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UNMASKED The Rochester musician just played in front of 50,000 fans in Mexico City, now he's hanging out for happy hour at Abilene. MUSIC, PAGE 14

Lessons for Rochester from Raleigh.

The battle over bar hours.

Fast love and consent.

EDUCATION, PAGE 6

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THEATER, PAGE 20

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Tim Louis Macaluso quotes Rochester legislator Joseph Morelle as saying that “on the question of state aid, the argument that Buffalo receives more help than Rochester is more perception than reality” (“The Buffalo Blues,” News). Furthermore, Morelle stated, “when you add in the money Rochester has received for various local projects (Midtown, Eastman Business Park etc.), Rochester’s financial aid is nearly on a par with Buffalo.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Rochester community leaders have for many years complained about the lack of fairness associated with Rochester’s share of state aid. They estimate the disparity to exceed $40 million annually when compared to Buffalo’s. Per capita aid in Rochester has been pegged at about $419 per person while Buffalo receives $617, yet Morelle and his fellow state colleagues have done nothing to correct this imbalance. Rather than address the inequity here, the state will pump an additional $1 billion of taxpayer money into Buffalo to further economic growth and help energize the area. You would think that our Albany representatives might push for similar treatment here, considering recent data that suggests Rochester is saddled with the third most povertystricken area in America together with possessing the second worst economic growth record in the country. But silence prevails. It is obvious that Rochester is barely treading water and has many needs that should be addressed. The local state delegation must get on board, accept the 2 CITY

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shortfall, and fix the problem. Rochesterians deserve their fair share of state aid and economic development dollars. If our representatives have any clout, the goal should be to “bring home the bacon,” not just accept the crumbs that are left behind. Incidentally, the project aid that Assemblyman Morelle mentioned (Midtown, Eastman Business Park etc.), which he indicated helped Rochester level the playing field, was, for the most part, associated with funds secured through the competitive Regional Economic Development Awards. Buffalo and other regions of the state likewise participate in the state program, and Buffalo has received a like amount of dollars for initiatives there. No edge for Rochester here. HUGH E. CROWLEY

Protect the children

My heart goes out to the children fleeing the violence in their countries. They are just children, like yours and mine. The majority come from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, countries in which our government often has been involved militarily. In 2009 a covert CIA operation helped Honduras generals overthrew a democratically elected government. Honduras is now called the murder capital of the world. In 2013 alone more than 400 children were killed there. The US has repeatedly given military aid to the brutal dictatorship in Guatemala that oppresses and kills its own people. The School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia, has trained military personnel on killing and torturing their own people, resulting in the death of six Jesuit priests and tens of thousands of Salvadoran citizens. Anti-immigration reform media want us to believe that these children come only because of economic reasons.

It is true that we have harmed their economies with the free trade agreements, which destroy the livelihood of the Central American farmers. They can no longer sell their products on their own markets because the American crops are cheaper. We have an obligation towards these children. They are very vulnerable. We have to abide by the law. The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, signed by Republicans and Democrats alike in 2008, requires that every minor receives a fair hearing.

doesn’t mean they should be allowed to run roughshod. STEVE

As a Bible-believing, bornagain Christian, US citizen, and resident of Greece, I think this is wonderful (“An Atheist in the Town of Greece,” News). We need more inclusion, not less. We need more viewpoints, not fewer. I’m proud to live in the Town of Greece, where the expression of diverse views is welcome. The Supreme Court’s decision was wise. There is an appropriate place for religious spiritual and moral expression in our civic life.

While I strongly favor elimination of all this superstitious nonsense within our government, several things make the situation in Greece especially troublesome. The invocations in Greece do not convey any respect for those present who are not practicing Christians. A town board meeting is not at all like a legislative session. Regular citizens are coming in to make their case to their town government, “to petition for redress of grievances.” First thing you are confronted with is a highly sectarian prayer. You can either pretend to be one of these Christians, or you identify yourself as an outsider, not of this club. The board members all “amen” right along with almost everyone else. No Christian I know would condone the intolerance expressed in these invocations. I can only hope that a large contingent of attendees starts walking out at every one of these invocations. C’mon, Grecians: how ‘bout standing up (and walking out) for what’s right!

TED PAWLICKI

SANITY MONGER

The US Senate and House start their sessions with prayer every day. The president of the United States has participated in the National Prayer Breakfast for the last 61 years. There are chaplains in every branch of the armed forces to tend to the spiritual needs of its members. Law enforcement, fire departments, and hospitals have chaplains, as do public universities. Eighty-six percent of the people in Greece, according to the Census, are Christian. An overwhelming 65 percent are Roman Catholic. Majority rules in this country. That a small handful of shrill atheists want to ram their opinion of a Godless world down everyone else’s throat

Women and the Supremes

LIEVE BAIN

Greece prays

The Supreme Court, including the three women justices, was unanimous – in being wrong? (“Supremes Launch Attack on Women’s Health Care,” Urban Journal) They overturned a Massachusetts law requiring pro-life activists to stay 35 feet from reproductive health facilities, including Planned Parenthood. “Reproductive health facilities” and Planned Parenthood: be careful what unfiltered words get by you. Your columnist wrote, “But I don’t see how requiring protesters to keep a respectful distance is a serious restriction on their right to

speak.” What’s a “respectful distance” for those without a voice, for whom this “medical procedure” is 100 percent fatal? Let’s talk about a solution, though. On the one hand, there’s the “termination of a living being; life-long regret by the mother; a loving, childless person or couple. On the other hand…. Political note: When are the Dems in Albany going to pass the pending 9-point women’s-rights, 1 point unborn-children’s-rights bill, call it a win, and redirect that energy on education, cutting taxes, etc.? November elections are coming. WALT MILLER

Here is the scenario between an amorous husband and wife: He: How about some sex tonight, dearest? She: Oh, I’d love to dear, but my employer won’t pay for my contraceptives, so I guess the answer is no. He: That darned conservative Supreme Court! Messing with your “health” this way. Maybe I should pay for my own contraceptives and then we can do as we please. She: Well, I suppose you could, but why should you when someone else can? Heck, with Obamacare we can have sex any time, anywhere, with anyone, any way we like, wherever we like as often as we like and my employer will pick up the tab. Is this a great country or what! He: Well, maybe we should just forego the sex act until such time as we can save up enough money to buy our own contraceptives! Maybe I am a little right of center on this issue, but for heaven’s sake, sex is personal. Why should government be involved? Washington pols, please stay out of my bedroom; that invisible god in sky that Tom Tomorrow is so concerned with is looking! BOB TACITO

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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

This Christian nation: the immigrant children Maybe I’m naive, but I was shocked last month by the reaction to news that Monroe County might get a shelter for immigrant children. In late June, when the media reported that the federal government was looking at locations in the Rochester and Buffalo areas, Congressman Chris Collins lashed out. It’s “unacceptable,” he said, that “the federal government is trying to force the hard-working taxpayers of New York to foot the bill to house undocumented immigrants.” The children we’re talking about are from Central America, and they’re fleeing terrible economic conditions or often terrifying violence. Reports by the United Nations and other human rights agencies say that many of them are victims of gang violence and persecution, family abuse, forced labor, and human trafficking. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees office estimates that 58 percent of the children have experienced harm or face the threat of harm in their countries and could need international protection. In Guatemala, says a report by Human Rights Watch, “Powerful criminal organizations engage in widespread acts of violence and extortion.” And, says the report, “The exploitation of children in sexual tourism, pornography, and organized crime is a widespread problem.” A New York Times report earlier this month documented violence and torture of children in Honduras, largely due to rampant gang violence. And in El Salvador, the Times said, street gang violence has led to a murder rate of more than eight people a day. Some of the children fleeing across the Mexico-US border have relatives living in the United States. Some do not, and are coming here – on their own volition or at the insistence of family members – seeking refuge and a better, more secure life. Some of them die before they get to the border, victims of violence or the intense heat and lack of water and food along the way. And when they get here, they are met with American hostility: protests, verbal abuse, and humiliation. US Immigrant rights groups say that some of the children have been abused – physically and verbally – by US Border Patrol employees. Some of these children will have to go back to their home country. Others could be granted protected status and could be permitted to stay – legally. Although some public officials are pushing for quick deportation, all of these children have the right to due process to determine their status. But they need shelter while they wait.

Rather than a welcoming, safe haven, the children fleeing Central America are greeted with American hostility: protests, verbal abuse, and humiliation. New York City has sheltered more than 3000 of them, the New York Times reported last week, and officials there expect 7000 more. Immigrant-rights groups and city officials are working together to get help for them. Syracuse also wants to help; Mayor Stephanie Miner and the Syracuse Catholic Diocese have written President Obama saying they welcome a shelter there. But in Greater Rochester? When federal officials were studying two Monroe County sites, there were immediate protests, including Chris Lee’s little rant, and little sign of welcome. No Syracusetype invitation, no statement of support, no pledge to find an acceptable shelter facility and provide food and clothing and medical care. “That’s disturbing to me,” long-time immigrant-rights activist John Ghertner told me late last week. “And what bothers me even more than the lack of a community statement is that we’ve got two senators in New York State who are not up for election and would probably have to commit murder to lose an election” and so far, neither has said a word. Not that Ghertner and I can determine. Early this week, a ray of hope broke through locally: The owners of the former Blossom Nursing Home on Monroe Avenue have contacted city officials about sheltering up to 172 of the children at that continues on page 9 rochestercitynewspaper.com

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[ NEWS FROM THE WEEK PAST ]

Chipping in

Officials with New York State and the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering announced plans to build a next-generation semiconductor facility in Greece. It will be located in a building that the college owns in the Canal Landing Office Park, and will focus on gallium nitride semiconductor technology. Officials said that approximately 100 tech companies will share the space, and that at least 500 jobs should be created.

Small particles, big problems

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand wrote to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, urging it to add microplastics and plastic microbeads to its list of Great Lakes contaminants. That action would make projects and initiatives to clean up or prevent plastics pollution eligible for funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Microplastics and microbeads are present in high concentrations in parts of the Great Lakes system, including in Lake Ontario.

Fringe headliners unmasked

The First Niagara Fringe Festival has announced

the headlining acts of this year’s event, which will run September 18 to September 27 in multiple venues in downtown Rochester. Performance company Circus Orange, acrobatic troupe Cirque Du Fringe, comedian Jay Pharoah, and a walk-through presentation of Spoon River Rochester will head the more than 380 shows taking place during the festival’s third year.

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District hires innovation chief

Keith Babuszczak is the Rochester school district’s newly hired chief of school innovation for career pathways and integrated learning. Babuszczak has more than 15 years of experience in career and vocational training as a classroom teacher and administrator, according to Superintendent Bolgen Vargas. He starts next month.

Carpino retiring

Peter Carpino, president and CEO of United Way of Greater Rochester, will retire at the end of June 2015. Carpino has been with United Way for 31 years. A national search for a new president is expected to begin immediately.

Obsession Bar and Grill on Chili Avenue says that the City of Rochester improperly restricted its operating hours. The State Supreme Court agrees. PHOTO BY MARK CHAMBERLIN

NEIGHBORHOODS | BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN

City loses battle over bar hours Violent incidents connected to two Rochester clubs, Captain’s Attic and Magic City, have prompted intervention from City Hall. But it’s a little-known court ruling that really has the potential to shake up the late-night scene in the city. State Supreme Court Justice John Ark ruled in 2013 that the City of Rochester improperly restricted the operating hours for Obsession Bar and Grill, 564 Chili Avenue. The decision was upheld on appeal in June. According to the city’s zoning code, bars and restaurants with a certain commercial designation must close at 11 p.m. The C1 designation is meant for low-intensity businesses that

are compatible with the surrounding neighborhood, the code says. But the court ruled that the city cannot supplant state law, which permits the businesses to stay open until 4 a.m. (State law does allow a county to request an earlier closing time. Monroe County has set a 2 a.m. closing time.) The suit was filed by Obsession Bar and Grill and establishment owner Joan Ortiz against the city’s Zoning Board. Obsession had requested a variance which would have allowed the establishment to close at 2 a.m., seven days a week. The Zoning Board eventually approved a variance permitting

the operation to close at midnight Monday through Thursday and at 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. The lawsuit was filed as a result of that decision. City spokesperson Christine Christopher says that city officials haven’t decided how they’re going to deal with the court ruling. “Right now, the city is researching its options,” she says. The decision is sending nervous ripples through at least some of Rochester’s neighborhoods. Chris Stevens, president of the Upper Monroe Neighborhood Association, says her group is very concerned about the impact of the ruling.

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Some party leaders say that the upcoming chair election and increased interest in party affairs after last year’s mayoral election are driving the unusual number of primaries. But other leaders cast the contests as a power struggle between different factions of the Democratic Party.

POLITICS | BY JEREMY MOULE

Obscure elections with high stakes The Monroe County Democratic Party has a long history of internal power struggles and racial tensions. And this year, the divisions are playing out in an unprecedented number of contested elections for committee seats. The elections involve approximately 260 ground-level Democratic committee seats in parts of the city’s northeast and northwest. Committee primaries are fairly common, says Tom Ferrarese, the county’s Democratic elections commissioner, but they don’t typically happen on this scale. The contests are crucial. Committee members vote on party endorsements, and on September 23, committee members countywide will vote on the party’s next chair. Current chair Joe Morelle is resigning. Some party leaders say that the upcoming chair election and increased interest in party affairs after last year’s mayoral election are driving the unusual number of primaries. But other leaders cast the contests as a power struggle between different factions of the Democratic Party. “It’s starting a civil war within the party,” says Anthony Plonczynski, chair of the 21st Legislative District committee on the city’s east side.

Here’s the longer version of what’s happening: the Monroe County Democratic Committee is made up of tiers of smaller committees. The City of Rochester is divided into several committees based on County Legislature districts. And these groups — called legislative district committees — are made up of even smaller election district committees, each with four seats. The primaries involve approximately 65 city election district committees in the 21st, 26th, 28th, and 29th Legislative Districts. Between all of the contests, more than 470 people are running for seats, Ferrarese says. Some leaders say that it’s allies of State Assembly member David Gantt and Mayor Lovely Warren who are the ones passing petitions to force primaries. (Gantt did not return a phone call seeking comment.) Plonczynski says the challenges are a power grab by Gantt and City Hall. But Warren, her husband, and her brother face primaries for the election district seats they hold in the 21st LD. Warren and Plonczynski circulated competing petitions for the seats. But some of the contests also reflect known racial tensions within the party. Black and Latino Democrats have a history of running primaries against each

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other in the 29th Legislative District committee, for example. And they’re going head to head in several election district primaries in the 29th District this year. Molly Clifford, leader of the 28th Legislative District, says that there are vacant seats in her election district committees, and that some of the challengers could have been accommodated without running primaries. Clifford says she isn’t sure why her district is being targeted. (It is worth noting, however, that Clifford campaigned for Tom Richards in last year’s mayoral race, even after he lost the Democratic primary.) “It is what it is,” Clifford says.

NEIGHBORHOODS | BY CHRISTINE CARRIE FIEN

Undocumented children at Blossom South? The owner of the former Blossom South nursing home is interested in turning the now vacant home over to the federal government to house undocumented children who are facing deportation, according to an e-mail sent Sunday by Chris Stevens, president of the Upper Monroe neighborhood group, to neighbors. The property at 1175 Monroe Avenue is owned by Israel Segal. A representative for Segal has reached out to the city, Stevens’ e-mail says. The federal government needs facilities to house these children, the e-mail says, “and Mr. Segal believes that Blossom South would meet these needs.” According to the e-mail, the facility is 68,000 square feet with 86 bedrooms. There are also kitchens, dayrooms, solariums, dining rooms, offices, and storage rooms, the e-mail says. Jessica Alaimo, a spokesperson for Mayor Lovely Warren, sent over a statement on Tuesday. City officials are gathering information, the statement says, prior to any decision being made on Blossom South. The city will discuss the matter with neighborhood groups, community service providers, and faith-based organizations before drafting any formal proposal, the statement says. “As a community we have a moral obligation to show compassion to these young people,” Warren says in the statement.

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EDUCATION | BY MARK HARE

Lessons for Rochester from Raleigh Garner Magnet High School, just outside Raleigh, North Carolina, has more than 2,400 students, with overflow classrooms in 14 standalone trailers on the 100-acre campus, and 48 more classrooms in temporary modular units. A few years back, the school district purchased an old movie theater across the street from Garner and converted it to a ninth-grade academy, where the school’s 700 freshmen spend most of their time. Conventional wisdom is that Garner is too big to succeed — too big to deliver the attention that needy students require, and too big to police. In Rochester, Garner, almost half again the size of East High School (our largest), would long ago have succumbed to the toxic air of failure that poisons our high-poverty schools. In Rochester, the ed EMT’s would have first tried to revive Garner with a “reorganization plan” — which would likely mean converting the big school into two or three smaller schools housed under the same roof with a promise of better days ahead. Or the state would have decided, as it has with East, to shut it down so the school board could entertain proposals from so-called turnaround experts employing the shopworn Rochester strategy of conflating boosterism with healthy, informed optimism. An optimist sees the obstacles to solving a problem and finds ways to overcome them and succeed; a booster doesn’t care about reality, wears a big smile, cheers loudly, and dismisses all critics as naysayers. For the record, I am an optimist. But I am an old man and I long ago ran out of patience for school district and city officials who insist, despite our 40-year slide to educational catastrophe, that the city schools can fix themselves. The decision to place East High in the hands of the University of Rochester is unlike anything the district has tried before and may yield ideas and approaches that could be part of a genuine turnaround. It’s far too early to know, but an optimist would keep an open mind. Garner has no metal detectors (too many doors to police, says the principal, Drew Cook, and besides, there’s no need for tighter security). Garner is not friction-free. Cook told a group of Rochester visitors recently, “If you’d been here yesterday, you’d have seen us seen trying to head off a gang fight.” (They did). But Garner works quite well. It works because way back in 1976, school officials in Raleigh and the surrounding Wake County, with the support of their representatives in the General Assembly, consolidated the Raleigh and Wake County schools. (They did so in defiance of their constituents who, in 1973, voted down school consolidation by a 2 to 1 margin.) 6 CITY

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They knew that without consolidation, Raleigh would soon be left with all-minority, high-poverty, failing schools without the resources to turn themselves around or ever again attract businesses with employees who want good schools for their children. So Raleigh’s leaders did the right thing: They merged school systems and hoped voters would forgive them down the road. And mostly, they have. Consolidating schools is a straightforward way to move toward economic integration, but not the only way. Besides, while state law in New York permits, even encourages, small city, suburban, and rural districts to merge, there is no clear path for the Big Five city school districts to consolidate with neighboring districts. An effort to change that would be long, divisive, and probably unsuccessful. Why not look for other ways to achieve the same outcomes? We cannot replicate the RaleighWake County experience, but we can see from that history the value of working to eliminate high-poverty schools. I am part of a group convened by Urban

Presbyterians Together (which advocates regional communitywide solutions to urban problems). This new group — the Great Schools for All Coalition — consists of educators and other professionals with a long-time passion for reforming Rochester’s city schools. We’re hoping to spark a community conversation, and — fairly quickly — some actions to deal with the persistent failure of Rochester’s highpoverty schools. On a three-day fact-finding trip to Raleigh in April, we met with current and former school and elected officials, business leaders, teachers, parents, and students. We visited three schools and are sifting through our collective notes to see what lessons we can find for Rochester. I’m not speaking here for the group; I’m only sharing my observations.

(above) A student in a creative writing class at East High. (right) East High. FILE PHOTOS

As more than one of our hosts pointed out, Raleigh is not the whole of North Carolina. Wake County is a Democratfriendly, fairly progressive region in what is becoming a bright red state. In 2009, a Tea Party slate took control of the Wake County Board of Education and immediately set out to reverse many of the reforms — the board pushed for a return to neighborhood schools, for example. The about-face shocked the county’s progressives into action and led to the formation of new organizing efforts that restored a Democratic majority two years later. And Raleigh is not Rochester, which became a prosperous city because of hundreds of small and large homegrown manufacturers producing everything from yellow mustard to lenses that can see into deep space. The prospect of good-paying jobs drew thousands of blacks north in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Many of them settled here, but found neither good jobs nor decent housing. As the middle class moved out, the City of Rochester became poorer and the schools slipped into mediocrity and then into calamity. Like most of North Carolina, the economy of Wake County outside Raleigh was once dominated by tobacco, textiles,

and furniture-making. But by the 1960’s that began to change with the development of Research Triangle Park, which drew major technology companies to an area defined by university hubs in Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh. But the economy in Raleigh, the state capital, was and still is dominated by state government and now also by medical research. Theirs is increasingly a knowledge economy with very few exports. Poverty was not merely an urban problem, although Raleigh still has its share of very poor neighborhoods. Wake County has lots of rural poverty. Indeed, in recent years, the business and political sectors have focused on rebuilding the urban core — downtown and its surrounding neighborhoods — often displacing lowincome families, who have been forced to look for housing outside the city, in more rural areas where affordable housing is in short supply. So while Raleigh and Wake County have invented a school system worth mining for ideas, the community is no utopia. That said, I was impressed with how deeply the community values economic integration — not as some gauzy abstraction, but as a central tool for understanding how


Young families know that wherever they live, in Raleigh or its suburbs, their children will have access to really good schools.. others live and think, and for continued growth. At Joyner Magnet Elementary School, a Spanish language immersion school in the heart of Raleigh, parents told us that the school, once derided as the “Joyner Ghetto,” has dramatically improved academically and has helped spark new confidence in the city’s public schools. Young families have returned to the area. Dilapidated rental homes have been replaced by new, upscale homes. One Joyner dad said he had persuaded the home-building company he works for to add dozens of new homes adjacent to the Joyner campus. He said he was sold on the new Joyner by a conversation he had with his third-grade son who was telling dad about his best friend. “Is he white or black?” dad asked. The son thought about it, but said he didn’t know. That’s just the way this parent wants his child to see the world.

In 1976, the newly minted Wake County

district had about 50,000 students. Today, the district has 150,000 students in 170 schools, spread out over 800 square miles. (Rochester, by comparison, is a compact 36 square miles, while Monroe County’s land mass is 657 square miles.) The Raleigh district is growing by 3,500 students every year (largely a combination of Hispanic immigrants and employees of high-growth companies) and is constantly building and rebuilding schools to accommodate the steady stream of new families. Initially, the consolidated district set out to racially integrate all schools, but by the 1990’s, it was clear that court challenges to “forced busing” might overturn the balance that Wake County officials had worked hard to achieve. They moved instead to integrate schools along socioeconomic lines, agreeing that poor continues on page 8 rochestercitynewspaper.com

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students should not exceed 40 percent of any school’s population. That mix, which has become ever more difficult to maintain, was based on research by the Century Foundation’s Richard Kahlenberg and others who found that the 40 percent number allows teachers to provide the necessary supports for educationally disadvantaged students without jeopardizing the success of the middle class or affluent majority. It is not, however, a magic number. Wake County uses 34 magnet schools to entice suburban parents to send their children to city schools. This, in turn, has helped revitalize urban neighborhoods. It’s pretty simple when you think about it: Young families know that wherever they live, in Raleigh or its suburbs, their children will have access to really good schools. “Schools are essential to our marketing,” says John Wood, a former president of the Wake County Realtors Association. “When we invest in our school system, we’re investing in our community.” The magnets are central to a voluntary integration strategy, and the district is regularly looking for new programs to pull families to the schools — engineering, arts, science, and international studies, among them. The district has launched “early college” programs in several of its nonmagnet or “base schools,” offering a fifth year of high school that includes tuitionfree college courses — enough for students to complete an associate’s degree or two years of college credit to apply toward a four-year degree. The magnets, by freeing-up seats in other schools, have allowed the district to provide a mix of lower and higher income children in all its schools, and to improve academic outcomes across the board. Raleigh may have experienced an

educational epiphany in the 1970’s, but the decision to consolidate was also pragmatic. Thomas Bradshaw, Raleigh’s mayor from 1971 to 1973, told us: “Our business community could see that we had to act. If we didn’t do that, we’d be in a real world of hurt. IBM and others had come in, and we had to change.” So how do the students, especially the poorest of them, do? The number of economically disadvantaged students at Garner — 50 percent — exceeds the ideal of 40 percent, but the four-year graduation rate of 80 percent is close to the district average, as are the grad rates for black students (69 percent), Hispanic students (66 percent), and economically disadvantaged students (65 percent). Wake

A math class at School 28 in the City of Rochester. FILE PHOTO

County school officials are not satisfied with these numbers. But Rochester educators would die for them. While Garner students are more segregated within the school than Principal Drew Cook would like, in large part because more of the students in advanced classes come from the most affluent families, “they still walk the same halls, participate in the spring musical, and play on the same athletic fields,” Cook says. That’s not ideal, but from the admittedly limited experience we had on our visit, the classrooms seem more integrated than those in either city or suburban schools in Rochester and Monroe County. No one we spoke to in Wake County sugarcoats the problems. The testing gaps are far too high. There is a constant struggle to maintain a socioeconomic balance in schools (some schools have poverty levels above 50 percent) while addressing parental concerns that their children not be moved from school to school to achieve that balance. And each year brings thousands of new students in the schools, many of them poor and nonEnglish speaking, which complicates the pursuit of integration. The challenge is compounded by finances. Per-pupil expenditures in Wake are about $8,400 this year (in Rochester, it’s over $19,000), and the biggest reason is compensation. In North Carolina, teachers are state, not school district employees and they are not represented by unions. Wake County and many other districts tack incentive pay onto the state minimums to attract teachers.

Wake County is struggling forward, while Rochester is just struggling. But even with that, a starting teacher, hired at $35,189, would have to work 36 years to reach $62,000. And this year, the General Assembly voted to phase out the traditional pay bumps for teachers with master’s degrees. Poor pay is making it harder to attract and retain qualified teachers, and within the last year, 600 of Wake County’s 9,000 teachers left their jobs, most for financial reasons. But Wake County is struggling forward, while Rochester is just struggling. Integration has dramatically improved results in Raleigh, and helped build a community consensus that public schools are one of the county’s best assets, not its chief liability. Former Wake County superintendent Del Burns puts it this way: “People always say to me, ‘How does sitting next to a rich white kid make a poor black kid smarter?’ It doesn’t. But the parents of those richer kids will bring pressure to make sure those schools have the resources they need.” Lynn Edmonds, a member of the advocacy group Great Schools in Wake, and the mother of a middle schooler and a high schooler, says economic integration “gives your children the benefit of being around children who are not just like


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them. I would encourage them (parents) to embrace that.” Edmonds and other middle-class parents say that integration has taught them and their children to appreciate the assets each child brings to school (fluency in Spanish, for example) and not to see poor children as recipients of suburban largesse.

What I learned from Raleigh is that

building and maintaining an urban school system that gives all children, regardless of their ZIP codes, access to great schools is hard work. But that commitment to high-quality schools has reinvigorated city neighborhoods and become a source of community pride and confidence about the future. Rochester is not Raleigh and will have to find its own path. The hundreds or thousands of volunteers, many of them suburbanites, who tutor or otherwise assist in Rochester schools do important work and, as many of them will tell you, receive more from their time with the children than they give. That impulse to help is to be cheered and encouraged, as is the work of the city’s many dedicated teachers and principals. City school board President Van White says he recognizes that the concentration of poverty is the elephant in the living room, but adds that “there is such a huge margin for improvement” that there are steps the district can take on its own to improve outcomes. So have at it. But none of these efforts will “fix” the city schools. We must find a way to economically integrate our schools with middle class, affluent, and poor students in the same classrooms. We’re going to have to build partnerships across district lines and open schools that parents of all economic backgrounds can support. And time is running out. We can go where the research leads us, or ignore the data to our peril. Rochester has become what the people of Raleigh and Wake County acted to avert 38 years ago: a cluster of highpoverty failing schools in neighborhoods largely abandoned by young and middleclass families. Am I angry? Yes, and you should be, too. Enough. (Mark Hare retired in 2012 after 28 years as a columnist, reporter and editorial writer for the Democrat and Chronicle and Times-Union. From 1978-1984, he was a reporter and columnist for City Newspaper.)

site. Mayor Lovely Warren and her senior staff are studying that inquiry, to assess the facility and the children’s needs and to talk with area neighborhood groups, service providers, and faith groups. In a press release on Tuesday, Warren said that if the children are to be housed in Rochester, “it is imperative we ensure that the environment is a safe one for them, where they can receive not only the legal support, but the spiritual and emotional support that they will need in order to make the transition back home or to another place of safety.” Obviously the children can’t be placed just anywhere. Federal officials have been studying such things as vacant retail stores that could be adapted as temporary shelters. In Syracuse, federal officials are considering housing the children at a site owned by the Sisters of St. Francis. In Monroe County, federal officials determined that the buildings they first studied weren’t suitable. This county doesn’t lack for empty and under-utilized buildings, though. Rather than protests and political rants from the anti-immigrant forces and a deafening silence from the rest of us, I hope we’ll follow the example of Rochester’s mayor. If the Blossom South property isn’t suitable, we can find another. In her statement on Tuesday, Warren said what other politicians and community leaders ought to be saying: “As a community we have a moral obligation to show compassion to these young people.” The plight of the immigrant children is “a humanitarian crisis,” John Ghertner told me last week. “We have an obligation to support a population in need.” After the devastating hurricane, Americans responded with aid – and shelter. “We took in thousands of people,” Ghertner said. “There was no question at all about taking them in. We have an obligation as Americans to protect the lives of people.” Ghertner reminds us that Greater Rochester was an exceptionally welcoming community during and after the Vietnam War, providing homes and aid for numerous refugees. Nor can we ignore the role this country plays: through our demand for drugs and our history of supporting brutal Central American governments. Now, Americans are slamming the door on children, many of whom have fled trauma and violence and face more if we turn them away. We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.

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Discussion about discrimination’s health impacts

The University of Rochester’s Summer Brown Bag Series will continue with its talks about the “Impact of Everyday Discrimination on Health: What We Can Do About It,” at noon on Thursday, July 24. Postdoctoral fellow Marcus Burrell will

talk about preventing the negative health outcomes associated with discrimination. The event will be held at Helen Wood Hall Auditorium in the Medical Center.

Voter registration events

Rochester For Obama will hold nonpartisan voter registration drives at both Irondequoit public libraries. The drives have been held since 2008 with the purpose of increasing voter turnout, regardless of party affiliation. In an-

ticipation of the upcoming midterm elections, Rochester for Obama will register people on the following Saturdays: July 26, August 9, August 16, August 30, September 13, September 20, September 27, and October 4. All registrations will be held at the Evans branch, 45 Cooper Street, and at the McGraw branch, 2180 East Ridge Road, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. through August 30. During September and October, the hours change to 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Correcting ourselves Jamal Rossi’s title was incorrect in last week’s story about the RocMusic program. Rossi is the Joan and Martin Messinger dean of the Eastman School of Music. The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra is also one of RocMusic’s partner organizations.

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Dining

Lucca Wood-Fire Bistro follows a Neapolitan style of using wood fire ovens to cook pizza, like the Luigi Pizza (right): mozzarella, Italian sausage, tomatoes, banana peppers, and goat cheese. The restaurant also serves other Italian-style fare, like the Roasted Pear Salad (left): mixed greens with gorgonzola, candied walnuts, and balsamic vinaigrette. PHOTOS BY MARK CHAMBERLIN

Keeping the oven fires burning Lucca Wood-Fire Bistro 90 WEST MAIN STREET, VICTOR SUMMER HOURS (THROUGH AUGUST 31): TUESDAY – THURSDAY: 11:30 A.M. TO 9 P.M.; FRIDAY: 11:30 A.M. TO 10 P.M.; SATURDAY: 12 P.M. TO 10 P.M.; SUNDAY: 12 P.M. TO 7 P.M. 924-9009; LUCCAWFPIZZA.COM [ REVIEW ] BY LAURA REBECCA KENYON

The modern pizza originated, as you probably know, in Naples, Italy. There’s a long, global history of flat breads, but the story goes that it was in Naples that flat breads were first topped with tomatoes — and later buffalo-milk mozzarella — giving birth to what we now think of as pizza. You’ll still find Neapolitan pizzerias baking pizzas in wood-fire ovens, similar to the one used at Lucca Wood-Fire Bistro, 90 West Main Street in Victor. Lucca’s wood-stove oven is the main focal point of its interior dining room, with a 5-foot deck encased in light, blocky stones. It burns up to 60 pieces of wood per day, fueled by green ash logs supplied by a local company, and reaches temperatures between 575 and 650 degrees.

The oven is a bit of a mixed blessing. Its heat yields tempting pizzas with well-browned crusts and a texture that’s crisp with pleasant chew. But the oven can only fit six small or three large pies at once. With cook times ranging from 7 to 10 minutes, a pizza won’t arrive at your table for 25 minutes and, during peak service, that wait can stretch to an hour. On my visit, to bide time until the pizza was ready, my friends and I sampled some lighter fare, including the Caprese salad ($7.50). Four hefty slices of fresh mozzarella are paired with equally hefty beefsteak tomato slices and topped with basil. With tomatoes and basil in season, Caprese salads are made for summer eating. While full of flavor, in this version the tomatoes were a bit pale and the basil, cut in a chiffonade, looked dark at the edges, indicating that it had been allowed to sit for a little while. The mozzarella was brightly white, mild and milky — fresh and beautiful. Drizzled on top was deliciously syrupy balsamic glaze; the vinegar’s acid was balanced by sugars that were concentrated as the vinegar was cooked down and reduced. The balsamic glaze made another appearance, drizzled over the wood-fired pork shanks appetizer ($8). On-the-bone pork is tossed in a garlic-infused olive oil, sprinkled

with seasonings, and fired in the oven before being plated with shavings of parmesan cheese and the balsamic glaze. The meat is plentiful and juicy; it would be easy to make this a light entrée. The balsamic glaze shines again, elevating the entire dish. Though the menu states that there are three pork shanks to an order, my appetizer came with four. The best appetizer we sampled was the roasted pear salad ($7.50). Slices of warm, spiced pear top a bed of mixed greens tossed with balsamic vinaigrette, and are garnished with crumbles of gorgonzola cheese and candied walnuts. The mix of hot and cold, plus sweet, tangy, mild, and funky notes, makes this salad a winner. If there’s any downside, it’s that there are too many walnuts — there was a handful still on the plate after everything else was eaten. If you visit Lucca, however, it will be the pizza

that draws you in. You can smell it baking from the street. Dough is made daily by chef and owner Matthew Gervasi and his team. Sauces — traditional red, garlic and olive oil, basil pesto, and BBQ — are made in-house; the red sauce is made with the famed San Marzano variety of plum tomatoes, and are roasted in the wood-fire oven before processing.

The menu offers 10 specialty pizzas ranging from $10 to $24 depending on pizza size and toppings. You can also create your own pizza with a variety of topping choices, including the familiar red sauce, mozzarella, and pepperoni, to less typical choices like BBQ sauce, Lively Run goat cheese, or pineapple. The Luigi specialty pizza (10-inch: $11.75; 16-inch: $22.50) pairs the traditional red sauce and mozzarella, with Italian sausage crumbles, tomato slices, banana peppers, and goat cheese. I was surprised at how well the goat cheese — which can sometimes evoke a ripe barnyard — harmonized with the peppers’ acidic edge and sausage’s oily richness. The toppings are spread nearly to the edge of the pizza; there is only a half-inch strip of browned, naked crust. Underneath, a few grains of cornmeal (which help prevent the pizza from sticking to the oven) are blackened, but they are few and far between and don’t lend any burned flavors to the pizza. The Funghi specialty pizza (10-inch: $12.25: 16-inch: $23.25) is not bad but underwhelming. It starts with a garlic and oil sauce and mozzarella, topped by roasted peppers, spinach, white and portabella mushrooms, prosciutto, and a drizzle of truffle oil. The vegetables were lightly cooked and would have benefitted from further roasting or sautéing to bring out additional flavor. The garlic and prosciutto were difficult to taste; odd as both of these have distinct flavors. In the past year or so, Gervasi revised the menu, removing some items and adding others. One of the pizzas removed was the Mario, a simple pizza made with red sauce, mozzarella, meatballs, Parmesan, and fresh basil. Fortunately, it can be ordered through the make-your-own pizza menu, running you about $11.25 for a 10-inch pizza. There’s just enough cheese and meatballs on the pizza to keep things flavorful without forcing you to eat a slice with a knife and fork. (I still miss seeing the Mario listed next to the Luigi on the pizza menu, though.) In addition to salads and pizzas, Lucca offers a selection of wines and beers, Panini, and wood-fired chicken wings. The restaurant is popular year round, but seems to reach a fevered pitch in the summer, when the porch and patio are open for al fresco dining. It’s nice to sit outside, catch a breeze, watch the traffic pass by — and wait for your pie to come out, hot from the wood-fire oven. Share your food and restaurant tips with Laura Rebecca Kenyon on Twitter at @LauraKenyon, or email at Food@rochester-citynews.com. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11


Upcoming [ ALT-COUNTRY ]

Dan Baird and Homemade Sin. Friday, August 22.

Abilene Bar and Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 8 p.m. Abilenebarandlounge.com; danbairdandhomemadesin.com. [ FOLK POP ]

Arc Iris. Friday, September 19. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point

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The Appleseed Cast. Wednesday, October 15.

Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue. 8 p.m. Bugjar.com; theappleseedcast.bandcamp.com.

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THURSDAY, JULY 24 GRANITE MILLS PARK, NEAR THE PONT DE RENNE BRIDGE, 104 PLATT STREET 12 P.M. | FREE | HOCHSTEIN.ORG; MIKAELADAVIS.COM [ INDIE POP ] Looking for a fun way to spend your lunch break? The High Falls Business Association has teamed up with Hochstein School of Music & Dance and WXXI to present Hochstein at High Falls, a noontime concert series. This Thursday, indie harpist Mikaela Davis will perform alongside trio members Alex Coté (drums and percussion) and Cian McCarthy (guitar and sitar). Davis is an accomplished harpist and is known for her brooding vocals and mellow sound. Grab your lunch and enjoy a respite of fresh air and soulful music. — BY NICOLE MILANO

Finger Lakes Choral Festival SUNDAY, JULY 27 HOCHSTEIN PERFORMANCE HALL, 50 N. PLYMOUTH AVENUE 4 P.M. | FREE | FINGERLAKESCHORAL.ORG [ CLASSICAL ] 2015 is the 130th anniversary of the birth

of J.S. Bach, and you can get a head start this weekend with the Finger Lakes Choral Festival. It's annual summer concert this year is devoted to Bach: the famous Magnificat, the Cantata No. 191, “Gloria in Excelsis Deo,” the opening chorus of the Christmas Oratorio, and the mighty “Dona nobis pacem” that ends the Mass in B Minor. All of this music displays, in the words of FLCF conductor Adrian G. Horn, “the precision of a fine Swiss watch and the forward momentum of a locomotive.” — BY DAVID RAYMOND

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Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers “Emergency Situation” BLIND PIG Themightyflyers.com

Makayan WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 DINOSAUR BAR-B-QUE, 99 COURT STREET 9 P.M. | DINOSAURBARBQUE.COM; MAKAYAN.NET [ PROGRESSIVE ROCK ] The opening to Makayan’s

track “Barnold” sounds like a spaceship firing up, and it fits well with how the track develops. Swirling, certainly spacey, and a little funky, “Barnhold” really showcases what Makayan is all about. The Asheville, North Carolina, band mixes in equal parts prog-rock and psychedelia for a jam-band feel that feels fresh and interesting. Just push off and let yourself float around for a little while. — BY JAKE CLAPP

Royal Blood WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 THE CLUB AT WATER STREET, 204 N. WATER STREET 8 P.M. | $10 | WATERSTREETMUSIC.COM; ROYALBLOODBAND.COM

Rod Piazza’s howlin’ harp attack is a dazzling azure collision of the down and dirty grit of Chicago blues with post-war jump blues’ accelerated swing. Dressed like a used car salesman in an Easter parade and under a slick crop of silver, Piazza leads the Mighty Flyers through “Emergency Situation” — a swingin’ barrage of classic cuts by folks like Amos Milburn, Sam Myers, and Lee Dorsey, as well as his own material. The band bops and sways and stays out of the way as Piazza leans on the harp heavy and hard. Piazza is the master of thick, electric, chunky freight train riffs and is easily one of the best harmonicats in the world. And he’s got the history to back it up, having cut his teeth as a young man sharing gigs with the likes of Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, and “T-Bone” Walker. You can hear them in the Mighty Flyer mix along with that amazing harp. The tempo and tone variety in “Emergency Situation” makes it is a swell party platter for your rumpus room, or a soundtrack for cruising around with no particular place to go. Dig… — BY FRANK DE BLASE

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Upward Groove. Temple Bar

and Grille, 109 East Ave. 2326000. templebarandgrille. com. 10 p.m. [ CLASSICAL ]

SENSEational Concert. Pieters Family Life Center, 1025 Commons Way. 454-4596. hochstein.org. 7 p.m. $5. [ JAZZ ]

Anthony Gianovola on Jazz guitar. Lemoncello,

137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 6:309:30 p.m. Tritone Jazz Night. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 8 p.m.

Wine Tasting & The Swooners Band.

Strathallan, 550 East Ave. 461-5010. 5 p.m.

[ ROCK ] Royal Blood doesn’t go for all the frills; it’s

straight-forward bombastic garage rock. The English duo — vocalist-bassist Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher — released its four-track debut EP, “Out of the Black,” in March, and it’s a great example of how alternative rock can still be heavy, bluesy, noisy, and exciting without crowding a stage. There is a fierceness to Royal Blood, but it’s calculated and intelligent — not loud for the sake of being loud, hiding behind pounding drums. “Out of the Black” is a great North American introduction for the band ahead of its eponymous fulllength out in August. — BY JAKE CLAPP

[ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] The Blind Owl Band. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 2323230. abilenebarandlounge. com. 9 p.m. $7 Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 9 p.m. Ft. Swampcandy on Aug. 13. $8. Rob & Gary Acoustic. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Sara Elizabeth. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 288-1910. stickylipsbbq. com. 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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Townson strapped on his guitar and walked out on stage to the roar of 50,000 Los Straitjackets fans … 50,000 Mexicans there to watch four Americans in Mexican wrestling masks. But the locals found no offense in this obvious lampoon. They got it. 50,000 Los Straitjackets fans can’t be wrong. “It was amazing,” Townson says about the experience. “We have a strong following in Mexico of course, with the Lucha Libre masks, and we celebrate this silly side of Mexican Culture. The thing is Lucha Libre is so ridiculous; it’s wrestling. I think if we were dressing up in Mariachi outfits it would be a different story because that’s a very serious part of the culture. Lucha Libre is totally absurd and they know that. It’s all just for fun. They totally get that.” And now, there’s even lampooning of the lampoon going on. “After Los Straitjackets, there are bands playing instrumental music with Lucha Libre masks because of us,” Townson says. “They’ve taken what we’ve done and run with it.” The Foro Sol stadium show was the culmination for Townson. The 49-year-old Rochester native was blown away. “Man, walking out on that stage,” Townson says. “I turned to a friend and said ‘What am I doing here?’ The day after that show in front of 50,000 people, I was booking a happy hour at Abilene.” Talk about decompression. Rock ‘n’ roll, big or small, is in the man’s

The big black Limousine rolled up slow and ominous on Foro Sol Stadium in Mexico City. Sitting in the back, dressed in black and sporting Luchador masks, was instrumental surf rock band Los Straitjackets — the furthest thing from Mexican wrestlers as you can get. As the limo got closer, guitarist Greg Townson’s anticipation mounted. He knew the band had a big following in Mexico, and both Mexico City shows had sold out. Still, he wasn’t prepared for what he saw next.

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blood. He’s a singer, a songwriter, a guitar player, and producer with an unlimited drive that won’t be denied. And according to Townson, the same goes for those he works with. “They’re all musicians and they can’t help themselves,” he says. “There is no plan B.” Whereas the multiple layers of Townson’s musical career may read like a sort of contingency plan, they are all equally important. He’s had some extraordinary experiences along the way. Starting off in the Rochester music scene in The Essentials, which morphed into the ramshackle, NRBQ-esque boogie-barband The Salamanders, Townson had the opportunity to work with legends like Bo Diddley, Bill Doggett, and Pee Wee Ellis to name a few. Most notably, Townson is known for his 15 years fronting The Hi-Risers — a post Mersey beat, poppy roots rock outfit which packs any venue it plays. This included venues with Los Straitjackets. The two bands met after head Straitjacket, Eddie Angel put out a couple Hi-Risers platters on his Spinout Records label. When Los Straitjackets canned its drummer they hired on Hi-Risers stick man, Jason Smay. “The Hi-Risers did a bunch of shows on the road opening for Los Straitjackets, further solidifying the friendship. When guitarist Danny Amis aka Daddy O Grande got sick, Townson was Amis’ first pick to replace him.


“I couldn’t say no really,” Townson says. “And I loved the music and I loved all the guys.” Townson assures that The Hi-Risers still exists. But after 15 years, it’s not on the top of his list of priorities, though he pines a little. “I felt like I needed a break,” he says. “I wanted to put out my solo record, I wanted to do production work, I wanted to do projects besides The Hi-Risers. It’s been a wonderful thing and I miss it right now more than ever. It still exists. In fact, I just spent a lot of effort and time

“I love Nick Lowe’s records,” Townson says. “And now I’m working with the same people. It’s one of the luckiest things that’s happened to me.” Townson is also busy writing music for TV and movie placement with Los Straitjackets. “Being an instrumental band has been an advantage,” he says. “Most of the time, music supervisors are looking for instrumental pieces of music.” He currently has 50 different song ideas in the works.

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and money into an archival project of all of our stuff. I mean, we put out eight records with tons of outtakes, and with digital technology being what it is, this stuff could disappear. It’s not like tape; tape is forever.” Labels in Spain and Germany are gung ho to re-issue the band’s material. The Hi-Risers’ tour of Spain last year sold out in every city it played. As Townson brings up more and more activities keeping him busy, he refers to his notes. “I have to,” he says, laughing as he scans down the list written on a rumpled piece of paper. “Because I can’t think straight. There’s all this stuff.” He’s played on singer-songwriter Eleni Mandell’s record “Let’s Fly A Kite” for Yep Roc. It has a “kind of a John Doe, angry waitress feel to it,” Townson says. He has produced Hillbilly Moon Explosion from Zurich. And he got the opportunity to record some of his new solo CD, “On Your Side,” in London at Gold Top Studios with members of Nick Lowe’s band.

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and heart are in Rochester. “I want to play locally,” he says. “I love our fans here. I truly appreciate the support that we’ve gotten over the years. I do not take it for granted.” Townson is a familiar face in Rochester rock ‘n’ roll, and has been for years. His easygoing smile belies the guitar monster onstage. With Los Straitjackets there’s a bit more mystique … and longevity. “That’s the best thing about it for me,” he says. “I get to take off the suit and mask and then go out into the audience and hear people talk about it. Because then you really hear the truth.” For instance? “‘They were cool, but those masks were really stupid,’” Townson relays. So even though the band remains ageless (and anonymous) behind its masks, Townson doesn’t necessarily see the need. “With traditional rock ‘n’ roll you can’t be too old for it,” he says “There’s nothing wrong with being in your late 40’s unless you’re trying to be in your early 20’s, you know? Traditional rock ‘n’ roll you can play forever.” And chances are he will.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 Concerts by the Shore: The Skycoasters. Ontario Beach

Park, 4799 Lake Ave. 428-7135. cityofrochester.gov. 7:30 p.m. Crying, Told Slant. California Brew Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. reverbnation.com. 7 p.m. $10. Dave McGrath. Pelican’s Nest, 566 River St. 663-5910. pelicansnestrestaurant.com. 7-11 p.m. Downset. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. themontagemusichall.com. 7:30 p.m. 16+. $15-$18. Jumbo Shrimp. Marge’s Lakeside Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020. margeslakesideinn.com. 6-9 p.m. 21+. Makayan. Dinosaur Bar-BQue, 99 Court St. 325-7090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 9 p.m. Mark Fantasia. TGI Fridays, 432 Greece Ridge Center Dr. reverbnation.com. 7 p.m.

Mr. Mustard Beatles Tribute Band. mrmustardmusic.

com. 7-9 p.m. Part of the East Rochester Village Music Series Concert in the outdoor village parking lot.

Noontime Concerts: Seabreezers. Aqueduct Park,

Main St. Bridge. 428-7135. cityofrochester.gov. noon. Royal Blood. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 325-5600. waterstreetmusic.com/. 8 p.m. $9.41-$13. The Swooners. Strathallan, 550 East Ave. 461-5010. strathallan. com. 6 p.m.

THURSDAY, JULY 24 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]

Bradley And Travis Accosutic Duo. Lemoncello, 137 West

Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Hochstein at High Falls: Mikaela Davis. Granite Mills

Park, 82 Browns Race. 4544596. hochstein.org. 12:10 p.m. Jim Lane. Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. 342-6780. 8 p.m. Free. Miles Wide. The Little Theater, 240 East Avenue. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Old Timey Jam. Bernunzio Uptown Music, 122 East Ave. 473-6140. bernunzio.com. 6:30 p.m. [ BLUES ]

Meg Williams Band. Sticky Lips

BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 292-5544. stickylipsbbq. com. 9 p.m.

EXPERIMENTAL ROCK | MAN MAN

If there is one word that can sum up Man Man’s musical style, it would have to be “experimental.” The Philadelphia-based group’s horn and bass drum dominated sound is accompanied by lead singer Honus Honus’ crooning voice, combining to make odd, yet magical music. The lyrics don’t stray far from the experimental theme — like on the track “Big Trouble,” Honus Honus sings, “Woe is me, I’m a zombie, forever falling like peanut brittle all over your tits” — but it’s another element that makes the band a unique treasure. Live shows are where the group really shines, as the members put everything they have into their performances. Man Man plays with Gogol Bordello on Saturday, July 26, at the Main Street Armory, 900 East Main Street. 8 p.m. $30-35. Mainstreetarmory.com. — BY TREVOR LEWIS [ JAZZ ]

reverbnation.com. 6 p.m.

Bossa Nova Jazz Thursdays ft. The Charles Mitchell Group.

Party in the Park: Lucero and The Baseball Project. Martin

Espada Brazilian Steak, 274 N. Goodman St. Village Gate. 473-0050. espadasteak.com. 6 p.m. Free.

Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, 1 Manhattan Square. 311. cityofrochester.gov/pitp. 5 p.m. $5.

Jazz Weekends! ft. The David Detweiler Trio. Next Door Bar

FRIDAY, JULY 25

& Grill, 3220 Monroe Ave. 249-4575. wegmansnextdoor. com. Thursday: 5 p.m., Friday: 8 p.m/. Free.

The Joe Santora Trio w/Curtis Kendrick & Emily Kirchoff.

Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. (585) 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. Free. The Swooners. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 3814000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 5:30-8:30 p.m. [ R&B/ SOUL ]

Uptown Groove. Richmond’s

Tavern, 21 Richmond Street. 270-8570. richmondstavern. com. 9 p.m. [ REGGAE/JAM ]

Echo System. Dinosaur Bar-B-

Que, 99 Court St. 325-7090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 9 p.m. [ POP/ROCK ]

[ DJ/ELECTRONIC ]

Floor Therapy: Moses tRockwell, DJ Tim Jones, Thievin’ Stephen, Dr. Hamburger visuals. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe

Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 10 p.m. $5.

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Aqueous w/ Occupanther. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. themontagemusichall.com. 9 p.m. $8. Maria Betts Music. BLU Bar & Grill, 250 Pixley Rd. 750-2980.

[ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]

Chris Schlarb w/ Wild Gone Girls and Ryan Bailey.

Vineyard Community Space, 836 South Clinton Ave. 342-8429. facebook.com/ events/770073326348997/. 8-11 p.m. $8 suggested donation at door. Douglas Hazard. Boulder Coffee Co., 739 Park Ave. 697-0235. bouldercoffee.info. 8-10 p.m. Jim Lane. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 7-10 p.m. John Garcia. Cinnabar Winery Tasting Room, 14512 Big Basin Way. reverbnation. com. 1:30 p.m. 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 ]

Gap Mangione New Blues Band. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa,

199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 7:30 p.m.-midnight.


OHS: Overhand Sam - EP Release Party. Lovin’ Cup,

300 Park Point Dr. 2929940. .facebook.com/ events/543501979106108/. 8 p.m. $5.

Summer Concert Series: Steve Grills. Carpentar Park, 22 North

Main St. Pittsford. brightonpittsford.whec.com. 7 p.m. Teagan & The Tweeds. Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, 99 Court St. 3257090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m. [ CLASSICAL ]

Hardwood & Passive Aggressives Anonymous.

Boulder Coffee Co., 100 Alexander St. 454-7140. bouldercoffee.info. 8-10 p.m. [ COUNTRY ]

Big Dog Country 103.5 Night w/ JB Aaron. Sticky Lips BBQ

Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 288-1910. stickylipsbbq.com. 9:30-11:30 p.m. $5.

Keith Urban w/ Jerrod Niemann and Bret Eldredge. Darien Lake PAC, 9993 Allegheny Rd. Darien. 599-4641. livenation. com. 7 p.m. $30-$80. Steve Freeride Acoustic. Nashvilles, 4853 W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 334-3030. nashvillesny.com. 6-9 p.m. [ DJ/ELECTRONIC ]

Riled Up! Underground Session.

BLU Bar & Grill, 250 Pixley

Rd. 247-0079. facebook.com/ events/1512241269005482/. 12:30-10 p.m. $5. [ JAZZ ]

Greg Townson. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge. com. 6-9 p.m. 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. Matthew Sieber Ford Trio. Tapas 177 Lounge, 177 St. Paul St. 262-2090. tapas177.com. 4:30 p.m. Free.

The Joe Santora Trio w/Curtis Kendrick & Emily Kirchoff.

Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. (585) 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. Free. Summer Concert. Rivers Run, 50 Fairwood Dr. 2925440. riversrunliving.com. 5-7 p.m. Chicken BBQ 5:00 - 6:30pm, Concert 5:00 7:00pm Dinner $10.

Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes.

Hooligan’s Eastside Grill, 809 Ridge Rd. Webster. 671-7180. SharedGenes.com. 5:30 p.m. [ TRADITIONAL ]

Salsa Night presented by Essence of Rhythm. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. Last Friday of every month, 8 p.m. $5-$10.

[ R&B/ SOUL ]

The Fools. The Landing Bar

and Grille, 30 Fairport Village Landing. Fairport. 425-7490. reverbnation.com. 10 p.m. [ METAL ]

Aggressive Betty, One Step From Falling, Ruination, and Broken Mind Spoken. Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 3193832. reverbnation.com. 8:30 p.m. $5.

[ POP/ROCK ] 1916. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 325-5600. waterstreetmusic.com. 8 p.m. $10-$15.

Bands on the Bricks: Big Eyed Phish. Rochester Public

Market, 280 N. Union St. 428-6907. cityofrochester.gov/ bandsonbricks. 6-10 p.m. Big Something. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 2321520. themontagemusichall. com. 9 p.m. 18+. $10. Dave McGrath. JD Wine Cellars, 1339 Eddy Rd. 315986-4202. longacrefarms.com. 6-9 p.m. Dave Riccioni & Friends. Mastrella’s Irondequoit Steak House, 4300 Culver Road. 467-2750. 5-8 p.m. Dust & Bone. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 9:30 p.m.

Live Band: Cherry Bomb . The Grill at One, 1 Ryan Alley. 546-1010. .oneryan.com. 6:30-9:30 p.m. The Mighty Stef. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 3255600. reverbnation.com. 7 p.m. Mr. Mustard Beatles Tribute Band. Quaker Steak & Lube,

2205 Buffalo Rd. 697-9464. mrmustardmusic.com. 6-9 p.m.

MTV, The Straw House Uncertainty, Earth Science, and Mike Brown. Bug Jar, 219

Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar. com. 8 p.m. $6-$8.

Roarshark and Pickled Brain From Outer-Space. Monty’s

Krown, 875 Monroe Ave. 271-7050. reverbnation.com. 8 p.m. $3. Sci-fi Surf Night. Monty’s Krown, 875 Monroe Ave. 271-7050. facebook.com/ events/679961268724023/. 9 p.m. $3. Sleep Walk Parade. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 325-5600. waterstreetmusic. com. 7 p.m. 16+. $10. True Blue. The Dakota Grill, 913 Roosevelt Highway (Rt. 18). facebook.com/truebluerochester. 6-9 p.m.

SATURDAY, JULY 26 ACOUSTIC/FOLK City December. Boulder Coffee Co., 100 Alexander St. 454-7140. bouldercoffee.info. 8-10 p.m.

Gonzo Turbo Pilot Tour Fr. Gogol Bordello. Main Street Armory,

900 E. Main St. 232-3221. rochestermainstreetarmory.com. 8 p.m. Ft. Man Man. $30-$35. Mike Pullano. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 8-11 p.m. River Lynch. Boulder Coffee Co., 739 Park Ave. 697-0235. bouldercoffee.info. 8-10 p.m. Sofrito. Havana Cabana, 289 Alexander St. 232-1333. havanacabanaroc.com. 10 p.m. Call for info. This Life with Co-Existence. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 325-5600. waterstreetmusic.com. 9:30 p.m. $5.

[ COUNTRY ]

Shifting Gears. Nashvilles, 4853

W Henrietta Rd. Henrietta. 3343030. nashvillesny.com. 9 p.m. [ DJ/ELECTRONIC ]

Supper Time with DJ Bizmuth.

Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 5-8 p.m. [ JAZZ ]

Dolce Musica. Cinnabar

Winery Tasting Room, 14512 Big Basin Way. reverbnation. com. 1:30 p.m. Gabe Condon Duo. Wegman’s Amore Restaurant, 1750 East Ave. 452-880. Call for info, Free.

Mike Kaupa & Mike Frederick Duo. Victoire, 120 East Ave. 3253663. victoirebar.com. 7-9 p.m.

[ BLUES ]

Balkun Brothers. Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint, 830 Jefferson Rd. 288-1910. stickylipsbbq. com. 10 p.m. Joe Beard. Dinosaur Bar-BQue, 99 Court St. 325-7090. dinosaurbarbque.com. 10 p.m. [ CLASSICAL ]

Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival: Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. Hunt Country

The Joe Santora Trio w/Curtis Kendrick & Emily Kirchoff.

Michael’s Valley Grill, 1694 Penfield Rd. (585) 383-8260. michaelsvalleygrill.com. Free. Special Blend. Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 3814000. woodcliffhotelspa.com. 7:30 p.m.-midnight. continues on page 18

Vineyards, 4021 Italy Hill Rd (County Rd 32). Branchport. 248-0411. fingerlakes-music. org/. 7:30 p.m. $20.

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SATURDAY, JULY 26 Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes.

Hedges Restaurant, 1290 Lake Rd. Webster. 265-3850. SharedGenes.com. 6:30 p.m.

[ R&B/ SOUL ] Timeline Band. The Landing Bar and Grille, 30 Fairport Village Landing. Fairport. 425-7490. reverbnation.com. 10 p.m. [ METAL ]

Sirens & Sailors. Water Street Music Hall, 204 N. Water St. 325-5600. waterstreetmusic. com. 5:30 p.m. $12. [ POP/ROCK ]

5Head w/Anonymous Willpower. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup. com. 9 p.m. $6-$8. Violet Mary. Johnny’s Irish Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990. reverbnation.com. 8:30 p.m.

The Fox Sisters & The Televisionaries Summer Spectacular. Firehouse

Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. facebook.com/ events/724789440893674/. 9-11:45 p.m. $5.

The Fox Sisters and The Televisionaries. Firehouse

Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. reverbnation.com. 9 p.m. $5. Hall Pass. Empire Bar & Grill, 1011 State Route 31. Macedon. 671-4386. empirebarandgrill. com. 10 p.m.

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Mike Brown, by himself, is a better folk act than most full-scale projects. His skill as a guitarist/dobro player and singer-songwriter is unparalleled. Using a loop pedal, Brown layers and synchronizes beats and progressions, cleverly creating a full band sound that stomps and moves like a raucous barn bash. His lyrics are thought-provoking as they weave over his plucked finger style. It’s roots music, and with all the percussive riffs, it revolves and moves much like Native American or African music does, keeping your head bobbing and your dusty boots moving. Mike Brown will perform with MVT, The Straw House Uncertainty, and Earth Science on Friday, July 25, at the Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue. 9 p.m. $6-$8. Bugjar.com. — BY ERIC WITKOWSKI [ CLASSICAL ]

Bach: Great Music for Chorus and Orchestra.

Roc Chip Presents: Advance Base, Kkrusty, Passive Aggressives Anonymous, and Talking Under Water. Bug Jar,

219 Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $7-$9.

Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 N Plymouth Ave. 4650838. fingerlakeschoral.org. 4-5:30 p.m. Bill Slater Solo Piano (Brunch). Woodcliff Hotel & Spa, 199 Woodcliff Dr. 381-4000. woodcliffhotelspa.com.

Miles Watts & Brothers From Another Mother. Richmond’s

Eastman Summer Trombone & Trumpet Institues. Kilbourn Hall,

Tavern, 21 Richmond Street. 270-8570. richmondstavern. com. 9 p.m. Streetlight Circus. Pineapple Jack’s, 485 Spencerport Rd. Gates. 247-5225. reverbnation. com. 9 p.m.

SUNDAY, JULY 27 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]

Fandango at the Tango.

Tango Cafe, 389 Gregory St. 271-4930. tangocafedance. com. 7:30 p.m. Free, donations accepted.

John Lewis, Eggs Benedict, and Kennedy Jason. Bug Jar,

219 Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $6-$8. Loren and Mark. Sodus Bay Lighthouse, 7606 N. Ontario St. Sodus Point. 315-4834936. sodusbaylighthouse. org. 2 p.m.

26 Gibbs St. 274-1000. esm. rochester.edu. 7 p.m.

[ DJ/ELECTRONIC ] Nick Jagger. Love Nightclub, 45 Euclid St. 222-5683. lovenightclubrochester.com. 10 p.m. Riled Up! Day Party. Mendon Ponds Park, Douglas Road. Mendon. facebook.com/ events/543872222390824/. 12-9 p.m. Local underground electronic DJs. Kids, dogs, food, toys welcome.

Ave. 235-1630. reverbnation. com. 7 p.m.

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Eggman’s Traveling Carnival. Marge’s Lakeside

Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 3231020. margeslakesideinn. com. 4-8 p.m. Hall Pass. Pelican’s Nest, 566 River St. 663-5910. pelicansnestrestaurant.com. 5:30 p.m. Joe Baia. Bayside Pub, 279 Lake Rd. Webster. 323-1224. reverbnation.com. 4 p.m.

Pentimento, Have Mercy, Gates. Montage Music Hall,

50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. themontagemusichall.com. 6 p.m. $10.

MONDAY, JULY 28 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ] Maria Gillard. The Little Theater, 240 East Avenue. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7:30-9:30 p.m. [ CLASSICAL ]

[ JAZZ ]

Mike Pappert. Lemoncello,

137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 5-8 p.m. [ R&B/ SOUL ]

Northeast Funk. Willow Inn, 428 Manitou Rd. Hilton. 392-3489. reverbnation.com. 4 p.m.

[ BLUES ]

Rockin’ Robin and The Bucket of Blues. P.I.’s Lounge, 495 West

483-4936. sodusbaylighthouse. org. 2 p.m.

[ POP/ROCK ]

Dan Elliott and the Monterays.

Sodus Bay Lighthouse, 7606 N. Ontario St. Sodus Point. 315-

Carillon Concert. Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, River Campus. 671-7297. https://rochester.edu/aboutus/ carillon/. 7-8 p.m. [ COUNTRY ]

String of Pearls. Monroe

Branch Library, 809 Monroe Ave. 428-8298. libraryweb.org. 6:30-7:45 p.m. [ OPEN MIC ]

Open Mic Night. The Sound Studio, 531 Benton St. 2840293. 8 p.m.


[ POP/ROCK ]

The Chinchillas. Hose 22 Firehouse Grill, 56 Stutson St. 621-2200. reverbnation.com. 6 p.m.

TUESDAY, JULY 29 [ ACOUSTIC/FOLK ]

Fifth Tuesday Concert. Twelve Corners Presbyterian Church, 1200 S. Winton Rd. 244-8585. goldenlink.org. 7:30-10 p.m. Bill Destler, Chris White, Custom Blend, and Geezer. $5 donation. Meg Williams. Boulder Coffee Co., 739 Park Ave. 697-0235. bouldercoffee.info. 8-10 p.m. 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. [ VOCALS ]

Eastman Summer Sing. Kilbourn

Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-1000. esm.rochester.edu. 7:30 p.m. $5 suggester donation. [ JAZZ ]

Deborah Branch. Lemoncello, 137 West Commercial St. East Rochester. 385-8565. lemoncello137.com. 6:309:30 p.m.

Eastman Summer Trombone & Trumpet Institutes.

Eastman East Wing Hatch Recital Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-1000. esm.rochester.edu. 7:30 p.m. $10, Free for UR students, faculty, staff.

A Tommy Emmanuel Review By Ted Nicolosi and Shared Genes.

Bistro 135, 135 W. Commercial St. East Rochester. 662-5555. SharedGenes.com. 6 p.m. [ METAL ]

The Entertainment Collective Presents: Being As An Ocean, My Iron Lung, This is Home, Silver Creek Attractions, and Opposed to Silence. Bug Jar,

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Carlson Metro Center YMCA 444 east Main St. | 325-2880 City Newspaper (WMT Publications) 250 N. Goodman St. | 244-3329

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Juan & Maria’s Empanada Stop www.juanandmarias.com | 325-6650

Maguire Property 1115 East Main St. | 747-3839

Rochester Store Fixture 707 North St. | 546-6706

Greenovation | 1199 East Main St. | 288-7564

Tours • Tastings Private Parties 97 Railroad St. | 546-8020 | rohrbachs.com

Harman Hardwood Flooring Co. 29 Hebard St. | 546-1221

Tim Wilkes Photography 9 Public Market | 423-1966

219 Monroe Ave. 454-2966. bugjar.com. 7 p.m. $14-$16. [ 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. Joe Baia. Pelican’s Nest, 566 River St. 663-5910. reverbnation.com. 6:30 p.m.

Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. Darien Lake PAC, 9993

Allegheny Rd. Darien. 599-4641. livenation.com. 1 p.m. $30-$180.

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Theater may do the things they do. Some are good and some are not so good, but they all have souls and I hope they generate sympathy. “I think I show sex in a real, not overly romanticized way. The play is partly about the murkiness of consent, and about how we figure out what we want in relationships. What does it mean to be coupled — to you and to the other person? What is the middle ground? It’s about the confusions of modern love, informed by hook-up culture.” (The play’s realistic depictions of sex and violence make it inappropriate for children under 17.)

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(Clockwise from left) Timothy Ellison, Victoria Schellenberg, and Haven Shea in a scene from “Cow Town.” The play, written by Spencer Christiano and directed by Melyssa Hall, begins Thursday, July 24, at MuCCC. PHOTO BY MELYSSA HALL

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If the theater lacks a young audience, it may be in part because young people don’t often see themselves portrayed realistically on stage. Spencer Christiano’s “Cow Town,” a new play opening this weekend at MuCCC, addresses that situation, holding a mirror up to modern behavior, good and bad. “Cow Town” is about … a lot of different things. Christiano sets his play “in a small town in upstate New York and the large city nearby,” which should have a familiar ring. The play is focused on the interactions of four young adults, including people who left town to go to college and remained in the city, and their friends who stayed put. Whether in the city or the country,

the present and the future are equally bleak and confused for all of them. “It’s about that time in your life when you’ve graduated from college and don’t know what to do with your life,” says Melyssa Hall, the director of “Cow Town.” “When you come back home, but home no longer gets you. All our lives we’ve been told about our endless possibilities. Then suddenly we find ourselves feeling this inertia set in — realizing that possibilities aren’t endless, and having no idea what to do with our lives or our relationships.” The characters’ lives play out against a specifically contemporary background of economic uncertainty and diminished expectations, enormous college debts and deadend jobs, and, to quote Hall, “behavior that would make our parents disappointed in us.” That behavior — involving booze, drugs, and sex — leads to bad decisions and desperate, sometimes violent, confrontations. Christiano calls the play “a slice of life,” and admits, “There are not a lot of clear answers in it, but I hope that I can see the reasons why the characters do what they do. It can be scary to emphasize with someone who does bad things. I don’t judge my characters very much, I observe them and ask why they

Christiano, who graduated from Aquinas Institute in 2005, has written several plays that have been produced at Geva Nextstage, SUNY Brockport, the University of Rochester — and at MuCCC, where he is now an artistin-residence. In the case of “Cow Town,” the phrase “artist-in-residence” has multiple meanings, since Christiano not only wrote the play, he is producing it, and designed the set, lighting, and sound. Melyssa Hall, a 2013 graduate of SUNY Geneseo, met Christiano at a MuCCC College Theater Festival. He gave her the script of “Cow Town” and, she says, “I immediately understood what this play was about. I hadn’t read anything about the generation of people we belong to — people in our mid-20’s — that was also written by one of us.” She originally wanted to perform in it, but Christiano persuaded her to direct it instead. MuCCC helped Christiano develop his script, which he started to write about a year ago. The author and the director recall that “Cow Town” was controversial from its initial reading with a group of theater professionals. “There were some serious opinions about some of these characters and their behavior,” Hall says. “The play has definitely had polarizing reactions,” Christiano adds. But they both hope they’ve come up with a play and production that, in their words, “people will want to talk about afterwards.” Both Hall and Christiano note that it can be difficult to get people in their 20’s to come to see a play, as opposed to watching a movie or a TV show, but they hope they will find “Cow Town” worth the effort — and that it strikes a nerve with them. “I want so badly for theater to speak to younger people,” Hall says. “Theater is real,” Christiano says. “It’s people gathering in a certain place at a certain time and paying attention to the same thing. It is absolutely the correct medium in which to say things to the community. All theater is community theater.”


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[ OPENING ] The Loft at the Falls, 5 West Main St Honeoye Falls. Everyday Power: Celebrating opening a school in Nicaragua pop-up photo exhibition. thefriendsproject.org. [ CONTINUING ] 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Ben Cleeton: Diaspora Times Two. Thru Aug 22. Gallery Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9 a. m.- 5 p. m. A photographic study of Africans living in Guangzhou, Chine and Chinese living in Accra, Ghana. 770-1960. valleymanor,com. 171 Cedar Arts Center, 171 Cedar Arts Center. Artful Exhibition. Thru July 25. Featuring 24 regional artists, with work including beaded jewelry, ceramics, paintings and pastels. 607-9364647. 171cedararts.org. Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. Jessie Anthony Henry: The Spirit of the Thing. Thu July 31. Oversized oil on canvas paintings. 563-2145. thebaobab.org. Books Etc, 78 W Main St Macedon. Three Magic Views. Thru July 30. Highlights Abigail Simmons, Elaine Dow, and Kurt and Carol Schreiner. 474-4116. booksetcofmacedonny.com. Bridge Art Gallery University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Blvd. “Play.” urmc. rochester.edu. Central Library, 115 South Ave. Artists in the Archives. 428-8140. libraryweb.org.; Al-Mutanabbi Street: Start the Conversation. 428-8053. libraryweb.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. Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. Nils R Caspersson: Rural Paintings. Through Sep 1. Wed-Fri 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m., SatSun 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. 374-6160. rmsc.org. Finger Lakes Gallery and Frame, 175 S Main St. Lake Impressions. Abstract paintings of Bill Judkins. 396-7210. galleryandframe.com. Gallery Salon & Spa, 780 University Ave. The Empty Center. Debut artwork by Pam Howe and photographs by Catherine MacWilliams. 271-8340. erikagallerysalon@gmail.com. Genesee County Park and Forest Interpretive Center, 11095 Bethany Center. GCC Photography Students Exhibit Environmental Portraits. “Around the Bend: The Shared Landscape,” students this year will share “Environmental Portraits of Western New York.” 344-1122. jspring. geneseeconsed@yahoo.com. George Eastman House, 900 East Ave. Lewis Hine and Mickalene Thomas. Lewis Hine, thru Sept. 17. Mickalene Thomas: Happy Birthday to a beautiful woman. Thru Oct 19. 271-3361. eastmanhouse.org. Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. At Water’s Edge. Thru Aug. 10. Opening reception Fri. Aug 1 5-9 p. m. Dick Bennett and Carl Crumley, with Michelle Turner and 29 guests photographers. 482-1976. imagecityphotography.com. continues on page 22

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SPECIAL EVENT | 1964 RIOT EVENTS

Thursday, July 24, marks the 50th anniversary of Rochester’s 1964 Riots. A number of events will take place across the city to commemorate the three days of rioting that shaped the community. All of the events are free. For more information about the riots and their impact on Rochester, check out CITY’s July 16 cover story by Mark Hare at rochestercitynewspaper.com.

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On Tuesday, July 29 and Thursday, July 31, walking tours of Joseph Avenue will be held at 4 p.m., beginning at the Lincoln Branch Library (851 Joseph Avenue). The tour, hosted by MCC Professor Verdis Robinson, will focus on points of interest relevant to the riots’ history in the surrounding area. The Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Central Library (115 South Avenue) will host a screening of the film “July ‘64” and a panel discussion from 2 to 4 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23. Christine Christopher, the film’s producer, will join Carvin Eison, its director, and Darryl Porter, a former gang leader who went on to become president of the Rochester City School Board, to discuss the movie. A ceremonial lighting of the High Falls to commemorate the riots will take place on Wednesday, July 23, at 8:30 p.m. on the Pont de Rennes bridge. The ceremony will accompany a reading of a proclamation in remembrance of the 1964 events. On Thursday, July 24, activist, author, politician, and teacher Ruth Holland Scott will present a civil rights talk at noon in the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Central Library (115 South Avenue). Scott, the first female African-American member of the Rochester City Council, will discuss civil rights in Rochester in the time following the 1964 riots. The commemorative events will conclude with “July ’64 Revisited: Rochester and Race Relations with the Black Storytelling League of Rochester” at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, July 25. The event, held in the Kate Gleason Auditorium of the Central Library, will feature local storytellers presenting accounts of the 1964 events. — BY ALEX HERRMANN rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 21


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FESTIVAL | TEN UGLY MEN FESTIVAL

The Ten Ugly Men is a non-profit organization operated by, you guessed it, ten “ugly” men with a single goal in mind: to put on huge festivals and donate the proceeds to charity. As if the allure of unlimited amounts of chicken sandwiches, hot dogs, ice cream, and various other snacks wasn’t enough of a draw by itself, the Ten Ugly Men Festival also features no shortage of sports activities. There’s a “Color Me Ugly” 5K run — where runners are pelted with color-bombs — kickball and volleyball tournaments, and soon-to-be-announced live music happening all day long. All proceeds from the festival will go toward local charities, such as the Sojourner House at PathStone, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Unity Health Oncology Center, and Equicenter. The 25th Annual Ten Ugly Men Festival will take place Saturday, July 26, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., at the Genesee Valley Park, 1000 East River Road. Advance tickets are $25, and $35 the day of. Tickets for kids 13 to 20 are $10, kids 12 and under get in for free. For more information, visit tenuglymen.com. — BY ALEXANDER JONES

Art Exhibits Link Gallery at City Hall, 30 Church St. Rochester Remembers. Thru Aug. 1. Photographs from the archives of the City of Rochester and Gannett Rochester of the before, during, and after. Gallery hours Mon.-Fri 9 a. m. -5 p. m. 4287135. cityofrochester.gov. Lux Lounge, 666 South Ave. New Works by Shawnee Hill, Danny Cole, Joe Guy Allard and John Perry.. 232-9030. lux666.com. Main Street Arts, 20 W Main St, Clifton Springs. Sleep, In Spite of The Storm. Thru Aug 29 Gallery hours: Tues.-Thurs. 11 a. m.-6 p. m., Fri. and Sat. 11 a. m. -7 p. m. Porcelain pots and vessels. 315-4620210. mstreetarts@gmail.com. mainstreetartsgallery.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. Nature in Focus. Thru August 1.A display of photography by Peter Blackwood. 546-8439 x3102. 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.

NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. Intersections: Form, Space, Time & Color. Thru July 30. Gallery House Mon.-Fri. 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. 475-6406. rit.edu. Outside the Box Art Gallery, Bldg 9, The Canal Works, 1000 Turk Hill Rd. Flea Market Vignettes. Gallery hours: Wed. -Sat 11 a. m.-4 p. m. Thurs. till 6 p. m. and Sun. 1 -3 p. m. 654-2485. outsidetheboxag.com. The Owl House, 75 Marshall St. Chad Grohman. 360-2920. owlhouserochester.com. Oxford Gallery, 267 Oxford St. Summer Showcase. Thru Aug 30. A number of artists works ranging across many different styles and media, both two and three-dimensional. 271-5885. oxfordgallery.com. Pat Rini Rohrer Gallery, 71 S Main St Canandaigua. Featuring the Finger Lakes. Thru Aug 2. Original work created by our respected regional artists. 3940030. prrgallery.com. Pullman Memorial Universalist Church, 10 East Park St. Images of Jesus: Victorian Artists, Printers & Publishers. 752-4581. louwu2006@gmail.com. The Rabbit Room, 61 N Main St Honeoye Falls. Birds Eye View. By Laura Kammemeier. 582-1830. thelowermill.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 Rochester area. From 2D to 3D, from pencils sketches to oil paintings!. recordarchive.com. Roc Brewing Co, 56 S Union St. Behold This Swarthy Face. Thru Aug 29. Photographs of bearded and mustachioed gents by Gerry

Szymanski. Gallery hours: Wed. 5 – 9 p.m.; Thu. - Fri. 5 - 11 p.m.; Sat. 3- 11 p.m. 794-9798. rocbrewingco@gmail.com. rocbrewingco.com. The Rochester Historical Society, Rundel Memorial Building, 2nd floor, 115 South Ave. Now and Then:Remembering the Race Riots of 1964. Thru 31. Gallery hours Mon.-Wed. and Fri. 10 a. m.-6 p. m. and Thurs. 11 a.m.7 p. m. An exhibit by St. John Fisher students that chronicles ht local, national, and global impact of the riots and rebellion. 4287135. cityofrochester.gov. Spectrum Gallery, 100 College Ave. Tate Shaw: The Ground. Thru August 2. Galley Hours: Tues-Fri 9 a. m.-6 p.m., Sat 10 a. m. -2 p. m. 461-4447. spectrumphotogallery.org. 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. Towpath Café, 6 N Main St Fairport. Purple Haze. Thru July 30. An exhibition of abstract paintings featuring the work of Don Camp, Tom Cicero and Andrea Dionese. 645-2485. towpathcafe.com. Wayne County Council for the Arts, 108 W. Miller St. Newark. Annual Members’ Art Show. Thru Aug. 15. Opening reception with live jazz music Sat. July 26 5-7 p. m. Gallery hours: Thurs.Sat, 12-3 p. m. Local artists including oil, watercolor and pastel paintings, photography, woodworking, pottery and more. 315-331-4593. waynearts. wordpress.com/. Williams-Insalaco Gallery at FLCC, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Alumni Biennial Exhibition: The Art, Music, and Poetry of Rand Darrow. 785-1369. flcc.edu.

Art Events [ WED., JULY 23 ] Art Night With Ken Karnage. 6 p.m. Triumph Tattoo Studio, 127 Railroad St. Bring your art supplies and an open mind Free 270-4772. KenKarnage@gmail. com. triumphtattoostudio.com. Inside & Out with Gary Baxter. Through July 25. Arts Council for Wyoming County, 31 S. Main St Thru July 25 237-3517. artswyco.org. Rochester Artists Networking Group (RANG.). July 23, 7-9 p.m. NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. rochesterartistsnetworkinggroup.com. [ THU., JULY 24 ] Kimmy ‘s Break Room Art Expo Ft Pink Elephant & Personal Blend. July 24, 8:30 p.m. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. $3-$5. 2929940. lovincup.com/. [ FRI., JULY 25 ] Irondequoit Art Trail 2014. July 25, 5:30-8:30 p.m. 544-7846. facebook.com/I-square. [ SAT., JULY 26 ] Fashion Show 2014 “ Africa Roc Da Roc” The Royal Bloodline”. July 26, 5-7 p.m. Danforth Community Center, 200 West Ave. Music, dance, poetry, and fashion to Celebrate our Nubianass, Blackness, Ethnicity and Our Power, Strength in Unity $10-$15. 203-7403. nicoledija@ yahoo.com. facebook.com/ events/763454823689091/.


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[ THU., JULY 24 ] Kevin Meaney. July 24, 7:30 p.m. Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd Webster $15-$20. 671-9080. thecomedyclub.us.

[ FRI., JULY 25 ] RocheStar Fest. July 25-26, 12-10 & 7 p.m. 301-3424. rochesterastronomy.com/.

[ SAT., JULY 26 ] Improv Comedy Battles. 9:30 p.m Bread & Water Theatre, 172 West Main St $6. 797-9086. improvVIP.com. Stacy Kendro. July 26, 9 p.m. Joke Factory Comedy Club, 911 Brooks Avenue $10. 328-6000. rocjokefactory.com. [ SUN., JULY 27 ] Funniest Person In Rochester Contest. July 27, 7:30 p.m. Comedy Club, 2235 Empire Blvd Webster $7. 671-9080. thecomedyclub.us.

Dance Events [ SAT., JULY 26 ] Garth Fagan Dance School Summer Movement Institute 2014 Final Showing. July 26, 2-3:15 p.m. Garth Fagan Dance, 50 Chestnut Street Dancers will showcase demonstrations of the Fagan technique, Company repertoire, and choreography. Reception to follow 454-3260. gfd@garthfagandance.org. garthfagandance.org. [ SUN., JULY 27 ] “The Peak Project” Hip Hop Dance Classes. 7:30 p.m. Drumcliffe Irish Arts Dance Studio, 250 Cumberland Street, STE 240 $10 210-9176. PEAC0812@gmail.com.

[ SAT., JULY 26 ] Community Yard Sale. Every other day, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Greece Historical Society & Museum, 595 Long Pond Rd. 225-7221. ultint@yahoo.com. greecehistoricalsociety.net. Finger Lakes Cheese Festival. July 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunset View Creamery, 4970 County Rd 14, Odessa . Odessa $2. 607-594-2095. flxcheesetrail@ gmail.com. flcheesetrail.com/ Cheese_Festival.html. Love’s Secret Domain Presents: The More Arts & Crafts Fair. Every other Saturday, 3-8 p.m Love’s Secret Domain, 2142 E. Main Street . Rochetser 585-474-6047. lovelovelovesecretdomain@ yahoo.com. facebook.com/ events/1613523605540418/. Native American Dance & Music Festival. July 26-27, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Ganondagan State Historic Site, 1488 New York 444 7421690. ganondagan.org/. Pat’s Party. July 26, 12-3 p.m. Joy Community Church, 890 N. Goodman St. 288-0030. annie. canon@joycc.info. joycc.info. Roc the Park Urban Music Festival. July 26, 5 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, 1 Manhattan Square. $5. 428-7541. cityofrochester.gov/mlkmp. Ten Ugly Men Festival. July 26, 11 a.m. Genesee Valley Park,

Elmwood Ave. $12.75-$30. 6835734. ticketmaster.com. [ SUN., JULY 27 ] Ninth Annual MusicFest 2014. July 27, 12-6 p.m. Rochester Elks Lodge #24, 3525 E. Henrietta Rd $6-$8. 747-4078. cprochester.org. Summer Sips and Sounds: Wine and Music Festival presented by the Lake Ontario Wine Trail. July 27. Long Acre Farms, 1342 Eddy Rd $15. 315-986-4202. lakeontariowinetrail.com.

Kids Events [ FRI., JULY 25 ] Cool Kids! Green Kids! presents: Bubble Man!!!. July 25, 7-8 p.m. Cool Kids, Sagawa Park, 100 Main St. Plus a Bubble party!. 637-3984. coolkids@rochester. rr.com. generationcool.biz. Movies in the Park Series. 9-11 p.m Union Station Park, 3270 Union Street . North Chili Every movie begins at sunset. 8894680. recreation@townofchili.org. townofchili.org. [ SUN., JULY 27 ] GGH Kids: Pet Snacks. July 27, 11 a.m. Grossmans Garden & Home, 1801 Fairport Nine Mile Point Rd. Penfield 377-1982. grossmans.com. Trains at Twilight. New York Museum of Transportation, 6393 E. River Rd $8-$10. 533-1113. rochestertrainrides.com/. [ MON., JULY 28 ] American Alligators back in Rochester. 1:30 p.m Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St senecaparkzoo.org/.

It’s Magic, Of Course with Ted Burzynski. July 28, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. 428-

Lectures [ THU., JULY 24 ] “Overcoming the Culture of Fear”. July 24, 7-8 p.m. First Church of Christ, Scientist, Rochester NY, 440 East Avenue Speaker Marie Helm of Nevada. 271-7503. clerk@christiansciencerochester. org. christiansciencerochester.org. Biennial Artist Series: Kumi Korf. July 24, 7 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Join filmmakers Kirsten and Sam Hampton and composer Robby Aceto for a screening of the film, followed by a Q&A 276-8999. mag.rochester.edu. Civil Rights Talk with Ruth Holland Scott. July 24, noon. Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. 428-7135. cityofrochester.gov. [ FRI., JULY 25 ] Hydrangea Celebration at Wayside. July 25, 1-2 p.m. Wayside Garden Center, 124 Pittsford-Palmyra Rd 223-1222 x100. waysidegardens.com.

Literary Events [ WED., JULY 23 ] July Book Sale. 9 a.m.-5 p.m Central Library, 115 South Ave. 428-8181. Meet an Author: Bill Kauffman. July 23, 6:30 p.m. Sodus Bay Lighthouse, 7606 N. Ontario St Sodus Point 315-483-4936. sodusbaylighthouse.org.

Women Who Love to Read: Orphan Train. July 23, 7 p.m. Lift Bridge Book Shop, 45 Main St 6372260. liftbridgebooks.com. [ THU., JULY 24 ] Pure Kona. 7:30 p.m. The Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. A weekly Open Mic program consisting mainly of Poetry, Music & Spoken Word Free 270-8603. ourcoffeeconnection.org. [ SAT., JULY 26 ] Michael Keene: Abandoned. July 26, 2 p.m. Books Etc., 78 W. Main St Macedon 474-4116. booksetcofmacedonny.com.

Museum Exhibit [ WED., JULY 23 ] Civil War Artifacts on Display. Through July 31. Perinton Historical Society & Fairport Museum, 18 Perrin St Fairport 223-3989. info@ perintonhistoricalsociety.org.

Recreation [ WED., JULY 23 ] Roc Cirque presents Whirly Wendsday. 7 p.m. Genesee Valley Park, Elmwood Ave. Join the fun at Rochester’s premier spin toy meet up. Hooping, poi, juggling, fire performances, and much more. Live DJ’s are playing during the session to help you stay moving. Extra hoops and poi are available free. (585) 683-5734. Rochester Networking Golf. Through Aug. 15. The Argyle Grill at Eagle Vale Golf Club, 4344 Nine Mile Point Rd Fairport 746-

2576. netgolf@rochesteralist. com. rochesteralist.com/. [ THU., JULY 24 ] A Family Walk in the Woods. July 24, 6:30-8 p.m. Montezuma Audubon Center, 2295 St Rt 89, Savannah Registration required. 924-4979. czbenard@gmail.com. The Literary Beach. July 24, 7-9 p.m. Sterling Nature Center, 15380 Jenzvold Rd 315-947-6143. snc@ co.cayuga.ny.us. cayugacounty.us. Twilight Tours. 6:30 p.m Mount Hope Cemetery, North Gate, 791 Mt. Hope Ave. These 75-minute tours will include topics covered on the general Sunday tour as well as new material $5. 4613494. fomh.org. [ FRI., JULY 25 ] Saturn Over the Swamp. July 25, 9 p.m. The Thousand Acre Swamp Sanctuary, 1581 Jackson Road 773-8911. nature.org. [ SAT., JULY 26 ] DMC/Kouture Yard Sale. July 26, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Devil May Care Boutique, 775 Park Ave. 256-1777. contact@ devilmaycareboutique.com. devilmaycareboutique.com. Flavors of Rochester. 10 a.m.noon. Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. Outside the MArket Office. 428-6907. cityofrochester.gov/publicmarket. Hemlock Lake Paddle. July 26, 9:30 a.m. Hemlock Lake, off 15A . Springwater 339222-2014. kfrazer@tnc.org. support.nature.org/site/Calendar/?view=RSVP&id=5663#sthash. CWbIi6SF.dpuf. continues on page 25

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[ FEATURE ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Rochester’s annual, week-long muralmaking festival, Wall Therapy, kicked off officially on Friday, July 27. Most of the out-of-town artists have arrived and are now working on their large-scale public artworks under this year’s portraiture theme. Due to scheduling, a couple more artists will have arrived by midweek and have a later start. Gloomy weather and downpours held up production on some of the pieces, but the promise of sunnier days ahead should help matters considerably. San Diego artist Sam Rodriguez arrived on Thursday, a bit ahead of the rest of this year’s lineup, and began his piece at Atlantic and Greenleaf Streets — the site of Wall Therapy’s “Writes of Spring,” which took place in April. He has since finished his mural, a brightly hued and beautiful face enhanced with elements of typography. This is Rodriguez’s first time to Rochester, and he brought his young family along on a working vacation. You can read an interview with Rodriguez online at Rochestercitynewspaper.com. OMEN 514, of Montreal, is working on a painterly portrait of a lovely lady also at Atlantic and Greenleaf. Air conditioning units and crenulations in the warehouse walls disappear as the viewer takes in the gal’s delicate features. One eye is subtly lost as OMEN characteristically toys with obscurity. The work is a striking representation of flesh and shadow so far. New York City-based artist Alice Mizrachi began painting Saturday in the Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood, on the north side of 53-59 King Street, facing Silver Street. Mizrachi invited students from Rochester Prep to paint with her throughout the weekend, and together with the kids, she coordinated work on a piece which features a diverse group of faces and the words, “Together we stand in peace.” The artist will continue working solo throughout the week at the same location. Also working at 53-59 King Street is Baltimore-based artist Ernest Shaw Jr., who is nearing completion on his prismatic portrait of Jimi Hendrix’s captivating gaze. A bit of historic trivia:

in July of 1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience was set to open for The Monkees in Rochester, but having quickly grown weary of mindless teen girls calling for the British headliners during his set, Hendrix left the Monkees tour a few dates shy of his scheduled performance at the War Memorial. Also on the west side, Jarus, of Canada, has made great progress at 390 Seward Street on a moody, warm-toned Detail of the Wall Therapy mural by Sam Rodriguez at Atlantic and Greenleaf Streets. PHOTO BY MARK CHAMBERLIN portrait of a woman reclining on a couch television set, which will eventually with a cat. In the feature a portrait of a familiar Rochester Neighborhood of the Arts, U.K.-based face, at the Public Market near the artist David Walker has been working on a intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and pair of cool-hued, huge faces casting their Niagara Street. wide-eyed stares skyward. Italian artist Alice Pasquini will Berlin-based artist Karl Addison began arrive by midweek to begin work on a work at the Fedder Industrial Complex mural on the side of Small World Books (1237 East Main Street) on a multi-story at 425 North Street. Pasquini’s location portrait of a bearded man he met in Brussels. is particularly well-matched in that During the next week, this massive figure her style is nostalgic and storybookwill be filled in by an unfathomable amount esque, and that Rocco, the owner of the of multicolored lines. rambling gem of a used bookstore, also Rochester-based artist Caitlin Yarsky hails from Italy. is creating a portrait of accordion player Reno, Nevada-based artist Overunder Andy Hammond, a familiar fixture in will arrive on Thursday, and begin Rochester’s East End, on the side of the work in an as yet unannounced Boulder Coffee at 100 Alexander Street. location. Check back with us at Yarsky’s painting joins last year’s mural by rochetsercitynewspaper.com for updates, California-based artist, Siloette, on the photos, and more blogs during the week. same building. Shawnee Hill, also based in Rochester, began laying down linework and some shading on an Art Nouveau-inspired portrait of a woman with flowing locks and inky fingertips on the side of Fuego Coffee at 167 Liberty Pole Way. Rochester-based artist John Perry has started work on a mural of a colorful


[ TUE., JULY 29 ] Walking Tours of Joseph Avenue. July 29, 4 p.m. Lincoln Branch Library, 851 Joseph Ave 4287135. cityofrochester.gov.

Special Events

DANCE | SALSA UNDER THE SUMMER STARS

This Friday, Essence of Rhythm Latin Dance Co. is hosting a salsa cruise on the 80-foot boat Harbor Belle. It is the second year the dance group has offered the cruise, the only one in upstate New York. Darren Price, Artistic Director of the company since its inception 3 years ago and owner of the 5-year-old Rhythm Society Urban Wellness Center (758 South Avenue), told City last week that tickets have been purchased by Latin dance aficionados from as far as Ithaca, Buffalo, and Syracuse. “[It’s] part of a consistently thriving social dance scene in Rochester. Much more so than Buffalo or Syracuse. People travel to dance here,” Price said. The cruise leaves from the Charlotte pier at 7 p.m. (boarding at 6:15), Friday, July 25, and returns at 10 p.m., giving guests three hours to dance on the ship’s upper deck to salsa, meringue, bacchante, and other Latin music from a live DJ while enjoying the summer sunset from Lake Ontario. Guests are encouraged to “dress to impress.” Onboard festivities include a salsa dance lesson and contest. Pizza and wings are provided. There is a cash bar on the lower level for those 21 years old and over (although people over 18 are welcome on the cruise). Tickets are $30 in advance; $55 for two people. Only a handful remain. Purchase online at rhythm-society.org. The after-party, with more dancing and a live band, Sonidos Unidos, will be at Papaya Asian Bar at Marketplace Mall in Henrietta. Papaya regularly hosts a salsa night that draws in the Latin dance community. If the cruise sells out, there’s still the after-party. Besides, Price is already talking about maybe hosting another salsa cruise in mid-September. — BY CASEY CARLSEN

Recreation North Section Tour. July 26, 2 p.m. Mount Hope Cemetery, North Gate, 791 Mt. Hope Ave. $5. 4613494. fomh.org. Pioneers, Reformers & Heroes. July 26, 10 a.m. Mount Hope Cemetery, North Gate, 791 Mt. Hope Ave. $7. 461-3494. fomh.org. Rochester Academy of Science: Fossil Trip. July 26. Jaycox Run. Middle Devonian collecting 6983147. rasny.org. [ SUN., JULY 27 ] Community Garage Sale. 8 a.m.2 p.m Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. 428-6907. cityofrochester.gov/publicmarket. Gardening Sale Extravaganza!. July 27, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County, 249 Highland Ave 8894864. laburt@rochester.rr.com. mycce.org/. Genesee Valley Hiking Club. July 27, 10 a.m. Moderate 5 mile hike, conservation trail, Darien Lakes

Park - Rt 20 near Harlow rd. free. 345-1891. gvhchikes.org. Kids Run Wild Series: Women Run the Roc. July 27, 9 a.m. Starting from Stewart Lodge, Mendon Ponds Park. 697-3338. fleetfeetrochester.com. Nature Walk: Genesee Valley Canal Trail (Waterfalls Section). July 27. Letchworth State Park, 1 Letchworth State Park . Castile 493-3600. nysparks.com. Public Tour of North Section of Mount Hope Cemetery. 2 p.m Mount Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mt. Hope Avenue This tour consists of a two-hour leisurely walk on paved roads as well as uneven terrain $5. 461-3494. fomh.org. Village Knitting Circle. July 27, 1 p.m. Books Etc., 78 W. Main St Macedon 474-4116. booksetcofmacedonny.com. [ MON., JULY 28 ] Yoga for Artistis. 6-7 p.m Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. organicmechanicsroc@ gmail.com.

[ WED., JULY 23 ] Batman Day. July 23, 7-9 p.m. Barnes & Noble, 330 Greece Ridge Center Dr. 227-4020. bn.com. Film Series to Honor Philip Seymour Hoffman. 8 p.m Dryden Theatre, 900 East Ave $6-$8. 271-3361. dryden. eastmanhouse.org. July ‘64 and Teen Discussion with Darryl Porter. July 23, 2-4 p.m. Central Library, Children’s Center, 115 South Ave. 428-7135. cityofrochester.gov. Owl Moon. Every other day, 6 p.m. Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford $8-$12, rsvp (585) 5386822. gcv.org. The Password is Hope. July 23, 5-10 p.m. FourWalls Gallery, 228 E. Main St. $35. tpih2014. eventbrite.com/. Ready Now for Picking. Through July 27. Hurd Orchards, 17260 Ridge Rd. 638-8838. hurdorchards.com. [ THU., JULY 24 ] ADA Gala Fundraiser. July 24, 6-10 p.m. Artisan Works, 565 Blossom Road $50. 546-7510. cdrnys.org. Blueberries Up, Blueberries Down!. delicious blueberries all around!. July 24-25, 12:30 p.m. Hurd Orchards, 17260 Ridge Rd. Call for info. 638-8838. hurdorchards.com. Casa Larga Patio Parties. 5-8 p.m Casa Larga Vineyards, 2287 Turk Hill Rd Fairport $10 per person includes your first glass of wine, beer, or wine slushie 223-4210. casalarga.com. Diversity In the Arts: A Call to Action in ROC. July 24, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Ingle Auditorium at RIT, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive One day symposium is comprised of narratives from experts on why diversity is important in their respective fields with the assumption that these same imperatives also apply to the arts and cultural sector Free, Registration required. 704-0983. 21stcenturyarts. net/#!projects/c1bgq. Dokotoro Project Reception. July 24, 5:30-7 p.m. Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. Donations appreciated. 510-459-7416. dokotoro.org/. Movies and Music in the Park: Frederick Law Olmsted-Designing America. July 24, 7 p.m. Highland Park Bowl, 1200 South Ave. monroecounty.gov/parksmovies.php. July Wine Pairing Dinner. July 24, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Tavern58, 58 University Ave. $40. 546-5800. tavern58.com. Lincoln Tours. 1 & 3 p.m. Seward House Historic Museum, 33 South St., Auburn. 315-2521283. sewardhouse.org. Max at the Gallery Tapas Night. 5-8 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Live music, wine, beer, tapas for purchase Included in admission: $2.50-$6. 2768900. mag.rochester.edu. Networking Thursdays. 6 p.m. Captain’s Attic, 37 Charlotte St. A

Night for Business Professionals & Entrepreneurs 25+. $5 with business card; $7 without 5468885. Captainsattic@yahoo.com. 5pointentertainment.com. Tour a Historic Garden in Pittsford. July 24, 6:30-8 p.m. $22-$32. 473-8136. rcgc.org. Wine Pairing Dinner. July 24, 6:30-9:30 p.m. Tavern58, 58 University Ave. $40. 546-5800. tavern58.com. [ FRI., JULY 25 ] ADA Picnic. July 25, 2-5 p.m. Ontario Beach Park, 4799 Lake Ave 546-7510. cdrnys.org. Grand Opening of Ballet Prestige’s New Studio. July 25, 3 p.m. Ballet Prestige, 1855 Monroe Ave 478-6760. balletprestigerochester.com/. Movies with a Downtown View: Almost Famous Trailer. July 25, 6:30 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park, 1 Manhattan Square. 414-4628. httpdowntownrocmovies.com/. Rochester and Race Relations with the Black Storytelling. July 25, 11:30 a.m. Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. 428-7135. cityofrochester.gov. The Rochester Salsa Cruise. July 25, 6:15-10 p.m. Port of Rochester, 4699 Lake Ave. Dance, Drink, & Mingle while listening to salsa, merengue, bachata, & more $30. hythmsociety.org. Scream Campot live. 7:45 p.m Polar Wave Snowtubing, 3500 Harloff road, Batavia $50. 2171263. screamcampoutlive@gmail. com. screamcampoutlive.com. Un-Wined Party. July 25, 6-9 p.m. Long Acre Farms, 1342 Eddy Rd 315-986-4202. longacrefarms.com. [ SAT., JULY 26 ] 2nd Year Anniversary Celebration!. July 26, 6-9 p.m. Veritas Wine Bar, 217 Alexander St. Limited free wine samples from 6-9 p. m 262-2336. veritaswinebar.com. Cars & Coffee Rochester. July 26, 7-11 a.m. RAM Rochester Auto Museum, 7 1/2 Rome St. 261-3864. archie@echr.us. carsandcoffeerochester.com. Christmas in July. July 26. Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford 538-6822. gcv.org. Dance to Awaken the Heart. July 26, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Henrietta United Church of Christ, 1400 Lehigh Station Rd Henrietta Donation. 888-340-9865. awakentheheart.rochester.ny@ gmail.com. awakentheheart.org/ dance-to-awaken-the-heart/. Dinner and a Movie: The Only Real Game. July 26, 7 p.m. George Eastman House, 900 East Ave. Reservations Required by July 22. 271-3361 x223. eastmanhouse.org. Dog Days of Summer. July 26, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Grossmans Garden & Home, 1801 Fairport Nine Mile Point Rd . Penfield 377-1982 x224. grossmans.com. Eat, Dance and Pray. Fourth Saturday of every month, 5 p.m. Sufi Order of Rochester Center for Sufi Studies, 494 East Ave. Carriage House of AAUW No charge. 2480427. hecca@frontiernet.net. sufiorderofrochester.org. Get Pop-Cultured: Meet DC Comics’ Superman!. July 26, 11 a.m. Barnes & Noble, 330

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Ganondagan’s annual Native American Dance & Music Festival is celebrating its 23rd year this summer with a host of activities celebrating Native American culture and traditions. This year’s featured performers include New Mexico’s Dineh Tah’ Navajo Dancers, Iroquois singers and dancers, and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Joanne Shenandoah. The festival also features traditional Native American demonstrations — ranging from moose hair embroidery to cornhusk doll making — a Native American arts market, guided walks on themed trails, and Iroquois social dancing. The 23rd Annual Native American Dance & Music Festival will take place Saturday, July 26, and Sunday, July 27, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., at the Ganondagan State Historic Site,1488 State Route 444, Victor. Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, $7 for students, and $5 for children. For more information, visit ganondagan.org. — BY ALEXANDER JONES Greece Ridge Center Dr. Free. 585-227-4020. bn.com. Golden Link Summer Picnic. July 26, 4 p.m. Liberty Hill, 2201 Lehigh Station Rd goldenlink.org. Jane Austen Day. July 26, 11:30 a.m. Rose Hill Mansion, 3373 New York 96A, Geneva 315-789-5151. genevahistoricalsociety.com July 26, 11:30 a.m. Rose Hill Mansion, 3373 New York 96A, Geneva $5. 315-789-5151. genevahistoricalsociety.com. Party Madagascar. July 26, 5:30-11 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St A premiere 21-and-older event hosted by the Seneca Park Zoo Society’s docents!. $10-$30. 336-7200. senecaparkzoo.org. Sterling Renaissance Festival. 10 a.m.-7 p.m 15385 Farden Road. Attend a jousting match, experience a wench auction, see a shakespeare play, and wave to the queen in the parade 800-879-4446. sterlingfestival.com. Telescope Viewing. Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Ave. Clear skies providing. From Dark til about 10 p.m Admission is free 7039876. rmsc.org. Youth Prison Prevention Conference. July 26, 1-4 p.m. Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1050 East Ave Free, donations accepted. 716563-5515. demo008812. hgsitebuilder.com/youth-prisonprevention-project. [ SUN., JULY 27 ] 5th Annual Kiss 106.7 Baby Crawl. July 27, 12-2 p.m. kiss1067.com/. Summer Sips & Sounds: Wine and Music Festival. July 27, 12-6 p.m. Long Acre Farms, 1342 Eddy Rd $15. 315-986-4202. lakeontariowinetrail.com.

Latino Day. July 27, 1:05 p.m. Frontier Field, 1 Morrie Silver Way redwingsbaseball.com. Sunday Drag Brunch Hosted by Poison Waters. noon. 140 Alex Bar & Grill, 140 Alexander St. Food served at 1 p.m $14.95 buffet 256-1000. 140alex.com. Universal Worship. 10:30 a.m. Sufi Order of Rochester Center for Sufi Studies, 494 East Ave. Carriage House of AAUW Candle lighting ceremony honoring all the world’s religions together on one altar, promoting the unity of religions ideals. All are welcome No charge. 2480427. hecca@frontiernet.net. sufiorderofrochester.org. [ MON., JULY 28 ] Modern Day Miracles Explored. July 28, 7 p.m. Lifetree Cafe, 1301 Vintage Lane 723-4673. lifetreecafe.com. Rochester Red Wings Meet and Greet. July 28, 11 a.m.-noon. The Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square Meet a player from the Rochester Red Wings and receive his autograph 263-2700. thesmith.org. Second Annual Sonnenberg Ladies Golf Tournament Benefit. July 28. Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park, 151 Charlotte St . Canandaigua $55, reservations required by July 23. 394-4922. sonnenberg.org. [ TUE., JULY 29 ] ALS Education and Awareness Group. July 29, 7-8:30 p.m. Pieters Family Life Center, 1025 Commons Way 315413-0121. info@alsaupstateny. org. alsaupstateny.org. Classic Horror Movie Nights. 6:45-11 p.m. Rolling Hills Asylum, 11001 Bethany Center Rd., East Bethany $20. 250-0366. hauntedasylumproductions@gmail.com. continues on page 26

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THEATER | “WITNESS OF KITTY GENOVESE”

Canada’s Circus Orange will perform “Tricycle” on Friday, September 19, as part of the Rochester Fringe Festival. The high-flying wheel (seen here) is part of the performance’s finale. PHOTO PROVIDED

Rochester Fringe Festival announces headliners [ PREVIEW ] BY JAKE CLAPP

The First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival, last week, announced the headlining acts of this year’s event, which will take place September 18 to 27 in multiple venues in Downtown Rochester. Capping the more than 380 shows of this year’s festival will be performance company Circus Orange, acrobatic troupe Cirque Du Fringe, comedian Jay Pharoah, and a walk-through presentation of Spoon River Rochester. Organizers also announced the return of the “Magic Crystal” Spiegeltent, following a popular reception at last year’s festival — when Rochester Fringe became the first fringe festival in North America to incorporate a Spiegeltent. Now in its third year, the Rochester Fringe Festival has grown to be one of the largest multi-arts festivals in the state, and one of the highest attended fringe festivals in the U.S., organizers said. Last year, Rochester Fringe counted more than 50,000 attendees during the 10-day festival — a quick growth from 32,000 attendees over 5 days in 2012. More than 120 of this year’s performances are free, including the performance by Canada’s Circus Orange. The troupe — who mix circus, dance, acting, aerial arts, fire, pyrotechnics, and special effects for grandiose larger-than-life theatrical performances — will perform “Tricycle” on Friday, September 19, at Martin Luther King Jr. Park at Manhattan Square. The performance will start at 7:30 pm. An 18foot tall tricycle, accompanied by music and special effects, will wind through the 26 CITY JULY 23-29, 2014

crowd on Court Street, culminating in a fiery, high-flying performance. Saturday Night Live’s Jay Pharoah will be this year’s comedy headline with two shows (9:30 and 11:30 p.m.) in the Spiegeltent on Saturday, September 20. Pharoah has recently become a rising comedy star due to his stand-up and celebrity impressions — those who watch SNL will recognize his Barack Obama, Will Smith, Kanye West, and Eddie Murphy imitations. Cirque du Fringe will also take full advantage of the Spiegeltent with “Mardi Gras!” a new production hosted by twisted 20 Penny Circus, featuring the Kenya Safari Acrobats and a musical mix of New Orleans jazz, blues, funk, and R&B. Pushing the divisions of audience and performer, Spoon River Rochester is a free walk-through performance of Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology. Masters’ collection incorporates 244 free-form poems narrating the epitaphs of the deceased residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town. During Spoon River Rochester, created by local group Method Machine, audiences will roam along Gibbs Street, among the 300 performers reciting epitaphs. Fringe Festival organizers said this is the largest production anywhere of Masters’ work. The headliners are just a fraction of the Fringe Festival’s full lineup. The full schedule of acts — many of which are produced by local performers — is now available at Rochesterfringe.com. Individual tickets and the Fringe Fanatic Pass ($190) are now available on the festival’s website.

For Americans over 50, the name Kitty Genovese still conjures up uncomfortable memories. On March 13, 1964, this young woman was stabbed to death outside her Queens apartment; neighbors heard her screams but did nothing to help her. Her case, and her name, quickly became a byword for urban loneliness, fear, and lack of caring. The Kitty Genovese case has inspired songs, movies, and now a new play by local writer J.R. Teeter, “The Witnesses of Kitty Genovese,” based on first-person source material. “Everything that is said in the play was originally said by that character’s real life counterpart,” says Teeter, who hopes audience members will recognize themselves in one of the characters, whether it’s the victim, a witness, or the criminal. The show kicks off Bread & Water Theatre’s grand opening at its new home on West Main Street, former home of the T&T Boxing Gym. Bread and Water Theatre presents “The Witnesses of Kitty Genovese,” Thursday, July 25, through Sunday, August 10, at 172 West Main Street. $8-$14; no patron will be turned away for an inability to pay. BreadandWaterTheatre.org. — BY DAVID RAYMOND

Special Events Cobbs Hill Drum Circle. 7 p.m Cobbs Hill Park, 100 Norris Drive meetup.com/cobbs-hilldrum-circle. Free STD Screenings for Women ages 13+. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Trillium Health, 259 Monroe Ave. Free. 545-7200. trilliumhealthny.org. Matt Friedman: Breaking the Links. July 29, 7-9 p.m. The Little Theater, 240 East Avenue An engaging talk about human trafficking thelittle.org. Northeast Naturist Festival. July 29-Aug. 3. Empire Haven Nudist Park, 5947 Sun Lane, Moravia 315-497-0135. empirehaven.net. Open Late Tuesdays. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St $8-$11. 336-7200. senecaparkzoo.org. “A Royal Flush ‘Food as Medicine’ weekly support group. 4:15 p.m. The Lightheart Institute, 21 Prince St. Weekly support group to heal the GI tract, eliminate IqG delayed food allergens and help you lose weight $47 per session. 288-6160. info@lightheart.com. lightheart.com.

Sports [ FRI., JULY 25 ] Western New York Flash vs. Boston Breakers. July 25, 7:30 p.m. Sahlen’s Stadium, 460 Oak St. ticketmaster.com July 25, 7:30 p.m. Sahlen’s Stadium, 460 Oak St. ticketmaster.com. [ SAT., JULY 26 ] Rochester Rattlers vs. Charlotte Hounds. July 26, 7 p.m. Sahlen’s Stadium, 460 Oak St. $15-$30. rochesterrattlers.com.

[ SUN., JULY 27 ] Rochester Rhinos vs. Orlando City. July 27, 4:05 p.m. Sahlen’s Stadium, 460 Oak St. $10-$40. ticketmaster.com.

Theater 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Through July 27. Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd Thru July 27. Preview Wed. July 9, 7:30 p. m. Opening Fri. July 11, 8 p. m., Sat. July 12 3:30 p. m. & 8 p. m., Sun. July 13 2 p. m. (Open Captioned*) Tues. July 15 7:30 p. m., Wed. July 16 7:30 p. m., Thurs. July 17 7:30 p. m., Fri. July 18 8 p. m., Sat. July 19 3:30 p. m. and 8:00 p. m., Sun. July 20 2 p. m. and 7 p. m., Tues. July 22 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, July 23 @ 7:30pm Thursday, July 24 @ 7:30pm Friday, July 25 @ 8pm Saturday, July 26 @ 3:30pm and 8pm Sunday, July 27 @ 2pm (Audio Described). $25. 232-4382. gevatheatre.org. A Chorus Line. Through July 26. RAPA’s East End Theatre, 727 East Main St Thru July 26. Fri-Sat. July 18 & 19, Thurs.-Sat. July 24-26 at 7:30 p. m. and Sun. July 20 at 2 p. m $15-$20. 325-3366. rapatheatre.org. Coming Out at the Caffe Cino. Through July 26. Black Sheep Theatre, 274 N Goodman St., third floor, Studio D313 Thru July 26. Fri. July 18 at 8 p. m., Sun. July 20 at 2 p. m., Thurs.-Sat. July 24-26 at 8 p. m. Ft. “Daddy Violet,” “Sex is Between Two People,” and “The Madness of Lady Bright” $16-$20. 861-4816. blacksheeptheatre.org.

Cow Town. July 24-26. MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Thru July 26. Thurs.-Sat at 8 p. m. and matinee Sat. July 26 at 2 p. m. A New Play by Spencer Christiano Directed by Melyssa Hall. $8$12. 519-1350. muccc.org. 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 1-800-457-8897. fingerlakesmtf.com/tickets. Hairspray. Through July 27. JCC Hart Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Ave. Thru July 27. Sat. July 19, 8 p.m. Sun. July 20, 2 p. m. Wed. & Thurs. July 23 & 24 at 7 p. m. and Sun. July 27 2 p. m $18-$26. 2412000. jcccenterstage.org/. Jon Peterson: He Wrote Good Songs. Through July 24. Downstairs Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place Thru July 24. Fridays July 11, 18, & 35 and Saturdays July 12, 19, & 26 at 8 p. m. Sundays July 13 & 20 at 3 p. m. and Thurs. July 24 at 7 p. m $25. 325-4370. downstairscabaret.com. Les Misérables. July 24-Aug. 3. Bristol Valley Theater, 151 South Main St Thru Aug. 3. Thurs.-Sat. July 24-26 at 8 p. m., Wed. July 29 at 2 p. m., Thurs. July 30 at 2 & 8 p. m., and Fri. and Sat. July 31 and Aug 1 at 8 p. m. and Sun, Aug 2 at 2 p. m $12-$33. 3746318. bvtnaples.org. Mozarts’ Magic Flute. Thu., July 24, 7:30 p.m., Fri., July 25, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., July 27, 3 p.m. Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St . Geneva $15-$40. 315-7815483. thesmith.org. Traveling Cabaret: An Evening of Song, Dance, and Comedy. Tue., July 29, 6:30 p.m. Buckland Park Lodge, 1341 Westfall Rd. Broadway , movie and pop musical revue 784-5276. The Witnesses of Kitty Genovese. July 25-Aug. 10. Bread & Water Theatre, 172 West Main St Thru Aug. 10. Fri. and Sat. at 7:30 p. m., Sun. Aug 2 & 10 at 2 p. m $8-$14. 271-5523. breadandwatertheatre.org.

Workshops [ WED., JULY 23 ] Creative Perennial Garden Maintenance. July 23, 2-4 p.m. Rochester Civic Garden Center, 5 Castle Park $22-$32. 4738136. rcgc.org. Culinary Institute of America on Location. Through July 25, 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. New York Wine & Culinary Center, 800 South Main St Call for more info. 3947070. nywcc.com. Decorate Paper Boxes. July 23, 7 p.m. Irondequoit Library, Helen McGraw Branch, 2180 E. Ridge Rd $7, registration required. 336-6060. libraryweb.org. Divination Tool Time. 12-2:45 & 5-5:45 p.m. The Purple Door Soul Source, 3259 Winton Road S $5. 427-8110. purpledoorsoulsource.com. 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.


Free LSF Mindercise Mindfulness Class. 7:30-9 p.m. The Assisi Institute, 1400 North Winton Rd. Free 451-1584. livingstressfree.org. Holistic Wellness: A Beginners Guide to Meditation. July 23, 6:30-8 p.m. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N Goodman St. $15. 730-7034. rochesterbrainery.com. How to Make Liqueurs. July 23, 6:30-9 p.m. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N Goodman St. $30. 730-7034. rochesterbrainery.com. iPad Workshop. July 23, 10:30 a.m. Wood Library, 134 North Main St Canandaigua 3941381. woodlibrary.org. Knit Clique: Knitting/Crocheting Drop-In. noon. Brighton Memorial Library, 2300 Elmwood Ave. Snacks are welcome free. 784-5300. brightonlibrary.org. Indian Percussion at Eastman School of Music. Through July 25, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. & 1:30-4:30 p.m. Eastman School of Music, 26 Gibbs St $425. 925.348.0209. rohanrhythm. com/schedule. Self Mastery Series. 6:308:30 p.m The Purple Door Soul Source, 3259 Winton Road S $100. 427-8110. purpledoorsoulsource.com. Successful Relationships for Housing for Homeless Households and Social Services Clients. July 23, 8-9:30 a.m. The Housing Council, 75 College Ave. Workshop for landlords and property managers 328-5211. thehousingcouncil.org.

349 W Commercial St $85. 2677405. rosariopinos.com. From the Earth. July 26, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 607-587-9877. facebook. com/FromTheEarth. Introduction to Zen Meditation. July 26, 9:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Rochester Zen Center, 7 Arnold Park $45-$60. 4739180. rzc.org. Pet-Friendly Gardening. July 26, 11 a.m. Grossmans Garden & Home, 1801 Fairport Nine Mile Point Rd . Penfield 377-1982. grossmans.com.

[ MON., JULY 28 ] The Facts About Nutrition Facts. July 28, 7-8 p.m. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N Goodman St. $18. 730-7034. rochesterbrainery.com. Guiding Behavior. July 28, 10 a.m.-noon. Mental Health Association, 320 N Goodman St. 325-3145 x131. mharochester.org. So You Want To Start Blogging?. July 28, 7-9 p.m. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N Goodman St. $15. 730-7034. https://rochesterbrainery.com.

[ SUN., JULY 27 ] Wellness and Health. July 27, 4 p.m. Books Etc., 78 W. Main St Macedon 474-4116. booksetcofmacedonny.com.

[ TUE., JULY 29 ] Buddhist Book Discussion Group. 7 p.m. Amitabha Foundation, 11 South Goodman St. By

donation. 451-7039. NY@ amitabhafoundation.us. amitabhafoundation.us. Did You Hear What I Said?. July 29, 10 a.m.-noon. Mental Health Association, 320 N Goodman St. 325-3145 x131. mharochester.org. GCI’s Summer Improv Bootcamp!. 6:30-8:30 p.m Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd $175. 232-1366 x 3052. gevatheatre.org. Health Insurance Open House for Rochester’s Uninsured. 2-5 p.m. Threshold at the Community Place, 135 Parsells Ave Fidelis Care representatives will be on-site at Threshold at the Community Place, 145 Parsells Avenue, Rochester, every Tuesday from 2 – 5 PM

to answer questions about health insurance options, and to help eligible residents apply to enroll in Fidelis Care programs. Current Fidelis Care members may also receive assistance completing their annual recertification at these events 1-888-343-3547. fideliscare.org. Home Energy Efficiency Workshop. July 29, 5:30 p.m. PathStone Corporation, 400 East Ave. 4422030 x204. rcain@pathstone.org. pathstoneenergyinfo.org. Home Energy Workshop. July 29, 5:30 p.m. PathStone Corporation, 400 East Ave. Registration required. 442-2030 x204. rcain@pathstone.org. pathstoneenergyinfo.org. Master Food Preservation Class. July 29-31, 8:30 a.m.-

4:30 p.m. Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County, 249 Highland Ave The course will be taught by CCE Home Food Preservation Experts, Judy Price and Katherine Humphrey and will include both pre and post tests $375. 461-1000. cce.cornell.edu/monroe. New Method for Blooms Garden Tour with Tim Boebel. July 29, 6:30 p.m. rcgc.org.

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[ THU., JULY 24 ] Introduction To Pinterest. July 24, 6-7:15 p.m. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N Goodman St. $12. 730-7034. rochesterbrainery.com. Pinterest Is Powerful For Business. July 24, 7:30-9 p.m. Rochester Brainery, Village Gate, 274 N Goodman St. $12. 730-7034. rochesterbrainery.com. Reading Philip Seymour Hoffman. 6:30-8:30 p.m Writers and Books, 740 University Ave $175 -$190. 473-2590. bockwoldtny@gmail. com. wab.org/classes-workshops/ reading-phillip-seymour-hoffman/. Rusted Root’s Jim Donovan: Drum & Chant Workshop. July 24, 7-9 p.m. Brighton Town Park, 777 Westfall Rd. The workshop shows you how to energize the brain, clear the mind, lessen resistance & fear $35-$45. 764-0313. jeffrey@ jeffm.anndrums.net. Teen Tech Tutor Program. 2-4 p.m Wood Library, 134 North Main St Canandaigua woodlibrary.org. [ FRI., JULY 25 ] Don’t Make Me Say It Again!. July 25, 10 a.m.-noon. Mental Health Association, 320 N Goodman St. 325-3145 x131. mharochester.org. Italian Summer Entertaining. July 25, 6-8 p.m. Rosario Pino’s Artisan Foods, 349 W Commercial St $85. 267-7405. rosariopinos.com. Spirit Tutoring. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. The Purple Door Soul Source, 3259 Winton Road S $1/ minute, $5 minimum. 427-8110. purpledoorsoulsource.com. [ SAT., JULY 26 ] The 50 Mile Meal. July 26, 6-8 p.m. Rosario Pino’s Artisan Foods, rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 27


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Greece Ridge 12 176 Greece Ridge Center Drive 225-5810, regmovies.com

Henrietta 18 525 Marketplace Drive 424-3090, regmovies.com

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Spies against spies “A Most Wanted Man”

(R), DIRECTED BY ANTON CORBIJN OPENING FRIDAY, JULY 25, AT THE LITTLE [ REVIEW ] BY GEORGE GRELLA

When the Berlin Wall came down, the Soviet Union collapsed, and the specter of international communism ceased its decades of haunting the frightened souls of the West, many commentators wondered if the espionage novelist John le Carré would suddenly run out of subjects. But the author, one of the best contemporary English novelists, simply applied his talents to other areas of international treachery and criminality — global corporate capitalism, CIA destabili-

zation of democratically elected governments, American support of tyrants, and of course, since September 11, 2001, actions of right-wing officials in the so-called war on terror. The new film, “A Most Wanted Man,” adapted from le Carré’s 2008 novel, and starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, demonstrates just how current events provide a rich subject for the author’s examination of the practice of espionage in our time. The movie involves the quest of a German intelligence officer, Gűnther Bachmann (Hoffman), for the particular funding source of an Al-Qaeda operation. Typically, that search leads the protagonist through several twisting paths to some surprising and ultimately devastating truths. The movie takes place in Hamburg, where Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin), a Chechen refugee who has escaped Russian torture, now seeks asylum in Germany. He attracts the attention of Bachmann’s people, who keep tabs on Muslim residents in their city, and maintain a particular interest in Abdullah (Homayoun Ershadi), a leader in that community. They discover that Issa has inherited

Philip Seymour Hoffman in “A Most Wanted Man.” PHOTO COURTESY ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS

a large sum of money, kept in a bank specializing in laundering cash run by Tommy Brue (Willem Dafoe); the devout Issa wants to donate all his wealth, through Abdullah, to a variety of Chechen institutions — hospitals, schools, clinics, etc. That odd situation inspires Bachmann to conduct

a series of tricky maneuvers and draws in a number of otherwise innocent individuals. He blackmails Tommy Brue into cooperating with Issa’s plans and his own scheme to nail the Al-Qaeda cell by tracing the cash. He also arrests and interrogates Annabel Richter (Rachel McAdams), the immigration lawyer helping Issa to win asylum. When the picture shows that Bachmann must deal with a good deal more than his initial task, it captures the typical le Carré fascination with the actual procedures of espionage and the competition among various agencies for information and above all, power. Bachmann’s work amounts to a continuing practice of duplicity and brutality, encouraging agents to betray their friends and families, intimidating the innocent, punishing victims, all in the name of protecting his country. He also contends with rivals in the intelligence community, particularly the CIA in the person of Martha Sullivan (Robin Wright), who harbors her own plans for the handling of Abdullah and the Al-Qaeda connections. “A Most Wanted Man” employs its locations in Hamburg and Berlin to reinforce the convincing reality of its people and actions. Its constant

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shifting among its various, initially unconnected people reflects the complications of espionage in a changing world, and endows the author’s understated, often cerebral narrative with a fine sense of energy and movement. In addition, the actors also participate in the authenticity of their context, a world where tension and danger lurk beneath the surface, where the only explosion of violence occurs as a complete and shocking surprise that ironically demonstrates even deeper levels of treachery. Philip Seymour Hoffman, as usual, excels as Bachmann, a weary, corpulent spymaster fueled by cigarettes and booze, desperate and lonely, contending with both enemies and allies, and apparently willing to do anything to track down his quarry. Above all, once again faithful to the author’s vision, “A Most Wanted Man” also shows the real meaning of espionage, its systematic practice of manipulation and deceit, its endless layers of betrayal. It illustrates the author’s continuing obsession with the morality of people who consciously violate the laws they profess to defend, who use and abuse innocent people to achieve a sometimes dubious goal. In its depiction of electronic surveillance, the kidnaping of ordinary citizens off the streets of a Western city, the imprisonment of victims without any charges, the icy cruelty of professional bureaucrats pledged to wage a war against an abstraction, the disregard for anything resembling simple human decency, it actually reflects the world we all inhabit, like it or not.

“Sex Tape”

“Manakamana”

“Venus in Fur”

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(NR), DIRECTED BY STEPHANIE SPRAY AND PACHO VELEZ SCREENS TUESDAY, JULY 29, AT THE DRYDEN

(NR), DIRECTED BY ROMAN POLANSKI OPENS FRIDAY AT THE LITTLE

In the high-concept farce, “Sex Tape,” Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel star as a long-married couple who, in an attempt to reignite the marital fires, record an epic, marathon-length session of lovemaking, only to find out the next morning that their amorous adventures have been accidentally uploaded to “the cloud” and synced to several iPads they’ve gifted to various friends and family. Their bumbling efforts to get the video back makes up the major conflict of the film, and while it’s not a terrible premise as far as these things go, the execution is only sporadically funny. The film attempts to explore similar thematic terrain as “Neighbors” (Nicholas Stoller, the director of that film, serves as one of three screenwriters here), but that was a much sharper comedy about a couple’s attempt to keep maturity from atrophying into boring adulthood. With limp direction from Jake Kasdan and a shockingly noncommittal performance from Segel, “Sex Tape” functions most successfully as a feature-length commercial for Apple products.

Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz in “Sex Tape.”

Manakamana is the name of a sacred Hindu temple built high in the mountains of Nepal. While it once took days to reach the destination, in the late 90’s a cablecar system was installed, reducing the journey to a leisurely 10-minute ride. This increased convenience made the temple more accessible than ever, and turned it into a tourist destination. Working with Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, filmmakers Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez assemble 11 unbroken takes documenting the rides to and from the temple, made by worshipers, tourists, and in one memorable case, a car loaded with bleating goats, to create a mesmerizingly evocative snapshot of humanity. For 10 minutes at a time, we’re allowed to simply observe the travelers, sometimes chatting with one another, other times simply sitting quietly. In the stillness and the silence, we don’t learn much about these people, and we have ample time to study their individual faces, reading into their expressions and imagining our own stories about where they’re coming from or where they might eventually be headed. It requires some patience to grow accustomed to the film’s unique rhythms, but there are innumerable pleasures to be found. From a rooster that suddenly pops into frame midway through one journey, to the attempt by two women to consume their rapidly melting ice cream before they must disembark, or musicians tuning their instruments, the individual moments have a cumulatively poignant and profound impact.

Arriving late for an open-call audition, an actress, Vanda (Emmanuelle Seigner), tries to convince a first-time director and playwright, Thomas (Mathieu Amalric), that she’s perfect for the lead role in his production, a staged version of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s 1870 novel, “Venus in Furs” (the author’s name is where the term “masochism” originates, so that should give you a taste of the novel’s themes). Coarse, shallow, and a bit ditzy, Vanda doesn’t seem to fit the elegant vision Thomas has in mind, but when he reluctantly agrees to let her read anyway, she gradually reveals herself to have a significantly better understanding of the material than he does. As the pair read off the scripted pages, slipping in and out of character, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The audition escalates into a competitive game of dominance between director and actress, creating a provocative exploration in gender roles and power dynamics. Director Roman Polanski deftly adapts David Ives’ 2010 Tony-nominated play, but the film belongs to Seigner. Polanski’s real-life wife, the actress gives a magnetically ferocious performance, appropriately alternating between sexy and terrifying. Amalric plays Thomas as a deadringer for a young Polanski, adding more layers of meta commentary to sift through. Aside from the confounding artistic decision to use italicized subtitles to distinguish when the characters are reading lines from the play, which has the effect of making their interplay significantly less ambiguous, Polanski brings a light touch to the material as he examines sex, power, art, and the place where the three intersect.

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Take my advice – the first thing you should do when you go to look at 11 Highland Avenue is walk down the driveway and step into the backyard. You will be instantly transported to a magical place as you pass through the arch covered with greenery and into this lush landscape. It’s your own secret garden and you may never come out! Apropos to a home located just off Mt. Hope Avenue near the Highland Park Neighborhood, with its rich horticultural history and lush gardens, this home welcomes you with beautiful daisies in the front as well as the garden in the back. With a lovely front porch and a convenient location, this house could be your perfect home. No matter which direction you go, you’ll find some of the best city living has to offer, all within an easy walk or bike: Mt. Hope Cemetery to the west, Highland Park to the east, the up-and-coming College Town to the south, and the South Wedge just a bit farther to the north. The house is built in 1920 and once you walk inside, you’ll be struck by the original beautiful doors, natural woodwork and hardwood floors throughout. With a square footage of around 1400, it seems a little unusual to have the benefit of a small foyer but there it is. Bright, nice-sized rooms fill the main floor with the kitchen open to the adaptable floor plan which

could include a music room or a formal dining room along with a breakfast room and light-filled living room. There’s plenty of room for storage in both the basement and the finished third floor, which can be used as a third bedroom. But the big surprise is on the second floor. With a hidden staircase up to the second floor, any noise from the first floor is muffled (a plus if there are children sleeping when company is over). Two bedrooms are situated upstairs and, again, the wooden doors are all beautiful. One room has two adjacent doors to small closets, one with a wonderful built in chest of drawers. And the back bedroom has a porch overlooking that beautiful garden. But the showpiece of the house is the bathroom. It is a modern rehab that includes a shower and a large Jacuzzi tub, a vanity in addition to the sink, and a washer and dryer tucked into the back of the room. Listed by Terrance Clar of Magellan, Inc., the asking price was recently reduced to just $109,500. Terry can be reached at (585) 325-3390 x133. Tell him to meet you in the garden. But heed my warning—you may not want to come out. by Larry Francer Larry is the Associate Director of Preservation at The Landmark Society

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[ LEGAL NOTICE ] Articles of Organization of VICAHWDA Properties, LLC filed with the Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) on June 25, 2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to Friedman & Ranzenhofer, PC, 74 Main Street, POB 31, Akron, NY 140010031. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any business permitted by law. [ LEGAL NOTICE ] Ecologically Applied Technologies, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 6/25/2014. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal business location at 38 Deland Park A, Fairport, NY 14450. LLC purpose: any lawful activity [ LEGAL NOTICE ]

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business location at 100 Thruway Park, W. Henrietta, NY 14586. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Articles of Organization of limited liability company, RCG Long Pond 2, LLC ( LLC) were filed with the Department of State on July 2, 2014. Monroe County is the county within which it will have its office; its principal business address is 366 White Spruce Blvd., Rochester, New York 14623 The LLC has designated the Secretary of State of New York as it agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. RCG Long Pond 2, LLC, c/o Rochester’s Cornerstone Group, Ltd. , 366 White Spruce Blvd., Rochester, New York 14623 is the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC.”Its purpose is to own real property. [ NOTICE ]

Hair Etc by Vee LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 4/15/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 40 Bittner Street Rochester NY 14604. Any lawful activity.

BENERN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 6/9/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 1490 Providence Dr., Webster, NY 14580. General Purpose.

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PropLink Divine LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/24/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 48 Fitzhugh Street N., Rochester, NY 14614 General Purposes

Bradford Dog Training LLC Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/27/14. 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 5 Elmcroft Rd., Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Thompson Coaching and Development LLC, a domestic LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 6/2/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 95 Allens Creek Rd., Building 2, Suite 324, Rochester, NY 14618. General Purposes.

CAA SOUTH, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 5/21/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 1415 Monroe Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. General Purpose.

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COPPER HILL MEDIA LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 6/25/2014. 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 Attn: Member, 2Wood Spring Hill,

American Machining Technologies, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 7/9/2014. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS will mail a copy of any process to LLC’s principal

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Legal Ads > page 35 Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] DELMONTE RENTALS, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 6/25/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 23 Old Pond Rd., Rochester, NY 14625. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ]

8 Knickerbocker Ave., Rochester, NY 14615. General Purposes. [ NOTICE ] JACKERN PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 6/23/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 1490 Providence Dr., Webster, NY 14580. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ]

DISCOVERY-SXM LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/20/14. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to David R Overy 83 Deer Creek Road Pittsford, NY 14534 Any lawful activity.

LARKIN PROPERTIES, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/12/2014. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 58 Parkview Dr., Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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ELM CITY DIGITAL LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 6/26/2014. 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 Attn: Member, 2Wood Spring Hill, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

LFM PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/19/14. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1100 Driving Park Ave., Newark, NY 14513, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

[ NOTICE ] EMILY KROHN, LCSW, PLLC (PLLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 6/11/2014. PLLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to Emily Krohn, LCSW, PLLC, 1815 Clinton Ave. South, Suite 630, Rochester, NY 14618. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] FERO & INGERSOLL, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/8/14. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the Registered Agent: Matthew Fero 2024 W Henrietta Rd Rochester, NY 14623. Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] H.A.S. FIRST CLASS, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 6/18/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, Attn: Darrin D. Singleton, Sr., Manager,

[ NOTICE ] Maxwell HR Consulting LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 5/15/14. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail copy to: 81 Valley Brook Dr. Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Name of Foreign LLC: SERVICE KING PAINT & BODY, LLC. Auth. filed with NY Dept. of State: 6/30/14. Office loc.: Monroe Co. LLC formed in TX: 6/21/07. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Business Filings Inc., 187 Wolf Rd., Ste. 101, Albany, NY 12205. TX addr. of LLC: 808 S Central Expwy, Richardson, TX 75080. Cert. of Org. filed with TX Sec. of State, 1019 Brazos St., Austin, TX 78707. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Name of LLC: 1850 WRS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State: 4/4/14. Office location: Monroe County.

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Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 762 Brooks Ave., Rochester, NY 14619. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license, number PENDING for AN ON PREMISE LIQUOR LICENSE has been applied for by EUDAIMONIA EVENTS AND CATERING LLC to sell beer, wine & liquor at retail as a catering business under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 107 Liberty Pole Way, Rochester, NY 14604, County of Monroe for on premises consumption. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of SHAH LAW FIRM, PLLC (the “PLLC”), a domestic PLLC. Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of NY (SSNY) on 6/6/14. 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: Law. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION of Favro & Associates LLC - Articles of Organization filed with the Sec. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on June 26, 2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 63 Red Lion Rd, Henrietta, NY 14467. Purpose: to engage in any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Akachi LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 05/01/2014. 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 2920 Elmwood Ave Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ALMASRI, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) May 28, 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 150 Lake Avenue, Rochester, New York 14608. Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of AMIR & AVIV GABAY, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/12/14. 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 237 Andrews St, Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DOT CERTIFIED LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06/16/2014. 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 128 Country Wood Landing, Rochester, NY 14626 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of FD Property Solutions, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 04/10/2014. 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 C/O FD Property Solutions, LLC, 101 Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV 89109 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Grinspun Labs, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/12/2014. 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 140 Metro Park, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of KJR Materials Technology Consulting LLC. Arts. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/27/2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: US Corp. Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Av. Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MCR Property Services, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06/10/2014. 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 MCR Property Services, LLC 454 Peart Ave. Rochester, NY 14622. Purpose: Property services. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of New York’s Finest Meat Hot Sauce, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) June 4, 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 237 Ridgecrest Road, Rochester, New York 14626. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Take5 Family Enterprises LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) April 8, 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 283 Tumbleweed Dr. Pittsford NY 14534 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 29 LABS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/03/14. 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, 12 Willowbend Dr., Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: TRANSFORMATIONAL PROPERTIES LLC. Article of Organization file with the Secretary of State (SSNY) of New York on 4/28/14. Office location Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. DDNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to: Transformational Properties LLC 2 State Street, 1400 Crossroads Building Rochester NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Principal Business location is 2 State Street, 1400 Crossroads Building Rochester NY 14614 [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of ABSTRACT EXPRESS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/27/2014. 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, 2541 Monroe Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Activate CU, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State on June 13, 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 277 Alexander Street, Suite 400, Rochester, New York 14607. 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 Appel Holdings LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/10/14. 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 2604 Elmwood Ave., Ste. 132, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Artistic Surfaces LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/12/14 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 25 Pyramid Lane Rochester, NY 14624 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of B&R Vacuum, 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 22 Kitty Hawk Dr., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of BARONE BROTHERS LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/9/2014. 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, 482 Joseph Circle, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful act.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BONNES PROPERTY HOLDINGS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/05/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Karlene Bonnes, 20 Willowbend Dr., Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of CKK Rental Zone LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/30/2005. 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, 336 Buffalo Rd., Rochester, NY 14611. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of CLEARVIEW AVE NY LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/9/2014. 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 Law Office of Anthony A. DiNitto, L.L.C., 8 Silent Meadows Dr., Spencerport, NY 14659. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Direct Mail 2020, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/2/14. 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 46 Chelmsford Rd., Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of EARL STREET LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/2/2014. 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, POB 92403, Rochester, NY 14692. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Empire Hots LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Sec. of State. of New York (SSNY) on 6/11/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom

process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process served to Empire Hots LLC, 2209 Empire Boulevard, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Excellence In Renovation & Building, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/8/14. 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 129 Squirrels Heath Rd., Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of GEMM Holdings, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) May 14, 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 139 Copperfield Road, Rochester, New York 14615. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of GORGEOUSSEXYSMART.COM, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/08/14. 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 Grace and Son Properties, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/28/14. 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 34 Whittlers Ridge, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Ground Fisher, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/26/2014. 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: 24 West Jefferson Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful act.


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Box 60758, Rochester, NY 14606. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: CAIRDE FORTUNA, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 05/29/14. 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 LPL Bullets, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State on June 17, 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 64 CastleView Drive, Rochester, New York 14622. 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 Morgan Publisher Apartments, LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 7/3/14. 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 MURRELET CONSULTING LLC Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York on June 12, 2014. Office in Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 41 Bending Creek Road, Apartment 4, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: Any Lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of National Yachting Services LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/11/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28

E. Main St., Ste. 600, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Norcon 135 Franklin LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/7/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 261 Mill Road, East Aurora, NY 14502. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of PMG Pizza, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the New York Secretary of State on July 27, 2004. 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 5881 King Hill Drive, Farmington, New York 14425. 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 POGUE PROPERTIES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/20/2014. 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, 263 Zuber Rd., Rochester, NY 14622. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of ROCHESTER PHOENIX MARTIAL ARTS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/12/2014. 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, 16521 Route 31, Holley, NY 14470. Purpose: Any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Rockford Morgan LLC, Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/12/13. 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 1170 Pittsford-Victor Rd., Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Scipioni Enterprises, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/27/2014. 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 173 Dickinson Rd, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Semtech Systems, LLC Art. Of origin. Filed sec’y of state (ssny) April 25, 2014 office location: Monroe County SSNY designated agent of LLC upon who process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy if process to 534 Newbury St., Rochester, NY 14615. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sporting and Defensive Firearms Academy LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/18/2014. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it maybe served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 95 Alton Way, West Henrietta, NY 14586. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Moving Companion, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) DATE. Office location: Monroe County, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Registered Agents INC. 90 State Street, Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of TWG & Associates, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) November 12, 2013. 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 1398 Culver Road, Rochester, New York 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Union Bering LLC. Articles of Organization file with NYS Department of State Division of Corporation and State Records on 03/13/2014. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Department of State of

New York State shall mail process to:C/O United States Corporation Agency, Inc. 7014 13th Avenue Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose of Company Exporting and Importing Activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Vassar Management, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the SSNY on 06/18/2014. Office Location: Monroe County, New York. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SS shall mail process to: Business Filings Inc. 187 Wolf Rd Ste 101, Albany NY, 12205. LLC’s purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Coldbrook Insurance Group, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 7/1/14. NYS fict. name: Coldbrook Insurance Agency Group, LLC. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in MI on 11/5/13. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o National Registered Agents, Inc., 111 8th Ave., NY, NY 10011, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. MI and principal business addr.: 45 Coldbrook St. NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503. Cert. of Org. filed with MI Director of Licensing & Regulatory Affairs, 2501 Woodlake Cir., Okemos, MI 48864. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Residential Fund 303, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/14. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in California (CA) on 04/08/11. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 2804 Gateway Oaks Dr., #200, Sacramento, CA 95833, also the address to be maintained in CA. Arts of Org. filed with the CA Secy. of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: any lawful activities.

14614. Name/addr. of each gen. ptr. avail. at SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] O’TOOLE LAW FIRM PLLC, a domestic Prof. LLC, filed with the SSNY on 6/30/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the PLLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to C/O the PLLC, 116 Bronze Leaf Trail, Rochester, NY 14612. Purpose: Law. [ NOTICE ] PENFIELD CARPENTRY, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 4/18/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 20 Parkwood Ln., Penfield, NY 14526. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] REDMAN ACRES LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 4/29/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC, 131 Attridge Rd., Churchville, NY 14428. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] SANTARIELLO, AKL & ASSOCIATES, PLLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/3/14. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 200 Canal View Blvd., Ste. 206, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: To practice Law. [ NOTICE ] WOODSWAY HOLDINGS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/11/2014. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2255 Lyell Ave., Rochester, NY 14606, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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Notice of Registration of Wesley & Clark LLP, Cert. of Reg. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/22/14. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 45 Exchange Blvd., Ste. 900, Rochester, NY

The name of the Limited Liability Company is Elmadina, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State on 6/11/2014. 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 1797 Stone Rd., Apt. 4, Rochester, NY 14615. 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 LLC ] PARODIFY, LLC has filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on June 19, 2014. Its principal place of business is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process may be served. A copy of any process shall be mailed to 16 E. Main Street, Suite 200, Rochester, New York 14614. The purpose of the LLC is to engage in any lawful activity for which Limited Liability Companies may be organized under Section 203 of the New York Limited Liability Company Law. [ NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF PLLC Courtney Reich, PE, PLLC ] Under Section 1203 of the Limited Liability Company Law FIRST: The name of the professional service limited liability company is: Courtney Reich, PE, PLLC. SECOND: The articles of organization were filed with the department of state on May 30, 2014. THIRD: The professional service limited liability company shall practice the profession of: professional engineering. FOURTH: The county within this state in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is: Monroe County. FIFTH: The Secretary of State is designated as agent of the professional service limited liability company upon whom process against it may be served. The address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the limited liability company served upon him or her is: P.O. Box 100, 31 WestMain Street, LeRoy, New York 14482. SIXTH:The names and residence addresses of all individuals who are to be the original members and the original managers, if any, are: Courtney Elizabeth Reich, P.E., 59 Matthew Dr., Fairport, NY 14450, License no: 090321. Courtney Reich, Organizer [ NOTICE OF SALE ] Index No. 2012-9138 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK

COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union Plaintiff, vs. Chamaine Cotton Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated June 19, 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 August 6, 2014 at 10:30 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 128 Bryan Street, Rochester, NY 14613, Tax Account No. 090.73-1-40 described in Deed recorded in Liber 10208 of Deeds, page 11 ; lot size 40 x 117.92. 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: $57,759.45 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: June 2014 David Spoto, 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. 2013-11408 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Andrea M. Ainsworth; Russell D. Ainsworth; Key Bank National Association; Hilco Receivables LLC; LVNV Funding, LLC; “John Doe” and/or “Mary Roe”, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated May 27, 2014, signed May 30, 2014, and entered on June 24, 2014, 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 August 6, 2014 at

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10:00 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Greece, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 276 Applewood Drive, Rochester, NY 14612, Tax Account No. 059.075-11 described in Deed recorded in Liber 9543 of Deeds, page 495; lot size .34 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: $101,307.63 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: June 2014 Paul E. Mura, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767

Index No. 2013-12768 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Esther Bills Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated July 1, 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 August 13, 2014 at 9:30 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Perinton, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 2121 Whitney Road East, Fairport, NY 14450; Tax Account No. 154.01-121 described in Deed recorded in Liber 5478 of Deeds, page 297; lot size .68 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: $136,823.44 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: July 2014 Miguel A. Reyes, 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. 2014-454 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, f/k/a Eastman Savings and Loan Association, Plaintiff, vs. Eleanor Ann Fogle, Deceased, and any persons who are heirs distributees of Eleanor Ann Fogle, Deceased, and all persons who are widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be deceased, and their husbands, wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest all of whom and whose names and places of

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residence are unknown to Plaintiff; Gerald Nusz; United States of America; People of the State of New York; “John Doe” and/or “Mary Roe”, Defendants. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated July 14, 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 August 25, 2014 at 9:30 a.m., on that day, the premises directed by said Judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate in the Town of Irondequoit, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as 63 Kings Lane, Rochester, NY 14617, Tax Account No. 076.16-2-66 described in Deed recorded in Liber 3233 of Deeds, page 119; lot size .25 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: $90,563.09 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements, attorney fees and additional allowance, if any, all with legal interest. DATED: July 2014 Sarah E. Wesley, Esq., Referee LACY KATZEN LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 [ NOTICE OF SALE ] PODS Enterprises Inc hereby publishes notice, as required by New York Self-Storage Facilities Act (NY Stat. 182) of a public sale of the property listed below to satisfy a landlords lien. All sales are for cash to the highest bidder and are considered final. PODS Enterprises Inc reserves the right to reject any bids. The sale will be held at 105 McLaughlin Rd Rochester NY 14615 on: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at 11:00 AM. Customer Name Container ID Brewer, Mary 79B94 Croston Associates, Connie Simmons 8162B94 Giambrone, Vince 8010B94 Harris, Kathy 17A89 Kessler, Josh

30A94 Kilpatrick, Michael 27A94 Contents include but not limited to: Household items, books, exercise equipment, stereo equipment and more. [ SUMMONS ] File : 75156 Docket : VA09383A12/13B FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE In the Matter of a Proceeding under Article 6 of the Family Court Act ISAAC D. WILLIAMS, II, Respondent. IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO THE ABOVENAMED RESPONDENT: Isaac D. Williams, II, the Father of Alana- Lee M. Colon, who last resided at or was found at 464 Red Apple Lane, Rochester, NY 14612. A Petition under Article 6 of the Family Court Act having been filed with Monroe County Family Court, requesting the following: Since the entry of the Order dated June 28, 2013, there has been a change of circumstances in that Respondent Father has not visited with the Child since August of 2013, and does not participate in her life in any meaningful manner. He is unavailable for any communication that would allow for a joint custodial arrangement. Because of this change of circumstances, the Order should be modified as follows: Mother should have sole custody and continue to have primary physical residence and Father should have visitation as can be agreed. ISAAC D. WILLIAMS, II, YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear before Referee Julie Anne Gordon at Monroe County Family Court, located at 361 Hall of Justice, Rochester, New York, on August 28, 2014, at 2:30 p.m., to answer the petition and to be dealt with in accordance with Article 6 of the Family Court Act. On your failure to appear as herein directed, a warrant may be issued for your arrest. DATED: July 2, 2014 Loreen Nash CLERK OF COURT TO THE ABOVE -NAMED RESPONDENT(S): The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Patricia E. Gallaher, Esq., Judge of the Family Court, Monroe County, dated and filed with the petition and other papers in the Office of the Clerk of the Family Court, Monroe County [ SUMMONS ] Index No. 2014-5807 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE

ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Irving Gordon, Deceased, and any persons who are heirs distributees of Irving Gordon, Deceased, and all persons who are widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienors, heirs, devisees, distributees, successors in interest of such of them as may be deceased, and their husbands, wives, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors of interest all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to Plaintiff; United States of America; People of the State of New York; “John Doe” and/or “Mary Roe”, Defendants. Location of property to be foreclosed: 268 Scholfield Road, Town of Irondequoit, Monroe County, New York TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the above action and to serve a copy of your Answer on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises. NOTICE: YOU MAY BE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this Summons and Complaint by serving a copy of the Answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the Answer with the Court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your property. Speak to an attorney or go to the Court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the Summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: May 21, 2014 MATTHEW RYEN, ESQ. Lacy Katzen, LLP

Attorney for Plaintiff Office and Post Office Address The Granite Building 130 East Main Street Rochester, New York 14604 Telephone: (585) 324-5767 NATURE AND OBJECT OF ACTION: The object of the above action is to foreclose a mortgage held by Plaintiff recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on June 29, 2005 in Liber 19770 of Mortgages, page 135 in the amount of $50,000.00 and a further consolidated mortgage held by the Plaintiff recorded in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office on August 14, 2012 in Liber 24517 of Mortgages, page 596 in the amount of $78,500.00. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, The plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action except for Irving Gordon. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Matthew A. Rosenbaum, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated June 11, 2014 and filed along with the supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose a mortgage. The premises is described as follows: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, situated in the Town of Irondequoit, County of Monroe and State of New York, which on a certain subdivision map filed in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Case “A”-22 of Maps and known as Rogers Estates is distinguished as Lot No. 211. Said lot fronts 48.5 feet on the north side of Scholfield Road, as shown on said map. Tax Acct. No.: 076.18-1-16 Property Address: 268 Scholfield Road, Town of Irondequoit, New York [ SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] Index No. 2014-1878 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT MONROE COUNTY TOWER DBW II TRUST 2013-1, Plaintiff, vs. The heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in-interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through EDNA M. BIGELOW, 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; GAIL REAP; WILLIAM L.

WIDMAN, JR., if living, or if he be dead, his wife, heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in-interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said WILLIAM L. WIDMAN, JR., by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective wives, or widows of his, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; DEBTONE, L.L.C.; 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 amended complaint in the aboveentitled 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: June 3, 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 June 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 properties known as 133 West Chestnut Street, Village of East Rochester, New York and identified as Tax Account No. 139.772-12 (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 $33,115.09, together with interest, costs, disbursements


Legal Ads and attorneys’ fees of this action, and directing the public sale of the Tax Parcel. Anthony J. Iacchetta Phillips Lytle LLP Office and Post Office Address 1400 First Federal Plaza Rochester, New York 14614 Tel. No. (585) 238-2000 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE INDEX # 14591/13 FILED: December 21, 2013 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE. Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgage premise is situated. OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff(s), against, PATRICK LANGWORTHY, MATTHEW BREDHOFF, all unknown heirs at law of MATTHEW BREDHOFF, if living, and if any be dead, their respective heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributes, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendants who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein; CHASE BANK USA, N.A., “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12”, the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendant(s). TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEYS FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOUR CASE IS PENDING FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR

PROPERTY. SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC AND FILING THE ANSWER WITHIN THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not serviced with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff`s attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; The United States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service thereof and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE OJBECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage which was recorded on the office of the Clerk of the County of Monroe where the property is located on May 18, 2007 recorded in Liber 21192 of Mortgages at page 0119, in the office of the Clerk of the County of Monroe. Said mortgage was then assigned to OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC by assignment of mortgage which was dated July 11, 2013 and the assignment of which was recorded on July 31, 2013 at the Clerk’s office where the property is located covering premises known as 25 Vassar St., Rochester, NY 14607 (Section: 121.52 Block: 2 Lot: 06). The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt described above to the above named Defendants: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Francis A. Affronti, an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York dated June 18, 2014 and filed along with the supporting papers in the office of the Clerk of the County of Monroe. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land with the buildings and improvements thereon

erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Monroe and State of New York. SECTION: 121.52 BLOCK: 2 LOT: 06 said premises known as 25 Vassar St., Rochester, NY 14607. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. By reason of the default in the payment of the monthly installment of principal and interest, among other things, as hereinafter set forth, Plaintiff, the holder and owner of the aforementioned note and mortgage, or their agents have elected and hereby accelerate the mortgage and declare the entire mortgage indebtedness immediately due and payable. The following amounts are now due and owing on said mortgage, no part of any of which has been paid although duly demanded. Entire principal Balance in the amount of $193,832.30 with interest from May 1, 2012. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBT OR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME, ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/ CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWERS IN FORECLOSURE New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should

immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with our lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by New York State Banking Department at 1-877-Bank-NYS or visit the Department`s website at www.banking.state. ny.us FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving the copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF MORTGAGE COMPANY AND FILING AN ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504. Our file # 12-02356.

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