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The people have spoken

Local group preps for pro debut

Ithacan gets 3rd at Pan American games

A pitcher plant greenhouse in T-burg

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lease feel free to BOMBARD them with calls and mail,” read the first tweet.

A snapshot of three cards followed, emblazoned with, “Trump is a Douchebag,” “Trump is an Evil Motherf***er,” (sans censorship) and another “Trump is a Douchebag,” though the cards are uncensored.

And viewers did bombard the store. In a 24-hour span last week, Mockingbird Paperie, an eclectic stationery store nestled on the Commons in downtown Ithaca, has received nearly 100 calls and emails from people around the country.

The cards aren’t new—the paperie has sold them for more than two years, since just after President Donald Trump was elected. The greeting cards, which follow their Oval Office quip with a greeting, like “Happy Anniversary!” are just a new rendition of the ancient tradition of political satire, owner Suzanne Loesch said.

Before this week, the cards were a crowd favorite; they are Mockingbird’s best-selling card and are restocked more than any other, Loesch said. But she’s taking the cards down for now.

Loesch and her husband, Tim Horner, insisted that they weren’t responding this way because of the bombardment of calls and mail, but because of the “civil, thoughtful conversations” they had shared with some callers.

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Ryan Georgia, hard at work tending to his fleet of ferocious plants. (Photo by Casey Martin)

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n summer, plants have already bloomed and the sweet scent of flowers fill the air. However, there is one particular sweet scent coming from a Trumansburg greenhouse that means something different. It means several pitcher plants are attempting to attract small insects and, depending on their size, small mammals as well. These plants in question are nepenthes, or

pitcher plants.

A pitcher plant is a carnivorous plant that lures prey by emitting a sweet smell from inside its pitcher, which is filled with a viscoelastic liquid that dissolves any prey that fall into it. These plants are primarily found in the tropical islands of the South Pacific Ocean.

Ryan Georgia is a horticulturist and owner of Native Exotics, an online plant shop

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with a greenhouse in Trumansburg that deals specifically in nepenthes and other plants.

His interest in plants began as a child when a home economics teacher introduced him to Mary Alyce Kobler, who managed the Boyce Thompson Institute research greenhouses at Cornell University. For five summers, he worked with her and graduate students at the Kenneth Post Laboratories and the Boyce Thompson Institute,

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a community dinner. It’s being held at the historic Southside Community Center, where CUMEP is housed. The program seeks to provide education in music and arts for local children, particularly those in downtown Ithaca who might not normally have access to such classes.

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Ithaca law firm unites into one West End office

By C a se y Mar tin

IF YOU WERE A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER, WHAT WOULD YOUR AT-BAT WALK UP SONG BE?

“Fire – Jimi Hendrix” -Mickey Q.

“Spirit In The Sky – Norman Greenbaum” -Travis

“The Distance – Cake”

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he Ithaca branch of law firm Coughlin and Gerhart has moved to the West End at 798 Cascadilla St. as part of its plan to consolidate offices. Previously, the firm operated three offices around the city, which complicated operations for its attorneys, as the lawyers were unable to collaborate if a client had multiple issues with several different parts of the law.

Mark Gorgos, a managing partner at Coughlin and Gerhart’s Binghamton office, determined this was a necessary move after noticing a lack of efficiency. “[Y]ou lose a lot of synergies when you do that,” Gorgos said. “We had leases that weren’t necessarily ending on the same date, so we had to wait for those lease periods to become co-terminus. That finally happened in 2019, and it was something we’d been planning for a while. Now, here we are and it’s been an exciting 120 days.”

Coughlin and Gerhart is organized into six practice groups: business and banking

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Coughlin and Gerhart has added their law offices to the West End, part of a growing development trend pushed by the City of Ithaca. (Photo by Casey Martin)

law, labor and employment law, litigation, public law, real estate, and trusts and estates.

Although there isn’t a lawyer at the Ithaca branch for certain parts of the law, the larger Binghamton office is able to collaborate with Ithaca’s branch regularly.

“We don’t have an attorney here that specializes in labor law, but we’ve got four attornies there that do that,” Gorgos said. “We can bring the

Saga Continues

Green Street Garage discussions continue, but no resolution yet

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thacans will have to wait at least a bit longer to find out what will be the actual Green Street Garage redevelopment.

While the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency (IURA) and development firm Vecino continue ironing out the final details of the redevelopment plan, which would bring hundreds of units of affordable housing to the Ithaca Commons, the IURA met Thursday to provide an update on the negotiations and sticking points. A quick vote at the beginning of the 31–Au g us t

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discussion established a new negotiation deadline, which was set to expire in the next few days but has now been stretched until Aug. 29.

IURA Economic Development Committee Chair Chris Proulx said progress is being made, and the issues discussed certainly seemed minor in nature, but that both sides wanted more clarity on the conference center issue before proceeding.

IURA Executive Director Nels Bohn said the ongoing tweaks to the project haven’t

expertise of our larger office here to Ithaca. We do that all the time. We bring attornies up from the Binghamton office that specializes in legal matters that are covered by one of the resident attorneys here. It’s really the best of both worlds for the client.”

A major reason for acquiring the spaces was to be a part of the rising development of Ithaca’s West End. One issue it did encounter in deciding on a detracted from its overall mission, which is basically to provide a substantial amount of affordable housing as well as rehabilitate the Green Street Garage, provide parking spots and potentially construct a conference center.

“It’s still consistent with the original vision of the project,” Bohn said. “But one of the issues that has come up is, the conference center project is very difficult to finance, and [Vecino needs] to know if we want the conference center or not.”

Those financing issues, which have to do with securing grant funding, are at the center of the continuing talks. Vecino has presented the City of Ithaca with three proposal options, one that includes a conference center and two that are meant

new office was parking, which can often be a problem.

“Parking is primo,” Gorgos said. “That was the number one priority. That kind of drove our office search. There were some beautiful office spaces that had one or two parking places.

That means clients are parking somewhere two blocks down the road or on the fourth floor of the parking garage. And, that might be okay in July, that just does not work well for an 85-year-old client.”

Another challenge Coughlin and Gerhart faced was time, mostly due to a compressed construction schedule.

The contractors only had 120 days to build the new space.

With a seemingly impossible time schedule in place, there was skepticism over whether or not the project would be completed and the site is still somewhat incomplete. The firm is still meeting with the City of Ithaca’s building department over signage. At this point, though, the construction will be completed in over two weeks.

E dw i n J. Vi er a as alternatives in case the conference center proves to be too financially dicey. To review, the three proposals include: • Version 1.1 - one 49,000 square-foot (SF) conference center, 218 units of affordable housing, 350 parking spaces and 11 stories total.

• Version 2.1 - 173 units of affordable housing, 9,000 SF of retail space, parking spaces, eight stories total.

• Version 2.2 - 273 units of affordable housing, 9,000 SF of retail space, parking spaces, 12 stories total.

While a decision wasn’t made, some interesting subplots have developed as the city mulls its choices and awaits a second conference center study continued on page 10

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Demand Grows for Ithaca Conference Center

Ithacan wins bronze medal at PanAmerican Games

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he City of Ithaca has recently received the results of a followup feasibility and demand analysis to determine the local market for a conference center as the city’s long flirtation with bringing a large-scale event space to Ithaca heats up.

If anything, the results of the study serve to reinforce the first study’s findings, which were released in 2017: Ithaca can handle, and even greatly benefit from, a conference center, and the market’s demand is actually markedly higher than previously determined.

Conducted by Hunden Strategic Partners, the second study presented three sets of numbers for conference center usage: best case, middle and worst case. Using the middle numbers, Hunden projected 27 major conferences per year and 180 total events, a substantial increase from the 2017 projections.

Additionally, Hunden found that in order to differentiate itself, Ithaca’s conference center should likely be built larger than other similar event spaces in the region. That fits with what the City of Ithaca has already asked of Vecino, the presumptive developer of the Green Street Garage, which initially met the city’s request of 30,000 square feet (SF) before expanding the proposed center to 49,000 SF at the city’s request. That would easily be the largest in the Southern Tier, more than doubling the Doubletree Hilton in Binghamton, and would be the seventh largest in all of upstate New York.

As for ballroom space, which is theoretically meant to host the largest events, that would also be one of the most sizable in operation around Upstate New York, as the Green Street Garage proposal is

12,285 SF. It would hold 817 people banquet-style or 1,117 theater-style. It’s a two-floor proposal, with ballroom space on the second floor and meeting space on the ground floor.

“If Ithaca is able to develop a conference center with a ballroom of 10,000 SF or larger, it would be amongst the largest facilities in the state outside of the New York City metropolitan area,” the study states. “As designed, the proposed conference center will have more than a 12,000-SF ballroom.”

As the conference center proposal progresses, even with alternatives still on the table, there was a clear sense among city officials publicly that they wanted deeper and more current information than had been included in the initial demand study. That’s especially true since, as Downtown Ithaca Alliance Executive Director Gary Ferguson noted, there is now a specific location on the table at the Green Street Garage, whereas the previous study did not pinpoint any tangible spot for the center to be built.

That could also explain the higher demand results, Ferguson said.

“In their revisit of the materials and looking at the marketplace, they came back and said ‘You need a bigger facility, and it should be around 49,000 square feet,’” Ferguson said.

“That way, the hotels would be supportive, as you’re not cannibalizing them. You’re giving them a new product that they would not otherwise have been able to get.”

According to the study, it would take until the fourth year of operation for the conference center to stabilize, at which point it would run at an annual deficit of $225,000.

That’s not unusual for the industry, according to Ferguson, and the losses

incurred there would be made up for in general economic stimulation from the crowds attracted by the conference center’s events, boosting revenue in lodging, local restaurants, etc.

According to the report, a conference center at the proposed size would generate annual attendance of 62,600 people and 22,000 new annual room nights.

Hunden’s study states that, without a competitively sized facility currently, 5,300 room nights are lost each year.

The largest question that remains, about any conference center proposal going forward but specifically the Green Street Garage proposal, is funding. The city is currently up for a $10 million grant from New York State, called the Downtown Revitalization Initiative, and recently submitted a Consolidated Funding Application to the state for $5 million. The former will be announced in the coming weeks, but the latter grant won’t be announced until December.

That cuts it quite close to the Jan. 31, 2020 deadline set by Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency Director Nels Bohn, by which he said a final decision needs to be made about whether to proceed with the conference center as part of the Green Street Garage redevelopment, or to continue with one of the alternatives.

“At the end of the day, can we do it?” Ferguson said. “The answer is twofold. We have to produce that new funding stream, which I think we can do but it would take some work to pull that together.

Secondly, we have to get some grant support. That’s the wild card—if we get to the end of January and we don’t have it, I don’t know what to do. But we are making every effort now to turn over every stone.”

jeyikowoicho “EJ” Onah, of Ithaca, took home the bronze medal in the women’s long jump at the recent Pan American U20 Athletics Championships.

A former member of the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) Navigators youth athletic program, she spoke about her athletic life, the competition and more during a press conference at GIAC on July 24.

The competition was held in Costa Rica during the weekend of July 20-21.

The event is a biennial competition for track and field athletes under age 20 from the Americas. Onah became interested in track and field through the Navigators program after realizing it was one of the few sports that involved running where a ball wasn’t involved. In high school, Onah ran for the Ithaca Little Red under field events coach John Baker, who spoke about Onah as an athlete.

“EJ was probably one of the most coachable kids we had in high school,” Baker said. “Whatever you ask of her, there was never a why or an ‘I can’t.’ It was ‘Okay, I’ll try and do it,’ and she did. She deserves all the credit, because as coaches, we give them guidance, but they have to get out and execute it and this is what comes to kids who work hard.”

At the Pan American competition, Onah was given six jump attempts divided into two rounds, the first three being preliminary attempts and then another three for having one of the longest jumps of contestants in the first round. Her longest jump during the competition was the fourth one. Onah’s personal record is 6.15 meters, or 19 feet and 5 inches. If she had jumped her personal best in Costa Rica, she would have tied for first place with Claire Bryant, also representing the United States. In the moment of receiving her medal and her American flag, Onah had only one thing on her mind.

“I just kept thinking about my mom, who was back home,” she said. “She was at my big meets and this was the first or one of the first few big meets that she wasn’t at.

I just kept thinking, ‘Oh my God, I can’t wait to show my mom.’ My coach ended up calling her ahead of me, so by the time I got to her she was already partially in tears and ready to congratulate me.”

Today, Onah maintains a rigid training regimen to keep her skills and stamina sharp. She trains six days per week, Monday through Saturday, and lifts three times per week. She also has technique sessions twice a week, practicing long jumps spe-

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▶▶ Thumbs Up - Harmful algal blooms (HABs) are back in full force this summer, with more popping up all over Cayuga Lake. Thankfully, though, there’s tireless work being done by the Community Science Institute to show when and where potential or confirmed HABs have been found in Cayuga Lake, which has proven a vital resource for those wanting to track the trends of HABs this year, like us.

▶▶ Thumbs Down - We don’t normally double-up between articles and this section, but the truly ridiculous reaction to the anti-Donald Trump merchandise in Mockingbird Paperie deserves a second helping. There’s nothing more gratingly annoying than bad faith boot-quaking over “divisive rhetoric” from the same groups who were buying toilet paper with Barack Obama’s face printed on it. ▶▶ Seen - The student rental housing project at 815 S. Aurora St. is still in the review process, but it looks like it could be another flashpoint for debate over development in the City of Ithaca. Plenty of people have shown up to meetings over the past few months to voice their displeasure, and if the project has to go through Common Council, which was mentioned at last week’s Planning Board, the brighter spotlight will only increase the intensity of the debate. Get ready.

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Staycation

From the Caribbean to the Esty Street Garden E

By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

By M a rjor i e Z . O l d s

sty Street Garden Coordinator Renny John’s path from his Caribbean home to Ithaca has been steep, winding and colorful. Settling into Ithaca, Renny has already begun to teach us that a green space turned into a community garden can offer environmental, social, and nutritional benefits with fun and flair. Thanks to the generosity of Community Federal Credit Union, GreenStar Community Projects, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, GIAC and Loaves and Fishes, the Esty Street Garden is already a lively, lush community treasure.

Renny was born in 1978 in Trinidad, his mother’s home, nearby Tobago, his father’s home in the Caribbean. In 1996, he and his sisters joined his father in NYC. “We lived in a basement as we worked our way up in Brooklyn,” he says. Renny decided he must also get a college degree, but since his family faced lean times, Renny worked nights while attending school. “During those years, I would work overnight as a stock associate at FAO

Schwarz and Niketown, NY,” Renny says.

“Over those college years, I also did nighttime surveys in New York City of populations that were most impacted by HIV/ AIDS. I worked with Healthy Homes programs to help needy people get medical care while reducing visits to emergency rooms. I worked for the HIV prevention STAR Program at SUNY Downstate Medical Center’s PrEP and Pep program. I did a daytime internship at the Kingsborough Community College Urban Farm in Brooklyn […] I have worked in every field except for fast food.”

“In 2008, I had my son Jared, who had severe medical needs at first,” Renny says.

“I would work 11 p.m. to 8 a.m., spend some time with my son, go to school during the day, come home, do homework, be with my son, and go back to work. I graduated from Kingsborough Community College with an associate’s degree in community health in 2015 and received a bachelor of science from Brooklyn Col-

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thaca is the kind of place people visit for summer vacation, with its fulsome features of natural beauty, broad cultural and culinary offerings, surplus of water and wine, and idyllic disposition.

Therefore if you’re a local and can’t get away for vacation, do as the non-Romans do, and rather than as your residence, for a few days regard Ithaca freshly as a site of recreation, in all senses of the word.

In Ithaca there are many engaging things to do that residents don’t often do, which was reinforced for me this summer with out-of-town visitors.

Some things I could foresee. For instance, my friends wanted to “be near water.”

We were doing lots of things and had limited time, so a trip of a few miles to Treman or Taughannock Park seemed undue (also because these state parks charge to park, no matter how briefly you stay).

I thought about Stewart Park, closer and free, at the foot of Cayuga Lake, but wondered if droppings from its large goose population might sully a care-free traipse there.

Plus, I figured, lots of places have flat water like the lake’s; in Ithaca we have water that moves. So I took them to Cascadilla Falls and its gorge trail.

It might seem a modest site, but my guests were quite taken by it, the unspoiled, unexpected splendor in the center of town.

We had parked just a block away, but around a bend that keeps the water from sight until right upon it.

“There’s a waterfall around here?” one guest asked, emerging from the car in a residential neighborhood.

“Well, there used to be,” I said, stalling for time until we took the requisite few steps to spot it.

“Wow!” exclaimed my guest upon espying its surprise.

“Good, it’s still here,” I said, the knowing naturalist.

Something else foreseeable was the desire for a meal at Moosewood, the venerable vegetarian restaurant. (Pleasingly to homeboy host, the guests proved interested only in the eating experience inside, not the selfie one outside.)

Something unforeseen was the wish to see Barton Hall. The request stemmed not from the building’s architectural pedigree as once the largest unpillared superstructure in the world, but from its status as the site, in 1977, of a legendary Grateful Dead concert that is among the most famous in rock history, preserved in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

My friend, somewhat of a Dead fan, said he listened to a recording of this show at least once a month.

(Here, I believe, some selfies were taken by the guests, but the host didn’t [or wouldn’t have] minded.)

For yourself as a guest in your own town, if you have a bit of money and time, you might consider the full Ithaca staycation plunge of renting a lake house.

(Actually, of course, such a move requires more than a bit of these resources to engineer adequately, but probably not as much as most trips away.)

You can maximize the choices and maybe minimize the expense by starting a search early. Currently I have a friend from downtown Ithaca staying in a splendid location on the east shore who benefitted by testing the waters (so to speak) in the vacation rental market a full year in advance, and offering to pay in advance for commensurate terms and sundries.

A nice feature of a staycation is that you needn’t waste time seeking out prime local amenities. You already know the good places to go for food, supplies, and services.

You don’t have to rely on hit-or-miss online reviews for restaurant recommendations; you already know the good places you haven’t been to, or back to recently enough.

You know a wide gamut of near places to visit, or revisit.

There’s the Johnson Art Museum, with paintings by Monet and Degas, O’Keefe and Warhol; photographs by Berenice Abbott, Robert Frank, Alfred Stieglitz, and Garry Winogrand; and much else, including the building’s own award-winning architecture and panoramic views.

There’s the Cornell Botanic Gardens, with its historically-curated herb garden, vast arboretum (which even includes, for benighted ex-city dwellers such as me, an Urban Tree collection), and (let me blithely express my natural-world nescience) lots of nice flowers.

There’s the Sciencenter, the Farmers Market, and the Kitchen and Hangar Theatres.

A short drive away are the Corning Museum of Glass; minor league baseball in Binghamton and Syracuse; and in Elmira, Mark Twain’s grave (my first dedicated day trip ever from Ithaca).

With a staycation, you might not get away from it all, but you can get away from it most. Meanwhile you might see, in your departure from departure, much of what the tourists see in Ithaca, literally and figuratively.

gardener. When not working at the Esty Street Garden, the father and son like to Contin u ed From Page 6 swim at the Alex Haley Pool and shoot hoops at GIAC. lege in public health in 2018.”

“I care deeply about what goes on in John said he never thought he would the larger community,” Renny says. “How get into an Ivy League school, but he’s do we help each other to have and mainalready completed his first year in the tain healthy lives? Community gardens public health program at Cornell Uniplay a part in that story […] Everyone rich and poor needs healthy food.

In the garden, I will be working with middle and high school kids who come to Esty Street Garden via the Learning Web, Youth Employment Services, or GIAC’s wonderful network. Some of the kids have a few male role models, so this job is a good fit. If we are determined, we can get ahead and help others along the way.”

“This year, we Renny John behind info table at Esty Street Garden include as many kids as possible.

When we are not gardening, we will host speakers from all corners of versity. To make money on the side, he the community, and we will visit other worked nights as a registrar in an emeryouth garden projects. We are a small gency room. piece of the community story, but as we Jared, 11, lives most of the year in garden together, learn together, have fun Charlotte, North Carolina, but Renny together, we will make new friendships to brings his son up to Ithaca whenever he enrich our community.” can—and this summer, Jared is a master RENNY JOHN

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a conversation with the concerned caller about their beliefs. And some conversations became nuanced and thoughtful, Loesch said, recalling a conversation she had with a veteran from Arizona.

The veteran was concerned about the colorful language of the card and the level of political divisiveness in the country.

“We both thanked each other for being polite and courteous to one another and it made me feel really good,” Loesch said.

It was reflective conversations like those, some of which went on for 15 minutes, that motivated Loesch to stop selling the cards for now, the couple said.

Not all the feedback has been so courteous, though.

People responded passionately after Facebook and Twitter posts of the cards went viral—some from behind anonymous accounts, like @AmericasPresidentDonaldJTrump—sharing pictures of the cards criticizing the President. At publication time, the post had collected more than a thousand shares and comments on

Facebook. Commenters called the cards “disturbing,” “disgusting,” and implored readers to post negative comments on the store’s Facebook page.

Loesch disabled Mockingbird’s online page, saying that the flooding of comments was overwhelming. The couple has talked to local law enforcement, and while customers continued to stream into the store on Wednesday, they had locked the front door.

“There’s a sense of vulnerability, because people are threatening terrible things,” Horner said. “Now, most of them are threatening it from 2,000 miles away, but you never know who’s going to be inspired by [that].”

The couple had considered a range of responses, like plastering the cards over the door, which they deemed would be “unproductive,” or starting a new line of presidential cards featuring actual quotes from the President, which might still be featured in the future.

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n July 11, the Ithaca Times reported that Cornell University is under federal investigation for receiving undisclosed gifts and contracts from Qatar and China. As students carrying the torch for the decades-old campaign to uncover the truth about our university’s shady operations in Qatar, we would like to provide additional insights into the implications of this historic development.

Since Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar (WCM-Q) opened operations in the Education City district bordering Qatar’s capital in 2002, students and faculty alike began to cry afoul — and for reasons we now have more evidence than ever to believe are justified. For one, how could a university that prides itself on its egalitarian values possibly share joint management of WCM-Q with the blood-soaked Qatar Foundation, an arm of a criminal royal family? The campus community raised this pressing concern and many others, though to little avail. Carry on, we were told; there’s simply nothing to see here.

But we have refused to lie down in submission, and our longstanding laborfocused ‘Qatar Campaign’ has achieved considerable successes. Among them was our discovery that Education City officials host regular ‘President’s Council’ meetings in conjunction with Qatari royal Sheika Moza. Could these closed-door forums, ostensibly used to manage the Education City enterprise, have been used to facilitate Cornell’s alleged financial crimes with Gulf elites? Or could the conspiracy our Ivy League university stands accused of been organized through even more discreet channels?

It’s worth noting that between 2011 and 2018, renewed student efforts to secure WCM-Q transparency have been met by university officials with deflections and mistruths of disturbing proportions.

Among the most notorious was the Office of the President’s bizarre insistence that PAN AMERICA Contin u ed From Page 5

cifically.

At the competition, Onah also got to see several people from previous international meets and was glad to be surrounded by people she knew. Onah did have a problem with the language barrier, since most of the referees and officials primarily spoke Spanish, which she said inhibited her preparation.

Currently, Onah is a student at the University of Albany with a major in business administration and a concentration in marketing. She has considered going into microfinancing and investment, since she has always been interested in stocks and bonds. For her short term goals, Onah wants to be in the top 20 of the National Ju ly

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Ithaca and Doha-based Cornell employees have identical labor rights—an impossibility given that Qatar-based workers enjoy only a tiny fraction of the worker protections enshrined in American law, including the right to organize. Perhaps more sinister was Cornell’s claim that it receives confirmation of “the delivery of benefits” to WCM-Q’s migrant laborers directly from those workers’ managers— meaning that it takes the word of effective human traffickers who have ample reason to lie.

Beyond their muddied bad-faith assertions, administrators have been loathe to acknowledge firsthand documentations of brutal working conditions at WCM-Q and the Education City neighborhood that comprises it. Never mind the International Trade Union Confederation’s confirmation of worker abuses on the campus’s grounds; or the Cornell alum’s much-publicized firsthand account of worker dehumanization in its research centers; or the choir of international labor experts challenging the ethicality of collaboration with a regime built on the mass exploitation of migrant workers.

So as administrators fight tooth-andnail against the pending federal lawsuit, let’s remember that this isn’t university leadership’s first rodeo with regards to criminal actions in its foreign entanglements. That being said, history tells us that even the most sinister institutional practices can be crushed by the weight of collective power.

As students, we refuse to let our university legitimize this horrific regime any further. We stand resolute in our determination to uncover the full truth about the WCM-Q enterprise that our tuition supports, and even more pertinently, to secure a third-party investigation into working conditions on the Doha campus.

The reckonings our $7 billion Ivory Tower shall face in forthcoming court proceedings will be far from the last ones.

Christopher Hanna People’s Organizing Collective at Cornell University Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rankings for the long jump. Then, she wants to qualify for the NCAA’s national competition, which requires a top 16 ranking. Long term, Onah wants to represent the USA in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

Some advice she gave for people looking to compete on her level is to keep dreaming big.

“Just dream big and also, follow your gut. Sometimes when you think too hard about things, you get caught up in what you can’t do. But, thinking positively helps because you think about what you can’t do based on past experience. In the past, you couldn’t do it but who’s to say in the future you can’t?”

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Full Circle

Once kicked out of CARS recovery, Michael Ingiosi now carries the message.

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elaxed, Michael Ingiosi sits in his office within the winding halls of Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services (CARS). He’s spent plenty of time in this building, though only during the last three months has he had an office.

Prior to his hiring as a peer advocate, he was on the other side of CARS, a patient struggling to get clean just the same as the countless people who pass through the front door every day, seeking help from Ingiosi and others.

CARS is a drug rehabilitation facility at the corner of West State and Plain Streets, a haven in downtown Ithaca for those battling addiction and one of the faces of the recovery community in the city. It was there that Ingiosi spent part of his recovery years ago, and he’s come a long way since: He received his three-year chip on July 26 at a crowded ceremony, marking three years of sobriety for him and celebrating nine others who were also receiving chips for various thresholds of sobriety. His parents and partner, Sarah, were in attendance at the closed-door proceedings.

The day was clearly significant to Ingiosi, as it was the first time he had invited his parents up for one of the ceremonies, which are held monthly during someone’s first year of sobriety, then annually after that.

“It means regaining joint custody of my sons, being an active, positive part of their life,” he said. “Being happy. Having a career here where I get to help people get healthy, sane, clear-headed again. It means all those things. I feel that every day, but it kind of commemorates it all into this day.

It was a painful time, but the journey had

Ingiosi’s path has one crucial element to start that way; my recovery—the early that most other people in addiction recovpart of it had to be spent in the hospital getting heart surgeries. But that’s okay. I’ve ery don’t face: a congenital heart defect, called aortic stenosis, which would require got a story now that can hopefully inspire others that they can overcome these things a heart surgery in his 30s. The surgery went very poorly, requiring numerous with help.” follow-up operations. The heart condition Ingiosi’s story is indeed inspiring, but prevented Ingiosi from being prescribed as is often the case with people who have anti-inflammatory medications because overcome struggles with addiction, that is of the inherent cardiovascular strain they partially due to how radically their lives carry, so doctors instead developed a more were torn apart by substance abuse. long-term prescription opioid prescripStarting in his teen years, Ingiosi’s first tion plan for Ingiosi. This, of course, sent issues with alcohol and other substances him deeper into the appeared, for which throes of addiche had sought and tion, this time with received treatmedical assistance ment. Since he was and approval. years removed from It started with a It still took time those troubles, it back injury at work, before Ingiosi realdidn’t strike him as after which he was ized the impact the likely that he would issued his first opioid drugs were having struggle again with prescription to deal on him. While his a different addicfriends and family tion. But it started with the pain. noticed almost imwith a back injury mediately that his at work, after which behavior prompthe was issued his ly turned erratic, first opioid prehyperactive and scription to deal with the pain, a story likely all too familiar obsessive (mostly about the pills), he was in a state of constant, drug-induced peace. to those who have dealt with painkiller There were plenty of shields for Ingiosi to dependency. Ingiosi wasn’t sober prior to put up, though he admits they were out of that prescription, but he also was able to denial: After all, he had hurt his back and effectively keep a lid on things and had a these were medically prescribed, so what family around him. was he supposed to do? Plus, he had lost “It felt like my life was manageable,” he his first love to a pill addiction in his 20s, said. “It quickly became unmanageable so he knew the risks. when opiates entered in [...] It was love at Ingiosi isn’t one to pick out single mofirst sight. Other people noticed that I did not react well to them, but I thought it was ments as “turning points” or use cinematic terms like that. But he knows what the best thing ever.”

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his rock bottom was. That came in the summer of 2016, when after six months of sobriety, helped by a routine of going to CARS, Ingiosi relapsed. This time, Ingiosi said, he wasn’t sure recovery would stick; it was like he “let a monster out of a cage, and he had me in a chokehold and wouldn’t let me go.” Before the six months of sobriety, Ingiosi’s addiction had expanded from solely pills to include abusing opana, a powerful prescription opioid, and shooting heroin, habits he returned to during the four-month relapse. That period hospitalized him at Cayuga Medical Center due to a series of breakdowns, got him booted from the CARS recovery program because he refused to seek inpatient treatment out of humiliation, lost all custody over his twin sons when his ex-wife discovered his condition, and was diagnosed with Hepatitis C, all in a span of four months.

The obstacles would continue to mount, even when Ingiosi again found sobriety, as 10 years of off-and-on drug addiction wrought its toll on his body. He had developed abscesses during his relapse, which became infected. As a result, a few months into his recovery he was diagnosed with endocarditis and sepsis, marked by constant weight loss and night sweats. Ingiosi spent his first several months of his current recovery in a hospital bed recuperating from a variety of addiction-related maladies and three open heart surgeries that took turns threatening to end his life.

“I felt like, maybe, I’m just not meant to get this,” Ingiosi said he felt at the time about his relapse and his chances of ever fully beating addiction. “I really did not feel hopeful about it. I felt broken. But by

though. Another contributing factor of In- joy he takes in family, in his boys, just in the time I decided I had to get clean, I was to stabilize oneself, but one way or anwaking up in the morning—it’s just heargiosi’s relapse was trying to help someone other, Ingoisi knows many of the patients very determined [...] Everyone hits some ing his voice with a lilt in it.” who was still using drugs before Ingiosi’s themselves, and they know him. kind of bottom, usually numerous botThe July 26th ceremony was toms, and there’s always a trap also attended by Clay Hapdoor there and it can always stak, who’s helped and been get worse.” helped by Ingiosi as both Sure, he had beaten his adnavigate addiction recovery. dictions before, but those vicWhen Hapstak first moved tories had only been tempoback to the area, he was conrary, and now he was in worse nected to Ingiosi through a shape than ever. While he lawyer they shared, and he doesn’t call it a “come to Jesus” used to ask Ingiosi for rides moment, it’s clear the loss of to recovery meetings durcustody of his sons might have ing his first months in town been the single most signifibecause he didn’t have a car. cant factor in his recovery. FiThey spent that time bonding, nally, in January 2017, Ingiosi a friendship built out of shared was released from the hospital struggles that still stands toand came back to Ithaca, divday, 18 months after Hapstak ing headfirst back into the recame to Ithaca from Syracuse. covery community.

Hapstak, who also works as Luckily, despite plenty of a peer advocate, credited Inself-doubt and the evaporagiosi with being an important tion of trust from those around part of his support system and him, Ingiosi slowly built himsaid their experiences fit well self back up. Earlier this year, with the responsibilities of the he was hired at CARS in the job. That’s perhaps even more newly created peer advocate true for Ingiosi, whose story position, part of a growing senof near-death and subsequent timent in the recovery comrecovery is about as intense as munity that people who are in they come. recovery themselves are quite “Mike, at one point, bepossibly the best equipped to ing on his death-bed,” Haphelp others who want to enter M i c h a e l I n g i o s i (c e n t e r) s u r r o u n d e d b y h i s s u p p o r t s y s t e m a f t e r h i s stak said, his voice trailing it also. The hiring carried some t h r e e y e a r c h i p c e r e m o n y l a s t w e e k . ( P h o t o B y C a s e y M a r t i n) off. “When the valleys are that symbolism for Ingiosi, too, as deep, it makes getting back to he was welcomed back to the level-ground an accomplishment, let alone recovery was stable enough, which helped “I know a lot of our clients already, same treatment facility he once fled out of the peaks that he’s been able to have in his lead him to start using again. When refrom meetings or other places around shame. life.” counting his journey, Ingiosi makes it a town,” Ingoisi said. “That gives me an in. I “So much of addiction is in hiding, it’s For Ingiosi, it’s about doing what many point to accept blame at nearly every turn don’t have to go through the awkward iniin shame, it’s in the closet, and it’s in the others have done before him in trying to of his story like accountability is a crucial dark,” Ingiosi said. “People are ashamed of tiation phase. [...] It’s like an easy way into contribute to the healing process of those component of his their comfort zone. it. I was ashamed of it. [...] But I’m willing who are facing the same challenges. But continued sobriI can relate to them, to talk about it—not just the overcoming, more specifically, he knows that he put ety. But whoever and they know I’ve the glory and the triumph, but the darkmany people through a lot of pain: himor whatever is to been through it.” ness.” blame, those closest self, his ex-wife, his parents and his chilIngiosi credits a As a peer advocate at CARS, Ingiosi has “So much of addiction to him glowingly dren especially, but virtually everyone else a wide range of duties. The position is new, lot of his continuted is in hiding, it’s in talk about his prog- around him too who, for a decade, despersobriety to his supso its responsibilities are flexible and inshame, it’s in the ately wanted to see him get back to being ress. volve quite a bit of getting out of the build- port structure. The the Michael Ingiosi that they knew. Now, “There’s joy in people he can lean ing and into the community. He attends closet, and it’s in the he’s putting in the work to repair things him, there’s happicourt hearings on behalf of clients to advo- on for support are dark,” with them (like recently regaining partial ness, even just since cate or provide updates to the legal system now so strong that -Ingiosi he got this job help- custody of his children) while trying to he says even the for them, meets with clients at CARS and ensure others don’t have to fall so far to ing others,” said his emotional toil of assists them with housing and legal issues, bounce back. mom, Barbara Inconstantly workinteracts with the Department of Social “All that pain and suffering was not giosi, of the differing around other Services, etc. Ingiosi is not a counselor, in vain,” Ingiosi said. “It’s providing me ences between now which can be both an advantage and a dis- people struggling a meaningful life today of helping other and when her son was addicted. “To see with addiction, plumbing depths that are advantage. Familiarity helps Ingoisi in his people. [...] I can use this gift to help oththat he respects himself again and takes quite close to the ones he’s intimately faprofessional life. Not only is he obviously care of himself [...] Everything went by the ers, and I believe you have to give it away miliar with, hasn’t pushed him to fall back familiar with the depths of addiction and to keep it.” wayside when he was a drug addict. The into old habits. It wasn’t always that way, the struggles that can come with attempts Ju ly

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helping them with their graduate projects.

This planted the seed, so to speak, and inspired him to continue the work. As he got older, a trip to the island of Borneo inspired him to start the business once he returned.

“When I came back, I decided to start a nursery, and that was six or seven years ago,” Georgia said. “I remember coming back and buying the greenhouse, to my partner’s chagrin at that point, without making any plans. I sort of had an idea, a dream, and just started from there. It started primarily on eBay—that’s where the business really took place. Over time, it would become a primarily online business all over the United States. I currently have a website nativeexoticsonline.com and an auction page.”

Georgia also operates a plant tissue cultivation lab, meaning some of the plants found in his greenhouse are nepenthes clones. He does this to reduce poaching of the plants from their wild habitats, something that has become a constant threat to their survival. The poaching of these plants can be compared to the collectability of orchids, which are protected by the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

“They are poached, and in some cases go for a ton of money,” Georgia said.

“More often than not, the plants are purchased from second or third parties from

the poachers at a much lower amount for GREEN STREET the people who are benefiting. But, these Contin u ed From Page 4 are the people suffering from economic disparity or really not getting anything to gauge feasibility, which is expected to be anywhere. It’s really the second and third parties who are marking it up and selling it publicized this week. Several officials have to people. It is a business, just like it is with come out in favor of Version 2.2, citing the the poaching of orchids from the wild and high need for affordable housing in the city. something that should be taken very seriMayor Svante Myrick, Alderpersons ously. But, unfortunately, the penalties are Ducson Nguyen, Seph Murtagh, and very minimal, but it definitely impacts the Tompkins County Legislator Anna Kelles ecosystem from which they are taken.” and others have all voiced support for the For Georgia, the challenge has been larger 273-unit proposal, but only in the finding people to help him with the work event that a conference center is found to in the greenhouse as well as certain daybe too burdensome to complete. Sucto-day tasks. He has also had some minor cinctly, the conference center is still the difficulty with getting people to help with top priority, but if it can’t go forward, the social media and keeping track of the shop’s finances. Along with Native Exotics, general position of the City of Ithaca is that more affordable housing units should Georgia also works part-time at a lab at be the second highest priority.

Cornell. This allows him to learn more Interestingly, though, Ithaca Neighborabout the food web of the nepenthes as hood Housing Services, the city’s most these plants, which have adapted to differprominent affordable housing agency, ent styles of living. submitted a letter to the IURA expressing “Some organisms have figured out how concern over 607-277-7000 all three versions of Vecino’s to live within the traps to the digested Georgia@ithacatimes.com x220 plan so far. They asserted three critiques: enzymes that break down the process of Newspaper: the pitcher,” Georgia said. “If you picture that the allowed income range is too narthe traps as a stomach, that’s actually what row and the building too large, decreasing they are, and a modified leaf that grows the amount of choice for lower-income at the end of the leaf itself. They attract residents; and that the project should cater everything from insects to small mamto a lower and wider income range than mals. Some have been documented to it currently does, acknowledging that this capture mice, rats, or even shrews, which would cause financial restructuring for the is another small mammal. [...] Some of the plan. pitchers have been shown to grow to the As for recommendations, INHS said size of a one or two-liter soda bottle.”

Vecino shouldn’t build more than 125 E d w i n J . V i e r a units, a sharp decrease from all of their

proposals, that the developer should widen the income range from 50-80 percent of Area Median Income to 30-100 percent of Area Median Income, and to provide more information about how Vecino could effectively manage the property locally (pointing to West Village and Overlook Apartments as examples of mismanaged properties).

INHS also disclosed their previously reported involvement and withdrawal from the Vecino project, at which time they had also made clear they thought the project contained too many units. In the letter, the agency reiterated its confidence in Vecino’s overall ability to develop the project, but restated their objections. “[B]ased on our experience in the community, we do not agree that a single project, with a maximum build out, targeting a very narrow income band, and offering residents very little choice, is an appropriate approach,” the letter concludes. It is signed by Executive Director Johanna Anderson and Joe Bowes, INHS’s director of real estate development.

Client: Bohn said he felt that a final conference center decision had to be made by, at the latest, January 31, 2020, in order to maintain a suitable grant proposal and funding schedule. Proulx said the Economic Development Committee was in favor of the largest project, which would be 273 units of affordable housing, should the conference center be ruled out.

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below the neck).

At any given time, a team must field a minimum of three women. When rolled in by the pitcher, the ball has to bounce at least three times, and while there are no walks, a player can strike out with three strikes or four foul balls. The players range from age 21 to some in their late 40s, and Scott offered, “We have seen a lot of pulled hamstrings and rolled plenty of ankles.”

He also shared that an ACL tear is not entirely uncommon, and that “an ambulance

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trolling onto the fields adjacent to Buttermilk Falls State Park, I experienced a bit of a disconnect. I was going there to cover the opening round of the playoffs for the Ithaca Kickball League, and thoughts of the great playground game of my youth drifted in, eliciting a sigh and a smile. However, when I saw the onsite keg o’ beer, and I learned that the name of one of the teams was the Alcoballics, it threw me off a bit. Then, when I looked at the schedule and saw the Smokin’ Bunts, Drunk and Looking, and We Blue Ourselves, I knew that I was not at my old elementary school.

Upon arrival, I happened upon Scott Rogeau, whose face is a familiar one around Ithaca. Scott is a Downtown Ithaca Alliance employee, and he was acting as the de facto captain of Let’s Go Kicks as the team prepared to take on We Blue Ourselves. His teammate, Brian Reynolds, and former teammate (and Brian’s wife) Stacy were there, and on this day, it was Stacy’s turn to keep track of three-year-old Noah while Brian took the field. “I took this year off, as I just had a baby,” Stacey said. “I still come because it’s a family-friendly experience that is not overly serious, and it gets people out of the house and off their phones.” I asked about the officiating, and Scott explained: “We get players from idle teams to be umpires, and a team gets a half a point in the standings when one of their players umpires.” Of the league’s 20 teams, eight make the playoffs. During the sea-

A close play at first, but the runner was called out. (Photo provided)

son, Scott offered, “Some teams are here to drink and have fun, and some come to play.” He added, “There have been a few heated exchanges, but no fights.” That is impressive, given that players can drill one another with the ball (although it must be

has been here a couple of times” since the league was founded by Nick Tubbs a few years ago. Ithaca Kickball is sponsored by The Westy, and many players converge there after games. The establishment also hosts the season-opening BBQ, and the

post-season awards ceremony. I asked if the $55 entry fee resulted in some serious swag, and Reynolds laughed and said, “We get a t-shirt, a cup and some beer.”

Rogeau pointed out that a lot of the players came over from the softball leagues, given the Sunday afternoons were easier to manage (as opposed to weeknights) and the dwindling numbers experienced by the softball leagues.

“We have a fall league, too,” Scott stated, “but the numbers are much lower, given that’s football season.”

As the players suited up, some looked more serious than others. While many wore shorts, Kate Edsall looked more like a ballplayer, pulling her softball pants over her sliding shorts, and she told me, “I have played a lot of softball— in high school, at TC3—and I have played in many leagues.”

When the game got underway, the kilt-clad umpire with dual ponytails and a sudsy beard gave Rogeau a hard time when the pitcher’s offerings barely bounced before crossing the plate. The wind kicked up, making catching balls kicked into the air an adventurous endeavor, and on one particular play, it appeared that two fielders were channeling their inner volleyball players.

A line drive was blasted into the outfield, the wind caused it to corkscrew wildly, and the fielder took it off the chest when trying to corral it. He got his hand on it, causing it to carom into the air, only to be snatched up by his alert teammate.

Another interesting play took place when a fly ball landed fair in right field, and was turned into a triple by a gust of wind that blew it well into foul territory.

The rain rolled in, but the game continued and Let’s Go Kicks entered the final inning trailing 3- 2. They bounced back, scoring three runs to win the game, leaving We Blue Ourselves feeling blue indeed. The playoffs resume next weekend and will wrap up the following weekend.

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ou can hear the music from over a block away—the rumbling bass lines, beat of the drums, and scream of the guitar most prominent.

Venture three stories into the Fall Creek house and you’ll find a band of young musicians jammed into a muggy attic studio: Cody Zusman on lead vocals and guitar, Wallace Alpern on bass, Roman Predmore on drums, Alec Simmons on keyboards, Felix Zifchock on washboard, and Luke Monaghan on trumpet.

Known as Wallace And The Apes, all recently attended or graduated from Lehman Alternative Community School. Their music and influences cannot be boxed into a single genre—when asked to summarize their style, the answers varied: punk jazz, jazz punk, indie rock, folk, funk, experimental. But the band’s

focus has not been scattered: Since forming in October of 2017, they have released an album, EP, and two singles—all recorded in their home studio and available on Spotify and iTunes. Another album is set for the fall.

Wallace And The Apes will make their professional debut on Aug. 9 at the Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar. The Ithaca Times sat down with the band to discuss their music, growth, and what’s next. The following Q&A has been shortened and edited for clarity.

What is your songwriting process, lyrically and musically?

Alpern: There’s not a whole lot of process.

Cody writes most of the songs, but a lot of the songs we just have made up on the spot.

Zusman: A lot of the song will come together while we’re recording it. I’ll sit down to record a guitar track, not knowing fully the structure of the song that I’m about to record, and then whatever I lay down, if that track is good, that becomes the song right there forever.

You have a range of seriousness in your songs. Some of them are kind of comedic.

That’s intentional, right?

Wallace And The Apes during a recent practice at their attic studio in Fall Creek. (Photo by Casey Martin)

Zusman: We really started as more of a comedic band. I remember we started with the idea that there were all these bands in Ithaca, and they were all really good, and we sucked at our instruments. I learned how to play guitar with this band. Wallace learned the bass with this band. Roman has gotten, like, a hundred million times better at drums. Luke is actually amazing at the trumpet. Luke just came in amazing. While we suck at our instruments, we’re going to make music that people like just as much as the bands that are really good at their instruments.

Do you put much thought into maintaining a style while also evolving musically?

Zifchock: Yeah, I think so. Over time, as our musical influences have kind of shifted, definitely we’ve kind of started to shift our mastering and … pushing into different styles continued on page 16

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Opera in Cooperstown Glimmerglass Mounts a Splendid Show

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plot, which at times is simply bewildering.

Just too many events are not resolved or explained: the letter in the jewelry box, the unexplained absence of the young lover Léon, the role of Bégearss in the family dynamic. The whole story of Léon and Florestine is not clear and might be eliminated altogether. The horrible death of Marie Antoinette could be more effectively shown just once, perhaps making the final scene more gentle. We already know from the start that she is a ghost.

But all said and done, the music saves the day, and this production shines with wonderful singing, beautiful staging, and lots of good spirits. For dates and tickets, consult Glimmerglass.org. The event is held in Cooperstown, New York and runs until August 24.

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players and ghosts plus small chorus. All the soloists, except for Ukrainian-born soprano and 2016 Met Opera National Council auditions winner Yelena Dyachek, are from the company’s Young Artists program. The orchestra numbers about 40, according to Colaneri, with “lots of percussion.”

The plot, far too complicated to explain here, revolves around the ghost of the 18thcentury French playwright Beaumarchais, author of three works about the barber Figaro (two serving as librettos for famous operas by Rossini and Mozart), attempting to cheer up the ghost of Marie Antoinette, who laments her undeserved death by staging an opera of the third play “La mère coupable” using the same characters, now much older.

Much is comical, especially dueling between ghosts, a great deal is poignant and dramatic, as the French Revolution is also in the mix. It is quite a scene.

Christian Sanders as Bégearss and Tucker Reed Breder as The production is dazzling, Wilhelm in The Glimmerglass Festival’s 2019 production a treat for both eyes and ears. of The Ghosts of Versailles. (Photo by Karli Cadel) The minimal set depends on layers of gently moving blue and gray sheer curtains, some ow about a sparkling show faintly painted with portraits. They part at featuring historical figures and times to show a cut-out interior scene with events, characters from famous a ladder, the harem scene, or the scaffold operas, music by a prominent contempo(all opera references). The costumes are rary composer, and a wonderful cast, plus beautiful—the ghosts in ethereal white, loads of fun? The Glimmerglass Festival is Beaumarchais and his characters in tradimounting the virtually-unknown modern tional 18th-century dress, the harem scene opera “The Ghosts of Versailles,” with dancers and the singer Samira in gaudy music by John Corigliano and libretto colors. The music provides an enormous

by William M. Hoffman. In two acts and sound world on three levels—the ghostly sung in English and French with English and otherworldly, the staged traditional projected text, the opera is conducted by opera, the mortal and historical. It is Glimmerglass music director Joseph Cola- richly varied, and truly unreal at times. In neri and directed by Jay Lesenger from the opening scene the stage is dark, the the Chautauqua Opera Company. It is a sound comes from nowhere and grows co-production with Château de Versailles (another opera reference). The battery of Spectacles. percussion provides unorthodox sounds— The Metropolitan Opera commissioned the aria by the villain Bégearss referring “The Ghosts of Versailles” in 1980 to celto the aristocracy as rats is accompanied ebrate its 100th anniversary. The premiere by squeaking and scurrying noises. There came in 1991 and a revival in the 1994–95 are pastiches of well-known arias, most season. Corigliano called it a “grand opera noticeably when Figaro introduces himself buffa”: a major work with large musical with a patter song clearly related to his resources, but including comedy. It was appearance in “The Barber of Seville” indeed a grand—and costly—affair. Soon, while the Countess and Susanna sing orchestra, choruses and cast were cut an imitation of their letter duet in “The down in size and a smaller version has Marriage of Figaro,” with accompaniment been performed ever since. The Glimmerimitating the beautiful trio from “Così fan glass presentation has a cast of about 32 tutte.” It’s a feast for opera connoisseurs.

There are quotations from Richard Strauss and a clear reference to the final scene of the Poulenc’s “Dialogues of the Carmelites.” We have poignant farewells, and an exquisite, outrageously funny harem scene with the singer Samira, yet another Mozart opera reference. Corigliano has had a wonderful time.

The singers performed and acted very well as usual. Dyachek as Marie Antoinette was outstanding—dramatic, full voiced, and profoundly lamenting. Baritones Jonathan Bryan playing Beaumarchais and Ben Schaefer as Figaro were admirable.

Brian Wallin performing Count Almaviva, however, needed more heft and authority on stage.

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of music and trying to evolve our sound as we get better at our interests.

Predmore: And with each project, we try and do something we haven’t done before, while still maintaining the heart of the band, which was to have fun and to create music that we maybe don’t think we’ve heard before, or just stuff that we enjoy and we think other people will enjoy.

What’s it like gaining traction as a young band in Ithaca’s diverse and bustling music scene?

Simmons: I very much like that we are in a different position now than we were in October of 2017, and thinking about how we did not expect to be in this kind of a position now. Definitely, traction has been gained, and it’s cool that happened.

Zusman: I was not expecting things to be as big as they are now—even though they’re not that big—compared to what we started with.

Zifchock: We’re absolutely starting to push out of the high school scene, or starting to make the moves that will lead to that.

What are you most looking forward to about your professional debut?

Predmore: I think just being able to get out and play more shows to reach more people. A lot of the shows that we used to play were house shows, shows that were collaborating with other people like the [Trumansburg band] Vicious Fishes

where they had a place we could go and they brought their audience together. But I think in the near future we are definitely trying to be more present in the community.

Zifchock: [We’re] really looking forward to playing with more new bands because we really haven’t played with a lot of different bands. But, it’s starting to expand.

We’re meeting new people.

Zusman: People don’t really take you seriously unless they know exactly who you are. ... It just seems like we’re dodged a little bit.

Anything else you’d like to add?

Zusman: I don’t go a single day without thinking about Wallace And The Apes, and I haven’t in the past year and 10 months.

Predmore: And I think our mindset has relatively stayed the same. While we are trying to get our name out there to gain popularity and to get the gains of being known, we’re still just friends having fun making music that we like, that we think other people are gonna like. And that hasn’t gone away, and we don’t think it will anytime.

Zusman: I don’t foresee anything stopping us in the future.

Wallace And The Apes will make their professional debut Aug. 9 at the Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar. The show is presented by the Newman Bros and also features the Alexander Bradshaw Band and Rena Guinn. All ages are welcome, tickets cost $6, and it runs from 8-11 p.m.

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were already in front of a live audience.

They were clearly channeling the same humor and energy Meryl Streep and the rest of the stellar movie cast infused into the 2008 film version.

Director and choreographer Tucker Davis is putting less emphasis on the technical in the choreography than he has for other R2P shows like “Newsies.” He says “it’s more about just getting on your feet and enjoying dance and enjoying movement. It’s more inspired by joy.”

“Mamma Mia” is the perfect summer show because it’s just plain fun, says R2P artistic director Joey Steinhagen, a sentiment echoed by virtually all the Donna & The Dynamos (left to right) Kayla Markwardt as Rosie, Emma cast members I Ellis as Donna, and Alyssa Salerno as Tanya. (Photo provided) interviewed. They sang the praises of the music, too, cal, which opens Aug. 2. which, for someone who grew up listening The youth theater company did not to ABBA, struck me as a weird sort of time disappoint: “exuberant” is the best way to anomaly: ABBA disbanded in 1984, yet describe how they poured themselves into here were teenagers 35 years later, praising the dancing, belting out the songs like they their music. amma Mia has it all: humor and heartbreak, rejection and redemption, and a charming, unexpected twist at the end. So I was eager to check out a rehearsal of the upcoming Running 2 Places production of the musi-

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But then, who could resist songs like “Dancing Queen”? Music director Ginny Maddock, an instructor at Flight Performing Arts, predicts there will be no holding the audience back for the big sing-along/ dance-along finale at the end of the show.

“Mamma Mia!” is what’s called a “jukebox” musical, meaning it’s based on the songs of a particular music group, in this case ABBA. The story was written by British playwright Catherine Johnson, but Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, who composed ABBA’s songs, were involved in the development of the musical. Steinhagen says the show has all the “silliness and playfulness” of the original music so that “you can almost feel the show winking at the audience.”

But there’s a weightier side to the story.

Davis says the script makes him think about the difference between being someone’s biological father and being a father in the sense of being present. The show tells us, he says, “that families come in all shapes and sizes with different numbers of parents and sometimes we’re searching for something that doesn’t really matter.”

If you’ve seen the movie you know the story: single mom Donna (Emma Ellis) has raised her daughter Sophie (Adeline Whitener) on a beautiful Greek island, but the taverna she runs is falling apart (cue “Money Money Money”). Sophie’s about to marry Sky (Julian Speight), and in her quest to discover who her father really is, invites the three suspects to her wedding: Sam (Logan Bobnick), Bill (Nick Mras) and Harry (Max Rubenstein-Miller)—cue

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“Mamma Mia.” Some of my favorite songs, such as the iconic “Dancing Queen,” include wedding guests Tanya (Alyssa Salerno) and Rosie (Kayla Markwardt), Donna’s best friends and members of her old band, Donna and the Dynamos.

Davis is emphasizing the feminist angle: the show has complex female characters who don’t find resolution just through a romantic interest. For example, in Davis’ vision, “Money Money” isn’t about a woman needing a man. Ellis plays it sassy and strong, with what she calls a “girl power twist”: having a man is nice, but she’s just fine on her own, thank you very much.

Whitener confesses that when she first read the script, Sophie annoyed her because the character seemed sort of weak.

So her Sophie is “very passionate about what she wants and driven to achieve whatever she puts her mind to.”

Rubenstein-Miller’s Harry, in contrast, is feeling very sentimental about coming back to the island where his life had been less “uptight.” After seeing the show, who can blame him?

As Bobnick puts it, “It’s hot outside, so who wouldn’t want to see ‘Mamma Mia’ and spend time in the Greek Isles?”

Mamma Mia The show will have nine performances, Aug. 2-11, at DeWitt Middle School’s auditorium. Space is limited, so to be sure of getting into a show, get your tickets early.

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Asi Mathathias & Yevgeny Yontov | 7:30 PM, 7/31 Wednesday | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | Hosted by Endless Mountain Music Festival. Duo recital by Israeli musicians- Asi Mathathias, violin & Yevgeny Yontov, piano.

Concerts/Recitals Concerts in the Park | 7:00 PM, 7/31 Wednesday | Hickories Park, 359 Hickories Park Rd., Owego | 7/31 - Next to Kin; 8/7 - Basin Street Jazz Band

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Lucky Old Sun | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca

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Michael Charles | 7:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus

Keuka Spring Vineyards Music & Wine Series: Bob & Dee | 1:30 PM, | Keuka Spring Vineyards, Penn Yan

Opera Cowpokes Alive! | 7:00 PM, | CRS Barn Studio, Ithaca | $30

Ithaca Folk Song Swaps | 2:00 PM, | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, Ithaca

The Auroras | 7:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector

Steve Southworth and The Rockabilly Rays | 7:00 PM, | Cortland Country Music Park, Cortland

Justin Friello | 2:00 PM, | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, Ithaca

8/1 Thursday

Andy Knapp & The Astro Cats | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

James VanDeuson | 3:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus

Whistlin’ Dyl | 9:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

Horns and Ivory | 4:00 PM, | Scale House Brewery, Hector

8/3 Saturday

Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM, | Mix Kitchen and Bar, Ithaca

Rob Ervin at Ithaca Farmer’s Market | 11:00 AM, | Ithaca Farmers Market, Ithaca

Ende Brothers | 4:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

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8/2 Friday Under Construction | 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken Arthur B & The Planetary Mix | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville

Treleaven’s First Annual Boogie on the Lake | 4:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry | $5; under 12 free City Limits | 5:00 PM, | Boathouse Beer Garden, Romulus

JP & The Easytigers w/ Janet Batch | 4:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Opera Cowpokes Alive! | 7:00 PM, | CRS Barn Studio, Ithaca | $30

The Winery Comedy Hour| 6:00 PM, | Americana Vineyards, Interlaken

Low Cut Connie | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15/$18

Opera Cowpokes Alive! | 7:00 PM, | CRS Barn Studio, Ithaca | $30

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Bim Skala Bim w/ Hub City Stompers & The Miggedys | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15/$18

Canaan Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale

Thousands of One | 8:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Gridline | 9:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

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Amber Martin | 1:00 PM, | Treleaven Wines, King Ferry

Professor Tuesdays Jazz Quartet | 6:30 PM, | ZaZa’s Cucina, Ithaca

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The group includes International Scottish Fiddle Champion Rebecca Lomnicky, multi-instrumentalist David Brewer of the popular Celtic band Molly’s Revenge, and Adam Hendey on guitar and bouzouki. The Fire Scottish Band serves a tremendously dynamic, entertaining, and head-snapping live show of reels, jigs, strathspeys and more! (photo: provided)

8/7 Wednesday Ian Eylanbekov | 6:00 PM, | Ithaca Beer Co., Ithaca Open Mic | 7:00 PM, | Ithaca Coffee Company, Ithaca

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The Coldhearts - The Legend of White Woman Creek | 8:00 PM, 7/31 Wednesday | Highland Lodge, 5176 Indian Fort Rd, Trumansburg | A thirteen-song cycle of love, betrayal, and revenge on the American frontier,

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Train / Goo Goo Dolls | 7:00 PM, 8/2 Friday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | Taughannock Falls State Park Summer Concert Series | 7:00 PM, 8/3 Saturday | Taughannock Falls State Park, 2221 Taughannock Park Rd, Trumansburg | Laila Belle - Original

sweet classic country featuring Amy and Ward Puryear and Chris Ploss | $5 parking Celebrate the Music! | 7:30 PM, 8/3 Saturday | Corning Museum of Glass, One Museum Way, Corning | Hosted

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Featuring the works of Liszt, Chopin, and Borodin.

The Fire Scottish Band | 8:00 PM, 8/3 Saturday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | The Fire is a high energy pure-drop Scottish music band, with world class fiddling in combination with bagpipes, guitar, bodhran, whistle, and bouzouki. | $17/$20

Lee Greenwood w/s/g Crystal Gayle | 7:00 PM, 8/8 Thursday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Benefit for Southern Tier Veterans Support Groups. | $20 Pink Talking Fish | 7:00 PM, 8/8 Thursday | East Side Park, 1 S. Broad Street, Norwich | Part of Free Thursday Summer Concerts in East Side Park, Norwich, NY

Breaking Benjamin | 5:30 PM, 8/4 Sunday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center |

Elmira Jazz Festival | 6:00 PM, 8/9 Friday & 2PM , 8/10 Saturday| Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | The weekend of jazz kicks off Friday evening at the Clemens Center with acclaimed pianist, composer and humanitarian Keiko Matsui.

On Saturday, soak up the sunshine outside with us at Thorne Street Park in nearby Horseheads with†Jazmin Ghent, Vincent Ingala, and Julia Pratt.

Sarah McLachlan | 8:00 PM, 8/6 Tuesday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua |

Hootie and The Blowfish | 7:30 PM, 8/9 Friday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua |

Alice Cooper | 7:00 PM, 8/7 Wednesday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua |

Bryan Adams and Billy Idol | 8:00 PM, 8/9 Friday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center |

Blue | 7:30 PM, 8/2 Friday | The Glimmerglass Festival, 7300 State Highway 80, Cooperstown | Thru 8/22.

Reflective of a familiar American headline, this new work by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson centers on the hopes and fears of a young black couple as they raise a son in 21st-century America.

Damn Yankees | 8:00 PM, 8/2 Friday | Civic Centers Theaters At Oncenter, 421 Montgomery St, Syracuse | Thru 8/4. | $32

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Katrina, A New Musical | 7:00 PM, 8/2 Friday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Produced by Walking on Water Production about the people of New Orleans as they navigate the raging waters of natural disaster, personal tragedy, racism, and politics.

Weekends thru 8/11.

Jason Aldean | 7:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday | Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center (CMAC), 3355 Marvin Sands Dr, Canandaigua | The Smashing Pumpkins & Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | 7:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday | Darien Lake Amphitheater, 9993 Allegheny Road, Darien Center |

Stage Born Yesterday | 7:30 PM, 7/31 Wednesday | Little York Lake Pavilion, 6799 Little York Lake Rd, Preble | Thru 8/10. A comedy that skewers Washington corruption and praises an educated electorate!

Kinky Boots | 7:30 PM, 7/31 Wednesday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Showing thru 8/3.

Kafka’s Metamorphosis: The Musical! | 2:00 PM, 8/1 Thursday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | Through 8/2. | $32/$35 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | 7:00 PM, 8/1 Thursday - 8/3 Saturday; 3:00 PM, Sunday 8/4 | Trumansburg High School Auditorium, 100 Whig St., Trumansburg | Join the Encore Players for their

Showboat | 1:30 PM, 8/3 Saturday | The Glimmerglass Festival, 7300 State Highway 80, Cooperstown | Thru 8/24.

Revolutionary for its exploration of serious themes, Show Boat blends humanity and humor with hit tunes as we follow Cap’n Andy Hawks and his extended family on a journey of love and heartbreak.

La Traviata | 1:30 PM, 8/4 Sunday | The Glimmerglass Festival, 7300 State Highway 80, Cooperstown | Thru 8/24.

The Parisian courtesan Violetta leaves a life of extravagance when she falls in love with Alfredo. But soon she is forced to make a terrible choice.

Showpiece arias such as Sempre libera.

The Queen of Spades | 5:00 PM, 8/6 Tuesday | The Glimmerglass Festival, 7300 State Highway 80, Cooperstown | This special adaptation for The Glimmerglass Festival offers a compact and compelling theatrical experience, combining Alexander Pushkinís short story, a gripping tale of the consequences of obsessive greed, with highlights from Tchaikovskyís score. Sung in English, with chamber ensemble.

R2P presents Mamma Mia | 7:00 PM, 8/8 Thursday | DeWitt Middle School, 560 Warren Road, Ithaca | Thru 8/11.

Art The Other Side: Charles, Caesar, Harry, Sam, Pompey, Lon, and Isaac | Ongoing | Women’s Rights National Historic Park, 136 Fall St, Seneca Falls | Craft & Chat | 6:00 PM, 8/1 Thursday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Registration is required to help plan for refreshments and class materials.8/1 Galaxy Shirts Emerging Artist Series: Maxwell Wood | Ongoing | Cayuga Museum, 203 Genesee Street, Auburn | | $5/ members free Ivy Stevens-Gupta, Infinite Hues | Ongoing | The Bookery & Gallery, Dewitt Mall, 215 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Summertime | Ongoing | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | The newest exhibition of Brian Keeler’s works of Summer.

First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, 8/2 Friday | Downtown Ithaca, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different local artists and sometimes global ones, as well.

Gallery Night: Irina Kassabova -The Luthier | 5:00 PM, 8/2 Friday | CAP ArtSpace in the Ithaca College Gallery, 110 N. Tioga St, Ithaca | This exhibit features large format charcoal and pastel drawings of string instruments along with some memorabilia from the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra’s (CCO) archives.

The Ink Shop Member Exhibit 2019 | Ongoing | Ink Shop Studio Gallery, 330 E.State / MLK Street, 2nd floor of CSMA building, Ithaca | Features Ink Shop artists using a wide range of printmaking techniques

AN EVENING WITH JOYCE CAROL OATES

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 AT 7:00 PM

Bernie Milton Pavilion, Ithaca Commons | Welcome both the weekend and August with this “Jamaica meets Motown” band from New Paltz. Led by the powerhouse, Jamaican-born singer and songwriter NeeNee Rushie, The Big Takeover’s horn-powered global blend reveals deep fluency in reggae and world music, hints of soul and Motown, and their own infectious brand of pop classicism. (photo: Facebook)

Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell | The legendary author makes a stop in Ithaca, a rare treat. At age 81, Oates is one of our country’s most prolific writers, having published over 55 novels, as well as countless short stories, plays, essays and poems. Her latest work, a novel published in 2019, is titled My Life as a Rat. A Q&A session will follow her reading. (Photo: provided)

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Little Women | 7:30 PM, 8/8 Thursday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Thru 8/17.†A fresh new take on the novel by Louisa May Alcott by actress and playwright Kate Hamill.

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The films are carefully chosen to be family-friendly.

Movies in the Park is running a “Best Seats in the House” contest on its Facebook page. The prize features

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vouchers for four. To enter, one must answer the question, “If you could have one superpower, what would it be?” in the comments section.

A new opportunity at this year’s Movies in the Park comes courtesy of their partnering with Ithaca To Go. Audience members can have dinner or snacks delivered right to their blanket or lawn chair in Stewart Park.

Ithaca To Go will be taking orders from a stand right at the park.

Movies begin at dusk each Friday this month. Grab your blanket or comfy chair, and head down to Stewart Park to enjoy an evening with your friends and neighbors. The rain location is the State Theatre of Ithaca.

A free, family-friendly outdoor movie series returns on Fridays this August.

First Saturday on the Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 11:00 AM, 8/3 Saturday | Individual Artist Studios in Tompkins County!, Tompkins County, Ithaca | Art studios are open to you! No cost - just visit! Find the list of artists participating this month, and learn tons more at www.Arttrail.com.

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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am | Examines the life, works and powerful themes Morrison has confronted throughout her literary career. | 120 mins PG-13

All Access Art Club | 1:30 PM, 8/6 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Art Club Series for People of All Abilities.

Teen and adult artists are invited to this weekly inclusive art experience led by Laura Rowley.

Week of Friday, August 2 through Thursday, August 8. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films listed first*.

The Last Black Man in San Francisco | A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind. | 121 mins R

Puppet-Making Workshops | 5:00 PM, 8/6 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | With the 2019 Artist in Community, Scott Hitz. 7/25 is for families, 8/6 for adults, and 8/22 is a history of puppetry. Please register.

Prisoner Express Art Show and Talk | 6:30 PM, 8/6 Tuesday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 East Main Street, Trumansburg | The exhibit will culminate in a talk/workshop with Treacy Ziegler, leader of the Prison Express Arts Program. Viewers of the works are invited to respond to the prison artists by mail; the letters will

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The Mountain* | The story of a young man who, after losing his mother, goes to work with a doctor specializing in lobotomies and therapies. | 106 mins NR Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love* | An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. | 102 mins R The Farewell* | A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies. |100 mins PG The Art of Self-Defense | A man is attacked at random on the street. He enlists at a local dojo, led by a charismatic and mysterious sensei, in an

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Booksmart | On the eve of their high school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night. |102 mins R Regal Ithaca Wednesday 7/31 through Tuesday, 8/6. Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first. * Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw* | Lawman Luke Hobbs and outcast Deckard Shaw form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity. | 135 mins PG-13

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood | A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood’s Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles. |161 mins R The Lion King | Live action remake of the story of Simba, a young lion prince who flees his kingdom after the murder of his father, only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery. |118 mins PG Stuber | A detective recruits his Uber driver into an unexpected night of adventure. |93 mins R Crawl | A young woman, while attempting to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, finds herself trapped in a flooding house and must fight for her life against alligators. |87 mins R Spider-Man: Far From Home| Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever. | 129 mins PG-13 Midsommar | A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown’s fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent

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Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | One of the highlights of each KIDDSTUFF season is the final show, performed by the students from Hangar’s Next Generation School of Theatre. This year’s show is a family favorite and is sure to be “practically perfect” in every way. (photo: provided)

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and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. |140 mins R Yesterday | A struggling musician realizes he’s the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate timeline where they never existed. |116 mins PG-13 Toy Story 4 | 100 mins G The Secret Life of Pets 2 | 86 mins PG Aladdin |128 mins PG

Special Events 177th Annual Chemung County Fair | All Day 7/31 Wednesday | Chemung County Fairgrounds, 170 Fairview Rd, Horseheads | Through Aug. 4 Kitten Karnival | 4:00 PM, Wednesdays | SPCA of Tompkins County, 1640 Hanshaw Rd., Ithaca | Weekly Wednesday Kitten Karnival through September from 4-7 PM. | $25 per Kitten Human Gene-Editing Moves Out of the Laboratory and into Human

Testing | 7:00 PM, 7/31 Wednesday | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Ailong Ke, professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, presents a free, public lecture about the growing promise of gene therapies based on RNA reseach on bacteria.

Go Bowling at The Glen | All Day 8/2 Friday | Watkins Glen International , 2790 Cty Rte 16 , Watkins Glen | NASCAR’s only trip to New York State.

Through 8/4, Sunday.

Ta-Nehisi Coates | 4:00 PM, 8/2 Friday | The Glimmerglass Festival, 7300 State Highway 80, Cooperstown | Author of bestselling books, The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power and Between the World And Me, comes to the Alice Busch Opera Theater for an engaging discussion.

Movies in Stewart Park: The Incredibles 2 | 9:00 PM, 8/2 Friday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Movies in the Park is our annual summer movie series, hosted in Stewart Park on Friday nights in August. Movies are always free and family-friendly. Food trucks and activities will be available for mark your calendars for one of the highlights of the Ithaca Summer.† Spud Chuckin Weekends | 9:30 AM, 8/3 Saturday | Varick Winery, 5102 Varick Road, Romulus | Now through August. Ready, Aim, Fire! Over 25 targets in the field. Test your skill and if you hit the basketball backboard you win a Free bottle of Varick Wine!

Young and old chuckers welcome! A buck a chuck!

Arts and Wine Festival | 10:00 AM, 8/3 Saturday | Courthouse Park, Court Street, Cortland | With an array of activities, this cultural event offers fun for the whole family!

Sterling Renaissance Festival | 10:00 AM, Saturdays & Sundays| Sterling Renaissance Festival, 15385 Farden Rd, Sterling | 177th Annual Chemung County Fair | All Day 8/4 Sunday | Chemung County Fairgrounds, 170 Fairview Rd, Horseheads | Through Aug. 4 Swinging’ On Cayuga | 12:00 PM, 8/4 Sunday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Ithaca Swing Dance Network sponsors an afternoon of

OPERA COWPOKES ALIVE THURSDAY AUG 1 THROUGH SUNDAY, AUG 4 AT 7:00PM

CRS Barn Studio, 2622 N. Triphammer Road, Ithaca | The Opera Cowpokes are back in town, with that special blend of music, dance, horseplay, cowboy poetry, and lost (and found) love. Featuring opera stars performing western and country/western songs, traditional folk songs (many with new, topical lyrics), and favorite opera choruses, all tied together with a humorous original script. (photo: Facebook)

swing dance lessons followed by a potluck dinner and DJ dance. Open to the public. For more information see Ithacaswing.org.

Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A book talk with Local Voices contributor J. Scot Witty.

Tioga County Fair | All Day 8/5 Monday thru 8/10 Saturday | Tioga County Fairgrounds, 2258 Charleston Rd., Wellsboro | Livestock Shows And LOTS OF Live Music Every Day!

CozyBop, a Babywearing Dance Class | 10:00 AM, 8/1 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | These classes are

Bilingual Storytime for Families and Children | 11:30 AM, 8/1 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A Mandarin

Lego Club | 5:30 PM, 8/1 Thursday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | All ages welcome.

Weekly challenges provided.

Chenango County Fair | All Day 8/6 Tuesday thru Sunday 8/11 | Chenango County Fairgrounds, 168 East Main St, Norwich |

Craft & Chat | 6:00 PM, 8/1 Thursday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | For ages 12+. Meet monthly for a new craft or art project.

Please register.

Tompkins County Open Farm Days | 12:00 PM, 8/10 Saturday | †Visit Real Farms! 10 farms open each day featuring fruit production & cider making, hops, bison, veggie culture, fiber animals, small diverse livestock farms, commercial dairy farms and more! For more information contact Cooperative Extension Tompkins County ñ ccetompkins.org or call 607-272-2292.

6th Annual ROTARY ROAD RALLY | 1:00 PM, 8/11 Sunday | Maguire Toyota Of Ithaca, 370 Elmira Rd, Ithaca | Participants will follow clues in their cars along 30+ miles of country roads in and around Tompkins County, answering riddles and taking pictures along the way. Advance registration is encouraged but not required; walk-ins are welcome the day of the rally. | $20 adults/$10 under 13

Books An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates | 7:00 PM, 8/1 Thursday | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Oates will read and discuss her newest fiction, which deals with issues of identity, alternate lives, and the evolution of personality. A question and answer session with the audience will follow the reading.

Illuminous Book Launch Event | 7:00 PM, 8/3 Saturday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Readings by Nora Snyder of Illuminous Flux . Meet Your Plant Ally with artist/priestess Gaia Woolf Nightingall. Musical journey-scape by Rob Snyder of Electronic Dog Dream.

J. Scot Witty Reading: The Rose and the Sword- Hibernia Chronicles: Book Three | 6:00 PM, 8/7

people aged 12 to 17 the opportunity to express their creativity while becoming familiar with the equipment in the Library’s Makerspace. Each week will include a short tutorial on the Makerbot 3D Printer, Epilogue Helix Laser Cutter, or Arduino programming. No registration required.

Painting with Friends (2nd-5th grades) | 6:00 PM, 8/1 Thursday | Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga Street, Seneca Falls | Express yourself through art alongside your friends. No experience is necessary. An instructor will be there to guide you through the process.† Free.† All supplies are provided.† Must preregister.

Toddler Free Play | 9:30 AM, 8/2 Friday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Kids can enjoy the Toddler Play Space.

CORTLAND REPERTORY THEATRE PRESENTS: BORN YESTERDAY Performances will run from July 31st – August 10th with evening show times at 7:30 PM. Little York Lake Pavilion, 6799 Little York Lake Rd., Preble | Harry Brock, a junkyard businessman with a crude way of talking and a huge but fragile ego, arrives in Washington, convinced he can bully and buy a senator or two. This delicious comedy hilariously skewers Washington corruption and praises an educated electorate! (photo: Eric Behnke.)

Kids Movie Nights at the Cayuga Heights Fire Station | 6:00 PM, 7/31 Wednesday | Cayuga Heights Fire Station, 194 Pleasant Grove Road, | No donations are expected as this is a way for the Fire Department to open itself to the community. All movies will be held indoors this year. You may bring your own food and beverages and the Luna food truck will also be on site. Please bring your own chairs and blankets. Come early and see the fire trucks and meet the firefighters.

Everyone is welcome! The movie lineup will be: July 31- The Sandlot; August 7-Ratatouille

suitable for babies six weeks or older who have head control. Please register at nursercise.com or yogacheryl@ gmail.com.

Mary Poppins Jr. | 10:00 AM & 12:00PM, 8/1 Thursday thru 8/3 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Using a combination of magic and common sense, Mary Poppins must teach the troubled Banks family members how to value each other again. She takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael arenít the only ones whose perspective she changes. Everyone can learn a lesson or two from this practically perfect nanny. | $9

and English Storytime series. Both Chinese-speaking and non-Chinese speaking families and friends are invited to gather and share songs, rhymes, and stories in Mandarin and English at this special summer storytime series. Children of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to attend.

Children’s Hand Puppet Workshop with Lily Silly | 1:30 PM, 8/1 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Younger children will need some adult assistance.

No registration is required.

Maker Thursdays for Teens at TCPL | 3:00 PM, 8/1 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | These drop-in hours provide

Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 8/2 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | A different theme every week!

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 8/2 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and babies up to 24 months embrace early literacy through books, music, movement and rhyming. This storytime is followed by an hour-long Baby & Toddler Playtime at 11:00 am.

Story Time | 10:30 AM, 8/2 Friday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | All ages - songs, games, & crafts, too.

Circus Culture Workshop | 12:00 PM, 8/2 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For ages 8+. Learn juggling and use other circus props with the assistance of Circus Culture. A free,† drop-in series.

People of all abilities are welcome to join in.

Astronaut Training Camp (Grades 3-5) | 12:30 PM, 8/2 Friday | Seneca

Friday Movie: Uglydolls | 2:00 PM, 8/2 Friday | Van Etten Library, 83 Main Street, Van Etten | Kids and Teens Learn to Create Comics at TCPL | 10:00 AM, 8/3 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | 12 and under can attend weekly from 10:00 to 11:00 am in the Library’s Makerspace, and teens may attend from 11:15 am to 12:30 pm in the Library’s Digital Lab. Registration is not required for either session, but it is appreciated for the teen session Family Fit Yoga & Fantastic Food | 10:30 AM, 8/3 Saturday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Free yoga mats, books, and food samples for participating families.

For families and children 5+, please register.

Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 8/3 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early-literacy skills. Meet each Saturday for stories, songs and family fun.

LEGO Building Program | 3:00 PM, 8/3 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The Library provides building bricks, and all creations are displayed at the Library for one week.

Open Heart Kids Yoga | 10:00 AM, 8/5 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Best suited for children ages 3 to 9, but younger siblings are also welcome.

Space is limited for this free program, and registration is required.

Miss Judy’s Musical Adventure Series | 4:00 PM, 8/5 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Judy Stock uses the banjo, guitar, spoons, and many more instruments to bring music to children, from newborns to 5 years of age.† Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 8/6 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

There is a different theme each week.

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Taughannock Falls State Park, Route 89, Trumansburg | Part of the park’s summer concerts series, local favorites Laila Belle take the stage at Taughannock on Saturday evening. It’s been an eventful summer for the band as they celebrate the release of their latest CD, All These Things. Roll out a blanket, pack a picnic dinner and let Amy Puryear serenade you on a beautiful summer evening by the lake. (photo: Facebook)

Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 W State St, Ithaca | This brand new, locally written and produced show, is part of Kitchen Theatre Company’s Kitchen Sink Series.

The story celebrates the city of New Orleans and the spirit of its residents during the tragic events of the infamous 2005 hurricane that caused destruction still felt and visible in the Big Easy today. (photo: Facebook)

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F/T, 12-month Payroll/Accounts Payable clerk, provisional position avail. 08/12/19 working in the Central Business Office at T-S-T BOCES. Must meet county residency and job requirements. Apply online by 08/0919 to: www.tompkinscountyny. gov/personnel. View job posting: www. tstboces.org. TST BOCES, 555 Warren Rd., Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, Phone (607)2571551, Fax: (607)697-8273, hr@tstboces. org SPECIAL EDUCATION SSUMMER SCHOOL MUSIC TEACHER OCM BOCES has the need for a Music Teacher from 7/2/2019 to 8/16/19 to be located at Roxboro Road Middle School, Syracuse, NYS music certification is required. Applications accepted online at: www.olasjobs.org/central. For more information, please visit our website at: wwwocmboces.org EOE

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OCM BOCES TEAM Program has the need for a Special Education Teacher at Grimshaw Elementary School in LaFayette. Successful candidate will provide educational services to elementary students identified as having multiple disabilities by local CSE’s. Experience in PECS systems, behavioral management program development and life skills programming preferred. NYS Special Education certification required. Experience working with students with multiple disabilities preferred. Register and apply by 08/09/19 at www.olasjobs.org/central For more information, visit our website at www.ocmboces.org EOE

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