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Creating new abolitionists
On our article on the abolition efforts of Kenneth Morris: Mr.
Morris and the Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives are a force for freedom of the enslaved persons of today. Their multipronged initiatives are making a difference in lives, moving education toward a true picture of what it meant and means to be an abolitionist. BARBARA B. ERWAY
Border Patrol and Greyhound
On immigration activists’ recent demonstration urging Greyhound to prevent US Border Patrol agents from boarding buses and asking riders for identification:
Buses are public spaces. No warrants needed. Given that we are considered a border city, with only Lake Ontario standing between Rochester and Canada, and Rochester being a hub for re-settlement activities, these checks are well within the law, from what I have read. Greyhound should heed the law and know that the silent majority support the rule of law in this country. JAMES FRANCIS ELLWANGER
People are not required to carry their “papers” in this country. Unless we require that, it’s just targeting people who don’t look American, whatever the hell that is. JANE GRIFFIN KRESS
Do you want Whole Foods?
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Monroe Avenue, 57 percent to 43 percent. A sampling of their comments: I want it so bad. It drives me crazy that getting somewhere maybe 10 minutes later is stopping progress. Get a grip, people. Leave earlier, take a different route, just give me my Whole Foods! ETHEL JACOBSON
Yes, I want a Whole Foods (or most any other corporation willing to invest in Rochester), but no – I don’t want it there. I’m surprised THEY want it there. JAMES HANSEN
When I registered to search for Trevyan Rowe, the meeting rooms at the Al Sigl Center were well stocked with food and drink for the searchers. When the RPD officer was killed, food and drinks were donated for outof-town law enforcement. All compliments of Wegmans. They are always there for our community. The least I can do is support them with my business. LINDA DISTAFANO
What? More lights on Monroe Avenue between I-590 and Clover Street? You have got to be kidding that this is acceptable to a planning board or zoning board or the department of transportation! Do you all never drive down Monroe Avenue? BETH CARR
I might be wrong, but I don’t think there is a public demand for a Whole Foods store. Monroe Avenue traffic will be a nightmare unless Brighton and Pittsford officials come up with a plan to bypass the gridlock that already exists during rush hours and weekends at the corner of Monroe Avenue and Clover Street. Complicating matters: not being allowed to make a left turn on Clover Street from Monroe if you are traveling east. Instead, many cars turn into parking lots past the light and turn around so they can turn right on Clover. RAY GROSSWIRTH
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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER
Martin Luther King Jr. and our history of racism Fifty years ago this week, the racism that has been part of the lifeblood of this country since its founding claimed the life of Martin Luther King Jr. And as we mark the anniversary of King’s assassination, it’s deeply depressing to re-read books and reports from that period and realize how little progress we’ve made. Racial segregation has increased, inequality is a national crisis, white nationalists have marched in American cities, and the current president of the United States has openly encouraged racism and violence and mocked everything King stood for. In 1964, journalist and economist Charles Silberman was warning the country where our racism was taking us. “Solving the problem of race,” he wrote in “Crisis in Black and White,” “is not only the most urgent piece of public business facing the United States today; it is also the most difficult.” “Nothing less than a radical reconstruction of American society is required,” Silberman wrote, “if the Negro is to be able to take his rightful place in American life.” Four years later – just over a month before King’s death – the Kerner Commission, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to study the causes of racial unrest in US cities, issued its own warning. “Our nation,” the commission said, “is moving toward two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal.” The commission’s conclusion from its months of study was simple, and it was damning: “Discrimination and segregation have long permeated much of American life; they now threaten the future of every American.” “Segregation and poverty have created in the racial ghetto a destructive environment totally unknown to most white Americans,” the commission said. “What white Americans have never fully understood but what the Negro can never forget – is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.” “This deepening racial division is not inevitable,” the commission said. “The movement apart can be reversed. Choice is still possible. Our principal task is to define that choice and to press for a national resolution.” “To pursue our present course will involve the continuing polarization of the American community and, ultimately, the destruction of basic democratic values,” the commission said. “The alternative is not blind repression or capitulation to lawlessness. It is the realization of common opportunities for all within a single society. This alternative will require a commitment to national action – compassionate, massive
Fifty years after King’s death, the United States has a president who has encouraged racism and mocked everything King stood for.” and sustained, backed by the resources of the most powerful and the richest nation on this earth. From every American it will require new attitudes, new understanding, and, above all, new will.” There have been no new attitudes, though; no new understanding, certainly no new will. Observing what is happening today, it seems incomprehensible that we moved so far toward King’s dream that we elected Barack Obama president and then chose Donald Trump as his successor. And yet Donald Trump didn’t create the racism that is driving many of his policies, exciting his supporters, and leads Congressional leaders and corporate donors to excuse his massive failings. Donald Trump is simply yet another manifestation of the country’s persistent racism. (Slavery, Alexis de Tocqueville had concluded during his visit to the United States in the early 1800’s, “recedes, but the prejudice to which it has given birth is immovable.”) Despite the enormous forces pushing against him, Martin Luther King Jr. continued to have faith in America, apparently. “I may not get there with you,” he said in the speech he gave the day before he died, “but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.” Fifty years later, the country seems no closer to fulfilling that dream than we were on April 4, 1968. And if King were alive today, it doesn’t seem likely that his life would be any less at risk. rochestercitynewspaper.com
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STATE | BY JEREMY MOULE
New state budget: the ins and outs State lawmakers passed another on-time budget, but the plan dropped some of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s key proposals, including plans for early voting and reform of New York’s cash bail system. The $168.3 billion budget does contain provisions meant to counteract major changes in the federal tax law, including the new $10,000 limit on property tax deductions, which would have hit wealthier New York homeowners. State budget provisions include the creation of a somewhat convoluted system that employers can opt in to. The system combines a fully-deductible payroll tax for the businesses and a corresponding income tax credit for their employees, according to a press release from the governor’s office. The budget also contains an increase in school aid, though the $1 billion figure that Cuomo has touted is larger than the actual $859 million bump, according to reports. The Alliance for Quality Education said the amount of the increase is inadequate. Lawmakers also approved new sexual harassment laws as part of the budget. They include bans on employer-mandated arbitration and on non-disclosure agreements in settlements unless that’s what the victim wants. The budget provides for an extension of the state’s historic tax credit, which helps developers finance the restoration and preservation of older buildings. The credit has played an important role in the rejuvenation of the downtowns of New York cities, including Rochester and Buffalo. The adopted budget also includes a new fee on opioid makers and distributors. Proceeds from the charge will be used to fight the opioid epidemic, according to a press release from the governor’s office. Separate from the budget, lawmakers also passed legislation prohibiting people convicted of certain domestic violence-related crimes from owning handguns or long guns. State law already prohibits people convicted of felonies from owning and possessing guns, and lawmakers previously placed the same restrictions on people convicted of certain misdemeanors in domestic violence cases. The new law adds several other misdemeanors to that list, which now covers charges ranging from assault to trespassing.
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Housing rights advocates held a rally Monday at 967 Chili Avenue to protest the poor conditions of the apartment building. PHOTO BY JAKE CLAPP
HOUSING | BY JAKE CLAPP
Problem buildings face city scrutiny Peter Hungerford is starting to become a well-known name to people who follow housing issues in Rochester. Hungerford owns several buildings where tenants say that they have been living in bad, unaddressed conditions, like sewage backing up in their apartments, mold, and electrical problems. Last month, tenants at 447 Thurston Road started a rent strike. And on Monday, renters at 967 Chili Avenue, some of whom are joining the rent strike, held a small rally to highlight their own building’s problems, including a
ceiling falling apart in the building’s entrance way, reports of infestation, and broken windows. The 15unit building currently has 15 outstanding code violations. Those actions have gotten the City of Rochester’s attention. The city has threatened to take five of Hungerford’s buildings into receivership if past-due violations aren’t addressed. Through receivership, the city or a third party would take control of the building, collect rent from tenants, and get repairs made in the building. Hungerford was given an April 1 deadline.
“What we’ve seen is that when tenants have gone public in other buildings, the city has responded,” said Ryan Acuff, an organizer with the City-Wide Tenant Union. “And through that, the landlord is taking certain things more seriously.” Acuff said the city should go further and use the power of criminal prosecution to protect tenants across Rochester from slumlords and absentee landlords. (Hungerford lives in Staten Island.) The Rochester city code should be enforced, Acuff said, but the city “has been asleep at the wheel.”
The Planning Commission approved Rochester Management’s latest plan for senior apartments within Cobbs Hill Park. But the project continues to face opposition from some neighborhood groups, environmentalists, and residents. It still has to get approval from City Council and the mayor.
DEVELOPMENT | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO
New Cobbs Hill Village plan gets first OK The proposal for new apartment buildings on land within Cobbs Hill Park took a step forward Monday when the City Planning Commission approved Rochester Management’s revised plans for the project. The vote was 4-2. The project continues to face bitter opposition, however, and it still needs approval by City Council and Mayor Lovely Warren. The non-profit owns and operates Cobbs Hill Village, a group of apartment buildings for low-income seniors. Arguing that the existing apartments are outdated and that repairing them would be too costly, Rochester Management began working several years ago on plans for a new development on the site. But it has faced opposition from a vocal coalition of neighborhood groups, environmentalists, and even some of its tenants, who oppose the project. In the new plan, the number of units is increased from 98 to 104 in six buildings, rather than the previous five. There would be 16 studios, 56 one-bedroom apartments, four onebedroom townhouses, eight twobedroom apartments, and 20 twobedroom townhouses.
Two larger buildings would face Norris Drive and four smaller ones would be at the back of the site, near the edge of the park. The buildings have been staggered and given flat roofs, lowering the building height. Multiple walkways were added from the two main buildings to Norris Drive to give the complex a more residential appearance, and walkways were added leading to the park’s walking trails. The parking area was redesigned to more resemble a residential street between the buildings, Hill said, and benches, bike racks, and additional trees were added. To address concerns about rates in the new development, Rochester Management CEO Peggy Hill said all tenants have received new riders to their leases, locking in their rents. And although when tenants move out, the rent in most units can be increased, Rochester Management has committed to leaving 20 units – 16 studios and four-one bedrooms – at their current low rates for the next 40 years, even after tenants move out. For instance, the studios would remain at $332, an extremely low rate for the area. The revisions are a response to concerns raised by Planning Commission members in January, mostly around building design
Rochester Management’s latest plan for Cobbs Hill Village increases the number of units and changes the buildings’ design. RENDERING PROVIDED
and placement. For instance, buildings in the earlier design were all the same height, and some Commission members said that created a wall on Norris Drive. They also wanted building materials that were more natural looking. The commission had also recommended that the buildings closest to Norris Drive should face the street rather than internally toward a parking lot. They wanted the buildings re-positioned to provide views between them, and they wanted more sidewalks and a better sense of connectivity around the site and with
the park and Norris Drive. They didn’t want air-conditioning condenser units visible from the front or side of the units, and they wanted more amenities that complement the site’s proximity to the park, such bike racks and benches. “We really tried to address the issues that the commission had with the earlier plan,” said Peggy Hill, in an interview prior to Monday’s presentation. Hill, Rochester Management’s president and CEO, presented a plan that significantly departs from the earlier version.
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POLITICS | BY JEREMY MOULE
Democrats line up to succeed Louise Slaughter there are some issues and areas he wants to focus on: pay equality, poverty rates and their impact on education, and opportunities for jobs and entrepreneurship. And he’s “consistently been an advocate for the voiceless” on City Council, he said. He developed the Ban the Box legislation passed by Council, which prevents employers from asking about prior convictions on job applications. He also introduced legislation prohibiting income discrimination in housing. Democrats have the enrollment advantage
Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, Brighton Town Board member Robin Reynolds Wilt, and City Councilmember Adam McFadden. CENTER PHOTO BY RENÉE HEININGER, OTHERS FILE PHOTOS
County Democrats knew that someday, they’d have to do the unthinkable: find someone to run in Louise Slaughter’s place. But any transition was never going to be clean. Slaughter herself never gave much thought to a successor. She famously resisted the notion of preparing anyone to take over her seat, so when Slaughter died last month after a distinguished 16 terms in Congress, she left a vacuum. And politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Enter State Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, Brighton Town Board member Robin Reynolds Wilt, and Rochester City Council Member Adam McFadden. All three officially launched campaigns for the seat last week, setting up a potential June 26 primary. Morelle and Wilt each framed their announcements around Slaughter, saying they’re the person to carry on her progressive legacy on issues such as women’s rights, health care, scientific research, voting rights, and equality. McFadden centered his message around choice. “I think that all of us bring something different to the table, and I think the public deserves a chance to hear that and make a decision based on that,” he said during an interview ahead of his announcement Friday. “It’ll make the party much stronger than us just sitting back and allowing someone to walk in. We have to energize our base, and you energize the base by having open and honest discussion with choice.” Morelle clearly has the county Democratic Party establishment behind him. Brighton Supervisor Bill Moehle and Irondequoit Supervisor David Seeley attended his announcement to show support, as did some members of each town’s board. 6 CITY
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Assembly member Harry Bronson and County Clerk Adam Bello stood with Morelle at the podium, and so did Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren. Morelle has represented this community well and brought home millions of dollars for it, Warren said, and he’ll be able to “hit the ground running” in Congress. She called for the party to unite behind him. “Everyone in this room knows that Joe Morelle and I have had our political disagreements,” Warren said. But, she added, they’re standing “united for a common cause”: making sure that Democrats keep Slaughter’s seat. Warren’s backing is no small matter. Monroe County’s Democratic Party is, at times, a fractured organization. And in the simplified overview often relayed by party activists and insiders, two camps have been jostling for control and influence. Warren and her allies make up one side, Morelle and his allies the other. But the two sides seem to be at détente. McFadden, a frequent ally of the mayor’s, said he’s running not because he dislikes any of the other candidates or sees them as enemies but, he reiterated, to encourage discussion and choice. Former television news reporter Rachel Barnhart, who previously ran unsuccessfully for Assembly and Rochester mayor, is also considering a run, as is city school board President Van White. Morelle, Wilt, McFadden, White, and Barnhart are all collecting signatures for petitions, which they have to submit to the county or state Board of Elections by April 12. The county Republican and Conservative parties are backing Dr. Jim Maxwell, a neurosurgeon who lives in East Rochester.
At his announcement, Morelle and the
speakers supporting him said he’ll advocate for action on gun violence, universal health care, women’s rights, voting rights, and several other issues that are important to Democrats and that Slaughter prioritized. Bronson talked about Morelle’s steadfast support for crucial LGBTQ antidiscrimination legislation as well as his support of the labor community. “Joe Morelle is one of the good guys,” Bronson said. Wilt promises a grassroots campaign rooted in progressivism. She says she’s concerned about many of the same issues as Morelle but says he isn’t strong enough on health care. He committed to fighting for universal health care, but Wilt advocates for a single-payer system. They aren’t the same thing. Under universal health care, the government ensures that all people have access to necessary health care, regardless of their ability to pay for it. Such a system can be built around private insurance companies; Obamacare was a big step toward universal health care. Single-payer is a kind of universal health care; medical care is delivered through private providers but the government covers all medically necessary services. Morelle hasn’t signed on to sponsor an Assembly bill that would establish single-payer health care in New York, and he’s previously voted against the New York Health Act, which also would have created a statewide singlepayer health care system, say Wilt and Ravi Mangla, co-director of ROCitizen. McFadden has served on City Council since 2003. He said his platform should come from the people he’d represent, though
in the 25th Congressional District, so on paper they should be able to win, making the potential primary a crucial contest. A victory in the general election is not guaranteed, however. Democrats have an enrollment advantage county-wide, but they haven’t won the county executive’s seat since 1987. Real world variables, such as voter turnout, will have a decisive influence in the election. Both Morelle and Warren have had historically strong get-out-the vote operations, and by teaming up they could be formidable. Money will matter, too. Congressional campaigns are expensive to begin with, and this year is a high-stakes midterm year. Republicans and Democrats will wage all-out-war for control of the House, and spending will be aggressive, especially in races where there’s an open seat. Morelle has the advantage when it comes to money. He’s built a network of donors that he’ll be able to tap into to help fund his run, he said. But what Morelle sees as an advantage, Wilt sees as a problem. She and her supporters point out that Morelle receives a lot of money from corporation and industry political action committees, and they disapprove. (For the record, Slaughter accepted donations from corporations, including several defense contractors.) Wilt envisions a campaign funded by lots of small donations, not large contributions from corporations and wealthier donors. And she believes that she’d be able to get the money and people power necessary to run an effective campaign. The developing 25th Congressional District primary is about filling a void, but it’s also about the soul of a party. And that’s going to mean asking how the party balances its core ideals, its differing philosophies, and the reality that under the current system, big elections require massive resources. For Monroe County Democrats, the hard part will be airing these questions while preserving the party’s fragile peace.
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URBAN ACTION This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.)
Ending the cycle of recidivism
The Judicial Process Commission’s annual fundraising and awards luncheon on Wednesday, April 25, will feature a talk on the topic “From Prison to Recovery.” Keynote speaker Susan Burton, founder and director of the New Way of Life Reentry Project, has received numerous awards for her work helping people break out of the cycle of incarceration. The event will be held at Temple B’rith Kodesh, 2131 Elmwood Avenue, from noon to 2 p.m. Lunch and program: $50. Reservations, needed by Tuesday, April 10: Toni Beth Weasner, 748-6280 or toni@tonievents.com.
Films will examine racism
As part of visual Studies Workshop’s Community Curator program, SURJ ROC – Showing Up for Racial Justice – will show a selection of short films on Saturday, April 7, on how racism is taught and reinforced by media. The program will be at VSW, 31 Prince Street, from 2 to 4 p.m. Child care can be provided with advance notice by contacting Megan, 585-507-7012, preferably by Wednesday, April 4.
Pressing for equal pay
Rochester NOW and the Greater Rochester Area AAUW will present two talks on Tuesday, April 10, in recognition of Equal Pay Day. New York labor commissioner Roberta Reardon, will discuss “Closing the Gender Wage Gap” and Mohini Sharma,
a restaurant-worker organizer with Metro Justice, will speak on “One Fair Wage.” The event will be held at the AAUW Perkins Mansion, 494 East Avenue, at 7 p.m.
Commemorating CRCDS’ history in civil rights
Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School’s Black Student Caucus will commemorate the 50th anniversary of a 1969 protest this week with two events. Students at the school that year protested following Dr. Martin Luther King’s death after their calls for a more diverse faculty were ignored. At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 5, there’ll be a service at Genesee Baptist Church, 149 Brooks Avenue. And a gala dinner will be at 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 6, at CRCDS, 1100 South Goodman Street; the dinner charge, $35; reservations: 271-1320.
Correcting ourselves In last week’s cover feature, “Theater for all,” we erroneously stated that Rochester Children’s Theatre changed its name to Theatre Young Kids Enjoy (TYKEs). The two are separate organizations, and TYKEs is in its 14th season. rochestercitynewspaper.com
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Dining
PopRoc owners Jason Hilton and Colin Delaney. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH
East Avenue goes pop! [ CHOW HOUND ] BY KATIE LIBBY
Colin Delaney is finding it hard to describe his new venture, PopRoc (337 East Avenue). “There’s nothing like it,” he says. “We have to stop using the words ‘coffee shop’ because it’s not, we have to stop using the words ‘comic book shop’ because it’s not that either. Even if you combine the two, it’s just gonna be so much more than we even know.” Delaney and business partner Jason Hilton (Nick and Liz Andolina are also partners) want to create a space that’s going to veer away from the stereotype of East Avenue — an area typically associated with bar culture. They want to create an environment that’s not only family-friendly, but appeals to twenty-somethings who want an alternative to going out and getting schnockered. PopRoc will hold its grand opening on Friday, April 6, and it does have a bar — but it’s a coffee and cereal bar. More than twenty different varieties of cereal will be offered, in addition to toppings like fresh fruit, caramel, and chocolate. “We were just going to do Saturday mornings with cereal,” Delaney says. “The 8 CITY
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more we thought about it, we thought nobody does cereal, we should do cereal all the time. We can play around with it, have different toppings, mix and match cereals, half-and-half cereals, it’s another fun thing we can have.” Delaney and Hilton are all about that caffeine life. They’ve partnered with local roasters Fifth Frame and CanalTown to offer original flavored coffees. They will also be serving Death Wish coffee, which contains the highest amount of caffeine allowed in a cup of joe. If that doesn’t get your heart pumping faster, Hilton says they’re also going to carry “every energy drink we can get our hands on locally,” including Monster, Red Bull, and Mountain Dew. “We’re also going to have some mocktinis done with different flavors and energy drinks,” he adds. What exactly do you do with all that caffeine pumping through your bloodstream? In Delaney’s case, he’s wrestled professionally for the past fifteen years. “I started when I was very young and got to the WWE when I was twenty-one,” he says. Delaney met Hilton at Kayfabe Dojo, the wrestling school for Upstate Pro Wrestling. Delaney still wrestles
professionally, which occasionally takes him away from the business. The two also worked together at Hilton’s internet marketing firm, Hilton Advisory. Hilton had an office in High Falls for his business, but since all client relations were done outside of the office, the space became a gallery for his extensive collection of toys — specifically Transformers and Funko Pop! figurines. “There was this secret thing inside of me, when I saw people walking by the office, that they could come in and be like, ‘Look how cool that is!’” Hilton says. “Now we’re offering a place where people can do that, enjoy the stuff that we have, I want people to be able to enjoy the stuff as much as I do.” Those figurines, along with others, will serve as décor for the space, and some items will be for sale. A shelf filled with comic books lines one of the walls, and PopRoc will offer a comic discovery program. Some comics will be available to read for free while others will be accessibly only to those enrolled in the program. Hilton says the program fee will be about $20 per month, and that there will be twenty different titles you can read the day they come out. “Titles are typically $4 to
$5 a piece, so you’re looking at about a $350 value for around $20 a month,” he says. The comics will only be available for a few months, after which they’ll be donated to Golisano Children’s Hospital or the The Strong Museum of Play. The main theme that seems to characterize PopRoc is inclusiveness. “We want people to sit down, have a drink, watch what’s on TV, talk with people that enjoy the same things we do and things that they do,” Delaney says. “We don’t want anyone to feel that they are not welcome,” Hilton adds. “We’re gonna try to figure out a way where everyone can feel included.” Hilton and Delaney say they want PopRoc to be the Rochester pop culture center, and they’re prepared for whatever new phenomenon that comes out — whatever is going to be the next “Stranger Things.” “It’s pop culture,” Delaney says. “It’s what we do.” PopRoc (337 East Avenue) will be open Monday through Sunday from 8 a.m. to 9 or 10 p.m. 310-2423. Find them at poprochester.com. Chow Hound is a food and restaurant news column. Do you have a tip? Send it to food@ rochester-citynews.com.
[ ART FEATURE ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Painting new portraits of m ental illness and HIV
There’s a semi-secret, makeshift artist’s studio tucked away in a sunny office beyond the labyrinth of labs and offices of the University of Rochester’s Medical Center. There, Charmaine Wheatley has set up camp since January 2017, when she came to Rochester to paint two extensive series of portraits of individuals from two stigmatized communities: people living with mental illness, and people living with HIV. Her residency concludes April 30, and will culminate with a traveling exhibition. Wheatley describes her project, “Humanizing is Destigmatizing,” as an artistic endeavor to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health and HIV. Toward that end, she’s created scores of small watercolor and ink portraits of people in both communities, each about 7 inches tall by 4 inches wide, with the person surrounded by hand-written phrases and quotes that Wheatley pulled from conversation while sketching each subject. By combining the portraits and the words, she’s trying to paint a fuller, more intimate picture of the diverse set of stories — the struggles and triumphs alike. There’s a wealth of content in the jumbled cloud of words that surrounds each figure, and much like getting to know a person, there’s something new to learn each time you revisit the image. The subjects in the portraits are facing forward, sometimes caught in mid-speech. Despite the difficult subject matter, there’s an overall tone of dignity, optimism, and a bright vitality in each of them. And the diversity shown in both of Wheatley’s series promotes the understanding that these issues can impact anyone; her subjects are someone any of us know. Wheatley’s Med Center studio serves mostly as a planning and portrait-finishing space, because she does the bulk of her work out in the field, sitting knee-to-knee with her subjects while she talks with them, learning their stories and studying their features. The tables in her studio are strewn with paintings she has yet to complete. Some faces are vague, color-blocked forms that she’ll resolve into identifiable features, and clusters of penciled phrases will be pushed and pulled to gain greater prominence or subtlety. “Poor Kate doesn’t have a nose yet,” she says while lifting one of the unfished works. “I take snapshots, too, toward the end of the session, and work from those later. But I try to focus on the way you look at first, and as we become more comfortable with each other, I find that you’ll open up and say things, once you realize I’m not here to judge and I think everything that you are is fantastic.” rochestercitynewspaper.com
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A dry-erase board facing the large windows is filled with names — each receives a check mark when the portrait is complete — lovingly spelled out in elegant script. Wheatley is a painter and performance artist originally from Nova Scotia. When she moved to New York City more than two decades ago, her art evolved drastically. “Back in Nova Scotia, it’s quiet,” she says. “I can have like eight or 10 hours of uninterrupted time to paint. And that’s great for doing oil painting, but then I moved to New York, and eight or 10 hours of uninterrupted time is not possible, so I evolved my working method.” She began taking a party-favor watercolor set on the subway and creating small portraits of people and recording notes on scraps of paper. “I have many boxes full of drawings and notes, because everything is interesting, and it’s overwhelming, so I was trying to nail down as much as possible,” she says. “I like hanging out, but you know, that looks slack. So if I have these little tangible moments….” she trails off. She keeps the paintings in pocket-sized tin boxes that she can easily slip into her purse. “It’s important to keep it portable” she says. “It’s a the-world-is-my-studio kind of thing.” Wheatley’s portrait practice gradually coalesced into different series. In 2016, she took part in two SU-CASA artist residencies (a community arts engagement program through the Brooklyn Arts Council), painting portraits at Polish and Latinx senior centers. “Some people didn’t speak a lick of English,” she says, “and we figured it out. We had translators, and I would make art with them. I think it was really nice, especially for seniors — I think a lot of seniors can feel invisible. They exist, and 10 CITY APRIL 4 - 10, 2018
they’re important. Every time I’d ask, ‘Have you ever had your portrait done,’ and everybody says, ‘no,’ so there’s this beautiful connection.” It’s atypical for the Med Center to host an artist in residence. The Rochester-Buffalo project was initiated by Steve Dewhurst, vice dean for research and professor and chair of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester’s School of Medicine and Dentistry. Dewhurst is also an art lover, and he became aware of Wheatley’s tiny portraits during a visit to Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, where Wheatley became an artist in residence in 2012. “I live at the museum,” Wheatley says of the Gardner, which is housed in an old mansion adjacent to the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. “One time, for the course of a month, I would sit in their living room, and people that were coming to the museum could sign up and sit with me for 30 minutes. That was 104 portraits. And then I did it a second time.” “They had an exhibit of her work, which I just really liked,” Dewhurst says. “I asked Charmaine if she’d ever done portraits of people living with mental illness. I have personal family interest in that area.” At the time, Wheatley says, she thought she probably had made some portraits of people with mental illness but hadn’t done a project under that specific umbrella. She kept in touch with Dewhurst via email, and within a few months she expressed an interest in setting up a residency or fellowship in Rochester. “What I liked about the work is the combination of the images and the narrative content,” Dewhurst says. “They’re not people telling stories, but they’re intimate moments. So you get a sense of the person in a way that you don’t typically get with a portrait. It’s much richer. And because they’re fragments of conversations, they’re also open-ended.” The overarching aim of the two projects is battling stigma, which creates fear and shame and alienation, and hinders the real work and progress that can be made. Cumulatively, the portraits reveal a diverse set of experiences, personalities, modes of coping, hopes, and hardships — serving to expand our understanding of the inner life of the people who surround us. Award-winning filmmaker Don Casper created a documentary on each of Wheatley’s series: “Portraits of Life” about the mental health series and “Don’t Define Me” about the HIV series. Dewhurst was familiar with some of Casper’s previous work, and reached out to him about possibly doing a film on Wheatley’s mental illness series. “We talked about creating a small film that would document the whole effort, looking at her process and all that,” Casper says. “For that film, we spent an entire day, filmed her painting a few portraits and sitting down with people who had just had their portraits done. I approached it kind of as a portrait of somebody making portraits.” “Portraits of Life” was screened at Canada’s 2017 Bluenose-Ability Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary award. As Wheatley began developing her HIV series, Casper returned to document the process for a new film. A showcase of a selection of the HIV paintings was held on March 15 at Arbor Loft, and portrait
subjects from Buffalo and Rochester attended. Casper screened his film, “Don’t Define Me,” which will be available to a wider Rochester audience on Saturday, April 21, when it receives its world premiere at the Little Theatre during Rochester’s One Take Film Festival. Wheatley’s subjects hold the viewers’ gaze and communicate the fact that disease is a part, but not the sum, of being human. And through the text, viewers also gain glimpses of progress made and wisdom gained and incorporated into the individual lives. Importantly, Wheatley wants her subjects to participate in their own portraits. “What you give me during that time that we’re together, I’m trying to get as much of that as possible,” she says. “I’m looking for what makes you you, what’s your unique character.” When Wheatley speaks, she exudes sincerity and enthusiasm, her eyes wide with wonder. She rarely breaks eye contact and smiles warmly and at times conspiratorially, making it easy to feel relaxed and open in her presence. But understandably, there have been instances where she had to work more extensively to draw people out of their shells. One of these subjects was Sabrina, who is included in the paintings of the HIV community. “After I did her portrait, I met with her three more times to see if there was something I could do to ease her tension,” Wheatley says. “She was fine with her image, her face, and she brought this fantastic blouse. She liked her portrait. But having elements of the dialogue in the portrait: for me that adds richness. You’re not just a pretty face, you’re much more; you’re a struggling human rising above.
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“But still, I think we make progress every time that we speak, especially if there’s time in between, because things become more comfortable. She’s had some hard times. And maybe it’s hard to remember or acknowledge that this is a different time that you’re in. You’ve grown and gleaned wisdom from those hard times. You’re not gonna play it the same way. You’re stronger now.” With another subject, Jazzelle, “we didn’t talk about HIV whatsoever,” Wheatley says. “Sometimes it just doesn’t come up. And then we were having this event, and were putting these huge banners up in the Flaum Atrium — and I realized that her portrait had no HIV content whatsoever. So I called her, and I added something.” Wheatley created a second portrait of Jazzelle while Casper was filming his documentary on the project. She says Jazzelle told her that “she didn’t initially discuss her HIV-positive status because, ‘already being trans and black, I feel like nobody’s going to love me. And then add HIV — impossible.’ But what really happened is that she’s more loveable,” Wheatley says. “The more we can accept ourselves — it’s inspiring, and you want to be around that.” Wheatley’s mental health series was created between January and July of 2017 and includes about 75 portraits of people from the Rochester community living with mental illness as well as those of professionals working in the field. And sometimes there is some crossover within one portrait, she says. Wheatley began her current series of portraits of people living with HIV in Rochester and Buffalo in August of 2017. She linked up with individual subjects by working in collaboration with the Rochester Center for AIDS Research and with Evergreen Health in Buffalo. When the project concludes, she estimates, there will be about 114 portraits. “One thing that’s really nice is you do these portraits of individuals, but then it unfolds into a portrait of a
community,” Wheatley says. “And then you see connections crossing over, which becomes this beautiful weave.” The mental health community and the HIV community experience different shades of stigmatization, Wheatley says. With HIV there’s still a sense of fear; she’s learned, she adds, that to have HIV is to be an activist, and that there’s a strong sense of family within the HIV communities. “Within mental health, there’s still so much mystery around it,” she says. “Why do we have such a difficult time sometimes, and other times we feel ok? What are the triggers? It’s more vague, and there’s such a broad spectrum” of illnesses. “At least it seems that way. I’m not a scientist; I’m an artist just making observations.” One of her subjects said that he told Wheatley things he hasn’t told a psychiatrist in 30 years, Dewhurst says. Turning to Wheatley, Dewhurst continues: “And that’s the thing: you were saying most people haven’t had their portraits done, but they also haven’t really been listened to, not really. That’s very powerful, that a lot of the people who have sat with you have stayed in touch.” Wheatley is planning to turn the two series into artist’s books. She’ll make reproductions of each set of paintings and offer them for sale in limited-edition boxed form. And the two finished bodies of work will be exhibited in a tobe-determined location. She envisions touring the work to different cities, accompanied by Casper’s documentaries and context provided by people working the mental health and HIV fields. “I hope there’s no end,” Wheatley says of her portrait series projects. “I’ve fallen in love all over the place.” Visit this story online at rochestercitynewspaper.com for more images and stories of some of Charmaine Wheatley’s subjects. Learn more at artreducingstigma.com. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11
Upcoming [ ROCK ]
Music
Ike Willis Project. Friday, April 27. Flour City Station, 170 East Avenue. 8 p.m. $20. flourcitystation.com; facebook.com/theikewillisproject. [ JAZZ ]
Nancy Kelly. Sunday, April 29. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park point Drive. 7 p.m. $10. lovincup.com; nancykelly.com. [ R&B ]
Lyfe Jennings. Saturday, May 12. Auditorium Theatre, 885 East
Main Street. 8 p.m. $55-$75. rbtl.org; facebook.com/lyfejennings.
Christopher Paul Stelling MONDAY, APRIL 9 JCC CENTERSTAGE THEATRE, 1200 EDGEWOOD DRIVE 8 P.M. | $20-$25 | JCCROCHESTER.ORG; CHRISTOPHERPAULSTELLING.COM [ FOLK ] He’s got the hands of Chet Atkins as he fingerstyles
his way beneath songs full of lonesome John Prine hope. Christopher Paul Stelling is an artist that Rolling Stone says you ought to know and I concur. He sings like tears; his guitar a battered, one-man orchestra full of the feeling you get when caught somewhere between joy and melancholy. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
Lil Wop THURSDAY, APRIL 5 CALIFORNIA BREW HAUS, 402 WEST RIDGE ROAD 6 P.M. | $20 | TECSHOWS.COM; SOUNDCLOUD.COM/LILWOP17 [ HIP-HOP ] Lil Wop could soundtrack a lean-fueled, late-night zombie nightmare. The Atlanta rapper uses his croaking voice to full effect in his ruthless horrorcore — he regularly calls his music hard rock, and it comes out like trap with a horror punk aesthetic. A diehard Gucci Mane acolyte (he’s got his own ice cream cheek tattoo sitting below a dagger that would scare the shit out of Aaron Neville), Lil Wop is signed to Gucci Mane’s 1017 Records, which last October released “Wopavelli 3,” Wop’s fourth mixtape of 2017. A legion of rappers is on this bill with Lil Wop: Chxpo, FRBDN, Ben Swavo, Lil Geechy, ftg!, and MXNVCE. — BY JAKE CLAPP
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ACOUSTIC/FOLK Aaron Lipp. Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. 271-3354. bopshop.com. 7:30 p.m.
“The World Game” Self-released invictraband.bandcamp.com
Aaron Irwin Trio SATURDAY, APRIL 7 BOP SHOP RECORDS, 1460 MONROE AVENUE 8 P.M. | BOPSHOP.COM; AARONIRWIN.COM [ JAZZ ] Saxophonist and clarinetist Aaron Irwin has made a name for himself playing in the innovative large ensemble Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society. He’s also lent his talents to a variety of pop performers including Josh Groban, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, and The Roots. When Irwin brings his trio to the Bop Shop, the audience will hear two other top players, Mike Baggetta on guitar and Jeff Hirshfield on drums as they join him in group improvisations. $15 general; $10 students. — BY RON NETSKY
Rage Fest FRIDAY, APRIL 6, AND SATURDAY, APRIL 7 MONTAGE MUSIC HALL, 50 CHESTNUT STREET $10 PER NIGHT | THEMONTAGEMUSICHALL.COM [ HARD ROCK ] With Less Than Hate, Many Will
Fall, Rip Open The Sky, A Fitting Revenge, Living In Daydreams, and Symmetrical Defiance playing the night one, and Karma, Deadbeat, Loft Wing, Transcendence, Ecliptic Vision, A Silent Ending, and Into The Harbor playing the second night, this will be the only show you will ever need to get a cross-section of the area’s hard and heavy scenes. Bang your fucking head. 6:30 p.m. on Friday; 6 p.m. on Saturday. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
Dude … Dude … first of all, what an absolutely killer guitar tone. Killer. Same goes for the vocals, roaring heavy and relatable, because they’re discernible for a change; rabid, angry, and snarling but discernible. Holy shit, let me say that this is some of the best metal I’ve heard in a long time. Rochester heavy quartet Invictra is positively aces, infusing brutal rhythms with fiery panache and restraint, along with a command for melody that would make any self-appointed pop diva envious. But Invictra doesn’t go all the way metal, there’s some heavy and hard rock ‘n’ roll liberally dusted throughout. This should earn the band a following outside the immediate phylum. The guitars are distorted, of course, but they aren’t so refined into sand and dust that you can’t pick up on the grinding of the gravel and bone. The drums are super-solid and don’t over-cop to the double kick. “The World Game” has me spewing superlatives and telling all my friends. Look out. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
Whirlin’ Jack Dervy
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Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5 p.m. Upward Groove. Temple Bar and Grille, 109 East Ave. 2326000. templebarandgrille.com. 10 p.m. CLASSICAL
Con Fuoco Woodwind Quintet. Central Library, Kate Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. 428-8380. libraryweb.org. 6 p.m.
Philharmonia Chamber Orchestra. Kilbourn Hall, 26
Gibbs St. esm.rochester.edu. 8-10 p.m. JAZZ
Mike Kaupa Jazz Quartet. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7-9 p.m. REGGAE/JAM
“Whirlin’ Jack” Self-released whirlinjackdervy.bandcamp.com
Uncle Uku & The Guise. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 585-448-0354. funknwaffles. com. 8 p.m. $5.
Whirlin’ Jack Dervy comes out as if tangled up in blue on the opening of his new CD, “Whirlin’ Jack.” The minimalist production adds to the stab of loneliness that started with the reverb on his voice. Tagged as doom folk, Dervy’s new platter is lyrically foreboding, but not in a threatening way. Rather it’s a form of empathy; he’s on the same boat as the rest of us — the one with the big hole in it. On “Whirlin’ Jack,” Dervy’s acoustic guitar playing dominates without the typical, perfunctory up and down strokes of those folkies who are too busy wringing their hands between chord changes. Even when the tempo gets an electrified kick in its psychedelic can via an electrified band, the voice still stands out like a fed-up, defrocked preacher at their wits’ end. When it gets plugged in this way, it takes a nod — or gives one — to garage rock. But I keep circling back to that acoustic guitar attack in its simple deception as its master keeps with unique sub-rhythms that still leave room for the story, doom-laden as it may be. — BY FRANK DE BLASE
BLUES
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AMERICANA The Old Main. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 8 p.m. $7. POP/ROCK
Bradley Brothers Duo. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. fairportbside.com. 7 p.m.
Candy Isle, The Sugargliders, Indoor Time, Alexandria Brown. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe
Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $6/$8.
[ THU., APRIL 5 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Jim Lane. Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. 342-6780. 8 p.m.
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Music What are some non-musical elements in your music? Benton Sillick: Heartbreak — lots of
heartbreak. Self-doubt. Monaco: Neurosis. Aaron Mika: That’s a far out question. There’s a lot of lyrical contact to the past.
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What about chaos? Monaco: We’re trying — I hope not too
much — to not do the obvious, so there’s room for some surprise elements and maybe some chaos.
How much is too much chaos? Monaco: I don’t know. Does your audience get what you’re doing? Mika: Sometimes they see us and make
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assumptions after the very first song. We’ll play a punk rock song, then we’ll play a country song, then we’ll play a poppy rock ‘n’ roll song. We kinda keep people on their toes. Monaco: I’m pretty open with my feelings. I wear my heart on my sleeve. Do you feel alone in your own genre? Monaco: Yes. I don’t think there’s a specific
genre we can say we are other than rock ‘n’ roll, which is pretty vague.
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How do you write? Sillick: It just comes. I think we’ve thrown
out like one idea ever. Usually she’ll be warming up, jamming to some riff. We’ll play along, and if it catches, we’ll save it on our phone or record it right there.
When playing a new song, how do you keep it from getting too clean or losing your primitive edge? Mika: I just think “too clean” is something
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Anamon’s (from left to right) Benton Sillick, Aaron Mika, and Ana Monaco save room for the chaos.
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Chaos in the quiet Anamon CHECK OUT THE BAND AT FACEBOOK.COM/ANAMONTHEBAND [ INTERVIEW ] BY FRANK DE BLASE
Inside Anamon’s collective head is a beehive of activity and calamity. It’s a lush refrain pasted across a rock ‘n’ roll canvas. It’s got singer-songwriter panache that disguises the chaos brewing between breaths. Anamon is a narcotic lullaby for insomniacs. At the heart of it all is guitarist-singer Ana Monaco, who sings with the shared truth of her haphazard guitar. The band is forceful and urgent, which only intensifies when they wind it down. There’s chaos in the quiet. Anamon — Monaco, bassist Benton Sillick, drummer Aaron Mika, and producer
and guitarist Sam Snyder, the band’s newest member — has been prowling the scene for a little over a year. With one album, “Stubborn Comfort,” to its credit and another due sometime in the fall, Anamon has solidified itself with a musical juxtaposition falling somewhere between ragged and sweet. The band, minus Snyder, stopped into CITY to discuss chaos, maintaining its edge, and feeling alone. An edited transcript follows. CITY: How did Anamon come to be? Ana Monaco: I had a bunch of songs that I’d
written over a bunch of years. I was asked to play a solo show, but I figured it would be better as a full band. So I asked Benton and Aaron and it came together quite nicely. So we decided to keep rockin’.
we’re not capable of. Monaco: We’re not refined people.
Describe an ideal Anamon show. Monaco: The stage has to be the right
height. The vibe’s got to be right.
Who is that up to? Monaco: All of us — as long as nobody gets
hurt. People don’t really move to us.
Sillick: Yet. The music is very inviting. Mika: I like to see a nice, happy, attentive
audience. Everybody’s paying the cover charge … Sillick: It’s kind of a joke. We named a song after it, “Exactly What I Like.” It’s what we run our band on: Is this exactly what I like? We’ll be playing a song on stage and I’ll think this is exactly what I like, this is what I want to listen to. What’s something you want to do but haven’t done yet? Mika: Play on a late-night TV show. Monaco: That would be cool.
CLASSICAL
Eastman at Washington Square. ,. esm.rochester.edu/community. 12:15-12:45 p.m. Hornist Erin Futterer and her quartet. Graduate Composers’s Sinfonietta. Kilbourn Hall, 26
Gibbs St. esm.rochester.edu. 8-10 p.m. Features recent works of Eastman’s student composers. Third Thursday Concerts. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900. mag.rochester.edu. Every third Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Made possible by Rippey Endowed Trust. Included w/ museum admission. JAZZ
The Debbie Kendrick Project.
Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m. HIP-HOP/RAP
Let’s Be Friends Party: Hassan Mackey, Felix Free, Level 7. Bug
Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 10 p.m. $5/$10. REGGAE/JAM
Freekbass, Haewa. Funk ‘n
Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 585448-0354. funknwaffles.com. 9 p.m. $10. AMERICANA
Upstate Rubdown, A Girl Named Genny. Abilene Bar & Lounge,
153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 8:30 p.m. $10. POP/ROCK Krypton 88. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. fairportbside.com. 7 p.m.
[ FRI., APRIL 6 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK
Bill Destler, Rebecca Johnson.
The Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603. ourcoffeeconnection.org. 7 p.m. Bill Welch Band. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 8:30 p.m. $5.
The Dirty Grass Players, Steel Guapo. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N
Water Street. 585-448-0354. funknwaffles.com. 9 p.m. $10. Gary Rose. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford. 6410340. viagirasole.com. 7 p.m. BLUES
Steve Grills & The Roadmasters.
B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. fairportbside. com. 8 p.m. Steve West. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. fairportbside.com. 5 p.m. CLASSICAL
The Scio Quartet. Irondequoit
Public Library, 1290 Titus Ave. 336-6060. irondequoitlibrary.org. 4-5 p.m.
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FOLK | KIRSTEN MAXWELL
Long Island singer-songwriter Kirsten Maxwell has an ariose voice, with a ringing vibrato like that of a songbird swooping down to rest atop a bright, acoustic guitar. Her conversational lyrics create a natural segue into memorable choruses that audiences can sing along to, emulating a late-1990’s female singer-songwriter vibe like that of Jewel and Paula Cole. There is a nostalgic feeling of the fleeting passage of time, reminiscing about the past while embracing the ever-changing, forward motion of life. After graduating college in 2014, Maxwell performed in a variety of songwriting competitions and festivtals, and independently released her debut album, “Crimson,” in April 2015. This is music perfect for cruising in your car on a crisp, spring morning, with the windows cracked and tulips budding all around you. Kirsten Maxwell performs Saturday, April 7, at Café Veritas at First Unitarian Church, 220 South Winton Road. 7:30 p.m. $18 general; $10 students; Free for kids under 12. cafeveritas.org; kirstenmaxwell.com. — BY KATIE HALLIGAN JAZZ
Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. charleybrownspenfield.com.
RIT Performing Artists: Rod Blumenau Sextet. Ingle
Auditorium at RIT, 1 Lomb Memorial Drive. 475-4292. rit. edu/music. 8-10 p.m. $20. Stickkit. Boulder Coffee, 100 Alexander St. 506-1695. bouldercoffeeroaster.com/. 8 p.m. AMERICANA
Stay The Plow. Abilene Bar &
Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge. com. 6 p.m. Thor Platter Trio. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge. com. 9 p.m. $8. METAL
Eastman Wind Ensemble. Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. esm.rochester.edu. 8-10 p.m. Undergraduate and graduate students performing wind ensemble music from the 17th to the 21st centuries.
219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. The Lobby Presents Art Liquidation Sale 2.0, opening party. Something Else. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. flourcitystation.com. 10 p.m. $5.
[ SAT., APRIL 7 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Connie Deming. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 8 p.m. $5.
Ukulele Jug Band Jam with Ron Gordon. Central Library, Kate
Gleason Auditorium, 115 South Ave. 428-8380. libraryweb.org. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Bring your ukuleles, or any other acoustic instrument. The library will supply a limited number of ukes.
Rage Fest. Montage Music Hall,
50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. montagemusichall.com. 6:30 p.m. With Less Than Hate, Many Will Fall, Rip Open the Sky, A Fitting Revenge, Symmetrical Defiance. POP/ROCK
Carole’s Kings. Downstairs
COUNTRY
Matt O’Brian & the Great Blue Herons, Ben Morey & The Eyes, Trevor Lake. Bug Jar,
Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place. 325-4370. downstairscabaret.com. 8 p.m. Through April 8. Fri., Mar 30 & Apr 6: 8pm; Sat., Mar 31 & Apr 7: 4pm & 8pm: Sun. Apr 8: 3pm.
Harmonica Lewinski, The Tombstone Hands. Lux Lounge, 666 South Ave. 232-9030. lux666.com. 9-11:45 p.m. $5.
CLASSICAL
Trio Rehearsal. Rochester
Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Ave. 271-1313. raom.org. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $35. JAZZ
Aaron Irwin Trio. Bop Shop
Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. 271-3354. bopshop.com. 8 p.m. $10/$15.
Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. charleybrownspenfield.com. Mike Melito Jazz Trio. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford. 641-0340. viagirasole.com. 7 p.m.
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Cinnamon Jones. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 3153003. fairportbside.com. 8 p.m. AMERICANA
Bindley Hardware Co..
Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 9 p.m. $6. Steve Lyons. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. 315-3003. fairportbside.com. 5 p.m. METAL
Rage Fest. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. montagemusichall.com. 6 p.m. With Karma, Deadbeat, Loft Wing, Trancendence, Ecliptic Vision, A Silent Ending, Into the Harbor. $10/$12. POP/ROCK
Carole’s Kings. Downstairs
Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place. 325-4370. downstairscabaret.com. 8 p.m. and 4 p.m. Through April 8. Fri., Mar 30 & Apr 6: 8pm; Sat., Mar 31 & Apr 7: 4pm & 8pm: Sun. Apr 8: 3pm.
Quintuple, Circuit Juicebox, Jacob Johnson, Baker Street.
Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 585-448-0354. funknwaffles.com. 9 p.m. $7.
Sirens & Sailors, The Weight We Carry, Destroy//Create, Tugboat. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $10/$12. ZYDECO
Rose & The Bros. Harmony
House, 58 East Main St. Webster. 727-4119. 8 p.m. Dance lessons at 7:15. $10-$15.
[ SUN., APRIL 8 ] CLASSICAL
Afternoon Music Series 2018. Rochester Academy
of Medicine, 1441 East Ave. 271-1313. raom.org. 2-5 p.m. Trios by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. $30-$35. Classical Guitar Night. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org. 7-9 p.m.
Compline, performed by the Schola Cantorum. Christ
Church, 141 East Ave. 4543878. christchurchrochester. org. 9-9:30 p.m.
Nazareth College Chamber Singers. Nazareth College
Linehan Chapel, 4245 East Ave.,. 389-2700. naz.edu. 3-4:30 p.m. “St. Francis in the Americas: A Caribbean Mass.”. Pops on Pipes. Rochester Auditorium Theatre, 885 E. Main St. 234-2295. rtosonline. org. 2:30-5 p.m. Presented by the Rochester Theater Organ Society, featuring 2013 ATOS Young Organist Competition winner Justin LaVoie. $15. JAZZ
Jazz Jam w/ Jon Seiger & The All Stars. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204
N Water Street. 585-448-0354. funknwaffles.org. 3-5 p.m.
AMERICANA The Fog. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 1 p.m. 16 CITY APRIL 4 - 10, 2018
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BLUES | JOE BEARD
Rochester’s undisputed heavyweight champion of the blues, Joe Beard, has had the blues for 80 years now. Born in Mississippi, Beard moved to sweet home Rochester in 1956 when today’s bluesmen were still in wet pants. Beard has set the blues bar in blues bars high enough to consider Rochester a blue town. Next Wednesday, he’ll perform an intimate show at Downstairs Cabaret, and later this month (Sunday, April 29), Beard will play a birthday show in his honor at Photo City Improv (543 Atlantic Avenue), thrown by blues guitarist extraordinaire Steve Grills and featuring special guest John Ellison of the legendary Soul Brother Six. Joe Beard and Bill Downen play as part of the Rochester Folkus series on Wednesday, April 11, at the Downstairs Cabaret, 20 Windsor Street. 7 p.m. $10. downstairscabaret. com; facebook.com/joebeardblues. — BY FRANK DE BLASE POP/ROCK
Carole’s Kings. Downstairs
Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place. 325-4370. downstairscabaret.com. 3 p.m. Through April 8. Fri., Mar 30 & Apr 6: 8pm; Sat., Mar 31 & Apr 7: 4pm & 8pm: Sun. Apr 8: 3pm.
Rochester Celebrity Organ Recital Series: Bine Bryndorf. Christ Church,
[ MON., APRIL 9 ]
141 East Ave. 454-3878. christchurchrochester.org. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Tuesday Pipes.. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. esm.rochester.edu. 12-12:30 p.m. Lunchtime concerts by Eastman organists.
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Songwriters in the Round with Katie Preston. Funk ‘n Waffles,
204 N Water Street. 448-0354. funknwaffles.com. 7 p.m. $5. Watkins & the Rapiers. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. thelittle.org/cafe. 7-9 p.m. BLUES
Stormy Valle. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-8 p.m. CLASSICAL
Eastman School Symphony Orchestra. Kilbourn Hall, 26
Gibbs St. esm.rochester.edu. 8-10 p.m.
Organ Master Class with Bine Bryndorf.. Christ Church,
141 East Ave. 454-3878. christchurchrochester.org. 6-8:30 p.m. Presented by Rochester Celebrity Organ Recital Series.
[ TUE., APRIL 10 ] CLASSICAL
Composers’s Concert. Eastman East Wing Hatch Recital Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 12-2 p.m. Feature recent works of Eastman’s student composers.
Grove Place Jazz Project.
Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370. downstairscabaret.com. 7 p.m. Featuring a different set of Eastman School of Music Students and other area jazz artisans every Tues. $10. AMERICANA
Jason Eady. Abilene Bar
& Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com. 8 p.m. $10/$15. METAL
Metal Meltdown Happy Hour. Record Archive, 33
1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. recordarchive.com. Second Tuesday of every month, 6-8 p.m. Metal virtual reality games, metal beers, metal prizes, and thrashing movies. POP/ROCK
Superty Dupes, The Good Lords, Beef Gordon. Bug Jar,
219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $6/$8.
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Jahmal B. Golden reads from their book of poetry, “Yves, Ide, Solstice.” PHOTOS BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Art and allyship “At the Crossroads: Activating the Intersection of Art and Justice” REVIEWED MARCH 23 NEXT EVENT APRIL 14 FACEBOOK.COM/ARTANDJUSTICEROC [ REVIEW ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
The most recent iteration of 21st Century Arts’ At the Crossroads: Activating the Intersection of Art and Justice series took place Friday, March 23, with “Cage-free and Nonconforming,” an event featuring artwork and a poetry reading by trans femme artist of color Jahmal B. Golden. Following the format of the other events produced by the multidisciplinary and collaborative initiative, Golden’s art and reading was accompanied by a screening of two short videos and a Long Table Conversation. This event was a homecoming for Golden — originally from Rochester, they were recently based in New York City. Their work has been exhibited at Czech Center and AC Institute in NYC, Mother Culture Gallery in LA, and Art Space in Mexico. Golden is currently an artist in residence at the RAW center for Art, Knowledge, and Society in Dakar, Senegal, and they have been accepted to the MFA program at Bard College. The first of the event’s two screenings was “Young & Gay: Jamaica’s Gully Queens,” a 30-minute piece by VICE News that spotlights the brutal reality of a group of LGBTQ youth living in a storm drain in New Kingston, Jamaica. Often kicked out of their homes,
the youths are subject to violence in broad daylight and have few allies in a government that, by insisting it is not responsible for them, is complicit in the dangers and death that they face. The story reveals how the youths have eked a sense of home, community, and safety — relative to what they face above ground — from squalid conditions, and briefly explores some local activist allyship. But overall the piece is bleak as hell. Immediately following the VICE documentary, DeGuzman screened MTV Decoded’s short video spot “Can You Choose Your Own Pronouns?” which offers some acerbic levity as it schools viewers on the fluidity of language, grammar, and gender. The Long Table Conversation included members of the LGBTQ community with a specific focus on gender nonconforming and trans voices. Participants discussed the anemic sanctuary for trans people in Rochester and beyond, especially in the intersection of queerness, race, and class, and cited examples of recent nationwide precedents that have created serious setbacks to advances that have been made. “We’re not safe,” said author, podcaster, and teacher Javi Mason, who then referenced the Trump administration’s ban of the word “transgender” from the CDC’s 2018 budget documents. “We are literally being erased, especially if we are people of color,” Mason said. “What can we do to prepare for the worst?” It was reported last week that 28-year-old Amia Tyrae Berryman was the seventh trans woman of color known to be murdered this year. She was found shot to death in Baton Rouge on March 26, and despite the nationwide flurry of discussions about gun violence, her murder has received meager coverage.
About a year ago some local activists founded Trigger Warning, a queer and trans gun club that is focused on self-defense and building resilience. The club is political in nature and was a response to Trump’s election, the failure of police to protect queer and trans people and people of color, and the ubiquity of police violence. Safety and camaraderie isn’t usually found in public spaces, but at one another’s houses, said activist Adrian Elim. “I think a lot of us are very tired of public displays of these kinds of conversations, it’s always triggering, and we’re still just at level one, having the same conversation.” Within a sub-discussion about allyship and unity regarding racism, sexism, and homophobia, Elim lamented the fact that those impacted the most by these issues — who are already struggling just to navigate the day with concerns like passability and how that paradigm impacts access to housing and jobs as well as issues of safety — are burdened with the extra labor of educating everyone else about why they should care. Members of the long table also critiqued the cis gay community’s inadequate allyship for trans people and touched on marriage equality as “assimilationist” and not the end-all of the fight for equality. The group also knocked the VICE doc’s lack of acknowledgement that Jamaica’s homophobia is rooted in its colonization, and for the exploitative tragedy tourism it provides to viewers around the world. “You know how many homeless queer people I see on a daily basis?” Elim asked. “But it’s just like, we have to project our consciousness all the way to Jamaica to kind of feel what that is.” Activist, musician, and Trigger Warning co-founder Zora Gussow joined the group at the table to add that visibility in cultural programming is still intrinsically tied to profitability, and that people who don’t fit into established categorization or aren’t seen as profitable or productive — people with disabilities, or undocumented workers who don’t speak English — are forsaken by capitalism. Gussow added that genuine allyship is not just about accepting people’s existence, but being willing to step up and support the livelihood and actual thriving of marginalized people. “I’m glad you admit that I actually exist, but you don’t admit that my existence is harder than yours,” they said. An extended version of this story can be found online at rochestercitynewspaper. com. The next event in the At the Crossroads series is “Mass MisEducation: A Long Table Conversation and Installation” and takes place on April 14, 3 to 6 p.m., at Gallery Seventy Four, 215 Tremont Street.
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[ OPENING ] 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Landscapes by Paul Allen Taylor. Friday, April 6 at 6 p.m. 546-8400. episcopalseniorlife.org. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. The Lobby Presents: Art Liquidation Sale 2.0. Through May 30. The Lobby Presents new art from Ax. Opening night music by Matt O’Brian & the Great Blue Herons, Ben Morey & The Eyes, Trevor Lake. bugjar.com. Create Art 4 Good, 1115 E. Main Street, Suite #203, Door #5. Retrobots: The Future of the Past. 210-3161. Susan@createart4good.org. createart4good.org/ current-exhibit/. A Different Path Gallery, 27 Market St. Brockport. The Portrait. The exhibit features works of art that span a multitude of mediums. Artists reception Apr 6, 7-9pm. 6375494. differentpathgallery.com. Firehouse Gallery at Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. Room to Breathe: Ceramic works by Dan Pfohl. Opening reception Apr 6, 6-9pm. 2715183. rochesterarts.org. Gallery Q, 100 College Ave. 18 Emerging. An annual juried exhibition highlighting regional student artists. Opening reception Apr 6, 6-9pm. 271-2640. Lumiere Photo, 100 College Ave. But, everything breaks.. Photography by Brian Orner; photography & mixed media works by rrrbrrrtfrrrrnk. Opening reception Apr 6, 6-9pm, featuring a poetry reading by Harlow Crandall and live music by Eric Witkowski & Matt Sauer. 461-4447. Monroe Branch Library, 809 Monroe Ave. Collective Creativity: Photographs from the Flower City Arts Center Darkroom Club. Opening reception Apr 6, 6-7pm. 4288202. rochesterarts.org. Ontario County Historical Society Museum, 55 North Main St., Canandaigua. Art in Bloom. Opening reception Apr 7, 3-5pm. 394-4975. ochs.org. Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Ave. Federico Solmi: The Good Samaritans. Installations include video, drawings, mechanical sculptures, & paintings to portray a dystopian vision of present-day society. Opening reception Apr 6, 6-9pm. Artist talk Apr 7, 1pm. 461-2222. info@rochestercontemporary. org. rochestercontemporary.org. William Harris Gallery, 3rd Floor Gannett Hall, RIT. Terra Incognita. RIT MFA Photography & Related Media 2018 Thesis Exhibition. Opening reception Apr 5, 5-7pm. 475-2716. [ CONTINUING ] 540WMain, 540 W. Main Street. April Featured Artist: Ray Ray Mitrano. 732-0002. 540westmain.org. Axom Gallery, 176 Anderson Ave., 2nd floor. The Art & Life of Danny Allen: Sunny Ducks and Other Musings. 232-6030 x23. axomgallery.com.
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ART | ‘VISION OF THE VOICE’ Artist Joel Dow has long been a fixture in the Rochester music scene, from their work in indie folk band The Pickpockets to their experimental sound compositions under the moniker City Harvest Black. Dow’s artist residency at Visual Studies Workshop culminates this Friday in a video exhibition called “Vision of the Voice,” their first formal show of visual art. Using analog video equipment, Dow presents a visual manifestation of their approach to sound. They combine black-and-white archival footage, film hand-painted in an abstract expressionist style, and video feedback loops to uncover sacred symbols in the language of light, patterns, and movement. The presentation features Dow’s “Wishing Well,” an interactive video installation that enables you to create your own kaleidoscopic video feedback loops. Attendees are urged to “bring small objects of personal significance or insignificance.” “Vision of the Voice” takes place on Friday, April 6, at VSW, 31 Prince Street. 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Free. 442-8676. vsw.org. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER
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COMEDY | ‘DON’T GRAB MY PUSSY 2.0’ After America’s illustrious commander-in-grief bragged about assaulting women on tape and his administration launched attacks on women’s sexual and reproductive services, some locals, led by comedian Kelsey Claire Hagan, took a stand with standup. The inaugural “Don’t Grab My Pussy” event held in 2016 featured monologues, poetry readings, and comedy, and raised $3,300 for RESTORE Sexual Assault Services — which provides an advocate for anyone who reports sexual assault, abuse, or rape. “Don’t Grab My Pussy 2.0” takes place Thursday, April 5. Flour City Station, 170 East Avenue. 8 to 11 p.m. 21+. $10. Proceeds benefit RESTORE. flourcitystation.com. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
Bertha VB Lederer Gallery, Brodie Hall, 1 College Dr. Beyond All Repair: Language & Vision, A Collaboration Between MaryAnn Miller & JC Todd. Through April 28. 245-5841. geneseo.edu/ galleries.; Joanna Poag: Shifts in Balance. 245-5841. geneseo.edu/galleries. Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. Elusives: The Natural World We Seldom See. An exhibit by the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Finger Lakes Chapter. 3746160. rmsc.org. Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. The Birth of the Universe: Drawings By Ben Taylor. Opening reception Apr 5, 6-9pm. 244-1730. rochesterarts.org. Gallery 384, 384 East Ave. Poetical Portraits: Oils on canvas by Dunstan Luke. 2331658. howardkoft@gmail.com. Gallery 96, 604 Pittsford-Victor Road. Local Camera Clubs. Through Apr. 7. Photography from six local camera clubs. thegallery96.com. Geisel Gallery, Second Floor Rotunda, Legacy Tower, One Bausch & Lomb Place. Stu Chait: Of Gatherings & Asterisms Etched In Stone. Through April 30. Opening reception April 13, 5:30-7:30. chaitfineart.com. International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Precious Metals. Through April 30. Original mixed media paintings by American artist Marcella Gillenwater. 264-1440. My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Creative Artwork & Photography. 546-8400. episcopalseniorlife.org. NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. Beyond Form: Non-Objective Art. Through April 21. rit.edu/ntid/dyerarts. RIT Bevier Gallery, 90 Lomb Memorial Dr., Booth Building 7A. MFA Thesis Exhibition. Through April 14. Opening reception Mar 30, 5 p.m. 475-2646. The Gallery @ Art & Music Library, Rush Rhees, 755 Library Road. Wreckage: Timothy Pauszek. 275-4476. megan. scheffer@rochester.edu. Visual Studies Workshop, 31 Prince St. Ann Rosen: Women Living in a Shelter. 442-8676. vsw.org. Williams Gallery at First Unitarian Church, 220 S Winton Rd. Expanding Dimensions: Large Works by The Arena Art Group. Through April 9. 271-9070..
Comedy [ WED., APRIL 4 ] Kristen Becker. April 4, 7:30 p.m. Comedy at the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $10. 426-6339. [ THU., APRIL 5 ] Andrew Schulz. April 5, 7:30 p.m. Comedy at the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $12-$17. 426-6339. Improv Student Showcase. April 5, 8 p.m. Focus Theater, 390 South Avenue, Suite C 666-2647.
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R THEATER | ‘THE TAMING OF THE SHREW’ WallByrd Theatre Company’s theatrical presentations each receive an unexpected but somehow appropriate spin on the stories — take its 2017 staging of “Macbeth” set in a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-esque world, for example. This month WallByrd presents Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” mixed with the art of clowning, acrobatics, and mucis, and directed and designed by company founder Virginia Monte. The comedy has been reinterpreted in cinema: “Kiss Me Kate” came out in 1953, and lead character Katherine was reframed as a modern feminist in 1999’s “10 Things I Hate About You.” Katherine’s mild-mannered younger sister can’t get hitched until her strong-willed elder sis subjugates herself to a man. The story follows Petruchio and Katherine from their insult-slinging battle of wits (and Petruchio’s extremely problematic actions) to a tidy resolution. The show fcontinues through Sunday, April 15 at Lyric Theatre, 440 East Avenue. Thursdays through Saturdays, April 5-7 and April 12-14, at 8 p.m.; Sundays, April 8 and 15, at 3 p.m. Tickets start at $18. wallbyrd.com. — BY REBECCA RAFFERTY
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A Night in the Life @ Cat Clay Cat Clay 1115 E Main St, Ste 242 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, April 4, marks 50 years since Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. In celebration of his messages of love and justice, a spoken word performance, “Rise Up! Speak Write Side Up Again,” will be presented by We All Write, a consortium of black women thinkers, creators, and healers. Poets Selena Fleming, Tokeya Graham, Reenah Golden, Kristen Gentry, and Lu Highsmith will perform. The event is part of Rise Up! Know Justice, Know Peace” series of lectures and performances that takes place from Wednesday, April 4, through Tuesday, April 10.
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2-Day Live Painting Event!
Location Renaissance Academy Charter School of the Arts, 299 Kirk Road, Rochester, NY 14612
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Closing Time. ThursdaysSundays, 8 p.m. and Sun., April 8, 2 p.m MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Jean Gordon Ryon, Director. Presented by Irish Players of Rochester $9 $19. 732-7224. muccc.org. Eastman Opera Theatre: The Light in the Piazza. Thu., April 5, 7:30-10:30 p.m., Fri., April 6, 7:30-10:30 p.m. and Sat., April 7, 7:30-10:30 p.m. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St Pre-performance lecture 6:30 p.m., Ray Wright Room (Room 120), ESM Main Building). $25-$35. eastmantheatre.org. One House Over. Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., Fridays, 8 p.m., Sat., April 7, 2 & 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 & 7 p.m. and Tue., April 10, 6 p.m Geva Theatre Center, 75 Woodbury Blvd gevatheatre.org. Page to Stage:She Loves Me. Wed., April 4, 7:30 p.m., Thu., April 5, 7:30 p.m., Fri., April 6, 7:30 p.m., Sat., April 7, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., April 8, 2 p.m. Doty Recital Hall SUNY Geneseo, 1 College Circle, Geneseo $10.00. 245-5824. When We Were Young and Unafriad. Fridays, 8 p.m., Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sun., April 8, 2 p.m Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St Through April 8 $28.50$36.50. blackfriars.org. William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m., Saturdays, 8 p.m. and Sundays, 3 p.m Lyric Theater, 440 East Ave Through April 25 $18-$25. 256-0444. wallbyrd.com.
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[ FRI., APRIL 6 ] Vision of Sound: New Music & Dance. April 6, 7-9 p.m. Nazareth College Linehan Chapel, 4245 East Ave., Featuring newly composed music, played by The Society for New Music (WNY) all-star musicians, and modern dance by western NY choreographers $5/$10. 315-251-1151.
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[ SUN., APRIL 8 ] Comedy Cocoon. April 8, 7 p.m. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. Open mic. Music from DJ Z, DJ Mallshop, DJ Spinelli, & a Little Shop of Hoarders Pop-up Shop bugjar.com. [ TUE., APRIL 10 ] Backdraft II: Laughdraft. 8-11 p.m Firehouse Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 902-2010. thefirehousesaloon.com. Comedy Olympics. Every third Tuesday, 5-8 p.m Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. free. 244-1210.
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[ FRI., APRIL 6 ] Miss Richfield 1981: Born Again. April 6, 8 p.m. Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. A fundraiser for Broadway Cares: Equity Fights AIDS $35-$60. 254-0073. christine.denering@ smg.kodakcenter.com. rapatheatre.org.
Double Show: The work of Meghan Murphy and Zach Prouty Nox Cocktail Lounge 302 North Goodman St. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM First Friday & Wide Open Mic Writers & Books 740 University Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
New Art From RAC to You Rochester Art Club 1115 East Main St., Studio #437-439 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Open studios at the Hungerford in April The Hungerford 1115 East Main St. (at N. Goodman) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
First Friday at 321 East Avenue The Gallery 321 East Avenue 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Project Space AIRs Joel Dow and Alyssa M Dewitt Visual Studies Workshop Gallery 31 Prince St. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Anderson Alley Artists Welcome Spring! Anderson Alley Artists 250 N. Goodman St. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
First Friday at Abundance Abundance Food Co-op Gallery 571 South Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Bound a Solo Exhibition by Daniel Caster Nu Movement 716 University Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
First Friday at RoCo Upstairs RoCo Upstairs 137 East Ave., Upstairs 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The Art and Life of Danny Allen. Sunny Ducks and Other Musings. AXOM Gallery Exhibition Space 176 Anderson Ave., Suite #303 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
But, Everything Breaks. Lumiere Photo 100 College Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
First Light: Opening Reception at Haus and Norchar Haus Capital Corporation 383 Park Avenue Suite B 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Casual Fourplay Gallery r 100 College Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Conviviality RoCo Upstairs 137 East Ave., Upstairs 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Dearly Departed Main Street Artists Gallery & Studio 1115 E. Main St., Studio 452-458 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Double Bench Rochester Contemporary Art Center 137 East Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
First Light: Opening Reception at Haus and Norchar Norchar Real Estate 389 Park Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The Good Samaritans by Federico Solmi Rochester Contemporary Art Center 137 East Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM The Landscapes of Paul Allen Taylor My Sister’s Gallery at The Episcopal Church Home 505 Mount Hope Ave. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM Through the Student Lens 2018 Image City Photography Gallery 722 University Ave. 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Landscapes by Constance Mauro Constance Mauro Studio 1115 East Main St., Hungerford Building 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Trains in the Military Military History Society 250 North Goodman St., 201 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Messin’ by Joe Ziolkowski Colleen Buzzard Studio 250 North Goodman St., 401 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
University of Rochester Senior Thesis Exhibitions The Yards Gallery Space 50 Public Market Way 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Michelle: a GITL Retrospective The Group in the Loop 1115 E. Main St., Studio 356 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Wreckage by Timothy Pauszek Gallery at the Art & Music Library 755 Library Rd 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
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Brockport Strand 93 Main St, Brockport, 637-3310, rochestertheatermanagement.com
Canandaigua Theatres 3181 Townline Road, Canandaigua, 396-0110, rochestertheatermanagement.com
Cinema Theater 957 S. Clinton St., 271-1785, cinemarochester.com
Culver Ridge 16 2255 Ridge Rd E, Irondequoit 544-1140, regmovies.com
Dryden Theatre 900 East Ave., 271-3361, dryden.eastmanhouse.org
Eastview 13 Eastview Mall, Victor 425-0420, regmovies.com
Geneseo Theatres Geneseo Square Mall, 243-2691, rochestertheatermanagement.com
Greece Ridge 12 176 Greece Ridge Center Drive 225-5810, regmovies.com
Henrietta 18 525 Marketplace Drive 424-3090, regmovies.com
The Little 240 East Ave., 258-0444 thelittle.org
Movies 10 2609 W. Henrietta Road 785-3335, rochestermovies10.com
Pittsford Cinema 3349 Monroe Ave., 383-1310 pittsford.zurichcinemas.com
Tinseltown USA/IMAX 2291 Buffalo Road 247-2180, cinemark.com
Webster 12 2190 Empire Blvd., 888-262-4386, amctheatres.com
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Digital noise “Ready Player One”
But despite its popularity, the novel’s reputation has dimmed since being published (PG-13), DIRECTED BY STEVEN SPIELBERG in 2011, as people soured on its decidedly male NOW PLAYING geek point of view and detractors accused Cline of propping up clichéd storytelling with hollow references to (mostly 80’s) culture, movies, video [ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW games, books, and music. Trailers did little to alleviate fears that the film would be much the When Steven Spielberg announced back in 2015 that he’d signed on to direct an adaptation same, though there was still reason for hope: if anyone could bring out greatness in lackluster of Ernest Cline’s best-selling novel “Ready material, it was Spielberg. Which is why it’s Player One,” the reaction was mixed at best. disappointing to find that as a film, “Ready Spielberg’s participation made a certain sense; Player One” isn’t as bad as some feared, but it’s Cline’s book is an ode to nerd culture of every not as good as it had the potential to be, either. stripe, and among the geeky iconography it celebrates are countless properties the filmmaker While the film does indeed offer an endless parade of references, Spielberg and screenwriter himself had a hand in creating. Zak Penn succeed in keeping focus on the story, never allowing the narrative to descend into the numbing shopping list style of Cline’s prose. It’s possible to appreciate the story even if you don’t understand every reference you’re bombarded with (though if you see it with an audience, be prepared to hear everyone around you audibly identify the ones they get). Of Tye Sheridan in “Ready Player One.” PHOTO COURTESY WARNER BROS
course, that only emphasizes how derivative the story it’s telling really is. The film’s set in Columbus, Ohio circa 2045, in a dystopian future where citizens flee their real-life troubles by escaping into a massive virtual world known as the OASIS. The founder of the OASIS is the late James Halliday (a wonderful Mark Rylance), who revealed after his death that he’d built a scavenger hunt into his creation; a “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”-esque contest. The first person to solve his clues and find his golden Easter egg will inherit complete ownership of the OASIS. Our hero is Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), a poor orphan who lives in “The Stacks,” a slumlike trailer park where the homes are piled on top of each other like Jenga towers. But in the OASIS, Wade is an adventurous “gunter” (egg hunter), the name given to those who dedicate themselves to cracking Halliday’s puzzles. Wade and his friends Aech (Lena Waithe), Daito (Win Morisaki), and Sho (Philip Zhao) spend their every waking minute logged in, hoping to get even one step closer to the ultimate prize. Eventually they’re joined by Wade’s crush object, another gunter named Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), who becomes his love interest. Included amongst their rival competitors are the employees of Innovative Online Industries (I.O.I.), a sinister corporation run by Nolan Sorrento (Ben Mendelsohn), who wants to exploit the OASIS for his own profit. Sorrento’s ruthless quest for control turns deadly, as his pursuit spills out into the real world. Soon it’s up to Wade and his friends to
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save the OASIS from his nefarious clutches. The commodification of fan culture by corporate entities is something the film never bothers to really interrogate, despite its own role in doing precisely that. Most of “Ready Player One” takes place within the digital world of the OASIS, which makes sense; it’s where Spielberg is able to let his imagination loose in a world without any rules or physical constraints. But it also leads to a film lacking in real human connection, which is a problem when that turns out to be one of the story’s key themes. There are some inventive visuals throughout; I liked the endless, darkened hallways of the “library,” where gunters are able to peer through windows at video footage of Halliday’s life, combing through key moments for clues, including his relationship with his friend and business partner, Ogden Morrow (Simon Pegg). Your enjoyment of “Ready Player One” depends on how much you ask from your sci-fi action-adventure stories. It’s a fun ride while it lasts, but once you dig even an inch beneath its surface problems begin to arise. On one hand, the book — and by extension the film — are intended as a love letter to pop culture. But the characters’ obsessive, encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture ephemera is how they distinguish a “true fan” from the “haters.” This mindset can’t help but feel reminiscent of the kind of cultural gatekeeping that gave rise to the toxic Gamergate movement, and the tribalism in fandoms that often makes the internet such an unbearable place to visit. Also on the subject of toxic masculinity, Sorrento’s chief henchman within the Oasis is named i-R0k, and voiced by comedian T.J. Miller. He’s the only key character in the film whose real-life counterpart we never see. It’s impossible to say whether this was a deliberate decision on the part of its makers, but considering the accusations of sexual misconduct and assault that have been leveled at Miller, his presence — even in vocal form — can’t help but cast a shadow on things. While it’s nice that Wade’s companions are a culturally diverse group, it’s worth asking why an anonymous white dude has to be its center, especially when we’ve gotten that same story told so many, many times before. An extended version of this review is available online at rochestercitynewspaper.com.
Surfacing some hard truths [ INTERVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW
Director and Pittsford resident John Curran (“The Painted Veil”) brings a welcome intelligence to his political docu-drama “Chappaquiddick,” which details the infamous July 1969 incident in which Senator Ted Kennedy (played by Jason Clarke in the film) drove his car off a bridge and into a pond following a party in Martha’s Vineyard. The tragic accident resulted in the death of 28-year-old campaign strategist Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara), while Kennedy himself walked away unscathed and with only the slightest impact on his political career. The film is an often damning examination into the corrosive power of privilege and celebrity, but one that manages to find a modicum of empathy for those on either side of the scandal. Ahead of its local premiere this Friday, CITY spoke with Curran by phone about the delicacy required to bring such a potentially divisive story to the screen, as well as the challenges of maintaining a filmmaking career in Hollywood while living right here in Rochester. The following is an edited version of the conversation; visit rochestercitynewspaper. com online for the extended interview.
Helms, director John Curran, Clarke, and Gaffigan on the set of “Chappaquiddick.” PHOTO COURTESY CLAIRE FOLGER
CITY Newspaper: There are any number of ways this material could have been played; in a sensationalized, “ripped from the tabloids” way, as a satire, or a procedural. How did you go about finding the right tone for the story?
What struck me most about the script was my reaction to it as I was reading it. And how it begins as this sort of tragedy, then evolves into almost a farce. I found myself feeling for Ted, then I was sort of disgusted that I was feeling for him. Then I was laughing at scenes, and being disgusted that I was laughing. That sort of visceral response and the shifting allegiances that I experienced, I wanted to capture in the film. And it was hard because I really struggled to get a very non-partisan, balanced tone overall to the thing. But playing with pathos and comedy doesn’t always work, so the finessing of that really came about in the edit. Taking things out, putting other things back in, because in some of the early edits it was tipping too hard into one direction or the other. With the nature of this story, people are bound to come in with certain expectations, depending on their own political viewpoints. And a lot of them may have already decided what they expect from this story on screen. Was that on your mind at all as audiences started to see the film?
It’s a constantly evolving truth. Like a lot scandals, I’ve read a lot of dumb conspiracy theories. But people are probably going to leave with a lot more questions than answers, and that was the point, you know? People are going to see it through the prism of their political allegiance so to speak. Someone that hates Ted is probably going to be validated by the film, and someone that admires him might now have a more
complicated portrait that they have to consider. But in the end, I think the one thing that should unite all people — left and right of the aisle — is that we should all be taking a harder look at the people we support. And not putting up with crimes from [our politicians] that we would go to jail for. We certainly shouldn’t give them a pass just because we’ve elected them into office. I hope that resonates, obviously considering the president that we have today. There’s an idea that in order to have a successful career as a filmmaker, you need to be located in LA or New York City. But you’ve managed it while living in Pittsford. How much of a challenge has that been over the years?
Well, I did my time in L.A. From Australia, I moved to L.A. and I was there for six years or something like that. It’s tough to break into the film market anyway, regardless of where you’re living. And I wouldn’t have come from Australia right back to Rochester. The reality of my job is that when I’m working, I’m somewhere else. I was going off to China for a year and a half to do a film, and my wife and I had just had a kid in Australia. My wife is from Rochester as well and she’s like, “well while you’re in China, I’m going to go back home and spend a year there.” That one year turned into all his entire time through school — he’s in college now and about to graduate. So I spend more time now in L.A. since I’ve got to keep one foot there. I’ll hopefully be dual coast soon, where I’ll have a place there and go out for months at a time, but then come back here whenever I can. “Chappaquiddick” opens on Friday, April 6.
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Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Viktoriya Napora 1439 Plank Rd Webster, NY 14580 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Much Like Wolves, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 1/9/18. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 195 Dunrovin Ln Rochester, NY 14618 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Bell DataComm LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 9/11/17 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 60 Parish Road Churchville NY 14428 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Bostley Properties LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/14/2018; 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 2151 Ireland Road, Brockport, New York 14420. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Brahm Properties LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/13/2018; 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 135 Windmill Trail, Rochester, New York 14624. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 144 ALEXANDER ST. LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/1/2018. 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, 375 Averill Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 1459 CULVER, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/01/18. 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 Thomas Nary, 1459 Culver Rd. Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: Manage real estate. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 2079 BHTL RD, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/22/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 28 Lawrence Street Associates, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/20/18. 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, 268 Milburn Street, Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 291 Millstead Way, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/22/18. 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, 571 Vanalstyne Road, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 348 HAYWARD LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Sec’y. of State of NY (SSNY) on 03/01/18. 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 Thomas Nary,1459 Culver Rd. Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: Manage real estate. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of 7 Utica Street, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 3/19/18. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to P. O. Box #444, Brockport, NY 14420. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of A Jar Of Clay Enterprises LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03/14/2018. 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 175 Clay Road, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: EAST HOUSE CANAL STREET LLC. Articles of organization filed with the Secretary of State (SSNY) of New York on 01/23/2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated for service of process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to: East House Canal Street LLC, 259 Monroe Avenue, Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14607. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. Principal Business location is: 259 Monroe Avenue, Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14607. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of BAILEY’S SEPTIC SERVICE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/21/18. Office location: Orleans County. Princ. office of LLC: 1443 Oak Orchard Rd., Waterport, NY 14571. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 232 W. Park St., Albion, NY 14411. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Bucci Creative Studios, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/4/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to P.O. Box 16187, Rochester, NY 14616. Purpose: any lawful activities [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Castleman Road LLC Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) February 21, 2018. 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 859 Rolins Run, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Charisma Yoga Bar, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) February 7, 2018. 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 114 N Main St, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Cleaning Services of Western NY, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 2/16/18. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 134 Van Stallen Street, Rochester,
NY 14621. The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of COO for Hire, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/20/2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to PO Box 26692, Rochester NY 14626. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of DMD NISSAN WEST, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/1/2017. 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: 800 Panorama Trail S., Suite 100, Rochester, NY 14625. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY; Name of LLC: CMS Transport of Western NY, LLC; Date of filing: 1/19/18; Office of the LLC: Monroe Co.; The NY Secretary of State has been designated as the agent upon whom process may be served. NYSS may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 60 Endicar Drive, Rochester, New York 14622; Purpose of LLC: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of DV LOGISTICS, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03-19-2018. 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 222 MILLFORD CROSSING PENFIELD, NY 14526 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of HIGH TOP HOMES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/27/2018. 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, 17 Longbow Circle, Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of iKON Ice Cream LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/15/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Kray Consulting LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/6/18. 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 31 Princeton Ln Fairport, NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lehmann Digital Arts Publishing, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/08/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o 27 Clarkes Crossing, Fairport NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Live, Work, Life Management, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/23/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of
Marketview336 LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/15/2018. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as Agent upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1, #86, Buffalo, NY 14221. Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Mobile Craft Canning LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3/16/2018. 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 761 Hightower Way Webster, NY 14580 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Monroe and Wayne Construction, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/20/18. 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, Attn: Steven Meyer, 60 Browns Race, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Monroe Income Properties, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/8/18. 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, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of NeighborHOOD Scholar LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/29/2018. 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 362 Whispering Pines Circle Rochester, NY 14612 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of NewEdge Hockey, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03/07/2018. 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 2700 Brighton Henrietta Town Line Road Rochester, NY 14623 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of PHOENIX MILL LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/16/2018. 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, 375 Averill Ave., Rochester, NY 14620. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of R&L Development and Design, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 2/6/2018. 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 858 Dewitt Road, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Raise The Bar Designs, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/21/18 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 104 Allandale Ave Rochester NY 14610 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of RTECH CONSULTING, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/20/18. 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, 34 Tannon Drive North, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of SPRING VALLEY GROUP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/27/2018. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2117 Buffalo Rd., #183, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Brick Lab, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 1/5/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 44 Quail Lane, Rochester NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Wok Restaurant, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/19/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o Sammy Feldman, 3445 Winton Place, Ste. 228, Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of The Yards Collective LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) November 20th, 2017. 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 50-52Public Market W ay Rochester, NY 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Tux Cat Entertainment LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02-09-2018. 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 500 Winchester St. Rochester, NY 14615. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of West Ridge Development LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) February 8th 2018. 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 75 Barrett Dr, Unit 177, Webster NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION being held at Chester’s Self Storage 600 W Broad St. Rochester NY 14608 on Thursday, April 19th at 12:00 pm . The following customers’ accounts have become delinquent so their item (s) will be auctioned off to settle past due rents. NOTE: Owner reserves the right to bid at auction, reject any and all bids, and cancel or adjourn the sale. Name of tenant: , Anthony Lawson Unit 58 Owes $368. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of SAREKON LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/20/18. Office location: Orleans County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 2/15/18. Mr. William Northrup designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served at 2227 Center Road, Kendall NY 14476. DE addr. of LLC: 1201 Orange Street, Ste. 600, Wilmington, DE 19801. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of TEPCOGLASS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/14/18. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 12/29/17. Princ. office of LLC: 11210 Ables Ln., Dallas, TX 75229. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom
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mail process to 2255 Lyell Ave., Rochester, NY 14606, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] SUNRISE SALES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 03/13/18. Latest date to dissolve: 12/31/2117. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 566 Lexington Avenue, Rochester, NY 14613. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Titan Motorworks of Rochester, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 3/15/18. 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 2975 BrightonHenrietta Town Line Rd., Suite 170, Rochester, NY 14623. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Victor Consulting LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/16/2018. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 510 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] VR Playground LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 11/21/2017. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Russell Tartaglia, 362 Shore Acres Dr., Rochester, NY 14612. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Wetmore Rentals LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/12/2018. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 155 Edgerton St., Rochester, NY 14607. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Whiskey River Properties, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/6/2018. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Attn: R. Youst, Manager, 421 River St., Rochester, NY 14612. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Wigberto Perez LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 12/4/2017. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Wigberto Perez, 137 Clay Rd., Rochester, NY 14623. General Purpose. [ Notice of Formation ] Apex Gaming LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 3/15/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 207 Bull Saw Mill Road, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. Purpose: any lawful activity.
RochesterSells.com [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: 2088 FIVE MILE LINE PROPERTY, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/21/2018. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O 2088 FIVE MILE LINE PROPERTY, LLC, 2088 Five Mile Line Road, Penfield, New York 14526. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Name: JADE GAFF, LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 02/26/2018. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O JADE GAFF, LLC, One East Main Street, 10th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] New York State Paralegal SVS LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on March 19, 2018. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 93 Chesterfield Drive, Rochester, NY 14612. The purpose of the company is any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of Formation of Casa Luna Supply, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/8/17. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 151 Basket Rd, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation ] SMG Buena Vista Group LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 2/28/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to c/o Shawn M. Griffin, 99 Garnsey Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ Notice of Formation } The Woolbright Group, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 2/14/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 667 Midship Circle, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 78 SCHUYLER BALDWIN DRIVE, LLC ] The name of the Limited Liability Company is 78 SCHUYLER BALDWIN DRIVE, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary
of State on 03/21/18. 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 to78 Schuyler Baldwin Dr., Fairport NY 14450.The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC Law. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is ROC The Mic Productions, LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 2/16/18. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 299 Avalon Dr Rochester NY 14618. The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Shewman Athletic Performance LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 2/27/18. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 2 Birchstone Hill Rd Rush NY 14543. The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC ] Girlboss Developments LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 02/13/2018 with an effective date of formation of 02/13/2018. 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 218 MacIntosh Dr., Rochester, NY 14626. 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 Formation of OD DOODLE BUGS LLC ] Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on March 23, 2018. Office location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ. Office of LLC: 120 Linden Oaks Drive, Ste 200 Rochester, NY 14625. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Princ. Office of LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF The Bodhisattva Way, LLC ]
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The term “move-in ready” doesn’t quite do the home at 21 Varden Street justice. While it is indeed ready to go, it has also been lovingly cared for and updated, with every detail attended to and high quality finishes incorporated into the modern updates. As a bonus—if you’re not one for decorating but you appreciate good design, all the work has been done for you! Rich wall colors, wallpaper, and unique light fixtures give each room a special feel while still harmonizing with the historic character of the home. Historic details remain intact throughout, including hardwood floors, leaded glass windows, original unpainted doors with glass knobs, and much unpainted woodwork. Great care has also been given to the outside of this home. The front yard is beautifully landscaped with a variety of plantings and a stone wall. The full width front porch invites you to sit and stay awhile; it’s a perfect place to chat with neighbors on their way by or enjoy your morning coffee. You enter the home through an original wood door into a small entrance vestibule, which retains its historic tiled floor. The living room looks out over the front porch and opens to the dining room, which has a bank of wonderful, leaded glass windows, a coffered ceiling, and original plate rail. Both rooms have hardwood floors with a cherry inlaid border. No expense has been spared in the fully updated, immaculate kitchen, which features new cabinets, granite countertops, new floor, stainless steel appliances, and white
tiled backsplash. The room is arranged in an L-shape with a galley style space for the sink, dishwasher, and cabinets at the rear and a more open space for the refrigerator, range, and a small table. The kitchen opens to the backyard, where you’ll find a patio and two car garage. The private spaces on the second floor are just as special. A pocket door between the living room and staircase provides a nice separation. At the top of the stairs are three bedrooms and one bath arranged around a central hall. The master bedroom runs the full width of the front of the house, with a separate space that can be used as a dressing room, closet, and sitting area. One of the bedrooms has an enclosed sleeping porch that provides a panoramic view of the neighborhood. The full bath is completely updated, again with high quality finishes. 21 Varden St. is located in the Beechwood neighborhood, surrounded by a tight knit, active community and well maintained homes that display an obvious pride of ownership. The 1,359 square foot home is listed for $169,900 with Nina Malatesta of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services. Contact Nina at 585-721-7076 to learn more about this special property. by Caitlin Meives Caitlin lives in the Park Avenue neighborhood and is the Preservation Planner at The Landmark Society.
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Legal Ads > page 25 Lutheran Church, 111 North Chestnut Street, Rochester, NY 14604, 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, c/o Reformation Lutheran Church, 111 North Chestnut Street, Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: to engage in any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ] NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing pursuant to Article 18-A of the New York State General Municipal Law will be held by the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency d/b/a Imagine Monroe Powered By COMIDA (the “Agency”) on the 16th day of April, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., local time, at the Ebenezer Watts Conference Center, 49 S. Fitzhugh Street, Rochester, New York 14614, in connection with the following matter: BUCKINGHAM PROPERTIES LLC, a New York limited liability company, or an entity formed or to be formed (collectively, the “Company”) has requested that the Agency assist with a certain Project (the “Project”), consisting of: (A) the acquisition of a leasehold interest in a portion of an approximately 7.45-acre parcel of land located at 230-250 Alexander Street in the City of Rochester, New York [Tax Map No.: Part of 121.420-0003-058.003] (the “Land”); (B) the construction thereon of an approximately 20,000 square-foot building (the “Improvements”); and (C) the acquisition and installation therein, thereon or thereabout of certain machinery, equipment and related personal property (the “Equipment” and, together with the Land and the Improvements, the “Facility”); to be subleased to Central Rock Gym Rochester, LLC (the “Tenant”) for use as an indoor rock-climbing, fitness and yoga facility. The Facility will be initially operated and/or managed by the Company. The Agency will acquire a leasehold interest in the Facility and lease the Facility back to the Company. The Company will operate the Facility during the term of the lease. At the end of the lease term the Agency’s leasehold interest will be terminated. The Agency contemplates that it will provide financial assistance (the “Financial Assistance”) to the Company in the
form of sales and use tax exemptions and a mortgage recording tax exemption, consistent with the policies of the Agency, and a partial real property tax abatement. The Agency will, at the above-stated time and place, present a copy of the Company’s Application (including the Benefit/ Incentive analysis) and hear all persons with views in favor of or opposed to either the location or nature of the Facility, or the proposed financial assistance being contemplated by the Agency. In addition, at, or prior to, such hearing, interested parties may submit to the Agency written materials pertaining to such matters. Dated: April 4, 2018 COUNTY OF MONROE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY D/B/A IMAGINE MONROE POWERED BY COMIDA By: Jeffrey R. Adair, Executive Director [ NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ] NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing pursuant to Article 18-A of the New York State General Municipal Law will be held by the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency d/b/a Imagine Monroe Powered By COMIDA (the “Agency”) on the 16th day of April, 2018 at 10:30 a.m., local time, at the Ebenezer Watts Conference Center, 49 S. Fitzhugh Street, Rochester, New York 14614, in connection with the following matter: BUCKINGHAM PROPERTIES LLC, a New York limited liability company, or an entity formed or to be formed (collectively, the “Company”) has requested that the Agency assist with a certain Project (the “Project”), consisting of: (A) the acquisition of a leasehold interest in the existing approximately 2867 square-foot triangular-shaped, all glass structure (the “Existing Improvements”) located at 90 S. Clinton Avenue in the City of Rochester, New York [Tax Map No.: 121.3200002-001.000/PAVL] (the “Land”); (B) the renovation and modernization of the Existing Improvements (collectively, the “Improvements”); and (C) the acquisition and installation therein, thereon or thereabout of certain machinery, equipment and related personal property (the “Equipment” and, together with the Land, the Existing Improvements and the Improvements, the “Facility”); for use by day as a food and beverage café and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, as a
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To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com club/lounge. The Facility will be initially operated and/or managed by the Company. The Agency will acquire a leasehold interest in the Facility and lease the Facility back to the Company. The Company will operate the Facility during the term of the lease. At the end of the lease term the Agency’s leasehold interest will be terminated. The Agency contemplates that it will provide financial assistance (the “Financial Assistance”) to the Company in the form of sales and use tax exemptions and a mortgage recording tax exemption, consistent with the policies of the Agency, and a partial real property tax abatement. The Agency will, at the above-stated time and place, present a copy of the Company’s Application (including the Benefit/ Incentive analysis) and hear all persons with views in favor of or opposed to either the location or nature of the Facility, or the proposed financial assistance being contemplated by the Agency. In addition, at, or prior to, such hearing, interested parties may submit to the Agency written materials pertaining to such matters. Dated: April 4, 2018 COUNTY OF MONROE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY D/B/A IMAGINE MONROE POWERED BY COMIDA By: Jeffrey R. Adair, Executive Director [ PUBLIC NOTICE ] Katyasi LLC Arts of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11.25.2016. Office: Monroe. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy to 919 North Market Street, Suite 425; Wilmington, DE 19899. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ SUMMONS ] Index No. 2018/816 SUPREME COURT STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE ESL Federal Credit Union, Plaintiff, vs. Margaret D. Whitney, Deceased, and any persons who are heirs or distributees of Margaret D. Whitney, 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; Charles F. Deis; Discover Bank; United States of America; People of the State of New York “John Doe” and/or “Mary Roe”, Defendants. Location of property to be foreclosed: 515 Mt. Read Boulevard, City of Rochester, 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: January 31, 2018 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 September 30, 2009 in Liber 22650 of Mortgages, page 168 in the amount of $43,200.00. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, The plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action except for Margaret D. Whitney. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. J. Scott Odorisi, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated March 14, 2018 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, situate in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe, and State of New York, being the west 102.25 feet of Lot #134 of the West Blvd Subdivision filed in Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Liber 22 of Maps, page 23. Intending to convey a parcel of land fronting 45 feet on the west side of Mt. Read Blvd, formerly Field Street, 45 feet wide in rear and 102.25 feet deep and being the whole of said lot #134 except the east 15.25 feet thereof, heretofore acquire or now used by the City of Rochester for street purposes, namely the widening of Mt. Read Blvd ALSO, ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OF PARCEL OF LAND, with buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, known as a part of Lot 84 of the 20,000 Acre Tract and more particularly as the south 1/2 of the former Falmouth Street (old Stevens Avenue) and also a portion of the east 1/2 of a former unnamed Alley shown upon a map of the West Boulevard Subdivision with the west line of Mt. Read Boulevard, thence west along said north line and its extension a distance of 107.38 feet to the center line of said former unnamed Alley, thence north along said center line of said Alley 20 feet to point in the center line of said Falmouth Street, thence south along said center line a distance of 107.38 feet to the west line of Mt. Read Boulevard; thence south along the east line of Mt. Read Boulevard a distance of 20 feet to the point of beginning Intending
to convey the south 1/2 of the said former Falmouth Street lying north of and abutting upon the north line of Lot 134 of said West Boulevard Subdivision and the east 1/2 of said unnamed Alley lying west of and abutting thereto. Tax Acct. No.: 105.70-1-34 Property Address: 515 Mt. Read Boulevard, City of Rochester, Monroe County, New York [ SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] INDEX NO. 002021/17E SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the situs of the real property. EB 1EMINY, LLC Plaintiff, -against- DAVID SMITH, DANIELLE HANSEN, PALISADES COLLECTION, L.L.C. A/A/O PROVIDIAN NATIONAL BANK, RAB PERFORMANCE RECOVERIES, LLC A/A/O METRIS BANK, PALISADES ACQUISITION XVI, L.L.C. A/A/O SEARS, PALISADES COLLECTION, L.L.C. A/A/O AT&T, COUNTY OF MONROE, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK C/O MONROE COUNTY CLERK, STATE OF NEW YORK CIVIL RECOVERIES BUREAU, LR CREDIT 4, LLC A/A/O FIRST USA, AFFINITY ORCHARD PLACE, L.P., ASHA MOHAMED, ALLSTATE PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, EMILY SAWDY, CACH, LLC, PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, CITIBANK, N.A., EXCELLUS HEALTH PLAN, INC. D/B/A EXCELLUS BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (WESTERN DISTRICT), PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ON BEHALF OF MONROE COUNTY OFFICE OF PROBATION- COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCECIVIL ENFORCEMENT, MARINER FINANCE,LLC, AMERICAN TAX FUNDING, LLC, U.S. BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC A/K/A PROPEL TAX, TOWER DBW II TRUST 2013-1 A/K/A TOWER CAPITAL, PROPEL FINANCIAL 1, LLC, “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #20,” the last twenty names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants. To the above named Defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for
the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your · property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the 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: Garden City, New York, January 18, 2018. STAGG, TERENZI, CONFUSIONE & WABNIK, LLP Attorney for Plaintiff By: Ronald P. Labeck 401 Franklin Avenue, Suite 300 Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 812-4500The object of this action is to foreclose tax liens covering: 33 Bowman Street, Rochester, New York. JUDGMENT IN THE APPROXIMATE AMOUNT OF $13,576.67 plus interest. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of New York, being Lot 14 as shown upon a map of C.M. Thoms’ Subdivision of parts of Lots 2,3,4 and 5 of the middle part of the H V B Schanck Farm, formerly in the Town of Brighton, now in the City of Rochester, and filed in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office in Uber 11 of Maps, page 92. Said Lot 14 fronts on the west side of Bowman Street and is 40 feet wide front and rear, 121.98 feet in depth on the north line and 122.18 feet in depth on the south line. Premises commonly known as: 33 Bowman Street, Rochester, New York and also by Section: 107 .78, Block: 2 and Lot: 75 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Nationstar Mortgage LLC Plaintiff, -against- Frank B. Iacovangelo, Monroe County Public Administrator, as Administrator for the estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Patricia E. Kavanaugh’s respective heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, Joan Swartout as Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Daniel Kavanaugh a/k/a Dan Kavanaugh as heir to the Estate of Lawrence Kavanaugh who was heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Susan McManus as heir to the Estate of Lawrence Kavanaugh who was heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Marcia Schmidt as heir to the Estate of Lawrence Kavanaugh who was heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Lawrence Kavanaugh as Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh’s respective heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said
defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, Mary Pat Prevost as Heir to the Estate of Mary Kavanaugh Muench who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Thomas Muench as Heir to the Estate of Mary Kavanaugh Muench who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, John Muench as Heir to the Estate of Mary Kavanaugh Muench who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Jean Williams as Heir to the Estate of Mary Kavanaugh Muench who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Susan Chichester as Heir to the Estate of Mary Kavanaugh Muench who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Nancy Shemwell as Heir to the Estate of Genevieve Shemwell who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Paul Shemwell as Heir to the Estate of Genevieve Shemwell who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, David Shemwell as Heir to the Estate of Genevieve Shemwell who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Scott Shemwell as Heir to the Estate of Genevieve Shemwell who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Robert Shemwell as Heir to the Estate of Genevieve Shemwell who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Joanne Cyr as Heir to the Estate of Genevieve Shemwell who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Michael Kavanaugh as Heir to the Estate of Daniel Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh Paul Kavanaugh as Heir to the Estate of Daniel Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Mark Kavanaugh as Heir to the Estate of Daniel Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Mark Kavanaugh as Heir to the Estate of Daniel Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Shawn Kavanaugh as Heir to the Estate of Eugene Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Catherine Kavanaugh as Heir to the Estate of Eugene Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Neal Kavanaugh as Heir to the Estate of Lloyd Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Michael Kavanaugh as Heir to the Estate of Lloyd Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Timothy Kavanaugh a/k/a Tim Kavanaugh as Heir to the Estate of Lloyd Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Ann Kavanaugh Holsworth as Heir to the Estate of Lloyd Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Mary K. McNallan as Heir to the Estate of Lloyd Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, John Kavanaugh as Heir to the Estate of Lloyd Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, James Kavanaugh as Heir to the Estate of Lloyd Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh, Kyle Gensler as heir to the Estate of Joan Kavanaugh-Gensler who was heir to the Estate of Lloyd Kavanaugh who was Heir to the Estate of Patricia Kavanaugh, Sarah Gensler as heir to the Estate of Joan Kavanaugh-Gensler who was heir to the Estate of Lloyd Kavanaugh who
was Heir to the Estate of Patricia Kavanaugh, Joan Kavanaugh-Gensler was heir to the Estate of Lloyd Kavanaugh who was heir to the Estate of Patricia E. Kavanaugh’s respective heirs-at-law, next-of-kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in the real property described in the complaint herein, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, United States of America, Capital One Bank USA, NA, The People of the State of New York o/b/o The Town Court of Brighton, Cypress Financial Recoveries, LLC, Sysco Syracuse, LLC, Gemini Asset Recoveries, Inc., Yellowbook, Inc., Beneficial Homeowner Service Corporation, Defendants. Index #: 8999/2015 Filed: 9/28/2016 SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Bay Shore, New York June 20, 2016FRENKEL, LAMBERT, WEISS, WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP BY: Pamela Flink Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01-066197F00 NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $54,000.00 and interest, recorded on June 5, 2006, in Book 20511, Page 0390, in the Office of the Clerk of Monroe County, New York, covering the premises known as 57 Pollard Avenue, Rochester, NY 14612. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt
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unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely, the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, descendents, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, successors in interest and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, descendents, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, successors in interest, and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as
stated, are unknown to plaintiffs, HUDSON AND KEYSE LLC ASSIGNEE OF BENEFICIAL COMPANY LLC, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Defendants. Index No. 6665/16. To the above named Defendants –YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action within twenty days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty days after service is completed if the summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Plaintiff
designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the county in which the property a lien upon which is being foreclosed is situated. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. J. Scott Odorisi, J.S.C., dated February 21, 2018. The object of this action is to foreclose a Tax Lien covering the premises located at Section 120.80, Block 1, Lot 59 on the Tax Map of MONROE County and also known as 16 Penhurst Street, Rochester, New York. Dated: March 9, 2018 WINDELS MARX LANE & MITTENDORF, LLP, Attorney for Plaintiff, US BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC, By: Michael J. Zacharias, Esq. 156 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019 (212) 237-1113
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