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Fa l l e n t m Ente r t a in side G Guide in by Christopher J. Harrington
rowing up with a chronic disease I often felt slightly alone, isolated, and strangely detached from other humans in a way that is hard to describe. Throughout high school and college it was particularly difficult. I can still remember the precise moment in time—walking through the streets with my headphones on, my Sony Walkman spinning a strange new album, feeling engaged and charged like never before—that those realities began to melt away. Sepultura’s Beneath the Remains and Fugazi’s Steady Diet of Nothing were the first real metal and hardcore albums that truly touched and changed me. They were undeniably different from one another, yet both showcased an intensity I had never experienced. I listened to those albums over and over, living with them by my side. Their aggression, pain and hope matched my feelings of isolation and confusion and helped me gain a confidence that burned deep within my heart. Music can have interstellar and profound effects on human beings—in particular heavy metal and hardcore,
which demand more of an intense listening some confused, isolationist anger, and [it] effort than other music. I grew up in a separated me from ‘normal’ kids. My first small town with little to no music scene, clenched fist was raised to the Sex Pistols, having to travel hundreds of miles to reach and [it] just got more white-knuckled and shows. Ithaca, while not a giant place by red as my musical tastes grew faster and any means, definitely has a music scene, and within this music scene there is a unique and developing metal and hardcore segment, infused with talented individuals from Binghamton and Syracuse, that is ripe for more exposure. The passion that it takes to play this form of music is immense, and this small city is lucky to have such devoted individuals. Andrew Hernandez, the drummer for the Earth Crisis in action (Photo Provided) Ithaca-based metal band Twin Lords, which is set to release their first fulllength album on the label Handshake Inc., heavier.” shared his story of finding such music. Dan Rivera, the bassist of Twin Lords, “Growing up with my mother raising me recalled his own transformation. “I was since my father abandoned us left me with especially a big rap fan and listened to a T
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lot of Run-D.M.C. and Fat Boys, but 1986 was the year that changed everything. I was introduced to Iron Maiden’s Somewhere in Time and Metallica’s Master of Puppets, which changed my life forever. The energy, power and emotional complexity which were expressed in these albums were unlike anything I’d ever heard before, and from that moment I was hooked.” Ithaca’s Avery Galek, guitarist and songwriter for the local progressive doom band Doubt, spoke of the varying dynamics of metal and hardcore. “It is a vessel often used to convey ideas that concern important social, political and societal issues. It has spawned so many different movements throughout history and has helped generations of people become more aware and proactive about things like animal rights, human rights, substance abuse and mental illness.” There is a deep fabric to this form of music, one that shapes individual and collective vision. This music has many layers that envelop a human’s whole
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aking plans to attend picnics and hold rummage sales over Fig Newtons and lemonade sounds more like the afternoons of schoolchildren than the activities of those involved in a presidential campaign. Certainly the national media has little interest in meetings held in fluorescent-lit gymnasiums to support a candidate for President of the United States, unless they happen to be in Iowa during January every four years. Even if the candidate is only 7 points behind the frontrunner in the polls. So there were no television cameras in the Southside Community Center gym on Thursday, Aug. 27. About 40 Ithacans came together that night to talk over how they will work to elect the candidate of their choice. And, this being Bernie Sanders Ithaca, it should be no surprise these early campaigners are for one Bernard Sanders, the independent U.S. senator and self-described democratic socialist from Vermont who is running for the Democratic nomination. With everyone seated in a circle of folding chairs, organizers stood up and said a piece about different aspects of the Sanders campaign. One woman handed out a fact sheet “that goes into the full detail of his position on racial justice relations.” (Black Lives Matter protesters have confronted Sanders at campaign events in recent weeks, challenging him to address issues of race in addition to his platform of economic justice.) Another organizer spoke about helping swing the labor movement from the grassroots, because national leadership, he said, “are aching to get behind Hillary.” He asked people to show up to the Labor Day picnic at Stewart Park, if for nothing else than to wear the Bernie sticker. Justin Cray, a Cornell sophomore, said that “Bernie is that great common goal” that can bring community and student activists together. A Fall Creeker asked for donations for a fundraising yard sale, to be held the Sunday of Porchfest. The tabling coordinator recommended her activity on the continued on page 4
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highly visible downtown street block” and that in the “rush to push for density the city failed to examine the consequences for that site” before a height up to 120 feet was allowed there in June 2013. When the planning board took time to comment on the project, Jack Elliott reinforced McCracken’s point: “It’s not about lines and cornices; it’s about massing.” CJ Randall talked about the idea of “porosity,” breaking up the block into distinctive facades. Mark Darling offered that he wants this project “to be the gateway building to downtown and this doesn’t look like the gateway building to me.” Darling said that he’s still all right with the concept of densifying downtown and getting neighborhoods back to single-family
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▶ Tomato Festival at Cooperative Extension, Sunday, Sept. 13, 11 a.m.–2 p.m..@ CCE Tompkins, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca Calling all tomato lovers! This is your opportunity to sample many varieties of heirloom tomatoes at one time, then take home some saved seeds so you can grow these delicious yet sometimes hard-to-find varieties in your own garden. The tomato sampling and seed saving instruction will be ongoing so drop in when you can!
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Schutt Defends Soil and Water Record ccording to Craig Schutt, the past financial mismanagement of Tompkins County Soil and Water Conservation District is not his fault and will not affect his ability to manage Dryden’s budget as the town supervisor, a position he’s running for this fall. For 15 years ending in mid-2013, Schutt served as the district’s manager and in the latter part of his tenure, annual auditors’ reports found multiple recurring problems with the district’s finances. Although as district manager Schutt was responsible for drafting budgets, in an Independent candidates for election in Dryden. Craig Schutt is in blue shirt at left. (Photo provided) interview last week he said that the blame lies with the district’s board of directors. He said, “The truth of it is that the grants had no financial activity or were issues have since been addressed: “We’ve problem was more with the board than it not closed out properly and that the worked with the auditors and the State was with me. I was giving the board all the funding for two grants was not renewed, of New York and Tompkins County and correct information, and they just weren’t corrected all the problems that were in likely because final reports were not filed following through.” in a timely manner. They warned in their those audit reports. ” While the district comments, “Failure to comply with grant Nonetheless, right has not yet returned “When I stopped requirements could lead to the loss of now the district owes documents requested working they continued the state money, to the grant funding in the future or requests through the Freedom to pay me for six tune of about $100,000, from the grantor to repay the awards.” of Information Because the county is under a according to Negley. months, ... So if I was Act, the county did confidentiality agreement, the exact the current provide four years such a bad boy why did Under circumstances of Schutt’s departure payment schedule, of management you keep paying me?” Negley said it will take from the district are unclear. However, comment letters he maintains that the manner of his 5 to 10 years to pay —Craig Schutt, former district from the CPA firm departure indicates that he is not at fault: off. Though he would manager of Soil & Water Ciaschi, Dietershagen, “When I stopped working they continued not discuss who was Conservation District Little, Mickelson, to pay me for six months, and I made responsible for creating and Company. Those more that six months than the previous six that mess, Negley did documents paint a months. So if I was such a bad boy, why say that the money is picture of a district in did you keep paying me?” • owed to repay state grant funds that were increasing financial disarray. misallocated. —Keri Blakinger In all four years—from 2008 through In 2011 the CPAs noted that several 2011—the district’s spending exceeded Mitch Raymond, who have been helping its revenues, resulting in a $369,767 Berniesanders organize the Ithaca For Bernie effort, right deficit fund balance by the end of 2011. contin u ed from page 3 now the campaign is a “two-level effort.” In some years, the approved budgets were There are the traditional “boots on the incomplete and in other years the auditors Commons or over at Wal-Mart for those ground” in the early voting states of Iowa noted that supporting documentation who “like the outdoors and like talking and New Hampshire, and in other places was not available for some expenditures. to people.” The canvassing coordinator “it’s just grassroots stuff like this. They’ll Also, the payroll was not being charged to get around to us eventually.” grants on a regular basis, deposits were not warned that anyone going door-todoor with him should be able to listen So far, everything happening for made in a timely manner, and the district Sanders here is happening “without manager accrued more compensation time while also knowing how to get out of a conversation. He has sent people out in the guidance from up on high.” than permitted under district policy. past to canvass who were not ready. Deborah Dawson said she goes back The auditors noted that they were not There is a list available of people who as far in political activism as working for able to obtain a formal accounting policy “aren’t Democrats, aren’t Republicans, Ann Richards’ gubernatorial campaign regarding the capitalization of assets. who aren’t conservatives” that will be the against George W. Bush in Texas in the Despite repeated recommendations that target audience for the Sanders canvassers. ‘90s. this be remedied, the comment continued They’re hoping to get people signed up by “It says how huge a Bernie supporter to appear in successive years of reports the Oct. 9 voting registration deadline for I am that I’m passing up the opportunity and had not been addressed by the end of the general election. New Yorkers must for the first, viable, woman candidate,” 2011, the last year of documentation the already be registered Democrats to vote Dawson said. “He resonates more closely county was able to provide. for Sanders in the 2016 primary. (New with what I believe. And the older I get, Furthermore, in both 2010 and 2011, the more cynical I get as I keep hearing the the district flouted General Municipal Law York State requires people to register for a party the year before an election in order same thing.” • by investing in mutual funds, which are to prevent “party hopping,” according to a not an approved investment type. county board of elections employee.) — J o s h B r o k aw The current district manager, According to Bob Grommes and Jonathan Negley, said that all of those
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▶ Some Health on South Hill, A health and wellness website has included Ithaca College on its list of the nation’s top 25 healthiest colleges for its “exceptional commitment to student health, wellness and happiness.” In putting together its ranking, Greatist.com looked for schools that go above and beyond to create an environment where students have access to an array of healthy food, top-notch fitness facilities and robust medical and mental health services.
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he largest coffee chain in New York State might soon open a location in downtown Ithaca, right on the Commons. The idea caught many hanging out on the Commons on a recent weekend evening by surprise. Camille Halton, born and raised here, arched her eyebrows and said, “I'm not into it. We've got three of them. That's good enough. I'd like to see more local small independently-owned businesses here.” Rachel Skye, who spent time at Cornell and was visiting town, admitted that with her Massachusetts roots she'll go to a Dunkin' if there's no local option available, but she still “disapproves” of the idea. “There are already good local places here,” Skye said. Chino, who was sipping a berry smoothie from The Maté Factor, said that a Dunkin' on the Commons “doesn't have that cool vibe.” He's lived here about three months and said he “moved up here to get away from all that” commercialism. “There's enough sweet junk with all the chemicals and crap,” Chino said. “We need more good food, like carob.” A pair of new Cornell students discussing the Dalai Lama's works didn't have a strong opinion on the idea, though one offered that students on East Hill wouldn't be much affected since there's already a Dunkin' Donuts on College Avenue (which opened this past spring). One lifelong resident who asked not to be named noted that the Commons has “always had a commercial presence,” from Montgomery Ward and J.C. Penney's to the McDonald's that was once located where Benchwarmers now sits, unused. The strongest endorsement of the idea from this anecdotal survey came from a man who offered his name as Dave; he's just arrived in town and is working on finding a place to live. “Would it be open, with a bathroom, at 5 a.m.? That'd be great,” Dave said. “If it was 24 hours that'd be lovely. It'd be nice if it was something a little less corporate, but you can't be a purist. Someone's not going [to decide] to live in this town because there's a Dunkin' Donuts on the corner.” He also noted that Burlington has a Dunkin' on their pedestrian mall, which hasn't “hurt their business.” Emma Lou Sheikh confirmed last week that there have been talks with Dunkin' Donuts about opening a location at 142 E. State Street. The space is the former location of Evolution boutique and is located along Cayuga Street and catercorner to The Chanticleer. Sheikh owns the building with her husband Abdul,
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The “Jazz Brew” decor, one of four new interior designs for Dunkin’ Donuts franchises. (Photo provided)
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one of the investments they still have downtown after retiring from running the House of Shalimar in 2012. Sheikh said there was "nothing definite yet," but "there are discussions going on with that entity." "If something happens, it will be publicly announced pretty quickly," Sheikh said. "That space has been vacant for a year and a half. Obviously, as a property owner, I'd like to have it rented." Calls and emails to representatives of the Wolak Group have not yet been returned. The Wolak Group operates over 85 Dunkin' Donuts franchises in New York, New Hampshire, and Maine, including the five currently open in Tompkins County. There's one on Elmira Road; one on Meadow Street that was once a KFC; the Collegetown location; one on Route 13 that's part of a gas station; and one that opened last year on Pine Tree Road across from East Hill Plaza. The property owner of that East Hill location, Yunis Realty of Elmira, brought suit against the Town of Ithaca's decision to deny a zoning exception for a drive-up
window; the site opened anyway, sans drive-through. The Wolak Group also opened two locations in Syracuse in early 2014 that have fireplaces, and built a new standalone building on Salina Street there in 2012 that included three loft apartments after the city's planning commission made numerous suggestions for the location's design. Though Dunkin' Donuts might be associated in the minds of many Ithacans with drive-throughs and orange-based murals of faceless workers that evoke the most tepid Soviet realism, the chain is attempting to make itself urban and upscale. According to the Center for an Urban Future, of all chain anythings— restaurants, convenience stores, Duane Reades—Dunkin' Donuts had the most locations in New York City at the end of 2014, with 536. It has about 1,200 locations in the state, compared to about 500 Starbucks. The chain also introduced four décor motifs in 2013 for its franchisees to choose from, following McDonald's in the attempt to make its interiors more welcoming to the so-called “sip and surf ” crowd. The “Original Blend,” the “Muted Earth Tone Environment” of capuccino blend, and “Dark Roast” were offered as options for new locations, along with “Jazz Brew.” In a July 2013 feature in restaurant development + design, a trade magazine, Dunkin’ Donuts’ senior director of global design described the higher-end “Jazz Brew” option as a “high-end offering that delivers a sit-down type of environment with a more trendy, coffeehouse type of feel.” Whether Ithacans will decide if the new, jazzy Dunkin’ Donuts is trendy enough for their new Commons, we shall all have to wait and see. • —Josh T
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▶ Affordable Housing opens, New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) joined Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS), PathStone Development, and local officials for the ribbon cutting and official opening of Stone Quarry Apartments. The 35unit development is now available to rent to low-income households. The property, located on Spencer Road at the corner of Stone Quarry Road is completely visitable by a person with a mobility impairment. This includes all apartments, common rooms, and outside areas. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Aug. 26-Sept. 1 include: 1) McGuire Holds Budget Ax Over Interlaken Police Department 2) This Weekend: Commons Reopening Celebration 3) Big Red Bullets to Fly: Bus Service to NYC? 4) Grass Will Be Greener Next Year at T’burg Schools 5) Head First: Concussion Numbers Steady, Awareness Grows For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.
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Hooray for Density L ast week (Aug. 26) we ran a Guest Opinion that sang the praises of the bucolic charm of Ithaca and gently inveighed against the idea of constructing tall buildings in the city. The author, John Bleakley, has been present at some recent meetings of the Planning and Development board, and he has not been alone in his sentiments regarding the proposed Trebloc building. Some residents of Willow Avenue in Fall Creek also expressed public concern about the four-story buildings planned by Ithaca Neighborhood Housing to be built on First Street in Northside. Bleakley and others are concerned that construction of the 11-story Trebloc building at the corner of East State and South Aurora streets will obstruct views of the surrounding hills. He suggests that surely past zoning requirements limiting height were wiser and the proposed greater density will only cause problems, as it has for other cities. Most planners would argue, in fact, that sprawl causes more problems than density, and sprawl is assuredly what we would get if the city government and the business improvement district (BID) did not continually evangelize for and encourage building downtown. Contrary to what anti-urbanists suggest the most problem-ridden neighborhoods in big cities tend to be “food deserts” and dotted with vacant buildings and lots. They aren’t dense at all. Density is a sign of urban health. In their recent meetings with city government during the early stages of
their plans to build a new seven-story office building on East Seneca Street, the Tompkins Trust Company CEO Greg Hartz stated categorically that their decision to build downtown was an act of principle. They defied democracy (their employees wanted to relocate to the suburbs) and stared down economy (it will be more expensive—seven times more expensive—to build downtown) in order to follow a progressive planning course. They are conscious of how important it is to the vitality of a downtown to have hundreds of people working there. The Trebloc project is a residential building; it will add 600 new residents to downtown. That is a lot of new customers for the surrounding businesses and will help to encourage the establishment of a larger grocery, and perhaps the reestablishment of a newsstand. Take a drive to Cortland and you will find 11-story residential buildings, but they are not downtown. Instead they are in the middle of residential neighborhoods, surrounded by one- or two-story houses. That is not particularly good planning. In Ithaca and, generally, in Tompkins County the planning philosophy is to concentrate density in order to create a dynamic living environment that allows residents to walk to amenities and to work as often as possible. continued on page 7
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Washington, D.C. In a rare display of bipartisanship, the House of Representatives voted 401-34 to open the National Mall to unrestricted hotel and student housing development, “This is a long-overlooked opportunity to generate some revenue for our country,” gushed Representative Tom Reed (R-N.Y.). The proposed 856-foot Motel Six building, which will dwarf the neighboring Washington Monument, is expected to win approval by month’s end. Beijing, China. In what a now-missing dissident claimed is a desperate attempt to shore up its cratering economy, the People’s Republic of China announced an ambitious plan to draw tourists to the Great Wall by building a string of high-rise hotels on top of the wall itself. The buildings will be connected by an updated, glass-and-steel version of the Great Wall. When a nowmissing journalist asked if shares in the project would be available to the public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, President Xi Jinping explained, “Shut up.” Construction is slated for completion in time for the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. Agra, India. A forest of construction cranes will greet the 3 million visitors to the Taj Mahal next year as construction of the massive Marriott at Agra Hotel and apartment complex takes place. Covering 21 acres and rising 656 feet above the banks of the Yamuna River, the hotel will completely enclose the World Heritage landmark within its soaring atrium lobby. “It’s foolish to think that a progressive community like Agra would cling to its past for purely aesthetic reasons,” said Mayor Indrajeet Arya. “We welcome the new look and seek to utilize the site to its fullest potential.” •
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Irritating Parking Machines
Dear Mayor Myrick, Before the endless Commons construction, my family shopped or ate out downtown weekly. Over the past two years we’ve gotten along fine without ever visiting the treacherous Commons. The newly open Commons comes with new dangers: parking that requires crossing a busy street and having one’s license plate number in hand. Mere quarters no longer suffice. To approach the new meter across the street from the parking spot where I wanted to park my car, I would have had to wend my way across two lanes of traffic while keeping an eye on the two guys peddling something with cell phones near my car. When parking meters were next to parking spots, I could get out of my car, slip in my quarter, walk to the store I wanted to do 6
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business with complete my business, get back into my car and safely drive away. Whether or not the new parking machines take quarters, they are not necessarily next to the car to be parked. Ithaca’s sidewalks are a treacherous gauntlet for people trying to maneuver from car to business, even more so near the Commons. The new Ithaca parking specialist seems to live in a different world from the Ithaca-area residents, many of whom are rural people whose business Ithaca needs, but who find these new parking machines the final straw driving us out. Before the ill-advised Commons remodel, my family and I shopped, ate out, and did business transactions downtown every week. Since the Commons mess, we’ve lived a fine life without ever coming anywhere continued on page 7
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the Commons, architect Noah Demarest of STREAM Collaborative offered that he had considered an option like cutting down three stories for a stretch of 50 feet across and asked if that would be considered a significant change by the board. McKenzie Jones-Rounds allowed that sounded like “a significant option” to her, but Elliott had a far-reaching request for the architects: “Forget about how many units per [floor-area ratio],” Elliott said. “Make it pop. Bring it back here, and we’ll say that looks better … and we’ll see how to shoehorn back in those units.” Ithaca’s landlords have other concerns about the project. G.P. Zurenda told the board on Aug. 25 that he believes “it’s inappropriate and unethical to give tax abatements for a high end development. It’s taking from the middle class and giving to the wealthy ... unlike hotels [this project] is not bringing new people into the city to visit.” On the Landlords Association of Tompkins County listserv, John Guttridge defended the State Street project. He would “rather see growth happening downtown than in Lansing or elsewhere on the periphery.” Others, though, were questioning the conventional wisdom that Ithaca’s vacancy rate is nearly nonexistent. Someone asked whether there was any new information to supplement a 2011 Danter Company study on downtown housing which says that 1,000 new units is the conservative number needed to assuage demand. “It seems to me that members of this group have been noticing how hard it is to rent a vacant places this summer, so how could we need more apartments,” David Shuman wrote. “Why would the city give abatement to large projects that will make our local taxes go up but force rents to go down due to a glut of apartments.” In addition to its size and appearance and the question of whether it should receive tax abatements, another big question that has been raised over the Trebloc project so far is whether the parking glut so often claimed by city staff will become scarcity quickly, especially, as several landlords speculated, if the ofttalked about convention center project at the Hotel Ithaca gets off the ground. Robin Tropper-Herbel of the Community School of Music and Arts asked the planning board about that parking glut, which she said is “based on this alleged belief the city garages are not being used to full capacity at present time … I urge you to pursue further inquiry about when do the parking garages reach the tipping point.” Campus Advantage estimates on ithacaliving.com, the information site they have set up for the project, that it will rent parking 250 spots for the building. How many of those will be in the Cayuga Street garage, the only long-term rental spot downtown – at $65 per month – is unclear, as surface parking for those who only need cars for occasional trips might be available outside of downtown.
After the Aug. 25 meeting, Campus Advantage vice president Ronnie Macejewski said that when his company first came to Ithaca with the State Street proposal “everyone was really in favor of it,” but now they have “done a complete 180.” It wasn’t clear (and Macejewski didn’t respond to a request for followup comment) whom, exactly, were the excited parties. Planning so far has cost about a half Giant ribbon cutting at new Commons reopening on Friday, August 28. million dollars (Photo: Aryeal Jackson) for the Austinbased company, Macejewski said. retail. They have made the absence of Whether Campus Advantage has density into a fetish. ever dealt with a city where a planning In a county like this, where most board isn’t afraid to ask for touches like people seem content to drive everywhere, curtains that look like waterfalls is unclear. it is small wonder that Ithaca is regarded Clicking through their online portfolio as being in danger of getting “too dense,” of about 40 properties nationwide shows even by some of its residents. This is a city that Ithaca is their venture furthest north where there are deer grazing in backyards and east, and many of the projects are of on East Hill within sight of the Commons, the three and four-story campus housing where a bear was sighted wandering type with names like “University Crossing” around in Southside a few years ago, and and “Flats at Mallard Creek.” Several are a (very vocal) red-shouldered hawk has called “(Something) Lofts.” Most include taken up residence near the Tuning Fork. a pool in the courtyard, and pool party This is also a city that can’t pay for pictures in the photo albums. Many look itself. It’s tax base is so small that it can’t suspiciously like greenfield development, even afford to replace its water mains, and this web browser, at least, can’t find a repair its roads or sidewalks, or hire project of the size or in the type of location enough people to patrol its reservoir that they propose for Ithaca. • watershed. It cannot remain the same size and simply raise property taxes again — J o s h B r o k aw nor can it ask Cornell for a handout one intersection at a time. It needs to grow in editorial order to replace the taxes that were lost contin u ed from page 3 to replace the ongoing disappearance of industry since the 1960s. The wisest course Lansing is slowly trying to make a real is to focus growth on an urban center community within the line that was drawn and make it a complete and sustainable around a couple of malls in the 1970s and community with residents, businesses and then called a village. They have put in amenities. This is best way to preserve the walking paths, tried to focus density, and leafy residential neighborhoods prized by the former Pyramid Mall even toyed with so many residents. • the idea of adding some residences and small businesses, an idea that fizzled with the collapse of the real estate market. Now youropinions contin u ed from page 3 we are left with only the nonsensical new name of “The Shops at Ithaca Mall.” near downtown. There is little to lure us The villages of Groton and Dryden there, but I thought once the Commons have been gutted by sprawl. Some in reopens I would try again. However, using Lansing proposed building a new town these new parking machines require a center near the town hall, but the idea dangerous trek across traffic, when the was shot down by a majority who feels machine is across the street. Like many that driving everywhere for everything is theoretical ideas, the new parking machine preferable. The village of Cayuga Heights might look good in theory, but I predict has Community Corners, a tasteful strip there will be more pedestrian accidents mall surrounding a parking lot. The and traffic accidents as people try to go to rest of the town of Ithaca is mostly tract the parking machines. housing and disused farmland. The towns Please do not remove the remaining of Danby, Caroline, Newfield, and Enfield parking meters two blocks away. have no centers at all and scarcely any T
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New York State, with its high taxes and brutal winters, gives us few reasons to stay here. Until Ithaca decided to turn itself into a mini-New York City, Ithaca’s many pluses made it worthwhile. But now these parking machines make even a trip downtown into a dangerous excursion. People who live outside downtown usually have to have a car because rural buses only go on the main routes. Parking is for those us live outside the city but want or need to do business there. In your quest to make Ithaca a walkable city, your advisors overlooked the reality that much of City of Ithaca’s revenue comes from thousands of Tompkins County residents who need cars to get home and work, who happily supported City of Ithaca $2 worth of quarters at time so we could do business in Ithaca. I respect most of your decisions, but I must respectfully point out that your advisors were blinded to the rural area that makes Ithaca a desirable place to live, but which requires cars. People in NYC might be accustomed to dodging traffic or drug dealers to get across the street, but when you set up parking machines that require city maneuvers, you cut out many of the people who have been silently supporting Ithaca. Looking for a way to cut costs and balance your budget? Send that highsalaried “parking specialist” packing which will restore parking sanity, and draw business back downtown. – Claire Forest, Town of Ithaca
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Village trustee Mike McQuire would like to eliminate the Interlaken Police Department. We got some comments on last week’s story in the Interlaken Review (Aug. 26):
This is ridiculous. To turn down grant money because you don’t like the person who’s suggesting it? Come on, stop thinking of yourself here. Interlaken received a grant to replace sidewalks. How long will they wait to use that money? The sidewalks are a mess. Many elderly people from the Bixby house use them daily. Make them safe for God’s sake. This is not about what an individual wants but what’s best for the village. -Tigersavy I think that the village of Interlaken could spend the money 85,000 they pay for a full-time police officer on other things that the village needs and reduce the amount of taxes for the village taxpayers. The village tax in Interlaken is ridiculously high. Ovid and Lodi and Romulus have no village police department, so why does Interlaken feel they need one? Everyone should walk through the village of Interlaken and can see that we could do a lot with that money take a good look at the sidewalks, they are all in bad shape but go unnoticed. -dada1
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New Cornell president hits the ground running By bill Chaisson
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lizabeth Garrett is the 13th president of Cornell University. She brings to the job a Midwestern optimism and expansiveness that is manifested in an energetic but focused way. Garrett never really quite stops moving while you are talking with her; her hands and arms cut the air to metaphorically shape the idea she is explaining and she pops her eyes wide behind her glasses to punctuate a point. While former president David Skorton was trained as a doctor, Garrett is schooled in the law, graduating from the University of Virginia Law School in 1988 and clerking for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in 1989 and 1990. From there she moved to The Hague in the Netherlands to serve as a legal advisor to Judge Howard M. Holtzmann, who was part of the Iran-United State Claims Tribunal. The tribunal, which was formed in 1981, settled U.S. private and governmental claims against Iran and is still in session. Between 1991 and 1994 Garrett was part of the legal staff of Oklahoma Senator David L. Boren, a centrist Democrat, where she focused on budget issues. Only after seven years in government did she
return to academia as a visiting associate President of Academic Affairs, posts she professor at her alma mater before held until she was selected by Cornell to joining the law faculty at the University of become its new president. Chicago as an assistant professor. “Most people believe that provost is “I think [my work before academia] one of the necessary steps [toward] being shaped my academic career in a couple president,” said Garrett, “and I think it’s ways,” Garrett said. “First, I really wanted a good preparation. One of the ways to my work to make a policy difference. A think about the president and provost is lot of my early work was informed by the that the president is like the CEO and the work I’d done in the provost is the COO Senate working on the of the institution.” “If you were to ask me finance committee on “The nice what I am, I would tell tax and budget issues. thing about having But I ran an office in been provost,” she you that I’m a faculty the Senate, so I came continued, “is that member. Once you to teaching with some you really get a deep become a faculty member sense of all the aspect organizational skills and the ability to run at a great university, that of the university. If an office, which a lot come out of a defines who you are for you of faculty might have, discipline, as well the rest of your life.” but they don’t know all do—I’m a law it, because they’ve professor, as you —Elizabeth Garrett, 13th presdient of Cornnel University never done it.” know—then you She became know really well a full professor at your own school, Chicago before moving to the University but a research university is so varied. of Southern California (USC) in 2003. Take a law school, for example, there’s no After only two years at USC Garrett was undergraduate, there’s no Ph.D., there’s no appointed Vice Provost for Academic funded research, by and large. It’s really a Affairs and a year later became Vice very elite professional graduate training. If President for Academic Affairs. In 2010 I’d only been a law school person, that’s all she became Provost and Senior Vice I’d know.” Her predecessor, she noted, had T
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Once you become a faculty member at a great university, that defines who you are for the rest of your life.” “I think of the work that I did as a teacher,” she continued, “and think of my legacy—my students from that era—and I think of my scholarly work, which fortunately has had some effect on how democratic institutions are designed. So I think that is how I came into [working] in the provost’s office.” She said she actually didn’t want the job. The USC provost approached her, having heard of her administrative skills, and asked her to join his team. She turned him down because she was working on a book that she hoped would shape the way Congress handled budget negotiations. “Imagine,” she said, laughing. “If I had done that book, we would have all the problems we’re having now.” The provost, however, was persistent and after three requests Garrett felt she could not say no. Now that she is president of university with a strong international presence in many fields and also has a large international contingent in its student body, Garrett’s experience living abroad may also be of use. She said that she had not traveled abroad when she was an undergraduate at the University of Oklahoma, so she enjoyed her work at The Hague. Her field is not international law, but the tribunal was making decisions about what to do with a large escrow fund of seized Iranian assets in the U.S. and the tribunal tended, she said, to recruit from among clerks of the Supreme Court. “I was young,” she said, “and I didn’t have a family and I thought, ‘When else in my life am I going to have this opportunity to go live somewhere?” She regrets not having another language besides English, but said The Hague was an easy place for an English speaker to live. “It is also an exciting place,” Garrett said, “because there are so many foreign nationals there because of all the international tribunals.” Her experience there caused her to encourage her students to travel abroad. “It encourages you to look at your life differently,” she said, “and think about how other people live and it gives you a deeper awareness of the diversity of other perspectives in the world.” Her husband Andrei Marmor, a professor of philosophy and law, is Israeli, so she now has family abroad. She has also held visiting professor appointments in Hungary and Israel. As president of Cornell she already has trips planned to India to other Asian countries. • • • When asked to compare Cornell and USC, Garrett began by noting that they were both large and complex with USC actually having even more schools and colleges—19 reported to her—than Cornell does. Both, she said, have fantastic undergraduate residential experiences and very fine graduate programs. USC and Cornell are also both private universities with public missions. USC, like Cornell, is the largest private employer in their
respective cities, although that is more have this footprint in Ithaca, but we now and her appointment began on July 1. of a feat in Los Angeles. Like Cornell, also have a substantial footprint in one According to Vice President of University USC undertakes enormous construction of the world’s great international cities, Relations Joel Malina she has been out projects that drive the local economy. New York City. All American research of town frequently since taking office. USC, she said, was also serious about universities have one or the other. We’re But she is a person of her focus and drive community outreach; she compared it to the only one that has both. So I think we and she has put together her personal the United Way. have a responsibility to make sure that and professional agendas quickly. She “We also worked hand in hand with this very interesting duality enhances our joked that she was two-thirds of the the mayor, the county commissioners, experience in both places.” She allowed way through the list of restaurants that with all of local government,” Garrett that it would not be easy, but it would be a Malina had recommended to her and she said, “to ensure that our neighborhood big part of what she does. had her husband are looking forward to was one that was good for all of us who “You will hear has taking Ezra’s circumnavigating Cayuga Lake to visit a lived there. In that way USC and Cornell Cornell’s vision of ‘any person, any study’ number of wineries and cheese makers are unusual private institutions in having and thinking about how we can create new along the way. this deep sense of commitment to the professional graduate programs,” Garrett In the spirit of this age of lists, public mission. And think both of them said, “that train young adults for some of we asked her top five goals as the new had productive town-gown relationships, the new careers that are being created.” president. which not every university can claim.” These programs are emerging in both “First, the provost and I and the A striking difference, she noted, is that USC is in the middle of downtown Los Angeles, while “Cornell” she said, “is in one of the loveliest college towns I have ever been in.” This marks a return to familiar ground as she received her undergraduate and graduate education in the college towns of Norman, Oklahoma and Charlottesville, Virginia. She admitted that Ithaca reminded her of Charlottesville right down to the presence of a pedestrian mall at the center of town, which is called the Promenade in the G a r r e t t a s U S C P r ov o s t w i t h h u s b a n d A n d r e i M a r m o r a n d H i l l a ry C l i n t o n . Virginia town. ( P h o t o : U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a) “It’s fair to say that Cornell’s Ph.D. programs are Ithaca and in New York. deans are focusing on our faculty,” Garrett much stronger [than USC’s],” she said, “I’d say that the fifth priority is that we said.” We have spectacular faculty at “particularly the breadth of them. I also Cornell, but we need more and we need to continue to be a very productive member think it’s fair to say that Cornell has been of this local community,” she concluded. support and retain the great faculty that a leading research university for decades. “I’ve already met with if not all the local we have.” She said that other schools were You can’t be in higher education without government leaders, then certainly a constantly trying to draw faculty away knowing about Cornell’s unbelieveable good portion of them.” She promised that from Cornell. “Faculty are the heart of a academic excellence, which is unmatched university,” she said. “They are a necessary, the university would be very active in in so many areas.” economic development. “We succeed only but not sufficient, element to a great In contrast, she compared USC if our surrounding area thrives,” she said, university. They are the foundation of a to New York University. Both of them “and quite frankly, vice versa.” great university.” have come a long way academically She has met with Mayor Svante “The second thing that I will focus very quickly, and some programs are on, following in David Skorton’s footsteps, Myrick, who, as promised, requested now comparable to those at Cornell, but that Cornell revisit its memorandum of is our students,” she said. “[We want to] have only achieved that level recently. understanding and increase its voluntary ensure that the great student around our Interestingly, USC is only a little younger contribution to the city. That, said Garrett, country and the world who want to come than Cornell—it just celebrated it’s will not be happening. “But I am eager to to Cornell and thrive here have the ability 125th anniversary—but it also quite a bit talk him,” she said, “and the county and to do so.” She said Cornell used a lot of its the town of Ithaca and all the other towns resources to make sure that any student larger with 43,000 students compared to where we have a presence about ways that is admitted can afford to come to Cornell’s 21,000, and unlike Cornell, the we can partner together to enhance our Ithaca. majority of the student body consists of community. I think we have lots of ways “Third, you will hear me talk a lot graduate students. that we work together that will benefit the about the unique nature of Cornell,” said Garrett was selected by the university governments, the taxpayers, and Cornell.”• new president. “By which I mean, we board of trustees on Sept. 30, 2014, T
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while discussing proposed language for the ordinance. Concern was also brought up that people who don’t like their neighbors could abuse a noise ordinance. Trask said that any noise ordinance passed by the board would be subjective in nature. Much of the discussion centered around when the rules of the ordinance would be in effect, whether or not any aspects of the ordinance would be in effect uring last Thursday night’s 24 hours a day, and what personal and board meeting the Newfield business exceptions needed to be included. town board voted to name “I am very open to business, but I Municipal Solutions, Inc. as Newfield’s don’t want to give them carte blanche,” financial advisor on the upcoming $1.27 Hart said. million bond for scheduled water tank When board members wanted to improvements. discuss an exemption for gun ranges, Hart At a cost of roughly $11,000 at an responded that the ordinance shouldn’t hourly rate of $120 Municipal Solutions, go overboard with exemptions for specific based in Canandaigua, beat out bids put businesses. Hart repeated throughout the in by Fiscal Advisors of Syracuse and meeting that he believed the easiest way Bernard P. Donegan Inc. of Victor. to quantify the noise ordinance was by “The Municipal Solutions bid setting a decibel level. seems to be clearer, and they are very “It’s simpler that way,” he argued to no avail. Trask brought up the concern that the ordinance, under some potential iterations, might be interpreted in a way that it would interfere with state mandated rights, like the ability to hunt on ones own land any time of day. “This is why this has taken so long,” Trask said. The impetus of the noise ordinance came from years of residents Supervisor Jeff Hart and board member Roy Trask. (Photo Benjamin C. Klein) complaining to the board about noise their neighbor’s make, loud dogs or vehicles, board members said. familiar with the area. Also with the low “It’s not based on any specific thing,” hourly rate that will help if there are any Hart said. unforeseen items,” said Jeff Hart, Newfield He added that even if a noise town supervisor. After the meeting Hart said that while ordinance were to pass, it would be hard to enforce, and hopefully would serve more the town hasn’t worked with Municipal as a deterrent. Solutions in the past, the company has a Adding an item to the agenda that was good working understanding of the area not previously listed, Trask announced having worked on projects in Watkins that Alternative Waste Services’ owner Glen, Montour Falls, Trumansburg, Robert Mente informed him earlier that Groton and Lansing. The million-dollar week that he plans to withdraw a state improvement to the town’s 45 year-old permit he has in place for a transfer station water tank is scheduled to begin this in Newfield. spring board members said, and is much Mente declined comment, but said needed. that he had no issue with Trask’s statement “The tank has had periodic being reported. improvements and cleanings and is “It was a total surprise when he came regularly inspected for all sorts of to me earlier this week,” Trask said, adding stuff,” board member Roy Trask said. “I have had no update since then. However, Trask added that the scheduled If Mente does withdraw the permit, improvements would be the most which Hart cautioned is no guarantee, it significant work done to the tank since it would draw to a close an issue that has was installed in 1969. seen Mente file multiple lawsuits against Most of the board meeting was the town over potential expansion of his devoted to discussing a proposed town transfer station. Hart said it would be noise ordinance that, despite much unlikely Mente would be able to receive discussion, could not be resolved. a new permit for a transfer station at the “I hate this,” board member Christine same location with the state Department Laughlin said while discussing possible of Environmental Conservation if he files exceptions to the potential ordinance. “I’m worried there could be too much to have his current permit revoked. • interpretation, even by police,” Hart said — Benjamin C. Klein
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Van Scoy said parishioner Maggie Markes used her Catholic Charities, located at 324 West excellent abilities as a seamstress to cover Buffalo St. in Ithaca, is currently hosting up anything that would indicate the bags their annual backpack giveaway. To pick were donated. up a backpack for an elementary middle or “Let’s not forget that school can be high school aged child, bring the student’s scary,” said mother Geraldine Bissellbirth certificate, student identification, or Thompson. budget sheet. During Sunday morning’s service, The People’s Bank. when the bags were ready to be donated, — Benjamin C. Klein they were all brought together—along The I thaca Times / S ep tember 2 – 8 , 2 0 1 5 11
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interested in family medicine, as she is the mother of nine children, a home-schooler, and a farmer. Ciele Gladstein is a nutrition specialist. Black’s specialty is women and children’s health and she is also a certified birth doula. She began her training as a health education major at Ithaca College. “One of my courses at IC did mention alternative medicines,” she said, “and I was very inspired by that. I added a minor in Integrated Health Studies.” The latter gave her further exposure to nonWestern healing traditions in a curriculum that encouraged them to be used as a complement to the “allopathic” approach, which is how alternative medicine practitioners describe the Western tradition of pharmacology. Upon graduating from IC Black did spend two years as a health educator in the Ithaca city schools, but she was also pursing training in herbal medicine at Heartstone Herbal School in Van Etten, run by Chris Miller and Tammi Sweet. Heartstone is one of two schools of herbal medicine in the area, the other being the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine in Ithaca, run by 7Song. Black had begun her own business, Sacred Seedlings, which combined her training in herbalism and her certification as a birth doula, when she met the more established David at a class at Jillian’s Drawers. Now the four partners each staff the store one day a week and rotate on the weekends. Anyone who walks in off the street will find the equivalent of a reference librarian behind the desk, one who is also happy to make referrals to her partners. Black’s interest in pregnancy and birth began when she was 4 years old. Her practice focuses on prenatal and postpartum care, although as a doula, she also present through the entire labor and for the birth itself. A lot of herbal medicine for pregnancy, she said, is about nourishing the body’s systems. “Herbs are rich in
Iraggi-Wiggins estimated that she vitamins and minerals,” said Black. “They grows about 20 percent of the herbs are good for what we call ‘tonifying’ or that she uses in her products and the strengthening the systems.” She said that it is unusual for someone remainder she buys from two companies to be a “blank slate” when they walk in her that grow them sustainably. One herb that grows well locally door. Most people have done some reading about herbs and herb craft. “We encourage is Calendula (marigold), which Iraggiour customers [at Bramble] to have a background in plants,” Black said. “We have a lending library and we want them to do research on their own to learn about themselves.” She and the other Bramble partners offer herbal health consultations during which they collect a full health history, including noting any imbalances or patterns. “Then we offer ideas to restore your balance,” said the herbalist. “We don’t prescribe things.” Because she is focused on birth and children, Black works mostly with women who are of reproductive age and is often looking for irregularities and pains associated with the menstrual cycle. She looks for a particular pattern and tries to find an association with a particular organ. Ithaca Times Black was reluctant to simply list herbs to treat a 2.4 x 5.5 given set of symptoms. The Darcie Black of Bramble (Photo: Bill Chaisson) nature of herbal treatment is more personal and specific than that. The discussion with the client and the detection of their own constellation of symptoms determines the herbal course that follows. The role of the doula involves no the medical team herbal medicine at the time of the birth. Instead she is there to offer advice and you can trust information; the midwife handles all clinical aspects of the birth. Black offers a placenta encapsulation service that follows a traditional Chinese process. In many vernacular cultures the placenta is consumed after the birth. The Chinese prepare it to do the most good for the mother. NewborNs Herbal treatments, however, are of use post-partum when there are huge to age 21. hormone swings and sometime anemia and other physical challenges. If the John Lambert, MD woman is breastfeeding, said Black, she Janusz sendek, MD may be able to help her with maintaining amit shrivastava, MD her milk supply and also with some of the Jessica Casey, Do pain associated with breastfeeding. Carolyn Koppel, CPNP Kash Iraggi-Wiggins is a local andrea sharkness, CPNP herbalist who grows her own herbs and creates her own products using essential all physicians board oils, honey, and botanical materials. certified. Participating Like Black, she studied at Heartstone, with many major but herbalism came late in her acquisition insurance companies. of alternative medicine skills. She began in Atlanta 31 years ago by learning to extract essential oils, which is usually done via 1301 Trumansburg Rd, Ste H distillation, but sometimes by simple cold22 Arrowwood Dr, Ste A pressing. “Essential” in this context does not mean “necessary,” but rather that the 607-272-6880 oil has the essence of the plant, that is, it buttermilkfallspediatrics.com has the odor of the source.
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rom Wikipedia: “In Freudian psychology, the ‘pleasure principle’ is the instinctual seeking of pleasure and avoiding of pain in order to satisfy biological and psychological needs.” Ithaca’s Rhonda Bullard has experienced some pain in her life of late. As she told me, “Well, let’s see … my position was eliminated after over 20 years in public education, my dad has been facing some real health challenges, my husband was shot …” I told Rhonda—with whom I have conversed at various gyms for 15 years—that I surely understood the pain component of this story, and I proceeded to ask her what she did to, as Freud described, “seek pleasure.” Her definition of “pleasure” might seem odd to some, as she offered, “I am into doing Spartan Races, and I just returned from Hawaii, where I completed a Trifecta. I did a Beast, a Sprint and a Super Beast in 2 days!” Asked to be more specific, Rhonda explained, “In Spartan Races, a ‘Sprint’ is a 3-5 mile course with 10 to 15 obstacles,
a ‘Super’ is six to nine miles with 15 to 20 obstacles and a ‘Beast’ is 10 to 13 miles with 20 to 25 obstacles.” She added, “There is also an ‘Ultra-Beast,’ which is a double Beast,” and she pointed out that “there are a few water stations along the way, but you carry your own supplies, and in the UltraBeast, there is a drop box between loops, and you can store your stuff in it and pick it up after your first loop.” The Spartan Races were started in 2010 by Cornell graduate Joe De Sena, and they are franchised in 14 countries. Rhonda described the Spartan series as “a more competitive version of other races, like the Tough Mudder and the Warrior Dash,” and Outside Magazine seems to concur, naming the Spartan Races “the best Obstacle Race.” Rhonda added, “There are some balance obstacles, some traverse walls and cargo nets, tire pulls, water obstacles, a dump-bucket and a platinum rig, which is sort of an adult version of monkey bars.” Some of the races—Killington Mountain, for example—feature a 2,000 to 4,000-foot
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rise in elevation, adding to the already daunting challenge. Bullard is reinventing herself professionally after 20 years in public education, and she is soon to begin her new career as a patrol officer at Cornell. It is an “all in the family” sort of development, as her husband, Tony Augustine, is a highly respected member of the Ithaca Police department who is also in the process of reinventing himself professionally after being wounded in the line of duty. Rhonda’s workout routines tend to draw attention, and the 43-year-old said, “I’m asked a lot of questions at the gym. People say, ‘Your workout is ridiculous!,’
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rowing up with a chronic disease I often felt slightly alone, isolated, and strangely detached from other humans in a way that is hard to describe. Throughout high school and college it was particularly difficult. I can still remember the precise moment in time—walking through the streets with my headphones on, my Sony Walkman spinning a strange new album, feeling engaged and charged like never before—that those realities began to melt away. Sepultura’s Beneath the Remains and Fugazi’s Steady Diet of Nothing were the first real metal and hardcore albums that truly touched and changed me. They were undeniably different from one another, yet both showcased an intensity I had never experienced. I listened to those albums over and over, living with them by my side. Their aggression, pain and hope matched my feelings of isolation and confusion and helped me gain a confidence that burned deep within my heart. Music can have interstellar and profound effects on human beings—in particular heavy metal and hardcore,
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which demand more of an intense listening some confused, isolationist anger, and [it] effort than other music. I grew up in a separated me from ‘normal’ kids. My first small town with little to no music scene, clenched fist was raised to the Sex Pistols, having to travel hundreds of miles to reach and [it] just got more white-knuckled and shows. Ithaca, while not a giant place by red as my musical tastes grew faster and any means, definitely has a music scene, and within this music scene there is a unique and developing metal and hardcore segment, infused with talented individuals from Binghamton and Syracuse, that is ripe for more exposure. The passion that it takes to play this form of music is immense, and this small city is lucky to have such devoted individuals. Andrew Hernandez, the drummer for the Earth Crisis in action (Photo Provided) Ithaca-based metal band Twin Lords, which is set to release their first fulllength album on the label Handshake Inc., heavier.” shared his story of finding such music. Dan Rivera, the bassist of Twin Lords, “Growing up with my mother raising me recalled his own transformation. “I was since my father abandoned us left me with especially a big rap fan and listened to a
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lot of Run-D.M.C. and Fat Boys, but 1986 was the year that changed everything. I was introduced to Iron Maiden’s Somewhere in Time and Metallica’s Master of Puppets, which changed my life forever. The energy, power and emotional complexity which were expressed in these albums were unlike anything I’d ever heard before, and from that moment I was hooked.” Ithaca’s Avery Galek, guitarist and songwriter for the local progressive doom band Doubt, spoke of the varying dynamics of metal and hardcore. “It is a vessel often used to convey ideas that concern important social, political and societal issues. It has spawned so many different movements throughout history and has helped generations of people become more aware and proactive about things like animal rights, human rights, substance abuse and mental illness.” There is a deep fabric to this form of music, one that shapes individual and collective vision. This music has many layers that envelop a human’s whole
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as Earth Crisis, Ed Gein, Engineer, and Oak & Bone. “Ithaca is a younger, newer, emerging underground scene, and it has gone through a lot of different phases over the years. The Syracuse scene, on the other hand, has been around a lot longer and at times is a lot more mature. It tends to have an older volunteer base and audience members as well. Ithaca is very different. In contrast to having veteran contributors who take the time individually booking bands, setting up venues and preparing sound systems, we have a non-profit organization—Ithaca Underground. Without IU, in my opinion, the underground scene in Ithaca would be
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existence. Listeners’ experiences and interactions with music have infinite variety. Music can be a healing process, and a platform for growth. Galek remarked, “In my experience independent underground music also exists as a form of catharsis, a healing energy. Every show I go to feels like group therapy.” Galek also spoke of his experiences with the Ithaca metal and hardcore scene compared to that of Syracuse, which has been a legendary hub for hardcore since the 1990s and has spawned bands such
nearly dead.” Hernandez said that Syracuse, Ithaca and Binghamton all have their ups and downs with the metal and hardcore scenes, adding, “I think these three cities are totally united, but I also need to mention the warped radioactive wasteland that is Rochester. It’s always full of insanely talented musicians, and these four cities are really important to each other.” In a lively quadrant of cities that have such a wide and diverse pool of talented musicians and artists, there are always opportunities to try something new. While Ithaca Underground does an amazing job collecting talent and
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ornell Cinema is back this fall with its usual packed calendar of flicks between now and Thanksgiving. There’s no way to get to it all in this amount of space, so go to cinema.cornell. edu for lots and lots and lots of movies, special events, guests and films and more. Plenty of films make their Ithaca debut this fall. Check out Sunshine Superman (Sept. 10-11), Marah Strauch’s documentary about Carl Boenish, a freefall cinematographer and skydiver who invented the BASE jumping technique. Impish animator Bill Plympton—the
novel, features five recent films including Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass. Artist Stacey Steers will be at Cornell Cinema for Stacey Steers: Animations Made by Hand (Oct. 26). Steers is known for her process-driven, laborintensive films composed of thousands of handmade works on paper. Fantastic Journeys: Animated Shorts (Oct. 31) is a dazzling selection of high-energy, highimagination shorts from Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2015. I’ve been dying to see Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet from director Roger Allers (The Lion King) on Nov. 5 and 8: Allers assembled an array of internationally acclaimed animators (among them Tomm Moore and Bill Plympton) to realize episodes from the classic text by renowned Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran, which are woven into the tale of a mischievous young girl (voiced by Quvenzhane Wallis) who attempts to free an imprisoned poet (Liam Neeson). One of Cornell Cinema’s specialties Joseph Cotton in “The Third Man” (Photo provided) is bringing in the films of one particular iconic filmmaker, and this year it’s Orson Welles. If you’ve only only animator to do all the work on his seen Citizen Kane because it’s routinely features—is back with Cheatin’ (Sept. 17 and 20), a dialogue-free, raunchy, hilarious called the best film ever made, check out other Welles titles like The Lady from exploration of love gone wrong and Shanghai (Sept. 5 and 6), The Magnificent revenge sex. A brilliant architect seeking artistic renewal travels to Italy to complete Ambersons (Sept. 12-13), Macbeth (Sept. 19), The Third Man (Sept. 26-27), his work on the great 17th-century Confidential Report aka Mr. Arkadin (Oct. architect Francesco Borromini in Eugene 3-4), The Trial (Oct. 8), Touch of Evil (Oct. Green ‘s La Sapienza (Sept. 24 and 27). 24-25) and F for Fake (Nov. 21-22). Animation isn’t just a delivery device You can also expect film classics from for family films, but an exciting and Satyajit Ray, including Pather Panchali surprising medium, Cornell Cinema (Oct. 16 and 18), Aparajito (Oct. 23 and offers up challenging animation like the 25) and The World of Apu (Oct. 30 and regional premiere of the Sundance Shorts Nov. 1). Program (Sept. 3, 4 and 6), featuring Cornell Cinema makes plenty of works by Don Hertzfeldt (“It’s Such a room on the schedule for the best secondBeautiful Day,” “Rejected”) and many run and summer hits, like When Marnie other intriguing artists. “Cinema in Sage was There (September 4 and 5), Mad Chapel” will screen Beyond Enchantment: Recent Work by Animator Lawrence Jordan Max: Fury Road (September 10-13), The (Sept. 29). Influenced by the collage novels Wolfpack (Sept. 17-18), Magic Mike XXL (Sept. 18-20), Trainwreck (Sept. 24-26), of Max Ernst and the work of Joseph Inside Out (Oct. 1-4), Amy (Oct. 8-9), Cornell, with whom he worked, Jordan Jurassic World (October 15-17), Ant-Man is known for experimental animations (Oct. 22-24), What We Do in the Shadows made from collaged cut outs of Victorian (October 30-31), Tangerine (Nov. 12, 13 engravings which evoke the world of and 15), Dope (Nov. 19-21), and Minions Alice in Wonderland and other surrealist (Nov. 19-21). § works. The program, in honor of the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s classic
That Gypsy Sound
Djug Django plays the hot Club music every Wednesday By Rudy Gerson
Eric Aceto, Brian Earle and guest guitarist. (Photo: Brian Arnold)
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out, and take my word: Djug Danjgo is the kind of hip that was hip before hip was even hip. They’re classically fresh: forever new, old-timey and timeless, all at once. Bass lines and a snare drum percuss the beat while the clarinet, violin, and guitar shake it up with punchy solos that’ll make any frown turn upside down. Gypsy swing is the easy listening that will be the boost all you music lovers are going to need during those inevitable mid-week slumps. Romantic and exquisite—the music took me to the banks of the River Seine and the cobblestone streets of the French Quarter as the ensemble blended sound with unified precision and relaxed concentration. It’s refreshing to hear a violin, a clarinet, vocals that don’t follow the expected routine of modern pop. Worldly. Traveled. Cosmopolitan. These are words you only feel with your body, while your mind lets go and embraces the time warp. Djug Django is the portal. Music plucked from another era may provide you a certain perspective on your present-day worries, a perspective
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York,” she added. “The New York City girls – Gotham Rollergirls – are the number one team in the world, so New York has a lot of good teams in general. We pretty much have the recreational part, which is the rec derby. Then we have the more competitive
part, where you play other teams and really promote the sport, and women’s health and athletics. We play all over the Northeast.” If you miss out on the double header, there will still be opportunities to get involved in roller derby throughout the year. Once the ILWR gets past its recruiting season, it will once again prove it’s more casual recreation derby. “Rec derby is usually held every Wednesdays,” Garcia noted. “We have people come and learn the game, how to skate, buta there’s no hitting involved. It’s for people who are interested but not 100 percent committed to it and just want to try
it out. “You get to learn a new, exciting sport,” she added. “You normally don’t get to do that as an adult. It’s a very open, accepting, friendly environment. You get to learn an awesome game, make some friends and get a great workout all under the same roof, which is pretty awesome.” Finally, for roller derby prospects between ages 8 and 18, the junior roller derby fall session is now enrolling. The session runs from September 29 through December 17, and you can register at juniorrollerderby.org. §
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SUNDAY SEPT. 13 Music
“Celebrating American Composers,” the annual Founder’s Day Concert in the Park, featuring the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble performing songs by Aaron Copland, William Schuman, Leonard Bernstein, and others; 2:00 p.m., DeWitt Park, downtown Ithaca (rain location, Ford Hall).
THURSDAY SEPT. 17 Discussion
“The Carceral State: Race, Citizenship, and American Life in the 21st Century,” a Constitution Day discussion with political scientists Marie Gottschalk and Adolph Reed Jr. on the increasing incarceration rates in the United States; 7:30 p.m., Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall.
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Annual Gospel Festival, featuring the Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra and a large chorus of high school students from around the region performing an array of gospel music; 8:15 p.m., Ford Hall, Whalen Center.
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n Saturday Sept. 5, at 8 p.m. Fareed Ayaz, Abu Muhammad Qawwal and Brothers Troupe will perform on the Alice Statler Auditorium stage. They are masters of Qawwali Sufi music as well as classical genres such as tarana, thumri and khayal. They have been weaving together secular and sacred traditions in their shows for over 30 years. Their last appearance at Cornell was in 2007, and their return is a collaborative effort between the Pakistani Student Association and the South Asia Program. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Qawwali is a form of Sufi devotional music popular in South Asia. Sufism is the inner mystical dimension of Islam in which Muslims seek a direct and personal experience with Allah. A qawwali usually begins gently and then builds to a high-energy climax that is intended to create a state of wagad, a religious ecstasy for both the performers and the audience where they feel at one with God. Fareed Ayaz says ,“Qawwali has the force and power to catch the attention of its audience and enhance its consciousness in order to be receptive to the contents of the mystic message. The concentration of the audience enables it to reach a certain level of inner illumination.” Qawwali has roots that go back to the late 13th century. Amir Khusrow Dehlawī was a poet, a scholar and a musician. He is commonly thought to be the inventor of the tabla and the
sitar and is credited with originating several styles of song including the ghazal, tarana, and khayal. He is known as the ‘father of qawwali’ because he enriched Hindustani classical music by incorporating Persian, Arabic and Turkish elements. He also established the famous Qawwal Bachchon ka Gharana of Delhi. Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad are members of the Qawwal Bachchon ka Gharana and can trace their lineage back to Mian Samat Ibrahim, one of Amir Khusrow’s original disciples. The brothers began studying classical music with their father, Munshi Raziuddin who was a noted qawwal and classical musician in India and Pakistan. In 1973, Fareed Ayaz decided he wanted to form his own Qawwali troupe. His father left his partner to join it and his brother joined as well. They have toured extensively around the world in subsequent years, educating people about Pakistani culture and preaching, through song, the beauty of love and harmony. Amir Khusrow was a member of the Chishti Order of Sufism, one that empahsizes love, tolerance and openess. In May, Fareed Ayaz and his Qawwal Troupe epitomized these ideals at a performance at the Brotherhood Synagogue near Manhattan’s Gramercy Park. The performance was entitled “An Evening of Qawwali in a Synagogue” and featured a Jewish musician named Basya Schechter who
is studying to be a cantor. It was organized by the Cordoba Initiative, whose objective is to bring faith-based groups together. One reviewer from dawn.com wrote, “To see these two communities, who share a complex history of hate and misunderstanding, come together through music was truly remarkable.” The central themes of qawwali are love, devotion and longing of man for the Divine. A traditional Qawwali performance takes place in a “gathering for spiritual listening” known as a mehfil-e-samā. The more significant ceremonies take place in Sufi shrines or dargahs on the anniversary of the death of the saint who is associated with the shrine. Lesser mehfil-e-samā are held throughout the year on Thursdays when Muslims remember the deceased on Fridays, which is a day of prayer. They may also be arranged for special occasions. In recent years qawwali performances have gained an international audience thanks in part to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. While traditionally the performers and audience would be comprised exclusively of men, secular performances for the general public are now common. The musical form and lyrics may be adjusted to satisfy global appeal, but the spiritual essence remains intact. The musical aspects of Qawwali share many characteristics with classical Hindustani continued on page 28
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music. It draws from ragas, which are melodic frameworks, and talas, which are the metric patterns. It features a backbone of evenly paced metric refrains played by the tabla and the dholak, which suggests the ceaseless repetition of God’s name. This supports the rhythmically flexible solo vocal improvisations of the lead singer while the harmonium reinforces the main melody. Qawwali tend to be lengthy works, the average song lasts 15-30 minutes. As the qawwali builds to its peak moment, the leader will begin engaging the audience, listening and responding to them. He will intensify his energy and the speed of his repetition of evocative phrases in an effort
to reach spiritual ecstasy. A traditional mehfil-e-samā would include songs that praise Allah, Muhammed and Sufi saints. It closes with a rang, which commemorates Khusrow’s relationship with his teacher Nizamuddi Auliya. The poetry that forms the lyrics of the Qawwali is often written in Urdu or Punjabi. They often make wide use of metaphor and are understood to be spiritual, although they often seem crass and hedonistic. For example in the ghazal, which is Amir Khusrow’s love song to Allah, two metaphors are present. They are the joys of drinking and the agony of being separated from a beloved one. These songs are sometimes sung in a secular setting, and they are then taken at face value. However, when performed in a
sacred setting, songs of intoxication and yearning represent a soul’s longing to be one with the Divine. “Wine” represents knowledge of the Divine, the “cupbearer” is God or a spiritual guide, and the tavern is a place where the soul may achieve spiritual enlightenment. A typical Qawwali party includes a lead singer or two, a small chorus of men who sing the refrains and contribute to the rhythmic structure by clapping their hands, two side singers, a percussion section and one or two harmoniums, often played by the lead singers or the side singers. The performers sit cross-legged on the ground in two rows with the singers and harmonium players in front, and the chorus and percussion section in back. There are no mainstream female Qawwali
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parties today, although female singers are gaining popularity and acceptance. They will often perform traditional qawwali repertoire, but they often leave out the chorus and the hand clapping. In recent years qawwali has achieved mainstream popularity. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is known as “Shahenshahe-Qawwali” or “The King of Kings of Qawwali.” He introduced Sufi sacred music to an international audience and is widely credited with being a pioneer in the field of world music. He was known for his vocal acrobatics and his ability to perform at a high level of intensity and energy for several hours at a time. He became the head of his family’s qawwali party in 1971 and signed with England’s Oriental Stars Agency in the early 1980s. In 1985 he performed at the World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) in London, the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1989, and he was the Visiting Artist for the Ethnomusicology Department at the University of Washington for the 1992-93 academic year. In 1988, Khan teamed up with Peter Gabriel for work on the soundtrack to the Last Temptation of Christ. This was the first time he combined the style of traditional qawwalis with western music. He later went on to team up with Canadian musician Michael Brook and Eddie Vedder. The integration of qawwali music in western mainstream music is a trend that continues to this day. The tarana, originated by Khusrow, makes use of phonemes of Persian and Arabic descent rather than actual lyrics, much like scat singing in jazz. Jazz musicians took note of that and the genre has gained popularity in the Indian subcontinent. The Brooklyn Qawwali Party founder Brooks Martinez has stated that “the sacred sounds I yearned to find in western music were emanating from Nusrat in this completely foreign music”. He founded the group in 2004. It is a Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan tribute band. Eleven talented jazz musicians recreate his most famous qawwali using trumpets, saxophones, trombones, electric guitars, harmonium, french horn, bass and drum kit. Qawwali also found a kindred spirit in black gospel music as well. Although they are disparate musical styles, the message is the same, a devotion to the Divine. Prayer through song. Faiz Ali Faiz, a renown qawwāl was joined by Craig Adams and the Voices of New Orleans for a performance at the Muslim Voices Festival. It was called Qawwali Gospel Creation and it was an evening when the Hallelujahs were intermixed with Allah Hus. Qawwali was considered largely unknown in the western world before Nusrat Fateh’s success. Today, 700 years after its inception, this infectious music continues to evolve and gain popularity. The message of love is one that exists in all walks of life, and the globalization of today’s society allows cultures to come together and make music. After all, for some people, music IS God. •
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Suds: The Rocking 60’s Musical Soap Opera. Created & Written by Melinda Gilb, Steve Gunderson & Bryan Scott. Musical & Vocal Arrangements by Steve Gunderson. Directed & Choreographed by Robin Levine. At the Cortland Repertory Theatre.
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knew absolutely nothing about Suds going into it. We even arrived too late for me to read the program book. Everything was a total surprise. I am happy to report that Suds is a wonderful production. Suds is a jukebox musical. This seems to be a fairly new genre in American theatre. A jukebox musical is largely composed of popular music and has little or no story. Previously, I had only seen one: Ring of Fire, based on the music of Johnny Cash. That was last year at the Cortland Repertory Theatre, where Suds is the final production of this year’s summer season. Unlike most jukebox musicals, Suds has a story, although it is slight and farcical. It takes place in the early Sixties. We meet Cindy, the protagonist, a young woman who works in a laundry. It is Cindy’s birthday. But things are going badly. Relatives die, somehow leaving her with a large unpaid tax bill. The love of her life leaves her—in a farcical touch, they were pen pals, and he prefers another young woman’s penmanship. Her cat is killed in an appalling traffic mishap. To add to her misery, the stock market crashes and stormy weather is moving in. Cindy, in response, attempts an especially absurd suicide at the laundry. Then three angels enter her life and try to sort things out à la It’s a Wonderful Life. The musical conceit is that the story is largely told in vintage 1960s pop/rock songs of the era. Suds is a silly piece of work, but it is incredibly appealing. And it occurred to me that, even though the story is farcical, tucked away beneath it are some serious concerns. Among the most difficult things we have to go through in life are the death of loved ones, lost love and the loss of a beloved companion animal. (And who hasn’t had a bad birthday?) As the Dalai Lama points out, suffering is an integral part of life. And it occurred to me that Suds derives a lot of power from the music, because these are astoundingly good songs. It’s not just that there is a lot of
deep, nostalgic power in them—they are extremely well crafted works. Most of them are from the early ’60s, such as “Chapel of Love”, and run into the mid-60s with songs like the Supremes’ sublime “You Can’t Hurry Love,” Johnny Rivers’ excellent “Secret Agent Man,” and the Beatles’ endearing “We Can Work It Out.” In talking to CRT’s Producing Artistic Director, Kerby Thompson, after the show, Thompson pointed out how vocally demanding the works are, as many
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different composers composed them all. And the small, four-person cast delivers. Rachel Valencich and Hannah Zilber, as Marge and Dee Dee, two of the angels, are outstanding vocalists. As is Tony Coslett. But Lilli Babb steals the show as Cindy. Not only a wonderful vocalist, she has a sweet comic charisma like a young Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. The musicians deserve special credit. Conductor and keyboards: Jeffrey Campos. Guitar: Dennis Goettel. Bass: Nicholas Murray. Percussion: John Allis. Likewise, sound designer Seth Asa Sengel deserves a nod. The musicians were hidden away, the actors singing with largely hidden mikes, and the effect was flawless. My only suggestion might be that perhaps the set could have been designed so the musicians were visible. I think the frisson of seeing them performing live might have added to the show without losing the suspension of disbelief. Perhaps they could have been dressed as angels. It is worth mentioning that I was at opening night; the house was packed, and the audience clearly loved the show. I’m guessing the Reader will too. • Suds runs through September 5. Call: (607) 756-2627 or visit: cortlandrep.org
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Yiddish newspaper in Buenos Aires in 1946.) Both events are free. On Wednesday at 7:30, Ithaca College’s Dillingham Center hosts “The Essence: A Yiddish Theatre Dim Sum,” “a mostly-English revue of scenes, sketches, songs and oddball diversions from classic Yiddish theatre, performed with breakneck stamina and comic zeal. ($5)
Thursday brings the centerpiece, Vartn Af Godot, Beckett’s classic Waiting for Godot performed in Yiddish with English surtitles, in the Rep’s acclaimed production at 7:30 pm at Cornell’s Schwartz Center. ($11 student, $13 adult; schwartztickets.com). •
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colleague and rival, the Adlers, headed by the great Yiddish actor Jacob Adler, whose son and daughter, Luther and Stella would help found the Group Theatre, changing the face of American acting, (Stella was Marlon Brando’s teacher.) This vigorous theater, while watering both Broadway and Hollywood (Molly Picon, John Garfield, Edward G. Robinson), almost died out by World War II. Today there are just two: the Folksbiene (The People’s Theatre), in continuous production since 1915, and the New Yiddish Repertory, whose mission is speaking “to a 21st century audience: modern treatments of the Yiddish classics and Yiddish interpretations of modern and post modern masterpieces, in an intimate venue, at affordable prices, with easily readable supertitles.” Ithaca will be treated to a mini Yiddish Theatre Festival next week with a visit by the New Yiddish Rep, including three theater pieces and one movie. Organizer Jonathan Boyarin, director of Cornell’s Jewish Studies Program, said “I’ve respected this troupe’s work for years. David Mandelbaum’s [the Rep’s Artistic Director] Yosl David Mandelbaum and Shane Baker (Photo Ronald L. Glassman) Rakover is heartbreaking and compelling, Allen and Yelena brilliantly set the tone for romance, and translations of Shakespeare, A Serious Man, and Shane Baker is the funniest Yiddish speaker of the past halfSchiller, Shaw and Ibsen. Touring century. But I never managed to catch troupes, often family-based, began the their Godot during its New York runs, Yiddish theater in Romania in the midso I had to figure out a way to bring the 19th century; following the fortunes of troupe to Ithaca.” its people, it flourished in Russia and Tuesday, Sept. 8 at 6 p.m. Cornell Poland, Germany and beyond. After the Cinema screens the classic Soviet assassination of Tzar Nicholas II, and silent Jewish Luck with original piano the backlash against Jews, it shifted to accompaniment. Starring the great London and the Americas, especially Solomon Mikhoels, head of the New York City. All the greats landed on these shores: Moscow State Jewish Theatre (he was murdered under Stalin), it is based on the “father” of Yiddish theater, Abraham “Sholem Aleichem’s stories featuring Goldfaden (whose songs become so a daydreaming entrepreneur who popular, they are sometimes mistaken specializes in doomed strike-it-rich as folk songs, as in the lullaby, “Raisins and Almonds”); the Thomashefskys (who schemes.” Afterwards, Mandelbaum performs toured the nation, and whose popular Yosl Rakover Speaks to G-d, the story of style was an influence in the Follies and a pious Jew challenging God during the early Broadway musicals, their grandson conductor Michael Tilson Thomas hosted final days of the Warsaw Ghetto. (Once thought an actual testimony, this famous a concert about them on PBS’s Great story was penned by Zvi Kolitz for a Performances); and the Thomashefsky’s y gevalt, schlemiel, kvetch, verklempt, klutz. Yiddish expressions pepper the lexicon of U.S. English, but Yiddish was once a thriving language, the lingua franca of the diaspora of the Ashkenazi Jews. Out of it grew a rich literature, and out of that literature a vital theater tradition. In 1920s New York, you could find a couple dozen shows playing in Yiddish on the Jewish Rialto, Second Avenue on the Lower East Side. They ranged from operetta, to low comedy, to history,
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documentarian Alex Gibney offers up Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. Four years after Jobs’ death, Gibney’s film at least attempts to tell some truths about a tech icon who was also a corrupt, greedy and self-centered man. Gibney starts with the world mourning
his death in 2011, showing people all over the world leaving flowers in front of Apple stores. A little kid talks about Jobs, awestruck, the way we used to talk about John Lennon and Walt Disney. Unlike the Ashton Kutcher attempt, Gibney just lays out the facts, and they’re not pretty. It’s unclear when Jobs rips off Steve Wozniak in the ‘70s if that’s the first time he ripped someone off, or just the first documented ripoff. There’s more, and it’s ugly, and all of it is public record, and yet people don’t seem to care. Everything is assembled in China, and Jobs did some shifty business with
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Tonight: Within Our Gates silent classic from black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux w/ live accompaniment + intro Sundance Shorts 2015 including Don Hertzfeldt animation (Thur, Fri, Sun) When Marnie Was There (Studio Ghibli’s farewell) (Fri + Sat) The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles & Rita Hayworth noir!) (Sat + Sun)
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Apple stock, and people don’t seem to care. Gibney’s film gives you a lot to think about while you camp out waiting for the next big iThing. • • • I was a toddler/kid through most of the ‘60s, and I always wanted to see the ABC series of televised debates in 1968 between Gore Vidal, one of the first American authors to deal with sexual identity in novels like Myra Breckinridge, and William F. Buckley Jr., founder of National Review. These days, it’s famous because Buckley called Vidal a queer, live on the air. Did it mean anything else? Best of Enemies, directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville, digs deep into the ABC news vaults; quite apart from the debates, this is revelatory viewing if only for ABC’s outrageous and antiquated attitudes toward women. As it turns out, the whole thing was all an attempt by thirdplace network ABC to boost their ratings. Buckley and Vidal were treated like actors, and were paid $10,000 per appearance. As the world burned in Chicago, Vidal and Buckley, who always referred to his bête noire as “the author of Myra Breckinridge,” fenced like an effete Odd Couple. Dick Cavett, whose ‘70s talk show engendered actual discourse from guests who weren’t necessarily there to plug their projects, represents the road not taken; he joins a number of other survivors to describe what it was like in the wake of the first truly confrontational moment on American TV. Kelsey Grammer and John Lithgow read the words of Buckley and Vidal. Sure, I’m cynical, but with Trump reading the world the riot act instead of talking about any of the actual issues the rest of us think about, I wonder if any of this would rate a blip on the media radar. You get the sense that these televised encounters haunted both Buckley and Vidal for the rest of their lives. You also get the sense that their sparring set the table for what’s left of American news media today; all Gordon and Neville need to do is cut to a rapid-fire super-cut of screaming pundits on Fox News, a video barrage of people not listening to each other. The film leaves you feeling a little haunted, too. • Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, directed by Alex Gibney, opening Friday at Cinemapolis; Best of Enemies, directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville, opening 9/11 at Cinemapolis.
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ang around long enough with local artists and a subject that’s bound to come up is, “Where to show?” Ithaca and its surrounding communities are home to numerous artists, including many of exceptional talent and accomplishment. But the number of dedicated formal display spaces in town can be counted on a single hand. (Fairly or otherwise, I exclude crafts stores as well as galleries associated with Cornell and Ithaca College.) The result is that a disproportionate number of exhibitions take place in restaurants and other informal venues—all very well, but an imperfect solution from the perspective of many. A general sense is that opportunities to display and sell work professionally are not in keeping with the range and extent of talent. So the coming of a new exhibition space is an event of some excitement and promise. This month will see the opening of a new gallery on the Commons, named “Eye” and located at 126 East State Street— above and sharing an entrance with the vintage fashion shop Petrune. The space is the brainchild of Julie Simmons-Lynch, who is new to the gallery business. Their inaugural exhibit, “The Photography of Justin Hjortshøj,” opens Friday September 4, with a Gallery Night reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Exhibits at Eye will stay up for two months; “The Photography of Justin Hjortshøj” will be open through November 1. A schedule of upcoming shows will be announced soon. Simmons-Lynch, a former Manhattanite with art history training,
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has lived in Ithaca for 11 years. She is a freelance writer and a former editor at the graphic fantasy magazine Heavy Metal. Currently she is the Program Manager for Cornell’s Cognitive Science program and has worked writing exhibition text for the Wharton Studio Museum—a projected museum of local film history located in Stewart Park. Hjortshøj is a co-owner of Petrune with his wife Domenica Brockman, who is also an artist. A specialist in large and panoramic formats, he works extensively with self-built cameras, one of which will be on display in this show. He has exhibited before, many years ago in NYC, but this is his first show in Ithaca. Simmons-Lynch describes her discovery of his work as love at first sight. “I think he has an eye that is unequaled,” she said. “It’s really intriguing . . . something I haven’t seen before. The movement involved is really pretty astonishing.” With help from her family as well as Hjortshøj and Brockman, Simmons-Lynch has been renovating the space, previously used as storage, over the past few weeks. (It was still in progress as of this past Friday and the gallerist demurred from showing it to me.) She stressed the open-ended nature of “Eye.” “It’s definitely going to be something eclectic,” she said. “I want it to be painting and photography—I love Justin’s work and I’m thrilled that he’s our first artist. I’d like to do ceramics. I’d even like to do art jewelry—anything that is just beautiful.” Fantastic and comic art are also strong interests that distinguish her sensibility.
Showing work from beyond Ithaca is another compelling mission. “I don’t think it has to be only local artists,” SimmonsLynch explained. “We can expand. I still have a lot of connections with international artists. One of my first shows will be with some of them, hopefully.” Tentative hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. with further availability by appointment. Call (607) 3424414 or see the gallery website eyeithaca. com for further details. This is a promising development and the excitement that it has already generated is palpable. The opening promises to be a highlight of September’s Gallery Night. This month’s event features exhibition openings at ten downtown venues and includes several of particular promise. At the State of the Art Gallery, “Drawing Space,” featuring local painters Barbara Mink and Stephan Phillips, should be a bravura demonstration of intelligence in paint. Both the Community School of Music and Arts and the Ink Shop Printmaking Center share a space at 330 East State Street. The former is showing a superb exhibit of five faculty artists while the latter is featuring “Ley Lab Collaboration” and “Poisonous Plants,” work brought down the hill by Cornell professor and Ink Shop member Greg Page. Cayuga Aquatics (off of the Commons at 704 West Buffalo St.) is showing sophisticated skyscape paintings by Celia Bowers. • More information can be found at gallerynightithaca.wordpress.com or by picking up one of their brochures, which are available around downtown. T
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E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Mac Benford & Up South | Bluegrass, Old-Time, Americana.
9/03 Thursday
People’s Blues of Richmond | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Blues, Psychedelic, Hard Rock. Jessie Collins Group | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Funk, Jazz, Fusion, Rock. Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Enjoy jazz and bagels at CTB. Hoodoo Crossing: Blues, Brews and BBQ | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blues. Rock. Ribs.
9/04 Friday
Thousands of One | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Afro Funk, Soul, Reggae, Rock, Hip Hop. Ithacats | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rockabilly, Retro, Americana. Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner. Dances are taught; dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures. Bring a tasty treat and get in free. For directions/information, call 607-2738678; on Fridays, 607-342-4110. Greg Neff | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Depot Friday Nights. Singer/ Songwriter/Guitarist. Specializing in music of the 60’s and 70’s. Go Gone | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca
| Roots, Rock, Blues, Soul. Samuel B. Lupowitz and The Ego Band | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Performing their new album Ten Square Miles. Rock and Soul Revival, Blues, Jazz, Americana. Trace Davis & Friends | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Blues. Tru Bleu | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Blues, Soul. Americana, Old-Time.
9/05 Saturday
Purple Valley | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Blues, Swing, Rock and Roll, Country, Americana. Salsa Night | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Enjoy great music, dance instruction, party and libations on large dance floor and outdoor deck above Cayuga Lake inlet. ¡Hasta la Rumba! SCHEDULE 8:45-9:45PM SURVIVAL SALSA BACHATA and CHA CHA CHA DANCE! Cornell Contra Dance Club (CCDC) | 7:30 PM-11:00 PM | Willard Memorial Chapel, 17 Nelson Street, Auburn | Contra Dance Music: Maivish (Jaige Trudel, Adam Broome, and special guest Rebecca Bosworth-Clemens) with caller Angela Decarlis. Pete Panek and the Blue Cats | 7:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Chicago Blues, Blues, Rock. The Backtalk Band | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Rock, Classic Rock, Rock and Roll. The Beach Boys, The Who, The Turtles, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen. Third Story Band | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM
9/23 WILCO SOLD OUT 9/26 HOME FREE 10/2 THE WOOD BROTHERS 10/3 PAULA POUNDSTONE 10/9 PATTY GRIFFIN 10/10 THE MACHINE 11/7 NORAH JONES 11/8 POSTMODERN JUKEBOX
Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Celtic, Contra. Blue Skies | 11:00 AM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Vintage Jazz, Blues Standards.
Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Latin Jazz, World, International.
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| Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Classic Rock. Maris Krauss | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Singer Songwriter, Pop, Rock.
Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats. Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm. Speedy Ortiz | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, Art Rock, Noise Pop.
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Open Mic | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach 9 Horses | 8:00 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Featuring Shawn Conley, Joe Brent and Sara Caswell. Jazz, Indie Pop, Americana, Classical. Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Callin’ all fiddlerswhistlers-pipers-mandos-bodhran’sflute players- you know who you are! All Ages & Stages Intermediate level the goal. Traditional Session style. Bring a tune to share and learn a tune or two! EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT! Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Paolangeli and Friends are joined by different musicians every Tuesday. Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Gerard Burke | Country Blues, Folk, Rock, Country. Jorge Cuevas & the Caribe Jazz All Stars | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s
Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park. Mad Goat String Band: WVBR’s Bound For Glory | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | North America’s longest running live folk concert broadcast. Bluegrass, Old-Time, Americana. International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. The Tarps | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM |Americana Vineyards, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Rock and Roll, Live Juke Box Band, Blues, Soul, R&B. Sunday Square Dancing | 7:00 PM-8:30 AM | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Square Dancing is a low-impact aerobic activity that stimulates both mind and body. Easy and fun for people of any age. Sunday Squares is free and open to all. We dance to a wide variety of popular music, and learn dance steps used all over the world. Come alone or with a partner. No special dancing skills required. Rebecca & The Soul Shakers | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Roots, Soul, Blues, Rock. Arco Isis | 3:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Latin Jazz, Gypsy Swing. Doolin O’Dey | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM |
Sophistafunk, The Victor | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Funk, Rock, Hip Hop, Soul. Snoop Dogg | 8:00 PM | New York State Fair, Chevy Court, Syracuse | Rap, Hip-Hop, West Coast Rap. Dierks Bentley | 7:00 PM | CMAC, Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua | Sounds of Summer Tour 2015 | Modern Country. Salt-n-Pepa | 2:00 PM | New York State Fair, Chevy Court, Syracuse | Rap, Hip Hop.
9/03 Thursday
School of Music Convocation | 8:15 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Featuring music performed by School of Music community members and an address by Dean Karl Paulnack Meghan Trainor | 8:00 PM | New York State Fair, Chevy Court, Syracuse | Bubblegum Pop, Blue Eyed Soul. Skaneateles Festival: An Evening with the Miro Quartet | 8:00 PM | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E Genesee St Ste 1, Skaneateles | Haydn: Quartet Op. 76, No. 2 (Quinten); Beethoven: Quartet Op. 59, No.3; Schumann: Piano Quintet Yankee Blood, Grayak | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Indie Pop, Acoustic Folk, Reggae, Pop. Talib Kweli | 7:00 PM | Bernie Milton Pavilion, The Commons, Ithaca | CFCU Summer Concert Series. Rap, Hip Hop, Underground Hip Hop.
9/04 Friday
Skaneateles Festival: Octets with Miro and Aeolus | 8:00 PM | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E Genesee St Ste 1, Skaneateles | Dan Welcher: Museon Polemos for string Octet ; Mendelssohn: Octet The Ripcords | 2:00 PM | New York State Fair, Chevy Court, Syracuse | Pop,
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Surf Rock. 6 Nations Dancers | 1:00 PM | New York State Fair, Chevy Court, Syracuse |
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9/05 Saturday
Tauk | 8:00 AM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Progressive Rock, Instrumental Rock, Fusion, Jazz, Rock.
surgery, searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband (Ronald Zehrfeld) who might have betrayed her to the Nazis. | 98 mins PG-13 | Mr. Holmes | An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman. Ian McKellen stars. | 104 mins PG | Steve Jobs: The Man in The Machine | A look at the personal and private life of the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs. | 113 mins R |
9/08 Tuesday
Vaporeyes, Mister F | 9:00 AM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Electronic, Hip Hop, Alternative, Soul, Electronica, Live Electronica. Rael: The Music of Genesis, Squid Parade | 7:00 AM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Progressive Rock, Rock, Genesis Covers, Jam, Groove, Funk. Grandma Lee | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Stand-Up Comedy. Former contestant of Amercia’s Got Talent, this Grandma is one funny lady!
Film cinemapolis
Friday, 9/04 to Thursday, 9/10. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes
cornell cinema
The Diary of a Teenage Girl | A teen artist living in 1970s San Francisco enters into an affair with her mother’s boyfriend. | 102 mins R | The End of the Tour | The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace’s groundbreaking epic novel, ‘Infinite Jest.’ | 106 mins R | Mistress America | A lonely college freshman’s life is turned upside down by her impetuous, adventurous soon-to-be stepsister. | 84 mins R | Phoenix | A disfigured concentrationcamp survivor (Nina Hoss), unrecognizable after facial reconstruction
9/06 Sunday
Big And Rich With Cowboy Troy | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Modern Country, Pop.
9/07 Monday
Nick Jonas | 6:00 PM | New York State Fair, Chevy Court, Syracuse | Pop, Rock, Singer Songwriter. Three Chord Monty | 11:00 AM-1:30 PM | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Folk, bluegrass,
Wednesday 9/02 to Tuesday 9/08 Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes Within Our Gates | Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths. Live musical accompaniment by Philip Carli, with an introduction by Asst. Prof. Samantha Sheppard | 79 mins NR | The Year of Living Dangerously | A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer. | 115 mins PG | Sundance Shorts Program |
Get your weekend started early with this jazz-funk-rock band fronted by the awesome saxophonist Jessie Collins. Collins has played in and fronted many bands, studied with many spectacular musicians, including the free-jazz wizard Sam Rivers, and the ever influential Lee Konitz, and always keeps things exciting, adventurous, and abstract in a live setting. This collective ventures away from jazz on occasion and introduces exciting funk and rock dynamics.
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Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 9/02 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life. An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com. Little Voices Music & Motion Fall Registration Now Open | Jillian’s Drawers, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | Registration is now open for FALL INTO MUSIC. Please register by September 5th. FALL INTO MUSIC, the nine week fall session of Little Voices Music & Motion, begins the week of September 14th. FALL INTO MUSIC begins the week of September 14th, with five different classes from which to choose. Locations include the Lansing Town Hall, the Ithaca Youth Bureau, and Jillian’s
Learning American Sign Language II (ASL II) | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/02 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | American Sign Language (ASL) is a useful and fun means of communication, and many signs can be easy to learn. ASL is used by people who are Deaf, hard of hearing, have difficulty speaking, or are non-verbal, as well as interpreters, family and friends, human service professionals, and people who want to be able to communicate with someone who uses ASL. Art Classes for Adults | 1:00 PM-10:00 PM, 9/02 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and
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Drawers on the Ithaca Commons. Please note that Little Voices classes are offered through the Town of Lansing Recreation Department, the Ithaca Youth Bureau, and independently at Jillian’s Drawers on the Ithaca Commons. Scholarships are available for all Little Voices Music & Motion classes. For complete class schedule and registration instructions, please go to the website @ www.LittleVoicesMusic. com/index.php/classes Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Cornell | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 9/04 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | A Cornell human resources representative will discuss job search tips, the application process, and overall information about working at Cornell University. Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 9/04 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market at Triphammer Marketplace. Outside 8 a.m. to noon, Inside 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays through December. Locally grown & produced foods and handcrafted items. Local seasonal produce, honey, flowers, baked goods, meats, pottery, woodwork, jewelry, glass, fiber arts and the Owl’s Head Fish Truck! Lots of variety, plenty of parking. CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 9/08 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.
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Two of Ithaca’s heaviest art hitters are teamed up in this new exhibit entitled Drawing Space. The pairing should work well, both have signature styles even when they’re showcasing new work, and both manage to find many new dimensions when working with space and light. Their work draws you in from afar, and then pushes the boundaries when up-close.
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Showcasing a wide variety of story and style, the 2015 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour features six short films that won awards at this year’s Festival. These films are World of Tommorow, SMILF, Oh Lucy!, The Face of the Ukraine: Casting Oksana Baiul, Storm Hits Jacket, and Object. | 117 mins NR | Ex Machina |A young programmer is selected to participate in a groundbreaking experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking female A.I 108 mins R | When Marnie Was There | A young girl is sent to the country for health reasons, where she meets an unlikely friend in the form of Marnie, a young girl with flowing blonde hair. As the friendship unravels it is possible that Marnie has closer ties to the protagonist than we might expect. | 103 mins PG | The Lady from Shanghai | Fascinated by gorgeous Mrs. Bannister, seaman Michael O’Hara joins a bizarre yachting cruise, and ends up mired in a complex murder plot. | 87 mins NR |
Runs to September 5 | An infamous tale of an unjustly exiled barber, Sweeney Todd returns seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which he opens a new barber practice. For tickets and showtimes visit fingerlakesmtf.com/ theatres/merry-go-round-playhouse Escanaba in Da Moonlight | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | Runs to September 6 | By Jeff Daniels. The great American hunting misadventure. For tickets and showtimes visit www. chenangorivertheatre.org Buyer & Cellar | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | By Jonathan Tolins. Runs September 6 through September 27, 2015 | Alex, an out-of-work LA-based actor, finally gets a job as a one-man shopping mall manager in Barbra Streisand’s basement! And when Barbra descends those spiral stairs, watch out! A hilarious one-man show about celebrity and staying true to yourself. For tickets and showtimes visit www.kitchentheatre.org
Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org Grant Writing Basics Workshop | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 9/03 Thursday | CAP ArtsSpace, 171 The Commons, Ithaca | This grant writing basic workshop will provide participants with a clear idea of what is expected in grant requests, and insight into how grant panels make decisions. Any grant process is extremely competitive. Writing a clear and effective proposal is critical. Robin Schwartz has been administering up to five different state and private grant programs annually for over 22 years. Painting, Food & Fun: Red Pepper | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/03 Thursday | The Kitchen Store, 59 North Ave, Owego | No artistic experience is needed. Arrive up to 30 minutes early to check in, find a seat and enjoy your complimentary Tapas dish from The Kitchen Store! BYOB if desired. Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 9/04 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza. Finger Lakes School of Massage Introduction to Massage Therapy Seminar | 10:00 AM-3:30 PM, 9/06 Sunday | Finger Lakes School of Massage, 1251 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Join us for this one-day seminar exploring Massage Therapy as a rewarding career. You will leave knowing current career trends in one of the fastest growing healthcare industries. Also, you will be introduced to foundational elements of the sciences in a sample class. Participants will receive a relaxing 60 minute massage from currently enrolled massage therapy students. No previous experience necessary. Call 607-272-9024 to register. Cooking Classes “Cooking On A Salt Block | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/06 Sunday | The Kitchen Store, 59 North Ave, Owego | Tonight we are cooking Scallops on the salt block. Join us for a unique method of cooking. Veggies from the Farmers Market and fresh fruit served on a solt block as well. BYOB if desired.
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work that is a physical expression of the comparisons and metaphors Szabo examines while creating her work and contemplating our place in the world. Szabo believes that our lives are inexplicably entwined with lives beyond our own. Physically and spiritually we are woven into the living process of the earth. We are unable to escape those connections any more than we can escape breathing the air. Art is Szabo’s way of examining our relationship to nature, to the earth and to each other. Show runs Sept 1, 2015 through October 31, 2015. Eye Gallery Opening | 5:30 PM-7:30 AM, 9/04 Friday | Eye, 126 E. State St., Ithaca | New gallery opening on the Commons. Housed above Petrune, eye will be an aesthetic cocktail: from photography and painting to illustration, ceramics, and themed shows, we promise to be keenly eclectic and never stale. We are thrilled to be showing Justin Hjortshøj’s photography as our premiere installation. Justin, a native Ithacan, has taken the bulk of his work with handmade 35mm, 70mm, and 120 format panoramic cameras. His perspective on seemingly simple scenarios in places as diverse as Haiti, Brooklyn, and Czechoslovakia is mind-boggling. Julie Simmons-Lynch, former editor of Heavy Metal magazine and freelance writer and editor, is the director of eye. Call 342.4414 or visit eyeithaca.com Andrea M. Aguirre, Tatiana Malkin | 5:30 PM, 9/04 Friday | Creative Space Gallery, The Commons, Ithaca | With bioluminescence as her inspiration, Andrea M. Aguirre explores the traces of life and light surviving in her post-apocalyptic world, Egoluxe. Through examining inner and outer growth, Tatiana Malkin’s Growing Obsessions seeks to reconcile contradictions in organic nature and its underlying structure. Cortland First Fridays | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/04 Friday | Multiple Locations, Downtown Cortland, Cortland | First Fridays celebrate the art and culture of the local community on the first Friday of each month. First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/04 Friday | Ithaca, Ithaca | On the first Friday of each month, art galleries in downtown hold their opening receptions for exhibitions. Visit www. downtownithaca.com for details Barbara Mink, Stephan Phillips | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/04 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca
Special Events The Great New York State Fair | New York State Fair, 581 State Fair Blvd., Syracuse | Runs through Monday, September 7 | See www.nysfair.org for more information Dr. John Mead | 6:30 PM-7:30 AM, 9/03 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Dr. John Mead will speak at the Ulysses Philomathic Library as a part of the Healthy You, Healthy UPL series. Dr. Mead will speak about his work to establish Ebola clinics. He is a member of Cayuga Medical Associates and specializes in internal medicine. Dr. Mead studied at the New York University School of Medicine, and completed his internship and residency at Cambridge Hospital. Savor The Fingerlakes | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/03 Thursday | Ithaca Farmers Market, 545 3rd Street, Ithaca | Sample craft beer, cider and artisanal food pairings by local Chefs. 35+ vendors. Live music. Info & tickets: www.SavortheFingerLakes.com Farm to Fork | 3:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/03 Thursday | The Deck, Front Street, Owego | Thursday evening farmers market with 4 local eateries will create fresh street food for you to enjoy while listening to music. Location: The Deck on Front Street, Owego. Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 9/05 Saturday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Indoor marketplace and outdoor flea and farmers market. Antiques, collectibles, furniture and more! Open every Friday 12 noon-5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 p.m. through November 1, 2015. Owego Elks Antiques And Collectibles Market | 8:00 AM-3:00 PM, 9/06 Sunday | 223 Front Street, 223 Front Street, Owego | Shop over 40 dealers from across Central NY and PA. 10,000 sq. ft. of quality merchandise and fabulous food, oldies music and more! Every first and third Sunday year-round.
Meetings City of Ithaca Common Council | 6:00 PM, 9/02 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public is heard during privilege of the floor.
Rapper Talib Kweli performs Thursday, 9/ 10 at 7pm at the Bernie Milton Pavilion, as part of the CFCU Summer Concert Series. (Photo Provided) At the Table or on the Menu: Connecting with Federal Policymakers | 9:00 AM-12:30 PM, 9/03 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room, 101 E Green Street, Ithaca | With Joanne Florino, a workshop for anyone interested in influencing federal legislation affectingnon-profit organizations and their donors (also applicable to influencing state and local legislation). Visit www.hsctc.org/ workshops for details. City of Ithaca Commons Advisory Board | 8:30 AM, 9/04 Friday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Community Advisory Group (CAG) | 6:00 PM, 9/07 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | CAG is concerned with Ithaca’s contaminated sites. It convenes to promote greater public participation in clean-up projects, and to help citizens and involved government agencies make better-informed decisions. Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM, 9/08 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Ithaca City Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 9/08 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District - Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | City of Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission | 5:30 PM, 9/08 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca Landmarks Preservation
Commission (ILPC) | 5:30 PM, 9/08 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The ILPC is charged with administering and interpreting the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Ordinance.
delightful cocktails and books that you will not want to put down. Hosted by Buffalo Street Books’ Asha Sanakar. Ilya Kaminsky, Poet and Translator | 4:30 PM, 9/03 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell, | Kaminsky has co-edited Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, an anthology of 20th century poetry in translation, and co-translated Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva with Jean Valentine. His books have been published in many countries, including Turkey, Holland, Russia, France, Mexico, Macedonia, Romania, and Spain; and in China, where his poetry was awarded the Yinchuan International Poetry Prize. Graphic Novel and Manga Club | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM, 9/07 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For teen readers. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at (607) 272-4557 extension 274 or rdemauro@tcpl.org.
Nature & Science Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 9/04 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | The Cornell Astronomical Society hosts stargazing at the historic Fuertes Observatory on Cornell’s North Campus every clear Friday evening starting at dusk. Free and open to the public; parking across the street. Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night. Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM, 9/05 Saturday, 9/06 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. For more information, please visit www.cayugabirdclub.org/calendar.
Art June Szabo: Hanging Wood and Wire Sculpture | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/04 Friday | Leidenfrost Vineyards, 5677 Route 414, Hector | The public is invited to meet with the artist and view additional pieces in her collection during an Artist Reception between the hours of 6:00 – 8:00 PM, Friday, September 4, 2015. The theme for this exhibit - Earth Stories – includes
Books A Novel Idea - Book Club | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/02 Wednesday | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Come spice things up, catch up with friends, and get your intellectual side out over
Grandma Lee,
The Great New York State Fair,
The Haunt, Saturday, September 5, 8:00 p.m.
581 State Fair Boulevard, Syracuse, August 27 through September 7
This stand up comedian was a contestant on the fourth season of America’s Got Talent, before launching a successful and hilarious career as a professional funny-person. Her jokes can be bitingly sarcastic, and wonderfully personal. Her material is all based on real experience, and often pushes the boundaries. Expect the raw naked truth on this night. Don’t miss out!
Each and every year over 1 million people come out and enjoy this legendary event that’s full of awesome food, spectacular rides, wicked bands, and amazing times. This year’s lineup includes Everclear, Mellisa Etheridge, Hank Williams Jr, Buckcherry, and many, many, more. Don’t miss the chance to experience this classic New York State tradition.
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| Drawing Space, an exhibition of paintings. Mink explores the erasures of time as well as the contours of space, through a group of architectonic canvases. Phillips finds spaces pregnant with the presence of form and light, with being and knowing. Wine tasting by Bet the Farm Winery and music by Karla Notarianni. First Friday Art Walk | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/04 Friday | County Of Tioga, 56 Main St, Owego | On the 1st Friday of every month, Owego’s galleries, boutiques, and restaurants showcase a broad range of artists, musicians, writers, and performers. Enjoy an art-filled night out with friends- come dine at our fabulous eateries, stroll our historic village, and enjoy shopping in our downtown marketplace. CAP-aPalooza | 7:00 AM, 9/04 Friday | CAP ArtsSpace, 171 The Commons, Ithaca | The Community Arts Partnership’s annual fundraiser features a selection of work donated for CAP’s annual October CAP-a-Palooza Art Sale. September’s ArtSpace exhibit will be preview of a selection of donated work – both from those who make art, and those who collect art. The sale starts on October’s gallery night (October 2nd) in the CAP office, with the majority of work priced at just $25! Come to the September preview show to see what we have! Art in the Alley: September Edition | 5:00 AM-, 9/04 Friday | Press Bay Alley, , Ithaca | Join us in Press Bay Alley for an examination of wood as an art medium. From vessels turned directly from a raw log to laser cut engineered plywood this show will be a wide ranging exploration of the art we make from trees. Faculty Art and Music Show | 5:00 AM, 9/04 Friday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Enjoy our current exhibition of works by CSMA’s visual arts faculty, on view through September. Featuring paintings and drawings by Rob Licht, Kevin Mayer, Terry Plater, Miriam Rice, and Melissa Zarem, the show offers a glimpse of our instructors’ own creative work prior to the start of fall classes. And this Gallery Night at CSMA becomes a multi-arts event, with free performances by members of our music and dance faculty! First Saturdays on the Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 10:00 AM, 9/05 Saturday | Greater Ithaca Art Trail | Artists exhibit in studios across Ithaca and Tompkins County. The range of
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he End of the Tour is going to disappoints fans of David Foster Wallace, Donald Margulies, and David Lipsky. The film is based on Lipsky’s book Although of Course You End up Becoming Yourself, which is about a fiveday encounter with Wallace in the wake of the success of Infinite Jest, but the screenplay was written by Margulies, and then apparently doctored by a couple of other people. As a fan of Wallace’s writing, I can state confidently that this movie does not capture his brilliance or his sense of humor. I have not read anything that Lipsky has written, but criticism of his book about Wallace claimed it captured the fascinating content and form of his conversations with the older writer beautifully. In contrast, Margulies script partially re-examines a theme explored by his own play Sight Unseen in which a superstar painter called Jonathan Waxman is weighed down by fame and decides to visit an old girlfriend. The recurring topic in The End of the Tour is about Wallace’s struggle with being in the public eye. The self-confessed television addict is acutely and painfully conscious that he is constructing a persona for the public and playing a part. He needs to do it because he is intensely shy, but he rather enjoys doing it because in the end he is a master of the creative
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act and is fascinated by others’ responses to the behavior of his persona. In the film, Lipsky (a very fidgety Jesse Eisenberg) is portrayed as jealous of Wallace’s (a towering Jason Segel) fame. In fact, by 1996, when the events of the film unfold, Lipsky was already a critic’s darling and very well regarded. Yes, Wallace was selling more books and getting more adulation, but Lipsky was not the nobody he seems to be in The End of the Tour. This gets to the central problem with the film. If this movie is supposed to be about Wallace the person and Lipsky the person rather than the fascinating ideas that Wallace and Lipsky both certainly have about what it is like to be an educated, upper middle-class human being in a media-saturated, commercially-dominated civilization at the end of the 20th century, then it really should attempt to represent their personalities and biographies accurately. If one believes the evaluation of Wallace the person provided by Jonathan Franzen in The New Yorker (April 18, 2011), then The End of the Tour’s Wallace is not the person known to those who actually knew him well: He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it’s because
soag.org Creative Space Gallery | Ithaca College Art Department’s Creative Space Gallery (215 State/MLK St.) | IC creative space galleryEgoluxe and Growing Obsessions. Andrea M. Aguirre and Tatiana Malkin, two IC BFA candidates, exhibit a culmination of work created in the Creative Space Gallery this summer. Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Group exhibition of works by CSMA’s visual arts faculty. Featuring paintings and drawings by artists Rob Licht, Kevin Mayer, Terry Plater, Miriam Rice, and Melissa Zarem. The variety is very impressive and showcases the School’s unique instructors. Runs throughout August and September. | www.csma-ithaca.org The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday to
ongoing EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca | Justin Hjortshøj’s photograps His perspective on seemingly simple scenarios in places as diverse as Haiti, Brooklyn, and Czechoslovakia is mind-boggling.Home and Land. New paintings from the collection of the artist. | www.eyegallery.com State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Wednesday-Friday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Barbara Mink and Stephan Phillips, Abstract paintings and drawings by inspired duo. | For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@
The 25th season of the Kitchen Theatre starts off with a bang, with this critically acclaimed play written by Jonathan Tolins. The story stars Alex, an LA-based out of work actor, who after some time finally lands as job as a one-man shopping mall manager in Barbara Streisand’s basement. Fireworks blaze when the two interact in this story of personality, the strange world of fame, and the importance of finding one’s self.
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Anyone hoping for a hipster My Dinner With André or Mindwalk (John Heard, Sam Waterson and Liv Ullman walk through Mont St. Michel and talk about life) is going to be very disappointed by The End of the Tour. You expect the caliber of the conversation to improve as the two men get to know one another, but it doesn’t. Instead they keep approaching a meeting of the minds and then veering off as their personality disorders (which may or may not be authentically those of Lipsky and Wallace) intervene and drive them apart. If this is what director James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) and Margulies were trying to present, then it was misguided. Who wants to watch two smart writers behave just like everyone else? •
PM; Sunday,12:00-5:00 PM | GC Myers - Home and Land. New paintings from the collection of the artist. | www. westendgallery.com Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Christine McMeekin & M Stein. The shows will be spread between the downstairs and upstairs loft. Both shows will run through Oct 31. Curated by ARTe for more info visit www.ARTeFLX.com. | www.wafflefrolicking.com Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | Mon. Wed. Thurs. 11am-6pm; Fri. Sat. 11am-8pm; Sun. 11am-4pm; closed Tuesdays | WANDERINGS, Recent oil, watercolor, and pastel paintings of Martha’s Vineyard, Italy,and Pittsburgh, by Patricia Mae Young. Patricia has won many awards for her paintings. “Now I paint for the pure joy of enjoying
nature and being our of doors,” says Patricia. | www.titusgallery.com Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Says artist Emily Breedlove: “My recent work has become more about abstracting the pathways taken in life. I blindly draw paths that I have traveled, then with the use of various materials transform the drawings into three-dimensional pieces. “ On view through September | 607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com
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he never quite felt that he deserved to receive it. He was a lifelong prisoner on the island of himself. This is not really conveyed by The End of the Tour. Instead Wallace comes across as selfish, moody, self-involved jerk who is not very funny, witty or lovable. In one stab the film makes at the complexity of the truth, a former girlfriend describes him as “pleasantly unpleasant” in grad school. But Lipsky’s constant violations of Wallace’s privacy in pursuit of the story his editor wants ruin any chance they have of actually getting close. Their own insecurities, which are petty and shared by much less intelligent people, become the driving force of their interaction, causing their mutual interest in the nature of fame, in consumerism, and in the creative process to take a backseat.
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Order: RE; vehicle, antiques. RE: (.5)Acre lot w/ drilled well w/ 25’ x 40’ 2 story “Lansingville Grange” circa 1875 w/ hrdwd. flrs. Excellently located in the country 10 miles to ITHACA, Town of Lansing & Sells at ABSOLUTE AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER REGARDLESS OF PRICE!!! VEHICLE: 06 Ch. Silverado 2500 HD Duramax 6.6 L Turbo Diesel w/ Alison Tran., Ext. cab, LT, AT, 4x4, NO RUST, 177K, Red, MINT & LOADED. ANTIQUES: hundreds of antiques! Ad & political pin back buttons incl. MacArthur/T. Roosevelt & old military pin backs; civil war reunion ribbon; many postcards; Cane’s incl. whale vertebras/ carved/ masonic & rare DRAPER US-JAPAN EXP; blue dec. crocks; oriental rugs; cloisonné vase; ad tins incl. tin fire ext.; gone w/ the wind lamp; 8 day Niagara clock; Folk art carved clock; clocks; nat. cash reg.; machetes; ad cab.; graniteware; ker. lamps; DL & W & NY railroad lamps; car lamps; NYC long neck oiler; native Amer. items; Pinocchio parade float; 1837 Coverlet; tin on tin Horse sign; manikin; 2 horse merry go round; agateware; duck decoys; memory jugs; stoneware; old bottles ; oil on canvas paintings; molding planes; photo albums; toys incl. Marx VFW pedal car/ Marx elec. drive toy car/ cast toys; Military incl. patches/uniforms /insignia/helmets/ ammo; ad. signs; bibles; Indian bust; penny banks; Ithaca jug; pipes; cigar boxes; locks & keys; scrap bks; valentines; out brd motors; car parts; cost. Jew.; fish lures; milk btls; marbles; bennington pottery; n. nelly boot jack; flail; Brockway ashtray; spittoons; wood potato mashers; tin types; cobbler wd. shoe forms; leather bl basket; ad fans; china; 1917 Bogue hunt prints; ephemera, mags.; deco lamps; KOTM ribbons; quilts; sleds; traps; farm tbl; mahogany desk; garden gnomes; scales; tools; sinks; bench; trunks; hatchets; Lionel carts; Adrk. stand; piano rolls; books; yolks; antlers; cattle horns; cut glass; model cars; comics; ink wells; 1952 b- ball cards; pewter charger; J&P Coats cotton barrel; LP’s; bikes; oak bkcase; and much, much, more! VISIT: SDZauctions.com Lunch on site a good one!!! ANOTHER AUCTION SALE MANAGED BY...
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A Palatial Townhouse
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At A Glance Price: $359,500 Location: 58 Nor Way, Village of Lansing School District: Ithaca City Schools Northeast Elementary MLS#: 300898 Contact: Kathy Hopkins, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, Audrey Edelman/RealtyUSA; kathy@homeinithaca Phone: (607) 592-3025 (cell) Website: www.aedelman.com
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approximately 10-feet tall. The walls are ochre with a scrubbed finish. The floors are an exotic hardwood, perhaps a type of mahogany. They are finished with a dark stain, which is striking in the bright room. There are four ceiling fans and recessed lighting. A hallway leads toward the front of the house. The first door on the left is a half bathroom. The hardwood floor follows you in there, where the commode is topped with stone. In a sort of postmodern touch the sink is made of glass, so you can see all the plumbing. The master suite is at the front of the house and is lit by two large windows. A jetted tub is in the corner of the room, surrounded by white marble and with a small gas-burning stove mounted in the wall over it. The sink, also surrounded by marble, is in a nearby alcove, and the shower stall and toilet are in a separate room. This bedroom has two very large closets Downstairs there are two bedrooms in the back of the house. One of them has a patio that is accessed through sliding glass doors and the other has been converted into a media room with shelves built into the outside wall. Both of these bedrooms have full baths adjacent. The house has been wired with a highend sound system with the equipment controlled from a panel in the downstairs hallway. There is a double-bayed garage that is accessed from a door off the downstairs hallway. It is large and includes space for storage. •
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