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<br />.....h either cheer or cnnge.
<br />After all, in 1990 it was Finley's
<br />unclothed performance art here that lit a
<br />long-burning fuse over the National Endow-
<br />ment for the Arts, a furor that continues In
<br />the form of her Supreme Court case to be
<br />heard next week.
<br />Depending on your perspective. Finley is
<br />a First Amendment crusader who has taken
<br />her art form to a new level or she's the
<br />kind of shrill and disgusting art~harlatan
<br />the government has no business funding.
<br />Her work, and the case that stemmed from
<br />
<br />l'tUL :W, SdlU rll.U! l\'U.~uy, iHwm~y wr
<br />Morality in Media Inc., which filed B
<br />friend-of-tbe-court brief against Finley.
<br />"Why should the taxpayer expect its gov-
<br />ernment to pay for someone sticking their
<br />tbumb in the taxpayer's eye?" he said.
<br />"There is no necessity for Uncle Sam to
<br />fund works that are indecent or blaspbe-
<br />mous, and that's wbat this case is all about!'
<br />"American Chestnut," Finley's new mul-
<br />timedia piece opening Wednesday at Inter-
<br />
<br />. I '''''''Co I ;2.
<br />$20, $15 for
<br />Intenn.dla Arts
<br />partners
<br />. ALSO: Discus-
<br />sion wHh Finley,
<br />2 p.m. Saturday,
<br />$12, $6 for IA
<br />partners
<br />. CALL:
<br />871-4444
<br />
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<br />BY JUDY
<br />ARGINTEANU
<br />
<br />STAFF WRITER
<br />
<br />Suspicious fire
<br />destroys car
<br />~ hockey star
<br />3lahoski wasn't at home
<br />
<br />~OBERT F. MOORE STAff WRITER
<br />
<br />
<br />'ana Blahoski, a member of the gold
<br />:leda! U.S. women's bockey team,
<br />ecently hung a small purpie ball with
<br />lue-and-purple tassels from the
<br />~arview mirror of
<br />er car. The
<br />apanese ornament
<br />ras a gift from a
<br />roup of welcom-
<br />rs in Nagano, who ,
<br />reeted Blahoski
<br />nd her teammates
<br />linutes before
<br />:ley rode to the
<br />tlympic vjJJage
<br />NO months ago.
<br />Early Monday, Blahoskl
<br />1St after midnight, .
<br />otb the ornament and her golden 1989
<br />[onda Civic were destroyed in a suspi-
<br />lous fire in the driveway of her home
<br />n the 700 block of West Nebraska
<br />.venue in 8t. Paul.
<br />"When my brother (Roman) called me
<br />lis morning to tell me that my car was
<br />)taled, I thougbt he was kidding," said
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<br />FINLEY CONTINUED ON 68 Ii>
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<br />Dry cleaner likely to fold
<br />after relocation plan fails
<br />. 40-year-old business
<br />must move by March 31
<br />
<br />LINDA OWEN STAFF WRITER
<br />
<br />
<br />A longtime Roseville dry cleaner says
<br />he probably will lose his business after
<br />the Roseville City Council on Monday
<br />turned down a plan to allow him to relo-
<br />cate in a nearby shopping center.
<br />The 40-year-old Grand Cleaners has to
<br />move by March 31 from Roseville Center
<br />at Lexington and Larpenteur avenues
<br />because the shopping center is being
<br />redeveloped. Owner Don Frishberg had
<br />hoped to move across Lexington to the
<br />north section of the Lexington Plaza
<br />shopping center.
<br />But a hitch developed because Frish.
<br />berg's dry-cleaning business does its pro-
<br />cessing on-site, rather than sending
<br />clothes to a cleaning plant elsewhere.
<br />Lexington Plaza's retail business zoning
<br />does not allow such a use.
<br />City officials considered rezoning the
<br />center to "retail office service," which
<br />would allow the processing facility, but
<br />also a number of other business uses not
<br />compatible with the residential area to
<br />the east.
<br />As 'a compromise, the Roseville Plan-
<br />ning Commission recommended a
<br />planned unit development (PUD), a type
<br />
<br />of zoning that
<br />allows mixed uses """"""'"
<br />and flexibility to ~
<br />deal with special Redevelopment
<br />situations. Grand In Rosevllle
<br />Cleaners would _~, .
<br />have been the sole A busInessman
<br />beneficiary of the has put money
<br />first phase of the down on new
<br />PUD. equipment for
<br />But on Monday, the move and
<br />the City Council said he stands to
<br />unanimously reject- lose his Roseville
<br />ed that plan, too. operation, valued
<br />, Council members at perhaps
<br />said ther wanted to $250,000.
<br />help Fnshberg stay
<br />in RoseviIle, but the jury-rigged solution
<br />did not fit the intent of a PUD.
<br />Community Development Director Den-
<br />nis Welsch said the city staff will investi-
<br />gate Frishberg'$ hist hope - that his
<br />business does not fit the definition of a
<br />"processing facility.",. '..
<br />"If it's a se~ice facility" we can issue
<br />the permit," Welsch said: "If it's !'! pro-
<br />cessing facility, (the, 'cpuncil's) deCision
<br />stands. Our interpretation to this. -point'
<br />has always been that this is ;I, procesSing
<br />facility." ' ,
<br />Frlsbberg said after the vote he tblnks
<br />his business is a processing facility, but
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