EVENTS: ST. PATRICK’S PARADE, “IT CAME FROM THE VAULT” 21 FILM: “OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL,” “DEAD MAN DOWN” 28 URBAN JOURNAL: SCHOOLS, NEIGHBORHOODS, AND THE CITY
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AND MORE MUSIC, PAGE 12
News. Music. Life.
We have to sit together and work as a people.” NEWS, PAGE 4
Cutting out cars. NEWS, PAGE 6
Report: West Main church can be saved. PRESERVATION, PAGE 5
Get Caked, Lettuce B. Frank Bistro, and more restaurant news. CHOW HOUND, PAGE 9
Family feud: JCC’s “August: Osage County.” THEATER REVIEW, PAGE 20
FEATURE | BY FRANK DE BLASE | PAGE 10 | PHOTO PROVIDED
Finding Paradise It was in the early hours of the morning in Kivulu, a slum in the capital city of Kampala, Uganda, that Rochester musician Jesse Sprinkle (pictured, right) had an epiphany. While working with the Ugandan Water Project, Sprinkle visited a little hut called Paradise. “I went in there and it was late — 2, 3 in the morning — and there were like 10 kids sleeping in this tiny room, and they didn’t have a roof," Sprinkle says. "They had a plastic tarp. It was raining and the water was just falling on these
kids’ heads. It’s one of those things I couldn’t really believe I was there seeing.” Regardless, they called this little place Paradise. Sprinkle is a musician and owner of Bluebrick Recordings in Avon. Since 2008 he has been answering the humanitarian call to Africa, but felt there was more he could do as a musician. In 2012 Sprinkle started Paradise, Uganda, a musically based project that celebrates African musical culture while empowering African children in a world where they don’t have much else.