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I've often found that the smallest details make the biggest impact. Take for example this choose-your-own-adventure sidewalk story that has been created by a street artist in San Francisco's Mission District. The artist using spray paint stencils on the sidewalk tells a love story between a man and a woman. Four different endings are possible based on which direction the reader chooses to follow the story.
We’re making it so easy for people,” says owner Janet Reese. “They don’t even have to get out of their car.”
After ten years in a small shop in Clintonville, Reese is moving her shop to a much larger space Downtown.
“Our whole family is urban-oriented,” she says. “We really like Downtown.”
With more space will come more offerings. Flowers on Orchard Lane will feature a full-blown flower boutique with a line of bridal accessories and chocolates from Pure Imagination, plus one-of-a-kind home accessories and gifts. And you can watch the flower people work their flower magic thanks to an open workspace.
The name, however, will stay the same. Reese says Knot magazine, the wedding industry bible, recently named Flowers on Orchard Lane one of the best in the Midwest, so a switch now would not be good.
“I’d love to be Flowers on Main,” she says. “But we’ll stick with the name people know.”
Flowers on Orchard Lane - on Main - will host an open house Nov. 9 and 10. Call 800-599-2994 for more info.
Next year, Columbus will host one of these public art projects, which Ohio State University is calling “Brutus on Parade.”
The school is looking for sponsors to help put 6-foot-2 fiberglass statues of the Buckeyes mascot around the city, to benefit the renovation planned for the campus library. The Web site for the project shows examples of possible designs for the statues, including Brutus painted to look like Elvis or Buckeyes' legendary football coach Woody Hayes.
The designs will be chosen by the sponsors.
Four statues will be unveiled at a kickoff event this Wednesday.
But he doesn't want to build basements, garages or porches. So neighborhood leaders -- as much as they want new construction -- don't want his houses.
The houses Gazzara wants to build aren't fancy. They're two-story, vinyl-sided homes on slabs that would sell for $75,000.
Carol Stewart, who leads the Franklinton Area Commission, said she wants better.
"We would rather see a green space than to put up something that doesn't match the neighboring houses," she said.
Gazzara said neighborhood leaders' requirements that he build houses with garages, basements and porches would make his homes unaffordable.
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/10/28/FRANKHOME.ART_ART_10-28-07_B1_538A74B.html?sid=101
"We are taking the difficult but necessary step to discontinue operations in these two markets," Dave Barger, JetBlue's chief executive, said in a statement. "After more than 12 months of service and a detailed review of traffic and revenue trends in these two cities, we have decided to redeploy our assets."
The annoucement came as the company reported third quarter earnings. Net income for the quarter was $23 million, or 12 cents per diluted share, compared with a third quarter 2006 net loss of $500,000.
The New York-based company began its service from Port Columbus with four daily nonstop flights to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on Oct. 3, 2006.
