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The RPD and ‘block-clearing’

Six years ago, officers of the Rochester Police Department pulled Benny Warr from his wheelchair and struck him while he was waiting for the bus. The officers, intent on clearing the area, were sued. This February, an all-white jury vaguely acknowledged that one officer used excessive of force, but said he did nothing criminal. They unanimously agreed that Warr’s arrest was legitimate and awarded him $1.

Much of the evidence presented was provided by “the blue light camera,” an ever- running camera on top of a telephone pole collecting ongoing video footage of Jefferson Avenue. A recurring phrase that kept being mentioned was “the 500 block was clear” in reference to the successful efforts of the police who eventually arrested Benny.

The 500 block was cleared, except for Benny and two to four others waiting for the bus.

Why is it a “success” to clear the streets in a black neighborhood?

Are people, mostly black, who demonstrate life on the 500 block animals? Are police officers dogs with the responsibility of herding mostly black inhabitants away from where police don’t want people to go?

Unfortunately, the police were thorough in their efforts. They attacked Benny as if a less violent, official citation was insufficient.

Pepper sprayed, removed from his wheelchair, kneed and elbowstruck in the head, handcuffed, and taken away in an ambulance, Benny Warr was “cleared” from the 500 block of Jefferson Avenue.

If we, as a society, want life to thrive on Jefferson Avenue, we

can’t assume that black lives don’t qualify. Benny Warr’s life matters.

Black lives matter.

PAUL FLANSBURG

Best partners for RCSD

While Roc the Future has declared themselves arrogantly as the unilateral voice of the Rochester community, the voice of parents and children of the Rochester City School District is not included, by design.

That is evident in Roc the Future’s call to the State Education Department, unilaterally self-proclaiming that they are “the best partner to actively assure that [all] voices are represented.”

How audacious! How arrogant! To put on this selfanointed mantle when the community itself – parents, students and community leaders – have not been advised or included. That is “to come,” they say. Sure.

There is nothing more worthwhile than to engage at the outset those voices – those who are most directly victimized year after year by a dysfunctional Rochester city school system that is sucking the spirit, the opportunity, the very life out of the children in this district on a daily basis.

Every effort to improve this dysfunctional school district must reflect and include the parents and students it serves.

The racism in this city, county, and school district must be openly addressed at all segments of the district. That racism is evident through and through.

It seeps into the instruction and socialization of our children and fouls their experience. That is why there is a resounding cry for mandatory anti-racist education for the RCSD staff.

The coalition of the Take It Down Planning Committee, the Faith Community Alliance, and the Movement for AntiRacist Ministry and Action

is sponsoring a community forum with State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, Deputy Commissioner Jhone Ebert, and Distinguished Educator Jaime Aquino to discuss the Aquino Report and the response of the Board of Education, and to continue inviting real community response, on Saturday, March 30, 1 to 4 p.m. at the Central Church of Christ. All are welcome to participate.

Racial issues relating to the quality of the RCSD education are being discussed bi-monthly as a part of the district-sponsored Racial Equity Advocacy Leadership Team composed of community members, teachers, and parents, in which a racial equity action plan is being created, now a board approved initiative.

All are invited to any and all of these ongoing discussions.

DAVID WALLING

Walling is a community member of the Movement for Anti-Racist Ministry and Action.

Ibero’s plan needs changes

Ibero-American Development Corporation’s housing he

development, as planned, will make our street unattractive and congested. Our 40-signature Hoeltzer Street petition did not oppose the project, but stated that the development should be limited to one and two-family dwellings with driveways (not three-family dwellings with mini-parking lots); and building proportions in sync with existing houses on the street, especially height (instead of the massive apartment houses that are planned). These changes could easily be implemented with a little design development and some good will.

The only boarded-up house on Hoeltzer Street is owned

by Ibero and waiting for rehabilitation.

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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

Our reader comments and public discourse Anger and vitriol and bullying and name calling are nothing new in this country, but I can’t be the only person feeling weighed down by all of it right now. And while the internet didn’t create it, the internet has enabled it and given it power that it didn’t have previously.

This publication has received enormous benefits from the internet, making research and communication vastly easier and permitting us to expand and enrich our editorial offerings. The internet has also let readers comment quickly on what they’re reading and share those comments with other readers.

For most of the years that we’ve had a website, our comments section has been a pleasure to read and to operate, serving as a kind of online town hall, with readers sharing their thoughts on everything from politics to restaurants.

But as has happened with many other news media, a handful of readers have decided to use our comments section as a personal platform for tossing out anger and insults – under fictitious names, of course. (And in the case of one troll, under a variety of different fictitious names – sometimes posting a comment under one name, then congratulating himself for his brilliance, using a second fictitious name.)

We like the immediacy that an online comments section offers. And a healthy online comments section can spur good conversations about important or interesting community issues and events.

Music critic Frank DeBlase’s recent F Word about the Rochester Music Hall of Fame did just that.

But the anonymity and insults and anger are destructive. Some publications, notably the New York Times, moderate their online comments heavily. And while we’ve done that to a degree (and sometimes been rewarded with insults from the commenters), our resources are better spent on our journalism.

And so this week we are disabling the comments function of our website.

You can still comment on our articles and on anything else you like. Email us, at this address: feedback@rochester-citynews.com.

Include your real name and your city, town, or village – and, for verification purposes, your daytime phone number. We’ll publish as many of them as we can, assuming that they’re civil.

There’s far too much incivility in public discourse right now.

We’re not willing to encourage it and provide a platform to spread it.

We do welcome your comments. But there’s far too much incivility in public discourse right now. We’re not willing to encourage it and provide a platform to spread it.

Speaking of comments

News media have a responsibility not only to inform the public about key current issues but to also solicit the public’s opinion. Two local topics deserve your attention right now: the crisis in the Rochester school district and City Council’s consideration of a Police Accountability Board.

State officials are wrestling with the question of the school district’s future: whether an elected school board should continue to be in charge of the city’s schools or the state should give that responsibility to someone else.

Possibilities, of course, include some form of mayoral control.

City Council has to decide whether the police chief should have the final say about police officers’ actions or an independent group of citizens should have that authority.

Each of those decisions will have a major, long-lasting impact on the Greater Rochester community, and we’ll continue to devote a substantial part of our news space to each topic. But it’s important that the people making the decisions hear from the public.

Whether you live in the city or not, we encourage you to contribute your thoughts on those key issues, by emailing your comments to our Feedback section – with your real name. rochestercitynewspaper.com

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GUEST COMMENTARY | RICK STEIN

It’s time to reinvent the city school district The Rochester City School District has myriad problems and failures. At its root, generational poverty is a key cause for its systemic failure. However, we cannot believe that if this issue is addressed more coherently, the structure will respond successfully. The reality is that it can’t.

The continuous failure of the district and the death grip of poverty require us to ask basic “what if ” questions. What if we started over? What if we could build something from the ground up? Would we build what we have now?

What if school was thought of as a concept and not a place? For example,

the senior year in high school could be redesigned to provide experiences related to community service, independent study using technology, and service to younger students as “senior mentors.” The stranglehold of schooling occurring only in school sites needs to be reconsidered at all levels.

What if success was built upon a new “3 R’s”? Bill Gates has described three basic building blocks for successful schools: rigor (“making sure all students are given a challenging curriculum that prepares them for college or work”); relevance (“making sure kids have courses and projects that clearly relate to their lives and their goals”), and relationships (“making sure kids have a number of adults who know them, look out for them, and push them to achieve”).

What if the large RCSD was divided into two smaller districts, one east of the Genesee River, the other to the west of it?

Each district would have its own school board, superintendent, budget, and union contracts. The large, centralized approach has proved unmanageable and consistently unable to respond to the unique needs of city neighborhoods.

Affiliate the new west district with BOCES 2 and the western region suburban districts. Affiliate the east district with BOCES 1 and the eastern region suburban districts.

The current “go it alone” philosophy disinvites many others who could and should engage in the education of Rochester’s students. The two new RCSD districts would enable competition and end the current historical bickering as 4 CITY

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Continual problems have put the Rochester school district under state scrutiny. Above: a public forum hosted by Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, state Regents, and Distinguished Educator Jaime Aquino. FILE PHOTO

new boards, administrations, and union leadership emerge. The model doesn’t guarantee success, but the current bureaucracy and inability to cooperate must be addressed in a manner that turns the page and forges new alliances and opportunities that have heretofore been closed.

What if the two new regional districts worked with non-profit agencies to provide additional collaboration and support for their students? One outstanding example of this is the Communities in Schools effort that has documented success when working with at risk students in high-need areas across the country (www.communitiesinschools.org).

What if a different staffing model was used? The 20th-century model

for instructional delivery is expensive.

It fails to assertively use technology, differentiated staffing, and alternative settings for learning. Teaching Assistants can be deployed under the supervision of certified classroom teachers. Using a TA model could be a catalyst for employment within the community from which the students come.

What if K-12 schooling was 12 months in duration? We cannot sacrifice time when the evidence indicates that children lose ground over a two-month

hiatus from school. An alternative staffing model could open the door to this possibility.

What if students age 2 to 8 were enrolled in an early-learning setting where literacy and social interactions became the foundational goals? Research proves that language and concept development are wonderfully formative at this early age. Students in poverty cannot be shortchanged by lack of proper developmental experiences and exposure to a wide breadth of literacy which, if not forged early, are a serious detriment to subsequent learning. TA’s could be used in this model.

In addition to the “what ifs,” the district must overcome the lack of sound, long-term, strategic planning. Leadership turnover and the contentious dynamics related to board relations, unions, the mayor’s office, and the larger community have been underlying excuses for not addressing this urgent need.

The mission of the district should be a straightforward one: “To create the right conditions for learning for every student.” We can debate (and should) what “right” means. However, it should be based upon the Gates Foundation’s new 3 R’s. In addition, the Distinguished Educator’s Report is an excellent starting point for prioritizing strategic initiatives.

However, all of this is premised on improving what is. The most important aspect of a strategic plan is not to see it as an improvement effort. It is an opportunity to reinvent, to deal honestly and openly with “What if ’s.”

It is time to stop tinkering at the margins.

One likely response to what I have suggested is that it is unaffordable. The financial state of the Rochester City School District is another major area that needs a complete overhaul. The size of the current organization does not provide economies of scale. In fact, the reverse is happening.

Shrinking the size to two separate regional districts would enable a better grasp on resources and their subsequent deployment. Using a new staffing model with a significant increase in TA’s for direct instruction versus exclusively using certified teachers can provide a new way to expand the school year and day without requiring a dramatic increase in funding. While there would be fewer teachers, their roles and leadership responsibilities would be elevated.

Finally, it is evident that the RCSD’s response to the Distinguished Educator’s Report prescribes a huge amount of busy work. Sadly, too many of the tasks outlined will not fundamentally change the depth and breadth of student learning. If there were an opportunity to do things over, it is unlikely the system currently in place would be the right answer. If this is a basic truth, why are those involved about to devote a vast amount of time, talent, and resources to continue it?

A 21st-century education cannot be built on a 20th-century foundation of failure and neglect. It is time for a systemic call to action, where reinvention and re-visioning are the expected outcomes. It is time to draw upon the vast resources of the larger community to build an education system that truly serves students with high needs in areas where poverty cruelly reigns.

Rick Stein was a public-schools educator for 38 years, six of them as superintendent of the Gates Chili Central School District.

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MUSIC | BY DANIEL KUSHNER

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Jazz fest announces full line-up This year’s Rochester International Jazz Festival, now sponsored by CGI, will offer performances by more than 1,500 musicians. The lineup, announced this morning, is certainly not lacking in quality or variety.

Among the jazz acts returning to the festival, which runs from June 21 to 29: vocalist Catherine Russell, organist Joey DeFrancesco, pianist Bill Charlap, and guitarist Bill Frisell, with his trio. Also in the lineup: saxophonists Nubya Garcia and George Coleman with his quartet, Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista, bass guitarist Gene Perla with his trio, guitarist Lionel Loueke with singer-songwriter Raul Midón, and pianist Harold Mabern.

Overall, the lineup feels guitar-centric. In addition to Frisell and Loueke, the festival will bring guitarists Gilad Hekselman, Mikkel Ploug, Rob Tardik, Scott Sharrard of the Gregg Allman Band, John Pizzarelli and his trio, and the Allman Betts Band featuring Devon Allman and Duane Betts, among others. Guitar fans have a lot to be excited about, whether they prefer jazz, blues, or rock.

Other high-profile performers include original “Blues Brother” Dan Aykroyd, playing with the Downchild Blues Band; high-energy acts like the blues-rock group Ron Artis II & The Truth, and the brass band Bonerama, and festival favorites like Trombone Shorty, Jake Shimabukuro, and Durham County Poets. Local artists such as The Campbell Brothers and Teagan and the Tweeds will also play.

This year’s schedule increases the number of free concerts: 112 in all. The expansion also includes seven additional free shows at the Squeezers Stage on Parcel 5, four more concerts at the Fusion Stage, and a new Midtown Stage hosting shows on the last two nights. Familiar jazz fest events include free student jazz workshops, from June 24 through June 28; jam sessions at the Hyatt Regency Rochester held each night at 10:30 p.m., hosted by Bob Sneider and Karl Stabnau. And the “Save Time in Line” number system will be used for performances at several of the most popular club-pass venues.

The festival’s app will be available for download on iPhone and Android devices in April. The complete schedule and additional information on the festival is online at the official website, rochesterjazz.com. CITY’s Preview Guide will be published on Wednesday, June 13.

EDUCATION | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

Aquino quarterly report: plusses and minuses

Jaime Aquino, the Rochester school district’s state-appointed Distinguished Educator: Some serious problems are continuing.

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Jaime Aquino’s job as the Rochester School District’s Distinguished Educator includes working with the school board and district staff to address their problems. Last week, Aquino issued his first quarterly report on the district’s progress, and not surprisingly, the district got mixed grades.

Among the positives: The district met its deadline for developing an improvement plan, and the school board has temporarily suspended committee meetings and started having two business meetings a month, which Aquino had recommended.

He cited administrators’ work on curricula problems and said the administration has presented options for eliminating the district’s structural deficit. He noted that the board hired a search firm to help identify a new superintendent and approved a settlement agreement between the district and the Empire Justice Center on special education.

The district has begun developing a “principal preparation program involving 15 teachers-aspiring-to-be-principals,” although, he said: “It is not clear as

whether all key stakeholders are vested in the program.”

He noted that the board acted quickly to hire Interim Superintendent Daniel Lowengard and Interim Chief of Staff Linda Cimusz, which, Aquino said, “helped create a sense of stability.”

But he also pointed out continuing problems. The district hasn’t made “any significant progress” addressing a culture of fear and intimidation, which starts with the school board and superintendent, he said. Some board members “continue to involve themselves in the district’s dayto-day operations, he said. And divisions on the board have continued, “with commissioners’ tensions and conflicts frequently erupting in public.”

And while the district is making progress in “tightening safety procedures,” Aquino said, there are still incidents of students going missing from school.

“If proposed changes are to become sustained and meaningful,” Aquino said, the district has to “engage key stakeholders’ support and commitment.”

And it needs to “ensure that it has the capacity to implement” its improvement plan, he said.

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Home Leasing is buying several troubled properties owned by Thurston Road Realty. It plans to substantially renovate the buildings, but rents will not increase and current tenants will not be permanently displaced, says the company.

HOUSING | BY JEREMY MOULE

Overhaul coming for 19th Ward apartments The residents of 447 Thurston Road and 967 Chili Avenue spent the better part of last year trying to get their landlord, Thurston Road Realty, to fix a long list of problems in their buildings: mold, electrical issues, sewage backups, broken doors, inadequate heat, and more.

Home Leasing is wrapping up its purchase of the troubled properties from Thurston Road Realty. The company’s website says both buildings are “extremely distressed” and “in substantial disrepair.” But Home Leasing plans to renovate the “whole guts” of the building, says Home Leasing’s development manager, Adam Driscoll.

As part of the $10 million project, Home Leasing will put new roofs on the buildings and remove asbestos. It’ll install new mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, as well as new appliances, light fixtures, kitchens, and bathrooms.

“Anything you can think of, basically,” Driscoll says.

And the company plans to do all of this without permanently displacing residents or raising rents, Driscoll says.

The residents currently pay for their own utilities, but Home Leasing plans to roll a utility charge into the rents instead.

The rents will range from $477 to $832

a month, according to legislation before City Council that would authorize a payment in lieu of taxes agreement between the city and the developer.

The project will be funded through a grant from New York Homes and Community Renewal – a state housing agency – and financing from the nonprofit Community Preservation Corporation.

Residents of the two buildings will be temporarily relocated during construction; Driscoll says Home Leasing officials are working with the residents on those plans. The company hopes to start construction in mid to late April, and since it’ll be able to have workers on every floor at the same time, it expects the renovations to take about eight months, Driscoll says.

Together, the Thurston Road and Chili Avenue buildings have 53 one-bedroom apartments and 10 studio apartments. The company’s website says approximately 30 are currently occupied.

Of the newly-renovated apartments, 20 will be dedicated to permanent supportive housing for people who were incarcerated and who have been homeless or have a history of substance abuse, says the company’s website. Home Leasing is working with Spiritus Christi Prison

Outreach, which has received funding to provide rental subsidies and support services for those residents.

Home Leasing is also in the process of buying 440 Thurston Road, even though the building on it burned down this past December. It’s also buying a neighboring two-unit house, and The apartment complex at 967 Chili Avenue is one of two troubled it plans to develop Thurston Road Realty properties that Home Leasing is buying and the properties in the renovating. PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON future, Driscoll says.

Thurston Road and other New York cities. Housing Realty is a real estate partnership that courts already exist in New York City was controlled by New York City and Buffalo, and they give renters a way investor Peter Hungerford, until his to get legal orders for landlords to make partner forced him out. The properties health- and safety-related repairs. The had racked up dozens of property code courts also handle eviction cases. violations, and the City of Rochester Last year, Assembly member Harry sued Thurston Road Realty in an attempt Bronson and Senator Joe Robach to compel repairs. The case is ongoing. introduced legislation to create a City Local housing activists rallied behind of Rochester housing court, but it never residents of the Thurston Road Realty received a vote. Bronson reintroduced his properties and argued that their struggles bill this session. were exactly why state lawmakers should create new housing courts for Rochester

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EDUCATION | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

Children’s mental health needs attention When state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia and Attorney General Letitia James released the findings earlier this month concerning the death of Rochester student Trevyan Rowe, they couldn’t have been tougher.

They slammed the district for a slew of “systemic failures” in school policies and procedures.

Trevyan, who was a student at School 12, appeared to have an undiagnosed mental health “disorder,” the investigation report said.

He was described as being shy and withdrawn and had talked openly about committing suicide. And when he walked away from the school in the morning, his absence wasn’t detected until late in the day. His body was found in the Genesee River days later.

But viewing Rowe’s death as a tragic isolated incident misses a much larger, broader issue, some mental-health professionals say. The report from the commissioner and the attorney general exposed what some Rochester-area professionals say is a crisis in providing mental health services. There’s a “desperate need,” they say, to take a serious look at children’s mental health in Rochester, train more people to recognize socialemotional disorders in children, and increase the number of treatment providers.

The concerns about children’s mental health are not confined to Rochester, either.

There is some evidence that social-emotional disorders in the nation’s youth are increasing, though there is no single explanation for it.

Nearly 8 million children and teens in the US, about one in seven, have at least one treatable mental health disorder, including depression, anxiety, and ADHD, according to a 2016 University of Michigan study published in JAMA Pediatrics. And half never receive treatment, the study says.

A 2016 state law requires New York’s school districts to have policies and procedures in place for responding to threats of violence, regardless of whether it’s by students, teachers, or outside individuals. That would include threats of suicide. There must also be a procedure in place for contacting parents when there are threats of violence.

But there’s a gap between what is required and what is happening. This raises questions about school districts’ capacity to address students’ mental health problems. Are schools intended for the education of students? Or should they provide physical and mental health expertise in addition to everything else they’re expected to provide?

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Ruth Turner: Sometimes it’s obvious that something is wrong, but sometimes it isn’t.

PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

Safety and protection of children when they’re in school is a non-negotiable obligation for school staff, says Jay Worona, deputy executive director and general counsel for the New York State School Boards Association.

“Any time a horrible situation happens, I can’t think of a district staff that wouldn’t be devastated,” Worona says. “But the question is whether there is culpability. Something happened, and the facts are the facts.”

We should have discussions about resources and unfunded mandates, Worona says. “But at the end of the day, the obligation is the same,” he says.

The Rochester school district has about 100 full-time, licensed, and certified clinical social workers, says Ruth Turner, the district’s chief of student support services and social-emotional learning. There’s at least one of these clinicians in every school, Turner says. But considering that some schools serve pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, with hundreds of students, the demand for the clinicians’ time is huge.

“They are responsible for all students in that school,” Turner says.

There are many “entry points,” as Turner puts it, for determining that a student needs help: a referral by a teacher, a call from a concerned parent – and many times, students seek help themselves, she says.

Many other signs could indicate that a student needs help, Turner says, one of the biggest being changes in behavior. While teachers aren’t asked to make a diagnosis, for instance, they should notice when a talkative student becomes withdrawn or when a student who’s outgoing and active in clubs and sports suddenly loses interest.

Sometimes it’s clear that something is wrong, but sometimes it isn’t, Turner says.

“Depression can present as sadness, but it can also present as anger,” Turner says.

In many instances, assessment and treatment begins with the school social worker, who can provide in-school counseling either on an individual basis or with a group of students. If the student’s problem is so serious that it requires medication or more intensive care, the social worker may refer the student to another care provider, such as a child psychiatrist.

“But it all depends on parental consent,” Turner says. “They have a right to decline, and when that happens we’re not left with many options. They may want to talk to their faith leader or someone else. If we perceive neglect, we try to work with the parent. But if that doesn’t work, sometimes we have to call Child Protective Services.”

The district will help families with everything from driving the child and parent to a doctor to connecting them with an insurance provider if they’re uninsured. But there are often many obstacles to overcome, especially for low-income families.

“There’s the issue of stigma that we deal with,” Turner says. “Some people believe a mental health disorder is a sign of weakness.

Sometimes they’re seeing a therapist, and that person leaves. They tell us they get tired of telling the same story over and over.”

Still, there’s a definite lack of services and professionals with social-emotional training, says Dirk Hightower, a psychologist and executive director of the Children’s Institute.

“Just try and find a therapist for a child.

Good luck,” Hightower says. “There’s a

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real shortage of treatment options, and in many schools there’s nothing at the preventative level.”

And Hightower says there’s an underlying problem in how we view mental health in children.

“We have to see the whole child, and mental health is one part of a whole child,” he says. “If a child is going to bed hungry or the child is homeless, the best therapist in the world may not be able to Dirk Hightower. help until we address PROVIDED PHOTO those other issues.”

We have to teach mental health awareness

to our youngest children and to all of the people who come in contact with them, not just their teachers, says Melanie Funchess, director of community engagement at the Mental Health Association and a former Rochester school board member.

“There have to be people in their lives who are alert and know how to speak to them, because they may not go to a teacher or a counselor,” Funchess says. “They may go to the lunch lady or the bus driver.”

There needs to be what Funchess describes as a “clarion call” that focuses the attention of all adults on the issue of children and mental health in Rochester.

There’s a desperate need for more services, and the district and the community’s capacity to help children is stretched, Funchess says. But, she adds: “We don’t look at these children as our own children, so we don’t ask, ‘Hey, what’s going on with you today?’ We’ve got to get to a place where the kids in this community are seen. That’s our job, and there was a time in our community when we did this.”

“There were a number of adults in this child Trevyan Rowe’s life,” Funchess says, “and all of us failed him. We need to say, ‘not one more.’”

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The following Charter Schools will be holding an

Admissions Lottery on April 2, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. at their respective schools

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Discovery Charter School 133 Hoover Drive, Rochester, NY 14615 www.rochesterdiscovery.com

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Eugenio Maria de Hostos – Grades K-8 27 Zimbrich Street, Rochester, NY 14621 www.emhcharter.org

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Eugenio Maria de Hostos – Grades 9-12 1069 Joseph Avenue, Rochester, NY 14621 www.emhcharter.org

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Exploration Elementary Charter School for Science & Technology 1001 Lake Ave., Rochester, NY 14613 www.explorationrochester.org

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Renaissance Academy Charter School of the Arts 299 Kirk Rd., Rochester, NY 14612 www.renacad.org

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Rochester Academy Charter School – Elementary School 125 Kings Highway S., Rochester 14617 www.racschool.com

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Rochester Academy Charter School – Middle School 841 Genesee St., Rochester, NY 14611 www.racschool.com

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For more Tom Tomorrow, including a political blog and cartoon archive, visit www.thismodernworld.com

URBAN ACTION This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities.

(All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.)

Nature, water, and cities

The Community Design Center Rochester will present “Drawn to Water: Design Stories of City and River,” a talk by Richard Newton, on Wednesday, March 27.

Newton is a partner with Philadelphia-based OLIN, which specializes in landscapes and urban designs. Newton’s recent projects include the Syracuse Connective Corridor, the City Dock Master Plan in Alexandria, and the restoration of Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore. He’ll be speaking at Gleason Works, 1000 University Avenue, at 7 p.m. Reg10 CITY MARCH 20 - 26, 2019

istration recommended: www.rrcdc.org. Suggested donation: $10.

Actions to stop climate change

The League of Women Voters will present “Climate Change: Paths for Solutions,” on Monday, March 25. Susan Hughes-Smith, adjunct professor of environmental health, at the College at Brockport and co-founder of the Rochester People’s Climate Coalition will be joined by Barbara Grosh, a member of Mothers Out Front, to talk about legislation that would help mitigate the effects of global warming.

Hughes-Smith and Grosh will also talk about Property Assessed Clean Energy financing, which would provide a tax incentive for commercial property owners to make environmental

improvements. The event will be held at Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Avenue, at 7 p.m.

Event focuses on downtown

The Center City Community Coalition and Rochester Young Professionals will host a “Meet Your City Council” event on Wednesday, March 20, to discuss issues of concern to the growing number of downtown residents.

The event will be held in the Temple Building, 50 Liberty Pole Way, at 5 p.m.

Dining & Nightlife

Clockwise from bottom left: aboboi and rice with plantains, bofrot (puff puff), jollof rice with chicken, and samosas at Akwaaba Restaurant. PHOTOS BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

African family dining Akwaaba Restaurant 1330 MOUNT HOPE AVENUE TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY, 11:30 A.M. TO 3 P.M. AND 5 TO 9 P.M.; SUNDAY, 11:30 A.M. TO 6 P.M. 434-0040 [ REVIEW ] BY CHRIS THOMPSON

Akwaaba is not a take-out restaurant. Well, you definitely can get anything on the menu to go, and they will happily take your to-go

order, but to really enjoy Akwaaba, dining in is the way to go. Sibling owners Mohammed and Naima Ahamed named this African cuisine spot Akwaaba because the word literally means “welcome” in Akan, a language spoken in their native Ghana. Dining here is meant to be a community event where everyone is welcome. The grills and fryers are situated so that you can watch them prepare your food while you wait if you so choose.

Both Mohammed and Naima love to cook and have been cooking all their lives. They take time and care with all food orders so that

they meet their high standards, and it shows.

Mohammed is always sharply dressed when he cooks. I’m not sure if that is part of the charm of the restaurant, but I do envy his wardrobe.

Akwaaba opened in September 2018 in the College Town area of Mount Hope Avenue, in what used to be an India House Express before that restaurant moved to the building next door. It’s a small place, but there’s a good amount of seating. Often you end up conversing with other customers, which is partially the intention. The last time I visited, an elderly woman was regaling a pair of college students sitting adjacent to her at another table. They were so riveted by her words that I thought they already knew each other, but they’d only met a few minutes prior to my arrival. Eventually, they were all at the same table, still sharing stories.

The food is well worth the time it takes to make it, and all portions are big enough to share. My favorite is the Somali samosas ($4), sometimes called sambusas. Similar to the Indian samosas, this appetizer is a set of six lightly-fried, thin dough tetrahedrons stuffed with vegetables, beef, or chicken.

Instead of a choice of chutney, Somali samosas are served with a dipping sauce of stewed tomato, pepper, and onion. I could eat these all day, but then I would miss out on the fried plantains ($4.50) or the fried chicken ($8) appetizers.

Plantains are always hearty and sweet, so I can satisfy my sweet tooth and not feel like I am consuming empty calories.

When the fried chicken came out, I thought we had mistakenly made a double order. Four huge chicken drumsticks, nearly the size of turkey legs, were topped with the same tomato pepper onion sauce that came with the samosas. This is an appetizer made for sharing, and I was glad I came with a large party. It seems that all of the appetizers are made for more than one person, or perhaps the environment got me into the spirit of sharing my food as much as we were swapping stories.

The appetizers come in abundant portions, and the main dishes even moreso. My first choice was the ampesi with fried fish ($14). Ampesi is boiled yams (or plantain) served with a spinach stew. The digital picture of this meal displayed above the cash register does not do it justice: I expected a medium-sized filet with some spinach and plantains, but I was presented with a slab of boneless

fish on top of a wealth of savory-seasoned spinach and sweet yams.

The second entrée I ordered was the aboboi with plantains ($9). As large a dish as the ampesi, this is a vegetarian blackeyed bean stew with fried plantains on the side. The most popular meal at my table was the jollof rice with chicken ($12).

Jollof is rice cooked in the aforementioned tomato-pepper-onion medley, and the chicken is also cooked in the same mix.

The dish is simultaneously sweet and savory, and the rice has a light red hue from being infused with the vegetables and oil. And it took a lot of willpower to not lick the plate clean.

One warning: if Mohammed or Naima advise you that a soup is spicy, take them at their word. The pepper soup ($5) is delicious, but I foolishly thought that I could handle a heaping spoonful of it. The good news is I have a new go-to meal to consume when I feel a bit congested.

There is something to be said about going to a restaurant where you don’t feel rushed, where they are not trying to get you out the door as quickly as you sat down, where you can take your time and relax and chat with your fellow patrons while enjoying a bounty of food made with care. I enjoyed the food there as much as I enjoyed my conversations with Mohammed and other guests. Akwaaba is a welcome respite from the world outside. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11

Upcoming

Music

[ ACOUSTIC ]

Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds. Tuesday, June 18. CMAC. 3355 Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua. $42.50-$595. 7:30 p.m. 394-4400. cmacevents.com; davematthewsband.com. [ SOUL ]

St. Paul & The Broken Bones Friday, July 12. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park at Manhattan Square. 353 Court St. $20-$45. 5 p.m. 473-4482. rochesterevents.com.

Selwyn Birchwood Band

TUESDAY, MARCH 26 ABILENE BAR AND LOUNGE, 153 LIBERTY POLE WAY 8 P.M. | $15-$20 | ABILENEBARANDLOUNGE.COM; SELWYNBIRCHWOOD.COM [ BLUES ] Whether he’s playing a Gibson 335 or a lap steel guitar, Selwyn Birchwood owns the instrument.

His extra-long fingers are in command, making his guitar scream, shout or play the most beautiful blues lines you ever heard. Did I mention he’s a great singer and as engaging a performer as you’ll ever see? If that’s not enough, Birchwood has a killer band — Regi Oliver on baritone saxophone, bassist Donald “Huff” Wright, and Courtney Girlie on drums — that can stop on a dime or burn like a raging fire.

— BY RON NETSKY

Elias String Quartet SUNDAY, MARCH 24 KILBOURN HALL AT EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 26 GIBBS STREET 3 P.M. | $27-$38; DISCOUNT WITH UR ID | EASTMANTHEATRE.ORG; ELIASSTRINGQUARTET [ CLASSICAL ] The Elias String Quartet is among the

most polished ensembles of its kind working today. It plays with a unity and grace all its own, interpreting legato phrases and dynamic markings with great sensitivity. The group has specialized in Schumann’s three string quartets, the first of which will be played in the Elias’s Sunday concert at Kilbourn Hall. The remainder of the program will consist of two fantasias by the Baroque composer Henry Purcell and String Quartet No. 2 by 20th-century master Benjamin Britten.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

PHOTO BY ALLISON MORGAN

THE

word 50 North Plymouth Ave Tickets $25 advance $35 day of show

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REVIEWS, PREVIEWS, & RUMINATIONS FROM MUSIC WRITER FRANK DE BLASE ONLY AT ROCHESTERCITYNEWSPAPER.COM

[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]

[ WED., MARCH 20 ]

Moppa Elliott

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

‘Jazz Band/Rock Band/Dance Band’ Hot Cup Records moppaelliott.com

The Mount Pleasant String Band SATURDAY, MARCH 23 THREE HEADS BREWING, 186 ATLANTIC AVENUE 8 P.M. | $10 | THREEHEADSBREWING.COM; AARONLIPP.COM [ AMERICANA ] Local musician Aaron Lipp is a weathered soul in a young man’s body. His old-timey quartet, The Mount Pleasant String Band, embodies that feeling by combining traditional string-band instrumentation with fresh folk originality. Influenced by Appalachian bluegrass, the music is a whirling dervish of percussive string textures and bluesy melodic undertones. Saturday’s concert includes a square dance, helmed by fabled caller Margaret Matthews. The band’s lineup will consist of Lipp and Bobby Henrie on fiddle, guitarist Cap Cooke, Ben Haravitch on banjo — all sharing vocal duties — and Doug Henrie on upright bass. Lipp’s bluegrass-rockabilly troupe Aaron Lipp & The Slack Tones will play the night before.

— BY KATIE HALLIGAN

The Weight We Carry FRIDAY, MARCH 22 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $8 | BUGJAR.COM; TWWC.BANDCAMP.COM [ HARDCORE ] A frequent problem for hardcore artists is that

the music’s discernibility and dynamic subtlety tends to get lost under the weight it carries. That’s not a problem for Rochester’s The Weight We Carry. The vocals are so much more than the Cookie Monster-primal roar so many other bands rely on. And the drumming is excellent. The band is celebrating the release of its fourth and newest CD, “Vol.1.” It burns hot and heavy. The Weight We Carry plays with Soma Slumber — also celebrating a record release — as well as AASB. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

He may be best known for his work with the irreverent jazz band Mostly Other People Do the Killing, but that’s not nearly enough for Moppa Elliott. The bassist-composer is bursting with musical ideas, having just released a three-album set, “Jazz Band/Rock Band/Dance Band,” with three different groups.

Of all the music in the set, “Advancing on a Wild Pitch,” the “Jazz Band” album, is the most straightforward, even retro in approach.

But Elliott is just warming up. The “Dance Band” album, “Acceleration Due to Gravity,” is wonderfully crazed, with great sax work by Matt Nelson, Bryan Murray and Kyle Saulnier. But my favorite is “Unspeakable Garbage,” the “Rock Band” album, in which Elliott demonstrates his ability to write catchy tunes while maintaining enough of an off-kilter edge to keep his jazz cred intact.

— BY RON NETSKY

Orkestra Eustoria ‘HyperGiant Hi-Fi’ Self-released petersparacino.com

When you first encounter the impressive debut of Orkestra Eustoria, the ensemble’s name and album title, “HyperGiant Hi-Fi,” seem to perfectly fit the otherworldly sound. But the key to the band’s success lies in the expansive musical scope of this world. Founded by saxophonist Peter Sparacino in the ethnically diverse New York City borough of Queens, Orkestra Eustoria includes musicians with an international array of roots: guitarist Aki Ishiguro, keyboardist Isamu McGregor, bassist Panagiotis Andreou, and drummer Engin Gunaydin. Producer David Binney plays synthesizers and Sarpay Ozcagatay plays flute on one track.

Sparacino wrote all the tunes except the short “Intro.” In terms of time signatures, voicings and sonic textures, compositions like “InterDweller” and “Le Bumpier” beautifully reflect the myriad genres he’s been exposed to in his musical journey.

— BY RON NETSKY

Bob White & Company. The Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603. 11 a.m.

AMERICANA Mystic Stew. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 7 p.m.

BLUES

House Party of the Damned with Reverend Kingfish. The

Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 7 p.m. $5.

CLASSICAL

Live from Hochstein: Ekstasis Duo. Hochstein

Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 454-4596.

12:10 p.m.

DJ/ELECTRONIC

Parallel Radio: A Journey Through Sound.

Kaleidoscope Collective, 936 Exchange St., Building A. 484-0194. Every other Wednesday, 8 p.m. $10 suggested.

JAZZ

Margaret Explosion. Little

Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

METAL

As I Lay Dying,: Phineas, Currents, Frost Koffin.

Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520.

6 p.m. $26.50/$30.

POP/ROCK

Cave Twins. Abilene, 153

Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

8 p.m. $10.

Kat Lively, Aaron Stingray, Black Cat Harriet. Bug Jar,

219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

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Music

The Rochester band Honeymoonphase — (left to right) drummer Greg Maslyn, guitarist-vocalist Ryan Bailey, and bassist Shane McCarthy — will play Small World Books on Friday, March 22. PHOTO BY RENÉE HEININGER

Honeymoon triangle Honeymoonphase WITH TELEVISIONARIES AND ANAMON FRIDAY, MARCH 22 SMALL WORLD BOOKS, 425 NORTH STREET 9 P.M. | $5-$10 SUGGESTED DONATION FACEBOOK.COM/SMALLWORLDBOOKS; HONEYMOONPHASEMUSIC.BANDCAMP.COM [ FEATURE ] BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

The Rochester trio Honeymoonphase plays atmospheric, subtly layered music that evokes a sense of nostalgia — not for any one place or thing, but for an idealized place in the mind. With moody rock and pop overtones, Honeymoonphase is a band poised to make an impact on the local scene, beginning with its Friday show at Small World Books alongside the popular Rochester bands Anamon and Televisionaries.

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It all started over six years ago at a house show in Central Square, a village north of Syracuse. Guitarist and vocalist Ryan Bailey was visiting his friend and bandmate in the Rochester surf rock band The Huckleberry Fins. There, at an annual Central Square party for local musicians — one of the few places where bands could play in town — Bailey met his future drummer Greg Maslyn and bassist Shane McCarthy.

Maslyn and McCarthy had both grown up playing music in the same social circle.

McCarthy — who also plays bass for Mikaela Davis — was barely a teenager at that point, and Maslyn was playing in a high school art rock band called The Modells with McCarthy’s brother. “That seed was planted a long time ago,” Maslyn says of his musical chemistry with McCarthy. Maslyn and McCarthy each moved to Rochester in 2016, but it wasn’t until the summer of 2018 that the trio coalesced.

The Huckleberry Fins were a trio, a configuration Bailey wanted to stick to with Honeymoonphase. “If you’re just one person, you have total control over everything, but the sound can be kind of limiting,” he says.

“Or if you have a huge band, you have tons of sound, but there are so many different people, so many different opinions, that it kind of becomes cluttered. But I think the trio is the perfect balance, to where you can all be mentally locked in and on the same page, and also produce a large sound.”

Bailey refers to it as “the magic of the triangle.” The trio setup also resonates with Maslyn, an experienced multiinstrumentalist who had never played the drums before Honeymoonphase. The trio allows each musician to see, hear, and respond to one another, he says.

The band’s process typically involves Bailey bringing in a song idea. The musicians

begin to hash it out together. If something works, they keep going. And if something doesn’t click, they stop to talk it over and try a different approach. Maslyn points out the nonjudgmental music-making environment.

“I never feel like there’s any censorship in this band at all,” he says. “We don’t edit it to fit any kind of scene or genre.”

Honeymoonphase’s sound — with its textured melodies and chorus-pedal timbre on the guitar, and danceable, mid-tempo grooves in the rhythm section — is reminiscent of the new wave group Echo & the Bunnymen.

But Honeymoonphase doesn’t seem eager to be pigeonholed. “Don’t call us an 80’s band,” Bailey says. If he identifies the music with a particular label, it’s shoegaze. And while the songs aren’t improvised, he’s also inspired by bebop and jazz, with its melodies, chordal vocabulary, and freedom of expression.

For a group of musicians as dialed into one another as Honeymoonphase is, the band is still in its nascent stage. With only two shows in the bag, a full-length album is already on its way in the coming months.

Honeymoonphase’s quick pace makes more sense after hearing Bailey talk about the creation of the trio’s new single “Telempathy” — now on YouTube as a music video.

At a recent rehearsal, Bailey introduced a song he had just written, and after a half hour of learning it together, the trio was ready to hit the record button. After just one take, Bailey mixed and edited it, and “Telempathy” was ready for the world. The single is also notable for its instrument switcheroo: here, Maslyn takes the bass, and McCarthy plays the drums.

“When we’re playing music, we’re really just there,” Maslyn says. “We’re not thinking about what was, or what will be, but just what sounds cool right now, what’s fun right now.”

R&B/ SOUL

PSST. Out of touch? Out of tune?

Cinnamon Jones. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-8 p.m.

See our music reviews from Frank De Blase.

[ THU., MARCH 21 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Ray Mahar: An Evening of John Prine Music. Three

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

Zack Rabbet Futt, Dave Chisholm. The Daily

Refresher, 293 Alexander St. 360-4627. 7 p.m.

PHOTO PROVIDED

AMERICANA Bitter Bells. Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. rmsc.org. 6:30 p.m. SoundSense concert series. W/ museum admission: $13-$15.

Peg Leg Ida. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 9 p.m.

BLUES

Hannah PK. The Rabbit Room, 61 N. Main St. Honeoye Falls. 582-1830.

6:30 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Italian Baroque Organ Concert. Memorial Art Gallery,

500 University Ave. 2768900. Third Thursday of every month, 7:30 p.m. w/ gallery admission.

Zarathustra. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m. $24-$106.

SINGER-SONGWRITER | SAM NITSCH

It’s almost as fun just watching Sam Nitsch perform as it is listening to him. With mad scientist-like genius, he goes on a veritable musical spree via loops to construct sweet swirling patterns and myriad melodies. At times, the technical end threatens to get a little ahead of him, and a certain degree of calamity ensues. There’s a lot going on up there for just one musician to handle, but Nitsch’s charm and talent prevail. The music’s not necessarily in your face, but it’s rather amazing just the same.

Sam Nitsch plays Saturday, March 23, 8 p.m. at The Little Theatre Café, 240 East Avenue. Free. 258-4000. thelittle.org/ music; samnitschmusic.com.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

AMERICANA

DJ/ELECTRONIC

Aaron Lipp & The Slack Tones. Three Heads Brewing,

Signal > Noise: Spellbound.

186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $10.

POP/ROCK

Free Casino, Walrus Junction. Abilene, 153 Liberty

Pole Way. 232-3230. 8 p.m. $5.

Liam Alone. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

Strange Standard, Stereo Nest, Darb Jansen, KitB. Bug

BLUES

Genesee Johnny Trio.

Johnny’s Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. 8 p.m.

Mojo Monkeyz. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

5:30 p.m.

Steve Grills & The Roadmasters. Abilene, 153

Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar. com. 9 p.m. $7/$9.

Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

9 p.m. $5.

TRADITIONAL Crossmolina. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 2580400. 7 p.m.

CLASSICAL

[ FRI., MARCH 22 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Jackson Cavalier, Cory Statt, Joe Kaplan. Temple Bar &

Grille, 109 East Ave. 2326000. 10 p.m.

Marty Roberts. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 4-7 p.m.

Steve Lyons. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3153003. 5-7 p.m.

Brockport Symphony Orchestra. The Clover Center for Arts & Spirituality, 1101 Clover St. 402-8126. 7:30 p.m.

Eastman Wind Orchestra.

Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m.

Faculty Recital: Kimberly Upcraft, soprano. Nazareth

College Wilmot Recital Hall, 4245 East Avenue. 389-2700.

7:30 p.m.

HochStrings: Haydn’s Farewell Symphony.

Hochstein Chapel, 50 N. Plymouth Ave. 5:45 p.m.

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The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 9 p.m. $5.

JAZZ

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202.

7:30-10 p.m.

Marco Amadio. Pane Vino, 175 N. Water St. 232-6090.

6:30 p.m.

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

Ted Nicolosi & Shared Genes. Argyle Grill, 4344 Nine

Mile Point Rd. 377-5200. 7 p.m.

Trio East. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 8 p.m.

METAL

Signal The Fire. Montage

Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 7:30 p.m. $8/$10 Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 7:30 p.m. $8/$10.

The Weight We Carry, Soma Slumber, AASB, Citizens Against People. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

9 p.m. $8.

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PSST. Trying to see more live music?

Of course you are. Our music calendar is here to help.

POP/ROCK

The Byways, Kitestring.

Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 8:30 p.m. $5.

Dave Riccioni & Friends. M’s 4300 Bar & Grill, 4300 Culver Road. 467-2750. Fourth Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

Dirty Pennies, Late Earth, Periodic Table of Elephants, The Stone Lows.

ARTISANworks, 565 Blossom Rd. 288-7170. 7 p.m. $10-$25.

Fistful of Rage. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 4510047. 9 p.m. Rage Against the Machine tribute. $10.

Jumbo Shrimp. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 8 p.m.

Justin Williams & Forward Progress. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke

Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 2925544. 9 p.m.

Mr. Mustard. Bar Louie, 98 Greece Ridge Center Dr. 797-1054. 8 p.m.

Spring Equinox Strings of Spring. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. 8 p.m. $12-$20.

PHOTO BY MARGOT SCHULMAN

JAZZ | NATHAN KAY SEXTET

Sometimes you just can’t hold a student back. Trumpeter Nathan Kay is a senior at the Eastman School of Music, brimming with his own jazz compositions, so he’s assembled a sextet to play his tunes at the Bop Shop. Not surprisingly, Kay found most of his bandmates right on Gibbs Street. He’ll be joined by fellow Eastman senior Drew Voghel on tenor saxophone, Master’s student Stephen Morris on drums; doctoral student Matt Landon playing guitar, Eastman graduate Max Greenberg on piano and bassist Mikailo Kasha.

Nathan Kay Sextet performs Tuesday, March 26, 8 p.m. at The Televisionaries, Anamon, Honeymoon Phase. Small World Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Avenue. $5-$10. 737-0137. bopshop.com.

Books, 425 North St. 8 p.m.

— BY RON NETSKY Todd Bradley. Fanatics Pub & Pizza, 7281 W Main St. Lima.

624-2080. 7 p.m.

Vinyl. 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Rd. 247-0079.

9 p.m.

Joe Beard & His Band. B-Side,

5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3153003. 8 p.m.

VOCALS

URTrebellious. Boulder Coffee, 100 Alexander St. 454-7140.

8 p.m.

[ SAT., MARCH 23 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Brody George Schenk. Starry

Nites Café, 696 University Ave. 271-2630. 8 p.m.

Mary Monroe. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 6410340. 7 p.m. No cover charge.

Sam Nitsch. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 8 p.m.

IN PRINT & ONLINE

Val Fowler, Greg Franklin, JAVA, Laurence Sugarman.

Calvary St. Andrews, 68 Ashland St. 546-3903. 7 p.m.

AMERICANA

Mount Pleasant String Band.

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CLASSICAL

Cheng-Chow Trio. Kilbourn Hall,

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

Faculty Spotlight: Priscilla Yuen, Mark Kellogg, & Ted Fennell. Allen Chapel, Schmitt

Interfaith Center, RIT, One Lomb Memorial Drive.

475-4292. 2 p.m.

Zarathustra. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 8 p.m. $24-$106.

COUNTRY

Memories of Patsy. Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St. Geneva. thesmith.org. 8 p.m. $29-$39.

DJ/ELECTRONIC Dr OZI, Cherney. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 9 p.m. $19.

Urban Choice Charter School Silent Disco. The Penthouse,

Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224.

8 p.m. $10.

1 East Ave. 288-5702. 8 p.m. $25/$30.

BLUES

JAZZ

Eliza Neals & The Narcotics.

Fanatics Pub & Pizza, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080.

8 p.m. $20.

The Annie Wells Trio. Via

Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340.

7 p.m.

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s,

1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202.

7:30-10 p.m.

The Klick. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. 9 p.m.

Ted Nicolosi & Shared Genes. Embark Craft Cider

Works, 6895 Lake Ave. Williamson. 589-8099. 7 p.m.

METAL

Saints & Winos, Chrmr, The Good Lords. The Spirit Room,

139 State St. 397-7595.

9 p.m.

Tyranitar, Halothane, Wandering Oak, Eternal Crypt. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Bob Bunce & Rural Delivery.

Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 8 p.m. $7.

Bob Olson& Lauren Faggiano.

B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane.

Fairport. 315-3003. 5-7 p.m.

Brass Taxi. 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Rd. 247-0079. 8:30 p.m.

CatNine. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. 9 p.m.

Jack West. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

8:30 p.m. $5.

[ TUE., MARCH 26 ] BLUES

Selwyn Birchwood Band.

Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 8 p.m. $15/$20.

CLASSICAL

Chamber Percussion Ensemble. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-1000.

7:30 p.m.

Royal Opera House: La Traviata. Little Theatre, 240

PHOTO BY KAIJA STRAUMANIS

POP/LITERATURE | THE CARIBBEAN/BRIAN WOOD

This week a literary-experimental pop mashup event will be presented at Nox’s low key lounge environment. Kick off your weekend with a cocktail, tunes, and storytelling at the story/ stereo event featuring a reading by Rochester-based writer Brian Wood, bookended by musical sets by DC-based band The Caribbean. Formed in 1999, The Caribbean is a pop-infused outfit that shifts between gentle acoustic bops and floaty, textural, jazzy jams such as “Vitamin Ship.” Wood will read from his forthcoming first book, a collection of stories titled “Joytime Killbox” (BOA Editions).

Friday, March 22, 7 to 10 p.m. at Nox Cocktail Lounge, 302 Goodman Street North. Free. facebook.com.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

The Shakin’ Bones. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090.

10 p.m.

Salon Concert. Rochester

East Ave. 413-5745.

8 p.m. $12-$20.

Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Ave. raom.org. 2 p.m. $10-$35.

Schola Cantorum Compline.

Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. 9-9:30 p.m.

Teagan & the Tweeds, Significant Other. Iron Smoke

JAZZ

Spring Equinox Strings of Spring. Flour City Station, 170

Distillery, 111 Parce Ave Suite 5b. Fairport.

388-7584. 8:30 p.m. $7.

[ SUN., MARCH 24 ] CLASSICAL

Bach in the Subways. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 6 p.m.

Eastman Community Music School. George Eastman

Museum, 900 East Ave. eastman.org. 3 p.m. $5-$15.

Elias String Quartet. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 3 p.m. $28-$45.

Faculty Recital: Wilmot Brass Quintet. Nazareth College

Wilmot Recital Hall, 4245 East Avenue.

389-2700. 3 p.m.

Finger Lakes Concert Band.

Hochstein at Canandaigua, 435 East Street. Canandaigua.

396-3778. hochstein.org/ canandaigua. 3 p.m. $5.

Royal Opera House: La Traviata.

Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. noon. $18/$20.

East Ave. thelittle.org. 6 p.m. $18/$20.

Tuesday Pipes. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878.

12-12:45 p.m.

JAZZ

Grove Place Jazz Project.

Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370.

7 p.m. $10.

The Rita Collective. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Cantelope, Toward Space.

Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $5.

MUAH, Harmonica Lewinsky, Big Jazz Small Band. Swan Dive, 289 Alexander St. 413-3306. 7 p.m. $8/$10.

TRADITIONAL

Celtic Woman. Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. rbtl.org. 7 p.m. $42+.

Kidd Kyle & The Big Deal.

The Daily Refresher, 293 Alexander St. 360-4627. 5-7 p.m.

Marco Amadio. Pane Vino, 175 N. Water St. 232-6090.

5 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Sam Nitsch. Via Girasole Wine

Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

[ MON., MARCH 25 ] CLASSICAL

Eastman School Symphony Orchestra: David Jacobs, conductor. Kilbourn Hall, 26

Gibbs St. 274-1000. 7:30 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Big Steve Parish, Dark Hollow Duo. The Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 413-1125. 7 p.m. $25.

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Literature Literature as ‘weaponized empathy’ [ INTERVIEW ] BY RACHEL CRAWFORD

Writers & Books’ 2019 selection for its Rochester Reads series is “American War,” the debut novel by Egyptian-Canadian investigative journalist Omar El Akkad. The work follows protagonist Sarat Chestnut, beginning in the year 2075, when the country is enmeshed in civil war, fossil fuels have been prohibited, and American citizens fear suicide bombers and take shelter in refugee camps. Sarat’s development into a young woman is cultivated by the loss and trauma she endures during the war. El Akkad will be in town March 26 to March 29 for a series of readings, book signings, and book talks (more info at wab.org). CITY spoke via phone with El Akkad in advance of his Rochester visit. An edited version of the interview follows.

CITY: How did investigative journalism influence your fiction or vice versa?

Omar El Akkad: Fiction was always my first

home. I went to school for computer science which very quickly turned out to be a bad idea. I did discover the student newspaper and ended up applying for a position there, and spent the rest of my time at the university living at the student newspaper. Then I worked my way up to editor in chief and built my portfolio up so that I was able to apply for a job at a daily newspaper the year I graduated. I got very lucky and then got a full-time offer at the end of that internship. I was there for the next ten years.

So journalism afforded me a chance to make a living writing and the chance to get an education I would have never have gotten.

I got to go to places like Guantanamo and Afghanistan and the Middle East. And I also got to work with some of the best editors in the country. In a sense, fiction was always my first love. I wrote three novels before I wrote “American War.” In the 10 years that I was a journalist I wrote those, but I didn’t try to publish them or try to show them to anybody. I saw them as sit-ups, working muscles. Many of the scenes in “American War” are influenced by what I saw as an investigative journalist. But also the writing 20 CITY MARCH 20 - 26, 2019

itself was influenced by how writing at a newspaper sort of changes your view of getting ideas across in your writing.

What existing or potential policies could devastate the country into a state of civil war? The novel mentions fossil fuels, but is there anything else?

The book as I intended it was never about a literal American war. Or that if there were one, that it would ever go down like it does in the book. It’s hard for me to conceive of a second civil war when there’s so many signs across this country that the first one never really ended. So I think one of the side effects of this book coming out four months into the Trump administration is that it’s much easier to make a sort of literal forecast when that wasn’t the mindset I was in when I wrote it a couple of years earlier.

We talk about the notion of what policies could result in that kind of devastation.

There are certain communities in this country that are already experienceing elements of that level of devastation — they’re just not communities that have much of a voice. When you talk about the criminal justice system for example, that’s a very asymmetric system. It’s just lives of people who don’t have much of a voice. So, you know, my sense is that I don’t think that we are that close to a moment where America turns its drones and heavy artillery on itself.

But I do think of a much more, quieter, civil war that’s been going on for decades. The victims are some of the most marginalized populations in this country.

What’s the significance of the Bouazizi Empire — which consists of North Africa and the Middle East — becoming the new superpower, particularly in relation to the Fifth Spring that’s mentioned?

The central trick in the book, which is not a particularly clever trick, is inversion. To flip things on their heads. And so at a time when the United States, which is now obviously the world’s greatest empire, is in decline, I decided to create a sort of rival empire that was on the upswing. And so the empire’s named the Bouazizi Empire, after Mohamad

Egyptian-Canadian investigative journalist Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, “American War,” is the 2019 pick for Wrtiters & Books’ Rochester Reads series. El Akkad will be in Rochester March 26 to March 29 for a series of readings, signings, and talks. PHOTO BY MICHAEL LIONSTAR

Bouazizi who was a fruit and vegetable stall owner, a Tunisian guy, who set himself on fire after being harassed by local police. And his death catalyzed the Arab Spring. He was a real guy, and so I had this empire that’s now named after him.

I imagine that there’s been one failed Arab Spring, and I imagine another four, and finally after the fifth one it’s successful.

When it came time to figure out how I was going to create this empire, all I did was take the creation story of the United States.

So what you have is a group of people who

come from different backgrounds, all rising up against tyranny, forcing a revolution, and many states creating a single empire. So really all I did was take the creation story of the United States and apply to the other side of the world. I wanted a story where the United States was the receiving empire of another’s machination.

This idea of inversion is present in a couple of different ways in the novel. Religion plays a pretty large role in the story, specifically Catholicism. When you’re talking about

inversion does this apply to the idea of religious extremism as well?

One of the things I was trying to do was to get at the levers of extremism. To take someone to that place that otherwise you or I would not be inclined to go to. And religion seems to be one of those touchstones. Where if you could find someone who is apt to be manipulated that way, it becomes a really easy way to manipulate them. And so I was thinking about this because I spent a lot of time covering terrorism in journalism. And one of the things I would consistently come across was this notion of a kind of emotional lubricant. This thing that caused, or made it much easier, for someone to go down this road.

And religion was one of those things, but also one of many things. In some ways it was social isolation, which was a form of leverage. It’s the same thing when you find someone who is religious but doesn’t feel that they’re doing right by their religion or feels insecure about their religion. So it’s important for me to highlight that religion was one of those buttons that you could push to get someone to go down an ugly road. But it’s not the only button.

So that’s one of the balancing acts of the book. If you focus exclusively on religion you get to a place where people think that’s the only factor driving someone to extremism and I know from experience that that’s not the case.

As for the sense of inversion with respect to the actual religion, when I first started, I was looking for analogs to the kind of religions that I saw in the Middle East, and I was thinking of ways to flip that, but then it occurred to me that I wouldn’t have to think analogously about it. Because if you look at a place like Ireland, you’ll see religious extremism very much based on a Christian worldview. So it wasn’t nearly as analogous as I thought going into it. Because there are plenty of forms of religious extremism.

I’m curious about Sarat’s development. As a child she has this visceral relationship to the soil. She’s always digging in it, touching it, she’s even buried in the mud at one point.

She has a fascination with life: turtles, worms, plants. Then she turns into a violent woman who holds a gun and kills.

The book started with a kind of thesis statement. It started as an argument: there’s no such thing as a foreign kind of suffering.

Some of us just have the privilege of believing otherwise. But a novel isn’t just a thesis

statement. And one day this little girl shows up. The six year-old girl who pours honey into the knot of the wood on her porch -- that image shows up. And once it does, everything else takes a back seat. Her defining characteristics are a kind of endless, fearless curiosity. But also this trusting nature. She wants to know as much as she can about the world around her, but she also believes the things that people tell her.

As the book progresses, every time she’s subjected to damage, her circle of trust closes a bit.

When we first meet her, her circle of trust almost encompasses the entirety of the world.

Then slowly it’s just close friends and family.

And then just certain members of friends and family. And then finally by the end of the book the only thing she trusts is her own sense of revenge.

And that closing-in of things is kind of the central, emotional narrative of the book. The emotional arc of the book is how she responds to being damaged.

By the end of the book, I didn’t want a character who people would apologize for, sympathize with, or even like. Sarat at the end of the book is not a character I like.

The only thing I wanted was for people to understand how she gets to the place she ends up. Because when we talk about extremists or people who end up doing horrible things, we tend to only talk about the finish line, and American War is an attempt to show the rest of the race, leading up to it. You see the transition, the slowness, the meticulous nature of that transition.

As a journalist you covered the Black Lives Matter protests in the States, and you researched post-Katrina Louisiana. You seem to have a really good understanding of how disparity of wealth, platform, and voice function in America. Where is race in “American War”?

Almost everything in the book is a kind of analogy to something else. The America in which this book takes place is not a literal America, it’s an analogous America.

When I was trying to think of analogy to the first Civil War, I knew I wasn’t going to find anything of the same level of sheer human brutality as the causes of the first. But climate change and fossil fuels seemed to work as an analogy to something that, in the future, we could point back to and say, “I can’t believe how wrong they were back then. If it was me, I would’ve stood up and done something about it.”

A lot of it, when I was dealing with issues with race, was the metaphorical and the negative space or the analogous. So a lot of times when I’m talking about climate change in the book I’m not really talking about climate change. But I completely failed to do this because no one has come up to me and said, “Oh, climate change is an analogy for race relations” — that’s not the failure of the reader, it’s mine as a writer to not make that work.

The other side of it has to do with the notion of negative space. For example, with respect to Sarat’s sexuality. She is who she is and she doesn’t feel the need to justify it or talk about it. And I was thinking a lot, as somebody who’s a brown immigrant in this country, about what I want my rights to be with respect to my identity. And what I want

is the right to talk about — or not talk about — my identity as much as I want. And trying to get at that negative space, as a kind of right, is a difficult thing to do.

If I had written a book about a literal American civil war in which this United States was the center focus, I think almost the entirety of the book would have been concerned with race. That’s not the book I was writing. The book I was writing was an inversion of something we see much more readily in another direction.

I think a lot of the issues of what is or isn’t in the book, particularly with respect to race, boil down to the notion that America as an entity is largely ignored in this book — which is a weird thing to say about a book called “American War” that takes place in the United States. If this were 100 years earlier I would have called it British War. What was important was to set this in the dominant empire.

The questions you say you’re getting seem to be about the didactic, explicit talk about race. But you just mentioned negative space.

In “Playing in the Dark,” Toni Morrison talks about how we know whether a character is black or white in a novel: We know a character is black because it’s said very plainly, we know a character is white because nothing is said at all. The silence presumes whiteness. It looks like there’s something very clever about the inversion of silence or negative space. At what point to do we turn that around?

Yeah, I mean, I’ve been Arab all my life. I’d been Muslim pretty well all my life. But I wasn’t brown until I came to this part of the world. You show up to this part of the world and there’s an inversion of your default view of it. But what I realized becomes a more important part of the equation is what America thinks of me. And a big part of that is completely out of my hands. I still don’t know what it means to be capital-B “Brown.” That’s a terminology that is entirely new to me. It might be the case that I’m still coming to terms about how to think about that in a way that isn’t just me reacting in a knee-jerk way. I want to retain that right to just be able to say: I have things to say about being an immigrant, I have things to say about being a Muslim, I have things to say about being an Arab, but I also have things to say about a lot of other things, too.

An extended version of this interview is online at rochestercitynewspaper.com. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 21

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KIDS | SUPERHEROES WEEKEND

Kids can meet two of their favorite superheroes this weekend as The Strong Museum of Play continues its Superheroes Weekend series, this time featuring Black Panther and Spider-Man. Chat with Wakanda’s hero on Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Spidey will swing in to say hey on Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. Both heroes will be available for free pictures at designated times, which visitors can sign up for by picking up a free ticket in the Adams Atrium the day of each event. Additional activities will be available on Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m., and include drawing and writing tips from professionals in the comic book industry, a superhero accessories-making station, a superhero skills training camp, and information about local comic conventions.

Saturday, March 23, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, March 24, noon to 4 p.m. at The Strong, One Manhattan Square. Included in museum admission: $16; free to members and kids under age 2. 263-2700; museumofplay.org.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Arts & Performance Art Exhibits [ CONTINUING ] ART EXHIBITS 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Sutherland at the 1570. Through March 31, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. 546-8400.

540WMain, 540 W Main St. Caitlin Bittner. Through March 31.

AXOM Gallery, 176 Anderson Ave, 2nd Flr. Lin Price: Heart Doesn’t Know Rules. TuesdaysSaturdays. Through Apr 23. axomgallery.com.

Bridge Art Gallery, URMC, 300 Crittenden Blvd. Everybody Has a Story. Through May 31.

Reception Apr 3 4:30-6pm.

275-3571.

Central Library, Local History & Genealogy Division, Rundel Memorial Building, 115 South Ave. Remembering Lewis Henry Morgan. Through March 30.

428-8370.

Cobblestone Arts Center, 1622 NY 332. Kenneth Kuzia: Restyled Digital Photography.

Mondays-Fridays. Through Apr 28. 389-0220.

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Create Art 4 Good, 1115 E. Main St., Suite #203, Door #5. Andrew Dumar: Layers of Illusion. Wed., March 20, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Thu., March 21, 3-7 p.m., Fri., March 22, 2-5 p.m. and Sat., March 23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Through Mar 23.

210-3161.

Dansville ArtWorks Gallery, 178 Main Street. Dansville.

Juried Photography Exhibit.

Thursdays-Saturdays.

Through Apr 26. 335-4746.; Mert Wager Retrospective.

Thursdays-Saturdays.

Through May 26. 335-4746.; Space. Through April 12.

Exhibits May 3. 335-4746.

Davis Gallery at Houghton House, 1 King’s Lane. Geneva.

Now What?! Advocacy, Activism & Alliances in American Architecture Since 1968. Through April 12. hws.edu/davisgallery.

Davison Gallery, Cultural Life Center, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr. All Student Exhibition. Through March 22. 594-6442.

Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. Wall-to-Wall: 2019 Members Exhibition. Mondays, Tuesdays, ThursdaysSaturdays. Through Mar 30.

244-1730.

Friendly Home’s Memorial Gallery, 3156 East Ave. Tracie Doerner: To the Mountains & Back. Through March 31, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Watercolors.

789-3152.

Gallery Q, 100 College Ave. Larson Shindelman: Dear Jeff.

Mondays-Fridays. Through May 26. 244-8640.

Ganondagan State Historic Site, 7000 County Road 41.

Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women: From the Time of Creation. TuesdaysSundays, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $3$8. ganondagan.org.

Geisel Gallery, Second Floor Rotunda, Legacy Tower, One Bausch & Lomb Place. Paul Brandwein: Forces at Play.

Mondays-Fridays. Through Apr 27. thegeiselgallery.com.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. #LarsonShindelman #Mobilize. Tuesdays-Sundays.

Through May 26. $5-$15. eastman.org/larsonshindelmanmobilize.; Nathan Lyons: In Pursuit of Magic. TuesdaysSundays. Through June 9. $5$15. eastman.org.; A History of Photography. TuesdaysSundays. Through April 21. $5-$15. eastman.org.

GO ART!, 201 E Main St. Batavia. Photography by David Miner. Through April 6. Reception Mar 21, 6-8pm. goart.org.; Third Annual Juried Show: Art of the Rural. Thursdays-Saturdays.

Reception Mar 21, 6-8pm.

Through May 4. goart.org.

Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Through the Student Lens 2019.

Tuesdays-Sundays. Reception Mar 22, 5-8:30pm. Through Apr 14. 271-2540.

INeRT PReSS, 1115 East Main St. Society Ladies. Thu., March 21, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Through Mar 28. 482-0931.

International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Marcella Gillenwater: Sunlit Birches.

Through March 31. 264-1440.

Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. Looking at Nature Through Imagery & Abstraction: Paintings by David F Burke & Daniel Hogan. Through March 23. 258-0400.

Lockhart Gallery at SUNY Geneseo, 28 Main St. Works on Paper from the Series: 16 Times 8 Equals One. Wednesdays-Saturdays.

Through May 4. 245-5813.

Lumiere Photo, 100 College Ave. A Bold Maneuver: New Works by CRUK FUA. Through March 30. 461-4447.

Main Street Arts, 20 W. Main St., Clifton Springs. Robert Ernst Marx: Silent Voices…

Silent Rooms. TuesdaysSaturdays. Through March 29.

(315) 462-0210.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Modern Czech Photography: A Portfolio.

Wednesdays-Sundays. Through March 31. $5-$15. 276-8900.; Lessons of the Hour: Frederick Douglass. WednesdaysSundays. Through May 12.

276-8900.

Mill Art Center & Gallery, 61 N Main St. Honeoye Falls.

Works on Paper. WednesdaysSaturdays. Through Mar 30.

624-7740.

My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt Hope Ave. Sherry Davis: The Watercolor Experience.

Through March 31. 546-8400.

NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. Installation for Three Masters: Hidden Gems.

Mondays-Saturdays. Through Apr 20. Igor Kolombatovic, Henry Newman, Claire Bergman,. rit.edu/ntid/dyerarts.

The Owl House, 75 Marshall St. Peeled. Through March 31, 6-9 p.m. Robert Abplanalp, Chloe Loomis, & Alexandria Mockbee.

360-2920.

Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. Legacy. Tuesdays-Fridays.

Reception Mar 23, 5:307:30pm. Through Apr 20. oxfordgallery.com.

RIT City Art Space, 280 East Main St. Just Folks: Ten Years of 1975 & Wall\Therapy Curation. Thursdays-Sundays, 1-5 p.m. Artist talk Mar 23, 11:30am. Through Mar 23. cityartspace.rit.edu.

Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. Bridging the Gap: Seneca Art Across Generations. Through March 31. $13-$15. rmsc.org.

Roz Steiner Art Gallery, GCC, 1 College Rd. Emerge: Student Showcase. Mondays-Fridays.

Reception Mar 21 12:30-2pm.

Through Apr 4. genesee.edu/gallery.

Studio 402, 250 N Goodman St, #402. Nancy Valle & Peter Veitch: Twenty Years Later.

Through March 24.

Tower Fine Arts Center, 180 Holley St. Brockport. BFA Thesis Exhibition. Through March 29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

395-2787.

UR Rush Rhees Library, 755 Library Rd. Sit In. Walk Out. Stand Up: University Activism, 1962-73. Through June 1.

275-5804.

Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. Sequential Considerations. MondaysFridays. Through Apr 13. vsw. org.; Elizabeth Moran: Laying Bare the Long Sought. Through April 6. vsw.org.

Whitman Works Co., 1826 Penfield Rd. Penfield. Orange Sky Creations: The Mantra Series. Through March 30.

747-9999.

William Harris Gallery, 3rd Floor Gannett Hall, RIT. Amalgamation. Through March 23. 475- 2716.

Williams Gallery at First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd. Steven W. Justice: Light Sources. Mondays-Fridays.

Through Apr 15.

The Yards, 50-52 Public Market.

Politits Art Coalition: Place Setting. Saturdays. Through Mar 23. attheyards.com.

Call for Artists [ WED., MARCH 20 ] 6x6x2019. Through April 14.

Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. Through Apr 14 461-2222.

Clothesline Festival. Through March 31. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Event Sep 7 & 8 276-8900. clothesline. rochester.edu.

Les Petits: Small Works.

Through April 13. Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery, 71 S. Main St Canandaigua Donations for Springtime in Canandaigua exhibit, showing Apr 27-8 3940030. prrgallery.com.

Art Events [ THU., MARCH 21 ] DeTOUR: Badass Babes. 6 p.m.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900.

Gallery Talk: Joan Lyons & Jamie M. Allen. 6 p.m. George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. $5-$15. eastman.org.

Megan May: Art and the Feminine. 6:30 p.m. Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. 271-5920.

Panel Discussion with Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists.

5:30 p.m. RIT City Art Space, 280 East Main St cityartspace.rit.edu.

Sequence Symposium. 2-7 p.m.

Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. vsw.org. [ FRI., MARCH 22 ] Curator’s Gallery Talk. 1 p.m.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. $5-$15. eastman.org.

Visualizing Data in the Arts. 9 a.m.-noon. UR Rush Rhees Library, 755 Library Rd Keynote 4pm. Reception 5pm 275-5804. [ SAT., MARCH 23 ] Folks Just Talkin’. 11:30 a.m.

RIT City Art Space, 280 East Main St Just Folks exhibit closing cityartspace.rit.edu.

Open House. 1-4 p.m. WOC Art Collaborative, 215 Tremont St., Door 3, Suite 300 .

Sign Language Tour: The Historic Mansion. 11 a.m.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. $5-$15. eastman.org. [ SUN., MARCH 24 ] Neil Montanus: Gallery Talk & Photo Walk. 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. kodakcenter.com. [ MON., MARCH 25 ] Museum Mondays for Seniors: Butterfly Garden Experience.

Every other Monday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $10.

263-2700.

Comedy [ WED., MARCH 20 ] Laughter is the Best Medicine.

7 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd Benefits Pluta Cancer Center Foundation $20.

426-6339.

[ THU., MARCH 21 ] Jay Mohr. 7:30 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $15-$25. 426-6339. [ SAT., MARCH 23 ] 6th Annual Gilda’s Cup. 6 p.m.

St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Ave $3-$10.

Nuts & Bolts: Child’s Play. 8 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $10. 426-6339. [ MON., MARCH 25 ] Comedy Open Mic. Last Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

Writers & Books, 740 University Ave wab.org.

Dance Events [ FRI., MARCH 22 ] Indulgence Dance Crew: Mean Girls Edition. 8:30 p.m. UR, Strong Auditorium, River Campus $3/$5.

Rochester City Ballet: Dangerous Liaisons. 8 p.m.

Callahan Theater at Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave $37-$47. 389-2170 8 p.m. Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave $37$47. 389-2170.

Theater Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End. Tuesdays-Fridays, 7 p.m., Saturdays, 2:30 & 7 p.m. and Sundays, 3 & 7:30 p.m Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd $34+. gevatheatre.org.

The Hornets’ Nest Reading Series: Lines in the Dust.

Mon., March 25, 7 p.m. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd Fielding Stage gevatheatre.org.

Into the Woods. Fri., March 22, 7 p.m., Sat., March 23, 2 & 7 p.m. and Sun., March 24, 2 p.m. Cobblestone Theatre, 1622 State Rte 332.

Farmington $15/$20.

398-0220.

The Lesson: 2+2+7. March 26-30, 7:30 p.m. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave $15.

Magic Night at The Lyric. Sat., March 23, 8 p.m. Lyric Theatre, 440 East Ave $15-$37.50.

The Maids. Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., March 24, 2 p.m Bread & Water Theatre, 172 W Main St $8$14. 538-9684.

Mauritius. Fridays, 8 p.m., Sat., March 23, 7 p.m. and Sundays, 2 p.m Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St $28.50-$36.50.

454-1260.

Survivors. Sat., March 23, 8 p.m. and Sun., March 24, 2 p.m. JCC Hart Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Ave. $18. 461-2000.

Theater Audition [ FRI., MARCH 22 ] Mama Mia! Auditions. 6:30 p.m. Harvester 56 Theater, 56 Harvester Ave Batavia bataviaplayers.org.

Superheroes Weekend. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $16. 263-2700. [ SUN., MARCH 24 ] Musical Mystery Tour. 2-4 p.m.

Hochstein School of Music & Dance, 50 N. Plymouth Ave. 454-4596. hochstein.org.

They Called Her Vivaldi. 3 p.m.

Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St . Geneva For ages 7+ $6.50. thesmith.org.

World Frog Day. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St W/ zoo admission 336-7213.

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SPECIAL EVENT | MAPLE SUGAR FESTIVAL

FILM | ‘BLADE RUNNER’ & ‘BLADE RUNNER 2049’

I’d love to know how humans figured out that boiled tree blood is tasty. Specifically speaking, the process of making maple sugar and syrup has a long history in our region. This month, the Genesee Country Village & Museum will host events celebrating the sweet stuff during the final two weekends in March. The Maple Sugar Festival features educational Maple History Trail walks, a trip to the sugarhouse to see a modern sap evaporator in action, demos and crafts in the Historic Village, maple goods for sale, Native American storytellers (11:15 a.m. and 2:15 p.m. each day), and an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast (9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day). And a 21-and-over Maple Sugar Soiree will be held on the last Friday of the month, featuring a happy hour in the Nature Center, tours, tastings of sweet and savory maple treats, games, music, and a fire performance troupe.

Last week I read a spooky article about Facebook’s “Codec Avatars,” virtual reality versions of us that look and move exactly like the real thing. And though AI has yet to pass the Turing test, it’s not for lack of science’s efforts. So, as we’re still safely in the fiction part of sci-fi, we can keep on using art to imagine how we’ll tackle all of the morally-ambiguous implications of this science. This weekend, The Little Theatre and Writers & Books will co-present a back-to-back screening of Ridley Scott’s classic 1982 neo-noir film “Blade Runner” and Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 tech-noir sequel “Blade Runner 2049.” Ryan Gosling stars as blade runner Agent K, an LAPD cooperative who’s unearthed a dangerous secret that sends him searching for the missing Agent Deckard (Harrison Ford).

The Maple Sugar Festival takes place Saturdays and Sundays, March 23-24 and March 30-31, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.

Festival admission is $10; free to museum members and kids under 17. Pancake Breakfast tickets are $10; $8 for kids under 17. The 21-and-over Maple Sugar Soiree will be held on Friday, March 29, 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $50; $45 for museum members. All events take place at Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Road, in Mumford. 294-8280; gcv.org.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Activism [ THU., MARCH 21 ] Teachers Demand Prison Industry Divestment. 7 p.m.

Rochester Community TV (RCTV15), 21 Gorham St. 3251238. rctv15.org. [ FRI., MARCH 22 ] Change the Narrative: Women on Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. 2-8 p.m. Wallace Library, 1 Lomb Memorial Dr. [ SAT., MARCH 23 ] Everybody Eats Community Potluck. 4:30-6:30 p.m. Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St. 466-4733.

Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/Serve Food. 3:30-6 p.m. St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality, 402 South Ave. 232-3262.

[ SUN., MARCH 24 ] Dinner for Peace. 7 p.m. UR Douglass Commons, Feldman Ballroom, 500 Wilson Blvd Live music & performance. Benefits Education for a Peaceful Middle East, Inc 275-9390.

Mass Incarceration: An Urgent Legislative Agenda. 12:30-2 p.m. First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd 503-5301.

Sunday Forum: Solar in Your Neighborhood, From Rooftops to Vacant Plots. 9:45 a.m.

Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh St. Brian Buzby, Ampion 325-4000. [ MON., MARCH 25 ] Climate Change: Paths for Solutions. 7-9 p.m. Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Ave lwv-rma.org. [ TUE., MARCH 26 ] Introduction to Gentrification.

6:30-8:30 p.m. 540WMain, 540 W Main St $10.

420-8439.

Saturday, March 23. “Blade Runner” screens at 6 p.m.; “Blade Runner 2049” goes on at 8:30 p.m. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue. $9 for both films, $7 each film ($5 each for W&B members; Little member deals also apply). 258-0400; thelittle.org.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Festivals [ SAT., MARCH 23 ] Maple Sugar Festival & Pancake Breakfast. 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford gcv.org.

Maple Weekend. Various, New York State mapleweekend. nysmaple.com. [ SUN., MARCH 24 ] Maple Sugar Festival & Pancake Breakfast. 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford gcv.org.

Maple Weekend. Various, New York State mapleweekend. nysmaple.com.

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Kids Events [ WED., MARCH 20 ] Book & Beast. 11-11:30 a.m.

Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Free w/Zoo admission.

336-7213.

[ SAT., MARCH 23 ] Nyle DiMarco. 8 p.m. UR Douglass Commons, Feldman Ballroom, 500 Wilson Blvd $10. 275-9390. [ SUN., MARCH 24 ] Charles Lowe: Historic Trolley Cars Now at Museums & the Rochester Subway. 1 p.m. NY Museum of Transportation, 6393 E. River Rd $3/$4.

Recreation

[ TUE., MARCH 26 ] Journey Into the World of Sound & Music. 2 p.m. Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. Exhibit Tours for Adults. Registration: 697-1942 $3-$18. rmsc.org.

Opera Guild of Rochester Lecture Series. 7-9 p.m.

Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 784-5310.

The World Turned Upside Down: Imagining and Caricaturing Women’s Rights in the United States. 12:45 p.m. FLCC, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr Andrea R. Foroughi , Union College.

Lecture Hall 2775.

[ SAT., MARCH 23 ] Guided Walking Tour. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mount Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mt Hope Ave. South entrance $5. fomh.org.

Special Events [ WED., MARCH 20 ] Birds & Brews. 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E rochesterbirding.com.

Scent of Spring: Nowruz, Persian New year. 4-6 p.m. UR Douglass Commons, Feldman Ballroom, 500 Wilson Blvd 275-9390.

Open Skate. 12-1:15 & 5-6:15 p.m Genesee Valley Sports Complex, 131 Elmwood Ave. 428-7888. [ THU., MARCH 21 ] Sesame Street Live. 10:30 a.m. & 6 p.m. Blue Cross Arena, One War Memorial Sq $15 & up. bluecrossarena.com.

[ SUN., MARCH 24 ] Toy & Collectible Show. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Village Gate Square, 274 N. Goodman St. 442-5700.

[ SAT., MARCH 23 ] Maple Sugar Open House. 12-3 p.m. Helmer Nature Center, 154 Pinegrove Ave 336-3035.

Maple Sugaring. 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. $8-$11. rmsc.org.

[ FRI., MARCH 22 ] ToddX: Panel Discussion.

8-9:15 p.m. Todd Theatre, UR, River Campus Robert Forster, Andrew Polec, and more 275-4959.

[ MON., MARCH 25 ] Storytime Club: Silly Stories.

10:30 & 11:30 a.m Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. With museum admission: $16. 263-2700.

[ SAT., MARCH 23 ] Rochester Home & Garden Show. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center, 123 E. Main St $6-$8.

272-8222.

Spring Equinox Plant Swap.

12-3 p.m. Fuego Coffee Roasters, 1 Woodbury Blvd.

270-9214.

[ FRI., MARCH 22 ] KinderZoo: Animal Shapes.

11:30 a.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Ages 3-5 yrs.

Registration suggested.

KinderZoo: Tough Tortoises.

10:15 a.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Ages 18 mos– 3 yrs. Registration suggested.

Matilda. 7 p.m. Bruce Legacy Theatre, 75 Stutson St. $8-$12.

750-7588.

Mission Possible: A Safe Place for our Youth. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Adams Street Rec Center, 85 Adams St. 22nd Annual Youth Symposium 200-4690.

The Treatment of Photographs: What a Conservator Can Do. 7:30 p.m. Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. The Photographic Historical Society vsw.org.

Workshops

Literary Events [ THU., MARCH 21 ] Bear Witness: Poetry by Siaara Freeman, Christina Olivares, Rachel Wiley. 7:30 p.m.

Hoyt Auditorium, UR, 500 Joseph C. Wilson Blvd. bit.ly/ poetrybearwitness.

Karen Faris: Aliens Like Us. 7 p.m. Nox, 302 Goodman St N justpoetsinc.com.

Pure Kona Poetry Series.

Every 7 days, 7-9 p.m. The Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603.

Stories ROC: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 7 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave $10. wab.org.

Culture Lectures

[ FRI., MARCH 22 ] StoryStereo: The Caribbean, Brian Wood. 7 p.m. Nox, 302 Goodman St N .

Trailer Trash: July Westhale Reading. 7 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave wab.org.

[ WED., MARCH 20 ] Jamie Bernstein: Leonard Bernstein & American Musical Theater. 5 p.m. UR, Strong Auditorium, River Campus 273-5157.

[ SUN., MARCH 24 ] Amos Oz: Israeli Author, Humanist, Peace Activist. 7 p.m. Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Ave. 7384461. tbk.org.

[ THU., MARCH 21 ] Leonard Bernstein & American Musical Theater: Bernstein’s Broadway. 4:30 p.m. UR Rush Rhees Library, 755 Library Rd Panel 275-5804.

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1-4 p.m. Irondequoit Library, 1290 Titus Ave 336-6062.

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Film that story of a woman who takes a lot of shit before coming out the other side even stronger than before. Along with those films and last year’s “Disobedience,” the filmmaker has a knack for compelling stories of women who possess more inner strength than the world likes to gives them credit for.

A showcase for the wonderful Julianne Moore, “Gloria Bell” is a character study of a person we seldom get to see in the movies these days (unless she’s playing a commander or scientist in a Marvel movie): a confident woman over 50. Lelio’s film lets us watch her face down setbacks with grace and dignity, on its way to a joyous ending that remind us, no matter what life may toss your way, sometimes all you can do is keep on dancing.

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Julianne Moore and John Turturro in “Gloria Bell.” PHOTO COURTESY A24

I wanna dance with somebody “Gloria Bell” (R), DIRECTED BY SEBASTIÁN LELIO OPENS FRIDAY, MARCH 22 [ PREVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

Chilean director Sebastian Lelio’s Englishlanguage remake of his own breakout 2013 dramedy “Gloria,” the delicate and funny “Gloria Bell” offers a bittersweet portrait of life and love in middle age. Anchored

by Julianne Moore’s lovely, un-showy lead performance, the film follows the vibrant, 50-something Gloria as she embarks on a new romance on her way to finding a renewed sense of joy and lust for life.

With oversized glasses and an easy laugh, Gloria is sweet-natured, and occasionally a bit short-tempered. She has a stable, if

unfulfilling management job at an insurance office. But more than anything she loves to dance, frequenting a singles night club when she feels the urge to cut loose. It’s there that she meets fellow divorcee Arnold (John Turturro), a somewhat reserved military vet. After a lovely night together, Arnold asks to see her again; suddenly and quite unexpectedly, Gloria finds herself entering the unfamiliar territory of late-in-life dating.

The director lends the film his European sensibility; not much happens in “Gloria Bell” and plot comes secondary as Lelio, and co-writer Alice Johnson Boher, give us a sense of Gloria’s life in quick, broad strokes. She has her two grown children (Michael Cera and Caren Pistorius) with whom she has a loving but somewhat distant relationship, a self-sufficient mother (the always welcome Holland Taylor), and

a relatively friendly connection to her exhusband (Brad Garrett), who she’s been divorced from for more than a decade.

Gloria has some anxieties about getting older, but she has a full life even before she begins seeing Arnold. Her main troubles are a growing concern for her mentally ill upstairs neighbor, and a hairless cat that inexplicably manages to sneak its way into her apartment every day.

The romance between Gloria and Arnold eventually faces some speed bumps, largely arising from his two emotionally- and financially-needy daughters, who have a dependent relationship with their father — one that goes both ways more than he’d care to admit. He also has a terrible tendency to let his insecurities get the best of him.

Lelio won an Oscar for his “A Fantastic Woman,” and his latest shares similarities to

Dryden Theatre, 900 East Ave. “The Bad and the Beautiful” (1952). Wed., March 20, 7:30 p.m. $5-$10. eastman.org.; “The Headless Woman” (2008). Thu., March 21, 7:30 p.m. $5-$10. eastman.org.; “Transit” (2018). Fri., March 22, 7:30 p.m. and Sat., March 23, 7:30 p.m. $5-$10. eastman.org.; “Through the Back Door” (1921).

Tue., March 26, 7:30 p.m. $5-$10. eastman.org.

Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. “Blade Runner” Sat., March 23, 6 p.m. $4-$9. thelittle.org.; “Blade Runner 2049” Sat., March 23, 8 p.m. $4-$9. thelittle.org.

Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. Opera Meet-Up. Sun., March 24, 3-4:30 p.m. Following the noon Royal Opera House screening. 258-0400.

MCC Downtown Campus, 321 State St. “Dawnland: Cultural Survival and Stolen Children” Wed., March 20, 2:30 p.m. High Falls B (320B).

292-2000.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. “Talk Talk: Live in Salamanca 1986” Thu., March 21, 6:45 p.m. 276-8900.

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with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/25/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 457 Hillside Ave., Rochester, NY 14610. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] DSL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 3/1/2019. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 3447 Latta Rd., Rochester, NY 14612, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] DUBBY’S WOOD FIRED LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 12/26/2018. Office loc: Orleans County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Rebecca Alexander, 2332 Kenyonville Road, Albion, NY 14411.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE ] FKPE LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/3/19. 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 115 Birch Hills Dr., Rochester, NY 14622. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Kalm Property, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/11/2019. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to The Law Office of Anthony A. Dinitto, LLC, 2250 W. Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Maplewood Express, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/12/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to The Law Office of Anthony A. Dinitto, LLC, 2250 W. Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626.

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To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com [ NOTICE ] MCF 2018, LLCAuthority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/13/2019.

Office location: Monroe Co. LLC formed in NJ on 12/6/2018. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 8 Metzger Drive, West Orange, NJ 07052. Principal addr.

Of LLC: 8 Metzger Drive, West Orange, NJ 07052.

Cert. of Formation filed with State Treasurer, 33 W State St. #5th, Trenton, NJ 08608 Purpose: any lawful activities [ NOTICE ] NAPPA TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL LLC. Filed 1/15/19. Office: Orleans Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: C/O John Nappa, 460 E. Center St, Medina, NY 14103. Purpose: General. [ NOTICE ] Notice hereby given that an alcohol beverage license is pending, has been applied for to consume Beer, Wine and Liquor at retail in a Restaurant, Under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law, at 1550 Ridge Road, Town Of Greece, Rochester NY 14615.

Paulie D LLC. *DBA* Davinci’s Of Greece [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 1225 Atlantic LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/5/19.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 420 Pelham Road, Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 2599 W. Ridge Road, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/30/19. 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, 616 Brookstone Bend, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 326 N Winton LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/26/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 417 Sundance Trail, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 4468 CULVER ROAD, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/26/2019.

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, c/o 2117 Buffalo Rd. #221, Rochester, NY 14624.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 5100 RIDGE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/6/2019. 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, c/o 161 Colby St., Spencerport, NY 14559.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 5412 Ridge, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/28/2019.

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, 5 Rye Rd., Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 69 SENECA AVE LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/11/2019. 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 1 EAST MAIN STREET, 10th FLOOR, ROCHESTER, NY 14614, C/O MICHAEL PATTISON. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Anjel Homes LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/30/19.

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 the LLC at 115 N Autumn Drive Rochester, NY 14626 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of AquaTight Services, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/06/19.

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, 1555 Highland Ave., Rochester, NY 14620.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of ARTISAN AUTO GRUPPE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/11/2019.

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, 7748 Newco Dr., Hamlin, NY 14464. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Away We Go Travel LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Department of State on November 30, 2018.

Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 5816 W Wautoma Beach Rd Hilton NY 14468. The purpose of the Company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Better Friend Cards LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/20/19. 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 the LLC at 21 Wedmore Rd, Fairport NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Brockport School of Dance and Performing Arts, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 3/6/19. 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 198 Thornell Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activities. Leah Brady, Organizer

of any process to the LLC at 2228 Kent Road, Kent, New York 14477; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose.

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[ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; Name of LLC: Mitre Construction Management, LLC; Date of filing: March 5, 2019; Office of the LLC: Monroe Co.; The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served.

NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 43 Norbrook Road, Fairport, New York 14450; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Capfall Wine Cellars LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/8/2019. 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 20 Courtenay Cir Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Choice Property Investors LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/21/19. 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 the LLC at 11 Mima Circle Fairport, NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Collaborative Organizations Demonstrating Excellence, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/12/19. 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, 79 North Clinton Ave, Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Compliance by Design Consulting, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/28/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 600 East Ave., Apt. #6, Rochester, NY 14607.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; Name of LLC: Lora Laine Properties, LLC; Date of filing: February 26, 2019; Office of the LLC: Orleans Co.; The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served.

NYSS may mail a copy

[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of DR. TODD DENEENPSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES, PLLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/14/19.

Office in Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC, 10 PRINCE STREET, APT. 1 ROCHESTER, NY, 14607 . Purpose: Any lawful purpose [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of First Gen Properties, LLC (the “LLC”).

Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 1/16/19. 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 480 Conkey Ave., Rochester, NY 14621. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of FROM HOUSE 2 HOME, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/12/19. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Matthew L. Hudson, 37 Inglewood Dr., Rochester, NY 14619.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of GJ Property Solutions, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/25/2019.

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, 9 Pinon Dr., West Henrietta, NY 14586. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of GREGO HOMES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/18/2019.

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, 61 Avonmore Way, Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of HERRERA TRANSPORTATION LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 03/04/2019. 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 25 JOANNE DR ROCHESTER NY 14616 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Imagen Cosmetics LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 1/24/19.

Office: Monroe County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 804 S Grosvenor Rd. Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JB & SON PROPERTIES, LLC.Arts. of Org, filed with Secy. of State of NY(SSNY) on February 25, 2019 Office location: Monroe County.SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to princ.bus. Loc.: 550 Latona Road, Building D,Suite 400, Rochester, New York 14626.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Legal Ads [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of L’ Angolo Properties, L.L.C. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/21/19. Office location: Monroe County.

Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 24 Quaker Meeting House Rd., Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Laskoski & Son Property Investors, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 03/21/2017. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 10 Patera Avenue, Fairport, New York 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of LBJ HOLDINGS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/31/2018.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 457 Plymouth Ave., Buffalo, NY 14213.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of LuMara Management LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/13/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, P.O. Box 187, N. Greece, NY 14468.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Ninepence LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/21/19.

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 the LLC at 180 Overbrook Rd, Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Phire Candle Company LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/15/2018. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 300 Versailles Rd., Rochester, NY 14621. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Pines MM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/4/19. 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., 10 E 40th St, 10th Fl, NY, NY 10016, the registered agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Pines of Perinton LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/4/19. 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., 10 E 40th St, 10th Fl, NY, NY 10016, the registered agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of PLATINUM PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/13/19.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 150 Orchard St., Ste. 1, Webster, NY 14580. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Primetime Wealth Management LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/20/2019 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY

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 shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 198 Park Rd Pittsford NY 14534 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of RAY’S PHOTOGRAPHY, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/28/2019.

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, 1112 Peck Rd., Hilton, NY 14468. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of REJOICE PROPERTIES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/11/2019.

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, 50 Cambridge St., Rochester, NY 14607.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ]

whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 109 Despatch, East Rochester, NY 14445.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SALUT Artwork by Bradd A Young, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/12/19. 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 the LLC at 1900 Highland Ave Roch.

NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Serqet Media, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/27/2018.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 55 Danbury Circle, Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful act

Notice of formation of ROCHESTER TRANSITIONAL HOUSING LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/18/2019.

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, 731 Lee Rd., Rochester, NY 14606. Purpose: any lawful act.

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Notice of Formation of Royal Wash Tonawanda, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/5/2019.

Office location: Monroe County SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whomprocess against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to principal business location: The LLC, 2851 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful activity

Notice of Formation of Seven Sages Farms, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/5/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 100 Allens Creek Road, Ste 100, Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Saga Properties LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon

Notice of formation of Serqet Productions, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/27/2018.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 55 Danbury Circle, Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: any lawful act

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Status Advisors LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/5/19. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, at

1967 Wehrle Dr., Ste 1 #086, Buffalo NY, 14221.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NY 14604. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of formation of Villiams, LLC Art. of Org filed Sec’y of state 10/5/2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon who process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 115 Van Voorhis Avenue, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose: Payroll Service.

Notice of Formation of Stering Motor Group LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01.15.2019. Office in Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 290 Mt. Hope Ave. Roc., NY 14620.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Studio K Dance & Fitness, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/7/2019. 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, 29 Wood Hill Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Saren Group LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 01/14/2019. 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 72 Bonnie Brae Ave Rochester, NY 14618 . Purpose: any lawful activities [ NOTICE ]

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[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of VON REIGNS L.L.C..

Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/24/18.

Office in Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 1967 WEHRLE DR STE 1 #086 BUFFALO, NY, 14221.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of VT Amps USA, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on March 11, 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 10 Frostholm Drive, Rochester, NY 14624 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ]

Notice of Formation of THURSTON & CHILI ASSOCIATES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/04/19. 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, 180 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of WHITNEY PAINTING AND REMODELING, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/06/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Keith Whitney, 5839 Chili Riga Center J147, Churchville, NY 14428.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Notice of Formation of THURSTON & CHILI ASSOCIATES MM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/04/19.

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, 180 Clinton Sq., Rochester,

Notice of Formation of WomenOwnedBiz, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 12/31/2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 6 Creek Hill Lane, Rochester, NY 14625.

Purpose: any lawful

activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 1037 Jay St. Rochester NY 14611 Thursday, 04/18/19 at noon. The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents.

NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, Ryan Lajuett unit 121 owes $228, Frank Mobilio unit 228 owes $308, Anfrew Johnson unit 131 owes $153 [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 600 W Broad St. Rochester NY 14608 on Thursday, 4/18/19 at Noon. The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents. NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, Willie Bank unit 16 owes $208. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of dESCO, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/20/19. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/02/14. Princ. office of LLC: 806 Linden Ave., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14625. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o C T Corporation System, 111 Eighth Ave. - 13th Fl., NY, NY 10011.

DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of West Henrietta DG, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/12/19. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 02/01/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 361 Summit Blvd., Ste. 110, Birmingham, AL 35243. Address to be maintained in DE: 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Arts of

Org. filed with the Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] S3 Info Services L.L.C. Arts of Org. filed SSNY 2/14/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Jagadish Sau 97 Woodgreen Dr Pittsford, NY 14534 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Sentinel Property Care LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 9/14/18. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to princ address 25 Penhurst Rd Rochester, NY 14610 RA: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] SIEMBOR GROUP, LLC has been formed as a Limited Liability Company (LLC) by filing a Certificate with the New York State Secretary of State (NYSS) on February 5, 2019. Office located in Monroe County. Address for process to be served against the LLC is: 1200 Beadle Rd, Brockport, NY 14420. Term of LLC is perpetual. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Stirling Bridge Homes LLC Filed 2/20/19 Office: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 32 Mulcahy Blvd., Rochester, NY 14624 Purpose: all lawful [ NOTICE ] The Pan-Tor, LLC ,Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/1/2019. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 26 Nymark Dr., Rochester, NY 14626.General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Yoruk Forest, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on November 17, 2017.

LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to 1425 Jefferson Rd., Rochester, NY 14623.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

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Legal Ads [ Notice of Formation ] Atlantic-Van Bergh LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 2/8/19. 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 417 Sundance Trail, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] KBG Concrete Facilitation & Excavations LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on February 14, 2019.

Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to The Foti Law Firm P.C., 16 W. Main Street, Suite 100, Rochester NY, 14614. The purpose of the Company is to engage in any lawful act or activity within the purpose for which a limited liability company may be organized. [ Notice of Formation ] Queventive, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 3/5/19. 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 Attn: Julian Goldstein, 200 Commerce Drive, Rochester, NY 14623.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] RRC Property Holdings LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 2/19/19.

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 250 Mill Street, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] Victor Manors LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 2/8/19. 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 417 Sundance Trail, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Fouq_ et LLC ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC”).

Articles of Organization filed with Sec. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on March 11, 2019.

Office location: 181 St. Paul Street, Apt. 3E, Rochester, NY 14604, Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 181 St. Paul Street, Apt. 3E, Rochester, NY 14604.

Purpose: to engage in any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is 419 West State Street LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 7/2/08. The LLC office is located in Orleans County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 115 Brown Street Albion NY 14411. The LLC is managed by a manager.

The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Crossbridge Wellness Affiliates, LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 1/25/19. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 2000 S. Winton Rd, Rochester, NY 14618. The LLC is managed by a manager.

The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is MJM Focus Enterprises LLC. The Articles of

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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 Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 3/4/19. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 36 Gieger Circle Rochester NY 14612. The LLC is managed by a manager.

The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Boyar Business Group, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 02/27/2019 with an effective date of formation of 02/27/2019.

Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to 19 Whitecliff Drive, Pittsford, NY 14534. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ SUMMONS WITH NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial, situs of the real property. The address of the real property is: 88 COLUMBIA AVENUE, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 14608 INDEX NO. E2018005384 EB 2EMINY, LLC, Plaintiff,‑against‑ THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DISTRIBUTEES OF THE ESTATE OF GREGORY C. SMITH, if living and if they be dead, any and all persons who may claim as devisees, distributees, legal representatives, successors in interest of the said defendants, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained, LUE E. SMITH AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF GREGORY C. SMITH, THE CITY COURT OF ROCHESTER,TOWN COURT OF BRIGHTON, WORKERS COMPENSATION BOARD OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, ESL

FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, ASSET ACCEPTANCE LLC APO COMP USA, THE MONROE COUNTY CLERK, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (WESTERN DISTRICT), PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF MONROE; US BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC A/K/A PROPEL TAX; PROPEL FINANCIAL 1, LLC, GERALD C. SMITH AS HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF GREGORY C. SMITH, GABRIELLE C. SMITH AS HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF GREGORY C. SMITH,CRYSTAL SMITH AS HEIR AT LAW AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF GREGORY C. SMITH, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded herein. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the tax lien holder who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the tax lien holder will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (TAX LIEN HOLDER) AND

FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The object of this action is to foreclose tax liens covering: 88 COLUMBIA AVENUE, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 14608 JUDGMENT IN THE APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF $7,237.82 plus interest [ SUMMONS WITH NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE The address of the real property is: 680 AVENUE D, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 14621 Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial, situs of the real property. INDEX NO. E2018003481 EB 1EMINY, LLC, -Plaintiff, ‑against‑ OSNIEL C. MARTINEZ LOPEZ, if living and if they be dead, any and all persons who may claim as devisees, distributees, legal representatives, successors in interest of the said defendants, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained; HERSHEL KLEIN; MIDLAND FUNDING, LLC; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS C/O ROCHESTER CORRECTIONAL FACILITY; MONROE COUNTY CLERK; THE CITY COURT OF ROCHESTER; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; COUNTY OF MONROE; TOWER DBW II TRUST 2013-1 A/K/A TOWER CAPITAL; US BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC A/K/A PROPEL TAX, PROPEL FINANCIAL 1, LLC, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #20” the last twenty names being fictitious and unknown to Plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer,

or if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded herein. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the tax lien holder who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the tax lien holder will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (TAX LIEN HOLDER) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. The object of this action is to foreclose tax liens covering: 680 AVENUE D, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 14621 JUDGMENT IN THE APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF $7,182.38 plus interest [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Bank of America, N.A., Plaintiff, -against- Bernice Hardy, James M. Hardy, as Heir to the Estate of James E. Hardy a/k/a James Edward Hardy a/k/a James Hardy, Harriet Fisher, as Heir to the Estate of James E. Hardy a/k/a James Edward Hardy a/k/a James Hardy if living, and if she be dead, her respective heirsat-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest, and generally

all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendants who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the Complaint herein, Vikki Tabourne, as Heir to the Estate of James E. Hardy a/k/a James Edward Hardy a/k/a James Hardy, Sherman Hardy, as Heir to the Estate of James E. Hardy a/k/a James Edward Hardy a/k/a James Hardy, Public Administrator of the County of Monroe, as Administrator of the Estate of James E. Hardy a/k/a James Edward Hardy a/k/a James Hardy and James E. Hardy a/k/a James Edward Hardy a/k/a James Hardy’s heirsat-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devises, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming, under, by or through said defendant, who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, Capital One Bank, NY Financial Services LLC, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, United States of America, Defendants.

Index No.: 9781/2017 Filed: 2/13/19 Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America.

In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for

the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $89,838.00 and interest, recorded in the office of the clerk of the County of Monroe on September 19, 1989 in Liber 9716, Page 164 covering premises known as 1250 Howard Road, Rochester, NY 14624. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Bay Shore, New York January 23, 2019 Frenkel, Lambert, Weiss, Weisman & Gordon, LLP BY: Linda P. Manfredi Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01083565-F00

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