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Delayed Vision

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Your ideas

INHS asks for public input in Northside PAGE 4

Dramatic Read

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Small

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How Polluted Is South Hill?

The Chain Works team is trying to find out if you can live at Emerson

Forever young

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R egional Planning

City of Ithaca

Emphasizing Form Over Land Use

New Deadlines for City Comp Plan

lected officials and staff at both the City and Town of Ithaca are being introduced to the recently launched initiative and nonprofit organization “Form Ithaca: Coding for a Sustainable Future.”

Form Ithaca was officially unveiled to the public during a presentation on “formbased zoning” at the Tompkins County Public Library on Oct. 30, and has since been presented to both city and town planning.

According to the project’s description, the city and town planning departments are “key players in the zoning reform project” and joint monthly meetings between the two municipalities will be taking place to keep everyone up to date and involved. The town government is planning to convert their entire zoning ordinance to a form-based approach, which puts building mass before use. The city is using the approach in select areas, including Collegetown and the proposed Chain Works District.

Form Ithaca representatives gave the latest presentation during City of Ithaca Planning and Economic Development Committee’s (PEDC) Wednesday, Nov. 12 public meeting. Form Ithaca is funded

by New York State Energy Research Development Authority (NYSERDA) and is comprised of both local and national zoning and planning experts, along with local architects and planners. Leading the project is Better Cities & Towns Executive Director Robert Steuteville. He was joined by local architects Noah Demarest (Stream Collaborative) and C.J. Randall (Randall + West) on Wednesday night. (Randall is also a member of the city planning board.)

The trio outlined the most commonly asked questions regarding the initiative, such as “What is form-based code.”

According to the project’s fact sheet, a form-based code “is a land development regulation that fosters predictable built results and seeks to create a high-quality public realm by using physical form, rather than separation of uses as the organizing principle for the code. It is an alternative to conventional zoning regulations.”

“To me,” Steuteville said, “form-based code is really about place and placemaking. That’s at its heart. Place-making is making places people want to work, play and live.”

Demarest also noted that the project is “all about place-making” and “about making more diversity and range in what’s

he city’s upcoming comprehensive plan, at the present rate of progress, will be completed and adopted more than a year after its initial timeline indicated.

The city originally hoped to unveil the plan to the public during the Ithaca Festival this past June. Once that benchmark came and went, Apple Harvest Festival in October was the next goal. That too passed with no new comprehensive plan. Following that, city officially looked to spring 2015.

However, during its Monday, Nov. 17 public meeting, the Comprehensive Plan Committee said it hopes to send its complete draft of the plan to city planning and Common Council in summer 2015. The committee is now looking at the fall 2015 as the new endpoint, City Planner Megan Wilson (Photo: Michael Nocella) at which time the plan should be adopted by the city including the Southside Community Although the new tentative Center, the former Neighborhood Pride timeline is behind schedule compared supermarket, Belle Sherman, Cornell to its predecessors, it still represents an campus, and the Tompkins County Public ambitious amount of work from now Library. Each open house would be until then, City Planner Megan Wilson approximately 90 minutes and residents said. During the next few months, would be able to come and go as they the committee will hammer out the please, with each chapter of the plan remaining chapters of the plan with the hope of unveiling an “interim document” being displayed on poster boards with key ideas. Committee members and to the public for feedback before it goes on to finalize its official draft document. continued on page 7 Committee members used Monday

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night’s meeting to go over a public outreach plan that will include—starting in the second week of April—open houses, an updated online presence, an online survey, a Facebook page, and a “comprehensive plan computer” that will be a public workstation to view the draft plan and related documents.

“It’ll be a tight schedule,” Wilson said. “But it’s something we can do and something we should do. It is aggressive, but I think it’s important to get feedback from the residents [before submitting the plan to the city].”

According a memo passed out at the committee’s public meeting, the aforementioned open houses would be held in locations throughout the city,

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▶ TC3 Refuses to Recognize Adjunct Faculty Union, Tompkins Cortland Community College President Carl Haynes has rejected a request by New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) to recognize the proposed TC3 Adjunct Association as the union representing all adjunct faculty members at the College. The action came days ahead of the mandated deadline for responding to the request and means the matter will likely head to the New York State Public Employees Relations Board (PERB) for final determination.

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The following statement was issued by TC3 Provost and Vice President of the College, John Conners.

“The decision to recognize a union is a significant one for the College, and should only be entered into with complete certainty that it best represents the wishes of the majority of those who would be represented. President Haynes, in rejecting the request to recognize the proposed TC3 Adjunct Association, is not convinced that the majority of adjunct faculty members support this organizing effort.”

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How Dirty Is It? ........................... 8

Environmental assessment at the former Emerson site: no major problems yet

Ithaca Out Loud . ...................... 15

The work of six local authors will be read by six local actors in a benefit for City of Asylum

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“I’m thankful just to be alive honestly.”

—Jaiquon Washington

“Right now, I’m just absolutely enthralled by this view.”

—Lily Aspen

Envisioning a Future For Northside Site

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“Thankful for the opportunity Cornell is hooking me up with.”

—Lucas Millman

“For my job, family, and friends.” ­—Rebecca Hayes

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Adams Street between First Street and the creek, which would allow an expansion of the park. The creek itself has to be taken into account because it can flood the neighborhood. Anything that INHS builds on the site, said Mazzarella, would have to withstand the impact of flooding. It is simply one of the design challenges of the place. There are other design challenges as well. ighty-five people showed up at the “When you are doing new construction former Neighborhood Pride grocery in an existing neighborhood,” Mazzarella store on Wednesday, Nov. 12 to help said, “people are concerned about the Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services new fitting in with the old. You need to (INHS), the new owner of the choose the appropriate density Hancock Street property, decide and building type. Many people what to do next with the two[at the Nov. 12 meeting] were acre parcel. interested in the possibilities of “We were asking for ideas denser development because it about how to use the site,” said would make it more affordable.”

INHS Executive Director Paul Mazzarella noted that Mazzarella. “We had images on much of the housing in the the wall that showed different neighborhood is actually building types and different denser than what is allowed densities. People were asked by the current zoning. Many to write on the wall and to of them are single-family or make comments.” INHS staff duplex homes on small lots. In are still sorting the comments contrast, a unified design for into categories, according to two acres could fit more people Mazzarella. into the space and yet, with use Late last spring INHS learned of shared open space, feel more that the Petito family were open. The zoning in this area interested in selling the property. requires parking to be provided, Residents give input at Hancock Street INHS session. (Photo provided) They teamed up with the so that must be integrated into Sciencenter to submit a proposal any design. It may be added to the family and in the end won underneath the buildings.The parcel is would build, a schematic design.” If the the right to buy the property. There were zoned B5, which in addition to retail and latter gets to the planning board for their other non-profits and for-profit interests office space, allows for the construction of March meeting, it would be, he thought, bidding on the parcel; three purchase housing. four or five months before any approvals contracts were eventually submitted.

Mazzarella spoke to someone at the were granted.

The Sciencenter, said the INHS Nov. 12 meeting who had grown up in “We are quite familiar with getting director, wants to expand their the neighborhood in the 1960s. They funding for housing,” said Mazzarella. “It’s programming and will work their plans remembered there being a number of very competitive, but this is a competitive into the overall design for the property. stores in the area during that era. site. It’s a good downtown location. It’s INHS will be creating a master plan for “The big takeaway from this event,” said close to the farmers market.

There’s a the entire block, which is bounded by the INHS director, “is that there is a high park nearby.” The Ithaca Permaculture Hancock Street on the southeast, First level of interest in this site. Eighty-five Park is north of the site between the creek Street on the southwest, Adams Street people spent hours there on a Wednesday and Alice Miller Way, which leads to the on the northwest, and Cascadilla Creek night.” • Sciencenter. on the northeast. Mazzarella said that Several people at the Nov. 12 meeting whatever was built would go up in several – Bill Chaisson suggested abandoning the portion of

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allowed.” He added the project, at its core, is about reducing greenhouse gases in the community, and that’s why its being funded by NYSERDA. Demarest said the town’s recently adopted 2014 comprehensive plan “is totally on board with this,” and encouraged the city to follow suit with its upcoming comprehensive plan, which is expected to be completed in spring or summer 2015.

Steuteville said that the comprehensive plan “doesn’t do much good if it’s not supported by the zoning” and that the timing of the town and city’s new comprehensive plans, along with the form-based project, represented a “historic opportunity to allow everyone to work together to create [cohesive zoning].”

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phases.

“It will primarily be housing,” he said, “in several forms, but there may also be neighborhood-scale retail, a grocery store, some sort of public meeting space, recreational space.”

Mazzarella said that INHS hopes to have a good “concept design” by February.

They are planning another meeting with residents in mid December. “We could present this to the planning board,” he said, “but we wouldn’t get site plan approval. For that we would need to show them the size and appearance of what we

offer opportunities for form-based zoning in certain places, the extent to which those elements, and how they’ll factor into the plan are not yet known. Alderperson Ellen McCollister (D-3rd) noted there are those in the city who are still skeptical to what form-based zoning would ultimately mean in the city.

“There are some people,” she said, “who are concerned [this project] is just a smokescreen to foist more density in places where people might not find it desirable. So that’s just a political caution, going forward. On a more positive note, we’re already seeing some form-based development along the border of the city.”

Alderperson Cynthia Brock (D-1st) said she was concerned that, in some cases, it’s been assumed that in the city formbased zoning is going to happen, when that is not the case. She wanted to make sure that the form-based initiative being presented was nothing more than another

option.

“Absolutely,” Steuteville confirmed.

“It’s entirely up to the city and its elected representatives what becomes of this plan, and how it uses it—if it uses it. There’s many options. You could not do anything with it. You could take parts of it, modify it. You could take the entire thing if you love it. You can adopt it over time.”

The next step for Form Ithaca will be a strategic planning session in December. The team said its funding outlines a timeline in which its plan must be in a form “ready to be adopted” by the town and or city by early 2016. Neither municipality will be required to adopt the plan, and would be able to use as much as, or little of the project’s finished project as they pleased. • – Michael Nocella

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n August, the Tompkins County Legislature approved the appointment of Deborah Prato as the new Tompkins County Personnel Commissioner.

Prato took over the post from Anita Fitzpatrick, who decided to retire this year after 22 years as the county’s personnel commissioner. Prato started the job, which is a six-year appointment, on Sept. 2 and so, after giving her a month and a half to find her footing in the new job, The Ithaca Times sat down with Prato for an interview.

The Ithaca Times: So, first question – what exactly does a personnel commissioner do?

Deborah Prato: [laughs] Oversight of all the civil servants for Tompkins County and all of the jurisdictions within the county, so that includes school districts, towns, and villages.

In addition to that, it’s the day-to-day operations of a personnel office— benefits, employee issues, collective bargaining. It’s labor relations, terminations, [and] new hires. I don’t have to interview and I don’t have to fire everybody, but it all somehow comes through this office, one way or another.

IT: How are things going so far?

DP: I love it here.

IT: Why did you want to get into this line of work?

DP: I worked for Monroe County for 20 years in their human resources office. Then I went to Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority. I was their chief administration officer for seven years, which covered human resources, labor, training, customer service, [and] payroll. After that I went to Monro Muffler Brake. So I went from public, to public, to private sector. I missed the sense of purpose and community when I was in the private sector work.

IT: What qualifications do you have?

DP: I have a bachelor’s degree in industrial labor relations and almost 30 years of experience. I started out at entrylevel civil service position and worked my way up through all the promotional levels. There probably isn’t a job in human resources that I haven’t done, which I think gives me an appreciation for how difficult each one of my team members’ jobs are.

IT: Who made the decision to hire you?

DP: Joe [Mareane, county administrator] got a search committee together. I think there were 14 people on

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the committee. My first interview was with 14 people … it was [Legislator] Jim Dennis, [Legislator] Kathy Luz-Herrera, a representative from TC3, a representative from the City of Ithaca, multiple department heads here, the county attorney, and the union president for white collar CSEA unit.

IT: That sounds like a daunting interview.

DP: It was fast-paced. It was an hour long, and I think it was 18 questions.

IT: Did you have any particular desire to come to the Ithaca area?

DP: No. I knew it was beautiful, and I love the Finger Lakes, but Ithaca was not on my radar of places to land.

IT: So how are you liking it here so far?

DP: I like it. There’s a lot to do. There’s a lot of really great people. There’s a lot of cultural community groups, and activities. It always seems like there’s something going on.

IT: Do you have a family that relocated with you? How do they feel about the move?

DP: I do not. I have triplets, and they are all in college, so they’ll visit over winter break and summer break.

IT: What challenges do you see on the horizon?

DP: We have contract negotiations for all our collective bargaining units, and while it’s not challenging it’s always a big-time commitment. And a lot of meetings to talk about what the issues are.

IT: During his budget presentation, Joe Mareane mentioned that there are no contracts right now for the 2015 budget season, right?

DP: Yes, all of the contracts are expiring. White collar CSEA, CSEA blue collar unit, corrections officers, and [sheriff ’s office] road patrol.

IT: Is that normally how it works?

Do you normally not have new contracts this close to the end of the current contracts?

DP: I really don’t know the bargaining history here. I’ve found it never works exactly how you planned it will, no matter how many advanced meetings you have.

But we’ll get through it.

IT: Do you have any major changes in mind for your office?

DP: No. Right now I’m just getting the lay of the land. Certainly diversity and inclusion are high on the priority list, as is working to demystify the civil service process so we can reach a larger applicant pool and marketing the types of jobs that are available in the county. •

Ups&Downs ▶ Preserving “open space,” Through a partnership with the Finger Lakes Land Trust (FLLT), the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) acquired 87 acres of land in the town of Dryden, Tompkins County, DEC Commissioner Joe Martens announced today. The project connects two existing state forests, extending the so-called Emerald Necklace of protected lands around Ithaca, a priority in the state’s open space plan.

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 ▶ Charter schools protest, As class was held outside on Tuesday, Nov. 18 in New York City to symbolize half of the state’s charter schools who are still denied state aid for buildings and facilities, charter schools from Albany, Buffalo, Elmira, Greece, Ithaca, Hempstead, Mount Vernon, Riverhead, Rochester, and Troy joined the plea for help in next year’s state budget. The New Roots Charter School of Ithaca was one of 25 schools taking part in the protest. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Nov. 12-18 include: 1) A Long and Winding Road 2) Drones Overhead – Cornell Students, Crop Specialists Test Non-Military Uses 3) Exchange Student Wins Art Contest 4) Community Connections: A Helping Hand 5) Pet Corner: Treating Your Pet’s Ailments with Acupuncture For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

question OF THE WEEK

Have you ever seen a snow plow that was operated by the City of Ithaca?

Please respond at ithaca.com.

L ast Week ’s Q uestion: Do you object to drones being used for civilian purposes?

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Editorial

Write for “Readers Writes” E ach year, usually between Christmas and New Year’s, we publish our “Readers Writes” issue. For those of you new to town—and in a college town, there are always new people— this is an issue of the Ithaca Times that consists entirely of submissions from the general public.

We include fiction, poetry, and nonfiction of all stripes. We accept work that is up to 1,500 words long, which is we admit, a pretty short short story. But we have to limit the length in order to fit the submissions of as many people as possible into the issue.

Every year we select a theme in order to give the whole some coherence. This year the topic is “Social Connections.”

Please approach this from any angle that you want. The most obvious interpretation would be to write about friendship, but in our electronically networked era, “social” and “connections” have taken on all sorts of meanings.

We would appreciate receiving submissions by Friday, Dec. 19 at the close of business (5 p.m.). You can send them electronically to editor@ithacatimes. com. Feel free to paste text into an email or attach a document to the email. We prefer a Microsoft Word document. If you don’t have Word, just save it as a text document (or just use the ‘paste into the email’ option).

We don’t print every piece that is submitted. We never have enough room to include everything that comes in and, to be honest, some submissions are too full of vitriol to see the light of day. We will leave those to the troll-dominated comment sections of the online world.

Our first criterion is whether or not the content of the submission addresses the theme. If it does, then it is more likely to be included. Don’t let that stop you from submitting off-theme pieces though.

The second criterion is aimed at achieving a balance among fiction, poetry, and non-fiction submissions.

The Readers Writes issue serves a couple of purposes.

First, you the reader get the opportunity to see what the rest of the community is thinking and feeling, pretty much unfiltered by the media. Here at the Ithaca Times we try to give the public as much chance as possible to have their voices heard by printing nearly every letter and guest opinion that is sent to us, publishing all the non-troll comments that come into the website, and following up on the ideas for stories that we get via telephone, email and folks who just drop in at 109 North Cayuga.

Second, Readers Writes is the one issue each year wherein the Ithaca Times purview broadens to include the entire world. Our mission is to cover local news and we only look at state, national, and international issues when there are local participants (not just observers) in those issues. This is a source of frustration to some activist readers, but we believe in devoting our resources to telling our readers about the place where they live and about what affects them most directly.

But in Readers Writes submissions can be about the Middle East, the developing world, Europe, outer space, and the inside of your own head. •

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Go Ahead, Ask Me

By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r An old Ask Amy column has gained new circulation on the web over the last few days.

In the column Dickinson rebukes a woman for her mean-spirited attitude in a most satisfyingly straightforward manner. (Quote: “You are a horrible person.”) Actor Ashton Kutcher called the column “brilliant.” That generated more than 25,000 Facebook likes.

The column was picked up by a handful of media outlets and forums, including A+ and Reddit. (The Ithaca Voice, Nov. 14) Kudos to Amy Dickinson for a most righteous column. I can’t squelch a little jealousy, though. I mean, why such a big deal? Heck, I can be candid. Blunt, even.

Furthermore, what about me? I want the viral attention and the B-list celebrities and the likes on Facebook. I have to say, in that spirit of bluntness, the advice racket doesn’t look that all that hard. So I fished some letters out of the SBR mailbag. Hey, Ashton … check it out: Dear SBR: I am a starter on the Florida State football team (Go Seminoles!) and also on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. I’m told that the members of our team have diplomatic immunity or something. It sure would come in handy if that’s true!

-Football Felon Dear Football: You, sir, are in luck!

Your team is number one again in The Associated Press college football poll, which means you enjoy absolute immunity for all malfeasance up to and including serial murder. Word to the wise, though: if your transgressions include domestic violence, you may want to consider lawyering up before heading to the NFL, although on that front league doctors are working around the clock to develop a concussion-based diagnosis that would

exonerate players’ bad behavior. This would also be available to Division I college programs free of charge. You could point to your asking a total stranger for advice as an example of poor judgment. Good luck, play hard and no worries!

Dear SBR: I am a nurse recently returned to the United States after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone. I heard while I was over there that I would be quarantined for 21 days upon my return, yet I’ve heard nothing. It doesn’t seem fair that after going on a humanitarian mission like I did that I should have to stay home for three weeks. I’d really like to take a bike ride with my boyfriend tomorrow, if this fever breaks. What’s the deal?

-Can’t Catch Me Dear Can’t: Go for a ride. In fact, go mingle at the mall and then dine at a crowded restaurant. Resume your duties here in the U.S. as soon as possible. The danger has passed. Nobody’s given the slightest damn about Ebola in this country since ten minutes after Election Day. Dear SBR: I am the mayor of a small city in upstate New York (I wish to remain anonymous) and I have a holiday-related question. OK, not to brag, but it’s been a pretty good November. Two weeks ago I was in Zurich, Switzerland at a Young Leaders Conference. I found out last week that I’m the recipient of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation’s 2014 New Frontier Award. ABC News described me as ‘innovative.’ And, despite presiding over an immense, businesschoking, over-budget, massively-delayed continued on page 7

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Dear colleagues and fellow Ithacans, I have been practicing non-coercive, non-medical psychotherapy in Ithaca for more than fifty years. Many of you know me or know of me.

I am now 80 years old, recovering from a stroke and have retired. Before I pass on to who-knows-where I would like to leave you with a few cautionary notes about psychiatry.

Psychiatry is in deep trouble. It claims to be a medical science, but in my opinion it is neither medical nor a science. It claims that mental illnesses are brain diseases, but they have not one bit of evidence to prove it . Psychiatrists wish it were so because they hope it would establish their identity as medical scientists. But science is not built on wishes and hopes, it is built on verifiable observations and tight logic. Psychiatry has

neither.

The idea that psychiatry is a medical discipline is built on a mirage of deceptive language called “the medical model.” The medical model is not a fact. It cannot be discovered the way physical facts are discovered, by observation. It is a metaphor that uses medical language to describe human emotions. Psychiatrists describe painful emotions and unconventional or undesirable thoughts and conduct in the language of medicine.

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thoughtful behavior “inside”; and the chance to attend a theater class is great motivation to have a good week in between sessions. While many of the men at Auburn are serving long sentences, 95 percent of inmates statewide will eventually be released.

Michael Rhynes originally conceived of Phoenix Players when he began participating in the renowned Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP), which has been providing classes staffed by Cornell faculty and assistants at ACF since 2009. Michael felt that most rehabilitative programming is constructed by someone on the outside, who has a concept of what men on the inside need. He saw that the men in prison who struggle with their own past, their own current transformation, planning for their own future. They are the experts; and within Phoenix Players they control its direction, within ACF guidelines.

David Roth, Supervisor of Volunteer Services Bruce Levitt directing at Auburn Correctional Facility. at Auburn and (Photo provided) six additional correctional facilities in the Elmira Hub, is the liaison to community Bruce Levitt came to Ithaca already programs and volunteers throughout this having had a distinguished career as a director and former chair of the New York region. He and his staff manage to bring top-notch community programming into State Council on the Arts, among many the prisons. In order to bring outsiders other achievements. He and his wife Judy into ACF Roth has to be like a U.N. Levitt, (respected theater teacher, who has negotiator working with very different long been a popular professor in theatre countries with little common language. at Ithaca College) both maintain a busy The weekly Phoenix Players schedule with Cornell and Ithaca College workshop is currently composed of 12 students, Every Friday night Bruce, Judy, Alison men from inside working with four to six facilitators from the outside. Much Van Dyke, Nick Fessette, and occasionally of daily life inside is regimented. Fifteen others arrive at Auburn around 6:30 p.m., hundred men are supervised by a large sign in and pick up their identification number of staff. When they eat, what badges. Around 6:40 p.m. they are they eat, when they can leave their cell accompanied by two correctional officers to do what, is determined for them year (COs) to the classroom area. Passing after year. Two hours a week the men are through a series of locked passageways, permitted, within the facility regulations, eventually the theater facilitators arrive to determine how they wish to proceed at the outdoors area called The Yard. within Phoenix Players.

When they arrive on their way to class “I’ve heard the men in the group The Yard is often empty. When they are heading back home The Yard is often filled discuss how Phoenix Players’ main objective is to reawaken the humanity in with incarcerated men, who are directed them,” Bruce said. “As one member put it: to move aside before the visitors pass ‘Theatre is a conduit we use to reach the through. still waters of the soul.’”

The Department of Corrections Each week when the incarcerated men and Community Supervision (DOCCS) greet the men and women who have come administrators at Auburn have supported inside from the outside Bruce is moved by Phoenix Players Theater Group from its the graciousness of the welcome. inception. Bruce recalls Superintendent “For us—we have never have a bad Harold Graham once commenting that night in prison,” said Levitt. “The Phoenix programs like Phoenix Players enhance n 2010 Bruce Levitt, former chair of the Theatre, Film, and Dance Department [now Department of Performing and Media Arts] at Cornell, drove with colleague Steve Cole to Auburn Correctional Facility, a 45-minute ride on a good day. A year earlier two incarcerated men, Michael Rhynes and Clifton Williamson, met with Steve to discuss the creation of a theater project inside Auburn, a maximum-security prison built in 1817 with immense stone walls topped by rolls of razor wire. The men inside were determined to develop a program that was created by and for the inmates. The Phoenix Players Theater Group is now five years old.

Players are ideal collaborators, bright and eager to delve into the subject matter, which are often their own lives. They are so hungry for those two hours when they can “take off their prison masks” and explore themselves, their persona.

The weekly theater workshop provides a safe and welcoming space for the men to explore the pain they have suffered and the pain they have caused others—their victims, their families—as well as celebrate their support of each other in this process.”

After the two groups have trekked across The Yard they greet each other, and their two-hour workshop begins.

The members enter the room with a heightened sense of readiness—to relish every moment of the workshop. Their time together may be spent on storytelling, writing, or rehearsing monologues, or doing improvisational exercises individually or as a group.

“During our short time together everyone relaxes, shares stories during the course of our work together,” Levitt said. “The men from inside empathize with each other—they support, encourage, and advise each other. It is a remarkably generous and collaborative space to inhabit with them.”

The time passes quickly and soon all those inside the classroom make their way back. Going back for each member means lining up and returning to his cellblock, and then to his cell. For the facilitators it means proceeding back as they have come—through the eight locked enclosures, pausing for permission from South Control to proceed.

As Bruce and passengers head home each Friday night he describes what he feels like on the journey home: “These gentlemen are endlessly inventive, extremely insightful and bright. They bring such energy into the room every Friday night. When I head home I am exhausted, yet recharged. I feel more serious, yet joyous to be more in touch on some deeper level with what humans can be.

“My only regret is that I cannot bring the PPTG members to speak to my students at Cornell,” he said. “Their perspective on their own lives and the wisdom shared within Phoenix Players is both unique and profound.” • youropinions contin u ed from page 3

daresay every reader knows someone who has been told they have a brain disease that requires drugs to treat. This practice is so widespread that some have called it the “medicalization of ordinary life” and “the drugging of America.”

I caution the reader, however, not to discontinue drugs or therapy, which can be dangerous. You should seek a variety of opinions and educate yourself about psychiatric diagnosis and “treatments.”

An increasing number of professionals are becoming cautious and critical of psychiatric diagnoses and drugging.

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staff would be assigned to each station to answer questions and provide brief overviews.

Committee Chair Kirby Edmonds was concerned about the new schedule, and the committee’s ability to get everything done in time for the public outreach initiatives. The committee currently meets once a month, but Edmonds suggested the committee would have to think long and hard about the idea of meeting every two weeks to insure the committee follows through on its deadlines this time around, noting that the upcoming schedule was “scaring” him. Edmonds’ concerns are understandable, as the city website still states the plan is anticipated to be made available for public review in fall 2014, and now the committee has its eyes on mid-summer 2015.

“Making the recommendation [of the plan] to the planning board in July,” Wilson said, “is now the ideal situation.”

When the committee does recommend its plan, and the city does adopt it, the hope is that the updated vision for the city will be well worth the wait. The city’s existing comprehensive plan was completed in 1971, and has been amended fourteen times by various neighborhood and strategic plans, according the city website. The city declared its two-phase process for creating a new plan more than two years ago. Phase I, which it is still currently in, involves the preparation of a citywide plan that “identifies a vision and goals for the future,” the city website states. Phase II, it continues, “will include subsequent preparation of specific neighborhood or thematic plans identified in Phase I.” • – Michael Nocella Byreality

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downtown construction project that would hang like a putrefying albatross around the neck of a mere mortal mayor, the people still love me! I’m in the zone.

My question is this: how come I still have to sit at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving?

-Bitter Burgermeister Dear Bitter: That is so weird! You have to meet the mayor of our city.

He’s the bomb and I just know you two would get along. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, Tumblr, ThumbzAche, MySpace, YourSpace, Instagram, Mayorz, BuzzNet, and Blogster. Anyhow, making a big fuss about this will only justify the decision to put you at the kids’ table in the first place.

You can’t win this one. However, sending your Chief of Staff in your place to Thanksgiving dinner does not make you a horrible person, and it’s the only way to avoid photographs that could torpedo a brilliant political future. •

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he re-imagining of the Emerson Power Transmission site on South Hill has been in full swing for more than two years. Unchained Properties, LLC (UP), and its owner David Lubin, has meticulously assembled a team of local engineers, architects and attorneys for a project that proposes to transform the 95acre industrial site and its 800,000 square feet of existing structures into a mixeduse development that would include residential, commercial and industrial components.

However, before the project, dubbed the “Chain Works District,” can move forward, the site’s history casts a shadow that includes significant environmental contamination (decades of industrial use will tend to do that). Testing at the site has documented contamination on the site since the 1970s, and the Chain Works team is in the midst of doing an up-to-date study. So far, more contamination than previously documented has been found, but nothing discovered to this point has halted the project’s progress. Several members of the Chain Works team began to restart the Emerson site contamination 8 T

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Nine hundred thirty-four contaminated locations have been identified throughout the site’s entire history. The most recent locations selected for environmental assessment have revealed the presence of the following contaminants: barium, cyanide, free-petroleum products, metals in soil, and chlorinated volatile organic compounds. The latter includes trichloroethylene, or TCE, which has a notorious reputation in Ithaca already, as it’s been the culprit in instances of downhill contamination for some of the site’s South Hill neighbors, Labella Associates Environmental Engineer Daniel Noll explained.

“After 1996,” Noll said, “there was a bit of a lull on the site. There wasn’t a whole lot of investigation work being done on the site, but contaminant still made it down the hillside, to the homes [and caused problems].”

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need of remediation need to be pinpointed, he said.

“In 2013,” he said, “we started our in-the-ground work. As part of our work, we reviewed all of that historical information and did [an environmental site assessment]. That identified 18 environmental conditions—and that’s just a term of the trade, that doesn’t mean there is an environmental condition—but we thought the area warranted additional investigation to turn this site from industrial to residential. We actually installed 549 testing locations to evaluate that.”

Noll said it’s “still difficult to know at this point in time” what remediation methods may be used at the site. It could be anything from capping or closing off an area to significant excavation to excavation—or, as he put it, a “little bit of digging.” The latter is the typical action taken at sites polluted by highly concentrated solvents. At this point, he said, high levels of contaminants have not been found. If that remains the case, then the most likely remediation

“[An environmental assessment] ... identified 18 environmental conditions—and that’s just a term of the trade, that doesn’t mean there is an environmental condition—but we thought the area warranted additional investigation to turn this site from industrial to residential.”

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wasn’t all bad news.

“It’s not all doom and gloom,” he said.

“It’s possible to remediate sites like this.

We’ve done it before. It’s complicated, but doable.”

Noll said Chain Works’ additional tests are needed to turn the Emerson site from an industrial landscape into a place that residents can call home. Locations in

of topography we have here, such as the fractured bedrock and steep slopes.” Noll said that in those instances, such conditions were not present. He added that Emerson’s unique landscape makes upcoming remediation “without a doubt more complicated, but still possible.”

Whitham said his team is obviously aware of the challenges the Emerson site location presents, but they are excited by its proximity to Ithaca College and downtown.

He added that the views from the site are second to none.

“We’ve seen a lot of projects like this in the country,” he said, “and in fact, around the world where old factory sites have been repurposed into living-working spaces that were completely different from the facility’s initial intention—and this is ours [Ithaca’s]. This is our big factory, right near downtown.

It’s big, it’s walkable, and it can be just a great location for offices and apartments, among other uses.

“The project is big enough at 95 acres,” he continued, “that it borders Ithaca College C h a i n w o r k s P r o j e c t M a n ag e r S c o t t Wh i t h a m and also downtown. We’re in ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) conversations with IC, Cornell, the town, the city, and we hope initial environmental findings, Scott each of those communities would be part going to be the Whitham of Whitham Planning and of using what we’re trying to accomplish need to further Design, LLC said, at this time he and the here.” delineate and Chain Works District team are moving determine the forward full steam ahead. extent of the ‘Waking Up’ the Emerson Site “The fact,” he said, “that any of the contamination environmental findings or investigations Because Emerson’s 95 acres spans both the town and city of Ithaca, in each of the that we’ve seen so far has not caused either proposing the idea of a mixed-use areas. Once the team or developer to move backwards development has been rather tricky, and the DEC [New in their ambition, but forward, is the most somewhat repetitive. Every presentation, York State encouraging aspect of this project going from the introduction to the project to the Department of on at this time.”

Environmental approval of it in concept and the requests Conservation] for a floating overlay zone—Planned Unit Other ‘Success Stories’ is comfortable Development (PUD) in the city and a Any time a project of this magnitude about the Planned Development Zone (PDZ) in the is proposed, it is logical to look elsewhere town— has been given twice. extent of ‘Two Parallel Paths’ in the country—and the world—to see if However, city planning has recently contamination The hot spots, so to speak, something like this has been done—and Pau l S y lv e s t r i declared itself lead agency for the project, that has been of contamination on the whether or not it was a success. Both (M . N o c e l l a) and the two municipalities’ planning determined Emerson site include its heatBargman and Noll alluded to projects committees have had a meeting to discuss in each of the areas, we’ll then be able to treatment sector, its oil-quenching baths, across the nation that their firms had assess what the proper method would be the best ways to streamline this process. “general waste” on site, or “significant fill,” remediated with great success. These Moving forward the hope is that much and its fire-water reservoir, which contains for remediation of each of the issues. projects included the Penn Yan Marine “Once we’ve made decisions,” he redundancy will be ironed out. contaminants from “working mill water,” brownfield in Penn Yan; the Village continued, “regarding remediation Noah Demarest of Stream Noll noted. This information is hardly Gate on Goodman Street in Rochester; technologies that might be applicable, Collaborative Architecture and Landscape new, he said, but the Chain Works team Remington Lofts in North Tonawanda; Architecture DPC said the balancing act [the DEC] will issue a new record of is giving the site a closer inspection than Holy Cross Community Housing in New between the town and city has been one decision. That record of decision will also did its predecessors, as its ambitions for Orleans; and the Ford River Rouge Plant of the more challenging aspects from a be significantly different from the existing turning the site into a place where people in Dearborn, Mich. All of those places planning and zoning perspective, as it’s a one because it’s going to allow for the may live is unprecedented. were heavily industrialized sites that were new experience for all of those involved. mixed-use development that Unchained Noll explained that they are using later remediated for residential and or “The goal is we’re going to attempt to Properties is proposing. It’s going to a “top-down approach.” Areas are being commercial uses. create a single zoning boundary,” he said. allow residential use, it’s going to allow evaluated starting from a concrete surface Town of Ithaca Planning Committee “The biggest challenge is going to be not commercial use, and to some extent on the Chair Rich DePaolo asked the Chain all the way down to the soil and soil gases.

This method has validated previous testing property, some continued industrial use.”

Works team if any of those sites, and the Following the presentation of the as well. continued on page 10 ensuing remediation, included the “kind would be awareness and long-term monitoring.

“Sometimes,” he said, “it’s just a matter of knowing what’s there, and where it is. That in itself is a form of remediation.”

The engineer said that other forms of remediation could include groundwater treatment, with anything from longterm monitoring to extracting and discharging water from the site being possible. Another option to monitoring and/or excavation is “in situ,” which treats contaminants with injections of chemicals to change or combat existing conditions, Noll said.

Whitham, the project manager, said the team is in wait-and-see mode when it comes to pending remediation.

“At this stage of the process,” he said, “any discussion of remediation techniques is premature. Further delineation and determination of the extent of impacts already identified at the site is needed.

Ultimately, the required remediation techniques employed will be dictated in large part by the State Department of Environmental Conservation and the State Department of Health.”

Design firm D.I.R.T. Studio principal Julie Bargman said the initial environmental-findings presentation to the public was important, as the team wants to make the site’s environmental findings available to the entire community.

She added by that if people understand the levels of impacts the site’s history has on its present state, the process of turning the property from industrial to mixed-use residential and commercial would be that much easier to handle, and ultimately help “accelerate the process of unsticking a stuck [site].”

“These tests and findings [on the Emerson site] date back to [the 1970s],” she said. “Since then, additional tests have been done and our goal is to transfer very difficult data into a legible form so that [residents] can understand it.”

“We really focused on the inside,” Noll said, “where [the work was taking place]. We wanted to see if there was something there that was already known about. But what we found confirmed a lot of the previous testing.”

Attorney Paul Sylvestri of Harter Secrest & Emery said the next steps will be to determine what the new data means, and what exactly needs to occur before the Chain Works District proposal can move forward—or if it can move forward.

“For next steps,” Sylvestri said, “we’re going to be taking really two parallel paths. One path is related to historic impacts.

The second path is the Generic Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS).

Emerson [the most recent occupant of the site] is in the process of developing work plans to do predominantly more further investigation. For all the impacts that we have talked about, there’s

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ince 1981, the Ithaca Times has closed the year with the “Readers’ Writes” issue, featuring submissions from our most valuable commodity, you. Stories, poems, drawings and photographs are welcome. It’s a chance for you to have a voice in the paper other than the letters page.

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writing that zoning, but getting both the city and town to agree to it. Because we have to go back and forth between both municipalities.”

Important next steps for the planning and zoning process include a public scoping meeting (Nov. 18), the complete draft GEIS (Dec. 29), and submission of the draft GEIS (Feb. 2015). The date of the hearing for the project’s State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) is still to be determined.

After that lengthy process comes to a conclusion, the design process and unveiling of what exactly Chain Works District will look like will be more fully unveiled to the public.

“A lot of what we’re doing right now is setting the stage for the design,” he said.

“The planning, the zoning, the overall questions of how this property is going to function will take a considerable amount of time. The design itself is the thing that comes after that planning. So that is still ahead of us as a team, and ahead of the community for that conversation. We’re all really looking forward to that stage, however, planning itself for a project of this scale will take a long time before we get to that point.”

Aleksandr Mergold of Austin + Mergold Architecture and Landscape Architecture, LLC said that design process will be both exciting and challenging.

“This is probably the densest project that Ithaca has ever had,” he said. “In that sense, it’s an amazing opportunity. It’s unprecedented and we’re approaching it as such. Our intention is to try to leave as much of the original architecture as possible without adding too many new things or removing too many old things. It’s a very delicate balance in that sense.”

Whitham noted that, if things go smoothly, he could see some pieces of the project beginning within the next year, such as office spaces and manufacturing spaces being reopened and used without disturbing the “core of the project.” However, as a whole, his best guess was that the project would evolve over the next seven to 10 years. Mergold noted that timeline was pretty impressive when “you consider this place took 70 years to build.”

“This place,” Mergold said, “to some degree, was at one point the heart of the town and city. It was a really a place where things were happening, and there was a lot of pride associated with that. We’re hoping some of that good energy will resurface.

Maybe different things will be happening, but we covet that same type of productivity and good will. That’s a critical thing for us.”

Whitham Planning and Design associate Catharine DeAlmedia echoed Mergold’s sentiments.

“One of the most exciting parts about it is that this site was highly productive for the city for more than 100 years and then it kind of went to sleep. So we’re trying to wake it up.” •

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A Holiday Event for Everyone: Elves Faire

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hildren at the Ithaca Waldorf School (20 Nelson Road, off Route 96B) know handwork down to their socks, which they knit for themselves in fifth grade. “Working with your hands is such a wonderful thing,” said school administrator—in a different school she would be called the principal—Erin Fitzgerald, who also teaches movement and games. “It’s a way to develop a kind of intelligence.

You can problemsolve when you work with your hands. It’s not a short process, you can’t just Google it. It’s really an act of discovery, and I think that’s an important part of education.”

Once Elves Faire at Waldorf School a year, the (Photo provided) children and teachers at the Ithaca Waldorf School host a highly anticipated event called the “Elves Faire,” offering school students and children from the entire community an opportunity to craft presents hands-on, as well as purchasing gifts from vendors at the school for the day. Fitzgerald described it as a sort of mini-introduction to Waldorf education, but to the children who come, teachers say, it’s simply fun. This year’s Elves Fair is 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 22, at the school.

“It’s probably called the Elves Faire because it’s non-denominational, and elves can make anything for anybody,” explained handwork teacher Julia Gray. “The whole place smells good, with scents of pine and beeswax; one of the crafts is dipping your own candle. People can also dye a silk scarf or handkerchief.” There is a charge for materials. Music will be playing—live, because all the children play musical instruments, she said. The children are also making crafts for sale and baking.

Waldorf education, based on the research and teaching of Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, is a holistic approach advocating the presentation of age-appropriate activities and learning experiences to children. Much of this happens through story, play, and the integration of disciplines. Handwork is an important part of the curriculum—from modeling with fragrant, hand-warmed

beeswax to building, to working with wool and sewing. For example, the youngest children might play with wool, visit sheep on a farm, and watch them get sheared.

Older children craft their own knitting needles from wood, sanding and polishing so they’ll have good tools when they learn to knit in first grade.

“Your hands are learning machines,” Fitzgerald said. “Intellectually, there’s definitely math and learning involved. It looks like it might just be good for eyehand coordination, but their whole being is interested in this activity. You’re going to be using your imagination. What is this knitting I’m going to create? What

is it going to be? Tapping on a computer keyboard is not the same.”

In fact, there are no computers in use in the Waldorf classroom. “The whole idea of screen time is not looked upon as something children need,” said Gray. “If children are constantly looking at devices, they’re not interacting with other human beings. [Not having computers] makes children shake another person’s hand and look them in the eye and carry on an actual conversation. That itself can be a missing art form!”

Gray, who herself specializes in the fiber arts professionally as well as in her teaching, said she’s found involving

children in all aspects of the process adds another dimension to their involvement with handwork. “I try hard to get local wool, take pictures of the sheep because it’s important that they know where things come from. We dye from the colors in the back yard, mostly goldenrod and black walnut, sometimes with madder. It’s more special than yarn they’ve gotten from a store, it’s worthy of their attention.” As a result, she’s seen children become more able to concentrate and finish their projects.

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offered yet more verification that the hen the final whistle blew Football Gods do indeed have a very last season, the Cornell men’s strange sense of humor. basketball team knew they The Bombers went in at 7-2, playoff had to put the frustrating year behind spot already in the bag, and they rolled them and believe that they could reinvent out to a 14-0 lead. Cortland kept chipping themselves for this season, and while two games do not tell a complete story, it is fair away, and when Ithaca connected on a field goal with 2:32 left, Bomber fans to say, so far, so good. thought that one defensive stop would Nobody is claiming that Cornell return the Jug to South Hill for the first would have been a powerhouse last time since 2009. season had the team not been deprived When Cortland drove the ball down of the services of Shonn Miller and Galal the field, they looked Cancer, but there is no more like one of the doubt those two guys solid Red Dragon teams would have made a big of the past, not like the difference. Both players 4-5 team they were this missed the entire 2013year. When the kicker 2014 season, and both took his place and the came back to help the holder was not even Big Red serve notice on the field, and the that last year was a clocked ticked down, fluke. it started to look like a Miller had comedy routine. When been the Ivy League the center snapped the Rookie of the Year as ball before the tardy a freshman, followed holder was ready, and that season up with it bounced off his leg, a First Team All-Ivy I thought, Finally … a performance as a break goes Ithaca’s way sophomore, and was for once! When the among the Ancient holder picked up the Eight’s dominant ball and took off, rolling players before missing to his left, I thought, He last season due to Galal Cancer (IC Photographic Services) regained control with shoulder surgery. his knee on the ground!

Galal Cancer also Play over! Game over! missed last season, Apparently not … The scrambling holder but both players contributed significantly lobbed a duck to an uncovered receiver, to the Big Red’s stifling 68-60 win over who took it into the end zone. Cortland’s George Mason on Friday, and the team’s drive for five was sealed, and the Bombers solid performance in a loss to Loyola on stood, kneeled and lay prone in disbelief.

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The Bombers will travel to Hobart The win over George Mason was a (10-0) in the first round of the NCAA great way to start the season for Head Division III Football Championship Coach Bill Courtney, as he spent eight on Saturday. Ithaca qualified for the seasons as an assistant there. His team tournament as champions of the Empire 8, put forward a very solid defensive and Hobart earned automatic qualification effort, holding the Patriots to 31 percent as champion of the Liberty League. The shooting. Miller scored 21 points, pulled winner of Saturday’s game will play the down 13 rebounds and slapped away two winner of the other first-round game shots in the win, while Cancer added 7 between Johns Hopkins and Rowan (being points and three boards. played on Saturday at Johns Hopkins) This weekend the “New and in the next-round, on Saturday, Nov. 29.

Improved” Big Red heads to South Ithaca is making its 19th appearance in the Carolina for the Charleston Classic.

• • • Division III tournament and has a 28-15 Over the past several years, I record, including national championships have been—like many football fans— in 1979, 1988 and 1991. Ithaca ranks dumbfounded by the craziness that has fifth in NCAA Tournament appearances, defined the last few moments of the with 19, and fifth in NCAA Tournament Cortaca Jug games. Five times in the last victories, with 28. While Ithaca and six years, the Jug game has been decided Hobart have never met in the NCAA by six points or fewer, and Saturday’s Tournament, the teams have played game—won on the final play by Cortland against each other 27 times, with Ithaca on a broken play off a field goal attempt— prevailing in 25 of those games. •

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he City of Ithaca began to take parking seriously in 2013 when it created the position of Director of Parking and hired Frank Nagy to fill it.

Since the parking regulations have changed, their enforcement has tightened, parking technology has been updated, and revenue to the city from parking has increased.

There are four parking garages in Ithaca. In 2013 their gross income was $1,077,501.94. Their projected income for 2014 is $1,349,769.12. According to Nagy, this number is based on a linear projection using the numbers that have come in so far this year and compared to last year.

The parking director has told the city government that it can expect to take in $1,366,245,15 in 2015. He has based this expectation on three criteria: the automation of the garages, increased numbers of customers who are paying (as opposed to getting around the regulations and parking for free), and an increase in tourism that is predicted by the Convention and Visitors Bureau.

In 2013 people Frank Nagy pumped $721,260 in change into on-street meters in the city, and in 2104 Nagy predicts that they will find enough coins to make it add up to $729,438. In the 2015 city budget, however, on-street meters are expected to collect $906,000. This large increase will be due to the installation of automated pay stations where people will be able to pay with coins, bills, and credit cards.

The revenue derived from the collection of fines levied when car owners let their meters expire (or ignore them) is actually greater than what was is collected from the meters themselves. In 2013 it was $722,487. In 2014 it is projected to be $735,482, and in 2015 Nagy has budgeted this to be more than $800,000.

“We are going to be more consistent about ticketing and collecting the fines,” he said, “and we have started to boot people.”

Nagy introduced the “Denver boot” to Ithaca in October 2013. This heavy metal device is clamped on to one of your drive wheels after you receive five tickets and do not pay the fines.

Finally, the city owns two open lots that also earn parking revenue. The “Green Street lot” is under the parking garage of the same name. It collected $130,000 in 2013 and will take in $166,000 in 2014. Nagy said it would earn $169,000 for the city in 2015.

Total revenues for all paid parking in the city were $2,698,000 in 2013, $3,017,00 in 2014, and are predicted to be $3,280,506.

Nagy emphasized that these were gross figures and he will reduce expenses.

His goal is to reach $4 million with expenses of $2 million. At present

expenses are $3.5 million. That is, public parking costs the city money rather than earning money for it. “We need to manage the workforce better,” Nagy said, “and introduce automation.” Initial introduction of automation has not led to workforce reduction; workers have been put to work at other tasks.

Bids will be received by Thursday, Nov. 20 for 10 new pay stations, Nagy said. It will take 30 days to select a vendor and work out the contract, and the machines are expected to be delivered shortly after Jan. 1, 2015.

Nagy hopes to have them installed by the end of spring 2015.

“It will take a few years—maybe five to seven—to replace all the meters,” said the parking director. “There are 900 of them.” • – Bill Chaisson

midline with your needles is a precursor to tracking with your eyes, like starting from the left side of the page going across to the right. Developmentally, you need to be integrating the right and left sides and you have to have that in place for successful reading. We don’t use knitting for dyslexia but it has been proven to help with sequencing and different reading issues.”

“And they encourage each other, you don’t see pettiness,” Gray adds. “It crosses over into their lives as opposed to just knowing how to knit.”

For more information on the Elves Fair and Ithaca Waldorf education, visit Ithacawaldorf.org or call (607) 256-2020. •

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“The fact that these children can do this type of work – it’s very gratifying to see their confidence,” she said.

Many at the school point to academic studies affirming the value of handwork like knitting to people of all ages. “The body slows down, the breathing slows down,” Gray says. “They can concentrate without distraction, they know there are things they can provide for themselves. It makes them solve problems creatively, and it’s not only problem solving, it’s taking what they’ve begun all the way to the end.”

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And the idea was to have local, accomplished Ithaca authors read by actors from the Greater Ithaca Area. There will be five actors reading from the work of five authors.

• • • I met with one of the press contacts for ICOA, the Ithaca-based writer Edward Hower, at Stella’s Café in Collegetown on the edge of the Cornell campus.

The managing editor of the Ithaca Times had given me copies of Hower’s latest books, the novel Slick and a collection of personal essays and travel writing called What Can You Do. Hower is an engaging writer. One can open What Can You Do at random and be riveted.

Hower also wrote a poignant article for the Ithaca Times (Aug. 22, 2012) on Sonali Samarasinghe (pronounced sah-mah-rah-SINgay), the current writer sponsored by ICOA. (If you go to ithaca.com and enter Hower’s name, you can find it.)

Hower told me a bit about ICOA: “This is an international organization. There are three cities in the States now—Ithaca, Pittsburgh, and Las Vegas.

There are a lot of them in Europe. Salman Rushdie was one of the people who founded it.

“We take in writers who, if they didn’t get out of the country where they lived, would be in real danger,” Hower said. “The husband of our current writer, Sonali, was murdered. He was a journalist.

And she was next. Essentially, she had to leave instantly.

“She went to Europe first … and then New York City … and now she’s teaching in Ithaca.”

Speaking about the Ithaca Out Loud event, Hower said: “We do something every year to meet with the public. This year it’s not going to be political. It’s just to let people know we exist and to entertain people.

“And we are an arts organization. So we are presenting the work of five prominent local writers. Lamar Herrin has just published a novel about fracking. Alison Lurie has just published a book about architecture. Eleanor Henderson’s novel was one of the ten best of the year according

ne of the seemingly endless amazing things about Ithaca is that it is a city of refuge. Ithaca is part of an international network of cities of refuge.

Here in Ithaca there exists a community organization called “Ithaca City of Asylum” (ICOA) that is “dedicated to providing sanctuary to writers whose works are suppressed, whose lives are threatened, whose cultures are vanishing, or whose languages are endangered.”

They’ve been at this since 2001 and so far have welcomed, housed and cared for five writers: the Chinese poet and essayist Yi Ping in 2001; the Iranian playwright and novelist Reza Daneshvar in 2004; the Swaziland poet and memoirist Sarah Mkhonza in 2006; the Georgian poet and playwright Irakli Kakabadze in 2008; and the current writer in residence, the attorney, journalist and human rights activist Sonali Samarasinghe from Sri Lanka.s ICOA works in partnership with Cornell University, Ithaca College and Wells College.

According to their info: “ICOA’s resident writers are assisted in meeting their daily expenses while in Ithaca, including housing, furnishings, transportation, translator’s fees, and performing and publication of new work” and “ICOA’s first four resident writers (from 2001 through 2011) were hosted by Cornell University. Our present writer is being supported for two years (from 2012 through 2014) by Ithaca College, which is providing a teaching stipend and full employee benefits.”

For the last eleven years, Ithaca City of Asylum has hosted an annual event to generate publicity for the organization. This year they are presenting “Ithaca Out Loud: Ithaca Actors Read Ithaca Authors.”

They’ve done heavier, more political events in the past, but this one is just for fun. The inspiration was the wonderful public radio program Selected Shorts, where extraordinary actors read extraordinary short stories. (If you love short fiction, and you are not familiar with the show, I couldn’t recommend it highly enough.

Here in Ithaca it is on WSKG 90.9 on Sundays at 7 p.m.)

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Ithaca Out Loud participants include (from top) Eleanor Henderson, Holly Adams, Lamar Herrin, Masa Gibson, Richard Furnas and David Romm. Pictured far right is City Asylum Secretary Kate Klein. (Photos by Tim Gera)

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takes some effort to see beyond the uniform presentation.)

Mains’ own distinctive work is among the many highlights of this presentation. His color monotypes are informed by his background in graphic design and by a habit of photography.

They combine hard-edged shapes with painterly passages and portray a world of structures and disasters.

Gas Rig Fire shows a row of tiny black towers crowding the distant horizon of a landscape in pale greengrays. A cartoonish dark red flame curls around one. Frack Tank Spill covers related territory while the boldly colored

punch. Tanaka’s work spans painting, drawing, sculpture and installation.

His monotypes here (numbered 14, 15, and 16) combine bold—and faded—red areas with graphite shapes and striking use of the white of the paper. Simple but irregular shapes cavort in landscape-like settings.

I don’t usually quote artist’s 59 artists, 135 mini prints at ink shop statements but Tanaka’s (andatanaka. com/About-Anda-Tanaka) is compelling:

By Ar thur W hit m an “Environment affects the maker. For some, this is evidenced by materials here is something undeniably having a solo show at the Ink Shop this used, for others, hues chosen. For me, powerful and distinctive in coming April. the element of my environment that the well-wrought tiny image.

“International” was arranged informs my art-making most is anxiety.”

Particularly with work Few pieces make that contains a profusion interesting use of color and of detail, small can be all of the work described beautiful. below is black-and-white The miniature format unless otherwise mentioned. seems particularly well Grant Silverstein of suited for the artistic Mansfield, Penn. achieves print. Up currently (and an Old Master-like wealth through January) at the of linear detail in his finely Ink Shop Printmaking drawn etchings. Drying Center, the “18th Mini Workboots recalls Van Gogh’s Print International treatment of a similar Exhibition” features a subject. Mouse, Trapped remarkable 135 works by displays his affinity for 59 artists—about a third animals and machinery. of them from outside this Self-Composure offers an country. Nothing is larger unsentimental look at a than four by four inches. woman putting herself Dating back to 1985, together. the biannual exhibition A similar approach to was founded by Bev etching can be seen in the McLean. The Ink Shop work of Christopher Shore was a host for the 16th of South Salem, N.Y. Bison is and 17th and is now about half a stamp, divided The 18th Mini Print International Exhibit at the Ink Shop features work from 59 artists, including Jenny Pope (top right) and Craig Mains (bottom right). organizing the traveling vertically, in size. Seen in (Photos by Tim Gera) shows. profile, the creature’s head This one was juried is a dense interweave of

by Laurie Snyder, a scribbles, curls, and crossCornell alumna. She recently retired and hung by Ink Shop member Craig Oil Can Fire is a not-so-still life. hatchings. Ibis is a long-beaked bird, from her 20-year teaching career at the Mains. The pieces have been grouped in The geometric abstractions more abstract but just as playful.

Maryland Institute College of Art and bunches, several prints framed or matted of Minneapolis-based artist Anda Several artists are showing returned to Ithaca. Snyder, who works together. (I’ve been told in the past not Tanaka have a similarly crisp graphic mezzotints and using the medium’s rich in a prodigious range of media, will be to complain about this but it admittedly tonal range to expert effect.

The most striking of these is In Dark Geometry by Donald Furst of Wilmington, N.C. The piece is a concatenation of shadowy, overlapping planes—light and dark, doorway and hallway folding in on each other in a poignant evocation of solitude.

In a very different spirit are the woodcuts of Takanori Iwase of Ebetsu, Japan. Flow (1), Flow (2) and River Side deploy an impressively fluid technique— lines swell and taper to portray a world of turbulent water, rocks, branches, and birds. The printed areas are irregular and rounded, adding to the sense of these as microcosms of nature.

The show includes work in most of the major mediums used by contemporary print artists—digital and photo-based prints included.

“Mini Print International” is not meant to be a curatorial statement or a staged experience. It is, however, a generous sampling of the varieties of printmaking today and it rewards the thinking eye more than amply. • art

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20) concludes a year Trumansburg of ambitious exhibits artist Barbara Page at the newly expanded inaugurated the new Corners Gallery. It Corners with a solo features mostly recent show early this spring. work by 12 artists from Her acrylic on wood around Ithaca and outcollage paintings here— of-state. The invitational from her ongoing is owner-director Ariel “Micromaps” series— Bullion Ecklund’s first incorporate sewing group show in the new patterns, pushpins, and Corners. areas of cleanly painted Melissa Zarem’s bold color. A-Line to abstractions on paper the D Train includes a combine drawing and vintage NYC subway painting. Her three map. pieces here are deeply Ruth Sproul is compelling. The largest, showing four triptychLow Growing Fruit, is like acrylic abstractions characteristic: grainy on hardboard. (Like loops in graphite and Page’s panels, they hang crayon, spots and in a 4x4 grid). Done on splashes of black paper mounted to the Sign on the Dotted Line, by Mina Resnick. and aquatic blue ink, board, Alee Alee in Free (Photo via Corners Gallery) patches of pale greenish and Ready or Not Here gouache—pulled I Come incorporate together like a force of feathery sweeps of nature. acidic color and grainy crayon.

Recent Zarem collaborator and former Victoria Romanoff is well known Ithacan Elise Nicol had a memorable locally for her building restoration work. show of her experimental photography at Her visual art has something of the Corners last year. Her drawings and prints bricoleur’s sensibility as well. A pencil have a similar sensibility: akin to Klee’s drawing—from 1962—Theatrical Setting description of his own work as “abstract for a Battle shows a warring horde in a style with memories.” that combines Cubist-influenced faceting Nicol’s two mixed-media works on with a scribbled turbulence. A 2004 “paper paper here combine acrylic, colored pencil, mosaic,” Green Entity Looking for a Quick graphite, and ink with collaged scraps: Exit looks back as well—the overlapping gold-colored acrylic in It’s Tomorrow in shapes and industrial-looking sprayed Tokyo and abstract photography in Trouble colors recalling mid-century color field Like This Won’t Just Go Away. Dominated abstraction. by intricate dottings—coalescing into lines The work of Ithaca College professor and fields—these mainly black-and-white Mina Resnick recalls the Pop Art of the images evoke cosmologies.

1960s and the high postmodernism of the Recently retired Bucknell University 1980s: a collision of styles and motifs often professor Rosalyn Richards has also shown taken from popular culture. locally. A winter 2012-2013 show at the Ink Rob Licht, a prominent local sculptor, Shop provided a memorable introduction uses photography as a way of extending to her richest work: intricate etchings his concern with place. Two Tide Line that combine scientific, technical, and digital photos record the high and low of cosmological imagery like a sci-fi da Vinci.

St. Mary’s Bay in Nova Scotia—the rocks, If these prints have a novelistic scope, the water, and a 250-foot rope marking the Richards’ collage Read Between the Lines high tide line. and her hand-drawn Border Lines here are “Line Language” is impressive in its like didactic technical essays—or surrealist aims but not fully satisfying. Several of the parodies of such. Dark ink on yellowed artists could have been represented with paper, both use vintage found imagery: better—often more characteristic—work. repair manuals and topographical maps All would have benefited from having more respectively. of their art up. •

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L.A. Piano Quartet plays Barnes Hall on Sunday. (photo provided) The Los Angeles Quartet made its debut at The Music Center of composition at Washington University in Los Angeles in 1977, and since that in St. Louis. This work, a commission of the time has established itself as a leading Fromm Foundation and written for the Los American piano quartet. The ensemble has Angeles Piano Quartet, which played the performed extensively in the United States world premiere last month in Louisville. and Europe and promotes the composition “It’s a break-through piece for him,” Bjerken and performance of new works for piano says, “the more you dig, the more you find.” quartet. And we know these musicians.

The first of three movements called Assisi Bjerken, in the quartet since 1998, not is inspired by the composer’s impressions only organizes faculty concerts in Cornell’s of that Italian city and the teachings of St. music department, he is co-director with Francis. The opening has a long twelve-tone his wife, Miri Yampolsky, also an acclaimed melody played by the different stringed pianist and Cornell faculty member, of our instruments and later in bell-like chords on fabulous annual international chamber the piano. The second movement marked music festival Mayfest.

Meccanico has been influenced by the Murdock, a member of the quartet for recent troubling events in Ferguson, just the past 20 years, teaches at the University outside St. Louis, while the final movement, of Maryland in Towson and played in the Precisamente, is an arrangement of a 2012 Mayfest. Kopelman, trained at the previous composition that now has found Moscow Conservatory of Music, has been its place in this quartet. teaching at Eastman since 2002 and joined The concert closes with the earliest the quartet two years ago, while Doane, a piano quartet of Brahms (Opus 25), in G member since 2007, has been on the faculty minor and composed in 1861. Bjerken at Eastman for the past 26 years. Both tells me, “It’s a great pleasure for us to performed brilliantly in the Mayfests of play it.” The last movement is a Rondo 2010 and 2014. And Doane was soloist this alla Zingarese, meaning “gypsy music.” past September with the Cayuga Chamber Kopelman, a native of western Ukraine who Orchestra in a magnificent rendition of the grew up speaking Hungarian, knew this Elgar cello concerto. People are still talking music well when he was young. Anyone about it. who heard him performing Brahms The opening work is Beethoven’s Piano “Hungarian Dances” with Yampolsky last Quartet No. 3 in C major (WoO 36). This May will understand what a treat this can is early Beethoven indeed. Though already be. working as an organist, he was not yet As Bjerken and I were saying good15 years old at the time of composition. bye, he said, “Oh, I have a concert on Bjerken describes this quartet as “a little bit Thursday in Barnes, with X.” This means of Haydn, a little bit of Mozart,” but already Nov. 20, at 8 p.m., and “X” is violinist with Beethoven’s characteristic suddenly Xiao-Dong Wong, artistic director of changing dynamics. The piece is very rarely Concertante. The “enormous program” is played, but “fun to hear.” in preparation for a recording and includes Christopher Stark’s Piano Quartet dates Stucky’s violin sonata (they played the East from 2014. The composer, who has already Coast premiere at Mayfest 2014), Fauré’s won several important awards, recently Sonata No. 1 in A major, and Richard completed his doctorate at Cornell where Strauss’s Sonata in E-flat (Opus 18). There’s he studied with Roberto Sierra and Steven never a dull moment with Xak Bjerken. • Stucky. He is currently assistant professor

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Don Bazley and his band The Fly Rods are one of 11 area acts to play The Dock Saturday, Nov. 29.

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n what has become an annual tradition, 11 area artists and bands will play a post-Thanksgiving music benefit at the Dock on Saturday, Nov. 29. Coinciding with the birthday of Don Bazley, a longtime Ithaca resident and fervent local music fan, this year’s event will feature local acts covering Neil Young.

Donations will gain admission into the 8 p.m. show, and all proceeds will go to the Cayuga Nature Center Summer Camp Scholarship Fund.

“The spirit is more about people getting a chance to be around each other after the holiday and less about putting together the best bill of bands,” Bazley said by phone. “It is just a big party, and I’m happy to host it.”

Past incarnations of the event have paid tribute to everyone from Johnny Cash to Black Sabbath, from The Velvet Underground to Creedence Clearwater Revival, and even to loosely organized themes such as “1979” and “New York City.”

But for this year, Bazley’s 50th birthday, the host decided to return to Neil Young, a prolific songwriter and a shape-shifting recording artist. “When I first moved here from the Albany area, the first Thanksgiving show I put together was in honor of Neil Young. That was probably eleven, or maybe twelve years ago.”

Bazley continued: “And the way I felt afterwards was that we barely scratched the surface, and we barely dipped into his songbook. So I promised myself we would wait at least ten years. And I’m sure it has been.”

Saturday night’s show has a few recognizable players: Bazley’s own The Fly Rods, the dark and seductive Insect Brigade (fronted by Steve Gollnick, the ex-front man of Hubcap), and Sonic Rust, a Neil Young cover band fronted by Ed

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But according to Bazley, most of the bands were put together especially for the occasion. “In late summer I put the word out to friends,” he said, “and we take the comers.” This time around, puns abound: the finest example perhaps the aptly titled Kneeling Youngsters. “Dan Aloi is Drop Shadows; Jesus Burrito is with Jason Zorn; Glacial Erotics are friends of mine that live in T-burg.”

“I love seeing what everybody comes up with,” said Bazley. “It’s great to hear their choices and see how they stretch themselves out. I am nothing more than the sum of my influences, and taking the time to learn how someone else constructs a song always sneaks into my own songwriting.”

This year the show returns to the former space that was Castaways. Last year Bazley hosted a Ramones tribute at the Haunt, and two years ago it was Led Zeppelin at Lot 10. “It has always been busy. I don’t know precisely how many people were in town but it worked” Bazley said. “Lot 10 was easy to pack.”

“The Fly Rods are doing some mellower stuff off of Harvest Moon. Every year it forces you to listen to that style of music. This year we had to mellow out, and we had never done that before. It is great to take bands to a new place.”

At the end of the day, the organizer looks most forward to the crowd. “The truth is that the event has really become more of a celebration than a concert,” Bazley said. “It’s a chance for folks to reconnect if they’re visiting town for the holidays, and for others to come together after Thanksgiving for a good cause.”

He added: “This guy would be the only person I would ever do again. And this might be the last year that I do it!” •

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Dazzling Zin from Graziano Northside Staff Tasters: Dave Pohl, ed., Dana Malley, Jason Wentworth, Mark Britten, Robert Bradley, Jay Reed, and Joe Downs Prior to the advent of “White Zinfandel” in the 1970s, California’s Zinfandel grape was typically made into a sturdy, fruit-dominated red wine both on its own or blended with grapes such as Carignan, Grenache, and Mourvedre. It was largely associated with California’s Italian-American producers such as Martini, Parducci, Pedroncelli, and Sebastiani, who made Zinfandel wines that graced their own tables as well as those of many a pizzeria.

In the 1960s, new producers such as Ridge Vineyards attempted, with frequent success, to take a more serious approach to “the people’s grape,” looking high and low for old Zinfandel vineyards capable of producing wines of concentration and complexity. Ridge’s pioneering efforts ultimately laid the groundwork for the plethora of serious Zinfandel producers now making highly regarded wines costing $30 and up.

In a continuing effort to find good value wines, the staff at Northside Wine & Spirits recently blind tasted 21 California red Zinfandels priced under $30 per bottle. The tasting highlighted a recent trend in Zinfandel production, a tendency to

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The lineup contained a few of these “alcohol bombs,” but there were also plenty of well-balanced, full-flavored wines that showed off Zin’s appealingly “brambly” fruit. The great American chef Thomas Keller has recently stated that Zinfandel is his favorite wine variety, and the best wines of this tasting demonstrated the allure.

The staff ’s top pick of the tasting was the Graziano 2011 Mendocino County Zinfandel ($16 per bottle). Ripe, bright, and bursting with exuberant red fruit character, the Graziano is flat out delicious. Its soft tannins give it a rich mouth feel that is balanced by enjoyably mouthwatering acidity.

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release in January, and I’ve been waiting ever since, clicking my Bat-heels in anticipation.

The Blu-ray set is a thing of beauty.

Like Batman’s ubiquitous utility belt, it comes loaded with everything a ravenous Bat-fan could want: all three seasons

hat a great week: since Thursday, I have been introducing all the IIFFF retrospective films at Cornell. I treated myself to screenings of Vincent Price in Witchfinder General, which I had never seen on the big screen, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which I had never seen (now I understand why it was such an influence on Ridley Scott’s Alien), and a second look at Jim Mickle’s outstanding, The ‘60s-era Batman television series was recently released on DVD. always shifting Cold In July, one of the remastered in HD—if you’re used to the year’s best thrillers; I was only going to faded prints you see on IFC and Nick at stay for the first reel, but I couldn’t move, Nite, these transfers look beautiful. Like folks. It’s that good.

Warner Brother’s remastered Looney I also introduced Mario Bava’s Black Tunes sets, the colors pop just like they Sunday, Ed Hardy’s The Wicker Man, Bela did when first broadcast. The set also Lugosi in White Zombie, Jorge Michel includes an Adam West scrapbook, an Grau’s quirky Mexican cannibal family episode guide, a pack of trading cards, a drama Somos Lo que Hay and William Hot Wheels Batmobile, and a disc of newly Friedkin’s The Exorcist. (If you know produced special features. my history with this one, you won’t be I’ll admit that when it comes to surprised that I introduced the film and special features, I was hoping for some then fled.) episode commentaries; I’m only twoAnd when I wasn’t at Cornell thirds through the first season, and I Cinema or sleeping this week, I was home haven’t come across any, yet. But that’s watching the newly released complete understandable, given that almost all of series run of the 1966-’68 Batman the show’s creators, crew and guest cast television series. All in all, it’s a wonder I are no longer alive. There’s a nice profile saw light or people this week. of Adam West, a featurette about Batman I never thought this box set would ever happen, not after decades of frenzied, collectors and a “Dinner For Five”-style round table with West, Kevin Smith, Ralph frustrated speculation. Batman has been Garmin, DC publisher Jim Lee, and actor in syndication since 1968, but you had Phil Morris. to search for it as it jumped from Hub Watching the series in sequence via to Nick to IFC. When I worked retail these great new transfers has taken me at Sam Goody at the beginning of the right back to our family TV room on DVD boom, customers were always Slaterville Road, when WPIX-NYC used asking about Jaws, Braveheart … and to play “Batman” every weekday. And Batman. The series was a co-production considering we had a black-and-white set between three different companies, and till I was 12 years old, it just occurred to that’s before Warner Brothers bought DC Comics and rights to the character. There’s me that the show’s mod colors and Dutch angles feel even more special, because I no way Warner Brothers and Fox will ever didn’t grow up with them. But now I see come to an agreement on this. Too many the Batman logo “in color” against a hot contracts, too many companies and too pink background, and all the colors feel many cooks—there’s not a Bat-chance new. • Batman will ever get to home video. And then Conan O’Brien Tweeted about the

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to the New York Times. We have a couple of good poets.

“They’re just going to stand up and say hello … and then the actors will do a dramatic reading,” Hower continued. “And we’ve got some prominent, popular, local actors who have appeared in productions in the upstate New York area. They’re very lively, young folks. There’s a good mix of ages and subject matter … poetry and prose.

There should be something for everybody.

“And afterwards, there will be time for the audience to meet the writers and actors, and we’ll have something to eat, and talk about writing and human rights and whatever.

“It’s going to be an arts event – a celebration of writing and acting. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun…

“And we’re going to stress that it should be fun, it should be creative, it should be a good time for all…”

• • • Let’s sketch through them. Here’s the pertinent info that I edited down from their bio sheets: Holly Adams will read One Hundred Dead Pilgrims by Eleanor Henderson.

“Eleanor Henderson is the author of the novel Ten Thousand Saints, which was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2011 by the New York Times. She is the co-editor of Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best Women Writers. ... An assistant professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College, she lives in Ithaca, with her husband and two sons.”

“Holly Adams, a member of SAG [Screen Actors Guild], graduated from the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre and holds a masters degree in theatre, education and social change. Her work as a performer includes stage, film and audio-book narration.

Favorites include Love, Loss & What I Wore, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth.”

David Romm will read from Romancing Spain by Lamar Herrin.

“Lamar Herrin, professor emeritus of creative writing and contemporary literature at Cornell University, is the author of seven books, most recently the novel Fractures (2013). His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Harpers and the Paris Review. He divides his time between Ithaca and Valencia, Spain.”

David Romm was a member of a troupe of players who created the Hanger Theatre in Ithaca more than forty years ago. ... Most recently he appeared in the Homecoming Players’ The Book of Liz. Phil Hart will read The Black Swans by Alison Lurie.

“Alison Lurie is the author of ten novels, including Foreign Affairs (which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985), The Truth About Lorin Jones (1989) and Truth and Consequences (2005). She has also published Women and Ghosts, a collection of supernatural stories, two collections of essays on children’s literature, Don’t Tell the Grownups and Boys and Girls Forever, and three books of traditional folktales for children. Her most recent work, The Language of Houses, is a study of the social psychology of architecture.”

“Philip Hart is an aspiring actor and voice artist residing in Syracuse. Currently a student at the Actors Workshop of Ithaca, he hopes to pursue acting as a full-time endeavor.”

Dick Furnas will read the poetry of Caroline Manring.

“Caroline Manring teaches in the English Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she is also a poetry editor for the Seneca Review. Her chapbook No Postman was published in 2009 by Split Oak Press, and her first full-length collection of poems, Manual for Extinction, won the 2012 National Poetry Review Book Contest. Her work has appeared in many literary magazines. She and her husband live in Ithaca, where she volunteers as a bird walk guide at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and plays fiddle in a

family band.”

“Dick Furnas, a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Cornell, is proprietor of a software business. His theatrical credits include several ensemble productions of the Actors Workshop of Ithaca Theatre Company. He has appeared in dozens of Ithaca College Student Films...”

Masa Gibson will read Maintenance Man

by Jacob White.

“Jacob White is the author of the story collection Being Dead in South Carolina.

His fiction has appeared in many journals, including the Sewanee Review, from which he received the Andrew Lytle Prize in Fiction.

His writing has received several honorable mentions in The Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories anthologies. He held the Donald Barthelme Memorial Fellowship

in Fiction at the University of Houston, where he received a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing, and now teaches writing at Ithaca College.”

“Masa Gibson is a local actor, filmmaker and voice teacher. ... Since relocating to Ithaca and graduating from the Actor’s Workshop, he has transitioned to acting and performs with Theatre Incognita, the Reader’s Theatre of Ithaca, and the Melodramatics Theatre Company. He also appears in film, television and web series.” • • • • Ithaca Out Loud: Ithaca Actors Read Ithaca Authors will be held at the Borg Warner Community Meeting Room at the Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E. Green St., Ithaca, N.Y. on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m.

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11/21 Friday

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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

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Caribe Jazz Allstars | 6:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Dopapod | 8:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | -

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Steve and Rosie | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Old-time happy hour with Steve Selin, Rosie Newton, and friends.

Iron Horse | 6:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | happy hour Purple Valley | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Tarps | 6:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Djug Django Quartet | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Live Jazz Maple Wood Jazz Team | 7:00 PM- | Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 State Route

Contra Dance with Tempest and Margaret Mathews | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Beginners’ workshop at 7:30, dance from 8:00 to 11:00.

Quincy Mumford and the Reason Why | 8:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Ire Clad / Age of Shadows | 9:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Paul Kempkes ‘Dr. K’ | 10:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Solo Jazz-Pop with Attitude Mosaic Foundation | 10:00 PM- | Chapter House Brew Pub, 400 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | -

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O’Shanigans | 12:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | New England & World Dance Music Ithaca Folk Song Swap | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM | Crow’s Nest Cafe in Autumn Leaves, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Traditional ballads, chanteys, & songs, as well as contemporary songs with traditional roots. Bring your acoustic instrument or sing a capella. We’ll take turns going around the circle to lead or request a song.

Maplewood Jazz Team | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Annie and the Hedonists | 5:30 PM-8:00 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Road, Ithaca | An eclectic mix of acoustic blues, vintage jazz and swing, and folk roots Americana.

Starry Mountain Sweetheart Band CD Release & J. Robert Lennon Book Release | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | A five-piece guitar rock band from Ithaca, TSMSB is half sentimental, half ironic, and sings songs about love or failure or both at once. They are also clean and punctual. Buffalo Street Books will be onsite with books, too.

Bound for Glory: Ernest Troost | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Bound for Glory, Cafe at Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca | Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Jerry Tanner and Lisa Gould of Technicolor Trailer Park

11/24 Monday

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

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

11/25 Tuesday

Tuesday Bluesday | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Pete Panek and The Blue Cats and Blues Station are two regular hosts Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks and More, 708 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Traditional Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Chapter House Brew Pub, 400 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Open Mic | 9:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca |

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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | concerts

11/19 Wednesday

Midday Music for Organ: Jonathan Schakel | 12:30 PM- | Chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | presents Buxtehude and Bach in the Italian Mode.

Guest ensemble: Horszowski Trio | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Jesse Mills, violin; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Rieko Aizawa, piano. Funded in part by a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts.

Opera Workshop Performance | 8:15 PM- | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Brian DeMaris, director

11/20 Thursday

Xak Bjerken | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Xak Bjerken, piano, with guest violinist Xiao-Dong Wang. Features Faura’s Sonata No. 1 in A Major, op. 13, Steven Stucky’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, and Richard Strauss’s Sonata in E-flat, op. 18.

Trombone Troupe | 8:15 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Harold Reynolds, Jeff Grey,

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CU Wind Symphony | 8:00 PM- | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | James Spinazzola, conductor. Join the Wind Symphony for a concert featuring the music of guest composer David Maslanka. Cornell cellist John HainesEitzen will be on hand for Remember Me, for cello and chamber ensemble, and the program will conclude with Maslanka’s powerful Fourth Symphony.

11/22 Saturday

Ithaca Community Orchestra | 4:00 PM- | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | The Ithaca Community Orchestra, with Music Director Dr. James Mick and assistant conductor Travis Carpenter, will present an afternoon of music featuring pieces

by Jean Sibelius, Heitor Villa-Lobos, W. A. Mozart, George Gershwin, and Antona­n Dvorak. Guest artist Elizabeth Shuhan will join the ICO as the soloist in Mozart’s Flute Concerto in G. The public is invited to attend a reception held immediately after the concert.

Latin Jazz with Jorge Cuevas and the Caribe Jazz All Stars | 7:00 PM- | Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Road (Rt. 34B), Lansing | Cornell University Jazz Combos Concert | 7:30 PM- | Carriage House Cafe Hayloft, 305 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | Paul Merrill, director. Features the Appel, Bissett, Gussman, and Trommer Jazz Combos Ingrid Michaelson | 8:00 PM- | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | -

11/23 Sunday

Guest ensemble: Los Angeles Piano Quartet | 2:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Pianist Xak Bjerken, violinist Mikhail Kopelman, violist Katherine Murdock, and cellist Steven Doane present Beethoven’s early Piano Quartet in C Major, WoO 36/3, Brahms’s G-Minor Piano Quartet, op. 25, and a new work

by Christopher Stark, commissioned by the Fromm Foundation.

Sunday Music Series: Molto Bene! | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Auburn Public Theater, 108 Genesee St, Auburn | Cornell Chamber Singers | 4:00 PM| Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | John Rowehl, conductor; William Cowdery, piano. Features Winter Sun: A Choral Symphony in C by Canadian composer John Burge and works by Minnesota composer Carol Barnett, including An American Thanksgiving Guest Artist Residency: Americana Project | 7:00 PM- | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Jennifer Curtis, composer/violin/mandolin; with Ariana Kim, violin; John Haines-Eitzen, cello

11/24 Monday

Studio recital: piano students of Xak Bjerken | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | -

Film Anime Film Club | 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, 11/19 Wednesday | Ford Edith B Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Ages 13 refreshments provided.

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Centrally Isolated Film Festival | 4:30 PM-, 11/21 Friday; 2:00 PM-, 11/22 Saturday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | This is a student competition including colleges and universities from upstate New York Free Friday Night Film Series: American Graffiti (1973) | 7:30 PM-, 11/21 Friday | Center For Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | cinemapolis Movie descriptions via rottentomatoes.com Birdman | BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. | 119 mins R | Fri: 4:30, 9:30; Sat: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00; Sun: 2:00, 7:00, 9:30; Mon & Tue: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30.

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2014 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, Dear White People is a sly, provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama. | 108 mins R | Fri - Tue: 9:30 PM. Force Majeure (Turist) | A critical favorite and word-of-mouth sensation at this year’s Cannes Festival, where it took the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard, this wickedly funny and precisely observed psychodrama tells the story of a model Swedish family-handsome businessman Tomas, his willowy wife Ebba and their two blond, pre-teen children-on a skiing holiday in the French Alps. | 120 mins R | Fri: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Sat & Sun: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Mon & Tue: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15.

Rosewater | Rosewater follows the Tehran-born Bahari, a broadcast journalist with Canadian citizenship.

In June 2009, Bahari returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who was the prime challenger to president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. | 103 mins R | Fri: 4:50, 7:05; Sat & Sun: 2:40, 4:50, 9:20; Mon & Tue: 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Kaguyahime no monogatari) | Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter (James Caan) and his wife (Mary Steenburgen), a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady (Chloë Grace Moretz). The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her - but ultimately she must confront her fate. | 137 mins PG | Fri: 4:00, 6:50; Sat & Sun: 1:20, 4:00, 6:50; Mon & Tue: 4:00, 6:50 Whiplash | Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory. | 106 mins R | Fri: 4:45, 7:00; Sat: 2:30, 4:45, 9:15; Sun: 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15; Mon & Tue: 4:45, 7:00, 9:15. cornell cinema Breaking the Frame | A poetic documentary portrait of New York artist Carolee Schneemann. A pioneer of performance and body art as well as avant-garde cinema, Schneemann has been breaking the frames of the art world for five decades, in a variety of mediums, challenging assumptions of feminism, gender, sexuality, and identity. | Wed 11/19 7:15 PM. w/ filmmaker Marielle Nitoslawska and performance artist Schneemann in person.

Tracks | The long-awaited adaptation of Robyn Davidson’s 1980 memoir of the same name, the film depicts Davidson’s 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of Australia to the Indian Ocean in 1977. | Thu 11/20 7:00 PM, Q&A with director John Curran via Skype, schedule permitting.

Stage Another Christmas with the Calamari Sisters: Feast of the Seven Fishes | 7:00 PM-, 11/20 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 11/21 Friday; 2:00 PM-, 11/22 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 11/23 Sunday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | It’s been a year since those crazy Italian sisters, Delphine and Carmela, were whisked away from public access cable and ushered into Food Network stardom, but this Christmas Eve they return to WFAT and you’re invited to their holiday mayhem.

Ithaca Out Loud | 7:00 PM-, 11/20 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Celebrating the freedom to read and write in an entertaining program, “Ithaca Out Loud” will showcase the talents of popular local actors reading selections from the works of five nationally recognized local authors.

Ithaca City of Asylum and the Tompkins County Public Library will host the program, which is ICOA’s Voices of Freedom event for 2014.

Over the River and Through the Woods | 7:30 PM-, 11/21 Friday; 7:30 PM-, 11/22 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 11/23 Sunday | Samuel Clemens Performing Arts Center See Clemens Center, Maudeville Hal, Elmira | Nick has just been offered his dream job in Seattle, but there are four problems: Aida, Frank, Emma and Nunzio - his four Italian-American grandparents!

They will go to any length, including a little matchmaking, to keep him from leaving New Jersey. You don’t have to be Italian to fall in love with these meddling grandparents or to laugh till you cry at the joys and annoyances of being part of this family.

Wrecks | 8:00 PM-, 11/21 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 11/22 Saturday; 6:30 PM-, 11/23 Sunday | Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green St., Ithaca | onscreen interview with LaBute following each performance. w/ music by Hank Roberts. Can someone honestly love a person whom they have deceived for thirty years? This is the central question behind Wrecks, Neil LaBute’s foray into the dark side of human nature. Meet Edward Carr:

loving father, successful businessman, grieving widower whose world has been shattered by the death of his beloved JoJo. Through his grief, he picks through his past and pieces together a story of his life, like the wrecked cars he so lovingly restores. In this concise powerhouse of a play, LaBute limns the boundaries of love, exploring the limits of what society will accept versus what the heart will desire.

Broadway In Binghamton presents Sister Act | 3:00 PM-, 11/23 Sunday | Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St, Binghamton | Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 11/26 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 1 | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@yahoo.com.

Ithaca Shakespeare Company: Auditions – Richard II | 6:30 PM-, 11/19 Wednesday, 11/20 Thursday; 2:40 PM-, 11/22 Saturday | Fall Creek Studios, 1201 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | The Ithaca Shakespeare Company will be holding auditions for its February 2015 production of Richard II. Sign up for an audition time at ithacashakespeare.org.

Gig Auditions for The Cats | 9:00 PM-, 11/22 Saturday | Redders (formerly Rascals), 1710 Trumansburg Rd., Ithaca |

Meetings Tompkins County Planning, Energy and Environmental Quality Committee | 12:30 PM-, 11/19 Wednesday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Ithaca City Administration Committee | 6:00 PM-, 11/19 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca | Lansing Town Board | 6:00 PM-, 11/19 Wednesday | Town Of Lansing, 29 Auburn Rd, Lansing | Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 11/19 Wednesday | Buffalo Wild Wings, Rte 13, 410 Elmira Rd (Kohl’s shopping ctr), Ithaca | sam221@peoplepc.com

Community Theater Group | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 11/19 Wednesday | TBD | Community Theater Group is now forming for a Spring 2015 production of the acclaimed “Spoon River Anthology” by Edgar Lee Masters. Rehearse short, interrelated monologues in which dead citizens speak about their past lives. Free and open to all adults. No experience necessary; most are beginners. Just show up, or email Dennis Dore at ddore@zoom-dsl.com for more info.

Cortland Men’s LGBT Group | 6:00 PM-, 11/19 Wednesday | The LGBT Resource Center, 73 Main St., Cortland | Monthly meeting. Bring a dish-to-pass for a pot-luck supper.

Candor Valley Riders Snowmobile Club | 7:00 PM-, 11/19 Wednesday | Candor Ambulance Building, 58 Main Street, Candor | Held 1st and 3rd Wednesday September through March. Contact President Louie Gunn 659-7726 Tompkins County Council of Governments | 3:00 PM-, 11/20 Thursday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Tompkins County Budget, Capital and Personnel Committee | 4:00 PM-, 11/24 Monday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | The Landlords Association of Tompkins County | 4:30 PM-, 11/24 Monday | Ramada Inn, North Triphammer Road, Ithaca | Jay Janowsky, CPA, discussing year end tax planning. Also, Community Dispute Resolution Center will give a brief presentation, and Carson Groundworks will describe their services.After the meeting, a social hour will be sponsored by City Only Snow Removal.

Rental property owners interested in joining are invited to attend.

For more information email LATC@ LandlordsAssociation.com or call 607257-2382.

Ithaca Town Board | 4:30 PM-, 11/24 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM-, 11/24 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca | Tompkins County Government Operations Committee | 5:30 PM-, 11/25 Tuesday | County Of Tompkins The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome.

Ithaca City Planning and Economic Development Board | 6:00 PM-, 11/25 Tuesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E

Art Classes for Adults | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | Arts classes for adults at the Community School of Music and Arts.

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.

Red Cross Training | American Red Cross, 2 Ascot Pl, Ithaca | Registration Required: 1-800-733-2767 (Option 3) Wednesday, November 19 6pm - 9pm Adult & Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED Part 2 of 2 Part Class Winter Writing Through The Rough Spots | See website for location and meeting dates | Writing Through The Rough Spots. Fall and Winter Classes in Ithaca. www.WritingRoomWorkshops. com International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 11/23 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5 donation suggested.

Genealogy Club | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 11/24 Monday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St., Cortland | Registration is not required, but appreciated.

Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/25 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | For more info, email jesusianity@gmail. com or visit: www.facebook.com/ groups/JesusiansOfIthaca.

Nature & Science Cayuga Bird Club: Up the Lake | 8:00 AM-, 11/22 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Field trip. Meet at 8:00 am at the main parking lot of the Lab of Ornithology on Sapsucker Woods Rd. Bring drinks, snacks and a scope if available. All field trips are open to the public, both experienced birders and beginners. For Information and updates, email annmitchell13@gmail. com or refer to the bird club’s website: http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/

Special Events A Tribute to Adirondack ”Woodswoman” Anne LaBastille | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 11/19 Wednesday | Fernow Hall - G24, Cornell University Campus, Ithaca | A Cornell alum and adjunct professor, author and activist.

A presentation of her life and work by family friend and Director of the DEC’s Office of Invasive Species Coordination, Leslie Suprenant.

Rasa Spa Anniversary Party and Open House | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/20 Thursday | Rasa Spa, 310 Taughannock Blvd Ste 2A, Ithaca | The spa is offering free mini massages, facials, and Eminence hand treatments throughout the evening. Serendipity Catering will provide food, Felicia’s Atomic Lounge will have beer and wine offerings and Richie Stearns & Friends will supply music.

Rethinking Thanksgiving with Storyteller Perry Ground | 6:30 PM-, 11/20 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Co-sponsoredby Ithaca Children’s Garden, Multicultural Resource Center, and Cornell’s American Indian Program, with grant support from Community Arts Partnership, this lively, engaging, and content-based presentation will give an overview of the history of this very misunderstood holiday.

Harvest Fest Dinner | 6:00 PM-, 11/21 Friday | Beverly J. Martin School, , Ithaca | The Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) will be hosting its annual Harvest Fest Dinner. This event is free and open to all. Dinner will consist of

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The Greater Ithaca Activities Center hosts its annual Harvest Fest Dinner at Beverly J. Martin School. This meal – free and open to all – is made possible thanks to a number of helping hands: Fat Jack’s BBQ will prepare the turkeys; Maxie’s brings their delightful corn bread, and Cornell Laundry donates table coverings. Got a dessert to donate, or just want to chip in at the dinner? Give GIAC’s offices a call at 272-3622.

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Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 11/22 Saturday; 9:00 AM-, 11/23 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Bird walks around Sapsucker Woods are sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club and are targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars are available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information.

Cayuga Trails Club: East Ithaca Recreation Loop | 1:00 PM-, 11/22 Saturday | East Hill Plaza, Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 5-mile hike. Meet at 1:00 pm, East Hill Plaza near Ellis Hollow entrance. For more information, call 607-257-6906 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org

College students from around Central New York offer up their films for Cornell’s annual Centrally Isolated Film Festival at the Schwartz Center of the Performing Arts. This competition features two dozen short films from the likes of Cornell, Ithaca College, Binghamton and Syracuse students. Reception to follow Friday’s showings. The competition screening takes place at 2 p.m.

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turkey and all the trimmings. Fat Jack’s BBQ will be preparing and smoking all the turkeys to be served. Cornbread will be provided by Maxie’s Supper Club and Oyster Bar, and Cornell Laundry will donate all the table coverings for use that evening. If you would like to volunteer to help prepare the dinner, work the dinner or donate a dessert please contact GIAC’s main office at 272-3622.

Teen Night @ Groton Public Library | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, 11/21 Friday | Groton Public Library | With the movie - How to Train Your Dragon II. Pizza, Minecraft, Computers, Popcorn 13th Annual 100 Pies-For-Missions Sale | 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, 11/22 Saturday | Trumansburg United Methodist Church, corner of Main and South streets, Trumanburg | Pies will be sold/available for pick.

Cornell Football: Penn at Cornell | 12:30 PM-, 11/22 Saturday | Schoellkopf Field, Cornell University, Ithaca | Courtnie’s Step Forward Benefit | 3:00 PM-10:00 PM, 11/22 Saturday | Groton Hotel, Main Street, Groton | Courtnie recently lost her leg to a devastating disease called RSD. The community is trying to raise money for medical expenses.

Soup and or Chili Nights | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 11/25 Tuesday | Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, 17 Main St., Candor | Every Tuesday Night. With dessert and drink. Free Will Donation Trumansburg Lions Club Fundraiser | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, 11/26 Wednesday | Trumansburg Fairgrounds, Trumansburg Rd. (Rt. 96), Trumansburg | The Trumansburg Lions Club is having a fundraising fish fry. You can call and order ahead by dialing 607-423-5996. You can find out the menu in advance by going to www.dougsfishfry.com. to see what is offered. 100% of the net proceeds go back to Trumansburg and close by communities. ongoing

Alcoholics Anonymous | Multiple Locations | This group meets several times per week at various locations.

For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/PDF/ IthacaMeetings.pdf DSS in Ulysses | 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, 11/19 Wednesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm St, Trumansburg | walk-ins welcome. For info on SNAP, Medicaid, Daycare and Emergency assistance.

CALL (607) 274-5345 with any questions.

Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 11/19 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | A free group providing information and support for people with Lyme or their care givers. We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Overeaters Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 11/19 Wednesday | Dryden Village Hall, , Dryden | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 11/20 Thursday | First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 11/22 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/24 Monday | Just Be Cause center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/19 Wednesday | First Congregational Church of Ithaca , 309 Highland Rd , Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/24 Monday | Ithaca Recovery Center, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/19 Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 11/19 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free every week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary.

More at www.DamodarDas.com.

Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/20 Thursday; 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 11/24 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a

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Ithaca Farmer’s Market 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 11/22 Saturday and 11/23 Sunday | Steamboat Landing, Ithaca | Open Hearts Dinner | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 11/19 Wednesday | McKendree United Methodist Church, 224 Owego St., Candor | Every Wednesday. Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you.

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La Leche League | 6:30 PM-, 11/20 Thursday | Bloom, 134 East State/MLK St., Ithaca | Breastfeeding Information and Support. La Leche League offers help with breastfeeding problems as well as community and companionship.

Pregnant mothers especially welcome.

Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 11/21 Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location, | Ithaca College is hosting an aphasia support group. We are looking for stroke survivors who have aphasia (an acquired language disorder). The group will provide a casual and comfortable place for participants to talk, share experiences, and offer support to one another. For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: (607) 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, 11/21 Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | Successful recovery based on Dr. Kay Sheppard’s program Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 11/23 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free.

Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 11/25 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604 Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 11/25 Tuesday | 124 E. Court St., 124 E. Court St., Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions # 607-272-1505 Pet Loss Support Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/25 Tuesday | 316 E. Court Street -- enter Linn Street side, 316 E. Court Street -- enter Linn Street side, Ithaca | For information and other details, call: Jane at 607-351-2740 or Cathie at 607-273-3063, or email petloss@gmail.com.

Books The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis and the Family in France | 4:30 PM-, 11/19 Wednesday | Room 107, Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | Book Talk with Camille Robcis. For over two centuries,

the family has played a crucial role in French law and public policy. Debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held assumptions about family relations have been divisive in recent years. In her new book, Camille Robcis explains why and how academic discourses on kinship have intersected and overlapped with political debates on the family. She contributes to larger conversations about the particularities of French political culture, the nature of sexual difference, and the problem of reading and interpretation in intellectual history.

Teen Reads Group at TCPL | 4:45 PM-5:45 PM, 11/19 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Hosted by the Tompkins County Public Library every third Wednesday in the Thaler/ Howell Programming Room. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 274.

The Proust Reading Group | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 11/19 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | To discuss the last half of La Prisonniere/The Captive.

First-Year MFA Reading Series | 6:00 PM-, 11/21 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Come out and support the MFA program’s new writers as they read fiction and poetry selections. w/ Kirsten Saracini & Vincent Hiscock Susan Fish | 3:00 PM-, 11/22 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, DeWitt Bldg, East Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Susan Fish discusses her latest novel, Ithaca.

Ithaca is the story of how sudden change comes into a slow life once fracking takes hold of a small, Ivy league town.

Roxie Hewertson | 6:00 PM-, 11/25 Tuesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author Roxie Hewertson discusses her latest book, Lead Like It Matters...Because It Does.

Lake Country Book Club | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 11/26 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Internal Enemy by Alan Tyler select a few poems to share.

Arts Group Exhibit: Director’s Choice | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 11/21 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning

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Refugee Experience, photos by Tim Gera, opening 11/07 | newrootsschool. org Finger Lakes School of Massage | 1251 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca |Etosha Blank: Masks for Healing, through 11/07.

The Frame Shop | 414 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM | Loving Hands, photographs by Monroe Payne, through November | www. theframeshop.com Gimme! Coffee | 430 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | 2015 Calendar, by Justyne Griffin, through November | www. gimmecoffee.com/ Handwork Coop | Commons, Ithaca | Monday throughSaturday, 10 AM to 6 PM; Thursday and Friday 10 AM to 8 PM; Sunday noon to 5 PM | Painting Demo by Jill Hoffman of Painted Lake Stones, 11/07 only | www.handwork. coop The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday to Friday 12 -6 PM, Sat 12-4 PM | The 18th Mini Print International, juried exhibition of prints, opening 11/07 | 607-277-3884 | www.ink-shop.org Kitchen Theatre Company | 417 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Branching Out: Paintings by Kent Goetz, ongoing | 272-0403 or www.kitchentheatre.org PADMA Center | 114 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Photographs by David Watkins, through November | 607-351-7145 | www.padmacenter.com Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar | 139 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | She is Everyone, canvas prints by Gaia Woolf-Nightingall, opening 11/07 | www.sacredrootkava.com Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | Painting and monoprints by Lydia K. Dolch, through November | www. sarahspatisserie.com/ SewGreen | 112 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Paintings by Elizabeth McMahon, opening 10/03 through 11/15 | www. sewgreen.org | The Shop | 312 East Seneca Street, Ithaca | Imagination: Recent Paintings

by David Jackier, through November | www.theshop.com Silky Jones | 214 The Commons (E. State St.), Ithaca | Daily, 4:00 PM-1:00 AM | small works by Annie Eller and Rose Gottlieb, through November | www.silkyjoneslounge.com Solá Gallery | Dewitt Mall, Ithaca | 10:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday-Saturday | Color and Line, work by Michael

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In Wrecks, Edward Carr struggles to come to terms with his wife’s passing and his own unnerving diagnosis.

Written by Neil Labute, the play poses this difficult question: Can someone honestly love a person whom they’ve deceived for three decades? Presented by Readers’ Theatre at Cinemapolis, w/ live music by Hank Roberts and a Skype interview with filmmaker LaBute.

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Sampson and Elizabeth McMahon, up through November | www.solagallery. com State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Wednesday-Friday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Giving Thanks for 25 Years, all-member show, opening 11/07 | For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Glass Beads by Laurie Ament, live torch demonstration, 11/07 only | 319-5260 Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | Mon. Wed. Thurs.

11am-6pm; Fri. Sat. 11am-8pm; Sun. 11am-4pm; closed Tuesdays | Luminious Lakes, Glorious Glens: Recent Paintings

by Brian Keeler, through 12/31. | www. titusgallery.com Uncorked Creations |102 N. Tioga Street, 2nd Floor, Ithaca| New Fall and Winter Art Work and Open Paint Night, through November | www.uncorkedithaca.com or 222-6005

Kids Art Classes for Kids | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca.org. www. csma-ithaca.org Cuddle Up Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 11/19 Wednesday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden | Songs and stories with Ms. Diane for babies and toddlers. Stay after for play time.

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Two nationally known singers and songwriters with local connections return to the region this week, and the next ten days will see many familiar faces returning to club stages and venues.

It has been five full years since Ingrid Michaelson first graced the stage at the State Theatre, and in the last half-decade, the Binghamton University theater grad’s star only continues to rise. This Saturday, she will return to the State. Chris Koza will open. “[My music] celebrates life…about overcoming the sadness and darkness and choosing to live in the present,” Michaelson wrote by email. More pop star than indie-pop artist, the songwriter

Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 11/20 Thursday, 11/22 Saturday, Monday 11/24, 11/25 Tuesday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years old and their parent/caregiver. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273.8364.

Ulysses Philomathic Library: Story and Art | 10:30 AM-, 11/20 Thursday

has produced catchier and catchier tunes new songs for you people is hard, like and is among Broome County’s most introducing someone to your parents.” famous exports. This will be her first large An audience member rapidly responded local show.

“We’re so proud of them!” The singer The singer and songwriter Josh Ritter may have been born in Moscow, Idaho, but judging by the last few receptions he’s had when he’s performed in town, Ithaca may as well be his second home. His last three appearances — all at the Haunt — have been feel-good affairs: sold-out, adoring audiences, and spirited, lengthy performances.

This Friday, Ingrid Michaelson plays the State Theatre this Saturday.

November 21, (Photo via ingridmichaelson.com) he will stop by Rochester’s Water Street Music Hall for an 8 p.m. show, and and songwriter has a long history in audiences who have seen him before are Ithaca, having spent many years on sure to agree that it would be well worth the open mic circuit [he used to be a the hike. regular at Juna’s, now Waffle Frolic.]

When he last appeared at the And he’s comfortable in many venues: Haunt, he told a sold-out crowd: “Playing a few years back, he was originally

| Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main St., Trumansburg | Each week will feature a fun theme such as pirates, the circus, fairy tales, music, and more. Ksana Dragovich will read stories and Barbara Nowogrodzki will lead art projects.

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Story Time | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, 11/21 Friday | Ford Edith B Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 2:00 PM-11/22 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Small Ball Basketball Clinic | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | Open to boys and girls in

scheduled to hit the State when it was moved to the Haunt. As opposed to his solo appearances, which are marked by storytelling and an almost tossed-off feel, Ritter’s ensemble sets are perfectly plotted, more the rock star than busking folk artist. Or at least a rock star that would be more comfortable drinking milk than beer, and whose songs, scrubbed clean, are devoid of swearing or anything misanthropic. *** Nationally recognized artists aren’t the only reason to be thankful for live music in the lead-up to the holidays.

Other musicians and bands return to shows for breaks that happen to coincide with times IHS graduates return. When IY, which changed its name to New Neighbors and released its last album as a band, the members promised to perform in town together on an occasional basis.

This Saturday, Nov. 29, the boys make good on the promise, stopping by the Chapter House for a show.

J. Robert Lennon is best known as an author, but he also is in a musical act called Starry Mountain Sweetheart Band.

They’ll hit Felicia’s Sunday, November 23.

Finally, if you are looking for something to do Thursday: Dopapod, who have a close relationship with Syracuse, will stop by the Haunt. •

grades 1 & 2. Five week clinic begins Sunday November 23rd at the Ithaca Youth Bureau. For more information visit IYBrec.com or call 273.8364.

Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM-11:15 AM, 11/25 Tuesday | , , | No Story Hour during holidays, School Closings or Bad Weather. Call 659-7258 with questions.

Twinkle, Sparkle, Glitter & Glow | Hosted by Little Voices Music & Motion.

Two-week song and dance party for children from birth to five years old, with parents or other caregivers along for the fun. It features songs of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Solstice, New Year’s, Rudolph and Santa. Begins the week of December 8. www.LittleVoicesMusic.com

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