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he long, slow road to the first new comprehensive plan for the city since 1971 ended on Sept. 2, when Common Council approved “Plan Ithaca” by an unanimous vote. What’s next? Well, this being Ithaca, more planning, naturally. Stage Two of Plan Ithaca begins now, as more detailed ideas about how specific neighborhoods should look will be hashed out through another committee and meeting heavy process. Despite Council’s unanimity at voting time, many members took the opportunity during the privilege of the floor to express concerns and reservations about the plan’s emphasis on increased density, which calls for population growth over the next decades of about 50 percent, after a halfcentury of little change. (See the feature “City Comp Plan Reaches Draft Status,” April 29 Ithaca Times, for a summary of Plan Ithaca.) Alderperson George McGonigal (D-1st) said he had “come to appreciate the fact [that the plan] is not the Ten Commandments,” as part of the reason he would vote for its enactment. (Comprehensive plans do not specify landuse regulations.) “I would argue densification can actually lead to sprawl,” McGonigal said. “People can’t afford to live here anymore and move out to the country … I think what the plan could do more of is look into the positive aspects of being a regional hub and a place where people commute to. Commuters buy things in February, unlike tourists.” Cynthia Brock (D-1st) said she had some “trepidation about the plan” when she noticed it was put forward “as a justification for the establishment of the Stone Quarry apartment project, a 35-unit complex on a one-and-a-half-acre property in a oneand two-family neighborhood.” (Brock and McGonigal welcomed their new constituents in the newly opened Stone Quarry project at the Sept. 2 meeting.) “I have very mixed feelings,” Brock continued. “I think we do need more quality housing, we need quality jobs … Although the plan itself says in many places that housing should be consistent and not change the characters of the neighborhoods, we’ve seen it referenced in ways to impart significant change.” Donna Fleming (D-3rd) said she was “disturbed” by the “frequent references to the need for growth” in Plan Ithaca. continued on page 4

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Information request at the clerk’s office in city hall, or online at cityofithaca.org. (Go to the homepage, click on “How Do I” in the top right-hand corner, and scroll down to the Request heading.) The footage is supposed to be held in storage for 30 days. According to city Planning Director JoAnn Cornish, the decision to put surveillance cameras on the Commons was “probably a collective decision” when the plan was made, and says the Downtown Ithaca alliance was “very interested” in adding cameras. On the old Commons, private business owners had cameras and would share footage in event of bad things happening, but those machines “didn’t always have the best resolution,” Holcomb said. Cornish recalled an incident about

he question has arisen: What is up with the surveillance cameras on the Commons? There are 14 of them, attached to the light poles and pointing in all directions. In conversation and on Reddit, it has been asked what they are for, who gets to see the footage, and where they came from. According to City Clerk Julie Holcomb, the cameras were part of the original Commons project plan. “They’re there as a safety precaution,” Holcomb said. Since the cameras are watching public property, “there’s no privacy concern there,” Holcomb said, compared to those that arise in the situation when a police officer’s body camera is worn into a private home. Footage will be reviewed if crimes occur, Holcomb said, but there’s no New surveillance cameras on the Commons mounted on the one watching a bank new light poles at 14 locations. (Photo Brian Arnold) of monitors at all times. five years ago when three bronze heads The cameras were purchased from were removed from Art in the Heart Finger Lakes Technologies Group in sculptures and stolen. Every time a public Victor, New York (outside of Rochester), art installation is vandalized, the city has which also has the contract to host the video storage. Holcomb says that the Ithaca to make an insurance claim—which raises their rates—and restore the damage. Police Department was involved in the “We did just spend 15 and a half process of deciding what type of cameras million dollars on the Commons,” Cornish would be most helpful for the job, but there’s no one at IPD watching the cameras said. “If people are going to be destructive, we need to follow up on it.” all the time. Footage will be reviewed if crimes occur. She said that people looking continued on page 7 for a piece of footage can file a Freedom of

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Historic Ithaca’s growing library of resources related to Ithaca’s and Tompkins County’s built environment. The Downtown West Local Historic District is at the intersection of Albany and StateMartin Luther King Jr. streets. The area was a residential neighborhood developed by local businessman and developer Charles Titus, with houses designed by prominent area architects. For more information call 607-2773450. Historic Ithaca and Significant Elements are located at 210-212 Center Street.

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Legisature Warily Approaches Drones

ompkins County Legislator Dooley Kiefer (D-Cayuga Heights) raised concerns about invasion of privacy and airspace rights during the Government Operations Committee meeting last Thursday, Aug. 27. Yet an aviation firm and the county attorney think regulation of drones may be premature. Kiefer referred to a law recently passed in Rockland County, N.Y., regulating drones. Last month, Keifer had asked that the committee look into the possibility of regulating them. Keifer raised concerns over privacy, interference with commercial aircraft, public safety, and security. The Rockland law was a response to repeated incidences of illegal contraband being dropped into prisons. The Rockland law states: anyone flying a drone without authorization within 50 feet of a school, house of worship, the county jail, the sheriff ’s facility or a government complex would face up to $500 in fines and up to six months in jail. However, County Attorney Jonathan Wood worries that the Rockland law errs on the side of unconstitutional. Academy of Model Aeronautics Vice President Eric Williams also addressed the committee, saying regulating drones would hurt those who fly model airplanes. Northeast Unmanned Aircraft System Airspace Integration Research, an aviation firm, gave information, background and current trends for what many refer to as drones. Categorized as Unmanned Aerial

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“It doesn’t bother me that the city’s population hasn’t gained as quickly as the county,” Fleming said. “Because of Cornell, we will always be a cultural hub. We should never let Ithaca be so crowded so people seek out less crowded cities with cultural appeal.” J.R. Clairborne (D-2nd) asked for more thought about the benefits of diversity in the plan, as people of color are priced out of Ithaca—on the Southside, it’s not even a slow process anymore, Clairborne said: “Every time a black family moves out, a white family moves into that house.” In response to this line of discussion, Mayor Svante Myrick offered a variation on one of his favorite affordable housing themes: that people who don’t have homes yet aren’t going to show up to meetings in support of new development. “The way to make the adjustment from 30,000 (in population) to 33,000, and keep the magic, is to plan carefully,” Myrick said. “In a lot of ways this plan is fairly

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If someone is using a tool to break the law, then it’s illegal. However, it is the person wielding the hammer that is the lawbreaker. County Legislator Dan Klein (D-Caroline) responded, “Yes, that’s true, but you can’t use it to build a house for Habitat For Humanity on my property.” Frank Granelli and Eric Williams, who both represent the Academy of Model Aeronautics, warned of the effects regulation may have on those whose fly UAVs as a hobby. Williams said it would hurt modelers. He worked in conjunction with the Rockland County legislature on the law they passed that regulated unmanned aerial vehicles over private property and penitentiaries. He did so in an attempt to protect those who fly as a County Legislator Dooley Kiefer (File photo) hobby. He suggested the legislature committee, “step back and take a deep breath.” PowerPoint presentation that illuminated About UAV’s in general he went on to add, his organization’s achievements in the “We know many responses are premature area of UAV research and development. to evolving technology.” They are a New York based not-for-profit Kiefer also posed the question about coalition. They spoke at length about their ownership of airspace. She believed progress in the field, testing and their that it was a matter for debate. Brinker dynamic relationship with Cornell. said that because these UAVs are by Brinker laid out the benefits of these definition aircraft, they are subject to FAA types of aircrafts as well as the reality of regulations, that is to say, under their who owns the airspace, which, he said, is jurisdiction. The FAA website agrees with the federal government. He argued, “You him. “The FAA controls all airspace from may own your home or business and the ground up.” Supreme Court cases in the land under it, but you don’t own the the ‘40s and ‘80s both explore the idea of airspace around it.” airspace and private property. Brinker equated drones to a hammer. In the case of Unites States vs. You could use a hammer, he said, to Causeby, the opinion of the court included build a house for Habitat For Humanity continued on page 7 or you can use it to break into a house. Vehicles and classified by the FAA as aircraft, drones are remotely piloted or autonomous vehicles under 55 pounds conducting non-recreational operations. Lawrence Brinker is the executive director of Northeast Unmanned Aircraft System Airspace Integration Research or NUAIR. He offered a 30-minute

conservative,” Seph Murtagh (D-2nd) said. “That the mayor and Common Council are hellbent on increasing density wherever they can and the planning board is just rubber stamping that … I don’t think that’s true.” (McGonigal uttered an audible “Yes, it is,” to the rubber-stamping planningboard part.) What everyone in the room could agree on was the great burden of Cornell on the city’s resources. Fleming floated $23 million as a number the university would be paying if it wasn’t tax-exempt. Currently, the university’s voluntary contribution is $1.25 million. The strongest words for that situation came during public comment from Caroline Byrne, a new Ithacan who works part-time for Cornell and noticed the property tax situation. The $1.25 million contribution is 1/1,700th of Cornell’s operating budget, Byrne said. “Cornell is a multi-billion multinational corporation,” Byrne said. “Well, maybe that’s a little heavy handed. But they have the $2 billion campus in New York City, the med school, and a med school in Qatar.” Byrne called former Cornell President

David Skorton’s claim that tuition would rise if the school’s contribution to the city increased “totally illogical,” and as an “extremely frustrated citizen of Ithaca,” called for Cornell’s Independent Student Union, alumni, and homeowners to work together to beat more money out of the university. (In our Sept. 2 interview with the new Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett she said without qualification that the memorandum of understanding, which determines the size of the voluntary contribution, would not be revisited.) In other business, council approved extending an agreement with Tompkins County and Cornell to give $100,000 a year for the next six years to the Housing Fund, which kicks money to affordable housing projects. Projects that get city funding must be within the city limits. Council also approved a bus stop permit for the Big Red Bullet service to New York City, which is expected to begin direct runs to Manhattan by late September. • —Josh

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morning on College Avenue from Thursday to Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Thurston Avenue the rest of the week. On a recent afternoon, several students walking down College Ave. after classes stopped to ask owner Woepa Zegid about his hours as he and assistant Lobsang Lhadon locked the bright orange trailer into place and turned on the propane. The most distinctive feature on the menu are “sushi burritos,” which Zegid says are popular in California. Essentially, they’re an inverted maki roll, with the fish on the outside, served uncut. Since opening in April, the spicy tuna and the “Out of Control” rolls have been favorites, said Zegid, formerly the sushi chef at Plum Tree. He’s just happy to be open, after what he says were several years of trying to get permits before Ithaca passed an

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“Financially, it’s a huge advantage. With so much lower overhead you’re able to start a business with $2,000, basically. And it’s more nimble. It’s quiet. You can go into parks, go into buildings and alleyways.” Bosco had help from Laurence Clarkberg of Boxy Bikes during the slow winter months to put together the

thaca’s mobile food vendors are still a small crew, but options for on-thestreet food are growing steadily. Now that Labor Day has passed and summer is almost gone (yes, we know; sigh), we checked in with four vendors that opened up their cart or truck this year to see how their hustles are going. Free condiments and conversation are now available at Mr. Bailey’s Hot Dogs, the latest venture from Thomas Barnett, who has a cleaning company, cuts hair, and was most recently grilling for the summer program at GIAC. The cart—outfitted with grill, steam table, and turkey fryer—was put together by Barnett and a welder friend from spare parts. Barnett started out at the Elks Club, but had to move for insurance reasons, so he’s now slinging all-beef hot dogs and sausages and turkey kielbasi from a friend’s driveway on Cleveland Avenue not far from the Southside Community Center. Mr. Bailey’s is open most days right now from around 11 a.m. until about 5 in the afternoon. The cart is named after Evans Bailey, the late “Mayor Thomas Barnett (above right), Bici Cocina (above) and the Dos Amigos Tacos crew. (Photos: Josh Brokaw except Bici provided) of Cleveland Avenue.” After the World War II veteran and long-time Mason retired from over 40 years of working at BorgWarner, Bici-Cocina bike; he’d like to make more Mr. Bailey “walked up and down and talked official food truck regulation in late 2013. and sees them as a potential business “Getting the truck was very easy, ” to everyone,” said his daughter Kathy opportunity. Zegid said. “The permit I was trying to get Bailey, who still lives in the house on “[The bikes] could be custom built and for a long time.” Cleveland that her parents bought in the people could do whatever they want with Ithaca’s newest (and first?) bicycle food early 1950s. “He’d talk to the young men them, whether it’s food or other businesses cart is Bici-Cocina, which brings its South about making money and being a man.” people could support on a bicycle,” Bosco American cuisine to the people on pedal Barnett hopes that besides “keeping said. “I’d love to support this bicycle power. The cart is currently setting up on Mr. Bailey’s name alive,” he can use the cart Saturdays in Press Bay Alley alongside Lou revolution.” for fundraisers to help families affected by Back up in Collegetown, the newest the Hot Dog Guy, and they plan on doing the scourge of cancer, which ended Bailey’s mobile venture is Dos Amigos Tacos, events throughout the winter. life. Barnett recently spent a day in the which opened on Aug. 27 at Dryden Road “People are responding really well cancer ward because of a low white-cell and Eddy Street, next to Collegetown to our food, ” says co-owner Sam Bosco. blood-count scare with his daughter Grae, “Everything on our menu is gluten-free and Crepes. David Farahi and Jorge Bouras, and has seen his brother’s wife pass from both 21-year-old Cornell students, had the vegan, so we’re able to feed many different the disease. His sister-in-law had to go to idea to open the truck after working on a kinds of people.” Cleveland for treatment, so they “had to concept in a business class together, and The menu’s inspiration is the heritage scramble up money and get a rental car.” brought in Sam Epps of Gola Osteria to of co-owner Carolina Osorio Gil, who Helping to ease those sorts of extraneous help on the culinary side. expenses that affect people “who are already works with Cornell’s Latino Studies “This is something that Collegetown program and had “dreamed of having a going through a lot” is what Barnett wants has been missing,” Epps said while taking Colombian food business, ” Bosco said. The to do. a break during a lull on a recent evening. menu features arepas, the corn flatbread “All lives matter at the end of the day,” “Good handheld Mexican food.” central to Colombian cooking. Barnett said. “I’m in a rough draft right Dos Amigos has been open from 10 The sustainability benefits and now, but I’m drawing up a little game plan p.m. to 2 a.m. Thursdays to Saturdays so maneuverability of a bike cart has Bosco, to get something out of this for people.” far, but are looking to hire and expand their who’s involved with Bike Walk Tompkins, • • • hours as they feel out the market for the excited. Over in Collegetown, That’s How tacos and quesadillas they’re slinging. • “There’s a growing movement of I Roll sushi truck is open seven days a food bikes on the West Coast which I was week right now, from 4:30 p.m. to 2 in the — J o s h B r o k aw really inspired by to start this,” Bosco said. T

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Heard&Seen ▶ Hanging with deKooning, Ithaca residents Roberta Dixon and Stephen Poleskie both have their work featured in the Fall 2015 issue of the print magazine Still Point Arts Quarterly. Dixon has a portfolio of her “Breaking Free” series of paintings, with numerous color reproductions. Poleskie is included with his short story “Wednesdays at Laura’s House” about his days living on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1960s when he was friends with people like Elaine and Willem de Kooning. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Sept. 2-8 include: 1) Big Red Bullets to Fly: Bus Service to NYC? 2) New Cornell President Hits the Ground Running 3) Cutting Up the Trebloc Building 4) Candor’s EMT Cotton Leaves for Afghanistan 5) New Tburg Bowl Suggests That You Eat First For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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his week, in our “What Do You Think?” poll on the home page of our website Ithaca.com, we asked, “Do you think that Ithaca is getting “too urban?” Sadly, 43 percent of respondents answered, “Yes.” Only 20 people voted in the poll, so it’s hardly a scientific sample, but it does seem indicative of the current mood of the city. In last week’s editorial we bemoaned the misinterpretation by the general public (as expressed by those who speak at public meetings and write guest opinions and letters to the editor) of aims of the density plan. This week the remarks of some members of Common Council show that they don’t understand planning policy either (“Unhappy Council,” p. 3). Alderman George McGonigal (D-1st), who is usually wise, funny, and generally a breath of fresh air, does not have the right end of the stick this time. He believes that “densification can actually lead to sprawl,” because densification will cause it to be more expensive in the city. This makes no sense. In fact, landlords are now talking among themselves on their listserv to the effect that they are worried that all the new development is going to drive rents down. They are correct about that. Right now Ithaca rents can be as high as New York City rents. Construction of more residential buildings will decrease demand for the old stock. In order to avoid sprawl, the city is urging developers to build upward

and to do so in tightly concentrated areas—chiefly Collegetown and downtown—so that the character of the rest of the community can maintained. McGonigal further argues that the city should focus on being a regional hub and rely on commuters to buy things. As if sales tax, rather than property tax, was going to balance the city budget! For many years this city has seen far less growth than the surrounding county. That means the expense side of the ledger has steadily increased, while the revenue side has increased much more slowly. The price of property here does increase. In that we are lucky compared to much of upstate New York, but it has not kept pace with the rise in the cost of pensions, health insurance, and materials (for example, water mains). Cynthia Brock (D-1st) worries that the comprehensive plan promises to encourage housing that does “not change the character of the neighborhoods,” but she sees suggestions that would “impart change.” The neighborhoods of Ithaca are hardly perfect. By and large they are too purely residential to be healthy communities. There are square miles of this city without a single retail outlet, which makes it very difficult, for example, to take a walk to get a quart of milk or a cup of coffee. If you can’t do that, you don’t live in a real city. Perhaps most disturbing are Donna Fleming’s (D-3rd) remarks that we don’t need growth because we have Cornell and so will always be a cultural hub.

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rthur Whitman’s “Locally Sourced” review (July 8 Ithaca Times) spawned a controversy when he did not praise all of the local art in a Johnson art museum exhibit. As someone who’s just barely entered the field of art criticism, it seems pertinent, and in all actuality necessary, to look into this issue further and establish, in large part for myself, what my function is for you, the community at large. I ask again: what is the purpose of an art critic? Is it to form an opinion, as many may argue? To start a dialogue? To uphold a level of quality within the art community? That’s quite a bit of pressure for an individual, albeit a struggle that comes with the job. It’s unquestionable that art writing has changed over the decades, in function and approach, and though it’s impossible for me to know everything about its history, it’s of utmost importance to understand what art writing is today, in the overwhelmingly diverse, tumultuous landscape that makes up our contemporary times. Several months back, I read an article about longtime art writer Lucy Lippard that stuck with me in terms of art writing ideology. Not only does she despise the term “critic” for its “awfully antagonistic” implications, but she comments on past criticisms of her own writing. “I’ve been told I’m not a real art critic because I write about what I like,” she said, “and save the bitching and whining for society.” Of course, this statement, along with the moral of the “Locally Sourced” uproar, needn’t imply a critic must write positively about everyone, an idea many have stressed to me is not the point. I’m in favor of writing about pieces I like as well, as it allots those artists publicity and brings attention to the establishments in which their art is shown. I see little point (for myself) in outwardly bashing anyone, since that may give individuals unnecessary attention, while being unproductive in the overall scheme of things. The problem is that Ithaca is a small community, and we live in a culture of

positive affirmation. A critic doesn’t like a show? Ego, as silly as that may sound, is in danger of getting hurt. In the past, art writing had to do heftily with opinions: critics laughed at performance art or mixed media, not quite understanding its place. But nowadays, opinions can’t be wielded quite as ruthlessly. Other questions arise: But what is the artist doing? How is the piece functioning within the space? What concepts are they challenging? It’s very possible that the art writer simply didn’t understand what the artist was going for, that he or she is not the right audience, which is often the case with criticisms in the lit and art world alike. These days, the art critic does not rule the art world; artists do. True, there can be some pretty crappy work out there, but it’s not my place to say. It’s interesting, the differences between reviewing local visual art and mainstream film. It’s so much easier to negatively criticize something you’re detached from: the plot was thin; the acting had much to be desired; that scene with the aliens and the dog? But there are so many unspoken rules and expectations when it comes to reviewing shows, particularly small ones. You’re challenged to stay openminded, to frame any criticisms with gentle prompting and suggestions. But what is the purpose of a modern day art critic? Perhaps to immerse oneself in the art world, to follow and explore what inspires you, to play with ideas, to articulate those ideas to the public. Every relationship is give and take, and so far I’ve been inspired by those artists who present me with new ways of seeing, and flattered by those who comment that I’ve helped them look at their work anew as well. Sure, there may be instances where a show could use improvement. Mentioning those details puts it out there for the artists and curators to consider, ideas for them to take or not. There’s constantly more art to see, create, or explore. Let the universe take us where it will. •

YourOPINIONS Ithaca’s state senator is a busy man. Although Tom O’Mara, (R-Big Flats) earns around $80,000 a year representing the New York 58th senate district, he finds the salary insufficient to finance his life style. O’Mara also works as a lawyer, earning another estimated $200,000 to $250,00 in salary and delayed compensation as a partner at Hiscock and Barclay. Although O’Mara denies representing any clients who do business with New York, the high-powered firm represents clients in the energy and business sectors who must value the connection with the powerful chair of the Environmental Conservation committee. With all these demands on his time, it 6

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was nice to see the Senator O’Mara actually show up at two public events in August. Although the Southern Tier does not have a foreign policy, O’Mara stood with Congressman Tom Reed (R-Corning) at a press conference in which the congressman denounced the treaty with Iran. O’Mara followed up this community outreach by attending the ribbon cutting that celebrated the completion of the Ithaca Commons renovation. What Senator O’Mara has not found time is to actually meet with constituents who would like some answers. Why, for continued on page 7

reasons for shopper traffic to return continuously or the grunge from neglect will return and waste these recent improvements. Do we really do a good job giving our visitors reason to return? Do we care? Trying to have it both ways is selfish and unrealistic. We need to “embrace” and enjoy our visitors community and recognize what Ithaca would be without them. The central New York State countryside is chock full of choices and examples of communities that prefer to remain introverted and self-serving. This century, sharing gets you more. Thank you! – A proud Ithacan

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example, did this senator who proclaims to love the Finger Lakes singlehandedly kill a bill that would have banned micro-beads, those tiny plastic balls that are wreaking havoc in New York’s lakes and waterways? Just why did O’Mara verbally attack and curse a constituent who dared to question Him about the planned Crestwood gas storage facility at Watkins Glen? Why will he not enshrine women’s reproductive rights in New York State law? Why are New York City real estate magnates among his biggest campaign contributors? And yes, just what does Senator O’Mara do to earn that princely big law salary? Schedule a town meeting very soon Senator O’Mara . Your constituents are tired of waiting to have a two-way conversation with you.

This online comment came in response to the article “Will There be Dunkin’ on the Commons?” in the Sept. 2 issue: The Commons ... Church Street Marketplace [in Burlington, Vermont] just smaller. Church Street is abuzz all the time and like The Commons a draw for tourists, not just a local thing. Thriving at Church Street in Burlington are Dunkin Donuts, Urban Outfitters, Panera, Ben and Jerry’s and a least one more I cannot remember. The rest are local clothiers, coffee shops, Bars, Pizza, steak houses, artsy and crafty stores and the place is packed. The commons decisions would do well to follow their ideas. More tourists means more revenue for the local economy including those on the commons. Having been at both regularly, the store fronts on the commons could use a big upgrade. Many are outdated or not kept up well. Bring them to life even if by moving to a look from the past. – Rob

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She worries that people will seek out “less crowded cities with cultural appeal.” This is wrong-headed in at least two ways. First, it ignores the problem of affordability altogether. This is an alderperson for the most suburban part of the city—Belle Sherman—who is basically telling the rest of us to suck it up tax-wise and enjoy the theater and fine restaurants. Second, Cornell has been growing by leaps and bounds. We have never heard a single person say the campus is more attractive than it used to be. If any part of Ithaca is in danger of driving residents away because it is getting over crowded and less attractive, it would be the Cornell campus. J.R. Clairborne (D-2nd), however, makes a point that is supported by evidence. There is good evidence that the residents who are both lower-income and African-American are tending to relocate outside the city. Clairborne paints it as a race issue, but it is most assuredly an economic issue. Lower-income people of all ethnicities are finding it difficult to afford the high property taxes and high rents demanded within the city limits. It will decrease diversity in the city, certainly economic diversity, but if lower income people are disproportionately people of color, then it will decrease ethnic diversity too. Both the new and the former Cornell presidents have publicly stated their wish to help out the city economically. Garrett noted that the relationship is somewhat symbiotic: if the city thrives, the university thrives and vice versa. As no increase in the voluntary contribution seems to be forthcoming, it would seem wise for the city government to negotiate a finite number of categories of financial need where the university’s contribution would float both boats and go from there. But having a portion of the city council that is actually against enlarging the tax base and helping the city pay for itself is a bad situation, one that ought to trouble both the city’s residents and the

NYSEG crew installs a new gas main along two blocks of South Plain Street. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

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Though Cornish said the security cameras “aren’t really reflective of what Ithaca is,” the city is “learning it needs to monitor things that happen in ways that might deter these incidents.” And without a 24/7 police presence on the Commons, things do happen. During the Commons reconstruction, the cameras were one of the items that “kept being taken out and then put back in,” as budgetary restrictions caused the Commons plan undergo revisions. Cornish said that who, exactly, funded them in the end is unclear, but other amenities that the DIA and city officials have been more eager to publicize, like the playground, signs, benches, and planters, got contributions from downtown businesses and area nonprofits. • —Josh

protection afforded the curtilage (the area immediately surrounding a house or adjacent to it) is essentially a protection of families and personal privacy in an area intimately linked to the home, both physically and psychologically, where privacy expectations are most heightened.” There is no current legislation on the table. Wood, as of Sept. 1, is still drafting potential legislation. The drafted legislation is due to be presented before the government committee at either the September or October meeting. • — Benjamin

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this telling note, “The air is a public highway, as Congress has declared. Were that not true, every transcontinental flight would subject the operator to countless trespass suits. Common sense revolts at the idea.” However a 1989 case, Florida v. Riley, held that the police flying at 500 feet did not require a warrant because illegal activity was in plain sight. The Fourth Amendment, which protects against unlawful searches and seizures, was included and elaborated on. “The

Well stated! A welcome and balanced viewpoint! There has been ample time to express the so called alternatives and what do we have? The quality of the recent Ithaca Commons improvements only makes the surroundings look that much more “needy”. The contrast is almost stark! We need a strong infusion of commerce and cash to encourage and bring higher quality and well-maintained retail and commercial development of the buildings and tenants around the Commons and downtown. Once the novelty of the new Commons plaza wears off, there needs to be solid

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In response to an article published in our Finger Lakes Community Newspapers on April 18 of this year, Schuyler County Legislator Phil Barnes takes to task municipal councils in towns outside his county for passing resolutions opposing the gas storage facility in Reading: Saturday, September 5, 2015 As a Schuyler County Legislator, it’s unnerving when communities outside of our county take action on projects located entirely within Schuyler County without the professional courtesy of contacting our officials. Not one opposing municipality contacted Schuyler County or the Town of Reading before announcing opposition to Crestwood’s project. It’s simple: the Town of Reading and the Schuyler County Legislature are the only ones to have done any real homework on Crestwood’s project. Did any opposing bodies interact with the NYSDEC, tour the site and an existing propane storage facility nearby, or even put tough questions to Crestwood before taking a position? Of course not. Instead, they listened to an impassioned speech against the project and passed “copycat” resolutions. That’s not informed decision making. It’s disappointing that these municipalities have acted as pawns for the “anti” crowd and regurgitated concerns that the NYSDEC staff has repeatedly shot down. This is our region, too, and we are informed. – Phil Barnes Schuyler County Legislator Watkins Glen, New York

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ake a day to visit places in Ithaca where the merchandise available is well-used, and a common refrain is heard: “Things were better in the old days.” This pronouncement is usually associated in the popular imagination with an old man in overalls, waving a shotgun at those damn kids and spitting tobacco juice between his remaining teeth. But actually these people stating their preference for old things are not themselves, as a rule, old. They are saying that the old things—furniture, bathtubs, cookware, tools, to name a few categories—are better made and better crafted than anything one can now buy new at the mall or the big box stores. And taking in those old things and giving them new homes is a task they take on, both to perpetuate the permanence of these quality things and because every little bit of new stuff avoided is a little bit less crap in the landfill. “As a rule, anything made older is better than the new,” said Peter Walz, the traditional skills educator at Significant Elements. “Unless you’re willing to drop a lot of money.” One can pay thousands for one of Stickley’s iconic chairs straight from the factory in Manlius, or find them for much less at Historic Ithaca’s furniture and architectural salvage center at the corner of Center and South Plain streets. On a recent visit to the back garage there was to be found a brick fireplace mantel, heavy oak doors from Wells College, and a Stickley bed frame. It’s a space “which can go from utterly organized to chaos in a heartbeat,” said Significant Elements manager Sara Johnson. The store, which turns 25 next year, runs primarily on donations, with some wholesale reproduction hardware on offer for those working to maintain an old house. There are rosettes, escutcheons, and dummy spindles for pull doorknobs; older tools are available to fix up old homes. Upstairs there’s a floor of lumber and another with sinks galore: Johnson and Walz note their favorites: “You can flip through them like old baseball cards,” said Walz. “Oh, here’s my 1919 Crane, in mint

Mimi’s managers Violet condition.” Goncarovs and Meaghan Nawn Probably the most collectable have developed appreciations item Johnson had to show, she for sundry categories of item in said, was a Russell and Erwin their years of making decisions heart doorknob set priced at on what to buy or consign. (The $1,650, which came from “the store will buy lower-priced front doors of a very impressive items, under $20 or so, outright, home” in Cortland. There are and otherwise consigns things collectors and contractors and with a 60 day maximum.) fixer-uppers who hit Significant “If you touch enough of Elements for everything from the something, you eventually can ever-popular window shutters to feel the differences between claw-foot bathtubs and toilets the them,” Nawn said. “I’m into color of aqua seafoam. kitchen knives—a good carving According to Johnson, steel knife with a nice steel Significant Elements is on the handle can feel just right.” international picking circuit. Goncarovs likes good There is a group of dealers from Fiestaware and vintage Pyrex; Japan who stop in on their swing she said “the process of taking through the Northeast every 18 in the merchandise is like months or so, picking up Art shopping,” which makes it easier Deco items, sinks and hardware for the Mimi’s staff to let a piece and sending a shipping container they might desire have its time back across the Pacific. on the floor. Repairs are also available, The buyers for Mimi’s and really fit with Historic must develop an expertise Ithaca’s mission as a preservation both in items and in their organization, Johnson said. Walz customers’ preferences. They is working on expanding the have a customer and consignee seat-weaving program. Items that base which pays attention to need work get it before hitting the their ever-shifting stock, so showfloor. Those that don’t sell sometimes one “weird little go out for a free day, every third kitschy thing will start a trend,” Friday of the month. Moreland says. A few suitcases “We help people with sold, for example, and “then everything from fancy Victorians everyone is going up to their to mobile homes,” Johnson said. attic and bringing us suitcases. “So much of the local housing We have to put a stop to it.” stock is pre-1940 that needs Her job is not to be maintenance. Sometimes we’ll just the “fashion design police,” tighten things up for people and Moreland said, but trendsend them on their way.” M i m i ’s ow n e r K e l ly M o r e l a n d w i t h Vi o l e t spotting is part of the job. • • • G o n c a r ov s a n d M e ag h a n N aw n . Owls were hot for a while; Over at Mimi’s Attic on West ( P h o t o : J o s h B r o k aw) wooden orchard crates were State Street, those sent on their big; and “roosters are OK in way with a new-to-them thing The store is named after Moreland’s moderation,” Nawn said. The Pinterest often return again, sometimes wanting to grandmother, who was a flea market and crafting and “upcycling” trend has led to bring back that thing and try something yard sale fanatic. She took Moreland to different items moving, but the store only new. Just to change things up. markets across Pennsylvania’s central buys what works for what it was intended. “Our consigners end up being Susquehanna Valley. Pastel-colored, floral-patterned ‘90s customers and our customers become “She loved silver, cast-iron … she couches are a no-go at Mimi’s right now, consigners,” said Mimi’s owner Kelly loved the quality of vintage and antique Moreland says.“Store it for 10 years, and Moreland. She admits that she’s switched things that you can use,” Moreland said. it might come back around,” like the older out most of her own furniture since “They weren’t museum pieces. She used people who are now bringing in ‘70s starting Mimi’s in 2010. everything.” T

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furniture they’re “really tired of looking at, and it’s a nice surprise when they come in and find their stuff is now hip.” Mission, mid-century, and Danish modern furniture styles are much loved by Ithacans, too, the Mimi’s crew said. The favorite part of their work at Mimi’s is not being fashionistas, but finding the history and the relationships that revolve around the pieces in the store. Nawn bought a Victorian couch from 1850 with birds carved into its beautiful wood, later finding that she was only the third owner. “Guests spend the night and they say, ‘That’s really uncomfortable.’ But I love it – I say I’ll never get rid of it, but I probably will someday.” The consignment relationship means that people get to take part in moving on from pieces that mattered to them, Goncarovs said. “You might have an elderly couple going through life changes and they need to get rid of their 1950s bedroom set. They get to see it moving onto this next life with a young couple. It’s really a beautiful thing,” Nawn said. • • • The Finger Lakes Reuse Center is beginning a new stage of its own life this week, as they start renovations to its second showroom in the former TST-Boces building at 210 Elmira Road. The 17,000 square-foot building is an expansion, as the Triphammer Mall location will remain open. Renovating the old building is right in line with the ReUse Center’s mission, which director Diane Cohen describes as “extracting value from local material resources and translating them into opportunities.” The building was a grocery store way back when and was even a roller rink for a couple years. Underneath layers of tile it has a terrazzo floor that Cohen hopes to expose, and the fiberglass insulation the ReUse deconstruction crews took out of the classroom walls sold off like just like that. Since plans began for the ReUse Center in 2005, then the Triphammer location opened in 2008, there’s always been a desire for a location closer to the county waste transfer station. The visible location along Ithaca’s primary commercial strip is valuable both from a drop-offs perspective—“We want people to realize how easy it is to come here,” Cohen said—and selling off those stillworthy goods. “It took me a while to realize how much value is out there,” Cohen said. “Every inch of ground floor retail space is gold.” In addition to the Triphammer location, there’s also a new 20,000 square foot, three-story building planned for the Elmira Road property, which already has a $1.89 million grant promised to it by

When it was first started, the ReUse Center cherry-picked ideas from organizations like St. Vincent de Paul, Eugene, Ore., and ReSOURCE Vt of Burlington. Plans in early days called for 25,000 to 65,000 square feet of space. Now, the ReUse Center gets calls from Syracuse and Utica to help with deconstruction projects, but can only reasonably afford going as far as say, Geneva. With few deconstruction resources in New York, our ReUse Center might serve as a model to build further capacity. Cohen said she encourages people interested in deconstruction to start with the stores. “I’ve seen models where really energetic people start deconstructing stuff, but then you have a pile of stuff,” Cohen said, “and nowhere to put it.” Placing people who need things to do in positions to learn work skills is part of what both the ReUse Center and Significant Elements do. Cohen said that ReUse started taking people doing the work experience program through the county Department of Social Services because deconstruction is “incredibly labor intensive work, so it was less to help others get job skills and more because we needed the help.” Since then, volunteer and community labor with job training has become an integral part of the ReUse Center mission. In 2014, 23 people completed its ReSET computer technology training course, with over 3,500 cumulative hours of class time. About 95 workers associated with DSS put in about 15,000 hours in that same year. After a 10-week training course, Cohen said there are also 15-week internships available, funded partially through sales and partially through grants. Five have been hired full-time at ReUse in the last year, and there are more Cohen said she would hire if she had the funds. “We see people who come back and they’re doing activity they’re imbuing with meaning,” Cohen said. “We watch them R e U s e v o l u n t e e r R o g e r B e l l (a b ov e) a n d S i g n i f i c a n t E l e m e n t s progress … not because we’re m a n ag e r s S a r a J o h n s o n a n d P e t e r Wa l z good teachers, but because they ( P h o t o s : B r i a n A r n o l d a n d J o s h B r o k aw) can watch their work make an impact.” NYSERDA. time and labor involved in taking down And at Significant Elements, the “There’s 30 or 40 entities in Tompkins the buildings and the safety concerns Work Preserve program has been in place County that do reuse,” Cohen said, “and with things like asbestos and lead. since 2010 for young adults ages 18 to 30. it’s not enough.” Surveys are needed for those poisons, According to coordinator Karen Coleman, The retail side of things is and then possibly abatements, before these are “the kids who might work at meant to support ReUse’s mission deconstruction can happen. McDonald’s, Burger King, or Dunkin’ of deconstruction—salvaging useful “A demolition contractor can say we’ll Donuts, and they get fired after a month.” materials from buildings, rather than hose it down, demolish it in place and haul The program partners with Workforce NY, knocking them down and putting it off,” Cohen said. but Coleman said “we give everybody a them in the landfill. Cost is an issue in The ReUse Center deconstruction chance”; 30 to 40 workers are usually in deconstruction. crew has worked on notable projects like rotation in total. “It’s so expensive to do deconstruction the Aurora Street pocket neighborhood With all of the tools available and versus demolition,” Cohen said. “New York and on the buildings that preceded John craft skills needed and bookkeeping and state could help subsidize deconstruction, Novarr’s Collegetown Terrace. Often the history research to be done on each old or change the rules that make it so freakin’ ReUse crew is on a tight schedule, as they thing that comes through Significant expensive.” try to get truckloads out of buildings in Elements’ doors, Coleman says there is Since deconstructors are insured “tiny windows between them getting a plenty of new knowledge to be had for her like demolition companies, that’s a permit to starting construction,” Cohen workers. “There’s nothing here you can’t great expense, Cohen said, as is the said. learn.” • T

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a job, if you don’t have a place to live, if you don’t have economic or social rights,” said Laura Ward Branca, senior fellow at DCI, capturing how certain basic needs, if unmet, prevent the expression of a person’s civic rights. Likewise, Martin Luther King Jr. in his later years spoke less of a nationalized civil rights movement and spoke more towards a global fight for human rights. The need for an interconnected, global, and decentralized struggle for justice was captured in his Riverside Church Speech, delivered April 4, 1967:

Arts Competition Broadens Purview

or nearly three decades, young people across Tompkins County have participated in an arts competition intended to educate, advocate, and stimulate. Presented by the Office of Human Rights (OHR), this year’s competition has an adjusted theme from years past. The hope is that the competition will, in the words of Karen Baer, director of the OHR, “ provide a more meaningful and dynamic human rights experience for both K-12 students and teachers alike.” Formerly known as the “MLK Jr. Art and Poetry Competition,” this year’s theme invites young artists to reflect on the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, instead of MLK Jr. and the civil rights movement. Students will choose one or more of the articles and explore its meaning and relevance through a creative piece. As the orientation of OHR’s cornerstone program shifts, so too does the scope. New this year: the Dorothy Cotton Institute (DCI) joins the program as a cosponsor. A natural partnership, DCI is an Ithaca-based and internationally recognized resource center of human rights.

A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

Kirby Edmonds and Laura Ward Branca of the Dorothy Cotton Institute and Karen Baer and Sarah Simmons of the Office of Human Rights. (Photo Brian Arnold)

Having facilitated workshops for educators on how to integrate human rights education into their lesson plans, DCI is a crucial addition to the competition. As the theme expands in range and geographic scope, DCI brings experience working for a global justice movement, which coupled with OHR’s expertise in locally specific issues should make for a compelling and efficient team. In previous years, educators have organized lesson plans about civil rights and the civil rights movement around this competition, introducing icons such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks

through a creative project. This year shouldn’t be too different, save for the fact that the theme of civil rights will be expanded to a more general human rights framework—perhaps a point of contention for some in the community who see the change as a turning away from Martin Luther King Jr., a doubling back on the tradition upheld by the annual competition. Yet organizers of the competition believe it is better thought of as an ‘opening up,’ rather than a ‘turning away.’ “You can’t really exercise [your civil rights] if you’re hungry, if you don’t have

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An unbounded world community striving towards a future in common—this is the high ambition of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. When students are asked to interrogate the values nested in these 30 articles, they are being asked to look outside their window, to engage with the present moment as citizens, to express themselves with and through their immediate surroundings rather than a historical past. “The problem with anything that gets framed as being about Martin Luther King Jr.,” explained Kirby Edmonds, Senior Fellow at DCI, “is that many people understand it to be talking about historical

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ompkins County Administrator Joe Mareane presented his recommended $171 million county budget to the Tompkins County Legislature on Sept. 1. His budget would represent a 1.3 percent increase to the tax levy compared to the current year. “This is a major milestone in a long and thorough process that starts in March,” Mareane said. Mareane added that the recommended budget maintains current service levels and is still below the state’s 1.8 percent tax cap. During his budget presentation Mareane gave legislators a County Legislator Carol Chock mix of good news and bad news. While state mandate costs have decreased for the first time in memory and county unemployment is at pre-recession levels, local consumer spending is down 2.6 percent at mid-year. “That is a concerning trend,” he said. Along with an increase to the tax levy, the recommended budget also calls for a $4 increase to solid waste fees. “This budget has no reduction of service and maintains capital projects,” Mareane said. The legislature also voted 10-3, with Jim Dennis, Mike Sigler and Glenn Morey voting against, to request that New York State study health and environmental risks associated with large-scale new natural gas pipelines and compressor stations. Several members of the public appeared to speak out in favor of the resolution during the public comment portion of the meeting. The most heated debate of the night occurred during the legislators’ discussion of pipeline and compressor station resolution. While most of the legislature was in favor of the measure, Dennis questioned the facts associated with the risks of natural gas. Dennis prefaced his statements by saying he didn’t want to come across as someone dismissive of the facts, and ended them by saying, “the American Medical Association once recommended smoking.” The measure, recommended by the legislature’s Planning, Energy, and Environmental Quality Committee, supports the position taken in June by the AMA that promotes advocating for legislation to require studies to assess

the health risks of such natural gas infrastructure. Sigler meanwhile criticized the resolution as vague and toothless, arguing that just because the legislature is asking New York State to perform testing, it is under no obligation to do so and will most likely ignore the request. Among the public speakers were local physicians Drs. Rob Mackenzie and Adam Law, who both said they support a moratorium on the development of largeand small-scale natural gas pipelines or compressor stations until testing on the health effects is complete. Mackenzie, who was formerly the president and CEO of Cayuga Medical Center, noted he was speaking as a private citizen, and said it is undeniable

that natural gas is dangerous. The only question that remains is how dangerous. “And we need more testing to figure that out,” he said. While thanking those from the public who spoke in favor of the resolution, Legislator Carol Chock (D-Ithaca) stressed that the resolution only focuses on large-scale interstate pipelines and not smaller local pipeline projects. And while a moratorium was discussed in committee, proposed language was taken out before being presented to the entire legislature, county officials said. The legislature voted unanimously, with Kathy Luz Herrera (D-Ithaca) abstaining, for the county to forgo collection of 2014 property taxes for two parcels at 401 Lake Street (next to Ithaca

Falls) now owned by the City of Ithaca. The amount of taxes forgiven is not to exceed $5,400. The two parcels of land amount to about 0.7 acres, which includes a now vacant residential building. They are located near or adjacent to the Fall Creek gorge and other scenic areas. Legislators also voted to extend, for two more years, an added 1 percent sales tax for the county. According to county officials the tax has been reenacted every two years since the New York State Legislature required it starting in 1992. The added 1 percent sales tax is now in effect through the end of November 2017, when it will have to be reauthorized again. • — Benjamin

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factors, Heasley said, “It is especially helpful considering what we do as an offense. We put a lot of things in the quarterback’s hands.” I asked if Shafer came up through the ranks, studied the system and paid his dues, and Heasley replied, “Absolutely. Wolf is a student of the game, and he has been battling for the position since last year.” Shafer and John D’Onofrio, a 6’4” 215-pound senior, are both quality field generals, and both are continually working to refine their game and be ready to lead the team as needed. Heasley stated, “We have an open week coming up, and there will be a lot of competition. That is the fun part.” Coach Heasley is also looking forward to the challenge of rebuilding the offense after losing 14 starters, including the quarterback and four of the five offensive linemen. “We really were limited on how many guys really had any meaningful snaps before this year,” he said. “Right now, we’re all about molding our identity and building our Wolfgang Shafer on the field (second from left) (Photo: Ithaca College) chemistry.” So far, so good … Against Union in the opener, Shafer justified the coach’s decision to tap him College’s offense is the son of Syracuse as the starter, as he threw for 265 yards University’s head football coach meant and two touchdowns, while completing nothing. Wolfgang Shafer came into 75.6 percent of his passes (25 of 33). training camp as one of two guys fighting His parents were there to see their son’s for the position, and to paraphrase an collegiate debut, and after Syracuse’s 47-0 old investment advertisement, “He got thrashing of Rhode Island earlier in the the position the old-fashioned way … he weekend, it is safe to say that it was a fine earned it.” football weekend for the Shafer clan. I spoke to the Bombers’ fourth-year As the offensive coordinator, it was Offensive Coordinator Ryan Heasley, and also a banner day for Heasley as his upI brought up the Trump reference, asking and-coming troops put up an impressive the coach how much it mattered that 381 yards of offense, while converting 10 Shafer’s dad, Scott, coached the Orange. of 15 first downs against the Dutchmen. “People earn their way in this program,” He had high praise for many of his Heasley told me. “That’s what we’re all players, saying, “Brian Balsamo stepped about here. We have a long and proud up big time with five catches, Nick Vallo tradition.” had three, Josh Oliver had six and Kyle Shafer, a 6’1”, 175-pound junior, Hastings had five. We really spread the ball was an All-League player at Fayettevillearound.” Manlius, and while the fact that he grew The Bombers continued their run of up in a football-centric household did not guarantee him a starting position, it surely season-opening success, taking down host Union College 38-23 Saturday afternoon does have its advantages. Being a coach’s at Frank Bailey Field. Ithaca now has kid is, according to Heasley, “certainly won 18 openers in a row, and 35 in the an asset.” The coach added, “Wolf last 39 seasons, but had to step up and understands what it takes to be successful handle a late-game comeback effort by in terms of commitment, and in his case, Union for the second straight season. It becoming a coach is one of his life goals.” was the defense that sealed the deal, as That, the coach added, “Brings a level Malik Morris picked off a Union pass and of maturity, and that can be like having returned it 37 yards for a touchdown.  • another coach on the field.” Expanding on that convergence of f this were an “entertainment” column, and we were talking about Celebrity Apprentice, I might report that Eric Trump—by virtue of being Donald Trump’s son—stepped right into a “starting position.” Indeed, in that world, it’s whom you know. That is the way the ball bounces in the world of entertainment, but not at Ithaca College. This column is, however, a sports column, and when the local college football season got underway last weekend, the fact the guy running Ithaca

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laude Rosen graduated from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell last spring. While he was there he was one of the Johnson Board Fellows, graduate students who put their education to work by offering their services to regional not-for-profit organizations. Rosen worked with the Food Bank of the Southern Tier to improve the efficiency of their warehouse operations. Most board fellows have an interest in marketing and fundraising, so Rosen’s interest in operations and finance was a little unusual. They contacted Tim Currie, the chief operations officer (COO) of the food bank and brainstormed with him to identify a project. They developed a two-part plan: first they would review the existing processes in the warehouse, and then they would propose improvements. “We described what they were doing right,” said Rosen, “how the food came in and went out, how they received it, how they put it away, and how they picked orders from the warehouse supply and sent it to the soup kitchens.” Rosen and his classmate Vishal Bhalla from the business school shadowed employees and made recommendations to them. “The biggest piece that we found to improve upon,” said Rosen, “was that they didn’t use bar coding; they did everything manually. They kept records on paper that were then typed into a computer. It was just X case goes to X agency, and then they made a record of it.” A lot of food banks already use bar coding, Rosen said. “Our project became investigating that,” he said of available bar code systems. “We talked to other food banks about the challenges of various systems and collected anecdotes. What have they found that works? What brand of printer should we buy? What kind of labels?” In the end, they spoke with 10 other food banks. Bar coding was supposed to bring about several improvements. It makes it easier, Rosen pointed out, to check what you have physically and compare it with what you have in your system. Inevitably there is not a perfect match, but small discrepancies accumulate over time if the food bank doesn’t rectify the records regularly. The use of bar codes meant that fewer people could get more work done. This is important for organizations with tight budgets and small staffs. Finally, it is easy to access your database. “You can calculate costs per hour and costs per pound,” said Rosen, “and if you need to pull [data] together from several locations, you can.” The final analysis included the calculation of the payback period: what is the cost of purchasing and installing the system versus the amount of money saved? The Food Bank of the Southern Tier ended up spending $45,000 and the resulting efficiencies led to a payback period

of only a year and a half, which, Rosen noted is something that you can tell those who donate funds. The Food Bank of the Southern Tier is relatively small: they move 8 to 9 million pounds of food per year. Their staff is tiny, so the expenditure made sense for them, said Rosen. Rosen and his classmate began their project last fall (September 2014). “It morphed a few times,” he said, “but we honed in on the bar code system after winter break. The first semester was more devoted to observing their processes.” In December 2014 the food bank hired a warehouse manager to oversee logistics. Bhalla had a background in finance when he started business school. He is a first-generation American, and his parents had managed a food bank in India. Rosen’s route into business school was more off-beat than Bhalla’s. As an undergraduate he was training to be a concert pianist, but he got involved with working for non-profits and ended up focusing on their operations. “I was pursuing music after college,” he

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hanks to sharp-eyed lake scientist Lisa Cleckner of the Finger Lakes Institute, a Water Chestnut plant was spotted in mid-August floating on Cayuga Lake just south of Canoga Marsh on the lake’s northwest shoreline. The Seneca County Soil and Water Conservation District’s aquatic plant harvesting team scouted the area and located

an infestation east of Canoga Marsh approximately ½ acre in size. This area was mechanically harvested, with the plants removed from the lake. Conservation District Manager Jim Malyj reported that seeds (commonly referred to as nuts) were removed before they had reached maturity, preventing them from becoming viable seeds which would grow next summer. On August 26, Malyj’s team expanded the search, covering the shoreline from Cayuga Lake State Park to the Red Jacket Yacht Club. They found and collected a few more plants, went north to the outlet, under the railroad bridge and into the area west of the Village of Cayuga. Although the shallow water is vulnerable to the establishment of Water Chestnut, they found

none there at this time. The Finger Lakes Institute asks the public to look for and report Water Chestnut infestations in shallow, still waters of the lake and adjoining creeks, and report sightings to Jim Malyj, Hilary Lambert, or Hilary Mosher (contact information below). Infestations can be removed via machine or by hand if they are caught early when the floating patch is small. Water Chestnut is a problem because the dense growth of water chestnut can effectively choke a waterbody, making boating, fishing and swimming nearly impossible. This weed also shades out native aquatic plants and offers little value to wildlife. The seeds have sharp spines that can inflict puncture wounds.

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things, and a certain kind of history, it’s something that happened before ... Shifting to a human rights framework says, ‘We’re not talking about a history here. We’re talking about right now’ ... It changes the trajectory of the thinking that people are doing as they engage with the contest.” The contest has always been significant for educators and students throughout the county, but the lessons sought after this year will shed light on the ethics of civic practices for the here and now, not the memory of important yet historic figures. As the stakes are raised, we are left with the question: why art? Sarah C. Simmons, Program and Outreach Specialist at OHR, offered insight into how creating art can help young people integrate thinking with feeling: “The opportunity to use your cognitive and affective abilities, and develop those together creates new knowledge in a different way ... and the creative process can help us, no matter what age we are, to feel in action that we are making the moment that we’re in, that we have that agency.” • Entries may include visual art, poetry, or a short film (a new category this year) and are currently being accepted until Nov. 20. Winners will be announced Dec. 3. See tompkinscountyny.gov/humanrights for more information. — Ru dy

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Mary Ann Bowman in her studio on the Greater Ithaca Art Trail (Photo Brian Arnold)

Forty-two studios open on two weekends in September and by appointment all year long By Arthur Whitman

or those with a yen for the visual arts, the Greater Ithaca Art Trail is something of an autumn rite. As the weather turns cooler and the foliage changes color, the studios of numerous Tompkins County artists and craftspeople open to accept visitors. Taking place during two weekends in October, the event is free of charge to the public. Visitors can drive across scenic country roads or concentrate on site clusters in Ellis Hollow, Trumansburg, and other locations. The roster of artists changes annually with many artists coming back year after year. This year’s listing includes 42 sites (some featuring two artists) and will take place on Sept. 10 and 11 and Sept. 17 and 18. This year—a first—five artists will not be open during these weekends. According to program administrator Robin Schwartz, the goal was to make the trail accessible to artists who might not be available in October. The art trail dates back to 1999, the brainchild of four local makers: photographer Andrew Gillis, jeweler

Micky Roof, and sculptors Bill Hastings and Deborah Jones. The four were concerned about the difficulty in tracking down the area’s richly reputed creative talent, and they spent a few years researching and organizing before the event was finally launched. According to Schwartz, “their original intention … was that visitors be able to experience artists in their home turf—their studio—and be able to see them make their art. And they wanted artists to be able to connect with visitors that were coming into town.” Most of the artists work on their own property, explained Schwartz. She cited successful husband and wife photographers Dede Hatch and Jon Reis as exceptions—both maintain separate workspaces. Schwartz co-directs the Community Arts Partnership (Tompkins County’s arts council) and has administered the program since 2002. The event is largely funded by fees collected from the artists, with additional sponsorship provided by local businesses and arts organizations. According to Schwartz, the nature of the program has stayed constant

since its inception but the response has evolved. “It hasn’t changed,” she said. “One thing that has changed is the public’s perception of what an art trail is.” In 1999, the pioneering local organization was able to claim the URL www.artrail.com. “Now there’s art trails all over the world,” Schwartz explained, citing programs around New York State and Pennsylvania and as far away as Australia. According to her, sales figures go up every year. The art trail is also open year around by appointment. (You can contact the artists directly; see information at the bottom.) A recent innovation is the monthly “First Saturday” events in which a small rotating group of artists open their studios on the first weekend of every month. Another long-standing tradition is the yearly “Art Trail Show” at the State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca’s fine arts cooperative gallery. This year’s exhibit will take place from Sept. 30 through Nov. 1 with a First Friday reception on Oct. 2. (See their website soag.org/ for more details.) The event is an excellent way of previewing the range of artists that the T

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Classical Autumn features 20th century composers By Jane Dieckmann

he classical music scene this fall is bright with a varied array of modern music, and an inspiring number of collaborations in performance between our two leading academic institutions. Moreover, this season marks several anniversaries. Both the Ithaca

Community Chorus and the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble are celebrating 40 years of performances. The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra (CCO) will be led by the four final candidates for the position of new music director—the chosen conductor will take

on that ensemble’s 40th season starting next fall. And both Cornell University and Ithaca College have scheduled special programs to commemorate the death of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin 100 years ago (see “Special Events” below). Here are highlights, and be sure to check dates and venues closer to concert times, as schedules do change.

Orchestral and Ensemble Presentations

The CCO starts off the orchestra season in Ford Hall on Sept. 19 with conductor candidate Mariusz Smolij, who opens the program (as will the other three candidates) with a favorite piece of his choosing, followed by Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony and Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto with Cornell pianist

Xak Bjerken as soloist. On Nov. 21, candidate #2, Brandon Keith Brown, will conduct Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, K. 622, with CCO’s principal Michael Galván as soloist, and Symphony No. 39. The IC Symphony Orchestra’s first concert, on Oct. 2, with conductor Jeffery Meyer, presents Mathew Blum’s Sharpshooter (2013), Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer” sung by IC bass Marc Webster, and Tchaikovsky’s fifth symphony. On Nov. 15 the orchestra, with Meyer conducting, performs Pulitzer prizewinner Steven Stucky’s Radical Light (2007) and the Brahms Symphony No. 2. Stucky, formerly on the Cornell faculty and this year’s Visiting Husa Professor of Composition at IC, will give a preconcert talk. The Cornell Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, conducted by Chris Younghoon Kim, present a concert in Bailey Hall on Oct. 3, featuring Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony, Beethoven’s Leonore Overture no. 3, and works by Eli Marshall and Kenneth Froelich. The Chamber Orchestra’s second concert, on Nov. 14 in Barnes Hall, features violinists Ariana Kim from Cornell and IC’s Susan Waterbury performing Corelli’s Concerto grosso, op. 6, no. 4, plus music by Schubert and Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann. The Cornell Symphony Orchestra under Kim will play Samuel Barber’s Essay for Orchestra and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade on Nov. 21 in Bailey Hall. Going back to Ford Hall, on Oct. 6

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Meyer leads the IC Chamber 15, and works by Clarke and Griffes Orchestra in a concert that on Dec. 20. introduces two new faculty Our special early music group, members—violinist Calvin New York State Baroque, offers Wiersma and violist David three fall chamber concerts in the Quiggle (who performed in Unitarian Church. The opening Mayfest this year)—playing program on Sept. 25, “French Café,” Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante presents troubadour melodies, (K. 364), and includes dance tunes, and courtly love songs Stravinsky’s chamber concerto from medieval and Renaissance Dumbarton Oaks. The orchestra’s France and features countertenor second major concert under José Lemos. Concert II, “Harmony Meyer on Dec. 5 features popular of the Spheres” on Nov. 6, will have performers Gilbert Kalish and popular soprano Laura Heimes Cornell’s Miri Yampolsky in singing about the arts of music Mozart’s Concerto for Two and astronomy, accompanied by Pianos (K. 365), plus Beethoven’s viol and two lutes. On Dec. 4 (an Richard Faria, founding member of Ensemble X, IC faculty member, and fervent Leonore Overture no. 3, and unusual Friday evening concert) booster of new music. (Photo: Brian Arnold) Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony. eminent fortepianist Kristian For a major example Bezuidenhout performs quintets of collegiate collaboration, of Mozart and Beethoven with the Theatre on Dec. 5, featuring works by on Oct. 30 Ensemble X, directed by Cambini Winds period instruments group. Bizet, Saint-Saëns, and Rimsky-Korsakov. Bjerken, presents ICU Sound Works in The Shirley and Chas Hockett an inaugural concert performed by both Chamber Music Concert Series presents Cornell and IC faculty and students, plus the famed Emerson String Quartet in The Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble their faculty conductors. On the program Ford Hall on Sept. 29, playing music of has a rich schedule this fall. Their first will be Stravinsky’s Octet for winds, Decet Beethoven, Bartok, and Brahms. concert, at the Lodi Historical Society, is by Cornell grad student Can Bilir, and The CCO’s chamber series in the all Brahms on Sept. 20, with four guest Vaporized Tivoli by Anders Hillborg, Unitarian Church has scheduled a modern artists including mezzo Ivy Walz, while conducted by Kim, while Meyer leads piece for each concert in honor of Percy the second at Ithaca’s Unitarian Church Nazareno by Argentinian composer Browning, the first being by Piazzolla, on Jan. 10 is all Schumann and features Osvaldo Golijov, arranged for two pianos which, along with music of Ibert and old friends to Ithaca—former IC violinist and orchestra, with pianists Karl Paulnack, Nicholas DiEugenio, and baritone Schumann, will be performed on Oct. 18. who also is an IC dean, and Bjerken, who Timothy LeFebvre who sings the beautiful The second concert on Nov. 8 presents says there will be “tons of percussion.” The Dichterliebe song cycle. The three home Bartók and Smetana, along with the Ithaca Community Orchestra, made up of new Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano Salons, at 103 First Street, feature all about 40 musicians under music director by award-winning composer Robert Brahms (mainly piano music) on Oct. 18, James Mick and assistant conductor Travis music by Vieuxtemps and Liszt on Nov. Paterson, a commission by Browning and Carpenter, gives a concert at the Hangar CCO violinist Kirsten Marshall, who will

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play the work. The Cornell Concert Series presents British cellist and author Steven Isserlis and renowned fortepianist Robert Levin in Barnes Hall on Oct. 27, performing Beethoven sonatas and variation sets for cello and keyboard. The Louis K. Thaler Concert Violinist Series offers music of Busoni and Prokofiev played by violinist Mark Steinberg with pianist Marija Stroke, at Ford Hall on Oct. 29. Also on that date, Cornell’s Yampolsky will perform with brothers Abel and Arnau Tomàs, violinist and cellist with the Casals Quartet (the stars of the first Mayfest), and IC violist Quiggle in music by Bach, Brahms, and Schumann. On Nov. 6 the Cornell Concert Series brings famed pianist Emanuel Ax to Bailey Hall in music by C. P. E. Bach, Dussek, and Beethoven, the “Pathétique” and “Appassionata” sonatas. Pianist Bjerken plays a solo recital at Barnes on Nov. 8, which includes music of Haydn, Debussy, Scriabin, Kurtág, and the East Coast premiere of Stucky’s piano sonata. He returns to Barnes on Nov. 15 with cellist Steven Doane from Eastman in works by Beethoven, Janácek, Martinu, and Bach. On Nov. 23 Cornell DMA and second-place winner in the 2011 Westfield Fortepiano Competition Mike Cheng-Yu Lee will play Beethoven, Schubert, and Schumann on the Regier-Graf fortepiano in Barnes. Also in Barnes, on December 2, a program of early piano trios, including continued on page xx

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or newcomers or any Ithacan wandering downtown, did you notice how new public artwork sprung up mid-summer? Maybe you were wandering near the Green Street parking garage and noticed a huge rock in a confoundingly familiar shape, or you checked out a new sculpture blooming in front of the Tompkins County Public Library. Maybe you wandered into Bank Alley for a coffee, but were distracted by colorful works hanging against the brick walls. Or you passed the Ithaca Times building at night and stopped to watch the new light installation, curious about what it was. These pieces, along with a handful of others, are all a part of the 2015 outdoor public art exhibit, Art in the Heart, commissioned yearly by the Downtown Ithaca Alliance and amazingly already in its 16th season. Public art, in certain respects, is different from works meant to be exhibited indoors, as pieces tend to be larger in scale, graciously approachable, and functioning as a means for community unity and engagement. The artworks in the exhibition are for everyone, there to trigger the curiosity of passers-by of any age. They are gifts from the artists to us, the community, to enjoy. There are nine new works by nine different artists in this year’s show, all on display until the beginning of November, and what excites me most about this incarnation of Art in the Heart is the impressive array of media and colorful variety of the works included. Each artist is unique in his or her vision, and each artwork functions within its environment

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Bay Alley, which juxtaposes prints of animals with constellations, all in deeply engaging dialogue. Mary Beth Ihnken’s hard-to-miss Which Came First—the Chicken or the Egg? is hung in the alleyway beside City Hall. The paintings, one of a large-scale chicken beside a smaller painting of a (large) egg, were inspired by Ihnken’s own chicken and memories of the countryside in contrast to urban downtown. Valentine by Rob Licht, a large cement sculpture of a valentine heart, exploring the symbol’s history and cultural ubiquity, as the piece resides coyly in a flowerbed next to the city hall parking lot. Klaus Pinter’s Untitled piece may be easy to miss. A simple box living in the alleyway between Cinemapolis and Maté Factor, participants are free to take a sheet of paper and follow Pinter’s instructions to create sculptures of their own. Lastly, deserving special mention in the exhibition due to its ingenuity and utter interactivity, is Mark Zifchock’s Sequential Environment. A bar of lights visible at night, the overlapping purple circles react to the environment around them, changing colors and speed as you walk past. The coolness of the shades transforms into bright and cheerful pinks, oranges, and yellows, reacting to your movement and body, joyous and beautiful. The piece makes you aware of yourself and your relationship to the artwork, to your surroundings as a whole. §

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he Kitchen Theatre hits the silver milestone this year: their 25th season. That’s no small achievement for an artistic institution. “It’s amazing,” Artistic Director Rachel Lampert said. “It’s amazing because of how hard it is for any theater to survive, and it’s amazing in such a small town. I know we think we’re such a

metropolitan center—everyone’s so smart and bright and urbane and everything— but it’s a very small community. So it’s amazing.” The Kitchen began in the old Ithaca Theatre, which had been converted by Tsvi Bokaer into a performance space, with a stunning all Ithaca College student production of Sam Shepard’s Buried

Child. Artistic Director Matt Tauber was unable to get the IC theatre department to let him stage the play, so he dropped out and founded his own theater with IC BFA Actor Tim O’Brien. (They were later joined by a small ensemble including IC BFAs Sarah K. Chalmers [now of Civic Ensemble] and Danny McCarthy. The theater was named for innumerable dreams made at their kitchen table.] They went on to produce a season through that summer, and a second season highlighted by The Gingham Dog and Cloud 9 before getting too behind on the rent. Season 3 began with a move into the Clinton House, just being renovated. “I saw [a] production…under Matt, which was Danny and the Deep Blue Sea… just after they moved …” remembered Lampert. “There was plastic on the walls

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and the door to get in, and folding chairs, and David [Squires, her husband] said, ‘You can come live here, look at this production,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, but look there are two people on stage and five people in the audience, but yes the art is really good.’”

Under Matt, the fare was young, straight male and generally “in yer face.” One exception was a gorgeous production of Fugard’s The Road to Mecca, starring a luminous Laverne Light, Susannah Berryman, and Earl McCarroll, directed by IC faculty Norm Johnson. Johnson took over the reigns for seasons 4 to 6; his tenure involved greater theatricality, the addition of queer plays, and plays by African-Americans. He was generous in nurturing young directors, especially Joe Calarco and Jesse Bush. With managing director Rachel Hogencamp, Johnson also managed to retire accumulated debts. Rachel Lampert was choreographing and directing at the Hangar (under Robert Moss) then, and had acted in a couple of Kitchen shows. Having seen a dancetheater piece of her (“E-ghosts”), Norm asked her to pen a show for the next season, a season Rachel would end up inheriting as the third artistic director. That summer Rachel traveled to China to choreograph the first production there of West Side Story. Her hilarious and moving story became the basis of her play, The Soup Comes Last, which will be reprised this December. “I had been offered the job before I went to China, and then I spent a lot of time in China worried about taking it .… My partner in China, Joanne, was completely against my taking the job at the Kitchen. She just said, ‘Why would you lock yourself up in Ithaca, New York, making it your whole career? You know what it is to be an artistic director, it’s a killer. It’s like running a restaurant. You have a chance to be somebody. You’re not going to be anybody if you go there and do that …’ She just thought I was insane. First of all insane for even moving to Ithaca, New York, but then to think I would put

down those kinds of roots. But it was really that trip to China that made taking on the Kitchen seem okay.” Lampert’s dance background led to several ensemble shows over the years featuring movement, while also featuring contemporary plays and generally one classic per year. Every couple years would come an original musical or adaptation, as well as a Family Fare series (some cowritten with the Kitchen’s Assoc. Producer, Lesley Greene.) Three years in, Lampert also started engaging solo performance artists, in what came to be the Counter Culture series. In addition to dance and music, she was determined to increase the number of women directors, bringing in Sara Lampert Hoover, Michelle Minnick, Barb Geary and Wendy Dann to direct early on (Minnick was back the last two seasons, and Hoover and Dann return this season.) Margarett Perry has served as resident director for the past few years while continuing her freelance career and her work with New York City’s Lark Play Development Center. Most recently Emily Jackman jumped from intern to staff and director. This is telling when the national conversation is about the lack of gender diversity in both writers and directors being produced. “It’s become so clear to me that women directors have a much harder time getting jobs. Still. It doesn’t make much sense to me; I don’t get it. So I think it is one little area I have some control in, so why not make more opportunities for women?” Lampert said. Of the seven plays next season, four are by women, and all will be helmed by women directors (as is the case this season.) They’ve won a passel of awards: London’s Olivier Award for Best New Play (The Mountaintop), the 2014 Steinberg/ ATCA New Play Award (awarded by the American Theatre Critics Association for the best play premiered outside of NYC, to I and You); a Lucille Lortel award for best

Kitchen Theatre Artistic Director Rachel Lampert and Managing Director Stephen Nunley. (Photo: Brian Arnold)

Off-Broadway solo show (Buyer & Cellar; an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award (Grand Concourse); and a passel of Tonys, Obies and Drama Desk nominations and awards for the creators and performers of Peter and the Starcatcher. This week, Buyer & Cellar opens. “We’re bringing back Wendy [Dann] and Karl [Gregory],” said Lampert. “Wendy brought Karl to the Kitchen with The Cripple of Inishman. They haven’t worked together since then [at the Kitchen]. … Karl is by far the most popular actor we’ve

had at the Kitchen. And it’s his 25th show with us!” With Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, about an imagined meeting between Martin Luther King, Jr. and a “mysterious” hotel maid on the night before his assassination, the Kitchen is bringing in a new team, headed by Nicole A. Watson, who helmed Darian Dauchan’s last two solo shows at the Kitchen (Oct. 11-25). “I think it’s just a gorgeous play,” said Lampert. “And it challenges us to take responsibility for bringing forward the

agenda … The play is about what is the hope.” Lauren Gunderson’s I and You, “an ode to youth, life, love, and the strange beauty of human connectedness” which brings high school basketball star together with a homebound girl over a school assignment on Walt Whitman. “A very sweet play…it’s in a wonderful teenage vernacular.”(Nov 8–22) Then there’s The Soup Comes Last. “Putting Soup on for the 25th anniversary season makes a little bit of sense, you now, it was built for the Kitchen Theatre, it was written for the Kitchen Theatre, it’s about me becoming the artistic director of the Kitchen Theatre, and we haven’t done it for a while,” said Lampert, adding that “the actress is very cheap and so are the royalties.” Peter and the Starcatcher warms up February. This theatrical tour-de-force, about the early beginnings of Peter Pan, requires a cast of one dozen actors playing nearly 100 characters. The Lampert sisters will co-direct. It’s a chance to do a large ensemble play, which she misses, “and it’s the quintessential story about finding home .… And the theatre will get used in a whole new way.” In Dancing Lessons a Broadway dancer who is sidelined by a leg injury and a scientist with Asperger’s come together for some lessons. This will be coproduction with Geva in Rochester. Wrapping up the season is Grand Concourse by Heidi Schreck, and directed by Perry. Shelly is a nun running a soup kitchen who finds her match in Emma, a young drop-out. “It’s about faith, optimism, forgiveness, and a soup kitchen. So we have this wonderful tactile thing … We’re going to smell it … it’s a very kind of super-real (play) which is a nice contrast to Peter and the Starcatcher.” §

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The Cornell Glee Club, directed by Robert Isaacs, presents the annual Bailey Hall homecoming concert on Sept. 19, featuring the premiere of Jens Klimek’s Outstare the Stars along with a selection of songs, motets, spirituals, plus a reunion performance by singers from the 1966 Glee Club tour to East Asia, conducted again by Thomas A. Sokol. On Oct. 8 in Bailey Hall the Grammy-winning octet from New York, Roomful of Teeth, offers a program that merges traditional classical singing with diverse vocal techniques from all over the world. The four IC choruses, led by Janet Galván and Derrick Fox, present Choral Collage on Oct. 10 in Ford Hall, with special programs of music ranging from Renaissance to contemporary, including one devoted to Brahms. The Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, led by Carl Johengen, gives a concert on Oct. 25 called “Musicians’ Choice,” a diverse program of favorite choral music from the group’s long performance history. On Dec. 6 they will sing some of the music featured on their first

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performance as the A Cappella Chamber Choir, 40 years ago. Both concerts are in the First Presbyterian Church. The Cornell Chorus, conducted by Isaacs, will give a Twilight Concert on Oct. 31 in Bailey Hall. On Nov. 21 in Barnes is the concert of the Cornell Chamber Singers under Isaacs and assistant choral director Stephen Spinelli, who will direct the Cornell Chorale in their concert in Sage Chapel on Dec. 4. The IC choruses present their Winter Choral Concert at Ford Hall on Dec. 6, featuring music by Dan Elder and Dominick DiOrio. The Ithaca Community Chorus, celebrating its 40th season, performs Rachmaninoff ’s All-Night Vigil (the Vespers) under the direction of Gerald Wolfe on Jan. 16 in St.

Paul’s Methodist Church, a work that the chorus performed in Russia in 1994. The Chamber Singers will present the Stabat Mater by Russian-British composer Alissa Firsova.

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To commemorate the Scriabin 100th anniversary, IC piano students will perform the Russian composer’s music in two programs in the Hockett Recital Hall on Sept. 11 and 25. Cornell’s Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies sponsors three concerts in Barnes Hall for the Scriabin centenary. The complete piano sonatas will be played on two parts, on Oct. 22 and 24, by Bjerken, Yampolsky, and three grad students—Becky Lu, Ryan McCullough, and Andrew Zhou—along with IC pianist Dmitri Novgorodsky. On Oct. 25, guest pianist Stanislav Ioudenitch, Gold Medalist at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, will play music more Scriabin, plus Chopin and Rachmaninoff. The Atkinson Forum in American Studies for 2015 presents “Son Jarocho and the Mexican-American Imagination” on Oct. 16 and 17 in Lincoln B20 and Sage Chapel at Cornell. The programs include music for baroque guitar played by the Tembembe Ensamble Continuo, a workshop with the ensemble, an academic session and roundtable on Son Jarocho—a style combining Spanish and Mexican elements—and a “Fandango!” jam session. All these special events are free and open to the public. §

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t’s usually a bad idea to equate a serious visual artist’s artistic style with their personality. Traditional forms such as painting and sculpture tend to be private affairs and a distinctive personal approach is not something easily come by. But in the case of local painters Barbara Mink and Stephan Phillips, the analogy is difficult to resist. Mink is a Senior Lecturer at Cornell’s Johnson Graduate School of Management and has long been a public figure in local politics, journalism, and culture. Her exuberant abstract expressionism continuously evolves, incorporating new techniques and imagery. Phillips’ austere, tonally nuanced still lifes recall the twentieth century Italian master Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964). Synthesizing traditional and modern approaches to the genre, Morandi composed exquisite little worlds from mundane objects—bottles, vases, and suchlike—their identities often obscured towards abstraction. But Phillips brings his own slant to the Morandian tradition, informed by his history as a narrative painter of religious scenes and quirkiness superficially at odds with the conservative-seeming technique. This September at the State of the Art Gallery, “Drawing Space” pairs the two sui generis artists, both cooperative members. (The show runs from Sept. 2 through 27.) I spoke with Phillips recently about his work and his trajectory as an artist. Like his paintings, he is soft-spoken and earnest but with a streak of wry humor animating the proceedings. Phillips studied at Syracuse University for a few years, where he learned art history. Between 1994 and 1998, he studied at the Cornish College of Art in Seattle, where he earned a BFA. “I wanted volume and space and light,”

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Barbara Mink’s Past is Present (Photo Provided)

he said of his interest in traditional observational art. But “the painting teachers there couldn’t have taught you if they wanted to.” He painted Biblical subjects in what he described as a half-abstract, half-traditional approach of his of his own devising—something that made him a misfit among his peers. “I continued to do that after school for a few years,” he recalled. “And that just sort of ground to a halt, and I just couldn’t go on.” Around 2003, “I made my first still-life painting, which was just a colander full of apples.” A distinctly private individual, working from imagination and from the observation of objects represent the two poles of his work—with the latter his forte. “I was never comfortable working from the figure,” he admitted. “I didn’t want a person in there with me. I wanted to do it by myself.” According to him, his work has become less literal in its depiction. “For me it’s all about getting the correct tone and color and drawing all working together—that you believe in the space, that you believe in what you’re seeing.” He manipulates color to get the atmosphere he wants—for example in his still life of a crumpled U.S. Flag, with its strong but tamped down color. Phillips is adamant about the deeply meaningful quality of artifacts and the relationships that they enact. “I liked objects that had some sort of content to them,” he recalled. “But I also had to work to dismantle any story that started to creep in. Phillips is interested in evoking the quiddity of objects—a sense of inner life beyond everyday use and traditional iconography. As we discussed, he seeks to build a cosmology, one both private and sharable. “My voice is archaic,” he writes in a statement. “It does not recognize T

the gloss and distraction of modern life. It looks to find itself in the being-ness of things and the presence of light.” He is enthusiastic about showing with Mink. “It always looked to me like my painting could have emerged from her paintings somehow,” he suggested, pointing out his Palette and Brushes, with it’s hints of strong color. Although Mink s work is generally more “colorful,” she is skilled in incorporating areas of black-and-white and muted color that give her work additional complexity. Phillips’ work here dates from the last five years, an indication of the pace at which he works. The most striking development from this year is his substitution of his own constructions for found objects. Built of wire and papier-mâché, they bring a renewed sense of strangeness to a handful of pieces here. Among these, Relic stands out, both for its exquisite painterly touch and for the oddity of its central subject. The scene is rendered entirely in pale browns and off-white. The background space is a sequence of flatly painted horizontal bands with the grayish band in the center, which reads as a tabletop. On it sits a pale, skull-like thing—elongated and covered in round holes. To the left, it rests on a small fold of cloth. Echoing the fabric is a similarly shaped shadow—cast sharply right, as are most of Phillips’s shadows. Skulls are something of a cliché in still life, traditionally alluding to mortality in vanitas paintings. Phillips himself has used the image before, and he includes one here in Horse Skull with Open Book. The anatomical fussiness seems bland compared to the otherworldly presence of his handmade “relic.” Hubris (Glee) and Green Snake center on continued on page 28 h e

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the addition of vocal tracks might have he Stonecat Café (5315 State Route 414) in Hector is a delightful place to caused. For Benevento, who has thrived as an instrumentalist on his previous albums, eat dinner. Food is locally sourced, vocals are a new territory. and the beer, wine, and inventive spirits Nevertheless, his latest appears to be taste all the better as you gaze out on the the next compositional peak of his art. beautiful vistas overlooking Seneca Lake. Lyric-driven tracks like “At the Show” and Either on the breezy outdoor terrace lit by “One and One is Two” showcase a new strings of soft mood lighting or inside the territory, where arrangements rein in the cozy dining hall, you’ll find a decorous yet intensity of improvisations for slightly comforting atmosphere. To me, the finest Stonecat dining experience requires you arrive on one of the few nights of live music around 7:30 p.m. or so (reservations are encouraged). Find a seat by a window and enjoy your drink slowly and savor the artfully prepared cuisine. Catch the fading flames of a glorious sunset, and around 9:30 p.m., turn your gaze to the restaurant floor and watch as the dining room transforms into an intimate music venue. Marco Benevento with Friend (Photo Provided) This Saturday (Sept. 12) Stonecat-legend Marco Benevento will play at the more discipline that uncover Benevento’s middle-of-nowhere café yet again, for the ability to pull us away from the deep third year in a row. contemplation of his jams and invite us to Invited by Stonecat general manager Kyle Barnhart in 2013, Benevento played an stop thinking and just dance. Swift maintains the layered soundscape epic 5-hour two-set show in little ol’ Hector. that represents the Benevento name, yet Replete with a first set of virtuoso piano repeated chord progressions and drumlines playing and a second-set of looping pedals, give the body a predictability to step around samples, and distortions from another dimension, the show must have been a blast and jump through. After graduating from the Berklee for Benevento, who asked to return the College of Music in Boston, Benevento following year. made the move to Brooklyn and became Last year, an absolutely packed house exposed to the musical medley that is Kings welcomed back Benevento, who arrived County. From jazz to funk to rock to hipwith his two bandmates — bassist Dave hop, Brooklyn hosted a potpourri of people Dreiwitz (Ween) and drummer Andrew immersed in music of all types. Benevento Borger (Tom Waits and Norah Jones). got to know the hodgepodge well, Crowded and cramped, people hung on connecting with musicians across genres, windows just to catch a glimpse through learning and improvising and ultimately the horde of stacked sardines. flourishing as a pianist who knew no limits. Of course the show sold out, as it will A decade later after commercial and this year. creative success, Benevento migrated to A brilliant musician, Benevento has Woodstock, New York and has blossomed earned universal recognition as a pioneer into a world-class instrumentalist and whose dexterity on the piano and expertise the leading alchemist of sound. Delays, in electronic manipulation of sound has distortions, and loops are his tools, transformed what’s sonically imaginable. manifesting order out of the chaos of His music: indie-rock meets jazz peppered endless electronic modulation. with textured jams. Upstate New York is lucky to be the The trio promises to excite. place Benevento calls home, and we’re They rocked the festival circuit this even luckier to have Stonecat Cafe — the year—New Orleans Jazz Fest, Electric hideaway venue Benevento yearns to return Forest, High Sierra, and our local to year after year. Grassroots—and played packed shows Doors open at 9 p.m. Get tickets at at Brooklyn Bowl and the 1up (Denver). stonecatcafe.com/music • They’ve had time since their latest release Swift (2014) to work out any kinks that

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nature. You make it up on your own. I asked Barnes if his music was visual. “The music isn’t an abstract concept; it happens organically. I’m not really thinking about concepts or particularly visual concepts; it happens magically and organically. It is the spirit of the moment; the music is an unconscious decision.”

This sounds like the result of building up a strong system; it works automatically. All artists reach certain levels of automation, able to sift through ideas like a computer. Of Montreal is clicking on all cylinders right now. Barnes is writing his strongest material yet, and the results are impressive. •

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton “Mostly I write everything, lyrics, tempos, chord progressions,” he said. “Lately I’ve felt the band is coming up with more energetic music. Beenet (Lewis) and Jojo rtists live in the flux of the creative (Glidewell) have been contributing a lot process. Oceans of endless ideas more material than members in the past.” and visions hover above their I asked Barnes about the material heads, as they endlessly search for the and the process of the new album. “All fighting will to create. Pulling from what the album’s material is from the last six they recognize as true and necessary, they months, it was recorded quickly, and shape a world neither here nor there. mixed in three weeks. For the most part For Kevin Barnes, the lead singer making music is habitual, we’re always and guitarist of the psychedelic pop coming up with new songs.” band, Of Montreal, his world is very The alternating meditations on defiantly not of this time. When I asked sound on the album signal the working him if he found inspiration from any mind of an artist with a diverse appetite, contemporary music, he replied, “We one with a driven desire to sculpt his have no modern influences. We try to be anachronistic. We search inspiration from environment, ever changing as it may be. non-contemporary things. We try to make Of Montreal may echo the past, but they remain dynamic participants in the present. There are direct clues to this present moment, and they lie in Barnes’ lyrical expression, which is perhaps the band’s greatest weapon. “I’m always reading; there are many authors and poets that are influences. I like the poetry of Dylan Thomas, Jean Genet, and Sylvia Plath, of Montreal (Photo Provided) among others. Whatever I’m reading at the time is usually an influence.” Behind the vehicle music that’s not of this time, and are very much a band that is not in its correct time of a moving rock-and-roll band, Barnes gets to play poet, and relationships are and place.” at the forefront, particularly in the latest Of Montreal’s latest album Aureate record. There is a hurt and dark retaliation Gloom, released in March 2015, is a in the new songs. “On the new album a striking time capsule containing varying styles of form. Echoing glam, psychedelic, lot of the songs are about relationships. It’s basically like an open diary. The process is funk, mid-career Beatles, Ziggy Stardusttherapeutic,” Barnes said. era Bowie, and proto-punk, the album An expandable artist works with builds creatively structured pop songs everything at his disposal while sculpting that weave through deviating tempos his vision. Process builds skill, and in and moods. “My musical influences are a turn, builds strong architecture. Of combination of everything: Funkadelic, T-Rex, Velvet Underground, a lot of stuff,” Montreal has acquired exceptional drafting skills over 13 albums, being able Barnes said. The band is especially prolific, putting to create songs that stack, curve, and top onto one another in a geometrically out 13 full-length albums since 1997. organic way. The results are strong; the All the albums vary in sound, structure, dynamics are modern, and the approach is composition, and feeling, and the latest is antiquated. The process is unique. perhaps the strongest and most complete. The building of such a process is The familiarity with some key members completely up to the artist. That is, the who joined the band in 2013 and Barnes’ method to finalization is existential in ever-changing vision is the likely culprit.

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We see towering, squared-off bluffs have written before of the work of the (looking like the rock formations of the award-winning, Pennsylvania-based American Southwest with red-and-orange artist, Patricia Young. And she has a new show at the Titus Gallery—of entirely sandstone modeled with sub-tones of violet) under a bright, luminous blue new work. summer sky, and foaming blue-and-white It is a wonderful show. Altogether waves rolling in from the sea. there are 21 paintings in the exhibit. Ligonier, Onion Snow: This is an There are eight film frame-shaped extraordinarily lovely painting. And, oil paintings from Martha’s Vineyard. being a pastel, is totally different They are displayed together, where they stylistically. This is a farm landscape in function like a single installation. To rural Pennsylvania in late April. (The describe my favorites: title, Onion Snow, refers to the last snow Morning Surf, Martha’s Vineyard: We flurries of the season … before the onions see blue-and-foamy white ocean waves are planted.) rolling in at us, under a violet-and-blue We see trees, newly plowed fields, sky with pale yellow-and-orange light distant houses and hills … all enveloped descending through the clouds, and luminous light reflected on the water. Old Oak, Chilmark: This is a wide shot of a big, bulbous, green oak in an October field. We see a distant bay and distant tawny hills under a magnificent blue-and-violet sky. The colors in the field are luminous orange and green and russet red. And the execution (the colors floating like mist) reminds me of the great American illustrator Patricia Young’s Moshuo Dunes, Martha’s Vineyard (Photo Provided) Frank Frazetta. Will’s Sunrise, Martha’s Vineyard: This in a fairy mist rising from the ground and is a very compelling work. It is a high floating through the hills like the lowangle (painted from the deck of a cottage lying clouds in the mountains of Chinese in Martha’s Vineyard). We see a mass of watercolors. treetops in the foreground (dark green And the colors are both lovely and with a subtle touch of red tucked away subtly electric … colors of pink and whitein there), then the shining silver mirror green and orange popping off the trees of a large pond, then the dark line of a beach and distant dunes, then the Atlantic … glowing violet hills … fields spiraling toward the viewer glowing with whiteOcean under a layer of turquoise clouds and-green. All under a big sky containing and a vast expanse of rose-and-yellow mountains of rose-and-turquoise clouds heaven. (I think of those turquoise-andin a steel-blue twilight … and the season’s rose color combinations that the great final snowflakes sparkling in the air like illustrator Maxfield Parrish frequently diamonds. used.) There’s a lot more to see, but I’m out I particularly like Moshup Dunes with its twisting, white sand path climbing up a of space so I’ll conclude with Snowman. dune that looks like a miniature mountain This is a very appealing pastel of a cartoon snowman. He wears a blue scarf and with a blue-and-green bay in the knit hat, has an orange carrot plug nose, background. The little mountain-dune is topped with thick, dark green and yellow- a crooked scarecrow smile and spindly, dancing, dark stick arms. I find it really green grass and patches of fall orange, charming … with a feel like a vintage all laid in with abstract-expressionist Saturday Evening Post cover. panache like an oiled brush-cut standing Patricia Young’s exhibit “Wanderings” on end. will be on display at the Titus Gallery, 222 And Reflections, Lucy Vincent Beach The Commons, through Sept. 30. Visit: is a showstopper. This is an Atlantic titusgallery.com and patriciamaeyoung. seascape (although it reminds me of wordpress.com. • the wild, rocky seascapes of Big Sur in California.)

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with skins colored gold and turquoise jagged against a splotchy thinly colored backdrop. Mink has expressed a desire to combine her work with skins with the geometric, often perspectival drawing that she has used as an element in the past few years. A larger, landscape format piece, Past is Present, suggests that she might pull off such an improbable combination. The background is thinly painted, shadowy browns and blacks. Drawn lines fan out from the left in a suggestion of depth. A curtain of skins in lurid metallic colors hangs up front. White ink brings these disparate zones together: here cloudy and

tube like papier-mâché forms. Hubris takes place, again, against flat bands of color— Phillips’ default background construction, here as elsewhere suggesting landscape. The sky is black and the ground the color of sand. Pale gray with orange dots and careful shading, a branching coral-like form hovers in the air, casting a dramatic shadow. Indeed gleeful, it uncannily evokes a figure jumping. Phillips’ Snake is a hoselike coil occupying a corner filled-out in pale, faintly orange tones—the creature itself decked out in a green that seems positively lurid once you’ve accustomed your eyes to the artist’s austerity. Painted from oddly draped constructions, Angel Bestirring Itself and Ministering Angel are less compelling. Painted in a distinct palette of grays (unlike anything else here) the suggestion of the figures seems awkward. Also recalling the artist’s roots, two paintings incorporate the winged horse of Greek mythology. In Pegasus and Empty Box the animal is a realistic looking white toy modified with two tongue-like flaps. A cardboard box Barbara Mink and Stephen Phillips (Photo Sheryl Sinkow) to the right faces us with its darkly shadowed opening, its edges palpably worn. In the Blood is even more amorphous, there running in opaque milky striking, centering on rich red Pegasus. trickles. He faces to the left, forelegs raised. To Mink is also showing three large, the right, he appears to be sinking into landscape-format pieces from last the sand, wings casting dark, dramatic year. It’s indicative how rapidly she shadows. In Self Portrait, Phillips’ shifts his head evolves that these already feel like old news—which is not to say that they’re and shoulders to the right, breaking the expected symmetry. His dark hair is shaggy bad paintings, though I prefer the newer work here. Erasures I, II, and V and his countenance forlorn. The usual combine ghostly abstract drips and fogs brown and beige tones are punctuated by with precisely drawn lines depicting unexpected bursts of cyan—around his fantastic Middle Eastern architecture in collar and more mutedly in his eyes. a manner that echoes Giorgio Di Chirico • • • (1888-1978)—another Italian modernist I’ve written extensively about Mink’s with an eye on classical tradition. work before, but it never gets old. While Mink’s work has, for all its Phillips seems to progress through sophistication and depth, a certain crowdsubtle shifts and refinements, Mink is an pleasing easygoingness—filled with a color experimenter, continuously bringing in and liveliness that I believe appeals even to new techniques and motifs. Every major people unversed in the history of painting. show of her work features something Phillips’, by contrast, is not so ingratiating. unexpected. (And she shows often, at the He seems to offer less: less color, less SOAG and elsewhere.) movement, less action. He takes things we In her most recent paintings, Mink has made extensive use of wrinkled “skins,” might think we know and makes a world that is personal and strange but which feels thin translucent pieces of acrylic paint, deeply real. It’s a place that is both nostalgic which she collages to her canvas like and timeless. It’s quite unlike anything else pieces of foil. The technique derives from in local art. the Canastota, New York painter Susan This will be Phillips’ final exhibit at Roth, who had an important four-decade the SOAG as he is planning on leaving the retrospective at the Everson Museum in gallery. He intends to keep showing locally Syracuse this summer. every couple years, more often than in the “Drawing Space” features several past. mostly smaller pieces in which the skins “Drawing Space” is a perfect title for define the work. The way Mink uses this most memorable of two person shows. them recalls Roth’s in that they combine Both artists are like architects working translucency with a feeling of weightiness. with color, tone, lines, and shape to build Like Roth, she obscures clearness with environments that defy the familiar. So further layers of material—although Mink many contemporary artists, by contrast, is primarily using ink here, rather than paint. And although this is not new for her, seem more concerned with their false facades—with easily legible messages and the juxtaposition of thick material with effects that don’t provide space to dwell. • thin washes also echoes Roth. Kimono is a particularly rich example,

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Richman & The Poorboys | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Blues, Bluegrass, Jazz, Rock and Roll, Americana. Beet Juice, Misses Bitches | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Experimental, Acoustic, Electric-Highlife, Dub, Psychedelic, Post-Punk Folk Rock. Terrapin Station | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Grateful Dead Covers. Rock, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock, Americana, Blues, Jazz. 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. Stone Cold Miracle | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Soul, Funk, Gospel, Rock. Slambovian Circus of Dreams | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk Rock, Psychedelic, Alternative Folk, Progressive Rock. Wolf Eyes, 100% Black, Sunken Cheek, Eating Scabs For Protein | 7:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Noise, Industrial, Experimental, Power Electronics, Experimental Metal, Noise Rock, Krautrock, Sound Art. Paul Kempkes: Dr. K | 7:00 PM | Flynn’s Roadhose, 1928 East Shore Dr., Lansing | Solo guitar with attitude, Classic Rock, Folk Rock. The Accords | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Oldies, Rock and Roll, The spirit of 50’s and 60’s radio hits. The Fly Rods | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Rock and Roll, Americana, Roots Rock.

9/12 Saturday

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

Avant-Garde, Alternative. Cornell Contra Dance Club (CCDC) | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, , Ithaca | CCDC presents an English country dance with music by Rachel Bell and Karen Axelrod and Richard Sauvain calling. Eilen Jewell Band | 8:00 PM | Earlville Opera House, 22 E Main St, Earlville | Americana, Soul, Old-Time, BLuegrass, Rock, Country. Pleistocene, ANANSI, Pilgrims | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Punk, Art Rock, Shoegaze, Surf Rock, Garage Rock. Q Country Night: Tink Bennet and Tailor Made | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rock and Roll, Country, Blues. Kitestring | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Alternative, Americana, Soul, Old-Time, Acoustic.

9/13 Sunday

Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park. John Kirk & Trish Miller: WVBR’s Bound For Glory | 8:30 PM | Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Old-Time, Bluegrass, 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. Eddie Shaw and Wolfgang | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The original backing band for Howling Wolf. Chicago Blues, Blues. Yardvarks of London: A Tribute to Eric J. Ott | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Rock, Soul, Pop, Acoustic,

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.

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9/09 Wednesday

Sophistafunk, Lucid | 9:00 AM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Funk, Soul, Electronic, Hip Hop, Rock.

Blind Owl Band, Chris James, Mama G | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Bluegrass, Old-Time, Americana. The Trailer Park Boys Randy & Mr. Lahey | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | The Randy and Lahey show is a silly, sexist, drunken hour and a half of songs and skits, audience participation, profanity, Shakespeare, and general hilarity. These two members of The Trailer Park Boys are sure to make you laugh and drink!

9/15 Tuesday

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 Of Montreal | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Experimental Pop, Psychedelic Pop, Glam Rock, Folk Rock, Funk, Proto-Punk, Disco, Indie Rock. 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 | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages. 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….learn a tune or two! EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT! Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan

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Stop Light Observations, Harryhausen | 7:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Classic Rock and Roll, Indie, Motown, Hip-Hop, Folk, Revival, Psychedelic, Garage, Arena Rock. Bluegrass Festival | 10:00 AM-7:00

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PM | Bluegrass Festival, 1362 Ellis Creek Road, Waverly | Enjoy a full day of some of the best Bluegrass music around. Chicken Barbecue, vendors, food tent, Chinese Auction. Featuring, Matthews Family Tradition, from Vanetten, Louie Setzer and the Apalachin Mountain Boys, from Scranton, and Slewfoot Bluegrass, from Tioga Count, many more. Bluegrass, Americana, Old-Time.

nizable after facial reconstruction 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 | Best of Enemies | A documentary on the series of televised debates in 1968 between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. | 87 mins NR | Kahil Gibran’s The Prophet | Inspired by the classic book by Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet is an animated feature film, with “chapters” from animation directors from around the world. | 84 PG | The Wanted 18 | A small Palestinian village bought 18 cows and stopped buying Israeli milk. | 75 mins NR |

Ghostbusters: Outdoor Movie | 8:30 PM-10:30 PM, 9/12 Saturday | Draper Park, Front Street, Owego | A 24-foot inflatable screen will be set up in Draper Park. Come dressed as your favorite ghostbuster, bring a blanket, and enjoy a classic family movie under the stars. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by Visions Federal Credit Union and the Village of Owego.

9/13 Sunday

Annual A Cappella United Way Concert | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | This town-gown tradition is led by one of the nation’s top student United Way campaigns, and a rare opportunity to see Cornell’s top a cappella groups in one setting. All proceeds benefit United Way of Tompkins County’s award-winning Summers of Service Program. Charlie Musselwhite, Carolyn kelly Blues Band | 8:00 AM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Electric Blues, Blues Rock, Southern Rock, Country Blues, Boogie Woogie., Rock and Roll.

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Friday, 9/11 to Thursday, 9/17. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes 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 | Learning to Drive | As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other’s company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.| 90 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), unrecog-

9/14 Monday

Three Chord Monty | 11:00 AM-1:30 PM | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Folk.

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This Noise and Industrial show showcases four prolific and engaging bands. From Ithaca, Eating Scabs For Protein brings dense, harsh noise, and Sunken Cheek explores the depths of imagination with deep avant-tunneling. Binghamton’s 100% Black bring a well-oiled kraut-industrial-charged machine, and Michigan’s Wolf Eyes bring 20 years of legendary noise and experimental magic. Your ticket to new portals and strange dimensions awaits.

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This Taiwanese artist is particularly immersed in the combining of fine art and hard technology. Given an Apple II when he was a senior in high school, he’s never looked back, and has continued his delve into the realms of multi-media art. His new installation combines everyday objects with real-time video and virtual stereoscopic computer-generated animation, to explore the realms of dreams, memory, and the mysteries of which only an artist can imagine.

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Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 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.

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Wolf Eyes,

Huang Hsin-Chen: The Inheritance,

Tragedy | In one of the largest unknown mass-killings of the 20th century, an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 people were secretly and systematically killed in 1965 when General Suharto began a bloody purge of suspected “communists” in Indonesia through a complex and highly contested series of events where he ultimately gained power and the presidency. | 86 mins NR | Sunshine Superman A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, the father of the BASE jumping movement, whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular -and dangerous- feats of foot-launched human flight. | 100 mins PG | Mad Max: Fury Road | A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in post apocalyptic Australia in search for her homeland with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max. | 120 mins R | The Magnificent Ambersons | The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved. | 88 mins NR |

Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM, 9/09 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Held upstairs. The Calamari’s Sisters’ Big Fat Italian Wedding | Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, 6877 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Runs September 9 through September 30. When the Calamari sisters bulldozed upon the musical comedy scene, who knew that three years later, one of them would be tying the knot? Or will they? There’s nothing like an arranged Italian wedding to bring out the crazy relatives, wacky missteps and of course, food, food, food! Join Delphine and Carmela as they sing, dance, laugh and cook their way through such favorites as “Chapel of Love,” “Love and Marriage,” “Get Me To The Church On Time” and “River Deep, Mountain High.” For tickets and showtimes visit fingerlakesmtf.com 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 information www.kitchentheatre.org Tyler Perry’s Madea On The Run | 4:00 AM, 9/13 Sunday | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse | Madea is at it again in Tyler Perry’s most outrageously funny stage play ever. In trouble with the local authorities, Mabel Simmons, notoriously known as Madea, is on the run from the law. With no place to turn, she volunteers to move in with her friend Bam who is recovering from hip replacement surgery, and the fun and trouble begin.

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 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 Ithaca Ballet Open Auditions for 2015-16 Season | 12:30 PM, 9/12 Saturday | Ballet Center Studio, 504-506 N. Plain Street, Ithaca | Season will include Babar, the Elephant & The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The Nutcracker, and the Ithaca premiere of The Firebird and some regional touring. Ladies, please bring pointe shoes. For more information call 607-277-3546. Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/10 Thursday| Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays. Each contestant will be given 3 minutes to share their story and enter for a chance to be crowned the first ever Trampoline Story Champ. Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 9/11 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. Varna Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 9/13 Sunday | Varna

Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast, Ham, Bacon, Sausage. Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages. CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 9/15 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

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American Sign Language II (ASL II) | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/09 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. Becca Harber: Lyme Disease Prevention and Care | Wednesday, Sept. 9, 7- 8:30 PM | Classrooms @ Green Star, 700 W. Buffalo St. | Lyme Disease is now epidemic here. This class by Becca Harber includes information about preventing Lyme; symptoms, tests, and medical practices to decrease the possibility you’ll get acute or chronic Lyme; herbs to strengthen the immune system and help with symptoms. Registration is required sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. ReppyInstitute Seminar: Cold Peace: Russia, Germany, the U.S. and the Future of Europe | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, 9/10 Thursday | Uris Hall G08, Cornell, Ithaca | Speaker: Peter Katzenstein, Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, Cornell University. Brown bag seminar luncheon. Wheelchair accessible; hearing assistance is available with advance notification. Cooking Class: Cooking With Wine | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/11 Friday | The Kitchen Store, 59 North Ave, Owego | Chicken Piccata, Baked Zucchini Chips, Herb Roasted Veggies with Red Wine & Mushroom Gravy, and Red Wine Chocolate Cake. For more information visit www.kitchenstoreny.com 2015 Healing Hearts Women’s Fall Retreat | 1:00 PM-, 9/11 Friday | Camp Earth Connection, 63 Hammond Hill

Road, Freeville | Happening Friday, Sept. 11 at 1pm, to Sunday, Sept. 13 ending at 1pm. The Healing Hearts Women’s Retreat is designed to provide women ages 18 and over, a safe space for to support one another in our individual and collective journeys in healing and growth. Through the exploration of the arts, healing arts, and connection to the earth through workshops, performances, and unstructured activities we will give and receive from our knowing, expertise, and experience so that each may heal more deeply and stretch into living her truth more fully. Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 9/11 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. Farm Sanctuary Twilight Tour | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/12 Saturday | Farm Sanctuary, 3150 Aikens Rd Watkins Glen, Watkins Glen | As the sun starts to set and the animals are winding down for the night, there’s still much fun to be had on the sanctuary! The animals would love your company for one last belly rub or head scratch before bedtime, and our Twilight Tour is a great way to interact with our animals unlike any way you’ve done before! This is a perfect opportunity to introduce your friends and family to our animals and to acquire deeper knowledge about their characteristics and personalities. Volunteers are needed to assist with all aspects of the event: setup, parking, registration, food service, gate assistance, cleanup, and more. For more information or to sign up to volunteer, please contact Michelle Waffner at mwaffner@farmsanctuary.org. Phil Shapiro’s Group Folk Guitar Lessons | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 9/14 Monday | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, Ithaca | Learn to play acoustic guitar, or improve your guitar playing, with this inexpensive course. There are eight one-hour lessons, on Monday evenings, starting Monday, September 14, 2015, in the International Lounge of Willard Straight Hall. Registration is at the first lesson. Just come, and bring a guitar.

Special Events Big Red Fan Festival | Saturday, 9/19, 12:00 pm to 3pm | Crescent

Petting Farm, Craft Area and much more! For more information visit www. Jacksonspumpkinfarm.com

Meetings Shade Tree Advisory Committee (STAC) | 4:00 PM-, 9/09 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Building, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | STAC consults with the City Forester and the Board of Public Works regarding the implementation and enforcement of the provisions of Chapter 306 of the City of Ithaca Municipal Code (“Trees and Shrubs”). IURA Neighborhood Investment Committee (NIC) | 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, 9/11 Friday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | NIC meetings are ordinarily held on the 2nd Friday of every month at 8:30 a.m. in Third Floor Conference Room, Third Floor, City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca. City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 9/14 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Public Works Committee | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 9/15 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | The public is encouraged to attend.

Progressive Rockers Consider The Source play The Dock, Thursday, 09/10 at 9 p.m. (Photo Provided) Lot at Schoellkopf Field | Families are invited to participate in an assortment of free, interactive, and educational events geared toward all ages including demonstrations from many of the colleges and units, face painting, balloon making and more A Cappella United Sunday | Sunday, 9/13 at 3:00 PM @ Bailey Hall | Showcases 13 Cornell A Cappella groups. Farm to Fork | 3:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/10 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. For more information visit www.facebook.com/ OwegoFarmtoForkEveningMarket Homecoming 5K | Saturday, 9/19 8:30 AM @ F.R. Newman Arboretum, Cornell Plantations | Fun run open to the public of all ages. Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | 9:00 PM-5:00 PM, 9/12 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 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 pm thru November 1, 2015. For more information visit www.decodog. com./inven/tiogadown.html. Roller Derby Bout | 7:00 PM, 9/12 Saturday | Cass Park Rink, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | ILWR v. Lex Sexpos, Battery Brigade Black Voices of Corning:

Perspectives on Place | 4:00 PM-6:00 AM, 9/12 Saturday | Heritage Village of the Souther Finger Lakes, , Corning | The exhibit explores the history and culture of Corning’s Black community and the way changing attitudes to race have shaped the city. Based on oral history interviews, photographs from private collections, and historical maps of Corning from museum archives, the exhibit paints an intimate portrait of the experience of being Black in Corning. For more information, please visit www.heritagevillagesfl.org. Craft Fair | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 9/12 Saturday | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 117 Main St., Owego | Start your holiday shopping early! 20+ vendors, unique gifts, decorations, raffles, food items and bake sale. All original crafts. Handicap accessible. Antique & Unique Bike Day | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 9/12 Saturday | Draper Park, Front Street, Owego | Decorate yourself and your bicycles to show off your Antique or Unique bicycle. After the parade, join one of three Bicycle History Tours riding from end to end of the village of Owego. Support the Owego Revitalization Betterment Corporation (ORBC) and learn many fascinating facts you may not know. Hang around the park and enjoy Will Stafford juggling & riding his unicycle, register your bicycle with the Owego Police Dept., and test your skills on the bicycle obstacle course. Come one, come all for a day of parading, music, tricks and tricked out bikes! Secular Humanistic Rosh Hashanah

Service | 7:00 PM, 9/13 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Welcome the Jewish New Year with Kol Haverim, the Finger Lakes Community for Humanistic Judaism. Live music and Dessert Reception. For more information visit www. kolhaverim.net Tomato Festival | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 9/13 Sunday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, 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. Also seeking donations of heirloom tomatoes for sampling at this event. If you have some tomatoes to donate, please contact me at cab69@cornell.edu to let me know what varieties you have. For more information visit ccetompkins.org. Music & Memory Overview | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 9/14 Monday | Textor 102, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Non-profit organization that brings personalized music into the lives of people with dementia through digital music technology, vastly improving their quality of life. The film, Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory, highlights the remarkable work of this organization. For more information, visit www.musicandmemory.org Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm | Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm, 6425 Rt. 17C, Endicott | Opens Wednesday 9/09, 10:00 AM | One of the oldest and largest Pumpkin Farms in NYS. 20+ activities including Hayrides, Haunted House, Displays, Ziplines, Corn Cannons, Apple Flingers,

Nature & Science Elizabeth Farnsworth: The Finger Lakes Native Plant Society | 7:00 PM-8:00 AM, 9/09 Wednesday | Unitarian Church Annex, 208 E Buffalo St, Ithaca | Elizabeth will discuss the New England Wild Flower Society’s recent comprehensive, peer-reviewed report called The State of the Plants. For the first time, the report gathers together the most up-to-date data on the status of plants on the New England landscape. Elizabeth will cover the primary ecological and man-made threats to both rare and common species in the region and the activities and initiatives by New England Wild Flower Society (and many other organizations in the northeast) to conserve and manage rare plants and habitats throughout the region. As a bonus, this talk will also focus on educational initiatives such as the award-winning Go Botany website, which can help anyone identify and appreciate plants. Advanced Composting Class Series | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 9/10 Thursday

Ithaca Roller Derby,

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Lot 10, Friday, September 11, 10:00 p.m.

A double dose of Roller Derby is on tap for this night. First Ithaca’s Suffer Jets play the Philly Roller Girls, then Ithaca’s other hard rolling stars the Blue Stockings, take on the Valley Girls for the night cap. On a night that’s sure to excite and amaze, be sure to take the time to realize the importance of supporting positive and constructive athletic associations. These groups create dynamic systems that build strength and confidence in professional individuals.

Beet Juice is the one man foray into various stylistic forms like psychedelic, free jazz, afro beat, reggae, dub, experimentalism, and pop. Through live looping and creative impulse, this musician channels his inner faith, and shares his vibes with audiences around the globe. Misses Bitches, Ithaca’s resident alt-folk-punkfemale fronted power-house, open up, bringing their neo-hippie momentum and throwback stylings.

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| CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | The Compost Education Program at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County is pleased to announce our Advanced Composting class series. This will be held on three Thursdays in September (9/10, 17 and 24) and will cover Master Composter-level material without the volunteer requirement. For more information visit ccetompkins. org/events/2015/09/10/advancedcompost-series or call (607) 272-2292. Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 9/11 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. Building with Biology | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 9/12 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Guests will meet local biologists and researchers from Dr. Julius Lucks’ Lab at Cornell University and students from the Cornell iGem (International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition) team, to take part in activities and conversation around the science of synthetic biology. Fossil ID Day | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 9/12 Saturday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Bring your mystery fossils in to the Museum of the Earth and get them identified. Migration Celebration and Centennial Open House | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 9/12 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Come celebrate the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s 100th Anniversary and the fantastic fall migrations of birds! Join us for this family-friendly event that includes a special Open House, in addition to our usual guided bird walks, interactive exhibits, live birds, games, face-painting, and hands-on activities for children. Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM, 9/12 Saturday, 9/13 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 http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ calendar.

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by Christopher J. Harrington Wolf Eyes, 100% Black, Sunken Cheek, Eating Scabs For Protein; Friday, Sept. 11, 7 p.m. Chanticleer-Loft

urning the devices, waste, and integrated circuitry that has bombarded this planet the past century into something tangible and creative is a goal of an industrial artist. Taking what is accessible to you, concrete, formidable, and manipulating it to your design, is a high art. Sound is of a particular industrial relevance. The world we live in is saturated with fragments of repeating aural intensity, and this acts as the palette for a certain form of musician. Through various speakers, audio-electronics, effects stimulators, microphones, wires, keyboards, and other mechanical equipment, the noise musician channels strange unknown portals in the universe, and welcomes listeners to its complexity. This Friday night, Ithaca gets the unique chance to experience firsthand four of these portals—by four prolific and dynamic bands. Eating Scabs For Protein, Ithaca’s VII Caso’s harsh-noise experience - Sunken Cheek, the one-man noise project of Ithaca’s Weston Czerkies - 100% Black, Binghamton’s experimental avant-garde mainstays - and Michigan’s Wolf Eyes, one of the most important experimental bands out there, widely

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considered the “kings of U.S. noise.” Noise music owes a great deal to punk and the Dada movement of the early 20th century. Some view noise music as anti-music, a similar reaction was had to the Dada movement, which was dubbed anti-art. Both forms have reveled in their direct stance against normalcy. I’ve played such recordings to many people who are not familiar with the style, and their reaction is mostly the same; this is not music they say, it’s just noise. But how to get this point, why listen to noise? It’s a process; a tunnel through many channels. 100% Black is a good place to start. This is a band that still holds onto a recognizable song structure, albeit microscopically. Adam Southard, a founding member of the band explained their path, “We have all been interested in experimental music for quite some time, so we have all arrived there at different times by different means, as a unit though, the ‘70s German experimental music scene or ‘kraut rock’ was a big deal for us. When [band member] Louis brought a Neu! record to the recording studio one day we became obsessed with the simplicity and monotony, the lack of melody and the focus on rhythm. Speaking for myself, seeing Swans live for the first time was a huge deal for me in terms of seeing music of such size.” In terms of aesthetics, noise and

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Kurt Vonnegut Discussion with Robert B. Weide and Ginger Strand | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 9/10 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Join us for the only opening

Come out to meet and hang with a bunch of new friends on this grand night. The farm animals that live in peace on this Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen are sure to enjoy the company, and will give fellow sentient beings (humans) a unique chance to interact and educate themselves on the cool behaviors and awesome personalities that are in abundance on this amazing farm. All beings deserve a cruelty- free life, and this farm is a shining light for the world to follow.

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reception of the season, with a special panel discussion on Kurt Vonnegut with filmmaker Robert B. Weide, author Ginger Strand, and Professor George Hutchinson from 6:00-7:00 p.m. The Museum will be open tonight until 8:00 p.m. Bridget Bossart van Otterloo and Brian S. Keeler | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 9/11 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Recent work by Bridget Bossart van Otterloo and Brian S. Keeler featured in the Main Gallery. Music performed by Matrix Flute & Guitar Duo. Reception sponsored by Christopher G. Quinlan. Huang Hsin-chein: The Inheritance | 5:00 PM, 9/11 Friday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Runs September 11-December 20. Taiwanese artist Hsin-chien’s installation combines everyday objects with video and

at times. The last time I saw Czerkies perform there were intense powerelectronics and techno-influences teeming through his compositions. Wolf Eyes, with nearly twenty years of recordings under their belt, are know for their entrancing, visually grimy, and fascinating performances. Lately, they’ve changed directions some-what, and with a new guitarist they’ve dubbed their new approach “trip metal.” It sounds transcendent. These four bands are powerful constructions, and music, film, and art fans should indeed check the show out. It’s not everyday in Ithaca you get such an extreme package in one night. The aural manifestations of some of today’s more attentive inhabitants will be on display. •

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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. Runs throughout August and September. | www.csma-ithaca.org

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experimental music has a rich history with filmmaking, particularly art-house films. I asked Southard if his band’s music was visual. “Absolutely,” he said, “as I find most mood based music is. It’s hard to listen to Brian Eno’s ambient works and not feel a visual stimulation. Aesthetics are a big deal for us, visual or otherwise. David Lynch, as an example, has created a visual world that we feel pretty connected to. Andrew and Andris (band members) are both visual artists so their work always seems relevant to what we are doing in one way shape or form.” The night promises to be a forceful affair. Eating Scabs For Protein’s harsh noise assault will pummel you into a dark-spiraling gaze. Sunken Cheek’s sound is avant-garde in scope, punk at heart, and can be quite menacing

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Conductor Matthew M. Marsit and the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble will pack DeWitt Park and entertain spectators with some of the greatest compositions to ever grace the American symphonic and wind band repertoire. The program, “Celebrating American Composers,” will feature works from William Schuman, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and other classical masters.

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he house at 20 Halsey Street in Trumansburg does not feel old, although it was built around 1920. It has been modernized and maintained meticulously, so there are few historical details remaining. You enter through the front door to find yourself in the dining room, which is floored with wall to wall carpeting except for an attractive flagstone landing area near the door, where people can discard their outdoor shoes. The living room is off to the left and it has a yellow pine floor with surprising tight grain for so young house. Most of the really old trees were gone by the 20th century. Perhaps this is re-used woood, which would account for its high quality. Behind the living room is a space that could be used as a bedroom if the new owner wished to live on one floor. It is presently in use as a study and has an oak laminate floor. Its use as a bedroom is encouraged by the presence of an attached full bath with a shower and laundry machines. The kitchen is behind the dining room. It is large enough to put in a kitchen table. The cabinets are routed and have pounded metal pulls, giving it a Neocolonial look. There is a butcher block counter next to the in-the-wall ovens, which are next to the gas range. From the kitchen you step down into a three-season sun room with a concrete floor and pine paneling. From there you can see the detached two-bay garage, which is large enough so that it includes a full workshop as well. You can duck out the back door into

the enormous backyard (it is nearly the size of football field) to look down in the cellar, which is not finished in the least, but it is impressive to see the spray foam insulation neatly applied to a stone foundation and note how dry it is there (unusual for Trumansburg). The second floor is reached by stairs between the dining room and kitchen. They have yellow pine treads of the same vintage as the living room floor. You find yourself in a wide hall with egress to three bedrooms and a bathroom. The master bedroom is in the northwest corner of the house. It includes a large open closet that takes up an entire wall of the room. The other bedroom in the front of the house is also home to a good-sized closet. The back bedroom is the smallest, but is not small. The home is really one-and-a-half stories and you seen the lines of the roof in every room on the second floor, including the hall. • At A Glance Price: $275,000 Location: 20 Halsey Street, Village of Trumansburg School District: Trumansburg Central Schools MLS#: 303108 Contact: Lindsey Hart, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, ReMax in Motion; lindsayhart@remax.net Phone: (607) 882-9623 (cell) Website: www.hartandhomes.com

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