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Hopeless?
On Urban Journal’s “The State of the Union in the Age of Trump”: I
know things are unacceptably dark right now. But I’m disgusted at the ultra-negative tone your latest Urban Journal took. According to that editorial, we might as well all commit suicide, because there’s no hope. Trump might as well be dictator, our world is officially now a living hell, and there is nothing we can do to change it. I thought the media were supposed to inspire us to fight back against Trump. To inspire us to make a difference and change things. This is what the media should do, not tell us to sit down and take it because everything we will do is in vain. No hope? It’s the media’s job to find hope. Not shove hopelessness so far down our throats that we’re not motivated to do anything. Are you really going to let the Trump regime kill your fighting spirit? Are you going to let them win for eternity? Because I’m not. I don’t have the resources to move to another country and run away from the problems we face. I have no choice but to stay and fight. And you have a responsibility to your readers to do the same. PHILLIP MINER
Our Hispanic farmworkers
Our white innocence and ignorance allows certain members of our population to be excluded, denied, and vilified. When our government codifies adverse language to describe a population, carte blanche is offered to the rest of us to use those terms of law – illegal aliens and the other common epithets – to demonize, segregate, and imprison. My Hispanic students run into the dehumanizing efforts of 2 CITY
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our government whenever they have forms to complete, because they are always asked about their race. Their race is excluded on the forms; to complete the forms, they must declare themselves “white.” And yet not only are racial slurs hurled at them, not only are they excluded from our “white” society, but they are also racially profiled by law enforcement officers who are ready to remove brown-skinned “white people” from the society of real white people. President Obama performed what can only be described as a racial pogrom against the Hispanic population in a failed attempt to gain favor with the Republican white majority. He continued to be revered by the Hispanic community as he begged for social justice, all the while deporting on average 1000 Hispanics every day for six years. It was not until the deportation machine was lead by the Trump administration that the Hispanic community feared for their lives. And the result? The federal government says that half of all 2.6 million farmworkers are undocumented, unskilled, and of little value to our country. Forty percent of the 12 million undocumented people overstayed their visas. Most of them are not Hispanic; they are considered “white” and are therefore not generally hunted down by federal agents and local police. Whose children are depressed, repressed, and oppressed? Who is afraid to go to Walmart or the laundromat or to school events? Whose children are taught to look over their shoulder as they get off the school bus to be sure they are not being followed? Who are socially isolated, fearful, and living in darkened homes with the shades pulled so no one knows they are there? A regional leader of the New York State Police once said to me, “If we see a brownskinned person driving in Wayne County, we assume he is a farmworker and therefore is an illegal.” A teacher said to one of my Hispanic students, “It is too bad you were born in that family.” A farmworker
whose brand new chain saw was leaking gas down his leg was told by the store owner, “That’s what it is supposed to do.” As my godson was being detained, the ICE agents told me quite indignantly, “We don’t need to show him a warrant for his arrest.” JOHN L. GHERTNER
Supporting the police
On the issue of communitypolice relations, I believe that we should support the police and their very difficult job they do every day. Each of us pays 8 cents on the dollar to pay for the services they offer. And they put their lives on the line, as has been demonstrated within the past several weeks. DAVID HENNELLY
Fake news?
To those who have been trying to brand our news organizations as “Fake News”: Fake news is saying Ted Cruz’s father played a part in the JFK assassination. Fake news is saying Barack Obama was not born in the US on the grounds of zero evidence (even still questioning it after a birth certificate was released.) Fake news is saying the murder rate in the US is the highest it has been in 47 years. Fake news is stating that over three million people voted illegally in the 2016 presidential election on the grounds of zero evidence. Fake news is saying climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese in an effort to diminish US manufacturing. Fake news is saying that Donald Trump was wiretapped by Barack Obama during the presidential campaign. Fake news is saying that this president is the worst treated politician in history. These are examples of “fake news,” and they were not said by the media, they were said by the current president of the United States. Please stop trying to silence or discredit voices who do disagree with you, and that goes for you as well, Mr. President. PK WHITE
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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER
Finding hope, locally, in the age of Trump A reader responding to my column last week – “The State of the Union in the Age of Trump” – concluded that I’ve abandoned hope. And in doing that, wrote Phillip Miner, I’ve failed in my responsibility to encourage readers to fight back. Actually, I haven’t abandoned hope, although I’m certainly discouraged. But I appreciate Miner’s concern, and his determination to fight the darkness that many of us see. As I told him, I admire his spirit, because we’ll need it. Change won’t be easy, and it won’t come quickly. One lesson from the current mess is that much of the change has to begin at the local level. The anger and frustration of individual people across the country coalesced into grassroots activism that created the Tea Party movement, which led to the right-wing take-over of Congress and the madness that now occupies the White House. So while we’re railing at Washington, we’d better be working at home, pushing for progress and progressive ideas in the city, the suburbs, and the state. This community is a good place, for many of us. And occasionally, I can pull myself out of the funk that the national mess has inspired, and find hope that we’ll lick some of the deep-rooted problems that keep this from being a good place for all of us. Poverty, education, racism: they’re not insurmountable problems. We just haven’t had the will to solve them. One place I’m finding hope right now: interviewing candidates for the fall election. In Rochester, this is a big year. Voters will elect the mayor, the majority of City Council members, and three of the seven school board members. And in the Democratic Party, there’s intense competition: three candidates for mayor filed petitions, five filed for school board, 13 for City Council. A few of them may get disqualified after the signatures on their petitions are scrutinized, but many will survive challenges and be on the ballot. That’s a good sign. In spite of the difficulties that governments are facing, in spite of the public’s low opinion of politicians, people are still interested in public service. And it’s encouraging that a fair number of the candidates are relative newcomers to politics, younger adults who have been active in other areas of community work but now want to get into politics.
If Rochester is to grow and thrive, young people, new people, will have to help plan its future.”
If Rochester is to grow and thrive, if all of its citizens are to thrive, young people, new people, will have to help plan its future. And while not everything has to be done by government, a lot does. Interviewing candidates for local office is one of my favorite jobs. Our writers learn a lot, from each of them. And at the end, we’ll let readers know which candidates we believe should be elected. I know that some readers don’t think the media should endorse candidates, but to me, that’s one of our most important responsibilities. If we share our opinion about everything from school policy and police oversight to the environment and foreign affairs, why shouldn’t we tell you who we think should set those policies? And so, over much of the remainder of the summer, we’ll be meeting with candidates, talking to them about key local issues. We’ll be weighing the advantage of political experience against the need for new ideas, new approaches, new energy. We’ll welcome your comments, your questions and ideas as we go through this process. And we’ll encourage you to pay attention, to the candidates and the issues, and to get involved – voting, certainly, but also finding a way to be involved year-round, whether that’s through a political party or a nonpartisan group working for a better community and a better country. Donald Trump and the right-wing majority in Congress didn’t get where they are by accident. And if we want change, like CITY reader Phillip Miner, we’ll have to fight for it. rochestercitynewspaper.com
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[ NEWS FROM THE WEEK PAST ]
Bike-sharing comes to Rochester
The city launched its first bike-share program, partnering with Zagster, a national bike-share provider. The company is providing 340 bikes, which are available at 46 Zagster stations located throughout the city. Bikes can be returned to a Zagster station or any cityowned public bike rack. Zagster has no upfront membership fee, and the cost of using a bike is $1 per half hour. Information: www.zagster.com/ROC.
Candidates report on their funding
Mayor Lovely Warren led the cash race among the Democratic candidates for mayor, who are facing off in a September primary. The latest filings, covering January 13 to July 13 of this year, show that Warren raised $273,375, spent $169,965, and had a balance of $342,183. James Sheppard raised $223,082, spent $122,921, and had a balance of $105,625. Barnhart raised $30,782, spent $8,787, and had a balance of $22,130.
Museum plans a new entry
George Eastman Museum announced plans to relocate the main entrance
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to the museum and make several interior changes. The current entry faces University Avenue, and museum leaders want to move that to the area of the current café, which is closer to the building’s parking lot. The café would be expanded, perhaps to include seating in the palm café, and the restrooms would also be expanded. The cost is estimated at $2 million; the museum is seeking $1 million in state funds and has a commitment of private funds for the remaining $1 million if the state funding is secured. Museum officials hope that construction will be completed in 2019.
Family leave regulations are ready
The state adopted paid family leave regulations, which go into effect on January 1, 2018. The state’s new paid family leave laws allow workers to take time off to care for new children and close relatives with serious health problems, as well as when a family member is actively deployed overseas for military service. Workers’ jobs will be protected during their leave, and they’ll receive a portion of their wages; private-sector employees will fund the program through payroll deductions.
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The Sierra Club recently brought an electric bus to Rochester and arranged some outreach events, including one at City Hall. PHOTO BY JEREMY MOULE
TRANSPORTATION | BY JEREMY MOULE
Get on the electric bus The half-rumbling, half-whirring grind of a diesel bus is unmistakable. For a lot of Rochesterians, it’s the sound of public transit. But the next era of RTS buses could be much quieter and cleaner. The transit agency plans to begin a process for buying five electric buses in the late summer or early fall, says spokesperson Tom Brede. RTS received a $5 million award from the state in April to help pay for the vehicles, which would could be in service by the end of 2019 and would replace diesel buses. RTS will also have to install charging stations to serve the buses.
RTS has 219 full-size buses that serve Monroe County, all of which are diesel-powered. The five electric buses will replace five vehicles from that fleet, Brede says. The state Sierra Club’s Electric Vehicle Initiative is applauding RTS for the commitment, which it says puts Rochester in the lead on electric buses in New York, topping even New York City’s transit system. The Sierra Club has been organizing events to show off electric buses in Upstate cities, including Buffalo, where the regional transit agency has been investing in
compressed natural gas buses and fueling stations. The Sierra Club recently held four days of events in Rochester, including a public information session and a demonstration at the Public Market, where people had a chance to ride one of the vehicles. It also held sessions for government officials and key RTS staffers to examine an electric bus. A fact sheet from the Sierra Club says electric buses are far cheaper to operate and maintain than diesel buses, and they generate far less air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
BUSINESS | BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
With a compromise in the works, divinity school leaders asked for more time, so they and Top Capital, which wants to buy the school’s campus, could understand the implications of the landmark designation and negotiate some parameters.
DEVELOPMENT | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO
CRCDS landmark status delayed At a special joint hearing last week of the city’s Preservation Board and Planning Commission, Thomas McDade Clay, vice president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, pleaded with members for more time – and he got it. McDade Clay asked members of the two boards to delay their vote on whether CRCDS should be designated a city landmark until CRCDS’s board of trustees, and the property’s buyer, Top Capital of New York, could fully understand the implications of the designation and negotiate some parameters. A compromise was already in the works shortly before the meeting. Top Capital had agreed to scrap earlier plans to build a new facility for the divinity school at the southern end of the campus near Highland Avenue and South Goodman Street. The company proposed instead to build CRCDS’s new building on the northeast side of the campus. But that site is currently occupied by two dorms – Saunders House and Andrews House – and a parking lot. Top Capital and CRCDS are asking that the landmark status not apply to that portion of the campus. The buildings are not as historically significant as the others on the campus, and landmark designation might
delay construction of the new school, McDade Clay told board members. Wayne Goodman, director of the Landmark Society of Western New York, said in a written statement that he supported delaying the vote as well CRCDS’s request to exclude the two buildings. But the push for landmark status has added a wrinkle to the school’s sale of its scenic campus. At last week’s Preservation Board-Planning Commission meeting, more Neighborhood residents and preservationists want the than a dozen neighborhood divinity school campus declared a landmark. leaders and residents spoke PHOTO BY KEVIN FULLER strongly in support of landmark status for all of the CRCDS campus. Marie cumbersome. CRCDS doesn’t have funds Via, who filed the landmark application, to maintain the aging campus, he said. described the campus as one of the most Landmark designation, advocates significant architectural sites in the city. argued, enhances the value of the site One Preservation Board member and doesn’t prevent future construction. challenged Via, asking why, if it is so McDade Clay said that Top Capital is not important, landmark status wasn’t pursued opposed to landmark status. before. And McDade Clay expressed The Preservation Board’s next meeting concern that Top Capital might walk will be Wednesday, September 6, at which away from the deal if it becomes too time a vote on landmark status is expected.
Lakeshore Record Exchange to close
Just as Lakeshore Record Exchange celebrates its 29th year in business, the beloved record store has announced that it will close. Lakeshore’s focus on alternative music made it an important spot in Rochester to score American and European records and CDs in the genre. Time and technology have changed the accessibility of these products, Lakeshore President Andrew Chinnici said in a provided statement. And as with so many other record stores that have closed their doors, “the new ways that people consume music have brought the store’s purpose for being to its natural conclusion,” he says. Lakeshore, which is located at 370 Park Avenue, started an inventory liquidation sale on Monday, July 24, with all stock marked at 30 percent off (except concert tickets, consignment items, and special orders that were previously placed). The store will officially close once everything is sold, but a farewell event is scheduled for Wednesday, September 20. Tickets and information are available at alternativemusic.com. Lakeshore’s Alternative Music Film Society will continue its monthly screenings of music documentaries and performance films at the MAG. And the streaming radio station, “Radio AlternativeMusic.com,” will continue at alternativemusic.com.
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DEVELOPMENT STATUS | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER
The long, long road for Cobbs Hill Village
It’s not unusual for development proposals to be controversial, and several development plans are generating a lot of heat in Rochester right now. But one of the most complex is the expansion plan for Cobbs Hill Village, a 60-year-old apartment complex for low-income senior residents. Currently, the Village consists of six onestory apartment buildings tucked into the north side of Cobbs Hill Park, with the woods of Cobbs Hill itself rising up behind it. It’s an attractive, unique site for apartments, carved out of the park by city officials in 1956 specifically for housing for low-income Rochesterians over the age of 55. Rents run from $332 for a studio to $508 for a one-bedroom apartment. The apartments are owned and operated by Rochester Management, a non-profit organization that operates residential units throughout the Rochester area for low and middle-income residents. Rochester Management says the 60 current units are outdated, and it wants to replace them with two- and three-story buildings that would contain 98 units. The majority of the units would be classified “below-market-rate affordable” units – something the region needs more of – and Rochester Management says current residents would be guaranteed units at the rent they’re now paying. Some of the new units, however, would be market rate. The new units would have larger kitchens, better appliances, more accessible laundry facilities, and better heating and air-conditioning, Rochester Management says. There would be a fitness room, a computer lab, an indoor community space, and private outdoor space, none of which the current units have. And Rochester Management argues that because the current units open directly onto common sidewalks, residents lack privacy. The plan has met with exceptionally strong opposition, however, from neighborhood organizations, environmentalists, and the Cobbs Hill Village tenants’ association. Among their arguments: that the current units are perfectly serviceable and can be upgraded, that the rents in many of the new units won’t be affordable to many low-income older people, and that two- and threestory buildings are incompatible with the surrounding park. And, they argue, the very nature of the current buildings – all at ground level, opening onto common sidewalks – encourages social interaction among 6 CITY
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residents, something research indicates is valuable for older adults. In addition, some opponents want the Cobbs Hill Village land to eventually revert to city control and become part of the park again. Under ordinary circumstances, the
height of the new buildings wouldn’t be a problem. The property is zoned R-3 – highdensity residential – and R-3 properties have no height restrictions. But this is no ordinary project. In 1956, when the city transferred the land for use as housing for the elderly, a Rochester Management subsidiary took out a mortgage to build the apartments. And the deed transferring the land stated that when the mortgage was paid off, ownership of the land would revert to the city. At the time, says city attorney Brian Curran, that was projected to be in 2012. But in 2009, Rochester Management refinanced the mortgage on Cobbs Hill Village, part of a refinancing package that included two other Rochester Management properties. Now, Curran says, Rochester Management has “the legal right to own and operate the existing units through 2041.” It can’t do as it pleases with the property, though. The 1956 deed required that the city’s Planning Commission approve “plans and specifications” of the apartments, and Curran says that the city’s law department has interpreted that wording to mean that the Planning Commission has to approve any revisions to the original project. Right now, the application is in the hands of city staff. Rochester Management has filled out a state Environmental Assessment form, a public-comment period has been held, and city planning and zoning staff are reviewing all of that material. Zina Lagonegro, the city’s planning and zoning director, says she can’t project how long that review will take, but when it’s completed, the application will then go to the Planning Commission for a vote. Because of the involvement of a deed and
a mortgage, the application is a unique one, and the review process “does not fit precisely with any standard process of the
The current Cobbs Hill Village apartments. Rochester Management wants to replace the single-story buildings with new, taller ones. PHOTO BY KEVIN FULLER
Planning Commission,” Curran has told the planning and zoning department. Given that, he will advise the Planning Commission to use the standards it uses when it considers special permits. The commission doesn’t have to follow Curran’s advice, but if it does, it would not only determine whether the plan is consistent with the city’s Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Code, but it would also consider such things as whether the project will “dominate the immediate vicinity.” And it would consider whether the project would have “an adverse impact on the character, traffic, parking, and other matters affecting public health, welfare, and safety” in the area around the park, Curran says. If the Planning Commission votes against the project, that’ll be the end of the process. But if it approves it, there’ll be two more steps. Rochester Management plans to seek refinancing in order to build the new project, and a new mortgage will require the city’s consent. That means both City Council and the mayor have to approve it. And while some of the Planning Commission’s consideration could be subjective – just how serious is the impact on the view of the park? – the next steps can involve even more subjectivity. And the decisions might be more influenced by public opinion. City Council and the mayor “could consider any factor” they wanted to, says Curran, including opposition by the neighbors or opposition by current tenants. “It’s open to their discretion,” Curran says. “That would be my interpretation.” “The only thing I think a body couldn’t do,” says Curran, is something based on discrimination: excluding members of a protected class, for instance. Thanks to the peculiarities of the project’s history and location, then, the future of Cobbs Hill Village is undergoing unique scrutiny. The Planning Commission, City Council, and the mayor will be weighing the concerns of the
critics, including the impact on the view and “feel” of that part of Cobbs Hill Park against Rochester Management’s argument that the current apartments need updating and the city’s need for more low-cost housing for low-income older residents. Rochester Management, which first submitted its plans more than a year ago, has already revised them once, reducing the number of units from the originally planned 104 to 98, lowering the buildings’ height to a maximum of three stories, changing exterior materials and color, and adding some townhouse-style units. “All of these changes were requested during 17 meetings” with tenants, community organizations, and city officials,” Rochester Management said in an April press release. And the changes, Rochester Management said, have increased the cost of the project by $2.5 million and have delayed completion of the project by a year. The revisions didn’t change the minds of critics who want Rochester Management to keep the current buildings and simply upgrade them. Opposition groups include the Cobbs Hill Tenants Association; the Elder Justice Committee of Metro Justice; two environmental groups: Friends of Washington Grove and the Sierra Club of Rochester; and neighborhood organizations from throughout the city: Upper Monroe, the ABC neighborhood, North Winton Village, PLEX, Maplewood, Lyell-Otis, Charlotte, Park-Meigs, Beechwood, EMMA, Canterbury-Harvard, and Lyell Avenue Neighbors. Given the detailed scrutiny that planning and zoning staff are giving the application, the environmental review form, and other material, the application likely won’t reach the Planning Commission until fall. And even if the commission acts quickly, the mayor and City Council will conduct their own analysis. It may be months, then, before Rochester Management and the tenants find out where the project is headed. rochestercitynewspaper.com
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Designing
FOR A BETTER CITY
The Design Center’s new leader shares ideas on the city of the future URBAN PLANNING | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO
CDCR president Maria Furgiuele. PHOTO BY KEVIN FULLER
The City of Rochester, says Maria Furgiuele, is experiencing a longawaited renaissance, and it has a chance to shape its future in a way that will benefit all of its residents – and attract new ones. With thoughtful planning, she says, the city can provide quality housing for all of its people, create mass transit that serves the public and protects the environment, and preserve its older buildings and create well-designed new ones. And she wants her organization to be involved in that planning. Furgiuele is the new executive director of Community Design Center Rochester, a non-profit organization that, in the words of its website, promotes “healthy, sustainable communities” by encouraging quality design, planning, and “thoughtful use” of buildings and natural resources. CDCR is known for its community charrettes, which bring together community residents to plan future development, and it has become a strong resource for city planners. Its speakers’ series have highlighted the achievements of mayors and urban planners from communities around the country as they’ve faced obstacles to redevelopment in their cities. The organization was sort of an offspring of ARTWalk, says Maria Furgiuele. When the Department of Transportation planned to widen University Avenue, a group of neighborhood residents and architects pushed back. The architects worked with the community to re-imagine University Avenue with new sidewalks, cutouts for parking, and space for street art. Their hope was to help create a new and interesting experience out of a street that some people saw merely as a highway in and out of the city, says Furgiuele. “Obviously we know now, almost 20 years later, how successful that was,” she says. That small group of architects later formed CDCR, and Furgiuele recently became its new executive director. Since then, CDCR has expanded its influence beyond the city, guiding communities like Rush and Penfield – areas where cars are so dominant that they’ve nearly erased town centers. Rochester’s design center is one of many at work throughout the country – born, Furgiuele says, “out of the urban renewal era.” “We saw the beginning of urban sprawl and everyone leaving the city to beautiful green pastoral suburbs that reflected a certain way of life and a middle class affluence,” she says. “Now, 50 years later, we’re seeing the impact of that kind of development.” “We had to build a huge infrastructure to facilitate how people move around, places that are less dense, where everybody needs to have their own car,” Furgiuele says. Looking back, we see the negative impact, “because we can’t build enough parking lots and garages to accommodate the cars. Roads are becoming ever wider to accommodate more cars and faster traffic. And every one of those things has incrementally deteriorated the urban fabric physically, and more importantly, our urban experience emotionally.” The mission of design centers like Rochester’s “is to help people become engaged in the design decisions that are being made that impact their neighborhoods and communities,” Furgiuele says. “We really have a social equity component to our work. And areas where people have done this have seen real success. We can see cities that had these conversations 20 and 30 years ago.” For example, she says: “Portland would be a model city for transit. Certainly they have other problems, but they wanted new transit options to limit the growth of roadways and sprawl.” “We’re looking at riverfront development in Rochester,” she said. “So many communities across the country are looking at creating artificial waterfronts because there is such a great return on investment. It’s desirable, a thing that people want. But right here we have more natural waterfront than people can imagine, and we’re just beginning to understand the true value of the river and how to put it to its best future use.” Furgiuele has a long history with CDCR. An architect herself, she is also a real estate agent, was a volunteer for CDCR, and served on the organization’s board, eventually becoming president in 2014. In a recent interview, she talked about the importance of planning and design in creating livable, sustainable communities. The following is an edited version of that conversation. rochestercitynewspaper.com
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CITY: Some people may consider design as simply a lot of froufrou.
FURGIUELE: In tough economic times, artists, architects, and designers are often viewed as non-essential. They’re frequently seen as the frosting on the cake. But design means planning. It means intentionality, and it means thoughtfulness – and that’s critical. We know for economic and environmental reasons that we need to build for more density. There’s a need to conserve resources, and there’s a need to share as much of the available resources as we can. There’s also the growing understanding of the health implications of good design. It’s a fact that living in walkable communities contributes to better health. And there’s the social aspect. We’re seeing society physically disconnect. Technology is important, but it builds control over how we experience things, and for many people that has become an isolating experience. It makes a big difference in how an open space is created, and how that space is used. And that has a lot to do with how it is designed. More people, particularly younger people, get this.
What trends are influencing planners and designers, and where does Rochester stand in those trends?
We’re most influenced by what is referred to as the “new urbanism” movement, which is really about recognizing the value of urban environments and replicating some of the features that people seem to gravitate toward. It’s a movement that’s about 30 years old, and I would say Rochester is a little late to the party. It’s happening here now, but other cities grabbed on to that idea and began making changes that they are now benefiting from. The good news is that there isn’t a whole lot that we need to invent. We have wonderful examples of what works that we can kind of pick and choose from.
turned around and said, “Wait a minute, my summers are so hot and muggy.” Her point was, every city has its challenges. The other point that Kim White made was that they rebuilt the waterfront for their residents and the tourists came after that. “We didn’t build a city riverfront that would attract tourists,” she said. And I think that’s a great starting point for Rochester. We already have more than 200,000 people who live here and businesses that want to be here. You’re working with the Charlotte community. The fast ferry didn’t work out, but it did seem to awaken people to the possibilities for the waterfront and harbor area.
Everybody brings up the fast ferry as a
The ferry did help to make people think of the area as a waterfront and as an entrance way to the city and the region. But cities like Rochester, Buffalo, and Syracuse actually have lost a huge percentage of their populations to places in the South like Chattanooga and Austin. We’re trying to keep the residents and businesses we still have.
Sure, people are going to places like that for the warmer weather, but it can also be for other reasons. If you build an interesting place, people will want to go to that place for that experience. We’ve existed by giving companies incentives, and we’re trying to bribe them to come to our urban centers.
As CDCR’s new executive director, what are your priorities?
We are going to be 15 years old, and so many people outside of the architectural community don’t know we exist. That’s going to be my biggest challenge. There’s so much going on in Rochester right now. We are really going through this amazing renaissance. It’s been building and percolating for a long time. We’ve been involved in that, but now we have to really help guide that work. For instance, I think what’s urgently needed in this community is a better appreciation and understanding that existing structures should not be torn down to do something like create surface parking or roadways. It’s not that we can’t take down buildings or that everything must be preserved. But every time we tear a building Charlotte Street, which used to be split by the Inner Loop, now connects downtown to the University-East Avenue neighborhood to the east. Above: the new down in the city, it’s a rip in the fabric of the Charlotte Square residential complex on the west side of the Loop infill. PHOTO BY KEVIN FULLER city and it weakens it. Would you include zombie properties?
Yes. Understand that properties become zombie properties over time. If we had a way to identify those properties earlier, maybe we could capture them and reutilize that space before they are abandoned and sitting vacant. It’s usually better to have a family to come into a house in a neighborhood than to tear the house down. For instance, when you look at places like the area around Hudson Avenue, where we just did a design charrette last year, there are residential streets that have been wiped out with maybe two, three, or four homes left standing. We’re working with people in that community, because there are wonderful assets there like the Jordan Health Center. But it’s a real challenge to weave neighborhood fabric back together. 10 CITY JULY 26 - AUGUST 1, 2017
We can look at Portland as a great example of a city with a good transit system or Chattanooga for its wonderful example of riverfront development. There are so many places around the country doing extraordinary work that we can look to as models. The problem is, we’re always willing to make excuses, like “the weather here is terrible in the winter.” Well, the weather is cold in Toronto, too, but they have a thriving waterfront year round. It’s the same weather, maybe worse. We just had Kim White, president of the River City Company in Chattanooga. She was here to speak about that city’s riverfront development, and the first thing that someone said to her was, “Well, of course you can do that down where you are.” And then she
folly, but I disagree. It was a great thing. As a business owner on Park Avenue, I knew exactly when the ferry started running. I always engaged people in the shop and often asked where people were from. These ladies one day said, “Oh, we’re from Toronto. We took that fast ferry. We couldn’t wait for it to get started.” This was in the first few days of its operation and, if you recall, Lake Avenue was all torn up. So they took a cab up to Park Avenue. I bring this up because this is one of the problems we have in this community: we never feel that we’re worthy of anything. Another city can do this or that, but you’ll always hear someone say, “That will never happen in Rochester.” And we have so many amenities, natural resources, and beauty here.
One of our other speakers said that they focused first on creating “a place,” and those investments attracted new people and businesses. We’re kind of seeing that now with all of these office towers that are being converted to residential space. Why did we ever expect a city to survive when it was only one dimensional? It makes sense that for a city to be vibrant and support itself, it needs residents. But it also needs to be interesting before it can attract those residents. I walk blocks and blocks when I’m in New York City, and I don’t think anything of it because it’s fun and it’s interesting. Here you might walk three or four connected blocks and then you have this big open space that you have to traverse, a blank wall, or an open parking lot. And you lose interest.
We have to begin to fill in all of those blanks and create interesting, continuous space. And it can’t be punctured by driveways every 100 feet, because that makes it unsafe for pedestrians. We really have to make the commitment to make urban spaces for pedestrians. It’s critical for the life of this city, and we’ve been afraid to do that. Too much in Rochester is driven by parking. We have to start thinking of other options, because we can never accommodate the car enough. The charrettes are a blast, but how do you keep the process moving so that after you’ve had this brainstorming, people see the fruition of their work?
The frustrating thing is that we have these expectations that these places will be transformed in two, three, or five years. Good places take time and incremental development. We can look at Portland, and what a great transit system, but it wasn’t great in Year 2 or Year 5. What’s your view of some of the projects underway like Midtown, filling in the Inner Loop, and the proposal for the performing arts center?
The best thing that has happened to this city in the last few years was the dismantling of the mall. There was a lot of criticism about the way it came about. But we know now that malls are on the decline. They’re dying, and they leave these vast holes. In most cases I support preservation, but in this instance, I think dismantling it was the right decision for us. We know that we need to weave the city back together again, CDC was wholeheartedly in support of filling in the Inner Loop. That is about knitting back the fabric of the city, eliminating barriers, and helping these neighborhoods mend. And we’re already seeing that happening. We already cross Charlotte Street like it was always like it is now. When Mayor Warren was beginning her term, she wasn’t completely sold on it, and she questioned it. But as she has met with other mayors, she’s found that people are talking about it. This is a huge thing that administrations in other cities are looking closely at. The next thing that is going to happen, hopefully, is that we’re going to fill in most of the rest of the Inner Loop. That would allow some of the area north of downtown, much of it lowincome housing, to be more available for development. The goal here is for more integrated communities. We don’t want to push anybody out, but we know that right now it exists as a community of concentrated poverty. We need to create housing for the people that are there now, but also have housing for other income-levels. This would begin to impact that concentration in a positive way.
The Community Design Center has expanded its work and is helping residents of suburban areas like Rush plan for the future. PHOTO BY KEVIN FULLER
Few people would connect design to breaking up the city’s concentrated poverty.
poverty, this is one of those things that is easier to do.
And that’s the argument that I have to make, because that is the most critical need facing our city. And we know that just planting a few trees, making the streets prettier, or giving people new housing isn’t going to help. What will help is affordable housing, but I hate the typical formula that’s used for building affordable housing. There should be all strata of residents and incomes, and a percentage of those residents should be subsidized. They should be integrated. We build affordable housing that typically has income parameters. Developing diverse housing means that there will be tiny units and big units, luxury flats and studio apartments. Every new development needs to have that diversity. It can’t be just for certain people. Something else that would be impactful is a bike-lane system that goes all around the city and gets people around in a safe way. I volunteer at R Community Bikes and every Wednesday we give away so many bikes that we run out. We have more demand than what we have available. For many people, this is the only reliable way to get around. If you want to impact
What about Parcel 5?
We’re still seeing some people saying that filling in the Inner Loop was crazy: “whose pie-in-the-sky idea was that?” Well, you have some people who question why we need a performing arts center. I don’t think enough has been done to educate people about why these things really need to happen. The Inner Loop needed to happen because the infrastructure was crumbling and there wasn’t enough money to repair it, and you’re going to see more of this through the state and the country. And the same thing has happened with the performing arts center. The arts center we currently have doesn’t have air conditioning, and it doesn’t have a big enough stage: things that limit the theater’s opportunities. So I fully believe that having a new performing arts center would be a wonderful thing, but I don’t believe that Parcel 5 is the right location for it. This is my opinion and not an official position of the CDCR. We have the Eastman Theatre at one end of Main Street and having the performing arts center at the other end, let’s say near Court Street, would be a better choice. It could be strategic in developing the space between the two sites if it’s done right,
rather than having everything clustered in one node. And when you look at Parcel 5, think of New York City without Central Park. New York City is in many ways defined by Central Park. Rochester has this incredible opportunity: this terrific space is in exactly the right location, facing our Main Street and the Sibley Building. It’s huge, which makes it versatile. It could be used for so many things, festivals, music concerts, and events – and most important, it could be interesting. Someone approached me the other day and said wouldn’t it be great to have the performing arts center in Charlotte, where there aren’t as many things happening during the winter. And we want this string of pearls up and down the river. So that’s another idea. We have to have a plan for the whole city, a vision, and right now what we have is scatter-shot development. I often say that the only thing that’s worse than doing nothing is doing the wrong thing. And that would be so frustrating, particularly when we have so many wonderful examples of how things can be done well. There’s no excuse for it not being done to the very best standard.
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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.)
Planning wildlife management
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will hold a public information meeting on Tuesday, August 15, regarding the completion of a wildlife management plan. The DEC manages state lands for water quality, a healthy wildlife population, and recreational uses. The goal of the plan, still in its draft form, is to create a balance of vegetative types and policies for monitoring wildlife species. The meeting will be held in the conference room of the state’s DEC Region 8 Headquarters, 6274 East Avon-Lima Road, in Avon, at 6:30
p.m. A 30-minute presentation on the draft plan will be followed by a question and answer period. The plan is online: www.dec.ny.gov/ lands/99999.html.
Meeting set to discuss Bull’s Head revitalization
The city will hold a public meeting on Thursday, July 27, to discuss revitalizing the Bull’s Head area. Bull’s Head, just west of downtown Rochester, is one of the city’s oldest neighborhoods, but it has a disproportionately high percentage of vacant buildings and lots and a significant number of sites with environmental concerns. Sites like these often involve some type of industrial contamination that needs to be removed. The city has received a grant of nearly $300,000 from the
Brownfield Opportunity Areas Grant Program to further the cleanup and revitalization efforts in the neighborhood. The public meeting to discuss the plans will be held at St. Mary’s hospital campus, 89 Genesee Street, first floor, at 6 p.m.
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The view from Swilly's, which recently opened at the Landing at Pultneyville. The spot is an offshoot of The Playhouse/Swillburger, with a focus on seafood. The Swilly's lobster roll (below) has been a blockbuster item for the restaurant. PHOTOS BY KEVIN FULLER
Keen on crustaceans Swilly’s Fish and Franks 4135 MILL STREET, PULTNEYVILLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, 12 P.M. TO 8 P.M.; SUNDAY, 12 P.M. TO 6 P.M. 315-904-4138; SWILLYSFISHANDFRANKS.COM [ FEATURE ] BY MARY RICE
When Brian Van Etten and Jeff Ching visited the Landing at Pultneyville last spring, they immediately saw the potential in the distinctive red building with its lakefront location. Van Etten and Ching co-own the South Wedge burger joint and barcade The Playhouse/Swillburger — Ching also owns the Owl House on Marshall Street — and they envisioned two new restaurants in the space. Working on a tight timeline, Van Etten and Ching launched a Swillburger offshoot, Swilly’s Fish and Franks, in early July, and a new Owl House location is slated to open later this summer. Formerly home to the Pultneyville Grill, the Landing is situated where Salmon Creek empties into the harbor. The Owl House will
occupy the bright and airy upstairs dining room — currently the restaurant is waiting for its liquor license, Van Etten says. Swilly’s is located on the ground level, where a second, smaller kitchen opens onto a covered patio with casual outdoor seating and views of the sailboats docked at Pultneyville Yacht Club. While the original plan was to carry over the Swillburger concept to Pultneyville, Van Etten quickly realized the space wasn’t large enough to cook burgers the Swillburger way. Instead, drawing on the restaurant’s waterfront location, Van Etten and head chef Christian
Simeone envisioned a classic seafood shack with a few twists. One of the menu items is a take on a dish Van Etten had on a trip to Cinque Terre, Italy, a couple of years ago. That dish — a mix of fried squid, anchovies, shrimp, and other seafood served in a paper cone with a healthy spritz of lemon — inspired Swilly’s own mixed seafood fry. So far, Swilly’s most popular item has been its lobster roll, which is served “Mainestyle” — that is, with light mayo, a bit of lemon, and nothing else — in a top-split New England-style roll made especially for Swilly’s by Flour City Bread. Each lobster roll contains the meat of about one lobster, Van Etten says — he estimates he can make 90 lobster rolls out of 100 lobsters. That hasn’t been nearly enough, he adds: Swilly’s is far outstripping the customer volume he
expected. Between his first and second week of business, Van Etten tripled his product orders to keep up with demand, but still ended up running out of lobster rolls. In addition to lobster rolls, Swilly’s serves hot dogs sourced from Schrader Farms Meat Market in Romulus as well as a vegetarian dog it calls “not a hot dog.” And there’s “not a lobster roll,” a tofu creation which Van Etten says tastes uncannily like the real thing. Open just under a month, Van Etten says he and his team are already making changes and adapting quickly. “We’ve learned what we can and can’t do,” he says, explaining how he and Simeone slimmed down the menu as they learned which items were most popular. Currently Swilly’s is only open Friday through Sunday for the duration of the summer, but Van Etten says that may change depending on demand. He acknowledges things will get even more hectic once the Owl House opens upstairs. To prevent people from driving to Pultneyville only to hear that lobster rolls have sold out for the day, Swilly’s has set up a “lobster hotline” at 315-904-4138. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 13
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Taj Weekes. Wednesday, August 16. Funk ‘N Waffles Music
Hall, 204 North Water Street. 8 p.m. $10. funknwaffles.com; tajweekes.com. [ ROCK ] Twiddle. Thursday, September 21. Anthology, 336 East Avenue. 7 p.m. $18-$22. anthologylive.com; twiddlemusic. com.
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Rochester Oratorio Society. Friday, October 20. Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 North Plymouth Avenue. $10-$25. hochstein.org; rossings.org.
Jonathan Scales Fourchestra
SUNDAY, JULY 30 FUNK ‘N WAFFLES, 204 NORTH WATER STREET 8 P.M. | $10-$15 | ROCHESTER.FUNKNWAFFLES.COM; JONSCALES.COM [ JAZZ ] Steel pannist Jonathan Scales formed his modern
groove, avant-garde quartet, Fourchestra, in 2002, with a cast of revolving members and special guests like Victor Wooten and Howard Levy of Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. The current Fourchestra lineup is a unique blend of renowned musicians, including Weedie Braimah of Nth Power, Snarky Puppy’s drummer Robert “Sput” Searight, and MonoNeon, the last bassist for Prince. Taking the Caribbean influence of the steel drum, Fourchestra gives its own take on improvisational jazz fusion. — BY AMANDA FINTAK
‘Born to Run in the USA’ THURSDAY, JULY 27, THROUGH SUNDAY, AUGUST 13 DOWNSTAIRS CABARET AT WINTON PLACE, 3450 WINTON PLACE $27-$30 | 325-4370; DOWNSTAIRSCABARET.COM [ ROCK/THEATER ] These types of shows go beyond your need
for a good rock fix and venture to explore where the artist ends and the music begins — where the artist themselves got on the train to redemption and oblivion. It’ll be interesting to see how the Downstairs Cabaret Theatre’s production of “Born to Run in the USA,” featuring Eric Brown and the L Street Band, deconstructs Bruce Springsteen’s body of work, its lyrical nuances, and the rock ‘n’ roll that delivers it all hot and fresh. Check Downstairs Cabaret for specific dates and times. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
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A Fitting Revenge “Tempus Fugit” Self-released afittingrevenge.com
Faster Pussycat THURSDAY, JULY 27 MONTAGE MUSIC HALL, 50 CHESTNUT STREET 7:30 P.M. | $18-$20 | THEMONTAGEMUSICHALL.COM, FASTERPUSSYCAT.COM [ GLAM PUNK ] Faster Pussycat always had the 90 percent
that made it great, but the band remained a few steps away from the mainstream. Regardless, the Kings of Sleaze Rock were mainstays of the 1980’s hair metal and glam punk scenes with albums like “Wake Me When It’s Over,” which earned Faster Pussycat a gold record. The band appeared in the rockumentary “The Decline of Western Civilization Part 2: The Metal Years” and sold out the Hollywood Palace for its final show before calling it quits in 1993. Sure as sugar, Faster Pussycat has reformed its lineup with original lead singer Taime Downe at the wheel and returns for a 30th anniversary tour. — BY ROMAN DIVEZUR
Hans Zimmer FRIDAY, JULY 28 CMAC, 3355 MARVIN SANDS DRIVE, CANANDAIGUA 7:45 P.M. | $35-$95 | CMACEVENTS.COM; HANSZIMMERLIVE.COM [ CLASSICAL/POPS ] One of the heavyweight film composers
working today, Hans Zimmer is the versatile, Oscar-winning musician who brought audiences the iconic scores to films ranging from “The Lion King” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” to “Gladiator” and “The Dark Knight.” Zimmer will be swinging through Western New York on his North American tour, where he’ll be joined by his band, along with an orchestra and choir, to perform selections from the composer’s decades-spanning career. — BY ADAM LUBITOW
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The monolithic guitars on A Fitting Revenge’s “Tempus Fugit” — “time flies” — offer nothing in the way of the shrill shriek heavy bands often find themselves caught up in. Instead the band keeps it thick and nasty by keeping the speed in check. This is a good guitar album for those who are fans of such. That isn’t to say the rest of this Rochester metal band doesn’t hold up its own. The members of the trio are in lockstep with each other and the heavy music they create. The drums thunder like a panhead going through its gears, and the bass covers all the bases and allows the guitar to put on melodic wings for frequent sojourns out of the meat grinder. See what I mean when you drop into the track “Of Livestock and Wolves.” “Tempus Fugit” is an excellent example of how to really add significance to the heavy by hugging the curves just a few clicks slower. Overall the whole thing is a vicious heaping helping of heavy metal. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
Groveland Station “Stranger Here Myself” Self-released grovelandstation.com
In defining itself, the members of Groveland Station bandy about terms like stompgrass. Now, I’ve never heard anything called stompgrass before. I’ve heard the term bluegrass; I’ve mowed grass; and yes, I’ve smoked grass. But I’ve never heard of stompgrass. I was intrigued. “Vienna,” the first cut on this Livingston County band’s new album, “Stranger Here Myself,” has the casual, forlorn lope of “St. James Infirmary.” But the song ultimately fades out of the melancholy and right into a funky backbeat that kicks off its shoes and runs barefoot throughout the mix and groove. The entirety of “Stranger Here Myself ” runs around with multiple genres, including what could be considered stompgrass on the cut “Katie.” Whatever you call what the band does, Groveland Station is a varied acoustic outfit with hooks around every corner, rendered by guitar, violin, mandolin, assorted percussion, bass, and even a Chapman Stick. Stompgrass rules. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
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& Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 8 p.m. $5. Upward Groove . Temple Bar and Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. templebarandgrille.com. 10 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
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585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road. 5852470079. 6:30-11:30 p.m. $4.
Cherry Glazer, Mannequin Pussy, CDROM, Young Couples . Bug Jar, 219
Monroe Ave. 8 p.m. Jack West . Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 5:30 p.m. Teagan & Lou . Marge’s Lakeside Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020. margeslakesideinn.com. 6-9 p.m.
THU., JULY 27 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Isabella Barbagallo . Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford. 641-0340. viagirasole.com. 7-10 p.m. Jim Lane . Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. 342-6780. 8 p.m. John Akers . 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road. 5852470079. 6-9 p.m. Steve West . Brown Hound Downtown, 500 University Ave. 506-9725. brownhoundbistro.com. 6-8 p.m. [ BLUES ]
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By allowing for space in its swirling infinity, Rochester’s Vanishing Sun keeps the confusion out of the fusion without restricting its own flavor and flow. You could call it funk if it weren’t for the subtle yet impactful rhythm dynamics that lace the brew. It’s definitely a progressive approach to music; you won’t need a seatbelt, but you still have to hold on. Vanishing Sun is young, having just come together in February, but its lineup is killer. Each of its members — lead vocalist Zahyia; keyboardist Ian Sherman; guitarist Brother Wilson; bassist Willie Lopez; drummer Tommy Mintel; sax man Quinn Lawrence; and percussionist Matt Rammerman — play off in a sort of free-flow, individual jam that contributes to a bigger, badder sound. Everybody’s on their own trip, but it’s all the same trip that they take the listener on. Zahyia and Ian Sherman stopped by the CITY offices to talk about the new album, the writing process, and playing jazz fusion in polka time. An edited transcript follows.
CITY: What makes Vanishing Sun stand out in the Rochester music scene? Ian Sherman: I think the overall sound of
the band is unique. We’re crossing jazz fusion with funk. It’s a fusion of other fusions, drum and bass and electronica. It’s innovative and not something you’re apt to hear in Rochester. How do you write? Zahyia: I go from whatever is happening in life. Sherman: It’s been an evolutionary process.
We’ve only been playing as a full band since February, since Zahyia joined us. Before that I was the sole composer. I would just go down into my hole and play until something stuck. What comes first: lyrics or music? Sherman: Music first for me — the groove. It
really starts with the groove. Once the groove is there, everything just falls into place. But I’m never conscious about it. I never sit down and say I want to write this kind of song in a certain genre. Again, I just play until something sticks. Is that because forcing it wouldn’t be genuine? Sherman: That’s an interesting question, and
that begs an even bigger question what the band’s intentions are. We never, ever wanted to be fettered by any pre-conceptions of what the music was going to be — the
plopped on top. Sherman: When Zahyia joined the band it had a transformative effect on the band. It became more of what it was. The fact that we were independently playing the same type of music with the same kind of feel in different groups … It was a nice coincidence. As a group what do you work on the most? Sherman: I don’t know. I think we’ve
got the right people, and everything is happening organically. The key is just stay out of the way and let it happen on its own. I mean, we have creative differences, everyone in the band comes from diverse backgrounds, but we don’t get into any conflict. Zahyia: Everything fits so nice. You have a new album? Sherman: We do. Do you have a title for it? Sherman: We don’t. We recorded it last
week. We went in and recorded the whole album in two and a half hours — the whole thing. What’s something that’ll never make it in the mix? Sherman: Polka. Death metal. Zahyia: I’m not gonna say anything. Polka
would be a cool break. I can get down with a hora, let me tell you. I’d like to do more thrash-metal. Sherman: If you play a jungle beat or drum & bass at 150 BPM, you can suspend anything over that.
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Eastman at Washington Square . ,. esm.rochester. edu/community. 12:15-12:45 p.m.
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Blake Pattengale . Ox and
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Party in the Park: The Machine performs Pink Floyd . Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, 1 Manhattan Square. 428-7541. cityofrochester.gov/mlkmp. 5 p.m.
FRI., JULY 28 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Crossmolina . Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. thelittle. org. 8-10 p.m. Travis Fitch . 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road. 5852470079. 5-8 p.m.
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“From Dawn to Dusk” . The
Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, 597 East Avenue. 244-6065. 7:309 p.m. Music includes: Duruflé 4 motets, Hindemith 6 Chansons, MacMillan “O Radiant Dawn,” and more. Hans Zimmer . CMAC, 3355 Marvin Sands Drive. Canandaigua. 800-7453000. cmacevents.com. 8 p.m. $35-$95. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 21
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Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo .
Charley Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. charleybrownspenfield.com. Summer Concert Series . The Clover Center for Arts and Spirituality, 1101 Clover St. 473-3200. theclovercenter.com. 6-7:30 p.m. Donations appreciated. [ POP/ROCK ]
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Leah And the Upheaval band . Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. thefirehousesaloon.com. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. $5. Me & the Boyz . 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road. 5852470079. 8:3011:30 p.m. Sinzibukwud . Milly’s HandleBar, 3120 Kittering Rd. 377-0711. 5 p.m.
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SAT., JULY 29 [ BLUES ]
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Johnny Bauer . Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 334-3030. nashvillesny.com. 9 p.m. [ JAZZ ]
Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo .
Charley Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. charleybrownspenfield.com. Jimmie Highsmith Jr. . Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford. 641-0340. viagirasole.com. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Paradigm Shift . Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford. 641-0340. viagirasole.com. 7-10 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
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ROCK | PAT BENATAR
Before MTV became “Empty-V,” Pat Benatar’s face and powerful mezzo-soprano pipes were all over. This four-time Grammy winner has racked up 19 Top 40 singles, including “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” “Love is a Battlefield,” “Invincible,” and “We Belong.” Her moxie has been — and still is — matched by her hubby (and one of my favorite rock guitarists), Neil “Spider James” Giraldo. She still wails; he still shreds. Pat Benatar with Neil Giraldo play Friday, July 28, at The Vine at Del Lago Resort, 1133 State Route 414. 8 p.m. $35-$347. dellagoresort.com; benatargiraldo. com. — BY FRANK DE BLASE p.m.
Brian Lindsay Band .
Bay Side Pub, 279 Lake Rd. Webster. 323-1224. baysidepubwebster.com. 4-8 p.m. CatNine . Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 3193832. thefirehousesaloon. com. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. $5. Fate4 . 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road. 5852470079. 8:30-11:30 p.m. The Jane Mutiny . Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. 8-10 p.m.
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Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 8 p.m. The Nightstalkers . Milly’s HandleBar, 3120 Kittering Rd. 377-0711. noon.
Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper . CMAC, 3355 Marvin Sands Drive. Canandaigua. 800-745-3000. cmacevents. com. 6 p.m. $39.50-$175.
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Blues Brunch featuring the Debbie Kendrick Project . The Penthouse at One East Avenue, One East Avenue. 967-7909. penthouseroc. com. 1-3 p.m. $22. [ COUNTRY ]
Brantley Gilbert, Tyler Farr, and Luke Combs . Darien Lake PAC, 9993 Allegheny Rd. Darien. 1-800-7453000. livenation.com. 7 p.m. $25-$56.25. [ DJ/ELECTRONIC ]
Let’s Be Friends Party .
Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 4 p.m. Sounds by DJ Tim Tones, hosted by MdotCoop. [ METAL ]
Mavradoxa, Sertraline Homecoming . Photo City
Improv & Comedy Club, 543 Atlantic Ave. 8 p.m.midnight. [ POP/ROCK ]
Tommy Brunett Bday Bash .
Marge’s Lakeside Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020.
margeslakesideinn.com. 4 p.m.
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MON., JULY 31 [ CLASSICAL ] Stringplicity . Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. thelittle. org. 7-9 p.m.
TUE., AUGUST 1 [ CLASSICAL ] Tuesday Pipes . Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 4543878. esm.rochester.edu. 12:10 p.m. [ JAZZ ]
Concert in the Garden: Laura Dubin and Antonio Guerrero . Central Library
of Rochester and Monroe County, 115 South Avenue. 428-8380. libraryweb.org. 12-1 p.m. 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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In 2017, the female-fronted rock band is still all too rare an entity on the popular music landscape. Fortunately, Cherry Glazerr of Los Angeles follows in the footsteps of bands like Blondie, The Runaways, and Sleater-Kinney, with an effortless cool and covert edginess. On its new album, “Apocalipstick,” the band sets singer Clementine Creevy’s grimy guitars and Sasami Ashworth’s poppy synths against highly polished studio production. The result is slightly left-of-center music that manages to sound both quirky and anthemic. Philadelphia’s Mannequin Pussy and Rochester bands CD-ROM and The Young Couples will play in support. Cherry Glazerr plays Wednesday, July 26, at the Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue. 9 p.m. $10-$12. bugjar.com; cherry-glazerr.com. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
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(From front to back) Summer Sattora (as A Bacchant), Nicole Iaquinto (Agave), and Jacynta Harris (A Bacchant) in Bread and Water Theatre’s “Dionysus in ’17.” PHOTO BY JR TEETER
Dionysus Trump “Dionysus in ’17” REVIEWED FRIDAY, JULY 21 CONTINUES JULY 28 THROUGH JULY 30; AND AUGUST 4 THROUGH AUGUST 6 7:30 P.M. ON FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS; 2 P.M. ON SUNDAYS BREAD AND WATER THEATRE, 172 WEST MAIN STREET $14 GENERAL ADMISSION; $8 STUDENTS AND SENIORS | 538-9684; BREADANDWATERTHEATRE.ORG
[ THEATER ] BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
Perhaps the less you know going into a performance of Bread and Water Theatre’s “Dionysus in ’17,” the better. Written and staged by the company’s artistic director, J.R. Teeter, it should at least be said that the performance art-driven play is a modern update of “The Bacchae,” by the Greek tragedian Euripides, filtered through 24 CITY JULY 26 - AUGUST 1, 2017
The Performance Group’s important, experimental production “Dionysus in ’69.” Director Brian De Palma also filmed that production for a 1970 movie. Beyond that, however, prior knowledge of Euripides’s plot details or the erotically charged 1969 version may prove to be a distraction from the immersive world to which Teeter and company beckon you. In Bread and Water Theatre’s intimate black box space, the likelihood of interacting with the cast is high. A bacchant, or worshipper of Dionysus, may warn you of the god’s impending arrival before inviting you to honor him by joining the ritualistic dance. Or you may be seduced into worship by Dionysus himself. But just who is this particular Dionysus? From the outset, the line between abstracted, classical Greek myth and reallife, flesh-and-blood Andreas Gabriel Woerner — the actor playing the chaoscausing Dionysus — was intentionally
unclear. According to Woerner, he discovered he was the god incarnate when an obese man told him so while traveling on the airplane that brought him to America. While telling this fascinatingly dubious origin story, the Woerner settled into the role of Dionysus with smoldering intensity and vain swagger. Woerner stalked around the theater with the dangerous charisma of a cult leader. Promising freedom, his Dionysus was fittingly fickle, demanding, and hot-headed. Fully committed, the spirited ensemble cast responded with free-flowing sensuality and latent violence, as evidenced by the tragic end of Pentheus (played by Xavier Hucks), who acted in defiance of Dionysus. As Agave, Pentheus’s mother, Nicole Iaquinto gave one of the more impressive performances in the play, communicating with earnest passion the unbridled agony and desperation that are at the heart of Euripides’s original tragedy. In a somewhat disjointed turn toward the end of the play, Teeter ripped the action from safe, distant confines and transplanted them into our frightening contemporary American political landscape. Woerner suddenly began to appropriate the language of our current president, becoming increasingly unhinged as he accused audience members of worshipping him insufficiently — a lack of loyalty, if you will — encouraged his followers to punch people in the face, spat out venomous charges of “loser” and “crooked Agave,” and talked of pussy-grabbing. This channeling of Donald Trump was much more overt than William Finley’s original evocation of Richard Nixon in 1969. But in 2017, the parallels between Trump and Dionysus are decidedly more striking — both figures inspire a kind of blind, crazed fealty in his supporters, while promising a paradigm shift that, in some cases, enable bizarre and unstable behavior. An odd comparison, for sure, but it worked. “Dionysus in ’17” follows the swiftly paced structural framework, fundamental plot devices, and avant-garde affectations of “Dionysus in ’69,” but with updated language (read: plenty of f-bombs) and comparatively tamer sexual elements. This is absolutely not a play meant for children, but it may be an excellent way to start a conversation with your mature-minded teenagers about the intersections of art, politics, and sex. Teeter and his band of actors have created a highly engaging, nofrills production that succeeds in saying something the 1969 version could not.
[ OPENING ] International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. On The Edge. Through Aug. 31. Paintings by Virginia Wood. 264-1440. internationalartacquisitions.com. Livingston Arts Center, 4 Murray Hill Dr. Mt. Morris. Paintings from the Past. Through Aug. 31. Opening reception Thurs. July 27, 5-7 p.m. Work by Jay Brooks & Dan Heale. 243-6785. St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Ave. Our Frame of Mind. Through Aug. 24. Opening reception Fri. Aug. 11, 4-7 p.m. Photography by Bonnie Gamache, Luann Pero, Loni Titus and Angela Possemato. 330-2379. Tap & Mallet, 381 Gregory St. Beatin Off the Path. Impressionistic paintings by Emoore. 473-0503. tapandmallet.com. [ CONTINUING ] ART EXHIBITS Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame, 175 South Main Street. Canandaigua. Works of Shannon Crandall and Cathryn Leyland. Through July 31. (585) 7212373. galleryandframe.com. Gallery 384, 384 East Ave. Summer Spree Six. Through July 26. Art by Marcia Birken, John C. Mariner, R. J. Miller, and more. Gallery Q, 100 College Ave. Cowgirls, Vamps and Other So Called Ladies. Through July 28. Art by Beth Bloom. 244-8640. Geisel Gallery, Second Floor Rotunda, Legacy Tower, One Bausch & Lomb Place. Boxed In. Through July 26. Word by Kerina Mangiaracina. thegeiselgallery.com. Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Fur, Fins & Feathers. Through Aug. 6. Work by Dick Beery, Chip Evra, and more. International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. The Director’s Choice. Through July 31. Selected pieces by gallery director. Work by Monterio Prestes, Alessandro Nocentini, Jurgen Gorg, and more. 2641440. internationalartaquisitions. com. Main Street Artists’ Gallery & Studio, 1115 E. Main St. Multifaceted: Filling The Walls with Jewelry. Through Aug. 18. Jewelry from Erica Bapst, Juan Carlos Caballero-Perez, Lynn Duggan, and more. 233-5645. suzizeftingkuhn@gmail.com. mainstreetartsgallery.com. My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Through Aug. 6. A display of contemporary artwork and crafts. 546-8400. EpiscopalSeniorLife.org. Nu Movement, 716 University Ave. Figure it Out. Through Aug. 31. Opening reception Fri. Aug. 4, 5-8 p.m. Figurative and abstract work by Courtney Gruttadauria. 704-2889. numvmnt.com. Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. Credences of Summer. Through Aug. 19. Paintings by Wallace Stevens. 271-5885. oxfordgallery.com. Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery, 71 S. Main St. Canandaigua. The Lake Country Effect. Through July 31.
Rochester Institute of Technology University Gallery - University Services Center, 158 Lomb Memorial Drive. As Above, So Below. Through July 29. Satirical portrait paintings by Steven W. Justice. 475-2411.
Call for Artwork [ WED., JULY 26 ] The Cup, The Mug: A National Juried Exhibition of Drinking Vessels. Through Oct. 2. Main Street Arts, 20 W. Main St., Clifton Springs A national juried exhibition, open to all U.S. artists 18 years and older, working in ceramics, glass, wood, or metal $30-$35. 315-462-0210. mainstreetartsgallery.com. Small Works 2017. Through Oct. 2. Main Street Arts, 20 W. Main St., Clifton Springs Open to artists working in all media excluding video/sound and installation art $30-$35. 315462-0210. mstreetarts@gmail. com. mainstreetartsgallery.com.
Art Events [ SAT., JULY 29 ] The Inaugural WALL\THERAPY Conference. July 29, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue wall-therapy.com.
Activism [ SAT., JULY 29 ] Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/ Serve Food. 3-6 p.m. Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St.
ART | ‘ARCHITECTURAL SALVAGE’ Urban renewal projects are integral for cities to flourish, but they often come with the erasure of artful historic details. Hosted by Episcopal Senior Life Communities, “Architectural Salvage” is an exhibit of prints, etchings, lithographs, and serigraphs by Katherine Baco-Bielinis, a California native and RIT graduate, that focuses on preserving the beauty in architectural elements. In her first solo exhibition, Baco-Bielinis has created a cohesive body of work, exploring how different printmaking art forms interact with each other — all while highlighting often overlooked and discarded classical architectural details. “Architectural Salvage” runs through Sunday, August 20, at 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Avenue. The gallery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and is wheelchair accessible. Admission is free. For more information, call 442-8470. — BY GRACIE PETERS
Comedy [ WED., JULY 26 ] Buta Brawl Comedy Open Mic. 9 p.m.-midnight. ButaPub, 315 Gregory Street 9022010. evan@butapub.com. butapub.com. [ THU., JULY 27 ] Jamie Lissow. July 27, 7:30 p.m. Comedy at the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd 426-6339. carlsoncomedy.com. [ TUE., AUGUST 1 ] Backdraft II: Laughdraft. 8-11 p.m Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 902-2010. thefirehousesaloon.com.
Dance Events [ THU., JULY 27 ] Garth Fagan Dance Summer Movement Institute. July 27, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Public dance event where the students will draw inspiration from the art and sculptures in the outdoor exhibit of the MAG 276-8900. mag.rochester.edu.
Film [ THU., JULY 27 ] La Pazza Gioia. July 27, 7 p.m. Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. [ SAT., JULY 29 ] Queer As Folk screening. 3-5:30 p.m. LGBTQ Resource Center, 100 College Avenue, #100 5852448640. jeffreym@ gayalliance.org. gayalliance.org.
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KIDS | SUNDAY SUMMER KIDS FUN FEST On select Sundays through the end of August, Cobblestone Arts Center in Farmington will hold special kid-friendly events. On Sunday, July 30, Airigami Balloon Art will make its way to Cobblestone with bigger and better-than-your-average balloon animals. “Bubblemania” will perform on Sunday, August 13, with a mixture of comedy, tricky bubble manipulations, and juggling. And for the series’ final event, FuturPointe Dance will perform on Sunday, August 20, combining reggae, ballet, contemporary, and urban dance styles. Each event during the Sunday Summer Kids Fun Fest begins at 12 p.m., and tickets are $10. Tickets for parents are free. The Cobblestone Arts Center is located at 1622 State Route 332 in Farmington. For more information, visit cobblestoneartscenter.com or call 398-0220. — BY GRACIE PETERS New York State Summer of Fun: Thousand Islands Seaway. July 29, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. The Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square $14.50. 263-2700. museumofplay.org. World Tiger Day. July 29, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Learn how
human encroachment affects tiger populations and what you can do to help 336-7200. senecaparkzoo.org/event/worldtiger-day/. [ SUN., JULY 30 ] Parenting Village’s Summer Bash. July 30, 2-6 p.m. continues on page XX rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 25
Rothfuss Park, 1648 Five Mile Line Rd . Penfield 340-8655. parentingvillage.org. Sunday Summer Kids Fun Fest. July 30, noon. Cobblestone Arts Center, 1622 New York 332 $10. 398-0220. cobblestoneartscenter.com.
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[ WED., JULY 26 ] Connected Communities Health Careers Job Fair. July 26, 4-7 p.m. East High School, 1801 Main Street East 224-1083. connectedcommunitiesroc.org. Vegan Pastry Pop-Up. 3:30-6:30 p.m 540WMain, 540 W. Main Street 2-10. 1-855-540-6246. 540westmain.org. [ THU., JULY 27 ] Pittsford Food Tours. 11 a.m.-2 p.m Schoen Place, 10 Schoen Place Walking food tour in Pittsford Village/ Schoen Place $57. 363-2340. pittsfordfoodtours.com. [ FRI., JULY 28 ] Movies Under the Stars: National Lampoons Summer Vacation. July 28, 8:30-11:30 p.m. Irondequoit Town Hall, 1280 Titus Ave 336-3086. Women for WineSense Grand Event. July 28, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Ravines Wine Cellars, 400 Barracks Rd . Geneva $50-$60. 831-464-4893. womenforwinesense.org. [ SAT., JULY 29 ] Connected Communities Wellness Fair. July 29, 10 a.m.1 p.m. East High School, 1801 Main Street East 288-3130. connectedcommunitiesroc.org. Party Mad at the Zoo. July 29, 5:30-10 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Live Music by Hall Pass. Proceeds benefit conservation and education projects in Madagascar $10-$15. 3367200. senecaparkzoo.org. Pop-Up Shop. July 29, 12-4 p.m. Little Button Craft & Press, 658 South Ave . Ujamaa: The Pop-Up. July 29, 4-7 p.m. Causing Effects Greenspace, 739 Jefferson Avenue 466-4733. flowercitynoirecollective@ gmail.com. WALL\THERAPY Block Party feat. Danielle Ponder. July 29, 6:30-11 p.m. Kaleidoscope Collective, 936 Exchange St., Building A Open air artist market, food trucks, beverage service, live art and music kaleidoscopecollective.org. [ TUE., AUGUST 1 ] Community Picnic. 6-8:30 p.m. Covenant United Methodist Church, 1124 Culver Rd Part of Beechwood Neighborhood Coalition’s National Night Out.
Theater Dionysus in ‘17. Through Aug. 6. Bread & Water Theatre, 172 West Main St Through Aug. 6. Fri. & 26 CITY JULY 26 - AUGUST 1, 2017
FESTIVAL | JOSEPH AVENUE FESTIVAL Thanks to groups like the Joseph Avenue Business Association and the Joseph Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance, and several dedicated activists, Joseph Avenue has been undergoing a renaissance. With several new small businesses and plans to soon turn an old synagogue into a performing arts center, the future is bright. Around 300 people came out to the first festival in 2011, and last year, it attracted 5,000 attendees. The Joseph Avenue Festival will have a barbecue that provides free food for all attendees, children-oriented activities, vendors, music and entertainment, and raffles for prizes like bicycles, Red Wings tickets, and zoo memberships. The event will take place on Saturday, July 29, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., on the corner of Joseph Avenue and Clifford Avenue. Admission is free. — BY GRACIE PETERS
THEATER | SHAKESPEARE’S ‘THE TEMPEST’ Summer is a time for Shakespeare productions, and Modern Sensibilities Theatre Co. is taking advantage of the season with its debut production of “The Tempest,” believed to be the final play that Shakespeare wrote by himself. Modern Sensibilities, one of Rochester’s newest theater companies, wants to make history accessible to young artists and audiences by providing free community theater opportunities. The company plans to produce three full productions with actors and crew ages 12 to 20. Originally written with a male sorcerer named Prospero as the protagonist, Modern Sensibilities will produce a version similar to Julie Taymor’s 2010 film adaptation of “The Tempest,” with a female protagonist, Prospera, a sorceress banished to a remote island who seeks revenge on the people who did her wrong. Modern Sensibilities’ “The Tempest” is directed by Emma Milligan and Kaleb Colosimo. Performances of “The Tempest” will be Friday, July 28, and Saturday, July 29, and again Friday, August 4, and Saturday, August 5, at The Strong Museum (1 Manhattan Square Drive). Friday performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday performances at 2 p.m. Tickets can be purchased online or at the door, and are $10 general admission, $5 for students and seniors. For more information, call 263-2700 or visit modernsensibilities.wordpress.com. — BY TORI MARTINEZ
Sat. July 28, 29, Aug. 4, 5, 7:30 p.m. Sun. July 30, & Aug. 6, 2 p.m 538-9684. BreadandWaterTheatre.org. Don Giovanni. Thu., July 27, 7:30 p.m., Sat., July 29, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., July 30, 3 p.m. Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St . Geneva Conducted by James Blachly and directed by Philip Lauriat $20-$35. 315-781-5483. genevalightopera.org. Farce of Nature. Sat., July 29, 2 p.m. Penfield Community Center, 1985 Baird Rd Penfield Directed by Christopher Woods Marlin 340-8655. penfieldplayers.org. Impact Theatre & The In Your Face players. Sat., July 29, 6:309 p.m. Impact Theatre, 1180 Canandaigua St. 315-597-3553. impacrdrama.com. Parade. Mondays-Saturdays, 7:30-10 p.m Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 East Lake Rd $48-$50. 315-255-1786. fingerlakesmtf.com. The PiTCH Series. WednesdaysFridays, 7:30-10 p.m Theater Mack, 203 Genesee Street . Auburn $20. 315-255-1785. theatermack@gmail.com. fingerlakesmtf.com. Romeo & Juliet. Sat., July 29, 6:30 p.m. Morgan-Manning House, 151 Main St., Brockport 637-3645. shakeonthelake.org. Rumpelstiltskin. Sun., July 30, 2 p.m. and Mon., July 31, 9 a.m. RAPA, Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. Through Aug. 6. Sat. & Sun. Aug. 6, 2 p.m. Thurs. Aug. 3, 7 p.m. July 31, 10 a.m $10-$20. 254-0073. kodakcenter.org. The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet. Fri., July 28, 7:30 p.m., Sat., July 29, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., July 30, 2 p.m. Geneva High School Auditorium, 101 Carter Road . Geneva $8-$10. 315-781-0402. genevacsd.org/ High.cfm. Shake on the Lake: Romeo and Juliet. Tue., Aug. 1, 6 p.m. Centennial Park, Richmond Ave . Batavia Sponsored by GO ART!. 585 343 9313. Shakespeare in the Park: As You Like It. Tuesdays-Sundays, 8 p.m Highland Park Bowl, 1200 South Ave. Through July 29. Presented by The Shakespeare Players of Rochester rochestercommunityplayers.org. Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Fri., July 28, 7:30-10 p.m. and Sat., July 29, 7:30-10 p.m. The Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square Through Aug. 5. Fri. & Sat. July 28, 29, 7:3010 p.m. Aug. 4, 5, 2-4:30 p.m $5-$10. 716-4444509. modernsensibilities. wordpress.com. WallByrd Theatre Co. presents Macbeth. Wed., July 26, 8-11 p.m., Thu., July 27, 8-11 p.m., Fri., July 28, 8-11 p.m. and Sat., July 29, 8-11 p.m. Lyric Theater, 440 East Ave Through July 29. Wed.-Sun. July 26-29, 8-11 p.m $20. WallByrd.com. The Wild Party. Fri., July 28, 7:30 p.m., Sat., July 29, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., July 30, 4 p.m. RAPA, Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. Through July 30. Fri. & Sat. July 28, 29, 7:30 p.m. Sun. July 30, 4 p.m $22-$25. 254-0073. kodakcenter.org.
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Don’t be surprised if you see a group of teens dancing around the Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Avenue) this week. The students of Garth Fagan Dance’s Summer Movement Institute will perform a free, public show on Thursday, July 27. Drawing inspiration from the gallery’s outdoor sculptures, the performance will be directed by Natalie Rogers-Cropper and Mary-Lee Miller. The students of the Summer Movement Institute were part of a three-week intensive dance program, where they learned about repertory, technique, and composition. Classes also included lectures, video talks, music appreciation, and nutrition, all taught by Garth Fagan Dance company members. This MAG event, along with a final performance at the Garth Fagan Dance School (50 Chestnut Street) on Saturday, July 29, gives the students an opportunity to showcase what they’ve learned this summer. Thursday’s performance takes place 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday’s concert is 2 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. For more information, visit garthfagandance.org. — BY TORI MARTINEZ
SPECIAL EVENTS | ‘UJAMAA: THE POP-UP’ In a mission to support black-owned businesses from Buffalo and Rochester, Flower City Noire Collective will host “Ujamaa: The Pop-Up,” on Saturday, July 29, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., with vendors gathered together at Causing Effects Garden (739 Jefferson Avenue). The pop-up hopes to make it easier for people to find items sold by black-owned businesses and artisans, ranging from skincare products and headwraps to custom art pieces. Ujamaa is a Swahili word that means “extended family” or “brotherhood,” and is the Kwanzaa principle of cooperative economics. Tonya Noel Stevens and Kris Walker created Flower City Noire Collective as a way to elevate women of color and promote collective work, leadership, and unity. “We know that to see change, we must be the change,” Walker says, “and the only real way to do that is at the grass root level, reaching people in their communities as a tool for creating and sustaining positive changes for life.” For more information about “Ujamaa: The Pop-Up,” call Flower City Noire Collective at 466-4733. — BY TORI MARTINEZ rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 27
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Canandaigua Theatres 3181 Townline Road, Canandaigua, 396-0110, rochestertheatermanagement.com
Cinema Theater 957 S. Clinton St., 271-1785, cinemarochester.com 2255 Ridge Rd E, Irondequoit 544-1140, regmovies.com
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Luc Besson is an optimist at heart. That defining trait accounts for the candy-colored, utopian vision of the future depicted in the French director’s “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.” It also accounts for the leap of faith that convinced the filmmaker that two relatively untested leads could carry his massively ambitious space opera on their shoulders. The gamble doesn’t exactly pay off, but Besson’s grand vision is brought to the screen with such impeccable style that it manages to outweigh the film’s considerable flaws. Based on “Valérian et Laureline,” a popular series of French graphic novels by Pierre Christin and illustrator Jean-Claude Mézières that have been around since the 1960’s, “Valerian” has been a long-brewing passion project for Besson. Set in the 28th century, the titular duo (played by Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne) are special agents who travel the galaxy fighting crime. The plot of the film (which is needlessly convoluted considering it’s mostly beside the point) finds the pair becoming embroiled in a noir-style mystery centered around Alpha, a sprawling space station metropolis made up of interconnected planets, and a lost race of alien beings whose home world was destroyed under mysterious circumstances.
Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne in “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.” PHOTO COURTESY STX ENTERTAINMENT
As characters, Valerian and Laureline are meant to be archetypes: he’s the roguish hero; she’s the sharp-tongued, put-upon partner who’s every bit his equal. They’re the kind of roles that require outsized personalities to play them, but neither DeHaan nor Delevingne are quite up to the task. I generally like DeHaan as an actor, but his best roles (like in Gore Verbinski’s “A Cure for Wellness” earlier this year) are defined by a certain low-key intensity. He’s been a great many things on screen, but dashing has never been one of them. Delevingne fares slightly better. She has a compelling presence that was put to good use in “Paper Towns,” then significantly less so as The Enchantress in last summer’s “Suicide Squad” — although in fairness, no actor could have made that character work. Here, both leads feel like the bland leading the bland. They’re done no favors by Besson’s script. The
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clunky banter they get saddled with suggests the filmmaker may have written the screenplay first in his native French, then relied on Google Translate when it came time to make extra copies for his actors. But where “Valerian” truly excels is its jawdropping visuals and production design, filled to the brim with oddball, increasingly bizarre characters, locations, and costumes. The film probably could have benefitted from at least one more action sequence, but the ones that are here are deliriously inventive — one of the best involves a foot chase that unfolds in two different dimensions simultaneously. Also fun is a burlesque dance number performed by Rihanna, as a shape-shifting alien creature named Bubble. Admittedly, that scene stops the film dead in its tracks, but it’s worth it. Like Besson’s “The Fifth Element” cranked to 11, the frequently dazzling “Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets” has enough pure, extravagant
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“Girls Trip” (R), DIRECTED BY MALCOLM D. LEE NOW PLAYING
Coming hot on the heels of recent disappointing “women-behaving-badly” comedies “Snatched” and “Rough Night,” “Girls Trip” succeeds in showing those films how it’s done. The movie gives its audience the raucous comedy and heartfelt emotion that those films promised, but only sporadically delivered. “Girls Trip” follows four women, old college friends who’ve fallen out of touch over the years. Ryan (Regina Hall) is a successful self-help author and lifestyle guru; Sasha (Queen Latifah) is a former journalist turned gossip blogger; Lisa (Jada Pinkett Smith) is the uptight, divorced mother of two; and Dina (Tiffany Haddish, in what deserves to be a breakout role) is the group’s wild card and dirty-minded free spirit. When Ryan is invited to New Orleans to be the keynote speaker at the Essence Festival, she invites her “Flossy Posse” along for the trip, giving them the opportunity to reconnect and let loose. Along the way there’s plenty of raunchy hijinks, but as the booze begins to flow, old grudges resurface and each woman has the opportunity to reassess things, including Ryan’s seemingly picture-perfect marriage that’s crumbling under her husband’s philandering ways. The film’s biggest asset is the fantastic chemistry of its four funny stars. Malcolm D. Lee’s assured direction allows them each their moment to shine, and they effortlessly convey years’ worth of shared history together. “Girls Trip” has no aspirations of high art, but like the characters at its center, it just wants you to have a good time. Visit rochestercitynewspaper.com on Friday for additional film coverage, including a review of “Atomic Blonde,” starring Charlize Theron.
Let it linger [ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW
“A Ghost Story” (R), DIRECTED BY DAVID LOWERY OPENS FRIDAY, JULY 28
There’s a thrill in seeing a filmmaker truly take a risk; it’s even better when they manage to pull it off. A mournful meditation on love, loss, and the afterlife, “A Ghost Story” isn’t the type of movie most directors would choose to follow their first big-budget, special effects-laden feature. But that’s what David Lowery decided to make after his family-friendly “Pete’s Dragon” for Disney. And I’m thankful he did. With “A Ghost Story,” Lowery explores the mysteries of the universe, as seen through the eyes of a married couple played by the director’s “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints” stars, Casey Affleck (whose character is listed in the closing credits only as “C”) and Rooney Mara (credited as “M”). When C dies in a car accident, he comes back in the form of a ghost — covered in a long white sheet, with two black holes for eyes — returning to the home he and M once shared to silently watch his bereaved wife grieve and try to move on. It’s a film that’s intimate in scale but vast in ambition, and there was every chance in the world that it would end up being an absolute disaster. Instead, “A Ghost Story” becomes one of most thrillingly audacious bits of filmmaking you’ll see this year. “A Ghost Story” is at its heart a haunted house movie, and though it never aims to be scary, Lowery occasionally plays with the iconography of a traditional horror film. For a brief section of the story, Affleck’s character even becomes a poltergeist, tossing around furniture and terrifying the humans he comes into contact with. The ghost itself is a ridiculous image — resembling a child’s Halloween costume — that Lowery gradually imbues with a
Rooney Mara has company in “A Ghost Story.” PHOTO COURTESY A24
profound sense of loneliness as C wanders silently from room to room, and eventually across all of eternity as time stretches out before him. In the film’s most talked about scene, C observes M binge eat nearly an entire pie in one five-minute shot. It’s a moment of intense grief that goes by agonizingly slowly. Later, years and even centuries pass terrifyingly in the blink of an eye. In the illusory nature of time, there’s no controlling how fast or slowly time moves: the moments we want to hold onto seem to be gone too fast, while the less important ones feel like they take forever. Attempting to explain the ideas behind the film makes it sound like heady stuff, but there’s a playfulness to Lowery’s direction that keeps it from feeling as ponderous as it might have in someone else’s hands. There’s a few deadpan laughs, as C comes into contact with another ghost, and the two have an amusingly stilted conversation in subtitles. The evocative, string-heavy score by Daniel Hart blends electronic elements
with folk and chant to form an unsettling soundscape that moves from shimmering lightness to apocalyptic dread. It even incorporates an original song, which plays a critical role as the narrative progresses. Cinematographer Andrew Droz Palermo shoots the film in a square 4:3 aspect ratio with rounded off edges, and there’s a slightly worn quality to the image that hints at the sense of nostalgia at the heart of the film. The tight framing boxes C’s ghost in, while making the film feel like watching an old home movie or flipping through a photo album. Both are ways to document the things we think of as essential in our lives while we’re living it. We place value in these physical objects; they speak to our need for reminders of where and who we were, and the things that meant something to us. But they’re also a reminder of how inadequate those attempts at preservation ultimately are: everything eventually fades.
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108 Walbar Street
This is the story of a home that came fullcircle. Built in 1920 as a single family home in the Northland-Lyceum neighborhood of Rochester, 108 Walbar Street was converted to an owner-occupied double in the 1950s. The current owners are using it as a lovely, large single family home once again, but retained the second floor kitchen. The buyers of this property may choose either route. Single-family or double, the residents will find a walkable neighborhood a block away from Savoia Bakery and Fioravanti Florist in one direction, and Donuts Delite in the other. Nearby are Northeast and Northwest College Preparatory High Schools. A large red maple provides welcome shade to the three-season porch spanning the front façade. Classic 1950s metal awnings top the windows and original front door. Inside, the stairs to the upstairs rental unit are straight ahead. To the left is a large living room with a gas fireplace flanked by leaded glass bookcases and two handsome windows. A wide doorway leads to the dining room, which has generous windows and extra storage. The living and dining rooms boast refinished hardwoods in very narrow “Rochester” planks. Highlighting the oak is mahogany inlay along the perimeter of both rooms, adding a formal touch.
The first floor includes a full bath with 1950s charm. The kitchen is open and bright, with newly-refinished cupboards and new appliances. The original kitchen window slides open horizontally, overlooking a backyard full of roses, rhododendron, clematis and perennials. The yard includes a one-car garage and is fully enclosed by a six-foot white vinyl fence. A second kitchen occupies a former bedroom on the second floor. A very large, lovely master bedroom contains extra closet space. A second smaller bedroom and full bath (with original tub and hexagonal floor tiles) round out the potential rental unit. The attic is beautifully finished as another bedroom or sitting room, while retaining valuable storage space. Several rooms have ceiling fans. The laundry room is in the basement, which is bright and clean. No one knows for sure, but it is likely that cedar shakes reside under the exterior siding. Tell the truth: We got you with Savoia, didn’t we? This 1,452 square foot home is listed for sale with Jenny Popoli, RE/MAX Plus, 585-738-4795. The asking price is $95,000. by Elizabeth Teall Elizabeth is a Landmark Society volunteer.
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New York All Star Booster Inc. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 04/3/17. 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 39 Williams St.,Batavia, NY 14020 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Owens Road Self Storage LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/8/17. 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 460 White Spruce Blvd., Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of PLANET HOME AQUISITIONS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/13/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 6 Bainbridge Ln., Webster, NY 14580. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Joseph M. Shur, Relin Goldstein & Crane LLP, 28 E. Main St., Ste. 1800, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of PLEX Theater Productions LLC. Art.of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/13/17. 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 Wedgepoint CTR, 390 South Avenue Suite C Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of RIKA Development LLC, Articles of Org. filed with Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/16/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served, SSNY shall mail service of process to: 22 Ryder Cup Circle, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Skyward Revenue, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 05/01/2017. 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 35 Hawley Dr, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Statement Boutique LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State (SSNY) 06/09/2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The LLC, 168 Strathmore Lane, Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of STS Corning, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/6/17. 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 SWC 5 LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 7/6/17. 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 6 Hedge Wood Ln., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Tackling Group LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) November 10, 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 76 Valley St, Rochester NY 14612 . Purpose: any lawful activities [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of The Lash and Brow Company LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secretary of State (“SOS”) on 7/5/17. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. The SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 888 Long Pond Road, Rochester, NY 14626. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of TVSherpa LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/28/17. 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, 5 Travis Grove, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ]
Notice of Formation of Visionary Content, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on June 6th, 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 54 University Avenue #5 Rochester, NY 14605. Purpose: Consulting, freelance writing, grant writing, capital funding, and business formation services. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Zaffuts Consulting, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/28/2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 240 Chelmsford Rd., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of FormationAshford Dance Company LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 07/10/17. 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, Attn: Caitlyn Culotta, 376 Goodman Street N, Rochester NY, 14607. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation- The Mindful Leader LLC filed with SSNY on 24 April 2017 Office: Monroe Cty. SSNY designated as agent for Process and shall mail to: 40 Lakeview Park Rochester, N.Y. 14613. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 600 W Broad St. Rochester NY 14608 on Wednesday August 2nd 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: Unit 23 Kiana Johnson $392. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Ciber Global, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/5/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Michigan (MI) on 5/15/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY,
NY 10016. MI address of LLC: 3270 West Big Beaver Road, Troy, MI 48084. Arts. of Org. filed with MI Director of Corporations, 2501 Woodlake Circle, 1st Fl., Okemos, MI 48864. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of HARRIS INSIGHTS AND ANALYTICS LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/21/16. 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., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING UNION OF THE UNITED STATES ROCHESTER BRANCH, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/27/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 03/16/17. Princ. office of LLC: c/o The English-Speaking Union of the United States, 144 E. 39th St., NY, NY 10016. 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. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Corporation Service Co., 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St. Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] ROCHESTER AREA MUSIC PROJECT LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 6/15/17. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 31 W. Church St., Fairport, NY 14450, Attn: Member. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Roxal LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 6/6/2017. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 2401 Monroe Avenue, Rochester,
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Verto Associates II, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 7/17/2017. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 21 Warwick Dr., Fairport, NY 14450. General Purpose.
[ NOTICE ] Scientics, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 7/19/17. 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 225 Mccall Rd., Rochester, NY 14616. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] SHADESTONE PROPERTIES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/19/2017. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 137 Park Circle East, Rochester, NY 14623, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] TIGER BUSINESS SERVICES, LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/23/16. Office location: Monroe Co. LLC formed in Virginia (VA) on 5/5/16. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporate Creations Network, Inc. 15 N Mill ST Nyack, NY 10960. VA address of LLC: 1716 Corporate Landing Pkwy Virginia Beach, VA 23454. Arts. Of Org. filed with VA Secy. of State, P.O. Box 1197, Richmond, VA 23218. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Time to Grow Enterprises, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 7/20/2017. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 47 Red Bud Rd., Rochester, NY 14624. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] TWO AMIGOS 449 LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 7/3/17. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 425 Stone Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Uttara Light LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/20/2017. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process 18 Cedarwood Circle, Pittsford, NY 14534. General Purpose.
[ NOTICE ] VISUAL MARKETING IDEAS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/15/17. Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2100. 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, c/o Robert Rose, 5 Creekside Drive, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] WHOLESALE PROPERTY STORE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 07/11/17 Office in Monroe Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 233 Leonard Rd Rochester, NY 14616. Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] WNY Investors LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/21/17. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process 2250 W. Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626. General Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] LC MILLER SERVICES LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 7/5/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served, SSNY shall mail process to LC MILLER SERVICES LLC, 129 Stafford Way, Rochester, NY 14626 General Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Mariano Property Services LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on June 14, 2017. 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 and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 19 Copper Woods, Pittsford, NY 14534. The purpose of the Company is property investments. [ Notice of Formation ] Name: ELI ESTATE JEWELERS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/06/2017. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated
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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 as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: c/o ELI ESTATE JEWELERS LLC, 1492 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, New York 14618. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: SYLVAN SEARCH PARTNERS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/13/2017. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: c/o SYLVAN SEARCH PARTNERS LLC, 57 Deer Creek Road, Pittsford, New York 14534. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of Formation of Cline’s Tile & Stone, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on June 13, 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, 77 Bradford Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity [ Notice of Formation ] Pittsford Place, LLC (the “LLC”) filed a Certificate of Conversion with the NY Dept. of State on 6/22/17. Office location: Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and is directed to forward service of process to 1001 Lexington Avenue, Rochester, NY 14606. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] Rochester Sports Chiropractic, PLLC (“PLLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/22/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 12 Summit Oaks, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: to practice the profession of chiropractic. [ Notice of Formation of 1092 MH, LLC ] Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on June 29, 2017. Office location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ. Office of LLC: 1142 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Princ. Office of LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
[ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) is Village Square Management, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY”) on June 23, 2017. Office location is Monroe County, New York. The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 286 Gillett Road, Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Sonya Allen Interiors LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 6/7/17. 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 15 Bromsgrove HL Pittsford NY 14534. The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Oriskany Blvd Properties, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on May 24, 2017, with an effective date of formation of May 24, 2017. Its principal place of business is located 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 c/o Dunn, Pedro & Butler CPA’s, 2024 W. Henrietta Rd., Rochester, NY 14623. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF PUBLICATION ] Notice is hereby given that license number 3159422 for beer, wine, and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine, and liquor at retail in a hotel under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 911 Brooks Avenue, Rochester, County of Monroe for on premises consumption. F.M. Butt Hotels Corp. d/b/a Ramada Plaza Rochester Airport and d/b/a Wheels Up Tavern F.M. Butt Hotels Corp. d/b/a Ramada Plaza Rochester Airport and d/b/a Wheels Up Tavern [ NOTICE OF SALE ] NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT
COUNTY OF MONROE WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST DOUGLAS N. DUMOND, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated October 05, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice- Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14614, on August 22, 2017 at 10:30AM, premises known as 6 PACKET BOAT DRIVE, FAIRPORT, NY 14450. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Perinton, Village of Fairport and County of Monroe and State of New York, SECTION 152.12, BLOCK 2, LOT 7. Approximate amount of judgment $94,008.67 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 2013-1112. Sarah E. Wesley, Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 47311 [ NOTICES ] Notice of Formation of BRM NY MGMT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/02/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 1380 Pittsford Mendon Rd., Mendon, NY 14506. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 2016-013494 WELLS FARGO BANK, NA, Plaintiff, v.DOROTHY M. COOPER, J.A.C., A MINOR, ANY UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE LATE MICHAEL F. COOPER, IF LIVING, AND IF ANY BE DEAD, ANY AND ALL PERSONS WHO ARE SPOUSES, WIDOWS, GRANTEES, MORTGAGEES, LIENORS, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF SUCH OF THEM AS MAY BE DEAD, AND THEIR SPOUSES, HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE
ARE UNKNOWN TO PLAINTIFF, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, CREDIT ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION, THE SUMMIT FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS; You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorneys within thirty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of Honorable Daniel J. Doyle, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 27th day of June,2017, at Rochester, New York. Tax I.D. No. 139.70-1-8 ALL that tract or parcel of land, situate in the Town and Village of East Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, known and distinguished as Lot No. 12 in Block 27, as the same are shown on a map of the lands of Vanderbilt Improvement Co. on file in Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 10 Maps, page 35. Subject to easements, covenants, and restriction of record. These premises are also known as 318 Garfield Avenue, East Rochester, NY 14445. WOODS OVIATT GILMAN LLC Attorneys for Plaintiff 700 Crossroads Building 2 State Street Rochester, NY 14614 [ SUPPLEMENTAL
SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE; Index No.: 2017-542. Filed 05/26/2017. U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Plaintiff, v. ANY UNKNOWN HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF THEODORE ANTONUCCI, SR. A/K/A THEODORE ANTONUCCI, NEXT OF KIN, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, DISTRIBUTEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, CREDITORS, LIENORS, TRUSTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST, AS WELL AS THE RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, DEVISEES, LEGATEES, DISTRIBUTEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, CREDITORS, LIENORS, TRUSTEES, EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSONS, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; MARGARET ANTONUCCI A/K/A MARGARET SIDOTI; DOMINIC ANTONUCCI; TEDDY JR. ANTONUCCI A/K/A THEODORE ATONUCCI, JR., if living, and if he be dead, his respective heir-at-law, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, creditors, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the premises; LEE ANTONUCCI, if living, and if he be dead, his respective heir-at-law, next of kin, devisees, legatees, distributees, grantees, assignees, creditors, lienors, trustees, executors, administrators or successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the premises; ANDY ANTONUCCI; “JOHN DOE” and “MARY DOE” (Said names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants, tenants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an
interest in or lien upon the premises being foreclosed herein) Defendants. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Amended Complaint in the above captioned action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (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 to 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 Amended Complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Supplemental Summons and Amended 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 Supplemental Summons and protect your property. Sending 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. To the above named defendants: The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Daniel J. Doyle, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated May 16, 2017 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage on the property located 1881 Clarkson Parma Town Line Rd A/K/A 1881 Clarkson Parma TL Rd, Hilton (Town of Clarkson) New York 14468 also known as Section 031.01 Block 2 Lot 8.1. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial based upon the location of the property being foreclosed. Attorneys for Plaintiff: Stern & Eisenberg, PC, 485 B Route 1 South, Suite 330, Iselin, NJ 08830, T: (516) 630-0288.
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If you visit Dawson City in Canada’s Yukon Territory, you can’t skip one of its famous traditions: sipping on a Sourtoe Cocktail at the Sourdough Saloon. The drink, conceived in 1973, comprises the cocktail of your choice garnished with a pickled amputated human toe. (“You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips have gotta touch the toe,” says “toe master” Terry Lee.) On June 18, one of the saloon’s toes went missing when a patron, who identified himself as “a drunken fool,” took the digit (specifically, a second toe). Although the thief mailed the toe back with an apology, Travel Yukon has launched a campaign for an “insurance toe,” saying, “Our toe was returned, but we can always use backups!” [Alaska Dispatch News, 6/20/2017; Reuters, 6/26/2017)
The Continuing Crisis
Demit Strato of New York took to Facebook on June 26 from his throne room to excoriate his local Starbucks for making his venti iced coffee with regular milk instead of soy milk, as he ordered it. “I’ve pooped 11 times since the A.M. My bottom hurts from all the wiping. Do you think I enjoy soy milk? ... I don’t order soy milk because I’m bored and want my drink order to sound fancy. I order soy milk so that my bottom doesn’t blast fire for 4 hours.” For its part, Starbucks sent Strato a $50 gift card, and he told Buzzfeed that “many women are trying to go out on a date after this, too.”
Compulsions
Could it have been overconsumption of caffeine that provoked Londoner Kit Lovelace to scan all 236 episodes of “Friends” to chronicle how much coffee each character drank? Lovelace told the Huffington Post in June he was disappointed that no one had ever collected data about the characters’ coffee habits, so he meticulously studied how much they drank, how their consumption changed over the years and how much they spent on coffee. (Spoiler alert: Phoebe drank the most coffee, and collectively the group spent more than $2,000 on joe over the course of the 10-season series.) A California man’s 2,000th visit to Disneyland in Anaheim on June 22 made him a celebrity in the park. Jeff Reitz began visiting Disneyland every day after receiving an annual pass as a gift in 2012. At the time, he was unemployed, but he continued his habit even after finding a job, using the $1,049 Disney Signature Plus Passport. “Until today, cast members would think I looked familiar, but now they know who I am,” Reitz said. “It’s been positive, it’s been a motivator, it’s been my workout gym. This past year I’ve lost about 40 pounds.” A serial underwear thief in Tokyo was finally snagged July 4 when he was caught on surveillance video stealing nine women’s undergarments that had been hung out to dry. Yasushi Kobayashi, 61, told police that he’d been lifting lingerie for 20 years because he enjoys wearing them. Police found more than 1,000 pieces during a serach of his home.
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[ LOVESCOPE ] BY EUGENIA LAST ARIES (March 21-April 19): Don’t sit at home when you should be out socializing. You’ll attract all sorts of interest that will feed your ego and put you in a favorable position when it comes to finding love. Keep your options open until you find the partner who can offer equality on all levels. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There will be a fine line between passion and possession. Be careful not to lead someone on who is aggressive or eager to claim you as his or hers alone. A practical approach to love will help ward off anyone trying dictate what you can or cannot do.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your interests are so varied; look for a partner who is as diverse as you if you want to avoid boredom followed by a short-lived relationship. The family that plays together stays together, so make sure whomever you choose can and wants to participate. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Listen carefully. Someone offering a kind gesture may have ulterior motives. When it comes to love and romance, take your time and get to know the person pursuing you inside out before you let your heart and your emotions take over. Friendship before intimacy is encouraged.
LEO (July 23-Aug 22): Truth regarding who you are and where you came from will be necessary when it comes to love, romance and commitment. Make sure that you project an honest image of your life and that your assessment of the person you want to be with is accurate as well. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Having high standards is great, but keep in mind no one is perfect -- including you. Give love a chance instead of eliminating a potential partner before giving him or her a chance to win your heart. The person willing to put in the time and effort is worth considering.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Put your heart on the line. Stop procrastinating and make a move. Listen to your heart, and follow through with actions. You choose who you want to be with instead of letting someone choose you. Trust your intuition and your intelligence to guide you to the right partner. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your interest in people you find unique or that intrigue you will not serve you well. A guarded approach to love will be warranted if you want to avoid overlooking some fundamental drawbacks with the partners who grab your attention this week. Think before you act.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your desire to add a little stability to your love life will be thwarted with your need to stay in contact with old flames and the friends you party with. Decisions will be tough and should be based on what makes you happy, spending a night in or going out. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t feel you have to jump into any romantic situation quickly. Time is on your side, and making the right choice should be your top priority. Intellectual stimulation will be equally as important as chemistry when it comes to a long-term relationship. Don’t let looks fool you.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Step up your game and get out and party! Your charismatic, energetic, playful way of dealing with others will make you the most engaging person in the room. Share your ideas and experimental approach to life and love, and someone will want to share your fancies. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Love can be heart-wrenching if you don’t choose a partner for the right reason. Look for someone compatible, not for someone you think will mold you or change you into something you are not. Love who you are and what you do, and you’ll attract someone who appreciates you.
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