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they know about personal and family health by picking a topic that’s pertinent to them,” Carr said. “We’d like to keep it open so students can present how they’re comfortable, whether that’s in class or in the digital realm.”

Third-grade teachers from Groton spent the day working up a rubric for student progress after they have been taught a “module” worth of geometry lessons. Modules differ in length, and geometry takes 32 lessons, or about a month to complete.

“We’re working on a parents’ guide to homework,” said Stephanie Montreuil.

“The student will explain the academic vocabulary for geometry to the parents.”

A sample question the Groton teachers were working on was one that

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Saving Money to Please the State

Teachers Assessing Other Teachers

ounty Administrator Joe Mareane is a man with a plan. Specifically, he has a plan to make sure that all of Tompkins County’s municipalities are able to meet the state’s shared services and efficiencies requirements for the 2016 budget season—by creating a single, countywide government efficiency plan.

At the Thursday, April 23 meeting of the Tompkins County Council of Governments (TCCOG), Mareane explained to elected officials (not for the first time) why a countywide plan is a good idea. Giving some background on the tax freeze, he began, “We’ve talked about it ad nauseam, but I’m going to talk to you about it anyway.” During the 2015 budget year, municipalities only had to stay within the tax cap to qualify for rebates for taxpayers. During 2016, municipalities must both stay within the tax cap and show that they will be able to realize a 1 percent savings through shared services and efficiencies during the 2017, 2018, and 2019 budget years.

Municipalities have the option to band together to show an aggregate 1 percent savings, which is exactly what Mareane proposed last week.

Mareane said that although there are some savings in the area of health care, the health care consortium itself won’t count toward the savings because it was implemented in 2011, and the state only counts shared services beginning in 2012.

Instead, the health care savings will come from reevaluating dependent eligibility, drug copay plans, and a new labor contract with reduced health care costs to the county.

If the county and all its municipalities go in together for a countywide plan, they’ll need to show $880,000 in savings.

(Collectively, the county and its included municipalities have a tax levy of $88 million.) Just through reevaluating dependent healthcare eligibility, Mareane said the county could expect to save $400,000 to $600,000.

Because the county will be able to achieve its shared services and efficiency savings requirement, Mareane suggested that the towns and villages could join in. He suggested that the municipal representatives at TCCOG could take the matter back to their respective councils and boards for further discussion.

Municipalities don’t actually need to pass a resolution saying that they intend to

here has been much talk in recent weeks about how students’ educational progress should be measured, and by extension, how their teachers should be evaluated.

Helping teachers design assessments that are based on performance and align with learning standards is why TSTBOCES (Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga Board of Cooperative Education Services) is coordinating the “Teaching is the Core” program, according to Cheryl Covell, who works for the Model Schools program at BOCES. The program has taken the form of area teachers meeting periodically to figure out how to test students in a performative manner, so they “don’t even know they’re taking a test,” Covell said.

At the most Groton teachers in a “break out” session at the Space @ GreenStar. recent Teaching is (Photo: Josh Brokaw) the Core session, held on Friday, required students to build three lawns for April 17 in the Space @ GreenStar, “Kate,” “John,” and “Susie” out of square teachers spent the day designing tasks in tile blocks. If one were to mow those a seminar facilitated by Jennifer Borgioli lawns of 12, 15, and 18 square yards, what of Learner Centered Initiatives in Garden total area will be mowed, the students are City, N.Y. asked. And what’s the total perimeter of Jodie Binns and Justin Carr, teachers the three lawns? at Lehman Alternatives Community Before state standardized testing School (LACS) and DeWitt Middle was required every year for grades three School, respectively, were working on through eight, Ithaca teachers were giving a way to assess the progress of middle school students on the subject of health. continued on page 5 “We want students to tell us what

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he water that flows from Ithacans’ taps will soon be treated by the most up-to-date methods.

The new water treatment plant is under construction along Six Mile Creek.

A 21-foot high concrete building is rising behind the current treatment plant, built in 1903, which will soon disappear from the site when it is wholly replaced by new construction.

Though final completion of the facility is scheduled for 2016, the part of the plant that actually treats the water should be working by this November.

Phase One of the project is on schedule to be completed by late May, according to Matt Sledjeski, the civil engineer monitoring the plant’s construction for the city.

The new building will contain three tanks where the “raw water” will be taken in and treated before its final filtration, said Steve Westcott, the engineer overseeing the project for O’Brien & Gere, its designers.

“We’ll be putting in new plate settlers and a sludge collection system for the raw water,” Westcott said. “The old sedimentation basin is just a big tank where all the solids settle to the bottom. You had to drain the tank every once in a while and hose down all the sludge.”

Water from Six Mile Creek will first enter a “flocculation basin,” where chemicals to clean and help to speed the settling of particulate matter to the bottom are added. Then, the water will enter the sludge tanks—which will no longer have to be cleaned by hand—and flow through the plate settlers.

“The plate settlers are just a basic filter, so the clean water goes through and the heavy particles can’t float all the way

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participate in the countywide efficiency plan; they can simply sign on when the time comes.

• • • Also at the April 23 meeting, council members heard a presentation from Melissa Kemp of Solarize Tompkins, a non-profit organization that seeks to connect residents with solar installers.

Kemp started off with statistics.

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to the top,” Westcott said. “It’s like when you’ve got an air conditioning system and you put a big filter outside to get the big particulates, then a filter on the inside to clean the micro particles, so you get clean air out of it.”

That finer filter will be completed in Phase Two of the project, scheduled to end in late October or November, according to Sledjeski. The new membrane filtration system will use about 250 filters and process about 5 million gallons of water per day. It’s an upgrade to the current system, which filters water through anthracite coal and sand, but all of the preprocessing at the “head of the plant” is still

Only one of the city’s two old sedimentation basins is operating right now, Westcott said, and one of those will be demolished when Phase One is complete. That’s where the housing for the membrane filtration will go. Once the membranes are installed later this year, the remainder of the old plant will be demolished.

“Phase Three will be the new lab, new office space, the control room and a lot of chemical storage tanks, some maintenance, and the garage,” Westcott said. “It’s giving a home to everything else that makes the plant complete and look good.”

In the interim, as construction is

New city water treatment rises next to the old one. It will be operational in the fall. (Photo: Brian Arnold)

very necessary, Sledjeski said.

“If you go to Six Mile Creek during a rainstorm you can see it looks like chocolate milk,” Sledjeski said. “At the head we can filter the water down to the micron level to give [the membranes] a little bit of help.”

Other upgrades as part of the new plant include a new flow meter, new chemical injection places—including at the entrance to the intake pipe—and new chemical mixers. more solar use than the state of New York, but less than the state of California.

In 2013 Solarize Tompkins began in a limited number of towns and, given the success of that initial effort, the program later expanded to include the whole county. As of last June, before the most recent Solarize Tompkins program cycle, Tompkins County had a total of 2 megawatts (MW) of solar installations.

Kemp said that last year’s program added another 3 MW, easily exceeding the goal to double the use of solar in the county.

Now, with Park Foundation funding, Solarize Tompkins will be launching a renewable heating and energy program.

Kemp said that between 65 and 75 percent

completed, laboratory and office staff will be housed in a trailer.

Separate but related work on Six Mile Creek will include replacing the gatehouse at the reservoir on the Sixty-Foot Dam and extending the water intake further into the reservoir. Sledjeski said those projects are currently in the stage of working out permits with the state Department of Environmental Conservation. • —Josh

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of a building’s energy use typically goes toward heating. “So taking a bite out of this apple is really what we’re looking at,” she said.

Some of the technologies the program will utilize to achieve savings in terms of heating and cooling includes ground source heat pumps, air source heat pumps, high-efficiency electric domestic hot water heating, and wood pellet options. Some savings will also come from insulation and air-sealing techniques.

The pilot-scale program is expected to include about 100 homes. • —Keri

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Getting Out the Word About Local Food

▶ Newman Civic Fellow, For her outstanding record of community service and civic engagement, Ithaca College senior Crystal Kayiza has been recognized as a 2015 Newman Civic Fellow. She is one of some 200 students nationwide honored by Campus Compact, a coalition of college and university presidents committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education by improving community life and educating students for civic and social responsibility.

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thacans who want the latest dirt on the local food scene have a new website they can bookmark.

Hot Potato Press (hotpotatopress. org) went live in late February and, so far, is offering everything from stories on springtime recipes and local kiwis to event, job, and workshop announcements.

Alison Fromme is the site’s editor.

She has blogged about local food at Ithacasfoodweb.blogspot.com for several years, so taking on the Hot Potato Press project is a natural extension of her interests.

“Doing the blog, people would contact me who had just moved to Ithaca and wanted to know more about food here,” Fromme said. “This site will be a way to draw in people who might have a passing interest in food and reinforce connections in the food system that are already happening.”

Several people have already contributed articles to the site, and Fromme expects the community will shape this new resource.

“We want Hot Potato to be somewhere between a conventional newspaper, where the editor is making decisions and social media, where it’s a free for all,” Fromme said. “I see distinct groups interested in food. There are the foodies who want Teachersassessing contin u ed from page 3

their own assessments, said Liddy Coyle, a master educator with the city school district.

“We do believe common assessments have merit,” Coyle said. “That’s been one of Superintendent Brown’s pushes.”

An example of these tests is the independent writing sample given three times a year, which looks different every time.

“They might take information from a video, read something and take notes, or write a letter,” Coyle said. “One grade writes a letter to the mayor saying why we should have something.”

Though the state has mandated the controversial Common Core-aligned testing since 2012, Borgioli believes the best test design comes from the classroom.

“Teachers are the best designers of tests,” Borgioli said. “This program is pushing against the narrative that teachers are being made to do things that they have nothing to do with.”

The intent of the Teaching is the Core program is “to make sure assessments given in the classroom are really informative, just-in-time assessments, so teachers can make great decisions about

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.”

Holly Payne and Alison Fromme of Hot Potato Press. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

to cook and have the best ingredients, businesspeople who are just trying to stay in business, people working for healthy access. This website is a way to bring all those people together.”

Hot Potato Press should “fill the digital piece of the communication gap” among local foodies, according to Holly Payne of GreenStar Community Projects.

The new site is one of many ideas that have sprung from Feeding Our Future Network meetings that began in 2012.

“The network has over 400 names on its list and over 170 organizations of people who have showed up at one food networking session or another,” Payne said.

“These sessions take some focal piece of the food system, and we say, ‘Where do we need to go now?’”

The sessions have led to actions like a Hunger Hackathon put on by students and will hopefully lead to further collaborations between area groups, like a food policy council for Tompkins County.

“There’s a lot of people who say, ‘Holy cow, we’ve wanted to do a project for years, and now here we all are!’” Payne said.

“People have been independently working on the same thing, and now they can connect.”

The editorial stance of Hot Potato Press will not be prescriptive, or support any particular line of thinking about food.

“I’m not here to say where to eat, what policies to support, or where to buy your food,” Fromme said. “This is more about

students,” said Jeff Matteson, TST-BOCES superintendent. “They’re so teachers don’t have to be so reliant on standardized type assessments and can really focus on the lessons that were given.”

One problem with the standardized tests is the turnaround time, from testing to feedback.

“We know these annual assessments don’t show us gaps in students that are useful for next year,” Matteson said. “It’s a huge data dump, so they have to make sure they have all the information that school districts have verified, and then they publicly release the information.”

That delay also factors into the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) numbers required under federal No Child Left Behind legislation. The AYP number for this year won’t be calculated until next spring and won’t have any affect on individual school funding until 2016-17.

That’s important because it is still unclear what the state will do about so many parents opting their students out of state standardized tests this year. A 95 percent participation rate is required for AYP calculations, and missing that number can lead to districts losing some control over federal Title I funding. In previous years, Matteson said missing AYP was because of poor test results, and

Title I monies were moved to support the problems found in a district. For example, low reading scores would lead to funding being earmarked for a reading teacher.

How that money would go to remedy low testing participation is unclear.

“That Title I money is tied to what your gap is,” Matteson said. “The only problem for some of our local schools that have always been in good standing is they didn’t meet the 95 percent rate.”

“The reason that [95 percent requirement] was put in is the state didn’t want school districts gaming the system by saying, ‘We’re only going to test the kids we know are going to do well,’” Matteson said. “They didn’t foresee this movement that’s going on under the current testing regime.”

Matteson doesn’t think that Title I money will go into some of the more absurd scenarios that have been floated by anxious parents, like spending funds on reeducation classes to stress the value of standardized testing. “[Regents Chancellor] Merryl Tisch has said she doesn’t see any scenario where they’re going to withhold Title I monies from students,” Matteson said. “In her opinion this is an argument between adults.” •

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Heard&Seen ▶Quotes of the week, Tompkins County Administrator Joe Mareane, at the start of a presentation on shared services and the tax cap: “We’ve talked about it ad nauseum, but I’m going to talk to you about it anyway.”

Tompkins County Legislator Jim Dennis, regarding the value of resolutions urging action on national issues, in this case the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement : “Nobody cares what I say, nobody cares what a lot of us say.” ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of April 22-28 include: 1) First Black Frat Gets Historical Status 2) Shopper Dash Winner Gives It All Away 3) CU Sesquicentennial: You Only Turn 150 Once 4) Ted Danson Talks Fish At Cornell 5) Ithaca Underground Celebrates Sixth Sound Experiment For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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draft of the comprehensive plan for the city of Ithaca (“Plan Ithaca”) has just been released.

Generally speaking, the expressed intention is for Ithaca to become more of a city and less of an overgrown village. The city government has been encouraging the “densification” of the downtown corridor for several years now, recently making changes to the zoning laws that allowed for buildings of greater height over a wider area and eliminating parking requirements for residential buildings in Collegetown and downtown.

The new document lays out a vision for the direction of city development over the next 20 years.

Our cover story this week compares the perspective of Plan Ithaca with that of the last full plan written in 1971. The emphasis now is to create mixed-use neighborhoods that combine residences, retail, office space, and perhaps, as at the proposed Chain Works neighborhood on South Hill, even artisan shops that approach “industry” in sense that things will be made there. In contrast, in 1971 there was a suburbanizing tone that discouraged mixing uses.

Although it now called “mixed use development” and “form-based zoning,” this kind of urban setting used to be simply the way things were. You can still see remnants here and there of this mosaic of uses in places like Fall Creek where former storefronts are now used for storage or have been converted to residences and an artisan business like Serviente Glass carries the torch from the past into the future. In Southside you

find businesses like Ithaca Plastics and Historical Elements in predominantly residential blocks. These vestiges of a more vibrant city are now regarded as the harbingers of things to come.

For example, the new development planned for the block between First Street and Cascadilla Creek above Hancock Street will include three fourstory buildings that will have retail in the ground floor and residences above.

Some of the neighbors who have attended planning board meetings have opposed the project because of the height of the buildings and the introduction of retail in a residential area. Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, however, conducted several public sessions that sought input from neighbors, and their plan incorporates the suggestions of the people who attended (85 people attended the Nov. 12 meeting, which was only one of three).

Planners and city government are trying to bring back other uses to residential neighborhoods because it has been shown that this is what makes a city live. Jane Jacobs made this point in her 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities.

Some planners and government officials heeded her sooner than others.

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ews item: The Ithaca Hampton Inn adopted a policy in 2014 prohibiting employees from talking among themselves “about things … they can do nothing about,” according to the Tompkins County Workers’ Center. The policy read, in part, “Gossip will not be tolerated at our hotel. If someone involves you in gossip it is your responsibility to let him or her know that this is not OK, or to let a supervisor know so that they may address the problem.

This is not tattling. Tattling is a form of gossiping that spreads news of no importance.

On the other hand, reporting a policy violation is an employee’s duty.” The Workers’ Center has dropped a petition against the hotel as a result of the hotel recently rescinding the policy.

I suppose we should have seen this one coming. The final bastion of freedom at work, under attack. I’m still working the bugs out of my time machine, but I was able to travel briefly five years into the future and snatch the following news story from the April 29, 2020 Ithaca Times and see how all this is going to pan out for us. Better make your snide workplace asides now, while you can.

Anti-Gossip Raid Nets 11,300 Suspects (Ithaca, New York) Acting on 11,300 tips, and after almost 16 hours of investigation, federal agents swooped into Ithaca yesterday morning in the most recent attempt to enforce last year’s General AntiGossip (GAG) Act. Those arrested represented virtually every social stratum and walk of life.

Nurses, teachers, cab drivers, yoga instructors, grocery store cart jockeys, baristas, bartenders, virtually all of the faculties of both colleges, every licensed barber and cosmetologist in town, but, oddly, not a single employee of the Ithaca Hampton Inn. Since 80 percent of the Ithaca Police, Ithaca Fire and Tompkins County

Sheriff Departments were put on paid leave pending investigation, Governor Svante Myrick called in the National Guard to maintain order. Thousands of iPhone 12s were collected as evidence, and the streets were all but vacant for several hours as the suspects were being booked.

Traffic clogged Routes 13, 34, 79, 89, and 96 as thousands of college students fled, some of them just ahead of the federal dragnet. Ithaca College sophomore Salome Pimento wasn’t able to get out in time. “It was probably my roommate Starla,” she said.

“She’s had a different personality ever since she had all that cosmetic surgery.”

Though logistically challenging, the detainees were kept in isolation from one another to prevent them from talking to one another about subjects they can do nothing about.

Federal agent Clive Cornstarch, who may or may not play a lot of golf during work hours but sure seems to be absent a lot when it’s nice out (just sayin’), praised those people who came forward to report violations by their fellow citizens. “It’s not ratting out your neighbor,” explained Cornstarch, “It’s folks doing their civic duty.”

Judge Jebediah Flaxseed, though how he’s still on the bench with the martinis he puts away at lunch is anybody’s guess, processed most of the defendants in an unprecedented mass arraignment at Schoellkopf Field late yesterday afternoon.

Phone calls to the judge’s chambers were not returned, but his clerk did say that it was shocking some of the outfits people wore to the proceedings. Especially that one woman in the leopard skin tights. I mean, where are we? Florida?

Released after posting bail and being Fitted with gossip sensors, defendants were given appearance dates throughout May and June. •

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I’d like to take a moment to give Tim Turecek a standing ovation for his recent Guest Opinion in the Ithaca Times (“What’s An Education For?”—April 15 edition).

Bravo! I could not have expressed it better!

I voted for Andrew Cuomo and feel that he misled the people of this state from the beginning and is totally in the pocket of Big Money, which is a real shame because I had hopes he might actually have been a leader and back the people of this beautiful state and its future. We were important only for our votes and as stepstones into a seat of power. He’s become nothing more than a “yes” man to corporations and Wall Street, like many others a man of no backbone and h e

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I began babysitting in my neighborhood at age 12 and was an early childhood educator/family day care business owner/ director and head teacher of two non-profit preschools and worked several summers with 11 to 13 year olds at Y camps and one summer post-Katrina helping run a summer program with many wonderful teachers for “toddlers through teens” of survivors of that disaster. Long have I fought for change in education—my entire adult life more or less—and the system continues to decay and slide deeper under the control of those who have no idea what it means to be a teacher continued on page 7

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hen I worked as a psychotherapist in the 1980s and 1990s, many of my clients complained of pain and discomfort in their bodies that seemed connected with their emotional issues. When I sat there, listening to them talk about their pain, I felt like I wanted to do more than understand and care. I wanted to learn more about healing for the body as well as the mind.

Acupuncture had helped me heal from excruciating pain after a car accident, and my first acupuncturist introduced me to useful self-care practices. After studying and practicing tai chi, qigong, and shiatsu massage for 12 years, I decided to study Chinese medicine. In 1997 I graduated from the New England School of Acupuncture, received my license to practice in New York State, and began my healing practice.

Because I had over 20 years of counseling experience before becoming licensed as an acupuncturist, a significant percentage of the people who choose to work with me are looking for help with both physical and emotional issues.

I’ve come to understand, for many of us, the emotional and the physical are intertwined—all part of the same situation in the person where something painful seems stuck, and might respond to a catalyst toward change and balance that acupuncture can provide.

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk writes and lectures about his work and research treating all sorts of trauma. People who experience war, natural disasters, serious accidents, abuse, or neglect hold the pain of these experiences in their bodies.

Van der Kolk has found that survivors of trauma are helped most by treatments that bring them into their bodies in the present time. Van der Kolk tells a story about the mental health follow-up to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Dr. Spencer Eth, then medical director of behavioral health services at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Manhattan, was curious where survivors turned for help, so he conducted a survey of 225 people who had escaped from the Twin Towers. “Asked what had been helpful in overcoming the effects of their experience, the survivors credited acupuncture, massage, yoga, and EMDR, in that order ...” (Van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, 2014 p. 231).

Van der Kolk’s findings agree with my own: for many people, counseling psychotherapy can be more effective when combined with acupuncture treatment and the practice of body-focused activities from aerobic exercise to meditative selfhealing movement forms of qigong and tai chi.

Growing numbers of health care professionals express concerns about the harm caused by the over-prescription of a wide range of psychiatric drugs, especially drugs prescribed to children. Dr. Stephen Cowan, a pediatrician and author of Fire Child, Water Child: How Understanding the Five Types of ADHD Can Improve Your Child’s Self Esteem and Attention (stephencowanmd.com), expresses alarm about “the explosive rise in the diagnosis of children with emotional disorders over the past 20 years … [and] the significant overuse of strong psycho-pharmaceutical medications originally intended for adults and not FDA approved for pediatric use.”

(Cowan, Stephen, in Fudeman, Will, Before Pharmaceuticals: Emotional Healing with Chinese Medicine , Bryce Cullen, 2012, p. 79.)

It’s true that psychiatric drugs can help some people cope with how they feel, but drugs don’t heal. In fact, studies show that the longer people take psychiatric drugs, the less likely they are to recover from chronic emotional problems.

(See Whitaker, Robert, Anatomy of an Epidemic, New York: Crown Publishers, 2010.) Given the risks involved in longterm use of drugs, it makes sense to consider trying other approaches to emotional healing. In the case of children who are drugged without any knowledge of the possible damage the drugs could cause, it seems especially important to consider alternative approaches to treatment.

Many members of the mental health and medical communities are open to and interested in alternatives to psychiatric drugs. In the situations where pharmaceuticals provide the safest and most certain way to interrupt extreme symptoms or self-destructive behavior, they are certainly appropriate to prescribe.

What needs to change is the assumption that people with emotional problems need to stay on drugs for the rest of their lives. We need to overcome the kneejerk assumption that Ritalin or Adderol are the answer for children who are having a hard time. We need to use our imaginations, consider treatments ancient and modern, and not dismiss approaches from foreign cultures that are based on pre-scientific thought. We can maintain a healthy skepticism as we explore all sorts of options to find out what really helps people heal.

Will Fudeman, L.Ac., LCSW. maintains a healing practice in Ithaca New York, where he also teaches qigong. His book Before Pharmaceuticals: Emotional Healing with Chinese Medicine includes articles by Stephen Cowan; Heiner Fruehauf; and Thea Elijah, L.Ac.

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asking the questions and making it clear why we should pay attention to food. It links us to each other and the land, and we want to recognize these are important issues for ourselves, our neighbors, and the environment.”

Fromme does want to practice what she calls “journalism with the community,” talking to not only those who are often called “stakeholders”—people who go to meetings and have official positions—but also people whose lives can be changed dramatically by shifts in the food system.

A grant from Sustainable Tompkins to train three citizen journalists to “write about stories important to them” is one way that will happen, Fromme hopes.

“Maybe they can talk about school food, or interview women in the food system who are under the radar,” Fromme said. “People know that maybe they can use SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits at the farmers’ market, but how does it work? Do all the farmers accept them? Is it awkward?

Having someone who’s been through that process to explain it can help people.”

Hot Potato Press is just one of many solutions to the communication problems that often occur when lots of people are out doing their own thing in an arena, whether it be food policy or any other social concern.

“A lot of the donor community is interested in the food system, and we’d love to see them organize,” Payne said.

“It would be really cool if they could pull together, so not only from the bottomup, but from the top-down there’s a coordinated effort. Understanding what can make the food system fair and making that happen is way beyond any individual organization.”

The next meeting of the Feeding Our Future Network will be May 13 from 6 to 9 p.m. at The Space @ GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St., and will focus on cooperatives of all kinds and their role in a sustainable economy. Anyone with tips or story ideas for Hot Potato Press can contact Fromme at alison@hotpotatopress.org. • editorial

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attracting everyone from retirees to young professionals.

But Rochester didn’t focus only on downtown. In residential neighborhoods like the South Wedge, Swillburg, and University Avenue coalitions of residents and city officials held charettes (intense design sessions) to revive retail and other businesses, so that residents could live more of their lives within walking distance of their homes. Sure, for a big grocery run or to buy a washer and dryer, they were likely to leave the neighborhood, but to get a quart of milk and some eggs, a newspaper, a printer cartridge, or meal, you just need to nip down the block and back on foot.

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and have long forgotten being a student.

They are not interested in turning out well rounded and well adjusted human beings.

They seem to be happy if we all sit on the couch and stare at TV programs and drink beer and don’t make waves while they run the world their way, charge more and pay us less, keeping the brightest and best of the robots their educational system spits out, and no one rocks their boat. The sad thing is that too many feel too helpless against this power and don’t think they can make their voice count.

When “No Child Left Behind” became the mandate in the public school system every teacher I knew working in “the system” became fearful and several chose to retire. Teachers were told that their “numbers” had to show a high percentage of students graduating or the school would not get their funding and that even young children in the schools of Texas and New Mexico—where I spent 20 years—graduated from high school unable to read, yet wanting $10 an hour when they applied for jobs in the area. My neighbor working at the employment agency and could not believe the people coming to her with no social skills, no education, and high expectations. People, on the whole, in this country do not value education and teaching and sadly often don’t teach their children how important it is to work for something and earn it. They expect teachers to do that.

This is why so many companies bring employees from China and India with high skills in math and science, who understand what it takes to build a life in the real world, to make the money, to just show up for work day after day, and to do it in clean clothes. It’s not teachers who are to blame for any lack. (Most I have known were devoted to “their kids,” and like me, often spent their own money for healthier snacks or baked some child a birthday cake who wouldn’t have had one, or bought someone tennis shoes or a winter coat when needed, quietly and privately.)

It is society and the political moneymaking machine that needs to open their eyes and see that the future of this country is being “dumbed down” and treated with a lack of respect and care. Our children are not “things.” We, the adults, should guide and direct and encourage them to the Light and not just leave them in the dark.

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There’s no conspiracy fodder in Ithaca’s new comprehensive plan, though: as “Plan Ithaca,” now in the draft stages, puts it, a comprehensive plan is “ideally, a living document; a written agreement the City makes with itself at a given point in time.”

Anyone who looks at a 66-page document like Plan Ithaca and thinks that is enough to lay out in great detail each and every future development over the 20-year period the plan purports to cover has a far greater faith in government’s predictive powers than those who put together this draft over the past three years.

To analogize imperfectly, the nitty gritty local government work of approving zoning exceptions and infrastructure improvements is like making reservations for four at an Aurora Street restaurant, hiring a babysitter, and reserving a cab at lunchtime Friday.

In contrast, Plan Ithaca is saying “Let’s all meet at the lakehouse for a week in July. Bring your bathing suits.” Who drives, who brings the board games, and 8

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The More Things Change …

Here’s a quote from a comprehensive plan for Ithaca: Based on the knowledge that at least half of all workers in Ithaca are commuting from outside the city limits, “additional low- and middle-income housing within the city limits would probably alleviate the labor problem, improve the housing situation, and increase the tax rolls.”

This quote voices a familiar current theme, but it was written in 1971 for “Ithaca, NY: A General Plan.” The new draft plan notes that the city had grown in population by less than 1,000 since 1950, while Tompkins County’s population had nearly doubled to about 100,000.

Other issues have changed significantly over time, which one can see clearly by reading through the 1971 plan and more emphatically by looking at the city’s first “preliminary planning study,” written in 1924 by consultant Russell Van Nest Black.

In 1924, proposals included eliminating street diagonal parking in favor of filling in underused city blocks with spaces; it mentions lots and lots of railroad grade crossings that should be eliminated; and it advocates strongly for more playgrounds. (The sharpest 2 9 -M

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M u lt i - u s e d ow n t ow n : r e ta i l o n t h e g r o u n d f l o o r , o f f i c e s o n the second, a nd r esidences on the thir d. (p h o t o : B r i a n A r n o l d) rhetorical flourish in the 1924 plan is a photograph of four children sitting on a pile of trash in the city dump with the caption “Playgrounds Are Cheaper Than Hospitals”).

The 1971 plan isn’t quite so quaint, but it still betrays its vintage when its ideas are compared with modern planning norms. Since the 1969 completion of the flood control channel at the Cayuga Inlet had made development more practical in the southwestern portion of the city, straightening out Route 13 and creating a “Southwest Parkway” collector road were part of the plan. There is much talk in 1971 of improving collector roads and increasing parking—which, the plan recommends, should be pushed out of the very center of downtown in favor of a pedestrian mall—but there are very few words about public transit. It was noted that a 1961 study showed that bus usage went down 62-percent from 1957 to 1960.

“The policy that the bus system is a necessary community service and should be provided despite possible financial loss to the city should be continued” the 1971 plan states. Also, it calls for summer buses to the lake front and Buttermilk Falls, something that could be accomplished because the county then boasted seven buses to serve six routes. Concerning pedestrians or bicyclists, there is not a

word throughout the whole document.

And when it comes to population growth and traffic, there’s a note of resignation struck in the 1971 plan.

Population within the city should be expected to hold steady, and whatever traffic comes must be dealt with—while more housing, of course, would be a very good thing.

Compare that attitude with this statement in the new Plan Ithaca draft: There is an “immense opportunity to maximize our role as a regional hub by attracting a larger population and counteracting the decades-long trend of low population growth within City limits.”

Putting more people, in a space everyone knows is almost entirely built upon, sounds like a daunting task. The answer, according to those helping put Plan Ithaca together, is mixed-use development along with a host of other initiatives that support people living within an easy, non-driving distance of work and giving them the services they need.

One Place; Many Things to Do

The “simple version” of the Plan Ithaca draft, according to Kirby Edmonds, who chairs the comprehensive plan committee, “is creating greater density in

moving trucks. the city core.”

“We have to make it “We’ll be dealing with the convenient to not have a car,” conflict that arises and working Myrick said. “We can’t hope through the tensions inevitable people will do the hard thing just with that,” Edmonds said. “It’s not because it’s the right thing. If it confusing; it’s going to be hard.” takes too much time or too much Contrast that commitment effort, people won’t do it.” to density with Ithaca’s 1971 plan, Unlike that 1971 plan, there’s written in a time when the style plenty of talk in Plan Ithaca about of development we now know as alternatives to driving. It says “mixed-use” was anathema to urban that Ithaca has the “foundation planners. of an outstanding pedestrian and “In some situations a sensitive bicycle-oriented community,” physical and social design plan can since it’s relatively compact with a group dissimilar activities,” the 1971 street system that is primarily built plan reads. “[M]ore often, however, on a grid.” Nowadays, 42 percent the result is offensive and unsightly, of people bike or walk to work, and the stronger commercial and and 12-percent use the bus system. industrial activities move bit by bit, Increasing the accessibility of destroying the residential and other the bus system helps people feel economically weaker activities.”

Admittedly, in those days C o m p r e h e n s i v e P l a n C o m m i t t e e w i t h C h a i r K i r b y e d m o n d s (f o u r t h f r o m comfortable giving up their cars, Myrick said. industry tended to be big, smoker i g h t) a n d P l a n n e r m e g a n Wi l s o n (r i g h t) . ( P h o t o : B r i a n A r n o l d) “If by stepping out your door belching factories like the Borg there is a bus right there that will Warner (on the site of the proposed drop you off at your location, and Chain Works mixed-use project) pick you up, now it’s not annoying or Ithaca Gun that would not have or inconvenient to use public looked or smelled very nice if sited transit. It’s almost like having your alongside DeWitt Park. What that own chauffeur.” philosophy of placing like next to like led to over time, though, was sprawl, which caused people to move out to suburbs and rely on the automobile Plan Ithaca “is a very Ithaca to get around. That has its own costs, kind of plan that will push things including the expense of access to forward,” said David Kay, viceshopping and services. chair of the city planning board.

“It might be more affordable “All the focus is on equity and now to take a huge strip of land sustainability.” out in the suburbs and call that Equity and sustainability, affordable housing,” said city along with collaboration, are the planning board member C.J. Randall, three “thread-through” themes that who serves on the comprehensive snake their way through chapters plan committee. “But when it costs on everything from “economic Dav e K ay, p l a n n i n g b o a r d a n d six to nine thousand a year to own Director of Planning vitality” to “community livability.”

Compr ehensive Pla n Com mittee a car, that’s a pretty high tax on Joan n Cor nish “It’s not just hippie towns who m e m b e r ( P h o t o : B r i a n A r n o l d) affordable housing.” ( P h o t o : B r i a n A r n o l d) are concerned about sustainability,” A better score of affordability said Nick Goldsmith, sustainability is the Housing and Transit Index, The current trend of more and more expensive to live in is because there’s such planner for Town and City of Ithaca.

Randall said, which incorporates “walk a limited amount of housing,” Myrick said. people wanting to live in cities doesn’t “There’s more attention to energy issues as scores” for a given city block—that is, how “We need market-rate housing, student seem to be slowing. Those getting older a part of the planning process now. It’s a easy it is to get to important places. don’t want to drive anywhere, and young housing, affordable housing, and we need higher priority on the pyramid.”

“The biggest drivers of walkability are people who want to be near entertainment to find places for that all to go.”

Reducing driving and other where you have grocery and convenience “This plan is promoting growth in the and coffee shops environmental costs associated with stores,” Randall said. “People want to “Young people want to move to cities. center of the city: Collegetown, downtown, sprawl are part of that focus on stop by, get a drink, or get something for Boomers want to as they’re getting older, the West End,” Myrick continued. “I think sustainability. Attempting to develop a city dinner. How easy is it to get there?” and everyone else does, too,” Randall said. we’re on a fast track to gentrification now, that ensures equity for all its citizens— “What you’d really like to see is this There’s not much land left in Ithaca, if we don’t change. The best way to ensure defined as access to information, jobs, European style of living where people stop that we gentrify is to not grow, to leave but Plan Ithaca does note that in a 2008 housing, etc.—is probably the toughest for groceries twice a week instead of once study, surface parking was found to take everything the way it is. When you can’t requirement to fulfill. every two weeks,” Mayor Svante Myrick respond to demand, the price of living just up 231.4 acres, or 6 percent of all city land, Edmonds said that incentivized said. “You happen to walk by the corner and there were 194 parcels undeveloped at goes through the roof.” zoning, which allows developers to add store and pick up what you need for the that time, 3.6 percent of all parcels in the Even development like the Lofts more housing units to a building if they next three days. This is tough in places that at 6 Mile Creek, which have earned city. promise to keep some at set, affordable are pretty well developed. In Collegetown, some online outrage for rents that range rent levels, “would be pretty progressive to we think we have a big opportunity to between about $1,200 and $2,500 per set as a policy,” and it’s a good example of get some cars off the road [with the new month, are part of making a denser, more an equitable bent in planning.

GreenStar grocery store]. The only reason Making driving less necessary is the affordable city, Myrick said.

“How do you say we’re going to [cars are] used is to go to Wegmans.”

“This building will contribute millions general thrust of Plan Ithaca, making [be equitable] if you don’t say we must,” Building more dense housing more room for walkers and bikers and in property taxes over the next 20 years.

Edmonds said. “I get it’s a very heavy might sound to some like a recipe for more room for development.

There is an They are already served by public transit, political lift. If we can pull that off, the rest gentrification, pushing people with lesser and they already have sidewalks and roads, explicit hierarchy of transit options laid of the plan will work. And if we don’t some incomes out into those sprawlier areas. and water and sewer connections,” Myrick out in the plan, starting with walking and That’s not how Myrick sees things. said. “We’re adding to the tax base without going down in preference to biking, public continued on page 11 “The reason that Ithaca has become so adding to the cost of services.” transit, private cars, and then goods-

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remember very clearly when my friend and former boss, Jim Johnston, told me, in 1994, that Cornell had hired a savvy new coach named Dick Blood to lead the Big Red softball team into their third season as a varsity sport. Jim had been the coach when softball was a club sport, then he agreed to stay on for a year to help with the transition. Then, Cornell’s athletic director resigned, and the department was reluctant to make a big hire until the new A.D. was in place, so Jim said he would stay another year. Given he was the executive director of Family and Children’s Services of Ithaca, running a Division I varsity program was a tall order, and he told me recently, “Our board of directors made it all possible. They were great.”

I went to Cornell’s first home game after Blood took over, and I found him to be a really serious yet accessible guy.

He had very high expectations for his players, but then again, they weren’t really his players; they had been recruited by Johnston. Jim had dangled the carrot expertly, and the promise of building a club team into a viable varsity team drew some good players, but when Blood was able to introduce himself as the here-tostay head coach of a varsity team with every intention of winning championships, the program blossomed. Johnston had planted some seeds in some fertile soil, and Blood was a master gardener. Cornell got better and better, and the first Ivy League title came in 1999. Cornell also hung the banner in ’01, ’04, ’09, and ’10, and over the years, Cornell turned out 46 First Team All-Ivy players, four Ivy League Players of the Year, and three Capital One

All-Americans. The Big Red had thirteen 30-win seasons, four 40-win seasons, and has been, by any measure, a top-shelf operation.

As a dad and a youth softball coach, I got a sense early on that my middle daughter was on track to play at the collegiate level, and I brought her to Cornell frequently. I wanted her to see the skill level and finer points that went into playing at a high level, and I wanted her to see what effect a coach could have on a team. Coach Blood ran such a classy program, and got so much out of his players that each of those trips were worth it, and while I often secretly wished my daughter would play at Cornell, I am pleased that her Alfred University Saxons are playing for the Empire 8 championship this weekend.

Last weekend, nearly 40 of Dick Blood’s former players showed up to wish him well as he finishes out his stellar career. There were tearful photos, celebrations, and a beautiful, glossy, full color hard cover book commemorating the last 20 years. There were hugs, handshakes, shared memories, and tears.

I stood with Jim Johnston, looking at the beautiful, state-of-the-art turf field, and I asked how things had changed in 20 years. Jim laughed and said, “This sure beats Lansing!” I replied, “I can’t remember … you played on the high school varsity field?” Jim laughed again.

“No,” he said, “we played at the town recreation field.” I asked Johnston if he felt his successor had done well, and that brought the biggest laugh yet. “You might say he’s done okay,” Johnston said. •

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of it will work, but not some of it.”

Myrick offers what he calls “on-time” job training as one policy that can help increase access to work for those who need training to make it in this economy.

When jobs are expected to open in an industry, like hospitality right now, relatively short training programs can be offered to help local people get jobs.

However much the city can control as time goes forward, Plan Ithaca was not born and will not exist in a vacuum.

Its emphasis on denser development and greener transit, sustainability and equity, was based on input gathered through an extensive process of public outreach that began in August 2011, according to Megan Wilson, the city planner who has taken the lead on this project. The planning committee held about 20 neighborhood community meetings to gather the draft goals and another 20 focus groups to get feedback on those goals.

Part of that feedback, with all this talk of new development theories, does include leaving some neighborhoods mostly unchanged.

“We really value the character of existing neighborhoods,” Wilson said.

“The majority of additional development will come in certain areas”—including the axis from the center of Collegetown along State Street to the West End. “The goals came out of asking a lot of people what they think the city should look like going forward,” Edmonds said.

“There’s the understanding at this stage of the game people are not figuring out how you do it. It’s not like this came out of nowhere. In some ways it’s an attempt to summarize the conversation.”

The plan itself doesn’t have much influence except as a vision, though someone who can show clearly the city is taking an action contrary to the plan could, in theory, take the city to court.

That vision is still developing, as the plan goes into Phase Two, when city officials will incorporate feedback received in recent public meetings and then bring more specific area plans to people in those areas. (Anyone who missed these meetings can email mwilson@ cityofithaca.org with thoughts on Plan Ithaca.)

“Eventually, we’ll implement zoning that supports the plan,” Wilson said, “with different types of parameters and tools we need to make it all happen.”

No matter how much planners ask for input, there will always be some who don’t wake up until the shovels start turning over dirt.

“There’s a whole lot of people who aren’t paying attention and they’re not going to start paying attention until it’s in their territory,” Edmonds said. “And then they’ll pay a whole lot of attention.” •

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Rebecca Barry’s “memoir in stories”

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ith a vision for an ideal life in mind, Rebecca Barry and her husband Tommy Dunne left high-paying jobs in New York City and bought a 150-year-old rambling, six-apartment brick house in the heart of the village of Trumansburg. She was going to write fiction, and her husband was going to pursue his dream of starting a magazine. For Barry, who grew up in Lansing, it was a return home of sorts, and there would be family and friends, good local food, and a small town for them and their children. Of course, Life, as we all know, is rarely that simple.

Century-and-a-half-year-old buildings need a lot of expensive TLC, and writing a novel and success in the magazine world are neither guaranteed nor easy goals. Barry’s two young boys have their own agendas. The global economy doesn’t care about your vision for an ideal life.

Barry’s new book, Recipes for a Beautiful Life: A Memoir in Stories (Simon and Schuster), recounts her struggle to build a creative life and be a writer while being a mother, partner, friend, sister, and daughter. She writes about contending with the thousand encounters and highs and lows that make up everyday life. With her characteristic unblinking honesty and bright humor, she grapples with larger issues, too: when life plans come to seem oppressive, the formidable responsibility of being a parent, and the messiness (real and figurative) of family life. Her book is refreshing and hopeful, yet not afraid to examine moments of despair.

Though chronological, the chapters are short, self-contained stories, interspersed with recipes for food and drinks (some real, some whimsical).

Barry’s writing is warm, authentic, and funny. She manages somehow to be truthful about parenthood without falling into treacle or sanctimony. An expert at vignettes, she easily conjures up the people in her life and the various moods of our landscape. In fact, Trumansburg, her house, and the Finger Lakes are essential elements of the book. Nature’s very indifference to worry inspires her to step back from her own life at important moments.

Barry’s distinctive blend of sane, sharpeyed truth-telling, and humor recall her

by Charley Githler importance of the moment happening right now. Barry’s voice is honest and funny and direct. One hopes to hear more from that voice in works to come. We met up with her at her Trumansburg home.

Ithaca Times: You seem like a person hitting your stride in Recipes for a Beautiful Life. Is this a book you could have written 10 years ago?

Rebecca Barry: No, I don’t think so. This book really changed the way I write. Or more accurately, it let me to write more the way I’ve always written but never thought I was allowed to do in print. You know what I mean? It’s closer to the way I write when I think no one is looking. There are some pieces from my blog, and quite a bit from my journal.

I’ve always wanted to do a book this way, but I didn’t really know that I could. I didn’t know there was a place for it. It felt very liberating.

IT: In the book you detail the struggles you have with writing your second novel.

Eventually, you determine that it’s just un-publishable, and decide to write this book. Both Later, at the Bar and Recipes for a Beautiful Life are, to varying degrees, autobiographical. Is a memoir easier for you to write than fiction?

RB: For me it is. Right now, anyway. I love writing like this. I guess after the novel fiasco I was just like, Rebecca Barry at home. (Photo: Brian Arnold) “the hell with it.” If I’m going to be a failed book writer, I’m going to at least enjoy first book, Later, at the Bar. Also a book of the process. To me, writing a memoir is as interconnected stories in a setting Ithacans spontaneous as breathing, and it calls upon would recognize, it was a New York Times what I think are my strengths as a writer: Notable Book, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and was short-listed for the Story Prize characters and dialogue and description. Not to say I won’t return to fiction, but this was very in 2007. natural for me.

Recipes for a Beautiful Life is gimlet-eyed about truths and fictions and ruminates about continued on page 19 disorder and the nature of romance and the

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IthaCon and Pippi

Mild-Mannered Comic Convention?

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We live among wonders.

Grant Morrison

have written before of the Ithacon, which is Ithaca’s annual (sometimes biannual) comic book convention.

It is my absolute favorite event of all Ithaca’s seemingly endless festivals and cultural events. It’s been going on since 1976 and is put on by the Comic Book Club of Ithaca, which is the oldest continuously running comic book club in America.

And Saturday, May 2, “Ithacon 40” will take place at Emerson Suites on the Ithaca College campus.

And it will take place concurrently with the third Pippi to Ripley Conference at IC. “Pippi to Ripley: Gender & Sexualities in Fantasy, Science Fiction, Comics & Children’s Literature” is a symposium on women and girls in the science fiction and fantasy genre.

I attended the very first one, and I can attest that it was both a huge amount of fun and informative.

Pippi to Ripley kicks off with a 9 p.m. screening of Barbarella at Cinemapolis on Thursday, April 30, (introduced by Ithaca

Times film critic Bryan VanCampen) and then continues with a full day of presentations and panels at Ithaca College on Friday, May 1.

This will include a range Man of Steel in Ithaca of subjects (Illustration: John Byrne) from YA Paranormal Romance and Contemporary Transgender Lit, to Creating On-Line Comics and Teaching Graphic Novels. The day culminates with an all-star panel of women cartoonists including Harvey and Eisner Award nominee Laura Lee Gulledge.

On May 2, the day of the Ithacon, in addition to a full slate of presentations (from “How I Broke In” to “Kick-Ass Women in TV”), Pippi to Ripley is providing a crazy amount of workshops

and programs for kids and young people, including Comics Drawing, Fantasy Writing, Steampunk Art, Role Playing Games, Monster Make-up, Lightning Fast Super-Silly Zombie Monster Superhero Video, Superhero Cape Decorating, Zombie Ballroom, Belly Dancing, a pizza party, and more.

And a keynote speech by Bruce Coville, who has published over 100 books (i.e. My Teacher is an Alien).

As for the Ithacon itself … there is a stellar line-up of guests: • Actor and author J.G. Hertzler—perhaps best known for his portrayal of the Klingon General Martok in Deep Space Nine, and the author of the Star Trek novels The Left Hand of Destiny: Books 1 and 2.

• Ithaca-based comic book artist and fantasy illustrator Steve Ellis (The Only Living Boy, High Moon).

• Artist and inker Bill Anderson who has inked many titles for Marvel and DC Comics including Spider-Man, The Silver Surfer, and The Outsiders.

• Artist and illustrator Jon Haeffner who, most recently, worked on the TV series Alien Dawn for Nicktoons, and is the creator of the web-comic Phantom Spiral.

• Luke McDonnell who has drawn many titles for both Marvel and DC including Iron Man, Daredevil, The Phantom and Suicide Squad.

• Fantasy artist Alan Pollack whose work is seen in Magic: The Gathering.

• Writer Roger Stern who has written for Superman, Spider-Man, Captain

America, Iron Man, The Avengers, The JLA, The Guardians of the Galaxy, and on and on.

• Cartoonist Ken Wheaton who has drawn Popeye, Mr. Magoo, and The Simpsons.

• Graphic novelist Joe Orsak, co-creator of the graphic novels The Yellow Rose of Texas and Virgin Vampires.

• Fantasy illustrator Storn Cook who specializes in collectable card sets including Legends of the Five Rings and Warlord CCG, and is also the artist of the web-comic Catspaw.

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• Cartoonist Jim Brenneman whose motto is, “Cartoons About Politics, Cultural Absurdities, Random Nonsense and the Coming Apocalypse”.

• And, finally, animation story artist W.W. Greenwood (The Tick, Duck Tales, Tiny Toons).

Ithacon 40 will be held Saturday, May 2, at the Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall, Ithaca College, Ithaca from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission is free. Pippi to Ripley runs May 1 and 2 on the Ithaca College Campus. For Ithacon info visit: www.comicbookclub.org/ ithacon.html. For Pippi to Ripley info visit: faculty.ithaca.edu/kkittredge/pippi program.

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here are no superheroes in Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria, but since the film is about an aging actress at a painful and awkward crossroads in her career, she’s already played a superhero in the X-Men movies, because what are actors spending most of their time doing in movies these days?

Such are the kind mordant commentary that Assayas slips into his new film. In fact, the first character we meet isn’t even the actress but her assistant Valentine, played

by Kristen Stewart, working her cell phone on a train.

Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) owes her career to having been cast in both the play and film versions of Maloja Snake by Wilhelm Melchior, which centers on the tempestuous relationship between a young girl and an older woman who is eventually driven to suicide. While traveling to Zurich to accept an award on behalf of Melchior, and planning to visit him the following day in nearby Sils Maria, Maria learns of his sudden death, later confirmed as a suicide and that he had been terminally ill. She is approached by a popular theatre director who is trying to persuade her to appear on stage in Maloja Snake again, this time in the role of the older woman.

Maria and Valentine take refuge in Melchior’s house in Sils Maria. As she begins to re-read the play and rehearse with Valentine reading the role she once played, their once-strong bond begins to fray. As in Roman Coppola’s CQ, the artists’ thoughts begin melding with the thoughts of the characters in the play. As they prepare, a young American party girl actress (Chloë Grace Moretz, somehow a more cleaned up version of Courtney

Love) is cast in Marie’s old role; as she and Valentine struggle to maintain some kind of emotional stability, Marie also struggles with her feelings about her new co-star.

Enough plot, for most of the turns and surprises in Clouds of Sils Maria are interior, subtle and very human.

This is certainly not new territory for Assayas. I really dug his Irma Vep (1996), starring Maggie Cheung as herself in a story about the disasters that result in an attempt to remake a classic silent film serial. Then there was demonlover (2002) a much more bizarre and meta film about the entanglement between various national corporations vying over the financial control of interactive 3-D anime pornography.

It’s not easy to do what he does, which is basically to establish a work of theatrical fiction that has now become part of the world zeitgeist. He creates characters that have created things that now manifest themselves in actual objects, like the published book version of the script that Binoche and Stewart work from. It’s all filtered through the instant access and retention we’re familiar with through social media; moments after learning of her mentor’s death, Binoche searches Google images for photographs of him.

The richness of this world allows Assayas to pose questions regarding aging, time, culture and the thin line between the characters of the-play-in-the-film and those we see on the screen multiply and morph and evolve as the characters do.

Moritz is held off screen as long as possible until the film’s final third, and we sense her power by how Binoche and Stewart gird themselves for her arrival to start rehearsal. So most of the film is an intense, immersive two-hander between Binoche, an actor comfortable in this territory and Stewart, less so, but game for anything; it’s as if the Twilight idiocies never happened.•

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Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Director bids Adieu

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decided to pool resources to commission anfranco Marcelletti, after seven a work for chorus and major symphony seasons as music director of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, is saying orchestra to be performed in New York as part of the university’s Sesquicentennial farewell to an ensemble and a place he has celebration in 2015. Cornell composer come to love very much. His final concert, Sierra was invited to undertake the this Saturday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. in Ford commission. According to Assistant Hall, features choristers from our major Choral Director John Rowehl, who was academic institutions. interim director at the Cornell University’s time, the ASO was eager joint Chorus and Glee to include this project in Club will sing a new its Carnegie Hall series. work called Cantares The April 19 program by resident composer included works by other Roberto Sierra, while Ivy League university the Ithaca College composers, but the one Choir performs Carl honoring Cornell and Orff ’s lively and rousing its 150 years was the Carmina burana, joined highlight. by soloists Lynn Craver Cantares is in three and Steven Stull. The parts, with texts from orchestra’s annual silent different cultures— auction begins at 6:15 African, Spanish, p.m. native Peruvian, and “It’s wonderful Aztec—dating from the to leave with the 16th and 17th centuries, same feeling you had what Sierra described when you arrived,” as “lost voices in time.”

Marcelletti told me, According to Isaacs, “with admiration and “it was an instant hit with excitement.” This is with the singers.” At “one of the best groups the performance he I’ve conducted.” He found himself listening reminisced about the people he has worked Lanfranco Marchelletti rehearsing the orchestra. for “the colors in the with, the friends he has orchestra and the (Photo: Tim Gera) made, his love for this voices used to paint the area. “It’s been an honor scenes.” and a privilege, and I am glad it happened.”

After intermission comes the He felt, however, that he no longer had contrasting and well-known Carmina the time for a real commitment to the burana. Janet Galván, IC’s director of orchestra. choral activities, has been concentrating Since coming here, he has given up his on the texts, especially the medieval teaching position at UMass Amherst and German Latin. Her chorus of 100 is joined assumed the music directorship of Mexico’s by the Ithaca Children’s Choir under the third-largest orchestra in Xalapa, where he direction of Emily Mason, plus soprano now lives. With this job came expanding Craver, an IC grad who is artistic director responsibilities and time-consuming and founding member of Opera Ithaca problems, not to mention increasing and well-known baritone Stull, the artistic invitations to conduct elsewhere here and co-director of the CRS Barn Studio. They abroad. are joined by countertenor Wei Chan Because he loves choral music and has from Singapore, who has been in Galván’s enjoyed working with collegiate singers chorus. here, Marcelletti wanted to honor these The texts of Carmina burana come ties. So the program here was settled from a collection of 13th-century poems early last year. By a strange coincidence, discovered in a Bavarian monastery in Saturday’s concert comes just two weeks 1803. They vary widely, from serious after members of both choruses performed reflections to drinking songs to erotic in major New York City concerts. IC’s verses. There are 25 separate numbers in singers participated in an annual event at three groups—“Spring,” “In the Tavern,” Lincoln Center, while Cornell’s ensemble and “The Court of Love”—framed by an was in Carnegie Hall with the American opening and closing chorus. The work Symphony Orchestra in a concert on April relies on simple harmonies, large numbers 19 called “Music U” and featured the world of repetitions, terraced dynamics. It is premiere of Sierra’s composition. popular and enthusiastic. Marcelletti feels Cantares has a special history. A few it’s happy and upbeat, a good way to close.• years ago, five Cornell Glee Club alums

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Talking About Reading Spring Writes Festival in its Sixth Year

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There is an astonishing number of events … it would be numbing to list them all … but here’s a sketch of the proceedings: Friday, May 1 There’s an intergenerational creative writing workshop called “Precious Possessions,” readings from a New York Times notable author, a novelist, and a poet, and a performance of the Starry Mountain Sweetheart Band.

Saturday, May 2 Comic book professionals will make an appearance for Free Comic Book Day. There’s a workshop on “Writing a Sex Scene” and a workshop on “Memoir: A Theatrical Approach.”

There’s a performance of the Senior Theatre Troupe of Lifelong, a workshop on “Writing Speculative Fiction & Poetry,” a workshop on “Starting Your Story,” a panel on “Running a Small Press,” a panel on “Writing About Nature,” a reading from a disability advocate, a Storytelling Clinic, a reading from Tompkins County Poet Laureates, a Writer’s Café with writer-themed alcoholic beverages, a performance by a Organizers Robin Schwartz and Bob Proehl. (Photo: Brian Arnold) composer and dramatist, and a performance by the Cosmic Joke Collective with puppets, poetry, comedy and music.

The Spring Writes Festival is a festival Sunday, May 3 featuring more than thirty literary themed The festival wraps up with a workshop events, all scheduled in downtown Ithaca in Ekphrastic Poetry, a reading of Siteover a four-day period. And, as Robin Based Flash Fiction, a performance Schwartz, the CAP program director of the Wolfsmouth Theatre Company, points out, “Over 80 writers, actors, and a panel on science fiction (“We Were performers are participating.”

Promised Jetpacks”), a reading of a The CAP press release tells us: “The “Collaborative Artists’ Book-in-Progress,” schedule is quite diverse. Some of the a reading from the Ithaca Fiction workshops and panel discussions cater Critique Group, a performance by the to professional development, while the Cayuga Vocal Ensemble of “A Civil War majority of the events, such as readings, Commemoration,” a closing poetry performances, and plays, have a broad reading from Ithaca Lit Journal, and a appeal. The general public will enjoy performance from Theatre Incognita. events that spotlight the literary talents of Whew. the region. There will be authors sharing That still seemed a bit numbing, didn’t new work, play readings, as well as themed it? Well, there’s got to be something for readings.” everyone, there. So why not drop by Spring We also learn: “All events take place Writes for some seasonal literary fun? • either at Buffalo Street Books, the Argos Inn, the Community School of Music The Spring Writes Literary Festival and Arts, Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, Lot runs from April 30 through May 3 in 10 Lounge, The Shop, Cinemapolis, the downtown Ithaca, N.Y. For a full schedule, Tompkins County Public Library, and the with times, descriptions and locations, visit: Community Arts Partnership ArtSpace.”

SpringWrites.org. All events are free and And: “Most are within a two block area open to the public. in downtown Ithaca,” so it will be easy to stroll from event to event. here is an astounding number of festivals here in Ithaca running throughout the year.

One of my favorites is the Spring Writes Literary Festival, which is put on by the good people at the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County (CAP).

“Who are these people?” you might ask. Their press release tells us: “CAP was founded in 1990 to serve as the arts council of Tompkins County, providing technical assistance, grant opportunities, and professional services and information to artists and arts organizations, as well as public programs that celebrate and support the arts community in the county.”

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IT: You write very honestly about parenthood and how it changes the calculus of making life plans. How important was the rollercoaster ride of being the mother of two young boys in this story?

RB: Being a parent is the most amazing thing that’s ever happened to me, and I use “amazing” in the broadest possible sense. I am amazed at how much love I feel. I am amazed at how hard it is. I am amazed at how funny it is. I am amazed at how much noise four people can make. I stand in awe of the whole thing, just part of being a family, too.

And I think too often people want to overemphasize the joy at the expense of all of the other things we feel. We have this cultural belief that being unhappy is shameful. What is that? You don’t get to happiness without grief. We’re not allowed to feel sad, or bitter, or jealous. But to me, parenting is all of it—life is all of it—and that’s what makes it so incredible. Those are teachers. Parenthood forces to you face those things.

IT: There’s kind of a Zen vibe in Recipes for a Beautiful Life. Several times you stop striving for what isn’t, and enjoy and inhabit what is. You are forced to scrap or change your life plans repeatedly during the book.

RB: Oh, you said that so nicely! And you’re right, these days when I make a plan, I’m not wedded to it. Now I make a plan and I say, “What do you have for me, Universe?” I feel like clinging too long to a vision is what can inhibit your evolution.

Not yours, obviously, but one’s. Of course, when the world won’t cooperate with your vision, it can be hard. But even then, I keep finding that when I surrender and say, “That’s it. This is too hard, I quit,” that’s usually when I get the opening I need to move forward.

IT: Is that something you have to remind yourself to do?

RB: All the time. I am the worst at letting things go. Both my babies were late and overdue, and I had to have C-sections; I was making changes on this manuscript up to the last hour; I can hold a grudge for thirty years. Once, I was driving with my shoulders up to my ears, thinking about all of the things I have to do, and my threeyear-old niece said to me, “Aunt Becca, I have a present for you,” and then she started singing, “Let it go, let it go…”

But I’m learning.

IT: I know it’s a “memoir in stories,” but the narrative arc is very clear in the book. You took a lot from your actual journals. What was the process of making

your journal entries into a book like this?

RB: The editing process with this book was very difficult for me. I had to compress five years of short pieces into three years. I had to cut lots of moments I loved in the name of moving the story along, so for me, creating the narrative arc was the hardest part of writing this book.

I love writing vignettes. It’s what comes most easily to me, and turning them into a larger story was the most challenging part. It was like editing my life. But I was really happy when I got to the end and saw that a narrative arc did happen. Next time, though, my goal is to figure out a way to make even that part easy. No exposition, that’s what I’m going for.

IT: It’s different from your first book.

How would you compare the two?

RB: I feel like that book [Later, At the Bar] was me sort of trying to prove myself as a literary writer, and this one is just me being myself. In Recipes for a Beautiful Life, I didn’t feel I had the same literary constraints as the first book so I could be more playful with the form. Those constraints with the first book may, in fact, have been self-imposed—lots of people play with form in fiction, but for some reason I didn’t feel like I could do though that as much then.

IT: Your writing is very funny. Even when you are being raw and honest and things look grim. How important is that to you?

RB: Very. I love to laugh. I love to make people laugh. And you’re right, even when times are dark, for me, anyway, there’s always something funny going on. That voice is just always going in my head, so I love it when it works on the page. I’m so glad to see it in my sons, too, that appreciation of humor.

It’s really invaluable.

IT: How important is place—your house, Trumansburg, this area—in the book?

RB: Both the house and Trumansburg are major characters. I love it when things that aren’t people are characters.

Trumansburg and our house feel alive to me. And I feel called to this landscape.

This area is so beautiful and rich. The lakes especially are deep and old. It’s a very spiritual place, and while there are all kinds of exciting things happening in the local farm scene, there’s romance and decay and the beauty of the seasons, too. People come back here a lot, and it definitely pulled me. I loved living in New York City, and I learned a lot there, but I always knew my stories were here. •

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Much Ado About Shakespeare | 4:00 PM- | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Music by The Ithaca Community Orchestra and performances by members of the Ithaca Shakespeare Company.

5/3 Sunday Music bars/clubs/cafés

4/29 Wednesday

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

Gerard Burke | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz.

Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | Instrumental contra dance tunes. www.cinst.org.

Reggae Night w/ I-Town Allstars | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |

4/30 Thursday

Kitestring | 7:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Alternative acoustic.

Cats Under the Stars: A Tribute to Jerry Garcia | 9:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Cats Under The Stars | 9:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Jerry Garcia Band tribute Dan Smalls Presents Sophistafunk | 9:00 PM- | The Dock, 319 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |

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Paper Armies & You Still Have Friends | 5:00 PM- | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Presented by Ithaca Underground.

Long John and the Tights | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Old-time happy hour music.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM- | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Call 607-273-8678; on Fridays, 607-3424110.

The Illium Works | 8:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | With the Ithaca Bottom Boys.

The New York Rock | 8:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | With Maple Hill and Showtime

5/2 Saturday

NXNC: Kool A.D. | 11:00 AM-6:30 PM | Just About Music Program House, Cornell North Campus, | with Spirit Animal, Hank & Cupcakes, Downtown Boys, Sammus, and more. Presented by Ithaca Underground.

The Purple Valley | 7:00 PM- | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Soul, rock, alt-country.

Dan Smalls Presents: Matuto | 8:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca |

5/3 Sunday

Anna Coogan and Willie B | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W. State St., Ithaca | Alternate folk.

International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | No partners needed.

Bound for Glory: Guy Davis | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Annabel Taylor Cafe,

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Bruce Cockburn | 8:00 PM- | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Visit www.hangartheatre.org for more info.

Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park.

5/4 Monday

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

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

5/5 Tuesday

Tuesday Bluesday | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With Danny P and Friends Tuesday Bluesday w/ Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM- | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Open Mic | 9:00 PM- | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | concerts

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Studio Recital | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca |

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Cornell Chorale | 7:00 PM- | Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | John Rowehl, conductor.

Rochester Philharmonic | 7:30 PM- | Smith Opera House, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Christopher Seaman, conductor. Jon Nakamatsu, piano.

Music by Elgar, Saint-Säens, Stravinsky.

An Acoustic Evening with Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt | 8:00 PM- | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Visit http://stateofithaca.com for more info.

5/2 Saturday

5th Annual State Theatre Benefit | 7:00 PM- | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | With The Sim Redmond Band, The Blind Spots, and The New York Rock. Visit stateofithaca. com for more info.

Studio Recital | 7:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Piano students of Ryan MacEvoy McCullough.

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra: Season/Tenure Finale--Carmina Burana | 7:30 PM- | Ford Hall, Whalen Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Lanfranco Marchelletti’s final concert as music director.

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra | 7:30 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | With Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club and Ithaca College Choir. Visit www.brownpapertickets.com/event/849230 for info.

Online Calendar See it at ithaca.com.

John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme | 3:00 PM- | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, , Ithaca | Cornell University Wind Symphony & Jazz Band.

5/5 Tuesday

Cornell Baroque Orchestra | 8:00 PM-, 05/05 Tuesday | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor.

Film cinemapolis

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Opening This Week: Danny Collins | Al Pacino plays an aging rock star who changes his life when he finds a letter written to him

by John Lennon. | 96 mins PG-13 | Dior and I | Star-studded documentary enters the storied world of the Christian Dior fashion house. | 90 mins NR | Ghost | Supernatural romance starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. Proceeds benefit the Clay School. | 127 mins PG-13 | 5/5, 7:00 PM

Continuing This Week: Barbarella | In the far-out future, a plucky young woman is tasked with stopping the evil Durand-Durand. A sexy cult classic. | 98 mins PG-13 | 4/30, 9:00 p.m.

A View From the Bridge | Young Vic production of Arthur Miller’s play, starring Mark Strong. | 105, NR | 4/30, 6:30 p.m.

Merchants of Doubt | A documentary that looks at punditsfor-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals,

pharmaceuticals and climate change. | 96 mins PG-13 | Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter | A jaded Japanese woman discovers a hidden copy of Fargo on VHS, believing it to be a treasure map indicating the location of a large case of money. | 105, NR True Story | When disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo who has taken on Finkel’s identity - his investigation morphs into a game of cat-and-mouse. | 100 mins R | While We’re Young | A middle-aged couple’s career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives. | 97 mins R | Woman in Gold | Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family. | 110 mins PG-13 | It Follows | Cult-hit horror/mystery about a young woman pursued by a supernatural force after getting involved in a sexual encounter. | 123 mins PG-13 | cornell cinema

Citizenfour | A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden. | 114 mins R | 4/29, 4/30 7:00 PM regal cinemas

Visit www.regmovies.com/ for Showtimes Opening This Week: Avengers: Age of Ultron | In this follow-up to 2012’s little-seen The Avengers, Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and it is up to the Avengers to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plans. | 110 mins PG-13 | Fri, Sat, Sun: 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 PM.

Continuing This Week: The Age of Adaline | A young woman, born at the turn of 20th century, is rendered ageless after an accident. After years of a solitary life, she meets a man who might be worth losing her immortality for. | 110 mins

Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 4/30 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Cornell | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 5/1 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca |

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PG-13 | Fri, Sat, Sun: 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 PM. Little Boy | An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father. | 100 mins PG-13 | Fri, Sat, Sun: 11:40, 2:20, 4:50 PM, 7:20 PM, 10:00 PM.

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Swimming in the Shallows | All day, 04/29 Wednesday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | By Adam Bock.

A brilliant romantic comedy for five humans and one shark. Wednesdays to Sundays, April 29-May 3. Visit www. kitchentheatre.org for showtimes & prices.

Blood Wedding | 7:30 PM-, 05/01 Friday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Federico García Lorca’s Blood Wedding is a classic of twentiethcentury theatre. This tragedy is based on a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family.

Shows May 1-2 at 7:30 pm. plus May 2 matinee at 2:00 pm.

Locally focused. A world of possibilities.

Learning

Special Events

Art Classes for Adults | All day, 04/29 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | For more info, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca.

Figure Skating Summer Camp Registration | All day, 04/29 Wednesday | For all ages and skill levels. To be held at The Rink 1767 E. Shore Drive. Visit www.annasmovementarts.weebly.com for info.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 05/01 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | No partner needed.

Finger Lakes School of Massage Introduction to Massage Therapy Seminar | 10:00 AM-3:30 PM, 05/02 Saturday | Finger Lakes School of Massage, 1251 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Call 607-272-9024 to register.

Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 05/05 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | Open to adults of all ages, orientations, and religions (or lack thereof).

Not affiliated with any church or religious institution. For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.

Taylor Guitars Taylor Road Show | 6:30 PM-, 04/29 Wednesday | Ithaca Guitar Works, Dewitt Mall, Ithaca | 23rd Annual Wine & Herb Festival | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM | Takes place on the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail May 1-3. For reservations, call the Cayuga Lake Wine Trail office at 800-684-5217.

Traditions and Beyond | All day, 05/01 Friday | TC3 Field House, 170 North Street, Dryden | Entries for the quilt show will be accepted online at www.tcqg.org starting on May 1, 2015, through July 28, 2015.

Wharton Studio Musem Cinematic Soirée | 6:30 PM-, 05/01 Friday | Treman Center, 95 Hines Rd, Newfield | Laughing in the Aisles | 8:00 PM-, 05/01 Friday | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | To benefit The Vitamin L Project. Featuring Jan Nigro,Geoff Peterson,The Faux Pas and Mas and cast of thousands.

Keuka in Bloom | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 05/02 Saturday | Keuka Lake Wine Trail, Multiple Locations | Tthe best of Keuka Lake at the height of Spring.

Walk For Babies | 11:00 AM-, 05/03 Sunday | Cass Park, 701 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Contact Hanni Kmetz;

315-463-0700, jkmetz@marchofdimes. org for info.

Ithaca Rotary Road Rally | 1:00 PM-, 05/03 Sunday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | To register, visit www.ithacarotary.com.

Meetings City of Ithaca Commons Advisory Board | 8:30 AM-, 5/1 Friday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | City of Ithaca Board of Zoning Appeals | 7:00 PM-, 5/5 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 5/5 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca |

Notices Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 4/29 Wednesday | Old Mexico Mexican Restaurant & Cantina, 357 Elmira Rd, Ithaca | Formerly Manos Diner. RSVP m. friess@yahoo.com Tompkins Learning Partners New Tutor Orientation | All day, 4/30 Thursday | Tompkins Learning Partners, 124 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | To register, email Shannon Alvord TLPShannonA@ gmail.com, or call 607-277-6442.

Nature & Science CU Plantations: Birds & Blossoms-Guided Spring Walks | All day, 04/29 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 05/01 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | 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-, 05/02 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | For more info visit www.cayugabirdclub. org/calendar Trees Alive! | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 05/02 Saturday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Cayuga Trails Club: Upper Buttermilk State Park | 8:00 AM-, 05/05 Tuesday | Ithaca, , Ithaca | For more info, call 607-257-6906 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org

Health & Wellness Alcoholics Anonymous | All day, 4/29 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | For more info, call 273-1541 or visit aacny. org/meetings/PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 4/29 Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall, 5th fl lounge, Ithaca | Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 4/29 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | For info, contact danny7t@lightlink. com or call 275-6441.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 4/29 Wednesday | Meets multiple places and days. For more info, call 607-351-9504 or visit www. foodaddicts.org.

Recreational Roller Derby | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 4/29 Wednesday | ILWR Training Space, 2073 E Shore Dr, Lansing | For more info and to

register: www.ithacarollerderby.com/ wreck-derby/ Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 4/29 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | More info at www.

DamodarDas.com.

Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 4/29 Wednesday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | For more info, contact 229-4592.

Overeaters Anonymous | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 4/30 Thursday | Unitarian Church Annex, 208 E Buffalo St, Ithaca | Visit www.oa.org for more info or call 607-379-3835.

Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 4/30 Thursday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Thursday Evening Chanting and Meditation | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 4/30 Thursday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 5/1 Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location, | For more info contact Yvonne Rogalski: (607) 274-3430 or yrogalski@ithaca. edu Yoga School Classes | 4:30 PM-, 5/1 Friday | The Yoga School, 141 E State St, Ithaca | Raja Yoga, pre-registration required.

Free Buddhist Meditation and Dharma Talk | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 5/2 Saturday | PADMA Center, 114 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Contact 607-865-8068 or www. padmasambhava.org for more info.

Writing Practice as Self-Inquiry | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, 5/2 Saturday | 108 S Albany St, 108 S Albany St, Ithaca | For more info see www.spiritualselfinquiry.com or call 607-754-1303.

Tri for the Y Triathlon | 6:45 AM-, 5/3 Sunday | YMCA of Ithaca & Tompkins County, 50 Graham Road West, Ithaca NY 14850 | Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, 5/3 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 5/3 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music.

Singing to our Babies | 1:00 PM-3:30 PM, 5/3 Sunday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Part of donations to benefit FOL. Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 5/3

Sophistafunk

The New York Rock

Syracuse-based Sophistafunk brings their old-school hip hop & funky rhythms for a genre-bending show jam packed with vintage sounds.

The home-grown rockers return to town with Maple Hill and Showtime for a long-awaited album release gig.

The Haunt, May 1, 8 p.m.

The Dock , April 30, 9 p.m.

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Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Contact nishkalajenney@gmail.com or 607-319-4138 for more info and to reserve your place.

Office for the Aging: Powerful Tools for Caregivers Workshop | 5:00 PM-6:30 PM, 5/4 Monday | Office for the Aging, 214 W State St, Ithaca | Early registration is required.

Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 5/5 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | For further info call (607) 274-6604.

Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 5/5 Tuesday | 124 E Court St, 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Call Sheila McCue for more info: 607-272-1505.

Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 5/5 Tuesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca |

Cornell, Ithaca |

Kids

Books Writers’ Cafe reading | 5:30 PM-6:45 PM, 05/02/Sat | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Including Adam Price, Jayme Kilburn, Angie Pelekidis and Kathryn Henion.

Graphic Novel and Manga Club | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM, 05/04/Mon | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | For teen readers.

For more info, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at (607) 272-4557 ext. 274 or rdemauro@tcpl. org.

Book Launch Party: Austin Bunn | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 05/05/Tue | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca |

Arts ongoing Earlville Galleries Call for 2016 Season Artists | For more info, see bit. ly/1MkDk4P or call 315-691-3550.

Exhibit: Large Canvases | 10:00 AM-, 4/29 Wednesday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Solo exhibition of paintings by Amy Cheatle.

See www.cornersgallery.com for more info. Exhibit ends May 2.

Exhibition by Wendy Skinner | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, 4/29 Wednesday | The Art and Found, 112 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Department of Art Senior Thesis Gallery Talks | 6:00 PM-, 4/30 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Gannett

Lt. Governor Kathy Hocul visits Ithaca to attend Cornell charter day and visit the Commons construction site. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Cortland First Fridays | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 5/1 Friday | Multiple Locations, Downtown Cortland, Cortland | First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 5/1 Friday | Ithaca, , Ithaca | Visit www.downtownithaca. com for details Opening: ArtScience Experiments

by Jesse Townsley | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 5/1 Friday | CAP ArtSpace, Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | First Saturdays on the Greater Ithaca Art Trail | All day, 5/2 Saturday | Greater Ithaca Art Trail | Artists exhibit in studios across Ithaca and Tompkins County. More info at www.arttrail.com

Museums 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. For more info visit www.museumoftheearth.org

Rockwell Museum: Two New Exhibits | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 4/29 Wednesday | Rockwell Museum Of Western Art, 111 Cedar St, Corning | 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.”

Exhibit: “Five Uneasy Pieces: Reworking the Treman Willow”

by Jack Elliott | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM | Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | Runs through April 30. For info call 607-255-2400.

Exhibit: “A Floral Love Affair” Acrylics by Marcia Eames-Sheavly | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM | Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | Runs through June 30. For info call 607-255-2400.

Captains, Commerce, and Community: The Impact of the Erie Canal on Tompkins County | The History Center, 401 E. State St, Ithaca | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Visit www. historicithaca.org or www.thehistorycenter.net for more details. Runs through June 30.

Cornell Campus, May 1-2, 7:30 pm.

Federico García Lorca’s classic play is based on a newspaper story about a family vendetta and a bride who ran off with the son of the enemy family.

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PM | Explores the wonderfully strange yet relatable world of wild plants and animals. Runs through Jun 8. For more info visit www. museumoftheearth.org Susquehanna River Archaeological Center | 345 Broad Street, Waverly | Tuesday-Friday, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Native American artifacts, ongoing | www. sracenter.org Ulysses Historical Society | 39 South Street, Trumansburg | Friday-Saturday 2:00 PM-4:00 PM; Monday 9:00 AM-11:00 AM | Civil War shawls, 1909 Brush car, Hoffmire Farm exhibit, Abner Treman exhibit, Ag exhibit, all ongoing.

Visit http://www.ulysses.ny.us for more info.

Lectures Reppy Institute Seminar: The State of Vietnam: 40 Years after the Vietnam War | 12:00 PM-, 04/29 Wednesday | Rockefeller Hall, Cornell University, | Contact Email: VoVCornell@gmail.com.

Johnson Museum Artist’s Talk: Yuken Teruya | 5:15 PM-, 04/30 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art,

Bruce Cockburn

Hangar Theatre, May 3, 8:00 p.m.

The celebrated Canadian folk, blues, jazz and rock artist will play a set of familiar classics and cuts from his latest album, Small Source of Comfort.

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Switched-On: The Birth of the Moog Synthesizer | The History Center, 401 E. State St, Ithaca | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Visit www.historicithaca.org or www.thehistorycenter. net for more details. Runs through May 30.

Johnson Museum of Art, Spring Exhibits | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | 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 Quirks of Nature: Comics by Rosemary Mosco | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Monday, Thursday-Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00

Art Classes for Kids | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | For more info, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org Abovoagogo Summer Art Camp Registration | Abovoagogo Art Studio, 409 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Register at www.abovoagogo.com/summer 4-H Kritter Kamp Registration | All day, 04/29 Wednesday | Ithaca | Deadline to register is May 1. Contact Brenda Carpenter, 272-2292, btc6@ cornell.edu or register at ccetompkins. org/4h/activities-events/kritter-kamp Yoga Art and Dance Summer Camp Registration | All day | Ithaca, NY | Two camps to be held at the Just Be Cause Center, W. State St. Early bird registration ends May 1. Visit www. annasmovementarts.weebly.com for info.

Hangar Theatre Summer Kids Workshops Registration | All day, 04/29 Wednesday | For more info visit www.hangartheatre.org/next-generation-school-of-theatre.html Registration For Music in Motion “Angie’s Music Camp” | All day, 04/29 Wednesday | Early bird discount deadline May 15. Contact Miss Angie at angie@mumotion.com for info.

Sciencenter Winter/Spring Exhibition: “TreeHouses” | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 04/29 Wednesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | 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 until May 31.

Sciencenter: Science Together | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Ages 4 & under every Wednesday & Saturday. Contact www. sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600 for info.

Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: After School at Belle Sherman Elementary (grades 2-5) | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, 04/29 Wednesday | Belle Sherman Elementary School, 501 Mitchell St, Ithaca | For info 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, 04/30 Thursday | 4-H Acres, 418

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| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 05/03 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Invent contraptions that can move. Contact www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600 for more info.

Sunday Science Demonstrations | 2:00 PM-, 05/03 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Local high school students demonstrate awe-inspiring science with colorful chemical reactions, fun with physics, and more! Visit www.sciencenter.org/ calendar.html for specific programs and dates.

Sciencenter: Chemsations! | 2:00 PM-, 05/03 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Watch as local high school students demonstrate chemical reactions with color changes, bubbles, and light.

Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: West Hill Homeschool Program (ages 6 - 14) | 9:00 AM-1:30 PM, 05/05 Tuesday | Y Adventureland, 1350 Mecklenburg Rd (Rt 79), 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.

Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: West Hill After School Program (ages 6 - 10) | 9:00 AM-1:30 PM, 05/05 Tuesday | Y Adventureland, Sim Redmond, leader of one of the bands at the State Theatre fundraiser. 1350 Mecklenburg Rd (Rt 79), Ithaca Blind Spots and the New York Rock will also play. (Photo B. Chaisson) | We’ll find our home in the forest, looking for stories in the tracks and Lower Creek Rd, Ithaca | For info call Art-Full Family Day | 10:00 AM-12:00 playing games among the trees. Join us each week to discover mysteries, 607-272-2292 x. 195 or visit us online PM, 05/02 Saturday | Johnson Museum help tend the fire for our tea kettle, at primitivepursuits.com. of Art, North Central Ave, Ithaca | and bring home tales of adventure!

Recommended for ages 3–8. Space is Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 04/30 Transportation available from Fall limited.

Thursday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, Creek Elementary. Sliding scale fee. play program for children 5 months to 05/02 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Down the Road 5 years old and their parent/caregiver Meadow St, Ithaca | Every Saturday at every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

May 9 Saturday. Go to IYBrec.com for more Trees Alive! | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 05/02 • Orchestra of the Southern Finger information or call 273-8364.

Saturday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Lakes Mother’s Day Eve Concert | Sciencenter Preschool Story Time Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Learn about Clemens Center, Elmira & Activity: Moving Day | 10:30 AM-, “the science of appearance” in a series May 10 05/01 Friday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, of walks on the Nature Center’s Tree • Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys Ithaca | For toddlers and preschoolers.

Phenology Trail. | Bound for Glory Primitive Pursuits Youth Workshop: Splash and Dash | 2:30 PM-5:00 PM, May 26 West Hill After School Program 05/02 Saturday | YMCA of Ithaca and • Toivo | The Rongo (ages 6 - 10) | 2:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tompkins County, 50 Graham Road May 26 05/01 Friday | Y Adventureland, 1350 West, Ithaca | Ages 5-12. Register by Mecklenburg Rd (Rt 79), Ithaca | For Friday, May 1, at noon. Visit www.

• US Air Force Heritage of America more info call 607-272-2292 x. 195 or ithacaymca.com for more info.

Band | Smith Opera House visit us online at primitivepursuits.com. Sciencenter Moto-Inventions

Austin bunn book launch party Lot 10 Lounge, May 5, 5 p.m.

Come help celebrate the debut of the Cornell-based author and screenwriter’s first short story collection, The Brink.

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way back in the day: John Brown’s Body and us, we had like six to eight bands. That was a fun one as I remember.

We played there once with Donna the Buffalo. We played a couple of other benefits there, too.

IT: You’ve always been good about coming back to do those.

SR: Yeah. Yeah, we like to give back to the community that supports us so much. And the State

by Bryan VanCampen Theatre is a worthy cause. We hold that dearly.

IT: Can you talk about that transition from bars and n Saturday, May 2 at 7 p.m., three local favorites— clubs to a place the size of the State? the Sim Redmond Band, the Blind Spots, and the SR: We’re still more of a club-size band, but to have New York Rock—take the stage for the 5th Annual that variety of venue in Ithaca, I think, is really important.

State Theatre Benefit. The evening will feature a silent I think it’s important for the kind of musical acts we can auction, raffle prizes, and a special VIP event at Lot 10 get through here, and it’s important because every once before the performances with local cuisine and beverages. in a while bands like ours or even lesser-known bands get The Ithaca Times spoke with Sim Redmond about to play there and get to experience what it’s like to play in the show. a theater. It’s certainly a different experience than playing Ithaca Times: The last time we spoke, your plan in a club. was to stop playing shows, lay low for a while, and write IT: What can you tell me about the other bands on and record new songs. the bill with you?

Sim Redmond: Yes. Well, we’ve accomplished the SR: The Blind Spots are amazing. Maddy Walsh is “laying low” part. But we have not gotten far on recording a real powerhouse. We’re in awe of them. And the New yet. We’re still making plans to do that this year. I’ve been York Rock, they’re great. They cover the kind of music that working on writing a little over the winter. We just gotta not a lot of people play in Ithaca. I think it’s a nice variety finish up some songs and get the band together and of music on this one. [We’re] all well established bands, figure ‘em out. though, so we’re happy to be here.

IT: Have you been getting together to get ready for IT: Who asks whom on a show like this? How does the benefit? the ball get rolling?

SR: Yeah, we’re trying to shake the rust off and get SR: The guys down at the State Theatre put this back into the swing of it. We all kind of hunkered down together. Doug Levine called us and asked if we’d like to for the winter. do it, and he must have done the same with the other IT: It’s nice to see the snow finally melt. This can’t be bands. We didn’t exactly know who was gonna be on the the first time you’ve played the State. bill. It sounded like fun to us. As soon as I found out we SR: No, we’ve had the honor of playing there several were all available, we hopped onboard. • times. We did some I-Town [Records] showcases there

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC BUDGET HEARING, PERSONAL REGISTRATION AND ANNUAL MEETING AND ELECTION OF THE ITHACA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Public Budget Hearing of the Ithaca City School District (the “District”) for the discussion of the expenditures and budgeting of funds for the 2015-2016 school

year will be held at the District Administration Building, 400 Lake Street, Ithaca, New York, in the Board Room on May 5, 2015, commencing at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time (E.D.S.T.).

NOTICE is also given that voting on: (I) the 2015-2016 annual District budget, which will appear on the ballot as Proposition No. 1; (II) the appropriation and expenditure of funds from the District’s “2013 Capital Reserve Fund” to purchase school buses, as set forth in Proposition No. 2; (III) the election of members of the District’s Board of Education; and (IV) the transaction of such other business as is authorized by law, will take place at the Annual District Meeting and Election on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, at the District’s designated polling places, in Election Districts numbered 1-12, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 9 p.m., E.D.S.T., and that voting shall be conducted by voting machine.

NOTICE is also given that a copy of a statement prepared by the Board of Education of the estimated expenses and the amount of money that will be required for school purposes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, together with the appendages required by Education Law §1716, may be obtained at each school in the District; at the District Office, 400 Lake Street, Ithaca, New York, on and after May 5, 2015, during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., each weekday except Saturday, Sunday or holiday; at the Tompkins County Public Library; and on the District’s internet website at: http://www.ithacacityschools.org.

NOTICE is also given, in accordance with §495 of the N.Y. Real Property Tax Law, that the District shall prepare a Real Property Tax “Exemption Report” which will show how much of the assessed value on the final assessment roll (utilized for the school tax levy) is exempt from taxation by the District. The exemption report will list every type of exemption granted and will show: (1) the cumulative impact of each type of exemption; (2) the cumulative amount expected to be received as payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTS), or other payments, from recipients of each type of exemption; (3) the cumulative impact of all exemptions granted. The Exemption Report will be posted on the District’s website and on District bulletin boards utilized for posting public notices. The Exemption Report will be annexed to any preliminary District budget, and will become part of the final budget.

NOTICE is also given, that in addition to the proposed District budget for the 2015-2016 fiscal year and school year, which will appear on the ballot as Proposition No. 1, the following proposition will be submitted to the voters: Proposition No. 2 Shall the Board of Education of the Ithaca City School District (“School District”) be authorized to appropriate funds from the School District’s 2013 Capital Reserve Fund in the maximum amount of $890,000 and to expend these funds for the purchase of five (5) 63-passenger school buses, one (1) 63-passenger school bus with a wheelchair lift, one (1) 30-passenger school bus and one (1) 30-passenger school bus with a wheelchair lift?

NOTICE is also given that four members of the Board of Education will be elected. The three Board candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be elected to three-year terms commencing on July 1, 2015. The fourth highest vote getter will win election to the balance of the unexpired term of office of Seth Peacock, ending June 30, 2017, which became vacant due to his resignation from the Board. Pursuant to the provisions of the Education Law, candidates for the office of Member of the Board of Education shall be nominated by petition. A separate petition shall be required to nominate each candidate. Each petition shall be signed by at least 100 qualified voters of the District, and shall state the name and residence of the candidate and each signer. Each petition shall be filed with the Clerk of the District between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. E.D.S.T., but no later than 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Forms of petition may be obtained from the Clerk of the District.

NOTICE is given that the District has established personal registration of voters and has divided the School District into 12 election districts. Accordingly, the only persons entitled to vote on May 19, 2015 are those who are “qualified voters” and who are “registered” to vote as set forth herein. To be a “qualified voter” a person must be a citizen of the United States, at least 18 years of age, and a legal resident of the District for a period of 30 days immediately preceding May 19, 2015. If a “qualified voter” has previously registered with the District or with the County Board of Elections and has voted within the last four (4) calendar years, he or she is eligible to vote at the May 19, 2015 Annual District Meeting and Election without re-registering. All other persons who wish to vote at the Annual District Meeting and Election must either pre-register with the District’s Board of Registration as set forth below, or be registered with the Tompkins County Elections Board to vote in general elections, pursuant to the provisions of Article 5 of the Election Law, on the date of the District’s Annual District Meeting and Election.

NOTICE is given that, for those “qualified voters” who are not yet “registered” to vote, the District’s Board of Registration will meet in the Office of the Clerk of the School District, 400 Lake Street, Ithaca, New York, on May 7, 2015, between the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. for the purpose of preparing a Register for each school election district, at which time any qualified voter who appears personally before the Board of Registration will be entitled to have his or her name placed on the District’s Register, provided that at such meeting of the Board of Registration, he or she is known or proven to the satisfaction of said Board of Registration to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such Annual District Meeting and Election for which the Register is prepared.

NOTICE is also given that the election Register prepared pursuant to law shall be on file in the Office of the District Clerk, 400 Lake Street, Ithaca, New York, and shall be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District from May 14, 2015 through May 19, 2015, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., on any day that the office is open for business.

NOTICE is also given that the place in each election district where the vote and election will occur is as follows: Lehman Alternative Community School. 111 Chestnut Street, Ithaca, New York Beverly J. Martin School. 302 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca, New York, Belle Sherman Annex. 75 Cornell Street, Ithaca, New York Caroline School. 2439 Slaterville Road, Ithaca, New York Cayuga Heights School. 110 East Upland Road, Ithaca, New York Danby Fire Hall. 1780 Danby Road, Ithaca, New York Enfield School. 20 Enfield Main Road, Ithaca, New York Fall Creek School. 202 King Street. Ithaca, New York Franziska Racker Centers, Inc. 3226 Wilkins Road. Ithaca, New York Northeast School. 425 Winthrop Drive, Ithaca, New York SOUTH HILL SCHOOL. 520 Hudson Street, Ithaca, New York Varna Community Center. 943 Dryden Road, Ithaca, New York Information regarding the legal boundaries of each election district and directions to the designated voter registration and polling places may be obtained from the Office of the District Clerk during normal business hours.

NOTICE is also given that qualified voters of the District may obtain applications for an absentee ballot at the District Office. Completed applications must be received by the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 12, 2015 if the absentee ballot is to be mailed to the voter. If a completed application is received after 5:00 p.m. on May 12, 2015, the absentee ballot will not be mailed, but instead must be delivered personally to the voter. A listing of all persons to whom an absentee ballot is issued will be available for inspection by any qualified voter in the Office of the District Clerk between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. from May 12 through May 18, 2015, other than on a Saturday, Sunday or holiday. Absentee ballots that do not reach the office of the District Clerk by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 will not be canvassed.

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will hold its Annual Spring Rummage Sale Friday, May 8, 8am (outside) 9am (inside) to 8pm, and Saturday, May 9, 8am to 1pm. The location is on Route 34B and Brickyard Road, six miles north of Ithaca, one mile north of the light in South Lansing. The sale features clothing and accessories for all ages, furniture, tools, housewares, crafts, costumes, toys, games, sports equipment, books, computers , and lots more. Bargains abound in this long running community recycling project. $1.00/bag clearance on Saturday! Come and bring your friends for truckloads of treasures!

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DELIVERY PART-TIME Route Driver needed for delivery of newspapers every Wednesday. Must be available 9am-1pm, have reliable transportation, and a good driving record.

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is accepting applications for the following positions: Carousel Operator: Seeking operators to operate the Stewart Park Carousel. Hours: Carousel operates between 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Salary: $10/hour. Application deadline: May 5, 2015. Urban Forestry Intern: Minimum Quals: Visit website for full requirements. Salary: $11/hour.

Schedule: Mid May – mid August. Visit website for full requirements. Application deadline: May 6, 2015. City of Ithaca Human Resources Department, 108 East Green Street, Ithaca, NY 14850.

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natural finished non-cutaway Grand Orchestra with premium grade tropical maStudio/Office hogany back and sides, Sitka spruce Near Ithaca Commons, includes. and $625 bridge, 500 aptop, ebony fretboard Available June 1st. No Smoking or pets. pointments include black/white/black multi-binding, 607.279.8742 abalone sound hole rosette, pearl inlaid diamond position markers and headstock ornament, gold Schaller tuning machines. Expression system electronics, w/HSC list: $3518 yours: $2649 BOAT DOCKING IGW (ITHACA) 272-2602 BOAT DOCK Next to KELLY’S DOCKSIDE CAFE. $600 for SEASON. Please Taylor 712 Call Tom 607-342-0626

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The Cayuga Lake Triathlon will take place at Taughannock Falls State Park on Sunday, 8/4/13.

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uilt just after World War II, the Cape-style cottage has hardwood floors throughout, a master suite in its own wing, four bathrooms, and a finished basement with a separate entrance.

In other words, it has been much altered since 1949.

Many nice vintage elements remain.

The hardwood floors look to be original, and are in fine shape. The wood-burning fireplace in the living room is also very mid-century with red ceramic tiles on the hearth and a brick surround under a wooden mantelpiece.

Much of the hardware on the doors is in a Neocolonial style that was popular after the war. If it was ever painted, it has been carefully cleaned off. Any knobs or hinges that are new have been selected to match the look and feel of the old.

Much has been altered, of course. The pass through window from the kitchen to the dining room is surmounted by a cherry cabinet that follows the Neocolonial aesthetic and the counter itself is marble. The marble reappears next to the gas range as a working surface for rolling pastry. Interestingly, the cabinets in the kitchen are steel with chrome pulls, which is very post-war modernist.

The master suite is a wing that was probably added on and certainly much modified. You pass through a room being used as an office into a dressing room

and then go up two steps to the bedroom proper. It has its own bathroom, of course, decorated with Mexican style tiles around the sink and shower.

The second floor has the classic Cape layout of a bedroom at either end of the gable and bathroom in the center.

The basement has been nicely finished and includes a room that could be a bedroom, a large living room, and a bathroom. If one added a small galley kitchen it would work as an apartment. There is a separate entrance from the drive.

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At A Glance Price: $399,900 Location: 312 Eastwood Ave.,

City of Ithaca School District: Ithaca City Schools Belle Sherman Elementary MLS#: 301525 Contact: Claudia Lagalla, Accredited Buyers Agent, ReMax in Motion; claudia@smartnyrealtor. com Phone: (607) 342-3749 (cell) Website: www.smartNYrealtor.com

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