Months in the making and moments in the taking, the Reece Q CD release party went off without a hitch.
This is a little piece to give a shout out to everyone involved with the success of the ACT:LIVE event vol. 1.
The show, which will be known as arguably the best hip-hop show in Rochester for 2008, was a great night of unity, graf art, hip-hop, fun and groundbreaking performances in Rochester for Reece Q, PyInfamous, The Soul Slingers, the GOONIES crew, Sam.I.Am, Mr. Mumblz and Ajent O.
In some particular order, the thanks go like this.
First and foremost, I would like to thank Drew Nye at Dub Land Underground for giving us the space and time and everything I asked for with no questions asked. He is a hell of a guy and has done so much to support what we are doing here in Rochester. Make sure that you stop down into Dub land and get yourselves some drinks and take care of everyone down there when you can, that goes for Phil and the rest of the crew as well.
Thank you to Mike Dispenza and Patrick Gaffney (djb) for filming the evening and getting some great footage.
Thank you to Alexandra Fox of FOX_Photography for getting a million great photos of the evening and her help setting up the art in the foyer.
And, speaking of art in the foyer, huge props to my man DOWNER for the incredible stage design and graf art display. That kid is the shit.
The rest of the list of "thank yous" go as follows...
Thank you to Maureen and Peter Niche, Sarah White in D.C., Sarah Hamm (at the door), Jason Bayer, Lucy Warnett, Betsy Matthews at City Newspaper, Frank DeBlase at City Newspaper, Chris Banning at the merch table, Jordan at the merch table, Nasty Nate Hall and his girlfriend, Ben Steele and The Blades of Steele (of course), HUSKY, Nate on the streets for the promo, De-Rock for the promo support, OPTIX for the promo support, Leon for the great t-shirt, Young Bol for the promo support, the security at Dub Land, Miguel Urbina for great sound at Dub Land, Donkey Lips, Biscuit Tooth for being awesome, .chickenbone. for coming through, Greg at Pontillo's on Alexander, the guys at Love Hate Tattoo, Mr. Baskin, Kaylee Maul for being pregnant with a prodigy ninja, Temple Tattoo, Chris and Joshua, Susie Q at WBER, Joe Patane at Prism Designs, Kill The Noise for the inspiration and anyone else I forgot to mention...I thank you so much.
You're all part of an important movement in the scene, keep it up.
I'd also like to thank the Rochester Insider for being such a bullshit magazine that cares not a bit for the Rochester music and arts scene, your magazine blows. You inspire me to keep doing what I do.
I leave you with a little video jobbie we whipped up with photos from the show and some music from the artists that performed.
This past Saturday, I wish I saw more of the hip-hop community down at Dub Land Underground for the Saturday Night Fever Show featuring Emilio Rojas, Hassaan Mackey, FINALE and JAI. Even Nikal Fieldz made an appearance.
Our man Emilio (Don't call him RAKS), is making moves in the big leagues with some of the heaviest hitters in the game.
Emilio has been in Brooklyn for the past two years and hasn't been seen much here in Rochester for events, so it's nice to see him back in action in the ROC.
Hassaan Mackey put together a solid show with his man FINALE coming all the way from the other ROCK city, Detroit and also our man JAI from Rochester as well (OK, Playa, Playa).
All artists involved put on a smooth performance for the most part and the crowd reaction was great, especially when Emilio dropped the 585 remix with Hassaan and Nikal Fieldz.
There's nothing better than a hundred heads reverberating "585" at the top of their lungs. That is unity right there.
It blows my mind to see all the talent and charisma that is revolving around Rochester and these guys are no exception.
Hassaan Mackey has been steadily trying to make his way back into the forefront of Rochester hip-hop, while guys like Emilio and Nikal Fieldz are trying to make their place outside of the ROC.
Which is a good thing, don't take that the wrong way.
For those of you who don't know, Emilio Rojas has been working with one of the biggest names in production on planet earth right now, M-Phazes. Australia's golden child from the Gold Coast (now in Melbourne).
And Nikal Fieldz, fresh off his UMA win in New York City, he is promoting his next single, "Racist pt. 2" and shooting video around town as well.
If you read the Build interview, he also has another single coming called, "You Gonna Love Me". Produced by Build.
If you didn't make it down to the show, it is what it is. But, you missed a great opportunity to say.."I saw those guys when....". Yeah, don't be a sleeper.
If you're into hip-hop, you should have been there.
That's all I have to say.
Cheers to Hassaan for putting together a solid bill of performers and cheers to all of the performers. You all did a great job. 585, son.
I have some other news for you regarding the Reece Q "Quote To Self" CD...
We had a few problems with the original print of the CD (skips, etc.). Soooo, plans for store shelves have been pushed back.
We are working on getting them into all the area stores mentioned before, but not for another week or two.
Also, if you are into it, ACT:LIVE has a fun promotion involved with the Reece Q CD.
When you purchase the CD, you will notice the CD itself is white with a colored "Q" on it. Some are green, some are purple, but one is gold.
The gold labeled CD will be planted into a nearby store and whoever gets it, not only do you get that CD for free, but you will then have an all access pass at any ACT:LIVE event. For life.
That means for life. Every show. And hell, maybe I'll get you a few drinks on the house.
So, keep your eyes and ears posted to the ground for the attack, I'll be filling you in as things develop with the CD issue.
Till then, thanks for your patience, I have gotten quite a few emails about the CD situation so I hope that clears the air.
Till next time kiddies, enjoy the "Insiteless" covers...haha.
“So, we printed 500 t-shirts, 5,000 CDs (between Destroy and Tha Coach), the ride was all gassed up and then we get a call a half hour before we’re ready to leave from the founder of the march telling us it’s canceled because of the rain.”
ACT:LIVE: The Million DJ March was being held in Washington, D.C. this past weekend and local hip-hoppers Coach Build Parsells, Destroy and their manager, Snacks, were about to make a big promo move but instead they were rained out.
The march was planned for the Washington Mall, a huge lawn that had been ruined due to the rain. There was so much that they couldn’t even properly raise the stages.
So, what did Tha Coach do? He didn’t buckle in and stay home. Instead, he and the crew took advantage of a beautiful weekend and headed west, to Chicago.
We’ll get into the trip to Chicago, but I sat down with Tha Coach and Snacks for a little one on one and wanted to find out a little bit more about what Build ‘n Destroy have been up to as well as find out more about the Million DJ March and the God Money Music Group started by Build, Destroy and Snacks.
"A. Shaw was my contact down there; she’s from Rochester and is one of the founders of the Million DJ March. She moved here from Oakland and we met in middle school, we’ve been cool since the start.
Then we met up on MySpace ten or twelve years later and she presented us the opportunity to do the march.
The rain kind of washed that away, but I’m not the type of person to let that stop me.
We’re Build and Destroy, our set was destroyed, so we just had to build off that."
ACT:LIVE: So, how did you build off that?
We have some contacts in Chicago, we had all this material to spread, its Labor Day weekend, and we have money in our pockets and gas in our ride so we went to Chicago’s south side where we have people at.
When we got back, we counted up the goods and I know we went through at least three thousand CDs and a lot of t-shirts. That’s all the CDs we sold and gave out, we’re just trying to get the word out.
At the end of the day, that’s what it’s all really about.
I had never been to Chicago before, so what better way to introduce myself and get the love out than to give my people some product.
That’s what I’m on right now; I’m on a promotion blitz.
ACT:LIVE: You’re promoting The Demonstration CD, right?
I’m promoting that and I’ll be out of town next week working on the Line Of Scrimmage project. But, for now it’s The Demonstration. That’s not even the full album; it’s just a preview to let everybody know what we got going on.
Let me just give you a little bit of info on what I’ve been doing, I’ll just jump into it.
ACT:LIVE: Cool, go ahead, that’s what I want to know and what the people should know. Tell me what you’re doing.
I’m glad you came and talked to me because sometimes, we get left out of the loop. We’re all working hard over here.
It’s great to have an opportunity on a local level to tell people what’s going on. Here’s what I do…
I rap, I produce, I do videos, I also have a management company with about four artists. I had to down-size a bit because of the economy, we all know how that is.
I'm working with these artists on a production level and just “coaching” essentially. I’m Build Parsells, Tha Coach.
I’ve had my hands in a lot of stuff around here. A few of the people you’ve had on your website are people I have been working with or have worked with. Jay Quest is one. shouts out to my man Jay Quest. I did the cover for his SkyZoo beat mix.
I also produced Nikal Fieldz next single, “You Gonna Love Me”.
ACT:LIVE: That’s the single he has been shooting a video for here recently, right? I’m pretty sure he was shooting at Pearl the other night. He has a weekly party at Pearl now on Thursdays.
Yeah, he just won the UMA, shouts out to him for that. I remember when he first played the “Racist” single for me and I was worried he would get typecast into a certain type of rapper for doing that. But, I know Nikal and I do know that he does like controversy, but he stuck to his guns and pulled through with a win.
Congratulations to Nikal for having his mind made up and going for it.
ACT:LIVE: I agree, a lot of us may not agree with some of Nikal’s ways, but he is a hard worker and he is persistent. A lot of cats could learn a lot from him on the points of publicity and persistence.
That’s what I’m trying to do now with the new CDs and with our new music company, God Money Music.
I’m holding up the t-shirt as we speak.
God Money Music is me and my partner, Snacks. We started working together about six years ago.
Snacks and Destroy have been at the core of who I’ve been working with. Then there’s a partner of mine named Pounds, he’s down south in Atlanta doing some things. I have like two beats on his new album and some stuff out on the table with him.
Destroy is my man though, you know, we started this whole Build ‘n Destroy thing together. He’s been my partner through the ups and downs, the bad days and good while we would fight over two bags of chips and a fifty cent soda…those kinds of days.
I got his back in whatever he does and he’s got my back in whatever I do.
That’s why I’m here with his CDs as well as mine.
Right now it’s a Build ‘n Destroy promotion blitz.
ACT:LIVE: Where can we get your CDs and T-shirts and gear?
The website for God Money Music is coming very soon; you can get everything you want there. We’re working on God Money Digital. Shouts out to Go Gettaz Union, that’s my man Destroys crew.
They got some cool Go Gettaz fitted hats right now.
ACT:LIVE: Sounds like you guys are trying to work on an empire of hip-hop.
It started out as just a hobby, but this can be a good living. That’s what it’s all about, just making a living.
This is the music business, so if you don’t have businesses sense you’re halfway out of the game already.
I love hip-hop and I am a man from the streets, but I want to make a living.
My work will not only pay off for myself, but for the Rochester area too. We can work together to make that happen.
All the artists I mentioned already are damn near on, there’s so much talent here.
And, everybody is doing it for themselves; we don’t got no help from nobody.
Outlets like ACT:LIVE and MySpace are the best ways to spread the knowledge and spread the seed. We can’t always travel, so by way of the internet, it’s like traveling without going anywhere.
I have to give a shout out to Quan DaBomb, he really introduced me to the game and really put me on for the first time.
I’ll always show love for him, he helped me out so much and a lot of people in Rochester don’t really show love, so I’m gonna make sure that Tha Coach does.
He and I started Deftown Records, that was really his brainchild.
ACT:LIVE: A month or so ago, I saw SubSoil at Spike’s on Monroe and Destroy did and unannounced couple of songs with those guys and I liked the energy that was put off. Destroy looked like he was really having a good time with those guys and I’d like to see that again. The crowd really wanted more from Destroy.
“Snacks: We’ve done several shows with SubSoil over the summer and after touring with them for a bit, we’ve become good friends. We knew them before they were Subsoil.
Coach: We’re artists and we’ll show you that you can’t really pigeonhole us.
We’ve been working with them for a while, like Snacks said. All of us, we’ve been in the game for a while now in Rochester and are a solid part of Rochester history. I just hope these young cats coming up pay homage to the older generation, and I’m talking about the cats that were here even before me.
None of us can just do this by ourselves; we have to make a pipeline to feed this energy out to get that fame.
We have to work together.
ACT:LIVE: I totally agree. I’m glad we share that same notion. The talent needs to be true though. The young guys need to understand its hard work, but it’s a great payoff and a lot of fun.
I’m glad I had this talk with Tha Coach and Snacks. I want to thank them for meeting me and allowing me to share a positive message to more of you reading.
Tha Coach is right, the community of artists and musicians needs to work together and not worry about holding their cards so close to their chests because they’re worried about the next mans hand and not share.
None of the hip-hop crews, like the Stones Throw group, Quannum Projects out in California, Motown Records or even Def Jam Records (Def Jam/Island, now the largest record company on planet earth) would never have been successful if the city didn’t work together. And in the end, just have fun together.
Coach Build Parsells has a new sampler called “The Demonstration” out on God Money Music
And, Destroy, his partner, has a new sampler called “Soul of the City”
ACT:LIVE has an event in the works for November, right before you all get away from classes. I’m sure that some of the mentioned artists will be involved and some other fun things.
For now, check a video with a really good message for the community from Tha Coach Build Parsells and crew. This was a story run on WROC-TV 8.
Peace. I, am out.
- Games
Right now we're listening to:
Pantera"Mouth For War" ("Vulgar Display Of Power", 1992, Elektra)
A note to all, I was pretty sick last week as well as busy this past week and couldn't make it down to Look Ah Hookah like I wanted to, but I would like to at least point out and mention that they are welcoming back students to the Rochester area and are having an exotic show featuring our girl Riley, of sword swallowing fame, performing this weekend.
The party is this Saturday the 6th, 5:00 pm till close.
Now, I have yet to stop down there, but from the looks of the pictures on their website and from the word of mouth, it's a cool place to be yourself, relax and usually find some form or exotic entertainment.
No, I did not say erotic, but belly dancing is kind of sexy.
Either way, our friend Riley Schillaci will be entertaining the crowd along with some belly dancers as well.
Trust I will make my way in there soon, have fun this weekend there kids!
For more information click on Riley's page or the Look Ah Hookah link.
Coach Build Parsells, the ACT:LIVE interview, is coming very very soon kiddies!
P.S. The Reece CD giveaway info will be in the next article with Coach Build Parsells. That's up next.
Local film producer and director, Matthew Ehlers, may be a name you haven't heard much, but if you like films and if you like comedy, you might want to pay attention.
He has a company called Eggwork Productions, based out of Rochester and in 2006 he filmed his first feature film titled "Smoking Laws". All in Rochester and with a cast that was almost all originally from Rochester.
Prior to that, had been creating short films to be submitted to many film festivals and one titled "Lunch" that made it to the Sundance Film Festival. He's also taken a handful of these ideas to Comedy Central, The Cartoon Network and to the internet, with plans of whipping up his own version of Funny or Die, etc.
We met to talk about his movie "Smoking Laws", finding work in Rochester and his lessons from Los Angeles.
Here's a lesson in Rochester film.
“Los Angeles, to me, was just a playground and nothing was coming out of there that I really enjoyed", said Matthew.
ACT:LIVE: He says this after his experience at USC as a film student and years working in Los Angeles.
“The whole goal of going to USC was to get into the industry, but everything was being made outside of Los Angeles.”
ACT:LIVE: So what did you do in the meantime out there while you looked for work?
I was actually a roadie for punk bands and heavily into music at the time. I had an internship at Mute Records, I was a fan of the “new wave”, Depeche Mode kind of stuff.
I’m showing my age a bit, but that WAS the late eighties in Los Angeles. Depeche Mode probably still sells more than the Rolling Stones, which is just bizarre. Southern California just goes nuts for those bands.”
ACT:LIVE: So, you came back here right after school?
Yeah. I worked at GEVA, worked as a bartender and then finally got back into film in the mid-nineties with these three shorts that went to Sundance (Sundance Film Festival).
That was great because it gave me the “merit badge” to get my material read.
That got me hired by a producer in England to write a script in Manchester, which for me was a thrill.
I was walking around the same streets as Joy Division and Tony Wilson. I actually passed by Tony Wilson on the street. That was about a year before he died. I was really funny to be walking around all those streets and writing a script for all British characters.
None of that would have happened if I hadn’t gotten into the Sundance Film Festival.
In terms of big studio stuff, it’s very hard to get into and it doesn’t really attract me. Rochester is just fine for me.
I go to New York City at least once a month, I’ve worked with Comedy Central and Cartoon Network trying to develop some short film stuff and that’s fun for me.
We produced a couple shorts for Cartoon Network and are currently producing a short series of films for Comedy Central called “Cappers”. I was actually editing it this morning and we’re finally finishing it up.
ACT:LIVE: So, now you're just writing and compiling for the networks?
What we want to do is keep coming up with content for these networks and entities. There seems to be a new one popping up every other week.
Super Deluxe just folded which is a shame, as did a couple others. There are so many others still going that we want to get the shorts onto. That’s a mission of ours, to gain venture capital to create our own. “Cappers” dot com is taken, but we’ll come up with something.
In that business there are colossal failures and awesome success stories. Hopefully we can learn from those failures and bring something successful to the market. No one knows exactly how to make it work yet though.
We’re just trying to make as much material as possible and put it out there. This feature is part of that (Smoking Laws). We might take the feature and break it up into webisodes or try to develop it into a television show.
We’ll see what happens this coming weekend at the screening. It would be nice to get a grassroots thing going, otherwise you’re at the mercy of these distribution companies who are just inundated with this stuff. 90% of it is just crap out there.
ACT:LIVE: How are you marketing the film for now?
Right now, we’re working with Labatt Blue and Hank Parker. They’re helping to keep costs down.
We had a full page ad in the Freetime Magazine, but on the non-traditional side, we put the trailer up on YouTube.
From now, until the end of time, I’ll be telling people to go to Smoking Laws dot com and see the trailer, tell your brothers, tell your wife.
I’m trying to tell people this isn’t just a funny video you get at work on YouTube. Please just send it to your friends.”
ACT:LIVE: So how did the Sundance opportunity come about for you?
We did the short film called “Lunch”, it was slow going at first, even though we hit some really good festivals with it; but nothing on the level of Sundance.
What happened was, we got runner up at a festival and that put us on the radar for other festivals like “Just for Laughs” in Montreal, SXSW and others that we actually got into.
Those wouldn’t have happened without the initial nod from that one festival. The festival was actually called “Dances with Films”. Which is actually the worst title for a festival ever, but hey, people remember it.
Comedy Central then bought a short film and they keep calling back asking to make more short films. I hope that continues with them and other networks in the future.
ACT:LIVE: Its sounds very similar to the life of a musician who just keeps writing track after track and ships them around until somebody picks up on it. The larger your arsenal, the better.
That’s the plan.
I am always amazed as to what does become successful, like on YouTube and these other sites, so we’re going to try to push the envelope a little bit with our work at Eggwork Productions.
We want to play off of ideas that have worked before and do something kind of outrageous.
ACT:LIVE: What kind of comedy are you submitting to Comedy Central? I picture the [adult swim] type of market…..Tim and Eric style.
Those guys are hilarious, oh my god. They had their own show on Super Deluxe, I watched it all the time. It’s so freakin’ bizarre. They were one of my favorites on that show.
We had developed a show called “Animungus”, which was a show about these wild animals and why they couldn’t survive in the human world…it’s hard to explain, but there’s a link on the website if you want to check it out.
It never hit the air though, which was a shame. The show got canceled before it even aired, that happens more than most people know.”
ACT:LIVE: How does that happen? How does a show get picked up and canceled before it even airs?
Change of staff at the executive level...many different reasons. Somehow they do Neilson testing at the most random times, how they do that I’ll never know.
But, with that project, we earned enough money and credibility to move onto the next one. It’s like you said, the more material you gain and the harder you work at getting seen the more it pays off.
I’ll be stretching that on my resume for years. I can at least then say our ideas worked for Comedy Central. I won’t over inflate it though; I hate it when people do that. I’d rather let the work speak for itself.”
ACT:LIVE: When was “Smoking Laws” filmed and finished?
We shot that in March of 2006. We shot it three days a week, for about two months. It was a total of about twenty two days of shooting.
It was shot with an almost all local cast, some of whom had moved to either New York City or Los Angeles. They were all friends of mine. No real big names, but just people I like working with.
I liked that because for my first feature I just wanted to be amongst friends and have fun.
We accomplished the first goal, we’ll see about the second one.
ACT:LIVE: What’s the response you’ve gotten about the film thus far?
We had a sold out screening at the High Falls Film Festival and a friend of mine helped us get it into the Little Theatre’s “Theatre One”. That theatre has a seating capacity of about 300 and we sold it out, then some.
That was a great reaction for me and word of mouth has been really good.
All the cast and crews family members like it, but then people I’ve never even met are coming up and saying that they saw it and liked it. That gives me a better feeling when strangers are approaching me about it.
I don’t know about it becoming the next big “you name it” independent film, but who knows. Weirder things have happened.
We shot it for a shoestring budget, had a great post production house (Crystal Pictures, Fairport) work on it and I think it looks like a million bucks for having spent next-to-nothing on it.
I’ll be using this one to try to get investors in on the next one, which are very hard to come by, especially in this economy.
ACT:LIVE: Maybe for a shout out to other creative people in film in this town, are you ever looking for new help in the area? Writers, cameramen etc.?
Oh, all the time. I’d love to get an intern, who is really good with Final Cut Pro, web designers for flash and so on. Talent like that is always welcome.
It’s hard to find people, because on the spec stuff, there’s no money. But the stuff on the corporate level that I do, which actually pays, we’re talking about jobs that only require one or two workers.
ACT:LIVE: So you also do corporate videos like commercials and training videos?
A lot of commercials, and I just did a demonstration video for Verizon in New York City recently. That was great money, but not the most creative thing on the planet, self admittedly.
Yet, you do one or two of those a summer and you can spend the rest of the year doing what you really want to do. It’s like everything else; it’s one for love and one for money.
So, to answer your question, yes, I’m always looking for help or people that just want to hang out.
I’m in this great space behind the German House. It’s in the offices of Rochester Talent. It’s a great warehouse, well, not a warehouse but it’s like a dance studio. I’m there alone half the time, so it would be great to have a bunch of other film makers just hanging out and collaborating. We need more of the back-scratching between film makers.”
ACT:LIVE: I actually know a couple of them so I will be sure to let them know the good word. And hopefully they are reading this now and will get a hold of you.
They should be aware of the film office here in Rochester. FilmRochester.org. They should definitely stop by, introduce themselves and get in some resumes.
Tell them to talk to Nora Brown.
ACT:LIVE: Another great name in film here is Mike Dispenza. He has been doing some great work for those of us in the music community and is a student at RIT. He’s a young guy with a vast amount of potential, his team is right there with him and he has a strong work ethic. He’s someone you may be interested in having move some cameras around your sets.
He has clients who may be out of town, but I have seen only local work of his.
That’s the best (Having local clients). What you have in this town, is a situation where all the clients are spoken for. For decades it’s been this way.
So, for me, I have to go to New York City or Toronto to get work, which is kind of a pain in the ass. What’s happened is no one is sharing the wealth.
Everyone is so fearful of losing their great clients, so the production community tanks. There’s not enough work to keep people just coming out of college, so the kids just vanish. They go to Los Angeles or they go to New York City.
When a big production comes to town and says they need an art department that’s four people deep, they need ten grips and so on; they can’t fill it because all the crews left to the places I mentioned.
I’m sure that some of these students may move back and maybe work as locals, but why would they when they are working two hundred days a year out of town?
ACT:LIVE: So in the movie, the narrator quit smoking…was that you and did you quit smoking?
I did. I quit eight years ago. I chewed the gum.
I had to free myself of going to any bars for like a month.
ACT:LIVE: The premier here in Rochester is the 7th – the 10th correct? At Abilene’s on Liberty Pole…I liked that place. The owner was cool and the layout is nice. I wrote a little something about it a few months ago.
We’ll see what happens with it, there’s a nice little buzz about it. City Newspaper has us as the pic of the week and I don’t want to think about it too much. I want to just enjoy what I’m doing and hopefully things all fall in place.
Little known fact to most, is that Peoria, IL was at one point “the” test market in the US for movies, music, food and so on, but Rochester has taken that throne with more movie screens per capita than any other market in the US.
Do you want to know the reason why?
Because, in Rochester, there are significantly less Latino residents than there are other races. That is a true story. That is on their list of demographic reasons why food companies, music companies and film companies test and market products here first.
It’s not like it used to be, but we’re still a big test market.
Peoria was big because these companies just wanted to know if plain old Midwesterners liked it or not. What they feel is the good old American stereotype.”
ACT:LIVE: Interesting. I learned something today. I was always aware that Rochester was a large test market, but the Peoria thing I was not.
I wish Matthew the best of everything with his work and would gladly lend a hand in some writing. To the rest of you talented individuals who are in college or looking for work, get in touch with Matthew or stop by his space behind the German House on Gregory St. and spit some ideas at him.
Just in case you didn’t catch it earlier, the screening of “Smoking Laws”, a film by Matthew Ehlers and Eggwork Productions, will be at Abilene’s on Liberty Pole Way in downtown Rochester.
Abilene’s is a really comfortable place to relax and kick back and there is a good sized patio with a skyline view to enjoy. I wrote a piece about Abilene’s a couple months back, so check through the archive if you would like to see some pictures of the place and meet the owner.
The screening will be held Sunday, September 7th – Wednesday, September 10th at Abilene’s.
I have seen a copy of the movie already, and I have to say it is funny. It was shot at Mex for the most part and has a cast of some familiar faces from around town. I think any Rochesterian would enjoy it.
So, get up and get out. Get in line at Abilene’s and support a local film maker who needs to get his work visible. Support him so he can support local students with work and keep them in the Rochester area developing their talents.
This are is filled with some of the greatest landscapes and set locations you couldn’t find anywhere else. Keep it local.
It is with great pleasure that we announce ACT LIVE Music!
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- Music, Interviews, and Profiles of local artists! - Interviews with international artists! - Event Reviews (complete with video & photos!) - Record Reviews- and more!
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