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ope Francis’ visit to the United States this week had Salvation Army Colonel Frank Payton remembering a time in the 1990s when he met Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the auxiliary bishop for Buenos Aires.

“It was at the time of Mother Theresa’s death,” Payton said, “and all the heads of churches in Argentina were invited to a prayer service—Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, and if I’m not mistaken, Muslims were there as well.”

That atmosphere of different faiths gathering together, in some part, Payton attributes to an incident related in a passage in On Heaven and Earth, a book of dialogues between Bergoglio and the Argentine rabbi Abraham Skorka.

“When he was a boy,” Payton Col. Frank Payton of the Salvation Army met Bishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the future said of Bergoglio, Francis I, in Argentina in the 1990s. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) “he understood all Protestants went to as New York City and New Jersey.

Hell. He was a little boy of five or six and “Before the Vatican council, walking with his grandmother. He saw two Protestants were referred to as heretics, women dressed in black, wearing these strange hats—this was when the Army had and afterwards through the influence of John XXIII, we were called ‘separated bonnets for its women. He asked ‘Are they brethren,’” Payton said. “Before, there nuns?’ No, but they are good people, his wasn’t much relationship between grandmother responded … It’s interesting to think what that grandmother’s influence Protestants and Catholics. When we came back, whenever there was a on the entire Catholic church is today.” national holiday that had some religious Bergoglio became Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998, and then was continued on page made a cardinal in 2001 before his

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election as Pope Francis in 2013. Since, Francis’ humility and tolerance has been commented on worldwide; so far as it regards the Salvation Army, leadership of the 150-year-old missionary organization had its first private audience with a pope last December.

In Argentina, the attitudes “were altogether different from our beginning there to the end,” Payton said. He and his wife Yvonne have quite the basis for commenting on changes in Argentina; they began a 40-year career there in 1958 and returned in 1994 so Frank could serve in command of all Army activities in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay until the couple retired from active duty in 1998. In between, they spent time in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica, as well

Porch Fest Will Be Ithacan Met Future Biggest It Has Been Pope in Argentina

orchfest 2015 will be the biggest collection of musical talent Fall Creek has seen playing in one afternoon yet.

There are 176 performers officially scheduled to play from noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 27. This is the ninth year of the musical festival. A number of porches and driveways are double-booked in the afternoon. The limits of Porchfest’s growth in its current format is coming into focus, according to Andy Adelewitz, who organizes the event along with founders Lesley Greene and Gretchen Hildreth.

“The trend for Porchfest’s growth is a straight line since the beginning—it grows by about 20 performers per year, every year,” Adelewitz said. “Last year we added two more time slots to the day, and this year, at almost 180 performers, it really feels like we’ve hit maximum density. Fall Creek is a quarter of a square mile, and even with six time slots, it’s getting really tricky to fit all those performers in, taking into account people’s schedule limitations, people who play in multiple bands and don’t want them scheduled at the same time, and all those sort of considerations.”

The Porchfest organizers have highlighted some new, eclectic acts since releasing the schedule on Sept. 19, including a performance of Super Mario Brothers music arranged for saxophone (1 p.m., 104 Adams St.) and “1 Hour of Knock Knock Jokes” with upright bass accompaniment (4 p.m., 712 N. Tioga St.).

Though the Porchfest concept does seem to lend itself to acoustic music, other types of performances are starting to become part of the mix.

“We’re starting to see some dance, theater, and performance art mixed in with the music, and it feels like an expansion of the creative celebration,” Adelewitz said.

“And some of the unique music styles are fascinating too, like Cornell’s Javanese gamelan ensemble [traditional Indonesian metal percussion ensemble], who first performed last year and will be back this year. It’s music you’re not necessarily going to see anywhere else.”

Domenic Gagliano of the band Zero Mean is excited to play his first Porchfest at his home at 611 N. Tioga St., though it is really a driveway show—his porch only has solo act capacity.

“We first experienced [Porchfest] two years ago, just after moving to Ithaca from Brooklyn,” Gagliano said. “I loved the diversity, the loose free-form quality,

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Pumpkin Flavor in your Food and Drink: Out of Control?

“There’s never too much pumpkin.”

—Alice Doing

“I drink my coffee black, and I’m not much of a beer drinker. I’ve sold a half dozen pie pumpkins today, and I don’t think these old ladies are going to make beer.”

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“Yes. Absolutely.”

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“Pumpkin spiced lattes are gross ... I’m not into it … Anyone doing pumpkin now is jumping the gun. You turn on pumpkin in November.”

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“I think it’s too early, but I’m part of the problem. I make a pumpkin spice ice cream that I’m pretty happy with.” ­—Stephanie Nevels

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nother of Ithaca’s hottest meeting rooms got a visit this week from the Campus Advantage team that’s selling this city on an 11-story building in the State Street Triangle.

The host venue was a sixth-floor room in the TC3 extension center at Bank Alley and East Seneca Street. The audience was the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA). Dan Oltersdorf and Jennifer Cassidy were two new Campus Advantage vice presidents in town from Austin that haven’t played any gigs here this reporter has seen.

The question on hand was whether the DIA should issue a resolution in support of the 582-bed project, which had a public hearing scheduled with the city planning board on the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 22, after print deadline – see ithaca. com for a timely update.

At the meeting’s outset, everyone on the DIA board in attendance read a threepage, single-spaced letter from Barbara Lynn of Now You’re Cooking titled “Stop the Over Development of Downtown.”

Citing all the downtown development projects in process right now, Lynn wrote, “There may be (if successful) approximately 2000 (two thousand!) extra people in a four block area bounded by two narrow, one-way streets.”

“We now must endure more endless construction and watch helplessly as downtown is turned into an extension of Collegetown, in an apparent attempt to create a mini N.Y. City,” Lynn continued.

“The Commons will become an extension of Collegetown and Downtown will return to its former state: nothing but bars, restaurants, and headshops.”

After much discussion on these topics, Emma Lou Sheikh said she would play “devil’s advocate” for densification.

“I think we’re looking at a more urban city than we’ve had in the past,” Sheikh said. “One that relies less on individual transportation in that urban core than a suburban place. We may not accept it today or tomorrow, but at least we can be open to the future.”

Later, Sheikh asked Lynn who might be driven away from shopping downtown by future development, adding that she saw the trend of people moving to more walkable downtowns stretching across age groups.

“We’ll drive away everyone who comes downtown because it’s unique,” Lynn said. “Everybody I know in the Heights—people I’ve grown up with, friends for 50 years won’t shop down here. There’s the stupid meters, and you have to go into the garages. It’s going to destroy the whole feeling for people from Philadelphia, from Cleveland, from

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Buffalo, who come here for our shops.

They’re not going to come here for a pizza.”

Ronnie Macejewski of Campus Advantage did his best to assuage Lynn’s and other merchants’ fears about parking; he’s been told, he said, that the Triangle site is the absolute best spot for using transit in the city.

“I can’t imagine any scenario where students will drive to classes,” Macejewski said.

Vicki Taylor Brous presented parking numbers from the city that showed parking availability during peak daytime hours. Based on data gathered from May to July of this year, there were 24 spaces available in the Green Street Garage, 49 in Seneca Street and 99 at Dryden Road.

As has been the case lately, those city numbers conflicted with anecdotal data.

Susan Titus, of Titus Gallery, said “If you go to Green Street between 9 and 10 in the morning during the week, you’re not going to be able to find space except on the roof.”

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the surprises around every corner, and just seeing homes and porches become stages with actual crowds.”

More newcomers deciding to play Porchfest is a fine problem to have, Adelewitz said. Adding more time slots into the evening, expanding to two days, or doing some sort of performer lottery have all been discussed. This year, the city required liability insurance and volunteers to staff street closures. Adelewitz said that figuring out how much the organizers, the neighborhood, and City Hall can handle going forward is “definitely something we’ll be tackling after this year’s event.”

“It would be nice to play on a balcony or elevated porch,” Gagliano said when asked about his “dream porch” to play.

saying at most that 250 of their residents will have a car, and intend to focus those who need parking on using collegeprovided remote lots or renting in the Cayuga garage, which “doesn’t have an oil stain above the third floor,” Macejewski said.

Joe Wetmore of Autumn Leaves Used Books said he also hears that downtown parking runs out from “time to time already,” especially around the winter holidays. He asked Campus Advantage to go further and set a zero car goal for the building, incorporating “traffic demand management” and including Ithaca CarShare membership and a bus pass in the lease.

The resolution ended up passing DIA board approval, with a few tweaks.

Another interesting tidbit dropped by Taylor Brous was that Campus Advantage is looking to fill a 6,000-foot retail space in the building with a grocery. For context, GreenStar’s West End store is 5,700 square feet. • —Josh

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“What about our roof? Maybe Roof-fest is a possibility?”

All of Utica Street will be closed this year during Porchfest, along with portions of Jay (between Cayuga and Tioga); Linn (King – Tompkins); Tioga (Yates – Farm); Marshall (Utica – Aurora); Cascadilla (Cayuga – Tioga); Willow Ave. (Yates – Cayuga); and Auburn (Tompkins – Yates).

So far as food options go in the mostly residential Fall Creek, there will be a food truck roundup at 210 Hancock Street—the Neighborhood Pride site, sponsored by Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services.

Free ice cream sundaes, in honor of Ithaca’s claim to inventing that august treat, will be available from noon to 2 p.m. at the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca, along with over 100 members playing in the Unitarian Universalist Ukulele Union.• Go to porchfest.org for a schedule and map of street closures.

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“There were three, four, five days in a row, the only souls I saw were running by holding their ears” from the jackhammer noise, Peterson said.

Business isn’t back to where it was before construction, says Teresa Miller, owner of Madeline’s.

“People thought the fences will go down, and now everything’s back,” Miller said. Though her restaurant adjoins the ongoing construction at the Marriott site, she isn’t as worried as a few merchants who feel other potential projects—the State Street Triangle and Harold’s Square, in particular—will give a lingering construction hangover. Any new construction will only affect more

building use.

On the DIA website, the rent for Abdul and Emma Lou Sheikh’s 102 E. State St. space, which Dunkin’ Donuts has decided not to occupy, is listed at $4,000 per month for about 1,700 square feet of retail space. Jason Fane’s Ithaca Renting has space listed online: 4,700 square feet and 10 offices at 111 N. Tioga St. are available for $7,700 per month. On the budget side of Fane’s offerings is an approximately 1,000-square-foot basement space in Commons West for $800.

Established businesses are doing their best to show off for new Commons promenaders. The DIA approved four “storefront improvement” grants from state Main Street funding at their Monday meeting: the money went to Autumn Leaves Used Books, the Sheikhs, Benjamin Peters, and Adams’ property in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $5,000—with a

asablanca pizzeria owner Adil Griguihi wants to make it clear that he did not say his business was “booming” to real estate reporter Lisa Prevost of that other Times in New York.

“I said business has been much better,” Griguihi said, outside a Downtown Ithaca Alliance meeting on Monday, Sept.

21. “I never said it was booming. You know, I know, everyone else knows that it’s going to take two to three years since the Commons reopened to get back our sales. They put words in my mouth.”

Here’s Griguihi’s appearance in the Sept.

1 New York Times story “Building for Future, Ithaca Remakes Town Square:” “At one point, a pizza shop owner rushed out from his storefront to thank the mayor profusely, exclaiming that his business was better than ever. Mr. Myrick later confided that while the mall Eleanor Ritter and Esme Saccucimorano at Petrune’s was under construction, ‘that (Photo Josh Brokaw) man was one of our biggest critics.’”

The scene was a sunny Saturday immediate neighbors, Miller feels, during Commons celebration weekend whereas getting the Commons and Prevost was on deadline, so we’ll finished affects everyone. forgive her not digging up one of “It had to be done. And it’s Griguihi’s spicy quotes from these pages. amazing,” Miller said.

Most recently, he called the Commons A few other merchants “a war zone” at May’s Common Council Adil Griguihi, owner of Casablanca pizzeria on the Commons mentioned they would feel more meeting. (“Jason Fane Urges Council to (Photo Josh Brokaw) secure that the Commons is Finish Commons,” May 7, ithaca.com. actually complete when Harold’s In that same ‘graph, Prevost allowed 3-to-1 funding match from the property Square is done. After receiving its permits that “businesses lining either side of the owner. Earlier this summer, Miller secured from the city two years ago, market boulevard suffered.” a $150,000 in Ithaca Urban Renewal forces inspired developer David Lubin to When asked “So, hey about those Agency guarantees as part of a $475,000 reconsider offering commercial space at new Commons?” merchants are saying renovations-oriented loan package. the expense of residences. One floor will those sufferings mean the work of making In a letter written to the DIA board remain offices, with the originally planned up years of lost profits didn’t end with a primarily concerning development at 30-some residences to become 70 or 80, ribbon-cutting. the State Street Triangle, Barbara Lynn according to planner Scott Whitham.

Griguihi has never been shy about of Now You’re Cooking expressed years Right now, Whitham expects the tweaked talking of loans he’s taken out to keep of frustration with the whole Commons design to be in front of city boards this Casablanca afloat; council last October overhaul. fall to renew permits, and he said they learned he estimated the Commons “The attitude of this administration all would “love to start construction in the reconstruction had put him $80,000 in the beginning of 2016.” along has been that anyone who could not hole by then. survive in business during the protracted Filling empty storefronts with tenants He made clear that, although his process of construction and destruction is also a work in progress. business has recovered, it would likely doesn’t deserve to be in business,” Lynn According to S.J. Adams of Warner’s take him three years to repair the damage wrote, “and in any case there would always Way, there is interest in the former home done to his bottom line by the Commons be other businesses to take the places of of Ithaca Hemp at 124 E. State St., which construction. In other words, it had better those that were forced out.” he’s owned since last June. be “better than ever” because he had some The construction is over. Veteran “You can print that I can’t get in a catching up to do.

Commons merchants and those yet tenant there at any price since January,” Matt Peterson said that “anyone to come now get to demonstrate their Adams said. “The rents are just too steep living near hand to mouth didn’t make survival skills. • for a lot of retailers.” it.” Titus Gallery has been treading water Adams said he has had inquiries, but for three years and dipping into savings seven of the 10 have come from bars and — J o s h B r o k aw to make ends meet. Compared to the restaurants, which require the “very, very traffic his store saw during wintertime expensive” process of changing over a T

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Ups&Downs ▶ Biology teacher honored, Ithaca High School (I.H.S.) Biology teacher Carlan Gray was honored with the 2015 Raymond C. Loehr Innovative Science Teaching Award at the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) Convocation on September 8. Managed by the Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI), the award was presented by Loehr’s son Stephen Yale-Loehr and Christine Sanchirico, IPEI’s executive director.

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Quote of the Week, Marcia Lynch’s usually sober recounting of the county legislature meeting’s highlight included one unexpected double entendre that gave us pause: “Both Schlather and OAR Director Deb Dietrich said their agencies are experiencing increased complexity of needs by clients. Dietrich noted the jail population has been high for much of this year ... “ ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Sept. 16-22 include: 1) Nurse at Cayuga Medical Talking Union 2) One Pot Meth Lab Busted in Dryden 3) Letter | For Whom the Bell Tolls 4) Another Cornell Student Runs for Office 5) Busted for Two Grams of Heroin in Groton For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Home, Not a Student Ghetto T he proposed Triangle Building is touching a lot of nerves. The planned 11-story building would rise between the 10-story Marriott on North Aurora Street and the sevenstory Carey Building overbuild on East State Street, both of which are under construction and will soon be joined by the seven-story Canopy Hilton on Seneca Way. People are upset by the size of the Triangle Building, but also by the ostensible fact that it will be full of students.

We have gotten a surprising number of phone calls, letters, guest opinions, and visitors to the office, all expressing trepidation at the idea that 600 additional students would be living downtown in a high rise. At their Monday meeting the Downtown Partnership discussed this as an impending disaster. That a merchants association is leery of having 600 new customers living right in the neighborhood is a little odd, frankly. One the one hand, people are complaining that the units are not affordable. They aren’t, which suggests that anyone who lives in them has some disposable income. On the other hand, people are worried that having a bunch of students around will just turn downtown into a warren of fast food joints and head shops. Oddly enough, there isn’t a single head shop in Collegetown, which casts doubt on the idea that this is what many Cornell students are into.

The whole idea of big student complexes like Collegetown Terrace (eventually 1,050 beds), Collegetown

Crossing, the “Dryden Road canyon,” and the proposed Triangle Building is to put the young people into sturdy modern quarters so that they can vacate the increasingly beat-up wooden homes that so many of them live in all around town. With the students squared away in buildings with small footprints and many rooms that would free up the city’s real estate to be converted back into private homes for families and professional couples. The city government’s plan is to change student ghettoes into neighborhoods.

Downtown would hardly turn into a student ghetto as a result of the construction of the Triangle Building.

There are already a lot of students in Cayuga Green and elsewhere, but new buildings like Breckenridge Place, Seneca Way, and the rising Carey Building and the nearly complete Lofts @ Six Mile Creek (aka Cayuga Green II) are all for non-students of various income levels.

And David Lubin’s Harold Square, due to be constructed on the Commons when the office space part of the building is worked out, will add even more nonstudent housing.

No, the consumers downtown are much more likely to be a mixture of students, professionals, and retirees.

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On the Waterfront

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

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hen I moved back to Ithaca 20 years ago and was getting reacquainted with traveling around town, I got caught one day in a large traffic jam on Route 13 south.

I figured it must have been a massive accident, as it was quite a tangle, but well south of downtown and most shopping, and on a Saturday, not a big commuting day.

But it turned out to be no accident, and shopping after all: business at the farmers market.

I had just relocated from Washington, D.C., where there are traffic problems everywhere, so it struck me as tolerable, even cool, that the only place in Ithaca you will find a regular traffic jam is in pursuit of local produce. Of course, the irony of the ecological situation was obvious, maybe even serious, I thought. A cynic, or even well-meaning critic, might find fault with the idea of piloting hundreds of carbonemitting metal machines around town, with fossil fuels purchased from ExxonMobil, in seeking a healthier planet.

The ironic situation is remedied a bit now with the opening of the Cayuga Waterfront Trail, a ten- foot wide asphalt path for “non-motorized transportation,” as its builders say, which the green-minded can take from downtown, at West Buffalo Street, along Cayuga Lake’s inlet, directly to the farmers market.

The trail is not exclusively (nor even primarily) a bike path to the market. It extends further, to Stewart Park, and runs also on the other side of the lake. But its utility for visiting the market is a big function, and a significant reducer of irony and cynicism around the well-intentioned in a world that can certainly use more green, less spleen.

I haven’t been to farmers market since the trail opened this summer, so don’t

know the actual effect on the scene on Route 13, but it figures to be discernible, if not pronounced. Nor can I report whether the trail itself is so clogged on Saturday mornings that now we have car jams on the road and bike jams on the trail. I do know I will take the latter, given the choice.

Generally no one gets killed or maimed on a bike path. No one racks up thousands of dollars in property damage in a split-second of carelessness. It is a gentler path, and a more mindful one. You never see someone riding a bike and texting.

I can report that the path is lovely. I have biked it a few times. It is a great asset to downtown life. Until now when I have wanted a nice bike ride, for simple exercise and random joie de vivre, I’ve had to settle for improvised patchworks of less-traveled streets and areas I know. But there’s a limit to how many times you can ride Plain Street, or behind the big box stores on the erstwhile flood plain, and feel a sense of aesthetic euphoria, or any other type.

I can tell you one time not to ride the path, at least for whatever spell of warm weather we have remaining, and that’s at dusk, when the gnats come out.

Gnats favor the waterfront, and as I was riding home from a jaunt last week at sunset, I sliced through thick clouds of them, over hundreds of yards. I got droves of them in my eyes. I could hear them bouncing off me. I could have used goggles, if not armor.

If I were vegan, I would have had to debike and walk, as I was ingesting them by the thousand. As it was, I’d been planning to stop at GreenStar for something for dinner, but wasn’t hungry by the time I got there.

It’s not so much that I was grossed out, but full. I found out gnats pack a protein punch.

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The Microbead Problem

Many New Yorkers are unaware their face wash bottle or toothpaste tube may contain tens of thousands of microbeads, which wash down the drain, wreak havoc on wastewater systems, escape treatment plants, and end up polluting local water bodies. It’s needless and toxic waste.

We welcome news that Erie County has banned the beads, and other local governments from Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, and Niagara counties are stepping up and doing what’s best for consumers and the environment. In fact, Albany County legislators just announced legislation (supported by the state’s attorney general’s office) to ban this unnecessary 6

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It is now time for state legislators, in particular the state Senate, to act and enact a statewide ban. Earlier this year, the New York State Assembly passed a microbeads ban by 139-1. Though it has the support of 59 percent of the Senate—including Elmira’s Senator Tom O’Mara—the bill failed to come to the Senate floor for a vote. Oddly, Senator O’Mara put his political muscle behind another industry-favored bill, which he alone sponsors. Even that version failed to receive a vote.

We think Senator O’Mara owes his constituents an explanation.

As the legislature prepares to return to Albany in January, we urge Senator O’Mara to support his own legislation, do what’s in

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’ve been writing about visual art in Ithaca for over nine years—often to polite approval or polite silence. In the past few months though, my criticism has generated some unprecedented controversy.

First, my pointed review of an exhibition of local artists’s work at the Johnson Museum (“Locally Sourced at Johnson,” July 8) hit a nerve, resulting in private emails and a debate in the comments section of the web article. Later, my review of another local group show (“New Exhibit Sizzles and Pops at Corner Gallery,” Aug. 5) prompted an outraged letter from exhibiting artist Steve Carver, whose concerns—exaggerated, I believe—I attempted to mollify in a response.

Two editorials weighed in further.

My fellow Ithaca Times reviewer Amber Donofrio contributed “Critic’s Notes: What is the Purpose of a Critic?” (Sept.

9) in which she mulled over that very question. My editor Bill Chaisson followed up with “Editorial: Easy Going . . .

Sometimes” (Sept. 16), which concerned the paper’s general policy on criticizing local artists.

I’d like to take the opportunity here to respond to both editorials as well as to clarify what it is that I do and why.

Amber’s public self-questioning reflects a widespread contemporary uncertainty about the goal of criticism, especially in the visual arts. In particular, it echoes a popular skepticism concerning the value of evaluation. This doubt influences run-of-the-mill journalistic reviewers as well as highbrow critics.

Of the latter, she cites Lucy Lippard, who (apparently) wishes to subsume art criticism under socio-political criticism.

To offer another example, the late criticphilosopher Arthur Danto saw the task of criticism as primarily interpretive—a task which for him was often inflected with his philosophical interest in the nature of art.

In my view, such popular attitudes do not do justice to art criticism as a distinct genre with its own history and character.

(Which is not to say that politics and interpretation have no place in criticism of the arts—indeed, sometimes they are quite apposite.)

In his 2009 book On Criticism, Noel Carroll—himself a philosopher of art and sometime film critic—offers a persuasive rebuttal. Although I can’t do justice to his ideas here, I take as basic his idea of criticism as the “reasoned evaluation” of artworks as artworks.

Chaisson lays out a party line on local arts coverage. The heart of it: The truth of the matter is that there is an enormous amount of very good artwork (and music) made in the greater Ithaca area. So much so that we generally focus on what we like, don’t get to some we like a lot, and simply let slip past what does not move us in a positive way. The last betrays the essentially bourgeois nature

of our souls. That is, if we don’t have something nice to say, then we don’t say anything at all (“Editorial: Easy Going . . .

Sometimes,” Sept. 16).

He contrasts this to the criticism found in “big city papers,” which, as he says, can be “decidedly sharp.” He also compares local art reviews with local political coverage. Apparently politics— unlike art—may sometimes occasion more forceful disagreement.

From my viewpoint, Chaisson makes too much of Ithaca’s difference. As he says, there is some superb work being made here. As somebody intimately familiar with the visual art, I find some of the talent astounding. The top artists in New York City may be much better, and there are ways in which the stakes there are higher.

But strong art is strong art, and I believe it calls for a criticism to match it.

The implied contrast with politics is also unpersuasive. He doesn’t offer an explicit account of this, but the implication is that art is an essentially individual affair—something like a matter of consumer choice. But art is a public matter as well. The artists I focus on present themselves as serious or professional. They deserve a response in kind.

I am loyal to those Ithaca area artists who are doing exceptional work. They rarely get the recognition they deserve within the broader local culture. A verbal climate in which praise is offered indiscriminately does not help their cause.

Such praise is also bland—and from my perspective, dishonest and unrealistic. •

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But where, other people have worried, are all these people going to park their cars? That is a genuinely complicated and worthy question, which has received no convincing comprehensive and quantitative answer. The city is insisting that there is plenty of room in the three existing parking garages. However, no numbers have been produced that show the relationship between the spaces promised to the various hotels and residential buildings and the number of spaces that actually exist.

It is true that millennials are much less interested in car ownership than other older demographics. It is also true that we already have Ithaca Carshare, and there is plenty of room for it to grow.

We also have public transportation, and there is plenty of room for that to grow too. In both cases it is demand that will cause that growth. This has always been regarded as something of a Catch-22, but city planning policy is overcoming the impasse by simply doing away with parking requirements downtown. That is, if you really, really need to own a car (or two), then you better think twice about living downtown. Because there are plenty

of people who are willing to live there without a car.

We have also gotten communications from people who live outside the city who are finding downtown increasingly uncongenial. Once upon a time they could drive in, park at meter (that required only you to have two dollars worth of change in hand), do your shopping and errands, and then leave. Now the city is asking people to either remember their license plate number and interface with a computer or to park in a multi-level concrete parking garage. It turns out that many upstate New York residents hate both of these options and, rhetorically at least, are willing to desert downtown instead of doing a bit more walking and interfacing.

It seems possible that we are at one of those historical junctures that we will look back on and say, “Wow, that was when everything changed. That was cool.” Right now, however, a lot of people are simply regarding it as either scary, annoying or both. • youropinions contin u ed from page 4

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connotation, I was invited along with all the different leaders of congregations to the national cathedral.”

For one of these celebrations in the ‘90s, Payton relates that he came in late, and was then escorted to a position with other religious heads behind the altar. In another case, shortly before the Paytons left Argentina in 1998, they were flown to an Army Day celebration that honored the Salvation Army’s contributions to flood relief.

Things were more chaotic in Argentina in Payton’s early days there.

Peronists and Communists were very much a part of the political landscape.

Every day he and Yvonne walked by a slaughterhouse that was slated to be sold to Swift, the American meatpacking company. Its workers had packed the plant to prevent the transaction. The Paytons woke up one Saturday morning to footsteps on their roof and a pistol shot.

“I went up to the roof and found another officer up there—he could see better from our roof. I was wearing a T-shirt in English and he said ‘Don’t wear that today.’ I was working at headquarters at the time while learning the language, and being a dumb gringo, I get all uniformed up,” Payton said.

On his way down to the trolley car station, he saw a woman coming around the corner from the direction of the plant rubbing her eyes.

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We got a couple of responses to a letter to the editor (“For Whom the Bell Tolls,” Sept. 16) by Trevor Pinch. Pinch objected to the use of gong to silence speakers who went on too long in a discussion of GMOs at the Unitarian Church.

Watching the entire proceedings on youtube, its clear the gong was necessary to moderate the evening. Those who experienced the gong, were clearly not interested in dialog, but rather attempting to impose long personal diatribes on an unconsenting audience. Hijacking a microphone to spew out long debunked arguments is not rational debate.

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her family,” Payton said he thought. “In a minute I knew what happened—it was tear gas.”

The 20th century global market found Argentina while the Paytons were away for 30-plus years.

“The first time, there were no supermarkets. They were still delivering milk in horse-drawn wagons,” Payton said.

“You got everything either in little corner grocery store or went to the market. Now, it’s just like here.” •

I agree with the previous comment about the rather bizarre accusation that the gong was used to silence debate. Simple equation: You have an hour-long event, and, let’s say, 20 people who want to ask questions. That leaves 3-minutes per question, including the answer to the question. (And the last part is KEY!) So just because the organizers had to enforce time limits on the few individuals who wanted to get up on their soap box and monopolize the time, does not mean the organizers were repressing debate. Then the writer goes on to say: “We are Ithaca. We know about science. We know how to make sacred music, too. We know plenty about farming. We know about good food.” I don’t think anyone at the Alliance for Science has ever once questioned that the Ithaca community is generally speaking highly educated and intelligent. But clearly, at least a few members of the audience knew little about the relevant science. The lady who talked about “GMO Corn in breast milk” comes to mind. She is an example of a member of our community who has formed an opinion not based on science. So, speak for yourself, Trevor—perhaps you “know about science,” but clearly that lady could brush up on her scientific knowledge. And let me leave it at this: “We know arrogance when we hear it, and it doesn’t resonate well with our community.” Here I agree wholeheartedly with the author. I know arrogance when I hear it, and it doesn’t resonate well with me either.

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Ithaca College controls tuition, preserves quality

By Bill Chaisson

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thaca College is expensive. It cost in 1948 and is of of humanities and sciences, $39,532 in tuition and fees to comparable size, has alumni return, said Rochon, to attend the school last year (2014an endowment of $861 tell students how their study of, 15), which is 27 percent higher million. (Rochon’s say, philosophy informed their than the average cost to attend a former employer, careers. private college in the United States. Room the University of Ithaca College doesn’t and board is $14,332, 28 percent higher St. Thomas, has an use data to document how than average. But IC, under the leadership endowment of $458 its education translates into of its president, Tom Rochon, is in the million.) “We are on successful careers, said Rochon, third year of a self examination aimed at the expensive side although he allowed that the reducing costs on campus in order to slow among private schools,” school is “broadly subject to the rise in tuition and keep the college Rochon admitted, “but national trends.” Rather they affordable. The program is working. after scholarships are prefer to use individual stories In February 2015 the IC board of figured in, we are very of success to encourage and trustees announced that the tuition for the expensive, because we guide students.

2015-16 school year would be $40,658, don’t have a significant All IC students are and room and board would increase endowment compared encouraged to spend a semester to $14,684, for a total of $55,332. This to other schools.” at one of the college’s three offrepresents an overall increase of only 2.73 The size of the campus centers in London, Los percent (tuition itself rose only 1.1 percent student body at IC has Angeles, or New York City. All for each of the last four years, according to grown from about 1,500 three locations are staffed with Rochon), the smallest rise in the history of in the mid 1960s to IC faculty and students go to the college, which was established in 1892. 6,234 undergraduates classes at night so that they can For the first 30 years of its existence, and 489 graduate work at internships during the according to Rochon, students day. The Los Angeles center who is in his eighth today. The is geared toward exposing “Most of the years as IC president, undergraduate students to the entertainment schools we the school was a population of industry and is open only to compare private for-profit University of Park School students, but the ourselves to conservatory, focused St. Thomas is other two centers are available almost entirely about the same to students from any program. have a 100on training music size as IC’s, but While the London program year headstart students. “We are a it is an urban has existed for 42 years, the New on us.” very young college university with York program was established —Tom Rochon compared to many prominent law

by Rochon quite recently. “I other schools,” said and engineering thought it was odd that we Rochon, who came to IC from a job as schools (Rochon helped didn’t already have one,” he provost of St. Thomas University in St. to establish the latter), said. “I guess it was thought that Paul, Minnesota, which was founded as a and it overall has four New York was too close, but it Catholic seminary seven years before IC times the number of isn’t.” He said that the size of was established. “Most of the schools that graduate students as IC. the new program mushroomed we compare ourselves with have a 100About 50 percent of overnight. year headstart on us. In many ways our IC students are in the • • • history really dates from the 1960s, when liberal arts program, The Online Learning To m R o c h o n , P r e s i d e n t o f It h ac a C o l l e g e we built this campus [on South Hill].” and the other half Consortium (formerly the (A l l p h o t o s : Ti m G e r a) Rochon said that the 75-year institution are in professional Sloan Consortium) conducted had essentially no endowment when preparation schools. a study in 2012 which found (1) “We make a more systematic effort it moved from downtown Ithaca to its “The market will determine how that will 32 percent of higher education students to expose the professional students to present location. evolve,” said Rochon, “but it will never be now take at least one course online; (2) the liberal arts,” he said, “but all students The IC endowment at the end of more than 60/40 either direction.” Rochon 77 percent of academic leaders rate the choose a theme, which causes them to the fiscal year 2013 was $268.2 million. feels that each of the programs leverage learning outcomes in online education as ask the question, ‘How do families of For comparison, Brandeis University in one another, creating graduates who are the same or superior to those in face-todisciplines think about that theme?’ and Massachusetts, which was only established “more ready for a changing world.” face; and (3) 62.4 percent of the colleges we respect that voyage.” In the school 8

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Is Ithaca College going in this direction in order to cut its costs? “Online coursework is a great thing,” said Rochon.

“It opens up higher education to people who could not otherwise go to college.

That’s not Ithaca College.”

This is not to say that IC does not offer online coursework. The communications school offers an “executive master’s degree” that is achieved largely online. “It is for people in early to mid career,” said the president, “who are preparing to take a leap into the leadership level.” Also, IC undergraduates are able to take online courses while they are away at one of the off-campus centers in order to keep on track toward their degrees.

“We try to make the residential campus experience as rich as possible,” said Rochon. “We have calculated that student spend one million minutes on campus on average during their four years here. Only a small fraction of that is actually spent in the classroom. The residential experience is about the growth and development of the human being.”

To that end IC undergraduates have clubs, teams, and residence hall groups to choose from. Each student is encouraged to maintain an “electronic portfolio” to record their reactions to participation in this on campus panoply.

Until recently, IC, like most colleges, had a vice president for academic affairs, who looked after what happened inside the classroom, and a vice president of student affairs, who looked after what went on outside classroom. Rochon decided that this represented an artificial separation of the two parts of the student

experience and he consolidated the administrative positions in a single office: the vice president for educational affairs.

• • • The other cost-cutting measure that many colleges and universities have taken is to swell the ranks of their adjunct and non-tenure-track faculty.

The part-time adjunct faculty at Ithaca College just formed a union last semester.

Will they be looking at an increase in their ranks as the colleges seeks to cut costs?

According to Rochon, no. This follows on the importance of the residential experience as immersive, said the president.

“Our faculty do more than teach courses,” he said. “They are role models and mentors. For us to accomplish our mission, faculty must be a visible and engaged part of the campus culture.”

Furthermore, Rochon said that Ithaca College is not trying to reduce its price to the average price, because he believes that the quality of the IC education is above average “given our commitment to an immersive, hands-on education in which every student is not only known by their name but is known for who they are: their aspirations, their learning styles, and what their need from us to be successful in their life goals.”

Adjuncts and “NTENs” (as nontenure-track faculty are known at IC) are not hired in order to save money.

For the most part, we make part time faculty appointments where the subject matter calls for it rather than as a cost-saving measure,” said Rochon. “An example would be use of an adjunct—or part time faculty as we call them at IC—to teach a course in an area where we don’t need as much capacity as would be offered

by a full time faculty member. An example would be instruction in a language that is taken by relatively few students.”

Rochon was also at pains to distinguish between part-time adjunct professors and “NTENs” “NTENs are full time, are often on multi-year contracts, are competitively compensated, and receive benefits identical to those of other full time employees,” he said. “There is little or no cost savings associated with hiring an NTEN compared to hiring a tenure track faculty members.”

These faculty are hired when the college is unsure whether they will continue teaching a subject, or, more often, when someone with professional experience (along with a master’s degree or Ph.D.) is the best person to teach a topic.

Historically, however, NTENs have been hired for many reasons. “Most often in such cases the first appointment was made years ago, perhaps decades ago,” said the president, “and the reasons for an NTEN appointment rather than a tenure track appointment are no longer apparent.

Those situations will resolve naturally as faculty retire or otherwise leave the college, and we are trying to use the NTEN designation in a more focused way going forward.”

• • • The cost of college tuition is legendarily a black box; the institutions of higher learning are few that wish to explain why their price tags are growing faster than inflation. According to the College Board, a non-profit with a mission to expand access to higher education, after increases as high as 9.5 percent beyond inflation in 2009-10 and 6.5 percent in T

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Three years ago Rochon inaugurated a study to analyze how Ithaca College spent money, identify where it was being wasted, and then change those programs and procedures. The college, he said, had grown willy-nilly over time, adding progressive initiatives, information technology, and other features to keep up with changes in the society around it.

“The growth of a college is like building a home one room at a time over decades,” said the president. “Every room is great while you’re in it, but what about the infrastructure that connects them all?”

Rochon found out that he had 1,100 staff members and 500 faculty, and no one was sure exactly what everyone did.

The first year of the study was consumed entirely by analysis, simply looking—in great detail—at how the college runs. The second year—last year—included more analysis, but 47 positions were identified as unnecessary.

Interestingly, 39 of those positions were not actually occupied by an employee.

“In this, our third year, the analysis tells me we can cut 40 positions without any diminution of quality,” said Rochon, “and we ought to be a good to very good organization in order for someone to want to come here.”

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smile. “Sometimes I think we were a little too transparent.” The announcements of “cuts” immediately suggested to some that the school was reacting to some financial difficulties. In fact Rochon was being proactive; the college is in not in money trouble at all. He plans to continue evaluating the spending habits of the school, but not to the extent of the last three years.

“The cuts gave us some breathing room,” he said. “We didn’t have any hiring freezes as you do when you are facing a budget gap.”

Rochon was proud of the fact that the total compensation at IC was actually smaller this year than last, even with all employees continuing to receive their scheduled raises. In addition, although IC tuition does continue to rise, it is rising more slowly than those of the institutions to which is usually compares itself; its price is drifting down within its cohort.

When pressed for an example of saving he found other than reducing staff size, Rochon immediately began talking about the purchase of supplies, materials and services. After compensating staff, this is the next largest category on a college budget; Ithaca College had been spending $65 million per year. Rochon said the “deep analysis” had turned up some “amazing irrationalities.” For example,

Rochon Ex pl a ins the ba l a nce between professiona l a nd L i b e r a l A r t s E m p h a s e s . (A l l p h o t o s : Ti m G e r a) he found that the college was using 12 the college approximately $74, or about different charter bus companies. “One is, $222,000 in a year. By halting this practice of course, too few,” he said, “but 12?” and reorganizing and streamlining the On a larger scale, the review of the inventories of all the departments on college’s procedures uncovered the fact campus (“strategic sourcing”) Rochon that the maintenance staff were making expects to save $5 to $7 million per year. on average of 3,000 runs per year (more “Every dollar from the student than eight per day, counting weekends) pocket,” he said, “should be spent in to pick up merchandise at one of three the best possible way.” This attitude had different stores in the city. Each run cost earned Rochon a nickname among his

staff: “cheapskate-in-chief.”

• • • In recent years TC3 has expanded their footprint in downtown Ithaca by building Coltivare, their farm-to-table bistro, and Cornell put their alumni offices underneath the Hilton Garden in the new Seneca Place building. All three local schools made an investment in Rev, the business incubator now camped out in the old Race Office Supplies building on the Commons, while its East State Street home in the Carey Building is renovated.

Ithaca College’s presence downtown is more low key. The Park School has a television production studio in the basement of Center Ithaca in the space formerly occupied by Cinemapolis. This year the IC art department opened the Creative Space in the Rothschild building. This combined studio and gallery space gives students from the humanities and sciences program the opportunity to get a feel for what it would feel like to work as a professional artist. Does Ithaca College plan to further expand their programming downtown?

“The nature of the downtown presence has to be such that it doesn’t dilute the reason we built this campus,” said Rochon.

“I don’t have an answer at this time. When the right answer presents itself, then we would jump on it immediately.” •

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The Ghost in You Is Back Alice Eve Cohen’s mother Returns

By Ryan Ch ambe rl ain Mettle. Enter Cohen’s mother, Louise.

The ghost appears undramatically and most often during the ten-minute meditation of radiation treatments. Such a setting is a comfortable one for her mother, who passed away two years after a double mastectomy. Every obstacle, in fact, seems to be an at-ease milieu for her.

Louise, born to an Oklahoma farming family, was a mother of three with two masters degrees and the toiling benefactor behind her husband’s own M.A. Cohen remembers her forever improving her Ph.D. dissertation, teaching courses at three universities, and carrying a community of activists—her kids always in tow—through a neighborhood of heinous prejudice, only to watch her family get bullied back for their Jewish name.

Twenty years after her mother’s death sits Alice Cohen. Isolated from her eldest daughter, powerless against her other child’s excruciating femur-winching, and confronted with her own mortal threat, she finds no maxim in which to shroud herself. And she’s not cheap enough to toss in an old-authored philosophy or paradigm for us to read her family

through. The satisfaction reading the book comes in the dialogue, an interplay between Mother and Daughter, the shadow of a concrete past streaked over a plastic future.

The raft of subplots is held together with the poetry of a curious mind and an occasionally rigorous one, ever willing to gauge itself against a critic’s bevel. At one point she tells the story of giving her young and brilliant feminist mother a new dustpan for her birthday. You cringe to know that in return a ghost can only give.

Though there is a lot to leave unenvied on the way, the book winds up warmly affirming. There is a reason summer is the door that closes the book, the season of mature endings if not happy ones, of strength, of unrelated noise conspiring to harmony. •

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n her three-act memoir Alice Eve Cohen carves out the ideal present for her family on the imperfect model of her past. In the process, her deceased mother sits on either shoulder, weighing in on every hole and fissure. Decades have passed since her mother’s death, but in The Year My Mother Came Back she emerges to echo Cohen’s strife. The acts align with the seasons of a school year, and her ‘mother’ comes back as a ghost, as memory, and finally as the author’s own role, one for which she has begun to feel undeservingly cast. She learns to appreciate herself the way she does the mother who raised her, a woman who was not unlike Mother Earth in spring: both vacillating and staying.

Cohen is first a playwright, and in the memoir—a form infamous for accommodating self-indulgent interludes—she doesn’t allow so much as a prop to sit without a working purpose. Every walk through the park or dream-made tunnel serves her story and, although it is rooted in her own perspective, all the family gets due limelight. And along the way we get a rare, analysis-sparing candor that renews the pleasure and pathos of reading memoir.

In the year, Cohen’s adopted daughter leaves to become a college freshman, and on her way out the door she tells Cohen she has discovered her biological mother and plans to spend the bulk of her breaks from school getting to know her.

The youngest daughter, a third-grader, requires an eight-month bone-lengthening procedure on her leg, which is three inches shorter than the other and threatens to reroute her spine and shorten her life.

Within weeks of this doctor’s surgical prescription, another hands over Cohen’s own: a lumpectomy for her breast cancer.

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hile most collegiate football programs have three games under their belts, the Big Red of Cornell are 0-1 after a loss to Bucknell on Saturday. The Ivy League starts late and finishes early, as there are no post-

season bowl games or tournaments to look forward to, but it’s still Division 1 football and worth a trip up the hill.

Bucknell pulled out a win (its first in Ithaca in 20 years) by virtue of a desperation heave into the end zone late

in the game, and while such a loss is tough to take, the fact that the game was a non-conference contest make the pill a little less bitter. Even though there are no post-season bowl games or conference tournaments, the Ivy League title is still the prize.

The pre-season polls were not optimistic regarding Cornell’s chances in the Ancient Eight, but Saturday’s game gave some glimpses into some positive trends. Senior running back Luke Hagy rushed for 105 yards, and the effort was his fourth consecutive 100-yard game. Chad Levitt (who went on to play in the NFL) was the last Cornell back to do that, as he racked up six consecutive 100-yard games

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The fact that Cornell held Bucknell to 3.7 yards per play also bodes well, as does the fact that punter Chris Fraser’s 45-yard average should benefit the defense from a field position perspective.

I had a nice, long conversation with head coach David Archer a few weeks ago, and we talked about the factors involved in building a program. Archer is in his third season, and the Cornell alum knows that in a coach’s first year everyone gives him a break, knowing he is building with another coach’s building blocks, trying to implement his own system. Expectations rise a bit every year, but Archer knows the school, knows the conference, and knows what it takes to balance Ivy League academics with D-1 demands. It takes a special person to acquire and implement the time management skills to pull it off, and Archer had been there, done that, as the saying goes. He is the right guy to lead the Big Red, and while a league title might still be a bit out of reach, you can be sure that is the goal for the season.

Cornell opens the Ivy League season next weekend when it visits Yale on Saturday at 1 p.m. in New Haven.

• • • There is a phenomenon known as the “Sports Illustrated Jinx,” and some athletes do not want to be featured in the magazine because it is said that all too often, they put forth substandard performances. I am pleased to say that there is no “Ithaca Times Jinx,” as many of the athletes featured in this column have seen no downturn in their performances.

Rhonda Bullard, for example, was featured here a few weeks ago, and I wrote about her trip to Vermont last year, were she won a grueling “Ultra Beast” race in the Spartan Races. Well, Rhonda has been busy since that story came out, winning the first Cornell Spartan race and finishing eighth among Elite women at the Tri-State Spartan Super in New Jersey, and to cap it off, she traveled to Vermont last weekend and won the Ultra-Beast race again, taking the top prize in 9 hours, 28 minutes and 4 seconds. She was not only the first Female Master’s finisher, but the first overall among women. Nine hours of torture is about 8 hours, 55 minutes more than most people want to undertake, but it’s called an Ultra-“Beast” for a reason. Way to go, Rhonda.

• • • The Jinx did not affect the Cornell women’s soccer team either, as they are still only one of two colleges in Division 1 (out of 335 teams) to not yet allow a goal all season. That’s impressive. The Big Red are now 6-0-2.

• • • I pointed out recently that Woflgang Schafer, the son of Syracuse University’s head coach Scott Schafer, had earned the starting QB spot at Ithaca College and intended to keep it. The Bombers are now 2-0, the Orange are 3-0, and things are good in the Schafer household. •

Life and Times of a Working Blues Man

By G.M. Burns

Chris Smither (Photo Jeff Fasano)

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t seems to be a truism that the longer a musician plays in folk, blues, or jazz music, the more admired the artist becomes. Chris Smither’s melodic voice moving melodies of artful folk and blues-tinged music has made this truism reality for a quiet and self-made artist. Now 70 years old, Smither is well into five decades of writing and touring and has released 16 albums. In addition he has a mix of eight other live and compilation releases to his credit.

Smither was drawn to musical performance in 1965, and at the behest of an early musical mentor, Eric von Schmidt, Smither left his collegiate anthropology studies for the folk scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts. While performing there he met Bonnie Raitt, among other artists.

Soon after Raitt recorded the song “Love You Like A Man.” She also sang Smither’s song “I Feel the Same” on her 1973 album Takin’ My Time.

Smither’s early music—in the 1970s— had mixed results as he suffered through a bout of alcoholism. As he states in his official biography, “I was basically drunk for 12 years, and somehow I managed to climb out of it; I don’t know why.”

In the 1980s, Smither recorded and toured more.

Artists including Diana Krall, John Mayall, Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris and the late Esther Phillips have all covered Smither’s work.

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in 2006, it peaked at number two in the Top Blues Albums on Billboard.

His most recent album, Still on the Levee, was released in 2014. It is a two-disc retrospective, and it features 25 songs from throughout his career. It peaked at number seven. On the album he worked with New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint, songwriter and artist Loudon Wainwright, and former band members of Morphine.

A master guitar picker, Smither is currently on tour and will perform on September 26 at the Dock. He recently spoke with the Ithaca Times about his love of playing music and being on tour.

Ithaca Times: The power of music grew for you at an early age. What drew you to music, and how did you decide to pick up a ukulele as a child?

Chris Smither: I found the ukulele. It was in the attic, and it was my mother’s. I thought it was a guitar because I was very small. And my uncle, Howard, a good musician, [said], ‘No, that’s a ‘uke,’ and he says, ‘Here, I’ll show you how to play something on it.’ Basically in twenty mintues [he] showed me how to play three chords, how to play a song, [and] how to hear changes. And I remember saying, ‘It’s that easy,’ and he said, ‘Yeah. It is that easy.’ [Laughs] If you know three chords you can play almost any song you know. And if you know four you can rule the world.

IT: What are those chords?

CS: The one, four, and five, and the relative minor.

IT: Who was it that you were listening to then, and how did it help in your playing and songwriting?

CS: Well, I am not so sure it helped my playing or my songwriting with the people I was listening to then, but I was just listening to people like Burl Ives and Josh White and people that my parents had their records, and these were the songs that I learned how to sing.

And the ones I learned how to play.

Shortly after that—I’m 70 years old, so we’re talking about the middle-1950s and rock ‘n’ roll was just really starting—I was entranced, as you might imagine, and anybody that age would be, and what I really wanted to play was rock ‘n’ roll, and that’s what really got me into the blues. Because when I first heard blues, essentially I was listening to one-man rock ‘n’ roll. And I didn’t even realize that I was listening to the roots of rock ‘n’ roll—I didn’t find that out until later. And that was what got me into that form.

IT: Where do you find the inspiration for your songs? Are you an avid reader?

CS: I do read a lot, and if you go to any particular album, you’ll hear [it], because most of the songs written are maybe written within a nine-, ten-month period. You’ll see that they continued on page 26

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French Treats

A Chance to Experience Unusual and Obscure Music

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fter closing last year’s season with a magnificent presentation of the Monteverdi Vespers—one of the Ithaca community’s best classical musical events in years—the early music ensemble NYS Baroque, in its 27th season, will concentrate on more intimate music with small and unusual ensembles. Their opening concert, called French Café and featuring just four performers, takes place this Saturday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Ithaca’s Unitarian Church. A pre-concert talk and demonstration at 6:45 p.m. will include an audience sing-along.

Music director Deborah Fox, a specialist on all sorts of lutes and founder of the Rochester-based Pegasus Early Music concert series, is excited about this concert. “It’s something really different,” she said, “unusual music that is not done very much.” The small courses in the French café are medieval fare, from the 12th through the 16th centuries, with several sorbet tastes of English and Italian dance music to cleanse the palette. This music has “so many sound worlds, with a huge variety of styles,” Fox added.

Although most listeners think of this era as just Gregorian chant, there is “not one note” of it on a program of all secular music. Fox also is happy to be working with close friends associated with Pegasus—it seems that all these early music performers know each other well. In fact, they started rehearsals Monday in Rochester, and everyone is staying with Fox in her home

there.

These friends are Brazilian countertenor José Lemos, whom we heard beautifully singing Italian Renaissance music last year; Dongmyung Ahn on early bowed instruments that create both melodies and drones—the rebec, with only three strings, and the vielle, an ancestor of the viola; Ithaca-born Christa Patton, who spent childhood years on our lake’s western shores, on the Bray harp—which has tiny wooden pegs and buzzes—as well as bagpipes and recorder. Fox, instead of the usual strumming on her 5-string lutes, will mostly be plucking strings with a plectrum (pick).

“We all chose the pieces together,” Fox explained. The program, arranged chronologically, starts off with music by the 12th-century troubadours from southern France, who roamed the countryside with their instruments, singing melodies and poetry of their own composition. Three pieces include “Pour oublier mon malheur”

by Bernart de Ventadorn, famous during his time, and notable today because a lot of his music has survived. Two selections from the court include a song, by Richard the Lionheart, king of England, believed to have been composed while he was imprisoned. After a taste of two 13thcentury English dances, we hear the first of three works by prominent 14th-century composer Guillaume de Machaut from Reims.

The second half of the program

Musical Director Deborah Fox (Photo Provided)

opens with a famous and exceedingly complicated piece, “La Harpe de melodie,” by 14th-century northern French composer

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Jacob de Senleches. The score is in the shape of a harp, and the music—a round with two instruments and a tenor—is, Fox said, “quirky, with some dissonance, and some incredibly rhythmically difficult sections.” Other highlights include two works by the Burgundian Guillaume Dufay, the leading composer of 15th-century France, who had enormous influence on the musical style of his time. After some French dances including the lively tourdion in triple meter, we hear “L’Amour de moi,” an anonymous song that comes from the Bayeux Manuscript, a beautifully illustrated document dating from the late 15th century.

This recognizable melody has survived over centuries in many versions, including those

by Joseph Canteloube and the Swingle Singers.

This concert richly demonstrates the great variety in medieval music, ranging from single-voice melodies to complex counterpoint, with some light and dancelike pieces, and others “very heady.” And there is improvisation too, as the musicians try to do “a lot of what we think they did,” Fox explains, in following both notes and technique. So much wasn’t written down or has a minimal score. But she confesses, “I’m really kind of in love with this music.” Come and enjoy the French treat. •

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he list of names reads like a racing form at Belmont Park or Saratoga Springs.

Tompkins King.

Baldwin. Ashmead’s Kernel.

Brown Snout. Chestnut Crab. Northfield Beauty. William’s Pride. Summer Rambo.

Cox’s Orange Pippin. Bramley’s Seedling.

Harrys Masters Jersey. Porter’s Perfection.

Anyone but an orchardist can be forgiven for mistaking these monikers for contestants in horse racing’s Triple Crown. Apples are named in a similar fashion to thoroughbreds, with attention paid to a variety’s parents or its breeder when assigning names. Spy Gold is a locally prominent example that’s a cross of a Northern Spy and a Golden Delicious. Many varieties newly created in a university orchard languish in obscurity, unnamed, and unworthy of much attention from growers.

“Most of them never get named.

They have a number, and that’s it,” said Ian Merwin of Black Diamond Farm, Trumansburg.

“Ian said he was planting [cider varieties] just for fun in 1993 or ‘94,” said Jackie Merwin, as we meander along rows of apples planted on the 60-some acres at Black Diamond. “Last year was the first year we kept all the cider apples for ourselves.”

Ian started making cider in 1985 after his family moved to Ithaca, when he took a job in the horticulture department

at Cornell. Many of the trees he planted were from Poverty Lane Orchard in Lebanon, New Hampshire, whose owner Stephen Wood is oft referenced as an origin point for apple varieties growing in the States. The Merwins were some of the first growers in the Finger Lakes to start focusing more on growing apples for hard cider production, which means that by now they have provided grafts to start trees at hundreds of cider orchards across the country.

For those uninitiated in cider making, the first discovery one makes is that an eating apple is much different from an apple that can be made into a tasty drink with an alcoholic kick.

“A lot of people call these spitters,” Merwin said, handing over a piece of fruit that’s gritty and leaves the mouth feeling dry, like after a drink of red wine.

“When you’re trying to figure out when to pick them, you taste, chew, and spit. That mealiness gives it a very high juice yield.”

John Reynolds of Daring Drake Farm and Blackduck Cidery in Ovid makes a Spanish-style sidra, some varieties of which are not carbonated and aren’t quite as strong in alcohol content, in the five to six percent range, so “tannins help give it that mouthfeel, so it doesn’t taste watery.”

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sometimes in 80 percent range. I like a really heavily tannic cider. In the city [New York City], they liken it more to a red wine, which I think is probably true.”

Appearance is also less of a consideration with cider apples. Porter’s Perfection, for example, often grows in odd shapes or lumps, which produces a strange looking fruit, but it doesn’t matter much when it’s going under the press. Newtown Pippin began as a chance seedling in Queens in the 1750s and was a hit with colonial growers.

Its role as America’s green-yellow, tart eating apple has been pushed aside

by Granny Smiths, which have less russeting and a more robust appearance, but cider makers still prize the native American variety.

Golden Russet originated near Canandaigua around 1850. They’re high in acid and in sugar, making it useful in cider making, though not so pretty on the farmstand.

A tree must prove its worth over time to earn its name among apple growers, whether a variety is newly bred or new to the country. The tree must survive the upstate winters, and the fruit and tree must resist stress from heat and cold.

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about 50 apple varieties growing; now after years of experience and experimentation, the Merwins have pared that number down to 17 or 18 types.

As an example of a newer variety that’s been a hit, Gold Rush was developed

by Purdue in the early ‘90s. It ripens very late, in the first week of November, and “stores forever, six to nine months,” Reynolds said.

Liberty, developed by Cornell, is disease-resistant and the Merwins grow it gladly, though Reynolds said he’s “not a fan of Liberty in the ferment, but I’m the only one apparently.”

Spy Gold is John’s favorite New York apple, released

by Cornell in the early 1960s. He’s anxiously awaiting the release of several varieties imported by a visiting professor who brought what he thought were the eight best varieties from Asturias, a region in the north of Spain. He has Callos growing now, and would like to put 10 or so trees of each strain into his orchard once they’re released from quarantine in the Plant Genetic Resources Unit, a U.S. Department of Agriculture program based in Geneva. It’s the official repository for control genotypes in apples.

“They can be in quarantine a couple months to up to 10 years,” said Reynolds.

“They’re taking the tissue culture and cleaning it up. They don’t want to introduce funky new viruses to the apple industry in the U.S.”

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In his service on the national committee for apple crop germplasm, coordinated by the USDA’s Agriculture Research Service, Merwin was able to “go up to Geneva and just get buds” from the collection of 500 or 600 varieties for cider making alone. He recently planted English, French, and Spanish varieties; the blossoms are getting pulled off one type of tree for two years so it just grows, with many trees yielding fruit in year three or four.

If the fruit tastes right, growers will put up with a lot of headaches to get those apples. Northern Spies “are a pain in the butt” to grow, Reynolds said, with “bad tree form.” But he likes the way they taste in his ferment, so they grow at Daring Drake. Terroir matters for apples as well, naturally.

Over time, a variety might fade in its native territory while thriving in new climes.

“Kingston Black was the biggest cider apple in England for years, but they’re ripping them out,” said Reynolds. “It’s not productive over there, but is very productive in New York and New England. We had some guys from Bulmers Cider [from Clonmel, Ireland] over like 10 years ago, and they were pissed off they saw their tree so productive over here.”

If cider continues its upward swing in popularity, the Merwins and Reynolds don’t expect that there will be some upsurge in the number of fellow growers, though they expect to keep getting calls from people who want to make cider.

Jackie Merwin said she has an email folder full of messages from people

looking for particular cider apples “that have no intention of growing their fruit themselves.”

“I want,” Reynolds said, “to control everything: grow it, make the cider. As it shakes out and the numbers grow, it’ll probably be true that [fewer and fewer cider makers] will be folks like Ian and me growing it and making it.”

The boom in sweet, six-pack ciders isn’t a bad thing, John thought, though he doesn’t drink that style of cider. He’s prone to defend it, at least from those makers, like Angry Orchard, which buy Americangrown apples instead of importing Chinese concentrate like some of the other “big boys,” which he calls a “whole different

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“Gallo and those other jug wines, they got people into wine, and some moved onto the higher end stuff,” Reynolds noted.

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his year’s Downtown Apple Harvest Festival will be the first big festival on the new Commons. The folks at the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) had to re-think the way they lay out the festival in order to fit it into the new design.

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one reason for the redesign. The broad promenade down the middle of the new Commons allows fire engines and ambulance to drive anywhere quickly, but that thoroughfare must remain open during a festival. That is, vendor may not set up stalls in it and stages may not be there.

The new layout of the pedestrian mall puts all the permanent (and many movable) features in a double row between the walkways adjacent to the East State Street buildings and the central thoroughfare.

Ferguson said that initally those double rows were not as crowded. But various parties kept adding features and now the DIA must reinvent how to conduct a downtown festival.

“It has been an interesting chess game,” he said. “It wouldn’t matter the design.

We would still have to get used to a new design no matter what it was like.”

Ferguson said that city officials have been looking over the shoulders of the DIA staff as they plan the event to insure that all codes are met.

But not to worry, the apple harvest festival will still look like you remember it. “It is stock and standard,” said Ferguson. “Ninety percent of the vendors will be familiar.”

The festival has grown over the years—Ferguson thought it had been going on for some 30 years—adding beer and wine sales and carnival rides.

There will be three or four stages, including the new Bernie Milton Pavilion in Bank Alley. Each year there are about 20 farm vendors, many, but not all of them, apple vendors. About 100 crafters is also a standard number. The wild card is food vendors, the number of which can vary.

During the Commons construction for two years part of the festival had to be moved to North Aurora Street. That will no longer be necessary, but it will still extend into North Cayuga Street between Green Street and Dewitt Park and also in the block of East State Street in front of the State Theatre.

The extension down North Cayuga to Buffalo leads people to the other event that is going on that weekend on Saturday: the First Peoples’ Festival, which is organized by the Multicultural Resource Center.

This year the Downtown Apple Harvest Festival is also listed as an event in Cider Week (ciderweekflx.com), which is a geographically more widespread event.

“If we can have a piggy-back, then that’s great,” said Ferguson. “We want as many people to participate as possible. The State Theatre is now running shows during the festival, which is great.”

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val has gotten to be about as large as the Ithaca Festival, lasting as many days and drawing as many people.

“People plan their vacations around it,” he said. “A lot of alums [from Cornell and Ithaca College] come back to town for it. It is really great for tourism.”

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mily Breedlove’s work is subtle.

Displayed in the downstairs bar of Lot 10, the pieces, made primarily from birch plywood and nails or wire, sit against the lounge’s brick walls with seamless ease. Purposefully unfinished in the sense of everyday materials and only a slight coating of wood stain, the artwork fits in perfectly with the exposed studio style and collaged upholsteries of its surroundings. It seems too easy to call the work “raw,” a word that fails to give it the true reflection it deserves.

The show is entitled “Sorry to Be

Vag Chat by Emily Breedlove (Photo Bill Chaisson)

Frank” and includes five recent sculptural “drawings” by Breedlove, who recently graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a degree in sculpture and deems this her first exhibition in Ithaca. “The pieces,” she writes in her artist statement, “are focused on this past year of embracing the reality of becoming an adult after college.”

Each work shares a commonality in its material choice and the eloquently rhythmic qualities in which these materials are used. The Guilt That Binds You and Getting High on Your Manipulation hang side by side at the start of the show.

Aluminum wire twists and bends in both cases, attached to plywood bases, as it creates organic masses that hover over white painted silhouettes. Two other works, F*** You & Your Mama Too and Bitch Inside, have a reverse design. Shapes are, again, painted in solid white or gray against the wood, but this time instead of materials covering the shapes, they surround them. In the former artwork, an abstract white center is surrounded by numerous glinting and forcefully placed

flathead nails; in the latter, nails map out the corners of a form with thread linking them together, as if following a map that zigzags with the narrator’s complex and mental uncertainties.

My favorite work in the show, perhaps due to its execution and undertone of social critique, is Vag Chat. Made from ripped up romance novels nailed to wood backing, the resulting piece is gratifying to witness with its ruffled yet definite shape and the softened edges of ripped paper that stick out boldly, as if exploding from the written world into the physical one. Emotions are clearly palpable here, whether they be lovesickness at romanticized visions or frustration at romance novels’ (and by extension, society’s) overly simplified and often too insistent portrayals of relationships. Or, if veering from the romance spectrum, this piece could be viewed as an expression of post-college life as well: romanticized visions of adulthood suddenly fractured by reality and the responsibilities actual adulthood requires.

Admittedly, I could be getting these interpretations entirely wrong; it’s often hard to say. But, eliciting various thoughts and emotions is often a key indicator of successful contemporary art, and Breedlove seems to have the potential to achieve both. Her work appears authentic and grounded, soft-spoken but with the ability to speak loudly. And viewing her website only strengthens this impression, as, even more so than her recent works, her past installations (for which she specializes) further support her sensibilities and ability to produce journeys and massive, dramatically effective works that appear haunting, repetitious, fragile, and intricately considered. I’d be curious to see Breedlove exhibit in an actual gallery, free to work in larger scale and to have her work stand for itself, creating its own environment rather than adding to another one (in this case, complementing Lot 10’s).

“Sorry to Be Frank” does have a few elements that appear unclear.

However emotional Breedlove’s pathways may be, harsh words like “guilt” and “manipulation” in her works’ titles remain unexplained, thus making the show’s actual narrative and “frankness” a bit muddled. Even so, the exhibition presents a beautiful selection of work, highlighting the artist’s self-proclaimed focus on bringing attention to materials through use of repetition and light. In time, Breedlove will surely be onto something big. • “Sorry to Be Frank” will be on display at Lot 10, located at 106 S. Cayuga St., through October.

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the big screen. This thing was designed to be seen big.”

So if there are any second-run or rep houses showing Mad Max: Fury Road, I would seek them out. You will see a magnificent prolonged car chase, a deeply-felt feminist saga and postapocalyptic crazies with great names like Rictus Erectus, Toast the Knowing, and Cheedo the Fragile. Tom Hardy plays the title character, but he’s really the sidekick, relegated to riding shotgun for Charlize Theron in one of her greatest roles as a rebel woman warrior searching for her homeland.

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effects. 20 minutes into the new thing, I wasn’t thinking about CGI and motion capture. I was in the driver’s seat with Theron and Hardy. It’s an exhilarating view.

• • • I still haven’t forgiven Kenneth Branagh for his poor direction of Thor and his dreadful Sleuth remake, so when I heard he had directed Disney’s live-action version of Cinderella, I stayed home.

That turned out to be a mistake.

(Sensing a theme here?)

It turns out that the new Cinderella is a delight, the best version of the fairy tale since the Drew Barrymore vehicle Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998).

Screenwriter Chris Weitz has rightly realized that the story we’ve all grown up with doesn’t need any unnecessary padding; it’s all done with great style and simplicity, with Lily James as Cinderella going through life with good advice from her late mother (Hayley Atwell): “Be brave and kind.”

Weitz does take just enough time to give Cate Blanchett’s wicked stepmother enough psychological shading so that we understand her fears and insecurities, and she isn’t left twirling a cardboard villain’s moustache. James is sweet and winning, never saccharine and syrupy.

It’s Helena Bonham Carter who steals the shows as a delightfully ditzy Fairy Godmother. I’ve never understood why Cinderella’s glass slippers retain their appearance when her coach turns back into a pumpkin, and all that. One good round of “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (The Magic Song)” should quell any lingering doubts.

• • • Liam Neeson reinvented himself as an action hero in the “man with a special set of skills” genre. He made two films with director Jaume Collet-Serra—Unknown and Non-Stop—that make no sense when the lights come up. So I skipped their latest collaboration, Run All Night.

You know the rest: blah bah. Mistake.

Turns out that Run All Night is one of those almost-Shakespearean dramas like Heat: well-acted and almost operatic, like the Godfather films. Neeson plays a washed-up hit man who must decide whether to protect his estranged son (Joel Kinnaman) against the orders of his old friend and boss, played by Ed Harris. When Neeson and Harris powwow in small, cramped spaces, it’s like watching Godzilla face off against King Kong, two old pros locking eyes and working their wills on each other. The personal connection makes all the action resonate and mean something beyond gritty car chases and stunts. •

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Not only does her winning photo grace the cover of the May/June issue of Audubon, beginning in November it will hang in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The September issue of Smithsonian Magazine features photos of white “spirit bears” from the Great Bear Rainforest in British Colombia, taken by Groo on assignment.

Her bimonthly column on photography can be found in Wild Planet Photo Magazine, while she herself could be found this summer teaching photography at Hog Island Audubon Camp in Maine and coleading a photo safari in Tanzania.

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much closer to home. On Oct. 3 from 4 to 8 p.m. Groo’s new show, “For the Love of Wildlife,” will open at the Cooper-Meier Gallery in Ithaca. A portion of the money from sales at the gallery will be donated to the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Health Center at Cornell University, which Groo pointed out operates on a shoe-string budget, financially separate from Cornell.

“They’re just spectacular,” Ron Cooper, co-owner of the gallery, said about her photos. “The unbelievable feeling of movement and emotion that she captures is what makes them so appealing.” They also offer an intimate glimpse into the natural world. Cooper said one photo of an egret couple interacting on a pond evoked “a guy asking a girl to dance.”

The title of the show refers to Groo’s own love of wildlife but also love among wildlife. She is especially thrilled to capture sensitive moments between maligned and persecuted predators like wolves, coyotes, and foxes. Another piece to look out for is a tender scene between a mother and young bobcat, which will appear this winter in the

National Wildlife Magazine as a two-page spread.

Just as amazing as the shots themselves is the fact that Groo never baits an animal. Groo is a member of the North American Nature Photography’s ethics committee and a well-known advocate of ethical behavior in the wildlife photography community. Instead, she uses her knowledge of animal behavior—what a species does in different Photographer Melissa Groo (Photo Provided) seasons, what they eat, where they rest, how they behavior. tend to react to their surroundings—to get Now, when Groo leads classes or tutors close to wildlife. “To be a really successful individuals in photography, she can pass on wildlife photographer,” she said, “is to be a these skills, as well as her ethical principles. naturalist to some extent.”

Placing the welfare of the subject above Groo is always looking for ways for the photo can mean knowing when to her words and photos to educate people walk away from a great shot. Melyssa about the biology and conservation needs St. Michael, a resident of Bentonville, of the animals she works with, whether she Arkansas, who trained privately with Groo, is teaching, giving a talk, or even sharing said that Groo taught her to watch for a picture on Facebook. “I’m not really certain behaviors that showed how wildlife interested in selling for the sake of selling,” felt about the two being present. “If they she said. were preening, feeding or wing-stretching, While Groo did not start out as a though they knew we were there, they naturalist, she spent two field seasons were at ease with our presence. She walked observing elephants in the Central African me through the signs of distress, and how Republic with elephant researcher Katy to gently retreat if the subject appeared Payne, now retired from the Cornell disturbed.” • Laboratory of Ornithology. From Payne More opportunities to see Groo and her and from the work itself, Groo learned work can be found on her website, www. patience while sitting with a wildlife subject melissagroo.com. and becoming attuned to nuances of

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IT: It sounds like it. What do you feel is more enjoyable for you, is it the writing, recording or performing live?

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IT: You have worked with many artists in the past, but is there someone you would wish to work with but haven’t yet?

CS: Mark Knopfler.

IT: Why? CS: Because he’s great. [Laughs] IT: But what makes his music great?

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He’s a wonderful player. He’s got a great ear.

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IT: Do you feel accomplished as a musician, a writer and a father so far?

CS: Oh, pretty good, yeah. It’s kind of amazing. Things seemed to have worked out.

IT: In your spare time, how do you relax?

CS: I read. I play games. I play with my daughter. I take pictures and nap.

IT: Is there a question on music you have not been asked?

CS: You know what, if there were, I would have told someone to ask me. I don’t think so.

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ave Hall, with input from Jon Ulrich, has written a book called Winter in the Wilderness: A Field Guide to Primitive Survival Skills. Hall is a founder of the Primitive Pursuits program, locally well known for teaching kids outdoors skills for all seasons.

“This book is for anyone who spends time outside in the winter,” said Hall.

“This includes people who get stranded in their cars in winter,” said Ulrich.

“We covered a car with snow to make a snow cave,” Hall said with a grin.

Primitive Pursuits started as a program to give kids a grounding in wilderness survival. Hall himself attended Tom Brown Jr.’s Tracker School in New Jersey in order to get a foundation in outdoor skills, but he said a lot of what teaches he learned by doing.

Why learn this information?

“Well,” said Hall, “it will help you in a time of need, but it is will also deepen your connection to Nature. A lot of people have an innate fear of Nature, so coupled with a winter situation, people can really get into trouble. But, you know, you can actually be comfortable out there.”

Ulrich said that when he and Hall looked around they found a void in the literature when it came to treating the subject of winter survival. Tom Brown’s canonical book devoted only about four pages to winter.

“Larry Dean Olson [author of Outdoor Survival Skills] showed a single picture of a snow cave in his book,” said Hall, “and there was a fire going in it, which is not a good idea.”

Hall and Ulrich explained that snow caves can be so tight that a fire can consume the oxygen in the air inside it faster than the air can seep in, causing asphyxiation.

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Dave Hall, founder of Primitive Pursuits and author of “Winter in the Wilderness.” (Photo provided)

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literature identified, Hall and Ulrich were able to convince Cornell University Press to publish the book, which is due to be published this week (Sept. 22).

The chapter titles are straightforward: “Priorities,” “Fire,” “Shelter,” “Water,” and “Sustenance” begin the book. The chapters are subdivided into neat topics and illustrated with Hall’s clear line drawings.

Hall teaches winter survival skills to

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groups of children and then he selects those who seem to be taking them seriously and invites them to go on a field trip.

“You have to make sure they are ready,” he said. “We work on skills through the fall and we show them that they have to carry their own weight. They have to be a team player. If they don’t learn that, then they don’t get that letter inviting them on a trip.”

Hall described leading a group into the woods in the winter as an enormous amount of fun. “It fosters teamwork, community, and is just a joyous experience,” he said. “You actually get a little giddy, and in the end you’ve all bonded.”

“It harkens back to childhood,” said Ulrich. “Everyone’s built a snow fort with other kids.”

“It’s not therapy per se,” said Hall. “Just being outside is therapy today. It’s more of an unconscious rite of passage; it teaches you that you are capable.”

The programs start with kids as young as 11 or 12 years old and they continue to accept them through high school. Hall said, however, that it takes a special sixth grader to be ready for a winter camping trip.

He takes them to Hammond Hill State Forest or to Michigan Hollow [Danby State Forest], and occasionally all the way up to the Adirondacks. The groups include eight to 10 kids and another adult.

He has never led an entirely female group, but he would be willing to if he could convince a woman to go along on the trip with him. At this time girls have to wait to join Central Fire, a group for adult women organized by Cornell Cooperative Extension through 4H. §

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Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Ariana Wyatt, soprano; Phillip O. Paglialonga, clarinet; Richard Masters, piano Virginia Tech Faculty Chamber Players | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Chamber music, Classical.

Ariana Wyatt, soprano; Phillip O. Paglialonga, clarinet; Richard Masters, piano.

Kardemimmit | 7:00 PM | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Four young women from Finland sing and play the kantele, the national instrument of Finland.

They have performed together for twelve years and won numerous awards. Finnish, vocals, kantele, world, international.

9/29 Tuesday

Music bars/clubs/cafés

9/23 Wednesday

Salsa Dancing | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Latin, Jazz, Soul, Dancing.

FABI: Miami Latin Fusion Dance Music | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | World Beat, Roots, Groove, International, World, Funk, Jazz.

Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | I-Town Allstars are the House Band featuring members of: Mosaic Foundation, Big Mean Sound Machine, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, John Brown’s Body and More!

Open Jam with Featured Songwriters | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Join hosts David Graybeard and Mitch Wiedemann. We are looking for local songwriters, poets and authors to showcase their work.

Each week we will spotlight an artist for an hour, from about 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM, to perform (mostly) original compositions Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Billy Woods, Premrock, Curly Castro | 7:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Hip Hop, Progressive, Rap, Underground Hip Hop. Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408

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E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Richie Stearns & Friends, Bluegrass, Old-Time, Americana.

9/24 Thursday

Zero Mean | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Noise Rock, Space Rock, Punk, Shoegaze.

The Blind Owl Band | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Bluegrass, Acoustic, Americana.

Bronwen Exter | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St. #2, Ithaca | Alternative Rock, Alternative Country, Ethereal, Lounge.

Liz Enwright | 7:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Folk, Alternative, Blues, Indie, Singer Songwriter.

Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Enjoy jazz and bagels at CTB. Hoodoo Crossing: Blues, Brews and BBQ | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blues. Rock. Ribs.

9/25 Friday

The Goodfruits | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Experimental, Funk, Rock, Progressive Rock, Space Rock, Jam, Covers.

The MacGillicuddies | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Albert Capista, Amy Guptill, Thor Oechsner, Troy Oechsner, Emelie Peine (when she’s out East), Kai Schafft, Mark Taylor, and Eric Yettru.

Start Making Sense: Talking Heads Tribute | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | New Wave, Post-Punk, Dance Rock, Worldbeat, Art

Pop, Art Punk, Talking Heads covers.

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.

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Iron Horse | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Southern Rock, Texas Blues.

Bob and Dee | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Singer Songwriters, Rock, Pop, Country, Bluegrass, Americana, Soul.

The Immortal Jellyfish | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Country, Motown, Swing, Rock and Roll, Covers.

9/26 Saturday

Sammus, Stone Cold Miracle | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Hip Hop, Rap, Underground Hip Hop, Soul, Blues, Funk.

The Jeff Love Band | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Funk, Soul, Jazz, Rock.

Richman and the Poorboys | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock and Roll, Blues, Jazz, Bluegrass, Country.

Chris Smither | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk, Blues, Rock.

The Common Railers | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Country, Rock, Alternative Rock, Surf Rock, Americana, Roots Rock.

Encore | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca

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Districts | 5:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Alternative Rock, Indie Rock.

Toni-Marie Landy | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Pop, Vocals, Singer Songwriter.

9/27 Sunday

Jerome Attardo | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | The Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | Lunch with live classical piano.

Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park.

Louise Mosrie: WVBR’s Bound For Glory | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Singer Songwriter, Folk, Blues, Americana.

International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed.

The Small Kings | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Rock, Pop, Soul, Funk, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock.

Under Construction | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock and Roll, Country, Blues, Soul, 50’s, Funk.

Cielle and All Sounds On | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Blues, Folk, Americana.

Cool Club of Hector | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM | StoneCat Cafe, 5315 Rt 414, Hector | Jazz.

9/28 Monday

Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete

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 Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Callin’ all fiddlerswhistlers-pipers-mandos-bodhran’sflute players- you know who you are!

All Ages & Stages…Intermediate level the goal….Traditional Session style.

Bring a tune to share….learn a tune or two! EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT! Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Paolangeli and Friends are joined by different musicians every Tuesday.

Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Bob and Dee, Celebrating Great Songwriters.

Milkweed | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Americana, Old-Time, Bluegrass, Alternative.

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9/25 Friday

Composition Be, Greg Pier, Mountains & Valleys | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Rock, Indie Rock, Acoustic, Alternative Country, Singer Songwriter.

Hot Tuna Acoustic Duo | 8:00 PM | Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main St., Homer | Blues, Rock, Americana, Acoustic.

Scriabin Festival II | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Piano students of Charis Dimaras perform music of Alexander Scriabin 100 years after his death. Classical.

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Particle | 8:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Rock, Progressive Rock, Electronica, Funk, Jam. Wilco | 8:00 PM | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Alternative Rock, Art Rock, Experimental Rock, Alternative Country, Indie Rock.

Guest Recital: Virginia Tech Faculty Chamber Players | 7:00 PM | Hockett

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Gospel Festival | 8:15 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | A large chorus of high school students from around the region, the Chamber

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Orchestra, and guest soloists and conductors perform an array of Gospel Music. Baruch Whitehead, director Sarah McQuaid: Cornell Folk Song Society | 8:00 PM | 165 McGraw Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Folk, Americana, Singer Songwriter.

The Brethren, The Unknown Woodsmen | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Progressive Rock, Jam., Modern Rock, Funk.

The Infrared Radiation Orchestra | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | World of Beer at Destiny USA, Syracuse | Psychedelic, Rock, Progressive Rock, Classic Rock, Punk, Covers.

Donna The Buffalo | 7:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Zydeco, Folk Rock, Country Rock, Bluegrass, Reggae., Old-Time, Roots Rock.

Killer Of Sheep | 7:15 PM, 9/23 Wednesday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Directed by LA filmmaker Charles Burnett. Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.

Dolares De Arena (Sand Dollars) | 7:00 PM, 9/29 Tuesday | Cinemapolis, Ithaca | An older European woman becomes enchanted with a young Dominican woman who must struggle to make ends meet. Love brings a flow of entanglements in a drama which unfolds like palm trees in an irresistible storm. | 80 mins NR | To Kill a Mockingbird | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/23 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Directed directed by Robert Mulligan and produced by Alan J. Pakula, the film is as much a coming of age story of 7-year-old ‘Scout, as it is a civil rights indictment. Enjoy Gregory Peck’s Oscar-winning performance as Atticus Finch and Mary Badham’s peerless work as Scout.

PlantPure Nation | 7:00 PM, 9/28 Monday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St,

9/27 Sunday

The Internet, Moonchild, St. Beauty | 7:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | The Internet is a soul band consisting of Odd Future members Syd the Kyd and Matt Martians, as well as Jameel Bruner, Patrick Paige, Christopher A. Smith, and Steve Lacy. Hip Hop, Neo-Soul.

Ithaca | Film screening and Q&A with local expert Dr. T. Colin Campbell.

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by Animator Lawrence Jordan | 7:30 PM-, 9/29 Tuesday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A series of short films by the prolific avant-garde animator. cinemapolis

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Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Grandma || Lily Tomlin stars as Elle who has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle’s granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets. | 79 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 |

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Trainwreck | Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she

Notices Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singer’s Fall Semester: Registration | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/23 Wednesday | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers, directed by Gerald Wolfe, will begin rehearsing Rachmaninoff’s Vespers on Wednesday Sept 9th at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Ithaca.

No Auditions. Rehearsals run weekly 7-9 p.m. until the concert on January 16th 2016. Registration will take place at 6:15 p.m. prior to the first three rehearsals. For more information or to register on-line visit: http://www. ithacacommunitychoruses.org.

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A coldly logical architect from Switzerland and his social scientist wife retreat to the Piedmontese town of Stressa, where he envisions researching and writing a book on the Baroque architect Francesco Borromini. Rich in philosophy, art, history, and literature, the film has been praised by film and art critics alike, for, among other things, the protest against modern taste and culture. h e

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Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM, 9/23 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Held upstairs.

CabarETC: Women of Woodstock | 8:00 PM, 9/25 Friday, 9/26 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | This play celebrates four women who are symbols of the legendary Woodstock festival, leaving an incredible and provocative mark on popular music, and American culure.

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 | For tickets and showtimes visit fingerlakesmtf.com Other Desert Cities | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | Runs September 25 to October 11 | Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Five Tony Award Nominations, and The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.

After six years away, prodigal daughter Brooke Wyeth returns to her Palm Springs desert home to celebrate the holidays and announce plans to publish

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Six by George Sapio | 7:30 PM, 9/24 Thursday, 9/25 Friday, 9/26 Saturday| Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Imaginatively titled, this show features six short plays

by George Sapio. Four world premieres and two audience favorites interpreted by five bold, dynamic directors (Holly Adams, David Kossack, Amina Omari, Camilla Schade, and Maura Stephens) and featuring the acting talents of 22 renowned actors. The plays include tales of therapy groups, diamond rings, chronic partying, mini-golf, and feature a reading of a brand new play about some genuinely good folks put into one hell of a desperate situation.

Rik Daniels | 1:00 PM, 9/26 Saturday | Press Bay Alley, 116 Green Street, Ithaca | Rik Daniels will present three showings of his work in progress, Learning to Swim, a personal narrative dance performance about celebrating difference.

Theatre Incognita Open Auditions | 5:30 PM, 9/27 Sunday | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Theatre Incognita will hold open auditions for its 2015-2016 season, details at theatreincognita.org Lindsay Gilmour/Tiny Rebellions Dance Collective | 1:00 PM, 9/27 Sunday | Thompson Park, Cayuga and Cascadilla Streets, Ithaca | Tiny Rebellions is a movement based collective using movement and voice to investigate the identities we wear.

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Jimmy’s Hall | During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation. | 109 mins PG-13 | Listen to Marlon | A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brandon recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend’s story.| 95 min NR | Meru | Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing. | 87 mins R | Pawn Sacrifice | Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire. | 114 min PG-13 |

The Look of Silence | 4:30 PM, 9/24 Thursday, 7:15 PM, 9/25 Friday | A family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.

La Sapienza | 7:15 PM, 9/24 Thursday, 9:15 PM, 9/27 Sunday | At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing of a book on Borromini. Along with his wife Alienor feels her relationship with Alexandre is gradually slipping away. Along the way they meet siblings Goffredo and Lavinia. Gofffredo is about to embark in architectural studies. A story of rediscover the joys of life and overcoming anxiety.

The Third Man | 7:15 PM, 9/26 Saturday, 9/27 Sunday | Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. Orson Welles directs.

Development Program | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 9/23 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life.

An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com.

Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 9/25 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.

New Roots Fall Open House | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, 9/28 Monday | New Roots Charter School, 116 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Come experience all that New Roots has to offer at our Fall Open House on Monday, September 28 from 9-4 p.m.

Families of middle school students as well as those considering making a change early in the 2015-2016 school year are invited to attend!

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Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 9/23 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/24 Thursday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | This will be the first local screening of the 2015 update, newly executive-produced by

Leonardo DeCaprio and now streaming on Netflix! Filmmakers Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn address the effects of animal agriculture on the environment and seek to uncover the truth behind the most destructive industry facing the planet today.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 9/25 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.

Path of Success: Pre-Register for September 26 Event | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 9/26 Saturday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Attention 8th to 12th graders!! Pre-register for Path of Success. This academic and personal development seminar is guaranteed to Motivate, Inform, Affirm and Inspire! For further information and to pre-register, contact Lisa Gould at Village at Ithaca 607-256-0780 or email contact@villageatithaca.org Phil Shapiro’s Group Folk Guitar Lessons | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 9/28 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. 7 pm BEGINNERS, 8 pm INTERMEDIATES. Green Building and Renewable Energy Workshop | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/29 Tuesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Come learn how you can take advantage of historically low prices on solar power systems to power your home or business. In Solar 101, we will talk about how solar panels and the various components that go into a system work, net metering, sizing systems, incentives and rebates, and new options available for homeowners who may not be able to install solar on their properties.

Special Events Witness to Occupation Series Part 2: Crossing Borders from Ithaca to Palestine | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 9/24 Thursday | Quaker Meeting House, Third Street, Ithaca | Amber Gilewski & Stephanie Langer Report Back from

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Meetings City of Ithaca Community Police Board | 3:30 PM, 9/23 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | City and Town of Ithaca Community Meeting | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/24 Thursday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | Tom Seaney, HeatSmart/Solar Tompkins.

City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 9/28 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca |

Local rapper Sammus plays at Lot 10 with soul band Stone Cold Miracle this Saturday, 9/26 at 10:00 p.m. (Photo Provided) their Delegation to Palestine and Israel.

These activists are interested in animal rights, environmentalism, sexism, racism, and understanding and ending the oppression of all beings. They are both members of the Ithaca Committee for Justice in Palestine, and contributors on the blog, Vegans Against the Occupation.

Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary Annual Fund-Raiser Soup-er Supper and Silent Auction | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 9/24 Thursday | The Salvation Army, 150 N Albany St, Ithaca | Dinner includes choice of four different soups, salad, beverage and dessert. Silent Auction will include many donations from local businesses. Please feel free to contact if you have any questions. Nancy Gould 102 Happy Lane Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 273-8705 ngould1@yahoo.com Cornell Campus Architecture Walk: Cornell’s Latest Editions | 10:00 AM, 9/24 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Roberta Moudry, Cornell Architectural Historian, will lead a walking tour focusing on four major additions to Cornell’s Art Quad and vicinity: the Johnson Museum’s northern expansion, Architecture,Art and Planning’s Milstein Hall, the Physical Sciences Building, and Klarman Hall, the nearly completed extension of Goldwin Smith Hall.

Sertoma Classic Antique Show & Sale | 10:00 AM-9:00 PM, 9/25 Friday | The Shops At Ithaca Mall, , Ithaca | 29th Annual Show. Over the years many antiquers have found great bargains in

quality antiques and collectibles rarely found at a typical mall show. Runs Friday and Saturday. Saturday hours are 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | 9:00 PM-5:00 PM, 9/26 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.

Readathon | 12:00 PM-12:00 PM, 9/25 Friday to 9/26 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | City-wide challenge to read out loud - one reader at a time, 30 minutes each, for 24 hours. Event helps raise funds for the library.

Wine Country Circuit Dog Show | 9/24 Thursday to 9/27 Sunday | Sampson State Park, 6096 NY-96A, Romulus | The show brings together four kennel clubs, thousands of dogs, and lots of dog-friendly people.

Ithaca College Football | 1:00 PM, 9/26 Saturday | Butterfield Stadium, Ithaca | Vs. Alfred.

Living Among The Dead, Annual Cemetery Walk | 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, 9/26 Saturday | Tioga County Historical Museum, 110 Front Street, Owego | Costumed interpreters will tell the stories of people buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Owego and guides will lead visitors on a tour of the historic cemetery.

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Batman Day | 10:00 AM, 9/26 Saturday | Comics For Collectors, 207 N Aurora St. Ithaca, Ithaca | Celebrate the greatest comic book hero of all time on this special day devoted solely to the Dark Knight. Free Batman Endgame Special Edition #1 comic, trivia, prizes, discounts, limited edition comics, posters, toys, and more. Don’t miss out!

Porchfest | 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, 9/27 Sunday | Fall Creek Studios, 1201 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | Porchfest is a music festival held on the porches of the Fall Creek and Northside neighborhoods of Ithaca, NY. Bands play on their own or a friend’s porch.

We schedule the musicians in one of four time slots and then provide maps, so you can walk or bike around town catching all the great music. And there is a lot of great music! Over 100 bands are playing this year, with music ranging from classical to roots rock to country to pop to reggae to punk rock and from Appalachian to Brazilian to Irish to Swedish to Zimbabwean. And more!

Catalyst Vineyard Church Grand Opening | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, 9/27 Sunday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | The event will include a welcome reception with Mayor Svante Myrick at 10:30 am followed by a church service from 11:00 am – 12:00 noon.

Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm | 10:00 AM, 9/29 Tuesday | Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm, 6425 Rt. 17C, Endicott | One of the oldest and largest Pumpkin Farms in NYS. 20+ activities including

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Advanced Composting Class Series | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 9/24 Thursday | 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 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, 9/25 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.

Night Hikes | 6:00 PM, 9/25 Friday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Held during the evening. Hike our wooded trails under the big sky of our back fields or around our ponds. Find out who is awake and stirring under the moonlight. No need for a flashlight— you’ll be surprised how much you see without one. Please call ahead for availability: 607-273-6260.

Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM, 9/26 Saturday, 9/27 Sunday | Cornell Lab of

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Sprung from the arty-folk rock scene of Greenwich Village and the psychedelic madness of San Francisco’s Height Ashbury, musicians Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, Melanie, and Grace Slick, came of age at the famous Woodstock festival in 1969. They sang songs of peace, love, and social justice and inspired a whole generation of women and men alike. This play celebrates these four women who remain dynamic symbols of the legendary festival.

This fun and exciting annual dog show brings together four kennel clubs, thousands of dogs, lots of dog-friendly people, owners, and highly skilled trainers. The four basic areas of competition at the show are: Conformation, Obedience, Rally, and Agility. The event promises to be entertaining, educational, and colorful. Be sure to stop by on one of the days!

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udy Gerson and Trevor Stankiewicz just graduated from Cornell.

Stankiewicz was a performing arts major and Gerson was a College Scholar, designing his own major, a combination of anthropology, theater, and comparative literature. Stankiewicz came in contact with history professor John Hubbel Weiss, who told him about the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. They also met Ahmed Adam, a visiting professor from Sudan.

“I wouldn’t have found out about it unless I had been asked to write this play,” said Stankiewicz. “It was the issue for a long time, and then another issue came along.

And then 10 years later we find that there is still a genocide going on.”

“My experience is a little different,” said Gerson. “I was part of a youth group in high school. ‘Save Darfur’ T-shirts were everywhere. But there is so much troubling stuff happening that it’s hard to know where your energy should go.”

Gerson said that the issue of Darfur has come back to the fore because recently information has been declassified that reveals what the U.S. government was doing a decade ago with respect to the war in Darfur. “So how do you look back in light of this new information,” asked Gerson. “Do we change our values or hold our past selves responsible for our actions?

“You have to resituate yourself as you

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 9/23 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses his work, including his translation of Songs of Kabir. Indian snacks will be served.

Colin Whitehead | 4:30 PM, 9/24 Thursday | Hollis E. Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Novelist and Author will read from several works, including Sag Harbor and The Intuitionist: A Novel, both PEN award finalists, as well as his latest release The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death.

Per Pinstrup-Andersen: Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability | 4:00 PM, 9/24 Thursday | Mann Library, Room 160, Cornell University, Ithaca | Join us for a Chats in the Stacks talk with Graduate School Professor Per Pinstrup-Andersen, editor of the new book “Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability: A Political Economy. For more information, visit booktalks.library.cornell.edu.

Ithaca DogFest Kickoff Event with Peter Zheutlin | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 9/25 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author will discuss his new book Rescue Road: One Man, Thirty Thousand Dogs and a Million Miles on the Last Hope Highway, a story about Greg Mahle, an Ohio man who has traveled more than a million miles, finding homes for tens of thousands of dogs from impoverished areas across the South. Learn how Mahle has embraced the unique bond between dogs and humans and brought immeasurable joy to everyone he encounters.

Ginnah Howard & April Ford | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 9/26 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Authors each read from their most recent works.

Robert Danberg | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 9/27 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses his book Teaching Writing While Standing on One Foot.

Niche Tactics: Generative Relationships Between Architecture and Site | 5:00 PM, 9/28 Monday | Milstein Hall, L.P. Kwee Studios, 2nd Floor, 943 University Ave, Cornell, Ithaca | Niche Tactics (Routledge, 2015), is the first book by Edgar A. Tafel. Assistant Professor Caroline O’Donnell, explores architecture’s relationship with site and its ecological analogue: the relationship between an organism and its environment. O’Donnell is the director of the professional Master of Architecture program in the Department of Architecture, the faculty editor of the Cornell Journal of Architecture, and principal of the design studio CODA. RC Savoie | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 9/29 Tuesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses his

learn more,” he continued. “You have to confront the fluidity of the truth. You have to change your mind and not feel the same way as you did.”

The Darfur Compromised had two staged readings in April at the Unitarian Church and in Hollis Auditorium at Cornell. Gerson is directing Stankiewicz’s play one more time in Ithaca at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept.

27 in the library of the Beverly J. Martin Elementary School.

Stankiewicz was initially faced with the challenge of how to dramatize the already very dramatic. He did research, and themes began to emerge: the inaction of various governments and resiliency of both the Darfuri and of the activist community.

He flagged information that he found online for Gerson to read. “The text we thought was strong is in the play,” said the director. They then created fictional characters that commented on the historical events. That is where they found the comedy in an otherwise quite sober situation: they found some fault with the American activism surrounding the Darfur

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State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Wednesday-Friday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Barbara Mink and Stephan Phillips, Abstract paintings and drawings by inspired duo. | For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@ soag.org Creative Space Gallery | Ithaca College Art Department’s Creative Space Gallery (215 State/MLK St.) | IC creative space galleryEgoluxe and Growing Obsessions. Andrea M. Aguirre and Tatiana Malkin, two IC BFA candidates, exhibit a culmination of work created in the Creative Space Gallery this summer.

Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Group exhibition of works

by CSMA’s visual arts faculty. Featuring paintings and drawings by artists

ongoing EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca | Justin Hjortshøj’s photographs His perspective on seemingly simple scenarios in places as diverse as Haiti, Brooklyn, and Czechoslovakia is mind-boggling.Home and Land. New paintings from the collection of the artist. | www.eyegallery.com Vera Vico: Representing The Mediterranean | James E. Booth Hall, 166 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester | Ceramic Artist and owner of La Romana Pottery in Trumansburg is part of the SEE-CILY Series. Show runs through

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Rob Licht, Kevin Mayer, Terry Plater, Miriam Rice, and Melissa Zarem. Runs throughout August and September. | www.csma-ithaca.org The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday to Friday 12 -6 PM, Sat 12-4 PM | The Ley Lab Collaboration I and II Portfolios were organized by professors Greg Page of the Department of Art, and Ruth Ley of the Department of Microbiology and Director of the Ley Lab. Through September 30 | www.ink-shop.org Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Road, Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Imprint / In Print, August 8 to December 20. So it goes: Drawings by Kurt Vonnegut August 22 to December 20. Huang Hsin-chien: The Inheritance, September 5 to December 20, CUTS: Video Works

by Gordon Matta-Clark, September 5 to December 20 | www.museum. cornell.edu West End Gallery | 12 West Market Street, Corning | Monday-Thursday, 10:00 AM-5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM; Saturday,10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday,12:00-5:00 PM | GC Myers - Home and Land. New paintings from the collection of the artist. | www. westendgallery.com

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Fall Creek Neighborhood, Sunday, September 27, 12:00 p.m.

You better get out and enjoy the sun while you can, that cold fall wind is in the air. What better way to enjoy the last droplets of summer than walking around the Fall Creek Neighborhood to the sounds of more than 100 bands playing on lawns and porches. With music ranging from classical to reggae, to roots to country, to bluegrass to punk rock, to Appalachian and Irish, Ithaca’s annual Porchfest is amazing way to experience the uniqueness of the city.

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and make sense of it. “I think we came up with a creative way to use space,” said Gerson, “but it lives in a staged reading format for now; we’re not shying away from it.”

The readers/actors will break the fourth wall and speak to the audience. “It will get the actors moving around,” said Gerson, “although they will have their scripts in hand. They will ask the audience to think about their role in all of this.”

Half the proceeds from this Sunday’s performance will go to the End Nuba Genocide Coalition. The Darfuris fled to the Nuba Mountains after the 2004-05 conflict, but they are still under attack. •

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conflict.

“I would identify as an activist,” said Gerson, the director. “This play is our attempt as makers of art to do something that is politically important and artistically interesting.”

“In our age demographic,” said Stankiewicz, the playwright, “it’s a little troubling. Is it that people want to do activism because they want to help people, or is it that they want to have people see them helping people?”

“Disaster tourism,” intoned Gerson.

So Stankiewicz has created a character, Jackson, who serves as a standin for their generation. He is critical of Darfur activism and tries to deconstruct

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It is laid out interestingly, includes some premium features that catch the eye, and manages to seem luxurious without ostentation.

When you enter the front door, which is surmounted by a large window with a crescent on top of it, you find yourself in an irregularly shaped front entryway that is as large as some rooms in another house. From here you can go in several directions.

To your left is a small room apparently intended as a home office. It is removed from other parts of the house for a measure of quiet. There is a half bath immediately adjacent to it.

To the right is the living room, which occupies the front corner of the house and leads to the dining room in the back corner.

The kitchen can be reached either from the front hall or the dining room. It flows into a family room with a cathedral ceiling and a gas fireplace. This room looks

out onto the backyard, which becomes the Eldridge Wilderness Preserve at the property line.

Most of the floors (excepting the family room) on the first floor are covered with “Brazilian cherry.” This is a very hard wood from the Caribbean, Central and South America. It is actually more closely related to locusts. It is not in the least bit endangered, according to the IUCN. The cabinetry in the kitchen is made from (actual) cherry and has simple recessed panels and brushed steel pulls.

It looks like a space designed for serious cooking with a five-burner gas stove, a double sink made of a composite material, and a large island with a lower portion available as a working space and a higher octagonal portion designed as an informal eating area.

A small deck is available through double doors behind the kitchen.

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The other bedrooms are quite large and would pass for master bedrooms in many houses. All of them are floored with wall-to-wall carpeting.

The second bathroom serves the other bedrooms and it too has two sinks. It also has a tub/shower.

The doors throughout the house are solid wood and they have been left unpainted and nicely stained. The surrounding trim is simple and painted.

The entrance from the built in twobay garage lets you into the kitchen/family room area. •

At A Glance Price: $242,999 Location: 212 Eldridge Circle,

Town of Ithaca School District: Ithaca City Schools South Hill Elementary MLS#: 301980 Contact: Claudia Lagalla, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, ReMax In Motion Real Estate:homes@ lagalla.com Phone: (607) 342-3749 (cell) Website: www.reinmotion.com

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