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hotel’s location, and the Ithaca community as a whole. Whitham presented the latest proposal of the hotel to City of Ithaca Common Council during its Wednesday, Nov. 5 public meeting. “The brand itself is very much about neighborhood,” he said. “It’s very much about context, very much about ‘small’ and fitting in with the local culture. So, in terms of food [the hotel includes a restaurant open to the public], in terms of design, in terms of art, as a design team it’s been particularly fun. Because part of what we’re doing right now is reaching out to local artists, local food, local wine, beer, as we put this design together. So that’s been an exciting piece to it.” Whitham added that although the Canopy brand
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t its meeting last week, the Tompkins County Legislature’s Old Library Committee moved a tentative Request for Proposal (RFP) on to the full legislature. The committee, led by Chairman Mike Lane (D-14th), began meeting last April after the county received responses to their Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) from developers interested in the 0.88-acre property on North Cayuga Street. Over the intervening six months the committee has been formulating an RFP and reviewing responses to the RFEI to determine which proposals should be asked to move to the stage of the process. The resolution authorizing the release of the RFP includes the recommendation that all four remaining developers be invited to respond to the RFP. Although initially six developers responded to the RFEI, two dropped out and withdrew their proposals. The four remaining RFEI respondents include DPI Consultants; a group that includes STREAM Collaborative, Franklin Properties, MCK Building Associates, Taitem Engineering, and Dr. Marne O’Shae; and partnerships between Cornerstone Group and Cayuga Housing Development Corporation; and between Travis Hyde Properties and HOLT Architects. Before the committee passed its resolution, Planning Commissioner Ed Marx went through the RFP draft in detail, discussing each section with the fivemember committee. “The introduction is pretty similar to what was in the RFEI,” said Marx. He noted that the section on zoning and property description is very similar as well. Regarding the section on selection criteria, Marx said, “First we state that the county is interested in fair market value for the property.” The selection criteria section goes on to indicate that, unlike in the RFEI, the county is requesting that all proposals include mixed uses, and that green building proposals will be favored. Also, Marx noted that an added a requirement in the selection criteria was that all project proponents attend a special meeting of the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commissioner tentatively scheduled for January. Moving on to a seven-item list of criteria, Marx said, “They are proposed … in no particular order of relative
ne of the hotels considered to be part of the Ithaca’s “hotel boom” will remain on the fast track. City of Ithaca officially finalized the transfer of ownership of the 32-space parking lot located at 320-324 Martin Luther King Jr./E. State St. to the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency (IURA). The transaction now allows Lighthouse Hotels, LLC to move forward with its negotiations with IURA for buying the lot for its proposed sevenstory, 123-room Canopy by Hilton hotel. The project, formerly known as a Hampton Inn & Suites, recently became part of Hilton’s (which owns Hampton Inn & Suites) new “Canopy” hotel franchise. According to Hilton’s website, the Canopy Hotel proposed for Seneca Way and East State Street. The “Canopy” hotels are meant to be hotel line part of a “positively yours” culture. (Photo provided) focuses on “great neighborhoods,” is a family of hotels, each hotel would be “market-driven approach,” “comfort “unique and singular.” and design,” “more included value” and Council unanimously voted to “our ‘positively yours’ culture.” There approve the transfer. However, there are currently 11 Canopy by Hiltons in was a lengthy discussion that largely the world. Ithaca would become the focused on the hotel’s staff ’s wages, and smallest city to have one. Other cities the ramifications the hotel would have include London, Portland (Ore.), Denver, on neighboring businesses—particularly Washington D.C. and Miami. those that depend on the parking lot the President of Whitham Planning & hotel would be built on top of. Lighthouse Design Scott Whitham, who is managing the project for Lighthouse Hotels, said continued on page 5 the Canopy branding is a good fit for the
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he parking lot at North Fulton and West Court streets will no longer be a public parking lot. The City of Ithaca Board of Public Works (BPW), during its Monday, Nov. 10 public meeting, elected to modify the parking lot at the West End location to both permit and public parking while selling twothirds of the spaces to Wink’s Auto Body Shop on a yearly lease basis. According to the unanimously approved resolution, the lot, which contains 30 parking spots plus two handicap spaces, Wink’s Auto Body Shop—located next to the parking lot—will buy 20 spaces each month on a permit basis and complete all general maintenance for the entire parking lot, including snow removal, salting, sweeping, sidewalk, striping, and landscaping, which will reduce expenses for the lot approximately $4,800 for the city per year. The BPW noted that it could reassess the lot’s use on a yearly basis. Before Monday night’s meeting, the BPW was considering two options for the parking lot: leasing spaces to Wink’s Auto Body shop or putting the lot up for auction and giving it back to New York State. At the board’s Monday, Oct. 27 public meeting City Transportation Engineer Tim Logue explained the lot is currently being under utilized. “Most recently,” Logue said, “we got to the point with the most recent owner where we asked does this parking lot have any public purpose anymore or just private purpose? We struggled with charging people to park there. It seemed like if it was free, people would park there, but if they had to pay, no one was really
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“Cellphones. Some people can’t live without it.” —Mauroice Perry
“I grew up with robots and artificial intelligence. The priority is to make all things humanistic to improve peoples’ lives.” —Youngkey Chung
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enough that we don’t know what the state would do with it. They might not just offer to sell it to the adjacent owner, so there’s really no control for the city in terms of what the state would do with it. It seems like a big enough lot that isn’t required to be parking under city zoning, but it is a pretty developable lot. It’s one of the busier streets in the county, I would think it would be very attractive to the private sector.” BPW Superintendent Michael Thorne said that the city might still ultimately go that direction in the future, but staff met with City Attorney Ari Lavine, who said he would prefer pursuing modifying the lot to permit-only parking with a one-year lease and that “we still need to get more information from the DOT [New York State Department of Transportation]” and that its going to take “a little bit of time” to obtain the necessary information needed to decide whether or not the city should revert ownership back to the state. Until then, he said, the yearly lease was a good option for the time being. Though board members unanimously approved the resolution to lease the parking lot to Wink’s Auto Body Shop, City Director of Parking Frank Nagy (Photo: Michael Nocella) Building Links Inc. President Cynthia Yahn offered some opposition. Yahn said she was responsible for the creation of the parking lot in the mid 1990s, and that maintenance for us.” its purpose was to provide parking for The second option would have been residential users. Nagy noted that when to discontinue using the parking lot and the city has offered the parking lot on invoke the “reverter” clause in the city’s a permit basis to the local neighbors, it agreement with New York State, which has been largely unused. He added that sends the property back to the state via there’s still 10 parking spots for residential an auction process. However much the who do wish to use parking in the lot lot would be sold for, would go to the during the day, and can do so for just $20 city. This, Logue, explained, would be a a month. The lot is also free to the public more complicated option than selling between 6 p.m. to 9 a.m. during the week, the lot directly to Wink’s, but would give and all day long during the weekend. • the city more immediate funds from the transaction. – Michael Nocella “The scary thing [about the second option],” Logue said, “is the lot is big all that interested in it. In my estimation, this lot doesn’t have much public purpose anymore. It has a private benefit sure, but it doesn’t serve the public in any way anymore, or a least a significant one. Certainly not one that out weighs our responsibilities to maintain it.” Director of Parking Frank Nagy said selling the lot to Wink’s Auto Body Shop is a pretty straightforward arrangement that would net the city some extra funds on an annual basis. “If [the city sells the parking lot to Wink’s Auto Body Shop],” he said, “the city would bring in a revenue of about $5,000 a year, and they take care of all the
strategies during and post construction; detailed explanation of measures to reduce carbon footprint; a utility plan including a consultation with NYSEG; an explanation of how the project incorporates design feedback from the City of Ithaca Landmark Preservation Commission; evidence of meeting with City of Ithaca staff regarding zoning requirements; copies of any memoranda of understanding the may exist with Lifelong; copies of memoranda of understanding with any parties committed to leasing or owning residential space; notice of any anticipated requests for tax abatements; demonstration of ability to obtain financing for the project; certification of ability to close by January 2016; project milestones; cost information; and a purchase or lease price offer. Also, the submission requirements request that the
applicants answer questions regarding their intention to use local contractors and the existence or absence of a diversity and inclusion plan in their organization or organizations. Regarding the proposed timeline for the county’s action on the project, Marx said, “We’d need to be committed to making a decision by July.” The State Environmental Quality Review, coordinated with the City of Ithaca, would occur between July and October; the negotiation of the terms of agreement of lease or sale would occur in November; and in December the legislature would adopt a resolution authorizing the lease or sale of the property. The final step would be a closing on the property sale or lease sometime in January 2016. • – Keri Blakinger
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Hotels Director of Development Neil Patel and its General Manager Lisa Sparks Sheremeta confirmed the hotel is expecting to create 44 full-time jobs, with at least 16 of them being living wage, or $12.62. The remaining positions, per negotiations with IURA, will be no less than 120 percent of the state’s minimum wage, which right now would be $9.75 an hour. Although some neighboring business owners such as Homespun Boutique’s Julie Schroeder have lamented losing the 320 E. State St. parking lot, Mayor Svante Myrick said there are “hundreds” of available parking spaces within walking distance from the site during the day, whether its
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position on the legislature effective the end of the month. I have been asked and have accepted the position of undersheriff for the county.” Since 2010, Robison has been one of few Republican representatives on the legislature, representing a district that includes Groton along with parts of Lansing and Dryden. Robison is a retired police investigator who worked for the Ithaca Police Department for 21 years and now runs his own private investigative and security company. As a result of Robison’s resignation,
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budget, the solid waste fee will be $52 per unit, which is $4 lower than in 2014. The decrease in cost is largely the result of decreasing debt payments. Legislators unanimously passed a resolution in support of a statewide campaign to recover more textiles from the waste stream. It is estimated that 85 percent of unwanted textiles are not recycled or reused. In New York State alone, 1.4 billion pounds of textiles are thrown away every year. Without dissent, the legislature approved a resolution authorizing
▶ Tattler settlement, The Ithaca High School newspaper The Tattler sued the Ithaca City School District in 2005 for violating their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights when the school adminstration prohibited the publication of sexually explicit cartoon. In 2009 the District Court (Northern District) the students were awarded compensatory damages, but the school guidelines were not ruled unconstitutional. The school district issued new guidelines in 2009 and has stuck to them. The court has decided the issue is now moot. “Thumbs up” because this is finally over. 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 County Legislator Brian Robison (left) is the new undersheriff of Tompkins County. Kendal at Ithaca (above) will receive $60 million in bonds from the county development corporation. (Photos provided)
the county must hold a special election for the seat. The election must be held within 75 days of when the seat becomes vacant. • • • Among its actions from the first November meeting, with no discussion or dissent, the legislature passed a resolution appropriating $65,000 in contingency funding for the acquisition and installation of automated external defibrillator (AED) devices in the county’s facilities and vehicles. Also, the legislature set the solid waste fee for 2015. As per the tentative in one of the city’s parking garages, or on the street. Whitham added that “our understanding is there’s sufficient parking [nearby].” The biggest motivation for the city to move forward with the hotel is the financial impact it would have on the city’s tax base. According to Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) Director Bruce Stoff, the 123-room Canopy would generate approximately $1 million per year in sales tax revenue. Stoff, who also spoke to Council Wednesday night, greatly endorsed the project, adding that it would be an “ATM [machine] for [city] funding.” Stoff spoke at last month’s Planning and Economic Development Committee (PEDC) to layout the city’s hospitality landscape. His overall takeaway is that since the current market is producing
Tompkins County Development Corporation to issue $60 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds to Kendal of Ithaca. Although the bond issue must be approved by the legislature, the county is not the issuer and thus it will not result in any debt being owed to the county. The tax-exempt bonds allow non-profits organizations to obtain tax-free financing. Kendal will use the funds for an 84,000 square foot addition along with other renovations. • – Keri Blakinger record demand, it is essentially fact that more hotels are coming, and it’s just a matter of where the city wants to put them. He added that Board of Public Works Superintendent Michael Thorne told him that the city’s roads, water and sewer system and other large scale infrastructures are either due for, or soon will be due for, renovations and that the city needs to start generating more money to help pay for such projects. Stoff said something like the Canopy hotel, and its financial impact, can be part of that solution. While the Canopy Hotel is in the early stages of its site-plan review with city planning, Wednesday night’s transfer of property was a big step in moving the project forward.
▶ Truman Awards, Tompkins Cortland Community College has been awarded a $15,000 grant from the Owego-based Mildred Faulkner Truman Foundation. The money will be used to provide financial assistance to Tioga County residents attending TC3 during the 2014-15 academic year. Since awarding its first grant to the College in 1986, the Mildred Faulkner Truman Foundation has provided more than $470,000 to TC3 students. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Nov. 5-11 include: 1) Death in West State Street Building 2) Maguire Family Proposes New Car Dealership off Route 13 3) Purity Ice Cream Owner to Ithaca Board: Expansion Plans Were Not Smoke Screen 4) Members of Cornell Student Activist Groups to Return 5) Exchange Student Wins Art Contest For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.
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Hope Springs Eternal F or the first time in a long time there was a teach-in held at Cornell. Government professor Isaac Kramnick hosted the event and in his prefatory remarks noted that the second teach-in ever held took place at Cornell in May 1966, a month after the first of its kind at the University of Michigan. The occasion of Monday night’s teach-in at Uris Hall was the return to campus of 21 1960s-era activists, including members of the Cornell chapter of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS; it started at the University of Michigan in 1960) and members of the African-American Society (AAS), which occupied Willard Straight Hall in April 1969. (See our Nov. 5 cover story.) The structure of a teach-in consists of various people present giving a short lecture to the whole assembly. Kramnick said that teach-ins used go on for 10 hours in the 1960s, which provoked laughter in the hall: no one, old or young, could in this day and age picture listening to other people speak for 10 hours. Indeed, there is a whole vein of criticism within academia that insists the lecture as a pedagogic technique is passé. The topic of the evening was “Why some of us protested the status quo and some of us did not.” Everyone was ostensibly given five minutes on the floor and virtually no one abided by this stricture. Some people spoke extemporaneously, some
had notes, and some nearly read from prepared remarks. After a series of speakers got through their allotted time slots, the floor was opened up to the crowd. Several other people got up to say something: some to respond to previous speakers and some to add to the overall narrative. As an information-providing seminar on what it was like to be on an Ivy League campus during the anti-war and civil-rights protest era, the event was a success. As a forum for any sort of dialogue between 21st century students and the generation of the 1960s, it was a non-event. There were several studentage people in the audience, representing perhaps a quarter of the gathering. Except for a senior who is doing his thesis on activism and helped Kramnick to organize the event, none of the current students spoke. Several of the ‘60s activists acknowledged—implicitly or explicitly— the difference between present and past political engagement. For the antiwar and civil-rights protesters it was personal: the injustice was happening to them. Young people were being sent to what even one of the former soldiers who spoke admitted was a brutal, insane war. And young people of color were being treated rudely at best on campus, and their subcultures’ contributions to Western society were being entirely continued on page 7
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imagine such a pointed but essentially restrained exchange.) A question I might suggest for the Times’s Inquiring Photographer feature is, “Do you have a big-ass TV?” Somehow I think big-ass TV ownership in Ithaca is a pretty divided situation, much more so than other places. I’m not sure it is a divisive situation (no judgments: I am not strictly anti-TV, because of sports), but I wonder. (Do you have a friend you’d be surprised to learn has a big-ass TV? Or doesn’t?) Like anyone who works under deadlines, my home is never as clean as when I have a deadline approaching. You know: I should be writing the column, and I would like to be writing the column, but what about those dishes, this dust, the inimmaculate bathroom? I was cleaning the bathroom one Sunday (column due that night), and thought, why do we clean the dirtiest thing in the house, the toilet, in toilet water? Would you use toilet water to clean anything else? So I heated some water to lukewarm, poured it in the toilet, added Bon Ami, and scrubbed. I mentioned this enterprising effort later to my friend J., and she said, “Now I know you are really crazy.” Considering plumbing fixtures, I also wondered why the bathroom sink has a drainage slit at the top to prevent overflows, but the kitchen sink doesn’t, and neither does the tub? (A sensible question, to be sure, but I have not mentioned it to my friend J., lest she be further concerned.) Recently, with my head full of shortterm and long-term things to do, I wrote a To-Do list and put it on the refrigerator door. And I realized that anyone who does this will immediately take the list back down and add to it, “Clean top of refrigerator.” Finally, it occurred to me lately, you know who the brokest guy this century must be? A guy who had a business selling address books and ashtrays. •
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ndrew Lem is a serious young man, insurance companies didn’t have to pay claims for hurricane damage. “Something the kind of person you’d want by as simple as the name of a storm can ruin your side in a disaster. Which is someone’s life,” said Lem. exactly where he’s been for much of the That’s why, even though the houses last year: helping disaster victims reclaim Lem has worked on remain in flood planes their lives. or tornado zones, he is committed to Lem’s first encounter with the rebuilding them. “These people have no tragedies left behind by Nature’s fury choice,” he said. “Society has pushed poor was during his senior year at Lehman people to live in these areas, and either we Alternative Community School (LACS), rebuild their homes or they will have no when he participated in a service trip to Staten Island with Love Knows No Bounds homes.” One experience on Staten Island (LKNB), two weeks after Superstorm stands out for Lem. He was rebuilding Sandy devastated the coast. the home that he’d “There’s gutted the year nothing pretty before on his LACS about a natural trip. “I got to be disaster,” said there when the Lem.. “It was like a owner picked out nightmare.” Mold the colors for his starts to grow in house,” said Lem. 48 hours, and by “I got to see him the time he arrived light up when he it was several feet realized how close high in places. And he was to moving the smell wasn’t back in. And I got pretty, with raw to put him back in sewage mixed in his home before I the flood water. left.” But growing After Staten up in Ithaca isn’t Island, Lem like growing up in returned to Ithaca other places, Lem to regroup, but said. “The sense soon he was in of community Mississippi with All I’ve gotten living Hands, after nine in Ithaca and at tornadoes hit the Ecovillage for Andrew Lem (Photo: Tim Gera) state. His first day almost 17 years there he walked makes me want to fifty acres of wheat help other people. fields, gathering It doesn’t matter if the belongings that had been scattered by you know them or not.” the tornados and clearing debris. So after his return from Staten Island, “It’s somewhat tedious, boring work, Lem worked with an LACS teacher but it’s completely necessary,” said Lem. to organize another group to help out “Unless the fields are cleared the farmers Superstorm Sandy victims. Then for the can’t run their tractors and they’d have LACS end-of-year trip, Lem went to New no livelihood.” The gratitude of that Orleans with LKNB to rebuild a Katrinacommunity was palpable: the volunteers damaged home. were provided with lunch every day, as Lem didn’t head straight for college well as housing for the months they were after graduating high school in 2013: there. instead, he worked at Collegetown Bagels Mississippi was Lem’s first time as to earn enough to travel to another relief a team leader. He supervised anywhere project. This time he chose to work with from three to 24 people walking fields, All Hands Volunteers, and in February clearing fallen trees and doing demolitions 2014 he was back in Staten Island. of trailers and homes. After Missisippi “I learned a lot about myself he went to Detroit for another All Hands and my leadership abilities, and how flood-related project. As team leader there, much good a small group can do,” he had another challenge: telling people said Lem. He gradually assumed more that their possessions were now hazardous and more responsibilities, and by the waste due to the sewage in the flood and end of two months he was supervising that most of it would have to be thrown groups of college volunteers. His away. philosophy in working with volunteers is “There were a lot of elderly people straightforward: “I want them to have a with things they’d collected their entire good time, be safe, and do good work.” lives, some from deceased relatives,” said Lem learned a harsh truth in Staten Lem. “It was absolutely wrenching.” Island: since Superstorm Sandy wasn’t In the midst of such tragedy, the a big enough storm to be a hurricane,
appreciation from the people he’s helped keeps Lem going. “I volunteer because it makes me feel good to help someone else,” he said. He expects to keep doing disaster relief for some time to come – at least until he figures out what he wants to study in college. Lem’s only been home from Detroit a week, and already he’s considering his next project. Maybe it will be going Colorado to rebuild homes after last year’s floods and mud slides. Or maybe it will be an international project, which Lem would love. But wherever it is, Lem is more than ready for that next challenge, and another opportunity to help rebuild someone’s devastated life. • editorial
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ignored in the curriculum. Present-day gay-rights activists perhaps come closest to the ‘60s in that their cause is personal, but they represent a smaller percentage of the population than draft-age men or African-Americans and Latinos. Climate-change activists, on the other hand, are protesting a phenomenon that is very unlikely to kill them outright in the prime of their lives or relegate them to second-class citizenship. One of the ‘60s-era activists called the new causes “knottier.” A member of Generation X must listen to the whole of the proceedings with … bemusement. The original definition of “Generation X” laid out by Douglas Coupland in his eponymous book, referred to people born in the 1960s who grew up with the Vietnam War but came of age with only global nuclear war to worry about. It was an era when activists like Cornell professor Carl Sagan and others were predicting a “nuclear winter” as a consequence of an intercontinental ballistic missile exchange. You wouldn’t be playing Russian roulette in the jungle; you’d just be wiped out by Russian ordnance along with everyone and everything. The Boomer activists were outraged that the United States was going to get them killed and murder millions of Southeast Asians in order to feed natural resources to a multinational corporate machine (which Cornell activists saw— correctly—that their university was a part of). The modern activists are outraged that the United States is going to make their lives unpredictable and dangerous and murder millions of people in the developing world in order to feed natural resources to a multinational corporate machine (which Cornell activists see— correctly—that their university is a part of). Generation X was pretty sure they were all going to die, perhaps by accident, and maybe next week. So the surge of activism—however small and focused on the more abstract, compared to the 1960s—in our contemporary Millennial student population represents a potential return to some modicum of idealism and hope for the future. It may not be a freak flag flying, but it’s a standard. • T
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The Future With Drones Engineering students and crop specialists are developing commercial applications By Bill Chaisson
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t the end of last year the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced six sites around the country where they would allow testing of unpiloted aerial or unmanned aerial systems (UASs)—better known as “drones”—in order to integrate their use into commercial air space. It is presently illegal to use a drone for any commercial purpose because the government has no rules to regulate the activity. The FAA has promised that those rules will be ready as soon as spring 2015. NUAIR (Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Alliance) is just one group that is working on “detect and avoid” strategies and technologies that will allow UASs to share airspace with piloted aircraft. Griffiss International Airport in Rome, formerly Griffiss Air Force Base, was one of the sites chosen. NUAIR not yet begun testing drones. A small team from two Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) offices in western New York has begun training flights with their UAS, but is waiting until spring to begin their research program, which is focused on developing agricultural applications for UASs. But they have been building drones in 8 The Ithaca Times /Novem
Duffield Hall at Cornell and flying them over Cornell property for several years now. CUAir, a project of the engineering department, is an interdisciplinary effort that has engineering, business, and computer science students working together to design, build, and fly a drone for “search and rescue” work. Their focus is the Student Unmanned Air Systems I’m quite worried that hype around domestic drones will normalize the use of drones in our skies the way ‘Atoms for Peace’ played a role in normalizing nuclear weapons. Benign applications pale in comparison to the harmful applications. Commercial and military development goes hand in hand. – Ed Kinane, Upstate Drone Action in Al Jazeera, Jan. 21
(SUAS) Competition organized by the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), which is held every June at Patuxent Naval Base in Maryland. Three years ago CUAir began building their aircraft from scratch. Before that they were buying model airplanes “off b e r
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Th e 2 0 1 3 C Ua i r Te a m p o s e s w i t h H e l i o s , t h e U n p i l o t e d A e r i a l S s y s t e m ( UA S) o r D r o n e t h e y b u i lt f o r i n t e r n at i o n a l c o m p e t i t i o n . ( P h o t o P r ov i d e d) the shelf ” and retrofitting them with electronic and imaging systems of their own design. Each year the team is judged on the basis of a journal paper (25 percent), a flight readiness review (25 percent) and the performance of the mission (50 percent). According to the The application of drones in the insurance industry is not nearly as flashy as their use in blockbuster movie productions or delivering beer to ice-fishermen, but industry experts believe that the idea of using drones to inspect damage is as feasible as it is practical. – Andrew Amato at dronelife.com, Mar. 20
CUAir team leader, senior engineering student Derek Faust, the Cornell team has placed first in the mission performance contest for the past three years. “You fly around and find a target,” Faust said. “A ‘target’ can mean anything.
Most of the uses are some form of search and rescue.” The targets in the competition are three-by-three-foot pieces of plywood painted with alphanumerics. Although the competition is taking place at a military base, the students were aware of many civilian uses, including fighting forest fires. “You can accomplish the same thing as you can with a manned aircraft,” said Faust of the advantage of a drone, “but with fewer resources. If you lose it [the drone], it’s no big thing. At least it’s not as expensive as a plane, and there’s no pilot.” The technology, he said, is similar for both military and civilian uses. The general rule, said the team leader, is that you look for technologies that suit your purposes, and if they don’t exist, you design and manufacture them yourself. CUAir has modified an existing autopilot system, but has built other hardware from scratch and written all of their own software. The main “payload” of the CUAir unpiloted aerial system is a camera. The gimbaled system that allows the camera to remain focused on its target in spite of the movement of the plane was designed
by the Cornell students. The plastic parts were created using a three-dimension printer. The criteria for the competition demand that the UAS accomplish its goals autonomously, that is, by following a prescribed program. CUAir is divided into five subteams. While “Airframe” subteam (led by Nicholas Kok) works on the craft itself, the gimbal and propulsion systems, the “Autopilot” subteam (led by Samuel Rosenstein) is designing and building the hardware that controls the plane in flight. The “Electrical” subteam (led by Kevin Wang) is concerned with systems that communicate between the craft and the ground. The “Software” subteam (led by John Steidley) writes the code that animates all of this hardware. This year, for the first time, CUAir will be building two complete aircraft, one in the fall and one in the spring. The fall project will fly a trial run to enable all the subteams to see what does and does not work. They have two principal challenges in front of them: to get the UAV to take off and land autonomously and to develop a “sense and avoid” procedure. The latter is a new part of the AUVSI competition and is clearly serving to the purpose of meeting the FAA requirement that UAVs be able to share airspace with piloted aircraft. Last year’s aircraft, Helios, is sitting on a workbench in the middle of a shop that is filled with other benches, tools, and bits of hardware. Entire model planes hang from the ceiling, sit on the floor, and are shoved onto shelves under workbenches. The Airframe team is in the process of building the pieces of the new craft. Stryofoam pieces are carved into molds, coated, and then molten fiberglass is poured, cooled, and peeled off. After that there is a lot of sanding, getting down to an ultra-fine grit. Helios has an approximately nine-foot wingspan, its wings are long, straight, and narrow, like those of an albatross. The propeller is at the rear of the short fuselage and pushes the UAV. Faust said it was put there for safety reasons; a team member would sustain serious injury if any part of their body intersected the spinning blades. The engine is only a few horsepower, but he said that the students have difficulty holding the craft in place on the ground when the propeller is spinning. In the air Helios can reach 30 knots and stay aloft for 25 minutes, powered by lithium polymer batteries. The UAS weighs 30 pounds, but Faust said his team hopes to get this year’s craft down to 15 pounds. Cornell itself pays for half of CUAir’s expenses, but the other half is paid for through grants from corporations. These include some of the ones you would expect: Lockheed-Martin and Boeing, for example. But Faust was quick to point out that they get equipment and help from companies outside the military-industrial complex, like the one that supplies the cases they use to transport their UAV into the field.
a single-engine plane—and has begun training flights with the Canadian-built Precision Hawk UAV. The future of drone use will include pilot training. “Right now people who are just using a hobby license are on shaky ground,” Verbeten said. “It’s like driving a semi [truck] or having a [crop duster] applicator license.” Verbeten is from Wisconsin and grew up on the family dairy farm; he knows about trucks and aerial application of chemicals. He has been with CCE since 2012. “We are working in collaboration with the NUAIR Alliance, but we aren’t part of it,” Verbeten said of the CCE project. “We don’t operate out of Griffiss.” CCE has gotten authorization from the FAA to carry out flights in three locations in western New York, and they have seven applications pending for other sites that Verbeten and the other member of the team, Mike Stanyard of the Wayne County CCE office, will begin scouting in March 2015. Their project, like that of CUAir, is about image gathering, but rather than search and rescue, CCE is interested in evaluating the growth and health of field crops. Verbeten said that the camera on his UAV collects visual information, but also thermal and multi-spectral data. The last divides up the electromagnetic spectrum into discrete packages, including C UA i r Te a m m e m b e r s Te s t H e l i o s L a s t Wi n t e r the infrared frequencies. ( P h o t o P r ov i d e d) “At the early stage of insect infestation for a test flight at the Cornell golf course It is the job of the Business subteam or disease,” said Verbeten, “the crops in December, wondering—among other (led by Wesley Chow) to write the grant literally heat up in response, and we can questions—whether they should add skis proposals that bring in this money from detect that heat with the UAS.” to the landing gear, although a catapult the rest of the world. “It’s our job to get By combining what is gathered take-off strategy is also in the running. sponsorships,” said Chow, “and we have on multiple flyovers of the same area, also developed a visual data can be relationship with used to create threethe Boeing Mentor dimensional images. Group. They have These provide a been a lot of help.” measurement of the The latter has helped height and size of the the students with plants in the field. A marketing. Chow series of measurements and his subteam have over time can yield a made promotional record of plant growth, videos, designed which varies spatially graphics for posters, in a single field and put out a newsletter, over a wider area. The and worked with visual data can also computer sciences be analyzed simply to students to develop count the number of and maintain the plants per given area. CUAir website (cuair. Verbeten’s engineering.cornell. experimental approach edu). is to gather this It is also the electronic data with the Business subteam UAV and then collect that sets up the the same information relationships that in the conventional become community B i l l Ve r b e t e n ( L e f t) a n d M i k e S ta n ya r d w i t h t h e i r manner on the ground outreach. “We work P r e c i s i o n H aw k ( P h o t o : P r ov i d e d) in order to evaluate the as college mentors accuracy and precision for kids,” said Chow, of the UAV-gathered • • • “and we’ve made presentations at the data. Similar data sets have been gathered Bill Verbeten is a field-crop specialist Sciencenter and for the Boy Scouts and the by piloted aircraft and even by satellites, in Lockport at the Cooperative Extension Girl Scouts.” (Chow’s team includes three but the UAVs are capable of obtaining office for Niagara County. He has of the five women on the CUAir team.) completed pilot training—the same Right now the students of CUAir are continued on page 10 focused on getting their newest UAV ready training that anyone would get to fly The I thaca Times / November 1 2 - 1 8 , 2 0 1 4 9
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much high-resolution images. “We can fly lower,” the researcher said, “and we’re using miniaturized sensors.” When people ask “Why are we seeing the advent of drone use now?” part of the answer is the new availability of small, lightweight electronics with which to outfit the UAVs and make them both useful and affordable. “Right now,” he said, “we’re lining up the legal pieces to do this right.” None of Verbeten’s data gathering has taken place yet. “Our authorization [from the FAA] begins next spring,” he said, “but I have to do three flights every 90 days in order to maintain my license.” The aviation
world, he said, is helping researchers to learn the protocols of flight so this new group of fliers can be part of the traditional aviation community. The fieldcrop specialist predicted that the advent of UAV use would be greatly enlarging the pilot license-holding population. (Faust, the CUAir team leader, also said that drone design and building was a growth area within the engineering community.) Like the CUAir UAS, Verbeten’s Precision Hawk makes autonomous flights. He programs the flight path before take off and then follows the progress from his laptop, which is attached to a ground station that monitors the position of the craft. “I pre-plan the missions,” he said, “ but I can change it on the fly, or I can take
over in an emergency.” He said he doesn’t watch an actual first-person view from the craft on his screen, but rather a computergenerated image rendered by software. His flight training included learning how to troubleshoot in the event of various emergency situations. Verbeten said that he has generally had a very positive response from the farming community. “New York has the reputation of being behind places like Illinois and Indiana in terms of innovation,” he said. “So the local farmers are happy to be out in front like this.” The farmers whose crops he plans to look at are members of the advisory panel of his extension office. “It is working well because we were working
together already,” Verbeten said. “They were selected to include a wide range of different crops over a wide geographical area.” Like the CUAir craft, Verbeten’s UAV is powered by lithium polymer batteries, but his Precision Hawk can stay aloft for nearly an hour. “Eventually we will be adding a transponder so that air traffic controllers can detect it,” he said. “But the biggest problem is what are called ‘uncooperative air men,’ which are people in small planes that are flying without
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being unloaded and assembled, I joked that he just might be living there. He laughed and said, “Yeah, maybe.” The Black Irish Athletic Club is on Cherry Street, and it clearly Patrick O’Connor updates Black Irish Gym conveys the vision of a man who has arrived By Ste ve L aw re nc e at a place in his life where local guy recently made a comment Four years ago, I met up doing anything that really made me think. He said, with Patrick at his quaint and half-assed is “Why don’t you write about my funky old gym on Taughannock not an option. kids? You write about the same people all Boulevard to interview an upA proud “Black the time.” and-coming MMA (mixed Irish” himself, My first response was, “Thanks for martial arts) fighter named O’Connor says, reading,” and then I decided to write about Bones Jones, and last year I “My father was Patrick O’Connor. For about the 10th time wrote about O’Connor’s many a dark-haired, over a 22-year span. weeks away from home, on the dark-eyed O’Connor’s road has been a long road as a part of Team Bones. Irishman, and and winding one indeed. I did not know With O’Connor as his boxing our family was him well 30 years ago, but I knew he was trainer, Jones kept winning and chased out of an intense, hard-livin’ sort of guy. He retaining his light-heavyweight Ireland by the liked to party, to be sure, but he was also title, and O’Connor got a taste Patrick O’Connor and Tim Wood IRA.” a disciplined athlete and took the art of of the packed venues, bright Patrick (Photo provided) boxing very seriously. lights, pay-per-view glitz and has trained O’Connor started taking much intense scrutiny of the MMA hundreds of better care of himself as he approached world. It is a different world to be sure, what we might call “regular folks” as well middle age, and his evolving skills as a and an exciting one, but a married man as world-class athletes, and he knows that trainer put him in the corner for some uses up a lot of spousal favors in such an there are many options for those seeking very good fighters, like Willie Monroe undertaking. Ten weeks away from home a pathway to better health, and he said, and Willie Monroe Junior. He also can seem like ten months. “Boxing is a great way to attain a high became an accomplished oil painter, and These days, Patrick is home every level of fitness, and since that is my area I recall running a goofy photo of him night, and as we stood in his new athletic of expertise, we have developed BoxFit, with a boxing glove onAdone and a T: 10 x club several 76749 Kendal Dancing for hand Ithaca Times 5.5 and watched Bleed: 1/8” all sideshundred 4C which combines boxing with fundamental paintbrush in the other. thousand dollars worth of equipment training.” sports
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The gym features all manner of new equipment, some of which I have never seen before, and I have been around gyms for four decades. There will be small group classes, team training, personal training, and what O’Connor calls “fundamental training,” such as heavy bags, barbells, dumbbells and the like. There is plenty of cardio equipment as well, and Patrick said, “We are not just a boxing facility, we are a training facility that will attract athletes and people looking for a way to take their fitness up a few levels.” Black Irish Boxing is located on Cherry Street (behind Wegmans). For more info, visit www.blackirishboxing. com. • • • Congratulations to Mike Welch and the Bombers of Ithaca College on another Empire 8 football title. The Bombers went on the road to play St. John Fisher, and by forcing five turnovers and dominating Fisher’s impressive offense, Ithaca won the conference’s automatic bid. Fisher was averaging 41 points. Ithaca held them to 8, and even if both teams finish at 7-2, Ithaca holds the tiebreaker and will move on. Winning a national title is always on the radar for Welch (who has done so as a Bomber player and assistant coach) and he knows that getting into the NCAA playoffs is the first step on that journey. The Bombers finish up the regular season on Saturday, and the Cortaca Jug game will be an intense one for sure, as the Red Dragons of Cortland have had a down year, and will perceive this game as their big game. •
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reputation for corporate benevolence by crushing competition from local businesses such as Northside, Red Feet, Sparrow’s, and Pete’s, all of whom who have served our community well and all of whom will be steamrolled by the unlimited resources of Wegmans. What good is the exhortation to “buy local” if there is no local? According to Ithaca’s Director of Planning Joann Cornish and the city’s attorney, the granting of off-premise liquor licenses is entirely up to the State Liquor Authority (SLA). Mayor Svante Myrick and Common Council can send letters to the SLA to express their opinions on the matter, which the SLA takes into account when making their decision. Let the Mayor and Common Council representatives know that our community is already adequately supplied with wine and liquor stores and doesn’t need a massive Wegmans Liquor Superstore.
these employers are not subject to any government oversight or responsibility to provide a workplace that is safe. This is analogous to asking drivers to abide by the speed limit on certain roads by their own free will, freeing drivers from any form of enforcement with a law that applies elsewhere. Agriculture is one of the most dangerous industries in the United States with fatality rates higher than either mining or construction, and small farms should not be freed of this oversight and accountability. The New York State May 1Farmworkers Organizing Committee, along with advocates from the Worker Justice Center of New York, the Workers Center of Central New York and the Midstate Council for Occupational
Safety and Health, are working to reduce the dangers to dairy farmworkers. We urge OSHA to continue its LEP into a second or even third year as it did in New York’s sister dairy-production state of Wisconsin. We also ask our Congressional representatives to take into consideration the human right to work free of the fear of serious injury and death and eliminate the appropriations rider that exempts small farms from health and safety standards. The dangers on small farms are no different than large farms and they should not be exempt from safety and health enforcement. – Tom Joyce, Midstate Council for Occupational Safety and Health
Brooklyn Folks Sticking Together I love reading Steve Burke’s “Ithaca Notes”. Brooklyn is well represented in our town. Steve brings us back to Brooklyn in many ways and his writing is ”down to earth” and fun to read. Thanks! – Joel Abrams, Trumansburg Letters to the editor should be sent by email to editor@ithacatimes.com. In order to insure that they are printed in the next issue, please get them in by Friday the week before our Wednesday publishing date. Hard copies can be delivered by mail or by and to 109 N. Cayuga Street, Ithaca, New York 14850
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On Monday, Sept. 29 Craig Schenk was killed on a small, organic dairy farm in Lansing. This is the most recent fatality in a surge of dairy deaths in central New York State in the last 21 months (Francisco Ortiz, Nathan Hoover). Dairy farmworkers and their advocates believe that these deaths could have been prevented by attainable changes in farm machine technology, training and personal protective equipment. Health and safety conditions on dairy farms have been deteriorating for years as the workforce becomes larger and as the diary farmers race to ramp up dairy production to meet the needs of a booming industry. In 2013 to address this situation dairy farmworkers and safety activists advocated that OSHA initiate a Local Emphasis Program (LEP) to increase its oversight over New York dairy farms. LEPs combine comprehensive education outreach to farm owners with enforcement of current OSHA regulations. LEP’s are used by OSHA to carry out random, surprise inspections in a high-risk industry where disproportionate numbers of accidents and fatalities are occurring. Over the last year OSHA carried out this program successfully. As a result dairy farmers increased their attentiveness to training, personal protective equipment, and hazard communication. And farmworkers are learning that they have a right to a safe and healthy workplace free from hazards. More must be done, however, to prevent the deaths of dairy farmworkers. Small farms in the United States (those with less than ten employees) are excluded from OSHA rules and regulations. Thus the LEP is only utilized on dairy farms with ten or more employees. This means that
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medicine is based on symptoms, and it’s very good for acute care, but it’s as if you have tree with rotted or diseased branches. In Western medicine, you cut off the branches. In Chinese medicine, you’re going to feed the roots of that tree to strengthen its immune system- that’s kind of the logic.” “Most often, I treat what are called deficiency conditions,” said Gellman. “Such as arthritis, kidney failure; a lot of the things I can do stimulate the immune system.” Older animals are affected more often by low energy and insufficiency: “Old cats, for instance, get very skinny and often will have renal failure. If you can combine
herbs and acupuncture, in old animals it can be very effective.” However, it would be a mistake to approach acupuncture for pets as if it’s going to bring about instant changes: “A lot of people are of the mentality that they want a pill that’s going to fix this, now,” said Kayser. For many acute diseases, a pill is the way to go, but for chronic conditions, or diseases caused by a lifetime of poor diet, excessive stress or toxins, the road to health can seem slow and arduous. Chinese medicine, however, since it aims to strengthen the immune system, offers the hope of preventing acute illness. Gellman gave the example of a patient that had a seizure. “Everything looking at this dog said something was not quite right; many things about the dog’s history
pointed to a particular diagnosis in TCM, but from a Western point of view, you can’t do anything, because the bloodwork didn’t show anything.” Acting on what she saw in TCM diagnosis, she used herbs and acupuncture to enhance the function of the liver, which is related to seizures in TCM. The dog, to date, has not had another one. To date, vets who practice acupuncture are still few and far between, but that is changing. Gellman and Kayser have more than enough work, and have been recently joined in this area by Sara Robinson, who has just opened a practice on Tioga Street in Ithaca. The NYS Holistic Medical Association maintains a database of practitioners, and the Chi Institute also has a searchable listing of its graduates on its website. •
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pickle. So what we want to do is, we want alternatives]. Also, people want to be to provide the option to stay home. home as long as possible.” “The cost of nursing homes and Classen Home Health Associates, assisted living is located at 222 Elmira “Let’s say the average Road in the Ithaca skyrocketing,” she said. “Let’s say the average Plaza, provides care nursing home is nursing home is eight to for people who want $8,000 to $9,000 nine thousand dollars to remain in their own a month. Could you a month. Could you home as opposed to imagine shelling out moving to a traditional imagine shelling out that much money for nursing home. They that much money for rent every month? also own facilities like rent every month?” For [less money than Evergreen House and —Pat Classen that] you can get a Old Hundred, which caregiver to come to provide homes and your own home, so we’re seeing a pattern supportive services to senior residents. . in Ithaca where people are staying home “We have several different options,” longer because of the high costs [of the Classen said. “We have the stay-home T
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Classen is a licensed Home Care Agency, and as such carries liability insurance that unlicensed agencies would likely not have. Since more senior residents in the area are needing care, Classen Home Health Associates is on the lookout for new faces to train in its Ithaca Caregivers Academy. Although the company currently has more than 100 employees, Classen said there’s room for more. Whether you are a younger person looking at being a caregiver as a lifelong profession, or a recent retiree who would still like to work in some capacity, Classen
said all are welcomed. She stressed, however, that she would love to see more retirees become caregivers. “We definitely want more retirees as caregivers in this field,” she said. “People who have retired who still want to do something and stay active in the community—we love those employees. “We focus on training,” she continued, “more than any agency [in the area] does. We go above and beyond the typical healthcare training.” November is National Home Care & Hospice Month, and is an important reminder of just how important this line of work is, Human Resources Director Mary Thompson said. She said that both the industry itself and the caregivers deserve more
recognition.“Because it’s not a line of work that everyone fits into—it’s hard,” Thompson said. “Those who do it are improving the lives of others. It’s a noble thing.” “I think [Tompkins County] is about on par [compared to the rest of the country],” Director of Nursing Tim Reynolds said. “We are in a unique demographic because there might be a little more affluence here because of the universities. I think there’s a trend: all the changes in healthcare [are to care for] the aging demographic. People are getting older, and remaining older longer. People are living longer. And so you don’t typically gain function as you age, you lose a little bit of function. So that’s where our services can come in and play the
supportive role, and augment individuals’ independence and keep them thriving longer.” Reynolds added that home healthcare is a vast industry, in terms of both employees and the potential clientele. “There’s versatility and flexibility
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changes in the zoning eliminated parking n Sept. 23 Jagat Sharma presented to the City of Ithaca planning board requirements for the CS-4 zones. “They would like to see the parking elevations he had done for Nick in the back. It’s what they prefer from a Lambrou’s property on Catherine Street in planning point of view,” said Sharma. “You Collegetown. The members of the board want to see a row of buildings along the offered unanimous praise. The three-story apartment building will have a hipped roof, street.” Lambrou said he was impressed when broken up by two large dormers and having he first saw Sharma’s design. “I love the deep eaves. The windows are square and large and set into brick cladding on the first large corner windows,” he said. “Those students are going to have some amazing two floors and wood siding on the third. The details of the roof recall the Prairie views and a nice sunny living room.” The Lambrou family began Style made famous by Frank Lloyd Wright collaborating with Sharma 30 a century ago, which Sharma years ago when the architect said was quite intentional, designed a building for Gus but its overall shape makes Lambrou, Nick’s father. After it resemble a very large all these years the process is Foursquare house, which was hard for him to analyze. popular around the same time, “I chose to build three but is much more common stories because I felt it fit better in larger cities like Rochester. into the neighborhood,” said Sharma was also partly Lambrou. “You don’t have to inspired by a farmhouse near do it all because they say you Skaneateles owned by a friend can, and Jagat understands of his. Jagat Sharma that.” The architect said that Lambrou also values the combination of brick and Sharma’s thoroughness. “He wood siding was used to echo provides complete plans for the builders,” the combination used in nearby buildings, said the developer, “and the builders don’t including the one directly in back of the find mistakes. They love to find mistakes.” new one. All the members of the planning Lambrou talks with students to find board, Sharma, and even Lambrou agreed out what kind of a living space they want that the back building was not attractive and that the new building will hide it nicely. and he has found that up to their junior year many undergraduates like to live “That is what the site needed,” he said. with many other students. As seniors and “That is the context: the other houses on graduate students, they want more privacy. the street have porches and dormers.” The property owner said you need At present the site of the building is vision, money, and guts to be in his a parking lot fronting the street. Several business. Especially the last one, he of the planning board members praised laughed, because things don’t always work Lambrou and Sharma for eliminating as planned. § the lot and replacing it with a building, especially an attractive building. Recent
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This 17-unit building at 323 Taughannock Blvd. will include 15 one-bedroom and two two-bedroom apartments. (Illustration courtesy of Noah Demarest)
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The waterfront’s industrial past will also be remembered in the towers that emerge from the building and produce a “lantern-like” effect. In a nod to the future, Demarest is leaving room to mount photovoltaic panels on the roof. Although the axis of the building is oriented north to south, he has twisted the roof lines so that they face south. The residents of the new building will also be able to enjoy living on the water by looking down on it from a roof deck. The building will have 21 units, but only 17 parking spaces. There are three four stories and then a penthouse that forms a partial fourth story. “If we added another story that would be another 10 units, but there isn’t room for more parking,” said Demarest, “How do you market that?” The new zoning regulations do not require parking spaces for all tenants, but Demarest is convinced that such requirement are unnecessary because developers will chose whether or not they want to build parking based on the demographic they want to attract. Demarest is looking into an arrangement with Ithaca Carshare or perhaps having a shared car that comes with the building and is available to the tenants. It is his understanding that the city is encouraging the development of the neighborhood as a “destination” but also for mixed-used development, including restaurants, small shops, and residences. He hopes to break ground in January or February. Building will be rapid, he said, because they are using new methods. “The success of the rest of the island,” he said, “is hinging on this project.” §
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navigate. “Really, the whole reason for [the expansion],” Moe said, “was to basically work smarter instead of harder. We had to take a look at [the store’s layout]. Everything was getting tight. The store was getting congested, which made bringing stock in hard for us. All of the product had to come through one door, and we had all the deliveries back-to-back, so we have to bust everything down, get everything on the floor. The next truck would come, and we’d have to do the same thing over again. The expansion allows us to have the loading docks and gives us the space we need to better present the product to our customers. It also makes it easier for us because everything flows now. “It’s really about the same amount of beer,” he continued, “It wasn’t really about trying to bring in more product, it was more about the product that we have and displaying it better. Making it a better shoppable store for us.” One aspect of the store that will also flow better is its popular growler system,
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which also received a makeover. “We remodeled our growler system,” Moe said. “We went from 12 beer lines to nine beer lines, have a full-time cider line, and a full-time root beer line.” Another change, and perhaps most noticeable, is a painted mural that runs along the top of the stores newest facility. The painting, done by artist Dan Burgevin from Trumansburg, creates a microbrewery feel, as it depicts the process of how beer is made, and eventually sold. “He did a fantastic job,” Moe said. “We gave him a concept of what we wanted and he ran with it. We were looking for a ‘farm-to-market’ theme. We wanted something to represent the process that starts right from the grains, the hops to the brewery to the delivery truck to the consumer holding a six-pack.” The farm-to-market feel is something Moe preaches in all phases of his business. Most customers don’t go to Finger Lakes Beverage Center to pick up a sixpack of Bud Light. They go to pick out something from a selection that includes many craft beer lines that can’t be found anywhere else in the area. Moe explained his qualifications allow him to bring in products that are more exotic than you’ll find in Wegmans or Tops. “What makes us different is licensing,” he said. “I’m able to pick things up. I can go to other markets and buy beer legally and bring it back to Ithaca and put it out for sale, whereas Wegmans can’t do that. None of the grocery chains can do that. And without the proper licensing, no one else in the area can.” Moe added his store aims to give an
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ost art exhibits in Ithaca are very small. In particular, oneor two-person shows featuring local artists typically consist of fewer than twenty works—a matter of space limitations and the need (or desire) to emphasize the latest. Although there is much to be said for a tightly edited grouping of intelligent pieces, those of us familiar with big city art-viewing will long for the senses working overtime exuberance of the big, sprawling show. Right now (and I stress right now), Ithacans have the rare opportunity to see the work of two ambitious abstract painters in greater than usual depth. But they are not in a museum—or even in a formal white-box gallery. Rather, the work of long-time local artists Elizabeth McMahon and Michael Sampson can be seen scattered throughout an offbeat range of downtown venues. Although both artists are working in a broadly abstract expressionist vein, their sensibilities differ considerably. McMahon’s works on paper combine acrylic paint, crayon, and collage. Her acrylics and oils on canvas have a similar liveliness but often lean more towards still life, with nods to Matisse and to the Cubists. (More recent artists as diverse as the collage illustrator Eric Carle and the narrative abstractionist painter Amy Sillman also come to mind.) Sampson is most at home working with oil on canvas. His work of the past few years has spun off in numerous directions and it is always a pleasure to see what he has been up to. A two-person exhibit at the Sola Gallery in the DeWitt Mall anchors what I like to think of as a single show in multiple parts. “Two Artists: Michael Sampson and Elizabeth McMahon” (Nov. 7 through 25) is a lovely, if unavoidably cramped exhibition of recent works on paper: Sampson’s pinpress monotypes and McMahon’s collagepaintings. McMahon’s work can also be seen (only through Nov. 15) at SewGreen, where it is the fabric store’s inaugural “fine art” exhibit. Sampson’s can be seen in two additional locations. A selection of richly colored canvases can be seen at the Cellar d’Or (through November) while four small panels can be seen at the Community School of Music and Arts (through Nov. 24). McMahon moved to Ithaca after earning an MFA in the visual arts from Syracuse University
in 1974. She showed her work in local galleries here—and, in the mid-‘80s, at the Adam Gimbel Gallery in New York City. But she is better known around here for her career as Elizabeth McPuppet, a popular children’s entertainer. As she puts it in a written statement, she “diverted a career in fine art for nearly 25 years, to raise a family and entertain the community.”
Sewgreen features work from Elizabeth McMahon (photo provided)
She has retired her alter ego and has been concentrating on painting again over the past couple of years or so. She was part of a memorable pop-up exhibit during the summer of last year at 123 Cayuga St. (on the corner of South Cayuga and North Green), where she currently has a studio. Sampson is a prolific and well-known painter, a graduate of the Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Mass. and an Ithaca resident since 1998. In addition to showing elsewhere
in upstate New York, he has had local solo shows in 2014 and 2010: at the CSMA and CAP ArtSpace, respectively. He has also shown his work at Contemporary Trends and has been in various local group shows. A long-time fixture in the DeWitt Mall, the Sola Gallery specializes in Japanese prints as well as selling a range of decorative work. It is not a white box and formal exhibits of local artists are somewhat rare. Gallery owner Daphne Sola is a poet and visual artist in her own right and travels extensively to help maintain her diverse stock. Sola, who said she knew McMahon socially, put on a show of her work last year. As for Sampson, he brought in some of his recent print experiments for consideration earlier this year. “It was impressive enough,” she recalled. “I said, you know, if you want to fill this out, this is the direction you should go in. He went home, and he did it.” The two abstractionists seemed like a natural pairing. Sampson’s monotypes have been created with a pin-press—essentially a metal rolling pin. The technique allows the temperamentally reclusive artist to work at home without the need for an expensive and bulky press. Printmaking is a recent departure for this committed painter. His small, upright prints have been hung near the entrance to the gallery. Although not his major work, they nicely compress expressionist brushwork— reminiscent of such artists as Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline, and (in a figurative vein) Chaim Soutine—into a miniature scale. Their suggestion of calligraphy is reinforced by a heavy use of black, which in most of these pieces forms a kind of armature for strokes and spots of generally muted color. Typically the inked areas do not fully cover the white of the paper, creating a translucent layered effect that gives these pieces their evocative density. McMahon is particularly well represented at Sola, with abstractions that are as exultant as Sampson’s are brooding. Square in shape, Poolside is a particularly compelling patchwork of colors. A square of thinly painted orange fills the center, bordered continued on page 29
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Bread, the Asian design and flavor feel fresh, friendly and inviting. And it all wraps nicely around Adsit, who is able to wrap many subtle emotional shadings into his robotic, yet caring tones. • • • John Wick is the kind of macho gunfest where Keanu Reeves kills so many people that you lose count of the stuntman corpses. If there is an unwritten movie law that you never leave Mel Gibson for dead, John Wick inspires another: Never shoot a puppy and expect to get away with it. Reeves plays the title character, a mythical hit man who’s mythical because the filmmakers want us to believe that he’s mythical. Wick’s wife dies of some unknown disease, and then three idiot Russian gangsters kill his dog for no other reason than to spur Reeves to start killing guys. John Wick is the kind of empty, superficial pinball machine that I might have recommended if it weren’t so ugly, empty and dumb at its core. I know that this is all fake stuff, and that John Wick’s dead dog will go on to a great career in doggie performances, but killing a dog has to be one of the cheapest shots ever, if not the cheapest. Willem Dafoe and John Leguizamo are here for atmosphere and local color, but there’s not much to do aside from watch Reeves take people out. Keep in mind: this is one of those movies where every chop shop boss, cheap hood and bartender knows this John Wick guy; they all call him “John Wick” the way people call Black Dynamite “Black Dynamite.” And yet the only three guys who don’t know him are the three guys who should know him. As Harlan Ellison would say, “Such a dumb.” • One coupon per person per semester
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a surprise ending—perhaps shocking to some. A reviewer for The New York Times wrote of the play: “Whether you gasp or merely sigh wearily will depend on your familiarity with, and fondness for, the prolific Mr. LaBute’s bleak moral vision of humankind (Gasp or sigh, you’re still likely to think, ‘Well, he’s done it again.’)” I’m not entirely sure about that “bleak moral vision of humankind” stuff, though. I found Wrecks an exhilarating first person storytelling account of the divine madness of love.
here is an astonishing amount of theatre here in Ithaca, for such a small city: the Hangar Theatre, the Kitchen Theatre, the Ithaca College Theatre Arts Department, the Cornell Department of Performing and Media Arts, the Cornell Melodramatics Theatre Company, the Wolf ’s Mouth Theatre Company, the Civic Ensemble, the Homecoming Players, the Ithaca Shakespeare Company … and, for the last five years, The Readers’ Theatre of Ithaca. The Readers’ Theatre will be presenting the one-person play Wrecks (off-book) at Cinemapolis with music by Hank Roberts and Phonetix, and a 15-minute on-screen Skype interview with the playwright Neil LaBute. Wrecks stars Chris Nickerson, and is directed by The Readers’ Theatre Artistic Director Anne Marie Cummings. Chris Nickerson of Wrecks, which opens Friday at Cinemapolis. I attended a press (photo provided) preview of the play on a full moon November night at the West Hill Indeed, a critic named Linda Winer home of the director. for Newsday wrote: “Wrecks is bound Steven Spielberg once said that one to and identified by its shock value, should be able to tell the story of a film in but it must also be cherished for the 25 words. Assuming this holds true for a moment-by-moment pleasure of its play, the 25-word scenario for Wrecks is: A man tells the story of the big wild love of his masterly portraiture.” She also called it an “enormously moving love story.” I think she life—that of his recently departed wife. is dead-on in both cases. The playwright, Neil LaBute, uses a Chris Nickerson, a very accomplished wondrous, strange technique to do this. actor in theatre, television and film, The man, a successful businessman named Edward Carr, talks directly to the audience, portrays the character Edward Carr. He is marvelous in the role. He is required to while somehow observing the funeral single-handedly carry the 80-minute play. proceedings for his wife … including And he pulls it off. I was riveted the entire observing himself. I liked this odd structure very much. It hour and 20 minutes. And it is fascinating that the play is seemed like something Neil Gaiman would do in a fantasy story, a sort of Rod Serling— so engrossing when one considers how stripped down and minimalist it is – one magic realism touch. actor and a handful of props. It is a tribute Carr’s story is given an added to the power of human storytelling. valedictory poignancy in that he has lung And so, in conclusion, if the Reader cancer, and is going to die himself in loves the art of theatre, I think it would be about eight months. Carr tells the story worth catching this engaging, one-person of how he met his wife Mary Josephine, minimalist production. • how they created a successful business together (Carr’s Cars), raised a family, and The Readers Theatre of Ithaca will stage maintained a transcendent life-long love Wrecks at Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green St., affair. Ithaca, Friday to Sunday, Nov. 21 to 23. They also kept secrets. Both husband Friday and Saturday performances at 8 p.m., and wife maintained two extraordinary Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available at secrets. www.thereaderstheatre.com. And I might mention that the play has
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rivers) for a council after living in exile for many years in Ganogeh (Canoga in Seneca County) among the Onondaga. And so Remsen puts Esther and Maddy in the same place, separated only by time. He invents a 12-year-old Tutelo girl, who is as moody as Maddy, to give the story some symmetry. In the 18th century chapters Remsen is documenting the twilight years of tribal life in the eastern states. It was time of remnant groups of tribes living together, of growing hostility from the yengwe (Yankee) settlers, and a steady loss of tribal folkways. The author would seem to have done an enormous amount of research on the period. He represents the tribal people not as innocents, but proud people who are fiercely fighting a losing battle. A practice that the European settlers found abhorrent, the kidnapping of women and children, Remsen describes as a normal practice among tribes long before the arrival of white Americans. The historical exposition in Visions of Teaoga is done in the time-honored fashion: people stop their lives and suddenly tell long stories full of exposition. This technique was satirized to hilarious effect in Wayne’s World, wherein Alice Cooper unexpectedly holds forth on the etymology of the word “Milwaukee” and the region’s early history during Wayne and Garth’s visit to his hotel room after a concert. Remsen makes it work in Visions of Teaoga by creating believable social situations in which little boys can go on and on about Indian life, a family can picnic at a historical monument, and after-dinner conversations can turn to the religious practices of the Munsee Delawares. There is a element of magic threaded through the story, albeit more low-key than anything in Harry Potter. Remsen is not afraid to present these experiences as actually spiritual rather than passing them off as the over-active imagination of his protagonist. In the end Maddy learns some good lessons and grows up quite a bit. And Remsen throws as much light as he can on the shadowy existence of Queen Esther, who disappears as abruptly from the narrative as she did from history. •
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hen you listen to the first track of Kevin Kinsella’s new album Rising Higher Still, your first reaction might be: “Hey, that sounds a lot like John Brown’s Body. “Yeah, some people were missing that classic sound, and this record is a return to that,” said Kinsella. “In the record before this [Great Design (2011) on ROIR] I Kevin Kinsella performs at the Chapter House on Saturday. (Photo by Jesse Winter) delved into folk and the singer/songwriter thing, but the He said that his song writing has response to this has been great.” slowed down in recent years, mostly By “great” Kinsella means that it has because he has other commitments—he is been #10 on the Billboard reggae charts an independent painting contractor and is for two weeks now. That means that lots raising a son—but he already has six songs of people are actually buying the record, a ready for the next album. noteworthy phenomenon in this day and “The goal is to keep it universal,” said age. Kinsella, “and not get too preachy, and “Live performance is my number one, keep it on the positive side.” my strongest card,” he said. “I’m singing Kinsella’s attraction to reggae began better every year. You just have to apply before he was a teenager. He went down yourself every day.” Kinsella will perform to the Haunt with his parents to talk with the Analogue Sons at the Chapter to owner John Peterson, who allowed House on Saturday, Nov. 15 at 10 p.m. The Kinsella to get into the club to see reggae Analogue Sons will play the first set and performances as long as one of his parents then they will back Kinsella in the second. came with him. He recorded his latest album with “I grew up going to church,” he said, Thunderbody, a Rochester band. “Two “and reggae is like the Bible being sung. summers ago I approached them and I recognized the lyrics from church, but asked them if they wanted to play the music was a lot funkier.” Kinsella put Grassroots,” Kinsella said. “We did together a band called the Tribulations the whole festival run and then went while still a teenager, issuing their first into the studio.” Rising Higher Still was single in 1987. John Brown’s Body put recorded between May and June 2013 by out their first album in 1996. “I love that Jason “Jocko” Randall at More Sound in revival feel. I’m a disciple of Toots and Syracuse. The horns on the album were the Maytals,” he said. “He gave me strong arranged by Lee Hamilton, who like encouragement. When I was 15 or 16 he Randall used to work with Kinsella in John came out after a show to meet our parents Brown’s Body. “We have a distinct style and he was very kind.” when we get together,” said Kinsella. Kinsella-era JBB and Kinsella’ solo This show with the Analogue Sons work have focused on preserving what may lead to more regional shows with is now called “roots reggae,” which is the them, but Kinsella’s years on the reggae sound from the ‘60s and ‘70s developed tour circuit—with and without JBB— by people like Lee “Scratch” Perry and have insured that wherever he goes he Frederick “Toots” Hibbert. “Reggae is in a can get a backing band that knows his constant state of evolution,” said Kinsella. material. “There’s a band in New Jersey “Sublime broke it in the U.S. They are the that I play with, Sense of Motion, one in prime influence on most reggae bands Massachusetts, one in Colorado,” he said. instead of Jamaican reggae. The lyrical “It’s like doing the Chuck Berry thing. It’s content shows that. It’s all about a party got its pros and cons, but its economically on the beach with pretty girls. Jamaican and logistically feasible.” For this album he reggae is Afro-centric, and it’s about pride is doing the booking himself, setting up a and protest, and about the poor. The tour between Florida and New Jersey, and reggae singer is like a watchman around then going out to Colorado. the city walls.” •
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Lazarus and the Rich Man, by Jan Steen. (Photo via Johnson Museum)
shed clothes and gun—which resembles a leg—appear as extensions of his person. A dead rabbit, hanging upside-down towards the left of the painting connects the piece thematically to the other Metsu here: the oversize Women Selling Game from a Stall (1653-54). Metsu’s teacher Gerrit Dou is considered the first of the fijnschilders— “fine manner painters”—and a leading painter of the Leiden School. His Cat Crouching on the Ledge of an Artist’s Atelier (1657) is a standout piece here, a bravura display of intricate realism and elaborate narrative intrigue. Through an arched window, we see a shadowy studio with an indistinct painter at work at his easel. But the real emphasis of the piece is on the cat and on a red curtain that has been pulled to one side—both immaculately detailed and eerily luminous. Hung comparatively side-by-side, The Slaughtered Pig (1662) by Caspar Netscher joins Rembrandt’s The Hog (1643), a small, sketchy etching and drypoint print. Netscher’s, oddly quiet painting shows a young boy seated at a table next to the hanging corpse. He is inflating the pig’s bladder as a balloon—a disarming bit of playfulness. “Eye” also includes work by Quiringh van Brekelenkam, Pieter de Hooch, Cornelis de Man, Willem de Poorter, and Jan Steen–and a piece attributed to the “circle of Rembrandt.” This a superb and multi-faceted little show. • A lecture by National Gallery of Art curator Arthur Wheelock entitled “The Myth of the Leiden School: There Was No Such Thing” will be held on Thursday, Nov. 20, starting at 5:15 pm.
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by an area of pale pink and marked with vertical red crayon stripes. The integration of drawing and painting is particularly striking. The luridly colored scrappy-sloppy Combination incorporates cup shapes into the abstraction with rough grace. Equation is simply beautiful: a crisp cutout table-like form, dark border-lines, translucent washes of rich autumnal colors—pinks, orange, amber— offset by mellow blues and purples. Sola drew a link between McMahon’s work as a much-loved performer and her painting. “Of course she has such a lively persona, and it comes through in her [art] work,” she said. McMahon is showing a larger selection of pieces at SewGreen. They have been hung up high and are scattered throughout the two rooms of the store. The extroverted colors, patternings, and pieced-together sensibility—even when there is no actual collage—make a comfortable fit with the venue. Along with smaller works on paper similar to her work at Sola, she is showing numerous larger canvases. According to Wendy Skinner, director of the non-profit “fabric re-use center,” the idea of showing art there was McMahon’s. “So she came in, and I was here,” Skinner recalled. “She said ‘I’d like to put some paintings up in here.‘ And we had never had art.” Like Sola, she spoke about McMahon with great warmth. And both Skinner and the artist were intrigued by the compatibility between the fabric and the painting. “She’d been in the store, and she was inspired by the colors and the combinations of textures,” Skinner explained. “And when she said that, I thought well, we could do that. We could make room. It’s not your typical venue for art.” Indeed it is not, but it is a welcome and inviting one. I have a distinct preference for McMahon’s more abstract work—not because it is more abstract but because it submerges her propensity for chic elegance, offering something a bit more elusive and idiosyncratic. (Admittedly, this is difficult territory, as the question of modern art and decoration is a fraught one, all the more so when it comes to the work of a female artist. Still one must leap.) Lillies, Meet Me at the Café, and Still Life in Seville are longing gazes in the direction of Matisse. These celebrations of luxe, calme et volupté feature decoratively colored and multifariously patterned table-settings profuse with glasses, urns, vases, flowers, fabrics, railings. They can be a bit much. A “cake” series serves up goofy towers of colored boxes bedecked with stripes, waves, crown-shapes, and flowerlike motifs. Kevin’s Cake, a small oil canvas is the best of these, with the motif transmuted into a stack of abstract colorblocks: lime green, cyan, bright pink, dull purple—all against a wan blue-gray background. The turquoise “candles” at
the top could just as easily be smokestacks. A tall oil, Kings and Queens Cake, fills in its color areas with an eloquently scumbled texture and makes good use of a black background—still, it feels uneasily like a collage in paint. This writer prefers McMahon’s less literal work here, most of it on paper. Summer Silo, on paper with no collage, uses energetic scrawls of crayon to accent areas of translucent color: burnt orange, rosy pink, pale blue. Up and Away builds up a lattice-like structure of drawn and cutout forms. Porthole, though on canvas, makes good use of a collage feeling with a dense field of overlapping strips, circles, and loosely geometric forms with the grays and offwhite setting off the profusion of color. According to Skinner, Sew Green is looking to do more exhibitions. “I’m going to be soliciting artists for all next year,” she said. “I think it’s fabulous.” Sampson’s big solo is at the Cellar d’Or: a wine and cider boutique and a popular venue for showing often abstractleaning work since it opened last year. His oil on canvas Shadow Portraits there are all from 2012—a historical glimpse coming from this fast moving artist.
Elizabeth McMahon, in-studio. (Photo by Tim Gera)
Large and small, they fit in nicely with the ambience of the place: the dim lights and the rough walls. The style of these paintings is distinctive, reminiscent of the RussianFrench painter Nicolas de Staël but with even rougher impasto and with colors far less subdued. Working with a palette knife rather than brush, Sampson has built up
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Paul Kempkes ‘Dr.K’ | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | solo guitar and vocals. Steve & Lorna | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Waterwheel Cafe, 2 Main St, Freeville |Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Misses Bitches / Imperials / Puppy / Red Sled Choir (solo) | 8:00 PM- | Community School Of Music And Arts, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Pigeons Playing Ping Pong | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | -
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Driftwood | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Time TBD Common Railers | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Common Railers is a mostly-acoustic four-piece band from Ithaca.
The Learning Web’s 4th Annual Music & Dance Spectacular | 6:00 PM-1:00 AM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | performances by: Caribe Jazz Allstars (6:00 pm - 8:45 pm); Radio London (9:00 pm - 10:15 pm); The Pelotones (10:30 pm - 11:45 pm); DJ JorgeVisions (11:45 pm - 1:00 am). Silent Auction Talk Crazy | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Happy Hour El Caminos | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | 100% Black / Lust / Green Dreams / BRIAN! / Obody | 8:00 PM- | Community School Of Music And Arts, 215 E State St, Ithaca | In conjunction with the Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival Thousands of One with Stone Cold Miracle | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Steve Romer | 10:00 PM- | Agava , 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Acoustic Rock and 90’s Alternative
11/15 Saturday
Purple Valley | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | happy hour Twilight Cafe: NEO Project Band | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Road, Ithaca | Funked-up jazzy soul music. Community Open Mic | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Lansing Town Hall, 29 Auburn Road, Lansing | Presented by the East Shore Arts Council . All ages. All skill levels. Music, Poetry, Comedy and more. Hosted by Paul Kempkes Dr. K’. Snack to pass, bring your own beverage What Moon Things / Last Dot / San Williams / Jordon Morton | 8:00 PM- | Community School Of Music And Arts,
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Steve & Lorna from Under Construction | 12:00 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Country, Rock & Blues Radio London | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Sunnyside Combo | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Live jazz and swing from the 20’s to the 40’s. Monkey Wrench Revolt | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | A popular Americana string band from Cortland, NY Psychic Teens / JOHNS | 8:00 PM- | Community School of Music and Arts, 330 E MLK/State Street, Ithaca | Bound for Glory: Matt Watroba | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Bound for Glory, Cafe at Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca | Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Jerry Tanner and Lisa Gould of Technicolor Trailer Park
11/17 Monday
Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM- | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm. Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM- | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats
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Tuesday Bluesday | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Pete Panek and The Blue Cats and Blues Station are two regular hosts Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks and More, 708 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Traditional Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Chapter House Brew Pub, 400 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Open Mic | 9:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca |
11/19 Wednesday
Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www.cinst. org. Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | concerts
11/12 Wednesday
Faculty/Guest Recital: Nicholas Walker, bass | 7:00 PM- | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | w/ Steve Brown, guitar. Professor Emeritus Steve Brown will join Nicholas Walker for an evening of jazz. Yago Mahago, fortepiano | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Guest artists: Yago Mahago, fortepiano, with baroque
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Choral Composition Festival | 7:00 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | The Klezmer Kings | 7:00 PM- | Morgan Opera House, Main, Aurora | Performing the rollicking, haunting, romantic folk music of Eastern Europe. This a benefit for the Morgan Opera House funded by Lifespan Therapy of Moravia and King Ferry. Crystal Bowersox | 8:00 PM- | Center for the Arts, 72 S. Main St., Homer | Gov’t Mule | 8:00 PM- | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Southern
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Derek Bermel | 1:00 PM- | Johnson Museum of Art, North Central Ave, Ithaca | Concert by Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel, who performs contemporary American music, including new works created by Cornell graduate composers. Bill Gregg | 3:00 PM- | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen Street, Trumansburg | Concert to raise funds toward structural improvements at the Conservatory. Symphony Orchestra | 4:00 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Jeffrey Meyer, conductor | Schuller: Tuba Concerto No 2 (2011) with Aaron Tindall, tuba | Brahms: Symphony No.3, op.90, F major. An Evening with George Winston | 8:00 PM- | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca |
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Dark Star Orchestra | 7:30 PM- | State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 West State Street, Ithaca | Cornell Chamber Singers | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | John Rowehl, conductor. Percussion Ensemble | 8:15 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Gordon Stout, director. Webcast live at www.ithaca.edu/music/live, and available there the Thursday following the concert for on-demand viewing.
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Jazz Repertory Ensemble | 8:15 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Greg Evans, director. Webcast
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Midday Music for Organ: Jonathan Schakel | 12:30 PM- | Chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | presents Buxtehude and Bach in the Italian Mode. Guest ensemble: Horszowski Trio | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Jesse Mills, violin; Raman Ramakrishnan, cello; Rieko Aizawa, piano. Funded in part by a grant from the Cornell Council for the Arts. Opera Workshop Performance | 8:15 PM- | Hockett Family Recital Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Brian DeMaris, director
Film Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival | 11/12 Wednesday through 11/16 Sunday| Multiple Locations | The Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival (IIFFF) will present its 3rd edition from November 12 to November 16, offering a newly-expanded lineup to more fully represent fantastic film culture for not just genre fans, but for films lovers in general! Between our retrospective, fantastic film competition, miniseries, special concerts and parties, there is sure to be something for everyone. See Cornell Cinema’s listings for showings. For a full schedule, see www.ithacafilmfestival.com. The Memory Maker Project Kickoff Event | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 11/16 Sunday | Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts/ KAPOW! Art Now, 186 State Street, Binghamton | Join us for a screening of the documentary, I Remember Better When I Paint: Treating Alzheimer’s Through the Creative Arts, followed by a discussion, interactive demonstration, and light refreshments. Anime Film Club | 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, 11/19 Wednesday | Ford Edith B Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Ages 13 refreshments provided. Sponsored by the Delavan Foundation. Call for more info: (607) 869-3031. cinemapolis Movie descriptions via rottentomatoes. com Birdman | BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. | 119 mins R | Fri - Wed: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Thu: 11:20
AM, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30. Dear White People | Winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, Dear White People is a sly, provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama. | 108 mins R | Fri: 7:10 PM; Sat: 4:50 PM; Sun & Mon: 4:50, 9:30; Tue - Thu: 4:50, 7:10, 9:30. Pride | It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’ families. | 120 mins R | Fri: 6:55 PM; Sat & Sun: 1:55 PM; Mon - Wed: 4:25, 6:55, 9:25; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25. 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: 2:40, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20; Sun: 2:40, 7:05, 9:20; Mon - Wed: 4:50, 7:05, 9:20; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:40, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 Whiplash | Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer, singleminded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory. | 106 mins R | Fri: 4:45, 7:00, 9:15; Sat & Sun: 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15; Mon - Wed: 4:45, 7:00, 9:15; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15. cornell cinema Magical Universe | Recluse. Artist. Friend. These three words are the defining characteristics of octogenarian outsider artist Al Carbee, whom filmmaker Jeremy Workman befriended and documented for over a decade in Carbee’s gigantic house in Maine, spurred on by the VHS tapes Carbee would send in between visits. | Wed 11/12 7:15 PM. w/ filmmaker Jeremy Workman via Skype Dumb and Dumber To | It’s been exactly 20 years since we left Lloyd and Harry playing tag, and everything but their idiocy has changed. | Wed 11/12 9:30 PM, free sneak preview; passes required. Robot & Frank | Winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize (awarded to a feature film that focuses on science or technology, or features a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character) at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, Robot & Frank is a story about an isolated, former jewel thief set in the near future.
| Thu 11/13 7:15 PM; Introduced by Prof. Ashutosh Saxena. Witchfinder General | Matthew Hopkins is a self-proclaimed Witchfinder General, going from village to village to draw out confessions from accused witches. The story takes an even more sinister turn when Hopkins’ assistant assaults a war hero’s wife and kills her uncle. | Thu 11/13 9:30 PM,. Cold in July | An official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, Cold in July is a crime drama set in late-1980s Texas. Adapted from the Joe R. Lansdale of the same name, the story follows family man Richard Dane (Michael C. Hall), who is awakened in the middle of the night by an intruder burglarizing his home. He shoots and kills the intruder and is quickly the talk of the town. The dead man’s father—a recent parolee (portrayed by Sam Shepard)—surfaces with an appetite for revenge. | Fri 11/14 9:45 PM, with filmmaker Jim Mickle in person (if scheduling permits). Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages | with live accompaniment by Transit and introduction by Andrew Utterson. Prepare for a crash course in witchcraft. Swedish director Benjamin Christensen explores different notions of hell, witchcraft and superstition using narrative vignettes brought to life by stunning visuals, use of color, and animations. The film was banned in the United States for many years for its graphic content. | 7:00 PM-, 11/14 Friday | Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | See the World with Animated Shorts! | A fabulous program of animated shorts from the Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2014. | Sat 11/15 2:00 PM. Black Sunday | In 15th century Eastern Europe, Asa Vajda and her lover are accused of sorcery, and subsequently sentenced to death by her brother. Two hundred years later, Dr. Kruvajan and his assistant find Asa’s tomb and she’s mistakenly brought back to life, with disastrous results. | Sat 11/15 5:00 PM. The Wicker Man | After the disappearance of a young girl, sergeant Howie is sent to the remote island of Summerisle to investigate. The apparently atheist community intrigues the devoutly Christian sergeant by completely denying the existence of the girl. | Sat 11/15 7:00 PM. The Exorcist | William Friedkin’s shocking and iconic take on possession has yet to be bested. | Sat 11/15 9:00 PM. White Zombie | Charles Beaumont’s secret crush on Madeleine, who has
newly arrived in Haiti with her fiancée, leads him to ask Murder Legendre for help. Murder, a voodoo master, prepares a potion to turn Madeleine into a zombie, and a willing creature ready to submit to Charles’s love. | Sun 11/16 2:00 PM. We Are What We Are | A man dies unexpectedly in Mexico City, leaving his widow and three children devastated and destitute, at a loss without their hunter father, who supplied the family’s food: human flesh, consumed in ritual ceremonies. | Sun 11/16 4:30 PM and 7:00 PM w/ filmmaker Jim Mickle (if scheduling permits).
Stage How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | 8:00 PM-, 11/12 Wednesday; 8:00 PM-, 11/13 Thursday | Hoerner Theatre, Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road (Rt. 96B), Ithaca | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying tells the story of young and ambitious J. Pierrepont Finch’s hilarious climb from window washer to board chairman of the World Wide Wicket Company with the help of the book “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”. Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 11/12 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs Michelle Courtney Berry & Friends | 6:30 PM-, 11/13 Thursday | Hilton Garden Inn, 130 E. Seneca Street, Ithaca | Michelle’s Stand-Up Comedy and Performance: You Can Get Over It - How to Manifest Your Dreams and Transform Your Life, with live musical guests and friends Trampoline Thursdays w/ Buffalo St. Books | 7:00 PM-, 11/13 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 126 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Another Christmas with the Calamari Sisters: Feast of the Seven Fishes | 7:00 PM-, 11/13 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 11/14 Friday; 2:00 PM-, 11/15 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 11/16 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. Women of Lockerbie | 7:30 PM-, 11/13 Thursday; 7:30 PM-, 11/14 Friday; 2:00 PM-, 7:30 PM- 11/15 Saturday; 7:30 PM-, 11/16 Sunday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University,
Ithaca | Directed by Claire Stack, in collaboration with choreographer Darah Barnes; Faculty Mentors: David Feldshuh, Beth Milles Ithaca Shakespeare Company: Julius Caesar | 7:30 PM-, 11/13 Thursday; 7:30 PM-, 11/14 Friday; 7:30 PM-, 11/15 Saturday; 4:00 PM-, 11/16 Sunday | Fall Creek Studio, 1201 North Tioga St., Ithaca | Ithaca Shakespeare will close out 2014 with a production of Julius Caesar performed by an all-female cast. Julius Caesar is often described as one of Shakespeare’s most overtly masculine and politicalplays. www.ithacashakespeare.org. One Slight Hitch | 7:30 PM-, 11/13 Thursday; 7:30 PM-, 11/14 Friday; 7:30 PM-, 11/15 Saturday; 7:30 PM-, 11/16 Sunday | Cider Mill Playhouse, 2 Nanticoke Ave, Endicott | written by comedian and playwright Lewis Black. It’s 1981, Reagan has just been elected and American life is full of promise. It’s daughter Courtney’s wedding day, and everything is perfect. And then, the doorbell rings and there stands the ex-boyfriend Ryan. So much for perfect. Open Mic Poetry | 6:00 PM-, 11/14 Friday | The Shop, 312 E Seneca St, Ithaca | Once on This Island, Jr. | 7:00 PM-, 11/14 Friday; 7:00 PM-, 11/15 Saturday | Newfield High School, Vince Aiosa Auditorium, Newfield | Over the River and Through the Woods | 7:30 PM-, 11/14 Friday; 7:30 PM-, 11/15 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 11/16 Sunday | Samuel Clemens Performing Arts Center See Clemens Center, Maudeville Hal, Elmira | Nick has just been offered his dream job in Seattle, but there are four problems: Aida, Frank, Emma and Nunzio - his four Italian-American grandparents! They will go to any length, including a little matchmaking, to keep him from leaving New Jersey. Shotgun Wedding | 7:00 PM- | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | tells the story of Clown, a raucously funny fool, and Student, an apprentice fool with idealistic and didactic aspirations. The musical takes place upon the night of Students graduation, a time honored ritual where these two fools must please their audience under penalty of death. Stand-Up Comedy Show | 9:00 PM-, 11/15 Saturday | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Kristen Becker will be joined by Liz Pax (Host of The Whisky Tango Sideshow) and Samantha Ruddy (Women in Comedy Festival, Humor Whore and more).
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 Health and Human Services Committee | 3:30 PM-, 11/12 Wednesday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Ithaca City Planning and Economic Development Committee | 6:00 PM-, 11/12 Wednesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 11/12 Wednesday | Mahogany Grill, 112 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | 607-273-4013 or lpd4@cornell.edu Tompkins County Facilities and Infrastructure Committee | 10:30 AM-, 11/17 Monday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Tompkins County Legislature | 5:30 PM-, 11/18 Tuesday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome. Ithaca Town Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 11/18 Tuesday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Ithaca City School District Board of Education | 7:00 PM-, 11/18 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | Amnesty International Group 73 | 7:30 PM-, 11/18 Tuesday | Cornell University - Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | For information please contact Gwyn Singer at 277-1762. Tompkins County Planning, Energy and Environmental Quality Committee | 12:30 PM-, 11/19 Wednesday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca |
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Film fans, here’s what you’re doing this week. The Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival is bigger than even in its third go-around: more than 30 films and documentaries centered around this year’s witchcraft theme, three days of live music (more on that later) and an art show, all taking place around Ithaca. We’ve got you started with some of this year’s featured films – see Cornell Cinema’s listings above – and find a full schedule of events at www. ithacafilmfestival.com.
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Held in conjunction with the Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival, the Community School of Music and Arts hosts four consecutive evenings of live music. CSMA kicks off Wednesday with Misses Bitches, Imperials, Puppy and Red Sled Choir (solo). See our Music listings for additional CSMA shows this week.
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Lectures Film Forum: Lee Rosenthal | 11/13 Thursday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Lee Rosenthal, ‘87, producer at Paramount Pictures and Bob Clendenin. Time TBD Climate Change Forum | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/17 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Hosted by the Tompkins County League of Women Voters, forum will explore the impacts as they relate to agriculture and storm water run-off. Two speakers are: Alison Chatrchyan, Director, Cornell Institute for Climate Change and Agriculture, and Scott Doyle, Senior Planner, Tompkins County Planning Department.
Nature & Science Cayuga Trails Club: MLK Freedom Walkway |11/15 Saturday | MLK Freedom Walkway | Join Leslyn McBeanClairborne and the Cayuga Trails Club for a two-hour historic tour along the MLK Freedom Walkway demonstrating the Southside’s African American Heritage. For more information, call 607-564-3396 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org. Time TBD Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 11/15 Saturday and 11/16 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information. Sierra Wings: Birds of the Mono Lake Basin | 7:30 PM-9:00 PM, 11/17 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology,
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Art Classes for Adults | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca. org. 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 Meet the Practitioner: Past Life Regression | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 11/12 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Health Coach Deborah Allison will discuss conversational and regression therapy techniques that bring about dramatic emotional shifts by efficiently accessing unconscious trauma and eliminating it. 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. Soapmaking Class | 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, 11/15 Saturday | First Baptist Church of Ithaca, 309 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Learn how to make natural, vegetable-based soap using the cold-process method. Leave with 1 lb. of your own custom-crafted soap, instruction booklet, and soap mold. Registration required. Contact Sharon skaplan4@frontiernet.net or 607-5925575. International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 11/16 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5 donation suggested. Red Cross Training | 06:00 PM-10:00 PM, 11/18 Tuesday | American Red Cross, 2 Ascot Pl, Ithaca | Registration Required: 1-800-733-2767 (Option 3) or http://www.redcross.org/take-aclass; Tuesday, November 18, 6pm - 10pm Adult & Pediatric First Aid/ CPR/AED Part 1 of 2 Part Class (Part 2 November 19 6pm - 9pm)
Dinner with the Doctor: Reversing Chronic Diseases | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 11/18 Tuesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Join Dr. Ammitai Worob and Erin Harner, MS, RDN, CHC for this talk and delicious dinner prepared by the GreenStar Deli. Fee: $15 for GreenStar members, $20 for non-members. This class and dinner is open to the public, and is held at the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/18 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.
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Special Events First Annual Chilly Chase 5K and the Kids 1 Mile Penguin Shuffle | 9:45 AM-, 11/14 Friday | Downtown Owego, , Owego | Runners can find race details, sign up online, or download a registration form at www.runsignup. com. Pre-registrationends on Friday, November 14, 2014 at noon. Race day registration will be accepted from 8 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. at the starting line at the Academy Street entrance of the Tioga County Office Building. The Kids Penguin Shuffle will begin at 9 a.m. and the Chilly Chase 5K will begin at 9:45 a.m. The proceeds will benefit Owego Wrestling and future tourism events in Tioga County. Holiday Bazaar | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, 11/15 Saturday | Enfield Valley Grange Hall, Enfield Main Road, | Wide variety of handmade crafts, and baked goods, including jewelry,scarves, hats, baby sweaters, baby blankets, baby toys, gifts in a jar, ornaments, and lots more for all your holiday needs. Lunch will be available at the Grange kitchen. Storybake and Silent Auction | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 11/15 Saturday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | with live music, live art, face painting, popcorn, and slushies. This family-oriented, fun event is free to attend and open to the public. The Storybake is a contest to create a creative, literary-themed, and delicious cake. Ideas include representing a title, character, or theme from a favorite book. The contest features 2 age groups: 14 and under and 15 and older. Cortaca Jug Game | 12:00 PM-, 11/15 Saturday | SUNY Cortland Stadium Complex, 17 Lankler Drive, Cortland | SUNY Cortland vs. Ithaca College Cayuga Nordic Ski Club Fall Dinner | 6:00 PM-, 11/15 Saturday | Ellis Hollow Community Center, 111 Genung Rd, Ithaca | Open to anyone interested in cross country skiing, this dish-to-pass dinner is a great way to meet other skiers and learn about the club. See our website http://www.cayuganordicski.org or Facebook page for more information.
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Health 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 Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 11/12 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St., Ithaca | Facilitated by Liz Constable and Finger Lakes Independence Center Peer Counselor Amy Scott, and supported by Finger Lakes Independence Center Peer Counselor Emily Papperman. Call Amy or Emily at 607-272-2433. DSS in Ulysses | 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, 11/12 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-, 11/12 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, 11/12 Wednesday | Dryden Village Hall, Dryden | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 11/13 Thursday | First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 11/15 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/17 Monday | Just Be Cause center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | Stress & Fatigue Workshop | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 11/12 Wednesday | Nutritional Wellness Center, 520 West
Green Street, Ithaca | Free & Open to the Public Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/12 Wednesday | First Congregational Church of Ithaca , 309 Highland Rd, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 11/17 Monday | Ithaca Recovery Center, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/12 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, 11/12 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free every week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www.DamodarDas.com. Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/13 Thursday; 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 11/17 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments). Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 11/14 Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location, | Ithaca College is looking for stroke survivors who have aphasia (an acquired language disorder). The group will provide a casual and comfortable place for participants to talk, share experiences, and offer support to one another. For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: (607) 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, 11/14 Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | Successful recovery based on Dr. Kay Sheppard’s program The Listening Workshop | 9:00 AM-1:00 PM, 11/15 Saturday | Ithaca Community Childcare Center, 579 Warren Rd, Ithaca | Please register by emailing your name and phone number tothelisteningworkshop@gmail.com. Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 11/16 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free. Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 11/18 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30
to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604 Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 11/18 Tuesday | 124 E. Court St., 124 E. Court St., Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions # 607-272-1505
Books Jim Remsen | 6:00 PM-, 11/12 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 S. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Author Jim Remsen discusses his new book, Visions of Teaoga, about the life of American Indians in the 1790’s. Laura Nelkin Talk | 7:00 PM-, 11/13 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | The Ulysses Philomathic Library will host Laura Nelkin, a knitwear designer, educator, and author who recently published the book Knockout Knits. Writer and Storyteller Joseph Bruchac | 7:00 PM-, 11/13 Thursday | Groton Public Library , 112 E. Cortland St., Groton | For over thirty years Joseph Bruchac has been creating poetry, short stories, novels, anthologies, and music that reflect his Abenaki Indian heritage and Native American traditions. He has authored 120 books for children and adults. First-Year MFA Reading Series | 6:00 PM-, 11/14 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Come out and support the MFA program’s new writers as they read fiction and poetry selections. w/ Aurora Masum-Javed & Lena Nguyen Gerald Cox | 2:00 PM-, 11/15 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, DeWitt Bldg, East Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Author Gerald Cox discusses his new book, Blood on My Hands: An Ecology of Hunting. Young Adult Book Watch | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 11/18 Tuesday | Edith B Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Join Cady to discuss The Maze Runner After Dinner Book Club | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 11/18 Tuesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis and the Family in France | 4:30 PM-, 11/19 Wednesday | Room 107, Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | Book Talk with Camille Robcis.
Learning Web fundraiser
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Four acts come together at Oasis Dance Club for the fourth annual Music and Dance Fundraiser in support of the Learning Web, a youth apprenticeship program right here in Ithaca. On the bill are Caribe Jazz Allstars (picture), Radio London, The Pelotones, and DJ JorgeVisions. Come out and tap your toes for a good cause.
Under the direction of Conductor Chris Younghoon Kim, The Cornell Symphony Orchestra presents two works in Bailey Hall – Christopher Stark’s premier of Soldier Asleep at the Tomb, sung by Lucy Fitz Gibbon (pictured), and Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler.
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Arts Art History in a Nutshell: American Modernism | 3:00 PM-, 11/16 Sunday | Johnson Museum of Art, North Central Ave, Ithaca | Join Museum educator Carol Hockett for an art-history survey highlighting American modernism in our newly reinstalled first-floor galleries. Free. Johnson Museum of Art, 607-255-6464. museum.cornell.edu Elizabeth Bishop Project screening | 6:00 PM-, 11/18 Tuesday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | with IC faculty filmmaker John D. Scott 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 Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research | 533 Tower Road, Ithaca | Monday-Friday, 09:00 AM-5:00 PM | 607-227-6638 | From My Backyard, botanical portraits by David O. Watkins, Jr., up through October 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 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, opening 11/07 | collegetownbagels.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Arts for All Marathon, multiple artists present “Four Running Fee”, opening 11/07 through 11/24 | www.csma-ithaca.org Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center), Ithaca | Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00
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or more than a decade Anna Coogan, a classically trained opera singer, has channeled her talent as a vocalist into soul-stirring rock and folk. Recently relocated to Ithaca after a long spell in Seattle, the songwriter has most recently been collaborating with fellow Bostonian Willie B. But Coogan has also collaborated with many indie greats: Laura Cantrell, Lambchop, and JD Foster from Calexico. Her songs structurally resemble the American vernacular, with an interpretation that tends toward the subversive. For instance, take the title track from Coogan’s recent record The Birth of the Stars (Saturday, Nov. 15 the Dock will host a release party). Part sea-shanty, part indie anthem, the song begins with an open chord refrain that could kick off any country jukebox. But it quickly shifts and cascades forward with interlocking verses about interstellar time and space,
AM-5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM. Closed Sun & Mon | Scratching the Surface, mixed media on paper, by Jane Sangerman, up through 11/08 | 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 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 Finger Lakes School of Massage | 1251 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca |Etosha Blank: Masks for Healing, through 11/07. The Frame Shop | 414 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM | Loving Hands, photographs by Monroe Payne, through November | www. theframeshop.com Gimme! Coffee | 430 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | 2015 Calendar, by Justyne Griffin, through November | www.gimmecoffee. com/ Handwork Coop | Commons, Ithaca | Monday throughSaturday, 10 AM to 6 PM; Thursday and Friday 10 AM to 8 PM; Sunday noon to 5 PM | Painting Demo
pivoting inward for an introspective turn in 2010. “My first record was done as a about a lover’s deceit. Midway through, client, and then he became a friend. And the vocalist deploys a soprano’s trill—to my collaborator,” Coogan said. Foster emphasize the word echo — an effect himself is a musician’s musician, having that underscores the loneliness of the performed and produced with Marc narrator. Ribot, Lucinda Williams, and T-Bone Much of The Birth of the Stars Burnett. But this is the first record that reflects a confident restlessness of an bears Foster’s name: and nine of the artist who sounds rooted in the music she makes. Born in Boston, Coogan grew up in rural Vermont before training in Salzburg, moving to Seattle, and ultimately decamping to Ithaca three years ago. “I saw Johnny Dowd the first week I was here,” Coogan said, Anna Coogan and Willie B. play a record release show at the Dock on Satur“and it was a day. (photo by Tim Gera) complete delight.” She continued: “You meet people quickly here, but tracks on The Birth of Stars are co-written what struck me most is the level of by him. musicianship—it is so high. Mary Lorson, Between 2009 and this recent Brian [Wilson], so many others.” release, Coogan released The Wasted Coogan began The Birth of the Stars Ocean (2011), which Coogan described with Foster, who had produced The as shanty songs, and The Nowhere, Nocturnal Among Us, which was released Rome Sessions (2012), a collaboration
by Jill Hoffman of Painted Lake Stones, 11/07 only | www.handwork.coop The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday to Friday 12 -6 PM, Sat 12-4 PM | The 18th Mini Print International, juried exhibition of prints, opening 11/07 | 607-277-3884 | www. ink-shop.org Kitchen Theatre Company | 417 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Branching Out: Paintings by Kent Goetz, ongoing | 272-0403 or www.kitchentheatre.org PADMA Center | 114 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Photographs by David Watkins, through November | 607-351-7145 | www.padmacenter.com Sacred Root Kava Lounge and Tea Bar | 139 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | She is Everyone, canvas prints by Gaia Woolf-Nightingall, opening 11/07 | www.sacredrootkava.com Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | Painting and monoprints by Lydia K. Dolch, through November | www.sarahspatisserie.com/ SewGreen | 112 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Paintings by Elizabeth McMahon, opening 10/03 through 11/15 | www. sewgreen.org | The Shop | 312 East Seneca Street, Ithaca | Imagination: Recent Paintings by
David Jackier, through November | www. theshop.com Silky Jones | 214 The Commons (E. State St.), Ithaca | Daily, 4:00 PM-1:00 AM | small works by Annie Eller and Rose Gottlieb, through November | www. silkyjoneslounge.com Solá Gallery | Dewitt Mall, Ithaca | 10:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday-Saturday | Color and Line, work by Michael Sampson and Elizabeth McMahon, up through November | www.solagallery.com State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Wednesday-Friday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Giving Thanks for 25 Years, all-member show, opening 11/07 | For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Glass Beads by Laurie Ament, live torch demonstration, 11/07 only | 319-5260 Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | Tuesday-Thursday, 10:30 AM-6:30 PM; Friday- Saturday, 10:30 AM-8:30 PM; Sunday, 11:00 AM-4:00 PM | Luminious Lakes, Glorious Glens: Recent Paintings by Brian Keeler, through 12/31. | www.titusgallery.com Uncorked Creations |102 N. Tioga Street, 2nd Floor, Ithaca| New Fall and
Winter Art Work and Open Paint Night, through November | www.uncorkedithaca.com or 222-6005
Kids Art Classes for Kids | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca.org Twinkle, Sparkle, Glitter & Glow | Hosted by Little Voices Music & Motion. Begins the week of December 8. www. LittleVoicesMusic.com Cuddle Up Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 11/12 Wednesday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden | Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 11/13 Thursday, 11/15 Saturday, 11/17 Monday | 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. Ulysses Philomathic Library: Story and Art | 10:30 AM-, 11/13 Thursday | Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main St., Trumansburg | Sleepover Storytime | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 11/13 Thursday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Children of all ages can
bring a stuffed animal for a special evening storytime with readers Cady & Ami. Awana Clubs | 6:30 PM-8:15 PM, 11/13 Thursday | Dryden Baptist Church, , | Every Thursday night for kids ages 3 to 8th grade. Any questions please call 607-898-4087. Preschool Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 11/14 Friday | Southworth Library , , Dryden | Story Time | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, 11/14 Friday | Ford Edith B Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 2:00 PM- 11/15 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Joseph Bruchac | 2:00 PM-, 11/15 Saturday | Southworth Library, Main Street, Dryden | The first 30 families attending will receive his book, The Girl Who Helped Thunder and Other American Folktales, intended for ages 8-12. Youth Basketball Clinic | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Open to boys and girls in grades 3-6. Five week clinic begins Sunday November 16th at Ithaca High School. For more information visit IYBrec.com or call 273.8364.
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At 7-2, Ithaca College played some damn good football this season, which makes this year’s Cortaca Jug rivalry game against Cortland even more exciting. Nevermind the pre- and post-game festivities, which, we hear, got a little wild last year. Keep those passions in check, and enjoy the game. (Pictured: defensive end Robert Barberi, courtesy of IC Athletics).
We’re giving you a solid week to add this event to your entertainment calendar. Featured on the likes of Comedy Central’s The Awkward Comedy Show, Louie and a co-star on the Eric André Show, stand-up comedian and writer Hannibal Burress performs in Cornell’s Statler Hall.
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