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IC3’s 16th Annual Silent Auction Benefiting the Ithaca Community Childcare Center Scholarship Fund

Saturday, March 17, 2018 6:30 — 10 P.M.

Emerson Suites Ithaca College

“I know the care and eduction my children received at IC3 will benefit them for a lifetime.

Without the IC3 Scholarship Fund, my children would never have been able to experience such a high quality program.”

-IC3 Parent Special thank you to our primary sponsor, Cayuga Medical Center; to our secondary sponsor, CFCU Community Credit Union; to our tertiary sponsor, McDonald’s; to our supporters, Tompkins Insurance Agencies, T.G. Miller, P.C. Engineering Division, and & T.G. Miller, P.C. Surveying Division and to our media sponsor, Ithaca Times.

And thank you to the following donors for their support.

A Gust of Sun Winery, A Squared Creations, Agava, Agway, All Star Alley & Tavern (Destiny USA), Alphabet Soup ,Applebees, Argos Inn, Auburn Doubledays, B&O Railroad Museum, Ba-Li Cravings, Best Auto Repair, Bethany Woodman, Binghamton Zoo (Ross Park), Boatyard Grill/Ciao!, Bowl-O-Drome, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Butterfly Classroom Basket, Café Dewitt, Cayuga Lake Creamery, Cayuga Lake Wine Trail, Cayuga Landscape, Cayuga Pet Hospital, Caywood Stone Jewelry, Center for The Arts, Homer, Cheesecake Factory, Destiny USA, Cinemapolis, Circus Culture Ithaca, CNY Hot Tubs, Coffee Mania, Colonial Veterinary Hospital, Coltivare, Community School of Music & Arts, Cornell Lab of Ornithology/ Wild Birds Unlimited, Corning Museum of Glass, Country Club of Ithaca, Creative Touch, Daisy Maid, Dave & Busters, Dawn Shoemaker (Lesli’s Mom), Delaware Childrens Museum , Diamonds Limousine Service, Dolche Delight, Eastern Mountain Sports, Emmy’s Organics (Michelle Harrison), Experience the Finger Lakes LLC, Fausel Imagery, Finger Lakes Cider House, Finger Lakes Distilling, Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival, Finger Lakes Running Company, Finger Lakes Soap Company, FLOOF Collage pARTy!, Flower Fashions, Forty Weight Coffee Roasters, Freddies Diner, Fruit Yard Winery, Funny Bone Comedy Club, Gabriel G. Hoff LMT, Giants, Gimme! Coffee, Girl Scout Basket (Sandy Fraleigh), Gola Osteria, Goldfish Classroom Basket, GreenStar , H&H Financial Group, Hampton Inn Ithaca , Handwork, Hangar Theatre, Head Over Heals Gymnastics , Helena Cooper, Hilton Garden Inn Ithaca, Home Green Home, Hopshire Farm & Brewery , If Only Farm Equestrian Center, Island Health & Fitness, Italian Carry Out, Ithaca Ale House, Ithaca Bakery, Ithaca Carshare, Ithaca Coffee Company, Ithaca Community Childcare Center, Ithaca Farmers Market, Ithaca Gateway BBQ, Ithaca Poop Patrol, Ithaca Swim Club, Jane Morgan’s Little House Ltd, Jeffrey Foote Photography, Jillian’s Drawers, JULIA e. DEAN, Just a Taste, Kangaroo Class, Kendal Classroom Basket, Kitchen Theatre Company, Koto Japanese Steakhouse, La Jolie Beauty Bar (formerly Miel), La Tourelle, Lesli Combs (IC3), Lisa’s Dream Salon, Lively Run Goat Dairy , Mackenzie-Childs, Magnolia Massage, Maguire Family of Dealerships, Mahogany Grill, Mama Goose/Mimi’s Attic, ‘Mansour Jewelers, Marmalade Mercantile, Maxi’s Supper Club, McDonald’s, Michaleen’s Florist & Garden Center, Model Citizen Tattoo, Monster Jam, Moore Tree Farm, Moosewood, Morey’s Piers & Beachfront Waterparks Wildwood, MultiFaceted Minerals, Nancy Cheri Arif (Christina’s Mom), National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, Ned’s Pizza, Northeast Pizza /Scale House Brew Pub, One World Market , Oskar Schmidt Massage Therapy, Owl Classroom Basket, Painted Bar Stables, Paleontological Research Institute/ Museum of the Earth, Palm Island Indoor Waterpark, Panda Classroom , Pastimes Antiques, Penguin Classroom Basket, Pete’s Wine & Liquor, Piggery, Pilates Room and Antigravity Studio, Plenty of Posies, Precision Locks/ Ace Security Locksmith, Purity Ice Cream, Rasa Spa, Red Jacket Orchards, Red’s Place, Rose’s Home Dish, Santa’s Workshop, Sarah Clark, Satori Salon & Day Spa, Schooley’s, Sciencenter, Second Wind Farm, Serviente Glass Studios, Sheldrake Point Winery, Shortstop Deli, Significant Elements, Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Sky Zone, Syracuse, Soccer Shots, SPCA, Stacey’s Creative Designs, Sunny Days of Ithaca, Sunset Grill, Taste of Thai Express, The Cat’s Pajamas, The Chanticleer, The Cornell Store, The Farmers’ Museum/Fenimore Art Museum, The Frame Shop, The History Center, The Relaxation Point, The W!ld Center, The Watershed, Therapeutic Massage with Emily Carroll LMT, Three Brothers Wineries and Estates, Trombley Tire & Auto, T-Shirt Express, Tubby Tubes Company, Ultimate Athletics, Viva Taqueria, Waffle Frolic, Water to Wine Tours, Wegmans, Wine and Design, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Delaware, WonderWorks, Destiny USA, YMCA, Zugibe Vineyards

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early a fifth of the way into the 21st Century, most of us take internet and cable access as a given. But, several miles out of Ithaca in the hills of Tompkins County, examples of its exceptions are plenty.

In some places, stable access to broadband or cable is essentially non-existent, forcing residents to either go somewhere that does, like Groton residents do at their library, which offers free access. If there’s no such building nearby, residents may have to purchase more expensive cell phone plans armed with unlimited data (if they can afford it).

Those who fall out of range of cable coverage have even fewer options, forced to pay much higher rates to get personal service or turn to an alternative internet solution.

This has been a persistent problem for Tompkins County, one spanning several decades in some places.

The county’s various municipalities have tried joining forces before, its coalition growing to 15 now, up two more from five years ago. The different municipalities – each with their own agreements with the communications companies – have expired agreements at the same time and have decided to join forces, looking to strengthen their bargaining position through numbers and land space. How effective a strategy that will prove to be is to be seen.

The franchise agreements automatically renew every six months, which means while it keeps coverage in place, it also ensures all parts of the agreements, favorable or unfavorable, stay the same unless the municipality were to initiate renegotiations on its own.

The interests of the municipalities do diverge at a certain point.

There’s certain battles the smaller, less-populated towns have to fight that the City and Town of Ithaca will never have to worry about. The two largest of these battles are pushing back against density requirements set by the New York Public Service Commission, which is currently 20 houses per linear mile (the municipalities would like it dropped to 15), and a minimum road-to-house requirement that currently sits at 150 feet for free extension (municicontinued on page 4

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n regards to defending the freedoms delivered through the Bill of Rights, few amendments in this country have been challenged in a court of law so often as our right to free speech.

Last year, the “land of the free” ranked 43rd in the world in freedom of the press according to the international organization, Reporters Without Borders, a figure that comes at the same time where almost one-quarter of Americans expressed the sentiment that Americans’ freedom of speech went “too far,” according to the most recent “State of the First Amendment Survey,” a document produced by the Newseum.

While the First Amendment has, often successfully, proved the rule of the land for all of us, countless student journalists have faced numerous battles for their right to free speech over the years, prompting organizations like the Student Press Law Center to begin actively lobbying for laws to be

passed to institute protections for student journalists and their rights to free speech. In New York State, that change might come about thanks to Ithaca’s State Senator, Tom O’Mara, and a piece of legislation he has sponsored specifically meant to protect student journalists’ rights to free speech behind school walls.

The legislation, which was cosponsored in the State Assembly by Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, wou ld “extend and protect freedom of speech and the press” in school-sponsored newspapers by allowing for more autonomy of student journalists through giving student journalists more editorial control of their publications at the high school and collegiate level. If passed, the bill would eliminate a decadeslong trend for battles over freedom of the press in schools to be waged case-by-case – setting in clear-cut, legal language what districts can – and cannot – do

T a k e ▶ Dia de Ciencias is happening at GIAC on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Presented

by The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) Cornell Chapter, the group will show students ranging from K-12th grade how fun and engaging an education and career path in STEM fields can be through a number of hands-on activities and other fun, engaging opportunities.

Andrew Alexander, an IHS alum and former stafferr at The Tattler

in regards to students’ rights to publish.

At least, it will with a little tweaking, according to one local attorney well-seasoned in First Amendment law.

Few in Ithaca have performed more pro bono work over a single law than Ray Schlather, a wellknown local attorney. Schlather has had an outsized presence in some of the stranger cases in Ithaca history, from defending the free speech of dancers at a local strip club who were censored for obscenity to defending the host of a public access show called “Pirate T.V.,” which faced shutdown from the administration of Mayor Alan Cohen before the law – and a litigator for Playboy – came in to assist. Schlather has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in free legal help to residents of Tompkins County in an area of the justice system where law is not just defended; it’s built.

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▶ Check out the African Arts Festival which still has two dates left since king off in mid-February. Held at the library, the series offers a whole number of various events to celebrate African culture and stoke conversations around the continent’s contributions to world culture. O n view for the duration of the festival will be the art exhibit “I Am African” by Hope Alridge and participants.

▶ One of this writer’s favorite movies will be screening free at the State Theater Friday night at 7 p.m.

Searching for Sugar Man is about Sixto Rodriguez, a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. It’s a really nice film – go see it.

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PHOTOGRAPHER What Is... The Quiz Show Jeoparody?

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What new business do you want to see move into the new City Centre Development?

“Dinosaur BBQ!” ­— Christina King

“A new big coffee shop!” ­—Abby Schnellinger

“A hip new music instrument and instrument accessories store.” ­—Adam Abelson

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his game show is a onenight event, focused on Ithaca, New York and cleverly one letter away from risking a copyright infringement violation.

“What is Ithaca in Jeoparody?”

If that were an actual question, the answer would be correct, for which the contestant would collect a handsome sum of money.

Ithaca in Jeoparody will be a Jeopardy! Style game, but only limited to questions about the 10 square miles surrounded by reality. The one-time event is the brainchild of Tom Stern, who along with a committee of people has spent the last several weeks developing the game and recruiting participants.

The game will feature three prominent Ithaca figures: Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, Ithaca City School District Superintendent Louvelle Brown and graphic artist Mickie Quinn locked in “a battle of wits about all things Ithaca.”

Brett Bossard of Cinemapolis will be playing the host’s role.

The event will broadcast live from the Pegasys Studio at 7 p.m. on April 2, in front of a live studio audience, serving as the grand finale of sorts to the Pegasys studio open house, marking a celebration of Pegasys’s new upgraded television studio. Prior to the kick-off of the game, doors will open at 5:00 p.m. and attendants will be able to tour the new studio, with tutorials available from Pegasys employees

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“I’m from out of town, and it doesn’t look like you guys need another restaurant, how about a new big book store?” ­— Christopher Mcgee

“Popeyes Chicken!” ­—Mieshon Walker and Elvis Okumu

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palities would like it increased to 200 feet).

Densit y requirements w ill mostly never affect Ithaca, so the city and town’s main issues are content of the channels their residents reliably receive. But that’s a significant concern for places like Dryden or Danby, where population is far less dense and infill development is far less of a priority, making maneuvering to achieve affordable and quality access to internet and cable for residents a much greater challenge. Regardless, among the negotiators, there’s still a feeling that operating as a contingent is the best path forward.

“We believe that a well-connected county, including its rural areas, is good for everyone,” City of Ithaca Attorney Ari Lavine said,

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about creating and self-producing a television show at Pegasys, as well as video editing tips. Anyone who attends is invited to stick around or come back for the liveviewing of Ithaca in Jeoparody at 7 p.m.

Stern said the idea was born out of a desire to celebrate Pegasys finally emerging from its years of upgrades, coming out the other end with a fully digital operation and high-definition cameras on the more significant side, along with subtler enhancements like fresh coats of paint.

“The idea is that it’s a Jeopardy-style game, but just with Ithaca questions,” Stern said. “It’s certainly an iconic game, everybody recognizes it, and part of the Pegasys mission is local programming, we thought ‘Why not create a game that’s Ithaca-based, but everyone’s familiar with, and we can get the most renowned contestants we can?’”

The game will include at least five topics (“Ithaca is Gorges,” “Gorgeous It haca,” “Spor ts,” “Who’s the Mayor,” and “Name that Developer”) plus a second round of questions as well, much like the normal game format.

Even though the committee had to come up with a slew of suitable questions and answers for its contestants, Stern said the subject made the question development phase much easier.

“Once I started thinking about what’s kind of interesting and what’s unique and what’s quirky about our little town here, they all came pretty quick,” Stern said.

Pegasys Access Coordinator Lauren Stefanelli has also been

involved with the committee led

by Stern to help grow the game idea (though she said Stern has been about five steps ahead of the rest of the group throughout the process). She’s happy for the opportunity to unveil their new equipment and look with some fanfare, even though it’s already being used now. Though these upgrades took a long time to fully implement, they helped Pegasys’ studio equipment pull closer to other public access channels in the area that were already recording in high-definition like ICTV, for example.

“We’ve been on a three-year equipment and facility upgrade program that we just completed, so we wanted to welcome people to the studio to show it off,” Stefanelli said. “The equipment has been all modernized and made to match [...] We think the place looks modern and nice and will be useful to people. We want people to see it.”

The event not only allows Stefanelli to reach those who attend, but also anyone who tunes in to the locally available channel 13.

The production is different than what they are used to, with a live

noting that something that benefits even one of the municipalities will likely have beneficial ripple effects for the rest. “Where the city is specifically concerned: our baseline is to get a fair deal for city residents, and that includes that Spectrum be responsive and fair in addressing customer concerns, which I think is not always the case.”

This round of negotiations is fairly new, so it’s unclear what concessions the municipalities will be able to get out of Spectrum. Dryden Town Supervisor Jason Liefer, negotiating on behalf the town, said during the partial meeting he was able to attend with company representatives, they seemed more amenable than their former corporate entity, Time Warner, to expand access, though much of that depends on “governments throwing money at them,” according to Liefer. The nego-

tiations take place at a time when more and more people are “cutting the cord,” or choosing to cancel their cable subscriptions in favor of simply utilizing internet access to service their home needs. While this would seem to be something the municipalities could use to their advantage, they’re hamstrung by FCC restrictions that don’t allow them to regulate or negotiate internet access.

One area of flexibility, Liefer said, would be the price Spectrum must pay to serve the municipalities; Spectrum pays a certain fee (think of it as rent) for the right to run cable on public rights of way to the customers, who then pay Spectrum for monthly service, according to Rich DiPaolo, negotiating on behalf of the Town of Ithaca. But in another example of the power Spectrum holds in the negotiations, any increase in fees (the maximum for a municipality

Tom Stern (Photo: Casey Martin)

studio audience and it being solely a one-off event, but she said she is excited for the opportunity to put Pegasys’ capabilities on full display.

“It’s a lit t le bit above a nd beyond in terms of complexity and caliber of what’s going to be needed than most access shows,” Stefanelli said. “Tom has really pulled out all the stops in terms of how to make this be quite the showstopper.”

–Matt Butler

S u s ta i n a b i l i ty At c i ty c e n t r e Want to learn how a building downtown is earning its abatement?

Read Matt Butler’s story on Ithaca.com to find out more on these efforts.

to charge is five percent of gross annual revenue) for the company would almost certainly simply be passed onto consumers, usually in the form of higher monthly bills, at the first possible opportunity.

T he over a rch i ng obst acle among all these negotiations, regardless of whether it’s Ithaca or Candor, is that all of these municipalities are fighting a steep uphill battle. Spectrum is, as it was phrased during several of these conversations, “the only act in town.” By wielding a veritable monopoly over the region, cable companies can undercut much of the leverage the municipalities have to negotiate with.

“It’s not like we have a particularly strong bargaining position,” DiPaolo said.

Read more online at Ithaca.com –Matt Butler

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one episode from the mid-aughts speaks volumes to the need for student press protections: the time The Tattler, Ithaca High School’s more than 100-year-old-paper, took on the Ithaca City School District and won.

It was back in the Fall of 2004 when the Ithaca City School District, looking to instill a sense of discipline in the high school, hired a new principal. Hailing from the Baltimore City School District, Joseph Wilson – who had a highly successful career in the often-troubled district – was brought in under the idea he would be more of a “law and order” leader at the helm of IHS. But many of the students, particularly members of The Tattler’s editorial board, weren’t having it. “[IHS] was a lot of things, but it wasn’t this troubled, inner-city high school,” said Andrew Alexander, a 2004 graduate of IHS and a four-year member of the newspaper. “He started imposing these policies which, as teenagers, we thought were kind of draconian, like rules about passes and eating in class. If you’re a straight-A student in a bunch of AP classes not used to needing a pass to go to the bathroom, it gets kind of aggravating.

So a lot of people – faculty included – didn’t like him from the start.”

(Wilson declined to comment for this article, saying, in an email, “the decision of the Courts, and their reasoning suffices for me.”)

The tensions percolated through the Fall of 2004, as the paper went on to survey students in the school about the new principal’s performance and documenting faculty opinions of the new administration. Editorials were written, many critical of the new principal. Alexander, fresh off an AP statistics class the previous year, conducted a 120-response survey of his approval rating senior year, sampled randomly by home room.

“The rumor was he was furious,” he said.

Months of abuse taken, that January the editorial board was summoned to a meeting with Wilson where he introduced a series of new guidelines described by Schlather as “very much” in the tradition of 1988’s Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, a landmark student press freedom case that reversed many of the broad protections defined in Tinker v. Des Moines, which iconically ruled that “it can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the

schoolhouse gate.” It was under this backdrop that Wilson, and the district, decided they were free to apply strict limitations on The Tattler and its journalists. “[Hazelwood] argued that ‘we send kids to school to learn, and therefore the administration has the final say,’” Schlather said. “So the Supreme Court came up with some complicated rules on what could or could not be done and pretty much treated all student expression as somehow subject to these pedagogical restraints. And that became the source of tension, if you will, in the secondary school environment between true freedom of expression and these administrative limitations.”

After the first attempt at censorship, the students tried to work through the initial grievance procedure set by the principal, only to be denied by the superintendent.

Hoping to defuse the situation, they called up Schlather who, behind the scenes, tried to untangle the mess with the school district. Finally, realizing their rights were being challenged, they published something to test the administration: a set of stick figures, juxtaposed in various sexual positions in a classroom, which the district argued violated obscenity laws. And so, weeks before most of them were set to graduate, they sued. The suit would not be resolved for another nine years.

“It would have been very easy to not do anything,” said Alexander.

“I think one of the things that’s very important when you’re teaching young people is to teach them to think for themselves, to stand up for themselves and, while relying on the wisdom and guidance of their elders, to rely on their own intuitions and their own beliefs on what’s right.”

Though the students eventually won their case and the guidelines were eventually repealed, no court ever ruled on whether or not those guidelines Wilson had imposed were legal or not, but then again, that was never the goal; the real goal, Alexander said, was to become an example of a school district’s use of prior restraint. Over the years, student press law and protections for student journalists

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ment in prior restraint (note: they can’t, except in straightforward insta nces of libel, sla nder or ▶ Kirsten Gillibrand and unwarranted invasion of privacy), Congressman Tom Reed they define one further limitation For their work in getting the – on speech that incites “clear and Finger Lakes considered as a present danger” – as legal ratioNational Heritage Area. Largely nale for censorship. Though New York ’s legislation also includes spearheaded by Gillibrand (Reed will support standard provisions regarding the measure in the House), the legislation limitations for student journalists will set us up to gain substantial amounts – the standard restraints on libel of funding down the road for a number of Ray Schlather and otherwise – the language in awesome historical and ecological causes. the law limits speech that incites Unlike national parks, National Heritage has come through legal precedents students to commit an unlawful Areas are large lived-in landscapes, where being set little by little, rather than act, to violate the policies of the government and private entities collaborate through legislation. This presents educational institution, or to mate- with community organizations to determine some obvious downsides, particu- rially and substantially disrupt the how to make heritage relevant to local larly considering case law cannot orderly operation of such edu- interests and needs. Under FHA designation, easily be applied universally. cational institution. These limitathe Finger Lakes Region would be given a While the law put forward by tions, Schlather points out, are quite O’Mara owes many elements to the broad, watering down the protec- platform to leverage long-term, sustainable gold standard set forth in North tions that the law would provide by federal funding.

Dakota, Schlather said the law as giving school districts more room written in New York is “softer” in its to maneuver when arguing against If you care to respond to something in this protections for student journalists, the contents of a student newspa- column, or publish your own grievances or plaulargely in the amount of conces- per. One could make an argument, dits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes.com, sions it offers school districts. For for example, that a controversial with a subject head “U&D.” example, while both pieces of leg- article that might incite distracting islation the law provides for a fac- schoolwide conversation or protest ulty advisor, could allow t he Nor t h a school Dakota legdistrict to islation very meet its clearly states burden ▶ A Number Of Important a school disof prior Things are on the docket in trict cannot restraint City Hall this week. Among the s a nc t ion a – in this topics: tax abatements, historic student who case, caus- designation of certain buildings and much i s op er ating a dis- much more. Common Council Chambers, ing as an ruption in Wednesday at 6 p.m. independent the classjournalist. room that ▶ Top stories on Ithaca.

The New York goes against The cartoon that started it all. com this week are... legislation also the adminis1. Newfield man charged for only covers news tration’s ideal allegedly stealing, then scrapping, car published within the school itself. If for an effective learning environ2. Seeking An Elusive Cure you were similar to an independent ment.

3. Deferred Enlightenment: One man’s wild paper that publishes in the greater Another issue in the law as writcommunity – like, say, The Tattler, ten comes down to one line related journey from Ithaca to the ashrams of India which publishes 1,500 copies of to faculty advisors: according to the 4. Your Latest Immortals each edition for the community law as proposed, in order for speech 5. Legislature delays weighing in on NYS – you may not be protected under to qualify as protected speech, it has plastic bag ban this law. to be created under the oversight “The New York legislation does of the student media advisor. If question provide some protections, and I’m appointed by administrators, this OF THE WEEK glad Senator O’Mara is sponsor- can open student publications up Are the tax abatement policies currently in ing this,” said Schlather. “I think to self-censorship, particularly if an place tough enough? it reflects, clearly, an independent appointed advisor is chummy with Please respond at the Ithaca Times Web site streak in both his character as well the administration. (Though under www.ithacatimes.com. as that of Upstate New York – we this law, the administration cannot L ast Week ’s Q uestion : Would you prefer a set truly do value our First Amend- serve an advisor with retribution weather system with seasons or a set number of ment freedoms. That being said, by for publishing something it doesn’t snowy days , dispersed evenly throughout the year? codifying the law, it also protects like.) the institutions – the school dis“The best way to teach journaltricts – in a variety of ways. It’s both ism to young people is to let them a protection for the student jour- exercise the freedoms our founding 88.9 percent of respondents nalists as well as the educational fathers gave us,” said Alexander. answered institutions. And in that balance, “Just imagine the irony of reading “Seasons” there are some sacrifices and com- the Bill of Rights in your history and 11.1 percent promises which I am concerned class, and then walking down the answered “Hot about.” hall to the newspaper office and and Cold.”

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A Crowded Field In A Crowded Room If And Only If T N Though ts A n d P e r spect i v e s From Th e C a m pa ign | By Robe rt Ly nch racy Mitrano, former Director of Information Technology Policy at Cornell, and now Ithaca’s presumptive Democratic frontrunner to oppose Republican Congressman Tom Reed, reintroduced herself to her University’s students this way: I was the nasty person who sent you those notes about file sharing! At the same candidates’ panel and from across the geographic, but also generational, divide, Jamestown attorney Eddie Sundquist used a different joke to break the ice: I tried to get into Cornell. [The Law School?]

But I wasn’t smart enough. [Most aren’t.]

Well, hey, I’m back! [Easy path, Eddie; just bypass the Admissions Office!]

Take your pick. But those laugh lines, however funny they were, shouldn’t have been the most memorable quotes from the Wednesday (March 7th) panel debate organized by Cornell Democrats among the party’s (now) six hopefuls in the sprawling 23rd Congressional District. Sadly, they may have been. And it tells us much about where this wheel-spinning race among potential rivals to Congressman Reed stands right now. Tracy’s ahead in the East; Sundquist in the West; but no one’s truly tearing up the turf and clearing the field. Not yet. Many party bosses wish somebody would.

Maybe I’m just bored. Or I’ve seen too many of these debates. In little more than six weeks, I’ve observed the six candidates (plus recent-dropout Charles Whalen) take the stage not only at Cornell, but also at two larger venues; first in Geneva, then at Ithaca’s State Theatre. The prior events

were at massive old movie houses with hundreds of partisan spectators, where candidates got to recite their stump speeches and answer often not-so-pointed questions from seasoned moderators. In many ways, I’d heard this all before. And in this latest instance, the third time was not a charm. Not for me.

“Intimate” is the most discrete way to describe the Cornell setting. OK, the lecture room was tiny; just 123 seats with a fire marshal’s capacity of 150. Despite my best intentions, I’d still made a polite pest of myself when a dozen days earlier I’d scoped out McGraw Hall 165, snapped photos, counted seats, and warned campus organizers they’d better find a larger room. (The State Theatre event had drawn 700.) No, student organizers said, this was the largest they could find… or afford. You see, Cornell charges money for these places. Nice guy the Big Red (bean-counting) Bear can be. Statler Auditorium was too pricey.

Bailey Hall was way too expensive and carried a demand that the house be filled. (It wouldn’t have been.) And the shiny new (and spacious) Klarman Hall spot across the Arts Quad had been booked that same night for a former Planned Parenthood CEO to speak. Sorry, it’s McGraw 165 or nothing.

Fortunately, it worked (kind of). Not quite every seat was filled. But it came close. We, the audience, winter coats and all, were packed in like sardines. Our body heat raised the room temperature. One advantage: we got close enough to the candidates to mingle before and afterwards.

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ews reports that the summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un are taking place with no preconditions are not entirely true. There are no stipulations regarding denuclearization or lifting sanctions, but the man who commissioned the ghost-writing of The Art of the Deal struck a hard bargain before agreeing to meet with the leader of America’s arch enemy. What follows are the ten actual conditions that needed to be met before the summit could take place, as leaked to the Ithaca Times by a highlyplaced source: 1. All negotiations shall take place in t he Pueblo Room of t he Tr u mp International Pyongyang Hotel and Golf Club.

2. During a ll such times as t he American president shall be in consultation with the Supreme Leader, Ivanka Trump and her agents and employees shall be entitled and allowed to set up a table in the lobby for the purpose of vending and/or marketing the 2018 line of Ivanka Trump fashion clothing and

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want to raise awareness of the gross inadequacies of NY and local law in protecting residents against carbon monoxide poisoning.

My wife Danielle and I narrowly escaped fatal carbon monoxide poisoning in a house we recently purchased in Ithaca Town. The only reason we got out of the house before either of us lost consciousness was because our cats went into cardiac arrest first and we rushed them to the vet. Both of them (4 and 8 yrs old) died. None of the Carbon Monoxide detectors went off. Our HVAC contractor, HALCO, confirms that the CO detectors were not installed properly or safely and would not have gone off until CO was well past fatal levels. We thought of checking for CO all on our own and paid for an inspection the next day. If we hadn’t, and we’d returned to the house, we’d be dead.

The HVAC contractor we hired red-tagged the furnace within minutes of seeing it. They don’t understand how we survived. The furnace is installed upside-down. It has multiple serious cracks, which were the source of the CO build-up. Our HVAC people say that the cracks are old—they predate the

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accessories. All very tasteful.

3. Under no circumstances shall negotiation meetings be referred to as “sessions”. The words “Jeff ” and “Jefferson” shall similarly be banned.

4. No member of the American delegation, including the American president, shall be required to ingest kimchi in any quantity.

5. Negotiations shall be conditioned on the granting of unsecured interestfree personal loans to Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner totaling no less than $500 million.

6. Ambassador-at-Large Dennis Rodman shall be addressed as “ his excellency”, as diplomatic custom dictates, and not “the Worm” or “Dennis the Menace”.

7. No member of the North Korean delegation shall be permitted to bring up non-disclosure agreements, subpoenas or Melania’s self-loathing.

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sale by at least a year—, and that even without the cracks is installation was unacceptable. How could we have not known? We should have: On top of the usual inspectors, one of the conditions of the sale was that the sellers hire both an HVAC specialist and an electrician to inspect and repair the furnace and electrical.

However, 1) we are told that home inspectors are only required to visually check that a CO detector simply exists.

They do not have to make sure that it is functioning or installed properly and they do not need to warn potential buyers about incorrect placement. NY State law does not specify where a CO detector must be installed—it can be literally anywhere. 2) Because we do not have a direct contract with the HVAC company that “inspected” and “serviced” the furnace prior to the sale (the sellers did, as a condition of the sale), they aren’t liable for greenlighting a dangerously faulty furnace. Hull Heating and Plumbing are still operating in Ithaca and we have no way to ensure that their contractors—who are either unqualified or grossly negligent—do not do this again. We are especially concerned about the rental population of Ithaca. We appear to have no legal recourse—no local lawyers will take the case—despite this happening less contin u ed on page 7

shall be permitted to stare at the Supreme Leader’s haircut, disparage the size of the Supreme Leader’s “nuclear arsenal” or mention that the Supreme Leader had his half-brother murdered last year.

8. Negotiations shall be conducted only for as many news cycles as they shall displace the following topics: Stormy Daniels, Special Counsel Russia Investigations, the systematic dismantling of banking and environmental regulations, and such other scandals as may be unfolding at the time of the summit meetings.

9. During negotiations all sabre-rattling, bombast, grandstanding, exaggerated posturing and impotent blustering by either side shall be temporarily sus-

pended.

10. All such members of the American negotiation team that are cabinet-level or higher at the time of the summit shall travel in the first class compartment of a chartered airplane, and their accommodations at the summit venue shall be appointed with custom-made chairs, dining tables, hutches and such other and further furnishings, costing no less that $30,000 per member, as befits their royal status.

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house will kill you? If a certified HVAC contractor cannot recognize when a furnace is upside-down (!!!), are the certification procedures even remotely adequate?

The failure of so many safety checks in a row suggests that individually these provisions are each deeply inadequate. Our cats, Percy and Arthur, suffered appalling, painful deaths and we want to save other people and animals from this pain.

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than a year after multiple inspections and a furnace servicing.

This incident has raised a lot of troubling questions. What is the point of requiring CO detectors if there are no regulations to ensure that they are installed properly before a sale? What is the point of home inspections if inspectors check the number of inches between spindles on the porch, but not whether living in the

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Our disciplined student moderator kept candidates to their (probably too short) time limits. We even ended the 90-minute event ten minutes early. Personally, judging from candidate performances, I’m rather glad we did. Fearing the mob that never was, I got to McGraw 165 an hour beforehand.

Shortly thereafter, Eddie Sundquist arrived and made a point of introducing himself.

The young, openly gay lawyer—a younger, thinner, look-alike for Reed himself—is not shy about invading personal space. “Hi, I’m Eddie Sundquist,” he said. Of course, I already knew that. I’d heard him on stage twice before. What Eddie didn’t know, until I told him, was that he’s in the running as my personal favorite. At least, in this race, he’s among my top three. Sundquist has won endorsements from Democratic Committees in the District’s two westernmost counties, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua. But his popularity has yet to gel in Tompkins. At the February 12th State Theatre Straw Poll, Sundquist earned only 38 votes (including mine) compared to Mitrano’s 297. A later poll of local Democratic Committee members gave Eddie a similarly small slice of support, but awarded Mitrano the majority. (There’s still been no local party endorsement.) In her book Quiet, author Susan Cain has used her term The Extrovert Ideal to describe people like Eddie Sundquist. No wallflower he. If Eddie weren’t trolling for votes he might be pitching cars… or timeshares. But as with Andrew Jackson’s Presidential victory of long ago, to quote Cain, “The fighter beats the writer.” Introverts make lousy vote magnets.

One wonders if Eddie’s attended a Tony Robbins seminar. True, over time, I might tire of Sundquist’s boundless, slightly forced,

Charley Githler is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Surrounded

By Reality, appears biweekly.

–Marybeth Ruether-Wu Ithaca enthusiasm. But again, Eddie’s running for Congress, not brother-in-law.

One can easily see Sundquist shaking hands and hearing out voters at county fairs and pancake breakfasts, not caring whether he’s talking to a Republican or a Democrat. That helps in the 23rd District’s deep-crimson heartland of farms and forests, where Fox News is the channel of choice. As I’ve observed, Sundquist, of any contender, seems to be most resistant to the ideological toxin that tends to poison those with close ties to Ithaca. It’s an academically-inspired, left-of-center we-know-best elitism that in time even contaminates the newcomer.

Maybe it rubs off the benches at Stewart Park.

Nonetheless, Ivy-enhanced enlightenment can easily parade as arrogance beyond the county line. Just recall how Congressman Reed branded his opponent, Dryden legislator Martha Robertson, as an Extreme Ithaca Liberal, four years ago, a label that helped sink her 2014 challenge. Reed’s firing up his branding iron again this year. He even has a leftover website so named at the ready. (See Nick Reynolds, Reed campaign revives ‘Ithaca Liberal’ tag in new ad campaign, Ithaca.com, March 3, 2018.)

Sundquist wasn’t the only candidate to shake my hand. Corning teacher Rick Gallant and Tracy Mitrano did as well. Tracy and I have a mutual friend, a strong Mitrano supporter. Briefly, we made small talk. But Mitrano needed to work the room. Of the three fora I’ve attended, Cornell’s was the most workplace-casual. Only Owego attorney Max Della Pia wore a tie, through retired cardiologist Linda Andrei was smartly and professionally attired. As always, Ithaca millennial Ian Golden’s hair was amess. Gallant was the most casual of all, wearing semifaded jeans. You could have mistaken him for the janitor.

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In January, I gained my first impressions of these candidates at Geneva’s Smith Opera House, an acquaintance renewed three weeks later at The State. I wish I could chronicle the race’s evolution.

But I can’t. Aside from endorsements, nothing much new has happened. If you liked Tracy earlier, you’ll like her now. Ditto for everyone else. Maybe I’m accustomed to Presidential-grade face-offs. I yearn for a breakout moment, that unscripted flash of spontaneity when one candidate’s insight, or another one’s gaffe, prompts a contender to mop the floor with a competitor… or better yet, with Congressman Reed. You can’t plan such sparks of political fire unless, of course, you’re really smart. Those occasions just happen.

Or else they don’t. Given the safety played by all six at Cornell’s table that day, perhaps here they never will. This was the first forum to occur since Parkland, and one of the questions addressed gun control, yet more from a process perspective.

Question: How do you get both sides together?

But as in previous debates, candidates handled the issue as cautiously as an AR-15, each respecting the Second Amendment as sacrosanct. They fully recognize that more of Tom Reed’s constituents go huntin’ than attend university colloquia.

“We cannot legislate on emotion,” said Dr. Andrei. We should not have ended the CDC’s research on gun violence, she added. We need universal background checks. And to the point, said Andrei, “Every hunter says there’s no need for an assault rifle.” Perhaps, but note that she cautiously did not call for a national ban on those semi-automatics. Other voices: “We have to have a process this time that works,” said Mitrano. “I support gun ownership as a Second Amendment right,” Sundquist asserted. But “it’s the one per cent” of gun owners—the bad guys; good luck identifying them—who trouble him. Owego’s Max Della Pia chimed in, “The Second Amendment is not an absolute right,” (He’s correct.)

And in Della Pia’s mind, unsupervised household access to firearms is the problem. He equated the unlocked gun drawer with “throwing the car keys to my four-year old grandchild.”

Ithacan Ian Golden offered a reality check, inviting any of us to travel outside the Ithaca “bubble” and count those Repeal the Safe Act signs adorning many a rural homeowner’s lawn.

But I’ll remember most Rick Gallant’s quip: “I’ve never owned a gun. I’m kind of afraid of them,” he admitted. I only hope no one who heard Rick’s words has designs on robbing his house. Local front-runner Mitrano takes great pride in her resume, much of it earned and written at Cornell.

She uses accomplishment as a launching pad for policy pronouncements. Moving Cornell IT to dovetail with 21st-Century academic reality was her task. “I had to work draft policies through the complicated political landscape of this campus,” she crowed. Perhaps “herding cats,” would have been more apt. In any event, it’s process and policy that propels Tracy. It may be why so many academically-inclined locals love her. But I worry.

Most voters vote with their hearts, not their heads.

Will Mitrano’s intellect and her nuts-and-bolts work ethic come off as just so much “blah, blah, blah” to the Reed District’s swing voters?

This is an excerpt of a longer essay by Robert Lynch, a former Ithaca radio journalist, and recent appointee to the Tompkins County Democratic Committee. His opinions are his own. Read it all at Ithaca.com.

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Week O f 3/04-3/10 B y Vaughn G olden Barbara L ifton -N.Y. State A ssembly Both houses in Albany moved briskly last week to pass legislation in response to last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The Assembly passed four bills as part of a package being reviewed by the Senate and potentially being sent to the Governor’s desk as early as this week. The legislation includes measures to place a ban on bump stocks; prohibit possession of firearms by convicted domestic abusers; lengthen the National Instant Background Check System delayed waiting period from three to 10 days; allows judges to issue “Extreme Risk Protection Orders” to temporarily recall an individual’s firearms; and requires residency in order to bypass the state’s mental health check.

Assemblywoman Lifton voted in favor of all four.

Tom O’M ara-N.Y. State S enate After rejecting several legislative amendments matching the Assembly’s bills the week prior, Senate Republicans brought a number of security related bills of their own to the floor last week. Among them funding for upstate schools to hire resources officers; increased requirements for school security drills; and additional funding to support mental health resources across the state. The Senate shot down an amendment that would have banned teachers from having any firearms on school grounds.

This week and next, the opposite houses will have at what bills, if any, will make it to the Governor’s desk. The legislature has only two more weeks to pass a budget, drawing eyes that school safety and gun regulation legislation could find its way into the omnibus as leverage for either side.

Tom R eed - U.S. Congress The House worked last week to roll back environmental regulations. Rep. Reed voted to remove regulations on kilns, but broke from Republicans and voted against larger, more sweeping set of regulation roll backs specifically targeted at the EPA. Reed’s office told The Ithaca Times that he voted against the bill because he didn’t think it was right to decrease the limits of pollutants that could potentially be deposited into communities across the district.

The bill still passed the house 215 to 189 without Reed’s support.

Reed also appeared on CPSAN in support of President Trump’s plan for blanket tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.

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he Voice of the Big Red has enjoy and grew up listening to—they know changed its tune, and in the more about that music.” process has lost the contribuHe also notes that the station will feature tions of local volunteers who more local music, with area favorites such filled the daytime DJ shifts as the X Ambassadors, The Blind Spots for radio station WVBR and provided a and Driftwood to be regularly highlightpersonal touch to the daily broadcasts. Lised, along with the live “Tuesdays with the teners now don’t hear much from people Band” program. playing music 9 to 5 during the weekdays Hurd defines “alternative” as music — primarily because there is no one at the played by bands such as the Foo Fighters, microphone in the Stewart Avenue studio the Strokes, the Black Keys and Nirvana, then, and the tunes emanate from a comas well as emerging groups including the puterized playlist.

Cold War Kids and Tame Impala. “More It’s a situation that station management students are interested in getting involved says will improve as more students get inat the station with the new format,” he says, volved with the station and suggesting that there will be “In a sense, is part of the transition to more students on the air in we are back to the coming months. the “Ithaca’s Alternative” where we were brand from “Real Rock RaThat’s important, given in the 1970s, dio” at WVBR. The new forthat WVBR’s mission, since playing current its inception in the 1940s has mat, launched a month ago, popular music.” been to educate students in rafocuses on music from the 1990s to current releases and dio and media by giving them replaces what was loosely defined as classic experience running a commercial organizarock. tion during their time studying at Cornell, “We were playing some alternative musays Jordan Gremli, Chair of the Board of sic already, and now we will focus on that.

Directors of the Cornell Media Guild and Real Rock Radio was more classic rock and its subsidiary organizations, WVBR-FM, all kinds of different music, with no focus,” CornellRadio.com and Electric Buffalo Resays TJ Hurd, assistant general manager at cords.

WVBR, a junior majoring electrical engiStill, local volunteer DJs have played a neering at Cornell. “The people who like pivotal role at the station over the years, classic rock aren’t the same as those who with “townies” spinning the tunes and like alternative rock, which is what students pushing the buttons when students are un-

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able, or can’t be enlisted, to sit behind the microphone. They also host popular weekend programs offered by WVBR, which will remain under the new format, including Rockin’ Remnants, Nonesuch, the Salt Creek Show and Sunday Jazz. But they will no longer fill the airwaves from Monday through Friday.

Local musician John Simon, who has hosted the Rockin’ Remnants and Vinyl Departure classic rock programs, in addition to serving as a weekday DJ and performing other duties since he joined the station in 2002, understands the reasoning behind the format change, but says it could have been handled better and that the Ithaca community is not necessarily better off because of it.

Simon is seated in a room lined with vinyl records from floor to ceiling at the studio that is otherwise unoccupied. “We were notified late last fall of the change, and a meeting was held to discuss it with station personnel. Station management outlined the reasoning behind the change, citing demographics and other issues, and described the new playlist. There was not much communication with the townie volunteers before the announcement and some of us felt like it was sprung on us with little warning,” he says.

“We are all volunteers, and the townies felt that if they can’t put their own spin on their shows, or take requests, and just push

buttons, it was not as attractive any more, so we gave up the daytime shifts,” Simon says. He explains that most of the daytime hosts played a mix of old and new music and brought his own music to play. People in the community developed relationships with the weekday DJs, he says, with many regular listeners and lots of requests that helped establish connections with the station.

“For me, radio is about a human connection, rather than listening to a personal play list stored on phone or computer. With radio you can take callers at the station, you can do some theme-related shows,” he says.

Simon notes that station management did not tell the local volunteers that they had to quit their daytime shows, or that they could stay, “but we felt kind of blind-sided and we talked it over and decided to leave the daytime shifts while keeping the weekend shows going.”

At this point there are very few students on the air during the weekdays, Simon says, and while the idea is to now get more of them involved with the station it’s not happening yet. Weekday DJ shifts run from 7-9, 9-1, 1-4 and 4-7. Now, there are often times when no one is on the air from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., he says.

Hurd acknowledges that while WVBR plays computer-generated music when DJs are not on the air, the station is adding more staff. He says that since the format

Scenes from inside WVBR’s studios. (Photos: Casey Martin)

change was made, the station has received positive feedback. “Some people have let to pay the bills, which can be tough in this us know on Facebook that they are excited market, Hurd says, “but we are doing better about the new format. We have heard from recently than in previous years. Our signal alumni who say they like the new direcis stronger with a new transmission tower, tion, the new sound. We also know that the and we reach more people, which helps. weekend specialty shows are popular and And we will hopefully draw a younger auwe want to keep them.” dience during the week in addition to the Hurd says that “Real Rock Radio” has weekend audience.” been the WVBR brand since the 1990s and Gremli, who has been a member of the the format change was overdue. “We had Board of Directors of the Cornell Media alumni say that if we were playing stuff Guild for 10 years, serving as chairman from the 1930s during the since last April, says that “We are doing 1970s, that would not have the students made the better recently been very popular, either.” business decision to refothan in previous He also notes that decus the format to alternayears. Our signal tive because they felt it scribing to advertisers what is stronger with a was important to address the station played was difnew transmission an unmet need in the ficult, because the music has tower, and we depended upon who was on marketplace. “The Alterreach more people, native format is surging the microphone. “There was which helps.” no consistency, too much right now—there is now variation. We want to be at least one Alternativemore specific for the adverformatted station in every major market in tisers, and most of them accept the change. the country—and the students are trying to There has been no drop in sales.” provide the same option in Ithaca,” he says.

WVBR relies primarily on advertising “The students also felt it was important

to keep the local aspect of the programming intact and spotlight it, which is why they doubled down on programming focused on local music and events during the week, and kept our amazing community-based specialty show lineup on the weekends fully intact,” he adds.

The board gives advice and counsel about various parts of station operations at the students’ request, says Gremli, but WVBR, CornellRadio.com, and Electric Buffalo Records are all run entirely by the students, who have complete authority on all decisions, operational or otherwise.

Gremli suggest that the station can rely on student DJs despite the demands on Ivy League students and the number of breaks during the year. “The station has always been staffed predominately by Cornell student volunteers; this did not change when we switched to Ithaca’s Alternative and we have no plans to change this going forward,” he says. “Further, the students are using the momentum, excitement and attention garnered by this change as a recruiting tool to involve more students in the organization.”

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He explains that the station currently covers all operating expenses, such as music licensing, with advertising revenue, and that the Guild is developing additional revenue sources and strategies. As for donations, the Guild tries to limit fundraising to major capital projects (such as the new studio or improved transmission tower), and cover operating expenses largely from more standard income streams like ad sales.

It would be hard to find anyone better able to put the recent WVBR format change into perspective than Phil Shapiro, who has held a number of positions at the station over the decades and whose “Bound for Glory” live broadcast radio show marked its 50th anniversary in 2017.

“WVBR has continually changed over the years,” he says. “In the past 25 years or so it has reverted to an older era—classic rock, ’60s and ’70s, with not a lot of new music. This kind of change [to more modern music] is the nature of radio and this type of market.”

He notes that WVBR started in the 1940s as classical music station, then went to rock ‘n’ roll, followed by a variety of programming and a move to progressive rock in the ’70s, with a brief fling with top 40 music in the 1980s, then back to progressive rock. “So, in a sense, we are back to where we were in the 1970s, playing current popular music.”

Because WVBR is a commercial station and pays its bills without support from the university, and it has to play what advertisers think is appropriate, Shapiro says, and the new format may be what advertisers are interested in now. “The contemporary format reflects a younger audience—students.”

The new transmission tower on Hungerford Hill is a significant improvement, Shapiro says, as it’s taller and extends the reach of the station to rural areas, with a cleaner signal. “There is also great studio space now, provided by alumni, that helps improve operations and provides a better presence in the community,” he says.

Simon, for his part, agrees that equipment and facility upgrades put the station on good footing, but has mixed emotions.

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By Matt Butler

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he building at 1 West Main Street in Trumansburg used to be best known for its nightly live music and friendly atmosphere, while it housed the beloved Rongovian Embassy otherwise known as “Trumansburg’s living room” since 1973.

But the music and atmosphere disappeared when the bar, lovingly nicknamed the Rongo, had its final show on December 4, 2016. It’s laid empty since then, but an Enfield couple is looking to recapture at least part of the Rongo’s allure in a new business venture moving into the building. Greg and Krystal Garrett are starting a brewery, named Garrett’s Brewing Company, which will hopefully brew about one batch a week, which would turn out to 350 barrels during their first year, while they test the waters of public reception.

The specific timeline for their opening date is still unclear, but Garrett hopes to have the build-out finished in the next few months, a requirement before the liquor license application process can be resolved. Garrett said he envisions that process taking around four months, and after that Garrett’s Brewing Company would be ready to open.

In terms of specific beers Garrett’s Brewing Company intends to serve, Greg said he is currently evaluating his recipes to determine which should be his f lagship. He currently has a few New England IPAs, a stout, and another pale ale. He said there’s a focus in the area on brewing ales, so he hinted that he might want to prioritize developing a pilsner brew to fill the gap.

The Garretts are still adapting to the opportunities their new space will allow them. Before settling on the Rongovian Embassy location on West Main Street in Trumansburg, they weren’t planning on providing any type of foods, priori-

tizing a focus on just brewing beer.

But now, with a structure already ou t f i t t e d w i t h a commercia l kitchen from the building’s previous life as a restaurant and concert venue. Even with that option available, though, Garrett said he is unsure what type of food they will ser ve or if t hey wou ld operate the kitchen themselves or lease it out to someone else to control.

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the Rongo at one point in time, when it was for sale as a business,” Garrett said. “And I thought it was such a shame, because we loved the brick and the feel inside. When we finally got a chance to go in and look at it as a new business coming in, we got really excited. The place is beautiful inside and it has so much potential to become such a warm, welcoming place.”

Left: Greg Garrett.

Right: Some of the early swag.

Both Garret ts sa id t hei r family had been suppor t ive a nd receptive to the couple’s business venture. Neither of them have any professional brewing experience, though G a r r e t t ’s b e e n brewing his own beers at home for several years after receiving a homebrewery kit from h is brot her-i nlaw. From there it evolved pretty rapidly into a dedicated hobby that Garrett thinks he

might be able to turn into more.

“Well, I like drinking beer,” Garrett said. “But I started home-brewing in 2012 and really latched onto it and found a real passion in it, and everybody around me has been pushing for this and I’ve been pushing for it, so the stars aligned and we went for it.”

Garrett and his wife secured one investor, but other than that they will be running the operation themselves, with some help from friends and family.

Greg works as a carpenter and playground installer, Krystal as a playground installer and bookkeeper. Greg is heading the brewery effort, with Krystal playing the supportive wife role, in her own words, though that includes maintaining the back-end of the business through bookkeeping and the like. Krystal said she’s even come around on the brewery process, which didn’t look likely in the early days of her husband’s new passion.

“Initially, I hated the smell of beer happening in the kitchen and it’s actually now turned into a smell that I really love,” Krystal said. “I’m turning into a beer drinker very slowly, I’ve never been a beer drinker but he’s got a few that I can drink.”

With the nationwide trend of homebrewing still in full-swing, which has led to the opening of more small breweries, one might think the Tompkins County area has all the craft beer it can handle, but Garrett disagrees. He cited the prevalence of wineries lining the Cayuga Lake from Ithaca to Seneca Falls. In his mind, the debut of another brewery will simply help the other similar businesses around it.

“I don’t think that in the Finger Lakes our market is oversaturated yet, the brewing industry is sort of following in line with the winery industry,” Garrett said.

“As more breweries come in, they sort of bolster the businesses that are already established [...] Our hope is, with us coming into Trumansburg, people will come into our brewery and have some of our beers, then walk up the street to Felicia’s [Atomic Brewhouse] have some of their beers, then go to a restaurant. Just bolster the economy around us.”

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On Jan. 1 the duo took over the Mark’s Pizzeria locations in Seneca County. One of those locations at 2186 Rt. 96A serves as one of Ovid’s ‘go to’ pizza shops.

When Mark’s Pizzeria began unloading locations, or shutting them down – as many were in the Syracuse and Rochester markets – the opportunity to take ownership of locations in Ithaca, Ovid, Waterloo and Lyons was too great to pass up.

Customers saw no interruption during the transition, but it was a lot of work over a very short period of time, explained Kalaboke, who said it all happened in just a couple weeks.

“We were faced with the choice of watching stores that we both worked very hard on close, if we didn’t take the opportunity,” Kabaloke explained a few weeks after opening. “We’ve heard so many positive things from our customers about the experience since the name change.”

It wasn’t only a name change, though, for Pat’s Pizzeria. “We found out this was happening right before Christmas, so we only had about a week or so to figure everything out.”

That meant changing the recipe, getting branding sorted out, and figuring out the dollars-and-cents of each location, which were under different management prior to the transition.

Young manages the Ovid location, and agreed with Pat’s assessment of the process.

“It was chaotic, but it was a blessing for us,” he added. “We keep hearing good things from our customers, and that’s we’re just here to give back to the communities that have given us so much.”

The duo attributes their success to a combination of faith in God, hard work, and expectation of value. Both said that

adjusting prices and adding value from the previous setup was crucial in building a foundation for success with the new venture. They admitted it was the one challenge they felt most-difficult to overcome during the Mark’s days. Kalaboke said, “Prices were out of our control then, but that’s not the case anymore.”

“We want to make sure people are getting a great value when they visit Pat’s Pizzeria at any of our locations. Whether that’s in Ithaca, Ovid, Waterloo, or Lyons – it’s crucial that we give the customer something that they enjoy and want to enjoy again,” Kalaboke continued.

The duo isn’t worried about what might be happening with other Mark’s locations throughout the area. “We’re blessed that this opportunity was presented to us. We’re grateful for everything Mark did throughout our time working with him, but now we’re focused on doing the best we can for our customers.”

They know it will be a lot of work, too.

“Managing all of these locations is a challenge because of how spread out they are, but we have a lot of experience setting up stores for success,” Kalaboke added. Prior to Kalaboke taking over any particular location, he served as a ‘traveling’ trainer for Mark’s Pizzeria. “Sometimes I wouldn’t even know what location I was going to be at until that morning. It was a tough schedule, especially with a young family – but all of it helped build me into the person I am today.”

While he transitioned out of that role, and into a traditional management role with the Mark’s chain long before the ownership opportunity presented itself – he shares a lot of those responsibilities with Young.

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Cayuga View Senior Living, an 87,000-square-foot, 60-unit senior apartment community located at 16 Cinema Drive in the Village of Lansing, will feature a solar system consisting of 151 panels, equally distributed throughout the rooftop and around the highly anticipated rooftop garden. Construction work and leasing is currently underway, with residency beginning in May of 2018.

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To put these numbers into perspective, this reduction in annual carbon dioxide emissions is equivalent to driving over 52,000 fewer miles each year, or planting 1046 trees. Over the expected life of the solar energy project, this could equate to driving over 1,308,025 fewer miles, or planting 26,161 trees.

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Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport Announces Spring Break Contest and Giveaway

he Tompkins Financial Corporation nominating and corporate governance committee has approved Dr. Ryan Lombardi of Cornell University as a director of Tompkins Trust Company.

“I am honored to have been selected to join Tompkins Trust Company’s Board of Directors,” said Lombardi. “I look forward to contributing to an orLombardi ganization that serves its community in the way the Trust Company does.”

Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport (ITH) is holding its first spring break contest for all local students and residents.

From now until April 13th, travelers and fans of ITH can enter the contest for a chance to win a $250 travel voucher.

To enter the contest, participants must complete these two steps: Step 1: Follow @ fly_ithaca on Instagram and Step 2: Post a photo of their spring break or vacation on Instagram with the hashtag @ITHSpringBreak and tag @fly_ithaca.

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Too Many Zooz brings its brassy tunes to The Haunt

By Nick Reynolds

Too Many Zoos Wednesday, March 21| Doors at 7 p.m., Show at 8 p.m. The Haunt | 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Tickets: $15 pre-sale, $20 door

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f you’re a musician who’s spent any time on the internet over the past few years, you’re probably already familiar with eccentric New York City “brass house” group, Too Many Zooz.

Often performing their craft amid the bustle and grime of New York City’s Union Square subway station, the three-piece group has gained international attention for their distinctive music, their frenetic style bridging together the structures and dynamics of house music with the melodicism and virtuosity of some of the world’s finest jazz musicians.

Since that first video of one of their subway performances went viral in 2014, Too Many Zooz has played to audiences of hundreds on several continents, been featured on nationallyrenowned radio stations like NPR and KEXP in Seattle and have gained widespread acclaim for their rowdy, genre-defying style of jazz that’s as down-and-dirty as it is acrobatic — all while playing a key role in a resurgence in the popularity of brass music that has given unique artists, like trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah and three piece outfit, Moon Hooch, platforms and renown they may not have gotten even a decade ago.

The Ithaca Times recently spoke to the band’s animated baritone saxophonist, Leo Pellegrino, before a recent show in London on what inspires the group, the state of jazz music today and the group’s experience with international fame.

Ithaca Times: It’s really exciting to get to chat with you guys, first off. I was surprised to see you were making a stop in Ithaca, given all the places you play. The first time I actually saw you was on Instagram a few years ago, playing a set on the subway, and then I saw you on NPR and in London and Belgium and all that. But this tour, you see venues in places like Rochester and Burlington. So I’m wondering… why Ithaca?

Too Many Zooz: We’re just trying to expand

the places we play. We actually just got two new American agents and, through our career, we’ve always just played all the same big cities.

This is a bit of an attempt to try new markets so we can have longer, more successful tours. We do want a younger, more college-based crowd as well. Generally, we don’t pick the venues, we get offers and we either say “yes” or “no.” But we take most gigs, we’re just touring all the time.

We were just in Australia, which was wild. But it just works for us if we’re playing all the time.

Like, in New York, we were playing every single day in the subway, so if we have too much time off, it’s hard to stay in shape.

IT: That must ma ke for an interesting dynamic. You guys are already internationally known in a way, so what is it like trying to build a new audience when you already have this huge one?

TMZ: We became viral, and we had all these “dots” all over the world. So for the last two years, we’ve basically been working on connecting those dots. Usually in major cities, a lot of people will know us and in other places, it’s a little harder. But to have successful tours, you really need to be able to hit these smaller towns in between the major cities.

But it’s honestly crazy and surprising how many people are fans of us in different countries. We played in Prague for the very first time last night, and we sold out a 700-seat venue and people were treating us like we were famous.

IT: And it has to be cool to be these sorts of envoys for this type of music that is starting to come back in a really huge way. I haven’t seen brass bands or even brass instruments with this type of representation in popular music in a really long time.

TMZ: It’s definitely becoming more popular.

I’m seeing more and more people busking in the street and on the train all the time.

IT: Where do you think that comes from?

TMZ: I don’t know. When I was going to school (at the Manhattan School of Music, where the band met) it was super competitive.

Even the best jazz musicians weren’t necessarily that many gigs, and even when they did it was as more of a background kind of thing. People

were adjudicated on improvisation which I didn’t really believe in – I don’t think you can grade someone on improv – and I saw this sort of scene happening in the subways that I wanted to be a part of. And with our success, I think people online really started to see groups like ours and saw they could start a brass band too. To a certain extent – and I don’t want to rip on jazz culture – but it’s not exactly “cool” to be a jazz musician, at least in the public eye. I think that we’re kind of reinventing these horns in a very cool way, in a way that makes us like rock stars as opposed to these small jazz clubs where everyone is dressed nice and the shows are super intimate. It’s making young kids more interested in horns than they used to be because they didn’t have anyone to look up to as a sort of “rock star” idol.

IT: And looking at people like Christian Scott (aTunde Adjuah), there’s this change in attitude too.

TMZ: Oh yeah. There’s this sax player called Braxton Cook who’s starting to get very popular in the jazz realm and guys like Christian Scott is a great example of someone who’s played with a ton of famous artists. Donny McCaslin, who I studied from briefly at the Manhattan School of Music, worked on David Bowie’s last album before he passed away, and every day I see more bands and artists gettin play outside of the jazz world. Robert Glasper is really well-known in the jazz world, but has also played with artists like Mos Def and other hip-hop artists. Jazz definitely seems like it’s gotten a little cooler, and something young people will like even more.

IT: Now I know onstage, you’ve become sort of famous for your dance moves. Do you ever practice your footwork outside of the subway?

Like, where does that all come from?

TMZ: For years I would never even see myself in a mirror, I would always just play in the subway and during the time when those videos were popular, I never really watched myself. I was just dancing in the subway all day.

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beyond, related in a zig-zag of moments hopscotching back and forth in time over 46 years. While this nonlinearity is not uncommon in modern drama, Barfield goes further than most. This brilliantly constructed love story jump-cuts from one moment to another one years out, then circles back to the original moment, accumulating a depth of new meanings with each rotation.

Not only does the structure keep us on our toes (Where are we? What are they talking about? When are we?), it mimics the way our lives can vibrate with layers of memory and the split-second of choices taken, not taken. The title phrase Client: comes from one character’s observation about supernovas. Indeed, the cumulative, breathtaking effect of navigating the years with these two magnificent women is incandescent and terribly fleeting.

Jennifer Bareilles plays Erica, the more impulsive of the pair (described by Barfield as “soft butch” and white); her partner, Vicky, is portrayed by Shannon Tyo (Barfield makes her a woman of color, and more

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Tyler M. Perry’s simple set, a blue circular rug, painted like the planet Earth, two square stools, and a background of strips of fabric give a sense of spaciousness, and his lighting superbly defines the shifts of time (along with Sergey Levitskiy’s adroit soundscape.) With no change in costumes available, Lisa Boquist finds just the right character touches. Sara Lampert Hoover, brings her customary deft touch to the direction, with each transition fluid, sharp and flawless.

Be ready to laugh, to cry, and to lose your hearts to these fabulous women. And hurry, it ends this Sunday. •

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traditionally feminine in her presentation.) Erica is prone to flights of fancy, to re-thinking herself as she talks, making for hilarious over-explanations, and is (at least in Bareilles’s performance), charmingly awkward. Vicky is super-focused, career oriented, and cautious, but paradoxically a charge-ahead type once she makes a decision (she’s the one who pushes them to skydive.)

While Barfield delicately explores the ebb and flow of attraction, fear, hope and loss that accompany making a life together, she also spikes the cocktail with abundant humor. There is fun with changes in technology and politics in the years we know (1985 to the present) — especially phones on the one hand, and the political position of marriage in the queer community, on the other. Commitment, marriage, raising children, dealing with parents and health are all in the mix.

Bareilles is all lanky, gung-ho, and why not in her positive moments, which can shift to a hysterical and frozen, as in a central scene of being stuck on a Ferris wheel with Erica’s fear of heights. Vicky must talk her down, even singing to her; the scene is not only a comic explosion, but a tender romance. Erica leads with her heart, always, and Bareilles catches the poetry of that.

Vicky’s caution comes in from being the only woman of color in a workforce of mainly white men. This fact is both central and tangential in her relationship. Tyo, who returns to the Kitchen after a superb performance in Smart People, finds ways to expose increasing vulnerability as if peeling off layers of protective clothing. Sometimes,

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“Traveling Through Glass,” the current exhibition at Buffalo Street Books, merges both writing, performance and fine art together into a multimedia experience.

These works combine the talents of local author Lisa Harris and visual artist Patricia Brown.

Traveling Through Glass is the title of Harris’ latest book, a collection of poetry capturing spirit and human condition. And the literal spirit of the poems is captured through art: a dancer moved to the rhythm of the poems, which were then captured through a painting by Brown.

The exhibition is versatile and accessible: each part of the art works on its own.

Harris’ poems stand on their own, and Brown’s paintings shine even without the context of the poems. The paintings use wisps of color, breathing and swirling like clouds of smoke, evoking a sense of clarity and turmoil simultaneously — pairing well with poems like “Spirit,” or as a standalone piece.

Brown’s paintings feature a predominant color group in each piece, which helps the viewer see the finer details and thin strokes

in each work. Single color groups prevent the viewer from getting too overwhelmed: examining a Brown painting is a journey rather than a chore.

On display through the rest of March, this joint exhibition complements different artforms without erasing the individual beauty of each. And while in Buffalo Street Books, Harris’ poetry collection is also for sale.

Read more at ithaca.com. •

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ow about a special concert of Bach and Bach? Both are the same composer, the great Johann Sebastian Bach, but this presentation features his music on two very different low-pitched string instruments—baroque cello and viola da gamba.

NYS Baroque offers this unique program on Saturday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. in Ithaca’s Unitarian Church, with double virtuoso Beiliang Zhu performing on these instruments. She will be joined by Leon Schelhase, harpsichord, and NYS Baroque’s artistic director, Deborah Fox, playing the theorbo. Bach’s music is sandwiched between opening and closing works by eminent French composer François Couperin.

The customary pre concert talk starts at 6:45 p.m.

Beiliang Zu, who grew up in China, is now based in Rochester pursuing a DMA in cello and ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music. She has multiple accomplishments to her name, most notably winning 1st Prize as well as the Audience Award at the XVIII Inter-

national Bach Competition in Leipzig in 2012 (the first string player to ever win on a baroque instrument). She performed here in NYS Baroque’s “Fantasticus” program in November 2016 and “blew everyone away.”

Fox describes her as remarkable, a “fantastic musician” who plays “beautifully and unaffectedly,” adding, “she’s always thinking about the music.”

We have also heard the talented Leon Schelhase in several NYS Baroque concerts in the past. A native of South Africa, he started out on baroque music at an early age and moved to the Boston area in 2006, where he studied and played with early music groups. Today, he is now based in Philadelphia, where he has taught at the Curtis Institute since 2012. As for Fox, she lives in Rochester, where she is founding director of Pegasus Early Music—we all appreciate her admirable music making and her many gifts to our musical scene.

It turns out that the two instruments featured in this concert come from different families. The gamba, like the lute or theorbo, is tuned in 4ths, the baroque cello

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Iconic, Ithaca: Ale House Ale House is an Ithaca staple for a reason

By He nr y Stark

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here are a few restaurants in Ithaca which I tend to think of as iconic, ones that seem to have been in business, at the same site, for a very long time and they have built a deserved reputation for excellence among their loyal clientele.

The Ithaca Ale House, on Aurora Street, is such a place. Whenever I’m in the mood for a good burger and an interesting beer or ale, I don’t have to spend a lot of time thinking where I’d like to go.

I also appreciate restaurants that offer the same menu for lunch and dinner without raising their prices as the day wears on and, with my irregular schedule, it’s helpful knowing that the restaurant doesn’t close during the afternoon to prepare for a separate dinner service.

Upon entering the Ale House, I never have to wait long before a staff member spots me and leads me to a table, and I appreciate that they have no problem letting a lone diner occupy a booth with a capacity for four. The first step is selecting a beer and that, frankly, is a problem because they offer so many and I’m familiar with 16 T

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so few. The staff are helpful in this regard and I do enjoy experimenting by selecting a different one of their two dozen offerings on each visit. There’s an extensive menu for both draught beer in glasses and bottles and a separate menu for “micro bottles”.

I once asked a server, who, I later learned, had just started working there two weeks earlier, “What’s a micro bottle?” and, without hesitation she replied, “Oh, those are bottles which are slightly smaller than the normal 12-ounce size.” Actually, they are bottles from micro-breweries and after she checked with the bartender we shared a hearty laugh at our verbal exchange. There’s also a wine menu with about a dozen offerings and, although the selection is significantly smaller than the beer and ale, there is good coverage of the most popular white and red varieties.

While the server is occupied obtaining my beer from the bar, I must make another difficult choice from among the dozen different burgers. I often simply order “The Perfect Burger” which comes with Cheddar cheese, onion, bacon, lettuce, tomato, pick-

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in 5ths; the gamba has frets and is bowed underhand, the cello, without frets, is bowed overhand. Fox describes the sound of the cello as “warm and singing,” while the gamba is “more vocal and speech-like.”

Historically the gamba was the instrument of royalty, while the cello began as a “lowly dance-band instrument,” and only slowly was accepted for solos.

Despite the title of the concert and the fact “everybody loves Bach,” this “very elegant program” opens with a harpsichord solo by Couperin from the composer’s “Pièces de clavecin, Première Ordre” and performed by Schelhase. And why Couperin? He and Bach are connected.

A leading composer of his time, he was recognized as a harpsichord virtuoso and held a special position in the court of Louis XIV. Like Bach, he was the most important member of a large family of musicians, and was known as Couperin le grand. Bach studied, admired, and copied out the music of his older contemporary. Yet their styles are very contrasting. This keyboard solo shows Couperin’s distinctive grouping of dance movements, many with descriptive titles. Then star soloist Beiliang Zhu will perform Bach’s sixth cello suite, in D major, BWV 1012, which has the customary dance movements, starting with a Prelude and adding two Gavottes before the final Gigue.

After Intermission comes the viola da gamba show. Zhu starts with Bach’s Sonata in G major for gamba, BWV 1027, along with Schelhase playing the harpsichord

obbligato. It’s actually written as a duo, as Bach wanted to hear the two instruments in counterpoint. The concert will close with all three performers—Schelhase and Fox will play continuo and improvise their accompaniment—in a magnificent work

les, ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise on a grilled Brioche roll. Although the menu cautions that there are NO SUBSTITUTIONS! (management thinks it’s “perfect!” after all) there is never a problem asking to exclude the mayonnaise. Another feature I appreciate is that the burger comes cooked the way I order it. Once I was a bit too casual when I ordered it “rare or medium rare” and my server asked, “Which one?” I opted for rare and that’s exactly the way it was delivered. I never made that mistake again! There’s always a featured burger of the week and beside being an interesting and original concoction, it is offered at a

special price, usually $17, which is higher than the menu burgers ($13-$15).

I’ve enjoyed the pastrami sandwich which is basically a Reuben without the sauerkraut. The stacked multi layers of meat remind me of a New York deli.

Speaking of multi layers, one of the attractions of The Ale House is, that no matter what I order, the portions are generous and attractively plated.

If you’re not in the mood for a burger there are about a dozen appetizers, a dozen flatbread pizzas, and a half dozen salads to choose from. Almost everything on their menu is priced between $12 and $15 and the descriptions are thorough and written with a touch of whimsy, in keeping with the casual atmosphere.

A long bar, with about a dozen and half chairs, seems to fill with regulars by about 12:30. Adding to the sports bar atmosphere there are a couple of large TV’s often showing sports programs.

In keeping with the easy-going atmosphere, The Ale House doesn’t pretend to be a quiet sanctuary. The noise level tends to elevate when the restaurant fills but it never gets out of hand. The key for me is that the food is top quality, is consistently well cooked, and the portions are copious. And, frankly, I like the hustle and bustle atmosphere….it’s vibrant and alive. Whenever I have a meal there I get the distinct feeling that the management and staff really care that I’m having a good experience….and I always do! •

The inside of Ale House.

(Photo: Casey Martin)

The NYS Baroque (Photo provided)

by Couperin, Suite for gamba in E minor, the first from his “Pièces de viole.” The eminent French musicologist André Pirro writes of this composition’s elegance and melancholy, the voluptuousness of sound, the precision and nobility in its rhythms.

And the final dance movement, Fox says, is a big Passacaglia or Chaconne. It sounds splendid.

Here is a unique chance to hear the differences between two unusual and beautiful instruments played by an expert, plus the contrasting sounds of early 18th-century French and German music. Then you can depart with the rhythm of a Chaconne in your step. •

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LACS alumnus and rower interns during Olympics

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Max Sheiman (second from left) with Olympic interns. (Photo provided)

or many college sophomores, the opportunity to go to Georgia to prepare for the upcoming crew season might be the travel highlight of the year.

Max Sheiman – a sophomore rower on the Ithaca College crew team – is grateful for the opportunity, but he would be forgiven if the trip finished in second place in his 2018 Travel Sweepstakes.

Max, a 2016 graduate of the Lehman Alternative Community School and a former Cascadilla Boat Club member, was among several Ithaca College students who served as interns at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, Korea. He told me, “Annemarie Farrell, who is the head of the Sports Management program, always finds opportunities for us. We were asked to send in our resumes and cover letters, and she and a panel selected a group of us to go to the Olympics.”

Max was part of the Event Services operation, and he said, “For the first few days, we worked in the parking lots, guiding spectators to the proper venues, and we also served as translators for the Englishspeaking spectators.” I asked him if it was required that he learn a substantial amount of Korean, and he stated, “No, we learned some basic phrases, but there were plenty of Korean-speaking volunteers if that need arose.”

After three days of parking lot duty, Max and his colleagues were moved to the event venues, and he recalled, “Our primary responsibilities involved guiding people to the right seats, make sure they were not misbehaving and make sure things were running smoothly.” Fortunately, they encountered no threatening scenarios, and Max offered, “We never had to deal with anyone sneaking in or any other problems.”

While the experience was enjoyable on many levels, it also served a purpose.

Students were required to come up with a considerable sum of money to make the trip, and they understood that they were there for more than a good time. Max said, “It gave me a lot of perspective on how challenging it can be to run these events.

It showed me a lot of what I will need to

know if I choose that path, and run events in Madison Square Garden, or Yankee Stadium.”

In addition to coming away with valuable professional experience, Max also got an up-close look at world class athletes, and for anyone who has ever been an athlete, that is a thrill. “I went to quite a few Olympic events,” Max told me, “and I found the short-track speed skating to be the most exciting. I had watched it on television many times, but it was really cool to see how fast they actually go, and I was surprised that they are able to find such small windows of opportunity to pass.” He added, “The Olympic experience is definitely something I’ll keep with me for the rest of my life.”

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On the topic of Ithaca College Athletics, congratulations to wrestling team on its third place finish at the NCAA’s. Senior Nick Velez closed out his stellar career on South Hill as the runner-up at 165-pounds, earning his second All-American recognition. His second place finish is the highest ever for a Bomber at that weight class.

141-pounder Ben Brisman won the program’s first individual national title since 2013 when stepped up in the final to defeat top-seeded Brett Kaliner of Stevens.

Kaliner had defeated Brisman twice previously this season, but the Bomber sophomore saved his best for last, exploding for 10 points to take the crown, 10-7.

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Moving over to East Hill, the Cornell men’s hockey team has been described as too defensively-oriented over the years, but when Quinnipiac came into Lynah Rink on Friday for the ECAC Hockey playoffs the Big Red served notice that putting goals in the opponents’ net is a part of its skill set as well.

Cornell exploded for nine goals on Friday night, while giving up but a single goal to back Quinnipiac into a corner. On Saturday, the Big Red scored only a deuce, but when your goalie, Matthew Galajda (the ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year) gives up zero goals on the night, you’ll be moving on to the quarterfinals in Lake Placid. • M a rc h

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3/14 Wednesday

Weird Al Yankovic, Emo Philips | 8:00 PM-, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | For the first time in

Music 3/14 Wednesday Jesse Collins Quartet | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | Monks on the Commons, 120 S Aurora St, Ithaca | (Jazz) Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | (Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing) Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | Varying Locations, , | Refer to Damodar Das Kirtan on Facebook for location schedule.

Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | (Local bands, Soloists) The Crucial Reggae Social Club | 9:00 PM-, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Reggae)

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Arise and Go | 8:00 PM, Thursday, March 15, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Traditional Irish folk)

3/16 Friday

Bob and Dee | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken Lynn Wiles Trio | 6:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Grassanova | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Ithaca Bakery, 400 N Meadow St, Ithaca | (Bluegrass) The Purple Valley | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Free Music Happy Hour | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Check thedockithaca.com for band schedule) Pat Kane | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | (Folk, Irish folk) Pebble | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Funk, psychedelic) Giant Steps | 9:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St, Apalachin | (Acoustic, Rock) Bronwen Exter | 9:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Singer/songwriter) The TARPS | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | (Classic Rock) Dead Night | 9:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Grateful Dead covers)

3/17 Saturday

Doolin O’Dey | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken Bill O-ring Clancy Brothers Tribute, Off the Rails | 6:00 PM-11:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | St. Patrick’s Day with The Hilltoppers | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | The Boathouse Beer Garden, 6128 NY-89, Lodi | (Bluegrass) Kilrush | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | (Celtic Rock) All Strung Out | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Donna the Buffalo, Bess Greenberg | 8:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Ransom Steele Tavern, 522 Main St., Apalachin | (Rock) Zydeco Trail Riders | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Zydeco, Creole, Cajun) Gunpoets, Thru Spectrums | 9:30 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Hip-hop, Rap)

3/18 Sunday

Desertion Trio | Sunday, March 18, 18 | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Citi Cat | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | (Blues, R&B) Grassanova | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00

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Jen Cork, Jaclyn Marie | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Tuesday, March 20, 18 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM, Tuesday, March 20, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday) The Cool Club & The Lipker Sisters | 6:30 PM-9:30 PM, Tuesday, March 20, 18 | The Range, 119 E. State Street, ithaca | (Swing, Jazz) Irish Session with members of Traonach | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Tuesday, March 20, 18 | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | (Irish, Traditional) Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, March 20, 18 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz)Â I-Town Jazz Jam | 9:00 PM-11:59 PM, Tuesday, March 20, 18 | The Dock, 415

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Symphoria Pops Series: Music of The Emerald Isle: A Celtic Celebration | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery Street, Syracuse | A magical celebration of the Emerald Isle, with Maria Kaneko Millar, a violinist whose credits include 170 performances as Solo Dancing Fiddler in Riverdance

Lindy Cummings’ winter-themed photo exhibition will be on display through the rest of March. (Photo provided)

his storied career, Al foregoes his usual high-octane, big-production show for an intimate evening of music, focusing on original (non-parody) songs from his 14-album catalog.

3/16 Friday

NYS Baroque: Bach | 7:30 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | A resident of Rochester, Beiliang Zhu will present a Bach-featured program with both cello and viola da gamba.

The program will explore Bach with one of the iconic solo suites for cello, and a sonata for viola da gamba with harpsichord. Also March 17.

Jeremy Denk | 8:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca |

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PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Mix Kitchen and Bar, 205 Elmira Road, Ithaca | All jazz and blues instrumentalists and vocalists welcome. Hosted

by Dennis Winge Trio.

Diana Leigh’s Spring Equinox Dance Party | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | IU: Desertion Trio, BRIAN! Lady D and The Shadow Spirits | 7:30 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, Ithaca | (Math rock, rock) That 1 Guy | 8:00 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Bound for Glory | 8:30 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Bound for Glory’s weekly live show.

3/17 Saturday

3/18 Sunday

Forbidden Songs | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Forbidden Songs: A concert of songs and chamber works with Ensemble X paints a broader picture of Roman Palester’s compositional evolution.

Arise and Go | 3:00 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Grace and Holy Spirit Church, 13 Court Street, Cortland | Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Celtic trio Arise and Go. Ithaca Concert Band, Vestal Community Band | 4:00 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Both bands will present a variety of compositions for your listening enjoyment. ICB will be performing Carmen Fantaisie Brilliante, based on the opera by Georges Bizet.

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3/19 Monday

Wu Man and the Huayin Shadow Puppet Band | 8:00 PM, Monday, March 19, 18 | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Wu Man and the Huayin Shadow Puppet Band: with traditional Chinese music, the band of musicians calls to life the heroes and gods of their folk culture and demonstrates current relevance.

In collaboration with the East Asia Program.

Film Cornell Cinema Salt of the Earth | 7:00 PM, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Written, produced and directed by three men blacklisted in Hollywood who took on the controversial topic of labor relations in a film based on an actual New Mexico mineworkers strike.

Shown in a 35mm film print from the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

The Philosopher Kings | 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 15, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | The documentary celebrates the wisdom and humanity of eight custodial

workers filmed in 2008 at seven universities, including Cornell’s James Evener and Gary Napieracz, who worked at Bailey Hall.

The Shape of Water | 9:00 PM, Thursday, March 15, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Guillermo del Toro’s latest offering is at once a dark fairytale, a sequel to The Creature from the Black Lagoon in spirit, and an out meditation on what it does and does not mean to be human. Also showing Friday at 9:30 p.m., Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m.

I, Tonya | 7:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | In the darkly funny true story of the 1994 figure-skating scandal, Margot Robbie plays the notoriously disgraced competitive skater Tonya Harding on a path to infamy that includes a foul-mouthed mother, an intense marriage, and a national media frenzy. Also showing Saturday at 9:30 p.m. and Sunday at 4:30 p.m.

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming | 2:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | In this animated coming-of-age story, a young Canadian poet of biracial heritage is invited to perform at a Poetry Festival in Shiraz, Iran, where she learns about

her heritage and the nature of poetry itself.

Shores of Light: Salento 1945 1947 | 7:00 PM, Monday, March 19, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Thousands of Jewish survivors arrived in Southern Italy after WWII on their way to Israel where they were welcomed by the local Italians and took up temporary residence. The film follows the story of three Israeli women who were born there in 1946 and return to discover the footprints left by their parents.

Cinemapolis

Friday, 3/16 to Thursday, 3/22. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes and for Fantastik Film Screening times 7 Days in Entebbe | Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted. | 106 mins PG-13 A Fantastic Woman | Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend. | 104 mins R Thoroughbreds | Two upper-class

teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost. | 92 mins R Call me by your Name | In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year-old Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, his father’s research assistant, with whom he bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish heritage and the beguiling Italian landscape. | 132 mins R The Shape of Water | In a 1960s research facility, Elisa, a mute janitor, forms a relationship with a mysterious aquatic creature. | 123 mins R Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the culprit. | 115 mins R Regal Ithaca

Wednesday, 3/14 , to Tuesday, 3/20. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes Gringo | A dark comedy mixed with white-knuckle action and dramatic

Black Panther | T’Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T’Challa’s father’s mistake. | 134 mins PG-13 Peter Rabbit | Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter’s classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer’s vegetable garden. | 95 mins PG Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle | Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game. | 119 mins PG-13

Stage St. Patrick’s Day Dance | 7:00 PM-11:55 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Dryden VFW, 2272 Dryden Road, Dryden | Hot and cold hors devours available along with a cash bar. Prizes for most festive. The event is sponsored by the Dryden Sports Boosters so put your dancing shoes on.

Adult Adoptee Potluck Dinner / Support Group; Ithaca | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Tuesday, March 20, 18 | United Way of Tompkins County, 313 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Come hang with other adult adoptees and share food, laughter and experiences.

Any questions, contact Sarah by email at sarah@affcny.org or call 607.272.0034.

The Irish Comedy Tour | 7:00 PM, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | The Irish Comedy Tour takes the party atmosphere of a Dublin pub and combines it with a boisterous, belly-laugh band of hooligans.

Bright Half Life | Thursday, March 15, 18 | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Follow Erika and Vicky as they hurtle through 25 years of love and heartbreak and a collection of the moments that make up our lives. Bright Half Life is an honest depiction of the courage and strength it takes to walk through life together by Pultizer Prize nominee Tanya Barfield.

Comedy Night | 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 15, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Improv, Stand up. Hosted by Comedy FLOPs) Current | Corriente | 7:30 PM,

Remix: A Cabaret,

Barnes Hall, Cornell University March 18, 7:30 p.m.

The Cherry Artspace, Ithaca Saturday, March 17, 3 p.m.

Cornell Anjali is seeking to promote the love of classical dance and culture not only from a South Asian diaspora, but also from other intercultural backgrounds, such as Eastern Asia, Africa, and other cultures. Anjali is hoping to bring awareness to both our own classical dance form as well as other the art forms of student organizations.

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Students at Ithaca High School have organized and made their voices heard: socio-economic and racial barriers to arts training are no longer acceptable. In an effort to help break down those barriers, a talented group of local teens will lift their voices in song at a cabaret fundraiser for a performing arts scholarship to Flight Voice Studio .

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intrigue, explores the battle of survival for businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) when he finds himself crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal. | 111 mins R Hurricane Heist | Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities. | 103 mins PG-13 The Strangers: Prey at Night | A family staying in a secluded mobile home park for the night are visited by three masked psychopaths, to test their every limit. | 85 mins R Love, Simon | Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends, and all of his classmates: he’s gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity. |109 mins PG-13 Tomb Raider | Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. |118 mins PG-13 A Wrinkle in Time | After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him. | 109 mins R Death Wish | Dr. Paul Kersey is an experienced trauma surgeon, a man who has spent his life saving lives.

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Thursday, March 15, 18 | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | After the death of his estranged father, playwright and actor Hayden Rios is forced to reckon with his life decisions and the pursuit of his artistic goals. In doing so, he leans on his best friend, Dr. Rebecca Aranda, for support.

Drag Show with The House of Merlot | 9:00 PM, Thursday, March 15, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | The bi-weekly drag show with The House of Merlot.

CabarETC: Call Fosse at the Minksoff | 7:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Call Fosse at the Minskoff | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dancing for Bob Fosse is a steep slope that rides fast and fun. Addicted to discipline in the studio, he asks complete submission to his signature fractured shapes.

Remix: A Cabaret | 3:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry Street, Ithaca | Students at Ithaca High School (IHS) have organized and made their voices heard: socio-economic and racial barriers to arts training are no longer acceptable.

In an effort to help break down those barriers, a talented group of local teens will lift their voices in song at a cabaret fundraiser for a performing arts scholarship to Flight Voice Studio.

McBurns and O’Kristy Band | 5:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | La Tourelle Resort and August Moon Spa, 1150 Danby Rd, Ithaca | La Tourelle will serve a specially prepared corned beef and cabbage meal, along with Irish beer and drinks while roving troubadours Rick Manning and Tom Hodgson (with special guests), play classic Irish tunes.

Call Fosse at the Minskoff | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dancing for Bob Fosse is a steep slope that rides fast and fun. Addicted to discipline in the studio, he asks complete submission to his signature fractured shapes.

St.Patrick’s Day Ceili Dance fundraiser | 7:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | Live music will be provided by local Celtic musicians, with dance instruction by Kathy Whitfield of Rince Na Saor Irish Dance. Everyone is

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ortland certainly has a penchant for the wellstaged murder mystery, as evidenced by their near-annual Agatha Christie summer shows to productions like Acme Mystery Company’s upcoming dinner theatre production of “Dead Meat,” taking place on March 17, 23 & 24. There is a cash bar for wine and beer, and $50 gets you dinner, dessert, coffee and the show itself.

“Dead Meat” is an original piece written by actor and writer Ed Mastin.

Find the milieu and the right number of suspects – Acme prefers five characters – and you’re on the case. (Acme will add more characters for a larger venue, like Turning Stone Casino.)

“For the first 30 minutes of the show, we mingle improvisationally with the audience,” says Acme’s Bob Greene.

“To get to that many people in that amount of time, you need more actors to do that.”

In this case, “Dead Meat” takes

welcome, and no previous experience is needed.

Freedom Train The Story of Harriett Tubman | 3:00 PM-, Sunday, March 18, 18 | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | Freedom Train tells the thrilling story of Harriet Tubman, the Moses of her people, in a fascinating series of highly theatrical scenes that use dance, dialogue and music of the period.

Dhyaana | 7:30 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell Anjali is seeking to promote the love of classical dance and culture not only from a South Asian diaspora, but also from other intercultural backgrounds, such as Eastern Asia, Africa, and other cultures.

Clemens Center Mary Tripp Marks School: Clementine | 10:00 AM-12:30 PM, Monday, March 19, 18 | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | Clementine is having a not so good of a day, but this spunky 8-year-old doesn’t let a trip to the principal’s office get her down.

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Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball.wordpress.com/ Salsa Night at Agava | 10:00 PM-1:00 AM, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Join an awesome dance crowd at Ithaca’s signature Latin dance party. Arrive early, 10pm, for introductory Salsa dance lesson and workshops.

Permission to Dance | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St,

Hangar Theatre, Ithaca March 16 and 17, 7 p.m.

Mimi Quillin recreates the Bob Fosse classic, Sweet Charity. Using her skills as a dancer and performer, Quillin takes her audience back to the ’80s, with sharp poses and clever choreography. This show is a part of the CaberETC series at the Hangar Theatre, which will continue throughout the rest of the season.

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“When you get to the end of an Agatha Christie mystery and there’s 19 people who could have done it,” says Greene, laughing, “the first time you see it, it’s very unlikely that you’ll get it. But if you watch it again or become

Ithaca | Remanu Panther and Cornell Dancers’ Alliance presents Permission to Dance. All styles welcome (and we mean it!).

Open Mike Night | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Dryden Community Center Cafe, 1 W Main St, Dryden | Come share your songs, stories, poems and enjoy your favorite coffee or tea and delicious homemade baked goods. Contact Arron Bound by telephone at (607) 844-1500 or by email at manager@1westmain@ gmail.com.

Winter Farmers Market | Saturday, March 17, 18 | Ithaca Farmers Market, 545 3rd Street, Ithaca | The Ithaca Farmers Market, indoors during the winter months.

Enfield Community Conversation & Dish to Pass | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Enfield Valley Grange, 178 Enfield Main Road, Ithaca | The Grange invites all Enfield residents to come together on January 21 for our first monthly Town Potluck.

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place in the Tortellini corner market.

“It’s a small market, with underpaid workers, who are the audience,” says Greene. “There’s a large corporate entity called Price Slasher, which wants to come in and take over the corner market because they want that location, and to eliminate the competition. The owner of the market, Papa Tortellini, doesn’t want to sell out, but Mama Tortellini kind of likes the idea of having a lot of money. Then there’s a character who claims to be a NYS health inspector who’s really an agent for Price Slasher.

There’s a marketing agent trying to help the market, and there’s a farmer who provides fresh produce.”

Acme started in February 1997.

They are a full-service repertory company that can drop in and play just about anywhere in any space, whether it be a bed and breakfast, a farmhouse or even a country club.

Their stock in trade is interactive comedies in the mystery format, almost always in conjunction with a dinner.

“They’re fun and funny, and they play on two levels,” Greene says. “You can sit and laugh and have fun and drink, but also, there’s a real mystery taking place, and at the end of the second act, you get a chance to guess who you think did it and why. They’re funny, but there really is a puzzle. There’s a chance to solve a mystery, and at the end of

an aficionado, then you start to see things. You start to follow things. But for what we do, where you have to give the audience a fair chance to guess it, we have to do it differently. There’s no Hercule Poirot to come out at the end with five pages telling you exactly what happened. We don’t have the time for that, or the inclination.”•

PM-6:00 PM, Monday, March 19, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Middle and high school-aged students (and homeschooled equivalents) are invited to participate in after school gaming sessions. Use our space to play your favorite board games, tabletop RPGs and collectible card games.

Blood Drive | 1:30 PM-6:30 PM, Tuesday, March 20, 18 | Enfield Fire Hall, 172 Enfield Main Rd, Ithaca | Call The American Red Cross at 273-1900 for an appointment. Walk-ins are always welcome. Thank you for your support.

Special Events Cayuga Nature Center’s Maple Fest! | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Pancake breakfast, live music, vendors and education activities for all ages. Feast

on pancakes, maple syrup, apple crisp, sausage, Copper Horse coffee and orange juice.

2018 Foodnet Meals on Wheels Mac n’ Cheese Bowl | 11:30 AM-2:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | 19 local restaurants and vendors will be whipping up their version of everyone’s favorite comfort food. Come for the tastings, live music, raffles and more!

Sixth Annual Finger Lakes Crossword Competition | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Boynton Middle School, 1601 N Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Individuals, or teams of up to four, are invited to compete for prizes in one of three levels of difficulty.

This year’s event will include a silent auction, a 10 minute hilarious play (about puzzles), other games, raffles, drawings and more.

St. Patrick’s Day Dinner & Celtic Jam at the Grange | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Enfield Valley Grange Hall, 178 Enfield Main Road, Ithaca | Serving corned beef and

Cayuga Nature Center’s Annual Maple Fest, Cayuga Nature Center, Ithaca Saturday, March 17, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Everything maple for all ages, all day. The annual Maple Fest will feature a pancake breakfast complete with apple crisp, sausage, coffee, orange juice and maple syrup. At noon, Brian Chabott from Cornell will give a talk called “Maple and Climate,” and there will also be a sugaring demonstration and live animals.

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cabbage dinner along with dessert and lots of Celtic fiddle tunes on the side.

Feel free to bring your fiddle, guitar, pennywhistle, bodhran or whatever you like to jam with! Youth musicians are especially welcome!

Dead Meat Murder Mystery Dinner | 6:30 PM-9:30 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Papa’s counting on you, his loyal employees, to help sort out all these steaks from sausages.

Books Better Together: Restoring Community : An Adult Reading & Discussion Series | 7:00 PM, Thursday, March 15, 18 | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | The Southworth Library presents an adult reading and discussion series to explore civic disengagement, social connections and community revival.

Health Inspire the Fire Yoga | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Generate some heat and feel your empowered body flow in this invigorating one-hour yoga session.

Tai Chi for Arthritis | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street, Candor | Basic class (falling prevention course). Contact 607-659-3022 or sueheaven@gmail. com Introductory Qigong Class | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, March 14, 18 | T-Fit, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | For more info or to register call or text Shawn Tubridy @ (607) 279-6543.

Inspire the Fire Yoga | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Generate some heat and feel your empowered body flow in this invigorating one-hour yoga session.

Saturday Sweat Yoga | 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Bringing together vinyasa flow yoga and energizing breathing to generate and sustain energy, clarity, and radiance.

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Gunpoets will perform 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 17, at The Dock. Thru Spectrums will open for the local hip-hop group. (Photo provided)

Yoga Farm | 9:00 AM-11:15 AM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Sacred Sundays Community at Yoga Farm. All are Welcome.Discover Your Self & Awaken Your Kindest HumanityPray. Move. Sit. Connect.

Open Meditation | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice.

24 Forms Tai Chi (Yang style) | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Monday, March 19, 18 || Monday & Wednesday 2-3 pm at Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street. Contact 607-659-3022 or sueheaven@gmail.com Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, March 19, 18 | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Open “Big Book” OA 12-Step meeting. Contact Leigh 379-4858.

Science Maple Weekend at Wellspring Forest Farm | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | Wellspring Forest Farm , 6164 Deer Run Lane, Trumansburg | Guided toursof the sugarbush at 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm, and 2:30pm; tastings and sales of maple sap, maple syrup, and maple cake balls; live Music from Travis Knapp (10am – 12pm) and Better Weather String Band (12pm on) and more.

Discovery Sundays | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Sunday, March 18, 18 | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Learn about exoskeletons, butterflies, skin and skulls, whooping cranes and much more. Visit www. cayuganaturecenter.org for details.

Learning Know Your Soil | Wednesday, March 14, 18 | CCE Tompkins, 615 Willow

Avenue, Ithaca | Participants can bring in soil samples from their own gardens and will learn to assess the texture, color, drainage, fertility, pH and type of soil.

Genealogy Skill Building Workshop

by Susan Nixson | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Thursday, March 15, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Susan Nixson holds a Certificate in Genealogical Research from Boston University, and she started a genealogy services business, Charting Origins, in 2017.

American Sign Language Class | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, March 15, 18 | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Meet the instructors, find out about course content, get tips from staff who have taken the class.

Activist/Actress/Director/Writer Rhodessa Jones talk | 4:30 PM, Tuesday, March 20, 18 | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Jones is Co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco acclaimed performance company Cultural Odyssey.

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Maker’s March | Wednesday, March 14, 18 | Inns of Aurora, 391 Main Street, Aurora | Aurora is filled with and surrounded by passionate and talented makers herbalists, potters, painters, book artists, cocktail crafters and more.

29th Annual Juried Photography Show | Thursday, March 15, 18 | State

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IU: Desertion Trio, BRIAN! Lady D & The Shadow Spirits,

Ithaca High School Saturday March 17 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Casita Del Polaris, Ithaca Sunday, March 18 7:30-10:30 p.m.

More than 19 local restaurants will craft mac and cheese recipes in this cookoff. Visitors will vote on which dish they think is best. The Bowl supports meal delivery, and nutrition services for older adults and others in Tompkins County who are unable to cook or shop for their daily meals.

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Ithaca Underground staples and local favorites will perform this Sunday at Casita Del Polaris. Each band in the showcase embodies different genres of music, from math rock to indie pop. These artists craft original work and compositions — unlike the type of music that frequents most bars.

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Magic Tree House Adventures | Wednesday, March 14, 18 | Southworth Library, 24 W Main St, Dryden | Each month through June, we will read an exciting adventure and do activities from the fact finders. Practice writing in Chinese, learn how dolphins swim and visit snakes with Grey Biological and their reptiles.

Sciencenter Science Together | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, March 15, 18 | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers as you investigate science processes through self-guided, hands-on activities. Learn a different science process each week and discover ways to keep the science fun going at home.

Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, March 15, 18 | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Older children read for younger children, modeling success for their peers. Build a fun project out of one of our 1,000-piece kits while you have a snack.

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and babies up to 24 months old are invited to Baby Storytime.

Ithaca Forest Preschool Open House | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Saturday, March 17, 18 | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Rd, Ithaca | Join IFP for an Open House Saturday. Learn about the forest preschool program for ages 3-5 and meet the staff.

Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Monday, March 19, 18 | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Early literacy education thru reading, writing, talking, singing and playing, combined with a healthy snack and a quick hello to our resident turtle Ted, prepare your child for success in school.

Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | On exhibit are 76 photographs by photographers from NYC, Long Island, Rochester and the Ithaca area.

Docent-led Tour of Jeff Donaldson Dig | 6:00 PM-, Thursday, March 15, 18 | Everson Museum Of Art Of Syracuse And Onodaga, 401 Harrison St, Syracuse | This exhibition, the first museum retrospective of American artist Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), explores four decades of the artist’s career, spanning from his activist roots in Chicago as a founding member of the AfriCOBRA movement to his influence on future generations of artists as a professor at Howard University.

The World Bewitch’d: Visions of Witchcraft from the Cornell Collections | Friday, March 16, 18 | Hirshland Exhibition Gallery, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | The exhibition features rare and unique books and documents from 15th-century witch hunting manuals to 20th-century movie posters.

Landscape Paintings by Annemiek Haralson | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main Street, Trumansburg | Now through the end of March, the Trumansburg library is featuring an exhibit of landscape paintings by Annemiek Haralson.

Fantastical Beasts and Wondrous Worlds Artist’s Reception | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Friday, March 16, 18 | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Artist’s reception on Friday, March 16, 5-7 pm. This exhibit, Fantastical Beasts and Wondrous Worlds, features a mix of book arts, ceramics, paintings, relief prints, and paintings by Mariann Loveland, Jenny Pope, Lin Price, Margaret Reed, Sylvia Taylor, and Teresa Yatsko. Exhibit on view March 6 - 31.

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