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NOT A ‘FRINGE’ PARTY Three Green candidates think they can win. POLITICS, PAGE 6
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Immigration and the US
We are locked into a dead-end debate about immigration where two alternatives are proposed, neither of which is viable: Open borders versus closed borders, (the wall). This debate could go on forever. Maybe some people like it that way. I submit that there is an unrecognized root cause: the United States of America. From the United Fruit Historical Society, we learn that in 1906, a man named Samuel (Sam the banana man) Zemurray took a boatload of thugs with rifles and a machine gun to Honduras to accomplish a coup, not approved by the US State Department, it was claimed. Thus the term, “banana republic.” In 1954, Zemurray played an important role in the overthrow of the Guatemalan government, which had taken a populist turn with Jacobo Arbenz as president. Arbenz had begun to expropriate the company’s plantations for his agrarian reform project. Zemurray led a campaign in the American media that portrayed Arbenz as a dangerous Communist. Working together with an advertising company ( Edward Bernays) 2 CITY
Zemurray distributed alarmist propaganda to the press and Congressmen to show Guatemala as a foothold of the Soviet Union in the Western Hemisphere. Actually, later, Cuba, 1961. If we want to solve the problem at its source, we must reapply the concept of money fines and incarceration for executives and boards of directors of companies that inflict privation and murder upon vulnerable populations. The presentday monetary penalties levied upon corporations are but a small tax for hugely profitable crimes committed by actual people who can be named. But then our splendid lifestyle will be diminished. Fair trade? Will we volunteer to pay more for those T-shirts with imprinted slogans? Will we shun the low-price coffee, chocolate, and bananas? We are having it both ways by staging protests before a Congress that knows that we are not really serious. Better to harass the annual meetings, naming names. Let me refer to the mural by Diego Rivera, “Glorious Victory.” It is a splendid study on the web, showing the perpetrators of the Guatemalan coup, but not Sam the banana man. The mural, painted on cloth, is stored in Moscow in the Pushkin collection. A wag has suggested that it be displayed permanently in the entrance at Dulles Airport. RON JOHNSON, PITTSFORD
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Demand universal coverage
A 20-year-old woman moved to Wayne County for a summer internship before her senior year in college. Unfortunately, her broken elbow was misdiagnosed near her home in Colorado and continued to cause severe pain and swelling. Because she has Colorado Medicaid she was not covered for medical care while here. An 18-year-old student’s dreams of going to a prestigious university in Washington, DC, with a full scholarship were seemingly dashed when she found out she needed to buy health insurance with $1800 she did not have. The private health coverage she has had since childhood, through her father’s employer, would not cover her out of the area. It has been reported that the CEO of this non-profit is paid $2 million a year. The new conglomerate of CVS/Aetna, one of the largest health insurers in the country, just announced a $19.8 billion quarterly profit while paying its CEO an 8-figure income. We all must recognize that the present fight over how real health care is delivered is really about the invisible third party in the exam room between you and your medical provider. The discussion about “health care” is about how your medical care is paid for, not about how you will receive the best medical advice and treatment. That is totally ignored, as no one in politics is talking about the quality of your care. Private health care does not meet the demands
or the needs of the population. It instead limits the care you may need and has invented the artificial barrier of “out of plan” services, all to support its CEOs and shareholders. How could it protect your needs when, for example, Kaiser Permanente, another of the largest health care insurance carriers, just paid its CEO $20 million? He refused to sign onto a plan – supported by 160 of the largest corporations in America – that would change the company’s capitalistic approach, having it consider socially conscious goals of improved benefits for employees and their communities. Nonprofit regional plans, such as Excellus and MVP, restrict care to geographical areas and limit services to support unreported profits, as the 18-year-old student just learned. State health plans under various forms of Medicaid restrict care just like other sources of insurance. But they go a step further by underpaying for medical care, effectively producing a third-class patient by limiting the medical providers available. Medicare, on the other hand, covers you wherever you travel in this country, restricts almost no services, does not limit the medical providers available to you, is cost effective, and cannot be cancelled. We must demand that the ghost in our doctor’s offices be removed. Our government was created to protect “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Without providing full health care that protects
our inalienable rights at an affordable cost, our politicians – both Republican and Democrat – are neglecting their duties. Private and “nonprofit” insurance companies, now requesting up to a 15 percent increase in premiums in this region, are robbing us. We must demand universal coverage, supported by our government, for our medical needs. JOHN GHERTNER, SODUS
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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER
My grim forecast for Rochester’s schools (Second of two columns on five decades of Rochester school reform efforts.)
Will the Rochester school district ever be able to do its job? Over the 48 years we’ve been publishing CITY, the district has tried almost everything. So has the larger community. And yet far too many children still leave school without the knowledge and skills to live productive adult lives. We’ve made progress, as school board President Van White reminded me last week. The graduation rate is up. Suspensions are down. And yet the district still lags behind other districts in the state – including other urban districts. Have we simply tried the wrong things? Sometimes. But we’ve tried quite a few of the right things, and we either didn’t execute them well or our efforts were overwhelmed by larger forces. The district has two kinds of problems: internal and external. We ought to be able to fix the internal problems – too little accountability, too little training, too little follow-through on good initiatives, and a finger-pointing attitude in the district – but they have continued for decades. A small side rant here: The finger pointing is terribly destructive, and I’ll offer this humble suggestion for ending it. Everybody in this district needs to withdraw to their own corner, look their own faults in the eye, and focus on addressing them. Members of the teachers union should spend a year facing the weaknesses in their own ranks, devising specific plans for fixing them, and holding one another accountable. Members of the administrators union, the superintendent’s top executives, community activists, and the school board should do the same. No alibis, no excuses, no finger pointing. Parent leaders should spend a year focusing solely on parent responsibilities. No complaining about whether schools are welcoming, the curriculum is relevant, and the tests are too stressful. All of that needs reforming, yes, but parents have responsibilities, too. Also on the internal-problems list: the frequent change in superintendents and toplevel administrators. The district brings in new superintendents every few years, each with new ideas, new approaches. But the district’s problems are deep, and fixing them takes time. Even the brightest, strongest, bestloved leader needs time to bring meaningful
If the Rochester School District’s internal problems were fixed, student achievement would increase. But then there are the external problems.” change to a district Rochester’s size. Instead, for the last several decades, the pattern has been one of frequent change. Going through my files over the past few weeks, I came across a 10-year-old email exchange with former school board president Rob Brown. I had asked Brown why one particular promising initiative had failed. “Maybe one problem,” he wrote back, “is lack of long-term consistency.” We haven’t been able to retain good superintendents and good principals, he said. And if we can’t, “I don’t think we can expect their innovations to bear the fruit that comes from long-term nurturing fertilization, and pruning.” “Excellent and experienced long-term teachers complain bitterly about the number of short-lived, ‘here today gone tomorrow’ theories and programs that are visited on them by central office,” Brown said. “It’s one reason why they are almost universally disaffected with so-called ‘professional development.’” If the internal problems were fixed, student achievement would increase. There’s no doubt about that. But then there are the external problems. There’s a widespread belief that the school district alone is at fault and that it alone has to solve the achievement problem. Sure, every great once in a while, some parts of the larger community have their conscience continues on page 10 rochestercitynewspaper.com
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EDUCATION | BY CITY NEWS STAFF
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City loses school referendum appeal The City of Rochester lost its appeal last week to keep a referendum regarding the Rochester City School Board on the November ballot. Earlier this year, acting at the request of Mayor Lovely Warren, City Council passed a local law that would remove mention of the Rochester school board from the city charter and would put the change to a public vote. Warren has wanted the state to take control of the school district for up to five years. The school board sued the city in an attempt to get the ballot measure struck down, and State Supreme Court Justice Scott Odorisi ruled in its favor. On September 4, a panel of state Appellate Division judges upheld Odorisi’s decision. Notably, the Appellate panel’s decision said that Odorisi correctly found that the referendum on the local law is “impermissibly advisory.” A section of the local law “which conditions its effectiveness on subsequent action by the New York State Legislature, strips the referendum of any binding legal effect,” the decision said. The fact the four justices examined the facts and all came to the same conclusion should tell people that the board and the school district administration are complying with the law, said board president Van White. “There is an opportunity here to shift our focus away from litigation to what is happening in our classrooms,” White said. “It’s time to walk away from the political divisiveness.” Warren released the following statement on the ruling: “Our children’s education remains the key to a better and stronger city. Today’s decision does not weaken my resolve to fix a broken system and provide our kids a fighting chance at life. We will continue to demand our state legislators act, and work locally to realize the Distinguished Educator’s plan throughout our school district. Through this work we will make sure the voices and ideas of parents, grandparents and students are heard. I am committed to working and finding common ground with all those willing to put the needs of our children first. Together, we can still deliver the change that builds better schools, a better city and a better community for all.”
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The city is going to look into the possibility of starting a food waste collection and composting program. FILE PHOTO
ENVIRONMENT | BY JEREMY MOULE
Food waste on city’s menu Each year, Americans put billions of pounds of uneaten food and scraps in the trash. And they do so at hefty costs, not just to the local governments that have to haul residents’ garbage to landfills, but also in terms of the climate-disrupting greenhouse gases that food waste generates. To counter those problems, cities across the country have started foodwaste composting programs. And in the not-too-distant future, the City of Rochester could join their ranks. City officials plan to do a feasibility study for a public food-waste collection and composting program. Mayor Lovely Warren is asking City
Council to approve an $80,000 contract with LaBella Associates to assist with the study; half of the money is coming from a state Department of Environmental Conservation grant. Council should vote on the legislation at its September 17 meeting. A food scraps recycling program has the potential to lower city solid waste disposal costs, says Anne Spaulding, manager of the city’s Division of Environmental Quality. It would also help the city work toward the greenhouse gas reduction goals it set in its Climate Action Plan, she says. As part of the feasibility study, the city and its consultant will determine
the amount of food scraps present in the solid waste the city collects, Spaulding says. They’ll also examine several other issues, including how often the city would need to collect the food scraps; whether the city should collect the waste through pick-ups, resident drop-offs, or both; and the potential costs. The study should take about a year to complete, Spaulding says. Any program put in place by the city would have an education component, which would focus not just on the basics of food waste recycling, but also on food waste prevention, Spaulding says.
Even if a school district loses 50 or 100 students, operating costs are increasing at a pace that exceeds the loss of students. Building maintenance, energy, insurance, and transportation costs increase annually, and school officials have little control over that.
EDUCATION | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO
School enrollment’s flat, but budgets aren’t. Why? As schools opened last week, school district enrollment in the Rochester area was pretty much holding steady: a small decline here, a small uptick there. There’s no significant difference between the 2016-2017 school year and 2018-2019, says Sherry Johnson, executive director of the Monroe County School Boards Association. You might assume, then, that school budgets should be holding steady, too. Instead, many districts’ budgets are increasing, and Johnson says she hasn’t heard any districts in Monroe County talking about shrinking classroom sizes or closing schools. There are several reasons, she says. Even if a school district loses 50 or 100 students, Johnson says, operating costs are increasing at a pace that exceeds the loss of students. Building maintenance, energy, insurance, and transportation costs increase annually, and school officials have little control over that. Another factor: lawmakers and state education officials continue to increase the requirements placed on teachers and administrators. These mandates are usually not funded and old mandates are seldom removed, she says.
Sherry Johnson is executive director of the Monroe County School Boards Association.
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For instance, Johnson says, there are new requirements concerning student immunizations. Schools now have to conduct surveys of their students’ behavior and their attitude about school, and they have to report the results to
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parents and the community. The state’s controversial Red Flag Law has gone into effect, allowing family members, law enforcement officers, and school officials to seek a court petition to seize guns from people who appear to be at risk of harming themselves or others. For school officials, this can be a timeconsuming process. School buses can now deploy “stop arm” cameras that record license plates of drivers who illegally pass stopped buses. Though the stoparm cameras are optional, most districts will implement the cameras to encourage drivers to obey the law and help reduce the risk of student injuries and deaths, Johnson says. These types of changes generally involve training, new equipment, and sometimes additional staff, all of which costs money, Johnson says. Staffing needs are changing, too, she says. Schools are being asked to provide more than ever before: meals, mental health services, after-school programs, and increased safety and security measures. The state is now requiring schools and school districts to provide data about students’ academic performance that is much more detailed
WE HAVE MOVED!
than it was previously. And if districts elect not to collect the data and report it to the state, it can put the district’s financial aid at risk. All of this is happening as the profession itself undergoes a dramatic change, Johnson says. School officials have to invest more in recruitment, training, and retention because fewer college students are pursuing teaching careers. There’s a shortage of teachers in the Rochester region, as there is across the state, and the shortage is no longer limited to specialties such as bilingual, special education, math, and science teachers. “There’s even a lack of elementary teachers,” Johnson says. The number of college students choosing teaching as a career has shrunk, she says. “When an opening came up in one of our school districts, it wasn’t unusual to receive 200 or more applications.” That’s all changed, she says. “Recruitment and retention is now an across-the-board issue, and it’s an across-the-country issue,” she says.
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NOT A ‘FRINGE’ PARTY ELECTIONS | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO PHOTOS BY RYAN WILLIAMSON
THREE GREEN CANDIDATES THINK THEY CAN WIN You might have assumed that the competition for the seats on City Council was locked up in the Democratic Primary in June. Rochester’s such a heavily Democratic city that the party’s primaries are considered the real election. But Green Party candidates Alex White, Chris Edes, and David Sutliff-Atias strongly disagree. White in particular bristles at the idea that he’s running as a third-party candidate. “Who’s the second party in Rochester?” White says. “Aren’t we the second party?” In Rochester, White says, the Greens are the challengers, not the Republicans, who rarely run in city races anymore. (This year is an exception: Marcus Williams switched parties from Democrat to Republican to run for a seat on City Council.) The Green Party is an advocate for environmental stewardship, social justice, and economic justice, particularly at the local level. And White says that locally, the party has been growing since 2010 and now has 700 members. In Monroe County, there are 1,209 registered Green Party voters. “A fair number of younger people have joined the Greens because of its commitment to serious protections of the environment,” White says. “That may be because they’re the ones who are going to bear the brunt of our failures.” White, Edes, and Sutliff-Atias have all run previously, unsuccessfully, in multiple races, for everything from US Senate to city school board. But this time, they say, their chances are better than before. Many Democrats have moved further to the left in recent years, they say, and those voters are looking for more progressive ideas. The Greens point to Mary Lupien’s win in the June Democratic primary as a positive sign. Lupien, a grassroots progressive, easily won the East District seat held by long-time Council member Elaine Spaull, who is retiring. 6 CITY
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Green candidates (from left) Dave Sutliff-Atias, Chris Edes, and Alex White.
THE CANDIDATES
White, who has run for mayor and City Council in the past, is running for the South District seat against Democrat LaShay Harris, who was appointed to fill Adam McFadden’s unexpired term after he resigned in April. White is the owner of Boldo’s, a Monroe Avenue gaming store. Sutliff-Atias, a Rochester school district teacher, is running against Democrat Mary Lupien, winner of the June Democratic primary for the East District Council seat. (Why, if the Greens think Lupien’s primary victory was a positive, is Sutliff-Atias running against her? Because he’s an alternative to the Democratic candidate, he says. “She has the party machine behind her that she has to deal with, and I don’t.”) Edes, who works in tech support for Datto’s downtown Rochester office, is running against incumbent and Lovely Warren loyalist Mike Patterson in the Northeast District. Edes has previously run for the US Senate, lieutenant governor, and City Council. Realistically, Edes says, it’s an uphill battle for all three Green candidates. But, he says, the city Dems are not in a great place right now.
“I’m definitely trying to win,” Edes says. “I think it’s possible. There’s an increasing sentiment, not just here in Rochester, but all across the country as a whole: the two-party system, the two big parties, are not serving the interests of the people.” Still, it’s not surprising that the three are frequently asked why they’re running. White says he’s constantly asked whether he’s serious about his candidacy or is simply trying to advance the Greens’ progressive ideas. “I often answer by saying, ‘Are things better in Rochester?’ I mean, poverty has been rising half a percentage point a year for 20 years. Housing prices are rising; the supply of low-income housing is dwindling.” All three Green candidates say Mayor Warren and most City Council members are not focused on the city’s most detrimental problems. Instead, they’re operating under the false belief that rebuilding downtown will eventually make Rochester a vibrant city. Warren and Council, the Greens say, have become virtually beholden to the wants of developers – one of whom, Morgan Management’s CEO Robert Morgan, has been indicted on multiple federal charges.
THE GREENS’ ISSUES REDUCING POVERTY
Poverty is the underlying and undermining issue facing the city, says Sutliff-Atias. In his view, poverty is like an octopus, with its whirling arms latching onto a multitude of other issues – housing, education, crime, addiction, and unemployment, interrelated problems that are exacerbated by the city’s deeply entrenched poverty. It’s the “overarching thing,” he says. Decades of systemic racism and public policies, shaped by trickle-down economics, have been particularly hard on poor communities, especially poor communities of color, Sutliff-Atias says. These issues have made it extremely hard to create wealth that can be passed on generationally, he says. One solution, Sutliff-Atias says, is to cultivate self-reliance. “I want to create opportunities for people to be able to run their own businesses,” he says. Entrepreneurship, whether it’s starting a neighborhood barber shop or a homegrown small tech company, does more than create jobs; it helps build personal wealth, SutliffAtias says. Eliminating Rochester’s poverty will take a bold, comprehensive approach, White
says. And that will require state and county support, such as providing an immediate boost in the minimum wage and offering more affordable child care. And if the city stopped giving away so much tax benefits to developers, White says, it could expand library hours and provide more after school programs, recreational activities, and summer jobs for city youth. Mass transit will also have to be improved if we’re serious about tackling poverty, White says. Poor people without access to a car are virtually locked out of many retail jobs, since most are located in the suburban malls where mass transit is limited, he says. And the city could do more to create stable households and reduce housing insecurity, Sutliff-Atias and White say. There are plenty of neighborhoods where housing is either vacant or available for $30,000 to $60,000, which lower-income families could buy and improve, they say. “The mortgage on a house that’s worth $30,000, even if you need $10,000 to fix it up, mortgage and taxes are about $500,” White says. That’s still cheaper than most rentals, but there are two problems. One is that banks don’t like to write mortgages for $50,000 and under. In addition, while many low-income families can afford a mortgage, their jobs may rochestercitynewspaper.com
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A REPUBLICAN IN A SEA OF DEMS Some people may think Marcus Williams is a bit like a fish out of water. Voter enrollment in the city doesn’t simply lean toward Democrats; in recent years it’s been so hard for a Republican to win any seat that it doesn’t seem to make sense to run. But Williams doesn’t accept that view. A young African-American, he’s running for City Council’s South District seat. It’s not his first campaign; in 2017 he ran, unsuccessfully, for an at-large Council seat as a Democrat. Now, though, he’s a Republican. Williams shies away from discussing why he switched parties, saying only that he saw what he calls “some shenanigans” while he was running “that completely turned me off to the Democratic Party.” He says he likes Mayor Lovely Warren personally. “I just don’t agree with the way she’s done things,” he says. But Williams says he isn’t much of a fan of Republican County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo, and he distances himself from Donald Trump. “I’m not much of a fan of some things or the way they’ve been implemented by this president,” he says. Williams says he grew up in a challenging home environment, but says he hasn’t let that dampen his ambition or deter him from his personal goals. He says he believes in the Republican message about personal responsibility. Many of the things black families teach their children are also the basic values of the Republican Party, he says: “Keep government out of your business, take care of your family, pay as little taxes as necessary, and teach entrepreneurship.” City Council members are failing Rochesterians, Williams says. He’s against downtown development that’s focused too much on luxury housing, he says. And, he says, “We’re having an issue with gentrification.” The PLEX neighborhood where he lives is undergoing a transition. In recent years, the University of Rochester 8 CITY
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Republican Marcus Williams
has built dorms in the neighborhood for its students, and some neighborhood leaders are concerned about future development that may displace PLEX residents. He says Mayor Warren’s push for a referendum calling for elimination of the Rochester school board was “political theater.” The referendum wouldn’t have been binding and was “manipulative,” he says. But that doesn’t mean he supports the status quo for city schools, he says. The school district doesn’t work as it should, he says. Williams says City Council is too reactive and isn’t forward thinking and he wants to change that. If he’s elected, he says, he’ll push for better repairs to city streets, stemming the flow of illegal guns into the city, opening another grocery store downtown, and improving police relations. He wants new legislation related to police conduct; existing laws, he says, don’t go far enough to punish officers who abuse their power. And he says he’ll push for more protection for the city’s water system, electrical grid, and data systems before these systems are compromised.
Alex White: Poverty has been rising, housing prices are up, and the supply of low-income housing is dwindling.
be insecure or unpredictable, and they may occasionally miss a payment. “We need to look at the way we’re doing lending and come up with instruments of lending that actually make it possible for lowincome people to buy the houses, lower their housing costs dramatically, and build wealth,” Sutliff-Atias says. “We need a city bank.” Another option, White says: a more creative use of the land bank, which acquires and disposes of mostly foreclosed properties. White suggests focusing the bank’s mission on making foreclosed properties more available to lowincome first-time buyers and owner-occupants and limit their resale to out-of-town investors. The city’s real estate auctions involve quick-cash sales, he says. “Whenever you buy a property, in four or five days you’ve got to pay totally in cash.” Most people buying a first home at this income level may not have $8,000 or $9,000 sitting around, he says, and may need more time to raise the money needed to close on a foreclosed property.
DEVELOPMENT
To White, ending the city’s penchant for tax incentives and other forms of corporate welfare is a major concern because it’s directing
resources away from the city’s seniors and lowincome families. They need help far more than developers, he says. The city has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on unnecessary development since 2007, Sutliff-Atias and White argue, and that money would have been better spent addressing poverty-related problems. Much of the new housing development built in the last 10 years should be providing the city with millions in tax revenue, White says, but the developers have gotten sweet deals. And the people renting apartments in these buildings can’t offset that tax loss by spending their money downtown because there aren’t enough of those new residents and not enough businesses downtown to spend their money on. Downtown, the Greens say, has been gentrified into an enclave for the upper middle class, mostly white people. “When they build these housing projects, they’re pricing out the majority of city residents,” Edes says. “So they’re using public money for white people in a majority black city.” “We’re cutting services, and simultaneously we’re giving away millions to build housing that we don’t need because the population in Rochester isn’t growing,” White says.
VOTER INFO
Election Day is Tuesday, November 5, and if you aren’t registered you have until October 11 to do so. Monroe County residents can check their registration status, find their polling places, or see sample ballots at monroecounty.gov/etc/voter. This year is the first time when New York State is offering early voting. If you’re registered before October 11, you can vote at select locations from Saturday, October 26, through Sunday, November 3. For early voting, you won’t go to your usual polling place; there will be only seven early-voting locations, six in the suburbs and one in the city (at MCC’s downtown campus, 321 State Street). The Monroe County Board of Elections’ early voting web page, monroecounty.gov/ elections-earlyvoting, includes a list of polling sites and the hours they’ll be open. And the League of Women Voters of New York State has put together a website, nyearlyvoting.org, that provides answers to lots of questions about early voting.
The Greens say they aren’t against development; they’re against bad development. They don’t support building a new performing arts theater downtown, for instance, arguing that Rochester already has one and there’s no need for a new one that will almost certainly require financial help from the city. City officials also ignore city residents’ concerns about neighborhood development, White says, and he cites the pending redevelopment of Cobbs Hill Village Apartments. White suggests that every development project should have a “community benefit agreement” that serves as a contract between the developer and residents. The contract could include things like requiring the developer to allow nearby residents free use of some of the space, White says, or requiring the developer to mitigate sound or install certain kinds of lighting, or be responsible for street repair.
EDUCATION
Another area where White, Edes, and Sutliff-Atias disagree with City Council and the administration: the battle between the city and Rochester school district. Mayor Warren’s push for a state take-over of the school district was completely misguided, they say, and it’s an example of how City Council and the administration fail to focus on their own areas of responsibility.
Dave Sutliff-Atias: City officials aren’t dealing with the neighborhood problems that many city families face.
City officials aren’t dealing with the neighborhood problems that many city families face and that cause students so much trauma, Sutliff-Atias says. “There’s nothing a teacher can do if you’ve got a student who comes in with so much trauma,” Sutliff-Atias says. All three candidates question the mayor’s rationale for bringing Albany lawmakers into the mix. The state’s frequent changes in direction and protracted fights over teacher evaluations, the Common Core curriculum, and standardized testing have left many teachers and parents wary of the state’s leadership in education, they say. “We’re not just nay-saying or saying, ‘No, just keep it the way it is,” Sutliff-Atias says. “But really dealing with the issues that City Council members are supposed to be focused on will help the schools.” Children and families living in poverty are often overwhelmed by instability and uncertainty, Sutliff-Atias says. If his students’ parents didn’t have to worry about basic needs – finding affordable housing, paying for utilities, having enough food, and worrying about whether their children will make it to and from school safely – student outcomes would improve, he says. The city has steadily increased taxes on property owners, White says. But the amount it gives to the district has remained the same since about 2006, he says. While city officials don’t seem concerned about giving tax benefits
Chris Edes: “We definitely need police accountability, because the police department is not capable of policing itself.”
to developers, he says, they complain about giving money to the district. That hurts the children and families they say they care about, White says. Both Sutliff-Atias and Edes say they would use their voice on City Council to advocate for bold changes. They would support taking steps toward a metro school system, for instance, though they agree that it would be a tough battle. “I think the fears exist, but they’re largely unfounded,” Edes says. He imagines something like a county-wide pie-shaped system where all communities would have a share of responsibility and input.
POLICE AND THE COMMUNITY
One area where the Greens agree with City Council: the proposed Police Accountability Board. It has taken years for city leaders to address public concerns about police misconduct and the fractured relationship between the police department and communities of color. And they prefer Council’s version of the Accountability Board – the focus of a November referendum – to the mayor’s version. Council’s version, which gives the board the power to discipline police officers, puts some teeth into the PAB, Edes says. “We definitely need police accountability, because the police department is not
capable of policing itself,” Edes says. Edes also wants the police chief to be an elected position, similar to the county sheriff, independent of the mayor. The three disagree, however, about the board’s make-up. As currently designed, board members could include a retired lawenforcement officer. Edes and Sutliff-Atias object to that and say the board will have plenty of sources of legal and field experience available for advice. Having a former lawenforcement officer would damage the PAB’s credibility, particularly with communities of color, Sutliff-Atias says. The only way to build trust between police and communities of color is through a change in behavior on the part of police, and that will take time, he says. White says he is less concerned about having a former police officer on the PAB. It’s not the PAB that will build a bridge and heal the mistrust that exists between police and Rochester’s communities of color, he says. There needs to be a thorough evaluation of the city’s police hiring practices and its screening for people with untreated mental health problems, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, White says. And he says he thinks training is a concern, too, especially in the area of de-escalation and conflict resolution.
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pricked and we get powerfully worded reports calling on the entire community to get involved. But for the most part, these reports call for the community to get involved inside the school district – within the confines of the district and its concentrated poverty. Elected officials and community leaders issue calls for volunteer tutors, for 10,000 mentors, not for more high-quality child care, not for money for smaller classes and more social services and health care, and most assuredly not for proven, effective ways to boost the education of disadvantaged children: economically integrated schools and housing. The systemic problems of concentrated poverty and racism have trapped the community’s poorest children in extremely poor neighborhoods and high-poverty schools. And that has had an impact. Worse, Rochester’s poverty is generational poverty – successive generations of families living in stressful neighborhoods, under stressful conditions; successive generations of parents who themselves haven’t had a good education. In my clip files is a 2005 article by Messenger-Post columnist Benjamin Wachs. The subject: RIT President Al Simone’s idea for finding 10,000 mentors for city students. Simone wasn’t going to round up the mentors, Wachs reported. He wanted then-mayor Bill Johnson to do it, and Johnson was skeptical. The reason: He had already tried creating a mentoring program, in his days as president of the Urban League. He and nine other men mentored thirty 7- and 8-year-old boys in 1989. It wasn’t successful. “Even as the head of the Urban League,” Wachs wrote, “Johnson was astonished by the black hole of need these kids came from.” “If a kid has been traumatized,” Johnson asked Wachs, “what good is a volunteer? We have a large population living in enforced depravity.” “His mentors,” Wachs wrote, “became exhausted trying to make up for everything society hadn’t provided.” When I talked with Johnson about that a couple of weeks ago, he noted an often-overlooked aspect of the district’s poverty and segregation. Middle-income families of color have more school options than poor families have, and many of them don’t live in the city. Their children can go to suburban schools, none of which are high-poverty schools. In addition, the Urban-Suburban program and the growing number of charter schools offer options, and middle-income, better-educated city parents are able to better navigate those choices. 10 CITY SEPTEMBER 11 - 17, 2019
“So the school district,” Johnson said, “is put in the unfortunate position” of educating the children with the greatest needs, children whose parents are less engaged in their education and “don’t know how to work the system.” The solution: “We need to effectively disband the school system – essentially create a new school structure,” Johnson said. Rochester’s problem “is a systemic problem,” he said. “Until we say we are going to reorganize the schools in a way that we do not put all the poor children in one district....” But that will require participation by suburban school districts, and that’s simply not going to happen. As Johnson says, anybody who mentions that is met with “ferocity and intensity.” To get a stellar example of how tough it’ll be to start breaking down the district’s poverty concentration, you have only to turn to the experience of Great Schools for All. That organization has been trying for more than four years to get school districts interested in creating “socioeconomically diverse magnet schools open to students from across Monroe County.” Great Schools members aren’t talking about a metro school district. They’re not talking about forcing any child to attend one of the magnet schools. They just hope to convince the Rochester district and suburban districts to create schools that would draw students – voluntarily – from high-poverty city neighborhoods and from the suburbs. To this date, they haven’t gotten a single suburban commitment. That is shameful. Significantly, school integration isn’t popular with many families of color. And a good number of African-American public officials and community activists are adamant: Poor children of color shouldn’t have to go to school with white, more affluent children in order to get a good education, they say. Of course they shouldn’t. But economic integration is a proven way to help those children. If we’re going to overcome the effects of concentrated poverty without breaking down that concentration, then we’ll have to attack poverty’s effects. That will be expensive. It will take a long time. And nobody is willing to invest either the time or the money that it will require. It’s easier to just blame the teachers, the union president, the school board, the superintendent. And the community has been doing that for every one of the 48 years we’ve been publishing CITY. So will the Rochester school district ever be able to do its job properly and give Rochester’s children the education they deserve? Not in my lifetime, I’m afraid. Not in my lifetime. And to me, that is sinful, in the Biblical sense of that word.
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URBAN ACTION This week’s call to action includes the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.)
A local view of climate change
The Canandaigua Lake Watershed Association and the Canandaigua Chapter Citizens Climate Lobby will show the locally produced documentary “Comfort Zone: A Film About Change” on Tuesday, September 17. The film takes an in-depth look at both the subtle and profound changes happening in the Upstate Region as global climate issues continue to impact the planet. The film will be shown at The Wood Library, Mary Parmele Hamlin Meeting Room, 134 North Main Street, Canandiagua, at 6:30 p.m.
Spreading Gandhi’s message
The MK Gandhi Institute for Non-Violence will hold a “Walk for Peace” on Wednesday, September 11, to commemorate the anniversary of the 2001 attacks and the anniversary of Gandhi’s 150th birth date, which is on October 2. The walk will begin at the Highland Park Veteran’s Memorial at 5:30 p.m. and end at the Gandhi Institute, 929 South Plymouth Avenue. The event kicks off a series of events from September 11 through October 6. They include an art exhibition on Gandhi’s life and work, talks on Gandhi’s philosophy, and a screening of the film “Gandhi” at the Dryden Theater. Details are on the Institute’s website: https://gandhiinstitute.org/.
Honoring Jewish women leaders
The National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Rochester Section, will hold a celebration of “125 years of Service and Leadership” on Sunday, September 15. The organization will honor a tradition of Jewish women community leaders. Keynote speaker Catherine Cerulli, professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester, will discuss social justice issues facing the US. The event will be held at Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Avenue, at 7 p.m. Tickets: $35. Registration: www.ncjwgrs.org.
Dining & Nightlife
New Ethic owner Matt Nersinger (right) with his mom, Kathy Proietti. PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON
Vegan fare for everyone New Ethic Pizzeria & Café 545 TITUS AVENUE, IRONDEQUOIT, WEDNESDAY TO THURSDAY, 4 TO 8:30 P.M.; FRIDAY, 4 TO 9 P.M.; SATURDAY, 3 TO 9 P.M. 623-8231; NEWETHICPIZZA.COM [ REVIEW ] BY CHRIS THOMPSON
After much anticipation, New Ethic Pizzeria & Café opened the doors to its own shop on September 4. I am always excited when a new pizzeria opens, because I am of the mind that there is no such thing as too much pizza. But it doesn’t hurt to have a unique feature, which New Ethic has: its owner believes it is the first and only all-vegan pizzeria in the state, north of New York City. When I learned that fact, I was more excited for its opening day, checking and refreshing its Instagram and webpage a few times a day. I am not vegan myself, but it never hurts to eat exclusively plant-based cuisine on a regular basis. Besides, vegetables and fruits are delicious. Owner Matt Nersinger started out his venture last year as a periodic pop-up at 2 Ton Tony’s in Irondequoit. I always missed the pop-up dates, so I could only enjoy the photos of his creations online. But now he’s
got a spot on Titus Avenue, a neighbor to the pizzeria that hosted him throughout the year, and the building that houses New Ethic is much cheerier for it. You might think that a vegan pizzeria is just latching onto a dietary fad for personal gain, but Nersinger himself a vegan. And though this is a business, he is running it in line with his personal beliefs. He says he wants to provide folks with a plant-based dining opportunity, for sake of healthy living, the planet, and safety of animals. Some fast food chains have started offering “vegan” items, but in some cases their vegan patties are fried on the same grill as their beef patties, the dollops of mayonnaise they put on their sandwiches are still egg-based, and you can still get the burger with cheese. In truth, all they really did was swap out one protein for another and kept moving. It would be a whopper of a tale to claim that they really care about the ethic of veganism. Nersinger checked every detail of what came into his shop to ensure there would be no cross-contamination, even in the production of his ingredients. He uses locally-grown vegetables as much as he can. The beverage refrigerator is stocked with sustainably sourced Just Water and Galvanina teas and beverages. The Coca-Cola products
Top: The One Justice is the 'plate' of pizzas. Bottom: The Uncle Buck pizza includes house-made tempeh bacon, caramelized onions, rosemary, and balcamic glaze. PHOTOS BY RENÉE HEININGER
are all sugar cane-based instead of the more common high-fructose corn syrup. Even the ice cream for his milkshakes is vegan, and by the looks of the people enjoying them in the shop, they are just as boys-to-yard-bringing as a regular milkshake. New Ethic also offers vegan wings, with a sugar cane “bone” in the center. Though I didn’t sample them, they look delicious. For anyone who is into wings, one of the most satisfying parts of a wing feast is rending the meat from the bones and tossing aside the cleaned-off bone into a bowl. Perhaps it is the inner Giant from Jack and the Beanstalk in me. If I wanted boneless wings, I would just get chicken nuggets. That New Ethic
went out of their way to provide that protein-rending experience in their vegan wings shows a commitment to customer satisfaction that is hard to top. If you like a little kick in your pie, the 10-inch “A Fire Inside” ($10.99) is a decent choice. Its base is a spicy Firestorm Sauce, banana peppers, jalapeños, and hot cherry peppers. This is not for the faint of spice. Every bite was bursting with the flavor from the hearty sauce and peppers. They do have 11 milder choices if hot and spicy is not your thing. Additionally, you can create your own pizza (small $9.99, large $16.99) in any combination of toppings ($0.99 each for small, $1.59 each for large). New Ethic Pizzeria & Café promises to satisfy with its extensive menu of vegan selections. It is truly vegan fare for everyone. Since I visited on New Ethic’s first day of business, I expected them to be busy and for a line to be snaking through the shop. But there was a small line, and though kitchen was a blur of motion, the folks waiting for their orders were sitting patiently and calmly. There were no grumbles of delays in orders, just the staff working as hard as they could and customers enjoying the space while they waited. Periodically, manager Tony Proietti would come out to update folks on the progress of their orders, and boast about the ingredients or the delicious vegan milkshakes. He was apologetic about the wait time, but I do not think anyone was surprised that a packed restaurant on its first day open was slammed with so many food orders. I ordered pizza for take-away, but when I received it, it smelled so good I had to try it right then. Throughout the minty-green-painted restaurant, there are placards and signs that declare the space welcomes all immigrants, religions, abilities, genders, orientations, races and ethnicities, ages, and languages. They are very nice signs, and I appreciate the sentiment, but I am often skeptical of businesses that post things like this, as they sometimes are more performative than true. But it looks like words are actions at New Ethic. I entered the restaurant, and it was full with folks of all ages, genders, sexes, races, and ethnicities. People were talking and laughing across separate tables, and a big group that I thought were there together were actually strangers making new acquaintances and friends. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11
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[ AMERICANA ] Folkfaces Fest Thursday, October 3 to Sunday, October 6. Cherry Hill Campground. 1516 Sumner Rd. Darien Center. $20 Thursday pass; $30 day pass; $60-$70 weekend pass. folkfacesmusic.com. [ JAZZ ] Jon Batiste Saturday, October 5. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. 60 Gibbs St. $35-$90.50. 8 p.m. 274-3000. esm.rochester.edu/theatre; jonbatiste.com.
John Medeski’s Mad Skillet
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 THREE HEADS BREWING. 186 ATLANTIC AVENUE 8 P.M. | $30 ADVANCE; $40 DOOR THREEHEADSBREWING.COM; JOHNMEDESKI.COM [ JAM BAND-JAZZ ] If you thought you heard some
NOLA sizzlin’ in John Medeski’s Mad Skillet, you’d be right. One-third of Medeski Martin & Wood, the wild keyboardist shoehorns some Big Easy guns – saxophonist Kirk Joseph and drummer Terence Higgins, both from Dirty Dozen Brass Band – into this side project. See? I told ya. The band jams both tight and bright. Of course, comparisons will be made between the two Medeski projects, but who wants to hear the same thing twice? Mad Skillet is fresh. It still has that new band smell.
— BY FRANK DE BLASE
Gray Quartet TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 THE SPIRIT ROOM, 139 STATE STREET 7:30 P.M. | $5 SUGGESTED DONATION FACEBOOK.COM/THESPIRITROOMROCHESTER [ JAZZ ] Every Tuesday, The Spirit Room hosts the Jazz Session Series, featuring the talented Eastman School of Music students and alumni in the Gray Quartet. Consisting of pianist Max Greenberg, guitarist Blake Pattengale, Rafael Enciso on bass, and drummer Stephen Morris, the quartet provides fresh, vibrant takes on vintage jazz classics and popular standards. Be on the lookout for Greenberg’s incisive but melodic keyboard riffs and Pattengale’s fluid, groove-oriented guitar. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
PHOTO BY MARC PAGANI
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[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]
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Krypton 88
ACOUSTIC/FOLK Rochester Folkus. Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370. Every other Wednesday, 7-9 p.m. The Cadleys. $10.
‘Krypton 88’ Self-released Krpyton 88 on facebook.com
Susan Alcorn SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 BOP SHOP RECORDS, 1460 MONROE AVENUE 8 P.M. | $15 STUDENTS; $20 DOOR BOPSHOP.COM; SUSANALCORN.NET [ STEEL GUITAR ] This ain’t the typical home to roam for the
pedal steel. There’s no country twang or deep dish blues. The sound Susan Alcorn gets out of her instrument can best be described as nouveau classical. The complex chord structures are brilliant. The way Alcorn plays, it’s as if she creates the notes she’ll play by constructing them in the air right above the steel guitar. Alcorn earned her bones, slippin’ and slidin’, playing countrywestern in Texas before moving on. Destination: elsewhere.
— BY FRANK DE BLASE
Aaron DeRuyter and The Confluence FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 RADIO SOCIAL, 20 CARLSON ROAD 6 P.M. | FREE | RADIO-SOCIAL.COM AARONDERUYTER.BANDCAMP.COM [ GRUNGE FOLK ] Former frontman of the late 90’s post-
grunge band Pompous Pilate, local singer-guitarist Aaron DeRuyter expands the boundaries of Americana music by combining acoustic and electronic elements. He writes haunting soliloquies like Townes Van Zandt and sings with a spiritual expansiveness similar to Iron & Wine. Feathery guitar arrangements are complemented by dense electronic overtones, modal vocal melodies, and off-kilter lyrics about life and death. DeRuyter delivers an ambient blend of folk, grunge, psychedelic rock, and alternative country. Buffalo Sex Change and DJ Chreath will play along with DeRuyter and his band The Confluence as part of Lebowski Fest on Friday. — BY KATIE HALLIGAN
The Rochester rockabilly raconteurs of Krypton 88 have really gone and done it now. I ran into guitarist Jim Via and he handed me the trio’s new eponymous record, which he kind of dismissed as “three old guys playing honky-tonk in the basement.” Age is arbitrary, but the whole album is a collection of the band’s favorite sawdust-floor-andlongneck boot-scoot. They mix it up nice, with all members taking a turn at the mic for variety. The material is pure honky-tonk, and Krypton 88 rocks it right. Songs by Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb, and James Intveld all ring true right cheer on this record. Krypton 88 plays its CD release show on Friday, September 13, 9:15 p.m. at Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
False Pockets
Teressa Wilcox & Herb Hines. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 7 p.m. BLUES
Hanna PK Duo. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 3257090. 9 p.m.
Reverend Kingfish: House Party of the Damned. The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 8 p.m. CLASSICAL
In Remembrance: A Tribute to Courage, Heroism, & Hope for the Future. Hatch Hall, 26
Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m. Guest composer & violinist Maria Newman.
‘False Pockets’ Self-released falsepockets.bandcamp.com
COUNTRY
Formed in the summer of 2018, False Pockets features singer-guitarist Erik Happ, drummer Ben Chesnes, and bassist Zack Parker. The band is about to release its self-titled debut EP, a culmination of math rock songs created in less than two months. The album is an experimental story told mostly through instrumental arrangements. Resembling an epic video game soundtrack, “The Sun Gets Down” and “I’ll Need the Pants in Advance, Please” deliver explosive contrast between sections. “The Sun Gets Down Pt. 2” offers a less dense aperture of the band’s rhythm-heavy sound. The vocals in “Buy One Get One Free Piercings” and “Giving Trees to the Giving Tree” expand over top, yet are set into the mix like another instrument. False Pockets will perform its release show along with California Cousins, Kindofkind, and RUT on Friday, September 13, 9 p.m. at Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue. $8. Ages 18 and over. Under 21, will call tickets only. 454-2966. bugjar.com; facebook.com/falsepockets.
Ward Hayden & The Outliers. Record Archive,
33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-8 p.m. JAZZ
Margaret Explosion. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m. POP/ROCK
Surfer Joe, The Televisionaries. Abilene,
153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 8 p.m. $10.
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— BY KATIE HALLIGAN
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Pegasus Early Music opens its 2019-20 season on September 22 with “Viol3,” featuring Beiliang Zhu (left), Lisa Terry (right), and David Morris. PHOTOS PROVIDED
A vintage sound for strings Pegasus Early Music
[ FEATURE ] BY DAVID RAYMOND
‘VIOL3’ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 DOWNTOWN UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 121 NORTH FITZHUGH STREET PRE-CONCERT TALK AT 3:15 P.M. MUSIC AT 4 P.M. $28 GENERAL; $22 SENIORS; $10 STUDENTS; FREE FOR GRADES 3 TO 12 PEGASUSEARLYMUSIC.ORG
The early string instrument known as the viol (rhymes with “smile”) can frequently be found in Renaissance and Baroque art, usually in the hands of princesses, saints, or angels. For Pegasus Early Music’s September 22 concert “Viol3,” however, three viols will be in the hands of musicians Beiliang Zhu, Lisa Terry, and David Morris, whom Pegasus Artistic Director Deborah Fox
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straightforwardly calls “three world-class viol players.” They’re also frequent guests of Pegasus – and the idea of friends sitting together playing chamber music is an important part of the viol repertoire, “fitting the spirit of the music,” Fox says. She adds that a popular 17th-century English collection of viol music was called “Musick for Severall Friends.” The viola da gamba, or viol, or basse de viole (different names, the same instrument)
has a long history in European music. It was a popular instrument – first in Spain, then Italy, England, France, and Germany – from 1500 to almost 1800. The viol developed in numerous sizes, from high to low in range, roughly like our modern violin, viola, cello, and double bass. The repertoire includes solo pieces and duos, as well as ensemble works which presage the string quartet, and their sounds were frequently heard at royal courts and in some homes. You’ll hear examples of all of them on this concert. “It’s a huge repertoire with an incredible sound,” Fox says, “rich and lush, but with a transparency because of the period instruments, as opposed to the thicker sound of the modern cello.” The beguiling sound of the viol is produced in a couple of very specific ways, which call for a particular approach to playing that’s quite different from that of modern string instruments. Terry and Morris described some of the details of performing on the viol, via email. “Early bows functioned more like quill pens with extremely flexible nibs,” Morris says, “which allowed their users to sculpt both big phrases and little details with a great deal of control over the finer points, whereas modern bows are especially good at creating a penetrating, focused sound.” He describes gut strings (which were indeed originally made from animal guts) as “soft, flexible and a little rough-sounding. They have a certain amount of surface noise.” “When you start a sound on a gut-strung cello or viol,” Terry says, “your body sinks into the strings. You welcome the sound, you encourage it to resonate.” The instrument is played “a gamba” – upright between the legs or on the lap, depending on the size. “On the subject of the viol’s particular timbre,” Morris says, “I recall one 18th-century writer describing it as ‘thin and nasal, like the voice of a diplomat.’ I’d definitely characterize it as an ‘indoor’ voice, perhaps best suited to elegant drawing-room conversation.” The music on the varied “Viol3” program focuses on British and French composers, and reflects the national styles prevalent in Renaissance and Baroque music. A large-scale suite by Marin Marais (a favorite of Louis XIV) is inspired by the dance music of the 17th century – minuets, sarabandes, gavottes, and many more – profusely ornamented in a specifically French style. According to Fox, British viol music is equally virtuosic, but also has “a quirky charm” and in some cases
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(notably, the fantasias of Henry Purcell) a surprising harmonic boldness. “The sound of three bass viols is so ridiculously rich, it is like eating way too many desserts,” Terry says. “So while the Marais Suite for Three Viols was the centerpiece of the program, we decided to spend the first half playing combinations of other sizes of viols. We are very fond of the English repertoire – which is the most vast for us consort players – so we selected two suites for three viols, one consort set for treble, tenor, bass viols, and then some virtuosic bass viol duos from France, England and Germany.” Morris says that the expectation of viol players as utility musicians is a key factor. “One of the best things about this instrument,” he says, “is that one is expected to be able to play any of the core three sizes of the instrument’s family – treble, tenor and bass. That incredibly flexible, collegial modality is part of what this instrument is and always has been about.” The Marais suite is the longest piece on the program, and to hear the players describe it, the most fun. According to Terry, they’ll play its nine movements “round robin” style. “We trade roles for each movement,” she says. “We each have three turns to play viol 1and viol 2 and viol 3.” The bass line and harmonies will be filled in by Leon Schelhase on harpsichord and Fox on lute. “With the five of us involved, it’s really hog heaven,” Morris says, “since we have every possible means of sound production at our disposal. It made perfect sense that with three of us playing gamba, we would share all the duties and thrills involved in this music. After its heyday of nearly three centuries, the viol was revived in the late nineteenth century, and it’s still going strong. There is in fact a Viola da Gamba Society of America, with Terry serving as its president. “Our annual convention has over 200 viol players in attendance each summer,” she says. “This is because the viola da gamba is an excellent instrument for amateurs. Once you learn the technique on one size you can play all the other sizes – treble, alto, tenor, bass, great bass, contrabass – because the setup is the same.”
Begging Angels Trio. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 9 p.m. The Byways. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7-9 p.m.
Serge & Friends. The Rabbit Room, 61 N. Main St. Honeoye Falls. 582-1830. 6:30 p.m. AMERICANA
Arthur Buezo, Tyler Westcott. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 8 p.m. $6. CLASSICAL
Nicholas Goluses, guitar. Hatch Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m. $10. JAZZ
Chris Cady. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.
Mad Skillet. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $30/$40. HIP-HOP/RAP
A Night with IJM. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $8. METAL
Avatar, ‘68, The Inspector Cluzo. Anthology, 336 East Ave. 484-1964. 8 p.m. $20.
Die Choking, Bandit, Sulaco. Rosen Krown, 875 Monroe Ave. 271-7050. 9 p.m. POP/ROCK
Blue Envy, Walrus Junction, Free Casino. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 7 p.m.
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Jackson Cavalier. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080. 7 p.m. AMERICANA
Hey Mavis. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 8 p.m. $15.
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East End Drifters. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 8 p.m. Reverend Kingfish. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 5-7 p.m. CLASSICAL
Lunchtime Concert: Rose Kearin, soprano. Cobblestone Arts Center, 1622 NY 332. 398-0220. 12:15-12:45 p.m. DJ/ELECTRONIC
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Yheti, Toadface, Mt. Analogue. BOSSA NOVA | BOSSA NOVA BRADLEY BROTHERS Anthology, 336 East Ave. 4841964. 8 p.m. $23. JAZZ
Chris Ott. Prosecco, 1550 NY 332. Farmington. 924-8000. 6 p.m. POP/ROCK
Ben Morey & The Eyes. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 10 p.m. Big Logic, The Truth Serum. Lincoln Hill Farms, 3792 Rte 247. Canandaigua. lincolnhillfarms.com. 5 p.m.
Bossa nova’s kind of laid-back like a gentle breeze, but once it migrated from Brazil to our shores in the 1960’s, it never quite let go. Everyone knows “The Girl from Ipanema” and the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim, but there’s so much more. And that’s where the Bossa Nova Bradley Brothers come in. With Todd Bradley singing (in Portuguese) and playing guitar, Scott Bradley at the piano, Mark Bradley on sax and Brian Williams on bass, the quartet brings that gently breeze into the Little Theatre Café every Monday night this month. Bossa Nova Bradley Brothers perform Monday, September 16, 7 p.m. at The Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. Free. 2580400. thelittle.org/music. facebook.com/bradleybrothersmusic. — BY RON NETSKY
Chris Cady. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5:30-7 p.m.
Dave Riccioni & Friends. M’s 4300 Bar & Grill, 4300 Culver Road. 467-2750. Second Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.
False Pockets, California Cousins, Kindofkind, RUT. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar. com. 8 p.m. $8.
Hidden Garden Concert: Wildflowers. George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. eastman.org. 6 p.m. Tom Petty tribute. $10/$12.
Lebowski Fest: Aaron DeRuyter, Buffalo Sex Change. Radio Social, 20 Carlson Road. 6 p.m.-midnight.
Tobey Village House Band. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 5:30 p.m.
Zach Nugent’s Fire on the Mountain. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. 9 p.m. $8/$12. ROCKABILLY
Krypton 88. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 9:15 p.m. $5. 16 CITY SEPTEMBER 11 - 17, 2019
[ SAT., SEPTEMBER 14 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Copper Hill, Bellwether Bayou. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 9 p.m. $6.
Mike Pullano. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.
COUNTRY
Derek Joseph, Bordertown. Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 334-3030. 9 p.m. $10/$12. Rebel’s Posse. Farmer’s Creekside Tavern & Inn, 1 Main St. Le Roy. 768-6007. 8 p.m. JAZZ
Cousin Vinny. Salvatore’s AMERICANA
Americana Countryfest. Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 E Covert Rd. Interlaken. (607) 387-6801. 1:30-9:30 p.m. $17.50. Good Morning Bedlam. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 9 p.m.
Head to the Roots. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. 6 p.m.
Pizzeria & Pub, 1217 Bay Rd. Webster. 671-9420. 7:30 p.m. METAL
1476, Goblin Hovel, Uniflora. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 4-7 p.m. $10/$12. POP/ROCK
Alex Patrick & the Noise Boys, Yarms, Benton Sillick, DJ Jbone. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $5.
BLUES
HotFrost. Flaherty’s Macedon, 113 Pittsford Palmyra Rd. 2231221. flahertys.com. 8 p.m.
Candy Isle, Will Orchard, Brindamor, Archimedes. The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 3977595. 8 p.m. $5/$10.
Latriste & Frequency. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 8 p.m. $5.
No Quarter. Anthology, 336 East Ave. 484-1964. 8:30 p.m. $20.
[ SUN., SEPTEMBER 15 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Charlie Ellis. Lincoln Hill Farms, 3792 Rte 247. Canandaigua. lincolnhillfarms. com. noon. Family Fun Day. CLASSICAL
Going for Baroque. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900. 1 & 3 p.m. W/ museum admission: $6-$15. Performance Plus: Meracki Winds. George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. eastman.org. 3 p.m. W/ museum admission, $5-$15. JAZZ
Nancy Kelly. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com. 6 p.m. $10.
JAZZ
Bossa Nova Bradley Brothers. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org/artists/ bossa-nova-bradley-brothers. 7-9 p.m.
[ TUE., SEPTEMBER 17 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Golden Link Folk Singing Society Singaround. Twelve Corners Presbyterian, 1200 S Winton Rd. 244-8585. goldenlink.org/sing.html. 7:30-10 p.m.
Joe Nolan. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 7:30 p.m. AMERICANA
Bluegrass Tuesdays. The Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 4131125. 8 p.m.
A Dog’s Dream Bluegrass. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 4135745. 7 p.m. Benefits Lollypop Farm. $15.
Susan Alcorn. Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. 271-3354. 8 p.m. $15/$20. HIP-HOP/RAP
BLUES
The Tony Holiday Band. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080. 7 p.m. $20.
The Crazy Switch Asians Tour. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd. 426-6339. 8 p.m. $10-$12. POP/ROCK
Carpool, Ghostpool, Rut, The Jokes On Us. Bug Jar, 219
CLASSICAL
Tuesday Pipes.. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. 12:10 p.m. Lunchtime concerts by Eastman organists. JAZZ
Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9:30 p.m.
Gray Quartet Jazz Sessions.
PUNK/HARDCORE
Grove Place Jazz Project.
H20, Comeback Kid, Abuse Of Power. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 7 p.m. $20/$23.
The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 7:30-10 p.m. $5. Rochester Music Hall of Fame, 25 Gibbs St. rochestermusic.org. 7 p.m. $10. POP/ROCK
[ MON., SEPTEMBER 16 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Stormy Valle. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-8 p.m. CLASSICAL
US Navy Band Brass Quintet.
Kayo Dot, The Crimson Edge, Elusive Travel, Westward Journey. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $10/$12. VOCALS
Bravo Nights. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7-9 p.m.
Hatch Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m.
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Theater
Mark Cuddy as Georges with the Cagelles in Geva’s production of “La Cage Aux Folles.” PHOTO BY GOAT FACTORY MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT
It is what it is “La Cage Aux Folles” REVIEWED SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 CONTINUES THROUGH OCTOBER 6 WILSON STAGE AT GEVA THEATRE CENTER, 75 WOODBURY BOULEVARD TICKETS START AT $25 | 232-4382; GEVATHEATRE.ORG [ REVIEW ] BY LEAH STACY
Like most mid-sized cities, Rochester only has one professional regional theater. Geva Theatre Center is a member of the League of Resident Theatres, which has just 75 theaters in 30 states. Others in town, like Rochester Broadway Theatre League, bring in professional touring shows from big cities, and still others, like Blackfriars, sometimes use professional cast and crew members. But Geva is the only theater using both equity cast and crew and an in-house staff to build and execute each production. Understandably, that raises the standard for Geva’s seasons each year. 18 CITY SEPTEMBER 11 - 17, 2019
For the past 25 years as artistic director, Mark Cuddy has been perfecting the art of choosing the Geva Theatre Center season. He and his team have honed in on audience favorites, found trusted collaborators, and created and commissioned new works. In the past few years, especially, they’ve met with great success. The 2019-2020 season – Cuddy’s 25th anniversary season – begins with a show rarely performed on Rochester stages. “La Cage Aux Folles” is the story of a gay couple who owns a drag nightclub in 1980’s St. Tropez. When the son of manager Georges (played by Cuddy himself ) announces he’s engaged to the daughter of France’s most conservative politician, Georges and his partner, who is also the nightclub’s star, Albin (Danny Vaccaro), strive to keep up appearances for their son’s sake (naturally, chaos ensues). “La Cage Aux Folles” translates to “The Cage of Mad Women” and is based on a 1973 French play of the same name; it also inspired the 1996 film “The Birdcage.”
When it opened on Broadway in 1983, it received nine Tony Award nominations and won six, including Best Musical. At its core, it’s flashy, an undeniably fun night out – albeit difficult to pull off without a talented male cast. Fortunately, Geva’s cast is more than equipped to handle the high-heeled, leather- and feather-filled dance numbers. The six Les Cagelles – Donovan Hoffer, Kyle DuPree, Joseph Tudor, Sam Tanabe, Giovanni Da Silva, and Matthew Tiberi – not only impress with their dance moves and drag characters, but sing numbers like “We Are What We Are” in soaring harmony. In the role of “butler” Jacob, Kevin Curtis provides standout comic relief, with spoton timing and physical movement. As the nightclub’s stage manager, Michael RJ Campbell delivers unexpected pops of humor. Rochester-based cast member Esther Winter, who plays high-maintenance restaurateur Jacqueline, also steals her share of the evening’s spotlight with audience laughs and a fantastic purple dress.
Cuddy leads the cast (his second role in the past two seasons, following 2018’s “Heartland”) as Georges, and his acting is impressive for someone who spends most of his time on the other side of the stage. But his showmanship comes naturally (perhaps proving that those who teach, can do?). His dancing is fluid, and most of his vocals are passable, though there are a few hiccups with range and pitch in the second act. Opposite him is Vaccaro, a seasoned La Cage performer who was in the 2011 Tony Award-winning production. Vaccaro is poignant in the role of the sensitive Albin, and he brought the audience to tears, laughter, and even a standing ovation just before intermission with the moving number “I Am What I Am.” As Jean-Michel, son to Georges and Albin, Michael Evan Williams depicts a bright-eyed, earnest, and thoroughly charming character. Even his selfishness is forgivable as he sings through “With Anne on My Arm.” Director Melissa Rain Anderson (who for the past several years has directed the popular season-opener musicals) guides the cast in an energetic, interactive twoand-a-half hours (including intermission). Choreographer Sam Hay capitalizes on the elaborate costumes by Kevin Copenhaver to create showman numbers. (The usual tap dancing is downplayed in this production.) Musical Director Don Kot and his sevenpiece band are tucked away in the pit, but play an important unseen (and oft humorous) role as the band, both literally and for the fictional nightclub. Multidimensional, colorful scenic design by Adam Koch lends itself to several locations. In a city the size of Rochester, many things must be considered when choosing a theatrical season. Ticket sales are important for everyday operations, but as the sole LORT theater in town, Geva is also held to standards of experimentation, entertainment, and even spectacle. “La Cage Aux Folles” has plenty of moments where it hits on these factors, but Cuddy’s charm has to carry where raw ability fails. Cuddy, of course, isn’t there (solely) for his talent, but to delight the masses who’ve been supporting Geva for years. And if there’s anything Rochester loves, it’s a hometown hero.
Arts & Performance Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Motivational Muses. Sep. 16-Oct. 27. Reception Sep 20, 6-8pm. 546-8400. 540WMain, 540 W Main St. Krit Upra: Boys Do Cry. Sat., Sep. 14, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. 420-8439. Colleen Buzzard Studio, 250 N Goodman St, #401 Anderson Arts. Anne Havens: Piecework, Samplers & Other Twists & Turns. Second Saturday of every month, 6-9 p.m. Dansville ArtWorks Gallery, 178 Main St. Dansville. Bernard Dick: People & Places. Reception Sep 14, 10am12pm. 335-4746. Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. Carrianne Hendrickson & Richard Nickel: Nothing That is Not There. Reception Sep 13, 6-9pm. 2441730.; Eric Kunsman : Thou Art.. Will Give... . Reception Sep 20, 6pm. 244-1730. Frontispace @ Art & Music Library, 755 Library Rd. Art New York 2019. Sep. 11-26. Reception Sep 18, 6-7pm. 273-2267. GO ART!, 201 E Main St. Batavia. Kevin Hammon: Maps & Legends. Through Nov 9. goart.org.; Members’ Challenge. Reception Sep 19, 6-8pm. Theme: Purpose. Through Dec 7. goart.org. Hipocampo Children’s Books, 638 South Ave. Hand Picked: Art Expression of Farmworkers Who Feed Us. Reception Sep 13, 6-7:30pm. 461-0161. Lockhart Gallery at SUNY Geneseo, 28 Main St. Roberta Rainey: Grayscaled. Reception Sep 11, 5-7pm. 245-5813. My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt Hope Ave. Through Eyes of Pastel. Sep. 16-Oct. 27. 546-8400. New York Figure Study Guild, 176 Anderson Ave. 2th NYFSG Annual Art Exhibition. Sep. 1320. Reception Sep 13, 6-9pm. 230-8521. Rundel Memorial Building, 2nd Floor, Central Library, 115 South Ave. Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition. Reception Sep 16, 7-9pm. UUU Art Collective, 153 State St. A Living Room Suite. Sep. 13-17, 8-11 p.m. Reception 6pm, electronic music 8pm: Sep 13. Events through Sep 17 listed on FB. $10. 434-2223. [ CONTINUING ] ART EXHIBITS 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Betsy Liano: Colorful Visions. Through Sep. 15. 546-8400. Anthony Mascioli Gallery, Central Library, 115 South Ave. Crafting Democracy: Fiber Arts & Activism. Through Oct. 25. Reception Sep 16, 4-6pm. 428-8350.
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ArtSpace36, 36 Main St. Canandaigua. Honoring Our Roots: Wayne Williams & TF Insalaco. Through Oct 12. flcc. edu/artspace36. AsIs Gallery, Sage Art Center, 835 Wilson Blvd. Advanced Drawing & Intro to Sculpture. Through Oct 8. sageart.center/ asis-gallery.; Photographs by Jacob Brown. Through Oct 6. sageart.center/asis-gallery. AXOM Gallery, 176 Anderson Ave, 2nd Flr. Look at Us: The legacy of RIT School of Art & Design from 1960’s. Through Sep 14. axomgallery.com. Bertha VB Lederer Gallery, 1 College Dr. Alison Weld: Earthly Abstract | Student Figure Drawings & Watercolor. Through Oct 12. geneseo.edu/galleries. Casa Italiana at Nazareth College, 4245 East Ave. Angela Possemato: Images of Southern Italy. Reception Sep 13, 6-8pm. Through Dec 15. 389-2525. Central Library, Local History & Genealogy Division, 115 South Ave. Everyday People: The Dinkle Family & Rochester’s African American Past. Through Dec 30. 428-8370. Cobblestone Arts Center, 1622 NY 332. Melody Burri & Regina Muscarella: People & Places. Photography exhibit, through Oct 6. 398-0220.
Create Art 4 Good, 1115 E. Main St., Suite #203, Door #5. Spotted Rabbit Studio. Through Sep 14. 210-3161. Dansville ArtWorks Gallery, 178 Main St. Dansville. 2nd Annual Juried Show. Through Oct 26. 335-4746. Davis Gallery at Houghton House, 1 King’s Lane. Geneva. Art & Architecture Faculty Exhibition. Reception Sep 27, 5-7pm. Through Sep 28. hws. edu/davisgallery. Davison Gallery, Cultural Life Center, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr. Dwell: explorations of being. Reception Sep 28, 5-7pm. Mandi Antonucci, Nate Hodge, Richard Nickel. Through Oct 12. 594-6442. Douglass Auditorium, 36 King St. Rochester Artist Collaborative: Diversity Series. Through Sep. 27. Fuego Coffee Roasters, 1 Woodbury Blvd. Shane Durgee: Bogus Ascension. Through Sep. 30, 6-9 p.m. 270-9214. Gallery Q, 100 College Ave. Evan Bobrow & Kes Efstathiou: Scouting. Through Sep. 26. 244-8640. Ganondagan State Historic Site, 7000 County Road 41. Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women: From the Time of Creation. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. $3-$8. ganondagan.org. continues on page 20
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GCC Albion Campus, 456 West Ave. Linda Fix: Echoes of Perception (and Reality). Through Oct 4. goart.org. GCC Medina Campus, 11470 Maple Ridge Rd. Kim Muscarella: Paper Plains. Reception Sep 18, 6-8pm. Through Oct 4. goart.org.; From Here to There: A Pilgrimage of Vision. MondaysFridays. Elizabeth King Durang, Constance Mauro, g.a. Sheller. Through Oct 30. George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. Tanya Marcuse: Woven. Through Jan 5. The Art of Warner Bros Cartoons. Through Oct 6. $5-$15. Peter Bo Rappmund: Tectonics. Through Jul 6. eastman.org. GO ART!, 201 E Main St. Batavia. Alcohol Ink Explorations by Patience Wnek | Works by Kenneth Brant. Through Oct 5. goart.org. Hartnett Gallery, UR Wilson Commons, River Campus. In the Works. Reception Sep 18, 4-6. Through Sep 26. 275-4188. Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Around Rochester. Through Sep 29. 271-2540. INeRT PReSS, 1115 East Main St. Sights & Scenes of the World. Thursdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Through Oct 31. 482-0931. International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Lorenzo Dupuis: Through the Birches. Through Sep. 30. 264-1440. Joy Gallery, 498 1/2 W Main St. John Retallack: Still Life Photographs. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Through Sep 27. 436-5230. Little Café, 240 East Ave. Art from Scott Regan & Steve Piper. Through Sep. 27. 258-0400. Lumiere Photo, 100 College Ave. Ecco Qui: Circumstantial Photographs. Nancy Anne Holowka. Through Sep 28. 461-4447. Main Street Arts, 20 W Main St. Clifton Springs. From Dirt to the Skies | The Finger Lakes: a Sense of Place. Through Oct 4. (315) 462-0210. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Rochester Americana: The Watercolors of Karal Ann Marling. Through Oct 27; Kalup Linzy: Conversations wit de Churen V: As da Art World Might Turn. Through Dec 8; 66th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition. Through Sept 15. 276-8900. Mendon 64, 1369 PittsMendon Rd. Mendon. Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty. Mike Kraus Art. Through Sep 28. 433-9464. Mill Art Center & Gallery, 61 N Main St. Honeoye Falls. Member Show: Inspired by Summer. Through Sep 21. 624-7740. MuCCC Gallery, 142 Atlantic Ave. Arena Art Group: On the Fringe Again. Through Sep. 28. muccc.org/artgallery. 20 CITY SEPTEMBER 11 - 17, 2019
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A few days a week, year round, The Rochester Public Market is filled with vendors offering produce, poultry, and other food for shoppers to take home and make into meals. But once a year, these raw materials are swapped out for vendors offering finished dishes. Foodlink’s annual fall fundraiser, the Festival of Food, returns the Rochester Public Market this week, featuring more than 100 food and beverage vendors offering samplings of their delicious creations. Event coordinators urge that strollers be left at home, and no pets are allowed on the premises. Monday, September 16, 6 to 9 p.m. at the Rochester Public Market, 280 Union Street. General admission tickets are $50, and VIP tickets (which include VIP parking and a cocktail hour starting at 5:30 p.m.) are $75. 328-3380; foodlinkny.org. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt Hope Ave. Beauty in Bloom. Through Sep. 15. 546-8400. Nazareth College Arts Center Gallery, 4245 East Ave. Faculty Art Show. Tuesdays-Sundays. Reception Sep 13, 5pm. Through Sep 29. 389-2525. Nazareth College Colacino Gallery, 4245 East Ave. Stefan Zoller: Blasted Lungs. Tuesdays-Sundays. Reception Sep 13, 5pm. Through Sep 29. 389-5073. NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. Arena Arts. Through Oct 26.; Color to the Cube. Through Dec 14. rit. edu/ntid/dyerarts.; Opening the Cube. Through Oct 26. rit. edu/ntid/dyerarts.; Preview of De’VIA: The Manifesto Comes of Age. Mondays-Saturdays. rit.edu/ntid/dyerarts. Ontario County Historical Society Museum, 55 North Main St., Canandaigua. Tell a Story Exhibit & Sale. TuesdaysSaturdays. Through Sep 26. ocarts.org. Rare Books & Special Collections, Rush Rhees Library, UR River Campus. Victoria: A Ruling Image. Through Oct. 5. 275-4461. RIT Bevier Gallery, 90 Lomb Memorial Dr., Booth Bldg 7A. Art & Design Faculty Show. Mondays-Saturdays. Through Sep 28. 475-2646.
RIT City Art Space, 280 East Main St. re|verb. Through Sep 22. cityartspace.rit.edu. Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. Heather Swenson: Observation Towers. Through Nov 3. 461-2222.; Take Back the Walls. Through Sep 21. $2. 461-2222. Roz Steiner Art Gallery, GCC, 1 College Rd. Bruce Adams: Untitled. hrough Sep 21. genesee.edu/gallery. Tennie Burton Museum, 1850 Rochester St. Lima. One Hundred Years of Hats Made & Worn in Lima. Sundays, 2-4 p.m. Through September 29. 624-1050. The Village Gallery, 3119 Main St. Caledonia. Stanley Lewis & Robert Croll. Fridays-Sundays, 5-8 p.m. Through Sep 29. 294-3009. Tower Fine Arts Center, 180 Holley St. Brockport. Art Faculty Exhibition. MondaysFridays, Sundays. Through Oct 11. 395-2805. University Gallery, Booth Hall, RIT, 166 Lomb Memorial Dr. North by Nuuk: Greenland After Rockwell Kent. MondaysSaturdays. Reception Sep 12, 4:30-6:30pm. Through Oct 12. 475-2866. Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. ImageOut Resident: Kes Efstathiou. Through Oct 6. vsw.org.
Wayne County Council for the Arts, 108 W Miller St. Newark. Earth, Wind and Fire. Fridays, Saturdays. Reception Sep 14, 4-6pm. Through Oct 12. wayne-arts.com. Whitman Works Co, 1826 Penfield Rd. Penfield. Courageous Color: Bold Interpretations on the Traditions of Art by Lorraine Staunch. Through Sep 21. 747-9999. Williams Gallery at First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd. Don Burkel & Jim Thomas: Natural Abstractions. MondaysFridays. Through Oct 14.
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[ WED., SEPTEMBER 11 ] 2020-2021 Exhibit Season. Through Dec. 31. Roz Steiner Art Gallery, GCC, 1 College Rd genesee.edu/gallery. Life is a Journey. Through Nov. 4. Bridge Art Gallery, URMC, 300 Crittenden Blvd 275-3571. Rochester Small Press Book Fair. Through Sep. 15. Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. vsw.org. Small Show 2019. Lumiere Photo, 100 College Ave Due Oct 26 461-4447.
[ THU., SEPTEMBER 12 ] Larry McNeil: Fly by Night Mythology. 6 p.m. George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. Wish You Were Here series $5/$10. eastman.org. [ FRI., SEPTEMBER 13 ] Animal Art Expo. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St $12. 336-7200. Faculty Art Show. 5 p.m. Nazareth College Arts Center Gallery, 4245 East Ave. Reception 389-2525.
Rachel Cordaro: Mark Making. 6-9 p.m. Stacy K Floral, 43 Russell St 244-1414. [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 14 ] Fashion Fest. 1-4 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $20. 624-5510. Second Saturdays. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. The Hungerford, 1115 E Main St. 469-8217; 3-6 p.m. Cornerstone Gallery, 8732 Main St., Honeoye. A variety of open venues in Honeoye Falls baierpottery.com.
[ SUN., SEPTEMBER 15 ] Gifts of Art from the Sibley & Watson Families. 3-4:30 p.m. Calvary St. Andrews, 68 Ashland St. Donations accepted 546-3903. [ MON., SEPTEMBER 16 ] Larry McNeil. 5 p.m. MAGIC Center, RIT Tlingit/Nisgaa photographer. Museum Mondays for Seniors. 11 a.m.-2 p.m Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. 263-2700.
Comedy [ THU., SEPTEMBER 12 ] Harland Williams. 7:30 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $17-$25. 4266339. Talent’s Comedy Takeover: AJ Johnson. 7 p.m. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave $25/$30. 464-8790. [ FRI., SEPTEMBER 13 ] Kevin James. Sep. 13. Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. $40 & up. kodakcenter.com. continues on page 22
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[ SAT., SEPTEMBER 14 ] Jon Lehrer Dance. 7:30 p.m. Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St . Geneva $10-$35. thesmith.org.
Theater Guys & Dolls. Wed., Sep. 11, 7:30 p.m., Thu., Sep. 12, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Sep. 13, 8 p.m., Sat., Sep. 14, 8 p.m. and Sun., Sep. 15, 2 & 7 p.m. Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St $31.50-$39.50. 454-1260. La Cage aux Folles. Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., Fridays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 p.m., Saturdays, 3 & 8 p.m., Sun., Sep. 15, 7 p.m. and Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd $25 & up. gevatheatre.org. Mrs. Kasha Davis: There’s Always Time for a Cocktail. Fri., Sep. 13, 11 p.m. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd $10. gevatheatre.org.
Theater Audition [ WED., SEPTEMBER 11 ] A Christmas Carol. 3-6 p.m. Geva Theatre, 75 Woodbury Blvd Ages 5-13. By appointment only 232-1366. gevatheatre.org.
Activism [ WED., SEPTEMBER 11 ] The Problem with Violence: The Inherent Contradictions in Criminal Justice Reform. 7 p.m. Interfaith Chapel, UR, River Campus Reginald Dwayne Betts rochester.edu. Walk for Peace. 5:30 p.m. Vietnam Veterans Memorial Greater Rochester, 1440 South Ave niit.com. [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 14 ] Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/Serve Food. 3:30-6 p.m. St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality, 402 South Ave. 232-3262. Restoring Indigenous Relationships with Land: A Biocultural Approach. 2 p.m. Ganondagan State Historic Site, 7000 County Road 41 Neil Patterson, Tuscarora Nation farmingtonmeetinghouse.org.
Festivals 13th Annual Festival of the Arts. Sat., Sep. 14, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Linear Garden, 2315 E Main St. northwinton.org. 3rd Annual VegFest. Sat., Sep. 14, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. MLK Jr. Memorial Park, 1 Manhattan Sq. rocvegfest.org. Festival of Food. Mon., Sep. 16, 6 p.m. Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. $50$75. foodlinkny.org/. Oktoberfest. Fri., Sep. 13, 12-11 p.m. and Sat., Sep. 14, 12-11 p.m. Camp Eastman, 1301 Lakeshore Blvd Irondequoit oktoberfestny.com.
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Orleans County Heritage Festival. Tuesdays-Sundays Various, Orleans County orleansnyheritage.wordpress.com. Rochester Fringe Festival. Through Sep. 21. Various, Rochester Full schedule: rochesterfringe.com. Rochester Garlic Festival. Sat., Sep. 14, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sun., Sep. 15, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Webster Parks & Rec, 1350 Chiyoda Drive . Webster $5. rochestergarlicfestival.com.
Film Central Rock Gym, 725 Averill Ave. “Valley Uprising” Sun., Sep. 15, 8:30 p.m. BYO chair/ blanket. 441-9002. Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. “One Child Nation” Sat., Sep. 14, 3 p.m. $4-$9. thelittle. org.; “Friday the 13th Part VII: Jason Takes Manhattan” (1989),” “Jason X” (2001). Fri., Sep. 13, 8 p.m. $13. thelittle.org.; “Retro Report” Mon., Sep. 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Series preview & discussion. Reservations required. 2580200. thelittle.org.
Kids Events [ WED., SEPTEMBER 11 ] Wildlife Rockstars. 11:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. rmsc.org. [ THU., SEPTEMBER 12 ] Explore Navratri. 4 p.m. Monroe Branch Library, 809 Monroe Ave 429-8275. [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 14 ] Archaeology Weekend. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. $25. rmsc.org. Drag Story Hour with Mrs. Kasha Davis. 9:30 & 11:30 a.m. Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St 454-1260. Out-Standing Naturalist. 11 a.m.3 p.m. Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. rmsc.org.
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[ SUN., SEPTEMBER 15 ] Pond Exploration. 10 a.m.-noon. Genesee Country Nature Center, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford 538-6822. [ MON., SEPTEMBER 16 ] Storytime Club: Fantastic Friends. 10:30 & 11:30 a.m Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. W/ museum admission: $16. 263-2700.
Recreation [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 14 ] Orienteering Event. 10 a.m. Genesee County Park & Forest, 11095 Bethany Center Rd. East Bethany $5-$9. roc. us.orienteering.org. Telescope Viewing. Strasenburgh Planetarium, 657 East Ave Dusk-10pm. Call after 7:30 pm to confirm open hours 697-1945. rmsc.org. continues on page 24
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Walking Tour: Rochester’s Lower Falls, Then & Now. 9 a.m.-noon. Seth Green Park, St. Paul & Norton St. $25. 370-1038. [ SUN., SEPTEMBER 15 ] Trolley Rides. 11:30 a.m.4 p.m Antique Fire Truck Show: Sep 15 11am-5pm. NY Museum of Transportation, 6393 E. River Rd $6-$8. 533-1113.
Special Events [ WED., SEPTEMBER 11 ] Celebration of Remembrance. 11 a.m. Vietnam Veterans Memorial Greater Rochester, 1440 South Ave vocroc.org.
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SPECIAL EVENT | FAMILY ARCHAEOLOGY WEEKEND [ THU., SEPTEMBER 12 ] Market Days. 5-8 p.m. International Plaza, 814-844 N Rochester Museum and Science Center’s annual outdoor, Cliinton Ave myelcamino.org. hands-on learning activity, Family Archaeology Weekend, [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 14 ] National Drive Electric Week. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. RIT, 1 Lomb Memorial Dr. Suffragist City Parade. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 17 Madison St susanb.org. Tastin’ the Blues & Dog’s Day Out. 12-4 p.m. Penfield Amphitheater, 3100 Atlantic Ave Penfield penfieldrec.org. [ SUN., SEPTEMBER 15 ] Sports Cards & Collectibles Show. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fitz “The Whip†Vanderpool Webster Columbus Center, 70 Barrett Dr. 872-6090. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 17 ] Explore Rochester Under The Dome. 4:30-6:30 p.m. ROC Dome Arena, 2695 E Henrietta Rd . Henrietta visitrochester.com.
Culture Lectures [ WED., SEPTEMBER 11 ] Rochester Walking Tour. Ongoing, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Washington Square Park, 181 S Clinton Ave. $15. 448-2005. [ THU., SEPTEMBER 12 ] Gary Saul Morson: Anticipating the Futures. 5 p.m. UR Rush Rhees Library, 755 Library Rd Humanities Center, Room D 276-8709. [ FRI., SEPTEMBER 13 ] Doctors, Healers, Alchemists, Quacks: Disturbing Stories from the Medical Past. 4 p.m. Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. Meredith Gozo, Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts at URMC Miner Libraries 428-8110. [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 14 ] The Geography Of Mount Hope Cemetery. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Mount Hope Cemetery, 791 Mt Hope Ave. $30/$40. fomh.org. [ SUN., SEPTEMBER 15 ] Guided Walking Tour. 2 p.m Mount Hope Cemetery, 791 Mt Hope Ave. $10. fomh.org. 24 CITY SEPTEMBER 11 - 17, 2019
returns this weekend to the Cumming Nature Center. Archaeology professors and students from The College at Brockport will be on hand to assist attendees with a guided excavation of an 18th-century farmhouse foundation on the center’s property. Citizen scientists of all ages can partake in important research at the Hall Homestead dig site, which in the 1790s was part of a pioneer logging settlement known as Frost Town founded by Euro-immigrants in the old growth pine forests of Onondowahgah, (Seneca). Participants will learn archaeological disciplines, excavation techniques, and artifact identification, cleaning, and dating. And an on-hand team will also interpret items previously found by students working at the site. Be prepared to get dirty, and pack a picnic lunch. The CNC nature trails will also be open for trekking. Saturday and Sunday, September 14 and 15, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Road, Naples. The work is divided into two sessions: 9 a.m. to noon, and 11 to 4 p.m. Admission is $25 per families or $10 per person, and pre-registration is recommended. Children must have adult supervision. 697-1944; rmsc.org. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Sunday Forum: Rabbi Heschel’s Sacred Humanism. 9:50 a.m. Downtown Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh St. 325-4000. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 17 ] 40 Years at 18 Perrin St: Reflecting on the History of the Perinton Historical Society. 7 p.m. Fairport Historical Museum, 18 Perrin St Bill Poray, Perinton Town Historian 377-6187. The Story of Genesee Country Museum. 7 p.m. West Bloomfield Historical Society, 8966 NY Rts 5&20 . W Bloomfield wbhsny.org. Tracking a Tropical Cyclone. 2 p.m. Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. Exhibit Tours for Adults. Registration: 697-1942 $3$18. rmsc.org.
Literary Events [ WED., SEPTEMBER 11 ] Just Poets: Poetry Reading & Open Mic. Second Wednesday of every month, 6:30 p.m. Before Your Quiet Eyes, 439 Monroe Ave. 563-7851. [ THU., SEPTEMBER 12 ] Reginald Dwayne Betts: “Felon: An Incorrect Spelling of My Name?”. 5-7 p.m. UR River Campus Dewey Hall 1-101 273-5995. rochester.edu. [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 14 ] Flour City Readings. 7-9 p.m. The Yards, 50-52 Public Market $5-$10 Suggested. attheyards.com. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 17 ] Books Sandwiched In. 12:1212:52 p.m Valeria Luiselli”s “Lost Children Archive” Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. ffrpl.org.
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Peter Bagrov, the new curator in charge of the Moving Image Department at George Eastman Museum. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH
Curation down to a science [ PROFILE ] BY ADAM LUBITOW
The George Eastman Museum announced last month that Dr. Peter Bagrov has been appointed as the new curator in charge of its Moving Image Department. Relocating from Moscow to Rochester, he’ll be succeeding Paolo Cherchi Usai, who has taken a leadership position at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Italy’s national film institute. In essence, the head curator helps form the guiding ideology or direction of the museum’s collection, working to decide what films should be preserved by the museum and determining a plan of conservation and
preservation. Head curators also have a hand in deciding what films are acquired to further develop the collection, and continuing research on items already in the archive. Curators have to keep their fingers on the pulse of shifting tastes in film and modern methods of preservation, Bagrov says. “If you are a film historian, you should be aware of and interested in political history and art history in general. Also technology and dealing with people, and a bit of film theory, and of course dealing with the actual medium. Because film is a very physical thing. All this should be molded together in curation.” But Bagrov didn’t immediately start off on a path toward becoming a film scholar.
With a mind for science and a love of classical music, he actually earned a master’s degree in physics before turning to film history and curation. But in talking with Bagrov, it’s clear that background in the sciences has shaped his approach to the role, and he brings that analytical mindset to his work as curator. He recalls growing up in Russia and seeing a banner in seemingly every grade school classroom with a quote from one of the first Russian scientists, Mikhail Lomonosov, reminding students: “mathematics should be studied, if only for that it puts the mind in order.” “So this is why I really like the idea of having some kind of technical background, to try to be more or less logical when you’re dealing with humanities; more or less objective. But I am not a really good physicist. So I became a film historian.” The love of movies was always there, a passion that began with classic American musicals and broadened to silent films like “Nosferatu.” That love of silent film continued through this schooling and well into his professional career. It seems clear the job of curator was a natural fit, allowing him to combine an analytical mindset with his love of cinema. The ability to sort through the film archives was a draw, as was the possibility of making new discoveries. “Digging up the collection, finding stuff,” he says. “This is something I enjoy the most.” Bagrov brings a wealth of experience with him to Rochester, having previously acted as the senior curator of Gosfilmofond, the national film archive of Russia. He has nearly 20 years of experience as a film curator and scholar, including a stint as the vice president of the International Federation of Film Archives. In addition to his senior curatorial position at Gosfilmofond, he was artistic director of Belye Stolby, the oldest and largest archival film festival in Russia. He also previously collaborated with members of the Eastman Museum’s Moving Image Department as a member of the advisory board for the Nitrate Picture Show. It was the ability to work further with nitrate that proved particularly irresistible when considering a position at the Eastman Museum, he says. All of the Eastman curators of the past, from James Card to Cherchi Usai, were able to put their own unique stamp on the museum’s collection during their time at the helm. They brought their own personality and specific interests to create a viewpoint
that can clearly be seen, even if it’s only after the fact. “It would not be fun for me just to keep things running smoothly,” Bagrov says. And that shouldn’t be enough, because there should be some new energy or adrenaline in an archive.” The position also brings with it the opportunity to spearhead new projects, for example the Nitrate Picture Show, which was an idea originated by Paolo Cherchi Usai. Bragrov admits he’d love people to look back on his time heading the collection and see a sign of his legacy. “But what that will be, I don’t know yet,” he says. His work doesn’t end up leaving him with much time to take in contemporary movies, aside from the occasional family-friendly fare with his children. (He admits to being less than impressed by the recent spat of live-action Disney remakes). “The thing is, I do watch [modern] things occasionally, films that are being talked a lot about,” he says. “But so many times, a film would be discussed actively and critics would say this is really a great masterpiece that, you know, outshadows everything in American cinema. And five years pass and that film is barely remembered.” Since he isn’t following contemporary cinema, he adds, “I’m not going to pretend that there wasn’t anything great made in the last 20 years. And I probably can think of exceptions myself. But so many times, there’s this splash and then nothing comes out of it. So if a film is talked for quite a while, I will go and watch it. But as a historian, I need some distance.” “But I cannot keep up with everything,” Bagrov says. “And I think a lot of modern films are not too good. My first interest is in history, and film happens to be a wonderful medium that tells a lot about history.” There’s a fascination with the way films are often inextricable from when and how they were made, telling their viewers a great deal about the political, financial, and social state of the world at the time they were created. “One of the exciting things about cinema is what it tells you about people – a whole set of people: the people who made the film, people who watch the film, the audience at the time, and then the people who the film is about.” He’s perfectly content viewing mostly older films as opposed to newer works. “I have access to so many excellent films from the past. I haven’t seen so many of them, or I haven’t seen a good print of them,” he says. “There’s just not enough time for everything, and there’s just so much more to see.” rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 25
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Flower City Surveying Services LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 4/26/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 1900 Empire Blvd #146 Webster, NY 14580 RA: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose
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[ NOTICE ] AMGIS, LLC. Filed 8/28/19. Office: Orleans Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: C/O Roger Hugerford, 711 Park Ave Ste 201, Medina, NY 14103. Purpose: General. [ NOTICE ] Articles of Organization with respect to 115 California Drive, LLC, a New York Limited Liability Company, were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on August 21, 2019. The County in New York State where its office is located is Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of 115 California Drive, LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against 115 California Drive, LLC served upon it is 30 Pinebrook Circle, Penfield, New York 14526. There are no exceptions adopted by the Company, or set forth in its Operating Agreement, to the limited liability of members pursuant to Section 609(a) of the Limited Liability Company Law of the State of New York. 115 California Drive, LLC is formed for the purpose of ownership of real property.
[ NOTICE ] FLUROTEX LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 8/27/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 7 Canal Park Place, Pittsford, NY 14534. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Herrman & Paul Properties LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 7/31/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to Po Box 187 East Rochester, NY 14445 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] JWI ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGIES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/30/19. 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, 1250 Central Park Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Mrkt Salon, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 7/3/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to Po Box 187 East Rochester, NY 14445 General Purpose
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rochester Landmarks LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/5/2019; 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 PO Box 92433, Rochester, New York 14692. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 1816 Drake Road LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/10/2019; Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 16 Noble Drive, Spencerport, New York 14559. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 4771 DEWEY AVE LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 8/22/2019. 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 69 Lowden Point Road, Rochester, New York 14612. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 632 Lake Road, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/24/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 15 Cairn St, Rochester, NY 14611. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION of 9965 East Lake Road LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on July 25, 2019. Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 75 Langpap
Road, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of A & L LANDS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/9/2019. 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, 328 Jordan Ave, Rochester, NY 14606. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of AB WILLIAMS, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/13/19. 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, 30 Stoneham Road Rochester, NY, 14625. Purpose: Any lawful purpose [ NOTICE ]
[ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; Name of LLC: MJT LOGISTICS, LLC; Date of filing: July 24, 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 361 Armstrong Road, Rochester, New York 14612; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DULCE PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) JULY 18, 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 646 SEWARD STREET, ROCHESTER, NY, 14611. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ]
Notice of Formation of Angels Path LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/26/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 11281 43rd Street North, Clearwater, FL 33762. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Notice of Formation of ETH Properties LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 07/15/2019. 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 3438 Rush Mendon Rd., Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Purpose: Real Estate.
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Notice of formation of Bayview Park, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/16/2019. 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, 40A Grove St, Ste 77, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful act.
Notice of Formation of Flow of haNdz LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/26/2019 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2300 West Henrietta Road, Rochester N.Y. 14623 . Purpose: any lawful activities.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of CAREGIVERS WITH A HEART, LLC. 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, 232 Mill Rd Rochester, NY, 14626. Purpose: Any lawful purpose [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Clarendon Corners Mini Storage, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 7/22/19. 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 P. O. Box #444, Brockport, NY 14420. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Green Collar Collaborations LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/17/2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 18 Bly St, Rochester, NY 14620 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of INKWELL LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/12/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, P.O. Box 874, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Irondequoit Miller DeGeorge LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of
State of NY (SSNY) on 8/16/19. 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, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of L & M Home Services, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/29/2019. 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, 745 East Avenue, Hilton, NY 14468. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Low Down Publishing LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/12/19. 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 28 Golf Stream Drive, Penfield NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Mancini Public Relations LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State 9/3/19. 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 716 Helendale Rd, Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MANNY3 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/18/19. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 225 Tech Park Dr., Rochester, NY 14623. 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 Mariner Computing, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/08/2019. 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 50 FAIRWOOD DR APARTMENT 203 ROCHESTER, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Nine Ledgers, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/12/19. 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, 1591 Barrow Hill, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Nostalgic Productions, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/29/19. 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 108-11 Linden Tree Ln, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Patrick O’Shaughnessy Consulting LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/28/2019.. 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 51 Waterworks Ln, Fairport, NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of PENFIELD SQ B LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/01/19. 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 ] Notice of Formation of PENFIELD SQ III LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/01/19. 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 ] Notice of Formation of PENFIELD SQ IV LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/01/19. 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 ] Notice of Formation of PENFIELD SQ V LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/01/19. 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 ] Notice of Formation of Price Logistics LLC. Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 07/08/2019. 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 777 Mile Square Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of REVIVING PROPERTY SOLUTIONS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/8/2019. 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 Smokey Enterprises LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 23 Jul 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 18 Buttermilk Hill Rd. Pittsford NY 14534 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SPRP, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/30/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1090 Britton Road, Rochester, NY 14616. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sterling DeGeorge, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/6/19. 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, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Thomas-Clifford Real Estate Holdings, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/27/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 63 Thomas St, P.O. Box 31767, Rochester, NY 14621. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Legal Ads [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of UNION SQ ASSOCIATES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/26/19. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604. 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 UNION SQ ASSOCIATES MM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/26/19. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604. 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 Webster Avalon DeGeorge LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/21/19. 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, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Willow River LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 7/3/19. 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 30 Magee Ave., Rochester, NY 14613. 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 YOUR DREAM PUPPY ACRES LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 04/03/2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNYshall mail copy of process to the LLC at 215 TREMONT ST., STE. 14 ROCHESTER, NY 14608. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] People’s Paint LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 8/21/2019. 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 152 Barrington St, Apt 406, Rochester, NY 14607. The purpose of the Company is art sales. [ NOTICE ] ROCHESTER MANAGEMENT GROUP, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/2/2019. 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, 28 Horseshoe Lane South, Henrietta, NY 14467. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Sham-Roc, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 07/29/2019 with an effective date of formation of 7/29/2019. 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 12 Chatworth Circle North, Fairport, NY 14450. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE ] Skypott, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 7/25/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 55 Lantern Lane, Rochester, NY 14623. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] STIVERS SEAMLESS GUTTER, LLC (LLC) filed Articles of Organization with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 07/29/2019. 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 c/o LLC, 111 Deerhurst LN, Apt 9, Webster, New York 14580. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] THE FIERCE PIXEL, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 8/13/19. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC, 32 Wind Mill Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] THE WARRIOR FACTORY FRANCHISING CANADA, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/11/19. Off. Loc.:Monroe Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2850 Clover St, PITTSFORD, NY 14534. General Purposes.
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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 ] Viking Skye LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 8/13/19. 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 14 Cathedral Oaks, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] WIGISTICS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 08/14/19. 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, c/o Carlos Cuevas, Esq., 1250 Central Park Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10704. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE OF FILING OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY ] Blue Sky Homes, LLC filed an application for authority to do business with the New York Secretary of State on 05/30/2019 under the fictitious name Karmich Holdings, LLC. Its jurisdiction of organization is Nevada. Its date of organization is March 7, 2019. Its office 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 Registered Agents, Inc., 90 State Street, Suite 700, Office 40, Albany, New York 12207. The address of the office required to be maintained in the jurisdiction of its organization is Nevada Corporate Headquarters, Inc., 4730 S. Fort Apache Road, Suite 300, Las Vegas, Nevada 89147. The name and address of the authorized officer in its jurisdiction of organization where a copy of its Articles of Organization is filed is Nevada Secretary of State, 101 N. Carson Street, Suite 3, Carson City, Nevada 89701. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under the Nevada Limited Liability Company Act. [ Notice of Formation ] 115 Denise Road, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 8/2/19. 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 3 Georgetown Lane, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] 14607 LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 7/23/19. 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 121 Barrington St., Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] 1809 N. Goodman Street, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 8/2/19. 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 3 Georgetown Lane, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] 1815 N. Goodman Street, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 8/2/19. 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 3 Georgetown Lane, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Belhseine Seneca Street, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 7/24/19. 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 745 Titus Avenue, Annex Building, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] NAME: Carnovale Consulting, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on August 26, 2019. Principal office: Monroe County, New York. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1100 Rothwood Drive, Webster, NY 14580, Attn: Member. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: DAG PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/27/2019. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O DAG PROPERTY HOLDINGS LLC, One East Main Street, 10th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.
Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 8/20/19. 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 966 W Linden Ave, East Rochester, NY 14445-1421. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] Tommy Town Real Estate, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 8/22/19. 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 755 Jefferson Road #200, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] Notice of formation of Radio Social Opportunity Fund LLC. Art. of Org. filed by Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/22/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail process to: Dan Morgenstern, 114 St. Paul Street., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: to invest in qualified opportunity zone property or other lawful acts or activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Latham Legal Search LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 8/7/19. 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 35 Oakbend Lane Rochester NY 14617. The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] 202 Military Trail, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 08/26/2019 with an effective date of formation of 08/26/2019. 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 73 San Gabriel Drive, Rochester, NY 14610. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law.
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LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 08/13/2019 with an effective date of formation of 08/13/2019. 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 111 Brightwoods Lane, Rochester, NY 14623. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE TO HEIRS ] The State of New Jersey Probate County of Cape May County To the heirs and devisees of the above-named Estate: This is formal Notice that Harold N Rowe, Jr the decedent, died on July 6, 2019 and you may have or may have an interest in Harold N Rowe, Jr’s Estate. Justin C Rowe Whose address is 15 N Chelsea Ave Apt. 3 Atlantic City, NJ 08401 has been appointed as the administrator of the Estate. All documents, pleading and information related to the Estate are on file in the Cape May County Courthouse. The assets of the Estate of Harold N Rowe, Jr. will be disbursed 0 days following the date of this Notice. All recipients of this Notice are herby informed that each is entitled to information regarding the administration of the decedent’s estate. In the event, any heir or devisee has questions or issues related to this Estate including the distributions of Assets, payments of expenses or other administration matters, the heir or devisee may petition the County in Cape May County. Executed by the administrator of the estate of Harold N Rowe, Jr on July 23, 2019 [ NOTICE] Koshykar Law P.L.L.C., Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 7/26/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 42 Hilltop Dr, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: practice of law. [ PUBLIC NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell at Online Public Auction pursuant to New York State Lien Law, Article 8, Section 182, per order of River Campus Storage, 169 Flanders St, Rochester, NY at www.bid13.com. The personal property described as household goods heretofore stored with the undersigned by James Pacheco, Unit
#117, beginning on Sept 14. All sales are subject to prior claim, postponement and/or cancellation. [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. E2018001787 CHESWOLD (TL), LLC, Plaintiff, vs.The heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees,executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in-interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through FRANCIS B. GIGLIOTTI, JR., DECEASED, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective wives, or widows of his, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to Plaintiff; The heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-ininterest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through FRANCIS B. GIGLIOTTI, SR., DECEASED, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective wives, or widows of his, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to Plaintiff; The heirsat-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in-interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through TWILLA M. GIGLIOTTI, DECEASED, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective husbands, or widowers of hers, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to Plaintiff; EDWARD GIGLIOTTI; KATHY GIGLIOTTI A/K/A KATHY CROCETTA A/K/A KATHY CORSCETTA; LISA GIGLIOTTI A/K/A ELIZABETH GIGLIOTTI; CURT GIGLIOTTI; VICTOR GIGLIOTTI A/K/A VICTOR ZARATE; US BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC; PROPEL FINANCIAL 1, LLC; COUNTY OF MONROE; The heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successorsin-interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through PATRICIA GIGLIOTTI A/K/A PATRICIA ANN GIGLIOTTI, DECEASED, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all
creditors thereof, and the respective husbands, or widowers of hers, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to Plaintiff; LVNV FUNDING LLC APO CITIBANK; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #100,” Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the second amended complaint in the above-entitled foreclosure action, and to serve a copy of your answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal service within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the second amended complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject premises. Dated: July 22, 2019 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an Order of Honorable J. Scott Odorisi, a Justice of the Supreme Court, dated January 15, 2019, as amended by Order dated, September 3, 2019, and filed with supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose tax liens encumbering the property known as 375 Birr Street, City of Rochester, New York and identified as tax account no.: 090.73-1-25 (the “Tax Parcel”). The relief sought is the sale of the Tax Parcel at public auction in satisfaction of the tax liens. In case of your failure to appear, judgment may be taken against you in the sum of $10,948.85, together with interest, costs, disbursements and attorneys’ fees of this action, and directing the public sale of the Tax Parcel. PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP Richard J. Evans, Jr. Attorneys for Plaintiff Cheswold (TL), LLC 28 East Main Street Suite 1400 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone: (585) 238-2000
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