WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER 3,374,995 VISITS IN ONE YEAR—65,000 VISITS A WEEK BY 985,281 VISITORS

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WPCNR Ridgeway Report. By John F. Bailey. January 13, 2004, UPDATED 3:15 A.M. E.S.T.:

 

 The Citizens’ Plan Committee failed to “bell the cat” last night.

 

At the end of two hours of a citizens meeting, no strategy on how more citizens could participate in the review of the Comprehensive Plan, who and how many persons would participate in the review of the City Comprehensive Plan, or how long it would take, and what the process would be, was decided. 

 

The Citizens’ Plan Committee Addressing a Crowd of about 180 Persons Thursday Evening at Ridgeway School. The Committee was making its case for wider citizen participation in the city Comprehensive Plan Review. Photo by WPCNR News.

 

WPCNR discovered the comprehensive plan review process was  begun without consulting the populace Wednesday evening with uncovering of the Mayor’s Plans to form his own review committee headed by Commissioner of Planning Susan Habel, who last night denied she was running the Mayor’s Committee.

 

The Leaders of the CPC: Dr. Saul Yanofsky, former Superintendent of Schools opening the meeting. John Kirkpatrick studying notes, Mike Graessle, and Robert Stackpole. Photo by WPCNR News.

 

Habel Hangs the Mayor Out to Dry.

 

Representatives of the Mayor’s Office appeared to be unmoved by the demands for wide citizen participation from the audience.

 

Ms. Habel the highest ranking city hall Commissioner in attendance, did not make a statement assuring the 150  (by WPCNR head-count) to 180 (by organizers count) that the Mayor would make an effort to include any of the audience present in the review the Mayor said he would begin Wednesday, and that their opinion would be sought.

 

Mayor Has Prior Engagement with Westchester Municipal Officers.

 

 

White Plainsians counted to be 150 persons by this reporter were still streaming in at 7:50 P.M. when Dr. Saul Yanofsky began the Citizens’ Plan Committee community meeting on the Comprehensive Plan controversy Thursday evening at Ridgeway School.

 

Luminaries from White Plains’ past history attended this meeting including former Mayors Sy Schulman and Alfred Del Vecchio, former councilpersons Mary Ann Keenan,  Dennis Power, Bill Waterman, and Robert Ruger.  The present Mayor of White Plains, Joseph Delfino did not attend.

 

The Mayor,  Ms. Habel told WPCNR  was attending, instead, a meeting of the estchester Municipal Officers Association last night in Lewisboro upcounty. The Mayor, Habel said was Chairman of that organization and that he had to attend it.

 

Asked what the critical issues were that the Municipal Officers were considering that were more important than White Plains Comprehensive Plan,  Ms. Habel said, “You’ll have to ask the Mayor.”

 

Seven hours after the Mayor had stated in a news conference that “there was nothing the city couldn’t achieve if they did not work together,”  no representative of his stood up at this meeting to assure the citizens the Mayor was interested in their input, nor invite any members of the Citizens’ Plan Committee to work with the city, or that  the city even wanted to work together with them.

 

Robert Ruger told WPCNR he felt it was terrible the Mayor had said publicly that the intent of the meeting was political, and said, “If I was the Mayor, I would have been here.”

 

What do You Think? Who Will Review the Plan?  Who’s the Chair? Who’s On it?

 

When asked if the Mayor would invite any of the members of the Citizens’ Planning Committee that staged the meeting, Habel said that was up to the Mayor.

 

When asked if she had any comment on the meeting she had just witnessed, where former Mayor Alfred Del Vecchio charged that “We’re in trouble now because decisions are being made by people who are only looking for profits  for developers,”  Habel said she had none.

 

 

Mayor Alfred Del Vecchio giving the group a history lesson on how White Plains turned into a legal and retail center in the 70s and 80s. Del Vecchio said it was time the city had to determine its own fate. Photo by WPCNR News.

When asked who she was inviting onto the Mayor’s Comprehensive Plan Review Committee since she was chairing the committee, first reported by WPCNR Wednesday evening, and confirmed by Mary Cavallero who said she was a member of that committee, Habel said she was not chairing the committee.

 

WPCNR asked if she would invite any members of the Citizens’ Planning Committee to be on the Mayor’s Committee. She said, “I don’t know. Ask the Mayor. It’s up to the Mayor.”

 

Consciousness Raised.

 

 

Two hours earlier, the meeting had begun with 10-minute presentations by three key Citizens Plan Committee members. and an hour of questions and pontifications by a series of citizens no plan or strategy was decided upon “to bell the cat.”

 

“Belling the cat” in the eyes of the Citizens’ Plan Committee would be a community group of “at least a hundred or more” White Plains citizens in the review of the Comprehensive Plan as was done in creating the original 1997 Comprehensive Plan. A 14-person committee is favored by  Mayor Delfino who announced he was forming that  Wednesday, after WPCNR had broken the story .

 

Mike Graessle, commenting afterwords, said he was very pleased at the turnout and that the committee had demonstrated that more White Plains citizens want to determine what they want to happen in the city.

 

Roach Stands Up Clarifies Legal Dispute.

 

Tom Roach, Common Council President, who responded when Dr. Yanofsky asked if any elected officials wanted to speak said that he believed the state statutes on city law give the Common Council the right to determine how the city Comprehensive Plan is reviewed, but that the Mayor’s Office believes an ordinance created in 1977 gives the Mayor the right to determine the procedure and appoint the committee. Mr. Roach was the only councilman to accept Dr. Yanofsky’s invitation to speak.

 

Tom Roach, Common Council President,  Defining the Legal Dispute Between the Mayor and the Common Council. Photo by WPCNR News.

 

 

 He said once that dispute was settled with the Mayor in the next work session, he felt the council would take a role and weigh in and involve all of  White Plains citizenry in the review of the plan, which he strongly advocated.

 

The Ordinance from 1977 Establishing the Comprehensive Plan Review at that time. Roach describes it as allowing the Mayor to appoint the committee, but points to the clause (d) calling for the Committee to be open to all residents. Photo by WPCNR News.

 

The “Open to All” Paragraph. Photo by WPCNR News.

 

Asked if his colleagues,  Robert Greer, Benjamin Boykin, Arnold Bernstein, and Rita Malmud (who was enroute from Washington, D.C.), would back him on this,  Roach said he could not speak for them. Mr. Greer does not speak to WPCNR, and Mr. Boykin and Mr. Bernstein could not be located for comment.

 

Background and Financial Concern.

 

 Land use and environmental lawyer John Kirkpatrick spoke on the legal facets of the Comprehensive Plan Review, in which he explored the effect of New York General City Law 28-A which he said gives the power to determine how a Comprehensive Plan is reviewed, including appointing boards and citizens to do so to the Common Council.

 

 Mike Graessle spoke on the what has happened in White Plains during his segment since the last Comprehensive Plan was adapted in 1997.

 

Robert Stackpole Addressing the White Plainsians. Photo by WPCNR News.

 

 Planning Board member Robert Stackpole dwelt on the current state of the city.  In Stackpole’s opinion the city is facing continued financial troubles due to the declining assessment base of commercial properties in the downtown over the last ten years. Stackpole did not offer any solutions to this problem, but as the three speakers pointed out they were here to highlight issues that needed to be considered.

 

Stackpole said the problem of commercial properties continually filing certiorari claims had lowered the city accessibles. Stackpole said that this long term trend over the last decade was leading to placing more and more burden on the home owner and taking more and more money away from the school district which they had to get from the homeowner.

 

 He said the city needed to begin cutting costs in order to shore up its bond rating. He noted that the Parking Authority Absorption  into the general fund was a one-time fix that would not be available in fiscal 2005-06, though he did not criticize the strategy, actually praising the city for doing it.

 

School District Bad News on Nordstrom’s Certiorari Makes Stackpole’s Point.

 

The announcement by the School District last  Monday evening that they are going to lose $613,469.17 in property taxes from the Nordstrom’s department store in The Westchester serves to underline Stackpole’s prediction that this trend is going to continue.  Nordstrom’s School Tax payment to the District reduction is the result of Nordstrom’s winning a certiorari proceeding against the city.

 

As a result of that proceeding, Nordstrom’s Total Accessed Value was lowered from $1.4 Million  in 2004 to $927,485 in 2005, resulting in the loss of the $613,469.17 the District has to pay back to Nordstrom this year and will not have in next year’s budget. Dr. Yanofsky actually made the point that the city does not involve the school district in negotiating certriori settlements.

 

We’ll Be Back to You.

 

Mike Graessle after the meeting was over and the majority of the mostly white, over-50 crowd with about 10 minorities represented in the audience had left the Ridgeway School Auditorium, said he was gratified by the attendance and felt the committee had succeeded in raising the conciousness of the city that  all of White Plains needed to participate in the city Comprehensive Plan Review. 

 

 In closing the meeting, Dr. Saul Yanofsky said  the committee would be back in touch with all who attended as efforts to involve more of the citizenry in the review would continue.

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WPCNR COMPREHENSIVE REPORT. By John F. Bailey. January 13, 2004: The Citizens Plan Committee is going ahead with their meeting this evening as scheduled to discuss issues that they feel should be considered in any Review of the 1997 City Comprehensive Plan. Approximately 2,000 citizens have been notified of the meeting and invited to attend. A Committee spokesperson said to his knowledge no persons on the Citizens Plan Committee have been invited to join the Mayor’s Comprehensive Plan Review Committee which was quietly being put together Wednesday, but whose members have not been announced yet.

The Agenda for the town meeting tonight at Ridgeway is as follows:

 WHERE IS WHITE PLAINS HEADED?


1. Welcome: Purpose of tonight’s meeting

2. White Plains comprehensive planning
       
    Process and trends

    Recent accomplishments

    Financial issues

3. Audience: Questions / comments

4. Summary: Suggested next steps

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WPCNR CITY HALL CIRCUIT. By John F. Bailey. January 12, 2004, Updated  January 13, 12:35 A.M.. E.S.T., 2:45 P.M. E.S.T.  WPCNR has learned from multiple sources that Mayor Joseph Delfino is inviting key players in the city to serve on his own City Comprehensive Plan Review Committee. Ted Lawson, spokesperson for City Hall, confirmed to WPCNR Thursday morning, that Commissioner of Planning Susan Habel and the Mayor were in the process of forming the committee.

Invitations to serve, according to sources familiar with the Mayor’s effort, are being made by phone calls, or are in the process of going out to Ron Jackson, the “Last Activist,” John Martin, the chair of the citywide committee that created the 1997 City Comprehensive Plan, and Isabel Villar, to name a few being invited to serve.

Meanwhile the Ad Hoc Citizens’ Plan Committee will be holding its town meeting tonight at 7:30 P.M. at Ridgeway School. Ms. Habel is expected to attend.

The Committee according to a member of the “official” review committee  will chaired by Commissioner of Planning Susan Habel, and will also include Planning Board Chairperson, Mary Cavallero, according to Tim Sheehan who spoke to Ms. Cavallero tonight and learned she was on the committee and that the committee was being formed. 

The Calls Go Out

The Mayor has taken control of the issue to review the Comprehensive Plan with what is described as a “diverse” committee of citizens from all walks of life, considerably  more representative, they feel, than the Citizens Plan Committee, which recently presented their own report on issues, they felt,  any review of the Comprehensive Plan, that is overdue by three years,  should address.

A member of the Mayor’s Committee interviewed by WPCNR, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Mayor’s Committee expects to take two months  to complete its “review” of Planning Commissioner Susan Habel’s 200-page Review of what has been achieved in the 1997 Comprehensive plan to date, and then ask for Common Council approval.

The Habel Report Presents Tuesday.

“A review” of the progress of the 1997 City Comprehensive Plan has been prepared by Commissioner of Planning Susan Habel, and will be presented to the Planning Board officially next Tuesday night. At least one member of the Planning Board is in possession of an informal copy of  the 200-page “The Habel Report” this evening. It could not be determined if all members of the Planning Board had their copies.

WPNCR’s source said a news release was supposed to announce this today. However as of 10:30 P.M. Wednesday evening, WPCNR has not received one.

The creation of the Mayor’s Comprehensive Plan Review Committee, was occurring 24 hours before the initial  Citizens Plan Committee-sponsored community meeting, Thursday evening at 7:30 P.M., at Ridgeway School,  to discuss issues any review of the plan should consider. Ms. Habel, the Planning Commissioner,  is expected to attend that meeting, but this could not be confirmed due to the lateness of the hour.

 

Mayor Seizes Control. Can He Do It? Legal Question.

WPCNR has also learned from sources requesting anonymity who have had conversation with the Council, that certain members of the Common Council are reportedly united in opposition to the Mayor calling the shots.

They  question the legality of the Mayor acting on his own to form a Committee, in effect co-opting the Council’s right to initiate and determine the process by which a comprehensive plan and its review is called for and executed–according to New York State Law.

As recorded in McKinney’s  Consolidated  Laws  of New York, General City Law, Chapter 21, 28-A (Comprehensive Plan),  obtained by WPCNR, it appears it is the Common Council’s prerogative to call for preparation and review of a city comprehensive plan. The key paragraph:

 5. Preparation. The legislative body of the city, or by resolution of such body, the planning board or a special board, may prepare a proposed comprehensive plan or amendment thereto, such board shall, by resolution, recommend such proposed plan or amendment to the legislative body of the city.

The law also  states that the legislative body (in White Plains case, The Common Council) is to determine when the Periodic Reviews are executed:

11.The legislative body of the city shall provide, as a component of such proposed comprehensive plan,the maximum intervals of which the adoptive plan  shall be reviewed.

The law involving comprehenisve planning and  amendments to it, also states that such changes and updates require environmental reviews, environmental impact statements and  reviews.

The regulation on Environmental Review requirements states:

9. Environmental Review. A city comprehensive plan, and any amendment thereto, is subject to the provisions of the state environmental quality review act under article eight of the environmental conservation law and its implementing regulations. A city comprehensive plan may be designed to also serve as, or be accompanied by, a generic environmental impact statement pursuant to the state environomental quality review act statute and regulations. No further compliance with such law is required for subsequent site specific actions that are in conformance with the conditions and thresholds established for such actions in the generic impact statement and its findings.

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WPCNR CITY ROOM. News Comment By John F. Bailey. January 10, 2004: The announcement that CBS News has fired four employees connected with the Dan Rather forged documents controversy involving President Bush’s service or lack thereof in the National Guard has been turned around to “get” Dan Rather.

 

The greatest television news organization, CBS News, perhaps the last network to attempt to report stories (on 60 Minutes, at least), exposing corruption and wrongdoing, has been deeply wounded.

 

To listen to the commentary on talk radio today, is to be sickened by the sanctimonious, holier-than-thou attitude of the snide remarks of commentators  who conveniently overlook what has to happen for a reporter to make a mistake, or misreport a story.

 

Many of Mr. Rather’s critics have never broken a story in their lives, or have the guts to go out and find one.

He was lied to. He was set up.  Mr. Rather and his producers are being torched for not doing their homework. One guest on the John R. Gambling program on WABC Radio this morning went so far as to say “They (CBS) wanted the story to be true.”

 

So what.

 

 Do the commentators like that above guest, and Mr. Gambling himself (who, of course has no news credentials and has probably never ever been lied to by a source), talk about how the forged document was brought to CBS News? No.

 

Well, to make a long story short, the persons or person who gave Rather’s guys the papers were from Texas, (former National Guard Lieutenant Bill Burkett)

 

(What a coincidence! Of all places who passed the forged documents to Mr. Rather’s producer in the first place? Were they Bush operatives in disguise? Mr. Burkett refused to identify them. Was this a Set-up of the news producers in the best tradition of Watergate?) Texas Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes also spoke out about Mr. Bush’s favorable treatment.

 

Now, does the Bush campaign get any flack (for possibly, just maybe creating a false news story and discrediting a major news organization in a set-up disgrace)?

 

No, the media hyenas who are drooling over the mortally wounded Dan Rather and vilifying him for circulating a false news story, ignore the fact that the story was planted – perhaps even by the Bush campaign itself. I mean who would have those documents in their possession — perhaps the President himself.  (Now, there is outright specualtion, folks.)

 

The hyenas on talk radio would not know a story unless it was told to them. Since when do any talk show commentators get on a phone, or a plane go down and talk to people, and hear anything but other people’s opinions.

 

The Secretary’s Story: Ignored.

 

Let us remember what  the secretary at Bush’s National Guard unit  Marion Carr Knox, on CBS-TV said, when she announced she did not remember typing the document in question, she also said:

“I know that I didn’t type them,” Knox said of the Killian memos. “However, the information in there is correct,” she said, adding that Killian and the other officers would “snicker about what [Bush] was getting away with.”

Let those words sink in: “snicker about what (Bush) was getting away with.”

Rather said he was “relieved and pleased” by Knox’s comments that the disputed memos reflected Killian’s view of the favorable treatment that Bush received in the military unit. But he said, “I take very seriously her belief that the documents are not authentic.”

So the story about Bush getting preferential treatment is really true. But was sabotaged by the use of the alleged phoney documents, that’s the way I read her statements.

Rather, the messenger, and a fighter to the end, pointed this out to his fellow media Judases, saying “Instead of asking President Bush and his staff questions about what is true and not true about the president’s military service, they ask me questions: ‘How do you know this and that about the documents?’ ”

A Lie a Day in the City, a Lie an Hour Out of Washington.

Let me tell you news fans, I am lied to every day by some of the nicest (and nastiest) people. It is a fact of news life. 

I was once given a supposed “scoop” from city hall about collusion between a store tenant and a major developer in town to kill a major project. The Mayor’s Office of this city claimed to have telephone records showing phone calls between a leading attorney for the developer and this store tenant, prior to the store tenant’s following a law suit which conveniently derailed a project.

 I asked to see those telephone records but The Mayor’s Office would not show them to me. So I did not run the story. When I ran a watered down version of it, not mentioning the phone records, City Hall hurriedly advised me to remove the story because “I might be sued.”

Rather’s producers might have asked for the original documents, but the original documents, too, could have been faked.

The Coverup and Lie. How they work. Half the Truth and Anything But the Whole Truth.

White Plains City Hall denied up and down for ten months there was any problem with the Main Street sewer, then BINGO, it all unraveled, or “burst” when the mayor’s office slipped up. They forgot to check the Department of Public Works memos on the sewer, and a memo from Joseph Nicoletti surfaced revealing Nicoletti’s worry of “catastrophic consequences” if City Center apartments were hooked up to the Main Street sewer as is, and the fact that it was repressed from the Common Council. Ten months of lying about the sewer let loose a very odoriferous media emission from the Mayor’s Office, and resulted, very quietly, in the okaying of the “Nicoletti Bypass.”

On the national level, this happens a lot more. The book Into the Buzzsaw is a vivid account of how major news stories have been covered up and suppressed by the government, including TWA 800 and verifiable evidence that flight was taken out by a missile, on a national level. I firmly suggest you read it if you do not believe what I am saying.

Overlooking the Knox Remarks.

What is conveniently overlooked in this flap over “Dan and the Producers”  is Mrs. Knox’s statement that Killian and the other officers were laughing at what Bush was getting away with. Legitimate exposure of President Bush’s soft time in the National Guard is conveniently deflected with the forged document exposure, as evidence that Dan was just out to get Bush, and that becomes the story, instead of what President Bush actually did. The strategy: deflect and accuse.

Well Mr. Bush is very gettable and vulnerable. So how do you deflect that? You lie. Lying, obfuscation, and suppression of key events by the government  and media goes on every day, and media are talked into not covering stories. They are also talked into covering stories the government wants covered.

The following are stories about White Plains and Westchester County that were not reported, except by the White Plains CitizeNetReporter, you might ask yourself why they were not reported by the media in the area:

1.      The Main Street Sewer Controversy.

2.      The Elena Sassower Jailing for Disruption of Congress.

3.       The New York Presbyterian Hospital Failure to Appoint a Director of Proton Therapy to date.

4.       The Chaotic evacuation of  over a thousand people from the City Center Movies on a Saturday Night and lack of a fire evacuation plan.

5.      The job hunt of the city’s former executive officer.

6.       The overbilling of day care costs by Samaritan House to HUD, two years ago.

7.      The City Hall “Orchestration”  allowing Jeffrey Rosenstock and Tony Stimac to qualify to bid to run the White Plains Performing Arts Center.

8.      The state of White Plains finances at the close of 2004.

9.  The alleged shortfall in sales tax reimbursement to Yonkers, New Rochelle and White Plains, and the fact that the sales tax is not audited according to city finance officers.

10.  The success or lack thereof of the White Plains Performing Arts Center.

11.  The reluctance of Samaritan House to unveil its books to the Department of Social Services, as well as salaries and rents they charge the county, and the equal reticence of Westchester County to answer pointed questions about how much is spent on homeless shelters, the traffic through the shelters.

12. The new West Side Plan for White Plains.

13. The lining of the Main Street sewer.

And that is in just two years, ladies and gentlemen.

 

Why weren’t these stories covered? Because they were embarrassing, some to the county, some to the city.

When reporters get on to something, they are initially discredited, characterized as “stupid” “uninformed” and “out to make a name for themselves,” or killed (not literally, but figuratively, as has been done to Dan Rather), and sometimes actually killed or hurt (Karen Silkwood comes to mind, as does Victor Reisel.)

Who will be Mr. Dan Rather’s replacement? Well, I guarantee you he or she will not be a reporter.

Old reporters never die, they just are not used or wanted.  Because they are dangerous people.

 

 

 

 

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WPCNR SCREEN GEMS. From National Amusements. January 7, 2004: White Noise, the AOL movie plug of the week, starring Michael Keaton in a comeback attempt,  comes to the City Center De Lux in downtown White Plains this weekend. The shows and times with the usual lowdown on the new flick:

WHITE NOISE — Michael Keaton stars in this supernatural thriller about a man who is contacted from beyond the grave by his murdered wife. Rated PG-13

Friday, January 07, 2005  
Meet the Fockers (PG-13) –1:55; 2:40; 4:35; 5:10; 7:15; 9:50; 10:20 pm; 12:30 am. ;
Meet the Fockers **(PG-13) –1:25; 4:05; 6:45; 9:20 pm; 12:00 am. ;
The Aviator (PG-13) –12:00; 3:30; 7:00; 10:30 pm. ;
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (PG) –12:00; 2:35; 5:00; 7:30; 10:05 pm; 12:25 am. ;
Closer (R) –12:30; 3:10; 5:30; 7:55; 10:25 pm; 12:45 am. ;
Ocean’s Twelve (PG-13) –12:35; 3:35; 6:50; 9:45 pm; 12:20 am. ;
Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience (G) –12:40; 2:55; 5:15; 7:40; 10:00 pm; 12:10 am. ;
The Phantom of the Opera (PG-13) –12:05; 3:15; 6:30; 9:40 pm; 12:35 am. ;
Fat Albert (PG) –12:35; 3:00; 5:25; 7:50; 10:15 pm; 12:40 am. ;
White Noise (PG-13) –12:15; 2:40; 5:05; 7:25; 9:55 pm; 12:15 am. ;
Million Dollar Baby (PG-13) –1:00; 4:00; 6:55; 9:55 pm; 12:40 am. ;
Spanglish (PG-13) –12:45; 3:45; 6:40; 9:30 pm; 12:20 am. ;
Darkness (PG-13) –12:25; 2:30; 4:35; 7:05; 9:15; 11:25 pm. ;
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (R) –1:10; 3:50; 6:25; 9:10; 11:45 pm. ;
Beyond the Sea (PG-13) –12:00; 7:45 pm. ;

Saturday, January 08, 2005  
Beyond the Sea (PG-13) –12:00; 7:45 pm. ;
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (R) –1:10; 3:50; 6:25; 9:10; 11:45 pm. ;
Meet the Fockers **(PG-13) –1:25; 4:05; 6:45; 9:20 pm; 12:00 am. ;
Darkness (PG-13) –12:25; 2:30; 4:35; 7:05; 9:15; 11:25 pm. ;
White Noise (PG-13) –12:15; 2:40; 5:05; 7:25; 9:55 pm; 12:15 am. ;
Spanglish (PG-13) –12:45; 3:45; 6:40; 9:30 pm; 12:20 am. ;
Million Dollar Baby (PG-13) –1:00; 4:00; 6:55; 9:55 pm; 12:40 am. ;
Coach Carter (PG-13) –7:30 pm. ;
Fat Albert (PG) –12:35; 3:00; 5:25; 7:50; 10:15 pm; 12:40 am. ;
The Phantom of the Opera (PG-13) –12:05; 3:15; 6:30; 9:40 pm; 12:35 am. ;
Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience (G) –12:40; 2:55; 5:15; 7:40; 10:00 pm; 12:10 am. ;
Closer (R) –12:30; 3:10; 5:30; 7:55; 10:25 pm; 12:45 am. ;
Ocean’s Twelve (PG-13) –12:35; 3:35; 6:50; 9:45 pm; 12:20 am. ;
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (PG) –12:00; 2:35; 5:00; 10:05 pm; 12:25 am. ;
The Aviator (PG-13) –12:00; 3:30; 7:00; 10:30 pm. ;
Meet the Fockers (PG-13) –1:55; 2:40; 4:35; 5:10; 7:15; 9:50; 10:20 pm; 12:30 am. ;

Sunday, January 09, 2005  
Meet the Fockers (PG-13) –1:55; 2:40; 4:35; 5:10; 7:15; 9:50; 10:20 pm. ;
Meet the Fockers **(PG-13) –1:25; 4:05; 6:45; 9:20 pm. ;
The Aviator (PG-13) –1:00; 4:30; 8:00 pm. ;
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (PG) –12:00; 2:35; 5:00; 7:30; 10:05 pm. ;
Ocean’s Twelve (PG-13) –12:35; 3:35; 6:50; 9:45 pm. ;
Closer (R) –12:30; 3:10; 5:30; 7:55; 10:25 pm. ;
Polar Express: An IMAX 3D Experience (G) –12:40; 2:55; 5:15; 7:40; 10:00 pm. ;
Million Dollar Baby (PG-13) –1:00; 4:00; 6:55; 9:55 pm. ;
The Phantom of the Opera (PG-13) –12:05; 3:15; 6:30; 9:40 pm. ;
Fat Albert (PG) –12:35; 3:00; 5:25; 7:50; 10:15 pm. ;
Spanglish (PG-13) –12:45; 3:45; 6:40; 9:30 pm. ;
White Noise (PG-13) –12:15; 2:40; 5:05;