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Don’t remove the Broad Street roadway

The city recently announced plans to renovate the North Terrace of the Rundel Library with funding coming from New York State. Additional projects related to the Genesee River are included in the “ROC the Riverway” proposals. These projects include a plan to reconfigure Broad Street for public use.

To gather citizen input and provide advice about which additional ROC the Riverway projects should be prioritized for funding, an advisory committee held events to obtain public input and has submitted its priorities to Governor Cuomo for his approval before public release.

We are members of a citizens group called Broad Street Underground, and we endorse the city’s plan for the North Terrace of the Rundel Library, with some minor suggested modifications.

We believe that the plan for the terrace will fit well with future plans for developing the Broad Street Aqueduct as a weatherprotected indoor space, a large open space that runs under the Broad Street roadway and the North Library Terrace.

In Rochester’s history, the Aqueduct has served as part of the Erie Canal flowing through downtown Rochester and later as the bed of the Rochester subway system. The space has great historical value and potential for the development of an enclosed community space, crossing the Genesee River, in downtown Rochester.

The city’s ROC the Riverway vision calls for the removal of the Broad Street roadway (the “deck”).

This would assume that the future development of the Aqueduct will be as an open-air space. That would make the Aqueduct susceptible to the elements in Rochester’s harsh winters and would preclude a weatherized connection between the Convention Center and the Blue Cross Arena.

Serious thought should be given to the idea of not removing

the Broad Street roadway.

Removal of the deck would eliminate an important east-west thoroughfare and thereby increase automobile congestion on Main and Court Streets.

By leaving the deck in place, the protected space within the Aqueduct could be developed for public and private uses, much like the successful Toronto and Montreal undergrounds.

This all-weather interior space would be used by both residents and visitors, to attend year-round events. Displays could document Rochester’s rich history and the region’s current role in technical leadership in photography, optics, and photonics. Vendors could be sought to establish appropriate businesses to attract visitors to the Aqueduct as a tourist destination.

We believe that this vision for the reuse of the Aqueduct under Broad Street is enhanced by the current proposal for the renovation of the library’s North Terrace space.

If you would like to support the effort to keep the deck on Broad Street, please send your comments to the city’s advisory committee at cityofrochester. gov/roctheriverwayinput/ or to Broad Street Underground at childsarchitecrandbsu@gmail.com.

LEWIS CHILDS, JOHN THOMAS, AND ANDREW DONIGER

Take a stand for the children

Between 1938 and 1940, the British government rescued thousands of refugee Jewish children from Nazi Germany under the name Kindertransport. Britain had changed its immigration policy as a result of Kristallnacht, the beginning of the pogrom attempting to destroy the entire Jewish population of Europe. However, in 1940, surprisingly, many of these children were then placed in internment camps as enemy aliens.

In February 1939, the US Congress refused to allow the admission of 20,000 Jewish children from Germany. And on June 3, 1939, FDR denied admission of the 937 Jews who left Germany on the infamous voyage of the ocean liner St. Louis, leading to the eventual murder of all but 278 in the Holocaust.

President Trump ordered the removal of children from their parents when they crossed

the US-Mexico border seeking refuge from violence, poverty, and environmental change.

In June, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the most common avenues to asylum would be permanently closed. Although domestic violence and gang violence have been declared a major danger in the US, immigrants fleeing that violence would no longer qualify for safety in this country.

Former First Lady Laura Bush has declared: “I live in a border state.

I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart. Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities.” And even First Lady Melania Trump has pleaded for compassion.

When societal morality breaks down in the name of election politics, ethical standards are trampled. People are permanently damaged or even killed and we, as a nation, hide behind false rhetoric, falsely quoting the Bible and touting our human rights to deny safety to others.

We need to take a stand, because our Congressional representatives remain impotent. We must demand that Congress stop this barbarism now and limit Mr. Trump from continuing to inflict harm on the most vulnerable of people.

JOHN L. GHERTNER

Donating isn’t enough

So many groups communicate via the internet asking for financial support to further the objectives of Democrats, liberals, progressives. Apparently, many of these appeals are successful, and they keep on rolling. Maybe some of us donate now or then and figure we’ve done our bit.

Many of us are good at turning deaf ears, quick to disconnect, meaning to do something but then get distracted. But we, the people, must make the phone calls, write the letters, go out and demonstrate if we can, volunteer as much as possible, to extend and develop our humane, creative responses to the poisons of Trump and his people. We can never do enough.

Our big troubles are not going away yet.

MARTIN FASS

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GUEST COMMENTARY | BY VANESSA J. CHEEKS

July 4, Douglass, and the inheritance of freedom On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass took to the stage at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall to deliver a speech to the Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society.

He had been invited to commemorate the country’s 76th year of independence. He did praise the founding fathers for securing freedom for their new nation, but the celebrated orator, abolitionist, and former enslaved person used his speech to give a biting analysis of America’s hypocrisies in the thick of the anti-slavery movement.

Douglass’s speech, later titled “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” left no room for interpretation.

“The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common,” he said. “The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me.”

His words are as true now as they were then. Freedoms enjoyed by white Americans are not shared by black Americans, who are still fighting for equality.

This Independence Day has offered an opportunity to reflect on this important speech. It has also offered an opportunity to consider our current state.

Activist organizations like Black Lives Matter work to empower black people, but not without encountering a resistance that rivals the anti-abolitionist movements of Douglass’s time.

At the time, they claimed enslavement of black people was an economic necessity; they believed our “naturally” brutish demeanor required a firm hand. And as slavery became illegal, those invested in our subjugation developed new ways to strip us of our dignity and freedom — mass criminalization being one of the more successful.

Last year, Steve Prator, sheriff of Louisiana’s Caddo Parish, lamented the passing of the state’s Justice Reinvestment Package. The package is expected to release 10 percent of the state’s non-violent prison population, which the 2010 Census reported was 66 percent black.

“They’re releasing some good ones that we use every day to wash cars, to change oil in the cars, to cook in the kitchen, to do all that where we save money,” Prator said.

The “good ones” Prator mentioned make a measly $1 per hour washing those cars, if they’re lucky, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, a nonprofit organization that focuses on mass criminalization research.

Douglass’s words are as true now as they were then. Freedoms enjoyed by white Americans are not shared by black Americans.”

That same research shows that minimum daily wages paid to incarcerated workers nationwide is now 86 cents, down from 93 cents in 2001. These slave wages can be garnished according to state policies, and at times, prisoners end up owing the state in a system mirroring post-slavery sharecropping tactics.

This is modern -day slavery , and it is impacting blacks more than whites.

Blacks represent only 12 percent of the US adult population while whites make up 64 percent. In prison, though, blacks make up 33 percent of the population, edging out the white population by 3 percentage points, according to recent studies.

And how do we get there? We are at higher risk of being stopped by the police; we are incarcerated for longer periods of time for the same crimes; we are held without trial because we cannot afford bail, and we are kept in a cycle that makes it almost impossible for us to rehabilitate. It’s a cycle that lines the pockets of others.

“It is a fact, that whatever makes for the wealth or for the reputation of Americans and can be had cheap! will be found by Americans,” Douglass said in his speech at Corinthian Hall.

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School 12 renamed for Anna Douglass

The Rochester school board has renamed School 12 on South Avenue to honor Anna Murray Douglass, wife of Frederick Douglass.

The school was formerly named after James PB Duffy, who was a longtime school board member in the early 1900’s and later served as a member of Congress.

Anna Douglass’s work as an abolitionist and active member of the Underground Railroad has been largely overshadowed by that of her statesman husband, notes the Smithsonian Magazine. The newly named Anna Murray Douglass Academy – one of only four city schools named after a woman – is built on the site of the former Douglass home, which was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Should the city remove more of the Inner Loop?

At its July 24 meeting, City Council is expected to consider whether to approve a study of the feasibility of removing the Inner Loop’s north corridor. The study, which would cost $1 million, would look at removing the stretch of highway

between State Street and North Union Street.

Removing that portion, the Warren administration says, would free up space for more development and greenspace and would eliminate the physical barrier between downtown and nearby neighborhoods. Traffic would be diverted to University Avenue. The study, which would begin in the fall, would be funded by the state and wouldn’t require city financing.

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Deaths from opioid deaths rose again

Last year was the worst yet for opioid overdose deaths in Monroe County, according to data released today by the Monroe County Medical Examiner’s office.

The office says that 287 people died from opioid overdoses in Monroe, Allegany, Chemung, Genesee, Livingston, Ontario, Orleans, Steuben, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates counties. That’s a substantial jump from the 206 deaths in 2016 and a staggering increase from the 11 overdose deaths in 2011.

Of the 2017 deaths, 220 occurred in Monroe County – much higher than the 169 overdose deaths in 2016 and the 78 that occurred between 2011 and 2013.

Land on Industrial Street, near Broad Street, could be used for a new homeless encampment.

PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH

HOMELESSNESS | BY JAKE CLAPP

Rochester could see new tent city site Rochester could soon have an officially designated location where homeless people could set up an encampment.

City of Rochester officials are in talks with local homeless advocates to designate a parcel of land on Industrial Street, near West Broad, as an encampment site, and would turn over control of the property to a community organization. The city doesn’t intend to own or operate the site, said city spokesperson Jessica Alaimo.

Once there’s an agreement, the tent city on South Avenue will be relocated to the Industrial Street site. The encampment is on land

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owned by Spectrum, which made an attempt to clear the site in April.

Spectrum called 911 and made a trespassing complaint and police officers responded; a separate work crew called in by Spectrum also showed up and made a brief attempt to dismantle a tent. Housing rights and homeless activists more or less blocked the eviction attempt.

Spectrum hasn’t made any further attempts to clear the encampment.

It was that attempt, and the recent public attention the South Avenue tent city has received, that sparked what’s happening now, said Mercedes

Phelan, community organizer with Citizen Action of New York. Phelan has been organizing with the people living in the tent city for the last few months, and she was arrested during the April incident.

“Society really needs to change how they view homelessness,” Phelan said.

“And honestly, they’re not homeless, because they have homes: their tents.”

City officials and advocates for the homeless have to make a decision about who will take control of the property from the city. And a structure for operating the settlement hasn’t been arrived at yet.

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AIDS isn’t the death sentence it was during the 1980’s and early 1990’s. But the rates of infection and deaths from AIDS and HIV disease in the US are still significant.

A July vigil will focus attention on the disease.

AIDS AWARENESS | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

The fight against HIV isn’t over When Bruce Whitmore visited the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, DC, he says, it was a life-changing experience.

“You couldn’t go to that and not be moved,” he says. “Seeing all these people who died, you couldn’t stop crying.” That was in October 1996, and it was the last time that the AIDS Quilt was displayed in its entirety; it’s grown too large to transport and display.

Whitmore, who has been HIV positive for more than 30 years, helped organize the “HIV/AIDS Candlelight Vigil,” which will be held on Tuesday, July 17. The event is sponsored by the Rochester Victory Alliance, the HIV vaccine research arm of the University of Rochester Medical Center. Participants will gather at the AIDS Memorial in Highland Park at 7:30 p.m., and there’ll be a march to the Medical Center, where families and friends of those who died of AIDS will share loved ones’ stories.

While AIDS vigils were commonplace in cities around the country in the 1990’s, they’re less common today, Whitmore says. And that seems to reflect a cultural shift

even within the LGBTQ community, where other issues – marriage equality and transgender rights, for instance – are getting more attention.

That’s all good, he says, “but I was afraid that people were forgetting the many people who have lost their lives to this disease.” Whitmore found that many people in Rochester’s LGBTQ community didn’t even know there was an AIDS Memorial here.

AIDS isn’t the death sentence it was during the 1980’s and early 1990’s.

But the rates of infection and deaths from AIDS and HIV disease in the US are still significant. The CDC reports that in 2015, 1.1 million people were living with HIV. An estimated 20 percent didn’t know it.

Locally, there were approximately 1,049 people living with HIV in Monroe County in 2016 and 1,341 were living with the later stages of HIV or AIDS, according to a report from the New York State Department of Health. In Monroe County, there were 49 new cases of HIV and 33 new cases of AIDS in 2016.

Many people today have never seen someone who is dying from AIDS, and they don’t know the devastating impact

it had on the LGBTQ community during those early years, Whitmore says.

And if you were HIV, positive people were afraid to be near you, he says.

“You had to be quiet about it,” Whitmore says. “They wouldn’t touch you. They wouldn’t drink out of the same glass. You were really, really isolated.”

It wasn’t just the illness you had to cope with if you were positive; you had to worry about losing your job, your home, and even close friends, he says.

“We remember Stonewall as part of our history,” Whitmore says, “but we look at AIDS differently. This was part of who we are, too.”

People may think the problem has been solved and that HIV and AIDS is no longer a threat, but that’s not true, Whitmore says.

“I remember when I was diagnosed, it was like the sword of Damocles over me,” he says. “I kept asking when is AIDS going to take me?”

That anxiety and stress is still there for most people who are newly diagnosed. But attitudes about safe sex and HIV infection seemed to change after the drug cocktail came out, he says. continues on page 8

Bruce Whitmore helped organize a candlelight vigil because he was concerned that people may be forgetting about those who died from AIDS and that the battle to find a cure isn’t over, he says. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH

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Bicycles in the Pace bike share system must be unlocked using a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone. But not everyone has or can afford a smartphone, so some people are unable to access and use the bikes. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH

TRANSPORTATION | BY JEREMY MOULE

Bike share has a health potential Rochester’s bike share program is now in its second year, and it’s been quite the success so far.

The Pace service – which started as Zagster but was rebranded this year – got a late start last year and ran only for three months, but it counted 22,000 rides in that inaugural season. It started with 310 bikes but has seen enough demand and potential that it now has somewhere between 340 and 370 bikes on the city’s streets, depending on the day.

And it plans to add an additional 50 to 100 bikes this year.

Bicycling has quite a few welldocumented health benefits, and with lots of people pedaling the Pace bikes around town, Common Ground Health and the Genesee Transportation Council decided to take a look at the program’s existing and potential health benefits.

The organizations recently released their report on that subject – it’s a health impact assessment in technical-speak – and, unsurprisingly, they concluded that the bikes provide serious health and social benefits. It says, by way of example, that cycling for recreation or transportation provides an effective form of exercise and can help combat health problems such as obesity and heart disease.

But the report also raises a big red flag on access to the system, which the report says is not equitable. The bikes are more prevalent in the city’s relatively affluent southeast neighborhoods than in its northeast and 6 CITY

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westside neighborhoods, although the bikes and stations are scattered across the city.

The report lays out roughly two dozen recommendations for the bike share system, but one of the most pointed is a call to prioritize the placement of new bike share-stations in lowincome census tracts where people have higher rates of chronic health issues.

One other pointed recommendation from the report: Pace should find a way for people to rent the bikes without using a credit or debit card, and a way that doesn’t require a Bluetooth-enabled smartphone.

“That was the major barrier I was worried about” from Day 1, says Theresa Bowick, a nurse who started the started the Conkey Cruisers neighborhood bicycling program.

Not everyone has a credit or debit card, she says, and smartphones are expensive.

Pace has already made a big change that allows users to pay with cash instead of a card. Bike users can go into retailers that are part of the PayNearMe network – 7-11, CVS, and Family Dollar are among them – and boost their Pace balance by paying cash. They can then use the Pace app to rent and unlock bikes.

The company is still working on a system to rent bikes without a smartphone, says Aviva Manin, Pace’s Rochester market manager. The company is also offering a $5 monthly subscription for public-assistance recipients, she says.

Bowick – who was part of the health assessment steering committee – says she’s

pleased that Pace is making progress on the payments issue.

To be clear, Pace, Common Ground Health,

the Genesee Transportation Council, and Bowick all see themselves as partners, not adversaries. The health impact assessment isn’t harsh on Pace; it’s framed constructively.

“We’re 100 percent on board with the recommendations that were made and really want to see bike share being an incredible tool to help improve the health of Rochester residents in every part of the city,” says Manin.

The assessment was based on Pace’s limited first season, and it’s been in continuous discussion with different groups in the community about how to make the bike-share system better. The company is already trying to make some of the improvements, Manin says.

Beyond the payment issue, it’s also paying attention to the report’s recommendations about docking station and bike placement.

New stations are in the works in the 19th Ward, Maplewood, and North Winton Village, Manin says.

“I do think those two things right off the top were big wins,” says Albert Blankley, Common Ground’s director of research and analytics.

The report also tackles the bike-share system’s potential to connect neighborhoods to sources of fresh, healthy food, such as grocery stores and farm markets.

“We find that availability and access to healthy food has an immense impact on

people’s health and their ability to sort of manage their own health,” Blankley says.

Many city neighborhoods with low car ownership – generally lower-income neighborhoods – also lack full-service grocery stores. It can be difficult for people to navigate the transit system for a grocery run, and they have to haul their purchases onto the bus and from the bus to stop to their home. Odds are, there’ll be some distance between the two.

Having easy access to the Pace bike share could make grocery store trips simpler, especially when there are docking stations with reliably available bikes right at the stores, Blankley says. And in Pace’s new dockless system, users are allowed to secure bikes to anywhere it’s legal and are no longer required to return them to a docking station. That means users could ride from the store right up to their front steps.

One of Pace’s first stations was at the Public Market, and the company consistently made efforts to locate docking stations at grocery stores. It has one at the Tops in the 19th Ward and another coming to the Tops in Maplewood.

“The East Avenue Wegmans – we’d love to put one there if they were amenable to it,” Manin says. “But I know that for them space is such a premium.”

But Bowick points out that the East Avenue Wegmans does have bike racks, which the Pace bikes can use.

Bowick started Conkey Cruisers because

of cycling’s health and community benefits. And through seven seasons of rides on the El Camino Trail, which happen several times a week throughout the summer, she’s seen people lose weight, lower their blood pressure, and decrease the amount of diabetes medication they have to take.

She also says that biking can help ease pain associated with sickle cell disease.

Conkey Cruisers is an incredibly popular program and organization; roughly 300 people register each season, and rides typically draw around 150 people, Bowick says. The sense of community plays a big part of that.

But many of the program’s health benefits are a result not just of physical activity, but of education. Bowick takes groups for a ride to Wegmans and walk them through safely securing their bikes, gives them a challenge to buy a healthy meal for four people spending only $5, and teaches them about safely transporting things such as meat.

The health impact assessment recommends more outreach about the bike share system and its potential health benefits.

It also advocates for continued build-out of bike infrastructure in Rochester and for efforts to inform cyclists and drivers about the rules of the road as they apply to bikes.

“The education piece becomes critical,” Bowick says.

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What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?”

- FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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the war on drugs, private prisons promised cheap operating costs to keep up with the demand. In return, states promised a minimum number of prisoners to fill the beds. The Corrections Corporation of America was one of the first for-profit prison companies when it opened in 1983. In 2015, it recorded $1.9 billion in revenue.

This system couldn’t operate like that without public consent.

Recently, while watching an episode of “Cops,” a friend claimed that the reason black people get shot by the police is because “they talk back.” As if talking back justified death.

The perception that black people are inherently loud, rude, or angry is often used against us. Our perceived uppityness also allows white people to distance themselves from what happens to us. We always have it coming.

If Trayvon Martin had simply let a stranger follow him home from the store, he might not have been shot. If Tamir Rice hadn’t been playing with a toy gun, in an open carry state, he might not have been shot. If Sandra Bland had not mouthed off, she might still be alive today.

When Colin Kaepernick kneeled during

the national anthem to protest statesanctioned violence against black people, that distance grew. Kaepernick’s actions were painted as unpatriotic despite his repeated attempts to clarify that his issue was with the continued killing of black people at the hands of police. His small rebellion spread, and he’s no longer playing pro football. No team has been willing to sign him.

The National Football League passed a rule that all players must now stand on the field for the National Anthem or wait in the locker room.

But the United States was built on rebellion. “They felt themselves the victims of grievous wrongs,” Douglass said, “wholly 8 CITY

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incurable in their colonial capacity. With brave men there is always a remedy for oppression.”

The remedy he spoke of, and that you celebrate each year, came in the form of protests. The protests destroyed property and resisted government. The remedy came in the form of a war. Today those same actions are vilified.

Black Americans fight a daily battle against systems that oppress us, people who hate us, and those who don’t believe that our experiences as Americans differ from their own.

We also fight our allies who attempt to talk over us. Who take up space on the stage and, seeing the lack of black representation, do not move.

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?” Douglass asked. “I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.” Douglass found it abhorrent that a country could celebrate freedom from oppression while their slaves served the cake.

Like Frederick Douglass, I’m not sure I can celebrate freedom from oppression while it still persists. I am not enslaved in my country, not the way my family was. But I am not free in my own country — not the way white people are.

Our bondage comes in the form of systematic racism that is a remnant of the same American slave trade that Douglass despised. It is small aggressions that wear us down. It is not shackles but it is oppressive and aims to silence those who would speak out. It’s also entire systems designed to ensnare us. It has killed black people to this day. It should not be celebrated. It won’t be by me.

Vanessa J. Cheeks is a writer for Open Mic Rochester.

You can find her work at openmicroc.com.

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“I think many younger people think that there will be a cure in their lifetime or they can just take the medications,” he says.

It’s true that there have been many advances in research and treatment of HIV, says Dr. Michael Keefer, a URMC professor and researcher in infectious disease. But the treatments can have serious side effects, they’re expensive, and they can cause cardiovascular problems, says Keefer, who will be speaking at the vigil.

Keefer, who went to his first World AIDS Conference in 1992, will attend this year’s conference, which starts later this month in Amsterdam.

“There was no good HIV medical treatment back then,” Keefer says. “We were just beginning to understand that AZT could prevent transmission from mother to baby.”

The UR’s research for the last 30 years has focused on new medicines and finding a vaccine, Keefer says. But despite the advances, relatively little progress has been made at eliminating bigotry and stigma, which still create barriers in some

communities to getting tested and, if needed, getting into treatment, Keefer says. Events like the upcoming vigil help to chip away at it, he says.

“Stigma still exists the same as it’s always been for men who have sex with men, especially men of color,” he says.

(Information about the event or about volunteering for a vaccine trial is available at 585-756-2329).

Correcting ourselves In the July 3 article on Joe Morelle’s primary victory we stated an incorrect turnout figure for the 2013 Democratic primary for Rochester mayor. In that race, 22.6 percent of registered city Democrats cast a vote.

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Summer suppin’ [ CHOW HOUND ] BY KATIE LIBBY

We’re deep in the throes of summer which means there are loads of opportunities to wine and dine outside (or indoors for those that prefer that sweet relief of air conditioning). For this week’s Chow Hound, we have compiled a by no means comprehensive list of local food events happening around town this summer.

Bar Bantam (1 South Clinton Avenue) will host Patio Picnics on Thursday nights all summer long from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. with different specials each night. On the menu for Thursday, July 12, will be Bantam burgers and $6 Fisher’s Island Spiked Lemonade. Grab a taco and a $6

margarita from the taco bar on July 19.

July 26 will feature empanadas and $6 Caipirinhas. Daniel King will be providing live entertainment each night. Search “Patio Picnic Summer Dinner Series” on Facebook.

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Unter Biergarten have teamed up to host a Pop-Up Cantina on Saturday, July 14, at The Wilder Room (120 East Avenue) from 4 to 7 p.m., just prior to a performance by the RPO from the “Star Wars Concert Series” at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Star Warsthemed food and beverage specials will be available and entry is free for those that have a ticket for the performance. If you’re not going to the performance and still want to check it out, admission is $5. Come dressed as your

favorite Star Wars character for a night at the Mos Eisley Spaceport. Live long and prosper.

Oh, wait, that’s Star Trek…damn! I tried.

Search “Pop-Up Cantina” on Facebook.

Midtown Eats will continue its takeover of the Midtown Pedestrian Walkway (280 East Broad Street) on Thursdays, July 12 and 26, and August 9 and 23. Restaurants participating in the July 12 event include Tavern at Gibbs, Eat Greek, Park Ave Paninoteca, and a handful of other local eateries. Lunch hours are from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and dinner hours are from 5 to 9 p.m. Parking is free in the Midtown Garage.

The City of Rochester’s Food Truck Rodeo at the Rochester Public Market (280 North Union Street) will take place on

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Wednesday, July 25 and Wednesday, August 29. The July 25 date will feature music from Something Else and hordes of local food trucks to stuff your face from. There’s even a free shuttle that picks up at the East End Garage and drops you at the market. The first shuttle leaves the East End Garage at 5:30 p.m. and the last one leaves the Public Market at 9:30 p.m. More information at cityofrochester.gov/foodtruckrodeo.

The Monroe County Farm Bureau has teamed up with the Monroe County Soil and Water Conservation District and the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County to present the annual “Farm to Table Dinner: Celebrate Agriculture,” taking place on Sunday, August 12, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Clubhouse at Durand Eastman Park. It’s a celebration of local produce prepared by local chefs, and proceeds from the event will support the Monroe County Farm Bureau scholarship fund and support the promotion and education of agriculture in the community.

Tickets are $25 per person in advance and $30 at the door and can be purchased at monroecountyfarmbureauny.org.

Chow Down Downtown will take place on Wednesday, August 22, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Church Street between State and Fitzhugh Streets.

This City of Rochester event encourages downtown workers to unchain themselves from their desks and grab some lunch for a variety of local food trucks, or to patronize a downtown restaurant. The Meatball Truck, Effortlessly Healthy, and Rob’s Kabobs are just a few of the trucks that will be parked along Church Street, which will be closed for traffic during the event. Visit cityofrochester.gov/chowdown for more information.

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LIFTING HA THE POWER OF THE BLACK CHURCH ON AMERICAN HISTORY AND TODAY’S FAMILIES [ PHOTO ESSAY ] BY TIANNA MAÑÓN AND MICHELE ASHLEE | PHOTOS BY MICHELE ASHLEE

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he church has long been a pillar of the black community. Certainly, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. heavily relied on it to organize people and spread his message. It was also critical for the career of Frederick Douglass, the noted abolitionist and social reformer who called Rochester home for 25 years.

Douglass published the first copies of his newspaper, The North Star, in the basement of Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. He would also play a key role in the area’s Underground Railroad activites, and one of the stops was in the basement of that church.

From abolition of slavery to Civil Rights, the church has played a major role in the fight for freedom and equality. Even the creation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church was out of resistance.

When the United States Constitution was being written in Philadelphia and “declared that black people were three-fifths of a citizen, right down the street, Richard Allen and other black members walked out of St. George’s Methodist Episcopal Church, where they were relegated to the balcony,” said Reverend James Simmons, leader of Baber AME Church. “They were declaring we are humans with worth and value. They walked out and founded the AME Church. That walkout was the first civil rights protest in the United States.”

A lot of the language and framing around freedom comes from the church, Simmons said. The Bible doesn’t shy away from conflict.

“Jesus comes and right from jump, he says, ‘I come to deal with mass incarceration,’” Simmons said. “Luke 4:18: He says, ‘The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach good news for the poor, set me to proclaim: release, freedom for the prisoner and recovery of the sight for the blind.’ Freedom for the prisoner.

That right there is mass incarceration … to release the oppressed.”

Baber AME is one of the most socially conscious churches in the Rochester area, particularly when it comes to gun violence. Leaders there hold annual memorials to those lost to gun violence and demand more action from officials and the community to keep Rochester youth alive.

It’s certainly not the only church, though. Central Church of Christ and its founding pastor, Minister Franklin Florence Sr., have spent decades helping the Rochester area heal, and

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(Top left) David Williams and his daughter at Glory House International. David’s wife, Amanda Williams (bottom right), opened a Sunday service in prayer. “My children attend church with us because they’re gifts given to me by the Father himself,” Amanda Williams said.

(Top right and bottom left) The church serves as a place for multiple generations to come together for worship and community discussions.

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in February, Florence led a rally against racism in President Donald Trump’s administration. Other actions include working to change a panel of racist art at the historic Dentzel Carousel in Ontario Beach Park and leading other walks, rallies, and events against community violence.

According to local clergy and churchgoers, the church provides a place to not only collaborate and get energized for the next fight but to recuperate from the last battle. Spiritual healing and uplifting is part of most delivered messages, particularly including passages that discuss how those who were persecuted will be rewarded in Heaven.

But church is more than just the message.

There are cook-offs and banquets, talent shows, fashion shows, and other small events that bring people together and allow them to talk in ways they can’t when seated next to each other in pews. There is an especially concerted focus on involving youth as a way to prevent violence, drug dealing and use, and encourage the next generation.

“Personally,” said Brandi D. Hayes, who attends Glory House International, “my church has served as means of support to me and my family. Truly, indeed they are our family. We affectionately say ‘This is our tribe.’ You have people praying and interceding on your behalf when you are weathering a myriad of storms in your life. They provide a biblical and spiritual foundation to strengthen your resolve and endure anything that may come your way.”

However, in the last few decades the perception of the black church has somewhat changed. For a while, church leaders were resistant to change, often sticking with traditional messages and delivery, which some local pastors say could have alienated young people.

Examples include sermons that preach against homosexuality, requiring certain attire, and not allowing for expression.

“If you’re gay, forget about it,” said Christopher “Christy” Jones. Jones said he doesn’t conform to traditional gender expressions and from an early age felt left out, but he had been forced to go to church most of his childhood with his grandparents.

“It wasn’t really direct,” Jones said. “No one said, ‘You’re gay, you don’t belong here.’ But I feel like sometimes people would just stare a bit too long and, of course, you have the pastor preaching that I’m going to Hell.”

That doesn’t mean Jones’s experiences are typical of all black churches, just more traditional ones, he says. Other churches, especially those led by younger pastors, are typically more embracing but, he said, he is done with church for now, choosing instead to read the Bible alone. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 13

“Unfortunately, the perception and the good works of the church have been tainted,” Brandi Hayes said. “But what I can assure those who have questions or may be looking for a church home is that it’s more than what you may read or see on social media and the news. The church is a refuge full of believers and non-believers and, at least at Glory House International, we accept you where you are.”

“It’s time for the church to redefine itself,” Jones said. “God is about love, and what’s crazy is that we’ve had the church to guide us for centuries, now we really need it and preachers are just closed up in there, collecting money and just preaching. Get out and help us.”

But churches, in general, are operating in a new age, and like many industries, some clergy admit they were slow to adopt changes.

Up until a few years ago, there hadn’t been a major civil rights movement not connected to the church, said Melvin Cross, pastor of Glory House International. The Black Lives Matter movement is the first, “and being an urban church, we see the plight of black and brown lives, the crises happening to these people, and if the church ignores that cry, we have a problem.”

Cross said he was inspired to become a pastor because his parents were. Most children are deterred from the career if their parents work in the church, he said, but instead he was driven more into it. He saw his parents help everyday people as much as they could, providing food, clothing, and shelter.

“We are very aware of the times and both big movements and daily needs are a focus,” he said.

However, times have changed.

Overall, fewer Americans are going to church, and that means it can be harder for faith leaders to take the wheel.

“Prior to technology, people had to come to a central location, and the church in the black community has always been the center location of the community, so the minister’s voice was the loudest — and freest — in the community,” James Simmons said. “Now with media and technology, the people aren’t limited to just the church’s voice. There are more voices in the public square which is a very different dynamic.”

Music plays an essential role in the church. It’s not just restricted to Sunday services, but choir members rehearse during the week and Gospel is a massive, mainstream genre of music.

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(Right) Brandi D. Hayes becomes overwhelmed with emotion during a service at Glory House. It’s not an uncommon sight to see worshippers jump, shout, and sing openly during church.

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Eris Drew and Clark Price. Saturday, July 21. Photo City,

543 Atlantic Avenue. 10 p.m. $15-$20. facebook.com/ photocityimprovcomedyclub; facebook.com/solerehabroc. [ INDIE ROCK ]

Hidden Garden Concert with Maybird. Saturday, August 4.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Avenue. 6 p.m. $8-$10. eastman.org; maybird.bandcamp.com. [ JAZZ POP ]

Pink Martini. Friday, October 5. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs Street. 8 p.m. eastmantheatre.org; pinkmartini.com.

Wilder Maker

SATURDAY, JULY 14 SMALL WORLD BOOKS, 425 NORTH STREET 9 P.M. | $5-$10 SUGGESTED DONATION | 232-6970; FACEBOOK.COM/SMALLWORLDBOOKS; WILDERMAKER.COM [ INDIE ROCK ] The brooding Brooklyn band Wilder

Maker’s sound is both intricate and ruminative; it’s as if Americana moved to the big city, bringing quiet epiphanies that flourish until they burst into emotive confessions of the soul. These sonic moments pave the way for epic vocal hooks — sung by the tandem of Katie Von Schleicher and Gabriel Birnbaum, whose dusky, worldly baritone is reminiscent of Randy Newman. The result is enchanting, with finely crafted songs that meet somewhere between indie rock and adult contemporary. Anamon and Madeleine McQueen are also on the bill. — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

RPO Jazz Trio TUESDAY, JULY 17 CORNER OF JOSEPH AND CLIFFORD AVENUES 6:30 P.M. | FREE | 454-2100; RPO.ORG [ JAZZ ] Summer is the perfect season to hear a side of the

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra that you don’t typically get during the regular concert season. In addition to the customary, warm-weather lineup of movie score classics, pops favorites, and patriotic fare, there’s also the RPO Jazz Trio. The group will perform where Joseph Avenue and Clifford Avenue intersect on Tuesday as part of the orchestra’s series of Around the Town Neighborhood Ensemble Concerts. The free concert will be followed by performances from Garth Fagan Youth Dance Ensemble and Latino Theatre Company. (Rain location is the Avenue D R-Center). — BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

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JAZZ ON THE LAWN FREE SUMMER CONCERTS AT 6:30PM! WED. JULY 11TH:

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Will be moved indoors in case of rain

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[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]

[ WED., JULY 11 ]

Sastrugi

BLUES

“The Time: Night” Self-released sastrugi.bandcamp.com

Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express THURSDAY, JULY 12 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. PARK, 353 COURT STREET 5:30 P.M. | $5 | CITYOFROCHESTER.GOV/PITP; CHUCKPROPHET.COM

Devon Gilfillian. Abilene

Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 8 p.m. $8/$12.

This here’s a dip in odd waters with the Rochester band Sastrugi. This new, five-song EP, “The Time: Night,” has a sound reminiscent of the attack of pop guitar coming out of a transistor radio mounted on the handlebars of your banana-seat five-speed — a mood demonstrated on the opening track, “Miasma.”

The band doesn’t waste any time revving it up, though, diving into the fist-pumping punk rock anthem “Lay Him to Rest.”

Sastrugi — Sam Snyder, engineer and assorted noise; Matt Treadwell, vocals and guitar; Benton Sillick, bass; and Joe Parker on drums — Frankensteins several other genres in with the combination of the obvious ones. It is never too far from the indie; the car is never too far from the garage; and the foot is never too far from the gas pedal.

“The Time: Night” is a bold record, with its vocal vulnerability and Sastrugi’s seemingly agitated arrangements, erratic time signatures, and overall restlessness.

The EP isn’t weird per se, but it is unique. Some fans are really going to love it, even the ones left scratching their heads. It’s approachable and it doesn’t care if you can figure it out in its entirety. That’s not Sastrugi’s intention as far as I can see. Wondrous and wonderful. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

[ ROCK ] Chuck Prophet perked my ears when he opened

for Lucinda Williams at Party in the Park several years ago.

The guitar gunslinger stole the show by performing one of the most memorable sets I’ve ever heard; every song was seemingly better than the last. Prophet writes top-notch tunes similar to the late Tom Petty but with a sound that’s anchored in San Francisco rather than Gainesville. Prophet’s roots lie in the West Coast Paisley Underground band Green on Red and he’s a classic in his own right. Chuck Prophet and The Mission Express opens for G. Love & Special Sauce. — BY ROMAN DIVEZUR

MAKU Soundsystem WEDNESDAY, JULY 18 FUNK ‘N WAFFLES, 204 NORTH WATER STREET 8 P.M. | $10-$13 | ROCHESTER.FUNKNWAFFLES.COM; FACEBOOK.COM/MAKUSOUNDSYSTEM [ WORLD BEAT ] Prepare to get pantsed on the dance-

floor when New York City’s MAKU Soundsystem goes off. This is pure polyrhythmic glee set to stun. The band is contagious and looks to set everything in motion in a sort of pharmaceutical-grade, nightly world beat free for all. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

REGGAE/JAM

John Payton Project. Record

Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-8 p.m.

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Conor & The Wild Hunt, Mitty & the Followers. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 448-0354. 8 p.m. $5/$7.

POP/ROCK

Concerts by the Shore: The Skycoasters. Ontario Beach

Park, 4799 Lake Ave. 7 p.m.

JAVA. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7-9 p.m.

Jumbo Shrimp. Marge’s Lakeside Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020. 6-9 p.m.

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Summer Sunset Series: Pete Griffith & David Miller. The

Stone Soup “Big Wheel Turn” Unified Field Records stonesoupmusic.com

Penthouse, 1 East Ave. 6 p.m. $5.

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Stone Soup’s “Big Wheel Turn” is derived from a whole lot of music in the folk tradition. It’s neo-traditionalist, to say the least. But the traditional comparisons end there. Stone Soup picks and sings big and pretty with its own contemporary flair.

The band offers smooth renditions of iconic tunes, like “John Henry” and “Gambler’s Blues,” along with material by Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry. Which is all well and good except for the fact the band doesn’t serve them up with the original pine and pain we’re used to — and they shouldn’t.

If I could, I’d play like these guys do, and hell, I’d even attempt to pull off an album like this. See, it is Stone Soup’s record to choose what it does and how it does it. But for me, it doesn’t quite fit: this veneer of musical proficiency instead of earthy re-interpretations. But before you rally the angry mob and the bloodhounds, let me just say, “Big Wheel Turn” is still a good record and Stone Soup’s fans are gonna undoubtedly love it. I just found it a little slick. — BY FRANK DE BLASE

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Church of Rochester, 150 Clinton Ave S. 274-1400.

12:15-12:45 p.m. Hornist Erin Futterer & her quartet.

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Beats at Brooks. Brooks

Landing, 1500 S Plymouth Ave. 313-2559. Every other Thursday, 7-8 p.m.

Blake Pattengale Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place.

Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.

John Palocy Trio & Maggie Mullen. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 7-9 p.m.

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Music kind of a Zen place where I can read and write and do other things.

I hear you are working on composing the music for a video game called “Sable.” How does working on a video game compare to writing for a band? Do you have plans to play any of the songs live with your band?

Oh, it’s totally different. I really doubt I will play any of the songs live with the band.

Mostly everything so far has been electronic and done with MIDI, so there’s not much of a place for it in a set, I don’t think. Aside from the trailer, most of it is ambient music, so unlike the pop songs I write for the band, there aren’t any repeating parts or vocal melodies. It’s been really fun and different.

I’m wondering if this video game project has made you approach songwriting any differently. Do you have a specific process that you like to use when songwriting?

Michelle Zauner and her band, Japanese Breakfast, will play the Bug Jar on Monday, July 16. PHOTO BY JOYCE JUDE

Soft sounds from a smaller stage Japanese Breakfast WITH MOTHERS AND CALICOCO MONDAY, JULY 16 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $15-$17 | BUGJAR.COM; JAPANESEBREAKFAST.ROCKS [ INTERVIEW ] BY KATIE PRESTON

Michelle Zauner has a distinct vision and Japanese Breakfast is the vessel. The indie hero got her start in the band Post Post before fronting Philadelphia’s much-loved Little Big League. But when a difficult time hit, Japanese Breakfast became Zauner’s solo outlet, bringing together both melancholy and upbeat pop elements.

Japanese Breakfast’s first album, “Psychopomp” — which Zauner wrote in the wake of the untimely death of her mother in 2015 — made waves as a beautiful work of art from start to finish. The lyrics are extremely personal and relatable, given with a raw vocal delivery, and the album is rich with dreamlike, shoegaze melodies.

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a clear departure from what came before, but the full-length album was met with critical acclaim as a collection of wonderfully diverse, multi-dimensional songs. And following the release of “Soft Songs from Another Planet,” Japanese Breakfast has been busy touring, both nationally and internationally.

Japanese Breakfast plays the Bug Jar on Monday, July 16, so CITY shot some questions to Zauner to ask about touring, writing music for a video game, and what’s in the future for her band. An edited transcript follows.

CITY: Japanese Breakfast has been busy touring and played the Pitchfork, Bonnaroo, and Coachella festivals this year. How does it feel coming back to Rochester and playing

Our sets are shorter at big festivals, so we don’t get to play as much of our catalogue. The sets are more geared toward the more upbeat songs to keep people engaged. Headlining shows we get to play for longer, stretch out, and take our time, play the slower songs.

You’ve been touring a ton. How do you and the band handle being constantly on the road? I imagine you have some tricks by now on taking care of yourselves despite long spurts away from home.

I think you have to learn just to give each other space and to pace yourself. I’ve been trying to stretch and exercise a bit more to avoid injuring my back. Try not to drink as much alcohol, sleep well, hydrate more. All the boring stuff you don’t want to hear about.

to a small club?

I generally write songs pretty quickly, and it will stem from some lyrics I feel connected to and then weave itself around a melody and a guitar or key line. On “Soft Sounds” my process changed a bit as I was writing quite a bit in the studio and letting specific tones and instruments inform the direction of a song. I haven’t written anything new since working on this game soundtrack, so I’m not sure how it will inform it. I have gotten a lot more comfortable making electronic beats, so I imagine that might work itself in there.

From knowing you in Little Big League, and now with the most recent Japanese Breakfast album, it seems like your music has evolved a lot. What do you attribute that to?

I think that’s just what time does to you when you’ve had the same job for quite some time. The hope is that you just get better and gain more skills that help you progress. I also think that your perspective changes a lot from your early-20’s into your late-20’s. I went through a huge life change after my mom passed away, so that definitely changed me in a huge way as an artist and a person.

Michelle Zauner: I think this is my third time

What have you and the band been listening

at the Bug Jar. Tim Avery is a good friend of mine and I have such fond memories of that venue. It’s nice to do it all. Intimate club shows are a part of it.

to while on the road?

What are you looking forward to in the near

We’ve loved the new Natalie Prass and Hop

future with Japanese Breakfast? Any new

Along. That Phoebe Bridgers record is a van

projects or plans in the works that you are

favorite. I listen to a lot of Japanese ambient

excited for?

Does your stage show change at all when it’s

music in headphones. I need soothing music

not a big festival stage or music hall?

like Brian Eno and Cornelius to keep me in

Hopefully some video projects and nonfiction works will come out by the end of the year. Working on the “Sable”

POP/ROCK

Adam Ezra Group. Funk ‘n

Waffles, 204 N Water Street.

448-0354. 8 p.m. $18/$22.

Blaggards:Stout Irish Rock.

Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

8 p.m. $8/$12.

Freezepop, Symbion Project.

Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 8 p.m. $10-$15.

Heart Attack Kids, Periodic Table of Elements, House Majority. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 9 p.m. $8/$10.

Incognito Burrito, Cypher. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 10 p.m. $5.

Party in the Park: Love & Special Sauce, Chuck Prophet & the Mission Express, Ron Artis II. MLK Jr. Memorial Park,

1 Manhattan Square. 5 p.m. $5.

The Wallboards, Auld Lang Syne, Colonel Parmisan. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 8 p.m. $5.

Wreckless Eric. Bop Shop Records, 1460 Monroe Ave. 271-3354. 8 p.m. $15/$20.

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Dnb Will Set Us Free: The D, Nomad, Blinkin. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 11 p.m.

JAZZ

Hanna PK. Via Girasole Wine

Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

TRADITIONAL

Moonlight Stroll Concert Series: Tullamore Celtic Band. Sonnenberg Gardens &

Mansion State Historic Park, 151 Charlotte St. Canandaigua. sonnenberg.org. 8-10 p.m. $5-$10.

REGGAE/JAM

The Gerry Jarcia String Band, Electric Kif. Funk ‘n Waffles,

204 N Water Street. 448-0354.

9 p.m. $10.

METAL

I Set My Friends on Fire, Annisokay, 7 Minutes in Heaven. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 6 p.m. $15-$20.

Sinnfest V. July 13 & 14. Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 7 p.m. Underground metal bands & burlesque.

POP/ROCK

Chrmr, Pink Elephant, Sound Discard. Rosen Krown, 875

Monroe Ave. 271-7050. 10 p.m.

Chrmr CD release party.

Hunky Dory, Elephant in the Room, Denali Ries. California

Brew Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480. 8 p.m. $8.

The Huntress & Holder of Hands, Tough Old Bird, Everdene Holler. Bug Jar, 219

Monroe Ave. 8:30 p.m. $10/$12.

Park Point Concert in the Square: Max Creek, Sim Redmond Band, Extended Family, Haewa. Park Point,

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SOUL | SERATONES

Straight outta Shreveport, Louisiana, it’s the Seratones bringing a brilliant mash-up of searing soul and greasy, greasy R&B. Reminiscent of The Bellrays’ blast of punk and soul and The Reigning Sound’s lo-fi garage rock, Seratones is an outfit full of cocksure swagger and bodacious guts. Led by singer A.J. Haynes, the band doesn’t just play to the audience, it positively incites and ignites, washing over them more like a salaciously sonic slathering. Seratones has the Fat Possum seal of approval as well as mine.

No matter what you do, don’t miss it. Seriously.

Seratones plays Wednesday, July 18, at the George Eastman Museum, 900 East Avenue. 6 p.m. $15. eastman.org; seratones.band.

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REGGAE/JAM

BLUES

Lighthouse, 7606 N. Ontario St. Sodus Point. 315-483-4936.

2-4 p.m.

Joe Beard & His Band. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 8 p.m.

Noah Moses. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 5-7 p.m.

JAZZ

Annie Wells Trio. Via Girasole

METAL

Holy War, Kodivk, REPS, Tugboat, The Weight We Carry.

Photo City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 6 p.m. $10.

Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place.

Pittsford. 641-0340. 7-10 p.m.

Dave DiPrimo Band. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. 292-9940. lovincup.com. 8 p.m. $5.

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METAL

Joe Cavallaro’s Dixieland Jazz Band. Radisson Hotel Rochester

The Faceless, Lorna Shore, Dyscarnate, Dead Eyes Always Dreaming. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520.

7 p.m. $17-$20.

JAZZ Airport, 175 Jefferson Rd. 585458-3040. flowercityjazz.org.

6:30 p.m. $12.

TRADITIONAL

POP/ROCK Paleface. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 7:30 p.m. $10.

[ SUN., JULY 15 ]

Hopeman Carillon Concert: James Fackenthal. Eastman

Quadrangle, 500 Wilson Blvd.

733-1308. 7-8 p.m. Rain or shine; bring seating.

POP/ROCK

CLASSICAL

Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival: Piano Quartets. Keuka College, 141 Central Ave, FingerLakes-Music.org.

7:30 p.m. Norton Chapel. $25.

400 Park Point Dr. 272-2525. lovincup.com. 6 p.m.

HIP-HOP/RAP

Route 247 Canandaigua, NY, 14424. 8 p.m. $18/$22.

Ave. 9 p.m. With Tahjmere Elliott, SKUM / SOL, & FTH. $5/$10.

Rubblebucket, Star Rover, The Demos. Lincoln Hill Farms 3792

The Buddhahood. Sodus Bay

Chi the Realist Record Release. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe

Japanese Breakfast, Mothers, Calicoco. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 9 p.m. $13-$17.

[ TUE., JULY 17 ] CLASSICAL

Ad Hoc Music. Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County, 115 South Avenue. 428-8380.

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Culture RocPride ‘18 [ CULTURE ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Hip-hop and all-style dance battle “Fringe Street Beat” returns for its third year during the second weekend of Rochester Fringe. PHOTO BY JOHN SCHLIA

Rochester Fringe announces 2018 lineup [ PREVIEW ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

The KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival keeps growing. The 2017 Fringe broke its previous records, attracting more than 78,000 people — a 15 percent increase from the year before.

And audiences packed Parcel 5 both nights of “Friday & Saturday on the Fringe” to see the US debut of French company Plasticiens Volants perform its “BIG BANG” show.

The Rochester Fringe is now expanding to 11 days. Fringe organizers held its Big Reveal press conference on Tuesday at Eastman’s Hatch Recital Hall to announce the 2018 event’s full lineup, including more than 500 performances. The 7th annual Rochester Fringe Festival (the second with KeyBank as its title sponsor) takes place Wednesday, September 12, through Saturday, September 22, at venues in and around downtown Rochester.

The Fringe in June announced this year’s comedy headliner: English comedian, actor, and author Eddie Izzard will headline Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre on Friday, September 21, presenting his “Eddie Izzard: Believe Me” show.

At Tuesday’s Big Reveal organizers announced that this year’s “Friday & Saturday on the Fringe” spectacle will be enormous sing-a-longs with the London-based band Massaoke (literally massive karaoke) making its North American debut. Playing live hit music from the 1960’s through today, the 20 CITY JULY 11 - 17, 2018

audience joins along en masse to sing karaoke guided by lyrics on a big screen.

More than 150 shows during this year’s Fringe will be free, including a weekend of festival-curated entertainment on Gibbs Street, September 21 and September 22. This second weekend of Fringe includes more than a dozen bands and the third annual Fringe Street Beat. (Teams can now sign up for the hip-hop and all-style dance battle to compete for a $1,500 prize. Head to rochesterfringe. com to learn more.)

The Cristal Palace Spiegeltent and surrounding Spiegelgarden will again be set up at the corner of Gibbs and East Main, with Matt and Heidi Morgan — in their third Rochester Fringe appearance — premiering a new show. The daily show, “Cirque Du Fringe: Sideshow,” is inspired by the Golden Age of American circus and bears a vintage vibe.

The first weekend’s late-night, Spiegeltent show will be “Other People’s Shows,” a comedy featuring Rochester’s Unleashed!

Improv’s interpretations of other Fringe productions based on their descriptions. The second weekend features “Shotspeare,” a rowdy adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” that’s also a drinking game.

Silent Disco — which has sold out for six years running — is back at 11 p.m. on both Fridays and Saturdays. And Disco Kids returns on Saturday, September 22, as part of

a Kids’ Day that will also include chalk art, a Cirque du Fringe matinee, and pumpkinpainting. The popular, free Gospel Sunday event, hosted by Reverend Rickey Harvey, also returns this year to Kilbourn Hall on Sunday, September 16.

The student-run art and music festival ArtAwake joins Fringe this year to take over the top floor of the former Changing Scene restaurant (First Federal Plaza) on the final day of Fringe from noon to midnight.

The majority of the festival’s 500 performances are organized by the individual venues — artists and producers submit their shows to venues during an open call earlier in the year, and the venues select which shows will appear on their stages. The full schedule of events and tickets are now online at rochesterfringe.com.

This year’s Fringe venues are The Avyarium in the Village Gate; Blackfriars Theatre; the Central Library; Eastman School of Music; First Federal Plaza; Garth Fagan Dance Studio; Geva Theatre Center; Java’s Café; The Little Theatre; Lyric Theatre; Memorial Art Gallery; MuCCC; RIT City Space (near the Liberty Pole); the School of the Arts; Village Gate; and Writers & Books.

CITY Newspaper’s will have a more detailed look at this year’s Rochester Fringe Festival in our Fringe Preview Guide, on stands and online Wednesday, September 5.

Rochester’s annual Pride Festival, presented by the Out Alliance, takes place Saturday, July 14, through Sunday, July 22. This year’s fest, “Stand Out: [Live] in Color,” aims to spotlight the full spectrum of who we are and promote individuality and diversity. Here’s some dates and details for this year’s main events, but head over to rocpridefest.org for a full schedule of events, including drag shows, GAYme nights at The Playhouse, youth events, euchre tournaments, and history tours at various venues around the city.

Q-Day at Seabreeze takes place on Saturday, July 14, noon to 6 p.m. at the amusement park (4600 Culver Road).

Tickets are $34 and include admission and the park, rides, an all-you-can-eat buffet of summer foods, and the company of LGBTQ+ family, friends, and allies.

Registration required.

The Pride 5K Run is Sunday, July 15, 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Registration costs $30 (advance and day-of, which starts at 7:30 a.m.).

Meet at Cobb’s Hill Park, 80 Culver Road.

Also on Sunday is the Pride Kick-off Beach Party Picnic, held from noon to 6 p.m. at Ontario Beach Park, 50 Beach Avenue (basically follow Lake Avenue until you see the water). Picnic at the pavilion — bring your own cooler and make use of the on-site grills.

Admission is free and all are welcome; glass and pets are not allowed.

Pride’s Opening Ceremonies take place at City Hall (30 Church Street) on Monday, July 16, 6 to 7 p.m., with Grand Marshal Peter Mohr and Honorary Marshals Carlos Merriweather and Arlisha Massey.

The Rochester Gay Men’s Chorus and the Rochester Women’s Community Chorus will perform. Free to attend; bring your flags!

The Roc Pride Parade takes place on Saturday, July 21, at 1 p.m. and will travel from Park Avenue and Alexander Street to Park Avenue and Brunswick Street. Free to attend.

And the two-day Roc Pride Fest takes place at Cobb’s Hill Park on Saturday, July 21, 1 to 9 p.m.; and Sunday, July 22, noon to 6 p.m. Each day features games, activities, food, and performances; this year’s headliners include singer-songwriter Deborah Cox, Ada Vox (the first drag queen to perform on American Idol’s stage), “bandof-the-future” NicK & Six, DJ Citizen Jane, Rochester-based dance and music group Daughters of ArT, and Rochester vocalist Champagne Brown. Tickets are $9.99 for a weekend pass, $7.50 for Saturday, $5 for Sunday and student weekend passes, and free to veterans and kids under age 16.

More details and the full lineup at rocpridefest.org.

Check out the full calendar, including ongoing art exhibits, online at rochestercitynewspaper.com

Arts & Performance Art Exhibits [ OPENING ] Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. Of These Streets: Photographs by Jeremy Moule, Benjamin Osborne, & Jason Wilder.. July 13-Aug. 26. geneseearts.org.

GO ART!, 201 E Main St. Batavia. Framed by Lyn Kang. Thursdays-Saturdays.

Reception July 19, 6-8 pm.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Nancy Jurs: My Life Has Gotten So Busy That it Now Takes Up All of My Time; The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota. Weds-Suns. $6-$15. mag.rochester.edu.

Art Events [ WED., JULY 11 ] Josephine Tota: A Visionary Rochester Artist. 6:30-8 p.m.

Central Library, 115 South Ave. Presented by exhibition curator, Jessica Marten 428-8150. [ THU., JULY 12 ] Folk Art Guild Craft Weekend.

Rochester Folk Art Guild, 1445 Upper Hill Rd 944-3153. folkartguild.org/craftweekend.

Inspirit. The Imaginarium at I-square, 500 Bakers Park. Mixed media by Susan Carmen-Duffy 210-3161.

WALL\THERAPY Fundraiser. 7 p.m. The Spirit Room, 139 State St. Caitlin Yarsky, DJs, poetry readings, raffles, & more $10 suggested. 466-4278.

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KIDS | ‘THE FROG PRINCE’ RAPA Family Theatre’s production of “The Frog Prince” presents a magical world of whimsy and amphibians. The story follows a young princess as she navigates the challenges of marriage and bewitched curses along with a cast of fairytale standards including a King, Queen, a large frog, and of course, a Fairy Godmother. Each performance runs approximately one hour with a brief intermission. A Sensory Friendly Performance takes place on Sunday, July 22, at 4:30 p.m. developed by RAPA and Monroe 2 BOCES. “The Frog Prince” kicks off at the Kodak Center Studio Theatre, at 200 W Ridge Road on Saturday, July 14, at 2 p.m. Performances continue Sunday, July 15, at 2 p.m.; Thursday, July 19, at 7 p.m.; Sunday, July 22, at 2 and 4:30 p.m.; and Sunday, July 29, 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults; $18 for students and seniors; $10 for children 12 and under. 254-0073; rapatheatre.org.

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[ SAT., JULY 14 ] Second Saturdays. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Hungerford Building, 1115 E. Main St. 469-8217; 3-6 p.m. Cornerstone Gallery, 8732 Main St., Honeoye. baierpottery.com. [ SUN., JULY 15 ] Josephine Tota and Grandma Moses: Unconventional Artists, Age, & Creative Agency. 2 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Panel discussion. $6-$15. 276-8900.

Comedy [ THU., JULY 12 ] Improv Jam. 8-10 p.m. Focus Theater, 390 South Avenue, Suite C 666-2647. [ FRI., JULY 13 ] Talent Comedy Takeover. 8 p.m.

German House, 315 Gregory St. $12.50/$25. 563-6241.

Tom Green. July 13 & 14, 7:30 & 10 p.m. Comedy at the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $15-$20. 426-6339. [ SAT., JULY 14 ] Harold & Friends: A Night of Long Form Improv. 8 p.m. Focus Theater, 390 South Avenue, Suite C. $5. 666-2647. [ SUN., JULY 15 ] Comedy Cocoon. 6:30 p.m.

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FESTIVAL | GENESEE COUNTY FAIR Genesee County has since 1839 hosted a fair that allows agriculture enthusiasts of all ages to view the best livestock, draft horses, and competitive tractor driving contests. Classic fair events including a midway with rides, live music, and food, and the fair boasts more than 800 animals, a demolition derby, cowgirl couture barrel racing, tractor pulls, car shows, draft horse shows, stock car racing, and more. Kid’s Day Specials offer unlimited rides from 1 to 5 p.m. on Wednesdays and Saturdays with the purchase of a $10 wristband.

The 179th Genesee County Fair runs Monday, July 16, through Saturday, July 21, at the fairgrounds, 5056 East Main Street Road in Batavia. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday, 9 a.m. until 11 p.m.; and Saturday, 9 a.m. to midnight. $5 per car. gcfair.com.

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Dance Events [ MON., JULY 16 ] Masquerader!. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County, 115 South Avenue Grupo Cultural Latinos En Rochester shares the Vejigantes dance, inspired by the bilingual book Vejigante Masquerader 4288451. roccitylibrary.org.

Theater A Chorus Line. Wed., July 11, 7:30 p.m., Thu., July 12, 7:30 p.m., Fri., July 13, 8 p.m., Sat., July 14, 8 p.m. and Sun., July 15, 2 p.m. Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St $29.50-$34.50. 454-1260. blackfriars.org.

The Frog Prince. Sat., July 14, 2 p.m. and Sun., July 15, 2 p.m. RAPA, Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. Sensory-friendly performance July 22, 4:30 pm $10-$20. 254-0073.

Godspell. Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., Fridays, 7:30 p.m., Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. and Sun., July 15, 2 p.m MuCCC, 142 Atlantic Ave Presented by Everyone’s Theatre Company $15-$25. muccc.org.

Hill Cumorah Pageant.

Tuesdays-Saturdays, 9 p.m Hill Cumorah Visitors Center, 653 New York 21, Palmyra hillcumorah.org.

Spider’s Web. ThursdaysSaturdays, 8 p.m. and Wednesdays, Thursdays, Sundays, 2 p.m Bristol Valley Theater, 151 South Main St $13-$34. bvtnaples.org.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona -- Free Shakespeare in the Park.

Tuesdays-Sundays, 8 p.m Highland Bowl, 1137 South Ave. rochestercommunityplayers.com.

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ART | ‘50 ARTISTS 50 YEARS’ The National Institute for the Deaf is celebrating 50 years of provides deaf and hard-of-hearing students with stateof-the-art technical and professional education programs, complemented by an arts and sciences curriculum. On view now is “50 Artists 50 Years,” featuring more than 100 works in various media by 50 alumni artists, including pieces from Dyer Arts Center’s permanent collection and from alumni all over the world. A complimentary exhibition about the history of NTID is on view in the Dyer Arts Center’s Ohringer Gallery and includes pictures, memorabilia, and artifacts.

“50 Artists 50 Years” is on view through Saturday, October 20, at the Dyer Arts Center, Rochester Institute of Technology on the first floor of Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall, 52 Lomb Memorial Drive. Summer hours for the gallery are Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free. rit.edu/ntid/dyerarts.

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Theater Audition [ TUE., JULY 17 ] Auditions for “Now Circa Then”.

7 p.m. St. Mark’s & St. John’s Church, 1245 Culver Rd. Out of Pocket Inc. has roles for one white man, 20’s, & one nonwhite woman, 20’s. Audition will consist of cold readings from the script 269-4673. outofpocketproductions@ yahoo.com.

Community Activism [ FRI., JULY 13 ] Water Chestnut Pull. July 13 & 14, 10 a.m. Sterling Nature Center, 15380 Jenzvold Rd (315) 947-6143. [ SAT., JULY 14 ] Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/ Serve Food. 3:30-6 p.m. St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality, 402 South Ave. 232-3262.

Politics of Women’s Health: Long Table Conversation/ Installation. 3-6 p.m.

American Association of University Women, 494 East Ave Registration: http:// PoliticsofWomensHealth.bpt. me $15. 704-0983.

Rochester DSA Know Your Rights Bike Clinic. 1-5 p.m.

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FESTIVAL | CORN HILL ARTS FESTIVAL Stroll through the beautiful historic Corn Hill neighborhood while celebrating its 50 years of art, music, and neighborly fellowship. at the Corn Hill Arts Festival. Highlights include the 1969 Revival Parade on Saturday, July 14, at 11 a.m.

Two stops along the parade route on South Fitzhugh will pay tribute to the year the festival was founded: The Lunar Landing, which commemorates Apollo 11’s successful mission to the moon, and The Pythodd Club Jazz Performance, which will incorporate jazz music to recreate the atmosphere of the once-thriving Corn Hill jazz club.

Saturday, July 14, 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.; and Sunday, July 15, 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Corn Hill neighborhood near Ford Street and Exchange Boulevard. Admission is free and free shuttle busses will travel between the festival and some downtown parking lots. For more info and a list of this year’s vendors, visit cornhillartsfestival.com.

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[ MON., JULY 16 ] Unpacking. 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Barnes & Noble at UR, 1305 Mt. Hope Ave. Racial justice book discussion series. This week: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin D’Angelo 420-8439.

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[ TUE., JULY 17 ] Candlelight Vigil-Walk For HIV/ AIDS. 7:30 p.m. Highland Park, 171 Reservoir Ave. A 1.2-mile walk from the Memorial Garden to the URMC Clinical Research Center at Whipple Circle rochestervictoryalliance.org.

Festivals [ FRI., JULY 13 ] Festa Italiana. July 13 & 14, noon. Italian American Community Center, 150 Frank Dimino Way iaccrochester.org.

[ SAT., JULY 14 ] 2018 Corn Hill Arts Festival. July 14 & 15.

10 a.m.-6 p.m. Corn Hill Neighborhood, 133 South Fitzhugh St. Full schedule at CornHillArtsFestival.com.

Sterling Renaissance Festival.

Saturdays & Sundays through Aug 19. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. 15385 Farden Rd . Sterling $18.95$29.95. sterlingfestival.com.

Frederick Douglass [ WED., JULY 11 ] Frederick Douglass’s Rochester: Mapping His Tracks in Our City. Through Aug. 31. Central Library, 115 South Ave. 4288150. rochistory.wordpress.com.

Frederick Douglass’s World.

Through Aug. 31. University of Rochester, River Campus rochester.edu.

[ FRI., JULY 13 ] Hairspray, Jr.. 2 p.m. A Magical Journey Through Stages, Auditorium Center, 875 E. Main St $8. mjtstages.com.

Kids Events [ WED., JULY 11 ] Sci-Fi Summer. Through Aug. 31. The Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square $15. 263-2700.

Science + You. Through Aug. 5.

Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. rmsc.org. [ THU., JULY 12 ] Young Scientist Day with JoJo. 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. $13-$15. rmsc.org.

Recreation [ WED., JULY 11 ] Score-O Course. 6 p.m.

Powder Mills Park, 154 Park Rd. Hosted by Rochester Orienteering Club. Preregistration required $10. roc. us.orienteering.org.

Wine Tasting Cruise. 6:30-8 p.m. Sam Patch Packet Boat, 12 Schoen Place . Pittsford $28. sampatch.org.

[ SAT., JULY 14 ] Guided Hike. 9-11 a.m.

Abraham Lincoln Park, Empire Blvd Pre-registration required 340-8655, #6.

Weekend Wild Walks. 11 a.m.12:30 p.m Cumming Nature Ctr, 6472 Gulick Rd. rmsc.org. [ TUE., JULY 17 ] Mid-Summer Butterflies & Birds Walk. 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. HemlockCanadice State Forest, Livonia.

Meet at the Rush Park & Ride lot (Rts. 15 & 251). Wear long pants & hat. Bring water, lunch, & a folding chair 385-3907.

Special Events [ THU., JULY 12 ] Midtown EATS. 11:30 a.m. & 5-9 p.m. Parcel 5, 275 E. Main St. [ FRI., JULY 13 ] Association for Games & Puzzles International Convention. DoubleTree Rochester, 1111 Jefferson Road $35 & up. agpc.org.

International Puzzle Parley.

11 a.m.-3 p.m. The Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square With John Stokes, master craftsman & creator of 100 Puzzles Project $15. museumofplay.org.

[ SAT., JULY 14 ] Brainery Bazaar. Second Saturday of every month, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Rochester Brainery, 176 Anderson Ave, F109. rochesterbrainery.com.

K9 Karnival. 1-4 p.m. Pelican’s Nest, 566 River St. $20.

256-3643.

Rescue Round-Up. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Long Acre Farms, 1342 Eddy Rd Resources to find homes for sheltered animals (315) 986-4202.

ROC Pride 2018. Daily events celebrating the Rochester LGBTQIA community. Full schedule at rocpridefest.org.

Literary Events A Civil Life in an Uncivil Time. 2-4 p.m. Farmington Friends Church, 187 Country Rd 8 . Farmington Author Paula Tarnapol Whitacre discusses her book about Julia Wilbur, an abolitionist from Rush. farmingtonmeetinghouse.org. [ SUN., JULY 15 ] Bosnian Immigrants: Opportunities & Challenges. 2-3 p.m. Greece Historical Society & Museum, 595 Long Pond Rd. With author Aiša Purak 225-3760.

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Evangeline Lilly and Paul Rudd in “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” PHOTO COURTESY MARVEL STUDIOS

Make room for the little guy “Ant-Man and the Wasp” (PG-13), DIRECTED BY PEYTON REED NOW PLAYING [ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

The first “Ant-Man” movie arrived in theaters amidst a wave of skepticism after behind-thescenes shake-ups resulted in director Edgar

Wright being unceremoniously replaced during production. The speculation around how much of Wright’s original vision made it to the screen, and what could have been, threatened to overwhelm the film upon its release in 2015. That the film managed to overcome that conversation to be a modest critical and box office success was a minor miracle.

Thankfully its follow-up has no such hurdles to surmount, and you can practically feel the weight lifted off the shoulders of returning director Peyton Reed. Like the first film, “Ant-Man and

the Wasp” is a breezy, summer escapism, and I’m glad there remains space for a fun, small-scale caper like this amid the evergrowing bombast of the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

“Ant-Man and the Wasp” takes place before the events of “Avengers: Infinity War.” Without the need to address the catastrophic cliffhanger that closed that film, Reed is free to indulge in the goofier aspects of the “AntMan” mythos, and there’s a loose, laid-back tone to the film that makes it a joy to watch.

As the film begins, Scott Lang, aka AntMan (Paul Rudd) is under house arrest after the events of “Captain America: Civil War,” and his rogue actions there have left him somewhat estranged from Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Pym’s daughter Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), with whom he’s had barely any contact since. But when Scott experiences a strange vision of Hope’s long-lost mother, Janet (Michelle Pfeiffer), he’s drawn into their efforts to rescue Janet from the Quantum Realm, where she’s been stranded for decades.

Standing in their way are some individuals desperate to get their hands on Hank’s nanotechnology, including slimy black market dealer Sonny Burch (Walton Goggins), and Ghost (Hannah JohnKamen), a young woman whose exposure to the Quantum Realm as a child left her with the ability to phase through solid objects. It would be a pretty nifty skill, except that she can’t control that power, and it causes her unbearable daily pain. Her plotline is slightly underdeveloped, but the fact that Ghost doesn’t want to destroy or take over the world, and just wants a cure nicely changes up the Marvel villain formula.

Left free to veer from the straight man role he played in the first film, Rudd gets to unleash his comedic prowess and gift for physical comedy. He remains an affable hero, and he’s particularly good during scenes involving Scott’s sweet relationship with his young daughter Cassie (Abby Ryder Fortson).

After frustratingly not giving Evangeline Lilly’s character a super-suit until literally

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the last minutes of the first film, the sequel wastes little time getting her in on the action.

This time around Scott mostly plays sidekick to Hope, and their dynamic is one of the best parts of the film. Plus it’s nice to see an actress as versatile and charismatic as Lilly get to take the lead for a change.

“Ant-Man and the Wasp” comes loaded with clever gags and inventive size-shifting action; the concept of big things getting small and small things getting big proves a fruitful well for the filmmakers to draw from. Everything from Pez dispensers and salt shakers become weapons, and then there’s Hank’s lab, which can be shrunk down to travel size, complete with convenient attached luggage handle. There’s also a pretty great running gag where Scott’s malfunctioning suit alters his size at the most inopportune moments. The script (credited to five writers, including Rudd) supports the action with some larger thematic ideas of making amends for past mistakes, but for the most part it’s all in good fun.

Returning as Scott’s former cellmateturned-friend-turned business partner Luis, Michael Peña gets another opportunity to steal this movie, much like he did the first.

His rambling monologue while doped up on truth serum is a masterpiece of comic delivery.

Keeping the stakes of the film so small also makes the lighter tone a smidge more successful than “Thor: Ragnarok,” which made it hard to be too concerned about the apocalypse when its own characters didn’t seem to take it seriously. Here, the brightness and levity make for a refreshing palate cleanser after the epic seriousness of “Avengers: Infinity War.” That film didn’t have much time for the smaller, characterdriven moments that Marvel Studios films excel at, and as much as I enjoyed “Infinity War,” I’m hoping that the conclusion of part two (coming May 2019) means a return the small pleasures that movies that “Ant-Man and the Wasp” deliver so well.

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SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Charles Brucato, 455 Western Dr., Rochester, NY 14623.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Dibble Development LLC filed SSNY 5/10/18.

Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 33 Williston Rd Rochester, NY 14616 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Donsky Business Development & Marketing LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 02-27-2018. 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 6 Fairfield Dr., Fairport, NY 14450. The purpose of the Company is marketing.

Falls DR Wilmington, DE 19808. Arts. Of Org. filed with DE Secy. of State, PO Box 898 Dover, DE 19903.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Ji Xiang Rui, LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 5/8/18.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to 24 Churchill Dr Rochester, NY 14616 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Lesher Holdings LLC filed SSNY 5/16/18. Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 100 Big Ridge Rd #C Spencerport NY 14559 RA: US Corp Agents7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Live Love Laugh Properties, LLC filed 5/21/18. Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 3349 Monroe Ave #350 Rochester, NY 14618 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Mej Rochester LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 2/20/18.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Po Box 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of Richmond Street Dev LLC Art. Of Org. filed Secy of State (SSNY) 5/31/2018.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC. 90 Parkhurst Drive, Spencerport, NY 14559.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ]

Dutchman Holdings LLC filed 2/9/18. Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to Isaiah Dutcher 329 Field St Rochester, NY 14620 General Purpose

Notice of Form. of ABLETON TRANSPORT, LLC (the “LLC”). Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of NY (SSNY) on 6/19/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 97 Talamora Trail, Brockport, NY 14420. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

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FISHBOWL SPIRITS LLC Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/12/18. Office location: Monroe Co. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/15/12 SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Corporate Creations Network Inc. 15 North Mill St Nyack, NY 10960. De address of LLC: 251 Little

Notice of Formation of Bostley Enterprises, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 05/29/18 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 the LLC at 120 Spencer Road, Hilton, New York, 14468.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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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 [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CoActive Food Group LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/31/2018; 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 5 Port Meadow Trail, Fairport, New York 14450.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SALE OASIS LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 06/21/18 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 the LLC at 1967 WEHRLE DR., SUITE 1 #086, BUFFALO, NY 14221. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of WAH 2010, LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 4/23/2010; Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, New York 11228 is designated as the Registered Agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 157 SAWGRASS DRIVE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/21/18. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 2A TRUCKING LLC. Articles of Organization filed with New York Department of state on 6/5/18. Its office is located in Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 95 Fort Hill Terrace # 6 Rochester NY 14620. Purpose: Any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 309 WEST, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/06/18. Office location: Orleans County. Princ. office of LLC: 317 W. Academy St., Albion, NY 14411. SSNY designated

as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 5 State Street Holdings LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/12/2018.

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 11 James St., Fairport, NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: POSITIVE FORCE MOVEMENT, LLC. Articles of organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY): 06/25/2018.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated for service of process.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to Knauf Shaw, LLP, c/o M. Colligan, 1400 Crossroads Bldg, 2 State St, Rochester, NY 14614.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Ace Bookkeeping & Collections LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/07/2018. 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 C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave. Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of C&CJ TRANSPORTER, 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 12 Ludwig Pk Rochester, NY 14621 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Cristo Law Group LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/12/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The PLLC, Two State Street, Ste. 1000, Rochester, NY 14614.

Purpose: practice the profession of law.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Crossroads IT L.L.C. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06/11/2018.

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 77 Glasgow St., Rochester, NY 14608. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Dream Team17 Properties LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/4/18. 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 296 Genesee Park Blvd. Rochester, Ny 14619 Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Fit With Melanie, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/2/18.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 14 Autumn Wood, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of FLORIDA SWEEPERS SALES & SERVICE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/2017.

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: The LLC, 16 Passaic Ave., Unit 9, Fairfield, NJ 07004.

Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of FLOWER CITY CLARK, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 04/10/2018. 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 1271 Turk Hill Rd, Fairport, NY 14450.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Flower City Marriage and Family Therapy PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/31/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Nixon Peabody LLP, 1300 Clinton

Square, Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: practice psychotherapy under the profession of marriage and family therapy. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of HARVEST WALK PROPERTIES, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/15/18. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 25 Harvest Walk, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of HIGH POINT FINISHERS LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on June 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 3245 Latta Rd PO Box 16793, Rochester, NY 14612 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: HANFLAND CONTRACTING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on April 23, 2018. Office location: Monroe. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Michael A. Hanfland, 41 Pebble View Drive, Rochester, New York 14612. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of LMGC Group LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/11/18. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Fitzpatrick Trail, West Henrietta, NY 14586.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lumantek Global LLC amended to Lumentek Global LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/25/13.

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, 1649 Jefferson Rd., Rochester, NY 14623.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Manuse Services, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y

of State (SSNY) 4/9/18.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 200 Mill Stream Run, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Paychex Holdings, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/30/18. Office location: Monroe County. Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: 911 Panorama Trail South, Rochester, NY 14625, principal business address. Purpose: all lawful purposes. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Qazi’s Kitchen, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 05/16/2018.

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 1289 Calkins Rd. Pittsford, NY 14534 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Roberts Real Estate LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 06/06/18.

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 the LLC at 520 East Ave, APT 407 Rochester, NY 14607.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of ROCHESTER THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/6/2018. 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, PO Box 46, Penfield, NY 14526. Purpose: any lawful act

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SA Haulers, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 06/04/2018. 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 596 Chambers St, Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sacred Goddess Box, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/09/2018. 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 the LLC at 600 Garson Avenue, Rochester, New York 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Salon Industry LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) May 31, 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 30 S. Main Street Pittsford, NY 14534 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SimmonsField LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/15/18. 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 1466 Creek St, Rochester, NY 14625 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Suntru Holdings LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 05/18/2018. 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 160 Despatch Dr., East Rochester, NY 14445. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of RWAC Associates LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State of NY (SSNY) May 9, 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 P.O. Box 301, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activities

Notice of Formation of Tiver Design LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/29/18. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 50 State St., Bldg H, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3240 Winton Road S. Apt F34, Rochester, NY, 14623. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of VINLAND, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to VINLAND, LLC, 3 Fitzmot Glen, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Wealth Strategies & Solutions, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) April 12, 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 900 Jefferson Road Suite 301, Rochester, NY 14623 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of WH&M ENTERPRISE, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/05/2018 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 491 Hudson Avenue, Rochester, New York 14605. Purpose: any lawful activites. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Whitney Buffalo LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, the registered agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Whitney Buffalo MM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process

to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, the registered agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

Purpose: any lawful activit [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of XPRESS MED TRANSPORTATION, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3-19-2018.

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 681 Post Ave Rochester NY 14619 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of FLINT GROUP PACKAGING INKS NORTH AMERICA LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/13/18. Office location: Monroe County.

LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 04/26/18. Princ. office of LLC: 14909 N. Beck Rd., Plymouth, MI 48170.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. TX addr. of LLC: 211 E. 7th St., Ste. 620, Austin, TX 78701.

Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, P.O. Box 13697, Austin, TX 78711.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Sea Her Shine, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/29/18.

Office location: Monroe County. Principal business address: 15 South Main St., Pittsford, NY 14534.

LLC formed in DE on 5/25/18. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Nixon Peabody LLP, Attn: Stephanie Seiffert, Esq., 1300 Clinton Square, Rochester, NY 14604. DE address of LLC: Cogency Global Inc., 850 New Burton Rd., Suite 201, Dover, DE 19904. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of SEQUEL YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/21/18.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/01/17. Princ. office of LLC: 1131 Eagletree Ln., Huntsville, AL 35801.

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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 process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543.

DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Holding company. [ NOTICE ] O.P.M Marketing, LLC filed 3/19/18. Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 21 Magnolia St Rochester, NY 14608 RA: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] PETER TEALL, LCSW, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/30/2018. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 945 East Henrietta Rd., Ste. A-6, Rochester , NY 14623, which is also the principal business location.

Purpose: To practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Work. [ NOTICE ] QKA Partners LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 11/30/17. 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 216 Canterbury Rd., Rochester, NY 14607.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Staci Pfeffer Interiors LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/04/2018.

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, 29 Southern Pkwy Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] THAESLER CONSULTING LLC, a Connecticut LLC organized 10/04/17, filed application for authority with NY Dept of State on 06/12/18. NY office loc’n: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 16 Spring Side Ln, Penfield, NY 14526. CT office: 30 Old Kings Highway South, 1st Flr Ste 202, Darien, CT 06820. Copy of certificate of organization filed with CT Sec of State Denise W. Merrill, 30 Trinity Street, Hartford, CT 06106. Purpose: any

lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] 232 Ventures LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/12/18. 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 417 Sundance Trail, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] DiPasquale Brothers Co. LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/12/18. 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 Harris Beach PLLC, Attn: Chris DiPasquale, 99 Garnsey Road, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] JP Perkins LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/12/18. 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 49 Knollwood Drive, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of formation of JRN HOLDINGS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/9/2018. 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, c/o 2505 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14610.

Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Nuch Family Ventures, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 5/31/18. 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 417 Sundance Trail, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Rella Restaurant, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/28/18. 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 46 Greylock Ridge, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION LLC ] Tapin2art, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 5/23/18 with an effective date of formation of 5/22/18. 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 12 Cathworth Circle North, Fairport, New York 14450.

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 KIKI’S KREATIONS LLC ] Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on July 2, 2018.

Office location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ. Office of LLC: 1840 Baird Road, Penfield, NY 14526.

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 LEATHERTRAMP WINE COMPANY, LLC ] Leathertramp Wine Company, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Secretary of State on June 25, 2018.

(1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York.

(2) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent upon whom process against it may be served and its post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him or her is c/o Jeffrey Brown, 50 Charlotte Street, Rochester, New York 14607. (3) The character or purpose of its business is to engage in any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Act. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] Notice of Formation of Banitskas Properties LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on May 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 LLC at 58 West Forest Drive, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: Any lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Out of the Box Training LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 6/14/18. 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 143 Rangers Court, Rochester, NY 14612. The LLC is managed by a manager.

The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TRIPOINT ADVISORS, LLC ] Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 6/25/2018 Office Location: Monroe County.

SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served.

SSNY may mail copy of process to 35 CIRLCE COURT, ROCHESTER, NY 14617. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity. [ SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUMMONS AND NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. E2017000107 CHESWOLD (TL), LLC, Plaintiff, v. The heirsat-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in- interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through EMMA MCNAIRY A/K/A EMMA L. MCNAIRY, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective husbands, or widowers of hers, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; The heirs-at-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successors-in- interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through ROBERT MCNAIRY A/K/A ROBERT L. MCNAIRY, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective wives, or widows of his, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; DOREEN BROWN; TRANSAMERICA CREDIT; BENEFICIAL HOMEOWNER SERVICE CORPORATION; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; COUNTY OF MONROE;

TOWER DBW II TRUST 2012-2, SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO TOWER DBW II TRUST 2013-1; US BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC; PROPEL FINANCIAL 1, LLC; SARAH NEIL MCNAIRY, AS PRESUMPTIVE HEIRAT- LAW OF ROBERT MCNAIRY AND “JOHN DOE #2” THROUGH “JOHN DOE #100”, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in the above-entitled foreclosure action, and to serve a copy of your answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal service within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof.

In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject premises. Dated: July 26, 2017 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an Order of Honorable Daniel J. Doyle, a Justice of the Supreme Court, dated June 19, 2018, and filed with supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose tax liens encumbering the property known as 409 Hayward Avenue, City of Rochester, New York and identified as tax account no.: 106.76-131 (the “Tax Parcel”). The relief sought is the sale of the Tax Parcel at public auction in satisfaction of the tax liens.

In case of your failure to appear, judgment may be taken against you in the sum of $11,695.14, together with interest, costs, disbursements and attorneys’ fees of this action, and directing the public sale of the Tax Parcel. PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP Anthony J. Iacchetta Attorneys for Plaintiff Cheswold (TL), LLC 28 East Main Street Suite 1400 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone: (585) 238-2000 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index #: 13577/2016 Filed: 6/11/2018 Franklin American Mortgage Company Plaintiff,against Patricia A. Rapp, David Billitier if living and if he be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienor, heirs, devisees,

distributees, or successors in interest of such of the above as may be dead, and their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residences are unknown to Plaintiff, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, United States of AmericaInternal Revenue Service, Defendants. 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 OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $138,580.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of MONROE on June 30, 2014, in Book 25713, Page 417, covering premises known as 321 Mason Road, Fairport, NY 14450. The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. 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 1, 2018 FRENKEL, LAMBERT, WEISS, WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP BY: Linda P. Manfredi Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 969-3100 Our File No.: 01-082716-F00

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Recurring Themes

In this week’s installment of foreign objects stuck in body cavities: Mr. Li of China’s Guangdong Province went to the doctor on June 15 at Pingshan Hospital in Shenzhen after feeling discomfort and pain in his ear. Using an otoscope scan, the doctor discovered a live cockroach burrowing into the 52-year-old man’s ear canal. “It’s still alive, still moving,” the doctor can be heard on video saying, according to The Daily Mail. She cut the roach into pieces to remove it and disinfected Li’s ear with alcohol in case it had laid eggs.

Awesome!

On June 23, firefighters of Engine 642 of the Henrietta, New York, Fire District went the extra mile after responding to an accident in which the injured driver was a pizza delivery man, according to Fox News.

“Once the patient was cared for and loaded into the ambulance, the crew decided to finish the delivery so the pizza wouldn’t go to waste,” the fire department posted on its Facebook page. “If it’s not delivery it’s Di ... Fire dept?!”

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