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JUL. 17 2019, VOL. 48 NO. 45

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Can the new superintendent change the district’s course?

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GUEST COMMENTARY

The real ROC Pride story A month ago, staff of Out Alliance sat down with CITY for what we believed was an interview about the beautiful, colorful, meaningful thing that is ROC Pride. To our surprise and dismay, the article that donned the cover last Wednesday, “The Police and Pride,” read as an indictment of Pride, the Out Alliance, and the Rochester Police Department. We are to this moment still uncertain of the meaning behind it, but we are appreciative that CITY has given us the platform to set the record straight.

If we’re going to talk about the police presence at Pride, let’s talk about it. The Out Alliance made a vow to the community at the beginning of 2019 to be a different agency. The first step in that is acknowledging what we’ve done wrong. Out Alliance, although designed to be a voice of the entire LGBTQ+ community, fell short of that many, many times.

An agency that was built and sustained by white, cis-gender men to a large degree, used that as a barometer to grow, judge, and make decisions. When your lens is that narrow, the picture will reflect not only who was caught in the frame – but who wasn’t. It was time to broaden our picture. With that movement, we diversified staff, programming, and the ideals for the place in the community that we upheld.

Early in the year, we were approached by many people from our community who were very uncomfortable with the idea of a police presence at Pride. Some were uncomfortable because of the pointed irony of having a heavy police at the 50th Stonewall Anniversary Pride that celebrated the LGBTQ strike-back against police mistreatment in New York City that brought LGBTQ rights to a national stage.

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TO OUR READERS Our July 10 cover story, “The Police and Pride,” contained factual errors as well as misleading, unfair implications. It does not meet journalistic standards of fairness and accuracy and should not have been published.

The online version of the story has been deleted.

To correct the factual errors: • Jazzelle Bonilla works for MOCHA, not the Victory Alliance.

• The federal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy did not prevent the Rochester Police Department’s LGBTQ laison, Kim Rasbeck, from serving in the military. She served in the military prior to 1992; the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy prevented her from re-enlisting after 9/11.

• The Rochester Police Department does not have a presence inside the festival grounds of the Pride Festival and the Rochester Black Pride Festival, but it does maintain a presence outside of the festivals for public safety and traffic needs.

We apologize to the Out Alliance and the Rochester Police Department and are providing space here for Out Alliance leaders to address their concerns about the article.

– Mary Anna Towler, editor community, especially people of the transgender experience and people of color.

As representatives of the entire community, it was our duty to bring those concerns to law enforcement and find common ground. Under the impressive leadership of Chief La’Ron Singletary, all parties came to the table, and we did the very important work of not just building bridges over trauma but acknowledging it, educating about it, and figuring out what is next.

We have great respect for the work of law enforcement and the people risking their lives day in and day out to keep us safe. But how dare we ignore those who have had a different experience?

This is a start of conversations that center around continued education of the police force, education of the officers who will serve at the parade and festival, and the same amazing presence to

keep us secure in an understated way that will meet each festival goer where they are as we continue to work with them and build as a community.

The RPD is just as committed, and in the same spirit that we respect and appreciate them, we will also hold them accountable.

The article suggested a rift with Rochester Black Pride that doesn’t exist. The Out Alliance Director of Operations and Public Relations proudly serves on the committee to plan Rochester Black Pride and had served on it long before coming to Out Alliance.

We at the Out Alliance welcome each and every member of the community to come out and enjoy Pride, but we acknowledge and respect that the culture of intersectionality has a history of its own that absolutely must be celebrated and upheld.

Pride by nature is a space to

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be free and safe. Sometimes that means creating separate spaces to ensure that freedom and safety apply to all. There is absolutely no reason you can’t come out and enjoy every single Pride event in July, stop by the firstever MOCHA tent at the ROC Pride Festival, and then have an amazing experience in September at Rochester Black Pride; we’ll see you there.

The article we sat down for was to talk about the fantastic events that comprise ROC Pride, from Q-Day at Seabreeze and the Cook Out last weekend to the phenomenal ROC Pride parade on July 20 and ROC Pride Festival July 20-21 at Cobbs Hill Park featuring an array of amazing local performers and headliner Jennifer Holliday. It was also to talk about that incredible feeling that comes over you at Pride where people’s ability to be their unabashed, authentic selves creates a truly infectious sense of joy and belonging; about the lives that are saved by someone who has felt truly alone and without hope or support as they step into a sea of rainbow and realize they are among family and that it WILL get better. That they too have a village, and it’s extremely beautiful, colorful, and proud.

Please visit www.rocpride.com to get information about any and all of the ROC Pride 2019 events still left to come. And we hope to see each and every one of you this weekend. Happy Pride, Rochester!

JEFF MYERS AND TAMARA LEIGH

Jeff Myers is executive director of the Out Alliance. Tamara Leigh is the Alliance’s director of operations and public relations.

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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

Christopher Pate’s arrest: lessons from the video: The footage of the arrest, beating, and subsequent treatment of Christopher Pate is now available for all of us to see, and it is incredibly troubling, in multiple ways.

In May 2018 two white Rochester police officers, thinking that Pate, a young black man, resembled a burglary suspect, stopped him as he was walking in a northwest city neighborhood and asked for identification. Pate showed it to them, but apparently not as quickly or as politely as they wanted. The result: Pate was pushed to the ground, struck seriously enough that a bone in his face was broken, and Tased.

Last week, the city released nearly an hour’s worth of video of Pate’s arrest. It’s hard to follow at some points, and because it’s a compilation of footage from several officers’ body cameras, parts are repetitious.

But it’s yet more proof that Rochester has a serious problem in how some officers relate to the community they serve – particularly people of color.

Thanks to the video, we watch while officers pursue Pate and push him to the ground. We see blood on the sidewalk. We hear Pate crying out in pain from the shock from the Taser barbs.

We hear an officer berating Pate: “Why are you so uncooperative? ... If you would have stopped, this would all be over. Instead you want to act like a clown…. You want to be a smartass? Then we’re going to ding you for jaywalking.”

We hear one officer complaining to another about Pate “being a freaking asshole... goddammit... fucking garbage, for nothing.”

And we watch as Pate sits in the back seat of the police car, crumpled, crying, apologizing, and pleading with police officers: “Please, I didn’t do anything wrong.

I apologize. I apologize. I’m sorry. Please.

Please. Please. Have mercy on me.”

“No,” the officer says, “because you didn’t have mercy on me.”

It is true that police officers face dangerous situations that few of us will ever encounter. And yes, when a police officer asks us to show our identification, we should do it. And yes, if they ask us again, we should keep our aggravation under control and show it again.

But there’s no excuse for the way Christopher Pate was treated. No excuse for

Here’s yet more proof that Rochester has a serious problem in how some officers relate to the community they serve – particularly people of color.” the beating. No excuse for the humiliating, demeaning way officers talked to him and about him.

One of the officers has been fired, convicted of misdemeanor assault, and is awaiting sentencing. The other officer has been suspended from the Rochester police force. And in a press conference last week, Police Chief La’Ron Singletary said that the conduct of the officers on the video “is not reflective of the rest of the men and women who work for the Rochester Police Department.”

Cases like Christopher Pate’s, of course, are what led local activists to push for the creation of a Police Accountability Board, which will be on the ballot in November. But even if voters approve the board, it may be a long time coming; the police union is likely to sue to block its creation.

That doesn’t mean there can be no reform. The key controversial part of City Council’s Accountability Board legislation concerns who should discipline police officers. But police policies are also important. So is training – in attitude, in community relations, in respect.

While we wait for the November referendum, it would be good to know what steps the chief and the Warren administration are taking as a result of Christopher Pate’s arrest.

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County lowers child-care fee

Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo has instructed the county’s Department of Human Services to lower the fee that some low-income families pay for subsidized child care. The county’s rate is currently set at 35 percent of a household’s income over the poverty level, but it will be reduced to 25 percent.

Families are eligible for child day-care subsidies if they earn less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, which is set at $25,750 for a family of four.

Dinolfo, who is running for re-election this fall, said during a press conference last week that the reduction will take effect August 5 and will be funded by about $1.7 million in unspent funds in the county budget.

For about 2,200 low-income families, the savings will be an average of $800 per year, she said.

The Children’s Agenda, an advocacy group focused on policies affecting children, said in a statement that the fee reduction is an important step toward making quality care more affordable for working families. Parents who can’t afford the co-pays may “choose to either leave the workforce entirely or place their children in less expen-

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sive, potentially substandard care,” the Children’s Agenda statement said.

Workers at Jordan Center approve contract

Anthony L. Jordan Health Center staff represented by 1199SEIU, United Healthcare Workers East, have voted to approve a new contract. They’ve worked without once since January 1, 2018.

The contract covers approximately 65 employees, including licensed practical nurses, medical technicians, nursing assistants, clerical, and service employees. They began negotiating a new contract with Health Center management in November 2017, but talks eventually stalled and the National Labor Relations Board brought in a mediator to help resolve the conflict.

The sticking point was health coverage, and ultimately the Center’s administration agreed to pay $14,000 into the union health plan, guaranteeing that the employees receive insurance, according to a press release from 1199SEIU. The contract also includes a 4 percent pay raise in 2019 and a 2 percent pay raise in 2020, as well as additional training and educational benefits, according to the union.

Midtown’s Parcel 5 hosts the Jazz Fest and the Fringe Fest. City officials are eyeing it as a year-round event site.

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Mayor seeking funds for Parcel 5 City Council will vote on July 23 on a request for $4.7 million in state funds to create an enclosed entertainment venue at Midtown’s Parcel 5.

The Warren administration is considering transforming much of Parcel 5 into a Rochester version of Kansas City Live!, a block-long, covered complex that hosts concerts, major sports broadcasts, and other events year-round. On its sides are two-story structures housing bars and restaurants.

The request for Parcel 5 funding is one of 14 projects the mayor wants to submit through the state’s Consolidated Funding Application process. Also on the list are Bulls

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Despite the request, the city’s discussion of an entertainment complex at Parcel 5 is still in the early stages, city spokesperson Justin Roj says. The deadline for applying for the next round of state CFA funding, however, is July 26, and the city wanted to get its application considered in case it decides to go ahead with the project, Roj said.

City officials estimate the total cost for a local version of Kansas City Live! at $23.5 million. The rest of the funding would come from local sources.

Mayor Lovely Warren, members of her administration, and several local business and community representatives visited Kansas City Live! in December and have been enthusiastic about the possibilities for Parcel 5. But so far, no formal plan has been proposed, and Roj said there will be an extensive community engagement process if the city pursues the development.

Suzanne Mayer of the Central City Community Coalition, an umbrella group representing several downtown neighborhood associations, said the organization hasn’t held a vote on the Kansas City Live! concept.

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New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, a key figure in the scrutiny of the Rochester school district over the past year, has announced that she is resigning. The move took members of the state Board of Regents by surprise.

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Elia resigns as state ed head New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced Monday that she is resigning at the end of August, taking members of the state Board of Regents by surprise.

Over the last year, Elia has been a key figure in the scrutiny of the Rochester school district. She was the person who appointed Jaime Aquino as the district’s Distinguished Educator, and she had harsh criticism about the improvement plan the district wrote in response to Aquino’s stinging assessment.

Elia continued to express her concerns about the district, but she stopped short of joining Mayor Lovely Warren and others in calling for the elimination of the school board.

In announcing her resignation on Monday, Elia said she has accepted a job with a national firm that works to turn around struggling public schools.

Elia said the firm deals with policy, and she will not be doing any lobbying.

Elia said she did not notify the Board of Regents or Chancellor Betty Rosa in advance of her announcement because she wanted to tell everyone the news at once. She said she is not leaving because of any disharmony.

Elia, who is the first female commissioner in the history of the State Education Department, succeeded John King, who left to work for the Obama administration.

Her supporters say she helped calm the waters after controversy over the implementation of the Common Core learning standards and what some parents and teachers said was excessive testing in the schools, which led to boycotts of the tests.

Elia remained committed to standardized testing, though she oversaw a streamlining and shortening of the exams, and she encouraged more input from teachers. She also defended the use of computerized exams, even when major software glitches postponed some of the tests for the past two years.

Tim Kremer, the head of the New York State School Boards Association, said the association is sorry to see Elia leave. “She’s been a good commissioner,” he said.

A statement from the state’s largest teachers union, New York State United Teachers, was more measured. The union said it wishes Elia well in her new endeavors, but said it hopes the next commissioner works to fix what NYSUT called the “broken” state testing system for children in grades 3-8.

And some education reform activists celebrated Elia’s departure, calling her a “champion” of standardized testing and Common Core.

Elia, a Buffalo-area native, began her career teaching in public schools in Amherst. Before becoming education commissioner in New York, Elia headed the Hillsborough County, Florida, school district, a large district that includes Tampa. She was fired from that job after clashing with the school board, but her efforts there, including developing better teacher performance reviews, were praised in some quarters.

Elia has been critical of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s budget allocations for public school aid, saying this past February during a legislative budget hearing that the governor’s proposed funding was short by at least $1 billion.

In 2017, Elia oversaw a hearing on the conduct of former Buffalo school board member and former candidate for governor, Carl Paladino, over racially tinged comments that Paladino made to the Buffalo newsweekly Art Voice. Paladino was removed from the school board.

In New York, unlike in many other states, the education commissioner does not work directly for the governor. The

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commissioner is chosen by the state Board of Regents, and the Regents are chosen by the state Legislature.

Executive Deputy Commissioner Beth Berlin will serve as acting commissioner of the State Education Department starting September 1.

Karen DeWitt is Albany reporter for WXXI News. CITY’S Tim Louis Macaluso contributed to the reporting for this article.

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HIGH E X P EC TAT I O N S Can the new superintendent change the district’s course?

EDUCATION | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO AND MARY ANNA TOWLER | PHOTOS BY RYAN WILLIAMSON

It,s

reasonable to wonder whether Terry Dade knows what he’s gotten himself into as the new superintendent of Rochester’s schools. But Dade, who is days into a job that is certain to test him, is hardly naive.

He’s keenly aware of the public’s skepticism, frustration, and disillusionment about the district. And in a recent interview with CITY, he was candid, confident, and focused.

Dade is personally familiar with the hurdles many urban children and their families have to overcome. He never knew his mother. He was raised by his father, who had full custody; by his grandmother; and, when he was in elementary school, his step-mother. The family lived in Section 8 housing in Reston, Virginia, a planned community about 20 miles west of Washington, DC. Reston’s residents have included both low-income families and more affluent ones. “So I continued to live in Section 8 housing while also attending a great school system,” he said.

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Education “absolutely helped me get to where I am today, so I just know the benefit that it can have on a life.”

Dade has degrees from the University of Virginia and taught in elementary schools for several years. And then he was accepted in New Leaders for New Schools, a program for educators who want to become principals in schools serving high-needs students.

“I honestly feel that it’s a calling to work within an urban district,” he said. “There’s nothing else that I wanted when I accepted my time with New Leaders for New Schools.”

His first administrative position was as an assistant principal at a Washington, DC, elementary school, and he loved it. “That was where I felt like the work was happening,” he said. “Folks all around were looking at: Could this be a model for urban education success? So I loved that.”

At the time, Michelle Rhee, the hard-driving education reformer, was chancellor of the DC school system. Rhee, who

took control of DC’s troubled schools after the school board was stripped of its authority, wanted teacher pay and job security tied to student achievement rather than being based on teacher seniority. That made her a polarizing figure, but Dade has great respect for Rhee.

The year before joining the DC school system, he had taught in a charter school, which he calls “the most disheartening experience of my entire career.” The reason: staff complacency.

Rhee, he said, didn’t tolerate complacency: “I don’t care what seat you were sitting in, you knew you had to have high expectations for yourself and for the students that you were serving.”

Her philosophy, Dade said, was “This is not about adults in this district. It never will be about adults. It’s going to be about our students. And she went about to kind of change that culture in the district.”

' L E ADE R SHIP MAT T E R S'

Dade’s most recent job, in the public school system of Fairfax County, Virginia, a DC suburb, gave him experience with some of the challenges he’ll face here.

In Fairfax County, he was one of three regional superintendents, in charge of 45 schools serving about 37,000 students. In comparison, the Rochester school district has about 60 schools and 28,000 students.

His region, he said, was the Fairfax system’s most diverse, and it is far more diverse than Rochester: 40 percent Hispanic, 30 percent white, 20 percent black, 10 percent Asian – most of them from families living in poverty, and a third of them English language learners.

Thirteen of the schools under his supervision weren’t meeting state accreditation standards, a situation similar to that in New York, which imposes requirements on schools that are in “receivership” for persistently poor performance. And Dade had to develop a school improvement model much like the reforms required here.

Each of the 13 schools was very different, he says. One had serious “climate and culture” problems. “You can’t get to academics,” he said, “if you aren’t even addressing how kids

are feeling about school, whether parents are feeling engaged.”

In other schools, the problem was poor teaching, “so we really had to elevate their professional development of teachers.”

In some, the problem was leadership.

“Leadership matters,” Dade said, “and unfortunately some of the leaders at that time weren’t in the best seat.”

His approach, he said, was to talk to teachers and administrators, asking them to identify the barriers that were preventing them and their students from achieving their potential. Together, he said, they looked for ways to address their concerns.

But he has no delusions.

“There are no five tried-and-true, ‘if every school does these five things,’ they’re going to be successful,” Dade said. If there were, he said, “I would have written a book by now and be traveling the country. It’s not that easy.”

Dade seems clear-eyed about the job he began on July 1, but he starts his tenure in Rochester in an unpredictable period. State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has been extremely critical of the district’s lagging performance, sentiments echoed by local Regents Wade Norwood and T. Andrew Brown.

And Mayor Warren wants the state to

“Y OU CAN’T GE T T O A C A D E MICS, IF Y OU ARE N’T E V E N ADDRE SSING HOW KIDS A R E F E E L ING ABOUT SCHOOL, W H E T H E R PARE NT S ARE F E E L IN G E NGAGE D.” dissolve the school board and take over its operations for up to five years.

So far, state legislators have not taken up the issue, and the school board remains in control of the district. And so Dade will have to work with a board that has been criticized frequently for trying to usurp some of the superintendent’s responsibilities. Dade’s aware of that.

“The board and I are going into a two-day retreat in August,” he said, “and my sincere hope is that we tackle the delineation of roles and responsibilities – knowing that it’s not going to be perfect,

but do we have it in writing, that we can always lean back on this to say, ‘Here’s why Terry’s upset with this, because we said, clear as day, this is how we would operate.’

Or: ‘This is why the board is upset with Terry. It’s clear as day, written.’”

And, he said, they’ll discuss how adults should behave. “We have to be models for what our students, how they conduct themselves. So at the end of the day, I carry myself with the utmost professionalism. You’ll never see me lose my cool, because our kids are watching.”

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Dade could benefit, in a roundabout way, from the ongoing, community-wide conversation about the district’s future. He may be able to help the community better understand some of the district’s most enduring problems and figure out how to fix them.

And not everything about the district is negative. Dade also inherits a graduation rate that’s inching upward, though slowly.

And most of the first schools that the state education department identified as failing have shown improvement.

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Dade understands the unique challenges that urban districts face. It’s not hard to find individual pockets of success in districts like Rochester, but it’s hard to find entire high-poverty urban districts that are successful.

Among the challenges: “When you provide some schools with resources and support and then they start making success, everyone knows what happens to that support and resources. We start to take them away.”

Just because a school improves, he said, that doesn’t mean that teachers won’t continue to need professional development every year, or that students won’t need extended learning time.

“If you look all across the country,” he said, “there’s models of reform efforts where we throw X at schools, X at schools, X at schools, and then a new superintendent comes or a new governor comes or state ed changes, and then we’re trying a whole new strategy. Imagine the teachers who live through numerous superintendents, principals who live through numerous: ‘Now I have to learn this new approach, find the resources and support to shore up my teachers, and then the standards change, the strategies change.”

Another challenge for urban districts: student mobility. “Students moving from school to school, in and out of district, in and out of charters: that is not a recipe for success,” Dade said. Students who have been at the same school for five years, he said, are typically that school’s more successful students.

“Every other year you might have a new crop of students and families coming in,” Dade said. And while that’s not an excuse 8 CITY

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for poor performance, he said, “it is something that we just can’t negate as we look at what is going to be successful.

FUNDAMEN TAL SKILLS AREN 'T ENOU GH

Despite the increase in Rochester’s graduation rate, college administrators say that a sizeable number of graduates aren’t prepared for college and have to take remedial classes.

“This is not just New York or Rochesterspecific,” Dade said. When a district is “just trying to make it over the hump and over the threshold,” it’s likely to focus on core skills – “and rightfully so,” Dade said. “I don’t fault anyone for that.”

As urban districts improve their success at the foundational skills, he said, “then we can truly start looking at our students not only being able to walk across the stage but be successful in a two- or four-year college without paying for intervention, remedial courses, and the like.”

“You and I aren’t – our performance isn’t based on a multiple choice test.

We get to try things out, fail a few times, modify and revise as needed.

And we depend on others around us to be successful at what we do. But our students are asked to just sit in a desk by themselves, answer a multiple-choice test, and have that be their determination of whether they’re successful or not.”

“I think until we enter that balance, we are going to continue to have students who might do well and get across the finish line for graduation or proficiency but still not be quite equipped to be successful in a two- or four-year college, in the military, and beyond, where they have to depend on others around them to be successful.

ABS EN TEEI S M IS AN R C S D P R OBLEM

Contributing to the Rochester district’s challenges is its high rate of student absenteeism, and that’s clearly an issue for Dade. Asked about it, he immediately brought up the issue of neighborhood schools.

“The chronic absenteeism rate here is nothing like I’ve seen anywhere,” he said. “I want someone to be able to tell me: What are the percentage of students that actually go to their neighborhood school?”

For years, Rochester has had a school-choice program, in part based on requirements of the No Child Left Behind act, and on some school board members’ belief that families shouldn’t be forced to send children to schools they’re not satisfied with. While many parents and residents are calling for a return to neighborhood schools, many parents pick schools that are not nearby because they fear for their children’s safety and they want them to ride a bus to school.

When his students came to school from all around the district, “those were the students I had the most problems with engaging parents in getting them to school on time,” Dade said.

In Rochester, he suggested, School 23 in the Park Avenue area likely has a higher percentage of students coming from the surrounding neighborhood. “Some of our other schools might have a percentage that wouldn’t allow me to sleep very well tonight,” he said. “I think that drives absenteeism rates. Just think of how many excuses you might have not to go to school if you live outside of the school boundary.”

Dade said he wants to examine the district’s busing policy and perhaps seek waivers from the state. And with interest increasing in community schools in Rochester, Dade said, “What if busing policies change for community schools, just as a start?” What, he said, if that enabled Rochester to have community schools with attendance rates of 90 percent?

“I think they would tell an amazing story of parents truly engaged,” he said, “attendance rates through the roof, true pride in giving back to the community through service projects and things of that nature.”

Parent engagement, in fact, is a problem for the Rochester district, and Dade thinks community schools, drawing from their surrounding neighborhood, could help. It matters, he suggested, whether after a long day at work, parents can walk a few minutes to their child’s school or “have to travel by whatever means back out to a school outside of your neighborhood.”

Some parents say they don’t feel welcome in their child’s school. “I do think we need to look closely at making sure our parents are absolutely welcome, that we’re looking at different strategies for engaging,” he said.

“But then I would love to unpack what parent engagement means for this community.”

When he was a principal, he said, parent engagement meant being able to call parents when their child was missing school or having other problems and getting their support.

“For me,” he said, “parent engagement doesn’t mean a physical presence, necessarily, in the school building, because our parents are dealing with so many things just to do right by their kids.”

S P E C I A L ED IS A TOP PRIORITY

Also on Dade’s agenda as he starts his work here: a recent agreement with the Empire Justice Center to improve the district’s poorly managed special education services – “marching orders agreed to by all parties,” as Dade put it.

Engaging parents in the special education process, ensuring that “we’re kind of dotting our I’s and crossing our T’s – non-negotiable,” Dade said. “We can’t not meet deadlines and things of that nature.”

“From the time that a parent requests assessments,” Dade said, “schools and teams have to be on point with those pieces. And then there’s the heavier lift around quality of instruction, proficiency rates for students, disproportionality in our suspension rates and things of that nature.”

“ W HAT

A R E TH E PE RCENTA G E O F ST U DENTS TH AT A CT UA LLY G O T O T HEIR N E I GH B O R H O O D SCH OO L? ” The Rochester school district needs to show the same progress with its special education students as it does with its black students or white students “or any other subgroup,” he said.

“They’re bringing their own stakeholder groups to say, This is why we believe in this school or this community. Help us move our kids forward.”

and coming from? Do you do home visits to have a better understanding?” “ Our lessons: Are they culturally responsive? Meaning, if you’re whole class is into hip-hop, you better put some hip-hop into your lessons or you’re dead in the water.”

KN OW YOUR 'HELP US MOVE 'THE NEGASTUDEN TS OUR KIDS Also among the Rochester district’s many challenges: The majority of its teachers are TIVE STORIES white and the majority of its students are not.

FORWARD' The district “absolutely” has to pay attention Among the ways Rochester has tried to TO POSITIVE to diversifying its teaching staff, he said, improve struggling schools is to partner because there will always be inherent biases. with the University of Rochester to BROKE MY And he tells a personal story of a different operate East High School. Critics of that kind of inherent bias. partnership complain that East’s success HEART' While he had intended to work in urban is due in part to additional money and other resources. Dade, however, applauds partnerships with outside organizations.

“If you look at some of the more successful initiatives across the country for urban education,” he said, “they involve higher education. I mean, who better to help frame what a successful graduate might look like and need?”

And, he added: “It doesn’t have to be with the university. I would love to see more partnerships with hospitals and other businesses. I don’t care who it is, but take a vested interest in your community and the kids that you serve, and you’re going to achieve great things. So I don’t want to say I’m 100 percent on ‘We need to replicate that partnership,’ but if I could see more true, hospital, business partnerships, things of that nature that truly have that back-and-forth synergy, we’re going to be that much more successful.”

Those kinds of partnerships, Dade said, are not only bringing additional resources:

education, his first teaching job was in a rural part of Virginia. As he would have in an urban school, he kept asking his students what they were doing to prepare for college. A parent set him straight, however: “Mr. Dade, she is not going to college. She’s going to help run our farm. That’s what we do. This is how we survive as a family.”

“It hit me in the gut,” he said, “because I was bringing what my background told me was important for education.”

“I had no right to instill my belief system there,” he said.

Understanding what it’s like to be in the shoes of someone of another race “is always going to be something that we’re going to have to work on,” he said.

“I don’t think we can professionally develop that,” Dade said.

What school districts can do, he said, is to have conversations with teachers every year: “Are you actually going into the community to understand where your students are living

While Dade recognizes the problems the district has experienced, he said he also wants the community to focus on the district’s strengths. “When I was researching the district,” he said, “the negative stories to positive broke my heart. So I hope I’m a contributing factor to helping change the narrative and starting to celebrate more what we’re doing well in all the challenges we have.”

On the day of CITY’s interview, Dade hadn’t yet met Mayor Lovely Warren or the local Regents, all of whom have been sharply critical of the district. Asked what he hopes to impress on them when he does meet them, he gave this answer: “It’s easy to say ‘We’re going to do this, that, or the other’ on July 1. But when I say we will operate as a family – not just on July 1, but on November 15, in the cold, dreary months of February in our city, we will operate as a family – I need you to look at my leadership at all of those points along the way to see if I’m holding true to that.” rochestercitynewspaper.com

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URBAN ACTION This week’s call to citizenship includes the following.

Government and racial segregation

As part of its 50th anniversary observance, the human services organization Pathstone will host author Richard Rothstein for a discussion of his book, “The Color of Law,” on Friday, July 19.

Rothstein will highlight the main argument of his book: that the present-day residential racial segregation of Rochester and other US cities is due to racially motivated government policies.

Rothstein’s book draws

on historical examples, from the housing policies of Franklin Roosevelt – whose New Deal public housing projects were strictly segregated, providing notably better quality for whites – to the failure of police and other public officials to protect African-Americans from persecution when they moved into majority-white neighborhoods.

Rothstein outlines the ways in which government-created segregation worsened inequalities in areas like criminal justice, economic stability, and education, and he argues that desegregation, like segregation, should be

attained through government policy.

Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He has written several books on education and race in America.

Also on the program will be Alice Holloway Young, a founding trustee of Monroe Community College, who experienced racial segregation first-hand.

The event will be held at the Lyric Theatre, 440 East Avenue, from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tickets are $25.

CORRECTING OURSELVES In our July 10 issue, the Daddy Long Legs concert preview incorrectly identified frontman Brian Hurd was incorrectly identified as Michael Bowe (a.k.a. Daddy Long Legs) of The Bloodhound Gang.

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Dining & Nightlife

Above, Tu Amor offers full-of-flavor guava puff pastries. Below, the keto cupcakes are as good as the regular ones. PHOTOS BY JACOB WALSH

An edible art gallery Tu Amor Cakery 1441 SOUTH AVENUE TUESDAY, 11 A.M. TO 6 P.M.; WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY, 11 A.M. TO 5:30 P.M.; SATURDAY, 11 A.M. TO 5 P.M. 730-4068; INSTAGRAM: @CAKERYTUAMOR [ REVIEW ] BY CHRIS THOMPSON

In my day job I work as an engineer. When I tell folks that, they often respond with, “I would have never guessed that. I thought you were an artist or musician.” To which I usually reply, “… thanks,” with multiple invisible question marks swirling around my head. Why couldn’t I be both? I have volumes of sketchbooks. Art and science have gone together since the beginning of civilization. Relics from Roman and Greek civilizations would not have lasted this long without marriage of the two. Do people think the engravers of Incan and Aztec monoliths just went to town on a stone and let their minds wander? Some of the greatest works of ancient art have lasted the ages thanks to the marriage

of math and creativity. Even ephemeral art like cake creation melds art and science; it’s a combination of chemistry, craftsmanship, and culinary skill. And there is plenty of each on display at Tu Amor Cakery.

Owner Lizzie Rodriguez creates tasty treats as well as full-on sculpture cakes that are edible statues of characters and creatures — such as The Grinch or a unicorn — per her customers’ requests. At her shop, I teetered between wanting to stare in awe of the cakes and wanting to devour them in one sitting.

The process to make a sculpted cake figure takes a few days. Rodriguez first draws

a diagram to measure proportions, before building a stable armature for the cake, populating that structure with the layers of cake, and sculpting the cake into the required form.

The final step is to frost and detail the work. The finished product is a thing of wonder, as are the other items she bakes every day.

Rodriguez has been baking since she was about 8 years old. It brought her joy, she says, and her mother noticed her talent early on. As she grew up, she kept baking and creating more than culinary art. She won a high school art competition for a painting she made, and she also had an interest in mechanical engineering and professional drafting, which she started to study in college. But life got in the way of academics, and though she had leave school to work full-time, she still nurtured her love of art and baking. She baked all the desserts in the restaurant owned by her father, who she says always pushed her to pursue what made her happy. Eventually, Rodriguez registerd her work under a DBA (“Doing Business As”) filing, and baked custom cakes from her home. This past December, with a lot of help

from her husband Roberto Rodriguez, she opened Tu Amor Cakery, a wonderland of sweet and savory treats.

I entered Tu Amor on one of the brightest, hottest days of the week, and the cool, dark interior was a relief. The first thing I saw was a bright kitchen counter with a line of differently colored Kitchen Aid mixers sitting in a row. They were obviously in regular use, but the way the light hit them made them look like they were illuminated by divine provenance.

Tu Amor offers a variety of freshly made items, both sweet and savory. There are fruity puff pastries and spinach artichoke turnovers.

There are pizzas for those on the keto diet and cream-filled cupcakes. Most of the flavors rotate daily, so you have a good chance of trying something new each time you visit.

Of the treats I sampled, the guava puff pastry was my favorite, but I also tried the strawberry cheesecake, the pineapple cheesecake, and the regular cheesecake puff pastries. All four were the right amount of sweetness and lightness; Rodriguez says she prefers Italian cream and meringuestyle as opposed to the more common American buttercream, which is made with confectioner’s sugar. The former are a bit denser, not overly sugary, but still full of flavor. In addition to the puff pastries, Rodriguez also makes a tres leches cake that seemed to defy gravity, it was so light.

I sampled the flan as well, which I initially thought was cheesecake because it looked so dense, but at the first bite I recognized the creamy, caramel taste.

Of all the treats Tu Amor offers, the keto items are the most confounding. Usually when someone says they made a low-carb cake without sugar or wheat flour, I prepare myself to eat something that resembles a brick (and is about as sweet as one).

But the cupcakes I had were so good, I thought I picked up the wrong ones at first.

Rodriguez makes entire keto cakes, and she says her customers often send her pictures of the remains of her devoured designs, astonished at how tasty they were.

Rodriguez does not let her food go to waste; she shares whatever is left each day with owners of neighboring businesses and sometimes lucky passersby. She also has a “suspended coffee” program, where folks can order a coffee and give a little bit extra to pay it forward for someone who may not be able to afford a cup. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11

Upcoming

Music

[ ROCK-JAM BAND ] Trey Anastasio Tuesday, October 15. Smith Opera House.

82 Seneca St. Geneva. $75-$85. 7:30 p.m. 866-355-5483. thesmith.org; trey.com. [ ROOTS ROCK-SOUL ] The Dustbowl Revival Saturday, November 23. Callahan Theater at Nazareth College Arts Center. 4245 East Ave. $20-$40. 8 p.m. 389-2170. naz.edu/artscenter.

Jordan Sand

THURSDAY, JULY 18 THE SPIRIT ROOM, 139 STATE STREET 8 P.M. | $5-$10 SLIDING SCALE FACEBOOK.COM/THESPIRITROOMROCHESTER JORDANSAND.COM [ INDIE CLASSICAL ] Double bassist and Ithaca College alumnus Jordan Sand will play The Spirit Room on Thursday. Vocally, Sand stretches an airy, jazz-crooning tone over elongated phrases, with plenty of playful rhythms. The result is an idiosyncratic singer-songwriter sound that is simultaneously abstract and highly melodic.

Her bass playing creates a cavernous atmosphere through a nimble combination of robust deep notes, high harmonics, and ambient effects. Add a visceral composition style, extended vocal techniques, and improvisational tendencies, and you’ve got music that is both sophisticated and accessible. Smaxcult and Saint Yübear will also perform.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

Swimmer THURSDAY, JULY 18 FLOUR CITY STATION, 170 EAST AVENUE 10 P.M. | $5 | AGES 21 AND OVER FLOURCITYSTATION.COM; SWIMMERMUSIC.COM [ JAZZ FUSION ] Swimmer is an experimental jazzrock quintet of precocious young Vermont musicians working on the same sonic jigsaw puzzle. The band has released multiple live albums since 2014, in addition to its debut studio album, “Throw It Out,” in 2018. A kind of millennial version of Steely Dan, Swimmer features expansive oceans of complex chord changes and crisp guitar solos, with jazzy sophistication and blues-rock grit.

— BY KATIE HALLIGAN

PHOTO BY TENZIN CHOPAK

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Great Red

BLUES

Coupe De Villes. 585 Rockin

‘Die Alone’ Self-released greatred.bandcamp.com

Gedeon Luke and the People THURSDAY, JULY 18 MLK JR. MEMORIAL PARK, MANHATTAN SQUARE, 353 COURT STREET 5:30 P.M. | $7 GENERAL; $35 VIP ROCHESTEREVENTS.COM/PARTY-IN-THE-PARK FACEBOOK.COM/GEDEONLUKE [ SOUL ] Just as sly as Sly and twice as funky, Gedeon Luke and the People bring it from the soul…the Memphis soul. And there’s some church in there, as joyously exemplified by the breakneck breakdowns they frequently cop to, adding some old-time religion to the band’s R&B. Josh Shapiro will open the show, while Almost Queen be the headliner.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

The Messthetics FRIDAY, JULY 19 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $12 (TICKETS ONLINE ONLY) | AGES 18 AND OVER BUGJAR.COM; THEMESSTHETICS.BANDCAMP.COM [ EXPERIMENTAL ROCK ] Former members of 90’s prog-punk

band Fugazi — drummer Brendan Canty and bassist Joe Lally — teamed up with experimental guitarist Anthony Pirog (half of the duo Janel & Anthony) in 2016. Based out of Washington, D.C. and signed to Dischord Records after its first show, the band released its self-titled debut album in 2018. The Messthetics send you on a head-banging thrill ride with a fusion of progressive rock, psychedelic, punk, and jazz. Purely instrumental, the trio sets the mood into overdrive with erratic guitar trills and explosive cymbal crashes. Shifting between dreary, spacious daydreams and supersonically fast improvisations, The Messthetics deliver offkilter yet intentional soundscapes. Fortunato plays in support.

— BY KATIE HALLIGAN

CITY Newspaper presents

Mind Body Spirit

Seemingly out of an astute nothingness comes the clever buildup. It’s a buildup that sits patiently with the listeners hanging around Great Red’s bullpen. The new EP “Die Alone” exemplifies restraint, with the promise of a rather stark psychedelia right around the corner and in your face. Though the energy gets goosed toward bigger and better things, the journey, or the promise thereof, is worth the wait.

Great Red celebrates the release of “Die Alone” with The Moho Collective and Cammy Enaharo & Dessert on Friday, July 19, 8:30 p.m. at UUU Art Collective, 153 State Street. $10. 490-0115. uuuartcollective.com; facebook.com/greatredband.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Rd. 247-0079. 6:30 p.m.

Nikki Hill. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 9 p.m. $22/$28.

Reverend Kingfish: House Party of the Damned. The

Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 8 p.m.

Steve Grills & The Roadmasters. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-8 p.m.

CLASSICAL

RPO. Temple B’rith Kodesh,

2131 Elmwood Ave. tbk.org.

7 p.m.

JAZZ

Bill Tiberio Trio. 80W, 7

Lawrence St. 730-4046. 7 p.m.

John Palocy Trio with Ann Mitchell. Little Café, 240 East

Chaz Hearne & The Dazzlers ‘Intelligence Is Rising’ Self-released chazhearne.bandcamp.com

Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

Lindy Jam: Jon Seiger & The All-Stars. The Historic German

Rochester singer-songwriter Chaz Hearne’s paper-thin, pitch-perfect tenor casts a dreamy haze over the music. At times it’s akin to Paul Simon, and at others, it’s more like Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear. A backwoods banjo feel reveals a love for classic folk and Americana, the music is more directly descended from the atmospheric chamber pop, psychedelic, reverbdrenched indie rock, and neo-folk revival of the last 20 years.

Hearne’s songwriting is precise and his ear for dynamic pop orchestration is keenly articulated by band members from Susanna Rose Trio, Copper Hill, Seth Faergolzia’s Multibird, and The Incantations. Dave Drago’s mixing and mastering at 1809 Studios ties it all together.

Chaz Hearne & The Dazzlers will play an album release show with The Crooked North on Wednesday, July 24, 7:30 p.m. at Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. $7 includes new album. 232-3230. abilenebarandlounge.com; chazhearne.com.

— BY DANIEL J. KUSHNER

House Auditorium, 315 Gregory St. groovejuiceswing. com. 8:45 p.m. Beginner dance lessons 9pm. $8/$10.

POP/ROCK

Back In Town. Marge’s

Lakeside Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020. 6 p.m.

Blink 182, Lil Wayne. Darien Lake PAC, 9993 Allegheny Rd. Darien. darienlake.com/events.

7 p.m. $42 & up.

Concerts by the Shore: The Invictas. Ontario Beach Park, 4799 Lake Ave. 865-3320.

7 p.m.

Haybaby, SuP?, Salms, Lupis.

Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 9 p.m. $8.

Paul Strowe. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 7 p.m.

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7pm | Doors open 6:15

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Music

Celebrating an EP release show on Friday, July 19 at Radio Social, Ryan Flynn brings dream pop vibes to the local music scene. PHOTO PROVIDED

Make the space go ‘pop’ Ryan Flynn EP RELEASE SHOW WITH SPACE CUBS, ELOWVATE, AND CANDY ISLE FRIDAY, JULY 19 RADIO SOCIAL, 20 CARLSON ROAD 6:30 P.M. | FREE | RADIO-SOCIAL.COM RYANFLYNNMUSIC.COM [ FEATURE ] BY FRANK DE BLASE

He calls it “space pop.” Ryan Cullinane is a Rochester-based electronic artist who soaks his sound in ethereal, new-wavey gravy and effervescent possibilities. It’s inescapable, it’s catchy. The genre caught Cullinane’s attention while he was living in Florida.

“I was a huge metal guy,” Cullinane says. “I used to be the singer in a thrash metal band.

But it was the age of Spotify and Pandora. I’d listen to a few stations that were out of my comfort zone. Artists like St. Vincent, Grimes, Phantogram were popping up and I was like, ‘Wow, I’m really into this whole sound. It definitely felt like this weird, surreal, dreamlike 14 CITY JULY 17 - 23, 2019

combination — very atmospheric, and I was drawn to it immediately.”

Cullinane got right to work. He released his first of four albums in 2013, under the moniker Ryan Flynn. It was as if Cullinane were on an electronic music safari, on the hunt for his own slant to the genre. He thinks he’s finally figured it out with his latest release, an eponymous, six-song endeavor.

“They all have been rather experimental as far as finding a sound,” Cullinane says of his records. “But this new one, it pretty much sealed the deal for me.”

This is more than a mere solo project.

‘Ryan Flynn’ is, in fact, a duo. Cullinane’s friend Andrew Cavaciuti, who mixed the EP, is also the guitarist and keyboard player during live performances. Cullinane handles live programming, keyboards, and at times, theremin.

“Onstage, there are like four things going on at the same time,” Cullinane says. “The laptop provides our bass and drum tracks and it’s me and him switching off on bass and keyboards, adding parts here and there.”

This can be dangerous, inviting the opportunity for mistakes to pop up and crash the party. Cullinane seems unfazed.

“Mistakes do come,” he says. “It’s usually based on some glitch. That’s the beautiful part of electronic music: Mistakes happen. There are lots of moving parts, and that leaves room for improvisation. And we try to leave space within the set for us to do that.”

Cullinane says that, when first seeing the laptop onstage, some fans are quick to dismiss it as “just another DJ.” “But I think we live in an age where it’s cool to use a computer now,” he says, “especially when you’ve got live instruments and riffs to back it up. I would never dismiss anyone using a computer. A lot of pop music is generated by a real good singer and a lot of technology.

The beauty in the future is mixing those live instruments with that whole technological aspect. It opens up endless possibilities.”

Cullinane’s words can help be a guide if a listener initially finds the music opaque. “I want the voice to be a part of this electronic world,” he says, “a little narrative to tell the story.”

Storytelling aside, Cullinane goes for a childlike, exploratory approach when writing songs. “My favorite thing to do is just make sounds,” he says. “If it sounds like a riff, then I go, ‘Can I sing over this?’ So yeah, music comes first ahead of the lyrics, more often than not.”

Though Ryan Flynn is not the only group there, the electronic music scene in Rochester certainly isn’t crowded, according to Cullinane.

“There’s a scene, but it’s very underground,” he says. “Rochester has a great music scene. That’s why I moved up here from Long Island. I got this vibe from Rochester that it’s eclectic, and there are a number of great musicians up here.”

Even in an already bustling local scene, Cullinane feels his duo brings something different stylistically. “We get thrown in with a lot of rock bands, and they come up after our set and ask, ‘What was that?’ It’s a very refreshing feeling, knowing you stand out.”

TROPICAL Onclave. Midtown Commons, 275 E. Main St. 12-2 p.m.

R&B/ SOUL Dusty Bottle. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090. 6 p.m.

[ THU., JULY 18 ]

[ FRI., JULY 19 ]

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Cynthea Kelley. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.

ACOUSTIC/FOLK Alex Goettel. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park Point Dr. lovincup.com.

6 p.m.

Jordan Sand, Smaxcult, Saunt Yübear. The Spirit Room, 139

EMDR, Jackson Cavalier, Whirlin’ Jack Dervy. Vineyard

State St. 397-7595. 8 p.m.

Middays at Midtown: Jack West. Midtown Commons,

275 E. Main St. 12-2 p.m.

Paul Strowe. Cottage Hotel of Mendon, 1390 PittsfordMendon Rd. Mendon.

624-1390. 7 p.m.

BLUES

The Hi-Jivers. Abilene, 153

Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

8 p.m. $7.

Nick Schnebelen. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima.

624-2080. 7 p.m.

Wilcox Residency II: Meghan Koch & The Gentleman Callers. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7 p.m.

JAZZ

Chris Ott. Bristol Harbour

Resort, 5410 Seneca Point Rd. 396-2200. 6 p.m.

Hochstein at High Falls: The Mambo Kings. Granite

Mills Park, 82 Browns Race. hochstein.org. 12:10 p.m. Rain location: MCC downtown, 2nd floor.

HIP-HOP/RAP

LEVEL 7 Experience, MF SKUM. Photo City Improv, 543

Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 9 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Countdown from Ten, Kindofkind, False Pockets, Make It Stop. Vineyard

Community Space, 836 South Clinton Ave. 342-8429.

6:30 p.m.

Enter the Haggis. Lincoln Hill Farms, 3792 Rte 247.

Canandaigua. lincolnhillfarms. com. 7 p.m. $15.

Joe Retta, Don Mancuso & Friends. Iron Smoke Distillery,

111 Parce Ave Suite 5b.

Fairport. 7:30 p.m. $5.

Overhand Sam. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $5.

Party in the Park: Almost Queen, Gedeon Luke & the People, Josh Shapiro. MLK Jr.

Memorial Park, 1 Manhattan Sq. 5:30 p.m. Rain location: Anthology, 336 East Ave. $7.

Swimmer. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745.

10 p.m. $5.

Community Space, 836 South Clinton Ave. 342-8429.

6:30 p.m. $5-$10 suggested.

Keith Secola. Hunt Country Vineyards, 4021 Italy Hill Rd (County Rd 32). Branchport. huntwines.com. 7:30 p.m. $15.

Larry Fox. Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603.

7 p.m.

Mary Monroe. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

Megan Flechaus Band. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

3 p.m.

Rob Gioia. Marge’s Lakeside Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020.

6:30 p.m.

Sarah Eide. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080. 7 p.m.

Summer Lunch Series: JAWS Acoustic Trio. College Town, Celebration Dr. 483-0705.

11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

AMERICANA

The Dirty Grass Players. Abilene,

153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230.

9:30 p.m. $10.

The Jane Mutiny. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 8 p.m.

Laura Thurston. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 5-7 p.m.

The Paulsen & Baker Band, Pat Ashley. The Clover Center for

Arts & Spirituality, 1101 Clover St. 473-3200. 6 p.m.

The Sideways, Heatwave.

Lincoln Hill Farms, 3792 Rte 247. Canandaigua. lincolnhillfarms.com. 6 p.m.

BLUES

Gunsmoke. Dinosaur BBQ,

99 Court St. 325-7090. 10 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Musical Curiosities: Benjamin Franklin to Gershwin. FLCC

Auditorium, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Canandaigua. lakemusicfestival.org. 7:30 p.m.

Pre-Concert Chat: 7:15 pm. $10-$50.

COUNTRY FlecHaus. Abilene, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 4:30 p.m.

Thomas Rhett. Darien Lake PAC, 9993 Allegheny Rd. Darien. darienlake.com/events. 7 p.m. $39 & up.

JAZZ

Dave Toliver Band. Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E. 245-3006. 7:30 p.m.

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202.

7:30-10 p.m.

Moonlight Stroll Concert Series: Rochester Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra. Sonnenberg

Gardens & Mansion, 151 Charlotte St. Canandaigua. sonnenberg.org. 7:30 p.m. $5-$10.

Webster Jazz Festival. Village of Webster, Main St. websterbid. com/jazz. 6:30-10 p.m.

METAL

Halothane, 137, Waldhexen, Undeath. Rosen Krown, 875

Monroe Ave. 271-7050. 9 p.m.

Spit Nickels, Mobday, Defining, 13 County Kings. Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 7 p.m. $8/$10.

POP/ROCK

Dave Riccioni & Friends. M’s

4300 Bar & Grill, 4300 Culver Road. 467-2750. Third Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

The Dirty Pennies, The Capitals. Three Heads Brewing,

186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224.

8 p.m. $5.

DJ Murdock: Ultimte 80’s.

Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. Third Friday of every month, 5-8 p.m.

Gin Blossoms. Batavia Downs, 8315 Park Rd. Batavia.

343-3750. 5 p.m. $10 & up.

John Payton Project. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 8 p.m.

Jon Lewis. Temple Bar & Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. 9 p.m.

Left-Handed 2nd Baseman.

Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 413-5745. 7 p.m. $7/$10.

The Messthetics, Fortunato.

Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m. $12.

Music-on-the-Lawn: Better Late Than Never. St. Thomas

Episcopal Church, 2000 Highland Ave. 442-3544.

7-8 p.m.

Nostalgic Stereo, SuP?, McClane, Pentanol. Firehouse

Saloon, 814 S. Clinton Ave. 319-3832. 9 p.m. $5.

RPO & Michael Cavanaugh: The Music of Elton John. Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. 7:30 p.m. $30-$76.

Ryan Flynn, Space Cubs, Elowvate, Candy Isle. Radio Social, 20 Carison Road.

6:30 p.m.

Westside Music & Food Festival: Springer, ZBTB, Fade To Black, Appetite For Voltage, Northside Johnny. 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Rd. 247-0079. 5-11 p.m.

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FREE ADMISSION! Continuous music all day throughout the town, beginning at the Lakeview Village Shoppes.

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FEATURING: The Phil De Re Quintet Star People featuring Bobby Militello Heather Bambrick Quintet featuring Chase Sanborn The Musicians of Buffalo featuring Phil Simms Dan Hull & Friends featuring Pat LaBarbera

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TROPICAL

Bands on the Bricks: Latino Night. Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. cityofrochester.gov/ bandsonbricks. 6-10 p.m.

[ SAT., JULY 20 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Brian Dudley. Sager Beer Works, 46 Sager Dr Suite E. 245-3006. 7:30 p.m.

Evan Meulemans. Thirsty Turtle, 7422 Victor-Pittsford Rd. 924-4010. 7 p.m.

Lina Tullgren, Friendship, Kinloch Nelson, Lung Cycles.

Small World Books, 425 North St. 8 p.m. $10 suggested.

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BLUES | GEORGE THOROGOOD WITH CEDRIC BURNSIDE

George Thorogood and his band, The Delaware Destroyers, have been laying it down thick and mean since 1975. George AMERICANA Thorogood is an 11th-hour bluesman, riding on the coattails Chris Bethmann. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport. of legends like Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, and Hound Dog 315-3003. 5-7 p.m.

Taylor — the musician who is most influential on Thorogood’s rough ‘n’ tumble gutbucket guitar sound. You could say COUNTRY Thorogood is with them, not of them. And in my opinion he has Shotgun Pauly. Nashvilles, surpassed some of them, simply with sheer flamboyance and 4853 W Henrietta Rd. showmanship. Keeping the Thorogood-inflicted wound open Henrietta. 334-3030. will be the warm-up act: the pride of R.L. Burnside, his grand9 p.m. $5. son, the drummer and guitarist Cedric Burnside. He’s loyal to that Mississippi hill-country sound, perpetrated by bluesmen DJ/ELECTRONIC Sole Rehab & Signal > Noise: like Junior Kimbrough, T-Model Ford, and Otha Turner, to Garrett David & Vicki Powell. name a few.

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

George Thorogood and Cedric Burnside play Wednesday, July $15/$20.

JAZZ

The Cool Club & The Lipker Sisters. Lovin’ Cup, 300 Park

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Point Dr. lovincup.com.

8 p.m. $5.

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley Brown’s,

1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202.

7:30-10 p.m.

Webster Jazz Festival.

Village of Webster, Main St. websterbid.com/jazz. 4-10 p.m.

The White Hots. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

8 p.m.

METAL

Michael Angelo Batio.

Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 8 p.m. $20/$25.

POP/ROCK

311, Dirty Heads, Dreamers.

Darien Lake PAC, 9993 Allegheny Rd. Darien. darienlake.com/events. 6 p.m. $26 & up.

Amanda Ashley Trio. Dinosaur BBQ, 99 Court St. 325-7090.

10 p.m.

Attic 39. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com. 8 p.m.

Green Day tribute.

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BataviaStock featuring Melanie. Batavia Downs, 8315

Park Rd. Batavia. 343-3750.

1-9 p.m. $10-$20.

The Chinchillas. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 8 p.m.

The Dungarees. Johnny’s Pub, 1382 Culver Rd. 224-0990.

8 p.m.

Junkyard Fieldtrip. 585 Rockin Burger Bar, 250 Pixley Rd. 247-0079. 8:30 p.m.

Liam Alone. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

Melia, The Mason Tyler Band, Wolf Mountain. House of

Guitars, 645 Titus Ave. 5443500. 1 p.m.

Mikaela Davis & Southern Star. Abilene, 153 Liberty

Pole Way. 232-3230. 8 p.m. $20/$25.

Otter Space Wranglers. Bar Louie, 98 Greece Ridge Center Dr. 797-1054. 8 p.m.

REGGAE/JAM The Majestics. Three Heads Brewing, 186 Atlantic Ave. 244-1224. 8 p.m. $10.

[ SUN., JULY 21 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Michael Gonzalez & WhorlWood. Rio Tomatlan,

5 Beeman St. Canandaigua.

394-9380. 3-5 p.m.

BLUES

Blues in the Beer Garden.

NY Beer Project, 300 High St. Victor. 888-6927. 3-6 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival: Robert Frost Poetry in Music. Anthony Road

Winery, 1020 Anthony Rd. Penn Yan. FingerLakes-Music. org. 7:30 p.m. $25.

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The Angry Goat

938 S. Clinton Avenue / theangrygoatpub.com

Cherry Bacon Bomb Burger Cherry bacon jam, brie, argula and fig aioli

Bar Louie

935 Jefferson road / barlouie.com

6 Napkins Burger Two slider patties, grilled with yellow mustard, topped with caramelized onions, double white cheddar, pickles and Louie sauce.

Blades Bar & GrilL | BLADES DINer 1290 university Avenue / bladesbarandgrill.com

Porky’s Nightmare 8oz Brisket burger, bbq pulled pork, applewood smoked bacon, honey ham and bell pepper cole slaw, smokey bbq sauce, melted chedder on a brioche roll.

BuntSy's Neighborhood Bar & Grill 2235 Empire Blvd / buntsys.com

The Merry Go Round Burger 8oz premium Iowa Angus topped with applewood bacon, beer cheese, pretzels, peanut sauce and drizzled with caramel on a Vienna roll.

Charlie riedel's

1843 Empire Blvd / charliesrestaurants.com

Charlie Burger w/ Everything Ground beef patty with provolone, lettuce, tomato, mayo.

Topped with mustard onions and our signature hot sauce on a poppy seed brioche roll.

McArdle's restaurant

1355 Fairport road / mcardlesfairport.com

McArdle’s Dry Aged Burger 21-day dry aged Angus burger with cheddar cheese, argula, pickled red onions and garlic aioli on a twist roll.

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Tap & Mallet

381 Gregory Street / tapan

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7oz Seven Bridges Farms burger, 5 s red onion, garlic aioli and scallions o

The Gate House

274 N. Goodman / thegateh

The Douglass

Half pound Angus burger with me onions and yellow mustard.

Sticky Lips BBq

830 Jefferson road / stick

The Trash Heap

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758 South Avenue / theold

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Lovin Cup

300 park point Drive / lovincup.com

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Jimmy Z's plates & Shakes

53 Main Street / platesandshakes.com

The Eiffel Tower Bacon cheeseburger topped with 2 BBQ chicken fingers and onion rings.

Harry G's NY Deli & Café

Maple Mania 678 South Avenue / harrygsdeli.com House made burger with maple sausage seasoning, maple BBQ sauce, maple cheddar cheese, bacon and French fried onions on a Kaiser roll.

Grappa Italian Nouveau 30 Celebration Drive / grapparoc.com

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Dicky's Corner pub

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BBQ Chipotle burger 8oz angus patty cooked to temp. Topped with house made chipotle slaw, cheddar cheese and pickle served on sour dough.

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THE BOND THAT BURGERS BUILD

BY KITA ROBERTS

There is something about a classic burger that brings people together. It invites conversation and, much like any casual handheld food that you are bound to need a few napkins for, allows people to roll up their sleeves and get a bit messy.

Burgers aren’t just an American backyard favorite. Found across the country in just about every drivethrough, family restaurant, food trucks, and even occasionally moonlighting as a signature item in upscale places; they are a social event. People who share burgers, whether in a backyard or at a hightop, are always willing to smile and share light conversation too.

As Rochester gears up to celebrate summer’s favorite social food, and the classic American favorite for Burger Week, I am inviting you to think of the burger not just as a quick bite to eat, but as an invitation for community, gentle competition, and oldfashioned fun.

The thing about burgers being more about community than food is simply this.

Grilling burgers at summer barbecues, camping trips, as tailgating essentials, and for poolside afternoons are all about sharing those moments with friends and 22

family. Naturally, by hosting an afternoon barbecue, or ordering a burger at your favorite local pub, you are saddling up to the table to enjoy time with those around you. Not just to sit quietly and eat.

Taking life back from those screens, as you sit savoring those patties, you spend time catching up, in real life. Sharing burgers is an IRL (In-real-life) community event, every time. You can’t scroll through the latest social networks with ketchup on your fingers, so enjoy those around you.

Burger Month is Born: In 2013 GirlCarnivore was launched, with the idea of becoming a fun slightly snarky place for anyone craving for a meatinspired recipe to come and join in. To take the edge off, and make accessible, the steps for prepping, cooking, grilling, or smoking anything.

As the site grew, I realized that the community I loved around my campfires grilling burgers could be shared virtually, through the website. And on one hot summer day sharing a backyard bash with some friends, an idea sparked to life.

Burger Month started in 2014 when I threw out the idea to some blogging friends

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and foodies to cultivate that social feeling online. In the days of millions of websites, running one can feel somewhat isolating, but burgers always get people talking. They bring everyone to the table, and that always results in fun conversation. I wanted to bring that to the internet and share it with readers, inviting them to join me at the table too, so to speak.

To break down the feeling of just being someone far away behind a screen.

Since it started in 2014, GirlCarnivore. com has hosted an annual BurgerMonth every May, showcasing hundreds of amazing recipes from chefs, bloggers, and friends. Every year, the burger-loving community grows, and I get pictures and messages from readers from all over with their home-made creations or local favorites. Which is precisely the feeling I was trying to cultivate in the busy online world; Community.

The challenge to the participants?

Make a great burger, whatever that means to the creator, and share it to a wider net of the combined blogs and sites readers. We started with a humble group of burgers, but have grown since that first year, to showcase hundreds of amazing recipes, burgers of all kinds, and even added weekly prizes for those loyal readers to win with hopes of spreading the burger craving far and wide. The event has taken over May on GirlCarnivore.com and spread across social platforms with multiple recipes and new creations coming out daily for the entirety of the month.

Being the host of BurgerMonth.com has led to some pretty exciting places, and one of my favorites is being the judge of many burger battles. In each, talented chefs from

one winner was declared in the New York Best Burger Competition. All were amazing, and being such a fan, a few readers and friends have pointed out even more other great New York Burgers to try too. It’s worth creating a road trip through the state to experience the variety.

With so many options, what makes a great burger?

restaurants come together to showcase their award-winning burgers in hopes of being awarded the best burger.

Recently, the New York Best Burger Battle allowed me to judge the states best burgers.

They were narrowed down by online voting open to the public, to the top 9 burgers. The competition was fierce, incredibly filling, and brought a great group of New York talent into one kitchen to compete.

Besides creating over the top delicious burgers, the cookoff was an education in the region’s flavors. My peers explained the salty kimmelweck (kummelweck) roll, which led to a fantastic Beef on Weck burger. There was a classic griddle smashed burger, an ode to Texas Barbecue with brisket topped burger, fresh avocado spiced with jalapenos and mayo and a juicy diner style mushroom burger, and of course the mile high burger with a fried egg on top, to name a few.

Each of the five judges scored the burgers and made notes, and in the end,

Is there such a thing as a bad burger? No. Even when they don’t come out as planned, burgers are one of those foods that are always welcome. As a home cook, whether they are smashed on a griddle, grilled or masterfully seared in a skillet, there’s no going wrong. And that goes for the actual patty itself too. There isn’t a protein that doesn’t fit the bill when it comes to delicious burgers. But, beef stands as king when it comes to that classic flavor.

Here are a few tips for a perfect burger: Start with a great blend of beef, with just enough fat to add flavor and keep things moist. From there, just a pinch of salt goes a long way for a perfect umami flavor.

Other seasonings can be added in, but the taste of a classic beef burger without much additional filling is always a guaranteed hit.

Don’t overwork the patties when forming, and allow them to rest before cooking. Be sure to cook to an internal temperature of 160 with ground beef for food safety. Allow the burgers to rest for 3 to 5 minutes before serving.

For bonus flavor, a small dollop of compound butter melted over the resting burgers goes a long way.

Find more about Burger Month, the Burger of the Month Clubhouse, and more recipes to get you inspired on my site, GirlCarnivore. com. You can follow along with more meaty adventures on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram too @GirlCarnivore

Kita Roberts is a food/travel writer, photographer and the creator of GirlCarnivore.com and PasstheSushi.com.

She is always off exploring global flavors and learning the history of our foodways.

Follow along on her adventures on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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UNITY ST COMM GREATE

Garagse Sale

Auditorium, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Canandaigua. lakemusicfestival.org. 2 p.m.

First Inversion vocal ensemble.

Pre-concert chat 1:45pm. $10-$50.

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Rob Thomas. CMAC, 3355

Marvin Sands Dr. Canandaigua. cmacevents.com. 7 p.m. $12 & up.

JAZZ

Lauren Mitchell. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima.

624-2080. 6 p.m.

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OLD-TIME FOLK | CHATHAM RABBITS

(315) 789-3848. 5 p.m.

Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 7 p.m.

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ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Lori, Lily Grave, Milo Duhn, Starting Anonymous. Vineyard

Community Space, 836 South Clinton Ave. 342-8429.

6:30 p.m. $5-$10 suggested.

O’s Pipa & Friends. Little Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

7 p.m.

Chatham Rabbits. Abilene,

153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 7:30 p.m. $10.

BLUES

Gracie Curran. Fanatics, 7281 W Main St. Lima. 624-2080.

7 p.m. $20.

BLUES

Albert Castiglia. Fanatics,

7281 W Main St. Lima.

624-2080. 7 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Hopeman Memorial Carillon Recital: Margaret Pan. UR Eastman Quadrangle, 500 Wilson Blvd. 7 p.m.

JAZZ

StormyValle. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 6-8 p.m.

[ TUE., JULY 23 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Jamric. Central Library, 115 South Ave. 428-8150.

12-1 p.m.

AMERICANA

Bluegrass Tuesdays. The Angry Goat Pub, 938 Clinton Ave. 413-1125. 8 p.m.

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CLASSICAL

Eastman Summer Sings!.

Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St. 274-3000. 7:30 p.m.

RPO Neighborhood Ensemble Concert. Maplewood Rose

Garden, Lake Ave & Driving Pk. 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday Pipes.. Christ Church, 141 East Ave. 454-3878. esm.rochester.edu. 12:10 p.m. Lunchtime concerts by Eastman organists.

JAZZ

Gray Quartet Jazz Sessions.

The Spirit Room, 139 State St. 397-7595. 7:30-10 p.m. $5.

Grove Place Jazz Project.

Rochester Music Hall of Fame, 25 Gibbs St. rochestermusic. org. 7 p.m. $10.

Jazz90.1 Concerts on the Lawn: Brockport Big Band.

Olympia High School, 1139 Maiden Ln. jazz901.org.

6:30 p.m.

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Bitter Honey 127 Railroad Street 270-4202 Bitterhoney.roc.com Authentic Mexican fare in a family-style setting

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METAL

The Convalescence, The Breathing Process, A Feasting Beast, In The Shadows Of Giants, Gutted Alive, Damages. Photo City Improv,

543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047.

9 p.m. $12.

Five Finger Death Punch, In This Moment. Main Street

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Armory, 900 E. Main St. 232-3221. 7 p.m. $50.

Located within the new indoor B Shed (Stall 35)

POP/ROCK

Jumbo Shrimp. Penfield Amphitheater, 3100 Atlantic Ave. Penfield. penfield.org.

6:30 p.m.

Lionel Richie. CMAC, 3355 Marvin Sands Dr. Canandaigua. cmacevents. com. 8 p.m. $15 & up.

The Stedwells, Canceler, Old Fame. Swan Dive, 289 Alexander St. 413-3306.

8 p.m. $8.

VOCALS

20th Century Vox. Via Girasole

Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Pl. Pittsford. 641-0340. 5:30 p.m.

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Open Tues-Sun Southern Inspired: Gourmet Donuts & Fried Chicken

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After 83 years of free public shows, the Hill Cumorah Pageant in Palmyra will have its final curtain call in 2020. This year’s run of the production continues July 16-20. PHOTO CREDIT MATT BARR, HILL CUMORAH PAGEANT

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The sun was setting in streaks of fiery gold and pink as crowds trickled through the gates of Hill Cumorah on a breezy Saturday night. At 8:40 p.m., most of the pageant’s spectators were already seated in one of the 8,000 provided plastic chairs, munching popcorn and other treats from nearby food vendors. Large striped tents, which house cast, crew, and production assets, dotted the wide acreage of the valley. On first glance, it could simply be a summer festival. But the 82-year-old, free, annual event is more than meets the eye.

And in 2020, after 83 years of free public shows, one of the nation’s longest-running 26 CITY JULY 17 - 23, 2019

outdoor theatrical productions will have its final curtain call.

As families made their way to the hill with picnic baskets and blankets, a man with a large sign yelled, “If you want to believe a lie, you have the freedom to do that, but God’s gonna judge you!” From the other side of a fence, he raised his megaphone and targeted a man his own age. “Keep smirking, sir, you won’t be happy in hell!” Across the road, a teenage boy wearing a baby blue t-shirt emblazoned with “Y’all Need Jesus” handed out anti-LDS pamphlets. A woman laughed as she accepted one and said, “We have him.

We’re here to see the story about it.”

The Hill Cumorah Pageant isn’t just an annual theatrical experience. It’s a religious destination in Palmyra, NY, sacred to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the site where Mormonism founder Joseph Smith discovered the buried golden plates he would translate into the Book of Mormon.

The LDS church moved its headquarters to Salt Lake City, Utah, a couple of decades

after Smith’s 1823 discovery. But today, nearly 200 years later, the church has followers all over the world.

Palmyra’s event is the flagship pageant of the LDS. It’s a 75-minute production with a pre-recorded score by Crawford Gates featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Utah Symphony, and in 1988 the pageant received an updated script penned by Orson Scott Card. The narrative includes 10 scenes from both The Book of Mormon and the Bible, chronicling the story of a group called the Nephites (the ancient prophets in the Mormon faith) from thousands of years ago in Jerusalem to the discovery of the plates on Hill Cumorah.

The Pageant began in 1937 as a production lit by car headlights; now it has a seven-tier steel stage built into the side of the hill, state-of-the-art special effects that simulate lightning and fire, 12 theatrical lighting and sound towers rising 50 feet into the air, and a completely volunteer cast of 770 people playing more than 1,200 roles.

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The stage is stored throughout the year and trucked in, and takes a month to rebuild before the pageant starts. Each night, the cast dons elaborate costumes, from layered robes and headpieces to angelic gowns and pioneer-era garb. Audience members can see these creations up close, as the cast mingles with the audience prior to each show.

The production quality is impressive; similar to an outdoor show at Walt Disney World or Universal Studios. And for fans of Charlton Heston movies, the spectacle feels like “The Ten Commandments” meets Broadway. Aside from the cast, there is a volunteer staff of more than 150 that includes professional theatrical designers and directors, fight choreographers, and a full media team. This year, the pageant also features its first female artistic director, Shawnda Moss. Hill Cumorah volunteers have to apply to participate, and while the event normally uses a pool of equally returning and new volunteers, this year mostly new volunteers were chosen from the 4,200 applicants, since the pageant will end soon.

In October 2018, the LDS Church announced in an official media statement that it would end four of its seven unique, worldwide pageants (two ended this year, two will end in 2020), stating that “the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is growing across the earth ... Local celebrations of culture and history may be appropriate. Larger productions, such as pageants, are discouraged.” The towns where pageants are ending will feel an economic impact, as the productions bring visitors from all over the world and, in the case of Palmyra, it is the largest annual community fundraiser for local groups like the Kiwanis and Rotary. And when they’re not rehearsing or performing, the cast spends part of their 17-day volunteer commitment in the community, completing more than 1,800 hours of service projects.

Pageant attendance has already been record-breaking this year, even with torrential rain on opening night, but the 2020 pageant is anticipated to be the biggest yet. After that, Hill Cumorah will continue to operate its Visitors Center and function as a pilgrimage site for LDS church members, but it will return to a more natural state, and the echoes of pageantry will only be stories for future generations.

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Check our art reviews from Rebecca Rafferty.

[ OPENING ] The Yards, 50-52 Public Market.

Art House Exhibition. Fri., July 19, 6-9 p.m. and Sat., July 20, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. attheyards.com.

Call for Artists [ WED., JULY 17 ] Anything Goes! Through July 20.

Wayne County Council for the Arts, 108 W. Miller St Newark $20/$35. wayne-arts.com.

Art of the Book. Through July 31. Central Library, 115 South Ave. 428-8150.

Ontario Pathways. Through Sep. 6. Main Street Arts, 20 W. Main St., Clifton Springs $10. (315) 462-0210.

Art Events DeTOUR: Celebrate Pride. 6 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. $12. 276-8900. [ SAT., JULY 20 ] Behind The Scenes. Third Saturday of every month Rose Hill Mansion, 3373 NY 96A .

Geneva $8/$10.

(315) 789-3848.

Final Day: Stonewall: 50 Years Out. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Central Library, 115 South Ave. 10:30am: Trailblazer Sand Mandala dissolution by by artist Katie Jo Suddaby 585--8370.

The Sporting Life. 12-4 p.m.

Rose Hill Mansion, 3373 NY 96A . Geneva $10.

(315) 789-3848.

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[ TUE., JULY 23 ] Taste of Rose Hill. 2 p.m Rose Hill Mansion, 3373 NY 96A .

Geneva $10/$12.

(315) 789-3848.

Comedy [ THU., JULY 18 ] Mike Dambra. 7:30 p.m.

Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $9-$15. 426-6339.

My Big Fat Italian Comedy Festival. 8 p.m. Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St $10$20. (315) 253-6669. [ FRI., JULY 19 ] Getting Melons, Losing Melons.

7 p.m. Boulder Coffee, 100 Alexander St. Hosts Kaali Flowers & Amy Stephens 454-7140.

Queens & Kings Takeover. 8 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $12. 426-6339. [ SAT., JULY 20 ] Tom Malloy, Tommy Bechtold.

7:30 p.m. Comedy @ the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $10.

426-6339. [ SUN., JULY 21 ] Traveling Cabaret. 2 p.m.

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Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/Serve Food. 3:30-6 p.m. St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality, 402 South Ave. 232-3262.

Parents & Children, Husbands & Wives: It’s all Relatives.

Sat., July 20, 7 p.m. The Spirit Room, 139 State St $10/$15.

397-7595.

Red: The Other Color Girl. Sat., July 20, 7 p.m. and Sun., July 21, 4 p.m. Legacy Drama House, 112 Webster Ave $15$30. 471-5335.

SHOUT! The Mod Musical. Fri., July 19, 8 p.m., Sat., July 20, 8 p.m. and Sun., July 21, 2 p.m.

Lyric Theatre, 440 East Ave $25/$35. ofccreations.com.

[ SUN., JULY 21 ] Convention Days 2019: Back to Our Roots. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 136 Fall St Seneca Falls nps.gov/wori.

Festivals

Activism ART BY ALAN SINGER

RECREATION | ROC SWEATFEST

ART | ‘PROCESS & PURPOSE’

Rochester’s fitness community is coming together this weekend to present the first ROC SweatFest, an entire day of blood-pumping workouts including cycling, boxing fusion, Zumba, Pilates, and boot camps. A variety of fitness studios, instructors, and wellness experts will be present, as well as the RPD’s SWAT Team, which will lead one of the boot camps. Activities kick off at 8:30 a.m. with a presweat sunrise yoga session, followed by three sweat sessions of your choice. Food and beverage stations will be on site, and the event will go on, rain or shine. Proceeds will benefit The Veterans Outreach.

Printmaking is one of the oldest art forms in human culture, having originated in China shortly after paper was invented in the first century. Yet to this day the field continues to see shifts and expansions in technique and definition. An upcoming exhibition at RIT City Art Space centers on this subject while showcasing the work of eight contemporary printmakers: Eileen Bushnell, Shane Durgee, Sarah Kinard, Kumi Korf, Craig Mains, Minna Resnick, Nick Ruth, and Alan Singer, who curated the show.

Sunday, July 21, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Park at Manhattan Square, 353 Court Street. $35 presale only. More information and tickets at rocsweatfest.com.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Theater The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Wed. & Thu, July 17 & 18, 7:30 p.m., Fri. & Sat., July 19 & 20, 8 p.m., & Sun., July 21, 2 p.m. Blackfriars Theatre, 795 E. Main St $15$34.50. 454-1260.

Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard. Fri., July 19, 8 p.m., Sat., July 20, 8 p.m. and Sun., July 21, 3 p.m. Gates Hall, 4107 Lake Rd Pultneyville $12/$14. gateshall.com.

Thursday, July 18, through Friday, August 23, at RIT City Art Space, 280 East Main Street. A reception will be held on First Friday, August 2, 6 to 9 p.m. Free. Gallery hours are Thursday through Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. cityartspace.rit.edu.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Macbeth. Wed. through Sun., July 17-21, 8 p.m., and Tue., July 23, 8 p.m. ASL interpretation Jul 26 Highland Bowl, 1137 South Ave. rochestercommunityplayers.org.

Murder For Two. Wed., July 17, 2 p.m., Thu., July 18, 2 & 8 p.m., Fri., July 19, 8 p.m., Sat., July 20, 8 p.m. and Sun., July 21, 2 p.m. Bristol Valley Theater, 151 South Main St $14-$35. bvtnaples.org.

[ WED., JULY 17 ] Gilbert Baker’s Rainbow Warrior: My Life in Color. 6:30 p.m.

Central Library, Kusler-Cox Auditorium, 115 South Ave 428-8370.

HIV/AIDS Candlelight Vigil. 7:30 p.m. AIDS Memorial Garden, Highland Park .

Understanding Environmental Justice. 6:30-8 p.m.

Montgomery Neighborhood Center, 10 Cady St facebook. com/RUSHROC. [ FRI., JULY 19 ] The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. 2 p.m.

Lyric Theatre, 440 East Ave Richard Rothstein & Dr. Alice Holloway Young $25.

340-3324.

Convention Days 2019: Back to Our Roots. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 136 Fall St Seneca Falls nps.gov/wori. [ SAT., JULY 20 ] Convention Days 2019: Back to Our Roots. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 136 Fall St Seneca Falls nps.gov/wori.

Moonlight

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8-10pm

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Rochester Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra

July 26

August 2

Panloco Steel Band

Neville Francis & The Riddim Posse

Great for the whole family & the only time to see the gardens lit at night.

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Film Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St. “Star Wars: Return of the Jedi” Sat., July 20, 7 p.m. With live performance by RPO. $24-$112.

ARTS AT THE GARDENS

CONCERT SERIES

Every Friday

Annual Joseph Avenue Festival.

Sat., July 20, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Corner of Joseph & Clifford Avenues, 14621 .

Canandaigua Art & Music Festival. Fri., July 19, 12-7 p.m., Sat., July 20, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sun., July 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

City of Canandaigua, Main St . Canandaigua canandaiguaartfestival.com.

Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival of Music & Dance. July 18-21.

Trumansburg Fairgrounds, 2150 Trumansburg Rd .

Trumansburg (607) 387-6504. grassrootsfest.org.

ROC Pride Festival. Sat., July 20, 1-9 p.m. and Sun., July 21, 12-6 p.m. Cobbs Hill Park, 100 Norris Dr. $12 & up. outalliance.org.

Sterling Renaissance Festival.

Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m Sterling, 15385 Farden Rd sterlingfestival.com.

AUGUST 17 & 18

10 am - 5 pm Fine paintings, prints, ceramics, and jewelry, plus glass, photography, fabrics, woodworking and more at this highly acclaimed exhibition of over 100 artists. Music, performances, food, wine, and all the beauty and elegance of the Sonnenberg Estate.

Admission $10/person, children under 12 are free.

Free parking & shuttle

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FESTIVAL | WATER LANTERN FESTIVAL

THEATER | ‘NEWSIES, THE MUSICAL’

The serenity felt from being near gently moving water at night is only enhanced by hundreds of glowing lights, reflecting off the rippling surface. Now add music, food, and community, and you’ve got the scene will be created this weekend at North Ponds Park in Webster. Water Lantern Festival is an organization that produces mass water lantern gatherings in different cities, creating a festival-like experience while participants decorate and launch floating paper lanterns. Food trucks will be on hand. Tickets include admission, a lantern and market, and a commemorative bag. The organization’s team cleans up the lanterns as well as trash on site following the event.

Based on the real newsboys’ strike of 1899, “Newsies, The Musical” recounts how poor and orphaned teens worked together and took a stand against Hearst and Pulitzer, the most powerful publishers in the country. When the moguls raised distribution prices at the expense of the boys’ already scanty profits, Jack Kelly — famously played by Christian Bale in the 1992 Disney film the production is based on — leads the newsies on a city-wide strike. The stage adaptation won the 2012 Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Choreography, and played on Broadway from 2012 to 2014. Following a national tour, the show comes to JCC CenterStage Theatre this week.

Saturday, July 20, 5:30 to 10 p.m. at North Ponds Park, 750 Hold Road, Webster. Tickets are $35 through July 19, $40 dayof. facebook.com/waterlanternfestival; waterlanternfestival.com.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Saturday, July 20, 8 p.m.; Sunday, July 21, 2 p.m.; Tuesday, July 23 through Thursday, July 25, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, July 27, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday, July 28, 2 p.m. CenterStage Theatre of Rochester JCC, 1200 Edgewood Avenue. Tickets are $33, $29 for JCC members, and $20 for students. 461-2000; jcccenterstage.org.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Little Theatre, 240 East Ave. “La Ragazza Nella Nebbia” (‘The Girl in the Fog’). Thu., July 18, 7 p.m. $10/$12. thelittle.org.; “Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church” Fri., July 19, 6:30 p.m. $4-$9. thelittle.org.; “Water Lilies of Monet: The Magic of Water & Light” Sat., July 20, noon and Sun., July 21, 3 p.m. $12/$15. thelittle.org.; “Gremlins 2: The New Batch” Sat., July 20, 9:30 p.m. $4-$9. thelittle.org.; “The Matrix” Mon., July 22, 6:30 p.m. $4/$5. thelittle.org.

Main Street Arts, 20 W. Main St., Clifton Springs. “The Price of Everything” Thu., July 18, 7 p.m. (315) 462-0210.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. “Control” Thu., July 18, 6:45 p.m. 276-8900.

Winnie the Pooh. 7 p.m.

Seton Catholic School, 165 Rinecliff Dr $10. 248-5196. ofccreations.com.

Kids Events

[ MON., JULY 22 ] Storybook Summer: Pete the Cat. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. Story readings 1pm & 2pm $16. 263-2700.

[ WED., JULY 17 ] Professor Klutzo’s Moon Magic.

2-3 p.m. Winton Branch Library, 611 N Winton Rd. 428-8204.

Storybook Summer: Cookie Mouse. Through July 19, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. Story readings 1pm & 2pm $16. 263-2700.

Wildlife Rockstars. 11:30 a.m. & 1 p.m. Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. rmsc.org. [ FRI., JULY 19 ] Beauty and The Beast Jr.. 7 p.m. Kodak Theater on the Ridge, 500 W Ridge Rd $12. ofccreations.com.

Life Under Rocks & Logs. 1 p.m.

Sterling Nature Center, 15380 Jenzvold Rd (315) 947-6143.

Nature Storytime. 10-11:30 a.m Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, 3395 US Route 20 East (315) 568-5987.

[ SAT., JULY 20 ] Alice in Wonderland. 11 a.m.

Lyric Theatre, 440 East Ave $4.

667-0954.

Lunar Landing Anniversary. 1-3 p.m. Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Sq. $16.

263-2700.

Monroe County Girls Sports Festival. 12-5 p.m. Frontier Field, 333 Plymouth Ave N. [ SUN., JULY 21 ] Salamander Shenanigans. 10 a.m.

Genesee Country Nature Center, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford $5 suggested. 538-6822.

[ TUE., JULY 23 ] Babies & Books. 2-2:30 p.m Monroe Branch Library, 809 Monroe Ave 428-8202.

Recreation [ SAT., JULY 20 ] Backyard Habitat Tour. 9 a.m.4 p.m. Genesee Land Trust, 46 Prince Street, Suite LL005 $15-$20. 256-2130.

Telescope Viewing.

Strasenburgh Planetarium, 657 East Ave Dusk-10pm. Call after 7:30 pm to confirm open hours 697-1945. rmsc.org.

Weekend Wild Walks. 11 a.m Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. rmsc.org.

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[ SUN., JULY 21 ] Sunday Wandering Naturalist. 10 a.m. Sterling Nature Center, 15380 Jenzvold Rd (315) 947-6143.

Trolley Rides. 11:30 a.m.4 p.m NY Museum of Transportation, 6393 E. River Rd $6-$8. 533-1113. [ TUE., JULY 23 ] RIT Orienteering Event. 6 p.m.

RIT Clark Gym, 1 Lomb Memorial Dr. $10. roc.us.orienteering.org.

Special Events ART BY JIM MOTT

ART | ‘THE ART OF CONNECTION’

FAMILY | ‘LUNAR LIFTOFF!’

So much about being an artist is learning to see differently or more clearly, and working through happenstance toward discovery. Rochester-based plein air painter Jim Mott has a uses his skills to connect with people he may not otherwise get to know, and go to places he may not otherwise go. In 2000 he initiated what he calls the Itinerant Artist Project, creating regional and national tours by exchanging small paintings for the hospitality of strangers. Last year, he created a new project, Landscape Lottery, for which he had people roll a set of dice to get numbers that corresponded to map coordinates. He’d then go to the location, make paintings, talk with folks in the vicinity, and have them roll the dice for his next destination. This week, The Yards will host Mott’s presentation, “The Art of Connection: 20 Years of Socially-Engaged Art Projects,” followed by a discussion.

This Saturday marks the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, and Rochester Museum & Science Center has already kicked off moon-related festivities. Through Saturday, RMSC is presenting “Lunar Liftoff!” featuring daily activities and programs including rocket launches, a Mars rover VR experience, a half-scale model of the Apollo 11 “Eagle” lunar module, and hands-on activities.

The museum has set up a 60’s-style living room, where you can lounge and watch genuine footage from the 1969 moon landing.

On Saturday, July 20, the museum has scheduled a full day of special programs and presentations by people from MARS Rocket Club, Astronomy Section of Rochester Academy of Sciences, Rochester Lego Users Group, and others. And through August, the Strasenburgh Planetarium presents a re-creation moon landing in its new show, “The Eagle Has Landed.” Saturday’s 3:45 p.m. show is timed so that the module touches down 50 years to-the-minute from the actual moon landing.

Thursday, July 18, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at The Yards, 50-52 Public Market Way. $5-$10 sliding scale. 210-0533; facebook.com/attheyards.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Through Saturday, July 20, at Rochester Museum and Science Center, 657 East Avenue. RMSC’s hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum admission is $13-$15 (planetarium show is a separate ticket, $9-$10).

For more details and show times, call 271-4320 or visit rmsc.org.

— BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

[ FRI., JULY 19 ] Masquerade Ball. 8 p.m.

Skyway, 90 S Clinton Ave $10. skywayroc.com.

Pride Weekend: High Tea. 8 p.m.

The Penthouse, 1 East Ave, 11th floor $15/$19. 775-2013.

ROC the Falls. 5-9 p.m.

Genesee Brew House, 25 Cataract St. Live music, food trucks, lawn games, & cornhole tournament 353-0201.

ZooBrew. 5:30-9 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St Ages 21+ $8 /$10. 336-7200. [ SAT., JULY 20 ] Civil War Weekend. 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Rd Mumford $14-$22. gcv.org.

ROC Pride Parade. noon. Park Ave, Alexander to Culver. [ SUN., JULY 21 ] Community Garage Sale. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St.

Culture Lectures

[ THU., JULY 18 ] Thursday Night History & Nature Walk: Downtown Heritage Trail. 6 p.m. Corner of Broad St & South Ave, 14604 cityofrochester.gov/fcfg.

Twilight Guided Walking Tour.

7 p.m Mount Hope Cemetery, 791 Mt Hope Ave. $10. fomh.org. [ SAT., JULY 20 ] Walking Tour: Abolitionists & the Underground Railroad. 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Mount Hope Cemetery, 791 Mt Hope Ave. North Gatehouse entrance $10. fomh.org. [ SUN., JULY 21 ] Guided Walking Tour. 2 p.m Mount Hope Cemetery, 791 Mt Hope Ave. $10. fomh.org.

Lucretia Mott: Quaker Minister, Abolitionist, Suffragist, & Seneca Falls Convention Organizer. 7 p.m. Farmington Friends Church, 187 Country Rd 8 . Farmington Christopher Densmore, presenter farmingtonmeetinghouse.org.

Literary Events [ THU., JULY 18 ] Just Poets Presents. Third Thursday of every month, 7 p.m. Nox, 302 Goodman St N .

Pure Kona Poetry Series. Every 7 days, 7-9 p.m. Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603. [ SUN., JULY 21 ] Rochester Poets Reading Series: Laurence Sugarman & Lee Warner Brooks. 2 p.m. Legacy at Cranberry Landing, 300 Cranberry Landing Dr.

[ WED., JULY 17 ] LGBTQ Historic Walking Tour.

6-9 p.m. New Life Presbyterian Church, 243 Rosedale St outalliance.org/roc-pride-2019/.

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Film

Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg in “The Art of Self-Defense.” PHOTO COURTESY BLEECKER STREET

Walk like a man “The Art of Self-Defense” (R), DIRECTED BY RILEY STEARNS OPENS FRIDAY, JULY 19 [ PREVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

Director Riley Stearns’ strange and seething satire “The Art of Self-Defense” is a pitch black comedy for the modern era, coming at a time when our culture continues a long overdue conversation about identity, masculinity, and violence.

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The film tells the story of milquetoast office worker Casey (Jesse Eisenberg). An awkward bundle of insecurities, Casey lives a rather drab existence. Residing in a nondescript apartment (which production designer Charlotte Royer layers with endless shades of brown and tan) in an anonymous city, he appears to have few friends and no social life to speak of. His co-workers completely ignore him at best, and at worst outright despise him. The only bright spot in his life is his beloved — and adorable — dachshund.

Then one night he’s attacked at random, beaten and mugged by a band of masked thugs on motorcycles. The assault leaves him bruised, broken, and fearful of the world outside his apartment walls. Seeking a way to feel safe again he takes an exploratory trip to a gun shop, but it doesn’t go as well as he’d hoped. Things seem hopeless until Casey happens upon a karate dojo run by the enigmatic Sensei (Alessandro Nivola).

Charismatic and supremely confident, Sensei has very specific ideas of what it means to be a man. He preaches a take-what-you-

want attitude, in which power belongs to the one who can punch the hardest. It’s an ideology reflective of the alpha/beta worldview that a certain type of men still subscribe to.

But Casey falls under its sway, submerging himself in this world of hypermasculinity with a fraternity of other male rejects.

The lone woman in this odd environment is Anna (a wonderful, ferocious Imogen Poots), a brown belt who teaches children’s karate class. Considering his beliefs about men, it’s perhaps not surprising to learn that Sensei also has some fairly misogynistic beliefs about what it means to be a woman too. He treats Anna with contempt, seeing her as biologically inferior. And Anna for her part has internalized so much of his teachings that even as she rages at her gendered treatment, she still finds herself craving his validation.

Casey doesn’t necessarily subscribe to Sensei’s feelings about women, but the ritualistic nature of Sensei’s brand of instruction appeals to him. He seems to be the answer Casey’s been searching for, offering some place to channel all the pain and frustration he’s been feeling.

His loneliness and insecurity lead him to desperately cling to a group where he finally feels like he belongs. He’s been afraid for so long that he believes the answer is to become that which he fears. Casey works his way up to yellow belt with remarkable speed, and Sensei soon extends him an invitation to the exclusive night class, where things take an even darker turn.

“The Art of Self-Defense” digs into the bubbling anger that forces a person to cling to an identity forged in aggression and violence; where domination is a methodology for living.

In the end, the film’s truly at its best when it makes its laughs hurt.

An extended version of this review is online at rochestercitynewspaper.com.

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DAILY SUBSTITUTES Substitutes on call for daily assignments. Positions start at $100 per day. No prior teaching experience is needed, but a Bachelor’s degree is required.

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Volunteers ADVOCATE, EMPOWER, EDUCATE NYS Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program seeks volunteers to help ensure quality of care for nursing home and assisted living residents. Next training: June 2019. Contact: 585-287-6414 or email: arussell@lifespan-roch.org BECOME A DOCENT at the Rochester Museum & Science Center Must be an enthusiastic communicator, Like working with children. Learn more at http:// www.rmsc.org/Support/Volunteer Or call 585-697-1948 MEALS ON WHEELS needs YOU to deliver meals to YOUR neighbors in need. Available weekdays between 11:30 AM and 1:00 PM? Visit our website at www.vnsnet.com or call 2744385 to get started!

TRILLIUM HEALTH FOOD Cupboard needs volunteers every Wednesday and Friday 9 am–2 pm. Contact Kristen at kmackay@trilliumhealth.org or Jen at jhurst@trilliumhealth.org.

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These positions are for the 2019-20 school year, and will start September 3. The deadline for the District Substitute positions is Aug. 2, 2019; Daily Substitute applications are accepted throughout the year.

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Townline Partners LLC (“LLC”) filed Arts. of Org. with Secy. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on May 24, 2019. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o The LLC, 3055 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Road, Rochester, New York 14623.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

H2Eco Pressure Washers LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 06/05/2019.

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 64 Maplehurst Road, Rochester, NY 14617.

The purpose of the Company is Any Lawful

Notice of Formation of Client Focused Travel, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 12/28/19. 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 2117 Buffalo Road Suite 165; Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of El Cuchifrito Restaurant & Lounge LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 3/19/19.

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 1733 North St, Rochester, NY 14609.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Siteworks Construction & Excavating, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 06/27/19 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 580 Shore Dr, W Henrietta, NY 14586.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: 3720 Union Street Partners LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on June 13, 2019. 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 10369, Rochester NY 14610 Purpose: any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of NATURALLY 4 U, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 03/21/2019.

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 9 Bond St. Rochester, NY 14620.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Articles of Organization with respect to Art Interpreted, LLC, a New York Limited Liability Company, were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on May 30, 2019.

The County in New York State where its office is located is Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of Art Interpreted, LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against Art Interpreted, LLC served upon it is 12 Cheshire Ridge, Victor, New York 14546. There are no exceptions adopted by the Company, or set forth in its Operating Agreement, to the limited liability of members pursuant to Section 609(a) of the Limited Liability Company Law of the State of New York.

Art Interpreted, LLC is formed for the purpose of manufacturing wool and silk oriental rugs.

HIGHLAND ARMS LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 6/3/2019. LLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SS shall mail a copy of any process to c/o LLC, 2115 Highland Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 118 MAIN ST ER, LLC filed Articles of Organization with NYS on DECEMBER 17, 2018.

This is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The office of the LLC and address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process shall be 27 Country Clare Crescent, Fairport, NY 14450.

Monroe County. The purpose of this LLC is to engage in any business permitted under law.

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Notice of Formation of Pilato Law, PLLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 06/17/2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC at 30 W. Broad St, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: Practice of law.

Notice of Formation of SkyNet Sciences, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/13/19. 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 145 Brooklawn Drive, Rochester, NY 14618 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Brothers Chicken & Waffles, LLC filed Arts. of Org. with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/17/19.

Office location, County of Orleans. 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 Matthew P. Pynn, 219 Hawley St, Lockport, NY 14094.

Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] H & D FOOD PRODUCTS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/10/19. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 70 Attridge Rd., Churchville, NY 14428, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

[ NOTICE ] JBENJ Tennis Tour LLC Filed 5/28/19 Office: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 3 Eaglesfield Way, Fairport, NY 14450 Purpose: all lawful [ NOTICE ] Jockey Printing Co LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/9/2019. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 110 Fairhill Dr., Rochester, NY 14618.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Josafi Enterprises, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/31/2019. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 21 Nicolette Circle, Rochester, NY 14626. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Main Street Cafe And Eatery LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 3/28/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 7783 Martin Rd Lima, NY 14485 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Merlo Enterprises LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/22/2019. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Law Office of Anthony Dinitto, LLC, 2250 West Ridge Rd., Ste. 300, Rochester, NY 146262805. General Purpose.

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[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Aaron Forrest CPA PLLC. Art. of Org. filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) June 6, 2019. 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 P.O. Box 92322, Rochester NY 14692. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of AMP ME UP LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/5/2019.

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 46 Turner Dr, Spencerport, NY 14559. Purpose: any lawful act. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Beryl’s Transportation Solutions LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) April 16, 2019. 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 108 bending Creek Rd apt 3 Rochester NY 14624.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Bubbly Roc LLC. Art. Of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on February 27, 2019. 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 15 Ridge Castle Dr. Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Davis and Polydore LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 6/4/19. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 255 Avenue C, Rochester, NY 14621.

The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Echelon Property Consultants, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/29/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: URS AGENTS INC., ONE COMMERCE PLAZA, 99 WASHINGTON AVE STE 805A, ALBANY, NY 12210. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ECO-TECH DEVELOPMENT LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 5/16/2019. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1900 EMPIRE BLVD., # 102, WEBSTER, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of ECO-TECH MARINE LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 5/16/2019. Office location: Monroe County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1900 EMPIRE BLVD., # 102, WEBSTER, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of EMPOWERYOU RESTORATIVE SERVICES LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/29/2019.

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 238 EDGERTON STREET, ROCHESTER, NY 14607.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of EPC PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/05/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: URS Agents Inc, One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Ave 805A, Albany, NY 12210.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Fragnito LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/9/11. 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, 486 McCall Rd, Rochester, NY 14616. The registered agent of LLC upon whom process may be served: Dean Fragnito, 3800 Dewey Ave, #141, Rochester, NY 14616.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Fresh Air Solutions LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/30/19.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 16 Garrison Drive, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: Grove Place Acquisitions LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on June 13, 2019. 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 10369, Rochester NY 14610 Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC).

Name: Grove Place Funding LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on June 13, 2019. 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 10369, Rochester NY 14610 Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MAHAVIR HOTELS LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 05/10/2019. 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 1000 LEHIGH STATION RD, HENRIETTA, NY 14467. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Moonshot Literacy LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) February 14, 2019. 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 56 Filkins Street, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of R&M Gallo Auto LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/25/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 2069 Drake Road, Brockport, NY 14420. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of SPACE CLEAN SERVICES LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 05/28/2019.

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 430 Oxford St, Rochester, NY 14607.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

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Notice of Formation of RHS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/05/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: URS Agents Inc, One Commerce Plaza, 99 Washington Ave 805A, Albany, NY 12210.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

Notice of Formation of Straight A’s Plow Service LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/3/19. 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, 2 Julia Way, Spencerport, NY 14559.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sherry Z. Schwartz, Ph.D., Psychologist, PLLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/5/19. Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Sherry Z. Schwartz, Ph. D., 57 Whitestone Lane, Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: practice the profession of psychology.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Voelkel Statistical Services LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/14/19. 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 6740 Pittsford-Palmyra Rd. #741, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of CRFS HOLDINGS, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/19/19.

Office location: Orleans

Legal Ads County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 01/06/15. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co. (CSC), 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. DE addr. of LLC: c/o CSC, 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, DE Div. of Corps., 401 Federal St. - Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of ECC RIDGE ROAD, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/19.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Indiana (IN) on 06/06/19. Princ. office of LLC: 2443 W. Ridge Rd., Rochester, NY 14626. 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. IN addr. of LLC: 725 E. 65th St., Ste. 300, Indianapolis, IN 46220. Cert. of Form. filed with Connie Lawson, Office of the IN Secy. of State, 302 W. Washington St., Rm. E018, Indianapolis, IN 46204. Purpose: Retail space [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Iconic IT LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/20/19. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 4/4/19. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Capitol Services, Inc., 1218 Central Ave, Ste 100, Albany, NY 12205.

DE address of LLC: 1675 S State St, Ste B, Dover, DE 19901. Arts. of Org. filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St, Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901.

Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of KEY RESCUE LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/03/19.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 03/09/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 250 Mill St., Ste. 140, Rochester, NY 14614.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC,

2708 Flint Ct., Keller, TX 76248. TX addr. of LLC: 3131 McKinney Ave., Ste. 600, Dallas, TX 75204. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 1019 Brazos St., Rm. B-13, Austin, TX 78701.

Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Plaza Street Fund 72, LLC. App. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/10/19.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Kansas (KS) on 6/3/19.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Corporation Service Company, 80 State St, Albany, NY 12207. KS address of LLC: 2400 W 75th St, Ste 220, Prairie Village, KS 66208. Arts. of Org. filed with KS Secy of State, Memorial Hall, 1st Fl, 120 SW 10th Ave, Topeka, KS 666121594. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Tetrad Building Group LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/23/19. Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Missouri (MO) on 08/11/15. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: InCorp Services, Inc., One Commerce Plaza - 99 Washington Ave., Ste. 805-A, Albany, NY 12210-2822, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Address to be maintained in MO: 12309 Woodland Ave, Kansas City, MO 64146. Arts of Org. filed with John R. Ashcroft, Secy. of State, MO Corporations Division, 600 W. Main St., Rm. 322, Jefferson City, MO 65101. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of THE OPEN SKY GROUP, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/04/19.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in North Carolina (NC) on 02/14/06. Princ. office of LLC: 1421 E. Broad St., #305, Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526. NYS fictitious name: THE OPEN SKY GROUP NY, LLC. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation

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Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, Corps.

Div., 2 S. Salisbury St., Old Revenue Bldg.

Complex, Raleigh, NC 27601. Purpose: Any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] RG 126 WAKEFIELD STREET, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/13/2019.

Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 126 Wakefield St., Rochester, NY 14621, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Roosevelt Highway Realty LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/22/2019. Cty: Monroe. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 913 Roosevelt Hwy., Hilton, NY 14468.General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] SOLE DYNAMICS PHYSICAL THERAPY PLLC (PLLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 6/20/2019. PLLC’s office is in Monroe Co. SS is designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SS shall mail a copy of any process to c/o the PLLC, 235 Fairport Road, East Rochester, NY 14445.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] The Kad Store LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/28/2019. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Kim Darcie, P.O. Box 26319, Rochester, NY 14626. General Purposes [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Belhseine Enterprises, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/25/19. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 745 Titus Avenue, Annex Building, Rochester, NY 14617.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

[ Notice of Formation ] Name: D WIEGAND & SON SERVICES LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/12/2019.

Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O D WIEGAND & SON SERVICES LLC, One East Main Street, 10th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ Notice of Formation ] Name: GAUVIN PREFERRED CAPTIVE SHARE LLC. Arts.

Of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 06/12/2019. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: C/O GAUVIN PREFERRED CAPTIVE SHARE LLC, One East Main Street, 10th Floor, Rochester, New York 14614.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of Formation of Locredo LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06/25/19. 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 45 Crestview Dr, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of Formation of Morgan’s Cereal Bar LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6.17.19.

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 76 Elmdorf Ave. Rochester NY 14619.

Purpose: any lawful activities NOTICE OF FORMATION OF ETHANMAYA H&R GROUP LLC The name of the Limited Liability Company is EthanMay H&R Group LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York

Secretary of State on 5/24/2019. The office of the LLC is in Monroe County. The New York Secretary of State is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State shall mail a copy of such process 19 Glen Valley Drive, Penfield, NY 14526. The LLC is organized to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC Law. [NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LLC] J & J Fiber Communications, LLC filed articles of organization with the New York Secretary of State on 07/8/2019 with an effective date of formation of 07/8/2019.

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 189 Elmcroft Road, Rochester, NY 14609.

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] Carzoom.com LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 7/11/2019. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 941 Ridge Road, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

[NOTICE OF FORMATION] CDL Home Solutions, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 6/21/19.

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 2117 Buffalo Rd., #143, Rochester, NY 14624. The purpose of the Company is real estate investing company (buy and sell properties).

[NOTICE OF FORMATION] R. P. Fedder Industrial, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/18/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to 865 Garnsey Road, Fairport, NY 14450. Purpose: any lawful activity.

[NOTICE] Articles of Organization with respect to St. Patricks Bar and Grill, LLC, a New York Limited Liability Company, were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on June 20, 2019. The County in New York State where its office is located is Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of St. Patricks Bar and Grill, LLC upon whom process against it may be served, and the post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against St. Patricks Bar and Grill, LLC served upon it is 14 Silco Hill, Pittsford, New York 14534. There are no exceptions adopted by the Company, or set forth in its Operating Agreement, to the limited liability of members pursuant to Section 609(a) of the Limited Liability Company Law of the State of New York. St. Patricks Bar and Grill, LLC is formed for the purpose of operating a bar and grill and for all other lawful activities that may be conducted by the Company.

[NOTICE] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license pending, has been applied for, to consume beer, wine, & liquor at retail in a restaurant, under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, at 628 N WINTON RD ROCHESTER, NY 14609 . In Monroe County for consumption. *DMC WIN BROWN LLC* *DBA* *LUCKY’S* [NOTICE] Notice of formation of 17 Baker Street, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/27/2019.

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, 863 Trimmer Rd, Spencerport, NY 14559.

Purpose: any lawful act.

[NOTICE] Notice of formation of Apex Realty Solutions, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/26/2019. Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 22 Santa Dr, Pittsford, NY 14534.

Purpose: any lawful act.

[NOTICE] Notice of Formation of E. A. M. Services LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06/20/2019 . 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 918 S. Goodman St. Rochester, NY 14620 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

[Notice] Notice of Formation of GRAHAM MARQUIS NEW YORK LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/01/19. 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, 1555 Lyell Ave., Ste. 168, Rochester, NY 14606. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

[NOTICE] Notice of Formation of GRG Transport LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 05/31/2019. 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 8 Harvest Ridge Trail, West Henrietta, NY 14586 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

[NOTICE] Notice of Formation of Mint Services, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/27/19.

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, 1153 Woodsboro Farms, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

[NOTICE] Notice of Formation of ST. ANTHONY’S ASSOCIATES LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/09/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

[NOTICE] Notice of Formation of ST. ANTHONY’S ASSOCIATES MM LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/09/19.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton Sq., Rochester, NY 14604.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

[NOTICE] Notice of formation of SUNY Steve, LLC (the “LLC”). Articles of Organization filed with the NY Secy of State (“SOS”) on 6/18/19.

The office of the LLC is in Monroe County.

SOS is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SOS shall mail a copy of such process to 1262 Bay Shore Blvd., Irondequoit, NY 14609.

The LLC is formed to engage in any lawful activity for which an LLC may be formed under the NY LLC law.

[NOTICE] Notice of Formation of WOODCRAFT CUSTOM CARPENTRY LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/14/2019.

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 33 Breckenridge dr.

Rochester N.Y. 14626.

Purpose: any lawful activities.

[NOTICE] Red Iron Nation LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 5/28/19. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to Erik Sorensen 140 Bent Oak Trail Fairport, NY 14450 General Purpose

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Legal Ads [NOTICE] Small World Market, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on May 20, 2019. 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 145 Culver Road, Suite 100, Rochester, NY 14620.

LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICES ] International Learning Innovation LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 5/17/19.

Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 180 Mendon Center Rd Pittsford, NY 14534 General Purpose [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE INDEX NO: E2018007865 D/O/F: 10/1/2018 MORTGAGE PROPERTY: Premises Address: 155 Normandy Avenue Rochester, NY 14619 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC, Plaintiff, -againstUnknown heirs at law of TIMOTHY RANKINS A/K/A TIMOTHY L. RANKINS A/K/A TIMOTHY RANKIN his next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, devisees, legatees, assignees, lienors, creditors, and successors in interest, and generally all persons having or claiming, under, by or through said defendant who may be deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, all of whom and whose names and places of residence are unknown to the plaintiff and cannot after diligent inquiry be ascertained; TONDALEA RANKINS AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF TIMOTHY RANKINS; ANNANESIA RANKINS AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF TIMOTHY RANKINS; RODERICK RANKINS AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE TO THE ESTATE OF

TIMOTHY RANKINS; THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occupants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien against the premises, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your Answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorneys within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Hon. Scott Odorisi, a Justice of the Supreme Court, Monroe County, entered July 2, 2019 and filed with the complaint and other papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. THE OBJECT OF THE ACTION is to foreclose a mortgage dated June 15, 2007 recorded in the Office of the County Clerk of MONROE on June 20, 2007 in Book: 21260, Page: 0609.

Covering premises k/a 155 Normandy Avenue, Rochester, NY 14619 a/k/a Section 120.650, Block 1, Lot 28. 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,

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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 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. The following notice is intended only for the defendants who are owners of the premises sought to be foreclosed or who are liable upon the debt for which the mortgage stands as security. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. PLEASE BE AWARE: that debt collectors, in accordance with the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1692 et seq., are prohibited from engaging in abusive, deceptive, an unfair debt collection efforts, including, but not limited to: the use or threat of violence; the use of obscene or profane language; and repeated phone calls made with the intent to annoy, abuse, or harass. If a creditor or debt collector receives a money judgment against you in court, state and federal laws may prevent the following types of income from being taken to pay the debt: Supplemental security income, (SSI); Social security; Public assistance (welfare); Spousal support, maintenance (alimony) or child support; Unemployment benefits; Disability benefits; Workers’ compensation benefits; Public or private pensions; Veterans’ benefits; Federal student loans, federal student grants, and federal work study funds; and Ninety percent of your wages or salary earned in the last sixty days. TO THE DEFENDANTS,

except THE ESTATE OF TIMOTHY RANKINS: The Plaintiff makes no personal claim against you in this action TO THE DEFENDANTS: THE ESTATE OF TIMOTHY RANKINS: If you have obtained an order of discharge from the Bankruptcy court, which includes this debt, and you have not reaffirmed your liability for this debt, this law firm is not alleging that you have any personal liability for this debt and does not seek a money judgment against you.

Even if a discharge has been obtained, this lawsuit to foreclose the mortgage will continue and we will seek a judgment authorizing the sale of the mortgaged premises. Dated: July 3, 2019 Sandy J. Stolar, Esq. THE MARGOLIN & WEINREB LAW GROUP, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 165 Eileen Way, Suite 101 Syosset, New York 11791 516-9213838 #97309 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] Index No. E2018002262 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE CHESWOLD (TL), LLC, Plaintiff, vs. The heirs-atlaw, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successorsin-interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through DAINELL STOKES A/K/A DANIELLE STOKES, DECEASED, 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; WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER AND ACQUISITION TO WELLS FARGO BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR

NORWEST BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR CERTIFICATE HOLDERS OF SACO I INC., SERIES 1999-3; HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORPORATION III; HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO HOUSEHOLD FINANCE REALTY CORPORATION OF NEW YORK; HSBC FINANCE CORPORATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BENEFICIAL HOMEOWNER SERVICE CORPORATION; CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), NATIONAL ASSOCIATION; CAPITAL ONE, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO CAPITAL ONE AUTO FINANCE, INC.; LVNV FUNDING LLC; LVNV FUNDING LLC APO CITIBANK; COUNTY OF MONROE; US BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC; PROPEL FINANCIAL 1, LLC; ANDRE STOKES; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; TLF NATIONAL TAX LIEN TRUST 2017-1; SARITA N. STOKES, AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF DAINELL STOKES A/K/A DANIELLE STOKES, DECEASED AND “JOHN DOE #2” THROUGH “JOHN DOE #100”, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the amended 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 amended complaint.

Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject premises.

Dated: January 2, 2019 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an Order of Honorable J. Scott Odorisi, a Justice of the Supreme Court, dated February 6, 2019, 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 161 Maxwell Avenue, City of Rochester, New York and identified as tax account no.: 135.33-1-24 (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 $12,680.21, 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) 2382000 [ SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK – COUNTY OF MONROE INDEX# E2018010553 Plaintiff designates MONROE County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises are situated. PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC, DBA PLANET HOME SERVICING, Plaintiff, against REBECCA L. SCIALO; RALPH G. SCIALO if living, and if he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or

generally or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated are unknown to plaintiff; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF YORK; “JOHN DOE NUMBERS 1-10” The names of these defendants being fictitious and unknown to the Plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, Person or corporations, if any having or claiming an interest in, possession of, or lien upon the premises described in the Complaint, Defendants.

TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) 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 a manner other than by personal delivery within the State.

In the event the United States of America is made a party defendant; the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until sixty (60) days after service of the Summons.

In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. The Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Supreme Court of the State of New York and filed in the Office of the Clerk of the County of MONROE on May 29, 2019. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Town of Gates, Monroe County, New York, (Section 103.16, Block 5, Lot 14), said premises known as 65 Hazel Bark Run, Rochester, NY 14606.

There is presently due and owing to PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC DBA PLANET HOME SERVICING upon the Mortgage the principal sum of $68,686.99 with interest thereon at the contractual rate, together with tax advances, late charges, costs, disbursements, attorneys’ fees and allowances as permitted by law. 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, PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC, DBA PLANET HOME SERVICING, AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Jeffrey A. Kosterich, LLC, 68 Main Street, Tuckahoe, New York 10707

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