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VOL.X X XVIIII / NO. 1 / August 31, 2016 Serving 47,125 readers week ly

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Memorial for Officer Killed In Action in 1930

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he City of Ithaca approved on Tuesday a memorial in honor of Levy Spaulding, Ithaca’s first black police officer, who died of a heart attack in 1930 after a 36-hour manhunt for a murder suspect. The plaque will be erected on Seneca Street near the bus stop, either on a metal pole or attached to the wall of the parking garage, and will be black and gold, similar to the memorial honoring IPD Investigator Michael Padula, who died in 1996 after being stabbed in the neck. Both memorials are the work of the Badge of Honor Association (BHA), a Rochester-based non-profit that raises money for the families of police officers killed in the line of duty. IPD Officer Mike Meskill initiated the efforts to honor Spaulding, and is working with BHA to build memorials for law enforcement officers killed in the line of Spaulding duty in all 24 New York counties in which BHA operates. Three officers have died in the line of duty in Ithaca, and Meskill is working on creating a memorial for Sgt. William Chapin, a public safety officer at Ithaca College who died at Buttermilk Falls attempting to rescue two students from the cold water in March 1986. Meskill hopes the signs for Chapin and Spaulding can both be unveiled at a ceremony honoring the officers in September. Spaulding died at age 58, on Sept. 11, 1930, while removing handcuffs from a murder suspect after a 36-hour search for the man, George “Curly” Barnes. Police believed Barnes had killed his estranged wife with an axe. Barnes later pleaded not guilty, saying the murder was caused by insanity, according to an October 1930 article in The Cornell Daily Sun. The memorial, Meskill said, will serve to honor Spaulding first and foremost, but will also remind Ithacans of the sacrifices officers make. “We’re honoring someone who paid the ultimate sacrifice and gave their life for this community and protecting and continued on page 4

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Democratic candidates for district attorney Edward Kopko, Andrew Bonavia, and Matthew Van Houten (Photo: Bill Chaisson)

Tompkins County

The DA Candidates You Won’t Vote For

capacity crowd filled the courtroom/council chamber of the Ithaca town hall on Thursday, Aug. 25 for a forum that introduced the three Democratic candidates for district attorney to an audience that will not vote to choose among them. Because Tompkins County District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson resigned one day after the state deadline for holding a primary, the county Democratic committee will select the candidate who will appear on the ballot on Nov. 8. Democratic Party chair Irene Stein, who hosted the forum, said that the governor was authorized to make an appointment to fill Wilkinson’s seat, but he did not, which Stein interpreted as Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s respect for the right of the local party committee to make its own choice. Stein was unaware of whether or not the Republican Party would field

a candidate. There is no information at the county GOP website and a call to chair James Drader was not immediately returned. The Democratic candidates are assistant district attorney Andrew Bonavia, attorney Edward Kopko, and attorney Matthew Van Houten. Each was given three minutes to introduce himself, and then questions were taken from the audience. Kopko introduced himself as a trailing spouse to a Cornell professor who has lived in Ithaca for 20 years. Kimberley Kopko is the associate director of Cornell Cooperative Extension and an associate director in the College of Human Ecology. Her husband is originally from Fairbanks, Alaska, where he worked as a police officer. He attended Syracuse College of Law, clerked in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Syracuse and eventually became as assistant district attorney. He has worked as a defense attorney for three decades. Kopko is explicit about wanting to reform the district attorney’s office. He favors a top-down approach; he would set policy for all the assistant district attorneys for a more consistent administration of justice. “I have two principles,” he said. continued on page 4

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“One, does it make us safer? And two, is it fair?” Bonavia grew up in Groton from age 2, attended Ithaca College and the law school of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Starting in 1997 he was in private practice for six years. He joined the Tompkins County district attorney’s office at the invitation of George Dentes 12 years ago. Bonavia became deputy district attorney two and a half years ago and has been the interim DA during Wilkinson’s illness. Bonavia emphasized treating people fairly, and bringing justice for the community. He cited his experience working with multidisciplinary teams. “I’m dedicated to public service,” he said. “I bring the most experience and skill to this office.” Van Houten graduated from Dryden High School, attended West Point and Albany Law School. Since he was honorably discharged from military service, he has worked for 20 years as a trial lawyer, many of them at the law firm of Galbraith, Holmberg, Van Houten, & Miller. He has had his own law practice for the past two years. He said he recognizes the diversity of Tompkins County from his years spent in both family and criminal court and is conscious of the inherent biases that affect people of color in this setting. “I know we can do better,” Van Houten said. “I will engage in the community in a way that has not been done to reach a new level of trust and public competence.” The first question from the audience resurfaced repeatedly through the evening. The questioner, a local attorney, implied that it is sometimes difficult for defense attorneys to get exculpatory evidence from the district attorney’s office. Exculpatory evidence is information that favors the exoneration of the defendant. Bonavia responded first, stating that he would look for evidence “if asked.” Kopko followed up by pointing out that Bonavia could only account for his own behavior, and that was the problem in the DA’s office; all the assistant DAs have their own policies. “It is the law that you must respond to requests for favorable information,” he said. “If I’m the DA, there will be one policy.” “It is my understanding that if the prosecutor doesn’t have the evidence,” said Van Houten, “that he has to seek it.” He said that the district attorney must be accountable and promised to

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“David Bowie. Any era.” —Andrew Joseph

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communicate with the assistant DAs to make sure all were in agreement on this issue. Another audience member asked for the candidates’ thoughts on Mayor Svante Myrick’s “Ithaca Plan” for drug treatment. “It’s a wonderful plan,” said Kopko, “and I enthusiastically endorse it.” He suggested that

attorney’s office collecting donations to pay for the Ithaca Plan. Van Houten agreed with Bonavia and rejected the idea of collecting donations, saying it is not the role of the DAs office. He did, however, support the treatment portion of the plan. “I’ve seen someone get out after spending six months in jail,” he said, “and immediately go looking for heroin.” In all the candidates were asked 15 questions. Some of them were personal (“What kind of trial experience do have?”), some focused on policy (“What kind of fundamental changes to the culture of the district attorney’s office are you talking about?”), and some were political. Legislator Martha Robertson asked Kopko if he had any evidence for Bonavia his charge that Wilkinson resigned until the day after the state deadline to avoid a the district attorney’s primary. Kopko responded office should raise the that it was circumstantial money to finance the evidence, much like that Ithaca Plan, by having which caused Debbie defendants who pay Wasserman Schwartz to resign her Democratic National Committee post. Bonavia followed up by accusing Kopko of suggesting that Wilkinson was “making up” her Kopko illness, stating that the date chosen for her resignation fines make was the end of a payroll cycle. donations to In his closing statement Van Houten non-profits who emphasized his willingness to listen to provide services people and said that he would bring his important to the core values—integrity and respect—to the plan. office. Bonavia reminded the audience Bonavia he had 12 years experience in the district supports the attorney’s office and that he was therefore part of the the most capable candidate. Kopko plan that “are reiterated his theme; there are problems Van Houten outside of law with the district attorney’s office and he enforcement.” has solutions. • He flatly rejected the creation of an injection site because it – Bill Chaisson is presently illegal in New York State. He editor@ithacatimes.com also rejected Kopko’s idea of the district spauldingmemorial contin u ed from page 3

serving it, and I think also [the memorial] will keep it in the forefront of people’s mind that there are good men and women out there to protect this community,” Meskill said in a recent interview. “First things first, he was a police officer, and that itself is what was most important, but especially in a culture that we’re living in right now, to see that Levy Spaulding was such a pillar of the African-American community and to see what he did for Southside [...] I think is representative of what he did in the 1930s to develop what is still standing today,” he added.

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The memorial will be entirely funded by BHA, but Meskill said Chief John Barber has been instrumental in supporting Meskill’s goal of memorializing Spaulding. “Chief Barber has been unbelievably supportive and helpful in the process,” he said. “I can’t speak enough to his support. I brought the idea up to him and he immediately said let’s tackle it together and from there, he rolled with it and included me in everything.” Vice Chair Claudia Jenkins was the only board member to vote against the measure. She could not immediately be reached for comment Tuesday. – Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

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“Bob Marley.” —Abbey Schnellinger

“David Bowie. Any era.” —Andrew Joseph

“Elizabeth Taylor.” —Daz’l

“Easy! Michael Jackson” —Elanee Norton

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attorney’s office collecting donations to pay for the Ithaca Plan. Van Houten agreed with Bonavia and rejected the idea of collecting donations, saying it is not the role of the DAs office. He did, however, support the treatment portion of the plan. “I’ve seen someone get out after spending six months in jail,” he said, “and immediately go looking for heroin.” In all the candidates were asked 15 questions. Some of them were personal (“What kind of trial experience do have?”), some focused on policy (“What kind of fundamental changes to the culture of the district attorney’s office are you talking about?”), and some were political. Legislator Martha Robertson asked Kopko if he had any evidence for Bonavia his charge that Wilkinson resigned until the day after the state deadline to avoid a primary. Kopko responded the district attorney’s that it was circumstantial office should raise the evidence, much like that money to finance the which caused Debbie Ithaca Plan, by having Wasserman Schwartz to defendants who pay resign her Democratic National Committee post. Bonavia followed up by accusing Kopko of suggesting that Wilkinson was “making up” her Kopko illness, stating that the date chosen for her resignation was the end of a payroll cycle. fines make In his closing statement Van Houten donations to non-profits who emphasized his willingness to listen to provide services people and said that he would bring his important to the core values—integrity and respect—to the office. Bonavia reminded the audience plan. he had 12 years experience in the district Bonavia attorney’s office and that he was therefore supports the the most capable candidate. Kopko part of the reiterated his theme; there are problems plan that “are Van Houten with the district attorney’s office and he outside of law has solutions. • enforcement.” He flatly rejected – Bill Chaisson the creation of an injection site because it editor@ithacatimes.com is presently illegal in New York State. He also rejected Kopko’s idea of the district communicate with the assistant DAs to make sure all were in agreement on this issue. Another audience member asked for the candidates’ thoughts on Mayor Svante Myrick’s “Ithaca Plan” for drug treatment. “It’s a wonderful plan,” said Kopko, “and I enthusiastically endorse it.” He suggested that

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Ups&Downs ▶ Sister Friends, The New York State Commission of Correction approved a 120-day extension of the 18-bed variance at Tompkins County Jail, through the end of 2016. The Commission had announced its intent as of Sept. 1 to revoke the variance, which since 2009 has permitted double-bunking to allow the Jail to operate above its 82-bed capacity. The Commission’s decision to extend the variance came at its meeting today with Sheriff Lansing, County Administrator Joe Mareane, and Jail Captain Ray Bunce..

Members of Cornell Graduate Students United, a union formed in 2014 that is striving to become a bargaining unit with the help of the American Federation of Teachers. (Photo: CGSU)

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n Tuesday, Aug. 23 the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled in favor, by a 3-1 vote, of considering graduate students at private universities to be employees and therefore giving them the power via the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 to form a collective bargaining unit. The decision was in response to a petition by the Graduate Workers of Columbia (University) and the United Auto Workers (UAW), which sought permission to form a union. The decision overturns a 2004 NLRB vote that followed a similar request from Brown University graduate students. The vote in favor of Columbia may have ramifications for Cornell University graduate students, who have been organizing as Cornell Graduate Students Union (CGSU) since 2014. An incident that precipitated the latest round of graduate school unionizing was the 2013 on-thejob injury of Richard Pampuro. When he sought workers compensation from the university, he was refused on the grounds that he was not an employee. In November 2015 The Cornell Daily Sun reported that the university had changed its policy in response to a petition from the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly in 2014, making graduate and professional student eligible for workers compensation. Another issue that prompted the formation of the CGSU was the university’s creation of a pay hierarchy between research assistants (RA) and teaching assistants (TA). In early 2014 the Cornell administration gave TAs a 2.7 pay increase, while RAs did not receive any increase. The minimum annual stipend in 2014, according to the Sun, was $22,000. The cost-of-living increase given to the TAs amounted to an additional $600. In June the CGSU and the university signed a “code of conduct” agreement that created rules of engagement for the process

leading to a union vote and also defined who would get to cast a ballot. The latter group includes TAs, graduate RAs, graduate assistants, and RAs. It excludes fellows. Ben Norton, a graduate student in the music department, is chair of the community and outreach committee for the CGSU. “[The Columbia decision] confirms what most people already believe,” he said, “that it’s possible to be students and workers. A lot of what we do is work. The university’s ability to teach its undergraduates depends on us.” “I’m proud of my own department,” said the first-year music graduate student. “The working relationships are incredible. I talk about it as a model and to get people to understand that you can’t just look at this as what you need personally. We want to insure that things continue to be good,” he said. “People can’t tackle things by themselves.” Norton said that he came to Cornell in part because the stipend they offered was better than those offered by other universities. But he is single and without children; they same stipend is paid to a graduate student with a family. The cost of health care alone, he said, is $5,000, which amounts to a fifth to a sixth of the entire stipend. “We aren’t going to rush to an election,” said Norton of the vote that would make CGSU a bargaining unit, according to the Labor Relations Act. “Instead we want to build a culture of being represented and work toward equal treatment in all departments. Cornell does try to drive a wedge by saying the issues are different in different departments.” Ibrahim Issa is a graduate in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. “We want a say in what affects our lives,” he said. “Our pay fluctuates without our knowledge.” Issa would like the CGSU to pursue better health care for graduate students and to set up a better grievance process. “Students don’t feel like there is anyone our side,” Issa said. Like Norton, Issa feels that his stipend is adequate at the moment, but he has experienced decreases. “We get letters each semester,” he said, “about the size of our stipend. It depends on whether you are going to be a TA or an RA and it’s different across departments, which isn’t entirely T

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Issa said that the CGSU members were expecting a NLRB decision at Columbia that would go in their favor. “We had a a preliminary agreement [with the Cornell administration] that we could file for an election,” he said, “without going to court with them.” He said that CGSU has largely been by word of mouth, although there have been some public events. Union members largely speak with colleagues in their own departments. He has no clear difference among departments with regard to support of the union. “We have no specific deadline [for the election],” Issa said, “but we want a strong majority signed up.” The previous attempt to organize graduate students into a bargaining unit, made in 2002 and with the help of the UAW, failed by a wide margin. Nick Salvatore, a professor of labor history in the ILR school, supports the latest unionization effort, but has not been as involved as he was with the 2002 effort. “The union asked me to speak with the science grad students,” he recalled. “Call Auditorium was almost full. I have my spiel and one of the graduate students said to me, ‘With all due respect, you don’t understand our situation. Our stipends are based on the size of the grant our advisors get, not the university’s minimum. And our hours are more flexible.’” Salvatore thanked the student and told him he hadn’t known about the differences across the university. On Oct. 25, 2002, after two days of voting at the Ithaca and Geneva campuses, the students voted 1,351 to 580 against being represented by the UAW. Science graduate students, said Salvatore, almost unanimously voted against the union in 2002. More recently, however, a student told him that this attitude may have changed. It should be recalled that Pampuro, who was injured in 2013, was a graduate student in chemical engineering. The previous Cornell vote was possible because in 2000 the NLRB had reversed an early judgment and determined that New York University graduate students should be regarded as employees, only to reverse themselves once again in 2004. – Bill Chaisson editor@ithacatimes.com h e

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Heard&Seen ▶ Photo shoot, The Cornell Lab of Ornithology is recruiting local residents to serve as volunteers for an upcoming photo shoot. We are looking for multi-generational families and individuals who represent the diversity of our area to explore our Visitor Center and experience our educational programs. Sept. 20 from 3 pm to 6 pm at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology located at 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd in Ithaca, NY. There will be activities for kids and adults alike and as a thank you for your time, we will be serving free pizza at the end of the session! ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Aug. 24-30 include: 1) Ithaca College Student Stabbed to Death After Fight on Cornell Campus 2) Maine-Endwell Little League Represents Upstate Well 3) Newfield Residents Plan Community Park 4) Candor Solar Farm Proposed 5) Dryden Mutual Wins Slow Pith Softball Championship For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com. L ast Week ’s Q uestion: Have you been swimming in Cayuga Lake this summer?

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Setting the Pipeline Straight D espite the well-documented need, significant local benefits, and thorough and transparent approval process, Dominion Transmission’s New Market natural gas pipeline project has been the subject of much misinformation recently. It is time to set the record straight. First, New Market is a New York project, built by New York contractors to serve New Yorkers. It will supply National Grid, which provides natural gas and electricity to homes Ron Minnick and businesses in New York. New Market will help address a growing need for natural gas for both upstate and downstate New York customers. Due to strong growth in the demand for natural gas, a portion of the National Grid system in the Albany area at times has been impacted where it cannot always provide natural gas service to meet all market demands (particularly during peak winter conditions) let alone add any new customers, problems the project will help solve. This project has nothing to do with exports. Nothing.

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New York localities also will benefit through the payment of local property taxes. These payments are projected to be about $66 million over a 15-year period. That’s money in the bank for counties, school districts and local governments for many years to come. Additionally, the project would promote more economic activity in New York, spurred by about 320 jobs during construction and 10 to 12 full-time jobs afterward. Dominion Transmission’s commitment to safety is very strong. It is, in fact, the most important of our company’s core values of Safety, Ethics, Excellence and Teamwork. We are very proud of our record. The new facilities have been designed to meet the strict safety and reliability standards of the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. Regulations require us to maintain a pipeline pressure level that does not exceed the safe operating limit of the existing system. The New Market Project will be in full compliance with these requirements. Safety also is the focus of our operations and maintenance program. We conduct regular aerial and foot-

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ll college students drive like the laws of physics don’t apply to them. This is an unfounded slur on our local scholars, and needs to be laid to rest once and for all. Studies show that the actual percentage of college students who drive “like maniacs” is only 89.03 percent. Of that group, the driving habits of only about half (48.77 percent) would identify them as “clinically insane” and therefore delusional about the study of matter and its motion through space and time. New York State’s government is the most corrupt in the world. This is probably not true, as far as we can tell. An attempt to get at the heart of the matter—the Moreland Commission to Investigate Public Corruption—fell on hard times when Gov. “Honest Andrew” Cuomo suddenly shut it down after eight months. In a bodycavity-smuggled message, prisoner 3523920 (former Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver) suggested that Somalia or maybe Central African Republic might be worse. Let’s give the legislators who are still at liberty the benefit of the doubt and re-elect them. Gorge swimming is not dangerous. Actually, it is. The burnt umber liquid flowing from the tap in your kitchen sink is not safe to drink. In keeping with the new motto on the city’s Water & Sewer Division website— ‘Brown is the New Clear’—it is perfectly safe for all normal water uses. Unless you have a fish tank, like see-through things or want to wash whites. Look for festive green and red hues during the upcoming holiday season. Ithaca can sustain an unlimited number of chain restaurants. According to a study by the Tim Horton Institute, this is not true. In fact, not true at all. Still, what

the heck. Why not throw up a new one next to the venerable, months-old Texas Roadhouse? It’s a pretty good place for a weedy abandoned eyesore if it doesn’t work out. The Finger Lakes can sustain an unlimited number of craft breweries. This one is true. Donald Trump’s cynicism knows no bounds. Enough already with the Trumpbashing. Hasn’t the poor man suffered enough? Nobody’s cynicism is literally ‘boundless.’ Maybe Melania’s. As far as the Donald goes, however, scientists are confident that, though no limits have been identified to date, at long last, sir, a sense of decency will someday be found. Climate change will not affect Ithaca. As tumbleweeds bounce down Six Mile Gulch, perhaps reality is intruding into our ten square miles. Another year like this and retirees will be moving here for the weather. Water restrictions will be the norm. The Bolton Point people categorically deny that chuckling could be heard from behind their intermunicipal water system management doors this summer. All New Jersey motorists text while driving. This is based on the essentially anecdotal evidence that nobody in Tompkins County has ever seen a New Jersey driver (and we have a lot of them) who was not texting. Late last year a scientific expedition to New Jersey was mounted, sponsored by National Geographic and the Badda Bing Restaurant, and, though they disappeared without a trace, they were able to text back an undocumented observation of a local driver obeying the rules of the road on an exit ramp off I-95 in Teaneck before contact was lost. •

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November 8, 2016: A day of choice!

This year Election Day gives each citizen a singular chance to make a choice among candidates and issues at the national, state, and local level. In anticipation of this year’s election, 13 Ithaca women “ of a certain age” came together over a year ago to find ways to speak out to protect the principles found in the Roe v. Wade ruling that is now under continuous threat throughout the nation. Although not all of us had an abortion, each of us felt a frightening move backward to the days when we came of age—before the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion in 1973. Back then, women and their husbands or partners chose abortion in the shadow of illegality, unsanitary conditions, inept practitioners, daunting expenses, and 6

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explicit social condemnation. Returning to that environment scares us—your mothers, grandmothers, aunts, neighbors, colleagues, friends. Our society must not go backward. We must not return to the back alley world of illegal, unsafe abortions. Contrary to the overwrought claims of anti-abortionists, there are clinically safe, well-established and more affordable methods of abortion. Who chooses to have an abortion? The opponents say only the wayward, irresponsible, and promiscuous elect to do so. But the established statistics tell the true story of abortions in the U.S.: 1. 1 in 3 women choose to have an abortion in their lifetimes and continued on page 7

Furthermore, it must be consistent with New York State Election Law, which is not always easily understood. Please let me know your thoughts at PCS1@Cornell.edu

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Compromise on the Sheriff R ecently the Tompkins County Legislature has been looking into the feasibility of replacing the elected sheriff position with an appointed sheriff position. If the legislature were to pass such a law, New York State requires that the change be approved in the voting booth by a majority of county voters before it would take effect. Having discussed the issue with my colleagues, I believe that the appointed option will better serve the needs and interests of county residents. On the other hand, having read the e-mails and listened to many constituents, I do not believe that the majority of them will vote for the appointed option. However, I believe it is possible to find a compromise option that will better serve the public than the elected option has done over the past several decades. First, I will describe how an elected sheriff is chosen. Following that, I will show how the sheriff would be chosen under an appointed option. Next, I will propose a third “compromise” option, and finally, I will compare the benefits to the public of each of the three options. The Elected Sheriff Option Several months before Election Day, both the Democratic and Republican parties will schedule a meeting to have their members meet, listen to, and question their party’s candidates. At most, two or three Democrats and two or three Republicans will enter the race. Both party candidates will carry out all the usual activities of partisan party elections. Two elections will be held: the primary election to choose each party’s candidate, and the runoff between the two parties’ candidates. All of these activities cost money, and must be paid for or raised by the candidates themselves. The winning candidate will likely spend about $100,000 on the race. Unless the two parties have similar registrations, one party’s candidate starts at significant disadvantage. The Appointed Sheriff Option At least five somewhat different models have been recently proposed and debated by the legislature. All of them are closely based on the procedure the county uses to choose a department head for each of the 27 county departments. I will therefore use the generic department head procedure to illustrate the proposed appointed sheriff option The vacancy will be nationally advertised. The application form will include the salary, a description of the position, and minimum qualifications, including education and experience. Anyone who is interested will be urged to fill out and submit an application form. A special committee of county employees, legislators, and stakeholders appointed by the county administrator will carefully examine the forms. The committee will carefully examine the education,

qualifications, experience and employment of each candidate. The 10 most promising applicants will be invited to be interviewed by the committee. The committee will choose the three best candidates. If they cannot agree on three acceptable candidates the search will be reopened. The county administrator, with the consent of the legislature, will appoint the sheriff. A New Compromise Option The first two paragraphs of the compromise option will be identical to the first two paragraphs of the previously described appointed option. However, the concluding sentence of the appointed option will be replaced by the following procedure. All county residents will be invited to attend a meeting in a large public auditorium whose time and place will be announced and widely advertised far in advance of the meeting. Residents will be admitted in the order in which they arrive. When the auditorium is full, the doors will be closed. First, the three final candidates will address the audience. Next, questions from the audience will be allowed for a pre-announced period of time. Following the question period, ballots will be openly distributed, collected and counted. The candidate with the most votes will be the next sheriff. Ties will be decided by a coin flip. The Benefits of Each Option The Elected Option 1. It has a firm link to these immortal words of Abraham Lincoln: “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” The Appointed Option 1. The qualifications, experience, accomplishments and goals of each and every candidate will have been carefully examined 2. Apart from the cost of a postage stamp, money will play no role in the selection. 3. Electoral politics will plays no role in the selection process. 4. The performance of the sheriff will be periodically examined, and problems will be brought to his/her attention. 5. If necessary, in extreme cases, the sheriff may be reprimanded or dismissed. The Compromise Option 1. The compromise option will have the benefits of the appointed option. 2. The final decision will be made by a large random group of county residents. 3. All those voting will have heard the candidates’ speeches and responses to questions. Conclusion The compromise option is a new option that has probably never been proposed before. To become county policy, it would have to be approved by a majority of the voters at a general election. T

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2. 95 percent of women who have had abortions report no lasting regrets. The data suggest that the vast majority of American women believe that having had an abortion was their best choice, both in the context of the time in which the decision was made and in the long term. In the spirit of sharing these truths, we have produced a short video clip “We Are the Women You Know”(available at Vimeio) that addresses these points. It reminds viewers to vote for candidates this Nov. 8 who seek out and support access to safe, legal abortions. We need to go forward, not backward. Please join us in choosing candidates who favor a proven, safe, and healthful path for other women and their families. – On behalf of Eliminating Abortion Stigma: Joan Adler, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Caroline Cox, Karen Gilovich, Linda Hoffmann, Carol Kammen, Roz Kenworthy, Diane Lechner, Lesly Lampert, Joyce Leslie, Alice Moore, Sue Perlgut, Taf Squires

Thanks For Nothing, Rep. Reed

On July 3 this year my father-in-law passed away while on a trip in South America. He was a long time resident of Steuben County and a veteran. One bit of “neighborly wisdom” I’ve often heard is if you have a death in the family overseas, call your representative in Congress. Tom Reed boasts about his accessibility and his great care for the families in his district, “This is our primary focus. Constituent service is what representation is really all about.” Andy Goodell in the state Assembly agrees, ““Both Tom and his staff are constantly accessible to talk with and address our families’ needs. Tom is who we need in Washington because he will make sure families in western New York are put first.” Reed styles himself as a friend to veterans, “We care about our veterans, and they deserve our very best. Together, let’s honor what the defenders of our freedom have endured for us and our nation,”. I called Reed’s offices in Corning and in Washington, D.C. on Monday, July 4. I didn’t expect an answer, but a voice on the line would have been most welcome. I understood that on a federal holiday, no one would be at work. Thankfully there was someone at work, the Marine duty officer at the U.S. Consulate in Ecuador, C.W. Malinak. He was gracious and kind on the phone, detailing all the paperwork and contacts we would need to start the process. Over the next two days, together with U.S. Consular staff and the mortician, my 18-year-old son was able to navigate the bureaucracies of two countries and bring the remains of his h e

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grandfather home. On July 7, Tom Reed’s office called. July 7. I felt like an afterthought, a footnote. The take away here, for me anyway, is that between the internet and the kindness of strangers even the most difficult task can be resolved. Perhaps if I was a donor to Reed’s campaign, or if I didn’t live so close to Tompkins County and its “extreme Ithaca liberals.” We were a family in need of representation, so we thought. Turns out we didn’t need Tom Reed at all. Thanks for nothing, Tom. – Tim Page, Spencer

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Sadly, most of the comments on the breaking news about Anthony Nazaire’s death were pointless, hateful racist nonsense. This one had some merit: Not a peep from the Cornell Chronicle . . . other than linking to the PR goo on the Cornell home page. As of this post at least the Ithaca College home page posted a Fox News report. But typical of ALL news media trash not one detail on what the “event” was? What was the “event” that would lead to murder?? Instead we only get, “Local news website 14850.com reported that Saturday night’s party was an orientation week gathering hosted by Cornell’s chapter of Omega Psi Phi, a predominantly African-American fraternity.” We need more than that . . . – Blue Wolf

ourCorrections

Wrong Legal Drinking Age

In what we hope is the correction of the year, the 56 year-old editor failed to remember that the legal drinking age in New York State is 21, not 18 years old, as it mistakenly said in the opening paragraph of “Drinking Too Much + New Place = Trouble” in the Aug. 24 Student Survival Guide. The legal drinking age was raised from 19 to 21 years old on Dec. 1, 1985. Our apologies to all the liquor and grocery store clerks and club doormen who had the Ithaca Times quoted to them during the last week. Apologies also to Nicholas BogelBurroughs, as this sentence was not in his original text.

Leon Lawrence Resumé

In the Aug. 24 cover story “Southside Revival” we were in error in stating that Leon Lawrence, the new executive director of Southside Community Center, worked for IBM for four decades. In fact, he worked for Big Blue for 15 years and spent the remainder of his time in Vermont working for or attending the University of Vermont, Burlington.

Punk Not Nazi Reference

“California Über Alles” was the first single by the Dead Kennedys in 1979. It made fun of Jerry Brown and hippies. –

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Such Promise Ambitious life ends in a 2 a.m. stabbing By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

ust before 2 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30, after students who had attended a large dance party at Willard Straight Hall spilled out onto Ho Plaza, a fight broke out and Ithaca College student Anthony Nazaire, 19, was stabbed to death. Another IC student was also stabbed in the incident, but recovered and has been released from the hospital. At press time the identity of Nazaire’s assailant has not been released.

A Good Friend

Chanel Perez is from Washington Heights in Manhattan. She is a sophomore studying applied psychology at Ithaca College and a friend of the late Anthony Nazaire. Perez met Nazaire in the first semester of their freshman year. These two young New Yorkers, both members of Ithaca College’s relatively small community of people of color, began calling each other to get food and go to “late-night” meals at the dining hall almost every night. According to Perez, last week she tapped on his apartment window to say hello and hang out with him and catch up. Both of them attended the annual “O-Week Turnup: WorQowt Edition” on Saturday, Aug. 27, hosted by the Cornell 8

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chapter of Omega Psi Chi, an AfricanAmerican fraternity. They didn’t make the trip over there together. Perez went with freshmen friends and Nazaire went with friends from Brothers4Brothers, the student organization that works to empower people of color. Nazaire was executive board member and the treasurer. When Perez got the party, which started at 10 p.m., there were not a lot of people, but she said it was “packed” by the end of the night, adding, “Everyone was having a good time, including Anthony.” Nazaire was dancing and making jokes about the music at the party, Perez said. At the vigil held for Nazaire on Monday, Aug. 29 at IC’s Muller Chapel, a sophomore who gave her name only as Dominique, said she was from Brooklyn as well and said Nazaire had a great milly rock. When you walk into a party, she said, “the first person you see dancing is Anthony. “This last party, a lot of the community went out to support it because it was the first party of the year,” she said. “The party was so huge, there were so many people there on Saturday.” Dominique saw Nazaire milly rocking on Snapchat; “That’s the best thing to remember him by, he was happy that night, extremely happy, so many great u g u s t

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vibes.” Perez said she and Nazaire hung out at the party, staying close to be safe, only leaving each other’s side to go dance with another person. If they didn’t see each other for like 10 minutes, Perez said, they would text each other “like ‘where are you? are you ok?’” At about 1 a.m., Nazaire texted Perez: “Come outside, I need help.” Nazaire was with a male IC friend whose stomach hurt. Perez was not sure if this was due to drinking too much or how hot it was inside. (Perez described the Willard Straight room as “really, really hot,” which is why she and her friends mostly hung out by a security guard who was standing next to a fan for most of the night.) Perez was with her freshman friends, and Nazaire was with a sick friend. Perez called Collegetown Cab (a popular, 24-hour taxi service here) for a taxi for herself, her friends, Nazaire, and Williams and was told it would take about 20 minutes. After a little over 20 minutes, Perez told Nazaire to take the sick student to Nazaire’s friends’ car, because the cab was taking a while and because Nazaire’s friends were texting him, asking him if he was still going to go back to IC with them.

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“I told them to go together in the car because he [the student who was ill] needed to get home and lay down,” Perez said. Before leaving, Nazaire made sure to tell Perez—because she was the oldest of her group, something she stressed—to call him when she got into the cab “because it was late and we were a group of girls at night.” Perez said she assumed that Nazaire was in the car within 5 minutes because it was only about one block away. When the cab still didn’t come, one of Perez’s friends, a senior at IC, offered to give her and the first-year students a ride. The group began walking toward Perez’s friends’ car, along Ho Plaza toward the intersection of College Avenue and Campus Road. They saw that there was a crime scene and one of Perez’s friends told her that one of the victims was Anthony. The other was the student who had been sick. “What do you mean that’s him?” she recalled saying. Perez was ultimately taken to the station by Ithaca police and stayed there until 7 a.m. They asked her if she had seen a knife, she said, but she hadn’t witnessed anything. On Monday Perez said an IPD officer had called her to check in, and said they were reviewing several cell phone videos but that a lot of the videos were “fast”

making it difficult to see what’s going on. Nazaire was looking out for others up until the last moment he died, Perez said. “He was caring and he really made sure everyone was alright until the second he was gone,” she said.

Early Sunday Morning

“O-Week Turnup: WorQowt Edition,” was hosted by “The Cornell Ques,” which describes itself on its posters as “The Scandalous Delta Mu Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity.” O-week refers to orientation week and “worQowt” set the dress code for the party: everyone wore gym clothing. When police and reporters arrived on the scene, many in the crowd were dressed in in black workout gear, such as yoga pants, leggings, and sports bras. Emily Marte, who studies at Onondaga Community College and lives in Ithaca during the summer, attended the party with several of her cousins. She said she had already left the party by the time police cars and ambulances raced up the hill to the crime scene. IPD said they saw several physical altercations occurring outside of the party, but Marte described the mood during the event as relaxed, adding, “nothing crazy happened” during the party itself. “I had no idea anything like that would happen,” she added. Medical personnel attempted to treat both individuals who were bleeding onto the grass. They administered CPR as IPD officers held up a white sheet to shield the victims from more than 100 bystanders, many of whom had been at parties in Collegetown. Officers recovered a weapon from the scene, Cornell Police said, although authorities did not specify what type of weapon was used in the stabbings. About a dozen people sat on the curb and cried as medical personnel from Bangs attempted to resuscitate Nazaire for more than 15 minutes. A Bangs paramedic continued to administer CPR by pressing on Nazaire’s chest while the student was being wheeled into an ambulance on a stretcher. The other victim was taken by a helicopter to the SUNY Upstate University Hospital where he was treated for multiple stab wounds and later released. A student at Ithaca College said she had met Nazaire on several occasions, and said seeing the resuscitation attempts and later learning that he had died was “heartbreaking.” “He was a really nice kid,” Amber Edwards said. “He always had a smile on his face when I saw him.”

On His Way to Be Somebody

Nazaire, who lived on Newkirk Avenue in the Flatbush neighborhood, attended Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School in nearby Canarsie, according to a 2015 press release that said he had won a

The scene at 2:30 a.m. outside Olin Hall on the Cornell campus. The victims can be seen on the ground under the bright light at right. (Photo: Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs)

Poster for Omega Psi Chi sponsored party and overflow crowd at the Ithaca College vigil for Anthony Nazaire (Photo: Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs)

scholarship to attend Berkeley College in Manhattan. Berkeley a private, for-profit school founded in 1931 and specializing in business and professional studies. The scholarship is given to students who “demonstrate a high level of achievement,” the release said. But Nazaire accepted a full scholarship to Ithaca College instead. This past Monday a vigil for Anthony Nazaire began shortly after 4 p.m. at Muller Chapel on the Ithaca College campus. Friends, classmates, faculty, and college administrators spoke inside the chapel, which filled up quickly, and many people stood outside. At least 350 people attended over its two-hour duration. Before the vigil began, Steven Cox, a sophomore in the math and economics program at IC, told the Ithaca Times that he lived in the room next to Anthony in IC’s East Tower residence during the students’ freshman year. Cox said he got a text message from Perez saying: “I’m going to come home T

late because Anthony’s been stabbed.” Cox thought it was a joke, only realizing later when he saw posts and heard from friends that Nazaire had actually been stabbed. “It’s funny how your life can change in a text message,” Cox said. “He was always about success and always about moving forward,” Cox said of Nazaire. “He wanted to get something tomorrow that he didn’t have yesterday. He wanted to get money to take care of people around him.” Cox added that Nazaire was treasurer for Brothers4Brothers, an organization on campus that supports men of color, and that he was trustworthy. “You could always hold to him. He was one who always kept his word and was reliable.” Cox said Nazaire was also a member of the National Association of Black Accountants, which had meetings on campus. He said Nazaire was selected to be vice president of the organization, and was debating whether or not to accept the h e

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position. Nazaire was also a member of Core Trading Consultants, a student-run finance organization, Cox said. Britney Chambers, a junior at IC, described Nazaire as “a momma’s boy” because he was always Facetiming his mom from college. When she called him a momma’s boy, he said something to her that she said stuck with her: “I have to give her the castle she deserves one day.” Father Carsten Martensen, Catholic Chaplain at Ithaca College, opened the vigil and said, “Each one of our lives—all of us—are different because of Anthony.” Sean Eversley Bradwell, director of program and outreach at IC, said, “I knew Anthony in passing, I knew the smile.” He said the tragedy had created a significant amount of energy. “The way to honor Anthony is to churn that energy ... to commit to doing something in his name continued on page 10

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with that energy and commit to it, make sure it happens.” “I knew him in the way that many people in the business school new him,” said Sean Reid, dean of the school of business, “as the kid with the gigantic smile that was always wrapping around.” Reid said Nazaire came into his office at the beginning of the spring semester this past spring. Nazaire told Reid, “I had a terrible first semester.” Reid asked Nazaire for his student number and entered it in the computer. When that returned a gleaming academic record, he made

Nazaire give him the number again, to be sure he had gotten it right. “There’s a significant chunk of Ithaca College,” Reid told Nazaire, “that would have loved to have that ‘terrible semester.’” Reid said Jim Johnson, an IC lecturer on marketing and law, had his students, including Nazaire, write a one-page reflection on their goals for their time at IC. Nazaire had said he wanted to get an MBA and be an entrepreneur. Reid said the late IC undergraduate had also been considering law school, and had asked faculty if it was possible to be a lawyer and an entrepreneur at the same time. “We talked sometimes for a good hour-plus and I wasn’t the only one,” said William J. Tastle, Nazaire’s advisor and a

professor in the business school. Tastle said sometimes, when he had to end the meeting to go off to teach, he would see Nazaire, already meeting with another professor. A Wells College student who did not give her name said she has known Nazaire since they were in high school together. He helped her with her schoolwork and was “a listening ear.” “I spoke to him early Saturday and he asked me if I was going [to the party at Cornell], and I remember the last thing I told him was, ‘I can’t make it tonight but I’ll see you next week.’” “Anthony,” she said, “was the brother that I never had.” •

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patrol inspections of the pipeline right of way. We also inspect the pipeline from the inside using computerized sensors. The system is monitored around the clock by our Gas Control group. And, each compressor station in the New Market Project will be equipped with safety features such as automatic pressure-relief valves, an emergency shutdown system, natural-gas detection devices and 24/7 computerized pressure monitoring. We also are committed to excellence in environmental protection. That commitment shows in that we report any incident as required, no matter how small. We act promptly, transparently and responsibly. Dominion Transmission fully complies with all regulations and works closely with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to evaluate and then thoroughly remediate spills. It is important to note we have no pending site remediation or clean up projects anywhere in the state. The compressor equipment being added for the project is designed to minimize air emissions and meet or exceed air-quality regulations established to protect the public health. We would not operate any such station if we could not meet the stringent air-quality regulations that apply to it. Finally, it is important to note that the regulatory approval process for this project has been extensive, transparent and provided many opportunities for public engagement. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—the agency that ultimately decides if a project serves the public good—spent 23 months evaluating all environmental, health and safety concerns. After an exhaustive and thorough assessment, the FERC concluded that the project would have no significant impacts on human health or the environment. In all, landowners, public officials and other interested parties have had more than two years to provide input. Thousands of comments have been submitted through a wide variety of forums, including open houses, public hearings sponsored by the FERC, local planning boards, Community Advisory Groups and now the DEC. Few—if any—projects in the region have undergone such an extensive public review. Our employees live and work in upstate New York. We love this beautiful area and are dedicated to protecting all the good things it has to offer. We also will continue providing safe, reliable, environmentally friendly, clean-burning natural gas to meet the growing energy needs of this region for years to come. • Ron Minnick is the director of Dominion Gas Transmission Operations, which includes a natural gas pipeline system that runs throughout upstate New York.

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Two Goodbyes

and a pat on the back for maine-endwell

By Ste ve L aw re nc e

atching the team from MaineEndwell cap off their 24-0 season by winning the Little League World Series was a thrill, and if my Facebook feed was accurate, about 90 percent of the people in the Southern Tier and Triple Cities were watching the tournament. Those kids will never forget that magical run, and as they grow older, they will likely come to appreciate more fully their coaches’ efforts to help them reach ever higher. The communities of Ithaca and Lansing lost two men recently who did so much for local youth, and Adam Heck and Chris Rogers will be dearly missed. When Adam Heck—Lansing’s beloved athletic director and multi-sport coach—passed on unexpectedly at age 42 while with his soccer team on a trip to Albany, the whole town grieved. Friends, former players and fellow coaches have blown up social media with tributes to him, and while I did not know him, I interviewed him a number of times and found him to be a very engaging and professional guy that clearly loved his job

and student-athletes. My friend Jeff Boles—a man who will forever bleed Bobcat blue—wrote this in a tribute to his friend: “Coach Heck created a family environment those outside of our basketball program will never know. My heart is truly broken today and my thoughts are with Beth, the girls, and the Heck family.” • • • Those close to Chris Rogers paid tribute to him at the end-of-season ceremony at the Ithaca Yacht Club last week. According to Rob Slator, the yacht club’s head instructor, “Chris grew up here, but did most of his sailing at the Coral Reef Yacht Club in Florida.” After returning to Ithaca, Rogers took over the Youth Sailing Program and he was a tireless and dedicated teacher whose generosity with his time and money did not go unnoticed. Chris (who was 66 years old when he passed) had been ill for some time, but in Slator’s words, “One thing that always stood out to me was the fact that right up

to the end, he did everything he possibly Rogers was an extremely could to make sure everyone still had the accomplished sailor, and he was actually opportunity to keep sailing.” on in 1980 the U.S. Olympic team that was Rob was one of the speakers at the scheduled to compete in Moscow. That ceremony to honor Rogers, and he said he was the year of the Olympic boycott, and saw the opportunity as two-fold. He told that opportunity never materialized. me, “One, I wanted to recognize Chris I’d like to extend my condolences to and all he has Rogers’ son (also done for the named Chris) an community, and elite-level rower two, I wanted who helped me out to convey to with a story last parents how year. I hope the important it is sailing community now for them pulls together to to all step up carry on Chris and organize. Rogers’ legacy. I Chris was so have no doubt it depended on will. over the past • • • few years, and I was among now it’s time those swept up by Chris Rogers and his son (Photo provided) to adjust to the the Maine-Endwell changes and phenomenon, as carry on the I feel a bit of a culture he helped to create.” personal connection to that area. I played In his tribute, he also stated, “Like against M-E as a high school baseball many others, their first involvement was player, and now, my 12 year-old daughter driven by their own child. But for both plays softball on a travel team that is Charles (Williamson) and Chris, their based in Endicott. Several M-E families involvement was no longer driven by are involved with the organization, and their own child participation in the youth I really enjoy seeing how proud those program … their pure dedication to this folks are of their athletic programs. Their youth program was driven by love for this varsity football teams won several state community.” championships in recent years, and now An award has been created in Chris’s their Little League team is the best in the name, and Slator told me “the Chris world. Maybe in the whole universe, who Rogers Plate will recognize the parent who knows? • is most involved and most enthusiastic.”

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subcontractor to install fencing before they can reopen the trail. He said they will also be planting shrubs. When the plans were first proposed, residents living on Pine Tree Road told the legislature they were concerned about the increase in traffic that may occur when the road is fully accessible to trucks and other large vehicles. Some said that it was a threat to the quality of life in the neighborhood. “Those were concerns that went back to the original proposition,” said Lane. “There were people who lived on the part of Pine Tree Road down further south that were concerned that if you removed the railroad bridge they would get more truck traffic up through from Route 79 to Route 366 to access Cornell.” “That was thoroughly discussed back then,” he said, “and folks, I’m certain, were not Controversial bridge over Pine Tree Road; neighbors say the traffic it permits lowers their quality of life (Photo: Jaime Cone) happy about it, but when we weighed all the factors, including the dangers to bicyclists with the Pine Tree Road beyond this project and and the county contributed $419,995. narrow road next to the abutments, we that they are very angry about the extant Legislator David McKenna came out in favor of removing that bridge to which traffic has increased in the area (R-Newfield), chair of the Facilities and and replacing it with a smaller yet higher since they first moved in years ago. They Infrastructure Committee of the Tompkins bridge.” believe, he said, that the easier it is to County Legislature, said Monday that The issue of increased traffic came up travel the road the more traffic there will the project is worth the wait and the at at March 1 meeting of the Tompkins be. additional cost. County Legislature, where the Facilities At that meeting the board awarded “That’s almost a main thoroughfare,” and Infrastructure Committee introduced a bid for the project to Economy Paving McKenna said. “Pine Tree Road sees a lot a resolution authorizing the appropriation Company, of Cortland, the company that of traffic.” He said he is aware of residents’ of an additional $188,729 for the project. concerns and that they will be addressed The resolution passed 11-2 with Legislator offered the lowest bid, which came in at $1.6 million. Incorporation of the bid once the county has a better idea of exactly Daniel Klein (D-Danby) recusing himself. brought the total cost of the project to how the traffic patterns are affected by the Legislator Dooley Kiefer (D-Lansing) roughly $2.1 million. changes. He added, “it’s been a very, very did not support the resolution because Federal and state funding for the long time coming.” • she said she views the project as a benefit project was capped at $686,734 and to Cornell and not to those who live $512,000, respectively. Cornell contributed – Jaime Cone along the road, and Legislator Peter Stein $425,000, the town’s share was $70,000, southreporter@flcn.org (D-Ithaca) said his constituents live on

Pine Tree Road Bridge Still Unpopular

section of Pine Tree Road in Ithaca near the intersection of Route 366 (Dryden Road) reopened Aug. 17 after a two-month closure. The reopening marks the near completion of a contentious highway project that has been in the works since 2009: the widening of the road and the replacement of the pedestrian overpass with a taller foot bridge that will allow for the passage of large trucks. The widening of the roadway between the buttresses of the old railroad overpass was done to make it safer for pedestrians and bicyclists to pass under the bridge. Along with the replacement of the bridge, the project includes improvements to the adjacent pedestrian paths to make them compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The paths, which connect the existing sidewalks at Maple Avenue and East Hill Plaza to paths on Cornell’s campus as well the East Ithaca Recreation Way, were also made wide enough as to be accessible to snow plows in the winter so that they can be used year-round. “The leg from Cornell to Varna is pretty important with all the development going on in Varna, including housing,” said Legislator Michael Lane (D-Dryden). “To have that as an alternative route for pedestrians and bicyclists makes a lot of sense.” The new bridge is installed, but foot paths are still closed off, but are expected to be open by the end of September, according to Frank Mroszczyk, resident engineer for Tompkins County. He said that the crew must wait for a

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Phil Shapiro in his natural habitat: behind a microphone. Shapiro is celebrating 50 years of doing “Bound for Glory” on WVBR-FM. (Photo: Casey Martin)

ome radio programs in Ithaca— The Salt Creek Show and Rockin’ Remnants at WVBR-FM—have been on the air for over 50 years. But one show is different; in September Bound for Glory will begin its 50th year of broadcasting with its original host still at the microphone. Phil Shapiro came to Cornell as a graduate student after being involved in the campus radio station at Brandeis University, his undergraduate alma mater. In 1967, when Shapiro first went on the air at WVBR, it was primarily a classical music radio station. In the fall of 1968 it moved to predominantly rock music programming. “They still had classical in the middle of the day,” recalled Shapiro, “but that didn’t last long.” Not only has the show had only one host for all these years, but it has been broadcast from the same location too: the Café at Anabel Taylor Hall. The live broadcasts occur during the school year and for a short period during the summer. In between Shapiro plays folk records from the WVBR studio, which unlike Anabel

Taylor Hall, has moved several times in the last 50 years. During the 1967 school year Shapiro was doing live music shows regularly, but he was doing some of them in Anabel Taylor Hall and some in the studio. “We used to have folk festivals on the air,” he said. But when the station switched to rock programming the new student managers issued a challenge to Shapiro: if you want to keep your time slot, then you have to do it live from the café every week. As time as shown, Shapiro was up to the challenge. In the beginning the host had to do all the inviting, but soon people began to seek him out. “Paying gigs are usually on Friday and Saturday night,” noted Shapiro. “Our saving grace is that we’re on Sunday night. As long as it’s not a big drive and we put them up, they’ll come.” Bound for Glory is not a paying gig. No one gets paid: not the performer, not the host, nor any of the staff. There is no actual budget. “I find people from various listings,” said Shapiro. “I’ve got a list of people to get in touch

with and I’m always looking.” Bound for Glory is well known in American and Canadian folks circles. A lot of famous performers take the stage there as they make their way across the state from New York to Toronto (or Toronto to New York). There is no admission charge for the shows, partly because charging admission isn’t allowed in that particular Cornell building. “The main way the performers get paid is by the marvelous live audience,” Shapiro grinned. “It is a very ratifying experience.” Very few parents want their children to become folk musicians, so most of the performers on the road are by definition rebels to some extent, according to Shapiro. They were supposed to grow up to be respectable, but they ... became musicians instead. They therefore need a little ratification once in awhile and they get it at Bound for Glory. “There is a lot of communication between continued on page 27

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Big City Taste in a Small Town Red & White Cafe serves up the classics By L .B .J. Mar te n

ntil three years ago it was called the Corner Store and the menu was limited. But now the Red & White Café at the corner of North Plain and West Court streets has a full menu, is open for lunch Monday through Friday, has a liquor license, a renovated red and white décor, and a sidewalk patio where you can watch the neighborhood go by. Because this is a neighborhood place, a rare find in Ithaca, where years of Euclidean single-use zoning have left the neighborhoods nearly empty of the commercial life that Jane Jacobs said was so necessary for vibrancy. The Red & White is famous— continuing the legacy of the Corner Store— for the quality of its fish fry, so let’s just take that as a given. In addition to the haddock, they also serve clams, shrimp, scallops, and oysters. But what about the rest of the menu? Let’s start with something that isn’t on the menu, because they do have regular specials, posted on the sandwich board out on the sidewalk. On our first visit the advertised special was a “Rachel” sandwich.

This is a variant on the traditional Reuben that swaps in turkey for pastrami. There is a pastrami sandwich on the menu, but no Reuben, and that is in fact what we received. This was just about the nicest error we’ve ever experienced in a restaurant. Anyone who has relocated to Ithaca from either downstate or simply a larger city somewhere, has surely been disappointed with the quality of Reubens here (save Hal’s Delicatessen). The pastrami tends to be gristly and the sandwiches are often microwaved, rendering the meat tough. The pastrami in the Red & White Reuben/Rachel was tender and flavorful. There was also an appropriate amount of it; more is not better in a sandwich. Furthermore, the coleslaw was fresh rather than doled out of a container with an ice cream scoop. The cabbage and other vegetables—red bell pepper being most visible—were chopped and glazed with mayonnaise instead of drowned in it. The usual Thousand Island dressing was also present in moderation.

Another test of a decent sandwich place is the quality of their eggplant Parmesan. At Red & White you are eating locally purchased eggplant this time of year. It has been salted to remove the bitterness in the skins and cooked to perfection—neither a pile of mush nor a chewy drink coaster—after being lightly breaded. The house red sauce is delicious; a simple marinara with garlic, basil, black pepper, a dash of sugar to cut the acidity. All this is topped with mozzarella; The owners of Red & White Cafe: John and Chuck Wells again, just enough. And like the (Photo Casey Martin) Reuben/Rachel, it is a reasonably sized sandwich and not a sloppy mess. toward moderation, they give you a lot of Interestingly, their tuna salad sandwich dressing, but it is on the side. is more in the “like your mom used to You could go on sampling this make” category. We got it on rye, which extensive menu of sandwiches, subs, salads, was quite ordinary and sans caraway and dinners for weeks. We tried the French seeds. There was no celery in the salad, fries in order to graze the surface of the just salt and pepper and—noticing a trend appetizers. They were cooked in clean, fresh here—just the right amount of mayonnaise. oil and seemed fresh cut from the tuber. They used iceberg lettuce in this context, These were old-fashioned fries, not dipped making a nice crunching contrast with the in anything or spiced. tuna salad. The Red & White is open for lunch and If these selections sound a little hard early dinners; they close at 6 p.m. Monday on the waistline, there are also plenty of through Thursday, and at 7 p.m. on Friday. salads on the menu. We tried the large They are closed on the weekends. • garden salad, presuming it to be the base for the chef and grilled chicken salads. It Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are was a pile of extremely fresh vegetables, based on unannounced, anonymous including a couple of types of leaf lettuce, visits. Reviews can be found at garden grown tomatoes, onions and green ithaca.com/dining peppers. Breaking with their tendency

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aika is an Oregon-based stopmotion animation studio that has released four features since 2009: Henry Selick’s Coraline, which I missed in its 3-D theatrical run—and was kicking The Polls are oPen myself for that when I saw it later at home. I made a point of catching Paranorman, one of the better and more slyly subversive family films of 2012, and I might have missed The Boxtrolls (2014) if my pal Jamie Lewis hadn’t given it such a vociferous thumbs-up. I’m glad I saw it. Ben Kingsley in particular gives a most inventive voice performance in that. I tell you all this to admit that up until now, I’ve tended to treat Laika as a forgotten second cousin in the shadow of bigger ‘toon studios like Disney, Pixar and Blue Sky (The Peanuts Movie). But now that I’ve seen their new film Kubo and the Two Strings, I promise I’ll pay better attention, and I’ll Vote online be very aware of Laika’s next feature. We’ve at Ithaca.com seen a lot of delightful animation this year, and I’m sure more will be released before the end of the year, but Kubo and the Two If you stand for a beautiful, healthy home. Strings is a stark, exciting and brave Asian If you stand for a beautiful, healthy home. If you stand for getting more without paying more.

folk tale given extra weight due to the film’s superb stop-motion technique, which is so flawless you’d be forgiven for thinking that it’s all done in a computer. Like the very best family films, this one doesn’t run from darkness. Many family films have kid heroes, but not many like Kubo (Art Parkinson), a one-eyed boy with an eye patch who nurses his comatose mother (Charlize Theron) when he’s not earning money in town with his ability to move paper with the sounds he makes with a homemade instrument, sending flurries of sheets of paper to form origami shapes and fight epic battles, an amazing sequence. When circumstances make Kubo an orphan, he must embark on his own epic quest, accompanied by a wise monkey (also Theron), a warrior incarnated from a bug (Matthew McConaughey) and Kubo’s indefatigable little origami soldier. This is all full-blooded, larger than life stuff; as with The Incredibles, Kubo’s spirit guides are sure to impress upon him that the stakes are nothing less than life and death. (Rooney Mara plays the voices of the film’s two villainesses, scary witches with immobile masks that float about. Ralph Fiennes, George Takei, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa and Brenda Vaccaro make up the

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Pew (Noah Plomgren) explains that it’s a buccaneer’s duty to share the booty. (Photo: Ron Heerkens Jr.)

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NYC rapper brings realsim and a unique style By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Ithaca Underground and Helen Stride present: Mr. McBean, Uncommon Nasa, Carl Kavorkian, Asante, Thursday, Sept. 1, 7 p.m., The Chanticleer Loft

ew York City: the streets, the beats, the heights, and the raps. There’s no place like it. It’s a mystical metropolis swirling in eternal inspiration and struggle: the birthplace of rap. Uncommon Nasa, an underground rapper and producer from the Big Apple who whips through stylistic poems and artful beats in a complex and original way, carries the eternal sprit of past masters with him through each churning new phrase: gritty, true, and chromatic. His latest release, Halfway, is a straightup classic: dripping with reality and vision; and cutting deep with a versatile heft. I caught up with Nasa recently in anticipation of his Thursday night show at the Chanticleer Loft. Ithaca Times: In the song “574s” (off New York Telephone) I really think it’s cool that you use shoes to delve into much larger and more abstract themes. Shoes are really something else. How’d you come up with the song, and can materialism bring philosophical wisdom? Uncommon Nasa: Everybody feels confident in a new pair kicks right? Shoot, even a fresh pair of socks can give you a boost sometimes. The song is also focused on just having goals in life. When you’re younger, that goal can be materialistic— nothing wrong with that—because you’re still learning how to get from here to there so to speak. Those sorts of lessons of simply wanting something and achieving it, can be applied to much bigger, important and non-material things later on, and that’s what I was getting at with the song. IT: Would you consider your rap realistic? And if so, would this be connected to the term you use: ‘Progressive Hip Hop.” I feel like some rappers may concentrate on fleeting glimpses of reality, than actual reality itself: not that that’s a bad thing. Any thoughts? UN: I would consider my rap realistic. I like to say that my songs and performances are trying to have a conversation with the audience. I’m not really trying to bark anything at people or prove anything to anyone. It’s really about telling my story and getting these thoughts and concepts out of my head and onto a record. I coined the term progressive hiphop many years ago to describe what I do, as well as some peers of mine. It’s really as simple as seeing the parallels in hiphop’s growth with rock’s when there was

a progressive rock movement. But truly, these days it’s really just about writing great songs and putting something out there that’s authentic. IT: New York City is really a huge part of your approach to being creative I assume. What is about the city that is so inspiring and unique? UN: This city is special. The more I travel and tour, the more I realize it. I love touring and seeing other parts of the country, I’m not snobbish about being a New Yorker, but I love coming home. Growing up on Staten Island you’re in the city, but not in the depths of it, so there is still an allure even though you are from there. That allure started to get satisfied when I was 17 and got my first internship in a recording studio. Working late nights, traveling to new places all the time, interacting with such a wide variety of people—that’s what formed me into the man I am today. I’m engrossed in this place, so all my music, even the stuff that isn’t directly about the city, is about the city. IT: What’s the story behind Halfway? There’s a lot of stuff going on: philosophical, ideological, and personal. What was it like creating the album, and how was it different than previous records you made? UN: Halfway was very cohesive: it was all recorded by my wife, Rubieseyes and produced by Black-Tokyo. BlackTokyo gave me so much faith to create a record like this, and working with no expectations after coming off of the underground success of New York Telephone meant a lot. Having my wife record all the songs was huge too. That was the first time we’d worked together in the studio, and I could tell she just wanted to be there and be involved. Some of the songs relate to her directly and in-directly and she helped provide the interludes as well. It’s what I would consider my most important work so far. It’s about mortality in so far as the valuing of life and what you do with your time here. IT: You’re going across the country and you can only bring four cassettes with you (no mixtapes). What are those four tapes and why? UN: If it’s a tape deck, I guess I should bring stuff that was originally pressed up on tape right? I have to have ‘93 Til Infinity by Souls of Mischief on me. Give me Songs from the Big Chair from Tears for Fears— that was the first cassette I ever picked for myself, and I still love it. Give me Tougher Than Leather from Run DMC—the first rap album I ever had. And give me a copy of New York Telephone too, I’m a fan of myself—you have to be. • T

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man distinct in seafaring style. Jeff Theiss’ robust orchestra could use more modulation; only the solo lyrics came through—the verses of the rousing choruses are fairly incomprehensible. But the story’s clear: When coarse buccaneer Billy Bones collapses and dies

wrong for the part. Whereas the actors playing pirates (among them Danny Bolero and W. Joseph Matheson) fully suit their roles, Bain struck me as too contemporaryAmerican—and in a white jersey with navy stripes seems as if he just came from the mall. His mother is fairly played by Victoria Huston-Elem. But her three songs, alas, have the weakest lyrics of the show, with

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phrases like “I let you go / I let you walk away / all I can do is pray.” Clark Carmichael does duty as the rather dull doctor, while John Paul Almon, as Squire Trelawney, is a needlessly foolish figure with absurd moustache and overtight checked suit. No wonder young Jim is in search of new heroes. Patrick Oliver Jones excels as the stern, by-the-book Captain Smollett, whose moral compass never wavers. Among all the persuasive pirates, you can’t help admiring the fine voices and thoughtful delivery of Leland Burnett’s noble Abraham Gray and Noah Plomgren’s youth sucked into the outlaw life. Most irresistible, of course, is peg-

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legged Long John Silver himself, which Bart Shatto plays with a fascinating mix—he’s pragmatic and opportunistic, ruthless yet tender. Genuinely fond of young Jim and seeking to woo him to the life of a soldier of fortune, this inverted father figure could kill the lad as easily as mentor him. His dark presence is understated yet compelling, as is his fine solo, “The Man You See.” The distant island turns out to be populated—by an Englishman marooned there for three years and now decidedly batty. Here, Patrick Richwood’s “gone native” costume and eccentric, over-the-top behavior are (like the squire’s role) pushed too hard for comic effect—disrupting the fearsome mood created by the pirate rebellion. Somewhat unclear of its theme and audience, this production is still vigorous— and it’s hard to resist the charm of an older man of the world noting, “It’s a pleasant thing to be young and have all your ten toes.” • Treasure Island, directed and choreographed by Brett Smock. Music and lyrics by Corinne Aquilina; book by Carla Vitale and Brett Smock. At Merry-GoRound Playhouse, Auburn, through Sept. 10.

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A performance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict By Barbara Ad am s

he knottiest problems are often the most important—and the ones we keep returning to. That’s what’s behind Aaron Davidman’s compelling solo piece, Wrestling Jerusalem, featured at the Hangar Theatre September 7-10. Directed by Michael John Garcés, the 85-minute play offers the perspective of 17 characters from both sides of the longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Davidman wrote the play based on his own experience of trying to understand the issues involved as well as on many interviews with residents of Israel and the West Bank. Since the show’s March 2014 San Francisco premiere, Davidman has performed for audiences from Alaska to

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New York City; a feature-length film has also been recently released. The Hangar production will be followed by a facilitated post-show discussion. He spoke with the Ithaca Times by phone from his summer home in Haines, Alaska. Ithaca Times: What was the kernel of the idea for this show? Aaron Davidman: It’s really about trying to understand more deeply the nuances and complexities of the IsraeliPalestinian story. As a progressive American Jew, how do I hold these competing interests and narratives? How do I explore very challenging issues? At the time I was commissioned to create the play, in 2007, by Ari Roth—now of D.C.’s Mosaic Theater—a big question

in the American Jewish community was about what can and can’t be said about Israel. Addressing this was demanding then for both of us as theatre makers—and it’s still an issue. IT: What’s your theatrical background? AD: I’d trained as an actor at Carnegie Mellon and acted in regional theatre for a while. I got an MFA in creative writing/ playwriting at San Francisco State. Most significantly, I was the artistic director of Traveling Jewish Theatre for 10 years. Working with this company, I was directing and writing more and creating collaboratively devised pieces. I’ve been a theatre rat my whole life. IT: What kind of Jewish culture did you grow up with? What early exposure did you have to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? AD: There was none—I come from a progressive home in Berkeley. We had no temple, weren’t religious. My older sister worked on a kibbutz, and my grandfather had bought Israeli bonds, but I didn’t have much consciousness. It wasn’t until I was 25, when I went to Israel for the first time that I discovered what it was all about. I didn’t really understand what my Jewish identity was, and I came away transformed. And that’s all in the play. IT: Have you been there often since? AD: Yes, many trips—all over Israel and the West Bank, talking with many different people and developing characters out of those interviews. Everyone wants to share their story and have their voice heard. All this I condensed into one narrative for the play, which I imagine as a hybrid between Spaulding Gray’s memoir work and Anna Deveare Smith’s transformational work. I didn’t set out to be a solo performer or monologist—this just evolved. IT: How do you sense audiences have responded to your play? AD: People everywhere seemed to be moved by the performance and artistry and the freshness with which we’ve brought the topic forward. And they’ve shared how they were changed. I’ve had Jewish audiences, people who live in Israel, telling me, “You nailed it, it’s perfect”; and Palestinians thanking me, “You’ve represented us so beautifully.” But I’ve also heard people from both sides saying it’s completely skewed toward the other side. IT: In performing this work, what’s your goal for your audiences? AD: I want people to encounter “the other”—whoever “the other” is for them. I offer the experience and give people the opportunity to enter into this possibility T

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MSZM: Michael Stark and Zaun Marshburn (Photo: Casey Martin)

A musician Lending himself to abstraction in several genres

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wimming through the clouds and byways of an existential haze, drifting and painting a sacred totem atop the endless mantle, Michael Stark’s fingers roll across the ivory keys like a dream. Forging melodies and abstraction that float within, without, and around drummer Zaun Marshburn’s illustrative drum sections, the two musicians create a swirling waterfall of free jazz and trance. Known as MSZM, the two are Ithaca’s highest keepers of abstract jazz and groove. Stark, a long-time veteran of the Ithaca music scene and one of its most accomplished and sought-after talents created the band earlier this decade. “MSZM was started to showcase a new collection of songs I wrote for acoustic effected piano, bass pedals, and drums,” Stark said. “Those little indie 20

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here’s mud in your shoes, leaves hanging off your knees and only a few feet to go for safety. Then a burst hits you in the shoulder, exploding into a small orange blob that kicks you out of competition. All that hard work for nothing. Welcome to woodsball. The game is a subset of paintball, which was developed in the 1980s and can be played year-round with special guns that shoot balls of paint. Woodsball is a version played … in the woods, the way it was originally formatted and is easy to play in central New York, especially with the fall foliage and cover. Players who own their own equipment typically play on private land owned by family members or friends. James Zelsnack used to do just that. “It’s an always changing game with high levels of adrenalin that you can’t get with any other sport. It’s very addictive,” said Zelsnack, who played all the time with his sons on their dairy farm. James, 44; Tyler, 23; and Jordan, 21, still do it. Only now the family does it on a larger scale in the third year of running Third Alarm Paintball on their property in Marathon, one of the handful of paintball locations in the region. They’ve had teambuilding outings, groups of people who simply want to get outdoors, and plenty of adventurous types come through. “It appeals to a lot of different people and I think that’s why it’s so fun and has that re-play value,” Tyler Zelsnack said. “Because every time you do it, it’s something different. It’s never the same thing, and I think that’s why a lot of people enjoy it.”

Players split into teams and eliminate players one by one by hitting them with dye-filled, breakable, oil and gelatin paintballs fired from a carbon dioxide or compressed air gun. It’s played as lastman-standing with the team that has all of its players shot first as the loser. “It’s a game where there’s a lot of adrenaline with it and there’s a lot of talk,” James Zelsnack said. “After each match a lot of times you’ll have the players comes in and they can’t wait to talk about what just happened.” For those who play consistently, it’s not uncommon for players to have built bunkers and lean-tos for future use in woodsball. Another version, speedball, is most commonly seen in movies or TV shows. A speedball game is played in an open field with inflatable obstacles. The game moves faster with more paintballs fired because it’s a smaller area wherein people are more likely to be seen and not obscured. The Zelsnacks offer fields for both and at three levels that incorporate nearly every age group. Youths can play splatsball—more commonly known as “Splat Master”—with guns that shoot at 100 feet per second, a third of the 300 feet per second of the regular 68-caliber gun. “The great thing about Splat Master paintball is that it’s a lot of grandfathers (and) grandmothers bringing their grandchildren up, so there could be an 8-year-old out there playing with their 55year-old grandfather and they just have a blast. It’s a lot of fun,” James Zelsnack said. Business slows down in the summer,

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t’s a college town, so you’d figure there’d be a lot of open microphone stages around town, and in this case, you’d be correct. The venues are not limited to Ithaca either; there are at least two in Trumansburg as well. Nor should you expect to be limited to people getting up in front of you to play a cover tune on a guitar. There are open mics for all kinds of music, poetry, and comedy. Open mic night at Lot 10 (106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca) takes place on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. in the upstairs lounge and there is a separate event for comedy on the second and fourth Thursdays at 10 p.m. Ordinarily hosted by “Sir Leon,” the event, which welcomes all comers, will need a number of guest hosts in the coming weeks for anyone who is interested in holding something this event together. Performers are allotted either three songs or a maximum of 15 minutes on stage. At the other end of town and the other end of the spectrum is the I-Town Jazz Jam, which takes place on Tuesdays from 9 p.m. to midnight at The Dock (415 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca). Hosted

by Prof. Jeff Evans, the other seats are filled by a rotating cast from the Ithaca jazz community, which is extensive and talented. You will probably have to show up and listen for a while before you introduce yourself to Prof. Evans. Up the hill in Collegetown the Nines hosts an open mic more like that of Lot 10; they take all comers. This one meets on Sundays and starts at 9 p.m., but if you want to play, you need to be there at 8:45 p.m. sharp to sign up. It is hosted by Jerry Tanner and Lisa Gould of Technicolor Trailer Park. At the Nines website Tanner and Gould have assembled a group of links to downloads of their favorite performers; that should give you an idea of the style and caliber of your predecessors. Down the street at Rulloff’s Restaurant (411 College Ave., Ithaca) you will find the longest running Irish music session in town. The protocol here is that you show up with your instrument and you wait until one of the hosts (members of the band Traonach) invite you to start Part of an open mic night is being up next (Photo: Casey Martin) continued on page 24

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lending accents that accommodate and heighten. He studied with jazz behemoth Jackie McLean in his school days, and like McLean, has stretched out artistically as far and wide as he can. McLean, the unmistakable saxophonist legend, started out playing in the hard bop tradition and later became a exponent of modal jazz, eventually creating in the free jazz form.

“I studied with Jackie McLean while I was at the Hartt School Of Music,” Stark said. “The course I took with him was in African-American music studies. What a guy! His presence, humor, and amazing stories about his fellow cats back in the day was so inspiring to hear. The intensity, lightheartedness and sheer honesty in direction he delivered to us in that class was an honor to absorb and has definitely stuck with me.” Stark’s music, particularly in the jazz vein, is notably for its use of modes and free jazz tendencies, but it also uses chord progressions for harmony as well, offering a distinct dialogue: a connected yet loose dichotomy. There’s abstraction, but also a deep love of song craft to his approach. Many of his compositions can easily get stuck in your head like some Top 40 hit, albeit in a sneakily artful and pleasant way. “I think all genres, like jazz, pop, and rock, can lend themselves to abstraction on different levels if that’s what the artist desires,” said Stark. “Jazz obviously being more consistently about improvisation,

but abstraction can show itself in many forms. I went through a period where I listened to and saw and soaked in quite a lot of jazz, and it’s definitely infected me. Today I still enjoy certain groups in that vein, love the extreme potential of dynamics in those scenarios and really do enjoy going there in moments on my own gigs. But in all honesty, these days I feel that new original songs grab my brain space the most. They can be songs that may have a free/improvisational section or not at all, but have definite and deliberate hooks that you just can’t help but get stuck in your head.” If you’re lucky this fall, you may catch Stark’s engrossing and widening collective the Orbiting Art Ensemble: an electric acoustic whirlwind of shifting patterns and exploratory realms. Or maybe if you’re a visual artist or musician, you could even find yourself performing with the far-reaching group. “Orbiting Art Ensemble is an orbiting (varying each time) lineup of musicians, explained Stark. “The goal is to compose short pieces on the spot. It is 100 percent

improvisation, with zero preconceived material in the equation. However, we are very focused to catch melodies and themes quickly as they spontaneously happen, while keeping open minded that stylistically anything goes. It is a great challenge for the ears and instincts. Working with visual artists is quite an experience. To get yourself to react to that type of artistic form, find a storyline and use your instincts to compose accordingly, is really something. I know many artists enjoy reacting to music to create a work and Orbiting Art Ensemble sometimes collaborates with painters in this fashion.” Stark’s artistic diversity parallels his affection for the creative angle of Ithaca. He feels good here and the city is lucky to have him. “The generosity of folks in the community really stands out,” he said. “And for me the width of the musical universe I’ve become part of, the diversity of what I’ve been so lucky to be involved with in Ithaca, is continually so inspiring.”§

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he said, but picks back up in the fall with cooler weather and last call before winter hits. The business also hosts an annual Zombie Paintball event that changes slightly every year. Every October Third Alarm Paintball hosts groups to attack Zombies that don’t shoot back. Last October it was dubbed “Dead Alarm 2: The Hunt” and patrons rode a wagon to “eliminate the zombies and hightail it back to the base for backup,” according to the event page. Specific details haven’t been made, Zelsnack said, but will be available on the website, thirdalarmpaintball.com, and Facebook page. Ithaca Paintball, located at 380 Wood

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Cornell cinema mixes old, new, classic and obscure

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ornell Cinema’s Mary Fessenden sat down with the Ithaca Times to talk about the upcoming fall 2016 line-up of films, lectures and events. As usual, it’s an embarrassment of riches, and we weren’t able to cover everything by a long shot. So pick up a CC FlickSheet or for more information visit cinema.cornell.edu. Ithaca Times: We start on Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 with digital restorations of Orson Welles’ “Falstaff film,” Chimes at Midnight with an introduction and Q and A with Larry Jackson ’70, a former studio executive and Welles’ collaborator, and then Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl. People may not be as familiar with Sembène as they might be with Welles. Mary Fessenden: Both of these titles are screening as part of our semester-long series “A Celebration of Janus Films,” which is marking its 60th anniversary in 2016. Janus was the first dedicated theatrical distributor of foreign art house cinema and has amassed a collection of over 800 films. For this series we put together over a dozen of them, mostly drawn from their most recent digital restorations, including Chimes at Midnight and Black Girl. Last year we showed a documentary about the late Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène, who made over a dozen politically charged films over the course his career. He was the first African filmmaker to achieve international recognition and is considered the father of post-colonial African cinema. Black Girl, made in 1966, was his feature debut. As the Janus website points out, the film is a “layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world” and tells the story of a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for an upper class white couple, who treat her more like a possession than an individual. As you can imagine, the film still resonates today amid the Black Lives Matter movement. I highly recommend it. IT: Tell us about the Ithaca premieres of Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Homo Sapiens (Sept. 6 and 8) and Terrence Davies’ Sunset Song (Sept. 7 and 9). MF: Readers may be familiar with Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s

previous documentary, Our Daily Bread, a disturbing look at industrial food production, which featured stunning cinematography to reveal its story. His new film, Homo Sapiens, is another wordless assemblage, this time of beautifully composed fixed shots of abandoned, manmade structures, now being overtaken by nature. Humans are nowhere in sight. The film, a documentary, has a post-apocalyptic feel, and leaves the audience time to ponder what we, as a species, will leave in our wake. It’s being shown as part of an “Eco Docs” series. Terrence Davies’ Sunset Song kicksoff our Contemporary World Cinema series and it should absolutely be seen on the big screen, given its ravishing depictions of rural Scotland in the early 1900s. The story is told through the eyes of a young woman who has a powerful connection to the land that sustains her through both love and loss during World War I. But Davies, an acclaimed British director, suffuses the film with a melancholy mood and a poetic frame that sets it apart from other epics about this period. IT: Let’s talk about all the digital restorations for September. I’m unfamiliar with Seijun Suzuki’s 1966 gangster film Tokyo Drifter (Sept. 8) but you’re also showing Suzuki’s Branded to Kill (Sept. 11), Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar (Sept. 12) and Rene Laloux’s Fantastic Planet (Sept. 28 and Oct. 1), which I’ve never seen on the big screen, and Blue Velvet (Sept. 29 and Oct. 1). MF: The digitally restored pair of ‘60s Suzuki titles and the animated sci-fi classic Fantastic Planet are part of the Janus series, and I think you’d really like the Suzukis. He’s known as the Japanese New Wave’s “bad boy,” and these films are considered two of his best, both set amid a world of crime, excessively stylized with a pop-art aesthetic and offering a wild ride. Tokyo Drifter is described by Janus as “equal parts Russ Meyer, Samuel Fuller, and Nagisa Oshima.” I was blown away when I first saw Fantastic Planet, so I can’t wait to see the digital restoration! It should play well this election season, as it makes a strong argument against conformity and violence. Both of the American classics, T

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After seeing it, you’ll want to plan a trip! Two more filmmakers visit in October: contin u ed from page 25 Academy Award-nominated filmmaker/ producer Tia Lessin, who graduated funny, and a great storyteller, so this will be from Cornell in 1986, will present two of a very fun night! her political films—Citizen Koch (2013) Under the Sun (Sept. 19) is another and Where to Invade Next (2015); the fascinating documentary that we’re showing latter, showing on Oct. 18, was directed as part of our “Dispatches from the Korean by Michael Moore (produced by Lessin), Peninsula” series, cosponsored with and he’ll join Tia for the post-screening Cornell’s East Asia Program, and it offers a discussion via Skype, schedule permitting. chilling account of life in Pyongyang, North Media artist Jesse McLean will present a Korea. Made by Russian director Vitaly program of five short pieces, including Mansky, who gained access by agreeing her most recent, which will have its U.S. to have the North Korean government premiere as part of the New York Film monitor every aspect of the “documentary,” Festival’s Projections program shortly he nevertheless managed to capture the before she comes to Ithaca. Much of her fraud behind the set-up of the idyllic collage-like video work grapples with both life of an 8-year-old girl who cheerfully the power and the failure of the mediated participates in school pageants and is doted experience to bring people together. on by her well-off, patriotic parents. The IT: October also means Halloween, Hollywood Reporter described it as “both and this year, you’re showing the silent surreal and sinister … like watching a realfilm classic Nosferatu with original score life version of The Truman Show.” performed live by The Invincible Czars IT: October premieres include Strange at Sage Chapel (Oct. 13), Fritz Lang’s and Familiar: Architecture on Fogo Island Destiny with live piano accompaniment (Oct. 4 and 6). Don’t by Dr. Philip Carli Blink: Robert Frank (Oct. 27), Best of (Oct. 5 and 7), about the Fest 1 shorts the photographer with a Halloween who documented Costume Parade beats, vagabonds (Oct. 29) and a rare and the Rolling screening in Ithaca Stones, Eva Hesse of The Rocky Horror (Oct. 6 and 8), Picture Show (Oct. Hockney (Oct. 7 and 29 and 31) with a 11), Ixcanul (Oct. 13 pre-show costume and 15), Chevalier party. (Oct. 14 and 16), MF: The Citizen Koch with David Hockney in “Hockney” (Photo: provided) Invincible Czars filmmaker Tia are based in Lessin ’86 (Oct. 17), Austin, Texas and Seoul Searching with are known as the Alloy Orchestra of the filmmaker Benson Lee via Skype (Oct. 24), South. They’re touring the Northeast this an evening with Media Artist Jesse McLean fall so we’ll have the pleasure of hosting (Oct. 26), and Spirits’ Homecoming (Oct. them in Sage Chapel with their original 31). score for F.W. Murnau’s classic horror film, MF: The first four films you mention Nosferatu, perfectly timed to get everyone are screening as part of an art documentary in the mood for Halloween! They’re film festival, taking place from Oct. 4 to known for incorporating a bit of classical 11, overlapping with Cornell’s Fall Break music into all of their scores (in this to entice community members to come up case it’ll be Bela Bartok’s Six Roumanian to campus during a relatively quiet time! Folk Dances) and dressing in costumes Each film will be offered twice and they’re appropriate for the film. Music for this all wonderful. People are likely familiar score is written for a slew of instruments, with photographer/filmmaker Robert including electric guitar, violin, keyboard, Frank and painter David Hockney, but music box, synthesizer, bass clarinet, flute, perhaps not so much with sculptor Eva glockenspiel, bass guitar, lots of percussion Hesse, who died at a young age, but left an and voice! Just two weeks later we’ll host the amazing body of work (made from Latex, incomparable Dr. Philip Carli performing a fiberglass, and plastics) that helped establish more traditional, but always dazzling, piano the post-minimalist movement. The film accompaniment to a new digital restoration utilizes entries from Hesse’s journals and of Fritz Lang’s early, but little-known, her personal story is a compelling one: masterpiece, Destiny. Both of these events she was born in Germany in 1936, left the are cosponsored with the Wharton Studio country with her sister a few years later as Museum as part of Silent Movie Month in part of the Kindertransport rescue effort Ithaca.§ of Jewish children, was later reunited with her parents in the U.S., and eventually More information about these films and returned to Germany with her artist others can be found at our website (cinema. husband for a residency during which her cornell.edu), which also includes links to work blossomed. Architect Todd Saunders trailers, ticket prices, a parking map and is responsible for the “strange and familiar” information about our cosponsors. Our fall sculpture-like artist studios and Fogo Island season has to end early this semester due to Hotel on Newfoundland’s rugged coastline, scheduled renovations in the theatre, so we’re part of a local effort to turn the area into a hoping people will come early and often to geo-tourism destination to sustain it now make the most of all we’ve packed into just that the cod fishing industry no longer can. twelve weeks! Cornellcinema

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supervisor Bob Andrews. Between 2009 and 2013 the theatre’s board of directors took an active role in managing the organization, but since then they have backed away and now concentrate on long-term planning. Two members of the board plus Levine and Martin form the programming

said Levine. “We go for more diverse stuff and stuff that Dan [Smalls] isn’t interested in. We don’t make a ton of money and it’s our duty to have programs for little kids.” The first child-oriented production The downtown theatre seeks to appeal to a broad audience will be Eric Carl’s Brown Bear, Brown Bear (Oct. 9). Carl gave the world The Very By Bill Chaisson Hungry Caterpillar. “We look at what’s going on in the world [to decide what to book],” said enues are either presenting houses, stage at Ommegang Levine, “or what is going on downtown.” rental houses or, often, some Brewery in CooperHe tried to find a Harry Potter-themed mixture of the two. The State town and venues in the show to coincide with the second Theatre of Ithaca, since its revival u nder Catskills. Wizarding Weekend, but instead found new management in 2009, has developed The commumind-reader Eric Dittelman, who will a schedule that is one-third booked by the nity rentals include be on stage on Oct. 29, while wizards fill theatre staff, one-third rented out to comregular performances Press Alley. munity groups, and one-third of the shows by Ithaca Ballet and We will also see the return of the are booked by Dan Smalls Presents. Running To Places, the dance troupe Galumpha (March 25) “We are a hybrid,” executive director student theatre troupe, after a three year break. Formerly known Doug Levine. “Most rental houses don’t do as well as gospel choir as “Second Hand Dance” they did not their own shows, but we do 12 to 14 shows concerts and events appear at Grassroots this year either. per year, mostly family- and communityheld by the Johnson It’s not all for kids though. With oriented. And that’s not counting the School at Cornell. the help of CFCU Credit Union and movies.” All told, the State Gateway Commons, the State will bring Levine has begun screening audience Theatre stages 75 to bass player Esperanza Spaulding to town favorites, films that you are unlikely to see 80 events per year and on Oct. 16. “We haven’t done a jazz show on a big screen elsewhere (except perhaps seats 55,000 to 60,000 in a while,” said Levine. “She is jazz rock Cornell Cinema). “We take on that risk,” people. Forty percent and has a broad appeal.” he said, “but it is a relatively low risk, of those people are Fun for the whole family is to be had because they aren’t that expensive.” from outside Tompwhen you put animals on the stage (Jack One of Levine’s responsibilities as kins County, although Hanna was a sold out show last year), executive director is to seek sponsors Levine admits that this so the State will host the Olate Dogs for the family-oriented shows, which information is taken on Nov. 5. The State only hosts animal helps to defray the expense and therefore from zip codes colshows that use rescued animals in their reduce the financial risk to the non-profit lected via credit card acts. organization that owns the theatre. “I try sales and therefore inThere are some shows coming to get 50 percent of the artist’s guarantee cludes a large number down the pike that Levine and Martin [fee for the artist regardless of ticket sales] of college students. State Theatre marketing director Casey Martin and executive director Doug could not make public quite yet. But you covered,” said the director. “That cushions In addition to Levine (Photo: Bill Chaisson) are urged to check their website (stateththe blow.” Levine, the staff of the eatreofithaca.org) regularly because they The partnership with Dan Smalls theatre includes Casey usually post links to online videos of their Presents is somewhat unique, according Martin, the marketing director; Dan committee, which decides which shows to acts, so that if you haven’t seen them on to Levine. Smalls is the only large-scale Paolangeli, the technical director; Kristen book for a coming season. America’s Got Talent or ever heard of local promoter and produces shows across Avery in the box office; house manager “We try to be a theatre for everyone, ” them, you can check them out. § much of upstate New York, including the Carrie Calhoun; and back of the house

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the performer and the audience,” said Shapiro. “Audience members literally respond to the people on stage and the musicians think, ‘Hey these people actually want to hear what I have to say!’ “Performers show up the first time because they feel like they should do radio,” Shapiro continued, “but they come back because the audience made them feel they were doing something worth doing. They are not background music at Bound for Glory.” The demographics of the live audience have changed over the years. Generally speaking, they have gotten older. “There were times when basically no young people came,” said the host, “but right now there is another generation that’s interested. Young people are making and sharing music in a way that the generation in between didn’t.” The generation that didn’t get into Bound for Glory is now 35 to 50 years old. “It’s an interesting gap,” said Shapiro with a shrug. An example of the new generation of performer is the duo of Mark Mandeville and Raianne Richards, who will be

at Bound for Glory on Sept. 18. They approached Shapiro about appearing on the show. “They have an appreciation for the folk tradition,” he said, “and I was looking for young people to book.” He doesn’t necessarily expect young people to show up to see young people perform. “Even someone that no one’s ever heard of,” he said, “typically gets a decent crowd. Most of the time they have a good time.” What is the role of the host? He is on the air for three half-hour sets in between the hour-long live sets done by the guest performers. In addition to being a folk concert, Bound for Glory is also a radio show. Shapiro is also part of the sound check and “gives the speech” to the performer to let the first-time guests “know what they’ve gotten themselves into.” Over the years the general format of the program has changed very little. Anyone who attended the show in 1969 could walk into the café in 2016 and recognize it has the same show. “The details have changed,” he said, “but the idea is the same.” Modern technology has helped out a

bit with logistics. Both the musicians and the audience can now use GPS to find the venue, which isn’t identified on the outside of the campus building. Musicians can more easily call Shapiro if they are going to be late or can’t make it at all for some other reason. “If no one shows up I play,” he said. “But usually I get enough notice and I can find a local person.” Shapiro said that Bound for Glory has gotten more complicated, but better. Whereas he began with himself, and an engineer, he now has a cadre of volunteers, some of whom have been involved for many years. “There are people who do a lot of jobs,” he said, “that I tried not to do.” The BFG volunteers add up to about 20 “very nice people” and that isn’t counting the group of folks who routinely house the visiting performers. The venue and the host are the same, but the music continues to evolve. “The folk tradition has been around for hundreds of years,” said Shapiro, “but it’s not sealed in amber; it’s always changing. It has been trying to absorb ‘50s pop—the Everly Brothers—for years, and there’s even been a bit of rap in the show. It’s T

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always absorbing what’s around it and the best songwriters are always absorbing what’s around them.” Bound for Glory has been a fixture on Sunday night for years with an cavalcade of different musicians coming through. “I like to think of us as sowing seeds,” Shapiro said. “We don’t know where, when, or with whom they are going to sprout. Somebody told me, ‘I listened to your show all the time in the ‘80s and I’ve been playing the guitar ever since.’ That’s a seed for making your own music. There’s a lot of that.” Why is he still at it? “Bound for Glory brings people together as a community,” said the host. “It’s an antidote to the tendencies in our town and culture that pull us apart. Some of those tendencies are in entertainment; the average person is entertained by what they watch on television or their computer and they dutifully appreciate it. But Bound for Glory is sharing music and music can’t be shared by having it handed to us. Bound for Glory is a community builder. • On Sunday, Sept. 4 flatpicker and singer Mark Stuart will be Phil’s guest. u g u s t

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9/01 Thursday The Gunpoets: CFCU Summer Concert Series | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Hip Hop, Fusion, Electronic, Rock.

Ousmane Sembene’s first feature film made a profound impression at several international film festivals in 1966, and the evolution of African Cinema can be dated from this point. The heroine of the story, Diovanne, is a Senegalese maid taken to the Riviera by her French employers. It is only when she is out of Africa that she realizes what being an African means: it means being a thing, no longer Diovanne but “the black girl.” Cornell Cinema is playing a new restoration of the film on Thursday, September 1st at 7:15pm. (Photo Provided)

Lucy Russell, violin, and Sezi Seskir, fortepiano. Features sonatas by Mozart, C. P. E. Bach, and Beethoven on historical instruments. Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin and the Guilty Ones | 8:00 PM | Earlville Opera House, 22 E Main St, Earlville | Blues, Rock, Rockabilly, Country.

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AM-4:00 PM | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Holding local auditions for non-union actors for an evening of two one-act plays being performed in October: The Receptionist: a dark comedy by Adam Bock, and The Birds: a thriller by Conor McPherson, based on the short story by Daphne du Maurier. Paid positions. Rehearsals in Cortland run from September 27 - October 12. Auditionees will be seen on a first come-first seen basis. Doors will open at 9:00 AM; sign-ups list will begin at that time. Please bring a current headshot and theatre resume, and prepare one or two brief (1 – 2 minute) memorized monologues. You may also be asked to read a side from the show.

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Hell or High Water | A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family’s farm in West Texas. | 102 mins R | cornell cinema

Wednesday 8/31, to Tuesday, 9/06. Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes Chimes at Midnight | The career of Shakespeare’s Sir John Falstaff as roistering companion to young Prince Hal, circa 1400-1413. | 115 mins NR | Black Girl | A black girl from Senegal becomes a servant in France. | 65 Mins NR | The Neon Demon | When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has. | 118 Mins R |

X-Men: Apocalypse | After the re-emergence of the world’s first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan. | 144 Mins PG-13 | Jungle Book | After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan forces him to flee the jungle, a man-cub named Mowgli embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of panther, Bagheera, and free spirited bear, Baloo. |106 Mins PG | Homo Sapiens | Homo Sapiens shows stunning images of forgotten places, buildings we constructed and then left. |94 Mins NR |

Stage Treasure Island | August 24 September 10 | Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 pm.; Fridays and Saturdays at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm, Tuesdays at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm | Merry Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn, NY 13021 | A boy. A dream. An adventure that will change him forever. This new musical blends high stakes adventure, wild plot twists, hysterical antics and a compelling, evocative score to create an iconic new production. The Smell of the Kill | August 19 Septmeber 11 | Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 7:30 pm, Sundays 2:00 pm.

| Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | The Smell of the Kill is the story of 3 upscale suburban wives (and their unseen husbands). Tickets can be purchased online at www.chenangorivertheatre. org, or by emailing tickets@chenangorivertheatre.org. You can also make reservations 24 hours a day by voice mail at 607-656-8499. Have Gun - Will Murder She Wrote | Frridays and Saturdays 7:00 pm, Sundays 2:00 pm. | Old Havana Courthouse Theatre, 408 W. Main St., Montour Falls | For those of you that remember Jessica Fletcher and all the cowboy heroes of the old TV shows, you will have a chance to recreate the thrills of the Ponderosa, Gunsmoke and others. www. oldhavanatheatre.com The Marvelous Wonderettes | August 31 through September 10 | Evening performances at 7:30. Matinees are available on September 2, 4, 7 and 8 at 2:00 PM. | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | Take a trip back in time to the 1958 Springfield High School prom and meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts! As we learn about their lives and loves, the girls serenade us with classic ‘50s hits including Lollipop, Dream Lover, Stupid Cupid, and Lipstick on Your Collar. Then in Act Two, jump

forward in time as the girls reunite to perform at their ten-year reunion. Hand to God | September 4 September 25 | Wednesdays and Thursdays 7:30 pm, Fridays and Saturdays 8:00 p.m, and Sundays 4:00 p.m. | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Directed by Rachel Lamper. Wildly Irreverent In the quiet town of Cypress, Texas, recently widowed Margery takes over the church puppet club. But when one puppet is possessed by the devil, there are wildly funny and deliciously devastating consequences. This hilarious play was nominated for five Tony Awards. Vietnam…Through My Lens | Mondy, Septmeber 5, 7:30 PM | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | Stu Richel’s critically praised, poignant and thought-provoking new play that explores his journey as a combat journalist and photographer to, through and beyond his military service in Vietnam. It’s one soldier’s intimately personal and unique tale about friendship, trust, and tenacity that travels from the jungles of South East Asia to the “jungle” of Manhattan. The show includes projections of Stu’s work as a combat photographer. www. vietnamthroughmylens.com Cortland Repertory Theatre Holding Auditions for Two One Act Plays | Saturday, Sept 3, 10:00

Doug’s Fish Fry | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, 8/31 Wednesday | Kingdom Business Apostolic Church, 638 Elmira Rd., Ithaca | Book Sale: Trumansburg Ulysses Philomathic Library | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Book Sale runs Sept. 16 through Sept. 20. All categories, books new and old, movies, music (CDs, LPs), games, etc. for the whole family. The Reppy Institute Opening Reception | 12:15 PM-, 9/01 Thursday | Uris Hall G08, Cornell, Ithaca | This first seminar meeting will not follow theusual format of a talk followed by a time for questions and discussion, but will be an informal gathering giving us all the opportunity to meet each other and learn more about what the program has to offer, such as fellowships and other funding for students. Ithaca Ballet: Open Auditions for 2016-17 Season | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 9/01 Thursday | Ballet Center of Ithaca, 506 N Plain St, Ithaca | Auditions on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 12:30 p.m. Performances this season include Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of the Animals, The Nutcracker and The Sleeping Beauty. Ladies, please bring pointe shoes. Info at 607-277-3546. American Red Cross Blood Drives | 1:00 PM-6:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | The Shops At Ithaca Mall, , Ithaca | Square and Contra Dance | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 9/03 Saturday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information

call 273-1511 Berkshire Free Library’s Annual Fall Book Sale | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 9/03 Saturday, 9/04 Sunday | Berkshire Free Library, 12519 NY-38, Berkshire | A large variety of newer fiction and non-fiction has been donated this year including children’s books and paperbacks. Proceeds from the used book sale will be put toward the library’s operating budget. Several books by local authors will also be available. Tickets will also be available toward a beautiful quilt which will be raffled at the Richford Potato Festival, September 17, to benefit the Richford Historical Society. Ithaca Labor Day Picnic: Labor Rights Are Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter | 11:00 AM-3:00 PM, 9/05 Monday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | This year’s program will include the music of Black Lives Matter - Ithaca Organizer, Sammus, an Ithaca-based rap artist and producer; along with Featured Guest Speaker, and Black Lives Matter - Ithaca Organizer, Professor Russell Rickford, speaking on the links between economic justice and the Movement for Black Lives, as well as local activist folk singer, Colleen Kattau (Gringa Grooves from the Heart).

Learning So You Planted Zucchini... | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 8/31 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Chef Betsy Clasby will show you how to make healthy, vegetarian zucchini dishes. Samples and recipes provided. Registration is required - sign up online at greenstar. coop or at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. James McConkey: Courting Memory, a 95th Birthday Celebration | 4:30 PM-, 9/01 Thursday | Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, G70 Klarman Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Featuring James McConkey: Fiction and Nonfiction Writer. Paying tribute to McConkey will be Diane Ackerman ‘78 Poet and Essayist, Gilbert Allen ‘77 Poet and Fiction Writer, and A. Manette Ansay ‘91 Fiction Writer and Memoirist.

Kids Ithaca Children and Youth Chorus Placement Auditions | 3:00 PM-6:00: AM, 9/06 Tuesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | CSMA is holding ten minute

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Congo Square Market will have its last open market of the season. A Plethora of soul food, fruits and vegetables, and other goods will be available. Performances by some of Ithaca’s absolutely best musicians will be included. Sets by DJ Ramsey, Remstar Rainbows, and the rapper Sammus (pictured), will send this summer into the stratosphere. Jhakeem will also share visions for the future of the market. The market is located at the park next to Southside Community Center.

Take a trip back in time to the 1958 Springfield High School prom and meet Betty Jean, Cindy Lou, Missy, and Suzy, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts. Cortland Repertory Theatre closes their 45th anniversary summer season of professional live theatre with a lollipop of a musical. Written and created by Roger Bean, the show features some of the greatest pop hits of the 1950’s and 60’s, including “Lollipop”, “Dream Lover”, “Stupid Cupid”,and “Lipstick on Your Collar”.

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placement auditions on Tuesday, Sept 6 and Wednesday, Sept 7. No experience or preparation needed. Children ages 7-19 are welcome to join, and scholarships are available. Please call CSAM at 272-1474 to schedule an audition to get more information. Please note the group is in special need of teenage male singers.

Special Events The Great New York State Fair | Through Sept. 5 | New York State Fair, 581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse | Visit nysfair.ny.gov for listings, events, vendors, and more. Indycar Grand Prix At The Glen | Sept. 1 through Sept. 4 | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | Don’t miss the return of the Verizon IndyCar Series to Watkins Glen International, September 1-4! Be here as three-time WGI winner Scott Dixon looks to top Helio Castroneves, Juan Pablo Montoya, and the rest of a talented field for a return trip to Gatorade Victory Lane! Congo Square Market | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Southside Community Center, 305 S Plain St, Ithaca | Last open market of the season. Soul food, fruits and vegetables, and other goods will be available. Featuring performances by DJ Ramsey, Remstar Rainbows, and Sammus. Jhakeem will share visions for the future of the market. For info, please contact Remanu Steele, Marketing Director for Congo Square Market, 607-592-2944. Skaneateles Festival: Festival Finale | 7:30 PM, 9/03 Saturday | Angela’s Vineyards, 2433 West Lake Road, Skaneateles | Rain location: after 3pm, call 315-685-7418 or visit www. skanfest.org Treleaven’s Field Day | 1:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/03 Saturday | Treleaven by King Ferry Winery, 658 Lake Rd, King Ferry | End-of-summer party on the east side of Cayuga Lake! Take in the sounds of the local area’s most prominent rock & roll, swing and funk musicians. Bands include The Delta Mike Shaw Band, Tailor Made, and The Jeff Love Band. Local food trucks include Alexander’s Food Truck, Over the Moon Grilled Cheeserie, Meg-A-Moo’s Ice Cream and Silver Street Rd. Beer on tap includes

In July 2016, Gunpoets released their third studio album, “Bombs Away”. The new album’s title plays off the hard/ soft juxtaposition that underlies the band’s name and creative identity. The album is a call to the world to lay down all weapons of war, and to replace them with love, peace, and compassion. This powerful new release exemplifies the true definition of what it means to be a Gunpoet. The band plays the CFCU Summer Concert Series in downtown Ithaca this Thursday, September 1 at 6:00 p.m. Don’t miss out on some hip-hop, colors, and funk. (Photo Provided) Cortland Beer Company, Two Goats Brewery, Grist Iron and Bandwagon. Games, Children’s activities and more. www.TreleavenWines.com CU Downtown | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 9/03 Saturday | This free, familyfriendly event will showcase twenty Cornell student performance groups at the Bernie Milton Stage on the Ithaca Commons. Experience Cornell Bhangra, the Absolute Zero Breakdance Club, CU Jazz, Yamatai, the Big Red Pep Band, the After Six Ensemble, and many other a cappella, instrumental, and dance groups, plus an astounding juggler, at this first-ever event. CU Downtown will give students and locals a rare opportunity to see a hugely diverse range of performers for free and all at one venue.

Meetings Lansing Village Board of Trustees | 7:30 PM-8:30 PM, 9/05 Monday | Meeting takes place in the Village Hall at 2405 Triphammer Rd, Lansing. Spencer Village Board of Trustees | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/05 Monday | Spencer Municipal Building Hall. 79 E Tioga St Spencer, NY Van Etten Village Board of Trustees | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/05 Monday | Village Offices, 6 Gee Street, Van Etten. Tompkins County Legislature |

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5:30 PM-, 9/06 Tuesday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome. Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 9/06 Tuesday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | May include hearings, during which the public may speak. City Board of Zoning Appeals | 7:00 PM-, 9/06 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca |

Ongoing Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association: Open to girls & women ages 16 & up | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/31 Wednesday’ | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ East Hill Ithaca Farmers’ Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 8/31 Wednesday’ | Located next to Rite Aid, Pine Tree Rd., Ithaca | The Market features local produce, local organic and pasture raised meats, baked goods, plants and more! For more information on area markets, visit www.ithacamarket.com.

Sciencenter Mini-Golf || Sciencenter, 601 1st St., Ithaca | Enjoy 18 holes of science fun! www.sciencenter.org or 607-272- 0600. Meditation Sessions | 12:35 PM, 8/31 Wednesday’ | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Facilitated by psychotherapist and Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher Anna Salamone, RN, LCSW. For more information, visit www. annasalamone.com or contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at cwheeler@tcpl. org or (607) 272-4557 extension 248. Pickleball at the Ithaca YMCA | 9:30 AM-2:00 PM, 9/01 Thursday’ | Ymca, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:30 am – 2:00 pm Reagan’s Tae Kwon Do | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 9/01 Thursday’ | Candor High School, , Candor | Train to make yourself faster, stronger, more confident, and disciplined. Learn forms, one steps, sparring, and breaking. Try a week or free. Contact: reaganstaekwondo.com / (607)659-5266 / reagansTKD@gmail.com Overeaters Anonymous | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 9/03 Saturday’ | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | OA is a worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835

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Books Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting: Thomas D. Seeley | 4:00 PM-, 9/01 Thursday | Mann Library, Cornell Library, , Ithaca | Join Thomas D. Seeley, the Horace White Professor in Biology in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell, for a Chats in the Stacks talk about his new book Following the Wild Bees (Princeton University Press; May 3, 2016).

Art Sun Flare: Dara Engler, Nydia Blas | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 9/01 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, IC, Ithaca | A Pirate’s Guide to Heat and Meat: Dara Engler. The Girls Who Spun Gold: Nydia Blas. Paintings, Photography. Jaime Brett Treadwell: Fade to Gray | 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, 9/01 Thursday | Dowd Gallery, Dowd Fine Arts Center, Room 106, SUNY Cortland, Cortland | An exhibition of new paintings on view from August 29-October 7. Treadwell, a SUNY Cortland alumnus, class of 1999, studied painting and sculpture at the college, and earned an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002. He lives and works in Philadelphia. An artist’s talk by Treadwell will take place on September 6 at 5:00 pm (Dowd Gallery. Linda Zeito | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | The Art Factory, 208 2nd St., Ithaca | Historical Objects, Nature and Animals. Sheryl Sinkow: 5 Out of 7 | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Exhibition of images made during Sinkow’s travels to five of our seven continents. Favorite images from the past as well as new photographs that show textures, landscapes, people and animals populate the walls of the gallery during September. Show dates: August 31-October. www.soagithaca.

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Hundreds of pieces of donated art will be displayed in the CAP ArtSpace Gallery, all available for purchase right off the walls! There will be work in all ranges of the spectrum of fine art: Abstract paintings, landscapes, figure studies, pop art, and more. Work on display will continue to be replenished as sales are made throughout the month of September. The sale ends on September 30th. This is a great chance to start an art collection or add to the one you already have.

fresh produce from Elmer Family Farm, Whispering Willow and Nook and Cranny. Reagan’s Tae Kwon Do | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 9/06 Tuesday’ | Candor High School, , Candor | Train to make yourself faster, stronger, more confident, and disciplined. Learn forms, one steps, sparring, and breaking. Try a week or free. Contact: reaganstaekwondo.com / (607)659-5266 / reagansTKD@gmail.com

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Bement-Billings House Open For Tours | 12:00 PM-, 9/03 Saturday’ | Bement-Billings Farmstead, 9241 State Route 38, Newark Valley | nvhistory@ stny.rr.com / www.nvhistory.org Beginner Bird Walks | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Guided bird walks every Saturday and Sunday morning, sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the Cornell Lab of Ornitholgy on Sapsucker Woods Rd. by the front of the building. For the meeting time and more information, go to the club’s website, www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar Howl Night | 7:00 PM-, 9/03 Saturday’ | The Wolf Mountain Nature Center, 562 Hopkins Crandall Road, Smyrna | Come and see Gray wolves, Eastern coyotes, and Arctic foxes - learn about their communication skills, their habitat, and place in the ecosystem. Taking Care Of Business: Exhibit Opening | 10:00 AM-, 9/03 Saturday’ | Tioga County Historical Museum, 110 Front Street, Owego | A history of business, industry, and commerce in Tioga County, featuring all of the methods of advertising used over the last 150 years. The Ultimate Purpose Rap Session: A Free Speech - Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/06 Tuesday’ | Room #3, 2nd Floor, Above The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 Center of the Commons, Ithaca | We have tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Please join us! The Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Hikes | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead 4-5 mile hikes every Tuesday evening. Hike locations vary every week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org Waverly’s Farmers Market | 3:00 PM, 9/06 Tuesday’ | The Mini Park, The Corner of Broad Street and Waverly Street, Waverly | Come and buy your fresh locally grown produce and meet your farmer. Tompkins County Amateur Radio Association | 7:00 PM-, 9/06 Tuesday’ | Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response, 92 Brown Road, Ithaca | The Association meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. All are welcome to attend. The Brooktondale Farmers Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 9/06 Tuesday’ | Brooktondale Community Center, 524 Valley Rd, Brooktondale | Enjoy farm

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A native of Turkey, pianist Sezi Seskir graduated from Cornell with a D.M.A. in historical performance practice in 2011, as a student of Malcolm Bilson. Currently teaching at Bucknell University as a visiting assistant professor, Ms. Seskir will return to Cornell for a special performance along with her duo partner, British violinist Lucy Russell, to perform a program of violin sonatas by Mozart, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Beethoven, on period instruments.

org Annual Print Sale | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | The Ink Shop has its Annual Print Sale before the holidays. Their collection of prints is extensive and represents some of the best printmakers around. Early American Art | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | An exhibition of Early American Art by the Central New York Chapter of The Historical Society of Early American Decoration. CAP-a-PALOOZA: Vintage & Local Art | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | CAP ArtsSpace, 171 The Commons, Ithaca | Over 400 pieces of donated art will be in the ArtSpace, all available for purchase right off the walls! Prices will range from $25 for the majority of unframed work, and (mostly) $35 to $250 for framed pieces. The sale ends on September 30th. Various Artists, About Face | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Eye, 126 E State St, Ithaca | About Face is eye Ithaca’s first group show with over 20 painters, photographers, and sculptors’ depiction of the face, human and otherwise. Creators include Kaleb Hunkele, Janet Woolley, Camille Chew, Terry Plater, Giselle Potter, and some surprises. PLUS! Diminutives: A Pop-Up of Small Mercies, featuring Leah Strogatz, Erin Deneuville, Ben Marlan, & Amy Browne. Sally Ryan: Healing in Color | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Sarah’s Patisserie, 103 E Seneca St., Ithaca | A lively journey of color and light with Sally’s latest abstracts in Acrylic and Collage. Charlotte Walsh: Compliments Fly | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Handwork, 102 W State St, Ithaca | Charlotte Walsh transforms watercolor paintings into lightweight color earrings called Compliments Fly. Khalil Bey: Recent Work | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | New Roots Charter School, 116 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Khalil Bey is Ithaca born, but raised in Philadelphia and Baltimore. He is a self-taught artist, starting at the early ages of 3 and 4. Khalil is best known for his colorful pastel portraits of AfricanAmerican lifestyles, prominent leaders and big-eyed hopeful children. Spotlight: Faculty and Student Works | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | A group show of recent works by CSMA’s visual arts

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hat would music sound like if the world were flat? Where would your skeletal dust swirl to if we were atop an infinite underground? Could you design a suit that could withstand the outer core of the earth’s five thousand degree liquid metal zone? Will we ever travel to distant galaxies, or are we stuck here until the earth reshapes itself and buries us into eternity? Close you eyes and imagine your human form melting away as you become infinite nothingness. Or…check out some music, film, and literature this week and only slightly imagine the parallel universe your humanoid twin resides in. It’s good practice: seeing live music and pondering the fourth (and fifth) dimension. If you want to escape the stratosphere and have a few martinis while you’re at it, think about checking out Audio Geometry this Friday at 10:00 p.m. at Lot 10. Honestly, I just heard of this guy and have been listening to his electronic and ambient soundscapes for the past few days, and man, this stuff is stirring. Part trance, part glitch, and thoroughly pristine, this (along with Uncommon Nasa —see article on page 17—are the shows of the week by far. I certainly hope Lot 10 is packed for it and the whole club breaks loose of its axis and lifts towards Mars while AD bends the crowd’s mind into a snake nexus of perplexity. Speaking of a snake nexus of

faculty and selected students. This exhibition offers a glimpse of the work and individual styles of our teaching artists, together with examples of art created by their adult and youth students. On view September through October. Laura Lattanzi Sterling, Stillpoints: Meditations on Earth and Spirit | 5:00 PM-8:00 AM, 9/02 Friday | Padma Center for Natural Therapies, 114 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Lattanzi has a deep appreciation for the natural world, and is inspired by Native American, Shamanic, and other ancient spiritual traditions that ascribe sacred meaning and power to natural objects. Carl Schofield: Photographs | 5:00 PM-8:00 AM, 9/02 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | After retiring, Carl Schofield turned his eye to from

perplexity, Cha Cha & the Ndor Band play the Rongo Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. This band features the energetic frontman Yao “Cha Cha” Foli Augustine and varying members (Clockwise from left) Katie Jarvis in “Fish of both Mosaic Foundation and Big Mean Sound Machine, and dubs Tank”; the original Slayer; Yao “Cha Cha” its way towards the outer rim with a Foli Augustine; Corey Keating of Audio swirling mix of Ghanaian, American, Geometry (Photos Provided) and Jamaican roots rock. This is the place to be to feel the horizontal sun melt warmly into your third eye. Mix Goddard keeps you centered and it up with some traditional Rongovian literate: a haze of creation that cocktails (St. Ruby, Rongo ’72, Old Amigo), floats brilliant. Also grab Above and you’ll be shifting, swaying, and The Rim, the greatest hip-hop dreaming to the spiky grooves of inner and basketball movie ever made. space and the Milky Way islands. Tupac stars as a menacing drug And while we’re on the topic of Milky lord and Duane Martin can actually ball. Way islands, free yourself up some time It’s a NYC classic that I watched before this week to get over to the Tompkins every b-ball game I played in High School. County Public Library and rent yourself Beyond amazing. And if you want one and art-house flick. I know in my heart more pick, grab Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank, you’re sick and tired of being beaten over a lush and devastating (and absolutely the head with Hollywood’s fear tactics brilliant) film about a girl growing up in the and mindless bully mentality, so it’s about East London council estates. time to wash this bad taste out of your What to drink? I know you’ve heard brain. TCPL has some ridiculously great it before, but the sun’s setting on this films, so you have some wicked spread strange summer (Jim Morrison, you the there. I recommend the following: Jeanman!), and this is the real time to sit back Luc Goddard’s Every Man for Himself: an and drink a few Coronas. Artfully dice up amazing piece of art that makes you use a lime and presto! You’re in the fourth your mind and your eyes at the same time. dimension. Read the Ithaca Times, some Flowing with a visual and poetic grace,

examining the impact of acid rain as part of Cornell’s department of Natural Resources to capturing images of landscapes, nature, and travel. Some of his infrared landscape photography, an area of particular interest to him, was featured in Popular Photography, 2001. Terry Plater and Khalil Bey, Subject Matter: Black Lives | 5:00 PM-8:00 AM, 9/02 Friday | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Black Lives is an exhibition of art by two black artists from the Ithaca area–Terry Plater and Khalil Bey. Mark O. Johnson: Through an Old Window | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | West Danby-ite Mark O. Johnson finds the best of both worlds with the unpredictable Upstate New York weather. Driving

around, exploring, and scouring for old windows on sunny days and painting on rainy days, his creations really capture the local landscape. Vanessa Velez: We Are All Light Beams | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Benjamin Peters, 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Vanessa Velez is a fellow human just wanting to share her idea of our true nature: light beams. Michael Goscinsky: Wood Block Prints | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Cellar d’Or, 136 The Commons, Ithaca | A printmaker for over fifty five years, Michael Goscinsky produces wood block prints that combine animal images with Asian symbols. His prints are spiritual and complex by nature but also have a simplicity which appeals to the dichotomy in all of us. Jhenah Telyndru and Emily

Jean Baudrillard, relax, and then make your final push: check out Diana Leigh with the ever-evolving Jessie Collins Quartet Sunday night at 6:00 p.m. at Maxie’s. A Coltrane study, Collins is a beast on the saxophone and Leigh has the jazz chops meant for the big stage. Then you can walk on home after the show and throw your headphones on to the new Inquisition record and feel the circular orb. Stop by the Chanticleer Loft, grab a Budweiser, blast some Slayer on the jukebox (you can actually do this), and dream of the center of the Earth. Wait: you’re already there: Ithaca Bonjour! •

Brunner: Sacred Sight, Sacred Sites | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | In celebration of the newly-released “The Avalonian Oracle” deck and book, author Jhenah Telyndru and artist Emily Brunner share images from the deck, photographs from the sacred sites depicted in the cards, and a multimedia presentation exploring the mythic foundation of this unique divinatory system. For more information, please visit www. avalonianoracle.com. Hobit Lafaye: Sense of Place | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Collegetown Bagels, 203 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Explore essences of Ithaca through this collection of fresh, intimate portraits of the area by local photographer Hobit Lafaye.

Ben Ortiz: Recent Work | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Ben Ortiz, aka DJ Hameen, will be exhibiting his work downstairs during the months of September and October. Check out his work while enjoying some killer cocktails, live music and street food by Luna. Herb Shapiro: New Paintings | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/02 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Representational painting and Abstract painting.

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Dynamic and sultry vocalist Diana Leigh’s background includes blues, rock, folk, country and reggae, but her heart is in the jazz standards of the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. The Jesse Collins Quartet with Diana Leigh, which plays Jesse’s original music as well as his arrangements of classic and not-so-classic tunes for Diana to sing, is a modern jazz quartet with vocals that are elegant and a little edgy. Expect to be carried away to a time of free-swinging groove and classic night club radiance.

Designed to welcome Cornell’s incoming class as well as entertain returning students and the larger Ithaca community, this free, family-friendly event will showcase twenty Cornell student performance groups at the Bernie Milton Stage on the Ithaca Commons. Experience Cornell Bhangra, the Absolute Zero Breakdance Club, CU Jazz, Yamatai, the Big Red Pep Band, the After Six Ensemble, and many other a cappella, instrumental, and dance groups, plus an astounding juggler, at this first-ever event.

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