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August 15, 2006
Rebuilding Rochester on Ideas
Dated: August 15, 2006
SOURCE: The Democrat and Chronicle
Andrew Slominski is our future. And that is a good thing.
The 21-year-old University of Rochester student is developing a plan for the re-use of Ss. Peter and Paul Church on West Main Street at Bulls Head. The church is one of several west side Catholic churches to close as five parishes have formed a new community at St. Monica Church on Genesee Street.
Slominski, a 2003 graduate of Pittsford Sutherland High School who now lives in Fairport, is learning to do what successful entrepreneurs do — transforming his personal passion into a tangible plan.
In the spring of 2005, he spent a semester studying in Italy. "My mother's family came from Italy, and this was a chance to immerse myself in the language and study the culture, history, architecture and engineering." Slominski, who is majoring in economics and political science with a minor in Italian studies, is also a talented photographer.
He displayed and sold some of his Italy photos at last year's Clothesline Festival, where someone stopped by and suggested he take a look at Ss. Peter and Paul.
"It's beautiful," he says. "I thought, 'How come nobody knows about this?'"
The church, built in 1911, combines both Romanesque and Renaissance features, with a vaulted ceiling that helps make it an acoustical gem. It would make a wonderful concert hall, he thought. City and county officials have talked of the need for a small performance hall in conjunction with the proposed Renaissance Center.
To test its potential, Slominski organized a benefit concert (for St. Peter's Kitchen, which feeds the needy from the former Ss. Peter and Paul School) in June, featuring three different musical groups. The sound was as good as it gets.
So Slominski is proposing that the UR and the city buy the campus from the diocese and use the church as a concert hall and the former school and rectory for a variety of programs.
"It would be a real anchor for the neighborhood," says parishioner John E. Curran, who'd love to see the basilica-style church used by a congregation for worship and also as a concert facility. "It would be a 24/7 type operation," he says, "which is what European basilicas once were."
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Posted by andrewanissi at 10:42 AM
August 14, 2006
RIAA to grieving family: We depose your children in 60 days
Dated: July 12, 2006
SOURCE: Boing Boing
The RIAA brought a file-sharing lawsuit against a guy who died; they offered the departed's family a 60-day grieving period before they began to depose his children for the suit against his estate.
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Posted by andrewanissi at 12:58 AM
August 07, 2006
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