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City socked again
A new fee to cover the cost of indigent burials included in County Executive Maggie Brooks’s 2013 budget proposal would disproportionately affect city residents and is “offensive and reprehensible.”
Arts & Entertainment
Daily Choices: What to do on Thursday, November 6
LECTURE: Throughout the many holidays circulating during the winter season, pie remains a staple at family gatherings. Join Lift Bridge Book Shop for a discussion with writer Beth Howard about her book, “Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie.” 45 Main St., Brockport. 8 p.m. 637-2260. liftbridgebooks.com.
ART REVIEW: Piecing together what is left
In “Contemporary African American Printmakers,” the show currently on exhibit at Nazareth College Arts Center Gallery, curator Deborah Ronnen has brought together more than a dozen artists whose works speak powerfully to identity, history, and the future.
Daily Choices: What to do on Friday, December 7
SPECIAL EVENT: Brighten the holidays at City Hall’s Atrium Tree Lighting Ceremony. Mayor Richards will light the tree while Rochester City School District’s Enrico Fermi School No. 17 Chorus and the School of the Arts’ Choir perform. Visit Santa while there! Free. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 30 Church St. cityofrochester.gov.
The low-brow art low down
Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is an international figure-drawing series for adults. The Rochester chapter will host another event next week with a “holiday fetish” theme. Get the details and BYOB.
Daily Choices: What to do on Saturday, December 8 and Sunday, December 9
MUSIC: Grab all the black and yellow clothing you have in your closet and head on down to the Blue Cross Arena (One War Memorial Square, bluecrossarena.com) on Sunday for rapper Wiz Khalifa’s rescheduled performance. He’ll be bringing along Juicy J, Chevy Woods, Lola Monroe, and Berner & Tuki Carter. Music starts at 7:30 p.m., tickets run $32.50-$42.50, and all tickets from the October date will be honored.
Daily Choices: What to do on Monday, December 10
SPECIAL EVENT: Celebrate Chanukah in Pittsford for the Grand Public Menorah Lighting at 6 p.m. Carry on the tradition of Tikkun Olam (“repairing the world”) by donating canned food items that will be created into a giant menorah, then donated to the Pittsford Food Cupboard. Live music and hot chocolate. Pittsford Village Four Corners, Route 30 and S. Main St. jewishpittsford.com.
Daily Choices: What to do on Tuesday, December 11
MUSIC: Since its inception in 2003, Hit the Lights has assembled a solid fan base all over the world on the back an incessant touring schedule, sharing stages with such internationally acclaimed acts as New Found Glory and Paramore. Overall, the outfit’s infectious brand of pop-and-punk-infused indie rock has led to the release of four EPs, one split album, and three full-length studio LPs. Their most recent collection, 2012’s “Invicta,” has been met with positive critical reviews and debuted in the Billboard Top 200 upon its January release. Hit the Lights performs tonight, 6:30 p.m. at The Club at Water Street, 204 N. Water St. $10. 325-5600, waterstreetmusic.com.
Music
MUSIC INTERVIEW: Honky-tonk hero
Many consider a Bill Kirchen a guitar legend, thanks to his blistering solos in songs like “Hot Rod Lincoln.” He merely considers himself a journeyman.
Restaurants
Present day: where to shop for foodies
Is your holiday shopping list filled with hard-to-shop for food fans? Our Chow Hound profiles some local stores packed with gifts for the gourmand, griller, snacker, or aspiring chef in your life.
Movies
MOVIE REVIEW: "Anna Karenina"
The latest adaptation of Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina” is a highly stylized production – sometimes too stylized – that nonetheless evocatively captures one of literature’s great tragic romances.
MOVIE REVIEW: "Killing Them Softly"
Capitalist punishment
