CITY Newspaper, February 5 - 11, 2020

FEB. 5 2020, VOL. 49 NO. 21

HOW MANY BREWERIES CAN ONE TOWN HAVE? Dems' fighting words: Bronson vs. Yudelson

A legendary ROC band returns after 50 years

Oscars Shmoscars.

The Lubies are back!

POLITICS, PAGE 5

MUSIC, PAGE 14

FILM, PAGE 24

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Webster lettuce dispute isn’t NIMBYism

The commentary on the Webster lettuce farm proposal (“Let us have lettuce in Webster,” Editor’s Notebook, December 18) got it pretty much wrong.

The controversy surrounding this issue is well-founded and not simply a knee-jerk NIMBY reaction.

Neighbors of this 140acre farm are justified in being indignant about an industrial complex scarring this landscape in an unprecedented manner.

Agriculture as a zoning and land-tax designation refers to the conventional working on and growing of crops in the soil comprising the land. Taxes and utility values were based on the soil types.

People have every reason to expect these definitions hold true in the present era. The Webster Planning Board unfortunately did not uphold the historic zoning definitions, and caved under corporate pressure, forcing the present lawsuit brought by town citizens.

The glass-enclosed, indoor growing factories comprising the “farm” in question are total departures from this, and demand a wholly different zoning classification. The proposed seven growing facilities, 2 CITY

each 7 acres in area, would completely cover and displace most of the topsoil and all potential productivity.

These hydroponic factories require more energy and water than a small village.

It is clear that this project is industrial in nature and does not fit in conventional agricultural zoning.

That’s the problem, not NIMBYism.

The local citizens’ expectation of conventional farming adjacent to them or, alternatively, clusters of houses or properties similar in scale and landscape, is totally justified. These people have paid taxes for many years to the town, and the town has abdicated its responsibility to them.

CEA Farms, the company behind the factories, is a near-complete unknown entity, whose failure to establish a complex in Onondaga County a few years ago marked its last attempt to locate in New York. The estimate that this project would create 375 jobs — mostly low paying factory gigs — is unreliable since there is no standard to which to compare. The company’s officials are not farmers. CEA’s backers consist of an amalgam of investors, bankers, and business opportunists, as far as I can make out.

No one locally with whom I’ve spoken is opposed to hydroponic indoor growing factories per se. It’s the location, fraught with misapplied zoning, that ignites their discontent. Put these facilities where they belong, on industrial sites, former city dumps, unused acreage near old factories, Kodak plant sites, etc. Plenty of likely locations to the east would welcome them (see the Intergrow tomato factory in Ontario, Wayne County).

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Year-round agriculture production is a good bet for success. But don’t ruin precious farmland and wellfunctioning neighborhoods in the process.

MICHAEL KOPICKI, WEBSTER

A lot about the 27th Congressional District is rigged

I miss the in-depth commentary of CITY’s “Urban Journal.” The commentary in the “Editor’s Notebook,” which replaced the Urban Journal, seems to regard non-local topics as taboo and has moved safely to the middle to the point of being bland.

While I appreciate much of Jeremy Moule’s writing, an example of an editorial without depth, in my opinion, was “Congressional special election date looks like a rigged game” (Editor’s Notebook, January 15). In the editorial, Moule says he is from the area of the 27th Congressional District and therefore has insight into the feelings that people have about the proposed special election there. Throughout the piece he repeats his view and his belief that there will be popular resentment toward the Democratic Nate McMurray, should he win.

But Moule doesn’t quote anyone except the Republican party chair and the Monroe County Republican elections commissioner. There

are many other views in the 25th Congressional District, where I live.

What about resentment toward Collins? What about the district being unrepresented since his resignation? What about the district being gerrymandered so as to make electing a Democrat difficult? That’s what I call “rigged.”

JANET CHAIZE, RUSH

Think beyond rent control to help city’s poor Rochester has a housing crisis, and the consequences are felt most severely by people of color and residents living in poverty.

It has been well documented that nearly 9 percent of the city’s public school students experience homelessness at some point during the school year, and that black residents spend a disproportionately high percentage of their income on rent.

Rochester’s approach to solving the crisis has prioritized the needs of the rich over those of its poor and working class. For years, the city has provided enormous tax breaks to high-end and commercial developers, while poor residents in some cases pay property taxes that are disproportionately higher than those of wealthy downtown households.

Currently, Mayor Lovely Warren is looking to expand the city’s CHOICE program, which offers generous tax breaks for new, owneroccupied housing, despite the argument that these tax incentives favor the wealthy who would build anyway.

The mayor has also touted the city’s “Opportunity Zones” (OZones), a gift from the Trump administration’s

kleptocratic tax cuts, as another possible solution to our housing crisis. Under the program, investors can eventually enjoy tax-free profits on developments in the zones.

OZone development will exacerbate inequality and harm underprivileged neighborhoods. One city Ozone is downtown, where most new housing is luxury apartments and condos.

In economically distressed OZones, new development will increase the cost of living.

If unaccompanied by rent control, such investments will quickly price residents out of their homes.

The city recently moved toward two partial solutions to the housing crisis — setting up a new tenant court and invoking New York’s Emergency Tenant Protections Act (ETPA).

The latter offers emergency rent stabilization if the city can demonstrate a vacancy rate of less than 5 percent. However, Census Bureau data indicate that the rental vacancy rate might be as high as 7.6 percent, meaning Rochester may not qualify. Even with ETPA, rents in Rochester are already unaffordable. We need to think beyond rent control.

A vacancy tax would decrease rents and generate revenue that could go toward permanently affordable community land trusts, although the tax would likely require state authorization.

Too many Rochester residents cannot afford housing, and too many of those who can are living in squalor. There are things we can do immediately, like ensuring real enforcement of the housing code and putting tax breaks where they belong — in the hands of poor and working people.

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK | COMMENTARY BY DAVID ANDREATTA

What did Judge Rosenbaum do? We can only guess The misconduct allegations against former state Supreme Court Justice Matthew Rosenbaum leave a lot to the imagination.

Briefly outlined in his agreement with a state judicial watchdog agency, the allegations are that Rosenbaum “made improper and at times abusive personal demands of court staff, directly or indirectly conveying that continued employment required submitting to such demands, and creating a hostile workplace environment” during his entire time on the bench from 2005 to 2019.

What does that mean? Was he some sort of sadistic cross between Franklin Hart Jr. from “9 to 5” and Miranda Priestly of “The Devil Wears Prada?”

What did Rosenbaum do that was so egregious to warrant his being stripped of his judicial duties within weeks of being re-elected to a second 14-year term and him subsequently vacating his office?

The taxpayers who paid his $210,900 salary deserve to know. But no one who is in the know is saying. That was his agreement with the state Commission on Judicial Conduct. He affirmed his resignation in exchange for the commission closing the case against him.

Rosenbaum’s alleged victim, who has been identified by court officials as a woman, has not spoken out publicly.

So, the best taxpayers can do to piece together the extent of Rosenbaum’s alleged harassment is to deduce what Rosenbaum didn’t do by examining the only two other cases in which judges were disciplined for making improper demands of staff.

The first involved Monroe County Family Court Judge Dandrea Ruhlman. For months in 2004, Ruhlman had her secretary babysit her young children, take them to doctor’s appointments, drop them off at daycare, and type her husband’s resume and job applications.

The second involved a state Supreme Court justice from The Bronx. In that case, Justice Mary Brigantti-Hughes had her court attorney chauffeur and babysit her children, and pressured her staff to attend religious services over the course of five years, from 2006 to 2011.

In both cases the judges were censured.

That’s the penalty the commission imposes on judges who make excessive personal demands of their staff — a public finger-wagging.

If Rosenbaum’s alleged harassment was in the vein of ordering his staff to shuttle his children around or pick up his dry-cleaning, he could have expected the same.

But his conduct was apparently so egregious that the commission accepted his resignation and promise to never return to the bench, without even substantiating the accusation against him.

Under state judiciary law, the commission has 120 days from the time a judge resigns to conclude its case against him or her. That’s an unrealistic timeline. Commission investigations typically take at least six months, with some taking years.

Robert Tembeckjian, the administrator of the commission, said the 120-day clock started when Rosenbaum refused to take the oath of office on January 1.

“Because this stipulation achieved the most we could get under the law, that really compelled us to end it quickly, get him off the bench, stop the salary, and get him to pledge to never come back,” Tembekjian said. “This stipulation accomplishes the most we could get in the ordinary course of time. But I realize that it’s frustrating . . .”

There is another, ongoing investigation into Rosenbaum separate from the one closed by the commission. That probe is being done by the inspector general of the Office of Court Administration, which runs the state court system.

But, as OCA spokesperson Lucian Chalfen explained, the findings of that investigation are for internal purposes and not made public. The only way they could come out is if they were potentially criminal and the inspector general turned them over to the local district attorney.

That hasn’t happened.

There are several places court employees in New York can turn to complain about their work environment, depending on the nature of their grievance.

They can approach the court system’s WorkSafe Office or Office of Workplace Diversity.

They can file a report with the OCA’s inspector general. The most obvious outlet is the human resources representative in their local district administrative office.

We don’t know if any of those things happened in Rosenbaum’s case; and even though we should, we probably never will.

We likely won’t know if some administrator shrugged off the alleged victim’s complaint years ago. Even if the OCA inspector general finds that was the case, it’ll be handled internally.

All we know for sure is Rosenbaum didn’t just ask his alleged victim to pick up his drycleaning and cart his kids around. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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City recruits for La Marketa

Community and city leaders have been pursuing La Marketa for decades. If everything goes according to plan, the international public market and recreational space will open this fall on North Clinton Avenue.

Community and city officials envision La Marketa as an incubator and testing ground for small businesses.

During an informational meeting last week, they said it will be a place where people can sell food and other goods in a comparatively low-risk, low-cost environment, and where established businesses can have popups or try out new ideas.

“We want people to come in and experiment,” said Jim Farr, director of the Rochester Public Market, which will assist with operations.

La Marketa will include space for two larger, yearround anchor businesses; three seasonal 8-foot by 20foot kiosks; and 30 tents, each 10-feet by 10-feet.

Representatives from the city and Ibero-American Action League said that through La Marketa, they’ll provide business development resources for people from the surrounding neighborhoods to help them start and grow businesses.

Miguel Melendez, Ibero’s chief community engagement officer, noted

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that the northeast Rochester neighborhoods around the La Marketa site are heavily Latino, they’re home to many people of other cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Officials want the market to support and reflect that diversity, he said.

DEVELOPMENT | BY DAVID ANDREATTA

Council considers PAB lawsuit funds

Rochester City Council is poised to set aside another $50,000 to pay lawyers to defend the legality of the new Police Accountability Board, as the court battle over its authority and standing continues.

City Council already has a contract with New York City-based law firm Emery, Celli, Brinkerhoff & Abady, LLP, and it’s considering legislation this month to extend the agreement and increase the maximum compensation to $100,000 from $50,000. The firm’s founding partner, Andrew Celli, has represented Council in the case.

The bill was submitted

by Mayor Lovely Warren, and will go to a vote on Tuesday, February 18. The funding will be pulled from the 2019-20 budget of the City Council and city clerk.

The Rochester Police Locust Club, the police union, is suing the city over the PAB, which it argues is unconstitutional and in violation of the union’s contract with the city.

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Both sides claim victory in Whole Foods decision

An advertisement for Whole Foods Plaza on Monroe Avenue in Brighton. FILE PHOTO

Both sides in the ongoing dispute over a proposed Whole Foods in Brighton – the developer and town in one corner and a community group opposed to the project in the other – are declaring victory in an appellate court decision.

The appellate division of state Supreme Court last week dismissed two challenges to the Whole Foods Plaza project from the group, Brighton Grassroots.

The first claimed the town broke state open meetings laws, and the second argued against the type of zoning the town applied to the project.

Brighton officials approved the project through an incentive zoning process, which allows developers to deviate from some standard zoning requirements – like size, density, and parking – in exchange for tangible community benefits.

In this case, the town is considering traffic signals, driveway modification plans, and improvements to the Auburn Trail hiking path proposed by the developer, the Daniele Family Companies, among those benefits.

But in tossing the challenges, the court sent back to the lower court another claim that the town ran

roughshod over state regulations when it transferred an easement to the trail held by the town to the project.

Brighton Grassroots argued the transfer required approval from the state Legislature, which the town did not get, and be subject to a permissive referendum by voters.

Howie Jacobson, president of Brighton Grassroots, said he was “thrilled” with the ruling.

“We continue to call on the town to make the developer go back and do this the right way through the standard zoning process,” Jacobson said.

Brighton Supervisor Bill Moehle said the decision confirmed that the town acted “thoroughly and properly” in considering the Whole Foods project.

The project is the subject of at least six other lawsuits in opposition whose outcomes are pending. The litigation mostly challenges the size of the plaza, which would be roughly 84,000-squarefeet anchored by a 50,000-square-foot Whole Foods.

David Andreatta is CITY’s editor. He can be reached at dandreatta@rochestercitynews.com.

“There’s no clear rule-breaking, but the by-laws are set up in a way to allow this unfairness to still happen. I feel that people should be ethical and make good decisions regardless of the by-laws.”

COURTNEY FINNERTY, A HENRIETTA DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE MEMBER

POLITICS | BY JEREMY MOULE

Dems fighting words: Bronson vs. Yudelson That Harry Bronson, the five-term Democratic Assembly member from Rochester, would face a primary election this year from an upstart with close ties to Mayor Lovely Warren was expected.

What might not have been expected, however, was that Bronson would be the challenger in the primary for his 138th District seat, because party leaders declined to endorse him.

That happened over the weekend as the Monroe County Democratic Committee threw its weight behind Alex Yudelson, the mayor’s chief of staff and the son of Michael Yudelson, the Henrietta town Democratic boss and a Monroe County Legislator.

The development at the Workers United Hall on East Avenue over the weekend did not sit well with some party loyalists, prompted cries of nepotism and rulebending, and provided further evidence that the party’s power center now rests with supporters of the mayor.

HOW IT HAPPENED Yudelson’s designation was the culmination of a controversial — and arcane — process that played out among local Democratic committees comprised of party loyalists that sit within the boundaries of the 138th Assembly District. Those committees number six in the city, one in Henrietta, and one in Chili.

The committees vote for their preferred candidate and whichever candidate gets the most votes wins the party’s endorsement.

Sounds simple, right?

Not so fast. The committees are weighted based on turnout and the size of their vote within the Assembly district. And if no candidate gets 50 percent of the weighted vote after the ballots are cast, the race is then decided by the single votes of the leaders of those committees.

In the case of the 138th Assembly District, the two committees with the most weight — so much weight that a candidate cannot win the designation without the support of at least one of them — were each led by a spokesperson for the mayor, Patrick Flanigan, and Yudelson’s father.

Roughly 70 percent of the rank-and-file in Flanigan’s committee, the 24th Legislative District on the east side of the city, voted for Bronson in the initial voting. But Flanigan, the committee leader, threw his committee’s support to Yudelson, with whom he works at City Hall.

The hall erupted. “Lies!” someone shouted from the back of the room.

Likewise, Yudelson’s father was greeted with a chorus of boos from sign-carrying protesters when he cast his committee’s vote for his son.

THE REACTION After the vote, Yudelson called wresting the party’s endorsement from a fiveterm incumbent “pretty unprecedented.”

Bronson and his supporters viewed the development and unprecedented, too.

“The system was manipulated and that’s very unfortunate,” Bronson said.

Members of the Supporters of Assembly member Harry Bronson wave signs Henrietta Democratic at the Monroe County Democratic Committee's designating convention at Workers United Hall in Rochester on Saturday, Committee, led by February 1, 2020. PHOTO BY JEREMY MOULE Yudelson’s father, said he should have recused himself THE BACKSTORY from the designation process in light of There’s some noteworthy backstory to the his son being a candidate.

Bronson-Yudelson contest.

Some also complained that he added 29 Bronson and Warren have clashed over new people to the committee without input Rochester City School District governance. from other rank-and-file members, a move Warren wants state legislators to remove the that had the effect of stacking the committee elected school board and to replace it with in his son’s favor. Adding members is a an appointed one. Bronson has refused to go common practice of committee leaders that along with the idea, saying her call “abdicates has critics across the county. our responsibility to lead.”

“There’s no clear rule-breaking, but the by Yudelson shares the perspective of Warren laws are set up in a way to allow this unfairness — his boss and a powerful figure in the to still happen,” said Courtney Finnerty, a party — and has said that a change in district Henrietta Democratic Committee member. governance needs to be on the table.

“I feel that people should be ethical and make continues on page 11 good decisions regardless of the by-laws.”

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How many breweries can one town have?

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BY GINO FANELLI

Dan Western, co-founder of Lost Borough Brewing Company on Atlantic Avenue in the city, was pouring a beer when he confided that he hasn’t taken a paycheck in a year.

“We have more breweries coming into town, and the local dollar can only go so far,”

Western said. “We’re on the map as a beer destination, but that doesn’t really transmit to anything right now.”

The last decade saw the number of new breweries in Monroe County and across New York surge exponentially. When the 2010s dawned, there were 95 breweries in the state, according to the Brewers Association. Today, there are 434. Twenty-six of them are in Monroe County, which has more breweries than any county outside Suffolk on eastern Long Island.

Craft beer’s big bang unleashed a veritable universe of new styles and tastes to the delight and astonishment of drinkers. We were introduced to hazy IPAs, fruity sour ales, and candy-laced imperial stouts.

But many of the brewers who created that world locally now say the days of gravitydefying growth are over. Greater Rochester, they say, has either hit, or is about to hit, peak beer and is bracing for a period of retrenchment. Openings will be offset by closures, mergers, and acquisitions.

“People think of a bubble and they think of the tech bubble, when the market crashes, everything closes and unemployment goes crazy,” said Chris Spinelli, founder of Roc Brewing Company. “But a bubble is really an industry that expanded quickly that now there are too many players in the market. Some are going to win, and some are going to lose.”

It remains a good time to be a beer drinker.

The craft brewery, once relegated to the trendiest urban neighborhoods or pilgrimage points flung far off the beaten path, is now a mainstay. Virtually every town and village has at least one go-to spot for fresh, handcrafted brews. continues on page 8

Steam rises from kettles at Three Heads Brewing on Thursday, January 30. The brewery was producing a new batch of The Kind IPA, Three Heads' best selling beer. PHOTO BY GINO FANELLI

PHOTOS BY JACOB WALSH

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BY GINO FANELLI

Lighter, classic styles drive the craft beer market For people immersed in craft beer nerdom, it may seem like the trendy modern staples of sours, barrel-aged stouts and ales, and hoppy, hazy IPAs — so, so many IPAs — are leading the beer market.

But they aren’t the market drivers.

Lighter, lower-alcohol craft beers — particularly bitter, hoppy West Coast IPAs — are the best-selling beers on the market.

The Kind, a West Coast IPA and the flagship of Three Heads Brewing, has been its best-selling beer since the brewery’s start in 2011.

“I think there’s a lot of reasons for that.

First off, it’s a good fucking beer,” Three Heads co-founder Geoff Dale said. “It’s hoppy, bitter, but not overly so. It’s balanced, you can drink it with food or on its own.”

Three Heads is neck-and-neck with Canandaigua’s Young Lion Brewing Company in terms of brewing capacity, making them the two largest breweries in the region behind Genesee. Both have 30-barrel brewhouses and 90 barrels for fermenting. Dale said 60 barrels of The Kind are fermenting at all times. One barrel equals 31 gallons, or 248 pints, of beer.

Young Lion owner Jennifer Newman sees the trend of lighter, sessionable styles and classic beer mainstays as driving sales for breweries. All Day IPA from Michigan’s Founders, a session pale ale with a 4.7 percent alcohol level, is among the bestselling locally, for example.

“You have to pay attention to trends, and we want to do some beers that follow them and hopefully people like them,” Newman said. “But we also hope that people are keeping a four pack of our IPA in their fridge.”

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At Roc Brewing Company, owner Chris Spinelli’s best seller is Whoopass double IPA, a heftier beer at 8 percent, but still not on the cutting edge of hipness, being a clear, bitter West Coast-style IPA. “At the end of the day, there’s still a lot of consumers out there that aren’t necessarily going after those trends,” Spinelli said. “IPA, as a category, let alone a high quality double IPA, are still sought after. People love Whoopass. They like that it’s a more traditional IPA.” Even as Rohrbach offers new, inventive styles through its Neoteric Series, owner John Urlaub attributes the “lion’s share” of sales to its Scotch Ale, which was the first Rochester craft beer to attract a large following.

“Consumers love to try new and different things, but there’s still an element of this is what I trust, this is what I know,” Urlaub said.

Sometimes there’s a disconnect between what’s popular with beer enthusiasts and the styles that do best in the general market.

“I’ve always said, if you cater to a small audience, then you cater to a small audience,” said Dan Nothnagle, co-founder of Three Heads. “Not everybody consumes their beverages by going to a brewpub on a Saturday morning. You might think that if you only are in that circle.”

As for breweries that function as inhouse brewpubs with no distribution, there is a little more wiggle room to experiment without the pressure of having to scale up a beer for store shelves. But there’s a struggle there, too, in constantly keeping products fresh, new, and ahead of the curve, while still making good beer.

Jon Mervine at Fifth Frame Brewing Company is known for his hazy IPAs. He also has the only foudre, a traditional French oak vessel used for the fermentation of wild ales, in the city limits.

“Honestly, if you want to make it, you need to stay on the edge, know what people are drinking, know what you can produce,” Mervine said. “You need to know what you do well, and you can experiment, but it’s not a time to experiment on your reputation.”

Three Heads' David Coniglio pouring a fresh glass of the brewery's Lancer Lager. PHOTO BY GINO FANELLI continued from page 7

But brewing can be a challenge. Work weeks are long. Profit margins are razor thin. Becoming a smashing success is akin to catching lightning in a bottle.

Monroe County enjoys a higher economic impact from brewing than any other county in the state, according to the New York State Brewers Association.

In 2018, the last year for which reliable statistics were available, breweries accounted for 1,397 jobs in the county, $126 million in wages, and $679.5 million in total economic output, meaning the total value of all goods and services produced in the industry.

Of course, those figures include Genesee Brewery, one of the largest breweries on the east coast. Extract that giant from the equation, and the financial impact is more modest.

For instance, Erie County, whose 24 breweries is comparable to that of Monroe County, registered an economic output of $294 million, according to the association.

The 21 breweries in Onondaga County were found to have had an economic output of $144 million.

“We’re in historical times,” Paul Leone, executive director of the state Brewers Association, said. “Never in the history of the country has there been more breweries, never in the history of this state has there ever been this many breweries.”

A BEER BOOM IS BORN New York’s craft beer boom was born of a pair of state laws. In 2013, lawmakers created farm brewery licenses, which

provided license holders significant business benefits, like being able to serve and sell beer without obtaining otherwise necessary permits, if they used mostly New York hops and ingredients in their beer.

Following that was the Craft New York Act of 2014, which allowed breweries to sell beer by the pint on premises, instead of being limited to offering tastings and selling beer for off-site consumption.

Those bills kicked New York beer into gear, though the growth in breweries also mirrored what was happening across the rest of the country.

Dean Jones, brewmaster at Genesee’s Pilot Brewery, began his beer career in 1989.

A year earlier, the number of breweries in the nation cracked the 100 mark for the first time since Prohibition. Now, nationwide, the number sits around 8,000.

“I’ve been doing this since before it was cool,” Jones said. “I watched that initial peak when everyone was joining the industry to make money and weren’t really in it for the beer.”

A brewery boom that started in the late 1980s and lasted through the 1990s brought the start of some larger regional and national brands, including Escondido, California’s Stone Brewing; Milton, Delaware’s Dogfish Head; and Rochester’s own Rohrbach Brewing Company, which opened in 1994 at the South Wedge’s Historic German House. Many breweries from that era didn’t survive into the 2000s.

“It crashed, and there was all this used equipment on the market,” Jones said.

“Right now, I think there’s much better

quality than the last peak, but I’m starting to see more and more and more used equipment on the market.”

Rohrbach did survive, and founder John Urlaub attributes the brewery’s long-term success to staying fresh, even as a local fixture. (Full disclosure: Rohrbach recently brewed the House of Silent Shadows Prohibition-era porter for The Little Theatre, which shares a parent company with CITY in WXXI Public Media.)

“We have to stay innovative and ahead of the curve,” Urlaub said. “No matter what we do though, we’re never going to be the shiny new toy on the market, because we’ve been around.”

WHAT’S THE SATURATION POINT? Rochester has made several lists of the nation’s best beer towns.

Vinepair magazine, for example, last year ranked Rochester among the world’s 10 top destinations for suds, alongside Paris and Berlin. That designation was due in part to the heralded Brooklyn-based Other Half opening a second location in East Bloomfield, and Avon’s Mortalis Brewing Company, which currently ranks globally on the beer review site Untappd.

As new breweries keep coming, however, asking how many an area can reasonably support is a fair question.

New York ranks fourth among states for the number of breweries. But with 2.6 breweries per 100,000 adults, it is nowhere near having the highest concentration.

That distinction belongs to Vermont, with its 13.5 breweries per 100,000 adults, according to the Brewers Association.

Monroe County has about 3.5 breweries per 100,000 residents. Rochester has a ratio of about 3.8. While above the state average, they pale in comparison to other major beer destinations.

Portland, Maine, for example, reportedly had 36 per 100,000 people last year. Asheville, North Carolina, had 34.

Bend, Oregon, had 32.

Still, New York is reaching a saturation point.

Leone, of the New York Brewers Association, estimates the state could sustain about 500 breweries before the market begins to self-regulate and closings occur. At the current rate of growth, that point could be reached this year.

Nationwide, 219 breweries closed in 2018, the last year for which reliable statistics from the Brewers Association were available. That translated to a closingrate of about 3 percent.

“I can’t think of very many in New York state that are printing money in any way,

Jon Mervine has established Fifth Frame Brewing as one of the region's best destinations for hazy IPAs. He said survival as a smaller brewery hinges on keeping things fresh, interesting and consistent. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH

shape, or form,” Leone said. “Even the ones that are doing really well still have high bills, high overhead, and a lot of things going on.”

By all accounts, there are limits to the number of craft breweries Rochester can support. The market will plateau and likely has already begun to. As a result, some breweries simply will not survive the next few years.

“Some it may be because the beer just isn’t good, but not always,” Genesee’s Jones said. “Maybe the beer is good and they just can’t keep up.”

Some breweries already have closed due to financial stress. In August, Custom Brewcrafters, an industry pioneer that had been in business in Honeoye Falls for 25 years, shut its doors. The company was deeply in debt.

Western, of Lost Borough; Spinelli, of Roc Brewing Company, and Dan

Nothnagle, a co-founder of Three Heads Brewing, all said they wouldn’t open a brewery if given a second chance.

SUPPLY OUTPACING DEMAND Brewery owners and industry observers said quality and hospitality will drive the market going forward. Brewpubs selling beer only on-site and serving a hyperlocal market will have more stability than production breweries, they said.

“The output of craft beer is way outpacing the demand at this point,” Urlaub, of Rohrbach’s, said. “The first guys that aren’t going to make it are the ones not making consistently good beer, I think that goes without saying.”

Of course, new breweries are opening in Rochester.

In October, Irondequoit got its first when Irondequoit Beer Company opened in the I-Square complex. Irondequoit Beer Company currently has no distribution and only serves for on-site consumption.

“The industry is going to become more hyperlocal,” said its head brewer, Nate Kester. “When it becomes hyperlocal and each town has a brewery or two, you’re going to need to adapt your models.”

And some local breweries are growing.

Fifth Frame has added several new tanks over the past year. Penfield’s K2 Brothers is on the fast track to opening a 20-barrel brewhouse. Roc Brewing is in the process of expanding its taproom into the other half of its building on South Union Street.

But the market is also becoming increasingly tight.

Leone balks at the idea of a craft beer bubble, one that would bring the industry to its knees if it burst. At the same time, he said, the industry has become so competitive that brewers need to consider things the pioneers might have been able to shrug off, like the economic viability of their business plans and quality of their beer.

“I’d say if you want to get into the brewing industry to make money, don’t, just don’t,” Leone said. “It’s not a high moneymaking thing, it just doesn’t happen.”

So why even bother? If the odds of running a profitable business are so slim and require grueling labor, is there any point to trying?

The resounding answer for most brewers was yes — if the love for brewing and beer was there.

Geoff Dale, a co-founder at Three Heads, recalled the grind of his early days in the business. Three Heads wasn’t yet able to sell, and he was working aroundthe-clock lining up accounts.

“We were constantly just grinding,” Dale said. “At the beginning we were working 70-80 hour weeks. It may even be more difficult now to build a brand, but at the end of the day, you need that kind of passion.”

Gino Fanelli is a CITY staff writer. He can be reached at gfanelli@rochester-citynews.com. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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Dining & Nightlife Unsung subtleties [ BEER ] BY GINO FANELLI

Ah, the humble, unheralded brown ale — a beer style that is as decidedly unsexy as it is inoffensive. No one busts out the brown ale to wow the beer share crowd. If brown ale were a person, he would be an accountant at a regional HR firm named Phillip, not Phil, whose life highlight was a semester playing trombone in a third-wave ska band during his sophomore year at UB. But like Phillip, there’s virtue in the brown ale’s simplicity. It is a nuanced style rife with pleasantly roasty subtleties, and Paul Guarracini at Sager Beer Works is a veritable master of this unsung English ale. On Saturday, February 1, Sager and Manchester’s Reinvention Brewing Company unveiled a very special brown ale, one of 20 special collaborations released exclusively for The Beer Market.

Collab AF is a month-long celebration of collaborations between the Mount Hope-based craft beer bar and other local breweries; it features 33 other, four-state spanning brewery collaborations on top of the Beer Market releases. Putting the event together has had Beer Market Beer Guru Rob Richenberg (yes, official title), running frantically from brewery to brewery.

Sager and Reinvention’s Brown Ale is a conservative pastry twist on the classic, meant to give a subtle hint of oatmeal cookie. A balanced, lightly roasted and slightly sweet malt backbone is complemented by some tinges of cinnamon and nutmeg, finishing crisp and clean. In a world where pastry beers seek to beat the drinker senseless with hearty doses of candy and lactose sweetness, it’s a refreshing, reserved twist on the trend.

It, of course, may not be a beer you’ll find flooding your Instagram timeline, and that’s okay. From much personal experience, sometimes it’s fun to be uncool.

The full Collab AF tap list can be found at beerheadbar.com/collab-af.

Gino Fanelli is a CITY staff writer. He can be reached at gfanelli@rochester-citynews.com.

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Twisted Tap offers angus beef burgers like "The Statler," pictured with onion rings. Inset: beer-battered chicken tenders and fries.

PHOTOS BY JACOB WALSH

A new twist on an old space Twisted Tap 200 EAST AVENUE DAILY, 11 A.M. TIL LATE FACEBOOK.COM/TWISTEDTAPROCHESTER [ PREVIEW ] BY CHRIS THOMPSON

Matthew’s East End Grill has been closed since 2017, but it feels like an eternity. The former restaurant and pub was my introduction to the East End when I was new to Rochester. It was an established bookend for the building that once was a Chevrolet dealership, with Spot Coffee being the other bookend. It was the perfect spot for viewing a parade in the spring or to simply people-watch on a lazy summer day on from the outside patio. Matthews was a true staple of the neighborhood, and when it shut down three years ago, the block seemed somewhat hollow. Yes, it was just a business, and businesses come and go, but I just felt like the empty space created a void. It was briefly filled by sandwich joint Steadfast, then empty again. Until now. Twisted Tap, the new bar and restaurant that occupies 200 East Avenue, will be open for business on Friday, February 14.

On my way home from a long road trip in early January, I decided to get off the highway and drive through the city, if only to break up the monotony of barely-lit road and an abyss of blurred trees I whizzed past. As I drove down East Avenue, I expected to see the same empty shell that I had been passing for the last three years. Instead, all the lights were on, and as I got closer I could see that the place was packed with people. Was this a private party for the residents upstairs?

Being nosy, I parked my car to investigate.

I walked up to the door and saw the “Twisted Tap” sign hanging above it. Not only was the empty bar space lit up, but it was bustling

with noise. I was still in disbelief. I’d been on the road for seven hours. What if I was just hallucinating all this? Maybe I was walking into a paranormal trap. Or maybe I listened to too many Stephen King audio books on my road trip, and I should just relax.

Sure enough, the Twisted Tap is a real bar, and I had just stumbled upon its soft opening. Owner Jeff Limuti was hosting a “Packers Backers” watch party for the Green Bay Packers vs. Seattle Seahawks game. Gold and green adorned every surface, people were rocking foam ‘cheesehead’ hats, and nearly everyone had a beverage in their hand ready to cheer on their team and toast their victory. It was a busy Sunday. I had intended to just head home after my long drive, but I felt the need to take in the energy of this place.

There’s is a wall of high-def LCDs above the bar, and the sound system can make it seem like the announcers are in the room with you. It’s much brighter than Matthews used to be — the walls that don’t have televisions mounted to them are bright cream, and murals by local artist RANGE (FUA Krew) break up the monotony of the alabaster hue. I couldn’t help but notice

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that the space seemed much more open than its predecessor. The folks at Twisted Tap opened up a wall that divides the bar and the dining area, so there is more of a communal feel to the restaurant. Additionally, they pushed the far wall back, and there is a pair of electronic dart boards occupying the new additional space.

Manager Clark Bovee said that they had been working on renovating the space for Twisted Tap for six months. In fact, they were so fresh on that soft opening that they had not yet had a chance to print official menus.

The bartender handed me a small menu with handwritten options. The food looked good, but she suggested I come on their “Friends and Family” night, which I happily obliged, but not before having a light IPA. Friends and Family night was as packed as game night. This time they were armed with finalized menus: a page of quality pub fare, but with a twist. The bruschetta ($9) is as one would expect: toasted ciabatta topped with marinated tomato salad, and balsamic glaze drizzled across it, but it also has shavings of prosciutto and goat cheese crumbled on top. A variety of angus beef burgers range in price from $9 to $12. If beef is not your thing, the burgers can be made with a house-made falafel patty. No matter what, your sandwich will be huge. I enjoyed seeing people struggle to stuff their faces with the generous amount of food they received.

No sports bar on East Avenue is worth its salt if it doesn’t have wings, and Twisted Tap delivers with 10 wings for $11, with your choice of seven different sauces (from traditional Buffalo to Mango Habanero or Korean BBQ). The same sauces are offered for the fried cauliflower ($10) for the vegetarians. I ordered the crispy chicken sandwich ($10.50), because I am a sucker for good, hearty fried chicken. What came out was a delicious mound of crispy chicken tenders atop some leaves of lettuce, sweet pickles, and Korean BBQ sauce, all encased in a toasted hard roll.

I’m glad that I decided to take the scenic route home on Packers night, and that Twisted Tap has occupied the space as a new and hopefully more permanent bookend to the block. It feels like the East End is complete again.

Chris Thompson is a freelance writer for CITY. Feedback on this article can be directed to becca@ rochester-citynews.com.

BLANK BALLOTS COUNTED Some 200 committee members cast ballots in the first round. How is it possible that neither Bronson nor Yudelson won at least 50 percent of the vote?

Bronson supporters contend he did have 50 percent of the vote — a claim Yudelson supporters denied.

Party officials explained that two of the ballots were blank. That sounds minor, but those two ballots represented about 1 percent of the total cast and were enough to knock Bronson down from 50.6 percent of the weighted vote to 49.9 percent.

Because Yudelson wound up with 49.12 percent of the vote, the pair were subject to a run-off in which only the committees’ leaders’ votes counted.

Bronson argued that under the party’s bylaws, those blank ballots shouldn’t have been calculated in the total tally of the first round.

Nathan Van Loon, the county Democratic Committee’s attorney, disagreed. The party has to account for everyone who signs in to designating meetings and has to include them in calculating vote percentages, even if they didn’t vote for a candidate, he said.

This same issue has come up in the past, just “not where it counted,” Van Loon said In 2018, Van Loon explained, a committee was voting on whether to designate David Gantt and Ann Lewis as the Democratic candidate for an Assembly seat. Officials came across one blank ballot, which brought both candidates’ percentages down.

PREPPING FOR A PRIMARY Yudelson, who worked for the Obama administration in public and intergovernmental affairs before arriving at City Hall, said he was “really excited to have the party’s support.” At the same time, he acknowledged that party’s bylaws could use clarification and said he was willing to help.

Bronson, who has been a longtime advocate of gay rights and a reliable ally of labor, said he would “absolutely” wage a primary.

A primary could be close. Bronson last faced a primary in 2016 and won with 55 percent of the vote over his challenger, Rachel Barnhart, who was recently elected a Monroe County legislator.

Jeremy Moule is CITY’s news editor. He can be reached at jmoule@rochester-citynews.com. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11

Upcoming

Music

[ INDIE FOLK ] Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy Sunday, March 15.

Montage Music Hall. 55 Chestnut St. $20 advance, $25 day of show. 8 p.m.

716-893-2900. afterdarkpresents.com; dragcity.com. [ ROCK ] Three Dog Night Sunday, April 26.

Kodak Center. 200 W. Ridge Rd. Tickets start at $42. 7 p.m.

454-2100. ticketmaster.com; threedognight.com.

Jeff Coffin

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7 AND SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 PENFIELD HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, 25 HIGH SCHOOL DRIVE, PENFIELD 7:30 P.M. | $15 ADULTS, $10 STUDENTS PHSMUSIC.BOOKTIX.COM | JEFFCOFFIN.COM [ JAZZ ] The 50th Annual Penfield Jazz Fundraiser Concerts feature three-time Grammy-winning saxophonist Jeff Coffin. Currently a member of the Dave Matthews Band, Coffin previously spent 14 years — and won those three Grammys— as a member of Bela Fleck & The Flecktones. He’s also released 15 CDs as a leader and he literally wrote the book – “The Saxophone Book” — on saxophone technique. Over the last five decades, this Penfield concert series has brought Regina Carter, Jake Shimabukuro, Stefon Harris, and dozens more to share the stage with a variety of Penfield student ensembles.

— BY RON NETSKY

Nancy Kelly SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 LOVIN’ CUP, 300 PARK POINT DRIVE 6 TO 8:30 P.M. | $10 | LOVINCUP.COM; NANCYKELLY.COM [ JAZZ ] Growing up in Rochester, classic jazz singer Nancy Kelly studied piano, clarinet, drama, and dance before settling on voice, which she studied at the Eastman School of Music. Kelly was twice named “Best Female Jazz Vocalist” in the DownBeat Readers’ Poll. She has toured the planet with a mission to bring bop back to swing and vice versa. From the sweet and sublime to the sassy and brassy, Nancy Kelly can easily break hearts and burn down barns. Fire!

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

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PHOTO BY GREG KESSLER

[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]

[ WED., FEBRUARY 5 ]

Gold Koa

AMERICANA

‘Gold Koa’ Self-released goldkoa.bandcamp.com

Mike Powell THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6 ABILENE BAR & LOUNGE, 153 LIBERTY POLE WAY 7:30 P.M. | $10 | ABILENEBARANDLOUNGE.COM MIKEPOWELL.CO [ FOLK ] Mike Powell chose the life of a traveling songwriter

over a surefire career in professional lacrosse. He’s also the owner and operator of the art studio Rising Feather in Cazenovia.

Powell captivates audiences with his intimate storytelling, and is best known for his song “Twenty One Rounds.” Powell’s vocal delivery has the candid, poetic flow of Paul Simon, and the lyrics are brimming with tales of survival, tragedy, and love.

— BY KATIE HALLIGAN

Hochstein Centennial Orchestra Concert SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 HOCHSTEIN PERFORMANCE HALL, 50 NORTH PLYMOUTH AVENUE 2 P.M. | FREE, CALL 454-4596 FOR INFRO | HOCHSTEIN.ORG [ CLASSICAL ] The Hochstein School opened on January 2,

1920, in tribute to Rochester-born violinist David Hochstein, who was killed in World War I. A hundred years later, Hochstein serves approximately 3,500 students. All four Hochstein youth orchestras will perform in a single concert: the 86-member Hochstein Youth Symphony Orchestra, directed by Casey Springstead; Philharmonia, directed by John Fetter and Matt Osika; Sinfonia, directed by John Fetter; and Concertino Strings, directed by Marcos Kreutzer. The program selections include works by Schubert and Mussorgsky, music from “Pirates of the Caribbean,” and a movement from SaintSaëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1 with Concerto Competition winner Amy Feng.

— BY DAVID RAYMOND

Drummer Matt Battle and bassist Kamara Robideau may have moved from Rochester to pursue their careers in Los Angeles, but really, they haven’t gone anywhere. After the crosscountry move and the subsequent disbanding of their indie rock band Oh Manitou, Battle and Robideau teamed up with Rochester singersongwriter Cammy Enaharo to form Gold Koa. The trio’s newly released debut EP builds on the chronic catchiness of the single “Little Lost” while proving a consistent talent for vividly produced R&B-pop.

The importance of Battle’s studio work cannot possibly be overstated. He produced, arranged, engineered, and mixed all five cuts, and his ear for full, sensuous textures and slow-groove dance hooks is impeccable. Enaharo’s vocal phrases float through the sonic stream with smooth confidence, and the BattleRobideau rhythm section is bold and slick.

The HawtThorns. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

7:30 p.m. $8.

The Wood Brothers, Kat Wright. Kodak Center, 200 W.

Ridge Rd. kodakcenter.com. 8 p.m. $23.50 & up.

BLUES

House Party of the Damned.

Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 8 p.m. Reverend Kingfish, Rasta Von, Glenn Estey.

CLASSICAL

Bravo Nights. Little Café, 240

East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

Lauren Nash Silberstein, soprano; John Zatko, baritone; Yucong Wang, piano. Opera Guild of Rochester.

COUNTRY

Monica Hall. Dinosaur BBQ,

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

99 Court St. 325-7090. 9 p.m.

The Manda-Tones

POP/ROCK

‘Modern Sounds in Rockabilly Blues, Vol. 1 & 2’ Self-released themandatones.bandcamp.com

If you’re looking to up the size of your jumpin’ and pumpin’ record collection, you can call the search off and wrap your sticky mitts around The Manda-Tones’ “Modern Sounds in Rockabilly Blues, Vol. 1 & 2.” This is a big collection — 50 boss cuts in all, covering the many facets of rockabilly’s signature slap and tickle. The instrumentation is minimal to say the least, with PJ Tone playing guitar and Amanda Louisiana slappin’ bass across the face. The attitude is fierce.

Because of the sheer number of all these pretty songs, the rawness makes the collection feel like a demo. It’s unfair to pick favorites, but “Peaches & Cream” will send you solid through the roof. There’s also the Benny Goodman-inspired “King of Swing,” complete with swizzlin’ licorice stick on the breaks.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Hit Makers: Origins of Classic Rock. JCC Hart Theatre, 1200

Edgewood Ave. 461-2000. 7 p.m. $20-$33.

SKA

Some Ska Band. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 6 p.m.

[ THU., FEBRUARY 6 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Big Blue House. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

Jackson Cavalier, Ed Iseley. Daily Refresher, 293

Alexander St. 360-4627. 7 pm

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Music And of course, there’s the band itself. Rain’s heavy doses of blues rock were hammered out under the influence of bands like Ten Years After, The Rolling Stones, Cream, as well as the three Kings — Freddie, Albert, and B.B.

The early-70s Rochester blues rock band Rain (left to right): bassist Ted Paris, drummer Mick Guerin, singer Brad Morse, and guitarist Helmut Getto.

PHOTO BY JOE PELLINGRA

Precipitation blues [ FEATURE ] BY FRANK DE BLASE

Usually when an album is slated for release, there’s the requisite timeliness, countdown, and impending fanfare. There’s crackling anticipation in the musicians’ camp as well as with the artists’ fans, as the star-maker machine begins to grind forward.

Legendary Rochester band Rain dominated the rock ‘n’ roll scene here for a spell in the early 1970s, playing incendiary blues-based rock to packed clubs in and around town. They shared the stage with national artists like Ike & Tina Turner and Canned Heat.

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In its short life span, Rain recorded one live album, got signed to RCA Records, recorded an album for the label, and broke up. Everyone scattered in different directions, and the tapes from the RCA sessions — recorded at the now defunct PCI Studios on Atlantic Avenue in the summer of 1971 — were eventually lost and forgotten.

Flash forward to now: Rain is releasing a new album — culled from those 1971 recordings — as a follow-up to its heavy-hitting “Live, Christmas Night” from 1970.

That’s right, baby, Rain is releasing “1971...The Lost Album,” nearly 50 years after it was recorded.

We tracked down bassist Ted Paris in Rochester and guitarist Helmut Getto in Atlanta to see what the big hurry was.

There was the excuse of time, and stories of stuff lying dormant in the backs of drawers and tucked away in obscurity on closet shelves for decades. There were a couple of false alarms, in which tapes turned up but were in rough shape. And some recordings just got tossed out, lost forever.

There is, however, studio impresario and resident rock ‘n’ roll Mr. Fix It, Dave Anderson at Saxon Recording, who made sense of it all.

Rain was a band that tore up local stages in clubs like The Penny Arcade, The Club, Hylie Morris’ Alley, The Head Shop, and The Electric Eel. Rain was probably one of the best rock bands to ever come out of the Flower City.

“The boundaries of music were always expanding at the time,” Getto says. “There were lots of outstanding musicians and groups in Rochester. You had companies like Brighton Sound that were so helpful in live sound, Dick Storms’ artistic designs and his light shows always added the extra to many shows.”

Rain shared the bill with other Rochester bands of note, like Portable People and The Red, White, and Blues Band. Paris says there was no shortage of venues, and playing to packed rooms was normal.

Getto looks back at the era of Rain, from about spring of 1970 to the beginning of 1972, as “a great and interesting period of my life, a whirlwind of a time,” he says. He counts his bandmates — bassist Ted Paris, singer Brad Morse, drummer Mick Guerin, and keyboardist Gary Cullota — as some of the greatest musicians he’s ever played with.

“Our personalities clicked,” Getto says.

“Brad and I were writing songs, and we had lots of musical freedom with which to explore.

We were very busy, especially after the live album came out. It was an exciting but an exhausting time for me, having a full-time job as a printer and the responsibility of a wife and two small children.”

Rain worked hard, but as it often happens, the band’s dynamic proved to be tenuous.

The band added keyboardist Gary Cullota to expand their sound which, according to Getto, “needed something fresh.”

The band’s manager Jeff Wheat used the concert album “Live, Christmas Night” as a calling card for securing a recordinging contract.

“We signed and recorded with RCA and had to choose a producer from a list that RCA had given us — none of who we knew.” Getto says. “The producer didn’t know who we were, what we sounded like live, and what exact musical direction we were heading. Gary was a great piano player, but unfortunately our new musical direction was still developing and the whole recording was a great disappointment. We recorded three singles that were never released, and the band came to a screeching halt.”

There was no interest in putting out the album, Getto says. Only he and Wheat had tapes of the recording — a rough mix of the master on reel-to-reel — which Getto says was abandoned in a drawer.

Eventually Getto found the tapes in that forgotten drawer. He converted the tapes to digital files, and soon after that he got in touch with his former bandmates on Facebook, and made CD copies for them.

Paris and Guerin wanted to put out the album, so about six years ago, Paris first reached out to Dave Anderson for his help in getting the unreleased materials ready for release.

“There was one major flaw,” Anderson says.

“The tapes were in real crappy shape: hisses, pops, static, songs with missing parts. They were in pretty rough shape.”

The only other copies that were circulating were low-quality bootleg CDs. Anderson started sniffing around and contacting those who had been involved with the band. There were two questions on his mind: Who did the transfer? And where were the tapes?

He tracked down Jim Armstrong, one of the band’s managers, and the one who had financed the live record.

Anderson then reached out to Bill Thompson — who had recorded the live album with his own custom-built mixing console — to see if he had any tapes lying around.

“Jim Armstrong brought a tape,” Anderson says. “It wasn’t pristine, but it was better than what we had to work with.

And it had a missing song on it that nobody had heard since 1971. So that was thrilling.

Helmut showed up with these .wav files, but the left channel was recorded too hot.”

Then a former neighbor contacted Getto about a box of tapes that he had left behind when he moved, including one with “Rain” written on it.

So by the time Anderson was done cleaning up the mess, he had gone around three times with three different source materials. Tedious ain’t the word. But the band digs it.

“It captured a stage of growth which was about six months after the live album,” Getto says. “Even though it was recorded in a short period of time and ended with a rough mix, we were able to get a feel for the studio and start developing our songs. It was not a finished work, but reflects our state at that time. It is a part of Rochester music history.”

“Rain 1971...The Lost Album” is slated for a limited release of 500 copies on vinyl, in late February, on Anderson’s label Jargon Records (jargonrecords.com). Sadly, singer Brad Morse passed away two years ago, and the band has no plans on ever playing live again.

“These were incredible circumstances,” Anderson says. “It’s an honor to be part of this project. I mean, how many times does this happen? It could’ve been lost forever.”

Frank De Blase is CITY’s music writer. He can be reached at frank@rochester-citynews.com.

Later this month, producer and engineer Dave Anderson will release Rain’s “1971...The Lost Album” via Jargon Records. PHOTO BY JOE PELLINGRA rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 15

CLASSICAL

VOCALS

Ying-Freer Duo. Tower Fine Arts

Center, 180 Holley St. Brockport.

395-2787. 7:30 p.m. $9-17.

Chorus of the Genesee Singer’s Party. Harmony House, 58 East

Main St. Webster. 7 p.m.

Denali Ries & Emily Goole.

Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 8 p.m. $5.

The Hi-Risers. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 10 p.m.

DJ/ELECTRONIC

[ SAT., FEBRUARY 8 ]

Hit Makers: Origins of Classic Rock. JCC Hart Theatre, 1200

Wreckno, Super Future. Photo

City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 9 p.m. $15.

JAZZ

Herb Smith & The Freedom Trio.

PHOTO BY MIM ADKINS

FOLK | LIVINGSTON TAYLOR

While James Taylor sold more records, his younger brother Livingston has also had a remarkable career. Both share the similarly gentle vocal timbre that can make you think you’re listening to the other one. Since emerging from the coffee house circuit, Livingston Taylor continues to create warm, well-crafted songs that draw from genres including folk, pop, and jazz. In concert, he is a consummate showman who has channeled his experiences in his other role as Professor of Voice at Berklee College of Music.

Rochester native Rozlyn Menachof will also perform.

Livingston Taylor performs on Sunday, February 9, 7 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center’s CenterStage Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Avenue. $35 for reserved seats; $50 for VIP seats (front center).

461-2000. jccrochester.org/centerstage; livingstontaylor.com.

— BY ROMAN DIVEZUR

Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 8:30 p.m.

The Moho Collective. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 8 p.m. $10.

The New Novelties. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 8 p.m.

Riverside Soul. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

White Hot Brass Band. The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595.

8 p.m. $5.

JAM BAND

Ben Sheridan & Jon Sheffer.

Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $10.

Stickybun, Alex Vine. Temple Bar & Grille, 109 East Ave. 2326000. 10 p.m.

METAL

The Iron Maidens, Daylight Black. Montage Music Hall, 50

Chestnut St. 232-1520. 8 p.m. $20.

AMERICANA Mystic Stew. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 7 p.m.

BLUES

The Old Souls Band, Judah. Iron Smoke Distillery, 111 Parce Ave Suite 5b. Fairport. 388-7584.

6:30 p.m. $5.

CLASSICAL

David Tamarin, flamenco guitar.

Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.

Eastman at Washington Square Lunchtime Concert.

First Universalist Church of Rochester, 150 Clinton Ave S. esm.rochester.edu/lunchtime.

12:15-12:45 p.m. Shostakovich: Piano Trio No 3.

RPO & Eastman Opera Theatre: The Mother of Us All. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m. Pre-concert chat 1 hour prior. $30-$115.

POP/ROCK Avis Reese. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 2441224. 8 p.m. $10.

Hit Makers: Origins of Classic Rock. JCC Hart Theatre, 1200

Edgewood Ave. 461-2000. 7 p.m. $20-$33.

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[ FRI., FEBRUARY 7 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Kara Fink. Bar Louie, 98 Greece Ridge Center Dr. 797-1054.

5:30-7:30 p.m.

Marty Roberts. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3153003. 5-7 p.m.

Max Doud. Roar, 621 Culver Rd. 434-1248. 6-9 p.m.

Michael O’Shea, Warren Howard, Kara Mandara, Jim Cobia. Greenhouse Café, 2271

E. Main St. 270-8603. 7 p.m.

Rory D’Lasnow, Jackie June.

Starry Nites Café, 696 University Ave. 271-2630. 7 p.m.

AMERICANA

Ben Haravitch & The Brothers Blue. Hollerhorn Distilling, 8443

Spirit Run. Naples. 531-2448. 8 p.m. $10.

The Fakers. Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E. 245-3006.

7:30 p.m.

Grand Canyon Rescue Episode.

Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 155 Pattonwood Dr. 342-6780. 6 p.m.

BLUES

Cotton Toe Three. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

5:30 p.m.

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Genesee Rising. Johnny’s Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. 8:30 p.m.

Sarah Eide. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 8 p.m.

AMERICANA

The LP’s. The Beer Hall Grill & Taps, 1517 Empire Blvd.

Webster. 347-4450. 8 p.m.

BLUES

Gordon Munding. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3153003. 5-7 p.m.

Owen Eichensehr. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 6242080. 7 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Faculty Artist Series: Oleh Krysa, violin.. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m. $10.

Morning Chamber Music Series.

Hatch Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 2743000. 11 a.m. Rosemary Elliott, artistic director.

RPO & Eastman Opera Theatre: The Mother of Us All. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 8 p.m. Pre-concert chat 1 hour prior. $30-$115.

POP/ROCK

Australian Bushfires Relief Concert. 7:30 p.m. UUU Art

Collective, 153 State St $15.

434-2223 The Breakfast Club. Iron Smoke Distillery, 111 Parce Ave Suite 5b. Fairport. 388-7584. 8 p.m.

80’s covers. $7.

Buffalo Sex Change, King Buu. Johnny’s Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. 9 p.m. $5.

ConArtist. Buntsy’s Neighborhood Food & Drink, 2235 Empire Blvd. Webster.

347-6749. 9 p.m. $5.

Druse, Pomelo, Kodachrome, Donny Murakami, KZA K’Lee.

Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 10 p.m. $8.

Frying Pan, Cursed Idols, Nod.

Skylark Lounge, 40 South Union St. 270-8106. 9 p.m. $5.

Sandra Naro Band. Bar Louie, 98 Greece Ridge Center Dr. 7971054. 8 p.m.

Side by Side. Robbie’s, 610 North Greece Rd. Hilton. 3924141. 8 p.m.

Teagan & The Tweeds. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3153003. 8 p.m.

Vintage. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester.

385-8565. 7 p.m.

DJ/ELECTRONIC

Medusa Academy: Monster Prom. Photo City Improv, 543

Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 8 p.m.

Dress code. $10.

Edgewood Ave. 461-2000. 2 & 8 p.m. $20-$33.

Human, Cooper Scotti. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3153003. 8 p.m.

Hit Makers: Origins of Classic Rock. JCC Hart Theatre, 1200

Edgewood Ave. 461-2000. 2 p.m. $20-$33.

TRADITIONAL

Rochester Theater Organ Society: Pops on Pipes.

Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. rtosonline.org. 2:30 p.m. $15.

The Low Spirits, Super Rich Kids, Checks & Exes. Bug Jar,

VOCALS

Muler, Marching Band Forms Pentagram. Rosen Krown, 875

Presbyterian Church of Pittsford, 25 Church St. Pittsford. 5865688. 3 p.m. $10 suggested.

219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $7.

Monroe Ave. 271-7050. 9 p.m.

Stone Age Romeos. Robbie’s,

610 North Greece Rd. Hilton.

392-4141. 8 p.m.

Texas King, Saint Free.

Anthology, 336 East Ave. 4841964. 8:30 p.m.

PUNK/HARDCORE

Hardcore for the Homeless: Kodiak, Destroy_Create, Final Declaration, Last Dance.

Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 8 p.m.

Proceeds: REACH. $10.

WORLD

YAMATO: The Drummers of Japan. Callahan Theater at

Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave. 389-2170. 8 p.m. $35-$60.

[ SUN., FEBRUARY 9 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Aaron Lipp. The Daily Refresher, 293 Alexander St. 360-4627.

5-7 p.m.

UR Chamber Singers, Nazareth College Women’s Choir, Mount Hope World Singers. First

[ MON., FEBRUARY 10 ] CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL Musica Nova. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m.

JAZZ

Faculty Artist Series: Charles Pillow, saxophone.. Hatch Hall,

26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m. $10.

The Occasional Saints. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

7 p.m.

VOCALS

The Choice. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 8 p.m. Vocal competition.

[ TUE., FEBRUARY 11 ] CLASSICAL

RPO: Preview Concert. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7 p.m.

CLASSICAL JAZZ

Andy Calabrese & Chet Catallo.

Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.

The Cool Club & The Lipker Sisters. Iron Smoke Distillery,

111 Parce Ave Suite 5b. Fairport.

388-7584. 8:30 p.m.

Cousin Vinny. Salvatore’s Pizzeria & Pub, 1217 Bay Rd. Webster. 671-9420. 7:30 p.m.

FUNK/GROOVE

The Moonlight Initiative.

Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 8 p.m. $8.

JAM BAND

Dusty Bottle. Abilene, 153

Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 10 p.m. $5.

POP/ROCK

8 Days a Week. Bar Louie, 98 Greece Ridge Center Dr. 7971054. 8 p.m.

Classical Guitar Night. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

7 p.m.

Compline. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. 9 p.m.

Eastman Chorale, PalmyraMacedon High School Select Choir. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 3 p.m.

Eastman Organ Community Concert. Bethany Presbyterian

Church, 3000 Dewey Ave. 6633000. 4 p.m.

SUNY Geneseo Wind Quintet.

Doty Hall, 1 College Circle.

Geneseo. 245-5824. 3 p.m.

JAZZ

Sunday Gumbo: Steve Shay. The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 3977595. 6 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Fab Gear: Malicious Code, Toe Jam Football, Tripwire, Wolfnap, The Guess What?. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 1 p.m.

JAZZ

Eastman Jazz Ensemble.

Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 2743000. 7:30 p.m.

Gray Quartet Jazz Sessions. The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 3977595. 7:30 p.m. $5.

METAL

Metal Meltdown. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-9 p.m.

Hallucination Realized.

VOCALS

Faculty Artist Series: Alison d’Amato, piano. Hatch Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m.

Eastman Voice Department.

Music of Marcel Tyberg. $10.

WORLD

Uptown Tango. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

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Art Forging equity One year after its founding, WOC•Art Collaborative has evolved from a collective into a new arts center that offers resources and opportunities for women and femmes of color [ ARTS NEWS ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

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In early 2019, a group of 11 women of color ranging in age from mid-20s to 70s formed a new creativity collective called WOC•Art Collaborative (pronounced “woke” art; facebook.com/WOCArt585). They intended to pool their resources, expertise, and talents to create opportunities for women and femmes of color in Rochester’s creative sector. Led by community organizer Rachel DeGuzman, some of the women had collaborated on creative endeavors in the past, but others were new to one another.

All saw the need for a space that would be specifically geared toward bolstering a longunderestimated population of creatives.

The group launched its efforts from a raw industrial space on Tremont Street, and determined that it would spend the next year collectively deciding how to operate and sustain its efforts.

“We thought, if we’re trying to build something new that’s steeped in community and equity then we need to take the time to actually figure out what it is, because we had absolutely no template,” says DeGuzman, who is now the group’s executive director.

One year in, both the space and membership have expanded, and WOC•Art has attracted investment from more established arts organizations in Rochester. The original space has transformed from an empty room to an expanded 4,100-square-foot arts center, having taken over the adjacent space formerly rented by Gallery Seventy-Four.

Now WOC•Art’s headquarters is divided into the cozy DreamLab CoWork office and the wide-open DreamLab Studio space for painters, dancers, photographers, and other artists to use.

The center has become an important host for performances and rehearsals, meetings of individual members as well as various community organizations, Kwanzaa events, a Police Accountability Board fundraiser, and more.

And this year, a small room within the space will be transformed into a recording studio for musicians and storytellers to use,

rent and other operating costs of the space.

The collaborative has more than two dozen members at present. New members include artist and educator Athesia Benjamin, Ruth Anderson of Black Storytellers League of Rochester, innovation researcher and disability-rights activist Luticha Doucette, sensual movement artist Sharde’ Pinkney-Salters, and Brighton Town Board member Robin Wilt.

But to bridge that gap between now and the 2021 goal, WOC•Art also launched a Seed Equity Rehearsals for “Create a Space Now” by Hettie Barnhill (choreographer, Investment Initiative, Broadway actor, and WOC•Art affiliate member) were held last summer with the Memorial Art at WOC•Art’s studio space while Barnhill’s daughter Vy slept nearby.

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Impressed with the way MAG director and another section will become a marketplace Jonathan Binstock has been leading the where members can sell their work and those institution, DeGuzman and WOC•Art director hosting events can sell merch. of engagement Dolores Radney-Jackson reached The 11 founding WOC•Art members out to him to discuss the collective’s endeavors are still on board. But in the fall the group and goals. He was enthusiastic, and MAG expanded to include new membership became the first seed investor. opportunities on two tiers, which is a result DeGuzman says the group is looking for six of the group sorting out its financial model. to 12 other investors in 2020.

For an annual fee of $200, affiliate members “We believe that a lot of these cultural get exposure on the group’s website, access institutions have more of a desire for equity for to networking events and other happenings women of color artists in our community than at the space, and can rent the space for $25; they’re able to achieve in their institutions,” and members of the WOC•Art Collaborative DeGuzman says. “And so one thing that DreamLab CoWork cohort get use of the they can do, as they work parallel in their space. With membership that includes access own institutions, is also invest in our success to space coming out to about $50 per month, independently, understanding that we have WOC•Art’s pricing is far below market rates a lot of very well qualified, prolific artists in for renting a studio or office. this community who don’t have the necessary “We’re trying to make it so no one ever infrastructure to succeed, which we’re providing says, ‘I can’t do something, I can’t take a risk through WOC•Art Collaborative.” because I can’t afford to present something,’” An extended version of this article is online at DeGuzman says. rochestercitynewspaper.com.

The group’s goal is to have 61 members Rebecca Rafferty is CITY’s arts & (the 11 founders, plus 50 affiliate and cohort entertainment editor. She can be reached at members by January 2021, DeGuzman says. becca@rochester-citynews.com.

At that point, membership alone will pay the

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Arts & Performance Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] Anthony Mascioli Gallery, Central Library, 115 South Ave. Gandhi @150. Through Feb 29. Tuesday tours 1:15pm.

428-8350.

Colleen Buzzard Studio, 250 N Goodman St, #401 Anderson Arts. Judy Levy: 80 of This, 80 of That. Fri., Feb. 7, 6-9 p.m. colleenbuzzard.com.

Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. 244-1730.

Seconds from the Flame.

Opening sale Feb 6 6-9pm.

Lockhart Gallery at SUNY Geneseo, 28 Main St. Luvon Sheppard: Go Back & Fetch It. Reception Feb 5, 5-7pm; Artist talk 5:30pm. Through Mar 11.

245-5841.

Lumiere Photo, 100 College Ave. Nils Wiklund: Northland.

Reception Feb 7 6-9pm.

461-4447.

Oben Space, 150 N Winton Rd. Moonrise Portal. Feb. 7-22. obenspace.com.

RIT City Art Space, 280 East Main St. Forward Motion: The Bevier Video Collection.

Reception Feb 7 6-9pm.

Through Feb 22. cityartspace. rit.edu.

Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. 4612222. Adán De La Garza, Fitzgerald, Jenna Maurice, Kari Treadwell Ruehlen: Dissolving The Frontier. Reception Feb 7, 6-9pm.; Makers & Mentors.

Reception Feb 7, 6-9pm; Artists’ talk Feb 8, 1pm.

Through Mar 14. $2. 461-2222.

Studio 402, 250 N Goodman St. Sight & Sound: Art by Musicians, Music by Artists.

Feb. 7-29. Reception Feb 7 6-9pm. 269-9823.

Art Events [ WED., FEBRUARY 5 ] History Sandwiched In. 12:301:30 p.m. Victorian Fashion from the Inside Out. Geneva History Museum, 543 S Main St . Geneva 315-789-5151. [ THU., FEBRUARY 6 ] Cocktails with Creatives: The House of Roushey, John Bertolone Art, Quajay Donnell, John Magnus Champlin. 5:30 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900 $15/$17. [ FRI., FEBRUARY 7 ] 6x6 Art Making Sessions. 6-9 p.m ROCO. 137 East Ave. 461-2222.

Anderson Arts Open Studios.

First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. Anderson Arts Building, 250 N. Goodman St. andersonalleyartists.com.

Billy T. Lyons: Memories of Home. 10 p.m. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. $8. bugjar.com.

Black AF Fridays. First Friday of every month, 6-10 p.m. The Avenue Blackbox Theatre, 780 Joseph Ave.

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COMEDY | KRISH MOHAN

Pittsburgh-based standup Krish Mohan seems like a pretty mild-mannered guy — he even named his tour “Politely Angry.” That doesn’t stop his political material from sparking strong reactions. On his last album, he relates, “A man in Paducah, Kentucky threatened to decapitate me with his bare hands. The dedication!” Mohan’s set touches on pop culture and observational humor, but really digs into topical material. Whether he’s trying to explain historical American race relations to his Indian grandmother or roasting Christopher Columbus, the theme throughout is that the world would be better with a little more empathy in it. Between several full-length albums and a packed tour schedule, it would not be surprising to see Mohan playing a much larger venue, which makes this a fantastic opportunity to catch the show in an intimate setting.

Tuesday, February 11, at 8 p.m. Boulder Coffee Company, 100 Alexander Street. $5 suggested donation. ramannoodlescomedy.com.

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A Conversation with Joshua Rashaad McFadden. Feb. 7.

Central Library, Kusler-Cox Auditorium, 115 South Ave 10am-12pm (ages 13-19); 4-6pm (age 18+).

First Friday Artist. Rich Della Costa. Sylvan Starlight Creations, 50 State St., Bldg C. Pittsford 209-0960.

First Friday Spotlight: Jess Antonow. 6-9 p.m. Revolution Studio + Wellness Bar, 439 Monroe Ave, 2nd Fl. Free.

312-1640.

Heartbreak Hungerford. 5-9 p.m. The Hungerford, 1115 E Main St. Accepting donations of new washcloths for Willow.

J Edward Moss: HEAVN.. 6 p.m. Fuego Coffee Roasters, 1 Woodbury Blvd. 270-9214.

Open Studios. First Friday of every month, 5-9 p.m. The Hungerford, 1115 E Main St. Enter Door 2 facebook.com/ thehungerford.

Rick Guidotti: Positive Exposure, the Beauty of Our Shared Humanity. 2 p.m. Webb Auditorium, James E. Booth Hall, RIT Campus, Lomb Memorial Dr Reception 3pm.

Shimmer & Shine. 5-9 p.m. Cat Clay, 1115 E. Main St, #242 Jewelry by Christine & Co Design catclay.com.

Yards Collaborative Residency Final Showcase: Joel Dow. 6:30-10:30 p.m. C15 Collaborative Art Space, 15 Charlotte St. attheyards.com.

Yards Collaborative Residency Final Showcase: Cielo Ornelas MacFarlane, Jessie Mileski, Anna Lussier, Saul Baez. 6:30-10:30 p.m. The Yards, 50-52 Public Market attheyards.com. [ SAT., FEBRUARY 8 ] Second Saturday. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The Hungerford, 1115 E Main St. 469-8217 Second Saturday of every month, 12-4 p.m Anderson Arts Building, 250 N. Goodman St. andersonalleyartists.com Second Saturday of every month, 3-6 p.m. Cornerstone Gallery, 8732 Main St., Honeoye. baierpottery.com.

Valentine’s Boutique. 10 a.m.4 p.m. Museum of Wayne County History, 21 Butternut St waynehistory.org.

Valentine’s Day Card Making Jamboree. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Comedy [ THU., FEBRUARY 6 ] Joyelle Nicole Johnson. 7:30 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $12-$17.

426-6339.

Steve Wrigley, Justin Brown, Sara Shipley. 9 p.m. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. $10-$12. bugjar.com. [ FRI., FEBRUARY 7 ] First Friday Comedy. 8 p.m.

Sean Day, Ilhan M Ali, Saunt Yübear. Nox, 302 N Goodman St $8. 318-2713. [ SAT., FEBRUARY 8 ] Comedy Craft Beer Night. 8 p.m. Fairport Brewing Co., 1044 University Ave Marty Caproni, Makenzi Berg, Brian Plumb $10-15. 481-2237. [ SUN., FEBRUARY 9 ] “Monty Python & The Holy Grail” Live. 2 & 6 p.m. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave $15/$25. 244-1224. [ TUE., FEBRUARY 11 ] Krish Mohan: Politely Angry.

8 p.m. Boulder Coffee, 100 Alexander St. 454-7140.

Dance Events [ WED., FEBRUARY 5 ] Swan Lake. 7:30 p.m.

Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. $38-$68. rbtl.org. [ FRI., FEBRUARY 7 ] Winter Showcase. 7:30 p.m.

Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. hochstein.org. [ TUE., FEBRUARY 11 ] Womba Africa. 4 p.m. Monroe Family YMCA, 797 Monroe Ave 428-8275.

Theater Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. Fri., Feb. 7, 8 p.m. Lyric Theatre, 440 East Ave $55.

Morning’s at Seven. Fridays, & Saturdays, 7:30 p.m MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Out of Pocket. $13-$20. muccc.org.

Next to Normal. Fri., Feb. 7, 8 p.m., Sat., Feb. 8, 8 p.m. & Sun., Feb. 9, 2 p.m.

Blackfriars, 795 E. Main St $31.50-$39.50. 454-1260.

Reading: Memoirs of David Fagen. Fri., Feb. 7, 1 p.m.

Penfield Comm. Center, 1985 Baird Rd Penfield 340-8655.

Slow Food. Wed., Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m., Thu., Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Feb. 7, 8 p.m., Sat., Feb. 8, 3 & 8 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 9, 2 & 7 p.m. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd $25-$71. gevatheatre.org.

Activism [ THU., FEBRUARY 6 ] Moments That Survive: A Vigil to Remember Those Impacted

by Gun Violence. 6-7 p.m.

First Universalist Church. 150 Clinton Ave S 450-6266.

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FILM | BLACK CINEMA SERIES

A partnership between The Little Theatre and the Rochester Association of Black Journalists, the Black Cinema Series is an ongoing monthly film series celebrating both documentary and narrative forms of black cinema from around the world. In honor of Black History Month, the series will double up in February with two film screenings and post-film discussions. First up is “Waves,” Trey Edward Shults’s sprawling drama about the bonds of love and forgiveness seen through the lives of a middle-class, black, American family. That film will be shown Friday, February 7, at 6:30 p.m., with a Q&A discussion to follow.

Then on Friday, February 21, at 6:30 p.m., the series will screen the documentary “Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba,” chronicling the life of the South African singer. One of the first African musicians to gain international stardom, Makeba’s music melded art and activism with her roots in apartheid-era Johannesburg and traditional Xhosa culture. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue. $4 to $9. 258-0400; thelittle.org.

— BY ADAM LUBITOW

Sustainable Homes Rochester 2020. 4:30-6:30 p.m. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave 244-1224. [ FRI., FEBRUARY 7 ] Poor People’s Campaign: MORE Tour. 7 p.m. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, 141 Adams St. 454-0431. [ SAT., FEBRUARY 8 ] Take It Down Committee & RMSC: Working Toward Racial Justice in Rochester. 1 p.m.

Central Church of Christ, 101 S Plymouth Ave. rmsc.org. [ SUN., FEBRUARY 9 ] Sunday Forum. 9:50 a.m.

Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh St. Health Insurance After Obama Care. Susan Ladwig, URMC Palliative Care 325-4000.

Black History Month Anna Douglass, Station Master.

Sun., Feb. 9, 3 p.m. ROC SALT Center, 68 Ashland St. 315-3377.

Black History Month Celebration. Sun., Feb. 9, 12-5 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900 $5 suggested.

Walk the Walk: Encounters with Rochester’s AfricanAmerican Ancestors. Fri., Feb. 7, 7 p.m. Memorial AME Zion Church, 549 Clarissa St. landmarksociety.org.

Film Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. “Manuscripts from Timbuktu “ (2009). Fri., Feb. 7, 7 p.m. $7. 563-2145.

Ingle Auditorium at RIT, 1 Lomb Memorial Dr. Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival. Fri., Feb. 7, 7 p.m., Sat., Feb. 8, 7 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 9, 3 p.m. $11-$20. 475-4121. outdoored.rit.edu.

Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. Waves. Fri., Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m. $4-$9. thelittle.org.; “Citizen K” (2019). Tue., Feb. 11, 6:30 p.m. $4-$9. thelittle.org.

Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. vsw.org.

Why March? Moving For Change. Sat., Feb. 8, 2 p.m.

Community Curator: Roc Poor People’s Campaign. $5.

Kids Events [ WED., FEBRUARY 5 ] Free Youth February. Through Feb. 29, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Up to 5 youth (ages 3-11) free with each adult paid admission $10. 336-7200.

Wildlife Action Crew: Elephants & Poaching. 6-8 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Ages 13-18 $45/$50. 336-7213. [ THU., FEBRUARY 6 ] Dinosaur World Live. 7 p.m. Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. $16.50-$32.50. kodakcenter.com.

[ FRI., FEBRUARY 7 ] Family Winter Snow Night Out. 8 p.m. Harris Whalen Park, 2126 Penfield Rd 340-8655.

Tarzan. 7:30 p.m. A Magical Journey Thru Stages, 875 E Main St $10. mjtstages.com. [ SAT., FEBRUARY 8 ] Harlem Globetrotters. 2 p.m.

Blue Cross Arena, One War Memorial Sq $22-$119. bluecrossarena.com.

Opening Weekend: The Lost World of Dragons. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $16.

263-2700.

[ SUN., FEBRUARY 9 ] 2nd Sunday Storytime. 2 p.m.

Theme: Afros & Cornrows. The Avenue Blackbox Theatre, 780 Joseph Ave. [ MON., FEBRUARY 10 ] Storytime Club. Dragons & Friends. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. w/ museum admission: $16. 263-2700.

Special Events [ FRI., FEBRUARY 7 ] ZooBrrrew & Dinner Too. 5-8:30 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Ages 21+ $35/$40.

336-7200.

[ SAT., FEBRUARY 8 ] Lakeside Winterfest. 12-7 p.m.

Ontario Beach Park, 4799 Lake Ave Polar Plunge: Feb 9, noon 865-3320.

8th Annual Vintage Vines & Valentines. 12-5 p.m. Naples, Main St naplesvalleyny.com.

Lectures [ SAT., FEBRUARY 8 ] Black Theology: The Life & Work of James Cone. 2 p.m.

Central Library, Kusler-Cox Auditorium, 115 South Ave Prof. Curt Cadorette 428-8300.

Literary Events

African Americans in Mount Hope Cemetery. 10:30 a.m.

Central Library, Kusler-Cox Auditorium, 115 South Ave 428-8370. [ TUE., FEBRUARY 11 ] A Conversation with Susan B Anthony & Frederick Douglass:.

7 p.m. Greece Public Library, 2 Vince Tofany Blvd. Barbara Blaisdell & David Shakes 2257221.

Tuesday Topics. 12:12-12:52 p.m Then & Now: Suffrage 2020 19th Century Women’s Rights Leaders. Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. ffrpl.org.

[ THU., FEBRUARY 6 ] Books Sandwiched In. noon.

Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. Beth Macy’s “Dopesick.” Town Hall auditorium 784-5310. [ TUE., FEBRUARY 11 ] Iron Book Discussion Group.

7 p.m. Irondequoit Library, 1290 Titus Ave Diane Setterfield’s “Once Upon a River” 336-6062.

Neilly Author Series: Lauren Haley. 6 p.m. UR Rush Rhees Library, 755 Library Rd Hawkins-Carlson Room 275-5804.

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Film The 7th Annual Lubies Best Resurgence: Aquatic Horror (“Sweetheart” & “Crawl”)

[ AWARDS ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

The Oscars will be handed out this Sunday, which means it’s also time for that other prestigious and wildly-anticipated award ceremony: The Lubies!

Now entering their seventh year, The Lubies are CITY’s rambunctious Oscar alternative, bestowing the highly sought after Golden Everything Burrito upon the films, performances, and trends that made the biggest impression over this past year.

The Lubies are always a rowdy, lively affair, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. So grab some complimentary tortilla chips, get another refill on your bottomless margaritas, and join us for the best celebration in town.

I adore aquatic horror, that subset of scary movies that play upon our fears about what lies beneath the murky depths (see also: last month’s “Underwater”). This past year we got two tightly-directed, stellar examples of the genre, each with an excellent, fiercely physical lead performance (from Kiersey Clemons and Kaya Scodelario, respectively).

Best Argument Against the Return of SmellO-Vision: “The Lighthouse”

Between the fish, the mildewing wood, and Willem Defoe’s flatulent wickie, the sights and sounds of Robert Eggers’ wonderful horror flick were so pungent you could practically taste it. And really, I’d rather not.

Best Supporting Actress: Shuzhen Zhao, “The Farewell”

Best Song: “Glasgow (No Place Like Home),” from “Wild Rose”

Making her U.S. film debut, the 75-year-old Chinese actress made audiences fall in love with her role as beloved grandmother Nai Nai in Lulu Wang’s bittersweet, true-story family drama. The fact that the film was completely shut out of the Academy Awards is still absolutely mind-boggling.

Dammit Academy music branch, why can you never get this right? It seems that every year, Oscar voters leave the very best original song out in the cold, and that was once again the case. I can’t stop listening to this toe-tapping track sung by Jessie Buckley, as a down-onher-luck Scottish lass dreaming of becoming a country music star in Nashville.

Best Supporting Actor: Shia LaBeouf, “Honey Boy”

The actor channeled his real-life pain to play his own father in this semi-autobiographical drama. Exploring that fraught father-son relationship and his own history with substance abuse, LaBeouf delivered a warts-and-all portrayal that still never lacked in empathy.

Best Actress: Lupita Nyong’o, “Us”

In her indelible dual role in Jordan Peele’s twisty “Get Out” follow-up — playing both frightened wife and mother Adelaide, and her murderous doppelgänger — Nyong’o was so good it was scary.

Best Actor: Eddie Murphy, “Dolemite Is My Name”

Starring as Rudy Ray Moore, Murphy has never been more charming than his role as an aging comedian and actor grasping at his last chance for stardom. Plus, a bonus burrito to Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who absolutely lived up to her name with her wonderful supporting turn.

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Best Case for Retail Therapy: Fatma Mohamed, “In Fabric”

Most Timely Theme: Class Warfare Future Midnight Movie Sensation: “Cats”

Every once in a while you see a performance in a film that’s so offbeat and startlingly strange — yet completely captivating — it feels beamed in from another planet.

That’s exactly how I felt watching Fatma Mohamed’s otherworldly work as a singularly bewitching saleswoman in Peter Strickland’s deliciously weird homage to giallo and 1960s Euro-horror.

What can you say about a movie like “Cats”?

Tom Hooper’s jaw-droppingly misguided adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s unadaptable musical was like watching a car accident in slow motion, and it was impossible to look away. So I can easily see it becoming the Jellicle Choice for a new generation of filmgoers looking for the next “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” playing to enthusiastically rowdy crowds at late-night screenings for years to come.

Versatility Award: Florence Pugh

Overlooked Gem: “Fast Color”

2019 was a banner year for Pugh, who was fantastic in three wildly different roles: first playing aspiring British professional wrestler Paige in the underrated comedy “Fighting With My Family,” then as an American abroad suffering serious relationship troubles in Ari Aster’s folk horror “Midsommar,” before finding unexpected dimensions (and earning an Oscar nod) in role as spoiled sister Amy in Greta Gerwig’s lovely “Little Women.”

There was one superhero drama released in 2019 that took me by complete surprise, featuring a powerhouse lead performance that found untapped emotional depths through a story about an unusual individual struggling to find their place in a harsh, unforgiving world.

And it wasn’t “Joker.” A personal family drama combined with a super-powered origin story, Julia Hart’s film flew so far under the radar it didn’t even get a theatrical release locally.

In movies as varied as “Joker,” “Parasite,” and “Knives Out,” it seemed that filmmakers were eager to work out their frustration with the ever-growing divide between society’s haves and have-nots.

Best Gay Ally: Oscar Isaac

From the very first installment of the new “Star Wars” trilogy, fans were quick to note the sizzling chemistry between hot-shot pilot Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) and ex-stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega), enough so that many fully expected their relationship to turn romantic as the trilogy went on. Alas, that wasn’t meant to be. According to Oscar Isaac, it wasn’t for his lack of trying, as he was quick to tell anyone and everyone on his lengthy press tour preceding the release of “Rise of Skywalker,” blaming “Disney overlords” for their lack of courage. You truly love to see it. Someone cast this man in the queer sci-fi adventure flick we all crave!

Adam Lubitow is a freelance writer for CITY. Feedback on this article can be directed to becca@rochester-citynews.com.

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Legal Ads [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Meadow Cove International IV LLC (“LLC”) filed Arts. of Org. with Secy. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on January 22, 2020. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o the Company, Attention: Manager, 850 Hudson Avenue, Rochester, New York 14621. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] 24 Prince Street, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 10/30/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 2604 Elmwood Ave., #113, Rochester, NY 14618. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] 721 Cedarwood LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 12/5/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 44 Field St Rear, Rochester, NY 14620.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Drenos LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 10/11/19.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 26 Brighton St Rochester, NY 14607 RA: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] East Henrietta Plaza LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/27/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Law Office of Anthony A. Dinitto, LLC, 2250 West Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Greater Rochester Real Estate Council, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/13/20.

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, 2170 Monroe Ave, Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Humble Beginnings Enterprises LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/5/2019. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Keyvio Owens, 72 Grassmere Park, Rochester, NY 14612.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Laine Recruiting, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 11/15/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 10 Cali Ridge, Fairport, NY 14450.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Little Button Craft LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/2/20. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 658 South Ave., Rochester, NY 14620.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NAILED IT AGAIN REMODELING, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/02/2019.

Office loc: Orleans County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Thomas Travis Jr, 223 Oak Orchard Estates, Albion, NY 14411. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Norbut Solar Farms Oz, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/7/2020.

Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1241 University Ave., Rochester, NY 14607.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 125 Woodman Park LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/21/20.

Office location: Monroe

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To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com 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 1343 Fairport Nine Mile Point Road, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/15. 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, 1343 Fairport Nine Mile Road, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 2775 Monroe LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste 228, Rochester, NY 14623.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION of 31BRICKS LLC. Arts. of Org. were filed with Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 1/3/2020.

Office in Monroe County.

SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC 56 Nettlecreek Rd, Fairport , N Y 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 447 Long Pond LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/31/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28 East Main St, Ste 1500, Rochester, NY 14614.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 834 East Main LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/23/2019.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of

the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 511 West Ave, Rochester, NY 14611. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of AfriSino International LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on December 2, 2019.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 552 Mendon Road, Pittsford NY 14534. Purpose: any legal activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of AKM Construction LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/06/18 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 15 Cairn St, Rochester, NY 14611 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Bodyflight Physical Therapy PLLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/7/2020.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 238 Edgerton Street, Rochester, New York 14607. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of BS POTTERY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/2019.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 369 Hampton Blvd, Rochester, NY 14612.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CEMC ASSOCIATES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/23/20.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 700 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CEMC ASSOCIATES MM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/23/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 700 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Clark Ridge Hill LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/3/2020; Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 14 Jennifer Circle, Rochester, New York 14606. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of COLLERAN CONSULTING LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 09/03/19.

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 4278 East Ave, Rochester NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CONNEXX LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/17/16. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 120 Woodbine Ave Rochester, NY 14619. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DIETRICH MANAGEMENT, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/26/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 45 White Village Dr., Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of E&A HOTEL, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/5/19. 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, 762 Brooks Avenue, Rochester, NY 14619. Purpose: any lawful activity.

whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1890 Winton Road South, Ste 100, Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of formation of Elizabeth C. Shannon, Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry, PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State (the “NYSOS”) on 1/17/2020.

The office of the PLLC is in Monroe County. The NYSOS is designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. The NYSOS shall mail a copy of such process to 2300 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14610. The PLLC is formed to practice the profession of nurse practitioner in psychiatry.

Notice of formation of Gianni Farms LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 12/31/19.

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 149 Salt Road, Webster, NY 14580. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law.

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Notice of Formation of Guys’ Premiere Properties, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/28/16.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 32 Scarborough Park, Rochester, NY 14625.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Fitz & Sons Properties, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/30/2019. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 120 Woodbine Avenue Rochester NY 14619 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of FLX ONE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/12/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 10 Rippingale Rd, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Forest Ink LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/21/2019.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 471 N Goodman ST., Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Gallina Elmgrove LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/31/2019.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon

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[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ICON PRODUCTIONS LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/06/2019. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 16 Colonist Lane Rochester NY 14624 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JLD ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/30/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 111 Colby St., Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JMG Income Tax & Business Services, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/3/2020.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to:

The LLC, 3 N. Main St, Fairport, NY 14450.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Kali Madison Designs LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11-26-19. 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 239 High Street Ext, Fairport, NY 14450.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of KHVTO LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/28/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 40 Gainsborough Pl, W Henrietta, NY 14586.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lucid Garden LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/29/2019. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1100 Pittsford Mendon Ctr Rd Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MJM Incentives Property LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/23/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 6605 Pittsford Palmyra Road, Ste W-5, Fairport, NY 14450.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Mollywhop Productions LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/27/2020. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 197 Orchard Park, Rochester, New York 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of Penson Properties LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/7/2020.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1881 East Ave, 2nd Floor, Rochester, New York 14610. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of RK FARMS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/02/20. Office location: Orleans County. Princ. office of LLC: 12130 Alps Rd., Lyndonville, NY 14098. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Picture Perfect Illustration LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) DATE: September 26, 2019.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 589 Brown Street, Rochester NY 14611.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Seven 5 Realty LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1219-19 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 629 WHISPERING PINES CIRCLE ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 14612.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of Premier Communities LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/13/2019.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 105 West Ave, Fairport, NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Sibley Mercantile OF MM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E 42nd St, 18th Fl, NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Qu Yang Property Management LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste 228, Rochester, NY 14623.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Sibley Mercantile OZ LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/17/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 122 E 42nd St, 18th Fl, NY, NY 10168. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of Soulstainable Living LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Department of State on 09/20/2019. Its office is located in Monroe County. The United States Corporation Agents, Inc. has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 734 Grand Avenue, Rochester NY

Notice of Formation of Ritual Clay Company LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) January 3 2020. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 234 Mill Street Rochester, NY 14614 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

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To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com 14609. The purpose of the Company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of T & D Greenwell Properties, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/15/2020.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 336 Church Rd, Hilton, NY 14468.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of THE CREW’S GRILL LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/31/2019.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 13 Leah Ln North Chili, NY 14514. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Kilminster Group, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/30/20. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 138 Old North Hi Rochester, NY 14617 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Twin Pillars Properties LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 01/07/20 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 69 Crossfield Road, Rochester, NY 14609.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Williamson Commons, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/7/2020.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1180 Sagebrook Way, Webster, New York 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Yayalash LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 12/23/2019. Office location: 19 Prince Street, Rochester, NY 14607. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC at 19 Prince St, Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Management, 1020 Lee Rd, Rochester, NY, 14606. DE addr. of LLC: c/o Registered Agent Solutions, Inc., 9 E. Loockerman Street, Suite 311, Dover, Delaware 19901. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ]

NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents will be sold for cash

by Cubesmart Management, LLC 2111 Hudson Ave Rochester NY 14617 to satisfy a lien for rental on February 13th 2020 at approx. 12:00PM at [www.storagetreasures. com]

Notice of Qualification of Nelnet Servicing, LLC. Authority filed with NYS Dept. of State 09/30/19, formed in NE 10/27/08. Princ. bus. addr.: 121 S. 13th Street, Ste 100, Lincoln, NE 68508. SSNY design agent of LLC & shall mail process to same address. NE address of LLC: same address. Arts. of Org. filed with NE Secy of State, P.O. Box 94608, Lincoln, NE 685094608. Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE: Self-storage Cube contents will be sold for cash by CubeSmart Management, LLC 7 Chapel St Rochester NY 14609 to satisfy a lien for rental on February 13th 2020 at approx.

12:00 PM at www. storagetreasures.com

Notice of Qualification of Rose & Associates LLC. Fictitious name in NY State: Rose Surgical Products LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/19/19. Office location: Monroe County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 9/26/18. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 401 Allens Creek Road, Rochester, NY 14618. DE address of LLC: The Corporation Trust Company, 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, #4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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[ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of 640 Fishers Road LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/24/19.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/19/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 2604 Elmwood Ave, Ste 352, Rochester, NY 14618.

DE address of LLC: 874 Walker Rd, Ste C, Dover, DE 19904. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Conductor Property Management, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 11/21/19. Office location: Monroe County.

Princ. bus. addr.: 1020 Lee Rd, Rochester, NY, 14606. LLC formed in DE on 8/5/19. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Conductor Property

[ NOTICE ] ONE EIGHTY HOLDINGS LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/29/2020. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS shall mail a copy of any process to c/o the LLC, 180 St. Paul Street, #406, Attn: Member, Rochester, NY 14604.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Real Relief Properties LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/3/2020. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail

process to 72 Grassmere Park, Rochester, NY 14612. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Ruff Mutts Grooming, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/25/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 204 Paddy Hill Dr, Rochester, NY 14616. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Siyon Tax Service, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/22/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Suk Biswa, 1249 Latta Rd Apt 4, Rochester, NY 14612.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS IN TAX LIEN FORECLOSURE– SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF MONROE – TLF NATIONAL TAX LIEN TRUST 2017-1, Plaintiff, UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF BENNIE H. JOHNSON A/K/A BENNIE JOHNSON, Defendant. Index No. 4404/16. To the abovenamed Defendant –YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty days after service is completed if the summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county in which the property a lien upon which is being foreclosed is situated. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. J. Scott Odorisi, J.S.C., dated November 12, 2019, and entered on December 26, 2020. The object of this action is to foreclose a Tax Lien covering the premises located at Section 106.59, Block 2, Lot 4 on the Tax Map of MONROE County and also known as 329 Central Park,

Rochester, New York.

Dated: January 8, 2020 BRONSTER, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff, TLF NATIONAL TAX LIEN TRUST 2017-1 By: Yan Borodanski 156 West 56th Street, Suite 1801 New York, New York 10019 (347) 246-4647 [ NOTICE ] TRACK ONE, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 5/6/2003. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 1800 Chase Square, Rochester, NY 14604. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Tree Of Life Counseling, Lcsw, PLLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/20/19.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 95 Allens Creek Rd Building 1 #250 Rochester, NY 14618 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] UR Portfolio I, LLC, Arts of Org filed with SSNY on 12/04/19. Off. Loc.: Monroe County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 282 S. 5th St #3B, Brooklyn, NY 11211.

Purpose: to engage in any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Viticulture L.L.C. Arts of Org. filed SSNY 9/11/19.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Courtney Benson 1900 Empire Blvd #116 Webster, NY 14580 General Purpose [ NOTICE } City Newspaper Jan 29, Feb 5,12,19,26, Mar 4 Ref #52618 Notice of Formation of National Sweepstakes Company, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/24/11.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1134 East Union Street, Newark, NY 14513.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ Notice of Formation ] 45 Bellaqua, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 1/10/20. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 4545 E River Rd, Suite 100, West Henrietta, NY 14586. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Dixon Delivery Service LLC filed Arts. of Org. with Sec. of State on November 5, 2019.

Office Loc: Monroe County. United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228 is designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. United States Corporation Agents, Inc. may mail a copy of process to 320 Miramar Road, Rochester, NY, 14624. The purpose of the company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: Affronti, LLC (“PLLC”) filed Arts of Org with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 8, 2020.

Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 130 D Linden Oaks, Rochester, NY 14625 Attn: Member. Purpose: practice of law. [ Notice of Formation ] Rochester Patio and Landscape, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 1/8/20. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 2509 Manitou Road, Rochester, NY 14624.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF W GAMING SOUTH, LLC ] W Gaming South, LLC (the “LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with NY Secretary of State (SSNY) 1/9/20.

Office location: Monroe County, NY. Principal business location: 1265 Scottsville Rd, Rochester, NY 14624. SSNY

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SSNY shall mail copy of process to CT Corporation System, 28 Liberty Street, NY, NY 10005 which is also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ] NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing pursuant to Article 18-A of the New York State General Municipal Law will be held by the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency d/b/a Imagine Monroe (the “Agency”) on Friday, the 14th day of February, 2020 at 10:00 a.m., local time, at the Sweden Town Offices, 18 State Street, Brockport, New York 14420, in connection with the following matter: INDUS LAKE ROAD II LLC, a New York limited liability company for itself or a related entity formed or to be formed (collectively, the “Company”) has requested that the Agency assist with a certain Project (the “Project”), consisting of: (A) the acquisition of a leasehold interest in a certain parcel of land located at 4908 Lake Road in the Town of Sweden, New York (the “Land”) including the existing approximately 21,000± square-foot hotel located thereon (the “Existing Improvements”); (B) the renovation of the Existing Improvements, including, but not limited to, new doors, wall coverings, carpets, furniture, millwork, HVAC and fitness equipment together with re-tarring the parking lot, new dumpster pad and enclosure, refreshed landscaping and repainting the exterior of the building (collectively, the “Improvements”); and (C) the acquisition and installation therein, thereon or thereabout of certain machinery, equipment and related personal property (the “Equipment” and, together with the Land, the Existing Improvements and the Improvements, the “Facility”) to be used as a 40-unit Best Western Inn & Suites.

The Facility will be initially operated and/ or managed by the Company.

The Agency will acquire

a leasehold interest in the Facility and lease the Facility back to the Company. The Company will operate the Facility during the term of the lease. At the end of the lease term the Agency’s leasehold interest will be terminated. The Agency contemplates that it will provide financial assistance (the “Financial Assistance”) to the Company in the form of sales and use tax exemptions and a mortgage recording tax exemption, consistent with the policies of the Agency, and a partial real property tax abatement.

The Agency will, at the above-stated time and place, present a copy of the Company’s Application (including the Benefit/Incentive analysis) and hear all persons with views in favor of or opposed to either the location or nature of the Facility, or the proposed financial assistance being contemplated by the Agency. In addition, at, or prior to, such hearing, interested parties may submit to the Agency written materials pertaining to such matters.

Dated: February 5, 2020 COUNTY OF MONROE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY D/B/A IMAGINE MONROE By: Chairman [ NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ] NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing pursuant to Article 18-A of the New York State General Municipal Law will be held by the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency d/b/a Imagine Monroe (the “Agency”) on Tuesday, the 18th day of February, 2020 at 11:30 a.m., local time, at the Ebenezer Watts Conference Center, 49 S. Fitzhugh Street, Rochester, New York 14614, in connection with the following matter: 291 S. PLYMOUTH, LLC, a New York limited liability company for itself or a related entity formed or to be formed (collectively, the “Company”) has requested that the Agency assist with a certain Project (the “Project”), consisting of: (A) the acquisition of a leasehold interest in a portion of an approximately 0.31-acre parcel of land located at 291 S. Plymouth Avenue in the City of

Rochester, New York 14608 (the “Land”); (B) the construction of 3 townhouses, each containing approximately 1,440 square feet of space including 2-car garages (collectively, the “Improvements”); and (C) the acquisition and installation therein, thereon or thereabout of certain machinery, equipment and related personal property (the “Equipment” and, together with the Land and the Improvements, the “Facility”). The Facility will be initially operated and/ or managed by the Company.

The Agency will acquire a leasehold interest in the Facility and lease the Facility back to the Company. The Company will operate the Facility during the term of the lease. At the end of the lease term the Agency’s leasehold interest will be terminated. The Agency contemplates that it will provide financial assistance (the “Financial Assistance”) to the Company in the form of sales and use tax exemptions and a mortgage recording tax exemption, consistent with the policies of the Agency, and a partial real property tax abatement.

The Agency will, at the above-stated time and place, present a copy of the Company’s Application (including the Benefit/Incentive analysis) and hear all persons with views in favor of or opposed to either the location or nature of the Facility, or the proposed financial assistance being contemplated by the Agency. In addition, at, or prior to, such hearing, interested parties may submit to the Agency written materials pertaining to such matters.

Dated: February 5, 2020 COUNTY OF MONROE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY D/B/A IMAGINE MONROE By: Chairman [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sneaker Beat LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec'y of State (SSNY) 12/17/2019.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at: 2111 East Avenue, Apt. M, Rochester, New York 14610. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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