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The Light of Day

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They Lived Will New York State allow Willard patients to be remembered by name?

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Police Department]. And we do trainings all the time that the public never knows about, that we don’t send press releases about. “For the police department,” he said, “we thought they would benefit—and the DOJ agreed—if we invited members of the public into that training. Unlike most trainings the police department does, we invited members of the public to this one. We invited about 40 members of the public attend, and given the topic of the training, about 70 percent of the people invited were people of color.” Trumansburg resident Jaimi Hendrix spoke on behalf of Ithaca community members regarding the event. She said

School Pledges to IPD Starts Racial Not Exceed 2015 Cap Sensitivity Training thaca City School District (ICSD) is not taking its experience with its 201415 budget, which narrowly passed, for granted. The Ithaca City Schools Board of Education (BOE) had its first public discussion regarding the upcoming 201516 budget during its Tuesday, Dec. 16 meeting. While the conversation is in its infancy, one thing seemed overwhelmingly clear: this year the board will not support a budget that exceeds the tax levy limit. Last year’s budget passed with 62.17 percent of voters approving the proposal. ISCD needed, and received, a supermajority—at least 60 percent of voters—to approve a budget that includes an 8.87 percent tax levy increase and a 5.67 percent tax rate increase. “I’m not sure I have the stomach to go over the tax levy cap again this year,” BOE member Brad Grainger said. The rest of the board echoed Grainger’s sentiment, with Jay True calling such a move a “huge gamble.” “I don’t think we have the support of the community [to do it again],” True added. Judy Maxwell went as far as to say that a budget over the tax levy cap would “not have a chance” of getting passed, and that she would not vote for one. The budget discussion, which was led by Chief Operations Officer Amanda Verba, asked the board the following questions: • How much fund balance should we maintain? • What is our plan to manage the tax levy now and into the future? • What are the strategies to close the gap between expenditure and revenue? Grainger, who is also the head of board’s financial committee, recommended that the district should maintain one to two percent of its budget as a fund balance (approximately between $1.1 and $2.2 million). However, this year, it operated with “very little fund balance.” The district wants to build it back up. However, the most obvious way to do that is to have more revenue than expenditures—something the district hasn’t done in four years. This past year the district spent more than $4 million more than it brought in. Grainger said the best way to reverse that trend would be to follow the lead of other districts in the country, and take a look at how much the district pays its employees

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Dandelion Wine ......................... 15 Trumansburg’s Ann Day bottles summer with her watercolors

he Department of Justice (DOJ) held a racial-sensitivity training session for the Ithaca Police Department (IPD) on the morning of Wednesday, Dec. 17 in the sixth-floor conference room of the Tompkins County Mental Health Building. DOJ’s Office of Community Relations Service cited the Aug. 10 incident between unarmed, AfricanAmerican Ithaca teenagers and an outof-uniform IPD officer who drew a gun on them as impetus for the session. The essence of the training was to continue to mend the relationship between IPD and the community. The session, which was mentioned in a Nov. 19 press release from Mayor Svante Myrick, recruited approximately 40 members of the community to participate in the training. However, feedback from the Activist Jaimi Hendrix questions training process. (Photo: Michael Nocella) community regarding the training has included criticism that it should have been better Wednesday’s training was “initiated advertised and more inclusive. mid-November without an advance or On Wednesday, Dec. 17 Myrick timely public announcement.” Committee addressed those concerns during the public meeting of the City Administration member J.R. Clairborne noted he himself was unable to attend due to the short Committee. notice, and the time of the event, which “Just some background on this,” was 8:30 a.m. Myrick said, “because it’s been portrayed “The list of participants,” Hendrix as secretive or not transparent, when the said, “and the goals of the six sessions that truth is it’s the exact opposite. What this took place to date were kept confidential. was was the Department of Justice (DOJ) offered to do a racial sensitivity and anticontinued on page 4 racial profiling training for the [Ithaca

▶ Community School of Music and Art Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015 @ Taughannock Falls State Park at 2 p.m. First Day Hikes are part of a nationwide initiative led by America’s State Parks to get people outdoors, with over 400 hikes scheduled this year in all 50 states. Kids and adults all across America will be participating in First Day Hikes, getting their hearts pumping and enjoying the beauty of a state park. New York State Parks and the 5K Chili Challenge and going to take this idea and do first Saturday Hikes across the Finger Lakes

Region starting in February 2015. ▶ New Director at the Cayuga Wine Trail, Executive Director Cathy Millspaugh is stepping down after 14 years and handing over the reins to Cassandra Harrington. Cassandra has worked with the Peterson family at Swedish Hill and Goose Watch, and most recently at one of the area’s newest-Toro Run Winery as the event coordinator. Her experience in marketing and event planning comes mostly from her previous role as membership development manager at the Seneca County Chamber of Commerce. She starts her new job on Jan. 1.

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A “ Red wine. I’m Greek, so I like red wine. Anything dry.” —Diamando Stratakos

“I usually go with a Manhattan.” —Jaclyn Hochreiter

“A martini: a Bonnie and Clyde, which is half gin and half vodka.” —James Reagan

“A chai soy latté.” —Michelle Pritzl

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grocery giant will soon be even bigger. Wegmans Food Markets, located at 500 S. Meadow St., was given final approval for its proposed “expansion” during city of Ithaca Planning and Development Board’s Tuesday, Dec. 16 meeting. It is not an expansion of the existing building, but a proposal to construct an entirely separate building on part of their employee parking lot on Meadow Street. The site plan calls for a 15,700square-foot retail building, associated parking (77 spaces), and an access road from Meadow Street. It also proposes new sidewalks, a crosswalk striping, lighting, and six tree islands in the parking lot. During last month’s board meeting, Danny Aken, manager of the site development for Wegmans, noted that the new building would be for a specialty use complementary to the existing store, with possible uses including a restaurant, a housewares store, or a wine and spirits seller. The last has been met with resistance from neighboring wine sellers Dewi Rainey of Red Feet Wine Market and Dana Malley of Northside Wine & Spirits, who voiced their concerns during November’s meeting. Rainey accused the grocery store chain of “getting around New York State law” and said their store would be “unfair competition.” In New York State an individual may hold only one liquor license for one location, a law that prevents liquor store chains. A wine and spirits store in the same shopping plaza as a Wegmans in Johnson City is licensed to Jason Wehle, Danny Wegmans son-in-law. “I’m strongly opposed to the establishment of this building,” Malley said last month. “A company with unlimited capital like this would just wipe us out.” 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. City Attorney Ari Lavine confirmed that the granting of liquor licenses is entirely up to the SLA. Planning board member John Schroeder noted that Common Council and Myrick could write a letter to the SLA to express their opinion on the matter. Planning board member Jack Elliott said that the SLA did take such letters into consideration in their decisionmaking. At this time, no further details have been provided by Wegmans with regard

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to the nature of the tenant, and all of the aforementioned possibilities remain on the table, City Planning Office Assistant Charles Pyott confirmed. At the November meeting, planning board members were

making alterations earlier this year, and needing an updated approval, which it eventually got and is on schedule to break ground in 2015.

Too Bright, Marriott Speaking of the Marriott Hotel, the project once again received criticism from city planning at the planning board’s Tuesday, Dec. 16 meeting. The hotel’s signage was discussed at length because it would set a precedent regarding large downtown hotels’s impact on the downtown cityscape. The board told Matt Jalazo, representing Urgo Hotels, that the placement of signage on the east side of the planned hotel was unacceptable and that the sign was too bright. The size of the sign would be larger and brighter than almost any existing signage in Ithaca. Board member McKenzie Wegmans Johnson City liquor store. (Photo: WNBF) Jones-Rounds was concerned that granting a variance would set a dangerous precedent for at pains to point out to Rainey and Malley other large hotels to also request large that the use of the building is not their signs. purview; their charge is to discuss, suggest Various board members were modifications, and approve a design. concerned that the sign would clash If Wegmans makes any alterations with the downtown aesthetic and to the existing site plan as approved, the unanimously requested that other options existing site plan approval does not apply, be considered. Updated designs are due to and an updated site plan approval would go before the board at their next meeting be needed. As seen with the upcoming before Urgo Hotels will have to go before Marriott Hotel on the Commons, a final the Board of Zoning Appeals to request a site plan approval can be anything but variance for the planned signage. • final. That project received site plan approval more than eight years ago, before – Michael Nocella and Aaron Donato IPDtraining

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Many respected and active community leaders, including people of color, were excluded. Those who asked to be included were rebuffed. In effect, the chosen project-execution methodology was arbitrary, ineffective, secretive, nontransparent, exclusionary, divisive and a good example of how not to do the conciliation projects in the already pained communities.” In an attempt to keep momentum between IPD and the community on the positive side, both Hendrix and Myrick relayed notice from Greater Ithaca Activity Center (GIAC) Director Marcia Fort, who has called a meeting at GIAC on Monday, Dec. 29 at 5:30 p.m., “A Call to Action: Community/Police Relations Planning Session.” Myrick went on to elaborate that the intent of Wednesday’s training was never to be a complete community event, but simply involving the public more than the status quo requires. The intention of making the training somewhat public, but only to a limited extent, was never to cause skepticism, he added. Myrick reminded

residents that his plan to bring IPD and the community closer includes several reforms, not one training session with the DOJ. “This is not the sum total,” Myrick continued, “of our community policing in our community engagement efforts. It’s one small piece of a larger pie that’s going to include continued community-wide meetings in which everyone is invited, and we won’t have to limit the number of people invited. We’ll have more formal ways for the community to interact with the police, including hosting ‘Coffee with the Police Chief and the Mayor.’ “We’ll be at a coffee shop,” he continued, “and invite people to come spend an hour or two with us every month in a different coffee shop. We will be adding body cameras on every police officer that’s on duty. We will be looking to strengthen our outreach through the downtown outreach officer. We will continue to do a wide range of things to [strengthen community engagement]. Wednesday’s training was never intended to be, nor was it expected to be, the entirety of that outreach.” • – Michael Nocella

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he Board of Public Works has tacked $200,000 onto the cost of the Lake Street Bridge reconstruction project to rehabilitate the bridge along with revamping Lake Street Bridge Public Park’s bike racks, signage, and the sidewalks in the vicinity of Ithaca Falls is in the midst of clearing two obstacles: funding and environmental concerns. The project to rehabilitate the bridge, which crosses Fall Creek, is eligible for funding under Title 23 U.S. Code, administered by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) that provides for reimbursement of up to 80 percent of expenditures used by the city for the project. The city has already established the project as a capital project under the amount of $1,464,250. However, the city Board of Public Works (BPW) has recommended additional safety improvements and aesthetic enhancements since that time.

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County Turns Eye Toward AirBnB

he need to regulate and more effectively collect taxes from Airbnb hosts was a major topic of discussion at the last regular 2014 meeting of the Tompkins County Legislature. Before voting on a resolution urging the state to study and address issues surrounding online short-term rental services, legislators heard a presentation from Tompkins County Tourism Coordinator Tom Knipe. Airbnb is an online platform that connects hosts with travelers looking for a room for a few days or weeks. The platforms offers everything from $25 a night options in trailers to $10,000 luxury castle rentals. Knipe spoke about the size and impact of online rental services like Airbnb on the local economy. He noted that, as of year ago, Airbnb hosts were collectively performing similar to a 50-room hotel. Currently, he said that there are around 240 listings by about 170 different hosts within the county. In the past year, the total number of hosts has not substantially changed, but the price and number of

Those enhancements are not included in the capital project budget, and are not eligible for reimbursement by the FHWA. The estimated additional costs for the enhancements would be $200,000. BPW has received $30,000 in matching funds from an Ithaca Urban Renewal AgencyCommunity Development Block Grant, and the city received $97,500 in grant funds from the Regional Economic Development Council Empire State Development

Lake Street bridge over Fall Creek. (Photo: Tim Gera)

Program. The city can also charge $11,000 against its new Sidewalk Improvement District program. During its Wednesday, Dec. 17 public meeting the City Administration Committee approved a resolution that added a maximum of $30,000 to the initial capital project, to bring its budget up to $1,494,250. The engineer for the Lake Street bridge, Addisu Gebre, is also confident bookings has. “Interestingly, Airbnb seems to be particularly popular here as compared to the rest of the region,” said Knipe. He noted that more populous regions around Rochester and Syracuse have fewer listings than the Ithaca area. He said, “In general, some Airbnb hosts are in compliance with local laws and some aren’t.” In an effort to gain a higher level of compliance in terms of the number of Airbnb hosts who are paying room tax, Knipe said that the Tompkins Tom Knipe County Department (Tim Gera) of Finance will be sending out letters to those hosts they were able to identify and asking them to register to pay the hotel or occupancy tax. “This resolution before you today really simply asks NYSAC [New York State Association of Counties] and the state government to also study the issue in depth with an eye toward upstate impacts,” he concluded. One local Airbnb host came to address the legislature about the resolution, saying, “A group of friends who are Airbnb hosts and I really want to see Airbnb regulated

more funding for the project is on the horizon as the county told him it could contribute up to $65,000. However, such funding would not be available until midMarch. He added that Trowbridge Wolf Michaels Landscape Architects could be a likely candidate to design the project, as the Regional Economic Development Council Empire State Development Program funding requires the project to include a certain number of female workers. Gebre admitted that funding is a “risk,” as he won’t know for sure whether or the project will meet all the requirements until later this year or early 2015. In addition to funding concerns, the Lake Street Bridge project has also been questioned on the environmental front. In fact, the project was tabled earlier this month at Common Council and sent back to City Administration in part because council members had questions about the site’s contamination levels. Alderperson Cynthia Brock (D-1st) voiced reservations over the possibility of contamination stemming from spillover out of the nearby, ongoing remediation of the former Ithaca Gun Factory site, which is above Ithaca Falls and the Lake Street Bridge Park. Brock reasoned that if the city is remediating a place that is meant to welcome families and children, continued on page 13

and part of the reason that we want to see it regulated is that we feel it’s important for everybody to pay the 3-percent tax and the state sales tax if that’s what’s required of lodging establishments in the city. We feel that tax fairness is important.” She went on to describe Airbnb as a “goose that could lay a golden egg for Ithaca” and said that she supported the spirit of the resolution. “We’re very strongly in favor of regulation,” she concluded. Legislator Kathy Luz-Herrera (D-2nd) said, “I think this is premature.” She explained that she did not think a resolution requesting the state’s help was necessary, in part because “there’s been a pretty good response so far” and in part because she said the loss in potential tax revenue was not as great as stated in the resolution. “I think maybe we’re getting greedy here and going after something we can already solve ourselves,” she said. Legislator Carol Chock (D-3rd) had similar concerns. She said that she did not feel that the state’s help was necessary at this stage: “I’m just not convinced that we’ve explored all the avenues.” She noted that once the state gets involved, the needs of Tompkins County may no longer be a primary concern. “This is about a bigger issue than Tompkins County’s issue,” said Legislator Martha Robertson (D-13th), speaking in

Ups&Downs ▶ New York State bans fracking, On Wednesday, Dec. 17, at an end-of-theyear televised Cabinet Meeting in Albany, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, Health Commissioner Howard A. Zucker, and Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens informed New Yorkers about their decision not to allow high volume hydraulic fracturing in New York State “at this time.” 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 ▶ John Marcham Remembered, The History Center has lost a treasured friend of more than 30 years with the death of John Marcham on Dec. 4. Trustee, Board President, Advisor, donor, and guiding hand, John worked closely with trustees, directors, and staff over many years. John was a major participant in the planning and fund raising required to move the History Center to the “Dean Building”, now the Gateway Building. To pay your respects or make a donation in honor of John Marcham, please contact Jean Currie at director@TheHistoryCenter.net. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Dec. 17-23 include: 1) Graduation Day for Auburn Prison Inmates 2) Ithaca’s Incodema Goes 3D and Expands in Freeville 3) Wegmans Expansion Approved; Liquor Store Still Possible 4) If You Grow It, Will They Come? Tompkins County Sows Agriculinary Tourism Effort 5) Sports Around the Lake: T’burg and South Seneca Merge For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Here on the Inside A s this is the final editorial of 2014—next week is our (actually your) Readers’ Writes issue—it seems like a good time to look back at the events of the year. It has long been a joke in Tiny Town that we are “centrally isolated.” The spread of the Internet into all of our lives first via our computers and then through our phones, now casually reduced the existential aspects of that isolation, but there have been plenty of signs that our economy will be increasingly wed to that of the rest of the world. There have been at least three incursions into the regional economy that have come from varying distances. Once upon a time congress with the national economy was a rather normal business arrangement because of the presence of companies like National Cash Register (NCR) and Emerson Power Transmission, both headquartered elsewhere but with manufacturing presence here. With their departure only Cornell had obvious connection to the global economy, with the Cornell shuttle bus being a sort of symbol of this relationship. But Cornell also constitutes an enormous pipeline of cash coming into this community, some of it in the pockets of students, but most of it (as their recent economic impact study shows) arriving simply to keep the university running and growing. This departure from the norm of upstate New York general poverty and susceptibility to economic vagaries has caused a large influx of outside money to flow in to buy up real

Busting Up the Gloom

estate and to build on it. We heard about this from county assessor Jay Franklin when we took a look at the revaluation of property, much of it student housing, in Collegetown. Franklin noted that purchase prices were rising because people from downstate were willing to pay what local sellers asked. Ulysses town supervisor Liz Thomas recently noted that while real estate prices in that town have climbed, mortgage tax collection is down because buyers are paying cash for properties. In our Lansing building boom story we found out that some of the new construction going on there—Cayuga Way in the Whispering Pines development—was being carried out by a New York City real estate mogul whose son is at Cornell. Because assessments are made based on the selling price of comparable properties, and property taxes are based on assessments, we will be paying more property taxes because the market is being driven upward by the rest of the world. Gov. Andrew Cuomo just announced that high-volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas would be banned in New York State because its health effects are not well studied. Initial concerns about the effects of “fracking” were raised in part because landmen were arriving at people’s doors all over the Finger Lakes and Southern Tier and pushing landowners into signing leases. In Russell Gold’s The Boom, the continued on page 7

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

hristmas is a hard day to ignore. Not just a “day,” in the vernacular, it’s a whole “season.” We might try to keep it modest by saying “happy holidays,” but everyone knows we’d just say “see you later” if not for December 25th. I fell away from strict Christianity a long time ago but, born to it, I have an abiding affection for Christmas. It’s not the most important Christian holiday—that would be Easter, a defining day of doctrine— but surely it’s the people’s choice. It features a baby, after all. And the baby never grows up. It’s a cute little newborn every year. I understand non-Christians resenting Christmas. I was married once, into a Jewish family. My father-in-law was an educated, placid guy, but used to say he would sue someday to challenge the status of Christmas, a religious holiday, as a legal holiday in a secular nation that espouses separation of church and state. What held him back, he said, was the idea that he would win, and ruin the whole Chinese restaurant thing for his people. Personally, I think the case could be made that Christmas songs are a crime against humanity, most of them, or at least cruel and unusual punishment. But I don’t know how much this would matter to our present Supreme Court. Turn the music down, though, and I like Christmas. It busts up a dark, cold, gloomy time of year. People bring trees into their houses, visit, and give each other presents. Of course, people overdo it, as people will. I recently read about a sociological construct called HPTFTU, or the Human Propensity To Foul Things Up (let us say Foul, in the newspaper). Note that the word is “propensity,” not just “potential.” That’s an important scientific distinction. The syndrome comes out full-force at Christmas, with people stressing out about myriad things they shouldn’t. In my family the siblings decided a long

time ago to simplify things by not giving gifts to each other, just to each other’s kids. I never had kids and so have gotten hosed by this deal over the years, but of course it is better to give than to receive, if for no altruistic or other reason than that it means you have something to give in the first place. Nor did it ever seem a good enough reason to have kids (talk about Fouling Things Up). If there were no Christmas, winter gloom might still be broken up by New Year’s Eve, at least a little. People make a lot of noise on New Year’s, but just for a few hours, one night. People who don’t drink are not really included in the full festivities, nor are those who get tired by midnight. I once heard a guy who works in TV say the only thing he watches on TV is sports, because this is the only thing where he can’t figure out what will happen. This is the knock for me against New Year’s Eve. I am quite sure in advance what will happen, that this numerical year will become next, in an orderly mathematical fashion with much precedent. I might stay up if there was a chance something else would happen: that 2014 would somehow continue, or at midnight we’d go back into the past, or skip into 2020, say. That would be interesting. I would at least let someone wake me to tell me. But if it just becomes 2015, please let me sleep. This column runs every other week, so I won’t write here again before New Year’s Eve. For that night, let me pass along now a surefire tip to avoid hangovers. At the start of your celebration, pour a glass of club soda. Hold it and sip it. Eat whatever foods you like, but take no other liquids. The trick is in the timing. Once starting this process, continue until bedtime. May the morning be your friend 1 January, and each day of 2015. (Presumably, 2015. If not, I know what I’ll write about next time.) •

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Owning the Good and the Bad

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Kieran Donaghy, Cornell professor of planning, says Cornell “is not responsible for the loss of manufacturing or the hollowing out of the middle class” but Cornell University is nevertheless happy to take the credit for its direct economic impact. The university is further happy to take the credit for the new technologies and ideas it researches, even when it has a minor role— see your recent “Drones Overhead”. But is there not a contradiction here? Who is responsible for directing the path we travel if not the universities and the academic sector? The digital technologies that concentrate intellectual property,

information and wealth; the prepping of foreign countries by university researchers so that U.S. industrial interests can set up there; the patents that create monopoly markets; and of course the economic models that devalue local businesses, obscure inequalities, and serve the needs of those who make them; all originate largely in academia, not least Cornell. Universities may all wish to think they are responsible only for the good and none of the bad but the rest of us need to look at the data all around us. – Jonathan Latham, PhD, Executive Director, The Bioscience Resource Project, Ithaca

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orn in the Flower Street Hospital on Fifth Avenue in East Harlem, most of Victor Jorrin’s childhood was spent in the South Bronx, graduating from the Morris High School. Victor’s mother and father were from the Caribbean. His father insisted that his children study classical music and dance to maintain family traditions and appreciate their heritage from countries far away. Victor’s sister trained in ballet, eventually dancing and teaching professionally throughout the U.S. and Europe. Victor played cello and viola in high school, and his brother’s photography is part of the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection. Growing up in New York, every weekend the great Latin bands would play at the Palladium Ballroom, with allstar Cuban dancers performing to crowds of fans. During the ‘40s and ‘50s Cuban, Italian, African-American, Dominican, and Irish fans shared their adoration of the Latin orchestras that performed there. Victor and his siblings saw “the best of the best” Latin dancers, and at home he was coached by his sister in the Palladium style. “Classic Cuban dance is sophisticated and complex from its evolution in the dance halls in NYC,” Victor said. “The rhythm is tricky for beginners. Closer to the African polyrhythms, the rhythmic emphasis is different than what most Americans think of as “Latin beat,” popularized in salsa dancing today. As Latin dance became popular in the U.S., Arthur Murray teachers across the country, and later West Coast swing dancers modified traditional Cuban dance to make the rhythm compatible with Western dance.” After getting his undergraduate degree from Brooklyn College, Victor received a scholarship to attend Harvard for his Master’s in Architecture. Fond of the Boston area, Victor was pleased to be selected as the Historical Architect to oversee the architectural integrity of the structures within the Boston National Historical Park, previously the Charlestown Naval Shipyard. Finding his national park work demanding yet satisfying Victor next moved from Boston to Seneca Falls, where he worked with the Superintendent of the Women’s Rights National Historical Park. This park commemorates the first Women’s Rights Convention held on July 19-20, 1848, drawing people from all over the world retracing the steps of early suffragettes and abolitionists. For Victor small town upstate New York was

like visiting a foreign country. He was welcomed and quickly fell in love with the beauty of the rolling hills between the lakes. As he was completing his work in Seneca Falls he decided to pursue further studies at Columbia University in New York City to round out his planning and architectural background. With his

New York. By the late ‘90s Victor was resettled in Ithaca, dreaming of building a permanent home here, and working with Catholic Charities to help fledgling entrepreneurs start their own businesses. For many years now Victor has worked with the Ithaca-Tompkins County Transportation Council as a transportation analyst. In the remaining hours of the week Victor squeezes in his lifelong interests in dance, diversity, community engagement. His home on West Hill is completed, and he has just submitted architectural plans for a local credit union, which he provided at no cost to support their community development work. Victor also serves on the County’s Workforce Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and assists with the committee’s program for the Workforce Reading & Discussion Program. When the workday is over he seeks the Latino music he has loved and danced to his whole life. He is reintroducing the classic Latin dance style that evolved at the Palladium Ballroom, planning to form a cadre of dancers to showcase the versatility of this romantic style. • Victor Jorrin will be welcoming new dancers to his new classes, which start Jan. 3, 2015. In the meantime dancers are invited to come sample and dance with Victor’s current class at Finger Lakes Fitness Center. Editorial

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Victor Jorrin in the laboratory. (Photo: provided)

second Master’s Degree in real estate development, he headed back to Boston where he joined Columbia classmates to launch a planning and architectural firm. A 78-unit housing project was their ambitious first product. Although designing and building this housing complex was thrilling, it was also exhausting; and as it came to fruition, government support for further such projects tanked. To diversify Victor used his development background to try his hand at opening a restaurant; and in 1991 Victor opened his first restaurant on Nantucket. He would spend winters in Boston at his second restaurant, and he would return to operate his seasonal Nantucket eatery each summer. What was unique about Victor’s restaurants was the menu; it was all vegetarian, which was not common in the early ‘90s. The more Victor thought and studied consciousness, the more he felt we live better when we do not use other creatures unnecessarily. While traveling in India between academic studies and work assignments, Victor saw the reverence with which animals were held, and realized that human exchanges with other creatures enable us to remain in touch with our deepest levels of consciousness. As time passed and Victor practiced his architectural and entrepreneurial skills, he found himself drawn back to upstate

Wall Street Journal writer noted that the landmen were part of a nationwide land grab instigated by Aubrey McClendon, former CEO of Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy. Enormous tracts were bought up to hype the size of the boom to the stock market and to international investors. Much of the money to lease the land came from China, Norway, and other national giants in energy. Finally, our downtown remains a construction site as the Commons project has been delayed repeatedly, largely due to the inability of NYSEG to deploy enough staff to put gas lines in the ground and make the new connections to the buildings along East State Street and “Bank Alley.” Anyone who drives by the NYSEG office building on Route 13 will have noticed the “For Lease” sign out front for the last two years. It is there because after being bought up by Iberdrola, a multi-national energy corporation based in Spain, NYSEG lost a lot of employees, not just office workers, but field personnel too. According to beleaguered Commons project manager Michael Kuo, all the decisions about how many crews are available to work are made somewhere in Spain, and waiting for word to come back takes a long time. And that word is not always what you want to hear. So here we sit in the middle of upstate New York, our taxes rising, our blood pressure elevated by rampant natural gas leasing, and our downtown filled with heavy equipment and piles of pavers for two years. Welcome to the global economy. • T

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I was just reading the October 15 Ithaca Times, and on the cover was a huge, already outdated house as most of us try to scale back for a smaller carbon footprint, etc. These new developments will displace more animals, kill a lot of important plants, destroy open space, and insure that fracking for gas has a healthy future. Instead of running new gas lines and electric power, why aren’t these developers required to install solar collectors on each lot/roof to provide their own power? It can be done, must be done, if we are going to leave those fossil fuels in the earth where they belong so the human race can survive. –Shirley Rice, Burdett

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Will the state allow 5,700 Willard patients to be remembered by name on a memorial?

By Louis DiPietro

nder a robin’s-egg blue sky and whipped by a biting wind above Seneca Lake, Colleen Spellecy and friends are in search of the gravedigger’s body. His number, actually: marker 45, row 2. They’ve brought a lantern, shovels, hoes, and Swedish Hill. “We’ve got a bottle of wine,” Spellecy says, “and we’re going to celebrate.” A man named Lawrence Mocha is buried somewhere out in these open 29 acres, he along with 5,775 former patients of the since-shuttered Willard Psychiatric Facility, located about 45-minutes north of Ithaca in neighboring south Seneca County. The group is intent on finding Mocha’s gravesite and paying their respects, even if New York state would rather they did so without using his name. There are no proper headstones for the thousands of former patients buried in this state-owned facility’s cemetery. Only numbers mark the deceased, stamped onto small metal discs and inset into the ground. The earth has reclaimed most of these markers, and the group spends the good part of this sun-drenched, Sunday afternoon combing the overgrown field for Mocha’s, guided by an old cemetery map and ballpark calculations. A retired teacher from nearby Waterloo, Spellecy leads this small committee of history buffs – the Willard

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Cemetery Memorial Project – which has spent more than three years trying to honor those entombed here with a proper memorial, complete with the names of the dead. It’s this last point that has made their effort an arduous one. New York state, citing patient confidentiality laws, has thwarted the group’s efforts to erect a monument that displays patients’ names. The Office of Mental Health (OMH) contends that they cannot and will not release those names without the written permission of living relatives, a nearly impossible request since the cemetery’s documented burials go back as far as 1870. Making it all the more difficult, many who arrived to Willard and died there during its 126 years of operation were immigrants with little family in the U.S. Yet despite the hurdles, the group has plunged ahead in their effort, culling upwards of 600 names from death and burial records, writing letters to living relatives of the deceased and appealing to local politicians and Albany whenever given the opportunity. Thus far, the group’s dogged resolve has produced some small victories: they installed a roadside sign for the cemetery, erected new markers identifying religious sections and received responses from 18 families of former Willard patients, each giving the Memorial Project permission to include their relative’s name on a future memorial. “I’m still getting them,” she said. “If we can get 100 2014

names, we will go forward with the memorial.” Spellecy’s fight began after she read The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases From a State Hospital Attic, a 2008 book brought about after the discovery of 427 patients’ suitcases in a Willard facility attic. Moved by the book, Spellecy sought to have a monument installed that returned the names to the cemetery’s thousands. But what she wanted then – and what she seeks now – is illegal under state law. The Office of Mental Health remains unmoved in its position to uphold the confidentiality of people buried in state asylum cemeteries. Without permission from relatives, the names stay undisclosed, the state contends. “Our job is to protect the living and deceased and provide dignity and respect for all,” John Allen, special assistant to the state OMH, told this publication in 2012. Contacted last week, an OMH spokesperson said they were not authorized to speak on the record for this story. Plans drawn up by OMH in 2012 to add a wildflower sanctuary, benches and walking paths to cemetery grounds have yet to materialize. The memorial group was also promised state-issued laptops, equipped with ancestry. com subscriptions, to aid in their research. Arrival of the computers was delayed, and the plan was ultimately scrapped. “At this point,” Spellecy said, “I believe legislation is the only way to go.”

Bills currently in the state Senate and Assembly would give the Willard stewards the legal ground to carry out their memorial: it would amend the state’s mental hygiene law and allow the disclosure of names, birth and death dates of patients who have been interred in state mental health hospital cemeteries. Such information would only be disclosed after a patient has been dead for 50 years, according to the bill. However, both bills are stuck in committee and have yet to reach the floor for a vote. In the meantime, Spellecy said the group isn’t sitting on its hands. Before winter hit, Perry Bradley and Ovid Town Historian Gail Snyder set to work clearing away weeds from 360 markers from the original cemetery located on the far west side. Barry Martz, another volunteer, has unearthed 107 markers by himself in the cemetery’s Protestant section. When the weather breaks next spring, the group will focus on cleaning up markers in the New Catholic section, all in preparation for the annual public tour of the Willard facility in May. “We wanted to show that these people lived,” Spellecy said. “Even just having the numbers visible, even though it’s just a number, it says that these people existed.” In late November, one of the New York Times’ most accomplished writers came calling, and the ensuing piece by Dan Barry brought letters of support from around the country. Some descendants wrote Spellecy to inquire about relatives who they believe are buried in Willard Cemetery. Others wrote wishing to volunteer or give money, and a historian in California offered to help with legislation to get a proper memorial built, she said. Then came a tip regarding the cemetery’s old gravedigger. “I got an email with the actual burial place of Lawrence,” she said. “I couldn’t believe it.” Having received the location in

confidence, Spellecy would not disclose her source but insisted the person was extremely knowledgeable of the cemetery: Lawrence Mocha was buried in the New Catholic section, under marker 45 in row 2. With Mocha, the group has linked its first name to one of the thousands of numbered plates. “At times, I feel like he’s a relative because I care so much about him,” Spellecy said. “Lawrence represented everybody.” Born in Austro-Hungarian Galicia in 1878, Mocha spent his childhood in poverty and had next to no formal education, according to Darby Penney and Peter Stastny, authors of The Lives They Left Behind. He took to tinkering as a young man and carved out a living as a scraper and metal repairer, but in his 20s, his life took an unfortunate turn. He was struck in the head by a thrown rock, began drinking and was admitted to a German asylum for singing and whistling too rambunctiously. He joined the German Army, and eventually, at the age of 29, immigrated to the U.S. and found work at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. At his job one day in 1916, he caused a scene and was admitted. He was transferred to Willard two years later and remained there for the duration of his life. By all accounts, he was a quiet man, had a tireless work ethic and was proficient with a shovel, all the traits of a master gravedigger. In his more than 30 years tending the cemetery, Mocha is credited with burying as many as 1,400 of his fellow Willard patients. He lived on the cemetery’s grounds, in a 10-by-12-foot shack, and dug clear up to his death at age 90 in 1968. Then he, too, was buried among the countless others he laid to rest. And, like the others, his gravesite was given its own numerical identifier. On that brisk Sunday afternoon, they’ve arrived to properly recognize Mocha and celebrate a little, too. Spellecy carries a small

lantern, post and a cross that she intends to place at Mocha’s gravesite. They just have to find it first. Among the group members is helper Mike Huff, a former Willard groundskeeper who worked up until the facility was closed in 1995. In the south corner of the cemetery, just off a barely visible service road, Huff taps the earth with a hoe in hopes of striking a marker through the thick patches of overgrown grass. He’s looking for a point of reference, anything to provide some insight into where exactly they should be looking for Mocha’s 45. Joined by shovel-ready group members Perry Bradley and Barry Martz, Huff finds a marker in row 1, counts off about six feet and taps again. He hits something solid, and the Bradley-Martz duo steps in. Marker 11, row 2. From there, the group walks east, picks a spot. Thd, Thd, Chk. Bradley and Martz scrape and brush soil aside, careful not to disturb the site. Thirty-eight emerges from the soil, and the group shifts further east again. Thd, Thd, Chk. Forty-four. Excitement grows. Spellecy wears an unwavering smile, her voice touched with giddy inflection. “Oh my gosh, we’re gonna find it, you guys,” she says, the group encircling the assumed location of Lawrence Mocha. There are hugs when the weeds are pulled back, the dirt wiped away, and 45 is revealed, a small metallic disc nested within PVC pipe. Colleen calls her husband (“He’s put up with this for three years,” she jokes), her daughter, and the New York Times writer. She fetches the red wine, and the group drives a thin metal post into the ground. The lantern sways over 45. The new addition pairs well with the other Mocha tribute that was recently installed. A large rock – donated by Huff and installed by the Seneca County Highway Department – rests at the site of Mocha’s guard shack on

cemetery grounds. Keeping with the state’s demands, the tribute is nameless. But not for long. A day before this story went to press, Spellecy and the Willard Cemetery Memorial Project scored their biggest victory yet. A letter to Spellecy had arrived from Allen and the state Office of Mental Health: the state office had made contact with one of Mocha’s relatives, who had given their consent to print Lawrence’s name on a future memorial. Allen stated that the office would schedule a work plan to make good on those promises from three years ago and install a walkway and clean up the grounds. He requested the 18 names that the Willard Memorial group had obtained through their own efforts. A general memorial would be built on the state’s dollar, and a reconsecration ceremony would be held once memorials were installed, he wrote. The OMH would also be making arrangements with the Mocha family so they could attend the ceremony. “I didn’t sleep” Saturday night, said Spellecy, who called the news “a Christmas miracle.” “I just couldn’t believe it.” She e-mailed group members early on the morning of December 21. They were just as stunned. Gail Snyder, the Ovid Town Historian, figured the letter was some kind of hoax; Martz had to read Spellecy’s e-mail twice. Come this week, the Willard Cemetery Memorial Project convenes at the Golden Buck restaurant in Ovid to lay out next steps, discuss Mocha’s memorial and get consensus on how best to respond to the state’s letter. And, of course, the enormous challenge remains at the forefront – thousands of others, buried and nameless under an open field on the edges of Seneca Lake. There is work to be done – records to pore over, letters and e-mails to send and calls to make – so the Willard Cemetery Memorial Project continues on. They keep digging.•

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encourages them,” Emily said. have seen several “alumni games,” and Several of the Little Red players have some are heartwarming (like the 90 year-old Cornell baseball alum wearing expressed an interest in playing beyond high school, and they know their coach a 1930’s wool uniform and smiling at the camera as if he had found a time machine) can help them put the stepping stones in place. “We don’t get a lot of college and some are scary (like 45 year-old guys coaches at our games,” Grippen says, donning pads and helmets and playing “and most of the girls know they need full-contact football in the Cornell Sprint to play on travel and Showcase teams to Football alumni games). When the be able to show what they can do. That’s Ithaca High girls’ ice hockey team hosts where the college coaches do a lot of their its alumni game this Friday, it shouldn’t recruiting.” The coach calls her players be too scary (unless you see the coach bearing down on you, hip-check in mind). “well-rounded,” and she says the Little Red’s two seniors—Clara Emily Karastury and Marlena Grippen is the Doerr—are likely to Little Red’s firstbe college athletes. In year head coach, fact, Clara plans to row and while she at Northeastern, and graduated from Marlena has expressed a Ithaca High in desire to play ice hockey 2007, she is only in college. two years out Paul Zarach was of competitive the coach when Emily hockey. After played at Ithaca, and he starting for three started the alumni game years at Ithaca tradition the year after High, Emily took she graduated. “It was her game north started during the 10th to SUNY Oswego where she was a season of the program,” four-year starter Emily said, “and we make for the women’s it a point to have the hockey team, and game when people are her skates and home for the holidays, so her game are still they can come out and sharp. I asked her skate.” if she came from a The Little Red is “hockey family.” presently at two wins, “My dad two losses, and a tie going played when into the New Year, and he was a kid they are looking forward in Ithaca,” she to seeing many of their Coach Emily Grippen (Photo: provided) said, “and he former players on Friday. also played for The press release they North Country Community College and provided offers a few more details: “The then Cortland. My brothers still play in team invites all team alumnae to skate at Ithaca for the adult league and my younger The Rink on Friday, Dec. 26, from 11 a.m. brother plays on a club team at Oneonta, to noon. Players are asked to meet in the and my sister played as a kid.” I took that locker rooms by 10:45 a.m., and everyone as a “yes.” is encouraged to bring extra equipment if Emily studied math and adolescent you have some to share with others. education, and she now works for Lansing If you aren’t able to skate this Central Schools. She first returned to year, consider coming by to see others Ithaca High as an assistant coach, and connected with the team. took over as head coach before the Please spread the word since their season began. I asked her to tell me the email list has not been updated in a biggest difference now that she heads the few years, and they want to involve all program, and she said, “I get to make all who are interested and in town Dec. the calls.” 26. Refreshments will be served, and The fact that Emily paid her dues, donations welcome to help defray costs. came up through the ranks and played at Those interested can follow the the collegiate level adds to her credibility, team on Twitter at @IHSGHockey or on as does the fact that she laces up the Facebook or the official website where the skates during practices and does many schedule is posted: 88480.digitalsports. of the drills with her players. “I think it com. •

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the city should be certain the site is clean. She added its had been 10 years since the site had been cleared, and the city should check to see if its been re-contaminated. In an exchange of emails shared with the city, IURA Director of Community Development Nels Bohn assured Brock that the site should be clean and ready for rehabilitation. He said after some research, Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) project manager Gary Priscott confirmed that in 2004 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) removed lead-contaminated soil from the base of the cliff under the former Ithaca Gun site. To be safe, Bohn requested the city’s environmental consultants “re-look at the question of the northern extent of lead contamination from the former Ithaca Gun site given that some soils under the concrete cap on ‘the island’ have been confirmed to contain elevated levels of lead. “Specifically,” Bohn said, “I am seeking confirmation that the lead concentrations above 400 ppm [parts per million] do not extend down into the base of the gorge floor where the public walks to enjoy the Ithaca Falls.” Brock said once those tests confirm the site meets the New York State environmental and public park standards, she “will be in full support of approving” the project. Bohn was confident that would be the case. “Given the 2004 EPA cleanup,” he wrote, “the visual inspection of the talus at the base of the gorge wall, and the vegetated nature of the soils at the top of the gorge wall and intact concrete cap, I do not anticipate to find that any significant amount of contaminated soils from ‘the island’ have collected at the base of the gorge wall since the cleanup.” •

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ear Art-Loving Reader, This article will appear in the Dec. 24 issue of the Ithaca Times. In other words, on Christmas Eve. So, to quote the late, sainted John Lennon: “And so Happy Christmas/ And a Happy New Year/ Let’s hope it’s a good one/ Without any Fear.”

b y Wa r r e n G r e e n w o o d And here’s a fun event for the holidays: you can catch an extraordinary exhibition of watercolors by a Trumansburg-based artist and poet named Ann Day at Decorum-Too at the Dewitt Mall. The exhibit will be up through January, so an especially good time to catch the show would be the Friday Jan. 2, Gallery Night. You’ll love Decorum-

Too, one of my favorite places in Ithaca, a cozy burrow of a store, the walls lined with enormous, ornate, Arabesque rugs, and the proprietor, Alan Nemcek, always has the best Gallery Night food and champagne and conversation. And it was on the Dec. 5 Gallery Night that I discovered Ann Day’s paintings. As the Ithaca Times Art Guy, I try to go to Gallery Night on the first Friday of every month, and view the art that I write about through the month. There was, as always, a lot of great stuff up for Gallery Night, but I thought Ann Day’s work stood out as the work of a major artist. On taking a closer look at the show, making notes for this article, the thing that struck me the most forcibly was that the paintings were of summer scenes… that Day had somehow perfectly evoked that most magical of seasons. It reminded me of Ray Bradbury’s magic realism novel Dandelion Wine, where the young protagonist’s family bottles dandelion wine in the cellar each summer—but what they are really doing is bottling summer itself. Storing it away to be opened on some distant winter day. In a similar way, Ann Day has somehow captured the ineffable magic of summer and put it on watercolor paper. One can stand before one of the paintings and experience the deep emotional content of a wonderful summer day. Pure magic this. (And a great time of year for the experience. With the weather going cold and gray and wretched, what a perfect time for this artist’s gift!) • • • We might well ask, “Who is Ann Day?” Her bio sheet tells us that she is “a watercolorist and poet living currently in Trumansburg, who was born in Valetta, Malta in 1927 (her father an officer in the British Navy) and was raised in England and La Haule Manor, Jersey, Channel Islands until May, 1940 when the islands were occupied by German forces. She and her family escaped to England, leaving again on another ship in July as refugees to the U.S.” Eventually, she received “a BA, Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. in 1948.” Her professional experience includes Assistant to Director of Advanced Studies, National Center for Atmospheric Sciences, Boulder Colorado; Director of Education, Waterloo, Iowa Recreation and Arts Center; and Curator of Educational Services, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah. She has also done “Educational Programming for the Museum of African Art” in New York and been “an Art History Lecturer with Tour de France, Ltd.” She has received an amazing amount of awards and honors for her paintings. The list goes on and on. And, as a poet, her work has been published by Seeley Ave. Press, Chicago, and a wide variety of international journals and reviews over a period of decades. • • • Now, lets take a closer look at the specific paintings in the Decorum-Too show… continued on page 21

Artist Ann Day, whose work will show at Ithaca’s Decorum-Too through January. (photo by Tim Gera)

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histrionics from Ranking Joe. Giant Panda mixes it up on “Home” by adding a little banjo (from guitarist Dan Keller), not an instrument that you hear in dub or reggae very often. The cavernous echo of the percussion track makes a whole room for the rest of the arrangment to live in. The song slows down and goes fluidly slack on the bridge

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iant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad used to be a regular on the Ithaca club circuit because bass player James Searl attended Ithaca College, but based out of their hometown of Brighton, a Rochester suburb, the band continues to tour and record. Earlier this year they released Steady, the bulk of the songs were recorded in 2013 with Craig Welsch of 10 Ft. Ganja Plant co-producing. Two other tracks were recorded after those sessions and added to the sequence—the title track was co-produced by Danny Kalb (The Green, Ben Harper), while live-show favorite “Mr. Cop” was recorded with Matt Saccuccimorano (John Brown’s Body). After coming together in 2004, the band had enough confidence in their abilities to fly down to Jamaica in 2007 to play some shows on the island where the music came from. There last album, In These Times, came out in 2012. “It was a real riot playing reggae in Jamaica,” said drummer Chris O’Brian in a 2012 interview with the Ithaca Times. “We had this guy come up to us and tell us, ‘You’re showing us our own culture. You can’t see this in a bar in Jamaica anymore.’” This echoes comments by Kevin Kinsella in a recent interview about his new album. Kinsella noted that many younger players learned about reggae from listening to Sublime and other southern California bands. Kinsella and the Giant Panda crew go back to the Jamaican

source from the 1960s and ‘70s, falling into what is called the “roots reggae” category. “We use a lot of reverb and delay,” said O’Brian. “It creates an ambient landscape on top of the music. [Our sound man] Joel Scanlon uses these analog 1970s units to get the real sound like they did back in the day.” That sonic approach is preserved on Steady, as is the lyrical emphasis on positive vibrations (over the party-on-thebeach focus of bands like Sublime) and references oblique and direct to social justice issues. “Take Your Place,” which features Ranking Joe, a Jamaican icon from the 1970s and ‘80s, is a more personal song about the travails of being a professional musician, enlivened by vocal

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a hallmark of Giant Panda’s approach (and pretty essential to all dub reggae bands). “Hurt Up Your Brother” is a more political song and gives the keyboard player some room to stretch out and set the mood and color the atmosphere of the tune. The lyric is not an imprecation, but rather a rumination about doing the right thing. “.45” begins with a blues harp riff, another oddity in the reggae scene. The blues and guns go together by long tradition. Indeed, this song makes the narrator a bit more a badass than is usual in this generally positive vibration band. The guitarist (Dylan Savage?) stretches out quite a bit here too, moving from Kingston to Chicago’s South Side for a few minutes. All told, this is a solid offering from this band. The variation in instrumentation, subject matter, tempo, and production make this more listenable than a lot of reggae, which can tend toward an endless mid-range lope to accompany repeated paeans to the wonders of sinsemilla. • com

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raft beer is back in a big way. It all began back in the 1980s when they changed the public health laws to allow the sale of unpasteurized beer. A beer industry that had been strangled by Prohibition in the 1920s and ‘30s had never really bounced back to recover its previous diversity. After the 1960s, regional breweries began to struggle and close probably because of the growing emphasis on advertising by major brewers, particularly during the radio and television broadcasts of sporting events. By the 1980s interest in regional breweries had already begun to revive. Yuppie culture was eschewing the mass produced insipidity of Budweiser, Miller, Coors, and seeking out esoteric labels like Rolling Rock and Stroh’s. In 1976 New York State passed the Farm Winery Act. It allowed grape growers to bottle wine and sell it directly to the public in tasting rooms at their vineyards. Some winemaker/ grapegrowers, like the Wagner family, began making beer and selling it on the farm as well. But in 2012 Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Farm Brewing law, opening up the proverbial floodgates. Until the end of 2018, at least 20 percent of the hops and 20 percent of all other ingredients must be grown or produced in New York State. From January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2023, no less than 60 percent of the hops and 60 percent of all other ingredients must be grown or produced in New York State. From January 1, 2024, no less than 90 percent of the hops and 90 percent of all other ingredients must be grown or produced in New York State. In his new book Central New York Beer: A History of Brewing in the Heart of the Empire State, beer enthusiast Daniel Shumway shows that we have in effect gone back to the future. Shumway’s

book is not a synoptic history; you won’t get a summary of what the brewing industry was like in the 19th century. Instead he goes through history, brewery by brewery. In his first book he examined the breweries of Utica. In his second book he draws a circle with a 50-mile radius around Utica and discusses breweries in 18 towns and cities. In his brief introduction he notes that they’re or have been 62 beermakers over the last 200 years in this area. For Ithaca readers his sweep passes closest at Norwich and Oneonta, but certainly towns like Cooperstown, Cazenovia, and Hamilton are hardly out of reach. Since the passage of the farm brewery law, 14 new businesses have started, according to Shumway. Some of the local examples include Rogue’s Harbor in Lansing, Hopshire and Bacchus farm breweries out in Dryden and one on the way in the old Ovid

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addy Walsh, the lead singer of the Blind Spots, is a belter, of which there are very few on the Ithaca scene, male or female. Her alto is pleasantly rough around the edges when she is sailing along in the middle of her range, and she is capable of erupting abruptly into a leatherlunged blues shout over which she has complete control, executing acrobatic vocal leaps with surprising power. An especially impressive display can be heard in the blues workout called “Abida’s Role” from their last release, an EP called Small Stampede (2012). “My whole family sings,” said Walsh. “I’ve been around it all the time. I didn’t always have the control; that comes with time and practice.” Walsh has been in a couple of bands before the Blind Spots, which she describes as “folky acoustic.” But she was a full-time grad student at Sacramento State while she was in her last band and didn’t commit to it as she has to the Blind Spots. “We rehearse every day we get a chance,” she said. “And if we can’t practice we get together to talk about the business stuff.” The Blind Spots are about to release their third record, Rhizomatic, on Jan. 1 and will be celebrating with a CD release party at the Haunt on Dec. 27 with the Falconers. The rapper Sammus will open the show. “I met Maddy last summer when she basically reached out to me and asked me to perform at her wedding celebration,” said Sammus. She was happy to be invited to open the CD release party. Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (aka Sammus) is an Ithaca native who is presently in a Ph.D. program at Cornell. Since she contacted organizer Bubba Crumrine, who had been hoping to involve local hip hop artists, she has been part of Ithaca Underground shows. You will be able to experience only about 20 minutes of her music as she opens for the Blind Spots, but her own full set is an hour of prepared beats over which she wraps her nerdcore narratives.

Walsh has her nerd side too, which is revealed in her explanation of the source of the album’s name and also in the first video that has been released to accompany Rhizomatic’s first single, “Hey Boy.” “I’m trying to get this story shorter every time I tell it,” she laughed when asked about the album’s title. It is inspired by her reading of French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. “Rhizome is actually a botany term from a root structure that grows laterally instead of deeper and opposes the cycle of seed growing into a tree. [Deleuze and Guattari use it to] represent a more expansive way to live, to achieve success a different way.” Walsh sees it as an analogy to how music is spread now. Where once record companies decided what we would all listen to, now music is spread by word of mouth far and wide via the Internet. The “Hey Boy” video is an elaborate throwback to the mini operas that used to characterize early MTV videos of the 1980s. The style is appropriate as the song is also a throwback to ‘80s New Wave with Walsh’s voice pitched a little higher and processed to squeeze out some of its natural warmth. The band will release four more locallyproduced videos over the next several months. The distance between the glossy pop of “Hey Boy” and the blues heroics of something like “Abida’s Role” is impressive. Even the lightest-weight songs like “Listen Up” from El Camino Dream (2010) is given bite by the tightness of the playing, the crunch of Suave’s guitar, and the smoke in Walsh’s delivery. While their music is unrelentingly upbeat, their lyrics are not. Being a Blind Spots fan sometimes means gyrating around the dance floor while Walsh sings about a friend with sick father or a housewife who is maybe about to explode after being taken for granted for a long time. All this (and more) is presented in a cascade of imagery rather than straight narrative. It is written to be in the service of the music and the music serves it well. •

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figures out how to use museum pieces as theme park style entertainment, Roosevelt, Attila the Hun and the rest begin going haywire Westworld style. This time, the solution takes the whole gang to London, where we meet new historical characters, including a

laugh and maybe even shed a tear. What can I say? Certain movies never win awards. They just entertain people. And as we head into the holiday season, I can say with assurance that Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb will entertain you. Now the bad news. There have been lots of terrible holiday movie-night pick movies, but A Merry Friggin’ Christmas feels worse than Four Christmases, Christmas with the Kranks, National Lampoon’s Christmas Reunion, Ron why Williams took the roles that Howards The Grinch and The he did, but two of his last jobs add Polar Express. This is supposed up to a mixed bag. to be dark, dysfunctional First, the good news. Even holiday anti-cheer in the Bad those who don’t consider the Santa mode: Joel McHale plays Night at the Museum movies as a dad who overcompensates a series, much less a trilogy, will at Christmas because his dad sense that museum hours are (Williams) is a drunken mess ending after this third chapter, who always ruined the holidays. Night at the Museum: Secret of When he brings his family home the Tomb. They’re not as good to Dad, turns out he forgot his as the Harry Potter flicks, but at Ben Stiller and Robin Williams in the latest installment of Night at the Museum. kid’s presents, and so Dad and their best, Shawn Levy’s Museum son must drive all night to get the movies illustrate a grooving gifts and save Christmas. tactile canvas of moving history hysterical take on Sir Lancelot by Dan I love dark and dysfunctional comedy and comedy that excites young people Stevens, clearly channeling Cary Elwes as long as it’s funny, but Michael Brown’s and hopefully stimulates their need for in The Princess Bride; Rebel Wilson as script isn’t. And it’s not just McHale and knowledge. Williams being hung out to dry; Lauren Even though Ben Stiller is the comedy Tilly, the British museum night guard; and Ben Kingsley. The movie even brings Graham, an unrecognizable Oliver Platt front man/history host of these movies, in back the first film’s guard trio: Bill Cobb, as “Hobo Santa”, Wendi McLendon-Covey many ways, Robin William’s gentle touch Dick Van Dyke still shaking his groove (“Reno 911”), Tim Heidecker, Candice as Teddy Roosevelt is the heart of them; thang, and also Mickey Rooney’s final Bergen, and a stunningly miscast Clark this time around, a strange blue fungus film appearance. Even the film’s resident Duke are treated like limp tinsel. • messes up the golden tablet that animates all the exhibits after dark, and just as Stiller capuchin monkey, Dexter, will make you

Farewell, Robin ‘night at the museum’ is a By Br yan Van C ampe n Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, directed by Shawn Levy, playing at Ithaca Stadium 14; A Merry Friggin’ Christmas, directed by Tristram Shapeero, now on DVD and VOD.

e certainly lost a lot of amazing artists this year, but the only one that brought tears to my eyes was Robin Williams. Not at first; when I heard the news of his death, I threw on two of my favorite Robin Williams movies, Good Morning, Vietnam and Dead Poets Society (and I had just watched what I consider his breakthrough performance in Moscow on the Hudson upon hearing of the death of Paul Mazursky), but I didn’t cry then. I watched his 1978 HBO special on youtube and didn’t cry. But when I started reading an endless string of celebrity tweets and tributes, that’s when the tears of grief and gratitude fell. Like most actors, even those as talented as Williams, a resume can be a very up and down thing. We’ll never know

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ochelle Bilow’s The Call of the Farm is subtitled “An Unexpected Year of Getting Dirty, Home Cooking, and Finding Myself.” She does get dirty (while apparently preserving her nails), does a lot of cooking (each seasonal section of the book ends with recipes), but there is no evidence that she finds herself or even really looks particularly hard. The book is effectively a romance novel that takes place on a farm and also happens to be a memoir. Once you accept it for what it is, it is acceptable as an occasionally detailed depiction of the work that goes into running a “full diet” community supported agriculture (CSA) farm. Bilow’s memoir entwines the story of her sojourn at “Stonehill Farm” with her relationship with a farm worker called “Ian” (all the names have been changed and the locations carefully left vague). The romance, of course, ends in tears, something anyone wading into this will immediately sense is inevitable. Her tenure at the farm, however, is the story of a young woman working hard to learn many new skills while also being generous about sharing the skills she has with this small but growing crew of young people. Bilow attended the French Culinary Institute, but by her own admissions “couldn’t cut it” as a New York City chef and has returned to her upstate home to reinvent herself as a food writer. The 24 year-old is not quite able to stitch together enough freelance work to support herself, so she has taken a series of day jobs to make ends meet. They are always undemanding enough to leave her time and energy to pursue her writing. As portrayed by Bilow in this memoir, Stonehill Farm comes off as a bit too “planet of the cool kids” to be appealing to the less happening reader. All the other farm workers seem confident, directed, and breezily hip. They work hard and when they peel off and decide to leave the fold, it is generally to move on to some other resumé- building activity or

a dramatic travel experience. In contrast, Bilow portrays herself as socially awkward, but only comes across as awkward in that mid-70s Joni Mitchell way of bemoaning standing at the edge of fashionable parties. But, well, she is at the fashionable parties. The style of writing is chatty and readable, which works well when she is describing the details of slaughtering meat chickens, learning how to churn butter, or describing a seedling planting operation. But it founders when she moves into trying to make the personal relationships in the book come alive. None of the other farm workers emerge as a complete personality and even the love object Ian remains more or less tall, dark and handsome. This must be to some degree necessary to preserve privacy, but if the romance angle had been extracted or at least moved to the periphery, then this could be a book about a real place with real people doing real things. And in fact there is a real movement of educated, principled, hard-working people who are going back to the farm and reimagining the enterprise for the 21st century. The Call of the Farm is a portrayal of that movement from the point of view of someone who tried to participate, but in the end decided that farm life was not for her. (Bilow is now a staff writer for Bon Appétit, and she lives in Brooklyn.) In the end her interest in farm life is preserved in the form of an updated George Plimptonstyle immersion-journalism exercise oddly coupled with a Barbara Cartland plot trajectory. There is a certain amount of information to be found in this book. But all too often Bilow either skates through events or ignores opportunities to share insight. The Stonehill Farm crew attends the Northeast Organic Farmers Association meeting, but you hear mostly about her brief, mild flirtation with another farmer. Her father grew up on a dairy farmer and she opines that it would be good to talk to him more about his memories of that experience. But you never hear a word about that. •

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Nantucket Cottage To go right to the jugular here, this one is my favorite. I find it extraordinary. It is a large watercolor of a very charming cottage. The color is tan-gray. It has a little porch. And is old and weathered enough to be homey and charming. I find this painting beautiful and striking, and I don’t exactly know why. Perhaps it is because Ann Day has somehow captured the feel of a summer’s day … a feeling of youth … a feeling of being alive when it feels good to be alive. This is essentially a realistic painting— but just impressionistic enough that one can almost see the leaves rustling in the summer breeze, the sun flashing on those thousands of leaves, hear the rustle of the wind, feel the sun on one’s skin, smell the salt-breeze of the nearby ocean …

me is that it is more of a drawing. The other paintings largely eschew line while this one has a strong, somewhat cartoony line. (I can’t help but be curious what Day drew it with. Conte crayon, perhaps?) The result is that it is more like a drawing painted with watercolor than a painting per se. And, to me, in both subject matter and execution, it has an animated cartoon feel. (Specifically those early 1960s Disney films like Sword in the Stone or 101 Dalmatians when the Disney Studio switched to a Xerox line from the traditional hand-drawn ink line on their animation cells … and adopted line on their background art to match the foreground Xerox animation.) Overlooking Cayuga Lake, Trumansburg, N.Y. and Fields in Southern Utah

These two paintings are stylistically similar (and stylistically different from the other pieces in the show) in that, here, Day draws both scenes in a bold, wavering, cartoon line before painting them. The result is a very different look and feel. It reminds me of a style of magazine illustration popular in the late 1960s. (And, again, they have an animated cartoon feel … this time more like the television animation of the early 1970s.) Both paintings are intentionally simplified and have a freshness and charm that is very appealing. Garden at Thirsty Owl Winery, Ovid, N.Y. Let’s end with another favorite. We see a wide expanse of summer green lawn … leading us to a white, red-roofed

barn, a yellow-and-brown cottage, a field of grapevines, a background of forest and a far distant glimpse of Cayuga Lake under a soft, cloud-filled summer sky. A perfect evocation of a summer day. There are more works in the show, Gentle Reader. I could go on and on. But why not discover them for yourself like holiday presents under the Christmas tree? Enjoy. Happy holidays. • Ann Day’s exhibit of watercolors will be on display at Decorum-Too Oriental Rug Store and Gallery, 215 North Cayuga Street, Dewitt Mall through the months of December. 2014 and January 2015. Phone: 607-319-0944. Website: www.Decorum-too.com. Hours: 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday, closed Sunday and Monday.

Low Tide with Boats, Maine This is another one I just love. We see several small boats, beached on a sandy shore, sitting in the sun on a summer day before a copse of pine forest, with a glimpse of a hill and forest and summer sky of blue and white clouds in the far distance. The pine forest (relatively new growth pine with bands of sun dappled on the trunks of the trees) reminds me of camping in the Adirondack Mountains with my family in childhood and adolescence. The beach reminds me of summer days on the beach at Little Sand Point on Pieseco Lake in the Adirondacks. The boats remind me of canoeing on Pieseco Lake with my late father and brother in childhood. Again … I can almost feel the sunwarmed sand on my bare feet, feel the wet wood of the boats under my fingers, smell the lake and the forest … Avenue in Nantucket This is another one of Ann Day’s spectacular watercolors. This is a large painting of a treelined avenue in summer on the island of Nantucket. There is a row of white-andsalmon Colonial houses. There is a line of charming, low, white picket fences and old-fashioned horse hitching posts, and the trees on either side of the boulevard create an overhanging cathedral-canopy of green summer foliage. Two things impress me. One, Day’s painting of the vast green foliage of the trees … very detailed … an impression of each individual leaf—but it is indeed Impressionism—a lively, vigorous, splash of green that nicely evokes the living movement of the leaves in the wind. And two, the shadows cast by all that foliage— landing on the walls of those Colonial houses and on the avenue itself—capturing that sleepy, summer, underwater feeling that summer foliage evokes. Castle in France This is a scene of a little French castle (with a charming, wooden, medieval-Tudor attachment). We see a stone turret in the foreground, a stone wall flanked by ancient trees, and a castle bell tower. The significant thing about this one to

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Pete Forlano Jazz Expressions | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Downstairs Lounge

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The Blind Spots / The Falconers / Sammus | 9:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | The Blind Spots album release show. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets online, at The Haunt and McNeil Music. Head Band / Johnny Dowd | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | A benefit for We Are Seneca Lake; Citizens protecting the region from Crestwood’s gas storage expansion. Gabe Tavares / Black Is Green | 9:30 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Gabe Tavares (Plastic Nebraska, The Thins) will open with solo work.

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groovy jazz. Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org. Pete Panek and the Blue Cats | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | New Year’s Eve Party | 8:00 PM-3:00 AM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Road, Ithaca | Featuring The Destination and DJ Jorge Cuevas. Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Misses Bitches / Mr. Boneless | 9:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, Main Street, Trumansburg | NYE 2015 Sim Redmond Band / Blackcastle | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | NYE 2015 Jimkata / Hector Works Sound System | 9:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | NYE 2015 New Year’s Eve Show: Big Mean Sound Machine / Mosaic Foundation / Grey Gary | 9:00 PM-3:00 AM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Live music will take place upstairs while DJ’s Ben Ortiz and Jay Stooks will be holding down the dance floor downstairs. Tickets to the show are limited and available at Lot 10 (106 S. Cayuga St.) or by visiting www. lot10nye.com. For more information please call (607) 272-7224 or visit www.lot-10.com. The Jeff Love Band | 10:00 PM-1:00 AM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | R&B, Soul, Funk

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The Gambler | A literature professor with a gambling problem runs afoul of gangsters. | Wed 7:30 PM; Thu - Sat: 12:30 PM, 3:20, 6:30, 9:30. Into the Woods | A modern twist on several of the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Little Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), Jack and the Beanstalk (Daniel Huttlestone), and Rapunzel (MacKenzie Mauzy)-all tied together by an original story involving a baker and his wife. | Wed 7:00 PM; Thu: 1:00 PM, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; Fri and Sat: 10:50 AM, 1:00 PM, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00. Unbroken | Academy Award® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis “Louie” Zamperini (Jack O’Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII—only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisonerof-war camp. | Wed: 7:15 PM; Thu Sat: 12:20 PM, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10. Annie | Ever since her parents left her as a baby, little Annie (Quvenzhané

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Big Eyes | Directed and produced by Tim Burton, BIG EYES is based on the true story of Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), who was one of the most successful painters of the 1950s and early 1960s. The artist earned staggering notoriety by revolutionizing the commercialization and accessibility of popular art with his enigmatic paintings of waifs with big eyes. | 106 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:50, 7:10, 9:25; Sat & Sun: 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:25; Mon & Tue: 4:50, 7:10, 9:25; Wed: 4:50, 7:10; Thu: 4:50, 7:10, 9:25 Birdman | BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. | 119 mins R | Fri: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Mon & Tue: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Wed: 4:30, 7:00; Thu: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30. The Imitation Game | During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of ‘gross indecency’, an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. | 114 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Sat & Sun: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Mon & Tue: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Wed: 4:15, 6:45; Thu: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15. The Theory of Everything | The extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering

diagnosis at 21 years of age. | 123 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Sat & Sun: 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Mon & Tue: 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Wed: 4:20, 6:50 Thu: 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Wild | With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone. | 115 mins R | Fri: 4:25, 6:50, 9:15; Sat & Sun: 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15; Mon & Tue: 4:25, 6:50, 9:15; Wed: 4:25, 6:50; Thu: 4:25, 6:50, 9:15

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Wallis) has led a hard-knock life with her calculating foster mother, Miss Hannigan. However, all that changes when hard-nosed billionaire and mayoral candidate Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx) takes her in on the recommendation of his advisers (Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale). Stacks believes that he’s Annie’s guardian angel, but the plucky youngster’s confidence and sunny outlook may mean that Annie will save Will instead. | 119 mins PG | Wed: 12:20, 3:20, 6:40 PM; Thu - Sat: 12:00 PM, 3:05, 6:40, 9:40. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb | Get ready for the wildest and most adventure-filled Night At the Museum ever as Larry (Ben Stiller) spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever. | Wed: 11:40 AM, 1:15 PM, 2:20, 3:50, 5:00, 6:20, 7:50; Thu: 2:40 PM, 4:15, 5:30, 7:10, 8:10, 9:45, 10:40; Fri - Sat: 11:45 AM, 2:40 PM, 4:15, 5:30, 7:10, 8:10, 9:45, 10:40. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies | Having reclaimed Erebor and vast treasure from the dragon Smaug, Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) sacrifices friendship and honor in seeking the Arkenstone, despite Smaug’s fiery wrath and desperate attempts by the Hobbit Bilbo (Martin Freeman) to make him see reason. | 144 mins PG-13 | Wed: 12:00 PM, 3:30, 7:00; Thu: 12:10; 3:45, 7:20, 10:50; Fri and Sat: 11:20 AM, 2:50 PM, 6:20, 9:50; Also showing in 3D Exodus: Gods and Kings | Exodus: Gods and Kings” is the story of one man’s daring courage to take on the might of an empire. State of the art visual effects and 3D immersion bring new life to the story of Moses (Christian Bale), who leads 400,000 slaves on a monumental journey from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of plagues. | Wed: 11:30 AM, 3:00 PM, 6:50 PM; Thu: 6:10; Fri and Sat: 11:00 AM, 6:10 PM; Also showing in 3D. Top Five | Though he began in stand-up comedy, Andre Allen (Chris Rock) hit the big-time as the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear. Andre is forced to spend the day with Chelsea (Rosario Dawson) a profile writer for the New York Times, whose film critic has just panned Andre’s passion project about the Haitian Revolution. Unexpectedly, Andre opens up to Chelsea, and as they wind their way across New York, Andre tries to get back in touch with

his comedic roots. | Wed: 11:50 AM, 2:35 PM, 5:15, 6:30; Thu - Sat: 1:50 PM, 4:40, 8:00, 10:35. Horrible Bosses | Tired of always answering to others, Nick (Jason Bateman), Dale (Charlie Day) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) go into business for themselves. After demonstrating the prototype for an invention called the Shower Buddy, the guys attract the attention of Rex Hanson and his father, Bert. Bert invests in the trio’s product, then cancels the order and steals their idea. Now heavily in debt and with no legal recourse, Nick, Dale and Kurt decide to kidnap Rex and use the ransom money to pay off their loans. | Wed: 12:35 PM, 3:10. Penguins of Madagascar | Super spy teams aren’t born…they’re hatched. Discover the secrets of the greatest and most hilarious covert birds in the global espionage biz: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private. These elitists of the elite are joining forces with a chic undercover organization, The North Wind. Led by handsome and husky Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then…you know), voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. Together, they must stop the villainous Dr. Octavius Brine, voiced by John Malkovich, from destroying the world as we know it | Wed: 11:10 AM, 2:00 PM, 4:30, 7:10 PM; Thu: 1:40 PM; Fri and Sat: 11:15 AM, 1:40 PM The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I | The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 is directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Danny Strong and Peter Craig and produced by Nina Jacobson’s Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik. The novel on which the film is based is the third in a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins that has over 65 million copies in print in the U.S. alone. | Wed: 12:45 PM, 4:20, 7:40; Thu - Sat: 1:30 PM, 4:30, 7:30 and 10:20. Big Hero 6 | Robotics prodigy Hiro (Ryan Potter) lives in the city of San

Fransokyo. Besides his older brother, Tadashi, Hiro’s closest companion is Baymax (Scott Adsit), a robot whose sole purpose is to take care of people. When a devastating turn of events throws Hiro into the middle of a dangerous plot, he transforms Baymax and his other friends, Go Go Tamago (Jamie Chung), Wasabi (Damon Wayans Jr.), Honey Lemon (Genesis Rodriguez) and Fred (T.J. Miller) into a band of high-tech heroes. | Wed: 12:30 PM, 4:00; Thu: 2:15 PM, 5:00; Fri and Sat: 11:30 AM, 2:15 PM, 5:00. Interstellar | In Earth’s future, a global crop blight and second Dust Bowl are slowly rendering the planet uninhabitable. Professor Brand (Michael Caine), a brilliant NASA physicist, is working on plans to save mankind by transporting Earth’s population to a new home via a wormhole. But first, Brand must send former NASA pilot Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and a team of researchers through the wormhole and across the galaxy to find out which of three planets could be mankind’s new home. | Wed: 12:15 PM, 3:15; Thu Sat: 1:15 PM, 5:15, 8:50. Big Eyes | Directed and produced by Tim Burton, BIG EYES is based on the true story of Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), who was one of the most successful painters of the 1950s and early 1960s. The artist earned staggering notoriety by revolutionizing the commercialization and accessibility of popular art with his enigmatic paintings of waifs with big eyes. | Wed: 8:00 PM; Thu: 2:00 PM, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30; Fri and Sat: 11:10 AM, 2:00 PM, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30.

Stage Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 12/24 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs Open Mic Poetry Reading | 7:00 PM-, 12/26 Friday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge, 139 W. State Street, Ithaca | Hairspray | 8:00 PM-, 12/26 Friday; 3:00 PM-, 8:00 PM- 12/27 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 12/28 Sunday; 7:30 PM-, 12/29 Monday; 7:30 PM-, 12/30 Tuesday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 Genesee Street, Syracuse | The hit Broadway musical piled bouffant high with laughter, romance, and deliriously tuneful songs. Bubbling with joy and 60s era music and dance, Hairspray delights with the pleasures of a classic American musical. Tracy

Turnblad is a teen whose life revolves around dancing on the Corny Collins TV show. Who knew that a teenybopper TV show could be a catalyst for integration? You can’t stop the beat, and truth be told, you won’t want to once the all-singing and dancing cast takes the stage.

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

Learning Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/23 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | A new discussion group for anyone interested in learning about and following the teachings of Jesus but who don’t necessarily believe he was the messiah. Open to adults of all ages, orientations, and religions (or lack thereof). Not affiliated with any church or religious institution. For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca. Art Classes for Adults | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | Arts classes for adults at the Community School of Music and Arts. Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org. Winter Writing Through The Rough Spots | See website for location and meeting dates, , | Writing Through The Rough Spots. Fall and Winter Classes in Ithaca. www.WritingRoomWorkshops. com

Nature & Science Primitive Pursuits Free Monthly Primitive Skills Meet Up | TBD | Join Primitive Pursuits instructors and members of the community as we work on primitive skills, strive to inspire, share stories, and help each along a journey toward deeper connection & awareness. This is a no-cost program meeting one Saturday each month at

Downtown Christmas Farmers Market | 4:00 PM-6:30 PM, 12/23 Tuesday | Press Bay Alley, West Green Street (behind old Gannett bldg.), Ithaca | local goods for holiday dinners and stocking stuffers for the family. Candlelight Christmas Eve Service | 7:00 PM-, 12/24 Wednesday | Burdett Presbyterian Church, 3995 Church Street, Burdett | All are welcome.

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Festival of Trees | 11:00 AM-8:00 PM, 12/23 | Ward O’Hara Agricultural Museum, 6914 E Lake Rd, Auburn | Through December 23, come see this community celebration with trees, big and small, lit and unlit. Dress warm. Weekend hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Weekdays from 4 to 8 p.m. Open Hearts Dinner | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 12/24 Wednesday, 12/31 Wednesday | McKendree United Methodist Church, 224 Owego St., Candor | Every Wednesday. Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Ithaca Farmer’s Market | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 12/20 Saturday | Steamboat Landing, , Ithaca | Soup and or Chili Nights | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 12/23 Tuesday, 12/30 Tuesday | Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, 17 Main St., Candor | Every Tuesday Night. With dessert and drink. Free Will Donation

Health Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 12/23 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604 Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 12/23 Tuesday | 124 E. Court St., 124 E. Court St., Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions # 607-272-1505 Pet Loss Support Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/23 Tuesday | 316 E. Court Street -- enter Linn Street side, 316 E. Court Street -- enter Linn Street side, Ithaca | Talk with others who are dealing with the death of a beloved pet. Professionally facilitated by Jane Baker Segelken, LMSW, and Cathie Simpson, PhD. For information and other details, call: Jane at 607-351-2740 or Cathie at 607-2733063, or email petloss@gmail.com

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Head Band and Johnny Dowd play a benefit show at Lot 10 this weekend. They are raising funds for We Are Seneca, the citizens group fighting to protect Seneca Lake from a Texas company that has proposed gas storage in nearby salt mines. More than 100 citizens have been arrested and charged with trespassing for blocking the gates at the Crestwood facility in the town of Reading. (Photo by Local Shakes)

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Legion Fish Fry | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/26 Friday | Candor American Legion, 90 Spencer Road, Candor | The American Legion Auxiliary Friday night Fish Fry. phone: 659-7395 on the night of the dinners

Local rock band Black is Green headlines a Saturday night gig at Trumansburg’s Rongovian Embassy. Solo Gabe Tavares – Plastic Nebraska, The Thins – opens the show. (photo via Reverbnation).

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various designated locations to work on anything and everything primitive. Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com to join the club. Night Hikes | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 12/26 Friday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Held during the evening. Hike our wooded trails under the big sky of our back fields or around our ponds. Find out who is awake and stirring under the moonlight. No need to bring a flashlight; you’ll be surprised how much you see without one. Please call ahead for availability. (607) 273-6260 Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 12/27 Saturday; 9:00 AM-, 12/28 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Bird walks around Sapsucker Woods are sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club and are targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars are available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information. Primitive Pursuits Adult Weekend Workshop | Upcoming events: Tracking, January 10 - 11; Winter Shelter / Survival, February 7 - 8; Friction Fire Intensive , March 7 - 8. For more information, call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit online at primitivepursuits.com. Primitive Pursuits Free Monthly Primitive Skills Meet Up | Join Primitive Pursuits instructors and members of the community as we work on primitive skills, strive to inspire, share stories, and help each along a journey toward deeper connection & awareness. This is a no-cost program meeting one Saturday each month at various designated locations to work on anything and everything primitive. Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com to join the club.

Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/24 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, 12/24 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, 12/25 Thursday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments). Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 12/26 Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location, | Ithaca College is hosting an aphasia support group. We are looking for stroke survivors who have aphasia (an acquired language disorder). The group will provide a casual and comfortable place for participants to talk, share experiences, and offer support to one another. For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: (607) 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, 12/26 Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | Successful recovery based on Dr. Kay Sheppard’s program Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 12/28 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free. A Quiet Practice: Yin-Restorative Yoga for Women | 4:00 PM-5:15 PM, 12/28 Sunday | Fine Spirit Studio, 201 Dey Street, | Led by Nishkala Jenney, E-RYT. Email nishkalajennney@gmail. com or call 607.319.4138 for more information. Walk-in Clinic | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 12/29 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments).

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Coping With the Loss of Your Pet Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/23 Tuesday | Pet Loss Group, 316 E. Court Street, Ithaca | Facilitated by Jane Baker Segelken, MA, LMSW, and Cathie Simpson, PhD, the group is open to all humans who have experienced the loss of a beloved companion. The group, open to all who have experienced the loss of a beloved companion, allows individuals to pay tribute to their pets and provide support to each other. For more info, please call Jane Baker Segelken at 607-351-2740 or Cathie Simpson at 607-273-3063 or email petlossgroup@gmail.com Alcoholics Anonymous | 12/24 Wednesday | 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, 12/24 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, 12/24 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-, 12/24 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, 12/24 Wednesday | Dryden Village Hall, , Dryden | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 12/25 Thursday | First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 12/27 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/29 Monday | Just Be Cause center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/24 Wednesday | First Congregational Church of Ithaca , 309 Highland Rd , Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/29 Monday | Ithaca Recovery Center, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca |

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Dowd Fine Arts Center | temporary location: 9 West Main Street, Cortland | Transcendences: prints, panels, drawings and sculptures by Diana Al-Hadid, Wang Gongxin and Lin Tianmiao, opening 10/23 up through 12/10 | (607) 753-4216 Elevator Music and and Art Gallery | New Roots Charter School, 116 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | 882-9220 | White Noise, Sound and Space Installation by Rebecca Cutter, through December | newrootsschool.org Gimme! Coffee | 430 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | Samantha Liddick, Fine art photography, through December | www.gimmecoffee.com/ Handwerker Gallery | Gannett Center, Ithaca College | Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM; Thursday, 10 AM to 9 pm; weekends, noon to 5 PM. Closed to the public on Tuesdays | Divergent Series, 15 faculty artists, ongoing | www.ithaca.edu/handwerker Home Green Home | 215 East State/ MLK Street | Taughannock Creek Photographs by Fernando Llosa, through December | 607-319-4159 or www.homegreenhome.com 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, through 01/2015 | 607-277-3884 | www.ink-shop.org Kitchen Theatre Company | 417 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Branching Out: Paintings by Kent Goetz, through December | 272-0403 or www.kitchentheatre.org PADMA Center | 114 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | David Watkins will be exhibiting his photography through December | 607-351-7145 | www.padmacenter. com Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | Images on Metal, through December | www.sarahspatisserie.com/ Silky Jones | 214 The Commons (E. State St.), Ithaca | Daily, 4:00 PM-1:00 AM | abstracts by Eric Draper, through December | www.silkyjoneslounge.com Solá Gallery | Dewitt Mall, Ithaca | 10:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday-Saturday | japanese prints, ongoing | 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 | 25th Anniversary Juried Show, through December | For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@

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Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Road, Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | JIE (Boundaries): Contemporary Art Taiwan, through 12/21 | Surrealism and Magic, inspired by the library of Kurt Seligmann, through 12/21 | An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 06/21 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos, by Leo Villareal, ongoing | www. museum.cornell.edu The History Center | 401 E. State St, Ithaca | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Switched On: The Birth of the Moog Synthesizer, opening 05/02 and ongoing | www. historicithaca.org or www.thehistorycenter.net. Museum of the Earth at PRI | 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Monday, Thursday-Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Ongoing: The Animals of the Nature Center, Glacier Exhibit, Right Whale #2030, Rock of Ages/Sands of Time, Coral Reef Aquaria, A Journey Through Time, Discovery Labs, Hype Park Mastodon www.museumoftheearth.org Rockwell Museum of Western Art | 111 Cedar St, Corning | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM | On Fire: The Nancy and Alan Cameros Collection of Southwestern Pottery, through 04/2016 | Untouched by Chaos: Karl Bodmer and the American Wilderness, up through 03/2015 | Lock, Stock & Barrel, historic firearms, up through 01/2015 | www.rockwellmuseum.org Sciencenter | 601 First Street, Ithaca | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; open noon Sunday. Closed Monday | New: Ithaca’s Watershed Journey; Mars Rover exhibit | www.sciencenter.org Susquehanna River Archaeological Center | 345 Broad Street, Waverly | Tuesday-Friday, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Native American artifacts, ongoing | www. sracenter.org. Ulysses Historical Society | 39 South Street, Trumansburg | Friday-Saturday 2:00 PM-4:00 PM; Monday 9:00 AM-11:00 AM | Civil War shawls, 1909 Brush car, Hoffmire Farm exhibit, Abner Treman exhibit, Ag exhibit, all ongoing | Ward W. O’Hara Agricultural & Country Living Museum | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM; Wednesdays 11:00 AM-8:30 PM | 6880 East Lake Road Rt. 38A, Auburn | Central New York and Atlantic Seaboard Paintings, by Tom Hussey, ongoing

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Big Mean New Year’s Eve

Have you seen the video for the Blind Spots’ new single, “Hey Boy”? The cut comes off the group’s latest record, Rhizomatic, which will be released this weekend during a special show at The Haunt. Supporting are the Falconers and nerd-core hip-hopper Sammus.

Lot 10 packs its New Year’s Eve bill with Big Mean Sound Machine (pictured), Mosaic Foundation and Grey Gary. And that’s just upstairs. Downstairs, DJ’s Ben Ortiz and Jay Stooks will be spinning until 3 a.m.

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soag.org Studio West | 516 W. State/MLK St., Ithaca | Heidi Lee, The Artist Within, paintings and multimedia, through December | 607.277.5647 Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Faux Antique Signs by Christopher Wolff, through December | 319-5260 Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | Mon. Wed. Thurs. 11am-6pm; Fri. Sat. 11am-8pm; Sun. 11am-4pm; closed Tuesdays | Luminious Lakes, Glorious Glens: Recent Paintings by Brian Keeler, through 12/31. | www.titusgallery.com Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca | MondayThursday, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM; Friday and Saturday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday, 1 PM-5:00 PM | Montage Histories: Tompkins County, New York, through Photographs 1864- 2014, through December | www.tcpl.org

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Kids Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 12/23 Tuesday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years old and their parent/caregiver. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273.8364. Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM-11:15 AM, 12/23 Tuesday | , , | No Story Hour during holidays, School Closings or Bad Weather. Call 659-7258 with questions. Sciencenter Animal Time: The Silly Tail Book | 10:30 AM-, 12/23 Tuesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | For toddlers and preschoolers, hear the story The Silly Tail Book by Marc Brown and create animals with yarn tails. Art Classes for Kids | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Classes and private instruction for children and teens in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org Kids Programs at Ithaca Youth Bureau | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 12/24 Wednesday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | Theatre Buffet; Imagine That; Improv; Showtime! These weekly programs begin in January. For more information visit IYBrec.com or call 273.8364. Cuddle Up Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 12/24 Wednesday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden | Songs and stories with Ms. Diane for babies and toddlers. Stay after for play time. Caregivers are required to stay with their child(ren). Science Together | 10:30 AM-, 12/24 Wednesday | Sciencenter, , Ithaca | Parents and their toddlers and preschoolers explore science through hands-on activities, reading and songs. Sciencenter’s early explorer educator, Victoria Fiordalis, shares researchbased parenting tips in an interactive, fun environment. Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 12/25 Thursday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years old and their parent/caregiver. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273.8364.

Encore so this is the new year by luke z. fenchel

his New Year’s Eve, don’t drop the ball. Our fair city has a surprisingly broad list of options. There is so much to do it is easy to find a good time. Below, is a list of late-night events, with a focus on live local music. Please remember to be safe, don’t drink and drive, and have fun. Sim Redmond Band with Black Castle (The Dock: 9:30-11 p.m., Black Castle; 11:30 p.m. – 2 a.m., Sim Redmond Band) The rootsy and Afro-Caribbeaninfluenced Sim Redmond Band regularly performs on New Year’s Eve to a sold-out crowd, but this year is particularly special because SRB has been playing less regularly than usual. “We haven’t played in Ithaca since the summertime, and so it will be fun to return to the inlet,” Sim Redmond said. “It is going to be a late night out for me. My wife and I have had a baby this spring, and so I have been doing the stay-at-home dad thing. I’m looking

Ulysses Philomathic Library: Story and Art | 10:30 AM-, 12/25 Thursday | Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main St., Trumansburg | Each week will feature a fun theme such as pirates, the circus, fairy tales, music, and more. Ksana Dragovich will read stories and Barbara Nowogrodzki will lead art projects. Awana Clubs | 6:30 PM-8:15 PM, 12/25 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-, 12/26 Friday | Southworth Library , , Dryden | Story Time | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, 12/26 Friday | Ford Edith B Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Children and infants will enjoy stories, songs and crafts. Parents can bring a snack or lunch and stay afterwards for play time. Sciencenter Animal Time: The Silly Tail Book | 10:30 AM-, 12/26 Friday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | For toddlers and preschoolers, hear the story The Silly Tail Book by Marc Brown and create animals with yarn tails. Ocean Acidification | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, 12/26 Friday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca

forward to having fun on New Year’s.” Redmond continued: “A lot of the times in past years we will break out a special New Year’s cover song: Michael Jackson is always popular - Jen [Middaugh] does a good Michael Jackson.” Redmond looks forward to the new year. “I think there are some songs percolating, but I haven’t done any serious writing yet. I am looking forward to recording a new album this year,” he said. “I think 2015 will be a good year for music.” (SRB will also return to the Corning Museum of Glass at 6 p.m. on January 15).

made his home. “We can’t wait to see everybody, and I hope everybody makes resolutions to promote peace in the New Year.” He added: “I give thanks to Mother Nature for guiding us through the year, and we can’t have fun without giving thanks to the creator for giving life.” Destination (Oasis) Upstate New York’s premier dance band the Destination will offer their infectious blend of rock and roll, R&B, and funk for New Year’s. Live music, dancing, party favors, light appetizers, champagne toast, full bar service till 3 a.m.!

Jeff Love Band (Agava) The R&B act Jeff Love Band will perform soulful hits and help get your groove on and celebrate the New Year in style.

Jimkata, Hector Works Soundsystem (The Haunt) Jimkata, a nationally touring Big Mean Sound Machine, electro-rock band from Ithaca, Mosaic Foundation, and Grey blends heavy beats, synthy The Sim Redmond Band rings in 2014 with a gig at The Dock. Gary hooks, and big guitars to create (photo provided) (Lot 10) music with both modern and “The tradition goes on,” is timeless appeal. The band returns how Yao Foli (Cha Cha) described to the Haunt for New Year’s after will open, for a show upstairs at the his band Mosiac Foundation’s return to Lounge. DJs will perform downstairs for a performing out of town last year. Two full Lot 10 to celebrate the New Year’s. They’ll multi-floor party. sets, with Hector Works performing in join Big Mean Sound Machine who will between. • Cha Cha expressed his appreciation close out the night, and Grey Gary, who to the Ithaca music community that he’s

| Drop-in for kid friendly activities about ocean acidification. Dinosaur Evolution | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 12/26 Friday; 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 12/30 Tuesday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Drop-in to the Museum of the Earth between 2 and 3 pm for kid friendly activities about dinosaur evolution. Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 12/27 Saturday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years old and their parent/caregiver. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273.8364. Science Together | 10:30 AM-, 12/27 Saturday | Sciencenter, , Ithaca | Parents and their toddlers and preschoolers explore science through hands-on activities, reading and songs. Sciencenter’s early explorer educator, Victoria Fiordalis, shares research-based parenting tips in an interactive, fun environment. Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 12/27 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Ocean Acidification | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, 12/27 Saturday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca |

Drop-in for kid friendly activities about ocean acidification. Tales for Tots Storytime | 2:00 PM-, 12/27 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Butterfly Metamorphism | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 12/27 Saturday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Drop-in for kid friendly activities about butterfly metamorphism. Sciencenter Showtime! Birds Count! | 2:00 PM-, 12/27 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Find out about the birds that live in Ithaca all year round. Join the Cayuga Bird Club for fun bird activities and to learn about the Christmas Bird Count. Included with admission. Ocean Acidification | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, 12/28 Sunday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Drop-in for kid friendly activities about ocean acidification. Butterfly Metamorphism | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 12/28 Sunday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Drop-in for kid friendly activities about butterfly metamorphism. Lightapalooza! | 2:00 PM-, 12/28 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Local high school students

demonstrate optical illusions, bending light, making sound waves visible. Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 12/29 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. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273.8364. Whale Evolution | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, 12/29 Monday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Drop-in for kid friendly activities about whale evolution! School’s Out Activities: Hand Knitting | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 12/29 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, Main Street, Ovid | ages 5-12.Registration appreciated. Dinosaur Evolution | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 12/29 Monday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Drop-in to the Museum of the Earth between 2 and 3 pm for kid friendly activities about dinosaur evolution. Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 12/30 Tuesday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years old and their parent/caregiver. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273.8364.

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Jimkata’s annual Ithaca New Year’s Eve bash continues at the Haunt. Read this and go get your tickets now. This show sells out fast. Hector Works Sound System supports. (photo via Facebook)

The misses in Misses Bitches rock Tburg this New Year’s Eve, with support from Mr. Boneless. (Photo via Facebook)

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Garage/Yard 6056 West Fax andSale Mailat orders onlySeneca Rd. Trumansburg; follow detour. Household goods, furniture, misc. No clothes. Sat. August 4th from 9:00-2:00. LARGE DOWNSIZING SALE. Something for Everyone. August 2 and August 3 8am-5pm, 2 Eagleshead Road, Ellis Hollow, Ithaca, NY 14850

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180/Truck/RV MERCHANDISE/250 BARREL TABLE Four Swivel Chairs in Green 2000 leather.Silverado Vet nice condition. $275.00 4x4 Ext-Cab 149,000 Automatic 564-3662New parts, has Replaced Transmission, rust, runs good. 105,000 miles. $3,200. Homelite HLT-15 Classic weed whack607-589-7240 er, new never used. $60. 216-2314 RED MAX WEED WHACKER used very little. $50.00 387-9327 SAWMILLS from only $4897.00 MAKE & SAVE MONEY with your own bandmill-cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. FREE Info/DVD: 1-800-578-1363 ext. 300N www.NorwoodSawmills.com Tiny house AUCTION, Vermont post & beam sheds, (NYSCAN) Livestock shelters & firewood storage January 22, 2015. Sofa Bed Double, green plaid. $150. Absolute no reserve Bid online 802-297257-3997 3760. www.JamaicaCottageShop.com (NYSCAN) STUFF Only small kitchen appliances; 1 LazyBoy recliner and anything else you can think of. I might have what you want. Mostly new, no junk. CASH for Coins! Gold & Silver. CallBuying for list: Also Stamps &607-273-4444 Paper Money, Comics, Entire Collections, Estates. Travel to your home. Call Marc in NJ: 1-800-488-4175 (NYSCAN)

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VIOLINS FOR SALE: European, old and new, reasonable prices, 607-277-1516.

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Barried Treasures Jewelry will be here Cayuga Lake for a jewelry & clothing trunk sale! 12/6 SaturdayTriathlon & 12/13 Saturday from 11am-6pm. Our store8/4/2013 is open Fridays Sunday TheSaturdays Cayuga 12-6pm Lake Triathlon will take and Non-sweatshop place at Taughannock Falls State Park natural fiber clothing curvy women. on Sunday, 8/4/13. for Cyclists will be on NY89 from is Taughannock MojoWoman located at 225Falls SouthState Park to Co. Rd. 139 in Sheldrake. There Fulton will beStreet a temporary detour on NY89 between Gorge Road and Savercool Road form 7am to approximately 12pm while the triathlon is in progress. Please consider choosing alternate routes. Spectators are always welcome to come enjoy the triathlon or register to volunteer! For more details on the Cayuga Lake Triathlon. visit: Home http:// FREE to Good www.ithacatriathlonclub.org/cltrace/. Pug/Pomeranian Female. Great with Kids! 518-605-7737 or 533-4507

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AIRLINE CAREERS begin here - Get FAA approved Aviation Maintenance Lansing-Ithaca Technician training. Financial aid for qualified students - Housing available. Rotary Club Job placement assistance. Call AIM Welcomes you to SAT. 12/27, 10-7. A ook 866-296-7093 Fair @ Barnes (NYSCAN) and Noble. Event include Music, Reading of Children’s Books and Face Painting. Please contact Kathryn Mapes 607-342-1931 for more info

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CHURCH CHOIR DIRECTOR FOR CHILDREN--The First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca is seeking a director for its Children’s (K--5th grade) Choirs. He or she will prepare students to sing in worship on a regular basis. Submit a resume of qualifications and experience and a list of three references electronically at office@firstpresithaca.org or by mail to Children’s Choir Director Search, First Presbyterian Church IthaAIRBRUSH MAKEUP COURSE ca, 315 North Cayuga ARTIST Street, Ithaca, NY For: Ads. TV. Film. Fashion 35% OFF 14850 TUITION - SPECIAL $1990 - Train & Build Portfolio.Coaches One Week Course Details at: AwardMakeupSchool.com Needed 818-980for Newfield Central School. Looking for 2119 (AAN CAN) Asst. Football, Varsity and JV Volleyball coaches for upcoming sports seasons. Apply on website at http:// www.newfieldschools.org/node/72 by 8/16/13.

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EARN $500 A DAY Airbrush & Media Teacher Aide Makeup Artists For: Ads-TV-Film-Fashion. Train & Aide Buildneeded Portfolio in 1 toweek. F/T Teacher 1/20/15 Lower Tuition for 2013. assist TST BOCES teachers with High www.AwardMakeupSchool.com School students in the New Visions (AAN CAN) programs at Cornell University and Cayuga Medical Center. Must meet county residency requirements. Detailed job posting: www.tstboces.org. Must apply on-line with TC. Civil Service; www. tompkinscountyny.gov/personnel by 1/05/15. TST Boces, 555 Warren Rd. Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, Phone (607)2571551, Fax: (607)697-8273, email: hr@ tstboces.org

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Childrenʼs Choir employment Director (Ithaca, NY)

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Non-Commercial: $14.50 first 12 words (minimum), 20 cents each additional word. Rate applied to non-business ads and prepaid ads. Groszyk Farm MUSICIANS/350 Business Ads: $16.50 for first 12 words (minimum), 30 cents each additional word. If you charge for a service or goods you are a Enfield. CT business. Inquire about contract rates. needs 3 temporary workers 8/5/13 to 12/ 1/13, worksold. tools, supplies equipment $24.00 Auto Guaranteed Ad - Ad runs 3 weeks or until 12 words $24.00, each additional word 60¢. You must notify us to The Cats provided continue running ad. Non-commercial advertisers only without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers Featuring Howell ad for 25% Discount - RunJeff your non-commercial 4 consecutive weeks, youreturn only pay who cannot reasonably to for their3 (Adoption, Merchandise or Housemates) permanent residence at the end of the Employment / Real Estate / Adoption: $38.00 first 15 words (minimum), 30 cents each additional word. Ads run weeks. work day. Transportation reimbursement andweek subsistence is provided upon Box______” comFriday, Times August 2013 are $2.50 per Box Numbers: Box2,Numbers of publication. Write “Times at end of your ad. Readers address pletionP.O. of Box 15 27, days ro 50% of the work box repliesThe to Times Box______, c/o Ithaca Times, Ithaca, NY 14851. Log Cabin contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of 8811 Main St. (use up to 16 characters) Headlines: 9-point headlines $2.00 per line. Ifthe bold type, centered the workdays during contract period. or unusually spaced type, borders in ad, or $10.91 per hr. Applicants to apply conlogos in adsCampbell, are requested, at the display classified advertising rate. Call 277-7000 for rate information. NY the ad will be charged tact Ct Department of Labor at 860-2631:00am Free Ads: 9:00pm Lost and-Found and free items run at no charge for up to 3 weeks. Merchandise 6020 or apply for the job at nearest local for Sale, private party only. Price must be under $50 and stated in ad office of the SWA. Job order #4559149. Must be able to perform andinsertion. have prior jeffhowell.org Website/Email Links: On Line Links to a Web Site or Email Address $5.00 per experience i following duties: Plant, culCool(no Tunes Records Blank Lines: words) $2.00/Line - insertion.tivate and harvest broadleaf tobacco. Use hand tools such as but not limited to Border: 1 pt. rule around ad $5.00 - insertion.shovels, hoes, knives, hatchets and lad-

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Helper needed at Moravia Central School District $14.05/hr. See Specifics at www.moraviaschool.org - Job Opportunities or call (315) 497-2670 for application. E.O.E.

CITY OF ITHACA

is accepting applications for the following exam: Deputy Youth Bureau Director: Minimum Quals & Special Requirements: visit www.cityofithaca.org Salary: $75,112. Exam: Exam required at a later date. Application deadline: January 21, 2015. Applications may be obtained at: City of Ithaca Human Resources Department, 108 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850. (607) 274-6539 www.cityofithaca.org The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.

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Groundskeeper

Duties include helping to maintain school grounds and athletic fields. May also be assigned some maintenance/cleaning duties. Part time, 10-month position. civil Service job description and online application are available athttps://www. tompkinscivilservice.org/civilservice/ vacancies. Application deadline January 2, 2015 WELDING CAREERS - Hands on training for career opportunities in aviation, automotive, manufacturing and more. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. CALL AIM 888205-1735 (NYSCAN)

apist #2014-2: Minimum Quals & Special Requirements: visit www. cityofithaca.org Salary: $38,489. Residency: Tompkins County or one of the 6 contiguous counties. Application deadline: December

30, 2014. Exam Date: December 30, 2014. Applications may be obtained at: City of Ithaca, Human Resources Department, 108

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CAREGivers Wanted If you enjoy working with seniors, we want you! Join our team and become a Home Instead CAREGiver, providing non-medical companion and home-helper services to seniors in your community. Training, support and flexible shifts provided. No medical degree necessary Join us for a job that nurtures the soul! Call Home Instead Senior Care today: 607-269-7165. Each Home Instead Senior Care office is independently owned and operated.

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large, clean, nice unfurnished two bedroom/two full bath apartments available in 36-Unit Grad/Professional Apartment complex located in the Fall Creek neighborhood with excellent location to the Cornell Campus and Downtown Ithaca. On site laundry and free parking. Apartment features huge spaces, new carpeting or parquet wood flooring, high ceilings, lots of windows and light, balconies with glass sliders dishwasher garbage disposal and central air conditioning. Great location to the Cornell campus (10-15 Minute walk) and close to bus line (1/2 block). Rents include heat, hot/cold water, garbage removal; tenants pay own electric. Contact James R. Orcutt, Jr (NYS Lic. RE Broker) @ 607-592-7694

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