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causing the high number in unemployed laborers. It was announced last month that Binghamton-based William H. Lane Inc. General Contractors had been selected to lead the construction of the 159-room, 10-story Ithaca Marriott, which will be located on South Aurora Street, next to the Green Street parking garage. The project is expected to break ground in early 2015, and is being developed by Urgo Hotels, a group based in Bethesda, Md.. The $32 million project is aiming for a spring 2017 completion. Williamee said he is concerned about the bidding process that is going on with the project, and would like to see it change. “[For] this project specifically,” he

Final County Budget Local Labor Unions Want Hotel Work Is Under Tax Cap

n its Tuesday, Nov. 18 meeting, the Tompkins County Legislature finally adopted its 2015 budget. Although Legislator Dooley Kiefer (D-10th) proposed a last-minute amendment, it failed to pass and so the approved budget is a $180.8 million budget with a 2.5 percent tax levy increase. Because the county came in safely under the state’s 3.14 percent property tax cap, county taxpayers will receive a rebate from the state approximately equal to the tax increase. Although the tax rate decreased by 0.45 percent, an increase in the median home value means that the owner of a median-valued home will be paying more in 2015 than they did in 2014. The tax rate of $6.86 per $1,000 assessed value will generate an $8.67 tax increase for the owner of a $165,000 median-valued home. County residents will see a modest $4 decrease in the solid waste fee this coming year. The budget amendment that Kiefer proposed was for a one-year National Association of County Organizations membership. The $2,031 membership would have been one-time funding paid for using reserves and thus it would have had no effect on the tax cap. Ultimately, Kiefer’s proposal failed in a 6-8 vote. One amendment that did pass was a proposal by Legislator Martha Robertson (D-13th) to change wording in the resolution to add in a reference to the fact that this year the county’s tax cap was a 3.14 percent levy increase. Although Legislator Carol Chock (D-3rd) opposed the addition, Robertson said she thought it was necessary as a matter of transparency. Legislator Will Burbank (D-12th) said that he would be voting against the amendment because he is opposed to the tax cap on principle. The amendment passed in a 10-4 vote. The budget itself passed in an 11-2 vote, with Legislator Brian Robison (R-9th) abstaining to avoid any perceived conflict of interest in light of the recent announcement that he will succeed Derek Osborne as undersheriff. Just before passing the budget, the legislature passed a repeal of the tax cap override law. Originally the override was passed to allow flexibility in constructing the budget. Now, the override must be repealed in order for taxpayers to receive their rebates. Three legislators opposed repealing the override, including Kiefer, continued on page 4

hen a worldwide brand is building a project in a city, the least it can do is use that city’s local laborers. That is the message Business Development Representative Marcus Williamee of Local 267 Plumbers and Technicians and Membership Development Coordinator Stacey Black of Local 241 Brotherhood of Electrical Workers are hoping to get across to Marriott. Their banner reads “Hire Local Labor to Build the Marriott Hotel.” Williamee and Black began their campaign on Tuesday, Nov. 18, and they anticipate continuing their “campout” in freezing temperatures for the next couple of weeks. Williamee and Black are urging Marriott to use local workers, as both are seeing Marcus Williamee of Local 267 plumbers union and Stacey Black of the Local 241 electrimore unemployed cians union protest outside the site of the new Marriott. (Photo: Michael Nocella) workers than usual. Williamee said he said, “we’ve been told that most of the currently has 50 unemployed plumbers contractors that are bidding on the project in the Ithaca area out of a membership are from out of town. We’d like to get our of 250. During this time of year, he said, workers these jobs rather than give to around 15 unemployed workers is more someone who lives elsewhere. typical. “To Marriott,” Williamee continued, Black said he has 40 unemployed “and to the community, the message we’re electricians, and called that number trying to get out is ‘hire local labor.’ The “very high, very unusual.” Both said that people that live here spend the money although there seems to be a lot of new here. When you hire a local person, the development breaking ground or getting ready to break ground, the projects are continued on page 5 “definitely not going union,” which is

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eveloper Robert Bates of Leon N. Weiner & Associates of Wilmington, Del. is moving forward with his proposal for 63-acre parcel of land located along Troy Road between Coddington and East King roads in the town of Ithaca, but he has changed his approach. Instead of a 166-rental unit facility, he would like to build a 130-unit cluster development. During a Tuesday, Nov. 18 town planning board meeting, Bates was joined by Scott Whitham of Whitham Planning and Design, LLC Principal and Noah Demarest of Stream Collaborative Architecture and Landscape Architecture DPC in the unveiling of a sketch plan for the project. Whitham sent the board a letter to help prepare them for Bates’ vision of the project. “Currently zoned as Low Density Residential,” Whitham said in the letter, “this property can, in our opinion, better meet the Town of Ithaca’s objectives as set in the comprehensive plan by a cluster subdivision approach. It is our goal to create a more sustainable and dynamic development than the current zoning calls for, with smaller, denser residential footprints that both conserve environmentally sensitive areas and create a new sense of neighborhood and identifiable community.” According to the project’s overview contin u ed from page 3

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who opposed it because of its order in the agenda. She said, “I believe we should act on the budget before we decide that we have stayed under the tax cap.” The legislature also passed a resolution declaring freedom from domestic violence as a human right. During the public comment portion of the meeting, two Cornell law students who had helped draft the resolution came to speak about its importance. The resolution passed unanimously. Chock said, “I just want to say thank you to those who brought this forward … domestic violence is a scourge on society. It’s more rampant than we think it is.” The resolution accompanying

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Developer Robert Bates and project manager Scott Whitham (left). (Photo: Michael Nocella). Plan of Bates’ development (above). Note density of new housing compared with existing housing in the surrounding South Hill neighborhoods. (Map provided)

document, it will seek to provide a mix of housing types within a designated “build zone” that covers 30 to 40 percent of the site, while “conserving and protecting environmentally sensitive areas in the remaining 60 to 70 percent.” During Tuesday night’s presentation, Bates and Demarest stressed that the project would focus on green project initiatives. Sustainable programs would include the community having its own orchard and farm, along with a solar presence. Demarest added that the project is in the very early phases of a sketch plan, the current draft of the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Old Library site redevelopment is slated to come up for discussion at the next legislature meeting. To prepare legislators for that discussion, Commissioner of Planning Ed Marx gave a presentation overview the four Requests for Expressions of Interest that are still in the running for consideration in the RFP phase. The $35 million DPI Consultants project is the largest of the bunch. Marx said, “They’re proposing two new fivestory buildings on the site.” The project would include 76 condominiums for sale and eight rental units, all of which would be targeted to median incomes and above. The plan put forward by the group including Franklin Properties, STREAM Collaborative, and others “would reuse

with only its general footprint being laid out up to this point. He said the planning board’s feedback would help with the actual design of the units, but that at this point, the team has looked at other cluster development projects such as EcoVillage at Ithaca and Belle Sherman Cottages for inspiration. That inspiration will see the light of day when Bates and his team presents a site plan for the project in the coming months. Because Tuesday’s consideration for the sketch plan was not a public hearing, residents’ only chance to speak about the project was during the meeting’s “persons to be heard.” This time around, not much opposition was voiced. At a previous meeting, a group of neighboring residents expressed concern and created a petition that opposed rezoning for the project. State law gives adjoining properties within 100 feet the opportunity to circulate a continued on page 16

the building. This is the only of the four proposals that would do that,” said Marx. The $12 million project would include 32 units of senior housing and commercial space for Lifelong. Rochester’s Cornerstone Group and the Cayuga Housing Development Corporation plan to build a four-story building with 70 to 80 affordable housing units at a total cost of $16 million. Marx said, “This is the only project that’s committing to building subsidized, affordable units.” Finally, the $15 million plan by Travis Hyde Properties and Holt Architects would entail a four-story building with 48 apartments for seniors and 9,000 feet of professional office spaces. • – Keri Blakinger

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TC3 Leads With Farm to Bistro Facility

oltivare (kohl-ti-VAH-ray) means “cultivate” in Italian, which is a fitting name for the new “farm-tobistro” initiative from Tompkins Cortland Community College. TC3 is developing an 60-acre sustainable, organic farm “lab” in Dryden, and they are working with local farmers to provide resources for the 17,000 square-foot Coltivare culinary center at the corner of East Clinton and South Cayuga streets. The center will act as a restaurant, caterer, event venue and handson educational space for TC3 students in downtown Ithaca. On Wednesday, Nov. 19 the community college invited the media in for a tour of the not-quite-complete facility. With TC3’s structured degree programs in Culinary Arts, Wine Marketing, Sustainable Farming & Food Systems, and Hotel & Restaurant Management, students will learn new skills in the culinary, beverage-tasting or dining labs at Coltivare, while at times also being exposed to the live, working restaurant, bar, catering and event environment in another part of renovated space under the Cayuga Street parking garage. This allows the students to use their new skills in a real-time environment, providing them with an experience they cannot get inside a classroom. In the culinary and wine programs at TC3, students also work events, where they network with local professionals in the industry, and visit local wineries and cideries out in the field. The culinary and wine programs are two-year programs, and the farming program is four consecutive semesters (one year and three months), so the students are exposed to all the seasons. According to Sue Stafford, chair of Hotel & Restaurant Management, TC3 is in the early stages of developing an adult educational program, and they plan on developing it once Coltivare is fully operational. The TC3 Foundation raised the funds necessary to build the Coltivare restaurant project, and the foundation owns the restaurant as a limitedliability corporation. TC3 will lease the educational space, including the culinary lab and the wine lab. This project is a new and innovative concept, and, said Denis Boucher, Director of Coltivare, if it works here, there will be many cities looking to replicate this model. According to Boucher, they are looking to be a “zero waste” business and their European designed “waste station” is the first prototype in the United States. This station will grind any compostable material including bones and paper products and then will dewater the materials using centrifuge, leaving what

essentially looks like sawdust. This will space is not only where wines will then be sent to the farm, where it will be be stored, but it will also be used for used as compost. smaller scale events or private dining, The largest growing trend in the food accommodating 30 or fewer people. Also and beverage near the restaurant is industry is the tavern area, which local-product features a long bar with sourcing, and a secondary smaller Coltivare’s goal station near the hearth. is to bring global The hearth will be flavors and used to cook flat bread local products pizzas, one of the many together offerings from the pub in a dining menu. The bar will also experience. feature 16 taps pouring The menu local beer, cider and will change wine. The menu will seasonally, feature a large selection Boucher said, of Finger Lakes wine and will include by the glass, including the freshest dessert wines, and a products from global wine list of bottles local farms from the best wine and beverage regions on earth. producers. The light from all Denis Boucher, Director of Coltivare, begins a tour of the Coltivare not the windows in the new TC3 facility. (Photo: Tim Gera) only offers fresh culinary lab reflects local food and off the stainless steel beverages, but they also place importance and makes it a very bright space with a on the dining atmosphere, said Boucher. demonstration cooking area in the front The interior is mostly brick and of the lab and 10 stations for students. The reclaimed wood, with light spilling demonstration station features mounted through the large windows in the dining video cameras that feed to the monitors area. In the restaurant they will seat at each of the students’ stations, allowing 110 people at a time, with at least two students to follow along closely. turnovers per night, but they also offer an The staff of Coltivare is currently event space that will hold 250 guests. The busy overseeing the final pre-opening event space is equipped with a nine-foot details with new employee orientation, screen for televised or projected viewing, training the front of house staff and testing and the room features a 35,000-pound recipes. According to Boucher, they have room separator that will descend from the hired 59 staff members for the restaurant ceiling on a single hinge, instantly dividing alone. Students will be employed when the space for smaller events. The panel will possible, but the restaurant is a standbe clad in honeycomb plastic composite, alone operation, so it will not close when acting as both a sound barrier and space students are on break. The grand opening divider. is planned for December 11. • Housed within the restaurant side is The Wine Cellar. This smaller, private - Julianna Truesdale Unionprotest contin u ed from page 3

money turns over in the community [approximately] seven times. The people who work here buy the vehicles here, buy their groceries here—they’re not going back to Syracuse to buy groceries, they’re spending it right here in Ithaca. So that’s what we’re trying to do: keep our money local. This project has a huge tax break, and the local taxpayers are paying for that, so they ought to get their money back somehow.” Black said that since the project received a $3.6 million tax abatement. “When a project has a tax abatement,” he said, “that’s even more of a reason to give something back to the community. Local jobs are the best way to do that. The money goes back into the local economy and keeps our community growing. You give it to someone else [that doesn’t live in the area], that’s helping a different community prosper. So if the city is going to back projects like [Marriott], we would like to see it help our workers get jobs.” T

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Black added that he understands the motivation to use outside laborers is mostly financial, but that the aftermath of where that money is going needs to be considered as well. “It’s cost, yes,” he said, “but they’re denying Ithaca the money going back into their community. The money that’s paid to a worker typically goes back to their home area. The money we’re spending [on nonlocal laborers] does not come back here.” This is not the first time someone has voiced concern regarding the Ithaca Marriott project. First proposed eight years ago by Maryland-based developer Urgo Hotels, the project has gone through several iterations. The hotel received final site plan approval more than a year ago, but returned to the planning board on June 10 with a “designs revisions review” due to budgetary constraints. The project narrowly won final approval from the board on June 24 with a 4-2 vote. •

Ups&Downs ▶ Helping Buffalo, On Nov. 21 Tompkins County dispatched crews and equipment to assist communities in western New York deal with the aftermath of the winter storm. Four County Highway Division employees, with two dump trucks and a front-end loader, left for the Buffalo-area for what will likely be a three day assignment. Also responding were the Town of Dryden, with a front-end loader and three dump trucks with operators; the Town of Caroline, with two dump trucks and a front-end loader; and the Town of Danby, with two dump trucks with staff, along with operators. 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 ▶ Good Samaritan, Catholic Charities is accepting resumes for the Samaritan Center Coordinator Positions. Interviews to start Wednesday December 3rd and last day to receive resume will be Friday December 12. Please see job description below. Send letter of intent and resume no later than December 12 to Renee Spear, Catholic Charities of Tompkins/Tioga, 324 West Buffalo Street Ithaca, NY 14850; rspear@dor.org. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Nov. 19-25 include: 1) How Dirty is the Emerson Property? 2) Candor Youth Association to School Board: Why Can’t We Get Access to District Gym? 3) Benefit Planned for Chronic Pain Victim 4) Community Connections: Bruce Levitt – Outside, Coming In 5) Groton Woman Charged with Petit Larceny For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Walking, Talking, Thanking

Thanksgiving Adjustments I

n the days before the “truth about the Pilgrims” came out, Thanksgiving was a catholic holiday in the sense that it included everyone. The celebration was not associated with any religious denomination, so rhetorically it was something that Christians of all stripes and non-Christians could agree on without any fuss. This idea has foundered on the rocks of worthwhile politically correct myth-busting, but maybe we can dispense with the Pilgrims/Indians happy time thing, and move one with the let’s-give-thanksregardless part of it. The “Pilgrims” at Plymouth Plantation were Brownist English Dissenters, who opposed state interference with religious matters (later protected by the U.S. Constitution), but now nobody seems to much care who they were, beyond portraying them as clueless Europeans camped out on the edge of wilderness who were—against the odds—given a hand, or at least an empathetic free pass, by some kindly Wampanoags. Nobody called the Brownists of Plymouth “Pilgrims” until the 19th century. It was introduced during the celebrations of “Forefathers’ Day” (Dec. 22) in Massachusetts. Their “rebranding” led to their re-casting. Forefathers’ Day, inaugurated in 1769, is still celebrated in Plymouth, Mass. with a dinner of “succotash,”

which in Plymouth is broth filled with big pieces of meat and fowl. (Everywhere else this North American tribal dish is a mixture of corn and beans.) The date of the celebration commemorates the date in 1620 that the settlers blundered their way across Massachusetts Bay from Cape Cod, where things had really been going badly for about a month, to Plymouth. They were able to settle at Plymouth because the Wampanoag village of Patuxet that had been there before had been decimated by plague and small pox, introduced by European traders before the Pilgrims arrived (i.e., not their fault, really). The idea of “thanksgiving” is a Puritan one. The Puritans or Calvinists were part of the whole Dissenter thing in England. They were trying to reform the Church of England in the 16th and 17th centuries and the Church of England was basically having none of it (except when Oliver Cromwell and his New Model Army took over briefly after 1649). One of the suggestions of the Dissenters was to do away with all the traditional church holidays and create days of fasting and days of thanksgiving to commemorate significant tribulations in the life of the community (e.g. natural disasters, continued on page 14

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

“walk-and-talk” is something guys do in mob movies (“Let’s take a walk-and-talk, Donnie,” says Al Pacino to Johnny Depp in Donnie Brasco) to check in with one another on personal or family matters in a relaxed and amicable way. My family (my actual, blood family, I mean) is adopting this practice this year as part of our Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving, pleasant as it is, can end up kind of a logy affair, with all the table-setting and stuffing, so to speak. Simply put, there is the temptation to eat too much, and one does; and at some point someone succumbs to the temptation to say “I ate too much” or “I’m so full,” inviting a conversational dullness that can end the whole night right there. Two years ago, my niece Katie got an idea to stave off these torpors: a family 3K run before the meal. Katie had become a runner and thought a jaunt like this would be healthy and fun for us. She is 28 and teaches grade school and is good at thinking up projects. The trouble is, only Katie and her sister Maureen, age 30 and also a runner, complete the thing. The rest of us don’t finish, or even start. Anyone older can sure find reasons. Anyone younger might not offer theirs, that they stayed up too late last night with friends, but there it is. Personally, I join in, but even though I run three miles regularly, and sometimes five, I don’t pretend it’s easy. At about 1.5 kilometers I will start to sweat, and fall behind Katie and Maureen, and say don’t wait up, I’ll see you back at the house. At

this point it’s hardly what you’d call a group event. So I wrote Katie last week and proposed the walk-and-talk. A walking route, I said, is likely to get more participants. The talking part is important, too. Our Irish family never stops talking. Maybe the invitation to talk would make the walking more fun. Also, I said, sometimes I’m disappointed at the end of the holiday, that amid all the chatter, delightful as it is, I didn’t get to have a focused conversation with even one of these people I love so much but see so seldom. So my idea is to put names into a hat, and extract them to create pairs of us, who will walk together, and have the time (and the lung power, with the tempered physical exertion) to talk about our lives. The conversational pairings might even liven up, or deepen, the rest of the day. Certainly they will augment our car rides home, sharing what we heard. Katie wrote back that she loved the idea, and so did her mother. (My sister-inlaw, Patricia, is also a teacher. I have the idea that the only thing good teachers love more than creating projects is having an enthusiastic acolyte do it.) “The start of a new family tradition!,” she said. If it sticks, I will be happy. It will fit in with the simplicity of the rest of the holiday. What’s not to love about a holiday where everyone eats celery and yams? continued on page 7

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Using Plants to Clean Up South Hill

I read “How Dirty Is It?” (Nov. 19) about the cleanup of the Emerson Power Transmission site with particular interest since I live on South Hill. It mentioned that remediation methods being considered included capping, closing off areas, and excavation of contaminated soil. I wonder whether sufficient consideration has been given to phytoremediation—remediation using plants. Some species of plants take up toxins from the soil and concentrate them in their tissues; the plants can then be harvested and safely disposed of, thus removing the toxins from the soil cheaply and easily. I am not an expert in this subject, but a quick scan of the scientific literature seems to indicate that phytoremediation has been found to be effective for all of the contaminants mentioned in the 6 T

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article: barium, cyanide, free-petroleum products, metals, and chlorinated volatile organic compounds including specifically trichloroethylene. It might be worth looking into. – Ben Haller, City of Ithaca

Why They Protest At Seneca Lake

Ninety-five percent of the world’s scientists who study weather and environment say that we are heading for major climate changes and environmental disasters due to humankind’s manipulation of the earth’s resources, while 5 percent say that there is not enough evidence yet. To continue to manipulate the environment for humankind’s benefit, is like not getting medical treatments for a growing tumor, even though 95 percent of your doctors tell continued on page 15

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An Anti-Bullying Course The man who was so terrifying in my childhood was just an insecure little bully. - Gary Holz, D.Sc., award winning physicist and psychoneuro-immunologist. There is sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently then ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief ... and unspeakable LOVE.” -. Washington Irving, first American writer to be able to support himself by writing.

our children very soon into the real world where these skills are needed for every kind of relationship? The bullying problem has our attention now while children are even killing children in their classrooms. We can blame it on not enough mentalhealth professionals or insurance companies willing to help those in trouble emotionally. But many do not know the initial signs of a problem or what to do if a friend is close to being violent toward themselves or others. Why are we not

oes anyone ask why people bully or how to help bullies? Since the early 1990s I had been approaching Ithaca High School (HIS) about trying a pilot course called “Health Relationship Skills,” in the belief that this would be a good thing. Where should we learn these basic life skills that lead to loving healthy relationships? My pilot-idea was listed in the IHS program of studies, and when I spoke to various health classes the students were very much in favor of such a course. The problem, they said, was the lack of time with many required courses and extracurricular activities. So, why not make this pilot important enough to recruit at least 15 students to participate, and couldn’t it happen during a study hall? The next barrier was financial, in response to which I offered to teach gratis, one period a day. I did teach at the alternative community school in 2006, with the support of then-principal Joe Greenberg, in conjunction with the health class teacher. This did not continue due to the fears among some faculty and parents that it would be too much like therapy ... and that is true, because that is where people now go to find out how to have a healthy loving relationship when they are on the brink of divorce or are in an abusive relationship. So, why are we not teaching such “therapy” skills in the schools, especially in the high school, where we are launching

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implementing prevention of face-to-face bullying of name-calling or cyberspace ridicule? With this message over the past two decades I have met with various principals of IHS and health teachers. The resistance, I believe, is fear of being vulnerable, which is what we need to learn and accept as a good thing. We are evolving by changing recent myths like “Children are to be seen and not heard,” or “Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.” Words do hurt us deeply and that is why kids bully. Where do they learn this? Mostly from home, from parents who bully their children, as if spanking or calling names is okay ... because they have not learned healthy relationship skills, such as how to identify their feelings, and

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Test Sites, Not Dirty Sites

In the cover story of our Nov. 19 issue, “How Dirty Is It?,” it stated “Nine hundred thirty-four contaminated locations have been identified throughout the site’s entire history.” There were 934 test sites, not contamination sites.

Panel Chair, Not Council Chair

Our “Community Connections” column in the Nov. 19 issue, read “Bruce Levitt came to Ithaca already having had a distinguished career as a director and former chair of the New York State Council on the Arts, among many other achievements.” In fact, Levitt was chair of the Theatre Arts panel of the Council on the Arts, not the entire council. T

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therefore cannot communicate effectively. As a psychotherapist, I have lost count of the many times I hear, “I know I am a good person, but I don’t feel that way!” Messages still heard today: “Don’t cry, you’re a big boy or girl,” even in 2007 Fergie’s hit song, “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” or a few days ago during a television interview, someone started to cry and said, “Sorry.” Why do we apologize for feeling sad? This is the heart of where we meet another person so we can connect with them compassionately. Not with our fists or hurtful words. Crying is our body’s natural way to let go of pain; there are endorphins in emotional tears. If we suppress or repress sweating, urinating, etc. our bodies die. If we suppress or repress our tears, our hearts that naturally love as babies shut down and die, becoming defended with anger and violence, which we all know creates distance and fear and lack of trust: lack of love. We are making progress, as we did throughout the conflict over whether to allow sex education into the schools. Now we must be accept being vulnerable with regard to our hurt feelings as a good thing in order to find the healthy love we all want and need in order to have a successful life. I believe we’d all agree that it is not academics and careers that make us most happy ... it is love, so why shouldn’t we teach this most basic life skill in our high school, the institution responsible for our children’s education? Seventeen states now outlaw spanking (an accepted word for hitting) as physical abuse. Sadly New York is not one of them. No wonder there is so much anger in our world. I plead with our progressive community to hold a referendum to make this happen. This past year, when I met with Mayor Svante Myrick and Superintendent Luvelle Brown, they told me I need the community’s support to make this most essential educational course available. • - Dianea Kohl, RN, MFT Ithacanotes contin u ed from page 6

Of course, there are historical complexities to the day, to say the least. But I remember once hearing a Native American man speaking about the history of Thanksgiving. He said he certainly celebrates the day. It was started by my people, he said, and it celebrates peace. The day itself can exude peace and quiet. It’s a secular holiday, so almost everyone observes it, and almost no one works. I remember a few years ago leaving Ithaca on Thanksgiving at about 9 a.m. That’s not particularly early. But I realized as I was setting out on Green Street and then Cayuga Street that there was a light snow on the ground but no car tracks. That’s a quiet morning. We wish you a happy holiday, with a full table in a full house, and a heart full of peace. • I

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ithaca com A former Morse Chain employee, commenting on our cover story from last week, How Dirty is the Emerson Property? The Chainworks Development Team Hasn’t Found a Big Mess Yet Having worked at Morse Chain for eight years, I can attest to the stunning views of the lake through dirty panes. Tending machines didn’t give a lot of time to gaze, but there were always slow times on bench work, or stressing giant leaf chain on the hydraulic chain puller whose frame was salvaged from the Morse factory in Trumansburg after the fire. One night, my heart sank as I saw the flames on west hill. My friends at La Cabrera lost their barn and all their goats. How odd it is to think that where I stood might now be partitioned into apartments. How much air exchange will there be? There is a trade off between heating/cooling efficiency and air exchange, and health. This needs to be included in the final scoping document. Personally, I’d need a lot of convincing before deciding to live there. The concrete floors are saturated with oil. I read about Barium. Has anyone tested for Molybenum? We used to use a lot of molykote as a dry lubricant in the industrial chaim department. BTW, writers should not keep referring to power transmission products. Industrial chain was manufactured largely for conveyance, and the automotive department moved out before the sale of the old plant to Emerson. There was much oil and dirt caked on the concrete floors that we tried to remove with a stome resurfacer before one of many tour trying to sell the plant. Our foreman set us out with a rotary stone concrete grinder that didn’t work at all. The stones just became plugged up with oily dirt and did nothing but spin. Instead, we ground clay absorbent with rotary wire brish floor scrubbers. This put a thin layer of light colored clay on top of the dirt that looked like clean bare concrete. Our foreman then closed the walkways [and closed off] fork lift traffic so the illusion would not be ruined by tire marks. It is hard to imagine this place turned into residences. Harder still to believe in remediation that would render occupancy safe and healthful. - CrisMcConkey Commenting on Chris Hooker’s weekly Sports Around the Lake column detailing the ineligibility suit brought against Elmira-Notre Dame that put the Lansing Boys Soccer team back in the playoffs. So they got beat twice, once without the ineligible player, and once they were eliminated from sectionals everything came to light. Heck’s message, do whatever it takes... Congratulations to the Lansing ladycats, on a great season and Elmira Notre Dame boys soccer program. The true section 4 champions. - swill1088

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By Louis DiPietro

irport regionalization is a subject that just won’t die here in Tompkins County. In light of declining ridership at the IthacaTompkins Regional Airport, the topic of consolidating area airports has been floated yet again, albeit much more quietly this time around and with little, if any, support from local officials. At a recent county budget forum, Ray Schlather offered his two cents about ways in which Tompkins County could shave costs from its annual budgets. The way he saw it, the Ithaca attorney and former Common Council member figured the county was getting into dangerous territory by offering the local airport a $126,000 annual break on administrative costs for the next three years. In the end, that equates to a roughly $378,000 airport subsidy, paid for out of county reserves. Tompkins County will, in fact, give ITH a pass on its big annual county bill through 2017 to make up for lost revenue from low ridership, which through September is down nearly 17 percent over last year. Instead of paying the county six-figures for administrative costs, ITH will put the cash to use for both marketing the airport and researching where Ithaca passengers are headed, legislators said. “Given that,” Schlather said, “it suggested that perhaps once again we should re-examine regionalizing our airport services as a way to address the budget in a more systematic way.” Schlather said he envisions ITH as an airport with the potential of Manchester International in New Hampshire, 8 The Ithaca Times /November 26-De

one of five commercial airports in the New England area that work collaboratively to minimize heavy passenger traffic out of Boston’s Logan International. Truth be told, up until the county legislature passed the 2015 budget with the $126,000 waiver, Tompkins County has never funneled reoccurring annual funds into ITH. It’s an “enterprise unit,” county Legislature Chair Mike Lane said, meaning that, although Tompkins may own it, the airport stays afloat by generating its own revenue and collecting federal dollars. In short, ITH hasn’t needed the county’s financial help. Not until now, at least. “This is really the first year we have put any tax money into the airport,” Lane said. If careful county budget planning is done with a proverbial scalpel, airport regionalization would have the nuance of an atomic bomb, laying waste to a relatively minor county bill and setting the stage for what local regionalization opponents foresee as a financial, logistical and political impossibility. According to opponents, on paper the financial incentive for airport consolidation is not there locally, not even close. Yet, a half-century after it was first pitched—so long ago now that even former legislators and ITH stakeholders aren’t sure when exactly—airport regionalization is one subject that hasn’t faded out completely, making stops in the ‘70s, ‘80s, late ‘90s and early 2000s. And despite Schlather’s modest proposal at a sparsely attended budget hearing, the topic of airport regionalization finds fresh ground in a new era, as ITH looks to re-establish itself among air travelers and large c e m b e r

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commercial carriers that are hungry for customers. That said, it’s important to underscore that Tompkins County leaders have given no indication that regionalization is even an option, and judging by sources contacted for this story, the idea was all but grounded for good in the early 2000s. The likelihood of a consolidated airport system involving Ithaca-Tompkins, ElmiraCorning and Binghamton is next to zero, sources said. But what if? Perhaps three facilities—ITH, Elmira-Corning, and Binghamton—operating as a single Southern Tier airport would have strength in numbers when negotiating with airlines over flight offerings. More flights mean more local dollars, which spurs economic activity, proponents of regionalization say. For consumers, that’s more flight options and, possibly, cheaper fares. It’s a hypothetical that could work if implemented, but at what cost? And would customers ultimately win? These questions are anything but new. The airport maven who appears to have started the local dialogue on regionalization was longtime Cornell professor and public servant Stu Stein, who passed away last summer. Larry Baum, a business owner, pilot and member of the Air Service Board, said Stein and his Cornell planning students had devised a report back in the 1960s that examined the feasibility of a regionalized airport. Within those pages, Stein and his students proposed that ITH, Elmira-Corning, and Binghamton join forces in a new airport facility to be built at Spencer in Tioga County. The impetus for making the proposal

isn’t known: a search of the airport’s hard records and Stein’s files at Cornell failed to produce a copy. “It never went anywhere,” Baum said. “There are all sorts of reasons why it wouldn’t happen.” The first is cost: several hundred million dollars to build, he said. “Then you need infrastructure to get there. You’re going to have to put roads in, and building roads in New York State is challenging. Building roads in Tompkins County is practically an impossibility.” “It’s like high-speed rail in New York State,” said ITH Interim Manager Mike Hall, on building a new, consolidated regional airport. “It sounds nice, but it’s a ways out … way too much money involved.” Politics is your next issue, Baum said. There would be so many stakeholders and local municipalities at the negotiating table that broad consensus would be impractical. Along with local representatives, you’d have the Federal Aviation Administration ultimately calling the shots. The ensuing political fight, added County Legislator Jim Dennis, would be entertaining in and of itself, and Tompkins County would find itself very low on the priority list of involved entities. “We’d be ninth on the list, and you would find out very quickly how much influence Cornell would have,” Dennis said. “That would be such a political mess and incredible to watch. There would be congressmen and senators, it would be great.” Dennis, a former Common Council member, called airport regionalization a potential “disaster,” with Syracuse Hancock International being the more likely candidate for a consolidated facility. “As a legislator, I would not support it,” he said. While Stein’s initial report seems to have faded in time, the idea behind it survived in ensuing decades. Lane, the longtime county legislator and current chairman, began his career in government back in the late 1970s and recalls regionalization being reintroduced in the ‘70s and ‘80s, with Spencer discussed as a possible location for a new airport. Then, the topic was again off the table. “What always came up, if people from Ithaca—Cornell and business people—are going to travel 30 or more minutes to somewhere in Tioga County,” Lane said,

“why wouldn’t they just hit the interstate “If we were starting with a clean chair of the county’s advisory Airport and go to Syracuse [airport]?” sheet of paper,” Tompkins County Service Board. That data includes criteria Fast forward to the 1990s. Barbara Administrator Joe Mareane said, like where passengers are flying to and Blanchard, then a member of the county “[regionalization] would be a good idea. how much they spent. That same data legislature, said a consultant’s official The problem now is we have all invested does not, Baum noted, identify individual report—possibly funded through billions in airport infrastructure. passengers. the FAA—was written about airport “The benefit is meaningful,” he Baum declined to specify any consolidation. It did not tread new said. “You pool all airports and generate revelations mined from the data. territory. demand for service that is more “What we’re really trying to determine “The conclusion that came out of commonly associated with larger airports. is what percentage of passengers went [to that report was other airports] and also the there was really number of passengers that only one location went away, who aren’t flying that would satisfy at all,” he said. all three entities, Baum said ITH was in and it couldn’t be a much more dire situation [any] one of them,” in the late ‘90s, when its sole Blanchard said. airline—U.S. Airways—was “The site that was in bankruptcy. Back then, the looked at turned county used its connections out to be totally to talk two additional airlines off the wall, down into servicing ITH, forming in Tioga County, what is now the airport’s in a relatively core three major commercial mountainous carriers—Delta, U.S. Airways, region.” and United. Spencer? “We approached a “Maybe number of airlines by direct Spencer,” she means through airline said. Then administration; we hired regionalization “just consultants, we used the kind of faded out.” Cornell connection,” Baum “What did said. “Like a lot of industries, R ay S c h l at h e r , t h e L at e s t P r o p o n e n t o f A i r p o r t happen as a result,” like airlines, people know r e g i o n a l i z at i o n . ( P h o t o s t h i s a n d fac i n g pag e : Ti m G e r a) people.” Blanchard added, “was all three The county’s airport airports got together and began to operate Airlines like that. Had we come together consultant, Ewen Barr, has 20-plus years sort of cooperatively, marketing the region in the 1950s, absolutely, it would have in working with national and regional as a place where airlines could prosper.” made sense. Maybe I’m narrow-minded, airlines. The hope is he can convince ITH’s Regionalization among the Southern but I can’t envision starting all over. You three commercial carriers to add more Tier’s big three airports was effectively need federal money to do a new facility, flights while simultaneously drumming up killed on Binghamton’s end with the and I don’t know if the [Federal Aviation local support for the airport. Elsewhere, 2013 passage of the Broome County Administration] would consent to that Tompkins County is also exploring the Comprehensive Plan. In it, planners request for new funding if it’s already development of an industrial park on recognized regionalization as an option, invested in all three.” airport property on Warren Road that, if but ultimately scrapped it, noting that the Meanwhile, work continues in trying seen through, would establish an ongoing combined outbound passengers of ITH, to reverse Ithaca-Tompkins’ ridership revenue stream for ITH. Elmira-Corning and Binghamton in 2011 slump. The county has hired a liaison to Exploring all options is worthwhile, generated just one-third of those out of work with the airlines; additional money according to Lane. Syracuse that same year. has been spent on advertising the airport, “We know we need this airport At Elmira-Corning, Regional Airport and Cornell’s BRC—a group of MBA because we don’t have an interstate Manager Ann Crook told the Ithaca students from the university’s Johnson connection in Tompkins County,” the Times in July that 2014 would likely be a School of Management—was recently legislature chair said. “That holds us back record year for enplanements, beating the brought in to analyze data. economically. We don’t have a railroad past mark of 153,000 total. She cited the “A lot of what we’re doing now is with any passenger services, like Syracuse. airport’s recent additions of Allegiant, a using data that is available from the What we have is a regional airport that is low-cost airline offering flights to Florida, airlines, where they are flying from and to, our window to the world because it can and United’s Chicago-bound flights as and looking for the kinds of opportunities get travelers out of here.” • reasons for the uptick in passengers. that fit the community,” said Baum, past-

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(not at night), and the manner in which it is presented, with panhandlers targeting drivers of vehicles or using aggressive mannerisms being potentially illegal. Lavine’s recommendations follow DIA’s presentation in July, when DIA Board Chair John Guttridge and Executive Director Gary Ferguson pitched 10 possible alterations to the city, which aim “to better define and reflect fter months of research per the panhandling rights and responsibilities.” request of the Downtown Ithaca Suggested alterations included restricting Alliance (DIA), City Attorney panhandlers from setting up shop “in Ari Lavine told city officials that it is narrow or constrained walkways” in areas possible for the city to pursue additional where the pedestrian walkway is 10 feet or regulations, and or restrictions, to its less in width, next to “bus stops or places existing legislation regarding aggressive where people are required to wait,” at or solicitation, or panhandling. near ATMs, and anywhere that would Lavine went over his research with “impede the flow of pedestrian traffic.” City Administration Committee during its Restrictions from panhandling “within 25 Wednesday, Nov. 19 public meeting. feet of any outdoor dining facility” were “The city,” he said, “can indeed explore also suggested. Alderpersons George McGonigal (D-1st) and J.R. Clairborne (D-2nd) both wondered about the possible fallout from such amendments. McGonigal asked if the new restrictions would technically define as “aggressive solicitation” high school football and or cheerleading teams standing on a sidewalk along Route 13 offering car wash services. Lavine said if the City Attorney Ari Lavine, after some research, has told Common Council that there is legal sign indicated basis for changing panhandling regulations. (Photo: Michael Nocella) a price for the services, it would be an allowable an ordinance that would further restrict exchange. However, if they were simply aggressive solicitation from time, place seeking donations, it would technically be and manner [angles]. The city’s existing prohibited under the new legislation. The code already includes a prohibition on same would be true for Salvation Army aggressive solicitation. It defines it with donation requests, musicians, magicians, classically aggressive activities in which and anyone else asking for donations— someone solicits money from someone they are and would be held to the same else in a manner that makes them afraid restrictions as panhandlers. of harm. That’s a short summary of what’s Clairborne pondered whether or there now. not limiting where people can panhandle “My recommendation,” he continued, would simply push them all to new, “is that if the city chooses to go in the concentrated locations. Lavine said he direction the DIA is urging us to, I didn’t foresee such a scenario happening, would say we do it by evaluating ways to as even under the hypothetical new expand the definition of what constitutes ordinance, there would still be plenty of aggressive solicitation.” legal places in the city to panhandle. Lavine explained that because of Committee Chair Deborah rights protected by the United States Mohlenhoff recalled that the idea of Constitution, the city can’t simply “ban requiring panhandlers to get a permit had panhandling for the sake of banning been discussed, and wondered whether or panhandling,” but can make amendments not it was still an option. Lavine said he as to what panhandling is allowed in didn’t see it as one. public spaces from a “public safety angle.” “I don’t recommend it,” he said. “I’m Such an angle could allow the city to not sure what would be achieved. Anyone restrict panhandling in some instances, who applied for a permit would legally be including being within 20 feet of people in eligible to get one.” a line for a payment (an ATM or parking City Administration Committee garage pay station), public transportation, agreed the city’s exploration of amending school, narrow spaces (e.g., an alley off panhandling laws within the city would the Commons), and traffic islands. The continue in the coming months. • city, Lavine added, also has the ability to explore what time panhandling is allowed – Michael Nocella

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fter high costs related to the hydrilla infestation in Cayuga Inlet sent dredging plans back to the drawing board, Lisa Nicholas, senior planner for the City of Ithaca, estimated that dredging of the inlet could begin as early as 2015, although 2016 is more likely. Cayuga Inlet was originally built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Dredging needs to be done periodically because the inlet is fed by an abundance of tributaries, all of which are geologically young streams and therefore contribute heavy sediment loads during the spring melt or big storms, according to Scott Gibson, an environmental engineer with the city’s Division of Water and Sewage. Gibson estimated that the inlet had been last dredged in 1980, and heavy build-up of sediment over the years has altered the inlet from its original dimensions. This change means that the Army Corps of Engineers does not consider the inlet “flood ready,” so a flooding

Submissions sought for year-end Readers’ Writes issue of the ‘Times’

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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Hydrilla, one factor delaying the dredging of Cayuga Inlet. (Photo Clara MacCarald)

emergency might not qualify for Federal Emergency Management Agency funds. “We’re so far from the design dimension,” said Nicholas, “we’re in a rehabilitation stage.” It’s not feasible to return to the original dimensions, and Gibson said the DEC would have to aim for a profile between the current one and the original. Build-up also threatens the inlet’s navigability. Gibson estimated a dredging project would take two or three years, with the work restricted to spring through fall. Dredging itself would disrupt the recreational area, and Gibson said there has been push back from stakeholders like marinas and fishermen. Another complicating factor is that dredging requires coordination among

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multiple parties. The navigable channel that runs through most of the inlet is the responsibility of the New York State Canal Corporation. The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is in charge of the flood control channel, while the city takes over upstream of the Buffalo Street Bridge, said Gibson. “We don’t want to be digging holes at the bottom without addressing what’s going on upstream,” explained Gibson. The Army Corps is also involved when any navigable body of water is disturbed or its profile changed. The local municipality comes up with a spoils disposal plan, said Gibson. When higher than anticipated costs caused the DEC to pursue a new design for dredging, the city put their own plans for a sediment management facility on hold. The DEC is currently developing Phase I, which is 30 percent of the entire dredging project. They declined to give a timeline for future work since the project schedule is being developed as part of Phase I, although part of their reticence may be the frequent delays in dredging over the last few years. The DEC confirmed that sediment would go to the site previously chosen by the city, the northern portion of the Southwest Area located behind Lowe’s on Elmira Road. Use of the sediment will require rapid dewatering of this soil. Rapid dewatering is required and is the most challenging problem faced by dredging plans because of the presence in Cayuga Inlet of hydrilla, an invasive aquatic plant. “If there were to be no hydrilla in the sediments, you could do anything with them,” said Nicholas. She said that sediments can’t be moved into Cayuga Lake, for example, or mixed with compost and sold as topsoil. Even depositing the wet soil too close to a body of water risks spreading hydrilla. Part of hydrilla’s enormous success as an invasive plant is due to its ability to sprout from plant fragments, either green leaves or tubers. Hand pulling and herbicides have reduced the tubers found in Cayuga Inlet to less than a tenth of what was originally found there, said James Balyszak, the Hydrilla Program Manager, but the tubers can be dormant for years at a time. While the plant needs to be in a moist environment to survive, the saturated soils removed from the inlet would take a long time to dry out on their own. Sediment disposal is not the only concern. Dredging may disturb in situ hydrilla and spread it to new areas. “We did come up with some protocols,” said Balyszak, such as timing work for low or no flow times, using floating barriers or turbidity curtains, and washing equipment before moving between sites. Parts of the inlet have never had confirmed hydrilla presence, even though they are at high risk. Surveyors are already extensively monitoring for hydrilla throughout the inlet, but “knowing that dredging was going ahead,” said Balyszak, “we might in turn focus on certain areas.” •

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political disasters or victories). The “first thanksgiving” in Massachusetts seems to have commemorated a particularly good harvest at the Plymouth colony in 1621. Given how much they had suffered from disease themselves, the relief of finally getting some fresh food on the table must have been immense and really quite deserving of a “day of thanksgiving” in the established Puritan tradition. The actual role of the Wampanoags, as recorded by William Bradford, later governor of the colony, was probably limited to the English “liberating” seed corn from the empty village of Patuxet. Without that seed corn they would have had nothing to plant in the spring, would not have had any harvest at all, and they would have starved to death like the folks at Roanoke. The fourth Thursday in November is much too late to actually celebrate a harvest. The date isn’t exactly arbitrary, but it certainly did move around a bit until in 1863 Lincoln fixed the date on the last Thursday in November. This was a particularly awful stretch of the Civil War and a good time for ideas that urge people to give thanks for what they have. Sarah Josepha Hale, an abolitionist, novelist, and poet (she wrote “Mary Had a Little Lamb”) had been urging five presidents over 17 years to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. Hale believed that women set the moral tone in a society and a holiday that encouraged everyone to celebrate the same values on the same day would help preserve the Union. Only Washington’s Birthday and Independence Day were national holidays at the time. Hale was from New Hampshire, and only the New England states celebrated the holiday consistently before Lincoln’s proclamation. In 1939 Franklin Roosevelt changed the date by presidential proclamation from the last to the fourth Thursday in November. The U.S. was not yet involved in World War II, and its economy was still not fully recovered from the Great Depression. Roosevelt was urged by retailers to make the holiday slightly earlier so it would provide more shopping days before Christmas. Congress went along with the change in 1941. In the early years after the date alteration, retailer saw no increase in the amount of holiday shopping revenue. Thanksgiving is deliberately not held on the Sabbath, which reflects its origins in the Puritan tradition; their “days of thanksgiving” were never on Sundays. Calling them “secular” isn’t correct because the Puritans thanked God for just about everything (and believed in predestination), but they were meant to be commemorations of events that occurred among people rather than between people and God. In this sense, the Thanksgiving holiday can be what you make it; there is no stipulation written anywhere that tells you what to be thankful for. It’s up to you. •

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you that you need treatments, just because 5 percent say that there is not yet enough evidence that it will continue to grow—so let’s just wait and see if the tumor gets really bad before we do anything. While millions of children in our world are dying from dehydration and millions of acres of land are arid because of human activity, our beautiful lakes, rivers and springs have plenty of clean, drinkable water; an increasingly precious commodity. There are alternative means of producing energy, there are no alternatives to clean water. Life is not sustainable without clean water. In Schuyler County, courageous previously law abiding people are being arrested for standing in front of trucks carrying natural gas, propane and butane before the gases can be stored in unstable salt containers underneath the pristine waters of Seneca Lake. The people acting locally and around the world are not just a bunch of “wacky” people causing trouble, nor are they

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thaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS) and Better Housing for Tompkins County (BHTC) have agreed in principle to combine the two organizations in order to improve the delivery of housing services to Tompkins County residents. Historically, INHS has focused its activities in the City of Ithaca and BHTC has served the remainder of Tompkins County, but these distinctions have blurred in recent years as both organizations have expanded their services and sought new ways of collaborating. Under the new structure, BHTC will become an affiliate of INHS. The corporation known as Better Housing for Tompkins County will continue to exist, but INHS will control the governance and management of both organizations. Current BHTC employees will become employees of INHS. For practical purposes, both organizations will function as a single entity and customers will be able to access all of the services provided by both organizations through a single portal. •

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petition to protest such a change. If 20 percent of the property owners sign the petition (an number already obtained in this instance), the town board is then required to pass the zoning change with at least a three-fourths vote—which for Ithaca, would mean 6 of 7 votes. Town Supervisor Herb Engman told the Ithaca Times that the “straw vote” was 4 votes to 2 (with one member absent) and that the ultimate vote on the rezoning “could be problematic.” After it seemed unlikely the board would change the zoning, Bates changed his vision from a 166-unit project to the 130-unit cluster subdivision, which does not need a rezoning, but actually has a larger footprint on the parcel. Engman had predicted this would happen, and that ultimately the residents’ petition against Bates initial proposal would backfire. “If there is not a re-zoning,” Engman said in June, “the developer can still potentially put in 154 units under current zoning, not much different from the 166 now proposed. However, instead of using only 30 percent of the property, more— maybe even 100 percent—could be used. There would also likely be constructed a more typical, sprawl-like development rather than the higher density one now proposed. It also means that instead of a few residents having new neighbors, most if not all of them would. The logic of opposing the current proposal is hard for me to understand.” • – Michael Nocella

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ith the holidays fast approaching, we should mark our calendars now so we can enjoy our favorite treats and try out some new experiences as well. As expected, our annual most-popular events, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet and Handel’s grand Messiah, are on the schedule, plus special choral music, the customary church services, and a keyboard treasure played by a world-famous musician.

The Choral Presentations Outstanding in this holiday season are three choral programs, starting with “A Holiday Bouquet,” a concert by the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble, at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7, at Ithaca’s Unitarian Church. This well-known group of 20 professionally trained singers is directed by Carl Johengen, and their bouquet features the rose, a symbolic flower linked to both the Virgin Mary and Jesus. The group will perform two Renaissance settings by Praetorius and Vulpius of the German hymn “Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen,” Herbert Howells’s “A Spotless Rose,” and pieces by Lithuanian composer Vytautas Miskinis and local composer Crawford Thoburn, retired director of choral music at Wells College. The epic choral song “Twelfth Night” will be the centerpiece of the program, which also includes arrangement of carols from Europe and England, and the chance for the audience to sing along.

The annual Christmas Vespers at Sage Chapel on the Cornell campus come on Sunday and Monday, Dec. 7 and 8, at 7:30 p.m. This candlelit “Lessons and Carols” service will be sung by the Cornell Chorus and Glee Club, directed by Robert Isaacs, with traditional readings by members of the university community and audience participation in familiar Christmas hymns. The choruses sing six anthems, including Thompson’s Alleluia, Britten’s Hymn to the Virgin, and Biebl’s Ave Maria. The program opens and closes with two Bach works played by Cornell organist David Yearsley and a chimes concert. The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, directed by guest conductor Miriam Burns and assisted by the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble and four soloists—soprano Rebecca Leistikow, alto Ivy Walz, tenor Carl Johengen, and bass Marc Webster—will continue a holiday tradition, Handel’s Messiah, at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 14, at the First Presbyterian Church. All of Part I and generous portions of Parts II and III are on the program. Miriam Burns, who has served on the staff of the New York Philharmonic, comes with abundant experience in orchestral, opera, and choral conducting. She will be leading an ensemble of 20 instrumentalists and 20 voices, almost the same forces that Handel conducted at the original performance in Dublin in 1742. continued on page 25

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A Big Ol’ Bucket of Meh bad food in small portions By Br yan VanC ampe n The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, directed by Francis Lawrence, now playing at Ithaca Stadium 14.

he Hunger Games industry isn’t my favorite. I think there’s something disturbing about a PG-13 franchise where teenagers are murdered on national TV; these movies elide some very tough, queasy issues for easy entertainment at a time when school shootings are at an all-time high. As a favorite Pulp Fictioninspired joke went at the time: You know what they call The Hunger Games in Amsterdam? Battle Royale with cheese. Make that “lots of cheese.” I haven’t read the Hunger Games books because I am not a young adult, but until now I could at least say that the first two movies were better than I expected. The first sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, was the rare sequel that is better than the first film. Director Francis Lawrence showed what his Constantine did not, that he had chops directing actors aside from

the usual epic visual FX landscapes. The series certainly established Jennifer Lawrence as a major boxoffice draw, but the sheer size of the story also encouraged great supporting performances from Elizabeth Banks, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Stanley Tucci, Lenny Kravitz and Jena Malone. Well, I’ve met my match with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, and I fear the word on my street is “meh.” Aside from Josh Boone’s promised multi-film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand, I am not a fan of slicing up single books into two or more films unless they are spinebusters like The Stand and Lord of the Rings. I am on record that LOTR deserved three long movies, but that the three-part Hobbit just about to wrap up could have easily been done as one movie. For that matter, not being a Games groupie, I could have used a re-cap, but Mockingjay starts right in with names, events, and concepts that I had forgotten. It takes a few minutes to get its bearings, and then takes one notion:

Jennifer Lawrence is Katniss Everdeen in the The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I.

Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) agrees to act as head propagandist for the rebellion, at the behest of a new character in the political list, President Coin (Julianne Moore). Meanwhile, Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), looking haggard and haunted, makes repeated TV appearances imploring Katniss to surrender. The best thing about this first slice of bird is a sly meta-commentary on the medium and the message of the rebellion, as they try and mold Katniss into a corporate symbol of sorts, consulting and experimenting with her look, wardrobe

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and speech. The fact that Lawrence herself is an actor being molded by the Hunger Games series runs parallel with the Katniss storyline; it’s a constant and morbid sense of black humor about the struggles of running a military campaign/mega-bucks film franchise. But really, not much happens, and the story as such doesn’t so much conclude as hit pause. Even the late Philip Seymour Hoffman looks tired. And here we sit, having to wait until next year for the whole thing to end. Sigh … meh. Are we there yet? •

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at 75, long island transplant has first solo show By Chr i s Hook e r

he Lansing Town Hall is hosting their first art show of the year with local artist Marty Kepecs. Kepecs is a long time painter, but will be participating in his first ever art show at the age of 75. The show opened with a reception at the town hall last Sunday, November 23.

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A piece by Marty Kepecs. (photo provided) Ithaca Times: How exciting is this, Your first see the ones that don’t come out. ever art show? Marty Kepecs: It’s my first solo gallery IT: Are you hoping to have a second show opening. I have to say, it’s very inviting. somewhere else in the future? I moved up here after living in the same MK: Well, if it would be welcomed house for 45 years, and being welcomed elsewhere, I have no objections to the way I have been has been great. anywhere that wants me to display. Robin Everyone has welcomed myself, my wife Schuttenberg is the person to do it. I was and my art. so flattered. Robin runs the group show in April, and I brought four paintings IT: Where did you move from? to submit. She accepted all four. When I MK: Long Island. We’ve been here brought them in, and she asked if I’d be 13 months. It has been such a great interested in a solo show and it almost experience. We’re wondering why we knocked me off my feet. The only people waited so long. who have ever seen my art are family and friends. Most things I have done are IT: Is your art impressionistic? just things in my house and on my walls. MK: I don’t really have a style, but it’s These were items we didn’t have wall more experimentalism. I like fooling space for. around with as many different things as I can. IT: Who else has helped you along the way? IT: How do you get inspired to paint? MK: Gerry Monaghan has been a MK: To be honest, I dream them. I really hovering angel because he has been do. Just before waking up, I get a feeling pushing me through this whole thing. I and I think I could do that. It really is my don’t know anything about showing. This inspiration. was the first time I did anything. He has directed me and been a fantastic friend. IT: Is that a reliable source of inspiration? MK: Ha! You tell me. IT: What did you learn from those people? IT: When did you start painting? MK: They taught me one thing — it’s MK: I’m 75, so I started painting roughly not as simple as it looks. It took Robin 54 years ago. I started painting when and myself two days to hang those 48 we couldn’t afford anything to hang on paintings. I had no idea. It really required our walls. We had gone to a Greenwhich a lot of thought before anything went up. Village art show, and it didn’t seem that hard. I thought I could do that, or at least IT: What kinds of pieces are you showing? try, and I’ve been painting ever since. MK: It’s work that spans quite a few years. If I’m not being too showy: it’s a IT: So you have never studied art? MK: No, I’m an outsider. I’m self taught. I retrospective. • have not gone to school for art. I just have been relying on what comes out. You don’t

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Northside Staff Tasters: Dave Pohl, ed., Dana Malley, Jason Wentworth, Mark Britten, & Robert Bradley While France’s Burgundy region is the home of the world’s finest Pinot Noir wines, it is sadly increasingly difficult to find truly compelling bottles of red Burgundy for under $30. More and more, Pinot Noir aficionados must look to the New World for characterful Pinot Noir in the $20-$30 price range. The cooler regions of California, Oregon, and New Zealand are the places to which many now turn in their search for Pinot Noir value. Recently, the staff at Northside Wine & Spirits blind tasted 26 Pinot Noirs from California, Oregon, the Finger Lakes region, and New Zealand, all priced under $30. While there were fine examples from each locale, the top two wines of the tasting hailed from California. In fact each of the staff ’s top picks come from regions in California that have become associated with the production of quality Pinot. The top wine of the tasting was the Roth Estate 2012 Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir ($25). The Sonoma Coast, as the name implies, runs along Sonoma

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equences and multiples are a richly generative area for contemporary art-making. The focus demanded by the singular image or artifact can be played off of the imaginative leaps invoked by jumping from one thing to another. “Divergent Series,” the current exhibition at Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery, brings together the Ithaca College’s Handwerker Gallery is currently showing “Divergent Series”, a group diverse efforts of 15 show of 15 faculty artists. (photo via Handwerker Gallery) faculty artists. The show is the brainchild compelling with imagery that resembles of Handwerker Gallery crumpled cloth, paper, and/or photographs. director Mara Baldwin with installation A Thousand Dead Oceans (2012) is work by the gallery’s art preparator Rob particularly striking with its cool and Licht. The presentation is thoughtfully shadowy tones and a “hidden” central figure arranged, ably bringing together the that resembles an angelic child. disparate two and three-dimensional Three primarily black-and-white artworks. prints by Susan Weisend (2014) capture Two tall oil canvases by Lin Price what appear to be ecologically devastated combine broad areas of abstract color with landscapes. Rich geological texturing is small, realistically rendered figures to create played off of the more familiar language of an evocative, oblique narrative art. She Only Flies at Night and The Departure (both 2013) bare trees, distant hills and horizons, and glowing blue skies. play with flatness and depth, the animal and In a related vein is Carla Stetson’s human, sky and earth, rising and receding. Caution to the Wind (2014), an enormous Dara Engler works in a narrative mixed media drawing on three tall sheets expressionist manner, donning costumes of unframed paper. Combining graphite, and using herself as a model for the female acrylic, charcoal, and colored pencil, the protagonist that forms her primary subject. piece builds-up a map-like landscape filled (Animals are another recurring theme.) with atmospheric and topographical detail. In her two oil-on-canvas pieces here she Janice Levy is showing three digital portrays herself as a fearless survivalist in a photomontages printed on canvas (2014). landscape of snow and ice. Each panoramic piece is itself divided into In How to Skin a Squirrel (2014) she is two or three disjointed but narratively grim faced, seated in a vaguely suggested associated images. We see images of young winterscape as she carves the beast with a children played off against images of hands, knife. Three carcasses occupy space to the bowls, food, plants—the suggestion is right. Nothing Bites but the Frost (2014) of need and sustenance. Photos printed is a diptych showing the artist’s alter ego on canvas often results in questionable ice fishing. The top canvas portrays her— image quality but the feel of these prints barefoot and wearing red and black striped is quite rich—a comparison to painting is clothes—holding up a rope that dangles irresistible. through the largest of several holes in the Breathing In (2014) by Jason Harrington ice. The bottom canvas is covered in heavily is another highlight of the exhibition. The stylized bands of aqueous turquoises and 4:54-minute animated video combines blues—painted thickly and in translucent simple but evocative hand drawing with stains. Particularly lovely are three greenish digital production and sound effects. fish: painted with calligraphic contours and “Divergent Series” also includes work fills and patches of richly textured paint. by Pamela Drix, Sara Ferguson, Patricia Recent IC hire Sarah Sutton is showing Hunsinger, Minna Resnick, Robyn Wishna, two painting triptychs that combine a crisp, and the team of Megan Roberts and Old-Master-like painting style with an Raymond Ghirardo. • oblique imagery that teeters on the brink of abstraction. The larger, gray-tone oil on The Handwerker Gallery will be closed for linen pieces contain what appears to be Ithaca College’s Thanksgiving break and will apocalyptic and vegetal subject matter. The reopen on December 1. smaller, oil-on-wood panels are particularly

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hree years ago, the Herbert F. Johnson The Hudson River School dominated Museum at Cornell celebrated the mid 19th-century American landscape opening of its new wing—a smaller painting with its polished technique and add-on to its iconic 1973 I.M. Pei tower, grandiose vistas. The collection here designed by Cornell alumnus John Sullivan includes fine work by leading practitioners III of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. The such as Albert Bierstadt, Asher Brown new space freed the museum to rearrange Durand, and John Frederick Kensett—the and upgrade their permanent collections latter, appropriately with his View of galleries inside the old. A Triphammer Falls, Ithaca revision of their fifth floor N.Y. (undated, oil on Asian displays opened in canvas) hanging near the 2011 while last December center. In a very different saw the unveiling of new vein, George Inness’ second floor installation Landscape—Figures in a Field (1886, oil on canvas) spanning classical and pre1800 European art. is characteristic of his Worked on over the softly toned, dream-like past summer and opened later work. to the public gallery-byThe Salon hanging galley—with the final also incorporates still life, large space made public genre scenes, orientalist last month—the Johnson’s exoticism, and religious first floor reinstallation allegory. features European and Hung in a line, American art of the 19th two side walls contain and 20th centuries. These important work as well. artworks were previously The right wall points to divided between the first the future with a focus on and second floors. The Impressionism and related new display adds historical styles. Netley Abbey (1833, coherence and makes more oil on canvas), by the of the collection viewable. British Romantic John Johnson curators Constable is made to Nancy Green and Andrea anticipate late and turnAlberto Giacometti’s Walking Man II. (photo of-the-century work by Inselmann were in charge via Johnson Museum) Americans Mary Cassatt, of the project. Childe Hassam, Robert Pei’s first floor Henri, and a young Edward Hopper. galleries wrap around balconies overlooking On the opposite wall—heading in the the ground floor Appel Lobby. Although direction of the next gallery—hang two this limits gallery space, the configuration is large French paintings. Charles-Francois eloquently sculptural with an openness that Daubigny’s Fields in the Month of June (1874, allows one to gaze from side of the building oil on canvas) is a magisterial agrarian to another. In the new display, sightlines landscape done in a plein air-style with from between adjacent galleries have been affinities to Impressionism. The Goose Girl carefully exploited to highlight important (1891, oil on canvas), by William-Adolphe works and connections. Bouguereau is a sentimental portrayal of a The arrangement of the galleries peasant girl standing barefoot in front of a conflates a thematic organization with a flock of geese. Bouguereau is considered a loose chronology. This is a clever conceit for paragon of late academic style—conceived of showing-off these works. as a degraded version of the neo-classicism Centering on a Salon-style hanging of Ingres and David—but his elusive, of paintings, the opening Genevieve and painterly treatment of the background Richard Tucker Gallery also features The landscape defies such cliché. Puritan (1899, bronze) by leading American Next in the chronology is the small, sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The elongated Bowers Gallery, formerly devoted proud, caped figure serves as a kind to temporary exhibitions. It now covers of mascot for this gathering of mostly the early to mid-twentieth century and American, mostly landscape canvases. samples the diverse history of Cubism “Salon-style” refers to a style of picture and early abstraction on both sides of the hanging pioneered by the French Salon in Atlantic. One highlight of many is two seventeenth century and widely imitated small watercolors by the American Arthur into the early twentieth. Pieces are hung in Dove—a Cornell alum—beside his larger crowded groups, one-atop-another. A large number of works can be shown but those hung higher can be difficult to see, as is the continued on next page case here.

Alfie’s Delight (1929, oil on canvas.), all striking distillations of natural forms. For those of us with a particular fondness for high modernist painting, a small corner/hallway gallery might be the highlight of the new installation. Early abstract expressionism and its fellow travelers form the focus—with canvases by lesser-known American painters William Baziotes, Forrest Bess, and Bradley Walker Tomlin joining one by the French Maurice Estève. The sightline from the last gallery points to Milton Avery’s austere, almost monochrome The White Wave (1956, oil on canvas). A pair of mid-century-style seats rest by the window. They make a fine place to sit and watch the poised spinning of Alexander Calder’s painted metal Mobile (from the 1930s or ‘40s). Moving forward: the human figure is the overt focus of the mid-size Harris gallery. But the deeper emphasis is on the varied—and sometimes conflicted— responses of mid-century artists to the legacy of abstraction. Work here ranges from the adaption of abstraction to explicit figuration (another Avery, a Fernand Léger, a Henry Moore figurine, among others) to a stylistically conservative realism (Otto Dix, Philip Evergood, Joseph Stella, et al.). Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti’s Walking Man II (1959-60, bronze) exemplifies his iconic postwar style. The figure, which rests on a low base, is human height but its corroded-looking surface and emaciated frame offer a sense of physical and psychological distance. The gallery contains a flat-file cabinet with several drawers that can be opened by visitors to reveal (behind glass) small twentieth century works on paper. A highlight from the case is an etching by the Paul Klee, Was Läuft Er? [How he runs]. Done in 1932, it was the final print the artist made—the following year, he was forced by the Nazi regime to leave his teaching position at the Düsseldorf Academy and return to his native Switzerland. The piece exemplifies his personal take on Cubism: wiry overlapping lines portraying, in minimalist caricature, a figure encountering what appears to be a dog. Thomas Hart Benton was a leading artist in the neo-traditionalist Regionalist school of American painting. His Roadside Bin, Louisiana (1943-45, oil on canvas) shows three black laborers—a woman, a man, and a boy—gathering cotton and loading the cloud-like bundles onto a mule. (The visual analogy Benton makes between the figures and the beast is discomfiting.) Barkley Hendricks’ Down Home Taste (1971, oil and acrylic on linen) and Wayne Theibaud’s Girl on Counter (1973, oil on paper) appear distinctly of their time in their Pop-inflected American realism. The former piece portrays a black hipster of the era: round brimmed hat, glasses, brown jacket, striped trousers, lighting a joint from a pack of Winston matches. The background is a solid bright orange. Theibaud is best known for his lush but cool portrayal of cakes and other sickly foodstuffs. Here a pensive teenage girl—she wears a pink minidress—seems like a kind of counterpoint to Theibaud’s interest in cheery American commercialism.

Another American work, Philip Pearlstein’s Seated Nude on Bentwood Chair (1967, oil on canvas) has been hung in the final gallery. But its quiet modernist realism ties it to the earlier gallery. Completing the cycle around the museum, the concluding Richard and Genevieve Tucker Gallery features art from the late ‘50s through the late century. The display is hectic, with two and threedimensional work in a wide range of media displayed in a sort of postmodern Salonstyle. Temporary walls have been added to the over-scaled space. Although fleshing out the history of recent art is a worthy goal for a university art museum, one misses the spaciousness of the old installation. Moving towards the gallery, one sees De la Nuit (1963) a characteristic sculpture

by John Chamberlain made of crushed automobile parts sprayed with garish colors. On a nearby wall, hang a pair of automobilethemed photorealist paintings by the American Ralph Goings and the British John Salt. Goings’ Heating and Plumbing Truck (1980, oil on canvas) depicts a banal roadside environment while Salt’s Desert Wreck (1972, oil on linen) uses sprayed gray tones for its junkyard scene. Now-retired Cornell art professor Eleanore Mikus is known for her monochromatic abstractions, which combine austere gridded structures with painterly softness and a sense of tactility. Indeed, works like her all-white Tablets 176 (1968, epoxy on fiberglass) are more relief sculpture than traditional painting. Influenced by the social unrest of the

1960s, the American painter Philip Guston abandoned abstract expressionism for a figurative style. Key-Wall-Sea (1978, oil on canvas) is an exemplary late Guston: a coarse, cartoon-like pile of horseshoes and a brick wall crowding out water and sky. It is exciting to see this much work, both familiar and unfamiliar. The rearrangement succeeds in bringing new life to a fine, farreaching collection—thus concludes an important chapter in the development of the museum. • A reception for the reinstalled first floor galleries will be held at the Johnson on Friday, Dec. 12, from 6 to 7:30 pm. Preceding the opening from 5 to 6 pm, a members-only talk will be given by Museum Director Stephanie Wiles.

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n her performance of Snap! at Cinemapolis on Friday, Dec. 5, storyteller Regi Carpenter will be telling a very different kind of story than she has been known for. Children were her audience when Carpenter started her storytelling career. She then added family stories for adult audiences to her repertoire. Now, however, she is telling a harrowing autobiographical tale. “This is a story I didn’t want to tell,” said Carpenter. “There is a stigma attached. I didn’t want people to know that I had been institutionalized.” She was inspired by an Indian folk tale that she read that told of a person who kept a story secret and took it her grave. “Then I thought of my story,” she Regi Carpenter performs “Snap!” at Cinemapolis on Friday. said. (photo by Tim Gera) Because she had not shared her experience with anyone, she To her great satisfaction, they get it. felt trapped in it. “I felt I was still 16,” she Carpenter has been delighted to see said, “and it was still happening. Now I the revival of storytelling as manifested by look at it as a woman and as a daughter.” the popularity of radio programs like This She began by telling her story at American Life, The Moth Radio Hour and festivals and conferences around the the local Trampoline series. country. “There hasn’t been anyone who “I attended Mass Mouth, which is has heard it,” Carpenter said, “who wasn’t the Boston version of The Moth,” she grateful. They all find a character in said. “I owe my story to it. I feel really the story that speaks to them.” Part of a connected to this community. They put on storyteller’s job, she said, in the past, now, a competition every year; everyone gets and forever, is to speak to the community five minutes and then the audience votes. about important issues. The first time Carpenter told Snap! was at Ithaca College I really wanted to tell Snap!” There are 300 contestants at different venues all around for a mental health conference. the Boston metropolitan area. There are For the past four years Carpenter has been teaching storytelling at Ithaca College four winners every night. She won the first round. “I was petrified,” she said. in the communications department. The Carpenter then developed a department added it their curriculum and 25-minute version of her story and started then came looking for her. She teaches attending workshops around the country two different courses each year. They are to hone it based on reactions and her electives, open to all types of student all experiences of telling it. across the college population. “Then I went to Ithaca High School “It’s an amazing experience,” she and told it in a class there,” she said. “That said. “I watch them [each class] form a was a 55-minute version. The final version community and discover the essence of a that people will see at Cinemapolis is an story.” Carpenter gets all kinds of stories hour and 15 minutes.” from her students, ranging from simple Carpenter describes her story as full comic tales about driving your car into a of hope and recovery. “It’s pretty rough manure pile to more serious narrations of leading toward the hospital,” she said, coming out. “but once I was in the hospital I found a In her classes she helps the students therapist who was wise and kind, and they explore everything about storytelling. She believes a lot of the “muscles” that we need helped me find my way.” She got out of the hospital after a year for the task have atrophied in our society, and found her family had moved because which experiences so much “social” of the shame. No one spoke of it until interaction through an electronic medium. her mother was dying. “She told me, ‘I “They have to learn about the power signed you in to save your life,’” Carpenter of the human presence,” she said, “and said. “All those years I thought I was working peer to peer. They need to look being punished. This is about forgiveness, people in the eye while they are telling understanding, and hope.” • the story. And they need to discover the language that describes internal imagery.”

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From Part II particularly, Burns will be doing something different, having selected fewer choruses and many more solos that we usually hear. The highlight choruses—“Hallelujah!” and “Worthy Is the Lamb”—are included, naturally, but this time the tenor especially has much more story-telling. Johengen will be busy, as he has also prepared the chorus. If you need to start the season fully rested and with good preparation for all this choral sound, come and hear acclaimed harpsichordist Jory Vinikour perform Bach’s phenomenal “Goldberg Variations” at the Unitarian Church on Friday, Dec. 5, at 7:30. These variations, the story goes, were composed for a count in the Saxon court who suffered from insomnia and needed something to cheer him up when he couldn’t sleep. Vinikour, recognized as one of the outstanding musicians of his generation, performs in the world’s leading festivals and concert halls as recitalist and concerto soloist. He will present this lively piece as a complete program without intermission. The Holiday Calendar Sunday, Dec. 7. As part of the 10 a.m. service, the First Congregational Church choir will perform John Rutter’s Gloria in the original scoring for brass octet, percussion, and organ, all under

the direction of music director, William Cowdery. The First Presbyterian Church presents a Lessons and Carols service at 10 a.m., and the choir, led by choir director and organist Ian Woods, will be singing music that includes the Spanish Renaissance carol honoring the Virgin Mary, “Riu, riu, chiu” and a work for double chorus, “Hymn to the Mother of God” by the contemporary English composer John Tavener. The Youth Choir and Bell Choir are also participating. The annual Winter Choral Concert in Ford Hall at 3 p.m. features Ithaca College’s four choruses under the direction of Janet Galván and Derrick Fox, performing seasonal music and carols. Friday to Sunday, Dec. 12–14. The Ithaca Ballet will be giving three performances of The Nutcracker, with music by Tchaikovsky and choreographed by Lavinia Reed, at the State Theatre. The performance on Sunday, Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m. will also feature the Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra. Matinees on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 13 and 14 are at 3 p.m. For an earlier presentation, the ballet will be performed on Sunday, Nov. 30, also with orchestra, at the Smith Opera House in Geneva at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14. The 10:30 a.m. worship service at St. John’s Episcopal Church will feature a celebration of Advent “Lessons and Carols,” led by

director of music and organist Karen Hindenlang. Musical offerings from the Chancel Choir, accompanied by organ, trumpet, violin, and French horn, include Mark Schweizer’s setting of a Scottish folksong, “Christ is nigh,” and “Comfort ye, my people” by Mark Wilson. The choir will also sing a rousing a cappella setting of the spiritual, “Keep your lamps trimmed and burning.” St. Luke Lutheran Church presents an Advent Lessons and Carols service at 10:45 a.m. The choir of about 20 voices under music director Erik Kibelsbeck will sing music of the British Isles by William Byrd, Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and James MacMillan. Sunday, Dec. 21. The Congregational Church service at 10 a.m. includes special music by the Ithaca College group Ithaca Brass, who will then accompany the congregation in the singing of carols following the service. The 10:30 a.m. service at the Unitarian Church, “Solstice, Yule, and Christmas,” features favorite choral pieces on these themes, performed by the choir under the direction of Jennifer Birnbaum. Wednesday, Dec. 24. Christmas Eve services present candlelight, carols, and special music. St. John’s will have two festive celebrations of Holy Communion—a family carol service at 4 p.m. and full Choral Eucharist at 11 p.m., with a choral movement from Bach’s Cantata No. 129 with trumpet

and Crawford Thoburn’s setting of the Christina Rossetti poem, “Love came down at Christmas.” The prelude for the late service begins at 10:30 p.m. with music for brass and organ. There will two Unitarian services at Sage Chapel this year, the first at 5:15 p.m. will be shorter and more family oriented, with special music by a flute ensemble and baroque oboe. The second, at 8 p.m., features a recorder ensemble and a full community choir singing “When the song of angels is stilled” in a setting by former Ithaca resident Elizabeth Alexander, plus such familiar music as “The Holly and the Ivy” and “In the Bleak Midwinter.” Both services will have candlelight and audience participation. The family service at 6 p.m. in the Congregational Church presents a Christmas Pageant by the church school and music by the Junior Choir and Handbell Choir, and the Youth Orchestra (called the “Congo Band”). The traditional candlelight service of Lessons and Carols at 8:30 p.m., with anthems and special music provided by the Senior Choir, Handbell Choir, and soprano Sarah Beckwith, is directed by William Cowdery. The 7 p.m. service at St. Paul’s Methodist Church will present a brass quartet, readings, choral anthems under the direction of choirmaster Nick Weiser, and traditional singing of “Silent Night” with candles. A second service is at 9:30 p.m. •

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Chamber Music Concert | 7:00 PM| Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Woodwinds Studio Recital | 7:30 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | featuring students of oboist Emily DiAngelo, flutists Liisa Grigorov and Elizabeth Shuhan, and saxophonist James Spinazzola. Sinfonietta | 8:15 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Mario Torres and Paul Grobey, conductors Music of Berlioz, Grieg, Beethoven, Dvorak, and Brahms. Webcast live at www.ithaca.edu/ music/live

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Prize in Un Certain Regard, this wickedly funny and precisely observed psychodrama tells the story of a model Swedish familyhandsome 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: 9:15 PM; Sat & Sun: 1:45, 9:15; Mon - Wed: 9:15 PM; Thu: 1:45, 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, 9:20; Sat & Sun: 2:40, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20; Mon & Tue: 4:50, 7:05, 9:20; Wed: 4:50, 9:20; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:40, 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, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30; Mon - Wed: 4:00, 6:50, 9:30; Thu: 11:00 AM, 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 The Theory of Everything | The extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. | 123 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Sat & Sun: 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Mon - Wed: 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 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 •

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dealing lover struggle to overcome the forces that derail families. What happens when the line between sacrifice and selfishness is blurred? | Fri - Wed: 4:45, 7:00; Thu: 11:20 AM, 4:45, 7:00 cornell cinema

Black Dynamite | When The Man murders his brother and poisons the ghetto’s malt liquor, the ex-CIA, kung fu-choppin’, all-around baadasss Black Dynamite vows to clean up the streets. | Mon 12/01 7:15 PM. introduced by Prof. Cheryl Finley, History of Art and Visual Studies. Police, Adjective | Cristi (Dragos Bucur) is a young undercover cop who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he is pressured to arrest a teenager who offers hash to classmates. Not wanting to ruin the life of a young man he considers merely irresponsible, Cristi must either allow the arrest to be a burden on his conscience, or face censure by his self- serious superior (Independent Film Channel). | Tue 12/02 7:00 PM, free, introduced by Dr. Mona Momescu, Columbia University. Frank | Ginger-haired Jon joins the Soronprfbs, an eccentric pop band led by the even more eccentric Frank, who never takes off an oversized plastic head with baby-boy blue eyes with a direct stare. As he spends more time with the band and they toy with albumwriting and history-making, it becomes clear that Frank might be just too much for Jon to face. | Wed 12/03 7:15 PM; Thu 12/04 7:15 PM; Sat 12/06 9:30 PM

Stage Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 11/26 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs Open Mic Poetry | 6:00 PM-, 11/28 Friday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge, 139 W. State Street, Ithaca | Bring a poem to share or write one while you’re here. Poetry readings will be held on the Fourth Friday of each month.

Another Christmas with the Calamari Sisters: Feast of the Seven Fishes | 8:00 PM-, 11/28 Friday; 2:00 PM-, 11/29 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 11/30 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. Hairspray | 8:00 PM-, 11/28 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 11/29 Saturday; 7:30 PM-, 12/03 Wednesday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 Genesee Street, Syracuse | The hit Broadway musical piled bouffant high with laughter, romance, and deliriously tuneful songs. Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray delights with the pleasures of a classic American musical. Tracy Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV show could be a catalyst for integration? You can’t stop the beat, and truth be told, you won’t want to once the all-singing and dancing cast takes the stage. The Nutcracker | 3:00 PM-, 11/30 Sunday | Smith Opera House For the Performing Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | presented by Ithaca Ballet and the Finger Lakes Symphony Orchestra. Anna in the Tropics | 8:00 PM-, 12/02 Tuesday | Clark Theatre, Ithaca College, Danby Road (Rt. 96B), Ithaca | Nilo Cruz sets his Pulitzer Prize-winning play in Tampa, Florida, in the late 1920s among a family of Cuban immigrants. Passion, betrayal, and tradition come to the forefront when a handsome stranger brings Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina into the family business. Sunset Baby | 7:30 PM-, 12/03 Wednesday | Kitchen Theatre, 471 W State/MLK St, Ithaca | By Dominique Morisseau. A former Black revolutionary, his outsidethe-law daughter, and her drug

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.

Meetings Tompkins County Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Committee | 3:30 PM-, 11/26 Wednesday | County Of Tompkins, 320 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Community Theater Group | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 11/26 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. Tompkins County Economic Development Committee | 3:30 PM-, 12/01 Monday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Tompkins County Legislature | 5:30 PM-, 12/02 Tuesday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome. Ithaca City School District Board of Education | 7:00 PM-, 12/02 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | Ithaca Town Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 12/02 Tuesday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 12/03 Wednesday | Chil’s, 608 S. Meadow St, Ithaca | 607-2792297. lldalve24@yahoo.com Ithaca Common Council | 6:00 PM-, 12/03 Wednesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public is heard during privilege of the floor.

Learning 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. 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, 11/30 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5 donation suggested. Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/02 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | For more info, email jesusianity@ gmail.com or visit: www.facebook. com/groups/JesusiansOfIthaca. Microsoft Publisher | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/03 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Matt Barkee will teach participants how to create, edit and save Publisher documents as well as advanced features to create professional looking posters. Registration required. Meet the Practitioner - Creatively Coping With Stress: The Art of Relaxation | 8:15 PM-, 12/03 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | As the busy holiday season approaches, take a break to re-vitalize your energy and learn relaxing, playful, and creative ways to reduce stress. Penny H. Baron is a Board Certified Registered Art Therapist. This class is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

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Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 11/29 Saturday; 9:00 AM-, 11/30 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: Urban Hike | 1:00 PM-, 11/29 Saturday | East Hill Plaza, Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Join the Cayuga Trails Club for an urban hike from the Warren Road Golf Course to the Cayuga Waterfront Trail. Meet at 1:00 pm, East Hill Plaza near Ellis Hollow entrance. For more information, call 607-257-6906 or visit www. cayugatrailsclub.org

Special Events 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. Legion Fish Fry | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/28 Friday | Candor American Legion, 90 Spencer Road, Candor | The American Legion Auxiliary Friday night Fish Fry. phone: 659-7395 on the night of the dinners Holiday Bazaar and Craft Show | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, 11/29 Saturday | Jacksonville Community United Methodist Church, 1869 Trumansburg Road, Jacksonville | Christmas will glow at the Church Craft Boutique located in the Hearth Room again this year which will be overflowing with handmade items from our creative

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Ithaca Farmer’s Market 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 11/29 Saturday and 11/30 Sunday | Steamboat Landing, Ithaca | Open Hearts Dinner | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 11/26 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. Soup and or Chili Nights | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 12/02 Tuesday | Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, 17 Main St., Candor | Every Tuesday Night. With

Black Friday with the Gunpoets

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Friday, November 28 – 9 p.m.

The Jeff Love Band brings good times to Ithaca’s Lot 10 Lounge for a Black Friday show. Your pick: Hit the dancefloor, or camp out in front of a Big Box for another television set? Easy call (photo via Facebook).

crafters. Unique vendors and crafts created by people in our area will again be on display and for sale throughout our large fellowship hall. Woodworkers, jewelry, hand-crafted cards, maple syrup, afghans and other holiday items will be showcased. Silent auction and bake sale. DGently used toys, Christmas decorations and and quality used items can be found at the Church Attic. Etsy Trunk Show @ Ithacamade | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 11/29 Saturday | Ithacamade, 430 W. State/ MLK St., Ithaca | Part of Small Business Saturday, on November 29th. Featuring local artisans Kate Lamarre and Julia Gray. w/ refreshments and prize drawings. Festival of Trees | 11:00 AM-8:00 PM, 12/01 Monday; 12/02 Tuesday, 12/03 Wednesday | Ward O’Hara Agricultural Museum, 6914 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Through December 23, come see this community celebration with trees, big and small, lit and unlit. Dress warm. Weekend hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Weekdays from 4 to 8 p.m. Ithaca Farmers’ Market Cookbook Collectors Edition Celebration Party | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 12/01 Monday | Red Feet Wine Market, , Ithaca | Hosted by Red Feet Wine Market. Wine tastings and food from the Ithaca Farmers’ Market. An Evening to Remember | 5:30 PM-9:00 PM, 12/03 Wednesday | Trip Hotel Ithaca, 1 Sheraton Drive, Ithaca | An Evening to Remember: A Gala to raise awareness and funds for the Alzheimer’s Association of CNY

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Walk-in Clinic | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 12/01 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 Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments). Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, 11/28 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, 11/30 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, 12/02 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-, 12/02 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, 12/02 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. Eating Through the Holidays | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 12/02 Tuesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Sue Petersen, Clinical Nutritionist, will teach you how to jingle all the way through the holidays with healthy decadent foods. You will learn tips and tricks to make sure you won’t stuff yourself. Sue plans on bringing her favorite holiday treats, so you can gobble up the goodness.

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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, 11/26 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-, 11/26 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, 11/26 Wednesday | Dryden Village Hall, , Dryden | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 11/27 Thursday | First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 11/29 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/01 Monday | Just Be Cause center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/26 Wednesday | First Congregational Church of Ithaca , 309 Highland Rd , Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/01 Monday | Ithaca Recovery Center, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/26 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, 11/26 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.

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Books 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. Graphic Novel and Manga Club | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM, 12/01 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner, 101 E Green Street, Ithaca | For teen readers. The club meets every other Monday in the library’s Tompkins Trust Company Study Room. For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at (607) 272-4557 extension 274 or rdemauro@tcpl. org. Cortland Book Club | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 12/03 Wednesday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St., Cortland | The Adult Book Club will meet to discuss “My Beloved World” by Sonia Sotomayor. Registration is not required and new members are always welcome. Please contact the library for more information or to reserve a copy of the book. http:// www2.cortland.edu/home/

Museum exhibits

Cornell Plantations | Nevins Welcome Center, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Tuesday-Saturday | Plant Portraits Through the Season, digital prints by Margaret Corbitt, ongoing | Ögwe ö:weh Consciousness as Peace, in collaboration with Cornell’s American Indian Program, ongoing | The Seasons of Cornell Plantations, photographs by Rene Corinne, through October | Victus Acernis, by Jack Elliot and Cornell Students | Gourds Galore!, vessels, utensils and more made from gourds | www.cornellplantations. org Corning Museum of Glass | 1 Museum Way, Corning | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM every day | René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass, through 01/04 | Designing for a New Century: Works on Paper by Lalique and his Contemporaries, through 01/04 | Never in Your

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Arts ongoing Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Monday-Saturday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM; Thursday, 10:00-8:00 PM | 273-1371 | Carl Schofield: SchoPhoto, through November | www.benjaminpeters. com Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | The Fledgling, work from Margaret Reed, up through November | www.buffalostreetbooks. com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Mon-Thu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, Fri-Sat 11:00 PM-7:30 PM; Sun 12:00-5:00 PM | Identity and Global Lens, Cornell University Student Show, opening 11/07 | CAP-a-Palooza Sale continues | www. artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | 12:00 PM-8:00 PM Monday through Thursday; 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM, Friday; 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM Saturday; noon to 6:00 PM, Sunday | Michael Sampson, oil paintings | www.thecellardor.com Chemung Canal Trust | The Commons | photo series by Nancy Ridenour, up through 10/08; Finger Lake Landscapes, by John Whiting,

opening 10/08 through 12/31 Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Sun-Wed 6:30 PM-8:00 PM; Thurs-Sat 6:30 AM-10:00 PM | A Collaboration of Art, dual show with Dru Wheelin and Lois Barden, through November | collegetownbagels.com Contemporary Trends | 121 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | MondaySaturday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM | Art at CT, group show, paintings, photographs and prints | contemporarytrends.com Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center), Ithaca | TuesdayThursday, 10:00 AM-5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM. Closed Sun & Mon | Line/Language, 12 artists, up through 12/20 | www.cornersgallery.com Crow’s Nest Café | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Inner Space, works by Andrea Staffeld and Gerry Monaghan, opening 11/07 | (646) 306-0972 Dowd Fine Arts Center | temporary location: 9 West Main Street, Cortland | Transcendences: prints, panels, drawings and sculptures by Diana Al-Hadid, Wang Gongxin and Lin Tianmiao, opening 10/23 up through 12/10 | (607) 753-4216 Elevator Music and and Art Gallery | New Roots Charter School, 116 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | 882-9220 | From Burma to Buffalo: Picturing the Refugee Experience, photos by Tim Gera, opening 11/07 | newrootsschool.org Eremita Winery | 2155 Church St., Lodi | (607) 474-5002 | Mon, Thu, Fri, Sat: 11:00 AM to 6 PM; Sun: noon to 5:00 PM; closed Tue and Wed | Christopher Loomis, drawings, through 12/15 | eremitawinery.com. 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.

Forever Young

Hank and Cupcakes

This weekend, The Dock hosts an evening of Neil Young, with nearly a dozen artists and bands playing nothing but Young covers. All proceeds from this show will benefit the Cayuga Nature Center’s Summer Camp Scholarship Fund (photo provided).

Dance duo Hank and Cupcakes takes to Lot 10 for what will be an unforgettable Ithaca show. Hank plays bass, and Cupcakes sings and bashes on drums in a dynamic pairing of pop-rock and dance. Supporting are The Newman Bros. and Misses Bitches.

Saturday, November 29 – 8 p.m.

Wildest Dreams: Connections Through Imagination, junior curators, through 12/31 | www. cmog.org Curtiss Glenn H Museum Of Local History | RR 54, Hammondsport | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM; Open Sundays, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Warehouse 53, original props and costumes from some of the most iconic adventure films and television shows, through 09/01 | www.curtisshglennmuseum.org Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Road, Ithaca | TuesdaySunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | JIE (Boundaries): Contemporary Art Taiwan, through 12/21 | Surrealism and Magic, inspired by the library of Kurt Seligmann, through 12/21 | An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 06/21 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos, by Leo Villareal, ongoing | www.museum.cornell.edu The History Center | 401 E. State St, Ithaca | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Switched On: The Birth of the Moog Synthesizer, opening 05/02 and ongoing | www.historicithaca.org or www.thehistorycenter.net. Museum of the Earth at PRI | 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Monday, Thursday-Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Ongoing: The Animals of the Nature Center, Glacier Exhibit, Right Whale #2030, Rock of Ages/ Sands of Time, Coral Reef Aquaria, A Journey Through Time, Discovery Labs, Hype Park Mastodon www. museumoftheearth.org Rockwell Museum of Western Art | 111 Cedar St, Corning | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM | On Fire: The Nancy and Alan Cameros Collection of Southwestern Pottery, through 04/2016 | Untouched by Chaos: Karl Bodmer and the American Wilderness, up through 03/2015 | Lock, Stock & Barrel, historic firearms, up through 01/2015 | www.rockwellmuseum.org Sciencenter | 601 First Street, Ithaca | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; open noon Sunday. Closed Monday | New: Mars Rover exhibit, opening 11/04| www.sciencenter.org Susquehanna River Archaeological Center | 345

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gimmecoffee.com/ Handwerker Gallery | Gannett Center, Ithaca College | Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM; Thursday, 10 AM to 9 pm; weekends, noon to 5 PM. Closed to the public on Tuesdays | Faculty Show | www.ithaca. edu/handwerker 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/ 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 Sampson and Elizabeth McMahon, up through November | www.solagallery. com 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 Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | MondayThursday, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM; Friday and Saturday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday, 1 PM-5:00 PM | Montage Histories: Tompkins County, New York, through Photographs 1864- 2014, through December | www.tcpl.org Uncorked Creations |102 N. Tioga

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B-side of Vampire Weekend. Matuto have a way of making the most recognizable material all of their own. A recent cover of “Drunk in Love” sounds both like Beyoncé and an accordion-player’s bluegrass yarn. Next up, Jay Z.

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n “Ivory Coast,” Matuto’s most pop-oriented song of the forthcoming Africa Suite EP, singer Clay Ross presents a compelling case against leaving his show early. The line, though little hyperbolic if taken literally, certainly will resonate with anyone who has caught this fiery act’s performances in town. “So give the band another round, this night is running deep, we’ll maybe cave at 8 a.m. but nobody’s going to sleep.” Coupled with the electrifying shuffle of the polyphonic and shifting rhythmic arrangement, I found myself “jumping in [my] seat” while driving straight out a music monotony of autumnal rock releases. The other four songs on the Suite make just as compelling a case for dance. Cameroon, Ghana, Mozambique, and Senegal reflect a pan-African AfroPop omnivorousness to the act, which will stop by the Cyber Café West in Binghamton on Friday, Nov. 28, and then the Haunt Saturday, Nov. 29. Back in July, co-frontman Rob Curto wrote about his band’s experience touring Africa on behalf of the State Department. “Our music is rooted in the American musical experience, the coming together of European, African, and indigenous elements, so when we performed our compositions in Africa people understood and the music resonated right away. The music spoke for itself and the response was immediate, so I don’t think anybody came at us with any preconceptions. Also the shared language made it seamless

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Matuto plays Saturday, Nov. 29 at The Haunt. (photo provided) to collaborate with local musicians, something which the embassies had arranged before our arrival. The opportunity to share repertoire, perform with and get to know personally musicians from Mozambique, Ghana, Cameroon, Cote D’Ivoire, and Senegal was simply priceless.” By now, most locals are familiar with the Clay Ross-fronted Matuto, who have slowly expanded their band-brand recognition as far as Oman and Kuwait, as well as Malta and Spain, but return regularly to Tompkins County, most recently this last summer around the time of the World Cup. “We draw from a style called forro, which is … similar to American country music,” Ross said. “There are Brazilian cowboys, Brazilian square dances, and a whole world of Brazilian rhythms besides bossa nova that most people in

org. www.csma-ithaca.org 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 Zumba Kids | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | Open to girls and boys ages 5-12. Session 1: Thursdays, 5:30-6:30 PM Dec. 4 - Jan. 8 at Ithaca Youth Bureau. For more information visit IYBrec.com or call 273.8364. Cuddle Up Storytime | 10:00 AM-,

the U.S. have never heard. Inspired by these sounds, our music is high-energy, danceable, and infectious. Most of all it’s fun.” Matuto, which roughly translates from Portuguese as a slang term for “country bumpkin” is Appalachia via northeastern Brazil. Traditional American standards like “John the Revelator” and “Banks of the Ohio” are given a Carnivál treatment, with marcatu, forró and coco rhythms. The Africa Suite, which draws from each country’s sonic mélange while adding its own accent, reflect a music group that seems capable of anything. It makes perfect sense for a Portugueseinfluenced Matuto to attempt a song like “Mozambique,” which sounds drawn straight from the streets of Maputo. But the less familiar sounds appear as well. “Ivory Coast” sounds like a better

11/26 Wednesday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden | Songs and stories with Ms. Diane for babies and toddlers. Stay after for play time. Caregivers are required to stay with their child(ren). Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 11/27 Thursday, 11/29 Saturday, 12/01 Monday, 12/02 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-, 11/27 Thursday | Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main St., Trumansburg | Each week will feature a fun theme such as pirates, the circus,

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The Readers’ Theatre of Ithaca will hold their second annual fundraiser benefit at Cinemapolis. In celebrating their fifth season, RTI presents Anne Marie Cummings’ new stage play, Sinkhole. The production follows a family’s move to L.A., where a stick-up involving one of the characters reveals the family’s darkest secrets (photo provided).

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• • • You might have seen last week’s story about the Neil Young benefit at the Dock this Saturday, November 29. To re-cap, Don Bazley will gather for the twelfth or thirteen annual show almost a dozen acts that will cover material from Shakey’s songbook, and all proceeds will go to the Cayuga Nature Center. It’s a great cause, a friendly celebration that has the casual air of a post-Thanksgiving get-together. What wasn’t mentioned, and should be noted, is that it is Mr. Bazley’s 50th birthday. So remember to wish him a good one if you make it. Other local reunion shows or, familiar faces: Also Saturday, Jeb Puryear, Hank Roberts, Sim Redmond, Uniit Carayo, and Mark Raudabaugh at the Rongo. Doors at 9 p.m., show at 9:30 p.m. Also Saturday: The New Neighbors at the Chapter House. Friday: It has been a few months— too many, since Gunpoets brought the house down at the Haunt, which itself was a celebration of their live album recorded at the Hangar. Friday, Nov. 28, they will complete the circle of live Ithaca venues performed in 2014, hitting the Dock for the first time. •

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