 714 University Ave. Continuing: “Framed” artwork by Keith Uhrich & Michelle Michael. Tue-Fri 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 461-2808, gildedsquare.com. High Falls Fine Art Gallery 60 Browns Race. Through Jan 6: “Treasures,” “Phillip Lange: Five Continents,” “Jim Mott: ROC ART,” and “Scott Grove: 111111.” Wed-Fri 11 a.m.5:30 p.m.; Sat Noon-5:30 p.m.; Sun 1-5 p.m. 325-2030, centerathighfalls.org. Image City Photography Gallery 722 University Ave. Jan 4-22: The Magic of Light 2012.” Wed-Sat 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun noon-4 p.m. 482-1976, imagecityphotographygallery.com. International Art Acquisitions 3300 Monroe Ave. Through Dec 31: “Breastplates” series by Nancy Jurs. Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun Noon-5 p.m. 264-1440, internationalartacquisitions.com. Italian American Community Center 150 Frank Dimino Way. Through Dec 31: Gino Berardi: “From Impressionism to Abstractism.” Mon-Fri 8 a.m.-5 p.m. 594-8882, www. iaccrochester.org JGK Galleries 10 Vick Park A. Through Jan 20: Anita Lewis “Dancers.” Wed Dec 21 11 a.m.4 p.m., Thu Dec 22 1-7 p.m., closed Dec 23-26, Tue-Wed Dec 27-28 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Thu Dec 29 1-7 p.m., Fri-Sat Dec 30-31 11 a.m.-4 p.m., closed Jan 1. 734-6581, jgkgalleries.com. Joe Bean Coffee Roasters 1344 University Ave., Suite 110. Through Dec 31: Genesee Center for the Arts and Education Printing and Book Arts Members Show. Mon-Wed 7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m., Thu 7:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri 7:30 a.m.-10 p.m., Sat 9 a.m.-10 p.m., Sun 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 3195279, joebeanroasters.com. Little Theatre Café 240 East Ave. Through Jan 6: Richard Margolis. Sun 5-8 p.m. Mon-Thu 5-10 p.m.; Fri-Sat 5-11 p.m. 2580403, thelittle.org. Livingston Arts Center 4 Murray Hill 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.” | Lucy Burne Gallery: Through Feb 9: “Adult Student Show.” Wed-Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Thu until 9 p.m., $5-$12. Thu night reduced price: $6 from 5-9 p.m. 276-8900, mag. rochester.edu.

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Yes, it’s that time again. The babes are off from school for an entire week, and if you aren’t ready for them to go back by Tuesday, I salute your steely nerves. Here are a few activities and exhibits offered by local cultural institutions that will keep them busy and burn off that extra cabin-fever energy. You’re welcome. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY Rochester Museum and Science Center 657 East Ave. 2714320, rmsc.org. Holiday Science & Technology Days run 11 a.m.-4 p.m. through Friday, December 30, with local scientists and organizations offering hands-on activities. There are also about a dozen ongoing exhibits, including the new “Extreme Mammals” interactive exhibit (admission is $3-$15 and includes museum admission); several planetarium shows for all ages. Regular admission is $10-$12, and hours are MonSat 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sun 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo 2222 St. Paul Blvd. 336-7201, senecaparkzoo.org. There are no specific-to-the holiday break activities listed, but taking the kids to see the animals is always fun. Because it’s chilly out, you’ll have better luck visiting the indoor-animals, like the birds, reptiles, monkeys, and apes. The zoo is open daily 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (you may stay on grounds until 4 p.m.). Admission is $5-$8, or free to members and children age 2 and under. National Museum of Play 1 Manhattan Square. 263-2700, museumofplay.org. There’s tons to do and see year round, but this week, take the opportunity to check out “Football: The Exhibit,” which offers education and hands-on play (pictured). Included in admission: $11-$13 (additional fees for Butterfly Garden). Hours are Mon-Thu 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Fri-Sat 10 a.m.8 p.m., Sun noon-5 p.m. Note that the museum closes at 4 p.m. on Saturday. Mill Art Center & Gallery, 61 N Main St, Honeoye Falls. Through Dec 31: “Scapes II” Bracketed Exposures. | Through Feb 25: “Dry Pigments and Eggs,” paintings by Robert Wisner. MonFri & Sat 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Fri 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Free. 624-7740, millartcenter.com. Muddy Waters Geneseo 53 Main St., Geneseo. Through Jan 1: Paintings by Robert Frank Abplanalp. Mon-Fri 6:30 a.m.-7 p.m.; Wed 6:30 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sat 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sun 8 a.m.-5 p.m. 243-9111, mwcoffeehouse.com. Nan Miller Gallery 3450 Winton Place. Through Jan 3: “Beauty and Grace: The Female Form.” Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 2921430, nanmillergallery.com. Nazareth College Arts Center Gallery 4245 East Ave. Through Jan 1: Nazareth College Art Department Faculty Show. WedSun 1-8 p.m. 389-5073, naz.edu. Ock Hee’s Gallery 2 Lehigh St. Through Dec 31: “Fine Art for the Body,” works by Dana Wolf and Lynn Duggan. Thu-Sun 11

a.m.-5 p.m. 624-4730, ockhee@ frontiernet.net. Oxford Gallery 267 Oxford St. Through Jan 7: “Mid-Winter Dreams” group exhibition. Tue-Fri Noon-5 p.m; Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 271-5885, oxfordgallery.com. Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery 71 S Main St, Canandaigua. Through Jan 6: “Holiday Happenings.” MonTue 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Wed-Fri 10 a.m.-8 pm.; Sat 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun 12:30-4 p.m. 394-0030, prrgallery.com. Phelps Art Center 15 Church St., Phelps. Through Jan 7: “It’s Only a Medium” featuring Barron Naegel and Liz Brownell. ThuSat 1-4 p.m. 315-548-2095, phelpsartcenter.com. Phillips Fine Art 248 East Ave. Through Dec 29: “Peter Monacelli: Thoughtful Influences.” Tue-Fri Noon-6 p.m.; Sat Noon-5 p.m. or by appt. 232-8120. Record Archive 33 1/3 Rockwood St. Through Dec 30: “Bizarre Bazaar: Record Archive All Stars Show & Sale.” Mon-Sat 10 a.m.-9

p.m., Sun noon-5 p.m. alayna@ recordarchive.com. Rochester Contemporary Arts Center 137 East Ave. Through Jan 8: 21st Annual Members Exhibition & Celebration. Wed-Sun 1-5 p.m., Fri 1-10 p.m. 461-2222, rochestercontemporary.org. $1. 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. Through Jan 6: The Art of Joseph Whalen. Call for hours. 343-0055 x6448, genesee.edu. Rush Rhees Library Rare Books and Special Collections University of Rochester River Campus, Rush Rhees Library, Wilson Blvd. Through Jan 5: “Kenneth Patchen.” Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat 11 a.m.-3 p.m. 475-6766. Sage Art Center UR River Campus. Through August 2012: Photo exhibit by Thomas Evans, curated by Jessica Holmes. Mon-Thu 9 a.m.-11p.m., Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat-Sun 2-6 p.m. 273-5995, rochester.edu/college/ AAH/facilities/sage 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 University Gallery 90 Lomb Memorial Drive. Booth Building, 7A. Through Jan 13: “Design in Fiber.” Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sat 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 475-2404, jleugs@rit.edu. Williams Gallery 220 S Winton Rd. Through Jan 2: “From Big to Small: In Awe” by Larry Eldridge and John Solberg. MonFri 9 a.m.-2 p.m. 271-9070, rochesterunitarian.org Williams-Insalaco Gallery 34 at FLCC, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua. Through Jan 23: “A Few of Our Own” Biennial Alumni Art Exhibit. Mon-Thu 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m., Fri 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Sat-Sun noon-5 p.m. 3943500 x7369, gallery34@flcc.edu. [ CALL FOR ARTWORK ] Call for Art Work for “Play” Exhibit at High Falls Art Gallery. Deadline December 31. $15 entry fee for up to 3 submissions. For details call 325-2030 or email swinslow@frontiernet.net. Call to Artists: “Unconditional Love: Cats and Dogs.” Deadline January 16 for February show at The Shoe Factory Art Co-op exhibit. For information, visit shoefactoryarts.com.

Comedy

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, MANY VENUES MAY BE CLOSED. CALL AHEAD BEFORE HEADING OUT. [ Thursday, December 29Saturday, December 31 ] Mike Dambra. Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd, Webster, NY 14580. 671-9080, thecomedyclub.us. Thu 7:30 p.m., Fri 7:30 & 10 p.m. $9-$12. New Year’s Eve: doors 7p.m., buffet 8 p.m., show 9 p.m.,

FILM | “Even the Rain”

There are many things that transpire in the world that aren’t brought to the immediate attention of Americans. This is deliberate. We watch open reporting of uprisings and “regime changes” in Northern Africa that our politicians support, or fret over Kim Kardashian’s latest failed marriage. Meanwhile, Iceland’s economic meltdown disappeared from the news once the people rallied and refused to comply when the state told them they would be the ones to pay for their bankers’ greedy disasters. Iceland held an election and rewrote their Constitution to better suit and protect the people. But who in America was looking? And how many are aware of America’s entrenched and insidious history of tinkering in Latin and South American affairs? The corruption and greed involved here reached a new extreme in 2000, when the Bolivian upper class and military sought to allow a private U.S. corporation to privatize the public drinking water supply of Cochabamba, the third-largest city in Bolivia. But the people rose up, and Americans barely heard about it. On Wednesday, January 4, at 6:30 p.m., ROCLA (the Rochester Committee on Latin America), will host a screening of “Tambien la Lluvia” (“Even the Rain”), which refers to the attempt by the government to make it illegal for citizens to even collect rainwater. The inspiring and successful resistance movement won the people their rights to their water and produced Evo Morales, the current (and indigenous) president of Bolivia. The film will be screened at Downtown Presbyterian Church (121 N. Fitzhugh St.), and is free and open to the public. The event is wheelchair-accessible and will be looped for those with hearing loss. For more information call 381-5606. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY midnight dance party. $49.95 includes dinner, show, toast. [ Saturday, December 31 ] Geva Comedy Improv’s New Year’s Eve Mainstage Spectacular. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd. 232-4382, gevacomedyimprov.org. Shows at 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. $20. New Year’s Eve Explosion. Village Idiots Comedy Improv, 274 N Goodman St, VIP Studio D312. 797-9086, improvvip.com. 7:30, 9 & 10:30 p.m. $10. Unleashed! IMPROV New Year’s Eve Show: The 7th Year Itches. Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave. 461-2000 x235, unleashedimprov.com. 8 p.m. $12-$20. Ticket price includes a toast and hors d’oeuvres.

Dance Participation

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, MANY VENUES MAY BE CLOSED. CALL AHEAD BEFORE HEADING OUT. [ Tuesday, January 3 ] Stardust Ballroom Dance Series w/live music. Edgerton

Community Center, 41 Backus St. cityofrochester.gov/ ballroomdanceseries. 7:30 p.m. $3. See website for full line up.

Kids Events

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, MANY VENUES MAY BE CLOSED. CALL AHEAD BEFORE HEADING OUT. [ Wed., December 28 ] Family Fun in the Winter Woods. RMSC Cummings Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd, Naples. 3746160, rmsc.org. 11a m.-noon. $3 admission. Enjoy exciting activities along the Helen Gordon Trail. Spy on springtails (little creepy, crawlys!), pretend to walk in the hooves of a deer searching for food, stalk the Wild Horse Hoof Fungus and more. There is so much to discover outside in the winter! Remember to dress according to the weather conditions. Winter Wonderland Craft Program. Highland Library, 971 South Ave. 428-8206. 2 p.m. Free, register. continues on page 20

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Kids Events

rochestermainstreetarmory.com. 8 p.m. $20. Ages 21+.

[ Wednesday, December 28Thursday, December 29 ] Kids’ Culinary Camp with Bridgette Pendleton. Culinary Center at Vella, 237 Pittsford-Palmyra Road, Macedon. 421-9362 x805, vellaculinarycenter.com. 12-3 p.m. $100, register. [ Wednesday, December 28-Friday, December 30 ] Annual Holiday Science and Technology Days. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. 271-1880, rmsc. org. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Included with museum admission: $10-12. Pixar Movie Series. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 784-5300, brightonlibrary. org. Tue 2 p.m. A Bug’s Life; Wed 2 p.m. The Incredibles; Thu 2 p.m. Wall-E; Fri 1 p.m. Cars, 3 p.m. Cars 2. Free. [ Wednesday, December 28-Sunday, January 1 ] Let’s Move School-Break Week. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. 263-2700, museumofplay.org. Mon-Thu 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Fri-Sat 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Sun noon-5 p.m. Closed at 4 p.m. December 31. Included with museum admission: $1012. [ Thursday, December 29 ] Airplay Comedy and Juggling. Central Library, 115 South Ave. 428-8150. 2:30 p.m. Free. Movie: “I Am Number Four.” Henrietta Public Library, 455 Calkins Rd. 359-7092, hpl.org. 7 p.m. Free. [ Friday, December 30 ] American Red Cross Babysitter’s Training. Henrietta Public Library, 455 Calkins Rd. 359-7092, hpl.org. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $40, register. Bring a lunch, paper, pencil, and self-addressed stamped envelope. For ages 11 and up.

[ Wed., January 4 ] Snow Cheap Trail Race Series. Cobbs Hill Park at the corner of Culver Road and Norris Drive. 697-3338, fleetfeetrochester. com. Register 6:45 p.m. at Lake Riley Lodge, start time 7:15 p.m. Call for details.

Special Events SPECIAL EVENT | Trivia Day

In case you needed another holiday to celebrate, January 4 is National Trivia Day. So grab some friends and beers and settle into a nice game of Trivial Pursuit. Or head to one of these neighborhood locations, where you can increase the competitive nature, and win prizes, too. These are the recurring trivia events we found — feel free to let us know if we missed one! — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY Mondays: Adult Trivia Night. 140 Alex, 140 Alexander St. 140alex.com. 9 p.m. Free. Features sex-based questions and prizes. Mondays: Trivia Night. The Old Toad, 277 Alexander St. theoldtoad.com. 9:30 p.m. Free. Tuesdays: Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. Jeremiah’s Tavern, 1104 Monroe Ave. 461-1313, jeremiahstavern.com, geekswhodrink. com. 8 p.m. Starts January 10. Tuesdays: Trivia. Dicky’s, 791 Meigs St. 730-8310. 8 p.m. Free. Tuesday: Trivia Night. Dragonfly Tavern, 725 Park Ave. 563-6333, dragonflytavern.com. 8 p.m. Tuesdays: Trivia, PBR/PBJ Night. Lux Lounge, 666 South Ave. 232-9030, lux666.com. Free PB&J, $1 PBRs, trivia at midnight. Wednesdays: Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. Scotland Yard Pub, 187 St. Paul St. 730-5030, scotlandyardpub.com, geekswhodrink.com. 8 p.m. Starts January 11. Wednesdays: Trivia. The Park Bench Pub, 439 Monroe Ave. theparkbenchpub.com. 8 p.m. Thursdays: Trivia and All-You-Can-Eat Breaded Boneless Wings. Quaker Steak and Lube, 2205 Buffalo Rd. 697-9464. 8-10 p.m. $10.99 for all-you-can-eat wings.

[ Saturday, December 31 ] Family Board Game Day. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 784-5300, brightonlibrary. org. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Play a classic or discover a new favorite! Ages 3 and up. Family New Year’s Eve. Fair & Expo Center, 2695 East Henrietta Rd. 334-4000, fairandexpocenter.org. 6-10 p.m., fireworks at 9:30 p.m. $5, ages 2 and under free. La Befana: An Epiphany Eve Legend from Italy. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. 271-1880, rmsc.org. 1 & 2 p.m. Included with museum admission: $10-12. New Year’s Eve Family Bingo. Henrietta Public Library, 455 Calkins Rd. 359-7092, hpl.org. 2-3 p.m. Free. Everyone will win a prize! For ages 4+ and families. Noon Year’s Eve Party. Central Library, 115 South Ave. 4288150. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free.

Literary Events

[ Tuesday, January 3 ] Evening craft series for tweens: make a fleece pillow. Gates Public Library, 902 Elmgrove Rd., Gates. 247-6446. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free, register. Tweens ages 8-13.

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, MANY VENUES MAY BE CLOSED. CALL AHEAD BEFORE HEADING OUT.

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, MANY VENUES MAY BE CLOSED. CALL AHEAD BEFORE HEADING OUT. [ Thursday, December 29 ] Poetry Reading: Open Mic Poetry Night. Boulder Coffee Co. at 739 Park Ave. bouldercoffeeco.com. 8 p.m. Free. [ Monday, January 2 ] Book Group: Moving Beyond Racism Book Group. Barnes & Noble Pittsford, 3349 Monroe Ave. 288-8644, mbrbookinfo@ aol.com. 7-8:30p.m. Free. January selection: Gaza In Crisis by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe. 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.

Recreation

[ Tuesday, Friday-Saturday Through February 29 ] Winter Warrior Training Program.

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Fleet Feet Sports, 2210 Monroe Ave. 697-3338, fleetfeetrochester. com. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: distances range from 3-6 miles, Fridays at 6 p.m.: distances range from 3-4 miles, Saturdays at 8 a.m.: distances range from 4-12 miles. Call for details. [ Saturday, December 31 ] GVHC Hike. Dolomite Lodge lot, Jackson Rd., Penfield. Barb N. 377-1812, gvhchikes.org. 1 p.m. Free. Easy/moderate 4 mile hike, 1000 Acre Swamp. Wolf Creek Valley Trek. Letchworth State Park, off Rt. 390, Castile. 493-3625. 10 a.m. Free. Meet at Castile Entrance Gate, will car pool, bring lunch. 3 hours, 1.5 miles. [ Sunday, January 1 ] First Day Hike. Letchworth State Park, off Rt. 390, Castile. 4933625, nyparks.org. 1 p.m. Free, $6 for parking. GVHC Hike. Pittsford Plaza by Barnes & Nobel. Kristin 7505547, gvhchikes.org. 10:30 a.m. Free. Easy/moderate 7 mile Pittsford triangle hike with adk and rhmg. Roller Skaters Reunion 1970’s-1990’s. Main Street Armory, 900 E Main St.

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, MANY VENUES MAY BE CLOSED. CALL AHEAD BEFORE HEADING OUT. [ Through Saturday, December 31 ] Edgerton Model Railroad Room Open. Edgerton Community Center, 41 Backus St. 428-6769, edgertonmodelrailroadclub.com. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free admission. [ Through Saturday, January 7 ] The Wonder Land of Trees. Holland Land Office Museum, 131 West Main St., Batavia. 3434727, hollandlandoffice.com. Call for info. $1-$3. [ Through Sunday, January 8 ] Lamberton Conservatory Annual Holiday Poinsettia Show. Lamberton Conservatory, Highland Park, 180 Reservoir Ave. 753-7270, monroecounty. gov/parks. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $2-$3 admission, free to children age 5 and under. [ Wed., December 28 ] A community Kwanzaa celebration. David F. Gantt Community Center, 700 North St. 428-6430, cityofrochester.gov/ ganttcenter. 2-5 p.m. Free. Baseball Star Cito Culver. Webster Columbus Center, 70 Barrett Dr., Webster. 414-6726, collectorfestmonthly.com. 6-8 p.m. autographs, 5-9 p.m. show/ sale. $10 autograph session, free admission to show. Rochester BRAWL Info Meeting. The Living Room Cafe, 1118 Monroe Ave. brawlnewyork.wordpress.com, girlsrockrochester.tumblr.com. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free. Broads Regional Arm Wrestling League. Rochester Business Networking Event. Bonadio and Company, 171 Sullys Trail, Pittsford. rochester-tipclub-dec2011. eventbrite.com. 7:30-9 a.m. Free, register. [ Wednesday, December 28-Friday, December 30 ] Free Holiday Tours and Tastings. Casa Larga Vineyards, 2287 Turk Hill Rd, Fairport. 223-4210. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., tour leaves every hour on the hour. Free. Holiday Laser Show. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. 271-1880, rmsc. org. 11 a.m., 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. $4-$10. [ Wednesday, December 28-Saturday, December 31 ] Kwanzaa 2011. Multiple venues. 436-6453. Call for details. Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility) December 28, 2-5 p.m. North

THEATER | “Bathing in Bette”

This week, Cassandra Hohn brings back “Bathing in Bette,” her acclaimed tribute to the classy, sassy, and brassy Bette Midler. The one-woman show pays homage to Midler’s early performances at the Continental Baths in 1970’s New York. Hohn has played to sold-out audiences in Rochester, Orlando, Portland, and New York City, and is scheduled to make an international debut next year in Sydney. Local audiences may remember Hohn as the similarly bold Sleeping Beauty character in Downstairs Cabaret’s recent “Disenchanted: Bitches of the Kingdom.” “Bathing in Bette” takes place at Rochester’s Downstairs Cabaret Theatre Center (540 E. Main St.) Thursday, December 29, through January 8. Performance times this week are Thursday at 7 p.m., Saturday, December 31, at 7 p.m., with an additional New Year’s Eve performance at 10:15 p.m., and Sunday, January 1, at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $21, or $30-$35 for the performances on New Year’s Eve, which includes pre-show snacks prize drawings, and reserved table seating. There will be a cash bar for wine, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages and desserts, and the later performance includes a complimentary champagne toast at midnight. For more information, call 325-4370 or visit downstairscabaret.com. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY StreeUmoja (Unity) December 26, 3-6 p.m. Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave.; Kujichagulia (Self-Determination) December 27, 12-5 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave.; Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility) December 28, 2-5 p.m. North Street; Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics) December 29, 2-5 p.m. Wheatley Library, 33 Dr Samuel McCree Way Nia (Purpose) December 30, 3-6 p.m. RMSC, 657 East Ave.; Kuumba (Creativity) December 31, 5-8 p.m., Bush Mango, 34 Elton Street. [ Thursday, December 29 ] Holiday Open House. Cloverwood Senior Center, 1 Sinclair Dr., Pittsford. 248-1131, ksullivan@ cloverwood.org. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Thursday’s Trivia and All-YouCan-Eat Breaded Boneless Wings. Quaker Steak and Lube, 2205 Buffalo Rd. 697-9464. 8-10 p.m. $10.99 for all you can eat wings. Trivia is free and changes each week. [ Friday, December 30 ] Independent Film Premiere: “Empire: The Whitewater Story.” Decibel Lounge, 45 Euclid St. brianpage101@gmail.com, DCDkayaking.com. 9 p.m. doors, 9:30 p.m. screening, 11:30 p.m. music by Axis Armada and The Prickers. $20. 21+ unless guest listed with ticket purchase. Support the US Alpine Ski Team with the purchase

of Axis Armada’s album. hopealivemedia.org. Kwanzaa: Celebration of Family, Community and Culture. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. 271-1880, rmsc. org. 3-6 p.m. Included with museum admission: $10-12. [ Saturday, December 31 ] International Music Classic Memories New Year’s Eve Party. St. Mary’s Ukranian Orthodox Church, 3176 St. Paul Blvd., Irondequoit. 748-4202. 6:30 p.m. cocktails, dinner 8 p.m. $45, $25 students, $15 dance only, register. Lemoncello New Year’s Eve. Lemoncello, 137 W Commercial St, E Rochester. 385-8565. Call for details. $100 for two, RSVP. New Year’s Eve Celebration. Rochester Riverside Convention Center, 123 E Main St. 311 (outside city call 428-5990). 7-10 p.m. Free. FREE family fun! New Year’s Eve Celebration and Fire Works. Rochester Riverside Convention Center, 123 E Main St. cityofrochester.gov. 7-10 p.m. activities events inside center, 9:50-10:15 p.m. fireworks. Free. New Years Eve Celebration. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. Sat 4 p.m. to Sun 6 p.m. $269, $329, or $380 for two. New Year’s Eve Celebration. Ukrainian Cultural Center of Rochester, 1040 Jackson Rd., Webster. 598-4580. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Cocktails (Open Bar) & Hors

d’oeuvres, 7:45-9 p.m. fa.m.ily style dinner, 9:30 p.m. Zabava music by Melody Lane, 11:30 p.m. buffet Midnight Champagne Toast. $30-$50, dance only $20$25, register. New Year’s Eve Party. Italian American Community Center, 150 Frank Dimino Way. 5948888, iaccrochester.org. 6:30 p.m. Hors d’Oeuvres, 7:30 p.m. deluxe dinner, 6:30-7:30 p.m. & 9 p.m.-midnight open bar, Midnight Cha.m.pagne toast, continental breakfast, Entertainment: Souvenir Band 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $63-$68, $50 ages 6-12, RSVP. New Year’s Eve at the Radisson. Radisson Hotel, 120 E. Main St. 546-6400, rochesternewyearseve. com. Call for details. $275 per couple. Party with live music, food, drinks, and more. Toast the New Year at the Little Theatre. Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. 258-0400, thelittle.org. Music by Watkins & the Rapiers from 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Free. Enjoy complimentary pizza, light snacks and a champagne toast at midnight! Free, first-come, firstseated. [ Sunday, January 1 ] Free Spaghetti Dinner. Covenant United Methodist Church, 1124 Culver Road, Corner Parsells Avenue. 654-8115. 1-4 p.m. Free. Everyone is welcome! Rochester Civil Rights Front Meeting. Equal Grounds Coffee House, 750 South Ave. civilrightsfront.wordpress.com, rochestercrf@gmail.com. 5 p.m. Free. Grassroots organization for LGBT equality. Monday, January 2 Pervert Trivia Night. 140 Alex, 140 Alexander St. 140alex.com. 9 p.m. Free. Trivia Night. The Old Toad, 277 Alexander St. theoldtoad.com. 9:30 p.m. Free. [ Tuesday, January 3 ] Trivia. Dicky’s, 791 Meigs St. 730-8310. 8 p.m. Free.

Hamilton Bulldogs. Blue Cross Arena, 100 Exchange Blvd. 800-745-3000, ticketmaster. com. 7:35 p.m. $10-$15.

[ Monday, January 2 ] Rochester Lancers vs. Norfolk Sharx. Blue Cross Arena, 100 Exchange Blvd. 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com. 1 p.m. $10$15.

10:30 p.m. $30-$40. 325-4370, downstairscabaret.com. ShakeCo Radio Theater. Sat Dec 31. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave. 8 p.m. Pay what you will. 244-0960, muccc.org. “Tom Foolery.” Sat Dec 31. Continues Jan 5-Jan 7. Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E Main St. 7 & 10 p.m. $17-$27. 454-1260, bftix. com. “You Say Tomato, I Say Shutup.” Wed Dec 28-Dec 31.Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. Wed Dec 28 7 p.m., Fri 8 p.m., Sat 8 & 10:30 p.m. $29-$40. 325-4370, downstairscabaret. com.

Theater

Theater Auditions

[ Saturday, December 31 ] Rochester Razorsharks V. Scranton Wilkes-Barre Steamers. Blue Cross Arena, 100 Exchange Blvd. 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com. 7:05 p.m. $10-$15.

RECREATION | Roller Skater’s Reunion 1970’s-1990’s

I guess this is one of those “ask and ye shall receive” moments. Just as I was whining that there aren’t enough chances to get my old-school roller-skating fix, up pops another opportunity. On Sunday, January 1, at 8 p.m., the Main Street Armory (900 E. Main St.) will host the 2012 Roller Skaters Reunion, in memory of all the “good times at Olympic Skate, Tommy’s Skate, USA Skate, and Skate Town.” Being that I am not a native of Rochester, I have no idea what those venues were, but it seems that enough people missed them to make an event like this possible. The Armory promises good music, food, and fun, and lists the disclaimer that no pain pills are allowed. I don’t know if that’s a thing, or a derby-esque joke, but let’s play nice, m’kay? The event is 21 and over, and tickets, which cost $20, are available online at rochestermainstreetarmory.com or at The House of Guitars (645 Titus Avenue). For more info, visit the site or call 232-3221. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY [ Wed., January 4 ] Amerks Player Appearance. Henrietta Public Library, 455 Calkins Rd. 359-7092, hpl.org. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free, register. An Amerks Hockey player and the Moose will be at the library to read a story, answer questions, and sign autographs! For all ages. Film: “Tambien la Lluvia”/”Even the Rain.” Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N Fitzhugh St. interconnect_mott@frontiernet. net. 6:30 p.m. Free.

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

Sports

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, MANY VENUES MAY BE CLOSED. CALL AHEAD BEFORE HEADING OUT. [ Friday, December 30 ] Rochester Americans vs.

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, MANY VENUES MAY BE CLOSED. CALL AHEAD BEFORE HEADING OUT. “Bathing in Bette.” Through Jan 8. Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. Thu 7 p.m., Sat 7 p.m., 10:15 p.m. (New Years Eve performance), Sun 3 p.m. $21-$35. 325-4370, downstairscabaret.com. The Capitol Steps. Sat Dec 31.Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave. 6:30 & 10 p.m. $45-$75. 389-2170, boxoffice. naz.edu. Cindy Miller’s “You Ain’t Heard Nothin’ Yet.” Sat Dec 31. Downstairs Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place. 8 p.m. $30-$35. 325-4370, downstairscabaret.com. “Hollywood Sings.” Sat Dec 31Jan 1. Continues through Jan 15. Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave. Sat 6 p.m., Sun 2 p.m. $18-$26. 461-2000 x235, jcccenterstage.org. “I Do! I Do!” Sat Dec 31. Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave. 9 p.m. $18-$26. 461-2000, jcccenterstage.org. “Mindgames.” Sat Dec 31. Downstairs Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place. 5 &

[ Through Wednesday, February 8 ] Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival Call for Submissions. Online. 315-255-1305, fingerlakesmtf.com. Composers and playwrights may submit new musicals to the first edition of THE PITCH. Finalists will be notified on March 8, 2012. [ Wed., January 4 ] “Imagining Madoff.” Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave. 7 p.m. Free. 461-2000 x235, jcccenterstage. org. Roles for one woman 30+ and 2 men ages 50+. Reading scripts available through the JCC Arts Dept. [ Wednesday, January 4Thursday, January 5 ] “A Man’s Home...A Ode to Kafka’s “The Castle.”” Bread & Water Theatre, 243 Rosedale St. 8-10 p.m. Free. 271-5523, breadandwatertheatre.org. Performances dates Feb 24, 25, March 2, 3, 9, 10.

with wide range of repertory. Tenor, bass voices. Accompanist provided. Genesee Valley Orchestra and Chorus seeks new members. 223-9006, info@gvoc.org. By appointment, auditions ongoing throughout the season. Free.

Workshops

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE HOLIDAY, MANY VENUES MAY BE CLOSED. CALL AHEAD BEFORE HEADING OUT. [ Thursday, December 29 ] Holiday Wine & Dessert Pairing. New York Wine & Culinary Center, 800 S Main St., Canandaigua. 394-7070, nywcc.com. 12:301:30 p.m. $25, register. [ Saturday, December 31 ] Meditation and Healing. Gossamer Wood and Healing Center, 2235 County Road 28, Canandaigua. 442-8141, ushah@frontier.com, thebaobab.org. 1-5 p.m. $18. Winter Birds and Bird Feeders. Sterling Nature Center, Off 104 East, Sterling. 315-947-6143, snc@co.cayuga.ny.us. 1 p.m. Free, register. [ Monday, January 2 ] Home Purchase Orientation. NeighborWorks Rochester, 570 South Ave. Cheryl Scott at 3254170 x313, cscott@nwrochester. org, nwrochester.org. 6:30-8 p.m. Free, register. [ Tuesday, January 3 ] Spanish Night. Books Etc, 78 W Main St, Rt 31, Macedon. 4744116, books_etc@yahoo.com. 7-9 p.m. Free.

[ Ongoing ] Gregory Kunde Chorale seeks singers. Call 377-7568 for audition. Free. Chamber singing

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Brockport Strand 637-3310 89 Main St, Brockport ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED: 7, 8:45; also Fri-Mon 1, 3, 5; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL: 7, 9:30; also Fri-Mon 1:15, 4; SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS: 7:05, 9:30; also Fri-Mon 1, 4.

Canandaigua Theatres 396-0110 Wal-Mart Plaza, Canandaigua THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN (3D): 7, 9; also Fri-Mon 1, 3, 5; ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED: 7, 8:45; also Fri-Mon 1, 3, 5; ARTHUR CHRISTMAS: Fri-Mon 1; THE DARKEST HOUR: 7:10, 9:10; also Fri-Mon 1:10, 3:10, 5:10; THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: 7:15; also Fri-Mon 1, 4; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL: 7, 9:30; also FriMon 1:15, 4 ; THE MUPPETS: Fri-Mon12:45, 2:50, 4:50; NEW YEAR’S EVE: 7, 9:15; SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS: 710, 9:35; also Fri-Mon 1, 4; THE SITTER: 9:20; TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN 1: 7:10; also Fri-Mon 2:50, 5; WAR HORSE: 7, 9:35; also Fri-Mon 1, 4; WE BOUGHT A ZOO: 7:10, 9:30; also Fri-Mon 1:30, 4.

Cinema Theater 271-1785 957 S. Clinton St. HAPPY FEET TWO: Fri & SunThu 7, also Fri, Sun, Mon 3; TOWER HEIST: Fri & Sun-Thu 8:40; also Fri, Sun, Mon 4:40.

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From Swedish to Swedish-American [ review ] by george grella

The new movie closely follows both its literary and cinematic sources in just about every detail. Once again a skilled investigative journalist, “The Girl With the Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig), disgraced Dragon Tattoo” and impoverished by a libel action, takes on (R), directed by David Fincher a commission from an elderly industrialist, Now playing Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer). Vanger wants Blomkvist to find out the facts about the Presumably the grand international success of disappearance and apparent death of his beloved Stieg Larsson’s so-called “Millennium” trilogy and 16-year-old granddaughter some 40 years the films it inspired accounts for the appearance before; he offers him a large sum of money and of the American version of the first title, “The total access to all documents and records, with Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” It otherwise seems the added bonus of a chance to clear his name passing strange that another filmmaker would and convict the wealthy business magnate who make a faithful copy of a previous motion picture launched the libel suit. Vanger installs Blomkvist a scant two years after its initial release; the new in a cabin on the remote island that he owns, adaptation, directed by David Fincher, should logically lead to two more American duplicates of and provides him with a voluminous amount of the Swedish original, not at all a bad idea. relevant material to pursue his quest. In need of an assistant, as in the previous film Blomkvist hires Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), a computer whiz and world-class hacker who freelances for a security company, employing an array of legal and illegal methods to Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig in the American version of “The Girl With the Dragon obtain complete Tattoo.” PHOTO COURTESY COLUMBIA PICTURES

information on every area of a subject’s life. Because of some shocking incidents of abuse in her past, she also bears a heavy load of hostility that motivates her passion for revenge. When she understands that her collaboration with Blomkvist may satisfy that passion, she signs on, providing Blomkvist with much of the data he needs. The odd couple works together and separately, following a number of trails, and, much like a similar pursuit in thrillers like “Blowup” and “Blow Out,” through examination of documents, newspaper stories, and snapshots, reconstructs the events surrounding the disappearance of Vanger’s granddaughter. As they recreate the past, the people and events they uncover appear intermittently, in different lighting, at slower speeds, and fuzzier resolution, in a sort of movie within the movie. Their research leads Blomkvist into personal danger that, oddly, considering Lisbeth’s personality and inclinations, initiates a torrid sexual relationship between the reporter and the hacker. Rooney Mara plays the challenging part of Lisbeth Salander, one of the most unusual heroines — if that’s the right word — in contemporary cinema, quite as skillfully as Noomi Rapace in the original film. Her corpse-white face fixed in a constant deadpan, never looking directly at another character, she performs with an utter lack of affect and a monosyllabic conversational style that, reinforced by her technical brilliance

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It is what it is “We Bought A Zoo” (PG-13), directed by Cameron Crowe Now playing

Matt Damon in “We Bought a Zoo.”

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and dogged hostility, suggests a kind of highfunctioning autism. Extensively pierced and of course tattooed, she dresses in a combination of punk and high Gothic style, which somehow suits her image as a dark angel of vengeance, zooming through the cold Swedish night on her motorcycle, tracking down a monster. The director frequently intercuts between the separate researches of the two distinctly different investigators, showing them arriving by different routes at the same destination, their paths converging appropriately at the climactic confrontation with their quarry. With a perhaps heavier application of polish than in the first version, Fincher captures the Swedish location and atmosphere with the authenticity of a native — the sometimes bleakly beautiful landscapes, the smooth lightness of the blond Scandinavian interiors, and the undercurrent of violence that apparently runs beneath the placid surface of the nation’s public image. In accord with Larsson’s trilogy, the movie connects Swedish capitalism with corruption and indicts the nation’s past for its suspect neutrality during World War II. It equates a history of Swedish Nazism with the horror that Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander uncover, as if the tragedy they investigate within the Vanger family reveals a continuing decadence in Swedish society itself, and the ultimately degenerate line of the family symbolized a kind of insanity in the whole culture.

Once upon a time filmmaker Cameron Crowe was a Hollywood wunderkind, making his screenwriting debut with the 80’s classic “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” then going on to create films like “Say Anything...,” “Singles,” and “Jerry Maguire,” each of them a heartfelt, fully realized cinematic snapshot of a very specific time and place. 2000’s semiautobiographical “Almost Famous,” for which Crowe won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar, isn’t his most recent feature, but it may as well be since his Amenábar remake “Vanilla Sky” is probably best forgotten, and 2005’s atrocious “Elizabethtown” is watchable only after poking out all of your eyeballs and eardrums. But now, six years later and hot on the heels of Crowe’s recent Pearl Jam documentary, comes his narrative Christmas gift, “We Bought A Zoo.” Cynics will want to return it, or perhaps exchange it for something far less manipulatively corny.

In case you were wondering, “We Bought A Zoo” is about a guy who buys a zoo. The story is actually rooted in fact, based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, a journalist who moved his family from France to England because he, you know, bought a zoo. In the movie version, however, the English countryside becomes a glowing Southern California, and Benjamin Mee is played by the equally incandescent Matt Damon. As “We Bought A Zoo” opens, Damon’s Mee is dealing with life in the wake of his wife’s death, which consists of an adorable young daughter, a crabby teen son, and scores of lipsticked predators hoping to comfort the mourning Mee with their seductive casseroles. So after being relegated to the blogosphere by his editor (blink and you’ll miss Peter Riegert) and seeing his sticky-fingered son bounced from school, Mee decides it’s time for a fresh start. Forget that a writer with no obvious income probably wouldn’t buy a new house, and ignore the absurdly long time that it takes for the realtor to mention that the purchase price includes a functioning wildlife park. Mee throws himself with gusto into the adventure, while the zoo’s staff, including Scarlett Johansson as head zookeeper Kelly, eye the interloper with suspicion. The amazingly predictable script from Crowe and Aline Brosh McKenna saved you the trouble from having to write this one yourself, but you totally could have done it. Obnoxious bureaucrat threatening the future of the zoo? Check. Financial troubles with an out-of-the-blue solution? Yes. Wisdom from cute kids? Sure. Montages, montages, montages? You know it. Romance for both father and son? Of course, but not with the same female. That’s a different kind of movie.

Oh, one more: belabored metaphor for Mee’s grief in the form of an ailing tiger? Yup. But unless you’re made of spare car parts, don’t think you’re immune to Crowe’s uncanny ability to bring about the warm fuzzies. And I think he’s mostly successful at it because Damon’s Mee, like Crowe-tagonists Lloyd Dobler, Jerry Maguire, and Penny Lane before him, are ultimately guileless souls, perfectly willing to wear their hearts on their sleeves (or hoist boomboxes over their heads; basically whatever the occasion calls for). It’s nearly impossible not to succumb to such uncomplicated passion, even with arms folded and “Yeah, right” scowl firmly in place. At this stage of the game, though, “We Bought A Zoo” can’t help but feel like a stagnant move for Crowe, with the majority of film’s characters and situations coming off as frustratingly one-dimensional. Fortunately, the overqualified cast makes up for all that family-friendly simplicity by underplaying their stock roles, from the curly-topped Maggie Elizabeth Jones as Mee’s moppet daughter to busy character actor John Michael Higgins, putting the “prick” in “prickly” as the humorless USDA inspector. (And that’s underused “Almost Famous” star Patrick Fugit underneath the capuchin monkey.) Even the ubiquitous Johansson deglams a bit for her restrained performance, staying a respectful distance from the grieving widower with her pillow-lipped concern. And when the perpetually impressive Elle Fanning isn’t stealing scenes as the quirky, sunny Lily, it’s Damon’s show. He looks quite regular-guy thanks to his awful haircut and slight spread, and he understands that the best way to avoid the pitfalls of cliché is to concentrate instead on the tiny truth that’s inevitably contained therein, trusting that we’ll be too choked up not to forgive him.

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF?

Thursday, Dec. 29, 8 p.m. Edward Albee’s play about a pair of dysfunctional academics held a dark mirror to the boozy, brawling marriage of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. Broadway wunderkind Mike Nichols’s brilliant screen adaptation marked an unexpected leap forward for both the first-time film director and Oscar®-winner Taylor. (Mike Nichols, US 1966, 131 min.)

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THE THIN MAN (W.S. Van Dyke, US 1934, 93 min.) 7 p.m. AFTER THE THIN MAN (W.S. Van Dyke, US 1936, 113 min.) 9 p.m.

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Spend New Year’s Eve with two swells guaranteed to never end the night on a sober note. William Powell and Myrna Loy give their most iconic performances as Dashiell Hammett-originated husband-and-wife detective team Nick and Nora Charles. Two films, one admission price.

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Dryden Theatre 271-3361 900 East Ave *NOTE: Film times for Wed 12/28-1/4* THE PALM BEACH STORY: Wed 12/28 8; WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?: Thu 8; THE THREE STOOGES: Fri 8; THE THIN MAN/AFTER THE THIN MAN: Sat 7; SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN: Sun 1; THE GREEN RAY: Tue 8; BLACKBOARD JUNGLE: Wed 1/4 8.

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Geneseo Theatres 243-2691 Geneseo Square Mall THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN (3D): 7, 9; also Fri-Mon 1 3, 5; ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED: 7, 8:45; also Fri-Mon 1, 3, 5; THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: 7:15; also Fri-Mon 1, 4; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL: 7, 9:30; also Fri-Mon 1:15, 4; SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS: 7:10, 9:35; also Fri-Mon 1, 4; WE BOUGHT A ZOO: 7:10, 9:30; also Fri-Mon 1:30, 4.

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225-5810 176 Greece Ridge Center Dr. THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN: 3:20; also in 3D 11:10 a.m., 2, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05; ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED: 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 4:30, 7, 9:25; THE DARKEST HOUR (3D): 12:05, 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:25; THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: 12, 3:30, 7:05, 10:30; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL: 12:20, 1, 4:10, 6:45, 7:15, 9:50, 10:20; THE MUPPETS: 11:20 a.m., 2:10, 5; NEW YEAR’S EVE: 10:40; SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS: 11:50 a.m., 12:50, 3:10, 4:20, 6:40, 7:45, 9:35; THE SITTER: 7:35, 10:10; WAR

Film Previews Full film reviews available at rochestercitynewspaper.com. [ OPENING ] THE GREEN RAY (1986): From legendary writer-director Eric Rohmer comes this chatty drama about one summer in the life of a restless, lovelorn young woman. Dryden (Tue, Jan 3, 8 p.m.) THE PALM BEACH STORY (1940): Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, and Rudy Vallee star in this Preston Sturges screwball romance about a gold-digging but loving wife who divorces her struggling inventor husband in hopes of greener pastures. Dryden (Wed, Dec 28, 8 p.m.)

HORSE: 11:30 a.m., 12:10, 2:40, 3:40, 6:50, 7:20, 10, 10:35; WE BOUGHT A ZOO: 11 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15.

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4:10, 7:20; also Fri-Sun 10:10; NEW YEAR’S EVE: 3; SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS: 1:30, 4:20, 5:40, 7:10, 8:30; also Fri-Sun 10; WAR HORSE: 12:15, 3:20, 6:30; also Fri-Sun 9:35; WE BOUGHT A ZOO: 12:45, 3:30, 6:40; also Fri-Sun 9:25; YOUNG ADULT: 1:40, 3:45, 5:50, 8; also Fri-Sun 10:05.

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Movies 10 292-5840 2613 W. Henrietta Rd. COURAGEOUS: 11:25 a.m., 2:25, 5:15, 8:10; DOLPHIN TALE: 11:30 a.m., 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50; FOOTLOOSE: 11:35 a.m., 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55; THE HELP: 12, 3:10, 6:10, 9:20; THE IDES OF MARCH: 11:40 a.m., 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 10; MONEYBALL: 11:20 a.m., 2:15, 5:10, 8:05; PUSS IN BOOTS: 2:20; also in 3D 11:45 a.m., 4:30, 7, 9:15; REAL STEEL: 11:55 a.m., 2:50, 5:45, 8:35; TOWER HEIST: 11:15 a.m., 2, 4:25, 7:10, 9:35; A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS: 11:50 a.m., 2:35, 5, 7:25, 10:05.

Pittsford Cinema 383-1310 3349 Monroe Ave. THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN: 3:55; also in 3D 1:20, 6:50; also Fri-Sun in 3D 9:15; THE DESCENDANTS: 2:20, 4:55, 7:30; also Fri-Sun 9:55; also Fri-Mon 11:55 a.m.; THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: 12:25, 3:40, 7; also Fri-Sun 10:15; J. EDGAR: 12:05; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL: 1:10, SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952): Stanley Donen and star Gene Kelly co-directed this classic musical about a married pair of actors trying to weather the transition from silent film to talkies. With Debbie Reynolds, Cyd Charisse, and Rita Moreno. Dryden (Sun, Jan 1, 3 p.m.) THE THIN MAN/AFTER THE THIN MAN (1934/1936): This wildly entertaining W.S. Van Dyke double feature stars William Powell and Myrna Loy as Dashiell Hammett’s Nick and Nora Charles, who find time to solve crimes amidst all those martinis. Dryden (Sat, Dec 31, 7 p.m.) THE THREE STOOGES: This collection of shorts from moviedom’s most sadomasochistic trio includes

Webster 12 888-262-4386 2190 Empire Blvd. THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN: 12:45, 1:40, 4:20, 7:15; also Fri-Mon 11:15 a.m.; also Fri-Sun 9:45 ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED: 12, 2:15, 4:50, 7:05; also Fri-Mon 10 a.m.; also Fri-Sun 9:30; THE DARKEST HOUR: 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:30; also Fri-Mon 10:40 a.m.; also FriSun 10:40; THE DESCENDANTS: 2:30, 5:10, 7:50; also FriMon 11:30 a.m.; also FriSun 10:20; THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO: 3:15, 7:10; also Fri-Mon 11:45 a.m.; also Fri-Sun 10:30; MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: GHOST PROTOCOL: 2, 3:45, 5, 7, 8; also Fri-Mon 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m.; also Fri-Sun 10, 11; THE MUPPETS: 12:15, 3, 5:30; also Fri, Sun-Mon 9:50 a.m.; MY WEEK WITH MARILYN: 12:30, 2:45, 5:20, 7:40; also Fri-Mon 10:15 a.m.; NEW YEAR’S EVE: 8:15; also Fri-Sun 10:50; SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS: 1:30, 4:30, 7:20; also Fri-Mon 10:30 a.m.; also Fri-Sun 10:15; TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN 1: Fri-Sun 10; WAR HORSE: 1, 4:30, 7:30; also Fri-Mon 9:40 a.m.; also Fri-Sun 10:25; WE BOUGHT A ZOO: 1:50, 4:40, 7:25; also Fri-Mon 10:50 a.m.; also FriSun 10:05.

“You Natzy Spy,” purportedly the first Hollywood film to mock Hitler. Dryden (Fri, Dec 30, 8 p.m.) WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966): Five Oscars, including a Best Actress award for Elizabeth Taylor, went to Mike Nichols’ adaptation of the Edward Albee play about bitter, boozy marrieds (Taylor and thenhusband Richard Burton) who draw a young couple (George Segal and Sandy Dennis) into their misery. Dryden (Thu, Dec 29, 8 p.m.) [ CONTINUING ] THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG): Steven Spielberg’s motion-capture adaptation of the popular Belgian comic book stars Jamie Bell as our

hero, on the trail of sunken treasure that he hopes to find before the bad guy does. Featuring Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, and Simon Pegg. Canandaigua, Geneseo, Greece, Webster 12 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G): Oh, don’t even think about it. Brockport, Canandaigua, Geneseo, Greece, Webster 12 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (PG): From the Aardman Animation studios comes this holiday tale that exposes the state-of-theart technology in use at the North Pole and how Arthur, Santa’s youngest son, must use it for his own important mission. Featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, and Michael Palin. Canandaigua BREAKING DAWN: PART 1 (PG13): Finally! Let’s get this over with. Canandaigua, Webster THE DARKEST HOUR (PG-13): This sci-fi action flick takes place in Moscow, where a group of young people go up against an alien race that has attacked Earth for its power supply. Starring Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella, and Joel Kinnaman. Canandaigua, Greece, Webster THE DESCENDANTS (R): Alexander Payne’s long-awaited follow-up to 2004’s “Sideways” is this bittersweet comedy starring George Clooney as a father who travels to Hawaii to

reconnect with his daughters but instead discovers a lifechanging secret. With Matthew Lillard and Judy Greer. Little, Webster THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (R): David Fincher directs Steven Zaillian’s adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s popular novel about a journalist (Daniel Craig) investigating a missing person’s case with the help of the unpredictable young hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara). With Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgård, and Christopher Plummer. Canandaigua, Geneseo, Greece, Little, Webster HAPPY FEET TWO (PG): Elijah Wood, Pink, and Common are but three of the celebrities lending their voices to this sequel from “Mad Max” director George Miller, in which Mumbles and the rest of the penguins fight to preserve their penguiny way of life. Cinema MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - GHOST PROTOCOL (PG13): Director Brad Bird (“Ratatouille”) makes his live-action feature debut with the franchise’s fourth installment, in which Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the rest of the IMF team go rogue to clear their names after being accused of bombing the Kremlin. With Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, and Jeremy Renner. Brockport, Canandaigua, Geneseo, Greece, Webster

THE MUPPETS (PG): Jason Segel and Amy Adams lead the human contingent in the latest Muppet adventure, in which they must reunite Kermit, Miss Piggy, and the rest of the gang to prevent a heartless oil man (Chris Cooper) from drilling under the Muppet Theatre. Canandaigua, Greece, Webster MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (R): Michelle Williams plays Norma Jean herself in this adaptation of Colin Clark’s memoir about the time he spent with Monroe as Sir Laurence Olivier’s assistant during the filming of 1957’s “The Prince and The Showgirl.” Co-starring Eddie Redmayne, Kenneth Branagh, and Dame Judi Dench. Webster NEW YEAR’S EVE: From the people to blame for “Valentine’s Day” comes another holiday-themed romantic comedy with a massive acting ensemble, this one set amidst the bustle of New York City. With Halle Berry, Hilary Swank, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Robert DeNiro. Canandaigua, Greece, Webster SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13): Guy Ritchie’s sequel naturally features Robert Downey Jr. as the title sleuth and Jude Law as the long-suffering Dr. Watson, this time helping a fortune teller (the original “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” Noomi Rapace) being menaced by the malevolent Professor Moriarty

A still from “The Adventures of Tintin.” PHOTO courtesy Columbia Pictures (Jared Harris). Brockport, Canandaigua, Geneseo, Greece, Webster THE SITTER: Jonah Hill stars in the latest from David Gordon Green, a manic comedy about a college student on suspension whose job watching the kids next door one evening leads, naturally, to a pursuit through Manhattan by drug dealing psychos. Co-starring Ari Graynor and Sam Rockwell. Canandaigua, Greece TOWER HEIST (PG-13): Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, and Téa Leoni lead the cast of this action comedy from “Rush Hour” director Brett Ratner about a group of working stiffs plotting to rob the wealthy businessman (Alan Alda) who defrauded them in a Ponzi scheme. Cinema

WAR HORSE (PG-13): First a children’s novel, then a Tonywinning play, now a Steven Spielberg epic about a young Englishman who gets mixed up in WWI as he tries to reclaim a beloved horse drafted for cavalry duty. With Emily Watson, Peter Mullan, and David Thewlis. Canandaigua, Greece, Little, Webster THE WAY: Emilio Estevez directs dad Martin Sheen in this road-movie drama about a man who walks the ancient pilgrimage route on the El Camino de Santiago, stretching from France to Spain, with the remains of his son. Little WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG): The latest from Cameron Crowe is based on the true story of a widower who rebuilds his life by resurrecting a

dilapidated zoo. Starring Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church, and Elle Fanning. Canandaigua, Geneseo, Greece, Webster YOUNG ADULT (R): Director Jason Reitman and screenwriter Diablo Cody follow up their award-winning “Juno” with this dark tragicomedy about a novelist (Charlize Theron) who returns home to small-town Minnesota and tries to rekindle a romance with her high-school sweetheart (Patrick Wilson), now a happily married father. Co-starring Patton Oswalt. Little

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Crosman of Crosman Seed Company fame, nurseryman C. J. Brown, horticulturalist James Vick, and world famous George Ellwanger and Patrick Barry were but a few of the captains of Rochester’s burgeoning nursery business. But by the late 19th century, land once devoted to horticulture became prime sites for home construction. When Ellwanger and Barry subdivided their nursery, they laid out tree-lined streets that were soon home to American Foursquares and cozy cottages. Today, well-maintained houses such as 164 Crawford Street typify turn of the century charm and character, making Highland Park one of the City’s most desirable neighborhoods.

beautiful coffered ceiling. The efficient kitchen is updated with oak cabinets and lots of storage. A breakfast room, with another bay window overlooking the partially fenced backyard, and a half bath complete the first floor.

Built in 1900, the house is located on a quiet street just off of Goodman St. Built in the classic American Foursquare form, the exterior is relatively simple yet appealing. The gable roof is enhanced with third floor dormers, and window boxes and a trellis with climbing roses add to the curb appeal. A friendly front porch welcomes you inside. From the columned foyer, you notice the house’s period details—crown moldings, hardwood floors, bay windows, Craftsman staircase—all in natural wood and original to the house. To the left, the focal point of the spacious living room is a brick fireplace flanked by built-in bookcases and decorative windows. The dining room, with its sunny bay

On the second floor are three bedrooms (with closets) and an updated full bath. The hallway features an original built-in linen closet. Another smaller space, perhaps once a sleeping porch, could serve as a nursery or office. A stairway off the upstairs hall leads to the third floor storage space while the full basement below houses the laundry and more storage. Outside, the garage has room for two cars. Local stores and restaurants on Clinton and South Avenues are located within walking distance to the east and west. The exotic plants of the Lamberton Conservatory and the lush landscape of the Frederick Law Olmsted designed Highland Park are also just blocks away. The house is served by the Rochester City School District, and several houses of worship are nearby. The 1,302 square foot house is listed at $149,700. Visit rochestercityliving.com/ property/R172618 for more information or contact David Andrulis of RE/MAX First Realty at 223-4914. by Bonnie DeHollander Bonnie is a Landmark Society volunteer.

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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED To assist with praise and worship. Living Waters Fellowship is a Christ centered nondenominational church in the early stages of development. Individuals, groups, and musicians are welcomed. Call 585-957-6155.

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RGIS INVENTORY SPECIALISTS Is hiring permanent part-time help to count inventory at various local retailers.

Volunteers ARE YOU PREGNANT? Participate in a study to help you become healthier during and after pregnancy. Don’t Wait! Please visit: www.emomsroc.org ARE YOU PREGNANT? Participate in a study to help you become healthier during and after pregnancy. Don’t Wait! Please visit: www.emomsroc.org MEALS ON WHEELS Needs Winter Substitute volunteers! Do you have an hour and a smile? Deliver meals to homebound neighbors at lunchtime. Interested? Call 787-8326 to help. NEW FIBRO SUPPORT Group is seeking volunteers for all positions, long-term & short-term Call Brenda 585-341-3290 YMCA SCHOOL #12 999 South Ave. is looking for reading & math volunteers, English & Spanish. Training provided. Call Vicki 585461-4282

Days (6am to 4PM), Evenings (6pm-2am) and Anytime hours are available. Access to reliable transportation needed. Starting rate is $8.00 per hour with opportunity for raises and advancement every seven weeks.

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Online applications (only) available at RGISINV.COM Select Careers, Hourly, Auditor (Inventory Taker, Apply now. Please do not send resumes or emails. You must apply online. If you have any questions or problems with the online applications, please call the the District Office at (585) 427-2300. RGIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Legal Ads [ AMCETD, LLC ] 1: The name of the Limited Liability Company is AMCETD, LLC. 2: The Articles of Organization were filed on December 13, 2011 with the Secretary of State. 3: The Office of the LLC is in Monroe County. 4: The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company is to be served. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is: 17 Lanaray Park, Fairport, New York 14450. 5: The purpose of the business of the LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which the LLC may be organized under the Limited Liabilty Law for the State of New York. [ NOTICE ] A DIFFERENT PATH GALLERY, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/21/2011. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Corporation Service Company 80 State St. Albany, NY 12207. Registered Agent: Corporation Service Company 80 State St. Albany, NY 12207 Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Bell Company of Rochester, LLC has filed

articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on November 21, 2011. Its principal place of business is located at 125 Humphrey Road, Scottsville, New York in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to 125 Humphrey Road, Scottsville, New York 14546. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE ] BENTLEY HOLDINGS, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/10/11. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2255 Lyell Ave., Rochester, NY 14606, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ 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 ] LC Project Funding LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 11/16/11. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process

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to LLC’s principal business location at 50 Fairwood Dr. Rochester, NY 14623. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

mail a copy of any process to LLC, 217 Kingsboro Road Rochester, NY 14619. Purpose any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE ] LION ENTERPRISES 2011, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/22/11. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 29 Pond Valley Circle, Penfield, NY 14526, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

[ NOTICE ] Not.of Form. of Outside The Box Art Gallery LLC, Art. of org. filed secy. of State (SSNY) 10/13/11 Office of location: Monroe County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 6 N. Main St, Fairport NY 14450. Purpose any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Not. Of Form. Of Documents Plus LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with NY Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/12/11. County: Monroe. SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, P.O. Box 31762, Rochester , NY 14603. Purpose any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of FLAWLESS PROPERTIES, LLC, Art. of Org. filled Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/11/2009. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC. 231 Michigan Street, Rochester, NY 14606 Purpose: any lawful purpose [ NOTICE ] Not. Of Form. Of JAGOAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with State Secretary NY 11/01/11. County: Monroe. SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 155 Collenton Dr. Rochester NY 14626. Purpose any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of K & A Enterprises, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/03/11. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC. 6 Eisenberg Place, Rochester, NY 14620.Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of Royal Service I LLC, Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/22/11. Office location Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of process to 30 Mt. Hope Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Not. Of Form. Of SolarMAX LLC (Fictitious Name: SolarMAX - BRAYLO LLC). Art. Of Org. filed with NY Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/18/11. County: Monroe. SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may

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[ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license number not yet assigned for a beer license has been applied for by Timber Ridge Golf Club LLC dba Timber Ridge Golf Club, 7061 West Ridge Road Brockport, NY 14420, County of Monroe, Town of Clarkson, for a golf cart. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of Healthy Magazine Franchising, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with NY Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 9/20/2011. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 8 Ridgeview Ct. Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of ROC ACTUARIAL, LLC (the “LLC”). Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of NY (SSNY) on 11/9/11. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 103 Gregory Park, Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CALAMARI CONCESSIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/21/11. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Falzone, 4 Englewood Hill, Pittsford, NY 14534-2517. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ENCHANTED DIALYSIS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/06/11. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 601 Hawaii St., El Segundo, CA 90245. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 122072543. 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 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 NORTH STAR INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/9/11. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to princ. bus. loc.: 26 Peaceful Harbor Lane, Webster, NY 11480. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of OVBT, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/1/11. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 124 S. Main St., Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of STEPHEN AND LYNN NATAPOW FAMILY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/07/11. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 2300 Buffalo Rd., Bldg. 100D, Rochester, NY 14624. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION of 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 WINDHAM WOODS SUBDIVISION LLC (“LLC”) Art. of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (“NYSOS”) on 7/11/2011, 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: 1402 Five Mile Line Road, Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of YOU JIA, DDS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/28/11. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of PLLC: 420 Westfall Rd., Apt. 1, Rochester, NY 14620. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of 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 ERWIN’S CLEANERS, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/05/11. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/05/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Anton Gudovich, 290 Mt. Hope Ave., Ste. A, Rochester, NY 14620. DE addr. of LLC: 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of DE, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Rainbow Lot, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/17/11. Office location:

Monroe County. Princ. bus. loc.: 3445 Winton Pl., Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. LLC formed in Minnesota (MN) on 11/9/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the MN address of LLC: 12 South Sixth St., Ste. 715, Minneapolis, MN 55402. Arts. of Org. filed with MN Secy. of State, 60 Empire Drive, Ste. 100, St. Paul, MN 55183. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] STONE ROAD PROPERTIES, LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/8/11. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, Attn: Mark Roskey, 626 Stone Rd., Rochester, NY 14616. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] The Verstand Group, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/30/11. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 10 Triple Diamond Way, Webster, NY 14580, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license, number not yet assigned, for a beer & wine license has been applied for by YUMMY HOT POT & GRILL INC. dba YUMMY HOT POT & GRILL, 2411 West Henrietta Rd, Rochester, NY 14623, County of Monroe, Town of Brighton, for a restaurant. [ NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY OF FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the foreign limited liability company is Fun Services of Western New York, LLC (the “LLC”). The Application for Authority was filed with the New York Department of State (“NYDS”) on November 23, 2011. The LLC was organized with the Ohio Secretary of State (“OSOS”) on October 31, 2011. The office of the LLC is located in Monroe County. The NYDS has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and a copy of any process shall be mailed to Day Ketterer Ltd. c/o Blake R. Gerney, 5 East Main Street, Hudson, Ohio 44236. The principal office of the LLC is 4650 Allen Road, Stow, Ohio 44224. The LLC’s Articles of Organization were filed with the OSOS at 180 East Broad Street #16, Columbus, Ohio 43215. The LLC was formed for the purpose of engaging in any lawful act or activity for which a limited liability company may be formed under Section 1705.01 et seq. of the Ohio Revised Code.

Legal Ads [ 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 ] 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 ] Notice of Formation of JAM MANAGEMENT, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/4/11. Office location: Monroe County SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to principal business location: The LLC, 789 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE OF FORMATION BISEN TECH LLC ] Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 11/22/2011. Office in Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to BISEN TECH LLC, C/O JOHN S. HERBRAND, ONE CHASE SQ., SUITE 1900, ROCHESTER, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] NORTH GOODMAN RESTAURANT LLC has filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on November 3, 2011. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process will be mailed to 495 North Goodman Street, Rochester, NY 14609. Its business is to engage in any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Act. [ NOTICE OF GENFRA PROPERTIES, LLC ] GenFra Properties, LLC was filed with SSNY on 11/16/2011. Office: Monroe County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. P.O. address which SSNY shall mail any process against the LLC served upon SSNY: P.O.

Box 18041, Rochester, New York 14618. Purpose is to engage in any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION ] Notice of formation of a limited liability company. Name: AT HOME WITH WELLNESS, LLC (the Company). Articles of organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/31/11. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any such process to: c/o The Przysinda Law Firm, LLC, 10 Grove Street, Suite 2A, Pittsford, New York 14534. Purpose/character of the Company: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF SALE ] ACTION TO FORECLOSE / A MECHANICS LIEN INDEX NO. 11/10239 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE SHLOMO GABAY Plaintiff, VS. EASTWEST ENERGY CORP., EASTWEST USA CORP Defendants. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure to foreclose a mechanics lien and sale dated December 8, 2011 I will sell at public auction at the front vestibule at the County Office Building, 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New York on January 17, 2012 at 9:30 AM premises known as 342-344 Portland Avenue, Rochester, NY 14605. Said property is located in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, known and described as: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe, State of New York, known and described as Lot 14 and the westerly 38.2 feet of Lot 13 of the Konitz & Hoehn Subdivision, as filed in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 1 of Maps, Page 138. Said Lot 14 and the westerly portion of Lot 13 fronts 46.75 feet on the east side of Portland Avenue and are 158.2 feet along the south side of lrondequoit Street. Also conveying all that tract or parcel of land, beginning at a point on the easterly ROW line of Portland Avenue at the southwest corner of said Lot 14 of the Konitz & Hoehn Subdivision, said corner being the Point or Place of Beginning; thence Easterly, along said south line of Lot 14, a distance of 99.81 feet to a point; thence Southerly, parallel with said Portland Avenue, a distance of 43.39 feet to a point thence Westerly, parallel with said Lot 14, a distance of 99.81 feet to the said east line of Portland Avenue; thence Northerly, along said east line of Portland Avenue, a distance of 43.39 feet to the Point or Place of Beginning. Subject to covenants, easements or restrictions of record, if any. The property is sold subject to the following terms and

conditions as stated in the Judgment of Foreclosure filed in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on December 14, 2011 (a) Covenants, restrictions, easements and agreements of record, if any; (b) Any state of facts an accurate survey might show; (c) Existing tenancies and/or occupancies, if any; (d) Violations in any state, village, or municipal department; (e) Statutory right of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to redeem within one hundred twenty (120) days from the date of sale, if any; (f) Any and all prior mortgages, liens and encumbrances; (g) Taxes, tax liens, tax sales, water rates, sewer rents, and assessments effecting said premises set forth thereon; (h) Rights of the public and others in and to any part of the premises that lies within the bounds of any street, alley, highway, right of way or road, restrictions and easements of record and the terms of sale, together with statutory interest from October 7, 2011 to the date of sale. Property address: 342-344 Portland Avenue, Rochester, NY 14605, Tax Account #106.42-244.001 Judgment amount: $16,873.44 Upset amount: $16,873.44 plus $3.68 per day from October 7, 2011 to sale date .Dated: December 15, 2011 Dean J. Fero Esq. REFEREE 183 E. Main Street Rochester, NY 14604 Telephone: (585)3254600 David Berlowitz LLP Attorney for plaintiff 222 Council Rock Avenue Rochester, New York 14610 Telephone: (585330-4716) [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 2010-10749 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Carmine R. Salvatore; Stephanie R. Salvatore, f/k/a Stephanie R. Porcelli; ESL Federal Credit Union; Our Lady of Mercy High School; Casa Larga Vinyards, Inc.; United States of America, Internal Revenue Service; New York State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated November 30, 2011 and entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the front vestibule of the Monroe County Office Building, 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New York, County of Monroe, on January 11, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Perinton, Monroe County, New York, known and described as Lot 141 of Black Watch Hill, Section 4, as shown on a map filed in Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 183 of Maps, page 20. Said Lot is situate on the south side of Canon Ridge and is of the

same dimensions as shown on said map. Tax Account No. 179.08-3-55 Property Address: 5 Canon Ridge, Town of Perinton, New York Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $102,403.95 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: December 2011 Betsy Album, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 2011-190 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs.Glera Ellebie, Defendant. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated November 17, 2011 and entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the front vestibule of the Monroe County Office Building, 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New York, County of Monroe, on January 4, 2012 at 1:00 p.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 and State of New York, known and described as Lot #306 Heritage Farm, Section #1, as shown on a map thereof filed in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 153 of Maps, Page 60. Said Lot is of the dimensions shown on said map. Tax Acct. No. 060.17-1-25 Property Address: 34 Stonewall Court, Town of Greece, Monroe County, 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: $51,451.94 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: November 2011 James Nobles, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767

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