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THE FATE OF PARCEL 5 What’s going to happen to Parcel 5? And when?

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Money’s power

In a recent column, Mary Anna Towler lamented low voter turnout in our recent congressional primary (“Conservatives’ Takeover Is Complete. Who Cares?”)

It’s tempting to blame voter apathy, which is surely part of the problem. But there are other forces at work.

When I was reporting on elections, I thought everyone watched and read my stories. I assumed everyone watched the debates I moderated. When I ran for office, I learned that’s not true.

I learned voters don’t come to you; you have to go to them.

Not everyone lives and breathes politics. People are busy with work and families. We cannot expect everyone to comb through candidate websites and sit through hour-long candidate forums. If people are not exposed to your message, you’re dead on arrival.

If high voter turnout is the goal, the primary system is set up to fail.

You may be surprised to learn that when candidates have limited resources, they typically focus on voters with strong voting histories, so low turnout perpetuates. The majority of eligible voters in a primary never get a call, a visit, or a piece of mail.

Take a look at this math.

In my recent campaign for the Democratic nomination for Congress, we identified 35,000 2 CITY

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high-probability voters – a universe that was manageable, given our resources, predicted turnout, and short length of the campaign. We called, canvassed, and mailed only those voters.

We didn’t have paid staff and had money for only one mail piece. We identified about 7,000 people who committed to voting for me. We got them to the polls, but we knew that number was short.

The primary winner was surely operating in a much larger voter pool, as he had an enormous war chest. He sent multiple pieces of mail and used paid canvassers. His message dominated. It should not be surprising that he was able to identify far more of his supporters going into the election.

You cannot cross your fingers and hope that large numbers of people who have had limited or no contact with your campaign will come out to vote for you.

How do we engage more voters? Money will always flow to power, but we can do more to make sure the voices of all voters and candidates are heard. We need campaign finance reform, including a public financing option.

We should follow the lead of states that send voter guides with information on candidates and referendums.

Shortening the waiting period to change parties could also increase primary turnout.

There is some good news.

A majority of voters in this congressional primary opted for non-traditional candidates, proving that big money can be defeated. We’re seeing similar energy in races across the country. Robin Wilt, Adam McFadden, and I spent far less per vote than Morelle. I would love to have seen what would have happened in a longer race. But make no mistake – the odds are always against beating the machine.

There’s no such thing as a level playing field in politics.

We should strive, however, to make our democracy as fair as possible.

RACHEL BARNHART

Barnhart, a former television journalist, was a candidate for Congress in the June Democratic Primary.

America at the crossroads

Our democracy and society are falling apart, piece by piece, and our lives and prospects are in great jeopardy.

The assets, institutions, and laws—the essence of what, over two centuries, brought our country to its valued place on the world stage – are being willfully destroyed.

Soon enough, we will be facing further environmental changes, which will bring inestimable, irreparable havoc. The threat of species annihilation – including our own – by mishap or egodriven, mindless action, has never been as great.

Over the last two years, the nation has become more divided about such matters than we have ever been. How do we dig ourselves out of this world-destroying hole?

As John Dickinson’s “The Liberty Song” says, “By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.” We have to wake up, take responsibility for our part in allowing the shameful and criminal abuse of power that is burying our ethics and values, and then take action to stop it.

On November 6, vote for those who seem most honorable in their living, those best able to treat others as they would want to be treated.

Vote as if your life depended on it. It does.

News. Music. Life.

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URBAN JOURNAL | BY MARY ANNA TOWLER

To our CITY readers: changes, and an invitation You’ll find a few differences in the print edition you’re reading – most significantly, the size of our pages, which are now 1 inch shorter.

The cause: the 30 percent tariff the Trump administration imposed on Canadian newsprint earlier this year.

Most newsprint used by US newspapers comes from Canada, and that includes the paper on which CITY is printed. Shorter pages use less paper, which will reduce our costs.

To fit that smaller page size, we’ve made a few adjustments to the design of some pages. And the length of articles on some pages is slightly less. (My weekly Urban Journal, for instance, will be about 580 words rather than 645 words.)

For the most part, though, we haven’t eliminated content. Among the exceptions: Some weeks ago we dropped the syndicated horoscope feature.

We’ve sometimes eliminated listings of continuing art exhibits, but they’re always in our online calendar.

And with great regret, we have stopped publishing Home Work, a halfpage feature produced by the Landmark Society, for which we have donated space for more than 20 years. We know that Home Work has been a popular feature, and both we and the Landmark Society hope to find a way to bring back it back.

Taking these steps has enabled us to get costs down without impacting the journalism we’ve provided for the past 47 years.

We welcome and encourage your comments – about these changes and anything else that’s on your mind.

Speaking of which…

Our major article this week looks at one of the most important downtown development issues city officials have grappled with in decades: what to do with Parcel 5.

That empty lot has been the focus of officials’ attention since Midtown Plaza was demolished in 2010. Proposals for new development often become controversial, but this one has had a particularly high profile, because of its prominent downtown location and the development proposal itself.

Parcel 5’s future is now even more uncertain now, because of the FBI’s investigation into one of the developers,

We’re reducing our page size – but not our journalism.

Now readers need to join us as we cover key issues.

Morgan Communities. Mayor Lovely Warren believes that developing the lot can boost other downtown development, though, and It’s likely that she’ll continue to push for it.

The final decision will be made by City Council. In our look at Parcel 5 this week, we lay out the stands taken by Warren’s principal chosen developer, the Rochester Broadway Theatre League, as well as those of the critics. And we talk with the developer Warren first chose for the site, and then changed her mind: Andy Gallina.

The discussion shouldn’t stop there, though. As Grove Place resident Suzanne Mayer told us: “We need to be able to talk to each other about this and what’s best for this community.”

“I think it’s important to have a community conversation,” Mayer said.

She’s right. We hope you’ll take part in that, by letting city officials hear from you – and by letting us hear from you.

Public conversation on key public issues – local and national – has always been important, and it’s particularly important now. And yet Americans have been withdrawing, talking to themselves and to people who share their opinions.

That’s a failure of citizenship, and it’s undermining democracy.

We hope you’ll share your thoughts, about Parcel 5 and other issues. We’re happy to pass them on, in our print edition’s Feedback section, in our online comments section, and on our Facebook page.

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Dems have big primaries ahead Rochester-area Democrats just wrapped up one big primary election campaign, for the Congressional seat held by the late Louise Slaughter. How they’re gearing up for more.

Because State Assembly majority leader Joe Morelle won the Congressional primary, his 136th District Assembly seat is open. Four Democrats have filed petitions to run for it: Jamie Romeo, the Monroe County Democratic Committee chair and the party’s designated candidate; Jaclyn Richard, chair of the National Organization for Women’s Rochester chapter; Brighton Town Board member Robin Wilt, who lost her Congressional primary bid to Morelle; and Todd Grady, who works in real estate sales.

The district includes Irondequoit, Brighton, and parts of the City of Rochester.

The Democratic lineup is far from certain. The petitions have been filed, but they’re still subject to challenges and review. And Wilt faces eligibility questions because, though she’s a Rochester area native and lived here for a long time, she lived and voted in Washington State from 2012 to 2016. New York law requires Assembly candidates to live in the state for five years prior to the election.

Democrats may also face a Rochester school board primary. Newly appointed board members Beatriz LeBron and Melanie Funchess have to run for their seats this fall, and the Rev. Judith Davis, an intellectual property specialist at Bausch + Lomb, has also filed to run, possibly setting up a three-way contest.

Then there are the likely state Democratic primaries. Filing petitions for governor were Andrew Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon; for lieutenant governor, Kathy Hochul and Jumaane Williams; and for attorney general, Letitia James, Leecia Eve, Zephyr Teachout, and Sean Patrick Maloney.

The state primary is September 13.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS | BY JAKE CLAPP

Douglass statues coming to Rochester streets

Artist Olivia Kim works on statues of Frederick Douglass that will be installed in locations around Rochester. PHOTO BY A. SUE WEISLER / RIT

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Frederick Douglass lived and worked in Rochester for 25 years, walking the streets, frequenting local businesses, and talking with neighbors. The fact of his presence will always be a part of Rochester, and now a set of life-sized statues will bring his physical representation to contemporary city streets.

The statues, and an accompanying “Discover Douglass” self-guided tour, are a project of “Re-Energizing the Legacy of Frederick Douglass,” a multiorganization initiative to commemorate Douglass’s life during the 200th anniversary of his chosen birthdate.

Thirteen statues will be installed beginning July 19, in locations significant to Douglass’s life. The first three will go up on July 19 at Hochstein School of Music and Dance, at the newly named Anna Murray Douglass Academy on South Avenue, and at the Talman Building (25 East Main Street) downtown, where Douglass operated his newspaper office.

The remaining statues will be installed over the next few weeks, organizers say.

There’ll be an unveiling celebration at 10 a.m. on Thursday at Hochstein.

The 6-foot, 7-inch-tall statues were created by Rochester artist Olivia Kim and are based on the Sidney Edwardsdesigned statue at the upper edge of the Highland Park Bowl. That monument originally stood downtown at Central Avenue and St. Paul Street, and one of the replicas will be installed there.

Douglass’s son Charles served as the model for the original monument, and that intimate family handprint continues. Douglass’s great-great-greatgrandson, Kenneth Morris Jr., sat for Kim’s statue.

The statues are part commemoration and part history lesson, and each one will feature a QR code through which people can access information about Douglass and the location on a smartphone. But Carvin Eison, project director for “ReEnergizing the Legacy,” says he also hopes the statues will start a conversation about Douglass’s relevance today.

More photos and a longer version of this story are available online at rochestercitynewspaper.com.

Rochester school officials had hoped that this year’s graduation rate would show a nice jump up. But preliminary figures indicate that the rate this year rose only about 1 percent, and that just over half of the seniors graduated in June.

EDUCATION | BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

City’s graduation rate holds in the 50’s About a month ago, some Rochester school board members were hopeful that the Rochester school district’s 20172018 graduation rate would be the one that finally broke 60 percent. But at the board’s Excellence in Student Achievement Committee meeting last week, that idea was quickly dashed. School officials said the district is still stuck in the 50 percent range.

The graduation rate for June 2017 was 52 percent, according to the State Education Department’s website. The district administrators’ preliminary data is showing about a 1 percent increase in the graduation rate for June 2018.

Five high schools out of 12 have shown improvement, led by East, School of the Arts, and School Without Walls. The others showed little improvement or a decline in the number of students who graduated in June, district officials said.

School officials presented a brief report to the board members at the meeting and then collected the reports afterward. They said they were not for public viewing at this time.

“I’m definitely disappointed,” school board member Natalie Sheppard – who chaired the meeting – said in a phone interview later. “We’d been hearing that there was going to be this spike in the

numbers. We need to do better than rely on credit recovery in summer school.”

“We need to know whether they’re going to college or to tech school by seventh or eighth grade,” she said.

Board member Liz Hallmark, who was at the meeting, said she is also concerned about the district’s slow pace of improvement, but the graduation rate is moving in the right direction, she said.

The June graduation rate for 2016 was 48 percent, so 52 percent is an improvement. But the gain is still modest at best. Only 5 percent of students who graduated in 2016 and 2017 were high achievers and received advanced Regents diplomas, according to the State Education Department.

Some people at the meeting asked why principals and school administrators haven’t been able to do a better job of identifying earlier — in the students’ junior year and first semester of their senior year — what credits they need to graduate.

It wasn’t the first time school officials have been pressed with that question, and the district has made several attempts in recent years to assess students’ credit status well before their final semester.

School officials are collecting more data and tracking student performance

more than ever before, Hallmark said. A new software system is supposed to provide student information in real time with multiple sorting features.

“We’ve got to find out what is causing these numbers,” board member Cynthia Elliott said at the meeting. Elliott argued that the midlevel managers called “school chiefs” are not being held accountable School board member Natalie Sheppard chairs the board’s for the progress their Excellence in Student Achievment Committee. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH schools and staff are expected to make.

The district’s freshman year in September 2014 —are summer programs are designed to enrolled in summer school this year. address the gaps students faced when But even though New York’s Big 5 the school year in June, and there is school districts, Rochester included, hope that the majority of those students tend to rely on an additional boost in will make up the credits they need their graduation rates from students who to graduate. If they do, the district’s finish in August, the State Education graduation rate could increase. District Department tends to emphasize the June officials said that 325 students – about graduation rate in its official report, which 29 percent of students who entered their won’t be released until later this year.

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What’s going to happen to Parcel 5? And when?

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BY M ARY ANNA TOWLER TIM LOUIS MACALUSO JEREMY MOULE REBECCA RAFFERTY

A key piece of the former Midtown Plaza property, Parcel 5 is one of the most important development sites in the city. It’s in the heart of downtown, and it fronts on Main Street, and whatever goes there could have a major impact on the city’s center for generations.

It’s also at the center of a major controversy involving City Hall, developers, leaders of performing arts organizations, and public-space activists.

City Council had been expected to vote relatively soon on a proposal for a new theater for the Rochester Broadway Theatre League and an apartment tower built by Morgan Communities. But the Morgan part of the project is very much in doubt. The FBI is investigating the Morgan company, and while the firm and its officers may not be found guilty of anything, the investigation may take several years. That could cause delays in Morgan developments that are still in the planning stage.

And that includes the apartment building at Parcel 5.

The Morgan company and its founder, Bob Morgan, have been respected developers in Rochester, and since the news about the FBI investigation broke last fall, city officials and business leaders have withheld judgment, pointing to the company’s track record of successful developments.

But it’s likely that at some point soon, RBTL or the city will decide whether Morgan is staying in the project. If Morgan is out, one of several things could happen. The city could start over, asking for new proposals for the site. It could reassess the idea of RBTL doing its theater on its own. It could leave the parcel vacant for a while. Or RBTL could come in with another development partner, to take Morgan’s place.

A bit of pressure was taken off of officials earlier this month when a consulting firm asked for more time for its study of how the RBTL theater might impact other local arts organizations. Originally, the consultants’ report was to be completed by July 31, and Mayor Lovely Warren was withholding her

final decision on Parcel 5 at least until then.

The due date has been extended to September 30, and that gives everybody involved some breathing room. And it gives the Rochester community more time to discuss one of the most important city planning questions in several decades: What should Parcel 5 be?

CITY OFFICIALS HAVE BEEN TRYING to figure out what to do with the Midtown Plaza site literally for decades. The Plaza, which occupied 8.6 acres, was once a bustling retail center paired with an office tower. As suburban development and consumers’ shopping habits changed, Midtown Plaza slowly emptied out. And city officials looked for new uses.

Developers and investors came up with a variety of reuse ideas. At one point, city officials became enthusiastic about a proposal from the government of Parma, Italy, for a retail center selling Italian merchandise. That proposal evaporated.

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As it became obvious that nothing could save Midtown, in September 2010 the complex was demolished to make way for a 225,000-square-foot building housing the world headquarters of Paetec and was to bring 900 new employees downtown. But as if Midtown Plaza were jinxed, Paetec was bought by Windstream, which scaled back the plan substantially, moving 335 employees into the three-story former Seneca Building on the Midtown site.

Despite the early setbacks, though, there’s been a good bit of progress on the Midtown site since then. The former Midtown office building is now Tower280 apartments. The Democrat and Chronicle has moved its facilities into a new building adjacent to Windstream. That progress has spurred development in the surrounding area. And at the same time, Parcel 5 has begun to take on a life of its own. It’s become a popular warm-weather venue for festivals and other events.

Meantime, the city has continued to look for a developer for Parcel 5.

WHEN THE CITY ISSUED A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS for Parcel 5 development in

2016, it received three. They called for: • A 3,000-seat theater, proposed by RBTL; • A 14-story residential condominium building with commercial uses on the lower floors, proposed by developer Andy Gallina; • Visionary Square, “a vibrant, multi-use, flexible marketplace, arts and recreational public green space with active programming throughout the year,” according to the proposal. The project – proposed by a group led by activist Ken Sato – would be “funded, built, and operated by volunteers, comprising a non-profit organization, Rochester Visionary Square Corporation.”

Morgan’s apartment building wasn’t in the mix.

Early in her first year of office, Mayor Lovely Warren had expressed interest in a new performing-arts theater somewhere downtown. She’s convinced that it will not only create jobs (both during its construction and afterwards, for employees who would work in it). Currently 166,000 people attend RBTL’s shows at the Auditorium Theatre each year, and another 20,000 use the hall for graduations and similar events. RBTL predicts that with a new, larger theater, that number will grow to 300,000. And that, RBTL says, will spur more businesses in the area.

When the mayor and some of her staff – a team led by then-Deputy Mayor Carlos Carballada – assessed the three proposals, they initially settled on Gallina’s residential-commercial project. RBTL’s was “a close second,” city spokesperson James Smith says, but Warren’s team “thought Andy’s was better.”

The Carballada team was apparently concerned about the economic feasibility of the RBTL theater as a standalone project. Carballada, in fact, had some history with RBTL’s decades-long quest for a new theater. A respected former banker, he was the city’s economic development commissioner when RBTL’s theater, MCC’s downtown campus, and the RTS bus station were to form the Renaissance Square complex.

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THE PUBLIC-SPACE ACTIVISTS Steve Carter is a social media specialist at Eastman Kodak who has been involved in social media campaigns about Parcel 5. He’s a Roberts Wesleyan College grad who also started the Explore Rochester account on Instagram.

PHOTO BY JOSH SAUNDERS

Two leaders in the movement to preserve Parcel 5 primarily as open space – at least for a few years – are artist Ray Ray Mitrano and social-media specialist Steve Carter.

Downtown, they say, should serve and attract people of all backgrounds, but much of the new development taking place is for wealthier people.

“Ideally,” says Carter, Parcel 5 should be “a space that’s a true public space, a true public square in a way.” That, he says, “is something that we’ve kind of lost here in the city. We don’t have a true central gathering point.”

Even as a gravel-filled expanse, Parcel 5 is already democratizing downtown, says Carter. Right now, downtown lacks an inclusive, welcoming element. If Parcel 5 is developed as a public square or commons, it could fill that void.

“This is a commons,” says Mitrano. “This is something like the Boston Commons.”

Mitrano says he and other activists have been trying to “steer the energy” of people who don’t want what he calls “this big entertainment complex with residential-retail-luxury” and direct it toward a mixed-use public space, with events

programmed for diverse audiences. That kind of use, Mitrano says, would be “more inclusive, more sustainable,” and would provide better social and economic benefits. They also think it would provide more jobs and more private investment, Mitrano says.

THERE’S LITTLE ARGUMENT THAT PARCEL 5 is a unique development site. It’s big, and it’s

in a prominent position in the heart of downtown Rochester.

But Carter, Mitrano, and other activists also point out that it gives the city a rare opportunity.

“You don’t get a prime piece of real estate like this often that the city gets to control,” says Carter.

And that provides a chance to “take some time and think about what can be added to the center of our downtown that can help shape the future of the city,” Carter says.

The heart of downtown, Carter says, should be where different people from many different backgrounds come together, and the RBTL theater and its adjacent

apartment complex “gears the space toward wealthier, whiter demographics.”

“When we say we want a diverse and inclusive downtown for everyone, to rush to build things that force other people out is worrisome,” Carter says.

Carter says he and Parcel 5 activists have studied what other cities have done with similar parcels, including Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Greenville, South Carolina; and Durham, North Carolina.

And Carter points to New York City’s Bryant Park. “It’s just grass with moveable chairs and tables,” he says, “but it’s very popular.”

Cleveland’s new Public Square, a 9 1/2-acre center-city park hosts year-round events, includes a water fountain feature (and wading is encouraged) and, in the winter, an ice rink.

Columbus, Ohio, has replaced a former 1950’s mall downtown with the 6-acre Columbus Commons, which hosts year-round events for children, food vendors, community group performances, and yoga on its bandshell stage.

Mitrano envisions Parcel 5 as a place where people with ideas can experiment – entrepreneurs who may not be able to afford their own brick and mortar space. All it would take is some sort of “lightweight architecture” similar to the skate rental counter at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park ice rink, “something that could be outfitted for food and whatnot,” Mitrano says.

If their ideas fail, says Mitrano, “it’s just an empty space again.”

A commons at Parcel 5 would also provide a place where organizations like the Taproot Collective and the Urban Agriculture Working Group could collaborate on urban farming and community gardening workshops, or Geva Theater and the Multi-use Community Cultural Center [MuCC] could collaborate “on things they would never be able to do inside their venues,” Mitrano says.

And Parcel 5’s best uses could emerge over time, with incremental steps to support them, Mitrano suggests. The city could begin the process by simply planting grass the first year and letting people walk on it, have picnics on it, or perform.

The second year, walkways based on the paths people take through the site could be added, and so could trees, he says.

If demand for performances grew, in the second or third year money could be raised for a bandshell stage, Mitrano says. And with a stage could come other opportunities: the Little and Dryden theaters could partner on movie screenings. Community groups could organize medium- or large-scale festivals.

ONE CONCERN RAISED BY MITRANO, CARTER, and many others is their sense that an RBTL

theater would be dark for 160-plus days a year.

Should Rochester dedicate a key Main Street site to a large building that would be closed that much of the year? “That’s not a real good way to activate your dense urban core,” Carter says. “Right now, Midtown is becoming a place where there is activity. There’s a lot of activity. More businesses are moving in there, more housing is popping up in there. That’s what you want, and I think, with that, that draws more amenities – more restaurants and whatnot.”

Carter also refers to the theater concept as an attempt at “manufactured vibrancy,” and he has the same concern about

Cleveland’s Public Square contains an application form for people and groups who want to hold events on the site.)

Martin Luther King Jr. Park, Charles Carroll Park, and Washington Square Park are not ideal public spaces, says Mitrano. People don’t organically use them, he says. They’re pinned in by buildings and, in the case of Washington Square, a roadway with heavy traffic. Parcel 5, by contrast, has a steady flow of people crossing it, a fact that becomes obvious during the winter as people walk across the lot and beat tracks into the snow.

CARTER THINKS THERE ARE BETTER PLACES for RBTL’s theater and similar uses: sites on the

Ray Ray Mitrano is a multi-discipline artist who uses social engagement as one of those artistic disciplines. He’s a Visual Studies Workshop graduate who’s currently leading the Parcel 5 Community Programmers series, a collective effort to fund a series of monthly events at the site by collecting $5 donations from community members.

PHOTO BY JOSH SAUNDERS the city’s ROC the Riverway plans for its riverside Charles Carroll Park. City officials hope to renovate Charles Carroll and Martin Luther King Jr. Park and boost their use.

That idea, says Carter, is City Hall declaring: “This is where you’re going to have all these events. This is where you’re going to gather. You gather here on the river. We’re going to put you here.”

But people aren’t gathering there right now, Carter says.

They are, however, using Parcel 5 all the time: they’re walking through it, playing Wiffle Ball on it, and having pop-up concerts or other events there, he says.

“Yes, I think we should make the river something that draws people,” says Carter, “but they’re not naturally drawn to that place to spend a lot of time there.”

On Parcel 5, on the other hand, Jazz Festival and Fringe Festival events have drawn enormous crowds. The Roc the Taste food and music festival will be held there July 27-29. And Mitrano has been programming monthly events on the site.

And Carter thinks more groups would use the site if they knew how to get permission from the city. (The website for

rim of downtown, rather than at its core.

“It’s something that’s not used 24 hours a day,” Carter says, “so why does it need to be in a very dense area that needs multi-uses and activity most of the day?”

RBTL’s current location, in the Auditorium Theatre a few blocks east of the central business district, is that kind of site. Carter and other critics worry about what will happen to the Auditorium Theatre, an architecturally and historically valuable building, if RBTL moves its Broadway shows to a new theater.

And that’s a historic theater that would not be used if they got a new space, Carter says. “That’s a worry on our part,” he says, “and that would take something away from that area of the city.”

Carter adds: “It’s not that I don’t like the idea of a theater, a new theater – like a performing arts center. I think if there were to be something like that, it needs be more than one facet. This one is very much just able to do RBTL and things that RBTL programs, and couldn’t accommodate smaller places.”

The theater proposed for Parcel 5, Carter says, “wouldn’t ever be a true performing arts center.”

And, Carter asks: Who are we building the new theater for?

RBTL’s core audience is older white women.

“That’s building for older generations instead of the future,” says Carter. While younger people may go to specific shows occasionally, “I don’t see that being a place that actively draws and attracts the next generation.”

CARTER AND MITRANO URGE CITY OFFICIALS to slow down. Do something temporarily,

make it easier for more people to use Parcel 5, and test the possibilities. Get the community behind it.

And over time if it’s clear that there’s too much public space at Parcel 5, “maybe you can still put a building on the front end of it on Main Street and leave the back part empty,” Carter says.

If we build a theater and it’s not as successful as RBTL predicts, taxpayers would surely be called on to prop it up, Carter argues, because it’d be “one of those things that are too big to let fail.” That’s happened over and over with local projects including the soccer stadium, Frontier Field, and Blue Cross Arena, he says.

“Let the city, the downtown area around it grow up a little,” Carter says. “And then you find out what that area needs.

Because right now they’re trying to force something in there that’s like ‘We need this, this will change everything,’ when, in fact, do we actually know that?” rochestercitynewspaper.com

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CHARLES Visionary Square was last on the team’s list. Like T r NT S CARROLL ente C ASA E t previous administrations, Warren and her staff have i L LIBERTY POLE s P PLAZA Tran PLAZA always viewed development on the Midtown site as a way to boost Rochester’s tax base – either through a EASTMAN THEATRE project that would pay taxes itself or one that would spur CITY EAS N ST other taxable development. Downsizing by businesses T AV MAI HALL E like Kodak, along with the flight of retail, has had a major impact on Rochester, reducing the value of property in the city from $11.10 billion in 1987-88 to $6.45 billion in 2017-18.

With both Visionary Square and the RBTL theater, N ST MAI Parcel 5 would remain tax-exempt. And Warren’s team T wasn’t convinced that Visionary Square would spur AD S BRO significant development nearby.

In addition, they have questioned whether MLK JR. MEMORIAL T ST downtown needs another park, which would cost R U O C PARK money to maintain. Downtown, they note, already WASH. has several parks, including two large ones: Martin SQUARE PARK Luther King Jr., just north of the Strong museum, and Charles Carroll Park, on the west side of the GEVA river. Charles Carroll is seldom used and has been THEATRE deteriorating, but the city plans major improvements to increase its use.

And, says Warren’s chief of staff, Alex Yudelson, “the ability to program a site like Parcel 5 relies not only on the weather but on sustainable funding, and there were no indications Activists who want Parcel 5 to remain relatively undeveloped that there was sufficient say downtown Rochester lacks a central gathering place and funding” in the months needs more green space. City officials note that downtown suitable for outdoor events. already has several parks that can host public events, including Charles Carroll, on the west bank of the Genesee River, and And so after reviewing the Martin Luther King Jr., a few blocks southeast of Parcel 5. three proposals, the Warren And the city is planning major improvements to Charles administration told Gallina Carroll Park to make it more attractive and better suited for that he was their choice. public use.

The city’s communications Alex Yudelson, Mayor office wrote a press release, Some arts supporters and other critics question whether Lovely Warren’s chief and Warren prepared to the Rochester area can support an additional theater – and of staff. FILE PHOTO announce his selection. what impact a large new one could have on existing arts institutions and venues. Downtown’s other performance But Gallina, who had learned that state funding venues include three at the University of Rochester’s Eastman would be less than he had requested, asked for a FILE PHOTO Theatre: the Kodak Hall (2326 seats), Kilbourn Hall (444 few more weeks to rework his plan. City officials seats), and Hatch Recital Hall (222 seats); Hochstein School say that he had requested delays before, and that of Music’s 857-seat performance hall; and Geva Theatre’s two they became skittish about the project. And RBTL Also hosting live performances: the 1968-seat Kodak venues, Wilson Stage and Fielding Stage; and Downstairs CEO Arnie Rothschild strengthened his bid: Center on West Ridge Road (formerly Theater on the Ridge), Cabaret on Windsor Street. In addition, downtown churches billionaire Tom Golisano pledged $25 million which is hosting a growing number of touring shows and often serve as venues for public performances. for the theater, and Morgan Communities was could be considered in direct competition with a downsized prepared to build an apartment tower at the rear Auditorium Theatre. And area colleges, universities, and other Just outside the central business district are Blackfriars and of the project. That would let the two projects RBTL’s Auditorium Theatre on East Main Street; the 900-seat institutions have theaters that host their own productions and share some infrastructure costs, and Morgan – one those of outside groups, including the 1012-seat Callahan Lyric Theatre on East Avenue; the School of the Arts theaters of the biggest developers in the region – brought Theater at Nazareth Arts Center; CentreStage at the Jewish on University Avenue; and MuCC, the Multi-Purpose enormous credibility to the proposal.

Community Center; and Roberts Wesleyan College’s 1000Community Center on Atlantic Avenue. seat performance hall.

In the end, Warren announced that she had chosen North of the central business district, the Joseph Avenue RBTL-Morgan for Parcel 5.

Blackbox Theatre opened earlier this summer, and the Joseph Several of these have been created or upgraded in the Avenue Arts and Culture Alliance plans to transform a former years since a consultants’ report determined that Rochester synagogue into a performing arts space. needed and could support additional performance venues.

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THE ARTS LEADERS

Dawn Lipson (above) is president of the Rochester Arts and Cultural Council.

With her late husband, Jacques Lipson, she has been a longtime benefactor of local arts organizations.

Also speaking out on behalf of arts groups concerned about the impact of a new RBTL theater have been Geva Theatre’s executive director, Christopher Mannelli, and its artistic director, Mark Cuddy.

A variety of performing arts groups have been raising concerns about the RBTL theater proposal for more than a year.

In July 2017, Geva’s artistic director Mark Cuddy and its executive director Christopher Mannelli sent City Council a memorandum with a detailed list of concerns.

While Cuddy and Mannelli signed the memorandum, they said it was the result of discussions the previous month by more than a dozen leaders of Rochester’s arts, cultural, and design institutions.

Other leaders “have chosen to remain publicly silent,” they said in the memorandum, “because of their ongoing relationship” with City Hall, an obvious reference to city funding for the arts.

The arts leaders said they were not taking a position for or against the proposed RBTL theater. But, they said in the memorandum, “in our view, due diligence has not been undertaken and the arts community has not had an opportunity to comment.”

Among the points the memorandum raised: • Is a single theater the best use of Parcel 5? Will a theater open only a few hours a day, fewer than 365 days and nights a year, boost downtown’s vitality and support Rochester’s arts and cultural sector?

• In a region with relatively flat population growth, is there enough audience to support a 3,000-seat theater? (RBTL’s Auditorium Theatre has 2,400 seats.)

• How will the new theater affect existing venues and nonprofit organizations?

• What will happen to the historic Auditorium Theatre if RBTL has a new theater?

• What can the city do to support the wider arts and cultural community?

The memorandum also raised a concern that many critics of the RBTL proposal have raised: While RBTL staff and support personnel are local people, the performers and producers of the touring Broadway shows are not, so their payroll doesn’t do much for Rochester. And much of the proceeds go out of town.

“According to RBTL’s 2014 Form 990,” the memorandum said, “at least 64% of expenses went to ‘artist fees’ – paid to the for-profit producers who toured their shows to the Auditorium.

With touring residencies in Rochester mostly limited to one week or less, these payments overwhelmingly go out of our community, engendering very little local economic impact.”

“What is the public value of dedicating land, construction dollars, and possible annual subsidies to a project that creates more revenue to send out of Rochester to for-profit promoters and producers?” the memorandum said.

The memorandum also challenged RBTL’s insistence that it will not have an operating deficit in the new theater.

A consultant’s study of a previous iteration of a new RBTL theater – as part of the Renaissance Square project planned more than a decade ago – suggested that the theater would have a deficit of nearly $1 million. If RBTL runs a deficit in a theater on Parcel 5, the arts leaders asked, wouldn’t city and county taxpayers have to make up the difference to keep the prominently placed theater from shutting down?

Concerns about the theater continued to grow last summer, and in August, officials of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra,

the Eastman Theatre, Geva, and other institutions wrote Mayor Lovely Warren and City Council urging them to conduct a study of how the new theater would impact existing arts venues.

The city commissioned that study, and it was due to be completed at the end of this month. However, this month city officials agreed to give the consultants an extension. The due date is now September 30.

In interviews earlier this month, arts leaders said their concerns from last year are still valid. “There are still lots of unanswered questions,” Geva’s Mannelli said – including specifics about the project itself.

Several arts organizations are in the midst of large fundraising campaigns, Mannelli said, and they’re concerned about how the RBTL project might affect them.

“Our biggest concern in this,” said Mannelli, “is that we want what’s best for the city as well.” And, he said, some of Rochester’s numerous small arts organizations need assistance, he said, “so we hope their voices are being heard.”

Geva’s leaders have been particularly outspoken about the RBTL proposal, and Mannelli cautioned that Geva’s concern isn’t “pushback against RBTL, because we believe that what they do has a place in the full spectrum of arts and entertainment in the city.”

“It’s not that we think they shouldn’t be doing the work,” he said. “It’s important work and should be there. It’s the question of the impact of this particular project and that idea of the transparency behind it, what the plan is, if it’s a feasible plan or not, and the lack of detail around it.”

Arts and Cultural Council chair Dawn Lipson also raises question about the theater’s feasibility and the lack of detail.

A major concern is “the budget that was presented by Broadway Theatre League,” she said in a recent interview.

“It shows an increase in patronage, and we don’t know what that’s based on. We don’t know where they’re getting that data from.”

“You’d have to be 80 or 85 percent full to make those budget numbers,” Lipson said. “And they haven’t been doing that the past couple of years for a smaller house. And I know they say, ‘Well, part of it will be the new venue,’ but I don’t know what they’re really basing that on. And so, that has the arts community concerned.”

“I think it really comes down to: If this is a viable plan, there should be documentation going forward about where the budget numbers are coming from, how they can be verified,” Lipson said.

“When we have a stable population in our community,” she said, “where are these additional patrons going to be coming from?”

The consultants’ feasibility study hasn’t been completed, so it’s hard to know what they looked at, but arts leaders felt that the previous study – conducted in 2016 – was too limited.

And both Lipson and Mannelli say that based on what they’ve heard from people who have been interviewed, the scope of the current study is also too limited.

“It was done by a company that’s not familiar with the local landscape,” Lipson said, “and it didn’t go into the kind of detail that would really raise the comfort level of those that are concerned in our community.”

The arts community, she said, wants to see a plan. “There’ve been so many revisions and changes,” Lipson said. “They’d like to see a plan as it exists now, this day and time. They’d like to see a real budget and citations about what that budget is based on. And they’d like to have a more transparent process with the city.” rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 11

WARREN’S DECISION HAS BEEN CONTROVERSIAL from that moment on. Its

numerous critics include people in the arts community, who worry that a shiny new theater hosting big-name Broadway shows and performers will hurt them, in ticket sales, in membership, and in donations. Like the city, the arts community took a hit with the dramatic downsizing of Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch and Lomb, all of whom had been major supporters. And like federal funding, state funding for arts organizations in Rochester has shrunk – by 44 percent from 2001 to 2016, according to research by ACT Rochester.

Criticism has also come from people who liked the Visionary Square plan and think Parcel 5 should be kept as undeveloped or loosely developed, available for festivals, pop-up temporary retail, and other uses. Their case has been bolstered by the enormous crowds on Parcel 5 for Jazz and Fringe Festivals. And they also charge that the RBTL proposal caters to an “elite” audience; Parcel 5, they say, should be for everyone.

A third group of critics are people who worry that downtown may be experiencing more development – particularly residential development – than is sustainable. A total of 822 new units have been created downtown since 2010, and 22 new projects – containing 1,893 units – are planned.

These critics include former City Council member Carolee Conklin who, shortly before retiring from Council last December, said that the city should hold off on development at Parcel 5 until some of the projects under way are completed and filled.

Conklin was also worried RBTL’s funding, and about adding development that would be tax-exempt. “The longterm viability of the city,” she said, “depends on revenue,” and that means taxable development.

“Why not just let it sit there for a couple of years?” she said. “We really don’t need a rush to judgment.”

Leaving Parcel 5 alone would also let the city make sure that downtown’s existing residential development is successful, that developers are not overbuilding. Population growth in the Rochester region has been relatively flat for years. If that doesn’t change, new residential development is likely to simply rob residents from other neighborhoods.

The new housing is boosting downtown’s population, though, and what happens on Parcel 5 will affect those residents. Tower280 resident John Bernunzio, whose Bernunzio Uptown Music has anchored the corner of East Avenue and Swan Street for 14 years, has been a strong supporter of keeping Parcel 5 relatively undeveloped, handing out “Free Parcel 5” T-shirts and bumper stickers at his store.

When Midtown Plaza was torn down, he says, city officials said downtown needed people out on the street.

It needed outdoor activities, and the Plaza kept everybody inside. “Now,” he says, “they’re proposing building something where people will be inside.”

“Rochester is about music, images and light, and water,” Bernunzio says. “If something goes there, it should be designed to include sound, light, and water, because that’s who we are.”

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THE DEVELOPER

Andy Gallina is president of the family-owned Gallina Development Corporation, which specializes in commercial and real estate development and management in Monroe County. Among its developments: the Metropolitan, the former Chase bank building, which it has converted into commercial and residential use, and the Midcentury Modern office building 1 East Avenue adjacent to Parcel 5.

Developer Andy Gallina’s proposal for a 14-story mixed-use building – commercial on the lower floors, condominiums above – was, in his words, “selected and then unselected.”

His was one of three proposals submitted for development of Parcel 5, and both he and city officials agree that he was initially told he was the city’s choice.

But when state funding fell short of his request and he wanted time to redo his numbers, the city awarded the development to RBTL and Morgan.

Gallina is clearly proud of his proposal. Architectural engineers at SWBR worked with him to develop it, he says, and it was based on their collective knowledge of

downtown Rochester, its challenges and its potential.

Together they defined four key things they felt downtown needed: parking, retail, home ownership, and green space, and they designed a building to address all four.

“Parking continues to be a problem downtown,” says Gallina, whose other downtown properties include 1 East Avenue, adjacent to Parcel 5, and the Metropolitan, the former Chase bank building. “I struggle with it almost daily. With bringing people downtown, the thing is tenants need parking, and we don’t have good parking or good easy parking solutions. It’s always a little here or a little there. But we don’t have a good parking conversation in our community.”

Both the Fringe Festival and the Xerox International Jazz Festival have staged events on Parcel 5, drawing massive crowds.

PHOTO BY PETER PARTS, COURTESY OF THE XEROX ROCHESTER INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL

“People want to come downtown,” he says, “but people want to buy. They want something that’s theirs, and we found that to be a big hole.”

“It was always about what this community needs,” Gallina says. “It’s been well-documented that we need retail. We need people on the street. Lovely has talked about how we need people on the street. So we recognize that and we agree.”

Gallina already has condominiums in the works, on the top five floors of the Metropolitan, which also houses commercial space and apartments. And he’s convinced that “they’ll fly off the shelves.”

“We’ve had a lot of interest,” he says.

“The last component,” Gallina says, “which I personally feel is just as important as any of them, is greenspace.”

Gallina’s proposal included open space behind his building, facing Tower 280, to be used as an urban park.

Although Gallina would have paid the city $1 million, he would have given the green back for community use.

For his building, Gallina says, “I was going to excavate the whole parcel and go down two levels and create 155 spots underground. That would go right underneath the whole parcel.”

Gallina and his team believed that downtown needs retail, so the building included retail space on Main Street. It also included space for a restaurant or bar to have entertainment – jazz, maybe – and outdoor dining. Offices would have decks or patios so people could go outside, all of that designed to help invigorate Main Street and downtown.

GALLINA IS CONVINCED – AND OUTSIDE ADVISERS to the city agree – that downtown

needs more owner-occupied housing units. “People want to come downtown,” he says “but people want to buy.”

Right now, home ownership within the Inner Loop is only about 4 percent, says Gallina, “We want people to invest and people do want to invest. But what we got now is all rental.

That’s a big concern.”

WHILE THE MAYOR NEVER ANNOUNCED that she had chosen Gallina’s project, she had made that decision.

What happened?

To make the numbers work, Gallina needed some help both from the city and the state. “The biggest thing was we asked the state for some financial support for the parking garage,” Gallina says.

“The state came back with some money,” he says, but not enough – “substantially less than what we asked for. So we had to rethink this and reprice this, because we didn’t get the support that we thought we’d get either from the city or the state.”

And that, he says, is “the time period where the mayor changed her mind about this whole thing.”

Both Gallina and city officials say that that city officials had a press release ready to announce the mayor’s choice of Gallina. And Gallina wouldn’t permit its release.

“Why? Because it was inaccurate,” he says, “and it announced the project, but I wasn’t ready to commit to it because of a whole host of things.”

Gallina says that once the state didn’t offer as much support as he requested, he asked his team to rework the project enough to make it financially feasible. He was simply doing what any intelligent, successful developer would do at that stage, he says: conduct the “value engineering” that was needed, getting specific costs as the plans and designs were developed.

City officials say this was only one of several times Gallina had requested delays. Gallina agrees but says that back-and-forth discussions between government and developers aren’t unusual as development plans continue to be fleshed out.

And while Gallina and his team were reworking their design, Arnie Rothschild went back to the mayor with a revised proposal of his own – plus a $25 million commitment from Tom Golisano and an apartment tower addition by Bob Morgan.

On April 7, 2017, the mayor announced that she had chosen the RBTL-Morgan proposal.

And, says Gallina: “When we were unselected, our statement said, ‘Hey, fine. Whatever is best for the community.’ And that’s where we left it.”

“But the community does have to get behind this,” Gallina adds, “and that’s where we are now.”

Public officials and the community are still trying to understand what’s best for the community, he said: “That’s why you’re going to find a whole host of folks that are pushing just for greenspace.”

“I’m not a strong supporter of the performing arts center,” says Gallina. “It’s not the right location, and it’s not serving enough of the cultural institutions. For all of the public money going into it, it’s serving RBTL and that’s all.”

“And I would like to see some more space for some of the other cultural institutions like Garth Fagan and some of the others that wanted to use this space,” says Gallina. “If we’re going to do this and use public money, why do it just for RBTL? I think there’s an opportunity here to make it much more of a community performing arts center.” rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 13

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Suzanne Mayer, former president of the Grove Place Neighborhood Association and one of the organizers of a new downtown coalition called C4, says Grove Place hasn’t taken a position on Parcel 5 and residents’ opinions seem divided.

Her own opinion, she says, is that “whatever goes there should be more for common use. It should be something that everybody has access to. I wouldn’t like to see something in that location going dark for any serious length of time.”

But, she adds: “I really think that what needs to happen is to look at this as an opportunity to talk about it. We need to be able to talk to each other about this and what’s best for this community.”

WHILE THE MAYOR HAS BEEN a strong

supporter of the RBTL-Morgan project, what happens to Parcel 5 will ultimately be in the hands of the nine people on City Council. It’s likely that Warren has support from the majority of those nine, but she could have trouble getting votes from at least three: Northwest District representative Molly Clifford, at-large member Jackie Ortiz, and East District representative Elaine Spaull, who is developer Andy Gallina’s sister.

Clifford, Ortiz, and Spaull have been at odds with Warren on some issues in the past, and Clifford ran the campaign for former mayor Tom Richards, whom Warren defeated in 2013.

On the other hand, if RBTL found a new partner to take Morgan’s place in the project, or if it refashioned its project to answer some of its critics’ concerns, Warren could get the votes she needs.

Several Councilmembers declined to comment on Parcel 5, citing the fact that a final, detailed proposal hasn’t yet been presented to Council. And Council President Loretta Scott said she wants to wait for the report from the consultants studying the RBTL theater’s impact before she discusses specifics about Parcel 5.

But, she said: “I don’t see it left blank. I do want to see it developed, and it needs to be. I don’t support more greenspace, especially seeing that we have so many parks now.”

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THE THEATER’S PROMOTER Arnie Rothschild is the longtime CEO of the Rochester Broadway Theatre League, which stages touring productions of Broadway shows and other performances at the Auditorium Theatre on East Main Street. Rothschild is president of Normal Communications advertising company; his clients include numerous Republican political candidates.

RBTL’s vision for a theater on Parcel 5 includes closing off side streets for evening public functions. PROVIDED RENDERING

Arnie Rothschild and the Rochester Broadway Theatre League, which he heads, have been trying to get a new theater for RBTL’s performances for decades. RBTL’s current home, the Auditorium Theatre on East Main Street, is too small, he says, and its age and physical constraints – limited parking, for instance, and no air conditioning – limit the shows RBTL can get and the length of the runs.

A new theater, he says, is essential for their future success.

And they want that theater to be in downtown Rochester.

Rothschild, who himself lives downtown, has been adamant about the theater’s location. As fundraising for previous proposals stalled and critics – including city officials – questioned his financial projections for the theater, Rothschild has looked at other sites, in Henrietta and in Irondequoit. But his preference has always been downtown. It’s an ideal location, Rothschild says, and it will help boost downtown development.

RBTL and city officials have talked about building it on the Midtown Plaza site for years; an RBTL theater was envisioned there even before Midtown Plaza was demolished in 2010.

The addition of an apartment building by the Morgan development company helped convince city officials to choose RBTL for Parcel 5. Now, Morgan’s part of the theater-residential package seems in doubt. That doesn’t preclude another developer picking up that part, though. And so to the Warren administration – and to RBTL – the project is still very much alive.

The RBTL part of the proposal that the city accepted in April 2017 calls for a 3,000-seat theater. The building would also contain retail space, a restaurant, and an area for corporate entertaining.

The theater would be “a state-of-the-art-theater,” Rothschild says, “including facilities for people with special needs.”

“You would enter at street level,” Rothschild says, “and walk downgrade into the theater, which allows the loading dock to be aligned with the tunnel system at Midtown.”

The theater would be air-conditioned, permitting RBTL to increase its summer bookings. There would be green space on top of the building for community events, and a stage on the east side of the building for outdoor events. And RBTL envisions blocking adjacent streets at nights and on weekends for sidewalk dining, food trucks, and entertainment.

Parking would be underground, in the former Midtown Plaza garage.

Initially, the theater was referred to as a performing arts center, which drew fire from opponents of the RBTL plan. “It is a fair criticism to say that a performing arts center has multiple theaters,” Rothschild says. This building will have only one theater.

(Rothschild says that it’s currently called the Golisano Arts and Entertainment Center).

And he adds: Years ago, the city and county conducted an inventory of arts organizations’ facility needs. The recommendation was that the community needed a large venue for events like touring Broadway shows and a mid-size venue with about 1,500 seats.

The proposed new theater on Parcel 5 would fulfill the first need. And Rothschild says RBTL plans to renovate the Auditorium Theater – which now has 2,464 seats – into a 1,500seat theater, meeting the second need.

Rothschild says the needs of dance groups – for special stage flooring for instance – will be met in both theaters.

While RBTL would take its big shows to the new downtown theater, it would keep its educational programming at the Auditorium facility and would heavily market its downsized theater there.

Rothschild insists that RBTL will find plenty of uses to keep the Auditorium in operation.

A LONG-STANDING CONCERN about a new theater for RBTL has been that if its revenue didn’t cover operating costs, taxpayers would have to bail it out.

Rothschild insists that there’s no risk. RBTL has generated an operating surplus for the past 14 years, he says: “We’re not asking for an operating subsidy.”

And while the new theater would be larger than the Auditorium, Rothschild says, so would its revenue. Revenue from ticket sales has grown for organizations like RBTL that host live performances, Rothschild says. “The vast majority of tickets are sold online, and the venue gets part of that fee.”

In addition to ticket sales, contributions, and revenue from concessions, RBTL is counting on revenue from parking at the Midtown garage. Morgan Management, Buckingham Properties, and Pike Development company are partners in an LLC that owns and operates the garage, and parking revenue was part of the RBTL-Morgan proposal for Parcel 5. Rothschild says he assumes that plan could continue, regardless, since RBTL would be bringing additional business to the garage.

RBTL would also earn money from “a significant amount of catering from corporate events,” Rothschild says.

ANOTHER CONCERN RAISED BY CRITICS of the RBTL theater proposal is the number of days and nights the theater would be in use. It doesn’t add vitality to downtown if a large building on a prominent Main Street site is dark for about half the nights of the year and closed many of the days. Currently, RBTL hosts 137 performances in the Auditorium each year.

RBTL estimates that in the new theater, RBTL would have 180 to 200 performances. The additional seats will enable RBTL to get bigger shows, earlier, and keep them longer, Rothschild says.

“Hamilton” is coming to the Auditorium Theatre, but not until next April. “If we had had a 3,000-seat venue, ‘Hamilton’ would have already been here,” Rothschild says. “They made a list of markets by seating capacity, and we were on the second page, half-way down.”

The building would also be available for other uses, Rothschild says, everything from conventions and concerts in the theater itself to weddings and parties in the auxiliary spaces. A few months ago, Mayor Lovely Warren suggested that perhaps the new theater could screen Imax movies.

Rothschild doesn’t suggest that, but, he says, there have been discussions about having a screen in the theater, which could be an attractive amenity for corporate meetings.

Could RBTL build a theater somewhere else downtown – for instance, on the property known as Parcel 10, the large vacant parcel on the west side of the river just south of the Blue Cross Arena?

“Parcel 10 has a number of issues,” says Rothschild. “We looked at it.” But there are big drainage pipes underneath it, there’s an easement for RG&E, access for tractor trailers for touring shows would be difficult – and it’s a contaminated site, Rothschild says.

“We did an engineering study,” he says, and RBTL would face $4 million in clean-up costs “minimum.”

And RBTL would have to build a parking garage.

All told, a theater on Parcel 10 would be prohibitively expensive, Rothschild says.

Why not simply renovate the Auditorium and air-condition it?

Too expensive, Rothschild says, and RBTL would still be left with a 2,400-seat auditorium, waiting in line for some of the big shows, missing out on longer runs, and missing some shows entirely.

“We have an unusual situation,” Rothschild says, in that Albert Nocciolino is a partner. A Binghamton native, Nocciolino is a major investor in Broadway shows; he’s been a co-producer of “Driving Miss Daisy,” “The Piano Lesson,” “Rent,” “Kinky Boots,” and numerous others. And he has helped steer top shows to Rochester.

At some point, Nocciolino will retire, though, and when he’s no longer a partner with RBTL, says Rothschild, the touring shows’ bookings into Rochester will be based solely on capacity.

And that, Rothschild insists, will be a handicap.

IN MARCH, WARREN ANNOUNCED THE FORMATION of a new team to aid RBTL’s effort, led by for-

mer Chamber of Commerce CEO Sandy Parker, “to seek to engage the public, funders, the arts community and important community stakeholders in the process.” Leading fundraising efforts are Rochester Red Wings CEO Naomi Silver; Elaine DelMonte, who has been involved in fundraising and management with area non-profit organizations; Tom Bonadio, CEO of the Bonadio CPA firm; and David Flaum, CEO of Flaum Management.

Currently, the fundraising is “in kind of a holding pattern,” Parker said in a recent interview. The Morgan apartments are “a critical component of that project,” Parker said, and with the uncertainty about the Morgan company, “we’re really at kind of a standstill,” she said.

Parker’s aware of public concerns about the RBTL proposal.

“One of the things we’ve wanted to do when we get moving again,” she said, “is to have an open conversation, have the auditors from RBTL give a presentation on the financing, have the folks from LeChase [the contractor for the theater] talk about building the facility.”

Parker is enthusiastic about the RBTL theater. “What impressed me was the mayor’s passion for this,” she said. “I think she sees this as a critical component to bringing back downtown.

We’ve got 10,000 people who live downtown now, with all of the various housing that has gone up. But one of the things we need to do is keep them downtown. We need to get them out on the streets after 5 p.m.”

The theater, she said, will help do that. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 15

For more Tom Tomorrow, including a political blog and cartoon archive, visit www.thismodernworld.com

URBAN ACTION This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.)

Meeting set on Whole Foods Plaza plan Brighton Grassroots, a citizens’ group fighting the proposed Whole Foods Plaza, is urging residents to attend the Brighton Planning Board’s public hearing on Wednesday, July 18.

The group says the meeting is the last opportunity to get the Town of Brighton to scale back the project.

Brighton Grassroots says the proposed plaza is too large for the site and will increase traffic in the Monroe Avenue-Clover Street area significantly.

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2300 Elmwood Avenue, at 7 p.m.

Religion and violence Nazareth College’s Hickey Center for Interfaith Studies and Dialogue will hold a three-day symposium later this month, “Sacred Texts and Human Contexts,” examining how world religions have responded to clashing viewpoints and violence.

The symposium will be held at Nazareth College from 4:30 p.m. Sunday, July 29, through Tuesday, July 31. Scholars from the US and Canada will address the following topics: “Understanding the Evolving Terrorism Threat Landscape,” “When Religion Becomes Lethal: the Explosive Mix of Politics and Religion,” “Religion, Violence, and (De)legitimization,” and the “Abrahamic Reunions Multi-faith Peacebuilding:

Religion as a Force for Peace.” Costs vary from $175 for a full package that includes lunches, dinners, and all lectures to $30 for a single lecture. Seating is limited to 80 people and registration is required: 389-2383.

Networking for organic farmers The Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York will hold a program titled “Cultivating a Thriving Food Network” on Sunday, July 22.

Several local organic farmers will explain the relationship between farmers and venues and distributors in the organic food economy. They’ll also discuss food safety and the future of small and mediumsize farms. The event will be held at Headwater Food Hub, 6318 Ontario Center Road, Ontario, from 3:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Cost: $25, food and drink included.

Dining & Nightlife

Left to right: Gladys Burke, Alberta Jacque, and Bertha Israel of the family-run Sweet Potato Pie Factory & More. PHOTO BY JACOB WALSH

Eyes on the pies [ REVIEW ] BY PETE WAYNER

In his 2012 song “Hood Now (Outro),” Lupe Fiasco raps: “They gave us scraps, some of it old/We cooked it up and called it ‘soul’/It’s good now/It’s good now/You like that?/It’s hood now.”

Historically speaking, that’s soul food: Plantation owners forked over the chaff of the table to their slaves. Tough ham hocks, coarse collard greens — food that took a long time to cook down. The song lists American cultural treasures that began as an exclusionary moves against the black population, only to be repurposed into gold.

But according to Victoria Lang, one of the owners of The Sweet Potato Pie Factory & More in Mayor’s Heights, the definition itself has evolved.

“Soul food is the food that your mother — that meal she prepared and it took her some time to prepare it because she was putting love into that food, that’s labeled soul food, Lang says. “She put

love into those greens, that macaroni and cheese, the dressing, which goes back to a saying you hear a lot around Black people: She put her foot in it. That means it’s so good.”

The Sweet Potato Pie Factory & More — formerly Gladys Place, previously The Kitchen, and before that, Burke’s Kitchen — started as a sweet potato pie and soul food stand on the side of the House of God Church. It is the oldest soul food restaurant in Rochester.

“My mother was a great cook,” says Gladys Burke, who turned 93 on July 13.

The recipes devoured today at the restaurant on Dr. Samuel McCree Way were carried north from a flyspeck Alabama town in 1951.

Gladys was the eighth of 22 children. She grew up among a thick network of extended family: “Children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and probably some great great grandchildren, and we were noted for doing sweet potato pies,” she says.

One of her early culinary companions was her niece Alberta Jacque, who today can be

found behind the counter at the restaurant taking orders, and giving them. On a recent Saturday afternoon, she wears a white knit hat and addresses a customer ordering the signature pie. He is trying to customize his order.

“My mother used to burn them,” he says.

Jacque, 78 years old, shoots him a glance.

“Trouble is, I’m not your mother,” she says.

The appearance of the restaurant is straightforward. There are several wooden chairs for waiting customers, a large posted menu, and a framed picture of Barack Obama. These recipes, much like their ingredients, have been simmering a long time. Window dressing isn’t necessary.

The crust on the pies is a sweet, flaky wafer. It gives upon contact with your teeth, letting loose the sweet potato filling, often warm from the oven. The flavor, at first, is reminiscent of pumpkin pie, full of autumnal spice, but then the higher, sweeter notes of the potatoes come out. The busiest time for pies by far is Thanksgiving.

Lang said they also typically get a rush from people on the way to the airport, after the holiday winds down, and that they have shipped pies as far as Seattle. A couple at the counter call across the room that they come regularly from Niagara Falls for the pies.

With such pie-based adoration flowing into the Sweet Potato Pie Factory & More, it’s easy to forget the “& More.” That would be a mistake. The full menu features fried chicken, fried fish, turkey wings, beef ribs in a homemade barbecue sauce, fresh collard greens cooked with smoked turkey, black eyed peas, macaroni and cheese, cornbread dressing, and more. Many of these offerings are prepared by Jacque herself.

“My cousin is special, man,” Lang says.

“Watching people eat the food she cooks is just joy to her.”

For visitors to the restaurant, collard greens and cornbread dressing are unmissable. Although greens are usually cooked with ham hocks, the restaurant serves no pork products — a custom held over from the House of God, which Lang says forbade the consumption of pork. In this case, the ham isn’t missed. Briny, deep rolling earth flavors smack with salt on every forkful.

The dressing likewise is all flavor: Thanksgiving dressing but with the pleasant grit of cornmeal. The fried chicken crust gives way to juicy, tender meat inside and the turkey wings are satisfyingly greasy.

Lang’s mother, Bertha Israel, is Gladys’ younger sister, and her specialty during the early days of the restaurant was cake.

These days though, like her sister, she’s leaving most of the day-to-day work to the younger members of the family. “It’s the world and all to me,” she says. Gladys agrees. She bequeathed recipes not just for pie and greens, but for hospitality, family, and togetherness.

“So now,” she says, “I done cooked out.”

The Sweet Potato Pie Factory & More is located at 171 Dr. Samuel McCree Way. Large pies run $9.50, small pies are $4, and tarts are $1.50. A typical dinner consisting of a meat and two sides costs $9. Restaurant hours are Thursdays and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturdays 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. (hot food service ends 40 minutes prior to closing). Calling ahead at 434-4054 is recommended.

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Upcoming

Music

[ PUNK ] Zeke. Saturday, August 4. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Avenue.

8 p.m. $15-$18. bugjar.com; facebook.com/zekeband. [ BLUEGRASS ]

Rumpke Mountain Boys. Wednesday, August 22.

Flour City Station, 170 East Avenue. 9:30 p.m. $10. flourcitystation.com; rumpkemountainboys.com.

Ginkgoa

THURSDAY, JULY 19 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. PARK, 353 COURT STREET 5 P.M. | $5 | CITYOFROCHESTER.GOV/PITP; GINKGOA.COM [ TECHNO SWING ] It’s not like swing needs any help

getting under the skin and loosening joints, but techno swingsters Ginkgoa throw the two genres together for a hook-filled, dance floor-flooding event. It’s flapper jazz meets disco; Tin Pan Alley colliding with a dishwasher.

Singer Nicolle Rochelle gives off a relaxed hint of Helen Kane with a coo, except when she’s flexing her hip-hop muscles. If Caravan Palace’s Jazz Festival performance last year — what with its similar old-meets-new instrumentation and grind and the crowd’s explosive reaction — is any indication, we may be in for a second swing invasion. This is gonna be crazy. Playing with The Original Wailers.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE

Zigtebra THURSDAY, JULY 19 BUG JAR, 219 MONROE AVENUE 9 P.M. | $10 | BUGJAR.COM; ZIGTEBRA.COM [ POP ] Zigtebra has a way of mellowing the heart with its

deep, trance-like soundscapes and danceable love anthems.

This Chicago-based, lo-fi pop duo met in an LGBTQ dance troupe and began to write and play shows together.

Using fun, light-hearted synth textures and catchy melodies, Zigtebra creates attention-grabbing arrangements that keep the listener hooked from start to finish. Elephant in the Room and Beef Gordon will also perform.

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[ ALBUM REVIEWS ]

[ WED., JULY 18 ]

Tahj Elliott

BLUES

“The Heart Mixtape” Self-Released soundcloud.com/tahjelliott

Marc Antoine THURSDAY, JULY 19 ANTHOLOGY, 336 EAST AVENUE 7 P.M. | $25-$40 | EXODUSTOJAZZ.COM; MARCANTOINE.COM [ JAZZ ] If smooth jazz guitar is your cup of tea, there’s no one smoother than Marc Antoine. The French guitarist has lent his talents to Sting, Cher, Celine Dion, and many others. Last year he recorded the hit album “So Nice,” with David Benoit.

Opening up for Antoine at Anthology will be Rochester’s own Paradigm Shift with guest JD Allen. After playing with Betty Carter, Frank Foster, George Cables, and many others, Allen has made a name for himself as an excellent hard-bop saxophonist.

— BY RON NETSKY

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit FRIDAY, JULY 20 CMAC, 3355 MARVIN SANDS DRIVE, CANANDAIGUA 7 P.M. | $26-$66 | CMACEVENTS.COM; JASONISBELL.COM [ AMERICANA ] Jason Isbell’s latest, “The Nashville Sound,”

transcends the alt-country subgenre. I’m not much of a country guy, but this was my go-to album during a difficult period in my life: Isbell’s voice lent comfort to my heart, and the music itself felt so honest. My favorite songs had the most energy, but it was the quieter tunes, like “Last of My Kind,” that put me in a less vulnerable place. Lyrically, “The Nashville Sound” is a stellar album. Isbell just draws back the curtain and lets the stories be told and that’s what makes him a great American songwriter. Brandi Carlile is also on this CMAC show.

— BY ROMAN DIVEZUR

Last month, Rochester musician Tahj Elliott threw all of his emotions, struggles, and pieces of his everyday life into 17 tracks. “The Heart Mixtape” is a piece that, all the way through, tackles a variety of contemporary rap and R&B styles. Elliott, who handled a bulk of the production, creates a particularly psychedelic atmosphere with almost every track, especially on the banger “Tribute to Sonder,” with its whirling synthesizers and a woozy autotuned vocal featuring Jaythekid, a rising star in his own right.

Over its 17-track runtime, the tape can be incohesive, but every song on here shows ambition and talent rivaling professional acts on the scene right now. No doubt Tahj Elliott is one to watch in the future. The heart shows breadth of creativity and passion, which will take him far and wide — even past these Smugtown borders.

— BY NIGEL BLAIR

Mikaela Davis

“Delivery” Rounder Records mikaeladavis.com

It’s all about delivery, according to harpist and singer-songwriter Mikaela Davis. Her band’s new album, aptly titled “Delivery,” out on Rounder Records, is filled with all things dark and venerated. You get the sense through Davis’s songwriting that whatever this record is, it’s as much a gift to herself as it is a gift to listeners.

Themes of redemption and self-reflection permeate the album. Davis, who moved back to Rochester from Brooklyn, is tied to her roots. The songs dive in and out of genuine interpersonal moments and sentiments of detachment that come with being a working, traveling musician.

Davis is adventurous in exploring new territories as a harp player, incorporating effects pedals and using her instrument as an experimental palette.

And classic rock influences, like Neil Young, Grateful Dead, and Fleetwood Mac, can be found throughout the album.

The album ends with “In My Groove,” which features background vocals by The Staves. With themes of growing and exploring, it is especially poignant to have an English band that Davis befriended on the road while on tour play a part on “Delivery.”— BY KATIE PRESTON

3rd Degree. B-Side, 5

Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 7 p.m.

Upward Groove. Temple Bar & Grille, 109 East Ave. 232-6000. 10 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Concerts by the Shore: RPO. Ontario Beach Park,

4799 Lake Ave. 7:30 p.m.

R&B/ SOUL

Garden Vibes: Seratones.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. eastman.org.

6-8 p.m. $8-$10.

HIP-HOP/RAP

Alika, M.A.K.U Soundsystem. Funk ‘n

Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 448-0354. 8 p.m. $10/$13.

AMERICANA

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

7:30 p.m. $10/$13.

POP/ROCK

Angel Vivaldi, Cole Rolland, Divinex. Montage

Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 6 p.m. $15-$17.

Dave McGrath w/ Mark Bradley. Marge’s Lakeside Inn, 4909 Culver Rd. 323-1020. 6-9 p.m.

Laura Wolf, Madeleine McQueen, The Sugar Gliders. Bug Jar, 219

Monroe Ave. 9 p.m. $5/$7.

River Lynch & the Spiritmakers. Record

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

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The Tombstone Hands captures its live energy on its new album, “Instrumental Rock & Roll.”

Sing along with The Tombstone Hands [ INTERVIEW ] BY FRANK DE BLASE

Where’d you record it?

Litvak: Everywhere. For a goof, I made it for

Rochester instrumental power trio The Tombstone Hands is a full-throttle, in-yourface, guitar-driven frenzy. Guitarist Steve Litvak wields his guitar like a Viking while drummer Brian Peet and bassist Dennis Jones lay down a groove that peels asses off of barstools.

The threesome has been at it since 2009, and they figured nine years of rockin’ and rollin’ should warrant a record. So the band compiled the best versions of individual songs they had recorded live all over town and put them on “Instrumental Rock & Roll.”

It’s all there on the album: Link Wray, Henry Mancini, The Ventures, you name it. It’s big, it’s loud, and it’s classic.

The Tombstone Hands stopped by CITY Newspaper’s Batcave to discuss the new album, never having a bad show, and polka. An edited transcript follows.

myself. I took the best versions of a lot of stuff. Dennis heard it and freaked out and said, “We should release it.” So I edited it, cleaned it up a bit.

CITY: So what’s new since we last talked?

Steve Litvak: Not much. Just rockin’ and

Do I smell a Tombstone Hands polka album brewing?

Litvak: Buck Owens and the Buckaroos did

rollin’. Same modus operandi: playing, struggling, trying to get the word out there.

Fighting the fight.

How do you get the word out when none of you sing?

Litvak: That’s why it’s such a hard job.

Tell us a little about “Instrumental Rock & Roll.”

Litvak: It’s our greatest hits live.

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You really captured the live show feel on the record, the magic moments, the mistakes.

Litvak: We don’t make mistakes. It’s all

about perfection.

What style do you enjoy playing the most?

Brian Peet: From polka to reggae to

regular rock and rock covers. I don’t think there’s anything I haven’t played. I like blue collar rock. I just get off playing straight up rock ‘n’ roll. The best paying gig was the polka band. You can make a lot of money in a polka band.

some instrumental polkas. So it’s possible.

Peet: It’s just like playing AC/DC. It’s uptempo. You’ve got to keep at it.

How do your originals get fleshed out?

Litvak: It comes out of my head somehow.

It comes out of the air, usually when I’m screwing around. Once it’s in my head, it stays.

When do you know you’ve got something?

Litvak: It makes the hair on the back of my

neck stand up. I get goosebumps, it’s just great. But we don’t do note for note covers.

We put our own twist on them.

Like the way you guys play “Rumble.”

Peet: For me, that tune started rock ‘n’ roll.

It had no words, yet it got banned for its title.

Litvak: That’s why it’s so cool.

What constitutes a good show for The Tombstone Hands?

Litvak: Actually, I’ve never had a bad show

with this band, even if there’s only a few people that are in to it and hootin’ and hollerin’.

Peet: There’s been nights with just the three of us playing on stage at 1 a.m. and everyone is gone. We’re just happy to play.

If people come in, great. If they don’t, too bad. It’s just cathartic for me. When I play, I’m happy. At the age I am now I never thought I’d be hitting the drums the way I am now. When I get on stage I’m 18, the next morning I’m 81.

What’s your advice to young bands coming up?

Litvak: Don’t. Go to college.

What’s something the band will never do?

All: Sing.

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What do you think of when you think of a ‘Burger’?

The quintessential summer sandwich grilled to perfection? A gooey, cheesy debaucherous cheat meal? A vessel for outrageous toppings that have no business being on top of a slab of beef, mushroom or bean?

Mileage Master Center and a weekend getaway to Collective Arts brewing in Canada!

As if you needed another reason to eat a delicious burger and win cool prizes, Burger Week is a charitable cause. A portion of the proceeds from each burger sold will be donated to Foodlink by participating restaurants. Help us raise as much money as possible to contribute to this organization committed to feeding underserved communities.

We’ve got 26 local burger crafters participating in this inaugural year of Burger Week and everyone wants to show off their burger creations!

To join the fun -- order a burger from any participating restaurant, snap a photo and share it with us on Instagram for the chance to win prizes. We’ve got Burger Week shirts, aprons and totes to give away, gift cards to all of the participating restaurants, a grill from

So follow @rocburgerweek on Instagram or visit rochesterburgerweek.com for more information.

And make sure to try as many burgers as you can…. we guarantee you’ll be ready for a salad by the end of Rochester Burger Week.

ANY PARTICIPATING RESTAURANT (See list on next page)

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We've got tons of cool stuff to give away during Burger Week. From grills and restaurant gift cards, to weekend getaways and burger week shirts. Be sure to play often to be entered to win!

A portion of the proceeds from each burger sold during ROCHESTER BURGER WEEK will be donated by the participating restaurants to Foodlink.

Help us raise as much money as possible to contribute to this organization commited to feeding underserved communities.

MANY PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS ARE CREATING SPECIALTY BURGERS JUST FOR THIS EVENT, ONLY AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME. Pick one out and try not to drool all over the table.

BEFORE YOU BITE IN SNAP A PICTURE! SHARE YOUR PHOTO ON INSTAGRAM AND BE SURE TO TAG @ROCBURGERWEEK TO BE ENTERED TO WIN PRIZES! DO IT AGAIN THE NEXT DAY! (But at least have a salad in between)

ROCHESTER BURGER WEEK

THE ANGRY GOAT BURGER

50/50 BACON SMASH 50/50 bacon burger mix flat patty, sauteed onions, american cheese, meat hot sauce, lettuce, tomato on brioche bun.

1/2 lb Burger, caramelized onions, pancetta, herbed goat cheese, fresh arugula, balsamic glaze & garlic aioli on a brioche roll.

585 ROCKIN BURGER BAR

Well seasoned burger patty topped with house made bourbon, cheddar cheese, bacon and fresh onion rings.

12 oz applewood onion jam, aged ex brioche bun, served

CHAR STEAK

935 Jefferson Rd., Henrietta barlouie.com

938 Clinton Ave S., Rochester theangrygoatpub.com

IMPOSSIBLE BURGER

GROUND CHUCK B

BAR LOUIE

THE ANGRY GOAT

250 Pixley Rd., Gates 585rbb.com

550 East Ave charsteakand

It’s meat from plants, all served on a warm pretzel bun! Mushrooms, Swiss, Cali Style, Reuben, Philly or Rochester Classic style, and with a ‘no meat’ sauce!

THE GUINNESS BURGER

BURGATORY

1/2 lb hand pressed burger with crispy bacon, melted cheddar and our own Guinness BBQ sauce with lettuce, tomato and onion on a delicious soft ciabatta roll.

1/2 lbs of ground beef, pulled pork, double smoked bacon, swiss cheese, onion straws and barbeque sauce.

HETTIE’S DELITES CAFE

JOHNNY’S PUB & GRILL

Rochester Public Market hettiesdelitescafe.com

A warm Ciabatta bun, balsamic mayo, pickled red onion, fresh watercress, crisp bacon and housemade bleu cheese dressing

When you have a burger at Nox you choose your own adventure, a world with endless possibilities!

Snake River Farms Wagyu, Cambozola Cheese, Pickled Shallots, topped with a Farm-Fresh Fried Egg on a Brioche Bun with Bacon Onion Jam & served with Matchstick Fries.

NOX

MORTON’S THE STEAKHOUSE

564 Merchants Rd., Rochester merchantswoodfiredpizza.com

1/2 lb Grass Fed Burger Topped with house-made bacon jam, avocado, mozzarella

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658 Park Ave., Rochester jinesrestaurant.com

SRF WAGYU BACON BURGER

CREATE YOUR OWN BURGER

MERCHANTS WOOD FIRED PIZZA & BISTRO

THE STREET CRAFT KITCHEN & BAR

JINES RESTAURANT

1382 Culver Rd., Rochester johnnysirishpub.com

THE BISTRO BURGER

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SPIKED BULLEIT BOURBON BURGER

302 N. Goodman St., Rochester noxcocktail.com

BLUE BUR

A layer of creamy jack cheeses w braised onions mayo and

125 East Main St., Rochester mortons.com

A juicy beef kabob seasoned with southeast Asian spices, tomatoes, onions and fresh herbs. Drizzled with a sweet and spicy sauce and served on a Hawaiin bun.

TASTE THE ROC

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O’CALLA

470 Monroe A ocallsp

7 oz Seven Bridges Farm Beef Patty topped with crispy onion rings, jalapeno chips, jalapeno cheddar, house cured bacon and BBQ sauce.

TAP & MALLET

381 Gregory St., Rochester tapandmallet.com

DRIFTERS JAMMIN’ MAC BURGER

BRISKET BURGER

d-smoked bacon xtra-sharp cheddar, d with onion rings.

House Ground Beef Burger topped with White Cheddar Mac and Cheese, Applewood Smoked Bacon Jam, & Arugula on A Pretzel Bun.

K & LOUNGE

DRIFTERS

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155 East Main St., Rochester driftersmainst.com

CHEESBURGER POUTINE

THE GATE HOUSE

274 N. Goodman St., Rochester thegatehousecafe.com

CANDY MAN Triple ground steer meat, topped with praline pork belly, crumbly blue & red onion.

LE PETIT POUTINE

LOVIN’ CUP

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THE MACBUBBA BURGER

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Ave., Rochester pub.com

1/2 pound Certified Angus Beef, pepperjack cheese, avocado, sriracha mayo and candied jalapenos on a warm brioche roll.

Our traditional poutine, topped with seasoned ground beef, fresh tomatoes, crunchy lettuce, special sauce and sesame seeds

MOON RGER

AGHAN’S

THE PANDORA

1/2 lb grilled juicy beef burger, stacked with bacon, a sunny side egg, lettuce, tomato, and american cheese.

THE PINT & GOBLET TAVERN @ CB CRAFT BREWERS

300 Village Square Blvd.

Honeoye Falls cbcraftbrewers.com

300 Park Point Drive, Suite 107 Henrietta lovincup.com

ROC BURGER 1/2 lb C.A.B. patty, fresh cracked peppercorn, lemon arugula, creamy brie on a toasted brioche bun.

ROC BURGER ON MAIN 120 E. Main St., Rochester rocburgeronmain.com

THE GRAPPA BURGER Angus burger, balsamic glazed tomatoes, housemade mozzarella with mixed greens on toasted Brioche bun.

GRAPPA

30 Celebration Dr., Rochester grapparoc.com

DOUBLE BACON CHICKEN CHEESEBURGER Burger, cheese, chicken fingers, cheese and more bacon!

MARSHALL STREET BAR & GRILL

81 Marshall St., Rochester marshallstreetbarandgrill.com

GARBO-BURGER A Meat Hot stuffed burger topped with home fries, onion, yellow mustard and Frank’s Red Hot infused Mac Salad served on a toasted brioche bun.

STEADFAST

200 East Ave., Rochester rocsteadfast.com

1/2 lb special blend topped with a smoked pork loin, bacon, onion ring, lettuce, tomato, hot meat sauce, & cheese sauce on a brioche bun.

Crisp bacon, American & Cheddar cheese, fresh lettuce, tomato, red onion, double steak patties, spicy mayo, prico jalapeno pepper dip on a crusty Kaiser roll

Sausage & Beef patty on a house made focaccia roll with a white bean puree, sauteed escarole, parmesan crisp and banana pepper relish

TOASTED BEAR TAVERN

TAVERN AT GIBBS

VENETO WOOD FIRED PIZZA & PASTA

689 South Ave., Rochester Find us on Facebook!

58 University Ave., Rochester tavernatgibbs.com

318 East Ave., Rochester venetorestaurant.com

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BY JESSY FREIMANN

My relationship with burgers is a long and passionate one, spanning a lifetime; I think it’s serious. Growing up in an ItalianGerman-American family there was no shortage of excellent food available. In our family, eating is love. It’s the center of our culture. From the perfectly formed and flavored meatballs my Grandma Rosie would sneak us before dinner with a wink and a “shhhhh,” to the deliciously simple dinners my mom would make after a long day of playing outside with our neighbors, great food is what we do.

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the pool, various family members are participating in a spirited game of softball.

Earlier that day, my sister and I had snuck into the free-standing, screened-in porch that was well hidden on the property. This is where they stored all the desserts for later in the day. Naturally, we swiped a cookie or two. But we made sure to save plenty of room for the plethora of salads, sides, and a perfectly grilled burger.

I love that when I bite into a burger, I’m immediately brought back to the ideal summer day. It’s the Fourth of July at the annual family picnic, a huge event that brought our huge extended family together each year. The weather is a tad hot but there’s a light breeze which makes it much more comfortable.

This was back in a time before I really got creative with my burgers and their toppings. Back then I don’t even think I enjoyed mine with cheese (it pains me to even utter those words). Just a little ketchup and I was ready to go. There’s something so magical about foods that bring you back to a special place and time and for me, a burger is definitely one of those foods.

There’s chatter and laughter all around me and I can see some of my cousins squealing with delight as they are being pushed higher than they ever imagined on a sturdy rope swing. Behind me, through a wrought iron fence, I can see some of my other cousins doing cannonballs into the deep end of an inground pool and sliding down the waterslide. And in a huge back yard behind

Now if you’re reading this, you probably also love digging into a good burger. And since I make a living as a food blogger and much of each day involves cooking, I couldn’t possibly put together an article about burgers and not share my favorite tips for making killer burgers at home. So here they are, my tips for making the very best burgers at home:

1

Don’t store ground beef for more than 2 days in the fridge. Fresh is always best. Bonus points if you have the beef ground fresh instead of buying it pre-ground (or grind it yourself if you’re feeling extra awesome).

2

Get the right kind of ground beef. You’ve probably heard that fat equals flavor. This could not be more true! I encourage you to go with no less fat content than 80/20 ground beef. Now I understand if you’re trying to be healthier, but a good alternative would be eating a smaller portion of the burger so that you’re not sacrificing flavor.

3

Keep the ground beef super cold up until cooking. Warm ground beef will often stick to your hands making it difficult to create a nice pattie. This is due to the fat melting as it warms. This also means the fat not where you really want it, which is in your burger.

4 5

Don’t overwork the beef. If you’re going to mix ingredients into your burgers, make sureyou don’t overmix the beef because it will get tough as it cooks.

Make a dimple to maintain the shape. When forming your patties, it’s generally a good idea to create a small dimple in the middle of the pattie. This will help maintain the shape of your burger pattie as it cooks.

6

Season just before cooking. Salt can break down the proteins in meat and draw out the moisture creating a tougher burger. We like to season our burgers right before they hit the grill (or pan). And be sure to season generously with salt and pepper.

7

Turn you burger once. This seems to be a debate in various circles. While I’ve heard valid arguments on both sides, in our home we turn our burgers once.

8

Use an instant-read thermometer for a perfectly cooked burger every time.

Getting the temperature right is important first and foremost for safety reasons, but also for great texture and flavor.

9 10

Rest the burgers. It’s a good idea to resist the temptation to dig right in and let it rest to allow the juices to redistribute.

Top your burger as you please.

When it comes to dressing your burger there are no rules; the world is your oyster. Go with what you love and don’t be afraid to take risks!

Jessy Freimann and her husband reside in the village of Spencerport with their two young daughters and one dog. Find them online @thelifejolie on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter.

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

[ THU., JULY 19 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK The Foolz. Milly’s HandleBar Cafe, 3120 Kittering Rd. Macedon. 315-377-0711.

5-8 p.m.

Jim Lane. Murph’s Irondequoit Pub, 705 Titus Ave. Irondequoit. 342-6780.

8 p.m.

BLUES

Hochstein at High Falls: Hanna & the Blue Hearts.

Granite Mills Park, 82 Browns Race. 12-1 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Eastman at Washington Square. First Universalist

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

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

Third Thursday Concerts.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900. mag.rochester.edu. Every third Thursday, 7:30 p.m.

Made possible by Rippey Endowed Trust. Included w/museum admission.

JAZZ

Exodus to Jazz: Marc Antoine. Anthology, 336 East

SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Bone Mask, TreadWater, Knife Culture. Photo City Improv,

543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047.

7 p.m. $8.

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

Summer Serenades: Brockport Big Band. St.

Luke’s Episcopal Church, 14 State St. Brockport.

637-6586. 7 p.m.

TRADITIONAL David Tamarin. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place.

Pittsford. 641-0340. 7 p.m.

REGGAE/JAM Root Shock. Flour City Station, 170 East Ave. 10 p.m.

AMERICANA

Little Bird, The Phryg. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 448-0354. 10 p.m. $10.

Sunset Cocktail Series: Alicia & Mike of The Sideburns. The Penthouse, 1 East Ave. 775-2013.

6-9:30 p.m. $5.

Zigtebra, Elephant in the Room, Beef Gordon. Bug

Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 9 p.m. $8/$10.

[ FRI., JULY 20 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK Bill Kettle. Farmer’s Creekside Tavern & Inn, 1 Main St. Le Roy. 768-6007.

8 p.m.

Drey & Phriends. Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place.

Pittsford. 641-0340.

7-10 p.m.

Serendipity. The Greenhouse Café, 2271 E. Main St. 270-8603. 7-9 p.m.

BLUES

Steve Grills & The Roadmasters. B-Side, 5

Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 8 p.m.

VOCALS

Cindy Miller: I’ve Got the Music in Me. Downstairs Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place.

8 p.m. $25.

DJ/ELECTRONIC

Lord Electro, Elowate. Photo

City Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 9 p.m. $5.

JAZZ

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley

Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202.

Moonlight Stroll Concert Series: Rochester Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra.

Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 8 p.m. $10.

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

METAL

R&B/ SOUL

Kevin Gordon Trio. Abilene

The Convalescence, Forces, Alukah, Shepherd of Rot, UnDead Messengers, Rip Open The Sky, The Red Devil Report. California Brew Haus, 402 W. Ridge Rd. 621-1480.

6 p.m. $10/$12.

Gregory St. 563-6241.

10 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Ave. 7 p.m. $25-$40.

San Gabriel Social Club.

HIP-HOP/RAP

New Fame, Golden, 14 Trapdoors, Volatile, Chi the Realist. ButaPub, 315

Wesley Franklin with Carosel. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400.

8-10 p.m.

AMERICANA

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit, Brandi Carlile. CMAC, 3355 Marvin Sands Drive.

Canandaigua. cmacevents. com. 7 p.m. $26-$66.

POP/ROCK

Anyone Anyway, Trench, Fortunato, So Last Year. Bug

Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 9 p.m. $8/$10.

Asia. Batavia Downs, 8315 Park Road. Batavia. 3433750. 5:30 p.m. Featuring John Payne. $10-$25.

Bands on the Bricks: Latino Night. Rochester Public

Market, 280 N. Union St. 6-10 p.m.

Box Era, The Melting Nomads. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 4480354. 9 p.m. $10.

Electric Feels: Indie Rock & Indie Dance Night.

Anthology, 336 East Ave. 9 p.m. $7.

Mr. Mustard. The Beer Hall Grill & Taps, 1517 Empire Blvd. Webster. 347-4450.

7 p.m.

NRVSYSTM. B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane. Fairport.

315-3003. 5-7 p.m.

StarDevils. Abilene Bar & Lounge, 153 Liberty Pole Way. 232-3230. 9:30 p.m. $7.

The Surfrajettes meet The Hi-Risers!. Lux Lounge, 666

South Ave. lux666.com.

10 p.m. $5.

[ SAT., JULY 21 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Dave DiPrimo Band, Swamp Totter. ButaPub, 315 Gregory St. 563-6241. 10 p.m.

CLASSICAL

RPO: An Evening at Bristol Mountain. Bristol Mountain

Resort, 5662 New York 64.

374-6000. rpo.org. 7 p.m. $10-$25.

DJ/ELECTRONIC

Signal > Noise: Eris Drew, Clark Price. Photo City

Improv, 543 Atlantic Ave. 451-0047. 10 p.m. $15-$20.

JAZZ

Fred Costello & Roger Eckers Jazz Duo. Charley

Brown’s, 1675 Penfield Rd. 385-9202. rochestercitynewspaper.com CITY 29

Hannah PK. Farmer’s Creekside Tavern & Inn, 1 Main St. Le Roy. 768-6007.

8-11 p.m.

Jon Seiger & the All Stars.

Via Girasole Wine Bar, 3 Schoen Place. Pittsford.

641-0340. 7 p.m.

R&B/ SOUL

Mitty & The Followers.

B-Side, 5 Liftbridge Lane.

Fairport. 315-3003. 8 p.m.

HIP-HOP/RAP

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I S A N I C O N I C , C A S U A L R E S TA U R A N T T H AT E M B O D I E S T H E H E A R RT T AND SOUL OF R OCHESTER.

Hybrid Beats, Level 7. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N Water Street. 448-0354. 9 p.m.

AMERICANA

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The Jane Mutiny. Little

Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 8-10 p.m.

Peg Leg Ida, Skeleton Keys.

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

8:30 p.m. $5.

METAL

Eternal Crypt (CD release), Halothane, Sertraline, Blasphemous. Bug Jar, 219

Monroe Ave. 8 p.m. $6-$7.

Eternal Crypt, Halothane, Sertraline, Blasphemous.

Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 8 p.m. $6.

POP/ROCK

Adelitas Way, Dead Girls Academy, Zero Theorem, Small Town Titans. Montage

Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St. 232-1520. 7 p.m. $18-$20.

Phil Lesh & the Terrapin Family Band, Twiddle, Midnight North. CMAC,

3355 Marvin Sands Drive.

Canandaigua. cmacevents. com. 6:30 p.m. $25-$85.

Virus X, JC Nickles, Axed & Smashed. Rosen Krown, 875

Angus chuck burger with pepperjack cheese, avocado, candied jalapeños and sriracha mayo; sweet, spicy, salty and crunchy!

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FREAK ROCK | CALLIOPE MUSICALS

Man, this is some wild, weird stuff. Austin, Texas’s Calliope Musicals is an epic, psychedelic, overload and its own polyphonic spree. You don’t hear the same thing twice as the band assails you from all sides. Utilizing a minimalistic approach in comparison to the largess blasting out the business end, it’s a heads-up game on the stage and on the dance floor. It might remind you of The Flaming Lips or something cooked up by Frank Zappa … on fire.

Calliope Musicals plays with Stationary Escape Pod on Wednesday, July 25, at Funk ‘N Waffles, 204 North Water Street. 8 p.m. rochester.funknwaffles.com; calliopemusicals.com.

— BY FRANK DE BLASE Finger Lakes Chamber Music Festival: Tango & More on Guitar, Flute, & Viola.

Anthony Road Winery, 1020 Anthony Rd. Penn Yan. FingerLakes-Music.org.

7:30 p.m. $25.

VOCALS

Isreal Hagan & Stroke.

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

(315) 483-4936. 2-4 p.m.

Monroe Ave. 271-7050.

8 p.m. $5.

JAZZ

[ SUN., JULY 22 ]

Jazz Jam w/ Jon Seiger & The All Stars. Funk ‘n

ACOUSTIC/FOLK

Acoustic Brunch with Mark Allen. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204

Follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, and at www.thegatehousecafe.com. 585-473-2090

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N Water Street. 448-0354. noon.

Paul Strowe. California Rollin’, 274 N. Goodman St. 271-8990. californiarollin. com. 5-8 p.m.

CLASSICAL

Canandaigua LakeMusic Festival: The Four Seasons on Buenos Aires.

FLCC Student Center Auditorium, 3325 Marvin Sands Dr. Canandaigua. lakemusicfestival.org.

1:45 p.m. $10-$28.

Waffles, 204 N Water Street.

448-0354. 3-5 p.m.

HIP-HOP/RAP

Let’s Be Friends Party.

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

4-9 p.m. $5.

POP/ROCK

The Donkeys, OHS, Great Red. Bug Jar, 219 Monroe

Ave. 9:30 p.m. $8/$10.

Eggmans Traveling Carnival.

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

4-8 p.m.

Kesha & Mackelmore.

Darien Lake PAC, 9993 Allegheny Rd. Darien. darienlake.com/events. 7 p.m. $22.50-$89.50.

[ MON., JULY 23 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High. Downstairs

Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place. 7 p.m. $30.

Maria Gillard Trio. Little Theatre Café, 240 East Ave. 258-0400. 7-9 p.m.

Songwriters in the Round with Katie Preston. Funk ‘n

Waffles, 204 N Water Street.

448-0354. 7 p.m. $5.

Stormy Valle. Record Archive, 33 1/3 Rockwood St. 244-1210. 5-7 p.m.

TRADITIONAL

Hopeman Carillon Concert: Gordon Slater. Eastman

Quadrangle, 500 Wilson Blvd.

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

AMERICANA

Big Mike & the Motivators.

Irondequoit Public Library, 1290 Titus Ave. 336-6060.

7-8 p.m.

POP/ROCK

Terrapin Flyer. JCC Hart

Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Ave. 461-2000. 7:30 p.m. July 23 & 24. Grateful Dead tribute. $25-$50.

[ TUE., JULY 24 ] ACOUSTIC/FOLK

John Denver’s Rocky Mountain High. Downstairs

Cabaret at Winton Place, 3450 Winton Place. 3 & 7 p.m. $30.

Paul Strowe. Schooner’s Riverside Pub, 70 Pattonwood Dr. 342-3030. 6-10 p.m.

Songwriters in the Round with Katie Preston. Funk ‘n

Waffles, 204 N Water Street.

448-0354. 7 p.m. $5.

CLASSICAL

RPO: The Music of ABBA.

Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater, 60 Gibbs St. rpo.org.

8 p.m. $25-$75.

JAZZ

Grove Place Jazz Project.

Downstairs Cabaret Theatre, 20 Windsor St. 325-4370. 7 p.m. Featuring a different set of Eastman School of Music Students and other area jazz artisans every Tues. $10.

RPO Around the Town: Jazz Trio. Park Avenue

Green, Corner of Park & Barrington. cityofrochester.gov/ aroundtownconcerts. 5 p.m.

Cops & Dogs neighborhood cookout, 5pm; concert at 6 pm. Rain location: Immanuel Baptist Church, 140 Brunswick St. REGGAE/JAM

Dead Night w/ Roc & Rye Band. Funk ‘n Waffles, 204 N

Water Street. 448-0354. Every other Tuesday, 8-11 p.m.

AMERICANA

Ruckus Juice Jug Stompers.

Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County, 115 South Avenue. 428-8380. 12-1 p.m.

MARKET DISTRICT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION Cristallino Premium Ice 17 Richmond Street | 670-6310 www.cristallinoice.com

John Grieco: Lasting Art 153 Railroad St. 802-3652 | objectmaker.com

"Clearly exceptional cocktail ice"

ELEMENTS On RAILROAD 153 Railroad Street | 270-1752

next to John Grieco: Lasting Art @elementsrailroad and Fb

Boxcar Donuts eatatboxcar.com | 270-5942 127 Railroad St, Suite 120.

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

Redi Imports Automotive & Alignment Services | 235-3444 144 Railroad Street rediimports.com

97 Railroad St. | 546-8020 | rohrbachs.com

Type High Letterpress 1115 E. Main St. | Suite 252 The Hungerford Building 281-2510 | typehigh.com Letterpress Gift Shop Posters & Invitations

The Yards RPM 50-52 Public Market Way | 362-1977 Art gallery and studio space focusing on community engagement in Rochester

Fresh Juice Squeezed every Saturday at the Rochester Public Market in the new Winter Shed

Full service auto repair • Foreign & Domestic

1115 East Main Street | 469-8217 Open Studios First Friday 6-9pm and Second Saturday 10am-3pm

FOOD SERVICE DISTRIBUTOR

What you need is just a phone call away 20-22 Public Market | 423-0994

info at TheHungerford.com

Small Fry Art Studio 50 Public Market | 371-8063 smallfryart.studio

Art classes • Parties • Workshops

Black Button Distilling 85 Railroad St. | 730-4512 blackbuttondistilling.com

Juan and Maria's

"Home of the Highly Addictive Spanish Foods"

DELIVERY • CATERING up to 25% OFF 303-1290 | juanandmarias.com

Tim Wilkes Photography 9 Public Market | 423-1966 "Fine Architectural and Yacht Racing Imagery"

Warehouse 127 120 Railroad Street 506- 9274 | WH127.com

Furniture • Décor • One-of-a Kinds

Harman Hardwood Flooring Co.

"No one knows more about your hardwood floor."

29 Hebard Street | 546-1221 harmanfloors.com

Paulas Essentials “Essentials for the Soul” 415 Thurston Rd. & Public Market 737-9497 | paulasessentials.com Bitter Honey 127 Railroad Street 270-4202 Bitterhoney.roc.com Authentic Mexican fare in a family-style setting

Java’s Cafe NON-STOP since 92

Tastings • Tours • Private Functions

City Newspaper (WMT Publications) 250 N. Goodman St. | 244-3329 rochestercitynewspaper.com

Tours • Tastings Private Parties

Florida Nut House

Tues., Thurs & Sat. | Indoor booth 53 Home of the Cinnamon Roasted Nuts, Boiled peanuts, Garlic and Cajun nuts

Friends of Market | 325-5058

marketfriends@rochester.rr.com

POP/ROCK

Godsmack, Shinedown. Darien Lake PAC, 9993 Allegheny Rd. Darien. darienlake.com/events.

7 p.m. $25-$99.

Oceanic, Younger Then, Talking Under Water. Bug

Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. 9 p.m. $7/$9.

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Art

An untitled work by Josephine Tota, whose paintings are featured at Memorial Art Gallery through September 9. PHOTO PROVIDED

Small wonders “The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota” THROUGH SEPTEMBER 9 | MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, 500 UNIVERSITY AVENUE WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY, 11 A.M. TO 5 P.M.; THURSDAY AND SELECT FRIDAYS, 11 A.M. TO 9 P.M. $6-$15 | 276-8900; MAG.ROCHESTER.EDU

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Not every artist dreams that their craft will lead to fame and fortune. For some, creating is a compulsion almost as innate as 32 CITY JULY 18 - 24, 2018

breathing, it’s a means of hashing through the clashing of lived experience and inner life. It’s not always meant for wide public consumption and the artist won’t always offer tidy insight into their work.

The vast majority of artists who have lived did not and will not become household names, but sometimes an obscure creator’s work is brought into the light and finds an audience. This is the case with the private paintings of Rochester-based artist Josephine Tota (1910-1996), which are currently exhibited at the Memorial Art Gallery due to the keen eye and insatiable curiosity of MAG Curator of American Art Jessica Marten.

“The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota” includes more than 90 paintings that the artist made in the late stages of her life.

Tota was 70 years old when she began painting small, intricately detailed, surreal works in egg tempera on wood panels.

An Italian immigrant who worked as a seamstress in Rochester, Tota began taking classes at MAG’s Creative Workshop in the 1960’s. But the paintings exhibited in “The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota” is work that she made primarily on her own in the privacy of her apartment. Friends from her ceramics classes who visited Tota at home convinced her to show her work to the class. And Larry Merrill — then director of the Creative Workshop — eventually got Tota to agree to have a show in 1990 in the workshop’s Lucy Burne Gallery.

But the work wasn’t for sale, Marten says, and the work was packed up and went back to her apartment where it stayed until she died in 1996.

Many of Tota’s jewel-like paintings reference recognizable works from art history, from Medieval to Modern Art (and MAG has provided many examples of these connections through accompanying wall text and imagery), but any familiar scenes are filtered through Tota’s unique imagination, dreams, and memories.

Walking through the exhibition, Marten points out that while there is disturbing imagery, alluding to physical pain, loss, and tragedy, the work is also imbued with a strong sense of feminine power and family bonds.

Learn more: Jessica Marten will present “Behind the Scenes with the Curator: The Story and Art of Josephine Tota” will take place on Wednesday, August 8, at Rochester Brainery (176 Anderson Avenue). 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. $15. rochesterbrainery.com.

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

Arts & Performance Art Exhibits [ CONTINUING ] ART EXHIBITS 1570 Gallery at Valley Manor, 1570 East Ave. Resident Art Show. Through Aug. 5, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. 546-8400.

Axom Gallery, 176 Anderson Ave., 2nd floor. Beyond the Surface (The Spiritual Beauty of Abstraction). TuesdaysSaturdays. Paintings by Carey Corea. axomgallery.com.

Cobblestone Arts Center, 1622 New York 332. Group Photography Exhibit. MondaysFridays, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

398-0220.

Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. Birds in Art. Through Aug. 12. 374-6160. rmsc.org.

Cumming Nature Center Hurst Gallery, 6475 Gulick Rd. Naples. The Great White Oak. Through Sep. 2. Over the course of a year, photographer Gale Karpel documented the effect of the changing seasons on a solitary oak located in a field in Pittsford. rmsc.org.

Flower City Arts Center, 713 Monroe Ave. Of These Streets: Photographs by Jeremy Moule, Benjamin Osborne, & Jason Wilder.. Through Aug. 26. 2715920. geneseearts.org.

Ganondagan Visitor Center, 7000 County Road 41.

Hodinöhsö:ni’ Women: From the Time of Creation.

Tuesdays-Sundays, 9 a.m.4:30 p.m. Exhibiting the ways Hodinöhsö:ni’ women have appeared and worked to sustain their culture of equity, justice, & the power of thinking. $3-$8. 621-8794. ganondagan.org.

Geisel Gallery, Second Floor Rotunda, Legacy Tower, One Bausch & Lomb Place.

Margery Pearl Gurnett: Reflecting Forward. Through July 27. Mixed media 3D collage incorporating glass. thegeiselgallery.com.

George Eastman Museum, 900 East Ave. David Levinthal: War, Myth, Desire. TuesdaysSundays. $5-$15. eastman. org.; Gail Albert Halaban: Out My Window. TuesdaysSundays. What urban neighbors see when they look across the street in cities all over the world. eastman.org.

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

Reception July 19, 6-8 pm.; Peru Children by Daniel Cotrina Rowe, Ty’s Painted Poles. Thursdays-Saturdays.; Unworldly: Members’ Challenge Show.

Thursdays-Saturdays. continues on page 34

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ART | MARGERY PEARL GURNETT: ‘REFLECTING FORWARD’

Rochester-based artist Margery Pearl Gurnett’s long career in the arts has evolved; she has transitioned from working in hot glass to incorporating a variety of different media. Her current solo exhibit of work explores dream-like worlds created in glass that has been layered with paper, paint, found objects, and a range of other re-contextualized materials. The wall-mounted pieces incorporate abstractions and show a variety of narratives, dreams, and allegories.

“Reflecting Forward” continues through July 27 at The Geisel Gallery, located on the Mezzanine of Legacy Tower, One Bausch & Lomb Place. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Free. thegeiselgallery.com.

— BY AMANDA LYNN

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE STRONG

MUSEUM | FAIRY HOUSES AWARD WINNER DISPLAY

An annual feature of the Corn Hill Arts Festival is the Fairy Houses Tour. If you missed the festival this month, The Strong Museum is offering an opportunity to explore the whimsy and magic of the fairy houses with a display of 10 award-winning fae habitats. View the best creations from categories such as Most Unique and Most Whimsical, while searching for inspiration to create your own fairy house.

The Fairy Houses Award Winner Display can be viewed at The Strong, One Manhattan Square, from Thursday, July 19, through Sunday, July 29. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. $15, free to members and kids under two years. 263-2700; museumofplay.org.

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Image City Photography Gallery, 722 University Ave. Diners, Drive-ins & More: Photographs of Americana in Upstate NY. Tuesdays-Sundays. 271-2540.; Europe ‘71-’72: A Student’s Perspective by Dick Bennett.

Tuesdays-Saturdays.

271-2540.

International Art Acquisitions, 3300 Monroe Ave. Daystar.

Sundays, 12-5 p.m., MondaysFridays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Marcella Gillenwater’s contemporary abstract mixed media paintings of the day sky.

264-1440.

Java Junction, 56 South Main St. Brockport. An Exhibition: Roseanne Mascari & Richard Della Costa. Through Aug. 30.

(585) 637-9330.

Link Gallery at City Hall, 30 Church St. Summer In The City: Recent Works by members of The Arena Art Group. Mondays-Fridays.

271-5920.

Main Street Arts, 20 W. Main St., Clifton Springs. Heightened Awareness. TuesdaysSaturdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Artists Talk July 21, 1-3pm.

Large scale lithographic prints by Gregory Page & wood sculpture by Roberto Bertoia. 462-0210.; In Praise of Nature. Tuesdays-Sundays.

Wood-fired ceramic sculptures

by Momoko Takeshita Keane.

315-462-0210.

Makers Gallery & Studio, 34 Elton Street. Underpants & Overbites: A Gallery Show.

Fridays, Saturdays. 507-3569.

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Nancy Jurs: My Life Has Gotten So Busy That it Now Takes Up All of My Time. Wednesdays-Sundays.

Meet the artist Aug 26, 2pm. $6-$15. 276-8900. mag. rochester.edu.; Bill Viola: Martyrs–Earth, Air, Fire, & Water. Tuesdays-Sundays.

Four hi-def monitors, each featuring a single figure who sustains the impact of one of the four classical elements.

276-8900. mag.rochester.edu.; Wards of Time: Photographs of Antiquities by Larry Merrill.

Wednesdays-Sundays. 2768900. mag.rochester.edu.; The Surreal Visions of Josephine Tota. Wednesdays-Sundays.

Otherworldly depictions of human themes through unconventional media, many rendered later in life, by this self-taught 20th-century Rochester artist. $6-$15. 2768900. mag.rochester.edu.

My Sister’s Gallery at the Episcopal Church Home, 505 Mt. Hope Ave. Paintings from the Past. Through Aug. 19, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. By members of the Rochester Area Colored Pencil Club. 546-8400.

NTID Dyer Arts Center, 52 Lomb Memorial Dr. 50 Artists 50 Years. Mondays-Saturdays.

Reception October 19, 4pm. A showcase of alumni artworks & memorabilia. rit.edu/ntid/ dyerarts.

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COMEDY | RYAN HAMILTON

Nationally-known comic Ryan Hamilton reaches to his roots and applies small-town Idaho storytelling and sensibilities, expanding pithy comments into contagiously funny narratives. Hamilton has performed standup on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, Comedy Central, Showtime, and elsewhere, and has opened for Jerry Seinfeld, whose influence can be heard in Hamilton’s approach and pacing. And he was named one of Rolling Stone’s Five Comics to Watch. Hamilton will perform five shows in Rochester this week at Comedy @ The Carlson. Though Hamilton is known as a “clean comedian,” all shows at The Carlson are 21 and over.

Ryan Hamilton performs at Comedy @ The Carlson, 50 Carlson Road, on Thursday, July 19, at 7:30 p.m., and on Friday and Saturday, July 20 and 21, at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m. each day.

Tickets are $25. carlsoncomedy.com.

— BY AMANDA LYNN

Patricia O’Keefe Ross Gallery at St. John Fisher, 3690 East Ave. Nature as Muse.

Mondays-Fridays. Victoria Connors’ plein air felting & St. Fisher College students’ essays, images & videos.

Perinton Historical Society & Fairport Museum, 18 Perrin St. Fairport. David Marsh, A Life of Courage. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. 223-3989.

PerintonHistoricalSociety.org.

RIT Bevier Gallery, 90 Lomb Memorial Dr., Booth Building 7A. Political Impressions.

Mondays-Saturdays. A juried exhibition examining social & political issues through symbolism & satire. 475-2646.

Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, River Campus.

Queer Territories: Staking a Claim in US History. Through Aug. 1.

University Gallery, James R. Booth Hall, RIT, 166 Lomb Memorial Dr. Interior / Exterior: Carl Chiarenza & Roger Bruce. Mondays-Saturdays.

Photographic explorations of structures & landscapes. 4752866. rit.edu/fa/gallery.

Wayne County Council for the Arts, 108 W. Miller St. Newark. Art Through the Lens. Thursdays-Saturdays.

Regional juried photo show. wayne-arts.com.

Call for Artwork [ WED., JULY 18 ] 2019 Season. Through Nov. 1. Create Art 4 Good, 1115 E. Main Street, Suite #203, Door #5 210-3161. createart4good. org/call-4-art/.

Call 4 Art: Mandala Musings.

Through Sep. 30. Create Art 4 Good, 1115 E. Main Street, Suite #203, Door #5 $5. 2103161. createart4good.org/ call-4-art/.

Initial Stages & Fine Lines.

Through Aug. 15. A Different Path Gallery, 27 Market St Brockport All age groups & styles are eligible (mediums restricted to pen & ink, graphite, charcoal, and pastel) to exhibit work that features Initial Stages ( preliminary sketches) & Fine Lines (finished work). Deadline August 15 $20. 637-5494. differentpathgallery.com.

Call for Participants [ WED., JULY 18 ] Docent Training. Application deadline July 23 Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. Classes on Tuesdays, Sept 2018-June 2019. Contact Mary Ann Monley 276-8974. mmonley@mag.rochester.edu. mag.rochester.edu.

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Genesee Valley Arts Grants.

Through Sep. 20. Genesee Valley Council on the Arts, 4 Murray Hill Dr Mt. Morris Applicant must be a nonprofit organization (or an artist working in partnership with a nonprofit), located in Livingston or Monroe County.

Program development & grantwriting assistance available.

See website for schedule 2436785. melissa@gvartscouncil. org. grants.gvartscouncil.org. [ SAT., JULY 21 ] Community Mosaic Project.

10 a.m.-noon. Spotted Rabbit Studio, 115 Metro Park Collaborative woodland themed mosaic murals for a touring exhibit around Rochester. Registration required 430-9877. sarah@ spottedrabbitstudio.com.

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Robert Seebach’s paintings explore both the physical and metaphysical, featuring figures and objects in surreal landArt Events scapes depicted in ways that draw the viewer to explore [ FRI., JULY 20 ] relationships and the human experience. Rich colors and stark WALL\THERAPY. City of Rochester, contrast between landscape, figures, and objects encourage N/A 6 artists create murals on the viewer to explore the subconscious mind as well as the walls throughout the city walltherapy.com/2018-artists. physical relationships between the items in the works of art. A Rochester native, Seebach returned to the area after explorComedy ing educational and artistic opportunities elsewhere, and he [ THU., JULY 19 ] currently has an exhibit of work on view at Whitman Works Ryan Hamilton. 7:30 p.m.

Company’s main gallery.

Comedy at the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $25. 426-6339. [ FRI., JULY 20 ] Madelein Smith, Paul Spratt, Kelsey Claire Hagen. 8 p.m.

Comedy at the Carlson, 50 Carlson Rd $10. 426-6339. [ SUN., JULY 22 ] Comedy Cocoon. 6:30 p.m.

Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. bugjar.com.

Dance Events [ SUN., JULY 22 ] Bring It! LIVE. 7 p.m. Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. $33-$158. 1-800-745-3000. kodakcenter.com.

Theater Dogfight. Sat., July 21, 8 p.m. and Sun., July 22, 2 p.m. JCC Hart Theatre, 1200 Edgewood Ave. $20-$33. 461-2000.

The Frog Prince. Thu., July 19, 7 p.m. and Sun., July 22, 2 & 4:30 p.m. Sensory-friendly performance July 22, 4:30 pm RAPA, Kodak Center, 200 W. Ridge Rd. $10-$20. 2540073. RapaTheatre.org.

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

Hill Cumorah Pageant. TuesdaysSaturdays, 9 p.m Hill Cumorah Visitors Center, 653 New York 21, Palmyra hillcumorah.org.

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

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“The Surreal Plane” continues at the Whitman Works Company, 1826 Penfield Road, through July 28. Gallery hours are Wednesday, noon to 4:30 p.m.; Thursday and Friday, noon to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and by appointment. Free.

420-8654; whitmanworks.com — BY AMANDA LYNN

Traveling Cabaret: An Afternoon of Song, Dance & Comedy. Sat., July 21, 2 p.m. Legacy at Willow Pond, 40 Willow Pond Way .

The Two Gentlemen of Verona -- Free Shakespeare in the Park. TuesdaysSundays, 8 p.m Highland Bowl, 1137 South Ave. rochestercommunityplayers.com.

Community Activism [ SAT., JULY 21 ] Food Not Bombs Sort/Cook/ Serve Food. 3:30-6 p.m. St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality, 402 South Ave. 232-3262. [ TUE., JULY 24 ] Unpacking. 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Hart’s Local Grocers, 10 Winthrop St. Racial justice book discussion series. This week: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome,

by Dr. Joy DeGruy 420-8439.

Festivals [ THU., JULY 19 ] Fingerlakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance. Trumansburg Fairgrounds, 2150 Trumansburg Rd . Trumansburg Through July 22 (607) 387-6504. grassrootsfest.org.

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Party in the Park: The Original Wailers, Ginkgoa, Grupo NEXTLEVEL. 5 p.m. MLK Jr. Memorial Park, 1 Manhattan Square. $5. [ FRI., JULY 20 ] 2018 Pultneyville Homecoming Festival. 5-8 p.m. Centennial Park, Lake Avenue at Hamilton Street . Pultneyville 000-0000000. w-phs.org.

Canandaigua Art & Music Festival. 12-7 p.m. Downtown Canandaigua, 115 S. Main Street . Canandaigua 396-0300.

Convention Days. Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 136 Fall Street . Seneca Falls nps.gov/wori. [ SAT., JULY 21 ] 2018 Pultneyville Homecoming Festival. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

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WALL\THERAPY 2014 alum and 2018 returning muralist Alice Mizrachi in front of the mural she created in Buffalo last year. PHOTO PROVIDED

The seven year fix WALL\THERAPY 2018 [ PREVIEW ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

Now in its seventh year, Rochester’s annual home-grown mural festival, WALL\ THERAPY, is back this week with a scaleddown but nonetheless ambitious event. This year’s event features a tight roster of just six artists invited to paint walls around the city, as well as the second annual Art & Activism conference. WALL\THERAPY 2018 runs Friday, July 20, through Sunday, July 29.

WALL\THERAPY lead curator Erich Lehman says the festival’s smaller scope is in part due to grassroots fundraising challenges (though the team got a later start this year, the fundraising goal was reached). But the scale is also smaller because the team wanted to offer a more intimate experience this year between artists and the public, not unlike the original “Visual Intervention” that was held quietly on Troop Street, around the Public Market, and a few other spots downtown in 2011 — before W\T began hosting dozens of artists 36 CITY JULY 18 - 24, 2018

each summer, kicking off the fest with block parties, and presenting breakout events during the springs and autumns.

“We’ve also been working to make WALL\ THERAPY a more sustainable endeavor, Lehman said via email. “We’re about to work with a few amazing grant writers to better leverage the work we’ve done and, more importantly, what we want to do, especially expanding youth engagement.”

This year’s festival and conference theme is “representation,” which Lehman says is a continuation of the direction the festival took in 2017. “Our curation includes artists whose work represents communities whose voices are not being heard or populations who are not as well represented in the mural circuit itself,” he said.

The artist lineup includes a couple of familiar faces: New York City-based artist Alice Mizrachi is a 2014 W\T alum, and new-to-the-festival artist Salut is based in Rochester.

This year also marks the first time a deaf artist — Richmond-based Nico Cathcart — has been on the W\T roster. “We’re excited to expand our representation to a community so prevalent in Rochester,” Lehman said.

Also new to WALL\THERAPY is Albuquerque, New Mexico-based artist Nani Chacon, Queens-based artist Joe Blens, and New York City-based Vincent Ballentine.

The Art & Activism Conference is scheduled for Saturday, July 28, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince Street). In addition to a number of panels, the event will feature keynote talks by Joan Saab, and RJ Rushmore from vandalog. com, and something special from the folks behind the upcoming “WHOSE STREETS” photo exhibition coming to town in the fall.

Lehman says that as always, the community is welcome to visit the walls, talk with the artists, share stories with the artists, and help inform them about Rochester during their visit. And a dance party will be held at Lux (666 South Avenue) on Thursday, July 26, called VINYL\ THERAPY that will feature an all-records set with Lux locals DJ Keven and Ben Frazier.

Follow the action on social media channels: @ walltherapyny and @roccitynews. Learn how to voluntter and donate at wall-therapy.com.Mural locations and more coverage will be posted on rochestercitynewspaper.com.

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Downtown Canandaigua, 115 S. Main Street . Canandaigua 396-0300.

Convention Days. Through July 22. Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 136 Fall Street .

Seneca Falls nps.gov/wori.

Roc Pride Parade. 1-3 p.m.

Park Avenue, Park Ave From Alexander to Brunswick St rocpridefest.org.

Sterling Renaissance Festival.

10 a.m.-7 p.m Warwick, 15385 Farden Rd . Sterling $18.95$29.95. sterlingfestival.com.

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SPECIAL EVENT | CONVENTION DAYS AT SENECA FALLS

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Celebrate the 101st anniversary of women getting the right to vote in New York State, and the 170th anniversary of the first Women’s Rights Convention with the annual Convention Days in Seneca Falls. This year’s event explores the power of words with family-friendly special programs happening throughout the town, including special public talks, children’s activities, musical performances, and interactive art projects. Actors will recreate important figures from the earliest days of the women’s rights movement that was centered in Seneca Falls.

High school prom can be a time of awkward disappointment for many. Even more so for members of the LGBTQ+ community, who may not have had the option to attend prom as their authentic selves. Black Queer Prom seeks to remedy that affront by providing an evening of music, elegance, and fashion, and attendees have full agency to slay in whatever way fits them. The event is hosted by the Rochester Black Pride Collective, which is hosting a variety of festivities from August 8 to 12 as part of Rochester Black Pride Week.

Convention Days takes place Friday, July 20, through Sunday, July 22, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in and around the Women’s Rights National Historical Park. The visitor center for the Women’s Rights National Park is located at 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls. Park activities are free for everyone. Find a full schedule of events at nps.gov/wori; 315-568-0024 — BY AMANDA LYNN

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Atlantis: A Black Queer Prom take places on Friday, July 20, from 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. at the Penthouse on East, One East Avenue. The event is for ages 18 and up, and allies are welcome. Tickets are $30 for individuals and $50 for couples, and can be purchased online at rocblackpride.com.

— BY AMANDA LYNN

[ SUN., JULY 22 ] 2018 Pultneyville Homecoming Festival. 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Centennial Park, Lake Avenue at Hamilton Street . Pultneyville 000-000-0000. w-phs.org.

Canandaigua Art & Music Festival. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Downtown Canandaigua, 115 S. Main Street . Canandaigua 396-0300.

Convention Days. Through.

Women’s Rights National Historical Park, 136 Fall Street .

Seneca Falls nps.gov/wori.

Sterling Renaissance Festival.

10 a.m.-7 p.m Warwick, 15385 Farden Rd . Sterling $18.95$29.95. sterlingfestival.com.

Film Dryden Theatre, 900 East Ave. They Live By Night. Wed., July 18, 8:30 p.m. $5-$10.; Animal Crackers. Thu., July 19, 7:30 p.m. $5-$10.; Scarlet Diva. Fri., July 20, 7:30 p.m. $5-$10.; The Searchers. Sat., July 21, 7:30 p.m. $5-$10.; Out of the Past. Tue., July 24, 7:30 p.m.

Introduced by David Levinthal, whose exhibition, “War, Myth, Desire,” is currently on view. $5-$10.

MLK Jr. Memorial Park, 1 Manhattan Square. Movies With a Downtown View: Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Fri., July 20. Lawn opens at 7 pm; film at dusk. rocwashingtonsquare. org/mwadv.

Tinseltown Gates, 2291 Buffalo Rd. Bolshoi Ballet: Swan Lake.

Mon., July 23, 7 p.m. $10.50$12.50. 800-326-3264.; OUT on Stage. Tue., July 24, 8 p.m. $13-$15. 800-326-3264.

Frederick Douglass [ WED., JULY 18 ] Frederick Douglass’s Rochester: Mapping His Tracks in Our City. Through Aug. 31. Central Library, 115 South Ave. 4288150. rochistory.wordpress. com.

Frederick Douglass’s World.

Through Aug. 31. University of Rochester, River Campus rochester.edu. [ SAT., JULY 21 ] Abolitionists & The Underground Railroad: A Walking Tour of Mount Hope Cemetery. 11 a.m.1 p.m. Mount Hope Cemetery, 1133 Mt. Hope Avenue $10.

461-3494. fomh.org.

Kids Events [ WED., JULY 18 ] Fairy House Award Winner Display. The Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square Through July 29 $15.

263-2700. museumofplay.org.

Sci-Fi Summer. Through Aug. 31. The Strong National Museum of Play, 1 Manhattan Square $15. 263-2700. museumofplay.org.

Science + You. Through Aug. 5.

Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. rmsc.org.

SustainABLE & Building with Biology Days. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. $13-$15. rmsc.org. [ SUN., JULY 22 ] S.T.E.M. Event. 11 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. New York Museum of Transportation, 6393 E. River Rd Pre-registration is required. $8/$12. nymtmuseum.org.

Recreation [ FRI., JULY 20 ] Life Under Rocks & Logs. 1 p.m.

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

Wine Tasting Cruise. 6:30-8 p.m. Sam Patch Packet Boat, 12 Schoen Place . Pittsford Departing from 12 Schoen Place, Pittsford NY 14534.

Tickets may be purchased in advance $28. 662-5748. sampatch.org.

[ SAT., JULY 21 ] Weekend Wild Walks. 11 a.m.12:30 p.m Cumming Nature Center, 6472 Gulick Rd. 3746160. rmsc.org.

Special Events

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[ WED., JULY 18 ] ROC Pride 2018. Through July 22. City of Rochester, N/A Daily events celebrating the Rochester LGBTQIA community. Full schedule online rocpridefest.org.

[ WED., JULY 18 ] Monthly Talking Circle: Recognizing Whether Our Expectations are Realistic or Unrealistic. 2-4 p.m.

Irondequoit Public Library, 1290 Titus Ave Presented by Judith Lardner. Registration is required 336-6060. Judith. lardner@gmail.com.

[ THU., JULY 19 ] Celebrate Pride DeTOUR. 6-7 p.m. Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave. 276-8900. mag. rochester.edu.

Patio Party. 5:30-8:30 p.m Casa Larga Vineyards, 2287 Turk Hill Rd Fairport $10. 2234210. casalarga.com.

[ FRI., JULY 20 ] GlassBarge. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Packett’s Landing, Main St .

Fairport The Corning Museum of Glass will be offering free glassblowing demonstrations on board every 45 minutes.

Reservations encouraged cmog.org/glassbarge.

ZooBrew. 5:30-9 p.m. Seneca Park Zoo, 2222 St. Paul St $8/$10. 336-7200.

African Drumming. Baobab Cultural Center, 728 University Ave. Youth: 9:30-10:30am; Adults: 10:45am-12:15pm.

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[ SAT., JULY 21 ] Adoption Event. noon. Pet Adoption Network, 4261 Culver Rd. 338-9175. petadoptionnetwork.org.

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Vintage in the Sun. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. The Yards, 50-52 Public Market July 21 & 22. A market of vintage vendors selling clothes & home goods attheyards.com.

Culture Lectures [ THU., JULY 19 ] Resistance in the 70’s: Have We Come Full Circle?. 6:30 p.m.

City Hall, 30 Church St. The Landmark Society of Western NY’s tour of Rochester sites that were key in the early LGBTQ movement rocpridefest.org.

[ SUN., JULY 22 ] Community Garage Sale. 8 a.m.2 p.m Rochester Public Market, 280 N. Union St. 428-6907.

[ FRI., JULY 20 ] All About Bluebirds. 6-8:30 p.m. Burroughs Audubon Nature Club, 301 Railroad Mills Rd Victor Potluck & nature talk with John Rogers, co-founder of the NYS Bluebird Society.

Bring table service and a dish to pass 377-6072.

Our Evolution: Rewriting the Human Genome. 6-8 p.m. Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. Moderated discussion followed by in-depth, small-group conversations. Pre-registration required rmsc.org.

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[ WED., JULY 18 ] Eric Vaughn Johnson: “My QuarterLife Crisis”. 6-8 p.m. Writers & Books, 740 University Ave Book release celebration wab.org.

[ WED., JULY 18 ] Take It Down! Organizing Against Racism. Ongoing. Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Ave. This exhibit shows how pickaninny art perpetuates racism by denying the humanity of black children. Presented in partnership with the City of Rochester 2714320. rmsc.org.

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Lakeith Stanfield in “Sorry to Bother You.” PHOTO COURTESY ANNAPURNA PICTURES

Breaking new ground “Sorry to Bother You” (R), DIRECTED BY BOOTS RILEY NOW PLAYING [ REVIEW ] BY ADAM LUBITOW

In his fantastic essay, “Why I Am Hopeful” for Filmmaker Magazine, writer and film festival programmer Eric Allen Hatch reflects on the growing divide between independent cinema and the art house pipeline that churns

out increasingly corporatized product. Hatch rightly suggests that “indie” film culture has been diluted over the years by “soft hipster rom-coms, complacent costume dramas, talking-head docs, and late-career Woody Allen turds” that fill art house theaters at the expense of all else.

Hatch’s essay is enraging to read, but as the title suggests, he remains cautiously optimistic.

In his view, the antidote to independent film culture’s stagnation is an injection of young, fresh, and diverse voices in cinema.

Which brings us to the outrageous, wholly original, and dementedly weird “Sorry to Bother You,” from hip-hop artist and activist Boots Riley, making his feature directorial debut. With a swaggering, anti-establishment, punk rock attitude, his film has a vision as original and uncompromising as you’re likely to see in theaters this year.

Fueled by a righteous anger, Riley’s film is an excoriation of late-stage capitalism and greed that plays like a fever dream. It’s a film with a lot of its mind, cramming in Riley’s

thoughts on art, commerce, race, and economic inequality; a second viewing (at the very least) may be required to sort through it all. I’m still not entirely sure it all completely comes together, but with a film so jam-packed with provocative ideas, it’s almost inevitable that a few aren’t going to land.

Set in an alternate universe Oakland, “Sorry to Bother You” follows Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield, “Get Out”), a young, underemployed black man desperately trying to make ends meet.

In his quest for gainful employment, he lands a job as a telemarketer, but struggles until his co-worker (Danny Glover) advises him that he’ll find more success by adopting a “white voice” when making calls.

Cassius tries out the technique, and as the nasally tones voiced by David Cross emerge from Stanfield’s mouth, customers are suddenly much more receptive to his sales pitches. With that tool in his pocket, Cassius is soon climbing the corporate ladder with unprecedented speed, making his way upstairs to rub elbows with his fellow “power callers.” Meanwhile, his co-worker Squeeze (Steven Yeun) has begun banding together the downstairs workers, pushing them to unionize and demand more pay.

What starts as a riff on the concept of codeswitching, inspired by Riley’s own experiences in telemarketing spiraling off into weirder and weirder territory and the narrative embraces absurdity with increasingly reckless abandon.

Riley’s script considers how “selling out” has entirely different, painful connotations for African-Americans if they choose give in to a socioeconomic system that has throughout history quite literally made money off their bodies.

Even if the film sometimes overreaches, I can forgive the occasional clumsiness of a firsttime filmmaker if it means getting more movies as vital, passionate, funny, and thoughtful as this one.

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

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Aguirre Language Services, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 3/21/2018. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Carlos E. Aguirre, 286 Pine Hill Rd., Spencerport, NY 14559.

General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] Brucato Properties LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/20/2018. Cty: Monroe.

SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Charles Brucato, 455 Western Dr., Rochester, NY 14623. General Purpose. [ NOTICE ] DATA FRAME, LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 6/5/2018. 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 2 Wood Spring Hill, Honeoye Falls, NY 14472. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ]

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Donsky Business Development & Marketing LLC filed Articles of Organization with the New York Department of State on 02-27-2018. Its office is located in Monroe County. The Secretary of State has been designated as agent of the Company upon whom process against it may be served and a copy of any process shall be mailed to 6 Fairfield Dr., Fairport, NY 14450. The purpose of the Company is marketing.

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

of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporate Creations Network Inc. 15 North Mill St Nyack, NY 10960. De address of LLC: 251 Little Falls DR Wilmington, DE 19808.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Law Office of David Tennant PLLC (“PLLC”) has been formed as a professional service limited liability company by filing Arts. of Org. with Secy. of State of NY (“SSNY”) on July 6, 2018. Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY designated agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 3349 Monroe Avenue, Suite 345, Rochester, New York 14618.

Purpose: practice of law. [ NOTICE ] Lesher Holdings LLC filed SSNY 5/16/18.

Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 100 Big Ridge Rd #C Spencerport NY 14559 RA: US Corp Agents7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Live Love Laugh Properties, LLC filed 5/21/18. Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 3349 Monroe Ave #350 Rochester, NY 14618 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] MATTHEW JOHN LLC (LLC) filed Arts. of Org. with NY Secy. of State (SS) on 7/11/2018. 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 548 Deer Haven Drive, Webster, NY 14580. LLC’s purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Mej Rochester LLC Arts of Org. filed SSNY 2/20/18. Office: Monroe Co. SSNY design agent of LLC upon whom process may be served & mail to Po Box 30071 Rochester, NY 14603 General Purpose [ NOTICE ] Not. of Form. of Richmond Street Dev LLC Art. Of Org. filed Secy of State (SSNY) 5/31/2018. Office location: Monroe County.

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

a copy of any process to LLC. 90 Parkhurst Drive, Spencerport, NY 14559.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that a license, Serial Number pending for beer, wine, and cider has been applied for by the undersigned* to sell beer, wine, and cider at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 7343 Pittsford Victor Rd., Victor, NY 14564 in Monroe County for on premises consumption. *Sud Enterprises Inc DBA India House [ NOTICE ] Notice is hereby given that an alcohol beverage license, pending, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell Liquor, Beer & Wine retail in a Bar/Tavern under the Alcohol Beverage Control Law at: 398 W MAIN ST ROCHESTER NY 14608 - On Premises Consumption Liquor License for G J C 3 INC / dba MINQ LOUNGE [ NOTICE ] Notice of Form. of ABLETON TRANSPORT, LLC (the “LLC”). Art. of Org. filed with Secretary of the State of NY (SSNY) on 6/19/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 97 Talamora Trail, Brockport, NY 14420. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Bostley Enterprises, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 05/29/18 Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 120 Spencer Road, Hilton, New York, 14468. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of CoActive Food Group LLC; Art of Org filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 5/31/2018; Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 5 Port Meadow Trail, Fairport, New York 14450. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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

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

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 95 Fort Hill Terrace # 6 Rochester NY 14620. Purpose: Any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 309 WEST, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/06/18. Office location: Orleans County. Princ. office of LLC: 317 W. Academy St., Albion, NY 14411. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. Purpose: Any lawful activity

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Legal Ads [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of 5 State Street Holdings LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/12/2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 11 James St., Fairport, NY 14450 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY: POSITIVE FORCE MOVEMENT, LLC. Articles of organization filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY): 06/25/2018.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process served against the LLC to Knauf Shaw, LLP, c/o M. Colligan, 1400 Crossroads Bldg, 2 State St, Rochester, NY 14614. Purpose: any lawful act or activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Ace Bookkeeping & Collections LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/07/2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave. Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of C&CJ TRANSPORTER, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 03/19/2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 12 Ludwig Pk Rochester, NY 14621 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Cristo Law Group LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/12/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The PLLC, Two State Street, Ste. 1000, Rochester, NY 14614.

Purpose: practice the profession of law. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Crossroads IT L.L.C. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 06/11/2018. Office

location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 77 Glasgow St., Rochester, NY 14608. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of FLORIDA SWEEPERS SALES & SERVICE LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/20/2017.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 16 Passaic Ave., Unit 9, Fairfield, NJ 07004.

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

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Nixon Peabody LLP, 1300 Clinton Square, Rochester, NY 14604.

Purpose: practice psychotherapy under the profession of marriage and family therapy. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of Graceland Associates of NY LLC ART.of org.filed secretary of state(SSNY) on 5/22/2018 office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC at 336 Scio St, Rochester NY, 14605.

Purpose: Any Lawful Activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of HARVEST WALK PROPERTIES, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 6/15/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 25 Harvest Walk, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of HIGH POINT FINISHERS LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on June 14, 2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 3245 Latta Rd PO Box 16793, Rochester, NY 14612 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

To place your ad in the LEGAL section, contact Tracey Mykins by phone at (585) 244-3329 x10 or by email at legals@rochester-citynews.com [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Keuka Gardens Associates LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/6/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o Home Leasing, LLC, 180 Clinton Square, Rochester, NY 14604.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Keuka Gardens Associates MM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/6/18.

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

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC).

Name: HANFLAND CONTRACTING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Sec. of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on April 23, 2018. Office location: Monroe. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: Michael A. Hanfland, 41 Pebble View Drive, Rochester, New York 14612.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of LMGC Group LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 6/11/18.

Office location: Monroe Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Fitzpatrick Trail, West Henrietta, NY 14586. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Lumantek Global LLC amended to Lumentek Global LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/25/13. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1649 Jefferson Rd., Rochester, NY 14623. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of MindFit Mental Health, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) July 12, 2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 349 West Commercial Street, East Rochester, NY 14445. Purpose: any lawful activities for which a Limited Liability Company may be formed. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Mosley Rd Enterprises, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) May 25th, 2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 97 Mosley Road Rochester, NY 14616 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Roberts Real Estate LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 06/06/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 520 East Ave, APT 407 Rochester, NY 14607.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SA Haulers, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 06/04/2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 596 Chambers St, Spencerport, NY 14559.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Sacred Goddess Box, LLC. Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on 4/09/2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC at 600 Garson Avenue, Rochester, New York 14609. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Salon Industry LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) May 31, 2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 30 S. Main Street Pittsford, NY 14534 . Purpose: any lawful activities.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Scientific Perspectives, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) June 26, 2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 173 Wadsworth Avenue Avon, New York 14414 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of SimmonsField LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 02/15/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1466 Creek St, Rochester, NY 14625 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Suntru Holdings LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 05/18/2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 160 Despatch Dr., East Rochester, NY 14445.

Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of VINLAND, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/12/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to VINLAND, LLC, 3 Fitzmot Glen, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: Any lawful activity [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Wealth Strategies & Solutions, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) April 12, 2018 . Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 900 Jefferson Road Suite 301, Rochester, NY 14623 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of WH&M ENTERPRISE, LLC Articles of Organization filed with Sec’y of State (SSNY) 01/05/2018 Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 491 Hudson Avenue, Rochester, New York

14605. Purpose: any lawful activites. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Whitney Buffalo LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, the registered agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of Whitney Buffalo MM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/14/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Cogency Global Inc., 10 E. 40th St., 10th Fl., NY, NY 10016, the registered agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

Purpose: any lawful activit [ NOTICE ] Notice of Formation of XPRESS MED TRANSPORTATION, LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) 3-192018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 681 Post Ave Rochester NY 14619 . Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of FINANCIAL INSURANCE CONSULTANTS, LLC, fictitious name: FIC AGENCY, L.L.C. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/30/18.

Office location: Monroe County. Princ. bus. addr.: 709 Florida St. Ste. 3, Mandeville, LA. 70448. LLC formed in LA on 12/21/93. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: Financial Insurance Consultants, LLC, 709 Florida St. Ste. 3, Mandeville, LA. 70448, regd. agent upon whom process may be served. John A. Gavel, Jr., 709 Florida St. Ste. 3, Mandeville, LA. 70448..

Cert. of Form. filed with LA Sec. of State, 8585 Archives Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70809.

Purpose: all lawful purposes.

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Notice of Qualification of FLINT GROUP PACKAGING INKS NORTH AMERICA LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/13/18.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Texas (TX) on 04/26/18.

Princ. office of LLC: 14909 N. Beck Rd., Plymouth, MI 48170.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207-2543. TX addr. of LLC: 211 E. 7th St., Ste. 620, Austin, TX 78701. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, P.O. Box 13697, Austin, TX 78711. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

PETER TEALL, LCSW, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 5/30/2018. Office in Monroe Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served.

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

Purpose: To practice as a Licensed Clinical Social Work.

[ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of Sea Her Shine, LLC. Authority filed with NY Dept. of State on 5/29/18. Office location: Monroe County. Principal business address: 15 South Main St., Pittsford, NY 14534. LLC formed in DE on 5/25/18. NY Sec. of State designated agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail process to: c/o Nixon Peabody LLP, Attn: Stephanie Seiffert, Esq., 1300 Clinton Square, Rochester, NY 14604.

DE address of LLC: Cogency Global Inc., 850 New Burton Rd., Suite 201, Dover, DE 19904.

Cert. of Form. filed with DE Sec. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE ] Notice of Qualification of SEQUEL YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES, LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/21/18.

Office location: Monroe County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 09/01/17. Princ. office of LLC: 1131 Eagletree Ln., Huntsville, AL 35801. 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. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with Secy. of State, 401 Federal St., Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Holding company. [ NOTICE ] O.P.M Marketing, LLC filed 3/19/18. Monroe Co. SSNY design agent for process & shall mail to 21 Magnolia St Rochester, NY 14608 RA: US Corp Agents, Inc. 7014 13 Ave #202 Brooklyn, NY 11228 General Purpose

[ NOTICE ] Staci Pfeffer Interiors LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/04/2018. Office: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 29 Southern Pkwy Rochester, NY 14618.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose. [ NOTICE ] THAESLER CONSULTING LLC, a Connecticut LLC organized 10/04/17, filed application for authority with NY Dept of State on 06/12/18.

NY office loc’n: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC, 16 Spring Side Ln, Penfield, NY 14526. CT office: 30 Old Kings Highway South, 1st Flr Ste 202, Darien, CT 06820.

Copy of certificate of organization filed with CT Sec of State Denise W. Merrill, 30 Trinity Street, Hartford, CT 06106. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE } Notice of Formation of Independent Advisor Group LLC: Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on June 14, 2018. Office location: Monroe County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 1507 Monroe Ave., Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] 232 Ventures LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/12/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 417 Sundance Trail, Webster, NY 14580. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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Legal Ads [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] 6005 Enterprise Drive LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/26/18. 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 675 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: any lawful activity [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] DiPasquale Brothers Co. LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/12/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to Harris Beach PLLC, Attn: Chris DiPasquale, 99 Garnsey Road, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Glamping Experience, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 7/2/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 350 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14604. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] JP Perkins LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/12/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 49 Knollwood Drive, Rochester, NY 14618. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Little Angel Medical Transportation LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 7/11/18. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 7 Shadbush Way W.

Henrietta, NY 14586.

The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Notice of formation of JRN HOLDINGS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/9/2018.

Office location, County of Monroe. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, c/o 2505 East Ave., Rochester, NY 14610. Purpose: any lawful act [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Nuch Family Ventures, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 5/31/18. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 417 Sundance Trail, Webster, NY 14580.

Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Rella Restaurant, LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/28/18.

Office location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall forward service of process to 46 Greylock Ridge, Pittsford, NY 14534. Purpose: any lawful activity. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION ] Rotork Pittsburgh LLC (“LLC”) filed Articles of Organization with the NY Sec. of State (“SSNY”) on 6/26/18.

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 675 Mile Crossing Blvd., Rochester, NY 14624.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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 Office of LLC. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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[ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LEATHERTRAMP WINE COMPANY, LLC ]

SUMMONS AND NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. E2017000107 CHESWOLD (TL), LLC, Plaintiff, v. The heirsat-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successorsin- interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through EMMA MCNAIRY A/K/A EMMA L. MCNAIRY, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective husbands, or widowers of hers, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; The heirsat-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successorsin- interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through ROBERT MCNAIRY A/K/A ROBERT L. MCNAIRY, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and all creditors thereof, and the respective wives, or widows of his, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; DOREEN BROWN; TRANSAMERICA CREDIT; BENEFICIAL HOMEOWNER SERVICE CORPORATION; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; COUNTY OF MONROE; TOWER DBW II TRUST 2012-2, SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO TOWER DBW II TRUST 2013-1; US BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC; PROPEL FINANCIAL 1, LLC; SARAH NEIL MCNAIRY, AS PRESUMPTIVE HEIRAT- LAW OF ROBERT MCNAIRY AND “JOHN DOE #2” THROUGH “JOHN DOE #100”, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in the above-entitled foreclosure action, and to serve a copy of your answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service

Leathertramp Wine Company, LLC filed Articles of Organization with the NY Secretary of State on June 25, 2018. (1) Its principal office is in Monroe County, New York. (2) The Secretary of State has been designated as its agent upon whom process against it may be served and its post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against it served upon him or her is c/o Jeffrey Brown, 50 Charlotte Street, Rochester, New York 14607. (3) The character or purpose of its business is to engage in any lawful activity for which limited liability companies may be organized under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Act. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] Notice of Formation of Banitskas Properties LLC Art. of Org. filed Sec’y of State (SSNY) on May 21, 2018. Office location: Monroe County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to LLC at 58 West Forest Drive, Rochester, NY 14624. Purpose: Any lawful activities. [ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ] The name of the LLC is Out of the Box Training LLC. The Articles of Organization were filed with the NY Secretary of State on 6/14/18. The LLC office is located in Monroe County. The NY Secretary of State is designated as the agent of the LLC upon whom process may be served, and the address a copy shall be mailed is 143 Rangers Court, Rochester, NY 14612.

The LLC is managed by a manager. The purpose of the LLC is any lawful business.

[ Notice of Formation of KIKI’S KREATIONS LLC ]

[ NOTICE OF FORMATION OF TRIPOINT ADVISORS, LLC ]

Arts. Of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on July 2, 2018. Office location: Monroe Co., NY. Princ.

Office of LLC: 1840 Baird Road, Penfield, NY 14526. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Princ.

Art. Of Org. filed with SSNY 6/25/2018 Office Location: Monroe County. SSNY is designated Agent of LLC to whom process may be served.

SSNY may mail copy of process to 35 CIRLCE COURT, ROCHESTER, NY 14617. Purpose of LLC: Any lawful activity.

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or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal service within the State. The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial.

The basis of venue is the location of the subject premises.

Dated: July 26, 2017 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an Order of Honorable Daniel J. Doyle, a Justice of the Supreme Court, dated June 19, 2018, and filed with supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose tax liens encumbering the property known as 409 Hayward Avenue, City of Rochester, New York and identified as tax account no.: 106.76-131 (the “Tax Parcel”).

The relief sought is the sale of the Tax Parcel at public auction in satisfaction of the tax liens. In case of your failure to appear, judgment may be taken against you in the sum of $11,695.14, together with interest, costs, disbursements and attorneys’ fees of this action, and directing the public sale of the Tax Parcel. PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP Anthony J. Iacchetta Attorneys for Plaintiff Cheswold (TL), LLC 28 East Main Street Suite 1400 Rochester, New York 14614 Telephone: (585) 2382000 [ SUMMONS AND NOTICE ] SUMMONS AND NOTICE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index No. E2018000784 CHESWOLD (TL), LLC, Plaintiff, v. The heirsat-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successorsin- interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through GEORGE N. JACKSON, 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 wives, or widowers of his, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown

to plaintiff; The heirsat-law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors, creditors, successorsin- interest and generally all persons having or claiming under, by or through PHOEBE E. JACKSON A/K/A PHOEBE E. MADISON, 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 widows of hers, if any, all of whose names and addresses are unknown to plaintiff; MARK G. JACKSON; ANGELA JACKSON; RASHAD JACKSON A/K/A RASHAD WILSON; KAYLA JACKSON A/K/A KAYLA WILSON; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY; NEW YORK STATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORPORATION; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; THE CITY COURT OF ROCHESTER; NY FINANCIAL SERVICES LLC; MIDLAND FUNDING LLC, INDIVIDUALLY AND DOING BUSINESS IN NEW YORK AS MIDLAND FUNDING OF DELAWARE LLC; RELIANT COMMUNITY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION; RAB PERFORMANCE RECOVERIES, L.L.C.; NEW YORK STATE WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BOARD; CACH, LLC; ASSET ACCEPTANCE, LLC; GREECE JUSTICE COURT; US BANK AS CUSTODIAN FOR PFS FINANCIAL 1, LLC; PROPEL FINANCIAL1, LLC; COUNTY OF MONROE AND “JOHN DOE #1” THROUGH “JOHN DOE #100”, Defendants TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in the above-entitled foreclosure action, and to serve a copy of your answer on Plaintiff’s attorney within thirty (30) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal service within the State.

The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service

hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. Monroe County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the subject premises. Dated: June 5, 2018 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 July 10, 2018, and filed with supporting papers in the Monroe County Clerk’s Office. This is an action to foreclose tax liens encumbering the property known as 190 Peck Street, City of Rochester, New York and identified as tax account no.: 106.593-59.001 (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 $13,327.06, 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 ] SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF MONROE Index #: 13577/2016 Filed: 6/11/2018 Franklin American Mortgage Company Plaintiff,against Patricia A. Rapp, David Billitier if living and if he be dead, any and all persons who are spouses, widows, grantees, mortgagees, lienor, heirs, devisees, distributees, or successors in interest of such of the above as may be dead, and their spouses, heirs, devisees, distributees and successors in interest, all of whom and whose names and places of residences are unknown to Plaintiff, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, United States of America-Internal Revenue Service, Defendants. Plaintiff designates Monroe County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which the mortgaged premises is situated. TO

THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT(S): YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your Answer or, if the Complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a Notice of Appearance on the attorneys for the plaintiff within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York; or within sixty (60) days if it is the United States of America. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $138,580.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of MONROE on June 30, 2014, in Book 25713, Page 417, covering premises known as 321 Mason Road, Fairport, NY 14450.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. Dated: Bay Shore, New York June 1, 2018 FRENKEL, LAMBERT, WEISS, WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP BY: Linda P. Manfredi Attorneys for Plaintiff 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, New York 11706 (631) 9693100 Our File No.: 01082716-F00

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