City Newspaper's South Wedge-Ucation event is back! Come on down to the South Wedge Thursday, September 15, 5-8 p.m. for OUTRAGEOUS deals on goods and services by area merchants, plus information tables and discounted offers from some of Rochester's biggest arts and cultural organizations.
South Wedge-Ucation is FREE and open to the public, and we especially encourage area college...
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City Newspaper's South Wedge-Ucation event is back! Come on down to the South Wedge Thursday, September 15, 5-8 p.m. for OUTRAGEOUS deals on goods and services by area merchants, plus information tables and discounted offers from some of Rochester's biggest arts and cultural organizations.
South Wedge-Ucation is FREE and open to the public, and we especially encourage area college students to come out. Students who present school IDs will also get free swag bags full of cool Rochester stuff. (While supplies last.)
Here is the current list of vendor offers:
*Le Petit Poutine: $3 poutine (traditional and vegetarian/gluten free)
*Solera: $3 select glasses of wine (21 and over only)
*Nathaniel Square Store: Half-off sandwiches
*John's Tex-Mex: $1.25 empanadas and $1.50 Tecate beer
*Peppa Pot Restaurant: $2.50 Peppa Pot sampler (rice, meat or veggies, fried plantains)
*The Keg Sports Bar: $1.50 pints, $6 pitchers of selected domestic beers (21 and over only); half-off selected appetizers
*Napa Woodfired Pizza: $3 wood-fired 6" cheese or South Wedge Special pizza
*Cheesy Eddie's: Half-off single slices of cake (limit 3 slices per customer)
*Glover's Barber Shop: $8 haircuts
*Caverly's Irish Pub: $2 pints and $6 pitchers of Dundee Oktoberfest Beer (21 and over only)
*Coffee Connection: Spin the Wheel of Java Deals -- every spin is a caffeinated win!
*Full Moon Vista: First 75 customers through the door get a Beam Bug mini-light for $5 (regularly $9.99)
*Eco Bella Bakery: 50 cent mini-cupcakes and brownies (proceeds benefit Paws and Purrs Animal Rescue and Wayne County Humane Society)
*Boulder Coffee: 50 cent cups of coffee
*Lux Lounge: $1 PBRs and $2 Atomic Wedgie shots (21 and over only)
*Equal Grounds: 2-for-1 brewed coffees, 2 scoops of ice cream for the price of 1
*Mise en Place: Buy 1 meatball get 1 free ($1.50); $1.50 pommes frites with chili cheese; $3.75 jumbo chili cheese dogs
*Little Venice Pizza: $1 cheese and $1.50 pepperoni pizza slices
*Zak's Avenue: Buy-one-get-one-free sterling silver earrings, bracelets, and pendants
*Echo Tone Music: $10 professional tambourines
*Hedonist Chocolate: 25 cent chocolate medallions
*Salon Paragon Ltd.: 50 percent off hair-care products and accessories
*South Wedge Wine and Spirits: FREE wine tastings (21 and over), 10 percent off wine purchases ($10 max discount)
*Open Face: Half-off half-and-half cookies and $1 home-brewed gourmet flavored water
*Premier Pastry: A Sweet Surprise -- a box of goodies for $3 (limit 1 per customer)
*Tap and Mallet: $2.50 pints of seasonal draft beer (21 and over only)
*ABVI/Goodwill: 50 percent off all specially marked items
*South Wedge Health and Fitness: 5-class pass for $10, plus FREE chair massages
*Period Bath Supply Company: Buy one bubble bath, get one free
*Historic Houseparts: Buy one soy candle, get one free
*South Wedge Shop: 50 percent on any "I Love South Wedge" merchandise
*Thread: T-shirts, dresses, flip-flops, and more for $5, $10, or $15
*Mellow Madness Tattoo Parlor: Get a bonus 50 percent on gift certificates purchased noon-9 p.m.
*Tango Cafe: FREE dance lesson 5-6 p.m., plus $10 voucher for future classes
And look for the following arts and cultural organizations in the Star Alley park:
*George Eastman House: Buy-one-get-one-free tickets to the Dryden Theatre.
*The Little Theatre: Free snack packs for new student members. General public 10 percent off all new merchandise (pub glasses, steel coffee cups, t-shirts, etc.).
*Rochester Contemporary Arts Center: Free “State of the City: In The Loop” t-shirt with new $20 student membership. Play RoCo pong for more prizes!
*Writers & Books: $30 memberships in honor of W&B’s 30th anniversary, plus raffles for a pair of tickets to David Sedaris’s October 12 reading.
*Water Street Music Hall: Get information about upcoming fall concerts!
*Memorial Art Gallery: Buy-one-get-one-free general admission to the gallery.
*TheaterROCS: Hourly drawing to win two tickets to the Annual TheatreRocs Showcase on Monday, September 19.
*Geva Theatre Center: $15 off first week of performances for “Dracula” (running October 11-November 13), as well as info on $10 student-rush tickets.
*Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra: Get information on student and young-professional ticket deals, as well info on the September 30 Red Carpet Spectacular.