The rent really is too damn high COMMENTARY, PAGE 5
MAR. 11 2020, VOL. 49 NO. 26
Hurt in a choir? MEDICINE, PAGE 6
‘Wendy’ underwhelms FILM, PAGE 24
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Electric cars, buses and trucks will get us on a cleaner path. Monroe County’s climate plan is a good sign that our county will do our part. JOE MOORE, ROCHESTER
Moore is the manager of the Tesla Owners Club of New York State.
MATTHEW CORONA, ROCHESTER
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Go electric
Regarding the article, “County lawmakers take step toward a climate plan” (February 11), it’s great to see both sides of the house in Monroe County coming together to devise a climate action plan. There is much to do, and it is urgent. Governor Andrew Cuomo, via the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, has set a goal of a net-zero carbon economy by 2050. Every locality can contribute with its own policies. A top priority is electrifying transportation, as gasoline-powered vehicles are the state’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Right now, thanks to our legacy hydro power and new wind farms, driving an electric car in upstate New York is comparable to driving a hypothetical gas-powered car getting 231 miles per gallon, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. This tells us it’s high time to electrify all county vehicles, including sanitation department trucks and RTS buses. It’s also time for more drivers to embrace electric cars. Battery-electric cars have rocket-like acceleration, require almost no maintenance, and charging one from your home is cheaper and more convenient than buying gasoline. 2 CITY
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driven by local zoning and environmental concerns. Without a way to get renewable energy plants working sooner, New York will miss its legislated carbonfree goal. Local government working with the state can make a 70% renewable electric grid by 2030 a reality.
Cuomo’s renewables plan is a good thing
Right now, government bureaucracy is such that only five renewable energy projects have been approved in New York in the last eight years, stalling hundreds of jobs and local investment. Now, Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to minimize hurdles and speed up the process of opening these facilities (“Local governments wary of Cuomo’s renewables plan,” March 4). This is good news for local communities. One medium-sized solar project could bring $1 million in local landowner rent, another $1 million in taxes, 300 family-wage jobs and discounted electricity for the area. Even though communities are concerned that the new rules may favor the state over local government, those eager for solar farms and wind plants to open up have felt stymied by the current cumbersome procedures. New state rules will continue to be
I strongly disagree with the notion that our presidential campaigns are too long (“How long is too long for a presidential campaign?” Editor’s Notebook, February 26). The political problems we have in the United States and here at home in Rochester need lengthy discussion and debate. People have become disinterested in politics over the years. With our comfortable lives, we may feel that it really doesn’t matter who is elected. Who cares, right? But there is confusion and anger in the Democratic Party that needs to be resolved. Otherwise, Trump will surely win. Now, with the threat of another four years of his presidency, people are starting to get interested. People are waking up! HARRY PEARLE, ROCHESTER
Sex-ed bill will protect our youth
An article in the February 26 edition of CITY discussed a bill (A6512/S4844) which would make it mandatory for public schools in New York to include age-appropriate, medically accurate sexual education from grades K-12 (“Mayor Warren opposes sex ed, STD bills”). As a doctor who takes care of children, I wonder if
those who oppose this bill are aware of its contents. Age-appropriate, medically accurate sexual health education starts by teaching children about their bodies, healthy relationships, gender identities and respect for self. It then progresses to teaching adolescents about puberty, peer pressure, consent, contraception and the prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The goal of comprehensive sexual education is to empower youth with the crucial information they need in order to make healthy decisions. Opposition to this bill suggests that sexual education could take away parental rights to be involved in their children’s sex education causing more harm than good. While it is not clear what these hypothetical harms could be, we do know, for example, that Rochester has one of the highest STI rates in New York State. Part of the purpose of age-appropriate sexual education is to prevent such real harms. Moreover, comprehensive sexual health programs are designed to augment and complement the sex education that students receive from their families, trusted adults and health care professionals. Unfortunately, many young people, including many of my patients, lack models of healthy relationships to learn from and trusted adults willing and able to discuss body changes, sexual consent and safe sex practices at home. It is our job as a community to protect our youth. Passing legislation to ensure adequate education is where we can start. KARINA VATTANA, ROCHESTER
Vattana is a medical doctor and pediatric resident at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Children are a blessing
Jarrad Ackert’s letter criticizing CITY for publishing the article about the local musician composing songs for her unborn child was not only mean-spirited, it was also wrong-headed (Feedback, February 26). Mr. Ackert claims that the paper should not be “stroking the ego of someone who decides to give birth to a child, knowing full-well the implications of exponentially accelerating climate change/ ecological extinction.” He is not only ungenerous in his sentiments, but there is no way to know if the future will be as he predicts. People have forecast the imminent end of the world for millennia. Somehow it seems to survive. Certainly, history records many catastrophes and much pain in the world, but over time the record of humanity has been one of steady, if uneven, progress towards prosperity and better lives for a greater number of people. There is every reason to believe that the future will continue to follow this path. This is not to deny that our world faces, and will continue to confront, serious problems. It always has. But I would argue that what the world needs is more children raised by people committed to trying to help solve those problems and create a better world. Furthermore, children are a blessing in and of themselves, bringing abundant joy to the people around them. It would be a sad world with fewer children laughing and playing and more cranky adults writing angry letters. JON-PAUL DYSON, WEBSTER
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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK | COMMENTARY BY DAVID ANDREATTA
The RCSD’s dumbeddown diplomas Something hasn’t smelled quite right about the Rochester City School District’s rising graduation rate the last few years. Anyone who knows anything about graduation rates — the rate at which students leave high school with a diploma in four years — know they tend to stay flat, that progress is incremental, and any noticeable gains are made over lengthy stretches of time. But state Department of Education data released a couple months ago showed that Rochester’s graduation rate climbed to 63 percent last year, representing a 4-percent jump from the previous year and the biggest year-to-year increase among the state’s largest city school districts. Between 2017 and 2019, Rochester’s graduation rate shot up more than 6 percent, whereas the statewide average rose barely 1 percent over that span. When the data was released, Rochester School Board President Van White crowed that the rate was the highest in 20 years. “The fact that our graduation rate is the highest it’s been in two decades is not an accident,” White said. Indeed, it was no accident. It was the result of a dumbed-down diploma giveaway. A new analysis of New York graduation rates shows that Rochester leads all large urban school districts by a wide margin in shepherding students toward the least academically-rigorous sheepskin. Researchers found that 40 percent of the 1,315 students who graduated from a Rochester public school last year earned something called a Career Developmental and Occupational Studies (CDOS) diploma, a credential intended to ready its recipients for “entry-level employment” rather than college or a skilled trade. By contrast, 12 percent of graduates in Buffalo and 16 percent of Syracuse graduates got the CDOS diploma last year. Just 1 percent of the 57,000 New York City graduates got the CDOS. The research was conducted by Education Trust for the New York Equity Coalition, a group of education, civil rights, parent, and business organizations dedicated to raising student achievement. The CDOS is among a new class of diplomas the state Board of Regents dreamed up in 2016 to give students an alternative path out of high school without having to pass five or more Regents exit exams as has been required of graduates for generations.
These diplomas, known as “4+1 pathways,” demand that students pass four Regents exams or a state-approved alternative test and demonstrate competency in a fifth area of study. The CDOS is one of those fifth areas, along with humanities, arts, and career and technical training, to name a few. The CDOS credential is a substandard one. Until 2016, it was only available to students with disabilities as a supplement to a high school diploma. A state Education Department questionand-answer sheet on the CDOS published just two years ago reads in part: “The CDOS commencement credential is not considered equivalent to receipt of a high school diploma.” The Regents invented the “4+1 pathways” to goose graduation rates after recognizing that too many students, particularly in large urban districts, weren’t earning a diploma the traditional way. Researchers acknowledged in their analysis that these pathways have their place and didn’t question whether the CDOS should be an option. But they wondered whether some school districts, namely Rochester, were using the CDOS as a crutch. That’s a good bet. “These troubling findings could signify problems with instructional rigor, inadequate support, and lack of equitable access to challenging coursework,” the report read. “If historically underserved groups of students are receiving a high school diploma that does not prepare them for success in college, careers, and active citizenship then our education system is doing them a life-altering disservice.” An RCSD spokesman has said the district was reviewing the research and taking “big steps” to ensure all students graduate high school. The analysis comes as the Regents are holding hearings on yet more possible changes to graduation requirements, including scrapping Regents exams altogether. One of those hearings is scheduled for East High School at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. State education officials insist the changes are not about watering-down standards, but rather about providing different avenues to graduation. But when 40 percent of a graduating class is walking down an avenue that was previously reserved for students with disabilities, it doesn’t just not smell quite right, it stinks.
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New charges for Moses
A $20,000 Florida timeshare. A cruise. New York Knicks tickets. Guns and an NRA membership. These are a few of the things that federal prosecutors allege George Moses bought with money earmarked for programs for the poor when he was the executive director of the North East Area Development Association, a nonprofit community development organization in Rochester. The allegations were outlined in an indictment handed up by a federal grand jury last week that charged Moses with 27 crimes, ranging from wire fraud and federal program fraud to identity theft and filing false tax returns. The indictment was the third against Moses, and while some of its charges were contained in the second indictment against him in November, many details of his alleged fraud were new. Moses, 50, is alleged to have committed the crimes while he was wearing two hats — one as the head of NEAD and another as the chair of the Rochester Housing Authority. Moses is being represented by Frederick Hafetz, a high-profile
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criminal defense lawyer from New York City who specializes in white collar crimes. The Democrat and Chronicle quoted Hafetz as saying Moses would contest the charges.
Overdose deaths dropped in 2019
Deaths from heroin in Monroe County have shrunk by a wide margin over the past two years, but users are still overdosing at roughly the same rate, according to new data from the county’s Heroin Task Force. In 2019, the county received 839 reports of opioid overdoses, 127 of which were fatal. Both figures represented a decrease from the previous year, when the county recorded 1,133 overdoses, 166 of which were fatal. The number of annual fatal overdoses has decreased since 2016, as has the rate. That year, the county had 329 reported overdoses, 169 of which resulted in death. Sheriff Todd Baxter, who is one of the leaders of the task force that formed in 2018, said the accessibility of naloxone, a drug which effectively halts an overdose, is a major factor behind the decline in fatal overdoses.
TRANSPORTATION | BY JEREMY MOULE
Sued cyclist going to ‘The People’s Court’
Cyclist Bryan Agnello was sued by the driver of a car that struck him. The case is headed to "The People's Court." PHOTO BY RENÉE HEININGER
What you are about to read is real. The participants are not actors. They are actual litigants whose dueling claims in Rochester City Court over a collision involving a car and a bicycle made international news. Both parties have agreed to drop their claims and have their cases settled before Judge Marilyn Milian, in her forum, “The People’s Court.” The cyclist, Bryan Agnello, and the driver who hit him, Jovonte Cook, are scheduled to have their dispute heard on the television show on Thursday, March 19, in Stamford, Connecticut. No air date has been set. A producer for the show contacted the litigants last week after their story appeared in CITY and was widely circulated on social media. The producer declined to comment and Cook did not return multiple messages. But Agnello said the producer told him Cook had agreed to appear. Agnello also provided paperwork the show sent him informing him that their case was on the docket and that the show
would cover their travel costs and pay any settlement. The story of their collision and the small claims lawsuit that ensued sparked outrage and debate about bicycling safety. Their collision occurred on Culver Road near the I-490 interchange in January when, according to police, Cook rear-ended Agnello, who was on his bicycle and slowed to make a left turn. Agnello was flung onto the hood of the car and his bicycle was damaged. Cook was not ticketed. A month later, however, Cook sued Agnello for $700 in damage to his car. Agnello filed a $2,500 counterclaim to cover the loss of his bicycle and the time he spent recuperating. Agnello said he agreed to appear on the show to raise awareness for bicycle safety and to ensure payment, should he win. “That way it will be over,” he said. “It’s like putting the ribbon on it.” Jeremy Moule is CITY's news editor. He can be reached at jmoule@rochestercitynews.com.
"You’d think I could find an apartment that wouldn’t bankrupt me. In the South Wedge, where I live, property assessments shot up 37 percent this year. Across the city, assessments rose 19 percent. I’m priced out."
COMMENTARY | BY GINO FANELLI
The rent really is too damn high It’s been a month since I began the arduous, mind-numbing journey to find a new apartment. The process consumes my life, always lingering on the periphery of whatever I’m doing. At any given moment, you can wager I’m thinking about apartments or writing my next beer column. With my lease expiring at the end of April, I’m getting anxious and feeling defeated. At this point, I’d shack up in the caves beneath the Genesee brewery, so long as the rent was below $750 and they accepted cats. I could shower under High Falls. Rochester’s rental prices are steadily and aggressively climbing. It is as if the state motto of Excelsior — “ever upward” — has become the mantra of the local rental market. In the words of the housing activist and former gubernatorial candidate Jimmy McMillan, the rent is too damn high. Get this: The fair-market-value rent for the Rochester metropolitan region, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), is higher than in 84 percent of markets nationwide. My housing expectations aren’t too grandiose. A simple one-bedroom would suffice. But the average one-bedroom has
an average monthly price tag of $978, according to Rent Jungle, a company that runs an apartment search engine. That’s a modest 3 percent higher than last year’s average for a one-bedroom, but an eyepopping 18 percent more than in 2018. What am I to do? Sell my car? Default on my student loans? Go on a ramen noodle diet so I can pay the rent? At least I’m not alone. A Twitter rant on the subject drew responses from disgruntled tenants from across the city, many of whom complained of rents rising by triple digits over the last couple of years. I’m telling you, the rent is too damn high! Consider that Rochester’s median household income is around $35,400, according to census data. An apartment at $978 would eat up 33 percent of those earnings. Households spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent — not including utilities — are considered to be “rent burdened,” a designation that carries higher rates of eviction and, as the Pew Charitable Trusts puts it, “increased financial fragility.” Now consider that the same census data shows almost half of city households have incomes below $35,000 and that Rochester is the third-poorest city among
the largest 75 cities in the country. Low-income renters receiving assistance are feeling the squeeze, too. “We have been seeing a pretty steady increase in average rents over the years,” said Shawn Burr, acting executive director of the Rochester Housing ILLUSTRATION BY JACOB WALSH Authority, which provides subsidized housing for lowincome families and oversees the federal Burr said myriad factors play into rising Section 8 housing voucher program. rental rates, from the housing market to “There’s been some peaks and valleys, but an old stock of buildings which require honestly, it’s following the market.” capital investment to renovate. I’m not a Section 8 renter, nor am The Pew analysis noted that at the I particularly low-income. I’m a single, national level, rental property demand has childless, young professional who makes been rising since 2008, the peak of the a modest sum, but not modest enough to Great Recession. qualify for assistance. Twelve years of demand on the You’d think I could find an apartment upswing has pushed down vacancy rates and bumped up rents to the point that, that wouldn’t bankrupt me. In the South like I said, they’re just too damn high. Wedge, where I live, property assessments shot up 37 percent this year. Across the city, Gino Fanelli is a CITY staff writer. He can assessments rose 19 percent. I’m priced out. be reached at gfanelli@rochester-citynews.com.
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ARTS & MEDICINE | BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
Eastman Performing Arts Medicine serves ailing artists Hurt in a car? You know who to call. Hurt in a choir? The answer is not always obvious. An urgent care center or emergency room is usually the first destination in the case of a broken arm or other physical injury sustained on a job or in the course of playing sports. But where can musicians and other performing artists go to receive medical care specific to their vocations? Strained vocal chords. Tendonitis. Carpal tunnel. Why not emergency medical care for those things? These were the questions that doctors at the University of Rochester Medical Center and professionals at Eastman School of Music had about five years ago, when the program that would become Eastman Performing Arts Medicine was first conceived. Now approximately one year since its official launch, the program is setting its sights to expand clinical care options for performing artists and further develop educational and research efforts connecting medicine and the arts. Eastman Performing Arts Medicine now offers a 24-hour call center that artists can call to receive treatment within 48 hours. Performing arts medicine is a relatively new specialty, having emerged in the 1990s. The inspiration for the Eastman Performing Arts Medicine program — and its four-pillar model of wellness, therapy in clinical care, education, and outreach — came directly from Houston Methodist Hospital’s Center for Performing Arts Medicine, a pioneer in the field and whose director, Todd Frazier, is an Eastman alumnus. The Houston Methodist program is one of the leading performing arts medicine centers in the country, but is not formally tied to any music school. And although the Houston metro area’s population is nearly seven times greater than that of Rochester, it was Frazier who, as a member of Eastman’s leadership council, insisted to Eastman Dean Jamal Rossi that a similar program would work in 6 CITY
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Dr. Ralph Manchester of Eastman Performing Arts Medicine works with a violinist. PHOTO COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER
Rochester — in part due to the infrastructure of the Eastman School and its network of student and community musicians. “What is it that’s going to make it Rochester’s and make it unique?” Gaelen McCormick, the program manager at Eastman Performing Arts Medicine, asks. “And part of that is having the Eastman School.” The other significant component is the University of Rochester’s celebrated medical community. The university was recently ranked 36th among the best medical schools for research and 23rd for primary care by U.S. News & World Report. About five years ago, a leadership team advised by Frazier began to formulate the Rochester program. At its outset, Eastman Performing Arts Medicine also benefited from a group of experienced medical doctors and specialists who had already set up clinical care programs at URMC in their respective fields. For instance, Dr. Ralph Manchester, the director of University Health Service at U of R and president of the Performing Arts Medicine Association, a trade organization,
has been researching performing arts medicine and working with Eastman musicians for over 30 years. He currently works with music therapists doing clinical visits in the hospital and helps to direct performing artists to the right specialists. Several of the doctors in leadership roles at Eastman Performing Arts Medicine are trained musicians or otherwise have a background in performing arts. Dr. John Ingle, the head of the URMC Voice Center, is a laryngologist who sang in choirs from grade school through college before pursuing a two-year fellowship in laryngology at University of Pittsburgh. He’s worked with opera singers and musical theatre artists as well as hardcore and metal singers to treat medical conditions related to the voice. Ingle says medical problems frequently stem from other factors beyond vocal fatigue. “I think the old model was to blame and shame singers for overusing their voice, but that’s not always the case,” he says. “Oftentimes, there are medical conditions that need to be addressed.”
A lack of awareness surrounding seemingly unrelated medical conditions can adversely affect vocal health, Ingle says. “Allergies and reflux can be kind of those ambiguous things where people say, ‘Oh, I’ve always had a stuffy nose’ or ‘I’ve always had a little bit of a scratchy throat’ or ‘I’ve always taken a little bit longer to warm up,’ and they’ve never really had a throat health assessment to know that those are problems,” Ingle says. In order for singers to maintain fitness and perform at a high level, Ingle points to what he calls “vocal hygiene,” including nutrition, drinking sufficient water, and getting proper sleep. This level of vigilance with regard to a musician’s own physical health is similar to that of an elite athlete. “The whole idea is that the folks that we’re working with are vocal athletes,” Ingle says, “and that we’re trying to maintain and preserve function, promote health, and have longevity. And I think there are certain sports where it’s expected that you won’t have longevity: You’re done at age 40, or you’re done at age 50. And we have a different perspective with voice care, because we want
says. “But in many ways, the difference is that performing artists, and musicians particularly, have different problems beyond the stuff you typically see.” Mirabelli says that overuse is a prevalent issue for performing artists he encounters as patients. “That could be vocal strain in singers, it could be tendonitis of the wrist in a drummer, it could be stress fractures in a dancer, in the shins,” he says. “But kind of the common theme is that they love what they do. Sometimes they do it so much that it breaks them.” Ultimately, the goal of Eastman Performing Arts Medicine is community engagement. And while the program has in effect had its “soft opening,” driven mostly by individual patients’ interest in getting care, there has not yet been a concerted outreach campaign or fundraising effort. Looking forward, Mirabelli hopes that local choirs, dance troupes, and theater companies will look to Eastman Performing Arts Medicine as an available resource. “This is sort of just a different way to advertise our clinical practices. So, we’re
Classical guitarist Michael Anthony Jones performs at Strong Hospital. PHOTO BY RENÉE HEININGER
people to continue to practice their art into their latter decades.” Dr. Mark Mirabelli, who specializes in orthopaedics and physical performance at URMC, has worked in the field of sports medicine since 2005. He’s treated pro football and basketball players during his fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic, and continues to work with athletes as well as dancers and others in the performing arts. “Everybody kind of recognizes that athletes have these kinds of issues,” Mirabelli
already in the office, right, we don’t need to open up a different door or building to see these folks,” Mirabelli says. “We just need to make sure that they know how to come get to us, and we’re working on growing it that way.” For more information, go to urmc. rochester.edu/eastman-performancemedicine. Eastman Performing Arts Medicine call center: 1-844-452-8762. Daniel J. Kushner is CITY’s music editor. He can be reached at dkushner@rochestercitynews.com. rochestercitynewspaper.com
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Dining & Nightlife
A rice bowl with chicken souvlaki at the fast-casual Rachel's Mediterranean Grill. The Buffalo-based family business opened two locations in Rochester this year, with plans to keep expanding. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH
Fast, relaxing food Rachel’s Mediterranean Grill 300 HYLAN DRIVE, HENRIETTA 5 STATE STREET, PITTSFORD MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY, 10:30 A.M. TO 9 P.M. 685-2059 (HENRIETTA), 348-9037 (PITTSFORD); RACHELSGRILL.COM [ REVIEW ] BY CHRIS THOMPSON
I love a fast-casual restaurant. As someone with a penchant for deviating from menu choices, they’re a perfect fit for me — I sometimes feel guilty asking for a custom order at a place that has established prepared items. These days, throughout this city I can get everything from burritos to pizzas, Indian food, and ice cream made-to-order in front of my eyes. But one thing I’ve longed for is a fast-casual Mediterranean spot. I love going to restaurants that represent different Mediterranean regions, but I can’t get in and out of one quickly when I’m 8 CITY
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on the go. Whether it’s Greek, Turkish, or Levantine, something about Mediterranean fare puts me in a relaxed mood, and I wind up spending more time than I anticipated enjoying my food. Fortunately, my wish had been granted: Rachel’s Mediterranean Grill, a Lebanese staple from Buffalo, has expanded to Rochester, with locations in Henrietta and in Pittsford. Rachel’s is owned by the Khoury family and named for the family’s youngest daughter. Son and manager Steven Khoury gave me a brief history of the restaurant: Rachel’s started in Buffalo as a little momand-pop cafe in 2006. Having success, the Khourys decided to expand, and with that expansion, they changed their business model from café-style to their current fast-casual model. Rachel’s grew to seven locations in the Buffalo area, eventually adding a location in Henrietta on Hylan Drive, across from the Marketplace Mall. The Pittsford location opened in early March on State Street, a stone’s throw from the Erie Canal. That makes two local spots
to get regionally-sourced Lebanese-style cuisine, adjusted to your specific tastes. Rachel’s also happens to be the official Mediterranean restaurant of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres. Former Bills center Eric Wood frequented Rachel’s original location, and he would bring food back to his teammates. Eventually, they were ordering Rachel’s for catered events, which created a bond with the team and its affiliates. Recently, the Khourys had talks with Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula, and an official partnership was formed. Any food fit for the Bills Mafia is good enough for me. Rachel’s set up is familiar to anyone who has had to grab a quick bite on their lunch break: choose a bowl or a wrap, then pick a base, a protein, toppings, and a sauce. The base could be mixed greens or brown or white rice, or even pita chips. I would suggest Rachel’s Rice option, though. It’s a traditional Mediterranean rice cooked with long grain white rice and whole wheat noodles. The proteins choices are lamb gyro ($10.45), steak souvlaki ($10.95), falafel
($10.45), grilled veggies ($9.45), or chicken souvlaki or shawarma ($10.45). There are 10 fresh vegetables to choose from, and then a choice of feta, cheddar, or American cheese if you like. If you’re like me, you can go to Rachel’s two days in a row and order two different types of dishes. I went with a falafel bowl on a spring mix base for my first visit, adding all of the grilled and fresh vegetables, with tahini and house-made hot sauce drizzled on the dish. The following day I got the Rachel’s Rice with a mix of the chicken souvlaki and shawarma, piled the vegetables on again, and finished with a dill sauce and hot sauce. Both bowls were delicious. The falafel was soft and not too dry, and also satisfying without being overly-filling. But of the two meals, I especially liked the chicken and dill sauce mix. The sudden blast of the hot sauce accentuated the flavor of the chicken, and then the dill somewhat smoothed everything out. Each bite was shocking, followed by a sense of serenity. The interior of the Henrietta location may have contributed to the serenity I was feeling while eating, to be honest. It’s a marked improvement from the building’s previous tenant, Qdoba. The former purples and yellows were replaced with greys, whites, and earth tones, yet it somehow looks more vibrant. Ceramic tiled walls are staggered grays of varying shades, and the floor is wood with a shiny, black stone border. The effect is futuristic yet still like a classic, portside cafe. The glass façade let the afternoon sun bathe the dining area in natural light, making the hanging LED lights nearly unnecessary. It was a pleasant reminder that spring is nigh, and I look forward to the inevitable outdoor seating, as Rachel’s has a patio nearly the length of the storefront. Steve Khoury says that the family plans on continuing its expansion in Rochester and into parts of Pennsylvania, and eventually throughout the nation. Despite this, they want to maintain Rachel’s hometown feel. They’ve done a good job thus far, and I have no doubt that as they expand, they’ll still feel like our own Upstate take on food from across the world. Also: Go Bills! Chris Thompson is a freelance writer for CITY. Feedback on this article can be directed to becca@rochester-citynews.com.
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RIT [ COVER STORY ] BY JEFF SPEVAK
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If RIT President David Munson has his way, the performing arts will be on par with science and engineering on campus.
Dr. David Munson points to an empty stretch of wall near the ceiling in his seventh-floor office on the campus of Rochester Institute of Technology. “Yeah,” he says, “we still have some shadows of banjos up on the wall there.” Indeed, the vague outlines of banjos — perhaps it is dust out of reach of the custodians — can be discerned on the wall of the university president’s office, nearly three years after Munson moved in. The banjos belonged to RIT’s former president, Bill Destler, who played the instrument, and owned hundreds of them. The public perception of RIT is that it is primarily about science and engineering. Not banjos. But if Munson has his way — and he’s confident he will — the school’s performing arts will soon be on par with its technical expertise. “For us,” he says, “the arts are not sort of at the edge of what we do, we want them right in the middle of what we do.” To that end, Munson envisions two new buildings on campus. One, a home to two performing arts stages. The other, the far larger of the two, will be a conglomeration of arts, hands-on manufacturing, and wide-open classrooms, called the Innovative Maker and Learning Complex, or, IMLC. “The IMLC by itself, I think, will be the largest construction project we’ve seen on this campus since the university moved to Henrietta,” Munson says. It’s been 60 years since the school left downtown Rochester. But Munson’s plans go beyond ambitious architectural renderings. What he’s setting up is a realignment of the university experience. The IMLC will integrate RIT’s separate colleges into one university of shared learning and goals. And it may help open the suburban campus to the city, through arts organizations eager to not only use these new venues, but for people to see what’s been happening behind the school’s red-brick walls. By 2023, when Munson expects this new construction to be completed, RIT will be positioned to accommodate a re-wiring of student brains as well. “There is a pretty high correlation between human brains that do math and science and human brains that do music,” Munson says.
“There’s some, I think, neurological connection there. And I noticed that when I was the dean of engineering at the University of Michigan, and found that 70 percent of my engineering students were musicians. And lots of my faculty colleagues were musicians. In fact, some of them had been professional musicians before they ever went back to school and got their degrees in engineering and became university professors later on.” The correlation between the arts hits Munson close to home, and his brothers and sisters, aunts, and uncles. “Almost everybody did music and math,” he says. “I don’t think my family was unusual.”
NOT YOUR AVERAGE PRESIDENT Perhaps the most observably unusual aspect to Munson is he’s a shade over 6 feet, 6 inches tall. Playing high school basketball aside, he holds degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware and Princeton University. He was a professor of electrical engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and dean of the University of Michigan College of Engineering before coming to RIT. He is a past president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society, which requires no secret handshake, but does demand familiarity with imaging system signal processing. Yet Munson, 67, is clearly not your standard seventh-floor administrator. As a high school student, he sang with a folk group, played saxophone in marching band, built rockets from cardboard tubes and balsa wood, and was an Eagle Scout. In recent years, he has tried his hand at community theater, including the role of the Tin Man in “The Wizard of Oz,” and last year was involved in the Geva Summer Curtain Call, a fundraiser for Geva Theater Center. And he’s gone where few other college administrators dare go: Performing in videos at the University of Michigan. As Obi Wan Munson in a Star Wars parody, he dons Jedi Knight fashions, levitates construction equipment, and waves a lightsaber as he raps: Innovation arises from collaboration different disciplines do more in combination. Which is why I have devoted my time to finding ways to align bright minds for ideas that blaze. To support creativity in all of its forms ArtsEngine is for everybody here on the Norm.
RIT President David Munson PHOTO BY MAX SCHULTE
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That’s the rap Munson is bringing to RIT as well. “Norm” is a reference to the north campus of the University of Michigan. ArtsEngine is a program initiated by Munson at Michigan, with the same left and right brain collaborative vibe as his idea for the Innovative Maker and Learning Complex. “The IMLC kind of idea, I had pursued something similar to that when I was the dean of engineering at the University of Michigan,” Munson says. “I was not able to get that sold to the administration and the university before I left Ann Arbor, and I didn’t come in here thinking we would necessarily build such a thing. But it just so happened, when I arrived, the university was completing a study on how we might redesign our existing library. Which is a big topic on a lot of university campuses, because libraries are not what they used to be. “And when I got here, I noticed there was this huge grassy spot, empty, right between the library and the student center. And instead of simply re-designing the library and stopping there, we thought about this bigger project.”
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THE FOUNDATION IS ALREADY THERE But the IMLC didn’t simply pop out of an empty field. In some respects, the elements for this fusion of technology and the arts were already in place. “RIT as an institution has historically been very strong in the studio arts,” Munson says, pointing to the university’s long history in photography, ceramics, jewelry and furniture designs, to name a few. And yet, he says, “We’ve had the performing arts, but I think they’ve been underdeveloped, in terms of a university priority, compared to the studio arts.” Perhaps a hint of what’s to come can be seen in the Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival. Every spring, it draws 30,000 people to see what the school’s students, alumni and faculty have been working on. “We put everything out on display for one day,” Munson says. “And then, when we’re done, it all goes back into the individual labs and behind walls.” The RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity — with the handy
acronym MAGIC — also points to the future. The MAGIC Spell Studios opened in 2018 as a center for exploring digital technology and as a film-production studio. So with a wave of Munson’s lightsaber, and an estimated $105 million, that huge grassy spot that he saw when he first came to the campus will be transformed into the Innovative Maker and Learning Complex. It will be Imagine RIT 365 days a year. A building connecting the student center and the library. Financing the IMLC and performing arts center construction is a high-wire budget balancing act, balanced on a Transforming RIT capital campaign to raise $1 billion. Through donations from alumni, corporations and research foundations and agencies, the campaign is nearing 70 percent of its goal. Approximately $150 million in tax-exempt proceeds was created by refinancing previous bonds at lower interest rates, some of which will go toward renovation of student housing and a new athletic stadium complex. Also figuring
in the math is $17.5 million from a record $50 million donation from RIT engineering grad and Trustee Austin McChord. The idea is to move away from RIT’s signature red-brick aesthetic. “It will be very transparent, unlike a lot of our other facilities, which are covered with brick walls,” Munson says. He imagines visitors peering through the IMLC glass to see machine shops with milling lathes and race cars being assembled “almost side by side.” There will be a dance theater and music-rehearsal rooms. A blackbox theater, a generally featureless space often used for experimental performances, will seat somewhere between 150 and 200 people. Classrooms will have video monitors for students to watch other activities throughout the building. “It will be a major gathering spot for students, to spread out and work together and drink coffee,” Munson says. “To see all of this making going on around them.”
RIT a cappella group Eight Beat Measure performs PHOTO BY SUE WEISLER
Thomas Warfield, director of dance at RIT, performs PHOTO BY SUE WEISLER
Latin Rhythm Dance Crew PHOTO BY SUE WEISLER
MARRYING TECHNOLOGY AND ART Making. Makers. Munson uses the terms often. It’s a new word for the Oxford English Dictionary, a reflection of today’s technologybased, do-it-yourself culture. “One of the purposes there is to create what I refer to as ‘classrooms of the future,’” Munson says. “Classrooms that are set up for active education, technology on the walls, all of the furniture is on wheels and everything is reconfigurable and really suitable for having lots and lots of students. Groups of students, working together within the so-called lecture hour, except now there’s not so much lecturing anymore. There’s a lot of pedagogy that’s heading in this direction.” Thomas Warfield is already plugging pedagogy, the concept of interactive learning experiences, into RIT’s dance programs. As director of dance at RIT, Warfield deals with the dichotomy of technology and the arts every time he offers a new class or program. “I have students who are majors in all these other things,” he says. “And I wanted to find a way to connect what they were interested in. And what their majors were. And that they also had a passion for performing. And how do I marriage these things?”
In some arenas, this kind of thinking has already arrived. “If you go to a Broadway show right now, the technology on those shows are out of this world,” Warfield says. “It’s beyond anything people thought of five or six years ago.” To move the student collaborations from theory to practice, Warfield finds himself working with RIT’s School of Interactive Games and Media, “Writing an app that the audience will be able to use on their phone to interact with dancers, live.” His response arrives next month: Dance 2020: The Rhythm and Motion of Light. It runs April 17 through April 19 at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf ’s Panara Theatre on the RIT campus, with dancers moonlighting from their majors of electrical engineering, aeronautic engineering, anthropology, architecture, American sign-language interpreting, and medical illustration. The new performing arts complex, which will consume a portion of the J Lot parking on the northwest side of the campus, should enhance these multimedia, multi-college experiences.
One venue will seat between 600 to 800 people, a nice size for musical theater. The price tag will be about $35 million. The second will have 1,500 seats, suitable for major lecturers, with the stage and backstage area large enough to accommodate a symphony orchestra. It will be the final piece of the arts puzzle, with the cost of it yet to be determined. As a bonus, donated to the school and undergoing renovation now, is a beautiful theater organ that has been in storage since the 1962 demolition of Detroit’s Hollywood Theater. With these new venues, Munson imagines events such as a collegiate, nationwide rockband competition. New opportunities for students in the arts, such as the recently formed steel-drum band. Perhaps the school will award small scholarships in the performing arts, going to local students to help build a relationship between the community and the campus. Munson says several performing arts groups have approached the university about using the new spaces. Some of his conceptualizing comes from firsthand research.
“I do want for people to know that, early in my time in Rochester, I quietly toured through as many of the different theaters as I could,” Munson says, “because I was hoping that if we were to head in the direction that we have, that we wouldn’t be reproducing any of the venues that currently exist. We really need to add to the community and try not to overlap too much. “For the size of the city, Rochester is just awesome in the performing arts,” Munson says. “And so my wife and I, we often hang around on the weekends in bars and whatever, you know, and listening to the local musicians, and that’s great. There is a nice theater scene, the RPO is fantastic, the Eastman School is fantastic. But, with what we wanted to do at RIT, we would not be able to do it but for the fact that we are in Rochester, and there is so much talent to draw on.” Jeff Spevak is the arts and life editor and reporter at WXXI, a media partner of CITY. He can be reached at jspevak@wxxi.org.
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Upcoming
Music
[ HIP-HOP ] Sir Mix-a-Lot Thursday, April 23. The Vine at Del Lago Resort. 1133 State Rte. 414, Waterloo. $20. Ages 21 and over. 8 p.m. 754-4375. dellagoresort.com; facebook.com/sirmixalotofficial. [ ROCK ] The Struts Thursday, June 25. MLK Jr. Memorial Park at Manhattan Square, 353 Court St. $7-$40; free for 12 and under. 8:30 p.m. 394-4400. rochesterevents.com; thestruts.com.
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
SUNDAY, MARCH 15 MONTAGE MUSIC HALL, 55 CHESTNUT STREET 8 P.M. | $20 | 16 + WITH ID, UNDER 16 WITH GUARDIAN AFTERDARKPRESENTS.COM [ INDIE FOLK-ROCK ] Singer-songwriter Will Oldham’s prolific output of lo-fi rock-Americana songs is well documented over the course of eight albums from various iterations of his Palace project and more than 20 fulllength albums as Bonnie “Prince” Billy. Oldham’s voice has a tender, lilting quality that can either be welcoming in up-tempo contexts or foreboding in more somber and bittersweet songs. His latest records include the decidedly upbeat “I Made a Place” and “When We Are Inhuman,” a live album in collaboration with guitarist Bryce Dessner and contemporary classical chamber ensemble Eighth Blackbird. A distinctive musician with three decades in the indie music scene, Bonnie “Prince” Billy is not to be missed in this rare Rochester performance. Emmet Kelly and Crush the Junta will also play. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
Sisters of Murphy FRIDAY, MARCH 13 THREE HEADS BREWING, 186 ATLANTIC AVENUE 8 P.M. | $5 | THREEHEADSBREWING.COM [ CELTIC ROCK ] Celtic-infused music is a fairly straight-
forward cocktail, typically intended to spark some revelry. But Sisters of Murphy’s excellent songs are more than just fun, bar-polishing drinking anthems, but real rock ‘n’ roll to get you moving.
— BY FRANK DE BLASE
An Evening in Granada
The guitar music of Spain Saturday, March 21, 2020 The Hochstein Performance Hall
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Grammy Award winner Jason Vieaux
[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]
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Lala Yello Theshht
ACOUSTIC/FOLK Rochester Folkus. Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370. 7 p.m. Maria Gillard Trio. $10.
‘Lala Land’ Lemuel Records Available on Spotify
Simone Baron & Arco Belo MONDAY, MARCH 16 BOP SHOP RECORDS, 1460 MONROE AVENUE 8 P.M. | $15 AT DOOR, $10 FOR STUDENTS | BOPSHOP.COM [ JAZZ ] Inventive pianist and accordionist Simone Baron
leads Arco Belo. A band that employs strings and other nontraditional jazz instruments, Arco Belo also combines eastern and western influences along with folk, classical, and ethnic strains. Compositions on the group’s debut album, “The Space Between Disguises,” seamlessly flow from the traditional to the avant-garde. — BY RON NETSKY
Rochester singer-rapper La’Ja Gause, better known as Lala Yello Theshht, is occupying territory which reflects rap’s classic storytelling sensibilities, modernized by high-fidelity production and an intuitive cadence. Upon listening to the School of the Arts alum’s new full-length album “Lala Land” — released on March 1 — initial comparisons could be made with personalities like Nicki Minaj or Lil’ Kim, but Lala’s overall aesthetic more closely resembles the sonic palettes of Lil Debbie and Desiigner. Her boisterous vocals, interwoven through vibe-heavy beats, strike a refreshing balance. “Pain Away” is a standout track with sparse instrumental arrangement, rhythmic variation, and mantra-like vocals. A single released ahead of the full-length, “Keep Calling,” evokes romantic shades present in modern R&B. Lala Yello Theshht concocts deeply autobiographical tracks which existentially sensual, melancholic, and lyrically therapeutic. — BY HASSAN ZAMAN
Pegasus Early Music presents ‘The Panther and the Rose’ SUNDAY, MARCH 15 DOWNTOWN UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 121 NORTH FITZHUGH STREET 4 P.M. | $28 GENERAL, $22 SENIORS, $10 STUDENTS, GRADES 3-12 FREE PEGASUSEARLYMUSIC.ORG [ CLASSICAL ] Trecento (fourteenth-century) Italian music is
“complicated, beautiful, astonishing, with a freshness that still sounds compelling,” Pegasus Early Music’s Deborah Fox says. “The Panther and the Rose” is a program of Trecento vocal pieces and dances by Johannes Ciconia, Francesco Landini, Donato di Firenze, and others. It’s also virtuosic and colorful music; countertenor Andrew Rader and tenor Jonas Budris will be accompanied by a variety of period wind and string instruments (including bagpipes) played by Fox, Dongmyung Ahn, and Christa Patton. A pre-concert talk is at 3:15 p.m.
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CLASSICAL
Krusenstjerna Flute Choir. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 6 p.m. Tracy Dahl, soprano. Howard Stowe Roberts Cultural Life Center, 2301 Westside Dr. roberts.edu. 7:30 p.m. JAZZ
Bossa Nova Bradley Brothers. 80W, 7 Lawrence St. 730-4046. 7 p.m.
Margaret Explosion. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m. METAL
Pathology, Pyrexia, Sulaco, Dissonant Seepage. Bug Jar,
219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $15/$20.
Oats Holy Roller ‘Fear Memorial Park’ Self-released oatsholyroller.bandcamp.com
For his latest album under the moniker Oats Holy Roller, Buffalo-based singer-songwriter Joe Myers teamed up with Ithaca-based musician Justin Roeland to record and produce the sixsong collection “Fear Memorial Park,” released in February. Myers’ slightly gravelly yet welcoming voice seems to be both singing and speaking at the same time. He possesses the poetic affectation and vocal cadence of Bill Callahan and the jangly melodic tendencies of ’90s college rock, as exemplified on “In Such Times // Ahhhhhh.” You could call this folk music, but as with any project Roeland is involved in, there are plenty of sophisticated and idiosyncratic electronic timbres snuck into this thick slice of new Americana. Combining Myers’s beautifully understated songs with Roeland’s lush chamber pop arrangements, as mastered by Matt Succimmorano, is a stroke of genius I can only hope will be repeated in the future. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
POP/ROCK
The Ende Brothers. Dinosaur
BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 9 p.m. Flying Object. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 9:30 p.m. $7. Siena. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 6 p.m. The Undercover Project. Fort Hill Performing Arts Center, 20 Fort Hill Ave. Canandaigua. fhpac.org. 7 p.m. Chicago tribute. $15/$25. TRADITIONAL
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Say when Yeah, it was snowing sideways Friday night, so what? That wasn’t going to keep me from hearing pop-indie femme fatale Caroline Vreeland open for hipsterpopsters Roses and Revolutions at Three Heads Brewing. In a sparkly dress that looked like she had poured herself into and forgot to say when, Vreeland snaked through the sold-out crowd to the stage. Let me stop there to clear up a few things. Comparisons have been made with warblers like Nancy Sinatra and Patsy Cline, but that’s just lazy and it falls short of the mark. Nancy Sinatra can’t really sing, and Patsy sang more about being heartbroken than actually being a heartbreaker. Vreeland is a heartbreaker who had the guts to open her 30-minute set with a noir-ish cover of “You’re the One That I Want.” That’s right, the tune from “Grease” — and it sounded great. She proceeded to treat the crowd with selections from her new album “Notes on Sex and Wine.” Dispatches from the couch: I have to insist you check out the documentary “ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band from Texas” on Netflix. The band talks about its 50-year anniversary with lots of vintage and live music footage. They may not be sportin’ sparkly dresses, but man, are they bad and nationwide. Frank De Blase is CITY’s music writer. He
can be reached at frank@rochester-citynews.com.
Jason Vieaux was once an aspiring student taking lessons at Hochstein School of Music. He returns on March 21 to perform there as one of the preeminent classical guitarists working today. PHOTO BY TYLER BOYE
Rooted in Rochester Jason Vieaux ‘AN EVENING IN GRANADA’ SATURDAY, MARCH 21 HOCHSTEIN PERFORMANCE HALL, 50 NORTH PLYMOUTH AVENUE 8 P.M. |$15-$50; VIP $150 | EVENTBRITE.COM [ FEATURE ] BY DAVID RAYMOND
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Classical guitarist Jason Vieaux’s career reflects the versatility (and the portability) of his instrument. He’s apt to show up anywhere, from a symphony orchestra concert to NPR’s “Tiny Desk” concert series, from teaching at the venerated Curtis Institute of Music to giving online lessons.
The award-winning Vieaux performs throughout the world, but Rochester played an important part in his early studies. He returns to give a solo recital, “An Evening in Granada,” at the Hochstein Performance Hall on March 21. He’s been at the top of his profession since 1992, when he won first prize in the GFA International Guitar Competition two years after graduating from high school. He’s also won a Naumburg Foundation chamber music award, was a US Artistic Ambassador to Southeast Asia, and won a 2015 Grammy for his solo album “Play.” Having originally studying in his native Buffalo with Jeremy Sparks of the Buffalo Guitar Quartet, Vieaux describes himself as a “a serious kid.”
“All through high school, I was in my basement studio, practicing my exercises and etudes,” he says. His heroes were, and still are, such pioneering old-school classical guitarists as Julian Bream, Andrés Segovia, David Russell, and John Williams. The talented teenager was initially invited to visit Rochester by John Wiesenthal, who taught guitar (and still does) at the Hochstein School of Music. Wiesenthal also recently founded the Guitar Society of Rochester. “There wasn’t much of a classical guitar scene in Buffalo,” Vieaux recalls. “But John Wiesenthal was a strong, devoted, and enthusiastic leader in Rochester. My first time seeing players like David Russell, Sharon Isbin, and Carlos Barbosa-Lima in recital was at Hochstein.” He visited Rochester several times each year to attend recitals and master classes, and as a high school senior had what he calls “my first real gig,” as one of four guitarists taking part in a Guitar Society recital. Vieaux’s talent and dedication were obvious, but few conservatories offered degrees in guitar performance. Vieaux chose the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with John Holmquist. In 1997, Vieaux joined the faculty himself. He’s still there, now as head of the guitar department. “The 1980s and early 1990s were really another era,” he says. “Oberlin, Eastman, Juilliard, Peabody — none of them had guitar programs. In the ’90s it really started to happen, and now they all offer them.” Eastman School of Music started its guitar program in 1993 under Nicholas Goluses, who still directs it. One holdout was Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. It didn’t start its guitar program until 2011, directed by Vieaux, who is still on the Curtis faculty. The following year, he started the Jason Vieaux School of Classical Guitar with ArtistWorks Inc., giving students the chance for one-on-one online study. Vieaux’s teaching career, he remembers, started long before he went to Cleveland. “I gave lessons in middle school and high school,” he says, “starting with a friend who wanted to learn Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Killer of Giants.’ He was amazed that I could listen to a record and then play the music back.” More high school rock guitarists came forward to learn from Vieaux, who says he learned how to teach from the experience, and made some money in the process.
Gracie Martin. Water Street 2020, 204 N Water St. 471-8916. 8 p.m. $5/$10. Joe Fornieri. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 5-7 p.m. Sarva. Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603. 7 p.m.
The classical guitar has an enormous repertoire, and Vieaux’s concerts and recitals
span the centuries, from the medieval era to the present day. He’s also explored what he calls his “jazz leanings,” and his chamber music experience ranges from a 13-year collaboration with the Escher String Quartet to an album with the accordionist and bandoneón player Julien Labro. Asked about his varied career, Vieaux says simply: “I’ve never made a lot of plans. I have been very fortunate in being approached by a lot of great musicians.” Like most classical guitarists, Vieaux is an avid proponent of contemporary music. “My interest in modern, more dissonant music — music with no tonal center — goes back to the first contemporary piece I learned when I was 13, Hans Werner Henze’s ‘Drei Tentos.’ I was immediately interested in learning it, and also pieces like Britten’s ‘Nocturnal After John Dowland’ and Takemitsu’s ‘Equinox.’” These are all now classics of the guitar repertoire. “I explored this music early enough to be able to listen to it again and again, and learn to enjoy it,” Vieaux says. But even given his pleasure in contemporary music, he finds the music of Bach to be the most rewarding. “It is absolutely the highest quality music we have for guitar,” he says. Does Vieaux perform older music like that of Bach on period-specific guitars? “I’m very much a modern player, and not a specialist,” Vieaux says. “It’s expensive and cumbersome to travel with multiple instruments. And a modern instrument is what you need to project into a large hall.” The March 21 concert at Hochstein, “An Evening in Granada,” is an all-Spanish program, though it will show the breadth of Jason Vieaux’s repertoire. He describes the program as “moving through history, though not chronologically,” from Manuel de Falla’s “Homage to Debussy” to a 1526 fantasia by Alonso Mudarra. Additional Spanish atmosphere will be provided by projections and other multimedia aids. David Raymond is a freelancer for CITY. Feedback on this article can be directed to dkushner@rochester-citynews.com.
AMERICANA
The Hibernators. Record
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ROCK | LINDA RUTHERFORD & CELTIC FIRE
Linda Rutherford & Celtic Fire played at Woodstock ’99 but picked the wrong seat on the proverbial Titanic. It was at Woodstock where the local band became friends with groups such as Korn and Muse, who broke out colossally despite the industry-wide meltdown. Linda Rutherford & Celtic Fire’s debut album, “Stop The Rain,” lit up a room by drawing on traditional Irish folk while creating a modern interpretation. Released 24 years ago, its acclaimed title track sounds contemporary and sadly relevant today, with its lyrics about homelessness. Linda Rutherford & Celtic Fire performs on Saturday, March 14, 7:45 p.m. at Shamrock Jack’s Irish Pub, 4554 Culver Road. $10. Ages 21 and over. shamrockjacks.com; facebook.com/lindarutherfordcelticfire. — BY ROMAN DIVEZUR
[ THU., MARCH 12 ] AMERICANA
Green Dreams, Pomelo, Shy Tooth. Swan Dive, 289 Alexander St. 413-3306. 9 p.m. $5.
Amy LaVere Band & Will Sexton Band. Abilene, 153
The Red Hot Chilli Pipers.
CLASSICAL
R&B/ SOUL Zahyia. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $5-$10.
Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 7:30 p.m. $12/$15.
Eastman at Washington Square. First Universalist
Church of Rochester, 150 Clinton Ave S. esm.rochester. edu/lunchtime. 12:15 p.m. Awaiting Spring. Ying-Freer Duo. Tower Fine Arts Center, 180 Holley St. Brockport. 395-2787. 7:30 p.m. $9-$17. JAZZ
Roger Eckers Quartet. Via
Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m. Steve Swell’s Kende Dreams. Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. 271-3354. 8 p.m. $10/$20. POP/ROCK
Forevers, Frame & Mantle, Dogs In Stereo, Stupid November. Bug Jar, 219
Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $7.
Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St. Geneva. thesmith. org. $28.50 & up.
TRADITIONAL
Arise & Go. First Baptist
Church of Fairport, 92 S Main St. Fairport. 7:30 p.m. $12/$15.
Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-8 p.m. Kubick’s Rubes. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 8 p.m. The Way Down Wanderers. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 9:30 p.m. $10/$15. BLUES
Miller & The Other Sinners.
The Beer Hall Grill & Taps, 1517 Empire Blvd. Webster. 347-4450. 8 p.m. $5. The Old Souls Band. Johnny’s Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. 5:30 p.m. Owen Eichensehr. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080. 7 p.m. CLASSICAL
HochStrings Concertovaganza. Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 454-4596. 5:45 p.m.
COUNTRY Cody Jinks. Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. kodakcenter. com. 7 p.m. $25 & up. Duncan & Joey Allen. Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. 334-3030. 6 p.m. JAZZ
DeeAnn. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 8 p.m. $10/$15. Stan Martinelli Project. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m. METAL
An Evening of Irish Song & Dance with Ronan Tynan.
Gates of Paradox, Spit Nickels, Cabin in the Woods, 137. Fanatics, 7281 W Main
Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 454-4596. 7 p.m. $50.
St. Lima. 624-2080. 7 p.m. $7.
[ FRI., MARCH 13 ]
Jerry Falzone & Liar’s Moon.
ACOUSTIC/FOLK Amy Montrois. Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E. 245-3006. 7:30 p.m. Dana & Susan Robinson. Golden Link Folk Singing Society, 2750 Atlantic Ave. Penfield. goldenlink.org. 7:30 p.m. $10-$20.
POP/ROCK Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 5:30 p.m. Like A Hurricane. Montage, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 8 p.m. Neil tribute. $12. Mark Gregory. Robbie’s, 610 N Greece Rd. Hilton. 392-4141. 8 p.m. Pompous Rat, Checks & Exes. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $7. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 19
PUNK/HARDCORE Endless Fest. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 5 p.m. $10/$12. SKA
Some Ska Band. B-Side, 5
Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 8 p.m. VARIOUS
Danielle Ponder, Avis Reese, Maria Gillard, Sydney Irving, Cammy Enaharo. 8 p.m.
Hollerhorn Distilling, 8443 Spirit Run . Naples $15/$20. 531-2448. VOCALS
Madrigalia: Songs of Protest, Songs of Peace. Third
Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St. madrigaliaroc.org. 7:30 p.m. $5-$20.
[ SAT., MARCH 14 ]
AMERICANA
Evan Meulemans. Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E. 245-3006. 8 p.m.
Jeff Riales & The Slivertone Express. Little Café, 240 East
Ave. 258-0400. 8 p.m. Woody Dodge. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 2:30 p.m. CLASSICAL
ECMS Chamber Showcase. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m.
Patricia Sunwoo & David Brickman: Music for Two Violins. South Wedge Mission,
125 Caroline St. 746-3048. 7 p.m. JAZZ
Cousin Vinny. Salvatore’s
Pizzeria & Pub, 1217 Bay Rd. Webster. 671-9420. 7:30 p.m. Paradigm Shift. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.
Wicked, Mesh. Pineapple Jack’s, 485 Spencerport Rd. Gates. 247-5225. 9 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
CLASSICAL
CLASSICAL
Barry’s Crossing. Barry’s Old
Faculty Artist Series. Hatch
Opera Guild Lecture/Listening Series. Brighton Memorial
POP/ROCK
Gavin Barry & His Rebel Banjo Circus. Iron Smoke Distillery,
The Byways, Blue Envy. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 8 p.m. $5. Die Kitty Die, Buffalo Sex Change, Clockmen, The Emersons. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m.
Sisters of Murphy, The Transport, Dial Up, Tryst. Flour
City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. 10 a.m.-10:30 p.m. $5. Shackwater. Irish Mafia Brewing Co., 2971 Whalen Rd. Bloomfield. 257-5172. 8 p.m. Swamp Moose. Robbie’s, 610 N Greece Rd. Hilton. 392-4141. 8 p.m.
METAL
Nightmares, Destroy Create, Soma Slumber, White Tides, Divine Fallacy. Montage Music
Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 6 p.m. $10.
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111 Parce Ave Suite 5b. Fairport. 388-7584. 8 p.m. $5. VOCALS
Madrigalia: Songs of Protest, Songs of Peace. Third
Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St. 7:30 p.m. $5-$20.
[ SUN., MARCH 15 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Cammy Enaharo. The Daily Refresher, 293 Alexander St. 360-4627. 5-7 p.m. TRADITIONAL
R&B/ SOUL
Cinnamon Jones. Fanatics,
St Patrick’s Day Hootenanny: Cuppa Tae. Hollerhorn Distilling,
7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080. 7 p.m. $10.
8443 Spirit Run. Naples. 531-2448. 4-6 p.m.
REGGAE
[ MON., MARCH 16 ]
The Rochester Reggae Revival, The Forest Dwellers, Roger Kuhn. Three Heads Brewing,
BLUES
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
The Living Room Session. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 8 p.m.
School Irish, 2 W. Main St. Webster. 545-4258. 3:30 p.m.
186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m.
Nick Schnebelen. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080. 7 p.m.
Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m. Bonita Boyd, flute; Kenneth Grant, clarinet. $10. Tuba Mirum. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m. JAZZ
Al Bruno’s Bourbon Street Parade. Radisson Hotel, 175
Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 784-5310. 7 p.m. Art Axelrod: Operatic Oddities. WindSync. Hatch Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. noon. POP/ROCK
Body Thief, Fortunato, Kind of Kind, Boyscott. Bug Jar, 219
Jefferson Rd. flowercityjazz.org. 6:30 p.m. $7/$12. Simone Baron & Arco Belo. Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. 271-3354. 8 p.m. $10/$15.
Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $7. Honey & Vinegar. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. 7:30 p.m.
[ TUE., MARCH 17 ]
Tiny Moving Parts, Belmont, Capstan, Jetty Bones. Montage
ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Phelim White, Scott Jones, Stevie Hartman & Friends.
Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 7 p.m. $20/$23. TRADITIONAL
B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 6 p.m.
Casey Costello & Mitzie Collins: Evening of Irish Songs.
BLUES
Irish Sessions: John Ryan & Friends. Abilene, 153 Liberty
Biscuit Miller. Fanatics, 7281
W Main St. Lima. 624-2080. 7 p.m. $18/$20.
Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.
Pole Way. 232-3230. 7:30 p.m. WORLD
Buddhahood. Murph’s, 155
Pattonwood Dr. 342-6780. 6:30 p.m.
Theater include pre-casting of Hoskins in the solo role of “Every Brilliant Thing,” and a partnership with the Nazareth College Department of Theatre and Dance for “The Wolves,” which will be completely cast at Nazareth and with the school’s students. The season closer, Sam Shepard’s classic “True West” (opens May 2021) will run two productions concurrently, or in rep — one cast of brothers, one of sisters — and feature the season’s only male director behind the brother version. It’s the first time this has been done locally, and patrons are encouraged to see both versions of the production. Season subscriptions to Blackfriars’ 2020-21 season are now on sale by phone at 454-1260, or online at blackfriars.org. The 2020-21 71st Blackfriars Theatre season: September 2020 “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” October-November 2020 “Every Brilliant Thing” December 2020 “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” February 2021 “The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes” A scene from “Detroit ’67,” which was staged last fall as part of Blackfriars Theatre’s record-breaking current season. The 2020-21 season was announced on Monday, and each of the new season’s six mainstage productions are directed by a woman. PHOTO BY RON HEERKENS JR.
Blackfriars Theatre announces 2020-21 season [ PREVIEW ] BY LEAH STACY
The Blackfriars Theatre house was packed on Monday evening for the 2020-2021 season announcement, hot on the heels of a successful 70th anniversary season that yielded a higher-than-ever subscriber base, the largest opening show in BT history (“Guys and Dolls” in September 2019), and a quadrupled donor total (nearing $170,000) since 2015. Development Manager Mary Tiballi Hoffman and Communications Coordinator Danielle Raymo emceed the evening, with Artistic Director Danny Hoskins making brief opening remarks and then “getting out of the way” and crediting much of the year’s success to the duo. Board members took turns at the mic as well, which kept the hour-long program moving swiftly through a lot of brand new information from the Blackfriars team. In addition to the season, several repeating and new events were announced, including a May 2020 fundraiser weekend of shows
from comedy troupe EstroFest, the Blackfriars Theatre Summer Intensive for high school and college-age students with “Godspell” in July 2020, a family friendly, inclusive storytime hour “Imagination Station with Mrs. Kasha Davis,” and the Hourglass Play Reading Series. The Conservatory, an educational series in partnership with Rochester Brainery, will continue to offer classes for all ages, and Blackfriars will also be a KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival venue again in September. From a bare stage outfitted with two widescreen TVs on tables flanking a lone podium, Tiballi Hoffman announced that this year, Blackfriars would do what the Oscars couldn’t (or, wouldn’t): each of the six mainstage season productions will be directed by a woman. Each director — with the exception of one who was out of town — introduced their respective shows, and many are familiar faces at Blackfriars. The season opens in September with the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history, “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” featuring more
than 40 mid-century hit songs. It’s one of two musicals in the season, the other being “The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes” (February 2021), about a “normal” man who hates musicals and wakes up one day to find his entire life has become just that (expect encounters with green witches, cats who sing, and more satirical references). For Christmastime, there’s a cheerful alternative to tradition with “Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley” (December 2020), which theoretically takes place two years after “Pride and Prejudice” and centers on the character of Mary Bennet, the bookish middle sister. It’s penned by young playwright Lauren Gunderson, who also wrote “Silent Sky” (opening in the current BT season on March 27). Half of the season leans toward heavier themes, ranging from depression in the new one-man play “Every Brilliant Thing” (October 2020) to darker adolescent themes in the hit coming-of-age soccer play, “The Wolves” (March 2021). Interesting notes
March-April 2021 “The Wolves” May 2021 “True West”
Leah Stacy is a freelance writer for CITY. Feedback on this article can be directed to becca@rochester-citynews.com.
Theater Listings Cry It Out. Wed., March 11, 7 p.m., Thu., March 12, 7 p.m., Fri., March 13, 7 p.m., Sat., March 14, 2:30 & 7:30 p.m., Sun., March 15, 3 p.m. and Tue., March 17, 7 p.m. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd $31 & up. gevatheatre.org. Hello, Dolly! Tue., March 17, 7:30 p.m. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. $38-$90. rbtl.org. Mamma Mia! Fri., March 13, 7 p.m. and Sat., March 14, 2 & 6 p.m. Lyric Theatre, 440 East Ave OFC Creations $12. Once. Wed., March 11, 7:30 p.m., Thu., March 12, 7:30 p.m., Fri., March 13, 8 p.m., Sat., March 14, 3 & 8 p.m., Sun., March 15, 2 & 7 p.m. and Tue., March 17, 7:30 p.m. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd $25-$71. gevatheatre.org. Really. Thu., March 12, 7 p.m., Fri., March 13, 7 p.m., Sat., March 14, 2 & 7 p.m. and Sun., March 15, 2 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Blue Ink Productions $5/$10. muccc.org. Smudge Stick Experience: Pungent Aroma of the Truth. Sun., March 15, 3 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave $20. wab.org.
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[ OPENING ] Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. 244-1730. Wall-to-Wall: 2020 Members Exhibition. Reception Mar 13, 6pm. Through Apr 10. rochesterarts.org. I-square Imaginarium, 500 Bakers Park. Irondequoit Art Club: Driven to Abstraction. Reception Apr 4, 12-2pm. Through Apr 18. 266-1068. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. Orchids in Bloom. March 13-May 4. $21. 263-2700.
Art Events
SPECIAL EVENT | GARDENSCAPE 2020 & TOOTHPICK WORLD
[ WED., MARCH 11 ] Meet-the-Artist Reception & Silent Auction. 6-7:30 p.m. Victor Farmington Library, 15 W. Main St Victor 924-2637.
In the past week Rochester’s landscape has shown the early signs of impending springtime, with snowdrops and crocuses sprouting and snow squalls giving way to bursts of rain. But we won’t be in full-bloom territory for a little while still. Until then, [ THU., MARCH 12 ] satisfy your cravings for green growth and blossoms by heading Passion Projects. Memorial to the annual Gardenscape event, which features displays by Art Gallery, 500 University the region’s top landscaping companies, product vendors, Ave. 276-8900 Sarah Knight, Roc Girl Gang; Steve seminars, and more. This year’s theme is “Passport to Spring,” Carter, Explore Rochester w/ and the entire Dome Arena will be transformed into vignettes gallery admission. of paradise tailored to every taste. An added, quirky feature [ FRI., MARCH 13 ] this year is a display of the scale models of iconic architectural 6x6 Art Making Session. 6-9 p.m Rochester Contemporary structures from around the world, made entirely with toothArt Center, 137 East Ave. picks by former WHAM-TV 13 reporter Stan Munro. More than 461-2222. 20 of his creations will be displayed, including Big Ben, the [ SAT., MARCH 14 ] Eiffel Tower, the Sphinx, the Parthenon, and more. Eboni Jones: Art History & Activism. 1:30 p.m. RIT Bevier Gallery, 90 Lomb Memorial Dr., Booth Bldg 7A 475-2646. Second Saturday. 10 a.m.3 p.m. The Hungerford, 1115 E Main St. 469-8217. 12-4 p.m Anderson Arts Building, 250 N. Goodman St. andersonalleyartists.com. 3-6 p.m. Cornerstone Gallery, 8732 Main St., Honeoye. [ SUN., MARCH 15 ] In Conversation: Ja’Tovia Gary & Dessane Lopez Cassell. 2 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900 w/ gallery admission. [ MON., MARCH 16 ] Museum Mondays for Seniors: Butterfly Garden Experience. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $10. 263-2700.
Thursday, March 12, to Saturday, March 14, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Sunday, March 15, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Dome Arena, 2695 East Henrietta Road. Tickets are $12, $10 for seniors, and free to kids under age 12. On Wednesday, March 11, 6 to 8 p.m., the “A Taste of Spring” preview party will serve as a fundraiser for The Community Place of Greater Rochester. Tickets are $50. rochesterflowershow.com. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
[ FRI., MARCH 13 ] Dan Viola. 8 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $12/$15. 426-6339. [ SUN., MARCH 15 ] Comedy Cocoon. 7 p.m. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.
[ TUE., MARCH 17 ] Vignelli Design Conversations: Paul Sahre. 4:45-6 p.m. RIT University Gallery, Booth Hall, 166 Lomb Memorial Dr 475-2866.
[ TUE., MARCH 17 ] Tony Schiavone Grills JR. 9 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd 426-6339.
Comedy
[ WED., MARCH 11 ] Drumcliffe School of Irish Dance. 6 p.m. Irondequoit Library, 1290 Titus Ave 336-6062.
[ THU., MARCH 12 ] Faizon Love. 7:30 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $20-$27. 426-6339. Talent’s Takeover: Mike Bonner, Kool Bubba Ice, Char B. 7:30 p.m. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave $25/$30. 451-0047. 22 CITY MARCH 11 - 17, 2020
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Dance Events
[ FRI., MARCH 13 ] 80s Prom. 8 p.m. UUU Art Collective, 153 State St $10. 434-2223.
[ SAT., MARCH 14 ] Inlet Dance Theatre: What Do You Do with an Idea? 6 p.m. Callahan Theater at Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave $15-$25. 389-2170. [ SUN., MARCH 15 ] Rochester Academy of Irish Dance. 3:15 p.m. Penfield Public Library, 1985 Baird Rd. 340-8720.
Activism [ WED., MARCH 11 ] Center City Community Coalition: An Evening with Adam Bello. 5 p.m. 3 City Center, 180 S Clinton Ave (585) 232-1651. Community Conversation: Transit, Access, & Mobility in our Region. 5:30 p.m. Community Design Center, 1115 E. Main St. CDCRochester.org.
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SPECIAL EVENT | ‘JACK HANNA’S INTO THE WILD LIVE!’
I know I’m not the only one who has fond memories of an adolescence filled with a variety of televised zoologists, who functioned as animal ambassadors to the general public. Through their infectious and unabashedly enthusiastic personalities, they educated untold numbers of children about animal habitats, adaptations, and human-made existential threats. This weekend animal lovers of all ages have the chance to see a live presentation by Jungle Jack Hanna, along with a number of furry and feathered friends, at the stage show “Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild Live!” hosted at Kodak Center. Hanna will tell anecdotes and share footage from his global adventures, and bring out a number of animal guests for live demonstrations. Saturday, March 14, at 7 p.m. Kodak Center, 200 West Ridge Road. $20-$45. 254-0181; kodakcenter.com. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Justin Murphy: How Rochester’s Growing City & Suburbs Excluded Black Residents. 6 p.m. Arnett Branch Library, 310 Arnett Blvd. 428-8214. [ SAT., MARCH 14 ] Suffragist Search Party. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. 1872 Café, 431 W. Main St. Volunteers enter suffragist info into website catalog. Register: info@ womenandthevotenys.com. [ MON., MARCH 16 ] Christian Picciolini: White American Youth. 7 p.m. MCC Flynn Campus Center, 1000 E. Henrietta Rd Visiting Scholar series $5. monroecc.edu. Singing in the Streets, Posting Viral Tweets: 21st-Century Jewish Activism(s), Beyond the Headlines. 5 p.m. UR Rush Rhees Library, 755 Library Rd 275-5804.
Kids Events [ WED., MARCH 11 ] Wildlife Action Crew: Otters & Pollution. 6-8 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Teens $45/$50. 336-7213. [ FRI., MARCH 13 ] Murray the Mastodon’s Birthday. 5:30-9 p.m. RMSC, 657 East Ave. $20/$25. rmsc.org.
KinderZoo. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Special Spiders: 10:15am, ages 18 mos-3 yrs; 8 is Great!: 11:30am, 3-5 yrs $6/$8 +admission. 336-7213. [ SAT., MARCH 14 ] Healthy Rhythms. 12-1 p.m School #9, 485 N Clinton Ave. garthfagandance.org. Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild Live. 7 p.m. Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. $20-$45. kodakcenter.com. [ SUN., MARCH 15 ] Hear & Feel Music Experience. 3pm. ROC SALT Center, 68 Ashland St. Ages 4-10 546-3903. Summer Camp & Activity Fair. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Eastview Mall, 7979 Pittsford-Victor Rd. 223-4420. [ MON., MARCH 16 ] Storytime Club. 10:30 & 11:30 a.m Animal Friends. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. 263-2700.
Recreation [ SAT., MARCH 14 ] Project NestWatch. 10 a.m. Montezuma Audubon Center, 2295 Ste Rt. 89. Savannah $5; (315) 365-3580.
Fly Fisher’s Workshop. 9 a.m.-5:15 p.m. 12 Corners Middle School, 2643 Elmwood Ave $10/Free ages 16> sethgreentu.org. Guided Hike. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Shadow Pines, 600 Whalen Rd. Penfield Meet at lot near Clark House 340-8655. In Search of Owls. 1-3 p.m. Sterling Nature Center, 15380 Jenzvold Rd Sterling (315) 947-6143. Montezuma Migration Birding Tour. 9-11:30 a.m. Montezuma Audubon Center, 2295 State Rt. 89 . Savannah. Reservations required $8/$15; $40/family. (315) 365-3580. Walk the Genesee River. 9-11 a.m. Church of Love Faith Center, 700 Exchange St geneseelandtrust.org. Wine & Wings Raptor Tour. 1-4 p.m. Montezuma Audubon Center, 2295 State Rt. 89 . Savannah Ages 21+ $20. (315) 365-3580. Winter Weekend Wild Walks. 11 a.m Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. $7. rmsc.org. [ SUN., MARCH 15 ] Nature Sundays. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Genesee Country Nature Center, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford $5 donation. 538-6822.
Special Events [ WED., MARCH 11 ] March City Walk. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Village Gate Square, 274 N. Goodman St. $12. rochesteralist.com. [ THU., MARCH 12 ] Gardenscape. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. ROC Dome Arena, 2695 E Henrietta Rd . Henrietta $10/$12. [ FRI., MARCH 13 ] Breakfast with Friends. 8 a.m. Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center, 123 E. Main St Ronan Tynan, Keynote $50. Wreath Hanging Ceremony. 11 a.m. Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison St 109th anniversary of Susan B Anthony’s death. [ SAT., MARCH 14 ] Girls Day Out 2020. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Downtown Brockport, Main St Check-in: Lightways, 31 Market St $15/$25. brockportmerchants.org. St Patrick’s Day Parade & Celtic Family Faire. East & Alexander to Main & State, Downtown Pared 12:30pm; Celtic Fair 11am-4pm, Hilton Garden Inn, 155 E Main St rochesterparade.com. [ SUN., MARCH 15 ] CollectorFest Monthly Show. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Webster Columbus Center, 70 Barrett Dr. 872-6090. Rochester National College Fair. 1-3 p.m. Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center, 123 E. Main St .
Lectures [ FRI., MARCH 13 ] Alaska: Aurora Borealis. 7:30 p.m. Burroughs Audubon Nature Club bancny.org.
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[ SAT., MARCH 14 ] Mourning in the Morning: The Women Who Voted with Susan B Anthony. 10:30 a.m. Central Library, Kusler-Cox Auditorium, 115 South Ave 428-8370. Winter Lecture Series. Every other Saturday, 2 p.m Newark-Arcadia Museum, 120 High St Newark “Roosevelt School: More Than Just a Building, by Cynthia Russell (315) 331-6409. [ SUN., MARCH 15 ] Diet & Cancer: How PlantBased Diet Can Prevent, Arrest, & Sometimes Reverse the Disease. 7 p.m. Brighton Town Park Lodge, 777 Westfall Rd Vegan potluck, 5:30pm; bring serving utensil & place setting rochesterveg.org. Sunday Forum: Living with Dementia Part 3. 9:50 a.m. Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh St. 325-4000. [ MON., MARCH 16 ] The Hamlet of Lincoln, NY. 7 p.m. Walworth Historical Society, 2257 Academy St walworthhistoricalsociety.org. Women Code-Breakers During World War II. 6:30 p.m. Gates Public Library, 902 Elmgrove Rd. 247-6446. [ TUE., MARCH 17 ] Rosemary Irwin: Dr Seuss in World War II. 7 p.m. Fairport Historical Museum, 18 Perrin St 223-3989.
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Literary Events [ WED., MARCH 11 ] CaTyra Polland & Jesse Cruz. 7:30 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave wab.org. Just Poets: Poetry Reading & Open Mic. Second Wednesday of every month, 6:30 p.m. Before Your Quiet Eyes, 439 Monroe Ave. 563-7851. [ THU., MARCH 12 ] Jennifer Hudak & David DeGraff. 7:30 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave wab.org. [ SUN., MARCH 15 ] Rochester Poets: Helen Ruggieri. 2 p.m. Legacy at Cranberry Landing, 300 Cranberry Landing Dr. Followed by Open Mic 260-9005. [ TUE., MARCH 17 ] Books Sandwiched In. 12:1212:52 p.m. Sarah Broom’s “The Yellow House: A Memoir” Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave.
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Film
A scene from “Wendy.” PHOTO COURTESY SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES
A very bland adventure “Wendy” (PG-13), DIRECTED BY BENH ZEITLIN OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 13 [ PREVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW
Returning to the director’s chair for the first time in eight years, writer-director Benh Zeitlin reimagines J.M. Barrie’s classic story of “Peter Pan” from the perspective of young Wendy Darling. With a similarly folkloric quality and a ramshackle, handmade aesthetic, Zeitlin imbues his ambitious but too often familiar-feeling “Wendy” with the same earnest sense of magical realism he brought to his first feature, 2012’s acclaimed “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” Wendy (played by wonderfully expressive newcomer Devin France) and her twin brothers James and Douglas (Gavin and Gage Naquin) live happily above the greasy spoon run by their hardworking mother in the Deep South. Gazing out the window one day at the freight trains that roar past on the tracks directly beside the diner, Wendy sees a strange sight: what looks to be a small boy running atop the speeding train. Years later, Wendy and her brothers are getting to the age when growing up seems 24 CITY MARCH 11 - 17, 2020
like the most awful thing in the world, made all the worse by knowing adulthood will one day come for them too, like a boogeyman haunting their bedtime stories. As their mother talks about the aspirations she set aside after having them, it starts to seem to the children that getting older requires one to give up their dreams. Then one night, the mysterious boy appears to Wendy once again. She and her brothers seize the opportunity and impulsively hop aboard the train, longing for an escape toward the freedom they hope awaits them. They learn the boy’s name is Peter (Yashua Mack). Wearing a threadbare red school blazer without a shirt, Peter has an impish grin and an appetite for danger. He lets them accompany him back to where he lives, a mystical island with a lush jungle and deep blue sea that lies in the shadow of a dismayingly large active volcano. There they meet the rambunctious tribe of children who call Peter their leader. On the island, children seem to never grow up, free to be young and carefree forever. But there are rules, Wendy and her brothers soon realize: if they slow down or allow sadness to cloud their thoughts, the aging process will catch up with them with
a fearsome speed. It’s soon apparent the island has a population of “olds,” former lost boys and girls who lost their sense of the island’s power and are now shunned by Peter and his followers. There’s also a massive, whale-like underwater creature the children refer to as “Mother,” whose presence seems directly linked to the island’s Fountain of Youth-like qualities. A festival favorite out of Sundance, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” was widely praised upon its initial release, going on to become an eventual Best Picture nominee. But its reputation has somewhat dimmed in the years since, and “Wendy” shares a lot of similarities with that film, both for better and for worse. As with “Beasts,” Zeitlin uses a cast of unpolished, nonprofessional actors and the performances are a predictably mixed bag. Like the earlier film, “Wendy” is a rugged tale of childlike wonder melded to a strange and complex mythology, also touching on the idea of growing up in a world on the verge of environmental collapse. But the result feels even more forced this time around. And it shares some of the earlier film’s sometimes uncomfortable tendency to romanticize poverty, as well as some well-meaning but illconceived messaging around race.
There’s a poetry to the film’s visuals; shooting on 16-millimeter, cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen’s roving camera and grainy, handheld photography uses mostly natural light to conjure up the feeling of endless childhood afternoons spent running barefoot through the grass. But the film never entirely earns the emotions at its core, leeching any resonance it does have through whatever attachment the viewer might have to the original “Peter Pan” story. The film’s lyrical imagery and jubilant score, composed by Dan Romer and Zeitlin himself, are left to do a lot of heavy lifting. Written by Zeitlin with his sister, Eliza (who also acts as the film’s production designer), there’s invention and imagination to their revamped take on the Pan mythos and a genuine sense of menace. But I found myself wishing they’d come up with a story less beholden to one we’ve seen brought to the screen so many times before. There’s something to be said for having a distinctive artistic voice, though it’s disappointing to see so little apparent artistic growth in the eight years since Zeitlin’s last film. It ended up making me want to rewatch Spike Jonze’s “Where the Wild Things Are,” a film that found a better balance between its mix of wonder and melancholy. A tinge of sorrow is necessary to any good retelling of “Peter Pan,” but “Wendy” frequently feels less melancholy than outright glum, and there’s an emptiness to its one-note stabs at wonder and awe. Without that magic the “Peter Pan” story requires, things start to drag, and long before it reached its conclusion I was ready for its childhood games to come to an end. Adam Lubitow is a freelance writer for CITY. Feedback on this article can be directed to becca@ rochester-citynews.com.
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Meadow Cove International IV LLC (“LLC”) filed Arts. of Org. with Secy. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on January 22, 2020. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o the Company, Attention: Manager, 850 Hudson Avenue, Rochester, New York 14621. Purpose: any lawful activity.
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Notice of Formation of CV Burrhus Enterprises, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/6/20. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 42 Sleepy Hollow, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Carnage Outdoors, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/5/20. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: the LLC, 169 West Church St, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] BJADV, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on February 4, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to BJADV LLC, 1081 Long Pond Road, Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14626. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CEMC ASSOCIATES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/23/20. 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 Home Leasing, LLC, 700 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CEMC ASSOCIATES MM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/23/20. 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 Home Leasing, LLC, 700 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DePaul Albion, L.P. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/16/2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1931 Buffalo Road, Rochester, NY 14624. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 10/15/2119. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Evolveability, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/18/2020. 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 510 Clinton Square, Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Fowler & Sons LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/28/20. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 4000 Buffalo Road, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of FS NEW JERSEY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/6/2020. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, PO Box 60377, Rochester, NY 14606. Purpose: any lawful act. { NOTICE ] Notice of formation of G&C Realty of Western NY, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 2/10/2020. The
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 office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 700 Five Points Rd, Rush, NY 14543. 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 Genesee River Properties LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/30/20. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 501 Vosburg Road, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Heather PaesslerChesterton Mental Health Counseling, PLLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) January 09, 2020. 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 132 Allens Creek Road, Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] BJADM LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on February 4, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to BJADM LLC, 1081 Long Pond Road, Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14626. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law.
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Notice of Formation of JE Collins Properties, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/6/20. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jennifer Collins, 2366 Turk Hill Road, Victor, NY 14564. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Notice of formation of McKay Hospitality, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/13/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 625 Panorama Trl, Bldg #2, Ste 130, Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: any lawful act.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of KBV Fund LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/27/20. Office location: Monroe County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 468 Thyme Dr., Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of KDG Real Property Holdings, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/31/20. 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, 143 Willowbend Road, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: PENROC ENVIRONMENTAL LLC (“LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with NY Secretary of State (“SSNY”) on 01/23/2020. NY office location is Monroe County. 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 LLC at 16 Parham Drive, Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity.
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Notice of Formation of HYLAND HILLS PROPERTIES, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/13/2020. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 1759 Calkins Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful purpose.
Notice of formation of MARBERCHI, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/21/2020. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Beresford Crick, 5 Wolfboro Dr, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful act.
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Notice of Formation of J. Phillips Properties LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/30/20. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 501 Vosburg Road, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Notice of Formation of Mazari Properties LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/20/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 110 Brightwoods Lane, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of MINDFUL PSYCHOLOGY P.L.L.C.. Art.of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 1/22/2020. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3200 Brighton Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MJM Incentives Property LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/23/20. 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, 6605 Pittsford Palmyra Road, Ste W-5, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] BJADN LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on February 4, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to BJADN LLC, 1081 Long Pond Road, Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14626. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Modern Age Properties, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/18/2020. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 18 Winterset Dr, Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] BJADT LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on February 4, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary has been designated as agent upon whom process may
be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to BJADT LLC 1081 Long Pond Road, Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14626. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Mollywhop Productions LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/27/2020. 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 197 Orchard Park, Rochester, New York 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Neal Property Management LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/19/2020. 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 149 Shelter Street Rochester NY 14611 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of OFC CREATIONS THEATRE CENTER, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/4/2020. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 48 Orchard Dr, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful act.
whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 6381 Winding Creek Way, Victor, NY 14564. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of PVR Perinton NY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/24/20. Office location: Monroe County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 64 Commercial St., Ste. 401, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ROC Realty Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/3/20. Office location: Monroe County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 1170 Pittsford-Victor Rd., Ste. 280, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ROC Realty Partners LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/3/20. Office location: Monroe County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 1170 Pittsford-Victor Rd., Ste. 280, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ]
Notice of formation of Paul’s Landscaping of NY, LLC. Art.of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 2/24/2020. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 628 Hills Pond Road, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful purpose.
BJADA LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on February 4, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to BJADA LLC, 1018 Long Pond Road, Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14626. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law.
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Notice of Formation of Picture Perfect Illustration LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) DATE: September 26, 2019. 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 589 Brown Street, Rochester NY 14611. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Notice of Formation of Rochester Cart Rentals LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) January 30, 2020. 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 25 Parr Circle, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Notice of Formation of Power Yoga USA LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/15/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon
Notice of Formation of SHIVADORGA LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/18/20. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 5 Sugarmills Circle,
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Fairport, NY 14450. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 5 Sugarmills Circle, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SHORE WINDS REALTY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/26/20. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 111 East Shore Rd., Manhasset, NY 11030. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o The Grand Healthcare System at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sneaker Beat LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/17/2019. 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: 2111 East Avenue, Apt. M, Rochester, New York 14610. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SRS4 of New York, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/14/20. 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, 1169 Howard Road, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] BJADK LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on February 4, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to BJADK LLC, 1081 Long Pond Road, Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14626. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of T & D Greenwell Properties, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/15/2020. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 336 Church Rd, Hilton, NY 14468. Purpose: any lawful act.
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Legal Ads [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Taj Mahal Fine Indian Cuisine, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) January 17 2020. 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 1742 Long Pond Rd. STE 1 Rochester, NY 14606. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Kilminster Group, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/30/20. 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 138 Old North Hi Rochester, NY 14617 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ULA’S EXPRESS LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/03/2020. 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 21 CARMAS DRIVE, ROCHESTER, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Violet City Properties LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/30/20. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 501 Vosburg Road, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of VITAL HEALTH MEDICAL CARE P.L.L.C.. Art.of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 1/28/2020. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 23 Hadley Court, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Willow Pointe, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/25/20. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 800 Mont Blanc Drive, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 1037 Jay St. Rochester NY 14611 on Friday 03-20-2020, 9:00 am. 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, Lessie Bushnell unit 306 owes $228, Anthony Washington unit 130 owes $228, Daniel Walters unit 360 owes $368. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Management, LLC 7 Chapel St Rochester NY 14609 to satisfy a lien for rental on March 19th 2020 at approx. 12:00 PM at www. storagetreasures.com [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Accurate Analytical Testing, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/24/20. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Michigan (MI) on 12/3/04. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E 42nd St, 18th Fl., NY, NY 10168. MI address of LLC: 30105 Beverly Rd, Romulus, MI 48174. Arts. of Org. filed with MI Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, PO Box 30054, Lansing, MI 48909. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of BALTA NY COLD STORAGE INDUSTRIAL, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/28/20. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/24/20. Princ. office of LLC: c/o MAG Capital Partners, LLC, 1751 River Sun, Ste. 200, Fort Worth, TX 76107. 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., 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Real estate holding company. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of BOSCH SECURITY SYSTEMS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/06/20. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 10/21/03. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ]
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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 Notice of Qualification of ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA - NIGHT VISION LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/28/20. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 05/30/19. Princ. office of LLC: 7635 Plantation Rd., Roanoke, VA 24019. 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: CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., 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 GELLER MANAGEMENT 3, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/20/20. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Florida (FL) on 06/26/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. FL addr. of LLC: 17040 Huntington Pkwy., Boca Raton, FL 33496. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, The Centre of Tallahassee, 2415 N. Monroe St., Ste. 810, Tallahassee, FL 32303. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Highland Assets, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/3/20. Office location: Monroe County. LLC organized in SD on 9/11/19. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to the principal office address: Highland Assets, LLC, 3349 Monroe Ave., #171, Rochester, NY 14618. Arts. of Org. filed with SD Sec. of State, 500 E. Capitol Ave., Pierre, SD 57501. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of RHNY HOTELS LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/31/20. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 11/13/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Unisearch, Inc., 99 Washington Ave, Ste 805A, Albany, NY 12210-2822, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Address to be maintained in DE: c/o Unisearch, Inc., 28 Old Rudnick Ln., Dover, DE 19904. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Notice of Qualification of SHUTTERFLY LIFETOUCH, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/18/20. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Minnesota (MN) on 10/30/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. MN addr. of LLC: 11000 Viking Dr., Eden Prairie, MN 55344. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 60 Empire Dr., Ste. 100, St. Paul, MN 55103. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Robyn’s Nest Boutique LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/16/2020. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Law Office of Anthony A. Dinitto, LLC, 2250 West Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626. General Purpose.
[ NOTICE ] ONE EIGHTY HOLDINGS LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/29/2020. 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 c/o the LLC, 180 St. Paul Street, #406, Attn: Member, Rochester, NY 14604. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Premier Insurance Agency LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/16/2020. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Law Office of Anthony A. Dinitto, LLC, 2250 West Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Prisam LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 2/21/20. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 452 Clay Rd., Apt. C, Rochester, NY 14623. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Rcgrande Properties LLC. Auth. Filed w/SSNY on 12/10/19. Office: Monroe Co. Formed in NV on 10/5/2017. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 456 Parma Center Rd, Hilton, NY 14468. NV address: 5030 Spanish Hills Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89148. Filed w/NV Sec. of State: 202 North Carson Street, Carson City, NV 89701. Purpose: all lawful. [ NOTICE ] Richland Drive, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 2/10/19. 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 1425 Jefferson Road, Rochester, New York 14623. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.
[ NOTICE ] Sticky Bottle LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 2/5/20. 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 261 Pine Grove Ave.,Rochester, NY 14617. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] TABOTT MEDICAL ESTHETICS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/26/19. 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, 35 Bryden Park, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ]] Notice of Formation of Holley & Son’s General Contracting, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/15/2020. 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 11 Carl Street Rochester, NY 14621 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ Notice of Formation ] 2020 MMC Consulting LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 2/20/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 1170 Pittsford-Victor Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] Danville Development, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 2/19/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to c/o Shawn Griffin, 99 Garnsey Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Jordan Scott LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 11/07/19. 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 36 Orlando St. Rochester, NY 14606. The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful acts or activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: DCW Medical, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 20, 2020. Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1427 Fieldcrest Dr., Webster, NY 14580: Member. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: FERN Center, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on March 2, 2020. Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 183 Quaker Meeting House Rd., Honeoye Falls, NY 14472, Attn: Member. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: Hilartech, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 27, 2020. Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 75 Barrett Drive, Suite 1074, Webster, NY 14580 Attn: Member. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ Notice of Formation ] Winnie Island LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 1/29/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 20 South Street, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 281 VERSAILLES ROAD, LLC ] Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 2/13/2020 Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may mail copy of process to 40 LAKE ROAD, WEBSTER, NY 14580. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity.
[ Notice of Formation of 822 Victor Road LLC ] Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on January 2, 2020. LLC location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ. Office of LLC: 120 Linden Oaks Drive, Ste. 200, Rochester, NY 14625; 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 ECOTECH NY LLC ] The name of the Limited Liability Company is Eco-Tech NY LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on February 20, 2020. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. The New York Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of such process to 1900 Empire Blvd., #102, Webster, NY 14580. The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] Notice of formation of NKT Enterprises LLC. Art. of Org. filed by Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/3/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 Buffalo Road, Rochester, New York 14611. Purpose: to engage in any lawful business purpose for which limited liability companies may be organized under the law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Scents By Design LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 1/16/20. 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 260 Coolidge Rd, Rochester, NY 14622. The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] BJADMC LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on February 4, 2020. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to
BJADMC LLC, 1081 Long Pond Road, Suite 200, Rochester, NY14626. 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 FORMATION OF LLC ] DB Rochester, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 2/11/2020 with an effective date of formation of 2/11/2020. 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 34 North St. Regis Drive, Rochester, NY 14618. 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 FORMATION OF LLC ] Wendy Carter Development Consulting LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 2/5/2020 with an effective date of formation of 2/5/2020. 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 420 W. Elm St., East Rochester, NY 14445. 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 FORMATION OF LLC ] Xquisite Realty LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 3/3/2020 with an effective date of formation of 3/3/2020. 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 897 Surrey Hill Way, 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.
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