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I was thrilled to see literature featured on the cover of CITY two weeks in a row and I highly commend Rachel McKibbens and Jacob Rakovan for the successful Poetry & Pie series they have launched here in Rochester, which does highlight marginalized writers in an important way. However, the article states: “The only events available to local poets interested in sharing their work [before Poetry & Pie night was introduced] were structureless open mics and $150-a-head poetry functions hosted by prominent presses.” This statement is untrue. Rochester has, and has had for many years, one of the most vibrant literary scenes for a city of its size. Writers & Books is one of the country’s largest and oldest literary centers, serving more people per capita than any other literary center in the country, and offering a wide variety of programs for all kinds of writers and readers. During its 34year history, Writers & Books has hosted hundreds of poetry readings, including the monthly Genesee Reading Series, which is now in its 33rd consecutive year. In addition, Rochester has a plethora of reading series which are free and open to the public, including the Plutzik series at the U of R, the Brockport Writers Forum, Just Poets readings and events, Words on the Verge, and countless others. In addition, it is confusing that City would run an article suggesting a nearly non-existent literary scene in Rochester, when each week City actually lists several events in the literary section of the calendar. I would also like to point out that one of the Poetry & Pie photos used in the article features two high school poets who are part of yet another Writers & Books poetry program, Breathing Fire Teen Poetry Slam. Rachel McKibbens does serve as host and coach for the program, but if it weren’t for the already existing vibrant literary scene in
Rochester, those two young poets most likely would not have graced the stage at Poetry & Pie night. I commend City for celebrating Poetry & Pie Night, but to do so in a way that is dismissive of the rich literary culture here in Rochester is irresponsible.
Dealing with disruptive students
In the past, those who opposed government programs designed to improve the life of lower and middle-class voters were able to kill them by identifying them as being socialism or communism. However, time, stagnant wages, and increasing concentration of the wealth of our nation in fewer and fewer hands seems to have changed that. Whether Bernie Sanders could be elected president is an unanswered question, but his message that we need a living wage, that we need single payer national health care (universal Medicare?), that we need everyone to have access to affordable education, that we need to spend more on our nation’s infrastructure (power grid, roads, bridges, and rapid transit) are resounding with the public. Those of us who have been privileged to live and work in European countries know there is a lot we can learn from them. Perhaps we are beginning to. In a recent poll, the electorate was nearly evenly split on whether they would support a Socialist candidate.
Will the restorative justice plan for Rochester school district student behavior work? Here is an easy way to find out: A disruptive student is referred to the program by his classroom teacher. Question: Is the referring teacher the person who determines if and when this student is permitted to return to class? If the answer is “yes,” the program has value. If not, the anticipated “seismic shift” will amount to a dyspeptic hiccup. I began my Rochester school district teaching career in 1971 and have occasionally subbed, tutored, and volunteered since retirement. In my experience, misbehaving students are handled by administrators, the same people charged with evaluating teachers’ performance. The students are warned and sometimes letters are written, phone calls are placed, and suspensions are meted out. The students are then dumped back into class, often within minutes of the referral. Believe me, our students are not impressed by this bureaucratic run-around. It reinforces their impression that they are not accountable to anyone, particularly the teacher. Peace is not restored nor is justice served. School district managers instinctively use their employer-employee leverage to require teachers, instead of students, to adapt to this baleful reality. And teachers do adapt, but their coping strategies come at a high cost: the inevitable loss of effective instruction. Of course the restorative justice system will require lots of personnel. These sainted individuals should be charged with very specific tasks: 1) To help the referred student realize the consequences of his or her actions; 2) To guide the student in making a commitment to improve behavior, and 3) To coach the student in selling the referring teacher on the sincerity of this commitment. It is the referring teacher who must decide, free of overt or implicit administrative pressure, if the student may rejoin his class. So start rounding up the troops it will take to make this program a success. If it is successful, eliminate social promotion and we might just have a school district worthy of this city.
DOUGLAS ROBB
TOM LAMME
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Bittner Bonn is director of youth education at Writers & Books.
Photonics center belongs in Legacy
The Sibley building is over 100 years old. It was not built as an office complex and is in need of major investment (read multimillions) to bring it up to today’s standards and to house headquarter offices of the photonics enterprise. How much of the cost will be passed on to local taxpayers? Remember the fast ferry? The former Bausch & Lomb (Legacy) building is 20 years old. It was designed and constructed to house offices of a major corporation. It needs virtually no structural or office layout changes – i.e., no cost to Rochester or Monroe County taxpayers. The choice is obvious. ALEX GONCAROVS
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News. Music. Life. Greater Rochester’s Alternative Newsweekly August 26 - September 1, 2015 Vol 44 No 51 250 North Goodman Street Rochester, New York 14607-1199 themail@rochester-citynews.com phone (585) 244-3329 fax (585) 244-1126 rochestercitynewspaper.com facebook.com/CityNewspaper twitter.com/roccitynews On the cover: Photograph by Mark Chamberlin Publishers: William and Mary Anna Towler Editor: Mary Anna Towler General manager: Matt Walsh Editorial department themail@rochester-citynews.com Arts & entertainment editor: Jake Clapp News editor: Christine Carrie Fien Staff writers: Tim Louis Macaluso, Jeremy Moule Arts & entertainment staff writer: Rebecca Rafferty Music writer: Frank De Blase Calendar editor: Antoinette Ena Johnson Contributing writers: Casey Carlsen, Roman Divezur, Laura Rebecca Kenyon, Andy Klingenberger, Dave LaBarge, Kathy Laluk, Adam Lubitow, Nicole Milano, Ron Netsky, David Raymond Editorial interns: Nolan H. Parker, Gino Fanelli Art department artdept@rochester-citynews.com Art director/Production manager: Ryan Williamson Designers: Aubrey Berardini, Mark Chamberlin Photographers: Mark Chamberlin, Frank De Blase, John Schlia Advertising department ads@rochester-citynews.com New sales development: Betsy Matthews Account executives: Christine Kubarycz, Sarah McHugh, William Towler, David White Classified sales representatives: Christine Kubarycz, Tracey Mykins Operations/Circulation kstathis@rochester-citynews.com Circulation manager: Katherine Stathis Distribution: Andy DiCiaccio, David Riccioni, Northstar Delivery City Newspaper is available free of charge. Additional copies of the current issue may be purchased for $1 each at the City Newspaper office. City Newspaper may be distributed only by authorized distributors. No person may, without prior written permission of City Newspaper, take more than one copy of each weekly issue. City (ISSN 1551-3262) is published weekly by WMT Publications, Inc. Periodical postage paid at Rochester, NY (USPS 022-138). Address changes: City, 250 North Goodman Street, Rochester, NY 14607. Member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the New York Press Association. Annual subscriptions: $35 ($30 senior citizens); add $10 for out-of-state subscriptions. Refunds for fewer than ten months cannot be issued. Copyright by WMT Publications Inc., 2015 - all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, photocopying, recording or by any information storage retrieval system without permission of the copyright owner.
ELECTIONS | BY CITY EDITORIAL STAFF
Primary endorsements
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oth Democrats and Republicans in Monroe County have offices on the ballot in the September primary elections – which are on a Thursday this year, because of the Jewish holiday. But the vast majority are in the Democratic Party, for elected positions affecting residents of the City of Rochester. In New York, voters have to be registered in a particular party in order to vote in that party’s primary. And for this year’s primary, it’s too late to register: the deadline for in-person registration was August 14; for mail-in, August 15. Our endorsements in some key races follow. Next week: profiles of many of the candidates.
Rochester school board
Any year in the Rochester school district is a critical year. Multiple challenges in the city’s high-poverty schools have resulted in decades of low student achievement. That is a tragedy for the children and their families. And it is a tragedy for the metropolitan area, which could benefit immensely if Rochester students’ potential were realized. Next year will be a particularly important one for the district, however. The school board members who take office in January will have to make one of the most important decisions any board makes: who will lead the district as superintendent. Superintendent Bolgen Vargas’s contract expires in June 2016, and given the disagreements between him and the board, his future in the district isn’t guaranteed. One of the first things the board will do in the new year will be grappling with that issue. The people of the Rochester school district – the superintendent and other administrators, the staff, and the school board – have been the target of public hostility and distrust for years, often unfairly, for matters well beyond their control. That’s certainly been the case for the current board. But this is a particularly strong board, and while there continue to be divisions – including over the issue of the superintendent’s future – the board has worked well together, despite strong personalities and diverse opinions. We are concerned about the board’s tendency to get involved in matters that clearly should be handled by the superintendent – insisting on being able to oversee some of his senior administrators, for instance. That will continue to cause conflict with the current superintendent and his staff, and if Vargas’s contract isn’t renewed, the conflict and the perception that board members want to micromanage
will hurt their ability to attract a strong, competent person. That said, Rochester is fortunate to have this many smart people willing to take on what is often a thankless, extremely difficult public-service job. Three of the four incumbents whose terms expire this year are seeking reelection: Mary Adams, Malik Evans, and Willa Powell. We are endorsing all three, plus newcomer Liz Hallmark. All four are exceptionally capable Rochesterians.
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Mary Adams is completing her first
four-year term on the school board. A research nurse in the Aids Clinic at the University of Rochester Medical Center, the detail-oriented Adams chairs the school board’s audit committee. She is knowledgeable about the challenges facing disadvantaged Rochesterians and is deeply empathetic, and she is heavily involved in the community outside of her career and board responsibilities. Malik Evans, who is completing his third term on the board, is an experienced, likable board member who was board president from 2008 through 2013. He has a broad knowledge of the continues on page 6 rochestercitynewspaper.com
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[ NEWS FROM THE WEEK PAST ]
Kruchten gets EBP role
Dolores Kruchten has been selected as Kodak’s new vice president for Eastman Business Park. She has worked at Kodak and its spinoff company, Kodak Alaris, for more than 30 years. She’s spent 20 years in business management roles, and until her selection for the VP job, was president of Kodak Alaris’ Information Management division.
Photonics feud
A media battle about the location of the headquarters for the recently announced photonics institute in Rochester ended with both sides promising to play nice from now on. SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s declaration that Legacy Tower would host the hub angered some local officials, who want input in the decision. SUNY Polytechnic CEO Alain Kaloyeros, University of Rochester President Joel Seligman, and a senior staffer from Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office will meet this week to talk things out. It does not appear that a site has been selected.
Money to fight lead
The City of Rochester will receive $3.6 million
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in federal funding to reduce household lead. The money will be used for collaborative efforts between the Rochester Housing Authority and the Monroe County Health Department, according to a press release. It’ll allow the agencies to address lead hazards in 235 housing units and to inspect 100 units.
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No punishment for opting out
The US Department of Education says that it won’t punish New York schools for students that opted out of state testing. Federal law requires that 95 percent of each public school’s students take the tests or the schools risk losing some funding directed at low-income students. About 20 percent of the state’s public school students opted out.
Parrinello pleads not guilty
Prominent Rochester criminal defense attorney John Parrinello was charged with patronizing a prostitute. The incident allegedly took place at the Gates Motel earlier this month. But an attorney for Parrinello, 76, says his client “never solicited anybody.”
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Many residents in the Browncroft and North Winton Village neighborhoods are against a proposed Aldi food market. PHOTO BY MARK CHAMBERLIN
DEVELOPMENT | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO
No decision on Aldi Recently revised plans for a new Aldi store on the corner of Blossom and Winton Roads failed to quell the controversy about the project, and the fate of that controversial project is still up in the air. At its meeting last week, Rochester’s Zoning Board again failed to make a decision regarding the numerous variances the developer wants. But the board heard from about 16 people, many of them residents of the Browncroft and North Winton Village neighborhoods near the site, who are strongly opposed to the project.
Plans for the store, even in their revised form, will require the board’s approval of about a dozen variances. Most significant would be a variance allowing a 15,000-square-foot structure to be built on a site that is zoned for about 3,000 square feet, roughly five times what is permissible. Most of the speakers said the project is much too large for the space, and some questioned the developer’s request for variances. The board is really being asked to approve spot rezoning, they said. And some warned the board that an approval would set a terrible precedent. Other city neighborhoods
like Park Avenue or Corn Hill could be vulnerable to large commercial developments that conflict with the urban village environment, they said. Some residents also questioned why the board would help a big-box retailer push out a small local business; the site was formerly the location of Jim’s Restaurant, a neighborhood favorite. Residents were also concerned about a significant increase in traffic and insufficient parking for the store’s size. The board postponed a vote last week because only four of its members were at the meeting.
EDUCATION | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO
The draft application for the state’s Upstate Revitalization competition focuses on three major industry areas: optics, photonics, and imaging; agriculture and food production; and next-generation manufacturing and technology. All show substantial growth potential, regional leaders say. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | BY JEREMY MOULE
Economic plan has familiar focus The Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council has released a draft of its application for the Upstate Revitalization Initiative, the state program where seven Upstate regions are competing for one of three $500 million awards. And the key themes ought to sound very familiar. The draft application focuses on three major industry areas: optics, photonics, and imaging; agriculture and food production; and next-generation manufacturing and technology. These industries were chosen as the application’s foundation because they are already established here and they show substantial growth potential, says the draft. The council is now accepting public comments on the draft, which is available at regionalcouncils.ny.gov/content/finger-lakes. It has to submit the final application to the state by October 5. “Don’t think it’s all done,” council co-chair Danny Wegman told FLREDC members last week. “In some ways it’s just a beginning.” The draft lays out why the industries show potential, and identifies some strategies the region would use to help them grow. Expanding business incubators and accelerators, providing growing businesses with greater access to capital, and boosting university research are all part of the plan. And in many cases, those approaches will be tailored to specific industries.
The plan also ties into the RochesterMonroe Anti-Poverty Task Force, and emphasizes job training, boosting high school graduation rates, and increasing the collegereadiness of high school students. Optics, photonics, and imaging is a logical area for the plan to focus on, given the recent announcement that a federal integrated photonics manufacturing institute will be based in Rochester. The region already has more than 100 photonics-related companies, while UR and RIT conduct vast amounts of research tied to the field. The regional council believes it can use URI funding to build on all of that activity. For example, it proposes investing URI funding in shared facilities and equipment that researchers and companies can use, says the draft. And it wants to use some of the award money to make sure that small photonics companies can buy equipment they need to grow. For next-generation manufacturing, the focus is on three hubs: Eastman Business Park; Rochester’s Downtown Innovation Zone, which is centered around the Sibley building and RIT’s Center for Urban Entrepreneurship; and the Science, Technology, and Advanced Manufacturing Park in Genesee County. But the only specific URI investment mentioned for those sites is a plan to further build out an energy storage
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More survey time You now have until September 19 to comment on a proposed new Code of Conduct policy for city schools. The deadline, which was originally set for the end of August, has been extended because the response from parents has been poor. The Rochester Community Task Force on School Climate released a draft of the new policy in July, and since then, about 280 people completed an online survey about the proposal. About half of the responses came from teachers and students, while less than 15 percent came from parents and guardians. The task force has been working for months on a code that moves away from suspensions as the primary disciplinary tool, to a policy based on restorative justice principles and socialemotional support. The new draft policy strongly advocates prevention of student behavior problems such as fighting, rather than intervention. It distinguishes four levels of student behavior, and suspensions would be permitted only for levels 3 and 4 — the most serious offenses. The 65-page proposal is on the district’s website: www.rcsdk12. org/codeofconduct, where public comments can be made as part of an online survey. Comments can also be emailed to ctf@racf.org.
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City Council
Malik Evans
Willa Powell
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school district, urban education, and the city, and, like Adams, he is heavily involved in community work, serving on key boards and initiatives. Elected in 2003 as the youngest board member in the district’s history, Evans has become not only an eloquent spokesperson for the district and its students’ needs but also a seasoned, effective politician.
Liz Hallmark PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON
Liz Hallmark ran unsuccessfully for school board
in 2013, and there is a noticeable difference in maturity as a candidate now. She has used those two years diligently to understand the school district, the needs of students and teachers, and the board’s role. She has the potential to be a strong, knowledgeable board member at an important time. Willa Powell is the only one of the three incumbents seeking re-election who was not endorsed by her party, and she can be off-putting, a bit school-marmish in temperament. But she has incredible strengths, which you’re apt to see more in one-on-one discussions. She is a director of the “Big 5” conference of school boards, which represents 6 CITY
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most of the state’s largest urban districts. She is knowledgeable not only about the challenges of the Rochester district but also about state education issues and the state’s relationship to urban school boards and school district governance. As for the candidates we’re not endorsing: All four are people who want to try to improve the lives of Rochester’s children. But none have the strengths that Adams, Evans, Hallmark, and Powell have. As we do every school board election, we pass over Howard Eagle with great regret. Few people interested in urban education issues could match his understanding of the needs of black American students – or his dedication to meeting those needs and his advocacy on behalf of those students. That advocacy has included concrete action, not just words. One on one, Eagle is an eloquent advocate. And we join him in his anger, at systemic racism and governmental inaction. But as an elected official, his anger would get in the way of effective action. Matt McDermott: is knowledgeable, and he’s particularly strong talking about the need to reform the district’s school choice program. But the four candidates we are endorsing have more depth, and their experience is a plus as we head into an important year. Mia Hodgins has sought election to the school board twice previously. She clearly has a deep concern about children, but she lacks the depth of understanding, both about the district and about the board’s operations, that the four candidates we’re endorsing have. Lorenzo Williams, a substitute teacher with the Rochester school district, is concerned about improving academic performance – particularly that of male students of color – and helping students develop vocational skills. But he lacks experience and depth of understanding about how a board works and how to effectively change things.
The four district seats are up on Rochester City Council this year, and there are primaries in every race. The city is facing major challenges right now, including high poverty and a tax base that has been hit by the loss of manufacturing and retail businesses. But the city also has enormous opportunities, with a growing number of technology businesses and the possibilities the photonics institute may offer. In addition, there’s a growing interest – particularly among empty-nesters and young professionals – in urban living. In meeting those challenges, City Council members serve both as partners of Mayor Lovely Warren and as watchdog. And the district council members also serve the vital role of representing the constituents of their individual sections of the city. In the four district races, we’re endorsing three candidates.
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East District: Elaine Spaull. Spaull, who is running for her third term on Council, is executive director of the Center for Youth. She seems to be everywhere and is very knowledgeable about the challenges in her district and in the city. She’s also responsive, and extremely energetic. Challenger Lisa Jacques, the owner of Park Ave. Pets, is facing tough odds in this race against a popular incumbent. Jacques is eloquent in her concerns about corporate welfare and the city’s nuisance-points system, and as a small-business owner, she has been active on issues related to neighborhood retailers for several years. But Spaull is a dynamic, intelligent, committed representative. You’d have to make a compelling case to unseat her, and Jacques hasn’t done that. In addition, Jacques’ positions are sometimes naïve. For example, her assertion that Council knowingly passes unconstitutional laws to reap the benefit while the inevitable lawsuits play out is far-fetched.
Adam McFadden
Molly Clifford
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South District: Adam McFadden. McFadden is being challenged by Ann Lewis, an earnest candidate who
says McFadden isn’t as approachable or responsive as he should be. But she’s not well known. And although it seems like Lewis would make a decent, honest representative, she’s green, and it’s difficult to make a case for losing the knowledge and experience that McFadden has gained from his years working in city government and the nonprofit community. McFadden was caught up in the Rochester Housing Authority scandal when he became RHA’s interim and possible permanent head, then lost that job after a HUD ruling. He says he was treated unfairly. Regardless, he has continued to serve as a vocal, eloquent advocate for his district and its needs. He is a provocateur and sometimes seems to speak without having all the facts. But he’s also frank and much more knowledgeable and engaged than some people give him credit for. And he speaks out passionately on behalf of the most disadvantaged residents of the city. Northwest District: Molly Clifford. Clifford, who has a long history in city government and Democratic politics, is being challenged by LaShana Boose, an adjunct faculty member at Monroe Community College, for this open seat. Incumbent Carla Palumbo is not seeking re-election. Boose’s campaign did not follow through on requests to set up an interview with the candidate. Clifford is sometimes knocked because she’s held several different jobs with the city, but she has been impressive in those posts. She knows the city, she certainly knows politics, and she’s a worker. And given her background, she would need very little time to get up to speed on Council. Clifford also sees the bigger picture in the northwest. MCC’s Damon Campus is moving into the quadrant, and Eastman Business Park is there, and Clifford sees opportunity in possible partnerships. That’s the progressive thinking that the city needs.
Northeast District: No endorsement. In this primary, incumbent Mike Patterson is running against Eugenio Cotto Jr., former executive director of the Group 14621 Community Association. Patterson did not respond to a request for an interview, and has never spoken with City. Patterson does seem engaged on Council and asks pertinent questions. Cotto is enthusiastic, and he certainly knows the 14621 neighborhood. He talks a lot about the need for investment in the northeast quadrant and the need to attack issues systemically based on a well-considered plan. But he seems better suited for working directly with residents at the street level than as an elected official.
County Legislature
Democrats have been in the Monroe County Legislature’s minority since the 1990’s, and none of this year’s primaries are going to tip that balance. The GOP majority generally blocks Democratic legislation; the number of caucus proposals that have passed in the past decade can be counted on one hand. But there are plenty of issues the legislature needs to address, from social services funding to the consecutive administrations’ use of local development corporations to outsource some operations. And over the years, the caucus has taken on the roles of watchdog, inquisitor, foil, and advocate. The members have held up bonding for projects where they see too many unresolved logistical or funding issues, and they’ve made a righteous fuss about county spending on child-care subsidies. Whoever emerges as the victor in each of the four Democratic primaries, barring some big gains during the November general election, will have a role in those efforts. One race is particularly crucial, and that’s the 28th District contest between endorsed candidate
Cynthia Kaleh and challenger Ricky Frazier. Kaleh has served in the legislature for eight years, has a great deal of knowledge about how the legislature works, has a genuine desire to find common ground with her Republican colleagues, and has been a passionate advocate for restoring child-care subsidy cuts. Frazier has depth, and he has some good ideas, particularly about gearing local economic development incentives towards start-ups and emerging tech businesses. The next county executive and legislature should follow through on his suggestion to hold town hall meetings where people can meet with officials to voice concerns or learn about civil service job opportunities. But Kaleh’s experience and her deep connections to neighborhood groups in the district make her the better choice. City is also endorsing Mark Muoio, who’s running in the 21st District against challenger Bobbi Mitchell. Muoio’s background as an attorney working on housing issues will be very valuable in the legislature. He already has some thoughts about how small changes in county policies could prevent some unnecessary evictions. He’s also interested in finding ways for the county to better address hazards in subsidized housing. As for Mitchell, City was unable to find even basic information about her campaign or platform or a way to contact her. Constituents should be able to easily contact their representatives and those seeking to represent them. We are not making endorsements in the two remaining legislature Democratic primaries. In the 23rd District, former Rochester police chief James Sheppard faces a challenge from city Buildings and Parks Director Mitch Rowe, who has a vast amount of political and administrative experience. Both candidates are outstanding, and either would be a good fit in the legislature. Sheppard brings experience working with troubled youth and wants to be an advocate for working families. And Rowe believes he can help the caucus continue to be effective an effective budget watchdog. The 29th District covers one of the poorest parts of the county. Ernest Flagler, a city firefighter and the incumbent legislator, faces a challenge from Leslie Rivera, an East High School vice principal. The district covers one of the poorest parts of Monroe County, and both candidates are passionate about improving the lives of people in the district. Both are also heavily involved in various community groups, programs, and events, and each would be a good representative of this district in the legislature.
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NOW WILL WE ACT?
ANALYSIS | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER
This community is at a crossroads. It’s not the first time we’ve reached one. But each time, we choose the easy path, and our problems get worse. And solutions become harder. In the late-night hours of August 19, on a major street in southwest Rochester, we reached another crossroads. Someone drove by the Boys and Girls Club and the Anthony Jordan Health Clinic and opened fire on a group of young men leaving a basketball game at the youth center. The result: three people dead, all of them young black males. Four more people injured. And clearly, the death toll could have been higher. The reaction in that inner-city neighborhood has been shock, outrage, and profound sorrow, at the loss of lives, at the callousness of the act, at the explosion of yet another incidence of violence in an area that has seen way too much of it. The reaction has been similar from public officials, coupled with pledges that the guilty will be found and punished. That justice will be done. That pledge is as predictable as it is necessary. But what comes next? Now, at last, will we do what needs to be done? 8 CITY
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Memorials spread out across the parking lot in front of the Boys and Girls Club on Genesee Street, where three people were murdered and four others injured last week. PHOTO BY RYAN WILLIAMSON
A drive-by shooting on a major public thoroughfare in front of a youth center and a health clinic, across the street from a school, is shocking. That three people died and four more were injured is shocking. But to focus on the location or the number of victims obscures the breadth of the problem, and its seriousness. This isn’t the first time someone has paid no heed to the possibility of innocent people being hurt. People have been struck by poorly aimed bullets as they stood on their own porch or sat inside their own home with young children. In 2005, a 2-year-old child was shot as he stood on the street with his parents, waiting for a bus. Another 2-year-old was shot that same year playing outside his house. Two weeks ago, a gunman shot and killed a young black man in the parking lot of the David F. Gantt Community Center in northeast Rochester. If it hadn’t been raining, children would likely have been playing in the nearby playground. But it’s not only innocent bystanders who merit our concern. So do the victims of bullets that hit their intended target – the individual young men shot on a horrifyingly frequent basis, over drug sales, a grudge, a previous assault. They are all victims of a violence that has infested parts of Rochester, as it has parts of numerous other cities throughout the country. And it is nothing new. Every few years, it breaks out in such a unique way that it jolts us: a 16-year-old shot and killed as he walked home from Bible study; two teenagers pulled from their car, beaten, taunted, and shot dead (the perpetrators ranging in age from 14 to 18). That kind of violence dominates the news for a few days. And there are great calls to action, emotional pledges of commitment. And then something else grabs our attention, and we move on. And the violence happens so often that it seems routine, not just tolerated but expected. Sometimes, we seem about ready to act. Back in the early 1990’s, Rochester was really concerned about violence. Murder had followed murder. Violence had soared – largely, it’s believed, because of the cocaine epidemic – with more than 60 killings a year. In 1992, the late Mayor Tom Ryan was so concerned that he invited Deborah ProthrowStith, a nationally respected expert on youth
violence, to Rochester. Prothrow-Stith, then an assistant dean at the Harvard School of Public Health, met with representatives from city government, the Rochester school district, and service agencies. She addressed an overflow audience at the Strong Museum. Ryan then appointed a committee to develop strategies to reduce the violence that had escalated in Rochester. Among other things, the committee recommended a community effort to provide jobs for young people, reduce the availability of guns, make health and social services more accessible, and address the problems of income disparity and low-income housing. It recommended that community leaders – political, business, religious – be heavily involved. And it recommended that the mayor and the county executive name a task force and provide “staff, budget, and other necessary resources” to implement its recommendations. The county executive said no, he’d rather come up with his own plan. And that was that. Around the same time, the People’s Coalition of United Church Ministries came up with recommendations of its own: mandatory courses in non-violence in city schools; stronger efforts by religious leaders and teachers to emphasize the sanctity of life. The UCM recommendations also went nowhere. And then, as the cocaine epidemic ebbed, the murder rate dropped off. Since the low, though, it has been growing. Eliminate that peak in the early 90’s, says RIT criminal justice professor John Klofas, and you see a long-term trend going steadily upward. So far this year, Rochester has had 26 murders. This rate of violence is not happening in Brighton. Or Hamlin. Or Henrietta. The residents
of Pittsford Village aren’t afraid to walk their neighborhood streets. Parents in the Village of Webster don’t lie awake nights fearing their children will be shot as they leave a basketball game the next night. We know why. We know what the problem is. And we have no excuse for not knowing how it happened. We have plenty of published research. The problem is poverty, and its concentration in the inner-city neighborhoods of American cities. This is a highly segregated community, city and suburban, poor and non-poor. Our neighborhoods are segregated. Our schools are segregated. That is having a terrible effect, and it is no surprise that the most severely affected people are African-Americans – and, increasingly, Hispanics. Racism is in our DNA, and we can’t ignore the role it has played in the growth of urban poverty. Some of the segregation is the result of deliberate racist policies and actions, by government, by businesses, by individuals. But some of it isn’t, at least not directly. Highway construction, low-cost land in the suburbs, school district borders, zoning policies requiring large lots and large, expensive houses: those weren’t intentionally designed to force African-Americans into poor city neighborhoods.
It’s no longer legal to bar African-Americans from certain neighborhoods or schools because of their race. That would be de jure segregation, segregation by law. Instead, we have de facto segregation: it just is. (“De facto segregation,” to use James Baldwin’s widely quoted definition, “means that the Negro is segregated but nobody did it.”) And in “More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City,” Harvard professor William Julius Wilson adds to the list of government policies that are “nonracial on the surface” but that have “indirectly contributed to crystallization of the inner-city ghetto.” The change in the kinds of work and the skills required, the exodus of business and retail to the suburbs (causing a loss of tax base in the cities and a loss of easy access to those jobs), the failure of the minimum wage to keep pace with inflation, the concentration of public housing in city neighborhoods, scarce housing opportunities for the poor in the suburbs: all work together to snuff out the ability of many inner-city residents to get themselves out of poverty. Compounding the problem: severe cutbacks in federal funding for cities. “Just when the problems of social dislocation in jobless neighborhoods have escalated,” Wilson wrote in his earlier “When Work Disappears,” “the city has fewer resources with which to address them.” Among the catastrophic results of all of that is
the violence that broke out on Genesee Street last week. The attitudes and behavior of some innercity residents, Wilson noted in “When Work Disappears,” “ought not to be analyzed as if it were unrelated to the broader structure of opportunities and constraints that have evolved over time.” “This is not to argue that individuals and groups lack the freedom to make their own choices, engage in certain conduct, and develop certain styles and orientations,” Wilson wrote, “but it is to say that these decisions and actions occur within a context of constraints and opportunities that are drastically different from those in middle-class society.” “It is important to remember,” he wrote in “More Than Just Race,” “that one of the effects of living in a racially segregated, poor neighborhood is the exposure to cultural framing, habits, styles of behavior, and particular skills that emerged from patterns of racial exclusion….” In his book “Race Matters,” Cornel West cited the growth of “a pervasive spiritual impoverishment” as the poor were left behind in urban neighborhoods. “The collapse of meaning in life – the eclipse of hope and absence of love of self and others, the breakdown of family and neighborhood bonds – leads to the social deracination and cultural denudement of urban dwellers, especially children,” West wrote. “We have created rootless, dangling people with little link to the supportive networks – family, friends, school – that sustain some sense of purpose in life.” continues on page 26
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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.
Penfield town code meeting
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The Town of Penfield will hold a public hearing to share information on proposed updates to the town code at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 9. Mark Valentine, town engineer and planning department director, will discuss the changes, which include proposed revisions to parking standards, shed regulations, and construction requirements. No action will be taken at the meeting, which will be held at 3100 Atlantic Avenue. Information: 340-8640.
A white journalist’s account of racism Moving Beyond Racism Book Group will discuss “Black Like Me” by John Howard Griffin at 7 p.m.
on Monday, September 14. The book is a nonfiction account of the author’s experience on a bus journey through segregated Southern states in the late 1950’s. The group will meet at Barnes & Noble in Pittsford Plaza.
A different take on Huck Finn
The Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library will present a discussion about “Huck Finn’s America: Mark Twain and the Era that Shaped his Masterpiece,” on Tuesday, September 15. The book by Andrew Levy gives a view of the work that is completely different from traditional interpretations. Reviewers include Jim Kraus, retired RCSD English teacher, and Malik Evans, city school board commissioner. The event, which kicks off the “Books Sandwiched In Fall Series,” will be held at the Rochester Public Library, 115 South Avenue, from 12:12 p.m. to 12:52 p.m.
Parent input needed
The Rochester Community Task Force on School Climate has extended the deadline for public comment on proposed changes to the Rochester school district’s Code of Conduct policy to Saturday, September 19. The 50-plus member task force released for public review a draft version of the revised policy last month, which is intended to help reduce the high number of suspensions in city schools. The task force is hoping to receive more input from RCSD parents and families. The proposed policy can be found at www.rcsdk12. org/codeofconduct. An online survey is available for comments, which can also be emailed to ctf@ racf.org.
Dining
Along with a stunning view toward downtown Rochester, Hattie's Restaurant has a fresh sushi menu, available Tuesday through Saturday, that features the Dragon Roll (left). The Oyster Shooter (middle) layers quail egg yolk, caviar, apple, fresno, and shochu. (Right) A bartender prepares a cocktail at the restaurant's bar. PHOTOS BY MARK CHAMBERLIN
Sushi and the sunset [ CHOWHOUND ] BY KATIE LIBBY
Let’s just get this right out of the way: The view of downtown Rochester from Hattie’s Restaurant at the Strathallan (550 East Avenue) is not to be missed, especially as the sun sets. Standing on the rooftop — a cocktail in hand is optional — and gazing at our fair city as the day ends really does bring out the warm feelings. Executive Chef Jeremy Nucelli from Char at the Strathallan is also responsible for the menu at Hattie’s. The sushi menu is only available Tuesday through Saturday in order to serve seafood at its freshest, but it features a few interesting dishes, like the Lobster Roll ($18) which uses butter-poached lobster, cucumber, and tarragon. The Scallop Ceviche ($19) on Hattie’s special sashimi menu combines scallops with avocado, lime, Thai basil, and sea salt. If you’re feeling
adventurous, the Omakase ($50) is a chef ’s choice assortment of sashimi and rolls. On days that sushi is not offered, diners can choose from items on a small plates menu, such as the Rock Shrimp Tempura ($15), or Berkshire Pork Belly Steamed Buns ($12) with Korean red pepper paste, green onion, pineapple, and peanuts. Hattie’s hosts “Sunset on Strath,” a sunset happy hour, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., with live music during the summer. Its cocktail menu and draft beer selection changes seasonally. Something to watch for: Hattie’s offers Double Cross vodka on tap. The spirit is a winter wheat vodka that is distilled seven times and served at 23 degrees from the tap, which produces a smooth taste with citrus notes. Hattie’s Restaurant is located on the ninth floor of the Strathallan (550 East Avenue), and is open Monday through Thursday, 4 p.m. to midnight;
Friday and Saturday, 4 p.m. to 2 a.m.; and Sunday, 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. Hattie’s serves dinner seven days a week. Reservations are encouraged and can be made by contacting Char at the Strathallan. A private event space is available. 461-5010. Check out strathallan.com/hatties-restaurant for more information.
Quick bites
Ristorante Lucano (1815 East Avenue)
has expanded to add a bar and lounge and additional seating. Visit ristorantelucano.com for more information. Savor the Finger Lakes will take place on Thursday, September 3, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Ithaca Farmers Market (545 3rd Street, Ithaca). Attendees can sample regional craft beers and ciders as well as artisanal appetizers from local chefs. The event will also feature more than 30 vendors and live music. All proceeds will go to Healthy Food for All, a
non-profit program that makes farm fresh organic produce accessible to 150 families of limited income. More information can be found at savorthefingerlakes.com. Lovin’ Cup Bistro & Brews (300 Park Point Drive) will celebrate its seventh anniversary on Friday, August 28, from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. At least seven local breweries will be sending special beers for the event and live music will rotate between two stages. The first 100 guests will receive a complimentary koozie. Visit lovincup.com for more information. Openings The 1872 Café (431 West Main Street) has
reopened under new management.
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Upcoming [ ROCK ]
Atlas Genius. Saturday, September 19. The Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut Street. 6 p.m. $15-$17. themontagemusichall.com; atlasgenius.com. [ HIP-HOP ] Mac Miller. Tuesday, October 6. Water Street Music Hall, 204 North Water Street. 7:30 p.m. $35-$40. waterstreetmusic.com; macmillerswebsite.com. [ FADO ]
Pedro Galveias. Friday, October 16. Kilbourn Hall at the
Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs Street. 8 p.m. $13-$15. esm.rochester.edu.
Chris Thomas King
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 GEVA THEATRE CENTER, 75 WOODBURY BOULEVARD 8 P.M. | $29 | GEVATHEATRE.ORG; CHRISTHOMASKING.COM [ BLUES ] Geva’s four-day homage to Eddie “Son” House will close in style when Chris Thomas King headlines the festival’s last day. A Grammy Award-winning artist, King will bring his insuppressible, soulful guitar style and silky smooth voice tinged in mourning to Rochester audiences. From the acoustic dirge of “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues” and the slide guitar grit of “Death Letter Blues” to the innovative rap-blues hybrid songs on the 2002 album “Dirty South Hip-Hop Blues,” the Louisiana-born King is an engaging artist with the blues in his blood (his father was musician Tabby Thomas). — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
Alberto Alaska FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $7-$9 | BUGJAR.COM; ALBERTOALASKA.COM [ ROCK ] Alberto Alaska put its money where its music
is when the band spent the past year and a half recording its debut album, “Possession,” at GCR Audio. The local quintet’s decision to record in Buffalo was based on guitarist Jacob Cavinee’s internship at the studio, which is owned by Goo Goo Dolls bassist Robby Takac. Established in 2010, Alberto Alaska is a dual guitar-driven progressive rock group that flirts with atmospheric post-rock tendencies. This show is the “Possession” album release party. Speirs, Like Vintage, and The Dirty Pennies also perform. — BY ROMAN DIVEZUR
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Music
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Chelsey Graham and Jim Nelson. Marge’s Lakeside
[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]
McFadden’s Parachute “Sugar3” PeterFonda Records facebook.com/mcfaddensparachute
Mozart’s “The Impresario” FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 LYRIC THEATRE, 440 EAST AVENUE 8 P.M. | $25-$35 | ROCHESTERLYRICOPERA.ORG [ CLASSICAL ] If you’ve been wondering how the
former First Church of Christ, Scientist building at East Avenue and Prince Street will work out as an opera house, Rochester Lyric Opera is offering a chance to find out this Friday. Following a gala opening reception celebrating the company’s 10th anniversary, RLO presents Mozart’s oneact “The Impresario” in the new Lyric Theatre. On the (correct) assumption that there really can’t be too much Mozart, RLO fills out the evening with scenes from “Le nozze di Figaro” and “Così fan tutte.” Lindsay Warren Baker is stage director and Eric Townell is the music director. Reception starts at 6:30 p.m.
— BY DAVID RAYMOND
McFadden’s parachute is the psychedelic brain child of one Darren Brennessel whose catalogue in 1960’s psych is downright epic. Equally impressive is his understanding and reverent interpretation of the genre. There are two ways to look at this music. One: as a sonic interpretation of a solid trip; or two: music by those on their own solid trip with a willingness to share. MP’s new platter, “Sugar3” is a mind-bending dose of both. He has blended — as a one man band, incidentally — both schools with sonic precision. The album is playful with its sing-along acoustically-rooted songs, and the sonic rainbow gets tweaked to the max with the grind of the fuzzed out guitar. Newbies to this music may find it a bit harsh, but the seasoned cats will dig it the most. It borders on brilliance amidst its forays into the lo-fi. Brennessel defines it as folk pop psychedelia but it’s more than that. It is the sound of it all in a relaxed structure, buzz, and groove. Dig this solid trip. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
Pseudo Youth “Zenkar” Self-released facebook.com/psuedoyouthband
Rick Holland Little Big Band SUNDAY, AUGUST 30 LOVIN’ CUP, 300 PARK POINT DRIVE 7 P.M. | FREE | LOVINCUP.COM RICKHOLLANDPRODUCTIONS.COM [ JAZZ ] Before starting his own ensemble, flugelhorn player Rick Holland paid his dues with the Louie Bellson Big Band and Buddy DeFranco’s band. Now his own Little Big Band specializes in arrangements reminiscent of Gil Evans’ “Birth of the Cool” session, including pieces by contemporary arrangers like Brent Wallarab and Bill Dobbins and classics by greats like Duke Ellington. All of the above is delivered by some of the best players in Rochester. — BY RON NETSKY
Rochester’s Pseudo Youth rock like a band out of time and out of dimension. If the century never turned and the 1990’s kept going, I suspect this band would have popped up around 199013. Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jesse Sprinkle at his Bluebrick studios, “Zenkar” (named after a die-hard PY fan) rocks with the certainty defined by the post-grunge, big rock as laid out by the 90’s. At the same time, the band plays with an exploratory vision not defined by any place in time other than right now. It’s all guitars and groove and melody with vocals seething on top. The result is more big than loud. For those about to rock, this is the rock ‘n’ roll punch to the gut you want. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
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Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 3231020. margeslakesideinn. com. 6-9 p.m. Chris Wilson. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue. thelittle.org. David Miller Duo. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. 325-7090. dinosaurbarbque. com. 9 p.m. Rob & Gary Acoustic. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 5:308:30 p.m. [ BLUES ]
Upward Groove. Temple Bar
and Grille, 109 East Ave. 2326000. templebarandgrille.com. 10 p.m. [ COUNTRY ]
Nathan Kalish & The Lastcallers. Abilene Bar
& Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 8:30 p.m. $5. [ JAZZ ]
Anthony Giannovola. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 6:309:30 p.m. El Rojo Jazz. Ox and Stone, 282 Alexander street. rochester ny. 387-6933. oxandstone.com. Every other Wednesday, 6:30-10:30 p.m. JY & Dee. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. stickylipsbbq.com. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Sweet Tones. Towpath Café, 6 N. Main St. Box Factory Bldg. Fairport. 377-0410. facebook.com/ sweettonesjazz. 7-10 p.m. [ OPEN MIC] Steve West. The Rabbit Room, 61 N. Main St. Honeoye Falls. 582-1830. thelowermill.com. 7-10 p.m. continues on page 15
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The result was two back-to-back EPs: “Trail of Dreams” and “In Disguise.” “We recorded them at the same time,” Lewis says. “One was acoustic, very folk. And the next one we kind of let ourselves go kinda wacky: more overdubs, more rock ‘n’ roll, where no two songs sound the same.” Drago was the man for the job, having known Lewis since high school. The two musicians reconnected when Drago returned from Los Angeles to open 1809 Studios in Macedon. They did the two EPs together and brought in Jake Walsh (now a permanent member) to play drums.
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CITY /////////////////////// Singer-songwriter Jon Lewis (top left) worked with bassist and producer Dave Drago (top right), guitarist Shawn Brogan (bottom left), and drummer Jake Walsh (bottom right) on his new album, "Panic Rock." PHOTO PROVIDED
Panic pop Jon Lewis THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 STICKY LIPS JUKE JOINT, 830 JEFFERSON ROAD 6 P.M. TO 8 P.M. | FREE | STICKYLIPSBBQ.COM AND FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 LOVIN’ CUP, 300 PARK POINT DRIVE 9 P.M. | $3-$5 | LOVINCUP.COM JONLEWIS.BANDCAMP.COM [ FEATURE ] BY FRANK DE BLASE
To really test a song’s credibility and worth all you need to do is unplug it. Take away the electricity, the layering, the studio magic, just strip it down to its bones and see if it still breathes. See if it survives the evisceration; if it still sounds good. Then, chances are it’s a good song. Though he comes from a singersongwriter background, Rochester rocker Jon Lewis isn’t necessarily what you’d call an acoustic musician. The cat’s band is electrified, but it’s not drowning in fancy production or concepts. It is however immersed — emulsified if you will — in the truth, with a certain selfeffacing honesty and irony that is universally relatable, be it plugged or unplugged. 14 CITY AUGUST 26 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
The 29-year-old artist has just released a new full length CD, “Panic Rock,” a 10-song (plus one hidden track) outing full of music, that comes off not so much as a command than as a suggestion. It swirls with an indie rock openness that might remind some of The Smiths without the hand-wringing, or Lloyd Cole and the Commotions. At the heart of “Panic Rock” are songs that beautifully illuminate with classic pop-rock sunshine. Artists like Over Hand Sam, Mikaela Davis, and Hieronymus Bogs — to name a few — lend their talents and added dimension to the whole affair. Initially Lewis’ problem was his versatility; he was all over the map. Producer and bassist Dave Drago had to rein it in just a bit after Lewis gave him a stack of demos and tunes in larval form. “There was a lot of potential there,” Drago says. “But there was also a lot of confusion because Jon’s been making all kinds of music on his own for the past decade. So we had to pigeon-hole a bit. I said, ‘This is the genre you seem to focus on in your demos — Americana singer-songwriter. But you also write songs that sound like Motown songs and pop songs that have a sort of African feel.’”
A year into the project, Lewis solidified the line-up to include Drago on bass, Walsh on drums, and Shawn Brogan on lead guitar. Work began on “Panic Rock,” and immediately, Lewis had a clear picture in his head of what he wanted. “At first,” Lewis says, “Dave and I had such a focused idea. We knew exactly what to ask them to do. It was like being a scriptwriter for a movie and knowing the actor.” “We’re reading each other’s minds at this point,” Drago says. Lewis prefers it this way. He’s got that rare quality of band leader and listener. “I think the difference, this way, is in knowing the song can become something,” he says. “I had nobody to tell me anything except for me. And all I could say was ‘That kinda sucks.’ Now I don’t feel the pressure to complete the song. Now I can feel free to create.” The songs Lewis creates evoke an emotional response in their emotional detail. Yet, how do you get sympathy or empathy from your audience? How do you make the listener care? “At the core we’re all experiencing the same things,” Lewis says. “Music is a beautiful tool. You can describe emotions or very specific things that have happened to you. But when people hear them, they’re relating to the experiences they’ve had. I’ve been through a lot of rough experiences with my family and if people can see that expressed in a way where I’ve survived, where I’m getting through it … I have songs that are ambiguously written when people listen to them they’ll hear their experiences. That’s so inspirational to be able to do that.” For some artists — and listeners, even — music is a way to enjoy, interpret, process, and deal with life. For Lewis, it is his life. Drago concurs. “This is life,” he says. “There’s nothing escapist about it.”
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 [ POP/ROCK ]
Concerts by the Shore: Ruby Shooz. Ontario Beach Park,
4799 Lake Ave. cityofrochester. gov. 7:30 p.m.
Food Truck Rodeo: Significant Other. Rochester Public Market,
280 N. Union St. cityofrochester. gov/foodtruckrodeo. 5-9 p.m. Jumbo Shrimp. Johnny’s Pub & Grill, 1382 Culver Rd. 2240990. johnnyslivemusic.com. 8:30 p.m. Mark Fantasia. TGI Fridays, 432 Greece Ridge Center Dr. reverbnation.com. 7 p.m. Monkey Scream Project. Village Rock Cafe, 213 Main St. East Rochester. 586-1640. 9 p.m. The Plums and House Majority. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 4542966. bugjar.com. 9 p.m.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Jim Lane. Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. 342-6780. 8 p.m. Free. John McConnell. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. 3257090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 9 p.m. Jon Lewis. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. stickylipsbbq.com. 6-8 p.m. Steel Wheels. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue. thelittle.org. 8:30 p.m. Sunny Zaman & Co. Boulder Coffee Co., 100 Alexander St. 454-7140. bouldercoffee.info. 8-10 p.m.
Upstate Rubdown and Susanna Rose. Bug Jar,
219 Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 8:30 p.m. $6-$8. [ BLUES ]
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MARKET DISTRICT
BUSINESS ASSO CIATION Carlson Metro Center YMCA 444 east Main St. | 325-2880
City Newspaper (WMT Publications) 250 N. Goodman St. | 244-3329
City of Rochester Market Office | 428-6907
Greenovation 1199 East Main St. 288-7564 1115 East Main Street | 469-8217 Open Studios First Friday 6-9pm and Second Saturday 10am-3pm info at TheHungerford.com
Juan & Maria’s Empanada Stop
www.juanandmarias.com | 325-6650
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Paulas Essentials “Essentials for the Soul” 415 Thurston Rd. & Public Market 737-9497 | paulasessentials.com
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Henrietta Public Library, 455 Calkins Rd. 359-7092. hpl.org. 7-8:30 p.m.
Hanna and the Blue Hearts Trio. Pane Vino Ristorante, 175 N. Water St. 232-6090. hearhanna. com. 8-11 p.m. [ CLASSICAL]
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[ HIP-HOP/RAP]
Slap Weh Fridays with Blazin Fiyah. Eclipse Bar & Lounge,
[ JAZZ ]
372 Thurston Rd. 235-9409. Call for info.
Bossa Nova Jazz Thursdays with The Charles Mitchell Group. Espada Brazilian Steak, 274 N. Goodman St. Village Gate. 473-0050. espadasteak. com. 6 p.m. Free.
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Laura Dubin and Antonio Guerrero. Fiamma, 1308 Buffalo
Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $7-$9. Dog House. Johnny’s Pub & Grill, 1382 Culver Rd. 2240990. johnnyslivemusic.com. 8:30 p.m. Inside Out. Dinosaur Bar-BQue, 99 Court St. 325-7090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m. Plain Jane. Johnny’s Pub & Grill, 1382 Culver Rd. 2240990. johnnyslivemusic.com. 8:30 p.m.
Alberto Alaska, Speirs, Like Vintage and Dirty Pennies. Bug
Rd. 270-4683. fiammarochester. com. 6-9 p.m.
The Joe Santora Trio, Curtis Kendrick, and Emily Kirchoff.
Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. (585) 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. Free. The Swooners. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 3814000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 5:30-8:30 p.m. [ REGGAE/JAM ]
Mosaic Foundation. Abilene
Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. facebook.com/ mosaicfoundationmusic. 9:30 p.m. $6. [ POP/ROCK ]
Mansfield Avenue Band. Bar
Louie, 98 Greece Ridge Center Drive. 797-1054. mansfieldave. com. 9 p.m.-midnight.
ROC The Belle Concert Cruise: MoChester and Amy Montrois Trio. Harbor Town Belle, 100
Joy Lane. (585)342-1810. rocthebelleboat.com. 7-9 p.m. $20.
Roc the Belle: MoChester and Amy Montrois Trio.
Voyager Boat Sales, Stutson St. rocthebelleboat.com/. 7-9 p.m. $20. StarBenders. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. 9-11 p.m. $20.
VOCAL | IDINA MENZEL
ROCK | STARBENDERS
This lovely lady, with the equally lovely voice, first came to prominence with her Tony Award-winning role as Maureen in “Rent.” She’s since gone on to record several pop albums, do a little TV work, and align herself with Disney superstardom with her work in “Frozen.” Like I said, a lovely voice, but the gal can rock it, too.
Frontwoman Kimi Shelter dubs her band, StarBenders, “blasphemous candy-coated bubblegum punk,” and there’s definitely some saccharine hooks — mainly in the earworm guitar lines and choruses. But popping out front are the grungy pumping guitars and Shelter’s voice spitting teen pop punk. The band is a jean-clad four-piece from Atlanta signed to Institution Records and its eponymous debut EP is out now.
Idina Menzel performs Sunday, August 30, at CMAC, 3355 Marvin Sands Drive. 7 p.m. $45-$95. ticketmaster.com; idinamenzel.com. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
FRIDAY, AUGUST 28 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Music in the Country: Cory Lee and Jesse Wild. Long Acre
Farms, 1342 Eddy Rd. 315-9864202. longacrefarms.com. 6:30 p.m. free. Pan de Oro. Havana Cabana, 289 Alexander St. 232-1333. havanacabanaroc.com. 10 p.m. Call for info. Ralph Louis. Rochester Plaza Hotel, 70 State St. 546-3450. rochesterplaza. com. 6 p.m. Free.
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Dave Riccioni & Friends. The Beale, 693 South Ave. 2714650. thebeale.com. 5:308:30 p.m.
Gap Mangione New Blues Band. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 5:308:30 p.m.
Miller and the Other Sinners. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 9:30 p.m. $5. [ CLASSICAL ]
10th Anniversary: Mozart’s The Impresario. Lyric
SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] The Nightflys. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue. thelittle.org. 8:30 p.m. Sofrito. Havana Cabana, 289 Alexander St. 232-1333. havanacabanaroc.com. 10 p.m. Call for info.
The StarBenders plays Thursday, August 27, at Flour City Station, 170 East Avenue. 9 p.m. $8. flourcitystation.com; starbenders.band. — BY TYLER PEARCE Theater, 440 East Ave. 7385995. rochesterlyricopera. org. 6:30 p.m.
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Jazz Weekends with The David Detweiler Trio. Next Door Bar
Vintage Party with DJ NaNa.
& Grill, 3220 Monroe Ave. 2494575. wegmansnextdoor.com. Monday: 6-9 p.m., Friday: 7-10 p.m. Free. Matthew Sieber Ford Trio. Tapas 177 Lounge, 177 St. Paul St. 262-2090. tapas177.com. 4:30 p.m. Free.
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The Joe Santora Trio, Curtis Kendrick, and Emily Kirchoff.
[ DJ/ELECTRONIC ] Skylark Lounge, 40 South Union St. 270-8106. theskylarklounge. com/. 10 p.m.
Deborah Branch. Amaya Indian Cuisine, 1900 S. Clinton Ave. 241-3223. amayabarandgrill. com. 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. (585) 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. Free.
Book Signing: Richard Shade Gardner. House of
Guitars, 645 Titus Ave. 5443500. houseofguitars.com. 2 p.m. Joe Beard. Dinosaur Bar-BQue, 99 Court St. 325-7090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m. John Mooney. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. stickylipsbbq.com. 8:30 p.m. $15-$20.
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[ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Celtic Music Sundays. Temple
The Rascal Flatts, Scotty McCreery, and Raelynn. Darien
Bar and Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. templebarandgrille. com. 7 p.m. Free. Fandango at the Tango. Tango Cafe, 35 South Washington St. 271-4930. tangocafedance. com. 7:30 p.m. Free, donations accepted.
Lake PAC, 9993 Allegheny Rd. Darien. 800-745-3000. livenation.com. 10 a.m. [ DJ/ELECTRONIC ]
Supper Time with DJ Bizmuth.
Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 5-8 p.m.
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Bill Slater Solo Piano (Brunch).
[ JAZZ ]
Late Night Jazz Jam Session.
Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. 11 p.m.2:30 a.m.
The Joe Santora Trio, Curtis Kendrick, and Emily Kirchoff.
Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. (585) 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. Free. Special Blend. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 3814000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 7:30 p.m.-midnight. [ POP/ROCK ]
The Dirty Pennies. Montage
Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 2321520. themontagemusichall. com. 8 p.m. $8-$10. Warehouse. House of Guitars, 645 Titus Ave. 544-3500. houseofguitars.com. 2:30 p.m.
ROOTS ROCK | JD MCPHERSON
[ JAZZ ]
[ OPEN MIC ]
Jazz Weekends with The David Detweiler Trio. Next Door Bar
Stand Up & Sing Out: Open Mic Competition. Lovin’ Cup,
& Grill, 3220 Monroe Ave. 2494575. wegmansnextdoor.com. Monday: 6-9 p.m., Friday: 7-10 p.m. Free.
String of Pearls. Monroe Branch Library, 809 Monroe Ave. 4288202. libraryweb.org. 6:30-7:30 p.m.
[ VOCALS ]
Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa. com. 5:30-8:30 p.m.
JD McPherson plays Tuesday, September 1, at Harro East Ballroom, 400 Andrews Street. 8 p.m. $20-$25. abilenebarandlounge.com; jdmcpherson.com. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
MONDAY, AUGUST 31
Ballroom, 155 N. Chestnut St. 232-3230. jdmcpherson.com. 8 p.m. $20-$25.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Idina Menzel. CMAC,
[ POP/ROCK ]
JD McPherson. Harro East
[ POP/ROCK ]
Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa.com.
It’s not the drummer’s fault: Local boy, Jason Smay, does good as the drummer in JD McPherson’s band. And we all wanna cheer him on. But that’s not the only reason for McPherson’s third trip to town — and he’s graduated to playing the Harro East Ballroom. It’s because the band is that goddamn good. Mixing rockabilly and 1950’s R&B along with other subtle classic American delicacies, it’s a no frills show where McPherson lets the music do the talking … and the drums, too. And you: You’re gonna dance, dance, dance.
300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 8-10:30 p.m.
Roses & Revolutions. Woodcliff
3355 Marvin Sands Drive. Canandaigua. 800-745-3000. cmacevents.com. 7 p.m. $45-$95.
[ BLUES ]
Bluesday Tuesday Blues Jam.
P.I.’s Lounge, 495 West Ave. 8 p.m. Call for info.
[ POP/ROCK ]
The Tommy Brunett Band.
Center Stage at Center Park, 1100 Ayrault Rd. Perinton. 2235050. perinton.org/Departments/ Recreation/cntrstage/. 6-8 p.m.
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Danny Hoskins took over as Blackfriars Theatre’s artistic director on July 1. His first full season with the theater opens with “A Few Good Men” on September 4. PHOTO BY MARK CHAMBERLIN
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The air around Danny Hoskins crackles with the contagious energy of someone who spends entire days brainstorming. He’s spent many of the summer days indoors. His “office” is a tiny, sunlit space that doubles as the Blackfriars Theatre box office, though he’s just as likely to camp out at a wobbly card table near the stage so he can jump up to help his design crew with the set for “A Few Good Men,” which opens the 2015-16 season on September 4. After a year working side-by-side with former Blackfriars artistic director John Haldoupis to ensure a smooth transition, Hoskins has been flying solo since July 1. Hoskins is an East Rochester native who returned to the area in 2006. Before that, he was teaching at his undergraduate alma mater, Elmira College, and then — as so many homecoming stories go — there was a girl and a broken heart. When both his teaching contract and the relationship ended, he couch surfed and job-hunted in other cities for a while. “But I was 32, and thought, ‘I’m a little old to be sleeping on couches trying to figure this out,’” Hoskins says. “So coming back
to Rochester wasn’t a choice, but it was an option to restart.” He had filled nearly 10 years before that by earning his master’s in acting at the University of South Carolina, working at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, and touring regionally. Hoskins met Haldoupis soon after he returned to town and began contracting with Blackfriars in hopes that a full-time position would open up. When the budget didn’t permit that, he accepted an educational role with Rochester Children’s Theatre, which was then located at Nazareth College. For the last two years of his five-year tenure there, Hoskins was the artistic director of RCT. When RCT founder Deborah Haber made the decision to transition the company to D.E.E.P. Arts in 2014, Hoskins hit the job market. It was serendipitous timing: just one month later, Haldoupis announced he was retiring from Blackfriars after 35 years at the helm. Locals and out-of-towners alike applied, but the Blackfriars search committee wanted to find someone who believes in Rochester. “It would’ve been easy to hire someone just out of theater school somewhere, but ultimately, BFT is a Rochester theater company — it’s incredibly important to have someone who is inspired by the talent here,” Haldoupis says. “We believe he is committed to stay with this for a long time.”
Hoskins’s first season is filled with new titles and talent. Several of the shows, such as
“Heathers, the Musical” and “Annapurna,” have never even been performed in the state, excluding the New York City area. “Blackfriars has always had strong, diverse offerings in every season — classics and popular fare — that’s one of the things I am hoping to maintain,” Hoskins says. “I love every show in this season. They all ended up in my ‘what I’d like to direct’ pile, but I realized I can’t do that.” Hoskins will direct the bookends of the season: “A Few Good Men” in September and “Heathers, the Musical” in May, as well as pen the script for “Jekyll and Hyde” in January. “A Few Good Men,” in particular, is a bucket list show for him — it’s a fairly large cast of 16 (15 men and one woman). More than 30 auditioned for the show, and Hoskins assembled a cast of new-toBlackfriars actors and a number of “regulars.” The Blackfriars “regulars” are known throughout local theater circles. Over the last few years, Haldoupis tended to work with the same group of actors and crewmembers, and audiences grew to expect their favorites on stage (and in the wings) each season. While Hoskins sees the benefit to working with people you know and trust, he’s also a firm believer in expanding the reach of the Blackfriars stage.
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“It’s not a focus to step away from those who have been with us through the years, but it is an intent of mine to be more open to new people getting in here,” he says. “It is a fine line but I recognize that there has been a Blackfriars crew, so to speak.” When he directed “Beehive” in July, four out of the six Beehive ladies had never worked at Blackfriars before. He’s also bringing in fresh, albeit local, faces to direct the other shows in the season. “You have patrons who have their favorites,” he says, “but then you want new people so the patrons look at the folks and say, ‘Oh wow, who’s that?’ You need that energy when you’re changing your path.” When Hoskins talks about the new
community engagement initiatives at Blackfriars, his own inimitable energy comes to the forefront. Community engagement, up until this year, wasn’t a priority at Blackfriars, as Haldoupis will readily admit. “It was unusual because I did much of the design and costuming myself and it shut out a lot of people from working there,” Haldoupis says. “I don’t think the work suffered, but I think the connections and politics and relationships in the community suffered.” Previously, there was a single standing community partnership — the Hourglass Play Reading series, which will continue this season — but the upcoming season will include seven partnerships. One of the collaborations launched last spring when Nazareth College Professor Sherri Baker Hamilton assigned her graphic design students to treat Blackfriars as a client. “They used to design for a fake coffee shop or a bank — we’ve replaced that,” says Hoskins, who had the chance to visit the class, talk about the theater and give the students three show titles to design materials around. “They get really excited to do something artsy and then the teacher in me comes out.” (Hoskins adjuncts in the SUNY Brockport theater department.) The 11 students received individual feedback from Hoskins, and then the designs of two students, Amanda Murray (chosen as the season designer) and Meagan Kelly (chosen as the summer and special events designer), were used this year. Another partnership draws from a popular Rochester Fringe Festival event: alongside Writers & Books, Blackfriars will mount a 24-hour Musical Theatre Festival in spring 2016. “I’m terrified about this one,” Hoskins says with a quick laugh. “I’ve been a part of the Fringe event and it’s invigorating, but scary. Now we’re adding music in that short timeframe.”
There’s also a partnership with Rochester Institute of Technology’s theater program (a separate track from the well-known NTID theater program) where design and technical students will have the chance to work behind-the-scenes on actual productions at Blackfriars. Another two partnerships are with local comedy troupes — Canary in a Coal Mine and Unleashed! Improv — which will create the Blackfriars Comedy Series to present comedy weekend events and late night comedy sketches. Perhaps the most ambitious partnership is an original show based on “Jekyll and Hyde” and performed by PUSH Physical Theatre. Hoskins previously worked with PUSH on “Dracula” at Geva Theatre Center in 2009 and “Arc of Ages” at JCC CenterStage in 2013. Darren Stevenson, PUSH co-founder and artistic director, said they wanted to work with Hoskins again and “Jekyll and Hyde” was in the back of his mind as a potential project. A partnership is ideal for PUSH, since the group spends much of its time touring and does not have a performance home of its own. Blackfriars agreed to handle the business and marketing side of the partnership, freeing PUSH to build and present the show. “Now, we get to collaborate with Danny again and have his writing,” Stevenson says. “We are not wordsmiths and he is, so having someone who can write, especially for physical theater where the movement is central and you need fewer words, is crucial.” Hoskins doesn’t have an elevator pitch prepared for Blackfriars, but he does want people to know that it’s a homegrown company. “Everything is built here, from the ground up, for every production and the actors and directors are all Rochester-based,” he says. (And it’s worth noting that Blackfriars pays its cast and crew for every show.) “The artists who flock to Blackfriars are like myself: ones who have worked regionally and professionally, gone to school for the arts and decided to make Rochester home; to have a family and a job, but continue the pro-level quality work they’ve done in the past,” Hoskins says. “I think that does put us in a certain class of theater in the Rochester community. We are here to serve at a high level of quality, integrity, and now, engagement — we’re poised to take a large step forward and set ourselves in a new class of work.”
[ OPENING ] Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. Works by William Y. Cooper. thebaobab.org. International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Realism. Through Sept. 20. 264-1440. internationalartacquisitions.com/. Rosalie “Roz” Steiner Art Gallery, Genesee Community College, One College Rd. Impromptus. Through Sept. 25. Opening reception Thurs. August 27, 12:30-2 p.m., 5-7 p.m. American abstract paintings by Jonathon Langfield. genesee.edu. Schweinfurth Art Center, 205 Genesee St. Water Effect. Through Oct. 18. Work inspired by water by 57 international artists. (315) 255-1553. mtraudt@ schweinfurthartcenter.org. schweinfurtharcenter.org. [ CONTINUING ] 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Just the Two of Us. Through Sept. 11. A variety of contemporary artwork and crafts by Cheryl and Don Olney. 546-8439 x 3102. episcopalseniorlife.org. Create Art 4 Good Studios, 1115 E. Main St., door 5, suite 201. A Boundless Moment: The Art of Anne Jurgens & Jan Davidson. Through August 27. Paintings by Anne Jurgens and Jan Davidson. 210-3161. Susan@createart4good.org. createart4good.org/currentexhibit/. Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. Fantastic Fauna. Through Sept. 8. Work by Anne Smoral and Mary Mullard. 374-6160. rmsc.org. Davison Gallery, Cultural Life Center, Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Dr. Douglas R. Giebel Retrospective. Through Sept. 25. Artist reception Fri. Sept 25, 5-7 p.m. Painting and drawings. 594-6000. roberts. edu/davison-art-gallery.aspx. Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame, 175 S. Main St. Sterling Silver Show. Through Sept. 29. 40 sterling silver objects created by American artists from 1900-1920. 396-7210. galleryandframe.com/. Friendly Home’s Memorial Gallery, 3165 East Ave. Memories. Through Sept. 30. Paintings by Shirley D. Zimmer Kidd. 385-0298. friendlyseniorliving.org. Gallery 384, 384 East Ave. New Works. Through Sept. 28. Artist reception and talks Wed. Sept. 9, 6-9 p.m. Paintings by Berthe and Paula Santirocco; sculpture by Raphaela McCormack and Mark McDermott. 325-5010. artsrochester.org. Geisel Gallery, Bausch & Lomb Place, One Bausch & Lomb Place. The Disillusionment of Dreams. Through August 31. 25 new paintings by Bradley Butler. Bradleybutler.net. Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Portfolio Showcase 2015. Through Sept. 6. Reception Fri. Sept. 4, 5-9 p.m. Photographers Paul Zahman, Andy Schecter, Sandy Rothenberg, Steve Malloy
DINING | NIKKO POP-UP AT APOGEE
Pop-up restaurants — eateries with intentionally hort runs, often emphasizing seasonality while showing off a chef’s creativity — are popping up everywhere. But if you haven’t caught one yet, your next chance is just around the corner. Apogee Wine Bar is hosting a “pop-up resurrection” of Nikko, a sushi bar with a new-American bent that closed in summer 2014. Each seating will include a seven-course food and beverage pairing at $65 per person. The Nikko Pop-up will be held Thursday, August 27, through Saturday, August 29, at Apogee Wine Bar, 151 Park Avenue. Three seatings will be held each night: 6 p.m., 8 p.m., and 10 p.m. Reservations are strongly recommended and can be made by calling 749-6489. If you’re feeling lucky, skip the reservations and pop in after 10:30 p.m. for a condensed menu or sushi a la carte, though space is not guaranteed. — BY LAURA REBECCA KENYON Desormeaux, Frank Liberti, John Kosboth, Jeno Horvath, and John Ejaife. 482-1976. imagecityphotography.com. International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Miró. Through August 31. Graphic Work by Joan Miró. 264-1440. internationalartacquisitions. com/. Link Gallery at City Hall, 30 Church St. Women Speak Through The Arts and The Vote. Through Sept. 10. Celebrates the 95th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution that guaranteed women the right to vote. 2715920. cityofrochester.gov. Lockhart Gallery at SUNY Geneseo, 28 Main St. Permanent Collection Preservation Project 1. Through Oct. 7. Opening reception Wed. Sept 16, 5-7 p.m. Prints from the SUNY Geneseo Permanent Collection. 245-5516. genesee.edu. Lower Link Gallery, Central Library, 115 South Ave. Images and Objects of Interest: Telling a Story. Through August 28. Photography and Found Object creations by Timothy Cosgriff. 428-8053. libraryweb.org. Main Street Arts, 20 W. Main St., Clifton Springs. The Wildroot Group. Through Sept. 30. Paintings, photography, and found object assemblage sculpture by five artists Nancy Holowka, William Holowka, Peter Monacelli, George Wegman, and Robert C. Whiteside. 351-462-0210. mstreetarts@gmail.com.
mainstreetartsgallery.com.; Upstate New York Ceramics Invitiational. Through Sept. 4. Functional and sculptural work by 13 contemporary ceramic artists. 315-4620210. mstreetarts@gmail.com. mainstreetartsgallery.com. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 65th RochesterFinger Lakes Exhibition. 65th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition, 68 works by 46 artists in a juried show, July 26-Sept 23. 276-8900. mag. rochester.edu. Mill Art Center & Gallery, 61 N Main St. Honeoye Falls. Fresh Paint, Fresh Air. Through Sept. 5. Plein air paintings and drawings by regional and national artists. 624-7740. millartcenter.com. Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave. Nazareth College Art Department Faculty Show. Through Sept. 26. Opening reception Sept. 18, 5-7 p.m. A wide variety of styles and forms. 389-2170. naz.edu/art. NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. Implied Science. Through August 28. Glass pieces by Michael Taylor and paintings by Gary Morse. rit. edu/ntid/dyerarts/. continues on page 20
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Art Exhibits
In with the new New acquisitions and reimagined spaces at MAG MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 500 UNIVERSITY AVENUE WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, 11 A.M. TO 5 P.M.; THURSDAY, 11 A.M. TO 9 P.M. $5-$14, FREE TO MEMBERS AND CHILDREN 5 AND YOUNGER, HALF-PRICE ON THURSDAY, 5 P.M. TO 9 P.M. 276-8900; MAG.ROCHESTER.EDU [ ART NEWS ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
The reinstallation of three galleries at the Memorial Art Gallery, a process started in January, is now complete and is changing the way visitors will experience the museum’s collections. The Forman Gallery, situated immediately behind the glass doors past the admissions desk, is now full of sculpted and painted portraits — including some new acquisitions as well as highlights from the MAG collection — carefully arranged in a salon-style presentation. “Portraiture is one of the great strengths of MAG’s collection, and has been an important part of our acquisition strategy for the past year,” says Memorial Art Gallery Director Jonathan Binstock. The aim is to introduce visitors to the museum’s collection and represent different ethnicities and cultural heritages in the human experience, depicted across centuries of art. Among the portraits are Andy Warhol’s moody blue print, “Jackie,” which entered the collection in 1965, and several new acquisitions, including “Portrait of Qusuquzah #6,” a mixed media work by Mickalene Thomas; a Makonde tribal mask from Mozambique; and “Idealised Heterosexual Couple,” a decorative vase created by English celebrity artist Grayson Perry for his 2014 solo show at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The work features layers of imagery of a broken family still united through a love of ballroom dancing. In Binstock’s first year as director, the acquisition priority has been to give some TLC to the post-war and contemporary collection. “And I wanted to improve the look of the galleries where those things were involved,” he says. To this end, walls were added to not only increase surface area, but also to cause people to slow down and look at the art. 20 CITY AUGUST 26 - SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
And it’s really quite effective. Wilson Gallery, the shotgun corridor running along the Grand Gallery, is now characterized by walls jutting slightly into the space at angles, so that some paintings confront viewers directly as they move down the passageway. The walls also transform the space into mini thematic subsections on fantasy, abstraction, and the colorfield. In this latter section, find a massive painting by Mark Rothko, which has been borrowed from Buffalo’s AlbrightKnox Art Gallery. The work will be on view through the fall, so that “Portrait of Qusuquzah #6,” a mixed media work by Mickalene Thomas recently acquired by MAG, is on display in the reinstalled Forman Gallery. Rochester audiences can see it during Geva’s PHOTO PROVIDED production of “Red,” (October 20 through November 15) which is process was primarily how to tell new stories about the artist. (The play will be performed about the artworks already in the collection, October 20 through November 15.) through this new acquisitions.” The room directly before the Grand For example, “Three Fujins,” a recently acquired, gigantic, mixed-media painting by Gallery entrance is called the Hawks Gallery, Hung Liu, “relates beautifully to our Asian and is now characterized by the handle Gallery,” where it spent its first two months “Classicism Reconsidered.” The middle of at MAG, Binstock says. It has since been the space is dominated by a 1935 Alexander moved to the Hawks Gallery. Created in Calder sculpture, drawn out of storage and 1995 but based on antique photographs from dusted off — “one of his very first outdoor the late 1800’s, this piece represents the way mobiles,” Binstock says. the gallery seeks “to carry historic narratives In one nook stands “End Upheld,” a forward into our time,” he says. sculpture by Nick Cave that transformed a “As we continue to acquire works of art, racist sculptural stool or pedestal by placing it I’d like to see some of these acquisitions, on top of its own pedestal, raising the figure even if they’re modern or contemporary, up and adorning it with an abundance of find their way into the historical galleries,” decorative flora and fauna bits. Also found in this room is “Fossil Whale Binstock says. “Wouldn’t it be really great to see that Condo clown painting next to our (Dome),” a stunning 1992 Frank Stella Frans Hals Dutch portrait upstairs? That’s print — which Binstock calls a “pregnant what that clown painting is about. It would piece of paper,” due to the convex bubble just make that Hals painting look different. in its center — as well as “Convertible We’d see it in a new way.” Series, Group 10,” a newly acquired wall Visit the MAG on Thursday, August 27, piece of with geometrically arranged from 5 to 8 p.m., for an official celebration mirrors by Iran-American artist Monir of these changes. Admission is half-price on Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. Thursdays after 5 p.m. “The question became, ‘what can we acquire to fill out this story of modern and contemporary art?,’” Binstock says. “And the guiding factors in that decision-making
Ock Hee’s Gallery, 2 Lehigh St. Summer Harvest. Through August 29. Work by 5 artists. 624-4730. ockheesgallery.com. RTS Transit Center, 60 St. Paul St. Seeing the City One Drawing at a Time. Through August 31. 585-288-1700. mpgraphics@hotmail.com. myRTS.com. Wayne County Council for the Arts, 108 W. Miller St. Newark. Annual Members’ Art Show. Through Sept. 12. Oil, watercolor and pastel paintings, photography, woodworking, pottery and more by local artists. 3314593. waynearts.wordpress. com/.
Call for Artwork [ WED., AUGUST 26 ] Call for Artists. Ongoing. 4614447. spectrumgalleryroc.com. Call for Artists - Holiday Merchandising. 2-10 p.m. Experience Tattooing, Body Piercing and Fine Art Gallery, 506 Long Pond Rd Greece Varies by artist 453-8000. vincent@vincentjtosto.com. vincentjtosto.com/. Call for Artists to Interview for TV. Ongoing. Show: The Art of rctv-15 201-292-7937. team@ foreveraryes.com. Call for Small Work. Through Sep. 21. Main Street Arts, 20 W. Main St., Clifton Springs $25 for up to 3 images. 315462-0210. mstreetarts@gmail. com. mainstreetartsgallery. com/submissions. Calling All Local Artists. Ongoing. Lori’s Natural Foods, 900 Jefferson Rd Artists wanted to participate in our consignment program. Email a bit about you and your work 424-2323. stephanie@lorisnatural.com. lorisnatural.com. Cayuga Naturally 2015 Photography Contest. Through Oct. 7. Sterling Nature Center, 15380 Jenzvold Rd 315-9476143. snc@co.cayuga.ny.us. cayugacounty.us. Fine Art Retail Consignment Gallery. Ongoing. Experience Tattooing, Body Piercing and Fine Art Gallery, 506 Long Pond Rd Greece MonFri 6-10 p.m.; Sat-Sun noon-10 p.m 453-8000. vincent@vincentjtosto.com. vincentjtosto.com. Go Art!. Ongoing. The Genesee-Orleans Regional Arts Council is seeking artists interested in exhibiting their work in four galleries 3439313. info@goart.org. goart. org. New York Filmmakers Quarterly. Ongoing. Films must have been produced within NYS in the past 2 years. No fee. No honorarium. Max length 30 minutes. To be screened at Little Theatre last Wednesdays and Saturdays in January, April, July, and October. Send DVD screener + cover letter with 1 sentence bio and one sentence film description to Karen vanMeenan, Programmer, New York Filmmakers Quarterly, Little Theatre, 240 East Ave., Rochester NY 14604 emergingfilmmakers@ yahoo.com.
[ FRI., AUGUST 28 ] Friday Night Salsa Party. 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Tango Cafe, 35 South Washington St Introductory Lesson @9 p.m., open dancing with DJ Freddy C 10 p.m.-1 a.m $5 admission. 271-4930. tangocafedance.com. ILHC Viewing Party & Dance. 8 p.m. The Historic German House Auditorium, 315 Gregory Street $7. 585-5636241. evan@peerless.events. GrooveJuiceSwing.com.
FESTIVAL | TURKISH ARTS AND FOLK FESTIVAL
The Rochester Turkish Arts and Folk Festival will mark its 20th anniversary this weekend with three days of dance, traditional music, arts, and authentic food. Hosted by the Turkish Society of Rochester, the festival is expected to draw more than 4,000 attendees from around the region. The performance lineup will include Collage Dance Ensemble, a Boston-based, multicultural dance group, performing Turkish folk dances throughout the weekend; Sufi Sema performances by Onur and Agah; and a concert by Turkish musician and composer Hasan Isakkut on Saturday night. Fortune telling for adults, and games, crafts, and activities for kids will also fill the weekend. The Rochester Turkish Arts and Folk Festival will take place Friday, August 28, through Sunday, August 30, at the Turkish Society of Rochester, 677 Beahan Road. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday; noon to 9 p.m. on Saturday; and noon to 7 p.m. on Sunday. The event is free. For more information, visit tsor.org. — BY JAKE CLAPP
Art Events [ WED., AUGUST 26 ] Art Night With Ken Karnage. 6 p.m. Triumph Tattoo Studio, 127 Railroad St. Bring your art supplies and an open mind Free 270-4772. KenKarnage@gmail.com. triumphtattoostudio.com. Deborah Ronner Fine Art. Through Aug. 31. Paintings, prints, multi-media, and photo-based work by contemporary artists. By appointment only 218-9124. deborahronnen@gmail.com. [ THU., AUGUST 27 ] Tapas with Max at the Gallery. 5-8 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 1/2 price admission. 276-8900. mag. rochester.edu. [ SUN., AUGUST 30 ] Easel Does It! Painting Party. 11 a.m.-1 p.m Longhorn Steakhouse, 7720 . Victor $18-$36. 888-272-7762. easeldoesit.org.
Comedy [ WED., AUGUST 26 ] Best Friends Comedy Showcase. 7:30 p.m. A weekly comedy showcase of local Rochester comedians! Sign up the week before on the “Rochester Comedy” Facebook page. Hosted by Vasia Ivanov bouldercoffeeco. com. Open Mic: Comedy. 7:30 p.m. Arrive a little early to sign up Free bouldercoffeeco.com.
[ SUN., AUGUST 30 ] Open Mic: Comedy. 8 p.m. Boulder Coffee Co., 100 Alexander St. Come a little early to sign up Free. 4547140. bouldercoffeeco.com. [ MON., AUGUST 31 ] Monday Night Raw. 10 p.m. Banzai Sushi & Cocktail Bar, 682 South Ave. Open mic comedy, hosted by Uncle Trent. Cash prize Free 4730345. banzairochester.com. banzairochester.com.
Dance Events [ WED., AUGUST 26 ] Lindy Jam: Weekly Swing Dance. 8:45 p.m. Lindy Jam is a weekly swing dance on Wednesday nights, 8:4511pm, hosted by Groove Juice Swing. Friendly atmosphere. Beautiful ballroom. Free beginner dance lesson at 9pm. No partner or experience necessary. Admission is free if it’s your first time!. $4 (or free if it’s your first time!). lindyjam.com. [ THU., AUGUST 27 ] Contra Dancing. 8-11 p.m. Covenant United Methodist Church, 1124 Culver Rd $2$9. cdrochester.org. Dance Contest. noon & 1 a.m. Lux Lounge, 666 South Ave 232-9030. lux666.com. Live Argentine Tango Music. 9:30-11 p.m Tango Cafe, 35 South Washington St With Uptown Groove Trio $5. 2714930. tangocafedance.com.
[ SAT., AUGUST 29 ] Ballroom & Latin Dance Party. Every third Saturday Inikori Dance Studio, 1060 University Ave. $13-$20. 271-6840. inikoridance.com. Raq City Belly Dance Showcase. 5-8 p.m. ButaPub, 315 Gregory Street $13. 5636241. evan@butapub.com. butapub.com. West African Drumming and Dance Classes with Fana Bongoura. 10:30 a.m.-noon. Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. Saturdays at Baobab, Sundays at DancEncounters, 215 Tremont St $10-$15 per session. 503679-3372. kerfala.bangoura@ gmail.com. [ SUN., AUGUST 30 ] English Country Dancing. 6:30 p.m. First Baptist Church of Rochester, 175 Allens Creek Rd $8-$9, under 17 free with adult. 442-4681. cdrochester. org/. Israeli Folk Dancing. 6:30-9 p.m. JCC Rochester, 1200 Edgewood Ave. $6, free for members. 461-2000. jccrochester.org. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 1 ] Guinean Dance Class. 7:15 p.m. Bush Mango Drum & Dance, 34 Elton St. All levels welcome $15 drop in fee 210-2044. colleen@ bushmangodrumdance.org. bushmangodrumdance.org. Line Dance Lessons. 6-8 p.m American Legion Hall, 1707 Penfield Rd $8. joeship1@ yahoo.com.
Festivals [ FRI., AUGUST 28 ] 20th Annual Turkish Arts and Folk Festival. 5-9 p.m. Turkish Society of Rochester, 677 Beahan Rd 266-1980. tsor.org. [ SAT., AUGUST 29 ] 20th Annual Turkish Arts and Folk Festival. 12-9 p.m. Turkish Society of Rochester, 677 Beahan Rd 266-1980. tsor.org. Homestead Festival. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Beaver Meadow Audubon Center, 1610 Welch Rd, North Java $5-$7. 4573228. buffaloaudubon.org. [ SUN., AUGUST 30 ] 20th Annual Turkish Arts and Folk Festival. 12-7 p.m. Turkish Society of Rochester, 677 Beahan Rd 266-1980. tsor.org. Tommy Brunett Solo Acoustic. 3:15-4:30 p.m. Mendon Station Park, 1371 Pittsford Mendon Rd Mendon Donations accepted 8209104. fcelona1@rochester. rr.com. lehighvalleytrailfest.org.
Film [ WED., AUGUST 26 ] Monty Python Film Festival: Life of Brian. 6:30 p.m. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue $7. thelittle.org. [ SAT., AUGUST 29 ] Indian Summers. 3-5 p.m. The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue 258-0200. interactive. wxxi.org. [ MON., AUGUST 31 ] Blowing the Whistle on Abuse. 7 p.m. Lifetree Cafe, 1301 Vintage Lane 723-4673. lifetreecafe.com.
Kids Events [ WED., AUGUST 26 ] LEGO Club. 4:30-5:30 p.m Monroe Branch Library, 809 Monroe Ave 428-8202. libraryweb.org. Preschool Story Time. 11:30 a.m. Maplewood Community Library, 1111 Dewey Ave. Preschoolers and their caregivers, come enjoy stories, songs, crafts, and movement with children’s librarian Ms. Marcia!. Free. 585-428-8220. margaret. paige@libraryweb.org. maplewoodcommunitylibrary. org. [ THU., AUGUST 27 ] Story Time. 10:30-11 a.m. Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 637-1050. seymourlibraryweb.org 1212:45 p.m. Barnes & Noble at University of Rochester, 1305 Mt. Hope Ave. 275-4012. bksurochester@bncollege. com. urochester.bncollege. com/. [ FRI., AUGUST 28 ] Toddler Storytime. 10:30 a.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St Ages 1-4. Free. 6372260. patkutz@liftbridgebooks. com. liftbridgebooks.com. [ SAT., AUGUST 29 ] Edgerton Model Railroad Open House. Last Saturday of every month, 11 a.m.-2 p.m Edgerton Community Center, 41 Backus St 428-6769. edgertonmodelrailroadclub. com. [ MON., AUGUST 31 ] Widget the Reading Dog and her Pal Joey. 3-4 p.m. Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 637-1050. seymourlibraryweb.org. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 1 ] Babies and Books. 10:3011:15 a.m Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 637-1050. seymourlibraryweb. org 10:30-11:15 a.m Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 637-1050. seymourlibraryweb.org. Preschool Activity Club. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 637-1050. seymourlibraryweb.org 11:3012:30 a.m Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 6371050. seymourlibraryweb.org. Storytime. 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 330 Greece Ridge Center Dr. Free. 227-4020. bn.com. Teen Tuesdays. 2:45-4:15 p.m. Penfield Public Library,
FESTIVAL | FORESTFEST 100TH ANNIVERSARY
On Saturday, August 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., join a celebration of all things sylvan at the 100th anniversary of Forest Fest. The event will take place at Genesee County Park and Forest (11095 Bethany Center Road, East Bethany), and will feature live birds of prey, lumberjack sports, crafts, demos, games, guided hikes, and cake to mark the centennial of New York State’s oldest county forest. Established in 1915, the site now boasts 430 acres of forest and rolling hills, which includes more than 10 miles of trails, five ponds, pavilions and playgrounds, and a variety of wildlife, trees, and woodland plants. A special dedication and commemorative tree planting will also take place, and you can meet experts and find out what you can do for your trees and forests. For more information and to register in advance (recommended), call 344-1122. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY 1985 Baird Rd. Almost every Tuesday afternoon throughout the school year. Grades 9-12 340-8720 x4020.
Lectures [ FRI., AUGUST 28 ] Audio Engineering Symposium. 12:30-4:30 p.m. RIT Louise Slaughter Building, 111 Lomb Memorial Dr West Henrietta 475-2411. rit.edu. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 1 ] African World History Class. 7:30 p.m. Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. 563-2145. thebaobab.org.
Literary Events [ THU., AUGUST 27 ] Pure Kona Open Mic. 7:30-10 p.m The Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603. https://facebook.com/groups/ pure.kona.productions. cheval.morty/. Pure Kona Open Mic Poetry Series. 7-10 p.m. The Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603. ourcoffeeconnection.org. [ SAT., AUGUST 29 ] Saturday Author Salon Gordon Bonnet. 2-4 p.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St 637-2260. liftbridgebooks.com. Women Who Love to Read: The Boys in the Boat. 2-4 p.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St 637-2260. liftbridgebooks. com 2-4 p.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St 6372260. liftbridgebooks.com.
[ TUE., SEPTEMBER 1 ] Lift Bridge Writers’ Group. 6:30 p.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St Free. 6372260. liftbridgebooks.com. New Ground Poetry Night. First Tuesday of every month, 7:30 p.m. Equal=Grounds, 750 South Ave. The lineup is first come, first on stage. Each poet has five minutes (or three poems, whichever comes first.). 242-7840. facebook.com/ newgroundpoetry. R-SPEC meeting. First Tuesday of every month, 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 3349 Monroe Ave. 586-6020. r-spec.org.
Museum Exhibit [ WED., AUGUST 26 ] In the Garden. Ongoing. George Eastman House, 900 East Ave. In the Garden, worlds imagined by artists to food production recorded by journalists, through Sept. 6. and Collecting Shadows: The Legacy of James Card, celebrate Card’s roles as collector, educator, and showman, through photographs, film clips, and his own writings, through Oct. 18 271-3361. eastmanhouse.org. continues on page 22
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SPECIAL EVENT | THE HAPPIEST HOUR
Reminding adults that they still need to take a break and play some games every once in a while, The Strong National Museum of Play will host an adult after-hours event, The Happiest Hour, on Wednesday, August 26. At 5:30 p.m., the museum will turn into a 21 and older venue so that adults can explore the museum in a new way. Marshall Street Bar and Grill will provide food, and a cash bar will offer beers from Roc Brewing Co. Attendees will be able to play carnival games and classic arcade games, like “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back,” in the Boardwalk Arcade exhibit; or head to the second floor for “Pac-Man” and “Street Fighter.” Also, the Rochester Fencing Club will give demonstrations, and the Rochester Foam Dart League will have a target shooting challenge. The Strong Museum’s Happiest Hour will take place Wednesday, August 26, at One Manhattan Square. 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Five game tokens are included with admission. Ages 21 and older only. Bar is cash only. For more information, visit museumofplay.org. — BY JAKE CLAPP
Museum Exhibit [ SUN., AUGUST 30 ] Our Town in World War II. 1:30-4 p.m Greece Historical Society & Museum, 595 Long Pond Rd. Through Dec. 13 Free, Donations accepted. 225-7221. greecehistoricalsociety.net. Our Town In World War 2. 1:30-4 p.m Greece Historical Society & Museum, 595 Long Pond Rd. Free. 585-225-7221. greecehistoricalsociety@ yahoo.com. greecehistoricalsociety.net. Sunday Trolley Rides. 11 a.m.5 p.m. New York Museum of Transportation, 6393 E. River Rd $8 adults, $6 under 12 533-1113. nymtmuseum.org.
Recreation [ WED., AUGUST 26 ] Crepuscular Walk: Nearly Full Moon by the Pond. 6:30 p.m. Letchworth State Park, 1 Letchworth State Park . Castile 493-3625. nysparks.com. Free Races for Speedsters. Through Sep. 7. Pole Position Raceway, 1 Miracle Mile Dr Rohcester 201-333-7223. polepositionraceway.com/. Mushroom Foray. 10 a.m. Letchworth State Park, 1 Letchworth State Park . Castile 493-3625. nysparks.com. RBC: Bary’s Time Trial Revised. 6 p.m. 737-2887.
Rochesterbicyclingclub.org. Roc Cirque presents Whirly Wendsday. 7 p.m. Join the fun at Rochester’s premier spin toy meet up. Hooping, poi, juggling, fire performances, and much more. Live DJ’s are playing during the session to help you stay moving. Extra hoops and poi are available 683-5734. facebook.com/ WhirlyWednesdays. Rochester Juggling Club. Through Sep. 27, 1-4 p.m. Village Gate Square, 274 N. Goodman St. Run/Walk to Stop Sex Trafficking. 7 a.m. Meridian Centre Park, 2025 Winton Road South $15-$25. 7304556. angelsofmercyny.org. Yoga. 7, 8:30, 10 & 11:30 a.m. Sanford Street Yoga, 237 Sanford St., Side Entrance, II Floor. This Yoga class lasts 75 minutes. It is appropriate for any level of skills. By holding yoga poses for 1 to 3 minutes, we develop strength and balance $11 for drop in class, $60/month and $160 for 3 months unlimited classes. 461-8336. studioartcorporation@hotmail.com. [ THU., AUGUST 27 ] Magic: The Gathering. 6:30 p.m. Books Etc., 78 W. Main St Macedon 474-4115. booksetcofmacedonny.com. Twilight Tours. Mount Hope Cemetery, North Gate, 791 Mt. Hope Ave. $5. 461-3494. fomh.org.
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[ FRI., AUGUST 28 ] Amazing Plants and Their Travels. 6-8 p.m. Burroughs Audubon Nature Club, 301 Railroad Mills Rd. 385-2368. RBC: Fast Friends-Free Ride in reverse. 9 a.m. 737-2887. Rochesterbicyclingclub.org.
RCSD School Board Candidates Forum. 6:30 p.m. Inner Faith Tabernacle Church, 32 York St. 342-8970. Run Happy Power Hour. 6 p.m. Hose 22 Firehouse Grill, 56 Stutson St. 621-2200. fleetfeetrochester.com/.
[ SAT., AUGUST 29 ] 2015 Lehigh Valley Trail Fest. Aug. 29. Mendon Station Park, 1371 Pittsford Mendon Rd Mendon Free. 281-0014. fcelona1@rochester.rr.com. lehighvalleytrailfest.org/. Dirty Girl Mud Run. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Area 51 Motocross, 3323 Harloff Rd Batavia $65-$75. (716) 553-6502. godirtygirl. com/buffalo. Impact Theater. 6:30 p.m. Books Etc., 78 W. Main St Macedon 474-4116. booksetcofmacedonny.com. Owl Prowl. 7 p.m. Sterling Nature Center, 15380 Jenzvold Rd 315-9476143. snc@co.cayuga.ny.us. cayugacounty.us. Rochester Bicycling Club. Check our online calendar for this week’s ride schedule or visit. Rochesterbicyclingclub. org. The Civil War Tour. Aug. 29. Mount Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mt. Hope Avenue 461-3494. fomh.org. Trunks Full of Treasures Sale. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Faith United Methodist Church, 174 Pinnacle Rd 334-1180. faithumcny.org. Walk Against Domestic Violence. 9 a.m. Maplewood Rose Garden, Corner of Lake Ave and Driving Park 4906294.
[ SAT., AUGUST 29 ] Role Playing Gamers Club. 10 a.m.-2 p.m Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport 6371050. seymourlibraryweb.org.
[ SUN., AUGUST 30 ] Mount Hope Cemetery North Section Tours. 2 p.m Mount Hope Cemetery, North Gate, 791 Mt. Hope Ave. 461-3494. fomh.org 2 p.m Mount Hope Cemetery, North Gate, 791 Mt. Hope Ave. $5. 461-3494. fomh.org. Rochester Orienteering Club Meet. 12-2 p.m. Mendon Ponds Park, Douglas Road. Mendon roc.us.orienteering. org/. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 1 ] Balanced Yoga with Megan. 7:45-8:45 p.m. Nu Movement, 716 University Ave. $12. 7042889. tinydancerdeuel@gmail. com. numvmnt.com/signup/ balanced-yoga-with-megan. Cardio Charleston. 6-7 p.m. Groove Juice Swing, 389 Gregory St. $7. 845-706-2621. cardiocharleston.com. Nature Walk: Big Flats & Smokey Hollow Trails. 10 a.m. Letchworth State Park, 1 Letchworth State Park . Castile 493-3625. nysparks.com. Pacesetters: Pattonwood Drive and Neighborhood Walk. 6:30 p.m. 249-9507. huggersskiclub.org 6:30 p.m. 249-9507. huggersskiclub.org.
Meetings [ WED., AUGUST 26 ] Flower City Pickers Casual Meeting. 5:30-7 p.m Boulder Coffee Co., 100 Alexander St. 574-3909. flowercitypickers.com.
Special Events [ WED., AUGUST 26 ] Accessible Voting Machine Demonstration. 6-8 p.m. Center for Disability Rights, 497 State St 546-7510. dderusso@rcil.org. cdrnys.org. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 8 p.m. Scotland Yard Pub, 187 Saint Paul St Free. 730-5030. scotlandyardpub.com. Italian American Karaoke. 7:30-11 p.m Italian American Community Center, 150 Frank Dimino Way 594-8882. iaccrochester.org. Rose Hill After Hours. 5:307:30 p.m. Rose Hill Mansion, 3373 New York 96A, Geneva $15. 315-789-5151. genevahistoricalsociety.com. RYP: Rochester Restaurant Week. Aug. 26. $25-$30. 4510246. rocrestaurantweek.com. Turning Points. 3:30-5 p.m. An information Center for families whose lives have been touched by Incarceration. Join us to share information, resources, and support Free. 328-0856. turningpoints4families@ frontier.com. [ THU., AUGUST 27 ] Canandaigua Chamber of Commerce Anniversary Gala. 6 p.m. Inn on the Lake, 770 South Main St. $30. 394-4400 x 203. canandaiguachamber. com. Casa Larga Patio Parties Thursday Nights. 5:30-8:30 p.m Casa Larga Vineyards, 2287 Turk Hill Rd Fairport $10. 223-4210. casalarga. com/Events/ROCPatioParties. Geeks Who Drink Trivia. 8-10 p.m ButaPub, 315 Gregory Street 563-6241. evan@ butapub.com. butapub.com 8-10 p.m. ButaPub, 315 Gregory Street 563-6241. evan@butapub.com. yelp.com/ events/rochester-geeks-whodrink-trivia-every-thursday-atbutapub. Irondequoit Farmers’ Market. 4-8 p.m Irondequoit Town Hall, 1280 Titus Ave 3366034. irondequoit.org. Lincoln Tours. 1 & 3 p.m. Seward House Historic Museum, 33 South St., Auburn. 315-252-1283. sewardhouse.org. New York State Tailgate. 6-9:30 p.m. New York Wine & Culinary Center, 800 South Main St $35. 394-7070. nywcc.com/events. Owl Moon. Every other day, 6 p.m. Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford $8-$12, rsvp (585) 538-6822. gcv.org. [ FRI., AUGUST 28 ] Fridays on the Patio. 6:30-8 p.m The Barrel Room, 72 W
SPECIAL EVENT | RAQ CITY BELLY DANCE SHOWCASE
For those interested in belly dancing, but not quite sure where to start, the Raq City Belly Dance Showcase is an exhibition of dancing, fashion, and exotic goods that makes it easy to see what the art holds. The showcase will feature performances by Kadri and Soraiyah Sireen, both from Buffalo, and Rochester’s Bombshell Belly Dance, and costume designs by Fairuza. After the showcase, Lotus and Lace Cabaret will perform, 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. The Raq City Belly Dance Showcase will take place Saturday, August 29, at The German House, 315 Gregory Street. 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. $10 advance, $13 at the door. For more information, check facebook.com/ bellydancebeth. — BY JAKE CLAPP Main St, Victor 869-5028. treleavenbarrelroom.com/ events/. Ommegang Brewery Beer Tasting Golf Happy Hour. 5 p.m. Eagle Vale Golf Club, 4344 Fairport Nine Mile Point Road . Fairport $35. 585-377-5200. socialdiva@ rochesteralist.com. bit.ly/ alistgolfHH. Stone Tool Craftsman Show. Aug. 28-30, 10 a.m. Letchworth State Park, 1 Letchworth State Park . Castile 493-3625. nysparks.com. Wine Tasting Cruise. 6:30-8 p.m. Sam Patch Packet Boat, 12 Schoen Place . Pittsford $26. 662-5748. samandmary. org. [ SAT., AUGUST 29 ] 3rd Annual Bachata, Kizomba Cruise. 7-10 p.m. Port of Rochester, 4699 Lake Ave. $35. 749-6006. rhythmsociety.org. Adoption Event. noon. Pet Adoption Network, 4261 Culver Rd. (585) 338-9175. info@petadoptionnetwork.org. petadoptionnetwork.org. CollectorFest Monthly. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Webster Columbus Center, 70 Barrett Dr. $10-$15 for autographs and photos. 414-6726. collectorfestmonthly.com/. Picnic For The Pitties. 1-7 p.m. Powder Mills Park, 154 Park Rd. $25. 737-7830. pittyloverescue.org. Rochester Gluten Free Meet & Mingle Luncheon. 1-3 p.m. Pieters Family Life Center, 1025 Commons Way 7320002. eventbrite.com/e/ rochester-gluten-free-meetmingle-tickets-17818685167. Stop the Trafficking-End the Cycle 5K Run/Walk. 7-10:30
a.m. Meridian Centre Park, 2025 Winton Road South $20-$25. 730-4556. angelsofmercyny.org. Wine n’ Game Night. 5-7 p.m The Barrel Room, 72 W Main St, Victor 8695028. facebook.com/ TheBarrelRoom. [ SUN., AUGUST 30 ] Benefit Fashion Show. 11 a.m. Midvale Country Club, 2387 Baird Rd. $25. 872-4687. Brighton Farmers’ Market. 9 a.m.-1 p.m Brighton High School, 1150 Winton Rd S 269-8918. brightonfarmersmarket.org. Classic Car Cruise Night. 5-8 p.m. Dairy Queen, 3644 Dewey Ave Live music by Wilkes Booth Band 865-1151. Community Garage Sales and Super Fleas. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. 4286907. cityofrochester.gov/ garagesales. Farm to Table Marketplace. 10 a.m.-2 p.m Casa Larga Vineyards, 2287 Turk Hill Rd Fairport 223-4210. casalarga. com. Sole Searchin II. 12-6 p.m. Main Street Armory, 900 E. Main St. $15-$20. 232-3221. mainstreetarmory.com. Tap It Forward. 12-6 p.m. Genesee Brew House, 25 Cataract St. 5K and live music by Johnny Bauer, Flint Creek, and LoCash. 263-9200. geneseebeer.com. Universal Worship. 10:30 a.m. Sufi Order of Rochester Center for Sufi Studies, 494 East Ave. Carriage House of AAUW Candle lighting ceremony honoring all the world’s religions together on one altar, promoting the unity
of religions ideals. All are welcome No charge. 2480427. hecca@frontiernet.net. sufiorderofrochester.org. [ MON., AUGUST 31 ] Back to Back Summer Challenge. 5:30-7:30 p.m La Vie Salon Spa Wellness, 4 Elton St 8 Classes for $70.00; or try one night for $20.00. 978-7813. megan.eisermann@yahoo. com. facebook.com/ events/392622367603305/. Lakeside Farmers Market in Charlotte. 4-7 p.m Hose 22 Firehouse Grill, 56 Stutson St. 944-3438. portofcharlotteny. com. Quad A For Kids Charity Golf Tournament. 11 a.m.9 p.m. Brook-Lea Country Club, 891 Pixley Rd. Enter by August 17th. 247-3242. quadaforkids.com/. RocCity Poker Foundation’s Summer Slam Kickoff. 7 p.m.-midnight. Bathtub Billy’s, 630 W. Ridge Rd. $25-$45. 00-2268. roccitypokerfoundation@gmail. com. bathtubbillys.com. Thinkin’ & Drinkin’: The Bug Jar’s Trivia Night. 8:30-9:30 p.m. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 21+. Prizes: $20 / $10 / $5 bar tabs for the first, second, and third place teams. Doors at 7:30 p.m Free. bugjar.com. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 1 ] Balanced Yoga with Megan. 9:30-10:30 a.m La Vie Salon Spa Wellness, 4 Elton St 8 classes for $70.00; Drop in $12.00. 978-7813. megan.eisermann@yahoo. com. facebook.com/groups/ BalancedYogaWithMegan. Casa Larga Patio Parties. 5:30-8:30 p.m Casa Larga Vineyards, 2287 Turk Hill Rd Fairport $10. 223-4210. casalarga.com. Free STD Screenings for Women ages 13+. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Trillium Health, 259 Monroe Ave. Free. 545-7200. trilliumhealthny.org. Tuesday Taco Trivia. 9-11 p.m. Temple Bar and Grille, 109 East Ave. Lots of giveaways, including hats, t-shirts, drinks, tacos - come alone or come with a team! $1.50 Beef Tacos, $2.50 Chicken Tacos, $2.50 Drafts except Guinness, $3 Bacardi Flavors 232-6000. templebarrochester@gmail. com. templebarandgrille.com.
Sports [ THU., AUGUST 27 ] Car Show Cruises. 5-8 p.m Perinton Square Mall, 6720 Pittsford Palmyra Rd. Fairport Free. 223-8254. perintonssquaremall.com. [ SAT., AUGUST 29 ] 100th Anniversary ForestFest. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Genesee County Park and Forest, 11095 Bethany Center Road . East Bethany 344-1122. jspring.geneseeconsed@ yahoo.com. co.genesee.ny.us/ departments/parks/. [ SUN., AUGUST 30 ] Tap It Forward 5k & Festival. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Genesee Brew House, 25 Cataract St. $55$180. 323-762-5530. bit.ly/ geneseebrewhouse.
MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave $14-$16, depending on event. muccc.org. The Tempest. Mon., Aug. 31, 6:30 p.m. Letchworth State Park, 1 Letchworth State Park. Castile Free. 493-3625. shakeonthelake.org.
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THEATER | SANKOFA EVENING OF THEATRE AND JAZZ FEST
The eighth season of Sankofa Evening of Theatre and Jazz Fest will kick off this week, featuring original works by established and emerging African-American playwrights. “The Brownstone” is a full-length production about conflicts and mysteries surrounding a family in Harlem, and is written by Laura A. Thomas and directed by Curtis K. Rivers (founder and artistic director of the fest). See it Thursday, August 27, through Saturday, August 29, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday admission is $16 in advance or $20 at the door. On August 28 and 29, tickets are $14 in advance and $20 at the door. The festival continues Thursday, September 3, with a Jazz and Gospel Night featuring Northeast Flow and vocalist Gaya Shakes. On Friday, September 4, playwright David Taylor and director David A. Shakes present “Garvey High ‘95,’’ a tale of a surprise alumni reunion. Admission is $12 in advance and $16 at the door. On Saturday, September 5, the festival will feature “The Trial,’’ a courtroom drama written and directed by Jacquetta A. Harris. The play is paired with “Window Pains,” about one man’s journey through life after being committed to a psychiatric institution, written by Jahaka Mindstorm and directed by Reuben Tapp. Admission is $12 in advance and $16 at the door. All performances will take place at MuCCC (142 Atlantic Avenue). A $40 theatre package that includes the opening reception for “The Brownstone’’ is also available and grants full access to the entire festival. For individual tickets, the theatre package or more about the festival, call Mood Makers Books at 271-7010 or visit muccc.org. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Theater 2BR02B and The Big Trip Up Yonder. Sun., Aug. 30, 2 p.m. Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave Free, registration required 3892170. naz.edu. The Accidental Hero. Aug. 2830, 8-9:30 p.m. Downstairs Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place Through August 30. Fri. August 28, 8 p.m., Sat. August 29, 3 & 8 p.m., Sun. August 30, 3 p.m. True story of a WWII officer who unexpectedly liberates the people of his grandparent’s hometown $12.50-$25. 3254370. downstairscabaret.com. A Journey to the Son: A Celebration of Son House. Aug. 26-29. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd Through August 29. A fourday festival that weaves together music, theatre, film,
audio recordings, storytelling and lectures to celebrate Rochester’s adopted son, Eddie “Son” House. See website for full schedule of events Variety of free and ticked events 232-4382. gevatheatre.org/. Legally Blonde. Through Aug. 29. A Magical Journey Through Stages, Auditorium Center, 875 E. Main St Through August 29. Fri. August 28, 2 p.m., Sat. August 29, 3 & 7 p.m. Harvard’s beloved blonde takes the stage by glittery pink storm in this fun and upbeat musical $6. 935-7173. mjtstages.com. Open House. Sat., Aug. 29, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Bread & Water Theatre, 172 West Main St 271-5523. breadandwatertheatre.org. Sankofa Evening of Theatre & Jazz Fest. Aug. 27-29.
[ SAT., AUGUST 29 ] Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Coney Island Christmas Auditions. 6 p.m. JCC Rochester, 1200 Edgewood Ave. 461-2000. jcccenterstage.org/. Lyric Choral Auditions. 10 a.m.-noon. Lyric Theater, 440 East Ave 478-0778. lyricchorale.org. Need A Female Host. 10 a.m.10 p.m. The Corner Bookstore, 106 Village Landing 585-7468802. telefilms@live.com.
Workshops [ WED., AUGUST 26 ] Beer Styles, a Tour and a Tasting. 6:30-8 p.m. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N. Goodman St. $30. 730-7034. rochesterbrainery.com. Divination Tool Time. 12-2:45 & 5-5:45 p.m. The Purple Door Soul Source, 3259 Winton Road S $5. 427-8110. purpledoorsoulsource.com. Knit Clique: Knitting/Crocheting Drop-In. noon. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. Snacks are welcome free. 784-5300. brightonlibrary.org. Open Weekly Group Meditation. 5:30 p.m. The TRU Center, 6 South Main St Pittsford This meditation group meets weekly on Wednesdays at 5:30-6:30pm. Renewal, deep relaxation and decompression in the ways you need most. The themes vary week-by-week and include guidance in areas such as totems, angels, guides, singing bowls, oils, drums, visualization and more $12, registration required 381-0190. tru@ trubynicole.com. trubynicole. com. Painting with Acrylics. 1 p.m. Chapel Oaks, St. Ann’s Community, 1550 Portland Ave Registration requested 697-6606. stannscommunity. com. Parenting with Wit & Wisdom. 10 a.m.-noon. Mental Health Association, 320 N. Goodman St. 325-3145 x131. mharochester.org. Peace Meditation Circle. 7:15 p.m. Beyond Center for Yoga, 67 Main Street, 3rd floor, Brockport. An open, inclusive community to promote world peace by practicing meditation 690-9714 OR 637-3984. melanie@namastegirl.com OR gencool@rochester.rr.com. brockportyogapilates.com. Whole Foods Cleansing. 7-8 p.m. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N. Goodman St. $15. 730-7034. rochesterbrainery.com. Yoga. 7, 8:30, 10 & 11:30 a.m. Sanford Street Yoga, 237 Sanford St., Side Entrance, II Floor. This Yoga class lasts 75 minutes. It is appropriate for any level of skills. By holding yoga poses for 1
to 3 minutes, we develop strength and balance $11 for drop in class, $60/month and $160 for 3 months unlimited classes. 461-8336. studioartcorporation@hotmail. com Yoga. Through Sep. 30, 7-8:15, 8:30-9:45 & 10-11:15 a.m. Sanford Fitness, 237 Sanford Street $12 - $60. 978-7142. rochestertour@ hotmail.com. [ THU., AUGUST 27 ] French Macarons. 6-9 p.m. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N. Goodman St. $30. 730-7034. rochesterbrainery.com. Looking at Your Life Through the Tarot. 7-9 p.m. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N. Goodman St. $15. 730-7034. rochesterbrainery.com. Meditation. 7-8 p.m. Grow2bu, 595 Blossom Rd $15. 9530503. grow2bu.com/. Relax: Unwind Your Body/ Mind. 5:30-6:30 p.m La Vie Salon Spa Wellness, 4 Elton St Stress reduction class for women 978-7813. delucaland.us. Rochester Makerspace Open Nights. 6-10 p.m. Rochester Makerspace, 850 St. Paul St. #23 Bring a project to work on or something to show others, help work on the space, or just get to know the venue Free. 210--0075. rochestermakerspace.org. Yoga. Eastside Wellness Center, 625 Ayrault Rd. Monday Vinyasa Flow 4:30 p.m., Restorative 6 p.m. Thursday Vinyasa Flow 5:30 p.m $14 drop-in, $60 5 classes, register. cindy@ relaxreleaserestore.com. Zikr. Fourth Thursday of every month, 7:30 p.m. Sufi Order of Rochester Center for Sufi Studies, 494 East Ave. Carriage House of AAUW no charge. 2480427. hecca@frontiernet.net. sufiorderofrochester.org. [ FRI., AUGUST 28 ] Spirit Tutoring. 11 a.m.6 p.m. The Purple Door Soul Source, 3259 Winton Road S $1/minute, $5 minimum. 427-8110. purpledoorsoulsource.com. [ SAT., AUGUST 29 ] Saturday Demos at Hyatt’s!. noon. Hyatt’s All Things Creative, 937 Jefferson Road Saturday Demos at Hyatt’s! Hyatt’s will be having free demos of various products every Saturday during the month of September! Come into the store anytime from noon until close to test these products, see sample creations and ask our knowledgeable staff questions. September 21st- Watercolor: Various techniques explored in detail! September 28thInktense: Richly pigmented and versatile mixed media pencils!. Free. 292-6500. scilano@hyatts.com. hyatts. com/art. [ MON., AUGUST 31 ] Basic Literacy In Russian. 7-9 p.m. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N. Goodman St. $15. 730-7034. rochesterbrainery.com. Crafting Paper Flowers. 7-8:30 p.m. Rochester
Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N. Goodman St. $30. 7307034. rochesterbrainery. com. Healing Universal Worship. 5:15 p.m. Sufi Order of Rochester Center for Sufi Studies, 494 East Ave (behind AAUW mansion). Facilitated by Basira Maryanne Karpinski, Associate Cherag. A candle lighting ceremony honoring the world’s religious traditions together on one altar, with a focus on healing Free. 748-1361. zaynab@frontiernet.net. sufiorderofrochester.org. Wise Choices. 10 a.m.-noon. Mental Health Association, 320 N. Goodman St. 3253145 x131. mharochester. org. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 1 ] 20 Minutes to Effective Parenting. 10 a.m.-noon. Mental Health Association, 320 N. Goodman St. 3253145 x131. mharochester. org. EMT Information Session. First Tuesday of every month, 6:30 p.m. Brighton Volunteer Ambulance, 1551 South Winton Rd. Learn about classes and preparation to become an EMT, meet corp members, and take a tour of the Base. Accepted applicants training costs will be covered Free. 271-2718 ext. 3. brightonambulance. org. Guinean Drum Class with Mohamed Diaby. 6 p.m. Bush Mango Drum & Dance, 34 Elton St. Instruments available for student use. For all levels $15 drop in fee. 820-9213. colleen@ bushmangodrumdance.org. bushmangodrumdance.org. Health Insurance Open House for Rochester’s Uninsured. 2-5 p.m. Threshold at the Community Place, 135 Parsells Ave Fidelis Care representatives will be onsite at Threshold at the Community Place, 145 Parsells Avenue, Rochester, every Tuesday from 2 – 5 PM to answer questions about health insurance options, and to help eligible residents apply to enroll in Fidelis Care programs. Current Fidelis Care members may also receive assistance completing their annual recertification at these events 1-888-3433547. fideliscare.org. Meditation. First Tuesday of every month, 6-7 p.m. The Purple Door Soul Source, 3259 Winton Road S $10. 427-8110. purpledoorsoulsource.com. Tarot or Oracle Card Practise Nights. First Tuesday of every month. The Purple Door Soul Source, 3259 Winton Road S $10. 427-8110. purpledoorsoulsource.com.
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The bong identity “American Ultra”
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I don’t remember absolutely everything that happened last month, so I suppose it’s possible that at some point during July, I was recruited by a shadowy government agency, trained as an efficient killing machine, and then deposited into my humdrum little life after a thorough memory wipe, not knowing when or how I’ll be activated for duty. Hey, if we’re to believe works like “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Shutter
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Island,” or “The Bourne Identity” — and, really, why would movies ever lie to us? — sleeper agents are pretty much standard operating procedure in the world of espionage. But what about a stoner agent? Probably not the smartest idea, yet as director Nima Nourizadeh’s fun, feisty, and defiantly violent spy flick, “American Ultra,” reminds us, it’s almost always the person whom you least expect. Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg (2010’s “The Social Network”) and Kristen Stewart (still best known for the “Twilight” films) star as Mike and Phoebe, young, flannel-clad West Virginia slackers in love with marijuana and each other, though not necessarily in that order of importance. As the film opens, Mike’s plan to whisk Phoebe to Hawaii and propose gets derailed by a panic attack, which apparently happens whenever Mike tries to leave town. So it’s right back to his overnight job at the Cash-N-Carry, where a mystery woman walks up to the counter and repeats a series of bizarre sentences to the puzzled Mike.
Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart in “American Ultra.” PHOTO COURTESY LIONSGATE
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But one Styrofoam cup of ramen and two dead guys later, Mike and his hired-killer instincts have apparently been activated, even though Mike has no memory of learning how to end someone’s life with a spoon. Unlike Mike, however, we’ve already met the woman. As played by Mrs. Coach herself, Connie Britton (Texas forever!), she is CIA Agent Lasseter, and she’s gone rogue to protect Mike from her slimy, profane boss, Agent Yates (the perpetually underappreciated Topher Grace). Yates has decided to tie up loose ends (read: murder people) in the Ultra Program, which created sleeper agents like Mike. Most of “American Ultra” unfolds as a smart-ass action movie, with Mike and Phoebe making their way through the now-lockeddown town of Liman (perhaps an homage to the director of “The Bourne Identity”?) and trying to elude the agents sent to kill him. But thrumming through the blood and bullets is the surprisingly swooning love story between Mike and Phoebe, made all the more romantic once Phoebe’s own secrets are revealed. It obviously helps that the two leads already have an entrenched, easy chemistry thanks to 2009’s stellar “Adventureland,” but Eisenberg seems to bring out the best in Stewart, her typical chill giving way here to a rather passionate vibe gorgeously anchored by Phoebe’s clear-eyed choices. (It would have been nice if the men weren’t using her as a
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pawn, but small steps, I suppose.) Eisenberg is excellent here, too, as a tentative young man certain of his love but desperately trying to convince himself that he’s worthy of hers. Besides Britton and Grace, look for ace-in-the-hole John Leguizamo as Mike’s paranoid weed dealer (but not Mike’s fantasy-football friend); Tony Hale (TV’s “Arrested Development”) as Lasseter’s man on the inside; an enigmatic Bill Pullman; and Walton Goggins (I miss you, “Justified”) and his mesmerizing teeth as the psychotic Laugher, another sad casualty of the Ultra program. More spy movie than stoner flick, “American Ultra” boasts visuals cartoony enough to make you think the film was adapted from a graphic novel, but in actuality it’s from the mind of screenwriter Max Landis (he also scripted the upcoming Mary Shelley revamp “Victor Frankenstein”), who takes a pretty standard story and puts his own youthful, kinetic spin on it. Now, not every plot development is airtight — it bothered me that Mike went to work after missing the plane to Hawaii; wouldn’t he have gotten his shifts covered? — and a crucial character like Agent Yates is given no dimension beyond the moustache-twirling one. (More Bill Pullman probably wouldn’t have killed anyone either.) But Nourizadeh gets some sassy action sequences out of people who aren’t generally known for such things, and as dog-day diversions go, you could do way worse than “American Ultra.”
“Are they supposed to be sexy?” A clearly perplexed man at one point poses this question to Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley), the 15-year-old protagonist of “The Diary of a Teenage Girl.” He’s referring to drawings, depicting various sex acts and genitalia, that appear throughout the amateur cartoonist’s sketchbook, though he might as well be talking about specific scenes from the film itself. That the question is being asked by Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård), the 35-yearold boyfriend of Minnie’s mother — with whom the girl is engaging in an illicit affair — adds another layer of discomfort to this unconventionally frank coming-of-age story. Filmic depictions of teenage sexuality make one thing abundantly clear: society doesn’t know how to deal with teenagers. Movies that dare to treat teenaged characters as sexual beings generally fall into one of two categories: idealized stories
Bel Powley in “The Diary of a Teenage Girl.” PHOTO COURTESY SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
of first love, or low-brow sex comedies, where we don’t have to take them at all seriously. Honest portrayals of teenage sexuality are rare to find, and ones centered around females are rarer still. All this to say that first-time director Marielle Heller’s “The Diary of a Teenage Girl” is quietly revolutionary. We’re used to seeing movies about horny, sex-obsessed boys, but an unapologetic treatment of a young woman’s enjoyment of sex is practically unheard of. The film’s story isn’t meant to titillate, instead offering a refreshingly matterof-fact examination of one girl’s journey toward sexual independence. That it’s also mercilessly funny, authentic, and unerringly wise is icing on the cake. Based on Phoebe Gloeckner’s 2002 graphic novel, “Diary” chronicles Minnie’s search for love and sex in 1970’s San Francisco, where she lives with her mother, Charlotte (Kristen Wiig) and younger sister Gretel (Abby Wait). While Charlotte isn’t entirely absent, she’s not exactly present either, too wrapped up in the druggy atmosphere of the era to monitor her daughter’s activities too closely. Minnie’s relationship with the hapless Monroe seems to spring up equally out of Minnie’s need for attention and her sheer curiosity. Frequently, Minnie’s drawings spring from the pages of her journals to overtake the frame. They’re often strikingly grotesque caricatures, exaggerations of the awkwardness Minnie feels when she gazes at her own body. Powley (who I was surprised to learn is a Brit) delivers an emotionally rich, textured performance as a girl whose appetites get her in over her head, but ultimately allow her to discover the power she wields within herself. Heller doesn’t demonize her characters, and for those used to directors taking audiences by the hand, spelling out explicitly whether what we’re seeing is right or wrong, it may take some getting used to. Monroe seems attracted
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Sex, bondage, and butterflies: two women explore the extremes of carnal desire in this deliciously twisted tale. In a crumbling European estate, butterfly researcher Cynthia and her lover Evelyn enact a role-playing game. But as the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur, their relationship is pushed to the limit. Dripping with dreamlike imagery and a lush chamber pop score by Cat’s Eyes, this critically acclaimed, darkly comic erotic fantasia is a seductive feast for the senses. (Peter Strickland, UK 2014, 104 min., DCP) Part of the series In the Garden.
to Minnie at least in part because he still feels like an adolescent himself, and the film is unsparing in depicting Monroe’s deficiencies; he’s a sad, weak man. Though at first Minnie sees only the attractive, mature outer package, by the end of the film Minnie has gained the ability to see right through it. German director Christian Petzold’s
atmospheric noir drama, “Phoenix,” centers around concentration camp survivor Nelly Lenz (Nina Hoss, in a magnificent performance), whose brutal experiences have left her disfigured. With the aid of her loyal friend Lene (Nina Kunzendorf), Nelly is brought to Berlin to receive reconstructive surgery, a procedure which is a success but leaves her looking only vaguely similar to the woman she once was. Against Lene’s wishes, Nelly wants nothing more than to find her husband, Johnny (despite evidence he may have betrayed her to the Nazis). She eventually does locate him, introducing herself as Esther, though Johnny immediately notices her striking resemblance to his deceased wife. Shades of “Vertigo” creep in as Johnny hatches a plan to remake Esther in Nelly’s image, asking her to impersonate his wife (herself, in effect) so that together they can claim her inheritance. Though the intricacies of the plot don’t always hold together, the psychological and emotional fallout of their twisted reunion is absolutely riveting, and the devastating ending is damn near perfect. And now some sad news: this week will be the last in which I share this movie spread with my colleague Dayna Papaleo. She’s moving on to bigger and better things, and you’ll be able to find her cooking up delicious desserts around town. City is grateful that she decided to return to film writing earlier this year, and we know the paper won’t be the same without her invaluable contributions. So here’s hoping she’ll promise to make a return appearance once “Furious 8” rolls around.
DOG DAY AFTERNOON Saturday, August 29, 8 p.m. Monday, August 31, 1:30 p.m. Based on a true story, this film is a gripping tale of a bank robbery gone wrong. Al Pacino, sweaty and anxious, delivers his most passionate and engaging performance as a driven man who robs a bank in order to pay for his lover’s sex change operation and help support his family. Through an unexpected turn of events, Pacino becomes a reluctant local hero for his defiance of the social order and helps bring the city of New York to a temporary standstill. (Sidney Lumet, US 1975, 129 min., 35mm) Part of the series Summer of the Leviathan.
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Film Previews Full film reviews available at rochestercitynewspaper.com. [ OPENING ] CORRESPONDENCES (2006): A collection of poetic video letters/ postcards/essays exchanged between Spanish film director Víctor Erice and Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami in 2006 and 2007. Dryden (Thu, Aug 27, 8 p.m.) THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL (R): In this frank coming-of-age story, a teen cartoonist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother’s boyfriend. With Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgård and Christopher Meloni. Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Little, Pittsford DOG DAY AFTERNOON (1975): In one of Al Pacino’s best performances, the actor portrays a man who plans a bank robbery to pay for his lover’s operation, but it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus. Dryden (Sat, Aug 29. 8 p.m.; Mon, Aug 31, 1:30 p.m.) THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY (2014): In this most unconventional love story, a woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lover. Dryden (Fri, Aug 28, 8 p.m.; Sun, Aug 30, 2 p.m.) LIFE OF BRIAN (1979): This Monty Python classic follows the life and times of Brian, a young Jewish man born on the same day—and right next door to—Jesus. Little (Wed, Aug 26, 6:30 p.m.) NO ESCAPE (R): A nice, white middle class family finds themselves majorly inconvenienced when they’re caught in the middle of a coup in Southeast Asia. With Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, and Pierce Brosnan. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster OLD IRONSIDES (1926): In this silent sea epic, an American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th century. Dryden (Tue, Sep 1, 8 p.m.) THE SIXTH SENSE (1999): I see dead people too; you’re not so special, kid. Little (Fri, Aug 28, 10 p.m.) UMBRELLAS (1994): The controversial story of the artist Christo’s grand-scale environmental art project in Japan and California, which ended in the tragic death of two of its spectators. Dryden (Wed, Aug 26, 8 p.m.) WAR ROOM (PG): The faithbased movie explores the transformational role prayer plays in the lives of a couple whose marriage has hit a rough patch. Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster WE ARE YOUR FRIENDS (R): Zac Efron tries his hand at becoming an EDM superstar. Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster [ CONTINUING ] AMERICAN ULTRA (R): A stoner learns he’s actually a sleeper secret agent for the government, and when he’s marked for extermination he and his girlfriend must fight
to stay alive. Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster ANT-MAN (PG-13): Armed with a super-suit that gives him the ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, a con-man must pull off a heist that will save the world. Starring Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas, Corey Stoll, Evangeline Lilly, and Bobby Cannavale. Canandaigua, Culver, Henrietta, Tinseltown THE END OF THE TOUR (R): A writer is assigned to spend five days with author David Foster Wallace as he completes the last leg of his book tour following the release of his novel “Infinite Jest.” Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel. Little, Pittsford FANTASTIC FOUR (PG-13): After four young scientists teleport to an alternate universe, altering their physical form in unusual ways, they must learn to harness their new abilities and work together to save Earth. Culver, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster THE GIFT (R): A married couple find their lives threatened when an old acquaintance of the husband’s turns up, bringing with him a terrible secret from the past. Starring Jason Bateman, and Joel Edgerton. Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown HITMAN: AGENT 47 (R): Based on the popular video games series, this action-thriller follows an assassin who teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster INSIDE OUT (PG): Pixar’s latest takes audiences on a journey inside the head of an 11-yearold girl, seen through the eyes of the personified emotions that rule her inner being: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear. With the voices of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, and Bill Hader. Culver, Henrietta IRRATIONAL MAN (R): IN the latest from Woody Allen, a philosophy professor in crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student and decides to commit an unexpected act. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Parker Posey. Pittsford JURASSIC WORLD (PG-13): Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and um, screaming. But this time Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard are there. Culver, Henrietta THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (PG13): Guy Ritchie directs this super-stylish adaptation of the 1960s spy tv series. Starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, and Alicia Vikander. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, IMAX, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster MINIONS (PG): Ba-na-na! Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Tinseltown
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MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE - ROGUE NATION (PG-13): Ethan Hunt and his team take on their most impossible mission yet: eradicating the Syndicate, an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are. Brockport, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster MR. HOLMES (PG): An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman. Starring Ian McKellen and Laura Linney. Little, Pittsford PHOENIX (PG-13): A concentration camp survivor, unrecognizable after facial reconstruction surgery, searches postwar Berlin for the husband who may have betrayed her to the Nazis. Little, Pittsford PIXELS (PG-13): In Adam Sandler’s latest crime against cinema, video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who’ve attacked New York. Henrietta, Tinseltown RICKI AND THE FLASH (PG-13): From director Jonathan Demme and writer Diablo Cody, this musical-dramedy stars Meryl Streep as a rock musician who returns home to make amends with the family she left behind. Brockport, Canandaigua, Eastview, Greece, Little, Pittsford, Tinseltown SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE (PG): Shaun the sheep decides to take a day off, and finds himself in over his head in this stop-motion adventure from the inimitable Aardman Studios. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview SINISTER 2 (R): A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house, and find themselves embroiled in a domestic quabble with a pagan boogeyman named Bughuul. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster SOUTHPAW (R): After tragedy strikes, a boxer attempts to put the pieces of his life back together. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, and Forest Whitaker. Tinseltown STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON (R): This biopic chronicles the formation of gangsta rap group N.W.A. in the late 1980s, following the group as they achieve massive success, court nationwide controversy, and permanently alter the musical landscape. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster TRAINWRECK (R): Comedian Amy Schumer stars as a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy. With Bill Hader and LeBron James. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown VACATION (R): Hoping to recreate his childhood vacation with his own family, a grown Rusty Griswold takes his wife and son on a road trip to Walley World before it closes forever. Starring Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, and Chris Hemsworth. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Tinseltown
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“We have witnessed the collapse of the spiritual communities that in the past helped Americans face despair, disease, and death and that transmit through the generations dignity and decency, excellence, and elegance,” West wrote. “To talk about the depressing statistics of unemployment, infant mortality, incarceration, teenage pregnancy, and violent crime is one thing,” West wrote. “But to face up to the monumental eclipse of hope, the unprecedented disregard for human (especially black) life and property in much of black America is something else.” We have known all of this for a very long time: all of these citations are from books that are more than two decades old. Research since then has simply added to the weight of that evidence. What do we have to do now? Find the person or persons who fired the shots, obviously; try them, convict them, and send them to prison. Do what we can to make sure there are no revenge killings. Intervene in as many new disputes as possible. And teach non-violent behavior. But none of that addresses the real root of the violence: poverty and its concentration. Only if we deal with concentrated poverty will we have any lasting impact on the violence that it has bred. We don’t have to re-invent the wheel. We don’t have to do our own research into what’s causing this violence. That research has already been done, and it’s widely available. What we need to do is act. At long last. In big ways. It is time for systemic change. Not tweaks. Not better coordination among services. Major, systemic change, in several key areas. In “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community,” the last book he wrote before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. singled out three of those key areas. Writing about civil-rights progress the country had made – passage of the Voting Rights Act, for instance – King had this warning: “The practical cost of change for the nation up to this point has been cheap. The limited reforms have been obtained at bargain rates. There are no expenses, and no taxes are required, for Negroes to share lunch counters, libraries, parks, hotels and other facilities with whites.” “The real cost lies ahead,” King wrote, in quality education, job creation, adequate housing. As King said, true reforms in those three areas won’t be easy, cheap, or politically palatable. It won’t be enough to provide adequate housing, for instance, if we locate all of it in high-poverty, stressed-out
neighborhoods. Nor will it be enough if we address housing alone. To help the poor get out of poverty, and to break the cycle of poverty that has affected generations of Rochesterians, we will have to provide jobs. And job training. There will have to be jobs that pay decent wages – and those jobs can’t require college degrees or high technical skill. And to make sure that future generations can get better jobs and join the middle class, we will have to, at last, reform education. School administrators have to have a “missionary zeal” aimed at “the rapid improvement of the school performance of Negroes and other poor children.” “If this does not happen,” said King, “America will suffer for decades to come.” And he also said this: “Quality education for all is most likely to come through educational parks which bring together in one place all the students of a large area.” His proposal: parks where superior teachers, specialists, and facilities would attract students from throughout a region. That, he said, “will guarantee school integration even before housing is desegregated.” Rochester has actually considered such a park system. In the late 1960’s, the late Herman Goldberg, then superintendent of Rochester schools, proposed a parks configuration for Rochester, I assume with an interest spurred by King. The idea went nowhere, but an iteration of it – a single metropolitan school drawing both city and suburban students – has been in the planning stages for several years. It still hasn’t moved into physical reality. That doesn’t mean that nothing’s happening. The year-old intensive local effort Great Schools For All is preparing what it says will be a comprehensive proposal for a voluntary system of integrated schools serving city and suburban students, poor and non-poor. That report is due out in October. If the members of Great Schools For All come up with a workable plan, and I think they will, it will still be just a plan. Having the community embrace it and put it into effect will be the tough part, as I’m sure Great Schools leaders know. And in that area, Rochester has an abysmal record. To eradicate the violence that is plaguing Rochester’s inner-city neighborhoods and ending the lives of young African-American males, we have to end the cycle of poverty. We cannot do that on the cheap. We cannot do it without facing and overcoming strong, widespread resistance, misunderstanding, fear, and suspicion. We cannot do it without the broad participation and commitment of community representatives.
We cannot do it without a commitment to stick with the effort over a long time. Rochester’s poverty, and its concentration, didn’t happen overnight, and it can’t be eradicated overnight. And we cannot do it without the leadership of elected officials, business leaders, institutional and educational leaders, neighborhood leaders, religious leaders: city and suburban, Republican and Democrat, black, Hispanic, white. Leadership, commitment, and good intentions exist in Rochester in abundance. The question now is whether the late-night shooting on Genesee Street will, at last, result in what has been lacking for decades: the will to act. Since the Genesee Street shootings, there have been eloquent calls by African Americans for the black community to acknowledge the cancer in its midst and do something about it. Where, asked an emotional 51-year-old black neighborhood resident who interrupted a Lovely Warren press conference, is the black community’s outrage over black-on-black violence? If it had been a white police officer who fired the gun outside the Boys and Girls Club, he said, there would have been protests in the street. He’s right, of course. And the outrage and community action he called for are needed. But that will not address the poverty that has bred this violence. And his plea cannot be used by the larger community as an excuse to turn away and go back to business as usual. It will not be easy to eradicate the violence that is wracking Rochester’s inner-city neighborhoods. But it will be impossible to eradicate it if we don’t act together as one regional community. The mayor can help lead on this effort. But she can’t do it by herself. Rochester police can’t do it by themselves. It is not a city problem. It is a community problem. We created it. And we must solve it. Getting all of us to accept our responsibility may be one of the biggest hurdles. But this community faces no bigger challenge: no bigger threat to young lives, no bigger threat to the region’s economic growth. And at heart, facing that challenge and meeting it is a moral responsibility. “I’m not interested in anybody’s guilt,” James Baldwin wrote in “Words of a Native Son.” “Guilt is a luxury we can no longer afford. I know you didn’t do it, and I didn’t do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country, and you are responsible for it, for the very same reason.”
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would provide ample space for an updated kitchen design. Additional work rooms, a small laundry, large woodshed and original attached brick privy complete the layout of the first floor. Two attractive side porches with Italianate detailing are located off the dining room and kitchen area. The large basement retains the original cooking fireplace and bake oven. With a generous layout and multiple rooms, this lower level could be adapted for a workshop, craft studio, laundry, or additional storage space. Two staircases lead to the second floor, which features four large bedrooms, a wide hall and sitting area, two full bathrooms, a powder room, and an additional suite of smaller bedrooms that offer the potential for a separate apartment. Original plaster moldings, decorative woodwork, and oak graining are found throughout. The enormous attic provides additional storage space and access to the cupola, with its lovely views of the neighborhood. The spacious grounds include a large barn with original board-and-batten siding. The interior features a workshop, office, and six original horse stalls, with expansive second floor storage. A unique residence that retains the elegance of its 19th century origins, this 6,200 square foot house is listed at $349,000. For more information, contact Tara Morgan of Realty USA at 585-329-7809. by Cynthia Howk Cynthia is the Architectural Research Coordinator at The Landmark Society.
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Legal Ads [ NOTICE ] Mooncap Properties LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 6/23/15. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 30 Coralburst Crescent Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] 3333 BHTLRD, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on August 17, 2015. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at PO Box 22700, Rochester, NY 14692. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] 43-45 Fayette Street, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/7/12. 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, 6029 Brockport Spencerport Rd., Brockport, NY 14420. General purpose. [ NOTICE ] 68-70 Spring Street, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/7/12. 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, 6029 Brockport Spencerport Rd., Brockport, NY 14420. General purpose. [ NOTICE ] 742 SOUTH AVE. LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/23/2015. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 26 Harper St., Rochester, NY 14607, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] American Patriot LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 4/21/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 249 Ogden Parma Townline
Rd., Spencerport, NY 14559. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Americo B LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on August 5, 2010. 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 1099 Jay Street Suite E, Rochester, NY 14611. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Amica General Agency, LLC Authority filed SSNY 6/29/15. Office: Monroe Co. Entity formed RI 5/4/87, exists, located 100 Amica Way Lincoln RI 02865. SSNY design. agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail copy to CSC 80 State St Albany NY 02865. Cert of Regis. Filed RI SOS 148 W River St. Providence RI 02904. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Bellesara, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on August 4, 2015 with an effective date of formation of August 4, 2015. Its principal place of business is located at 12 Amanda Drive, Rochester, 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 12 Amanda Drive, Rochester, New York 14624. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE ] CAMPBELL PROPERTIES AT ROCHESTER, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/15/15. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 72-14 136th Street, Flushing, NY 11367. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] CASUALLURE LLC. Art. of Org. filed with
the SSNY on 08/04/15. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 20 West Beach Drive, Hilton, NY 14468. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Dee Holdings LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 8/13/15 Office: Monroe Co SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail copy to c/o Mark Hudson Management PO Box 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General purpose
Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/9/2015. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 434 Elmgrove Rd., Ste. 4, Rochester, NY 14606, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Letiman Games, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 7/10/15. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC. upon whom process may be served & mail copy to 3155 Elmwood Ave, Rochester NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity.
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El Paso Software, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/13/15. Off. Loc.: Monroe Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. Regd. agent upon whom and at which SSNY shall mail process: United States Corporations Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave #202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. General Purposes.
Newcastle Farm LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 7/3/15. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail copy to 16 Roxbury Ln Pittsford NY 14534. Purpose: General
[ NOTICE ] First Response Team LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 7/7/15. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 38 Crossbow Dr. Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] FocusGroupIt, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 10/27/14. 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 45 Peaceful Trail, Rochester, NY 14609. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Kalifa And Caverly LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 7/9/15. 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, 741 South Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] L & J LAKE PROPERTIES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY
[ NOTICE ] Nidus Biosciences, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 2/18/15. 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 3349 Monroe Ave., Suite 209, Rochester, NY 14618. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of HydMol Holdings LLC. Art, Of Org. filed 07-1415. County: Monroe. SSNY designated as agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, Gensol LLC, PO Box 2869, Jackson, WY 83001, Purpose any lawful activity.
County: Monroe. SSNY designated as agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, Gensol LLC, PO Box 2869, Jackson, WY 83001, Purpose any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license, pending, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Liquor, Beer & Wine retail in a Restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at: 1370 Mount Read Rochester NY 14624 - On Premises Consumption Liquor License for 1370 Mount Read Rochester NY 14624 Inc / DBAFatso’s [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license, pending, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Liquor, Beer & Wine retail in a Restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at: 2901 Dewey Avenue, Rochester, NY 14616 - On Premises Consumption Liquor License for DCG Entertainment Inc/ DBA- Stonewood Bar and Grill [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license, pending, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Liquor, Beer & Wine retail in a Restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at: 130 Spring St, Rochester, NY 14608 - On Premises Consumption Liquor License for French
Quarter Inc/ DBA- The French Quarter [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license, pending, has been applied for the undersigned to sell Liquor, Beer & Wine retail in a Restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at: 689 South Avenue Rochester NY 14608 - On Premises Consumption Liquor License for D Shepherd Incorporated DBA- Beale Street Café [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION - Madiya, LLC, dba Infolab. Arts of Org. filed SSNY 12/10/2014. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail copy to 34 Wyndale Rd, Rochester, NY 14617. Purpose: Any lawful business. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION – Evolve Development LLC. Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/22/2015. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail copy to PO Box 20502, Rochester, NY 14602. Purpose: Any lawful business [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Piano Works Mall LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on Aug. 3, 2015. Office location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ. Office of LLC: 120 Linden Oaks Dr., Ste. 200, Rochester, NY 14625. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom
process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Princ. Office of LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Agape Black Belt Center, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06/12/2015 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 3040 Monroe Avenue, Rochester, NY14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of HANIT GLOBAL HOLDINGS, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/16/15. 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 560 Kirts Blvd, Ste 105, Troy, MI 48084. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 135 WEST MAIN STREET, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 01/23/03. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 5051 W. Lake Rd., Canandaigua, NY 14424. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. The regd. agent of the company upon whom and at which process against the company can be served is Walter L. Turek, 5051 W. Lake Rd., Canandaigua, NY
14424. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity for which LLC may be formed under the LLC and engaging in any and all activities necessary and incidental to the foregoing. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 3875 Buffalo Road LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on April 16, 2015. Office location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ. Office of LLC: 120 Linden Oaks Dr., Ste. 200, Rochester, NY 14625. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Princ. Office of LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 402 Brampton Drive, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 7/15/15. 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 128 Lynx Ct., Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 586 SENECA ROAD LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/2015. 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, 94 Berkley St., Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful act.
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[ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of Proas Partners LLC. Art, Of Org. filed 04-06-15. County: Monroe. SSNY designated as agent of LLC to whom process may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, Gensol LLC, PO Box 2869, Jackson, WY 83001, Purpose any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of Verifind Asset Recovery LLC. Art, Of Org. filed 04-06-15.
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Legal Ads > page 33 [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of AERO APARTMENTS, L.P. Certificate filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/16/2015. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1931 Buffalo Road, Rochester, NY 14624. Name/address of each genl. ptr. available from SSNY. Term: until 12/31/2075. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Amidon Ventures LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/10/2015. Office loc.: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to PO Box 923, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Barberry Cove LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/15/15. 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 Tom J. Thomas, 55 Allied Way, Hilton, NY 14468. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of BRD Properties, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State on July 1, 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 P. O. Box 168, Webster, New York 14580. 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 Cerebra I, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06/15/15. 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 41 Long Pond Rd, Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CG Finger Lakes SM, LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 7/16/15. 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 349 W. Commercial St., Ste. 3100, E. Rochester, NY 14445. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Chief REI LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) August 5th 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 23 Prairie Trl. West Henrietta, NY 14586 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Colouring Book Productions, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/17/15. 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 10391 Rochester NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ]
of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Fastwey Electronics, LLC Art. of Org. filed NY Sec of State (SSNY) 05/18/15. Office Location: Monroe Co. Principal office 189 Harvard St. Rochester, NY 14607. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Free Bird Ventures LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/8/2015. 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 148 Winton Rd S, Rochester NY 14610 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of FULL GALLOP COMMUNICATIONS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/13/2015. 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, 43 Cook Rd., Hamlin, NY 14464. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ]
Notice of Formation of Comfortable Transportation LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/23/15. 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 72 Locust Hill Dr., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Notice of formation of G & B BROTHERS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/26/2015. 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: c/o Law Office of Anthony A. Dinitto, L.L.C., 2250 W. Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful act.
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Notice of Formation of COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE MATCH, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/12/15. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 11 State St., Pittsford, NY 14534. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office
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Notice of Formation of G. A. Klue Process Consulting, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) July 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 1 Cathedral Oaks, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Notice of Formation of GMR Piano Works LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on Aug 20, 2015. Office location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ. Office of LLC: 120 Linden Oaks Dr., Ste. 200, Rochester, NY 14625. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Princ. Office of LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
Notice of Formation of J & J Wildlife Acres, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 7/24/2015. 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 690 Gravel Road, Webster, New York 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities
[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Guacamole Authentic Mexican Taqueria LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/18/2015. 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, 144 W. Commercial St., E. Rochester NY 14445. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Hidden Creek Holdings LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/16/15. 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 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of HomeFit Cleaning LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5-1-15. 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 783 Linden Avenue, Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Insight Solutions Research LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 7/17/2015. 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 1 East Main Street, Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: any lawful activities.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of JMP Industries, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/13/2015. 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, 23 Ashland Oaks Circle, Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Ledgerwood Company, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) May 26, 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 2 Furman Heights, Fairport, NY 14450 . Purpose: consulting. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of formation of ReNova Atlantic LLC. Art. of Org. filed by Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/04/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail process to: Alan J. Knauf, 1400 Crossroads Bldg., 2 State St., Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of formation ofWildberry Atlantic LLC. Art. of Org. filed by Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/05/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. NYSS shall mail process to: Alan J. Knauf, 1400 Crossroads Bldg., 2
State St., Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Michael West & Associates LLC. Art. of Org filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 07/15/2015. 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 154 New Tudor Rd, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan Chelsea Realty LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/16/15. 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 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan Preston Realty LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/16/15. 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 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan West Ninth LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 8/6/15. 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 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Naya & Jr LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/13/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1 Bishops Court, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Niche News Supply LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) June 11, 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 PO Box 93203, Rochester, NY 14692. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of October Two, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 07/17/2015. 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 PO Box 784, Pittsford, New York 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of One Eleven Cache LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) July 7, 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 111 Parce Ave Suite 11 Fairport, NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Perspectives Mental Health Counseling, PLLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’t of State (SSNY) 08/05/15. 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 721 Ridge Road, Webster NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities under section 203 of LLC Act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of PF Piano Works LLC Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on Aug. 20, 2015. Office location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ. Office of LLC: 120 Linden Oaks Dr., Ste. 200, Rochester, NY 14625. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Princ. Office of LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Premium Performance Group, LLC Art. of
Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/18/14. 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 1595 Culver Road Rochester, NY 14609 . Purpose: any lawful activities [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of PS1 ROCHESTER 2015, LLC. Arts. of Org. was filed with SSNY on 6/15/15. 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, 269 Woodland Dr., Orchard Park, NY 14127. Purpose: all lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ReadySetPack, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) DATE.0522-2015 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 635 Adeline Dr, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of RED LINE REALTY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/26/2015. 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, 1 Glen Valley Dr., Penfield NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of ROC PROPERTY HOLDINGS, LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/14/15. 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, 5 Quail Run Hilton, NY 14468. Purpose: Any lawful purpose [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rochester MAX Rentals LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) July 29th 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 1900
Legal Ads Empire Boulevard #222, Webster NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rockford Morgan Holdings LLC, Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/23/15. 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 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SANSCOPE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/15/15. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: One Chase Sq., Ste. 1900, Rochester, NY 14604. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to William R. Alexander, Esq., Forsyth, Howe, O’Dwyer, Kalb & Murphy, P.C. at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Teamond, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06/19/2015 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 42 East Squire Dr. #8, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of TEAZE SPECIALTY SAUCES LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/18/15. 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 550 Kreag Rd, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Upstate Lean Combustion Process, LLC. Art of Org. filed with SSNY on 5/21/15. Office Loc: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process
to: United States Corporation Agents, Inc.7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful activities [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF YOGAVIBE ROCHESTER LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 7/23/2015. Office in Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to YOGAVIBE ROCHESTER LLC, C/O JULIE OLNEY, 75 PEACHTREE RD., PENFIELD, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qual. of Flanagan Freedom House, LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 7/1/15. Office loc: Monroe County. LLC org. in DE 5/25/12. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 311 Eaglehead Rd., East Rochester, NY 14445. DE office addr.: CSC, 2711 Centerville Rd., Ste. 400, Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of FEAST American Diners, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/12/15. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 6/5/15. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Dawood Beshay, Manager, 41856 Ivy St., Ste. 201, Murrieta, CA 92562. DE address of LLC: 615 South DuPont Hwy., Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Global Precision Products, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/04/15. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 06/05/15. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it
may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 90 High Tech Dr., Rush, NY 14543. Address to be maintained in DE: 1679 S. DuPont Hwy., Ste. 100, Dover, DE 19901. Arts of Org. filed with the DE Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of NLF TS Gates LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/8/15. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. bus. addr.: 83 South St., Morristown, NJ 07960. LLC formed in DE on 7/6/15. 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 SHONKA LLC. Authority filed with SSNY on 5/14/15. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Utah (UT) on 3/31/15. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Angela Harding, 34 W 139th Street, #3G, New York, NY 10037. Address in jurisdiction: 9 Stanford Rd W, Rochester NY 14620. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of UT: UT Dep. of Corp., 160 E 300 S, 1st Floor, Salt Lake City UT 84111. Purpose: Any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] RCR Capital, L.L.C., a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 3/3/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Brian M. Renno, 74 Clardale Dr., Rochester, NY 14616. General purpose. [ NOTICE ] REDWAVE GLASS LLC Notice of filing of Application for Authority of limited liability company (LLC). Name of foreign LLC is Redwave Glass LLC.
The Application for Authority was filed with the Sec. of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/5/15. Jurisdiction: Delaware (DE). Formed: 8/5/15. County: Monroe. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: LLC, 350 Mile Crossing Blvd., Suite One, Rochester, NY 14624. The address of the office required to be maintained in DE is: 28 Old Rudnick Lane, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the authorized officer in DE where the Articles of Organization are filed is: Secretary of State, State of Delaware, Division of Corporations, John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St.-Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any and all lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] RF Printing Technologies LLC Authority filed SSNY 5/22/15. Office: Monroe Co LLC formed DE 5/7/15 exists 16192 Coastal Hwy Lewes DE 19958 SSNY design. agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served & mail copy to 25 Hepburn Ln Pittsford NY 14534 Cert of Regis. Filed DE SOS 401 Federal St #4 Dover DE 19901 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] S.C.I. A CAPITAL VARIABLE FELICIA, doing business in NYS under the name: S.C.I. A CAPITAL VARIABLE FELICIA, LLC under the assumed name SCI-CV FELICIA. App. for Auth. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/22/2015. LLC was organized in France on 1/11/2009. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to 1377 Culver Rd., Rochester, NY 14609. Required office in France at 37 Chaussee Robert Schuman, 57570 Evrange N. Siret. Cert. of Org. filed with Clerk of the Court of the 1st Instance of Thionville, Register of Commerces and Companies, BP 50550-9, Rue Marchal Joffre. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Shagal LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 8/13/15 Office Monroe Co SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail copy to c/o Mark Hudson Management PO Box 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General purpose
[ NOTICE ] Stoyle trading company LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 5/26/15. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail copy to RA: Shane Stoyle 544 Heritage Dr. Rochester NY 14615. Purpose: General [ NOTICE ] Sycamore Ridge, LLC filed 07/17/15 whose purpose is any lawful activity, whose office is in Monroe County, designates secretary of state to be agent upon whom process against it may be served. Copy of process is to be mailed to 8250 Vista Bella Drive, Auburn, CA 95602. [ NOTICE ] T65 & Beyond LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 8/3/15. 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, 101 Sully’s Trl., Bldg. 20, Pittsford, NY 14534. General purpose. [ NOTICE ] Tristar Consulting LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 6/8/15. 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, 178 Industrial Loop, Staten Island, NY 10309. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] ZSR LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 7/23/15. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 522 Lake Ave., Rochester, NY 14613. General purpose. [ NOTICE } Index No. 2015-7125SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Richard W. Brewer, Deceased, and any persons who are heirs or distributees of Richard W. Brewer, Deceased, and all persons who are widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such ) of them as maybe deceased,
and their husbands, wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest all ) of whom and whose names and places of residence are Index No. 2015-7125 unknown to Plaintiff; Kimberly Condominium Estates; United States of America; People of the State of New ) York; “John Doe” and/or “Mary Roe”, Defendants. Location of property to be foreclosed: 67 Autumn Chapel Way, Town of Chili, Monroe County, New York TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises NOTICE: YOU MAY BE 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 property. 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: June 24, 2015 MATTHEW RYEN,
ESQ. Lacy Katzen, LLP Attorney for Plaintiff Office and Post Office Address The Granite Building 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION: The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by Plaintiff recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on June 19, 2009 in Liber 22454 of Mortgages, page 211 in the amount of $29,000.00. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, The plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action except for Richard W. Brewer. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Matthew A. Rosenbaum, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated August 3, 2015 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage. The premises is described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or pared of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being a part of a condominium in the Town of Chili, County of Monroe and State of New York, known and designated as follows: (a) Unit No. 49, of the Kimberly Condominium Estates as shown on the Floor Plans prepared by Robert A. Boehlecke, licensed architect, and filed in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Civil Action File No. 98- 935, and as further described, defined and set forth in the Declaration of Kimberly Condominium Estates, dated the 9th day of September, 1983, and recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 6388 of Deeds, Page 199; and (b) an undivided 1194 (.01063) interest in the Common Elements, as shown on the aforesaid Floor Plans and as defined in the aforesaid Declaration and the improvements thereon, except for the units. The description of the land on which the said unit and buildings are located, and in which said Common Elements are situate, is as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Chili, County of Monroe and State of New York, bounded and
described as follows: Beginning at a point on the south line of Beaver Road, said point being the northeast corner of lands now or formerly of Richard Ouweleen; thence 1. S 64° 09’ E, along the south line of Beaver Road for a distance of 445.15 feet to a point, said point being the northwest comer of lands now or formerly Bernard Koster; thence 2. S 01º 09’ E, along the west line of lands of said Koster, for a distance of 473 feet more or less, to a point in the center of Black Creek: thence 3. westerly, along the center of Black Creek, a distance of 1950 feet more or less, to a point, said point being on the east line of lands now or formerly of Grace Perry and Dolores Peters; thence 4. N 10° 14’ W, along the east line of said Perry and Peters, a distance of 1312 feet more or less to a point, said point being the southwest comer of lands now or formerly of Gail Nowicki, Liber 4795 of Deeds, page 276; thence 5. N 68° 27’ E, for a distance of 335.61 feet to the southeast comer of lands now or formerly of Joseph Lacagnina; thence 6. S 84° 30’ 33” E, for a distance of 57.59 feet to the southwest comer of lands now or formerly of Clarence Wingate; thence 7. S 64° 09’ E, for a distance of 500.00 feet to the southeast former of lands of said Richard Ouweleen; thence 8. N 25° 51’ E, along the east line of said Richard Ouweleen for a distance of 191.75 feet to the point of beginning; containing 27.2 acres of land more or less and describing those premises is shown on a survey map prepared by Hershey, Malone and Associated James M. Parker, L.S. #49302 dated September 3, 1982. Tax Acct. No.: 145.04-3-49 Property Address: 67 Autumn Chapel Way, Chili, Monroe County, New York [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Home Inspection Services of WNY, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on June 16, 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
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Legal Ads > page 37 process shall be mailed to 79 Stuyvesant Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. The purpose of the Company is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Santosha Heart Yoga, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State 7/7/15. 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 PO Box 1315, Webster NY 14580. The purpose of the Company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Notice is hereby given that Kenber Properties, LLC, a limited Liability Company, filed Articles of Organization with the Secretary of State on August 18, 2015. The principle office is located in the County of Monroe, State of New York, and the Secretary of State was designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company is: PO Box 1411, Plainfield, Illinois 60586. The purpose of the company is to engage in any
lawful activity for which a company may be organized under §203 of the Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 201411313 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Susan R. Wollke; Charles N. Wollke, Jr.; Tammy Converse,) Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated August 10, 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 September 24, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Chili, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 1 Hay Market Road, Rochester, NY 14624; Tax Account No. 134.17-3-8 lot size .51 acres. 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: $82,824.99 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: August 2015 Loren H. Kroll, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 3245767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF MONROE Nationstar Mortgage LLC, Plaintiff, against Pablo O. Rivera, et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 6/8/2015 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at 39 West Main Street, Rochester, in the County of Monroe, New York on 09/25/2015 at 11:00AM, premises known as 126 Kilmar Street, Rochester, NY 14621 All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Rochester, formerly
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Town of Irondequoit, County of Monroe and State of New York, SECTION: 091.57, BLOCK: 2, LOT: 6. Approximate amount of judgment $37,563.71 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 11792/2010. Lisa G. Berrittella, Esq., Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP Attorney for Plaintiff, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706 01-038543-F00 1146343 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] SUPREME COURT: MONROE COUNTY FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION; Plaintiff(s) vs. UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, DISTRIBUTEES OR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE LATE WILLIAM A. GUELZOW, SR. A/K/A WILLIAM A. GUELZOW, JR., A/K/A WILLIAM A. GUELZOW; et al; Defendant(s) Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s): ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C., 2 Summit Court, Suite 301, Fishkill, New York, 12524, 845.897.1600 Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale granted herein on or about June 29, 2015, I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at 39 W. Main Street, Rochester, NY. On September 10, 2015 at 10:00 am. Premises known as 22 SCOTTCROSS LANE, CHILI, NY 14623 Section: 160.03 Block: 2 Lot: 35 ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Chili, County of Monroe and State of New York, known and described as Lot No. 135 of the Riverview Townhomes Subdivision, Phase I, as shown on a map filed in the Monroe County Clerk`s Office in Liber 251 of Maps at Page 74. As more particularly described in the judgment of foreclosure and sale. Sold subject to all of the terms and conditions contained in said judgment and terms of sale. Approximate amount of judgment $105,605.24 plus interest and costs. INDEX NO. 2012-5106 Leah Tarantino, Esq., REFEREE [ NOTICES ] Notice is hereby given that a license, number
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pending, for a full on premise beer, wine & liquor license has been applied for by Tycam Enterprises Inc dba , Pythodd Jazz Room, 4705 Lake Ave., Rochester NY, 14612, County of Monroe, for a tavern w/food under the alcohol beverage law. [ PROBATE CITATION ] File No.2015-10312 SURROGATE’S COURT- YATES COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO MONICA BAUMAN (NIECE OF JOHN R BAUMAN) IF LIVING, BUT IF DEAD, HER DISTRIBUTEES, LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES, ASSIGNS AND ALL PERSONS WHO BY PURCHASE, INHERITANCE, OR OTHERWISE HAVE OR CLAIM TO HAVE IN THE ESTATE OF JOHN R. BAUMAN, DECEASED, DERIVED THROUGH MONICA BAUMAN, WHOSE ADDRESS IS UNKNOWN TO THE PETITIONER. A petition having been duly filed by DOLORES LANG, who is domiciled at 4967 East Bluff Drive, Penn Yan, New York 14527. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE, before the Surrogate’s Court, Yates County at 415 Liberty Street, Penn Yan, New York, on October 1, 2015 at 9:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of JOHN R. BAUMAN lately domiciled at 655 LIBERTY STREET, PENN YAN, NEW YORK, , admitting to probate a will dated JUNE 11, 2009, a copy of which is attached, as the will of JOHN R. BAUMAN , deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to: DOLORES LANG. Dated, Attested and Sealed August 4, 2015 HON.W. PATRICK FALVEY, Surrogate, Vanessa V. Smith, Chief Clerk (585)-454-4460 Telephone Number, ROBERT F. O’CONNELL Attorney for the petitioner, 16 E. MAIN STREET, SUITE 300, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 14614 Address of the Attorney. NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear, it
will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you. [ PUBLIC NOTICE ] Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless is proposing to collocate cellular communications antennae on the existing rooftop (overall height 38 feet) of a building located at 139 Westminster Road, Rochester, Monroe County, NY. Public comments regarding potential effects on historic properties may be submitted within 30 days from the date of this publication to: Tectonic Engineering, Lori Bart, 70 Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville, New York 10953. (845) 534-5959, lbart@ tectonicengineering. com. [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] Index No.: 1154/15 Date of Filing: July 14, 2015 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF Monroe CITIFINANCIAL COMPANY D/B/A CITIFINANCIAL COMPANY (DE), A DELAWARE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, -againstREGINALD L. WADE AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF ANNE R. CLEARY; ELIZABETH CROOT AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OR ANNE R. CLEARY; JULIA CLEARY HOWLAND AS HEIR AT LAW AND NEXT OF KIN OF ANNE R. CLEARY; JOHN DOE 1 THROUGH 50; JANE DOE 1 THROUGH 50, INTENDING TO BE THE UNKNOWN HEIRS, DISTRIBUTES, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, TRUSTEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, AND ASSIGNEES OF THE ESTATE OF ANNE R. CLEARY WHO WAS BORN IN 1964 AND DIED ON OCTOBER 23, 2013 A RESIDENT OF THE COUNTY OF MONROE THEIR SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST IF ANY OF THE AFORESAID DEFENDANTS BE DECEASED, THEIR RESPECTIVE HEIRS AT LAW, NEXT OF KIN, AND SUCCESSORS IN INTEREST OF THE AFORESAID CLASSES OF PERSON, IF THEY OR ANY OF THEM BE DEAD, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE HUSBANDS, WIVES OR WIDOWS, IF
ANY, ALL OF WHOM AND WHOSE NAMES AND PLACES OF RESIDENCE ARE UNKNOWN TO THE PLAINTIFF; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICAINTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; ‘’JOHN DOES’’ and ‘’JANE DOES’’, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendants. TO THE 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(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION
OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Francis A. Affronti of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on July 7, 2015, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Monroe, State of New York. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by ANNE R. CLEARY to CITIFINANCIAL COMPANY (DE) bearing date SEPTEMBER 28, 2004 and recorded in Liber 19194 of Mortgages at Page 464 M# CV027377 in the County of Monroe on September 30, 2004. Said premises being known as and by 245 CROSMAN TERRACE, ROCHESTER, NY 14620. Date: June 22, 2015 Batavia, New York Virginia C Grapensteter, Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff Batavia Office 26 Harvester Avenue Batavia, NY 14020 585.815.0288 Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may approach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such promises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s website at www. banking.state.ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agencies.
Fun [ NEWS OF THE WEIRD ] BY CHUCK SHEPHERD
Cecil Speaks
The distress across the Western world in July over the big-game killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe was apparently misdirected, according to veteran “animal communicator” Karen Anderson of Elk, Washington, who told Facebook and Internet visitors (www.AnimalCommunicating.com) that Cecil and she had discussed his demise and that he was over it. Also, Cecil apparently speaks in formal, graceful English, as Anderson quoted him (according to London’s The Independent): “Let not the actions of these few men defeat us,” said Cecil, “or allow darkness to enter our hearts.” “I am,” he added, “grander than before as no one can take our purity, our truth or our soul.” (Anderson’s usual fee to speak with deceased pets is $75 for 15 minutes, but she did not disclose whether she had a client for Cecil’s tab.)
Chutzpah!
— In May, three Santa Ana, California, police officers who had just raided the unlicensed Sky High Holistic medical marijuana dispensary were caught on the facility’s surveillance video eating supposedly seized cannabis-infused chocolate bars, and an “internal affairs” investigation was opened. However, in August, the Orange County Register reported that the cops went to court to have the video suppressed. Their familiar legal argument is that the video violates their right to privacy — in that they had purposely disabled the cameras before they began munching the contraband and thus had the requisite “expectation of privacy” that triggers the right. (Possibly, they had missed a camera.) — The mother of three children in
Grandview, Missouri, suspected that Dameion McBride, 22, had sexually molested her two daughters (ages 4 and 8) and son (age 3), but McBride indignantly denied it, claiming that he is a child-abuse survivor himself, and booked himself on the national “Steve Wilkos” TV show in May to take a lie detector test to clear his name. However, he failed the test as to each child and was subsequently arrested. (The Associated Press reported that McBride insisted on a police lie detector test — and failed that, too.)
The Litigious Society
— The estate of Dr. Rajan Verma filed a lawsuit in July against the Tralf Music Hall in Buffalo, New York, after Dr. Verma fell to his death following a concert when he lost his balance sliding down the banister. The estate claims that there must have been a sticky substance on the railing. The estate’s lawyers said that since alcohol was served at the concert, the promoters should have known to take extra safety precautions for banister-riders. — Who gets badly hurt playing musical chairs? Robin Earnest, 46, told an Arkansas claims hearing that she broke two fingers and was forced into “years” of surgery and physical therapy over a game that was part of a class at the College of the Ouachitas in 2011 and demanded at least $75,000 from the state. The July hearing was dominated by a discussion of the proper way to play musical chairs because the instructor had ordered three students to contest one chair — with Earnest asserting that everyone knows it would be two chairs for three people.
[ LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION ON PAGE 31 ] CORRECTION: Due to a technical error in last weeks’ issue, part of the crossword puzzle was incorrectly left out.
[ LOVESCOPE ] BY EUGENIA LAST ARIES (March 21-April 19): Love and romance will be easy to find, making it somewhat confusing due to too many choices. Slow down, be honest and savor the time you have with each pursuer until you can figure out which one you’d like to spend the rest of your life with. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Wait for love to come to you. If you are too pushy in your pursuit, you will push away the person you want to share your life with. Instead, opt to have fun and show off how knowledgeable and mindful you can be, and you won’t be alone for long.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Intimacy will be your ticket to love, romance and luring the partner of choice to your side. Set the stage for a quiet one-on-one in the confines of your home where you can share likes and dislikes as you get to know each other inside and out. CANCER (June 21-July 22): When it comes to love, you will face uncertainty and confusion due to unrealistic expectations. Your tendency to think someone you are attracted to is either too good for you or not up to your standard will lead to a sudden and unexpected change of heart. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You love everyone, and everyone
loves you, making your search for a little romance quite easy. However, your inability to stick to one partner due to the overwhelming feeling that perhaps you can do better is likely to lead to a letdown as well as regret. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Share your thoughts. If you are secretive regarding who you are interested in being with, it isn’t likely your dreams will come true. Don’t just sit there wishing and hoping, put your best foot forward and go after the person you want to take home to meet your family. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Attracting love will not be your
problem, but finding the partner who lives up to your standards will not be that easy. You’ll have to compromise in order to find someone who can offer you the mental, emotional and physical stimulation you want, plus the desirable monetary benefits. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Use your wit, charm and unique, mysterious innuendoes to play the game of love. Your ability to lure someone to your side will lead to interesting talks that will either entice you or make you run the other way. More talk and less intimacy will help you bypass regret. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You may be able to
attract a crowd, but when it comes to intimacy with one person, lead with physical attentiveness, not your beliefs regarding relationships, life and your personal goals. Dazzle by using your physical attributes along with finesse and romance. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Keep what you have in the background. It’s important that you attract someone because of who you are, not what you have. Take your time, ask questions and find out what the person who interests you has to offer. Finding someone who can offer equality should be your goal.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your changeable attitude coupled with your ability to adapt and participate in whatever happens to be going on around you will be an attractive quality that someone you meet will find most desirable. Do the things you enjoy doing most, and you’ll meet the perfect mate. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t let confusion set in when it comes to affairs of the heart. You will be attracted to or pursued by someone who is off-limits or who can jeopardize your reputation, status or position. Keep intimacy out of the workplace, and refuse to get involved in a secret rendezvous.
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