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he past month has been one of a lot of questions for the Ithaca City School District. On Jan. 12, Superintendent Dr. Luvelle Brown resigned from his position effective Feb. 1, and said he was leaving for a job in the private sector. The next day, allegations emerged from his ex-wife, Anjanette Brown, accusing him of abuse of power, misuse of public funds and more. At the Jan. 26 Board of Education meeting, Luvelle reversed his decision and announced he would be staying with the school district.

From the start, the Board of Education said they had received the allegations from Anjanette back in November, during which they determined they were not credible and that it was a personal matter. However, teachers, students, parents and taxpayers have all had questions about what process exactly the board went through to make that determination.

These concerns were voiced again at the Feb. 9 Board of Education meeting, during which many people tried, again, to get answers.

Aimee Bacon, who read a comment on behalf of another ICSD stakeholder, said that the obvious friendships between board members and the superintendent have made it hard for the community to feel confident in the board’s ability to handle the current situation in an objective manner.

“It’s an all too common situation for a person in a position of power to abuse that power.

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Longtime locals buy Country Club of Ithaca, will welcome public players

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he Country Club of Ithaca is about to see some changes as new owners get ready to take over. Sean and Jennifer Whittaker are in the process of purchasing the club and expect to close on the deal sometime in March.

The couple have been members for 23 years and said the club is special to them.

“We have two children, Rachel and Nicholas, that were born while we were members there, and they grew up at the club,” Sean said. “It’s about the friendships we’ve made over the years.”

They have decided to rebrand the Country Club of Ithaca to “RaNic” which represents their children’s names.

Sean said he started thinking about buying the club around a year ago. The pandemic had forced him out of his office, so he began spending more time at the club. This is when he started noticing that some improvements needed to be made.

“I became much more involved in the golf course side and realized, over time, it had fallen into disrepair,” he said.

“So we embarked on that and helped the grounds crew and I just realized how much of a gem of a golf course it was. But it needed a lot of attention.”

He helped with drainage improvements, brush removal and tree trimming to allow sunlight on the greens, and

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he tried to get the course back into prime condition.

“As the club’s financial situation began to deteriorate, and a lot of that was due to COVID, we approached this with a long-term vision,” Sean said. “Something radical has to happen to survive.”

Sean decided he’s going to take the club in a different direction, with one major change being that he’s going to open the course and restaurant to the public.

“We’re going to work with a local restaurateur,” he said. “I can’t quite say which one yet, but we’ll work with a successful group in town to run the food and beverage operations for us […] It has a real viable public restaurant appeal.”

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infected, and hospitalization and death rates are much higher,” she said. “We want to look at this from a preventative standpoint.”

She also said that while the vaccine seems like it happened so quickly, there was actually decades of research behind it.

“This coronavirus is part

“The process goes through all the safety steps, they still go through all the rigorous testing.”

Both doctors also answered questions about side effects.

Rooth pointed out that this could vary from person to person, but that the most common for the second shot is arm soreness. Symptoms after the second shot tend to be a little bit worse, with many people reporting a headache, body aches, fatigue or, on the worse end of it, a fever and diarrhea.

“These are all normal immune responses,” Rooth said.

of a large family of viruses, so there’s tons of data,” she said.

“Scientists have been studying coronaviruses for over 50 years, and these types of vaccines have been studied for over 10 years.”

Hamilton added that a lot of it also has to do with funding.

“The process to propel it so quickly is money,” she said.

“The younger you are, it could be the more robust immune response you’re having.”

They said it’s also possible that because the first shot already got your body making antibodies, the second shot would naturally illicit a more intense immune response.

Hamilton was asked if she feels like Black people are

the weather permits they will paint and refinish the exterior railings, powerwash the entire facility and refinish the exterior walls on the rear deck.

“We’re going to do some pretty radical changes,” Sean said. “The demographic has really changed at the club. In general, country clubs across the nation are not thriving.

Golf is, but the image of a country club and that stuffy environment isn’t socially accepted, especially in Ithaca, so we’re looking to make it more of a golf-focused operation and less of a country club, where the public can come and dine and play golf.”

Another new initiative the Whittakers will introduce to the club is a junior golf program.

“We have a vision of trying to work with the YMCA so we can let every youth in Tompkins County come and take

some lessons, or go through clinics that [Nicholas] could run over the summer months,” Sean said.

They’re also planning on hiring a golf professional to oversee the pro shop, and have hired Jamie Hinman as the superintendent, Tim Lane as the head greenskeeper, Noah Demarest as the golf course architect and Joey Sindelar as the resident PGA professional.

And because it’s a family effort, Rachel and Nicholas will help out too.

“My son will work on the ground crew and at the pro shop, and my daughter will be helping at the pool area and rec center,” Sean said. “My wife and I will be very engaged. We see this as a real family affair.”

There are also ideas for other improvements, such as buying brand new golf carts with GPS in them and getting a tennis pro for the tennis courts

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PHOTOGRAPHER Local experts discuss racial inequality in healthcare, address vaccine creation

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STUDENTS, IF YOU HAD TO GIVE A LECTURE, RIGHT NOW, WITH ZERO PREPARATION, WHAT WOULD THE LECTURE BE ABOUT?

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“Behavioral Economics.”

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he Tompkins County Health Department kicked off its COVID-19 Vaccine Office Hour series last week, first with Dr. Kathryn Rooth from Cayuga Medical Center, followed by Dr. Jada Hamilton from Cornell Health.

The series gives residents the chance to ask their vaccinespecific questions to experts.

Both Rooth and Hamilton were asked why people should trust that it’s safe.

“We, as physicians and healthcare providers, rely on the science and data that we’re given,” Rooth said. “They had two clinical trials, with more than 30,000 people in each trial. It’s the same process you go through for any other vaccine.”

Hamilton, who was brought to speak specifically on concerns from people of color, said that with a history that includes the horrific Tuskegee “study,” she doesn’t blame Black people for being wary about trusting the healthcare industry. However, she also noted that Black people are being disproportionately affected by COVID. “We’re more likely to get

also going to work on bringing more events, such as weddings, to the clubhouse, and said they had been working to coordinate with Cornell University to host some of their events as well.

To facilitate that, the Whittakers will be making some cosmetic changes, such as repainting railings and improving the awnings, and taking on some interior renovations next year.

In a letter to members, Sean said they’ve also begun removing and replacing the sheetrock under the deck. While doing this, they discovered there was no insulation under the formal dining room, which is why the room is so cold in the winter.

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being bullied into getting the vaccine, or if she thinks Black healthcare professionals are being tokenized in the publicity of the vaccine. She said that because Black people are more likely to be affected, she just sees the push for vaccines as a layer of protection, and she wants to make sure people know that.

“We want to educate the public,” she said. “I think that people should be armed with information.”

Hamilton also said that as a Black doctor, she’s often asked to speak to communities of color on healthcare issues and that she doesn’t personally feel tokenized, but honored.

“I feel a trust and that I’m easy to approach,” she said. “[…] But I get there is tokenization in many fields, and I think it’s just about sharing information, building trust and community.”

Rooth was asked if people still needed to socially distance and wear masks if they themselves and the people they were with were all vaccinated.

Rooth’s answer was simple: “Yes, we’re still in the middle of this pandemic.”

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“We really believe that if you build it they will come,” Sean said.

However, despite the big plans for the club, Sean said he doesn’t want to do too much too fast.

“We’re going to take a slow path with this,” he said. “We’re not trying to grow too rapidly, and we’re not going to change things too quickly. But over time, support from the community and demand is really what’s key.”

The club will be open as normal once the snow melts — Sean said golf season typically kicks off around April 1, though he expects they will open the restaurant before that.

He added that fees will be significantly reduced in an effort to build a solid base of patrons.

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COVID Count COVID cases in Tompkins County are slowly but surely trending downward. As of publication, we were at 158 positive cases — down from 212 a week prior. Plus, 6,710 people are fully vaccinated in the county.

Urgent CareOn Pause Cayuga Health Systems is temporarily suspending services at the Ithaca Urgent Care located at 10 Arrowwood Drive, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They will be re-allocating all staff and resources of the Urgent Care to the hospital until they are able to reopen.

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Ballot Alert Voters in Tompkins County Legislative District 2 can now apply for absentee ballots for the March 23 special election. This election is to fill a vacancy for the vacancy left by former legislator Anna Kelles when she joined the State Assembly.

HEALTH

Women go for wintry swims in Cayuga Lake to find mental clarity

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o far this February, Ithaca has been pummeled by snow and frozen to the core as temperatures have routinely been well below freezing.

But that hasn’t stopped Hospicare co-workers Sara Worden and Laura Ward from swimming in Cayuga Lake. Yes, swimming.

“The rest of our co-workers think we’re crazy,” Worden laughed.

Ward compared it to Hospicare’s annual Women Swimmin’ fundraiser event, during which women swim the width of Cayuga Lake.

“It’s wonderful to feel a part of something,” she said. “The camaraderie, the women factor and just community.”

A quick Google search shows you that cold water swimming isn’t anything new, as it’s been gaining traction through articles written in The New Yorker and the New York Times, and has long been popular in the U.K. and throughout Europe. But unlike swimming laps at the YMCA, cold water swimming isn’t so much about focusing on your physical health as it is about working on your mental

health.

“It’s one of those things I didn’t think was possible,” Worden said. “I thought if I got in the winter water I would die immediately. But then you do it, and it’s not that bad. This belief system you had about something gets totally rewritten — we took a boundary and eradicated it. It becomes really empowering.”

Ward agreed, adding that if you can see yourself push past that boundary, it inspires you to start looking at what other boundaries in your life you can break. And as a grief counselor, she said she’s particularly inspired by the people she works with on a daily basis.

Ward said that experiencing the death of a loved one is the hardest thing people have to go through in life, and that she’s always been “really blown away by the resilience of people who are going through grief.” She said the strength she sees in people just getting through the day when they’re dealing with something so difficult is what she kept in mind the first time she waded into the water this winter.

“If they can go through that,

Sara Worden and Laura Ward go for a chilly dip in Cayuga Lake. (Photo Casey Martin)

I can do this,” Ward said. “I do it in solidarity with them. It pushes your physical limitations, and to me it just made sense in the context of grief, like how we can do more than we think we can. I feel like I’m alive, so this is something I can do.”

After a swim, Worden said she feels an “energized calm.”

“I feel very awake and alert, but also very grounded and clear,” she said. “It’s been improving my mood overall.

On days I swim, I feel like I get a better sleep. It just really improves my overall energy.”

Ward agreed, and says the cold water gives her something to focus her thoughts on.

“I’m an overthinker, so clearing my mind is not easy for me,” she said. “But when I go into the water, I can’t think of anything else.”

Worden said the first time they got into the water (which is hovering in the mid 30s these days), they took it slowly.

Experts say it should take you about 90 seconds to get into the water, giving your body time to adapt as you go.

“It was really fun because as we were walking into the water, we just kept looking at each other like ‘It’s not that bad!’

Worden said. “And we just kept going and going. Our goal was to get up to our shoulders..”

She added that despite the cold temperatures, it was her mind that got her out of the water, rather than her body, and Ward agreed.

“I definitely think you want to listen to your body,” Ward said. “Now that I’ve done it a handful of times, I don’t feel the need to get out […] I just know I shouldn’t stay in too long.”

Despite the water temperature, Ward and Worden wear regular bathing suits and not wetsuits, though they do accessorize with neoprene hats, booties and gloves when they want to keep their extremities a bit warmer. At this point, they’re swimming for between three and six minutes a couple times a week, and said it has given them something to be excited about this winter.

“I was really dreading the winter, so I was needing this reset,” Ward said. “I needed something to disrupt this thought process about how terrible winter was going to be, so it’s been about embracing the winter.”

Worden agreed, and said she can’t imagine another winter without cold water swimming.

“It increases our resistance to the uncomfortable,” she said.

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By M a rjor i e Z . O l d s any of us read about the history of labor in school. Steven Calco learned it growing up in a family of laborers. By the time he went to school he knew the stories from his grandparents, father and mother, aunts and uncle, who left their tiny village outside of Sicily to come to the United States to work as laborers.

As the first in Steven’s large family to be born in the U.S., and the first in his family to go to college, his own memories fleshed out his professors’ lectures with the real-life challenges workers in the trenches had to endure. He grew up observing the struggles of workers to make their way out of poverty and to be treated fairly with dignity.

As a research archivist in Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School’s renowned Kheel Center, Steven was thrilled when his predecessor Patrizia Sione showed him research materials about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s embrace of the labor movement.

“Everyone in my family, except me, was born in another country, working as farmers, railroad and construction workers, and garment makers,” he said.

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Jr.’s words: ‘So often we overlook the work and the significance of those who are not in professional jobs, [but] whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity, and it has worth.’ Dr. King was a champion of the labor movement, so intertwined with his work for racial and social justice.”

From the carefully preserved Kheel Center archives, Steven and his colleagues have previously prepared exhibits on the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1199, with whom Dr. King proudly identified himself as an honorary fellow. He described them as the “Authentic conscience of the Labor Movement.”

This spring, Steven Calco and Eric Acree, director of the Africana Library and curator of Africana Collections at the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell will highlight Dr. King’s monumental work with health and hospital workers (SEIU). “Dr. King was a champion of the labor movement, which he viewed as crucial to racial and social justice.”

In 1959, Dr. King helped organize a

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h, February in Ithaca, you unpolished, neglected gem!

With one hand frozen into a claw the shape of an ice-scraper handle and Ithaca’s infrastructure turned into an enormous, pothole-studded salt lick, it’s tempting around here to think of February as the longest nine weeks of the year.

Yet, it’s quietly packed with some of the best holidays. Without even realizing it, we’re smack dab in the middle of the most festive time of the year.

Sure, it’s been below freezing since before the inauguration, but we’re not the only people who have winter, and I have to say that some others seem to handle it with more grace. The Norwegians have a saying: “There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.” (They also say, “shameful deeds deserve harsh revenge,” which has nothing to do with weather, but as proverbs go, it’s undeniably awesome.) The clothing thing is an excellent point. Ever since they got that Viking thing out of their systems, the Norwegians strike me to be eminently sensible people. Dress for conditions.

Don’t wear crocs in snow. Put on a hat.

Mark Twain famously said of the weather, “if you want it to be sunny and warm all the time, move to freakin’ San Diego.” I’m paraphrasing, but he’s right.

Secretly, Ithacans like the dead of winter. We’re a little smug about enduring it. Admit it, it’s kind of cozy inside. A person can lounge around in socks and a bathrobe all weekend without feeling the slightest guilt. You can’t do that in southern California. They’ll arrest you for Criminal Immobility. And let’s face it, so far the year 2021 has called for the dim light of the indoors, with an arctic wind howling outside. Chirping birds and sunshine would be an unseemly backdrop

for all that’s been going on.

Oh, yes, the holidays! Who can forget the giddy adventures of Groundhog Day? And that Super Bowl? Never has there been so much hoopla over the opportunity to watch an aging cyborg terrorize a defenseless young man before a largely cardboard audience. Mid-February is absolutely loaded: chili cook-offs, Lincoln’s Birthday, Valentine’s Day, Mardi Gras. February has officially become impeachment season. Personally, I love the traditional Running of the Republican Senators. I watch it wearing Mardi Gras beads and a stovepipe hat festooned with Valentine candy hearts, to get into the festive spirit.

Of course, this is also the time of the Ithaca Loves Teachers’ Money Festival, which lasts to the end of the month this year. Already a place renowned the world over for having a high concentration of know-it-alls, Ithaca has taken to inviting thousands more to visit every February recess in the form of state public school teachers. I am one, and let me tell you, this is very dangerous. You’ll need to be very careful about what you say on and around the Commons lest you be corrected or assigned a detention. We all remember last year’s misunderstanding when several visitors were sent to Principal Myrick’s office for inappropriate language. Be welcoming to these folks.

If you see someone clutching one of those badges, a reliable conversational icebreaker is to politely insist that it’s easier to teach during a pandemic.

Anyway, for those of us who stay through the winter, February’s not all road spray and gray snow. It’s the second holiday season. Enjoy.

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strike by 3,000 health care workers from seven NYC hospitals. While the 46-day strike did not result in union recognition, the alliance of civil rights and labor rights proved to be an essential foundation for the workers. The strikers did achieve a wage increase, establishment of a 40-hour work week with overtime pay and a griev-

28, 1963. Those of us whose parents took us to hear Dr. King know that the speech was part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Dr. King, a giant in the civil rights movement, spoke out often and powerfully about the inextricable bond between workers’ rights and civil rights until his assassination on April 4, 1968 in Memphis.

Eric Acree’s mother, a member of Local 1199, Dr. King’s “favorite union,” is memorialized in the Kheel archives

Photo caption: Steven Calco and Eric Acree looking at MLK artificats at the Kheel Center. (Photo: Provided)

ance mechanism. Notably, Dr. King’s 1959 strike literature was printed in English and in Spanish.

Dr. King’s ardent support of frontline hospital workers did result in union recognition for hospital workers in NYC in 1962, following a 56-day strike. And the bond of economic and racial justice movements was cemented.

Dr. King’s towering presence at rallies and gatherings during this era is preserved in the Kheel Center, with dozens of photographs, speeches, recordings, flyers, letters ands interviews. The Center also has an LP of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug.

that will be on display. A photo of Eric was discovered in one of the Local 1199 newsletters from 1971.

For more information about this upcoming exhibit, so relevant to the plight of our hospital workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, so relevant more than 50 years after Dr. King’s death, see: https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/ kheel/ And stay tuned for a companion column highlighting Coretta Scott King’s crucial yet little known role in her family’s advocacy for racial and economic justice.

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The women also pointed out that doing this together has given them a sense of community that they’ve been missing since working at home during the pandemic.

“It was really nice to feel connected with Sara,” Ward said. “And you feel less afraid when you’re with somebody, even if it is socially distant.”

Ward and Worden noted that they are not experts, and that if you have any interest in cold water swimming, you should do some research, talk to your doctor and to bring a buddy with you when you go for safety.

If you want to learn more about cold water swimming, Hospicare has two events coming up about the topic. One is a book discussion on March 4 about the book “Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times” by Katherine May, in which May herself explores cold water swimming. The other is Swimming with Icebergs: An Evening with Jaimie Monahan on March 18, a discussion with a Cornell alum who has gone ice swimming on all seven continents. Visit https:// www.hospicare.org/events/ for more information.

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he oppressively high property taxes crushed my single mother financially until 3 years of backtaxes accumulated and we had no choice but to sell or face tax foreclosure. My last years in high school and those during my first two jobs were filled with anxiety and uncertainty as I and my family fought to stave off foreclosure. The struggle of affordable housing in Ithaca is real and palatable to me and my family. It is a struggle that we lost.

A 2016 Ithaca Voice article written by Jolene Almendarez records Ithaca as being "the eighth most expensive city to raise a family in the United States", ahead of San Francisco. Cited is the Economic Policy Institutes Family Budget Calculator. In 2016, the cost for a two-parent household with two children to live in the City of Ithaca was $92,603. $111,990 is the cost today, a mere five years later.

As I wrote in the January 13th issue of the Ithaca Times: "Despite a bevy of acts taken by Ithaca politicians, including mandates on affordable housing, an affordable housing fund, legislative bodies taking an active role in the planning, layout and development of new construction, and zoning that favors high density development, the cost of living continues to increase in what is already one of the least affordable places to live nationwide."

Like three cup shuff le, our local and state politicians move wealth from one place to the other, meant to give the appearance that affordable housing is being created. Is it because of taxpayer subsidy and smorgasbord bureaucracy that affordable housing exists, anywhere?

Or, like the three cup parlor trick, is it possible that the politician's illusion erects barriers to the common layperson? Is it plausible that the existence of Ithaca's exceptional bureaucracy, high taxes, and the lack of affordable housing reliably go hand in hand, and they play a major role in one another?

The Mayor’s empty platitudes made no difference to my family then, and his "lack of doubt" convinces me no further that they are no more than exactly that: empty platitudes.

-Jason Evans, via Ithaca.com

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of Ithaca and Town of Ithaca boards have ignored the will of the people and passed a slew of regulations on landlords during the past several years. My family used to rent out 11 units to students. Not anymore thanks to those "Residential Rental" regulations! It simply isn't worth the hassle or the violation of our privacy to have government bureaucrats coming into our home every so often with a long checklist of stuff you have to do as a landlord, and ready to impose fines and jail time if you don't comply. Even if you make the duration of your auto-renewing leases 1 millisecond (so that your tenants are free to leave anytime!) the local bureaucrats still try and screw you over. The solution to this problem is more competition between landlords and LOWER property taxes. This is really basic level economics, but the elected officials are just too dumb. Leave if you can and take your business elsewhere unless you have connections and no morals and can secure some kind of special deal (tax break?) with the local government to run your business at a lower cost. But that is totally unfair, creates an unlevel playing field for your competitors, and breeds government corruption.

-Richard Ballantyne, via Ithaca.com

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r. Ballantyne, The rudeness of your comments detracts from any underlying legitimacy about your complaint about high property taxes. As for the City-imposed regulations that you refer to, they may indeed exist, but I've rented to students in downtown Ithaca for the past 17 years and I have yet to experience any of them as problematic. The City building inspectors are highly professional, meticulous in their work, and almost without fail show me how to make my building even safer. I think it quite regrettable that the City does not require landlords to maintain radon monitoring devices in all basement apartments. Radon is the second highest cause of lung cancer in the US and more regulation is urgently needed for this particular problem. Tompkins County is surrounded by the three counties that have the highest radon levels in the state.

I sleep a lot better knowing that I have two radon mitigation systems running 24/7 in my building on N. Aurora St. Best of luck to you.

-John Dennis, via Ithaca.com

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Since the start of the pandemic, women have been disproportionately affected by job loss compared to men as they’re more likely to have unstable jobs and to take on childcare responsibilities.

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As the pandemic gears up to celebrate its first birthday (in the United States, at least), there’s been a lot of change. Businesses have closed and reopened — though some have shuttered forever — and people continue

to work from home while trying to juggle the new normal. Compared to last spring, you could say the job market in Tompkins County has stabilized. Though, in the first week of February 2021, there were still

183 new unemployment claims, up from 140,000 net jobs were lost, all of which be48 during the same week in the year prior, longed to women.

“There are two reasons for this,” Greer for an increase of 281% year-over-year. So yes, better than the nearly 6,000% increase said. “One is that women tend to be in much more precarious jobs, and in this from March, but still not great news.

However, looking only at these surface- recession, employers are cutting the lowlevel numbers ignores the group of people est paid, least secure and least valued powho have been affected the most during the sitions, and those tend to be jobs held by women. So that kind of reflects in their pandemic — women.

(Editor’s note: It also needs to be men- overrepresentation of unemployment due tioned that while women are suffering to general discrimination and disadvantagmore than men, women of color are more es in the workplace. And the other reason likely than white women to lose their jobs, is caring work.”

There are two things that need clarificaand in fact are the group that have been hit the hardest in the workplace throughout tion: “precarious” jobs and caring work. By precarious work, Greer means things like the pandemic.)

“If you look at data like changes in ini- lower-level jobs, part-time jobs and restial claims, you see the number of claims taurant, retail or bar jobs. And caring work is going up much faster for women than refers to the fact that women are often the men,” said Ian Greer, director of Cornell people relied upon to do things like take University’s School of Industrial and Labor care of children or sick or elderly family members.

Relations Ithaca Co-Lab. “So there’s this problem that because Compared to data from a year ago on the New York State Department of La- school’s online, or because daycare’s rebor’s website, men steadily outpaced wom- stricted […] all of this is difficult to comen for unemployment claims in general. bine with work during a pandemic,” he And even now, the statistics of who is fil- said. “The obvious problem is any kind of ing claims are close to even. But the point work where you have to face the public is Greer is making is that while the number very scary and dangerous [right now], so people with carof men filing for uning responsibilities employment weekly tend to avoid those is holding steady, the types of jobs.” number of women is Greer noted increasing, meaning that when you’re they’re soon to oversomeone trying come them in claims to combine childcompletely. care with work, a Greer also noted common way to that state data presmake that work ents its findings of is through a partclassic unemploytime job. ment benefits, but “And those are that women’s claims among the first would likely outjobs to go when weigh men’s if you employers decide looked at the panthey need to lay demic unemployA m y C a n ava n , t h e people off,” he said. ment assistance p r o g r a m d i r e c t o r at t h e Another prob(PUA) claims, rather Wo m e n ’s O p p o u r t u n i t y lem women face is than the traditional C e n t e r ( P h o t o P r ov i d e d) if they recently reunemployment inentered the worksurance. “[PUA is for] people without much of force after some time off after having or an earnings history, or maybe extremely raising children.

“If you’re the last person hired, you’re low earnings, so they don’t qualify for classic unemployment benefits,” he said. “So the first person fired,” Greer said. “So that there’s also that problem, because that’s the affects women’s job security as well.”

Ronnise Way, a mother of two who mantype of jobs [women] disproportionately ages the boutique for the Women’s Opporhave.”

According to the U.S. Department of tunity Center (WOC), said that from what Labor Statistics, in December 2020, 16,000 she’s seen from her friends and the women jobs were created that went to men, while she meets working at the WOC, childcare

has played a big role in setting women back taking whatever job they can to help make ends meet. during the pandemic.

“And those are the jobs that are im“My best friend was a manager at Whole Foods for eight years and had to leave her pacted first,” Canavan said, citing food serjob because she had no babysitter or child- vice jobs, the hospitality industry and barcare. She was forced to quit her job,” Way tending as some of the most common jobs said. “I feel like it’s hard for women. Every- women have been taking — and then losone leans on women, but we’re the ones hit ing.

“Trying to combine caring work with the hardest and who are affected the most.”

She also said she had her own difficul- paid work, it’s really hard,” Greer said. “And ties trying to work from home while her even just in terms of scheduling, it’s hard to two children were home learning virtu- find workarounds […] One problem with ally. And she noted that even if kids are childcare is that it’s available mainly durnow spending at least some time in school, ing the day — well what about women who many times parents are required to physi- are trying to combine working at night at a cally be there to drop them off or pick them restaurant or bar or factory? So if you have caring work to do, and this disproportionup.

“Everyone depends on women the ately falls to women, there are all kinds of most, and now we’re being hit the hardest,” things that can interfere with getting a job she said. “And I feel like not much is being or keeping a job.”

During World War II, Rosie the Riveter done to fix it and now you have to choose: took over as women famously stepped up childcare or work.”

Amy Canavan, the program director at and took over jobs while men went off to the WOC, echoed Way’s statements and fight in the war. It was a time of empowsaid this is exactly what she’s noticed as erment for women who were bolstered by Rosie’s tagline of “We can do it!” And they well.

“Women are dealing with both women’s did do it. But then the war was over, the issues and work, and if you can’t do both, men came home, and women were forced something’s gotta give,” she said. “Unfortu- back into the home.

This regression of nately for women, progress is what Canif you’re given a avan fears. choice between “I think we’re goyour children’s ing to see that again,” well-being and a she said. “We’re going job, your children to see that traditionhave to win.” ally men get the jobs Canavan said first. Only 20% of that even before [high-level executive] the pandemic, positions are cur25% of workrently held by woming single mothen. And those women ers still required are trying to run insome sort of pubdustries and families, lic assistance to and many have had to make ends meet. step back. We’re going “But now, it’s Ian Greer, director of to wind up having to not just the single C o r n e l l U n i v e r s i t y ’s S c h o o l start over.” moms,” she said. of Industrial and Labor According to “Let’s think about R e l at i o n s It h ac a C o - L a b Greer, because womthe stay-at-home ( P h o t o C a s e y M a r t i n) en are more likely to mom. The entire be unemployed, it family is dependent on the spouse working and then they will take longer for their employment levlose their job or have a reduction of hours. els to reach what they were before the panNow mom is trying to get into the work- demic.

“I just saw a prediction that men’s emforce, and what’s her skillset? She’s been home taking care of the children, and now ployment in this country will come back to she’s competing against people who have pre-pandemic levels in 2023, while women’s will come back by 2024,” he said. “So been in the workforce consistently.”

She noted that there’s often a bias against women’s numbers are going to lag those of stay-at-home moms, making it harder to enter the workforce. This leads to them

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SPORTS

The Boiardi Effect:

New Documentary Celebrates a Legacy

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ver the past 17 years, local sports fans have seen many photos of George Boiardi, the Cornell lacrosse player who died on the field after being struck in the chest during a game against Binghamton on March 17, 2004. Of course, George’s image is frozen in time — a handsome and hopeful young man dedicated to his family, his university, his teammates and his adopted community here in Ithaca.

Over the weekend, I watched “The Boiardi Effect,” the new mini-documentary released by the Big Red Sports Network (BRSN), and while all of the people interviewed (including current players) put forth compelling words about George’s impact on the program and their lives, I was especially drawn to the comments made by Ian Rosenberger and Tim Kirchner. Ian and Tim both played with George —they were among those that kneeled, embraced and prayed while emergency medical treatment was being provided on the field that day. They kept praying while their teammate was taken away in an am-

bulance, and no member of that team will ever forget the collective wave of grief that swept over them a couple of hours later when then-head coach Jeff Tambroni was tasked with sharing the news that George did not survive.

Seeing those guys in the film offers a glimpse of what George might look like now. He would be 38 years old, and while we do not know precisely how his career might have unfolded, we can be sure that he would be the type of person described in a BRSN press release promoting the film. In that release, Michael Seitz, BRSN’s CEO, writes, “In our current state of vulnerability, we hope to inspire change makers and do-gooders everywhere by telling a powerful story of leadership born from tragedy.”

Seitz and Jay Klein (who serves as BRSN’ President of Strategy & Operations) were kind enough to speak with me about the mini-documentary (the film is 9 minutes long), and while neither of them George Boiardi leads the Big Red onto the field. (Photo: Cornell Athletics) continued on page 11

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ever met Boiardi, they have nonetheless been made aware of his lasting impact on the lacrosse program. “We are very close to many of the student-athletes,” Seitz offered, “and I was talking to my friend, J.J. Lombardi — who is a current member of the lacrosse team and a guy who helps out with the team’s community connections — and we talked about the 21 Run and it got me thinking how these lessons in leadership are everlasting.”

Seitz went on to say, “We have such a large following of students and studentathletes, and the pandemic has left such a disconnect. People are really missing the vibrancy of athletics, and at such a critical juncture we are grateful to be able to share such a powerful and uplifting tale of influence.”

The 16th annual 21 Run (Boiardi wore #21) was held virtually last November.

Given George had planned to dedicate his life to teaching (and had, just before his passing, interviewed with Teach for America), the 21 Run raises funds for local literacy programs, and the event is just one of the community-wide events launched in his memory.

One of the people interviewed in the film is Connor Buczek, class of 2015, who was an All American at Cornell, a Major League Lacrosse player, and the current Richard M. Moran Head Coach of Men’s Lacrosse at Cornell. While Buczek arrived on campus seven years after Boiardi’s passing, he is well aware of the impact of #21’s legacy. In the film, Buczek says, “He set the standard for all of us. He is a huge part of who we are.” Rosenberger — who grew up with Boiardi and was his roommate and teammate at Cornell — added, “George was always the last guy in the locker room, and he’d see a teammate that was having a bad day and he’d say, ‘Come on. I’ll give you a ride home.’”

Richie Moran, the three-time national championship Hall of Fame coach in whose name the head coaching position is endowed, spoke of a library dedication in Boiardi’s name. Moran watched the documentary and said, “George’s dad played lacrosse at Princeton, he played against my teams, and I’m very pleased that George’s legacy extends beyond athletics and impacts the community.”

Regarding BRSN’s larger mission, Jay Klein said, “With no sports, we have had to get incredibly creative in our efforts to engage our audience.” He added, “Sports are a great way to tell stories, and going forward, we are looking to amplify the voices of underrepresented athletes, like people of color, female athletes and athletes with disabilities.”

men, and the effects of unemployment on your well-being, your income, your ability to progress in your work or career, are really severe. There are scarring effects, there are stigma effects. So yeah, because women are disproportionately affected by unemployment, their employment prospects are also going to be disproportionately harmed.”

Greer said the emotional effects of job loss are a huge issue that people will have to deal with as well.

“The Boiardi Effect” can be viewed on BRSN’s YouTube channel, and the media group is on Instagram at Cornellbrsn.

“Unemployed people blame themselves, and this is part of the scarring and issues with well-being that comes along with unemployment,” he said. “It’s not your fault you’re unemployed, so that’s one thing I wish there was less of. Especially if you’re expecting to combine caring work with your paid work — it’s a competitive labor market and unemployment is higher than it used to be — try not to blame yourself.”

Greer encourages anyone struggling with unemployment to reach out to their local resources, and he specifically cites the WOC as a place for women to seek help.

If you do begin working with the WOC, you can expect a pep talk from Canavan.

“There’s been so much pivoting this year that it’s been like a bad episode of ‘Friends,’ but the reality is that women are creative and determined and strong,” she said.

“Women are used to doing what they have to do to make everything work, and I believe that if we band together and support these women as they come up with creative solutions to pull us out of this, we’re going to be amazed at what we can turn this society into.”

To learn more about the WOC, visit https://www.womensopportunity.org/.

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want explanations and accountability of the statements regarding Dr. Brown, Lily Talcott, Robert Ainslie and Sean Eversley Bradwell’s abuse of power in their positions.”

Student representative Grace Lim read to the board comments from students she had received from a survey sent out that gave students the chance to give the board their criticisms and compliments about all things at Ithaca High School. These com-

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or not there is any truth to the allegations, this board and administration have clearly been engaging in behavior that is problematic, like the refusal to respectfully engage with students who are asking hard questions […] We’re calling out your blind spots, board members. This community needs to feel confident that you are capable of setting aside your friendships to do your job with the integrity and impartiality that our children and community deserve.”

Another speaker, Kelly Evans, also spoke on behalf of an ICSD stakeholder, and addressed concerns that the board was avoiding answering questions about the investigation and was lacking in transparency. At the last meeting, President Rob Ainslie repeatedly said Anjanette’s claims were a personal family matter and outside of the board’s purview, despite the claims directly accusing the superintendent of abuse of power and funds within the school district.

“Watching the events of Dr. Brown’s resignation and then un-resignation has demonstrated how deeply flawed our Board of Education and administration has become,” Evans said. “Instead of taking the opportunity to answer taxpayers’ and students’ questions open and honestly, you have chosen to gaslight, intimidate, and at times, mock us […] You cannot repeat this is a personal matter, it’s not […] We

about Dr. Brown. He has not addressed any of the allegations against him and he is in no state to lead ICSD, especially the students he is supposed to be representing.”

The board did get a chance to respond to speakers, though again, their answers did not provide much in the way of answers.

The board’s vice president Bradwell said “we do not discuss personnel matters in public.” He added that the board had re-

“This community needs to feel confident that you are capable of setting aside your friendships to do your job with the integrity and impartiality that our children and community deserve.”

-Aimee Bacon, reading on behalf of another ICSD stakeholder

ments specifically focused on the situation with the superintendent.

One student stated: “I’m concerned that this situation concerning Dr. Brown isn’t being treated with the seriousness it requires. How am I, as a student, supposed to feel safe and secure and supported at school if the superintendent is abusing his power?”

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sponded to a petition from the state about the matter and that people could reach out to the board clerk to see that response.

The documents also include the process of review of the allegations. The Ithaca Times has filled out a freedom of information law request to obtain these documents.

Board member Eldred Harris said that just because one party involved put this private information into the public didn’t

mean it was actually any of the public’s business.

“The issues that were raised in the allegations and then the subsequent documents, the petition and now the appeal, they cross some of the most intimate and personal and complex privacy issues that you can address, that anybody can address,” Harris said. “Please understand that even if we wanted to respond directly to some of these deeply personal and professional matters, we just can’t […] in the manner you expect us to.”

Eventually student representative Adam Saar spoke up to clarify that they are not asking for personal information.

“What we’re asking for is not exposing private or personal details or anything like that,” he said. “We’re asking the board to clarify for the community what the board has done to reach the conclusion that these allegations can be dismissed. As in, the process by which the matter was investigated by the board, and who were the people doing the investigating? We’re not asking for any personal or private details that would infringe on people’s privacy, we’re just asking for a little transparency into the process.”

Bradswell responded to Saar, and said that there are many different communities in Ithaca and that the ones he knows aren’t asking that question. He then reiterated that the answer to Saar’s question is in the aforementioned documents and that they won’t be speaking more on it.

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Ithaca Times: I don’t think we’ve been in touch since the quarantine started last year.

How are you and how has it been shifting Cornell Cinema into “virtual” mode?

Mary Fessenden: I’m fine, thanks for asking. It’s amazing to think that it’s going on a year since I packed up my office and started working from home after we canceled the remainder of our spring ’20 season on March 13, 2020. It wasn’t until June, though, that the

decision to go virtual was made, but we knew we needed to come up with a different model than what most theaters were doing with virtual cinema, as we didn’t want to charge students and other patrons the going rate of $12 per ticket.

We were tempted to try and maintain some version of the All-Access Pass that we had just introduced in the fall of 2019, but we envisioned lots of complications. After a close look at our budget, we decided we could afford to offer our virtual screenings for free given the cost savings we’d realize by not presenting in-person screenings and live events, and not presenting as many titles. We also had the benefit of our new financial support from the College of Arts and Sciences and generous donor funding. Once the decision was made to go virtual and to offer shows for free, we had to figure out how to do it, particularly the free part, given the limits on the number of views we could afford to give away. Lucky for me, I have a great staff with a nice complement of

skills among them, so little by little, we figured it out. But it’s been a journey!

From a programming point of view, I was happy when I realized that there was enough varied content available virtually that we could continue to offer our patrons the same range of work they’re accustomed to, from classics to contemporary films, with recent Hollywood being the only exception. After previewing as much work as possible, I put together a number of thematic series, along with some virtual faculty introductions and “visiting” filmmakers, just like in pre-pandemic times!

When we launched the fall season, we really didn’t know how it would be received given all the streaming services and other content out there, so we were really pleased with the response. By the end of the semester, we had “sold-out” most of the 30-some titles we offered.

I think people appreciate having a manageable, curated selection to choose from, and the continued on page 14

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fact that the films are free, of course, helps!

Patrons who responded to our audience survey at the end of the fall expressed a lot of gratitude for the program and indicated that the weekly offerings provided a boost during the pandemic. I’m guessing our spring season will be welcomed even more given heightened isolation during the winter months!

IT: There’s usually at least one series focused on the catalog of one filmmaker and this year, it’s the great Wong KarWai. MF: Yes, we’re so thrilled to be able to offer this series of early films by Wong Kar-Wai (WKW), all recently restored.

The film that introduced WKW to American audiences, “Chungking Express,” has already shown, but we have six more titles on deck, including perhaps his most gorgeous, “In the Mood for Love,” available for one week starting Feb. 19. Given that we start taking reservations a week in advance of a film’s first play date, it’s possible we’ll be sold out by the time this article runs, but readers should check our website. I think it’s very likely we’ll bring at least some of the films back when we reopen for in-person shows as they’re so beautiful to see on the big screen.

IT: Cornell Cinema always has a lot of films making their debut in Ithaca. Can you spotlight some of them?

MF: As I’m sure you know, film festivals went virtual in response to the pandemic, so I was able to see a lot of interesting work by “attending” some screenings at festivals like Switzerland’s Visions du Réel, the New York Film Festival and DOC NYC, where I found some of the titles for our spring line-up, including “Acasa, My Home,” a documentary about a large family living in the wilderness just outside of Bucharest that city planners want to turn into an urban park. The film documents the family’s life and the upheaval caused when they’re forced to relocate, and features great camerawork that received a Special Jury Award for Cinematography in the World Cinema Documentary category at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. It’s screening this weekend, and we may still have some views left! “My Mexican Bretzel” won the Found Footage Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and it’s composed entirely of home movie footage shot by a wealthy couple traveling the world in the mid 20th century. The New York Film Festival described it as being a “cinematic sleight of hand,” and I think that’s a great way to describe an unusual film that I highly recommend. It’ll be on offer from Feb. 26 – March 4 (reservations open Feb. 19). I saw “The Vasulka Effect,” about video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka, and “Crutch,” about breakdancer and performer Bill “Crutch” Shannon, as part of DOC NYC, and I programmed both of them as part of our “Art in Motion” series. Both are coming up in March. I saw the Brazilian comedy/drama “Three Summers,” starring the wonderful actress Regina Casé (“The Second Moth-

er”), at the Toronto Film Festival in 2019, pre-pandemic, but it just opened virtually at the end of last year. It’s a great story inspired by the real-life corruption investigation, Operation Car Wash, that shook Brazil in 2014. It opens on March 12.

IT: Thanks to Zoom and Skype, filmmaker Q and As are still a big part of the program. Who’s coming to visit this semester?

MF: Yes, we’re hosting a few Zoom webinars with filmmakers including John Gianvito, whose latest film, "Her Socialist Smile,” was selected for the prestigious New York Film Festival and was awarded the Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Douglas Edwards Experimental/ Independent Film/Video Award. It was additionally cited by a number of other critics as one of the best films of 2020.

The film examines Helen Keller’s work advocating for progressive causes, something she did her entire adult life, which is not widely known. Given the lack of images and audio of Keller, John took a more experimental approach to presenting this history, which does include a fair amount of text from her speeches, but it melds perfectly with the images that accompany it. I highly recommend the film and anticipate a great discussion with John about his process in making the film, that will be available for viewing from March 5–11. John will join us for a conversation on March 10. Later in the semester we’re teaming up with the Jewish Studies Program to host documentary filmmaker Aviva Kempner in conjunction with her film “The Spy Behind Home Plate” about Jewish baseball player Moe Berg, who spied on the Nazi’s atomic bomb program during WWII. Elliot Shapiro is teaching the film in his course Jewish Film and Filmmakers: Hollywood and Beyond, and he’ll moderate the discussion with Aviva on April 29.

IT: What are you most looking forward to?

MF: We’re very happy to be part of a great project organized by the Finger Lakes Film Trail: a five-film series with associated virtual introductions and panel discussions, titled “Race Films/Race Matters.” I highly recommend visiting the website for the series at https://www. fingerlakesfilmtrail.org/, where links to all five films can be found along with background on them and the panelists who will be discussing them. We’ll be hosting a Zoom webinar on Thursday, February 25 at 7:15pm to discuss the film “The Scar of Shame,” a silent melodrama made in 1927 that deals with caste and class divisions among Black Americans. We’ll be joined by panelists Samantha Sheppard, assistant professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Cornell; Ken Fox, director of library and archives at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY; and Barbara Lupack, a film scholar who has written and lectured on race films.

I’m also looking forward to seeing for the first time or revisiting some of the restored classic titles we’ll be offering, including “Shiraz: A Romance of India,” a spectacular silent film that tells the story behind the creation of the Taj Mahal;

Seth Soulstein as Bobby in “Hotel Good Luck”

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Life and death

phone conversations as well as his father’s and mother’s own musings. But his selfconcern is so great that he doesn’t actually seem to understand others. Still, as an avatar for ideas, he’s fine.

Bobby relates the “ridiculous coincidences” of his life to us directly, complete with fading family slides projected on a screen. His story intercuts with scenes of his exchanges with Larry, played by composer and double bassist Desmond Bratton (whose somber tones provide the backdrop for much of the action.)

Bobby tells Larry, and us, about his dream of dreaming, and then dreaming of waking from a nightmare, and thirsty, going into the kitchen to find the refrigerator unplugged, and opening its door to be blinded by a light. Something is calling him, so he steps into the fridge, finds himself in a hotel room facing the sea, whence he steps out to….

And this dream of dreaming is repeated several times, as again and again Bobby discovers, at the seashore, the people he’s lost to death, including parents, Lily, and Larry –– not to mention the decrepit Miller –– once more alive and intact.

It’s poignant, wrenching, inevitable, and perhaps, after a while, just too predictable: the rep-with-variation dream-tale begins to feel like an endless loop. Bobby himself is frustrated as he deals with the notion of “dimensional simultaneity” that Larry –– supposedly both psychoanalyst and physicist –– insists upon. There are, he argues, parallel universes, all real, and Bobby’s task is to chase down the rabbit

hole of unreal reality, mourning the everdead and seeking the ever-living.

Larry himself is also a seeker, mirroring Bobby’s fixation with his own about his two jackets identifying his two professions, and trying to resolve the endless burning he feels inside him –– until he spontaneously combusts.

In Ricaño’s imaginary world, the mundane (shutters and bicycles) coexists with the fantastical (penned letters magically appearing, a wilted flower replacing someone’s heart), just as in dreams.

Bobby’s search for safety and meaning provides interesting moments but also an overly drawn-out reunion burial scene and rather thin insight (“death is nothing but an illusion of our own making”).

Nonetheless, when Bobby, back at his turntable, plays Dylan’s “Not Dark Yet,” we connect.

Cherry Arts “Hotel Good Luck,” by Alejandro Ricaño, directed by Samuel Buggeln. Produced by The Cherry Arts and streaming through Sat. Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets at www.thecherry.org/tickets/.

Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College

Cherry Arts show explores parallel universes, the ever-dead and the ever-living

By Barbara Ad am s

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hrough pandemic news, death has been at the forefront of our national consciousness for a year now. For Bobby, the protagonist of “Hotel Good Luck,” death’s an obsession –– he approaches each Nov. 6 with dread, as over time, he lost each of his four grandparents on that date. Eventually he left home, trying to escape the inevitable, and when he returned a year later, it’s to discover his aged family dog, Miller, struck dead at the side of the road.

That’s the opening premise of Mexican playwright Alejandro Ricaño’s absurdist philosophical expedition, currently in its English premiere (translation by Jacqueline Bixler).

Artistic Director Sam Buggeln, who directs the show (a collaboration with NYC’s New Ohio Theatre), foregrounds the work of international playwrights, and Ricaño, who at 37 has written more than 20 plays, deserves to be better known here.

This is Cherry Arts’ second livestreaming show this season, produced onstage at Ithaca’s State Theatre. The action is well filmed by Jules Holynski, designed

by Noah Elman and edited by Darcy Rose, with suggestive sounds by Don Tindall

–– online theater today requiring all the complex coordination of cinema production.

The setting, with its random attic furniture and backstage aura, is darkly cavernous and moody, effectively lit by Christopher Brusberg.

Bobby is played by Seth Soulstein, a Cherry regular and doctoral candidate in performing and media arts at Cornell.

With his tweed cap, horn-rimmed glasses and intense delivery, Bobby looks like a guy who lives in his mind a lot. And his life seems pretty insular: he’s a late-night DJ, but his radio show has only four listeners –– his parents, girlfriend, and best friend Larry.

He’s also fairly self-focused: he left home for a year without farewell and now has simply walked back into everyone’s lives. This unlikely behavior suggests that Bobby is more literary device than individualized character –– his dreams narrated to us (and Larry) are a dramatic pretext for exploring the nature of living while conceding the inevitability of death.

Soulstein’s acting is engaging, as his Bobby worries and perseverates, but the guy himself isn’t terribly sympathetic.

Yes, he enacts his girl Lily’s part in their

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“Red Toaster on the Radiator”

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Charm and vitality

Self-taught artist debuts at Corners Gallery

By Ar thur W hit m an These remain strange, constrained times for local gallery-goers, with few options for public viewing. Over in Cayuga Heights, big changes have been afoot at Corners Gallery, a pillar of the local visual arts scene. Rebranded last November as Corners Gallery & the living room, the business has added a design shop to its framing operation and program of formal exhibitions. Working with Rachel Philipson, a local photographer and graphic designer, owner Ariel Bullion Ecklund — herself an ambitious ceramic artist — clearly has as much as ever on her plate.

It’s a busy operation, and it remains to be seen how things shake out for those of us interested in dedicated art shows.

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much the work of a beginning, self-taught artist: uneven and sometimes clumsy.

And yet, her best pieces here have a real vitality and charm that portends well for her development. This is her first show of paintings at Corners and, to the best of my knowledge, in town.

Hung in two Salon-style groupings toward the front of the gallery, Dickinson’s object-subjects range from the expected fruit and vessels to more quirky items. It is evidence of a domestic inwardness common to writers and painters alike. Often painted on a recurring bright red fabric — against a darker, crimson background — the effect is seemingly direct and unpretentious.

The perfect square format appears to be an auspicious one for Dickinson.

“Red Toaster on the Radiator,” the show’s standout piece, is a marvel of concision and focus. The toaster occupies nearly the

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exact center. Framed in black, the rounded red rectangle seems to pulse and glow like an old-fashioned television screen. Like a geometric abstraction by Josef Albers or Piet Mondrian, horizontal and vertical bands define a close-cropped, flat architectural space. Black-and-white, grays, and yellows create a kind of austere visual music that indicates willingness to depart from quotidian description. Only the beige columns of the radiator anchor us in three-dimensional space.

A slightly larger square, “Broccoli and Onion on the Red Scarf,” is less daring but still striking. Against space-filling bands of crimson and red, the two vegetables take on the quality of dramatis personae. They lean, seemingly, away from each other: stage right and stage left, respectively.

The brainy lobes of the broccoli and the smooth tawny globe of the onion have been painted in rich, emphatic brushstrokes that contrast with a thinner, more amorphous background.

Dickinson is at her best here mostly in depicting simple, symmetrical forms from a head-on, frontal perspective — often against flattened, banded backdrops. The artist, unsurprisingly, is less confident in portraying more complex shapes and dimensional spaces.

The intricate mechanical forms of “Binoculars on the Red Scarf ” and “Eggbeater on the Red Scarf ” lack the definition and

detail that would give them a convincing realism or presence. Likewise, “Arrow Asleep on the Day Bed,” which portrays the artist’s dog (or so one presumes) resting in a corner space, seen from an odd angle. Only the bursts of bright color and rhythm of vertical and angled stripes seem to save it from a muddle.

Still life and painterly realism can be easy to take for granted. Preferred modes for beginners and “Sunday painters,” they lack the prestige and glamour of other manners common to modern and contemporary art. It’s a prejudice that has been evident at Corners, despite Ecklund’s otherwise fairly catholic taste. It is encouraging that Dickinson cites the work of mid-century realist Fairfield Porter as a model. Porter, who raised scenes of ordinary middle class life into great exaltation, remains an important keystone.

In addition to Dickinson’s panels and “the living room” shop, Corners is showing some work from last fall’s two-woman exhibition “Freedom in Constraint.” Featuring richly textural abstractions by local painters Domenica Brockman and Ileen Kaplan, the show is worth revisiting in its abbreviated presentation.

Virtual Concerts/Recitals Symphoria Masterworks: Moody Mozart | 7:30 PM, 2/20 Saturday | Virtual concert, Virtual, Virtual | Tchaikovskyís Mozart-inspired Variations on a Rococo Theme is featured in this performance, along with Mozartís Great G minor Symphony No. 40. | Family Livestream $35, Individual Livestream $20 Cornell (Virtual) Concert Series: Regina Carter | 7:00 PM, 2/24 Wednesday | For GRAMMY-nominated artist Regina Carter, the violin isnít simply an improvisational vehicle; itís a passport to unexpected realms.†This episode will premiere on CornellConcertSeries.com, where it will remain viewable for 14 days. You will not need an account to view the video during this time.†

Stage Hotel Good Luck | 7:30 PM, 2/18 Thursday | Additional performances on 2/13, 2/18, 2/19 & 2/20. The moving and dizzying story of Bobby, a latenight radio DJ who is confronted with an upsetting event which plunges him into a rabbit hole of parallel universes in an attempt to regain what he has lost.www.thecherry.org | $15-$45 Life’s A Joke: Find the Funny, a Joke Writing Workshop | 6:30 PM, 2/23 Tuesday | Kenneth McLaurin will lead a free Zoom workshop that will explore creating comedy and performing during a pandemic.†Register at the Spring Writes Website Events page.

Art “Light, Color, Shadow” | 12:00 PM, 2/18 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery Ithaca, 120 W. State Street, Ithaca | Features seven Ithaca artists from the State of the Art Gallery: Mary Ann Bowman, Stan Bowman, Ed Brothers, Eva Capobianco, Jane Dennis, Patricia Hunsinger, and Connie Zehr. They will show paintings, photographs, mixed media and sculpture.† “Topography of Light,” by Brian Keeler | 11:00 AM, 2/19 Friday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | Fridays thru Sundays until 2/28/21.

Free Online Quilting Traditions Workshop | 12:00 PM, 2/22 Monday | TCPL patrons are invited to explore the traditions of African-American quilting, hear from local quilter Heather Stewart, and learn how to draw out quilt squares in traditional patterns.

This is part of Cornellís yearlong celebration of Toni Morrison. Register to receive the Zoom link for participation at https://spaces.library.cornell.edu/ event/7463617.

Letís Draw Together (Virtual Event) | 12:00 PM, 2/23 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Makerspace Librarian Cady will lead the group in fun drawing exercises, games, and activities. Teens and adults at all levels of expertise and ability are welcome. Attendees will need simple art supplies.

Patrons can register at†https://www. tcpl.org/events/lets-draw-togethervirtual-art-meet-1†to receive updates and the Zoom meeting link.† Virtual Cinemapolis: Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am | All Day 2/17 Wednesday | Thru 2/20. Cinemapolis is proud to partner with the celebration of the life of Toni Morrison by offering this film FREE. Simply click the ìWATCH AT HOMEî button, and enter the code ìMorrisonat90î when prompted.

Cornell Virtual Cinema: Acasa, My Home | All Day 2/19 Friday | Thru 2/22. Please note shorter window of availability. A compelling tale of an impoverished family living in the wilderness on the fringes of society in Romania, fighting for acceptance and their own version of freedom.†http:// cinema.cornell.edu/ Cornell Virtual Cinema: In the Mood for Love | All Day 2/19 Friday | Thru 2/25. Two neighbors wrestle with irresistible desire for one another upon learning of their spouses’ affair in a romantic and melancholic film set in 1960s Hong Kong.†http://cinema. cornell.edu/ Cornell Virtual Cinema: The Freshmen | All Day 2/19 Friday | Thru 2/25. The Freshmen follows Antoine, who is about to start his first year of medical school... for the third time.

Meanwhile, Benjamin, fresh out of high school, will have his first stab at it. cinema.cornell.edu/ Cornell Virtual Cinema: The Scar of Shame | All Day 2/19 Friday | Thru 2/25. An educated, upscale black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her abusive stepfather. Once he “saves” her, however, he won’t let his new wife meet his mother, as he knows she won’t approve, a decision that leads to a downward spiral of events in this silent melodrama. Screening as part of the Finger Lakes Film Trail series Race Films/Race Matters.

Virtual Cinemapolis: 17 Blocks | All Day 2/19 Friday | Spanning 20 years, this story illuminates a national, ongoing crisis through one familyís raw, stirring and deeply personal saga. Made from more than 1,000 hours of footage, it all starts on the street where they lived in 1999, 17 blocks behind the U.S. Capitol. | 3 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Climate of the Hunter | All Day 2/19 Friday | Two sisters vie for the affections of a man who may or may not be a vampire.

When the three come together for dinner it has all the makings of a lovely meal filled with desire, memoriesÖand blood.†Presented in collaboration with†Ithaca Fantastik. | 3 day rental for $8 Virtual Cinemapolis: Food Club | All Day 2/19 Friday | Three friends, all in the autumn of their lives and having troubles of their own, travel to southern Italy on a cooking class trip.

The journey doesnít turn out at all as expected, however, the three women discover that they have far more to offer than they had ever dreamed. | 3 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Test Pattern | All Day 2/19 Friday | Test Pattern follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit. | 3 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: True Mothers | All Day 2/19 Friday | After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The familyís orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of a young woman claiming to be Asatoís biological mother, demanding his return. | 3 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: 76 Days | All Day 2/20 Saturday | On January 23rd, 2020, China locked down Wuhan, a city of 11 million, to combat the emerging COVID-19 outbreak. Set deep inside the frontlines of the crisis in four hospitals, 76 DAYS tells indelible human stories at the center of this pandemic. | 3 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Blizzard of Souls | All Day 2/20 Saturday | The horrors and brutality of WWI, as seen through the eyes of an innocent 17-year-old farm-boy turned soldier.

Though he is underage, and his dad, a former marksman, is overage for the

army, they are both conscripted into one of Latviaís first national battalions.† | 3 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Lapsis | All Day 2/20 Saturday | A darkly comic and timely look at the gig economy and the failed utopian promises of big tech. Presented in collaboration with Ithaca Fantastik | 3 day rental for $8 Virtual Cinemapolis: Mayor | All Day 2/20 Saturday | A real-life political saga following Musa Hadid, the Christian mayor of Ramallah, during his second term in office. His immediate goals: repave the sidewalks, attract more tourism, and plan the cityís Christmas celebrations. His ultimate mission: to end the occupation of Palestine. | 3 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Our Right to Gaze: Black Film Identities | All Day 2/20 Saturday | In this collection of six shorts, filmmakers gaze at themselves and their world, attempting to make sense of what they see reflected back. | 3 day rental available for $12 Virtual Cinemapolis: Some Kind of Heaven | All Day 2/20 Saturday | First-time feature director Lance Oppenheim cracks the manicured facade of The Villages, Americaís largest retirement community ñ a massive, self-contained utopia located in Central Florida. | 3 day rental available for $12

Special Events Toni Morrison at 90: Examining Her Powerful and Lasting Influence | 5:00 PM, 2/18 Thursday | On what would have been her 90th birthday, a panel of international scholars will discuss how Morrisonís scholarship and art have impacted writers, critics, and readers, and why her work still feels so fresh and vital today.†www.ecornell.com/keynotes Free Zoom Lecture: Dance with the Bees | 6:00 PM, 2/21 Sunday | In the second lecture of our series exploring the intersections between art and science, Dr. David T. Peck will explore how honey bees dance and communicate about their environment to one another, relaying information that is vital to their survival as a community and family.†www. tburgconservatory.org/ Cross-Cultural Communication: How to Work With Anyone From Anywhere | 1:00 PM, 2/22 Monday | Barbara Mink, a senior lecturer at the Johnson Graduate School of Management,†will discuss how to recognize our own communication styles and why itís important to value methods of communication that differ from our own. Register at†www. ecornell.com/keynotes Odysseys: Ithaca writers on exile, wandering, and searching for home | 7:00 PM, 2/23 Tuesday | Homer’s Odyssey recounts the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, as he seeks to return home after the Trojan War. In four monthly online

readings, pairs of Ithaca-based writers will provide their own take on the theme of odysseys, from the physical to the intellectual to the emotional.

Registration required:https://ithacacityofasylum.com Racism in America: Protest Movements and Civil Disobedience | 7:00 PM, 2/24 Wednesday | Moderated

by Kat Stafford, national investigative reporter for the Associated Press, five faculty experts will address the past and present of the civil disobedience and protest movements that have brought us to this fraught moment in the U.S.†www.ecornell.com/keynotes

Senior Troupe of Lifelong | 2:00 PM, 2/18 Thursday | Virtual meeting is open to all ages for fun improv, and to read the stories from our lives that we create during the week before the class meets.To register call Lifelong at 273-1511 or email info@CloseToHomeProductions.com 2021 Winter Ithaca Farmers Market | 10:30 AM, 2/20 Saturday | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca | To comply

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Crafting Gratitudeî Writing Workshop | 6:00 PM, 2/18 Thursday | The workshop series, led by writer and educator Barbara Regenspan, will focus on the difficulties writers face in conveying joy and gratitude during periods of social and political upheaval. Participants will collectively examine examples of published poetry and prose written during difficult times and compose their own work to share with the group. Register at www.tcpl.org/events/

one of the empty storefronts.

be more spaced out than last year.

Kids

Market will be in the atrium and in Zoom Class: Creating Your Permaculture Paradise | 6:00 PM, 2/23 Tuesday | Join CCE Tompkins for a primer on how to get started to create your home permaculture paradise.

We’ll cover the basics of the permaculture principals and the foundations of a good home permaculture design. ccetompkins.org/events | Sliding Virtual ESL Talk Time | 3:45 PM,

Tommy Plane Postcard Printing | 10:00 AM, 2/20 Saturday | Tompkins Center for History and Culture, 110 N Tioga St., Ithaca | Children will create their own prints and postcards with laser cut blocks using images from the Thomas-Morse Aircraft Corporation archives. This program is intended for kids ages 4-12. Participants must pre-register. Registration is limited to 10 children per session and all participants must wear masks for the entire program.

Ready for Kindergarten: It’s All About Words | 6:30 PM, 2/22 Monday | Six-week fun and family-oriented virtual series on learning ways to incorporate language and literacy into your family’s day. Books and materials provided. Geared for families with children 0-5 years. Families outside Dryden are welcome to join. Link will be provided after sign-up. Contact talktimedryden@gmail.com to get sign-up link.

2/24 Wednesday | The group is open to English learners hoping to improve their conversation skills. Visit tcpl.org for the Zoom link.

Health How to Make a Death Binder: A Gift for Your Loved One | 5:00 PM, 2/18 Thursday | A death binder is a tool to help organize and keep important documents, financial records and personal wishes in one

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place. Preparing a death binder or file can make it much easier for loved ones in the event of oneís death. Hospicare Palliative Care Services will lead this free virtual workshop, which includes time for discussion and Q&A. Register now at https://www.hospicare.org/

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Ithaca Rotary Club Weekly Meeting | 12:15 PM, 2/17 Wednesday | This week’s guest speaker is Angela Ryan, executive director of Matthew House end-of-life comfort care home: ‘Our House - Your Home.’ Visit ithacarotary. com to request a link and invite to attend the meeting.

Virtual ESL Talk Time | 3:45 PM, 2/17 Wednesday | The group is open to English learners hoping to improve their conversation skills. Visit tcpl.org for the Zoom link.

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| 12:00 PM, 2/23 Tuesday | This webinar will identify how labor and management are working together to address some of these issues. By taking a collaborative, problem-solving approach, labor and management can find common ground on vital health concerns.†www.ecornell.com/ keynotes/

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AUTOMOTIVE

Internet: www.ithaca.com Mail: Ithaca Times Classified Dept

PO Box 27 Ithaca NY 14850 In Person: Mon.-Fri. 9am-5pm

109 North Cayuga Street

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425/Education

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Elementary Principal: Southern Cayuga Central School seeks an enthusiastic, proven educational leader for its elementary school of approximately 375 students, preK to grade 6. The successful candidate will be a studentoriented educator with a background that includes both quality teaching and administrative experience and able to develop a collaborative and constructive school culture with a climate of excellence for students, faculty and staff is essential. We are seeking a knowledgeable and inspiring educator, committed to excellence and the belief that all students can succeed. Salary commensurate with relevant experience, $85,000 to $95,000. Please submit SCCS application (www.southerncayuga.org), letter of interest, resume, credentials with copies of certification(s), all academic transcripts, fingerprint clearance and at least three employment references

by March 16, 2021, to Patrick Jensen, Superintendent, Southern Cayuga Schools, 2384 State Route 34B, Aurora, NY 13026. SCCS EOE

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F/T, 12-month, provisional position available 02/22/21 at T-S-T BOCES. Administrative support position responsible for independently supervising and coordinating the fiscal and operating functions of the RSS department, including day-to-day office management and supervision of non-technical staff, budget formulation, fiscal management, and statistical record keeping, etc. Must meet county position qualifications and residency requirement. Apply by 02/19/21 to: www.tompkinscountyny. gov/personnel View job posting: www. tstboces.org TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, Phone (607) 257-1551, Fax: (607) 697-8273, Email: hr@tstboces.org

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EMPLOYMENT PARKS AND EVENT CENTER MANAGER EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: At the present time, there is one full time opening with the Village of Watkins Glen for a PARKS AND EVENT CENTER MANAGER. This is a competitive title; therefore, the person hired will need to take a Civil Service exam at a later date and be reachable on the list to gain permanency in the position. Salary commensurate with experience plus an excellent benefits package. For a complete job description and application, please visit Schuyler County Civil Service @ www.schuylercounty/ us. Interested candidates must submit an original Civil Service Application to Schuyler County Civil Service office, 105 Ninth St., Unit 21, Watkins Glen, NY 14891. Applications can be submitted via mail OR drop off in the mailbox outside the County building in an envelope clearly marked “Civil Service”.

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