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I HAVE A DREAM

Delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, in the March on Washington D.C. for Civil Rights

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.

But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation’s Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on their promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. 1963 is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead.

We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials

and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality.

You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood., I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning My country, ‘tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, From every mountain-side Let freedom ring.

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvacious peaks of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last.”

These are the words that moved a nation. We believe they are the best way to remember Martin Luther King, Jr., on Monday, January 19th.

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Danby Residents Protest Standoff

Sheriff Defends Tactics at Cady House

very seat in the house was full—and some people even sat on the floor—for the Monday, Jan. 12 meeting of the Tompkins County Public Safety Committee, where Sheriff Ken Lansing offered a timeline for the events that transpired during the 60-hour police standoff on Hornbrook Road in Danby.

Before law enforcement representatives spoke, a number of members of the public stepped up to the microphone to comment. Melissa Cady, the widow of David Cady, was one of them. Although Melissa Cady a Tompkins County (Photo: K. Blakinger) Sheriff ’s Department press release indicated that police believed David Cady had been preparing for a possible stand-off and had traveled to Pennsylvania for ammunition, Melissa Cady said, “All the rumors of my husband supposedly having an arsenal is crazy. Us driving to Pennsylvania for bullets is nuts. We’re from PA. We drove to Pennsylvania to see family.”

She continued, “My husband needed help. I told the police from the beginning that he was suicidal. He needed someone to help him and all they did is bring in more and more and more police.”

Melissa Cady said that she believes that her husband was dead before much of the destruction occurred. “I’ve spoken with the coroner,” she said. “My husband’s body was frozen solid when it was received in Binghamton. Therefore what you’re saying about him walking around the house with a long gun strapped to his back Thursday night is crap. Period.” She added, “Somebody somewhere is covering up one heck of a mess and all I ask of anyone in this community … is to figure it out.”

Turning to the law enforcement contingent in the room, she said, “I don’t hate you … I just don’t understand.”

Camille Doucet, a Danby resident, noted that law enforcement did not have any direct communication with or response from David Cady after around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 30—before much of the damage to the house occurred. She asked, “What in no response justified escalation?”

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early two weeks have passed since the tragic conclusion of a 60-hour standoff that began on Dec. 30 and ended with Danby resident David Cady taking his own life. Tompkins County residents still have plenty of questions as to why the incident included several local SWAT teams and the dismantling of a home were necessary to deal with one individual—even if he was armed.

The situation began when officers went the to Cady’s Hornbrook Road residence to serve a warrant resulting from a DUI charge.

According to Tompkins County Sheriff Ken Lansing, the warrant has been out since October 2014, and his officers have tried to serve Cady with the warrant a dozen times, but have been unsuccessful.

During an extensive interview with this publication on Cady residence on Hornbrook Road with holes made by “The Rook,” a critical incident Thursday, Jan. 8, vehicle borrowed from Pennsylvania State Police. (Photo: Tim Gera) Lansing explained how a simple head]. You have people saying it was just warrant turned into an armed standoff. a warrant. They’re right. But then how did “Two officers approached the home,” it escalate to this? Why did he shoot at us?

Lansing said, “knocked on the door and You don’t know what’s going through his Mrs. [Melissa] Cady answered. She said mind.” he wasn’t there. I don’t know all of the Melissa Cady got the chance to share details of the conversation that followed, her story again at the Danby town board but at some point, she admitted that he meeting on Monday, Jan. 12. She was still was there and that he had guns, I believe. shocked by the amount of manpower and At that point, the officers new that the destruction that was needed to deal with situation had escalated a little bit already, and convinced her and her kids to leave continued on page the premises. Once they did that, they

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contacted the necessary people to come up and secure the area to avoid anymore problems.”

Melissa Cady, in a video filmed by a local resident, claimed she had her last phone call with her husband on Wednesday, the day after the sheriff ’s deputies served the warrant. During that call, she said her husband agreed to come out of the house as long as she was holding his hand.

Lansing said even if what she said in the video was true, it would not have been an option.

“It’s a possibility that she relayed that to us in some point in time,” he admitted. “I understand to some people that sounds like an option, but it’s not. We’re responsible for her. You can’t do that. I’m not a psychiatrist, you don’t know [what’s going through his

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fter a “long, intensive two-tiered interview process” in its search for a new director, the board of the Multicultural Resource Center (MRC) settled on a candidate with whom they were already familiar and promoted Diversity and Inclusion Educator Fabina Colon to the position. She succeeds Audrey Cooper, who has decided to step down.

The news became official on the first day of 2015, and the Ithaca Times recently sat down with Colon to take about her promotion.

Ithaca Times: What were you doing before your time at the MRC? How did you find your way here?

FC: I’ve always been doing some kind of cultural education work within the community—particularly with young children and young adults from the Ithaca City School District. So, historically that’s been a passion I’ve always had, but I really just did it at a volunteer level, mainly. Then I started getting a little bit more involved with the work, a little bit more intentional, which eventually led me to a position here at MRC. IT: Have you always lived in Ithaca?

FC: No. I was born in Peru, in a little village called Carhuanca. My family and I moved here to the United States in 1989.

We lived in the Bronx. Eventually, my brother went to school here, and that’s how we found and moved to Ithaca.

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FC: We have several different programs, and we are part of the Cornell Cooperative Extension. I would like to say that what really drives MRC’s work is creating dialogue around race and racism around the community to build awareness and develop educational opportunities for building diversity and inclusion around the area. We do a lot of advocacy work as well. We also do a lot of collaborative

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who spoke—including Danby Supervisor Ric Dietrich—called for an independent investigation.

Law enforcement officials gave a detailed account of the events that transpired. Lansing said that commanders from the state police urged him to send officers into the building on Wednesday, Dec. 31. Lansing said, “I decided that we would not attempt to enter that residence that day.”

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divide and the need to build some projects and initiatives with bridges between those two various organizations around the parties. We have been involved community. in it already. We started some IT: What is the vision conversations about ways we can for what MRC can be in this bridge that gap. Although there community, thinking about isn’t a particular project that where it is now, and how the we’ve rolled out or taken organization can take that on at this time, the most next step and become an important thing that even more prominent really needs to happen force? is just creating that FC: As I dialogue. That’s one mentioned, I’m of the things we’ve very passionate predominantly done about working within the talking with younger circles that have taken people. I have a place [in the last six vision for MRC to months]. Again, we’re focus on a younger partnering with other audience in addition organizations, such to maintaining the as GIAC, the city, and kind of work and others, who are focusing demographic we’re on the same thing. We’re serving currently. By not the only ones trying broadening the work, we to figure things out. I can reach out to young think it’s really a matter of people as well. I would including the community also love to push a little in the conversations that bit more on the cultural arts need to happen about how strategy for social change. we can create a mutual I think MRC is in amazing support system for both the position to accomplish these police and the residents. things and continue to flourish.

IT: When you look at We have a very solid backbone Ithaca, and it’s multicultural in place thanks to Audrey, and landscape, what is your I’m really looking forward to evaluation of that climate? that. I don’t have any specific FC: I love Ithaca. I love projects or initiatives in mind at its diversity. I think it’s pretty this time—I’ll be in learning mode diverse, I don’t think there’s a still for the early part of this year. I problem with that. However, still need to grasp and appreciate I do think there’s a lot of work just everything we have to do around the inclusion here, already in place, before aspect of it—making sure expanding, because we have a lot everyone is part of any of amazing things going conversation. The fact on.

Fabina Colon that Ithaca is diverse IT: There’s an obvious (Photo: Michael Nocella) is already an asset for divide here in Ithaca our community. Part between the community of what I would like to continue with and the Ithaca Police Department ever MRC is helping people figure out how we since the Aug. 10 incident in which an out can tap into that asset, sharing all of our of uniform officer pulled his firearm on two unarmed African American teenagers. backgrounds and traditions, but doing it in a very respectful way. • How do you see MRC playing a role in helping mend that relationship?

—Michael Nocella FC: We’ve been very aware of the going to result in storming the house in an effort to get him out because that would mean someone would die. That was never an acceptable outcome.”

Legislator Peter Stein (D-11th) asked why it was assumed that David Cady would shoot if police stormed the house. Wilkinson said that his last words indicated that he was armed and ready for police.

Melissa Cady cut in angrily, “I was married to him. He would never speak words like that.”

Later, Stein asked about the reasons for deploying The Rook, a type of armored vehicle used to remove the home’s walls.

He asked, “Exactly what were you going to accomplish with The Rook?”

Lansing replied, “Eventually there would have been no cover for him, and he would have had to give up or take his life as he did.”

One of the questions answered was the cost of the standoff. Undersheriff Brian Robison said that Tompkins County did not pay other agencies that came for mutual aid. In overtime and other costs, the entire standoff cost the county around $13,000, he said.

Although the committee did not take any action relating to the discussion, Legislator Martha Robertson (D-13th) said that the issue would be discussed in future meetings. • —Keri

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ccording to Mike Lane (D-14th)— who was reelected as the county legislature’s chair on Jan. 6— economic development is one of the major issues Tompkins County will be looking at this year. Regarding plans for 2015, he said, “I think first and foremost is the issue of how we proceed with important economic development in Tompkins County and at the same time still do it in a way that is looking at where we should be going for new kinds of energy, renewable sources. We have to be able to think long-range, but at the same time we have to be able to move the economy along.”

One of the recent issues that has brought economic development and energy to the fore is NYSEG’s proposed sevenmile gas pipeline through along West Dryden Road. Lane said that ultimately the legislature has no say in such projects.

“We are a bystander,” he said. “We can talk to people about it, but it’s sort of like gun control. We had a lot of people talk to us about that issue, but it was controlled at the state level.” Even though the county doesn’t have any direct say in the pipeline matter, Lane was optimistic that planning could Sheriffdefends contin u ed from page 3

her husband, noting that “It took seven men to take down Osama Bin Laden, but not one wall was taken out.”

She added that she believed much of the damage to her home occurred after her husband had died. Cady and two neighbors who attended the town board meeting all asserted that they heard a single rifle shot around 5 a.m. on Wednesday. Further, Cady said that her husband’s body was frozen when he was found on Friday; she said the coroner told her it would take at least 24 hours for a body of his size to freeze.

Cady said that she believes the police must have heard the shot and knew her husband was likely dead but still continued to ratchet up the use of force. Since then, she said, “It’s a cover up.” Lansing said he was still waiting on results of Cady’s autopsy but that the cold conditions could make it difficult to pin down when exactly Cady passed away.

Lansing said the majority of the damage was done by a vehicle called “The Rook.”

The Rook is a custom-designed vehicle built on a Cat chassis and includes rubber tracks, dual joystick controls, cameras, gun portholes, and other tools used for armed dismantling and invasion. According to the Rook’s website, the vehicles are designed for “dealing with a hostage rescue, and barricaded suspects.” Lansing said The

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help avert such conflicts in the future:” which contractors meet the criteria for We need to have a better understanding wage assistance money. of—long-range—what we can do that will The chair said that youth services are help businesses who want to develop in another topic the legislature may examine Tompkins County, but to also be able to do this year. Lane said, “I think youth services that with, as much as possible, renewable is an important thing to look at on the sources.” county level and possibly Another part of talking with the city about this year’s plan is to how youth services can make a decision about be handled and are there the Old Library site. any savings that can be In 2013 the county had by working together initiated the process of more closely.” The county finding a redevelopment will need to look into that plan for the site by and other shared services putting out a Request savings in order for county for Expressions of taxpayers to be eligible for Interest. Six developers rebates from the state next responded, although year. two later dropped Also, Lane said, out. In late 2014, the “We’re working on our legislature approved a [work place] climate Mike Lane (Photo: Glynis Hart) Request for Proposal. survey, which is looking Lane said, “We’re at our employees and expecting that those asking them how we’re will be coming back doing with workforce approximately by March and then the [Old diversity and inclusion. We have a standing Library] Committee will get back together.” special committee that works on that. This According to Lane, the county will is something that we do and take very continue looking at living wage issue. At the seriously.” Lane said that the survey should first meeting of 2015, the legislature passed be ready to distribute soon. Afterward, a resolution allocating $20,000 for use in the Workforce Diversity and Inclusion helping Solid Waste Center employees Committee will review the results and make attain a living wage. Because the county has recommendations. • set aside $100,000 for use in helping county contractors pay a living wage, in the coming —Keri Blakinger year the county will continue to evaluate Rook came to the scene Thursday afternoon from Pennsylvania State Police, who recommended using the vehicle to resolve the situation. They told Lansing they have had tremendous success with The Rook in similar situations. Lansing added that the destruction of the home was “unfortunate.”

“It’s her home, I understand that,” he said. “I lost my home to burglars, who set my childhood home to flames. I feel for that. But our objective was to bring him out alive. We knew he was ready to shoot again.

He had already shot once. We weren’t going to give him that opportunity for his safety, and ours. That’s why we did what we did.”

Other residents echoed Cady’s concerns. Tom Seaney said, “All the facts don’t quite make sense” and others claimed the immense scale of police force on hand pushed Cady to suicide. Lansing said waiting Cady out completely could have been an option, but that his team opted to accelerate the process due to severe cold weather and the reality of limited resources.

“It could have been an option, but again, this played out for three days. We cut his power off, hoping it would make him realize he would have to give up. But with no power and no heat, he might not have the ability to think in those conditions, so you have to account for that in your deciding factor. We were not looking to have him perish. You have to have some kind of time constraint, you really do.”

Lansing said his team was justified to use deadly force as soon as Cady shot at them, but that they didn’t.

“You have to understand,” Lansing said, “the first shot fired [by him], by Article 35 in the penal law, that justified deadly physical force being used [against him], but no deadly force was used by us, no gunshots were returned. They could have been—we didn’t. The people out there used great restraint. I’m so proud of them. It is too easy, when shot at, to shoot back. This is what’s disappointing to me. With all the news and possibly unjustifiable shooting across the country, our people here in this county, and the people assisting us, did not do that.”

At the end of the day, Lansing stressed that he was extremely pleased with the performance of his department, and those who came to help out with the situation.

All in all, Lansing admitted he had just one regret.

“Yeah—him not taking his life,” he said. “That’s it. We did everything we could.

There was a lot of great minds there with a lot of great experience. We listened, we talked. I had people from other agencies come up to me saying ‘Sheriff, this was a well-run operation. I never seen this many people be able to come together and run an operation like this and end like it did.’ It’s a shame what happened with him, but no one else got hurt. I’m happy with that. We had to do what we did. I had no control over his decision to take his own life.” •

Ups&Downs ▶ Minimums rise, Just as the minimum wage for non-exempt employees rose on January 1 in New York State to $8.75 per hour, the “minimum salary” for exempt administrative employees also increased. In New York an administrative employee is exempt from being paid for overtime work (over 40 hours in a week) only if they are paid for their services on a salary basis that totals at least $656.25/ week. This is a 9.4% increase over the figure for 2014 which was $600.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Marriott Incentivized The Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency has closed on tax incentives for a new full service Marriott Hotel that will add 159 guest rooms, a restaurant and meeting space to the east end of The Commons.

This is a $32 million community development project that will serve as an anchor on The Commons. The Tompkins County Development Corporation (TCDC) has issued Kendal at Ithaca $47,720,000 in tax exempt bonds, $7.900.000 will be used to refinance existing debt. The remaining balance will be used for new construction and renovation ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of January 7-13 include: 1) ‘All is Not Well in Danby’ 2) Trojans Soar With Byrd At Point 3) Tompkins Sheriff: Danby Man In Standoff Shot Himself; Possessed Multiple Guns 4) Manos Diner and the End of an Era 5) Cortland Hip-Hop Takes Off For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Second, there must be places to build t appears that the city and county are and available properties for investing. once again headed toward a revision Third, the projects need not just break of the downtown tax incentive even; they need to make money for their program, currently called CITTAP investors. Fourth, resources to build the (Community Investment Incentive Tax project need to be available at workable Abatement Program). This will be the fourth iteration of this program in recent prices.

This brings us to the purpose of the years. Why does this program engender so much discussion and attention? Given downtown tax abatement program. We all this community debate, why were finding that while we had does the Downtown Ithaca the demand for housing and Alliance continue to promote lodging and had the spaces and advance this program? for development, projects Most Ithacans support the struggled to both pencil out notion that a healthy and vibrant and find sufficient resources. downtown is good for our Rents were not high enough community. Most Ithacans also to support the required debt. support the notion that denser Center city, urban construction growth in the urban core, rather costs were disproportionately than in our neighborhoods high. Capitalization rates, the and in rural landscapes of value used by banks to price Gary Ferguson their money for projects, were our community, is also good. inherently conservative. There Our new higher density urban was always a funding gap: the difference zoning reflects these beliefs. But, as so between the total project cost and the many other communities have painfully money from debt and equity sources discovered, it is not enough to simply raised by the developer. Unless this gap wish for urban rejuvenation. It is not was filled, the project could not proceed. sufficient for local government to merely The downtown tax incentive set up zoning parameters and get out of program was created to fill this gap, to be the way hoping that the private sector the last piece of the funding puzzle that will build. allowed projects to proceed.

What we—and others around the At this juncture, a local government country—have found is that the private who wants this project to happen looks sectors builds and invests only when to find a way to fill that gap. It could certain conditions exist. What are those create a loan program of its own and conditions?

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An Icon Reprise

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he Ithaca Journal ran a story two weeks ago on the retirement of barber Joe Petrillose after 54 years cutting hair in Ithaca.

Joe started at his father Tony’s shop in Collegetown in 1960 and finished at his daughter Jolie’s salon in Fall Creek.

The Petrilloses have been a big family, in each sense, in Ithaca business for a long time. Joe’s uncle, Johnny, owned the iconic Johnny’s Big Red Grill on Dryden Road for over sixty years. I worked there for a while part-time during college and learned a lot about the restaurant business, but the best part was getting to know Johnny.

Johnny died in 1999. I wrote a remembrance of him then for the Ithaca Times, an unsolicited piece the Times was good enough to print rather prominently.

On the occasion of Joe’s retirement, I wondered if I could find that piece, to re-print it. I am not a guy who saves much such. But I found it, and here it is. The Times ran it under the headline, “John Petrillose: An Ithaca Icon.”

• • • Word came from Lakeland, Florida two weeks ago that, at age 96, a giant of life in Ithaca died: John Petrillose (“J.P.”), founder of Johnny’s Big Red Grill, the landmark Collegetown bar and restaurant.

Johnny’s ran from 1919 until 1981. If you were a sport of any sort in Ithaca in those years, you knew Johnny’s. It was the place to go before and after big Cornell games and events. It was also the place to go to watch big televised games in those days before cable. The crowd at Johnny’s was the biggest and bettingest.

Johnny’s was a hangout for Cornell’s ivory tower dwellers, but also its blue-collar builders. Everyone was equal there, eating brick-oven pizza and bean soup, downing

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Surrounded by Whose Reality?

Reading your Dec. 17 issue, I got confused. There was the guy writing about the latest and “most deserving” crowdfunding appeals through the subsidizeme.com website, including one from the “beleaguered millionaire Ithaca developer” whose request for a tax break was “heartlessly denied” by the Industrial Development Agency. At first, I thought this might be an attempt at ironic humor, but when I read the editorial right next to it, I wasn’t so sure.

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cold drinks, enjoying the good, simple life in Ithaca.

What Toots Shor’s once was to Broadway, Johnny’s was to Ithaca: the place where the elite and hoi polloi mixed, where the big shots met the bums. Like Toots, Johnny knew the only difference was the bums were better spenders.

And, like Toots, Johnny was a great host, but also a no-nonsense guy. J.P. could purr, but also growl. He was courtly but earthy, tender but tough. Like his food, his language could be salty. People loved the place because it was high-toned but honest.

Mostly, it was fun.

J.P. worked hard for his success, rising early to cook, staying late to count the till.

In the morning he commandeered the kitchen with his son Bob, prepping soups and sauces and layering lasagnas. John went home in the afternoon to nap, and returned in the evening with his wife, Ruth, to have dinner and anchor the place. The dining room became their living room as the evening wore on, and Johnny and Ruth sat, chatted, read the papers, and welcomed the customers.

Johnny would walk around, working the room—how’s the family, how’s the job, how’s the soup, try the chops—and checking the action in the bar and the workers in the kitchen. People visited Ruth at her table and thanked her for the meal and the evening.

Dining at Johnny’s you felt you were a personal guest of the Petrillose family, which of course you were.

After closing, Johnny and Ruth sat together and counted the cash. (People paid cash in those days.) I worked in the kitchen there for a while, and stayed late cleaning continued on page 7

Send Letters to the Editor to editor@ithacatimes.com. Letters must be signed and include an address and phone number. We do not publish unsigned letters. kind of entitlement here, once your project is big enough and expensive enough, and nothing else matters.

The editorial offers some free, after-the-fact legal advice to that effect.

Fortunately, the IDA got different advice from its attorney, Mariette Geldenhuys, who correctly noted that the county IDA’s review and decision on tax break requests are in fact “independent” from the city’s. The IDA’s consideration is not limited to the city’s rather skimpy criteria, and the IDA can take into account what it hears from the public (i.e., the public hearings the IDA is required continued on page 7

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simply lend the shortage to the developer.

But, who has excess money sitting around?

And besides, lending is an inherently risky business. That is why we came up with the tax abatement solution.

Our tax abatement program does not require our community to earmark and invest existing tax dollars into projects to fill gaps. Instead, we tap into future, potential new tax dollars that currently do not exist. We set up a schedule for reduced tax payment on the new taxable development and then use the annual savings to help the developer create a more robust financial project that will attract or support more debt lending or equity investment. We are able to fill the funding gap without impacting local tax coffers.

Why has this program changed so many times and why is it likely to change yet again? (a) The development process is not an easy one to understand and communicate to others, and the whole notion of gap funding is foreign to many. (b) We tend to pigeonhole developers as rich people or corporations that should be able to reach deep into their pockets and pay whatever is needed to do projects.

They, just like all of us, must meet certain fiscal return-on-investment goals or their projects will not proceed. That is a difficult concept to explain (c) While economic development is understood to be a function of local government, it is not as easily understood or appreciated as filling potholes, paying for police or firefighters, or addressing poverty (d) The primary purpose of the program also tends to get lost in the rhetoric of day-to-day issues. The program exists because downtown projects were not getting built. The headlines about our new projects mask the reality that without the tax incentive program, they simply would not occur. (e) The argument is raised that if local government gets involved to fill gaps, it should do so in a way that advances and supports other key community issues and concerns. Each issue has a constituency that deems it to be a primary and important community need. But each comes with a cost associated to it.

So, the program gets modified to reflect these various issues. But in the final analysis, the program exists to fill funding gaps and facilitate urban development. As these modifications add costs to projects, the utility of the program as a gap-filling tool ebbs and flows.

So, here we go again. There is interest from different community advocates to put an array of additional benefits back into the downtown tax incentive program.

How this is done will determine if this program will remain a useful or practical tool for filling project gaps. Unless we can conceive of a new and alternative way to fill project gaps, we need to find a way to make this tax incentive program work.

The Downtown Ithaca Alliance will be hosting a special workshop

in February designed to evaluate the downtown tax incentive program and to access in more detail how it works.

We invite the community to learn more about this program and to help come up with a solution that will keep downtown development alive. • – Gary Ferguson, Executive Director, Downtown Ithaca Alliance Ithacanotes contin u ed from page 6

up. I remember one night at the beginning of my tenure, mopping the floor fairly energetically and efficiently, I thought, until I looked up to see Johnny standing and glaring at me in the dim light.

“You _____, ” he said. “You call that mopping a floor?”

I paused. “Is that a rhetorical question, J.P.?,” I asked. “Because if it is ...,” “I’ll give you a rhetorical question right up your ____ ___,” he said. “Give me that mop. I’ll show you how to mop a _____ floor.”

Apparently, the side-to-side motion I utilized was the way _____s mopped a floor. Johnny grabbed the mop and started moving like Jack Dempsey pushing an opponent around the ring.

“Forward and back, forward and back,” he yelled over his shoulder. “Loosen the dirt and swipe it back up.” He heaved the mop back at me.

“Were you ever in the navy?,” he asked. If I had been (I was 22 at the time), my shoulder-length hair had grown back pretty fast.

“No, you weren’t,” he said. “That’s the trouble with you ____ kids.” He straightened his tie, stared at me and shook his head, and shambled back to Ruth.

I tried it his way. He was right, of course. Working in restaurants years hence, in fact, I passed that lesson along to many a youthful underling, although without the naval reference or volume or pizzazz, touches of Johnny’s which I could never duplicate.

I never forgot that impassioned critique, and found it delightful even at the moment he was ranting at me. He must have thought he was too hard on me, though, because at the end of the night there was a cold beer sitting on the bar for me. “No offense, kid,” Johnny said with a sheepish look in his light blue eyes.

“But, ____ ____, there’s a right way to do things.” The longevity of Johnny’s was proof of that.

The place was always successful. It was popular as ever in 1981, a bastion of character at a time when fern bars were encroaching. But Johnny was ready to retire. The building was sold, and the place taken over by some professionals too smart to leave a good thing alone.

Today the big neon sign is all that remains. But looking up at it you see a symbol of a one-of-a-kind place, never to be duplicated. That was Johnny’s, and that was J.P. Thanks for the lessons and the laughs, John. Rest in peace. •

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to offer actually have a purpose).

The editorial doesn’t mention that three governmentally-appointed advisory groups (two city, one county) had previously opposed the project on environmental grounds. The editorialist points out that lots of buildings in Ithaca are on steep slopes or even dangling over gorges; apparently, if it was done 100 or 50 years ago, there’s no reason not to keep doing it now (even if dredging the accumulated silt in our creeks has become too expensive for the city or state to handle).

I got even more confused when I read that Mr. Fane’s proposed project would “leave the creekside more natural than it found it.” Which article was I looking at?

Was this also meant to be ironic, or did the writer really think that cutting down the trees, leveling the top of the hill next to Six Mile Creek, and building 36 studentoriented apartments there would turn out to be “more natural” than what we see now from the popular public walkway across the way?

To me, the real story here is that a lot of engaged citizens shone a light on an important process that’s typically carried out very quietly—and that folks on the IDA paid attention, and took their role seriously. People are saying that any granting of tax breaks like these should be done selectively and carefully, when and where the net benefits to the whole community (including the workers involved, as well as the environment) are the greatest, that “density” alone is not necessarily a sufficient reason for support (or subsidy), and that an applicant’s track record in the community should matter. As noted tellingly (or ironically?) in one of the articles (I can’t remember which), nobody has stepped forward yet to crowd-fund the beleaguered millionaire’s project.

– Dan Hoffman, Ithaca

Dear Mr. Reed,

My name is Josh Dolan of Ithaca, NY. I was born and raised in Steuben County on the shores of beautiful Keuka Lake.

My folks have been working hard for almost 40 years alongside their friends and neighbors to create a vibrant, sustainable and clean economy here in the Finger Lakes. My father and step-mom, Killene and Sandy Dolan, both worked for years at the Bath VA. My mother, Jane Russel, is a small business owner and has successfully run two catering businesses out of her home, Bluff View and Around the Corner Catering. My stepfather, Steve DiFrancesco, worked his way up the ranks of the wine industry and is now wine maker at one of the largest wineries in the region, Glenora.

Being raised by such hard working people is a big responsibility. It’s a lot to live up to. For the last eight years of my life I have tirelessly toiled to build a small but innovative agricultural enterprise, Sapsquatch Maple Products in Enfield, NY. I have also labored in my community T

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both as a volunteer and as an educator at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County to create gardens and educational programs to sustain lowincome youth and families with healthy homegrown produce. For eight years I have fought alongside thousands of New Yorkers to prevent the heinous practice of fracking from invading our fair state, an industry built on death and destruction of not only our fragile planet, but also the communities, which it eats like a cancer.

Our governor has now come to his senses and banned fracking in New York State. On the same day as this historic announcement, you chose to express extreme disappointment despite the fact that a majority of New Yorkers and a large segment of your constituency are completely opposed to it. We here in Ithaca, who you chose to insult again and again during your recent campaign, are highly educated, compassionate thinking people who can see through your rhetoric.

We see that you are not disappointed about fracking being banned in New York, but rather the evaporation of the campaign contributions from big oil and gas to your next campaign. Now that Governor Cuomo has come to his senses and banned fracking our movement will focus on halting the proposed Crestwood Midstream gas storage hub on Seneca Lake and we will seek new villains on which to focus our righteous indignation.

I choose you Mr. Reed, and I always win.

– Josh Dolan, Ithaca

Not “Popular”

I find it absolutely abhorrent that on the cover of your recent 2014 recap issue [“Year in Review,” Jan. 7], you included a photo of the Simeon’s crash under the heading of “Popular in 2014.” I doubt that friends and family of crash victim Amanda Bush, Simeon’s employees who lost their jobs or even regular Ithacans with two heart cells to rub together would think that it’s anything other than insulting, infuriating, tasteless and downright stupid to list a horrible accident that impacted the entire city as “popular.” I know that journalistic integrity is quickly going the way of the dodo, but not treating a tragedy like a trend is a moral and ethical no-brainer. I think you owe it to everyone touched by the Simeon’s tragedy to apologize for your gross lack of sensitivity and common sense, and to choose your words much more carefully in the future.

– Katie L. Austin, Ithaca

ourCorrections Ithacan Julie Taven was featured in a photo on page 11 of the Readers' Writes issue (Dec. 31). Taven wishes it to be made clear that she does not wish to associate herself with the content of the story on the same page, "Unbearable Whiteness" by Michael Smith. a n u a r y

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ChiefPotholeFiller Mayor Myrick to deal with police and infrastructure in 2015

By Michael Nocella

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hen asked about what he will remember most about Ithaca in 2014, Mayor Svante Myrick hesitated to answer. His face was one of obvious concern, and his voice— when he did answer—was soft and solemn.

“Oh boy,” he said. “What will I remember most? Well, it’s an unfortunate part of this job that we’re called upon to respond in the worst times. So it’s hard not to think about the ice jams that started the year to the standoff at Danby to end the year. Then there’s the truck crashing into Simeon’s, and the difficulty surrounding police and community relations touched off by two teens being detained [on Aug. 10].”

His voice drifted off as he recalled the aforementioned events. With one more pause, the next words he spoke evoked more optimism.

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2014 will be remembered as a time of trials. But also of successes.”

Myrick, who is 27 years old, enters 2015 with three years as mayor of Ithaca in his rearview, and one year left on his four-year term. He has plenty of priorities on his 2015 agenda, but after a one-on-one interview with him on Tuesday, Jan. 6, along with listening to his State of the City address given during Common Council’s public meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 7, it is clear the mayor has narrowed his focus to the following: Ithaca’s “housing emergency,” city infrastructure, the relationship between the Ithaca Police Department (IPD) and the community, and Ithaca’s war on drugs.

“Economy Is Always Number One”

Myrick is proud of the current trend the city of Ithaca’s economy is on. When he took office three years ago, it was evident this was his priority. Even though significant progress has been made and

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other things have warranted attention, the fiscal state of Ithaca remains his number one focus.

“The economy is always number one,” he confirmed. “Making sure we have good paying jobs and working as hard as we can to bring down the cost of living. The cost of living in the city of Ithaca is too high. Taxes are too high, and the rents are too high. So building jobs and bringing down the cost of living is my number one priority.”

Myrick recalled the $3.5 million deficit he inherited upon starting his term.

In 2012 conversations in city hall revolved around what had to be cut from a budget and how the city could learn to do more with less, along with how much the city’s tax rate was going to increase. In 2015, although the average property owner will actually see a decrease in their tax rate by 28 cents per $1,000, the city tax levy will grow by 3.89 percent. The owner of a single-family home at the median assessed value of $190,000 will pay $53 less in property taxes, but the median value has moved upward.

Consequently, Tompkins County Director of Assessment Jay Franklin calculated, “[the] typical person’s tax bill

will be $140 higher than 2014, but Myrick still takes pride in the accomplishment. To Myrick’s credit, those paying more in taxes will also be getting more services: a 10 percent increase in the number of police officers and more than $200,000 invested in asphalt and road crew workers.

Myrick explained it took three years to be able to add such investments to a budget, with equitable initiatives such as a new Sidewalk Improvement District plan and a stormwater fee targeting parties such as Wegmans, Wal-Mart and Cornell for more contributions that make change possible. While the city is not out of the woods yet, Myrick claimed Ithaca is “on a firmer fiscal footing.”

“This year we delivered a tax-rate decrease,” he said, “and the discussion focused around how many officers we could add. How much more we can do in street pavements. We’re making new investments while lowering the tax rate. And it’s because of all the work we did in the last three years, promoting development and funding our government in a more equitable way, using fees that target nonprofits and large property owners.”

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Myrick’s number one priority is keeping the city’s economy headed in the right direction. His second? Investing money into the backbone of downtown: its streets and the infamous Commons reconstruction. The latter has received significant backlash from residents, as nearly half a year has gone by since the original July 31, 2014 completion date goal, and the middle of the commons still more or less looks like a vacant lot.

Though Myrick promised the project would be done in 2014, he could guarantee the project’s completion in the coming year.

“We have to get the Commons done as quickly as possible, while still doing a good job,” he said. “Up to this minute, all the light posts are up—which hopefully people have noticed. All of the wiring is completed, and the lights will be turned on this winter. [They are already on in Bank Alley.] That will have a beautiful effect and encourage everyone to come down and check out the stores that are still in business, and in some cases thriving. In other cases, they’re simply surviving. We will get the general contractor back in as soon as the weather permits. The sooner we get them in, the sooner they’ll be done this summer.”

In his State of the City address, Myrick looked forward to the potential of the project, once completed.

“Once finished,” he said, “the Commons will be the jewel of upstate New York. A beautiful place to live and work, and a destination for tourists and their dollars.”

As for the few hundred thousands of dollars accounted in the 2015 budget for road repairs, Myrick noted such work is long overdue, with more than 20 years of deferred maintenance on roads causing “a lot of potholes.” He added

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One of the Safest Cities in This Country

Although Myrick made sure to mention Ithaca’s status as one of “the safest cities in the country” in his State of the City address, he immediately admitted “relations between the department and some segments of the community are strained.” Simmering tensions were ignited after an Aug. 10 incident in which an outof-uniform IPD Sgt. John Norman drew his weapon following a chase with several unarmed African American teenagers on bicycles, along with national coverage of the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner’s death in New York City.

U n f i n i s h e d C o m m o n s P r o j e c t ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) that 2015 will also see the completion of Old Elmira Road work, the Waterfront Trail, pedestrian enhancements at crucial intersections of the city, and the continuation of the largest infrastructure project in the city’s history: a $36 million rebuild of the water treatment plant.

Myrick said that concern is warranted.

In fact, just weeks after the Aug. 10 incident, he unveiled an eight-point plan for “excellence in policing,” which included the following: requirement of all police officers to reside in the city; a newly formed two-officer Community Action Team (CAT); a downtown social worker; ten percent increase in police staffing; full review of all policies and procedures

shouting at each other.” leading to formal accreditation; opening a district office on the West End; body cameras on police officers; and improved The “Housing Emergency” & Other Developments community-outreach programming.

Although the Commons’ project, Some in the community wondered IPD’s relationship with the community, how such an in-depth plan came together and the city’s economy steal the headlines, so quickly. Myrick told the Ithaca Times Myrick wants Ithaca’s housing landscape that strengthening IPD’s presence in the to receive more attention. While it is well community was always a priority, and that documented Ithaca is an expensive place the plan—more or less—was well under to live, the mayor would like people to way before Aug. 10, but aforementioned have a more desperate attitude about the events called for publicizing such ideas topic. sooner than he might have otherwise “It seems like this gets talked about a intended. lot,” he said, “but I don’t think it gets the “I think people might be surprised,” credit it deserves: the depth of our housing Myrick said, “to know that managing emergency. You have people at every level the police department—even though it’s not knowing how they’re going to make only one of 11 departments I oversee—it the rent, whether it’s students, poor folk, takes a third of my time. They are a middle-class folk, wealthy folk—they are 24/7 operation. They have over 100,000 all struggling to maintain their housing. I interactions with the public every year. don’t think the size of that emergency has They are frontline social workers. And hit everybody.” by the nature of their work, they enter Myrick is attacking the problem with people’s lives at the most tense, fragile, new development. His logic? Rents are sometimes worst moments in people’s too high because supply is too limited. lives.

(Vacancy rate is below 1 percent.) In his “So state of address, he the overall pointed to recently relationship completed and [between police upcoming projects and residents],” such as Breckenridge he continued, “is (at West Seneca always a tenuous and North Cayuga one. In some streets), Stone communities, Quarry (on Spencer particularly the Road), and Hancock black community, Street (the former it’s more tenuous Neighborhood Pride than others. So parcel) becoming it’s always been part of the solution on my radar. in increasing I released the opportunities for eight-point plan people to live in the pretty quickly in heart of the city.

August after the He added that incident, and a lot private investments of people went, such as Coltivare, ‘Wow, he works Cayuga Green II, fast.’ The truth is I the Marriott Hotel, had been working Rothschild Building on that plan for renovations, and quite some time Lehigh Valley House and this was just condominiums all the right moment received building to let the public permits and are Ty p i c a l It h ac a S t r e e t know what we’re under construction. ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) working on.”

Such development, Myrick said he said, will that several of the points in his eightdensify the city, which will lead to a more point plan are already in motion, such as affordable Ithaca. While not all Ithacans an improved community outreach, the are champing at the bit for such a strategy, outreach worker (middle of the year) and the mayor is convinced it is a necessary breaking ground on the West End office, course of action. along with body cameras on all of the In fact, with the city scheduled to officers (spring), and that his hope is to adopt its new comprehensive plan in 2015, have all eight points implemented by the more form-based zoning within the city end of 2015. As for whether all of those is likely. Such zoning will allow for more initiatives are guaranteed to mend the mixed-use development, which as Myrick relationship between the community and explained, will invite more residents to IPD is another story, he said. live in the city instead of opting to live in “If there was one magic bullet,” he neighboring suburbs. The latter, he added, said, “someone would of found it by now. creates traffic, along with an eroding tax Every community across the country is base, as not everyone working in the city is dealing with this. If we are going to be living in it. successful, it’ll be because of the police “I support form-based zoning,” beginning to speak with the community, and the community speaking with continued on page 10 the police, instead of both parties just T

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“I think one thing everyone should be talking about is the drug problem in the city,” Myrick said. “I’ve been working for seven months, putting together a drug task force of approximately 50 people. They’ve been working very much behind the scenes to deliver to me a comprehensive municipal strategy for a drug policy. We’ve got to try. All that’s obvious is that what we’ve been doing is not working. We have more people using hard drugs, threatening their own lives, and the stability of the community. It’s not something people realize is happening in Ithaca unless they know someone who has fallen into that world. It’s a real problem for us.”

In the coming months, that team will ask the Ithaca community to join their effort, including public roundtables, surveys and community meetings that will “elicit input from the people most impacted by the drug trade, drug abuse and the war on drugs.”

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“Personally,” he admitted, “I’ve got to figure out if I’m going to run again. You know, I’ve had a number of professional accomplishments for someone my age, but I’ve had no personal accomplishments.

My peers—I’m seeing them get pets, buy homes, and start families. I haven’t been able to do any of that, and I would like to do all of it. So I’m striving for whatever is striving for, which is a little work-life balance.” •

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The excellent Ithaca veterinarian, Dr. Claire Berian, told me that cats are protein dependent; if they don’t eat for three days, their systems drop right off. So, for the present time, I continue to give the animals food and water daily.

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I live in Collegetown, a section of Ithaca bordering on the Cornell University campus, and for the last two years I have been caring for a colony of feral cats. The colony is centered two houses over from my apartment building in two garages that the animals use for shelter. I am now entering the third winter of giving the animals food and water on a daily basis.

Why? I have always loved animals. And I have a special fondness for cats.

A few years ago, I wasn’t familiar with the word “colony” as regards felines. Then I heard an animal scientist on a science program on NPR explain that feral cats, being social animals, live in “colonies.” Think of a colony as a pride of miniature lions.

He also explained that, in Europe and America, the way they deal with cat colonies is something called TNR – an acronym for Trap – Neuter – Release. The idea is the animals are Grown feral cats can’t be pets, but kittens can. (Photo provided) trapped, spayed or neutered, and then released back into the colony.

Otherwise, the size of a colony will grow exponentially. friends if I move away or get sick or Fortunately, my new landlord is die or something? And then I think of working with me, and we plan to perform the philosopher Alan Watts’s book The TNR on this particular colony. And the Wisdom of Insecurity. There is no safety, no workman for the properties feeds the security. animals every few days. It is good to have Sixty-five million years ago, a giant allies. meteor or asteroid hit the Earth, and it The feral kittens are prone to upper created a nuclear winter effect and killed respiratory infections (URI). I have off the dinosaurs, a life form that had been rescued four sick kittens in the time I have successful for 140 million years. (Our little been caring for the animals. One can take mammalian ancestors survived because them to the SPCA, where they will be they were furry and could handle the Long given antibiotics, and, hopefully, recover Asteroid Winter.) and be adopted. If it is after hours at the My point here is there is no point SPCA, one can hand off a sick kitten to an worrying. The most we can do is take it animal control officer and he or she will one day at a time. • take the animal to the SPCA. I have developed a huge amount of The SPCA in Ithaca is located at 1640 affection for the animals over the last Hanshaw Rd. Their number is (607) two years. They exist in a twilight zone 257-1822. They are open Monday, between wild and companion animals.

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fun to hear a player say “Cornell.”

Two of those players are still alive in this year’s playoffs, as Bryan Walters of the Seattle Seahawks will play next Sunday for the opportunity to get to the Seahawks’ second straight Super Bowl. They won it all last year, and if they can get past the Green Bay Packers this weekend, they

have a chance to repeat.

Should the Packers prevail, Cornell alum J.C. Tretter will suit up for the big game instead, and the fact that a Cornell player will play in the Super Bowl no matter what is a real source of pride on East Hill.

Walters—a wide receiver and kick returner—is a story of perseverance. After a truly sparkling career at Cornell, Walters caught on as an undrafted free agent with the San Diego Chargers. He was released, picked up briefly by the Minnesota Vikings, and eventually was grabbed up by Seattle. His role has not thus far been that of a superstar by any definition, but he is doing what he must to contribute, and his Super Bowl ring looks just like the ones worn by the big dogs from the big schools.

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Tretter, a second-year lineman, spent the better part of his rookie season on injured reserve, but saw significant time this season.

I asked Cornell assistant coach Shane Hurd just how proud the Big Red are of their alums in the NFL, and he said, “It says a lot for the league. Obviously, you can’t guarantee recruits that they will play at that level, but it does happen, and it happens a lot. Given that Kevin Booth won two Super Bowl rings with the Giants, I’d say we have had a very good 10-year run.”

In addition to 40-yard dash speeds, bench press prowess and other tangible skills, there is something known as “Football IQ.” I asked Coach Hurd how that figures into the equation, and he said, “In order to be an Ivy League studentathlete, a young man needs a tremendous level of dedication to both academics and to athletics. That’s where the character issue comes into play, as NFL teams know that they will get a very high character kid. That kind of player will have his priorities straight, and will not only have the ability to play the game, they will never get themselves into situations that will embarrass the team.”

Prior to coming to coach at Cornell, Hurd was the head coach at UnionEndicott High School, the alma mater of David Archer, the Big Red’s head coach.

Hurd is not shy in sharing a bit of Tiger Pride as well, because once again, there will be a U-E graduate suiting up for the Super Bowl. Two years ago, Chandler Jones of the New England Patriots played against his brother, Art, a Baltimore Raven. The Ravens prevailed, and Art got a ring. This year, the brother will square off again, as the Patriots will play in the AFC Championship game against the Indianapolis Colts, to whom Art Jones was traded. So once again, Mr. and Mrs. Jones are faced with a real dilemma regarding their loyalties. (A third brother, Jon, does not play football, but does okay for himself as the Light Heavyweight champ in the MMA world.) •

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comes from 2 Samuel 18:33, where King David recommended the Tippett spirituals and, after he Ithaca Community Chorus and mourns the death of Absalom, the favorite and listening to them, he thought they would be a Chamber Singers (ICCCS), under the fitting and interesting contrast to the Haydn. The ambitious son who rebelled against his father direction of music director Gerald and was killed. The work is 15 minutes long; it Whitacre piece seemed an appropriate addition Wolfe, will present three unusual works is a “grieving piece,” according to Wolfe, and to be performed by the chorus’s chamber in its annual January concert—two “powerful.” singers. by eminent modern composers and one by a The “Five Spirituals” that follow classical great— at 7:30 p.m. on are part of the modern oratorio A Saturday, Jan. 17, in St. Paul’s Child of Our Time, written at the United Methodist Church, at beginning of World War II by the the corner of Aurora and Court English composer and contemporary Streets. The works, which deal of Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett generally with themes of grieving (1905–1998). Mainly a composer and the search for consolation, of operas and symphonies, Tippett are “When David Heard” by Eric destroyed much of his early work and Whitacre, “Five Spirituals from came to worldwide recognition rather A Child of Our Time” by Michael late. A man of high social awareness Tippett, and The Seven Last Words and commitment—he spent three of Our Savior on the Cross by years in prison as a conscientious Joseph Haydn. The chorus will objector—he came to write his be assisted by an orchestra plus oratorio out of deep concern for soloists soprano Tamara Acosta, Europe’s Jewish population before and alto Ivy Walz, tenor Gerald during the war.

Grahame, and bass David Neal.

The story comes from a true Over the years the incident in Paris: a teenage Jewish Community Chorus has refugee from Poland entered the undertaken some amazing and German embassy in November complicated repertory—including 1938 to protest the treatment of his a world premiere—under the parents and shot a diplomat. The Nazi leadership of Wolfe. Founder leadership used the diplomat’s death and conductor of the Ithaca Art to launch a violent propaganda attack Ensemble, which became the against Jews in Europe, which led Gerald Wolfe Singers in 1988 and two days later to mass destruction of then the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, Jewish businesses and homes, an event Wolfe has been in charge of the known as Kristallnacht.

ICCCS since 1990. So this is an The boy was imprisoned and anniversary year for him, and in then removed from Paris, never to their spring concert in April the be seen again. He became Tippett’s group will perform the beloved, symbolic hero. The composer asked and also challenging, Brahms his friend T. S. Eliot to write the text “German Requiem.” for his oratorio, but Eliot, after seeing For the present concert, Wolfe the sketch the composer had made, will conduct the chorus of 108 suggested that Tippett write the words singers from our community— himself, as he felt they should be ranging in age from their 30s to simple and less formal. So both text their 80s—with about one-third and music come from Tippett. being longtime members. The He gave his work a three-part orchestra consists of 26 musicians Gerald Wolfe leads the Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber SIngers during a structure, modeled on Handel’s Messiah, recruited by longtime bassoonist recent rehearsal. (photo by Tim Gera) and wanted also to include the idea of Charles McCary. This ensemble a congregational musical commentary and soloists who are well known in the way Bach used the Lutheran chorales The program opens with “When David and admired in our region will accompany the in his Passions. The composer happened to Heard,” to be sung a cappella by the chamber chorus in the Haydn work. see Marc Connelly’s play, The Green Pastures, singers, an auditioned group of 32 voices. The When I asked him about the repertory for which featured quite a few spirituals, and he composer, Eric Whitacre, born in Nevada this concert, he told me that he had prepared was inspired to use “Steal Away” and four in 1945, has become known worldwide for the Seven Last Words with his choir at St. Paul’s others, all with suitable melodies and texts, as his organization of a “virtual chorus,” where in Ithaca, where he was music director from his “chorales”—“Nobody Knows,” “Go Down, singers from all over participate online. But 1982 to 1995, and he wanted to do it again as he is acknowledged especially for his choral the major work on a program. He then started continued on page 18 compositions and has won a Grammy award. looking for music that would go well with this The biblical text for “When David Heard” rather unusual choral composition. Someone

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o one gets taken in Olivier Megaton’s Taken 3 except the audience. What a fun way to usher in the New Year. You’ll believe that Forest Whitaker can eat a bagel.

So rather than gripe about having to watch yet another action franchise wheeze its way through another uninspired chapter about Liam Neeson’s ex-government operative—actually, we see more of Neeson’s stunt double in the film’s various dull action set pieces—I thought I’d lay off movies for the week and hip you to a great new book that’s a must for fans of comedy and film, Most of you know Patton Oswalt as the voice of Remy the Rat in Ratatouille. Hardcore comedy fans have been following his stand-up career since the mid ‘90s.

He’s also what Danny Peary would call a film fanatic.

Oswalt’s new book Silver Screen Fiend is both a painfully funny and honest memoir about the ups and downs of his comedy career, and a loving analysis of film history as he talks about weeks and months and years watching movies in theaters.

If you love comedy, Oswalt’s hilarious and insightful comments on films as varied as Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole to Hammer horror films starring the redoubtable Caroline Munro will have you running to add titles to your Netflix queue. If you’re a film fanatic, you’re going to hear great stories about a whole generation of alternative comedy all-stars—basically, today’s stars—folks like Louis C.K., Marc Maron, Sarah Silverman, David Cross, and Brian Posehn.

You wouldn’t think that you’d be much moved by Oswalt’s account of his first film role in the largely forgettable Kelsey Grammer vehicle Down Periscope, but you’d be wrong. Oswalt never spares his own pretensions at the time, and a long, hard-working journey in comedy is boiled down lots of odd jobs like being a day player in a Kelsey Grammer movie.

Oswalt preserves a certain kind of obsessive fandom in amber forever, as he runs from repertory theater to mallplex screens, living on popcorn and Red Vines, and then home to check off the

day’s titles in his copies of Danny Peary’s Cult Movies books, not to mention Michael Weldon’s The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film. And here I thought I was the only one who checked off all the movies I’ seen in Peary’s Guide for the

Film Fanatic.

Oswalt kept all his calendars from those years’ successes and failures. He uses them as chapter illustrations, and if you have a magnifying glass, you can read all the films Oswalt saw, say, in the month of March 1997. He uses those painstaking records to re-create all kinds of moments in his life, from a 12-film marathon weekend to a week of weed-fueled standup in Amsterdam, and his career as a staff writer on Mad TV. Oswalt includes a list in the back of the book of every film he saw from the day he moved to Los Angeles in 1995 to the film that shut down his movie vision quest in 1999. I’ve seen a lot of movies— over 4000—but books like these always have me reaching for my golf pencils and calculator.

Silver Screen Fiend isn’t just a rare honest show biz memoir but an invaluable film resource book to boot.

I read most of these show biz books and then give them to friends. This one I’ll keep. It goes on the shelf with Jerry Stiller’s Married To Laughter, categorized as a book I’ll re-read every year for the rest of my life. •

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he newest addition to “restaurant row” on North Aurora Street is Red’s Place, which announces itself as a “gastropub.” Apparently a gastropub is a pub that has been to culinary school because much of the menu that you will find at Red’s is at its core quite familiar.

But it has been dressed up in some way to make it more interesting without becoming exotic or more complicated without becoming just plain busy.

Diners at Red’s on Restaurant Row. (photo by Tim Gera) A standby of pub grub is the burger, and The “plates to share” are actually Red’s delivers on this score. It does not appetizers. Once again you find a mixture have a long absurd list of hamburgers of vegetarian and carnivorous/piscivorous with different toppings and cute names. offerings. Some items are generic, like Instead they have a hamburger, a lamb burger, and a turkey burger for meat eaters, the cheese and the meat boards, but most provoke curiosity and tend toward Latin and a crabcake “burger” and a Portobello and Caribbean flavoring. mushroom cap for vegetarians.

The “Rosebuds,” for example, are The lamb burger is appropriately Chinese five-spiced barbecue-pulled shorttopped with tzatziki, a Greek sauce made rib sliders with sriracha slaw. The sauce on with yogurt, garlic, olive oil and flavored the slaw is actually a Thai recipe, so you with mint or dill. The menu says the meat have a real cross-cultural mix going on is seasoned, but you wouldn’t know it. The here. Five-spice powder includes star anise, rest of the toppings include tomato, onion cloves, Chinese cinnamon, Sichuan pepper, and feta. This is a reasonably sized burger, and fennel seeds. In other words, if you put perhaps a quarter-pound, which is frankly too much of this on something, you won’t a relief in a world increasingly populated taste much else. Here—and everywhere else with enormous slabs of ground meat. on the menu that we have explored—they Another sector of the menu includes pull their punches and go for safe rather the “flatbreads,” which are essentially than bold. pizzas, as every single one includes some When you are serving what is sort of cheese melted onto an oval of bread. essentially comfort food, it is apparently But the ingredients fielded here are actually about moderation. At Red’s they manage interesting combinations (although cute this vis a vis their ingredients: offsetting names for menu items were not wholly savory with sweet or bitter etc. But they avoided) and once again vegetarians are also balance the familiar with the foreign. given some choices.

You wouldn’t call any of the food here The “Wild Thing” flatbread is covered “adventurous,” but that hardly seems to be with purportedly “wild” mushrooms, the point. You might think you know what rosemary, prosciutto and Fontina cheese. you’re going to get when you order, and The mushrooms are really just commercial then it may surprise you a little when you Portobellos; there is nothing wild about take your first bite, but only a little. them. Red’s Place feels like it is missing Finally, this is not one of those something when it promises more than it locavore places. The menu does not tell you can deliver. where the lamb in the lamb burger came The third main area of the menu consists of “artisan sandwiches.” In addition from. The salads do not promise to change to turkey and chicken subs, Red’s takes their with the seasons. One of the side dishes is “tater tots.” Red’s Place is somewhere stab at the increasingly (and deservedly) to take the night off from being more popular “Cuban,” which is always a duplex sustainable-than-thou and eat something of ham and pork loin. The latter has been rubbed with chimichurri, a South American that tastes good but isn’t what you’d call fascinating. • concoction made from parsley, garlic, olive oil, oregano and vinegar. So, once again this Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are savvy chef has devised a counterpoint to his based on unannounced, anonymous visits. savory flavors, this time with the bitterness Reviews can be found at ithaca.com/ of the vinegar and Dijon mustard plus the dining sour of the house-made dill pickles.

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hiannon Bell’s penand-ink drawings are on display at Handwork for the rest of the month. Part of the exhibit can be seen in the front window from the sidewalk and the rest by going inside and threading your way through the shelves in the cooperative. It is a curious collection and would seem to be divided into two parts, with one part having distinct sections.

Bell is an Ithaca Artist Rhiannon Bell (photo by Tim Gera) High School graduate, currently enrolled at the Tyler School of Art the work documents of an archeologist or in Philadelphia. She has also apparently a paleo-philologist and noticed the beauty traveled back and forth between Whitney inherent in careful recordkeeping. Several Point and Bainbridge on Rt. 206. There drawings recreate pages from notebooks is a rambling, dilapidated building next or journals where an alphabet is being to the state road just west of Bainbridge presented letter by letter, the glyphs that appears to have been three-quarters arranged in a column with explanatory completed before it was abandoned. text penned in neat letters next to each Bell provides you with a view of the one. The text about Sumerian, Hebrew and entire building that presents its structural Phoenician languages is written in various components in architectural detail. Her modern languages. hand is brisk, confident, and efficient.

Bell is exploring the relationship Her rendering of the edifice makes it between drawing and writing. Each letter look sounder than it actually is. She also in our alphabet began as a picture of an presents studies of different parts of the object. The sound of that letter is matched interior and exterior. In all cases the to the sound of the first syllable in the viewer feels as if he has donned goggles spoken name for the object. For example, that have erased obscuring shadows and the Phoenician word aleph means “ox” and sharpened crumbling edges. the pictograph for the first letter of their The second, more extensive part of alphabet looks like a horned ox head. this exhibit appears based on the artist’s She makes this connection in a fascination with alphabets, how they different way in a drawing arranged into evolve from representations of things and two pyramids. In the bottom, inverted sounds, and become words and written triangle she has placed a fetus. Its complex language. placenta trails upward into the base of a Bell visited the Johnson Museum pyramid that is filled with line upon line at Cornell to draw Sumerian cuneiform of text (which appears to be in Spanish). tablets, some of them from 3350 BCE. Superimposed on these lines is an Both pictographs and the wedge-shaped ascending staircase, the crosshatching of impressions that give the system its name the lines that give it shape blending with have been imprinted on the older clay the lines that make up the lines of text. slabs. More recent (but still very old) Are the two parts of this exhibit tablets are covered only with lines and related conceptually? Perhaps. The wedges. building on Rt. 206 is almost the Bell renders these artifacts as threeembodiment of a language: it looks like it dimensional objects (“illusionism”) as if accreted over time after being begun with they were lighted from all sides, except a few ground rules and a loose plan. Like directly beneath the tablet. The depictions an ancient language, it is no longer used, are so precise and accurate that even but it still exists, silent, abandoned, and the varying states of preservation can be decaying at the side of the road. Like the detected. It is impressive to stand four feet clay tablets, Bell is keeping the building away and have your brain fooled quite alive in the mind of the living by creating completely, and then to move in on the images of it. The former purpose of the surface and have the deft crosshatches derelict building is as mysterious as the emerge. meaning of the wedge-shaped marks in The artist would seem to have seen the Mesopotamian clay. •

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n Thursday, Jan. 15 the Sim Redmond Band will play the next 2300° show at the Corning Museum of Glass. “We’ve played there a few times before,” said Redmond. “It’s a lot of fun. We feel like we’re a big part of the event, which is great because it includes glass-blowing and wine tasting.”

At the 2300° events—named for the Fahrenheit temperature at which glass melts—the visiting public may explore much of the museum between 6 and 8 p.m. in the evening, free of charge. They are held on the third Thursday of the month between November and March (with a special date in May).

The theatre at the museum is large, but the Sim Redmond Band has an expansive sound that many people have heard fill the Infield at Grassroots. Their sound has a distinct African influence with Redmond himself being especially Sim Redmond Band will play Corning Glass this Thursday. fond of the music of Zimbabwe (photo via simredmondband.com) and the townships of South Africa. days, averaging about two gigs per month, Keyboard player Nate Richardson, playing more often during the warmer on the other hand, is devoted to the music months. of Mali and has learned to play the kora, “Ninety-five percent of our gigs are a 21-string harp that uses a calabash within two to three hours of here,” the (squash) as a resonator. band leader said, “but every once in a Redmond’s band has now been together for 16 years and some things have while we hop on a plane and go to Japan.”

The last time they flew over was a couple evolved and some have stayed the same. of years ago. “I think they thought of us as The personnel has remained remarkably ‘summer music,’” Redmond said. stable with Redmond, his brother Asa on Redmond graduated from Ithaca drums, guitarist Jordan Aceto, and bass College with a degree that included getting player Dan Merwin all being original experience doing studio production and members. Between 1998 and the midengineering. His first album, The Things 2000s singer Uniit Carruyo shared vocals We Will Keep (1999), came from student with Redmond. Jen Middaugh first projects and he did much of the studio appeared in 2006 on the album Each New Day. Richardson joined the band for 2008’s work on the band’s first three albums.

More recently he has ceded those duties to Room in These Skies.

Richardson, who works at REP Studios in “We haven’t recorded since 2010,” Ithaca. said Redmond. “Mostly because I haven’t Over the years the Sim Redmond been writing a lot, but we will do some Band’s sound has gotten smoother. The recording this year.” A year ago he became a stay-at-home dad and has had some new rock and roll drive of Redmond’s “Me & Juge” on The Things We Will Keep and priorities. the resolute swing of Carruyo’s “Holes in Like a lot of recording artists the Ground” on Good Thoughts (2000) Redmond is wondering if there is any has given way to acres of syncopated, point in issuing a CD anymore. “The interlocking groove-making, which is whole band will discuss it,” he said, “and really a movement toward the sound and then we’ll see what we’ll do.” Redmond thought that they would probably continue approach of the African pop music that the group members admire. to release recordings rather than just “We recently did a set for WSKG upload them to “the cloud” or make files [public television in Binghamton] that was available on line.

“It has been weird coming from being a real stripped-down acoustic sound,” said Redmond. “Nate played the kora.” If they a young and upcoming musician and make any changes in their approach to the now becoming an older, better known recorded music that they are planning for musician,” he said. “We no longer dream the coming year,” said Redmond, it will be about touring the country all the time.” In in a more acoustic direction. • fact, they do relatively little touring these

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Moses,” “By and By,” and “Deep River.”

Each of the three sections in A Child of Our Time closes with a spiritual. Only one has a description—“Go Down, Moses” is called A Spiritual of Anger.

Tippett started work on the oratorio on Sept. 3, 1939, one day after Great Britain entered World War II, and he worked on it for several years. The first performance was in London in 1944.

He went on to be recognized as one of England’s leading 20th-century composers and was knighted in 1966. Some time after the oratorio was premiered, the five spirituals were reworked by the composer—he added additional voice

parts and lines, filled out some of the harmonization, and extended some solos (all the soloists in the spirituals come from the chorus), making them more standalone pieces. They too will be performed a cappella.

They are hauntingly beautiful, a couple are quite jazzy, and listeners can hear Tippett’s characteristic use of canonic figures. “Deep River” offers a closing of prayerful consolation. Surely the composer’s use of these special community songs underlines his deep belief in the power of music to address the most central concerns of the human condition.

And, sad to say, this oratorio and its story admittedly speaks to our world right now.

The program closes with Haydn’s Seven Last Words, one of this master’s most

unusual compositions, scored for four soloists choir, and orchestra. The community chorus is using a special version in English, translated and edited by Wolfe. It is, incidentally, a selfproduced edition created from a desktop program.

He has been working on it for several years. When he first prepared this work in the early 1990s, the only available English edition was “terrible,” and he found it wasn’t really a translation.

So he has had the special experience of honing this

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Director Gerald Wolfe with the Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers. (photo by Tim Gera)

text, and to present it in clear English.

“It’s good if singers and the audience can understand what they are doing,” he said.

He also has made a few musical alterations to accommodate the English text.

The history of this work is truly strange. Best known as a choral work today, the Seven Last Words was originally composed as an orchestral work, a commission from the Cathedral of Santa Cueva in Cádiz, Spain. It was designed as part of a Lenten service where musical interludes came between sermons on the words of Jesus. The premiere there was in 1786. The following year Haydn arranged the work for string quartet. And then, in 1794, he heard a version of this music for choir and orchestra which had been concocted by Joseph Friebert, a church musician in Passau. Haydn liked the idea but thought he could do a better job with the choral writing. He enlisted the services of Baron Gottfried van Swieten, director of the court library in Vienna, to prepare the text, which is based mainly on Friebert’s words. Haydn also made changes in orchestration. This German version was first performed in Vienna in 1796, and has been commonly used to this day.

The work is in nine parts, an introduction without chorus, seven sections, and a conclusion called “Il Terremoto” (a chilling version of the biblical earthquake account at the time of Jesus’s death). The “words” are not the seven words we expect, “Unto thy hands I commend my spirit,” but are rather sentences or phrases, all familiar, which are uttered on the cross. They are solemnly introduced in a chorale form at the beginning of each section. Haydn sets these ideas with stately, dignified melodies, often with elements of grandeur.

The four soloists sing mostly in quartets that alternate with the full chorus. The soli vs. tutti effect is beautifully scored and moving. The final movement is marked Presto e con tutta la forza, meaning it is “very fast and with full force.” What an exciting and dramatic way to end an evening of serious, contemplative, and mourning music. • Tickets are available from chorus members or online at www. ithacacommunitychoruses.org. Adults: $15 in advance, $20 at the door; Students: $5; Children under 12 are free.

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National Theatre Live: JOHN | Sat: 1:30 PM The Theory of Everything | The extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.

Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. | 123 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:20 PM; Sat & Sun: 1:50, 4:20; Mon - Wed: 4:20 PM; Thu: 11:20 AM, 4:20 Wild | With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope.

After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision.

With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone. | 115 mins R | Fri: 4:25, 6:50, 9:15; Sat & Sun: 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15; Mon Wed: 4:25, 6:50, 9:15; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15

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The start date for the following schedule is Friday, January 16.

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Music

Tumbleweed Highway | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | w/TBA.

bars/clubs/cafés

01/17 Saturday

01/14 Wednesday

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www.cinst. org.

Matt Garrity & Grape Jam | 8:00 PM- | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | -

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Orbiting Art Ensemble | 7:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | A rotating cast of the area’s finest musicians and artists. Led by the keyboard master Michael Stark (Wingnut, Tzar) OAE delivers a wide range of completely improvised music. $5 7pm to 10pm Ti Ti Chickapea with Richie Stearns, Eric Aceto, and Hank Roberts | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 East State Street, Ithaca | -

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Al Hartland Trio | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W. State St., Ithaca | jazz.

Paul Kempkes ‘Dr. K’ | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More, 708 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | The Aceto-Robinson Quartet | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Road, Ithaca | -

Iron Horse | 6:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Saturday Happy Hour Special contra dance with The Contradictions | 7:30 PM- | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | w/ Laurie Hart, Rick Manning, Dave Davies, with Eric Aceto and a panoply of local callers. Contras 7:30-10:30 pm, dessert potluck and couples dances 10:30-11:30 pm. All dances taught, no partner necessary.

Mouth To Mouth To Mouth / Ceschi / Sammus / Bravo Blane / Gold Lex | 8:00 PM- | Just Be the Cause Center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | Presented by Ithaca Underground 5 Mile Drive | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM | Redder’s Bar & Grill, 1710 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | 5 Mile Drive plays an eclectic mix of classic rock, blues, and rocking originals.

Richman and the Poorboyz | 10:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Rockin’ Blues, Jazz, Americana Terrapin Station | 10:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Geronimo Line | 10:00 PM- | The Nines, 311 College Ave., Ithaca | w. Infrared Radiation Orchestra

01/18 Sunday

Rob Stachyra | 12:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Folk, Americana Ithaca Folk Song Swap | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM | Crow’s Nest Cafe in Autumn Leaves, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Traditional ballads, chanteys, & songs, as well as contemporary songs with traditional roots. Bring your acoustic instrument

01/19 Monday

Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM- | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats

01/20 Tuesday

Gerard Burke | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Bluehounds | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks and More, 708 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Traditional Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Chapter House Brew Pub, 400 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans

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Open Mic | 9:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca |

01/21 Wednesday

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www.cinst. org.

Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | -

Concerts 2300°: Sim Redmond Band | 6:00 PM- | Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning | Cage | 8:00 PM- | Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | w/ WEERD SCIENCE | CESCHI RAMOS | VIRGMAN | PUPPET THE GRIMEY

01/17 Saturday

Max Creek | 7:00 PM- | Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | BIG FOOT | UNIVERSAL TRANSIT Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers | 7:30 PM- | St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N. Aurora St, Ithaca Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ with full orchestra and soloists: Tamara Acosta, Ivy Walz, Gerald Grahame, and David Neale; and Michael Tippett’s a cappella setting of five spirituals from A Child of Our Time.

In addition, the Chamber Singers will perform When David Heard by Eric Whittaker.

Metalachi | 8:00 PM- | Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | -

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Stage Count Me In | 7:30 PM-, 01/14 Wednesday; 7:30 PM-, 01/15 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 01/16 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 01/17 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 4:00 PM- 01/18 Sunday; 7:30 PM-, 01/21 Wednesday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | What happens when forever friends begin forever again? A musical romp headed toward infinity by Kitchen Theatre Artistic Director Rachel Lampert, author of Tony and the Soprano, Bed No Breakfast, In the Company of Dancers, and many other music- and dance-filled pieces.

Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 01/14 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs Running To Places: Fame - The Musical | 7:00 PM-, 01/16 Friday; 7:00 PM-, 01/17 Saturday; 2:00 PM 01/18 Sunday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Fame tells the story of life in a contemporary American high school. While the story is appropriate for

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Al Hartland Trio | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W. State St., Ithaca | Sunnyside Combo | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | live jazz Johnny Dowd | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Bleak / Dialysis / King Size Pegasus / Bastard Eyes | 7:00 PM- | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Presented by Ithaca Underground Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Jerry Tanner and Lisa Gould of Technicolor Trailer Park

Birdman | BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. | 119 mins R | Fri - Wed: 7:00, 9:30; Thu: 2:00, 7:00, 9:30.

Foxcatcher | the story of Olympic Gold Medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz (Tatum), who sees a way out from the shadow of his more celebrated wrestling brother Dave (Ruffalo) and a life of poverty when he is summoned by eccentric multimillionaire John du Pont (Carell) to move onto his estate and train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. | 130 mins R | Fri: 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30; Mon - Wed: 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Thu: 11:00 AM, 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30.

The Imitation Game | During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of ‘gross indecency’, an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. | 114 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Sat & Sun: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Mon - Wed: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15.

Inherent Vice | “Inherent Vice,” is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel. | 148 mins R | Fri & Sat: 3:50, 6:40, 9:30; Sun: 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30; Mon Wed: 3:50, 6:40, 9:30; Thu: 11:20 AM, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30

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Comedian Helen Hong | 8:00 PM-, 01/17 Saturday | Auburn Public Theatre, 8 Exchange St., Auburn | With Opener: Anna Phillips; Helen Hong was named one of Huffington Post’s top female comedians.

Jersey Boys | 7:30 PM-, 01/20 Tuesday; 7:30 PM-, 01/21 Wednesday | Samuel Clemens Performing Arts Center See Clemens Center, Maudeville Hal, Elmira | Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-Winning Best Musical JERSEY BOYS premiere one-week engagement at the Clemens Center January 20 -25, 2015. Don’t miss your chance to see The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons!

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 1 | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@yahoo.com.

Rehearsals for Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers | St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N. Aurora St, Ithaca | The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers, directed

by Gerald Wolfe, will begin rehearsing Brahms Requiem on Wednesday January 28th 2015 at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Ithaca. No Auditions.

Registration will take place at 6:15 p.m. prior to the first three rehearsals.

These will run weekly from 7-9 p.m. until the concert on April 25th. For more information or to register on-line visit: http://www.ithacacommunitychoruses. org.

Meetings

Learning Art Classes for Adults | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Winter Writing Through The Rough Spots | See website for location and meeting dates | Writing Through The Rough Spots. Fall and Winter Classes in Ithaca. www.WritingRoomWorkshops. com Creative Embroidery | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 01/14 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Join Librarian Cady (BFA, Fiber Art 2012) to learn how to draw with thread through creative embroidery and applique. Get inspired and learn to stitch pictures with hand and sewing techniques. $5 class fee. Registration required.

Real Food for Outrageous Energy | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 01/14 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn how to eat a real food diet that will double your energy, stabilize your mood, and allow you to do more of what you love. Erin Harner, MS, RDN, CHC is an Integrative Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. This class is free and open to the public, and will be held at the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Red Cross Training | 6:00 PM-9:30 PM, 01/15 Thursday | American Red Cross, 2 Ascot Pl, Ithaca | Registration Required: 1-800-733-2767 (Option 3) or http:// www.redcross.org/take-a-class. Adult & Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED Part 2 of 2 Part Class (Part 1 Tuesday, January 13) Winter Soups to Keep the Chill Away | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 01/15 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Theresa Joseph, organic farmer and cook, will demonstrate how to prepare and serve

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Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 01/14 Wednesday | The Rose, Triphammer Mall, Ithaca | 607-279-2297 or lldalve24@yahoo.com Ithaca City Planning and Economic Development Committee | 6:00 PM-, 01/14 Wednesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Facilities and Infrastructure Committee | 5:00 PM-, 01/20 Tuesday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Tompkins County Legislature | 5:30 PM-, 01/20 Tuesday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome.

Ithaca Town Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 01/20 Tuesday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 01/21 Wednesday | Ithaca Beer Company, Ithaca Beer Drive, Ithaca | Ithaca Beer Restaurant; hans_fleischmann@yahoo. com Ithaca City Administration Committee | 6:00 PM-, 01/21 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca | -

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This class is open to the public, and will be held at the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Learn to Play Bridge or Practice Play | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 01/16 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, Clinton Street Plaza, Ithaca | Coaches are available to teach bridge to beginners or to give advice to more advanced players. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. This is the same group that used to meet at Lifelong.

Ithaca’s Zoning Reform Initiative | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, 01/16 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Lunch provided; RSVP required; Email katherinestoner@ gmail.com by Monday January 12th Red Cross Training | 12:00 PM-, 01/18 Sunday | American Red Cross, 2 Ascot Pl, Ithaca | Registration Required: 1-800-733-2767 (Option 3) or http:// www.redcross.org/take-a-class. Sunday, January 18, 12pm - 2:30 pm Adult & Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED, 3pm - 5:30pm CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 01/18 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5 donation suggested.

Watercolor painting | 10:00 AM-, 01/19 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Beginning Spanish | 1:00 PM-, 01/19 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Knit & Chat | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 01/19 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Swap stories and skills with this informal group.

Youth are encouraged to attend.

Intermediate Spanish | 2:00 PM-, 01/19 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | ReUse Volunteer Orientation | 4:00 PM-, 01/19 Monday | ReUse Center in Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Anyone interested in volunteering at the ReUse Center, eCenter, or Deconstruction Services program should attend this meeting, which will cover details of operations and volunteer tasks. We’d like to know you’re coming, so please RSVP to Anise Hotchkiss, anise@fingerlakesreuse.org, call (607) 257-9699.

Dinner with the Doctor: Boost Your Immunity | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 01/20 Tuesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Learn the

keys to building health from within so your immune system can overcome the challenges that this season brings. Join Dr. Ammitai Worob, DC, for this talk and enjoy a delicious dinner prepared by the GreenStar Deli. Open to the public, and held at the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 01/20 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.

Nature & Science Primitive Pursuits Free Monthly Primitive Skills Meet Up | Location TBD | This is a no-cost program meeting one Saturday each month at various designated locations to work on anything and everything primitive. Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com to join the club.

Beginning Beekeeping Workshop | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Workshop held on 2/07.

Learn about honey bees and the joys of beekeeping, and network with beekeepers of all experience levels. Our speakers each have decades of personal experience with bees and beekeeping, and all enjoy sharing their love of the hobby.Preregistration ends on January 31, 2015. www.cayuganaturecenter.com Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 01/17 Saturday; 9:00 AM-, 01/18 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Bird walks around Sapsucker Woods are sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club and are targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars are available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information.

Primitive Pursuits Adult Weekend Workshop | Locations TBD | Upcoming events: February 7 - 8;Friction Fire Intensive , March 7 - 8. For more information, call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit online at primitivepursuits.com.

The Finger Lakes Native Plant Society Members Night: A Botanical Smorgasbord | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 01/21 Wednesday | Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Come to our first-ever Members Night featuring short presentations by FLNPS members and friends on a variety of topics.

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This is bound to be a good one, folks: Argos Inn welcomes Ti Ti Chickapea, an all-star trio of Richie Stearns, Eric Aceto and Hank Roberts. We will see you there. (photo via Facebook)

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Special Events Game Club | 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, 01/15 Thursday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | All ages and skill levels welcome to play chess, Munchkin Quest, and Ticket to Ride.

Varick Winery’s Chili Cook- Off | 9:30 AM-6:00 PM, 01/17 Saturday | Varick Winery, 5102 state Route 89, Romulus | Warm up your winter day with complimentary chili dishes crafted by our staff; vote for your favorite chili. Phone: 315-549-8797; www.varickwinery.com Blood Drive | 1:30 PM-6:30 PM, 01/20 Tuesday | Enfield Fire Station, 172 Enfield Main Road, Enfield | You can call for an appointment on January 20’TH by calling the American Red Cross at 273-1900. Walk-ins are always welcome. ongoing Open Hearts Dinner | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 01/14 Wednesday | McKendree United Methodist Church, 224 Owego St., Candor | Every Wednesday. Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you.

SpinKnitters | 1:30 PM-, 01/15 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Open knitting group

Ithaca Farmer’s Market | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 01/17 Saturday | The Space at Greenstar , Ithaca | Soup and or Chili Nights | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 01/20 Tuesday | Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, 17 Main St., Candor | Every Tuesday Night. With dessert and drink. Free Will Donation

Health Alcoholics Anonymous | Multiple Dates and Locations | This group meets several times per week at various locations.

For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/PDF/ IthacaMeetings.pdf Chair Yoga | 10:00 AM-, 01/14 Wednesday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 01/14 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St., Ithaca | Facilitated

by Liz Constable and Finger Lakes Independence Center Peer Counselor Amy Scott, and supported by Finger Lakes Independence Center Peer Counselor Emily Papperman. Call Amy or Emily at

607-272-2433.

DSS in Ulysses | 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, 01/14 Wednesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm St, Trumansburg | walk-ins welcome.

For info on SNAP, Medicaid, Daycare and Emergency assistance. CALL (607) 274-5345 with any questions.

Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 01/14 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Overeaters Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 01/14 Wednesday | Dryden Village Hall, Dryden | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 01/15 Thursday | First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 01/17 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 01/19 Monday | Just Be Cause center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 01/14 Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 01/14 Wednesday | First Congregational Church of Ithaca , 309 Highland Rd , Ithaca | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 01/18 Sunday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 01/19 Monday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca |For more information, call 607-351-9504 or visit www.foodaddicts.org.

Southern Tier Parkinson’s Disease Support Group (STPDSG) | 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, 01/15 Thursday | Silver Spoon Cafe, Schuyler County Human Services, 323 Owego Street, Montour Falls | Pre-registration appreciated: Gretta Preston. 607 546 2167 or prestongj1133@msn.com Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 01/15 Thursday; 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 01/19 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 01/16 Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location, | For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: (607) 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, 01/16 Friday | Ithaca Community

Projects in Black and White Friday, January 16 – 5 to 7 p.m.

Corners Gallery hosts an artist reception for Projects in Black and White, an exhibition of work from Ben Altman and Laurie Snyder.

Altman will feature select photographs from his Seeing Memorials series, while Snyder presents selections from her collection Mend.

(Pictured: Snyder’s “Freese Barn II”, via Corners Gallery).

Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | Successful recovery based on Dr. Kay Sheppard’s program The Listening Workshop | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 01/17 Saturday | Ithaca Community Childcare Center, 579 Warren Rd, Ithaca | Please register by emailing your name and phone number to the listeningworkshop@gmail.com.

Winter Wisdom | 9:30 AM-3:00 PM, 01/17 Saturday | Foundation of Light, 399 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | To register and for more information, email Marsha Eger at chantingmeditation@yahoo.com or call (607) 592-2465 or call the FOL at (607) 273-9550 email: info@folithaca.org.

Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 01/18 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free.

Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 01/20 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m.

Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm.

Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604 Winter Qigong | 5:15 PM-, 01/20 Tuesday | Office of Suicide Prevention, 124 East Court Street, Ithaca | Meditative movement practices to enhance circulation, vitality, health and mood. Join Will Fudeman, L Ac, LCSW. Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 01/20 Tuesday | 124 E. Court St., 124 E. Court St., Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions # 607-272-1505

Arts opening Opening: Projects in Black and White | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 01/16 Friday | Corners Gallery & Frame Shop, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Artist’s reception for new exhibit featuring the work of Ben Altman and Laurie Snyder. Selections from Ben Altman’s “Seeing Memorials” series, an on-going project of on-site photographs of atrocity sites and memorials. Selections from Laurie Snyder’s “Mends” series, which celebrate those who fix, repair, heal, or mend. Up through Feb. 28. ongoing CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Mon-Thu 9:00

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he local music scene in Ithaca seems to shine brightest in the warmth of the summer sun, and it is easy to think the winter months are spent chilling out. But the longer nights can also reveal luminous alignments of stars. The Orbiting Art Ensemble is a perfect example of that sort of constellation, and will light up the Dock on Thursday, Jan. 15.

Don’t expect a set-list; there’s not even a steady roster to the group. But host Mike Stark is a keyboardist in so many Ithaca ensembles he can seem omnipresent, and his gravitational pull is great. He performed an astounding 94 shows in 2014, and regularly draws many of those collaborators to his “Stark Nights” at the Argos Inn. When they last convened in November, Stark gathered a half-dozen other musicians; and for Thursday’s incarnation he will gather a half-dozen more (as well as two visual artists who will collaborate with the musicians). Orbiting Art Ensemble appearances are always unique, but a common strain is an aura of playful restlessness.

AM-7:00 PM, Fri-Sat 11:00 PM-7:30 PM; Sun 12:00-5:00 PM | Keep It Dark, Jim Garmhausen, opening 01/09 through January | www.artspartner.org Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Annual Open Show, Curated by Michael Sampson, CSMA’s Open Show presents works in a variety of media and styles by more than 30 local artists, through January | Time–Manner–Place, photographs by Craig Mains, opening 02/06 through 02/27 | Sculpture Show, invitiational, openings 03/06 through 04/24 | www.csma-ithaca.org Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center), Ithaca | Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00 AM-5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM. Closed Sun & Mon | Projects in Black and White, select work from Ben Altman and Laurie Snyder, 01/09 through 02/28 | www. cornersgallery.com Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Brad Waterman: Cerulean Dream, through January | (646) 306-0972 Elevator Music and and Art Gallery | New Roots Charter School, 116 North

and a tentative keyboard line, slowly at first but then with a rapid gathering pace. Subsequent songs hop and skip like intergalactic dances. There are so many twitches and pivots to the one-minute “spare beans,” it resembles a carnival ride.

Taped live at the Chapter House, Sandbox features Stark and three longtime collaborators: drummers Matthew Saccuccimorano and Zaun Marshburn, and the affable and adept bassist Brian Dozoretz.

The 50 recorded Mike Stark and Johnny Dowd (photo via michaelstarkmusic.wordpress.com) minutes sound more like a to come in without preconceived ideas composition than a jam session, which is of what it should sound like. I think of it important to Stark. “We are conscious of as experimenting with different worlds the music we are making. We come up with colliding.” themes, melodies, and a specific sound.”

The result is not without dissonance, As is common in this setting, recurring but it also never sounds discursive. Sandbox, themes and excursions reverberate with recorded almost exactly a year ago and warmth. This is especially true on “plum,” released last spring, aptly invokes the where Stark’s organ builds steadily, spirit of play. Lead track “bump bump” expanding in a gently pulsing haze over a rustles awake with the sound of brushes stately march. This is the sound of waking

Cayuga Street, Ithaca | 882-9220 | White Noise, Space Installation by Rebecca Cutter and Sound Installation by Matt Mikkelson, through January | newrootsschool.org Gimme! Coffee | 430 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | New work by Lauren Valchuis, through January | www.gimmecoffee. com/ Handwerker Gallery | Gannett Center, Ithaca College | Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM; Thursday, 10 AM to 9 pm; weekends, noon to 5 PM. Closed to the public on Tuesdays | Alien Apostles

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by Mercedes Dorame, opening 01/22 through February | www.ithaca.edu/ handwerker Handwork Coop | Commons, Ithaca | Monday throughSaturday, 10 AM to 6 PM; Thursday and Friday 10 AM to 8 PM; Sunday noon to 5 PM | Ink and text-based art by Rhiannon Bell, through January | www.handwork.coop Kitchen Theatre Company | 417 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Paintings by Lynne Taetzsch, through January | 272-0403 or www.kitchentheatre.org Moosewood Restaurant | 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | 607-273-9610

| Elaborate Doodles, work by Yvonne Fisher, up through 02/28 | www. moosewoodcooks.com The Potter’s Room | 109A E. State/ MLK Jr. St. (on the Commons), Ithaca | Aylin Erkan, works on paper, up through January Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar | 139 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Soul Journey Art Show, community show, up through January. | www.sacredrootkava. com Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | Views From Venice, photographs by Hilda Moleski, through January | www.sarahspatisserie.com/ Silky Jones | 214 The Commons (E. State St.), Ithaca | Daily, 4:00 PM-1:00 AM | Marissa Burns, abstract works, through January | www.silkyjoneslounge.com Solá Gallery | Dewitt Mall, Ithaca | 10:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday-Saturday | japanese prints, ongoing | www.solagallery.com State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Wednesday-Friday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | New Work from New Members, and Looking Outward, Looking Inward, both

up from winter.

“Because I was or am in so many different bands, and involved in so many different projects, I thought it would be good for an audience to get a glimpse of the different folks I work with,” Stark said. In addition to Saccuccimorano (“my right-hand man”) and Dozoretz, Thursday’s session will include newcomers drummer Andrew Klein of Big Mean Sound Machine, saxophonist Erik Johnson, and Cornell professor Trevor Pinch. “I like to listen, and then put musicians in different situations than they are used to.”

To foster the spirit of collaboration Thursday, visual artists Jen Ospina and Jesse Hill will paint “in reaction to the music and atmosphere” and will in turn influence the ensemble as they “glimpse what they’ve painted.”

Stark continued: “I have so many different synths, and keyboards, and organs.

It often comes down to what gear I bring …

This time around I am going to play through a strange homemade amplifier [and] an organ of some sort.”

Then, on Friday, Jan. 16, Stark will return to the Argos Inn for a weekly happy hour set he started this month. The new solo endeavor is called the Galactic Organ Grinder, and runs from 6 to 8 p.m. On Saturday Stark will trek to Two Goats for a 9 p.m. performance with the Analogue Sons. As for the Orbiting Art Ensemble, Stark doesn’t have any future dates booked. But he promises “to resurface again in the late winter.” •

exhibits new in January | For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Cheryl Chalmers, Contemporary American Realism, through January | 319-5260 Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | Monday-Thursday, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM; Friday and Saturday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday, 1 PM-5:00 PM | ear of Art at your Public Library 2015” with the exhibit “Island Mountain Glacier: Photography by Anika Steppe” curated by Danielle Mericle, ongoing | www.tcpl.org

Kids Science Together | 10:30 AM-, 01/14 Wednesday; 10:30 AM-, 01/17 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 01/15 Thursday, 01/17 Saturday; 01/19 Monday, 01/20 Tuesday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273.8364.

Sciencenter Preschool Story Time & Activity: How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? | 10:30 AM-, 01/16 Friday |

Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 2:00 PM-01/17 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Sciencenter Showtime! Talk the Talk | 2:00 PM-, 01/17 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 01/18 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Lightapalooza! | 2:00 PM-, 01/18 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Primitive Pursuits: Fire & Ice School Break Day | 9:00 AM-3:30 PM, 01/19 Monday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca | Call 607-272-2292 ext.

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Sciencenter Preschool Story Time & Activity: The Foolish Tortoise | 10:30 AM-, 01/20 Tuesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | For toddlers and preschoolers, hear the story by Richard Buckley and Eric Carle and then build a paper plate turtle.

Art Classes for Kids | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca.org.

Running To Places: Fame

Ithaca Underground’s Saturday evening bill at the Just Be Cause Center includes local mouth-core punks Mouth to Mouth to Mouth and rising rapper Sammus. Bubba and Co. also welcome Fake Four Inc.’s Ceschi, a jack-of-alltrades songwriter and rapper. w/ Bravo Blane and Gold Lex. (photo by Dane Abernathy.

Budding thespians in Running to Places present Fame, the story of all the joy and drama inside an American high school. This weekend-only production takes place at Ithaca’s State Theatre. For more dates and times, see our Stage listings. (photo via Facebook)

Starting Friday, January 16 – 7 p.m.

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CHURCH CHOIR DIRECTOR FOR CHILDREN--The First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca is seeking a director for its Children’s (K--5th grade) Choirs. He or she will prepare students to sing in Puppies worship on a regular basis. Submit a resume of qualifications and experience Chahuahua/Pug/Pomeranian for Sale of three references electronand a list $300. 3 Boys, One Girl. Call 518-605ically at office@firstpresithaca.org or 7737 or call 607-533-4507. HURRY by mail to Children’s Choir Director Before gone!!!

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large, clean, nice unfurnished two bedroom/two full bath apartments available in 36-Unit Grad/Professional Apartment complex located in the Fall Creek neighborhood with excellent location to the Cornell Campus and Downtown Ithaca. On site laundry and free parking.

Apartment features huge spaces, new carpeting or parquet wood flooring, high ceilings, lots of windows and light, balconies with glass sliders dishwasher garbage disposal and central air conditioning. Great location to the Cornell campus (10-15 Minute walk) and close to bus line (1/2 block). Rents include heat, hot/cold water, garbage removal; tenants pay own electric. Contact James R. Orcutt, Jr (NYS Lic. RE Broker) @ 607-592-7694

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to share house with 2 Cornell Grad women. downtown off S. Albany St. Available Jan 11. Large bedroom, Wood floors, spacious closet, and double bed included. Two other bedrooms are occupied by 2 PhD students in Plant Breeding and Crop & soil Science at Cornell. Attic for storage, large basement with washer and dryer, large kitchen with new stove, back porch, and large living/dining room.

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for Sale/Rent Two mobile homes for sale or rent-to-own in well-run park near Village of Dryden. Good neighbors, great location. Go to Pleasantviewmobilehomepark.com for more information.

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