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Cheeburger Cheeburger

Cheeburger Cheeburger was a 50's-style chain burger place offering burgers in five different sizes, ranging from the 5.5 oz. Classic to the huge (20 oz.) Famous Pounder; add fries, onion rings and a drink. They also offered other sandwiches and wraps plus salads to round out the menu. Their Invent Your Own Shake or Malt was popular as well. See Online Menu for details. The Rochester location was originally in the Port of Rochester (the former Fast Ferry terminal) in Charlotte, so it was only a seasonal venue. Outside seating was limited, so you sometimes had to wait if you want to watch the boat traffic on the Genesee River. According to the Democrat and Chronicle, the owners closed the Port of Rochester location in August 2015 and re-opened on November 6, 2015 at CityGate, in the Upper Mount Hope area of the city. In October 2018, Cheeburger Cheeburger in CityGate closed due to eviction. According to WROC TV-8, the eviction notice was given by Marshal Sande Macaluso. See Cheeburger evicted from CityGate in Rochester Photo Album - Original Charlotte Location

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Main Street Armory

from Vintage Views of Rochester. 2010 - by Andrew88 The Main Street Armory was built in 1905 as a home and training facility for the National Guard in the days of the horse cavalry. The castle-like architecture makes the historic structure command East Main Street in the Marketview Heights neighborhood. Over the years as the military grew in sophistication the facility was abandoned by the government and fell into disrepair. The building was purchased for $1000 in 2005 and began renovations before officially opening to the community in 2006. This beautiful and historic building serves as a venue for a variety of functions such as concerts, visual and performing arts, sports teams, corporate and community events, as well as a production location for film and video. It has facilities for serving food and drink. The building owner is continuing work on the huge structure as money is available, and there are still some "rough edges" showing. The building is rented out to various promoters who arrange the individual events. In the past certain events have raised concerns about noise, parking, and disorderly patrons. On March 5 2023 three patrons were killed, and seven others hospitalized, in a stampede as the crowd exited following a concert. The city then cancelled the venue's entertainment license, after which the facility was quickly sold to a newly-formed limited liability corporation.1 As of December 2023 the city continues to deny the venue an entertainment license, pointing to multiple code violations in the numerous other properties owned by the applicant.2

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House of Hamez

In an effort to support the arts, House of Hamez has filled its nights with music, poetry and comedy.You can join in or just be a witness to some of the great local and regional talent that steps up on the stage. The room itself offers great acoustics which makes it a great place to hear music. The staples of the coffeehouse are the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday open mics. Tuesdays from 7pm to 10pm are for singer/songwriters and musicians, and is hosted by Robbie Rohan and Tim Shea. Wednesdays 8pm to 11pm is an open jam hosted by "the nameless band." This is open to all musicians and is a group participatory jam. There is even a house djembe and guitar. Thursdays 8pm to 11pm are for the poets and writers of prose and songs. Thursdays are hosted by Gary Lehmann. These nights have a great sense of community. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to join in. Friday and Saturday nights are reserved for shows. Check out the House of Hamez Web site to see who is performing this week! House of Hamez is run by James Rowe, owner of Daily Perks Coffeehouse, the former name of this establishment. Free Wifi Daily Perks has apparently reopened as "The House of Hamez" — .

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Pollywogg Holler

Main Lodge Sauna Loft Wood Loft New York's only (?) eco-resort, accessible via short 5 minute hike from the road (wheelbarrow provided for baggage). This resort / pizza parlor is totally "off the grid" meaning it relies on traditional methods and solar power. Pizza is served publicly on Sundays 1p-6p & Wednesday evenings and a band plays on the last Sunday of the month. They offer overnight all-inclusive (appetizers, dinner, wine & breakfast) packages ranging for $110 per person and are also open in the wintertime, for the more adventurous. Please call ahead if you plan on bringing a dog with you are approval. As of spring 2007 in order to come for pizza you now need to get a $30 membership (includes family and up to 4 friends). Guests that spend the night are not required to get a membership. We spent a few hours hanging out on the porch of the main cabin chit chatting with the other guests and the hosts. They poured wine until our glasses runneth over, fed us appetizers (shrimp, cheese, crackers & vegetables) then fed us hickory smoked steak & potatoes and chicken & rice. Unfortunately we were too full to try any of the hickory smoked apple pie. Eventually we retired to our loft above the sauna room (those stairs were most precarious). Breakfast was also good and we stayed around for the Sunday pizza. A mother/son came the way from Florida which were on the end of their week-long vacation and the Holler was their final stop before heading back. They were using the book as their guide, which is where I originally heard of the Holler a year before. We tried both the traditional pepperoni pizza /w garlic (home grown) and we tried their specialty dish "Bill's Garlic Pie" which has feta, black olives, red & yellow pepper. Both pizzas, cooked in a wood over, were great. I highly recommend this place even if you can only come for the pizza. Overall this is the best little vacation I've ever taken. —

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Lydia Lunch

Lydia Lunch (June 2, 1959-) was born Lydia Koch in Rochester, NY, which is also the birthplace of infamous female rock musicians Kim Gordon and Wendy O. Williams. Lydia is an American singer, poet, writer, and actress. After arriving in New York City at the age of 16, Lunch moved into a large communal household of artists and musicians, including Kitty Bruce, daughter of Lenny Bruce, where post-punk No Wave bands such as DNA and MARS frequently played. She immediately saw this form of music as the proper forum for her angry poetry and rants, and founded the short-lived but influential No Wave band Teenage Jesus & the Jerks in 1976 with her then romantic and artistic partner, No Wave punk-funk-jazz musician James Chance. The duo later recorded the album Off White in 1978, before splitting up permanently. A self-avowed "confrontationalist" identified by the Boston Phoenix as "one of the 10 most influential performers of the 90's", Lunch's solo career featured collaborations with musicians such as J.G. Thirlwell, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, Nick Cave, Billy Ver Plank, Steven Severin, Robert Quine, Sadie Mae, Rowland S. Howard, Michael Gira, The Birthday Party, Einstürzende Neubauten and Die Haut. She also acted in, wrote, and directed underground films, sometimes collaborating with underground film maker and musician/photographer Richard Kern (including several films such as Fingered. More recently she has recorded and performed as a spoken word artist, collaborating with such artists as Exene Cervenka, Henry Rollins, Don Bajema, Hubert Selby Jr., and Emilio Cubeiro, as well as authoring both traditional books and comix (with award-winning graphic novel artist Ted McKeever). Links Amazon.com page for Lydia Lunch Finding Inner Peace With the Angriest Punk of '70s New York - New York Times (2013-12-20) IMDb We Talked to Lydia Lunch and She Didn't Seem to Like Us Very Much - Vice.com (2013-05-20) Wikipedia

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