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definitively ROCHESTER ��������� 4 PEOPLE, PLACES, AND THINGS THAT SAY “ROC”

NEIGHBORHOODS �������������������� 10 PROFILES OF LOCAL LIVING AREAS

dining ���������������������������������� 16 LOCAL RESTAURANTS, INTERNATIONAL CUISINES

MUSIC ����������������������������������� 22 CUTTING-EDGE LOCAL DJS

ARTS �������������������������������������� 26 INSIDE LOCAL ART COLLECTIVES

architecture ���������������������� 32 EAST AVE HOUSES PROVIDE HISTORY LESSONS

recreation �������������������������� 36 WHERE TO RENT OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT

FESTIVALS ����������������������������� 40 2010 FESTIVAL CALENDAR

service directory �������������� 43 advertisers index ������������� 55

ANNUALMANUAL2010 THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO ROCHESTER

REDISCOVER ROCHESTER One of the fun things about working on a project like Annual Manual is that you get to rediscover Rochester all over again. It’s easy to take a place for granted after you’ve lived there long enough, but each year this publication reminds me what a cool, interesting place we live in.

Rochester certainly has its share of struggles, but it also has a lot to offer. Few cities its size can boast the kind of rich history (we weren’t called “America’s first boomtown” for nothing), diverse landscape, and arts and cultural opportunities that we have in spades. And as Annual Manual reminds me, there’s always something to new to explore here.

Take, for instance, Rebecca Rafferty’s article on local artist collectives (page 26).

Rochester might not have as vibrant an art scene as, say, Pittsburgh, but a surprising number of ambitious artist types are organizing hives of creativity all over the city.

You could spend whole afternoons checking out the studio spaces in the Hungerford Building, Artisan Works, Anderson Alley, and the other venues mentioned here and still probably not see everything.

Or consider Michael Lasser’s piece on the architectural gems of East Avenue (page 32).

Anyone who drives down that notable street can see that it is home to some amazing houses and other structures, but have you ever stopped to consider the story they tell? Really study the various styles represented? Wondered who used to live in them, or when they were built? It’s fascinating stuff, and these houses tell their own version of Rochester history.

Not that Rochester is all about the past.

Frank De Blase has a look at some of the area’s most cutting-edge DJs and their energy-filled regular gigs (page 22), while Susie Hume serves up a sampling of the many quality local restaurants that specialize in a variety of international cuisines (page 16). We’ve also got profiles of several area communities, a list of major events for 2010, and a survey of people, places, and things that really help to define Rochester.

No matter whether you’ve lived here all your life, or you’ve just come to town, there are always new facets of Rochester just waiting to be discovered. Here’s hoping that Annual Manual 2010 puts you on the path to finding some of your own this year.

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The people, places, and things that help to make us who we are Every city has certain people, places, and things that help to define it. Deep-dish pizza is Chicago. The Golden Gate Bridge is San Francisco. Harry Connick Jr. is New Orleans.

The list goes on. While Rochester may not be a booming metropolis like those previous examples, it has its own signature, and certain details that are unmistakably Rochester.

It would be impossible to list all of the things that are quintessentially Rochester in this limited space, but here is a starter list of some people, places, and things that make Rochester so special. If you have some more “definitively Rochester” items to add to the list, post them on this article under the Guides section at rochestercitynewspaper.com. [ PEOPLE ] She might not be “definitively

Rochester” just yet, but she’s getting there.

Kristen Wiig is a rising star on the national comedy scene, and she got her start in the Greater Rochester area. Wiig was born in nearby Canandaigua and graduated from Brighton High School. In 2005 she joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” and quickly became one of the more popular members of the troupe, appearing in more sketches than any other cast member in the 2008-09 season.

She has had supporting roles in a bunch of successful films, including “Knocked Up,” “Adventureland,” “Whip It!” and “Extract,” and she recently signed on for her first leading role. Wiig has received all kinds of critical praise, including an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and being named one of the Top 25 Funniest Women in Hollywood by Entertainment Weekly in 2009. Other Hollywood notables that got their start in the Greater Rochester area include Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert Forster, and Taye Diggs. [ PLACES ] Seabreeze is an old-school,

medium-sized amusement park located near the shore of Lake Ontario, close to Irondequoit Bay. And when we say “old-school,” we mean CITY • ANNUAL MANUAL 2010

Supermarket chain Wegmans got its start in Rochester, and now has more than 75 stores in the mid-Atlantic region. FILE PHOTO

old school: Seabreeze was opened in the late 1800’s, and is reportedly the fourth-oldest amusement park in the country. While it has certainly been updated over the past century to include some great modern rides, including a sizable water park, it retains its throwback charm in the face of mega-parks like the Six Flags chains. Among the more than 70 rides in the park is one that is quintessentially Rochester: the Jack Rabbit, a 2150-foot wooden rollercoaster originally opened in 1920. One of our editors’ grandmothers rode the rollercoaster after moving here from Italy back in the 1920’s, and as she pointed out, it’s pretty cool that her granddaughter can take that same 75-foot plunge today. [ THINGS ] Grocery store Wegmans got its start

in Rochester back in 1916, originally named the Rochester Fruit & Vegetable Company and founded by John Wegman. Since then it has expanded greatly, and now the chain includes 75 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland, with a dozen stores in the Rochester area alone. Rochesterians are fiercely loyal to Wegmans, and with reason: it’s not your average supermarket. Depending on the store you visit, you can find massive prepared-food cafes, sophisticated patisseries, tea

Susan B. Anthony did much of her work for women’s rights in the Rochester area. PHOTO PROVIDED

shops, or burrito bars. The store puts out a glossy quarterly recipe magazine, recently opened its second sit-down restaurant concept in the area, has expanded into the liquor-store business, and is frequently listed in the Top 10 of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For.” [ PEOPLE ] Susan B. Anthony may not

have been born in Rochester, but she sure made her mark here. On November 18, 1872, Anthony cast her ballot in the 1872 presidential election, voting right down the Republican Party line. One small problem: at the time it was illegal for women to vote.

Anthony was arrested and brought to trial (at the Ontario County Courthouse in Canandaigua) and found guilty (her sentence was a fine that she would never pay). Instead she became internationally known for her role in the women’s suffrage movement, continues on page 6

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including co-founding the National Women’s Suffrage Association. Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before the 19th Amendment would be passed, giving women the right to vote.

But she remains a powerful historical figure, and she’s well remembered in Rochester.

The area of town where she lived during her political heyday has been renamed the Susan B. Anthony District, and the house where she lived on Madison Street is now the Susan B. Anthony House museum. [ PLACES ] He’s best known for New York

City’s Central Park, but legendary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted also put his signature on several green spaces in the Rochester area during the 19th century. His local parks — Highland Park, Genesee Valley Park, and Seneca Park — remain home to some of the most striking natural scenes in the area. Although Olmsted’s original designs for the Rochester park system didn’t quite pan out (Olmsted had planned additional parks, and for all of them to be connected by a ring of grand parkways), each of the extant parks offer very different experiences. Of particular note is Highland Park, off Highland Avenue, which is an outdoor arboretum filled with all manner of beautiful, unusual plants, and is especially known for its hundreds of lilacs, which are feted in the park every May during the week-long festival that bears their name. [ THINGS ] The Genesee River arguably made

Rochester what it is today. Starting out as spring on a farm in Pennsylvania, the Mighty Genesee cuts right through the city, and in the old days its rushing waters powered the mills that made Rochester originally known as the Flour City, as well as other river-side businesses. The Genesee is an anomaly, in that its waters run north, eventually emptying into Lake Ontario. It also is responsible for some of Rochester’s most striking views, including the High Falls district (how many other cities can boast a waterfall within city limits?), and the river gorge. Several different boat tours of the Genesee are offered during the warmer months. If you want to get to know Rochester, any of these are a great way to see how it all started.

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The Garbage Plate — a mix of meat, potatoes, mac salad, and more — is a signature Rochester “delicacy.” FILE PHOTO

[ PEOPLE ] A world-renowned choreographer, Garth Fagan has called Rochester home since

1970. This is where he founded the Bottom of the Bucket BUT… dance troupe, which would eventually be renamed Garth Fagan Dance, and gain rave reviews for its blend of contemporary, ballet, and Afro-Caribbean styles. Fagan himself received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998, and won a Tony Award in 1998 for choreographing the Broadway adaptation of Disney’s “The Lion King.” While Garth Fagan Dance continues to perform all over the world, Fagan keeps the company based locally, and it puts on two concert series of original work every year at the Nazareth College Arts Center. The troupe also teaches contemporary dance classes for adults and children from its studio on Chestnut Street, and Fagan remains a powerful and respected force in the local arts community.

Hundreds of lilac plants grace Highland Park, one of the three local greenspaces designed by renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK

[ THINGS ] If Rochester has a signature dish, it is the Garbage Plate. Originally introduced by local hots spot Nick Tahou, the traditional

dogs are another local delicacy, and you’re not likely to find them outside of Western New York (at least, not referred to as white hots).

Garbage Plate features home fries, macaroni salad, baked beans, or French fries topped with the fried meat of your choice (typically hamburgers or hot dogs) and then covered in spicy mustand, chopped onions, and hot sauce. It is not for the faint of heart or small of stomach. While Nick Tahou trademarked the actual Garbage Plate name, almost all of the many, many area hots restaurants (basically greasier versions of a greasy spoon) have their own take on the dish, each with its own derivative of the trashy name. To make it a truly Rochesterian dish, select a Zweigle’s

white hot as your meat. These white pork hot

[ PEOPLE ] Frederick Douglass moved to

Rochester in 1843, and a few years later the former slave launched his anti-slavery newspaper The North Star here. Douglass became one of the nation’s most prominent abolitionists, and was renowned for his writings and charismatic speeches; he even brought the National Negro Convention to Rochester in 1853.

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While not all of his local contemporaries embraced Douglass’s work at the time, he has become one of Rochester’s favorite adopted sons.

A statue of Douglass was erected in Highland Park in 1897, making him the first black person in America to have a statue in his honor. [ PLACES ] Mt. Hope Cemetery is a 197-acre

municipal cemetery opened in 1838; it now holds more than 350,000 graves, including the resting places of some of the area’s most notable former residents. Several things make Mt. Hope a defining Rochester landmark.

First, as a Victorian-era cemetery, it is full of some absolutely stunning memorials. Some of the older gravestones, sculptures, and mausoleums are incredibly ornate and come in a wide range of styles, from Greek Revival to Italianate to faux-Egyptian. Second, while Rochester itself is largely flat, Mt. Hope is the rare cemetery built on a complicated, hilly plot of land. This adds visual interest, and makes for a great hike. In fact, the Friends

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Kodak founder George Eastman’s legacy endures in Rochester through the George Eastman House, the Eastman School of Music, and other local institutions. PHOTO PROVIDED

of Mt. Hope Cemetery put on a variety of guided tours throughout the year, including the very cool nighttime luminaria tour around Halloween. It’s macabre, to be sure, but once you get past that, Mt. Hope is one of the most impressive sites in the area. [ PLACES ] You can’t talk about Rochester without eventually discussing George Eastman,

the founder of film company Eastman Kodak, and one of Rochester’s great philanthropists.

Although he died in 1932, his name and impact can still be found all over the area, most notably with the George Eastman House photography museum, and with the Eastman Theatre, one of the city’s grandest venues, home to both the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the headliners for our annual Rochester International Jazz Festival. But perhaps the greatest part of the George Eastman legacy is the Eastman School of Music. An arm of the University of Rochester, ESM is a worldrenowned music school that trains the next generation of great performers in a variety of styles and genres. During regular classes, its home on Gibbs Street and the surrounding East End is packed with enthusiastic young musicians toting around instruments, lending a very cosmopolitan air to the area. Because of the school Rochester is a hotbed of incredible classical music, in particular. ESM puts on an absurd number of concerts throughout the year, many of them free. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to see world-class music for peanuts (or less).

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[ CITY & COUNTY ] BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO AND JEREMY MOULE

WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOODS

Get to know Corn Hill, Marketview Heights, Penfield, and Spencerport Monroe County is about as diverse a community as you can find: a mid-size city, rural areas with orchards and farm markets, suburbs with 20th-century tract houses and shopping malls, and quaint, Victorian villages.

The Genesee River and the Erie Canal bisect the county, more or less vertically and diagonally, so geology and history are a constant presence, shaping everything from traffic patterns to architecture and public festivals.

The county is literally a community of dozens of communities: 19 towns, nine villages, a combo town-village, and the City of Rochester (which has its own, numerous, defined neighborhoods). Given the number, there might be a good bit of similarity among all these, but each has its own distinct identity. Some draw it from their heritage, others from their location and their surroundings (parks, universities, manufacturing plants, farmland). And to many of the residents, the individuality of their particular hometown or neighborhood is a source of fierce pride.

You can get a taste of the diversity by sampling four of the local communities, from historic, urban Corn Hill to charming canal town Spencerport. For additional community profiles, check the Annual Manual page on rochestercitynewspaper.com.

CORN HILL Few Rochester neighborhoods can rival Corn Hill in architectural and historical significance. Still home to detailed Greek Revival houses and ornate Italianate villas with cupolas, Corn Hill recalls Victorianera Rochester at its finest. The CampbellWhittlesey House at 123 Fitzhugh Street and the Hervey Ely House at 138 Troup Street are just two of many of the area’s remaining architectural gems.

Settled in the early to mid-1800’s, Corn Hill was the original fashionable side of town, sometimes referred to as the “ruffled shirt and silk stocking” district. Rochester was still a 10 CITY • ANNUAL MANUAL 2010

Corn Hill Landing is one of the more recent developments in the historic neighborhood. The mix of retail and living space is located right on the edge of the Genesee River. photo by matt deturck

small, rapidly growing city at that time, and Corn Hill was within walking distance to everything: it sprouted up on the west bank of the Genesee River, and was just down the street from what became the downtown business district. Even though the neighborhood attracted the wealthy — many of the area’s mansions have since been demolished — Corn Hill was “everyone’s neighborhood,” says Cynthia Howk, architectural researcher for the Landmark Society of Western New York.

It was a time, says Howk, when the wealthy often lived next door to their factories and businesses. And frequently their workers lived in nearby housing, also built by the factory owners. “Corn Hill had people from every economic level living cheek to jowl,” says Howk. And the area’s eclectic quality has survived, she says. Large houses still stand, but so do smaller, Victorian cottages.

By the late 1950’s, much of Corn Hill’s housing had become dilapidated. Instead of housing the rich and fashionable, many of the large Victorian homes were cut up into apartments. Some were little more than rooming houses, where a bedroom and a shared bathroom could be rented by the week.

But the 1970’s ushered in a renewed interest in the area’s history and distinctive

housing. Urban pioneers began buying the houses and painstakingly restoring them. As a result, older brick homes that once sold for a few thousand dollars generally sell for more than $250,000 in today’s real estate market.

In more recent years, Corn Hill has been the center of new development along the west side of the Genesee River in the form of town homes and Corn Hill Landing, a mixed-use retail and housing development at the foot of downtown.

But no discussion of Corn Hill would be complete without acknowledging the neighborhood’s cultural heritage. At one time, it was a nationally known jazz center, with top musicians playing in clubs along Clarissa Street. Each summer the Clarissa Street Reunion, a jazz and community festival, pays tribute to that past. And every July, hundreds of artists and more than 200,000 people descend on the area during the Corn Hill Arts Festival. What started as a small gathering of students and artists selling their work on the sidewalks has grown into one of the region’s most important summer attractions and a showcase for the neighborhood’s enduring beauty.

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MARKETVIEW HEIGHTS Marketview Heights is a relatively small neighborhood in the northeast section of the city that stretches from the Inner Loop to Clifford Avenue, and from North Street to North Goodman Street. The neighborhood is blessed with one of the area’s richest assets — the Rochester Public Market — but it has also faced significant challenges.

The neighborhood’s earliest residents were primarily Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine of the mid-1800’s. They were followed by German and Italian immigrants.

A working-class neighborhood, Marketview rode the wave of the industrial boom from the late 1800’s to World War I. “These were early settlers seeking employment in the trades,” says Cynthia Howk, architectural research coordinator for the Landmark Society of Western New York. “This was when Rochester was in transition, changing from the Flower City to an industrial city.”

Much of the early housing stock consisted of modest, wood-frame homes. Most were rented by people who worked for the area’s primary employers — textile and shoe factories.

“The homes were really like cottages and not suitable for large families,” Howk says.

Catholic and Protestant churches flourished. And neighborhood specialty stores, such as bakeries, fabric, and shoe shops were common, too.

But by the late 1950’s, the Irish and Italian families that first settled the area began leaving. At least some of the outmigration was a result of “block busting.” In a 1984 publication, Dan Karin, who is now Rochester’s City Clerk, described the tactic as a neighborhood tragedy: as more AfricanAmericans migrated north in search of work, unscrupulous real-estate agents were “all too willing to terrify stable residents with tales of fear and pander to bigotry,” Karin wrote.

Today, the neighborhood’s centerpiece, the Public Market is one of the city’s most popular attractions, drawing thousands of customers every week. (It’s open Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, with occasional Sunday hours, depending on the season).

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The upscale apartment/loft project Station 55 (left) and the Rochester Public Market (right) are among the most visible locations in the Marketview Heights neigbhorhood. PHOTOS BY MATT DETURCK

continuously operating produce markets in the country, although it has had several earlier homes prior to relocating to its current location.

During the market’s earlier years, farmers relied on it mainly to sell their livestock. If you wanted cows for milk or chickens for eggs, the Public Market was your destination.

It’s still possible to see chickens for sale, but today’s Public Market is a place where cultural diversity meets urban chic. Vendors from all over Central and Western New York offer everything from handmade soap to organic sausage, and permanent buildings house coffeehouses, exotic meat shops, and more.

While the Public Market has grown in popularity, requiring more parking to meet customer demand, the surrounding neighborhood has struggled. According to census data, the Marketview Heights neighborhood has about 11,000 residents, mostly African-Americans and Hispanics, with about 40 percent living below the poverty level.

Some recent changes offer hope for Marketview. The neighborhood has been the target of the city’s aggressive demolition plan, ridding the area of some of its boarded-up and abandoned houses. And the area is rich in what Howk calls institutional architecture, with interesting older churches, schools, and commercial buildings. An important new development is Station 55 on Railroad Street near the Public Market, an older restored building restored now being used as apartments and lofts. — BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

PENFIELD Penfield is not a community that can be easily pigeonholed.

The Daisy Flour Mill in Penfield was once part of the town’s industrial past; now it is a restaurant and party house. PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK

As Monroe County’s first eastside town, Penfield has a unique place in local history.

And this year, it’s marking a unique milestone: its bicentennial. Daniel Penfield began buying up land in the area in 1795 and built mills along Irondequoit Creek in hopes of attracting settlers. But it was on March 30, 1810, that the town was officially incorporated. Part of the town would later break off to form Webster.

In 2008, the Census Bureau estimated the town’s population at 36,000. The figure has grown steadily over the past two decades — about 30,000 people lived in Penfield at the time of the 1990 Census. The town is home to the Paychex headquarters and a Thermo Fisher Scientific plastics factory. (The company is perhaps best known as the manufacturer of Nalgene water bottles.)

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WORD ON THE

STREET KURT GRIFFEN

Town / Neighborhood: Chili Best Thing to Do on a Friday Night: Off-Monroe Players rehearsal; The Elmwood Inn

Most Beautiful Place in Rochester: Mt. Hope Cemetery

LAUREN AMATO

Town / Neighborhood: Fairport Best Thing to Do on a Friday Night: Relaxing at home after work

Most Beautiful Place in Rochester: High Falls

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usually accompany them, it’s no cookie-cutter suburb. It has pockets of intense beauty, thanks to the town’s natural features, and its fortunate location along Irondequoit Bay. And the town has preserved 1,600 acres of open space, says Supervisor Tony LaFountain.

The town’s been working with the other Bay communities, Irondequoit and Webster, to better protect the sensitive water ecosystem.

They’ve worked together to develop a plan to protect the Bay, which includes initiatives focused on study of the ecosystem, public education, better planning, and stiffer laws governing boat docking.

Penfield officials have been trying to promote the Bay area as something of an attraction, particularly the area known as LaSalle’s Landing.

They’d like to see more public access to the Bay, as well as appropriate development in the area.

Channing Philbrick Park, named after a former town supervisor, is located along Irondequoit Creek. The creek winds through the town and also passes through the county’s Ellison Park, which is partly in Penfield.

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Paychex is one of the modern businesses that calls Penfield home. file photo

Volunteers maintain the Nature Conservancy-owned Thousand Acre Swamp preserve on Jackson Road, which is more than 450 acres in size. More than 30 different guided hikes and field trips are offered each year, says the Nature Conservancy’s website.

Georgena Terry, a founding member of the Penfield Green Initiative community group, says the east side of the town has a nice open character that makes it a unique part of the town. A cycling enthusiast and the founder of Terry Precision Bicycles, she enjoys biking through that part of the town.

There are over 3,200 acres of active farmland in the town representing 14 percent of land in the town, LaFountain says. Much of that, he says, is located east of Route 250. There are several farmers who work large tracts of land, but the town also has a number of what he calls “gentleman farmers” who have smaller operations or don’t make their sole living through the operations.

“I think we have a really strong agricultural base in Penfield,”Terry says, “and that’s something we really want to preserve.”

— BY JEREMY MOULE

SPENCERPORT As the story goes, Spencerport was farmland before the Erie Canal came to town.

But after the canal was brought through the village, it became a bustling business district, with hotels, grocery stores, factories, blacksmiths, and grain and bean warehouses.

Like other canal villages, Spencerport has reinvented itself over the years. It’s mainly a residential community and, with approximately 3,700 residents, it’s one of the smaller Monroe County villages.

“It has a lot of the characteristics of the old New England villages,” says Helen Moore, a lifelong Spencerport resident. That’s the influence of the original settlers, who came from New England, she says.

Some of the older buildings now serve as storefronts and offices. An old Masonic temple on Union Street still serves as a lodge, but it also houses a florist and a hair salon; a bank building built in the early 1900’s serves as the offices of an engineering and surveying firm; an insurance company’s offices are in a former firehouse; and a complex of apartments and shops on Union Street and West Avenue was once the Grange Hall and then the high school.

But the community has worked to capitalize on its canal heritage. It’s worked to seize on the recreational and tourism benefits the canal has to offer. The village built a park and shelter next to the Union Street lift bridge — a structure that dates back to 1910. There’s also a gazebo, which is used for concerts in the summer.

The canal path is something of a local recreation destination for residents, who use it for walking and biking, says Mayor Joyce Lobene. But the park and docks located next

Among the quaint views in Spencerport are are the village’s lift bridge (left) and New England-style homes (right). PHOTOs BY JEFF MARINI

to Union Street help draw in boat and bike travelers, says Lobene.

“They like the small-town atmosphere,” Lobene says.

The Spencerport Depot and Canal Museum, a combination local history museum and visitor’s center, is something of a village landmark. As the visitor’s center, it provides canal travelers with restrooms and shower facilities. It’s located along the canal in a building that once served

as a stop for the Rochester Lockport Buffalo trolley line, which operated from 1908 to 1931.

The building later fell into disuse and disrepair and was moved. But it was then donated to the village by Spencerport resident Maxine Davison, who wanted it moved back to its original location. Volunteers moved it back to the canal in 2005, and the building was restored through donations and volunteer labor. The museum opened its doors in 2007. — BY JEREMY MOULE

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[ DINING ] BY SUSIE HUME

EATING AROUND THE WORLD

Rochester’s international restaurants come in many different flavors With budgets tighter than ever, it’s unlikely that most of us will be filling our passports with too many new international stamps this year. And yet, if you’ve long been wanting to travel the globe to experience new cultures and — more importantly to this writer — new cuisines, you’ll be glad to know that you can do so practically in your own backyard, without the hassles or expenses of travel.

Rochester is lucky to have myriad ethnic restaurants that offer a range of authentic or otherwise exotic dishes to suit even the most adventurous of palates. Below find a sampler of some of our more notable restaurants that specialize in foreign cuisine. Note that this is just a quick survey; the city is home to hundreds of great restaurants. To discover more of them, check out the Restaurant Guide at rochestercitynewspaper.com.

GERMAN If German cuisine brings to mind deliciously fatty meats, perfectly bitter sauerkraut, and steins overflowing with beer, then you won’t be disappointed when visiting Rheinblick German Restaurant (224 S Main St, Canandaigua; 905-0950). Here you will find the expected—bratwurst, sauerbraten, and schnitzel—and some of the more hard-to-find authentic dishes, like the schweinshaxe (a beer-basted roasted pork shank) or the not-tobe-missed rouladen (rolled steak stuffed with bacon, pickles, and Düsseldorfer mustard, served with spätzle and red cabbage kraut).

Also be sure to try: Rohrbach Brewing Company (3859 Buffalo Rd; 594-9800), Swan Market (231 Parsells Ave; 288-5320), and The Lamplighter Restaurant (831 Fetzner Rd; 225-2500).

CARIBBEAN Caribbean is sort of a vague term, since it can include cuisines as diverse as Dominican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Bahaman, Jamaican, and more. Island Fresh Cuisine (382 Jefferson 16 CITY • ANNUAL MANUAL 2010

Ethnic dishes from Rheinblick German Restaurant in Canandaigua (left) and Greek specialties from Astoria (right). FILE PHOTOS

Rd; 424-2150) specializes in food of the Jamaican variety, including curried goat, oxtails, Jamaican beef patties (or meatloaf patties, as the menu calls them) and jerk chicken. It truly shines with the ackee and saltfish— Jamaica’s national dish, usually served for breakfast— a dried and salted cod seasoned with peppers, tomatoes, and a variety of spices cooked with ackee, a treeborne fruit that has a consistency somewhat akin to scrambled eggs when cooked. It may sound off-putting, but the incomparable flavors will make you feel as if you’re enjoying an island vacation.

Also be sure to try: Caribbean and Mexican Grill (1485 Dewey Ave; 563-7624), El Sabor de la Isla (1019 Norton St; 266-2200), Jerkers Original Take Out (651 Jefferson Ave; 436-9766), LJ’s (360 Thurston Rd; 5270778), and Shirley’s Island Cuisine (17 E. Main St; 454-0408).

GREEK/MEDITERRANEAN For a smaller city, Rochester has quite a large number of Mediterranean and, specifically, Greek restaurants—even many of our diners offer Greek cuisine. That said, the quality and authenticity range greatly and, being half-Greek myself, I have found few places that offer much more than just gyros and

souvlaki. Astoria (651 Monroe Ave; 2714033) is one of the area’s rare gems that has a huge Greek menu with both the usual suspects and rarer finds. Particularly of note are the saganaki (pan-fried kefalotiri cheese served with pita) and anything that comes with the restaurant’s crisp, tangy tzatziki.

And don’t forget to save room for the galaktouboureko, a dessert somewhat like baklava, but much harder to find.

Also be sure to try: Aladdin’s Natural Eatery (646 Monroe Ave, 442-5000; 8 Schoen Place, Pittsford, 264-9000), Gyromania (1205 Bay Rd, Webster; 671-1080), King David’s Restaurant (200 Park Point Dr; 424-7482), Sinbad’s Mediterranean Cuisine (719 Park Ave; 473-5655), and Olive’s Greek Taverna (50 State St, Pittsford; 381-3990).

ITALIAN Trying to highlight just one Italian restaurant in Rochester is a serious challenge — we are quite lucky to have such a huge assortment of them. Yet fairly new addition Rocco (165 Monroe Ave; 454-3510) is certainly worth mentioning. Offering something for everyone, from pizzas (the mushroom, fontina, and white truffle oil version is highly recommended) to pastas (the artisinal continues on page 18

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pasta and meatballs will make you forget the version mom used to make) to salads (while the Caesar salad is not technically Italian, Rocco’s version has the perfect ratio of leaf to dressing and a richness that will defy you to think of salad as a health food ever again).

Also be sure to try: Too many to name, but a few standouts include Bacco’s Ristorante (263 Park Ave; 442-5090), Dentico’s Italian Villa (2270 Culver Rd; 266-2120), La Bella Vita (1759 Empire Blvd; 671-7220), Mama Rosa (1733 Norton St; 544-4300), Mario’s (2740 Monroe Ave; 271-1111), and Pane Vino (175 N Water St; 232-6090).

INDIAN When it comes to Indian food, Rochesterians passionately disagree on which eatery makes it best, possibly more than with any other cuisine.

Part of the subjectivity may derive from the fact that Indian food is such a broad-sweeping term that includes cuisines as diverse as Punjabi, Bengali, and Saraswat, to name a few. Thali of India (3259 Winton Rd; 427-8030) is of the Punjabi variety, and offers an array of choices as well as both a lunch and dinner buffet that is almost always packed. It also offers many vegetarian options — the paneer akbari (cubed cheese cooked in a blend of tomato curry and spices) is particularly flavorsome.

Also be sure to try: Bombay Chaat House (1475 E Henrietta Rd; 292-0099), India House (998 S Clinton Ave; 461-0880), Mysore Woodlands (1900 S Clinton Ave; 271-2100), Tandoor Flame (1855 Empire Blvd; 670-0009), and Taste of India (3047 W Henrietta Rd; 475 -1111).

VIETNAMESE To those who haven’t tasted it, pho may seem like an ordinary bowl of soup. But to those in the know, a good bowl of pho can often be hard to find. The one served up at SEA Restaurant (741 Monroe Ave; 473-8031) is one of those rare discoveries, featuring a simple, yet flavorful broth with tender rare beef and flawlessly cooked noodles, all served in a bowl large enough for two. It also has extraordinary fried squid if you want to nosh on an appetizer before your soup arrives.

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Stuffed peppers and other Mexican dishes can be found at Blue Cactus Mexican Grille in Fairport.

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Also be sure to try: Dac Hoa (230 Monroe Ave; 232-6038), Pho Duong Dong (182 Otis St; 254-8120), and Vinh-Hao Banh Mi Café (985 S Clinton Ave; 271-7250).

THAI If you’re the type who has trouble ordering off a large menu, you may have a problem at The King and I (1455 E Henrietta Rd; 427-8090).

Offering Thai food to suit every desire, it is a favorite of Rochesterians, frequently selected in City Newspaper’s “Best of Rochester” readers’ poll. Of note are the basil dishes, which feature the ideal amount of anise, and the pad Thai, which some may dispute is not the most authentic version of the dish, but it is still arguably one of the tastiest.

Also be sure to try: Esan (696 Park Ave; 271-2271), Ginger Cove (3193 Chili Ave; 889-8448), Mamasan’s (2800 Monroe Ave; 461-3290), Pattaya Thai (1843 Penfield Rd; 383-6088), Sak’s Thai Cuisine (7374 Pittsford-Palmyra Rd; 421-9010), and Thai Taste (1675 Mount Hope Ave; 461-4154).

MEXICAN You can always spot a good Mexican restaurant by the quality of the margaritas— they are perhaps even harder to perfect than the cuisine

itself. Blue Cactus Mexican Grille (5 Liftbridge Ln, Fairport; 377-9590) offers a delicious and authentic margarita, as well as a diverse menu of Mexican favorites and house specialties.

Bold diners should try the mole negro de Oaxaca, chicken poached in a sauce made up of a laundry list of ingredients, including six types of chili peppers, nuts, seeds, spices, and even chocolate; it is considered the most difficult mole to prepare. The restaurant also occasionally offers all-you-can-eat tacos on Tuesday nights — a special worth watching for.

Also be sure to try: Casa Azteca (6720 Pittsford-Palmyra Rd; 425-0393), Chilango’s (42 Nichols St, Spencerport; 349-3030), Dorado (690 Park Ave; 244-8560), John’s TexMex Eatery (489 South Ave; 232-5830), Mex (295 Alexander St; 262-3060), Monte Alban Mexican Grill (845 E Ridge Rd, 697-0615; 2245 Empire Blvd, 787-4700), Rio Tomatlan (5 Beeman St in Canandaigua; 394-9380) and Salena’s Mexican Restaurant (274 N Goodman St; 256-5980).

JAPANESE When it comes to making great sushi and sashimi, freshness is of the utmost importance.

Edoya (2131 Buffalo Rd; 247-4866), a familyrun sushi restaurant in Gates, serves one of the largest sushi/sashimi assortments in the area, sure to tempt even those too cowardly to dream of eating raw fish. The spider roll (fried soft-shelled crab) is especially tasty, as is the Edoya roll, which features crab and crispy flakes in a spicy sauce, topped with shrimp.

You can also pick up bento at Edoya, boxed meals of either California rolls or tuna rolls with either miso soup or rice ready to take for lunch or dinner.

Also be sure to try: Arigato Steak House (2720 W Henrietta Rd; 292-1111), California Rollin’ (274 N Goodman St, 271-8990; 1000 N River St, 271-8920), Piranha Sushi Bar (682 Park Ave; 360-2754), Plum Garden (3349 Monroe Ave; 381-8730), Sakura Home (2775 Monroe Ave; 288-8130), and Shiki (1054 S Clinton Ave; 271-2090).

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that’s not far off for many places, Mulconry’s Irish Pub (17 Liftbridge Ln, Fairport; 6784516) aims to offer more upscale Irish cuisine in more of a restaurant setting. The inclusion of shepherd’s pie, corned beef and cabbage, and Guinness stew won’t shock many, but the addition of toasties (the equivalent of a grilled cheese in Ireland) and boxties (stuffed Irish potato pancakes), both in several varieties, sets Mulconry’s apart from other restaurants.

Also be sure to try: McGinnity’s Restaurant (534 W Ridge Rd; 663-5810), Murphy’s Law (370 East Ave; 697-9001), and TP’s Irish Restaurant (916 Panorama Trail S; 385-4160).

CHINESE Dim sum is a light dish typically served with tea, and traditionally served from the morning until noon except in specialty restaurants.

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and, on weekends, is brought around on carts that diners can pull appealing dishes from.

First-time “dim summers” can stick to safe choices like the pork buns and potstickers, but those looking to be somewhat daring should try the phoenix talons, or steamed chicken feet, which are of an acquired taste and texture.

Also be sure to try: Too many to name, but a few worth noting are Chen Garden (1750 Monroe Ave; 241-3070), Golden Port (105 East Ave; 256-1780), Hong Wah Chinese Restaurant (1802 Penfield Rd; 385-2808), Ming’s Noodles (1038 S Clinton Ave; 2440985), and Wok With You (300 Park Point Dr; 427-8383).

BRITISH Since much American food has its roots in British food, British cuisine can be an uncommon discovery other than of “fish and chips” variety. Tap and Mallet (381 Gregory St; 473-0503) may seem to be of the pub variety, but the food is quite the contrary. While it boasts one of Rochester’s most diverse beer lists, it also offers a variety of traditional British dishes alongside fusion options. Most noteworthy

British fare and more can be found at brew pub Tap and Mallet in the South Wedge. FILE PHOTO

is the sausage and mash (often referred to as bangers and mash in the UK), which combines veal sausage with mashed potatoes, which is smothered in ale gravy (instead of the traditional onion gravy) and served with stout mustard.

Also be sure to try: The Old Toad (277 Alexander St; 232-2626) or for English-style tea try La-Tea-Da Tea Room and Parlour (258 Alexander St; 262-4450) or Hicks and McCarthy (23 S Main St, Pittsford; 586-0938).

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[ MUSIC ] By Frank De Blase

UP TO SCRATCH

Get to know some of Rochester’s most cutting-edge DJs If you want to get your body in motion, or just watch others put theirs into gear, there are a number of local DJs standing by to provide the soundtrack for your assshake and jiggle. We’re not just talking about people who merely spin the latest Britney song on the radio; we’re talking about aural artists who mix, mash-up, and search for the deep cuts you never heard before.

The majority of the DJs profiled here spin house music, a broad style that incorporates soul and funk with synthetic manipulation. The focus is on the driving beat and its intense thump, throb, and groove. The talent lies within the DJ’s insight into both the crowd and the beats.

A good DJ can read an audience, lead an audience, and work the music in seamless succession where tracks can even overlap to create new sounds. The result is relentless and intense, and can also work down to mellow and cool. It depends on the DJ, depends on the vibe, depends on you.

There are countless weekly and monthly DJ/electronic events throughout the greater Rochester area. For a full list of them, check City Newspaper’s music calendar every Wednesday, or search the online calendar at rochestercitynewspaper.com. In the meantime, here are a few stand-out DJ events you might want to check out.

INSOMNIA DJS Thursdays 10 p.m., $3 cover One, 1 Ryan Alley | 546-1010 | oneclublife.com

The Insomnia DJs have been pulling the red-eye at East End restaurant/club One for just over a year now. DJ Jeff Clarkson says that the club mix pumped out by him and his partners, Jestyr and Ed Santiago, can feature anything from minimal techno to Top 40 remixes.

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DJ Jon Herbert puts on a cool, laid-back set every Friday at Tapas 177’s HOME event; he also spins more upbeat dance-club anthems Thursdays at Tilt. PHOTO by frank de blase

People have come to expect a certain level of talent from these DJs, and management gives them a wide berth to explore and keep it exciting. “We’ve been really lucky with what [One] has allowed us to do,” Clarkson says.

“Because often times I’ll just show up and play what I’m in the mood to play. Sometimes people are into it, sometimes they’re not. I think people respect that when we show up we’re going to play something unique that night. But if there are times when we have a certain crowd looking for a certain type of music, we’ll serve that up too.”

“The most special thing to me is that we’ve really opened the ears of a lot of people in the Alexander/East End area to a different genre of music,” Clarkson says.

HOME Fridays 10:30 p.m., no cover, 21+ Tapas 177 Lounge, 177 St. Paul St. | 262-2090 | jonherbert.net

With HOME, DJs Jon Herbert, NickL (Nick Giordano), and Marshall Vickers all

spin house with the groove on ice in the St. Paul Quarter’s subterranean shangri-la.

It’s a romantic, slightly more chilled-out scene. The beat is central and focused, yet the strains and samples shift with a subtle nuance from soul to gospel to Latin, and from DJ to DJ to DJ. NickL opts for more vocals in his selections, often big, black, beautiful gospel voices. He calls the style soul house.

“They convey more emotion,” he says of the singers he selects. “House is emotional music, and soul house is more uplifting than any other form of electronic music.”

NickL cites the human struggle behind the music that gives it its power. “House came out of a repressed culture,” he says.

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Town / Neighborhood: Rochester Best Thing to Do on a Friday Night: Bowling, Daisy Dukes

Most Beautiful Place in Rochester: Public Market

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Town / Neighborhood: South Wedge Best Thing to Do on a Friday Night:

Jazz jam sessions, Lux, Park Bench, or Abilene

Most Beautiful Place in Rochester: Highland Bowl

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DARKWAVE Saturdays 10 p.m., $3-$8 cover, 18+ Vertex, 169 N Chestnut St. | 232-5498 | DJDarkwave.com

DJ Darkwave (Steve Prinsen) has been making dark waves every Saturday at gothtinged club Vertex for nigh on 10 years.

Bands like The Cure or Bauhaus go up against, under, and around a foreboding and unrelenting beat.

“Mostly alternative underground dance kinda stuff,” Darkwave says of his selections. “Anywhere from gothic to industrial to new wave and synth pop. It depends on who’s there.” There’s always a steady stream of dancers heading to the DJ booth with suggestions that Darkwave effortlessly incorporates.

Requests not withstanding, he promises you won’t hear Top 40 stuff. “Almost never,” he says. “Sometimes I’ll throw in some Lady Gaga just for fun.”

BUCK WILD

(DJ Kribs and Discolobos) Last Friday of every month, 11 p.m., $3, 18+ Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave. | 454-2966, facebook.com/kribsdiscolobos

DJ Lisa Kribs enjoys the dichotomy between her set and that of her Buck Wild partners in crime, Chuck Cerankosky and Ben Gonyo (aka Discolobos). Discolobos is a duo that spans musical styles and eras via miles of vintage vinyl. Amidst the ongoing hip-hop beat you’ll hear stuff like Ram Jam’s “Black Betty” mashed with gospel one minute, synth-pop the next.

“Their groove is a little different than mine, which makes for a pretty dynamic evening,” she says. “They play a little more hip-hoppy, older stuff with an indie feel to it and I bring in an indie sound with a little electronica. It’s cool. We rotate on and off every half hour to keep things mixed up.”

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Clockwise, from upper left: DJ Darkwave regularly spins at Vertex; DJ NickL is part of the HOME crowd; and Discolobos play monthly at the Bug Jar. PHOTOS BY FRANK DE BLASE

to play, and if people like it, they like it,” Kribs says. “But if the dance floor is packed at 1:30 and there’s a groove or a particular kind of vibe I’m throwing on there, that’s crafted that way, then I’ll stick with it.”

SOCK HOP PARTY Monthly (always on a Thursday), $5 Dub Land Underground, 315 Alexander St. | 232-7550, riproc.com

DJ Pat Gaffney takes a back seat and dons the impresario hat for this shindig. Since July of 2009, this monthly event has become a veritable DJ parade.

“We have a pretty standard stable of about 20 DJs,” says Gaffney. “There are about 12

that play each show. We do it upstairs and downstairs, and the parties can run from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., so we give them each an hour.”

The Sock Hop Party has recently expanded to include its Lo Brau Comedy show, as well as assorted cookie, cake, coffee, and cider tastings. But the real confection remaining is the music.

“It’s centered around house music,” he says. “Electro house, deep house, there’s even some dub-step, some chill-out stuff early in the night. There’s been some drum and bass too.

“The Sock Hops Parties exist to give all the DJs in Rochester a reliable place to play every month. This is kind of an open door mission for DJs,” Gaffney says.

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[ ART ] BY REBECCA RAFFERTY

COMMUNAL CREATIVITY

More than art is created at many artist collectives in Rochester There’s always a bit of religious-like mysticism surrounding the creation of artwork. But the reality of it is that it is work, it’s often messy, and, like most occupations, requires time and space. But being holed up in your studio can get lonely, and many artists who can afford an offhome, distraction-less, permanent creative space prefer the community aspect offered by having their studio within a building full of other studios, and other artists.

Some benefits to working in these creative hives include the fact that audiences are often drawn by the opportunity to interact with a group of creative people, especially during coordinated openstudio days. There are great potentials (and challenges) when working within a community: inspiration, discussion, and advice. While many artists feel that Rochester isn’t a great place for their field of work, others argue that this city is a more affordable and viable place to live as an artist than art meccas like New York City, where artists are a dime a dozen, and it’s even tougher to make a name for yourself.

On that note, here’s something to remember: people love having art around, but art requires more of an audience than it often receives, especially in its emerging, little-guy stages. I met many fascinating, talented, and motivated people in researching this piece, and though these are brief vignettes of the art studio spaces around town, I strongly advise that you check them out and get to know the artists yourselves.

ARTISAN WORKS 565 Blossom Rd, Suite L | 288-7170, artisanworks.net

This 60,000-square-foot facility has an overflowing collection of every genre and medium of artwork you can fathom, including pieces by famous artists, local working artists, and art students.

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Jan Hewitt Towsley and Evelyn J. Kitson share a studio at Anderson Alley on Goodman Street.

PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK

Besides being a contender for the largest local collection of art under (and on) one roof, Artisan Works offers a variety of exhibitions, outreach programs, tours of the massive collection, picture framing, event hosting, art restoration, and appraisals. Surrounded by all of this creativity, there are about a dozen artists who have their studios on site, including painters Mark Groaning and Martine Lepore. Depending when you visit the rambling warehouse, you might catch them at work.

ANDERSON ALLEY 250 N Goodman St | andersonalleyartists.com

Of all the buildings housing scores of artists, this former shoe factory has one of the most well organized collections of creative types, though according to photographer Richard Margolis — who has been at Anderson Alley for 15 years and helps facilitate the group — “getting

40 or 50 artists to agree on anything is near impossible, like trying to herd cats.”

The Anderson Alley Artists have a website complete with an artist directory, and the core group of participants who, for the past 12 years, have held regular open-studio days on the second Saturday of most months, as well as other seasonal events.

Anderson Alley artists work in paint, photography, fiber, pastels, ceramics, drawing, textiles, weaving, book arts, and more. Weaver and textile artist Jan Hewitt Towsley says her studio “has provided the right mix of public outreach, private work time, and interaction with other artists.” Towsley has had a studio at Anderson Alley for 21 years; the first 19 solo, and the last two shared with studio mate Evelyn J. Kitson, who also works in textiles, weaving, photography, jewelry, and more.

Towsley says that many of the artists “share ideas, as well as pool our resources for events and advertising.” Kitson says, “It’s inspiring to check in with other artists and see what they’re doing. It’s great to have a community to refer to when problem solving.”

GENESEE CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND EDUCATION 713 Monroe Ave | 244-1730, geneseearts.org

This multi-purpose community arts center resides in a turn-of-the-century firehouse, and contains Genesee Pottery, the Community Darkroom, Printing and Book Arts, and multiple studio, educational, and gallery spaces. It’s also home to Absolute Yoga & Wellness, Soleil Bookbindery, Studio 789, an after-school photo-club for city kids, and was the original home of the Abundance Co-op Market. The Center provides access to art facilities and education to community members, and has a variety of youth programs targeted toward the underserved youth of the area. You can take classes with local artists and artists-in-residence, check out ever-shifting art exhibitions, and become a member to gain access to rentable studio spaces and to facilities including pottery wheels, kiln firing, lighting and digital studios, darkrooms, and letterpress, bookbinding, papermaking, marbling, and calligraphy amenities.

THE HUNGERFORD 1115 E Main St | 338-2269, maguirepropertiesinc.com

Before Main Street’s Hungerford Art and Business Park was redeveloped, it was a major manufacturing plant for flavored syrups. The behemoth brick building has more than 100 studio spaces, with no exact count, as they subdivide to suit the needs of the tenants. The winding, labyrinth-like industrial space has an unfinished, taken-over feel to it, and is home to many diverse artists as well as small businesses and non-profits, including Rochester Indymedia and Rochester Regional Community Design Center, which holds programs about local community development and redesign. There are also some lucky residents who’ve scored awesome loft apartments overlooking the Goodman Street train yard.

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owns the building, says that the staff works hard “to create spaces that exactly fit the artist’s requirements,” and support the interaction between those artists and the community. Spaces are available for shortterm use, including thesis shows, and most recently, the one-month pop-up project by art collective The Sweet Meat Co. The collective is comprised of painters, graphic designers, and street artists, including Sarah Rutherford, Lea Rizzo, St. Monci, Mr. Prvrt, and Erich Lehman, who with guest artists Jordan C. Greenhalgh and Anjolee Wolfe, rented a 2500-square-foot raw space and completely rehabbed the place into an incredibly cohesive, multi-media collaborative art installation in January 2010, using paint and discarded objects found in the building.

Also present in the behemoth building is Crocus Clay Works, which functions both as a clay studio and gallery, and is shared by clay artists Sabra Wood, Marie Verlinde, and Jennifer Buckley. The trio hosts a different guest artist each month on First Friday openings, and they also participates in various Hungerford community activities, including periodically held mass open studio days and the Zombie Walk in October, when families dress in their necrotic best and stagger down to the Public Market to shop and scare.

CANAL STREET BUILDING 90 Canal St | 338-2269, maguirepropertiesinc.com

SoHo Center on Canal Street is another combination building owned by Maguire Properties, with 25 studios and 51 apartments/working studios. Painter Robert Frank Abplanalp’s place is a bona fide creative lair, entirely customized with selfconstructed spaces, and packed with foundobject and fashioned artifacts. Visitors to his loft wouldn’t doubt for a second that they were standing in an artist’s dwelling.

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be painted over for the following resident so I don’t have to worry about spilling or splattering paint,” he says. “Some things that we don’t understand as a child make sense once we are grown up, but even now I don’t really understand the rules of not marking the walls. “ And that’s just his apartment. He also rents a small studio space on a lower floor, which is lined with stacked canvases-in-progress of all sizes, in all stages of completion.

Of the creative process, Abplanalp says, “It is sometimes messy, sometimes violent, sometimes noisy — and often times inappropriate for a residential space.

These are reasons why creative people need specialized spaces where they can feel very free to unleash creativity without getting interrupted or in trouble.”

ROCHESTER CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER 137 East Ave | 461-2222, rochestercontemporary.org

Rochester Contemporary Art Center is doing great things for the art scene of this city, functioning not only as a gallery space with exhibitions of both established and emerging artists, but also as the facilitator of the First Friday city-wide gallery nights. Above the gallery on East Avenue are 10 studio spaces, four of which are available for rent. Current tenants include watercolor and oil painters, a web-design firm, and a one-person graphic design business. The downtown location, amid cafes, the Little and the Eastman theaters, and other cultural institutions, is “a great, active, pedestrian area within a vital arts neighborhood,” says Director Bleu Cease.

The smallish spaces are best suited for quieter arts and commercial businesses.

“Clean, light studio practice: no welding or high noise,” says Cease.

Studio tenants are encouraged to participate in open-studio sessions during gallery openings and First Friday events, and the public can visit the studios upstairs.

Cease says he has seen moments when the studios form a community and goes beyond the built-in First Friday benefit: “Periodically, a renter synergy occurs and

Early in 2010 the Sweet Meat Co. put on a “popup” art project at the Hungerford on East Main.

PHOTO COURTESY ANGIE CARTER

they’ll band together, do cross-promotion and joint events.”

THE VILLAGE GATE 274 N. Goodman St. | 442-9061, villagegatesqaure.com

The Village Gate Square is a sprawling, diverse center in the heart of the Neighborhood of the Arts, resembling an industrial mall, but one with soul. The converted factory is home to popular restaurants like Salena’s and Lento, businesses like the Bop Shop, book stores, the Image Out gay and lesbian film festival headquarters, martial arts, dance, and yoga studios, office spaces, loft residences, musicians, theater and comedy companies, and much more, as well as a small handful of visual artists. Painter Juni Moon recently moved out of her studio there, where she enjoyed the view of Village Gate’s courtyard/sculpture park, the convenient access to sushi downstairs, and the wonderful people she met by having a public space. Current artists include the Weaving and Fiber Arts Center, Sprouse Photographic, and painter Steve Carpenter, whose studio is on the Anderson Alley side of the complex, and also houses the New York Figure Study Guild.

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[ ARCHITECTURE ] BY MICHAEL LASSER

FROM FEDERAL TO FRANK

East Avenue architecture affords a stroll through Rochester history There was a time when city leaders thought Lake Avenue would be Rochester’s grand boulevard, rather than the old dirt road along which a horse and cart could clipclop from Pittsford to the falls of the mighty Genesee. (There was no Liberty Pole in the way in those days.) Even George Eastman, who owned land on Lake Avenue, had thought about building himself a house there, but — noblesse oblige be damned!

— he decided he didn’t want trolleys filled with workers on their way to Kodak Park clanging past his house every day. He moved to East Avenue and, in 1905, built his mansion there.

The development of the avenue that began after the Civil War had nearly finished by then. Earlier, the first generation of prosperous Rochesterians had built in Corn Hill, but their children had other ideas: the neighborhood was filling up, the lots and houses were insufficiently grand, and because there was no zoning, a worker and his pigs might live right next door to the boss.

The young married progeny of Rochester’s upper crust chose instead to build big, but in what was then the middle of nowhere.

Nonetheless, East Avenue soon became Rochester’s most fashionable address, and the home of its most lavish parties.

A decision by one man, Hiram Sibley, helped to spur this new generation to act. Western Union’s first president and Rochester’s richest man before Eastman, Sibley left Mendon to build a grand house at the corner of East Avenue and Alexander Street in 1868, thereby giving people’s itch to move both impetus and legitimacy. If someone that rich was doing it, it had to be OK. The stories behind the houses that line East Avenue and its side streets from Winton to Alexander serve up a full portion of human accomplishment and eccentricity.

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An example of the ornate Queen Anne style can be found at 1545 East Avenue. PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK

that became a staple of high-rise apartment buildings and hotels, while Azariah Boody, a local farmer, had Prince Street named after his horse or his dog. Nobody’s sure which.

Taken as a whole, though, East Avenue and its surrounding off-shoots offer a living history of nearly a century of American architecture. Its houses represent every important style from the early 19th century to the early 20th. From Federal in 1816 to Frank Lloyd Wright in 1907-08, these houses transformed a street and its environs into one of America’s grandest boulevards.

Even in a smallish, out-of-the-way city on

the southern shore of the smallest Great Lake, farmland turned into blocks and neighborhoods, and buildings were leveled to be replaced. But the extraordinary fact of East Avenue comes down to this: during the 1960’s, the demolition of the Thompson House to build the Strathallan hotel became one of the watershed events that mobilized area residents to protect the area.

The City Preservation Ordinance, passed in 1969, ensures the survival of the historic houses of East Avenue. Rather than settling into genteel decline followed by wholesale

destruction, East Avenue re-emerged, not as a dusty museum of tired buildings, but as what Cynthia Howk, architectural research coordinator for the Landmark Society of Western New York, calls “a vibrant urban neighborhood.” While some houses remain private residences, others have been restored as apartments or offices. Not since the mid-1960’s has any significant building been demolished to make room for an undistinguished box like the apartment buildings at 1400 and 1600.

Most of the houses that remain are the original mansions built between the end of the Civil War and 1913, when the new federal income tax began to limit the extravagance of the upper classes. But for that time period, they reflect a confluence of contemporary taste, American confidence and expansionism, and theatricality. This was the time of the robber barons, and while there were no Vanderbilts or Morgans in residence, there were local versions of bigwigs to contend with. The original residents were intent on having houses commensurate with their wealth and authority — as well as their unspoken desire to show off. This was “home, sweet home” for Rochester nabobs

from Sibley to the Messrs. Bausch and Lomb to the less-well-remembered H.H. Warner, who made his fortune as what one writer called “the patent medicine king.”

Most of the houses are examples of the many building styles clumped together loosely under the term “Victorian,” from Greek Revival, through Tudor and Gothic Revival, to Richardson Romanesque, and more. During this eclectic period in American building, even a Queen Anne house — a distinctive style in itself — could borrow details from almost anything that tickled its architect’s fancy. East Avenue’s most distinguished example of that style, at 737, was designed by Rochester architect Harvey Ellis in 1883, and was restored as apartments in the early 1970’s. No house is more eclectic, though, than the much more ornate Queen Anne at 1545, a wondrously fanciful hodge-podge of different building styles from 1878.

Compared with, say, Euclid Street in Cleveland and James Street in Syracuse, East Avenue’s survival rate is actually pretty good. Euclid and James have lost upwards of 90 percent of their original mansions.

Donald S. Hall, the former director of Strasenburgh Planetarium, who has a strong interest in East Avenue, estimates that of the original 100 mansions that existed between Winton and Alexander, about 50 survive. Asbury Church alone required the demolition of four houses. Of the four houses that stood between Oxford and Merriman streets, only one remains. And so on down the avenue. Building every apartment building and nearly every church meant the destruction of houses during the years before the 1969 ordinance.

Yet among the buildings that remain are

some of the most beautiful and significant: the Italianate Bates-Ryder House at 1399, the Greek Revival Woodside at 485, and on side streets, the Federal-style Oliver Culver House at 70 East Boulevard, the Edward Boynton House by Frank Lloyd Wright at 16 East Boulevard, and the Gothic Revival house at 7 Prince Street. Their appeal remains for anyone who wants to learn about history or architecture, or who enjoys a walk in the presence of something majestic yet continues on page 34 ROCHESTERCITYNEWSPAPER.COM 33

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Frank Lloyd Wright designed this notable house on East Boulevard. PHOTO BY MATT DETURCK

human, a mirror of another time and a present-day home for hundreds of citizens.

Of all the interesting places for walking in Rochester, few equal East Avenue, where, in addition to the houses, there are trees for shade, ample sidewalks, and places for a cup of coffee nearby. For those who don’t know much about architecture, the Landmark Society of Western New York gives periodic walking tours.

For those who want to venture forth on their own, Cythia Howk suggests looking closely and raising questions for yourself.

For instance, what makes these old houses different from what you’re used to? What do you think about the mixing of different materials and elaborate ornamentation?

What kind of people do you think lived in them? Maybe, says Howk, the wondering will lead to curiosity and even a search for answers and a deepening understanding of some of the things that have been going on around you for more than 100 years. What it takes to keep East Avenue alive and well, is “a vigilant and preservation-oriented public,” says Howk. “The laws are on the books, but we need to make sure they continue to be enforced.”

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[ RECREATION ] By Ledwing Hernandez

NO NEED TO BUY

Get outdoors on the cheap by renting recreation equipment The Greater Rochester area is packed with outdoor opportunities in every setting, from boating on Lake Ontario to snowshoeing through our massive parks, and everything in between. Rochester has a geographic and climatic diversity that is tough to match — hills, flat stretches, beaches, mountains, rivers, you name it. The only thing getting in the way of many people’s desire for outdoor fun and excitement is how to pay for it. It can be tough to cough up thousands of dollars for equipment you won’t use 24/7.

But that’s no reason to deny yourself.

Instead, adventurers may want to look into renting various pieces of recreation equipment. Not only can they experience the joy of operating something they either can’t afford or don’t want to invest in, but they can rest easy in knowing that once they give it back, they don’t have to worry about it. With rentals weekend adventurers can get straight to the point of investing in their free time: fun.

BICYCLES Rochester is home to many great bicycle shops, as well as the outdoor settings to put their two-wheeled wares to use.

Pedallers Bike Shop in Henrietta (2511 E. Henrietta Road, 334-1083, pedallers. com) offers the rental of road bikes, which are designed specifically for a comfortable and fast ride on pavement. RV&E Bike and Skate in Fairport (40 N. Main St., 3381350, RVEBike.com) also offers road-bike rentals, in addition to mountain bikes, which are more suited to rugged, off-road travel. As a great way to get two things out of the way, the Fairport location is located right on the Erie Canal, so you can just grab your bike and go. You can also rent road bikes at Park Ave Bike Shop, with two locations in Henrietta and Victor (parkavebike.com). If you want to ride through Pittsford you can visit 36 CITY • ANNUAL MANUAL 2010

Towpath Bike (3 Schoen Place, 381-2808,

TowpathBike.com) and take a leisurely spin through scenic the canal town.

WATERCRAFT Watercraft can be an exciting way to diversify your fun past regular ol’ swimming. The downsides to owning watercraft are the transportation, maintenance, and storage costs. Forget about all that and instead, enjoy the area’s many waterways by renting. Take in Braddock Bay’s natural beauty by renting a canoe or other watercraft at Braddock Bay Paddlesports (372 Manitou Road, Hilton, 392-2628, paddlingny.com). You can even launch your rental craft directly from the store’s own docks, or you can take it to a different boat launch. Bayside Boat and Tackle (1350 Empire Blvd., 224-8289, baysideboatandtackle.com) is located right on Irondequoit Bay and rents everything from aluminum row boats to small sail boats and even gas-powered motor boats. You can also rent boat trailers if you have a specific watery getaway in mind.

Further east, Mid-Lakes Erie Macedon Landing (1125 Marina Parkway, Macedon,

315-986-3011, macedonlanding.com) offers canoe and kayak rentals, as well as paddleboats. The calmer waters of the Erie Canal should provide a more subdued and relaxed experience than the open waters of the natural water bodies. Genesee Waterways Center (328-3960, geneseewaterways.org) is a water sports organization whose Genesee Valley Park boathouse (149 Elmwood Ave) and Lock 32 Whitewater Park (2797 Clover St, Pittsford, 586-4330) locations offer kayak and canoe rentals by appointment. From the boat house you can engage in relaxing kayaking on the Genesee River, and then have a picnic in the adjacent Genesee Valley Park.

You can also take another step up from renting boats and actually join a boating timeshare club. Webster’s Fleet Boat Club (955-3261, fleetboatclub.com) gives its members the ability to make online reservations with their only additional cost being the fuel they use. The club also provides safety equipment and other things such as water skis. All members need to do is attend a short safety course and they are ready to go. continues on page 38

The Genesee Waterways Center rents self-powered watercrafts perfect for exploring the Genesee River.

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SNOW EQUIPMENT Weather in Rochester may not always be conducive to biking and kayaking. What we can be thankful for is the fact that it isn’t just cold here: we get completely buried in snow. Why not make the most of it? Start in Downtown Rochester, where you’ll find the Manhattan Square Park Ice Rink (353 Court St., 428-7541, cityofrochester.gov). Ice skate rentals here are very inexpensive, and rink admission is also just a couple bucks. You can also head to Webster Ice Arena (865 Publishers Pkwy, Webster) and Lakeshore Hockey Arena (123 Ling Rd, 865-2801, lakeshorehockeyarena.com). Both rinks are host to hockey leagues spanning all age groups, and Lakeshore Hockey Arena is also home to roller-hockey leagues.

If you want to move away from downtown, Baycreek Paddling Center (1099 Empire Blvd., 288-2830, baycreek.com) provides snowshoe and trekking pole rentals.

Snowshoes can also be used next door at the 447-acre Ellison Park. The Cumming Nature Center (6472 Gulick Road, 374-6160, rmsc. org) in Naples offers groomed trails that can be used for snowshoeing and cross-country skiing, and has snowshoe and cross-country ski rental packages. Eastern Mountain Sports (3349 Monroe Ave., 383-1140, ems.com) in Pittsford provides cross-country ski rentals, in addition to snowshoes and kayaks.

If you want to hit the slopes, you can also rent ski and snowboard packages at Bristol Mountain in Canandaigua (5662 State Road 64, 374-6000, bristolmountain.com). These include snowboards and boots, or for skiers, skis, boots and poles. Finally, those up to the challenge can even rent snowmobiles from Wyoming County Snowmobile Rental in Warsaw (3820 Hermitage Rd, 786-3504).

You can also rent riding gear to help make your riding experience complete (and a little less chilly).

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WORD ON THE

STREET DAVE HALL

Town / Neighborhood: Monroe Ave Best Thing to Do on a Friday Night: Los Amigos in Penfield, coffee shops

Most Beautiful Place in Rochester: Highland Park

JOHN WHITE

Town / Neighborhood: South Wedge Best Thing to Do on a Friday Night: Rent a movie and stay in

Most Beautiful Place in Rochester: Maplewood Rose Garden

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[ EVENTS ] COMPILED BY LEDWING HERNANDEZ

2010 FESTIVAL GUIDE

For a city its size Rochester is jam-packed with events. Once the weather warms up we tend to go a little crazy, and nary a weekend goes by between April and October when there isn’t some fabulous festival bringing thousands of people to the streets.

Below is a list of many of the major events of 2010. For a complete events calendar, check out City Newspaper every Wednesday, or visit rochestercitynewspaper.com/events and use our searchable online calendar.

[ MARCH ]

Rochester Erotic Arts Festival March 26-28 Harro East Ballroom, Chestnut St. Artistic expressions celebrating sensuality/sexuality rochestereroticartfest.org

[ APRIL ]

Rochester International Film Festival April 22-24 Dryden Theatre, George Eastman House Short-film festival rochesterfilmfest.org, 234-7411

Sheep Sheering Festival April 24 Springdale Farm, Ogden Demos, wool cleaning, music Heritagechristianservices.org/ springdale, 349-2090

[ MAY ]

Memorial Day Parade

Corn Hill Arts Festival

May 31 Downtown Rochester Cityofrochester.gov, 544-2839

July 10-11 Corn Hill neighborhood Dozens of crafters, food, kids activities cornhill.org, 262-3142

[ JUNE ]

June 3-6 Greek Church of the Annunciation, East Ave Greek food, entertainment, culture Rochestergreekfestival.org, 244-3377

East End Festivals June 4, July 9, and August 13 East End District Local bands, street festivities eastendmusicfestival.com, 234-0630

Fairport Canal Days June 4-6 Main Street, Fairport Arts & crafts, food, music, family activities fairportcanaldays.com

Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival

19th Ward Square Fair

May 1 RIT campus Activities highlighting a fusion of art and technology, kids events Rit.edu/imagine

June 5 Aberdeen Square Food and activities to celebrate the 19th Ward 19wca.org, 328-6571

360 | 365 George Eastman House Film Festival May 5-10 Dryden Theatre, other local cinemas Screenings of more than 80 films (full-length, shorts, documentaries) film360365.com, 279-8307

Lilac Festival May 14-23 Highland Park 500 varieties of lilacs, live music, activities, food lilacfestival.com

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Nazareth College Arts Center Dance Festival

Greek Festival

Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival June 11-19 Many venues in Rochester’s East End More than 250 shows, featuring local, national, and international acts rochesterjazz.com, 454-2060

Juneteenth June 19 Susan B. Anthony Square Performances, food, activities to celebrate the end of slavery.

454-2860

The 2010 East End Festivals take place in June, July, and August. FILE PHOTO

Maplewood Rose Celebration

July 10-17 Nazareth College Arts Center, East Ave Dance performances by renowned national and local troupes, dance films, parades Naz.edu/artscenter, 389-2525

Rochester Pride 2010

June 19-20 Maplewood Park, Driving Park and Lake Avenue Hundreds of varieties of roses; horticultural tours, more cityofrochester.gov, 428-6755

July 10-18 Various locations in Rochester Parade, festival, picnic to celebrate the local LGBT community gayalliance.org, 244-8640

Harbor and Carousel Festival

Monroe County Fair

June 25-27 Ontario Beach Park, Charlotte Special events to celebrate the Lake Ontario waterfront cityofrochester.gov, 428-6767

[ JULY ]

Sterling Renaissance Festival Weekends, July 3-August 15 Sterling, NY “Olde school” food, drink, performances, crafts sterlingfestival.com, 800-879-4446

Hill Cumorah Pageant July 9-10 & 13-17 Hill Cumorah, near Palmyra Theatrical retelling of the Book of Mormon hillcumorah.org/Pageant, 315-597-5851

July 14-18 Monroe County Fairgrounds, East Henrietta Road Agricultural exhibits, animals, rides, food mcfair.com, 334-4000

10 Ugly Men Festival July 24 Genesee Valley Park Music, food, drinks, charity sporting events, kids activities tenuglymen.com

Spencerport Canal Days July 24-25 Along the Erie Canal, Spencerport Arts & crafts, entertainment, food, canoe race spencerportcanaldays.com, 349-1331 continues on page 42

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[ SEPTEMBER ]

New York State Festival of Balloons

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Waterfront Art Festival

September 2-6 Dansville Hot air balloon rides, food, entertainment, music, kids’ rides nysfob.com

July 24-25 Kershaw Park, Canandaigua Arts & crafts, kids’ activities waterfrontartfestival.com, 671-9102

Labor Day Parade

Rochester Jewish Film Festival July 25-August 2 Little Theatre, Dryden Theatre, JCC Movies by Jewish filmmakers/of Jewish interest rjff.org, 461-2000 x237

Puerto Rican Festival

The Park Ave Summer Arts Fest takes place August 7-8. FILE PHOTO

Park Ave Summer Arts Fest

July 30-August 1 Frontier Field VIP Parking Lot Puerto Rican food, parade, cultural activities prfestival.com, 234-7660

August 7-8 Park Avenue Arts & crafts, live entertainment, food, family activities rochesterevents.com, 473-4482

Brockport Summer Arts Fest

Palmyra Pirate Weekend

July 31-August 1 SUNY Brockport, Holley Street Food, music, rubber duck derby, dragon boat races brockportartsfestival.com, 260-7764

[ AUGUST ]

Northeast Naturist Festival August 3-8 Empire Haven, Moravia Activities for naturists/nudists naturistsociety.com

Polish Arts Festival August 6-7 St. Stanislaus Church, corner of Norton and Hudson Polish arts, food, crafts polishartsfest.org, 266-6440

German Fest August 6-8 Fireman’s Field, Spencerport German food, drink, dancing, entertainment rochestergerman.com

African/African American Festival August 7 Highland Bowl, South Avenue African drums and dancing, arts and crafts, food 313-3685, rochesterabove.org

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September 6 Downtown Rochester rochesterlabor.org, 263-2650

Clothesline Arts Festival September 11-12 Memorial Art Gallery Renowned arts & crafts, live entertainment mag.rochester.edu/clothesline, 276-8900

August 14 Riverside Festival Site Celebration of Caribbean heritage 227-2183

Clarissa Street Reunion August 21 Corn Hill neighborhood Music and more to celebrate the historic hotspot 234-4177

Sankofa Arts, Dance, Music & Theater Festival August 27-28 MuCCC, Village Gate Arts and cultural activities to celebrate African-American history and heritage.

271-7010, 442-9892

Savor Rochester: Festival of Food September 20 Public Market Samples from area restaurants, wineries, farmers, specialty food sellers festivaloffood.org, 328-3380

Naples Grape Festival September 25-26 Naples Grape pie contest, arts & crafts, family entertainment, live music naplesvalleyny.com

September 26 Rochester Public Market Celebration of agriculture with pumpkin patch, petting zoo, country dance, more cityofrochester.gov, 311

[ OCTOBER ]

Tour de New York

Carifest

September 19 Casa Larga Vineyards, Fairport Grape stomping, live music, wine tasting, kids’ activities casalarga.com/purplefoot, 223-4210

Harvest Jamboree & Country Fair

August 7-8 Village of Palmyra Family-friendly activities with a pirate theme eriecanalpirates.com, 315-597-4849

August 7-12 Downtown Rochester, and region Various bike racing events tourdenewyork.com, 546-4030

Purple Foot Festival

Hilton Apple Fest The Clothesline Arts Festival closes out the summer festival season September 11-12. FILE PHOTO

Mendon Station Festival September 11-12 Mendon Station Park, Mendon Music, Irish dancers, horse exhibitions, arts and crafts Mendonfoundation.com

Rochester Marathon September 12 Downtown Rochester 26.2-mile course through the city rochestermarathon.com

Irondequoit Oktoberfest September 17-19, 24-26 Camp Eastman, Durand Eastman Park Echt Deutsch music, dancing, food, beer irondequoit.org

October 2-3 Hilton Arts & crafts, car show, apple wares, pie contest hiltonapplefest.org, 392-7773

Rochester River Romance Weekend October 8-10 Genesee River Corridor Various activities celebrating the Genesee River, including Head of The Genesee Regatta cityofrochester.gov, 428-6755

ImageOut Film Festival October 8-17 Dryden Theatre, Little Theatre Gay & lesbian film festival imageout.org

Jewish Book Festival October 24-31 Jewish Community Center, Edgewood Ave Book events featuring Jewish authors or books of Jewish interest Rjbf.org

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[ AUTOMOTIVE ]

[ HEALTH ]

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[ HIGHER EDUCATION ]

[ HOME IMPROVEMENT ]

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[ MIND, BODY, SPIRIT ]

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[ RELIGION ]

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[ AUTOMOTIVE ]

Browncroft Garage............................ 54 Cash 4 Cars........................................... 43 East Avenue Auto................................. 17 Schoen Place Auto.............................. 43 Van Bortel Ford................................... 56

[ Arts ]

Hochstein Music School..................... 52 Hungness School of Music................ 43 Oxford Gallery.................................... 31

[ Education ]

Augustin Children’s Center.............. 52 Cobblestone School........................... 53 Genesee Community Charter School.... 53 Harley School...................................... 53 Mercy High School.............................. 52 RCTV15.................................................... 54 Rochester City School District........ 39 Rochester School for the Deaf........ 53

[ Entertainment ]

[ Job Opportunities ]

CDS......................................................... 38 U.S. Navy................................................ 35

[ Mind, Body, Spirit ]

DancEncounters.................................. 48 Flex........................................................ 48 Gay Alliance/Genesee Valley.............. 47 Groove Juice Swing.............................. 47 Integrative Bodywork......................... 47 Psychics Thyme.................................... 48 The Purple Door.................................. 48 School of Applied Philosopy............ 48 Sufi Healing Order.............................. 48

[ Museums AND Zoos ]

Darwin Martin House.......................... 14 Rochester Museum & Science Center........35 Genesee Country Village & Museum 20 Seneca Zoo Society.............................. 33

[ Real Estate ]

[ Financial Services ]

Belmont Properties............................ 48 Konar Properties................................ 49 The Petix Group.................................... 48 RentRochester.com............................ 49

Genesee Co-Op Federal Credit Union.... 25

[ Religion ]

Little Theatre...................................... 13 Canandaigua National Bank & Trust Co.....35

[ Health ]

AIDS Care............................................... 44 Birthright of Rochester Inc............. 44 CP IHS Individual Health Services..... 43 CP Occupational Therapies................. 43 Eastside Medical Urgent Care.......... 39 Lori’s Natural Foods........................... 44 MVP Health Care................................... 33 Planned Parenthood........................... 14 Rochester Community Acupuncture......... 48

[ Higher Education ]

Bartenders Training Institute......... 44 Bryant & Stratton............................... 45 Genesee Community College.............. 52 Monroe Community College............... 23 New York Chiropractic College........ 44 Roberts Wesleyan College................ 34 St. John Fisher College...................... 27 SUNY Brockport/REOC.......................... 45 University Of Rochester...................... 2 U of R Simon School............................ 38

[ Home Improvement ]

Clover Lawn & Landscape................... 45 JEC Construction................................. 47 Pride Pro’s............................................ 46 Richard Edic Design............................ 47

[ Home Services ]

Allan Electric...................................... 46 John Betlem Heating & Cooling......... 45 Clover Nursery & Garden Center..... 46 Complete Painting............................... 46 Feldman Heating & Cooling................ 46 Mayer Hardware.................................. 54

Asbury First United Methodist Church.... 49

Blessed Sacrament............................. 51 Calvary St. Andrew’s Church............. 52 Church of Divine Inspiration............. 50 Downtown United Presbyterian Church. 51 First Baptist Church of Rochester..... 50 Hope Church......................................... 51 Jewish Community Federation........... 50 Lutheran Church of Incarnate Word.... 50 Plymouth Spiritualist Church.......... 50 Reformation Lutheran Church......... 51 St. Boniface Church............................ 52 St. Mary’s Church................................ 51 Sufi Order of Rochester.................... 50 The Father’s House.............................. 15 Third Presbyterian Church............... 49 Urban Presbyterians.......................... 51

[ Restaurants and Bars ]

Bagel Bin Cafe...................................... 31 Bamba Bistro........................................ 29 Chilango’s Mexican Restaurant........ 31 Cafe CiBon............................................. 30 Dinosaur Bar-B-Que............................. 39 Dorado................................................... 30 EdibleS.................................................. 31 High Falls Brewery............................... 5 Jines....................................................... 30 Johnny’s Bar......................................... 31 LaSalle’s Steak and Crab................... 31 Lux Lounge............................................ 25 Mulconry’s Irish Pub & Restaurant.... 29 Nathan’s Soups.................................... 30 Open Face.............................................. 25 Park Avenue Pub.................................. 30 Pier 45 Restaurant.............................. 29 Pittsford Seafood Market................. 30

Red Bird Tea Shop................................ 31 Salena’s................................................. 29 Sandwich Works.................................. 54 Spin Caffe............................................. 30 Starry Nites Cafe................................. 29 Strathallan.......................................... 31 Tandoor of India.................................. 29 Tap & Mallet......................................... 25

[ Services ]

Board of Elections............................. 35 FoodLink................................................ 23 Visit Rochester.................................... 19 George Klee CPA LLC............................ 54 K-D Moving & Storage Inc.................... 54 Landmark Society................................ 11 Pay It Payroll........................................ 54 Rochester Public Library.................. 27 Rochester Teachers Association........ 8

[ Specialty Shopping ]

Abundance Cooperative Market........ 37 Alexander Optical................................. 7 Archimage............................................... 7 Bernunzio Uptown Music................... 37 Bill Wahl’s Microcreamery................ 30 Blueground Jewelry............................. 7 Canalside Jewelers............................. 17 Corn Hill Wines and Spirits............... 37 Craft Antique Co-op............................ 17 Craft Company No. 6............................ 17 DePaul’s T-Shirt Factory..................... 15 Eastview Mall....................................... 34 Eleventh Hour....................................... 7 Eye Openers.......................................... 11 Hedonist Artisan Chocolates............ 25 House Parts.......................................... 25 Jackson & Hines..................................... 7 Lift Bridge Book Shop......................... 21 Mileage Master.................................... 17 Natural Pet Foods............................... 21 Northfield Designer Goldsmiths..... 37 Nut House............................................. 11 One Hip Chic Optical............................ 37 One World Goods................................. 21 Ontario Video and News...................... 11 Ontario Video/State Street Books..... 37 Pittsford OpticaL................................ 17 Premier Pastry..................................... 25 Rochester Public Market.................. 41 Rowe Photo, Video & Audio.................... 9 Savoia Pastry........................................ 11 The South Wedge................................. 25 Stickley, Audi & Co............................... 13 Vatis......................................................... 7 Whitehouse Liquor.............................. 11 Windmill................................................ 21

[ Sports and Recreation ]

City Summer Youth Program.............. 41 Rochester Red Wings.......................... 20

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