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So the Planning and Economic Development Committee will hear a presentation from Tim Logue, city transportation engineer, at their Oct. 14 meeting on the lanes, and if council wants to scrub them and paint the street again, they can, Myrick said.

That’s not the preference of Tom Knipe, a county planner, who reminded council of the new comprehensive plan and Lines marking off bike lanes on North its preference for—in descending order— Cayuga Street have been laid down. pedestrian traffic, then Parking is no bikes, then transit, longer allowed then private vehicles. on the west side Knipe referenced of Cayuga Street his time in Portland, between Lincoln and Oregon, as an active Cascadilla streets, and transportation activist lanes for bicyclists and the general now are outlined perception that the both ways along that western city became a stretch. hipster, bike-friendly The lanes were mecca out of nowhere. approved by the “Everyone says, city board of public oh, it’s Portland.” works on April 27, Knipe said. “But it but several council wasn’t easy there, members expressed either. People their discontent with were upset and the lines on the day complaining. They they were drawn, as had strong public reported here last leadership and did it week (“Ithaca Council anyway, and now the Members Not Up to city thanks them. It’s Speed on Bike Lanes,” a model city in active Oct. 7). transportation.”

Of the 15 people Alderwoman who spoke at the Oct. Josephine Martell 7 Common Council (D-5th), who wrote about the bike lanes, the letter to BPW 14 were in favor. last week expressing The only opponent concern about the new was Fay Gougakis, lanes and its effect on a regular downtown The Cayuga Street bike lanes in use. elderly Cayuga Street biker herself, who (Photo: David West) residents’ parking, asked for a “test said that she lived in run period” with Portland at the same temporary lines. time as Knipe and is an avid biker.

In theory, the completion of the bike “I’d like to see the bike lanes succeed,” lanes the day after last week’s council Martell said. “But there’s no plan or funding meeting isn’t a fait accompli, for the to extend them to the school.” discussion will continue. Mayor Svante Martell said that she and other council Myrick noted it was “far simpler logistically to install the bike lanes as we planned, then continued on page 4 continue the discussion.”

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he summer’s drama with the Human Rights Commission (HRC) is still lingering. In August one-third of the nine-member board resigned after months of disagreement and difficulty, and now one of those former members—Pat Pryor, erstwhile commission chair—has written a letter to the county legislature offering details about her decision to leave.

At the time of her resignation, Pryor was only willing to offer limited insight into the reasons for her departure. She said that there had been some tension with Office of Human Rights (OHR) director Karen Baer after Pryor pursued making a correction to a press release, and the problem had been further exacerbated by the controversial development of a Pat Pryor communications protocol. Finally, things came to a head after three other members of the HRC’s executive committee drafted a letter to “voice a vote of No Confidence” in Pryor. (See the Aug. 28 issue of the Ithaca Times at Ithaca.com for more about the letter.)

After the letter, both Pryor and fellow commission member Dave McNamara resigned on Aug. 7. On Aug. 20, one of the letter’s signers—Talyse Hampton— resigned as well.

On Sept. 25, Pryor penned a letter offering more background on her decision.

Although previously she had mentioned problems with Baer, Pryor has now outlined the specific problems in more detail.

She writes, “The one concrete thing I’ve been told by Karen that I did wrong was to talk with Peter Stein about the fact that Karen was angry with me. My remarks to him took place in the context of a casual conversation where he asked me how things were going with the commission. Although my comments in response were generally positive, I did say to him that Karen had responded very angrily when I attempted to reach the OHR in time to let staff know that there was a mistake in a press release that needed to be corrected before it was sent out.” continued on page 7

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What is your favorite colonial empire or imperial power?

“Thank you, India, for your power of selfrealization.”

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“I’m a fan of the Medicis. They had tunnels from one house to the next to hide. And their palace is now a huge museum of art.”

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Campaign for Ithaca Silent Film Museum

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n 2012, at a ceremony outside the Wharton Studio building in Stewart Park, Mayor Svante Myrick declared October “Silent Film Month.” This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Wharton Studio, and a local group headed by Diana Riesman, co-founder of the Ithaca Motion Picture Project, intends to convert the building into a museum commemorating Ithaca’s silent film history.

Many events have been planned this month to continue honoring Ithaca and its history in the silent film industry, with the help of Presenting Sponsor Travis Hyde Properties and partners Cinemapolis, The History Center, Cornell Cinema, and Ithaca-Made Movies.

Riesman worked in film before moving to Ithaca; she has written screenplays and worked in development at Tri-Star Pictures. “The ideal situation would be to have businesses take Silent Movie Month and make it their own,” she said. “We’re still putting the events and exhibits together.” Terry Harbin, head of Ithaca-Made Movies and Ithaca’s most experienced expert on Ithaca’s film history, has organized screenings during the month. “He has been researching the Whartons and collecting memorabilia for three decades. He has done so much to keep the history alive,” said Riesman.

“We’re very focused on that historic building in Stewart Park and working to create a museum there that will take the history and preservation to an even higher level,” Riesman said.

“That building is really a wonderful historic artifact of a bygone era when filmmaking was an emerging art form and an emerging industry. There are really only a handful of these silent film studios still standing in the country, and we are lucky enough to have one in our city park, now on the Cayuga Waterfront Trail by the lake. At the moment, it’s being used for public works’ park storage and maintenance, and we feel that there are better uses for that building. We’re working hand in hand with the city, and much more closely now with Friends of Stewart Park, to revitalize the entire park, the Wharton Building and the plaza, and its sister building.”

All the events that have been planned, including silent-film screenings at Taughannock Falls State Park every Labor Day weekend, are intended to broaden awareness of the Whartons’ film work in Ithaca, including local landmarks that are preserved on celluloid.

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Diana Riesman at the proposed Wharton Brothers museum in Stewart Park. The building once served as a studio for the filmmakers.(Photo: Michael Nocella)

shot urban scenes downtown with cars and houses, and they did a lot of stuff at Stewart Park. They used the lake a lot, and they threw actresses over the side of rowboats. They did these World War I propaganda films and built these miniature European villages and then blew them up.”

Events and screenings for the month include a showing of Edward S. Curtis’ In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) on Oct. 14 at 7:15 pm in Willard Straight Hall, a co-production with Cornell bikelanes

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members thought the lanes weren’t going to be painted until next spring. Comments on communications bounced around the council table.

“I’ve found cases in which a project might be moving forward has the approval of BPW, and this group doesn’t do the best job of following developments,” Alderman Seph Murtagh (D-2nd) said, adding later that city engineering staff “could have done a better job” updating council on the project. Alderwoman Donna Fleming (D-3rd) is the designated liaison to the board of public works, charged with keeping Common Council up to speed, but she has not attended several public works meetings.

In an email, Alderman George McGonigal (D-1st) wrote that a communication was sent out asking for written comments on the bike lanes on March 4, which “apparently rolled under the bridge unnoticed by most if not all of

Cinema.

On Oct. 24 from 2 to 4 p.m. in the Borg Warner Room of the Tompkins County Public Library, episodes of Perils of Pauline, Exploits of Elaine, Romance of Elaine and House of Hate will be introduced by Terry Harbin; on Oct. 25 at 2 p.m. at Cinemapolis, Buster Keaton’s The General (1926) will be shown.

For a full schedule of events, visit ithacamotionpictureproject.org • — Bryan

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Council, and the public.”

BPW ended up getting 71 comments for the lanes and 15 against, which were, as stated in the April 27 minutes, “not so much about the parking but more so that there weren’t so many bicyclists or just didn’t seem to be needed.”

McGonigal noted that neither BPW nor transportation engineers asked for a neighborhood meeting, but also admitted it was “bad oversight” on his part because of his liaison role with the Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Council.

Asked on the street about communications with council, Logue said “If they want to have discussions, I don’t think there’s any resistance.”

“We could do something like project updates monthly, like the county does,” Logue continued. “Public works oversees things like relatively minor curb cuts that are boring for council. We go to council for project budget approval, and then go from there. It’s how it’s been done for many years.” • —Josh

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The survey notes that “Rather than no work history, these young people have poor work histories—a much greater obstacle to overcome.” Of the 41 percent working who were surveyed, 46 percent were working more than 30 hours per week, but half of those working said it oung people who are living on the wasn’t enough hours. One anecdote was streets or bouncing from couch to related from a person who said their couch aren’t usually the quickest to manager wanted s/he to work until close ask for assistance or divulge the details of at 1 a.m. and open at 7 a.m., with a 40their living situation. minute walk home. “I said you’re not going “They’ve confided in too many people to see me at 7 a.m.,” the person told the and too many people know too many manager. things. They think they can’t trust all “Conflict at home” was the most adults,” said youth assistant Rose Fleurant. common reason—at 39 percent—in “A lot aren’t even in the right the survey for young people state of mind to look for a living on their own. Some 22 place to stay. They say ‘I’ve percent of the 208 surveyed got 15 friends I can rely on. I said they were thrown out, can bounce place to place.’” while substance abuse by a Larry Farbman, parent or guardian accounted coordinator for the Learning for 18 percent, and abuse was Web’s Youth Outreach the cause of 15 percent of program, said that often departures. young people who are aging When they are asking if out of foster care or other a young person can go home, institutional situations are sometimes service providers “so happy to be free of adults, can’t get the whole story. they just want to experience “During one interview, being free and doing things when I asked a girl why she on their own—without thought she didn’t get services, necessarily having the skills she told me they called my to do them.” mom and said I was able to go In his work with Youth home,” Courtney said. “She’s Outreach, which provides not qualified because her a drop-in center with parents take care of her. She computers and other support Fifty percent of young people surveyed reported using music and art to help them cope with told me she goes home and her services for young people life (Photo: Josh Brokaw) mom drinks and they get in living on their own, Farbman fight and she gets locked out of sees the negative effects of the house.” peer pressure. One young man Powers reminded the room at the a room of about 50 service providers their who came into his office had a girlfriend telling him “You don’t need a program—be insight into the life of a young person in an task force meeting that the survey is a “snowball sample,” based on the networks unstable living situation. a man—you’re weak,” Farbman said. “I of the researchers. Numbers in the survey One common complaint is the have people working on their GED and that seem shockingly high, like the 49 conflicting requirements of programs that their friends are laughing at them.” percent of youth being parents or pregnant help out with food, housing, and other Fleurant came from New York City, highlighted by the Ithaca Voice in an needs.

Winston said that one may have where she spent a year in a shelter before Oct. 5 story, should be taken as more 22 hours of work per week, when you starting classes at TC3. The Learning anecdotal than empirical evidence, Powers need to have 30 hours per week to stay in Web helped her find housing when her emphasized. a housing program—but crossing the 25dormitory stay was about to expire last Another telling result was that even hour limit eliminates your qualification for spring, and has hooked her up with the among the 67 percent who receive food food stamps.

Woman’s Opportunity Center, which led stamps, over a third had to skip meals “You’re working to earn money, and to a job at Brookdale. She says that as earning money to be broke,” Winston said. because they had no money to buy food. someone coming in fresh to town, it was Why not go to Loaves and Fishes, the Landing and holding a job in a market probably easier to ask for help than for food banks, the pantries? One person at where many competitors are in or finished those who have been here much of their the meeting asked. with a post-secondary degree is another lives.

“It might be shame,” Fleurant problem highlighted in the survey.

Having peers can have a positive side, said. “There’s a lot of looking down on “You need to have college experience as well, though, according to Courtney young adults from family, friends, the to be a janitor at a bagel shop,” Winston [who didn’t wish to give her last name], community, that makes us scared to reach said of one application she’s submitted. who was one of 19 research assistants out for these services. They don’t want “Why would I need a degree to sweep and who helped write and gather the latest to go through that heartache and would mop the floor when I do that at my own Independent Living Survey. rather just suffer in silence.” house?”

“There’s room at the shelter, but they Interested in seeing the whole 2015 Fleurant said that jobs aren’t willing to don’t feel safe and kind of stick together,” Independent Living Survey for yourself? train new hires.

Courtney said. “Certain groups of teens Visit learning-web.org/publications for a “They talk about ‘I need a year’s pitch a tent and say ‘This is our home download link. experience.’ I’m fresh out of high school, together.’ It’s not exactly a home, but I how can I come in with experience?’” wasn’t going to judge them and wasn’t — J o s h B r o k aw Fleurant said. “People end up doing what going to tell them how to live their life.”

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The latest Independent Living Survey of Tompkins County youth was conducted by the Learning Web, county youth services, and the Brofenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell, directed by Dr. Jane Powers. It’s the fourth time since 2004 the survey has been conducted. This one covered 208 people of ages 13 through 24. The most tangible benefit of the survey, besides offering a snapshot of how independent youth are living, is the over $260,000 in funding it’s helped Youth Outreach get for transitional living funding —up to 18 months of help with rent and utilities for people working toward stability.

At the Homeless and Housing Task Force meeting on Oct. 7, Fleurant and her fellow youth assistant Shady Winston, gave

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Ups&Downs ▶ Our peace sign is bigger, Musician and artist Yoko Ono aimed to set a world record for number of humans forming a peace sign in New York’s Central Park Tuesday morning, but the effort has reportedly fallen flat. The event was organized to honor what would have been the 75th birthday of her late husband, Beatles’ frontman John Lennon, on October 9. The largest peace sign ever, at 5,814 people, was formed in 2009 at a festival in Ithaca, New York. That gathering was organized by high school sophomore and peace activist Trevor Dougherty.

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

Heard&Seen ▶ Check out the HUD report, Each year, the City of Ithaca submits a report to HUD reviewing the progress made during the prior program year toward achieving the goals identified in the City’s Consolidated Plan. This report, known as the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER), will be submitted to HUD on October 29, 2015. The report is available for public comment from October 12 through October 28, 2015 and may be reviewed online at www. ithacaura.org or in hard copy at the office of the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency, Third Floor, City Hall, 108 East Green Street, Ithaca, New York. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Oct. 7-13 include: 1) Dream Comes True for SVE Student 2) National Geographic Makes Celebrities of Cornell Vet Students 3) Dryden Revamps Homecoming Festivities 4) New Tattoo Regulations Make No Sense to Ithaca Artists 5) Lansing Middle School Principal Heads to Auburn For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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The Democratic nomination for thaca “progressives” often engage each of these districts was determined in self-congratulation about the by small committees of party officials at way politics is conducted in our private meetings with no public input. enlightened city. The Democratic Party, Local Democratic politicos have noted and some of its local political stars’ that the law requires that local party handling of recent resignations and committees select party nominees in nominations for the county legislature special elections. The condescending would seem to indicate that what is explanations proffered by the minions of the local political machine do not state required on the part of local politicians is less narcissism and more humility. whether the selection meetings must Before making this case, I will exclude the public, whether provide a summary narrative of any alternative opportunity recent developments for those for public input is permitted, who may not have followed the whether nepotism rules apply, or whether the names of the matter. officials making the decision On Sept. 16, Kathy Luz should be disclosed. (The Herrera announced that she composition of the committee would resign her District 2 that selected Kirschner has not seat on the county legislature been made public.) for health and family reasons.

What the local Democrats On the same day District Donald Beachler 4 representative and welldo not tell us is that there has known local politico Nate long been a pattern around the Shinagawa announced that he state of “timely” resignations was resigning from his seat in District that create special elections and allow 4, moving to Fall Creek to live in his party machines to deliver nominations to preferred candidates. The timing house on E. Falls St. with the woman he would be marrying in just three days, of the Luz Herrera and Shinigawa and running for the newly vacant seat resignations was very fortunate for the in District 2. The next day a 2014 Ithaca Democratic Party’s selected candidates.

High School graduate and intern with Any candidate who wished to continue the mayor, Elie Kirschner, announced without party blessing and run as an his candidacy accompanied by high independent had very little time to assess praise from Mayor Svante Myrick potential support, organize a campaign who defended him against social and had only until Sept. 30 to collect media sniping. In short order the two signatures and file a petition. The private local party committees handed the Democratic nomination for the two seats continued on page 7 to Kirschner and Shinigawa.

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ews item: (Oct. 6, 2015) To honor what would have been John Lennon’s 75th birthday, Yoko Ono and thousands of others gathered in Central Park to try and set the Guinness world record for the largest peace sign comprised of human bodies. They fell woefully short, however, of the record set in Ithaca in 2009—by a few thousand people. A Guinness World Records representative reported that about 2,000 people of all ages came together. In 2009, however, 5,814 people gathered in Ithaca to create a peace sign that stretched across Stewart Park.

(Oct. 8, 2015) Stinging from its failed attempt to beat Ithaca for the coveted largest human peace sign record, New York City attempted today to construct four artificial canyons on Manhattan Island. “Ithaca thinks it’s all gorges and whatnot,” said Mayor Bill De Blasio at one of the midtown building sites, named “Cascabilla” for the mayor himself. “We’ll just see who’s better after this.” Unfortunately, even 1,755 dump truck loads of imported Upper Devonian shale was barely enough to erect a single gorge, and the north wall of the structure collapsed shortly after completion. “This isn’t over,” promised the mayor.

(Oct. 10, 2015) A blizzard of publicity with the theme “What Now, Ithaca?” kicked off a hastily-organized music festival dubbed ‘New York City’s First Annual Porchfest.’ Festivities got underway today and immediately ran into difficulty due to the almost complete lack of porches in the Big Apple. Disappointment was palpable, and festival organizer Og Oggleby announced the abandonment of the project by day’s end. Plans for next year’s ‘New York City Grassroots Festival’ remain indefinite.

(Oct. 12, 2015) At today’s press conference, Mayor De Blasio released the decision of the City Council to not

proceed with the plan to convert 41 blocks of the city’s Fifth Avenue into a pedestrian mall on the model of Ithaca’s Commons.

“Ithaca merchants can take three years of construction, but here in New York City we just can’t take that kind of punishment,” he explained. “We have to concede that they’re just that much tougher than us.”

De Blasio also used the occasion to cancel the New York City Apple Festival and the abandonment of The 261-Fold Path, the project to establish 261 new Buddhist monasteries to elevate the city’s monasteryper-capita number to Ithaca’s.

(Oct. 13, 2015) Markets were roiled and plunged sharply after the surprise proclamation that New York City would launch a regional currency later this week modeled on the ‘Ithacash’ of a certain upstate city. The ‘Manhattan Moolah’ ad campaign, already visible on busses and billboards, has generated very little in the way of buzz. Traders have also expressed reservations about the ultimate success of the venture since no merchants have yet agreed to accept ‘New York City Dollars’ in lieu of U.S. currency.

(Oct. 15, 2015) New York City’s City Council announced on Twitter this morning that Mayor Bill De Blasio would step down immediately and turn the keys to Gracie Mansion over to Liam Snapchat, a charismatic, self-made 22year-old Columbia University graduate with dreadlocks and a great backstory.

The move was not entirely unexpected, given the Council’s recent debates on the embarrassment of having, at best, the second coolest mayor in the state. The New York Post’s headline “Oh, Snap!” sums up the hope that in this last, desperate gamble New York City might finally vanquish its mighty rival to the North. •

YourOPINIONS

Democratic Party Explains Rules

Nov. 3 is Election Day. Voters in the 2nd and 4th county legislative districts will also be offered the opportunity to vote in a Special Election for County Legislators at the same time.

There has been much confusing and sometimes misleading information that has been circulated in the media and by word of mouth. I would like to better explain the process of filling vacancy in the county legislature.

In regard to such vacancies we are governed by the New York State Board of Elections and the county charter. Election law has been in place for many decades.

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charter since 2003. The two resignations that occurred on Sept. 16 are the fourth and fifth such resignations to occur since 2003.

The Tompkins County Charter states that if such a vacancy shall occur after Aug. 15 but before Sept. 20 of any year, such vacancy shall be filled at the next general election. New York State Election Law states that a party nomination of a candidate for election to fill a vacancy in an elective office required to be filled at the next general election—occurring after seven days before the last day for circulating designating petitions and before September 20—shall be made by a majority vote of a quorum of the members of a county committee in continued on page 7

Guestopinion

Don’t Fear the Triangle I

’ve read a lot of doom and gloom about State Street Triangle (Trebloc), the 11story building proposed downtown.

On the contrary, State Street Triangle continues a strategy that has worked over the last 15 years. Numerous large projects have been built downtown—Hilton Garden Inn, Cayuga Green, Gateway Plaza/Commons, Breckenridge—and many smaller projects have followed.

Developments have added people and businesses, and the city has obviously improved.

These projects have followed an approach— each one has enhanced the quality of the street in front—that adds Rob Steuteville to the walkability, vibrancy, and appeal of the city. Not only is there more to do downtown, the connection to nature is better. A parking lot used to face Six Mile Creek, and now we have a park that is linked directly to the Commons with a vastly refined pedestrian passage.

State Street Triangle will add people and businesses and provide more interesting and active block faces on MLK/State, Aurora, and Green streets. In doing so it will transform a dead zone and link the Commons to Gateway Plaza, the History Center, and other development to the east.

It will make downtown more cohesive and provide easy access to more activities and services.

In doing so, State Street Triangle will: Generate tax revenues. Even during the proposed 10-year tax abatement period, it will bring in about $7 million more than the current building. After that, it will generate approximately $1.6 million in property taxes a year, which pays for a lot of services. The building will likely have few public-school-aged children and cost the city little.

Boost the downtown economy. It will substantially add to population downtown, bringing new customers to businesses and sales tax revenue in and around the Commons.

Support TCAT and Ithaca Carshare. The location is near the two busiest transit hubs in the county, and within walking distance of several Carshare vehicles.

Develop in a way consistent with the comprehensive plan. The city’s new comprehensive plan calls for channeling growth downtown to fight sprawl, and that’s good for us and our children.

The initial designs for the building did not respond well to the character of Ithaca, but the developer has submitted recent plans that are much improved. The architecture now responds to the city’s history and context.

State Street Triangle would be downtown’s

fourth building with double-digit stories— so the scale has precedent. Neither will it block light and views from the Commons.

Because of the angle of the street, you won’t even be able to see it from most of the Commons.

This building will generate far more pedestrian activity than automobile traffic.

I expect the traffic impact will be less than the hotels that already exist.

The sky is not going to fall by following a strategy that has worked over many years, showing that growth can have a positive impact. As a resident and taxpayer who lives near downtown, I welcome this proposal and hope the city wastes no time in accepting it.

– Rob Steuteville, Ithaca Steuteville is the editor and publisher of Better! Cities and Towns (bettercities.net), an online publication dedicated to providing the best news and analysis on compact, mixed-use growth and development.

He was a consultant to the Form Ithaca (formithaca.com) project, which recently released the report for their June 2015 charrette.

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meeting for District 2 that selected Nathan Shinigawa was held on Sept. 24. (One candidate, Anna Kelles, was able to qualify as an independent candidate in District 2). The closed meeting that handed the Democratic nomination to Kirschner in District 4 was held Sept. 28 and appeared in the press on Sept. 29. Is it any surprise that Kirschner is running unopposed?

Luz Herrera and Shinigawa have denied that they acted in coordination with their respective resignations. I doubt that anyone would admit to such a conspiracy, but I have no empirical evidence to support my belief that the resignations and the emergence of two quick candidacies that were anointed by the local machine were not entirely coincidental.

One thing that is clear is that Nathan Shinigawa played a puzzling and disappointing role in bringing this unfortunate situation about. My observations and conjectures (which I know will be met with great indignation by partisans of the local Democratic Party) on this matter are drawn from the letter Shinigawa placed on the Fall Creek Neighborhood Association website on Sept. 16. Shinigawa announced just three days before his wedding that he would resign his District 4 seat and depart from the Collegetown abode that he shared with the mayor to live with his wife. (Recall, this was the day of Kathy Luz Herrera’s announcement of her departure from the legislature.) Because Shinigawa knew

for months that he was getting married and moving to Fall Creek, he could have resigned his District 2 seat well before the middle of September. Resigning earlier would have allowed for a more transparent and democratic nomination process in District 4, if that was in fact what Shinigawa desired. Instead, he opted to wait until he could jump into another seat. It is possible to imagine (with great difficulty) that Shinigawa was planning to continue to reside with the mayor rather than his wife if there were no legislative vacancies in order to represent District 4. (Shinigawa has stated that it would not have been ethical to live in one district while representing another). It is also possible that Shinigawa, an experienced, intelligent, and skilled politician, knew that resigning in the middle of September would facilitate the nomination and election of the Democratic machine’s preferred candidates in both districts.

The mayor himself must have surely discussed these matters with his housemate and political ally. After all, the outcome of this closed process was that, with no input from the voters, the mayors’s housemate and a 19-year-old acolyte of the mayor received the Democratic nomination for two vacant seats on the county legislature.

The result of all these machinations is that the Democratic nominations were settled in private meetings with no opportunity for public input and at dates (especially in the case of the 4th District) that made it difficult for anyone else to gain ballot access for the November election. The Daleys no longer rule Chicago, but machine politics is alive and well in Ithaca – Donald W. Beachler, Ithaca Beachler is an associate professor in the Politics Department at Ithaca College. He lives in District 1.

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Pryor writes that at the next commission meeting, she was “excoriated” loudly by Baer because of her interaction with Stein.

“Subsequently, in a separate meeting,” she writes, “a ‘Communications Protocol’ that had been prepared ahead of the meeting was read to me that, in essence, said that anything said in a commission meeting stayed in the meeting and was not to be discussed with anyone outside the meeting. Another theme of the protocol was that in talking with ‘outsiders,’ we were to only say positive things.”

According to Pryor, such stipulations both violate the state’s Open Meetings Law and the HRC’s by-laws. Nonetheless, she says that she agreed because, “I was told that if I didn’t agree to the ‘protocol,’ it would be taken by commissioners as evidence that I did not want to ‘move forward.’”

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Pryor writes that subsequently she tried to schedule meetings with Baer to work things out, but Baer wasn’t interested.

Ultimately, she said, “I realized that, barring a resolution of the situation with Karen, which she was unwilling to allow to happen, I would never be able to effectively lead the commission.”

Thus, in early August, Pryor tendered her resignation.

When she was contacted about the Sept. 25 letter, Baer declined to comment.• —Keri

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the political subdivision in which such vacancy is to be filled.

Therefore, according to the law, there cannot be a primary. Candidates who do not receive party endorsement may choose to circulate petitions and run on an independent line.

We followed these requirements without exception. Members of the County Committee in the Legislative Districts did meet, hear from candidates, and make endorsements within the time requirements of the law. The short window of time was unfortunate, but we had no legal ability to change the time requirements.

The county committee cannot tell candidates when to resign. These are personal decisions. The day after the announcements of resignations were made, the Democratic Committee sent out a media release reiterating the vacancies and asking anyone wanting further information to contact the chair.

Information was also available on the County Board of Elections website.

I hope I have made the process clearer, and I am happy to answer any further questions at 266-7579.

– Irene Stein, Town of Ithaca Stein is the chair of the Tompkins County Democratic Committee

So ‘No’ to Big Triangle

Advocates for the controversial “tower in the triangle” have gotten considerable column space in the Ithaca Times lately. They have provided readers with reasonably effective spin and sleightof-hand in propaganda terms, though arguments suggesting that opponents of the project are against students and against density are spurious.

It’s not about students, it’s not even about density, it’s about the ill-conceived project itself. The tower is too big for the site, and the Texas corporation proposing to build the tower is asking for too much from the people of Ithaca. A profit-hungry company asking for millions in tax breaks to build something that will mar the view forever? Just say no.

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There’s a story that’s fun to tell tourists scrutinizing these signs with concern: The lead (you tell them) came from Ithaca Gun workers test firing guns straight at the gorge walls. Watch their reactions, particularly on a warm summer day when children and dogs are frolicking in the water and fly fishers are casting lines across the creek.

It’s a tall tale to tell, at least so far as Les Hovencamp knows. Hovencamp, who now specializes in repairing Ithacas at his Diamond Gunsmithing shop on Dey Street, started working at Ithaca Gun in 1974 at age 18. There was a firing range in the basement of the gun factory when he first started working on the assembly line. Before Hovencamp moved over to the service department in 1977, then located on West Cascadilla Street, tubes had been built to the outside that contained the 8

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“The tube came out of the building was a fan, and its highest-end model was chemicals around Ithaca Falls. with steel plate all around it, and kind named after John Philip Sousa, whose own Since Walter Hang of Toxics Targeting of arced, like an elbow fitting on a water trap gun had mermaids engraved on its brought lead contamination at Ithaca pipe,” Hovencamp said. “It gradually golden stock. During World War II, the Gun to public attention in August 2000, curved and slowed [the shot] down, and plant made a half-million .45 caliber Army a haphazard fight has been conducted to there was a steel plate at the end that service revolvers. An early customer was clean up the polluted site, with pitched deadened the shot.”

J.B. Duke’s American Tobacco monopoly, battles, declarations of victory, and then The lead shot dropped into a holding which ordered 10,000 guns in 1901. That admissions that the work isn’t done yet. container at the end of its journey. enabled Ithaca Gun to The U.S. Environmental Protection Typically, testers took double its operations Agency completed its most recent cleanup two shots, one with a “There’s been some with a 90-foot of lead last week in the Ithaca Falls natural double load to test the redistribution of lead building expansion, area, near the south cliff. And there’s dirty barrel’s durability. according to the work left to be done. ” in the same area.

Once a month or company’s historian, “We believe there is some so, Hovencamp said he —Don Graham, EPA Walter Claude redistribution of lead in the same saw crews go out and Snyder. Another less area,” Don Graham, the EPA’s on-site “shovel the crap out savory customer was coordinator, confirmed on Monday, Oct. of there. I don’t know Argentina’s right-wing government of the 12. “We plan on cordoning that off until where it went from there.”

1970s “Dirty War” period, which favored further investigations can be done.”

Most of the lead must have gone It’s safe to say there will be further somewhere else, or we would call the place “Itaka” riot guns, according to a 1976 Ithaca New Times report. flare-ups of publicity around the Ithaca “Heavy Metal Mountain” today. Millions Though Ithaca Guns are still Gun site, so let us take this opportunity to of guns were made and test fired on Gun manufactured in Ohio, after the brand add a few words on the subject to the easily Hill from the time Ithaca Gun took over made stops at the former King Ferry high read public record. Anyone whose thirst the Fall Creek Hub & Spoke factory in school and briefly in Auburn, the longest for information isn’t satisfied by this can 1883 until the plant’s closure in 1986. lasting legacy left in this city by the factory dip into impact statements and work plans Ithaca was famous for its shotguns. The is contamination from lead and organic in the county library or on the Community legendary trick shooter Annie Oakley

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contamination was not indicated based on limited A little explanatory geography is in sampling. As a order before beginning. The main gun plus, it was noted factory building was located right across there was no lead Lake Street from Gun Hill Apartments paint found in the on what is now a blank, overgrown site building. where whitetail deer now graze. Just on the It’s unclear if other side of the boiler stack with “Ithaca the Radian report Gun” spelled out in white letters is the was provided “mill race” or “raceway.” From dams on at the time to Fall Creek above the falls, water flowed any government through a tunnel blasted by Ezra Cornell agencies. The state in the 1830s and into the raceway, where it Department of powered wheels which made the factories Environmental work, before the electrical grid and power Conservation plant days. There was a bridge across the (DEC) is first raceway as late as 2004, which led onto the on record “Island,” which is the top of the cliff that investigating so many visitors walk along at the base of the site in July the falls.

1995, in a search Current plans for these sites include for uranium. townhomes on the former factory site, a Apparently project led by developer Frost Travis, and during a brief a city-owned Ithaca Falls Overlook Park period in 1961-62 E PA c r e w at It h ac a Fa l l s i n 2 0 0 3 ( P h o t o P r ov i d e d) on the Island, which reportedly has some Ithaca Gun was spectacular views of the falls from a higher subcontracted pellets held in hand, then-Mayor Alan DEC was reserving the right to recover all perspective and excellent opportunities

by National Lead of Ohio to test forge Cohen told the Ithaca Journal he was costs for a cleanup, because they “did not to get stuck on the cliff face if one should uranium tubes. Nothing more than “concerned that misinformation about find any continuing source for the lead climb downwards from the top. background levels of uranium were found. toxicity and imminent danger might be shot” on Gun Hill.

Cornell owned the property at the being spread that will cause undue alarm “We will notify you when our falls’ base until 2000, and several studies in the general public.” contractor will begin work,” Branagh in the ‘90s are referenced in the record, Since then, the city has generally After Ithaca Gun went into concluded. The next month, he wrote again but not readily available. In 1997 lead peddled a “keep calm” message with bankruptcy in October 1986, its assets in a much more conciliatory tone; Albany contamination was found in the gorge, Hang’s riposte invariably being along the and name were sold to members of the had told him lead was not regulated as a and an exchange between Cornell and the Neill family, and the real estate went to hazardous waste, but, in Branagh’s opinion lines of “let’s clean it up all the way.” That DEC is as about as funny as records of this dynamic again played out in September Mark Finkelstein, who built Gun Hill he did “believe it would be good to put a sort get. Robert Bland, an environmental when Hang used the results of the EPA Apartments on a site where once there soil cover on [the contamination].” engineer for Cornell, wrote a letter to testing to call for closing up the falls area, was parking for the factory. Finkelstein, The city had its first environmental Charles Branagh of the DEC in May with Mayor Svante Myrick saying that the who didn’t respond to an emailed request site assessment performed on the site 1997 stating that the “obvious source” of EPA told him there was no immediate for comment on this story, commissioned in October 1997 by Enviro-Control danger. a study in 1988 from Technologies of Johnson City, apparently In 2000 Cohen said that $100,000 Radian Corporation. as part of the process to find parkland was set aside for clean-up, with the city That study found it could acquire to offset a portion of thinking 75 percent of the cost would “significant lead Inlet Island that was made available for come from DEC brownfield funding. contamination ... in development. The DEC performed its What ended up happening was the EPA all of the soil samples own sampling in spring 1998, which was stepped in to do a cleanup that cost nearly collected outside of the round that produced a sample of lead $5 million after a September 2000 study the plant” of up to contamination at 215,000 ppm, which found, via X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy 51,000 µg/100cm2, and has been circulated ever since as the high analysis, that ... there was lots of lead on made the rather astute number for on-site contamination. the site. recommendation “that The EPA cleanup was a study in the interior surfaces of cooperation and openness, according to the building be cleaned The Public Era—or at least, Kathryn Gleason, a landscape architecture as part of the building publicly reported era—of Ithaca Gun professor at Cornell. A community group renovation.” contamination began in August 2000, “This cleaning when Hang says he was “tipped off ” to lead headed by Sarah Steuteville “was able to could be accompanied contamination up on the Island.“The locals flag the unusual vegetation on the island,” L e s H ov e n k a m p w i t h a n It h ac a G u n Gleason said, like oaks and blueberries, by high pressure knew about contamination, Cornell knew ( P h o t o : J o s h B r o k aw) and transplant others during the process. washing, washing about contamination, and the city knew Unfortunately for the vegetation on the with a detergent about contamination,” Hang said. “The contamination was the adjacent Ithaca Island, it turned out that heavy equipment solution, or wet vacuuming,” the report city was told by its own consultant, Enviro Gun property. and full removal was necessary; the reads. Trichloroethylene (TCE)—the Control, don’t take title to the property, “It appears that lead shot may Paragon Environmental cleanup completed same solvent used to clean machines at unless you have a responsible party continue to migrate via rain water runoff there in spring 2015 took the contaminated Emerson Power Transmission on South agreement in place.” from the Ithaca Gun property to ours,” soil down to bedrock.

Hill—was found in the degreasing room The city had completed a purchase Bland wrote, and “the source of this The EPA did demolish buildings on the second floor, at a concentration of what’s now the Ithaca Falls natural area contamination must first be contained” on the Island in 2002 and had to ask for of 4,200 parts per billion, the acceptable before any Cornell-financed cleanup could in March 2000 from Cornell for $1 and an increase in budgetary authority in federal workplace standard exposure is guarantees of a $50,000 maintenance fund be expected to happen.

2003, a running theme in environmental 100 parts per million (ppm) now. Radian on hand. When Hang publicized the lead In his response, Branagh might have recommended the floor be removed, on the Island, the story accompanied by been making indignant harummphing continued on page 10 and said that significant ground water the first of many photographs of shotgun noises while writing; he told Bland the

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thesis on the site history was a very useful starting point for this report.) contin u ed from page 9 After the installation of water remediations. After much digging and monitoring wells by DEC and groundwater dirt-moving, including using vacuums testing, demolition of the factory began in mounted on the backs of trucks to reach 2009 and was completed in 2010. areas where heavy equipment couldn’t In 2012, the to-be overlook site go, the EPA’s regional was split off from administrator, Jane the privately-owned Kenny, thought all was property and put into the complete since soil levels DEC’s Environmental were showing an average Restoration Program, of 110 ppm. which initiated a wave of testing groundwater and “In the spring, after soil vapor intrusion into some minor restoration area basements. Some work is completed, permanent monitoring EPA will return the wells were installed in once-contaminated Fall 2013, with testing mostly Creek Gorge area to its taking place east of former scenic grandeur,” Aurora Street and south Kenny said in an Oct. to Queen Street.

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TCE and chloroform “The terrain in this area were found in amounts made what would have less than groundwater been a relatively straightstandards at the last forward cleanup much reported testing from more difficult, but we got contractor Aztech in June the job done.”

Vi n tag e N e w s pa p e r As soon after as 2014. Soil vapor intrusion a dv e r t i s e m e n t 2006, that claim was testing performed on air refuted. A Cornell student found lead quality and basement subslabs at 12 homes concentrations of over 31,000 ppm and businesses in February and March outside the abandoned factory and testing 2015 led to five places being recommended conducted by Hang with the Journal’s for further monitoring by DEC during support found samples that ranged up to the winter. Hang has critiqued the 184,000 ppm, along with arsenic above groundwater and soil vapor monitoring for safe levels. (Rachel Hendricks’ 2011 honors not expanding its sample further, outside the probable “plume” of contamination H SALE URR from Gun Hill.

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And that’s where we’re at. For now.

Hang and Myrick have both asked the EPA, in their differing ways, for reconsideration of the Ithaca Gun site on the “national priorities list,” which puts a site in line for Superfund money.

H SALE URR up to If further sampling finds there is an ENDS Y SOON ! ! “imminent and substantial threat” and Bring it worry HOME no other entities can pay or otherwise FLOORING SALE handle a cleanup, that’s when the EPA flooring sale gets involved, Graham said. The site was already considered for the designation at the time of the first EPA clean-up, and up tO didn’t make the cut.

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Little Red Soccer On Tear With a Roster full of Seniors They Dominate

By Ste ve L aw re nc e

J

ust about a year ago I had a conversation with Gilbert Antoine, the fourth-year head coach of boys’ soccer at Ithaca High School. Antoine had been coaching at various levels for nearly 30 years at various levels, and he had a lifelong connection to the game, having grown up in Haiti and played professionally. Because he is also a cellist in a symphony orchestra, it wasn’t surprising when he spoke differently than do many coaches, and he talked about “focus” and “discipline,” and staying in the moment and playing one game at a time.

Those statements are nothing entirely new, but in 2014, Ithaca won their first conference title since 1997, and as the 2015 version of the Little Red prepares for the post-season, it is clear that whatever the coach is doing is working.

At the conclusion of the regular season, Ithaca sits atop the New York State rankings with a dominant 14-0 record. The senior-laden Little Red has rolled over the competition thus far, scoring 74 goals and allowing but 2. The team is also ranked #3 in the regional rankings, and is in the

national Top Twenty.

Speaking to me over the weekend, Antoine said, “I knew I had a good group of players returning. We have 16 seniors, and half of them were starters last year.”

He added, “My plan was to start looking at what I had this year by talking to the J.V. coach to learn more about the players that were moving up.”

I asked him about the “pipeline,” so to speak, and how the players come up through the system on their way to the varsity program. “We have a combination of kids who are coming in from different places,” Gilbert said. “A lot of kids play in the Youth Bureau program. Some play in clubs out of town.”

Coach Antoine decided to go with four senior co-captains, and among the four, they have a dozen years of varsity experience. “This is a very solid group of players,” he said. “Mason Wolff is a fouryear varsity player, and Andrew Araneo, Pierre Clavel and Tristan Cornell-Roberts have three years of varsity experience.”

Cornell-Roberts, the Little Red’s leading scorer, has been on an absolute

Tristan Cornell-Roberts (Photo: provided)

tear of late. He had three hat tricks in a week, and at this writing has put the ball in the back of the net 23 times. He has also assisted teammates on 13 goals, and for many good high school players, those are career—not single season—totals. Such numbers constitute an offensive explosion by any measure, and fans of the Little

Red hope that Cornell-Roberts and his teammates can keep in rolling into the post-season.

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Better Siting of Turbines Saves Birds

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birder’s feelings toward wind energy tend to fluctuate, Bill Evans of Old Bird Inc. told the Cayuga Bird Club during a Monday, Oct. 12 talk at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He showed a hand-drawn line of peaks and valleys in graph form, which documented his personal journey on the subject of wind power turbines. The vertical axis ranged from “1”—equal his highest esteem for wind turbines—down to zero— meaning“no way.”

“You go all the way up to 1, because wind is green energy,” he said. “Then down, because turbines kill birds. Then up again, because it’s not that many, and down again when you hear more evidence it kills birds.”

Evans, who has spent his life studying nighttime migration calls and has worked at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, said that he now fights for safe siting of wind turbine projects.

“When you think about the possibility of the planet becoming a Venus-like hell, I’ve come to the conclusion [wind] is one of the better options that are out there,” Evans said.

Evans said he began working on wind

The worst example of poor reporting Evans offered was a 2007 article in The Nation that argued as wind turbines grow larger and more efficient, they move more slowly and do less damage to migrating birds and bats.

“That’s an illusion. With the size of them, they look like bucolic things going around,” Evans said. “The blades are still cutting through the air at 200 kilometers an hour.”

Bird fatality rates are calculated on a fatality per turbine, or fatality per megawatt produced basis. Surveyors lay out grids with the center at a Bill Evans at the Lab of Ornithology. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) turbine’s base and walk 50 or 100 or 200 meters outward to check turbines’ impacts on birds in 1994, when for dead birds on the ground. Scavenging he went up to the Tug Hill plateau and and surveyor efficiency is checked by laying studied the Niagara Mohawk project, the out dead birds on the grid and seeing how first turbines in New York State. Developers often the surveyors, or the vultures and started calling and Evans started reading raccoons, find them. more environmental impact statements and Evans is currently most adamant critiquing them—sometimes on his own, about keeping wind farms away from the and sometimes as a consultant. He’s worked shores of the Great Lakes. In Canada, he for both developers and those fighting says, data has “gone dark” in recent years against new wind farms, but says that the and the shoreline projects are multiplying. information disseminated in the media is There’s money from tar sands looking to “probably 95 percent erroneous.” get into green energy, and in any fight “A lot of people may not want a against a project, the standard to stop it is wind project where they live,” Evans “serious and irretrievable harm,” Evans says, said, “and when they try to fight it and which is tough to show with the natural it goes to a hearing, they put out a lot of limitations of survey data. He’s been using misinformation. They say ‘This will kill the example of purple martins in Canada, thousands of birds,’ and that’s not true.”

an easy species to count because they nest in birdhouses, and one whose population has been declining steadily in recent years.

It’s particularly tough to show harm in cases of “poor species resolution”—when a species doesn’t have much of a population in an area, it’s going to be more unlikely they are found in ground surveys for fatalities.

“If Canada builds along the whole lakeshore it will be harder and harder for us to hold back the tide down here,” Evans said. “There’s really not any one wind project that affects population. It’s a cumulative effect … there are places where bird clubs need to rise and attack.”

Here in Tompkins County, Evans said he was initially skeptical of the Black Oak project, since he’s seen so many wind farms started up by a small group and then sold to a larger concern. He created a survey not asked for by the DEC to see if the loon migration that people watch for at Taughannock Falls would be affected by the new wind turbines on Connecticut Hill in Enfield. The loons passing through number in the thousands.

“Those going south, maybe five to six thousand now, they’re going straight south,” Evans said. “They may get a loon or two killed, but the bulk of the Taughannock flight happens to the east.” Connecticut Hill is west of Cayuga Lake.

To learn more about Evans’ work, visit oldbird.org.

—Josh

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Talented Artist Explores Botanical Realms

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Printed on large sheets of white or cream paper, they are immersive, filled with subtle shifts of density and an eerie sense of being lit from behind or within. Although they can have a more of the same quality taken at a quick glance, further inspection reveals each print to be an environment of its own.

Page’s decorative patterning of leaves echoes the work of painter Philip Taaffe as well as sculptor and mixed media artist Judy Pfaff— two contemporary artists who interestingly enough, use strong, even garish color. The arrangements play with symmetry, inversion, and the contrasts between different kinds of leaves.

His approach most strongly recalls that of Jean Dubuffet, whose rough, earthy colored mid-century paintings often incorporated materials like leaves and dirt. Like Dubuffet’s paintings, Page’s prints have an “abstract” flatness—all this raw matter pressed up against the plane of the picture rather than conveying deep perspective. They are in your face.

The artist uses an upright format in all but one of his prints here. Large Palm from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland makes Gregory Page’s Motif From My Back Yard: Fern Group (Photo Provided) emphatic use of its horizontal expanse. The impressed palm lithographs artists’ cooperative since its inception in 1999. frond has the force featuring leaf He has served on its board of directors for many of an explosion, years and has taught printmaking in their studio- specimens its fine strands gathered from gallery space. radiating out from around the According to his bio, Page “earned his the middle of the world. Page has MFA from University of Wisconsin, Madison bottom edge. They included foliage in 1977, and began his teaching career at fill the space of from the Royal Cornell University as a Associate Professor in the image with Botanic Gardens Printmaking and Drawing in the Department of liquescent waves, Art in 1980.” Page has received advanced training in Edinburgh, narrow rays of Scotland; from from the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, light, and PollockIllinois State New Mexico, a leading center for fine art like spatters. The University; from lithography. He is an artist of stature, with work print is delightfully shown internationally and included in numerous the Cornell visceral, a Plantations; and museum collections. combination all An avid gardener, his work of the last decade from his own Artist and Professor Gregory Page (Photo Provided) at once impact back yard. has taken a horticultural turn. In 1999 and 2002, and endlessly “Motifs” as an instructor in the Cornell in Rome program, compelling detail. fills the Ink he became fascinated by the botanical themes Page’s Ferns from the Royal Botanic Garden that he found in the city’s architectural ornament. Shop’s second floor walk-up space. The hallway have a faded, fossil-like quality, redolent downstairs (behind the lobby of the Community His recent work takes the form of large of things discovered in the ground. Their School of Music and Arts) features “Poisonous aluminum plate lithographs bearing impressions intricate forms feel almost skeletal—some even Plants,” a portfolio of recent work by Page’s of leaves from myriad plant species. They students. (The latter show runs through Oct. 30.) combine a scientific love of detail with an artistic continued on page 18 Though black and white, the prints are exploration of texture and abstraction. sumptuous in their tonality and range of textures.

As he writes in a statement “My back yard regory Page is a vital figure in Ithaca’s visual arts community. A professor of drawing and printmaking at Cornell, Page is also a founding member of the Ink Shop Printmaking Center—he’s been with the local

serves as a place of research where I am given the opportunity to collaborate with the plants growing there in an endless cycle of investigation, design, regeneration and sustainability. I am interested in producing motif impressions allowing the plants to render an accurate physical expression.

Using lithographic drawing materials and printing I am able to acquire a sensitive impression of these plants.“ On display at the Ink Shop through October 31 “Motifs from the Global Backyard” reprises work exhibited early last year in Cornell’s Milstein Hall. (That show included dried leaf specimens; alas there would be nowhere to put them here.) Included are 11 large

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THE MANLEY AND DORISEVE THALER JAZZ CONCERT

THE JOHN HOLLENBECK LARGE ENSEMBLE MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2015 7:00 P.M. | FORD HALL

MASTER CLASS Tuesday, October 20, 2015 9:50 a.m. | Nabenhauer Recital Room The concert and master class are free and open to the public.

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should call (607) 274-3717 or email ekibelsbeck@ithaca.edu as much in advance of the event as possible.

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Italian Eatery Stirs Memories of Brooklyn

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Replete, we We started off our rolled out into evening there with a a cool evening, very fine margarita, contented, and and one of their knowing that in the six non-alcoholic morning there’d be cocktails, a tummyeggplant Parmesan settling Ginger Mint. and spaghetti, er, Warm rolls followed, pasta for breakfast. and while we always While we think we should hadn’t been there eschew the bread, the in awhile, we were accompanying dish delighted to note of olive oil, Kalamata that under the very olives, pesto, and sunZaZa’s Italian Restaurant (Photo Rye Bennet) new management dried tomato tapenade (chef/proprietor made it irresistible.

Curtis Radcliffe With the edge knocked off our ravenous hunger, we sidled and chef de cuisine Ivy Dillion, as of September) the décor has changed, and up to a prettily arranged cold antipasto that the tented ceiling, which gave diners plate (prosciutto, hot peppers stuffed the eerie impression of being trapped in with ham and provolone, olives, a hunk a posh casket, is gone, replaced by a less of brie-like cheese that could have been a disturbing, still sound-absorbing drapery. little warmer, and giardinera). Mussels in The dining area occupies two levels, and, a thick, spicy Arrabiatta sauce were small with its elegantly back-lighted bar, has the and tender, and the sauce good enough to feel of a tony 1950s nightclub. The sound spoon up with the cold antipasto’s grilled level is quite manageable, with Frank bread. Could’ve called it quits right there.

Sinatra softly crooning “That’s Amore” in From the fresh pasta list, pastaciatte the background. enveloped thick house-made pappardelle The wine list is simple: a Prosecco, five with a creamy Bolognese, rich with bits whites, and a half-dozen reds reasonably of chopped beef, pork, and veal. Eggplant priced and available by the glass or bottle, Parmesan was swaddled in mozzarella, imported and domestic beer. provolone, and Parmesan, interleafed with Though we arrived on the first night’s wilted baby spinach, and napped with a institution of a new computer system, rich pomodoro sauce and bits of some which had the staff fardreydlt, they were of the last of summer’s fresh tomatoes.

Bursting at the seams, we had the staff pack eager to please and on their toes. Kudos to them, and to the kitchen—plates came out up the leftovers in a smart little black box, fast, hot, and delicious. • and knowing we should try the desserts so we could report them to our readers, Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are we settled on portions of chocolate and based on unannounced, anonymous pistachio gelato, though the other desserts, visits. Reviews can be found at the dolci, looked so good—chocolate truffle ithaca.com/dining bombe, ricotta cheesecake, triple chocolate

music

Progressive Interplay

Conversations With A West Coast Dynamo

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Upsilon Acrux, Doubt, ANANSI, BRAIN! Saturday, October 17, The Loft at The Chanticleer, Ithaca Underground presents

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levation sickness is common among the uninitiated. For those who live in the higher reaches of the astral plane though, the dizzying heights are mere inspirations to keep climbing, keep growing, to push further. The members of the Los Angeles-based underground progressive-math band Upsilon Acrux are individuals that strive toward those mystical elevations. And none are more efficient than founder and lead guitarist Paul Lai. I spoke with Lai about a number of things. The skilled musician talked about some important contemporary artistic realities, and some deep musical knowledge. The band is currently touring on the strength of their seventh LP, Sun Square Dialect.

Ithaca Times: The juxtaposition between the complexity of the intricate mathematical sections of your music against the very progressive, very Yes (Relayer-Era)-like sections makes the songs really unique. Are there areas in your songs you intentionally look for a juxtaposition like this?

Paul Lai: No, not really. We rarely search out things familiar, but sometimes the familiar things appear, and we let them be, as it’s nice to have a reprieve from the constant dissonance and lack of the familiar. I love old progressive stuff, even Yes, Relayer era, as well as all of King Crimson’s output, some Genesis , some ELP. IT: Are you guys an existential group? Are you an existential artist? Is there a philosophy behind your work?

PL: I’m in love with Albert Camus, and I clearly, above all things, champion individuals defining their own existence as opposed to a society or a group of

people defining an individual’s worth and value. That is the core of my personal existence and the existence of this band.

We define success obviously not by Grammys or encores, but by our own individualized values. The overwhelming philosophy of this band has and will always be about pushing and resetting our own limits, not being tied up in ego.

IT: Would you consider yourselves in the same vein, philosophically, as the Rock In Opposition movement of bands in the 70’s?

PL: I think we are, and have collectively used that without knowing it. Our scene is basically weird bands helping other weird bands book shows, get music out, and get a place to stay.

Without the help of our friends, peers, and strangers, we would exist in a far smaller fish bowl. I think those old bands had it better though. The music audience then still wanted Art. Today they’re only interested in Doritos commercial music and celebrity. The first Henry Cow record was on Virgin records?!? As was Faust.

And Magma was on Philips, which was a pretty big label. Those artists today would be on far smaller labels with far less financing, and maybe would all have to work full-time jobs outside of music.

Which is depressing to say the least.

IT: How does free jazz influence your sound, if at all? Are you influenced by technical death metal, or progressive metal?

Upsilon Acrux guitarist and founder Paul Lai (Photo Provided)

PL: Free jazz was and always will continue to be a source of inspiration and enjoyment. However, we’ve moved away from that more and more as the years have gone on. Still, in our most aggressive parts I tend to aim for the energy of free jazz pioneers and heros like Albert Ayler or Frank Wright more than anything metal. I can say unequivocally I hate progressive metal.

Dream Theater et cetera, sucks, it’s not progressive at all, it’s like being forced to watch one of those Guitar Center videos.

I can’t think of anything worse really. I definitely prefer black metal, and I used to love death metal. In our creations the melody dictates our path, so in this way we are closer to jazz musicians.

Heavy metal can often seem like a forced childish embellishment, a never-ending need to appear evil or masculine at all cost, inflexible and void of any and all dynamics—be they musical or human.

We have no interest in that.

IT: You guys have a unique and dynamic sound, obviously taking time

signatures and ruling them with ruthless efficiency. Do you ever find yourself wanting to write a song in 4/4, or something simple and common like that?

Lai: Quite honestly when it’s the right thing we do it, nothing is ruled out. For me Neu! is as important to me and as strong an influence as Conlon Nancarrow, though the percentage of time we sound like Neu!, is far less than the other. Contrast is key in our compositions, and all encompassing dynamics is amongst our priorities. If you come to one of our shows I think it will be evident that there are many levels between the layers that support a whole, but all of them are building up or being destroyed continuously, and very rarely are we in a stagnant form unless by intent, or as contrast.

With that, here’s a quote that I adore, that I believe myself for us someday. It’s from Albert Ayler. “If people don’t like it now, they will.” • Read much more in the whole article at ithaca.com

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Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should call (607) 274-3545 or email jfernando@ithaca.edu as much in advance of the event as possible.

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builder Dean Jeffries. ast week I wrote about Turner This month alone, I’ve ordered two of Classic Movies as a great resource for my favorite horror-genre favorites from science fiction and horror movies.

Shout!/Scream!

This week, I’m writing about the Shout!

Tales From The Crypt Presents Demon Factory/Scream! Factory DVD and Blu Knight is all about these two guys chasing Ray line, which in the last 10 years has each other around the world. The one guy made a name for itself as the equivalent of chasing the other guy wants what he has, the Criterion Collection for weird genre an ancient flask that has been around since fare. The company morphed from Rhino Biblical times. The man with the flask gets Records to Shout! (The Scream! line chased to a church that’s been converted handles all the horror films.) into a fleabag transient hotel. Soon the There are other companies out there place is surrounded by demons, and the doing similar stuff like Kino Lorber, but people inside must fight till the dawn to their releases generally consist of the keep the flask away from the bad guys. movie and maybe a trailer. Shout! Factory really packs as much cool stuff into each release as possible.

They have an unerring knack for finding all the incredibly strange films of our youth and reissuing them with copious interviews, featurettes, and commentary tracks.

Take a look at all their titles at shoutfactory. com.

Take the 1977 sci-fi flick Damnation Alley. Now here is a truly awful movie.

I’ve seen Saturday Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness (Photo Provided) morning TV shows with more polished special effects.

Demon Knight is classic “Spam in a It’s one of those cheesy 70’s-style Can” horror along the lines of Night of the post-apocalypse movies, with George Living Dead and Assault on Precinct 13.

Peppard and lots of blow-dried hair in It has a weird, goofy sense of humor, but evidence. There’s a scene where futuristic stars William Sadler and Billy Zane take dune buggies zoom around giant the story straight to operatic melodrama, tarantulas in the desert, and you can see huge blue matte lines around the creatures. and the beleaguered tenants include Jada Pinkett Smith and genre vet Dick Miller It’s the kind of movie ready for the hamming it up. The film was well directed Mystery Science Theatre crew (and check

by Spike Lee’s cinematographer Ernest out Shout!’s excellent MST3K catalog, which come packaged with collector cards Dickerson, who provides a director’s commentary for the first time on any created specifically for each box set). release of the film and a commentary by Judging from the quality and other cast and crew members and a meaty quantity of the bonus features, you’d making-of feature. think that Damnation Alley was Gone Sam Raimi’s seriously goofy Army of With The Wind. This release features a Darkness finally gets the deluxe treatment new anamorphic widescreen transfer, that its fans have long felt it deserves this and as you’re watching the awful visual month. Bruce Campbell fights “Deadites” effects and opticals, you can listen in medieval times, but he’s the most to audio commentary with producer annoying, xenophobic jerk of a hero ever Paul Maslansky (Police Academy) as seen in cinema. He’s such an American he fesses up to the fact that no one tool that you actually find yourself rooting on the production had any special against him. The new release includes effects experience. Other extras include another massive making-of bonus feature, featurettes detailing the challenges commentary and both the 81-minute in making the film, and a detailed studio cut and Raimi’s 96-minute examination of the now-infamous director’s cut. • Landmaster vehicle with designer and

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Feminism and Duality

Local Artist Ponders Identity, Being, And Collage

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Minna Resnick’s Good Health Habits (Photo Provided)

The show explores the dualism of womanhood in modern and past times, and as Resnick writes in her statement, there came a point in her history as an artist in which the realistic space her work previously inhabited collapsed.

“This,” she continues, “provided me the means to present multiple layers of conflicting experiences.” These resulting amalgamations are poignantly riveting, bold, and altogether meshed in a successful cohesion. The art world, I think, should be grateful for their existence.

As a viewer of “Tell Me About It,” my mind is still processing all of the multitudes the show presents. As a young female in modern society, still unraveling the complexities of feminist thought and the ironies and realities of a still-gendered world, I feel even more susceptible to the carefully thought-out, visually spoken deconstructions Resnick puts forth.

In Good Health Habits, for example, a Marilyn Monroe-esque figure looks seductively at the viewer with her head tossed back ever so and her hands parting the collar of her shirt. The text “Good health habits require that you wash your

hands before you leave this room,” is printed above her head in a bathroom scene in which her image is overlaid.

These artworks aren’t of women per se but of images of women and of ideas that are still prevalent even through time’s passing and the continuous evolution of roles. Critic John Berger announced in his 1972 BBC SeriesWays of Seeing that “men dream of women and women dream of being looked at by men,” and despite the questionable and somewhat insulting implications of that claim, the manner of presenting women as objects toward men and of amplifying gender differences and overgeneralizations through their representations in media is something so everyday that we don’t always catch society’s imposition in helping guide our actions and beliefs.

The idea of what a woman is, as expressed through Resnick’s art, is packed with contradictions. It is the contradiction of wanting to be both attractive and sexually desirable, while also hoping to fade out of the spectator’s denigrating sight. Invisible illustrates the desire to hide most vividly. A presumably female figure is visible only in silhouette, her shape red against the blue Victorian-like wallpaper with which she blends. She is there but not there, a shadow. She is someone and no one at once.

Yet, as contemporary feminism emphasizes, the dichotomous relationship of gender-related expectations is not confined to women, and it’s satisfying to see Resnick addresses this distinction as well. Men too fall victim to their own societally imposed stereotypes as workers, violent, in need of proving themselves through so-called sheer masculinity and force. Two men sword fight in Everyone Needs to Be Loved, presumably in battle for a woman, but even the presence of their battle seems comical: a farce of male chivalry in which the men’s efforts seem pointless. The belief system in which this image was initially used (several decades or centuries previous to now) is outdated and no longer relevant. It’s ironic how chivalry, something viewed for so long as ideal and noble, is also connected to a history of stupidity and violence.

But of every piece in the show, one seems to speak most clearly in its biting humor and simultaneously saddening truthfulness. Personality Is Your Greatest Asset in Life its title reads, but its image is of the same Monroe figure and two women in a salon, their lipstick thick and hair styled. • “Tell Me About It” is on display at Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Road, through Nov. 7.

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The two prints offer a fanciful treatment of the fear and folklore of plant life in human culture.

Made using the same combination of techniques, Samantha Siegler’s Milkweed Vials stands out with its simple but striking use of color. Silhouetted above in a rich turquoise, a leafy branch cracks open, spilling droplets of clear fluid. Below to catch them—placed on two shelves

resemble fish. (If one is at all inclined to surrealist reverie, Page’s prints provide plenty of material. And if not, they are still beautiful.)

Motifs from Cornell Plantations, Green House Selections I is another particularly striking piece. While in most of Page’s prints here the leaves tend to merge into a sort of overall texture, here they stand out more. The tone of the leaves has a higher contrast of light and dark while the background is grainier and more diffuse. The specimens have more of an object quality—one wants to pick them out.

And indeed, written in tiny graffitilike scrawls—light into dark—are Latin names: Euphorbia cotinifolia, Senecio crassissmus, [Cyperus ] papyrus, Aeonium arboreum, Schwarzkopf acalypha, Duranta, Eucalyptus, Dianella, Lantana. While many contemporary artists (and especially printmakers) juxtapose picture against text, Page’s writing becomes part of the graphic texture rather than standing apart.

Moving downstairs, “Poisonous Plants” follows another print portfolio Joyelle Gilbert’s Tachycordia (Photos Provided) exhibit showing off Page’s work with scientists. Last month, the Ink Shop presented “Ley Lab Collaboration,” a show indicated with horizontal lines—stand ten of student work drawing from the work of amber-colored medicine bottles.

Cornell microbiology professor Ruth Ley. In Euna Sun’s lithograph and relief The hallway exhibit features work by print Intrusion­, a thistle plant protrudes eleven students from Page’s “Introduction above the ground with its spiky pods and to Print Media” class, taught in the fall of agitated leaves. Connecting improbably last year. Each artist is showing two mixed to the plant is a snaking intestine where media prints—combining such techniques the roots should be—it has swallowed as lithography, monoprint, relief, and clusters of dark seeds. Again, her plantscreenprinting. Taken as a whole, they are animal hybrid has been drawn eloquently of impressive caliber for student work.

The prints were done in “collaboration” in graphite-like marks. The ground, by contrast is a block of faded brown color. with Todd Bittner and Diane Miske of the Sun’s piece gives particularly Cornell Plantations, as well as teaching compelling expression to the show’s focus assistant Lia Sutton. The students toured the Plantations, attended lectures, and were on the interconnectedness of plant and further informed by reading Amy Stewart’s animal—and human—worlds.

Taken together, the two exhibits popular book Wicked Plants. show something of the great potential of Their work contrasts interestingly artists collaborating with scientists and with Page’s. While Page is interested in the even taking on something of a scientific raw physicality and strangeness of nature, eye in their own work. They also stand his students employ narrative—frequently as testimony to Page’s great collaborative playful—as well exploring the various and pedagogical spirit—one that resonates printmaking media. throughout the Ink Shop’s varied activities Delerium and Tachycordia by Joyelle and throughout the broader print art Gilbert combine lithography, relief, and community. screenprinting. They have a mythic, The art worlds of Cornell and allegorical quality. In the former a girl tries to swallow a tangle of branches while in the downtown often seem largely unrelated latter, another—tinted a thin green—sleeps to one another, with divergent tastes and people who don’t speak to one another. amongst the plants. The figures and flora Page is one of a handful of figures who are have been rendered sensitively in pencilhelping to bridge this gap. • like lithographic lines. Surrounding them are jagged dark-toned silhouettes suggesting branches, leaves, or even flames.

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Offsite projects usually feature a longPPM Homes that will offset the emissions a few years ago, Sliker said, solar panels co-owner of Wagner Vineyards, said in a term lease and target “marginal land” of 50 apartments in greater Ithaca. cost $2 per watt. A drive by Chinese firms release from Finger Lakes Wine Country. that wouldn’t be available for farming or Cornell is building several projects of two to lower the cost of panels has mostly “Our installation of a large-scale solar other uses anyway, Kemp said, bringing a megawatts and change. One megawatt is array at Wagner Vineyards is a logical step evened out, Sliker said. His opinion is generally estimated to power about 150 that the greatest gains in efficiency are for us to take as we continue to enhance continued on page 20 homes. probably now in the past. our farm winery’s sustainability.”

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By default New York allows for solar (wind power or farm-waste energy) improvements to be exempt from property tax for 15 years. Municipalities and school districts are permitted to make the decision to take the property anyway. The Ithaca City School District and Lansing town and school district decided to tax the improvements. In mid-2012 Tompkins County decided to tax improvements because it was thought to be a necessary step to negotiate a

payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement with Black Oak Wind Farm. But in 2014 the county legislature reversed that decision when Black Oak announced they would pay their taxes regardless.

NYSERDA grants are given on a first-come, firstserved basis, and they are authorized until the end of 2023 or whenever Joe Sliker the state legislature decides the money has run out. The “solar investment tax credit” is a 30-percent deduction from federal income taxes for commercial

and residential properties on panels installed by Dec. 31, 2016, when, if the tax credit isn’t extended, it will drop to 10 percent for businesses and no credit for residences.

Since municipalities and non-profits don’t pay federal income tax, they are allowed to take on investors that own the project and who may take the tax benefit. Community investors must be “accredited,” meaning they have a net worth of $1 million or make at least $200,000 per year. Investors who work on nothing more than the profit motive are starting to take renewable energy seriously, Kemp said, and businesses like the idea of hedging against the risk of spikes in energy costs.

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For some municipalities and nonprofits, especially those putting in smaller installations, saving up to pay for an owned-outright array is making sense these days even without federal tax credits. For businesses that do need financing, the NY Green Bank, a division of NYSERDA, helps leverage private financing to make solar projects happen. The four Finger Lakes wineries installing solar this year used a combination of financing from Tompkins Trust, along with Lyons National Bank, Farm Credit, and Five Star Bank.

New York has goals of being in the top couple states for Melissa Kemp renewable energy and of having 3 gigawatts of solar power online by 2023 – right now, the state has about half a gigawatt going (500 MW). That means support from state entities still seems likely, but in comparison to nonrenewable fossil fuels there’s still a lot of help to be desired, Kemp says.

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In a region where barbecue restaurants are not as thick on the ground as they are further Commons. south, proprietor Andy Conroy hopes to bring Dixie cuisine to the frozen North. y Newborn is Art Photography “We are down-home establishment began in Salt Lake City and bringing southern cooking to the heart proprietor Chelsea Stirlen is one of the army people who grew up in Ithaca, of Ithaca,” said Conroy. “Our specialties include St. Louis style ribs, smoked brisleft it to go out and explore the rest of the ket, pulled pork, burgers, mac and cheese, world, and then came back. zucchini fries, and cornbread made from “I grew up in the area,” she said, “and scratch each and every day.

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The Journey to Ithaca Fitness center emphasizes coaching over just being a gym

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he business journey of Journey Fitness has led it to the greater Ithaca Area. Its third location officially opened on Oct. 5 at 15 Catherwood Road in Lansing. Other Journey Fitness locations are in Elmira and Corning.

The journey began in Elmira, where owners Travis and Cyndy Barnes launched their unique vision for a fitness center.

When you walk into Journey Fitness, it is unlike walking into a typical gym. There are no bench press stations. No treadmills.

Instead, you’ll find a large room fitted with exercise mats, ropes, dumbbells, chip-up bars, and exercise orbs, among other exercise gadgets. It is a minimalist approach that seeks to get the most out of one’s body.

According to Journey Fitness’s website, the business has chosen “to be a coaching center rather than a gym because we are only interested in helping people who want to invest in themselves.” Helping bring that mission statement to the Ithaca area will be Director of Success Jesse King, who was selected by Travis and Cyndy to run their Ithaca location.

“I got involved with Journey Fitness in the July of 2014,” King recalled. “I started in the Elmira location, and became the Director of Program Design. Since then, I’ve worked all the way up the ranks to managing the Ithaca location as the Director of Success.

“I went to school,” he continued,

“for exercise physiology and got my certification through the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a strength and conditioning specialist.

I knew I wanted to be in fitness, but I wasn’t quite sure where exactly. Then the opportunity with Journey Fitness came through and a friend, and it turned out to be a great fit.”

King confirmed the vision and mottos that Journey Fitness has on its website, and elaborated as to what, exactly, it means.

“It’s not your typical gym,” he said.

“We’re a personal coaching center where we customize your [workout] program through your exercise history and your medical history. We do nutritional counseling with everyone we work with. We also offer accountability and motivation, meaning that if you don’t show up, we’ll call you. We don’t ever want someone to pay for something they’re not using. If you continue to not show up, we’ve even gone on something we call ‘fitness emergencies’ where we will come to your house or place of business and hold you accountable of being a member with us.”

There is no typical look of a Journey Fitness member, King noted. Those participating in classes range in all age, ability, shapes and sizes. Each individual will be assessed and coached accordingly.

“With the functional fitness philosophy,” King explained, “the basis of it is to improve the quality of life, and

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everyone can benefit from that. If we had to put a term of what we do here, it’s also called ‘metabolic resistance training.’ So, if you’re looking to lose fat, build muscle, and feel better, everyone can benefit from that.”

If you are interested in becoming a Journey Fitness member, the best approach is to walk in and find out if it’s a fit for you, King said.

“We offer a schedule of group classes,” King explained. “Our fitness philosophy is a functional fitness philosophy where instead of using seated or machine equipment, you get to make your body your machine. We have a whole variety of equipment that we use to do that, and keep it fun and fresh. Every week is a new routine, so it never gets boring or bland, and you always have that coach by your side to keep you motivated and give you the appropriate exercises to do, so no one is getting here and trying to figure out this method of fitness and exercise on their own.

“Come and meet us,” he added. “To meet us is to love us. I’m always willing to sit down and talk with anyone that would be hesitant to try us out. Everyone has the invitation to try a first class free. I’m a big believer in try before you buy.”

If you do ultimately choose to explore what Journey Fitness offers, King said you could be embarking on a life altering experience.

“What I’ve seen it do for other people—I’ve seen it literally change lives,” King said, “where someone will come in having a wish of wanting to do something, like be in better health or be in better shape, or perhaps trying to do an activity they haven’t done in years and can no longer do. Through training with these different types of people in a group, I’ve seen them do something like do a race for the first time, or maybe even something simpler than that. What we do here is about taking those goals—those dreams— and making them reality.” §

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Build It & They Will Come More Ithaca hotels does not mean lower prices per room, say experts

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s the market for accommodations anything like the housing market? As it turns out, no. Most of the construction projects in Ithaca right now are either residential buildings (mixed with other uses) or hotels. The city’s famously low vacancy rate (under 1 percent, until recently) has caused rents to be very high and the construction of new housing is, in fact, likely to bring down average rents. But nothing analogous is likely to occur after more hotels are constructed, according to Jan deRoos, a professor at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, and Bruce Stoff, the executive director of the Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB).

If there is a increase of supply by new hotel construction and the same demand, said Jan deRoos deRoos, then there could be a temporary decline in occupancy rates and perhaps average daily rate (ADR). But the building of new hotels will also induce new demand as people who were formerly “kicked out” of the market take another look at a stay in Ithaca.

“There’s no simple answer,” said Stoff, “because demand is growing and that tends to keep prices stable.”

Both Stoff and deRoos agreed that members of the “marginal supply” would be edged out of the market as the new hotels opened. “Marginal” in this context means that the accommodations are old and are geographically out of the way.

DeRoos is a member of the city Board of Zoning Appeals and keeps an eye on the accommodations landscape in the county. He noticed that the Town of Ithaca rejected Phil Maguire’s proposal to build

a “boutique” car dealership on the site of the Rodeway Inn (formerly Wonderland Motel) on Elmira Road, but he felt that it was only a matter of time before Maguire consolidated and the Rodeway went away.

DeRoos has been teaching and doing research at the hotel school since 1988,

specializing in hospitality real estate with a focus on valuation, financing, and development. With Stephen Rushmore he has developed a model for the hotel industry that allows them to predict income and expenses for a property given the conditions in a market.

In his capacity as a member of the city BZA deRoos spoke out against giving tax abatements to the Urgo company for their Marriott hotel in downtown Ithaca. He believes that they would have built the hotel without abatements because the draw of being downtown is so strong in today’s tourism market.

“Building on green space doesn’t work anymore,” he said. “You can’t get the rate that you can downtown. Today you are

selling the experience.” Travelers, he said, want to be able to walk out of their hotel and have a selection of restaurants and shops right there. “Ithaca is the poster child for this kind of thing,” he said.

The tipping point for downtown Ithaca, he continued, was the construction of the Hilton Garden Inn. By adding that many rooms at once, suddenly there were a lot more people in downtown and this “established downtown as a destination.”

There are about 1,500 non-bed-andbreakfast rooms in the county, according to deRoos, and the Marriott and the Canopy Hilton will add 175 and 150 new rooms, respectively, increasing the number of rooms by between 10 and 20 percent.

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Here, she helps people learn how they blue-collar background and a white-collar Once she had a name for what she was come across, and helps them change the job, who wants to know how to talk to his doing, the business took off from there. things they want to change. coworkers.

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10/15 Thursday

10/14 Wednesday

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 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.

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 Laura Peters | 5:00 PM-7:00 AM | Trumansburg Farmers Market, Corner of Rtes 96 and 227, Trumansburg | Folk, Singer Songwriter.

Marc Benford & Up South: Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian

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Adam Ezra Group | 10:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Roots Rock, Pop. Jennie Lowe Stearns and The Fire Choir | 8:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St #2, Ithaca | Indie Folk, Americana.

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

Jim Hull | 6:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Singer Songwriter, Folk, Americana, Blues.

10/16 Friday

Stone Flies, Tin Teardrops | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hard Rock, Blues, Funk, Indie Rock, Avant-Rockabilly, Jazz, Soul. iGNiTE! | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Reggae, Dub, Roots.

Congo Sanchez | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Electronic, Hip Hop, Reggae, Funk, Trance, Soul.

Glacial Erotics | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock, Post-Rock, Folk, Funk, Blues, Punk.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner.

Dances are taught; dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures.

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Answer The Muse | 8:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Indie Rock, Spiritual, Mindful, Theatrical, World.

The Tarps | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Live Jukebox Band, Rock, Blues, 60’s.

Blue Skies | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Vintage Jazz, Blue, Paris Night Club, Dixieland Blues.

The Djangoners | 9:00 AM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Jazz, Old-Time, Americana, Django Reinhardt Swing.

10/17 Saturday

Puerto Rican Dance Party | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | World, International, Funk, Electronic.

Wingnut and Mary Lorson | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Experimental, Hip-Hop, Indie, Instrumental Rock, Jazz.

Salsa Night at the Dock! | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Latin dance in downtown Ithaca! Survival lesson in Salsa, Bachata and Cha Cha Cha at 8:45pm. Party at 9:45pm. Enjoy great music, dance instruction, party and libations on large dance.

Upsilon Acrux, Doubt, ANANSI, BRIAN! | 7:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Progressive Rock, Math Rock, Instrumental, Doom Metal, Experimental, Avant-garde.

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Hysteresis | 6:00 PM-9:00 AM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Rock, Country, Blues.

Rapid River Boys | 9:00 AM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main

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S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Physical, Cinematic, Dance-Rock, Punk, Fantasy, Soul.

Open Mic | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Shellshag, Imperials, Winston Bongo, Maple Hill | 7:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Punk, Alternative Rock, Pop Punk, Emo. Ithaca Underground presents.

Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages.

Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Paolangeli and Friends are joined by different musicians every Tuesday.

Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Cayuga Blue Notes | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Country, Blues.

St, Trumansburg | Americana, Folk, Old-Time.

10/18 Sunday

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

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

Al Hartland Trio | 6:00 PM-12:00 AM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Contra Dance with some squares | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM | Tioga Trails Café, Lake and Main Streets, Owego | Beginners welcome, all dances are taught and prompted, come with or without a partner. The band and caller will be announced.

Purple Valley | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Blues, Swing, Rock and Roll, Rockabilly.

Long John and the Tights | 12:00 PM-2:00 AM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Old-Time, String Band, Folk, Bluegrass.

Jerome Attardo | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Classical Piano.

Tom Taylor: WVBR’s Bound For Glory | 8:30 AM | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Folk, Americana.

10/16 Friday

Kate MacLeod and Kat Eggleston | 8:15 PM | Kaufmann Auditorium, Godwin Smith Hall, Ithaca | Celtic Dance, A Cappella Ballad, Appalachian, Country, Old-Time.

Tumbleweed Wanderers | 8:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Folk Rock, Indie Rock, Americana, Soul.

Laberinto de la guitarra/The Guitar’s Labyrinth | 8:00 PM | Featuring composed pieces for baroque guitar from Hispanic sources performed side-by-side with traditional Mexican sones. Part of the Atkinson Forum (Fall 2015 Classical, World, International.

Sage Francis, Tone Atlas, Jack Brown | 5:30 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Hip Hop, Rap. Castle Creek, The Blind Spots | 8:00 AM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Blues, Rock, Indie Rock, Pop. Whitey Morgan, Tony Martinez | 7:00 AM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Ameripolitan, Alternative Country, Honky Tonk, Outlaw Country.

10/17 Saturday

Red Elvises, Fa Bi | 8:00 AM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Rockabilly, Surf Rock, Folk Rock, Funk, Disco, Traditional Russian Folk.

The Russian Vocal Ensemble of St. Petersburg | 7:00 AM | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E Genesee St Ste 1, Skaneateles | This group of professional singers tours internationally to introduce the rich musical heritage of the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian folk music.

Root Shock, Gang Of Thieves | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Roots, Reggae, Soul, Dub, Funk, Rock, Rock and Roll, Dreadlock Rock.

Cherub, Hippie Sabotage, Shooka | 8:00 PM | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Electronic, Indie Rock, Funk, Dance, Hip Hop. Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes | 8:00 PM | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Rock, Blues, Blue-Eyed Soul.

Cannibal Corpse, Cattle Decapitation, Sorecption | 7:00 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Death Metal, Grindcore, Technical Death Metal, Progressive.

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10/19 Monday

Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats.

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

Superhuman Happiness, Terror Pigeon | 9:00 AM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727

Malcolm Bilson | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Malcolm Bilson

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It has six octaves (73 notes) and three pedals. Bilson will play music of the period, including sonatas by Haydn and Beethoven, and an impromptu by Schubert. Classical.

The Ithaca Concert Band | 4:00 PM | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Entitled ICB On Tour, the 80-piece band will be playing music from across the world. You will have the opportunity to enjoy the Kirkpatrick Fanfare by Andrew Boysen to Cecil Macklin’s “Tres Moutarde.

Cornell University Jazz Band | 3:00 PM | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Paul Merrill, director, with guest trumpeter Scott Wendholt.

Scott Wendholt/Adam Koller Quartet | 3:00 AM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | The Scott Wendholt/ Adam Kolker Quartet has been called by the New York Times a “briskly assertive ensemble”, and The New Yorker said “This lean and feisty foursome combines the powerful synergy of the trumpeter Wendholt and the saxophonist Kolker, along with [a] joined-at-the-hip rhythm team.” Jazz.

Spring Into Fall | 3:00 PM | Grace and Holy Spirit Church, 13 Court Street, Cortland | This vocal extravaganza

will feature some of the area’s finest singers, including sopranos Tamara Acosta and Lynn Craver, mezzo sopranos Ivy Walz and Jennifer Kay, tenors Carl Johengen and Eric Flyte, and baritones Steven Stull and David Neal, with pianists Richard Montgomery and Blaise Bryski. The program will conclude with a lively quartet, Lebenslust (Zest for Life), by Schubert.

10/19 Monday

Contrapunkt | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Works by Cornell undergraduate composers.

10/20 Tuesday

The Cayuga Chimes Women’s A Cappella Chorus | 6:15 PM | Boynton Middle School, , Ithaca | Women of all ages are invited to sing for the holiday season. The chorus runs through December. The only requirement is the desire to sing and have fun!!

Traditional and contemporary holiday songs in 4-part harmony (music provided). Please contact us in advance for childcare at (607)738-1159

Film Blue Tattoo: Dina’s Story, Joe’s Song, about Holocaust survivor Dina Jacobson | 6:00 PM, 10/15

Thursday | Chemung County Historical Society, 415 E Water St, Elmira | Holocaust Film Screening at the Chemung County Historical Society.

Jacobson survived the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp and after the liberation at the end of World War II, she moved to Elmira. For the rest of her life, she shared her story with countless school groups and community members. Blue Tattoo tells both Jacobson’s story and about a song Ithaca-based singer Joe Crookston wrote about her experiences. cinemapolis

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Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Love Between The Covers | 7:15 PM, 10/20 Tuesday | Cinemapolis, Ithaca | Love Between the Covers is a featurelength documentary film about the little-known, surprisingly powerful community of women who read and write romance novels. Romance fiction is a female-powered engine of commerce, a multibillion-dollar business, and a tech-savvy global sisterhood.

Coming Home (Gui Lai) | Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that

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The Mountaintop | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | Runs Saturday, 10/11 through Sunday, 10/25 | Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2009, The Mountaintop is a powerful, surreal imagining of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last night on Earth. A conversation between King and a mysterious hotel maid who brings him a cup of

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 10/14 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life.

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

HeatSmart Meeting | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/15 Thursday | Caroline Center Church, 719 Buffalo St, Brooktendale | Educational event focusing on all-you-need-to-know-made-easy introductions to heat pump technology, insulation, and air-sealing.

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This theatrical and spiritually charged outfit combines alternative, folk, pop, world, and rock influenced sounds with performance art, delivering sermon-like performances. Throwing in meditative chants to boot, Answer The Muse describe their sound as yogic rock and pull in crowds that wouldn’t be out of place at a 1967 California Hippie Love Gathering. Come on down and get spiritual!

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A psychological and medical anthropologist who concentrates on religious experience, culture, and cognition in Southeast Asia, Juila Cassaniti is an Assistant Professor at Washington State University. On this special appearance she’ll read from her book: Living Buddhism: Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community. A book that covers a wide range of philosophical, social, and psychological elements pertaining to an ancient religion and its followers. h e

In The Land of the Head Hunters| Original advertising for the film describes it as a drama of primitive life on the shores of the North Pacific. The action takes place during the time of the first exploration of the Coast; an early scenario has the film opening with Vancouvers ship coming into the bay, though that part did not make it into the final film. | 65 mins NR | Rati Chakravyuh | With filmmaker Ashish Avikunthak in person. On a lunar eclipse midnight, in a desolate temple, six young newlywed couples and a priestess meet after a mass wedding. | 106 mins NR | Pather Panchali | Impoverished priest Harihar Ray (Kanu Bannerjee),dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. | 119 mins NR | Street Fight | With filmmaker Marshall Curry in person. A story about the underbelly of American democracy, chronicling the bare-knuckles race for Mayor of Newark, N.J. between Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Rhodes Scholar/ Yale Law School grad, and Sharpe James, the four-term incumbent and undisputed champion of New Jersey politics. | 83 mins NR | Jurrasic World |A new theme park is built on the original site of Jurassic Park. Everything is going well until the park’s newest attraction--a genetically modified giant stealth killing machine-escapes containment and goes on a killing spree. | 124 mins PG-13 |

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his beloved wife no longer remembers him. | 109 mins PG-13 | 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 | 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 | The Second Mother | When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray | 112 mins R | Freeheld | New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester’s pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer. | 103 mins PG-13 | He Named Me Malala | A look at the events leading up to the Talibans’ attack on the young Pakistani school

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coffee prompts him to confront his life, his legacy, and our national story. For showtimes and schedules visit kitchentheatre.org God of Carnage | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | Runs 10/15 through 10/25 | A playground altercation between eleven-year-old boys brings together two sets of parents for a meeting to resolve the matter. At first, diplomatic niceties are observed, but as the meeting progresses, and the rum flows, tensions emerge and the gloves come off, leaving the couples with more than just their liberal principles in tatters. Written by Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christopher Hampton, Directed by Tom Kremer. For tickets and schedules visit binghamton.edu/ anderson-center To Kill A Mockingbird | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 10/16 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

Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 10/15 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions.

Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 10/16 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.

HeatSmart Meeting | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 10/17 Saturday | Lansing Community Meeting YMCA, 20 Graham Road, Lansing | CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 10/20 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

Heatsmart Meeting | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/20 Tuesday | Groton Community Church, 204 E Cortland St, Cortland |

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Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 10/14 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.

Reppy Institute Seminar: Who Cares About Reputation in International Politics? Leaders, Credibility, and the Use of Force | 12:15 PM-12:00 AM, 10/15 Thursday | Uris Hall G08, Cornell, Ithaca | Speaker is Keren Yarhi-Milo, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University Politics Department and the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs.

Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them | 4:30 PM, 10/15 Thursday | Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | In the early 19th century, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea

exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory and whales’ teeth between AD 1150-1200.

Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard’s Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 10/16 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza.

Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Ithaca College | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 10/16 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Come meet an Ithaca College Human Resource Representative, who will share their application process and the benefits of working at Ithaca College.

2015 Council on the Environment |10:00 AM, 10/17 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Topics include: clean energy resources; stream restoration; Cayuga Lake ecology; GIS; insect pest management; hydrilla management; deer management. Registration $75 includes lunch and dinner.

Phil Shapiro’s Group Folk Guitar Lessons | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 10/19 Monday | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, , Ithaca | Learn to play acoustic guitar, or improve your guitar playing, with this inexpensive course.

The League of Women Voters of Tompkins County (LWVTC) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/19 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The League of Women Voters of Tompkins County is holding a program, Our Electric Grid – Our Energy Future is Now: What Will a Modern Electric Grid Mean for All of Us in New York State?

The public is invited. The speakers will be Prof. Brice Smith, Dept. of Physics, SUNY Cortland and Edward Marx, Comissioner, and Katherine Borgella, Deputy Commissioner, of the Tompkins County Planning Department.

Caleb Smith | 4:30 PM, 10/19 Monday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell, | Race and Performance in the Prison Archives: The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict. Introducing the memoir of an African American inmate at New York’s Auburn State Prison in the 1850s, and reflecting on the histories of race and

Meetings Shade Tree Advisory Committee (STAC) | 4:00 PM, 10/14 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Building, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | STAC consults with the City Forester and the Board of Public Works regarding the implementation and enforcement of the provisions of Chapter 306 of the City of Ithaca Municipal Code (“Trees and Shrubs”).

IURA Governance Committee (GC) | 8:30 AM-10:30 AM, 10/16 Friday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Third Floor Conference Room, City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca. GC advises IURA on issues such as budgeting and finance, personnel and committee membership, strategic planning, regulatory and statutory compliance, and external communications.

Town of Ithaca Zoning Board of Appeals | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/19 Monday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Council (BPAC) | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 10/19 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | BPAC members regularly review ongoing and upcoming city projects and advise the Board of Public Works, Common Council, the Planning & Development Board, the Parks Commission, and other appropriate City bodies on bicycle and pedestrian issues, including issues faced by people with disabilities, to ensure all city projects accommodate and encourage safe and legal travel by bicycles, pedestrians and people with disabilities Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM, 10/20 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Public Works Committee | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 10/20 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca |

Rochester based Reggae band iGNiTE plays The Dock 10/16 at 9:00 p.m. (Photo Provided) incarceration in the United States.

Talking about Suicide | 7:00 PM, 10/20 Tuesday | Suicide Prevention and Crisis Service, 124 East Court Street, Ithaca | Larry Roberts, Director of Community Advocacy at the Finger Lakes Independence Center, and Fred Wilcox, local writer and retired professor of Ithaca College, will tell their personal stories of suffering that led to end their lives. The conversation will be facilitated by Sheila McCue, director of After-Trauma Services at SPCS. Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist | 7:00 PM, 10/20 Tuesday | Quaker Meeting House, 120 Third Street, Ithaca | David Hartsough, a longtime Quaker, will recount his experiences in the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements and in non-violent efforts in the Soviet Union, Kosovo, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.

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Special Events National Day of Action Potluck Dinner | 7:30 PM-, 10/14 Wednesday | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora St, Ithaca | National Day of Action will hold a Potluck Dinner Followed by presentations and shared learning. For more information: contact Laurie Konwinski at LKonwinski@dor.

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Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Indoor marketplace and outdoor flea and farmers market. Antiques, collectibles, furniture and more! Open every Friday 12 noon-5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 p.m. through November 1, 2015.

For more information go to www. decodog.com./inven/tiogadown.html Ithaca College Football | 1:00 PM, 10/17 Saturday | Butterfield Stadium, Ithaca | Vs.. Brockport 15th Annual Scarecrow Jubilee | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 10/17 Saturday | Ithaca’s Children’s Garden, , Ithaca | Nothing says fall like the Scarecrow Jubilee at Ithaca Children’s Garden!

Celebrate the harvest and everything autumn with scarecrow making, pumpkin carving, apple tasting, storytelling, music by the 6 Mile Creek Boys and so much more. For more information: www.ithacachildrensgarden.org or call 607.272.2292.

Varick Winery’s Pumpkin Chunkin | 9:30 AM-6:00 PM, 10/17 Saturday | Varick Winery, 5102 State Rte 89, Romulus | Release your tensions by hurling pumpkins. For more information call 315-549-8797.

The FOUND FLEA - Antique & Vintage Flea Market | 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, 10/18 Sunday | FOUND in Ithaca, 227 Cherry Street, Ithaca | Features fifty of the region’s best antique & vintage

dealers who set up for the day in the parking lot at FOUND in Ithaca (a year round Antique & Vintage Marketplace).

Owego Elks Antiques And Collectibles Market | 8:00 AM-3:00 PM, 10/18 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 The Dryden Town Historical Society: Pancake Breakfast | 7:30 AM-10:30 AM, 10/18 Sunday | Dryden Town Hall, 93 E Main St, Dryden | Come and join us for a great breakfast of pancakes, eggs, sausage, bacon, juice, and of course coffee! Chef Peter Zon will be helping out with the cooking! This is a fundraiser for the Southworth House.

We can also use volunteers on Sunday morning to help with set up, cooking and cleaning up. Call Betsy Cleveland at 844-5334 if you help out.

Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm | 10:00 AM, 10/20 Tuesday | Jackson’s Pumpkin Farm, 6425 Rt. 17C, Endicott | One of the oldest and largest Pumpkin Farms in NYS. 20+ activities including Hayrides, Haunted House, Displays, Ziplines, Corn Cannons, Apple Flingers, Petting Farm, Craft Area and much more! For more information visit www.

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Nature & Science Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 10/16 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | The Cornell Astronomical Society hosts stargazing at the historic Fuertes Observatory on Cornell’s North Campus every clear Friday evening starting at dusk. Free and open to the public; parking across the street. Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night.

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Kaufmann Auditorium, IC, Friday, October 16, 8:15 p.m.

Various Locations in Tompkins County, Saturday, October 17, 10:00 a.m.

This modern folk duo have been performing together since 1999, after backing each other up on a European tour with Waterbug Records. The two musicians share an affinity for americana, celtic, and traditional music, and together have made a remarkable run entertaining and inspiring crowds across the globe. Come out and be transformed by the old time magic of these two awesome artists!

37 artists across Tompkins County open their doors to visitors on this eventful fall weekend. Painters, sculpturs, print makers, crafts people, potters and more, will share their inner worlds and let the public see firsthand the madness behind the beauty. It’s sure to be insightful. Get the map at www.ArtTrail.com and learn more about each artist. Runs through October 18.

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Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 9:00 AM, 10/17 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club.

Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. For more information, please visit cayugabirdclub.org/calendar.

Cayuga Trails Club - Two Short Hikes | 9:00 AM, 10/17 Saturday | Tompkins Trust Company, The Cmns, Ithaca | Two short hikes (3 miles total) in two nature preserves owned by the Finger Lakes Land Trust. Meet at 9 am at East Hill Plaza in Ithaca to car pool. Park near Tompkins Trust branch office. For more information call 607-272-8679 or visit cayugatrailsclub. org

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urrently on view at the Cellar d’Or, “Surface” includes digital photographs by Rachel Philipson as well as oil paintings by Michael Sampson and Gabriel Carraher. The exhibit purports to address texture and flatness—a fairly unconvincing alibi for bringing together these very different artists. But no matter, there is some compelling work to be seen here.

A photojournalist (and former Ithaca Times staff photographer), Rachel Philipson’s work spans a range of commercial projects as well as investigations of a more personal and self-consciously artistic nature. Her four small photos here are broadly in the tradition of the twentieth-century artist Aaron Siskind, whose photographs of walls and other surfaces often provoke analogies with Abstract Expressionism.

(Hers complement the exposed brick walls inside the wine and cider shop.)

Shot in Montreal, her images here capture their surfaces in muted pinks and grays. They are far quieter than most of Siskind’s work.

In Tan Wall, a tiny box-like protrusion appears to cast a diagonal shadow against a lumpy, clay-like wall.

The amorphous shapes that fill Crumble resemble an abstract painting while numbered tags punctuate the mosaiclike stone and brick of Blue Wall. Street

Books Ron Drummond | 5:30 PM, 10/15 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author and editor reads his story, Planck’s Pleroma, which has been published in Eleven Eleven, an international literary journal that includes poets, prose writers, artists, and photographers.

Ben McPherson | 5:00 PM, 10/14 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses his chilling debut novel, A Line of Blood. He is currently a columnist for Aftenposten, Norway’s leading newspaper and lives in Oslo with his wife and children. This is his first novel.

Julia Cassaniti | 5:30 PM, 10/16 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author reads from her book Living Buddhism: Mind, Self, and Emotion in a Thai Community, which was published just last week by Cornell University Press. She’s a professor at Washington State University and has spent 10 years studying Buddhism in various communities.

Judith Sornberger | 3:00 PM, 10/17 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author discusses her prose memoir The Accidental Pilgrim: Finding God and His Mother in Tuscany.

Ruth Yarrow | 1:00 PM, 10/17 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author and other contributors read from her new book Voices from the Appalachian Coalfields.

Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the Tompkins County Workers Center.

Art Mask Making | 5:00 AM, 10/15 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Make a mask at this drop-in workshop open to everyone.

The Museum is open until 8:00 p.m.

607-255-6464. museum.cornell.edu Greater Ithaca Art Trail Open Studio Weekend | 11:00 AM-5:00 PM, 10/17 Saturday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | 37 artists across Tompkins County open their doors to visitors on these beautiful fall weekends. Get the map at www.

ArtTrail.com and learn more about each artist. Runs through October 18. ongoing EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca

is Philipson’s only photo to hit the wall at an oblique angle— crisply focused to the left and trailing off into blurry distance towards the right. (If you squint, you can see some street and sidewalk as well.)

The husband of the photographer, Sampson is a leading local abstract painter—although not always the easiest to take in. He has shown around town quite frequently in recent years, including a one-person exhibit at the Cellar d’Or last year. His four oil and paint-stick on canvas paintings here, of moderate size, writhe with dashingly curved black and white lines containing areas of lurid color New work from Gabriel Carraher, Rachel Philipson, and Michael Sampson (Photo Provided) that don’t readily resolve themselves to the vertiginous upward gazing swirl twilight scenes. into any comprehensible scheme. They around it. The board is wood, and the His best paintings here have an are dynamic, explosive, even excessive. grain shows through trunks—truth to expressionistic sense of distortion akin to Carraher’s work, unknown to me materials, of a sort. painters such as Munch and Van Gogh. previously, focuses on scenes of trees There is, of course, limited wall Trunks, brushstrokes—and sometimes and forests. He is showing the largest space at the Cellar d’Or; still, it would the whole scene—bend and twist. The number of paintings here. They are have been nice to see more of Philipson effect is mannered but undeniably both small and fairly large, on board and Sampson’s work as well as a more compelling. and canvas. The front of the store judiciously edited selection of Callaher’s The split trunk at the center holds several done in a distinctively paintings. Still, this is an interesting little of Armstrong Redwood echoes the unappealing style emphasizing paint-byshow by modest, informal standards. verticality of the upright shape of the numbers-like areas of minimally inflected Each artist is worth a further look. • support, as well as offering a contrast color. Many of these are winter and/or

| 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 Buffalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Angela Han: Burning Mortality. Recent paintings that dive into bold and abstract musings on the human spirit and its place in the universe. Through October.

State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Wednesday-Friday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Art Tral Show artist’s galley exhibit. For information: 607277-1626 or gallery@soag.org Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca,

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Malcolm Bilson inaugurates his latest keyboard acquisition in Barnes Hall, on Sunday, October 18, at 8 p.m. A replica of an 1812 Johann Fritz piano, it was made in the Czech Republic by leading period-instrument builder Paul McNulty and finished this year. It has six octaves (73 notes) and three pedals called Shift, Celeste, and Damper. Bilson will play music of the period, including sonatas by Haydn and Beethoven, and an impromptu by Schubert.

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Thursday, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM; Friday and Saturday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday, 1 PM-5:00 PM | Streetscapes, a new exhibit that brings street art inside the Library. Curated by Jay Potter, Streetscapes will feature a collection of work that draws on creativity and inspiration from our urban surroundings. Using a mixture of diverse media, artists will explore the influence of the urban environment through color, energy, movement and personal experience. | www.tcpl.org

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But for such a large house, its rooms are arranged to give most of the room to private, family space. The dining room is to the left of the front entrance and is large, but not enormous. You pass through there to enter the kitchen, which is a wide open space without a fixed island in the middle to break it up.

At A Glance Price: $519,000 Location: 114 Larisa Lane,

Town of Ithaca School District: Ithaca City Schools South Hill Elementary MLS#: 303694 Contact: Lindsay Hart, Licensed Real Estate Broker, ReMax In Motion Real Estate; LindsayHart@remax.net Phone: (607) 227-5990 (cell) Website: www.lindsayhart. reinmotion.com

The counters are striking larvikite stone with flashy orthoclase feldspar crystals. The cabinets have rectangular routed panels and steel pulls.

All the appliances have a brushed steel. There is a double in-wall oven and a countertop electric range.

The splash wall above the counters is covered in gray, slightly iridescent tiles.

The kitchen shares the space with a family room. Both of these look out on the backyard and the parcel beyond the lawn is set aside as forever wild. So this is sort of inner sanctum for the family.

Sliding glass doors open out onto a deck.

There is a bedroom on the first floor off the family room (with an adjacent half bath) but the other four bedrooms are upstairs.

The second floor is entirely carpeted.

Two bedrooms—one in front and one in the back—share a full bathroom that has a jetted tub and a shower combined. These are large bedrooms with large closets. The bathroom is covered in Mediterranan style tile and there are two separate sinks in different parts of the bathroom, near each bedroom.

The other bedroom is in the front of the house and is slightly smaller than the other two.

The master suite is impressive. It begins with a sort of ante room and then opens into the sleeping area, which could

114 Larisa Lane, Ithaca (town) (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra)

easily accommodate a king size bed and have plenty of room besides.

The bathroom attached to the master bedroom is long and dramatic. At the far end is a raised platform that holds a jetted tub. As you walk toward that you will pass a separate stall for the toilet, two commodes (stone topped) for sinks, and a large shower stall (beautifully tiled).

Directly adjacent to the bedroom, but actually in the bathroom are two walk-in closets.

There is a laundry room on the second floor, but the current owners have repurposed the mudroom on the first floor to serve that function. They have added the necessary hook-ups there, but left them

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The downstairs is not finished, but some framing has been done and the walls have been insulated. The window are as large as those on the second floor and it could easily be made into a walk-out basement.

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