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thacans put the planned housing project at the State Street Triangle through another round of praise and criticism at September’s planning board meeting, where developers Campus Advantage had their public hearing for the much-discussed building. Those weighing in on the positive side included developer Mack Travis, Cinemapolis director Brett Bossard, and Collegetown Bagels/Ithaca Bakery owner Gregor Brous. It was announced that evening that Brous had agreed to bring a CTB location to one of the six retail spaces planned for ground level. “I feel like we’re at monumental point in the history of Ithaca,” Brous told the board. “We have some opportunity to think smart and to develop this city [in a way] that puts a stamp on it for many years to come. I think this entry to Ithaca, if you’re coming from the south or east gives us the opportunity to make a statement.” “Six hundred more potential moviegoers within walking distance of my door is a positive thing,” Bossard said. “The addition of new retail and dining opportunities on the ground floor of this property will really enhance the nightlife, which is a hallmark of the downtown experience.” Other contributors to the yeas for Campus Advantage included two Cornell grad students: one, a secondyear veterinary student, said that in her time as an undergrad at Virginia Tech, the CA-managed property Windsor Hills was “one of the quietest communities in Blacksburg” with staff on hand to address noise complaints “if I had had them.” A Cornell planning student told the board: “Whenever I’ve walked past this parcel I’ve joked with friends this is so underutilized I give it a maximum of 25 to 30 years at the most before something else comes along. With the architectural modifications and principles of good urbanism they’ve taken into account, I’m feeling good about this project.” The comments against the project that earned the most plaudits from fellow opponents came from Christine O’Malley, preservation director of Historic Ithaca. Though Campus Advantage has made many changes to materials and appearance of the facade, O’Malley said, “The plan of the building in overall mass and composition remains largely the same.” “It’s a troubling size and scale continued on page 4

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ap matches color” is a vintage phrase used by graffiti writers. It is also the name of the group that organized a three-day graffiti festival this weekend in Ithaca. Its website explains the mission. “Cap Matches Color is focused on the collecting, preservation, and dissemination of spray paint culture. “ Local artist Jay Potter and Sally Grubb of the Tompkins County Public Library put together the graffiti festival, which included artists from all of the world. “We had 57 special guests from Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Canada, and many

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artists. “It was a thank-you celebration for graffiti writers,” he said, “a project about documenting and researching vintage painting, a huge chunk of the culture that wasn’t recorded. The art form was disposable back then. Our goal has been twenty years of working and researching to find all the original brands and [can] memorabilia.” The closing ceremonies on Sunday included a blessing by monks from the Namgyal Monastery. Mayor Svante Myrick and Potter spoke of how far the art form has come, that hip hop is not just music, it’s a culture. Potter explained the significance of art in a city’s resurgence. “When money is tight, art is the first thing on the chopping block,” the artist noted. “As it comes back, it’s a sign that the city becomes healthier if they see art. It’s the first sign of revitalization.” •

U.S. States.” Potter said. Mostly male artists attended, but Potter has heard the community when they asked why there were so few female artists present. He said, “It’s not a female-dominant art form, I made a big effort to think and to include females, they were booked.” The artists left their tags on two Cornell University Press buildings at 770 Cascadilla St. in the city. The buildings’ walls were offered by Cornell and were treated to a fresh coat of paint for the base layer. Potter described it as a gift to the

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▶ Downtown Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival, Ithaca’s premiere fall event is just days away! The 33rd Annual Downtown Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival presented by Tompkins Trust Company will take place on Friday, October 2 (12:00-6:00PM), Saturday, October 3 (10:00 AM-6:00 PM) and Sunday, October 4 (10:00 AM-6 :00 PM). This much-anticipated community celebration, featuring fresh local food, handmade crafts, games, rides, prizes, and live performances, will be held on and around the newly rebuilt Ithaca Commons pedestrian mall (202 East State Street, Ithaca).

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“Spray painted mink fur / I found on the street corner / Grog sewed together. ” —G. Krishna

“I’m planting fall bulbs of black crocuses, tulips, and amemones for spring flowers. ” —Helen Vorhis

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“I’m moving to Charlotte, North Carolina in November. It snows once a year there.” —Sarah Happel

families would come out on a Saturday morning, according to Liz Hudson, who is the TCPLF’s assistant director and was staying up till the early hours with Josiah Jacobus-Parker. There was a “banned books” segment on Friday evening. But since marketingsavvy librarians have decided that any book ever decried by an imaginative BibleBelt school board member qualifies for

“I’ve got a tent. It’s lasted me 10 years. ” —Dan Hartford

without any major reductions,” O’Malley continued. “It creates considerable light, visibility and contextual issues for the surrounding streetscape and buildings.” O’Malley told the board that the area’s height restriction should “never have been up-zoned to 120 feet” and that she believes it possible to put a well-designed six or seven story building at the site that “fits within the context of the city.” The Triangle project architects have taken a monolithic design and broken it up into seven distinct facades over recent weeks while adding a rooftop plaza. Town of Ithaca resident Roger Freeman asked the board to “think of it as six buildings.” “The city of Ithaca deserves more at this critical site than a high-end e p t e m b e r

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dormitory,” Freeman said. “I think we need something that’s serious about multi-use. Why couldn’t we have one with market-rate condo development … another that’s affordable rental units working with INHS, and [with] two of them [having] 200 beds for students. And suites for integrative medicine that didn’t happen in the old library building. Perhaps IC is interested in a presence downtown. Maybe you could have a great restaurant on roof of this building. To me this is what multi-use means. You as a board can bring this around.” Though Campus Advantage had four executives on hand, their representatives weren’t often called on to explain anything new. The board’s own discussion of the project was fairly laconic by its standards; with more design review meetings on the docket, they will still have opportunities to

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suggest changes for the Triangle. Member McKenzie Jones-Rounds did state her support for included affordable housing in the project, which Campus Advantage CEO Mike Peter has said his company might consider, but it isn’t in the current plan. Member John Schroeder threw out ideas like an arcade on the first floor and said that the curved facade facing the Commons, which has become all brick since planning began, is “too flat” and needs more development. The pithiest comment of the night came from Alderman George McGonigal (D-1st), who said during comment time that he agreed with O’Malley, and then said: “This property has great potential for development. This project is way too big. Thank you.” • —Josh

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▶Public waste bins, The areas near the Tompkins County Public Library and the Lansing Community Library have a welcomed addition – public space recycling bins. Installed at the end of August, the bins feature receptacles for both trash and common singlestream recyclable items like cans, bottles and newspapers. The bins are serviced on a regular basis by Casella Waste Systems, according to Leo Riley, the Assistant Solid Waste Manager for Tompkins County. “We are seeing – not unexpectedly - quite a bit of use at the library site in Ithaca, along busy East Green Street” said Riley.

he proposed Campus Advantage housing project at the State Street Triangle has been the subject of much expressed concern among Ithacans as it concerns downtown parking. Talking points from Campus Advantage representatives to assuage those worries have focused on the Triangle’s transit access, plans to encourage the use of Ithaca CarShare, the possibility some car owners will park at remote lots since they only need their ride to occasionally get out of town, and the amount of space available in downtown parking garages. “How much room is really in the parking garages?” people ask in public meetings, with some offering days and times they say they can’t find parking. Since the Downtown Ithaca Alliance meeting on Sept. 21, the developers have been sharing parking availability numbers in downtown garages that have been provided by the city. After additional spots allocated to new projects in process— including an estimated figure of 248 new cars for the 582 beds currently proposed in the Triangle—the Green Street garage is estimated to have the tightest fit, with 24 spots available during peak daytime hours after all the construction is complete. The parking averages are based on daily counts of spots by garage staffers, says Frank Nagy, the city’s parking director. Since every Ithaca city employee has a Cayuga Street pass even if they rarely park downtown, “there’s so much crap in our data” that the hand counting of spots is necessary. “People say my data’s flawed. My data’s not flawed, there’s nothing wrong with my data,” Nagy said. “The only way my data can be flawed is if my people count two cars there instead of one.” The Campus Advantage assumption that their residents will bring 248 cars is “way high,” Nagy said, when one looks at the Collegetown parking survey that found about 19 percent of students bring cars. “We told them that and they said ‘Yeah, we know, everybody is telling us there’s not enough parking, so we want to go high with the numbers,’” Nagy said. The current estimates put 148 cars from the Triangle in the Cayuga Street garage, where the city is “trying to pack as much in as possible” because it has the lowest occupancy rates, Nagy says. The Marriott is expected to add 14 cars during the day to the Green Street garage and 144 at night. The Hilton Canopy is earmarked for 12 cars daytime and 123 at Seneca Street overnight. The Finger Lakes School of Massage project is estimated to add 45

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At present the upper levels of the Cayuga Street parking garage are largely empty. For long? (Photo: Brian Arnold)

health of Ithaca’s garages go, Nagy said people should wait for the results of an engineering assessment expected to come out in October. “In Seneca, with the repairs that have been done, we might have 10 more years if everything goes well,” Nagy said. “At Green Street, depending what comes back from this assessment we may have to lose two ends and build up the middle.” Tompkins Trust will be leaving its space under the Green Street garage, so the assessment is timely. “If that lease runs out down below and nobody is occupying that space, that’s when you want to do that construction,” Nagy said. One potential addition to the city’s parking needs that was not included in the numbers under discussion is a conference center. The New York Times reported in a Sept. 1 real estate section piece on the new Commons that Donald Urgo Sr. of Urgo Hotels—which is building the downtown Marriott—is “on the hunt” for a conference center site. For his part, David Hart says that his company “still has a vision for a conference center” along Clinton Street attached to the Hotel Ithaca. Plans have been approved in the past for a conference center on the north side of the former Holiday Inn tower, but plans have changed to put a five-story addition there after renovations on their tower and balcony rooms last year. Hart will be before the planning board in October for approvals to that five-story mid-rise addition with new drawings, after the board critiqued his design at the September meeting. After two phases and about 15 months of construction, Hart said he will “digest what we’ve accomplished and look at the lay of the land and see if a conference center is still needed.” º

daytime parkers at Green, and 129 of the 160 new parkers estimated for Tompkins Trust’s new headquarters are slotted for workday parking in the Cayuga garage. The Lofts @ Six Mile Creek and Harold Square, in total, are expected to add 118 daytime parkers to downtown, with more overnight. If all of that development goes through, this particular spreadsheet says that peak daytime occupancy will leave 20 spots available in the three downtown garages, of 1,520 spots in total. That number is reached by adding 395 potential parkers to Cayuga Street, putting it in the red from its 342 estimated spots. Whether all those projects happen or not, Nagy isn’t concerned about overcrowding. A parking industry standard is that about 80 percent of monthly parkers show up. And anyway, the garages are nowhere close to the 85 percent occupancy rate that the parking director says will make them financially self-sustaining. Nagy’s numbers from counts made in March through July of this year put daytime occupancy rates in Green Street between 59 and 65 percent; in Seneca Street between 58 and 89 percent, and in Cayuga, which is privately managed by Allpro parking, at 50 percent for every month. Seneca Street is only showing 89 percent occupancy in June and 85 percent in July, Nagy says, because of spots lost to construction there. “I want to see enough revenue from parking to pay our expenses and put money aside to rebuild the Seneca Street garage,” Nagy said, with a future goal of becoming a parking authority. Then, monies can be saved for future infrastructure investments rather than going back into the city’s general fund. The parking garage collapse in July in Johnson City has been referenced by a few concerned citizens. So far as the T

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Heard&Seen ▶ Little Apple Fall Follies, Once again, the Rotary and Savage Clubs of Ithaca are teaming up with the Ithaca City School District’s Fine and Performing Arts Program for the 6th Annual Little Apple Fall Follies LAFF. The event will be held at Ithaca High School’s Kulp Auditorium this Saturday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students, and are available online at www.savageclubofithaca.com, at Pastimes Antiques in the DeWitt Mall, from any Savage Club or Rotary Club member, and at the door the evening of the show. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Sept. 23-29 include: 1) Spencer Man Arrested for Menacing 2) Kindly Strangers Help Family Displaced By Fire 3) Porch Fest Will the Biggest Ever 4) A Few Mistakes Rectified: Mad Max, Liam Neeson, and Cinderella 5) Residents Protest Drug Traffic, Lack of Police For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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he Triangle Block proposal has residents where they are needed most generated a lively discussion and provides new housing that will about development in downtown, reduce the strain on the market. It won’t but much of the conversation has end our housing shortage, we have a not served our community’s shared deficit of over 2,500 units, but it is a big goals. The proposal has many positive step in the right direction. contributions on social, economic and The Triangle Block proposal environmental grounds, but it is not acknowledges Ithaca’s history and our beyond critique, and shortcomings unique economy. In the first half of in our public discourse are, inthe 20th century Ithaca College was part, to blame for a missed downtown and had classes in opportunity. buildings all over downtown The need for housing including buildings on State, in the city of Ithaca can not Seneca, Buffalo streets etc. Over 2,000 students brought be exaggerated, our housing their energy and their money shortage is an absolute crisis. to downtown streets on a Rents are increasing much daily basis and downtown was more quickly than wages and enriched by their art, music gentrification is pushing many and theatre. When IC moved to working-class families out into South Hill the loss led to hard locations where they will, by David West times for downtown merchants default, drive more and have a and vacancies in downtown larger environmental footprint. Between 1960 and 2010 buildings. development and population growth in As a former downtown businesses the city was almost non-existent, at the owner, I know that female students, who are expected to be the majority same time development in the outlying of residents in the Triangle Block, are parts of Tompkins County boomed and some of the best customers; getting county population doubled. All that more of them living downtown will growth has created traffic, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and parking be fantastic for local shops. There problems for the city and pulled focus are currently several thousand from our pedestrian-oriented center. downtown residents and about half To counteract this Ithaca needs to are students, adding a few hundred bring more customers within walking more residents will not be a huge or distance of downtown businesses. The continued on page 7 proposed Triangle Block puts new

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ews item: A Texas-based developer is moving forward with plans to transform a one-story building at the corner of East State Street and Aurora Street into a $40-million, 11-story mixed-use residential building marketed to students. Campus Advantage, based in Austin, Texas, is developing the Triangle Building (sometimes referred to as the Trebloc Building) project, which would include 240 units capable of housing about 600 people. Founded in 2003, Campus Advantage became the nation’s largest operator of privately-owned residence halls in 2007. In addition to housing, the building would also include restaurant and retail space. Rent will be between $900 and $1,400 per month per unit, according to the project’s website. The company is currently seeking approval from the City of Ithaca’s Planning and Development Board, which has voiced apprehension about the size of the building. Ithaca residents have also raised concerns about the number of students it would bring to the downtown area, saying it would turn the area around the Commons into a “student ghetto.” The zoning of the site was changed in 2013 to encourage density and development, raising the height allowed from 60 feet to 120 feet, or 12 stories. We travel now to October 4, in the year 2019, to the lobby of the brand-new Hotel Ithaca Marriott at the east end of the Commons. Ithaca is playing host to a dozen mayors from around the state who are attending the third annual Small Upstate Cities Conference (SUCC). It’s the second night of the conference, and Mayor Svante Myrick is the target of a certain amount of good-natured ribbing from some of the early evening arrivals in the hotel bar. Canandaigua mayor Ellen Polimeni slapped Mayor Myrick on the back. “I hardly recognize your downtown, Svante!” she said. “The crowds … the traffic … and what’s with all these new stores?” “Well, you know, Ellen, we’ve undergone some recent demographic

changes now that the Triangle Building is full,” smiled Myrick. “There’s been a bit of a migration into the area, and it’s brought some adjustments. There are some new niche stores.” “I know! They say your downtown is a student ghetto now! Hell, I saw an all-night ironic tee shirt store on your pedestrian mall,” chortled Susan Skidmore, mayor of Elmira. Raucous laughter rippled through the crowd. “And is that really a 24-hour selfie-stick shop?” asked Corning’s Rich Negri. “Stick City? Indeed it is,” answered Myrick. “It’s the new anchor store on the Commons.” Auburn mayor Michael Quill piped up. “I was up half the night last night with all the pedestrian traffic. How can Snapchatting be that loud? And are there seriously 24 coffee shops on the Commons now? That’s more than we have in the whole city of Auburn.” “Actually, 26 as of yesterday,” said Mayor Myrick. “We’ve had to provide free Wi-Fi throughout the downtown district. And we’re all adjusting to the students’ circadian rhythms, Mike. It’ll work out. The good news is that you can get anything from double-stuffed calzones to lemongrass chai 24 hours a day now.” “The rumor is, Svante,” said Ron Alcock, Geneva’s mayor, “two full 18wheelers arrive at Seneca Meadows every Monday morning with just the red plastic beverage cups and Natty Light empties from downtown Ithaca.” The others murmured disapprovingly. “There’s a different energy … I mean, especially on weekends, but I don’t know about two semis …” stammered Myrick. “Svante, relax,” said Mayor Quill. “We know you have your hands full, and there are a lot of changes. There’s only one thing we really want to know about your ‘student ghetto.’” They all stopped talking and leaned in to hear. “How do we get one?” •

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In Memory of Ed Hart

Ed Hart was one of the most fully engaged people I have ever known. His profound love for this remarkable region and his love of nature led him and his wife, in 1991, to donate a conservation easement to permanently protect their land in the Six Mile Creek watershed to the Finger Lakes Land Trust. This was one of the Land Trust’s earliest protection agreements. Ed’s boundless enthusiasm and joy in everything outdoors—running ultra marathons, hiking the entire Finger Lakes 6

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Trail, biking around Cayuga Lake or some other Finger Lake, volunteering for trail work and pulling up invasive plants on nature preserves, and more—was a source of inspiration for a great many of us. (Was there anyone who didn’t know Ed Hart?) He was always positive and upbeat, and always interested in learning more about nature. His curiosity was insatiable. Often, if you told him some interesting bit of nature trivia, he’d say, “Thank you for that pearl!” What set Ed apart, above all else, continued on page 10

new money into city coffers immediately with new jobs, income and spending, and increased property taxes that by the end of 10 years it will generate upwards of $8.5 million annually. $8.5 million more a year could do a ton of good for our city’s perennially tight budget, aging infrastructure and high taxes. As much good as it will do, the Triangle Block proposal is not perfect and we, as a community, are partly to blame for its shortcomings. While there has been much improvement, a conversation dominated by fear of the idea of a big new building and anti-student rhetoric has resulted in compromises that do not reflect the values or priorities of our community. Initially there were reasonable design concerns about the project, the first sketch did not create a quality pedestrian realm, it lacked quality materials and human-scale details. In subsequent revisions the project was dramatically improved: the first three floors are now durable masonry, and attention to traditional scale and high-quality humanscaled details has been incorporated in key areas. In particular, the most recent façade design for the corner of State and Aurora streets has become a great example of a building referencing historic local building elements by setting windows back into the building, adopting a classic rhythm and shape for windows, adding cornices and investing in brick that will age gracefully for the entire facade. Unfortunately, the fallacy that buildings are somehow improved by trying to appear smaller has encouraged other changes that add cost and take away units, without adding value. The developer has thrown away 6 percent of the units, 6 percent of the potential revenue for the city, and 6 percent of the relief the development would bring to the tight housing market. Rather than pushing for one high quality, cohesive, and iconic design with quality materials we now have a building that pretends to be seven smaller buildings, some of which are better than others. We have allowed an obsession with “breaking up the massing” to pull focus from the importance of classic human scale details that add lasting value to a building. More importantly, in a community with a severe housing crisis, the fear of the project’s size (a size that is actually smaller than what zoning allows) has all but silenced the urgent calls for affordable and market rate development. If the Triangle Block is approved and built, it will be a positive contribution to the city, but it could have been even better. When we, as a community, take away value with our requests, the math will never work when we ask developers for concessions like setting aside affordable units, every unit a developer loses results in corner cutting somewhere. On the other hand, if we can shift the conversation to the investments that improve a building and work together to add value, we can achieve better buildings and have the leverage to push for changes that address our urgent housing crisis.

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esides Cornell University and Ithaca good name to live up to. That’s what this postcard did. College, Ithaca has more than its 6. It Was About Teaching. The thank share of nonprofit organizations you was for support of “my [the student’s] dependent on donations from the public. education.” Their fundraising success often depends The value alums most attach to their on generating goodwill and doing savvier alma mater (aside from the football team) marketing. was the classroom experience of teaching. And sometimes the best way to get Much less important to them was the something is not to ask for it, especially if research that so many schools boast about. you can get more attention by not asking. But research under grants and A small college in western contracts from government and Pennsylvania has figured that out. industry is hardly a function that Every year, students at appears in need of funds. Getting Westminster College in New one young person through Wilmington, Pennsylvania write school is something people can and send 1,000 postcards to identify with. alumni in what they call “G.I.V.E. 7. The Message Was Week.” Despite the name, Optimally Visible. Postcards G.I.V.E. Week asks them to give have so many advantages for … nothing. The brief postcard marketing it’s a wonder they messages simply express thanks aren’t more frequently used. for past support. Anyone who John L. Gann, Jr. There’s no envelope to does marketing can learn from conceal the message on a eight things they did right. postcard, nothing you have to 1. It Was Handwritten. When tear open. Since in this case the message do we ever see handwritten messages is flattering, there seemed no reason to any more? In this technological age, even hide it and maybe good reason to expose friends send us typed e-mails, texts, and it. And in this case the message was on the tweets. same side as the address panel so it could Today a handwritten message stands not be missed. out by being so uncommon. It gets your 8. It Was About Me. There was no attention. It is the epitome of personal. It mention of how wonderful the college is. is authentic, the opposite of “corporate.” The subject was me and my generosity. Even something that only looks Too much of what we receive from handwritten in an ad or letter can have colleges—and other organizations and some of the same effect. companies—is all about them. But 2. It Was From a Student. A message marketers know that we are all most from a student has a different impact than interested in ourselves. a stuffy formal letter from the college An Honest Thank You. What president, chair of the alumni association, or development director. Alums were once could I do in response to this postcard but send them a check? Westminster students themselves. “Identify with the College shows that a smart simplicity in prospect” is a good marketing rule. communication—their honest “thank The simple postcard was unlike yous”—may have more to offer marketing, a mailing from a large, resource-rich fund raising, and goodwill than the company or institution, which most of us get more than enough of and which we are frequency of its use suggests. less likely to be sympathetic toward. John L. Gann, Jr., (citykid@uwalumni. 3. It Was a Real Thank You. The card com), President of Chicago-area-based was a blanket thank you and not a followGann Associates, consults, trains, and up to a particular recent gift. It had no writes on marketing. Formerly with Cornell value for documenting an income tax Cooperative Extension in the College deduction. There was no mention of the of Human Ecology, he is the author of amount of any past donation, no request Marketing Big … by Thinking Small. for additional funds, and no remittance envelope. 4. It Was Personalized. The message Guestopinion was from one person to one person. No contin u ed from page 6 one else—apparently, anyway—received the same message. There was even a real cataclysmic shift in demographics, it first class postage stamp on it instead of won’t fundamentally alter downtown a bulk mail postal imprint. Marketing and it won’t turn downtown into messages are more effective if they sound Collegetown or Manhattan. It will simply like informal one-on-one exchanges. be an incremental step in the direction 5. It Was Flattering. The student’s of supporting a sustainable downtown remarks implicitly overstated what I had economy by making it easier for more done. The postcard was flattering. people to live the walkable downtown Dale Carnegie in his famous book lifestyle. said that to win friends and influence This project, even with a tax people we should give the other person a abatement, will start bringing significant T

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Ithaca Superintendent of Schools Luvelle Brown issued a press release on Sept. 25 condemning the introduction of information about the role of children in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict as “age inappropriate “ for 8 year old American students. Reader Michael Hess disagreed: “At the beginning of the session, the speakers showed a brief video of a young Palestinian girl who references Israelis killing Palestinians;” Which is absolutely true and has been documented by human rights groups within and without Israel, I suggest the author see B’Tselem or the Association for Civil Rights Israel. “There was an indication by the speakers that Israel has broken many United Nations’ laws and that Israel controls all of the resources of the geographic area;” Completely true again. Not only is Israel in violation of United Nations General Assembly resolution 194 after the Ethnic Cleansing of more than 750,000 Palestinians from their land and homes when Israel was founded, Israel is in full violation of many UN resolutions and not just about Palestine. Israel illegally occupies the Golan Heights, see UN Security Council resolution 497 and the many others that Israel is in full violation of. In addition, Israel is also in violation of Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention. This was reaffirmed last December 18th, 2014 by the High Contracting Parties to Geneva. “In a closing statement of how students could help, a speaker spoke of solidarity and being freedom fighters for Palestine; to bring peace and protect the future of their children.” Can Ithaca.com provide me with links to their articles condemning the French Resistance for resisting their brutal occupiers? Can Ithaca.com also provide articles about how they condemned abolitionists in this country and the millions of Jews who worked for Civil Rights? It’s time to get real. Stop pretending that kids are not seeing the sordid news about Israel everyday and asking their parents (and grandparents) questions about it. Poll American Jews and you will find almost no support for crimes against humanity. Bill the managing editor writes: “Yes. But do you tell all of this to 8 year olds? Ithaca City Schools rules say it is not age appropriate to share this kind of information elementary school pupils.” Yes, just like we tell our children about the war in Syria. It’s all over the news. Kids ask questions about it. And if the city does not conform to state guidelines on curriculum it’s not the problem of the presenters of this talk. Eight year-old’s are able to handle basic human rights concepts. Certainly detailed information about the minutiae of Security Council resolutions are a bit much but the broad concepts are perfectly acceptable. Indeed, the broad concepts about human settlements are explicitly mentioned in the state curriculum. Please take this out of email. Let the readers see the link to the NY State social studies curriculum that I provided and let them decide for themselves whether it is appropriate. Perhaps they will decide that the New York State education curriculum for third grade social studies should be changed to remove “The factors that influence human settlements differ in world communities.” But I doubt it. - Michael Hess

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aula Poundstone is a comedian, an author, and a panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! I’ve been a fan of Poundstone’s wry observational humor for a long time, going back to the Johnny Carson-era Tonight Show, Star Search, and hours of standup over the years. Poundstone will do her thing at the State Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 3. I’ve interviewed her three times over the years and saw her last show at the State, and you should see this show, too. I’ve talked to lots of famous folks, and Paula Poundstone is one of the easiest, most naturally funny people I have gotten to converse with. It feels like a conversation as opposed to an interview, and you never get the feeling that she’s just quoting shtick and bits. Whether it’s a packed house or a phone call, she tailors her comedy to fit whatever’s happening. And when we’re done talking, I just feel so good. Here, she talks about how her crowd work is like a dog herding a cow, the rise of Bernie Sanders, her 15 cats, and remembering a comedy legend. Paula Poundstone: You know, when I do these interviews, they sometimes get backed up a little bit. Because I talk too much, that’s why. Ithaca Times: You can’t actually talk too much from my perspective. PP: [laughs] Well, anyways, I’m all yours. IT: I went to see you the last time you played the State, and the one thing that’s changed since we spoke last is that I started doing stand-up. PP: Oh, really? What’s it like? IT: It’s great and I’ve been enjoying it, but what I wanted to ask you about was your crowd work. It’s amazing. PP: You know, I think for me … years and years ago, I did this really low budget movie. We made it in North Carolina … IT: Hyperspace (1984). PP: Yes, yes. [laughs] And in one of the scenes, there’s a dead cow. And so they drugged the cow to make it appear dead, but it wasn’t really dead. So we went to this ranch to get a cow. And the rancher had this little teeny dog; it was a little black and white dog. And we needed to isolate one cow, right? Get rid of the other cows, [and] isolate one cow. So

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he would tell this little dog to run over and do its thing. And then the guy would practically whisper “Come by, Rose”—the name of the dog was Rose—and he would say, “Come by, Rose,” and the dog would run over and sit beside the guy. I never saw anything like it in my life. It was amazing. And I said to the guy, “How the hell do you train a dog to do that?” And he said, “The hardest thing is training the dog not to do that.” IT: [laughs] PP: And I think that’s a little bit me [laughs] in terms of the way that I work. When I first started out … that was the premise of an open mic night: that anyone that wanted could get up and do five minutes. And you’d wait and wait and wait and wait for your turn to go on. And the crowd would be really hot; a lot of people [would be] there from say, eight o’clock maybe till 10 o’clock, and then it’s sort of diminishing returns. So if you’re gettin’ on late, you’re like “Aw!,” watchin’ everybody else have this really great crowd, and now you realize, “Aw, hell, I’m not gonna get on till one o’clock. There’s gonna be ten people here.” So the comics going up were pretty touchy about those time limits. You know, if somebody did too much time, then they got pissed. So I would try so hard to memorize my five minutes, right? I bussed tables for a living back then, and if you looked carefully, you’d see my lips moving while I was bussing then. I tried so hard to memorize my five minutes so I could go on and have this successful experience. But night after night when I would go do the open mic night, I would either get so nervous that I forgot what I meant to say, or I would get distracted by something I saw on my way to the stage, and I would comment on whatever that thing was, and now I don’t know where I am in the five minutes. And then I would panic for that reason. I was often in a position of just going blank, and being forced to just observe whatever I saw in the room, or talk to somebody in the first row, or talk to somebody that I walked by when I was on my way to the stage. I don’t remember what day it dawned on me that the part that tended to be really funny was the part that wasn’t what I meant to say. And as soon as I figured that out, I went, “Oh, well, that’s where the real magic is,” you know? That’s the rich part of the experience. It’s sort of an ongoing process, I think. But the

closer I get to who I am, the better I do. IT: I know your act isn’t hugely political, but it behooves you to stay up to date on what’s happening for when you appear on NPR’s Wait Wait... Don’t Tell Me! Have you ever seen the political landscape the way it is, with everyone so hot to trot so far ahead of the actual election? PP: No. [But] I saw it coming, though, I can tell you that. I knew after the last one that it would be that way this time. And I think it’s gonna get worse year after year, where there’s no end to the cycle. In the last election, it was like that, but not that bad. But you just saw it comin’. These people have so much money, and there’s also been this sort of odd stable of these talking-head cable shows [that] have come about. So not only do the candidates have a ton of money to begin with, but the other thing is that all these shows are looking for people and topics to fill their airtime with. And if they don’t have them on as guests, they talk about them relentlessly. IT: Yeah, Stephen Colbert’s only been on [CBS] a few weeks, and he’s already had Biden on, and Trump’s coming up soon. PP: Wow. Yeah. Aieee, uh … IT: [laughs] Is there anybody out there that you like? PP: I like Bernie Sanders. I was reading an article in Mother Jones about him. I don’t know a lot about him one way or the other. I can say that when I look at his website, and they put out his positions, I share his views on lots and lots of things. When I read about his background, in his youth I think there was a little nuttiness around some of his early forays into politics, but I’m not sure that matters. I think, Jesus, I hope nobody’s holding me accountable for the stupid s*** I said in my 20s. I read a lot about the banking crisis— the problem is that not a lot sticks with me when I read those kinds of things. I tend to read very dry non-fiction. It doesn’t mean that I retain very dry non-fiction. It just means that I read it. It looks good when I’m doing it, but in terms of really learning, not that much goes on in my head, I think. But anyway, he says that toobig-to-fail banks are now four times the size that they were when we bailed them out because they were too big to fail. And I like it that he has his eye on that ball, because I don’t hear any of these other people talking about that. I mean, not that I’ve heard a Hillary speech recently, because I haven’t. Maybe she’s talking about that, but I would doubt it. And I know the Republicans aren’t. I do like Sanders. I don’t see anybody that I look at and I go, “They’re gonna save us.” IT: I think we all have to look after ourselves. PP: I think you’re right.

Pau l a P o u n d s t o n e at H o m e ( P r ov i d e d) I’ve been reading this book by Ted Koppel, about the potential devastating effects of cyber-warfare on us, and it does kind of feel like, “All right, I give up.” I know that’s not why he wrote it. He wrote it hoping to inspire people to develop neighborhood networks of preparation. But I read it, and I just thought, “You know what? I don’t have enough water in the went off to college. And I said, “You know, when you guys go, I got no reason to stay here. I have no particular love or connection to California.” I said, “I could go to New Jersey, to a farm or something.” And Allie said, “Mom, you have 15 cats. How are you going to get them across the country?” And I went, “You’re right, I have to stay here.” IT: You have 15 cats? PP: I do have 15 cats, and I don’t know how you would move 15 cats, you know? I’d have to rent like a U-Haul and drive like a bat out of hell all the way across country, and then either take it out and shoot it or just pretend I don’t know what happened to it. It’s so much work. You know, audience members come up to me all the time and say, “We have two” or “We have six” or “We have four.” And I say, “Stop right there. Don’t get more.” It’s sort of like painting the Golden Gate Bridge. You know they’re never done painting the bridge. They paint one end and then they start again. It’s sort of like 15 cats. There

house, all my flashlights run on batteries, I don’t know. I just give up.” I feel like that, just over a hot day. IT: Any plans on moving out of California when the water really runs out? PP: Oh, you know, one time I was walking the dogs with my daughter, a couple years ago, before she T

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is no end to the cleaning and the nail trimming. Oy yoy yoy yoy yoy. IT: I don’t want to bum you out on top of your cats, but I was listening to Bobcat Goldthwait on The Nerdist Podcast on the one-year anniversary of Robin Williams’ death, and he mentioned you as being part of a particular comedy gang that included him. Any thoughts? PP: Well, I don’t know if any comics of my generation and after would not be working if it weren’t for Robin Williams. Because there was sort of a … Audiences’ interest in stand-up was re-started in the late ‘70s. And it’s not like he invented it. There’s been stand-up comedy since we all came out of the caves. But that frenetic style that he had, and the energy with which he toured the country, I think really re-ignited peoples’ interest in the form. And there was always a feeling— certainly in San Francisco, where I worked, and Bob worked there, too—there was always a feeling that Robin might stop by. I mean, he lived there, but it was [also] all around the country. He was touring these 3,000-seat amphitheaters, so he could be working some amphitheater in Cincinnati, right? But at one in the morning when he was done with that, he would stop by Uncle Funny’s Yuk House. It was just this sort of electricity around the whole country in the comedy business, this feeling that Robin Williams might stop by. And Robin stopped by so many times. What happened was—certainly for Bob Goldthwait and me—was that people would come out hoping they’d see Robin. And they happened to see people—like me and Bob—and they liked it. And then they came out again. So without Robin, I just don’t think any of us would have had the success that we [had], that we were able to make the living out of it that we have. IT: Even though I never met him, I felt such a warm feeling of connection. And I sure re-watched a lot of his movies. My opinions of good comedy were formed by seeing him, Steve Martin, and the original SNL [Saturday Night Live]. PP: Definitely. People wrote to me and called me that I haven’t talked to in years, to say what a tremendous loss they felt, just in the same way that you were just saying, with other people. And I feel that for the entire world, it was just everywhere. You know? It was just a tragic loss. And you know what really makes me mad? Because Joan Rivers happened to die not that long after, where people go, “Oh, is she in the same breath?” But it’s not the same thing at all, in any way. For one, he didn’t make his living telling people that they don’t dress right. You know? He had a very loving way about him. A very loving man. He was probably the most generous man I’ve ever known. • Read Paula Poundstone’s entire interview and previous Poundstone interviews with Bryan VanCampen at Ithaca.com.

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in the Sept. 16 issue. The Sept. 23 Groton Independent carried a story about AlTamimi’s appearance at Tompkins-Cortland Community College on Sept. 17, which was sponsored by the college’s Sustainability Council, Office of Multicultural Services, Global Office, Social Science Club and its Intercultural Club.

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was his joyous, positive approach to life. Unfortunately, his extraordinary physical fitness and positive attitude weren’t enough to make him immortal, and he left us on Sept. 22 at age 88. He will be greatly missed!

The recent “spotlight” in the Ithaca Times’ Weekend section of Palestinian ISM leader Bassem Al-Tamimi contained falsehoods and distortions. The demonstrations Tamimi organizes weekly are not only violent but exploit children in dangerous ways. One of his favorite methods is to have the children throw rocks at soldiers to provoke a reaction. Tear gas hurts. A thrown rock can

– Betsy Darlington, Ithaca

Protesting Tamimi

Editor’s Note: Bassem Al-Tamimi spoke at the Unitarian Church of Ithaca on Thursday, Sept. 17. The Ithaca Times announced the event in the TimesTable

blind and kill. No parent should put his child in the way of danger. Yet Tamimi routinely pushes children into dangerous confrontations with Israeli soldiers in order to record the incidents and create edited videos and photos for propaganda purposes. In the U.S., rock throwing is a crime. In many states it is classified as a felony or attempted murder. For a parent to knowingly encourage his child to participate in a crime is a crime itself. Were Tamimi an American citizen exploiting his children on American soil as he does in Nabi Saleh, he would be in jail and his children in protective custody. Furthermore, Bassem Tamimi justifies violence against Israelis as a “human right.” His cousin, Alam Tamimi, who

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Dreading the Drones

I saw my first drone this summer, flying and hovering above people dancing on Cornell’s Arts Quad. I followed its movements and found the drone in the hands of someone using it to take photos. It looked like one I’d seen online for public sale. I believe that the law President Obama signed in February 2012 (the FAA Modernization and Reform Act) allowing drones to be sold to the public along with law enforcement is an extremely dangerous mistake. This action will lead to new forms of domestic terrorism, violence, peril, and loss of peace, privacy, and safety to our population that will not be preventable or controllable by law enforcement. The drone ads on the Internet refer to “peaceful uses.” I imagine this is to counter the fact that U.S. leadership has led the way with drones as long distance murder weapons. Do people really think that there won’t be drone buyers who will load their drone up with explosives and send it to their targeted recipient, like a hated expartner, employer, or government office? Or send a drone through the window of a targeted organization or person’s home to terrorize them? Harming people and property won’t require being present at the scene. Already I’ve read reports of drones landing at the White House. I’ve also heard about mosquito drones that can take people’s genetic material for research and monetary gain without the involuntary donors knowing. Until now, air space from above our heads to high up where the planes fly—except airport areas—has been machine-free, with rare exceptions. Just birds, plus rare kites, model airplanes, etc. Unidentifiable drones have already flown close to airplanes in flight with dangerous accidents barely avoided. I read that no one could find out who was responsible for those drones. The vision of machines flying through my and others’ property, towns, and natural lands where I and others are enjoying peace and beauty, and/or drones accidentally hitting people, deeply disturbs me. The idea of having drones used for government surveillance also stimulates my great concern. People are already buying drones for personal use. This opportunity to own drones is opening a Pandora’s box of deliberate actions and accidents that I believe law enforcement will be helpless to continued on page 11

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prevent or remedy. It’s one thing for police to stop a driver with their police vehicle, but with a drone up above? Even if traffic and licensing laws for drones are made, how can anyone limit drones’ movements and actions preventatively and effectively? Hurting others anonymously will become so much easier when you don’t have to be near your victim. A recent New York Times article described how people are already using drones to send drugs and cell phones to people in prisons. Could weapons be next? Drones could be used to send biological weapons or poisons into places, too. There are many possibilities. Yes, drones have some positive, peaceful uses, like using them in search and rescue efforts, in African game preserves to decrease poaching of endangered animals, and to do environmental research that would take people weeks, months, or longer to accomplish themselves. If access to drones could be limited to these peaceful beneficial uses, that would be ideal. But I suspect that even if drones are more available for these uses, it’s just a matter of time before some end up in the hands of people with dangerous and damaging intentions. How can sales and uses of drones really be limited to peaceful uses? People from outside the country will have access to drones sold here as well, so that violence will be much easier to carry out here and elsewhere. The resulting unpredictability of new violence from the air will further degrade the wellbeing of people here with more stress, fear, and accidents to people, nature, and property. Because many drones are small enough, buyers can ship them to other nations where people who want to cause harm can use them. Invading people’s privacy will become so much easier and close-up as people send drones to photograph events they are not invited to, and even broadcast what they record. Civilians, as well as law enforcement, can use drones for surveillance of citizens. An attempt to conduct surveillance of a celebrity’s wedding was already made. Even if law enforcement could miraculously find ways to enforce (nonexistent) laws to protect citizens from drones, taxpayers cannot afford to pay the additional costs of such enforcement. As it is, my community and numerous others are continuing to have to cut important community services, because of limited funds and requirements for communities to cover costs no longer funded by the feds and states. I would very much like to see our local and state governments pass severe limitations on access to drones ASAP.

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interact differently with the players and the department. Now, the buck stops here, so to speak.” He added, “It’s definitely a challenge, but it’s a very welcome challenge.” The Bombers—who are 2-0 in conference play at the time of writing—will play their next home game on Oct. 6, against

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hen an athletic program transitions from one head coach to another, it can be a stressful time. Such is the case with my daughter’s softball team at Alfred University, as their coach was there for 10 seasons, was a three-time Empire 8 Coach of the Year, and last season led the Saxons to their first-ever 40-win season, the Empire 8 title, and the program’s first trip to the Division III College World Series. The Saxons finished the season ranked #9 in the nation, so one might imagine the wave of sadness and uncertainty that swept over the program when the coach announced his departure just before the team’s annual Fall Tournament. I have been trying to help my daughter cope with this big change, explaining that I have written about many such transitions, and that sometimes a coach comes in with broad knowledge of the school, the program, and the conference, and in an ideal situation, that coach has been there as an assistant coach and as a player. In fact, I held up Patrick Ouckama—Ithaca College’s head soccer coach—as a fine example.

Ouckama rose to the helm of the program after only one year as an assistant, but he is well acquainted with what it takes to put the pieces of the puzzle together. He was a four-year starter for the Bombers from 2001-2004, and he earned AllEmpire 8 honors each of those seasons. He went on to play for the Baltimore Blast of the Major Indoor Soccer League, and he also coached at the developmental levels, gaining more insight into what it takes to be a collegiatelevel player. I asked Ouckama to address the transition from assistant to head coach, and he stated, “Knowing the people in the athletic department and knowing the school and the conference has put me in a position where I can’t imagine a smoother transition. The support has been tremendous.” I also asked him to describe what he sees as the biggest change, and he said, “It’s the accountability factor. As an assistant, you

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• • • Time to ask you, dear readers, to indulge me this opportunity to write about something very close to my heart ... I love being a sports writer, and that stems from my love of sports, and I have experienced no greater joy than that I get from watching

my own daughter’s journey from 6-yearold youth player to a tough-as-nails college player. Hannah was recruited out of SpencerVan Etten High School to play for the Alfred Saxons, and in the fall of her freshman year, she broke her wrist in practice. She rehabbed all winter, lost a lot of bat speed, but came back for the spring season. During the team’s Arizona trip, she took a foul ball in the face, broke her nose, and once again lost ground in her quest to become a starter. She worked her tail off and earned a starting position as a sophomore, was hitting .375 with a bunch of extra base hits, had a home run and five doubles during the spring trip to Arizona, then missed out on the championship run when she injured her MCL (medial collateral ligament) in an outfield collision halfway through the season. I cringed as I watched that play unfold, and as she was being carried off the field, I honestly thought I might never again see her play in college. It was a low point for both of us. Last weekend, I went to the Fall Tournament and cheered as she once again took the field, five months after her knee injury. When she beat out an infield single, I was thrilled to see that the knee was working. When she cranked a two-run shot far over the left field fence in a 6-5 win, the pendulum had swung back. It was a high point. A very high point. We teach our kids to fight back against setbacks, and when they do it, it is a joy to behold. Thanks for listening. •

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B y Wa r r e n G r e e n w o o d science fiction illustrator Jack Gaughan, who often painted loose, flowing strings of cosmic energy.) • • • There are 30-something drawings in the show, all drawn with felt tip pens and art markers on paper. Let’s look at a few of my favorites. (They are all untitled, but some can be identified by their dates.) Dec. 8, 1985: This one is like a mobile, with various, oddly shaped forms hanging from wires. They form a face: a long nose, alien eyes, a floating, smiling mouth. The face looks like a humorous E.T. The eyes look like Telstar satellites, the nose like alien bone, the lower lip a banana. One thinks of Salvador Dali and Alexander Calder’s mobiles. There are a number of pieces where KV uses a lot of wire line to form face-like sculptures, and he fills in odd spaces with color, giving them a medieval-Mìro look. One I like a lot looks like a birdcage-helmeted knight—the face half Picasso, half 1950s UPA animated cartoon. Another one (Sept. 12, 1985) forms the face of a young woman. Her eyes, nostrils, and wavering mouth float, glowing in the air in the wire birdcage of her head, giving it a feel like a Dali. And there is something oddly sweet and tender about the image. March 29, 1987 features three long, thin, humorous, one-eyed, alien-looking creatures that look like they could have appeared in one of Vonnegut’s Kilgore Trout stories. And there is a Picasso-meets-Mìro work with two characters in conversation, one of

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A plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive, at least a little bit… – Kurt Vonnegut

his review is a highly personal undertaking. Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite writer. I think of Vonnegut as The Good Father of My Generation. I think we learned a lot about basic morality from him. Vonnegut also drew and painted, and he made silkscreens and sculptures and prints. And the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University is exhibiting some of his work in a show called “‘So It Goes’: Drawings by Kurt Vonnegut.” This is appropriate, as KV was a Cornellian,

studying chemistry at Cornell in the early 1940s and writing for The Cornell Daily Sun until enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1943 and moving on to his rendezvous with destiny in Dresden, Germany on Feb. 13, 1945. As for the art: the managing editor of the Ithaca Times told me that my colleague, the irrepressible Ithaca Times art critic Arthur Whitman, characterized Vonnegut’s work as “hippie-Picasso.” I suspect KV would have liked that. I noticed the Picasso influence, too. Also: Salvador Dali, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, and Joan Mìro. (I also think of the late, great American cartoonist Vaughn Bode in the simplicity and compelling design of some of KV’s little characters, and the venerable T

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rom Charles Ives to George Gershwin to Billy Joel, the piano has played an ever-changing and vibrant role in American music. Rob Auler will present an evening of piano music at the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts on Saturday, Oct. 3. The concert, entitled “American Icons,” will celebrate some of our nation’s most renowned classical, jazz and pop culture musicians. The program will feature works by Keith Jarrett, James Brown, Billy Joel, and the “Dean of American Composers” Aaron Copland as well as others. Mr. Auler will also conduct a Master Class at the Conservatory from 4 to 6 p.m. that afternoon. Observers are welcome to attend. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $10 at the door. Rob Auler is an awardwinning concert pianist who has studied at some of the finest music schools in the country. He has won numerous competitions “Untitled” by Kurt Vonnegut (Photo Provided) including the first prize from the Society of American Musicians. Following them with three eyes. It makes me think his success at the Young how, when Picasso and Braque invented Keyboard Artists’ Association Cubism, the idea was to play with time—to Competition he was invited see characters and objects from multiple to play throughout Germany, viewpoints simultaneously … France, the Netherlands, and And the idea is remarkably similar Denmark. Rob has appeared to the perceptions of the Tralfamadorians as a concert soloist with (the little green plumber’s-helper-shaped many symphony orchestras aliens in Slaughterhouse-Five) in that including the Northwest they perceive time all at once rather than Florida Symphony, the Arc moment-by-moment. Ensemble, the ChampaignAnd the revelatory Vonnegut drawing Urbana Symphony, the Simon for me was a drawing of a woman in a Bolivar Orchestra and the cloak and hood, holding an apple and Blue Lake Festival Orchestra standing in a doorway. That, in its elegant to name a few. He is also quite active as a simplicity and perfect design sense, chamber musician and has appeared with reminded me of the work of the late, the Ying Quartet, the MIRO Quartet, great French graphic album artist Jean cellist Julie Albers, and violinist Irina “Moebius” Giraud. (And KV’s use of color Muresanu, and has been the resident is brilliant.) pianist for the Michigan City (Indiana) Life has been very difficult lately (isn’t Chamber Music Festival. it always?), but I found it nice to sit in the Auler is also a new music advocate, Johnson’s lovely galleries surrounded by and he has collaborated with some of Vonnegut’s playful and charming drawings. the most influential composers of our It made me, to use KV’s words, “appreciate time. His most recent CD is called being alive, at least a little bit …” Shards: The Solo Piano Music of Jonathan I’m hoping it will have the same effect Pieslak; Pieslak is acknowledged to be on the Reader. • an important contemporary composer. “So It Goes”: Drawings by Kurt In 2007 he presented “Homage to Vonnegut will be on display at the Herbert Steve Reich” as part of SUNY Oswego’s F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Ke-Nekt Chamber Music Series. The University. until Dec. 20. Hours: Tues. esteemed composer was in attendance – Sun., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Visit museum. at the concert that honored the 50th cornell.edu/exhibitions for more information anniversary of his graduation from about the exhibit. Cornell University. Auler maintains a e p t e m b e r

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busy performance schedule nationally and internationally, and has played in some of the most notable venues around the world. He is currently a professor of piano, music yheory and literature at SUNY Oswego. Auler is also a founding member of the Oswego Jazz Project. Drummer Eric Schmitz and saxophonist Trevor Jorgensen are also members of the SUNY Oswego faculty. Since its inception in 2006, the Oswego Jazz Project has released two CDs that have garnered critical acclaim. The trio performs a wide

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range of jazz styles, including standards, Latin, contemporary selections, ballads and original compositions. They combine a high level of skill and artistry with a commitment to education and access for students and the community alike. They have been described as “educators and musicians with a drive to help jazz thrive.” The Trumansburg Conservatory was established in 1982 by Calista Smith and is housed in downtown Trumansburg in a glorious former Baptist church in the Greek Revival style. For over 30 years, it has offered music, art, and dance classes and has become a mainstay in the heart of the town. “The Conservatory” strives to provide accessible entertainment for people of all ages and aims to enrich the life of the community. For more information visit tburgconservatory.org •

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tension between impersonal geometry and artisanal handicraft animates the work of contemporary New York City painter James Siena. Echoing traditions of geometric abstraction from the Bauhaus to Minimalism, Siena constructs intricate, intimate microcosms that bring a welcome humanism to the genre. Based largely on his form generating “visual algorithms,” his recursively spacefilling compositions nevertheless have an irregularity that contrasts pointedly with the mechanistic impersonality that often marks that tradition. Siena, a 1979 Cornell BFA, is currently the subject of “Labyrinthian Structures,” a small exhibit at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Arranged by the museum’s contemporary curator Andrea Inselmann, it samples his new sculpture and includes a generous selection of prints as well as one of his signature enamel on aluminum panel paintings. Most of the work is from the Johnson’s collection. Included are several gifts from the artist, who is on the museum’s Advisory Council. This is Siena’s second solo show at the Johnson. Back in 2010, “James Siena: From the Studio” juxtaposed his artmaking against his collecting— incorporating an eccentric array of artifacts ranging from work by significant contemporary artists to several antique typewriters. Printmaking is a perfect medium for Siena, whose sensibility is more graphic than painterly or coloristic. The selection here shows his range: etching, engraving, linocut, and wood engraving. Several larger prints stand out as highlights. Two upright engravings revel in the technique’s hard linearity, black lines dense against cream paper. Upside Down Devil Variation (2004) plays impossibly intricate radiant-explosive forms against a suggestion of flat, torn-paper-like shapes. Squa Tront (2005-10) fills itself up with wavy, seemingly irregular “slices.” Hung close together, five wood engravings show off Siena’s affinity for miniature. Dating from 2004, pieces such as Heliopolis and Floppy Recursive Combs share rich colors, subtle carving textures, and a play with reversals of figure and ground—triggers for what psychologists call multi-stable perception. This past spring, Siena had an exhibit of “New Sculpture” at Pace Gallery in Manhattan, his first gallery show of threedimensional work. Although his sculpture work dates back to the ‘80s, Siena has explored it more extensively in recent years. Siena constructs his sculptures out

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of unassuming materials. He has used toothpicks and grape vines; here he assembles bamboo sticks using string and glue. (Recently he has used such constructions as models for works in bronze.) He names these in homage to cultural figures that he admires. Dating from 2014, the three pieces here have been loaned courtesy the artist and Pace. Iain Banks echoes Nine Constant Windows with its inter-nested cubes. Richard Rand suggests elaborate scaffolding for a gabled roof, while Nuisance Value is jagged and irregular—suggesting the messy

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slippage that seems to lurk beyond Siena’s visions of mathematical order. Siena shares the Johnson’s fall line-up with another distinguished Cornellian. Although not entirely apparent from “Structures,” his work can share something of the demotic urgency displayed in “’So It Goes’: Drawings by Kurt Vonnegut.” (The late author’s felt tip pen doodles—basically hippie Picasso—are occasionally charming but take up way too much space here.) Just hinted at is Siena’s debt to the grotesqueries of comics and science fiction—an influence he has paid explicit homage to elsewhere. A perusal of the Johnson’s first floor modern art collections offers some sense of Siena’s roots in geometric abstraction. Included are paintings, sculptures, and prints by twentieth century artists ranging from Bauhausler Josef Albers to American Minimalists and Post-Minimalists such as Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt—and Alan Saret, another Cornellian and a friend and mentor to Siena. But the modern master that Siena most recalls is Paul Klee, whose visionary cosmology seamlessly interweaves the geometric and the corporeal. Visitors to the museum should seek out his marvelous etching Was Läuft Er [How he runs] (1932) (The late print is secluded in the museum’s first floor open flat-file. Look out for it.) •

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New Exhibit Explores Past Heights of The Big Apple By Ar thur W hit m an

he big city attracts artists of all stripes. But the attraction is perhaps most strikingly direct in the case of photography. Compared to the tools of painters and sculptors, the camera’s portability and its instantaneous quality makes it perfect for capturing the serendipity of the street as well as the “frozen music” of its facades and towers. Both themes are given ample room in “The City: Works from the Collection,” a sizeable exhibit currently at the Johnson Museum. The show features 20th century— predominantly postwar—pictures with an emphasis on American photographers working in New York and Los Angeles.

Broadway and Exchange Place, Manhattan, (1936) by Bernice Abbot (Photo Provided)

“City” is the work of Johnson curator Andrea Inselmann and curatorial assistant Sonja Gandert. Most of the images are gelatin silver prints—black-and-white, a standard for much of the period. One measure of such a show is its ability to introduce—in some depth—work by lesser-known photographers with a compelling vision of the world. New to me, I was particularly struck by the work of Leon Levinstein (1910-1988), a NYC street photographer often described as a loner and an art world outsider. His eight pictures here capture the counterculture of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Young couples are shown, often reclining, on the sidewalk or at the park or the beach. They appear possessed with a disarmingly raw grace. A case holds photos from the Cornell Hip Hop Collection, borrowed from the university’s library system. The work of pioneering documentarian Joe Conzo, Jr. (1963- ), the loose prints offer an intriguing look into the early days of the music. Still, it’s difficult to compete with

framed pictures. In that regard, it’s worth highlighting a pair of 1979 prints by Danny Lyon (1942- ) showing people seated in a graffiti-strewn subway car. The stark shots recall the urban desolation of the era with little sense of vibrant subculture. A show on the city would hardly be complete without pieces focusing on architecture. Here they range from cool grandeur to discomfiting banality. Included are several pieces by the prodigious Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). Capturing three boldly shadowed towering masses from below, her Canyon: Broadway and Exchange Place, Manhattan (1936) evoke the city’s primal disorienting power. It calls to mind words by Abbott’s contemporary, the critic and urbanist Lewis Mumford, as he was confronted by images of Rockefeller Center. He remarked in a 1940 New Yorker column, “Many of the camera views of the buildings are striking, but then a camera doesn’t mind being tilted at a forty-five degree angle for as much as five minutes, while the human neck does object.” The show also features work by two figures best thought of as contemporary artists who use photography, rather than as photographers per se. Edward Ruscha (1937- ) is represented with his Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966), which depicts L.A.’s famous drag, printed out as a long accordion-folded artist’s book. Ruscha’s best pieces—often drawings or prints—are deadpan yet affecting, transcending the banality they so aggressively court. A similar aesthetic indifference infects the photography of Cornell professor Michael Ashkin (1955- ), who, like Ruscha, combines documentary with an intellectualized sense of remove. Here he is showing a handful of black-and-white digital prints from his 2014 book Long Branch. Ashkin’s best work may be his bird’seye-view dioramas, but his tabletop #71 (1997) here suffers from its relative simplicity and from a lack of compelling connection with the rest of the show. But then again, this critic’s taste in contemporary art simply diverges from the academic mainstream—the profusion of more traditional work is more than enough to make “City” amply worthwhile. The exhibit arrives with some extraordinary good news. The Johnson recently announced the endowment of a Gary and Ellen Davis Curator of Photography. Directed by its Advisory Council members Merry Foresta and Andy Grundberg—both respected professionals in the world of photography—a search to fill the position is now underway. • T

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Capturing The Cuts

An Artist Strived to Make His Physical Mark By Ambe r D onof r io

ordon Matta-Clark’s Super 8 film “City Slivers” projects onto the large screen in Cornell’s Johnson Museum: a flashback, in snippets, to 1970s New York City. Like a memory or dream, the film emits a bluish purple tint, the images chaotic and sometimes barely visible, blurred with gaps of black, while filmed instances are overlaid to form moving double exposures, one image happening simultaneously with another just below its surface. A boat drifts on water and people walk the streets, the tall buildings of city life evident in each frame. The filmmaker, Matta-Clark, looks to the sky. A hotel sign is visible. A man with a mustache and rectangular glasses, his clothes distinguishable as of the time, wanders past. Taxis speed. The energy of the city is there, and the viewed individuals appear oblivious to being filmed. It’s street photography if there ever was such a genre as “street film.” And this overexposed, disorderly compilation of footage—views of monuments such as the Chrysler Building amidst it—does not come off as

romanticized as much as simply there, existing. This is The City in 1976, and you are catching glimpses. “City Slivers” is but one work in an installation of eleven films and videos screening simultaneously within the same room. The full installation is “Cuts: Video Works by Gordon Matta-Clark,” and it is yet another intriguing and successful curation put together by the Johnson’s Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Photography, Andrea Inselmann. Interestingly enough the videos span from Matta-Clark’s first film, “Chinatown Voyeur,” a black-andwhite minimalist piece from 1971, to his last, “Office Baroque” from 1977 (completed posthumously by 2005). In that sense, “Cuts” functions as a miniature retrospective, providing an overview of the works, processes, and viewpoints of an artist set on deconstructing the architectural world. Matta-Clark, after all, studied architecture at Cornell from 1962 to 1968 before pursing the creation of “Anarchitecture” as he himself termed it, a

so-called anarchic undoing of structures. Before his death in 1978, he worked for months at a time surveying existing buildings, analyzing their structures before getting to work cutting into them to form something new. The most well-known of the cuts is documented in his film “Splitting,” where he cut through the center of a house in Englewood, New Jersey so the two halves of the house hung apart from one another, separating. Still from the film Splitting by Gordon Matta-Clark (Photo Provided) The resulting product—a house cut in two, sitting there nonchalantly—seems into an abandoned townhouse in Paris or both a humorous prank and a poignant transforming an old shed in Greenwich statement, taken in whichever direction Village. These films aren’t video art as much the viewer chooses. It’s a family split apart, as documentations of acts and creations a whole no longer complete. Or, it reveals and spaces’ possibilities. the temporality of human constructions Like Matta-Clark’s structural rerouting or how easy it is to flip something around, of the original objects, Inselmann too to view an object in a different light and to created a new engagement through her thus explore its space anew. curation. Flashes of images and changing “This piece is almost unscenes engulf your vision in an experience documentable,” Matta-Clark commented that is colorfully chaotic. Light bleeds in “Office Baroque” of the five-story through a cathedral-like window, Mattaoffice building he was then cutting into in Clark cuts away at an outside wall with Antwerp, Belgium. “I mean, there’s nothing deft concentration, and cars continue to worth documenting if it’s not difficult to fill the streets of New York City, busy and get.” imaginably loud. Several of the videos are of MattaCuts: Video Works by Gordon MattaClark cutting away at pre-existing Clark will be at the Johnson Museum structures, whether he’s carving circles through December. •

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Films show Moments/Memories where Life Blooms By Br yan VanC ampe n Breathe, co-written and directed by Mélanie Laurent, opening 10/9 at Cinemapolis; Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon, co-written and directed by Douglas Tirola, available on VOD. élanie Laurent is best known in America for fine acting work in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and the goofy magician heist flick Now You See Me (2013). In her native France, Laurent has been establishing a promising career as a filmmaker. As Roger Ebert once said, it’s not what a film is about, but how it’s about it. Whether in French, English, or any other language, we have heard many variations of the story told in Breathe, Laurent’s latest film: a shy wallflower with family troubles befriends the new girl at school, only to become infatuated with her. Within that broad outline, Breathe could be a Disney tween coming-of-age dramedy or a thriller or a horror film. Breathe feels much more human, organic, and intimate than if it were an American film. Laurent (who also wrote the film with Julien Lambroschini and Anne-Sophie Brasme, the author of the book the film is based on) understands that teenage life is a series of small moments that feel epic. Joséphine Japy plays the wallflower opposite the rebel, played by Lou de Laâge. Most of the film’s most powerful scenes are the quietest and smallest, where a breathless look says all that needs to be said. Laurent finds that operatic tone in minute moments: de Laâge braiding Japy‘s hair before a party, the two girls lying around regarding each other. To that end, Breathe is shot in near documentary style, with a handheld camera that feels like we’re eavesdropping on especially private moments. And if you think you know how it will resolve, the ending will really rock you. • • • If you were a kid in the ‘70s, you ran to the National Lampoon when Mad Magazine stopped being hip. I would love to write thousands of words about what the National Lampoon meant to me back then, but I don’t have to, because Douglas Tirola has made a magnificent documentary on the subject: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon. National Lampoon was the first great adult American humor magazine. It whipped scorched-earth satire, prep school snootiness, and pure pornography into a take-no-prisoners magazine that spawned Broadway shows, books, records, a syndicated radio show, and hit comedy films like Animal House and the Vacation series. It discovered humorists like John Hughes and actors like John Belushi; most of them left the magazine to write their

own films or for Saturday Night Live, which essentially raided most of the Lampoon and Second City talent to make the “Not Ready for Prime Time Players.” Tirola opens the vaults, showing hundreds of the Lampoon’s outrageous photos, mock layouts, and fake ads; in this

age of political correctness, and social media making it impossible to tell jokes, a lot of it still has the potential to make one gasp with surprise. Tirola had a tough job here, given that many of the Lampoon’s greatest talents— like Belushi, co-founder Doug Kenney, and contributor Michael O’Donoghue—are dead. But he does land cofounder Henry Beard, who Josephine Japy and Lou de Laage in Breathe (Photo Provided) previously refused all requests for interviews. Other people in the documentary who Hendra, and John Landis. happen to be alive include Judd Apatow, Want to know where all your favorite Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Al Jean comedy people came from? Check this film and Mike Reiss (The Simpsons), Tony out. •

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Salsa Dancing | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Latin, Jazz, Soul, Dancing. 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 Belly Dance and Mid-East Drumming | 8:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Lead by the Cornell University Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Ensemble (CUMEME). World, International. 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. Miller’s Wheel | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Stonecat Cafe, 5315 State Route 414, Hector | Northeast Contra Dance, Celtic and NYS Fiddle Tunes, Southern Old Time, Early Jazz, Show Stoppers, Originals, Novelty, Bluegrass.

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Prime Time Funk | 7:00 PM | Dryden Middle/High School, 118 Freeville Rd., Dryden | The Dryden Central Guest Artist Series will hold it’s first event of the 2015-2016 school year. Funk, Jazz, Soul, R&B, Blues. 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 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Mac Benford & Up South: Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Roots, Bluegrass, Old-Time.

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| CD Release Party. Trance, Tribal, Electronic, World, Visual. Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner. Dances are taught; dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures. Bring a tasty treat and get in free. For directions/information, call 607-2738678; on Fridays, 607-342-4110. Lora Pendleton | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Nature Rock, Folk, Rock, Pop. Danny P’s Birthday Bash with Blues Station | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Boogie, Blues. Encore | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Classic Rock, Progressive Rock, Modern Rock. Jim Hull | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Pop, Standards, Oldies, Country, Singer Songwriter.

creating their own unique style that is fresh and new, yet true to their Tuvan musical heritage. Ironwood | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Country, Blues, Rock, Americana. Steve Brown Quartet | 8:00 PM-9:00 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | With special guests Hod O’Brien and Stephanie Nakasian. Jazz, Jazz Guitar. The AppleJazz Band, Rick Starmer | 8:00 PM | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Jazz, Big Band. Diana Leigh & Crazy Rhythm | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The Ithaca Swing Dance Network is proud to present Diana Leigh & Crazy Rhythm. There will be an introductory swing lesson at 7:00 as part of the admission. For more information, see www.ithacaswing.org or call 277-4513. Cornell Contra Dance Club (CCDC) | 7:30 PM-11:00 PM | Appel Commons, Cornell University, Ithaca | CCDC presents a Contra Dance with music by Tempest and Sarah Van Norstrand calling. tempestdanceband. com. Beginners welcome. All dances taught. No partner needed. Casual dress. Smoke-free and alcohol-free. Worriers, why+the+wires, King Sized Pegasus, Hope Rainbow | 7:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Punk Rock, Pop Punk, Post Rock, Progressive Rock, Hardcore Punk, Singer Songwriter. Lonnie Park | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Country Rock, Singer Songwriter, Pop, Rock.

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Black is Green | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Post Rock, Experimental, Alternative Rock, Rock, Progressive Rock. Alash Ensemble: Throat Singers From The Republic of Tuva | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the ancient art of throat singing, a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. Alash are deeply committed to traditional Tuvan music and culture. At the same time, they are fans of western music. Believing that traditional music must constantly evolve, the musicians subtly infuse their songs with western elements,

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9/30 Wednesday

Electroacoustic Music | 8:15 PM | Nabenhauer Recital Room, Danby Road, Ithaca | Music by students of Peter Rothbart

10/01 Thursday

Devon Allman Band | 7:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Blues, Blues Rock, Rock, Southern Rock. The Black Dahlia Murder, Iron Reagan, Harm’s Way, Muruta | 6:00 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Melodic Death Metal, Hardcore Punk, Grindcore, Brutal Death Metal, Powerviolence. Belly Dance and Live Middle Eastern Music | 6:00 PM | Firelight Camps, 150 Danby Road, Ithaca | Cornell University Middle Eastern Music Ensemble (CUMEME) with Belly dancers Tessa Myers, Kira Starfire, and Mantra. Potluck 5-6 PM. Tedeschi Trucks Band | 7:30 PM | Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St, Binghamton | Rock, Blues Rock, Blues, Soul.

10/02 Friday

Only The Chosen, Never The Voiceless, Destructive Nature, With Malice In Heart | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Heavy Metal, Alternative Metal, Metalcore, Hardcore, Progressive

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and flute players. All Ages & Stages. Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Callin’ all fiddlerswhistlers-pipers-mandos-bodhran’sflute players- you know who you are! All Ages & Stages 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. Sally Ramirez and Doug Robinson: Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Latin Jazz, World.

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Goodnight Mommy | Twin boys move to a new home with their mother after she has face changing cosmetic surgery, but under her bandages is someone the children don’t recognize.| 99 mins R | Mississippi Grind| Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis, in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what’s been lost. | 108 mins R | Sleeping With Other People | A good-natured womanizer and a serial cheater form a platonic relationship that helps reform them in ways, while a mutual attraction sets in. | 101 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 | cornell cinema

Ithaca | Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz. Middle Eastern Music and Dance | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | A fundraiser for Syrian Refugee Relief. World, International. Symphony Orchestra | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Jeffery Meyer, conductor. The ICSO 2015-16 season opens with the world premiere of Rosenblum’s Sharpshooter. The concert will conclude with one of Tchaikovsky’s most famous and triumphant works, the Symphony No. 5 in E minor. Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble | 4:00 PM | Morgan Opera House, Main, Aurora | Classical.

Death Metal, Deathcore. The Wood Brothers with Gill Landry | 7:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Folk, Americana, Blues.

10/03 Saturday

Cornell Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra | 8:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Chris Younghoon Kim, conductor. Features Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony, op. 110a, Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, Eli Marshall’s Suite from his movie soundtrack for The Golden Era, and Kenneth D. Froelich’s Symphony No. 1. Paula Poundstone | 8:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Stand-up Comedy. Whiskey Tango Side Show | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Whiskey Tango Sideshow is an outrageous assemblage of burlesque dancers, singers, acrobats, musicians, and costume designers that will entertain you with their cabaret nouveau stylings. Kitestring with Erika Lloyd & Kaleb Dorr | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Americana, Alternative Rock, Bluegrass, Old-Time.

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Chamber Orchestra | 8:15 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Jeffery Meyer, conductor | The ICCO is excited to begin the season by

Jack DeJohnette: 50 Years of Free Jazz | 8:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell,

presenting two new string faculty, Calvin Wiersma, violin and David Quiggle, viola in Mozart’s masterwork for the two instruments. Nick Lowe | 8:00 PM | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rock and Roll, Punk Rock, New Wave, Power Pop. Wednesday 13, One Last Shot, Caustic Method | 7:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Horror Punk, Heavy Metal, Glam Metal, Hardcore Punk.

Film The 4th Man | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 9/30 Wednesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Released in the United States in 1984, the ‘The 4th Man’ was selected as the Dutch entry for the Best Foreign Film at the 56th Academy Awards. It’s a psycho-sexual thriller loaded with religious imagery, blunt violence and a macabre wit. The film has a devoted cult following, though it has been difficult to find an unedited, good quality digital transfer--until now. Adult Audience. Pink Floyd - The Wall | 7:30 PM, 10/01 Thursday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | The life of the fictional rock star “Pink” is the subject of the visually evocative cult film based upon the music and visions

of the group Pink Floyd as portrayed in the album of the same title. The Avengers: Age of Ultron | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 10/03 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In this action-packed film, Tony Stark and all of the Avengers must work together to defeat Ultron, a mechanical artificial intelligence bent on human extinction. Binghamton Babylon | 7:30 PM, 9/30 Wednesday | Cornell Cinema, Ithaca | Scott MacDonald will be in person to discuss Binghamton’s avant-garde history and screen the seminal experimental works The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes (Stan Brakhage), Barn Rushes (Larry Gottheim), and Serene Velocity (Ernie Gehr). Cosponsored with the Cornell Council for the Arts. cinemapolis

Friday, 10/02 to Thursday, 10/08. 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 |

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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 her childhood memoir. For tickets and showtimes visit www.chenangorivertheatre.org.

This regional festival features an abundance of produce, apples, cider, and delicious baked goods from local growers, chefs, and artisans. The festival also features some of Central New York’s best in fine art, crafts, glass art, and jewelery. And to top it all off they’ll be a bounty of musicians, puppeteers, singers, story tellers, and dancers. Bring the whole family out, and enjoy a fun filled afternoon!

This local artist’s new exhibit Burning Mortality features vibrant, bold, and very colorful paintings that range from abstraction to folky-psychedelia. In her artist statement she declares the work as “a reaction to feeling suspended, hung in a space of ‘in-between’ – neither fully healed nor suffocating in pain.” The paintings showcase a bright celebration of the human spirit. Don’t miss out! h e

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The Ithaca Commons, Friday, October 2, 12:00 p.m.

Buffalo Street Books, Friday, October 2, 5:00 p.m.

Wild Tales | 7:00 AM, 10/01 Thursday, 9:15 PM, 10/02 Friday | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | Six short stories involving distressed people. | 122 mins R | Inside Out | After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school. | 94 mins PG | Confidential Report | An American adventurer investigates the past of mysterious tycoon Arkadin...placing himself in grave danger. | 93 mins NR |

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Wednesday 9/30 to Tuesday 10/06 Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes

As You Like It | Clark Theatre, IC, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Tuesday 9/29 through Saturday 10/10 | When a duke in exile, his banished daughter, a willful young man, and their loyal followers flee to the tranquility of the forest, they discover their true selves and the power of redemption. This most exquisite of Shakespeare’s comedies combines a road movie, a buddy picture, a love story, and a battle of wills. Box Office 607-274-3224. Showtimes at www. ithaca.edu/hs/depts/theatre/mainstage DIS/Connected: A 10-Minute Play Festival | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Third annual 10-Minute Play Festival includes a diverse sampling of plays from undergraduate and graduate Cornell students with themes ranging from comedic family dysfunction to shark appreciation. DIS/Connected will be presented October 1-3 at 7:30pm in the Black Box Theater in the Schwartz Performing Arts Center at Cornell University (430 College Avenue). Tickets can be purchased by calling the Schwartz Center Box Office at 607-254ARTS. To Kill A Mockingbird | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 10/02 Friday | Ti-Ahwaga Performing Arts Center, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | Taking place during the Great Depression in the fictional “tired old town” of Maycomb, Alabama, this play focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch and lessons learned about growing up under extraordinary circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. For tickets and showtimes visit tiahwaga.com Songs For A New World | 7:30 PM, 10/02 Friday | Elmira Little Theatre, 1000 Laurel St, Elmira | Navigating the world of American history and cultural mythology, Songs For A New World is about exploration and change. Jess LiBrizzi, Jeffrey Mathews, Amanda Thomas and Steven Hovis take us on a musical journey, portraying an array of characters from Christopher Columbus and Betsey Ross to the frazzled wife of a millionaire threatening to leap off the edge of her high-rise and a basketball player about to make it big. What do these people have in common? They are all on the verge of transformation! Runs October 2, 3 and 4. Tickets and information at www.elmiralittletheatre.com

PM-3:00 PM, 10/02 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | A Cornell human resources representative will discuss job search tips, the application process, and overall information about working at Cornell University. Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 10/02 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.

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Introduction to Home Winemaking | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 9/30 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Taught by award-winning winemaker Martha Gioumousis, this class teaches you the basics of home winemaking—for the beginner or advanced amateur winemaker. The class will include the basics of wine tasting, plus all you need to know to make wine at home, equipment and supplies needed, yeast choices, problem solving, the importance of record keeping, plus aging, finishing and bottling wine. Pre-registration is required. You may register online, or call 272-2292 to register by phone. For more information visit, http:// ccetompkins.org/winemaking Food Safety Training for Food Handlers | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 9/30 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Servers, line cooks, restaurant owners, food service managers, this is for you and/ or your staff! This 4-hour class will cover the basics of food safety for people who work or volunteer in food service settings. It is not a Certification course, but participants will receive a Certificate of Achievement upon completion. To register, call (607) 272-2292 or register online. More information at: www.ccetompkins.org Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 9/30 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. Ethical Travel Association: Glamping in the Fingerlakes | 7:00 PM-, 10/01 Thursday | Firelight Camps, 150 Danby Road, Ithaca | Firelight Camp owners Emma and Bobby Frisch presenting on their local business. Beams and Boards: Dating Historic Structures in New York State through Dendrochronology | 6:30 PM-, 10/01 Thursday | Room 208, Center for Natural Sciences, Ithaca College, Ithaca | The Finger Lakes Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association will host Cynthia Kocik (Cornell University Dendrochronology Laboratory) presents. SewGreen Fall Classes Registration | 3:00 PM-, 10/01 Thursday | SewGreen, 112 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | All classes are held at SewGreen. Unless otherwise noted, materials, including a sewing machine to use in class, are provided. Most projects are non-gendered, and men and boys are always welcome. Advance registration and prepayment for classes are required. For an online listing of classes and easy sign-up, go to www. sewgreen.org/classes. For more information, contact coord@sewgreen. org Including Transgender People in the Workplace | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 10/01 Thursday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Presented by Luca Maurer. Walk-ins are welcome. For logistical reasons, we ask that you pre-register if possible. However, if you are unable to pre-register, you may register at the event. Scholarship requests must be made in advance. registration@hsctc.org or call 607.273.8686 Phil Shapiro’s Group Folk Guitar Lessons | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 10/05 Monday | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, , Ithaca | Learn to play acoustic guitar, or improve your guitar playing, with this inexpensive course. There are eight one-hour lessons, on Monday evenings, starting Monday, September 14, 2015, in the International Lounge of Willard Straight Hall. Registration is at the first lesson. Just come, and bring a guitar.

Special Events Farm to Fork | 3:00 PM-8:00 PM,

Hayrides, Haunted House, Displays, Ziplines, Corn Cannons, Apple Flingers, Petting Farm, Craft Area and much more! For more information visit www. Jacksonspumpkinfarm.com

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The Wood Brothers play the State Theatre, Friday 10/02 at 7 PM. (Photo Provided) 10/01 Thursday | The Deck, Front Street, Owego | Thursday evening farmers market with 4 local eateries will create fresh street food for you to enjoy while listening to music. For more information visit www.facebook.com/ OwegoFarmtoForkEveningMarket Cornell Football | 7:00 PM-, 10/02 Friday | Schoellkopf Stadium, Cornell, Ithaca | Under the lights Vs. Colgate University. Finger Lakes Cider Week | 1:00 PM, 10/02 Friday | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Finger Lakes Cider Week is a celebration of the hard cider revival in New York apple country. There are public events every day and over 50 participating locations. You are invited! For events and listings visit www. ciderweekflx.com Apple Harvest Festival | 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, 10/02 Friday | The Commons, East State Street, Ithaca | The 33rd Annual Great Downtown Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival set to take place on Friday, October 2nd (12pm-6pm), Saturday, October 3rd (10am-6pm) and Sunday, October 4th (10am-6pm). The 2015 Apple Harvest Festival made possible by support from the Tompkins Trust Company hosts plenty of apples, local produce, fresh baked goods, family entertainment at every turn, games, rides, prizes and live performances on two stages. Apple Harvest Festival is a great introduction to the rich farm and artist community of Ithaca. Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | 9:00 PM-5:00

PM, 10/03 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. Traditions and Beyond 2015 Quilt Show | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 10/03 Saturday | TC3 Field House, 170 North St., Dryden | Featuring hundreds of quilts, wearable art, vendors mall, demos, quilt-turning exhibit, silent auction of small quilts, book sale, and more. Queen-sized show quilt, In a New York Garden, on display; raffle tickets are available from any Tompkins County Quilters Guild member. For more information, visit www.tcqg.org/. First Peoples Festival | 10:00 AM-5:30 PM, 10/03 Saturday | Dewitt Park Farmers’ Market, Dewitt Park, Ithaca | A day of education, awareness, culture and activities for all ages. The First Peoples’ Festival honors the first peoples of this land and all of their ancestors. LAFF: The Local Talent Variety Show| 7:00 PM, 10/03 Saturday | Ithaca High School Kulp Auditorium, Ithaca | Talent show to benefit Youth Arts Program. The Great Cortland Pumpkinfest | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 10/03 Saturday | Courthouse Park, Court Street, Cortland | Runs October 3 and October 4. The Great Cortland Pumpkinfest was first held in 1996. The Pumpkinfest is truly a

community effort, with volunteers from numerous organizations. Performers include Purple Valley, The Jeff Love Band, Catskill Puppet Theatre, The Blind Spots, and many, many more. A Benefit For Educate The Children: Support Earthquake Victims In Nepal | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 10/04 Sunday | The Lovely Treman Center, 95 Hines Road, Newfield | Bid on beautiful handcrafts from Nepal, food, educational resources. For more information, or to RSVP by October 2nd, please visit www.etc-nepal.org/ Treman_event.php Owego Elks Antiques And Collectibles Market | 8:00 AM-3:00 PM, 10/04 Sunday | Owego Elks Club, 223 Front Street, Owego | Shop over 40 dealers from across Central NY and PA. 10,000 sq. ft. of quality merchandise and fabulous food, oldies music and more! Every first and third Sunday year-round. For more information visit www.owegoelksemporiummarket. com Science Cabaret: The Cream and The Crop; Cider, Cheese, and the Perfect Pairing | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/06 Tuesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | With Cornell University’s flavor scientist, Gavin Sacks, cider maker Autumn Stoscheck. Music by Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet. sciencecabaret.org Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm | 10:00 AM-, 10/06 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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City of Ithaca Commons Advisory Board | 8:30 AM, 10/02 Friday | Common Council Chambers, Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Community Advisory Group (CAG) | 6:00 PM, 10/05 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | CAG is concerned with Ithaca’s contaminated sites. It convenes to promote greater public participation in clean-up projects, and to help citizens and involved government agencies make better-informed decisions. City of Ithaca Board of Zoning Appeals | 7:00 PM, 10/06 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM, 10/06 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Natural Areas Commission (NAC) | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 10/06 Tuesday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The NAC supports the conservation of the designated Natural Areas within the City of Ithaca and advises the Board of Public Works, the Department of Public Works, Common Council, and the Conservation Advisory Council, regarding public concerns about Natural Areas, threats to the ecosystems, and opportunities to improve protective measures.

Books Steven Druker | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 9/30 Wednesday | Unitarian Church Of Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Lawyer and GMO campaigner Steven Druker will introduce his new book Altered Genes, Twisted Truth. Druker is the person whose lawsuit obtained early biotech regulatory discussions from within the FDA, revealing FDA suppressed warnings by its own scientists. He also uncovered information that the rats fed FlavrSavr tomatoes, the first ever GMO crop, had unexplained stomach lesions. David Orr | 5:00 PM, 9/30 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses his new book The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost

Worriers, why+the+Wires,

Downtown Ithaca, Friday, October 2, 1:00 p.m.

Chanticleer Loft, Friday, October 2, 7:00 p.m.

The state of New York has a rich history with the intricacies of cider, specifically, the Finger Lakes Region. This special festival that lasts all week long, was started in 2012 to pay homage to this great cider legacy, and bring together cider makers, traders, enthusiasts, and orchardists, to bring the history, the culture, and especially the taste, to the general public. There are public events every day and over 50 participating locations.

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Punk comes in all forms this Saturday night at Ithaca’s unofficial punk rock club: The Chanti-Loft. Fresh of their first LP, Worriers, a band from Brooklyn, NY, headline the show, bringing their melodic indiepunk brand of tunes with them. Ithaca’s own why+the+wires, King Sized Pegasus, and Hope Rainbow offer support, brining a wide ranging musical spectrum. Expect some hardcore punk, some progressive post-rock, some awesome saxophone, some circlepits, and some melody!

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Everyone Gets Wrong. Aaron Sachs: Arcadian America | 2:00 PM, 10/03 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Book talk in conjunction with the new exhibition In Memoriam: Cemeteries of Tompkins County, co-sponsored by Historic Ithaca, with author Aaron Sachs, Cornell University Department of History Associate Professor, on Arcadian America. Graphic Novel and Manga Club | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM, 10/05 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For teen readers. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at (607) 272-4557 extension 274 or rdemauro@tcpl.org.

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For his part, DeJohnette moved to New York in the mid-‘60s and has played with so many people and cut so many albums as bandleader and sideman it’s silly to list them in the Internet age. So for the casual jazz fan, let’s say DeJohnette’s playing can be heard on the right-side speakers on Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew and leave it at that. Music, for DeJohnette, is something that comes from what he once called “the cosmic library of ideas.” “Everybody’s plugged into that channel, however much people are consciously aware of it,” DeJohnette said. “Mathematicians, scientists, painters, writers… All of a sudden something comes to you. Ideas are everywhere in the cosmos, or shall we say, in the creative consciousness. You just get out of the way, man, and open up. It’s not rocket science. It’s an intuitive thing. You open up and be a channel for the creative energy for whatever it is one is adept at.” DeJohnette has had an outpost in Woodstock for nearly 40 years that helps him get away from a world that’s speeding up, “at least in some ways, if you’re working on the internet.” “People don’t have the time to reflect like they used to,” DeJohnette said. “It’s something we need for our survival in the future. People try to get a grip on something, and it’s changed to something

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here is no easily marketable “Chicago Sound” because the Second City has birthed too many musical movements and players to be tied to any specific era or studio, like Memphis or Motown soul of the ‘60s. It would be a fool’s trick, anyway, to summarize in a few catchy words the “Made in Chicago” sound of the Jack DeJohnette-led group playing this Sunday, Oct. 4, at Cornell’s Bailey Hall. “This group has evolved organically—each time we play it’s different,” DeJohnette said. “Everybody is off doing their different things. We come together with a high-level vibe, whether we play originals or we just improvise.” Pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, winds Henry Threadgill and Roscoe Mitchell, and percussionist DeJohnette all played together in the Chicago scene of the early ‘60s. Since then, the group’s members—which also includes Chicago bassist Larry Gray—have all done plenty of their own things. Everyone in the group is a composer. Abrams was a founding member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, long associated with Chicago’s “free jazz” scene. Threadgill and Mitchell both have myriad compositions and albums to their credit, with their most recognizable associations the trio Air and the Art Ensemble of Chicago, respectively.

Art Fashion Show: Thrive: Ethical Fashion Grand Opening | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/02 Friday | Thrive, 112 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Featuring locally-made jewelry by Draya Designs and ethical fashion by Eileen Fisher, Citizens of Humanity, and Blue Canoe, as well as other small independent labels like House of Choclet. Organized by Draya Koschmann, owner of Ithaca’s new ethical fashion boutique Thrive, and Wendy Skinner, of SewGreen, the show will be all about the ART of ethical and sustainable fashion. At 7pm models will strut their stuff on a sidewalk runway from Thrive to SewGreen and make a inside loop through the stores. Come early to get a good spot to watch; stick around to see the fashions up close and meet Draya and Wendy. www.ShopThriveNY.com First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/02 Friday | Ithaca | On the first Friday of each month, art galleries in downtown hold their opening receptions for exhibitions. Visit www.downtownithaca.com for details Angela Han: Burning Mortality | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/02 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | A collection of works about a reaction to feeling suspended, hung in a space of in-between - neither fully healed nor suffocating in pain. It is a reflection of time spent teasing, accepting, denying, befriending, and thwarting the human expiration date. Exhibition runs through October. www. angelahanart.com Maria Claudia Gimma: Inter-Connected | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 10/02 Friday | Elevator Music and Art

Gallery - at New Roots Charter School, 116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Born in Cali, Colombia, this artist expresses a love for nature, people and places. As a child she would sit and observe how everyday life inter-connects. These connections would form impressions without the necessity of words, beautiful sensory impressions that blossomed into defining my sense of place. As she got older she started to capture these impressions through film and photography. The Big Draw | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/02 Friday | Creative Space Gallery (Ithaca College), 215 State St., Ithaca | Join us for the opening of The Big Draw; the world’s biggest drawing festival. This year’s theme is Every Drawing Tells a Story and we are aiming to get the community involved with this interactive exhibition that will evolve

throughout the month. For more information, search Creative Space Gallery on Facebook. Art Trail Show | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/02 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Art Trial Show, which features 37 artist’s studios open throughout the month of October, will have its reception for the artists on this night. Selected works by the artists will be on display as well. Mellisa Groo | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/03 Saturday | The Cooper-Meier Gallery, 246 Updike Road, Danby | Melissa is a wildlife photographer who has focused her career on the passion she has for communicating the beauty of the natural world onto her spectacular photographic palate. Her passion for wildlife, conservation, and ethical photography drives her to tell stories and educate people about the

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,

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exhibition of New York State-based artists whose work captures the complex and multilayered richness of the contemporary Latin@ American experience. Runs through October | 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 | Greg Page - Motifs from the Global Backyard. Lithographs. Runs through Ocober | www.ink-shop.org

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A day of education, awareness, culture and activities for all ages. The First Peoples’ Festival honors the first peoples of this land and all of their ancestors. There will be a plethora of activities and entertainment, including arts and crafts, food and drink, and music and dancers, including Dan Hill and Tabletop 3. Dont miss out on this educational and fun festival.

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This American standup comedian packs quite a resume with her. She’s an author, an actress, an interviewer, a commentator, and of course, a renowned comedian. Expect a dose of wide ranging rhetoric at this show. She not only can bust your chops, but also has a wealth of experience and champions many progressive causes and organizations. Her shows are very interactive and always inventive.

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performance.” “We write music because that’s what we do as creative sentient beings,” DeJohnette continued. “Or you do something else. Everything is breaking down now, and some new things will come out of it. Jazz has always adapted to changes in society.” • Jack DeJohnette’s Made in Chicago plays Bailey Hall on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $28 general admission and $18 for students, and they are available at baileytickets.universitytickets.com. On Saturday, Oct. 3, there will be an interview and Q&A with DeJohnette in Lincoln Hall, room B20, at 1:30 p.m. Muhal Richard Abrams will conduct a master class at 3 p.m. in the same space. The latter two events are free.

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else the next day. Jazz is a lifestyle; it adapts like everything else has to. The young people out there are adapting to it, out there touring and using the media.” The Made in Chicago album this group released in March, of a live performance in Chicago’s Millennium Park in 2013, is not available for streaming from German label ECM. Playing music has never been a prudent economic decision, but the streaming age has presented its own challenges to jazz players. “Because of deals with record companies, Spotify and Pandora, and all that stuff, performers are getting screwed,” DeJohnette said. “The record companies are getting 70 percent of downloads … Downloads don’t pay s***. Most of the income now is really from live

marvels of the natural world through her images. First Saturdays on the Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 10/03 Saturday | Greater Ithaca Art Trail | Artists exhibit in studios across Ithaca and Tompkins County. More information at www.arttrail.com.

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urns Road is one of the north-south passages across the Six Mile Creek Valley. It passes just to the east of the city reservoir. Apparently it once had a different intersection with Slaterville Road (Route 79) because now there is a spur of it that breaks off just below Slaterville and dead ends just before it gets there. This creates a very private cul de sac (Burns Way) for the owners of 120 Burns Road and their immediate neighbors. Their immediate neighbors from whom they are heavily screened by lush vegetation in the form of mature scrubs and second-growth trees. This is an impressively removed parcel, considering its location. The house itself is arranged as a split level, although it does not resemble a traditional one from the outside. Instead the configuration has been adroitly deployed in order to fit the home in to the sloped landscape. The front door is right next to the single-bay garage. You find yourself in a foyer that is an alcove in a large combined living-dining room with the kitchen in one corner. The ceiling rises steadily from one wall to the other, which gives the room a cathedral feel. In the lower wall there is a gas-fueled fireplace with a tiled hearth and a chevroned wood panel above it. The kitchen is separated from the rest At A Glance Price: $239,500 Location: 120 Burns Road, Town of Ithaca School District: Ithaca City Schools Cayuga Heights Elementary MLS#: 303600 Contact: Jolene Rightmyer, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, RealtyUSA Real Estate; jolene@sellsyourproperty.com Phone: (607) 339-1559 (cell) Website: www.realtyusa.com

of the room by an island arranged at 45degree angle. It serves as a breakfast bar and also holds the stove, with the stovetop recessed slightly below the counter. The cabinetry is a mix of mult-paned glass and solid doors with raised routed panels. Double sliding glass doors open out onto a deck that overlooks the Six Mile Creek valley. The heavily forested opposite wall of the valley is visible, but the growing trees will have to be trimmed to preserve the view. A new hardwood floor has been installed throughout the living room and dining area. The kitchen floor is tiled in the same ceramic as the hearth. It is seven steps down to the lower level of the split design. This area includes a study area, a bedroom and a full bath with a tub/shower. The study and the bedroom are floored with wall-to-wall carpeting. There is a small laundry room off the study and you walk into a closet to find a small door that leads to a crawl space that is available for storage. Six steps up from the living room you find yourself in the master bedroom. This has been arranged as a single large polygonal area that includes both the sleeping area and the bathroom. The sleeping area is carpeted and the bathroom is tiled

120 Burns Road, Town of Ithaca (Photo: Cassandra Palymra)

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The Yoga School

Peaceful Spirit TAI CHI classes at

*Semester Pass $300

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Grand Opening! Spring Buffet

The largest buffet in Ithaca featuring authentic Chinese, American & Japanese Cuisine! All you can eat! See page 20 for a 15% discount coupon! 277-7888

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Real Life Ceremonies

We Buy, Sell, & Trade

Honor a Life like no other with ceremonies like no other. Steve@reallifeceremonies.com

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607-898-2048

New at GreenStar

Looking to stretch your grocery budget? So are we! That’s why we’re pleased to introduce our new Co+op Basics program. Co+op Basics offers everyday low prices on many popular grocery and household items, like Heidelberg Multi-Grain Bread.

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