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Fooled once… Cuomo and taxes
I just finished reading Jeremy Moule’s excellent article, “Cuomo’s Blame Game” (News, February 15). I am left with a strange disconnect between this report on Cuomo’s autocratic governorship and a suspicion that the author and most of City’s staff voted for him twice and probably will again. Appeasing a bully never works. Second and third-time Cuomo voters should not be surprised when he steals their lunch money. JIM HARTE
A better way to reduce taxes
The combatants in the battle over blame for high property taxes – the governor and local governments – do have something in common. (“Cuomo’s Blame Game,” February 15). They’re both failing to address a key cause: inefficient land use and development. Surely, shared services and equipment can save money for governments and taxpayers. But can sharing snowplows be a viable solution when there is more pavement to plow? Can local governments expect to reduce taxes when much of the development they allow and encourage demands more public infrastructure (roads, pipes) and service expenditures (schools, police, fire) than it generates in tax revenue? 2 CITY
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These rhetorical questions are not to say that all development is net loss. But governments unwittingly allow a lot of it – such as many kinds of housing development – and then have to raise taxes to try to cover the eventual deficits. Ironically, many municipalities try to develop their way out of these development-related problems with more of the same net-loss stuff. The governor is rightly pushing local government consolidation to cut costs and taxes, but he isn’t talking nearly enough about the massive inefficiency of municipalities doing land use and economic development planning in competition rather than in coordination with one another. When one town opens a big-box retail store in a region that doesn’t have any more overall shoppers, a store (or more) in a nearby town – or within the same one – is likely to close. Is this really “economic development”? In the absence of intermunicipal and regional development planning, we get redundancy, inefficiency, higher costs to local governments, and – you guessed it – higher property taxes. A few wise governments have hired fiscal impact planners to scrutinize land use policies and development proposals to ensure that development creates more revenues than it costs over time –without sacrificing affordability and equity. Lower public costs and thus lower taxes can happen only when local governments coordinate rather than compete, and when they overhaul land use plans and policies that produce costly development patterns. While this makes it sound like the burden is entirely on local governments, the state can do much more to incentivize and even (gasp!) require “smart growth” and regional planning. EVAN LOWENSTEIN, ROCHESTER
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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER
Trump’s fact-free nation and democracy’s future Being married to an optimist has a lot of advantages. And so as the news erupts from Washington, tweet by tweet – as press conferences and press briefings and Mar-a-Lago cellphone videos ramp up my anxiety – I cling to the hope that my husband is right. That the Constitution will hold, our checks-and-balances system will work, and Congress and the courts will prevent the various disasters I imagine heading our way. I’m not worried about terrorism or some other out-of-the-blue catastrophic event. I’m worried about a slow leakage of our democracy, an inch-by-inch, protection-by-protection, civil-right-by-civil-right erosion of the laws and principles this country has stood for. Congress should act as a barrier. But conservatives are in charge there, and many of them, apparently, are happy to go along with the president. It’s early days, of course, but few conservatives have spoken out about the qualifications of Trump’s aides and cabinet choices, his refusal to cut ties to his businesses, his glorification of Vladimir Putin, and his offensive remarks about our allies. A fair number of members of Congress seem afraid of Trump. Some seem afraid of their conservative constituents. And Trump continues to have a good bit of public support. Millions of people overlooked his bragging about his sexual-assault prowess, his nonsensical claims about what he could achieve, and his own lack of qualifications for office. And those voters don’t seem to be abandoning him yet. He’s also putting Fox, Breitbart, and other friendly media to work for him – or maybe they’re working in concert; it’s hard to tell. Either way, his allies in the fringe media are helping him spread his deceptions. And they’re helping him keep Americans afraid, afraid of terrorists, of gangs, of immigrants. People believe him as he insists we’re at great risk from immigrants and visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, when terrorist attacks in the US weren’t by people from those countries. They believe his insistence that the murder rate is the highest it’s been in nearly 50 years, when the opposite is true. A lot of media are reporting the facts about all this, but we’ve moved into a time when facts don’t matter. And we have a president who is successfully turning the public’s distrust of the media into a personal weapon. Politifact, citing several research organizations that keep track of gun violence, says that between 2005 and 2015, more than 300,000 Americans were killed in this country by guns. Almost none
To some Americans, facts don’t matter. And the president is turning the public’s distrust of the media into a personal weapon.” were related to terrorism. (Nearly half of America’s gun deaths, in fact, are suicides.) From 2005 to 2015, there were only about 70 deaths from terrorist attacks, including the Boston Marathon bombings. And some of those attacks were committed by Americans like white supremacist Dylan Roof who had their own American-made agenda. And yet a Chapman University survey found that two of Americans’ five biggest fears are a terrorist attack on the country and being a victim of terrorism. “This is no longer a country in which everybody experiences the same reality,” the Times’ David Brooks wrote recently. Maybe, even with a strong conservative majority, the Supreme Court will help provide the safeguards we need. Maybe other members of Congress will join Senator John McCain in speaking out. (Recommended reading: New York Magazine’s excellent article on McCain and his thoughts about Trump.) So far, though, the signs aren’t good. And as dictators have found in the past, Donald Trump is learning that he can continue to shout down the facts and ramp up baseless fear. That in a wave of blind, heated nationalism, he can erode the rights of his citizens, drive away long-time allies, and cozy up to dictators, and the crowds in convention halls and airplane hangars will cheer him on. We’ve seen this kind of thing before. Different countries, different circumstances, but we’ve seen this kind of thing before. rochestercitynewspaper.com
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Plaza proposal trudges along
The Daniele Family Companies gave Brighton officials a revised environmental review document for its proposed Whole Foods Plaza project on Monroe Avenue. The Town Board is reviewing the project, which has been controversial because of its potential to worsen existing traffic congestion problems in the area. The board voted to send the submission to its consultant, Stantec, so it could help officials determine whether the document is complete enough for public review; the board had rejected the previous version on the grounds that it wasn’t.
Victor attack under review
Three men have been charged with assault after being involved in an attack on two men outside the Village Inn in Victor. An Ontario County Grand Jury is considering whether the attack, which occurred in early February, should be elevated to a hate crime, since at least one of the attackers used gay slurs. The attack has sparked concerns in the area’s LGBTQ community because it follows
multiple incidents of gay flags being damaged or taken from city homes.
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Water ad leaves bad taste
The union representing Monroe County Water Authority employees criticized the authority for running a TV and radio ad touting its high customer-satisfaction ratings – found in a JD Power survey – while its members have been without a contract since 2014. The authority spent $60,000 to buy ad space and paid JD Power $45,000 for licensing fees, according to a WHEC report. MCWA’s director told WHEC the ads are meant to reassure the public that its water is safe and to publicize an asset that’s attractive to business.
Deputies reject county contract
Members of the Monroe County jail deputies union voted down a tentative contract with the county, 414 to 3. The members of the Monroe County Deputy Sheriff’s Association have been working without a contract since the end of 2012, and dozens of deputies have retired or resigned.
Wilmorite wants to redevelop 25 Schoen Place in the Village of Pittsford. The property is located in the village’s popular canalfront business district. PHOTO BY KEVIN FULLER
DEVELOPMENT | BY JEREMY MOULE
Developer eyes gap on Pittsford waterfront The Village of Pittsford’s Schoen Place has been a longstanding success story of Erie Canal shorefront redevelopment. The area morphed from a collection of aging and unused mills, barns, and warehouses to a thriving business district that draws visitors from across the region. But Schoen Place’s transformation isn’t complete. It has an “unfinished piece,” as Mayor Bob Corby phrases it: the former Hutchinson-Zornow bean mill. The property at 25 Schoen Place, roughly between the Pittsford Flour Mill and Northfield Common, has a dormant warehouse building
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and barns along with a small office building. And Wilmorite wants to redevelop that property and a few acres of land behind it. The developer wants to build office and retail space, as well as an 80-room boutique hotel with a spa and restaurant, Corby says. Wilmorite has submitted a conceptual proposal to the village and a formal application is forthcoming, he says. Company executives couldn’t be reached last week. Corby says any project at the Hutchinson-Zornow site will have to be walkable and it’ll have to respect the village’s historic character.
Wilmorite’s initial submission isn’t clear about whether the company plans to reuse the existing 100-yearold, canal-era structures, but village officials want the developer to preserve and rehabilitate them. “In many places, buildings like this are becoming increasingly rare,” Corby says. He cites the neighboring Pittsford Flour Mill building as an example where creative reuse of buildings added to the character of Schoen Place. The developer rehabbed a large, unused mill and storage building and converted the adjacent concrete silos to office space.
EDUCATION | BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN
Last week, City Council approved Mayor Lovely Warren’s resolution updating Rochester’s Sanctuary City status. But that doesn’t provide protection for immigrants who interact with county government – county social services staff, for instance, or sheriff’s deputies. And county officials see sanctuary status as a risk.
IMMIGRATION | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER
Rochester acts to protect immigrants Rochester officials and area activists are responding with concern to the Trump administration’s immigration plan. The deportations are likely to have a serious impact in Upstate New York, with immigrants working in agriculture and service jobs and cities housing refugees from countries the administration is targeting. Last week, City Council approved Mayor Lovely Warren’s resolution updating Rochester’s Sanctuary City status. The resolution states that city personnel won’t inquire about immigration status or citizenship when providing services or benefits unless specifically required to do so by law. Rochester police officers won’t help Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents enforce the new Trump orders by, for instance, asking people about their immigration status unless it’s a necessary part of a criminal-activity investigation. They won’t stop and question people simply because they appear to be immigrants. But that doesn’t help immigrants who interact with county government – county social services staff, for instance, or sheriff’s deputies. Democratic County Legislator Mark Muoio wants the county to declare itself a sanctuary county, but that doesn’t look likely. County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo believes
that would be “gambling with the safety and well being of county residents,” county communications director Brett T. Walsh said in an email statement late last week. “Monroe County receives $137 million in federal funding for things such as Family Assistance, Child Protective Services, preschool special education, road and bridge maintenance along with funding for our Office of Emergency Management,” Walsh said. Losing that money could hurt residents who rely on those services, he said. Federal funding could indeed be at risk; President Trump has threatened to withhold funds from Sanctuary Cities. The city’s current fiscal-year budget includes $5.6 million in federal funds, provided specifically for Community Development Block Grants, transportation, federal nutrition programs, and other efforts, Warren spokesperson James Smith said late last week. But city officials are convinced that the federal government has no basis for withholding the money. Courts have ruled that local governments can’t be required to perform functions outside of their legal responsibilities, Smith said. To withhold funds that local governments are entitled to, the federal government would have to show that “either you’re not doing something you’re
At last week’s City Council meeting, Sandra Boehlert was among some 20 speakers urging passage of new Sanctuary City legislation. PHOTO BY KEVIN FULLER
obliged to do or you’re doing something illegal,” Smith said. “Neither is the case.” “Trump has done something positive, in one sense,” said John Ghertner of the Greater Rochester Coalition for Immigration Justice. “He’s energized a lot of people to get involved.” Local activists are “going to restart our rapid response and immigration defense teams,” Ghertner said. “If someone is pulled over, we’re going to document what is happening with video and photography. We’re going to try help in every way we can.” Kevin Fuller, Jeremy Moule, and Tim Macaluso contributed to this article.
New purpose for carousel panel A controversial panel that was once part of the historic Dentzel carousel at Ontario Beach Park is now part of a travelling multimedia exhibit. The exhibit was unveiled by Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, the Rochester Museum and Science Center, and the Central Church of Christ on Monday. The panel depicts a caricature of an African-American child, with exaggerated features, being terrorized by a rooster — an example of pickaninny art. Many people found the panel offensive and it was removed from the carousel last year. A temporary panel is in place while community input is sought on what should permanently replace the pickaninny panel, RMSC President Kate Bennett says. The new exhibit is on display in Central Church of Christ, 101 South Plymouth Avenue, until mid-May. Its stops after that have yet to be determined, but eventually, the exhibit will be housed at RMSC on a semipermanent basis. “It’s created as a travelling exhibit, so when the community asks for it, we will definitely make it possible with the city’s help to take it out into the community,” Bennett says. The exhibit is housed inside a wood cabinet with the panel, a monitor that shows video segments, and signs that talk about racism, history, and pickaninny art.
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Rochester Reads Kick-off Scavenger Hunt! Writers & Books 740 University Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Shamira Nicolas. Using Numbers to Make Art. Nu Movement 716 University Ave. 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Studio 236 features the fine art of Constance Mauro Constance Mauro Studio 1115 East Main St., Hungerford Building 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Sutherland at The 1570 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor 1570 East Avenue 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM The Land(ing) Gallery at the Art & Music Library 755 Library Rd 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM The Slow TV Crafting Cycle Artist Talk and Land Form Visual Studies Workshop Gallery 31 Prince St. 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Dr. Ahmed Ghazi holds a realistic looking and feeling 3D-printed kidney with a cancerous tumor. PHOTO BY KEVIN FULLER
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Doctors Ahmed Ghazi and Jonathan Stone have the kind of personal synergy that lets them finish each other’s sentences. Their enthusiasm about their research, which could change the way surgeons are trained, is impossible to ignore. For the last three years, Ghazi, assistant professor in the University of Rochester’s Department of Urology, and Stone, a neurosurgery resident who also has a degree in biomedical engineering, have been crafting artificial human organs. In a cramped laboratory where blood-red, blue, and fleshy pink stains have streamed down counters and over some expensive-looking equipment, the two show off kidneys, a liver, a gall bladder, part of a brain, and a boney section of spine. The organs are not for transplant; they’re used for training surgeons. Thanks to a hydrogel that mimics MARCH 1-7, 2017
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the exact consistency of body fluids, they look and feel like the real thing. They even bleed when they’re cut. Ghazi and Stone have been creating 3-D printed models of real organs, and they’re using them to simulate surgery. They call their research a Simulated Inanimate Model for Physical Learning Experience, or SIMPLE. Though they began much of their surgical training on pig parts and cadavers, surgery has changed radically in the last 20 years due to technology, they say. And the number of procedures being performed is increasing as well, which has put greater focus on precision and better surgical outcomes.
Ghazi and Stone wanted to determine whether training surgeons on a simulated model improves patient outcomes. Can a new surgeon gain a better sense of what may happen in the operating room through simulation? Can seasoned surgeons up their game? Can overall hospital care improve? A lot of medical research is focused on gene therapy right now, which is incredibly important, says Ghazi. But in many instances, translating that work to a vaccine or a cure may be years away and hugely expensive, he says. And Ghazi and Stone are looking for more immediate results by paying closer attention to skill, he says. Their research couldn’t be timelier, considering that roughly 234 million major surgeries are performed worldwide yearly, according to US News and Report World. Surgery rates are higher in more developed and wealthier countries, but the rates are rapidly increasing in developing countries. And so are complications after surgery. A study recently reported in the New England Journal of Medicine examined surgical readmission rates and quality of hospital care, issues that are critical to clinicians, administrators, and policy makers. Using readmission rates to judge the quality of a hospital is controversial, since studies show that hospitals that treat the poorest and sickest populations are frequently those with higher readmissions. But the NEJM study makes a distinction when it comes to surgery, arguing that readmission following surgery could mean something else is happening, since most major surgery is planned and is performed when the patient is in stable condition. “Surgical patients are more likely to return as a consequence of complications arising from the surgery,” the study’s authors say. Ghazi and Stone had a strong hunch that
many complications that occur during and after surgery could be avoided through training that more realistically replicates surgery. In an example of how the process begins, Stone refers to the case of a patient who was diagnosed with kidney cancer. A CT scan on a computer screen shows the ominous-looking mass growing on the kidney. “This case was a high-risk patient, because they have a bleeding disorder,” Stone says. “Some doctors might decide to just take the kidney out. Don’t risk the blood loss. Dr. Ghazi wanted to try a minimally invasive approach using a robot, which would spare this guy a big surgery and reduce his length of stay.” Ghazi and Stone could speculate about the location of the blood vessel feeding the tumor based on the scan, but by creating a 3-D model of that patient’s kidney, Ghazi could better understand what the actual surgery would involve. Converting the patient’s scan into an exact copy of that organ so that it looks, feels, and bleeds just like the patient’s allowed Ghazi to practice before the actual surgery, Stone says. “It’s a technical exercise,” he says. Ghazi tells his students that performing every surgery is like opening Pandora’s box.
“It takes a very long time to train to become a surgeon, because anything can happen, and what you’re doing is learning how to react in the operating room,” Ghazi says. “By offering preemptive preparation, your need to react is lessened because you’re expecting what will happen.” Ghazi holds the kidney and points to the tumor he removed. It’s large, and Ghazi expected a lot of bleeding. He could also see that certain structures of the kidney would be injured and need to be repaired. “To get to the tumor, you have to dig through this, and this is a hornet’s nest,” he says, pointing to a cavity in the reddishbrown organ. Ghazi and Stone don’t just create a single organ, which is another distinction of their work. They create the surrounding organs, too. Zero risk is involved; even the materials used are non-toxic and biodegradable. In another example, Ghazi had to remove a large kidney stone. Stones the size of this one, which was starting to fill the whole kidney, are sometimes referred to as stag-horn masses because of their size and branched shape. They’re difficult to remove and usually involving long hospital stays. By recreating the patient’s kidney as well as the vertebrae and rib cage, Ghazi was able to better target the stone. “What we’re doing is recreating the entire experience: all of the organs, all of the steps of the procedure, using the same exact instruments, and within the same environment where you’ll be operating,” Ghazi says. The researchers’ initial results from SIMPLE
have been exceptional, Ghazi says. “What we’re doing right now is looking at the simulation and the outcomes of the patients,” Ghazi says. They’ve succeeded at simulating surgery from beginning to end that is so realistic that some nurses and doctors who have looked into the OR assumed they were seeing real surgery underway. They’ve already seen a marked improvement in the surgical process, he says. “Currently we’re training all third-year medical students, so about 110 students are going through this process,” Ghazi says. Some engineering students from Rochester Institute of Technology are also involved in the research. Ghazi and Stone’s work is a good example of the UR’s thrust into what officials refer to as translational science. The tools and talent of multiple disciplines are applied to a particular problem. While most research has been benchtop to bedside, they call their research benchtop to operating room. The next step is to see if the patients with surgical rehearsals actually have fewer complications, blood transfusions, and readmissions. Ghazi and Stone want to know whether the improvements warrant using the simulation rehearsals on all surgeries or only the most complex. “Our first concern is for the patient, and we know that there is a clear correlation,” Ghazi says. “But ultimately, we’re not only trying to address patient outcomes. We’re trying to address health care costs.” rochestercitynewspaper.com
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Big Data can quantify your life, but may not necessarily improve the quality
Two pale little girls sit with their parents at the dinner table, chanting a strange blessing: “The closer we are to the family benchmark, the closer we are to creating the perfect family,” they repeat in unison over digital counters blinking next to their plates. Yet the parents are dour, and the girls are glum. The scene, from the short 2016 film “The Quantified Self ” depicts dinnertime as just another joyless measurement event in a day that revolves around collecting biodata. From sleep quality to blood oxygenation to spousal argumentation rate, the characters live their lives — and make all their decisions — strictly by the numbers. To put it another way, the movie asks what it means to listen to data. Even the soundtrack suggests the sound of tracking as something bleak and menacing. “It’s only two drums carrying the story, like the zeros and ones of the digital world this family is trapped in,” said Romain Collin, composer of the movie’s score. Is that the case for the actual, real-life quantified selfers among us, the biohackers and self-trackers stepping and stepping and
stepping some more? Does running the numbers on yourself reduce your world to the gray winter landscape of the film? In the words of a Radiohead song, does it make you “fitter, happier, more productive”? “I got in darn close to 70,000 steps over Memorial Day weekend,” Matt Coddington told me the afternoon that we met. He reached that impressive total by installing a swimming pool at home while listening to eight full-length podcasts. “I was exhausted coming into work on Tuesday, but I love the feeling that I’ve gotten a lot done,” he said. Coddington has been step-counting since 2010. The 51-year-old is a mobile product manager by day and heads a mobile device enthusiasts’ group in his free time. But his tracking habit is not about the gadgetry, he said. “It’s just the feeling it gives me that I’m making the right choice,” he said. The Jawbone Up app paired with his Android Wear watch guides many of his daily decisions, from eating a small salad so he can immediately jump on the treadmill at lunch, to walking down 25 flights of stairs from meetings in the conference room at his office.
“Computer calculations cannot extrapolate for the way human beings experience life.” Almost any time a computer seems to
know the right answer to a question: when we misspell a word but still get the search results we’re looking for, or when a website’s recommendations supply our next favorite book or movie, it is relying on data. But not just any kind of data: it’s Big Data. In essence, Big Data is about applying algorithms to very large datasets in order to identify patterns and make extrapolations. Big Data is going to allow people to look at wearable technologies in whole new ways, said David Borkholder, professor at Rochester Institute of Technology. Data involving everything from heart rate to
exercise to sleep patterns will likely be tied to an individual’s medical record and how we look at disease onset and development, he said. “It’s likely to dramatically change our approach to medicine,” Borkholder said. Several trends converged to create the Big Data phenomenon. For one, more data is being generated and captured than ever before. From business supply chains to consumer shopping preferences, infectious disease outbreaks to the shares racked up by a viral video, along with the personal health and fitness data collected by wearable trackers and smartphones, if something matters in business or society, it will be quantified and turned into a data point. Another factor in the rise of Big Data is expanded digital storage capacity and processing power of computers. This not only allows huge volumes of data to be kept handy, but also for it to be monetized, as when social media companies sell their users’ personal information to advertisers. continued on page 10 rochestercitynewspaper.com
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On the positive side, data-based inferences
can provide a useful corrective for flawed human thinking, particularly the bias toward seeing the world in terms of cause and effect. “If I had dinner and had an upset stomach, I would immediately think it was what I ate, although statistically speaking, it’s far more likely I’d get bugs from shaking hands with someone,” said Viktor MayerSchönberger, co-author of “Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think.” “I see the world through my own eyes, through my experiences, preferences, beliefs, ideologies, and prejudices — all I’m trying to do is verify that my beliefs are correct,” he said. By contrast, data does not have anything to prove. It does not come with a ready-made story. What Big Data can do is show correlations between different factors that lead to new insights or predictions. Machine translation is a good example.
Google Translate was created by performing statistical analysis on more than a trillion words — a substantial portion of the content in every language on the Internet — and finding probabilities that certain words and phrases in one language would correspond to those in another. Although the Google Translate service does not know the languages it is translating — rules of grammar are not part of the algorithm — it can identify equivalents between words based on the statistical likelihood of where and how they occur in text and speech. If you’ve ever used Google Translate, you know that it’s far from 10 CITY MARCH 1-7, 2017
perfect. But it’s good enough, enough of the time, to provide a useful service. That is one of the big tradeoffs of Big Data. It can provide knowledge — albeit without understanding. And it can identify patterns — but without meaning. For both of those reasons, it cannot contextualize the individual. Big Data algorithms assign people to categories and classifications based on factors such as where they live and work, the things they buy, read, and watch, and the contacts in their social networks. You, as a person, only become relevant by being correlated with others who are statistically similar. Also, computer calculations cannot extrapolate for the way human beings experience life. Which brings us back to trackers.
“If something matters in business or society, it will be quantified and turned into a data point.” While a wearable device can quantify
your movements, it can’t provide information on the quality of your day. “The benefit of getting data like this is if it can be used in service of doing activities you’re willing to do that are enjoyable,” said Art
Markman, professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Texas-Austin and author of “Smart Change: Five Tools to Create Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others.” “If it’s only to be focused on the numbers, you’re going to give up at some point,” he said. “People have a very hard time staying motivated in the long term doing things they don’t enjoy.” But there is something about making the numbers personal — my stats, my goals — that lends the data inherent interest. For self-trackers, measuring their daily activities certainly seems to provide a kind of enjoyment. Brian Wallace, 39 and president of an infographics design agency, started using a Fitbit about three years ago in order to lose weight and stay active. Although he’s since switched to using an app on his phone, he said that step counting has become part of his daily workflow. “I know I better carry my phone around or I won’t get tracked — that inspires me to hit my numbers,” he said. Wallace has the Fitbit-branded Aria Smart Scale at home, which pairs with the Fitbit to record his weight and BMI, but said that tracking food or water intake or monitoring sleep requires too much manual effort for no clear benefit. He criticized the sleep tracker on the Fitbit in particular as being intrusive without providing useful information. “It pretends like it’s tracking your sleep and waking you up, but it’s really just an alarm that shakes your wrist,” he said. Wallace said he decided to concentrate on steps because “I find that just looking at very narrow and focused slice of data is good
for me.” His daily goal is the 10,000 steps set by default on most devices and apps. Why 10,000? It is the equivalent of walking about five miles, which is the American Heart Association’s recommendation for a baseline level of healthy activity. It’s also a kind of magic number: While very large, it can still be grasped. “From a psychological standpoint, 10,000 steps create a doable challenge,” Markman said. “Most people who are not already runners clock in at around 5,000 to 6,000 steps a day, so if they realize they are already over halfway there, it seems like something achievable.” Competition is another lever of motivation that goes along with tracking. Jackie Wagner, 24, an intensive-care unit nurse, found that by checking her phone’s pedometer that she was reaching 10,000 steps most days just on her rounds at the hospital. But getting a Fitbit led her to boost her activity level. “Before, I didn’t pay any attention to how many steps I was taking and would be more sedentary outside of work,” she said. “Now if I’m just sitting on the couch flipping through TV channels and I get a notification saying so and so is catching up to you, then I think, ‘Hey, maybe I better get up and take a walk.’” Game mechanics provide additional incentive to exercise by raising the social stakes. Teams, points, and leaderboards aren’t just about competing to win, but also a sense of accountability. People are more likely to show up when someone else expects them to. At the same time, getting social also means that private data becomes public. “Even people you don’t do challenges with but are friends
David Borkholder. PHOTO BY KEVIN FULLER
with through the app, it shows them how many steps you take a week,” Wagner said. Did that make her uncomfortable? “I had never really thought about it before,” she said. “I think it’s just they can see how many steps I take, not what I eat or how many hours I sleep, or how many glasses of water I drink.” As for the Fitbit or Apple’s window into her private life, she said, “I never looked into the kind of data they collect. I’m one of those people that just kind of rolls with it.” Brian Wallace made the point that to the extent that self-tracking is voluntary, it doesn’t feel like surveillance. “If you told people there’s a new government program where you’re required to register where you live, where you went to school, who your friends are, and then you’re also required to take pictures of yourself and your activities and upload them on a regular basis, people would be outraged,” he said. “But once you tell them that it’s Facebook, they’re like, ‘Oh, well, that’s O.K.’” RIT has invested heavily into what university officials call Signature Interdisciplinary Research Areas. The research is aimed at the emerging field of personal health care technology and involves faculty members in all of RIT’s colleges as well as Rochester Regional Health. One of the goals is to stream personal health information gathered from a patient’s home to the patient’s physician. For instance, RIT has been working on a sensor system integrated into a toilet seat, Borkholder said. Data would be gathered at specific times of the day — such as the first thing in morning before the patient has eaten —for analysis. Borkholder is focused on heart failure and he said that careful monitoring of the patient could mean improved health at reduced costs. Research shows that problems associated with heart failure can result in an initial hospital visit costing roughly $7,000. The re-admission rate for heart failure is around 20 percent within 30 days. Re-admissions generally cost much more because the patient has deteriorated. “There’s a real opportunity to advance personalized health care here, especially for disparate populations,” Borkholder said. His toilet seat device is being tested in the homes of some patients.
Sensors, trackers, and the idea of tracking
itself have already become such a part of the world that they’re accepted at face value. They are the tools people use to become fitter, happier, and more productive. I didn’t doubt Brian Wallace when he said that being active has helped him get more done at work without having to stay late or rely on coffee. Or Jackie Wagner, who said she has more energy than she used to, not to mention Matt Coddington’s Herculean feats over long weekends. But I also found myself thinking a lot about Horace Fletcher. Fletcher was a late 19th-century diet and health guru whose focus (you might say “obsession”) was on chewing. His slogan was, “Nature will castigate those who do not masticate.” “Fletcherizing” denoted the practice of chewing food very, very thoroughly — far past the point when most people would deem it time to swallow. So how could you know when you had masticated enough? By counting: either in terms of an absolute number, on the order of 100 chews per bite, or holding to an average rate such as one chew per second. Fletcherizing was one of the first big diet fads to sweep America. People diligently counted their chews for decades. Then they started counting calories. Today they count steps. Again and again we seem to come back to the peculiar attempt to marry self-improvement with the industrial model of manufacturing, with its emphasis on standardizing processes and optimizing output. Are we better people (better Americans?) to the extent that we produce and consume more efficiently? To gauge that kind of progress, we need benchmarks. Maybe the tyrannical self-surveillance regimen followed by the family in “The Quantified Self” is not an inevitable outcome. But the implications of turning life into data points can still give us something to chew on. This story ran originally in LEO Weekly in Louisville, Kentucky, leoweekly.com. Includes reporting by CITY writer Tim Louis Macaluso
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URBAN ACTION This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.)
Benefit event honors activists The Rochester Committee on Latin America will hold its annual Rice and Beans Gala Dinner and White Dove Awards on Friday, March 10. This year’s ceremony will recognize Pueblo Kichwa de Sarayaku for the community’s legal fight against oil exploration in the Ecuadoran Amazon, and the Workers’ Center of Central New York for its support
of dairy farm workers. The event will be held at Gates Presbyterian Church, 1049 Wegman Road, at 5:15 p.m. Tickets: $100 for Champion; $30 for Friend; and $15 for students (but no one will be turned away). Reservations: Kathy.goforth@rochester. rr.com.
City seeks input on housing funds The City of Rochester will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, March 8, concerning the 2017-2018 Action Plan. The city applies annually for federal funds needed for a variety of housing and development
programs. Those include Community Development Block Grants, the Home Investment Partnership program, Emergency Solutions Grants, and the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS. People and organizations concerned with housing and development needs can comment or make related recommendations at the hearing. Information about the plan is available at City Hall, Department of Neighborhood and Business Development, during normal business hours. The hearing will be held at City Hall, Council Chambers, 30 Church Street, at 6 p.m.
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Recently, Mary Anna Towler wrote about the “risks” in the Rochester mayoral race (Urban Journal). The truth is we face only one major risk in this race: electing a candidate who will maintain the status quo. We cannot afford another 25 years of trying to manage the city’s decline. Making incremental investments through a myriad of programs hasn’t been an effective strategy. We need to think much bigger. We need to think long term. My team is offering a real plan to grow the economy and reduce poverty. It will help struggling families by providing increased childcare subsidies, a critically important program that has been proven to lift people out of poverty. For less than 2 percent of the city’s budget, we can help an additional 1,000 kids. Another Rachel Barnhart part of our plan will reduce property FILE PHOTO taxes by 50 percent. Take a drive through the city, and you’ll see the need for a massive thorough, independent study and rigorous investment in our housing stock. Half of negotiations. Through those negotiations, our homeowners earn less than $51,000 we would make sure city taxpayers are a year. They’re begging for help with protected and ensure the city is well upside-down mortgages and repairs. represented on the water board. Renters are also struggling; nearly two There are additional ways to get thirds of them pay 30 percent or more revenue for the dedicated fund. We will of their income for housing. They’re ask the state for Rochester’s fair share, as disproportionately impacted by the city’s we get $204 less per person in state aid high non-homestead tax rate. than Buffalo. This directly impacts how We have empty storefronts and office much we pay in property taxes. State space. The city’s commercial tax rate is funding largely comes from income tax about 50 percent more than Henrietta’s. revenue, a significantly more progressive No wonder jobs have left the city and we source than property tax. hand out tax breaks like candy. When Finally, new revenue from increased only wealthy developers get tax breaks, investment in the city will go into the everyone else is left holding the bag. You dedicated fund. With a three-year head should not have to pay a greater share of start, we can invest in housing and jobs taxes so a developer can build $300,000 without cuts to services. condominiums. Towler also alluded to the risk of a We must be effective and efficient mayoral primary further fracturing the in attracting companies to the city and Democratic Party. Unfortunately, the locating jobs near people. We have an reality is our party could not be more unemployment rate of 14 percent. In fractured. The only real risk we face this some neighborhoods, unemployment tops year is choosing candidates who are part 30 percent. In addition to the property tax of the Morelle or Gantt factions. Decades cut, we’re calling for a Jobs Office at City of infighting have left the party broken Hall and a citywide fiber network to level and unsustainable. If we want to fix our the playing field for our students. party and our city, we need to look in a Many people have asked, how can we new direction. cut property taxes by 50 percent? We have a choice between tired We will need a three-year head start ideas of the past or a bold vision for and a dedicated fund to cover shortthe future. Rochester is not working for term revenue losses. One potential everyone. The only way we can reach source of funds is consolidation of the our full potential is by rethinking what city and county water systems. The city is possible. It’s your city. It should be previously valued its system at more than working for you. $200 million in today’s dollars. But a Barnhart is a candidate for the consolidation would happen only after Democratic nomination for mayor.
Dining
A flight of cider at Blue Toad. The cidery sources its ingredients from Schutt's Apple Mill in Webster and The Apple Farm in Victor. PHOTOS BY KEVIN FULLER
Rhapsody in blue Blue Toad Hard Cider TASTING ROOM AND PRODUCTION, 120 MUSHROOM BOULEVARD #105 THURSDAY, 5 P.M. TO 9 P.M.; FRIDAY, 3 P.M. TO 9 P.M.; SATURDAY, 12 P.M. TO 8 P.M.; SUNDAY, 10 A.M. TO 6 P.M. 424-5508; BLUETOADHARDCIDER.COM TASTING ROOM AND CIDER PUB, 5 RAILROAD STREET, VICTOR THURSDAY, 5 P.M. TO 9 P.M.; FRIDAY, 3 P.M. TO 9 P.M.; SATURDAY, 12 P.M. TO 8 P.M.; SUNDAY, 12 P.M. TO 6 P.M. [ REVIEW ] BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
Ciders, while delicious, are not necessarily known for a balance in their flavors. Massproduced cider can be sickeningly sweet for some palates. On the opposite end, artisanal ciders can be off-puttingly dry to those expecting more traditional apple notes. The “farm license” trend in New York State has grown stronger in the last few years. Notable, burgeoning establishments include Honeoye Falls Distillery and Swiftwater Brewing Company, with their focuses on spirits and beer, respectively. Blue Toad Hard Cider — which sources all of its apples from Schutt’s Apple Mill in Webster and The Apple Farm in Victor — represents another
Rochester development in the move toward homegrown alcohol. Blue Toad is the brainchild of three friends, Greg Booth, Scott Hallock, and Todd Rath, all from Wheatland-Chili High School, whose interests in craft brewing cider spurred them to open the cidery in January 2015. The name came from a pub Rath had owned in Virginia, with its nod to the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains and Rath’s old nickname, “Toad.” While the original pub is no longer in business, Blue Toad Hard Cider has operations and a tasting room in the southern state. All of Blue Toad’s ciders are produced with an eye toward what bartender Adam Washbon refers to as “clarity” — a lack of impurities that results in a clearer appearance and a crisper taste. The cider arrives fully pressed from the farms, and the fermentation begins. During fermentation, however, the process is halted, and the cider is force-filtered four times. “It produces a clean product quickly,” Washbon says. “The goal of Blue Toad as a cidery is to be ‘sessionable.’” Almost across the board, Blue Toad’s offerings attempt to split the difference with less-filling, semi-dry ciders that emphasize crisp and clean over candy-like sweetness or acrid inaccessibility. Some of the cidery’s options are more successful than others.
Bartender Adam Washbon pours a cider at Blue Toad's tasting room.
ROC HARD Amber (5.5 percent ABV) — one of Blue Toad’s flagship beverages and a 2016 World Cider Championships silver medal winner — achieved the best balance between tartness and sweetness. Made with Ida Red, Northern Spy, and Red Delicious apples, the amber was also the Toad’s most full-bodied cider, with an effervescent quality that kept it light. Of all the ciders on tap, it had the broadest appeal and the most satisfying taste.
Contrasting the amber, the Flower City Blonde — also a 2016 silver medalist — was much drier. Billed as a cider for wine drinkers, this combination of Crispin, Empire, and Golden Delicious apples had pear-like color, with a light presence that faded smoothly after the initial puckering on the tongue. The first of the Blue Toad ciders to be canned, the cidery sees the blonde as an ideal summer option. Pleasant, if underwhelming, the drink is a bit polarizing; it’s a great fit for dry cider aficionados, but those searching for some sweetness need to look elsewhere. Despite the blonde’s aspirations as a lazy-day, porch-sipping cider, the APA Triple Hopped cider (5.5 percent ABV) was easily the most “sessionable” of all the Blue Toad selections. The Sorachi Ace hops used in the cider were cold-steeped for five days. The resulting taste features an ample amount of lemon, but the hops were so subtle in the mix that they nearly went unnoticed. The most forgettable among the Toads was the Black Cherry, checking in at 6 percent ABV. Far from anything offensive, this cider looks like a white zinfandel. The initial, mild sweetness of cherry dissolves quickly, and has a similar finish to that of the Flour City Blonde. Perhaps the cider that best encapsulated the semi-dry aesthetic was the 5.5 percent ABV Paddy Green, a timely arrival for St. Patrick’s Day. The seasonal cider had an absinthe green color, but a taste that was both slightly sugary and ever-so-sour. In addition to its signature and seasonal ciders, Blue Toad also offers a “guest tap” cider (at the time of my visit, it was Nine Pin), as well as Upstate New York wines from the likes of Keuka Spring Vineyards and Heron Hill Winery, and beer from Syracuse-based Empire Brewing Company. A particular laudable Blue Toad project is its set of three cocktails ($8 per drink), which feature collaborations between the cidery, Black Button Distilling, and Fee Brothers. I tried the Honey Crisp, which combined the ROC HARD Amber with barrel-aged gin, rhubarb bitters, and honey syrup. The cocktail was almost too easy to drink. The cider and the honey syrup melded well with the gin, lending a sweetand-smooth combination that was hard to put down. Be on the lookout for new cocktails featuring Honeoye Falls Distillery’s bourbon whiskey in the near future. Cider flights range from $5.50 to $11, while all Blue Toad pints cost between $4.50 and $5.50. While not all of Blue Toad’s ciders are created equal, the cidery excels in making drinks you’ll be happy to enjoy all afternoon and evening long — especially as the warmer months arrive. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 13
Upcoming [ FOLK ]
Anna Tivel. Monday, April 3. Restaurant Good Luck, 50 Anderson Avenue. 5 p.m. $35. honestfolkpresents.com; annativel.com. [ BLUES ]
David Bromberg Quintet. Friday, May 5. German House, 315 Gregory Street. 8 p.m. $35-$40. historicgermanhouse.com; davidbromberg.net.
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Neil Diamond. Sunday, June 4. Blue Cross Arena, 100
Exchange Boulevard. 8 p.m. $39.50-$129.50. ticketmaster.com; neildiamond.com.
Goatwhore
FRIDAY, MARCH 3 MONTAGE MUSIC HALL, 50 CHESTNUT STREET 7 P.M. | $15-$17 | THEMONTAGEMUSICHALL.COM; GOATWHORE.NET [ METAL ] “Who needs a God when you’ve got Satan?”
If you’ve been to a metal show in the past decade, the chances that you’ve seen that theologically confusing phrase printed on the back of a T-shirt are pretty high. It’s the de-facto mission statement of New Orleans black metal giants Goatwhore, who crawled out of the Louisiana swamps with Darkthrone records tucked under its arms. Its latest record, 2014’s “Constricting Rage of the Merciless,” is pure, whiskey drenched, blasphemous black metal. — BY ALEXANDER JONES
Franz Liszt Symposium THURSDAY, MARCH 2, THROUGH SATURDAY, MARCH 4 UR’S RUSH-RHEES LIBRARY AND EASTMAN SCHOOL FREE | 274-1000; ESM.ROCHESTER.EDU [ CLASSICAL ] Nineteenth century pianist Franz Liszt was
arguably the first pop star. The Romantic era legend is the subject of a three-day conference, “Liszt and Virtuosity.” Highlights include an all-Liszt program performed by Eastman students and a talk given by preeminent Liszt biographer Alan Walker. But perhaps most fascinating is a Friday morning concert in Hatch Hall featuring the “Hexameron” for two pianos, a version which is unpublished and has never been performed. At RushRhees Library (755 Library Road) and Eastman School of Music (26 Gibbs Street). Various times. All events are free. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
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Aretheyyestheyare [ BLUES ]
“Not Convinced Yet” Self-released aretheyyestheyare.bandcamp.com
“Women’s Voices” SUNDAY, MARCH 5 KILBOURN HALL, EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 26 GIBBS STREET 3 P.M. | $10 (FREE WITH UR ID) | 274-3000; ESM.ROCHESTER.EDU [ CLASSICAL ] In honor of a century of women’s voting
rights in New York State, the Eastman School of Music will present “Women’s Voices,” a concert that reveres the past while looking to the future. Performers include pianists Sylvie Beaudette and Tony Caramia, vocalists Kathryn Cowdrick and Teresa Ringholz, violinist Rebecca Boyd, and the Eastman Women’s Chorus. A wonderful bonus is that the program boasts two world premieres by composers Lori Laitman and Jennifer Mitchell, both of which draw from the history of women’s suffrage and the legacy of Susan B. Anthony. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
F*** You Pay Me
Sunday, March 5 Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Avenue 6 p.m. | $6 | facebook.com/photocityimprovcomedyclub; fuckyoupaymeclevo.bandcamp.com [ HARDCORE ] There’s something about Cleveland
hardcore. It’s abrasive, dark, confrontational, gruff, and oozing with frustration. That pretty much describes F*** You Pay Me, the Clevo band fronted by scene legend Tony Erba, formerly of Face Value and 9 Shocks Terror. FYPM is fast and thrashy, sparing the blast beats but, thankfully, not the sarcasm. With Rotten UK, Stress, Cicada, American Terrorist, Downtown Spice, and Grain Assault. — BY JEREMY MOULE
Upward Groove. Temple
Televisionaries’ homeboys Aretheyyestheyare take surf a few clicks weirder than what we’re used to hearing in our hang-ten-friendly landlocked metropolis. “Not Convinced Yet” is a four-song, quasi-primitive, guitar-fueled EP done with old school, perfunctory recording techniques. It’s cool, but the techniques threaten to drown the tune out a bit. It sounds as if some of the recordings were done in a closet with the microphones on the outside. And that’s okay; I f***ing love it. That’s exactly when you look to the mayhem at the heart of the music that cuts loud with plenty of sleaze — but not as a cop out. “Not Convinced Yet” is an excellent mashup of classic, rock-based shenanigans, with electronic decorations sprinkled throughout.
Bar and Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. templebarandgrille.com. 10 p.m. [ JAZZ ]
Zac Lijewski’s Big Jazz, Small Band. Abilene Bar
& Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 8 p.m. $5. [ POP/ROCK ] The Dungarees. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m. No cover.
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THU., MARCH 2
Talking Under Water
[ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Jim Lane. Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. 342-6780. 8 p.m.
“Talking Under Water” Self-released talkingunderwater.bandcamp.com
I don’t normally complain about the artwork, but on Talking Under Water’s new, self-titled CD, the info is printed over a complicated background, rendering it virtually illegible. Still, I simply have to tell you about this tremendous album. I’m flying on instruments here, so please bear with me. The album — the band’s debut LP — opens with “Lost,” a plaintive yet grand flourish of voice and an old piano, which rapidly outgrows your headspace as it heads toward uncharted orchestration. It’s the seduction of a borderline lush cacophony. And then there’s song number two, “We Used to Dream,” where the power pop spectacle shows up like The Young Fresh Fellows wearing tuxedos. And if you have any residual sadness, latent melancholy, or un-cried tears, “Only the Strong Survive” will get the water works flowing. Lyrically and in the face of its minor leaning, Talking Under Water still waxes sweetly poetic and romantic. Although it was written from a dark place — specifically Talking Under Water’s Dave Chisholm’s post-divorce world — the whole album brandishes brash, bright chops without threatening to harsh the mellow. The two sides to the music get on like siblings where each gets a turn at the piano that serves as the album’s constant foundation. Talking Under Water is like a pop orchestra comfortably luxuriating in its own canyon. It’s epic, powerful, atmospheric, and simply beautiful. — BY FRANK DEBLASE
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Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900. mag.rochester.edu. Every third Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Made possible by Rippey Endowed Trust. Included w/ museum admission. [ JAZZ ]
Big Blue House. Little
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Space Grazer came together in late 2015 and has an EP, "Cosmic Terror," out on its Bancamp. PHOTO BY MIKE TURZANSKI
Shouting at the universe [ FEATURE ] BY FRANK DE BLASE
Space Grazer WITH LO-PAN, STARS MALIGN, AND THE GINGER FAYE BAKERS SATURDAY, MARCH 11 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $6 | BUGJAR.COM; SPACEGRAZER.BANDCAMP.COM
When you’re in a hard rock band and the holy trinity of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll has lost its glitter and appeal, what do you do? What do you sing about? The name of this heavy outfit is Space Grazer, and the band has solved that problem by writing songs about space and science fiction. “We shout about the universe,” says Benton Sillick, the trio’s bass player. “As far as lyrical content, the general love songs of hard rock and heavy metal aren’t something we really want to yell about anymore. We don’t party anymore, so we don’t sing about drugs or drinking; it’s not our thing. So it was like, ‘What else does metal yell about?’ We looked and found there’s a lot of sci-fi and fantasy stuff in heavy metal.” Space Grazer came out in late 2015 and started out trying to do a Motorhead and Black Sabbath throwback style — it 16 CITY MARCH 1-7, 2017
was more hard rock than heavy metal. As the band’s sound developed, its members felt trapped. They looked to their past for inspiration and changed it up. “We realized we had pigeonholed ourselves into that sound,” Sillick says. “Now we’ve taken things from more modern stuff, and some more out-there stuff, like the Melvins. And I grew up on hardcore punk — Black Flag, Dead Kennedys — and that sort of made it into our sound, too. So we have some stuff that’s old school, skate metal, stoner metal, punk rock; played loud and proud all the while shouting at the universe.” With all this talk of space, you’d think Space Grazer would be primed to record a concept album. Nope. “We’re kind of a concept band already,” Sillick says. “Without really thinking about it, we sort of have an aesthetic — ‘Space Grazer’ — we already have a mythology to that in our songs.” Trying on different names, the band that was to become Space Grazer wanted something really big, something that sounded cosmic … and they found it in the extended “Star Wars” universe. “It’s an alien that floats through space and swallows stars,” Sillick says. “It eats worlds. We
have a few songs about battling the space grazer.” The members of Space Grazer have been in and out of bands for years: Sillick has played with Attic Abasement and still plays with Thunder Body and Overhand Sam; guitarist Jesse Carson came from the black metal band Warblade; and according to Sillick, drummer Jay Moon has been in and out of punk bands for 20 years. Still, the band is searching for its place. “We’re kinda under the radar,” Sillick says. The three members haven’t been the face of any bands, so “people don’t pay all that much attention to us.” Space Grazer is for anyone that likes it riff-based, loud, and a little weird, so it’s hard to consider the band as not fitting in somewhere; this is some good shit. Space Grazer has one EP, “Cosmic Terror,” out and is back in the studio with producer Matt Ramerman as we speak and seems sharply focused, determined with its eyes on the prize. It’s just a matter of time before Space Grazer is as big as it sounds. And the band is ready. “This is our time to do this,” Sillick says.
Compline. Christ Church,
viagirasole.com. 7-10 p.m.
141 East Ave. 454-3878. christchurchrochester. org. 9-9:30 p.m. Donations appreciated.
Thursday Night Jazz at Joe Bean. Joe Bean Coffee
Roasters, 1344 University Ave. 319-5279. joebeanroasters. com. 7:30-10 p.m. The Vine Brothers. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 8:30 p.m. $5.
City Station, 170 East Ave. flourcitystation.com. 9 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
Hochstein Sinfonia and Concertino Strings. Hochstein
[ REGGAE/JAM ]
Pearly Baker’s Best. Flour
Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar. com. 8 p.m. $10-$12.
FRI., MARCH 3 [ BLUES ]
Big Mike & The Motivators.
Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 288-1910. stickylipsbbq.com.
Bill Schmitt & the Bluesmaster. JB’s
Smokehouse, 211 Main Street. East Rochester. 485-0983. jbsmokehouse.com. 8-11 p.m.
Hanna & Tony: Blue Hearts Duo. The Titus Tavern,
692 Titus Ave. 270-5365. titustavern.com. 8-11 p.m. Red, Fred, and Weems. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 8-10 p.m. [ CLASSICAL ]
Geneseo Wind Ensemble.
Wadsworth Auditorium at SUNY Geneseo, 1 College Circle. Geneseo. (585)-2455516. 8 p.m. Featuring “Scamper” by James Walker.
The Perinton Concert Band: Land of the Make Believe.
Minerva DeLand Auditorium, 140 Hulburt Rd. 234-2585. 7:30 p.m. $3-$7.
Spotlight on Faculty: The Casbah of Tetouan and Other Journeys for Brass.
Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 454-4596. hochstein.org. 7 p.m. $10. [ JAZZ ]
Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. charleybrownspenfield.com. Max “Jazz Jam”. Max of Eastman Place, 25 Gibbs St. 697-0491. maxrochesterny. com. 9-11 p.m. [ R&B/ SOUL ]
Aaron Welcher Band. Joe
Bean Coffee Roasters, 1344 University Ave. 319-5279. joebeanroasters.com. 8-11 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
Brian Mulligan & the Lonesome Angels. Abilene
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Faculty Recital, Beverly Smoker. Nazareth College
Wilmot Recital Hall, 4245 East Avenue. 5853892700. naz. edu/events. 3 p.m. Music of Janacek, Rorem, Scriabin, and Schubert on piano. Geneseo Symphony Orchestra. Wadsworth Auditorium at SUNY Geneseo, 1 College Circle. Geneseo. 245-5824. 3 p.m.
The Dig and Communist Daughter. Bug Jar, 219
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INDIE ROCK | COMMUNIST DAUGHTER
Some bands grow on you. Others, you like right away. Communist Daughter — the name’s taken from a Neutral Milk Hotel song — is a little bit of both. Hailing from St. Paul, Minnesota, the band is a mid-tempo groove beneath lyrics of self-reflection and little guilt; gone is the apologetic stance other indie bands tend to lay on us. And trust me, front man John Solomon has wrestled a demon or two. Thoughtful and rockin’. Communist Daughter plays with The Dig and The Demos on Thursday, March 2, at the Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue. 8 p.m. $10-$12. bugjar.com; communistdaughter. com. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 454-4596. hochstein.org. 2 p.m. Musicians in Hochstein’s Sinfonia (grades 4-9) and Concertino Strings (grades 1-5) orchestral ensemble. Women’s Voices. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. EastmanTheatre.org. 3 p.m. Performance by Tony Caramia, Sylvie Beaudette, Kathryn Cowdrick, Teresa Ringholtz, and Rebeca Boyd. $10. [ POP/ROCK ] Maroon 5. Blue Cross Arena, One War Memorial Square. 1-800-745-3000. ticketmaster.com. $34+.
MON., MARCH 6 Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 6 p.m. $6. Hey Mabel!. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3640688. fairportbside.com. 8 p.m. Shakin Bones. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. thefirehousesaloon. com. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. $5.
SAT., MARCH 4 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Pre-St. Patrick’s Day Concert. Wadsworth Auditorium at SUNY Geneseo, 1 College Circle. Geneseo. 245-5824. 7 p.m. Performed by the Geneseo String Band. $5. Steve Forbert. Fanatics Pub & Pizza, 7281 West Main Street. Lima. 624-2080. fanaticspub. com. 8 p.m. $25. [ CLASSICAL ]
Brahms’ First Symphony.
Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. 4542100. rpo.org. 8 p.m. Ward Stare, conductor. Ingrid Fliter, piano. $40-$99. [ JAZZ ]
Andy Calabrese & Chet Catallo. Via Girasole Wine
Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford. 641-0340. viagirasole.com. 7-10 p.m.
Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s,
1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. charleybrownspenfield.com. [ R&B/ SOUL ] Dirty Bourbon. Flaherty’s Honeoye Falls, 60 W. Main St. Honeoye Falls. 497-7012. flahertys.com. 9 p.m. [ REGGAE/JAM ] Noble Vibes. Butapub, 315 Gregory St. 563-6241. butapub.com. 10 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
The CosmodemonicTelegraph Company. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 7 p.m. Followed by Northwoods Wendigo. $5. Marty Roberts. Flaherty’s Webster, 1200 Bay Rd. Webster. 671-0816. flahertys. com. 9 p.m.
SUN., MARCH 5 [ BLUES ]
Commander Cody & His Modern Day Airmen.
Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 6 p.m. $20. [ CLASSICAL ]
Classical Guitar Night. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m.
[ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Watkins and the Rapiers.
Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m.
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Dan Weber, Susanna Rose, and Jon Lewis. Abilene
Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 8 p.m. $5. Strangers by Accident. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m. [ CLASSICAL ]
Celebration of Women Composers. Hochstein
Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 454-4596. hochstein.org. 7:30 p.m. 12 compositions, all by women composers. Tuesday Pipes. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. esm. rochester.edu. 12:10 p.m. [ JAZZ ]
Grove Place Jazz Project.
Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370. downstairscabaret.com. 7 p.m. Featuring a different set of Eastman School of Music Students and other area jazz artisans every Tues. $10.
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The cast of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” onstage now at Geva Theatre Center. PHOTO BY ZACH ROSING
Come to the table “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”
REVIEWED THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 CONTINUES THROUGH SUNDAY, MARCH 12 GEVA THEATRE CENTER, 75 WOODBURY BOULEVARD TICKETS START AT $25 | 232-4382; GEVATHEATRE.ORG [ REVIEW ] BY LEAH STACY
When “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” debuted 50 years ago, it was the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Interracial marriage was still illegal in 16 states, and the subject made a lot of people uncomfortable. Like a true artist, filmmaker Stanley Kramer saw a chance to begin a conversation, so he assembled an all-star cast (led by longtime onscreen duo Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) and created a lasting, Academy Award-winning film that explored what might happen if the daughter of a liberal white couple brought her black fiancé home to meet the family. Geva Theatre Center, through March 12, is staging “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” adapted by Todd Kreidler based on William Rose’s 1967 screenplay. It’s the third Wilson Stage production this season, and is co-produced with Indiana Repertory 18 CITY MARCH 1-7, 2017
Theatre (the show played there from January 10 through February 4). The plot is centered on the Drayton family, San Francisco residents and avid supporters of progressive worldviews. Matthew, the patriarch, is a top editor with The Guardian, while his wife, Christina, runs an art gallery that relies on wealthy patrons. She’s planning a luncheon at her home for one such patron when the couple’s daughter, Joanna, arrives home unexpectedly from Hawaii. While working as a nurse there, Joanna met the love of her life, Dr. John Prentice Jr. He’s a little older than she is, but he’s accomplished. And there’s one other small detail: he’s black. The Draytons are shocked and chagrined, but things really start to pick up when Joanna reveals she’s invited another set of guests to dinner as well. Skip Greer, who audiences may remember as Atticus Finch in last year’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” deftly directs the nine-person cast. Greer seems to thrive in the realm of classics returned to relevance for modern audiences, and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” is no exception. “To Kill a Mockingbird” actors Nora Cole and Brigitt Markusfeld are in this show as well. While the ensemble as a whole is quite strong, some of the actors take a little time to ease into their characters. Markusfeld
(portraying Christina Drayton) and Constance Macy (Mrs. Drayton’s gallery manager, Hilary St. George) have a rather wooden exchange in the beginning of the show, but Lynda Gravatt (housekeeper Matilda “Tilly” Binks) seems to guide both her cast mates and the audience back to the storyline with her expert sideeye and sassy comic relief. Craig Spidle (Matthew Drayton) is the embodiment of a crusty newspaperman who adores his wife and daughter; the back-and-forth between Spidle and Markusfeld provides some of the best moments in the show. Later on, Markusfeld is particularly gripping as the protective mother. Chelsea Morgan (Joanna Drayton), a last-minute addition in the role, is bewitching as the idealistic 25-year-old daughter. Opposite her is Chike Johnson (Dr. John Prentice Jr.) with a handsome, charming presence onstage. During the scene with his father, John Prentice Sr. — portrayed by Cleavant Derricks — the emotional stakes of the show are raised. Derricks holds his own, and as Mary Prentice, the matriarch of the family, Nora Cole is an elegant portrait of a mother caught between her son and her husband. Rounding out the cast is Mark Goetzinger (Monsignor Ryan, a Catholic priest and friend to the Draytons), whose Irish lilt and comfort onstage lends even more comedic relief to a weighty few hours. (Monsignor and Tilly should really have their own spinoff show.) The scenic design by Robert Koharchik is a thing of beauty. When audience members entered the theater, there were gasps of awe as they realized the entire interior of a midcentury modern home has been built on Geva’s stage, complete with cacti and succulents on the patio and Eames-inspired furniture. The set is so believable, coupled with luscious costume design by B. Modern, that it makes the story even more engrossing. Lighting design by Kendall Smith is equally impressive, as it’s not only a stage but a partial house that requires illumination. “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” is a show that feels uncannily and uncomfortably relevant in the light of current events (or even alongside Jordan Peele’s recent horror film “Get Out”), and Geva’s production is a masterpiece. As soon as the lights went down on Thursday’s performance, a standing ovation began. By the time the cast was assembled for curtain call, the entire audience was standing. The response speaks to the talent onstage, of course — but it also to the power of the show.
Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] The Bachelor Forum, 670 University Ave. Artists Robert Monegan & Mark Thaddeus Williams. Through April 30. Opening reception Mar. 1, 7-10 p.m. Proceeds from art sales donated to Michael J Fox Foundation. 271-6930. GlamDivas.net. Cat Clay, 1115 E. Main St., Suite 242. Lily’s Luscious Lips. Work by Tina Starr. 414-5643. catclay.com. Gallery Q, 100 College Ave. Nevertheless. Through Mar. 26. Opening reception Fri. Mar. 3, 6-9 p.m. Inspired by women who persist in expressing themselves. gayalliance.org. Gallery r, 100 College Ave. Leap Into the Dark. Through Mar. 26. Opening reception Fri. Mar. 3, 1-5 p.m. Work by Bradley Butler and Mitchell Messina. 256-3312. galleryr. rit.edu. Hartnett Gallery, Wilson Commons, University of Rochester, River Campus. RAPTURE. Through Apr. 2. Artist Talk Thurs. Mar. 2, 4 p.m. Followed by opening reception 5-7 p.m. Work expresses Christopher Lineberry’s negotiations of queer sexuality with an evangelical upbringing in North Carolina. blogs. rochester.edu/hartnett. International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Arabesque. Through March 31. Original paintings by American artist, Marcella Gillenwater. 264-1440. internationalartacquisitions. com. NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. Deaf Way, Her Way. Through Apr. 22. Reception Fr. Mar. 31, 5-8 p.m. Work from deaf artist Ann Silver. rit.edu/ntid/ dyerarts. Tower Fine Arts Center, SUNY Brockport, 180 Holley St. The
Boyz Night Out. March 4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. Drag show $5. 3193832. thefirehousesaloon.com.
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THEATER | “MAGIC AND MADNESS”
ART | “POLITITS: NEVERTHELESS”
For 10 years, Method Machine has had a method in its madness, or madness in its method — or probably both, since it’s one of Rochester’s most enterprising performance companies. Method Machine, led by artistic director David Henderson, over the last decade has presented a wide variety of plays by writers from Brecht to Tony Kushner, with many theatrical adventures in between. The group will celebrate its 10th birthday, and look forward to experiments yet to come, this weekend with “Magic and Madness,” two nights of theater and music. The bash begins Saturday night at Geva’s Fielding Stage, which has hosted several Method Machine productions.
Politits: Art Coalition is a small band of women who make provocative performative and visual art and show their work as a group in different spaces around town. This Friday, March 3, PAC takes over Gallery Q (Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley, 100 College Avenue) with its newest exhibit, “Nevertheless.”
Saturday, March 4, 8 p.m.: Mac and Lady M — from the Method Man Shakespeare spoof “ShakesBLOOD” — will host a variety cabaret. Includes music from Bobby Maville, Judy Moelner, and Doug Waterman; a featured performance by Bloody Noes; and scenes from past Method Machine productions. Sunday, March 5, at 6 p.m.: An evening of company creations, highlighted by a workshop performance of Eugene O’Neill’s “In the Zone,” a one-act play in which an boatful of international merchant marines navigates the dangers in and out of the water during World War I. “Magic and Madness: A Method Machine 10th Birthday Bash” takes place Saturday, March 4, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, March 5, at 6 p.m., at Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Boulevard. $10 each night; $5 for students with ID. 232-4382; gevatheatre.org; methodmachine.org. — BY DAVID RAYMOND
English-Speaking Union High School Shakespeare Contest. Sat., March 4, 1 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Apart of the New Plays/New Voices series muccc. org. Impact Theatre & The In Your Face players. Fri., March 3, 7:30-9 p.m. The Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. Stories of faith, heartache & hope come alive through the eyes of the outcast in this drama/comedy 315-5973553. impactdrama.com. Magic and Madness. Sat., March 4 and Sun., March 5. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd Celebrate a decade of Method Machine with two nights of theatre, music and more $10. gevatheatre.org.
The show includes work by coalition members Jacqueline O’Brien, Melissa Huang, Tina Starr, Rebecca Lomuto, Kristina Kaiser, and Lindsey Collier. Each artist was inspired by women who persist in expressing themselves, with the intention of sparking conversation about feminist and humanist issues.
Film [ SAT., MARCH 4 ] Film Screening: Girl Rising. March 4, 2-5 p.m. Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh Street Followed by a community Speak Up, Paper Chain Project, and Bicycle raffle from R Community Bikes Inc 392-8074. girlrising.com.
A First Friday opening reception will be held on March 3, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The exhibition continues through March 31. Gallery Q is open Monday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Tuesday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. For more information, call 244-8640 or visit gayalliance.org. Check out the Politits’ work on Instagram: @polititsartcoalition. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY Great Spirograph Challenge. Through Apr. 2. Opening reception Tue. Mar. 7, 4 p.m. Art made the Spirograph. 3952805. brockport.edu. Ugly Duck Coffee, 89 Charlotte St. Girls Rock! Gets Ugly. Through Mar. 31. Opening reception Fri. Mar. 3, 6-8 p.m. Celebrating Women’s History Month by exhibiting 5+ years of GR!R art. Work from local artists. uglyduckcoffee.com.
Kids Events
Comedy [ THU., MARCH 2 ] Rory Albanese, Sarah Benson. March 2, 7:30 p.m. Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd Webster $7-$15. 671-9080. TheComedyClub.Club.
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Special Events [ FRI., MARCH 3 ] Foodlink: Forks & Skis Fundraiser. March 3, 2-5 p.m. Bristol Mountain Resort, 5662 New York 64 $75. 374-6000. foodlinkny.org.
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Movies
Movie Theaters Searchable, up-to-the-minute movie times for all area theaters can be found at rochestercitynewspaper.com, and on City’s mobile website.
Brockport Strand 93 Main St, Brockport, 637-3310, rochestertheatermanagement.com
Canandaigua Theatres 3181 Townline Road, Canandaigua, 396-0110, rochestertheatermanagement.com
Cinema Theater 957 S. Clinton St., 271-1785, cinemarochester.com
Culver Ridge 16 2255 Ridge Rd E, Irondequoit 544-1140, regmovies.com
Dryden Theatre 900 East Ave., 271-3361, dryden.eastmanhouse.org
Eastview 13 Eastview Mall, Victor 425-0420, regmovies.com
Geneseo Theatres Geneseo Square Mall, 243-2691, rochestertheatermanagement.com
Greece Ridge 12 176 Greece Ridge Center Drive 225-5810, regmovies.com
Henrietta 18 525 Marketplace Drive 424-3090, regmovies.com
Hazardous unions “A United Kingdom”
(PG-13), DIRECTED BY AMMA ASANTE OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 3 [ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW
A touching historical romance from British director Amma Asante (“Belle”), “A United Kingdom” is inspired by the true story of Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo), the crown prince of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (later known as Botswana) who traveled to London in the 1940’s to study law, but unexpectedly fell in love with a white Englishwoman, Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike). Their forbidden romance and subsequent marriage eventually embroiled Khama’s homeland, the British Empire, their own families, and the government of South Africa in an
The Little 240 East Ave., 258-0444 thelittle.org
Movies 10 2609 W. Henrietta Road 292-0303, cinemark.com
Pittsford Cinema 3349 Monroe Ave., 383-1310 pittsford.zurichcinemas.com
Tinseltown USA/IMAX 2291 Buffalo Road 247-2180, cinemark.com
Webster 12 2190 Empire Blvd., 888-262-4386, amctheatres.com
Vintage Drive In 1520 W Henrietta Rd., Avon 226-9290, vintagedrivein.com
Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in “A United Kingdom.” PHOTO COURTESY FOX SEARCHLIGHT
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international uproar of astonishing proportions. It’s not hard to get invested in a film like “A United Kingdom”: as a tale about two people who risk everything to follow their hearts, it’s compelling almost by default. But for a story about such a courageous pair, Asante’s film plays things frustratingly safe. The end result is simplistic, but it’s still undeniably effective. As an interracial couple, the lovers face adversity from every direction, including Ruth’s army captain father (Nicholas Lyndhurst). But he’s nothing compared to the world of problems that arise when Seretse’s uncle (Vusi Kunene) requests that he return to his homeland to finally take up the mantle of king. Ruth expresses no doubt in leaving the life she knew behind and journeying to an unfamiliar continent, but her promise that they’ll take the situation “moment by moment” is easier said than done. Once they arrive in his country, they face the rising regime of apartheid and underestimate the effect that bringing a white woman home to be queen will have on his people, who view her presence as a slap in the face. Further obstacles in the path toward happiness include a pair of smarmy British officials (played by Jack Davenport and Tom Felton, in a tidy bit of typecasting) who are portrayed as one-dimensionally villainous and willing to do anything to protect their country’s lucrative alliance with South Africa. “A United Kingdom” is well-intentioned almost to a fault, and the screenplay by Guy Hibbert (based on Susan William’s book “Colour Bar”) irons out any of the real-life story’s more complicated wrinkles. It’s all broadly drawn and ever so tasteful, but the film always looks great. Cinematographer Sam McCurdy lends chilly blue and gray tones to the sections set in London,
contrasted nicely against the warm golds and oranges of Africa. Oyelowo and Pike are both wonderful performers, and each manages to overcome some flat characterization. Throughout, Seretse and Ruth are presented as impossibly noble and virtuous. Scrubbed of anything even vaguely resembling a human flaw, they do the right thing in every instance, never expressing any doubt or hesitation over their decisions. Hibbert never bothers to show us exactly what’s driving these characters to take leaps they know will only lead to more trouble. As the couple determinedly face down the odds, we’re left with a well-crafted and satisfying story that’s still somewhat lacking in heart or soul.
“Table 19” (PG-13), DIRECTED BY JEFFREY BLITZ OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 3
It’s a relatively clever concept for a comedy: a group of strangers meet when they’re assigned to the “randoms” table at an acquaintance’s wedding (reserved for courtesy invites no one actually expected to attend). As the day wears on, the band of misfit guests forge an unlikely bond, enlisting one another’s help as they each face down their own personal crises. Written by indie film gurus Jay and Mark Duplass with director Jeffrey Blitz, “Table 19” has a likeable, infectiously shaggy charm. It also helps considerably that the movie’s blessed with a cast saturated with talent. Anna Kendrick is the ex-Maid of Honor, banished from the head table after a bitter breakup with the bride’s brother; Lisa Kudrow and Craig Robinson are business associates of the bride’s father, facing a marital crisis; June Squibb is the bride’s childhood nanny, unsure the girl even remembers her now that’s she’s
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grown; comedian Stephen Merchant is a distant relation with a shady past (also the least developed of the characters); and Tony Revolori (so good as the bellboy-in-training, Zero, in “The Grand Budapest Hotel”) is the awkward, horny teen whose late father was a friend of the groom’s father.
Lisa Kudrow, Craig Robinson, and June Squibb are the guests at “Table 19.” PHOTO COURTESY FOX SEARCHLIGHT
It may be a slight, fizzy confection, but the film’s frequently quite sweet and often very funny. And as the tablemates open up, Blitz invests things with just enough genuine emotion and heart to make “Table 19” an event worth RSVPing to. Visit rochestercitynewspaper.com on Friday for additional film coverage, including reviews of the Oscar-nominated animated films “The Red Turtle” and “My Life as a Zucchini.”
[ OPENING ] BEFORE I FALL (PG-13): Following a fatal car accident, a teen begins to live that same day over and over again, and eventually begins to reevaluate her life. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Tinseltown, Webster BLAXPLOITALIAN (2016): This documentary uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers never heard from before: Black actors in Italian cinema. Dryden (Thu., Mar. 2, 7:30 p.m.) THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (1957): The British soldiers in a Japanese PoW camp co-operate to oversee construction of a railway bridge for their captors, while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it. Dryden (Sat., Mar. 4, 7:30 p.m.; Mon., Mar. 6, 1:30 p.m.) DEATH MILLS + NIGHT AND FOG (1945/1956): “Death Mills” was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps; “Night and Fog” documents the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz 10 years after its liberation. Dryden (Wed., Mar. 1, 7:30 p.m.) DIFFABILITY HOLLYWOOD (NR): This documentary from local filmmaker Adrian Esposito spotlights the capabilities of people with disabilities and advocates for more inclusion of writers, directors and actors with disabilities in the movie industry. Little (Thu., Mar. 2, 6 p.m.) LIVES OF PERFORMERS (1972): A stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances, this drama examines the dilemma of a man who can’t choose between two women and makes them both suffer. Dryden (Tue., Mar. 7, 7:30 p.m.) LOGAN (R): In the near future, an aging Logan (Hugh Jackman) finds his attempts to hide from the world upended when a young
mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, IMAX, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster MIA MADRE (2015): A film director in the middle of an existential crisis has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother. Dryden (Fri., Mar. 3, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Mar. 5. 2 p.m.) MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI (PG13): In this recent Oscar nominee, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age, and where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love. Little THE RED TURTLE (PG): An Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature, this dialogue-less film follows the life of a castaway shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. Little THE SHACK (PG-13): A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called “The Shack.” Based on the best-selling book, and starring Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster TABLE 19 (PG-13): A story told from the point of view of the collection of strangers grouped together at a wedding’s “singles table.” Starring Anna Kendrick, Lisa Kudrow, and Craig Robinson. Culver, Pittsford, Tinseltown A UNITED KINGDOM (PG13): Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. Little, Pittsford XX (R): Four short horror films written and directed by women, including Karyn Kusama (“The Invitation”) and musician St. Vincent. Little [ CONTINUING ] A DOG’S PURPOSE (PG): A dog looks to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes and owners. Canandaigua, Culver,
Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown FENCES (PG-13): A workingclass family struggles against the heightened racial climate of 1950s Pittsburgh. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. Culver FIFTY SHADES DARKER (R): The second chapter of the popular “Fifty Shades” series, starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster FIST FIGHT (R): When one school teacher gets the other fired, he is challenged to an after-school fight. Starring Ice Cube and Charlie Day. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster GET OUT (R): An AfricanAmerican man’s first visit to meet his white girlfriend’s family for the first time becomes a fight for survival in this horror-comedy from the mind of Jordan Peele. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster THE GREAT WALL (PG-13): European mercenaries become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster HIDDEN FIGURES (PG-13): Based on the true story of the team of African-American women who provided NASA with the mathematical data needed to launch the program’s first successful space missions. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, and Kevin Costner. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (PG13): Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be black in America. Little JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (R): After returning to the
criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life. Canandaigua, Greece, Tinseltown LA LA LAND (PG-13): Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling star as a jazz pianist and an aspiring actress who fall in love against the backdrop of modern-day Los Angeles in this swooning musical romance. Canandaigua, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Webster THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE (PG-13): The new adventures of Batman. In LEGO form. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown LION (PG-13): A 5-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, and survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Little, Pittsford MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (R): After his older brother passes away, a man is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. Pittsford MOANA (PG): In this animated adventure, a young woman sets sail for a fabled island with the assistance from the legendary demi-god Maui. Culver MOONLIGHT (R): The life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. Culver, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown ROCK DOG (PG): A starry-eyed pooch leaves home to fulfill his dream of becoming a musician in this animated family film. Culver, Greece, Tinseltown THE SALESMAN (PG-13): In this year’s Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film, a husband and wife move into a new flat, but an incident linked to the previous tenant throws their marriage into crisis. Little, Pittsford
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247 Seneca Parkway Every spring, flowering trees explode into bloom in the central street mall along Seneca Parkway in historic Maplewood. The mall was designed by the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893, along which stately homes were built for Rochester’s professionals and corporate executives from Eastman Kodak Co. If you hurry, you can be sitting on your open front porch at 247 Seneca Parkway in time for the floral display.
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ONTARIO - 7224 SLOCUM RD - $324,900 BRAND NEW CAPE COD. 5 ACRES! OPEN LAYOUT, Endless vineyard view. Wood floors, lg kitchen w/floor to ceiling cabs, stainless appliances, master suite w/modern soaking tub, 1st floor LAUNDRY, 9’ ceilings, basement egress, Detached Garage – Shop has fit 6 cars along with a 2-car attached garage. BY APPOINTMENT ONLY – CALL TODAY TO EXPERIENCE THIS PERFECT CAPE IN PERSON. Ryan Smith @ Re/max Realty Group 585-218-6802"
The home at 247 Seneca Pkwy. was built in 1895 with classic good looks that have withstood the test of time and HGTV. OK, there are no double sinks in the master bath, but the four bedroom home boasts 3-1/2 baths, a second-floor laundry, two-car garage, and kitchen island. All this, while retaining the original parquet floors with maple chain-pattern inlay, the master bath’s amazing original tile and fixtures, large oak pantry, bright and big maid’s quarters-to-die-for in the attic, and a sunken sitting room that now serves as the most elegant powder room ever. The elegance of the Tudor Revival exterior continues to a vestibule packed with period character; check out the little umbrella closet, the patterned tile floor and the symmetrical side lights on the exterior and interior doors. And that’s only in the first 15 square feet. Then a generous foyer welcomes you to a first floor of unpainted oak that glows in the sunlight. Oak columns lead the way to the living room, which features a massive fireplace mantle flanked by glass-fronted bookcases and leaded glass windows. The dining room is large, with oak beams and coats of arms in leaded glass windows.
A swinging door leads to the pantry and the modern kitchen, which leads to the backyard and the basement. Leading to the second floor are wide stairs with unusual spindles, a large landing and bank of windows halfway up, and a wide hallway opening to three bedrooms. The rooms are huge by period standards, and each boasts special features—elaborate woodwork, frame molding on the walls, sconces, glass doorknobs, a fireplace surrounded by handsome green tiles, walk-in closets and more. One bedroom looks out on the backyard with its pergola and tidy garden beds. Another overlooks the driveway, detached Tudor style garage and partially fenced yard. This home is in the Maplewood Historic District and as such qualifies for tax credits for maintenance and improvements to the property. The Maplewood Neighborhood Association is one of Rochester’s oldest and most active. Seneca Parkway is within walking distance of the beautifully renovated Maplewood YMCA, the Maplewood Library, the renowned Maplewood Rose Garden, public and private schools and shopping. An eight-minute drive in one direction finds Ontario Beach Park; in the other is downtown Rochester. Joe Giancursio of RE/MAX Realty Group (585-248-0250) is listing the 2,446 square foot property for $159,900. by Elizabeth Teall Elizabeth is a Landmark Society volunteer.
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CARING FOR CAREGIVERS Lifespan is looking for volunteers to offer respite to caregivers whose loved ones have been diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer’s Disease. For details call Eve at 244-8400
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Contact Urban League Of Rochester today to become a mentor to the youth in our community! Email Haley Catalano at hcatalano@ulr.org to get started.
BECOME A DOCENT at the Rochester Museum & Science Center Must be an enthusiastic communicator, Like working with children. Learn more at http://www. rmsc.org/Support/Volunteer Or call 585-697-1948
Interested in Volunteering? The Genesee Country Village & Museum involves many volunteers in dynamic and engaging opportunities for
programs and events. For more info: call (585) 294-8225 or email tmckelvey@gcv.org LIFESPAN’S OMBUDSMAN PROGRAM is looking for volunteers to advocate for individuals living in long-term care settings. Please contact, call 585.287.6378 or e-mail dfrink@lifespan-roch.org for more information OPERA GUILD OF Rochester needs a volunteer to assist with newsletter publication, and event helpers for the annual recital and opera
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VOLUNTEER NEEDED TO help with social media campaigns and communications writing. Experience required. Contact Claudia at cgillrochester.org or call 262-7044
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TEMPORARY JOBS For Painters Available Must have prior commercial painting experience including, but not limited to: • Working on scaffolds and tall ladders • Preparing Interior & Exterior surfaces • Repairing/patching of Drywall • Applying Primer and Finish coats All candidates must apply to Job Posting 199538 at www.rochester.edu/jobopp Strong Staffing University of Rochester Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled
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OUR PURPOSE
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SunCommon believes that everyone has the right to a healthy environment and brighter future – and renewable energy is where it starts. Energy from the sun can power our lives and build vibrant communities. Our mission is to tear down barriers to clean energy and use our business as a force for good.
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SunCommon’s field marketing program is our boots on the ground and the face of our company in the communities we serve – and, drives the majority of our inbound leads in most months. The Solar Field Marketing Manager is responsible for the oversight of this program, managing our team of Community and Grassroots Organizers.
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SunCommon believes that everyone has the right to a healthy environment and brighter future – and renewable energy is where it starts. Energy from the sun can power our lives and build vibrant communities. Our mission is to tear down barriers to clean energy and use our business as a force for good.
This position is the business lead for the fast-growing Residential Solar and Community Solar Array (CSA) segments of SunCommon New York. For more information about this position, including how to apply, please go to: http://suncommon.com/director-marketing-sales-residential-community-solar/
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For more information about this position, including how to apply, please go to: http://suncommon.com/solar-field-marketing-manager-ny/
Legal Ads NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 600 W Broad St. Rochester NY 14608 on Thursday March 16th at 1:00 pm. The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents. NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, and cancel or adjourn the sale. Name of tenant: ANDRE COLEY UNIT 45 owes $208, DENNIS BACH UNIT 54 OWES $308 [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: Floated Magazine LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/25/2016. Office is located in Monroe County. SSNY has designated an agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] 20Twenty Apartments, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/6/17. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 31 Berkshire St., Rochester, NY 14607. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] 230 S. MAIN STREET, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/17/17. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 411, Victor, NY 14564. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Principal business location: 1100 University Ave., Ste. 305, Rochester, NY 14607. [ NOTICE ] 7000 West Main Leroy LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 2/6/17. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 1271 Ridge Rd. West, Rochester, NY 14615. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] 977 Arnett LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/8/16. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Po Box 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose
[ NOTICE ] ACCELENT TECHNOLOGY LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 1/18/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served, SSNY shall mail process to ACCELENT TECHNOLOGY LLC, 19 OLDE HARBOUR TRAIL, Rochester, NY 14612 General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] AMINA HOUSING LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/20/2017. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 44 West Cavalier Rd., Scottsville, NY 14546, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] AMINA REALTORS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 1/17/2017. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 44 West Cavalier Rd., Scottsville, NY 14546, which is also the princiapl business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Aom Elite Auto Transport LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/30/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 290 Chelsea Meadows Dr West Henrietta, NY 14586 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Arete Auto Brokerage, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/25/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Webber Law, PLLC 171 Rutgers St Rochester, NY 14607 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Awdiw, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/11/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 169 Elm Dr Rochester, NY 14609 RA Webber Law, PLLC 171 Rutgers St Rochester, NY 14607 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Black Bridge Realty (Austin), LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on December 29, 2016 with an effective date of formation of December 29, 2016. Its principal place of business is located at 134 Fiddlers Hollow, Penfield, New York in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent
To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to 134 Fiddlers Hollow, Penfield, New York 14526. 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 ] Black Bridge Realty (East Bluff), LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on December 29, 2016 with an effective date of formation of December 29, 2016. Its principal place of business is located at 134 Fiddlers Hollow, Penfield, 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 134 Fiddlers Hollow, Penfield, New York 14526. 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 ] Blackbird Son Productions LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/3/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 47 Amerige Park Rochester, NY 14617 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Carefree Estates MHC, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/28/16. Cty: Monroe. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1672 Monroe Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Charles Marino Consulting, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 11/28/16. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 43 Skelby Moor Ln., Fairport, NY 14450. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Cmz Enterprise, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/8/16. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 1579 Hermance Rd Webster, NY 14580 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Gregory Outdoor Advertising, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/6/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC
upon whom process may be served & mail to Edmond Gregory Gorges 3380 Monroe Ave #107 Rochester, NY 14618 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] IGY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 12/12/2016. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 34 Lightfoot St., Rochester, NY 14623, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Kj Pac LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/6/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 688 Hightower Way Webster, NY 14580 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Knucklebones Publishing LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/10/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Hugh A. Sullivan 408 W Commercial St #4 East Rochester, NY 14445 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] KRAHE-Z DESIGNS, LLC filed Articles of Incorporation with N.Y. Secretary of State on 08/03/2016. Office location is in Monroe County. The N.Y. Secretary of State is designated as an agent for service of process. Any process shall subsequently be mailed to 35 Talamora Trail Brockport, NY 14420. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any business permitted under the law. [ NOTICE ] MCI Properties LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 01/19/17. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 45 Sycamore St., Rochester, NY 14620. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Popp Heating & Cooling, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 12/13/16. Office location: Monroe County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 390 Peart Ave., Rochester, NY 14622. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: PROSIGHT DEVELOPMENT, LLC.
Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 2/9/17. Office location: Monroe County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 60 Browns Race, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Nancy Foster Design Anthropology, LLC Art. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/2017 Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of processes to 160 Rockingham St, Rochester, NY 14620 Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license, number pending, for an on premise consumption beer, wine, cider and liquor license has been applied for by Paulino J.D. Management LLC dba Roncone’s, 232 Lyell Ave, Rochester, NY 14608. County of Monroe, for a restaurant under the alcohol beverage law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Kinktionary Lab, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) February 10, 2017. 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 the LLC at 1200 A Scottsville Rd, #490E, Rochester, NY 14624 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 183 Alliance Development LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/1/17. 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 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ]
Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 75 Whitestone Ln., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 4 Ways Express LLC. Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of 12/06/16. 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 14 F Brook Hill Ln, Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 7544 ROUTE 31, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/03/17. Office in 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, 15 Chatworth Circle North Fairport, New York 14450. Purpose: Any lawful purpose [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of A&L ROC Associates LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/28/16. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Acramal Solutions, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/15/2016 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 the LLC at 1933 N Union St. Spencerport NY 14559 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ]
Notice of Formation of 216 Hollywood LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/8/17. 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 75 Whitestone Ln., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Notice of Formation of Alliance Master Landlord LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 12/14/16. 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 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Amitas Properties of Syracuse, L.L.C.. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/17/17. 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 the LLC at 1 Crownwood Cir, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Antonelli Self Storge at East Ridge LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/12/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, Attn: Craig Antonelli, 22 Foxboro Lane, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Bartlett Property Services, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/18/17. 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 46 Sunderland Tr., Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of BARTON’S PARKSIDE HOTS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 104 West Ave., Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BEAR RUN PROPERTIES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/03/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Daren S. Chentow, 125 State St., Ste. 400, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CASCADILLA CREEK MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with
Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/26/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 220 Hibiscus Dr., Rochester, NY 14618. 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 D & M Freeze Drying & Dehydration Services, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/28/2016. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 46 Lori Ln., Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; Name of LLC: Whalen Transport, LLC; Date of filing: 1/13/17; Office of the LLC: Monroe Co.; The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 464 North Road, Scottsville, New York, 14546; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Fairfax Realty, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/30/17. 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 the LLC at 69 Lake Lea Road, Rochester, NY 14617 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Floodbroker Insurance Services LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/2/17. 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 6843 Pittsford Palmyra Rd., Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of GASTON RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/23/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 76 Drexel Dr., Rochester,
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Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company. VanderVen Tree LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on 1/23/2017. Office is located in Monroe County. Secretary of State designated as agent for service of process which shall be mailed to PO Box 1 Mendon, NY 14506. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Glacier Cryogenics, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/14/16. 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 the LLC at 8055 Strutt Street, Wayland, NY 14572. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of HMD Wellness, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/2/17. 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 75 Crestview Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JN of New York, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Department of State on December 30, 2016. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: PO Box 10793, Rochester NY 14610. The purpose of the Company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of KC Wholesale, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/26/2017 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 the LLC at 403 Stowell Drive, Rochester, NY 14616 Purpose: any lawful activities.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Mainsail Studio LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/27/2017. 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 the LLC at 34 Williamsburg Rd Pittsford, NY 14534 .Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Meyer Solutions LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/10/17. 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 Lawrence Meyer, 43 Gentian Way, Fairport, NY 14450, the Reg. Agt. upon whom proc. may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Militello Law Firm, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) February 27, 2017. 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 the LLC at 2480 Browncroft Blvd. Rochester, NY 14625 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan Baker Street LLC,
To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/23/17. 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 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan Perrys Realty LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/19/17. 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 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MS Baker Street LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/25/17. 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 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Natural Chemist Nutraceuticals, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/11/17. 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 1100 Fawn Wood Dr., Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of NRM Group LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/25/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated
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as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 85 Old Well Rd., Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Ought LLC. Arts. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State (SSNY) on 1/09/17. Office located in Monroe County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to 210 South Ave., Apt. 207, Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of PATRICK HOWELL STUDIOS LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) DATE. 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 the LLC at 350 PACKETTS LANDING FAIRPORT NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Paul Adams Family Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/31/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, Attn: Paul Adams, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of PRECIOUS METALS & STONES, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/14/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 1555 Highland Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Thomas Nary at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Sell online gold and diamond business. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rich Porter Services, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/13/2017. 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 the LLC at 65 Jewel Street Rochester NY, 14621 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION of Ridge Chapel Consulting, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New
York (SSNY) on 2/8/2017. Location: Monroe. SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Ridge Chapel Consulting, 1536 Fallen Leaf Terrace, Webster, NY 14580 Purpose: Any lawfull purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Roc-Prop.com, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) Dec.12, 2016. 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 the LLC at 511 Winncastle St., Simi Valley, CA 93065. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SAAZ IM&E LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/1/17. 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, 148 East Path Rise, West Henrietta, NY 14586. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Specialized Painting Services, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/21/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Ernest F. Ferullo, Esq., Adams Bell Adams, PC, 28 E. Main St., Ste. 600, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Iannelli Group, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) December 22, 2016. 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 the LLC at 30 Smugglers Lane, Rochester, NY 14617 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Thrive Studio ROC, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/15/17. 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, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of WINROSS REALTY COMPANY, LLC Arts. of
Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/06/17. 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, 2100 Hylan Dr., Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of CSMC 2007-C1 - 33 W 55th Street LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/20/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. bus. addr.: 5221 N. O’Connor Blvd., Suite 600, Irving, TX 75039. LLC formed in DE on 1/18/17. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of EIP Communications I, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/10/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. bus. addr.: 1435 Bedford Ave., Suite 108, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. LLC formed in DE on 7/5/16. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Ironclad Energy Partners LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/17/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. bus. addr.: 640 Quail Ridge Dr., Westmont, IL 60559. LLC formed in DE on 6/10/16. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ]
Notice of Qualification of MURPHY VALIANT ELECTRIC LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/07/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Massachusetts (MA) on 01/13/17. Princ. office of LLC: 1 Commerce St., Branchburg, NJ 08876. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Brian Leary, Valiant Power Group, Inc. at the princ. office of the LLC. MA addr. of LLC: 7 Riverside Dr., Pembroke, MA 02359. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of Commonwealth, One Ashburton Pl., Rm. 1717, Boston, MA 021081512. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of RANDSTAD TECHNOLOGIES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/01/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/03/02. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of South Towne CVP LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 1/19/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in DE on 12/23/16. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Community Veterinary Partners, 100 N. 20th St., Suite 302, Philadelphia, PA 19103, principal business address. DE address of LLC: 1679 S. Dupont Hwy., Suite 100, Dover, DE 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Oak Street Enterprises, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/18/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 206 Oak St #1 East Rochester, NY 14445 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Pawn Real Estate LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/18/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Po
Box 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Perl Holdings LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/19/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Po Box 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] PROGRESSIVE PILATES BY KRISTEN, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/18/16. Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2066. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 10 Starcrest Lane, WPebster, NY14580. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Renegade Goods Co., LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/19/16. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Alison Fupra 105 Garden Dr Fairport, NY 14450 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Ridgeway Athletics, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/3/16. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 1227 Ridgeway Ave #D Rochester, NY 14615 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] RIDGEWAY EQUITY LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/17/16. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 245 Birchwood Avenue, Cranford, NJ 07016. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Sassy & Fabulous LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/13/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 516 N Creek Crossings Rochester, NY 14612 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Smart Deli and Convenience, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on October 28, 2016. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served a copy of any process shall be mailed to Corporate Filings of New York, 90 State Street, Ste
Legal Ads 700, Office 40 Albany, New York, 12207. The purpose of the Company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] TOV BAY PROPERTIES LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/05/16. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 245 Birchwood Avenue, Cranford, NJ 07016. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Vs Real Estate Services, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/23/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 85 Silvarole Dr Rochester, NY 14623 General Purpose [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Mendon Acres, LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 01/18/17. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 11 Split Rail Run, Penfield, NY 14526. The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] 1021 Ridge Road, LLC Art. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/21/2017 Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of processes to 35 Cardogan Sq Rochester, NY 14625 Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Color Sentinel Systems, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 9/24/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 97 Ridgeland Road, Suite #2, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Effortless Systems, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 1/3/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against
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Alpine Property Rentals LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on January 13, 2017 with an effective date of formation of January 13, 2017. Its principal place of business is located at 581 Pine Grove Avenue, Rochester, New York in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to 581 Pine Grove Avenue, Rochester, New York 14617. 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.
MB60 Action Sports, LLC Art. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/21/2017 Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of processes to 87 Eagan Blvd, Rochester, NY 14623 Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of Formation of Holley Environmental and Weatherization, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/23/2017. 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,Whitney Ridge Road, Building 40, Apt. E8, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of Formation of U A Maintenance, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secy. Of State of NY (SSNY) on January 30, 2017. 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, 28 Limerick Lane, Rochester, NY 14606. Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE of FORMATION of SEDOR AUTO SALES, LLC ] Art. of Organization filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/27/16. Office of location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent if LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 1483 Creek Street Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Finish in Four, LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 2/15/17. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 36 Bromley Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. The LLC is managed by a manager.
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[ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Notice is hereby given that Boscarino Home Solutions, LLC, a Limited Liability Company, filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on February 14, 2017. The principal place of business of the company is the County of Monroe, State of New York, and the Secretary of State was designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company is: 6679 Conesus Springwater Road, PO Box 163, Conesus, NY 14435. The purpose of the company is to engage in any lawful activity for which a company may be organized under §203 of the Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Notice is hereby given that Boscarino Properties, LLC, a Limited Liability Company, filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on February 14, 2017. The principal place of business of the company is the County of Monroe, State of New York, and the Secretary of State was designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company is: 6679 Conesus Springwater Road, PO Box 163, Conesus, NY 14435. The purpose of the company is to engage in any lawful activity for which a company may be organized under §203 of the Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Preventech, LLC has filed articles of organization with
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the New York Secretary of State on November 4, 2016 with an effective date of formation of November 4, 2016. Its principal place of business is located at 114 Sunny Mill Lane, Rochester, New York in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to The LLC, 114 Sunny Mill Lane, Rochester, New York 14626. 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. [ SUMMONS ] INDEX# 2016-14145 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. June C. Riley, Deceased, and any persons who are heirs or distributees of June C. Riley, Deceased, and all persons who are widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as maybe deceased, and their husbands, wives,) heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; Scott Riley; Dawn C. Riley; Paige C. Heidt; ESL Federal Credit Union; County of Monroe; Town of Greece; United States of America; People of the State of New York; “John Doe” and/or “Mary Roe”, Defendants. Location of property to be foreclosed: 1113 Long Pond Road, Town of Greece, Monroe County, New York TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. NOTICE: YOU MAY BE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a
copy of the Answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the Answer with the Court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your property. Speak to an attorney or go to the Court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: December 8, 2016 MATTHEW RYEN, ESQ. Lacy Katzen, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff Office and Post Office Address The Granite Building 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION: The object of the above action is to foreclose a consolidated mortgage held by Plaintiff recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on March 14, 2012 in Liber 24219 of Mortgages, page 524 in the amount of $56,100.00. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, The plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action except for June C. Riley. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Matthew A. Rosenbaum, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated February 16, 2017, and filed along with the supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage. The premises is described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Greece, County of Monroe and State of New York, being part of Town Lot 3, Township 2, Short Range, First Division, and more particularly described as follows: Being Lot No. 1 of the Maylong Homes Tract, Section 1, as shown on a map filed in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 157 of Maps at page 76. Said Lot No. 1 is situate on the west side of Long Pond Road and is 100 feet wide front and rear and 150 feet deep, as shown on said map. Tax Acct. No.: 074.06-1-19 Property Address: 1113 Long Pond Road, Town of Greece, Monroe County, New York [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index
No.7973/2016 Filed 02/09/2017 Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the Mortgage premises is situated. CitiMortgage, Inc. Plaintiff- against - Judith A. Luciano, as Heir and Administratrix of the Estate of Agnes G. Kozloski, Michael J. Kozloski, as Heir to the Estate of Agnes G. Kozloski, Joseph F. Kozloski, as Heir to the Estate of Agnes G. Kozloski, if living and if Joseph F. Kozloski be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienor, heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of such of the above as may be dead, and their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residences are unknown to Plaintiff, Stephen R. Kozloski, as Heir to the Estate of Agnes G. Kozloski, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, United States of America, Chili Venture, LLC, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $36,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of MONROE on April 15, 1987, in Book 8075, Page 200, covering premises known as 188 Parkway, Rochester, NY 14608. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises Described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Com plaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the Mortgage Company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney
or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your Mortgage Company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Williamsville, New York By: Stephen J. Wallace, Esq. Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street (Main Office) Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01081694-F00 TO: Joseph F. Kozloski, as Heir to the Estate of Agnes G. Kozloski [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF OBJECT OF ACTION ] Supreme Court Of The State Of New York County Of Monroe Action to Foreclose a Mortgage Index #: I2016010873 Midfirst Bank Plaintiff vs Gerald W. Cone, Jr., Donna Cone, Frank B. Iacovangelo, Unknown Heirs To The Estate Of Rose Epstein As Heir To The Estate Of, People Of The State Of New York, United States Of America Acting Through The IRS, John Doe (being fictitious, the names unknown to Plaintiff intended to be tenants, occupants, persons or corporations having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the property described in the complaint or their heirs at law, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, guardians, assignees, creditors or successors.) Defendant(s) Mortgaged Premises: 133 Alcott Road, Rochester, NY 14626 SBL #: 074.15-4-10 To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Monroe. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged
Premises. TO Unknown Heirs to the Estate of Rose Epstein, Defendant In this Action. The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Gail A. Donofrio of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated January 17, 2017 and to be filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Monroe, in the City of Rochester. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, dated December 12, 1989, executed by Gerald W. Cone, Jr., Donna Cone and Rose Epstein (who died on October 14, 1999, a resident of the county of Monroe, State of New York) to secure the sum of $71,622.00. The Mortgage was recorded at Book 9874, Page 223 in the Office of the Monroe County Clerk on the December 12, 1989. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed December 12, 1989 and recorded on February 21, 1990, in the Office of the Monroe County Clerk at Book 792, Page 263. The mortgage was subsequently assigned by an assignment executed February 24, 1997 and recorded on March 28, 1997, in the Office of the Monroe County Clerk at Book 1167, Page 187. The property in question is described as follows: 133 ALCOTT ROAD, ROCHESTER, NY 14626 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: February 14, 2017 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose.
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