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and also to give us guidance.” He added, “That would be my suggestion.”

For his part, Sheriff Ken Lansing said, “I feel that the two reports we gave … truly [have] exhausted everything that we can possibly do as far as being transparent.” He continued, “With that being said, should the committee decide to take this forward to someone else to look at, we would be more than cooperative.”

Shinagawa suggested that the committee might vote to delegate authority for himself and Mareane to develop a request for proposal (RFP) to help figure out who, exactly, would look into the matter and what it would cost.

Legislator Jim Dennis (D-Ulysses) asked to hear more about other legislators’ reasons for requesting an additional

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he proposed 2015-16 Ithaca City School District (ICSD) budget was presented at the board of education’s Tuesday, April 14 meeting.

ICSD residents will have a $115 million budget to vote up or down at the May 19 election, a 1.09 percent increase over last year’s $113.8 million number.

The tax levy—how much money the district collects in property taxes—will rise 2.99 percent, which is less than the 3.13 percent tax cap the district had to work with this year without asking voters whether they approved of the hike or not.

The tax rate will rise 0.50 percent, or $9 on a property that’s assessed at $100,000.

Board members and administrators were careful to knock down reports that the district is receiving a $2.5 million increase in state aid this coming year.

Amanda Verba, ICSD chief operations officer, told the room that those reported numbers are increases from the estimated 2014-15 budget to the estimated 2015-16 budget, and so it doesn’t have much to do with what money the actual state gives to the district. Verba’s calculations for the proposed budget include a $634,804 total increase in state aid, and in total, about a $60,000 increase in foundation aid.

“Everyone who’s in the field of state aid knows it’s very confusing. We’ll try to demystify this a bit,” Verba said. “We knew we’d actually get [state aid] adjusted down, so we proposed a budget that was under the governor’s runs.”

Board member Brad Grainger noted that state-level reports saying the new budget gave back 60 percent of Gap Elimination Act monies to schools wasn’t true in Ithaca’s case.

“That may be true in a gross number, but for your school district it was 39 percent,” Grainger said. “The legislature says they’re going to restore it all next year, but we’ve been hearing that for two years.”

In total, the aid numbers are back to about 2008-09 budget year levels, Grainger estimated.

Staying under that 3.13 percent tax rise cap means the district has completed all tax-freeze requirements for the “circuit breaker”-style reimbursement, so everyone will get a check back for whatever their taxes went up—before any assessment changes.

“We’re below the cap, so we’ll do all the paperwork and show we have all these continued on page 7

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ompkins County has decided to move forward with an outside investigation into the incident in Danby that resulted in the death of David Cady and the destruction of the house at 127 Hornbrook Road.

At its Monday, April 20 meeting, the county legislature’s Public Safety Committee both accepted the after-action report and voted to move forward with an investigation.

In making the decision to accept the report, Legislator Will Burbank (D-Ithaca) said, “Just to be clear, the word ‘accepted’ is very particular.”

Legislator Nate Shinagawa (D-Ithaca) and County Administrator Joe Mareane clarified that accepting only indicates an acknowledgement that the report was Public Safety Committee chair Nate Shinegawa. (Photo: Keri Blakinger) presented, whereas adopting a report would indicate an review. intent to implement specific actions or Martha Robertson (D-Dryden) recommendations. answered, “One of the things we’ve After legislators officially accepted said a number of times is that we don’t the report, Shinagawa said, “I want us to know who would do an independent talk about the next action steps relating investigation, and I guess that the RFP to the Hornbrook Road incident.” He process is a way to figure out how explained that he views the next options we would do it.” Robertson said that as a choice between simply accepting the specifically she hoped to learn more about report without taking any further steps or the process leading up to the issuance of convening a group of outside experts who would “look at the tactics used, look at the continued on page 4 whether the response was proportional …

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What Activity or celebration would you like to see on the Commons?

“ A big celebration for all the store workers who survived the construction.”

—Eleanor Ritter

“Take 1 percent of the construction cost and give it back to the people of Ithaca .”

—John Pargh

“A celebration to draw tourist from across the region.”

—Mark Grimaldi

“A celebration of all that is Ithaca: small business, good music, and good food.”

—Rebecca Hersey

“An electronic music event! A daytime rave!” ­—Mark Orlow

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nyone wondering what city crews are doing ripping up sidewalk corners along North Tioga Street should feel assured that Public Works is getting Ithaca up to the most modern accessibility standards.

According to Eric Hathaway, the city’s sidewalk program manager who moved here from Portland, Oregon, last year, his talks with engineering office veterans indicate that “the current contract and ramp upgrades would be an unprecedented amount of sidewalk work for the city of Ithaca.”

Scheduled sidewalk upgrades total about a mile and a third of the city’s 90 sidewalk miles, Hathaway said, though the city is still awaiting incoming bids to know exactly how much work can be done.

Hathaway estimates the amount of money available to be upwards of $500,000, and Tom West, director of engineering, said at a Board of Public Works meeting that the number might be close to $700,000. In any case, the funds available are something unusual for a city that has the usual Northeastern concerns with sidewalks disintegrating due to winter damage, tree roots, and the general dissipation that occur in places that have been settled a long time.

The crews on Tioga Street are installing tactile surfaces—the mauve plates with bumps at corners—so blind pedestrians can feel an oncoming intersection, and making sure the ramps are on a properly slight grade so the mobility-impaired can easily navigate often icy crossings.

Ray Benjamin, deputy superintendent for streets and facilities, said that making sidewalk corners Americans with Disabilities Act compliant is a new requirement under the state’s street repair funding program. Since Tioga Street will receive repairs later in the construction season, the ramps there are being replaced outsidereview contin u ed from page 3

the warrant.

Legislator Will Burbank (D-Ithaca) said, “I think it’s pretty clear that this is not an investigation.” He expressed hope that the process would result in an understanding of what could be done better in the future.

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Tearing up North Tioga Street corner to install new corner sidewalks. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

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Benjamin doesn’t know exactly what the total number of sidewalk ramps will need replacement this year.

“We’ll do what we need to do,” Benjamin said.

Public workers grading a corner along Tioga in preparation for pouring cement estimated that they will be replacing about 30 ramps along that street over the next month—their work plan stretches from Cascadilla Creek all the way to the Northside’s outer bounds. About 130 total ramp replacements is what the groundlevel workers estimate their total goal to be this year.

Hathaway credits Mayor Svante Myrick with the increased amount of sidewalk work that’s on the docket this year. The sidewalk improvement district (SID) concept debuted in 2014. It charges a flat, $70 fee to one- and two-family properties and an additional per-foot fee for larger properties. That philosophy has

simplified sidewalk repairs, from the old system when every property was assessed a per-foot fee.

“This enables the city to approach sidewalk repair in a more holistic way than the previous policy, where repairs were typically done property by property,” Hathaway said. “The city is now able to fix larger sections of sidewalk, which is more cost efficient and makes sidewalks more accessible.”

Public Works will be holding public meetings to get input on the 2016 sidewalk plan beginning on May 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the Lehman Alternative Community School black box auditorium. Other meetings for people to give input starting at 6:30 p.m. will be at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church (May 19); Tompkins Community Action (May 27); and Sciencenter (June 1). A 6 p.m. meeting will be held June 2 at GIAC. •

at public comment, he has not heard any concerns about what happened except for “one angry person from Dryden.”

Deputy County Administrator Paula Younger suggested that instead of using the term “investigation” the committee could look into receiving technical assistance from the Bureau of Justice.

Briefly, legislators discussed whether there might be any liability attached to an investigation, depending on what the findings are.

Robertson said, “I want to underscore that this independent investigation doesn’t imply criticism in any way.”

After much discussion, Shinagawa amended the resolution to indicate that

the county will begin by inquiring into the possibility of receiving technical assistance from the Bureau of Justice. If that is not feasible in a reasonable time frame, then Shinagawa and Mareane will develop an RFP to present at the May committee meeting. The ultimate goal of any investigation or technical assistance analysis would be to make recommendations that could be adopted for the future.

The resolution passed by a 4-1 vote, with Robertson, Shinagawa, Chock, and Burbank supporting the measure and Dennis opposing it. •

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he Ithaca Times sat down with Scott Morris at REV, Ithaca’s startup incubator, to talk about the new local alternative currency that Morris is promoting: Ithacash. Morris talked about how he got interested in alternative currency, how he plans on promoting Ithaca dollars, and what social goods an alternative currency can help to bring about.

Ithaca Times: What first got you interested in alternative currency?

Scott Morris: After graduating from college I started looking into the financial collapse of ‘07, ‘08, and after I kept asking why I eventually ended up at the money supply. The way we have our money system configured creates a lot of conflict, socially, environmentally, and economically. So I asked myself, “If my dollars were no longer useful, what would I do?” I started studying a lot of different currency models worldwide. We will have another 2008-style event. I don’t know how that will manifest, but it’s a matter of when, not if. And even in the meantime, we can use [Ithacash] to maximize all the benefits it can deliver.

IT: How do you think an alternative currency can be used to promote local business to help the local community?

SM: What I want to showcase with this currency is it’s not just currency for the sake of currency, but with a deep connection to purpose. And that is what will help us make good on the commitment we’ve made to being a benefit corporation. That means an explicit commitment to generating a materially positive benefit for the community and society. This doesn’t mean “corporate social responsibility.” This is in our DNA— they’re flicking a quarter over there and calling it corporate social responsibility.

It’s the middle ground between a nonprofit and a for-profit.

IT: And what types of benefits do you think you can generate with Ithacash?

SM: One of the big topics is food security. There are 1,300 food insecure families in Tompkins County, and that number is getting larger, not smaller. What would it be like if we grant 250,000 Ithaca dollars to the Food Bank of the Southern Tier to expand operations?

IT: So non-profits or businesses can just ask for Ithaca dollars, and they get some?

SM: There are different ways for people to get currency depending on who they are. They can buy them, or they can earn them. They can earn them by working for the system, or they can win them by participating in various promotional challenges. There were 175 people in the

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presence of the Commons scavenger hunt in December who earned over 32,000 Ithaca dollars. Businesses can apply for a zero percent line of credit, and a nonprofit can accept donations and apply for grants.

IT: So where do Ithaca dollars come from? Are they connected to any standard, like gold or U.S. dollars?

SM: They’re like, poof, there it is.

You create them from nothing. And that’s a “fiat currency.” The trick is striking a balance between the value of real goods and services the currency has access to relative to how much currency is out there.

Our strategy for that is to be transparent and accountable. There’s no cashing out—that’s a big nasty, hairy ball of worms when you set an exchange rate. That’s a bad habit in terms of local currency, being 100 percent backed by national currency as if that provides some sort of safety net.

It puts people at ease because they think if this local currency system goes bad, I can get cash out. But it’s more likely there would be an international economic crisis, and people would flee into the local currency, which is based on a network of trust.

IT: So what is the Ithacash strategy for launch? How do you get people to use the currency, whether they believe in helping out the local community or are just looking out for their own bottom line?

SM: We’ve designed the system to prioritize the medium of exchange function of money. We want it to be out there and flowing. The key factor is velocity. That’s really the utility of money—how useful is the currency?

What helps is a direct partnership with the government, partnership with banks.

Those provide a lot of legitimacy. Banks can be a vendor of the currency—they can issue blended loans, which have U.S. dollars and Ithacash. And it’s a way to expand government without increasing the tax burden.

IT: So how does a business that needs to pay its bills in U.S. dollars benefit from Ithacash? How does the community benefit from having this extra money supply?

SM: We know there are an abundance of goods and services that are available.

We know there’s a host of people who want to enjoy those good and services. There’s a bottleneck effect, where we assume only so much of those people are able to afford those goods and services. An auxiliary money supply helps widen that bottleneck.

There’s money not accessible to us on Main Street. There’s an ocean of money, but it’s all stuck in orbit around what some people call “Planet Finance.” And when it starts going up there, it doesn’t come back to Planet Earth. This is for real goods and services all around America, and not a bunch of speculators.

IT: So what should businesses know about joining Ithacash, and when will it launch?

SM: Ithacash will help you make more sales and help you afford things you want. It’s good so far as advertising goes because you know exactly how much

you get back from a cash outlay because people are coming back with Ithaca dollars. Businesses can define what is and is not on offer depending on what makes sense for their business. We’re aiming for a launch in late May, with 100 offerings, mostly businesses and a couple nonprofits.

The physical notes, the ones and fives, will come in June, the 10s and 20s afterwards.

We’re launching IthacashOnline.com this line, and our text-based mobile payments will be TXT2PAY. •

Ups&Downs ▶ Triumphant Ninja Wolves, The Lehman Alternative Community School (LACS) Yellow Ninja Wolves, an all-girls middle school team of 6th and 7th graders took 1st place in the Instant Challenge and 2nd place in the Technical Challenge at the Destination Imagination State Finals in Binghamton, NY on Saturday. As a result they qualify to go to the global finals, an international competition, taking place May 20 – 23 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Any individual or company wishing to support the students’ trip may contact Amie Hamlin at 272-1154 for more details.

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 ▶ Trash Can With Ads, Yes, the city said no to some enterprising Cornell students who wanted to put advertising on trash cans on the streets of Collegetown. But former mayor of Ithaca Bill Shaw did not. Very soon you will see ads on a television screen over a trash can outside Shaw’s office on East Seneca Street, facing the Moosewood Restaurant. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of April 15-21 include: 1) First Black Frat Gets Historical Status 2) Chapter House Burns in Early Morning Fire 3) Keeping Cayuga Lake Level Is A Balancing Act 4) It’s in the Wind: Renewable Energy 5) Ithaca Man Arrested After Downtown Stabbing For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Let’s Talk About Education O ver the last two weeks in this space we have read a request from our reporter for teachers to “Dig Deeper” and then a meditation from a teacher/parent about the purpose of education. Both of these opinions were invoked by the current turmoil in public education.

The turmoil concerns the amount of time and energy (and money) spent on standardized testing (the legacy of the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind) and the quality of those tests, including the developmental-level appropriateness of the content. Then Gov. Andrew Cuomo decided to tie the evaluation of teacher effectiveness with student performance on the tests.

The teachers’ union and concerned parents have banded together to start a protest. All over the state parents are “opting out” of having their children sit down for standardized tests that are administered to students in third and eighth grades. The percentage of students not taking the tests are reaching 30 percent in places like Buffalo.

If your kid hasn’t taken the test, their performance can’t be measured, and you can’t evaluate their teacher.

The landslide of participation in this “opt out” movement seems to have taken school administrators by surprise. School officials seem to be widely unaware of how dissatisfied the rest of the community is with the state of public schools.

The subject of education is a bit lost in all of this upheaval. Before everyone

started arguing about testing and teacher evaluation, some people were actually concerned about the quality of public education and what kind of graduates (and dropouts) we were sending out into the world to either get a job or go to college.

Generally speaking, employers have been complaining about the quality of new employees for a long time.

A new study by Bentley University, a private business school in Waltham, Massachusetts, shows that “Nearly threequarters of hiring managers complain that millennials—even those with college degrees—aren’t prepared for the job market and lack an adequate ‘work ethic.’”

According to the Fiscal Times, “The National Association of Colleges and Employers surveyed more than 200 employers about their top 10 priorities in new hires. Overwhelmingly, they wanted candidates who are team players, problem solvers and who can plan, organize and prioritize their work. Technical and computer-related know-how placed much further down the list.

“Time noted that jobs are going unfilled as a result, which hurts companies and employees. Companies say candidates are lacking in motivation, interpersonal skills, appearance, punctuality and flexibility.”

These were the students who went through our public schools. Let’s get past this testing/evaluation argument and start talking about the quality of public education again. •

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Greener All the Time

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

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ypically, good Ithacans care about nature. We live in a beautiful, healthy place, and civic pride compels us to protect it.

We do it in ways small and large, from composting and recycling ubiquitously, to supporting local farms, to fighting fracking and campaigning against global warming.

We have a whole Eco-Village dedicated to low-impact living. We have a green cemetery for natural dying.

It’s a good thing for me personally that Ithaca makes it so easy to be green. Otherwise, I admit, I might not think about it as much as I should. I spent my formative years in Brooklyn without much grasp of nature.

Growing up, I saw animals in books and on TV, but real life had sparrows, worms, ants, and not much else. Sometimes you’d see a seagull that had strayed from the beach.

We went to the beach pretty often—a bona fide ecosystem, as it turns out—but did not think much, while swimming, about having to share the surf with orange drink cartons, popsicle sticks, and other debris.

That’s just how it was.

I might be grown and green enough now to elect to be buried in that natural cemetery (someday), but while living, could I abide in a stalwart Earth-centric place such as EcoVillage, and fit in? I would like to think I am good enough, but probably not.

I mean, I enjoy the rectitude and responsibility of reusing and recycling, but whether due to my early environment, or maybe enduring ignorance, sometimes I just want to throw things out.

A few years ago I was relocating a business I owned, and hired a mover to help.

Most of the stuff was destined for the dump,

and looked it, but I also had a nice old wooden secretary. I liked it, but no longer had use for it, and it had a couple of busted drawers, so I decided to shed it.

My mover had other ideas.

“You’re throwing that away?,” he said. I nodded.

“No you’re not,” he said. “That’s a great piece.”

“It’s falling apart,” I said.

He inspected it. “It’s an antique,” he said.

“It’s oak.”

This is where my ignorance comes in. It’s oak? So what? It has to be something. I am aware there are different types of trees, but only vaguely. One type of wood is the same as another to me.

I didn’t admit this, of course. Instead I simply pled.

“I paid $12 for that thing,” I said. This was precisely true - at a yard sale on East York Street, nine years before.

“Then you got a bargain,” he said.

“Then you take it for nothing. That’s a bargain for you.”

“I can’t,” he said. “I have nowhere to put it.”

“That’s my excuse, too,” I said. “You have to do better than that.”

“My wife would kill me,” he said. “I can’t bring stuff home from the job.”

Ouch. I’m single. I’m not a mover. He had me on two counts.

“You should argue with her like you argue with me,” I said, but I knew I was defeated. I’d have to save the piece and be a good steward of the earth—an honorable Ithacan. continued on page 7

YourOPINIONS

Don’t Count Out Wind at Home

The colorful cover photo of the April 15 Ithaca Times is, as was noted, a Weaver 5 small wind turbine—which many of your Trumansburg readers will readily recognize as a landmark just outside the village.

However, what many people may not appreciate is that this turbine is one in a string of pre-production “beta” turbines that Weaver Wind Energy (WWE) has been testing over a period of several years with the participation of truly remarkable “first adopter” customers scattered throughout our region. Indeed, with our customers’ blessings, WWE continues to use the Trumansburg location and other sites to test innovations and improvements to the Weaver 5 turbine.

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somehow superior to customer-owned small wind. The phrase used in the article’s title, “The renewable energy that works as a utility,” seems to imply that wind does not work well on a small scale. A second message seems to be that customer-owned solar is the best choice for small scale renewable energy generation. Respectfully, I strongly disagree.

The utility-scale, centralized generation model of Black Oak, is limited precisely because it is “centralized” and controlled by relatively few investors even if those folks happen to be local residents. Distributed generation of electricity is a far more democratic, empowering model as owners of small scale solar systems will readily attest. Small wind systems, such as the Weaver 5, now manufactured and assemcontinued on page 7

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In between selling houses, she is an aurel Guy took an unconventional accomplished plein air pastel artist. In the route from Kentucky via Texas to warm season, she carries her art supplies Ithaca, arriving in 1981. At first the in back of the car, and you may see her out cold climate was a shock. A quick study, in the field creating new impressionistic Laurel learned about wool socks, down painting of our landscape. jackets, and four-wheel drive vehicles, and Laurel is currently working on a set down roots in Ithaca. “It’s the people,” special project called “52 Unforgettable she said. “And the four seasons, the Houses in Ithaca, New York. These are dramatic changes from tundra landscape not houses for sale, but instead they to sudden lush greenery. When I see the first pop of color, the forsythia in spring, it’s a euphoric moment.”

And it helps, Laurel added, that she almost immediately forgets how harsh the winter has been.

Many of us first met Laurel when she corralled us into organizing groups of dogs wearing kerchiefs, marching beside stilt walkers, and battered Volvos wearing ballet tutus in the annual Ithaca Festival Parade. “This was a tremendously fun way to get to know the community,” is Laurel’s description of her ten-year tenure as our Ithaca festival director. “The Ithaca Festival inspires people to fall back in love with Ithaca,” said Guy “a celebration of all that is good about living here. The Ithaca Festival was Laurel Guy with Ezra Cornell (Photo: provided) a great blank slate upon which we could create something memorable. Each year, she would build the are Laurel’s favorite homes in the area.

Amazing. Unconventional. Historic. event around a whimsical, quirky theme.

All cardboard and duct tape. Nothing slick Quirky. Magnificent. Unforgettable.

Portrayed through dramatic changes in or fancy. When the Circus EccentrIthaca season, every week takes a peek inside performed we would say “Magic just another home and sees how Ithaca lives. happened.”

Breathtaking pictures and remarkable One year, the theme was All the Time stories bring these houses to life.” in the World—reminding us to slow Laurel is half-way through this down, to not be in such a hurry. One of year-long project. You can follow it here: the events was the All The Time in the 52unforgettable-houses-ithaca-ny.tumblr.

World Race: all the runners running in com/ slow motion down State Street, to the Last year, Laurel created “365 Things theme from Chariots of Fire. The winner, to Do In Ithaca, NY.” Every day she posted of course, was the person who crossed the something new to do in the Ithaca area. finish line last. Laurel said, “The best part You can find it at pinterest.com.º Laurel’s was the crowd spontaneously cheering in favorite things to do will remind you of all slow motion!” that you love best about living here.

Nine years ago, Laurel began her She is a whirlwind of creativity. career in real estate. Working with her dog Endless ideas. “Originality comes because Hugo by her side, she is now one of the we are open to it,” Laurel exclaims as she top realtors in the region. “I do my best to make sure the right thing happens for each slides her red shoes into her tiny car and heads off to her next adventure. • person I work with,” she said.

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bled in Freeville, are highly reliable, robust sources of renewable energy designed to last 20 years or more.

The Weaver turbines mentioned by Mr. [Joe] Sliker [of Renovus Energy] in the article were prototypes that were erected for research purposes, and the implication that these were not successful and were abandoned in 2011 is a misrepresentation. Weaver Wind Energy has not gone out of business. On the contrary, WWE has successfully completed a fiveyear development phase which proved out its novel and patent-pending active furling tail design.

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All this stands in rather stark contrast to the article’s message that small wind is somehow inappropriate or not feasible as a renewable energy option.

Renovus Energy’s Joe Sliker states, “If you have a power source (solar panels) that supplies everything you need I can’t think of why not to have that as your source.” In fact though, solar does not provide everything you need: think nights, think cloudy days, think solar arrays covered with snow for days on end. I agree that wind is a heavier lift than solar panels, no disputing that, but it will play an essential role in filling out the reliability curve for the state’s energy portfolio.

Couldn’t that same statement have been made about fossil fuel over solar generation over a decade ago when I founded Renovus Energy? I strongly believe that today’s wisest renewable energy consumers will opt for hybrid solar and wind systems coupled to advanced energy storage such as lithium-ion batteries. WWE designs such systems for installers and end-users of our Weaver 5 turbine.

The Weaver 5 wind system is just now entering the market, and with our revolutionary technology, we plan to be at the forefront of reliable clean energy production for a sustainable world. We hope your readers will take the time to inform themselves fully about the many possibilities of small wind and advanced energy storage options.

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Think about it: re-use for an eternity, essentially no footprint, for $12. That’s pretty tidy, saving, and green, isn’t it?

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efficiencies, so taxpayers get the increase back in their rebate check,” Verba said.

The 2015-16 budget increases a $231,408 increase in contractual services, a 91.9 percent jump. That number includes the district’s rough estimate of $200,000 that will be needed to pay independent evaluators for teachers’ APPRs (Annual Professional Performance Reviews).

“The state has been saying that districts could swap administrators for evaluations, but we don’t know how that would work,” Matthew Landahl said.

Taking administrators out of a building they are selected specifically to work in several days a year would prove a logistical and educational burden, Landahl said.

Under plans floated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that are still getting worked out by the state Department of Education, evaluations from out-of-district administrators or SUNY professors of education will be factored into teachers’ yearly evaluation scores, which will eventually affect their shot at tenure.

Superintendent Luvelle Brown reported that 11 ICSD teachers received tenure this spring. Brown also reported the district had elevated Landahl to deputy superintendent.

“We’re looking to reorganize and to save money,” Brown said. “It’s safe to say Dr. Landahl has been doing four jobs over the last two years, and we’d like to have him focus on one. We’re looking to settle things down a bit and have people settle into seats on the bus.”

The latest estimates of students taking the state assessments was around 80 percent of the district’s more than 2,200 third through eighth graders.

“There are a lot of school districts below 95 percent [test participation],” Grainger said. “We don’t know if [the state] will draw a different line if you’re below 50 percent or 65 percent.”

To register “adequate yearly progress” under No Child Left Behind laws, districts must have 95 percent test participation.

There is a concern that a percentage of Title I federal funding may have to be sent toward encouraging participation in tests if that metric is not met.

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Radical at its founding, Cornell is now a venerable institution

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I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.

In 1865 Cornell was a controversial idea. University Archivist Elaine Engst said, “I think that people don’t quite realize what a radical educational experiment Cornell was.”

When President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Morrill Land Grant Act, it made the founding of Cornell possible. Under that act, each state was entitled to 30,000 acres of public land per

congressman and senator. With a total of 33 representatives, New York was eligible for 990,000 acres. On April 27, 1865, Cornell was chartered as New York’s land grant university, although the actual land grant acreage was located in Wisconsin.

In addition to the vast land holdings, the fledgling university received Ithaca farmland and a $500,000 endowment from its namesake, a state senator named Ezra Cornell.

But none of that is what made Cornell radical or controversial.

“First,” said Engst, “you had a university that was explicitly nonsectarian. There is one sentence in the charter that states that ‘persons of every religious denomination or of no religious denomination shall be equally eligible to all offices and appointments.’ That doesn’t sound extraordinary to us, but it was, and it was very controversial.”

In fact, it was so controversial that, after he signed the bill that chartered the university in 1865, Gov. Reuben Fenton distanced himself from the institution. Regarding the university’s 1868 inauguration—the event at which the school’s co-founder, Andrew Dickson White, first uttered the Cornell motto— Engst said, “The governor of New York who signed the charter was scheduled to attend, and it was such a political hot

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hose words are well known not just to Cornellians, but to many Ithacans as well. They were first uttered in 1868 and now Cornell is celebrating 15 decades of being just that sort of institution. Although the sesquicentennial celebration began last fall with the first of eight events scattered across the globe, the biggest event is yet to come. From April 24 through 27, the university will host a “Festival of Ideas and Imagination” to celebrate Charter Day Weekend.

Before taking a look at the myriad attractions of the sesquicentennial, let’s travel back to the inception in 1865.

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Generally, in the 19th century parents had some level of trepidation about sending their children to a non-sectarian college. Engst said, “It was like, ‘How could you send your child to this heathen university?’” She added, “It wasn’t that Cornell and White were opposed to religion, it was that they felt that religion was a private decision.”

Another controversial part of the phrase “persons of every religious denomination or of no religious denomination” was the word “persons.”

Engst said, “That word ‘persons,’ that meant men and women.” The first woman—Emma Eastman—graduated in 1873. By contrast, Harvard and Princeton did not begin admitting females for almost another century.

“Persons” also meant persons of color.

Engst said, “As early as 1869 there was a student of clearly African descent. He was from Haiti.” A Cuban student, Francisco de Paula Rodriguez y Valdes, graduated in 1878 and two African Americans, Jane Eleanor Datcher and Charles Chauveau Cook, came to Cornell in 1886.

Cornell was also unique in its willingness to teach disparate areas of

study side by side. As a beneficiary of the land grant program—which was created in the midst of a war—Cornell was required to teach military tactics and agriculture.

Cornell didn’t teach just those things, though: “You had a university that was combining liberal and practical studies courses and treating them equally,” said Engst.

She continued, “The elite eastern private universities would have primarily been teaching classics and theology.

They taught other things as well, but the idea that you taught all of these things and that you taught them equally is very interesting.”

150 (ish) Ways to Say Cornell

One of the ongoing ways in which the university has celebrated its sesquicentennial is with a Kroch Library exhibit, “150 Way to Say Cornell.” The exhibit, which debuted in October 2014 and will be up through September 2015, features artifacts and documents of Big Red history.

In fact, one of the displays features centers on how Cornell came to be called Big Red. Engst explained, “Cornell is

referred to as ‘The Big Red’ and that comes from a 1905 song.” That song, written by Romeyn Berry ’08 and Charles Tourison ’06, is called “The Big Red Team” and it, along with a number of other Cornellrelated songs, is available for listening at the Kroch exhibit.

If you’re not in town to visit the exhibit in person, though, you can still check out everything online at rmc.library.cornell. edu/cornell150.

One interesting artifact in the exhibit is the receiver for the first telegraphic message ever sent, the famous, “What hath god wrought” message.

In 1844, that message was sent from Samuel Morse in Washington, D.C. to Alfred Vail in Baltimore. Rochester resident Hiram Sibley, one of the school’s original trustees, first president of Western Union, and the namesake of Sibley Hall, purchased the receiver from Vail’s son in 1898 and gave it to the university.

Engst explained that telegraphy played a hidden, but important, role in Cornell’s history: “The reason that Ezra Cornell had money to endow the university was because he made money in the telegraph business. He invested heavily in local telegraph companies.

He was a man who had no education, his family was poor farmers. So he had no education, he had no resources, but he loved technology and he believed in technology and he ended up with a huge chunk of Western Union stock.”

In addition to the telegraph (and a recently made 3D-printed replica of it), the Kroch exhibit includes journals, letters, historical photographs, early postcards, the Cornell seal, and the Cornell charter. There are a lot of items, but not necessarily 150.

Engst said, “We haven’t really counted. It was a catchy title. I know we looked at way more than 150, but we’ve never actually counted.” Perhaps “Somewhere Probably Upwards of 150 Ways to Say Cornell” was too long for an exhibit title.

Previous Celebrations

The 150th anniversary is certainly not Cornell’s first noteworthy celebration. The A.D. White statue on campus was erected during the school’s semicentennial year in 1915.

The next big celebration was the 75th anniversary in 1940. Professor Isaac Kramnick, a member of the Sesquicentennial Steering Committee, who also recently co-authored a book about Cornell’s history, offered some background on the 1940 celebration.

“It was on the eve of World War II,”

U n i v e r s i t y A r c h i v i s t E l a i n e E n g s t (A b ov e) a n d I s a ac K r a m n i c k (b e l ow) at S e s q u i c e n n t e n i a l G r ov e ( P h o t o s : Ti m G e r a) Sesquicentennial Commemorative Grove features stone benches with engraved quotations and a timeline of key events in Cornell history.

Kramnick said, “This is the gift of the sesquicentennial celebration to future generations of Cornellians.”

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M a ry O p p e r m a n a n d G l e n n A lt s h u l e r ( P h o t o : B r i a n A r n o l d) said Kramnick, “and that’s when [history professor] Carl Becker made his famous speech about freedom and responsibility … about how Cornell is a place that highly values freedom and also recognizes the importance of responsibility that goes with the freedom. Becker was not only talking about Cornell, he was really talking about the world in 1940.”

Moving ahead, Kramnick continued, “Then you fast forward to 1965, which was the centennial, and Governor [Nelson] Rockefeller, who was a leading Republican politician, came on Charter Day spoke and was booed by students because he had publicly support the very recent escalation of the war in Vietnam.”

The centennial occurred at time of conflict, not just over foreign involvement, but also over issues of race. Kramnick said, “The celebration of the centennial was presided over by [President James] Perkins who in the previous year had integrated Cornell, had brought black students to Cornell and in a sense integrated the Ivy League.” Although black students had always been allowed at Cornell, there just were not many of them. Kramnick said,

“When Perkins came here [as university president] in 1963 there were ten black undergraduates … and he decided to integrate the student body and five years later by 1969 there were 250 students of color. So Cornell led the way in integrating.”

Although previous celebrations included noteworthy events, they did not all leave a lasting mark on campus, but the sesquicentennial already has. Kramnick said, “When we started planning this, we looked closely at how the centennial had been celebrated, and we realized that there was no historical memory of the centennial on campus … there’s no plaque, no marker, no building. So we decided early on in our planning that the sesquicentennial would leave some permanent memory of itself on campus and that’s where the idea of the Sesquicentennial Grove came from.”

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In planning events for the sesquicentennial, the steering committee looked to distinguish this celebration from those that have preceded it. Kramnick said, “We looked at what happened at the centennial in 1965 and it was a series of panel discussions on the future of science, the future of the humanities, the future of social science. It had distinguished visitors from Europe and other campuses and—before this became part of the jargon—talking heads.

They were overwhelmingly men.

Most of them had very little connection to the university.”

“We decided that we didn’t want to duplicate that,” he continued. “We wanted something that would be less traditional, less boring, and we decided we wanted to have a festival with all different sorts of events happening over the weekend.

Some would be panel discussions, some would be literary readings, some would be showing films, some would be musical, some would be lectures, some would be lab demonstrations. We call this a ‘Festival of Ideas and Imagination.’ Instead of it being distinguished scholars from abroad it would be overwhelmingly Cornellians, distinguished Cornell graduates.”

Prof. Glenn Altschuler, who chairs the Sesquicentennial Steering Committee and is also Kramnick’s co-author, said, “There are about 40 events. I would say quite frankly that if you can’t find something that piques your interest among these 40 I would express deep, deep concern.

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organ recital, a piano recital, a Saturday night concert, we have symposia on the global financial system, we have symposia on global poverty reduction, on the American constitution, on the American dream.” Pausing, he added, “This is really does reflect the phrase ‘A Festival of Ideas and Imagination.”

In fact, it took a lot of imagination to come up with the ideas for the event.

Vice President of Human Resources Mary Opperman spoke about the planning that went into the Charter Day Weekend celebration: “The faculty began planning this over three years ago and so everything that you see … is driven by the ideas of our faculty, and then they pulled in colleagues, they pulled in Cornell alumni. That’s the point of the academic festival. The academic festival is Saturday and Sunday and the celebration and events kind of wrap around that.”

Although she was hesitant to pick a favorite, Opperman did highlight two events. The first, “Illuminating Images: A First Step to Scientific Discovery” will be held at 5 p.m. in Barton Hall on Saturday, April 25. The panel discussion about striking images of science features a Cornell Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, three Cornell professors, and a Cornell dean. Opperman said, “It should not be

missed. They have academic festival requires a some visuals that registration fee, which is $20 for are just really students and staff and $40 for outstanding.” alumni and visitors. Opperman Altschuler added, stressed that the university is not “The ‘Illuminating making money from the collected Images’ [program] fees, which will instead be has some of the donated to the Tompkins County most stunning Public Library and the University images I’ve ever CARE Funds. seen. It is amazing.”

Despite the registration fee, Opperman also the response has been enormous. highlighted the Altschuler said, “Somewhere Student Innovators close to 4,000 people have already in Action exhibit registered.” from 11 a.m. to 3 Although the p.m. on Saturday, sesquicentennial celebration April 25, in promises a vast array of Duffield Hall. She fascinating events, Opperman said, “If you think said that some have expressed of this in terms concern about the cost of the of the Charter festivities. She said, “People Day Ceremony have asked, ‘Given the financial representing our concerns, why are you doing past … the student Elizabeth Garrett, provost of the University of Southern California, was selected to be the next president all of this?’ In terms of going innovators are just around the world with the of Cornell. The first woman to hold the post, she will arrive in June. (Photo: Cornell Photo Services) giving you a tiny sesquicentennial events, the glimpse of what purpose has been to reengage current outgoing president, David Skorton. they’ll be doing in Cornellians who may not have In addition to presidents from Cornell, the been as active with us as we hoped they’d the future.”

One of the big attractions is likely to be youngest member of the Ivy League, the be. And that has been vastly successful. For panel will feature Drew Faust, president of a panel on the future of higher education, a university to be successful those alumni Harvard, the oldest Ivy. held on Sunday, April 26 in Bailey Hall. engagements are incredibly important.”

Although some of the events are The panelists include former Cornell She added, “We’re only going to turn presidents Jeffrey Lehman, Hunter Rawling free, many of the Charter Day Weekend 150 once.” • festivities require pre-registration. The III, and Frank H.T. Rhodes, as well as

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Legacy of the Great Society Cornell’s Upward Bound program shows the path to college

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ixty-four students from five local high schools are the beneficiaries of a program that is a legacy of the New Frontier/Great Society era of 50 years ago. Cornell’s Upward Bound, one of 780 federally funded Upward Bound programs, is a free college-readiness program for qualifying students to help them “develop the skills and motivation necessary to ensure their high school graduation, college enrollment and success in pursuing a higher education.” It’s one of eight federal TRiO programs administered by the Department of Education, which are “outreach and student services programs designed to identify and provide services for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.”

Though the program was conceived during the Kennedy administration, Upward Bound at Cornell started through the Public Service Center, which was awarded a grant in 2007. A reapplication for funds was approved in 2012, which guarantees the program will function through the next application cycle in 2017.

It’s designed to serve students from lowincome families and/or families from the Groton, Newfield, Spencer–Van Etten and Elmira school districts in which neither parent has a bachelor’s degree.

There are many kinds of support offered to the students selected to be in Upward Bound. During the academic year, assistance, including tutoring, academic counseling, career exploration, mentoring and interview preparation is provided on a weekly basis in the students’ high school.

By Charley Githler

There is also a monthly Saturday “academy” that can be anything from a mini course at Cornell to learning life skills such as budgeting to a team-building fun activity.

In the summer, there is a six-week program on the Cornell campus to get the skills and resources the students will need to be successful college students.

They take four classes—science, math, composition/literature and a foreign language—as well as a college prep class, spending the first two weeks living on campus, then commuting for the remaining weeks.

And it’s not all academics— students make numerous college visits and take field trips to places near and far. “We take one big trip per year,” explained program director Jen Rudolph, noting past visits to cities such as San Jazmin and Ke’Andra Malone are both in Upward Bound. Ke’Andra has been accepted to Wells and Elmira colleges.

Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston, (Photo provided) and New York, and a camping trip in the Allegheny Mountains.

Students also perform that is a real help to school districts fighting year, and Upward Bound really helped me community service during the summer to keep up. I’ve seen dozens of our students with that,” said Ke’Andra, who has been session. “Students work with local benefit from involvement in Upward accepted at Wells College and Elmira organizations. They self-select to participate College. “I really like the activities, and it’s Bound over the years.” in a planning committee and generate Dillon Castrechino, who will be been a tremendous help. Jen pushed me to ideas, work through logistics and plan our attending Elmira College for nursing work harder. It doesn’t hurt that it’s free, community service project,” Rudolph said. next year credits program-sponsored either!”

Newfield High School senior Ke’Andra college visits and application assistance Veteran high school guidance Malone has been involved in UB with her with helping him make his choice. “The counselor Rick Pawlewicz has nothing but sister Jazmin, who is a junior, for three praise for Upward Bound. “The program years. “I wasn’t motivated my freshman continued on page 14 provides individual attention for students

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rofessor Stephen Sweet chairs the sociology department at Ithaca College, he’s a visiting scholar at the Center on Aging & Work at Boston College, and he’s written or edited nine books, including The Work-Family Interface. Sweet is a busy man, and what keeps him busy is the problem of balancing work and family life in our very busy modern world.

Nowadays, many employers expect their workers to be available 24/7.

“This is common in Silicon Valley,” Sweet said. “The employer says, ‘We’re not going to hesitate to call you at 8, 9, 10 o’clock at night.’”

Part of this situation has come about because American workers negotiate the terms of their employment with individual employers.

“Many laborers labor at will and can be displaced at short-notice with little

rationale or reason,” Sweet said. “Workers can be expected in the U.S. to work a virtually unlimited number of hours, because employers can say, ‘That’s fine [you’re going to take time off], but we’re going to find someone else.’ Unless a worker is part of a union, which have been in decline.”

There is that segment of the workforce, which has “way too many obligations for their jobs” who can’t put their child on the school bus, Sweet said.

“There’s another large segment that’s not getting enough work and their work schedules are far too unpredictable. They don’t know what their schedule’s going to be lots of times until the day before the next schedule is posted. It’s a different kind of precarious work situation.”

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Going to a more European-style social protections than those in Europe, where model, which allows for paid family leave there are fewer distinctions between fulltime and more vacations, is something time and part-time workers, and more Sweet would like to see. protections for whether a worker can be “The U.S. is an outlier in family leave,” fired. There are also cultural differences Sweet said. “There between the two does come a cost with continents that extended leave times affect how many — we should expect hours people to live in smaller work. houses, and that “In the U.S., would be effected as when a person part of the trade off.” puts in long “It’s a more hours on their socialistic way of job, it’s seen thinking,” Sweet as dedication said. “It’s thinking to their work,” about using collective Sweet said. “In resources that can be Germany, if your managed and used car’s the first in for greater goods. the parking lot Employers face and the last to greater constraints, leave, co-workers they’re a little look at you and bit less nimble. I say, ‘What is personally think the the matter with compromise is worth this employee? it.”

They’re not Though America getting work has grown far more done efficiently.’” productive over the The mindset past few decades, that equates there hasn’t been a hours spent Stephen Sweet’s new book correlating increase at work with in leisure time, time productivity for family, time for is something that should be “thrown out relaxation. the window,” Sweet thinks. “It allows us “There’s a goal of work, which is a to be far more accepting of a worker who more fulfilled and satisfying life,” Sweet has unconventional hours, or who works said. “We’ve got more stuff, but don’t shorter hours. But I don’t think we’ve necessarily have a better life. We’ve divided crossed that divide.” our labor force into people working way Flexible Work Arrangements are the more than they want to and people not technical working term for making job working as much as they want to. There obligations less burdensome on family life. has to be some balancing.” § Setting boundaries is one important thing

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Ithaca Underground celebrates its sixth public sound experiment B y Av e r y G a l e k

“It is a transcendental sound experience,” said Bubba Crumrine, president of not-for-profit Ithaca Underground.

Founded in 2011, Naked Noise is Ithaca’s leading annual experimental music event. In this sixth edition, Ithaca Underground has curated an improvisational ensemble consisting of a wide score of local musicians from across Upstate New York, including members of 100% Black, Sim Redmond Band, BRIAN!, Misses Bitches, Time/Being, Sammus, and The Newman Brothers.

With multiple percussionists set in the center of the Community School of Music and Arts auditorium, and the remaining musicians placed around the perimeter, the audience is completely enveloped in sound as live visuals glow across an installation overhead. The audience is encouraged to wander around the ring in-between.

“By the middle of the first set the audience inhabited the space like a sound garden, wandering around to experience the mix at different spots, laying down, meditating, and doing yoga,” said founding member Jeffrey Valla, recalling the first official Naked Noise event.

Almost five years ago, this collaborative effort of local experimental enthusiasts Sun Spells, Time/Being, and The Invisible Hand took shape. All being fans of each other, the idea of doing a show together came up and was booked at the wide-open space of the CSMA auditorium.

“At our disposal we let our imaginations run a bit wild, and thought it would be fun to try a big nine-person, twohour improvisational sound experiment,” Valla said. “We had never played together before that night, so going into it we half expected disaster.”

Initial promotion was by word of mouth, and at first the musicians outnumbered audience members. In fact, the audience did not know what to do, according to Valla. Six musicians were in a ring around the perimeter of the room and three drummers were on risers at the core.

“At that point we knew it was a different kind of experience worth trying again,” Valla said. Founding members proceeded with another Naked Noise that following summer.

This evolved into yet another in the fall of 2012 with collaboration and full support from Ithaca Underground, resulting in an expanded 15-musician ensemble.

With IU’s loyal fan base and promotional firepower, the event really started to take off.

With the fifth induction of Naked Noise, the reins were passed to Crumrine, who sparked interest in making NN an annual event, such as Ithaca Underground’s successful Big Day In that has gained recognition over the years.

Bubba Crumrine (Photo: Brian Arnold)

In the spring of 2013 the fourth induction of Naked Noise took place, expanding to almost twenty-five performers.

“It was great, but there was also a sense that we’d reached the ceiling as far as ensemble size,” Valla said. “The more people you have, the more difficult it is to go from full blown intensity to near-silence, and it is those contrasts that make for a listening experience that feels more like a journey than an endurance test. You can get twenty-four people on the same page in one of those quiet moments, but you’re still just a random bugle solo away from jumping the shark.”

“From its humble beginnings of three bands just wanting to test the waters and improvise together, growing to incorporating musicians from high-school students to touring professionals, there’s nothing else like it, and Ithaca has demanded more of it,” Crumrine said. “Especially on the East Coast, I don’t know of any event that blends amateur and professional musicians in this way, in a space where the audience interweaves itself within the experience.”

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and muffled by videocassette static and hese days it seems like the films I therefore nearly illegible in the shifting end up watching in theaters tend lines. “This is a based on a true story,” it to be about discomfort, contrary reads. “At the request of the survivors, the to the comedic entertainment names have been changed. Out of respect many movies provide. When I brought for the dead, the rest has been told exactly some friends to see Under the Skin last as it occurred.” spring (which, by the way, is a mistake Like Fargo, Kumiko, the Treasure to watch at 10 p.m. in a room plagued Hunter markets itself as a true story, but by darkness), we all left the theater in a the so-called “truth” in the telling is up for state of panicked near-delirium at the unexpectedly psychological mind-blow we debate. Technically, every story contains certain elements or events taken from had just experienced. real life, but that doesn’t mean that every So, of course Kumiko, the Treasure story is biographical or even accurate.

Hunter, which is presently playing at Interestingly enough, Kumiko is partially Cinemapolis and immediately appealing based on an actual story, since in 2001 in its cinematographic grandeur, falls comfortably into this category of a movie fitting for the cerebrally inclined.

There’s a troubled protagonist, a quest for treasure, and lots and lots of snow. There’s a score provided by the Octopus Project, replete with the perfect measure of haunting suspense: enough eerie orchestration Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (Photo: Provided) to leave you set for a month with a Tokyo office worker Takako Konishi died healthy dose of unease. in Minnesota while reportedly searching Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, the for Showalter’s money just like Kumiko. newest film by the Zellner Brothers, But those facts were skewed—the media’s centers on a twenty-nine-year-old woman misunderstanding of Konishi in search named Kumiko, played magnetically by Rinko Kikuchi. Kumiko is an office worker of an interesting story—and David and Nathan Zellner just borrowed the story in Tokyo, listless at her job and spending they wanted to tell. most of her time alone and depressed. She Even so, the Zellner Brothers are remains on the outskirts of social activity, onto something here with their direct resigning herself to her own silence, and borrowing of past material (“found is constantly criticized by her mother objects” in art terminology) and for not having a boyfriend. But one day repurposing of the content. This film may Kumiko comes across a find that alters make reference to Fargo, but it is by no her sense of possibility. Reaching into a means a rip-off of the referenced movie, bug-filled crevice in a cave by a deserted nor a remake. Fargo is simply a plot point beach she uncovers an aged VHS of the with homage made to Joel and Ethan Coen Brothers’ 1996 film Fargo. Believing Coen; its presence is intricately woven the film’s story as real, she becomes set into Kumiko’s own individual story. Fargo, on acquiring the suitcase of money Steve Minnesota may be her destination because Buscemi’s character, Carl Showalter, buries at the end of the movie. So, likening of the VHS, but the cold of the Minnesota air pulsates from her situation with its own herself to a Spanish Conquistador, vivid reality. she heads to Minnesota to escape the All and all, Kumiko, the Treasure dissatisfaction of her current life and Hunter may be uncomfortable to watch in unbury her treasure.

Kumiko’s dispirited frustration, but by the The first instance of a film, much end it feels more tempting to remain in the like the last, is one of the most important film for just a while longer than to return moments to take place. It needs to catch to outside reality. If that’s not the gauge of your attention, draw you in. Kumiko a good movie, then I don’t know what is. • begins with Fargo’s title card, worn

• • • My friend Paul is a real sci-fi enthusiast. He maintains that the movies are usually 30 or 40 years behind novels and short stories. Ex Machina, the directorial debut of Ales Garland, Danny

lottery to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence, a female A.I. (Alicia Vikander) created by his company’s boss, played by Oscar Isaac (The Two Faces of January, Inside Llewyn Davis). The boss lives in a combination bachelor pad and state-ofthe-art robotic assembly lab. Vikander is a striking Noah Baumbach in Middle Age and empathetic beauty with see-through forearms and

By Br yan VanC ampe n legs, an unsettling human approximation visualized with While We’re Young, written and Stiller sees ethical chinks in outstanding visual effects. directed by Noah Baumbach, playing at Driver’s artistic armor, and Once the players Cinemapolis; Ex Machina, written and begins to despise him as the are established, Garland directed by Alex Garland, coming soon. film ramps up. Once I realized structures the rest of the story, that While We’re Young was alternating between Gleeson f Noah Baumbach’s previous film paced more like a dramedy, gradually falling in love Frances Ha looked at New York City I stopped looking for shtick with Vikander over a series as if it were a New Wave French film and gags and settled into of eerie encounter sessions,

by Godard, his new NYC film While We’re Baumbach’s view of the modern interspersed with Gleeson’s Young feels like his tribute to Woody urban couple. I’m always happy gradual awareness that Isaac’s Allen, specifically 1989’s Crimes and for Ben Stiller to rein it in a enigmatic boozehound genius, Misdemeanors. Ben Stiller and Naomi little and remind us, as he did like Frankenstein and Moreau Watts play a veteran married couple previously with Baumbach in before him, is not what he with no kids. Stiller is a documentary Greenberg, that he’s actually a seems.

Naomi Watts and Ben Stiller in “While We Were Young” (Photo:Provided) filmmaker who’s been working on his very specific and subtle actor.

Garland’s been the talent at latest film for eight years; the movie is Watts matches him well and the core of many great Danny more than six hours plus, and Stiller manages to carve out a character that’s Boyle’s longtime writing partner (28 Days Boyle films, and now he’s made a real can’t figure out what to cut. Stiller and more idiosyncratic than most movie Later, Sunshine), sure doesn’t feel like standout science-fiction film for his debut.

Watts meet a younger couple played by wives.The characters are funny the way it’s lagging. It’s state of the art for 2015, It has been made with well thought out Adam Driver (HBO’s Girls) and Amanda real people you know are funny, as and the current debate about artificial production design, from the creation of Seyfried. Driver is also a filmmaker, and at opposed to professional comedians. Best intelligence and other emotions that Vikander’s character to Isaac’s isolated first Stiller is really turned on by Driver’s of all, Baumbach lured Charles Grodin surface when one ponders Technology Hefner lab; it also has a surprising sense of ability to make art quickly, and they begin out of retirement for a droll supporting Run Amuck. Questions that Blade humor and one of the better twists found spending a lot of time together, neglecting turn as Watts’ father, another successful Runner asked in 1982 are answered by Ex in the genre. Ex Machina opens in wide their older friends and couples. When documentarian to torment Stiller’s ego and Machina. Domhnall Gleeson (Frank) plays release on April 24. • Stiller and Driver team up on a project, wounded pride. a young programmer who wins a company film

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(And a tiny grasshopper blowing away, first discovered Margy Nelson’s work tumbling in the air.) In the distant sky, we at a show at the State of the Art see gray-and-white storm clouds moving Gallery in Ithaca on a First Friday in. gallery night.

The foreground grass and the fields Nelson does limited edition digital are drawn in line (and digitally processed), prints of scenes from the natural world, often depicting small creatures like insects but the distant clouds are painted with a soft airbrushed look. and mice and birds and so on, digitally This, I think, is a major work. The drawing and painting them, but with a Japanese influence adapted to a vision of feel like the delicate esthetic of Japanese the American Great woodblock prints.

Plains.

And here, we Ghosts of Autumn might note that Nelson We see fragile, began her career white butterflies as a neuroscientist, hovering above stalks specializing in the neural of goldenrod … with basis of insect behavior, a writhing spiral of and, currently, has a white autumn mist dual career as a scientific rising up through the illustrator and a fine artist scene (looking a bit working in watercolor and like the eponymous digital media. ghost).

And Nelson currently Alien Love has an exhibition of her This one is an work, called Glimpses of image of two silverfish Nature, on display at the (yes, those weird gem-like Titus Gallery on little household the Ithaca Commons. vermin) caressing There are twenty-one each other with their works in the show. Here long antennae … are some of my favorites: Harvest Mice & Haiku Night(Photo: Provided) on a background of Cicada Summer burnished red and We see a cicada with brown fall leaves and marbled stone. intricately veined wings, painted in flat The accompanying haiku reads: “All Pop Art colors … standing on the red unknown to us/These two trade sweet branch of a pine tree with long brush-like caresses/Silverfish in love.” needles (and a couple of little cicadas in (According to an accompanying the distance on a leafy tree). scientific fact sheet, silverfish spend up to The work has a hyper-Japanese half an hour stroking each other gently look. This is aided by Nelson’s frequent with their antennae before mating.) technique of running little columns of Book Mice lettering vertically up the side of the In which we see two little brown and painting, giving it a look like Japanese calligraphy. The writing is a haiku reading: white field mice on a pile of multi-colored books on a shelf and an old-fashioned “Noisy summer day/In the hot pine wallpaper pattern in the background. The insected grove/Cicada chorus.” work has a feel like a charming children’s Underwater World: The Hunter book illustration infused with the Japanese This is an underwater shot. esthetic.

We see the legs of a heron, standing There’s more I’d like to write about, in a pond, poking his head down into but we are out of room here. the water with a cluster-spray of bubbles, In closing, I might mention that attempting to eat a school of scattering this article will appear in the April 22 tadpoles. We see the below-the-waterline issue, which is Earth Day. This is a most stems of lily pads … and a little fishappropriate exhibition for Earth Day. This denizen of this underwater world. exhibit reminds us how fortunate we are Storm Coming to be given the gift of life on this beautiful The haiku on this one reads: “Prairie blue planet we call home. wind herding/Dark clouds over bright Enjoy. meadows/Look out! Storm coming!”

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By War re n Gre e nwo od The Ithaca College iteration of this venerable play is excellent. It is staged in a traditional proscenium arch format at the Hoerner Theatre at IC. And I would like to single out the set, the work of Scenic ou Can’t Take It With You is a classic Designer Sami Adamson and Lighting American play.

Designer Zac Blitz and a large crew of Susannah Berryman, the director carpentry, electronics, and scenic art people, of the Ithaca College incarnation currently as being marvelous. The set got applause running at Ithaca College’s Hoerner Theatre, when the curtain was first raised. Indeed, the writes in her Sycamore’s home seems program notes how like a giant enchanted many people she has dollhouse. Perfect for met who have seen it, the eccentric family: or performed in it, or the mother, Penelope seen the film version Sycamore, writing wacky (which was directed plays; the father, Paul

by Frank Capra).

Sycamore, designing You Can’t Take fireworks; daughter Essie, it With You appeared a deranged dancer, and in 1936. George S. so on. The comparatively Kaufman and Moss normal daughter, Alice, Hart wrote it. It ran gets to play the Juliet role on Broadway for 838 to Tony Kirby, son of performances. It won the rich swells, and our the Pulitzer Prize in Romeo. The actors are all 1937. uniformly wonderful in From the Ithaca their roles. And Susannah College Department Berryman’s directing of Theatre Arts seems to have drawn the 2014–2015 season You Can’t Take It With You. (Photo: Provided) best out of everyone. All brochure: “One are so good, one feels a family’s idea of the bit guilty about singling American dream is anybody out, but here to make money and maintain social status. goes: The other’s is to follow their bliss, however Niamh O’Connor and Daniel Hayward unconventional. What happens when the are adorable as the star-crossed lovers, Alice son of one family falls in love with the and Tony. You can’t have a proper romantic daughter of the other?” comedy unless you fall in love with both the It occurs to me that You Can’t Take It male and female lovers. And we do. Brianna With You is a sort of American Romeo and Ford is outrageously funny as Essie, the Juliet. dancing daughter. She dances continually And, although it is a gentle, charming and crazily throughout the play, apropos farce, it cuts to the essence of the American of nothing, and the performance is both dilemma. In a country of laissez faire excruciatingly funny and, simultaneously, capitalism, a system one wag called oddly touching and beautiful. (And it occurs “socialism for the rich,” does one follow one’s to me to single out the Movement Director bliss or follow the money?

Mary Corsaro.) And Cam Wenrich, as Perhaps the reason You Can’t Take the Sycamore clan grandfather-patriarch, It With You has been so enduring, and Martin Vanderhof (the central philosopher/ continues to charm audiences until this exponent of the Follow Your Bliss School), is day, is that, underneath under its sweet especially convincing as both an old person, comedy, it deals with a deep, human, societal and the irresistible philosophic/emotional conundrum. center of this family of artistic eccentrics.

And, having now seen the play, I can And Jordan Friend gets a special say, boy, is it clever and well written, as well mention as Boris Kolenkhov, Essie’s as crazily sweet and charming. The play’s certifiably insane Russian dance instructor.

Sycamore family is a collection of adorable To sum up here, if you haven’t seen this eccentrics, bordering on being outright irresistible American classic, you owe it to crazies in following their bliss. The wealthy yourself to see this excellent Ithaca College Kirby family, although doing well on Wall production. • Street, are stiff and miserable and stunted in Ithaca College’s staging of You Can’t Take It their life dreams.

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symbolic of the collective effort required to sustain the organization on a day-today basis,” said Mike Amadeo, previous audience member and current performer.

“I see it generally as a celebration of the various ways volunteers and performers come together both to accomplish the logistical tasks of making shows happen and to provide an extremely diverse array of music from one show to the next.

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For the onlookers, it’s a chance to wander through the music and have their position and movements impact their experience, he added.

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something beautiful and inspiring, something that totally surrounds and encompasses the audience member both sonically and physically.”

As far as the broader Ithaca community goes, Amadeo thinks NN is proof that we have the ability as musicians to cross the borders of largely segregated music scenes in Ithaca to create something that is greater than the sum of its parts.

“I know of no other event in the region, including larger festivals like Grassroots, where you can see members of [multi-genre] projects take the same stage,” he added. “Not just performing in succession, but actually engaging in direct collaboration with one another to create something huge and truly unique.

A fellow musician friend of mine once said, ‘There’s a lot of different music in Ithaca, but not a lot of curiosity about the unfamiliar,’ and I hope that Naked Noise can help to change that.”

For the musicians, it’s a chance to collaborate with other musicians whom they may not have heard of yet, according to Crumrine. It’s a chance for musicians

and their positive impact on the Ithaca music community and youth and the need for outside funding to keep these events sustainable and affordable for all ages.

This sixth Naked Noise is the first to receive a grant, making it more sustainable with an affordable $5 cover charge. That money, along with donations and the grant, can directly support the audio and visual artists involved.

As for the artists of NN, they see it as a spontaneous collective improvisation that is both emotionally honest and uncompromised. It is also humble and collaborative.

The sixth Naked Noise will be held Saturday, April 25, at 9 p.m. at the Community School of Music and Art, third floor auditorium, 330 E. State St. “The nature of the collective uses building blocks to create a truly unified piece of art that is as multi-layered as it is honest,” Amadeo added.

“The Naked Noise performance elevates us over our stressors and personal talents for a moment,” Crumrine said. “It musically places us in another realm.” •

Spring Home&Garden The Deer Buffet

They eat almost everything, so build fences

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any things in our world boil down to supply and demand.

What plants Tompkins County deer will eat from your spring landscaping is no different.

As the area becomes more populated with deer, what they’re willing to eat will also expand, simply out of necessity. This correlation, over the years, has yielded an unfortunate truth for residents’ gardens: no plant is safe.

“When the deer are hungry, they’ll eat just about anything,” The Plantsmen Nursery Production Manager Kathy Vidovich said.

“We had boxwood,” she continued, “which is a pretty deer resistant plant, but they ate them this winter. That’s one of the plants they generally leave alone. It depends on the area. Different deer herds will eat different plants. It’s kind of getting to the point now where nothing is truly deer safe, but some are less likely to be eaten by deer. But when they are really hungry, they’ll even tap into those things that they normally don’t eat.”

Cayuga Landscape Designer Estimator Chris Gruber echoed that sentiment.

“The deer are getting more numerous, and more bold in what they eat. Since I started this job seven years ago, there are plants that were once considered deer resistant. Now it’s like, nope, they’ll eat those too. They’re eating more and more things. Ten or 15 years ago, there will a lot more things we could use in landscape and not have to worry about them getting

eaten by deer. Now, not so much. I think as the population rises, they get more desperate, and eat more things.”

Along with boxwood, there are still plants that nurseries will recommend to their customers who are looking for deer-resistant landscaping. Among those least likely to be visited by deer are herbs, including the following, according to the The Plantsmen: hyssop, onion, bleeding heart, lemon balm, mint, bee balm, catnip, Russian sage, mountain mint, sage, lamb’s ear, blue mist shrub, spicebush, northern bayberry, spirea, spruce. While the options seem plentiful, they really aren’t; if the situation calls for it, deer will still browse many of those plants. Vidovich said generally the best bets are grasses and ferns, along with anything that’s aromatic, such as catnip.

“They tend to stay away from things that have strong fragrances,” she explained.

“There were plants that we use to call ‘deer resistant.’ Now that group is getting narrower and narrower.”

Gruber explained deer prioritize what they eat based on taste rather than texture.

Even if a plant has an ominous appearance or feel, it isn’t out of the woods yet.

“It mostly has to do with taste to the deer,” he said. “It’s not even necessarily thorns. Like roses, you might think ‘A deer wouldn’t eat that.’ But roses will get nipped at the top by deer. So it’s probably most likely to do with compounds in the plants themselves, and how it ultimately tastes to the deer. Even hollies, you might think deer might not eat them, they always

Chris Gruber of Cayuga Landscape with boxwoods, one of the few plants that deer will rarely touch.

(Photo: Michael Nocella)

get browsed by deer in Ithaca, despite their nasty thorny leaves, and the deer don’t seem to care. Deer have a really hard mouth, so that doesn’t really bother them.

It’s all about taste.”

So, if no plant is completely off limits simply by its own merits, what is the best chance at insuring your garden’s survival from those ferocious omnivores? There are a couple of options.

“In our landscape department,” Vidovich said, “we do a lot of deer protection. Fencing, whether it’s individual plants or entire gardens. That’s an effective way to do it. We also sell a product called Deer Scram. It’s an application that deters them. But fencing is probably your best bet.”

Gruber agreed that fencing was the best way to protect your plants from visitors, but added that fencing needs to be well thought out, and properly installed,

to have its desired impact. For instance, a five-foot fence closely enclosing a garden?

Probably won’t do anything more than give deer a cardio workout.

“The mainstay for other protection is wood stakes with fencing around it,” he said. “If they are small individual plants, like a single rose bush, you could do three or four foot tall fencing. Typically you want the fencing far enough away from the plant so that the deer can’t push up against it and eat the plant through the fence. For taller trees, or larger areas that you want to exclude, you can do more severe fencing, at least seven feet tall to keep them from jumping over. We’ve done a lot of installations where you think six feet would be enough, but they will jump over six feet – almost at a standstill. So seven feet is a safe cut off for the height of fencing to keep deer out.” §

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First, remember that what you might like in a home is not what everyone likes.

“When you’re doing upgrades in order to sell your home and get the most bang for your buck, it’s different from upgrading the home if you want to live in it and enjoy it and don’t care what others think,” Ithaca realtor Lindsay Hart said. “The biggest thing is never to over-improve for the neighborhood. You never see a 100-percent return wherever you are.”

That means that if you live in an area with say, $100,000 homes, “you’re not going to want to put in granite countertops,” Hart said.

If you do have a house in a higher-priced neighborhood, though, keeping up with the neighbors is necessary, Lindsay Hart according to realtor Claudia Lagalla.

“In the higher price range, it really needs to be shipshape,” Lagalla said. “The paint needs to be fresh and you need a higher-end kitchen in a home like that. If you’re working through homes in a certain price range, people are surprised when you find an economy kitchen.”

“A lot of times it’s the little things that make the house higher-end,” Lagalla said.

“The light switches can be really nice. You can upgrade the showerhead. Faucets are a small item to replace, and can leave a big impression. A big ticket item isn’t always needed.”

Hart said that, “The cheapest and probably best DIY upgrade you can do is paint. $100 worth of paint can do wonders.”

Hold the Day-Glo orange and neon greens, though. Bright, showy colors can distract from a potential buyer’s ability to see the home as their own.

‘You don’t want buyers to be distracted by a wall color. You want them to see the features of the home,” Hart said. “Before doing any remodeling or repairs, a facelift, you should walk through the house with a buyer’s eyes. What would they see? And what would distract them from seeing some of the features in their house?”

Hart said another thing she sees a lot of is 1980s-style track lighting, which tend to be disdained by buyers in favor of recessed lighting or tasteful fixtures.

If nothing else, “Don’t overlook the importance of a really good deep cleaning with every room,” Hart said. Also remember to de-clutter in order to “make it easy for a buyer to walk through and see the house.”

Lagalla cautions against relying on doit-yourself fixes for everything, if you’re not the most gifted handyperson.

“Sometimes you’ll see DIY trim, like crown moulding, and they cut it themselves and it’s ill fitting,” Lagalla said. “It just looks like really sloppy work. Poor quality work will make it look like there’s more wrong with the house, rather than it’s in better condition.”

Big outdoor improvements can help a home’s resale value if they are obviously necessary, according to both Lagalla and Hart.

“If you have a house with slider doors to the back yard and it looks like a back deck belongs, that would be a good thing to add,” Hart said. “If you have a 50-year-old furnace, a new one for five to eight thousand is a very wise investment. If the roof needs replaced, a buyer is going to say ‘I’m only offering you this amount,’ then putting in a new roof makes sense.”

Hart and Lagalla disagree on one key point: how about Formica countertops?

“They’re doing all these neat new patterns and trying to bring it back and make it cool. That’s the rumor,” Hart said. “It might be hipster cool by now.”

“I’ve been hearing Formica is making a comeback for years, but in higher-end homes people don’t expect to find Formica,” Lagalla said. “Formica is as nice as it has ever been before, but it’s still not considered highend, and I don’t know, but I don’t think it will ever be considered high-end.” §

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Gala concert featuring the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Glee Club and Chorus, and readings by actor Jimmy Smits | 7:30 PM- | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, , Ithaca | An evening celebrating Cornell ideas and imagination through music and readings.

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Home On The Grange Night | 4:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Featuring Richie Stearns & Friends. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser.

Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | live hot club jazz.

Richie Stearn and Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | Instrumental contra dance tunes. www.cinst.org.

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Al Hartland Trio | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Happy Hour jazz.

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Brandon Schmitt | 8:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg The Third Story Band | 9:00 PM-12:00 AM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Classic rock.

Dan Smalls Presents: Big Mean Sound Machine w. Barika & Second Dam | 9:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Doors open at 8.

Billy Eli | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg |

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Grassanova | 7:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Naked Noise #6 | 9:00 PM- | Community School Of Music And Arts, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Presented by Ithaca Underground Blind Owl Band | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Smalls Presents: Jimkata w.

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Bound for Glory: Dan Berggren | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Annabel Taylor Cafe, Cornell, Ithaca | Songs of the Adirondacks, songs of life.

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CU Music: Guest Ensemble­ Momenta Quartet | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Features three string quartets by Mexican composer Julian Carrillo (1875-1965).

4/23 Thursday

D.M.A. recital: Michael Small, composer | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | This retrospective of Michael’s works features the Momenta Quartet, pianists Ryan MacEvoy McCullough and Andrew Zhou, and cellist Elizabeth Lyon.

4/24 Friday

Mary Chapin Carpenter | 7:30 PM- | Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Intimate acoustic performances of timeless hits and deep cuts from her 13-album catalog.

Jonathan Schakel, organ | 8:00 PM| Chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | “Quasi una fantasia” features music by Byrd, Frescobaldi, Sweelinck, Scheidemann, and Bach.

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4/28 Tuesday

Cornell Chamber Singers | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | John Rowehl, conductor. Features J. S. Bach’s Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (BWV 225) and Christ lag in Todesbanden (BWV 4).

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Other Desert Cities | 8:00 PM-, 04/22 Wednesday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 E Genesee St, Syracuse | This seriocomedy depicts a family drama between a liberal middle-aged writer and her conservative parents. 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 04/22 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Held upstairs.

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Blood Wedding | 7:30 PM-, 04/24 Friday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Federico García Lorca’s play

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Ithaca Ballet: Cinderella | 2:30 PM; 7:30 PM, 04/25 Saturday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | The beloved ballet by Prokofiev, with choreography based on an original staging by company founder and Co-Artistic Director, Alice Reid.

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Acupuncturist and Herbalist, shares secrets of the fountain of youth according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Registration required at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 607-273-9392.

Family Caregiving in Rural Communities | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 04/23 Thursday | Country Inn & Suites, 1100 Danby Rd, Ithaca | An overview of the demographics of family caregivers for seniors in rural communities. Go to www.ithaca.edu/agingworkshops/ for more information.

Every Artist Insured: Navigating Health Care Reform | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 04/23 Thursday | CAP ArtSpace, Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | With Renata Marinaro. Workshop will help you understand the Affordable Care Act. World War I Reading, Film, & Discussion Series | 7:00 PM-, 04/23 Thursday | Southworth Library Association, Main, Dryden | Pre-registration required. April 23 program: Incalculable Losses: The Battle of Verdun. Contact Diane Pamel at 607-844-4782 or email southworthlibrary@gmail.com for info.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 04/24 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed.

No signups required. Walk-ins welcome.

Waldorf School Parenting Workshops | 8:30 AM-1:00 PM, 04/25 Saturday | Ithaca Waldorf School, 20 Nelson Rd, Ithaca | Workshops offering research-based concepts for healthy play and learning. Led by Joan Almon and Rusty Keeler. Childcare available.

RSVP: Ithaca Waldorf School, (607) 256-2020. See ithacawaldorf.org for more information.

Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 04/28 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | Open to adults of all ages, orientations, and religions. For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.

Workshop: Eliminating Racism and Understanding White Privilege | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 04/28 Tuesday | Unitarian Church, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Interactive workshop includes the film “Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible,” and the book “Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Dr. Beverly Tatum. All are welcome! To sign up, please e-mail hhhelfer@gmail.com.

Greener Homes for a Clean Lake Workshop Series | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 04/28 Tuesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Learn the Potential Hidden Dangers of Body Care & Cleaning Products.

Taylor Guitars Taylor Road Show | 6:30 PM-, 04/22 Wednesday | Ithaca Guitar Works, Dewitt Mall, Ithaca | View a selection of new, custom, unique and one-off Taylor guitars. Give-always and contest entries too.

World of Skills Job Fair | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 04/23 Thursday | Hotel Ithaca, 222 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Over 40 employers will be represented. No pre-registration needed.

Ithaca College’s Annual Family Carnival | 5:30 PM-8:00 PM, 04/24 Friday | Ithaca College Campus’s Fitness Center, Ithaca College campus, Ithaca | Activities include arts and crafts, face painting, and a bounce house! Also live performances, a raffle, and snacks!

Take Back The Night | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 04/24 Friday | DeWitt Park, Ithaca | A powerful evening of music, spoken word, speakers, and reflection focused on ending domestic and sexual violence. For more information visit ithacatbtn.weebly.com or email Ithacatakebackthenight@gmail.com.

Ithaca Is Community! Service Day | 9:00 AM-, 04/25 Saturday | Stewart Park, Large Pavilion, Ithaca | Volunteers, local leaders, and young people meet in the large pavilion for cleaning, planting, and more. Sign up by contacting Marty Schreiber at mschreiber@cityofithaca.org or 273-8364x157 15th Annual 4-H Duck Race | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 04/26 Sunday | Cascadilla Gorge, , Ithaca | All proceeds benefit Tompkins County 4-H Youth Bureau. For more information contact Megan Tifft at 607-272-2292 or met28@cornell. edu.

Ongoing: Cornell Charter Day Weekend Advanced Registration | Open to the public. All events are listed at the Charter Day Weekend website, http://150.cornell.edu/events/ charterday/ Events require advance registration. Live streaming will be available for certain events.

Meetings City of Ithaca Community Police Board | 3:30 PM-, 04/22 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St.

City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM-, 04/27 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St. ICSD Curriculum Committee & Commendations Ceremony | 7:00 PM-, 04/28 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District Board Room, 400 Lake Street, Ithaca | The Commendations Ceremony originally scheduled for March 10, 2015 has been rescheduled forApril 28, 2015.

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | All day, 04/22 Wednesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@yahoo.com.

Art in the Heart 2015: Call for Artists and Muralists | All day, 04/22 Wednesday | An outdoor public art exhibition running from June through November. Full details at www. downtownithaca.com; must apply by 5 p.m., April 25.

Plan Ithaca! Community Open Houses | All day, 04/22 Wednesday | multiple locations/times, , Ithaca | The Comprehensive Plan Committee wants your input on the draft of the City’s new Comprehensive Plan. Join the conversation by stopping into one of seven community open houses scheduled throughout the city during the month of April: April 13­—St. Luke Lutheran Church (3:30 – 5 pm), Fall Creek Elementary School Gym (7 – 8:30 pm); April 16--Southside Community Center Gym (7 – 8:30 pm); April 22--GIAC Gym (6 – 7:30 pm, childcare provided); April 23--South Hill Elementary School (7 – 8:30 pm); April 25--Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room (10 – 11:30 am, childcare provided).

Rummage Sale at Titus Tower | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 04/25 Wednesday | Titus Tower 1, , | In the Community Room.

Call Carol McLaren at 273-1091 for more information.

Coffee with the Mayor and Chief | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 04/22 Wednesday | Multiple Locations, , | Mayor Svante Myrick and Chief of Police John R. Barber visit local coffeeshops to provide an opportunity for the Ithaca community to talk to them about police issues or concerns. April 22: Dunkin’ Donuts 408 Elmira Rd; May 13, 20, 27: Gimme! Coffee 506 W State St. Rotary Club Luncheon & Talk | 12:15

BILLY ELI

MARY LORSON & MICHAEL STARK

Hard-living, truth-telling, and always a blast live, country rocker Billy Eli returns to the Rongo for another night of whiskey-soaked songs and stories about life on the road to stir the soul.

Mary Lorson joins longtime bandmate Michael Stark for a special night of old favorites and selections from her recent performance memoir, Signals.

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PM-, 04/22 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Speakers Julee Johnson and Sally Grubb, TCPL. Lunch at Coltivare, then a tour of new library exhibit opening April 22 on Cornellians and Tompkins County, 1865-1915. The public is welcome. More information at www.ithacarotary.com.

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 04/22 Wednesday | Taste of Thai, 216 E State St, Ithaca | RSVP 607-339-6028 or kphildreth@yahoo.com Tompkins Learning Partners New Tutor Orientation | All day, 04/23 Thursday | Tompkins Learning Partners, 124 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Please contact for dates; email Shannon Alvord TLPShannonA@gmail.com, or call 607-277-6442.

World of Skills Jobs Fair | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 04/23 Thursday | Hotel Ithaca, 222 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Will feature some 20 local employers.

Compost Fair and 4H Duck Race | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 04/26 Sunday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Activities and information for adults and kids as well as live performances by Compost Theatre, Rot N’ Roll and The Mockingbeards. For more info, visit ccetompkins.org/compostfair Landlords Association of Tompkins County | 4:30 PM-, 04/27 Monday | Ramada Inn, N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Meets monthly at the Ramada Inn through May, normally the 4th Monday of the month (3rd Monday in May due to Memorial Day).

Nature & Science Night Hikes | 6:00 PM-, 04/24 Friday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Find out who is awake and stirring under the moonlight. Please call for availability: 607-273-6260.

Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 04/24 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | Hosted by The Cornell Astronomical Society. Free and open to the public; parking across the street.

Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night.

Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM-, 04/25 Saturday & 4/26 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Appropriate for all levels. For more information, visit http://www.

cayugabirdclub.org/calendar.

Cayuga Trails Club: Bainbridge Area | 9:00 AM-, 04/25 Saturday | Ithaca, , Ithaca | A 6.3-mile hike. For more information, call 607-257-6906 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Wild Weather Weekend! | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 04/25 Saturday & 4/26 Sunday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Two days of weather and climate-related activities.

For more information, visit priweb.org.

Cayuga Trails Club: Lime Hollow Hike | 10:00 AM-, 04/26 Sunday | Ithaca, , Ithaca | A two-hour hike through Lime Hollow. For more information, call 607-257-6906 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Cayuga Trails Club: Lindsay-Parsons Biodiversity Preserve | 5:00 PM-, 04/28 Tuesday | Ithaca, , Ithaca | A 5-mile hike. For more information, call 607-257-6906 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Health & Wellness Alcoholics Anonymous | All day, 04/22 Wednesday | Multiple 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, 04/22 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Call Amy Scott or Emily Papperman at 607-272-2433.

Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 04/22 Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, Ithaca | A deep guided meditation every Wednesday. All are welcome.

Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 04/22 Wednesday | Multiple Locations, | For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink. com or call Danny at 275-6441.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 04/22 Wednesday | Meets multiple places and days. For more information, call 607-351-9504 or visit www. foodaddicts.org.

Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 04/22 Wednesday | ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Dr, Lansing | For more information and to register: http://www.ithacarollerderby. com/wreck-derby/ Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das

and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 04/22 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free every week.

More at www.DamodarDas.com.

Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 04/22 Wednesday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting.

Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 04/23 Thursday | Unitarian Church Annex, 208 E Buffalo St, Ithaca | Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835.

Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 04/23 Thursday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | First come, first served (no appointments).

Thursday Evening Chanting and Meditation | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 04/23 Thursday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | With Marsha Eger (chantingmeditation@yahoo. com).

Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 04/24 Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location, | A support group for stroke survivors who have aphasia.

For more information, contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: (607) 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Yoga School Classes | 4:30 PM-, 04/24 Friday | The Yoga School, 141 E State St, Ithaca | Raja Yoga.

Pre-registration required.

Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, 04/26 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public.

Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 04/26 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free.

Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 04/26 Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Led by Nishkala Jenney, E-RYT. Email nishkalajenney@ gmail.com or call 607-319-4138 for more information.

Office for the Aging: Powerful Tools for Caregivers Workshop | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 04/27 Monday | Office for the Aging, 214 W State St, Ithaca | A free, six-week educational program.

Early registration is required.

Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 04/28 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department,

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New Voices Literary Festival: Bill Cheng, Hannah Gamble, Mukoma Wa Ngugi | 6:00 PM-, 04/22 Wednesday | Handwerker Gallery, Gannett Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Stephen Yenser | 4:30 PM-, 04/23 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, 29 East Ave., Ithaca | Poet and critic Stephen Yenser, Distinguished Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at UCLA. New Voices Literary Festival: Edan Lepucki, Will Boast, Valeria Luiselli | 4:45 PM-, 04/24 Friday | Handwerker Gallery, Gannett Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Poetry Reading: Allison Koffler and Dayl Wise | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 04/24 Friday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | .

Arts opening Running Girls | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 04/25 Saturday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Exhibit & reception featuring Mary Mihelic’s “Running Girls” artwork series about the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram.

Contact Emily Catherine Decicco, ecd64@cornell.edu. ongoing Earlville Galleries Call for 2016 Season Artists | All day, 04/22 Wednesday | The Earlville Galleries are now accepting proposals for solo artist exhibitions for the 2016 season.

Deadline for submissions is May 1. For more information, call 315-691-3550.

Rockwell Museum: Two New Exhibits | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 04/22 Wednesday | Rockwell Museum Of Western Art, 111 Cedar St, Corning | A celebratory display of nine contemporary glass pieces of the Pacific Northwest on view through Memorial Day. Also on display is “The Photography of John Doddato: In Pursuit of the American Landscape,” through Feb. 2016.

Exhibit: “Five Uneasy Pieces: Reworking the Treman Willow” by Jack Elliott | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 04/22 Wednesday | Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | Exhibit runs through April 30.

Nevin Center hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday. For information call 607-255-2400.

Johnson Museum of Art, Spring Exhibits | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 04/22 Wednesday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | This is no less curious: Journeys through the Collection, through 4/12 | Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist, through 6/07 | Staged, Performed, Manipulated, through 6/07 | An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 6/21 | Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy, through 7/19 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos,

by Leo Villareal, ongoing. www. museum.cornell.edu Exhibit: Large Canvases | 10:00 AM-, 04/22 Wednesday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Solo exhibition of paintings by Amy

Cheatle. Tuesdays - Saturdays; http:// www.cornersgallery.com/ for more information.

Exhibition by Wendy Skinner | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, 04/22 Wednesday | The Art and Found, 112 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Abstract pastel drawings by Wendy Skinner.

Exhibit: First and Last Light in Freeville | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, 04/22 Wednesday | FOUND in Ithaca, 227 Cherry St, Ithaca | Fauxtographer Patti Witten’s “First and Last Light in Freeville: the landscape seen from one place” will hang in the Gallery through Sunday, April 26.

State of the Art Gallery Exhibit: Series and Progression | 12:00 PM-, 04/22 Wednesday | State Of The Art Gallery, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | A solo show of paintings and collages

by Elisabeth Gross-Marks runs through April 26.

Ink Shop Gallery--April Exhibits | 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, 04/22 Wednesday | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | “Witchcraft,” digital prints and mixed media artworks by Ithaca native Camille Chew.

“Duets: Reveling in Remembering,” recent photographs and artists books

by Ithaca resident Laurie Snyder.

Through April 28.

Exhibit: Large Canvases | 10:00 AM-, 04/23 Thursday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Solo exhibition of paintings by Amy Cheatle.

Go to www.cornersgallery.com/ for more information. Runs April 7 - May 2.

Tour: Time Capsule | 4:00 PM-, 04/23 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Time Capsule tour with gallery director.

Lectures Cornell Plantations | Nevins Welcome Center, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Tuesday-Saturday | Plant Portraits Through the Season, digital prints

by Margaret Corbitt, ongoing | Ögwe ö:weh Consciousness as Peace, in collaboration with Cornell’s American Indian Program, ongoing | The Seasons of Cornell Plantations, photographs

by Rene Corinne, through October | Victus Acernis, by Jack Elliot and Cornell Students | Gourds Galore!, vessels, utensils and more made from gourds | www.cornellplantations.org Corning Museum of Glass | 1 Museum Way, Corning | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM every day | René Lalique:

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

DeWitt Park, April 24, 6:30-9:00 p.m.

Join forces with members of your community in an important night of music, spoken word, and reflection aimed at ending domestic and sexual violence and supporting survivors.

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CORNELL CHARTER DAY WEEKEND

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. Call to schedule an appointment or for further information (607) 274-6604 Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 04/28 Tuesday | 124 E Court St, 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Call Sheila McCue, LMSW, with any questions: 607-272-1505.

Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 04/28 Tuesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | A fellowship of men and women helping each other to live free of nicotine.

DIY Natural Beauty Workshop | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 04/28 Tuesday | Nutritional Wellness Center, 520 West Green Street, Ithaca | Free and Open to the public. Please call 277-1964 to RSVP. Monthly Pet Loss Support Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 04/28 Tuesday | 316 E Court St -- enter Court St side, , Ithaca | For information: Jane at 607-351-2740 or Cathie at 607-2733063, or email petloss@gmail.com.

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Enchanted by Glass, through 01/04 | Designing for a New Century: Works on Paper by Lalique and his Contemporaries, through 01/04 | Never in Your Wildest Dreams: Connections Through Imagination, junior curators, through 12/31 | www.cmog.org Curtiss Glenn H Museum Of Local History | RR 54, Hammondsport | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM; Open Sundays, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Warehouse 53, original props and costumes from iconic adventure films and television shows, through 09/01 | www.curtisshglennmuseum.org 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 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

HeadsUp DADGAD Master

by Bill Chaisson

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ierre Bensusan started teaching himself to play the guitar at age 11 and six years later he had a recording contract. It was the early 1970s and the British folk revival was reaching a crescendo, with the likes of John Renbourne and Bert Jansch of Pentangle combining the vernacular traditions with a Baroque sense of precision in their playing and arrangements. Thus influenced Bensusan incorporated Celtic influences into his playing, although he was of Algerian extraction and had been raised in France.

“I started at 15 with British Isles folk. Those first [folk revival] records were very popular. Now they are part of my vocabulary. Renbourne and Jantsch were influences,” said Bensusan, “but I had my own voice. I had been going to Ireland to see the music ‘from within,’ but I wasn’t bound to any one influence.” In the ensuing 42 years of professional playing Bensusan has drawn upon many traditions, both ethnic and more purely musical, to color and move his music. But since 1978 he has only played in one tuning— DADGAD—which is quite common in Irish guitar playing.

“From the beginning I liked the low bass 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

Kids Art Classes for Kids | All day, 04/22 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Abovoagogo Summer Art Camp Registration | All day, 04/22 Wednesday | Abovoagogo Art Studio, 409 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Details at www.abovoagogo.com/summer.

4-H Kritter Kamp Registration | Contact Brenda Carpenter, 272-2292, btc6@cornell.edu for a registration application, or find it at: ccetompkins.org/4h/activitiesevents/kritter-kamp. Deadline to

voice, get worn out by prolonged consecutive performances.

While he once toured with ensembles of varying size, he has been appearing solo for many years. “Logistically and financially,” he said, “it just got very heavy.” His live performances frequently are reimaginings of his recorded work. He said that for years people would come up to him after a concert and ask him for live recordings, so they go hear again what he had just played. He always had to tell them that they would have be make do with a studio recording … until now. He has recently released Encore: Live, a three-CD exploration of his forty-year career on stage.

“I take different kinds of risks on stage,” he said. “I take risks but it’s a little more controlled.

In the studio I know I can just trash it. Rich, more unexpected things happen on stage because I’m out of the comfort zone of the studio.”

Bensusan said that there always room for improvisation on stage, but most of the Pierre Bensusan (Photo provided) differences that his audience hears are planned.

He adds new introductions and approach a with the open strings,” he said, “and the ringing the sonic topography of DADGAD intimately. “You melody differently in order to “expose something elements. And then I said, ‘OK, let’s learn the start to know where you are,” he said, “and then you different.” fret board.’” While most Irish guitarists are can get the best of both worlds.”

“It’s almost like storytelling,” he said. “You rhythm players who add varying amounts of Bensusan will play the Trumansburg can change a tune completely while still using the ornamentation, Bensusan explores the melodic Conservatory on Thursday, April 23 for a 7:30 p.m. same notes. I have learned my instrument so that I possibilities of the DADGAD tuning to a perhaps show that will wrap this leg of his current North can go outside my boundaries.” unrivaled extent.

American tour. He has been coming over the United He describes jazz as “musical freedom.”

He has found that there are both pros States annually for the last 39 years. Although Bensusan has explored many forms of jazz, but has and cons to the tuning. On the one hand, with he routinely spent six to eight months of every tried to retain that “attitude of freedom.” strings tuned down he has found that he has to year on the road, he plans to lighten up in the “You try to learn everything,” he said, “so you compensate by finding highs elsewhere. But his future, taking more and shorter jaunts. At age 57 can forget it and just be a blank slate.” • exploration of the fret board has led him to know Bensusan finds that his body, but particularly his

register is May 1.

Yoga Art and Dance Summer Camp Registration | Visit www.annasmovementarts.weebly.com for info.

Hangar Theatre Summer Kids Workshops Registration | All day, 04/22 Wednesday | For details, fees, and sign-up visit http://www. hangartheatre.org/next-generationschool-of-theatre.html Registration For Music in Motion “Angie’s Music Camp” | Early bird discount deadline May 15, general deadline Aug. 1. Contact Miss Angie directly for questions about scholarships and other infromation at angie@mumotion.com. calendar,calendar/kids Sciencenter: Science Together | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 04/22 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Parents with their little ones 4 years old & under explore science through hands-on activities. www.sciencenter. org or 607-272-0600.

Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: After School at Belle Sherman Elementary (grades 2-5) | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 04/22 Wednesday

| Belle Sherman Elementary School, 501 Mitchell St, Ithaca | Each week will be a new adventure full of challenges & games. Call 607-272-2292 x. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: East Hill Homeschool Program (ages 6 - 10) | 9:00 AM-1:30 PM, 04/23 Thursday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Rd, Ithaca | Find out what makes our homeschool programs the best around! Explore bow-making, walnut dyeing, cob oven construction, shelter-building & thatching, wild food harvesting & more as we build our forest community. Sliding scale fee. Call 607-272-2292 x. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com.

Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 04/23 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.

Sciencenter Winter/Spring Exhibition: “TreeHouses” | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 04/23 Thursday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Spend time hanging out in the trees! Explore

an indoor tree house while you look, listen, and smell for signs of animal tree dwellers at the Sciencenter’s new featured exhibition. Open TuesdaySunday.

Abovoagogo Summer Art Camp Registration | All day, 04/24 Friday | Abovoagogo Art Studio, 409 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 2015 is the fifth summer of camp programs at the studio, with 7 weeks of great choices. Every year is different; however, there are always local adventures, amazing visiting artists and many collaborators.

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Sciencenter Preschool Story Time & Activity: Little Cloud | 10:30 AM-, 04/24 Friday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | For toddlers and preschoolers, hear the story “Little Cloud” by Eric Carle and then make your own creative clouds and create scenery.

Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 04/25 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.

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or call 273-8364.

Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 04/25 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Every Saturday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Wild Weather Weekend! | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, 04/25 Saturday | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | In honor of Earth Day, we invite you to two days of weather and climate-related activities at the Museum of the Earth and the Cayuga Nature Center. Enjoy a variety of family friendly activities and speakers. For detailed information, visit priweb.org.

Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 04/25 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Every Saturday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Sciencenter Showtime!

Engineering Design Showcase | 2:00 PM-, 04/25 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Tinker with prototype toys and help Cornell mechanical engineering students improve their projects. Try out new designs including a game for bikes, cooking gadgets for kids, an electronic dining plate, and more.

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ost of us have had days when our (snowshoes), Karhu North America (shoes), and Mountain Peak Fitness before-work exercise program (offering online coaching, personal consisted of walking from our training and an adventure club). house, to the car, and into the office.

Crosby is training for and competing If we get in a walk, a bike ride or even in all manner of ultra events, from trail a visit to the gym, we are really ramping runs to road runs to indoor track events. up the program. Cole Crosby is … let’s He got the idea to go after the world just say … a different breed of cat. record a month ago, On Sunday, I went and he offered, “I was to the Finger Lakes looking for a hard Running and Triathlon effort close to home, Company (FLRTC) and I learned that on the Commons Michael Wardinen to interview Cole held the record at about his running 3:06:03 for the 50K. accomplishments, and I I had access to the learned that seven hours Events Center at Ithaca earlier—at 6 a.m.—Cole College, I had my dad had taken a shot at and fiancée and a few setting the indoor track others as a support record for a 50K run. team, and I thought, Yes, just a little 31.1 mile ‘Why not? I knew I run at a 6-minute per had a legitimate shot.” mile pace, and then it Cole knew he had was off to work. to run each lap on Cole is a 26 year-old the indoor track in 46 grad student at SUNY seconds, and he had a Cortland, and he was 45 second pace going a walk-on member of for the first 27 miles. the cross country team Cole Crosby (Provided) He encountered some at the University of stomach issues, slowed Oklahoma. A native of a bit, and finished in New Jersey, Crosby has 3:16:44. hit the coveted sub-30 minute 10K (his A few hours later, Crosby was at personal best is 29:51), and he has now work, looking like a guy who had just turned his focus to ultra-running. run a 5K, not a 50K. When he gets his During our interview, a novice master’s in Recreation Administration runner came in and asked for assistance next month, he will prepare to move to in determining which running shoes Binghamton and continue his affiliation would best suit his needs. Crosby lit up with Ian Golden (the owner of FLRTC) with enthusiasm. Clearly happy to help by working at Confluence Running. another runner enter the tribe, as it were.

He will continue working hard while He asked the young man to walk while he observed his stride, and a conversation maintaining a balance, as ultra running is extremely demanding on one’s body, and about arch formulation, shin and ankle increasing speed or distance too quickly positioning, pronation and supination puts a runner at increased higher risk. ensued. He explained that “various shoes He knows he owes his sponsors his best have the technology to correct some efforts, and he also knows his credibility of these issues,” and he took his time is enhanced by staying healthy. explaining the proper bio-mechanics of Cole is now training for the Cayuga running. The customer was obviously Trails 50 in May, and hopes to run the grateful for such an advanced lesson, Whiteface Mountain Sky Marathon in and he left knowing that his chances June. A Sky Marathon, he explains, “is of becoming a competent and healthy marathon distance, with between nine runner were enhanced. and 10,000 feet of vertical thrown in.”

Crosby’s hard work has landed him Someday, Crosby hopes to add his several sponsorships, and companies do name to the list of those who have raced not align themselves with athletes unless they are confident that their brand will be in the Western States 100 (miles), a race he calls “one of the sport’s most historic represented in ways that shine a positive and iconic events,” and he adds, “My goal light. Cole’s main sponsor is Mammut is to improve on my personal best in all America (an Outdoor Recreation ultra distances in this region, and longcompany), and he says, “I get equipment term, to travel.” • and I have product input.” He is also sponsored by Fits (socks), Redfeather 28

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Wood floors throughout the house, upstairs and down, appear to be historical (except, of course, in the addition, which is carpeted). A lovely curved balustrade graces the foyer, with the curved walls of the stairwell reminiscent of Spanish churches, complete with arched niches for statuary or vases of flowers. Upstairs the master bedroom connects to a master bathroom, if you will, with a shower separate from the clawfoot tub.

Overall, the home has been updated and maintained without trampling on its nineteenth century elegance. Realtor Peggy Haine calls it “a grand Victorian lady.” but if your idea of a Victorian lady smacks of stodginess, we are not talking of the black-clad dowager here—remember

f you happen to purchase 17 Cayuga Street in Trumansburg, you’ll be able to sit on your front porch listening to the birds sing in the surrounding trees, and the murmur of the creek on the other side of the road. This quiet street is not so quiet that a stroll to the post office is out of the question, or a walk home from the Rongo on a fine summer night. Behind the house is a stone patio and a large grassy lawn adjacent to 20 acres of never-to-be-developed woodlands belonging to the neighbors. The roof of the addition on the rear of the house shelters a patio where you and your guests can sit and watch the rain come; there’s also a generously large hot tub right off the deck.

Indoors, this Victorian mansion built in the 1860s, is set apart from many of its contemporaries by the open feeling of the kitchen and dining area. Arched doorways enhance the flow from each high-ceilinged room into the sitting room and parlor.

Almost 2,000 square feet downstairs and over 1,100 square feet upstairs, with five bedrooms and two baths and a half, make

those Victorian ladies were always up to something, such as equal rights for women, and in a house like this they could certainly find lots of places to plot the downfall of the patriarchy over tea.

If cooking is your thing, the kitchen is spacious, new, and within easy vocal and serving range of the dining room; if you want to work at home, there are several rooms that would do well for a home office, and if you want to fill the place with books and cats and children, each and all would be happy here.

There’s a two-car garage. The grounds are nicely landscaped, with flower gardens behind the house and plantings of fruit trees, berry bushes, and grape vines. •

At A Glance Price: $349,000 Location: 17 Cayuga St.,

Village of Trumansburg School District: Trumansburg Central Schools MLS#: 301538 Contact: Peggy Haine, Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker, RealtyUSA Real Estate Phone: (607) 220-5463 (office) Website: www.peggyhaine.com

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The Lansing-Ithaca Rotary Club The Lansing Lions and the Lansing Faculty are holding their annual Chix BQ on Wednesday, April 29, 4pm-7pm at Lansing High School.

The prices will be $9 for a half-chicken dinner, $7 for a quarter-chicken dinner, and $7 for a half-chicken only (not a dinner). We welcome take-outs, but would love to have you stay and talk in the cafeteria.

The proceeds will go to the Rotary Exchange Program, Lansing Faculty scholarships, and charity programs for the Lions’ choosing