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Rochester likes to claim Frederick Douglass as its own. Is the community living up to his legacy? FEATURE, PAGE 6
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Countering a year of Trump
Our political process is in turmoil. The man in the Oval Office furthers the gridlock through exclusion, poisonous rhetoric, and falsification of fact with promises to return our country to a historical “greatness. This “Me First” mentality makes one wonder who is the “me,” who gets to be “first,” and if this is the message we want to send to our neighbors, whether they live around the corner or around the globe. Fortunately, this Saturday, February 17 at 1 p.m., we have an opportunity to challenge that message. Initiated by the Reverend Franklin Florence Sr. and called “A United Community Response to Donald Trump’s Ongoing Hatred and Racism,” the event will take place at Central Church of Christ, 101 South Plymouth Avenue. It is interfaith, intergenerational, and inclusive of the range of diversity across the political spectrum. Furthering long-standing wounds of racism, sexism, and xenophobia are the opposite of what is necessary to heal and remember that we are one human family. STEVEN JAROSE
RPO’s season
American symphony orchestras have a representation problem. For decades, most of the country’s wellknown orchestras have programmed seasons comprising works almost exclusively by white male composers. As a life-long supporter of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, I was disappointed to see that its Philharmonics Series will feature just one composition by a woman and zero by a composer of color in the upcoming season. This means that an astonishing 97 percent of works in this series will have been composed by white men. To an observer looking at the average symphony orchestra season, it’s as though people of color and women never composed music at all. And therein lies the problem: When orchestras program
almost exclusively white men, they contribute to the erasure of people of color and women composers from music history. These composers faced widespread misogyny and racism in their time, and yet there is certainly no dearth of their extant works. Orchestras, however, seldom reach outside of the standard canon to perform these compositions. As such, it’s no surprise that so many aficionados of classical music rave about the “genius” of Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart but have never heard of Florence Price, William Grant Still, or Ethel Smyth. The constructed nature of “genius” here is crucial. The RPO’s excellent community outreach and popular series are essential, but representation should not cease to be a concern at the threshold of Kodak Hall. As long as works by white men are the only ones deemed “genius” or “masterful” enough to be performed on the symphonic stage, other participants in music history will continue to be overlooked in favor of canonic figures. By embracing the latter over the former, orchestra programming perpetuates institutional misogyny and racism. Some may argue that the canon sells, and at a time when many orchestras are struggling, the priority should be filling seats first, and diversifying programming second. Successful programming of women and people of color by orchestras such as the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, however, casts doubt on this line of argument. More dangerous, though, are the ways in which such bargaining upholds systemic white supremacy and sexism in classical music. The canon is by no means an inevitability. It is something that is constructed by participants in the musical ecosystem: musicians, critics, scholars, administrators, and patrons. As such, it is important for each of us to consider our own role(s) in perpetuating myths of whiteness and maleness in classical music. Ultimately, a richer, more diverse and expansive canon benefits everyone. Programming is a political choice, and I hope that the RPO and other orchestras strive to better preserve all music histories – not just those of white men – in future seasons.
Judges and immigrants
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BOB TACITO
On a reader’s comments about a hearing for an undocumented immigrant farmworker: If the facts stated by
Doug Noble regarding the ReyesHerrera case are true, and I have found no evidence to the contrary, then shame on Judge Charles Siragusa (“Immigration and the Courts,” Feedback). His words and actions are out of sync. Where, Judge Siragusa, are your courage and principles? I expect more from a man in your position. W. BRUCE GORMAN
I must take exception to the disparaging remarks by a recent letter writer regarding one of our fine District Court justices, Charles Siragusa. The writer referred to Siragusa as dismayed, clueless, and bewildered in his handling of an illegal immigrant’s case. Apparently the judge should have disregarded the tenets of the law and interjected his own personal judgment and interpretations regarding his findings. After all, that is what many adjudicators have been doing lately, thereby shredding, rewriting and disregarding our laws as written in order to facilitate their own political and personal ideologies. The letter writer’s remarks should have been directed more toward the fools in our government who have failed in their duty to properly enforce our immigration laws for the past 40 years. The well-meaning words on the Statue of Liberty are inspiring and may bring tears to our eyes, but they are not the law of the land nor should they be. We must welcome those who follow the proscribed procedures as dictated by our laws. If the majority of our citizens want the present laws changed, then they should work to do so as prescribed by our Constitution. In order to insure that our present immigration fiasco is not repeated in future years, the government must take steps to properly secure our borders while keeping track of our visitors until they become citizens. Common sense and moderation in political dealings bring desired results.
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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER
What will we accomplish in our Year of Douglass? What would Frederick Douglass say if he were living in Rochester today, publishing his newspaper, making speeches, pushing for change? We might want to think about that this year as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the date Douglass picked as his birth date. A broad coalition of people and organizations have put together a year of activities to honor Douglass. But if, after we go to the exhibits and plays and other commemorations, we relegate him to the history books again, we’ll be doing a great injustice, to Douglass, the causes he worked for, and the Rochesterians who continue to suffer from our failure to live up to his vision. We could use this year, at last, to attack the serious problems we face. And we could use it to fess up to the racism that is at the root of so many of those problems. In a series of articles during the year, in a partnership with Open Mic Rochester, CITY will be focusing on Douglass and his legacy. As part of that effort, we’ll point out books and other material that shed light on both him and the causes for which he fought. One is a contemporary book I think should be required reading for any American: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “We Were Eight Years in Power.” And for the Rochester community, it’s especially important – and especially appropriate as we spend the year focusing on Douglass. The framework for Coates’ book, the “Eight Years,” is the Obama presidency, and, as context, the nation’s devastating swing from electing its first black president to electing Donald Trump. But that about face was nothing new, Coates notes. During Douglass’s life, northerners in the US progressed from embracing slavery to fighting a war to end it. And, by 1876, writes Coates, “the country returned to its supremacist roots.” And so in 2008, the country reached “for the better part of itself, “ Coates writes. And then it “promptly retrenched in the worst part of itself.” Coates’ book is wonderfully written, but it can be a tough read for white Americans, regardless of how aware we are of the persistence of racism and its effects. White supremacy, Coates argues, has been part of the backbone of this country since its beginning. It may be comforting to believe that the families who live in poverty in Rochester’s
Douglass’s Rochester
If, after this year of celebration, we relegate him to the history books again, we’ll be doing a great injustice. Crescent are poor because they haven’t worked hard enough, or that the children who are failing in Rochester’s schools have no one to blame but themselves. But Coates lays out in stark detail the actions by government and private businesses that have led to this. The suburban racial segregation, the failure of blacks to build up personal wealth through home equity, the concentration of blacks in deteriorated urban neighborhoods didn’t happen by accident. All of it has been brought about, deliberately, by a combination of law, government policies, and business policies. From the Roosevelt New Deal era through the 1960’s, Coates notes, “black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means both legal and extralegal.” The Federal Housing Authority “graded” neighborhoods, and those with large black populations were considered risky and usually couldn’t get FHA-insured mortgages. The federal Home Owners Loan Corporation required a restrictive covenant for homes it insured, prohibiting the sale to anybody but white people. Public housing authorities put subsidized housing in poor neighborhoods. Banks, insurance companies, real estate agents: all were complicit in creating segregated neighborhoods. That was all in the past, of course. But you don’t have to look far to see racist actions and attitudes today, and not just in Washington. They’re shaping criminal justice, health care, housing, and education policies around the country. And this community is far from blameless. Is it too much to hope that that could change? There aren’t many better ways to honor Frederick Douglass.
Beginning this week: A year-long series on the life and legacy of the great abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass, who lived in Rochester for 25 years. IN PRINT: • Quarterly articles on Douglass with assessments of how Rochester is living up to his legacy. • Periodic articles throughout the year on the challenges facing the community and efforts to fulfill Douglass's vision. ADDITIONAL FEATURES AT ROCDOUGLASS.COM • A map of Rochester locations related to Douglass • Reading Douglass: references to books and articles about Douglass and his causes • Links to Douglass’s speeches • Links to audio recordings of Douglass's speeches
A joint project by Open Mic Rochester and CITY Newspaper in observance of the 200th anniversary of Douglass's birth.
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Makeover coming for Rochester’s riverfront
The state plans to invest $50 million to help transform Rochester’s riverfront. A statement from Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office last week cited the Genesee River’s importance in efforts to transform downtown. A ROC the Riverway advisory board will be chaired by Monroe Community College President Anne Kress and Rochester Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Bob Duffy. More than two dozen projects have been identified by the city and community groups to capitalize on the river’s natural assets to attract locals and visitors downtown.
RTS draft plan arriving in May
The first phase of Reimagine RTS, an effort to plan for the future of the region’s bus system, is complete. RTS officials and the agency’s consultants will now develop a draft plan for how the system should look and operate, including potential route designs. Officials expect to have the draft ready in May, but one of the consulting firms has
already made some recommendations for the system, says RTS CEO Bill Carpenter. The firm’s staff have recommended a 15-minute frequency for bus arrivals as well as some cross-town routes that don’t require transferring at the downtown transit center, Carpenter says. The agency and its consultants have developed a set of five guiding principles for the plan. Among them: maximizing ridership, including more mobility options, and coordinating with other community initiatives.
News EDUCATION | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO
Focus on special ed intensifies for district
Kolb ends run for governor
State Senator John DeFranciso and former Erie County Executive Joel Giambra are now the two contenders for the state Republican Party’s gubernatorial endorsement. State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb pulled out of the race this past weekend, saying in a Facebook post that the campaign would require too much time away from his family. Kolb, who lives in Canandaigua, received the support of nine county GOP chairs, including Monroe County Republican Party Chair Bill Reilich.
Eamonn Scanlon, education analyst with the Children’s Agenda: It’s time for a watchdog advocating for parents of children with special needs. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH
The Rochester City School District received some of the best news it’s had in a while last week. Graduation rates rose to 51.9 percent for students who got their diploma in June 2017, the State Education Department said. That’s a 4.2 percent increase from the year before. But that news was almost overshadowed by the district’s ongoing problems concerning special education. Theresa Wood, the district’s special education chief, quit after being on the job for only about three months. And the Education Department’s report said that graduation rates for students with disabilities and English Language Learners – though improving – still haven’t even reached 40 percent. Officials at the Children’s Agenda, a non-profit that focuses on children and their developmental needs, say it’s time for an independent watchdog to
advocate for parents of children with special needs. The place to start, says Eamonn Scanlon, education policy analyst with the Children’s Agenda, is the district’s nearly $900 million annual budget. The Children’s Agenda will be analyzing the district’s budget for the 2018-2019 school year much the way it has Monroe County’s budget every year since 2002, paying close attention to the district’s special-education costs, Scanlon said in an interview late last week. Special education costs are among the district’s most significant for two reasons, Scanlon said. Educating students with disabilities is expensive: $29,000 per student, compared to $11,000 for each general education student. In addition, the district has a large number of students who are classified as needing special continues on page 14
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The State DOT plans to put a section of East Avenue in Brighton and Pittsford on a road diet. Leaders from the two towns, as well as area cycling and environmental advocates, like the concept, but they aren’t happy with the DOT’s design.
TRANSPORTATION | JEREMY MOULE
Towns, DOT at impasse on bike lane East Avenue between the Rochester city line and its junction with Route 31F in Pittsford is overbuilt. It has capacity for far more cars than actually travel it and, because it’s so wide, it psychologically enables people drive faster than they should. So the State Department of Transportation wants to put it on a road diet, which is shorthand for reconfiguring it to encourage slower speeds and to better control traffic. The DOT wants to covert the 40-footwide thoroughfare from a four-lane road to one with two travel lanes, a center turn lanes, and wide shoulders that can accommodate cyclists. Leaders from Brighton and Pittsford, as well as area cycling and environmental advocates, are on board with the concept. But the town leaders and advocates are split with DOT on the actual design. Initially, the DOT proposed 11foot travel and turn lanes, with 3.5 foot shoulders, which they said could accommodate cyclists. The shoulders wouldn’t be marked as bike lanes, however. Brighton and Pittsford leaders banded together with cycling advocates to press the DOT for proper bike lanes. They asked the department to reduce the width of
the travel and turn lanes to 10 feet apiece, bump the shoulders up to 5 feet, and mark the shoulders as bike lanes. Federal transportation guidelines recommend a minimum 5-foot width for bike lanes. “Really, when the state Department of Transportation builds a road, it’s not a road for cars, it’s a road for people,” says Scott Wagner, a Rochester Cycling Alliance member. “And so you accommodate people in whatever form of transportation they’re using.” After some back and forth, the state has budged, but not enough to make the locals happy. Pittsford Supervisor Bill Smith says he received a letter from DOT Regional Director Kevin Bush last week stating that the agency has settled on 10-foot travel lanes, an 11-foot center turn lane, and 4.5 feet wide shoulders for East Avenue. The shoulders still wouldn’t be marked as bike lanes. The letter has “an air of finality about it,” Smith says. Smith says he wants to give the DOT credit “for moving part way toward accommodating us.” And the federal transportation guidelines do allow for bike lanes for less than 5 feet wide. But the sticking point is marking the shoulder as a bike lane. Instead, the DOT is proposing
using a 6-inch white line to separate it from the travel lane rather than a standard 4-inch line. “Is it better than nothing? Yes,” Smith says. “Is it really what we want it to be for the purpose of being able to facilitate and encourage safe bicycling along a pathway that could easily accommodate it? The answer is no.” Robin Wilt, a Brighton Town Board member, likes the idea of the road diet but is frustrated that the DOT is stopping short of a full bike lane for East Avenue. Plenty of research Scott Wagner FILE PHOTO indicates that 10-foot travel and turn lanes would out to bid. But the Cycling Alliance, the be safe, she says. Local Rochester People’s Climate Coalition, and officials and advocates struggled to get the Brighton and Pittsford leaders still hope DOT to compromise on the center-turn to convince the DOT to go with true bike lane width, though Wilt says county roads already use center turn lanes narrower than lanes alongside East Avenue. “It is literally just paint on the road, 11 feet. and they could reconfigure it if they find The DOT is getting ready to close that there’s an adverse outcome,” Wilt says. the design period and put the project
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Frederick Douglass gave this daguerreotype, created in 1848 by daguerreotypist Ed White, to fellow Rochesterian Susan B. Anthony. The piece is part of the collection at the Chester County Historical Society in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and was on display at the University of Rochester in early 2016. IMAGE COURTESY ADAM FENSTER, THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER, AND CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 6 CITY
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First in a year-long quarterly series on Frederick Douglass and the issues he championed, produced by Open Mic Rochester and CITY Newspaper. Both publications will also have related articles throughout the year.
Douglass’s Rochester
Rochester likes to claim Frederick Douglass as its own. Is the community living up to his legacy?
[ FEATURE ] BY TIANNA MAÑÓN AND JAKE CLAPP
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he first monument in the United States dedicated to a black citizen is of Frederick Douglass, and it’s located in Rochester. The 8-foot-tall bronze statue stands on a 9-foot granite pedestal at the upper edge of the Highland Park Bowl. Its original location, when it was unveiled on June 9, 1899, was downtown, at Central Avenue and St. Paul Street, near the New York Central Railroad Station. And so one of the first things people saw as they came by train into Rochester was the figure of Douglass mid-speech, hands open and out, his right foot slightly forward, addressing the gathered crowds — his “favorite and most effective pose,” as John W. Thompson says in his 1903 book, “An Authentic History of the Douglass Monument.” “To place a monument of an AfricanAmerican in front of the train station, so all the world could see that Rochester’s greatest citizen was not a white man, that has to tell you everything you need to know about the
impact he had on culture,” says Carvin Eison, project director for “Re-Energizing the Legacy of Frederick Douglass,” a multi-organization initiative to commemorate Carvin Eison. FILE PHOTO Douglass’s life this year. Douglass — who was born into bondage, took his freedom, and became one of the most prominent men of the 19th century — made Rochester his home for 25 years, arguably the most active and important of his career, and he is buried in Mt. Hope Cemetery. February 14 this year is the 200th anniversary of the birth date Douglass chose for himself, and Rochester arts and cultural
organizations, civic groups, artists, politicians, and activists have planned a year of exhibits, discussions, and events as a way to reflect on Douglass’s legacy. Along with the “ReEnergizing the Legacy” project, the City of Rochester and Monroe County officials have declared 2018 “The Year of Douglass,” and the city is using a new official Flower City logo that incorporates a portrait of Douglass. The anniversary presents an opportunity.
Rochester likes to claim Douglass as its own, but in a community where inequality and racism continue to oppress people of color, his legacy hasn’t been used as a guiding force to shape real progress. Numerous events in 2018 will celebrate Douglass’s life, but “Re-Energizing the Legacy” organizers hope the event will lead the community to go further — that Rochester will have needed conversations about race and similarly complicated issues that Douglass himself faced, Eison says.
Rochester faces serious problems, including racism and discrimination, which are very much alive in the region. As ACT Rochester’s “Hard Facts: Race and Ethnicity in the Nine-County Greater Rochester Area” report stated last August, in the nine-county Greater Rochester area there are “substantial disparities” between African-American and Latinx communities and white populations in poverty, academic achievement, earnings, and homeownership. African-American income levels are only 48 percent of those of white residents. White Rochesterians are more than twice as likely to own homes as African-Americans and Latinx are. “Disparities begin at birth and continue through childhood,” the report says, and success in school is “highly correlated with race and ethnicity.” More troubling, those outcomes are worse in Rochester than in New York State or the nation as a whole. “We have to be purposeful” about living out the vision and intent of Douglass and other activists of the period, says the Reverend rochestercitynewspaper.com
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The monument to Frederick Douglass was moved to the Highland Park Bowl in 1941. This summer it will be moved again to the corner of South and Robinson. PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON
Of course there were moral forces operating against me in Rochester, as well as material ones. There were those who regarded the publication of a ‘Negro paper’ in that beautiful city as a blemish and a misfortune. The New York Herald, true to the spirit of the times, counselled the people of the place to throw my printing press into Lake Ontario and to banish me to Canada, and while they were not quite prepared for this violence, it was plain that many of them did not well relish my presence amongst them. This feeling however wore away gradually as the people knew more of me and my works. I lectured every Sunday evening during an entire winter in the beautiful Corinthian Hall, then owned by Wm. R Reynolds Esq, who though he was not an abolitionist, was a lover of fair-play and was willing to allow me to be heard. If in these lectures I did not make abolitionists I did succeed in making tolerant the moral atmosphere in Rochester; so much so, indeed, that I came to feel as much at home there as I had ever done in the most friendly parts of New England.
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- Standalone quotes taken from “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass” (1881, revised 1892) 8 CITY
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Derrill Blue, pastor at Rochester’s Memorial AME Zion Church, the church the Douglass family attended. “We have to understand their time and what’s still an issue. Address that today. What Reverend Derrill Blue we want to avoid is PROVIDED PHOTO repeating the past. If we don’t learn lessons, the past will be our present.”
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Douglass was a self-made man — although in his own words, “Properly speaking, there are in the world no such men as self-made men” — and during his 77 years, he became an internationally known abolitionist, suffragist, newspaper publisher, lecturer, and statesman. His life intersected with President Abraham Lincoln (and with almost every successive US president until Douglass’s death), Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, John Brown, Ida B. Wells, and countless other influential people of the period. Through three autobiographies, a novella, almost 50 years of journalism, what are most likely hundreds of speeches, he championed freedom and equality. And in an interesting coincidence for the home of George Eastman and Kodak, Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century, with 160 separate photographs. He believed in the truth-telling power of the medium and used it as a tool to further his work. (The George Eastman Museum, however has only one photo of Douglass in its collection.) Douglass wasn’t just a great orator, says David Shakes, director of the Rochester theater company The North Star Players, he was philosophic and analytic in his writings and speeches. “He looked at religion, politics, economics, trade, the church,” Shakes says. “He really went into different systems and addressed them and gave an analysis.”
Re-energizing the legacy
This image of Douglass was found in the Rochester Public Library’s Local History and Genealogy Division in 2015. Dated to 1873, the image was previously “undiscovered.” It was unveiled at City Hall in February 2016, and a documentary, “Rediscovering Frederick Douglass,” was created about the image and Douglass’s time in Rochester. PHOTO COURTESY ROCHESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY LOCAL HISTORY & GENEALOGY DIVISION
He saw the power of using the press “to put things into the court of public opinion to press for equality, dignity, and integrity in our country,” Shakes says. Shakes has been portraying Douglass as part of living history tours and in plays for around 35 years. His first time was at Douglass’s gravesite in Mt. Hope Cemetery — the experience was “electrifying,” Shakes says — and his company recently staged the multidisciplinary production “No Struggle, No Progress” at MuCCC. Douglass’s call was to “Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!” and he used humor, sarcasm, and colorful rhetoric, Shakes says, to grab his audience’s attention. “His words are so relevant today,” Shakes says. “Prophetic. His words fit our situation, and it gives you reason to pause and to think, and to spur you into action.” Douglass was born into bondage in 1818
as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He never knew his true birthdate, but later chose February 14. He took his freedom on September 3, 1838: Carrying a friend’s Seaman’s papers, he boarded a train in Baltimore and escaped north by boat and train. Within 24 hours he was in New York City and on free soil, though not yet legally a free man.
During his short time in the city, Anna Murray — a free black woman whom Frederick had met in Baltimore — joined him, and the two were married. They were together for 44 years, until Anna’s death in 1882. Frederick’s life “was a story made possible by the unswerving loyalty of Anna Murray,” their oldest child, Rosetta Douglass, said in a speech decades later. “Her courage, her sympathy at the start was the main-spring that supported the career of Frederick Douglass.” Frederick and Anna quickly moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Frederick chose a new name: Frederick Douglass. In New Bedford, Douglass joined the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, serving as sexton, clerk, and class leader. The church’s pastor, the Reverend Thomas James, formerly of Rochester, was instrumental in urging Douglass to speak out about slavery — and almost certainly told Douglass about the frontier town on the Genesee River. Douglass increasingly began to use his rich baritone voice to speak about abolition, and in August 1841 he met William Lloyd Garrison at a New Bedford Anti-Slavery meeting. Garrison, who was editor of the prominent abolitionist publication The Liberator, invited Douglass to speak before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Douglass told his personal story and moved the crowd, which invited him to become
an agent for the society. He began giving lectures on a circuit, including in Rochester in 1843. “He was at any one time the smartest, most charismatic Jose Torre. PHOTO BY person in the MATTHEW YEOMAN, room,” says Jose COLLEGE AT BROCKPORT Torre, SUNY Brockport history department chair and history consultant for the “Re-Energizing the Legacy” project. “Douglass was blowing away the Garrisonians. People wanted to see and hear Douglass. All these other speakers were second-rate compared to Douglass.” Douglass quickly emerged as a leader in the anti-slavery movement, and became well known with the 1845 publication of his first autobiography, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.” But success was a double-edged sword, and Douglass was in danger of being captured by slave hunters. For slaves, getting to the North didn’t translate to true sanctuary; if a slaveholder offered money for runaways, there were often people chasing them down, and the North didn’t prevent their being returned. Slaves,
A prominent part of this year’s Frederick Douglass celebrations is the “Re-Energizing the Legacy of Frederick Douglass” project. The initiative is being driven by the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commemoration Committee, a group of more than 50 organizations and individuals — from large institutions to small neighborhood associations and individual artists. Two arts-related events are at the project’s center: “No Soil Better,” an exhibition at Rochester Contemporary of artists interpreting Douglass’s legacy, and a series of life-sized statues, replicas of the sculpture in Highland Park, that will be placed around Rochester. On Wednesday, February 14, the Bicentennial Commemoration Committee will host a 200th birthday event, “Shine a Light on Frederick Douglass,” at Highland Bowl. Attendees can help RIT’s Big Shot photographers by shining a flashlight on the Douglass monument as they take a new image of the 119-year-old statue. The photo will then be on display at RoCo through March 18. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. and is free. Also part of this year’s observances: the Douglass statue, which was moved to the Highland Bowl in 1941, will be moved once again, this time to a more visible location in Highland Park, at South Avenue and Robinson Drive. The celebration of Douglass’s legacy has been largely grassroots led, says Carvin Eison, project director for “ReEnergizing the Legacy.” While city and county officials have been supportive, he says, events have been driven by activists and artists. “It’s like having a tiger by the tail,” Eison said. “It’s more interesting and involving and engaging than I ever thought it would be. It’s a lot of activity. It’s all positive. It’s wonderful that so many people are dedicated to celebrating the life of Douglass.” Information about the events commemorating Douglass this week is included in CITY’s calendar section on page 27. And the City of Rochester’s website has an extensive list of upcoming events: cityofrochester.gov/FrederickDouglass200. rochestercitynewspaper.com
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after all, were considered property. Those sentiments would later be codified in the Fugitive Slave Act, which legally sanctioned the capturing and return of runaway slaves. So Douglass traveled to the British Isles for 18 months on an anti-slavery lecture tour. While in England, new friends raised $711.66 to buy Douglass’s legal freedom. He returned to the US in 1847 with $4,000 in contributions from English abolitionists, who urged him to start his own anti-slavery newspaper. But the endeavor was met with opposition by Garrisonian abolitionists. Douglass wasn’t deterred. He “had to become his own person,” Torre says, “and was looking for a new kind of philosophical platform for anti-slavery.” “From motives of peace,” Douglass wrote in “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,” his third autobiography, “instead of issuing my paper in Boston, among New England friends, I went to Rochester, New York, among strangers.” As a riverside city with several mills,
Rochester was quickly becoming a “Boom Town,” with large influxes of new residents — many from the northern US. According to Milton Sernett’s book 2001 “North Star Country,” “the mass moving of ‘Yankee’ or Northeastern Quakers into the area paved the way for the city’s liberal leanings.” By the time Douglass moved to the city, there was already an active black community. Because of its reputation as a progressive city, Rochester was widely considered a place where black people could get further ahead than elsewhere in the country. And the numbers show it: an 1834 survey counted 360 people of color in a total Rochester population of about 9,000. According to Sernett, there were 655 free black people in Monroe County in 1840, and about 605 by 1870 (the decline due to the impact of the Civil War). Rochester also had a large and powerful black church community. Church members fought for better treatment and rights and worked to advance the black community socially and economically. “It became a sanctuary, a gathering place for the community to come together,” AME Zion’s Derrill Blue says. “Whatever issue it was, they gathered there.” Douglass was heavily involved with the church and often spoke at AME Zion, Blue says: “That’s how he actually worked on his oratorical skills. He used the church as a place to shape him and to finesse how he presented what he said. It’s beautiful to see how he used his gifts in the church and in society.” According to Sernett, Douglass’s home and the church were both stops on the Underground Railroad, and Douglass worked with the church to help people 10 CITY FEBRUARY 14 - 20, 2018
City Historian Christine Ridarsky speaks at unveiling event at City Hall for the photo of Douglass found in the Rochester Public Library’s Local History and Genealogy Division. Also pictured is Mayor Lovely Warren, City Council President Loretta Scott, and then-Councilmember Dana Miller. PHOTO BY COMMUNICATIONS BUREAU, CITY OF ROCHESTER, NY
seeking their freedom coming through the area. And he published the first copies of his newspaper in the basement of AME Zion. He later moved the offices to the Talman Building on Buffalo Street (now 25 East Main Street), where his newsroom was housed for several years. Today, that spot is marked with a plaque. The North Star was one of Douglass’s major accomplishments. According to Will Fassett’s essay “The North Star, 1847-1849,” the abolition paper circulated predominately in New York State, but it was also popular in nearby Connecticut and Massachusetts and had some distribution in Michigan. Problems with infrastructure and the high cost of mailing newspapers meant The North Star didn’t go much further than that, but copies did find their way to California and Central Texas. In the first few months of the North Star, Douglass struggled to meet the cost of printing. The paper’s prospects, he said then, were “far from encouraging.” He’d received an initial investment from British supporters and the Posts, a wealthy Rochester family, but half of that went toward a printing press, and the remainder was quickly disappearing. “In 1848 the cost of printing each week was approximately $20,” says Fassett, and Douglass’s subscriptions amounted to just $25 weekly on average. Douglass was forced to ask for more donations and increase the subscription price. Despite the challenges, he was able to get subscriptions up to 7,000 at one point, according to his records.
Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century. Photography was an important tool for him. He believed in the truth-telling power of the medium and used it to combat racial stereotypes. PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
Along with publishing The North Star, Douglass delivered some of his most powerful speeches at this time, including “What to a Slave Is the 4th of July?” given at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall on July 5, 1852. The address, one of his most celebrated, condemned the
hypocrisy of a national holiday celebrating independence while slavery was still an American institution. Soon after moving to Rochester, Douglass also committed himself to women’s suffrage and became life-long friends with Susan B. Anthony — although a tense split over priorities developed for a period between the reformers following the Civil War. Given his accomplishments, Douglass can be relegated to the status of a legend. “I think one thing that’s really important is just remembering his humanness,” says City Historian Christine Ridarsky. “Sometimes figures like Douglass get put on a pedestal, and we forget they’re human beings.” This is a man who survived slavery, Ridarsky says. But he was also “a man who walked the streets of Rochester on a regular basis, asked people how’s it going.” For his first four years in Rochester, Douglass lived on Alexander Street, near what is now East Avenue. However, as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, he needed a home more conducive to hiding and moving people escaping bondage. He built a new home on land located on what’s now South Avenue (where School 12 stands today) — a more secluded area with a private road and no neighbors. There, he, Anna, and their children (Rosetta, Frederick Jr, Charles, Lewis, and Annie) lived for more than two decades. Like Douglass, Anna worked with the Underground Railroad, in addition to
managing their home and property while Douglass continued his work as a journalist, orator, and abolitionist. Among Douglass’s acquaintances during that period was the abolitionist John Brown, whom Douglass had known since 1847. Brown stayed with the Douglasses in Rochester several times, and he had shared with Douglass his plans of an attack on the federal arsenal in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. In October 1859, just before the raid, Douglass met Brown and his men in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and withdrew his support for the effort, believing it would fail against the government forces. As he predicted, the raid was unsuccessful. Brown became known as a martyr for freedom — and Douglass learned he was wanted as part of the conspiracy. He escaped to Canada following one of the Underground Railroad routes, and then went to Britain until it was safe to return. While he was there, on March 1, 1860, less than two weeks from her 11th birthday, his youngest child Annie died, a tragedy that would cast a shadow over the family the rest of their lives. Prejudice in the early 1840’s in Rochester, daughter Rosetta said later, “ran rampant,” and Rosetta experienced it first hand. Black students weren’t allowed to attend Rochester public schools, and rather than enroll her in the black school, the Douglasses sent her to an all-girls private school. But Rosetta was segregated from the other students, forced to be taught in a separate classroom. When Douglass found out, he confronted the teacher and the class. The students themselves said they’d be willing to sit by Rosetta, but school officials then turned to the students’ parents. One parent objected, and the school kept the class segregated. In a column in his newspaper, Douglass slammed school officials and called for the integration of local schools — 100 years before Brown v. Board of Education. “Meanwhile I went to the people with the question and created considerable agitation,” Douglass later wrote. “I sought and obtained a hearing before the Board of Education, and after repeated efforts with voice and pen, the doors of the public schools were opened and colored children were permitted to attend them in common with others.”
As the home of Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, and others, Rochester has long been considered a progressive city. But “the
In the mid- and late-1800’s, nationalistic white Americans, seeing a rise in European immigration, an increase in black wealth, and a perceived threat to their own wealth, wanted to retain their financial and political stronghold. In the South, black voters were being intimidated and disenfranchised, and the Ku Klux Klan was formed. Prejudice and hate were not confined to Southern states, however. Locally, Germans and Italians were beginning to move to the city, and the black community was growing. Racial tension between groups of Rochester residents is not new, Ridarsky says. “There’s really no place immune to those things.”
majority of North Star Country Christians were neither openly hostile to abolitionists nor widely enthusiastic,” Sernett writes. “The entire city, entire community was never as progressive as we make it out to be,” Ridarsky adds. “If you look at attitudes toward abolition, 14th and 15th Amendments, and even beyond that, there was a lot of opposition here in Rochester.” The amendment to the state constitution that gave New York women the right to vote in 1917 was voted down in Monroe County.
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FOLLOWING HIS DAUGHTER’S EXCLUSION FROM A CLASSROOM
Meanwhile I went to the people with the question and created considerable agitation. I sought and obtained a hearing before the Board of Education, and after repeated efforts with voice and pen, the doors of the public schools were opened and colored children were permitted to attend them in common with others. There were barriers erected against colored people in most other places of instruction and amusements in the city, and until I went there, they were imposed without any apparent sense of injustice or wrong, and submitted to in silence; but one by one they have gradually been removed and colored people now enter freely all places of public resort without hindrance or observation. ON ROCHESTER
I know of no place in the Union where I could have located at the time with less resistance or received a larger measure of sympathy and cooperation, and I now look back to my life and labors there with unalloyed satisfaction, and having spent a quarter of a century among its people, I shall always feel more at home there than anywhere else in this country. ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
On June 2, 1872, the Douglass home on South Avenue burned. While no one
was injured — Douglass himself was in Washington, DC, at the time — the house, barn, and many of the family’s possessions were destroyed. A definitive explanation for the fire has never been known, but it’s commonly believed to have been the work of an arsonist. The fire had started in the barn, but no one in the family had used a lantern or fire in the building for months, and Douglass himself blamed racial tensions in the area. “It was never proven to be arson, but there was certainly suspicious circumstance,” Ridarsky says. “There was certainly racial tension
One important branch of my antislavery work in Rochester, in addition to that of speaking and writing against slavery, must not be forgotten or omitted. My position gave me the chance of hitting that old enemy some telling blows, in another direction than these. ON THE BURNING OF HIS HOME
The 2d (sic) of June, 1872, brought me a very grievous loss. My house in Rochester was burnt to the ground, and among other things of value, twelve volumes of my paper, covering the period from 1848 to 1860, were devoured by the flames. I have never been able to replace them, and the loss is immeasurable. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11
Reading Douglass
Twelve volumes of Douglass’s newspaper, covering 1848 to 1860, along with invaluable personal letters, were lost in the fire. “If I have at any time said or written that which is worth remembering or Larry Hudson. repeating, I must PHOTO PROVIDED have said such things between the years 1848 and 1860, and my paper was a chronicle of most of what I said during that time,” Douglass later wrote in “Life and Times.” This loss is a large reason why scholars have a hard time painting a complete picture of Douglass’s time in Rochester, says Larry Hudson, an associate professor of history at the University of Rochester. Douglass’s biographies and his speeches are useful, but they mainly offer his analysis and thoughts, and were written for an audience that would have been interested in the fight against discrimination and didn’t necessarily care about his life in Rochester. “We don’t have the kinds of sources historians rely upon to write the kind of study of a person and a place that readers demand today,” Hudson says. The destruction of Douglass’s home of 20 years closed the Rochester chapter of his life.
WORKS BY DOUGLASS • “A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” (1845) • “My Bondage and My Freedom” (1855) • “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass” (1881, revised 1892) • “The Heroic Slave,” a novella (1852) • “The Portable Frederick Douglass,” a collection edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and John Stauffer
WORKS BY OTHERS • Victoria Sandwick Schmitt’s “Rochester’s Frederick Douglass” was a critical help in researching background for this story. Find it, along with PDF versions of Douglass’s works, online at libraryweb.org/ rochimag/roads/narratives.htm. • “An Authentic History of the Douglass Monument” by J.W. Thompson (available through the Monroe County Library System and online at archive.org) • “Frederick & Anna Douglass in Rochester, New York” by Rose O’Keefe (available through the Monroe County Library System and through major booksellers) • “North Star Country” by Milton Sernett (available through the Monroe County Library system and online through amazon.com) • “The North Star, 1847-1849” by Will Fassett (available online at rbscp. lib.rochester.edu/2524) • “My Mother as I Recall Her,” a speech by Rosetta Douglass Sprague (available online through the Library of Congress at loc.gov)
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Following the Civil War, Douglass
The Douglass Monument in its original location at the corner of Central Avenue and St. Paul Street. PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
during that time period and discomfort in the community that had risen over time.” Ridarsky says Douglass used the arson to spread his message further and as a way to discuss racial tensions locally and nationally. In a letter to readers in his newspaper, The New National Era, Douglass said he could not guess as to the motive behind the fire, but, he wrote: “One thing I do know, and that is, while Rochester is among the most liberal of northern cities and its people are among the most humane and highly cultivated, it nevertheless has its full share of that Ku Klux spirit which makes anything owned by a colored man a little less respected and secure than when owned by a white citizen.” Adding to the insult, Douglass was turned away from two hotels when he rushed into Rochester at 1 a.m. — “with the convenient excuse that ‘We are full,’ till it was known that my name was Frederick Douglass, when a room was readily offered me, though the house was full! I did not accept, but made my way to the police headquarters, to learn, if possible, where I might find the scattered
members of my family. Such treatment as this does not tend to make a man secure in either his person or property,” he wrote in his letter to readers. Even the fire was originally blamed on a person of color, according to Ridarsky and a Rochester Union and Advertiser article written around the same time. “The testimony thus far obtained points strongest to colored persons as the guilty party,” the article says. But there was little evidence of this, Ridarsky says, and more likely was “convenient speculation.” The fire at Douglass’s home is a part of his story in Rochester that isn’t explored often enough, Carvin Eison says. There isn’t a lot of discussion about the significance of the event or information about any investigation — whether it was intentional or even accidental. “That’s difficult for people to talk about, and difficult for people to address,” Eison says, “because that sort of acknowledges some of the worst parts of the tensions between African Americans and the dominant culture, particularly in the 19th century.”
was beginning to spend more time in Washington, DC, and his focus was turning toward voting rights. In 1870, he began publishing the DC-based New National Era, a national paper for black Americans. Following the burning of his home in 1872, Douglass decided to move to DC full-time, first living on Capitol Hill and then in 1878, moving to an estate he called Cedar Hill in Anacostia, a DC suburb. Along with publishing The New National Era, Douglass served in several governmental positions: Commissioner to report on annexing Santo Domingo; Marshal of the District of Columbia; Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia; and Minister Resident and Consul General to Haiti. He did return to Rochester during that time, though, including in 1892, when he and President Benjamin Harrison dedicated the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Washington Square Park. In 1882, Anna Douglass suffered a stroke and died. About 18 months later, Douglass married Helen Pitts, an abolitionist and suffragist from Honeoye. Pitts was white, and the marriage caused controversy and upset both families. (The marriage is another part of Douglass’s story that Carvin Eison believes is under-explored.) After Douglass’s death, Helen was instrumental in preserving his legacy. His home at Cedar Hill is now a national
historic site, and Helen established the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, an Easton, Maryland-based non-profit maintaining Cedar Hill, Douglass artifacts, and history of the antislavery movement. On February 20, 1895, following a day spent at a meeting of the National Council of Women, Douglass was at home with his wife, telling her about the meeting — “in the highest spirits,” the New York Times wrote in its obituary — when he dropped to the floor. He died within minutes. Douglass’s body lay in state in Washington, and a funeral service was held there at the Metropolitan AME Church, where Susan B. Anthony delivered a eulogy. But his final resting place wouldn’t be in the nation’s capital; it would be in Rochester, in Mt. Hope Cemetery. In Rochester, Douglass’s body again lay in state, at City Hall. Public school classes were dismissed early, and thousands of people passed through to pay their respects. A public funeral was then held at the city’s largest church, Central Presbyterian, now Hochstein School of Music and Dance. “Every seat and every available bit of standing room in the great church was occupied when the services began,” J.W. Thompson, a leader in Rochester’s black community, later wrote. The crowd followed the hearse to the gates of the cemetery, and Douglass was laid to rest next to his first wife, Anna Murray, and his youngest daughter Annie. Helen Pitts was buried next to Douglass following her death in 1903, and Rosetta Douglass Sprague and her husband, Nathan, are also buried in Mt. Hope. When news of Douglass’s death reached Rochester, John W. Thompson led the charge for creation of a monument. Thompson, along with a committee formed at a Eureka Lodge meeting, had actually started a project in 1894 to erect a monument to African-American soldiers and sailors who had died in the Civil War. And Douglass had enthusiastically supported that monument. But upon Douglass’s death, the committee decided that the monument would honor him. When money had been raised and the statue was ready — sculptor Sidney Edwards used Douglass’s son, Charles, as the model — the monument was unveiled at Central Avenue and St. Paul Street in 1899 to a crowd of about 10,000 people. Theodore Roosevelt, then New York State governor, addressed the crowd, and letters of support came in from numerous prominent figures, including Booker T. Washington and President William McKinley. The government of Haiti — a nation established after a successful slave revolution — donated $1,000 toward the monument. The statue’s placement near Rochester’s railroad station “really says something about how his legacy was upheld at first,” Ridarsky
says. “It was right smack dab where anyone coming into the city was confronted with this very powerful image of an African American.” Tributes to Frederick Douglass have been woven throughout Rochester. But his memory is kept alive in more subtle ways, rather than serving as a prominent guiding force for the community. There’s the Douglass-Anthony Bridge spanning the Genesee River. The University of Rochester has a Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American studies, a Frederick Douglass Commons, and a Douglass Leadership House, and an 1879 bust of Douglass is in Rush Rhees Library. The city’s South Avenue library branch, on the site of Douglass’s destroyed home, was renamed the Frederick Douglass Community Library in 2016. And School 12, part of the same building complex, has a marker with details about Douglass and the site. But the school is named for the 20th century politician James PB Duffy. Some local artists have incorporated Douglass into their work. Among the examples: Shawn Dunwoody’s Douglass portrait under I-490 at West Main Street, alongside Nathaniel Rochester, Austin Steward, and Anthony, and sculptor Pepsy Kettavong’s statue of Douglass communing over tea with Anthony, in the park in the Susan B. Anthony neighborhood. Douglass’s name has popped up in various other local tributes, sometimes in curious ways. (Is Three Heads Brewing’s “Freddy D” beer the best way to commemorate the life of a man who endorsed temperance?) Grassroots organizations and activists have carried on Douglass’s work in their own missions, but there hasn’t been a mainstream awareness of Douglass’s legacy or of Rochester’s place in his life. It’s important for the community to embrace his legacy and to make sure that it’s promoted outside the area, says City Historian Christine Ridarsky. “People should be flocking to Rochester to learn about Frederick Douglass,” she says. In the first few decades of the 20th century, there appears to have been occasional commemorations to Douglass. But in the postwar era, focus on Rochester’s African-American history seemed to fade. And at the same time, inequality was growing in Rochester. “It’s surprising how little was being said about him in the 1950’s and 60’s,” says Dr. David Anderson, a member of the national Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission and chair of the Rochester-Monroe County Freedom Trail Commission. It’s hard to know why there wasn’t more focus on Douglass during that period, Anderson says, but serious issues were dominating Rochesterians’ attention. Migration from the Southeast quickly increased Rochester’s black population, and by the 1950’s, black unemployment was at 10 percent (compared to about 2 percent among whites). Discrimination kept black residents
Dr. David Anderson is the chair of the Rochester-Monroe County Freedom Trail Commission and has been named to the national Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission. FILE PHOTO
from participating as heavily in the local economy, and there are hundreds of reports of the overcrowding and low-quality housing. Those who were able to find work and save for a home were often restricted to certain areas, where the housing stock was of lower quality, and were denied credit and insurance. City leaders weren’t paying much attention to the problem of the housing conditions, however. High-profile clashes between black citizens and police began to occur, and things hit a boiling point with the riots of July 1964. “You have all of these issues, which are distracting people from looking into the history,” Anderson says. But since the Freedom Trail Commission’s creation, interest in Douglass and in Rochester’s Underground Railroad history has been gradually increasing. The Freedom Trail Commission announced a “Year of Frederick Douglass” in 2003, and toward the end of that year, the Rochester Museum and Science Center opened “Rochester’s Frederick Douglass,” at that point, the largest exhibition ever presented on the abolitionist. Anderson says there’s a need for more attention to Douglass, especially in the public school system. But, he says: “I’m hoping we’re on the right track now, and we’ll take our rightful place, given that the 20-something years the family lived here outpaces any other place they’ve been.” Contemporary Douglass scholars have plenty of ideas on how Rochester could better promote Douglass’s legacy. UR history professor Larry Hudson says scholars could do more to focus on Douglass’s place in Rochester and to promote their research to the wider public. And politicians and government leaders should better work with those scholars to make that history public, to drive the point of Rochester as the primary home for Douglass.
There’s also a need for a well-supported Douglass center. David Shakes hopes for a “focal point where you could have discourse and exhibits and interactive activities going on related to the vision of Douglass and the vision of a higher moral bar being strived for,” he said. (There have been at least two unsuccessful attempts at a Douglass center locally: the Frederick Douglass Museum and Cultural Center in the 1990’s and the Frederick Douglass Resource Center on King Street, which was open from 2009 to just last year.) For 25 years, Douglass called Rochester home. “I now look back to my life and labors there with unalloyed satisfaction, and having spent a quarter of a century among its people, I shall always feel more at home there than anywhere else in the country,” he wrote in his final autobiography, “Life and Times.” But Rochester has constantly struggled with its progressive and repressive aspects, Shakes says. “I think now is the time to show that we need to hold fast and try to put some things into action that were stated by Douglass and projected by him. We have a lot of work ahead of us. We’ve come a ways, but we have a long ways to go.”
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MORE ONLINE VISIT ROCDOUGLASS.COM • A map of Rochester locations related to Douglass • Reading Douglass: references to books and articles about Douglass and his causes • Links to Douglass's speeches • Links to audio recordings of Douglass's speeches rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 13
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education: roughly 20 percent of its student population. And the number is growing, Scanlon said. Despite the large amount of money the district spends on special education students, the results remain low, said Larry Marx, the Children’s Agenda’s CEO. Determining whether the budget is being spent on the right programs and helping parents understand what they are is essential, he said. “We don’t know if we’re getting the bang for the buck,” Marx said. Though the Children’s Agenda is still gathering data, one area of concern is the district’s ability to have the right interventions available when students need them. “A lot of the breakdown happens when students get off track,” Scanlon said. A parent may see a change in their child, and suddenly the child isn’t doing well in school, but it’s hard to know who in the district to turn to for help and what resources are available, he said. Misclassification is also big concern. A study commissioned last year by Rochester Superintendent Barbara Deane-Williams raised concerns about whether some students
were being incorrectly directed into special education programs. The Children’s Agenda won’t be the district’s only oversight for special education. The Special Education Parent Advisory Committee, a parent-run group, within the district, meets monthly, typically discussing problems children are having in school, available resources and programs, and how to access them. At a recent meeting, parents urged the district to improve communication between special education teachers and staff and parents. The school board has also just formed a new Advisory Committee on Special Education. New board member Melanie Funchess, who is director of community engagement with the Mental Health Association and has worked extensively with children with disabilities, will chair the board’s new committee. “The advisory committee is going to do a top-to-bottom review of what is going on in this district with special education,” School Board President Van White said in phone interview on Friday. “Some have said that special education in this district has gotten worse, and I’m not in a position to negate that. But the solutions need to come from the community.”
Dining & Nightlife
Pictured above: Bar Bantam opened in The Metropolitan's newly renovated lobby February 1. Lower right: The Disco Bowl, featuring quinoa, brown rice, pickled jalapeños, onion, tortilla strips, radish, and Baja sauce. PHOTOS BY RYAN WILLIAMSON
Metropolitan meal Bar Bantam 1 SOUTH CLINTON AVENUE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, 7 A.M. TO 8 P.M.; SATURDAY, 4:30 TO 10 P.M. 454-1052; BARBANTAM.COM [ FEATURE ] BY MARY RICE
Big changes at The Metropolitan building continue with the opening of Bar Bantam in the building’s newly renovated lobby. The restaurant, which opened February 1, serves breakfast, lunch, and aperitivo (happy hour), with plans to add a full dinner service in April. Bar Bantam is a joint venture between partners Lauren, Robert, and Evan Gallina and Patrick Dutton of Gallina Development Corporation, which acquired The Metropolitan (formerly Chase Tower) in 2015. Managing partner Chuck Cerankosky oversees restaurant operations and contributed to Bar Bantam’s concept, design, and branding. Cerankosky also co-owns and operates restaurants Good Luck and Cure, and operates Radio Social. The restaurant consists of an eyecatching central structure that houses the
bar and kitchen, with tables surrounding it on three sides. It’s set to one side of the Metropolitan’s recentlyrenovated lobby, where you can look down to the concourse level below and up to the second floor. With its streamlined menu, carryout service, and casual vibe, Bar Bantam is intended to accommodate quick business lunches for downtown workers on tight schedules, says General Manager Kris Klinkbeil Jr. Though Bar Bantam’s primary audience is the community living and working inside The Metropolitan, Klinkbeil anticipates substantial foot traffic from neighboring businesses. The Clinton Square building directly across the street connects to the Metropolitan via an underground tunnel — a convenient option for those who don’t want don an overcoat to nip out for lunch. In warmer months, the restaurant will have patio seating. The menu at Bar Bantam is styled after California cuisine, says Executive Chef Sean
O’Donnell, who developed a menu that combines the trends of L.A. with breakfast and lunchtime standards. The breakfast menu (served from 7 to 11 a.m.) includes egg sandwiches, creative toasts with toppings, and pastries from Village Bakery and Café. French press coffee and espresso-based drinks, sourced from local businesses such as Java’s and Glen Edith, are available all day. The lunch lineup features vegetable and grain bowls augmented by an optional serving of meat, egg, or avocado. If these colorful, highly Instagrammable mélanges look a little
too wholesome for you, deli favorites such as turkey club and roast beef sandwiches are quite at home here too, dressed up with unexpected twists like Romesco sauce and roasted red peppers. O’Donnell adds that the menu is also friendly to vegan and gluten-free diets. I stopped by for lunch on a recent Thursday around 1 p.m. to find Bar Bantam doing a reasonably steady business. I ordered the cheekily-named “Millennial Mortgage”— presumably a tribute to the now-infamous quote from Australian real estate mogul Tim Gurner, who suggested in a 2017 interview that young adults could afford to buy property provided they rein in their discretionary spending on items such as avocado toast. Bar Bantam’s version is served on a thick slice of sunflower bread and topped with a bright and zesty Baja sauce, pickled onions, cilantro, and sunflower seeds. At $9, it won’t completely erase your dreams of homeownership, but for the same price you can get the hulking Forgottaffaletta, a sandwich of capicola, mortadella, sopressata, provolone, and peppers. O’Donnell says the name is a portmanteau of “forgot” and “muffaletta,” and was conceived as the sandwich you order when you’ve forgotten your lunch at home. “It’s not only huge, it’s the fastest order,” O’Donnell says, explaining that the meaty sandwich is pressed overnight in hotel pans under heavy cans of tomato sauce, so it’s ready to go when you order. The sandwich is also listed on the breakfast menu. Bar Bantam stops serving lunch at 3 p.m., but aperitivo (from 3 to 8 p.m.) features bar snacks as well as cocktails, wine, and beer. Devotees of the bar programs at Good Luck and Cure will appreciate house creations such as the Bees for Breakfast (rum, dry vermouth, lemon, honey syrup, and absinthe) or the No More Parties in L.A. (Grand Poppy amaro, lime, and prosecco). The breakfast and lunch lineup at Bar Bantam will remain somewhat static, but O’Donnell anticipates a rotating, seasonally-focused menu when Bar Bantam opens for dinner April. For now, it’s focused on expanding its lunch service. The restaurant begins taking phone orders for lunch this week and will also start offering catering options in the next several weeks. This is an abbreviated version of the story; full version at rochestercitynewspaper.com. Have a dining story tip? Email us at food@rochester-citynews.com rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 15
Upcoming [ HIP-HOP ] Esham. Tuesday, March 13. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Avenue. 6 p.m. $15. tecshows.com; acidrap.com.
Music
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Jake La Botz. Friday, April 13. Harro East Ballroom, 155
Chestnut Street. 8 p.m. $20-$25. abilenebarandlounge.com; jakelabotz.com. [ SOUTHERN METAL ]
Texas Hippie Coalition. Wednesday, May 9. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut Street. 6 p.m. $20-$23. themontagemusichall.com; thcoutlaw.com.
Johnny O’Neal Trio
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 THE PENTHOUSE AT ONE EAST AVENUE 7:30 P.M. AND 9:30 P.M. | EXODUSTOJAZZ.COM; MRJOHNNYONEAL.COM [ JAZZ ] If you have any doubts about the piano prowess of Johnny O’Neal just consider one fact: Out of all the excellent pianists in the world, he was selected to simulate the great Art Tatum in the 2004 film “Ray.” O’Neal had already paid his dues playing with Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ray Brown, not to mention Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. When O’Neal and his trio play the opening shows of the revived Exodus to Jazz series, you can bet he will also display his considerable vocal talent. At the Penthouse, O’Neal will be joined by Ben Rubens on bass and Itay Morchi on drums. $20-$35 ($15-$30 in advance).
— BY RON NETSKY
Moho Collective FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 FUNK ‘N WAFFLES, 204 NORTH WATER STREET 9:30 P.M. | $10 | ROCHESTER.FUNKNWAFFLES.COM; THEMOHOCOLLECTIVE.COM [ JAM/JAZZ ] When it comes to stringed instruments,
Moho Collective’s Kurt Johnson is a first-rate mechanic, an operator. I once saw him play a pedal steel with an Allen wrench. Fans are gonna love this: The band is releasing two new albums this year. But in the meantime, catch ‘em live. This band is a great ball of fire. Overhand Sam will also perform. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
PHOTO BY FRANK STEWART
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[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]
Jackson Cavalier “Half Moon” Self-released jacksoncavalier.bandcamp.com
Critt’s Juke Joint SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 ANTHOLOGY, 336 EAST AVENUE 9 P.M. | $16 | ANTHOLOGYLIVE.COM; FACEBOOK.COM/JUKEJOINTSOUL [ FUNK/HIP- HOP ] At the heart of every Critt’s Juke Joint
show is Buffalo musician Eric Crittenden. The consistency stops there; the rest of the band is there upon invite and as Crittenden puts it, is “always revolving and evolving.” This time the funky soul outfit will evolve with members of Turkuaz — who made a dent here during last year’s Lilac Festival — and other special guests who splash in the funky realm and under the funkbrella. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
‘Frederick Douglass at 200’ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 HOCHSTEIN PERFORMANCE HALL, 50 NORTH PLYMOUTH AVENUE 7:30 P.M. | 473-2234; ROSSINGS.ORG [ CHORAL ] The celebration of abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s bicentennial continues with a tribute by Rochester Oratorio Society. The choir will be joined by Ghanaian master drummer Yahaya Alhassan and two dynamic soloists — soprano Kearstin Piper Brown and baritone Jonathan Rhodes — to perform local composer Glenn McClure’s “Emancipation Oratorio.” The program also features John Carter's setting of spirituals, "Cantata," and Kirke Mechem's “Songs of the Slave.” Additional collaborators include scholar Dr. David Anderson and the Rochester East High School Choir. $25 general; $10 students.
BLUES
This album is nothing short of beautiful. Oneman-band Jackson Cavalier is a study in bittersweet juxtaposition as he and his lonesome guitar come steamrolling out in this rollicking, folk-rock display called “Half Moon.” The opening track, “Dead Bird,” is a happy finger-picked ode with Cavalier’s guitar style keeping it upbeat. Track two adds percussion and another guitar, while the next cut, “The Family Name,” shows off the man’s exquisite ability to pick a melody at the same time as pulling off an underlying Piedmont flurry and scurry beneath. Strummed or picked, Cavalier’s guitar playing shines bright, especially when sharing sonic space with his flinty voice. In contrast, Cavalier’s lyricism is a little dark. “I want to pluck you like fruit from a tree / I want your pleasure, please devour me,” he sings on the tune “Fruit From a Tree.” This darkness doesn’t intimidate but rather invites you in on the mirth. Dark stuff makes a lot of us laugh, you know. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
Hiro Honshuku’s Racha Fora “Happy Fire — New Kind of Jazz” JazzTokyo rachafora.com
Upward Groove. Temple Bar and Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. templebarandgrille.com. 10 p.m. JAZZ
Eastman Jazz Ensemble. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. rochester.edu/Eastman. 8-10 p.m.
A Love Affair with Carlton Wilcox Live. The Penthouse at One East Avenue, One East Avenue. 775-2013. PenthouseROC.com. 7:3010:30 p.m. Includes goodie bag and champagne toast. $25-$45. MIke Kaupa Jazz Quartet. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue. 258-0400. 7-9 p.m. Mike Kaupa Quartet. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m. POP/ROCK
The jazz world is rich in albums filled with standards. There are literally thousands of interpretations of tunes like Jerome Kern’s “All The Things You Are” and George Gershwin’s “Summertime.” But it’s a safe bet you’ve never heard them played the way Hiro Honshuku’s Racha Fora plays them. Honshuku is a wonderfully wild Japanese flute master and his latest band engages in a highly unusual form of jazz fusion. The music’s punk-like exuberance easily matches the first part of the album’s title, “Happy Fire,” and it’s tough to argue with the second part: “New Kind Of Jazz.” Part of the chemistry is the unusual instrumentation, featuring energetic violinist Rika Ikeda, inventive guitarist Andre Vasconcelos, and Harvey Wirht and Sebastian “C-bass” Chiriboga, who alternate on cajon. But the main ingredient here is the dynamic reimagining of tunes like Miles Davis’ “Nardis,” Duke Ellington’s “In a Sentimental Mood,” and Frank Churchill’s “Someday My Prince Will Come.” If you want your standards to be not quite so standard, “Happy Fire” is a great way to shake them up.
Busted Valentine. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 5-8 p.m. Valentine’s Day Show. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar. com. 8 p.m. Acts: Roger Kuhn, Brendan Lake, Trevor Lake, Susanna Rose, Shea Rapp, and more. $5-$7.
[ THU., FEBRUARY 15 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Bethany Rhiannon. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford. 641-0340. viagirasole.com. 7-10 p.m. Jim Lane. Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. 342-6780. 8 p.m. continues on page 20
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Music “My mom played piano at our church, and when I was 6, I took over,” says Floyd, who plays with the Eastman Jazz Lab Band on Tuesday. “I played what we called congregational songs. People would get up and before they gave their testimony, they would sing an old song like ‘I’m So Glad Jesus Lifted Me’ or ‘Victory, Victory Shall Be Mine.’ I played strictly by ear and I remember thinking, ‘This is pretty easy.’” But Gospel wasn’t the only music in Floyd’s life. His father, a factory worker, loved jazz. Once he recognized his son’s prowess, he started bringing home records by pianists like Ahmad Jamal, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, and Erroll Garner. “Erroll Garner was my absolute favorite so I would sit at the piano and try to mimic everything he played,” Floyd says. Then, when he was 12 years old, a dream came true: The Marion Concert Association brought his piano hero to his hometown. “We got seats right close to the front, and that was one of my biggest inspirations, seeing Erroll Garner live,” Floyd says. “After the concert they took me backstage and introduced me to him. I sat down and played the piano for him and he loved the way I played. I’ll never forget that.”
Pianist Bobby Floyd has played with Ray Charles, Dr. John, and the Count Basie Orchestra. He’ll be a guest player with the Eastman Jazz Lab Band on Tuesday. PHOTO PROVIDED
A piano player’s piano player Bobby Floyd
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WITH THE EASTMAN JAZZ LAB BAND TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 KILBOURN HALL, 26 GIBBS STREET 8 P.M. | FREE | 274-3000 ESM.ROCHESTER.EDU
The first piano player who observed prodigious talent in Bobby Floyd was his mother. At the age of 2, he walked over to the old upright in the family’s Marion, Ohio, home and began picking out melodies. A short time later his parents discovered he had perfect pitch, and by 5, Floyd was taking piano lessons.
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By the time Floyd reached high school, he had taken classical lessons so he could play just about anything. He became the unofficial school pianist, doing everything from backing choirs to soloing with the jazz band. When it came time for college, he headed to nearby Ohio State University in Columbus. There were jazz bands but no jazz major, so Floyd studied music education. But by then, the stage was calling. He left college and hit the road with touring bands. One of the first groups Floyd travelled with was a quintet led by trumpeter Jeff Tyzik. He’d met Tyzik (who would later become Principal Pops Conductor for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra) through a sax-playing friend who had worked with Gap Mangione. Floyd has fond memories of Rochester in the early 1980’s when he often stayed at Tyzik’s home. Floyd and the sax player soon after took off for California to check out the West Coast scene. First stop was a jam session at Marla’s Memory Lane in Los Angeles, a club owned by Marla Gibbs, the jazzloving actor best known for her role as Florence Johnston on “The Jeffersons.” “The guy who played piano in the house band, James Polk, let me sit in and he loved the way I played,” says Floyd. “It turned out he was Ray Charles’s music director. The following year he got sick. He called and told me Ray Charles needs a piano player, and if I want to come out, I could take his place.
“I didn’t audition — I was just hired on the spot. The day I got there, Ray Charles had a gig that evening. They gave me a book about as thick as a New York City telephone book. It had all of his sheet music in it. They put me on the spot and I passed the test.” But why would Charles, a great pianist himself, need a piano player? “It was a big band,” Floyd says, “and he never had an opening act. We’d play two or three songs before he came out. I’m on piano at that point. The announcer announces ‘Ray Charles!’ I get up from the piano. He comes and sits at the piano, and I move over to the organ.” Although he never got too close to Charles on a personal level, the experience was invaluable. “I learned to be soulful and listen a lot and try to make the music work,” Floyd says. “They called him the genius of soul and he was truly that. I remember when he sang and when he played his solos, he would do it the same way every night and that kind of surprised me because he had it down to a routine, note for note, rhythmically the same way every night. “But it sounded so fresh — it sounded like a new idea he’d just come up with. It sounded great every night. That was something I picked up: make it sound fresh.” It wasn’t long before Floyd was sitting in for another great pianist, Count Basie. The Count Basie Orchestra, which had continued touring after Basie’s death in 1984, needed a formidable player to occupy Basie’s chair at the piano. “It was pretty amazing, a little bit challenging,” Floyd says. “He was known for space, so that the music could breathe. I kind of play that way myself. He was also known for introductions and endings so I had to pick up on that. The band lets you play the way you play but always in reference to how Count Basie played.” If playing for Ray Charles and occupying Count Basie’s chair are not enough, Floyd was also hired as organist for another keyboard legend, Dr. John. “The ironic thing with me is they all played piano,” says Floyd. “I just happened to be picked up by other piano players.” When you hear him play, it’s easy to understand why. “I try to say something and make my music like a conversation,” Floyd says. “I try to play phrases that are all related so that it tells a story. My thing is not to play fast all the time. I’m a very soulful player; I’m all about feel. I want people to feel what I play. My number one goal is I want to have a good time and hopefully people have a good time also.”
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PhatKats. 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road. 5852470079. 5-8 p.m. BLUES
CJ Chenier. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 7:30 p.m. $10. CLASSICAL
Chamber for the Party. Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 4544596. hochstein.org. 7 p.m. Benefits the Brighton Food Depot’s Backpack Program.
Eastman at Washington Square. ,. esm.rochester.edu/ community. 12:15-12:45 p.m.
Music For All: Windscape: Informal Community Concert. Eastman East Wing Hatch Recital Hall, 26 Gibbs St. rochester.edu/Eastman. 3:304:30 p.m.
Third Thursday Concert: Christ Church Schola Cantorum. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900. rochester.edu/ Eastman. 7:30-8:30 p.m. Directed by Stephen Kennedy. Included in gallery admission. DJ/ELECTRONIC
DJ Darkwave. The Spirit
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KEITH SAUNDERS
CLASSICAL | ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
The London-based Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has “thrown out the rulebook”: The ensemble often performs without a conductor, makes decisions by committee, and performs on period instruments. The program for OAE’s February 16 performance at Kodak Hall will include Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 4. While centuries-old instruments can sometimes be beaten and battered, OAE bassist Cecelia Bruggemeyer says, “The sound world we get is amazing. It’s very different to a modern orchestra.” At this performance, OAE will be joined by sought-after Scottish violinist Nicola Benedetti, who plays a Stradivarius built in 1717. Although the instrument predates Beethoven’s frequently performed concerto, no one can deny the appeal of marrying a favorite work with such an esteemed instrument. OAE performs Friday, February 16, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs Street. 8 p.m. $26-$81. eastmantheatre.org; oae.co.uk. — BY NICOLE VANDENBERGH
Room, 139 State St. 5853977595. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. JAZZ
C J Zarniak & Friends at Joe Bean. Joe Bean Coffee Roasters, 1344 University Ave. 319-5279. joebeanroasters. com. 8-10 p.m. $5. Trio East. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org/cafe. 7-9 p.m. POP/ROCK After Funk. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 9 p.m. Double Helix Album Launch. MansaWear, 367 Park Avenue. 267-9960. 4:30-7:30 p.m. Live performance by Felix. Wine and Valentine’s Day treats provided by Misfit Doughnuts.
Fossil Youth, Rarity, Trench, Derelict, Vessel, Carpool. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $10-$12.
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Rochester Ukelele Orchestra. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 8-10 p.m. 20 CITY FEBRUARY 14 - 20, 2018
Singer/Songwriter Showcase. Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, 5 McLallen St. Trumansburg. 607-387-5939. tburgconservatory.org. 7:309:30 p.m. Features Jen Cork, Austin MacRae, Janet Batch and Andrew Alling. $10. CLASSICAL ¡Bailemos!. Nazareth College Linehan Chapel, 4245 East Ave.,. 5853892700. cordancia.org. 7-9 p.m. Conducted by Rachel Lauber. Music by Piazzolla, VillaLobos, Moncayo and Copland. $15/$10.
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Kodak Hall at
Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. EastmanTheatre.org. 8-10 p.m. Presented by Eastman. Featuring Nicola Benedetti. $26-$81. Yi-Wen Chang, piano. Nazareth College Wilmot Recital Hall, 4245 East Avenue. 389-2700. naz.edu. 7:30-9 p.m. Transcriptions by pianists Franz Liszt, Alfred Cortot, Vladimir Horowitz, and more. DJ/ELECTRONIC
Luv Drunk with Lasers and Blinkin. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe
Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. Featuring SpunDaze, Darkstar, Syxgage, HUMANOID, Blinkin, and Darkstep. $3.
JAZZ
Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo.
Charley Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. charleybrownspenfield.com. POP/ROCK The Angle. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 5:30 p.m. Heartstruck. 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road. 5852470079. 8:30-11:30 p.m. $5. The Mojo Benders. Bill Gray’s Brockport Tap Room, 4647 South Lake Road. Brockport. 637-5004. themojobenders. com. 8-11 p.m.
Ryan Sutherland, Ryan Klem, Dirty Pennies, Tommy Walsh. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. thefirehousesaloon.com. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. $5. continues on page 22
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Hypnotic Clambake. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 9 p.m. $7.
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK Connie Deming. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 2580400. thelittle.org. 8-10 p.m. John McCutcheon. Rochester Christian Reformed Church, 2750 Atlantic Ave. Penfield. rochestercrc.org. 7:30 p.m. $25. David Tamarin. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford. 641-0340. viagirasole.com. 7-10 p.m. BLUES
Bill Schmitt & The Bluesmasters. Bar Louie, 98 Greece Ridge Center Drive. 392-3670. barlouieamerica. com. 9 p.m.-midnight. CLASSICAL
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Nicola Benedetti. Kodak Hall at
HIP-HOP | TYLER, THE CREATOR
In his earlier years, Tyler, the Creator — co-founder of the collective Odd Future — was known for his hateful lyrics and a general love for mayhem, but he’s recently shown some maturity in his career. In 2017, he produced and released his fourth studio album, “Flower Boy,” which is much more pop-influenced and personal — especially in comparison to his less successful third album, “Cherry Bomb,” and its overwhelmingly saturated production and shallow lyrics. While Tyler seems to calm down, tour partner Vince Staples is going in a different direction as well. On his newest album, “Big Fish Theory,” he exerts unsettling, anxious energy versus the calmness that usually surrounds him.
Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. 274-3000. eastmantheatre. org. 8 p.m.
Tyler, the Creator and Vince Staples will perform Wednesday, February 21, at the Main Street Armory, 900 East Main Street. 7:30 p.m. $39.50-$105. mainstreetarmory.com; oddfuture.com.
COUNTRY
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Jon Dee Graham, Ben De La Cour. Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. 271-3354. bopshop.com. 8 p.m. $15$20. JAZZ
Exodus to Jazz featuring Johnny O’Neal. The Penthouse at One East Avenue, One East Avenue. 775-2013. PenthouseROC. com. 7-11 p.m. $15-$35.
Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. charleybrownspenfield.com. POP/ROCK
American Acid, The Tombstone Hands, J.J. Lang. Pineapple Jack’s, 485 Spencerport Rd. Gates. 247-5225. facebook.com/ PineappleJacks. 9-11:45 p.m. $5. Hardcore for the Homeless. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. Performances by The Weight We Carry, Borrowed Time, AASB, and more. Proceeds for to those in need. $5-$7. Hey Mabel. Pleasure Lanes, 144 South Ave. Hilton. (585) 392-9800. 9 p.m.-midnight. Inside Out. Sticky Lips BBQ 22 CITY FEBRUARY 14 - 20, 2018
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Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 585-292-5544. stickylipsbbq. com. 9:30 p.m. Larger Than Life. 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Road. 5852470079. 8:30-11:30 p.m. $5. MarthaPalooza Unplugged!. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 5 p.m. Performers include Sad Bastards, High Lonesome, Double View, and others.
Compline at Christ Church. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. esm.rochester.edu. 9-9:30 p.m.
Stay the Plow, The Angle, The Amy Hazard Band. Lovin’
Eastman-Ranlet Series: Takács Quartet. Kilbourn Hall,
Compline, performed by the Schola Cantorum. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 4543878. christchurchrochester. org. 9-9:30 p.m.
Eastman Organ Community Concert. Bethany Presbyterian Church, 3000 Dewey Ave. 663-3000. rochester.edu/ Eastman. 4-5 p.m.
Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 6260853. stayplow.com. 8-11 p.m. $5. Tryst. Bathtub Billy’s, 630 W. Ridge Rd. 865-6510. trystband.com. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. $5.
26 Gibbs St. rochester.edu/ Eastman. 3-5 p.m. $19-$29. Frederica von Stade. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. rochester. edu/Eastman. 7-9 p.m. Performances by Anthony Dean Griffey and Russell Miller.
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Going for Baroque: Minirecital on the Italian Baroque Organ. Memorial Art Gallery,
CLASSICAL ¡Bailemos!. The Lutheran Church of the Incarnate Word, 597 East Avenue. 244-6065. cordancia.org. 3-5 p.m. Conducted by Rachel Lauber. Music by Piazzolla, VillaLobos, Moncayo and Copland. $15-$10.
500 University Ave. 276-8900. rochester.edu. 1-1:30 p.m. Presentation and mini-recital on the Italian Baroque organ by students at the Eastman School of Music.
Great Lakes Guitar Society: Mark Delpriora. Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St. 271-6513. msmnyc.edu/ faculty/mark-delpriora/. 1-3 p.m. $15. Jacob Ertl. Nazareth College Wilmot Recital Hall, 4245 East Avenue. 389-2700. naz.edu. 3-4:30 p.m. Schubert’s Sonata in A minor, Chopin’s Barcarolle, Bolcom’s Ghost Rags, and more. Takács Quartet. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. eastmantheatre.org. 3 p.m. PHOTO BY KEITH SAUNDERS
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Happy Hour with Stormy Valle. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-8 p.m. CLASSICAL Levi Gangi. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 2580400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m. Tuba Mirum. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. rochester.edu. 8-10 p.m. Ranging from Bach to Zappa. POP/ROCK
CLASSICAL | TAKÁCS QUARTET
Among all the classical music mediums, the string quartet possesses a singular combination of intimacy and immediacy that’s rare in other forms. As part of the Eastman-Ranlet Series, the storied Takács Quartet takes to the stage Sunday at Kilbourn Hall to perform string quartets by two of the greatest melodists in compositional history: Mozart, with his String Quartet No. 21, and Mendelssohn, with String Quartet No. 6. But perhaps most compelling here is Bartók’s darkly beautiful and enigmatic String Quartet No. 1. As a whole, the program is an excellent blend of sonic comfort and dramatic tension. The Takács Quartet will perform on Sunday, February 18, at Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs Street. 3 p.m. $19-$36. 274-3000; eastmantheatre.org; takacsquartet.com. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
Songwriters in the Round: Katie Preston. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 585-4480354. 7 p.m. Songwriters share their stories, what inspires them, and new music. $5.
[ TUE., FEBRUARY 20 ] CLASSICAL 3X88. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle. org. 7-9 p.m. Three pianists of different styles come together to share new songs, tell stories and have fun. Guest recital: soundSCAPE. Eastman East Wing Hatch Recital Hall, 26 Gibbs St. rochester.edu/Eastman. 8-10 p.m. Tuesday Pipes.. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. esm.rochester.edu. 12-12:30 p.m. Lunchtime concerts by Eastman organists. JAZZ
Eastman Jazz Lab Band with Bobby Floyd. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. rochester.edu/ Eastman. 8-10 p.m. Grove Place Jazz Project. Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370. downstairscabaret.com. 7 p.m. Featuring a different set of Eastman School of Music Students and other area jazz artisans every Tues. $10.
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With a local folk and Americana scene brimming with talent, it was only a matter of time before Rochester hosted its own folk festival. A three-day extravaganza at Photo City Improv, the event benefits the work of REACH: Rochester Engaging in Action for the Chronically Homeless. FOLK City features more than six hours of music each night, starting Friday and running through Sunday, including from Buffalo’s blues-roots heroes Folkfaces and a solo set from its charismatic frontman Tyler Westcott; the old-time stylings of the Ruckus Juice Jug Stompers; Americana tunes by The Crooked North’s Jon Itkin and Rita Harris Proctor; and Naples phenom and jack-of-all-trades Aaron Lipp. Be on the lookout for sets from other local mainstays, too, like Mike Brown, Seth Faergolzia, and The Mighty High and Dry — as well as The Neighbors, featuring half of Binghamton breakout band Driftwood. FOLK City takes place Friday, February 16, through Sunday, February 18, at Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Avenue. Starts at 5:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday; 3:30 p.m. on Sunday. $15-$20 for one-day pass; $25 for two-day pass; and $40 for three-day pass. heydudeafterhours.com; reachrochester.wixsite.com/reach. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
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Arts & Performance Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Reveal II. Through Apr. 1. Opening reception Fri., Feb. 23, 6-8 p.m. A display of ceramic sculptures and mixed media by Richard Harvey and Nancy Valle. 546-8400. episcopalseniorlife.org. A Different Path Gallery, 27 Market St. Brockport. Hat Matters. Through Mar. 31. Opening reception Mar. 9, 7 p.m. Investigates relationships between headdress and women’s experiences through multiple artistic media. 6375494. differentpathgallery.com.
The cast of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” from left to right: Jeff Siuda, Christopher C. Conway, Gregory Ludek, D. Scott Adams, John Winter, and David Munnell. PHOTO COURTESY DAN HOWELL
A world of clock-watchers “Glengarry Glen Ross” REVIEWED FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 CONTINUES THROUGH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18 BLACKFRIARS THEATRE, 795 EAST MAIN STREET TICKETS START AT $20 | BLACKFRIARS.ORG [ REVIEW ] BY LEAH STACY
When they hear “Glengarry Glen Ross,” most people will think first of the 1992 film adaptation starring Al Pacino (who won an Academy Award for his role), Ed Harris, Kevin Spacey, Jack Lemmon, and Alec Baldwin. But in the theatre world, David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” has serious legs — the 1984 play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama that year, and has garnered several Tony Awards. It’s widely considered one of Mamet’s greatest works. The plot follows a group of wheedling salesmen in a Chicago real estate office over the course of two days. Through a series of vignettes at the play’s opening, it becomes clear that the salesmen are trying to sell pieces of luxury land to people who really can’t afford to buy. But the office manager has offered a Cadillac to the top salesman, so they persist. When the office is robbed overnight, an investigation shines a light on what’s happening under the surface. It can be a risk to place a Mamet play in a theatrical season. With their explicit language and mature content, his plays have a polarizing factor. But while “Glengarry Glen Ross” may 24 CITY FEBRUARY 14 - 20, 2018
use expletives like conjunctions, the dialogue itself is written so exquisitely that the swearing feels organic. Aside from that, as noted by Blackfriars dramaturg Eric Evans in his deft playbill notes, the script holds up in modern times because of its themes of working (and over-working) to succeed. While the tools have changed in the digital world, the cost of selling a product — and one’s self — in the workplace has only increased. The cast is a complete boys club, but it should be noted the play is based on Mamet’s own experience in a Chicago sales office in the late 1960s, when women weren’t typically part of that world. The Blackfriars cast is also a tad reminiscent of Blackfriars’ May 2017 production of “Death of a Salesman” — several of the same players are reunited here, including director Brian Coughlin, who seems to excel with the “American Dream” canon of plays (particularly relating to burned out salesmen). “Glengarry Glen Ross” is a small ensemble show, but D. Scott Adams (Roma) clearly leads with his performance. Adams is a fairly new face in the local scene, and seems to thrive with each onstage role he holds. As smooth talking lead salesman Roma, Adams is at once charming and two-timing. He does an excellent job avoiding a caricature of the character, working in the occasional glimpse of compassion and kindness to his coworkers. David Andreatta (David) plays a conniving, angry younger salesman who’s tired of being taken for granted. Early in the show, Andreatta’s expertly frenzied performance has him talking circles around Jeff Siuda (Aaronow), who provides just the right amount of quiet anxiety to make the duo’s scene hilarious.
David Munnell (Levene) portrays an aging, once-top-of-his-game salesman who’s desperate to run the show again (audience members who saw “Death of a Salesman” will have flashbacks to Munnell’s Willy Loman performance). John Winter (Williamson), as the office manager, plays a reactionary role in the show. While he doesn’t give his counterparts quite as much passion as they deliver his way, he provides an excellent springboard for Munnell’s intense monologues, especially. Rounding out the cast is Christopher C. Conway as the nervous, cuckolded buyer Lingk; and Gregory Ludek as rough investigator Baylen. The set design by Eric Williamson is impressively versatile. What begins in act one as a Chinese restaurant opens to a full office during intermission, and the attention to detail (thanks in part to props master John Engel) enriches the audience experience. Costume designer Kayleigh Barclay recreates the mid-1980s in wonderful ways with the costumes, incorporating boxy ties, ill-fitting three-piece suits, trench coats, and polo shirts. “Glengarry Glen Ross” easily makes the list of iconic plays every theatregoer should see — and Blackfriars has created a stellar version of this Mamet classic. Unfortunately, opening weekend only comprised one day — due to a cast illness resulting in canceled performances on Saturday and Sunday — but the show runs Wednesday, February 15, through Sunday, February 18, with an added performance at 7 p.m. on Sunday. Runtime is less than two hours, including an intermission, which makes for an easy night (or afternoon) out.
RIT Bevier Gallery, 90 Lomb Memorial Dr., Booth Building 7A. Plakookee. Through Mar. 10. Opening reception Thurs., Feb. 15, 5-7 p.m. A creative collaboration between Rachel Debuque and Justin Plakas. Sculpture, installation, photography, and more. [ CONTINUING ] ART EXHIBITS 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. All Natural. Through Feb. 18. A display of nature and landscape by Peter Blackwood. 546-8400. episcopalseniorlife.org. Axom Gallery, 176 Anderson Ave., 2nd floor. LIKE A KISS. Through Feb. 24. Multimedia by Tina Starr. 232-6030 x23. axomgallery.com. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. The Lobby Presents: Billy T. Lyons Farewell art exhibition. Through Apr. 3. Art based on memories from growing up poor and in drug-abused households in bad parts of Rochester NY. 4542966. bugjar.com. Create Art 4 Good Studios, 1115 E. Main Street- Suite #201 Door #5. The Wonder of Art. Through Feb. 15. Featuring art by students from the West Irondequoit Central School District. A portion of each sale goes to a local charity. 2103161. Susan@createart4good. org. createart4good.org. Davison Gallery, Cultural Life Center, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr. Landscape. Through Feb. 15. Art by Constance Mauro and Judy Gohringer. 594-6442. Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. Guardians of the Arts: Prints of Artists and Artisans of Guatemala. Through Feb. 28. Mixed media drawings, photographs, and more by Marilyn Anderson. 244-9312. rochesterarts.org.; Where Turkeys Go to Die. Through Feb. 25. Photographs by
David Corbin. 244-1730. rochesterarts.org. Gallery r, 100 College Ave. Dongyi Wu: Wandering in Deep Deep Dream. Through Feb. 18. Sculpture, installation, fashion and jewelry design by Dongyi Wu. 256-3312. galleryr.rit.edu. Geisel Gallery, Second Floor Rotunda, Legacy Tower, One Bausch & Lomb Place. Now & Then. Through Feb. 23. Threedimensional illustrations by Bill Finewood. thegeiselgallery.com. GO ART! Seymour Place, 201 E Main St. Batavia. Light over Dark: The Art of Sean Madden. Through Mar. 3. 343-9313. ghallock@goart.org. goart.org. International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. ..By Any Other Name. Though Feb. 28. Paintings by Sam Paonessa. 264-1440. internationalartacquisitions.com. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. A Celtic Perspective. Through March 2. Works by Maureen Outlaw Church, Anne McCune, and Phyllis Bryce Ely. 944-6846. Main Street Arts, 20 W. Main St., Clifton Springs. Dream State. Through Feb. 16. Paintings, sculpture, and photography by Matt Duquette, Bill Finger, Carrianne Hendrickson, and Lin Price. 315-462-0210. mainstreetartsgallery.com.
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ART | ‘PLAYING IN COLOR’ Whether Rochester-based artist Ray Ray Mitrano is creating participatory performances and workshops about electoral politics in America or encouraging imaginative thought on his monthly radio show “WAYO Play” on 104.3 FM, community involvement is key. Mitrano’s art doesn’t have viewers — it has creative collaborators. This week, Mitrano brings his radio show to the George Eastman Museum for a live broadcast called “Playing in Color,” in which participants of all ages will investigate for themselves the use of light and color in film projections. The event is inspired by the museum’s exhibition “Dreaming in Color: The Davide Turconi Collection of Early Cinema.” Sunday, February 18, 10 a.m. to noon. George Eastman Museum, 900 East Avenue. Free for museum members and ages 4 and under; $5-$15 for general public (includes museum admission). 327-4800. eastman.org; rayraymitrano.com. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
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Makers Gallery and Studio, 34 Elton Street. From the Archive. Through Mar. 10. A selection of work created between 1992 and 2000 by Bill Santelli. 507-3569. My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Rochester Favorites. Through March 4. A display of Rochester region photography by Sheridan Vincent. 546-8439. episcopalseniorlife.org. NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. Ellen Mansfield Retrospective. Through Feb. 24. Artwork by Ellen Mansfield. The Owl House, 75 Marshall St. Aura and Stock. Through Feb. 26. Art by Rebecca Aloisio. 3602920. owlhouserochester.com. Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. Oxford Gallery Exhibition. Through Mar. 3. Paintings by g. a. Sheller, Jim Strohmeier, and Todd Chalk. oxfordgallery.com. Rosalie “Roz” Steiner Art Gallery, Genesee Community College, One College Rd. The continues on page 26
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SPECIAL EVENT | CHILI COOKOFF There are few foods more fitting for the winter season than chili. The popular comfort food takes the spotlight this week as local restaurants and culinary institutions compete to see who has the tastiest crockpot cuisine. Dogtown, Jeremiah’s Tavern, The Owl House, Jines, Abundance Cooperative Market, Hart’s Local Grocers, and others will vie to win the hearts and stomachs of meat lovers and vegetarians alike. A fundraiser for Flower City Arts Center, the cookoff will also feature live music. And a ceramic bowl handmade by a Flower City potter is yours to take home as a memento.
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Saturday, February 17, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Avenue. $30-$40 for individuals; $80$100 for families of four. 244-1730. rochesterarts.org. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 25
Chromatic Nude. Through Feb. 16. Paintings by Michael Price. genesee.edu/gallery.
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Tower Fine Arts Center, SUNY Brockport, 180 Holley St. Southern Sampler: Contemporary Artists of the New South. Through Mar. 4. Art from Carolyn Ford, Scott Keen, Anne Lemanski, Charmaine Minnifield, and more. 395-2787. brockport.edu.
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Whitman Works Co., 1826 Penfield Road. Penfield. See the Rhythm: The Art of Ya’qub Shabazz. Through Mar. 3. A series of wood carvings and paintings inspired by African heritage. 747-9999. whitmanworks.com.
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[ MON., FEBRUARY 19 ] Sing with the Rochester Oratorio Society. 6:30-9 p.m Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Ave 4732234. rossings.org.
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Art Events [ SAT., FEBRUARY 17 ] Black Magic Slays Magical Negro. 7-9 p.m. Gallery 74, 215 Tremont St, Building 3, 3rd Floor A visual and performance of multi-media installation by artist W. Michelle Harris $15. BlackMagicSlays. brownpapertickets.com.
Comedy [ WED., FEBRUARY 14 ] Broken Heart Medicine & Variety Show. 9 p.m.-midnight. The Spirit Room, 139 State St Featuring dancers from Sirens & Stilettos Cabaret, Emily Rose Kahn-Sheahan, and more 397-7595. instagram.com/ thespiritroomroc. Love and Laughter with Pam Werts. 7:30 p.m. Comedy at the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $15. carlsoncomedy.com. [ THU., FEBRUARY 15 ] Affion Crockett. 7:30 p.m. Comedy at the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd Thurs., Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m. Fri.-Sat., Feb. 16, 17, 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m $12-$25. carlsoncomedy.com. [ TUE., FEBRUARY 20 ] Backdraft II: Laughdraft. 8-11 p.m Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 902-2010. thefirehousesaloon.com.
Dance Events [ WED., FEBRUARY 14 ] The Rochester Oasis Tappers: A Valentine’s Day Performance. 3-4 p.m. Irondequoit Public Library, 1290 Titus Ave 3366060. aholland@libraryweb. org. irondequoitlibrary.org. 26 CITY FEBRUARY 14 - 20, 2018
[ MON., FEBRUARY 19 ] International Folk Dance Club of Rochester. 7:30-10 p.m. JCC of Greater Rochester, 1200 Edgewood Avenue Located in JCC’s Dance Studio. Circle, line, and couple dances from around the world. Beginners welcome $7-$8. 315-9265652. jccrochester.org.
Theater Annual Bronze Collective Theatre Fest. Through Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave A week-long celebration and display of local African-American and African Diasporic artists and producers rochesterbc.org. A Chorus Line. Wed., Feb. 14, 7:30-10 p.m., Thu., Feb. 15, 7:30-10 p.m., Fri., Feb. 16, 7:30-10 p.m. and Sat., Feb. 17, 7:30-10 p.m. McQuaid Jesuit High School, 1800 S. Clinton Ave. Tells the story of seventeen performers auditioning for spots in a Broadway chorus $8-$12. 473-1130. mcquaid.org. End of Shift. Fri., Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 18, 2 p.m. Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave Through Feb. 25. Fri. & Sat., Feb. 16, 17, 23, 24, 7:30 p.m. Sun., Feb. 18, 25, 2 p.m. By Jenny Connell $12. 389-2170. naz.edu.
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SPECIAL EVENT | NORDICFEST Rochester-area residents can win the winter season this weekend by heading to Rochester Museum & Science Center’s Cumming Nature Center for NordicFest. Attendees can warm up with meat or vegetarian chili for sale — with proceeds benefitting the Genesee Valley Ski Patrol — and then partake in a 10k snowshoe race on Saturday and an orienteering race on Sunday. For those curious about Scandinavian culture, the Sons of Norway Lodge and Scandinavian Heritage Society will be on hand, and representatives from L.L. Bean and The North Face will dish on winter gear. Barring a storm, trails for skiing and snowshoeing will be open, and equipment rentals will be available. NordicFest takes place on Saturday, February 17, and Sunday, February 19, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day. 6472 Gulick Road, Naples. Free for RMSC members; general public requested donations are $3 for individuals and $10 for families. 374-6160. rmsc.org/cumming-nature-center. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End. Through Feb. 18. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd Closes Sun., Feb. 18 232-4382. gevatheatre.org. The Hit Makers. Through Feb. 18. JCC of Greater Rochester, 1200 Edgewood Avenue Through Feb. 18. Sat., Feb. 17, 8 p.m. Sat. & Sun., Feb. 17, 18, 2 p.m. Wed. & Thurs., Feb. 14, 15, 7 p.m 461-2000. jcccenterstage.org. It Shoulda Been You. Wed., Feb. 14, 7:30 p.m., Thu., Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 18, 2 p.m. SUNY Geneseo Alice Austin Theatre, 1 College Circle . Geneseo Through Feb. 18. Wed.-Sat., Feb. 14-17, 7:30 p.m. Sun., Feb. 18, 2 p.m. Music by Barbara Anselmi and lyrics by Brian Hargrove $15. 245-5824. The Royal Family. Through Feb. 18. Lyric Theater, 440 East Ave Through Feb. 18. Fri. & Sat., Feb. 16, 17, 7:30 p.m. Sun., Feb. 11, 18, 2 p.m screenplaysonstage.org.
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FILM | ‘PETER GABRIEL: THE MAKING OF SO’ The Alternative Music Film Society continues its great series of film screenings this week with “Peter Gabriel: The Making of So,” commemorating nearly 33 years since Gabriel began working on the album that shifted him from a cult star to a household name. “So” contains hit tracks “Sledgehammer,” “Big Time,” and “In Your Eyes,” which will forever be associated with the over-referenced appeal of lifting a boom box up in the air and at a girl. The behind-the-scenes documentary will be shown on Thursday, February 15, at 7 p.m., with previews beginning at 6:45 p.m. at the Memorial Art Gallery (500 University Avenue). The screening is free, and visitors can check out the gallery at half admission until 9 p.m. 276-8950. events@mag.rochester.edu; — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Til Death Do Us Part. You First!. Thursdays-Sundays Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St Through Feb. 17. Wed. & Thurs. Feb. 14, 15, 7 p.m. Fri. 9, 16, 8 p.m. Sat. Feb. 10, 17, 4 p.m. & 8 p.m. Sun. Feb. 11, 3 p.m $30-$33. 325-4370. downstairscabaret.com. Two Tickets to Paradise: The Eddie Money Musical. Feb. 1418. RAPA, Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. Through Feb. 18. Wed.-Sat., Feb. 14-17, 7:30 p.m.; 2 p.m. on Sun., Feb. 18 $34.50-$59.50. 254-0073. rapatheatre.org.
Community Activism [ SAT., FEBRUARY 17 ] Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/ Serve Food. 3-6 p.m. St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality, 402 South Ave. 585-232-3262. Let’s Talk About Gentrification Part II: An Intensive. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 540WMain, 540 W. Main Street Discussion will unpack and deconstruct gentrification concepts and how its effecting the community $45. 4208439. 540westmain.org. Race To End Racism. 1 p.m. Central Church of Christ, 101 S. Plymouth Avenue A United Community Response to Donald Trump’s ongoing hatred and racism.
Festivals [ SAT., FEBRUARY 17 ] Chocofrolic. 12-4 p.m. Main Street, Geneseo, Main Street . Geneseo Features 15 chocolate merchants and live music $5-$7. 561-252-3288. geneseomainst@gmail.com. Chocofrolic2018.eventbrite.com.
Film [ THU., FEBRUARY 15 ] Peter Gabriel: The Making of So. 6:45-8:45 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900. mag.rochester.edu. [ FRI., FEBRUARY 16 ] Songs: 8mm Films by Stan Brakhage and Book Sale. 7 p.m. Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. $5. 442-8676. vsw.org.
Frederick Douglass [ WED., FEBRUARY 14 ] Annual Susan B. Anthony Birthday Luncheon. 121:30 p.m. Rochester Riverside Convention Center, 123 E. Main St Keynote speaker: Elaine Weiss $75-$100. 279-7490 x10. susanbanthonyhouse.org. Celebrate Frederick Douglass’s 200th Birthday. 3:30 p.m. Frederick Douglass Community Library, 971 South Avenue
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LECTURE | ‘REFLECTIONS OF THE DIVINE: ART AS SPIRITUAL CIPHER’ Atlanta-based artist Masud Olufan will visit The College at Brockport campus on Wednesday, February 21, to give a lecture titled “Reflections of the Divine: Art as a Spiritual Cipher.” Olufani’s work, which he describes as visual poems about the human experience, are currently displayed in the Tower Fine Arts Center Gallery as part of the “Southern Sampler: Contemporary Artists of the New South” exhibition. In a provided statement, he says that he attempts to create work that “blends formal elegance, emotional integrity, and spiritual resonance,” and maintains a belief in the “transformative potential of art; that in spite of the undertow of our overtly materialistic society the power of artistic expression rests in its ability to lift the spirit and inspire new ways of seeing.” Tower Fine Arts Center, Room 2203, 350 New Campus Drive, Brockport. 7 p.m. Free. “Southern Sampler” continues at the Tower Fine Arts Center Gallery through March 4. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. 395-2805; brockport.edu/academics/fine_arts. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Performance by Robert Djed 428-8216. Frederick Douglass’s Rochester: Mapping His Tracks in Our City. Through Aug. 31. Central Library, 115 South Ave. Through Aug. 31. Highlights the spaces and places that informed Douglass’s life in the Flower City 428-8150. rochistory.wordpress.com. Frederick Douglass’s World. Feb. 14-Aug. 31. University of Rochester, River Campus Through Aug. 31. Opening reception Thurs. Feb. 15, 5 p.m. Understanding Douglass and his hegacy through rare books, special collections & preservation rochester.edu. No Soil Better: Art and the Living Legacy of Frederick Douglass. 1-5 p.m Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. Through Mar. 18. Featuring work that reflects on how Douglass has been memorialized and the importance of his legacy today $2. 461-2222. info@ rochestercontemporary.org. rochestercontemporary.org.
Shine A Light on Frederick Douglass. 6:30-8 p.m. Highland Park Bowl, 1200 South Ave. Assist RIT’s Big Shot photographers in making a memorable photo 325-1238. [ THU., FEBRUARY 15 ] Times in the Life of Frederick Douglass. 7:30 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Part of the Bronze Collective series of events at the MuCCC 4825192. akwaabatours.org. [ FRI., FEBRUARY 16 ] Frederick Douglass at 200. 7:30-10 p.m. Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. A Bicentennial commemoration of his life through readings, reenactment and music $25. 473-2234. ROSsings.org. Frederick Douglass Reenactment. 3:30 p.m. Frederick Douglass Community Library, 971 South Avenue Performed by Nathan Richardson 428-8216.
Special Events [ FRI., FEBRUARY 16 ]
Adult Game Night & Latin Dance Party. 10 p.m.-2 a.m. ER Studios, 470 State Street A night of video games, board games, and dancing to salsa, bachata, merengue, and kizomba $5-$7. 749-6006. erstudios.org.
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Dine & Discover: Adventurer Meagan McGrath. 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. $45. 697-1988. msc.org. [ SAT., FEBRUARY 17 ]
Waterpipe/Hookah Study Two visits ($50 per visit)- anytime 3-4 weeks apart from the first visit for blood draws (two teaspoons) and urine collection
A Benefit to support New2U Rescue. 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. Live music: Warhead Rising, Blood Shot Ordinance, Veterans of Bad Presidents, and Gold Dust. All proceeds shall be donated $5. 319-3832. new2u.org.
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Brew Tour: 5 Hours, 3 Breweries. 12-5 p.m. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave Visiting Fifth Frame Brewing, Brindle Haus Brewing, and Three Heads Brewing. Includes bus transportation, driver tip, and more $68. 2103697. tourroc.com. Chili Cookoff. 4:30-7:30 p.m. Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. Select a handmade ceramic bowl from Flower City potters. Sample a meat and vegetarian chilis $30-$90. 244-1730. rochesterarts.org. [ SUN., FEBRUARY 18 ] Hearth and Cellar: Food From Afar. 6-8:30 p.m. Lento, 274 N. Goodman St. $42. 2713470. hearthandcellar.com. The Roc Awards Show. 5-8:30 p.m. Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. Celebrates and recognizes Rochester’s talent, local businesses, and active volunteerism in over 40 categories 454-4596. rocawards.com. [ TUE., FEBRUARY 20 ] Native American Winter Fun Week. Feb. 20-23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Ganondagan State Historic Site, 1488 New York 444 Games and workshops $18. 742-1690. ganondagan.org.
Literary Events [ SUN., FEBRUARY 18 ] Rochester Poets February Reading. 2-5 p.m. Legacy at Cranberry Landing, 300 Cranberry Landing Dr. 260-9005. jlafountain@ legacycranberrylanding.com. legacyrochester.com.
We are seeking individuals for research designed to learn more about how to age well. If you are 60 years or older and willing to be considered for future studies, call the study team at: (585) 276-6204 or email HARP@urmc.rochester.edu
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Movie Theaters Searchable, up-to-the-minute movie times for all area theaters can be found at rochestercitynewspaper.com, and on City’s mobile website.
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Brockport Strand 93 Main St, Brockport, 637-3310, rochestertheatermanagement.com
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The “Fifty Shades” franchise packs up its riding crops, handcuffs, and nipple clamps as it reaches its third and climactic final chapter, concluding the story of Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) and her tumultuous romance with brooding, kinkloving billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan). The opening scenes of “Fifty Shades Free” find the couple tying the knot in front of a crowd of family and friends. Though a wedding is what you’d traditionally expect to be the climax of
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any other romance series, there are plenty more obstacles in the couple’s path toward happily ever after. Most crucially the couple must deal with Ana’s unhinged, potentially homicidal former boss (Eric Johnson), looking for revenge after being fired for trying to sexually assault Ana in the previous film. The premise of the mildly kinky romance series has always been ridiculous (though never as ridiculous as I continually hope). But while these past two installments have brought in elements — like the boss plotline — that tilt toward a soapy, 90’s erotic-thriller vibe, these films don’t so much have a plot as they bounce from incident to incident, pausing every so often to engage in the perfunctory sex scenes that are its raison d’être. Though capably directed by James Foley from a script by Niall Leonard (husband of the book’s author E.L. James), the film too often resorts to ridiculous plot developments to fill out the story; superficial complications that are solved almost as soon as they arise. Despite overflowing with adult situations, the source material
Johnson and Dornan in “Fifty Shades Freed.” PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSAL PICTURES
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maintains a somewhat adolescent approach to sex. And as a portrait of a BDSM relationship, the “Fifty Shades” films have always been hopelessly vanilla. Audiences looking for a more complicated exploration of dom/sub dynamics are better off turning to films like “Secretary,” “The Duke of Burgundy,” or even this year’s “Phantom Thread.” There’s also the troubling aspect of the series that insists on pathologizing Christian’s appetite for BDSM as stemming from dark psychological trauma in his past. Of course, plenty of people with a yen for bondage are perfectly well-adjusted individuals. But what the films do get right, and where they’re most interesting — and perhaps even useful — is as explorations of consent. For all the hand-wringing over their sex scenes, far more time is spent in each of these films watching Ana and Christian negotiate and establish clear boundaries of what’s ok and what’s not, both in and outside the bedroom. The couple are constantly negotiating limits, learning where each other’s boundaries lie. Christian’s character may be controlling and possessive, but it’s Ana who dominates these films. As each installment traces Ana’s evolution from naïve virgin to confident woman happily taking charge of her sexuality, she embraces her inner bossy bottom and learns that enjoying being submissive in the bedroom doesn’t require blind obedience elsewhere. What this series ends up delivering is closer to luxury lifestyle porn than actual porn: the camera lingers over private jets, yachts, and closets full of designer clothes far more often
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than rope on naked skin. Truthfully, the series’ celebration of extravagant wealth could use being interrogated more thoroughly than its sexual politics. Maybe the fact that we’ve become a bit more skeptical of our billionaires in the time since the series first rose to popularity is what’s shading things (no pun intended). Even if they only occasionally indulged in their inherent campiness, the “Fifty Shades” movies do embrace their true purpose as glossy, escapist fantasies. Some people like superheroes; others like watching handsome, angsty playboys romance and occasionally spank their willing partners. Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan still don’t share an iota of chemistry on screen, and Dornan has never conveyed the magnetism that Christian Grey supposedly possesses. In these films the actor is a handsome block of wood. Having portrayed Ana for three films now, Johnson has always been the best part of these films, even when she’s surrounded on all sides by nonsense. While never winking at the audience, she’s brought a wonderful comic timing and sly wit that these films desperately need. Like Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson once they’d finished with the “Twilight” films, I hope Johnson finds more artistically fulfilling projects from here on out. She’s has already demonstrated an interest in more compelling material, through her collaborations with Luca Guadagnino (2015’s “A Bigger Splash” and a remake of “Suspiria” due out later this year). Now that she’s been fifty shades freed from this franchise, here’s hoping she’s able to move on to films more worthy of her talents.
The romantic drama “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool” chronicles the later years in the life of Hollywood icon Gloria Grahame (played in the film by Annette Bening). Though Grahame’s legacy hasn’t stood the test of time as well as some of her peers, she made a name for herself in noir films and acted against Humphrey Bogart and Joan Crawford — even winning an Academy Award for her supporting role in 1952’s “The Bad and the Beautiful.” But “Film Stars” doesn’t take place during the height of the actress’ career, focusing instead on the May-December love affair between then-55-year-old Grahame and 26-year-old struggling actor Peter Turner (Jamie Bell), whom she met while performing regional theater in Northern England in the late 70’s. The film’s chronology-jumping narrative shifts back and forth between Gloria and Peter’s fling in 1979 and 1981, when Grahame unexpectedly comes back into Peter’s life. Though the two are no longer together,
Bening and Bell in “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool.” PHOTO COURTESY SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
Peter welcomes her with open arms. She makes efforts to hide it, but it quickly becomes obvious that the actress is gravely ill, facing the late stages of breast cancer. Asking to stay with Peter and his parents (Julie Walters and Kenneth Cranham) in their home in working-class Liverpool, she clearly still feels something for Peter and turns to him for comfort. We learn that Grahame has for some time been refusing treatment in order to keep working. Though the legend’s fame had faded, she takes whatever gigs that are offered, so she can continue to provide for her and her family — all the while doing her best to keep them in the dark about her illness. Scottish director Paul McGuigan (“Victor Frankenstein”) and screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh offer only vague impressions of her relationship with her remaining family members. The only glimpse we receive is during her initial relationship with Peter, in a sequence in which she brings him back to California, and they meet her mother (Vanessa Redgrave) and sister (Frances Barber). These scenes touch lightly on the scandals of her past, making passing reference to a sexual relationship Grahame had with Tony Ray, the 13-year-old son of her second husband, “Rebel Without a Cause” director Nicholas Ray. Tony later became the actress’s fourth husband. Considering the pattern of embarking on another relationship with a much younger man, breaking it off, only to reconnect with him years later, it seems odd the script doesn’t even attempt to offer any insight into this behavior. Because the film is based on the memoir written by the real-life Turner about his experiences, the film ends up being much more about him than it is her. Like “My Week with Marilyn,” another story of a young man’s romance with a Hollywood legend, the story winds up making us want him to get out of the way so we can learn more about the real star. Still, Bell is quite good; charming and
sensitive, he even gets a chance to flex a few of his “Billy Elliot” dancing muscles in a disarmingly intimate scene where Peter and Gloria disco dance to “Boogie Oogie Oogie” in her apartment. The film attempts to add some shading to his character — including a brief reference to Peter’s bisexuality — but they don’t really go anywhere. We’re won over by his clear adoration of Grahame, but it doesn’t alleviate the fact that he’s the less interesting character by far. Bening is terrific, delivering a wonderful, delicately-textured performance. She plays Grahame with a kittenish appeal and breathy, Betty Boopesque voice. Finding the vulnerability behind the glamorous facade, her Grahame is a woman who could be insecure and occasionally needy, while desperate clinging to her dignity. She doesn’t look much like Grahame, which wouldn’t ordinarily be an issue, but McGuigan occasionally utilizes archival footage featuring the actress, and it ends up underlining the differences between Bening’s performance and the real person. The film looks lovely, photographed with rich, golden hues by Polish cinematographer Urszula Pontikos. The lightly stylized production design from Eve Stewart is also striking, though McGuigan can’t resist attempting to beautify the period spaces with some heightened and occasionally distracting CGI embellishments. Two marvelous performances from Bening and Bell do much to elevate the sometimes tepid plot that surrounds them. Together, they make “Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool” a bittersweet love story that’s about nostalgia more than anything else, as it examines the lasting connection that can tie two people together, even after their romantic relationship has long since ended.
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Bpg Associates, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/4/18. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 1121 N. Winton Rd Rochester, NY 14609 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Cusco/Lima LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 10/11/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Deborah Essler LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/29/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to PO Box 16546 Rochester, NY 14616 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] HAMSA REAL ESTATE LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/22/2016. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Michael Santariello, Esq., 200 Canal View Blvd., Ste. 206, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] L&L General Construction LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/15/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 19 Trotters Field Run Pittsford, NY 14534 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of MCB Holdings, LLC. Art. of Org. filed by Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/8/18. 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 316 Valley Road, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license (number pending) for beer, liquor and wine has been applied for by the undersigned, Locals Only to sell beer, liquor and wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 311 Alexander St, City of Rochester in Monroe County for on premises consumption. Locals Only, LLC
[ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license, Serial Number pending for beer, liquor, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned* to sell beer, liquor, wine, and cider at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 1 Main St., Brockport, NY 14420 in Monroe County for on premises consumption. *Custom House Bar & Grill Inc [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Jeffrey Johnson, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/08/18. 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 25 Robert Pitt Drive, Suite 204, Monsey, NY 10952. Purpose: any lawful activities [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Stowe Enterprise LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/27/2017; Exist Date: 1/1/2018. 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 52 Nichols Street, Spencerport, New York 14559. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 102 State Street, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 2/2/18. The 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 P. O. Box #444, Brockport, NY 14420. 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 114 West Ave, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/8/2018. 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, 114 West Ave., Rochester, NY 14611. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 127 CONKEY AVE ROCHESTER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/5/2018. 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, 3118 N. Ventura Rd., Oxnard, CA 93036. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 1577 Ridge Road West, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/11/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 22 WINSTON PLACE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 375 Averill Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 2731 & 2739 ELMWOOD LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 375 Averill Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 3 Industrial Park Circle, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/8/2018. 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, 3567 Sweden Walker Rd., Brockport, NY 14420. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 38 STATE STREET LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/22/2018. 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: c/o Chad R. Hayden, Esq., 1634 Lehigh Station Rd., Henrietta, NY 14467. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 503 SOUTH LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/7/2017. Office location, County
Legal Ads 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, 375 Averill Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 676-680 SOUTH LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/7/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 375 Averill Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 8452 Ridge Road, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 1/16/18. The 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 P. O. Box #444, Brockport, NY 14420. 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 9-11 PENNSYLVANIA AVE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 375 Averill Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Amitas Properties of Richfield, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/28/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 4 Epping Wood Trl, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of AST Ventures, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 793 S. Goodman St., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Autumn Leaves Enterprises, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) January 4, 2018. 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 502 North Ave, Hilton NY, 14468. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BAMF Management II LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/31/2018. 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 22 Ryder Cup Circle Pittsford, NY 14534 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BAMF Management III LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/2/2018. 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 22 Ryder Cup Circle Pittsford, NY 14534 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Chordia Consulting, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/6/18. 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, 245 Georgian Court Road, Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of David Jackson Team, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Department of State on 12/20/2017. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 550 Latona Rd. Ste. C301, Rochester, New York 14626. The purpose of the Company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DEANA LAWSON LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/22/17. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 170 Waring Rd., Rochester, NY 14609. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon
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 whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Hey Dude After Hours, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/8/18. 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 PO Box 90664, Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of JNM Industries, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/2018. 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, 114 West Ave., Rochester, NY 14611. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JOJO WEBSTER, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/04/18. 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, 16 N. Main St., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JPowell Services LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/16/2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Corporate Filings of New York 90 State St. STE 700, Office 40 Albany NY 12207 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company. Name: BRP CONSTRUCTION MASONRY LLC (“LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with NY Secretary of State (“SSNY”) on January 10, 2018. 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 872 Joran Drive, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose/character of LLC is to engage in any lawful act or activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of LJF PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the
Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/6/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 11 Gillet Rd., Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of MACABEE REPUBLIC LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/5/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Charles Switzer, 464 State St., Rochester, NY 14608. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Market Seafood LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/5/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Premier Seafood, LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MICROMOD AUTOMATION LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/16/18. 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, 95 Mt. Read Blvd., Ste. 149, Rochester, NY 14611. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of NEW VINE INDUSTRIES LLC. Art. of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 12/26/2017. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 24 Winthrop St., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Newnew Beauty Bar LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/28/2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 908 Bay Street Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Prism Dental Laboratories LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/24/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 3592 Monroe Avenue, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Relentless Forward Progress Consulting, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) October 25, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at PO Box 23954, Rochester, NY 14692. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of RMP DEVELOPMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/4/2018. 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, 706 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of RMP PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/2/2018. 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, 706 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of ROCHESTER BEER PARK LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/26/2017. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 375 Averill Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rochester Home Flip LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/30/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 417 Sundance, Webster, NY
14580. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of The Brick Lab, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 1/5/18. The 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 44 Quail Lane, Rochester, NY 14624. 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 THE DRINKSMITHS LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 12/28/2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 26 Engel Place, Rochester, New York 14620. Purpose: any lawful activities [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Thurston Brooks Services, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) October 23, 2017. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to P.O. Box 19616 Rochester NY 14619. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of PORTRAIT STUDIO LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/27/17. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/11/17. 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 Secy. of State, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal
St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of THE DAILY RECORD COMPANY, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/17/18. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/21/10. Princ. office of LLC: 175 Sully’s Trail, 3rd Fl., Pittsford, NY 14534. 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 122072543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] OWLU LLC. Filed 1/12/18. Office: ORLEANS Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 662 Bauder Park Dr, Alden, NY 14004. Purpose: General. [ NOTICE ] RED RIVER VALLEY PROPERTIES LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/2/2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served, SSNY shall mail process to RED RIVER VALLEY PROPERTIES LLC, 160 Olivia Drive, Rochester, NY 14626 General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Roc Photonics LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/11/17. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS, as designated agent, will mail copy of any process to the LLC to 141 Mulberry St, Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] SIMCONA LIGHTING AND VALUE ADD SOLUTIONS LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with
NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/27/17. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 275 Mt. Read Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14611. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] SMJF EDGEWOOD LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/17/2018. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 717 Landing Road North, Rochester, NY 14625. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] SMJF EDGEWOOD REALTY LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/17/2018. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 717 Landing Road North, Rochester, NY 14625. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] The Gamma Nu of Phi Kappa Tau Alumni, Inc. will be holding it’s annual membership meeting at 1:00 PM on Saturday, March 24, 2018. The meeting will take place at 3440 East River Road, Rochester, NY 14623 to elect members of the Board of Directors and transact such other business which may come before the meeting. [ NOTICE ] Toni Essler LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/29/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Po Box 16120 Rochester, NY 14616 General Purpose
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Legal Ads > page 33 [ NOTICE ] Ua2us Transport, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 10/30/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 180 Sedgley Park West Henrietta, NY 14586 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Ua2us Transport, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 10/30/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 180 Sedgley Park West Henrietta, NY 14586 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Wags to Rich’s, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/8/2017. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Richard W. Allen, Jr., 783 Britton Rd., Rochester, NY 14616. General Purpose. [ NOTICE } 119 Clifton LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/16/18. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to POB 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE } Coastal Vendor, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 11/13/17. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 116 S Ridge Trail Fairport, NY 14450 General Purpose [ NOTICE } Notice of Formation of RUSH PRESERVE LLC Cert. of Conversion filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/02/18, converting PINNACLE PARTNERSHIP to RUSH PRESERVE LLC. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 2729 Pinnacle Rd., Rush, NY 14543. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.
SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] 1980 East Avenue LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 2/6/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 11 Pierceon Court, Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] 291 S. Plymouth, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 7/11/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 15 Fairhaven Road, Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] Bureau SC LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/26/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 30 Rhinecliff Drive, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] D&T Rents Auburn LLC (the “LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 2/9/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to P.O. Box 92280, Rochester, NY 14692. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ]
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Paragon Compliance, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/11/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to P.O. Box 217, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] SMBL Ventures, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 1/10/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 72 East Jefferson Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] Trailynn Victor LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/19/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 3349 Monroe Ave., Suite 334, Rochester, NY 146185513. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] Treahy Consultation Services LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 12/27/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 25 Sanibel Drive, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is WallByrd LLC. The
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Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 1/31/18. 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 10 Cedarwood Cir Pittsford NY 14534. The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Parkside Professionals, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 01/02/2018 with an effective date of formation of 01/02/2018. 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 17 Charter Oaks Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534. 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 ] Straight Edge Construction Group, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 01/04/2018 with an effective date of formation of 01/04/2018. 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 850 Saint Paul St., Ste. 17, Rochester, NY 14605. 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 WAYFARER HOSPITALITY GROUP LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/16/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 156 Elmerston Rd Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WILMORITE REALTY LLC ] Wilmorite Realty LLC (the “LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with NY Secretary of State (SSNY) 1/22/18. Office location: Monroe County, NY. Principal business location: 1265 Scottsville
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Rd, Rochester, NY 14624. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to CT Corporation System, 111 Eighth Avenue, NY, NY 10011 which is also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF MONROE WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST DOUGLAS N. DUMOND, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated October 05, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice - Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14614, on March 08, 2018 at 10:00AM, premises known as 6 PACKET BOAT DRIVE, FAIRPORT, NY 14450. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Perinton, Village of Fairport, County of Monroe and State of New York, SECTION 152.12, BLOCK 2, LOT 7. Approximate amount of judgment $94,008.67 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 2013-1112. Sarah E. Wesley Esq., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 51811 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. 20171548 ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff vs Ralph Boone; New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, Defendants Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated January 23, 2018, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the Foreclosure Auction Area, Hall of Justice Lower Level Atrium, 99 Exchange Boulevard, Rochester, New York, in the County of Monroe on March 2, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Pittsford, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 52 Old Forge Lane, Pittsford, NY 14534; Tax Account No. 193.131-11. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions
and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $125,721.64 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: January 2018 Deborah Case, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF Monroe Index No.: 2017-7917 Date of Filing: December 27, 2017 Reverse Mortgage Funding LLC, Plaintiff, -againstDAVID DIMARCO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JEAN DI MARCO; TIMOTHY DIMARCO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JEAN DI MARCO; MARY ELLEN AMO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JEAN DI MARCO; PHILIP DIMARCO AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF JEAN DI MARCO ; “JOHN DOE” AND “JANE DOE” 1 THROUGH 50, INTENDING TO BE THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DISTRIBUTEES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF THE ESTATE OF JEAN DI MARCO WHO WAS BORN IN 1927 AND DIED ON OCTOBER 21, 2016, A RESIDENT OF THE COUNTY OF MONROE, WHOSE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS WAS 53 CULVER PARKWAY, ROCHESTER, NY 14609, THEIR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST IF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS BE DECEASED, THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSON, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF”; CAPITAL ONE BANK USA NA ; HSBC BANK NEVADA NA; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O SECRETARY OF
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WESLEY GARDENS CORPORATION A/K/A WESLEY GARDENS NURSING HOME; ‘’JOHN DOES’’ and ‘’JANE DOES’’, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Daniel J. Doyle of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on November 22, 2017, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Monroe, State of New York. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by JEAN DI MARCO to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC
REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., AS NOMINEE FOR M&T BANK, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS bearing date December 12, 2012 and recorded in Book 24780 of Mortgages at Page 450 under Control Number 201212170431 under Mortgage Number MDD026221 in the County of Monroe on December 17, 2012. Thereafter said mortgage was assigned to REVERSE MORTGAGE FUNDING LLC by assignment of mortgage bearing date April 5, 2016 and recorded under Book 1793 of Mortgages at Page 487 under Control Number 201604110016 in the County of Monroe on April 11, 2016. That the mortgaged premises affected by said foreclosure action are situate in the County of Monroe State of New York and more specifically described in “Schedule A” annexed hereto and made a part hereof. Said premises being known as and by 53 CULVER PARKWAY, ROCHESTER, NY 14609. Date: November 9, 2017 Batavia, New York Andrea Clattenburg, Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Batavia Office 26 Harvester Avenue Batavia, NY 14020 585.815.0288 Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www.banking.state. ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license, number 3160384, for beer, liquor and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, liquor and wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at 200 East Avenue Rochester NY 14604 for on premises consumption. Wayfarer Hospitality Group LLC DBA Steadfast Restaurant.
Fun [ NEWS OF THE WEIRD ] BY THE EDITORS AT ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION
Something to Sing About
The Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland has a new course of study for scholars to pursue: a bachelor’s or master’s in yodeling. Beginning in the 2018-19 academic year, students will be able to major in the traditional form of singing, which was used by Swiss herdsmen to communicate with each other in the mountains. The BBC reported that prize-winning yodeler Nadja Rass will lead the courses, which will also include musical theory and history. “We have long dreamed of offering yodeling at the university,” gushed Michael Kaufmann, head of the school’s music department. [BBC, 1/30/18]
Names in the News
Police in Logansport, Indiana, finally caught up with the thief who had been targeting churches in the area since Jan. 16: Christian J. Alter, 22, of Kewanna, was charged with breaking into five houses of worship and stealing cash, according to the Logansport Pharos-Tribune. Alter was apprehended Jan. 23 just moments before the fifth burglary, at Rehoboth Christian Church, was discovered by police. He was being held in the Cass County Jail. [Pharos-Tribune, 1/24/2018]
The Continuing Crisis
Birds nesting near natural gas compressors have been found to suffer symptoms similar to PTSD in humans, according to researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History, and noise pollution has been named the culprit. The Washington Post reported the team studied birds in the Rattlesnake Canyon Habitat Management Area in New
Mexico, which is uninhabited by humans but does contain natural gas wells and compression stations that constantly emit a low-frequency hum. The steady noise was linked to abnormal levels of stress hormones, and the usually hardy western bluebirds in the area were found to be smaller and displayed bedraggled feathers. “The body is just starting to break down,” explained stress physiologist Christopher Lowry. [The Washington Post, 1/9/2018]
Armed and Naked
In Texas, game wardens came across an arresting sight in Gregg County last November: an unnamed Upshur County man hunting in the nude along a state highway. The Houston Chronicle reported that the hunter, who is a well-known nudist and activist in the area, contested his arrest on charges including hunting without a license, but one look in court at the warden’s body cam footage undermined his case. The man then dropped his appeals and settled the citations. [Houston Chronicle, 11/22/2017]
You Have the Right to Remain Silent
Vincente Rodrigues-Ortiz, 22, was arrested on Jan. 24 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for the assault and murder of Andre Hawkins, 17, the day before. But when Rodrigues-Ortiz appeared in court on Jan. 25 for arraignment, he questioned the judge about his “other murder case.” WWMT TV reported that his query led prosecutors to interview and then swiftly charge him with the March 2017 homicide of Laurie Kay Lundeburg, and Rodrigues-Ortiz now awaits arraignment in that case as well. [WWMT TV, 1/25/2018]
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[ LOVESCOPE ] BY EUGENIA LAST ARIES (March 21-April 19): Temptation may get the better of you. Forgo getting together with ex-boyfriends or old crushes. Steer clear of partners who are still attached legally to someone else or those making promises that are impossible to keep. Entertain spending time only with someone free to enter into a serious relationship. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ll have plenty of opportunity to meet people, but not all will be of equal caliber. Let your intuition be your guide when it comes to affairs of the heart, and you are likely to avoid a mismatch that is based on false information and pretenses.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’ll be able to talk your way in and out of anyone’s heart, so if you plan to dump one for another, now is the time to lay your cards on the table and set the record straight. Honesty will help you bring about a change in your personal life. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Set your sights on someone and don’t wait to take action. Pursuing what you want will help you fulfill a dream. Love is on the rise, and the chance to charm your way into someone’s heart looks promising. Don’t hold back when you should be moving forward.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t ask for too much or try to buy someone’s love. Slow down and get to know the object of your desire before you pounce. The more time you spend with someone you admire, the less you will be charmed by his or her actions and intelligence. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Passion and chemistry are likely to lead to trouble. Don’t mess with someone who is looking for something you don’t want to deliver. False information and emotional mind games will make your life difficult when it comes to love and romance. Don’t make promises you’ll live to regret.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your sophisticated intelligence and charm will open doors, but don’t be too quick to share personal information with someone eager to take advantage of you. Take a wait-and-see approach when it comes to affairs of the heart, and avoid picking the wrong partner. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Problems will mount if you can’t make up your mind about the way you feel or how you want to live. Trying to compromise with someone who doesn’t share your beliefs or life goals will make it difficult to move forward in good faith. Consider options and alternatives.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You’ll face trouble in the romance department. Chances are good that either you will disappoint someone or someone will disappoint you. Use your intelligence to monitor personal situations and the people you encounter. Truth will be necessary if you want to find true love. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your desire to settle down and your attraction to someone you find quite unique will be overwhelming. Don’t hesitate to make your intentions known and to take the next step toward turning a relationship into a forever commitment. Start making future plans.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Rely on your intelligence to bring you back down to Earth when you get bitten by the love bug. You will not see things clearly when it comes to your personal relationships and are likely to misjudge how someone feels about you. Take a wait-and-see approach for now. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): See who brings out the best in you. You’ll have plenty of partners to choose from, but picking the one who suits your quirky personality may not be as easy as you think. Don’t hide your eccentricities. If you want to find true love, you have to be yourself.
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