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hat will the student body of the Ithaca City School Dist r ic t look l i ke one decade from now?

That was the question considered last week, as ICSD leaders examined the growing county it sits in, its economic state and a pretty lengthy PowerPoint presentation outlining the results of a recent demographic study commissioned by the district.

The ICSD Board of Education initially sponsored the study in order to establish a picture of the district and its potential for future growth, offering the district’s decision makers various metrics to consider when making fiscal or policy decisions.

At 76-pages long, the study – conducted by Ohio-based firm Cropper GIS – is highly comprehensive, and ultimately offers a 10-year forecast of what the district’s students will most likely look like based on numerous sources, including census data, home sales figures and information from the Internal Revenue Service.

Using the data, the district can isolate numerous factors – including home sales within ranges of certain elementary schools or how many students are transferring from their home schools to enroll at other buildings within the district – to determine needs in certain areas and gain a better idea of what to spend money on where.

Ultimately, the district is expected to get larger, but the main highlight of the study notes that elementary school enrollment will see an increase 1.1 percent over the next decade, after which there will be a marked decrease unless development and social patterns within the school district experience significant changes.

Despite the district’s aging population and the defecting population of locals between the ages of 18 and 24, a new crop of young parents moving into the City of Ithaca is actually expected to provide a substantial boost to the elementary school population over the next decade.

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he A lc ohol a nd D r u g C ou nc i l of Tompk i n s County may soon be able to address one of the area’s most glaring needs in fighting the opioid epidemic, after announcing their proposal of a detox center at a joint press conference with U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

The announcement comes on the heels of the passage of the federal spending bill in Congress, which assigned $3 billion more than last year to the fight against the opioid crisis, something President Donald Trump has deemed a public health emergency but has yet to make any declaration that would release actual funding to fight the crisis. As the proposal stands now, Alcohol and Drug Council Executive Director Angela Sullivan said the open access detox center would contain 40 beds. Schumer and Sullivan both made a point of expressing the importance of disbursing the money as quickly as possible, not letting it sit behind bureaucratic

red tape as the area suffers from an ever-growing drug problem. “[This] would have seemed beyond the realm of possibility until this money, now it’s very real,” Schumer said, emphasizing that the possible center could serve a variety of counties around the Southern Tier.

Sullivan said if the project can advance (basically, if it’s selected for funding) it’s estimated it would cost about $11 million to construct and create between 30 and 40 jobs. Currently, the Alcohol and Drug Council has about $950,000 in funding, with the hope being that because of the allocations made in the recent spending bill, more money will be available quickly to potentially flow to the project.

The project has grown since the last time it was heard about in April 2017, when the Alcohol and Drug Council received $500,000 from the Care Compass Network to work toward a 24 bed detox facility. The three main objectives

T a k e ▶ Tompkins County’s Community Science Institute through exhaustive research and data, has spent years working toward cleaner waters for everyone living in the Finger Lakes. In just a few short weeks, they – along with a few public officials and activists in the community – hope to explain a multi-pronged action plan to help combat the harmful algal blooms that have been appearing

U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer speaks at an event on Friday at the Tompkins County Alcohol and Drug Council as Mayor Svante Myrick looks on.

Sullivan mentioned that needed to be addressed by the now-available federal funding were access to services, new programs aimed at rehabilitation, and increasing the workforce.

Sullivan said they would be seeking money from a variety of different state and federal agencies to secure enough for construction; until then, they would try to house as many services as possible in the lobby of the Tompkins County Mental Health building on East Green Street, a 24/7 service that would provide counseling and mental health professionals for those who want help. She called this “the most crucial thing we can change immediately.”

The absence of a detox center has long been an issue in Tompkins County, widely seen as a haven for those suffering from drug addiction but missing that essential aspect of the recovery process.

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On Saturday, April 14th from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at The Space @ Greenstar, CSI will be hosting a “Water and Community” public forum entitled “HABs and Non-point Source Pollution in the Finger Lakes: Strategies for Addressing the Threat.” At the event, numerous speakers will discuss the HABs-nutrient connection, New York State

programs in place to combat non-point source pollution, the roles of TMDLs (Total Maximum Daily Load, a regulatory term in the U.S. Clean Water Act, describing a plan for restoring impaired waters) and the importance of maintaining longterm data sets.

The goal, is ultimately to demonstrate the value of collective action in accomplishing a cleaner lake.

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PHOTOGRAPHER TCAT Driver Involved In Fatal 2015 Crash Sues For Wrongful Termination

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What song or album should everyone listen to on a sunny, Ithaca spring day?

“Mungo Jerry: ‘In The Summertime.” ­—Trevor Robin & Bridgett Caughlinn

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findings of four separate agencies that the incident was accidental, attributable to poor mirror placement that created a “blind spot,” according to a New York State Police Collision Reconstruction Report.

After his deposition in the ensuing Wrongful Death hearing brought forth by the victim’s family, it was asserted that officials could not determine whether or not any traffic violations had occurred and that, in Stedwell’s death, it was clear that Cruz – as well as TCAT – were not responsible. Nonetheless, TCAT chose to terminate his employment with the agency in the Fall of 2016, allegedly violating the proper protocol of writing up an employee and suspending them, among other steps, before firing them.

A spokeswoman for TCAT declined comment, citing company policy not to comment on pending litigation.

In December, Cruz – working with UAW 2300 officials – submitted a grievance to TCAT in an attempt to get his job back, an attempt that was ultimately unsuccessful, however the following January, a meeting was

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students to 1,577 or 3.1 percent, however this is hard to predict due to societal factors such as dropout rates which, while currently low and decreasing annually, can be impacted by other means.

Some other findings: The total fertility rate for Ithaca Public Schools over the life of the forecasts is below replacement level at 0.52 vs. the replacement level of 2.1 needed for equilibrium. Even if you excluded the student population, the resident TFR would still be below replacement level at 1.83. In short? The school district’s population is getting older at a faster rate than it is getting younger.

The local non-college population of 18-to-24 year-olds will continue to leave the district at a higher rate than any other age group, whether by leaving for college or moving elsewhere. The second largest out-migration flow comes from households aged 70+.

This, statistically, will have an outward effect on the county’s

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he driver of a TCAT bus involved in the death of a Cornell employee several years ago is now suing the transit provider, its driver’s union and its president for wrongful termination.

Carlos Leonel Cruz, the bus driver involved in the 2015 death of a Cornell employee on Jessup Road, has filed a lawsuit against TCAT, United Automobile Workers 2300 and its president, Jason Dav id , a l leg i ng t hat he wa s wrongfully terminated after the incident – for which he was suspended – was deemed accidental by several state agencies. Filed independently in New York State District Court in January, the suit seeks a total of $3.75 million in damages compensating for what Cruz characterizes as loss of income, defamation of character and infliction of emotional distress, as well as several other alleged labor violations.

According to t he lawsuit, Cruz asserts that his termination – on the basis that the death of 55-year-old administrative assistant Angela Stedwell was preventable – was not properly carried out, including in his statement the

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increases at Fall Creek Elementary School (24.6 percent) and Beverly J. Martin Elementary School (15.9 percent), with every elementary school except Enfield and Cayuga Heights expected to see an increase. However, as new development in the city slows and the rural population matures, elementary school enrollments will likely see a drop in the second half of the coming decade, falling 4.1 percent from its peak in 2022.

The largest drops will come f rom Nor t hea st E lement a r y School and Caroline, which will each experience enrollment drops nearing 9 percent, according to the study.

At the high school, the total enrollment is forecasted to decline from 1,576 in 2017-18 to 1,529 in 2022-23, a 47 student or 3 percent decrease. The net result for the five-year period 2022-23 to 2027-28 will be an increase of 48 4–10, ,

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A shot at the scene of the fatal 2015 bus accident on Jessup Road, near Cornell’s campus.

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scheduled with TCAT officials to draft a settlement after which, if an agreement was not reached, the union would take the case to arbitration. Negotiations failed, David, working on Cruz’s behalf, made the determination to take the case to trial, however several days later, Cruz alleges David instead drafted a new settlement agreement a nd at tempted to intimidate him to sign it. After Cruz’s continued refusal to sign the document, the lawsuit said, David informed Cruz in July 2017 that his case would not be taken to arbitration, something Cruz said was in direct violation of his commitment to do so the previous winter.

Reached by email earlier this week, David challenged the legitimacy of the charges in the complaint, declining further comment.

“We are aware of this complaint, which has not been served on the union,” he wrote. “The allegations against the union are completely without merit. We have no further comment at this time.”

A conference with Judge David Peebles on this case is scheduled to take place in district court in Binghamton on May 4.

demographics: Excluding the college populations, the population with the district will see a median age increase from 39.9 in 2010 to 40.8 in 2025.

Some areas bode well for more sustainable student enrollment populations in the future. The area’s healthy housing market – with 500 homes bought and sold each year – bodes well for new families entering the district (although rising interest rates may slow this trend) and future development outside of the city could be likely as developers look to cater more toward the nonstudent population and pivot to building what’s in-demand: housing for families.

“Enf ield looks sma ll right now,” said Eldred Harris, an ICSD Board member. “But in ten years, it’s going to look a hell of a lot less rural, because that’s where people can afford to build these units.”

Housing will be extremely important in how enrollment numbers eventually play out:

according to a similar study conducted in the district in 2017, increases in the availability of multi-bed rental units – considered to be “family formation” units – will play a key factor in the growth of student enrollment figures, whereas the full impact of existing home sales as they relate to student populations are not seen immediately, as it takes three to seven years for all of the children of a given household to age into the schools.

“This is a key issue since the number of births in the Ithaca City School District is insufficient to maintain current enrollment levels over the next 10 years,” the 2017 study noted. “The number of non-college women living in the district ages 20-to-34 (prime childbearing ages) is too small to produce birth cohorts that are the same size as those currently in the elementary grades.”

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Keith Hannon, on air with WRFI Radio as a candidate for County Legislature.

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verybody’s got a podcast these days, covering everything from the mysterious inner workings of a car’s engine to the mechanics of throwing a baseball. But even as they’ve grown in popularity, there has been a lack of podcasts dealing with community issues and highlighting community contributors, especially in Tompkins County. Trumansburg resident Keith Hannon, a former candidate for the County Legislature, is looking to address with his recently-debuted audio series.

The show, T’burg On Air, will soon publish its third episode.

The first two have featured local business developer Greg Van Ess and Louise Adie, a 60-year resident of Trumansburg who leads kayaking tours in Antarctica. The show’s content, so far, is emblematic of what Hannon wants the show to be: a venue to bring intriguing people from Trumansburg to others both inside and outside the community.

Hannon joins a local minitrend of politically-involved community members starting podcasts to give their own insight and give voice to other people are around the area who might not normally have such a platform.

Ithaca Common Council members Ducson Nguyen and Seph Murtagh, both of the city’s Second Ward, recently started the Ithacast and have featured guests like Mayor Svante Myrick and City Historical Planner Bryan McCracken.

“It’s a pretty simple concept, just having people that, typically,

there’s not enough of a spotlight on in a small community,” Hannon said of the format and his intentions. “And also, it’s a way of archiving the voices of our community for the long-term.”

Celebrating the people and communities in the 14886 is the podcast’s mission, according to the series’ prologue episode. He wants to maintain a strong Trumansburg focus, pledging to his listeners in that same episode that he would only venture outside of T’burg for stories “with good reason.”

An ancillary benefit for Hannon is the podcast keeps him active in the community, something he continues to remain dedicated to despite his defeat last year’s Tompkins County Legislature elections, where he ran as a third-party candidate and lost to Democrat Anne Koreman.

“I don’t know what political opportunities may come, right now I don’t foresee any campaigns in the near future, but the motivation behind the podcast isn’t to set the stage for a future run for office,” Hannon said.

“I’m more motivated by the idea that losing candidates should still find ways to serve their community.”

On the topic of politics, the show may be dipping into that as well. Hannon’s initial inspiration for starting the show came during his campaign, walking door-to-door and meeting potential constituents for coffee. The experience, among several other things, allowed him to step outside the notorious Ithaca echo chamber that often permeates

into the surrounding communities and meet people with a wide range of beliefs on any conceivable end of the spectrum.

Additionally, it showed him how forcefully the national political discourse had bled into local conversations, to the point that it seemed ubiquitous and squeezed out local issues that needed to be dealt with or celebrated. To put it succinctly, he wants to show people that there’s more good than bad, more reasons to enjoy than to agonize, regardless which side is winning or who’s in the White House.

“This podcast was not created to offer more political opinions, it was developed to rise above them, to cut through the unfortunate tension and animosity,” he said from his self-proclaimed soapbox in the inaugural episode.

If t he on ly produc t of is reminding people of the value of where they live, Hannon said that will be fine by him. As someone who has spent most of their life elsewhere and was not born and raised in the area, he hopes he can communicate to people the luck they’ve found by living here, something he deeply believes in.

“I haven’t been here for very long, but I think it’s a very special place,” Hannon said. “It’s where we decided to set up shop and start a family here. And hopefully an outsider’s perspective helps people remember that have been here for a long time, ‘Oh, maybe we’ve forgotten how great this area is or how lucky we are to be here.’ That’s a big part of it.”

ow about three months away from the Maplewood Redevelopment Project’s scheduled debut, its development team has requested another extension to their allowable work hours. The proposed change would lengthen the site’s work day from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. to 7 a.m.-10:30 p.m. on Monday through Friday.

To mitigate sound concerns, the work from 7 p.m. until 10:30 p.m. would be limited to only interior work, such as framing.

Two shifts of workers would work the proposed 15.5 hour days. This is the third work limit adjustment Maplewood has requested; in August they were granted two more hours at either end of the day, and in December they were approved to work from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. as long as the noise on those days stayed under 85 decibels. In total, this means the normal total work week on the project is now working on a 85.5 hours of labor per week. The group notes in its request that they understand they may have to appeal directly to the Town Board for approval of the extra construction time on the $80 million, 440-unit apartment complex aimed at housing Cornell graduate and professional students. This request sounds less dire than their last, and no specific “says behind” number is given; in December, the project announced it was 25 days behind schedule, plagued by a combination of weather and a short workforce. At that time, Jeffrey Resetco of property manager EdR Trust said any more delays and they would have to deliver the project late, but they were granted the Saturday work hours.

“Various phases of construction mean that there are varying levels of completion throughout the site; however, as of right now, there is a lag between the interior and exterior work,” the request states. “This may jeopardize our ability to reach a state of completion that would allow Cornell University graduate and professional students to move in to the new Maplewood Redevelopment Project in July 2018 as they prepare for their fall semester.”

Ups&Downs ▶ The Cayuga Sound Festival which will be returning to Stewart Park for the second year. This year’s lineup, which will obviously feature the X Ambassadors as headliner, will include such acts as K Flay, Talib Kweli, Young The Giant and Matt & Kim. Tickets go on sale this Friday. ▶ Ithaca Voice Executive Director Mike Blaney a longtime member of the IV team whose farewell party was this weekend. We’re told he’s preparing for a new life in Cincinnati, Ohio as the leader of a nonprofit there. It was great knowing you man! Best of luck in your next gig!

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, write upsanddowns@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.”

Heard&Seen ▶ Ithaca’s First Commission Meeting Took Place Monday Night Chaired by Davi Mozie, the Public Safety and Information Commission received its orientation on Monday as the first of four new committees to begin volunteer advisory roles in Ithaca City Hall. More to come on these as everyone gets settled in.. ▶ Top Stories On Ithaca. com This Week Are...

1) Candor Residents Speak Out Against Dollar General 2) Golden campaign fires digital director after harassment allegations 3) “The show must go on”: Inside IHS’ momentous spring musical 4)County assessment increases spark frustration among landlords

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58.6 percent of respondents answered “Yes” and 41.4 percent answered “No.”

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ver the last few weeks, there has been a buzz about funding for the arts and culture in our community that comes from the hotel room tax. Arts and culture play a vital role in the vibrancy and flavor of who we are and is certainly worthy of a buzz. But it’s important to make sure that accurate information and critical context are included in the conversation.

Arts and culture organizations are funded through 10 different programmatic grants, however the conversation to date has discussed one of these grants namely, the Arts and Culture Organizational Development (ACOD) grant. There are other important grants that give funding to our arts and culture organizations, covering areas including Beautification, Signage & Public Art, Community Celebrations, the Community Arts Partnership Public Arts Program, Festivals Program, Tourism Project grants, Tourism Capital grants, New Tourism Initiatives, and the Strategic Tourism Initiatives to name some of the main programmatic grant categories.

More than 80 entities receive critical support from the hotel room tax, making these merit-based grants highly competitive. And as the number of new organizations grow in the community, so does the list of tourism grant applicants. The Strategic Tourism Development Board (STPB), a select group of volunteer community experts in the fields of local arts, culture, business, and the hotel industry, have been tasked with the difficult job of objectively distributing funds in a manner that meets both the strategic tourism plan approved by the county legislature and the state mandate that all hotel room

tax funds be used for tourism initiatives. According to a recent report, “Tompkins County Room Tax Investments 2004-2016,” arts and cultural organizations have consistently received the largest amount of funding from the STPB compared to all other categories of organizations. Funding for these organizations has consistently increased over time and today, is at its highest funding level ever. So where is the confusion about the funding for arts and culture? The conversation has focused exclusively on the ACOD grant, but if you look at the funding arts and culture organizations have received overall through all the different grants (all organizations qualify and apply to multiple grants) a majority have seen consistent increases.

So let’s look at just the ACOD budget line. The conclusion reached depends on the lens used to view the numbers. If you look at the total allocation and you track the ACOD budget over time, overall funding has increased every year but one since 2012, receiving an 11 percent boost this year – to $217,000 overall. This is the second highest increase of any programmatic grant category this year. In fact, between 2004 and 2016 ACOD organizations were granted about $2.26 million, or 9.4 percent of all room tax revenue. The Paleontological Research Institute, which received the most funding of all ACOD recipients, has received more than $718,000 in total, about 3 percent of total room tax from 2004 and 2016. Alternately, we could twist things around and look at the ACOD grant as a percent of the total room tax received each year. The percent has contin u ed on page 7

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f you’ve lived in Ithaca awhile, or saw this column last time, you might know (or at least know of) the tension that exists here between friendly, close community, and intermittent (but persistent) urges for privacy.

If you’re the kind of person who dislikes smiling and saying hello on the street (and at the supermarket, movies, library, gas station, coffee shop, etc.) to people you know, or just kind of know, or perhaps don’t even know, you might want to think twice before settling here, unless you have a pretty thick skin or are good at disguises.

A similar tension exists between wanting to enjoy a relaxed life here and trying to construct a productive one.

Ithaca is an interesting place, but it’s small and isolated, an hour away from any other city of note, or even a major highway.

There are no big national employers here. There are colleges, which bring some prosperity, but it is imported rather than self-generating: degreeseekers arrive with a few hundred thousand dollars from elsewhere, which they leave here over a few years, then depart.

Luckily there is a big river of them; but because they keep moving, they don’t contribute much to the character of the town. Nor do they affect the region, which beyond the city of Ithaca has a pronounced lack of diversity or economic opportunity.

Instead of a thriving job market,

Re: Students United

On The Second Amendment

In last week’s cover story, The Ithaca Times did interview a number of the youths involved in Students United Ithaca, the group that helped change the course of Ithaca High School’s spring play. However, their quotes were not worked into the piece, which one person disagreed with. A response to that comment:

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YourL etters o think in this day and age the 2nd amendment protects our American rights from our government is plainly false.

Agreed, in the early days of our nation the idea to arm citizens makes sense, some countries still do this today. But to think we as citizens could stop a runaway government with our guns is plainly silly. Waco and Ammon Bundy are examples of well-armed citizens trying to standoff with the government and failing.

I would also make the argument, the US government is braver for allowing tape recorders than support the 2nd amendment, one has caused them much more damage.

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Ithaca has the elusive attribute of quality of life. It is clean, picturesque, and peaceful. With its lake, gorges, hills, and forests, there is natural splendor. With the colleges, there is an array of cultural offerings.

There are smart, talented people.

There isn’t, however, a preponderance of ambitious people, outside of the college strivers. There isn’t a culture of drive or achievement.

There are some elite and challenging jobs at the colleges, but as an industry, education is not especially cutting-edge or lucrative. For that kind of work – in finance, real estate, law, information technology – you have to go to New York City, Boston, DC, Silicon Valley, or some other big place.

You can tr y for t he best of bot h worlds here by becoming well-off independently, through entrepreneurship.

I can tell you, however, from personal experience as well as observation, that it takes a lot of effort to succeed in a self-owned business, or even successfully to fail; so you need to love as well as watch what you’re doing.

Despite a (successful) business failure, I’ve remained here happily, partly due to a Plan B, partly because I came here not for reasons of career. I had been on a professional path in a big city, but had no community, nor even anyone around that I particularly cared about, or who cared about me. I knew

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disagree with the earlier comment that it was necessary to interview members of SUI for this piece. While they are obviously central figures, we have heard their voices in numerous previous articles.

I found it interesting to hear the voices of some other people that were involved and/or affected by the story. While I hesitate to come off like I am in any way defending

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I could have those things in Ithaca (I had graduated Cornell and then stayed a few years, and knew the town and some people, and had blood family), so I moved.

Still, I’m not overwhelmingly on the side of easy versus arduous living. I’m often uncomfortable with the psychological chill factor in Ithaca when I see people not doing a healthy percentage of what they might. There’s a lot of hanging around in this town.

I can waste time too, but there is something inside me (remnants of religion?) that fears and reviles sloth.

Maybe it’s the legacy of urban living. Last autumn I was on vacation in New York City, where I’m from, riding the Lexington Avenue express on a weekday afternoon. I took this train to school every day in my youth so there is nothing exotic or alluring about it to me and, now as then, it is not a particularly appealing aesthetic experience.

But I realized, in the middle of the

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the “far-right trolls” who showed up in social media (to be clear, I am not - especially those who went beyond merely expressing opinion and actually stooped to threats), I feel like SUI must share some of the blame for “polarizing the debate” with their own language.

While this article casts all of the blame squarely on those trolls for doing so by “casting Emma – with her dyed blonde hair and Ukranian/ Jewish heritage – as this symbolic epitome of whiteness,” this casting was already done by the members of SUI themselves in their original letter, in which they brought attention to her hazel eyes and blonde hair and literally referred to her as “the epitome of whiteness.”

You can argue that their intent was different, and that some polarization was necessary to begin healing, but there was polarizing language from the start. That portion of the article seemed to paint a different picture. That said, I enjoyed the article as a whole. Good luck to those involved in the new production.

–User ‘IthacaJack’ via Ithaca.com

What The T’Burg Elections Mean

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he recent Village elections for Board of Trustee and Mayor were uncommonly energetic.

Notably, the two write-in candidates, one for Board, the other for Mayor, garnered well over half the

crowded car, I was smiling.

I was smiling because I was simply, but thoroughly, happy and pleased to be surrounded by people with something to do.

That’s why they were on the train. In fact, they all had more than one thing to do, because they were traveling from one thing to another. There was someplace they had to be before, and another one now.

No one else was smiling (I was probably the only one on vacation), but neither was anyone scowling. They all seemed satisfied, in a sense. They were doing something necessar y, maybe even difficult (even riding the Lex is no bargain), but didn’t demand or require any thing from anyone except some space and decency.

There was a tacit sense that life had to be lived and work had to be done.

Maybe that sense leads to a good life anywhere: that sense, and the energy and will to act on it.

Stephen P. Burke is a columnist for The Ithaca Times. His column, Ithaca Notes, appears biweekly. votes the well-established balloted candidates got. They earned that startling amount of votes despite campaigning barely two weeks before the election!

Their platforms embraced transparency within the village government, zoning, planning and development issues, among others. That stance differed from the elected candidates. The substantial number of write-in votes on those issues offers valuable lessons. Such as: how many more voters would have embraced those views if a longer campaign matching the elected candidates had ensued?

More importantly, the elected now have highly pertinent data to use to ensure that they will effectively serve all voters, not just the ones who voted for them. It will be interesting to see if they can.

The elected Mayor is in a unique position to do so: he could appoint one of the write-in candidates, or one of the other non-winning balloted candidates, to the board position that will be vacated when he takes office. Doing this would demonstrate the kind of gracious outreach to the other side of the aisle in a way that we sadly don’t see much anymore in our democracy.

That would be a distinctively class act.

–Jack Callaghan

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decreased modestly from 8.9 percent in 2010 to 7.0 percent in 2017. Putting this in context however, each of the programmatic grant categories have seen modest decreases (though note again that arts and culture continues to see an increasing lion’s share of these grants).

There are several reasons for this decrease, but one main one is the allocation dedicated to achieve the strategic tourism goals established for the STPB and set to be completed by the end of 2019. These important tourism priorities include: funding for the Heritage Education Center, outdoor recreation tourism, a downtown conference center feasibility study and implementation, agriculinary tourism, and city and county signage and wayfinding.

A point has been made that in 2015 ACOD funding was reduced for the eight organizations that had received funding since 2008. Adding context, in 2015 a designated task force completed a comprehensive study that lead to the expansion of the eligibility requirements to allow for a wider range of organizations to qualify and apply. As a result, three additional organizations applied and were awarded grants: The Community School for Music and Art, Cinemapolis, and the Ithaca Shakespeare Company. The total fund was then spread across 11 organizations, rather than eight, and funding for several of the original grants saw modest decreases.

At this point there are a few critical pieces of information to remember from earlier: All 11 of these organizations receive funds from other programmatic tourism grants, so modest changes in this bucket of funding does not reflect the overall increases in funding that most of them have had over the last 10 years.

This grant, like all tourism grants, is merit-based and not entitlement-based so each year applications are evaluated on the quality of the applications and how well they meet the specific grant criteria and funding is allocated accordingly. Right now the STPB is in the middle of its budget year. They have one additional pot of money to work with beyond the budget that was approved by the legislature last November. This pot is a surplus from last year’s room tax of $147,000 (not $330,000). So where should the STPB allocate the surplus money to be fair and equitable?

The current ACOD committee, made a final majority-vote deliberation to not seek further increases in funding beyond the 11 percent it received this year. A majority of committee members have asked that the full volunteer STPB go through the careful process of determining the most equitable way to distribute the $147,000 of surplus funds, particularly given the complexities such as those outlined here.

For a wealth of information on how the Tompkins County room tax dollars are spent, please see:http:// www.tompkinscountyny.gov/tourism.

Anna Kelles is a Tompkins County Legislator representing District 2, which includes the Fall Creek and Cornell Heights neighborhoods of the City of Ithaca. The full viewpoint is available online.

This response, via legislator Dan Klein: The reason the ACOD budget line is important is that it is operational money for our local arts and culture organizations. It’s the money that keeps the lights on. Operational money is not given by many granting organizations. This funding was baked into the hotel tax when it was first established 25 years ago because several prominent arts organizations had gone out of business. We really need to support our existing arts and culture organizations before we go funding new projects.

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Gallant suspends Congressional campaign Democratic candidate for Congress Rick Gallant announced last week he would be suspending campaign.

The first candidate to declare his intentions to run last year, Gallant was an early front runner, netting the endorsement of his teacher’s union and getting off to a hot start fundraising.

In the late summer, however, Gallant announced he would be taking a break from the campaign to return to his teaching job and several members of his campaign team, including his campaign manager Brian Batrowny (now with the campaign of Ian Golden), defected to other campaigns.

Ever since, fundraising had languished, something which Gallant acknowledged in his statement: according to year-end numbers filed with the Federal Elections Commission, Gallant ended 2017 almost $1,000 in the hole.”

Reed receives unanimous endorsement from Republican committee chairs Republican Tom Reed has received the endorsement of all 11 county’s Republican committee chairs in his bid for re-election as representative for New York’s 23rd Congressional District.

On Wednesday, the Reed campaign released statements from the leaders of the Republican Party Committee chairs in every county – including Tompkins County – offering their support to the Congressman’s bid for a fifth term in D.C. Among the list of committee chairs was Tompkins County Legislator Mike Sigler, who had this to say: “Tom Reed is the hardest working member of Congress. He understands the issues facing our communities as well as what he believes will solve certain problems and is always open to different paths to a solution. Tom Reed will always answer your call. I am proud to endorse him for re-election again this year.”

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eter Robbins was lying on the floor of his New York City apartment, reeling from memories of events more than a decade old that he had been able to sufficiently repress since they had occurred.

The memories were making up for lost time, flooding back to him with such force that it was all he could do to move from the floor to the kitchen, fixing himself a cup of tea as he thought.

To this day, Robbins – now living in Ithaca – doesn’t know why the memories came storming to him at that time, but he theorizes it was some combination of the natural maturation of adulthood, becoming more openminded and being overworked and overtired.

After a bit of time, he called his sister, Helen.

After all, if the memories were accurate, she would have been with Peter when it happened.

Peter and Helen were very close and trusted confidants of each other, born two years apart and both living the life of struggling artists trying to make it in New York City just a few blocks from one another. Perhaps more significantly in this moment, she was the second source, the one who could confirm the story or dispel it as a vivid dream of yore.

He began the call with a disclaimer: he had remembered something, and was going to explain his memory without giving it away, and she should interject whenever she felt it necessary with her reaction.

He nervously recounted the story to Helen. It was warm and sunny, the customary weather for a late-June, early 1960s morning in the Rockville Centre neighborhood of Long Island, New York. Peter, 14 years old, was out playing with Helen, 12, in the front yard of their home where they lived with one

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other sister and their parents, Allan and Marci Robbins. It was a quiet day, crucially without anybody else around besides the two of them, no passing cars or lawns being mowed.

Then, he told her, something had appeared in the corner of his eye.

“Stop it,” Helen said, laughing at his caution. “I know what you’re talking about.”

Peter has now recreated the memory with three different hypnotherapists in an effort

Inside a local man’s lifelong quest for the truth in our stars.

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used in the UFOlogy field) and being examined by them on a table, a phenomena Robbins has found dozens of other times in the years since in interviews with other people who say they have had encounters. She later described them in drawings, and claimed she had heard their voices in her head while she was on the ship.

“It’s not even that I couldn’t believe it, it’s that this is the closest person in my life to me, my best friend,” he said. “We didn’t lie to each

The formation of the UFOs as they flew through the sky, as seen by Robbins.

to gain a better understanding of what happened and see if there are any further details.

While playing with his sister, he had seen five metallic disk-shaped objects in the sky, aligned in a perfect V-formation, moving at high speeds. They were close enough to make out details on the sides, though he said he couldn’t be sure of their size. They lingered for several minutes, an eternity in the mind of a kid, before Peter turned to run into his house.

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other.”

At the time of the actual sighting, Peter was in the throes of adolescence, admittedly led by the seminal desires of that era in life: to be cool and have sex. A self-proclaimed nerdy kid who’d spent more of his life in theaters than sports fields, he was admittedly at a disadvantage of achieving either of those two things, and babbling about seeing a UFO, he thought, probably wouldn’t help. So he didn’t talk about it, didn’t think about it, didn’t even remember it for years and years, until its weight finally crashed upon him, which led him to the floor of his apartment and the fate-

ful phone call with his sister.

“Oh, my god, they’re real! Oh my god, they’re real,” he remembers thinking. With his sister’s corroboration, Peter Robbins changed virtually immediately. “I tried to find a way to dismiss it, but I couldn’t. People say their lives changed overnight. Mine changed in about 90 seconds.”

There are times, he said, when he does resent what happened to him and his sister that day. The pivotal recollection and ensuing breakdown came in the middle of Robbins seemingly beginning to realize his art aspirations – he was working as a framing carpenter during the SoHo building boom, while also teaching painting to a continuing education course at the School of Visual Arts and, most importantly, getting art pieces shown at downtown galleries, even selling a few of his works a year. Parts of that Peter Robbins still remain, like when his love of theater shines through in simple conversation. His house in Ithaca, where he now lives with his elderly, and recently published, father, is adorned with a few of his own paintings, some on the wall and some tucked into closets, and he still speaks with the projected voice of someone who spent years on or around a stage. But in the time immediately following when his memory resurfaced, it effectively destroyed his life-long aspiration of becoming an artist, as Robbins became ravenous to learn more about the subject, fueled by the constant tapeloop in his head.

As the years passed, Robbins became a renowned authority, researcher and expert on UFOs and instances of “gray” interaction with humans. He’s appeared on radio and television, written books, published research material, given lectures at conferences the

world over, all as a UFOlogist and self-trained investigative journalist. It’s not a joke for Robbins. It’s not a scheme, either. To hear him describe it, even calling it a “job” might be illconceived. It’s his necessity and duty, something he reluctantly realized in the days and weeks after talking to his sister.

“I just wanted to be a painter, it was my passion in my heart of hearts, and now I was playing at it because something more important had come along, and it hurt,” he said. “I don’t love it. It’s an obsession.”

Obsession is a word Robbins, now in his 70s, uses quite a bit. In his early life he was obsessed with being a painter, that matched with an obsession for adventure which led him to a year-long traveling expedition and a job as a seaman on a Norwegian cargo ship before he began trying his hand at the arts. But he can also get bored easily, as he did with the the seaman’s job he once held. Yet something about his and Helen’s experience and the mystery that still surrounds it transcended his tendency to lose interest and move on, to the tune of 40 years strong spent researching, lecturing and writing.

The extent of UFO experiences in the UFOlogist community varies widely. Robbins said some people have stories of abductions, others have only seen unexplained aircrafts like he has, others still have never had contact and just believe there’s more to the story than what’s been told. Part of what fueled his interest for all these years is his own personal experience, but also he very much wanted to find some answer or explanation for what happened to Helen in particular, who went on to become a songwriter for the Blue Oyster Cult and lead singer of the Helen Wheels Band (“Hell on Wheels”). In his words, it displaced everything in his life. That didn’t shake even when she passed away in 2000 at Cayuga Medical Center, the result of a botched surgery performed elsewhere.

During his career, Robbins has unearthed scores of documents he says support the theory that there is life on other planets.

Early reports from the Pentagon and associated think-tanks from the 1940s through the 1960s that confirm strategies of telling, or not telling, the public certain information, and even speculating that the advent of the atomic bomb might provoke more UFO encounters: “We should, therefore, expect at this time above all to behold such visitations.” With his writing specifically, Robbins doesn’t want to get someone to believe, just open their mind.

His hope, he said, is to get you to question; from outside of the house to through the front door and into the foyer.

Despite how long he’s spent at it, the work is somewhat thankless outside the UFOlogy community. Robbins has never been able to support himself financially through his work, sustaining his life in New York City, before

eventually moving to Ithaca, through work as an off-Broadway stage manager, as an art teacher, helping people move, ghostwriting, painting apartments, etc. There were no egofueled reservations, Robbins said, as long as it could be used to fund the important work he felt he was doing. And of course, there’s always doubt and ridicule closely associated with work in the UFOlogy field, which only gets worse if someone of Robbins’ stature makes a mistake or has to backtrack on a claim.

Such a situation was the source of his lowest moment professionally, when he had to disavow portions of his best-selling 1997 book Left at East Gate, a recounting of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident he co-authored with a former US Air Force Security Policeman named Larry Warren which took nine long years to complete, plenty of trips to the United Kingdom and was completely self-funded. He holds that the Rendlesham Forest Incident (sometimes called “Britain’s Roswell”) did happen, but that Warren stretched or fabricated parts of his story.

Robbins maintains the portions of the book he wrote academically, and without Warren’s influence, are accurate and valuable, but that he has also asked the publisher to take it out of print. Warren, for his part, has fiercely and publicly stood by his story.

Robbins gets it. He understands that right now, at least, he’s on the losing end of this debate. He says just to be involved in the field, one has to have a certain ability to laugh at themselves while still believing in the nature of their mission. Through any derision he’s received, Robbins has remained convinced of what happened to him and Helen, and re-

Robbins, at home. (Photo: Casey Martin)

mained devoted to his work, thinking its importance outweighed the occasional mockery of others.

“The best people in the work have great senses of humor, we have to to survive,” Robbins said wryly. “We’re grown-ups who think flying saucers are real. Holy s---, how crazy are we?”

For a long time, trying to change the tide of American, and somewhat worldwide, opinion on the validity of UFO experiences has been a fruitless effort. But Robbins sees glimmers. He thinks there may be some more allowance in the minds of the younger generation for believing in life from other planets, though he acknowledges that may be a product of a general acceptance that there is information the government doesn’t tell the public.

Maybe the most significant progress came last December: the New York Times, the usually condescending “nemesis of rational UFO study in the Western world,” Robbins said, released a well-received story about a Pentagon program dedicating tens of millions each year from 2007-2012 at least to investigating UFO encounters on the front page of its Sunday edition, a step that stunned and subsequently reinvigorated many in the UFOlogist community after years of futile toil (alas, the article’s subject was roundly dismissed by NYT columnist Ross Douthat in an opinion piece the following week called “Flying Saucers and Fairy Tales.”)

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so many decades ago. They’ve briefly crossed paths before, like when Robbins created an art project consisting of a sand-pit in which tanks were fighting among the sand mounds while a UFO perched and watched from a larger hill in the center. But while he’s also mulling a memoir, Robbins has set to writing a two-act, one-man play aimed at celebrating and factually retelling the life of the nation’s first Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, someone Robbins deeply admires and whose life intertwines with the very earliest inklings of the potential UFO cover-up, as Robbins terms it (Many UFOlogists, Robbins included, theorize that Forrestal may have been assassinated to silence his knowledge of UFOs from a public still reeling from World War II.) He’s tested the production recently in Rochester, and intends to have a finished script before the end of 2018. In a way, it’s an attempt to rectify his life’s actual dedication with what he first wanted his life’s dedication to be.

“I’ve been trying to find a way to bring this information to another kind of audience,” Robbins said. “When I speak at conferences, when I do radio shows, when I publish something, I’m almost always preaching to the choir [...] I want to see if I can create something in between a theatrical event and a serious lecture.”

To a certain extent, it also signals what could be a returning balance for Robbins between art and UFOlogy. When he looks back on his life, Robbins sees that he did get some of the things he wanted from art out of his research career: he’s lived an interesting life, he’s talked to interesting people, and he’s been able to help people who may be at the same point as he was as a young adult, lying on the floor of his apartment wondering if he was crazy. The ordeal he went through during the last calendar year, with the souring of his relationship with Warren and the “tremendous embarrassment” he endured in the UFOlogy community (though also met with a good amount of support that let him know he had not lost his “circle of respect” within the community), made him question whether this is what he should spend the rest of his life doing. He doesn’t wake up and go to sleep thinking about UFOs anymore, he can come and go from his work more easily now.

But for time being, he still draws enjoyment and excitement in the small study in his house that doubles as a studio, lined with hundreds of UFO books and research files from both his pen and others. And he still believes he holds a necessary role in the fight for belief, and against conspiracy.

“Maybe part of it is just stubbornness, but I think over the next few years I can continue doing this, possibly with a less-concerned attitude,” he said. “If I leave at this point, that’s one less semi-articulate, not-stupid voice that’s no longer going to be heard.”

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t’s just slightly past 1 p.m. when, in the back room of the Finger Lakes Community Health clinic in Geneva, a screen flickers to life and a dozen people huddle close together to catch a glimpse inside of Tom Reed’s eyeball.

Seated leaning forward in an optometrist’s examining chair, Reed stared smiling into a high-powered camera as the crowd – made up of healthcare policy experts, physicians and a pair of curious journalists – looked on,

intently examining the same images that, at the same time, were being broadcast to a specialist nearly 46 miles away in Rochester. This demonstration at one point in time might have been considered something unexpected at a highend clinic somewhere, much less a fairly rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FHQC) at the northern tip of Seneca Lake. But this, the clinicians said, was about more than demonstrating the tricks of modern technology:

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this, they said, was a glimpse into the future of medicine in rural communities.

Ever since the technology was introduced in the mid-1990s, telemedicine has long offered even the most far-flung patients the ability to, from their own communities, receive indirect care from specialists in far-away hospitals, in some cases eliminating the need for excessive travel or stress that might otherwise result from a trip to a renowned doctor at some larger facility better positioned to treat them. Throughout the nine clinics operated by Finger Lakes Community Health, primary care physicians in places like Ovid or King Ferry can offer their patients ADHD treatment from a specialist in Albany or a pediatric dentist out of Rochester, all without leaving their hometowns. (The clinics can take on patients from anywhere in the region, and FLCH leadership has even begun targeting clients in Ithaca as of late.)

Telehealth has begun to take on an even larger proportion of overall medical spending in the United States. Already covered under most private insurance plans, Medicaid and Medicare have also begun to take up a large slice of the spending pie. According to an analysis by Politico, in 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services’ paid out nearly $29 million in telehealth and telemedicine claims, up 28 percent from 2015. During that same period, the number of claims rose 33 percent.

This was particularly true for clinicians at FLCH, which served more t han 26,0 0 0 patients last year, most of whom are 200 percent or more below the federal poverty level.

Its teledentistry program alone has seen a patient increase of 1,860 percent since its start in 2010 and, of the 1,700 patients systemwide to utilize telehea lth last year, more than 95 percent expressed satisfaction with the quality of care they received, even when the specialist handling their care was located several counties away in some cases.

Yet the promises of this technology are far from realized. Though the technology has been getting smaller and less expensive (to the point it may soon be introduced into people’s homes), internet access, particularly in rural areas, has presented one of the biggest challenges to the expansion of telemedicine. The problem is so persistent that, at one point, the clinic even weighed the possibility of enlisting a balloon over Wayne County with a hotspot attached in order to reach the most underserved communities in the region.

“A lot of times, our patients have a world of their own they have to navigate through,” said Sirene Garcia, Director of Special Programs at Finger Lakes Community Health. “Being able to see a specialist without having to travel the distance, whether it’s a careered mom who needs to get her child to an appointment in Rochester or a person who doesn’t have a job yet and needs to be healthy to get one… this technology can meet both sides of the spectrum, wherever you might be in your life.”

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Expanding access to this technology, Reed said, has been a particular policy interest of his.

Having done some recent policy work on rural healthcare access with Peter Welsh, a Democratic Congressman from Vermont, Reed went to Silicon Valley one month ago to examine the extent of telemedicine programs in the most connected areas of the country, examining everything from the Apple facility where the FitBit was developed to getting caught up on the progress of 5G networks.

There, he learned firsthand where the telemedicine sector is going and how it could benefit people like his own son, who is diabetic. Reed described how the technology would allow him to skip the trip from Corning to Rochester and instead, put a blood sample into a device which would perform a blood analysis – in his own home – and pass the information along to a specialist 104 miles away.

“It’s like Star Trek,” he said. “It’s unbelievable.”

“Urban settings always seem to be getting ahead of it because, honestly, that’s where most of the businesses are going,” he added. “We want to make sure our rural communities don’t get left behind.”

Four key bills Reed supported or cosponsored as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (an omnibus spending bill which he ultimately, voted against) will help this effort along, increasing spending for telehealth from the anemic .00026 percent it currently sits at while eliminating billing loopholes that had previously presented various barriers to patients utilizing Medicaid and Medicare for their treatment. With a n add it iona l $6 0 0 million in funding to expand rural broadband access included in the spending bill as well (which Reed supported), the technology gap, hopefully, will also be narrowed.

Yet, for the bipartisan support the telemedicine bills received, there was still some opposition coming from the right side of the aisle of Congress, concerned that the implementation of telemedicine would somehow increase Medicaid spending: something the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said would not happen.

In an interview Thursday, Reed told The Ithaca Times he believes this barrier can be worked over as telemedicine continues to expand in the future.

“There’s always concerns about duplication and waste, fraud and abuse,” said Reed. “A lot of folks on our side of the aisle are very sensitive to that in particular, and I think that’s where their objections are.”

“But at the end of the day, we can work that out,” he added. “It’s just recognizing what we don’t want, putting the rail guards in to prevent that from happening, and working through these problems. Doing visits like these and seeing what these facilities do, hopefully I can be a voice on this issue.”

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Re-LAX’n At The Top

By Ste ve L aw re nc e

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’m sure that any lacrosse coach or player will tell you that the only thing that really matters at the end of the game is that the team has allowed fewer goals than it has scored, but it’s safe to say that the Ithaca College and Cornell men’s lacrosse teams are taking two different paths to success.

On Saturday, the #19 Bombers hosted Vassar for their Liberty League home opener, and the hosts’ traditionally stingy defense was up to the task. The visitors were hounded to the point that they were able to put but two shots into the net. If

you’re playing soccer, two goals might be considered an adequate offensive showing, but in lacrosse, a deuce usually translates to an “L.” Given the Bombers put nine shots past the opposing goalie, it was likely a long ride home for the Brewers. Ithaca’s defense roughed them up all day, forcing 25 turnovers and making Bomber sophomore goalie Robbie Atwood wonder if he was going to see any action.

Sophomore Aaron McCartney caused five turnovers while scooping up nine ground balls, and Ithaca High grad Winston Wenham, play-

ing the role of Wise Old Man on the Mountain, caused three turnovers and, like an enthusiastic kid looking for Easter eggs, happily found four ground balls.

One the offensive side of the field, Ryan Ozsvath and Will Witter both scored hat tricks to lead the potent-enough scoring effort.

I refer to Wenham as The Wise Old Man on the Mountain because he is a graduate student with significantly more games under his belt than many of his teammates. The 6’1”, 210 pound defenseman graduated from Ithaca High in 2012, he prepped at Mount Hermon for a year, then spent two seasons at Syracuse (2014 as a redshirt).

In 2016, he made his hometown collegiate debut as a Bomber, and he topped off a great year with Empire 8 First-Team honors. Last year, he continued his solid play, earning recognition as a USILA Third-Team All-American.

Wenham laughed when I asked him about the “Wise Old Man” statement. He said, “I have cer-

tainly been around for a while. In fact, our whole defensive unit is very experienced, and we’re fortunate to have returned all three starters.”

I asked him if he embraced his role as a leader, and he replied, “I do, but we have a lot of experienced guys, and the team has come together as a very cohesive unit.” He added, “We had some injuries, and some of the freshmen have really stepped up and learned very quickly.”

Winston got to play for one season at I.C. with Eli Goldbrecht, a fellow Little Red alum who went on to be selected in the Major League Lacrosse draft. He said, , “I was gone for 3 years, and when I returned, Eli had transformed from a good midfielder to an incredible defenseman. Like him, we believe that every goal given up is a point of pride, and that no matter how many goals we are up by, we never let up.” *** Over on East Hill, the #14 Big Red men’s lacrosse team continues to put up numbers that make people wonder if they are hearing scores from a football game. For the first time in program history, Cornell scored 20-plus points in three consecutive games, shellacking Dartmouth 22-11. (Cornell also scored 20 goals against Penn and put 23 on Air Force.)

The Big Red shooters were on target on Saturday, scoring 22 goals on only 27 shots, and fifteen players made their way into the scoring column.

Jordan Dowiak scored five goals, Connor Fletcher had 4 goals and 2 assists and Clarke Petterson had 3 goals and 2 assists. In all, ten Big Red players had a multi-point game, and such spreading of the wealth is causing major headaches for opposing defenses. The Big Red is now 6-3 overall, 2-1 in the Ivy League, and returns to Ithaca for back-to-back games against Harvard on Saturday, April 7 and No. 9 Syracuse on Tuesday, April 10. The game with the Crimson is slated for 1 p.m., while CorLOCALLY nell OWNEDwill WITH THE POWER OF OVER 1,000 STORES MEANS YOUat 7 p.m. face-off with the Orange

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Whiskey Tango Sideshow welcomes international talent

By Christie Citranglo

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erformers from different cities nationally and internationally will light up the stage of the Hangar Theatre this week in an edgy, broad display of talents that invite diverse perspectives from all forms of artists — artists who breathe a new life into burlesque.

The Whiskey Tango Sideshow will host the Third Annual Empire Burlesque Festival 8 p.m.

Friday and Saturday April 6–7 at the Hangar Theatre. The show will feature headliners Perle Noire from New York City and Bella Blue from New Orleans, in addition to other talent from Chicago, Italy, upstate New York and more.

Traditional burlesque routines will be an integral part of the festival, but the core of Empire mingles various performance art through artists of different genders, races, sexual orientations, body types and more.

Sizzlin’ Liz, the booker and producer of the Whiskey Tango Sideshow, said the festival gives its audience the opportunity to experience traditional burlesque numbers with nontraditional talent peppered in. While Whiskey Tango Sideshow hosts the festival each year, the group involves itself with only a handful of acts. The evenings is more about the visiting performers than the usual Ithaca troop, Liz said.

“The first year definitely tended to be more local, but we’ve forged some really fantastic relationships with burlesque dancers and burlesque troops from all over the country,” Liz said. “This year we’re actually going outside the country and we’re getting a woman from Italy, we have four or five performers from Canada, and we’re really trying to represent a broad array of performers from all over the globe — as far as we can get them.”

On the program will be duets, trios, groups and solo acts. In addition to dancing and the usual empowering routines of Whiskey Tango Sideshow, belly dancers, fan dancers and character actors will join in the festival.

But the Empire Burlesque Festival is a burlesque festival — both in principle and by its theme. Liz said empowerment is a key theme to Whiskey Tango Sideshow and to the festival. The other acts in the show capture a strong theme of self-confidence with each performer dominating the stage with undeniable talent.

Liz said her and Whiskey Tango Sideshow have built strong relationships with the burlesque community since the inception of the group nearly 10 years ago. Through buzz spread by social media and going to shows all over the country, she and the rest of the team have cultivated relationships with performance artists throughout the national burlesque community.

And since burlesque has become more of a main-

stream art throughout the past few years, Liz said, the popularity for this type of art has also increased — with enthusiasm.

“Burlesque is getting a resurgence, it’s actually becoming a very mainstream thing, which is great,” Liz said. “It’s a very tight-knit community, especially with the invention of social media. …

It’s just kind of a big family.”

Some of the recent popularity of burlesque may come from 2010 film Burlesque, starring Cher and Christina Aguilera. But Liz said audience members should not expect a show similar to that of the film. While the movie captures the costuming and choreography of burlesque, Liz said it doesn’t do an excellent job of celebrating variety: be it through performance or through the performers casted. For a better cultural example of burlesque, Liz points to Cabaret, which features edgier, smokier performances with a wider array of artists. “[Burlesque] tends to water down the core of what burlesque is about, which at the end of the day is about celebrating variety and celebrating different performers’ body types, skin colors, sexual orientations and also what they have to say in their identities,” Liz said.

The Empire Burlesque Festival, while only in its third year, will spotlight talent of all kinds — something Liz is both excited to showcase and to learn from. Whiskey Tango Sideshow performers will be able to learn from new acts while still putting forward the troop they have cultivated over the last 10 years.

“It seems like a million years ago but it also seems like it was just yesterday [we started Whiskey Tango Sideshow],” Liz said. “That’s kind of how I feel about this burlesque thing: it feels like I’ve been doing it forever, but it also feels like I’m a baby still.” •

Top: Whiskey Tango’s performance of “The Garden of Eden”; Center: Bella Blue from New Orleans; Bottom: Perle Noire from New York City (Photos provided)

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music

Saying Goodbye

Farewell concert at The Nines features local bands

By Chr i s tie Cit rang l o

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fter 47 years of musical service, The Nines will be saying farewell to the music scene in town. After cultivating and nurturing a thriving community of artists, The Nines will be saying goodbye — but not just yet.

The Nines will be hosting a farewell concert titled “A Rock N’ Roll Farewell,” although the team at The Nines noted there are still a handful of shows to come.

Featured at this concert will be several loca l favorites: Ay ur veda, The Blind Spots, Nate & Kate, Noon Fifteen, The Rungs, Stone Cold Miracle, Thru Spectrums, Viva Mayhem and more.

In addition to rocking out with local favorites, all the proceeds from the concert will go to benefit the Ithaca Free Clinic, which makes healthcare available for uninsured residents of Ithaca. The concert combines a wealth of musical talent and genres, ranging from indie-pop to folk.

Noon Fifteen, one of the bands performing at the show, will pay tribute to The Nines with its five-piece, progressive soul band. While the group is new to the music scene — forming around the year 2016 — each member has helped pull together music inspired by 1960s and ’70s music from Liverpool, New Orleans and other cities around the globe.

Indie-pop group The Blind Spots has been making noise in Ithaca’s music community since 2008. With inspiration from Wilco, The Cars and My Morning Jacket, this female-fronted, five-piece band crafts songs that have been performed all over the country. The Blind Spots recently teamed up with other local group The Gunpoets on a single “I Won’t Give Up,” with all proceeds from the song going to fund Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes.

Stone Cold Miracle will also bring soulful f lares to the evening. Another Ithaca staple for several years, Stone Cold Miracle combines some of the top Ithaca musicians who have been working in the musical field for years. Fronted by Trece Stevenson, Stone Cold Miracle doesn’t hold back its big vocals and full-bodied instrumentation.

And what better way to send off The Nines than with local talent? With so many more artists performing iconic music, The Nines will not be going out softly and quietly: it will leave with a boom and plenty of soul. •

music

Stripped Down, Artistic Noise Naked Noise experiments with improv sounds

By C hr i s tie Cit rang l o

W

a lk ing into the Communit y School for Music and Arts on Saturday, I held my breath and tried to prepare for what I thought was going to be disjointed sounds and flashing lights for an hour and a half. And Ithaca Underground’s Naked Noise #9 was exactly that to some, but I walked out of the building that night feeling refreshed and calm, not overwhelmed and anxious.

IU hosts Naked Noise annually, transforming CSMA’s third-floor auditorium into an “ethereal sound garden, through Naked Noise large ensemble of improvised ritual drone,” IU’s website says. About a dozen experimental noise musicians play together in one space, mingling operatic voices, bassoon, tuba, keyboard, drums, synth, cinder blocks — if it makes noise, a musician used it at Naked Noise.

“Noise” refers to an experimental genre that dates back to the 1910s and is similar to ambient music. It challenges the traditional expectations of a song, foregoing melodies and harmonies and instead embracing the chaos of sound. Noise can sound hypnotic and dreamy — or jarring and abrasive. The sets at Naked Noise managed to be both.

After getting my hand marked with an

‘N,’ I dropped my coat off in the closet, then purchased a set of ear plugs before the show. I hadn’t been to a noise concert before, but the volunteers at the merchandise table encouraged me to do so: advice I now pass along to first-time noise concertgoers.

I arrived shortly after the doors opened, which gave me about half an hour to explore the auditorium before the show began. Projectors illuminated eight-bit blocks of color across different light fixtures, and coupled with the darkness of the room, the set for Naked Noise felt like an ’80s arcade. Clusters of people weaved in and around the auditorium as musicians set up in the dimly lit room, practicing a few more notes and adjusting costumes.

Then came the noise.

It began quietly, then the entire room was bustling before anyone could remember what the silent auditorium felt like.

Soft, humming vocals in the back of the room led the set, followed by the strumming of a lute. The crowd watched on, some closed their eyes, some looked like they began to pray and others swayed back and forth. The playing grew louder, and I jammed my earplugs into my ears.

A guitar player to the right of me added

Above are a few shots from different angles of the exhibition/concert Naked Noise.

(Photos: Christie Citranglo)

in some of his tunes. Then a domino-effect occurred in the auditorium, and each surrounding musician began to play. The crowd dissipated from the back and began to flow like cars in steady traffic.

I weaved between passersby as they looked at each artist, traveling from one to the next. I listened closely to each musician, focusing on sounds and zooming in on each instrument I passed. Separating the noise and f loating between people allowed Naked Noise to feel more like an art installation rather than a concert.

Each musician was an individual piece of art, and viewers passed from one piece to another during the exhibition.

Soft, droning vocals melted into loud percussive beats and aggressive waves of static as I continued to travel between the people in the room. One artist wore a black hood over her face as she played a brass instrument, and another a few feet away wore black gloves and a black mask that lit up as he played the synth: something out of a haunted house. A few shrieks rang out from the back of the room.

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My pace didn’t quicken and my heartrate didn’t rise. I moved more slowly between each musician as the set continued, absorbing the details of the artists more after another lap. While the music took on a haunting vibe by nature, the noise was still slow and ambient. I noticed a few people stopped to sit on the ground or close their eyes and stand still. The lights didn’t bother me and the sound wasn’t overwhelming, as I expected it to be. Rather, it brought me into a trance.

I moved closer to the center of the room, near the few drum sets. I stood near the sets, closed my eyes, and began to drift with the noise. And then slowly, I heard some musicians stop playing. First the brass instruments. Then the synths.

Then the guitars. Then the static. Then the drums. And last the vocals.

I heard a gust of wind after the set completed. Or maybe that was the noise continuing in my head.

Everyone applauded and cheered, and I joined in, wondering why Naked Noise only happened once a year. •

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A Film Full of Easter Eggs

‘Ready Player One’ a treat for pop-culture junkies

By Br yan VanC ampe n

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hirty years ago, Steven Spielberg was only one person with the kind of clout to produce a film like Robert Zemeckis’ cartoon-film noir mash-up Who Framed Roger Rabbit. An unprecedented — and unrepeated — meeting of Hollywood intellectual property, the film brought together Disney and Warner Bros. cartoon characters: the penguin waiters from Mary Poppins in the same scene with a piano duet between the two Ducks, Daffy and Donald. Where else can you see Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny in the same frame?

Thirty years later, Spielberg has finally made his own Roger Rabbit. It’s called Ready Player One. Based on Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel, which I am now wild to read, Ready Player One takes place in the slums of 2045 Columbus, Ohio, a dystopian world where everyone is plugged into the latest virtual reality sensation, an alternate universe called the OASIS. The OASIS is a seemingly endless database of all pop culture. Plug in and you can pick your own avatar, change it at will, dress it like Buckaroo Banzai, hit the disco dance f loor and dance like John Travolta, and even enter a road race driving the DeLorean from Back to the Future. The creator

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of the OASIS has hidden a series of Easter Eggs and challenges within the game.

The first person to solve them inherits all rights to the game.

Now the world is filled with Gunters (“egg hunters”), many hired by rival company 101 in order to control the OASIS themselves. Our hero is an 18-year-old Gunter named Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan, Mud, Joe) — his parents gave him an alliterative name reminiscent of Marvel comic characters like Peter Parker and Bruce Banner — who, along with a band of friends called “The High Five,” spend all their time trying to find clues to win the game. (A cool idea: the creator of OASIS recorded every moment of his life, available for viewing in a virtual museum.)

Simply put, this is what $300 million, hundreds of talented animators and more hundreds of pop icons can get you. It is so dense with, well, Easter Eggs, that you won’t be able to see them all in one setting. This is one movie that I cannot wait to watch frame-by-frame on home video in order to savor every detail. In one small stretch of the film I saw King Kong, the 1966 Batmobile, Hello Kitty and a movie marquee advertising the pretty-much-forgotten Last Action Hero, which got tromped by Spielberg’s Jurassic Park back in 1993.

And then…

And then the plot of the film takes Wade and his crew into a virtual theater playing Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

Meaning, they walk into the Overlook hotel. And then the angle changes, and we are now in a 3-D environment that looks exactly like the Kubrick film. The hotel bar, the elevator, the creepy little girls. In a movie filled with virtuoso set pieces, this right here feels like new territory. (Plus, I can’t help picture Stephen

Different scenes from the new film “Ready Player One.” (Photos provided)

King up in Maine, laughing his ass off at what Spielberg and his FX wizards have done.)

The wizards really deserve to share credit with Spielberg. I grew up on his movies, and most of the great moments in his career were shot with actors on sets with cameras. What he and the animators have achieved with Ready Player One is really more akin to what Spielberg did with motion-capture in The Adventures of Tin Tin. I’m not a huge fan of gamer-based f licks, but Spielberg’s storytelling skills and bleeding edge technology combine here for a cinematic experience, that, like Roger Rabbit, is magnificently entertaining and may never happen again.

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books

An Ecological Warrior

Maya Van Rossum visits Buffalo Street Books

By S e an G annon

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emedy is a contextual word.

In medicine it is a relief or cure. In law, a remedy is the means to recover a right, prevent a wrong, or to obtain redress for a wrong already committed. Our environment is under such assault that it needs remedies of all sorts, from protections created both in the legal world and the metaphysical.

Maya Van Rossum makes an unassailable, impassioned case in her book, The Green Amendment, that the ecological challenges we currently face require immediate remedies in the courts. She points out that for a remedy to occur, the courts must first recognize a legitimate claim to challenge threats to the environment. And, to have a claim, there must be laws in place that apply to acceptable action.

A chilling observation in her book is that existing laws do not ban polluting or poisoning our environment. It is not illegal in America to pollute, she writes; industry simply needs the right permits to do so.

“It is not a matter of if they destroy the

environment or poison us,” Van Rossum said in a recent interview. “It is simply a question of when and where and for how long.”

The permits they receive are sanctioned by law and, once they have those permits in place, there is little that affected communities can do to stop them. In fact, to add terrible injury to injury, attempts at saving their environment by affected peoples is very often considered criminal and prosecutable. Each chapter in her book has examples of legally sanctioned and protected ecological havoc.

Van Rossum makes case after case of senseless destruction and suffering due to the financial interests of corporate entities that are disconnected from the communities they destroy. She presents the need for amendments to our state constitutions to protect our rights to a healthy environment, arguing that we as a society need to create a framework to make legitimate legal claims around environmental protection based on constitutionally guaranteed rights, so that polluting is no longer a matter of checking off the right boxes. This way, industry will be forced to argue the merits of tak-

ing from the people their legal right to a healthy environment.

Maya Van Rossum is an ecological warrior, with years of experience as a practicing attorney, veteran environmentalist and director of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network. The inspiration behind her book comes from a story familiar to the Southern Tier community, as it is one which pitted small communities against the forces of big fracking. In February 2012, Pennsylvania Governor Tom

of 1971. Article 1, section 27 of the state’s constitution provides that, “The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic, and aesthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania’s public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustees of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all people.”

In December of 2013, the Pennsylvania

Left: The cover of Maya Van Rossum’s book, which features a foreword by Mark Ruffalo; Right: Maya Van Rossum. (Photos provided)

Corbett, with the backing of the State Legislature there, signed Act 13 into law, requiring every Pennsylvania municipality and zoning district to permit access to the drilling and fracking industry. If this were not bad enough, the law also included a medical gag rule prohibiting doctors from publicly sharing any information about the health consequences drilling chemicals or emissions had on their patients. Already keenly familiar w it h t he env ironmenta l devastation brought on in Pennsylvania by the shale gas industry, the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, with Van Rossum at the helm, signed on with several small communities as a co petitioner in the landmark Robinson Township v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania case, railing against the move.

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Supreme Court upheld this provision and in the words of Van Rossum, “We faced down a powerful, well-financed industry group with a stranglehold over the legislators and regulators and we triumphed.

Because we had the state constitution on our side.”

In her book, she wants to present pathways for others to fight back in similar fashion, hoping her work is used as a tool to help get the movement energized and inspired. To further this effort, there is a Teacher Guide in the works which will be available for free to educators.

Van Rossum will be coming to Buffalo Street Books on April 7th at noon to present her story with a Q & A session and sign copies of the book. And for a little local cred, Maya’s daughter Annika, who seems to be following in her activist footsteps, is currently a junior at Ithaca College. •

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Music

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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | (Hot Club Jazz, Blues, Swing) Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and Friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Varying Locations, , | Refer to Damodar Das Kirtan on Facebook for location schedule.

DJ Flamingo | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | (Rockabilly) Folk ‘n’ Kava | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | (Nate Marshall and Friends play Traditional and Original Folk, Jazz and Gospel Music) Wednesday Live Music | 8:00 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | (Local bands, Soloists)

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El Camino’s | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | IU: Mirah, Secret Drum Band, Anna Oxygen, ghost slut | 7:00 PM-10:30 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St,

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Ithaca | (Indie-pop, Synth) Julia Felice and the Whiskey Crisis | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NY-414, Burdett | The Skatalites, Viva Mayhem | 8:00 PM-, Saturday, April 7, 18 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Ska) Stone Cold Miracle | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | (Soul, Dance) West End Blend, Mutron Warriors | 9:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Funk, Soul) Dylan Jay | 9:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Vee Da Bee | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | (Hip-hop, Blues) Spazzare, Grand Turk, Teencat | 9:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | (Pop, Punk) Randy McStine & John Kanazawich | 9:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Ransom Steele Tavern, 522 Main St., Apalachin | (Classic Rock) Gypsy Party with Rumourz | 9:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | The Range, 119 E State St, Ithaca | Fleetwood Mac Tribute Chime of Bayonets | 10:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | 1980 Underground | 10:30 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca |

4/08 Sunday

Sixteen Feathers | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Agava, 381

Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Ithaca Jazz and Blues Jam | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Mix Kitchen and Bar, 205 Elmira Road, Ithaca | All jazz and blues instrumentalists and vocalists welcome. Hosted

by Dennis Winge Trio.

Tribal Revival | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken Bittersweet | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Jeff Austin Band, Aaron Lipp | 8:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | (Bluegrass, Rockabilly) Bound for Glory | 8:30 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Bound for Glory’s weekly live show.

4/10 Tuesday

Tuesday Bluesday with Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM, Tuesday, April 10, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Blues, Rock, Every Tuesday) Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Tuesday, April 10, 18 | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | (Jazz) I-Town Jazz Jam | 9:00 PM-11:59 PM, Tuesday, April 10, 18 | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | (Local jazz jams, improv) concerts

4/06 Friday

Blair Crimmins & The Hookers | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, Friday, April 6, 18 | Center for the Arts , 72 S. Main Street, Homer | Blair Crimmins began his current music career in Atlanta, Georgia, with a determination to bring Ragtime and 1920s style Dixieland Jazz to new audiences.

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Theodora Serbanescu-Martin | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library will host pianist Theodora Serbanescu-Martin for

a lunchtime piano concert in the library’s Ezra Cornell Reading Room.

Serbanescu-Martin will perform Beethoven’s Hammerklavier and Liszt’s Dante Sonata at this free concert.

Film

Contralto | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Tuesday, April 10, 18 | Ithaca College, Handwerker Gallery, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | A film and sound work featuring a cast of transgender women speaking, singing and performing vocal exercises accompanied by a dense and varied musical score.

Cornell Cinema Memories of Underdevelopment | 7:00 PM, Tuesday, April 10, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | The first post-revolution Cuban film to make it to overseas audiences, this film looks at the revolution through the eyes of Sergio, a middle class intellectual in his late thirties who chooses to stay in Havana when his family leaves for Miami in 1961.

Truth or Dare | 9:00 PM, Tuesday, April 10, 18 | Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell, Ithaca | A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when someone, or something, begins to punish those who tell a lie or refuse the dare.

Cinemapolis

Friday, 4/06 to Thursday, 4/12. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes and for Fantastik Film Screening times Loveless | A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments. | 127 mins R Flower |A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother. | 90 mins R Oh Lucy! | A lonely woman living in Tokyo decides to take an English class where she discovers her alter ego, Lucy. | 95 mins The Death of Stalin | Follows the Soviet dictator’s last days and

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Tea with Mrs. Potts and the entire Newfield cast of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Newfield High School, 247 Main Street, Newfield | Meet, greet, and eat with the cast of Beauty and the Beast in the Newfield High School cafeteria.

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depicts the chaos of the regime after his death. | 107 mins R The Party |Janet hosts a party to celebrate her new promotion, but once the guests arrive it becomes clear that not everything is going to go down as smoothly as the red wine. | 77 mins R A Fantastic Woman | Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend. | 104 mins R The Shape of Water | In a 1960s research facility, Elisa, a mute janitor, forms a relationship with a mysterious aquatic creature. | 123 mins R Regal Ithaca

Wednesday, 4/04, to Tuesday, 4/10. Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes Blockers |Three parents try to stop their daughters from having sex on Prom night. | 102 min R A Wrinkle in Time | After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him. | 109

min PG Tyler Perry’s Acrimony | A faithful wife, tired of standing by her devious husband, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. | 120 min R Ready Player One | When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. | 140 min PG-13 Unsane | A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear--but is it real or a product of her delusion? | 98 mins R Sherlock Gnomes | Garden gnomes, Gnomeo & Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments. | 86 mins PG Pacific Rim: Uprising | Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and 15-year-old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat. | 111 mins PG-13 Midnight Sun | A 17-year-old

girl suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight. | 91 mins PG-13 I Can Only Imagine | The inspiring and unknown true story behind MercyMe’s beloved, chart topping song that brings ultimate hope to so many is a gripping reminder of the power of true forgiveness. | 110 mins PG Love, Simon | Simon Spier keeps a huge secret from his family, his friends, and all of his classmates: he’s gay. When that secret is threatened, Simon must face everyone and come to terms with his identity. |109 mins PG-13 Tomb Raider | Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. |118 mins PG-13 Game Night | A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery. | 100 mins R Black Panther | T’Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood

victim of T’Challa’s father’s mistake. | 134 mins PG-13

Stage All You Can Eat Improv To Benefit The Sciencenter! | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday, April 5, 18 | The Dock, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca, | Immediately following improv is open mic stand-up and anyone can try it.

Each month we support a different community based charity and our April charity is the Sciencenter (http:// sciencenter.org/).

The Baltimore Waltz | Friday, April 6, 18 | Setnor Auditorium, Syracuse University, Syracuse | Beauty and the Beast | 7:00 PM, Friday, April 6, 18 | Newfield High School, 247 Main Street, Newfield | Join us in the Vincent Aiosa Auditorium (Newfield High School) on the following dates and times: Friday, April 6th (7 P.M.); Saturday, April 7th (4 P.M.); Friday, April 13th (7 P.M.); and, Saturday, April 14th (4 P.M.).

Brawler | Sunday, April 8, 18 | The Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca | Adam was the scariest man in the NHL, but that was all last season. Now he’s down in the minors and high on pills, and he just trashed the Dunkin’ Donuts Center

Special Events Commemoration of the Life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | St John’s Episcopal Church, 210 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | April 4, 2018, is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Episcopal Peace Fellowship and St. John’s Episcopal Church offer this commemoration of Dr. King, who is recognized as a saint of The Episcopal Church.

CNY Maple Festival | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Marathon, , Marathon | Record Fair | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | The space@ greenstar, Court & Fulton sts., Ithaca | Friendly and quality music dealers from across the northeast selling & buying all types of music on CDs,DVDs, & vinyl records.

Fiddlehead Frolic | 12:00 PM-11:00

Book Signing & Discussion with Maya van Rossum,

The Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca Through April 22

Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca Saturday, April 7, 12–3 p.m.

Adam was the scariest man in the NHL, but that was all last season. Now he’s down in the minors and high on pills, and he just trashed the Dunkin’ Donuts Center locker room. His friends need to talk him down before he gets into real trouble, but he’s got his own agenda, and is spoiling for one last fight. A modern-day riff on Sophocles’ Ajax, seen through the lens of the last true gladiator sport.

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Join Maya for a book talk and signing at Buffalo Street Books.

Come out and meet Maya, pick up a copy of the book, and learn about the future of environmental advocacy. Her piece, “The Green Amendment,” explores different ways to create a healthier planet. Foreword by Mark Ruffalo.

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Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Ciao’s, 2 Hickory Hollow Ln, Ithaca | Host: Joyce W., RSVP: joyceannewhite@icloud.com Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information: https://ithacawomensbasketball. wordpress.com/ QuizBowl Trivia Showdown | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Think you’re the sharpest knife in the drawer or the brightest light in the harbor? We’ll see about that.

Square Dance and Other Dancing | 2:00 PM-4:30 PM, Friday, April 6, 18 | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511 Lions Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-11:00 AM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Moose Lodge, 365 Elmire Road, Ithaca | The menu consists of pancakes, French toast, eggs, sausage, bacon, ham, hash browns, orange juice, grapefruit juice, coffee and tea. All proceeds from the event will be used to fund sight, hearing and youth projects.

Ithaca Red Tent - A Place for Women | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | We will delve deep and begin to discuss our mortality with the loving guidance and wisdom of Patricia Conroy.

Ithaca Song Swaps | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Ten Forward Cafe, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Knitters and Crocheters | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Varna United Methodist Church, 965 Dryden Rd, Ithaca | Come meet other

fiber artists and share skills with one another.

Spring Dance Party Fundraiser | 3:00 PM-5:30 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | TOiVO, playing traditional social dance music of the Finger Lakes and more, will present a DanceParty Fundraiser for the Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts (TCFA).

Ithaca-Cortland PFLAG | 4:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Interfaith Center, 7 Calvert St, Cortland | Sunday Night Alive! | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | McGrawville Church, , McGraw | Come sing with the SNA praise band and hear an encouraging word.

Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch | 11:45 AM, Monday, April 9, 18 | VFW, Rt 13, Dryden | The meal will be chicken and biscuits, tossed salad, squash and carrot cake. Entertainment will be Dennis Sargeant who will sing a variety of songs.

Teen-Only Gaming Sessions | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Monday, April 9, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Middle and high school-aged students (and homeschooled equivalents) are invited to participate in after school gaming sessions.

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PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Beverly J. Martin Elementary School, 302 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Massachusetts band the Moving Violations and caller Adina Gordon, plus George Wilson, Selma Kaplan, and local callers, instrumental and waltz workshops, jam sessions, singing, silent auction, and potluck supper.

Senior Living Expo | 1:00 PM-3:30 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Ramada Inn, 2310 North Triphammer Road, Ithaca | A series of workshops for senior citizens. This free event is co-sponsored by the Ithaca College Gerontology Institute and the Tompkins County Office for the Aging. Financial support provided by Doyle Medical Monitoring.

Raised On Radio at Cortland Loaves & Fishes Spring Fling | 6:00 PM-9:30 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Center For The Arts Of Homer, 72 S Main St Ste 1, Homer | The Cocktail Reception & Dance is an annual event. In addition to being a long standing event this is one of the largest CL&F fund raisers.

Skunk Cabbage Classic Half Marathon & 10k | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Barton Hall, Cornell Univ., Ithaca | This year marks the 37th consecutive running of one of Ithaca’s oldest and largest road races, with your choice between USATF-certified 10K and half-marathon distances.

Books Four Seasons Book Group: Pachinko | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, Thursday, April 5, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The spring pick, selected by club participants, is Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee. Pachinko begins in the early 1900s with the story of Sunja, whose unplanned pregnancy threatens her family’s stability.

Open Mic Poetry | 6:30 PM-7:15 PM, Friday, April 6, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Poems must address the theme of Who Is Me and can include original or found poetry.

Book Signing & Discussion with Maya van Rossum | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Join Maya for a book talk and signing at Buffalo Street Books. Come out and meet Maya, pick up a copy of the book, and learn about the future of environmental advocacy.

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The Kitchen Theatre Company hasn’t missed a beat all season, and the second-to-last play in the 2017–2018 season is no exception. The Kitchen welcomes the world premiere of Brawler, a play by Walt McGough. The show tackles the intricacies of pro sports and even heroism. The show will run in The Percy Browning Performance Space from April 8–22.

Brawler follows Adam, one of the fiercest and most terrifying player in the National Hockey League — formerly, that is. Adam has been knocked down to the minor leagues, and he still hasn’t kicked his old habits from the NHL days.

He plays high on pills, and his friends decide to intervene after he trashes the Dunkin’ Donuts Center locker room.

They try to talk him down before his career spirals further, but Adam will not finish until he gets one final fight out of his system: a modern riff on Sophocles’ Ajax, an inspiration for Brawler.

Healy-Yang | 5:30 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Lisa Liberman and Sharon Healy-Yang with their books Burning Cold and Letter From a Dead Man. Join for a thrilling evening with two noir mystery authors, Lisa Lieberman and Sharon Healy-Yang.

Dress in your favorite noir fashions and mingle with the authors as they read from their novels.

Katharyn Howd Machan: Selected Poems | 2:00 PM-, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Katharyn Howd Machan with her book Katharyn Howd Machan: Selected Poems.

Reading & Discussion Program for Adults on James Baldwin’s America Tuesday, April 10, 18 | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | At The History Center and the Africana Studies and Research Center, participants will come together over the course of six sessions to discuss a variety of thematically linked texts.

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Book Sale | Tuesday, April 10, 18 | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Books, music, games, movies, puzzles, and more. Come early on for the best selection, or at the end for the lowest prices.

Health Tai Chi for Arthritis | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street, Candor | Basic class (falling prevention course) Monday & Wednesday 1-2 pm at Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street. Contact 607-659-3022 or sueheaven@gmail.com 6-week Dragon’s Way Qigong Program | 6:00 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | T-Fit, , Trumansburg | Build your energy,improve your health and feel better in your body. For more info or to register call or text Shawn Tubridy @ (607) 279-6543.

Open Meditation | 10:30 AM-12:00

The actors in “Brawler” rehearsing at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

(Photo: Kalman Zabarsky) “This has been a dynamic, exciting process,” O’Gara said in a press release. “Examining the inextricable link between the heroic and the brutal, and what they each cost us, feels so necessary given current headlines. We

PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road, Ithaca | All are welcome to meditate according to their own practice.

24 Forms Tai Chi (Yang style) | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Monday, April 9, 18 | Monday & Wednesday 2-3 pm at Candor Emergency Squad building, 58 Main Street. Contact 607-659-3022 or sueheaven@gmail.com Overeaters Anonymous 12-Step meeting | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, April 9, 18 | Just Be Cause Center, 1013 W State St, Ithaca | Open “Big Book” OA 12-Step meeting. Contact Leigh 379-4858.

Chair Yoga | 11:45 AM-12:45 PM, Tuesday, April 10, 18 | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Join us for our popular chair yoga class on Tuesdays before the library opens.

No experience necessary!

Ithaca Bipolar Support Group Meeting | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, Tuesday, April 10, 18 | Lifelong, 119 West Court St., Ithaca | The group is peer-run without supervision by any medical

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McGough wrote the play with his love for hockey in mind. He grew up a Pittsburgh Penguins fan, watching the team win back-to-back Stanley Cups for the first time. But while watching hockey, McGough said in a press release he had a difficult time separating the team and the men who play on the team.

“There’s a constant tension between loving the sports, and the men that play them, and needing to recognize the toll that their abilities take on their bodies,” McGough said in a press release. “Sophocles and other Grecian playwrights were also generals, writing for audiences made up largely of military veterans. Viewed through that lens, Ajax is very clearly not just some distant, mythical story, but actually a very real and painful discussion around post-traumatic stress disorder and feelings of abandonment in soldiers after the fighting is done.”

The Kitchen Theatre paired up with the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre for this production. Artistic Director M. Bevin O’Gara — who is also directing the play — built this relationship with the other theater, allowing the playwright to develop the play with the support of two theaters. The play comes together with one design team, time to revise the play after its Ithaca premiere as well as audience response.

Hangar Theatre, Ithaca Friday and Saturday April 6–7, 8 p.m.

The Whiskey Tango Sideshow teams up with Burlesque troops from around the world to showcase a wide variety of talent. The Whiskey Tango Sideshow takes a bit of a backseat so the other performers. There will be belly dancers, fan dancers and more, and of course classic burlesque numbers.

are raising questions about culpability and how we, both as individuals and as a society, enable our heroes. We are investigating the brutality of turning a blind eye.” •

expert. We share knowledge and experience in an attempt to help each other deal with the issues of bipolar disorder.

Live Music Restorative Yoga | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, Tuesday, April 10, 18 | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | This restorative class will include singing and chanting accompanied by acoustic instruments.

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Growing Gourdgeous Gourds | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Otto and Graham Ottoson of Gourdlandia will discuss some of the tricks involved in producing a hearty, carvable crop of cucurbit containers!

Seed sources, pest management, drying, and a little bit about crafting will be discussed.

Saturday Educational Hike | 9:30 AM-12:30 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Taughannock Falls State Park, 2221 Taughannock Park Rd, Trumansburg

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Learning Writing Through Rough Spots | Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Writing can help to create clarity about challenging situations. Registration for spring classes/more info: www.

WritingRoomWorkshops. Classes offered at various times and locations.

Teens Learn the Basics of Podcasting | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM,

First Friday Gallery Night, Downtown Ithaca Friday, April 6, 5–8 p.m.

Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different artists local artists, and sometimes global.

Grab a map and travel in town from shop to shop, sampling wine and appetizers while gazing at art.

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We will hike the Gorge Trail, North Rim Trail and the South Rim Trail. Total hike mileage approximately 4-5 miles.

Hike length and exact route subject to change due to weather conditions.

Discovery Sundays | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Learn about exoskeletons, butterflies, skin and skulls, whooping cranes and much more. Visit www.cayuganature-

Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Members of the Ithaca College Media Club will be on-site to teach the basics of making a podcast.

This Is Us; Ithaca | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM, Friday, April 6, 18 | Ithaca College; IC Square “The Pub”, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca | A moderated panel discussion about adoption, family and relationships.

Historic Ithaca/Significant Elements Spring Showcase | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Significant Elements, 212 Center Street, Ithaca | Drop in for DIY basics workshops, including a class on historic paint colors with Randi Millman-Brown (10-11 am), Lighting Repair (11am-12pm), and Furniture Repair (1-2pm). Enjoy a brief tour of architecturally significant homes in the Henry St. John neighborhood at 2 pm.

Poetry Workshop with Zee Zahava | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, April 9, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This workshop will provide a safe and stimulating atmosphere for participants to create and share poetry.

Blues Guitar Lessons | 7:00 PM, Monday, April 9, 18 | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen St, Trumansburg | This workshop, led by TCFA’s Bill Gregg, will expand on topics covered in The Basics Of Blues Guitar series.

Food in Foyer: Arepas | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday, April 10, 18 | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Fall in love with arepas, a Venezuelan white corn cake sandwich.

Anita Devine will offer samples of her vegan arepas with homemade guacamole.

Gen Meredith, Associate Director, Cornell Masters in Public Health | 12:15 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Gen Meredith, Associate Director, Cornell Masters in Public Health (MPH) program: Building the Healthiest Generation in One Generation.

Learn About Lion Conservation | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Public Library will host a talk about wild lion conservation, Bob Mandinyenya, Principal Researcher of the African Lion and Environmental Research Trust (ALERT).

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Intersectional Praxis | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, April 5, 18 | Ithaca College, Handwerker Gallery, 953 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Decolonial Methods as Intersectional Praxis, a talk by researcher and novelist Emma Perez, author of Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory.

Kids Sciencenter Science Together | 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday, April 4, 18 | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Engage with your toddlers and preschoolers as you investigate how to use tools, through self-guided, hands-on activities. Learn a different science process each week and discover ways to keep the science fun going at home.

Lego Literacy | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, April 5, 18 | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | A fun weekly event combining literacy and a fun lego project.

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Friday, April 6, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and babies up to 24 months old are invited to Baby Storytime. Join us for books, music, movement and rhyming, along with early literacy tips for babies and their caregivers.

Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM-2:30 PM, Saturday, April 7, 18 | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Take part in a lively presentation about different science concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students.

Healthy Kids’ Day | 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | YMCA, Graham Rd W, Ithaca | Activities in the gym will run from 1:30-3:30 PM, followed by a pool carnival from 3:30-4:30 PM (don’t forget your swimsuit & a towel!). There will be a Bounce House, Obstacle Course, Craft Activities, Fitness Challenge, Smoothies, Healthy Snacks, Zumba and Crossroads the Clown.

Monday Storytime | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Monday, April 9, 18 | Interlaken Public Library, 8390 Main Street, Interlaken | Early literacy education thru reading, writing, talking, singing and playing, combined with a healthy snack and a quick hello to our resident turtle Ted, prepare your child for success in school.

The Better Weather String Band will play at Agava from 9–11 p.m.

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Inner Worlds/Outer Worlds: Two Views | Wednesday, April 4, 18 | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Painting and sculpture by Jane Dennis and Diana Ozolins. Dennis’s metaphorical paintings and sculptures explore the psychological and bureaucratic structures that people create to order or disorder their world, while Ozolins’s realistic paintings celebrate the beauty and wonder of our natural world.

Artwork of Mynderse Academy Students and Teachers | Thursday, April 5, 18 | Women’s Rights National Historic Park, 136 Fall St, Seneca Falls | Women’s Rights National Historical

Park is pleased to present a special art exhibit featuring the work of both students and teachers from Mynderse Academy.

The Veil of Veronica | Thursday, April 5, 18 | Ithaca College, Handwerker Gallery, , | The Veil of Veronica, an exhibition of work by Craig Calderwood, Nicki Green and Jordan Reznick that follows the mission of MOTHA (Museum of Trans Hirstory and Art), featuring archival objects in ceramics, low-craft and photography.

Pint and Paint: Sunflower Pallet | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Thursday, April 5, 18 | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 State Route 414, Burdett | Grist Iron is partnering up with Wine & Design (Ithaca, NY) for another Pint & Paint Night.

The World Bewitch’d: Visions

Elmira Rd, Ithaca | A solo exhibition featuring the highly caffeinated, lo-fi coffee art of Steve Crandall, wandering art director for a local bicycle manufacturer, making his way back to hometown Ithaca.

Comic Book/Comic Memorabilia Collection | 6:00 PM, Friday, April 6, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Bill Turner shares his comic book collection as well as his knowledge of comic book collecting.

Wall cases near the Ezra Cornell Reading Room.

New Wings and Shy Dinosaurs | Saturday, April 7, 18 | Franklin Street Art Gallery, 209 North Franklin Street, Watkins Glen | Celebrate the habitats, as well as the birds, bees, and insects of the forests, lakes, streams, and marshes of the Finger Lakes Region and beyond.

Stirrings of Spring | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Sunday, April 8, 18 | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | Come celebrate Spring with artist Brian Keeler as he presents his landscapes of the Northeast in the new season.

Expanding View Project | Monday, April 9, 18 | Gimme Coffee, 506 W State St, Ithaca | Many black and white photographs depicting the architects’ on site work. Stop in and learn how the art of dowsing successfully directed the location of the newly dug pond.

June Szabo: Earth Stories, Wood and Wire Sculpture | Tuesday, April 10, 18 | Leidenfrost Vineyards, 5677 State Route 414, Hector |

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Ramada Inn, Ithaca Saturday, April 7, 1–3:30 p.m.

Massachusetts band the Moving Violations and caller Adina Gordon, plus George Wilson, Selma Kaplan, and local callers, instrumental and waltz workshops, jam sessions, singing, silent auction, and potluck supper. Beginners welcome. No partner needed; all dances taught.

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Spotlight Exhibit| Friday, April 6, 18 | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Featuring five artists working in a variety of mediums; clay, watercolor, and oil.

Bill Pesce Sunday Paintings | Friday, April 6, 18 | Cooperative Gallery 213, 213 State Street, Binghamton | Bill Pesce, a commercial artist for 41 years, maintained his interest in art by painting on Sundays, samples of which will be on display.

Who Is Me? | Friday, April 6, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Curated by x rance, Who Is Me? caresses the tongue of AAVE (African American Vernacular English) to tackle the biggest existential question of all: Who am I? This April through June , x rance curates their first exhibition.

First Friday in Auburn | Friday, April 6, 18 | Downtown Auburn | Pop-Up Open Art Hive | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, Friday, April 6, 18 | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Pop-Up Open Art Hive is back again at the library. Everyone is invited to explore the artist within and create with the community. Located in the area adjacent to the Avenue of the Friends.

First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, April 6, 18 | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different artists local artists, and sometimes global.

First Friday Art Night-Jill Hoffman | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Friday, April 6, 18 | Museum Of The Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Visit the Museum of the Earth on First Friday Art Night to see mixed media animal portraits with a supernatural twist by Ithaca artist Jill Hoffman. The Museum will be open for extended evening hours for this show in the Museum’s Gift Shop.

Drinking black coffee by Steve Crandall | 5:00 PM-9:00 PM, Friday, April 6, 18 | Grayhaven Motel, 657

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