From ‘Net battle over Park Lane condos, written by Business First’s James Fink: The online petition campaign is designed to balance out another with those opposed to the project. That petition, which debuted last fall, has more than 2,000 signatures. “We’re extremely pleased that that number of people have taken the time to show their support for the project,” said Judi Griggs, Uniland spokesperson. “It’s not only the number but who they are and who they represent.” The petition, which debuted during the Memorial Day weekend, has been signed by representatives of block clubs and neighborhood groups near the Park…
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John Paget’s an independent filmmaker, freelance shooter/editor and “omnimedia consultant”. He’s produced tv and feature documentaries, directed national tv spots and produced documentaries for several state government agencies. Recently, he finished a short film advocating the creation of an organic urban farm in the heart of the city. The film’s subject, The Queen City Farm initiative, plans to “convert 2.5 acres of vacant lots in an urban neighborhood into organic gardens that would produce fresh nutritious food for the surrounding community”. Paget’s short is an exceptional effort and the Queen City Farm initiative is an innovative and ambitious project addressing…
Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith writes a great blog called Digital Urban that focuses on the latest techniques to visualize cityscapes with digital media. Here he writes about Microsoft’s Virtual Earth browser and the addition of a few more 3D cities including Buffalo. Have a look and remember this is 3D rendering. Pretty cool.
This is the second half of our conversation with Rocco Termini. In it, he passionately rebuts the connection some have tried to make between the permit issue at the Webb Building and the tragic accident that occurred there on March 20, 2007, among other allegations either not supported or refuted by the city’s EDPI Review Panel Report. Again, this is a conversation and not a journalistic interview. Termini came to us certainly because we have and continue to support his efforts to bring innovative development to downtown Buffalo. But he also came to us knowing the interactive nature of this…
It’s important to point out that this is a conversation with Rocco Termini about building permit issues at the Webb Building. He chose now to speak because the City of Buffalo just issued it’s findings in the EDPI Review Panel Report. He sees this situation as being totally separate from the tragic accident currently being investigated which took the life of a young construction worker. This is also a finding of the report which states “…the application which was pending for a General Construction Permit was acted upon and a General Construction Permit was in force before the March 20,…
David Torke at fix buffalo yesterday gave us the story of Scott Weinstein, who bought St. Matthew’s less than 30 days ago and tried flipping it on Ebay. Today, David sends word that Mayor Brown’s Anti-Flipping Task Force has removed the church from the online auction site. Pretty cool. Check out David’s post to read the full release issued by Assemblyman Sam Hoyt’s office. Hoyt is Co-Chair of Brown’s Anti-Flipping Task Force.
I’m an addict. This is not the part where admitting the addiction is the first step to recovery. I do not want to recover. I LOVE breakfast. If they had a bumper sticker that said that, it would be on my car. I am a breakfast fiend, a fan of the highest order, but please do not confuse this with being a morning person. I find it necessary to have breakfast in order to enjoy the morning or the day is not worth it. So what is more fun than breakfast? Having someone else make it! So it is nice…
In April’s Buffalo Rising Magazine, Cynnie Gaasch writes about two exhibits: Carolee Schneeman’s retrospective at CEPA Gallery and an exhibit of new large scale drawings by Kathryn Lynch at Nina Freudenheim Gallery. Cynnie recorded some impressions of Lynch’s new work over images of a few of the pieces currently on display for this videocast. An excerpt from Cynnie’s piece in the April book: The charcoal drawings of Kathryn Lynch are delicious to look at. The richness of the sooty black charcoal, built up with her intensive efforts goes deep as well as her erasures and evidence of work around these…
Last week, we had a chance to speak with Superintendent Williams and have been presenting video of that conversation in parts. Today’s segment begins with a question about the district’s financial state and quickly turns to a discussion of single health care carrier and charter school funding. Here are links to previous videos from this series: What happened at Performing Arts Pt. 1, Pt. 2 and Williams on Unionism & Single Carrier. Next week, we’ll wrap up the series with a conversation about the effects of poverty on public education and some of the successes of Williams’ administration.
Last week, we had a chance to speak with Superintendent Williams and we’ve already presented the first part of the conversation, What happened at Performing Arts Pt. 1 and Pt. 2. Here, Dr. Williams talks about what he sees as one of his largest obstacles to progress: unionism. We were surprised at his frankness. What we also found interesting was how he makes his case while at the same time being pro-teacher. Tomorrow, Dr. Williams speaks just as frankly about charter schools.