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Single-payer saves money
Several states have hired accounting and auditing firms to analyze their health care financing structure and the results are always a dramatic confirmation of single-payer universal health care as the best and most efficient system. The usual saving is at least $1,000 per person annually. With 20 million people in New York, the savings are huge. No wonder the insurance companies are against it. But why aren’t all the Democrats, not to mention Republicans, sponsoring this legislation? The health insurance companies and their allies are shamefully raking in huge profits while conducting expensive misinformation campaigns to derail progress. It would be most interesting to know how much they spend on management compensation, political contributions, and so-called public relations. It would also be interesting to know how much they spend on lawyers and bureaucrats whose job is to find ways to deny payment for health care when you need it. We need Medicare for all and if we cannot get it, we ought to enact the Gottfried bill (News, March 18) in New York. It is both morally and fiscally the right thing to do. JIM BERGER
Democrats behaving badly
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local Democratic Party. I can sum it all up with one statement: power-hungry control freaks behaving badly when they don’t get their way. How dare Lovely run a primary and win! I am no fan of Lovely, but the greatest thing about our system is that anyone can run for office... and win. When the true nature of our democratic system stops bothering some Democrats, then the embarrassing need for stories such as this one will cease to exist. Don’t hold your breath. TOM JANOWSKI
The local Democratic Party is a mess all right. They complain about their lack of clout in the County Legislature, yet they have complete control of the city and seem unable to manage it without looking like the Keystone Kops. At the state level, Ted O’Brien was soundly defeated by Rich Funke to help give control of the Senate to the Republicans. Louise Slaughter almost lost her seat to Mark Assini in what was supposed to be a shoo-in for her. And Bob Duffy bailed out as Cuomo’s running mate. Cuomo couldn’t even carry Monroe County in his re-election bid. Not to mention Joe Morelle, who was pushed out of the running for speaker by the Downstate Democrats. BART
The actual division started to show when Joe Morelle, then chair, declared Tom Richards the nominee before some primarily black LD’s met. When the agreement (denied by Richards and Morelle) that Richards was not going to run for reelection was withdrawn, all hell started to break loose. Like it or not, the party is the party of white folks and a separate party of black folks — sadly caused by the white folks who say liberal things while excluding blacks. REMINGTON
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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER
New York’s new budget: is ‘sin’ too strong a word? It’s an embarrassingly easy target, but I’ll join the piling-on: With the new state budget, New York legislators have reached a new low, giving tax breaks for big yachts. And while it’s a small giveaway in the overall scheme of things, it’s a nice symbol of how Albany operates. Legislators wouldn’t increase the minimum wage, but they had no problem with letting owners of big yachts avoid sales tax on any amount they spend over $230,000. You don’t have to read any of the media reports to know legislators’ justification: It’s a job creator. Promise to create jobs, and elected officials are at your service. Oh… and this particular tax break makes New York “competitive.” Some of us who inhabit a different world didn’t know that tax breaks on yachts were a competitive thing, but indeed they are. Before the state legislature came to the rescue, if you bought a $3 million yacht in Florida, you paid less sales tax than if you had bought the same yacht in New York. We’ve leveled the playing field. What’ll happen if the Florida legislature gets wind of this and lowers the tax down there? You don’t have to ask. This is how we do things, of course, not just in New York but throughout the country. Want businesses to move to your state (or your county or city or suburb)? Give them a tax break. And other places follow suit. And we dive on downward. And there’s less money available for schools and health care and infrastructure. (Factoid: Want to know how much New York State funding for the arts dropped between 2001 and 2013? Sixty percent, according to the latest report from ACT Rochester.) We could stop this, but that would require one of two things: federal action, or an immense amount of ethics, fortitude, common sense, and cooperation among all of the states. Neither is gonna happen. So we’re left with interstate competition over taxes on high-priced yachts. And it’s no mystery how that’s going to play out. The Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon, quoted in an Atlantic article, noted that the yacht-tax giveaway is actually small fish. “As tax breaks for wealthy individuals go,” he said, “this will be perhaps the smallest one around.” And in his own blog last week, McMahon noted this: “Of course, the same sort of justifications are offered for bigger special tax breaks in New York’s loophole-ridden tax code, such as the $420 million-a-year Film Tax Credit. The passage of the yacht exemption will only add to pressure for more ‘job creating’ giveaways, like a proposed music
This particular budget says so much about where the state is right now. And where this country is.”
production tax credit that failed to make it into the budget despite a lobbying push from the industry.” We can complain about plenty of things in New York’s new budget, starting with the fact that so much of what’s in it was passed without public discussion. And despite everybody’s presumed outrage over corruption in Albany, the budget includes a tepid ethics reform package: “underwhelming and uninspiring,” critic Dick Dadey of Citizens Union told New York State Public Radio’s Karen DeWitt. A statement signed by Dadey and representatives of Common Cause, the Brennan Center for Justice, the New York Public Interest Research Group, and Reinvent Albany warned that “these steps are simply insufficient to fully address the parade of scandals that have engulfed Albany and will do little to restore the public’s growing cynicism about its own government.” We all know it takes all kinds of wheeling and dealing to create the sausage that is the state budget. To get good things, we often end up with bad things. But this particular budget says so much about where the state is right now. And where this country is. We know what legislators will say: They were there. We weren’t. They see the big picture. We don’t. We just don’t understand. Nope. We don’t. rochestercitynewspaper.com
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Slaughter-Assini rematch likely
House Representative Louise Slaughter says that she will seek re-election to a 16th term in 2016, and has already started fund-raising. Slaughter, a Democrat, will likely face Gates Supervisor Mark Assini, a Republican who lost to Slaughter last November. Assini has said that he also intends to run again in 2016.
State releases START-UP numbers
The state received 92 applications in 2014 from businesses to participate in START-UP NY and has approved 80 of them, according to a report released by Empire State Development. Of the 54 approved in 2014, 33 are new to New York, while the remaining 21 are existing businesses expanding into one of the program’s taxfree zones. By the end of 2014, 10 of the approved companies had moved into the zones, created four jobs, and invested just over $1 million.
Blackfriars announces new season
Blackfriars Theatre’s 2015-2016 season opens with “A Few Good
Men” on September 4. The season also features “Annapurna,” “The Game’s Afoot, or Holmes for the Holidays,” “Jekyll & Hyde” by PUSH Physical Theatre, and “Heathers, the Musical.”
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More trouble for 911
The FBI arrested Jason Cortese, a city 911 operator, for allegedly sending sexually explicit photographs to a minor. Cortese also allegedly tried to persuade the 12-year-old girl to send him inappropriate photographs. It’s been a tough few weeks for the 911 center. Steve Cusenz, also with 911, was suspended recently for making inappropriate comments on social media.
TRANSPORTATION | BY JEREMY MOULE
Bike school The University of Rochester has made serious efforts to encourage its staff, faculty, and students to bike. It offers access to bike cages and showers at the medical center, for example, and it’s improving its reservation system for its campus bikesharing program.
RHA closing in on new leader
The Rochester Housing Authority has seven finalists for its executive director position, narrowed down from 73 resumes the agency received for the job. The list does not include City Council member Adam McFadden, who has expressed interest in the job despite a HUD ruling that holding both positions would be a conflict of interest.
Upcoming bike-commuting workshops are meant to encourage the UR campus community to arrive at work on two wheels. FILE PHOTO
The school’s efforts earned it an honorable mention in the Bicycle Friendly University awards by the League of American Bicyclists last year. The designation recognizes that a campus is becoming more accommodating to cyclists, but still has work to do. On April 14 and 15, the New York Bicycling Coalition will hold bike- commuting workshops at UR to further encourage cycling among the campus community. The workshops are open to the public, too. The April 14 workshop is at 3 p.m. in the Wilson Commons’ Gowen Room, while the April 15 workshop is at 11:30 a.m. in the Class of ’62 Auditorium. The workshops will focus on basics including cyclist clothing, route selection, and bike maintenance and repair tips.
Scott MacRae, an ophthalmology professor at the university and a founding member of the Rochester Cycling Alliance advocacy group, says that the UR’s example could get more people in the region to walk or bike to work. The school is the region’s largest employer, and many of its employees live nearby in the city and Brighton, both of which have been working to become more bikeable, MacRae says. The New York Bicycling Coalition also sees potential for other employers in the Rochester region to host bikecommuting workshops. “We’re using the U of R for kind of a pilot project,” says Martel Catalano, spokesperson for the New York Bicycling Coalition.
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“Certainly neither teachers nor their unions are interested in investing in prisons,” No teacher that I know of is in favor of supporting or building more prisons.” [ ADAM URBANSKI, PRESIDENT OF THE ROCHESTER TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ]
EDUCATION | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO
The prison-to-pension pipeline The correlation between low student achievement, failing schools, and youth incarceration is clear, especially for black and Latino males in urban public schools. “The school-to-prison pipeline is not some abstraction,” says education activist Howard Eagle. “It’s not something people are making up. The link is direct.” Eagle, a retired teacher for the Rochester City School District, recently found another disturbing link in a story reported by vice.com. The New York State Teachers’ Retirement System, the agency that manages the investment funds for the state’s teacher pensions, has investments in privatelyoperated prisons. Eagle questions whether this is ethical. Should educators profit from students who leave school with few marketable job skills, become involved in illegal activities such as drug dealing, and wind up in prison? Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester Teachers Association, says that he immediately contacted the NYSTRS after Eagle brought the information to his attention. “Certainly neither teachers nor their unions are interested in investing in prisons,” Urbanski says. “No teacher that I know of is in favor of supporting or building more prisons.”
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John Cardillo, spokesperson for NYSTRS, says that his organization has $7.1 million invested in the GEO Group and $10.7 million invested in Corrections Corporation of America. Both are privatelyheld companies that operate prisons and detention centers. Cardillo says that the retirement system’s investments are in the form of passively managed index funds. Rather than trying to outwit the market by buying and selling individual stocks, the passive management approach assumes that investing in large index funds will reduce the risk of financial loss and lead to better returns. Cardillo says that the investments in GEO and CCA represent a tiny portion of NYSTRS’s $108 billion in assets. And given how many pension plans are under-funded, he says, it’s worth noting that the NYSTRS is doing its job: NYSTRS is one of the most well-funded pension plans in the US, he says, which means that it has the assets to pay current retirees, as well as to protect the interests of future members. Eagle questions why educators would have even a small investment in prisons. “Hopefully, the community will respond in a way that is beyond criticism and demand that those funds be divested,” he says.
Howard Eagle. FILE PHOTO
But Cardillo says that he doesn’t know when or if NYSTRS officials will address the concern. There are multiple schools of thought on pension plan investment strategies, he says. For instance, by divesting in a company, some employees could lose their jobs, he says, which can also adversely impact parents and their children. And the ethics are subjective, Cardillo says. Some members of a pension plan may object to investing in prisons, he says, while others may object to investing in companies that manufacture weapons used in warfare. Eagle says that’s not a problem. “I would say, ‘Wonderful, add them to the list,’” he says.
MUSIC | BY JAKE CLAPP
Lilac music lineup The Lilac Festival this year will have 65 free shows featuring a mix of wellknown headliners, up-and-coming acts, and regionally based bands. The 2015 festival runs from Friday, May 8, through Sunday, May 17. Headliners anchoring the schedule will be: The Outlaws; ZBTB: Zac Brown Tribute Band; The Psychedelic Furs; Dr. Dog; Cracker; Blues Traveler; Rusted Root; Mingo Fishtrap; Charlie Musselwhite; and Ana Popovic. Beyond the headliners is a group of up-and-coming bands on tour: The Blind Owls; Guthrie Brown and The Family Tree; Pokey LaFarge; Deborah Magone; Adam Ezra Group; Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds; Davina and the Vagabonds; Noble Vibes; Sirsy; The Prickers; and Danielle Ponder & The Tomorrow People. The regional acts will be: Tommy Brunett; Cool Club with the Lipker Sisters; Natalie B; Fred Vine; Fat City; Anonymous Willpower; Kat Wright & The Indomitable Soul Band; Extended Family; The Buddhahood; Thunder Body; Big Mike & The Motivators; Shine; Prime Time Funk; Joe Beard; The Blind Owl Band; and The Blind Spots. Also, several school choral groups and bands from across the greater Rochester area will perform during the festival. Music begins daily at 10:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. on weekends) and continues through 8:30 p.m. Headline concerts begin at 7 p.m. Information: Lilacfestival.com.
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HEALTH CARE | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO
UR students serve the uninsured About two dozen men and women fought through an early March snowstorm to get something that many people take for granted: medical care. They filed downstairs to the basement of Asbury First United Methodist Church in southeast Rochester, where the University of Rochester and church officials have set up a small health clinic. The examination room — previously a storage area — reeked of rubbing alcohol and latex. The Asbury clinic on East Avenue is one of three UR Well Student Outreach clinics in Rochester operated by medical students. The patients — students saw more than 900 last year — usually don’t have health insurance and can’t afford to pay for services. The clinics — the others are at St. Joseph’s Neighborhood Center and St. Luke Tabernacle Community Church — coordinate their services, most of which are free. Together, they provide a muchneeded triage for the area’s uninsured, while also giving students an important learning experience. Deondre Coakley, a marine biology student at Monroe Community College, recently used the Asbury clinic. He says that he wanted to work in the child care field so badly that he took a volunteer position, without health insurance. “I feel like I’m in good health, but I need the annual physical because it’s a requirement for my job,” he says. “And this is convenient for me instead of paying to go somewhere else.” Many patients visit the Asbury UR Well clinic on the first Tuesday of the month when the students offer physical exams, says Ida Hickman, a church volunteer who coordinates clinic staffing. “Used to be that that you got the job and the employer did their own physicals,” Hickman says. “Now they make people handle that on their own and it costs about $200. That’s a lot of money that many people just can’t afford.” UR medical students volunteer at the clinics, which are usually open one evening a week for about three hours. The students do not receive course credit or compensation, but many say that the experience is unlike any they might encounter in a classroom or hospital setting. The first- and second-year med students are paired with third- and fourth-year students, and all are closely supervised by 6 CITY
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UR physicians, who also volunteer their time and expertise. Ted Ryser, a fourth-year med student, has volunteered at the clinics since his first year. He is clinic manager at Asbury, making sure that the facility is fully stocked and runs smoothly. The experience of working in a neighborhood clinic is completely Deondre Coakley attended the health clinic at Asbury Church for a physical that he needed for a new job. different from working at a hospital, PHOTOS BY JOHN SCHLIA he says. “It’s a much more formal environment at the hospital,” Ryser says. care system has improved to the point At the clinic, students learn from pros St. Joseph’s has access to many resources that free or low-cost medical services are in a less stressful setting, he says. And and technologies, Berliant says, but no longer needed. they learn whether medicine is a good the UR clinic operates on an extremely “The costs are still prohibitive,” career match before running up a huge limited budget. He says that helps him Berliant says. “Between the co-pays and tuition tab for medical school, he says. teach students to be resourceful. deductibles, it allows people to have “I think it’s real important to know what “It’s amazing how much you can still insurance that they can’t afford to use.” you’re getting yourself into,” Ryser says. “In diagnose with an old-fashioned, time Brennan says that he hates to think of the first and second year in med school you honored physical,” he says. what would happen if the UR Well clinics study a lot, but after that, you spend a lot or places like St. Joseph’s weren’t available. of time in the hospital and you have to be The students at the UR Well clinics say “St. Joe’s is the safety net for the able to work with a lot of different types of that they’ve seen a slight decrease in safety net,” he says. people in different situations.” patients this year, and on some nights Brennan frequently sees patients At the clinics, students meet with only a couple of patients show up. Some whose health is compromised because their patients and then present their of the students and doctors speculate they receive care intermittently, which findings to the doctors on duty. Ryser that the drop may be the result of the leads to health crises that are more costly says that students treat mostly minor Affordable Care Act. to treat, he says. trauma, concussions, urinary tract Armed with little more than her One patient, a diabetic who lost his infections, flu and colds, STD’s, and a laptop, Laurie Adjivon, a health health insurance, stopped taking his lot of skin infections. insurance enrollment navigator with medication, which resulted in losing a “It’s everything you see in urgent care Coordinated Care Services, says that she toe, Brennan says. Another, a woman, clinics,” he says. can often collect information from clinic had a foot ulcer about the size of a The clinics don’t have many repeat patients while they wait to be seen. She quarter before she received care. patients, he says. Patients who need more says that she can get them enrolled and The patients who come to the clinics in-depth care are referred to resources insured within a day or two. are generally not the extremely poor better equipped to handle their needs, Getting an exact count of the or homeless, Brennan says. More often Ryser says. Rochester region’s uninsured isn’t they’re the working poor, he says. Patients are often sent to St. Joseph’s easy. According to Excellus BlueCross “They’re service workers, restaurant Neighborhood Center, a sprawling South BlueShield, Upstate New York’s owners, and small business people,” he Avenue complex that offers a comprehensive uninsured rate was roughly 8.4 says. “The very poor are generally covered list of health services ranging from physical percent from 2010 to 2012. That was by Medicaid. Our people are working. therapy to cancer screenings. A UR Well considerably lower than the national rate That’s the amazing thing about this.” clinic operates within St. Joseph’s wellof 15.1 percent. established clinic, says the UR’s Dr. Marc But neither Berliant nor Michael Berliant, a nine-year volunteer at the UR Brennan, clinical coordinator at St. clinic inside St. Joseph’s. Joseph’s, are convinced that the health
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URBAN ACTION This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.)
Series on conflict resolution
The Gandhi Institute will present “What You Say Next Can Change Your World: a Series in Nonviolent Communication,” a six-week series of discussions, exercises, games, and roleplaying to develop a form of communication which can be used in conflict resolution. The series will be held on Thursdays starting on April 16 through May 21, from 6:45 p.m. to 9 p.m., at the Gandhi Institute, 969 Plymouth Avenue. Tuition is based on a sliding scale from $150 to $300, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Registration: malik.thompson85@ gmail.com or 463-3266.
City school budget hearing
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hearing at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 9, to get community input on the proposed 2015-2016 budget for the city school district. People who want to speak can register in advance by calling (585) 262-8525. The hearing is at the district’s central office, 131 West Broad Street.
Apply for produce
The Neighborhood Farm Share program, which makes local organic produce available in low-income neighborhoods and communities at affordable prices, is accepting applications for the 2015 produce season. For information or to have an application sent to you, call Sondra Gjersoe at (585) 271-1979, ext. 510. Application deadline is May 1.
Teens stand against racism
Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library and the YWCA of Rochester and Monroe County will present a Stand Against Racism event for teens at
3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15. The event will feature former City Council member Ben Douglas, who will talk about his experiences as a youth in the civil rights era. And Delores Jackson Radney of Kuumba Consultants will discuss how the Great Migration changed Rochester and how it impacts teens today. The event will be held at the Central Library, 115 South Avenue.
Film on India and Pakistan
The Little Theatre will show “A Thin Wall,” a new documentary film about the 1947 political partition of India, at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 10. The film was shot in India and Pakistan and examines the history of one of most significant events of the 20th century. The filmmakers are descendants of families torn apart by the partition. The film will be followed by a Q & A. Tickets: www.thelittle.org.
Dining
Roux, a new French-inspired restaurant on Park Avenue, uses a seasonal menu. Its spring offerings include (left) Vegetable pot-au-feu, using spring vegetables, poached organic egg, mint pistou, garlic confit toast; and (right) Smoked Salmon Salad, which includes frisee, radish, creamy herb dressing, cucumber, and poppy seeds. PHOTOS BY MARK CHAMBERLIN
Cooking what you love [ CHOW HOUND ] BY KATIE LIBBY
Ashley Swan-Abramson, chef and partowner of Roux (688 Park Avenue), loves the versatility of French cooking. “French food is influenced by so many different regions and you can do so much with it,” she says. “I love doing new twists on classic interpretations.” Swan-Abramson, along with her mother, Robin Banister, and her sister, Paulina Swan, own and run Roux together. Paulina Swan creates the craft cocktail menu while Banister chooses the selections for the restaurant’s wine list. The family also owned Cibon, the café that previously occupied the same space. The Cibon menu was primarily Italian-influenced, but the café’s popular mussel dish made it to the new menu as the Roux Moules ($11) — mussels in a cream, Dijon, wine, and shallot broth, and served with a baguette. The new menu is significantly smaller than the one
used by Cibon and changes seasonally, approximately every three months. Roux’s spring menu debuted last week, along with a new craft cocktail menu. The spring menu is lighter, with new dishes like the Smoked Salmon Salad ($14) — incorporating frisée, radish, cucumber, creamy herb dressing, and poppy seeds — and the Potage Parmentier ($6), a potato and leek soup with chives. A few popular menu items are still available, including the Steak Frites ($28), a 10-ounce ribeye steak with maître d’hotel butter and pomme frites, and the Croquet Monsieur ($12): country bread, French ham, Dijon, béchamel, and gruyére, available on the brunch and lunch menus. The cocktail offerings at Roux include seven different types of absinthe, each served with a sugar cube and chilled water. If you’re in the mood for a cocktail (all craft cocktails are $9), the new menu includes the Confidence Boost
which features Rittenhouse Rye, Byrrh, muddled strawberry, mint, and Blanche de Chambly. There’s also the Backyard Barbeque: Plymouth, Cynar, Salers, squid ink, egg white, lemon, Peychaud’s Bitters, with a Laphroaig rinse. Squid ink in a cocktail? I’m in. Spring is all about getting out of the house, trying new things, and shaking off that winter. Roux is located at 688 Park Avenue and is
Wellness) and is sponsored by the Good Food Collective and the Rochester Public Market. Registration is now open and more information can be found at roceatsreal.com. The owner of the popular food truck, Marty’s Meats, will open a brick and mortar restaurant, Marty’s On Park (703 Park Avenue), in May.
open Monday through Thursday, 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to midnight; and Sunday, 11 a.m. (brunch until 2 p.m.) to 11 p.m. 461-2960. Visit Roux’s website at rouxparkave.com.
Flavors Indian Restaurant (35 Lafayette Avenue) has opened in Canandaigua.
Quick bites
The ROC Eats Real nutrition challenge will take place May 3 through June 13. The sixweek program encourages participants to clean out their pantries of anything processed and embrace local-produced, wholesome, and natural food. The program was created by nutritionist Amy Nadelen (of Tribe
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Sipping coffee in Boulder Coffee on Park Avenue, Kate Royal sits at what she determines is “the best seat.” She’s surrounded by local art, and it’s a suitable vibe for her. This could be her office. Ask Royal about modern theater or female playwrights and she’ll jump in and debate like a seasoned erudite. And when she stakes claims, like, “Tennessee Williams is better than Arthur Miller,” Royal isn’t blowing pompous air. Rather, she genuinely wants to have these discussions. It’s a passion that’s contagious, and it’s led Royal to write four full-length plays, three of which have been produced. The latest — “Girls Can Tell,” a drama about campus sexual assault — is set to premiere April 18 at SUNY Geneseo. Like most artists and writers, Royal is hardest on herself. She’s only 23 years old, 10 CITY APRIL 8-14, 2015
but that’s a problem: she’s somehow behind schedule. “Lucy Prebble had a play on the West End by 23,” Royal says. “Lena Dunham had her own show by 23. I’m behind.” But that’s hardly the case. Royal has emerged as one of Rochester’s most exciting new playwrights. Capturing the spirit of today’s millennials with a ferocious authenticity, her characters are often transparent, neurotic, and on their phones. Royal’s work has earned her an artist-in-residence position at the Multiuse Community Cultural Center, where she’s developed and workshopped a number of projects. During last year’s Rochester Fringe Festival, she debuted “The Nameless Days of Gumdrop Smith,” an absurdist play with an androgynous lead who subverts gender and sexual identity. Most recently, Royal premiered “Mammoth,” a millennial drama about a group of estranged siblings who reunite to clean out their parent’s home. “Mammoth” showcased Royal’s potential to construct powerful, realistic 21st-century characters, and it built up a buzz around town about her. “It was in process for so long,” Royal says about “Mammoth,” rolling her eyes and thinking back. She’s proud but exhausted. “I tinkered with it for close to four years.” “Mammoth” was effective because it felt so easy: a couch, a kitchen table, two brothers,
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and a sister. Characters watch TV together, drink, and check their phones. A rock band, The National, serenades scene changes, and throughout the play, these siblings attempt to confront the issues that once drove them apart. But communication doesn’t come easy. “When I first heard Kate Royal’s ‘Mammoth,’” says John Borek, director of artistic development at MuCCC, “I knew that I was witnessing the work of a young playwright with extraordinary gifts. I had a sense of discovery … someone who can capture the idiom of her generation and can also capture the silence as well.”
At times, “Mammoth” seemed scriptless, as if it was all just improvised. However, every verbal pause or hesitation — “Ums,” “f**ks,” “I just,” the diatribes of a Facebook generation — was written in to the script. It’s a sharp voice with a finger on the pulse, seizing the spirit of today’s neurotic, hyper-connected-butdisconnected millennials. “I love human speech,” Royal says. “I love how strange it is. How funny it is. How you can have these intense, big moments, but they can be so easily undercut by something silly and stupid. Young people, specifically, have the most absurd language and speaking rhythms.”
Royal describes her own writing voice as an “uncynical realist.” This notion fits her personality, too. At first glance she’s reserved, but at unexpected moments her quirky and almost whimsical sense of humor seeps out. Royal has an understated smile that basks in the spotlight of awkward silences — it’s hard not to think of Liz Lemon, Tina Fey’s character on the TV show “30 Rock” (but that might be because of the glasses). She scoffs at the contemporary notion that reality driven narratives must be wholly negative, calling this pervasive (often maledriven) theater, “masturbatory pessimism.” Rather, Royal is more concerned with writing character driven stories that directly reflect both the immediate audience and the wider culture at large. “My goal as a writer is always to create characters whose chief objective is to be understood,” Royal says, “discovering the extent to which that is or isn’t possible is the source of [my] drama.” Unlike her plays — with characters who often scream at each other, desperately trying to be understood — Royal seems completely comfortable in her own skin. She’s a native of Tappan, New York, a suburb not far from Manhattan. She came to SUNY Geneseo originally targeting a career as an English
teacher. And while it’s not farfetched to see Royal teaching English, SUNY Geneseo introduced her to student theater and the relationship blossomed. “At SUNY Geneseo there was a lot of learning-by-doing,” Royal says. “Student theater gave me chances to make my own opportunities.” This is where she wrote her first full-length play, “Other Women,” a drama about a grieving widow who invites over the mistress of her deceased husband. The story came from a real-life scenario that Royal had overheard, and the production was only meant as a one-off experience. But after seeing “Other Women” produced (she also directed it), Royal knew that she was hooked. “I saw my characters on stage, and it was just … Well, I’ll just say that I have only written plays ever since. I don’t know why people don’t write only plays. Your characters are alive and in front of you. Did they not tell you how this worked?” Royal graduated in 2013 from SUNY Geneseo with a Bachelor’s degree in Theater and English. Since, Rochester has played an essential role in developing Royal’s young career, where in addition to her artist-in-residence at MuCCC, she works in the box office at Geva Theatre Center. “Rochester is a smaller scene but professional,” Royal says. “You can get good work done here. There’s a freedom to produce what you want. It’s helped me to build a solid foundation.”
Like in her other plays, Royal has committed to building characters the audience can believe in. Michelle and Jason are innocent in many ways, and guilty in others. They are products of their environment, and yet, are entirely accountable for their own actions. “I had to be careful not to settle on easy character definition,” Royal says. “It was important to me that both characters are sympathetic. We can’t keep talking about rape in these absolute terms. We can’t keep looking at people as only rapist and victim — instantly victimizing one person and demonizing the other.” “It’s hard to walk away from a Kate Royal script without empathizing with multiple characters,” says Emily Putnam, a local actress who appeared in “Mammoth,” and will soon play Michelle in “Girls Can Tell.” “She creates honest, fully realized worlds in which her incredibly thoughtfully-written characters thrive.” Royal hopes that college audiences, specifically, can identify with her characters and this story. “Students should be able to watch this and feel like their experiences are being accurately portrayed,” she explains. The performance on April 18 at SUNY Geneseo will feature a talk-back after the show, and potentially a panel to discuss the topic in more serious detail. Royal hopes, in the least, that “Girls Can Tell” will start a conversation.
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Royal’s latest play, “Girls Can Tell,” is her most ambitious work yet. It’s also her most present, focusing on the outbreak of sexual assault on college campuses around the U.S. In the play, the character Michelle is only weeks from graduation. At a party she finds Jason, an amiable lacrosse player with whom she has a crush. They both get drunk and begin to make out, but Michelle draws a line that Jason crosses. In the aftermath, Michelle discovers that rape isn’t as clearly defined as she once thought, not in today’s society, not in her own mind. She’s met with a culture of friends and professors that either doubt her, try to lighten up the situation, or motivate her to just forget the thing entirely. Royal considers herself a burgeoning activist, so the motivation for writing “Girls Can Tell” was innate. She says she was weary, however, of the downfalls that come from writing an activist play: that the finished product can sometimes suffer when an overt agenda is prioritized over the development of characters. In the writing process she confronted this problem directly and committed to keeping “Girls Can Tell” character-centric. “No one is writing about college sexual abuse, unless they’re intentionally trying to be controversial about it,” Royal says. “As a writer I’m offended by this. You’re not doing it for the right reasons. “These ‘issue-plays’ are political, but they’re not very compassionate,” she adds. “Don’t make these people feel even more alienated.”
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Three of Kate Royal's four full-length plays have been produced. Pictured here are scenes from "Mammoth" and "The Nameless Days of Gumdrop Smith." "Mammoth" featured Emily Putnam (1), Marc Cataldi (2, center), and Luke Martin (5). Carl Girard (3), Liam Enright (4, left), Melyssa Hall (4, right), and Rusty Allen (6, left) appeared in "The Nameless Days of Gumdrop Smith." PHOTOS COURTESY ANNETTE DRAGON
In the fall, Royal is moving to Evanston, Illinois, to work on her MFA in Writing for the Screen and Stage at Northwestern University. It was a decision she labored over, whether to even pursue a master’s degree at all. “I was expecting to just move to New York,” she says. “I wasn’t hearing back from schools, and I had this friend on the Upper West Side with a room opening up. I got this interview at Northwestern. I honestly didn’t think much would come from it. I had nothing to lose, really.” Royal was accepted into a Northwestern program that admits only 12 people. She decided that she belonged in academia, at least for a couple more years, finding great value in the motivation that comes from writing in a network — like what she’s experienced here in Rochester. “I love what Rochester has done for me, and what I’ve been able to do here,” Royal says, admitting, however, that she’s ready for a bigger stage. “I’m looking to be challenged. I’m looking to grow — even if it means being kicked to the curb a few times.” Until her move, Royal will use her time to keep working. She is hoping to pull a production of “Girls Can Tell” together within Rochester city. She’ll also keep pondering about what it means to be a writer. “All writers are perverts,” she asserts with a laugh, echoing the sentiments of one of her favorite authors, Ian McEwan. “The writer’s job is to empathize, foremost, but at the end of the day, we’re all just voyeurs. We take sick pleasure in appropriating other’s tragedies.” rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11
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Eastman Jazz Café with Joe Martin
FRIDAY, APRIL 10 SPROULL ATRIUM, MILLER CENTER, 25 GIBBS STREET 7 P.M. AND 10 P.M. | $10 | 274-1100; ESM.ROCHESTER.EDU
[ JAZZ ] Over the past two decades, bassist Joe Martin has earned a place among the top side-men in New York, enhancing performances and recordings by greats like Art Farmer, Brad Mehldau, Mark Turner, Maria Schneider, and many more. But Martin is also a formidable bandleader with several recordings under his belt showcasing his own challenging compositions. At the Jazz Café he’ll be joined by the Eastman School of Music’s future jazz all-stars. — BY RON NETSKY
Grove Place Jazz Project TUESDAY, APRIL 14 THE DOWNSTAIRS CABARET THEATRE, 20 WINDSOR STREET 7 P.M. | $5-$10 | DOWNSTAIRSCABARET.ORG [ JAZZ ] The Downstairs Cabaret Theatre teamed up with
the Eastman School of Music to offer The Grove Place Jazz Project, a weekly night of swing, ballads, and blues every Tuesday. A different grouping of highly talented jazz musicians — primarily Eastman students — is featured each week. From composers to teachers to undergrads, they run the gamut with impressively long CVs of experience. The April 14 evening features Eastmanites Theresa Chen, Billy Petito, Jakob Ebers, and Stephen Morris. — BY TYLER PEARCE
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students, will perform a program organized by Associate Professor of Violin, Renee Jolles, whose father was a survivor of the camps in Romania, came to America, and established a musical career for himself. On the program is Klein’s String Trio written in 1944, a year before he was transferred from Terezin to Auschwitz, where he died. The program also includes the Gershwinlike, jazz-flavored “Life of the Machines” by Szpilman, a polish pianist and composer. He hid the composition from the Nazis as he moved from place to place, but it was eventually lost, leaving him to reconstruct it after the war. — BY GARY A. BALDWIN
Massive Metal Day SATURDAY, APRIL 11 THE MONTAGE MUSIC HALL, 50 CHESTNUT STREET 5 P.M. | $15-$17 | THEMONTAGEMUSICHALL.COM [ METAL ] This is going to be a sweaty, brutal (in the best
way) night. The Montage Music Hall is packing them in for a Massive Metal Day that will feature eight of the region’s darkest and heaviest — really, six bands represent Upstate New York and two are from Boston. The bill starts with Auburn deathcore band The Man Cries Panic, and includes Utica’s Inhumatus, Rochester’s Tyranitar, Beneath Hell’s Sky, Gutted Alive, and Order of the Dead, and Boston’s Lord Almighty and Revocation. The show is sponsored by 94.1 Gorilla Radio. — BY JAKE CLAPP
Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 6:309:30 p.m. Benny Golson. Honeoye Central, 8528 Main St, Honeoye. honeoye.org/ webpages/bwilkins. 7 p.m. Jazz saxophone legend Benny Golson. $5. Margaret Explosion. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue. thelittle.org. 7:309:30 p.m. Nate Rawls Band. Robach Community Center, 180 Beach Ave. 865-3320. ontariobeachentertainment. org. 7:15-9 p.m. $2. Vintage. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 6:309:30 p.m.
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The hurt is palpable on this new CD from Wales Road. But the way Tommy Wales deals with it in myriad manifestations of anger, rage, and sadness, offers a way out for the listener and himself. Wales is a holy rock ‘n’ roller who leans heavily on secular influence when it comes to the guitar. The sound here is dark and heavy, veering frequently into straight-up metal territory. The unfortunate end to Wales’ marriage weighs heavy in the man’s lyrical content on this CD. This is easily some of his best, most concise guitar playing to date. In the end, it’s what will save him. Chin up, daddy-o.
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Tim Elswick: This show is about getting Veluxe back together and playing and enjoying the things we love the most — like playing live. And Guided By Voices is the vehicle, that’s why this show is happening. It’s not to revisit our roots or whatever. It’s about being in a band again, making sure everyone is OK in their life; reconnecting. Adam Porter: It gave us a chance to be proficient at playing together again without the pressure of also having to be creative; we just have to learn songs and interpret them.
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Note for note? Porter: As best we can, yes. DeWispelaere: A lot of this is just the
challenge of learning all these songs. We’ve learned 30 songs so far. So it’s been easy starting up again? DeWispelaere: I‘ve had a very tumultuous
Veluxe will host a Guided By Voices tribute show at Skylark Lounge on April 25. PHOTO BY FRANK DE BLASE
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the band’s new adherence to imperfection. An edited transcript of that conversation follows.
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City: Why the Guided By Voices tribute show? Darren DeWispelaere: It was initially my idea.
[ INTERVIEW ] BY FRANK DE BLASE
If Rochester can be viewed as a microcosm of music happening on a grander scale, then you can easily define its own Veluxe. The band emerged in the early aughts as an answer to the previous decade’s slick, big rock bloat. It would be purely by definition that this is a pop band of the highest order except for the fact that the band sticks with the hooks and melodies while shunning the plastic sugar. The band’s live performance is purely celebratory and reactionary, there ain’t a lot of unnecessary show biz fizz. There is however, beauty — beauty challenged by the dynamics of a solid rock outfit set on doing the music’s bidding and coming on tres cool in the process. Life stepped in and the band went away. Life stepped in again two years later and Veluxe is back. It’s easing its way back in the pool by hosting a Guided By Voices tribute show with multiple guests. Part of Veluxe — Darren DeWispelaere, vocals and guitar; Adam Porter, guitar; and Tim Elswick, bass — stopped by City Newspaper for a chat. Drummer Steve Daniels couldn’t make it. Those who could discussed getting back together, recording, and 14 CITY APRIL 8-14, 2015
We hadn’t been playing for a while. We had a hiccup in the band two years ago and honestly, we really needed a little bit of a break. At that point we’d been together 11 years. I was playing at the time with Attic Abasement. That was getting some traction and we were touring a bit. I was focusing a little more on that. What precipitated getting back together this way? DeWispelaere: It got to the point that we missed
playing together and we figured this was a good way to get back into things. We’d done a tribute to the Archers Of Loaf before. And I figured Guided By Voices had been one of my favorite bands and an influence on our songwriting so we decided we’d do it with everyone and we’d be the house band. Was this the band coming clean about the influence or just for fun? DeWispelaere: I think a little bit of both. I’d
be hard pressed to say my songwriting was anywhere near the level of Bob Pollard’s or Doug Gillard or any of the guys who wrote songs for Guided By Voices — they’re just so freakin’ prolific it’s ridiculous. They write these songs that are so anthemic that you automatically feel like you’ve heard them already and immediately identify with them.
year, a lot of stuff going on in my personal life and these guys have had my back like nobody’s business. This is the one thing in my life that’s constant and healing and rejuvenating. Not to be cheesy, but it’s the power of rock ‘n’ roll. These are my brothers. So what’s the Veluxe writing process? DeWispelaere: It depends. Sometimes we’ll
just hang out and jam. Someone will have a slight idea and we’ll noodle around and things will start to develop and it might turn into a song. Elswick: We have a very eclectic set of strengths that we bring in. I’m a melody hog. Adam is an extraordinary, technically proficient guitar player; he knows all the notes … all of them. Darren has a scope of everything, and Steve is an incredibly fabulous, dedicated drummer. He always has game. Any releases in the immediate future? DeWispelaere: In this day and age I just
want to record a song and put it up and once we get enough songs, let’s put a collection together, maybe put a record together, I dunno. Elswick: It might not be released, but that’s whatever. It’s the best fucking music in the world. There’s so much life in it, and there’s so much poetic justice. But you guys have a relatively large back catalog. Why have you been sitting on it? DeWispelaere: We’re perfectionist and kind
of got up our own asses.
The next phase of Veluxe, what is it? Porter: Getting over the fact we have to put
out perfect material and we can put out what we make. DeWispelaere: We’re not delusional, but why worry about it? We don’t need to be validated by popularity.
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The Ballroom Thieves and Micah. Abilene Bar & Lounge,
153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. $6. Bluegrass Jam. Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave. 473-6140. bernunzio.com. Second Thursday of every month, 6:30-8 p.m. Fiona Corinne. Boulder Coffee Co., 100 Alexander St. 454-2966. bouldercoffee.info. 8-10 p.m. Jim Lane. Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. 342-6780. 8 p.m. Free. Roots Night. The Beale, 693 South Ave. 271-4650. oldtimehoedwon.com. 7:3010:30 p.m. Ryan Carey. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. stickylipsbbq.com. 6:309:30 p.m. [ BLUES ] Big D 3. Dinosaur Bar-BQue, 99 Court St. 325-7090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 8 p.m. Dan Schmitt & The Shadows. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. stickylipsbbq.com. 7-9 p.m.
Son House Blues Night: Old Time Hoedown with Kathy and Steve. The Beale, 693 South Ave.
271-4650. thebealegrille.com. 7:30-11:30 p.m. [ CLASSICAL ]
Eastman at Washington Square Lunchtime Concerts. ,. 2741400. esm.rochester.edu/ community/lunchtime/. 12:1512:45 p.m. Jazz at Noon with professor Clay Jenkins. Opera: Our Town. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. -11, 7:30 p.m. $25-$35. [ JAZZ ]
The D’Jangoners. Little Theatre
Café, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org.
Serge & Friends. The Lower
Mill, 61 N. Main St. 582-1830. thelowermill.com. 6:30-9:30 p.m. The Swooners. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 3814000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Teagan & Lou. Genesee Brew House, 25 Cataract St. 263-9200. geneseebeer.com. 6-8 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
Cages, Druse, Crash the Junta, and Corliz. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe
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Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter Tracy Grammer rose to prominence as one-half of critically acclaimed folk duo, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer. When Carter died in 2002, Grammer picked up the pieces and kept on the road. Grammer’s solo career has taken off as much as it can in folk circles. Grammer’s tunes are rooted in a traditional style that is made even better by her pristine voice. Christina Custode shares the bill. Tracy Grammer performs on Saturday, April 11, at Café Veritas at First Unitarian Church, 220 South Winton Road. 7:30 p.m. $10-$18. cafeveritas.org; tracygrammer.com. — BY ROMAN DIVEZUR Ryan Montbleau Band. Water
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Vino Bistro and Lounge, 27 West Main St., Webster. 872-9463. SharedGenes.com. 6:30 p.m. Uptown Groove. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 7:3010:30 p.m.
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[ R&B/ SOUL ] The Earthtones. Johnny’s Pub & Grill, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. johnnyslivemusic.com. 5 p.m.
Big Sauce Trio. Dinosaur BarB-Que, 99 Court St. 325-7090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m. Dave Riccioni & Friends. The Beale, 693 South Ave. 271-4650. thebeale.com. 5:30-8:30 p.m.. Genesee Johnny & The River Rats. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point
Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 9 p.m. $3-$5. [ CLASSICAL ]
Opera: Our Town. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. April 11, 7:30 p.m. $25-$35. [ COUNTRY ]
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Church, 549 Clarissa St. 6150328. memorialamez.org. 6:30 p.m. With North Carolina A & T State University concert choir. Free will offering. [ HIP-HOP/RAP ]
DJ Ace. Stay Fresh, Hexx, and Tone. California Brew
Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. facebook.com/ thecaliforniabrewhaus. 7 p.m. $15-$20.
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Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar. com. 7:30 p.m. $12. Boss Tweed. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge. com. 6-9 p.m.
Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $5-$7. Waters. Main Street Armory, 900 E. Main St. 232-3221. mainstreetarmory.com. 7 p.m. $9.41-$15.
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Fred Vine and Rockin’ Red.
[ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Julian Burgio. Boulder Coffee Co., 100 Alexander St. 454-2966. bouldercoffee.info. 8-10 p.m.
Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes.
Street Armory, 900 E. Main St. 232-3221. mainstreetarmory. com. 7 p.m. $35-$85. [ JAZZ ]
Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. 8:30-10:30 p.m. Tarantino/Terefenko: Dialogues. Ingle Auditorium at RIT, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive. 475-4121. 8 p.m. $15-$20.
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Van Pierszalowski, the creative force behind WATERS, sings in a style that’s both demanding and indifferent, while pumping guitars, backing vocals and crashing drums give a heavy, anthemic feel. Songs like “Mikey Mantle” show Van also has tamed a more intimate side. The 5-piece recently appeared on Conan. The day after they play in Rochester, WATERS heads out on a 2-month tour supporting high-energy indie-pop duo Matt and Kim. WATERS performs Thursday, April 9, at the Main Street Armory, 900 East Main Street. 7 p.m. $9.41-$15. mainstreetarmory.com, thisiswaters.com. — BY TYLER PEARCE
Joan Osborne Acoustic Duo with Keith Cotton. Water Street Music
Hall, 204 N. Water St. 325-5600. waterstreetmusic.com. 8 p.m. $25-$30.
Music Series 2015: Sungmin Shin. Arnett Branch Library, 310
Arnett Boulevard. 428-8214. 12-1 p.m. Acoustic and electric guitar selections. Nancy Perry. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 7:3010:30 p.m. String Thing 3. Johnny’s Pub & Grill, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. johnnyslivemusic.com. 5 p.m.midnight. The Pickle Sisters, String Theory, Ruckus Juice Jugs Stomper’s, Clinton’s Ditch, and The Younger Gan. Talking Underwater Acoustic. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. April 25, 8:30-10:30 p.m. Tracy Grammer. Cafe Veritas at First Unitarian Church, 220 Winton Road South. cafeveritas. com. 7:30 p.m. $10-$18. Ukulele Day with Stu Fuchs. Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave. 473-6140. bernunzio. com. 1-4 p.m. $25-$40. [ BLUES ]
Out of the Blue. Sticky Lips BBQ AMERICANA | BALLROOM THIEVES
It’s a trio, alright, though Ballroom Thieves may occupy the space a little outside the textbook Americana dirt road bailiwick. Hailing from Boston, this guitar, bass, and drums threesome seethes and rages like a preacher who has run out of things to say. The urgency and might is something this band achieves without the temptation of electricity and volume. The band stomps and howls. Come to the show and you’ll do the same, I promise. The Ballroom Thieves perform with Micah on Thursday, April 9, at Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 8 p.m. $6. abilenebarandlounge.com; ballroomthieves.com. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
FRIDAY, APRIL 10 Fishbone Soup. Johnny’s Pub & Grill, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. johnnyslivemusic.com. 9 p.m. Grand Canyon Rescue Episode. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 16 CITY APRIL 8-14, 2015
Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 9:30 p.m. Pilot The Universe. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. recordarchive.com. 6-8 p.m.
Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. stickylipsbbq.com. 10 p.m.-midnight. [ CLASSICAL ]
Opera: Our Town. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m. $25-$35. [ COUNTRY ]
Goodness. Nashvilles, 4853 W
Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 3343030. nashvillesny.com. 9 p.m. [ VOCALS ]
Cousin Vinny. Salvatore’s
Pizzeria and Pub, 1217 Bay Rd. Webster. 671-9420. 8-11:30 p.m. [ DJ/ELECTRONIC ] Whirly Fundraiser. 45 Euclid, 45 Euclid St. 222-5683. facebook. com/DJFLEX585. 10 p.m.-4 a.m. With Bittle, Blinkin, Darkstep, Flex, and Skanntro. $10.
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Luca Foresta & the Electrokings . The Beale,
693 South Ave. 271-4650. thebealegrille.com. 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.
Late Night Jazz Jam Session . Michael’s Valley
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Roc-Upstate Massive Metal Day. Montage Music Hall,
50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. themontagemusichall.com. 5 p.m. $15-$18.
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Bar, 19 W Main St. Webster. 872-2910. 10 p.m. Inside Out. Dinosaur Bar-BQue, 99 Court St. 325-7090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m. Moon Zombies. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. firehousesaloon. com. 9 p.m.-2 a.m. The Revelers. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 9:30 p.m.
Screaming Females, Green Dreams, and Pleistocene.
Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $12. Spring Fling. Johnny’s Pub & Grill, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. johnnyslivemusic. com/. 5 p.m. Pickle Sisters, Younger Gang, Ruckus Jug Stompers, Clinton’s Ditch, and String Theory.
SUNDAY, APRIL 12 [ CLASSICAL ]
Asbury First Salon Series.
Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Ave. 271-1050 x 103. asburyfirst.org. 2 p.m. $30-$35.
Bill Slater Solo Piano (Brunch). Woodcliff Hotel &
Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 3814000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. Compline. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. christchurchrochester.org/. 9-9:30 p.m. Opera: Our Town. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. 2 p.m. $25-$35. Remembrance Day Concert. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 454-2100. esm.rochester. edu. 7:30 p.m. $10. Song of Liberty. 1st Universalist Church, 150 S. Clinton Ave. 546-2826. 10:30 a.m.
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They’re raising money for little Lyanna Flynn, who at the age of 2, has been diagnosed with leukemia. And proving the fact that Rochester rock ‘n’ rollers don’t necessarily have deep pockets but do have big hearts, artists like ska darlings, Mrs. Skannotto (pictured), the swingin’ hitters in Vinyl Orange Ottoman, and rockin’ songstress Teressa Wilcox, will be joined by Maria Betts Music, The Capitals, and a reunion set by Lobby Bar to help little Lyanna fight the good fight. Roc for Lyanna will take place Sunday, April 12, at Flour City Station, 170 East Avenue. 4 p.m. $5 cover and donations accepted. flourcitystation.com. — BY FRANK DE BLASE [ JAZZ ]
B-Free. Lemoncello, 137 West
Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 5:30-8:30 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
Bridge Under Fire, Robbie Stillwell, Glenwood, and Every Town. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 9 p.m.
MONDAY, APRIL 13 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Marty Roberts. Genesee Brew House, 25 Cataract St. 263-9200. geneseebeer.com. 6-8 p.m. Watkins & The Rapiers. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue. thelittle.org. 7:309:30 p.m. [ METAL ]
Vice, The Weight We Carry, Swamps, and Disarm. Bug Jar,
219 Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 9:15 p.m.
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Organ Recital Series: Sondra Goldsmith Proctor. Geneseo Central Presbyterian Church, 31 Center St., Geneseo. 2430669. cpcgeneseo.org. noon. Donations accepted. [ COUNTRY]
Alyssa Trahan. Lemoncello,
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Deborah Branch. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 6:309:30 p.m.
The Grove Place Jazz Project: An Evening of Swing, Ballads, and Blues. Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 3254370. downstairscabaret.com. 7 p.m. $10. [ POP/ROCK ]
Better By Morning and Lost Like Lions. Bug Jar, 219
Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $8-$10.
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Roses & Revolutions. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa. com. 5:30-8:30 p.m Teagan Ward Solo Acoustic. The Beale, 693 South Ave. 271-4650. thebealegrille. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 17
Theater
Joniece Abbott-Pratt and Royce Johnson in a scene from “The Mountaintop,” a drama about Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night. PHOTO BY KEN HUTH
Just a man “The Mountaintop” REVIEWED SATURDAY, APRIL 4 CONTINUES THROUGH SUNDAY, APRIL 26 GEVA THEATRE CENTER, 75 WOODBURY BOULEVARD TICKETS START AT $25 | CALL 232-4382 OR VISIT GEVATHEATRE.ORG FOR SPECIFIC DATES AND TIMES [ REVIEW ] BY KEVIN CARR
“I’m just a man, just a man,” says a trembling Martin Luther King Jr. in Katori Hall’s award-winning play, “The Mountaintop.” It’s a powerful piece of historical fiction, playing through April 26 at Geva Theatre’s Wilson Mainstage. Martin Luther King Jr. (Royce Johnson) returns to room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis after reciting his momentous speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” The Geva production opens with a stirring excerpt, but as King hits the stage, a contrast occurs and the audience must divorce legend from man. “Get me a pack of Pall Malls,” King yells. King shakes the rain off his weathered clothes as he settles into his room. He is fervent and continues to work, but exhausted. He coughs a smoker’s hack and orders coffee, pacing and waiting with holes in his socks — paranoid, as he checks his room for bugging devices. Camae (Joniece Abbott-Pratt), a spirited, young, and foul-mouthed motel maid, delivers his coffee and King coaxes 18 CITY APRIL 8-14, 2015
her to stay. The two move around each other like a subtle dance. What begins as serendipitous flirtation develops into something more: a fateful rendezvous. Camae and King challenge each other’s beliefs — exploring culture, religion, and legacy. It’s April 3, 1968: King’s last night on earth. Forty-seven years to the day of MLK’s
assassination, which occurred on April 4, 1968, Geva opened “The Mountaintop,” Rochester’s debut of Katori Hall’s landmark play. It premiered in London in 2009, and quickly became a hit, eventually winning Best New Play at the Laurence Olivier Awards. The work has been produced globally, including a run on Broadway in 2011 with Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett in the lead roles. Now, Royce Johnson takes his turn as the man behind the legend. Johnson is a veteran of the stage and small screen, appearing in many Off-Broadway productions (“A Soldier’s Play,” “The Brother/Sister Plays”), and TV credits that include “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Blacklist,” and the upcoming “Marvel’s Daredevil” (Netflix). His portrayal of King is complex and a treat to watch: grandiose but flawed. There’s a familiar stance, a recognizable head tilt. The MLK we know from videos and speeches comes alive, but it’s merged with something unfamiliar: King as a terrified human, sometimes harsh and rude, who in the quiet moments cannot shake the fear.
Joniece Abbott-Pratt has performed all across the country and brings fresh energy to Camae. There is sensuousness to her portrayal. She is both simple and elegant — a joy to watch. Johnson and Abbott-Pratt have a chemistry that gives the production a comfortable pace. It never feels drawn out, even without an intermission. When “The Mountaintop” ends, you feel cheated out of a few extra moments with this couple. Both characters do suffer, slightly, from a script that isn’t quite certain what it wants to accomplish. And the production does a lot of work to remove the legend from the man, only to, by the end, (which, admittedly, is breathtaking) reinforce King as a legendary — almost mythic — man. Camae’s character reflects a couple of weak points in the script, too. After her third foul-mouthed rant, her dialogue feels less natural and authentic and more like an obvious tool, or dependable crutch to break the tension with an easy joke: cussing in front of a reverend. Otherwise, “The Mountaintop” excels on almost every level. Robert Koharchik’s set design is gorgeous and impressive: a big, beautiful highway sign hangs above the set, like a moon, with a double-queen motel room below, a balcony wrapping around it. Given King’s imminent assassination, it’s hard to ever feel comfortable watching this room, and that’s the point. The bullet is due the next day, and we can feel the doom settling over every joke, laugh, and cough. Despite the production’s (although emotionally effective) heavy-handedness, director Skip Greer’s “The Mountaintop” is captivating and inspiring. It’s a mustsee production that will make you stand up and cheer. It serves as a reminder that our heroes were once also human, and it ends with a call: maybe we, too, could be heroes. That was King’s vision: the one he saw from the mountaintop. Sitting in the audience, it is impossible not to feel the call.
Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] Gallery 96, 604 Pittsford-Victor Road. Five Exposures. Through May 23. Opening reception Sun. April 12, 2-5:30 p.m. New images by Betsy Phillips, Dan Neuberger, Don Menges, Carl Crumley, and Dick Bennett. thegallery96.com. [ CONTINUING ] 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Sutherland at the 1570. Through April 17. Artwork by Pittsford Sutherland High School Art Students. 5468439 x 3102. Art Museum of Rochester, 610 Monroe Ave. Dead End City III. Through April 30. facebook.com/ ArtMuseumOfRochester. Axom Gallery, 176 Anderson Ave., 2nd floor. Object Alchemy. Through April 25. New Sculpture by Lee Hoag. 232-6030. axomgallery.com. Bertha VB Lederer Gallery, Brodie Hall, 1 College Dr. Thomas MacPherson: Paintings, 19852015. Through May 2. 2455516. geneseo.edu/. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. The Lobby Presents: Read ‘Em and Weep. Through May 3. Artwork by Tim Kelley, Matt Loochee, Airen, The Invisigoths, plus a new mural. lobbydigital@gmail.com. lobbydigital.com. Firehouse Gallery at Genesee Pottery, 713 Monroe Ave. Flourish. Through April 24. Hand-built ceramic installation by Joanna Poag. 271-5183. geneseearts.org/. Frederick Douglass Community Resource Center, 36 King St. A Mothering Blackness: The Emancipation Proclamation. Through May 19. An array of art that examines the “Afrikan Wombman.”. 497-6139. fdrcrochester.com. Gallery R, 100 College Ave. Liminal Madness. April 3-19. Opening reception Fri. April 3, 6-9 p.m. Photos, paintings, collages and more by RIT seniors. 256-3312. galleryr.rit.edu. Genesee Community College, 1 College Road. Batavia. Fine Arts Student Exhibition. Through April 19. Drawing, painting, ceramics, two-dimensional and threedimensional design by students. 343-0055. genesee.edu. Hartnett Gallery, Wilson Commons, University of Rochester, River Campus. Knock, Knock. Through April 26. Student work. blogs. rochester.edu/hartnett. Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Through The Student Lens. Through April 19. Work from regional high school students, guest artists Bonnie Gamache and Emily Kinney, and more. imagecityphotography.com. International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. The Freshness of Spring. Through April 30. Contemporary realist painter David Kerstetter’s “White Peonies.”. 264-1440. internationalartacquisitions.com/. Irondequoit Town Hall, 1280 Titus Ave. Art Walk. Through April 30. Original, fine art created by the Irondequoit Art Club. 467-8840. irondequoitartclub.org. Link Gallery at City Hall, 30 Church St. Life Behind the Photo. Through May 4. Photos by the Wilson Foundation
ART | HIDDEN PASSIONS: INSPIRING CONVERSATIONS
We can work and interact with someone for years before discovering a commonly-held interest or non-obvious quirk. This is especially the case when hobbies seem unrelated to careers, an instance at the focus of the Memorial Art Gallery’s series, “Hidden Passions: Inspiring Conversations about Hyphenated Lives.” The next iteration of the series is Thursday, April 9, and will feature two creative Rochesterians: Agustin Ramos, who works as a private detective, but also builds cuatro guitars; and Emma Lo, a UR medical student who spends her free moments painting portraits of the homeless. “Hidden Passions: Inspiring Conversations about Hyphenated Lives” will host Ramos and Lo on Thursday, April 9, at the Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Avenue. 7 p.m. The event is free with gallery admission, which is half price from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. mag.rochester.edu. — BY JONATHAN MEAD Academy Photo Club. 271-5920. cityofrochester.gov. Lockhart Gallery at SUNY Geneseo, 28 Main St. Alleghany Organic. Through May 2. Ceramic art by Glenn Zweygardt. 245-5516. geneseo.edu. Lower Link Gallery, Central Library, 115 South Ave. Womanscape. Through April 23. Oil and encaustic paintings by Virginia Cassetta. 428-8053. libraryweb.org. Main Street Arts, 20 W. Main St., Clifton Springs. The Assembled Image: Collage, Painting, and Assemblage Sculpture. Through April 30. Artwork that is inspired by collage by several artists. 315462-0210. mstreetarts@gmail. com. mainstreetartsgallery.com. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. The 42-Letter Name. The 42-Letter Name, Prints derived from traditional South Asian religious art, through April 12. 276-8900. mag. rochester.edu. Mercer Gallery at Monroe Communtiy College, 1000 E. Henrietta Rd. Frames of Mind. Through April 24. Artist talk and reception Thurs. April 9, 4:30 p.m. with music by Maria Gillard Band. Workshop Wed. April 22, 3-4:30, Bldg 12-224. 292-2021. monroecc.edu/go/mercer/. Mill Art Center & Gallery, 61 N Main St. Honeoye Falls. Through The Looking Glass. Through May 11. Closing reception Wed. April 29, 6-8 p.m. with live music. Work of local and nation photographers. 624-7740. millartcenter.com. My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Watercolor and Photography. April 6-May 17. Opening reception Wed. April 8, 4-6 p.m. By Ken and Shelly Jentzen. 546-8400. episcopalseniorlife.org. NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. Lessons in Laughter:
The Life and Times of Bernard Bragg. Through April 10. Jean Pietrowski and Allison Thompson curated a memento-filled exhibition for deaf performer, playwright and director Bernard Bragg. rit.edu. Ock Hee’s Gallery, 2 Lehigh St. Best in Snow. Through May 2. Candid photos of dogs by Andy Schecter. 317-6412. ockheesgallery.com/. Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. The Hearts Unrest. Through April 11. Oil paintings by Charles Houseman and David Dorsey. 271-5885. oxfordgallery.com. Phillips Fine Art, Door #9 The Hungerford Building. Rediscovered. Through April 25. Works on paper by Mary Orwen. 232-8120. phillips.com. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N. Goodman St. The Feeling You Get. Through April 30. Art books by 8 artists. 730-7034. Rochesterbrainery.com. Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. Ride It: Art and Bicycles in Rochester. Through May 15. Bicycle Tour of public art Sun. May 3, 1 p.m. A diverse exploration of bicycle culture, history, advocacy and creativity in the Rochester Region. 461-2222. info@rochestercontemporary. org. rochestercontemporary.org/ ride_it.html. Schweinfurth Art Center, 205 Genesee St. Made in New York. Through June 7. 73 pieces of artwork by 56 NYS artists. 315-255-1553. mtraudt@ schweinfurthartcenter.org. schweinfurtharcenter.org. Spectrum Gallery, 100 College Ave. America’s Endangered Coastline. Though April 28. Photographs by John Ganis. 4614447. spectrumgalleryroc.com. University Gallery, James R. Booth Hall, RIT, Lomb Memorial Dr. continues on page 20
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human being, with his own needs to fulfill. They’re reverent needs, they come out of respect, not abuse. That subject is important to me because, in a family like mine, or the one described in the novel, you show love by doing what your elders want. But the American way is something different. And so that’s what’s getting reconciled in the novel. Do you think it’s common for those who didn’t experience such trauma firsthand to want to relive the stories more than the survivors themselves?
Boris Fishman, author of “A Replacement Life,” will visit Rochester this week. His novel was selected as part of the Writers & Books Debut Novel Series. PHOTO BY MARK CHAMBERLIN
Swapping stories Boris Fishman WILL BE IN ROCHESTER APRIL 9 THROUGH APRIL 11 HOSTED BY WRITERS & BOOKS FOR A FULL SCHEDULE, VISIT WAB.ORG OR CALL 473-2590 [ INTERVIEW ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Writers & Books this week will present a series of events with debut novelist Boris Fishman, whose critically-acclaimed, witty and moving novel, “A Replacement Life,” draws on his own life experiences as an immigrant from the former USSR, and a grandchild of a Holocaust survivor. The grandmother of Fishman’s young protagonist, Slava Gelman, has just died, taking her secreted stories of surviving the Minsk Ghetto with her. When Slava is persuaded by his grandfather into falsifying Holocaust restitution letters for himself and his Russian friends, he’s drawn back into the immigrant community he’s fought to leave behind him. City Newspaper spoke with Fishman regarding the themes of immigrant experience, moral ambiguity, and the progression of shifting identity. Following is an edited version of that conversation. For a longer interview with Fishman, visit rochestercitynewspaper.com. City: Some of this story is based on autobiographical experience — you were born in Belarus, and helped your grandmother fill out restitution paperwork. How did you develop the idea for the forgeries of experience? Boris Fishman: When I was filling out my
grandmother’s paperwork in real life, I was kind of struck by the fact that the application didn’t require any proof, because so many people don’t
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have any kind of confirmation that they went through what they went through. A matter of historical record became a matter of storytelling — if you could just tell a good story, you were in. And I just started thinking about whether somebody would have a reason to do this that wasn’t evil. Because I wanted to present a sort of morally complex portrait — like somebody who is using a sort of sacred experience toward dubious ends. And yet, how dubious are they? Legally, no question, but morally, maybe it’s a complex picture. After his grandmother dies and Slava loses the option of learning about her Holocaust stories, he begins imagining her experiences as a means of feeling closer to her. Though it’s understandable that he wants to feel connected to his family history, she didn’t seem to want her life to be defined by that part of her past. Why do you think Slava places — and why do we place — so much emphasis on the most traumatic parts of a life?
Because Slava’s life is larger than being his grandmother’s grandson. He has his own desires and needs for information, and the substance and history and legacy and heritage that helps him to feel like a whole human being. Some of that depends on a disclosure of things that she went through. The irony here is that he wants to feel closer to her, but in order to feel closer to her, which is what she wants, he has to hurt her, in a way, by forcing her to talk about something she doesn’t want to talk about. That all goes back to this tragedy that is particular to immigrants. There’s so much distance between the parents and the children, because they’re having such different experiences. But the ultimate answer is, Slava does not define himself entirely by his grandmother’s needs. As respectful as he wants to be, he’s his own
Absolutely, because there’s a hunger for experience, a hunger for substance, and you exoticize that experience. I don’t want to romanticize it, but what makes for good stories, whether orally, or between the covers of a book? It’s drama, and trauma, and conflict, and how people survive trying circumstances. Well, World War II and the Holocaust are ripe for storytelling because they’re full of drama and conflict and suspense and danger, but partly because it’s inconceivable that that could have happened. And 70 years later, it remains inconceivable. You give your readers a very intimate look into a complex community of immigrants. What do you think Americans don’t understand about the experience of immigrants, and that of the children of immigrants?
That’s really important too. Because I do find, as I get older, that no matter how well-meaning someone’s curiosity or goodwill is, it’s simply impossible to come inside another person’s grief or trauma. There’s a tremendous amount of interest in immigrant culture and immigrant literature, but no matter how much Americans read about it, I don’t think it’s possible to understand the sense of discomfort, stranded-ness, and inadequacy that accompanies the experience. Maybe the literature’s failing to convey it viscerally enough. I think Americans are reading these books because they explore experiences that are far more traumatic than what they themselves have gone through, but also more vibrant. Slava is trying to form an individual identity amid the tension of two worlds that he can’t completely access, which shows in (Slava’s friend and co-worker) Arianna’s instruction on American Jewishness, his grandfather’s generation’s cunning survival skills, and Slava’s failed attempts with that lavender suit. How does his struggle with those two worlds compare with your own experience?
It’s identical. Slava wants to work at Century because it’s WASP-y. There’s a kind of self-loathing that immigrants have, which is especially true sometimes for Jews who were made to feel very bad about being Jewish in the Soviet Union. So you come here, and you want to be like the clean, nice-smelling people, to put it crudely. But what Slava learns is that he does his best work when he’s around ‘barbarians’ like himself. Time does its thing, regardless, and in three generations, Slava will be Arianna. But you can only rush that so much. For now, his best work will come from being with grandfather.
Musicians: Photographs by Bob Cato. Through June 26. 4753961. jleugs@rit.edu. rit.edu. Williams-Insalaco Gallery 34 at FLCC, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. A Panoptic Survey. Through April 17. Diptych and triptych pieces, black and white lithographic drawings, and pastels by Neal McDannel. 785-1369. flcc.edu/.
Art Events [ THU., APRIL 9 ] Hidden Passions: Inspiring Conversations about Hyphenated Lives. April 9, 7 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Agustin Ramos and Emma Lo Free. 276-8900. mag.rochester. edu/. [ SAT., APRIL 11 ] International Slow Art Day. April 11, 1 p.m. Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. 461-2222. info@ rochestercontemporary.org. rochestercontemporary.org. New Works by Judy and Peter Gohringer. April 11, 12-4 p.m. Gohringer Studios, 250 N Goodman St. Contemporary paintings and sculpture facebooks.com//judy. gohringer.1?fref=ts. Walking Home Backwards. April 11, 7 p.m. Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. A selection of 16mm and digital video works 442-8676. vsw.org. [ TUE., APRIL 14 ] The Glory of Old Monroe: Rochester in the Civil War. April 14, 7 p.m. Dept of Rare books and Special Collections, Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester River Campus 2754461. rochester.edu.
Comedy [ THU., APRIL 9 ] Mitch Fatel. April 9, 7:30 p.m. Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd Webster $12-$20. 671-9080. thecomedyclub.us. [ FRI., APRIL 10 ] 2nd Annual Gilda’s Cup Collegiate Comedy Improv Competition. April 10, 6-9:30 p.m. St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Ave $2-$5. primagroup.wix.com/gildascup. Geva Comedy Improv: TV on Stage. April 10, 8:30 p.m. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd $10. 232-4382. gevacomedyimprov.org/. [ SAT., APRIL 11 ] Nuts & Bolts Comedy Improv Presents: F--- Frosty, A Springtime Celebration. April 11, 8-9:30 p.m. Spotlight Studios, 3 Railroad Street . Fairport $10. (585) 3054767. johnb@spotlightarts.com.
Dance Events [ SAT., APRIL 11 ] White Elephant Burlesque Dinner Show. April 11, 7 p.m. Radisson Riverside Hotel, 120 East Main St. $20-$60, purchase by April 1 315-677-9395. rochestereroticartfest.org. [ SUN., APRIL 12 ] Zydeco Dancing. April 12, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Tango Cafe, 35 South Washington St $5. 747-8462. rochesterzydeco.com.
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[ WED., APRIL 8 ] Living Downstream: Screening and Discussion. April 8, 7-9 p.m. Gandhi House, 929 S. Plymouth Ave A film about people and land, cancer and environment 831-1842. gandhiinstitute.org/. Nazareth College Hosts Screening of Award-Winning Film, Beginning with the End. April 8, 6-9 p.m. Nazareth College Shults Center, 4245 East Ave. naz.edu. [ FRI., APRIL 10 ] A Thin Wall. April 10, 7-9:30 p.m. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue $10 -$12. 258-0400. https://thelittle.org/films/thin-wall. [ TUE., APRIL 14 ] The Hunting Ground. April 14, 7 p.m. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue thelittle.org/.
Kids Events [ SAT., APRIL 11 ] Click, Clack, Peep. April 11, 11 a.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St The stories of Doreen Cronin. $5. 637-2260. liftbridgebooks.com. Movie: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. April 11, 11 a.m.12:30 p.m. Central Library, Children’s Center, 115 South Ave. 428-8150. libraryweb.org. Superhero Weekend. April 11-12. The Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square 2632700. museumofplay.org/.
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Lectures [ WED., APRIL 8 ] Balancing Security, Liberty, and Privacy in a Post 9/11 World. April 8, 7-8:30 p.m. Ingle Auditorium at RIT, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive Presented by Richard Clarke 475-2057. rit.edu/. The Militanat Baker: An Evening with Jes Baker. April 8, 7-8 p.m. First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd $30. 271-9070. rochesterunitarian.org/. [ THU., APRIL 9 ] Tending the Gardens of our Lives: Queer Temporality and Pastoral Care. April 9, 7-8 p.m. Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, 1100 S. Goodman St Presented by Rev. Patrick Cheng. 3409643. rcds.edu. JC Wynn Lecture: Sustaining Our Place in God’s Time: Meeting the Incarnation at the Garden. April 9, 1:30-2:30 p.m. Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, 1100 S. Goodman St Presented by Gail O’Day 340-9643crcds. edu/spring-lecture-week/. The Problem of ‘Private Language’: John Locke through the Work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.. April 9, 7 p.m. The Bertrand Russell Society, 740 University Ave Presented by John Walsh wab.org. [ SAT., APRIL 11 ] Curator Talk. April 11, 1 p.m. The Seward House Museum, 33 South St, Auburn Presented by Matthew Mac Vittie 315-2521283. sewardhouse.org. [ SUN., APRIL 12 ] Community Discussion: Black LIives Matter. April 12, 3-5 p.m. First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd 483-0775. rochesterunitarian.org. Rochester: Then and Now Through City Photographs. April
RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS NEEDED FOR AN INVESTIGATIONAL TRIAL FOR SCALP OR FACIAL PRECANCERS FILM | RCTV’S OUTPUT FILM AND MEDIA FESTIVAL
On Monday, April 13, and Tuesday, April 14, the Cinema Theater (957 South Clinton Avenue) will once again host the annual Output Film and Media Festival. With a lineup curated by the board of directors at RCTV (Rochester’s public access television station), the festival provides two solid evenings worth of entertaining and informative films that give audiences just a small sampling of some of the best, well, output from our city’s community of media producers. The two nights will feature 18 works by locals. Full disclosure: I was involved with the production of one of the films scheduled to screen at the festival.
Study participation approximately 8 weeks Contact Skin Search of Rochester, Inc. 100 White Spruce Boulevard Rochester, NY 14623 585 697 1818 or email Skinsearch@DermRochester.com
The Cinema’s box office will open at 6:30 p.m., with the show set to begin at 7 p.m., and a discussion with attending filmmakers will conclude each night’s screenings. Admission to the event is free. More information at rctvmediacenter.org or call 325-1238. — BY ADAM LUBITOW 12, 2-3 p.m. Central Library of Rochester, Rundel Auditorium, 115 South Ave 428-8370. libraryweb.org/lh. Sunday Forum: Fresh Water: The Importance of the Great Lakes. April 12, 9:45-10:45 a.m. Downtown United Presbyterian Church, 121 N. Fitzhugh Street 325-4000. downtownpresbyterian.org. [ TUE., APRIL 14 ] Philanthropy With a Purpose: A Look at What George Eastman Supported. April 14, 7-8:30 p.m. Greece Public Library, 2 Vince Tofany Blvd. Presented
by Kathleen A. Connor $2 Donation. 225-3760. greecehistoricalsociety.net. Design Conversations: Pastor Jared Stahler. April 14, 4:45 p.m. University Gallery, James R. Booth Hall, RIT, Lomb Memorial Dr The Vignelli Design for St. Peter’s Church. 475-2404. jleugs@rit.edu. vignellicenter. rit.edu/. Health, Social, Moral & Financial Impacts of HPV: The Role of the Vaccine. April 14, 6-8 p.m. Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Ave continues on page 22 rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 21
ART | “PRETTY PAIN: NEW WORKS BY LEA”
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FESTIVAL | ROCHESTER EROTIC ARTS FESTIVAL
Way back in 2008, 1975 Gallery’s first show featured three talented emerging artists: Sarah C. Rutherford, Adam Francey, and Lea Rizzo (artwork pictured). All three have since been featured as WALL\THERAPY muralists, two have a successful practice as tattoo artists (Francey and Rizzo), two are members of the Sweet Meat Co. artist collective (Rutherford and Rizzo), and two co-founded The Yards Collaborative Art Space in 2011 (Rutherford and Rizzo).
Rochester Deaf Rotary Club is holding a fundraising event that involves speaking in sign language and drinking in wine-language. Wine and beer tastings, hors d’oeuvres, desserts, raffles, and a silent auction will provide the backdrop for socializing at this gathering at Holiday Inn. Any who are interested in improving their signing fluency can attend a beginner ASL lesson held an hour before the event. Wine and Culture will fund the purchase of a ShelterBox, which provides emergency housing and supplies for displaced families in disaster-relief areas. Tickets can be purchased online, by mail, or in person at the event. All attendees must be over 21 years old.
Whatever your kink, the Rochester Erotic Arts Festival is all about taking some time to slow down and letting the art of sexuality sink in. This year’s two-day festival will feature the White Elephant Burlesque Society — known for its body positivity and social commentary, while being steam-hot — the REAF debut of the Rochester Gay Men’s Chorus, RIT’s Eight Beat Measure, Aerial Arts, Bombshell Belly Dance, Drag King Revue, Tangents Pole Aerobics, and Saraswati’s Sisters. The festival will also feature a Hot Rod Betties Fashion Show; an annual favorite, The Rope Fashion Show; and around 30 workshops, including Sex Ed for Adventurous Adults, burlesque, and five workshops especially for artists — ranging from drawing and photography to writing. On Saturday evening things turn up a notch with the Erotic Playground and the Erotic Masquerade ball.
All these years later, each of the three have recently returned to 1975 with a solo showing of current work. The final in the trio of shows, “Pretty Pain: New Works by Lea,” opens Saturday, April 11, and will offer a glimpse into the artist’s process, and feature blends of tattoo style with lovely illustrative portraiture. Her work often features dreamy pin-up dolls, beautifully phrased sentiments in stylized script, and mythic hybrids of humans and animals. Here, she’ll also spotlight some familiar faces and their iconic ink. The opening reception will take place 7 to 10 p.m., and the show will continue through May 1. Learn more and RSVP to the event at http://on.fb.me/1HIHy39. Preview teasers of the work on Instagram: @lea_yolanda or search #prettypain1975 on your favorite social media channels. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
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[ FRI., APRIL 10 ] RBA: Owl Woods Woodcock Courtship Flight Field Trip. April 10, 7 p.m. 467-2474. rochesterbirding.com.
Literary Events [ THU., APRIL 9 ] Novelist Boris Fishman. April 9, 12:15-1 p.m. Nazareth College Golisano Academic Center, 4245 East Ave. naz.edu. Public Reading and Book Signing: Boris Fishman. April 9, 7:30 p.m. School of the Arts, 45 Prince St $8-$10. 242-7682. wab.org/boris-fishman-debutnovel-series/. [ FRI., APRIL 10 ] Visiting Novelist: Boris Fishman. April 10, 7:30 p.m. Writers and Books, 740 University Ave Free, registration required. wab.org
Meetings [ THU., APRIL 9 ] Highland Park Volunteer Meeting. April 9, 6:30 p.m. Highland Park Conservatory, 180 Reservoir Rd. mailto:srodio71@yahoo.com.
Recreation [ WED., APRIL 8 ] RocCity Poker Foundation’s Turbo for Tour Spring Event Kickoff Poker Tournament. April 8, 7-11 p.m. Main Street Armory, 900 22 CITY APRIL 8-14, 2015
[ SAT., APRIL 11 ] 10th Annual UR Well 5K. April 11, 9-10:30 a.m. Genesee Valley Park, Elmwood Ave. $15$25. 683-5734. wizathon.com/ urwell5k. Leonardo da Vinci’s Birthday Cake-Off. April 11, 4 p.m. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. View and taste cake art Included w/ museum admission. 271-4230. rmsc.org. [ SUN., APRIL 12 ] April Tour. April 12, 1 p.m. Mount Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mt. Hope Avenue $5. 6213529. fomh.org/. Annual We-Tri Indoor Triathlon. April 12, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Eastside Family YMCA, 1835 Fairport Nine Mile Point Rd 341-4023. rochesterymca. org/2015we-tri.
Special Events [ THU., APRIL 9 ] Casa Larga Girlfriends Night Out: Gardening Tips. April 9, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Casa Larga Vineyards, 2287 Turk Hill Rd Fairport $20-$25. 223-4210. casalarga.com/events.
Wine and Culture is on Sunday, April 12, at the Holiday Inn Airport, 911 Brooks Avenue. 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. (ASL lesson at 2 p.m.). $25 (non-alcohol tickets $20). deafrotary.com. — BY JONATHAN MEAD VIP Viewing of Master’s Golf Tournament. April 9, 5:30-7 p.m. The Beer Market at College Town, 1401 Mt.Hope Avenue $5. 585-244-2337. rochesteralist.com/events/. [ FRI., APRIL 10 ] 4th Annual Slut Walk. April 10, 5 p.m. Liberty Pole, Main, East, & Franklin Streets 353-0909. slutwalkrochester@gmail.com. [ SAT., APRIL 11 ] 2nd Annual Rochester Stained Glass Window Tour. April 11, 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 111 N Chestnut St. $50. 750-4368. stacyfox06@ gmail.com. facebook.com/ events/1601263510105451/. Bavarian Night. April 11, 6 p.m. Holy Trinity Church, 1460 Ridge Rd . Webster Almdudler Trio. $5$8. 247-4625. bvarochester.org. BRAWL Spring Fling. April 11, 8 p.m. Skylark Lounge, 40 South Union St $5. 270-8106. https:// rochesterbrawl.wordpress.com/. It Works: Give Back to Zambia. April 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. RCCM Arts/Colors Studios, 208 Goodman St. 802-8683. cara@ colorsstudios.com. facebook. com/kristi.koons.1. Man’s Field Day & Homebrew Competition. April 11, 12-5 p.m. Three Brothers Wineries & Estates, 623 Lerch Rd., Geneva $20. 315-585-4432. Michaela@3brotherswinery. com. facebook. com/3BrothersWineries. [ SUN., APRIL 12 ] Bow Ball Fundraiser for Genesee Rowing Club. April 12, 4-8 p.m. Good Luck, 50 Anderson Ave. $75. 340-6161. geneseerowingclub.com. English Tea. April 12, 2 p.m. Morgan-Manning House, 151 Main St $20-$25, reservations
by March 31. 637-3645. morganmanninghouse.org/. Gothic Cathedral Tour. April 12, 2 p.m. St. Michael’s Church, 869 N. Clinton Ave Free, donations accepted 325-4041. sfxcrochester.org/. PintAsana: Yoga + Brew. 11 a.m.-noon. The Lost Borough Brewing Co., 543 Atlantic Ave $18. 471-8122. SOLEsearchin: Shoe Expo. April 12, noon. Main Street Armory, 900 E. Main St. $10-$25. 232-3221. rochestermainstreetarmory.com. Speak Out Rochester. April 12, 12:30-5 p.m. Hilda D. Taylor Recital Hall at the Hochstein School of Music and Dance, 50 N. Plymouth Avenue 315-6480. speakoutny@yahoo.com.
Sports [ SAT., APRIL 11 ] En Garde! Fencing at the Library. April 11, 1-2 p.m. Central Library, 115 South Ave. 428-8140. libraryweb.org.
Theater Bikinis. April 10-30. Downstairs Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place Through April 30. Preview: Fri. April 10, 8 p.m., Fri. April 17 & 14, 8 p.m., Sat. April 11, 8 p.m., Thurs, April 16, 23, & 30, 7 p.m., Sat. April 18 & 25, 4 & 8 p.m $26-$29. 325-4370. downstairscabaret.com. Diversions & Delights: Oscar Wilde Returns to Rochester. April 9-12. Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St Through April 12. Fri. April 9, 7:30 p.m., Sat. April 11, 2 p.m., and Sun April 12, 6 p.m $20-$25. 454-1260. blackfriars.org. Dogfight: The Musical. April 8-11, 8 p.m. SUNY Geneseo Alice Austin Theatre, 1 College Circle . Geneseo April 8-11, 8:00 p.m. A musical about the power
The Rochester Erotic Arts Festival will take place Friday, April 10, and Saturday, April 11, at the Radisson Riverside Hotel, 120 East Main Street. 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Friday; 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturday. $25 per day at the door. Only for those 18 and older. Rochestereroticartfest.org. — BY JAKE CLAPP of compassion, empathy, and, finally, redemption. Set in San Francisco on November 21, 1963. Ages 15+. $15. 245-5824. vendini.com. An Evening of Culture: Faith County II. April 10-12. St. John Fisher College, Cleary Auditorium, 3690 East Ave Through April 12. Fri. and Sat. April 11 & 12, 7 p.m., and Sun. April 12, 2 p.m. Presented by the Fisher Players $5. 385-8000. fisherplayers@sjfc.edu. The Libation Bearers. April 1026. Bread & Water Theatre, 172 West Main St Through April 26. Fri. and Sat. April 10-11, 17-18 & 24-25, 7:30 p.m. and Sun. April 19 & 26, 2 p.m 271-5523. breadandwatertheatre.org. Mountaintop. Through April 26. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd Through April 26.Sun. April 12, & 19, 2 & 7 p.m., Wed. April 8, 7:30 p.m., Thurs. April 9, 7:30 p.m., Fri. April 10, 17, & 24, 8 p.m. Sat. April 11, 18, & 25, 4 & 8:30 p.m., Sun. April 26, 2 p.m. Dramatic, magical storytelling gives insight into King, the man, and reaches a summit that will leave audiences breathless $25+. 232-4382. ge. The Price is Right Live. Thu., April 9, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Rochester Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. $29.50. 800-745-3000. mail@rbtl.org. rbtl.org. Richard II. April 10-25. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Through April 25. Fri. April 10, 17, & 24, 7:30 p.m. Sat. April 11, 18, & 25, 7:30 p.m., Sun. April 12 & 19, 2 p.m. Shakespeare’s masterful drama of a king who lost his throne and gained insight into
his soul $9-$19. 866-8114111. muccc.org. The Secret Garden. April 10-19. Callahan Theater at Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave Through April 19. Fri. and Sat. April 10, 11, 17, & 18, 8 p.m., and Sun. April 12 & 19, 2 p.m. A young orphaned girl is relocated to England where she finds herself in caring for a garden 389-2170. artcenter. naz.edu. The Taming of the Shrew. April 9-25. Todd Theatre, University of Rochester, River Campus Through April 25. Thurs., Fri. and Sat. April 9-11 & 15-18, 8 p.m. Sun. April 12, 18, 35, 2 p.m. Gender-bending adaptation of Shakespeare using an all-male cast 275-4088rochester.edu/theatre. Traveling Cabaret: An Evening of Song, Dance, and Comedy. Sun., April 12, 2 p.m. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. 784-5300.
Workshops [ SAT., APRIL 11 ] How to Introduce Honeybees into a Hive. April 11, 1-3 p.m. Hansen Nature Center, 1525 Calkins Rd. Free, donations accepted. 359-7044. rochesterbeekeepers.com/.
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One last job “Furious 7”
existing footage while properly honoring a man who died in a high-speed car crash. And it’s no (PG-13), DIRECTED BY JAMES WAN surprise that Walker’s ghost looms large over the NOW PLAYING finished product, as it should. But the often elegiac atmosphere (please try [ REVIEW ] BY DAYNA PAPALEO and keep up with the big words, Vin Diesel) in no way detracts from the relentlessly entertaining How’s tricks, Vin Diesel? I hope you’re not tired “Furious 7,” which somehow one-ups previous of my letters. I manage to confine them to one “F&F” installments in terms of gravity-defying every two years, because all I want to talk about set pieces, stupid dialogue, juicy girl-butts, and with you (or with anyone, really) are the “Fast emotional heart. and Furious” movies. You’ll remember that we The brilliant coda to “Furious 6” tied the originally had plans for July 2014, until your coliberal “F&F” chronology together (it kind of star Paul Walker’s untimely death during a break goes 1-2-4-5-6-3 and now 7, right?) and set the from filming the latest chapter set into motion a stage for a swaggering Jason Statham as Deckard mad, sad scramble to rework the story and salvage Shaw, intent on avenging his brother. With a seemingly limitless travel budget, Shaw heads to Los Angeles to steal some information and temporarily incapacitate Agent Hobbs (the colossal Dwayne Johnson), then he’s off to deal with that nasty business in Tokyo, then it’s back to L.A. to begin facing off against your Dom Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, and Kurt Russell in “Furious 7.” PHOTO COURTESY Toretto and his crew. UNIVERSAL PICTURES
And then everyone convenes in Azerbaijan because the awesome Kurt Russell says so. You got Snake Plissken himself as Mr. Nobody, a government spook who supplies the gang with an excuse to parachute cars into the Caucasus Mountains, save a gorgeous hacker, and use her skills to get the drop on the elusive Shaw. Yes, Vin Diesel, I’m thumbnailing your own plot for you, but it’s just so deliciously ridiculous. In 15 years a gaggle of dopey gearheads have morphed into an elite spy squad? I get that “Furious 7” is more turbocharged Mexican soap opera than Wiseman documentary, but the Abu Dhabi interlude drives this point home. In one opulent room MMA goddess Ronda Rousey and Michelle Rodriguez’s still-amnesiac Letty tussle in evening gowns, while Toretto and Walker’s Brian O’Conner cannon a million-dollar HyperSport between the upper floors of three luxury highrises. “Cars don’t fly,” O’Conner worriedly mentions to Toretto in midair, echoing the words imparted earlier to O’Conner’s little boy during playtime. But they did before, they do now, and come the killer conclusion, when Toretto lures the action back to the home-field advantage of L.A., they will again. Director Justin Lin can be credited with jumpstarting the franchise after reuniting your main quartet for 2009’s “Fast & Furious,” and as “Insidious” director James Wan takes the “Furious 7” reins, “F&F” is arguably the most lucrative property — excepting Bond,
The kids aren’t alright “While We’re Young” (R), DIRECTED BY NOAH BAUMBACH OPENS FRIDAY, APRIL 17, AT THE LITTLE AND PITTSFORD CINEMA [ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW
maybe — in Hollywood. Basically, screenwriter Chris Morgan and his predecessors realized nonwhite people enjoy movies, too, and respectfully reflecting its multicultural audience on the screen equates to a license to print money. (The stunning machinery, massive explosions, breathtaking collateral damage, and impossibly sexy cast don’t hurt, either.) Of course, the all-things-to-allpeople conceit sometimes means that members of this rainbow coalition get short shrift, like Lucas Black briefly reprising his starring role from “Tokyo Drift,” the dashing Djimon Hounsou as a bellowing warlord, or Muay Thai legend Tony Jaa as a persistent henchman. Oh, Vin Diesel, I’m not going to sit here and pretend I ever thought Paul Walker was a good actor; the kindest thing I could say was that he had been getting better, but, man, was that bar low. If I’m being honest, none of you are that great — I do miss Sung Kang as Han — yet the entrenched and undeniable chemistry among Dom Toretto and the friends he calls family have always made the “F&F” flicks more than the sum of their noisy parts. (Walker’s brothers standing in for reshoots, while not quite seamless, underscore the franchise’s reliance upon the notion of family.) And it’s this raw sentimentality that earns the very real tears brought upon by a denouement that’s both surprisingly tasteful and absolutely bittersweet. So until next time, Vin Diesel, ride or die. Your friend … I mean family, Dayna
It’s always been the prerogative of older generations to look upon the younger with a mix of disdain, apprehension, and occasional horror. As impossible as it is to pinpoint the exact moment when one transitions into the other, the growing sense of a younger generation nipping at your heels is an inevitable part of getting older. The quote from Henrik Ibsen’s “The Master Builder” that opens writer-director Noah Baumbach’s “While We’re Young” reminds us that this fist-shaking “kids today” mindset was already a thing way back in 1892. An intergenerational comedy of manners that pokes at our collective anxieties about aging, “While We’re Young” follows the friendship between two New York couples: middle-aged Generation-Xers Josh (Ben Stiller, prickly as ever) and Cornelia (Naomi Watts), and 20-something hipster bohemians Jamie (Adam Driver) and his wife Darby (Amanda Seyfried), who crash Josh’s documentary film class and end up charming their way into the lives of the older couple.
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts in “While We’re Young.” PHOTO COURTESY A24
Josh and Cornelia have felt themselves drifting away from their friends, most of whom have become consumed with the responsibilities of parenthood. Josh and Cornelia’s closest friends, played by Maria Dizzia and Adam Horovitz (also known as Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys) are the most recent casualties to have been sucked into the quicksand of adulthood. That a member of a hip-hop group so notorious for raging against parental authority is now a dad with salt-and-pepper hair and a baby strapped to his chest is more than just a cute joke, it’s basically the movie’s thesis. Josh and Cornelia’s own attempts at children have ended in miscarriages and discouragement, and they’ve gradually given up on the idea completely. Maybe it’s better this way, they think: being childless in New York grants them a freedom their peers will never see again. As Josh and Cornelia strike up a friendship with Jamie and Darby, they find themselves equally invigorated by and envious of the retro-chic existence of their youthful counterparts. With the younger couple’s encouragement, they enroll in hip-hop classes, take up bicycling, and participate in an ayahuasca ceremony in which they ingest hallucinogens as part of a vomit-filled cleansing ritual. It’s enough to get them out of the rut they’ve been stuck in and excited about the possibilities that life has to offer. But of course the honeymoon can’t last. A one-time documentary filmmaker, Josh has been tinkering with his current project for pushing a decade, and over the years it’s grown into a six-hour monstrosity; the type that requires him to tie himself in knots whenever he’s asked to pinpoint exactly what it’s “about.” He’s rejected any advice given to him by Cornelia’s father (underplayed nicely by Charles Grodin), a revered documentarian in the mold of Frederick Wiseman, whom Josh resents and respects in equal measure. Baumbach suggests that Josh’s insular nature is part of the problem, and the film becomes in part
about him learning to be more of a collaborator. An aspiring filmmaker in his own right, Jamie stumbles on an intriguing idea for a documentary, convincing Josh to mentor him as he puts it to film. As their partnership evolves, the film slowly morphs into an examination of the sometimes dubious ethical boundaries of the younger generations. “While We’re Young” transcends a potentially sitcom-y premise with a sharp tone and witty observations about generational appropriation, the nature of authenticity, and the blurry line between truth and fiction. The third act, in which Josh becomes preoccupied with proving that Jamie’s a fraud, allows a little too much of Baumbach’s own righteous anger to bubble to the surface; it comes across as the director wagging his finger, and he wants those youngsters off his lawn, dammit. But this is a minor complaint in a film that maintains a mostly light touch while delivering some sharp insights. As a filmmaker, Baumbach has always been preoccupied with characters who have trouble taking the next step toward adulthood, whether that be the adolescents living with their parents’ bitter divorce in “The Squid and the Whale” or the funk of post-college young adulthood faced by the characters in “Kicking and Screaming” and the director’s wonderful “Frances Ha.” That film in particular reveled in its character’s self-absorption, but was ultimately a more fair-minded and sympathetic depiction of the millennial generation. That Jamie doesn’t come across as a complete cartoon is a testament to Driver’s likeable screen presence. Watts deliverers her loosest, funniest performance in years, and though Seyfried is good, her character suffers from not being as sharply defined as those around her. In depicting these battles between the generations, “While We’re Young” understands that all-too-familiar feeling that no matter our age, we’re all just pretending to be grownups.
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Film Previews Full film reviews available at rochestercitynewspaper.com. [ OPENING ] DANNY COLLINS (R): Al Pacino stars as an aging rock star who decides to change his hardliving ways when he discovers an undelivered 40-year old letter written to him by John Lennon. Annette Bening, Bobby Cannavale, Jennifer Garner, and Christopher Plummer. Little, Pittsford DODSWORTH (1936): In this acclaimed adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel, a retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a longplanned European vacation only to discover that they want very different things from life. Dryden (Tue, Apr 14, 8 p.m.) FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE (1970): Two escaped convicts flee an unnamed Latin American country, but are pursued by a menacingly mysterious black helicopter. Starring Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell. Dryden (Sat, Apr 11, 8 p.m.) FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965): Clint Eastwood’s gunslinger returns in Sergio Leone’s sequel to “Fistful of Dollars,” this time facing off against a bounty hunter in pursuit of a wanted fugitive. Dryden (Sun, Apr 12, 2 p.m.) THE GREEN BERETS (1968): John Wayne stars as colonel who assembles two teams of crack Green Berets for a dangerous mission in South Vietnam in this much-maligned war drama. Dryden (Wed, Apr 8, 8 p.m.) THE HUNTING GROUND (PG13): This documentary acts as an exposé of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families. A panel discussion with representatives from local universities will follow this screening. Little (Mon, Apr 14, 7 p.m.) JULIET OF THE SPIRITS (1956): Visions, memories, and mysticism provide a 40-something housewife an escape from her cheating husband and crumbling marriage in Federico Fellini’s Technicolor dramedy. Dryden (Fri, Apr 10, 8 p.m.) THE LONGEST RIDE (PG-13): In this latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks crime against literature, the lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while recovering from an automobile crash. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster TELL ME TONIGHT (1932): An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager in this early talkie. Dryden (Mon, Apr 13, 1:30 p.m.) A THIN WALL (NR): Local filmmaker Mara Ahmed focuses on the lingering effects the partitioning of India had on her family and the country as a whole in this lyrically non-linear documentary. Little (Fri, Apr 10, 7 p.m.) TOPOPHILIA (2015): This documentary serves as an exploration of the built and 26 CITY APRIL 8-14, 2015
natural environments along the 800-mile length of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the most historically productive oil routes in the United States. Dryden (Thu, Apr 9, 8 p.m.) WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL? (2013): A renegade film crew becomes embroiled with a yakuza clan feud in Japanese director Sion Sono cartoonishly violent ode to gonzo cinema. Little (Fri, Apr 10, 10 p.m.) WOMAN IN GOLD (PG-13): Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds star in this true story of an octogenarian Jewish refugee who takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes was stolen from her family during the Holocaust. Culver, Eastview, Greece, Little, Pittsford [ CONTINUING ] AMERICAN SNIPER (R): Clint Eastwood directs the true story of Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in American history. Starring Bradley Cooper. Tinseltown, CHAPPIE (R): In the near future, crime is patrolled by an mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself. With Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver, and Dev Patel. Movies 10 CINDERELLA (PG): The classic fairy tale gets a lavish adaptation from director Kenneth Branagh. Starring Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden, and Helena Bonham Carter. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Vintage Drive In EFFIE GRAY (PG-13): Based on actual events, this period drama written by Emma Thompson follows a young newlywed (Dakota Fanning) navigating the challenges of Victorian society while carrying on an affair with a painter! A PAINTER of all things! Little, Pittsford FURIOUS 7 (PG-13): Do you really need a plot synopsis for this? Is there even a plot? Cars drive fast (and furious), things go boom. With Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jason Statham. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Vintage Drive In, Webster GET HARD (R): Will Ferrell stars as a millionaire bank managers convicted of fraud, who hired the man who washes his car (Kevin Hart) to toughen him up in his final days of freedom. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Vintage Drive In, Webster THE GUNMAN (R): An aging assassin wants out of the game in order to settle down, but the organization he worked for has other plans. Don’t they always. Starring Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Javier Bardem, and Ray Winstone. Culver, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster HOME (PG): In this animated adventure film, an alien on the run from his home plane lands on Earth and befriends an resourceful young girl. With the
voices of Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin, and Jennifer Lopez. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Vintage Drive In, Webster THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 (PG-13): The first part of the final chapter of the “Hunger Games” series sees Katniss Everdeen journey to the mysterious District 13 and join their war against the capitol. Movies 10 INSURGENT (PG-13): In the second installment of the “Divergent” series, heroic Tris and Four find themselves fugitives on the run from the malevolent leaders of their futuristic society. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster INTERSTELLAR (PG-13): Christopher Nolan directs this sci-fi epic, about a group of explorers sent to space to save humanity from an Earth deprived of resources. Starring Matthew Mcconaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain. Movies 10 IT FOLLOWS (R): After a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, a young girl finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Culver, Greece, Little, Henrietta, Tinseltown KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (R): A top secret spy organization recruits an unrefined street kid into the agency’s competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. Starring Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, and Michael Caine. Culver, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown KUMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER (NR): A lonely Japanese woman becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried in the film “Fargo” is real, and travels to America to find it. Little THE LAZARUS EFFECT (PG-13): A team of research students bring a dead colleague back to life, with horrifying results. Starring Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, Donald Glover, and Evan Peters. Culver MCFARLAND, USA (PG): A track coach in a small California town transforms a team of athletes into championship contenders. Starring Kevin Costner. Canandaigua RUN ALL NIGHT (R): Liam Neeson stars as a hit man who has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son or his mob boss best friend, who wants to make him pay for the death of his own son. Canandaigua, Vintage Drive In THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG): Catch up with nearly the entire staff of Hogwarts as they find a late-inlife renaissance at a rustic Jaipur hotel. Starring Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, and Dev Patel. Canandaigua, Henrietta, Little, Pittsford
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Cozy Colonial Revival on Collingwood 58 Collingwood Drive As St. Paul Boulevard weaves its way northward along the eastern banks of the Genesee River, it passes over what was once a grand roundabout at the beginning of Veterans Bridge and arrives at the entrance of Seneca Park, one of our many treasured Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks. Directly across the boulevard is the northern terminus of the El Camino Trail and Collingwood Drive, one of several residential streets to be developed along St. Paul Boulevard in the vicinity of Seneca Park in the 1920s. The home at 58 Collingwood Drive was built by the original owners Raymond and Myrtle Vogler in 1925 to unsigned plans that still remain with the house. Ray was a machinist at the Kodak Hawkeye Building and passed away unexpectedly in 1933. Myrtle remained in their house until finally selling in 1974. The beautifully landscaped grounds frame the eclectic Colonial Revival exterior and lead you from the tree-lined street to an elegant arched overhang above the shallow brick stoop. Entering into the vestibule, a geometric leaded glass door leads to the light-filled living room; to your left a pair of French doors lead to the exterior front porch complete with built-in trellises. The decorative fireplace flanked by built-in bookcases and leaded glass windows on the far wall is the highlight of the room, while directly opposite, a broad arch frames the stair to the second floor with another geometric leaded glass window. Through a pair of folding leaded glass doors, the dining room impresses with stained
gumwood woodwork and gleaming oak floors (found throughout the house). A bay window and another decorative leaded glass window provide ample light, while a small powder room behind a paneled door provides convenience. The kitchen is large and generous for a house this size and features high quality cabinetry, granite counters, an island for gathering, and access to the side entry and basement stairs. Proceeding upstairs another leaded glass door at the landing provides added privacy. Natural light is abundant in each of the three unique bedrooms and shared bathroom. One has a built-in armoire and a sleeping porch; the master features its own dressing room and the attic stairs. The attic has ample storage and has been professionally finished as a perfect informal den. The basement is clean, dry, and has some bonus utilities, with a tankless hot water heater and back-up generator system. The spacious backyard is a quiet landscaped oasis with a raised rear deck near the two-car detached garage and separate shed. This 1,322 square foot home is a polished gem that has it all. Contact Dennis Price of Nothnagle Realtors at 585-509-2003 for more information, and make it yours for $139,900. by Christopher Brandt Christopher is an Intern Architect at Bero Architecture PLLC and longtime Landmark Society volunteer.
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Legal Ads [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Notice of formation of a limited liability company (LLC). Name: GB Keller Holdings, LLC. Article of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on April 3, 2015 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 the LLC, 7 Country Meadow Way, Hilton NY 14468. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. [ LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION ] The LLC name is Finger Lakes Medicinals LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on February 25, 2015. 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 7 Woodfield Drive, Webster, New York 14580. The LLC is managed by one or more managers. [ LLC NOTICE OF FORMATION ] The name of the LLC is Reese Environmental Consulting, LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on March 24, 2015. 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 8 Osage Trail, Spencerport, New York 14559. The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Cambre Kitchens & Bath LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/04/15 location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 233 Alpine Rd, Rochester, NY 14612 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ]
Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] 1985 Searay HIN SERT2202D585. Gerald J. Wiggins. Date of Auction 04/16/15, 1:00 pm. @ Voyager Boat Sales. [ NOTICE ] 93 Energy LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 2/24/15. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 182 Pomona Dr. Rochester, NY 14616. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Bmar Holdings, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/5/15. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 92 East Main St. Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Boutin Enterprises, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 02/24/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Bunker NVA LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 5/30/12. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 111 Lafayette Rd., Rochester, NY 14609. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] CARLA M. CRUZ, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/23/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Carla M. Cruz Torres, 471 North St., Rochester, NY 14605. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ]
Notice of Formation of Farmhouse Table LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/10/2015. 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 4892 St. Paul Blvd.
Everyday Apothecary LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 2/5/15. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 137 Long Pond Rd. Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful activity.
[ NOTICE ] HOPSHARVESTER LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on March 30, 2015. LLC’s office is in Monroe County. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 185 Langpap Road, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] JIMMY JAZZ GREECE RIDGE LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 1/29/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 271 Greece Ridge Center Dr., Rochester, NY 14626. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] KAIA EARTH LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/19/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Stefano Daza Arango, 277 Alexander St., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14607. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] LITTLE GUPPIES CHILDCARE LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 1/26/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 25 Parnell Dr., Churchville, NY 14428. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Apogee Forest LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Arctic Battery LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt.
upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Blazer Somewhere LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/5/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Cayenne Etiquette LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/5/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Cloud Echo LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 2/23/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: East Kitchen LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Edifice Drive LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/5/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Fantail Ventures LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept.
of State: 2/27/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Handstand Unit LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Ice Blue Pelican LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/5/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Keen Transfer LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Kiwi Electric LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 2/27/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Lexington Pepper LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt.
upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Lighthouse Chief LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Lotus Pinwheel LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Marvel Enterprise LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 2/27/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Merchant Verse LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/5/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Neon Derby LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Nexus 27 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of
State: 2/23/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Norwich Crest LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 2/23/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Office Mirror LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Ornate Balance LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Parchment Beatle LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/5/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Pike Elephant LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt.
upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Pogo Marketing LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/5/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Portis Branch LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/2/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Radical Topside LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/5/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Seven Type Media LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 2/23/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Signature Foundry LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Tandem Southboard LLC. Arts. of
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Legal Ads > page 31 Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/5/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act.
Consumption Liquor License for MOJCK LLC Vic’s Place [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation MDhillon Trucking, LLC Art. of Org. filed sec’y of state (SSNY) 03/18/2015. Office: Monroe County designation as process agent. Addr: 12 Haywards Heath W. Henrietta NY 14586. Purpose: any lawful activity.
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Name of LLC: Tartan Ring LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act.
Notice of Formation of AmberKnot LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/17/2015. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 21 Edgerton St Rochester NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Notice of Formation of Hurricanes-Lacrosse, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/23/14. 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 United States Corporation Agents, INC 7014 13TH Ave Suite 202 Brooklyn NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Name of LLC: Terrapin Footprint LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/4/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Top September LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 3/5/15. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of APG Property Management, LLC. Art, Of Org. filed 1216-14. County: Monroe. SSNY designated as agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 16 Evergreen Drive, Rochester, NY 14624, Purpose any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license, pending, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Beer & Wine retail in a Restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at: 4671 Culver Rd, Rochester, NY 14622 - On Premises
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[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Labs of Love, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/11/14 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 3956 Canal Road Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Nu- Image Consulting, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/04/2015. 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 1116 North Clinton Ave, Rochester, New York 14621. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 150 North Clinton LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/15/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy
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of process to 150 N. Clinton Ave., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 2695 Apartments LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/2/15. 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 7 Auker St., Rochester, NY 14608. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 3D Ceiling Art, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State on February 24, 2015. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. The New York Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of such process to 114 Longmeadow Drive, Rochester, New York 14621. The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of A & C Cleaning Services, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03/04/2015. 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 62 Melville Street, Rochester, New York 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Acorn Hill, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/25/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 22 Autumn Wood, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Bison Properties, LLC. Art. of Org filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/18/2015. 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 140 Hurstbourne Road, Rochester, New York 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BLUE SKY LOGISTICS, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/03/2014, Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 22 Stratford Pk Rochester, NY 14611. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Bright Real Estate LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/23/2015. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 26 Irving Rd, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: real estate renting, buying and selling. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Buon Sentiero LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03/05/2015. 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 815 W. Whitney Rd, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of C.A. Restaurant Ra Cha Cha LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/19/2015. 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, 264 Winbourne Rd., Rochester, NY 14619. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Chavez Trucking Company, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/03/14. 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 c/o United State Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Cornerstone Building Services LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/14/15. 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 40 Barclay Sq. Dr., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CRANBERRY CARE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/05/14. 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 U.S. Corp. Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CRANBERRY POWER LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/30/14. 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 U.S. Corp. Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave., Ste. 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Delish Glass LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/12/2015. 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 1486 Lehigh Station Rd., Henrietta, NY 14467. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Diamond Trucking, LLC Art. of Org. filed sec’y of state (SSNY) 02/23/2015. Office: Monroe County designation as process agent. Addr: P.O. Box 47 W. Henrietta NY 14586. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DOMARA, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/15/2014. 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 67 Arborwood Crescent, Rochester, NY 14615 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DOMINION GROUP, LLC Arts. of Org. filed
with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/18/15. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 148 Ridgeway Estates, Rochester, NY 14626. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Louis Maida at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: General construction. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Emerson & Oliver LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/11/2014. 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 201 Seymour Rd Rochester NY 14609 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of FIGHTING ARTS TRAINING CENTER, LLC. Art.of Org. filed Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) 2/19/15. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2024 W. Henrietta Rd., Ste.3D, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Gambino Family Agency LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/12/15. 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 3240 Chili Ave., Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Green Leaf Quality Audits, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 13 Mar 2015. 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 LLC, POB 844, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Hairzoo Capital Group, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/19/15. 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 1673 Empire Blvd., Webster, NY 14580.
Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Home Ice 1, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/17/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of INTEGER AUDIO LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/11/2014, 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 107 Briar Hill Dr. Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of JCJ Rentals, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 12/8/14. 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 3007 Edgemere Dr., Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lake Road Country Store LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/5/15. 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 2070 Lyell Ave., Rochester, NY 14606. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of LIA Housing and Development LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 1/14/15. 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 20827, Rochester, NY 14602. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: CENTER CITY HOLDINGS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State
of New York (SSNY) on March 16, 2015. Office location, Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: P.O. Box 30278, Rochester, NY 14603. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: PSAD, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 03/06/2015. NY office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is 1830 Elysian Fields Ave., New Orleans, LA 70117. Purpose/character of LLC: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lisa Ruth Photography LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/14/2015. 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 7 Kirkby Trl Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of M Atif Khalid Medical, PLLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/19/2015. 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 104 Britany Lane , Pittsford NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Milliken Landscape and Property Maintenance, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/27/2015. 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 1099 South Clinton Ave. Rochester, NY 14620 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan 7100 South, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/24/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process
Legal Ads against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1080 PittsfordVictor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Oak Ridge Crossing, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/09/15. 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 300 Waring Rd., Suite 90852 Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Small World Food LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/22/2014. 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 90 canal st. suite111 Rochester NY . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Spoleta East Henrietta, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/3/15. 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 7 Van Auker St., Rochester, NY 14608. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Supremes Real-Estate LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) March 18, 2015. 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 41 Wilder St. Rochester NY 14611. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of The HoteiBear Project, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/25/2015 originally filed as Hotei Bear Project, LLC. 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, 2290 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Sugar House Group,
LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/19/15. 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 Greg Michne, 27 Vick Park A, Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of UPSWING FLOORING, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 3/24/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC., 65 Embassy Dr, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: all lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qual. of Morgan Guilderland, LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/6/15. Office loc: Monroe County. LLC org. in DE 1/29/15. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. DE office addr.: CTC, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Columbia/Wegman Greece, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/25/15. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. bus. addr.: 1910 Fairview Ave. East, Suite 200, Seattle, WA 98102. LLC formed in DE on 2/19/15. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of CVS Rochester, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 3/12/15. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in DE on 3/10/15. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may
be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o The Corporation Trust Co., 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of NLF TS Greece LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/27/15. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. bus. addr.: 83 South St., Morristown, NJ 07960. LLC formed in DE on 11/3/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc. (NRAI), 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: c/o NRAI, 160 Greentree Dr., Ste. 101, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Paychex Investment LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 2/27/15. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. bus. addr.: 911 Panorama Trail South, Rochester, NY 14625. LLC formed in DE on 12/13/02. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Schuth & Pipitone, LLC Authority filed with NY State Department on 3/17/2015. Office location: Monroe County. LLC Formed in Texas on 1/19/2015. United States Corporation of Agents designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Cheyenne Moseley 9900 Spectrum Drive, Austin, TX 78717. Texas principal business address: 2005 Glory Creek Cir Flower Mound, TX 75028. Cert. of org. filed with Sec. of State, P.O. Box 13697 Austin, TX 78711-3697. Purpose: all lawful purposes.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Registration of Wesley Clark & Bates LLP, Cert. of Reg. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 2/20/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 45 Exchange Blvd., Ste. 900, Rochester, NY 14614. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purpose: to practice the profession of Law. [ NOTICE ] P. BOYS PROPERTIES, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/19/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to David Delforte, 2 W. Main St., Webster, NY 14580. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] Snug on Keuka LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 3-20-2015. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it is c/o the Company, 115 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester NY 14604. The purpose of the Company is any lawful business. [ NOTICE ] SPIN SISTERS, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/11/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 195 Somershire Dr., Rochester, NY 14617. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] TRIPOD HOLDINGS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 2/24/15. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 35 Norman St., Rochester, NY 14613, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Village Motorcycle Shop, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/5/15. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 92 E. Main St. Webster,
NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] VISION HYUNDAI OF WEBSTER, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 1/21/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Daniel E. Edwards, 421 Sundance Trail, Webster, NY 14580. General Purposes. [ NOTICE } Notice of formation of INVESTHIRD LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/29/15. 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, 280 LYCOMING RD ROCHESTER, NY 14623. Purpose: Any lawful Purpose [ NOTICE } Notice of Formation of Mae Holdings, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/04/2015. 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 1396 Culver Road, Rochester, New York 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE } Sunrise Properties of Rochester, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 1/14/15. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at PO Box 31510, Rochester, NY 14609. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] MWPR, LLC filed Application for Authority with the New York Department of State on February 24, 2015. 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 230 Crosskeys Office Park, Fairport, NY 14450. The purpose of the Company is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of Formation of Bosco’s Tavern, LLC.
Articles of organization filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on January 30, 2015. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to principal business location: The LLC, 327 Southridge Drive, Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful activity.
process shall be mailed to Benjamin L. Burton, 98 Hillrise Drive, Penfield, New York 14526. 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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RASSA Properties, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on March 26, 2015 with an effective date of formation of March 26, 2015. Its principal place of business is located at 7 Manitoba Woods Lane, New York 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 Gerard Reynolds, 7 Manitoba Woods Lane, Spencerport, New York 14559. 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.
The name of the Limited Liability Company is 1690 Manitou Road, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on 03/18/15. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. The New York Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of such process to 840 Lehigh Station Rd., W. Henrietta, NY 14586. The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC Law. [ NOTICE of FORMATION of BARBATO’S BAR AND GRILL, LLC ] Art. of Organization filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/08/15. Office of location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent if LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 72 Pennicot Circle, Penfield, New York 14526 . Purpose: any lawful activity.
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Articles of Organization with Secretary of State of NY on 12/23/2014. Office in Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC at 1736 Mt Hope Ave, Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Working Week Marketing, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on February 24, 2015 with an effective date of formation of February 24, 2015. Its principal place of business is located at 52 Winding Country Lane, Spencerport, New York 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 52 Winding Country Lane, Spencerport, New York 14559. 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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iuvo BioScience Operations, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on March 11, 2015 with an effective date of formation of March 11, 2015. Its principal place of business is located at 98 Hillrise Dr. Penfield, New York in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing pursuant to Article 18-A of the New York State General Municipal Law will be held by the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency (the “Agency”) on the 20th day of April, 2015 at 1:00 p.m., local time, in the Main Meeting Room at the Henrietta Town Hall, 475 Calkins Road, Henrietta, New York
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14467, in connection with the following matter: CALKINS CORPORATE PARK, LLC, a New York limited liability company, for itself or on behalf of an entity formed or to be formed (collectively, the “Company”) has requested that the Agency assist with a certain Project (the “Project”), consisting of: (A) the acquisition by lease, license or otherwise, of an interest in a portion of an aggregate approximately 12.13-acre parcel of land located on Middle Road in the Town of Henrietta, New York [Tax Map Nos.: 175.08-125 and 175.08-1-26] (the “Land”); (B) the construction of an approximately 28,800 square-foot medical office building thereon (the “Improvements”), and (C) the acquisition and installation therein, thereon or thereabout of certain machinery, equipment and related personal property (the “Equipment” and, together with the Land and the Improvements, the “Facility”), approximately 12,500 square-feet of which is to be subleased to Unity Hospital (Red Creek Orthopaedics). The Facility will be initially operated and/or managed by the Company. The Agency will acquire an interest in the Facility and lease the Facility to the Company. The financial assistance contemplated by the Agency will consist generally of the exemption from taxation expected to be claimed by the Company as a result of the Agency taking an interest in, possession or control (by lease, license or otherwise) of the Facility, or of the Company acting as an agent of the Agency, consisting of: (i) exemption from state and local sales and use tax with respect to the qualifying personal property portion of the Facility, (ii) exemption from mortgage recording tax with respect to any qualifying mortgage on the Facility, and (iii) exemption from general real property taxation with respect to the Facility, which exemption shall be offset, in whole or in part, by contractual payments in lieu of taxes by the Company for the benefit of affected tax jurisdictions. A copy of the Company’s application, containing the Benefit/Incentive analysis, is available for inspection at the
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at 11:15 a.m., local time, at the Ebenezer Watts Conference Center, 49 S. Fitzhugh Street, Rochester, New York 14614, in connection with the following matter: BROOKS AVENUE HOLDINGS, LLC and 760 BROOKS AVENUE, INC., a New York limited liability company and New York corporation, respectively, for themselves or an entity formed or to be formed (collectively, the “Company”) have requested that the Agency assist with a certain Project (the “Project”), consisting of: (A) the acquisition by lease, license or otherwise, of an interest in (i) an approximately 1.45-acre parcel of land located at 760 Brooks Avenue in the City of Rochester, New York (Tax Account No. 135.310-0001074.003) and (ii) an approximately 2.67-acre parcel of land located at 762 Brooks Avenue in the City of Rochester, New York (Tax Account No. 135.310-0001074.004) (collectively, the “Land”), together with an existing approximately 12,872 square-foot building located thereon (the “Existing Improvements”); (B) the renovation of the Existing Improvements
and the construction of a new approximately 14,600 square-foot warehouse on the Land (the “Improvements”); and (C) the acquisition and installation therein, thereon or thereabout of certain machinery, equipment and related personal property (the “Equipment” and, together with the Land, the Existing Improvements and the Improvements, the “Facility”), to be subleased to Billitier Electric, Inc. for use in its business as a commercial/industrial electrical contractor. The Facility will be initially operated and/ or managed by the Company. The Agency will acquire an interest in the Facility and lease the Facility to the Company. The financial assistance contemplated by the Agency will consist generally of the exemption from taxation expected to be claimed by the Company as a result of the Agency taking an interest in, possession or control (by lease, license or otherwise) of the Facility, or of the Company acting as an agent of the Agency, consisting of: (i) exemption from state and local sales and use tax with respect to
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing pursuant to Article 18-A of the New York State General Municipal Law will be held by the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency (the “Agency”) on the 20th day of April, 2015 at 11:30 a.m., local time, in the Large Meeting Room at the Ogden Town Hall, 269 Ogden Center Rd #1, Spencerport, New York 14559, in connection with the following matter: GALLINA DEVELOPMENT CORP., a New York corporation, for itself or an entity formed or to be formed (collectively, the “Company”) has requested that the Agency assist with a certain Project (the “Project”), consisting of: (A) the acquisition by lease, license or otherwise, of an interest
in a portion of an approximately 3.76-acre parcel of land located at 65 Vantage Point Drive in the Town of Ogden, New York (the “Land”); (B) the construction thereon of an approximately 11,000 square-foot addition (the “Improvements”) to the existing approximately 20,520 square-foot building; and (C) the acquisition and installation therein, thereon or thereabout of certain machinery, equipment and related personal property (the “Equipment” and, together with the Land and the Improvements, the “Facility”), to be subleased to Loomis Armored US, LLC, for use in its business as an armored car service and a money processing company. The Facility will be initially operated and/or managed by the Company. The Agency will acquire an interest in the Facility and lease the Facility to the Company. The financial assistance contemplated by the Agency will consist generally of the exemption from taxation expected to be claimed by the Company as a result of the Agency taking an interest in, possession or control (by lease, license or otherwise) of the Facility, or of the Company acting as an agent of the Agency, consisting of: (i) exemption from state and local sales and use tax with respect to the qualifying personal property portion of the Facility, (ii) exemption from mortgage recording tax with respect to any qualifying mortgage on the Facility, and (iii) exemption from general real property taxation with respect to the Facility, which exemption shall be offset, in whole or in part, by contractual payments in lieu of taxes by the Company for the benefit of affected tax jurisdictions. A copy of the Company’s application, containing the Benefit/Incentive analysis, is available for inspection at the Agency’s offices at 8100 CityPlace, 50 West Main Street, Rochester, New York 14614 during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, and will be available for inspection and review at the above-scheduled Public Hearing. The Agency will at the above-stated time and place hear all persons with views in favor of or opposed to either the location or nature of the Facility, or the proposed
financial assistance being contemplated by the Agency. In addition, at, or prior to, such hearing, interested parties may submit to the Agency written materials pertaining to such matters. Dated: April 8, 2015 COUNTY OF MONROE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY By: Judy A. Seil, Executive Director [ NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ] NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing pursuant to Article 18-A of the New York State General Municipal Law will be held by the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency (the “Agency”) on the 20th day of April, 2015 at 12:45 p.m., local time, in the Main Meeting Room at the Henrietta Town Hall, 475 Calkins Road, Henrietta, New York 14467, in connection with the following matter: FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, for itself or on behalf of an entity formed or to be formed (collectively, the “Company”) has requested that the Agency assist with a certain Project (the “Project”), consisting of: (A) the acquisition by lease, license or otherwise, of an interest in an approximately 25,000 square-foot portion (the “Improvements”) of an existing approximately 203,936 square-foot building located at 1225 Jefferson Road in the Town of Henrietta, New York [Tax Account No.: Part of 162.11-1-64.11]; (B) the renovation of the Improvements; and (C) the acquisition and installation therein, thereon or thereabout of certain machinery, equipment and related personal property (the “Equipment” and, together with the Improvements, the “Facility”), for use by the Company as a customer contact center. The Facility will be initially operated and/or managed by the Company. The Agency will acquire an interest in the Facility and lease the Facility to the Company. The financial assistance contemplated by the Agency will consist generally of the exemption from taxation expected to be claimed by the Company as a result of the Agency taking an interest in, possession or control (by lease, license or
otherwise) of the Facility, or of the Company acting as an agent of the Agency, consisting of exemption from state and local sales and use tax with respect to the qualifying personal property portion of the Facility. A copy of the Company’s application, containing the Benefit/Incentive analysis, is available for inspection at the Agency’s offices at 8100 CityPlace, 50 West Main Street, Rochester, New York 14614 during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, and will be available for inspection and review at the above-scheduled Public Hearing. The Agency will at the above-stated time and place hear all persons with views in favor of or opposed to either the location or nature of the Facility, or the proposed financial assistance being contemplated by the Agency. In addition, at, or prior to, such hearing, interested parties may submit to the Agency written materials pertaining to such matters. Dated: April 8, 2015 COUNTY OF MONROE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY By: Judy A. Seil, Executive Director [ NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ] NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing pursuant to Article 18-A of the New York State General Municipal Law will be held by the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency (the “Agency”) on the 21st day of April, 2015 at 11:30 a.m., local time, at the Ebenezer Watts Conference Center, 49 S. Fitzhugh Street, Rochester, New York 14614, in connection with the following matter: 50 CHESTNUT VENTURES LLC, a New York limited liability company, its successors or designees (collectively, the “Company”) has requested that the Agency assist with a certain Project (the “Project”), consisting of: (A) the acquisition by lease, license or otherwise, of an interest in a portion of an approximately 0.66±-acre parcel of land located at 50 Chestnut Street in the City of Rochester, New York (the “Land”) together with the existing 13-story, approximately 165,000 square-foot building thereon (the “Existing Improvements”); (B)
the renovation of a portion of the Existing Improvements consisting of the renovation/ updating of two floors of existing apartments and the conversion of six vacant floors of office space into 75 one- and two-bedroom apartments (collectively, the “Improvements”), and (C) the acquisition and installation therein, thereon or thereabout of certain machinery, equipment and related personal property (the “Equipment” and, together with the Land, the Existing improvements and the Improvements, the “Facility”). The Facility will be initially operated and/or managed by the Company. The Agency will acquire an interest in the Facility and lease the Facility to the Company. The financial assistance contemplated by the Agency will consist generally of the exemption from taxation expected to be claimed by the Company as a result of the Agency taking an interest in, possession or control (by lease, license or otherwise) of the Facility, or of the Company acting as an agent of the Agency, consisting of: (i) exemption from state and local sales and use tax with respect to the qualifying personal property portion of the Facility, (ii) exemption from mortgage recording tax with respect to any qualifying mortgage on the Facility, and (iii) exemption from general real property taxation with respect to the Facility, which exemption shall be offset, in whole or in part, by contractual payments in lieu of taxes by the Company for the benefit of affected tax jurisdictions. A copy of the Company’s application, containing the Benefit/Incentive analysis, is available for inspection at the Agency’s offices at 8100 CityPlace, 50 West Main Street, Rochester, New York 14614 during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, and will be available for inspection and review at the above-scheduled Public Hearing. The Agency will at the above-stated time and place hear all persons with views in favor of or opposed to either the location or nature of the Facility, or the proposed financial assistance being contemplated by the Agency. In addition,
Legal Ads at, or prior to, such hearing, interested parties may submit to the Agency written materials pertaining to such matters. Dated: April 8, 2015 COUNTY OF MONROE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY By: Judy A. Seil, Executive Director [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 2014-9775 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Andrea M. Hyde n/k/a Andrea M. Ainsworth; Chase Bank USA, N.A.; Hilco Receivables LLC; LVNV Funding LLC, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated March 4, 2015, entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the lobby of the Monroe County Office Building located at 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New York, County of Monroe on April 16, 2015 at 11:00 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Hamlin, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 9638, 9648 & 9652 Beachwood Park, Hamlin, NY 14464; Tax Account No. 001.162-4.1, 001.16-2-16 & 001.16-2-17. Said premises are sold subject to any state of facts an accurate survey may show, zoning restrictions and any amendments thereto, covenants, restrictions, agreements, reservations, and easements of record and prior liens, if any, municipal departmental violations, and such other provisions as may be set forth in the Complaint and Judgment filed in this action. Judgment amount: $50,897.45 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: March 2015 Paul L. LeClair, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF MONROE FIRST NIAGARA BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, -against- Susan Rayam,
et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated 10/23/2014 and entered thereafter. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Monroe County Office Bldg., 39 W. Main Street, Rochester, New York on April 15, 2015 at 09:15AM, premises known as 230 Gatewood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14624. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Gates, County of Monroe and State of New York, SBL#: 119.10-2-45. Approximate amount of judgment is $93,568.81 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# I2014003959. Mary Elizabeth Feindt, Esq., Referee Schiller & Knapp, LLP 950 New Loudon Road Latham, NY 12110 Attorneys for Plaintiff 1130189 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 04/08/2015 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] INDEX NO. 258/2015 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial situs of the real property NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, vs. GEORGE CARTER, SR. AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLIE CARTER; LARRY WALLER, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLIE CARTER; LAURIE MATTHEWS, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLIE CARTER; GRETCHEN CARTER, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLIE CARTER; SHERRELL SIMMONS, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLIE CARTER; TONI FORTE, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLIE CARTER; DELOVIS OLAODE, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLIE CARTER; PHILLIP FORTE, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLIE CARTER; MATTHEW CARTER, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLIE CARTER; GEORGE CARTER, JR. AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLIE CARTER; ROBERT
CARTER, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF SALLIE CARTER; any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, Iienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; ROCHESTER GAS AND ELECTRIC CORP.; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; GENEVA FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12,” the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. MORTGAGED PREMISES: 527 Woodbine Avenue, Rochester, NY 14619 Section: 120.81 Block: 1 Lot: 65 To the abovenamed Defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of
the day of service (or within 30 days after service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclosure a Mortgage to the sum of $82,500.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Monroe on January 6, 2006 in Official Record Book 20228, at Page 0547, covering premises known as 527 Woodbine Avenue, Rochester, NY 14619. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: 2/2/2015 RAS Boriskin, LLC, Attorney for Plaintiff By: Thomas Zegarelli, Esq. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite LL-5, Westbury, NY 11590 (516) 280-7675 1475743
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