She made climate her career. INTERVIEW, PAGE 6
Port designs to be unveiled. DEVELOPMENT, PAGE 8
Just needs that iconic coffee cup. FOOD, PAGE 11 SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014 • FREE • GREATER ROCHESTER’S ALTERNATIVE NEWSWEEKLY • VOL 44 NO 2 • NEWS. MUSIC. LIFE.
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Why march for the climate?
Is the People’s Climate March in New York City on September 21 a waste of time? Even hardcore environmentalists are questioning the political efficacy of major street demonstrations to produce significant legislative action. Judging by the anti-war rallies leading up to the Iraq invasion in 2003, it is clear that governments can ignore massive protests without batting an eye. So why march? My answer is based more on the evidence of social history than on a hopeful dream for our future. Major acts of civil resistance have always played a dramatic role in shaping the destiny of moral progress. Gandhi’s Salt March began as a meager 70-person hike down the Indian coastline. By the time he had reached the Dandi beach 240 miles and 24 days later, there were more than 50,000 people gathered together to resist the unjust salt tax. It was this event that shook the British Empire and began the process of granting freedom and democracy to 350 million people. The 1963 Children’s March in Birmingham is another example. In spite of fierce opposition from the local and state authorities, thousands of African- American young people took to the streets and demanded to be treated with dignity and fairness. 2 CITY
It was this march that changed Kennedy’s mind about the South and altered the course of American civil liberty forever. And most recently we can turn to the march on the Brooklyn Bridge in 2011, when 700 demonstrators were arrested for trying to awaken the conscience of a nation. This event helped fortify the encampment on Wall Street and propelled a movement that is still changing the global conversation about economic disparity and social justice. Like the Salt March, the People’s Climate March can help to begin the dismantling of corporate monopolization over our planet’s resources. Like the Children’s March, it has the potential to galvanize people from all over the world to fight for human dignity. And by defending our right to clean air, water, and food, it has the power to build a climate-justice movement every bit as urgent and far- reaching as Occupy. Marches of this caliber have transformed the course of history before. Why not again? GEORGE PAYNE
Payne is the founder and director of the Rochester-based Gandhi Earth Keepers International.
Still waiting for a green Monroe
How I spent the summer: • Delivering recycling option information to the Little Theatres and Hart’s Local Grocers. • Speaking before Rochester City Council about the lack of can and bottle recycling, again, at the Jazz Festival. Corresponding with the Town of Irondequoit about the lack of can and bottle recycling, again, at the town’s July 4 event. After a wait of 15 years, meeting with two officials of the West Irondequoit School District about the need to overhaul recycling and refuse collection at all District
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buildings – this as a prudent way to save money. Speaking before the Monroe County Legislature about the county’s ongoing failure to promote both the Western New York Materials Exchange as well as “ecopark.” All of this adds up to one thing: Kermit the Frog was right. It’s not easy being green – especially in Monroe County. JEFF GOLDBLATT
Goldblatt is a member of the New York State Association for Reduction, Reuse, and Recycling.
Pros and cons on a $15 wage
People who are complaining about a higher wage for fast food employees would do well to remember that these jobs are no longer held primarily by high school kids earning spending money, but increasingly by people trying to survive, pay bills, and raise children. That’s the reality of the economy we live in right now, and one can’t always just run out, try harder, and get another job. On top of that, taxpayers are subsidizing the fast food industry to pay their workers low wages in the form of food stamps, medical insurance, and other benefits. You pay for McDonalds’ greed. It’s really that simple. Instead of telling fast food workers to work harder at life, or defending wealthy franchisees that need no defense, perhaps you should join these brave workers on the picket line next time. And there will be a next time.
“Remember: (1) Most fastfood workers are adults who are major breadwinners for their families; (2) had the minimum wage fifty years ago merely kept up with inflation it would be over $15 today; (3) when these giant corporations don’t pay living wages the rest of us pay Medicaid and food stamps to help these families stay out of poverty; (4) a $15 living wage puts more money into the pockets of people who will spend it, thereby creating more jobs, not fewer; (5) McDonalds, Burger King, and the rest are hugely profitable, paying their CEOs over 1,000 times what they pay their frontline workers. It’s time America’s fast-food workers got a raise.” – Robert Reich JOAN COLLINS LAMBERT
So if the minimum wage goes up, requiring not only soulless corporations but struggling mom-and-pop businesses to pony up, then skilled worker wages rise commensurately, then retail prices skyrocket so businesses can afford to pay their employees…. Aren’t we right back where we started? What am I missing here? LUCY
To raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $15 an hour is absolutely idiotic. If the fast food workers want to earn more money, they should get another job. Or work two jobs. There are plenty of trained skilled workers making $12$13 an hour. You don’t here them crying in their soup.
The reason these jobs pay so little has to do with the lack of skills required to perform the work. Food comes frozen or bagged and prepped; all that is required is cutting open these bags and learning how to use a microwave properly. Many corporate, streamlined places of business have preparation guides in multiple languages with pictures included, so that even the most illiterate employee may function in these highly organized environments. Officially, I “live below the poverty line” myself. I manage to survive, however, by a number of important lifestyle guidelines.
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Take a stand for the children
I too feel scant hope for the hundreds of little children starting kindergarten and first grade (“‘Fix’ the Schools? Maybe We’re Not Up To the Job,” Urban Journal). I see their excitement and hope, but I do not see that they will get the proper education and the chance at life that is their birthright. I fully expect that the cycle of poverty will continue, and the conditions that brought about the rebellion of 1964 will have only more hopeless people who lash out in anger and desperation. This is what happens when dreams are deferred. I agree that Rochesterians must put muscle behind their commitment to stand by these children. What if all of Rochester conducted a massive show of support by stopping everything in order to shout out: “We will not allow our children to be cheated!” Rochester would get on the evening news and say that our school problem is national in scope. American urban schools need a Marshall Plan to begin to address the cycle of poverty. Rochester might start a chain reaction. Other cities would take their own moral stand. Rochester would redeem itself for not standing up for those who were left out of the financial boom of the post World War II years. No city is able to address this systemic problem. This failure to serve our children has gone on way too long. Our children need so much. We Rochesterians need to take a moral stand. SALVATORE LIOTTA
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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER
Toward what end? Obama’s ISIS policy I don’t like where this is headed. I don’t like it at all. It’s been 13 years since 9/11, and in spite of the blood spilled and the money spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, by this country and others, we have by no means wiped out the threat of terrorism. We weakened – but didn’t destroy – Al Qaeda. Now radical Islamists known as ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIL, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Greater Syria), are killing people, videotaping beheadings, taking over part of Iraq, and recruiting future terrorists from Europe and the US. This is a world in which scary people are doing very scary things. And war enthusiasts to the contrary, there’s little reason to believe that if we were to snuff out ISIS, such threats would be a thing of the past. On the eve of yet another observance of 9/11, President Obama outlined his plan for dealing with ISIS. “America,” he said, “will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat.” And he promised to “degrade, and ultimately destroy” ISIS. But Obama’s strategy is full of risk and uncertainty. He plans a “systematic campaign of airstrikes” in Iraq and perhaps Syria. The US will increase its support to the Syrian-rebel and Iraqi forces already fighting ISIS in those countries. He has no intention, he says, of sending American ground forces into Iraq or Syria. But leaving aside the civilian casualties that will certainly occur, airstrikes alone won’t be enough to destroy ISIS. Success will depend heavily on those Syrian and Iraqi forces on the ground. And they are weak, divided, and unpredictable. South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham warned on Sunday that it’s a “fantasy” to think we can be successful without sending in US ground forces. I suspect he’s right. Worse, I suspect Obama thinks so, too. Obama promised that he is building a broad coalition to join us. Both France and Australia have said they’ll participate in the airstrikes. And the Obama administration said on Sunday that “several” Arab countries have said they’ll engage in airstrikes, although the administration hasn’t said which ones. Participation by Arab nations is critical, and Obama faces an enormous challenge dealing with the countries in that region. Saudi Arabian leaders have said they will help train and equip Syrian moderates, but many young Saudis are joining ISIS. Wealthy people, mosques, and
Airstrikes alone won’t be enough to destroy ISIS. Success will depend heavily on Syrian and Iraqi forces on the ground.” organizations in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait have been helping fund ISIS. The Obama administration, the Times reported on Sunday, hasn’t been able to persuade Turkey to get tough on ISIS blackmarket sales of oil. And on Monday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Iran would not take part in any USled action. The United States, he said, has “dirty intentions and hands.” This is complicated almost beyond belief. The roots of the ISIS story are
buried deep within religious history, civil conflicts, international politics, ineffective governments, poverty…. Our friends of yesterday are enemies today. (Or not. We’re on the same side as ISIS on one thing: ISIS wants Bashar alAssad gone, and we do too. But we want ISIS gone. And so does Assad.) The US Congress is deeply divided on many things, but I’d bet that despite the risks, more than a majority of its members are willing to approve airstrikes. And as Stephen Zunes wrote recently on Progressive. org, limited strikes are sometimes necessary to protect people from genocide. But, he added, “it is important to remember that the United States has been bombing Iraq for nearly a quarter century and things have only gotten worse for the people of Iraq and for the security interests of Iraq’s neighbors and ultimately for the United States.” As for arming Iraqis in their fight against ISIS: “As with the Thieu regime in South Vietnam in the 1970’s,” Zunes wrote, “the United States can provide all the arming and training of an allied armed force it continues on page 7 rochestercitynewspaper.com
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MCDC jockeying continues Ken Warner dropped his bid to lead the Monroe County Democratic Committee. In an e-mail to committee members, Warner cited a career opportunity outside of Democratic politics. But Ken Preston, who organized Rochester for Obama, affirmed that he’s seeking the chair job. He said that he can make the party stronger and unified.
Dems want exemption review Democrats in the Monroe County Legislature proposed a review of a state-authorized property tax exemption for businesses. Democrat Paul Haney submitted legislation that would form an Industrial and Commercial Incentive Board to review how the county uses the incentive and to recommend changes to the Legislature.
Cuomo tops Teachout
Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo prevailed over Fordham University law professor Zephyr Teachout in the gubernatorial primary election. Cuomo pulled in 60 percent of the vote in Monroe County to Teachout’s 37 percent.
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Randy Credico grabbed the remaining 3 percent. In the lieutenant governor race, Cuomo pick Kathy Hochul prevailed over Teachout’s Tim Wu in a closely watched race.
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Homeless fight continues
Advocates for the homeless protested in front of County Executive Maggie Brooks’ office. They want a meeting with county officials to discuss a homeless shelter for those recently shut out of the Civic Center garage. The advocates are being led by Sister Grace Miller of the House of Mercy. But a county spokesperson told the Democrat and Chronicle that the administration doesn’t support the shelter because it wouldn’t prohibit drug and alcohol use.
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Absenteeism alarm
Rochester schools superintendent Bolgen Vargas’s goal was 95 percent attendance on the first day of school. In the weeks leading up to opening day, Vargas sounded upbeat and confident that city students and parents would meet the challenge. But the district fell short. First-day attendance was about 83 percent overall. Only two schools — SOTA and School 58 — reached the 95 percent threshold. (Attendance climbed a little on day two.)
Kimberly and Beck back on air
As suspected by many, Kimberly and Beck’s “firing” from Rochester radio turned out to be more akin to a cooling-off period. The duo has begun hosting a show on 95.1 the Brew, which is owned by Clear Channel. Entercom fired Kimberly and Beck from the Buzz 98.9 earlier this year after the pair made hateful remarks on air about the transgender community.
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Rochester schools Superintendent Bolgen Vargas will continue his push to reduce absenteeism in city schools. So far, there hasn’t been much improvement. PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK
District spokesperson Chip Partner says that there are a variety of reasons for first-day absenteeism, such as late registration, transportation mix ups, and confusion over school starting times. But that doesn’t explain why so many Rochester students miss so much school. Attendance tracking has improved in the district — identifying which students are chronically absent, and the schools with the highest absenteeism rates. But the root causes of chronic high absenteeism remain elusive despite efforts to drive home the importance of going to school. Vargas and other city and school district officials have even gone door to door looking for truants.
And Vargas has used the district’s testing data to show the impact of low attendance. The more time students miss, the less hope they have of ever catching up. And it doesn’t take many absences to cause problems. “The superintendent says when high-school attendance is no more than 80 percent that leads to about a 40 percent graduation rate,” Partner says. District officials will try to combat absenteeism this year with a fullcourt marketing campaign called “Every Minute Counts.” Publicity, an incentive program that rewards higher attendance, and even stickers for younger kids touting the importance of being in school and being engaged are all part of the campaign.
“I was naïve and I thought that PrEP, which is scientifically proven to work, would have people breaking down the door to try this. But it’s been the old adage of throwing a party and nobody came.” [ DR. WILLIAM VALENTI ]
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Preventing H.I.V., battling stigma Governor Andrew Cuomo’s ambitious goal of ending AIDS by 2020 will take more than a single approach to achieve, says Dr. William Valenti, senior vice president and co-founder of Trillium Health in Rochester. One of the most promising tools in the arsenal is the FDA-approved drug Truvada. The drug, commonly referred to as PrEP (Pre-exposure Prophylaxis), has been shown to reduce the risk of H.I.V. infection in healthy, at-risk people by 92 to 95 percent. Trillium is one of six sites in New York participating in a study that will hopefully lead to expanded use of the drug, Valenti says. But there are stumbling blocks; critics say that the drug could encourage promiscuity, although Valenti says there’s no evidence to support that. “I was naïve and I thought that PrEP, which is scientifically proven to work, would have people breaking down the door to try this,” Valenti says. “But it’s been the old adage of throwing a party and nobody came.” Trillium has 50 patients in the study, Valenti says, though the goal is to have 100. The drug has been in use for some time, usually as one of three drugs taken together by AIDS patients in the “drug cocktail.” The pill, which must be taken daily, contains two anti-viral drugs that work to stop the virus
from multiplying and then kill it before it can attack the immune system. PrEP, when used with condoms, could significantly help bring down the rate of new H.I.V infections in the US; the rate continues to hover around 50,000 annually. In the old days of H.I.V. prevention, Valenti says, people were given a condom and expected to behave. Dr. William Valenti. PHOTO BY MARK CHAMBERLIN What’s different in the PrEP program is the unique “It’s a program designed to keep people connection that the study participants connected,” Valenti says. “One of the realities establish with a health care provider, he says. of human behavior is the way we evaluate PrEP prescriptions have to be refilled risk; everybody evaluates risk differently.” regularly, which requires participants to Addressing the problems posed by come into the clinic. That gives Trillium’s the stigma of H.I.V and AIDS is more medical staff an opportunity to talk to complicated, he says. participants about their sexual behavior and “If you have H.I.V., there’s the stigma to do risk assessment, Valenti says. for your bad behavior,” Valenti says. “And Continuous counseling involves the stigma with PrEP is that it will cause increasing participants’ awareness about people to be promiscuous.” what constitutes risky behavior, he says, But several major studies have looked at and helping them determine how they that, he says, and there’s no evidence that can reduce their risk of H.I.V and sexually people on PrEP take more risks, sexually. transmitted diseases.
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Free LED bulbs Small steps can add up when it comes to energy conservation. Case in point: a Spencerport Municipal Electric initiative involving light bulbs. Residential and small business customers of the utility, which serves the village and part of Ogden, can get up to two LED light bulbs from Spencerport Municipal Electric at no cost. To fund the initiative, the utility set aside $30,000 from its energy efficiency program fund. A post on the village website says that the 10 watt bulbs are dimmable and can replace typical 60 watt incandescent bulbs. And it says that homeowners could cut lighting-related electricity use by up to 80 percent if they replace all of their household’s bulbs with LED’s. The upfront cost of LED bulbs is considerably higher than incandescent bulbs and some compact fluorescent lights. But because of their efficiency, LED’s have one-quarter the operating cost of incandescent bulbs, according to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. They’re also more efficient. LED bulbs last longer, too. NYSERDA says that an LED bulb lasts between 30,000 to 50,000 hours, compared to 1,000 hours for an incandescent bulb and 10,000 hours for a compact florescent light.
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INTERVIEW | BY JEREMY MOULE
Making climate a career It’s not easy to talk about climate change. The fundamental premise sounds simple enough: decades of burning fossil fuels has unleashed vast amounts of carbon emissions into the atmosphere, causing global warming. But start getting into details about shifting precipitation patterns or cutting carbon emissions and people tune out. A small percentage will even insist that climate change isn’t a problem, despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary. Susan Spencer, a Rochester Institute of Technology Ph.D. student studying microsystems engineering, says she wants to talk to people about global warming. She says she wants them to understand that climate change is a serious problem and that workable solutions exist — solar energy, for example. For the past four years, Spencer has been researching ways to improve organic solar cells at the molecular level, and is defending the thesis she wrote on that work. “Not only do I care passionately about it [renewable energy] from an environmental perspective, I care enough about it that I’ve made it my career and my life purpose,” she says. Earlier this summer, Spencer flew to Australia to spend two days in a training session led by former Vice President Al Gore and his Climate Reality Leadership Corps. She learned to use a massive slideshow that Gore developed for public presentations, and how to adapt it for different audiences. And she learned that it’s important to speak about climate change with both gravity and optimism. Since returning, Spencer has used Gore’s slideshow during presentations she’s given in the Rochester area. She lays out the basics of climate change, and spells out the challenges for the Rochester region. But she also highlights how Rochester’s manufacturing backbone, particularly Eastman Business Park, could be repurposed for solar development and manufacturing. That’s the optimistic part of her pitch: Solar power is cleaner power, she says, but it also creates jobs and can drive economic growth. And that’s right in line with the vision that local elected and economic development officials articulate for the business park. “We want to be at the forefront of this technology and we are getting leapfrogged by China,” Spencer says. But signing up to be a Climate Reality Leader is about more than talk. Spencer committed to 10 “Acts of Leadership,” which can be just about anything that advances the climate action cause. For example, she’s working with the Girl Scouts of Western New York — she leads her 13-year-old 6 CITY
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daughter’s troop — to incorporate climate change into its science, technology, engineering, and math program. Spencer is also working with the Rochester People’s Climate Coalition, which is assembling a local contingent to participate in the People’s Climate March on September 21 in New York City. Ultimately, Spencer says that her role is to share and spread the facts about climate change and to be someone that the public, elected leaders, and planners can go to with questions. “I think that can make a huge difference,” she says. “When you have somebody in front of you who has willingly committed to be there and is interested in helping you understand, I think people are really receptive to that.” We recently spoke with Spencer about climate activism. An edited version of that conversation follows. CITY: The training sounds like it was geared toward people already engaged in climate issues. Who attended?
Spencer: It was a mix of scientists, business leaders, students, teachers, social activists, environmentalists. And these were all people [who] had already done some volunteer work, so having already demonstrated a commitment and passion to doing something in their communities, as well as a commitment and passion to the cause of solving the climate crisis. So we all kind of had the same mentality, but there were radically different backgrounds. At my table, I was with a woman from Pakistan — she was a university professor. [There was an] Indian woman living in Hong Kong — she’s a stay-at-home mom, an activist; a Nepalese man living in Hong Kong who was a retired physician who now works with music charities; and then another guy who lives in Nepal, a guy from the UK, and then a guy from Afghanistan. Talking about global warming in a way that gets people to listen is difficult. What did you learn about communicating on climate change?
Climate activist Susan Spencer. PHOTO BY MARK CHAMBERLIN
They stress that you have to speak about this simply but truthfully. The key things to get across are that global warming is real, humans are causing global warming, global warming is the main cause of the climate crisis, and that there are solutions that we can take now to mitigate the effects. It’s absolutely critical to have a balance between communicating the dangers and the realness of the situation, but also infusing it with some hope. We try to get people aware and inspired and excited to make change. Al Gore’s message has shifted significantly — and this is my interpretation, obviously. He used to talk a lot about individual steps: change your light bulbs, drive a hybrid car, make sure your lights are off when you leave the house. Those are all great things; we should all be doing those. But the climate leaders, we’ve also been tasked with getting a groundswell of popular support for meaningful policy action. We’re also there to educate, inspire, and bundle together voices. So, act as a conduit, act as a funnel for all of these people who do believe that climate change is real, because a lot of people do. How should climate activists deal with deniers? Did the training address that?
Before I went to this training, I was against engagement. I did not support Bill Nye debating the creationist because you’ve given them equal time; you’ve let them share their views.
But the thing that Mr. Gore said was, if there’s one person out there listening who changes their mind because you debated, because you engaged, that’s a success story. And the likelihood is there’s going to be more than one. Even if you’re just shaping their perceptions of how this problem needs to be addressed or how this problem was caused, that’s an impact. It sounds like your interest in climate change and solar energy dovetail. How much potential does solar have for addressing climate change?
I think that all renewable energy technologies need to be used, but solar power comes from the biggest source of energy in our solar system. In one day, the amount of photons that hit our planet can power every single home in the world for a year. It’s free to access, it’s not dangerous to deal with in any way, and it is all over the planet. Water power and wind power rely on the presence of a nice, big river or a specific geographical feature that’ll create lots of wind. Solar can be used anywhere — Germany proves that, right? It’s not exactly the Riviera, but they’ve just gone to over 50 gigawatts [of solar electricity generated in a year], which is an enormous amount of production.
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wants, but if people aren’t willing to fight and die for the regime, they cannot win.” And that’s part of the problem in Iraq right now. And, Zunes added, “massive” military force by the West “might create a backlash that could strengthen political support for the extremists.” Still, in the face of an evil like ISIS, don’t we have to do something? The temptation to push for armed force is strong, in all of us. The threat – to stability in the Middle East, if not to our very selves – seems real. That people are suffering is a fact. In the face of such things, military action provides exactly the emotional security we seek. And taking swift and forceful shortterm action now, leaving the long-term consequences for later, seems safer than risking the dangers of slow, perhaps ineffective action. It does not help that critical mid-term elections are a few weeks away, and every politician’s statement is crafted with those elections in mind. The drumbeat for action – “the voices counseling panic,” as Paul Waldman put it in the Washington Post earlier this month – will continue, as reports of more atrocities hit the news. “Forget about understanding the complexities of an intricate situation,” Waldman wrote, “forget about unintended consequences, forget about the disasters of the past that grew from exactly this mindset. We have to panic now.” Some people are more confident than I am when they talk about our options with ISIS. Texas Senator Ted Cruz wants us to “bomb them back to the Stone Age.” Florida’s Marco Rubio, who blames Obama for letting ISIS take root by not intervening in Syria’s civil war, says that now we have to destroy ISIS and that we “cannot rule anything out.” Some liberal commentators are convinced that diplomatic efforts alone are the answer. At this point, I don’t know what we should do. I am sure of one thing, though: Even if legally, Obama doesn’t need Congressional approval of his plan, he needs it politically, and the country needs it. The president has made it clear that he anticipates a lengthy involvement. And it will be full of risks. Given that, Americans need, and deserve, a thorough, public debate on the topics like these: • Exactly what the risks are: the risks of both action and inaction. • Why we’re going to do what Obama plans. • What the threat from ISIS really is – and if it is a threat to the United States, what the evidence is.
Even if legally, Obama doesn’t need Congressional approval of his plan, he himself needs it politically, and the country needs it.” • How our action will affect our ability to deal with such challenges as Vladimir Putin’s muscle-flexing; China’s muscleflexing; Ebola and other humanitarian crises; the increasing threat of cyber attacks; and our own enormous domestic needs. • What involvement we expect, on all of the non-domestic fronts on that list, from other nations. • What we will do if the Iraqi and Syrian-rebel troops aren’t able to defeat ISIS on the ground, despite our airstrikes. • What we will do if we destroy ISIS but find that civil strife continues in Iraq and Syria, generating chaos, pain, and new terrorists. • Specifically what will define success – and what we’ll do if we haven’t achieved success in three years. Or five years. Or…. Obama and the nation need that kind of discussion, so that we all understand what’s happening, and so that he has a united nation behind him in whatever action he takes. Instead, members of Congress will spend the next month and a half campaigning, slinging mud and exaggerating and simplifying complex issues. Meantime, with or without Congressional approval, President Obama is prepared to act. The result could be a lessening or eradication of the ISIS threat. Or it could be the first stage of another decade-long, enormously expensive war. With more explanation and evidence, I might be convinced that the president’s plan is the right one, and that it will be successful. At this moment, I’m not. We have not built a great record when we have intervened in countries that have not attacked us. Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq seem to have taught us little. As we ramp up yet another war, we’ll have to hope that President Obama has outlined the right response to terrorism. Because whatever the result, this won’t be the last time we’ll be wrestling with this kind of challenge. It’s likely that the masked fighters of ISIS are showing us the new face of war. rochestercitynewspaper.com
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DEVELOPMENT | BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN
Edgewater to present designs for port development On Wednesday, September 17, Edgewater Resources will present its plan to transform the Port of Rochester from a mostly quiet river and beach area into a year-round destination resort with a hotel, shopping, restaurants, condominiums, marina, spa, and other amenities. The City of Rochester has asked for a high-impact, transformational development, and Edgewater owner Gregory Weykamp says that he means to deliver. That will include buildings that are eight to 10 stories high, Weykamp says. And for some Charlotte residents, you can stop right there. “We don’t want it,” says Susan Miller, a member of the grassroots group Charlotte Strong. “We definitely, definitely do not want high-rises.” Charlotte Strong formed because the Charlotte Community Association was not advocating strongly enough on the neighborhood’s behalf, Miller says. She says that Charlotte Strong has seven core members and between 300 and 400 supporters. Sean Schiano of the community association says he hopes that people will at least hear Edgewater out and give the company a chance before making up their mind. It’s understandable that Charlotte is not speaking with one voice on this issue, given the scale of the proposed project and its potential to permanently alter the character of the community. Supporters and detractors of Edgewater both say they believe they are representing the wishes of the majority of Charlotte residents. And even within the groups themselves, there is disagreement. Some of Edgewater’s critics, for example, say that they support limited housing at the port. Others say they don’t want any development at all. Some who support development at the port — if not necessarily Edgewater as developer — say that the opposition is limited to a small but extremely vocal minority. Weykamp has participated in public meetings and numerous public workshops and says that what people really want is a quality development. “What we heard from the community time and again was, ‘We want it done right. The quality is the most important thing,’” he says. To offset the cost of producing a topnotch project, he says, the buildings have to be of a certain height because people will pay for lake views. “Views of trees obviously don’t command as much value as views of the lake,” he says. “If it came down to a compromise where it has to be so low that we can’t do the quality, we wouldn’t do that. We would leave that to a different developer, because that’s not who we are. I also think it’s the wrong thing for Charlotte.” 8 CITY
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Edgewater got off to a difficult start when a project diagram, which Weykamp says was meant only as an internal planning tool, was made public. The diagram shows rather utilitarian-looking buildings in excess of 10 stories tall. “That was presented and interpreted as a design, which it is not,” Weykamp says. “I think those are ugly drawings, too. I think it’s unfortunate how the graphics were rolled out, but I didn’t have anything to do with that. And we’ve been playing catch-up ever since.” The diagram was made before the city chose a developer, Weykamp says. It doesn’t make sense to invest a significant amount of money in designs, he says, when you haven’t even been hired. The development would be built in phases, Weykamp says, starting with a 40to- 60-room boutique hotel. Above the hotel would be 12 to 24 for-sale condominiums. “That’s a small enough size; we know that’s not going to fail,” Weykamp says. “We know we can sell 12 to 24 units very, very comfortably.” Those first condos would also give Edgewater crucial information, he says, such as which units sell first and fastest, and what buyers like and don’t like. They would also test the viability of the overall project. The condos would probably start at around $200,000, Weykamp says, for a smaller, one-bedroom unit. The prices would increase with height and size all the way to the penthouse, which could go for more than $1 million, he says. “What we always find is we have a lot of interest during the drawing phase, and then the first weekend the building’s open and people can get in and walk through the unit and take a look at the view and see the quality, all of a sudden you sell half a dozen units just like that.” Although Edgewater’s marketing studies show that the market will support units at these prices, Weykamp says that the only study that really counts is the one that comes with a check attached. “Until somebody does that, you don’t really know,” he says. “And I understand that people haven’t seen a project like this before. But we’re confident.”
The Port of Rochester. FILE PHOTO
One of the main concerns that some of the critics have is that the new development
would block their views of the water — essentially selling the views to people who can afford hundreds of thousands of dollars for a condo. “The Charlotte community has been saying for many years that it wants to maintain the maritime historical significance of the area and maintain vistas of the river, the harbor, and the lake,” says a document from Charlotte Strong. “We want development that will fit our neighborhood,” Miller says. “It’s more like a village, not a downtown. For years, Charlotte residents have been saying no to high-rises. Why are they pushing it on us?” And when Weykamp says that the project would actually improve views that really aren’t that great to begin with, Charlotte Strong member Sue Roethel snaps back, “Better to whom? The people who buy the $1.2 million condos?” One of Edgewater’s ideas, Weykamp says, is to create a low-level plinth on the building. So the first couple of stories would front Lake Avenue, then there would be the plinth, and the rest of the building would go up and in, Weykamp says, so that Lake Avenue doesn’t feel too closed in or dense. Weykamp and city officials reject the suggestion that the city is privatizing the port. The marina would be open to the public and surrounded by a park and public promenade that connects the Genesee River Trail to the Charlotte pier. And Weykamp talks about a civic gathering space with a reflecting pool or skating rink as part of the project.
“You’ll be able to be at the corner of Lake and Hincher, look through a really nice space with nice restaurants on the side and activities and an ice rink in the winter kind of thing,” he says. “And look down and see the marina and the boats in the water. I really, sincerely believe that we’ll be creating better views than exist today.” Low-income housing has come up repeatedly
during discussions of the port development. The worry is either that the project will flop and Edgewater will resort to low-income housing to fill it up, or that Edgewater is being coy about its intentions and has planned to include low-income housing all along. The concern appears to stem from the initial package that Edgewater put together for city officials, before the company was chosen to develop the port. The paperwork lists low-income housing tax credits as a possible funding source for the project. Both Weykamp and city officials emphatically deny that low-income housing would be part of the project. Weykamp acknowledges the reference in the early paperwork, but says it was in response to the city’s request to identify all possible sources of funding. “Some folks for whatever reason have just really latched onto that as proof that we’re going to do low-income housing,” he says. “As I said time and again, we’re simply not here to do that.” According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, only rental properties are eligible for federal lowincome housing tax credits. Rental units are not included in Edgewater’s plans.
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Susan Roethel (left) and Susan Miller (right), both of Charlotte Strong. PHOTOS BY MARK CHAMBERLIN
The project is required to have some affordable housing, but under the city’s charter, affordable is defined as a person or family earning less than 120 percent of the median family income. That means that a family of four couldn’t earn more than $80,400 annually to quality for an affordable unit in the development. And phasing the development in will test the viability of Edgewater’s broader plan for the port, Weykamp says. “We’re not going to build everything at once,” he says. “That would be a silly thing to do from a development perspective, because you need to be responsive to the market.” Everybody agrees on one thing, however: that
the port isn’t exactly alive with activity in the late fall and winter. “What I really would like to see is more people down there in the wintertime,” says Schiano, of the Charlotte Community Association. “I personally love the water and the ice and the snow. It’s something that people don’t realize how beautiful it is.” To Edgewater’s detractors, the fairweather nature of the port means there isn’t demand for a massive development project. They cite the failure of the city-subsidized Pier 45 restaurant at the terminal building as proof. The restaurant was billed as a way to get people down to the port in the off-season. “None of these [port] places are packed in the winter,” Miller says. “This is not going to happen — I don’t care — until pigs fly.” But Weykamp says you have to play the long game. The trick to making the port into
a year-round destination is to build density, he says, and that takes time. “People ask me a lot of questions about parking,” he says. “I don’t mean to diminish the parking problems in the summer, but every resort community has parking problems in the summer. That’s just the nature of the beast. What I’m really worried about is the empty parking spaces from September through May. In all seriousness, that is a much bigger problem for the community of Charlotte than a couple of months of parking trouble in the summer.” You need to create a critical mass of residents, Weykamp says, so that restaurants and shops can stay open in the winter. Density is also how you disperse troublemakers, he says, and youth fighting has been a recurring problem at the port. “You just need more people there,” Weykamp says. Schiano says he just hopes that people give Edgewater a chance. The proposal deserves a fair vetting, he says, and then the community can make up its mind. “I really wish that the entire community would listen to everything they have to say and not tune them out because a certain group doesn’t want this developer and they want to start the selection process over,” Schiano says. “I wish that everyone would listen and give everybody an opportunity to speak and be heard.” Even if Edgewater doesn’t end up developing the port, he says, the company may have ideas that the community can use going forward. But Miller and Roethel of Charlotte Strong say that there’s nothing to talk about.
They don’t trust Weykamp or Edgewater, they say, and that as long as the proposal includes buildings they consider high-rises, they will remain in opposition. “My feeling is, what’s to think about?” Miller says, citing the petition that Charlotte Strong gathered with more than 2,300 names asking the city for a new port developer. “What’s to think about if the community does not want this? I’m no big business tycoon, OK? But my question is, what am I missing here?” Weykamp says he knows there are some people he will never win over. But he says he believes there is strong support for his project. He says that his goal is to capture the authenticity of Charlotte — what makes it special. The neighborhood and the city may have lost industry over the years, Weykamp says, but the natural resources — the lake, the river, the beach — remain, though they are underused and undervalued. “What’s special about this place is that history — the golden era of resorts when Charlotte was the Coney Island of the west,” he says. “Industries left, so what do you have left? The natural resources. They have a specialness and a character that make people want to go there. And that’s how we’ve been approaching this. I really feel comfortable that we’re on the right track.” Edgewater Resources will present design concepts for the Port of Rochester from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 17, at Charlotte High School, 4115 Lake Avenue.
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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.)
Port designs to be unveiled
The City of Rochester will host a presentation of the designs for the first phase of development at the Port of Rochester at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, September 17. The developer, Edgewater Resources, has been selected by the city to develop a multiuse project that includes a hotel, marina, and condos. The meeting will be held at Charlotte High School, 4115 Lake Avenue.
Play about Israeli occupation
MuCCC Theatre will present “My Name is Rachel Corrie” at 8 p.m. on Sunday, September 21. The one-woman performance about a US peace activist killed trying to stop a family’s home from being demolished by an Israeli bulldozer is part of the Rochester Fringe Festival and supported by the Witness Palestine Film Series. The event will be held at 42 Atlantic Avenue. Tickets: $15; $12 advance.
ter metro and Wayne County areas will hold a panel discussion on the proposed Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act and its impact on the farmer, worker, and the consumer at 7 p.m. on Monday, September 22. Panelists will talk about the proposed legislation, the myths and the facts, and why it is important to support farmers and farmworkers. Former Brighton supervisor Sandra Frankel will moderate the event, which will be held at Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Avenue.
No farms, no food panel
The League of Women Voters of the Roches-
Correcting ourselves The September 17 write-up on Greentopia incorrectly listed “5 vendors and exhibitors” participating in The Eco Fest. The correct number was “50 vendors and exhibitors.”
An amplification
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Dining Honest-to-goodness bagels Balsam Bagels 288 NORTH WINTON ROAD MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY: 6 A.M. TO 3 P.M.; SATURDAY AND SUNDAY: 7 A.M. TO 3 P.M. 482-5080; BALSAMBAGELS.COM [ REVIEW ] BY LAURA REBECCA KENYON
How are the bagels at Balsam Bagels? They are good — and not just by Rochester standards but by NYC-bagel-capital-of-theworld standards. If Balsam Bagels served its coffee in Greek-styled paper cups, it might be hard to remember which city you were standing in. Balsam’s bagels are dense, tanned circles with a glossy, almost shiny, exterior; underneath, where the bagel touched the oven, it’s several shades darker. Look closely and you can see how the dough rose and stretched during the proofing process: an edible topographic survey. When taking a bite, you break through a millimeters-thin layer of crispy crust, and its gentle crackle resonates. Especially when toasted, biting produces little flying shards of crust, like breakfast shrapnel. Chewing works your jaw. These are not airy, light, doughnut-shaped rolls. They are bagels: substantial, filling, and carb-laden. Getting those critical bagel qualities down is a multi-step process. It starts by weighing ingredients then kneading them together, developing the flour’s gluten. The dough is allowed to rise before it’s shaped and proofed. During the proofing process, the dough relaxes, rises again and develops additional flavors through fermentation. The raw bagels then take a quick bath in boiling water, which helps set the crust before baking. After this, they’re placed on burlap-covered straps and put on shelves in a commercial baker’s oven. The oven’s shelves circulate the bagels like kids on a Ferris wheel, and after a few trips, are ready to be eaten. If you time it right, you can watch bagels being made on site at Balsam. And if you’re patient, you can get a bagel while it’s still warm. Balsam has more than 20 types of bagels to choose from. The rye bagel is intensely flavored, slightly sour, and has a cool aftertaste. It’s studded with caraway seeds, which snap and pop between your teeth. The pumpernickel bagel — which Balsam’s Facebook page gleefully reports as being German for “devil’s farts” — is more subtle
in flavor. The bagel is dark and cocoa-like in color, and would work well in a pastrami sandwich ($6.99 with one side). The sundried tomato bagel is upfront with a warm and inviting flavor. With bits of tomato throughout the dough, the bagel reflects the fruit’s concentrated sweetness and umami. There’s another nod to Italy with the pesto bagel, which has an undercurrent of basil and grassy notes. While basil can generally be powerful, it’s subtle here and could even use a little more oomph. The plain bagel is just that: plain, simple, and a vehicle for toppings. I prefer its cousin, the salt bagel, topped with crunchy and opaque salt crystals like you’d find on a soft pretzel. Admittedly, the salt bagel is just another way to get a creamyrich topping into your mouth, but I like the added texture and saltiness. Though the cinnamon raisin bagels are sweeter than the savory bagels, you can’t call them sugary. There’s a measured use of cinnamon resulting in a bagel with friendly warmth. The raisins are pleasantly sweet — still, I wish there were a few more, and that they were plumper. Toasted and spread with butter, though, the cinnamon raisin bagel is hard to resist. Its flashier cousin, the breakfast cinnamon raisin bagel, is sprinkled with cinnamon sugar before baking. The sugar makes the bagel a little sticky, a little crunchy and, of course, sweeter (which is right up my alley). I ate it as-is. Bagels are 99 cents apiece, $5.49 for a half-dozen, and $8.99 for a dozen. Add cream cheese, however, and the price rises: a bagel with plain cream cheese is $2.75; with flavored or vegan cream cheese, it’s $3. That’s quite an upcharge for a restrained schmear. The cream cheese served is Ontario, New York’s Lighthouse Cream Cheese, which is also available in 8-ounce tubs for $3.69. There are upwards of 25 flavors to choose from, even a vegan option, though many of the choices start with plain cream cheese. The plain has a nice, light tang with a balanced approach to salt. It’s thick and dense — fresh out of the refrigerator, you’ll need to exert a little effort to spread it. Another standard, veggie cream cheese, is disappointing. It’s filled with finely minced bits of fresh vegetables but could use some onion to punch up the flavor. The maple pecan cream cheese, is a different story: it has a good maple flavor (derived from pancake, not actual maple syrup,
At Balsam Bagels, bagels will run you 99 cents apiece (top). Adding plain cream cheese will bring that up to $2.75. Also on the menu is the (bottom) spinach and cheese phyllo pocket. PHOTOS BY MARK CHAMBERLIN
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Upcoming [ GOSPEL ]
Donnie McClurkin. Wednesday, October 1. Auditorium Theatre, 885 East Main Street. 7:30 p.m. $42.50-$62.50. Rbtl.org; donniemcclurkin.com. [ INDIE ]
Knox Hamilton. Sunday, November 2. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut Street. 8 p.m. $8-$10. Themontagemusichall. com; knoxhamilton.bandcamp.com. [ POP ]
Hank & Cupcakes. Saturday, December 6. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue. 8 p.m. $10-$12. Bugjar.com; hankandcupcakes.com.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 WATER STREET MUSIC HALL, 204 NORTH WATER STREET 8 P.M. | $20-$25 | WATERSTREETMUSIC.COM JUSTINTOWNESEARLE.COM [ AMERICANA ] Justin Townes Earle has one of those
timeless voices. It’s a deep, swaying country drag — with just a bit of pining — that could fit in just as well with the Americana titans of the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s as with modern indie folk. A gifted lyricist — a gene passed down from his father, Steve Earle — Justin Townes Earle’s words carry their sobering weight over classic tenets: a whole lot of olefashioned country, a little bit of rockabilly, a splash of rurual soul. Earle isn’t a guy necessarily reinventing the wheel, but he pays homage to the past and brings it into the present. American Aquarium will open. — BY JAKE CLAPP
The Tontons TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $7-$9 | BUGJAR.COM; THETONTONS.COM
It’s been a steady rise for Houston-based indie smooth operators The Tontons. With lots of shimmer and groove — and sultry vocals from singer Asli Omar — The Tontons mix up soulful R&B with shifting, swirling indie psychedelic rock. The band just released its second full-length album, “Make Out King and Other Stories of Love,” and is starting to get some hard-earned national attention. The Straw House Uncertainty, Faux Leather Jacket, and Jenna Giuliani will also perform. — BY JAKE CLAPP
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Danny Black. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. stickylipsbbq.com. 6:30 p.m.
Small Houses, Talking Under Water, Big Fred, Boog, and Cammy Enaharo. Bug Jar, 219
Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar. com. 8 p.m. $7-$9. [ BLUES ]
Upward Groove. Temple Bar
Paul Smoker & Ken Filiano SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 WILMOT RECITAL HALL, NAZARETH COLLEGE, 4245 EAST AVENUE 3 P.M. | FREE | NAZ.EDU; PAULSMOKER.COM [ JAZZ ] Paul Smoker is such a forward-thinking trumpet player, his style could be called postcontemporary. So why will he be playing renditions of tunes from 1924, like “The Man I Love,” “Fascinatin’ Rhythm” and “Tea for Two,” at his concert on Sunday? Nazareth College, where Smoker serves as director of Jazz Studies, is celebrating its 90th anniversary, so Smoker and bassist Ken Filiano will be looking backward. But you can bet their improvisations will be as cutting-edge as ever. — BY RON NETSKY
Sterling Stage Last Daze of Summer THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, THROUGH SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 STERLING STAGE KAMPITHEATER, 274 KENT ROAD, STERLING $40-$85 | STERLINGSTAGE.COM
The Sterling Stage Kampitheater is closing out its 2014 season with the 7th annual Last Daze of Summer event, a weekend long festival featuring a mix of folk, roots, and jam band music. With more than 20 musical acts, highlights include Buffalo-based groove rock band Aqueous on the main stage on Friday night, and folk musician Jackie Greene headlining Saturday’s line-up. Festival grounds open to the public at 9 a.m. on Thursday. — BY KURT NYE [ FESTIVAL ]
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Anthony Giannavola. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com.
Year of the Stef [ REVIEW ] BY ROMAN DIVEZUR
I was feeling hungry as I headed out to The Mighty Stef show at the Sticky Lips Juke Joint on Thursday night. It would be the final local concert for the Irish rock quartet. The band made Rochester its home base during its North American tour. When I caught The Mighty Stef ’s gig at Sheridan’s Pub on a hot August night, it completely blew my sock off — literally, I needed to remove a sock in the venue’s bathroom. Would this concert blow my sock off again? Would the Mighty Stef go out in a blaze of Bar-B-Que smoke? The juke joint was jumping with fans ready for one more show. The Mighty Stef’s set-up on the sticky stomp stage was minimal, down to the drum kit that only consisted of a floor tom and snare. Lead singer and guitarist Stefan Murphy wore a House of Guitars T-shirt while the rest of the band — Brian Farrell, drums, Gary Lonergan, bass, and Daniel Fitzpatrick, guitar — looked comfortable performing in front of the faithful. The opening number, “Death Threats,” kicked things off. In a nutshell, “Death
Threats” demonstrated several truths about The Mighty Stef: The band has a knack for writing epic songs; sometimes there is a dark streak to the lyrics; and Stefan Murphy has a classic voice, while the cohesion of his band makes this group a great live act. Although the band’s new album, “Year of The Horse,” had not officially dropped, the crowd seemed familiar with the material. A personal favorite, “Ceremony,” was reminiscent of Manchester bands circa 1979. Farrell pounded the snot out of his drums while Lonergan laid down a foundation of driving bass lines for Fitzpatrick’s hypnotic riffs. When a bit of guitar jangle was added, it made The Mighty Stef sound like a country band. I could hear the ghost of Johnny Cash in between the notes of “Sunshine Serenade,” a tune that could have used a campfire. The Mighty Stef’s set concluded with a vigorous rendition of U2’s “I Will Follow.” Stefan Murphy kicked his guitar, Brian Farrell tipped over his drum kit at the end; the audience wanted more, but when a band does that, you don’t get an encore.
[ REGGAE/JAM ]
Monkey Scream Project.
Village Rock Cafe, 213 Main St. East Rochester. 586-1640. reverbnation.com. 9 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
Bart-Man. TP’s Irish Pub, 916
Panorama Trail. 385-4160. TPsIrishPub.com. 8 p.m. The Dady Brothers. Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. johnnyslivemusic. com. 7:30 p.m. Left Behind. California Brew Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. facebook.com/ thecaliforniabrewhaus. 7 p.m. Margaret Explosion. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. 7:30-9:30 p.m.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
The Blues Project ft. Gordon Munding and friends. The
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Music Wildly eloquent Matthew Shipp -Michael Bisio Duo FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 BOP SHOP RECORDS, 1460 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $10-$20 | 271-3354; BOPSHOP.COM [ PROFILE ] BY RON NETSKY
There is little doubt that Matthew Shipp is among the most brilliant pianists in jazz. But over his three-decade career he has sparked no shortage of controversy due to his embrace of genres outside of jazz. In the 1990’s he put out records on punk rocker Henry Rollins’ 2.13.61 label. He later performed and recorded with DJ Spooky. “It just seemed right,” says Shipp, who visits the Bop Shop Friday for a duo performance with bassist Michael Bisio. “I always want to try something a little different. I more or less kept my own language. I wasn’t trying to sell out; I was trying to stretch the music somewhere else. “Jazz is just like the clothes you wear; it’s not the body or the soul. It’s not about any style or genre, it’s about being expressive on the instrument. Anything that’s useful gets put in the pot.” Growing up in Wilmington, Delaware, Shipp had early role models. His uncle, who just turned 100, played classical piano. And Shipp admired the organist at the family’s Episcopalian church. Meanwhile, at home, his parents were into “whatever jazz was hip,” Shipp says. His youth had a soundtrack of Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis albums. Shipp’s pivotal experiences with jazz came by way of two concerts on public television when he was 12 years old. The first featured Nina Simone. “There was something dark and mysterious about her,” Shipp says. “It actually scared me. I remember thinking it’s powerful and otherworldly. I loved her singing and piano playing.” Shipp says Simone “could take any song and create her own idiom. It’s like a Nina Simone idiom; it’s not even jazz. Other people like that are Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles and Bob Dylan.” The second concert featured pianist Ahmad Jamal. “There was just something so cool about it and black about it too,” Shipp says. Philadelphia was just 20-minutes away and, in his late teens, Shipp went there to study with Dennis Sandole, who had been John Coltrane’s teacher. Sandole taught him “that musical language is an infinite, elastic thing and the possibilities are endless. However, you must work your language until it is a part of you.” 14 CITY SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014
Michael Bisio (left) and Matthew Shipp (right) will perform as a duo at Bop Shop Records on Friday, September 19. PHOTO PROVIDED
Aside from jazz, Shipp was enamored with late classical music, especially that of composers like Alexander Scriabin. Elements of this are apparent in his music today. He was also well versed in the popular music of his time and, in a YouTube video of a concert with DJ Spooky, Shipp gets into a catchy groove reminiscent of a pop hit. Despite the fact that his mastery of technique and broad knowledge of music would allow him to play any style, three decades into his career Shipp is known as an avant-garde jazz artist. “I’ve always searched for my own language,” Shipp says. “I don’t really have a choice.” Shipp’s new album is a solo affair titled “I’ve Been to Many Places.” The title tune and other intriguing originals are as much contemporary classical pieces as they are jazz, but Shipp would be the last to classify them. The CD also features personal interpretations of “Summertime,” “Naima,” “Tenderly,” and “Where Is The Love.” His influences are numerous: Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, Fats Waller, Andrew Hill, Lennie Tristano, Bill Evans, Paul Bley and, Shipp adds, the articulation of classical pianist
Glenn Gould. “But I would say my favorite pianist in the world is Bud Powell,” Shipp says. “His patterns are so fresh — they feel like brainwaves — and his pulse is so pure. “Sun Ra is also a big influence in his overall philosophical way of looking at jazz and the way he synthesizes mysticism along with jazz within the character that he created for himself.” In the video with DJ Spooky, Shipp alludes to past greats, “The ancestors,” saying, “I feel all those people alive in me when I’m playing.” He elaborates: “The language of the ancestors, it’s like food. You eat cabbage and it becomes your fingernails through some mysterious process. When you study the past you’re actually eating it and digesting it into your system. They’re a part of you; you’re a part of them. We partake in that process: a jazz language photosynthesis of some sort.” Shipp’s influences are not confined to music.
If you check out his performances online, the first video you’ll encounter is a rendition of “Greensleeves” reminiscent of John Coltrane’s treatment of “My Favorite Things.” In both cases, an artist with a unique style takes a
conservative tune and subverts it with a radical, yet strangely beautiful, approach. Jabbing, thrusting, and crossing over, his arms leap around the piano in a manner that looks frenetic if not downright wild. But the notes he’s playing somehow make perfect sense. “I’ve spent my whole life devoted to the piano,” Shipp says. “I know it and I feel I can give over control to a kind of subconscious process. I have complete and utter faith that some kind of musical structure will come about. “It’s never just giving over to the id. No matter how outwardly it seems like the gestures might be crazy, I have faith in some kind of innate musical GPS that’s deep within me.” To viewers of the video, it might appear that he is sparring with the piano. Shipp, who has written a poem titled “Jazz and Boxing,” embraces the connection. “I view even the most abstract jazz as related to dance,” says Shipp. “Cecil Taylor is a big fan of dance and he always talks about how that was a big part of his music. I view boxing as a dance. It’s such a big part of my life. I’m such a big fan. I have been since I was five. It definitely somehow enters my subconscious mind.”
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Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. 342-6780. 8 p.m. Free.
Pocket Vinyl & Daphne Lee Martin. Boulder Coffee Co.,
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100 Alexander St. 454-7140. bouldercoffee.info. 8-10 p.m. Steve West. The Rabbit Room, 61 N. Main St. Honeoye Falls. 582-1830. thelowermill.com. 6:30 p.m.
This is a Wonderful Opportunity to Pamper Your Property and Yourself
[ BLUES ]
Big Blue House. The Little
Theater, 240 East Avenue. thelittle.org. 7:30-9:30 p.m. [ CLASSICAL ]
Season Opener w/ Midori and Ward Stare. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. 454-7311. rpo.org. 8 p.m. [ JAZZ ]
Bossa Nova Jazz Thursdays ft. The Charles Mitchell Group.
Espada Brazilian Steak, 274 N. Goodman St. Village Gate. 473-0050. espadasteak.com. 6 p.m. Free. Four80East. Zeppa Bistro, 315 Gregory St. 585-563-6241. BrownPaperTickets.com. 7-10 p.m. $15-$43.
Jazz Weekends! ft. The David Detweiler Trio. Next Door Bar
& Grill, 3220 Monroe Ave. 2494575. wegmansnextdoor.com. Thursday: 5 p.m., Friday: 8 p.m/. Free. Passive Aggressive Anonymous. Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave. 473-6140. rochesterfringe.com/. 8 p.m. $6.
The Joe Santora Trio w/Curtis Kendrick & Emily Kirchoff.
Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. (585) 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. Free. Ryan from El Rojo Jazz. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. The Swooners. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 3814000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Shrubs
Though couched in a sort of self-induced irony, John Hiatt has always made perfect sense. He is a painfully honest, poetic, hysterical, and unparalleled American treasure. Hiatt’s music still chugs along the tracks and dirt roads of classic American music. Before Americana was a term, Hiatt was. And after Americana gets swallowed up in another blanket genre, Hiatt will still be. Nobody turns a phrase over simple rock ‘n’ roll splendor like Hiatt. His latest stab at the truth is “Terms of my Surrender.” Show up, sing along, have a little faith.
Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. facebook.com/ thecaliforniabrewhaus. 9 p.m. [ R&B/ SOUL ]
Uptown Groove. Richmond’s
Tavern, 21 Richmond Street. 270-8570. richmondstavern. com. 9 p.m.
[ REGGAE/JAM ] Kevin Kinsella. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge. com. 9 p.m. $10. Third Thursdays: Djangoners. Star Alley Park, 662 South Ave. 232-9030. lux666.com. 8-10:30 p.m.
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John Hiatt with Rick Brantley plays Saturday, September 20, at Water Street Music Hall, 204 North Water Street. 8 p.m. $40-$50. Waterstreetmusic.com; johnhiatt.com. — BY FRANK DE BLASE [ POP/ROCK ]
Ben Fiore. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke
Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 2925544. stickylipsbbq.com. 9 p.m. Dave McGrath. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. facebook.com/ flourcitystation. 10 p.m. Opacity in Gouache. The Rabbit Room, 61 N. Main St. Honeoye Falls. 582-1830. thelowermill.com. 6-8 p.m. Works in the medium of gouache by Chris Baker, Bob Dorsey, Chad Grohman, and Robert Heischman. Teressa Wilcox Band. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. 325-7090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 9 p.m.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
CLASSICAL
David Perlman. Ingle Auditorium
JOIN CITY
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at RIT, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive. 475-4121. davidigital.com/ concert. 8 p.m. Eastman Wind Ensemble, with Mark Davis Scatterday conducting, returns to RIT. $5-$20.
Guest Recital: Max Matzen, trumpet. Nazareth College
Wilmot Recital Hall, 4245 East Avenue. 389-2700. naz.edu/ music. 7:30-9 p.m.
Vivaldi and Jaltarang: a crosscultural collaboration. Kilbourn
Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 244-5835. rochesterfringe.com/. 8-9 p.m. Kishan Pandya performing on the jaltarang along with Publick Musick’s Baroque violins, Baroque cello and theorbo. $11.
at the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24
from 7:30PM-9PM in the SPIEGELGARDEN at ONE FRINGE PLACE (corner of Main & Gibbs St.)
[ JAZZ ]
[ OPEN MIC ]
Open Mic with Mark Herrmann. California Brew
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[ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Freeman w/ Arc Iris. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com5. 8 p.m. $20-$25. 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. [ BLUES ] Fat City. Dinosaur Bar-BQue, 99 Court St. 325-7090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m.
Gap Mangione New Blues Band. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 7:30 p.m.-midnight.
The Bill Tiberio Band and Stephanie Labarge. Immanuel
Baptist Church, 815 Park Ave. 473-7664. immanuelrochester. org. 7-9 p.m. $5-$10 donation.
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Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s,
1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. FredCostello.com. 7:30-10 p.m.
Jazz Weekends! ft. The David Detweiler Trio. Next Door Bar
& Grill, 3220 Monroe Ave. 249-4575. wegmansnextdoor. com. Thursday: 5 p.m., Friday: 8 p.m/. Free. continues on page 16
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Music, 122 East Ave. 473-6140. bernunzio.com. 1, 2:30, 5 & 6:30 p.m. $5, $8. $8, $10.
Laura Dubin and Antonio Guerrero. RAPA’s East End
Faculty Recital: Paul Smoker, trumpet. Nazareth College Wilmot
Theatre, 727 East Main St. 325-3366. rochesterfringe.com/ shows. 10-11 p.m. $12.
Recital Hall, 4245 East Avenue. 389-2700. naz.edu/music. 3-4:30 p.m.
Mathew Shipp - Michael Bisio Duo. The Bop Shop, 1460
[ POP/ROCK ]
Monroe Ave. 271-3354. bopshop. com. 9-10 p.m. $20-$10.
Liana Gabel, OHS, and the Metaphysics. Bug Jar, 219
The Joe Santora Trio w/Curtis Kendrick & Emily Kirchoff.
Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar. com. 8 p.m. $6-$8.
Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. (585) 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. Free.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
[ HIP-HOP/RAP ]
Fall Out Fever, DNA, Milla, Reyskii Grandun , DJ SkillzTurnItUp, DJ Savvy.
Main Street Armory, 900 E. Main St. 232-3221. rochestermainstreetarmory.com. 9 p.m. $10-$20.
Slap Weh Fridays ft. Blazin Fiyah. Eclipse Bar & Lounge,
372 Thurston Rd. 235-9409. Call for info. [ REGGAE/JAM ]
5Head. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke
ACOUSTIC | TOMMY EMMANUEL
ROCK | FREEMAN
When one of the greatest guitar players on the planet states that you’re the greatest guitar player on the planet, that’s something. And that’s precisely what the late Chet Atkins said about Aussie acoustic guitarist extraordinaire, Tommy Emmanuel. Dubbed “The guitar wizard of Oz,” Emmanuel’s jaw-dropping style is rhythmically and melodically complex yet still economical. The man picks with all ten fingers, creating a dizzying blur of notes that soar in and out of groove and light. I can only imagine the sound if he incorporated his toes.
Freeman marks a new chapter in the life of Aaron Freeman (aka Gene Ween). Arriving at this place in his career meant getting sober and disbanding Ween. Freeman’s new self-titled release is a soul-searching, soul-cleansing, fistful of songs and marks a new beginning for the fiercely popular underground artist. The album still burns with the Ween quirk amidst a new found placidity and peace.
Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 2925544. stickylipsbbq.com. 9:30 p.m. $5. ¡DO!. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 2323230. abilenebarandlounge. com. 6-9 p.m.
Tommy Emmanuel, with guests Loren and Mark, plays Wednesday, September 17, at Hochstein School of Music, 50 North Plymouth Avenue. 7:30 p.m. $45. Hochstein.org; tommyemmanuel.com. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
[ METAL ]
SATURDAY, SEPTMBER 20
Woodhaven, Aggressive Betty and friends. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 2321520. themontagemusichall. com. 8 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
After Hours A Cappella Hour & Passive Aggressive Anonymous.
Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave. 473-6140. bernunzio. com. 6 & 9 p.m. $10 and $6. Annie Wells. The Little Theater, 240 East Avenue. thelittle.org. 8:30-10:30 p.m.
Carbon Records Anniversary Show. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe
Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 7 p.m. $6-$8. Catch 22. Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 3343030. nashvillesny.com. 9 p.m. Dave McGrath. Bill Gray’s Brockport Tap Room, 4647 South Lake Road. Brockport. 637-5004. billgrays.com/. 9:30 p.m. Howling Monday. TP’s Irish Pub, 916 Panorama Trail. 385-4160. TPsIrishPub.com. 9:30 p.m. Justin Townes Earle. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 3255600. waterstreetmusic.com/. 8 p.m. 16+. $20-$25. Run for the Roses. California Brew Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. facebook.com/ thecaliforniabrewhaus. 9 p.m. $5-$7.
Teagan and Lou & Jumbo Shrimp. Johnny’s Irish Pub,
1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. johnnyslivemusic.com. 5 & 9 p.m.
[ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Davey O. & Karen Hudson.
Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 7 p.m. $5.
John Hiatt Solo and Acoustic.
Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 325-5600. waterstreetmusic.com. 8 p.m. $40-$50. JT & Me. Mama Lor’s Cafe, 1891 Ridge Rd. Webster. 5454895. mamalorscafe.com. 5:30-7:30 p.m. Sofrito. Havana Cabana, 289 Alexander St. 232-1333. havanacabanaroc.com. 10 p.m. Call for info. [ BLUES ]
Gap Mangione New Blues Band. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 7:30 p.m.-midnight. [ CLASSICAL ]
Season Opener w/ Midori and Ward Stare. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. 454-7311. rpo.org. 8 p.m.
[ JAZZ ]
Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s,
1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. FredCostello.com. 7:30-10 p.m. Gabe Condon Duo. Wegman’s Amore Restaurant, 1750 East Ave. 452-880. Call for info, Free.
Michael’s Valley Grill 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 w/Curtis Kendrick & Emily Kirchoff. Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. (585) 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. Free.
Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes. MoMa Italian Ristorante and Cafe, 807 Ridge Rd. Webster. 3474400. MoMaRistoranteandCafe. com. 6:30 p.m. The Westview Project with Doug Stone. Bistro 135,
135 W. Commercial St. East Rochester. 662-5555. bistro135.net. 6-10 p.m. [ TRADITIONAL ]
Music for the Soul. Temple Beth El, 139 S Winton Rd. 490-9437. tberochester.org. 9:15 p.m. Plucks at the Fringe. Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave. 473-6140. bernunzio.com. 4:30 p.m.
[ DJ/ELECTRONIC ]
[ REGGAE/JAM ]
Supper Time with DJ Bizmuth.
Firewheel. The Beale, 693 South
Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 5-8 p.m.
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Ave. 271-4650. thebealegrille. com. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Noble Vibes. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. firehousesaloon.com. 10 p.m.
[ JAZZ ]
Freeman performs with Arc Iris and The Isotopes on Friday, September 19, at Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Place. 8 p.m. $20-$25. Lovincup.com. — BY FRANK DE BLASE [ POP/ROCK ]
The Adarna. Vinyl Orange Ottoman, and Heatseeker.
California Brew Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. reverbnation.com. 9 p.m. $5.
Black Cobra, Low-Pan, Sulaco, & Kings Destroy.
Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $10-$12. Connie Deming. The Little Theater, 240 East Avenue. thelittle.org. 8:30-10:30 p.m. Custom Taylor Band. Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 334-3030. nashvillesny.com. 9 p.m. Affiance CD Release Show. California Brew Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. facebook. com/thecaliforniabrewhaus. 7 p.m. $10-$12. Hall Pass. Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack, 5857 Rt. 96. Farmington. 585-924-3232. fingerlakesgaming.com. 8 p.m. Hard Logic CD Release Party. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. Inside Out. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 2925544. stickylipsbbq.com. 10 p.m. Luke Metzler. Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave. 473-6140. bernunzio.com. 9 p.m. $6. Patrick Jaouen. Boulder Coffee Co., 100 Alexander St. 454-7140. bouldercoffee.info/. 8-11:45 p.m. Teagan & The Tweeds. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. 3257090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m. Wild Horses. The Argyle Grill at Eagle Vale Golf Club, 4344 Nine Mile Point Rd. Fairport. 377-5200. eaglevale.com/ argyle-grill. 7-10 p.m.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Celtic Music Sundays. Temple
Bar and Grille, 109 East Ave. 2326000. 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.
Watkins & The Rapiers. The Little Theater, 240 East Avenue. thelittle.org. 7:30-9:30 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
Solo Drum Solo, The Steel Double Trio. Bernunzio Uptown
Music, 122 East Ave. 473-6140. bernunzio.com. 6:30 & 8 p.m. $10, $8.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]
Roses & Revolutions. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa. com. 5:30-8:30 p.m. [ BLUES ]
Bluesday Tuesday Blues Jam. P.I.’s Lounge, 495 West
Ave. 8 p.m. Call for info. Teagan Ward. The Beale, 693 South Ave. 271-4650. thebealegrille.com. 7:3011:30 p.m.
[ BLUES ]
Chris Atonik. The Beale,
693 South Ave. 271-4650. thebealegrille.com. 7:3011:30 p.m.
Endless Summer Celebration w/ The Lustre Kings. Marge’s
Lakeside Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020. margeslakesideinn. com. 4-7 p.m. [ CLASSICAL ]
Bill Slater Solo Piano (Brunch).
Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. [ COUNTRY ]
Big Sandy and HIs Fly-Rite Boys. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 2323230. abilenebarandlounge. com. 6 p.m. $20. [ VOCALS ]
#TeamCam Benefit Concert. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 5-8 p.m. $10-$15. [ JAZZ ]
Cobbs Gukk Consort, Plucks at the Fringe, and The Steel Double Trio. Bernunzio Uptown
[ JAZZ ]
Deborah Branch . Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 6:309:30 p.m. [ OPEN MIC ]
Stand Up & Sing Out: Open Mic Competition. Lovin’ Cup,
300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 8-10:30 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]
Don Christiano-The Beatles Unplugged. Abilene Bar
& Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. Every other Tuesday, 8-10 p.m.
The Tontons, The Straw House Uncertainty, Faux Leather Jackets, and Jenna Giuliani. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $7-$9.
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Theater
Art Exhibits
I’m not familiar with Frederick Knott’s
Performing in “Wait Until Dark” is Brooke Parks as Susan, Craig Bockhorn as Carlino, and Ted Koch as Roat. PHOTO BY KEN HUTH
Thrills in the dark “Wait Until Dark” THROUGH OCTOBER 5 GEVA THEATRE CENTER, 75 WOODBURY BOULEVARD TICKETS BEGIN AT $25 | 232-4382; GEVATHEATRE.ORG [ REVIEW ] BY DAVID RAYMOND
Until fairly recently, genre plays — romantic comedies, murder mysteries, and so on — were a theatrical staple, whether on Broadway or in community theaters. Movies, and especially TV, gradually took them over (without making them any less formulaic). But the best of these plays are tidily written, and when they are well performed, they’re still entertaining. Geva’s newest production, “Wait Until Dark,” brings back a pretty sturdy example of another genre, the thriller, cat-andmouse subdivision. And brings it back nicely. The 1966 play by Frederick Knott, who also wrote “Dial M for Murder”, has all the right jigsaw pieces presented in the right order: an innocent couple caught in a deadly plot; an urban setting; cops on the take; psychopathic villains; characters who seem extraneous to the story but end up to be central. Here’s about as much of the story as I can give away: Susan (Brooke Parks) and her husband Sam (Remi Sandri), a photographer, have been unknowingly 18 CITY SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014
caught up in a plot to smuggle diamonds, which have been sewn up in a doll which was slipped into Sam’s satchel. The doll is somewhere in their apartment, and two nasty, murderous thugs (Craig Bockhorn and Ted Koch) are determined to find it. They are aided by a more sympathetic character, Mike (Peter Rini), posing as a war buddy of Sam’s, and Susan is helped by a neighbor girl (Lauren Schaffel) who is supposed to take care of her but doesn’t do a very good job, at least at first. The heroine, Susan, is blind, and ends up in a darkened apartment defending herself against the nastiest of the thugs in the cat-and-mouse game referred to above. This violent encounter, let’s be honest, is the one reason anybody does this play. It’s suspenseful and scary and plays skillfully on an audience’s fear of the dark (which, come to think of it, is where an audience should be). Alfred Hitchcock didn’t direct the movie version of “Wait Until Dark” (he did direct “Dial M for Murder”), but he well might have — it has many of his hallmarks, even the MacGuffin, the thing everybody wants and that gets the plot going, in this case the doll with the diamonds. The play isn’t great literature, but it follows the rules of the game. The plot is nicely tied up, there are quite a few jokes to lighten (and sometimes enhance) the tension, and the right people are left at the end.
original play, but the adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher that Geva is presenting seems like a clever and sensible job. Hatcher takes the original 1960’s setting and backdates it to 1944, adding a bit more psychological depth to the script and adding a film noir touch here and there. (Bringing the story into the present day is not an option, given the crucial importance of dial telephones in the story … and that’s all I will say, except to add that after you see this play you will never look at your refrigerator’s light bulb in quite the same way.) The clichéd characters come off better in the period setting, and moving to a time when blind people really were considered helpless points up Susan’s resourcefulness in outwitting her tormentors. Director David Ira Goldstein puts an able cast through its paces effectively. Convoluted thrillers can get very confusing very quickly, but the story is clear and well-paced, and Goldstein helps the actors to give some nuance to their roles. Brooke Parks is charming and clever as Susan, and she’s also pretty impressive when she becomes an avenging fury, butcher knife in hand. Parks’s naturalness and likeability make up for the slightly condescending treatment of the “plucky blind girl.” As the object of Susan’s fury, Ted Koch brings a gravelly, Brando-like voice and an impressive creepiness to the role of a truly psycho killer. He enters in the first moments of the play, and you immediately know he is up to no good. The rest of the cast basically supports these two and their inevitable battle. As the two other men in on the plot, Craig Bockhorn fits the template of the corrupt NYC ex-cop down perfectly, and Peter Rini makes an effectively deceptive nice guy as the most sympathetic con man (don’t worry, he’s not that sympathetic). Remi Sandri is rather wasted in the role of Sam, who is something of a MacGuffin in the plot himself, and Lauren Schaffel is remarkably convincing as the bratty girl who redeems herself by helping Susan. Given its modest setting of a basement apartment in Greenwich Village, Vicki Smith’s set for “Wait Until Dark” is an impressive one. It’s one of those realistic, detailed interior sets that Geva does so well; it also enhances the 40’s ambience in its lack of bright colors, and makes good use of a steep staircase, not to mention some all-important venetian blinds.
[ OPENING ] Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. George Van Hook and Chris Baker. Thru Oct. 25. Artist reception Sat. Sept. 27, 5:30-7:30 p. m. 2715885. oxfordgallery.com. Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery, 71 S Main St. Canandaigua. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Paints. Thru Oct. 10. Opening reception Sat. Sept. 20 from 6-8 p. m. Paintings by seven women over 7 years. 3940030. PRRgallery.com. [ CONTINUING ] 171 Cedar Arts Center, 171 Cedar Arts Center. Works on Paper and Mixed Media Sculpture by Gigi Alvaré. Thru Sept 12. Incantation: Works on Paper and Mixed Media Sculpture by Gigi Alvaré. 607936-4647. 171cedararts.org. A.R.T.S. Gallery, 321 East Ave. The Figure in Abstraction. 7299916. Axom Gallery, 176 Anderson Ave., 2nd floor. Metropoliticonscious II. Thru Oct. 4. Media Sculpture and painting by Francesca Lalanne. 232-6030 x23. axomgallery.com. Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, Brodie Hall, I College Dr. Landscape Today and Tomorrow. Thru Oct. 7. Gallery Hours: Tues.-Thurs. 12:30-3:30 p. m., Fri.-Sat. 1-5 p. m. A wide-ranging media and treatment in paint, photography traditional and digital, printmaking, and drawing. 2455813. geneseo.edu.; Remnants: Peter B. Jones. Thru Oct. 9. Curators talk: Thurs. Sept 18 at 12 p. m. Sculptural instillation. 245-5813. geneseo.edu. Bridge Art Gallery University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Blvd. “Play.” urmc. rochester.edu. Central Library, 115 South Ave. Take a Seat, Make A Difference. Thru Oct. 9. Closing reception Thurs. Oct. 9, 5-7 p. m. 42 reimagined and embellished vintage chairs. 342-7250. bforg.com/ Friendship. Create Art 4 Good Studios, 1115 E. Main Street- Suite #201 Door #5. Emancipation - Finding Light in the Darkness. Thru Sept 25. This photographic series is a visual exploration of body image, the meaning of beauty and loving self. 704-4270. Susan@createart4good.org. createart4good.org. Crossroads Coffeehouse, 752 S. Goodman St. Crossroads Spring Art Show. Work by Rachel Dow, Paolo Marino, Kristy Totter. 2446787. rdow81@yahoo.com. xroadscoffeehouse.com. Fuego Coffee Roasters, 167 Liberty Pole Way. Nico 37 presents: Digital Drawings. Thru Sept 30. 569-4508. Gallery R, 100 College Ave. The Alchemic Elegy. Thru Sept 27. Analog photography by Doug Manchee. 256-3312. galleryr. rit.edu/. Gallery Salon & Spa, 780 University Ave. The Empty Center. Debut artwork by Pam Howe and photographs by Catherine MacWilliams. 271-8340. erikagallerysalon@gmail.com. George Eastman House, 900 East Ave. Mickalene Thomas. Mickalene Thomas: Happy Birthday to a beautiful woman. Thru Oct 19. 271-3361. eastmanhouse.org. Hartnett Gallery, Wilson Commons, University of Rochester, River
Campus. Strange Surroundings. Thru Oct. 5. A painted installation by Resa Blatman. blogs. rochester.edu/hartnett. Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Granularity. Thru Oct. 5. Closing reception Fri. Oct. 3 5-9 p. m. Photography by Steve Levinson. 482-1976. imagecityphotography.com. International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Indian Summer Sky. Thru Sept 30. Summer light fades away to the palette of Indian summer skies in Arno Arrak’s original watercolor landscapes. Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri. 10 a. m.- 9 p.m., Sat. 10 a. m. -6 p. m. and Sun 12-5 p. m. 264-1440. internationalartacquisitions.com. Keuka College, 141 Central Ave, Keuka Park. Clay Connection. Thru Oct. 20. Clay, sculpture, pottery, murals, porcelain, earthenware, local and regional artisans. 315-2795669. keuka.edu. Lockhart Gallery at SUNY Geneseo, 28 Main St. Aligned Works. Thru Oct. 9. 245-5813. geneseo.edu. Lux Lounge, 666 South Ave. New Works by Shawnee Hill, Danny Cole, Joe Guy Allard and John Perry.. 232-9030. lux666.com. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 6th Rochester Biennial. Through Sep 21. WedSun 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Thu 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Six regional artists working in a variety of media. 276-8900. mag.rochester.edu. MuCCC Gallery Space, 142 Atlantic Ave. Concentrated Aggregation: Works on Paper by David Werberig. Gallery open during regular performance schedules at MuCCC Theatre. muccc.org. My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Through My Eyes. Thru Oct. 26. Opening reception Thurs. Sept. 18, 4:30-6:30 p. m. Photography by Terry Mulee. 546-8439 x 3102. episcopalseniorlife.org. Nan Miller Gallery, 3450 Winton Place. Albert Paley on Park Avenue.. Tue-Sat 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 292-1430. nanmillergallery.com. Nazareth College Arts Center Gallery, 4245 East Ave. Nazareth College Department of Art Faculty Show. Thru Sept. 20. Featuring ceramics, illustrations, metalwork, paintings, photos, prints, and sculpture. 389-5073. naz.edu. Nazareth College Colacino Gallery, 4245 East Ave. GALAPAGOS: Paintings by Michael Bogin. Thru Oct. 18. 289-5073. naz.edu/art/ colacino-art-gallery. Ock Hee’s Gallery, 2 Lehigh St. Ukiyo-e: Images of the Floating World. Thru. Oct. 18. Japanese prints and Katagami stencils by Merlin C. Dailey Gallery hours: Mon.-Sat. 11 a. m. -5 p. m. 6244730. ockheesgallery.com. Outside the Box Art Gallery, Bldg 9, The Canal Works, 1000 Turk Hill Rd. Bound To Come Apart!. Thru Sept 27. Wine and and hors d’oeuvres. The Altered Book Art Exhibit. 645-2485. outsidetheboxartgallery.org. The Owl House, 75 Marshall St. Chad Grohman. 360-2920. owlhouserochester.com. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. The Vinyl Countdown: A Dudes Night Out Production. An art collective of talented dude artists from in and around the
COMEDY | AMY SCHUMER
Comedian Amy Schumer had been on a steady rise for years — a successful appearance on “Last Comic Standing,” appearances in TV shows and movies, a steady slot on those Comedy Central Roast specials — but she virtually exploded in 2013 with “Inside Amy Schumer,” her sketch comedy series. Not only is Schumer fearlessly hilarious with a nothing-issacred approach, talking about dating anxiety, bad sex, porn, city life, and the humdrums of modern adult life, but her show — one of the few female-driven writing teams on TV, with Jessi Klein and Tig Notaro — has done a lot in recent years to shine an overdue light on talented women in comedy. Amy Schumer performs on Saturday, September 20, at the Auditorium Theatre, 885 East Main Street. 8 p.m. $32-$52. Rbtl.org; amyschumer.com. — BY JAKE CLAPP
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SPORTS | WOMEN’S SOCCER: U.S. VS. MEXICO
Rochester’s own Abby Wambach will be in town on Thursday, September 18, to play in the U.S. Women’s soccer match against Mexico. She will be joined by Alex Morgan, Hope Solo, and Megan Rapinoe at Sahlen’s stadium, 460 Oak Street, for the 7 p.m. kick-off. This game will be the final warm-up for both teams before the 2014 Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football Women’s Championship. The tournament will qualify the top three finishers directly to the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup, to be held in Canada. Tickets are $32-$199. Visit ussoccer.com for more information. — BY ANTOINETTE ENA JOHNSON Rochester area. From 2D to 3D, from pencils sketches to oil paintings!. recordarchive.com. Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. State of the City: Lost and Found. Thru Sept. 27. Ft. monumental installations from Ron Klein, Laura Quattrocchi and SHUA Group, each considering and discussing consumption and waste in a contemporary environment. 461-2222. irochestercontemporary.org. Schweinfurth Art Center, 205 Genesee St. Explorations. Thru Oct. 19. Paintings by Archimore. 315-255-1553. mtraudt@ schweinfurthartcenter.org. schweinfurtharcenter.org.
Spectrum Gallery, 100 College Ave. Between & Beyond. Thru Sept 30. Artist’s presentation Thurs. Sept. 18, 6:30-8 p. m. Photography by Steve MalloyDesormeaux. 461-4447. Steadfast Tattoo, 635 Monroe Ave. Mr. Prvrt. Known for his work in Rochester’s Wall Therapy, Mr. Prvrt’s new work is on display here at Steadfast Tattoo. 3194901. tattoosteadfast.com. Tower Fine Arts Center, SUNY Brockport, 180 Holley St. Department of Art Alumni Exhibition. Thru Oct 10. Photography, sculpture, and ceramics. 395-2805. brockport. edu/finearts. continues on page 21
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Art Grasping at mist and debris “The Opposite of Concrete” THROUGH NOVEMBER 1 MAIN STREET ARTS GALLERY, 20 WEST MAIN STREET, CLIFTON SPRINGS TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY: 11 A.M. TO 6 P.M.; FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: 11 A.M. TO 7 P.M. | FREE | 315-462-0210; MAINSTREETARTSGALLERY.COM. [ REVIEW ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Abstract art is a challenge to approach, and more than once I’ve overheard a frustrated dismissal of the entire genre. But the reward of spending time with a bewildering puzzle can be great. The various reasons that abstract art is important are explored in a fascinating letter by art critic Jerry Saltz. Abstraction is a tool, “no less ‘real’ than philosophy or music,” he writes. “It can create beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.” In another section, Saltz calls Rothko’s glowing squares “Buddhist TVs,” and says they embody what Keats called “good oblivion.” I was made aware of this helpful piece of writing by renowned photographer Carl Chiarenza, whose work is included in a small group exhibit of abstract paintings and photographs currently on view at Main Street Arts Gallery. Chiarenza’s portion of the show is a careerspanning sampling, including a bit of textural minutiae from before he abandoned the outside world in favor of his studio; his later meditative photos of chiaroscuro collages; as well as his newer collages, for which he carefully tore up and re-assembled some of his own photography. These newer works, which each bear the name of a musician, such as “Rossini,” “Ludwig,” and “Brubeck,” are layered, visual soundscape-compositions, with complex dimensions and textures that often include an occasional uncharacteristic shot of color amid the silvers and grays. Personal associations and reverie tend to surface when I look into Chiarenza’s emotionally evocative dreamscapes. “Menotomy 340” and “Noumenon 148,” created in 1982 and 1987, respectively, each feature gracefully balanced, layered shapes. The first contains shimmering forms that bring Giacometti’s figures to mind, and the latter pairs soft contours with hard edges and a drop off into darkness. Everywhere, patterns abound, light catches the buckled 20 CITY SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014
edges of metallic, softly crinkled surfaces, and downy fibers wisp, mist-like, between the realms of light and shadow. Ithaca-based artist Sarah Sutton’s oil-on-
panel works are painstaking studies of the topography of crumpled magazine images. In this constructed sea of chaos, forms rise and dissolve as the eye navigates the peaks and ravines, tunnels and waves created by the wads of glossy paper. By frustrating our instinct to find pattern and meaning in a complex world, Sutton says her work alludes to the “possibility of unintelligibility within the inundation of images that characterizes our current cultural landscape.” In “So Your Light May Shine,” a network of paper edges and creases pop like bright veins, dividing the planes of recognizable but obfuscated images of hair, flesh, and clothing. Sutton’s “Interstice (1-3)” is even more intriguing. In this large, grayscale triptych, she un-empties the small spaces between objects or points in time. Each of three linen panels is overrun with indefinite gestures of light, dust, webbing, detritus, and growth. Patricia Wilder’s photographs remind me of a passage from Hermann Hesse’s “Steppenwolf,” in which the cultureharried character notes the serene pleasure with which his eyes greet the rough surface of an age-worn stone wall, free from the deliberate arrangement of shouting design. Wilder has a knack for finding fascination in bits of visual white noise within the urban setting, and her minimalistic emphasis on line, color, and texture is never without a keen sense of balance. A quad of vibrant, red images showcase small sections of water-damaged walls with peeling paint and pitted surfaces. Here, I detect a smiling face, a streak of heavenly light, a presence, and an act of censorship. Blurry borders between this and that are explored in a grid of nine saturated, Rothkoesque “Color Fields,” which, like the rest of Wilder’s images, were created without color manipulation. “Oracle” is like a revelation, a sneaky pop of unexpected violet on the other side of a monotonous, pale wall, seen through the thick tunnel of a small, rough window. Rochester artist Karen Sardisco’s large scale,
acrylic-on-paper paintings feature layers of linear symbolic forms. Symbols may be representational images, but symbols taken out of personal context are abstractions of private memory and understanding. “In my
Patricia Wilder’s photography is part of a small group show of abstract photographs and paintings, currently on view at Main Street Arts Gallery in Clifton Springs. PHOTO PROVIDED
work natural structures collide with manmade forms to allude to bonds that would be unrecognizable in different situations,” Sardisco says in the provided artist statement. Hearts and knots and geometric forms float amid streaks of murky pigment like diatoms enlarged under a microscope, suspended for our scrutiny, or the scrutiny of memory looking “back at recollections that are now incomplete,” she says. The work of Canandaigua-based artist and Main Street Arts gallery director Bradley Butler resonated powerfully with me when I first viewed it in a 2008 solo show. His work contained foreboding washes of dark seas and swallowing skies, sounding the alarm on the disastrous projections of climate change. Though the forecasts for our future haven’t brightened, Butler’s work has become even more engaging as it became even less representational
and less anxious. By using his curiosity to push through his dread, he seems to have found security and freedom in losing sight of shore. In Butler’s “Intentionally Losing Direction,” portals peek through a smoke-thick atmosphere, and stepping stones save us from a sherbet swamp but lead nowhere in particular. “The Mirage of Truth” contains a brightly amorphous, tempting dream on the horizon, snaking through the dark and beckoning, out of focus as if seen through a shimmering heat wave. “The Impossibility of Understanding” is like an expanded, philosophic glimpse at the flow of form and energy, each affecting each other subtly, but it’s all too complex and too big to see a pattern at this level. Though the titles read like a shrug, Butler’s works aren’t exactly about futility, they’re affirmations of defiant wonder. I feel a nagging urge to zoom out, to see more of it all.
Art Exhibits Williams-Insalaco Gallery at FLCC, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Alumni Biennial Exhibition: The Art, Music, and Poetry of Rand Darrow. 785-1369. flcc.edu.
Comedy [ THU., SEPTEMBER 18 ] Rachel Feinstein. 7:30 p.m. Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd Webster $9-$15. 671-9080. thecomedyclub.us. [ FRI., SEPTEMBER 19 ] Dead Dames Don’t Dance: An Improvised Noir. 10:30 p.m.midnight. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd $11. 371-5017gevacomedyimprov.org. Nuts and Bolts Comedy Improv on the Fringe 3. 8:30-9:30 p.m. RAPA’s East End Theatre, 727 East Main St $10. 371-5017. rochesterfringe.com. Traci Kanaan. Sep. 19-20, 9 p.m. Joke Factory Comedy Club, 911 Brooks Avenue 328-6000. rocjokefactory.com. [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 20 ] Comedy Central Presents: Inside Amy Schumer’s Back Door Tour. 8 p.m. Rochester Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. $32$52. 222-5000. mail@rbtl.org. rbtl.org/events.aspx?id=268. Improv Comedy Battles. 9:30 p.m Bread & Water Theatre, 172 West Main St $6. 797-9086. improvVIP.com. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. 8:30-11 p.m. Rochester Institute of Technology, 1 Lomb Memorial Dr. $4, $1.00 for a prop bag. 631-495-3328. rochesterrockyhorror@gmail. com. facebook.com/groups/ rochesterrockyhorror/. Stages of the Game, Teen Improv Troupe. noon. Writers and Books, 740 University Ave $5. 4732590. wab.org. [ SUN., SEPTEMBER 21 ] Rage Against the Vageen. 7 p.m. Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd Webster.
Dance Events [ FRI., SEPTEMBER 19 ] 7th Anniversary With “HAN”. 7-8 p.m. Agape Black Belt Center, 34 Elton St A Special music and Martial Arts event $5. 2193005. agapeblackbeltcenter@ gmail.com.
Festivals [ FRI., SEPTEMBER 19-SUN., SEPTEMBER 20 ] RocCon! Rochester’s ComicCon & Pop Culture Event. 5-10 p.m. Kodak Theater on the Ridge, 500 W Ridge Rd. 3 Panel Rooms, 3 Dealer’s rooms, Costume Contests and more!. $11-$30. 317-4046. roccon.net. [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 20 ] Finger Lakes Fiber Festival. Sep. 20-21, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 607-5224374. gvhg.org/fiber-fest. Harvest Festival. 12-3 p.m. Tinker Nature Park, 1525 Calkins Rd 259-7044. henrietta.org. Love’s Secret Domain Presents: The More Arts & Crafts Fair. Every other Saturday, 3-8 p.m Love’s Secret Domain, 2142 E. Main St. 474-6047.
FILM | “DAVID BOWIE IS”
David Robert Jones traveled a long, bizarre road from his days as young bari sax player and mime, to a folk singer, internationally known space-age rock and film star, to the legend-married-to-an-iconic-model that he is today. The retrospective exhibition, “David Bowie is,” created by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, explores his life through his edgy accoutrements, featuring a fascinating collection of photographs, stage costumes, and other rare possessions from the David Bowie Archive. A documentary film about the exhibition will be screened in 100 select movie theaters across the U.S. on Tuesday, September 23, to coincide with the exhibition’s opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. The film features special guests, including legendary Japanese fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto, Pulp front-man Jarvis Cocker, and other collaborators, to explore the stories behind some of the key objects that document Bowie’s artistic career. Exhibition curators Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh explore the creativity and evolution of Bowie’s ideas through memorable music videos, original costumes, handwritten lyrics, album cover artwork, set designs, and diary entries. The Rochester screening will take place at The Little Theatre, 240 East Avenue, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $14 for general admission, and $12 for members, seniors, and students with ID. For more information, call 258-0400, or visit thelittle.org. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY lovelovelovesecretdomain@ yahoo.com. facebook.com/ events/1613523605540418/. [ SUN., SEPTEMBER 21 ] Finger Lakes Fiber Festival. Through 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 607522-4374. gvhg.org/fiber-fest. Rochester Yoga Festival. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. St. John Fisher Varsity Gym, 40 Fairport Rd.. $119. (585) 385-8000. rochesteryogafestival.com/.
Kids Events [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 20 ] Elephant Awareness Day. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Included w/ zoo admission senecaparkzoo.org. [ SUN., SEPTEMBER 21 ] Step Up for Kids Superhero 5k Run and Family Fun Walk. 9 a.m.-noon. Monroe Community College, 1000 E. Henrietta Rd $25. 935-7831. bivonacac.org/ ways-to-help/nysca-5k-run-andfamily-fun-walk.
Nazareth College Celebrates Constitution Day With Alumni Lecture. 6:30 p.m. Nazareth College Shults Center, 4245 East Ave. Alumnus James Noble ’96: The Constitution and Criminal Law: A Practitioner’s Perspective. Opera Guild of Rochester Lecture Series: Peter Dundas. 7-9 p.m. Fairport Library, 1 Village Landing 223-9091. Seventh Annual David Aldrich Nelson Lecture in Constitutional Jurisprudence. 7-9 p.m. Rochester Institute of Technology, 1 Lomb Memorial Dr. 315-2922267. theahi.org/. [ THU., SEPTEMBER 18 ] History of How Women were Treated in 19th Century Ireland. 5:30 p.m. McGinnity’s Restaurant and Party House, 534 Ridge Road West iacirochester@gmail.com.
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[ SAT., SEPTEMBER 20 ] Early Farming and Farm Families in the Town of Sweden: Interpretive Panel Dedication Ceremony. 11 a.m. Sweden Farmers Museum, 4988 Lake Rd., Brockport 352-9629.
[ WED., SEPTEMBER 17 ] The Icarus Sessions. Third Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m. Hanlon-Fiske Studios, 34 Elton St. Free. 705-6581.
[ SUN., SEPTEMBER 21 ] Rochester Area Vegan Society: The History of Veganism. 5:30 continues on page 22 rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 21
SPECIAL EVENTS | ROCHESTER DEAF AWARENESS WEEK
FESTIVAL | FINGER LAKES FIBER FESTIVAL
FILM | THE LATINO FILM FESTIVAL
This week, a variety of events will be offered to help the wider Rochester community learn about the Rochester Deaf community’s language and culture. The goal of Rochester Deaf Awareness Week — which kicked off on Sunday, September 14, and continues through Saturday, September 20 — is to raise awareness, empower, promote understanding, and celebrate deaf people and their unique language and culture.
The Finger Lakes Fiber Festival celebrates 20 years of fiber creation and art, just as the cold season sets in. On Saturday, September 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, September 21, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. there will be exhibitions, competitions, and workshops on a wide-range of fiber arts, like hand-spinning, knitting, crocheting, weaving, felting, lacemaking, rug hooking, and basket-weaving. In addition to the fiber arts, there will be a source demonstration of sheep shearing, over 75 vendors selling craft supplies and equipment, as well as finished goods, horse-drawn wagon rides, and food.Barbara Parry, author of Adventure in Yarn Farming, and Sara Lamb, author of Spin to Weave, will be guest speakers on the dying and spinning of yarn.
Curated by the organizers of the Puerto Rican Festival, the Latino Film Festival is a day-long event celebrating the wideranging cinema of the Hispanic and Latino culture. Held on Saturday, September 20, at St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Avenue, the event will take place from 12 to 8:30 p.m. Four feature films will be screened throughout the day, each one encapsulating the best modern Latin cinema has to offer.
On “Government Day,” Wednesday, September 17, workshops and ASL lessons will take place 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Regional Center for Independent Living (497 State Street). Thursday is designated “Business and Technology Day,” with workshops, ASL lessons, and a pizza and ice cream social offered 1 to 9 p.m. at RRCD (1564 Lyell Avenue). Friday, “Deaf-Blind Awareness Day,” workshops, a film and panel discussion, and social hour will take place 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at NTID (52 Lomb Memorial Drive, RIT campus, SCD 1300 & 1310). Saturday, September 20, will feature the Dummy Hoy Classics Baseball Game, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Genesee Country Village and Museum Silver Baseball Park (1410 Flint Hill Rd., Mumford), and a dinner held 5 to 7 p.m., followed by a performance of Branton’s Misinterpreted World, 7 to 8 p.m., both at Rochester School for the Deaf (1545 St. Paul Street). Interpreters will be provided. Please note some events/ performances require a RSVP and may have an associated cost. More details about planned events and activities can be found at rdaw.org. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
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p.m. Brighton Town Park, 777 Westfall Rd. Speaker: Gary Francione, J.D. Dinner is a vegan potluck $3. 621-8794. mrsvegan@gmail.com.
[ THU., SEPTEMBER 18 ] Pure Kona Open Mic Poetry Series. 7-10 p.m. The Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603. ourcoffeeconnection.org.
[ MON., SEPTEMBER 22 ] The Proposed Farm Workers Fair Labor Practices Act: Impact on the Farmer, the Worker, and the Consumer. 7-8:30 p.m. Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Ave 262-3730. lwv-rma.org. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 23 ] The Common Core: Is it Good for Public Schools: A Moot Court Trial. 7 p.m. East High School, 1801 Main Street East 2883130. wab.org. Eugene H. Fram lecture: Genevieve Bell. 4 p.m. Webb Auditorium, James E. Booth Hall, RIT Campus, Lomb Memorial Dr “Making Life: A Prehistory of Robots and its Importance for Metacognition, Society and the Biopolitical Future.”. 475-7965. ambavp@ rit.edu. Fiber Art Unraveled. 7:30 p.m. Chapel Oaks, St. Ann’s Community, 1550 Portland Ave 787-4086. irondequoitartclub.org.
[ FRI., SEPTEMBER 19 ] Rumi Cafe: An Evening of Mystical Poetry. 7:30 p.m. Sufi Order of Rochester Center for Sufi Studies, 494 East Ave. Carriage House of AAUW $5. 2480427. zaynab@frontiernet.net. sufiorderofrochester.org. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 23 ] Books Sandwiched In Book Discussion Series. 12-1 p.m Central Library, 115 South Ave. 428-8350. libraryweb.org/ events.aspx.
Recreation [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 20 ] 4th Annual Ukrainian Cultural Center Charity Golf Tournament. 11 a.m. Braemar Country Club, 4704 Ridge Road W. $75-$125. uccofrochester.org. Flavors of Rochester. 10 a.m.noon. Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. Outside the MArket Office. 428-6907. cityofrochester.gov/publicmarket.
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The festival will be held in Hemlock Fairgrounds, 7370 Water Street, Hemlock. Admission is $5 per day, children 12 and under are free. No Pets allowed, including the parking lot. For more information call 607-522-4374 or visit GVHG.org/fiber-fest. — BY ANTOINETTE ENA JOHNSON Guided Scenic Trek at Penfield’s Wild Iris Path. 9 a.m. 340-8655. penfieldrec.org/. Mischief, Murder, and Mayhem. 12:30 p.m. Mount Hope Cemetery, North Gate, 791 Mt. Hope Ave. $7. 461-3494. fomh.org. Rochester Bicycling Club. Check our online calendar for this week’s ride schedule or visit. Rochesterbicyclingclub.org. Thousand Acre Fall Work Day. 9 a.m. The Thousand Acre Swamp Sanctuary, 1581 Jackson Road nature.org. [ SUN., SEPTEMBER 21 ] Bivona Child Advocacy Center’s 12th Annual Wine and Microbrew Tasting. 5:308:30 p.m. Artisan Works, 565 Blossom Road $60.00. 9357831. bivonacac.org/bivonacac. org/ways-to-help/wine-tasting. Community Garage Sale. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. 428-6907. cityofrochester.gov/publicmarket. Public Tour of North Section of Mount Hope Cemetery. 2 p.m Mount Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mt. Hope Ave. $5. 461-3494. fomh.org. Rochester Orienteering hosts National Orienteering Week. noon. Cobbs Hill Park, 100 Norris Drive $10. roc.us.orienteering.org/. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 23 ] Pacesetters: Hudson Ave. & Titus Ave. Walk. 6:30 p.m. 249-9507. huggersskiclub.org.
Special Events [ WED., SEPTEMBER 17 ] 2013 Vintage Riesling Launch. Through Sep. 30. RieslingLaunch.com.
The Crisis In Our Schools: Is There A Future For Public Education?. Through Dec. 3. wab.org. Fine Tastings for Al Sigl Community. 6-9 p.m. Locust Hill Country Club, 2000 Jefferson Road . Pittsford $75. 442-4102 x8944. alsigl.org. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 8 p.m. Scotland Yard Pub, 187 Saint Paul St Free. 730-5030. scotlandyardpub.com. Rochester Deaf Awareness Week. Through Sep. 20. Rochester Recreation Club for the Deaf, 1564 Lyell Ave FREE unless otherwise noted. 585-286-2172 (Sorenson VP). rdaw.pr@gmail. com. rdaw.org. September Blooms Stroll. Sep. 17. $10-$15. 473-5130. rcgc.org. UR Well Clinic Open House. 6:30 p.m. St. Lukes Tabernacle Community Church, 1261 Dewey Ave. 271-2870. urmc. rochester.edu. [ THU., SEPTEMBER 18 ] Big Book Sale. Sep. 18-22. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. $.50- $1. brightonlibrary.org. Cure Conquers Nexus Nights. 7-8 p.m. Joe Bean Coffee Roasters, 1344 University Ave. $12. 3195279. joebeanroasters.com/ events. Irondequoit Chamber of Commerce After-Hours Business Networking. 5:30-7:30 p.m. 313-9836. ahansen@usapayroll.com. Monthly Wine Pairing Dinner. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tavern58, 58 University Ave. $40. 546-5800. facebook.com/ events/1519042715003129/. RPO Opening Night Celebration. 5:30-7:30 p.m. ONE Nightclub and Lounge, 1 Ryan Alley $175
The scheduled lineup will include: the animated children’s adventure film, “Nikté,” at 12 p.m.; historical drama, “Even the Rain,” starring Gael García Bernal, at 2 p.m.; boxing documentary, “El Boxeo,” at 4 p.m.; and concluding with the heat-warming parental dramedy, “Instructions Not Included,” (pictured) at 6:30 p.m. A brief intermission is scheduled for midway though the festival, at 3:45 p.m., at which point food and refreshments will be served. The event is free to attend. For more information, visit prfestival.com or call 234-7660. — BY ADAM LUBITOW ($00 tax deductible). 454-7311 x 252. rpo.org. [ FRI., SEPTEMBER 19 ] Cocktails and Carburetors. Sep. 19-21. A cocktail reception and 5 tour stops to experience some classic garage architecture and learn about the owners’ vintage autos. $125. 546-7029 x11. landmarksociety.org. The Pioneer Experience. Through Sep. 21. Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford $130-$200. 538.6822. gcv.org. Premier Antique and Classic Boat Show of the Year & Vintage Race Boat. Sep. 19-20, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Skaneateles Country Club, 3344 W. Lake Road (Rte. 41A) $5. acbs.org/. Talk Like a Pirate Party. 7-10 p.m. Marge’s Lakeside Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020. margeslakesideinn.com. The Voice of Ween: Freeman. 9 p.m. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 20 ] 2014 Buccaneers’ Ball. 6-11 p.m. RIT Inn & Conference Center, 5257 W Henrietta Rd. $65-$120. 271-5519. https://piratetoyfund. ticketbud.com. Artisan & Craft Sale. 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Webster United Church of Christ, 570 Klem Rd. 208-9786. Beyond the Bump Expo. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Double Tree Hotel, 1111 Jefferson Road 244-2040. hochstein.org. ConKerr Cancer Pillowcase Challenge. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Seymour Library, 161 East Ave., Brockport Simple sewing!. 6371050. seymourlibrary.org. Crohn’s & Colitis Walk. 4-7 p.m. Monroe Community College,
1000 E. Henrietta Rd 617-4771. cctakesteps.org/rochester. Dance to Awaken the Heart. 7-9 p.m. Henrietta United Church of Christ, 1400 Lehigh Station Rd Henrietta Donation 888-3409865. awakentheheart.rochester. ny@gmail.com. awakentheheart. org/dance-to-awaken-the-heart/. Fall for Chocolate and Pet Expo. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 84 Tavern, 84 High Street . Fairport 387-9111. affairedechocolat@gmail.com. affairedechocolat.com. Fall Plant Sale. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tinker Nature Park, 1525 Calkins Rd 889-1547. henriettagardenclub.org. Latino Film Festival. 12-9 p.m. St. John Fisher College, 3690 East Ave Films: Nikte, Even the Rain, El Boxeo, and Instructions Not Included. prfestival.com/. RocAcupuncture in the Park. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. King’s Bend Park, 170 West Jefferson Rd., Pittsford 317-6725. rocacupuncture.com. Toss4Dystonia. noon. Frontier Field, 1 Morrie Silver Way $5 at the door. toss4dystonia.org. Walk to Defeat ALS. 10 a.m. Ontario Beach Park, 4799 Lake Ave 866-499-7257. i. webuny. alsa.org. Wine and Spirits Tour. 2-6 p.m. Woodlawn Cemetery, 130 North Pearl St., Canandaigua Beer and wine tastings, specialty food, tours, live music. $35-$40. 3940840. woodlawncemeterycca.org. [ SUN., SEPTEMBER 21 ] Basic Old-School Dungeons and Dragons Gaming Group. Third Sunday of every month. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St All ages and skill-levels welcome Free. 637-2260. liftbridgebooks.com. Thompson Abbey Day. 1-4 p.m. Sonnenberg Gardens and
An EVENING of WINE, JAZZ & ART
Mansion State Historic Park, 151 Charlotte St . Canandaigua $1$12. 394-4922. sonnenberg.org/. [ MON., SEPTEMBER 22 ] Monday Night Flights. 4-9 p.m. Wegman’s Amore Restaurant, 1750 East Ave. $5. 452-8780. wegmans.com. Radical Reels. 7-10 p.m. Ingle Auditorium at RIT, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive $10-$18. 4754121. rittickets.com. Sign Here: What Handwriting Reveals About You-and Others. 7 p.m. Lifetree Cafe, 1301 Vintage Lane 723-4673. lifetreecafe. com. [ TUE., SEPTEMBER 23 ] Classic Horror Movie Nights. 6:4511 p.m. Rolling Hills Asylum, 11001 Bethany Center Rd., East Bethany $20. 250-0366. hauntedasylumproductions@ gmail.com. Joe Bean Class: Introduction to Origin. 7-8:30 p.m. Joe Bean Coffee Roasters, 1344 University Ave. $25, Register. 319-5279. joebeanroasters.com. Open House and Glassblowing Demonstration. 5-8:30 p.m. More Fire Glass Studio, 80 Rockwood Place 242-0450. morefireglass.com. Peripheral Artery Disease Screening. 10 a.m.-noon & 5-7 p.m. Unity Hospital, 1555 Long Pond Rd., Education Center Appointments are required 7237060. unityhealth.org.
Theater Cindy Miller: I’ve Got the Music In Me. Sep. 20-21. Downstairs Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place Thru Sept. 21. Sun. Sept. 20 at 8 p. m., Sun. sept. 21. 3 p. m. s $25. DownstairsCabaret.com. David Bowie is. Tue., Sep. 23, 7 p.m. Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. omniversevision.com/ davidbowieis.html. Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival. Through Oct. 18. A variety of regional premieres, Broadway classics, off-thewall comedies, and the next generation of musical theater at three different theaters 1-800457-8897. fingerlakesmtf.com/ tickets. Jekyll & Hyde. Through Sep. 20. Webster Thomas High School, 800 Five Mile Line Rd Thru Sept. 20. Fri. Sept 12 and 19 at 7:30 p. m., Sat. Sept 13 and 20 at 7:30 p. m.,and Sat. Sept 20 at 2 p. m. A journey with Webster Theater Guild intended for mature audiences $15. 6708000. webstertheatreguild.org/. The Life of Gautama Buddha. Sep. 19-20, 7:30 p.m. Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Ave Sept 19 & 20 at 7:30 p. m. A fusion of music, dance, and language that takes the audience on the journey of Prince Siddhartha’s path to Enlightenment and eventually Nirvana $20-$55. 389-2170. naz.edu. Rochester Fringe Festival. Sep. 18-27. rochesterfringe.com. Wait Until Dark. Through Oct. 9. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd Thr Oct. 9. Previews: Tues.-Thur. Sept 9-11 at 7:30 p. m., Fri. Sept 12 at 8 p. m. and Sun. Sept. 13 at 2 p. m. Opening: Sat. Sept 13 at 8 p. m. Shows: Tues, Sept 16 at 6 p. m., Wed. & Thurs. Sept 17 &
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India Community Center of Rochester presents “The Life of Gautama Buddha” on Friday, September 19, and Saturday, September 20, at 7:30 p.m. at Nazareth College Arts Center, 4245 East Avenue. $20-$55. 389-2170; Boxoffice.naz.edu. — BY DAVID RAYMOND 18 at 7:30 p. m., Fri. Sept 19 at 8 p. m., Tues. Sept 23 & 30 at 7:30 p. m., Wed. Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 1 at 2 & 7:30 p. m. Thurs. Sept. 25 & OCt. 2 at 7:30 p. m., Fri. Sept 26 and Oct. 3 at 8 p. m. Sat. Sept 20, 27, & Oct. 4 at 4 & 8:30 p. m., Sun. Sept 14, 21, 28 & Oct 5 at 2 p. m. (sign interpreted) & 7 p. m $25+. 4202059. gevatheatre.org.
Workshops [ WED., SEPTEMBER 17 ] Family Development Class: “Wise Choices”. Ongoing, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Mental Health Association, 320 N Goodman St. For parents of school-age children Free, RSVP 325-3145 x131. mharochester.org. [ THU., SEPTEMBER 18 ] Jang-Hyun Won, Daegum Flutist. 1:30-3 & 7 p.m. Ciminelli Formal Lounge – Eastman School of Music, Gibbs Street 274-1057. esm.rochester.edu. [ FRI., SEPTEMBER 19 ] Fall Flavors of Tuscany. 6-8 p.m. Rosario Pino’s Artisan Foods, 349 W Commercial St $48. 2677405. rosariopinos.com. Fall Prevention Day. 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Lifespan, 1900 S. Clinton Ave. 287-6351. lifespan-roch.org. Who Am I? Self Awareness Workshop. 5:30-7 p.m. Center for Community Health, 46 Prince St. $35, Rsvp by Sept. 15. 2480068. glo@rochester.rr.com. Wise Choices. 10 a.m.-noon. Mental Health Association, 320 N Goodman St. 325-3145 x131. mharochester.org/. [ SAT., SEPTEMBER 20 ] Encaustic Demonstration. 2-4 p.m. Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery, 71 S Main St . Canandaigua $20. 3940030. prrgallery.com.
[ SUN., SEPTEMBER 21 ] Fall Equinox Fairy Gardens Workshop. 2-4 p.m. Wayside Garden Center, 124 PittsfordPalmyra Rd 223-1222 x100. waysidegardens.com. Finding Light In the Darkness. 2-4:30 p.m. Create Art 4 Good Studios, 1115 E. Main St., door 5, suite 201. $40. 704-4270. Susan@createart4good.org. createart4good.org. Make and Take Terrarium. 2 p.m. Beaver Meadow Audubon Center, 1610 Welch Rd, North Java Preregistration Required 4573228. buffaloaudubon.org.
Artisan Works
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565 Blossom Road
Our gala fundraiser to help support the jazz you love! Presented by Greece Community Broadcasting Inc. Includes WINE and BEER TASTING, great FOOD and DESSERTS, CHOCOLATE TASTING,
THEATER | “THE LIFE OF GAUTAMA BUDDHA”
The story of Prince Siddhartha’s physical and spiritual journey to becoming Gautama Buddha is a compelling one in any format. This weekend you can see it take theatrical life in the Theatre World production “The Life of Gautama Buddha,” presented by India Community Center at the Nazareth College Arts Center. The show promises to be “a visual work of art,” telling the story of Buddha’s path, from royalty to humility, to the Middle Way to Nirvana, through music, dance (choreographed by Santosh Nair), and language. It’s a good introduction for non-Buddhists, and a reminder that all theater started as religious ceremony.
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[ TUE., SEPTEMBER 23 ] Food Preservation. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Wayside Garden Center, 124 Pittsford-Palmyra Rd 223-1222 x100. waysidegardens.com. Macedon History Alive!. 5 p.m. Books Etc., 78 W. Main St Macedon 474-4115. booksetcofmacedonny.com. Motivation Breakthrough. 5-7 p.m. Mental Health Association, 320 N Goodman St. 325-3145 x131. mharochester.org. Radical Mycology: Spawning Mycelial networks and Radical Mushroom Cultivation. 5:30 p.m. Smugtown Mushrooms, 127 Railroad St. $10-$60. radicalmycology.com/tour.
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Brockport Strand 93 Main St, Brockport, 637-3310, rochestertheatermanagement.com
Canandaigua Theatres 3181 Townline Road, Canandaigua, 396-0110, rochestertheatermanagement.com
Cinema Theater 957 S. Clinton St., 271-1785, cinemarochester.com
Culver Ridge 16 2255 Ridge Rd E, Irondequoit 544-1140, regmovies.com
Dryden Theatre 900 East Ave., 271-3361, dryden.eastmanhouse.org
Another kind of gangster movie “The Drop”
(R), DIRECTED BY MICHAEL R. ROSKAM NOW PLAYING
Eastview 13 Eastview Mall, Victor 425-0420, regmovies.com
Geneseo Theatres
[ REVIEW ] BY GEORGE GRELLA
Geneseo Square Mall, 243-2691, rochestertheatermanagement.com
Aside from its value as a work in and of itself, “The Drop,” rather like another fine recent movie, “A Most Wanted Man,” constitutes a kind of mixed blessing. It presents audiences once again with the ambiguous, bittersweet gift of an opportunity to witness the last performance of a talented, accomplished performer, in this instance the late James Gandolfini. Like those arts that preserve a moment of time, the
Greece Ridge 12 176 Greece Ridge Center Drive 225-5810, regmovies.com
Henrietta 18 525 Marketplace Drive 424-3090, regmovies.com
The Little 240 East Ave., 258-0444 thelittle.org
Movies 10 2609 W. Henrietta Road 292-0303, cinemark.com
Pittsford Cinema 3349 Monroe Ave., 383-1310 pittsford.zurichcinemas.com
Tinseltown USA/IMAX 2291 Buffalo Road 247-2180, cinemark.com
Webster 12 2190 Empire Blvd., 888-262-4386, amctheatres.com
Vintage Drive In 1520 W Henrietta Rd., Avon 226-9290, vintagedrivein.com
cinema suggests that there is a life after death. That art is long if life is short. As the narrator/protagonist, Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy), informs us, the title refers to the Brooklyn tavern where he works as a bartender for his cousin Marvin (Gandolfini). Cousin Marvin’s is a drop bar, a place where various criminals connected to the Chechen mob drop off illicit cash. Marvin acts as a sort of safe deposit box and bank, keeping the money temporarily, transferring it to others, passing it up the ladder to the boss, in this case a Chechen gangster named Chovka (Michael Avonov). The movie opens with Bob buying a round of drinks for the regulars in memory of a friend, Richie Wheeler, killed 10 years earlier, a gesture that in effect explains itself in a violent climactic sequence. Later, two other, seemingly unrelated incidents trigger a surprisingly complicated plot beneath the deceptively simple surface. Two armed, masked thugs hold up the bar, taking over five thousand dollars of the Mob’s
Tom Hardy in “The Drop.” PHOTO COURTESY FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES
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stored cash, and Bob finds a bruised and beaten puppy in a garbage can. As if this tough little picture were a mundane romantic comedy, the discovery of the puppy leads Bob to meet Nadia (Noomi Rapace) and to an odd, tentative relationship between them. The puppy also, however, brings a vicious psychopath, Eric Deeds (Matthias Schoenaerts), Nadia’s exboyfriend, into their lives. Rumored to be the murderer of Richie Wheeler, Deeds threatens both Bob and Nadia, claiming the puppy as his dog — with proof of ownership — and promising to recover it, then torture and kill it unless Bob pays him a large amount of money. At the same time, another complication involving Marvin’s connection to the stolen cash opens up more difficulties for Bob. Thanks to the Chechens, a really nasty bunch, the money turns up at Cousin Marvin’s in a bag, along with one of the robber’s severed arm, and another murder reveals yet further dimensions to both the characters and the history behind Marvin’s own character. Everything comes clear when the film completes a full circle, culminating in a scene in the bar on Super Bowl Sunday that somehow seems both surprising and inevitable. In that climax the script unites all its various threads of character and motivation, bringing together Bob, Nadia, Deeds, and Marvin, and even explaining the 10-year-old murder mentioned in the opening sequence. Its violence, as a result,
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The hundred-foot old lady “My Old Lady” (PG-13), DIRECTED BY ISRAEL HOROVITZ OPENS FRIDAY AT THE LITTLE THEATRE AND PITTSFORD CINEMA
“The Hundred-Foot Journey” (PG), DIRECTED BY LASSE HALLSTRÖM NOW PLAYING [ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW
justifies itself without in any way providing an easy way out or a pat version of closure. “The Drop” functions with a sense of absolute precision and control that permeates every element of the film. The actors deliver the script’s gritty dialogue with a kind of eloquent understatement, creating some powerful moments and meanings through pauses and silences as much as through the words themselves. The working-class Brooklyn neighborhood, the interiors of the houses, the particular domestic lives of its people, Cousin Marvin’s bar itself all create an impressive and convincing reality. Without glamor or exaggeration the whole cast participates in the intense emotions that lie beneath the bleak surface of the action, virtually sinking into the context of time and place. The actors speak the script’s gritty and often menacing dialogue with an eloquent understatement more unsettling than the posturing and shouting of so many second-rate crime dramas. A long way from Tony Soprano, James Gandolfini plays a bitter, disappointed crook, remembering his glory days, regarding the world and its people with unabated scorn. Sharing the screen with a presence as strong and defined as Gandolfini, Tom Hardy more than holds his own, carving out his own character, an apparently passive, barely articulate victim of circumstances who reveals a dark history in the film’s climactic sequence. Despite Gandolfini and an excellent cast, he really makes “The Drop” a gripping, completely engaging work, a genuine gangster movie.
Making his filmmaking debut at the age of 75, “My Old Lady” finds veteran playwright Israel Horovitz adapting from his own 2002 play. Kevin Kline plays Mathias (though he prefers to go by Jim), an uptight New Yorker who finds that he’s inherited an apartment in France from his estranged, recently deceased father. Thricedivorced, broke, and a recovering alcoholic with only a number of unpublished novels to show for it, Mathias hopes to sell the apartment for a tidy sum and make a fresh start with the earnings. But upon arrival, he’s shocked to find 92-year-old Mathilde (Maggie Smith) residing in the apartment. Mathilda explains that she comes as sort of a package deal with the property due to viager, a nutty French real estate agreement in which the buyer of a property pays a monthly fee to the seller, who’s allowed to
continue living in the property, and the buyer only gains possession of the property once the seller has died — the idea being that the buyer is gambling that they’ll get the property for a bargain, so long as the seller kicks off fairly quickly. It’s an arrangement Mathilda had reached with Mathias’ father, and seeing as how it means Mathias has basically inherited a debt, he views it as the final insult of their rocky relationship. To complicate matters further, Mathilde also lives with her overly protective daughter, Chloé (Kristin Scott Thomas), who has her own hopes of gaining ownership of her beloved family home. At first glance, the setup seems tailormade for whimsy and sitcom-y laughs, but Horovitz has a bit more on his mind, and the story wades into darker territory than you might expect. While the first half of the film gets bogged down in bureaucratic real estate mumbo-jumbo, as Mathias tries to finagle a deal to rid himself of the apartment for a profit, “My Old Lady” only grows more compelling as it goes on. Their close proximity leads Mathias to discover exactly how close Mathilda’s relationship was with his father, uncovering seething familial resentments, and eventually leading him to fall off the wagon. Horovitz makes for a perfectly adequate film director, though the story maintains a stagey theatricality, with the actors delivering lengthy monologues that likely played better on the stage. And though things wrap up a bit too tidily, the marvelous performances from all three leads are what truly resonate. Feeling very much like a throwback to
Manish Dayal and Charlotte Le Bon in “The Hundred-Foot Journey.” PHOTO COURTESY TOUCHSTONE PICTURES
the Oscar-baity films Miramax put out with great frequency in the late 90’s, “The Hundred-Foot Journey” bears more than a passing resemblance to films like “Chocolat” and “The Cider House Rules”; movies that have a tendency to feel more like comforting bowls of chicken soup than actual films (though there’s no denying that sometimes it is exactly what hits the spot). So it’s no
surprise to find that Swedish director Lasse Hallström, the filmmaker responsible for both of those much-loved films, is also behind this latest cinematic concoction. Once again showing us how food has the power to unite even the most diametrically opposed individuals, “The Hundred-Foot Journey” tells the story of an Indian family forced to flee their home by circumstances beyond their control. When their car breaks down in a small village in France, Papa Kadam (Om Puri), takes it as a sign and decides to set up shop, opening a restaurant highlighting the food made by his son, Hassan (the distractingly attractive Manish Dayal), a talented cook with aspirations of becoming a chef. The only problem is the location he’s chosen happens to be directly across the street from a revered, Michelin-starred restaurant run by Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren, showing remarkable restraint in a role that could easily have been played as scenery-chewing caricature). The snobbish Madame Mallory looks down on the family; their loud music and spicy food is at odds with her more refined style of classical French cuisine. From there, the plot proceeds as you would expect, with the chefs feuding and butting heads before (spoiler for anyone who’s never seen a movie before) ultimately learning to embrace what makes each other’s culture unique. Though before reaching that point, the plot veers into a third act where the film gets oddly judgey about molecular gastronomy, and how it (in the story’s eyes) lacks the soul of “real” cooking. There’s also an appealing romance plotline between Hassan and Madame Mallory’s sous chef, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), who has her own aspirations of career advancement. “The Hundred-Foot Journey” makes for perfectly pleasant viewing, but things only truly come to life during the film’s many scenes of tantalizing meals and lovingly-photographed produce. For the film about bold flavors and the spice of life, this “Journey” too often tastes frustratingly bland.
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Rochester Academy Charter School Board meeting dates and locations for 2014-2015 school year as below: September 19, 2014 at 6pm at Portland Campus October 17, 2014 at 6pm at Portland Campus November 21, 2014 at 6pm at Portland Campus December 19. 2014 at 6pm at Portland Campus January 16, 2015 at 6pm at Portland Campus February 20, 2015 at 6pm at Portland Campus March 20, 2015 at 6pm at Portland Campus April 17, 2015 at 6pm at Portland Campus May 15, 2015 at 6pm at Portland Campus June 19, 2015 6pm at Portland Campus July 17, 2015 6pm at Portland Campus
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Film Previews Full film reviews available at rochestercitynewspaper.com. [ OPENING ] BICYCLING WITH MOLIÉRE (2013): An ambitious thespian attempts to lure a retired fellow actor out of retirement for one final project. Dryden (Thu, Sep 18, 8 p.m.) CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR (2007): The true story of a playboy congressman, who attempts to take down the USSR through covert funding of Afghan rebels. Starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Dryden (Wed, Sep 17, 8 p.m.) CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000): In Ang Lee’s Oscar-winning martial arts epic, the pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive lead two warriors into the path of a young woman facing a crossroads in her life. Dryden (Fri, Sep 19, 8 p.m.) DAVID BOWIE IS (NR): A documentary film of the groundbreaking David Bowie Is exhibition created by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Little (Tue, Sep 23, 7 p.m.) THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY (R): A young couple attempts to pick up the pieces and salvage their relationship following a devastating loss. Starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, and Viola Davis. Little, Pittsford HAMLET (1921): The silent film adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic play. Dryden (Tue, Sep 23, 8 p.m.) THE MAZE RUNNER (PG-13): A young man wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world, in this adaptation of the popular YA book series. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster MODERN TIMES (1936): Charlie Chaplin’s popular Tramp character struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman. Dryden (Sun, Sep 21, 8 p.m.) MUSEUM HOURS (2012): Two strangers meet and form a connection while at the Kunsthistorisches Art Museum in Vienna. Dryden (Sat, Sep 20, 8 p.m.) MY OLD LADY (PG-13): Kevin Kline stars as an American who inherits an apartment in Paris, only to find that comes with an unexpected resident. With Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas. Little, Pittsford THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (R): When their father passes away, four grown siblings are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week. Starring Jason Bateman, Jane Fonda, Tina Fey, Rose Byrne, and Adam Driver. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown TUSK (R): A podcaster goes looking for a story and finds himself in the clutches of a demented man with some unusual hobbies in Kevin
Smith’s outlandish horrorcomedy. Henrietta A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (R): Liam Neeson stars as a private investigator hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped him and murdered his wife. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown THE ZERO THEOREM (R): Terry Gilliam’s latest cinematic whatsit, starring Christoph Waltz as a computer hacker hoping to discover the meaning of life. Little [ CONTINUING ] AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (R): A team of explorers make a horrific discovery when they descend into the underground catacombs that lie beneath Paris. Canandaigua, Culver, Tinseltown, Webster BOYHOOD (R): This coming-ofage story from director Richard Linklater follows the life of a boy from age 6 through his high school graduation. With Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette. Canandaigua, Little, Pittsford DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13): An army of genetically evolved apes battle against a small band of surviving humans, in this sequel to 2011’s “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” Movies 10 DOLPHIN TALE 2 (PG): The team of people who saved a dolphin’s life reassemble in the wake of her surrogate mother’s passing in this sequel to the familyfriendly hit. Starring Ashlet Judd, Morgan Freeman, and Harry Connick Jr. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster THE DROP (R): Tom Hardy finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into his neighborhood’s past. With Noomi Rapace and James Gandolfini. Greece, Henrietta, Little, Pittsford, Tinseltown GET ON UP (PG-13): This biopic from director Tate Taylor (“The Help”) follows the life of the “Godfather of Soul,” music icon James Brown. Starring Chadwick Boseman (“42”), Octavia Spencer, and Viola Davis. Cinema, Culver THE GIVER (PG-13): In a seemingly utopian society, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the “real” world. Based on Lois Lowry’s classic novel. With Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep. Culver, Eastview, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG-13): In this latest entry in the Marvel cinematic universe, Chris Pratt plays galactic adventurer Peter Quill, forced to team up with a motley crew of interplanetary misfits after a bounty is placed on his head. With Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Lee Pace, Djimon Hounsou, and Dave Bautista. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster HERCULES (PG-13): In the second film this year to take on the mythological hero, Dwayne
Johnson steps into the sandals of the famous Greek. Movies 10 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG): An Indian family moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelinstarred French restaurant. Starring Helen Mirren. Brockport, Canandaigua, Culver, Pittsford, Tinseltown, Webster I ORIGINS (R): In this sci-fi drama from the director of “Another Earth,” a molecular biologist and his lab partner uncover evidence that complicates his scientific and spiritual beliefs. Starring Michael Pitt and Brit Marling. Cinema IF I STAY (PG-13): Chloë Grace Moretz stars as a gifted young classical musician who, after a car accident puts her in a coma, finds herself faced with a choice between life and death. Brockport, Canandaigua, Eastview, Geneseo, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster LET’S BE COPS (R): Two friends impersonate police officers using rented uniforms, but soon run afoul of a dangerous Russian mobster. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG13): An Englishman sets out to prove that a young woman claiming to be a psychic is actually a fraud, in this romantic-comedy from Woody Allen. Starring Colin Firth and Emma Stone. Pittsford MALEFICENT (PG): Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning star in this lavish fairy tale adventure, which tells the previously untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain. Movies 10 NO GOOD DEED (PG-13): A woman finds her family threatened when a charming stranger smooth-talks his way into their home. Starring Taraji P. Henson and Idris Elba. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Greece, Henrietta, Tinseltown THE NOVEMBER MAN (R): An ex-CIA operative finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game of spy vs. spy. Starring Pierce Brosnan. Canandaigua, Culver, Eastview, Geneseo, Henrietta, Tinseltown, Webster THE PURGE: ANARCHY (R): In this sequel to the horror film, “The Purge,: a young couple fights to survive on the annual Purge, when the government declares all crime legal. Movies 10 SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR (R): The long-awaited followup to Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of Frank Miller’s gritty series of graphic novels. Starring Josh Brolin, Mickey Rourke, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eva Green, and Rosario Dawson. Cinema, Culver, Webster THE TRIP TO ITALY (NR): British comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon eat their way through Italy in this sequel to the popular 2010 comedy, “The Trip.” Little, Pittsford WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL (PG): Inspired by the true story of a young coach who turns a losing high school football program around to go undefeated for 12 consecutive seasons. With Jim Caviezel and Laura Dern. Canandaigua, Eastview, Greece, Tinseltown, Webster
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Happy and Healthy in Highland Park 45 Bellevue Drive One could handily argue that Bellevue Drive, in Rochester’s Highland Park neighborhood, is one of the most beautiful streets in town. What makes it so? For starters, a rare cul-de-sac configuration, towering shade trees, creative front gardens, and bona fide style cred—including a Claude Bragdon-designed home, one of two residences on the street opened to the public in June for The Landmark Society’s House and Garden Tour.
doors, a bonus front room with a vaulted ceiling and loads of natural light.
The location offers everything a city homeowner could want. The Doctor’s Road entrance to Highland Park lies directly across the street from Bellevue Drive. Stroll two minutes on foot and you can either give yourself over to the illusion of being solitary in a great pine forest or be headed down South Avenue in search of sushi, dessert, food trucks, craft cocktails, or a beer garden. The Highland Park Neighborhood Association fosters a strong sense of community and provides plenty of neighborhood events throughout the year.
Converted to a two-family dwelling in the 1980s, the home is currently owner-occupied on the first floor, while the upper floors are rented out at over $1000/month. Conversion back to a single family would be relatively easy, as little of the original infrastructure has been disturbed. At a generous 2,665 square feet, the house in its present configuration boasts 5 bedrooms, 2 kitchens, and 2.5 baths. Other comparably sized, single-family houses on the block are valued much higher than number 45’s list price of $184,900.
The American Foursquare at 45 Bellevue was built in 1920, about thirty years after the park’s first lilac collection was planted. Its recently painted shingles; wide, wooden eaves; and original 6-over-1 windows are classic Craftsman. Highlights on the first floor include hardwood floors, a large living room with a hefty brick fireplace flanked with built-in bookshelves, and, through a pair of French
Features of the second floor include the original linen closet, a generous sleeping porch, and a charming vintage bath. The attic has been nicely converted to additional living space. Outdoors is a tidy patio with space for eating and lounging. A two-car garage abuts the backyard and runs along Bellevue Alley, providing easy access to South Avenue.
To schedule a showing of this lovely residence, call Carl Hopfinger of Red Barn Properties at 585-381-2222. You could be home by winter, and cross-country skiing and sledding in the park, right from your front door. by Sarah Nguyen Hooper Sarah is a proud city resident and Landmark Society volunteer
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residency in Pediatrics & 2-yr residency/fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Training in neonatal resuscitation & pediatric advanced life support. On call/ rotating shifts. Rochester General Health System is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minority/ Female/Disability/Veteran. Email resume to kathy.peishel@ rochestergeneral.org referencing Job Code 14SC.
Volunteers BECOME A DOCENT at the Rochester Museum & Science Center Must be an enthusiastic communicator, Like working with children. Learn more at http://www.rmsc.org/Support/ VolunteerOr call 585-697-1948 BRIGHTEN A LIFE. Lifespan’s The Senior Connection program needs people 55+ to volunteer to make 2 friendly phone calls / 2 visits each month to an older adult Call Katie 585-244-8400 x 152 CARING FOR CAREGIVERS Lifespan is looking for volunteers to offer respite to caregivers whose loved ones have been diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer’s Disease. For details call Eve at 244-8400 FOSTER PARENTS WANTED! Monroe County is looking for adults age 21 and over to consider opening their homes to foster children. Call 334-9096 or visit www.MonroeFosterCare.org. Monroe County ISAIAH HOUSE, a home for the dying in Rochester, needs volunteers to provide care for residents who are terminally ill. Training is provided. Call 2325221 to request an application. LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF ROCHESTER needs adult tutors to help adults who are waiting to improve their reading, writing, English speaking, or
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Axelerated Precision LLC, a domestic LLC, Filed Arts. of Org. with the SSNY on 8/14/14. County: Monroe. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Jose Santini, 193 Duxbury Rd., Rochester, NY 14626.
City Residential Properties, LLC filed Art. Of Org. with SSNY on 4/7/14. Office Location: Monroe Cnty. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 144 Village Landing #192, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
[ LEGAL NOTICE ] Shorewater VIII NY LLC (“LLC”) filed Arts. of Org. with Secy.of State of NY (SSNY) on August 1, 2014. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1761 S.E. 7th Street, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] 4389 RIDGE ROAD WEST LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 8/14/14. 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 4477 Ridge Road West, Rochester, NY 14626. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.
[ NOTICE ] INNOVATIVE APP DESIGN LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 7/3/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process The LLC, 32 Pride St., Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] JOINT EFFORT LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 7/15/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Thomas St. Denis, 37 Brookside Dr., Fairport, NY 14450. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ]
95 DEVITT ROAD LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/19/2014. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2657 Norton St., Rochester, NY 14609, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
MANUEL’S MUSIC STUDIO, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 9/4/14. 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 31 W. Church St., Fairport, NY 14450. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.
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AT&T Mobility, LLC is proposing to modify an existing wireless telecommunications facility on an existing building located at 300 Kendrick Road, Rochester, NY 14620. Three antennas (one per sector) will be installed on the existing building at a centerline height of +/- 118 feet above ground level. Any interested party wishing to submit comments regarding the potential effects the proposed facility may have on any historic property may do so by sending such comments to: Project 61147517-MRG c/o EBI Consulting, 21 B St, Burlington, MA 01803, or via telephone at 339-234-3535.
MONROE TOWNHOMES, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/18/14. Amended to 937 MONROE TOWNHOMES, LLC on 06/20/14. Office location: 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, 30 N Union Street, Suite 202, Rochester, New York 14607. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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[ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: Love and Squalor LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 8/7/14. Office loc.: Monroe Co. Sec.
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Legal Ads > page 31 of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205, regd. agt. upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. Of SurgiCare Software, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/25/2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 807 Ridge Rd., Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license, number not yet assigned, for a full beer & wine license has been applied for by Loi T NGUYEN dba The Wok, 912 Genesee St ., Rochester, NY 14611, County of Monroe, for a restaurant. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license, pending has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Beer and Wine at retail in a Restaurant under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at 671 Maiden Lane Rochester NY 14626 for on premises consumption for MNA Enterprises Inc. – Carmine’s Family Restaurant. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of SHAH CPA FIRM, PLLC (the “PLLC”), a domestic PLLC. Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of NY (SSNY) on 8/12/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the PLLC, 2041 Penfield Rd, Bldg C, Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: Public Accountancy. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of AVANI BUSINESS PARK LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06/25/2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to SAMEER PENAKALAPATI, 45 CEDAR MILL DRIVE,
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 14626. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BUVA International LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/16/2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 44, Woodmont RD, Rochester NY-14620 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CEIPAL, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 05/21/2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to CEIPAL, LLC, 722 WEILAND ROAD, SUITE 205, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, 14626. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Simply Organized by Rubiena, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/16/2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3349 Monroe Ave., Suite 113, Rochester NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Wheelhouse Productions, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/26/2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO BOX 93274 Rochester, NY 14692. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 111 Commerce Drive, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/25/14. 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 111 Commerce Dr., Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 139 Field St LLC. Arts.
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of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/19/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 1555 East Henrietta Ventures, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/19/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 1615-1625 East Ave LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/11/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 700 Crossroads Bldg., 2 State St., Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 1744 NORTH ROAD, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/21/2014. 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, 2117 Buffalo Rd., #221, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 30 Edgerton Street LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/11/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 700 Crossroads Bldg., 2 State St., Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 4090 Pearsal St Ventures, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/19/14. Office location:
Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity.
agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served; SSNY shall mail copy of process to 153 East 32ndStreet Apartment 14A New York, NY 10016; Purpose: Any lawful purpose.
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Notice of Formation of Allison C Porray LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/1/2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 22 S Gate Trl, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities.
Notice of Formation of 50 Chestnut Ventures LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/19/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 691-695 Park Ave LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/11/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 700 Crossroads Bldg., 2 State St., Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 75 Meigs Street LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/11/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 700 Crossroads Bldg., 2 State St., Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 83-85 Meigs Street LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/11/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 700 Crossroads Bldg., 2 State St., Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC), Name: Hamilton & Riley LLC; Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 08/05/2014; Office Location: Monroe County; SSNY designated as
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[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Apphia T LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/5/14. 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 960 Allens Creek Rd., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Avani Business Park LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/25/14. 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 Sameer Penakalapati, 45 Cedar Mill Dr., Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Avarus Solutions, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/3/2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 115, Mendon, NY 145060115 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of BARNYARD BOGGERS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/2/2014. 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, 1807 Salt Rd., Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Caitlin M. Bittner
Enterprises LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/13/14. 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 7014 13th Avenue Ste 202 Brooklyn NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Chacchia RE Holdings, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/22/2014. 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, 93 Post Ave., Rochester, NY 14619. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Chestnut St Ventures, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/19/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CK Capital Partners, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 10/17/13. 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 101 Sully’s Trail, Bldg. 20, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Cleanliness Cleaning Services LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) August 25 2014 . Office location: Monroe County.SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1067 Spencerport Rd.Rochester Ny 14606. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CLINSEN LLC Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 8/25/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY
is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 268 Wimbledon Road, Rochester New York 14617. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Crossbow Holdings LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/07/14. 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: 21 Crossbow Dr., Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of EAGLE AUTO TRANSPORTATION, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/02/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of East Henrietta Ventures, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/20/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Suite 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Elite Fitness Personal Training LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/11/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 860 Linden Ave., Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Five Fold Industries, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8-4-14. 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 PO Box 24954, Rochester, NY 14624 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of GEMS Global Environmental Management Systems, LLC. Arts. of Org. Filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7-23-14 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1338 BHTL Road, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: Any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Gray Analytics LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/21/14. 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 10 Great Garland Rise, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of GREEN ENERGY POWER, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/27/14. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 2040 Ridge Rd. East, Rochester, NY 14622. 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 of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Guardrail Technology LLC Art of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/31/14. 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 96 Empire Boulevard Suite 300 Rochester NY, 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of HEROES HOME ADVANTAGE, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/11/2014. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 28 Willow Pond Way, Ste. 1, Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful act.
Legal Ads [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Horizon Advisory Services, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/13/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 5582 West Henrietta Rd., W. Henrietta, NY 14586. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Inn On Broadway, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/17/04. 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 3137 Chili Ave., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Inside Outside Property Maintenance, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/6/14. 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 1 S. Washington St., Ste. 240, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: 3177 LATTA, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/10/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 26 Norbrook Road, Fairport, New York 14450. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: MORNET COMMUNICATIONS, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/12/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall
mail a copy of process to the LLC, 310 Exchange Boulevard,Apt. 158, Rochester, New York 14608. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.
Pittsford-Victor Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Notice of Formation of Morgan Brookwood, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/15/13. 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 1170 Pittsford-Victor Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities.
NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: TOM’S MOWING, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/13/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 182 Lake Breeze Park, Rochester, New York 14622. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Maasai Holdings LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/14/13. 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 101 Sully’s Trail, Bldg. 20, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of McArdle Burkhardt LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/12/13. 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 693 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of MESKILL ASSOCIATES, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/12/2014. 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, 289 Cedar Creek Trail, Rochester, NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan Brookwood I, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/15/13. 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 1170
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[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan Loomis Road, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/27/12. 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 1170 Pittsford-Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan U-Ave LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 11/30/12. 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 1170 Pittsford-Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan Warehouse Realty, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/18/14. 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 1080 Pittsford-Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Morgan Whitewood Realty, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/29/14. 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 1080 Pittsford Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of NASH
ENTERTAINMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/11/14. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. office of LLC: 6 Lawrence St., Rochester, NY 14607. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Mark Scialdone at the princ. office of the LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Oakport Properties LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 08/11/2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 93252, Rochester, NY 14692 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ]
agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 924 Clover St., Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Shultz Properties, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State on July 8, 2014. 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 17 Foxboro Lane, Fairport, New York 14450. 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 Open Road Vapor LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 8/8/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 20 Marble Cir, Rochester, NY 14615 . Purpose: any lawful activities.
Notice of Formation of Simply Sue’s LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/22/14. 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 Susan Giralico, 36 Starflower Dr., W. Henrietta, NY 14586. Purpose: any lawful activities.
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Notice of Formation of Prime Capital CP, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/12/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity.
Notice of Formation of Surviving Naturally, Sandra Miceli NP Family Health PLLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/30/14. Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 75 W Main St. Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities.
[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Riddle Enterprises, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/14/14. 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, 555 North Winton Road, Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Salon Bello LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 9/4/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as
[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of TEN CLEARVIEW NY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/31/2014. 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 Anthony A. Dinitto, L.L.C., 8 Silent Meadows Dr., Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of THE DBTS GROUP L.L.C.. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y
of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/07/14. 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, 414 Broadway Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: Any lawful purpose [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Dream Tank, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 07/28/14. 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 468 Hayward Ave., Rochester, NY 14609 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Empty Hearts, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on March 26, 2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to Andrew M. Babiuk, 26 Calvin Road, Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: to engage in the entertainment, music, recording, digital media and publishing industries. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Tree of Hope Counseling, LCSW, PLLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/16/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 95 Allens Creek Rd, B-1, Ste. 110, Rochester NY 14618. Purpose: Mental Health Svcs. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Ugly Duck Coffee, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/11/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 17 Fairfax Rd, Rochester NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Williamson Ventures, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/19/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process
against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qual. of Morgan Brookwood DE I, LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/25/14. Office loc.: Monroe County. LLC org. in DE 1/31/14. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 1080 Pittsford-Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. DE off. addr.: CTC, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qual. of Morgan Brookwood DE, LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/25/14. Office loc.: Monroe County. LLC org. in DE 1/31/14. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 1080 Pittsford-Victor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. DE off. addr.: CTC, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qual. of Morgan Clay Apartments II DE Holdings, LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/7/14. Office loc.: Monroe County. LLC org. in DE 7/3/14. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 1080 PittsfordVictor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. DE off. addr.: CTC, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qual. of Morgan Clay Apartments II DE, LLC, Auth. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/7/14. Office loc.: Monroe County. LLC org. in DE 7/3/14. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc. to 1080 PittsfordVictor Rd., Ste. 100, Pittsford, NY 14534. DE off. addr.: CTC, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of
Form. on file: SSDE, Townsend Bldg., Dover, DE 19901. Purp.: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Aurora Holdings LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 8/15/14. NYS fictitious name: Aurora Brands Holdings LLC. Office location: Monroe County. Princ. bus. addr.: 100 Chestnut St., Rochester, NY 14604. LLC formed in DE on 7/3/14. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. DE addr. of LLC: 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] PLATINUM EXPRESS LOGISTICS LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 7/31/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served, SSNY shall mail process to ILLARION KIRIYAK, 7672 Ridge Rd., Brockport, NY 14420. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] S.A.F.E.- Safe Alternatives for Everyone, LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/2/14. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 117 Wisconsin St. Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] SOUTHWEST HOUSES LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 7/30/14. 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 360 Cottage St., Rochester, NY 14611. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] VIMEAN SERVICES, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 4/8/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is
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State of NY (“SSNY”) on 08/25/2014. Office in Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to HYDRATICS LLC, 150 LUCIUS GORDON DR., WEST HENRIETTA, NY 14586. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF BETTER WORLD HOUSING NO.2, LLC ]
The name of the Limited Liability Company is Better World Housing No.2, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on 8/1/2014. 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 to30 Hummingbird Way, W. Henrietta, NY 14586. The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC Law.
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Company is Hanna Properties, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on 1/8/2009. 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 PO Box 10600, Rochester, NY 14610. The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] DAMT, LLC (“LLC”), has filed Articles of Organization with the NY Secretary of State (“NYSS”) on July 22, 2014 pursuant to Section 203 of the NY Limited Liability Law. The office of the LLC shall be located in Monroe County, NY. The NYSS is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and the address to which the NYSS shall mail a copy of any process served on him against the LLC is C/O Alexander Soto, 2100 Harris Road, Penfield, NY 14526. The purpose
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CAMPEAU, MASSICOTTE, LAJEUNESSE & PILON, NOTARIES Notice is hereby given that we are looking to find the children of the late Daniel LouisPhilippe GUAY, who died on December 16th, 2007. His funeral took place at the Bartolomeo & Perotto Funeral Home, in Rochester, New York. The name of the children are Rachael GUAY , Robert GUAY and Michael GUAY. We are presently handling the Estate of the late Albertine Thériault ROGERS, who passed away on March 29th, 2014. The late Albertine Thériault ROGERS was the mother of the late Daniel LouisPhilippe GUAY and was residing in the Province of Quebec, Canada, at the time of her death. For further information, please contact Mtre
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Louise MASSICOTTE, notary at 819-2426056 or my email at: lmassicotte@notarius.net Mtre Louise MASSICOTTE, notary CAMPEAU, MASSICOTTE, LAJEUNESSE & PILON, NOTARIES 199 Principale Street Grenville (Quebec) Canada, JOV 1JO Tel: 819-242-6056 Fax: 819-242-6190 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 2013-11371 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. James R. Burroughs, II, a/k/a James R. Burroughs; Chandra D. Burroughs, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated August 18, 2014 and entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the lobby of the Monroe County Clerk’s Office located at 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New York, County of Monroe on September 24, 2014 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 City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 97 Glendale Park, Rochester, NY14613, Tax Account No. 105.34-2-18 described in Deed recorded in Liber 10863 of Deeds, page 84; lot size .14 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: $54,173.65 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: August 2014 Robert W. Kessler, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 20141424 Monroe County
SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff,vs. Merritt A. Rahn; ESL Federal Credit Union; United States of America,Internal Revenue Service; Midland Funding LLC a/k/a Midland Funding LLC d/b/a in NY as Midland Funding; Pittsford Federal Credit Union; Chase Bank USA, N.A.; American Express Centurion Bank; Empire Portfolios, Inc.; Rochester and Monroe County Employees Federal Credit Union; Chad Rahn; Sean Rahn; Courtney Rahn, Defendants.Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated August 25, 2014 and entered herein, I, the undersigned, the Referee in said Judgment named, will sell at public auction in the lobby of the Monroe County Clerk’s Office located at 39 West Main Street, Rochester, New York, County of Monroe on October 8, 2014 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 Village of Spencerport, Town of Ogden, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 57 Kirkgate Drive, Spencerport, NY 14559, Tax Account No. 086.19-1-11 described in Deed recorded in Liber 10430 of Deeds, page 93; lot size .24 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: $115,426.00 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: September 2014 Frank G. Maggio, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ NOTIICE ] NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF MONROE WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, against
RICHARD D. WARD, SR., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 9/3/2010 and Order To Substitute Referee dated 7/25/2014 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Front Steps of the Monroe County Office Building, 39 West Main Street, City of Rochester, State of New York on 10/08/2014 at 10:00AM, premises known as 1020 Arnett Boulevard, Rochester, NY 14619 All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, SBL No.: 120.70-1-19. Approximate amount of judgment $75,174.94 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 15260/09. Jason S. DiPonzio, Esq., Referee Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State Street, Rochester, NY 14614 Dated: August 8, 2014 1107273 9/10, 9/17, 9/24, 10/01/2014 [ SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] Index No. 20143285 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT MONROE COUNTY TOWER DBW II TRUST 2013-1, Plaintiff, vs. SAMUEL L. MONTGOMERY; PAMELA EVANS A/K/A PAMELA MONTGOMERY, if living, or if she be dead, her husband, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successorsin-interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through PAMELA EVANS A/K/A PAMELA MONTGOMERY, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective husbands, or widowers of hers, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff ASSOCIATES FIRST CAPITAL CORPORATION S/B/M TO ASSOCIATES FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC. S/B/M TO ASSOCIATES CONSUMER DISCOUNT COMPANY, INC.; HOUSEHOLD
FINANCE REALTY CORPORATION OF NEW YORK; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and “JOHN DOE #1” THROUGH “JOHN DOE #100,” Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in the above-entitled foreclosure action, and to serve a copy of your answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal service within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject premises. Dated: August 6, 2014 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an Order of Honorable Francis A. Affronti, a Justice of the Supreme Court, dated August 18, 2014, and filed with supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a tax lien covering the property known as 175 Dorington Road, Town of Irondequoit, New York and identified as Tax Account No.: 092.15-2-87 (the “Tax Parcel”). The relief sought is the sale of the Tax Parcel at public auction in satisfaction of the tax lien. In case of your failure to appear, judgment may be taken against you in the sum of $25,710.42, together with interest, costs, disbursements and attorneys’ fees of this action, and directing the public sale of the Tax Parcel. Anthony J. Iacchetta, Esq. Phillips Lytle LLP Attorney for Plaintiff Office and Post Office Address 1400 First Federal Plaza Rochester, New York 14614 Tel. No. (585) 238-2000
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Nicholas Felton’s latest annual recap of his personal communications data is now available, for just $30. Key findings, graphically presented, of Nicholas’ busy 2013 (according to a report by FiveThirtyEight.com): He received 44,041 texts and 31,769 emails, had 12,464 face-to-face conversations and 320 phone calls (all detailed by communicatee, from where, at what time, in what language). He reported 385 conversations, for example, with female cashiers, and that 54,963 exclamation points were used across all methods of written communication. (The 2012 report went for $35, but is, along with 2010 and 2011, “sold out,” according to feltron.bigcartel.com). [FiveThirtyEight.com, 8-24-2014]
Can’t Possibly Be True — The U.K.’s Barnet Council got
aggressive in August against a landlord in Hendon, in north London, who had defied an earlier order to stop offering a too-small apartment for residential rental. Landlord Yaakov Marom said tenants were still eager for the room even though the entryway required most people to drop to all fours, since it was less than 28 inches high (and therefore a fire-code violation). Council officers checking on the earlier order against Marom found a couple still residing there, paying the equivalent of $685 a month. [The Guardian, 8-22-2014] — When he was 19, Rene Lima-Marin (with a pal) robbed two Aurora, Colorado, video stores at gunpoint and, winning no favors from the judge, received backto-back sentences totaling 98 years. In 2008, eight years into the sentence,
Lima-Marin was mistakenly released and until this year was a model citizen, employed, married with a son, on good terms with his parole officer. However, the mistake was found in January, and he was returned to prison, and according to his lawyers in their August appeal, the original sentence has been reimposed, thus moving his release date to the year 2104. [KMGH-TV (Denver), 8-22-2014] — Among the more than 350 convicted violent felons whose right to carry guns has been restored over the past six years by the state of Georgia were 32 who had killed another person and 44 who were sex offenders, according to an August report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. As pointed out by ThinkProgress. com, among those who once again can carry is Dennis Krauss, a former Glynn County police officer convicted of raping a woman after a traffic stop. According to the 2003 Georgia Court of Appeals decision affirming his conviction, Officer Krauss had drawn his service weapon and said he wanted to anally penetrate the woman with it. (However, he was convicted only for his extortionate demand for sex.) [Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 8-23-2014] — On Aug. 21 and 22, in front of Linwood Howe Elementary School in Culver City, California, traffic officials posted a towering parking regulation sign pole (reportedly, 15 feet high) with at least eight large white signs, one on top of the other — in familiar red or green lettering, restricting access to the school’s curb lane. Each sign contains orders either to not park or to park only under certain conditions, each with its specific hours or other fine-print limitations. The mayor ordered the signs replaced on Aug. 22. [KABC-TV (Los Angeles), 8-22-2014]
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[ LOVESCOPE ] BY EUGENIA LAST ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will attract partners readily if you engage in projects or causes that allow you to show your talents and your ability to be diverse, fun-loving and productive. Don’t let a negative friend stand between you and your happiness. Expand your horizons and be a participant. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t be afraid to share your feelings, desires and plans for the future. Someone you meet at a lecture, conference or attending a social event will have similar plans and find you perfect in every way. Take a leap of faith and join forces, and you will find happiness.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Get involved in something you believe in wholeheartedly, and you will attract someone who can match your every move. Love may not be at first sight, but it will grow on you through communication and common interests. Mental stimulation will lead to a deeper physical bond. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Pick your partners wisely. Avoid anyone who is too unpredictable or disagrees with you too much. Don’t let the physical attraction be what reels you into a relationship that has nothing to offer emotionally or mentally. Look for greater stability, not a roller coaster ride.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ll be in the driver’s seat when it comes to attraction and rejection. Remember that you are dealing with people’s feelings, so don’t lead someone on if you have no intentions to follow through with an intent to form a relationship. Your propensity for variety should be divulged before making a move. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’ll charm everyone you meet with your loyalty, emotional sensitivity and passionate approach to life, love and happiness. You don’t have to push your way into someone’s heart -- just be yourself, talk about your personal plans and everything will fall into place.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Keep your emotions tucked away, or you may send the wrong signal. Bide your time and look at all the possibilities before you pick someone to help you fulfill your dreams. Use your sophisticated intelligence to attract someone who can help you acquire the standard of living you desire. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t go overboard when looking for love. Too much bravado will lead to disappointment. Wear you heart on your sleeve, be original and approach whoever interests you with mysteriously honest vibe. It’s separating yourself from the crowd that will grab someone as unique as you to your side.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Tread carefully. You are likely to attract partners who have a whole different perspective when it comes to love, romance, integrity and ethics. Lay your cards on the table, and you will weed out anyone who is too possessive, jealous or overbearing to partner with you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Put a dollar value on relationships, and you will avoid being taken for granted. Your desire to please will attract someone who is willing to take whatever you have to give. Look for someone who can offer equality instead of someone who wants to be with you for what you have.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Consider an old flame who you can’t stop thinking about or who you thought you’d end up with. Timing is important, and bringing someone from your past back into your life will help you move forward or allow you to let go so you can look for someone new. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Let your emotions and intuition guide you to the person who treats you the best instead of allowing your insecurity and chemistry to draw you to someone reckless and abusive. Respect yourself, and expect the same from whomever you choose to be with.
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