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Belmont Properties

Belmont Properties is a local real estate company that "specializes in the re-development and adaptive reuse of older buildings." Their Belmont Suites division offers short-term rentals for students and other extended visitors. Properties include: Monroe Manor - Two-bedroom townhouses in Brighton for long- or short-term leasing. Liberty Manor - Studio, and one- and two-bedroom apartments in Penfield. The Lofts at Capron - Rochester's first and so far only loft condos for sale. Next to Geva Theatre in downtown's Washington Square Neighborhood. The Searle Building - Loft apartments and offices in downtown's St. Paul Quarter for long- or short-term lease. All rental properties offer units both furnished and unfurnished.

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Lyons, Village

The Village of Lyons is the county seat of Wayne County, NY and located in the Town of Lyons east of Rochester. The village and the town were named after Lyon, France. The village was settled around 1794 and incorporated in 1833. The Erie Canal once passed through the village, but was rerouted in the 1850's. Area Links Peppermint Days - Festival photos and info on the H. G. Hotchkiss Peppermint Factory Days Gone Bye - photos and info. Lyons Chamber of Commerce Notes and References

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Charity Events

Our Charity Events page provides a place to list upcoming charitable events with RocWiki page reference, web link or short text. You may also include the following link to this page ["Charity Events" Charity Event] within a relevant RocWiki page or in an Event Board posting. These Wiki Links are summarized on Charity Events/Tags. Walks, Runs, Hikes, etc. Karen's Walk/5k Run Polar Bear Plunge Relay for Life Run to the End Parties, Dances, and Social Events Empty Bowls Festivals with Charity Focus Fairport Canal Days Fairport Music & Food Festival Rochester Greek Festival Ten Ugly Men Festival See Also Calendars - lists various calendars Charity Events, Tags - our list of pages linked to Charity Events Charity Events, Past - our list of pages for previous Charity Events Current Events Events Board - post events on our Events Board with RSS syndication facilities Regular Events Past Events - a listing, by decade, of year event pages.

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Kim Gordon

The rock musician and painter Kim Gordon with her artwork. Kim Gordon was born in Rochester and raised in Los Angeles. She plays bass guitar and guitar, sings, and writes in the rock band Sonic Youth, which was formed in 1981. She also plays in the band Free Kitten. In 1989 she teamed up with Sadie May and Lydia Lunch to form the band Harry Crews. She credits Rochestarian Del Rivers, a hometown friend, as an early influence. In 1984 she married fellow Sonic Youth member Thurston Moore. They have a daughter together, Coco Hayley Gordon Moore. Kim is a well established painter. In 2005, she starred in Gus Van Sant's film Last Days, a fictionalized biopic of her close friend Kurt Cobain. Links Wikipedia

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Drum and Bugle Corps

For those uninitiated folks in the world who have not encountered competitive drum corps, visualize (and sonorize... is that a word? it is now) a typical parade band. Put them on a football field, toss the woodwinds and trombones, replace with mellophones and soprano trumpets and sousaphones, and lengthen the show to about 15 minutes. Fill the pit with an array of velvety, clanging, crashing, and melodious instruments (chimes, marimbas, gongs, cymbals, cowbells, vibraphones... all of these will do) and players with the muscle and technique to play them all. Populate the marching ranks with the musical superstars of the day, and fill the colorguard with individuals who have the strange ability to appear alternately delicate and athletic and divinely sensual to even the person sitting half a mile away in the top row of the stands. As for the music, jazz is a favorite of late, but really anything will do. The secret lies in the arrangement and tne impressiveness. And you'll need a few soloists... these are the folks who can change their colors within a second, go from being part of a uniform a cohesive whole to being the only person on the field that exists until the end of their solo. Now take these groups, from around the world, and put them in competition against each other. Rochester has two(?) senior corps: The Empire Statesmen and The Rochester Crusaders see also Rochester Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps You will probably not be surprised to learn that there is a Drum Corps Wiki.

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Empire Statesmen

The Empire Statesmen are a local drum and bugle corps, and a nonprofit organization. Some quick facts, since I'm editing this at work when I should be working: I sincerely apologize for these facts. Please feel very free to edit. I certainly will. —H The Statesmen won the DCA world championships in 2004 You can join at any age (except if you are very wee... they have a separate corps for those not considered adult) Competition season runs through the summer and culminates in a grand competition 'round the first weekend of September They generally practice at downtown highschools They used to practice and do shows throughout the summer that were excellently fun, jazz and improv, but I don't know if this still occurs One year they did a show using music from The Phantom of the Opera, complete with a rowboat that rowed across the field when Christine and the Phantom went across the lake (the taste inherent in this addition to the show is questionable. I'll edit this out later) The cost of joining is pretty low, generally members have to work a certain number of shifts at their Bingo hall, located on Empire Blvd. They have been around for a long time! When I was a little girl, I remember seeing the Statesmen perform at the first marching band competition I went to, and they wore glittery white tuxedos and played notes I'd never heard before, and I was quite taken with them. —H

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Fine Recording Studio

Fine Recording Studio is an amazing story about Rochester's music history finding its way to Australia. It is a story of 30 years of Rochester's rich music recording history (1947-1977). "In December 2002, a shipping container arrived in Sydney, Australia. Its contents largely unknown, it was unloaded into a warehouse in East Botany. For the next 6 months a story unfolded, a history of the recorded music of Rochester, NY, from the immediate post-war era, until the untimely death in 1977 of studio owner and jazz big band leader Vincent iancursio, aka Vince Jan, aged 58. The studio later suffered fire and flood damage." 1 Notes and References Scorched and flooded studio basement Detailed writeup on FreeAlbums WFMU Blog Entry on Finde Recording Studio 1Site detailing discovery and label information

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Hilton Apple Fest

The Hilton Apple Fest is an annual free festival held in September/October in Hilton. The festival features free live music, craft vendors, and apple treats from various local vendors, community groups, and organizations. There is a car show on Saturday, typically featuring over 500 juried automobiles of all shapes and sizes. Zarpentine's, Kelly's, and Birch are the three remaining apple growers in the area who participate in the festival. Urban sprawl has led to the demise of many of the orchards that once were present in Hilton and Parma. A five foot Hot apple crisp is baked and served each day at the festival. Festival proceeds go toward community donations throughout the year. History The Hilton Apple Fest was first held in 1981. In 1982, the festival baked a world record, 17 foot diameter, apple pie.

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Hip Green Pet

Hip Green Pet is a local web-based company that sells eco-friendly, American-made toys and other products for pets, mostly cats and dogs. As members of the National Association of Pet Rescue Professionals, their ultimate goal is to create a 501c3 foundation to build the nation's first totally green, holistic, no-kill animal sanctuary. Rochester-area customers save big on shipping. All packaging materials used are recyclable. Hip Green Pet has participated in Rochester's Greentopia Festival.

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International Film Festival

The Rochester International Film Festival is the world's oldest continually held short film festival (since 1959). The annual program features narratives, documentaries and animation made by emerging filmmakers from the USA and abroad, selected by a pedigree short film jury. Based on audience surveys, the most popular films shown at the festival are added to the permanent traveling collection called The Best of the Fest. The George Eastman House's Dryden Theatre holds a Best of the Fest screening each winter. The festival is associated with Movies on a Shoestring, Inc. - an independent non-profit organization. Fractions of the underwriting for The Best of the Fest comes from the New York State Council on the Arts. Additionally, the Rochester International Film Festival is part of the Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester. For one year, in 2008, the festival merged with the High Falls Film Festival to become the Rochester-High Falls International Film Festival. The two festivals have since separated.

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Gap Mangione

Gaspare "Gap" Mangione is a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader from Rochester, NY. Mangione's brother is Grammy-winning flugelhornist Chuck Mangione. Members of a music-loving family, both Gap and Chuck took up instruments. In 1958, they started performing together as the Jazz Brothers. In 1968, Gap Mangione released his first solo album, Diana in the Autumn Wind. More solo albums followed, along with tours (many as featured pianist in his brother's orchestral performances) throughout the 1970s. The 1980s he spent more time playing in and around Rochester and less time on the road. In 1990, he formed the Gap Mangione Big Band, which remains the premiere dance and concert big band in the Rochester area. The Big Band has released four CDs since 1998. Today, Mangione continues to make regular appearances at Rochester locations such as the Lodge at Woodcliff and the Rochester International Jazz Festival, as well as private gigs; he can be found playing solo, with the 14-piece Big Band, or with a quartet or sextet subset of the band. * Official Site * Gap Mangione's Wikipedia Site

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Music Scene/Local Labels

Blackdog Records is a local independent label founded by Robert Blackburn of Blackdog Recording Carbon Records is a small independent label run by local experimental artist Joe Tunis CMI Records - An Independent Record Company CMI on MySpace Dadstache Records is a local cassette label founded in 2013 Earring Records is an independent label with releases by Margaret Explosion, Invisible Idiot, Colorblind James, Personal Effects, Pete LaBonne, Bob Martin, Little Theatre Compilation, Wilderness Family, The Essentials, Absolute Grey. Rob Filardo has run Garage Pop Records as an independent label that puts out rock and roll, garage, surf, punk, country, roots(ish) music. Jargon Records is a label that features The Riviera Playboys. Hegira Records (formerly Melee Records) - A local independent label featuring local hardcore and metal acts. So, Grow Recordings - Local independent label founded by Tim Wilson. Attempts to keep all releases intimate with a sense of being hand made. Kaotic Records is a local independent label founded by Justin Yelle of http://www.kaoticrecording.com Kaotic Recording Studios featuring, The Filthy McNastys, Free Air, the indras, and more... Bangkok Blend is an independent multi-media label established in 2013.

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Oswego Punk House

Former cooperative music venue. The Oswego Punk House (the 189) has been sold to capitalism for good. All the punks have now gotten jobs and work 40+ hours a week, some have even gotten married and had little "punk" children. The overall stinky odor surrounding the house and it's former inhabitants is now just another page in RocWiki history. On July 16 2015, Trevor James Backer, Peter Pan syndrome sufferer and known Portland trollop, took serious umbrage to this page's contents. He stated, "WHERES [sic] MY CREDIT." So I call upon my unwashed sisters and brothers to seize back this page from the tyranny of lesser editors. Let our story and history flow forth with the vengeance of the pitchfork-wielding, gibberish shouting masses. To arms! To your keyboards!

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Bill Stern

Bill Stern was born July 1, 1907 in Rochester, New York. His first job as a sports announcer came in 1925 when he was hired to broadcast football games over WHAM radio. Stern's experience in theater and vaudeville as stage director and manager carried over into his broadcasting as he brought a dramatic flair to the microphone, especially while describing the action for NBC of the Friday night boxing matches. Stern was best-known as the host of The Colgate Sports Newsreel and Bill Stern Sports which ran on NBC or ABC from 1937 through 1956. On these fifteen-minute shows he told tales of sports legends and strange occurrences which kept listeners eagerly waiting for the climax. Although some of his reports stretched the limits of credibility, no one doubted that Stern was a master storyteller who used emphasis, repetition, and pauses to perfection. Bill Stern died in Rye, New York on November 19, 1971. He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988. See also: Bill Stern

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Bee Bee Power Plant

Located at High Falls, this plant often comes up in discussions of potential structures to explore. Little is known about access to the site. However, it is worth noting that tar residue at the plant may pose a health risk to would be explorers. It appears that part of the complex is still in use by RG&E to house some auxilliary functions like equipment certification so it's unlikely the property will be totally empty. I was able to walk around the lower section on a Friday evening without being challenged but there were cars going in and out. I recall a few years ago that some developer was supposed to convert the power plant into some sort of entertainment venue. —MrPhil **Entry is possibly by a "locked gate" near the chain of bars, near the falls. If you are small enough to get in, you can slip between the gate. I am 6'0" and 175lbs, and wasa ble to get through with no stuggle. Once through you must traverse to the top of the roof, which you can climb to. Come up to a catwalk, and go across it. Caution should be used when crossing it, as it is very beaten. You will find a door; climb up a few pipes to get to it and BAM! you're in! Enjoy! The inside is still powered, but has many old appliances, motors, paperwork, ect..

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Kurt Andrew

Kurt Andrew Indovina (b. Aug 9 1990) is an artist located in the Rochester NY area. He is a published writer, B movie film star, independent musician, film maker, and comic book illustrator. To his fans he is known as “Kurt Andrew.” He felt that his last name would be too complicated for people to pronounce correctly, so he decided to use his first and middle names. Kurt Andrew claims himself as a “one man band” act. Being a multi-instrumentalist, he uses a laptop on stage, alongside many other instruments that he frequently rotates through during songs. "Being a one-man band is personally better for me due to how much of a perfectionist I am, and I don't find myself ever having to argue with anyone else about the outcome of a song. But it's definitely far more time-consuming and can be stressful at times trying to figure out what to do next," says KA. He can be seen in several productions of Low Budget Pictures playing a variety of comedic roles. Best known for his role as Edgar Mullens in 'Taintlight', a spoof on the popular Twilight. And Max Havok in 'Geek War.' On October 21st 2011, he released his first single entitled "The Tide". On June 12th 2012, he released his debut EP "SOUVENIRS". http://www.kurtandrew.com http://www.facebook.com/kurtandrewmusic http://rochester.metromix.com/style/article/kurt-indovina-what-im/2663399/content

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New Riot Act

.jpg does not seem to be an image file. New Riot Act is a Subvert-Rock band formed in Greece in August 2015 by Mykel Nitro (from Intrinsic) and guitarist Phil Tharp (from Comedown). They have released one studio album, "New Riot Act" (2017), two EPs, "Residual Meltdown..." (2016) and "Ghostf*cker" (2018), and are currently working on their second studio album titled "Obliterate The Masses". History New Riot Act, then known as Sound Control, consisted of Mykel Nitro on Vocals, Tharp on Guitar, Spaz Spaziani (from Lupis) on drums, Eric Pinales (from The Results) on Lead Guitar, and Ryan Hurley (from The Bygone Few) on bass, the latter were temporary members. This line-up only existed in order to play one show in February 2016. The band would also record and release their debut EP "Residual Meltdown: The Plan To Eradicate All Human Existence" on February 12, 2016 through Nitro's private record label, XTM Records & Distribution. That June, after struggling to find a new line-up, Nitro and Tharp entered the studio to record some demos for their first album. This quickly lead to the duo going to long-time Intrinsic engineer, Micah Etzel at Arrhythmia Recordings, and they began to record the first album in late June 2016. The band recruited session musicians to record the missing pieces of the album. This would bring in Dan Nordquist on Lead Guitar and Michael Pinales on Bass (both from Blue Gardenia). In addition, Alex Bellanca (from Intrinsic) would join as a second rhythm guitar in order to "add more power" to the group's sound. The band would then recruit Jon Bishop (from The Bournes) to play drums with them. Sound Control would then play a few dates with this line-up, but would play it's final show in December 2016 and officially renamed the collective 'New Riot Act' in February 2017 upon Jon's release. This would see the return of Spaz Spaziani to the band on drums. New Riot Act released their debut, self titled studio album on April 28, 2017 and played what was thought to be their final show the following night at the Big Jar in Rochester, New York. Current Activity In early February 2018, Mykel Nitro began putting New Riot Act back together while recording a solo EP, which would become the "Ghostf*cker" release, deciding to make it an NRA (New Riot Act) release instead. Although he did not play on the EP, Phil Tharp would rejoin, along with Michael Pinales on bass, later that month. Dan Nordquist would record lead guitar on the EP, but would not rejoin the band as anything more than a studio member. Former Intrinsic bass player, Justin Russell, would join the group on second guitar in May, but left just a few weeks later. The band is currently working on their next studio album, which will be titled "Obliterate The Masses". The new album has no official release date at the moment, but is rumored to be a three part release. Studio Album(s) New Riot Act April 28, 2017 Obliterate The Masses (Part One) January 2019 Obliterate The Masses (Part Two) April 2019 Obliterate The Masses (Part Three) July 2019 EP(s) Residual Meltdown: The Plan To Eradicate All Human Existence February 12, 2016 Ghostf*cker April 20, 2018 Compilation(s) Horror Movie Soundtrack TBA Current Mykel Nitro (2015-Present) Vocals & Drums Philip Tharp (2015-Present) Vocals & Guitar** Michael Pinales (2016-Present) Bass Spaz Spaziani (2018-Present) Vocals & Guitar **Was absent from May 2017-June 2018 Past Dan Nordquist (2015, 2016-2017) Lead Guitar Alex Bellanca (2016-2017) Guitar Unofficial Spaz Spaziani (2015, 2017-2018) Drums Shane Newhouse (2015) Bass Eric Pinales (2016) Lead Guitar Ryan Hurley (2016) Bass Jon Bishop (2016) Drums The Bournes Blue Gardenia Comedown Intrinsic Lupis

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