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• Commented on Great Lakes Experience Festival
  ...except you can't fish at RiverFest Park....
• Commented on East Side: Residential densification, agrarian activity, and public interaction.
  http://wilsonstreeturbanfarm.wordpress.com/ They're doing very well!...
• Commented on East Side: Residential densification, agrarian activity, and public interaction.
  Has this person actually been to the East Side?...
• Commented on Buffalo Without Borders
  Also, just a point of clarification: as of this year, Burma is no longer under a military junta (it dissolved)....
• Commented on Buffalo Without Borders
  Not to be a troll, but let me clarify your language here -- the documentary may "attempt to refugees voices more clearly" or "in a different way", but unless Smiler made it himself, it does not "give refugees their own...
• Commented on Kleinhans Neighborhood Rising
  #whitepeopleproblems...
• Commented on Laura Garofalo and David Hill: "Flow Wall Pavilion"
  This isn't the end of the Fluid Culture series -- it's only the beginning! There are art installations, performances, lectures, and more scheduled through Spring 2012 in and around Buffalo. Check out http://fluidculture.org more for information!...
• Commented on Name that tagger for $500
  Yes! I always have wanted to do some similar "murals" along Black Rock Canal, but with the current water quality information. I'm sure if the rowers' parents saw the coliform counts in the canal due to raw sewage, they might...
• Commented on Restaurant Spotlight: Sunday Brunch at the Cozumel Grill
  Do you get to pee on the school across the street after brunch, too?...
• Commented on Thirty Townhouses Planned on E. Ferry Street
  All my research shows that the creek was buried where it lay -- hence, under the culvert and then north to flow under Scajaquada St. I know it runs underneath the lawn of the Juvenile Detention Facility next door on...
• Commented on Thirty Townhouses Planned on E. Ferry Street
  First off, I am so sick of racially coded "development" language that's thrown around by the commenters here. Secondly, I have two problems with this new development. As some folks have previously said -- this is was a highly contaminated...
• Commented on The Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP) has yet another project which will be beneficial to the city of Buffalo.
  Tilapia are inexpensive, easy to source, and grow very quickly. They're also perfectly happy eating plant material. I've heard talk of possibly introducing Yellow Perch (native Great Lakes species) in cold water ponds, but cold water fish just don't grow...
• Commented on The Buffalo Museum of Science will be opening The Chronicles of Narnia: The Exhibition on Monday, January 24th
  What the heck does this have to do with science?...
• Commented on The True Cost of Sprawl #4: There is no there there.
  My comment isn't about caring about how things look. My point, my addition to the conversation, is about what things mean. Our choices, however overlooked they may be by the masses, always say something. For the purposes of this post,...
• Commented on The True Cost of Sprawl #4: There is no there there.
  No, you missed my point. You can't focus on either without considering the other. Places both inform how we relate to one another (and to places themselves) and are informed by our cultural values, etc. "Non-places" are designed in such...
• Commented on The True Cost of Sprawl #4: There is no there there.
  Two additional theoretical references that would be really helpful (perhaps more so than Gertrude Stein) -- Robert Smithson (of Spiral Jetty fame) wrote quite a bit about his theory of Sites and Non-sites before his untimely death. The Non-site is...
• Commented on The True Cost of Sprawl #4: There is no there there.
  You've got yourself into a chicken-and-egg argument here. Places (including buildings, parking lots, etc.) aren't simply defined by usage. But they don't define usage either. It's the dance between the two -- how we use places and how places define...
• Commented on Fundraiser for the Buffalo Tanzania Education Project
  "Strategic partnerships" -- sounds familiar......
• Favorited Scajaquada: Beyond the Multitude Exhibit - Combining Art and Activism on Buffalo Rising
• Posted Beyond the Multitude to Buffalo Rising Events
  Scajaquada. The oldest word in use on the Niagara Frontier, and both source for and subject of an exhibition celebrating ecosystem, neighborhood, history, and place through innovative work from regional artists, activists, historians, performers, and practitioners. Opening Sept. 19, 4-8pm....
• Commented on Massachusetts Avenue Project's 2nd Annual Tour de Farms
  And what if taxpayers did help support this event? Is that a problem?...
• Favorited Lorax Alerts: Shiver Me Timbers on Buffalo Rising
• Favorited Urban Habitat Proposed at Central Terminal on Buffalo Rising
• Favorited The Little Taco Truck That Could on Buffalo Rising
• Commented on Neighborhood Public Perks
  JohnQPublic just got made fun of too often in art class... don't worry about him. Reclaiming spaces for PUBLIC use is crucial here. Not renting it out to cars, not selling advertising -- new public spaces, reconnecting (and re-energizing) communities....
• Commented on Third Annual World Wide Photo Walk
  Not to be a downer, but that "stunning waterfall" at the commercial slip is a very large combined sewer overflow. Like Dead-Man's Creek, like at the Ontario Boat Launch, and so on. Seems like CSO tourism is alive and well...
• Commented on Access is cleared. How's the water?
  Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper has begun doing testing at Emerald Beach, so they should be able to answer your question in the coming weeks!...
• Commented on Access is cleared. How's the water?
  I didn't have any problems with a flotilla of two canoes and a kayak on Thursday... maybe the guy (or girl) was having a bad day?...
• Commented on Emerald Beach Is Almost Back
  I wholeheartedly agree with you that the driftwood from Emerald Beach is not totally from Paladino's activies. However, I know that when Paladino cleared that lot of all of its trees, it definitely led to additional problems, including more clogging...
• Commented on Emerald Beach Is Almost Back
  I spent the better part of a Saturday digging trash out of the rocks all along the Marina during Riverkeeper's Spring Shoreline Sweep. Unfortunately, I think this area needs a little more TLC than simply removing driftwood... A couple of...