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ver the last few months, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance’s Night Economy Committee has been working to establish some goals on what will make downtown Ithaca a more desirable place to be at any time of the night. While nightlife still thrives, particularly on the weekends and when the students are in town, officials want to make sure those participating in downtown festivities feel safe while they do so.

Gary Ferguson, executive director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, said in the last few years, there has been an increased focus on how downtown Ithaca functions after most businesses close.

“What people don’t realize is that there’s a whole additional economic period that happens late at night, that many of us don’t see because we’re sleeping,” Ferguson said.

“Oftentimes our pedestrian counts and the number of people downtown exceeds that of during the day. It’s extremely busy and often has the feel of a festival, there’s that many people there.”

At this time, the only place open 24 hours downtown is Shortstop Deli on E. Seneca Street. Most other places that remain open until midnight or later are located in Collegetown.

Ashley Cake, chair of the Night Economy Committee and owner of the Watershed bar downtown, has been part of the IDA’s board for three years and provides one of the involved voices that knows intimately the economic and social ins-and-outs of downtown Ithaca after dark. During a tour of the nightlife in Ithaca with fellow DIA board members, she noticed how many of her fellow board members continued on page 7

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fter Jan. 31, the Orchards Store, which served as a retail outlet for Cornell’s myriad apple products since the 1950s, will remain closed indefinitely, according to a story in the Cornell Chronicle. The article states that the school is investigating its options for reopening later in the year.

“Beyond that date, a return of the public retail portion of the orchards is uncertain, as the operation has been struggling financially for many years,” read the article, which appeared in Cornell’s PR publication. “Administrators from the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station in Ithaca are exploring options

for future seasonal retail apple sales.”

“Our robust Cornell Orchards research and outreach operation will continue serving the public and the Cornell community, as it has for decades,” said Jan Nyrop, senior associate dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, which operates the orchards.

Nyrop said in the article that the school will continue to sell apples to wholesalers. The article claims that the store’s two full-time employees are being helped by the school for reassignment, while the unnumbered other employees

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were seasonal.

The abrupt announcement sparked an intense public response, most prominently in the form of a Change.org petition to save the store that has spread widely on social media.

“The economic cost of the orchard store can not be quantified against the benefits it brings to the community, operating on a modified seasonal schedule could potentially benefit the financial viability of the store,” the petition states.

“The University should take on this responsibility as a land grant University, one possibility would be to subsidize the Cornell Orchard store instead of looking at it as an opportunity for profit.”•

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he Tompkins County Health Department sent out a press release on Monday evening announcing that one person is being “isolated and monitored” by the department after showing enough symptoms for an investigation into a potential case of coronavirus. This is not, as of yet, a confirmed case of coronavirus.

According to the health department, “Risk of exposure to the 2019 novel coronavirus for Tompkins County residents and visitors remains low.”

According to a separate announcement from Cornell University, the person in question is a student of the school who presented symptoms on Sunday, Feb. 2. The student does not live on campus, and is receiving care now.

“The student, who does not reside on campus, is currently in isolation, safe and receiving ongoing care,” read a statement from Cornell VP of Student Life Ryan Lombardi. “At this time, there are no confirmed cases of Novel Coronavirus in New York state.”

A contact investigation is under way.

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The health department sent samples from the individual to the US Centers for Disease Control for further analysis and testing. No more specific information was released at this time, and it appears that testing will take “up to a full week,” according to Lombardi’s announcement.

According to the health department, the state’s Department of Health and the CDC are both assisting with prevention and response efforts.

Cough, fever, trouble breathing and pneumonia are all symptoms of corona-

Lifton R etires

Barbara Lifton announces her retirement from New York State Assembly

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ing the lives of hundreds and sickening over 20,000 more. There are 11 confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States, though none of them are in New York State currently.

ongtime New York State Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton announced Friday that she will not seek reelection and is retiring from her position representing the 125th District.

“It is with more than a little sadness that I announce today that I won’t be seeking a 10th term,” Lifton said. “I’ve had to wrestle with this decision, because critical work remains on the climate, and education, and healthcare, among other issues about which I care deeply. But that will always be the case, I know. Important work remains, but I’ve come to the decision that it’s time for me to put down this work.”

Lifton was emotional throughout the announcement, wiping away tears as she made her way through a prepared speech.

Current and former staff members were gathered next to her, before a crowd of around 40 citizens, and local political fig-

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ures, including several Tompkins County Legislature members: former Tompkins County Democratic Committee leader Irene Stein, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, and Dryden Town Supervisor Jason Leifer.

Following the announcement, Ithaca Common Council member (and Lifton staffer) Seph Murtagh announced he would seek the Democratic nomination for the seat, as did Leifer.

Lifton delivered an address outlining her work and history in the State Assembly, especially focusing on her decision to first run in 2002, which she says was encouraged by her friends and ultimately a “great opportunity,” though she was nervous about the adjustment.

“Despite my initial hesitation, I think it’s been a pretty good run,” she said.

Lifton has served in the position since 2002, and would have been up for reelec-

virus. It’s spread by coughing or sneezing via the air, close contact or contact with a surface where the virus is present.

Possibly sensing oncoming backlash against foreign students, particularly those from China, Lombardi included this in his statement.

“It is understandable to feel uncertain or anxious during a public health crisis, and we need to remember to care for one another and not make assumptions about others’ perceived symptoms or any characteristics of identity. This is a time for the Cornell community to support one another. Your compassion and empathy for each other makes a difference.”

The health department is further asking people who have returned from China in the past 14 days and feel sick with fever, cough or trouble breathing to call their medical providers, avoid contact with others, wash hands, etc. As of Feb. 2 and new federal regulations, the health department will be notified of the return of anyone coming back from China and they will be quarantined and monitored

by Tompkins County Health Department nurses for 14 days, even if no symptoms are present.

The announcement comes just days after Cornell University enacted a ban on all school-related travel to mainland China.

Governor Cuomo announced a new hotline available for New Yorkers to call for information about the novel coronavirus: 1-888-364-3065.• M att Butler tion later this year in November. She made the announcement during a press conference at Dryden Town Hall. The seat is sure to draw significant interest from both parties. The district encompasses all of Tompkins County, as well as the City of Cortland and other smaller parts of Cortland County.

“Needless to say, it takes many faithful supporters to continue this work over 18 years,” Lifton wrote in a statement after her announcement. “I can’t thank you all enough. And deep thanks to all the voters, Democrats, Working Families, Republicans, and Independents who have given me their vote of confidence at the polls in each of my nine elections. I have done my best to listen respectfully to all views and take them into account as I’ve made difficult and complicated decisions over these 18 years, and my staff and I have worked hard to fairly serve all of my approximately 135,000 constituents.”

Largely viewed as a relatively progressive Democrat, Lifton’s past several elections have been mostly uneventful. She ran unopposed in 2018, and in 2014 and 2016 continued on page 7

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Family of Antonio Tsialas sues Cornell, fraternity members over death

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he family of Antonio Tsialas, a former freshman at Cornell University who died on the night of Oct. 24, has officially filed a lawsuit against the school and Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity whose party he reportedly attended the night of his death, as well as the fraternity’s New York Alpha chapter.

Eight people are additionally named as defendants in the suit, seven of whom are students in the Phi Kappa Psi chapter leadership, and one of whom is the chapter’s advisor.

The suit charges each of them with negligence for allowing Tsialas to leave after drinking at a party the fraternity held and not making accommodations to get him back to his dormitory safely, as well as violating New York State’s hazing statute. It further alleges negligence and premises liability (because the Phi Kappa Psi house is owned by Cornell and was used in “hazing activities”) against Cornell, as well as direct negligence against Phi Kappa Psi and the New York Alpha chapter of Phi Kappa Psi Association.

It’s not clear how much money is being sought in damages.

The suit goes on to blame Cornell for inadequate reaction to prior fraternityrelated or hazing deaths, and names that as a contributing factor in Tsialas’ death.

It also takes aim at Phi Kappa Psi for not ensuring the safety of party attendees, particularly those who were drinking underage and then permitted to leave without supervision. A request for comment from the fraternity and several of the people listed as defendants has not been answered.

“The negligence of these defendants was a substantial factor in causing all of the injuries, damages, harms, losses and wrongful death suffered by the Plaintiffs [the Tsialas family] and their son,” the suit states in each of the negligence charges against the fraternity members and advisor.

The cause of death is not listed in the suit, although the family’s attorney David Bianchi confirmed that it has been determined to be blunt force trauma, meaning Tsialas did not drown in the gorge or die from alcohol over-consumption. Bianchi said the medical examiner found that Tsialas did have acute alcohol intoxication, or alcohol poisoning, prior to his death.

“He died from multiple blunt force trauma to his body,” Bianchi said in an interview. “How he sustained that, we don’t know.”

Tsialas, 18 years old at the time, was found deceased in the water near Ithaca Falls on Oct. 26. He had been missing since the night of Oct. 24, when he left a party at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house on Mary Ann Wood Drive. The party was apparently a “dirty rush” event, according to the lawsuit but also Cornell University President Martha Pollack, who has promised Greek life reforms in the wake of the incident.

The suit lays out a narrative of Tsialas’ final night, starting with dinner with his mother on Oct. 24, who was in town for Parents Weekend. He left to attend the party at Phi Kappa Psi, the annual “Christmas in October” event to gauge prospective new members, at which they were told by fraternity leaders upon arrival to keep quiet about the event if they were ever asked about it.

The themed party consisted of six rooms with various levels of extreme drinking rules for freshman attendees that certainly seem to meet the modern definition of hazing: beer pong, beer chugging, submerging students’ heads underwater in a trash can, mixing milk and rum together and making the students compete to chug the mixture, a makeshift Santa Claus ordering the attendees to drink different types of alcohol depending on whether they had been “naughty or nice.” Students were divided into groups of six for these events and were given a bottle of New Amsterdam vodka to finish after the final room.

“By the time the freshmen completed the drinking games in the seven different rooms they were intoxicated and many were ‘black out drunk,’” the suit states.

“Many were vomiting and lost all memory of what they did next or how they eventually got back to their rooms.”

It is mentioned that sorority members were present at the event and helping to facilitate the drinking, though not much

else is mentioned about them, including which sorority it was. They are not listed as defendants.

The aforementioned directive from fraternity leaders at the start of the night to not talk about the event has only partially stuck; details of the party are known, but there’s little narrative about what happened to Tsialas after he left the party but before he wound up being found in the gorge on Oct. 26. Compounding that is that Phi Kappa Psi chapter president Andrew Scherr, a defendant in the suit, allegedly sent a text message to one of Tsialas’ friends after hearing about his disappearance, telling him to not tell anyone that Tsialas had been at the house the previous night. The friend subsequently reported the text to Cornell police, the suit states.

“Not a single defendant in this case has come forward to tell Antonio’s parents about the circumstances of their son’s departure from the fraternity house that night and none have provided any information about where he went afterwards,” the lawsuit states. “Their refusal to share information about what they know has only made the pain and suffering [the Tsialas family] are experiencing by the loss of their son that much worse.”

The lawsuit details the condition of Tsialas’ body when it was found: that he was fully clothed in the same clothes he had worn to dinner with his mother, except his polo shirt was found in a bush up the gorge. It had vomit on it and “the imprint of a shoe or sneaker.” Tsialas was found with his wallet and keys but not his cellphone, which according to the suit has not been recovered. Tsialas’ time of death has not been determined, Bianchi said.

Details have been scant since Tsialas’ death, though at the time, police said they did not suspect foul play. Anxious for more information, the Tsialas family established a sizable reward fund in November dedicated to finding out more of the circumstances around his death.

Cornell’s John Carberry, the senior director of media relations and news, offered the following statement on behalf of the university: “At this time, Cornell University has not been made aware of any legal action by the Tsialas family, and we cannot comment on potential future litigation.

The Cornell University Police continue to actively investigate Antonio Tsialas’s death.

We continue to ask anyone who may have information related to the incident to contact us at 607-255-1111. People can also email Cornell Police investigators at cup-inv@cornell.edu or reach out through the Silent Witness Program.”

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Thumbs Up - TCAT gets this week’s thumbs up, from a reader who had previously complained about text-wrapping ads on local buses. She recently rode the bus again and, to her delight, found the ads changed so she felt like she could see out of the windows of the bus again. Sometimes it’s the little things.

Thumbs Down - This is a thumbs down aimed at the fact that Cornell VP of Student Life Ryan Lombardi felt that he had to massage Monday’s announcement of a potential coronavirus case with a message of anti-racism -- and that he was right. Local social media almost immediately jumped to stereotyping and ugly nationalism, and if we’re going to stand through what promises to be an epidemic mixed with an election season, we should be better equipped when things hit close to home.

Seen - Cornell men’s hockey has apparently fell victim to the notpreviously-known Ithaca Times curse, as the No. 1 team in the nation fell over the weekend to Quinnipiac after gracing our cover two weeks ago.

At this point, the team is a shoo-in for the postseason, but hopefully they’ll be able to steady themselves before the playoffs begin.

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By Thom a s H . M a n n I want to say I am horrified by what happened at Cornell’s Phi Kappa Psi fraternity on the night of Oct. 26 of last year. I am, but I’m not surprised.

I’m a guy, a grown man now, but I grew up around the culture of alcohol that perpetrated Antonio’s death. I just can’t be silent.

These “Christmas in October” allegations reveal an intensity and fanaticism that fraternities will use during the hazing process of their recruits. The seven rooms that Antonio had to enter, drinking an insane amount of alcohol in a different manner in each one, was not a hazing incident. They were not a test of an 18 year old’s ability to handle alcohol. They were not a glimpse into how desperate Antonio was to be a member of Kappa Psi. And it wasn’t a “prank” or “traditional ritual” for the amusement of the fraternity brothers.

It was torture. Plain and simple. And no one is speaking up.

I’m a big man, and was a big 18-yearold, 6’3” and 220 lbs at the time. I could consume large quantities of beer, 12 to 15 at a time, and not appear intoxicated, to use the polite word. I didn’t suspect in 1970, or want to know, that this “high

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tolerance” for alcohol was an early sign of alcoholism. (I stopped drinking in 1989.)

But the amount of alcohol that the boys of Kappa Psi, in their seven rooms of “Christmas in October,” poured down the mouth of these young “recruits” was not just “large quantities of beer.” It was a life threatening, physically, and mentally dangerous amount of a substance that could, and does, kill people. It was in “The Santa Claus Room,” the fifth room Antonio had to enter, after he had already played drinking games of pong, had his head dunked into a bucket of water, chugged wine, consumed rum as fast as possible, had alcohol forced down his throat, and then after his visit with Santa, required to drink a whole bottle of vodka!, before going to mercifully (I use this term lightly) being allowed to go to the final room for a night cap of a few shots with whip cream.

That some of these freshman were intoxicated or black out drunk is not only a given, but they needed immediate hospitalization. But of course no one at Kappa Psi had the good sense or courage to do that, or put a stop to this danger-

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verybody knows about Groundhog Day, although nobody really cares about it. It’s a nonsensical proposition, divining long-range climate conditions through a waking woodchuck, but it’s a regular (annual) part of popular lore, possibly because people simply like to speculate on weather, and by February are desperate, or at least avid, for any promise of springtime warmth.

The more practical-minded, rather than scanning reports on Pennsylvania rodents, soothe and strengthen themselves perusing seed catalogs and planning gardens. In Ithaca, people watch the mini-billboard outside Agway on Meadow Street for encouraging messages.

The sports-minded have messages and codes of their own. Last week on the street I passed a friend who, like me, is a New York Mets fan, with whom I regularly go to see the team’s minor league affiliates based in Binghamton and Syracuse.

“Two weeks to pitchers and catchers,” he said.

This meant that, in two weeks (less now), baseball’s spring training would start. Camps open not with full squads, but with pitchers, who require the most deliberate work (and with catchers, who keep the pitchers from having to chase the ball around).

To legions of fans, this is as significant a sign of pleasant, clement days ahead as any foreshadowing mammal or developing daffodils emerging from earth.

What’s not so pleasant at the moment is a proposal by major league baseball to save money by revamping its contract with minor league baseball and cutting ties to 42 teams.

Major league baseball does not acknowledge it, but ending association with these teams will likely kill them sooner or later; probably sooner.

The Syracuse Mets team is not on the cut list. The Binghamton team (known as the Rumble Ponies, a zonal nickname) is.

It is a particularly devastating and unexpected blow to the Binghamton team, whose new management has expended much energy and money in the past few years to take a team of middling success to the verge of competitiveness and financial solvency.

Now it might be for naught, a great loss not just for the unstinting owners, but for the economy and spirit of the city.

For years the Binghamton team had an

average attendance of about 1,000 a game.

A few years ago it gained the (temporary) benefit of a celebrity player, Tim Tebow (ex-NFL quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner), attracting media attention and fans. Owners enhanced their promotional efforts and upgraded the ballpark to help keep the fans they had made.

The investments worked. One weekend the park (capacity 5,000) sold out all three games of a weekend series, a first. The team took aerial photos of the packed ballpark to show and celebrate it.

Binghamton has had baseball ties with the Mets, and before them the Yankees, dating back almost 90 years. Severance would rend part of the city’s history, and remove an important recreational resource, economic engine and source of civic pride.

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has made a campaign issue of major league baseball’s threatened abandonment of minor league teams.

It happens to play well in the important campaign state of Iowa, which has a significant minor league presence (and is the site of the “Field Of Dreams” book and movie).

It also fits Sanders’ political identity as an anti-corporate champion of small business and ordinary citizens.

It also appears personal for Sanders, a baseball fan who brought a minor league team to Burlington, Vermont as its mayor in 1984, and has described the decampment of the Brooklyn Dodgers, his childhood team, in 1957 for more money in Los Angeles as a traumatic loss for himself and his hometown.

Sanders issued a statement in late January citing “gigantic tax breaks” given to major league baseball.

Sanders said, “If the multi-millionaire owners of major league baseball have enough money to pay hundreds of millions in compensation to one superstar ballplayer, they damn sure have enough money to pay minor league players a living wage and prevent 42 minor league teams from shutting down.”

When Rachel Carson wrote about “silent spring,” she was talking about devastated nature, not thwarted ballparks in imperiled cities. But, broadly, she illustrated wanton destruction caused by corporate greed. As a new spring approaches, Senator Sanders is broadening the call.

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ous behavior. They didn’t even provide them help back to their dorms—just let them wander off I guess. Antonio appears to have wandered off. Blind drunk most certainly, at night in an unfamiliar environment, alone (maybe), and he ends up dead.

Over three months later, we have not heard a peep from anybody at Phi Kappa Psi. No one has come forward, even with a $10,000 reward offered by Antonio’s grieving parents. The money shouldn’t matter. This is worse than Senate Republicans in the President’s impeachment trial.

Can we do the right thing here, guys?

I understand you are scared, young and sworn to secrecy. “You were never here. No phones. No videos. No photographs.” This was the party line. But a young man is dead. It easily could have been any of the freshman at this unauthorized event. It could have been you.

I was an eyewitness to a similar awful fraternity event at Cornell almost 40 years ago. This stuff’s not new. I tagged along with my girlfriend,who was singing at a party at one of the frats. After a while I noticed something about the whole event that seemed... creepy. It was. Upon asking one of the members what was going on, he quite candidly told me that this was an annual event. The object was to invite as many, and I have to choose my words carefully here, not the most attractive women from Wells College as possible to the party. Whichever fraternity brother was seen to have had intercourse with a woman judged the least attractive of the invitees, was the winner. He got a trophy.

It goes further back. My father Robert Mann, Cornell Engineering School, class of 1939, was a proud member of Sigma Nu. He recalled several hazing tales at Cornell. Once a different fraternity took

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were surprised by some of the late-night behaviors downtown.

“I believe that nighttime safety is the overarching umbrella of our concerns,” Cake said. “Particularly [during] what we call bar spill hours, so [the] 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. window. There are nights when there are festival levels of people on the Commons at 1 a.m. There is a lacking infrastructure to support everyone’s safety, fun and pursuit of happiness.”

Ferguson said some safety measures being looked at are how the local colleges and universities keep students safe, both on and off-campus. Though he has found the blue light system implemented on most college campuses may not be suitable for downtown, there are other options the DIA is considering to adopt as part of a long-term plan.

“Most of the time when we think of

a perspective pledge down to the suspension/foot bridge over Fall Creek at night, propped him up on the railing blindfolded but facing in toward the walking surface and then told him to jump. Obviously terrified, the young man quickly turned around and jumped to his death into the gorge.

This is basically at least involuntary manslaughter, but nothing came of it, and this needless, insensitive hazing has gone on and on, and on, and on...

I read that Cornell President Martha Pollack took steps to discipline Phi Kappa Psi, and change its policies toward fraternities after Antonio’s death. And they seem sensible and tough. But the day before the party that tortured Antonio was held, Kappa Psi was in a judicial hearing for a previous offense. They were put on interim suspension. Interim.

Cornell, like all universities, talks about being leaders. They graduate leaders. The guys in the Cornell frat houses probably think they are leaders, or aspire to be. “We’re so important that we can ignore the rules and use our macho attitudes to put younger guys through hell if they want to join us. It’s a privilege. We deserve to do this.”

But someone needs to lead now. Right now, or there will be more Antonios. The Phi Kappa Psi house should be abandoned and their members kicked out of Cornell.

There is no excuse for torturing people.

And please, someone in that fraternity house show some courage and speak up. It may hurt you now, but for the rest of your life you will know you helped in some way to right a wrong.

Oh, there will be more lawsuits, maybe even criminal indictments, I get it, it’s scary. But there is someone out there who can make a difference. We need some courage these days. Do the right thing.

Thomas H. Mann writes about Sports, and American Culture. He resides in Ithaca, NY, downtown we think of it during the daytime and what’s going on during the day,” Ferguson said. “Making sure we have a playground, making sure it looks a certain way, and it’s a whole set of discussions when you’re talking about what’s going on at midnight and how should we be dealing with that. It’s interesting, in some cities, they have what’s called nighttime mayors. They’re not elected mayors but they are deputized or designated as being the person to orchestrate or help manage what’s going on, almost like when we have a festival.”

Development will inevitably bring more people closer to Ithaca’s downtown core. As a member of the Night Life Safety Coalition, Cake wants to find a way to help businesses that operate at night as they learn to deal with increased demand.

There are ancillary issues that will need to be considered as well. Cake said there has been an increased need for having more efficient means of transportation at night. She wants to ensure people who

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YOUR LETTERS Following through on the Green New Deal

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he Ithaca Green New Deal was proposed by Mayor Myrick and passed by Common Council in June. Now we have to make it come true.

First, I want to acknowledge that we are here on land that was home to the Onondaga and Cayuga peoples, who were murdered or driven off the land so that white people could be here. And we have this society built by wealth created by enslaved people from Africa.

And we have the comforts and conveniences of our communities because we have been extracting resources from the earth as though we could take whatever we want and there would always be more.

And we have burned fuels as though the atmosphere would harmlessly absorb whatever we put in it, even though we knew it would not.

So our culture is built on disposability.

That’s how we got to where we are now.

Disposability of black and brown peoples and their communities, disposability of the oceans, the soil, species, pollinators, forests ....

And now we are changing this.

For its part, the City has drafted and passed the Ithaca Green New Deal - which is a big deal - an ambitious idea about weaning our community off fossil fuels by 2030. All of our buildings - homes and businesses - will use less energy, and not use energy from fossil fuels, including natural gas. All our vehicles will be are leaving bars can get home without an accident, something that demands more accessible transportation options outside of someone getting behind the wheel after drinking. Being able to foster a safe downtown atmosphere benefits everyone, Cake said, whether they be business owners, carousing college students or passers by.

“A lot of the things we’ve talked about are not only long-term infrastructure and support but resources for individuals and groups to meet their specific challenges and being able to find solutions for problems that we all have in common,” Cake said. “Some of the stuff that came up at the last meeting was about non-police ambassadors or something like the [City of Ithaca] community outreach workers like Tammy Baker and Natalya Cowilich. Folks can have resources to support, not only themselves in questionable or uncomfortable circumstances, but also problemsolving.”

electric. And all our electricity will be supplied by renewable energy. By 2030 our community will be carbon neutral.

But this plan will not accomplish itself. To do it and do it right we need to all be listened to, all speak up, and to all challenge business-as-usual, and all get on board. If we work together as a community we can meet the challenges of our time. The building upgrades will create lots of new jobs, and we need to make sure those jobs go to local black and brown and low-income people. We can increase the production of local food, protect our lake and aquifer, guarantee affordable housing and medical care. This Green New Deal is a huge opportunity to address the climate crisis and social justice.

We can do this. We need to stay connected and mobilize each other to make it happen. No one is disposable - no people, no land, no aquifer or lake, no species. We are literally all in this together. Let’s do this! History has its eyes on you.

Anne Rhodes Freeville, NY

In response to “Family of Antonio Tsialas sues Cornell, frat members over death”

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he only way Cornell University would feel even a pinch is with a Billion Dollar damage claim. Hopefully an Antonio’s Law will be enacted. It’s all over the national news not just within our ten square miles surrounded by reality.

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’m not expecting much will happen.

It hasn’t yet, and it’s been a month since the incident. And Cornell’s legal department is extraordinarily perfect, because of course, they hire the best, as I do with everything. But I wish this family luck, and hope that they can actually get something done.

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she easily defeated Republican challenger Herbert Masser, Jr. Tompkins County Legislator Martha Robertson followed Lifton, congratulating her on such a productive career in government and celebrating her work on voting integrity and maintaining a forwardthinking approach to politics. Mayor Brian Tobin, of the City of Cortland, also spoke.

“The impact that Barbara had is shown by the consistency she displayed on two things,” IthacaMayor Svante Myrick said.

“One was a bone-deep conviction that our economy was rigged, that our taxation system benefited the rich, and that harmed all of us. It’s a bone-deep conviction that she never lost. And second was an optimism that all things could be changed.”

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By E dw i n J. Vi e r a ith the Green Street Garage reconstruction project looming and the redevelopment of the Seneca Street Garage planned for the near future, parking space availability will be limited for drivers looking to come downtown.

This comes at an especially inopportune time, as the downtown development boom is supposed to help not only people living in Ithaca, but also those who drive into the city from the outskirts of Tompkins County.

In order to combat this problem, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) has been working on a transportation management association (TMA) program called GO Ithaca, a program designed to get more people to use public transportation when traveling to and from downtown Ithaca.

The program is being organized in association with Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT).

This is the second time the DIA is attempting a transit incentives program.

Much of the feedback from that pilot program was that people wanted to have access to multiple types of transportation.

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their cars, though it can be a difficult adjustment for people to go from driving five days a week to taking the bus, according to Lauren Gabuzzi, the program manager of GO Ithaca. To soften the adjustment, Gabuzzi said even just signing up for the program opens the door for several different transportation alternatives.

“When you register, you sign a little pledge saying you are going to work towards reducing the amount of times you will drive alone a week,” Gabuzzi said.

“Then you get a 40-ride TCAT card, a $50 credit towards Ithaca CarShare, and a year membership to Back-Up Ride Home.

[Back-Up Ride Home] is basically for if you’re carpooling, riding the bus, anything but driving alone and something happens or an emergency comes up. You have to pick up your son from school, the carpool car breaks down; you will get a free ride home, up to four times a year at $70 a ride.”

The program also provides coaching for those who are skittish about the transition. Gabuzzi said she will be working with people to assess their current commute, the economics of that commute and how it can be easier for them through public transportation. Along with this, people will be eligible for several monthly

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discounts such as 50 percent off a monthly TCAT card, 75 percent off carpooling (which would be a parking pass for one of the downtown parking garages), and for those who absolutely have to drive alone, 50 percent off parking at one of the downtown garages. In addition to these discounts, there will also be numerous informal events promoting public transportation, such as happy hour at The Bike Bar. Gabuzzi’s looked across the country for strategies to making the program appeal to the public.

“I went down [to Austin, Texas] in the summer and they had a bar bus hop,” Gabuzzi said of the city’s Smart Trips Austin program. “You get on the bus, you get a free bus pass and you get led around the city going to different bars. We might try and do something like that. There are endless possibilities.”

Obviously, the issue is inextricably linked to efforts to fight climate change as well. Gary Ferguson, executive director of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, noted that transportation reform is a key part of Ithaca’s Green New Deal. He said that transportation emissions are probably some of the largest contributors to CO2 emissions, which GO Ithaca could reduce significantly. Plus, he said, considering it costs

$35,000 per space to develop a parking garage, it would be cheaper to run this kind of program than build a fourth downtown parking garage.

One of the inherent problems of public transportation in Ithaca and Tompkins County has been summed up in four words by local political figures, members of the DIA and Tompkins CAT officials - first mile, last mile. People living in outlying areas of Tompkins County such as Dryden, Freeville, Groton, Newfield, Enfiled, Trumansburg, etc. are in transit deserts, often complaining of insufficient and inconsistent bus routes and not wanting to rely on public transportation.

With limited options for transportation in and out of downtown to those areas, it can be hard to get residents of those towns and villages to consider public transportation as opposed to their cars. However, a new pilot program will be able to make them part of the DIA’s program, TConnect.

Matt Yarrow, TCAT’s assistant general manager, said TConnect has been in the works for the last two years, but with funding from a NYSERDA grant, this program is finally coming to fruition. Since TCAT has had a great deal of difficulty getting high levels of service to sparsely

populated sections of the county, it’s expensive for them to run their 40 ft. buses on every single road in the county. This would leave plenty of residents either unserved or underserved by public transit.

“The idea with this project is, can we increase our service area by providing that first mile, last mile connection to a TCAT route,” Yarrow said. “We’ve looked around the country, we’ve analyzed the demographics, we looked at the service TCAT was already providing in areas outside the Ithaca urbanized areas, and it looked like Dryden would be a good place to run a pilot. The population of the village and surrounding areas is enough where it could sustain a service like this. We have quite a few trips on our Route 43, which is the main weekday route that services Dryden.”

People would be able to request a ride via an app that will be available for Android and iOS operating systems. You could also use a web browser or call in a ride as well for those who may not have access to smart devices. The app will allow people to input where they live and what TCAT trip they are looking to take.

Users will be able to see the location of the TCAT bus and that of the TConnect vehicle.

“They will be fit into an electronic manifest that can kind of adjust itself on the fly as other people request rides,” Yarrow said.

“If we get to the point where there’s a high demand for this, if that bus cannot do that first mile, last mile trip in the alloted time, then you will be encouraged to look at the next trip. We are starting out with a single Gadabout vehicle and driver that will be providing the first mile, last mile service.

What we’ve done is structure this project in two phases. Phase A will be that one bus and driver that’s connecting with TCAT Route 43. Phase B will be based on the lessons learned from Phase A.” Yarrow is hoping Phase A’s success will generate an appetite for expanding TConnect beyond the Dryden area.

Three meetings will be held in Dryden by TCAT to gather public feedback and other comments regarding how the service has worked for passengers.Some challenges for this program is being able to create something new that works for the county.

Making his program operational by April is proving to be a bit of a challenge, though they remain determined in their efforts to make TConnect a success. At this time, it is unknown if TCAT will continue using Gadabout buses for this program or if they will have their own equip-

ment. For now, Yarrow said sticking with Gadabout is their best option to make the program cost friendly.

“What working with Gadabout allows us to do is to try to determine if this can be a low-cost option for providing this kind of service,” Yarrow said. “Since Gadabout already has vehicles that are appropriate and already has drivers that are trained to do something like this. If it is a success, TCAT would look at that but I really don’t know what direction we would be headed. This entire project with NYSERDA is two years long so we’re still at the beginning of it. We have a lot of work to do to prove it to ourselves and the community before we would take this on as a permanent thing.”

Ferguson has recognized that for some, incentives for public transportation will work, but for others it won’t. During the DIA’s original program, it was an all or nothing situation. Now, the DIA has recognized that, while not environmentally friendly, cars are sometimes a necessity for getting around. Gabuzzi said some cities like Ithaca have been designed to operate better for cars than for public transportation.

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is to incentivize the infrastructure that’s already in place,” Gabuzzi said. “The car has a lot of advantages right now in terms of how some cities were set up and parking lots that are so easily accessible in some areas, but when people develop that habit, they don’t really think about the other modes that are already there. So, the TDM is just really trying to bring attention to those up to the level of the car. Another exciting thing is that this is also a pilot TMA, which is a transportation management association, so that basically means we’re working with local businesses and organizations to have a sustainable long term program.”

Most of the challenges with the program is that the DIA is developing a program from scratch, due partially to the numerous discounts being offered. Darlene Donahue Wilber, operations director for the DIA, said employers and employees could benefit equally.

“We’re hoping this will help them with maybe retaining their employees,” Donohue Wilber said. “Some employees may have a challenge getting to work because their car broke down or whatever. They don’t know about the alternatives that are available to them. If their employer is providing this program to them, they can make them more aware of their options as well.”

While this program focuses on downtown Ithaca, Gabuzzi, Ferguson and Donahue see this program’s eligibility for expansion to other parts of the community. Numerous community agencies such as TCAT, Bike Walk Tompkins, the City of Ithaca, Tompkins County Government, and 511 New York are partners in this program. Some of the communities Gabuzzi and Donahue looked at to model the program after were Buffalo, NY; Austin, TX; Boulder, CO; and Cornell. Ithaca is setting a standard due in part to the fact that it’s the first small city in New York State to create this kind of a program.

“Most of these programs are in bigger cities where there’s a lot more resources, big organizations and big corporations,” Ferguson said. “It’s just a whole different dynamic. In a smaller community like ours that makes life easy in some respects, it also makes life more difficult because our resource base is just not the same. When we try to do a lot of the same things that bigger cities are doing, but without the money, that’s when we got to get creative. Part of what we’re trying to do here is model to the state and everyone else how you can do this in a smaller community.”• 2 0 2 0

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ack in 2000 or thereabouts, I went to cover an Ithaca High boys’ basketball game, and I enjoyed watching a kid named Lester McNair. Lester played hard, he hustled on both ends of the court, and he was not shy about pulling up from long range and launching threes. I said to the person sitting with me, “There goes another McNair Prayer,” and Lester made his share.

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Lester McNair (above) is co-leading the IHS team with Kevin Cartmill through an up-and-down season.(Photo: Provided)

What I remember most was that the kid played with a lot of fire, and I was very pleased to learn after he graduated in 2001 that he had worked hard in the classroom as well as in the gym and that he would be enrolling at Buffalo State and playing ball there. I followed Lester over his time there (he graduated with a degree in Health and Wellness), and when I saw him over the summers and school breaks, he was always very polite and grateful for the coverage and support. I loved the fact that he saw basketball as but one piece of the puzzle, and that he knew that keeping his grades up was the best way to assure that he could keep playing the game he clearly loved.

McNair took his degree and started his career as a youth worker at GIAC and as a substitute teacher, and when he told me he was playing semi-pro basketball for the Elmira Bulldogs I made the trip a few times

to watch the team and cover the continuing story of a local guy who kept stoking the fires. He played three seasons for the Bulldogs (2007-09), did a stint with the Elmira Red Riders (another semi-pro team) and worked hard enough to make the roster for Pearl Washington’s Elite Travel Team. Looking back on that experience, Lester said, “We were a hand-picked team and we traveled to tune up other semipro and college teams.” He laughed and added, “We were almost like what the Washington Generals were to the Harlem Globetrotters, except we went in and kicked some butt.”

McNair has stayed in the game as a coach, and when this season began, he was an assistant at his alma mater IHS. An unexpected shake-up resulted in his elevation (good hoop metaphor) to the Interim Head Coach, and in Lester’s words, “When the coaching situation didn’t work out, they asked Kevin Cartmill and myself to step in.”

McNair is very grateful for the opportunity, and for Cartmill’s presence.

“We’re both Ithaca High alums, both All-Conference guys, we know the program, the kids and the conference,” Lester offered. “Kevin’s son, Nick, is on the team and I have been coaching most of these players since they were in elementary school. We have both watched them grow up.” He calls Cartmill “a father figure,” and he added, “Kevin is a Section IV Hall of Famer, and while we represent two different eras of Ithaca basketball, we both love the Little Red and we are getting to know each other.”

The coaching change was, as expected, somewhat disruptive, but in McNair’s words, “The kids are sticking with it, and we have won three in a row to push our record to 8-6.” (The team was going for four in a row as we went to press). He called Ja’lyn Griffin “an allaround catalyst,” and added that 6’7” Keif Timmins’ play is drawing some looks from college coaches. He said “Mo Radcliffe is playing really well,” and that Geoff Clark and Karije Henderson are stepping up as well.

Lester said, “We get a lot of leadership from not only the players on the court, but the bench as well. We hold everyone accountable. These kids are working really hard, and with our last win we have qualified for the Sectionals.”

Having fought back from a sub-.500 record to being a sectional qualifier makes the interim coach proud, but he knows this is the wrong time of the year for a team to step back and congratulate itself.

“As we all know,” Lester said, “it’s one game at a time.”•

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rooklyn Saliba, a student at Ithaca College, is one of 63 percent of college students nationwide that suffers from anxiety. As she was entering IC, she was considering getting an emotional support animal to help her with her condition.

That is, until she found psychiatric service dogs. Unlike an emotional support animal, which is not bound by species or animals, only dogs and miniature horses can be registered as psychiatric service animals. Psychiatric service animals are trained to perform certain tasks that aid someone such as looking out for the signs their handler is having a panic attack or other medical condition. Other differences include that psychiatric service animals are granted housing protections, are legally allowed to go anywhere their owner goes, and they require extensive training. Saliba has been working with Bella, a german shepherd, and has found this has been an interesting experience.

“A lot of psychiatric service dogs are trained to pick up on a panic attack and help interrupt that action,” Saliba said. “I know for myself, I sometimes get into my head a lot and don’t even realize I’m doing the action necessary. So, I can’t stop myself. But, with her [Bella] interrupting me it gives me a chance to reground myself. A lot of dogs are trained to do that.”

Others, Saliba said, can use their bodies as a type of blocking mechanism in crowds for their owners who might dislike being tightly packed with people. Some animals can be used as a “blanket” of sorts, she said, laying across one’s lap to provide some form of comfort during a crisis (Saliba compares it to the effect of wearing a weighted blanket).

Saliba has had Bella since she was two months old, which is when the training began. For the last year and a half, Saliba

Brooklyn Saliba with her psychiatric services dog, Bella. (Photo provided)

has been training Bella to be a psychiatric service dog, though the process has been expensive and time-consuming. Being in college, Saliba has been working hard to balance school work and training Bella, but at times other people’s animals have

presented an obstacle.

“Another major challenge is running into people who bring their emotional support animals or pets into places they don’t necessarily have rights to be in,” Saliba said. “Bella has been attacked by a

dog before in an area and that set us back a couple of months in terms of dog activity.

She became more nervous towards dogs, she wasn’t able to ignore them as well. That was around three months of training and almost $1,000 for myself.”

Psychiatric service dogs are service dogs just like any other and are required to wear vests that usually read “Do Not Pet,” “Service Animal” or “Emotional Support.”

Saliba has found that oftentimes people ignore those signs and pet the dog. This can lead to the dog missing a signal from its handler and possibly missing on other medical alerts. In one case, Saliba said, a dog missed the signs for its handler having a seizure. Methods for learning about how to train these dogs can be found widely online as well as from in-person trainers.

“There’s a lot of groups on Facebook,” Saliba said. “There’s a lot of resources online that can help you. Working with a trainer is also a great way to get involved.

A lot of times if someone comes up to me just to ask questions if I have the time I don’t mind answering them at all. There are some non-profit programs that train program dogs and then will match the dog to the owner.”

She has been working with Russ Hollier, the founder of Guiding Eyes for the Blind at Ithaca College to train Bella. He has helped Saliba for about a year now. As they’ve gone on, though the training has gotten less and less. Since there is something new for dogs to learn, the training never truly ends but does take about one to two years, though this is not exact.

Determining the end of the training is usually based on the owner’s discretion.

Mostly, if the dog is under control and knows two tasks, that usually means the training has been completed. In Saliba’s case, she hopes Bella will be fully trained by the early fall of this year.•

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thaca winters are marked by cold temperatures, gray skies, and reliably, the crowning of a new scion of spice after the Chili Cook-Off in early February.

This year’s event, featuring at least 25 participants and organized by the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, kicks off Saturday, Feb. 2, from 11:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Attendees can roam around the Commons stopping at the various booths, most of which will be serving cups of their own recipes of chili from their respective restaurants. Tickets are being sold for $10 for 10 tastes and $20 for 20 tastes and can be bought online, over the phone with the DIA or in person at the event.

Vendors will line the Commons and nearby blocks competing for the top prizes, which were claimed last year by Ithaca Beer for “People’s Choice Best Chili,” Simeon’s for “Best Presentation,” while Cornell Dining took home “Best Meat Chili” and Moosewood snagged the “Best Vegetarian/Vegan Chili” award. There’s also an annual award given for “Best Beverage,” which was awarded to Wagner Valley Brewing Company.

There’s always a wide variety of options available for taste-testing at the cook-off, and this year promises a similarly competitive

contest as year’s past. Certain veterans of the competition, like Tim Mooney of Moosewood, are annually searching for a new angle to elevate their recipes. Mooney’s been preparing Moosewood’s submissions for eight years, and after so many entries now he has to spend significant time thinking of and testing new ideas for chilis.

“For Moosewood, we have chili recipes that date back to the original book,” Mooney said.

“We try to find ways to have some interesting flavor combinations and profiles in a chili that might be interesting to people. And especially if they’re meat eaters, make them not really consider the fact that they’re eating something that might not normally be in a chili, like ground beet or something like that.”

Moosewood has won plenty of times, both during Mooney’s tenure and before, so it wouldn’t be ludicrous for them to return to an old favorite, especially when their roster includes past entries like “bourbon bac’n apple” chili.

“I have nothing against repeating one that we’ve done before, because a lot of them have been fairly unique,” Mooney said. “But I always feel that self-pressure to come up with something different this year.”

Moosewood is likely to see more competition this year, as upstart Angelhearts Diner has entered the competition. Angelhearts, which opened in July, is a vegan-only restaurant that becomes the latest challenger to Moosewood, certainly the most well-known restaurant of its kind locally but among plenty of others.

“I’m always interested to see what they do,” Mooney said, referring to the city’s other vegan/vegetarian specialty eateries, adding that Ithaca Soy and GreenStar have both beaten Moosewood’s entries in the past. “We’re known for our thing, but it’s a friendly competition. It’s always interesting to see what other ideas they have, especially in the vegetarian space.”

Elsewhere, Gorger’s Subs has decided to go particularly ambitious this year, with four different creations as they try to knock off perennial meat chili leaders Cayuga Medical Center and Cornell Dining. Paul Darrow, a member of the chili team with Gorger’s, said they want to provide a wide variety for customers, so Gorgers is also trying their hand at a vegan offering, a “Chili Rojo” with seitan, as well as their traditional meat offering, which will be a chipotle cocoa chili with andouille sausage.

They’ll also be attempting two dessert options as well: a chili chocolate chip cookie, and a habanero-key lime cheesecake.

“I’ve never had anything like that before,” Darrow said.

Gorger’s team offered a bit of trash talk last year, but decided to remain more reserved in the run-up to this competition.

“We offer hugs to our competitors,” Darrow said, laughing.• Paul Darrow shows off Gorgers’ meat chili. (Photo by Casey Martin)

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A Celebration of ReUsables

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he use of found materials in art has a double legacy. Rooted in popular, folk and non-“Western” traditions, the practice has nevertheless, since the early 20th century, gone mainstream. Cubists Picasso and Georges Braque reinvented collage as a way of disrupting European painting, with its tendency to seamless illusion. Picasso’s experiments incorporating found objects into sculpture lead the way for what became known as assemblage. Practitioners as diverse as the Dadaist Kurt Schwitters, mid-century provocateur Robert Rauschenberg, and contemporary installation artists Judy Pfaff and Sarah Sze have

created diverse work incorporating the signs and textures of everyday life into abstract-leaning art.

Curated by local photographer Robyn Wishna, “Celebrate ReUse 2” is a partnership between the Tompkins County Public Library and the Ithaca ReUse Center.

ReUse, with its ethical commitment to repurposing, is an ideal partner. Rather than taking an overtly polemical stance, the work here seeks to honor this ethos through the imaginative use of things overlooked. Occupying the library’s “Avenue of the Friends,” the exhibit combines wall-mounted and freestanding pieces with smaller works confined in glass cases.

Local thematic group shows are invariable mixed. Efforts highlighting scavenged materials and environmentalism are a draw for artists whose enthusiasm outstrips their skill or knowledge. Although most of the work here is moderately well-realized or better, a few works here do recall grade school “art projects.” This uncomfortable mix of accomplishment and amateurism is typical of shows at the public library.

Working primarily in wood, both

Victoria Romanoff and Paul Colucci are accomplished, witty assemblagists—two of Ithaca’s best. Romanoff is a long-time hero of the local historical preservation movement. Her large wall-relief here, “Carlo Ponzi’s Private Investment Portfolio” is characteristically dense and dizzying with its elaborate grid of slats, inchoate patches of paint, as well as gears and other steel bits.

Colucci has several pieces, sadly confined to the cases. Made of metal roofing and wood scraps, “Vase” is painted with three closely-grouped figures, combining the rough and the delicate. “Face Sculpture” recalls Cubism and Dada with its geometric reduction of the human figure and areas of bold color.

A persistent challenge for collage and assemblage is the need to both honor and transcend the found elements of the work.

The transformations affected the count but so too do the kind of things selected. On one hand, there are risks that come with choosing materials that are overly precious or rare. On the other, the use of particular banal and commonplace ones becomes challenging to overcome.

Comparing work here by Alice Gant and Teresa Yatsko is instructive. Gant, a tapestry and quilt artist, is at her strongest in a pair of overscaled, irregularly-shaped “quilts” made out of security envelopes.

Both the map-like “Landscape Security” and the oddly floral “Enveloping Cloud” make compelling use of the rich textures of her chosen medium. However her stuffed paper heart “Valentine for Dr.

Mausser,” with its magenta fringe and patchwork of blood pressure readings is a one-liner—however harrowing the experience it seems intended to memorialize.

Yatsko intricately alters antique books, incorporating additional collaged images and text as well as natural materials such as sticks and lichen. Pieces here such as “Sailboat” and “Drummer” here recall some of Joseph Cornell’s famous boxes, with their fairytale delicacy and private obsession. Her craftsmanship is impeccable, her imaginative vision clearly realized.

Still, her sensibility will be fully embraced only by some.

Alice Muhlback is one of Ithaca’s bestloved artists: a talented, if sometimes cloying cartoonist, and a prodigious illustrator and sign artist. Straight painting is not her forte. Her two painted wood reliefs here show her at her best. A white frame is incorporated into “groundlessness,” made from a shipping crate lid spotted in pale blue and yellow-green. Mostly pale wood and Masonite scraps aim for Miró-like whimsy: a see-saw beam rests on a pointy fulcrum while a tiny red heart seems to emit from its right edge. A wide crimson bar supports, in the center, a beige cartoon creature in the sign-like “bird.”

This is an interesting, occasionally gripping presentation of the varieties of art being made around Ithaca from reappropriated materials. Hardly “shifting the paradigm,” either artistically or in terms of a reuse ethic, this though is familiar territory for attentive followers of local art.•

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Our reviewer made a rare foray into chain restaurant territory this week with a visit to Texas Roadhouse. (Photo by Casey Martin)

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uring the two decades I’ve been writing food and wine articles and restaurant reviews for our two major local newspapers, I can’t begin to tell you how often I have been asked the same question: “What’s your favorite restaurant?” However many times I’ve been asked, I deflect by replying it’s impossible to answer because there are so many vastly different options.

However, I can say, that if pinned down to the five I like most, Texas Roadhouse has been in that group since 2016, the day it opened on Route 13 in Ithaca.

The fact that it’s part of an international chain with a presence only adds to its consistency, reliability and high-quality standards. What matters the most, to me, is that the owner and general manager live locally and employ local residents. The owner was born in Tompkins County and has lived in the area all his life. Key managers and the staff of about 125 also live in the greater Ithaca area.

Much of the Ithaca operation is dictated by the national organization. For example, the basic size, floor plans, and menus of all 600 restaurants are similar. When you enter, you’ll be greeted by hosts who will cheerfully guide you past an open refrigerated display of appetizing hand-cut steaks to a table. You’ll be offered a complimentary bucket of peanuts and freshly baked rolls with cinnamon honey butter.

Since the restaurant is large and is almost always full, it may serve more customers than any other in Ithaca. Butter blocks are softened and spun with cinnamon and honey to accompany the sweet rolls. Close to 500 pounds of baby back ribs are served every week.

Speaking of ribs, they’re seasoned with a dry rub, which includes, salt, pepper, paprika, sugar, and garlic and onion powder, marinated for 12-24 hours and cooked for

4 hours, easily my favorites in town.

There are a half dozen chicken entrées, grilled shrimp and grilled salmon. The salmon is served flaky, tender, and tastefully seasoned. The chicken, served by itself or in combination with steak and ribs, is always cooked perfectly and never overdone or dry as you’ll find in other establishments.

Almost all of the entrées are accompanied by a choice of two side dishes. I like the baked sweet potato with cinnamonhoney butter and chili, which can be loaded with shredded cheese and onions and served as an appetizer. If you prefer veggies or greens you can choose corn, green beans, fresh vegetables of the day, a house or Caesar salad, apple sauce, or mashed or baked potatoes. There are separate sections on the menu for larger dishes.

The wine menu which comes from the national organization is not a strong point. Although wine is probably not a great revenue producer here, there are only four reds and five whites, two of which are Chardonnays. Since local establishments may add local wines and beer, I believe they should offer a New York Riesling and a Dry Riesling since we produce such good quality in the Finger Lakes. The selection of reds could do with a Malbec, and perhaps a Syrah. It would also help us to make a reasoned selection if vintages and prices were provided.

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ohn Sebastian founded The Lovin’ Spoonful in 1965 and scored hits like “Daydream” and “Do You Believe in Magic?” The band was inducted into the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. He also had a No. 1 hit in 1976 with “Welcome Back,” the theme to “Welcome Back, Kotter.”

Sebastian will be in Ithaca to play a solo concert at the Hangar Theatre on Feb. 9.

He spoke to the Ithaca Times about his ideas for The Lovin’ Spoonful, writing “Welcome Back” and how The Spoonful wound up in Woody Allen’s “What’s Up, Tiger Lily.”

IT: Congratulations on “Echoes in the Canyon,” [a 2019 documentary charting the influence of 1960s music].

JS: Well, thank you very much, and I would say that I still haven’t seen it! [laughs] I really do have to concentrate on that kind of thing more.

IT: You were an East Coast guy.

JS: Yeah. I was born in New York and raised up in Greenwich Village, and so I had this proximity to the dawn of the folk scare [laughs]. Washington Square, I lived on Washington Square. I was able to go see “Mississippi” John Hurt every time he came to town. So some of this stuff was just a wonderful coincidence that permitted me to have a tremendous head start on many of my contemporaries—more talented guys—who just took a few more years to get in from the boroughs.

IT: You must have met so many people coming and going.

JS: I had great opportunities to meet everybody in the dressing room.

IT: How did The Lovin’ Spoonful get started?

JS: See, I had been doing a number of sessions and things, and I made friends with a guy named Erik Jacobsen, who eventually would become The Lovin’ Spoonful’s producer. But he and I started conversing about this idea of a group that kind of referred to American music than imitat-

ing what The Beatles had just been doing.

There were a lot of kind of Anglicized American acts at that moment. But during that time, I was learning these songs that really had a lot of profanities and a lot of words that you can’t say now. So I found myself substituting stuff for those words, and [laughs] I guess that really was the beginning for me, where it was trying to fill in these verses that had unwholesome thoughts in them. And our intent was to play this for 16-year-olds, so we really didn’t want to horrify anybody, but we wanted to give them a flavor.

IT: I love that era because you had The Beatles goosing The Beach Boys goosing Bob Dylan and there was this exchange of creativity and energy.

JS: Tremendous energy, and a lot of going “Okay, well, if you can write that, I can write this.” “Good Day Sunshine” is “Daydream” [laughs]. There’s a lot of that.

IT: How did you come to write “Welcome Back,” the theme to “Welcome Back, Kotter?”

JS: A guy called my manager said, “I’m looking for kind of a New York-sounding guy, kind of like a John Sebastian. We actually sent Dion this assignment too.”

And my manager said, “Well, I did just start managing John.” And I ended up in a meeting and very quickly could absorb the idea, which was a good idea, and easy to write for. So, I just informed them that I wasn’t going to use the word “Kotter,” because that would make it a smaller song [laughs]. And I turned out to be right over the years.

IT: “What’s Up, Tiger Lily.” How did you guys wind up in such a strange film?

JS: Okay. Again, New York is the center of a lot of different things going on at once.

The Lovin’ Spoonful had a manager who I’m still pals with, who was also friends with Rollins and Joffe, the guys who managed Woody Allen. So they and Bob were friends. And I was actually a fan of Woody Allen’s, even though he didn’t know it. He probably never knew I was coming quite regularly to see his performances at The Bitter End. In fact, I would bring people to see it, to see if they laughed. And it was a remarkable division of certain people usually beyond a certain age found him distasteful, and other, younger folks thought he was really funny. It was like a cultural age divide on that kind of self-effacing humor, I think.• Read more with John Sebastian at ithaca.com.

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IT: I saw “The Sandlot” (April 19) when it came out, gave it a good review and forgot about it, and now I see images from the movie on T-shirts, so it’s become part of the culture.

DM: It’s kind of like “A Christmas Story” or “Home Alone,” where the people who have seen it have seen it five times. It touches on some memory of their childhood and baseball and the neighborhood and the kids and the scary grownups and the scary dogs. And I’d never even heard of it, but the people on our committee just love it. It’s for slightly older elementary school kids, whereas “Kirikou & the Sorceress” is fine for the very youngest.

IT: I don’t know much about Gary Cooper, so I’ve never seen “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” (May 17).

DM: If you’ve never seen Gary Cooper in a movie before, it’s really fun. He’s amazing. You could take Gary Cooper just the way he was then, the way he looked, the way he acted, the way he talked, and you could transplant him to today, and he would be a star all over again. He died relatively young so he didn’t have his golden years as an actor. It’s a Frank Capra movie, and he plays a smallCary Grant, Shirley Temple, and Myrna Loy in The Bachelor town guy named and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) at Cinemapolis Feb. 16 Longfellow Deeds who inherits money from an unknown relative, and he decides Loy plays this judge, and teenage Shirley that he wants to give it away. It’s that Capra Temple is her little sister, who has develthing: small-town guy fights the big bad oped a crush on Cary Grant. Myrna Loy money people. comes up with the impossible premise for Cary Grant to get out of the legal trouble IT: There’s a scene in “Shane” (June 21) he’s in, he has to break Shirley Temple’s in “Logan” that becomes the moral spine crush on him by going out with her. It’s of that movie, so even though I’ve never one of those witty comedies that just gets seen it, I think I understand “Shane.” funnier as the movie progresses, and then DM: We’ve never shown a Western before, it culminates in this scene in a restaurant. which is funny because Westerns used to It’s just a farcical explosion of comedy be king of the box office in the ’40s and at the end of the movie. I think kids are ’50s. gonna be delighted by it.

IT: Very hard to make one now.

IT: I haven’t even heard of “Kirikou & DM: This one, though, has a child as the the Sorceress” (March 15) before. It’s central character, which is why a lot of animated. kids relate to this movie. Brandon deWilde DM: I never had either, but parents on our plays this boy, and Alan Ladd plays this committee had. It’s a 1998 French film from man defending the boy’s parents from the director Michel Ocelot. It’s based on a these outsiders trying to take over their popular West African folk tale. When this land. And Jack Palance plays this incredyoung boy Kirikou learns that a sorceribly creepy gunslinger who’s after the ess is threatening his village, he leaps into family. It won the Oscar for Loyal Griggs’ action to save the day. The cinematography cinematography; it has these gorgeous is supposed to be beautiful, and just a really vistas. And because it’s told from a child’s absorbing story. People who have seen this perspective, it has a great hook for kids.• movie love it, and the kids love it too. he Family Film Classics Series is back at Cinemapolis. Featuring handouts and knowledgeable and fun introductions by host David Moreland, films selected by committee play monthly on Sundays at 2 p.m. And this year will introduce a new feature, “Snow Day Movies.” Whenever the Ithaca City School District closes because of snow, Cinemapolis will show “Charlotte’s Web” and “Chicken Run” at 11 a.m. that day.

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IT: This has to be some kind of record.

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Blue Skies | 2:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

2/5 Wednesday Canaan Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale

2/6 Thursday Bob Marley B-Day Tribute Show to Benefit Cayuga Lake | 7:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $7 s.d.

Frank Raponi - solo acoustic | 7:00 PM, | Monk’s on the Commons, Ithaca

2/7 Friday Janet Batch | 5:30 PM, | South Hill Cider Tasting Room, Ithaca Brandon “Taz” Niederauer | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

2/8 Saturday Chili Fest After Hours ft. Cap Cooke and Sam Schmidt | 4:00 PM, | South Hill Cider Tasting Room, Ithaca Salsa at The Range | 7:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca | $ $5 before 10pm, $7 after

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Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca Paul Merrill Quartet | 7:00 PM, | Carriage House Cafe, Ithaca | $10/$5

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Beethoven Violin Sonatas | 8:00 PM, 2/10 Monday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Sezi Seskir, piano and Lucy Russell, violin

Concerts/Recitals Midday Music for Organ: David Yearsley and Annette Richards | 12:30 PM, 2/5 Wednesday | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Midday Music for Organ: David Yearsley and Annette Richards. “Sounding Mean c.

1600,” music in meantone, including works by Sweelinck and Byrd on the Vicedomini organ.

Citizen Cope | 8:00 PM, 2/6 Thursday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Clarence Greenwood, the trailblazing artist and producer better known as Citizen Cope. | $50.50

Dexter Kennedy, guest organist: CU Music | 2:00 PM, 2/8 Saturday

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Diana Leigh & the Shorty Georges | 8:00 PM, | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, Ithaca | $12/$9

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Sierra Duo: CU Music | 8:00 PM, 2/8 Saturday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Sierra Duo: John Haines-Eitzen (cello) and Matthew Bengtson (piano) perform music by Roberto Sierra, Brahms, and Franck.

Music’s Recreation concert: Timbre | 2:00 PM, 2/9 Sunday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | A captivating musical program merging music and physics.

The physics behind the beautiful and individual instrumental sounds will be discussed and illustrated through works by Rebecca Clarke, Frederic Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, and others. | $10 over age 18

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Midday Music in Lincoln: 2/13 | 12:30 PM, 2/13 Thursday | Lincoln Hall Rm B20, Cornell, Ithaca | As part of the I Heart Beethoven festival, Andy Sheng plays Schumann’s Fantasie in C, Op. 17, with a pre-performance talk I Heart Beethoven: Yampolsky, Bjerken, Bilson | 8:00 PM, 2/14 Friday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | As part of the I Heart Beethoven festival, Malcolm Bilson, Xak Bjerken, and Miri Yampolsky perform the last three Beethoven sonatas.

I Heart Beethoven: Diabelli Variations | 8:00 PM, 2/15 Saturday | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | As part of the I Heart Beethoven festival, an Exploration of Variations. Musicologist Scott Burnham discusses the piece, and Mike Lee will perform the Diabelli Variations on the Graf fortepiano.

New York Young Men Sing: CU Music | 4:30 PM, 2/15 Saturday | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | New York Young Men Sing; performance of the Glee Club and area high school singers led by guest clinicians Kayla Werlin (Music Department Chair and Vocal Music Director at Longmeadow High School) and Wayne Abercrombie (Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Ithaca New Music Collective Presents: With Love, From INMC | 7:00 PM, 2/12 Wednesday | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | New works from Jonathan Dove, Michael Finnissy, Josh Oxford, Kaija Saariaho, Jake Walsh, Alison Wahl, and more!

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The Wolves | 7:30 PM, 2/7 Friday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | Until Feb 16. Contact theater for additional showtimes. The Wolves are a girls’ soccer team. The nine players are 16 and 17 years old. Over a series of wintry Saturdays on an AstroTurf indoor soccer field somewhere in suburban America, they perform their ritual pregame warm-up. Between stretches and pep talks, cajoling and consoling, jokes and jibes, an eye-opening and sympathetic portrait of nine young

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Cry It Out | 8:00 PM, 2/7 Friday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Contact theater for additional showtimes. Thru 2/22. With little in common besides new babies and adjacent backyards, Jessie, a corporate lawyer, and Lina, a nurse, form an unlikely friendship over a series of naptime coffee breaks. But with the addition of their career oriented neighbor Adrienne, another new mom, the duo’s friendship and their individual conceptions of parenthood are put to the test. A candid comedy about parenthood.

Ithaca Is Winter Comedy Series: Max May | 7:00 PM, 2/8 Saturday | Hilton Garden Inn Ithaca, 130 E Seneca St, Ithaca | Comedy on The Commons is proud to present the Ithaca Is Winter Comedy Series, a monthly comedy series at the Hilton Garden Inn featuring nationally touring comedians out of New York City. | $15 - $35 VIP tckets include Open Bar and meet and greet with Max May

Stories from the Arabian Nights | 1:00 PM & 7:30 PM, 2/9 Sunday | Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | Enter the labyrinthine storyworld of the Arabian Nights, where questions of gender and power are wrestled with through talking birds and genies in bottles-- and the power of storytelling proves to be just the magic needed to free a kingdom from an evil tyrant. | $15 Adults, $10 Kids Dark Hearts: A Villain’s Cabaret | 6:00 PM, 2/14 Friday & 2/15 Saturday| Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, 5 McLallen Street, at Congress and McLallen , Trumansburg | The cabaret features local actors and singers portraying famous Broadway villains, who take the stage to share their deepest desires, untold to us in their original story lines, and sing the songs they have always wanted to sing. The result is a comedic romp into the mind and heart of each villain, with hilarious twists and turns! | $35.00 Miss Valentine at The Morgan Opera House | 6:00 PM, 2/14 Friday; 3:00 & 6:00 PM, 2/15 Saturday | Morgan Opera House, 370 Main Street, Aurora | A delightful new play

by Nadine Bernard, Miss Valentine,

brings to life the world of Esther Howland “The Mother of the American Valentine.” Laugh and love with us as we share the life of an inspiring and enterprising young woman, and the story of how Valentine’s cards came to the United States. | $10 for general public, $7 for seniors, and $5 for students.

Art “For the Love of Art” | 12:00 PM, 2/5 Wednesday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W Martin Luther King, Jr./ State Street, Ithaca | Through Sun., March 1.

Create Love - A Creative ReUse Workshop | 6:00 PM, 2/6 Thursday | Ithaca ReUse Center, 214 Elmira Street, Ithaca | Make a gift for that special someone or something cool for themselves with unique ReUse finds. Local artists will be on-hand to share crafting techniques, including how to make cards and envelopes out of a wide variety of inspiring papers (a great way to use expired wall calendars!), flag chains, keychains gift boxes and more.

2020 Black and White Biennial Presented by Exhibit A | 5:00 PM, 2/8 Saturday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Curated

by Exhibit A, Corning NY, this exhibit features eclectic work by Jozef Bajus, Kyle Butler, Ronald Gonzalez, Caleb Harrington, Evan Hawkins, Ani Hoover, and Anne Muntges. Join us for the artist’s reception. On view through March 28.

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women emerges, revealing their complexities and confusions as they grapple with issues large and small, near at hand and far away.

UpstART Gallery @ Buffalo Books | All Day 2/8 Saturday | UpstART Gallery @ Buffalo Books, Dewitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Grand Opening Reception on Gallery Night, Friday, February 7, 5-8pm.

First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, 2/7 Friday | Downtown Ithaca, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different local artists and sometimes global ones, as well.

Justin Greenwald | Clarity through Chaos | 5:00 PM, 2/7 Friday | Ink Shop Studio Gallery , 330 E.State / MLK Street Ithaca, NY 14850 , ITHACA | Clarity through Chaos is an exhibit of solarplate etchings and monotypes concerned with repetitive mark making. Justin uses numbers and equations and occasionally words in his prints. Through March 2020.

Susan Arnsten-Russell, “Touch Drawings: Illustrating My Inner Landscape” | 5:00 PM, 2/7 Friday | CAP ArtSpace, 110 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca | Artist Talk: Friday, February 13, 4:00 to 5:30pm Creative Sanctuary Club | 5:45 PM, 2/7 Friday | The Art Therapy Studio, 408 West State Street, Ithaca | Connect more deeply with your creativity through Art-Therapist-developed art prompts and/or techniques in an

Les Miserables* | A cop of provinces moves Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm. | 02 mins R Weathering With You | A highschool boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather. | 112 mins PG-13 Becoming Nobody | Using a mix of interviews and archival recordings of his presentations, the American spiritual teacher Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert, tells the story of his life, while summarizing his primary teachings. | 81 mins NR Color Out of Space | A town is struck by a meteorite and the fallout is catastrophic. | 111 mins NR Little Women | Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War. Directed by Greta Gerwig, starring Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet, & Emma Watson.| 135 mins PG-13

Cornell Cinema All films are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus.

Synonyms | 2/5, 6:45 PM | The story of Yoav and his struggle to reinvent himself as French after moving to Paris from Israel. The film won the top prize at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. Subtitled.

The Garden | 2/6, 6:45 PM | When the largest community garden in the United States – in the middle of South Central LA - is threatened, the lowincome Latinos who farm there band together to fight corrupt politicians, greedy developers, and racism to save their oasis.

Harriet | 2/6, 8:45 PM; 2/9, 6:45 PM | About the great African-American freedom fighter Harriet Tubman If the Dancer Dances | 2/7, 6:45 PM; 2/9, 4:45 PM | A backstage chronicle of choreographer Stephen Petronio’s company’s efforts to revive Cunningham’s ‘RainForest’ in 2015.

Jojo Rabbit | 2/7, 9:00 PM; 2/8, 6:45 & 9:30 PM | A lonely German boy’s world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler, Jojo must confront his blind nationalism in this satire.

Easy Rider | 2/10, 6:45 PM | In this alternative vision of liberty and fraternity in the U.S., two doped-up bikers fund a cross-country search for freedom with drug money and draw a Southern lawyer into their quest for a high and a highway that can get them out of the reach of bourgeois culture.

For Sama | 2/11, 6:45 PM | A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of director Waad al-Kateab’s life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her.

Say Amen, Somebody | 2/12, 6:45 PM | George T. Nierenberg’s

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Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd. | Designed for female high school students and their families and is open to any high school student interested in mathematics.

Engage with other high school students and explore through hands-on activities how math and origami can help us explore outer space. There is no cost to participate in the event and lunch will be provided. (photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Located right next to Buffalo Street Books, 215 N. Cayuga St (DeWitt Mall), IThaca | Features four acclaimed local women artists with four different approaches to creating some of the most innovative and contemporary art in Ithaca. Enjoy homemade appetizers while perusing exceptional quality cards, prints, paintings, and fiber art available for sale. (photo credit: Hobit LaFaye) F e br ua ry

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Week of Friday, February 7 through Thursday, February 13, 2020.

Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films listed first*.

Parasite | All unemployed, Ki-taek’s family takes a peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.|132 mins R

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Rd, Cornell University, Ithaca | Join Dr. Robert Raguso for a tour of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory on the Cornell University campus. Raguso is a professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. He is an expert on plant-insect interactions and will share the amazing stories of how Conservatory plants reward (or sometimes trick or deceive) insects to get them to distribute pollen from flower to flower to help perpetuate the species.

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armony Falls, a chapter of Harmony, Incorporated, an international organization of female a cappella singers specializing in the barbershop harmony style, will commemorate national Harmony Awareness Week, February 8-14, 2020, with a special invitation to their Monday night rehearsal, February 10, 2020; 7:00 pm at the First Baptist Church fellowship hall , Seneca Road, Trumansburg. The free event is open to women of all ages from 8 to 98.

Attendees do not need to read music or have sung in many years.

Harmony Awareness Week is sponsored by Harmony, Inc. annually

to raise awareness of barbershop harmony, the women who celebrate and preserve the genre, and the contributions that Harmony, Inc. members make to their local communities throughout the United States and Canada.

Annually, they celebrate the hobby and organization that has brought so much joy to members of Harmony Falls and joined novice and experienced singers, combined multiple generations, and made new friends.

They welcome “gals” to this open rehearsal to come learn a little about music meet and make new friends.

“We’ll help you Find Your Voice!”

Spring Into Action: 2020 Seasonal Job Fair | 11:00 AM, 2/12 Wednesday | Tioga Place Building, 118 N. Tioga St, Ithaca | The TST BOCES Adult Education program and Workforce New York are hosting a job fair open to the public. This event will take place on the 6th floor.

Harmony Awareness Week - February 8-14, 2020 February 10, 2020; 7:00 pm at the First Baptist Church fellowship hall , Seneca Road, Trumansburg.

exuberant, funny, and deeply moving celebration of 20th-century American gospel music. The screening will be preceded by a short performance by the Baraka Kwa Wimbo Gospel Ensemble.

Regal Ithaca Wednesday, 2/5 through Tuesday, 2/11. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first* Birds of Prey* | After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.| 109 mins R Gretel & Hansel | A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil. | 87 mins PG-13 The Rhythm Section | A woman seeks revenge against those who orchestrated a plane crash that killed her family.| 109 mins R

Jumanji: The Next Level || 123 mins PG-13

The Gentlemen | A British drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire to a dynasty of Oklahoma billionaires.| 113 mins R

Ford vs Ferrari | 152 mins PG-13

Bad Boys for Life | The Bad Boys Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are back together for one last ride in the highly anticipated Bad Boys for Life.| 123 mins R Dolittle | A physician discovers that he can talk to animals. w/ Robert Downey Jr.| 106 mins PG 1917 | Two young British soldiers during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the soldiers’ brothers, from walking straight into a deadly trap.| 119 mins R

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Knives Out | 130 mins PG-13 Frozen II | 103 mins PG

Special Events Cornell Men’s Basketball vs Princeton University | 7:00 PM, 2/7 Friday | Bartels Hall, 521 Campus Rd, Ithaca | Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey vs Colgate University | 7:00 PM, 2/7 Friday | Lynah Rink, Cornell Univ., Ithaca |

Spies in Disguise | 101 mins PG

IC Women in Math Day | 10:30 AM, 2/8 Saturday | Ithaca College, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Designed for female high school students and their families and is open to any high school student interested in mathematics. Engage with other high school students and explore through hands-on activities how math and origami can help us explore outer space. There is no cost to participate in the event and lunch will be provided.

Star Wars:The Rise of Skywalker | 141 mins PG-13

22nd Annual Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-off | 11:30 AM, 2/8 Satur-

Just Mercy | World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner. | 136 mins PG-13

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The Turning | A young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the deaths of their parents.

A modern take on Henry James’ novella “The Turn of the Screw.”| 94 mins PG-13

day | The Commons, East State Street, Ithaca | Features a variety of meat, vegan, and vegetarian chili prepared by 40+ restaurants competing for the titles of Best Meat/Overall Chili, Best Vegetarian/Vegan Chili, and People’s Choice Chili.

Circus Culture Showcase | 2:00 PM, 2/8 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Second show at 6pm. Join Circus Culture artists of all ages for a family friendly circus show full of variety!

Darwin Days Film: “Wings of Life” | 2:00 PM, 2/8 Saturday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Get up close and personal with pollinators-butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, and bats--upon whom a third of the world’s food supply depends. Incredible cinematography, high-speed, and time-lapse filmmaking showcase the unsung heroes of our planet in spectacular detail.

Festival of Fire and Ice | 3:00 PM, 2/8 Saturday | Ithaca Children’s Garden, 121 Turtle Lane, Ithaca | An annual celebration of winter outdoor play, ICG’s annual Festival of Fire & Ice provides time and space for us to remember the winter games we

DOWNTOWN ITHACA’S 22ND ANNUAL CHILI COOK-OFF

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 AT 11:00 AM

Ithaca Commons | Featuring over 40 chilis prepared by 30+ restaurants from across the region as the restaurants compete for the titles of Best Meat/Overall Chili, Best Vegetarian/Vegan Chili, and People’s Choice Chili. (photo: Wikimedia Commons)

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Cayuga Chamber Orchestra: Murder Mystery Dinner Party! | 6:00 PM, 2/8 Saturday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Relax and enjoy the fun of watching others solve the crime, or don your sleuthing hat and take a stab at solving the mystery. Let out your inner Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple! We’ll provide the suspects but solving the case is up to you! | $60 per person / $105 per couple Cornell Men’s Basketball vs University of Pennsylvania | 6:00 PM, 2/8 Saturday | Bartels Hall, 521 Campus Rd, Ithaca | 21st Annual Evening of Jewish Storytelling, Poetry and Music | 7:30 PM, 2/8 Saturday | Temple BethEl, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | A magical celebration of life, community and the arts will take place on an upcoming winter evening in Ithaca. Celebrating twenty one years of original stories, traditional tales, folk and contemporary poetry, and dynamic live music from around the world.

Darwin Days Conservatory Tour: “A World of Pollination Strategies” | 2:00 PM, 2/9 Sunday | Liberty Hyde Bailey Conservatory, 236 Tower

WETWARE - Special Film Screening | 7:00 PM, 2/13 Thursday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Wetware, a new sci-fi feature film by award winning director Jay Craven, with music by Ithaca musicians and film composers Judy Hyman and Jeff Claus.

Director Craven will be present for a Q&A as will Hyman and Claus. Moderated by Bryan Van Campen. All other Ithacans who contributed to the music of the film will also be in attendance.

A Valentines Day Party | 6:00 PM, 2/14 Friday | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Join Six Mile Creek Winery, DJ Evo and Singing Notes and Slinging Jokes for a Valentine’s Day party that is unlike any other.| $30 - $65 VIP and Couples tickets Includes Food, and a Bottle of Wine.

Books The Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading by Emily Fridlund & Joanie Mackowski | 4:30 PM, 2/6 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, 132 Goldwin Smith Hall, 232 East Avenue, Ithaca | Reading featuring Emily Fridlund, fiction writer, and Joanie Mackowski, poet.

FESTIVAL OF FIRE AND ICE

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 AT 3:00 PM

Ithaca Children’s Garden, 121 Turtle Lane | An annual celebration of winter outdoor play, ICG’s annual Festival of Fire & Ice provides time and space for us to remember the winter games we love and to discover new ways to play through the coldest season.(photo: provided)

Cabin Fever Book Sale | 10:00 AM, 2/10 Monday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Chats in the Stacks: Lourdes Casanova on The Era of Chinese Multinationals: Competing for Global Dominance | 4:00 PM, 2/12 Wednesday | Samuel Curtis Johnson Management Library, Sage Hall, 106 East Ave., Ithaca | Casanova, a senior lecturer and the academic director of the Emerging Markets Institute in the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, will discuss her book, which she wrote with Anne Miroux, a faculty fellow at the Emerging Markets Institute.

Kids Family Music Concert Series | 11:30 AM, 2/6 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Presented by Alejandro BernardPapachryssanthou, children, along with their families and caregivers, will be treated to playfully reimagined classics, originals, and modern standards. This series aims to provide a positive social experience for young children and families through music and movement. After the music, opportunities for play and social time will be provided.

DIY Sensory Bags | 4:00 PM, 2/6 Thursday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | For kids aged 3-10: Come to the library and create Sensory Bags, a great stressreliever! Please preregister.

Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Preschool to 2nd graders - Join us for fun sight word B-I-N-G-O and Zingo! Kids play at their level! Please register.

Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 2/8 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Families Learning Science Together: Chemical Reactions | 1:00 PM, 2/8 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | At this intergenerational, hands-on science program led by Cornell Center for Materials Research, families will explore the colorful world of chemistry and chemical reactions.

Participants will perform various chemical reactions and observe the changes that occur.

Minecraft After-School Party | 3:30 PM, 2/10 Monday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls |

Maker Kids | 3:30 PM, 2/12 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Drop-In Crafts at TCPL for Children Ages 5 to 12. No registration is required for this free, drop-in program. First come, first served, as supplies last.

Notices Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 2/5 Wednesday |Dinner: Taste of Thai

French Tutoring Sessions | 5:00 PM, 2/6 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Designed primarily for middle school, high school, and university students of French, as well as adults enrolled in a course or studying French on their own. Through extra, personalized assistance, this program can help participants deepen their understanding of the French language and improve their ability to complete homework on

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 2/7 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

Toddler & PreSchool Storytime | 11:00 AM, 2/11 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Baby Doll Circle Time | 10:00 AM, 2/12 Wednesday | Jillian’s Drawers, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | Dolls, songs, books, and good times will be provided. Please RSVP jessica@childdevelopmentcouncil.org to reserve your spot. 12 toddler max. Free and Open to the Public This program is

ing. No textbook is required. **Class will not meet on March 27 or April 3** Full Moon Fire Ceremony - Letting Go, New Beginnings | 7:00 PM, 2/7 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | At this Full Moon Fire, we will explore how to let go of what is holding us back, and find the courage to start something new. Join us as we come together in sacred space, where we can explore this together in song, ceremony and activities.

Beginner Bird Walks | 8:30 AM, 2/8 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. For more information, go to the club’s website, http://www. cayugabirdclub.org/calendar Chicken Barbecue | 11:00 AM, 2/9 Sunday | Enfield Fire Hall, 172 Enfield Main Rd, Ithaca | We start serving at 11:00 AM until all is gone. The Ladies Auxiliary holds a Bake Sale at each BBQ. | $10/$7 Ithaca Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM, 2/9 Sunday | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Upstairs from Autumn Leaves Books Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM, 2/9 Sunday | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Come meet other fiber artists and share skills with one another.

Sew Amazing | 6:00 PM, 2/10 Monday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Here’s a sewing class just for kids and teens in 4th grade and up.

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 2/11 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

There is a different theme each week.

Sight Word Saturday | 10:30 AM, 2/8 Saturday | Seneca Falls Library, 47

Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler Library Time | 10:00 AM, 2/12 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden |

thing different, and attendance every week is not required. These one-hour workshops will be led by volunteers from Ithaca College, and they will involve a variety of prompts, exercises, and opportunities to workshop pieces. (no mtg 3/12)

Maker Mondays for Teens | 4:00 PM, 2/10 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Provides people aged 12 to 17 the opportunity to express their creativity while becoming familiar with the equipment in the Library’s Makerspace. Each session will include a tutorial on 3D printing, laser cutting, or Arduino programming. No prior experience is required, and materials will be provided.

Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 2/7 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | A different theme every week!

Family Game Day | 10:00 AM, 2/8 Saturday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Get your Game on! Come to the library for a fun day of board games, card games, puzzles and Minecraft. All ages and their families are welcome.

sponsored by the Child Development Council

MEET THE TIMESMITH Wednesday, February 12 at 6:30 PM | Southworth Homestead, 14 North St., Dryden | The Dryden Town Historical Society will host an informal gathering to introduce Chad Sopp a local clock and watch craftsman. Sopp operates a shop Timesmith Antiques – at 11 Ellis Drive in Dryden where he services watches and clocks from the late 18th century to the 20th century. (photo: Facebook)

Express.Host: Mavash, RSVP: mavashgaldjie@yahoo.com; 2/12, 6:00 PM Dinner: Friends and Pho Host: Carol W, RSVP: cw27@cornell.edu Teen Writing Workshops | 4:30 PM, 2/6 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Teens may attend a couple of sessions or all of them; each week will offer some-

their own.

Advanced ESL Classes | 1:00 PM, 2/7 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This Advanced English as a Second Language course comes from Lifelong Learning and will be led by Dolina Millar. Students will develop skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writ-

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 2/12 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com Meet the Timesmith | 6:30 PM, 2/12 Wednesday | Southworth Homestead, 14 North Street, Dryden | The Dryden Town Historical Society will host an informal gathering to introduce Chad Sopp a local clock and watch

Health Beginning Taoist Tai Chi | 5:00 PM, Mondays & Wednesdays | Newfield Masonic Temple, 186 Main Street, Newfield | Taoist Tai Chi internal arts promote health and well-being in people of all ages and in all health conditions. Regular practice increases strength, flexibility, balance, and mental focus.

Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, Tuesdays & Thursdays | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 2/6 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net Square Dance and Other Dancing | 2:00 PM, 2/7 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511 Sacred Sunday Community at Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM, 2/9 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Open Meditation | 10:30 AM, 2/9 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous | 4:00 PM, 2/9 Sunday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | FA is a free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, undereating, or bulimia. foodaddicts.org.

Additional meetings held Mondays @ 7pm and Saturdays at 8am.

Timeless Tuesdays | 9:00 AM, 2/11 Tuesday | well-being healing center, 317 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Step into an oasis and enjoy a relaxing moment.

Timeless Tuesdays are a new FREE event at well-being healing center featuring energy clearing with Theresa Delafield, LMT. •

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Kitchn Theatre, 417 W State St., Ithaca | For this performance (and again on 2/22) of a show about the challenges of parenthood, KTC is offering free childcare! How thoughtful is that? (photo:provided)

Bailey Hall, Cornell Campus | Yamato is described as the “epitome of the Japanese spirit,” bringing new life to the traditional Japanese taiko and wadaiko drums by paying respect to its rich history, and exploring contemporary drumming styles. (photo:Facebook)

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ESL Talk Time, | 3:45 PM, 2/12 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In these classes, interested people will meet others who are practicing English, watch and discuss YouTube videos, and talk with Library volunteers about current events, Ithaca, family life, culture, food, and holidays.

craftsman. Sopp operates a shop Timesmith Antiques – at 11 Ellis Drive in Dryden where he services watches and clocks from the late 18th century to the 20th century.

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