ljc and Aaron’s Halloween dinner was last night. A great time was had by all! We’re all trying to get the sauce recipe — a secret that Aaron’s grandfather made him swear not to share under the threat of “dying ’till he’s dead.”
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Archives for the month of: October, 2007
On Monday, at approximately 10.00pm, the Rochester citizen journalism site Rochester Turning broke the news the state is partnering with Patec to help absorb the costs of demolishing Rochester’s Midtown plaza to make way for a new corporate headquarters for Patec. Spitzer made the announcement on Tuesday. Today it was the lead story in the D&C.
The announcement is huge for the region, as it means at least 600 jobs moving into downtown, a major employer keeping it’s hq in the area, and an end to the ongoing saga of what to do with Midtown.
Its also significant from a CJ perspective. Rochester Turning’s post was a day and a half ahead of the D&C. This may be the furtherest a local CJ has been ahead of the traditional press. The question is now will RT get credited with breaking the story? Nothing was mentioned in the D&C article about the posting.
As for me, I learned about it through an e-mail list that quoted the RT article.
This past weekend was the Renaissance Martial Arts festival, an event we’ve been running out of our Kung Fu school for the past 7 years. Below is a slide show of pictures from the festival. Since I was typically behind the camera I only appear in one of these pictures.
Flickr continues to impress me. While it has some draw backs, galleries that used to take me hours, if not days, come together in under 60 minutes. Which is a nice thing, especially since my work as the RMA webmaster is purely voluntary.
LJC organized “Mexican Museum Night†in honor of an exhibit of Mexican Wrestling Photography that just opened at the Eastman House and a show of Latin American and Latino art at the Memorial Art Gallery.
Dre and I agreed that, of the two shows, the MAG’s TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, is the one to see. While I loved the Mexican Wrestling photos, that exhibit was marred by some of the worst signage I’ve ever seen. Not only were the notes written in incomprehensible academic speak (and I’ve read many of the works they were referencing), but they were full of typos and mispellings (enough that I even I noticed). It was pretty embarrassing all things considered.
TRANSactions, on the other hand, was uniformly excellent. The art was really challenging (its one of the more “gutsy†shows I’ve seen at the MAG) and the presentation was excellent.
After the museums, we headed across the street to Selena’s. Aaron’s new friend Domo came along for the ride. Unforunately, when Aaron’s back was turned, Domo got a little frisky with Jenny. I’ve been told that Domo has chalked up this unfortunate incident to the booze.
This was the week of getting to see Internet luminaries.
On Wednesday, Ze Frank lectured at RIT. Throughout the course of a very manic and funny talk, he shared his thoughts about the online content space and discussed his experiences producing his daily video podcast, the show. Both his presentation and his ideas were excellent.
