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Town of Newfield

means eggs can be retrieved without City of Ithaca entering their portion of the house, and cleanup is easy enough, Zerilli said: “They [poop] on the New York Times every day” and the full broadsheet pages are rolled up and discarded.

The planning committee saw a picture of their garden, and Zerilli passed around a bag of “brown gold” produced by her chickens so alderpeoples could give their hen Amanda Zerilli and product an olfactory inspection.

William Skipper first moved Skipper and Zerilli checked with their four egg-laying hens into neighbors before their daughter’s getting chickens, playhouse a year they said, and and a half ago, out by the they “were under chicken coop is the impression where they drink the city would not their wine in the be enforcing the evening—the ban” on backyard cleanest smelling chickens. portion of the The Pearsall property, they Place residents said. were reported Jeanfor keeping Marie Law was illegal backyard another citizen chickens in June who appeared by an anonymous to support the tipster, one legalization in a spate of of backyard complaints that chickens. brought the issue Law told the to the attention of committee that officials and has there has been people talking discussion of about how poultry forming a group can be kept to help educate responsibly within possible chicken city limits. owners, a group “Our Amanda Zerilli with Ithaca chicken of “Chicken experience has (Photo: Josh Brokaw) Commandos” been completely or the positive,” “Cluckatariat.”

Zerilli told the Planning and Economic “We’re starting to look kind of silly Development committee on Aug. 12. “The complaint that was made was not made by that we can’t get something together,” Law said. anyone who lives near us … the chickens That a “sustainably-minded” town like have brought our neighborhood together.”

Ithaca didn’t already have an ordinance Neighborhood kids come by to visit allowing chickens was a surprise to “the girls”—named Amelia, Brownie, Gretchen Anderson, an author and Indie, and Little One—and a friend’s backyard chicken advocate from Idaho daughter helps feed and clean the chicken house when the couple goes out of town. continued on page 4 A hinged lid above the hens’ laying place

Absence of Zoning Getting Real About Decides Mente Case Raising Chickens

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he Town of Newfield won in court—again. At the start of the year, Alternative Waste Services owner Bob Mente’s first lawsuit against the town was dismissed, and now the more recent second and third lawsuits have been dismissed as well.

Both parties went to court on July 30 and then returned there on Aug. 12.

Judge Judith O’Shea—a Chemung County Supreme Court judge who stepped in to cover the case due to conflicts of interest with other judges—issued a decision in the town’s favor.

One of the lawsuits, filed in May, alleged that the town had used the wrong type of State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) review before passing a local law banning the construction of solid waste transfer facilities in the town of Newfield. The law—Local Law #1 of 2015—foiled Mente’s plans to build a waste transfer station at his Bishop Road trash hauling business.

In an effort to force the town to overturn its ban, Mente sued over the type of environmental review used.

Before passing the ban in February, the town used a short Environmental Assessment Form (EAF), which is the requirement for “unlisted” actions—those changes that do not meet the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) criteria for either a Type I or a Type II action. Type I actions are those likely to have a significant environmental impact, while Type II actions do not. Type I actions—which require the use of a full EAF—include, among other things, “the adoption of changes in the allowable uses within any zoning district, affecting 25 or more acres of the district.” In short, O’Shea determined that because Newfield has no zoning the correct type of environmental review had been used.

Further, regarding Mente’s claims that the environmental review conducted was not sufficient, she wrote, “In reviewing the record in its entirety, and the fact that technical procedural compliance with SEQRA requirements are not always fatal to an agency’s action, it cannot be said that respondent [Town of Newfield] failed to take a requisite ‘hard look’ at the relevant environmental concerns of the proposed legislation, or that a reasoned elaboration for its negative declaration was absent. Here, after a public hearing, continued on page 5

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▶ Labor Day Picnic, The Midstate Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, and the Tompkins County Workers’ Center will hold the 32nd Annual Labor Day Picnic from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Sep. 7, in Ithaca’s Stewart Park. This year’s picnic theme is “Organize for Respect”.

The Labor Council and Workers’ Center invite YOU to join us and enjoy free picnic fare, music, and presentations of awards. The picnic is free and everyone is invited. Everyone is asked to bring a dish to share and to enjoy the free burgers (meat and veggie), hot dogs, and beverages.

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The Friend of Labor award is presented to a member of the community who has spoken out publicly or taken action in support of working people.

Local human service agencies, Living Wage Employers, and other organizations are welcome to have organizing tables at the event (however, please contact in advance).

For more information, contact the Workers’ Center at TCWRH@tcworkerscenter.org, 607-269-0409, or via the website, www.

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What is Something you’d like someone new to the area to know about this place?

“ I want people to get out and go see Trumansburg!”

—Avi Miner

“I’d really like people to enjoy the places outside the city” —Dennis Hartley

“I would like people to appreciate and develop the diversity of the community.”

—Roy Despaigne

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n Saturday morning, Aug. 22, patrons of the 19th Great Recycle Sale will find rooms full of clothing, books, housewares, textiles, electronics, sporting goods, furniture, and art set up throughout the Unitarian Church at Buffalo and Aurora streets. All will be neatly arranged, even if some tables are a bit overburdened.

“We take a church and turn it into the Unitarian shopping mall,” said Elizabeth Einstein, one of the many volunteers who make the Recycle Sale happen. “It’s fun to watch the transition … We can’t start taking in items until June, or all of our classrooms would be full.”

All week long, volunteers were sorting, pricing, and organizing items in the various rooms. On Monday, tables were already filling up with clothing and the sort pile still towered near the room’s ceiling, putting the most unrepentant laundry-day procrastinator’s hamper to shame.

One of the problems with going through all the things are the number that one wants to take home, clothing “department manager” Nancy Miller said.

“We get in the most amazing things,” Miller said. “We just found some cashmere sweaters, evening gowns, Eileen Fisher.”

Einstein figured by lunchtime she had bought another pair of shoes, “ugly but comfortable,” after using them to take a painting to Solà gallery for an assessment.

Downstairs in the sanctuary, Donna Faivre-Roberts was laying out paintings and posters and prints and tapestries for

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who will be speaking at 6 p.m. on Aug. 19 at the Cornell Cooperative Extension, 615 Willow Ave. Anderson’s family had chickens when she was a child in Salt Lake City, and she says her family “did all the wrong things.” After reading an article in the New Yorker in 2009, she set up a Google alert for backyard chickens that led to her writing The Backyard Chicken Fight, released in 2011. She has kept chickens in the Boise suburbs since 2010. The City of Boise passed an urban farming ordinance three years ago that Anderson mentioned as one possible model for Ithaca, which also permits ducks, rabbits, and beekeeping. The law allows for urban farms in all districts and defines them as “Land used to grow plants and harvest food or ornamental crops for educational purposes, donation, use by those cultivating the land, or for sale locally.” u g u s t

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Carol Whitlow and Marie Benedetti, organizers of the Unitarian Recycle Sale.

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display in the pews. The high-end stuff is priced at about $100, including (as of this preview’s writing) a painting by Elisabeth Gross-Marks and a signed print by Tom Lynch. That steps down to a few bucks for “centrifugal” splatter paintings and the usual sort of visual bric-à-brac one can find at most thrift shops. The shoe section was spread across a raised platform.

Next door, in what’s usually the coffee and cookies room, the furniture section was taking form; the most vintage-hip piece there was a Westinghouse sewing machine, table included, for $60.

Another room, upstairs, contains housewares, with some nice tchotchkes displayed on a shelf and all manner of plates and cups. The pots and pans shelf “barely has anything left” when the students are done with it, Einstein said.

In other modestly sized upstairs classrooms there are linens, an arts and crafts section that includes Christmas décor, and an electronics section heavy

on ‘90s-style bookshelf stereo systems and boomboxes. There’s also a $15 manual Smith-Corona (Hip! Vintage!) and plenty of radios and other transistor-heavy playthings for that child who keeps trying to take apart your smartphone – not even a tinkerer of Philo Farnsworth’s caliber could put those back together. And let us not forget, for the active types there are sporting goods, including some bicycles; for the sedentary there’s a book room.

The Unitarian Recycle Sale opens its doors at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 22. and stays open until 4 p.m. Prices are as marked on Saturday. On Sunday, Aug. 23, hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and everything is half-price. On Monday, Aug. 24, hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and everything is free by donation; charitable organizations and others who think they can use some stuff are encouraged to come hunt. •

“There is an easy way to keep chickens,” Anderson said. “I pride myself on being a lazy chicken keeper—they’re so much easier than keeping dogs.

Dogs require so much more of me than chickens.

“You have to get the right setup in terms of food and water, a safe and secure setup. There are feeders these days they can step on. It opens the food so they can eat, but if you’re worried about rodents and pest control, that abates that situation.”

Anderson has observed a number of themes pop up in backyard chicken fights across the country, including noise, smell, and disease. Noise shouldn’t be a problem with any new city ordinance, as including roosters does not seem to be on the table.

So far as smell goes, Anderson said, “If you go by an industrial agriculture factory farm that raises chickens, it’s going to stink.”

“But if you have six backyard chickens, and you’re a thoughtful chicken keeper your place does not smell. If you

stick your head in the coop, and it smells worse than it does outside the coop, it’s time to clean it.”

The recent avian flu outbreak that spread across the country, Anderson says, is something that can be mitigated by being “very thoughtful” in what one does in their chickens’ environment.

“What happens is you live in a neighborhood where you have these walking paths and ponds, and avian influenza is spread by migratory birds— specifically ducks,” Anderson said. “You get wild ducks landing on the pond and they walk on the path. You go jogging on the paths and step in their stuff, then take those shoes and walk in the backyard where the chickens are, there’s a good chance they can get avian influenza.”

Anderson said she hopes for a “wonderful, positive resolution” to the city’s great chicken debate. Expect a new ordinance of some kind to appear on a city meeting agenda soon. •

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On the National Scene

Working at the White House

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2013 Trumansburg High graduate, Taylor Frey spent nearly three months of his summer in Washington, D.C. as an intern in the White House’s Office of Cabinet Affairs.

Cabinet Affairs “handles all the communication and policy coordination between the president and cabinet,” Frey said. “It’s one of the smaller offices in the White House.”

“Interns do a lot of what you’d imagine interns would do, working through emails and making copies,” Frey said, “but I was also exposed to a lot of meaningful policy and communications work.”

Frey helped coordinate two events this summer: one was the first White House Tribal Youth Gathering and the other was the 2015 Conference on Aging.

“There were a lot of events,” Frey said, around the My Brother’s Keeper initiative, which “focuses on how we can increase opportunities for young Americans, particularly young Americans of color.” My Brother’s Keeper was started

by Obama after Trayvon Martin’s death in 2014 and added a privately-funded affiliated alliance this May to pay for “education, job training, and mentorship for young men of color,” according to NPR. Frey said he submitted an application for an internship last winter. His first involvement in politics was volunteering for Nate Shinagawa’s congressional campaign in 2012. Frey has also interned with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia, where he said he “got to learn about organizational dynamics, how large non-profits successfully function in a difficult period in the market.” Frey will be returning to a position as student body president at Washington College, in Chestertown, Maryland, and has worked there with the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, which sponsors a history book prize and is named after Cornelius Vander Starr, founder of AIG. Frey’s takeaways from his White House experience so far include his timing and the people he worked with there.

“It was an eye-opening time to be at the White House. I had the honor of being there for one of the couple most substantive weeks of the Obama presidency, between the passage of the trade bill, the Supreme Court’s decision on the gay marriage question—which is particularly important to me—and just the increased awareness of issues surrounding civil rights.”

The White House was, “by far,” Frey said, “The most diverse place I ever

If you care to respond to something in this column, or publish your own grievances or plaudits, e-mail editor@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “Ups & Downs.”

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Former White House intern Taylor Frey of Trumansburg (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

worked in. There’s somebody from every place in the country you can meet, folks of every race and every place on the LGBT spectrum. Recently there’s been a big push to bring people from Silicon Valley into the White House. There’s not one pathway to a position like that. Everybody is working together to get things done and everybody is holding up their weight.”

“I learned just how talented the people working at high levels of this administration are, and they go into work every day wanting to serve the American people, wanting to help everyone and not just a single constituency,” Frey continued.

“No matter who you are in this country, by working hard, having good ideas and

being a team player you can often make it to the top. They’re helping folks across the country, no matter their socioeconomic background, in how to do that.”

With two years to go at Washington College, Frey says his immediate concerns are the challenges for small liberal arts schools “staying relevant in a market that’s very saturated.”

In the longer term, “I’d like to serve in a public service role or in a nonprofit,” Frey said. “I’m really passionate about helping people and don’t think I’d be personally or professionally fulfilled anywhere else.” •

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in connection with plan to build a waste transfer station.

In response to that, O’Shea wrote, “In light of the above, petitioner’s related Article 78 Petition … which sought to compel respondents to accept/approve the SWPPP [Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan] filed in conjunction with the building permit to construct a waste management facility on petitioner’s property, is denied and dismissed in its entirety given the determination made by The Court in this instant proceeding.”

Although the town has now come out on top in all three of Mente’s suits, those wins have come at a price. In July 2015 alone, Newfield spent more than $6,000 in legal fees related to defending against Mente’s suits.

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the town board determined that Local Law #1 would promote public safety, welfare, health and environment, coupled with a positive impact on environmental concerns such as air and water quality.

Thus, in reviewing the legislation, as well as part 2 of the Short Environmental Assessment Form completed by the town board, wherein the impacts of the enactments of Local Law #1 were evaluated, petitioner’s arguments are without merit.”

The second lawsuit, filed on July 7, alleged that the town and the former code enforcement officer had erred by refusing to review Mente’s stormwater management plan on the grounds that it was submitted

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▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Aug. 12-18 include: 1) Police Hiring Six New Officers 2) Policing Reforms Lead to New Questions 3) Tompkins County Sets Hearing on E-Cigarette Ban 4) Candor Teacher Comes Home to South Seneca 5) Newfield Wins Lawsuits For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Should the lake behind Second Dam be drained to stop illegal cliff jumping?

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o one seems to have a solution for the problem of people cliff jumping at the former reservoir on Six Mile Creek. The city wants the county sheriff to patrol it more frequently. The sheriff says he doesn’t have the staff to do that. End of discussion. No more ideas.

So last month 20-year-old Eric Richardson died after jumping from a cliff at Second Dam on Six Mile Creek.

He is the latest in a long line of people who have lost their lives there. Many more have been injured. Two years ago a rescue team had to go down to the dam and take someone out when they were too badly hurt to get out themselves. As our cover story in this issue documents, people are routinely banged up there and treat it as a badge of honor.

Second Dam was once a local secret. In the 1970s and ‘80s was both a nudist bathing spot and a family swimming area; things were more relaxed around here in the past.

But the advent of Internet widened knowledge of the dramatic location and the prevalence of YouTube and social media has caused Second Dam to be an outright viral phenomenon. People come from far and wide to jump off the cliffs into the turbid greenish-brown water of the former city reservoir.

Every year, as the weather gets warmer, a story we published in 2011 (“Dangerous Waters: As Swimmer Multiply at Second Dam, So Do the Problems”; Aug. 10 issue) lofts into the Top 5 most viewed stories, tabulated on the front page of our website. Perusal of

Internet discussion threads are full of the usual pining for the good old days, libeling of the “new people” who are ruining it for everyone, and a general mystification at the prohibition against swimming. You will find abundant anecdotal testimony that numbers and the level of risk-taking have indeed increased.

After David Nosanchuk died at Second Dam in 1983 the city added rangers to patrol the area. At that time they were no closer to real rangers than they are now; they had no law enforcement capability. Instead the position is something more like a camp counselor with an environmentalist bent. Rather than hectoring the county to better patrol the old city reservoir, maybe it would be a better idea to give some power to the city employees.

They should be able to write tickets, big tickets, to people who jump off cliffs.

They should be able to write tickets to people who litter and degrade the woodland by going off trail in packs.

But even this is not really a sustainable policy. People will continue to come as long as (1) it is possible to swim there and (2) the reservoir continues to exist.

Because the city water supply is now behind Third Dam (aka “the 60Foot Dam”), the only present purpose for Second Dam is flood control. An engineering study could be done to determine what kinds of dam are continued on page 7

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Microaggravated

By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r

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n the coming days we will experience the Return of the Golden Horde: clogged streets, impassable Wegmans aisles, and one hopes, an infusion of wealth into the coffers of the surviving downtown merchants. Of course, we want to be welcoming, and it behooves us as Ithacans to sync our sensibilities to those of the college students newly restored to our midst. This past March, the Ithaca College Student Government Association created an anonymous online system to report ‘microaggressions.’ It’s only a matter of time before the City of Ithaca follows suit.

‘Microaggressions,’ for the uninitiated, are “statements that affirm stereotypes about a minority group or subtly demean it, that position the dominant culture as normal and the minority one as aberrant, that express disapproval of a minority group, that minimize the existence of discrimination against the minority group, seek to deny the perpetrator’s own bias, or minimize real conflict between the minority group and the dominant culture.”

There’s a lot of room for subjective interpretation, so maybe a little practice is in order. Here are six hypothetical scenarios. See if you can tell if each is an example of microaggression and whether it should be reported or not: Scenario 1: An Ithaca Police officer pulls over a black BMW SUV and asks the driver, “Do you know how fast you were going?” Microaggression or not?

This has all the classic elements of a microaggression: imbalance of power, mirrored sunglasses, and a question designed to make the motorist feel like a criminal. Report it.

Scenario 2: A college town in upstate New York engages in an expensive and seemingly endless renovation of its downtown pedestrian mall. Seventytwo hours after the mall is reopened, a large glass panel falls from one of the architectural features and shatters. The mayor calls the contractor and says, “what happened?” Microaggression?

Yes, a clear example of reportable microaggression. There are three assumptions here: 1) Something happened, 2) it is somehow the contractor’s fault, and 3) all contractors are low-bid, cornercutting shoddy-material-monkeys. A nonoppressor approach would be to recognize that 72 hours is a pretty long time and sometimes things happen that are nobody’s fault.

Scenario 3: A Millennial says to the operator of a white 1998 Buick Skylark sedan, “nice car.” Microaggression or no microaggression?

Microaggression. Under these circumstances such a statement can only be made ironically. The obvious message is that seniors should be restricted to driving during late morning hours when the weather is clear. A non-oppressor would make fun of the vehicle behind the owner’s back, like everyone else.

Scenario 4: A college professor asks a student, “Did you do the assigned reading?”

Ithaca College microaggression reporting logs show definitively that this is an egregious example of the worst kind of microaggression. The student, who did not do the reading, feels isolated and uncomfortable.

Scenario 5: This one’s tricky, because it doesn’t technically involve a ‘statement.’

The Johnson family puts a sign next to their front door with the apostrophe before the “s,” so that it reads “The Johnson’s.” Is this a microaggression?

It had to have been done on purpose with the intent to infuriate sensible people (a minority group) who know the basic rule about where apostrophes go in a plural possessive word. So, yes, it’s a glaring microaggression. Report it.

Scenario 6: A columnist in a weekly newspaper suggests that an anonymous microaggression reporting system might be more properly located at the University of Pyongyang. Microaggression or not?

Not.

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Moosewood Against Gas Storage

On behalf of Moosewood, Inc., the 19 owners of Moosewood Restaurant unanimously join over 300 businesses and municipalities in the Finger Lakes in opposition to the Crestwood, Inc. plans to store up to 2.10 million barrels (88.20 million gallons) of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in salt caverns along the west shore of Seneca Lake just north of Watkins Glen. continued on page 7

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necessary for flood control and remove both Second Dam and the Van Natta Dam. Let Six Mile Creek run more freely along more of its length, while including provisions for public safety.

A portion of Fall Creek has been designated a Wild and Scenic River. The city and county should seek the same designation for the portion of Six Mile Creek between Third Dam and where it enters its concrete conduit next to Gateway Crossing. The Wild and Scenic River designation helped to pull in federal money for the reconstruction of the Lake Street bridge. Perhaps it could help to fund dam removal on Six Mile Creek.

All of that will, of course, take years to accomplish, if it can be done at all. What should be done until then, beyond giving city employees some law enforcement powers?

A combination of buoys, plastic matting, and fiberglass ropes could be used to cover the area of the reservoir immediately behind the dam and adjacent to the cliffs. It would then be impossible to jump from any height and actually enter the water. It would also be impossible to swim there. The area would still have to be patrolled because vandalism would continue to be a problem. And, of course, some risk junkie would probably attempt to jump on the matting. Given the liability the city is incurring by leaving things as they are, perhaps their insurance would even go down if they took this measure.

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We are opposed to plans to turn this region into the northeast US hub for gas distribution. Increased railroad and truck traffic as well as breaks in pipelines would put us all at risk.

Crestwood’s plans or any plans that expand the fossil fuel infrastructure within our state, not only pose enormous risks for our safety, but will be obsolete within 2040 years as New York transforms its energy profile to 100 percent renewable sources.

Food, wine, education, tourism and natural beauty drive the economy in the heart of New York State. The Finger Lakes draws people the world over to its vibrant and creative culture, which includes farms, parks, the arts, high tech companies, universities and colleges.

Moosewood has been developing a sustainable business for more than 42 years and we, the shareholders are happy to join our neighbors who say yes to a fossil free future. Clean air and water matter. A lifestyle that brings more health and harmony to our lives matters.

– Tony Del Plato, Moosewood Restaurant owner and Gabriel Shapiro, Moosewood Restaurant employee

number of guards required at any given time.

In addition to the overtime request, the appropriation would add $78,000 to cover board-out costs. Mareane noted that although that that jail expenses have gone significantly over budget, he said, “It’s in line with past spending.” As Legislator Jim Dennis (D-Ulysses) observed, “As long as we’ve been here, the board-out costs have always been underestimated.”

This year, board-out costs ended up higher than expected in part because the jail renovation project was expected to save $56,000 in board-out costs, but now it looks like the project won’t be done until the end of the year, at best. Mareane also said that the board-out costs have gone up because “the volume coming into the jail increased.” Sheriff ’s office representatives could not offer a specific reason for the increase.

The gorge wall on Six Mile Creek. (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) Legislator Martha Roberston (D-Dryden)—who said that she would not approve the appropriation without Tompkins County more information—said that it wasn’t Thanks to Steve Carver for taking the board-out costs she took issue with: the time to respond to my review “Boarding out prisoners … that’s really not (“Your Opinions” in Aug. 12 issue). I the problem we’re talking about here. It’s appreciate that it can be hurtful to read the overtime.” unsympathetic words about one’s art in so For the road patrol, the budgeted public a place as a weekly newspaper. It is overtime was $341,000, and the proposed not something that I relish doing or that $198,000 appropriation would bring I take lightly. Nevertheless, I have found the total 2015 projection up to about that in order to give due praise to the work he Tompkins County Sheriff ’s $439,000, Mareane explained. He said, I admire it becomes necessary to compare Office is likely to cost taxpayers “The 2014 actual spending was $377,000,” it to work that I dislike. I realize that this much more than expected this year. adding, “It’s exceeding the 2014 actual, but cuts against the grain of the local culture However, county legislators aren’t willing not by an order of magnitude.” Although wherein people admire everything—or to pay for it just yet. the Hornbook Road incident generated a profess to. I can only say that my sense of At its August meeting, the Tompkins lot of overtime in a short period of time, necessity here is hard won.

County Public Safety Committee failed to the $17,000 incurred during the standoff Apologies if I failed to do justice only forms a small to Carver’s resume. Nevertheless, I portion of the total believe that he misrepresents my work additional overtime far more egregiously than I might have expenses needed. misrepresented his.

Mareane said that I brought up his career as it became apparent an illustrator merely as a way of a few months ago contextualizing his current painting. that additional I believe it relevant, much as it would appropriations might be to a discussion of Hopper, whom I be necessary. He said, admire tremendously. (As for Warhol, I “This is a combination actually think his early illustration was of experience and his best work.) It’s quite extraordinary the projection. It’s what, lengths that some of my detractors go—or at least what I think, don’t go—to infer sinister motives and will be needed to categorical dismissals that simply don’t balance their accounts exist. at the end of the I find much to admire in illustration year but it doesn’t and other forms of popular visual art. offer a carte blanche County Administrator Joe Mareane (File photo) Indeed, I would like to write about such for unrestrained things in these pages. Alas, I find that spending.” truly vital popular art usually takes place In the past, outside galleries and museums, which are appropriate an additional $360,000 from such appropriations have often been left my usual beat. In my experience, gallery contingency funds to cover unexpectedly until the end of the year, but legislators art that takes from pop culture tends to fall high board-out and overtime costs this expressed support for taking care of it prey to what I have elsewhere described as year. Instead, they opted to table the earlier this time around. an “academic” attitude—characterized by discussion till a later date.

Mareane said, “These are very large a stale ironizing that I find as off-key as the As County Administrator Joe numbers. We understand that.” He added, use of “reference” as a verb.

Mareane explained, originally the budget “In some cases, our hands a little bit tied, I have praised in this paper local artist allowed for $185,000 in overtime costs especially in the jail.”

Jim Garmhausen. Garmhausen used to at the jail, but based on spending so Although the committee members be a newspaper cartoonist and has moved far the sheriff ’s office is requesting an elected to table the issue, Dennis told into murals and gallery-style paintings additional $183,000, bringing the total them, “You can’t avoid it. You can get more without losing touch with his roots. up to $368,000, “certainly well above information, but you really can’t avoid it.” the budget.” Mareane described the jail – Arthur Whitman, Ithaca overtime costs as “very arithmetic,” as they —Keri Blakinger Whitman is an Ithaca Times art critic. are dictated by state regulations about the

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n a recent sunny Sunday, there were dozens of people, mostly young, jumping and swimming and diving and floating behind Second Dam on Six Mile Creek. A burly man holding a waterproof camera attached to a piece of plastic pipe told his friend he had only a minute and a half of recording time left. He needed to record someone doing a “gator” to complete his archive of daring feats from friends that day.

“It’s only 28,” the videographer called out, referring to the height in feet of the cliff to the west and south of the dam from where people were jumping. “You can’t get hurt, unless you trip.”

A bikini-clad young woman watched the proceedings with arms crossed from the top of a concrete building covered in spray paint, where she had descended to make a jump of about 15 feet with friends, and then decided she was in no rush to hit the water. A few minutes later, a jumper from the 28-foot cliff smacked his face with a pop, and came up bleeding from the nose. He was all right, he told everyone; the camera man was inspired to give his own story of a jump last year on which he “ate it” and returned home with a busted ankle. A group swam across the reservoir and climbed to a higher cliff, where a rope swing hung from a tree to aid jumpers in getting out beyond a cliff perhaps 40 feet above the water. No one was attempting flips from this height, at this time.

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let him cry on my shoulder, then he says ‘I can’t handle this’ and left.”

Davies said she was told Richardson did a flip and hit face down, which “either knocked the breath out of him or knocked him out.” She was told that he jumped from the 28-foot cliff, which, by Second Dam standards, is not the “high cliff ” as was reported.

The swimmers on this evening were “all respectful,” Davies said. “I was secondguessing myself later. There wasn’t any reason to kick them out, though. They all thanked me.”

Davies was a gorge ranger from July 2012 until this last month, when she was let go by the city for an incident the same weekend as Richardson’s death. She lost her cool with a swimmer “who was mouthy,” and it was captured on video, she said.

Davies suggested the Tompkins County sheriffs, who have jurisdiction in the area because it is in the Town of Ithaca, should be down there on a twice or thrice daily basis. This was a suggestion echoed

by Barbara Nosanchuk, whose son David drowned at Second Dam on his last day of classes at Ithaca High in 1983. In the settlement the Nosanchuks reached with the city, adding gorge rangers to patrol the area was required.

“The institution of gorge rangers and some signage has had some effect, but clearly not enough,” Nosanchuk wrote in an email. “Further consideration should include daily police enforcement with

ticketing, substantial fines, towing of illegally parked vehicles and more very large signs with warning language about underwater rocks and debris. It should include how many emergency calls have been made to the area, the number of fatalities and baseline fees to be paid by the individual or families for costs involved in rescue and retrieval.”

How many people have been drowned or injured over the years at Second Dam is unclear, with limited time to research the subject. (An aspiring librarian or archivist might want to consider taking on the project of indexing the city’s historical news sources.)

Increased patrols from one party or another have always been suggested; in an Ithaca Journal story a week after Nosanchuk’s death, it was noted “efforts are being increased to block trespassers” and that the sheriff ’s office issued 28 tickets on a Wednesday. City police and sheriffs have participated in “target” days in the area about once a month since 2013. According to Sheriff Ken Lansing, more officers is the only way to patrol the area often enough to stem the tide of swimmers.

“I was down there when we tried to do a little operation down there, and [swimmers] avoided us,” Sheriff Ken Lansing said. “Moments after officers left they were back in the water. We’re not going to stop it with the resources we have—that 100 percent isn’t going to happen.”

Lansing noted that his officers have ticketed people “coming from a long ways off,” including New York City. Observers of the situation at Second Dam have been saying for several years that social media, including the cliff jumping videos, have made the spot far more popular with outof-towners than it was in previous years.

Still, the lack of enforcement has frustrated many, including Mayor Svante Myrick.

“We have 30,000 people in this city paying taxes that go to the sheriff, and they turn around their patrol cars at the city line,” Myrick said. “We ask for one thing, and they don’t have the resources?”

“I don’t think we could do anything better,” Lansing said. “I wish we could give people alternatives. It’s private down there, it’s secluded, and there’s things you can do you shouldn’t be doing, and we know that goes on. We’ll have to pray for good times and that we can have more people.”

Joe McMahon, chair of the city’s Natural Areas Commission, doesn’t buy the lack of resources argument.

“Nowhere else is there a congregation of hundreds of people brazenly breaking the law and law enforcement agencies saying there’s nothing they can do about it,” McMahon said. “In the case of Second Dam, there is an access road that goes directly there. If law enforcement drove down that road a couple times a day and into the evening and dispersed those breaking the law or wrote tickets for the various offenses, the crowds would diminish, making handling the issue that

much easier.”

Davies said she had been instructed in the recent past to not engage with large groups; and the gorge rangers’ position is not one with any sort of power.

Their role has always been advisory, rather than enforcement, and often has gone to students with some amount of environmental knowledge. “Authorities say there isn’t much that can be done about the dangers of swimming in the Ithaca area’s rocky creeks and gorges, other than to boost awareness,” reads a 1992 Journal story by David Hill on ranger Jim Lister.

Lister used “gentle persuasion” to get people out of the water.

“For awhile, the hardest problem for rangers was that the radio system at the time didn’t have reception in many places in their patrol area,” former Mayor Carolyn Peterson said. Davies echoed that complaint, saying that she only received a police radio in her second season of work. With larger groups hanging out at Second Dam, the rangers’ ability to break up the party is still that of just one or two people armed with nothing but a radio.

That safety concern has been brought up in conversations he’s had with law enforcement, McMahon said. “[The sheriff ’s deputies] and the IPD say getting around the gorges wearing bullet proof vests and 20 lbs. of equipment is too burdensome,” McMahon wrote.

“Yet the rangers are expected to, and do, go up and down Six Mile Creek wearing shorts and t-shirts. When I brought this up with a member of the sheriff ’s department he said the rangers should be better protected. How have we reached the point in our culture that the mindset of law enforcement is that even people in swimsuits are out to shoot them?”

In Davies’ experience, calling for uniformed officers didn’t do much good.

“If you do call something in, the response is so slow, by the time they get there, you know, it’s over,” Davies shrugged.

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A Murky Future A century ago, as people clamored for more public parks, there might have been a moment when the Second Dam area could have become something more respectable and perhaps safer. Take this item from the July 18, 1916 Daily Journal.

“The development of the Six Mile Creek gorge into a public park, including play grounds and swimming pools, which will be a nucleus of a system of public baths, has become an assured fact, following a meeting of the Get-Together Club at the Ithaca Hotel today, when the plans for the development were explained to a number of enthusiastic men and women.”

An accompanying letter by Cornell professor Charles Henry Hull asked for old swimming pools to be opened, as holes had been filled in by dams.

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to grow water-wise,” Hull wrote. “It is healthy, as well as pleasant; and it is not really dangerous.”

As safety requirements became more stringent, baths at Six Mile went out of the equation, though the idea has been floated time and again. “[I]f the city won a few hundred million dollars playing the lottery and wanted to spend it so people can have another gorge to swim in besides the two already provided by the state, they couldn’t do it in Six Mile Creek,” McMahon said.

“Besides the water clarity issues, the requirements for infrastructure can’t be met at any location that I’m aware of with the possible exception of Ithaca Falls.”

With legalization out of the question, and resources apparently not forthcoming to patrol the area adequately, there is one other way to reduce risks at Second Dam: remove it.

According to Erik Whitney, the city’s assistant superintendent of water and sanitation, Second Dam will need work of some kind or another in the next few years. Since the 60-Foot Dam (Third Dam) was built in 1911, Second Dam, built in 1903 and incidentally, the world’s first “cupola-style” dam with horizontal and vertical arching, has not been used to hold the city’s water reservoir.

There has been talk that the dam basin could be drained, while leaving it up to “attenuate storm water,” Whitney said, “and hold it in reserve against a 100 year or 200 year flood.”

In either case, taking down the dam or repairing it will have an “onerous” cost.

“The DEC is going to require some kind of course of action,” Whitney said.

“We’ll have to weigh the future potential use of the dam and the cost of using it and restoring it versus the cost of removing it.”

Perhaps, if Second Dam is no more, people will stop jumping. Until then, don’t hold your breath. •

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tracks built into walking paths. We brought forward Ithaca Underfoot tiles and exhibit that was there before construction, but most people didn’t even know existed. Now it will get a more front and center look.

Same goes for the art in the Commons.

Everything is much more visible, on display, for people to see and enjoy.”

In between all of that walking, there are also plenty of options available to catch your breath, Ferguson added.

“There’s going to be a lot of seating,” he said, “and a lot of places for people to sit and relax. And there will be a lot of different ways to do it: you’ve got benches, swivel chairs, moveable tables and chairs, among other places. There will be ample opportunity for people to sit. Some

Yes, there is a new playground for kids to explore while their parents grab a cup of coffee or shop for clothes. Yes, there will— in time—be a new water fountain that will perform water aerobics for viewers to spectate. Yes, there will also be new interactive kiosks for pedestrians to navigate that will help them to best decide how to wander about the new shopping-scape.

The new Ithaca Commons will have all of these things, and they will all be new experience not present or possible on its predecessor. However, perhaps the two activities that the new Commons will allow Ithacans to do are two of mankind’s oldest New Commons in use (Photo: Brian Arnold) pastimes: walking and sitting.

Downtown Ithaca pedestrian malls are built with no seating; Alliance (DIA) Executive Director Gary we took the opposite approach.”

Ferguson stressed the new design of the In addition to having ample room Commons will allow residents and visitors to wander and relax, the new design of to bask in the sun while doing both. the Commons is conducive to outdoor “Well, it’s a physical difference, so the new Commons looks different than the old entertainment (weather permitting). In Commons,” he said. “The middle is open as place of cranes, drilling and fenced off areas will be magicians, guitarists, and a opposed to the edges being opened. So it’s few different options to replenish your a completely different look, and that will thirst and appetite. change what people do, and how they do it. There’s a lot more pedestrian space on this Commons. If you think about the old Commons, you essentially had two lanes to walk on each side. Now, as a pedestrian, there are several different routes you can take. There’s a lot of travel space.

It’s become a much bigger and grander pedestrian space, and we like that. That’s a big deal, a big change.

“One of the things the open space allows,” Ferguson continued, “in addition to more room to walk, is for businesses to use their outdoor storefront more.

Previously, the fire lanes went right in front of the buildings. You can’t put stuff in the fire lanes, such as a merchandise display.

Now the fire lanes are in the middle. That will now allow businesses to spill out onto the pedestrian mall. That will make for a much interesting look. It will allow businesses to set up outdoor shopping, and it will allow pedestrians to shop outside.”

Pedestrians, in addition to bouncing from storefront to storefront, can now enjoy hidden activities to enhance their walking experience.

“There’s a lot of interesting little things built into this that people will enjoy when they discover them. There are animal

“By the time we’re all done,” Ferguson said, “we will be looking at different locations for street performers, and different places for tables. So there will be different locations that will be put in place so that there’s always something going on in the Commons for people to enjoy and experience. The new design allows for that to happen. Same goes for vending spots.

The Commons is going to start feeling like it used to—but new improved. There will always be something going on—you’ll be able to count on coming to the Commons and finding or seeing something. That’s the idea.”

As for how the DIA plans to put its new crown jewel to use and give Commons users the best bang for their buck,

Ferguson expects there to be a learning curve. Happily for Commons users, they’ll be learning on the fly.

“From a programming viewpoint,” he said, “it’s up to us to figure out the question of ‘How do we best use this space?’ We’re still trying to figure that out, in all honesty.

The Commons celebration weekend will be our first time testing it out. We’ll be following that up with a major concert.

That will lead into Apple Harvest Festival.

So there is going to be a lot of events for people to look forward to, and we’ll be learning as these events go on how to best utilize this new space.” • The reopening celebration is Aug. 28-29.

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• • • I had an experience last week that reminded me how awesome I once was, and brought back great memories of a magical time in my life. Those long-ago and far-away experiences also led to the coolest thing on my resume …

In 1981 I had just returned from Santa Cruz, where I had lived for two and a half years while furthering my education. I had recently been hired by Cornell Athletics, and I attended the department picnic after working there for a few months, and someone produced a Frisbee. I did some beach-worthy tricks, snapped off a few crisp throws from several different angles, executed a few slick behind-the-back catches, and the Director of Physical Education approached me.

He said, “I pride myself on offering a diverse set of course offerings, and I have never seen anyone do those things with a Frisbee. Would you consider submitting a curriculum proposal and Ellyn Grant-Keane (Photo: Ithaca College Photography) teaching students to do these things?” I said, “You want to pay me to do this?”

He confirmed that was indeed the case, contributor to the highly respected and I told him, “My Santa Cruz buddies women’s soccer program. While wearing will bow to me. I’ll do it.” the Bomber blue, Grant-Keane played in I was in Santa Cruz last week, on my 85 career games, and over the course of favorite beach, being marginally awesome, her four seasons, she scored 21 goals and and I even pulled off a few of those throws recorded 30 assists, marking the highest and catches. Looking at the iPhone footage assist total in Bomber history. Two of my daughter took reminded me that I her season-assist totals rank in the topstill have some moves, and my sore back 10, including an 11-assist effort (2012) reminded me that 34 years goes by in the that ranks tied for second all-time. Her blink of an eye.

72 career-points rank tied for ninth in • • • program history.

I’d like to extend my condolences to Ellyn told me, “I’m so excited to start Bob Martin’s family on the loss of Lida, this new journey, and to actually be back with two classes I played with.” I asked her Bob’s wife and the mother of Cindy, Connie and Robin. The Martins were if going from teammate to coach might Ithaca’s “First Family of Fitness” for many have a downside, and she offered, “It will years, as they owned and operated the be a transition, but I don’t see a downside.

Ithaca Fitness Center on Third Street.

I know them on the field—and how they Many local fitness enthusiasts still say react to certain game situations—and now there has never been—nor will there ever I’m looking forward to getting to know be—a club that compares to IFC, as Bob them as a coach.”

I spoke with head coach Mindy Quigg, poured a large portion of his profits into the newest and most effective equipment who had this to say: “I have known Ellyn available at the time. Bob Martin is now in for a long time, and her expectations his 80s, and he has trained thousands of have always been very high—for herself Ithacans for well over a half century, first at and for the people around her.” Mindy Cornell, then at his gymnastics club, then added, “The fact that she’s a local, and at Ithaca Fitness Center and now at Island she is so familiar with the area, and with Health and Fitness. Lida held down the the college, and with the women’s soccer fort while Bob, Cindy, Connie and Robin program will enable us to just get moving worked at IFC, and she was a very sweet forward really quickly.” To “hit the ground and classy lady. • running,” so to speak? “That,” Quigg said, ot so long ago, I was writing about a kid from Lansing, noting that it appeared that she would “go places” as a soccer player. Ellyn GrantKeane did go places, and now she’s back.

After recently serving in a number of roles at the Inside Lacrosse offices in Baltimore, Maryland, Ellyn’s alma mater, Ithaca College, has hired her as an assistant coach for women’s soccer.

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thaca is a fine town for fine art printmaking.

Downtown, the Ink Shop Printmaking Center provides a cooperative studio and hosts exhibitions featuring its local members, as well as contemporary print artists from around the world. The Solá Gallery features traditional and modern Japanese pieces alongside a wide range of prints and decorative works. Up on the hill, of course, is the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell, with its near-encyclopedic collection and diverse and thoughtful special exhibitions focusing on the art.

For the Johnson’s current exhibit “Imprint/ In Print,” Nancy E. Green, Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, has assembled a large array of mostly European and American prints ranging from the early Renaissance to the contemporary. It fills the Bartels Gallery, a large fish tank-like room immediately beneath the lobby of the original building—a better setting for the contemporary work, which tends towards the larger and more colorful.

The bulk of the show is organized into sections dedicated to the primary families of techniques: relief, intaglio, planography, and serigraphy are the main groupings. Prints are arranged chronologically within these divisions, but the overall organization of the show does not emphasize neat historical development.

In relief printing, the inked image is

printed from a raised surface. In the form of woodcut, it dominated early European printmaking.

The rapid emergence of Renaissance naturalism is signaled by the contrast between works by two German artists: Michael Wolgemut (1434-1519) and Hans Baldung (1484-1545). Hand-colored, Wolgemut’s Creation of Adam (1493) is distinctly medieval in style, while Baldung’s Adam and Eve (1519) shows the influence of the new Italian art. Both artists share a link to Albrecht Dürer (14711528), one of the greatest Northern Renaissance artists: the former was Dürer’s teacher, the latter acknowledged as his greatest student.

Durer himself is represented elsewhere in the gallery with his superb metal engraving Saint Anthony (1519), which depicts the hermit saint as a hooded figure seated in front of a distant hill town whose pyramid-like mass he curiously echoes.

Beginning in the Renaissance, woodcut was gradually eclipsed in European art by intaglio and later developments. In the later 19th century, however, modern artists began to revisit the technique. Many of them were under the influence of Japanese and other non-Western arts or were looking back to the Middle Ages. They found the technique lent itself to the coarseness and visual immediacy that characterized the new sensibility.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) and Franz Marc (1880-1916) were key members of Der Blaue Reiter, a short-lived but influential avant-garde movement that bridged German Expressionism and abstraction. In two starkly black-and-white woodcuts here they indicate their kinship, as well as their distinctness.

Influenced by Cubism, Marc’s Genesis I (1914) develops the artist’s earlier Romantic fascination with animals and nature in a more sinister direction. Kandinsky’s Small Worlds VI (1922) shows the further development of the spiritually minded abstraction he pioneered a decade earlier.

In Sunflowers (1959) the American-Danish Walter Williams (1920-1998) creates a fanciful evocation of life in the American South. The sky is richly colored with reds and pinks.

Most of the foreground is silhouetted in black, with light-colored accents: a shack at middle distance, a flock of birds and a butterfly, a field with oversized flowers, a dark skinned human figure cradling a rooster.

Intaglio, taken from the Italian, refers to any form of printmaking in which ink is printed from incised lines. Commonly, artists use a copper plate. Methods include etching and engraving as well as tonal techniques such as aquatint and mezzotint. continued on page 39

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Into The Sky and Beyond Meditations on Time and Natural Light

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t’s hardly unusual for a local restaurant or shop to host informal exhibitions of local art. But it is rare to find a business (not a traditional picture gallery) that treats the hanging of paintings as an integral part of their mission.

Such is the case at Cayuga Aquatics, which opened earlier this summer at 704 West Buffalo Street—a ways off of the downtown gallery loop but located on the Cayuga Waterfront Trail, which has just completed the third phase of its development. Owner Steve Lowes has run a high-end coral reef aquaria business out of his area home for many years and was looking to do something different when he opened his new showroom. In his view, growing reefs is an art form and the paintings an extension of his aesthetic project.

Lowes’ inaugural show featured work

by Nicholas Down, whose fluid landscape abstractions seem like an excellent fit.

(Alas, I missed the exhibit.) The current show, which just went up, features five oil

paintings by Celia Bowers, a former local dealer of art and antiques. Her recent work interprets the colors and light and textures of the sky. All of the paintings here are on canvases 36 inches tall by 40 inches wide, which lends a neat regularity to the show.

Four of these are from her “Aurora” series, which she began in 2010 in a move away from the greater literalism of her earlier plein air landscapes. Of these she writes: “In these paintings, I have tried to capture that clarity, not photographically, but by abstracting what to me is the essence of the sky’s light as the sun rises over the horizon.” Each “Aurora” here is entitled Ithaca Dawn and numbered.

The work in this show tends either towards smooth, horizontally brushed gradients of color or choppy fields of obtrusive but bland brushwork. The former can look excessively emptied out while the former can appear overworked.

In two Ithaca Dawn pieces, however, Bowers get it about right. In XXV the sky is dominated by a solid, seemingly

impermeable, pale lavender. Small cloudlike patches of gray and pale orange offer a bit of roughening, hanging down in a gentle arc. Similarly, in XXVIII subtle processions of clouds overlay the bands of clean, sweet color: pale blues, purples, and reds that radiate luminosity.

XXIV, by contrast shows an smooth gradient of color: ranging from rose Ithaca Dawn XXVII by Celia Bowers (Photo Provided) and peach at the top to yellow orange recent series and is another strong piece. in the middle to burnt Dense rings of cloud encircle an opening orange and a strip of darker red-pink at through which shines moonlight— the bottom. Seen from a distance (or on although the moon itself appears further a computer screen) the effect is serene obscured. The piece is grainily textured and elegant. Seen from closer, it seems a with thick blacks highlighted in foggy pale bit hollow with only thin little horizontal waves acting as a an inflection—as a bit of brown-gray.

Bowers’ work, at its best, captures drawing in a watery soup of pure color. something of the evanescent grandeur XXVII, which hangs next to it, of the sky. The closest local affinity is falls into the opposite extreme, with a to the work of Corners Gallery painter thick field of dark orange and yellow Suzanne Onodera, although these have orange with hints of dull crimson and obfuscatory gray. The impasto is negligible a sparseness to them that admits of significant further development. and yet it’s the brushwork more than Lowes is looking to exhibit other the color that is up front in the painting. area artists whose works evoke natural Unfortunately the brushwork seems processes. I look forward to seeing what hesitant and awkward, self-canceling. happens at the space. • Night Sky #2 comes from a more

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Online and On-Screen Reflecting on Films and Their Stars

By Br yan VanC ampe n Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau, directed by David Gregory, available on Netflix. The Man from U.N.C.L.E., co-written and directed by Guy Ritchie, playing at Ithaca Stadium 14.

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love hearing about all those infamous film productions that drowned in money, hubris and the evil that men do: flicks like Cleopatra, Waterworld, and the 1996 version of H. G. Wells’ The Island of Dr. Moreau. The flick was a fiasco. I hated it when I saw it, and every once in a while, I’d hear some horrible production story about it. I never thought I’d get the full story, and then along comes David Gregory’s thorough, almost exhausting tale of movie madness, Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau.

Stanley is interviewed here at length; even though he was intending to direct his own script with Bruce Willis in the lead, he was thrown off the set and replaced by John Frankenheimer a few days into principal photography, with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer. The only cast member to talk about the on-set chaos is Fairuza Balk, who still seems dazed by Brando and Kilmer’s monstrous behavior behind the scenes, and tells several classic “Val Kilmer was an unbelievable bastard” stories. It’s hard to get a bead on Stanley, who comes off as oblique and cagey in his version of events. Was he disgusted by the lack of support around him, or was he in over his head?

Brando and Frankenheimer are no longer around to provide their perspective, but the great thing about these documentaries is that there’s always a first assistant director or someone in catering willing to sit down and spill the beans.

And maybe this version of the Wells story never had a hope of being any good. The best version is Eric C. Kenton’s 1932 Island of Lost Souls, but it’s never a bad idea to let people know what happens when a film goes so horribly wrong.

• • • You should know that I’m not a Guy Ritchie fan at all when I tell you that I wasn’t crazy about his big-screen take on the TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. I was too young for the show; I never saw reruns, so I couldn’t rely on nostalgia. It just felt like the stakes were too low to sustain suspense or interest. It was trying too hard to re-create the Cold War vibes that a good vintage Bond film still gives you, and worst of all, Henry Cavill as Napoleon Solo is a stylized stiff. It’s like he’s imitating Johnny Depp as Ed Wood without the wink. After this and his turn as Superman in Man of Steel, I suspect Cavill may be mercifully free of the ravages of charisma. Arnie Hammer’s a lot better, but when only half of a team

works, the team doesn’t work.

I did like the way Ritchie staged certain stunts and scenes in the background and the soundtrack. And I’ll always watch Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) in anything.

I always seem to need a speedboat chase in my spy movies, and Ritchie provides one. But it says a lot when a sequel gets

teased at the end, and none of the three leads look that excited about the prospect.

In a movie year that already has Kingsman: The Secret Service, Spy, and the latest Mission: Impossible adventure, Ritchie’s retro espionage flick feels more out of step. Maybe Cavill and co-star Arnie Hammer could use a shoe phone or something. • Read Bryan’s interview with “10,000” Saints” author Eleanor Henderson at Ithaca. com.

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Violence and Beauty Creative Space Expresses Mutation

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Liz Hallwood’s Sea Must is a subtle piece, but an interesting one. Through here’s often a moment when chaos a black and white silkscreen, Hallwood mounts, compounding upon makes use of both positive and negative itself in a whirlwind, a cacophony, space in unity, the white expanse of sky toward whatever torrential result awaits. transitioning into a sea whose water The process of coming to this point darkens the closer it gets. In certain where gravity slips from under your contexts, this image could be just a sea, feet may have been a slow one, but the lulling and calm, but here there is a ensuing stress or distress hits with a jolt hinted at tension as if a storm has just so unwavering and quick that it shocks begun and will you into a sudden, soon escalate. unparalleled The chaos is wakefulness. exactly now, and And it all began, if you choose to perhaps, with one watch, it could defining moment, unfold at any one second when moment: a fullthe particles blown rupture, misaligned and imploding on glass shattered, itself. cracking as cold But this isn’t air hit its surface. to say all chaos Part 2 of needs to be quite Mutations, a as dramatic in an show curated by Untitled by Marlena Calendario Romero (Photo Provided) apocalyptic sense.

Ithaca College Emily Gallik, Art Department’s Lizzie Cox, and Summer Scholar Kyle Brassil are each displaying figure students Andrea Aguirre and Tatiana drawing works in graphite, their use of Malkin, is now up at Creative Space space perhaps more chaotic than the Gallery, and it is an exhibit heavy with objects occurring within them. A suitcase disorder. The show features work by Ithaca College students, ranging in media floats in the air of Brassil’s Reflections of Travel, while objects overlap one another from drawings to silkscreen prints to in repetition in Cox’s Patience. In Gallik’s sculpture, all unified under the theme untitled work, the figures even vary in of tension and decay. Part 1, which was size and orientation, some standing on display in July, dealt with the time upright, others sitting upside down. It’s before the explosion: concepts of change, growth, and repetition, as the initial artist disorienting to say in the least, which is part of the point. statement proclaimed. Mutated heads Andrea Aguirre’s mixed media were present, morphing into something drawing All I Wanted Was You presents new; watercolor vision-scapes, beautiful a man and woman in feud, their backs but filled with foreboding, were overlaid turned to one another and arms crossed by pen drawings of pinecones and other while their skeletons embrace in-between natural objects that, in the context of them. Jordan Darkow’s beehive sculpture mutation, were perhaps on their way to is not without its disruption in form, dissolution. while Hanna Lee’s Ebb and Flow emanates But here, present in the gallery, with stress that is (successfully) painful is no longer the then but the now, to encounter. Some works deal with the explosions in their active state global warming and debris, namely those of ruination. Lena Forman’s untitled sculpture is the first piece in the show and by G. Greenberg and Michael Leach, and there’s cataclysm in Kerry Miley’s perhaps the strongest, illustrating eight Revelation. Buffalos inhabit Caitlin stages of an apple’s decay. Each apple is Doolittle’s silkscreen, hinting at the individually shaped, sitting next to one species’ past endangerment, and Marlena another on a wooden shelf. During its Calendario Romero wins my vote with first stage, the fruit is upright, a slight the colorful space-and-earth collision golden blush blending in with its red and deconstruction of her oil painting. tone, but slowly it darkens and bruises, Needless to say, there’s a lot to see in and falls over as it is attacked by white Mutations: Part 2, if you only dare to mold. The concept is straightforward look. • and simple, fully embodying the theme of mutation. It is all a process, occurring Mutations: Part 2 will be on display at steadily then all at once. And once the Creative Space Gallery, 215 State/MLK destruction occurs, once the apple is Street, through August 30. moldy with age, there is no turning back.

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Appearance and Reality

Prog Band Finds Deep Extensions in Their Music

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Magnaball, Phish’s 10th Summer Music Festival, August 21-23, Watkins Glen International

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he long-running progressive-art rock band Phish return to Watkins Glen this weekend for a three-day festival titled “Magnaball.” It’s the second go-round at the International Speedway for the Burlington, Vermont quartet, playing the aptly titled “Super Ball IX Festival” in 2011. After that highly praised event, which County Administrator Tim O’Hearn of Schuyler County said was both “a huge economic boom for the town,” and an “extremely positive experience,” the band was welcomed back enthusiastically.

This is a group that is 32 years old, and performing at quite possibly their highest level in decades. This is a band that is wildly misunderstood, yet undoubtedly popular, two states that powerful art often induces.

For me, Phish is all about the music.

Strangely, this is an aspect that often goes unnoticed when discussing the band. The misguided perception of appearances can sometimes dictate the dialectic when

dissecting cult phenomena. Take for example NASCAR, an American cultural behemoth. Much like Phish, it attracts a similarly devoted, religious-like fan base.

It’s fitting that one phenom should follow the other this August at Watkins Glen.

The Phish and NASCAR fan bases, while somewhat representative of the subjects they follow, cannot be pigeonholed as a direct representation of everything they represent. But unfortunately, they usually do. As Bertrand Russell writes in The Problems of Philosophy, “In daily life, we assume as certain many things which, on a closer scrutiny, are found to be so full of apparent contradictions that only a great amount of thought enables us to know what it is that we really may believe.”

I asked Brittany Gibbs, Tourism and Marketing Manager for Watkins Glen and Schuyler County, if there were any similarities between the two fan bases.

“They’re two totally different crowds, they’re absolutely opposite,” she said.

“NASCAR brings a lot of families together, a lot of people from all over New York State come here year after year,” adding, “Phish fans kind of do their own thing,

they keep to themselves.” Similar sentiments came from Tim O’Hearn, who said, “They’re two distinct crowds on opposite ends of the spectrum. Both crowds are extremely welcome here, and we’ve had nothing but a positive experience with them over the years, but they’re worlds apart.”

That is, at least without proper scrutiny they are.

Recently, while writing a small blurb about the Cheez-It 355 NASCAR event, I realized Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon of Phish (Photo Provided) I actually knew nothing about this sport, and that perhaps is something like a mix-tape, combining it may be an interesting one. diverse and compelling genres of music, Dismissing it for so long I had in fact, been and formatting it into something tangible. lying to myself. And this was unfortunate.

The varying forms help propel this band I suddenly saw the connection to the way to be continually misclassified, perpetually many people feel about Phish. With this misunderstood, and undeniably exciting. band, there’s much more to see than a At Magnaball, because of the variety, colorful fan-base and some pre-conceived you’re likely to get something you’re notions, and it lies within the music. looking for, whoever you are. I’m hoping This year’s summer tour has the to hear a heavy metal “Harry Hood”, group running wildly, loosely, abstractedly, an extra-funky “Tube”, a super-proggy and finding new patterns and extensions “David Bowie”, and a punk rock “Big Black throughout their deep catalog. Many Furry Creature From Mars”, but that’s me. think of Phish as just some jam-band, There’s something for almost everyone at yet nothing could be further from the a Phish show, and this explains the band’s truth. The Vermont musicians run the continued popularity. “We’re expecting musical gauntlet deep and wide. From around 30,000 people at the show,” barber shop to heavy metal, to funk and O’Hearn said, “The legislature gets a permit soul, to noise and prog, to surf, ambient, for over 60,000, but we’ve been told by jazz, trance, bluegrass, and new-wave, the festival goers the number should be about band flexes complex musical vigor every half that.” The announced attendance at the performance. Influenced by bands like 2012 NASCAR race at Watkins Glen was King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Genesis, Sun 90,000. That’s quite a crowd. • Ra, and the music of Bach, a Phish show

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Although William Hogarth (16971764) was also an important painter and aesthetic theorist, he is best known for his satirical prints, which greatly influenced the development of modern caricature and comics. Done in etching and mezzotint, Time Smoking a Picture (1761) is a witty and marvelously drawn parody of the then current fashion for oil paintings darkened with age.

Time is shown as an allegorical figure, a muscular nude man with a beard and wings. He is shown in profile, seated on a broken statue—one of many symbols of art ravaged. He faces a large landscape painting on an easel; while the rest of the scene appears in precisely hatched lines, mezzotint has been used to suggest the darkly toned oil. Time nonchalantly attacks the painting. While a cloud of smoke emerging from his pipe merges illusionistically with the nocturnal scene, the scythe that he holds in his other hand pierces the canvas.

Though born in the Republic of Venice, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) spent most of his career in Rome, where he was much an antiquarian and archaeologist as a printmaker, extensively documenting the city’s classical heritage. He is best known for his Carceri d’Invenzione, a series of 16 etchings depicting imaginary prisons. These capricci (caprices) are memorable for their elaborate, labyrinthine structures and their expressive looseness of linework.

Plate V, which was added to the second edition of the portfolio published in 1761, is referred to as The Lion Bas Reliefs for the two carved stone beasts that dominate the foreground at the bottom, both heavily shadowed. Built of coarse masonry and wooden beams, the towering jumble of arched construction dwarfs the dramatically gesticulating but anonymous figures that stand here and there like actors on a stage.

In planographic processes, the printing surface is flat. Chief among these is lithography, which traditionally involves drawing on stone with a greasy medium such as wax.

A key member of the early 20thcentury Bloomsbury group in England, the painter and decorative artist Duncan Grant (1885-1978), also designed theatrical costumes. He was deeply interested in the human body in movement and drew extensively from the activities of dancers, athletes, and other performers for some of his most compelling work. Even his still portraits have an impressive sense of poise.

In his color lithograph At the Ballet (1938) Grant offers a crowd’s-eye view of a dance performance. Filled-in with energetically scribbled hatching, the seemingly unassuming piece is in fact a sophisticated study of movement, distance,

and observation.

The composition is divided into two horizontal bands. Above—in pale shades of blue, yellow, gray, and white—the women stretch and lean, projecting arms and legs and angular skirts. For all their energy, they seem distant and flat. The larger lower zone is dedicated to the audience, colored darker in predominantly reddish and bluish tones.

Though seated and seen from behind, they are hardly still. Rather, they lean their heads and occasionally face each other—as if engaged in a dance of their own. Filled out with greater detail and shading than the figures on-stage, they seem more concrete, more real. The dancers and audiences seem to be in different worlds, unconcerned

Franz Marc’s Genesis (Photo Provided)

with each other. And yet their movements seem to echo each other as a mesh of diagonals—actual and implied—spanning top and bottom.

In his renowned 1947 artist’s book Jazz, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) adopted the paper cutout collage technique of his late work to printmaking using a pochoir, a stencil technique grouped here has an early form of serigraphy. The style is typical of his cutouts with simplified abstracted solid color forms creating a dynamic graphic effect.

Matisse borrowed from the circus for several of the images. Included here is Plate IV from the book, The Nightmare of the White Elephant. It’s an unusually violent image from an artist better known for his images of luxe, calme et volupté. The “elephant” and the ball she balances on are left unprinted, the white of the paper spilling in from the margins of the image.

The animal has been pierced with diagonal

red blades and the ball accented with a spiky blue star—the painful nightmare of the title. A bright yellow rectangle serves as a backdrop with rounded branching forms in black poking in from around the edges.

In serigraphy (also known as screenprint or silkscreen) ink is transferred through a mesh screen except where blocked by stencils. The technique was pioneered by commercial artists in the early 20th century. It came into its own as a fine art medium during the Pop era of the 1960s with artists interested in adopting techniques—as well as style and iconography—from mass media culture.

Allan D’Arcangelo (1930-1998) taught art briefly at Cornell during that very decade. Although lumped in with the Pop painters, his hard-edged images of roadside scenery and other man-made infrastructure recall the Precisionism of the twenties and thirties—an American postCubist “realism” that celebrated industry and the machine.

An untitled color screenprint from his Watchtower series (1973) is characteristic, with the flatness of the solid color areas playing off of the sharp use of perspective.

Karen Kunc (1951-) is a contemporary print artist and bookmaker based in Nebraska She has lectured on her work locally at the Ink Shop. Bitter Pearls (2011) combines woodcut, mezzotint, polymer relief and other “mixed media.” A wide panoramic piece, done in dark solid colors and murky tonal fog, it has a cartoonishly diagrammatic quality. Circles of various sizes link together in diagonal lines while cloud and balloon-like shapes suggest the comics more than anything in nature.

There is much else besides in “Imprint/In Print,” most of it impressively done and the overall selection generously large and eclectic. Many museum shows are done in the manner of an academic essay or book: the artworks lined up in support of a thesis, typically accompanied by profuse text (on the wall and in the catalog). The wall text here is helpful enough, but it is the artworks themselves that command attention.

One walks away from this show with an enhanced sense of the picture as a mode of art with an intrinsic significance of its own—one that can only be hinted at in words. (Printmaking is substantially continuous with painting and drawing.)

The pictures that make up this exhibition are products of their myriad times and circumstances and can only be fully understood in the context of the larger history that connects them. And yet like all art worthy of that name, they connect with something less transient in the human condition—something related to the way we perceive and comprehend the world. • T

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8/20 Thursday

8/19 Wednesday

Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | I-Town Allstars are the House Band featuring members of: Mosaic Foundation, Big Mean Sound Machine, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, John Brown’s Body and More!

Open Jam with Featured Songwriters | 7:30 PM-10:30 PM | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Join hosts David Graybeard and Mitch Wiedemann. We are looking for local songwriters, poets and authors to showcase their work.

Each week we will spotlight an artist for an hour, from about 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM, to perform (mostly) original compositions Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

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

Audition: Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Aauditions for all parts (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) on August 19th, 6-8 pm, at First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY (Dewitt Park). We’ll supply music, just bring yourself and your voice. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser

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The Jauntee, Quantum (Pre-Phish Party) | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Funk, Groove, Psychedelic, Improvisation, Bluegrass, Jam. Samuel B. Lupowitz and the Ego Band, Phryg | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rock, Southern Rock, Jazz, Blues, Americana, Baby Gramps | 8:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Blues, Jazz, Ragtime, Singer Songwriter.

Randon Schmitt, Ben Collier | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Blues, Folk, Americana, Singer Songwriter.

Triple Down | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | The Parkview Restaurant, 145 Front Street, Owego | Jazz.

Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Enjoy jazz and bagels at CTB. Hoodoo Crossing: Blues, Brews and BBQ | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blues. Rock. Ribs.

Voo Doo Highway | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | The Calaboose Grille, Main and Court St., Owego | Funk, Rock, Jazz, Blues, Soul, Reggae.

8/21 Friday

Long Day Emmett | 10:00 PM-11:59 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Old-Time, Americana, Folk.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner.

Dances are taught; dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures.

Bring a tasty treat and get in free. For directions/information, call 607-2738678; on Fridays, 607-342-4110.

The Hilltoppers | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Bluegrass, Americana.

I-Town Youth Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Jazz. Presented by Mike Treat and Greg Evans.

Rick Pedro | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Newark Valley Depot, Depot Street, Newark Valley | Depot Friday Nights.

Ragtime, Dixieland, Modern Pop, Encore | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Classic Rock, Progressive Rock, Covers by Steely Dan, The Beatles, Blue Oyster Cult, Metallica, Dave Matthews Band, and many more.

Pete Panek and the Blue Cats | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Chicago Blues, Rock.

Jim Hull | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Acoustic Folk, Singer Songwriter.

Common Railers | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Folk, Bluegrass, Pop, Americana, Old-Time.

Zydeco Trail Riders | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Zydeco, Folk, Americana, Dance.

8/22 Saturday

Paul Kempkes - Dr. K | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Solo guitar with attitude. Songs by Steely Dan, Springsteen, Supertramp, and more.

Kitestring | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Alternative, Rock, Americana, Soul, Indie.

Rapid River Boys | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St,

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Trumansburg | Bluegrass, Americana, Old-Time.

The Insect Brigade, Vacuoso | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dark Microwave Smear Pop, Electronic, Art Rock, Drone, Indie, New Wave, Dark Pop, Progressive Pop. Bonfire: A Tribute to the Bon Scott Era of AC/DC | 7:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal.

Toivo | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Finnish, Tex Mex, International, World, Waltzes, Polkas.

The Purple Valley | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM | Zugube Vineyards, 4248 East Lake Road, Geneva | Blues, Rock and Roll, Swing.

8/23 Sunday

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

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

Willa Mamet and Paul Miller | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Bluegrass, Folk, Americana, Old-Time.

Community Open Mic | 7:00 PM | Myers Park, Lansing, 1 Lansing Park Rd, Lansing | Community Open Mic, sponsored by The East Shore Arts Council. Music, poetry, comedy. All ages, all skill levels.

The Purple Valley | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Blues, Swing, Rock and Roll, Americana.

CUJE: Jazz Ensemble Block Party

Performance | 5:00 PM-5:45 PM | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Jazz.

Concert Jazz.

Ben Miller | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Jazz piano.

Lynn Wiles and Angie Beeler Duo | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Latin, Bossa Nova, Jazz.

concerts

8/24 Monday

Jeff Love Band: CFCU Summer Concert Series | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Funk, Soul, Rock.

Pickin’ In The Pasture 2014 | 12:00 PM-10:00 PM | Alexander Farm, 2515 Covert Road, Lodi | For line up see www.pickininthepasture.com

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

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

CUJE: Balch Arch Jam | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Balch Hall, Balch Arch, Cornell University, Ithaca | Enjoy a jazz performance by members of the Cornell Jazz Ensembles. All first-year and transfer students with jazz experience are invited to sit in. All other students and guests are invited to listen and enjoy.

8/25 Tuesday

Open Mic | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Corks & More Wine Bar, 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Callin’ all fiddlerswhistlers-pipers-mandos-bodhran’sflute players- you know who you are!

All Ages & Stars. Intermediate level the goal. Traditional Session style. Bring a tune to share and learn a tune or two!

EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT! Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Dan Paolangeli and Friends are joined by different musicians every Tuesday

11/13 BO BURNHAM 11/14 GORDON LIGHTFOOT 11/20 GUSTER 12/3 CITY AND COLOUR 12/4 MATISYAHU 1/29 GET THE LED OUT 2/20 THE MOTH MAINSTAGE

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Dryden Music Series | 6:30 PM | Dryden VFW, Rt. 13, Dryden | Wednesday Wing Nights at the VFM with live music.

8/20 Thursday

8/21 Friday

Skaneateles Festival: Coming Together | 8:00 PM | First Presbyterian Church, 97 E Genesee St Ste 1, Skaneateles | Mozart: “Kegelstatt” Trio; Rzewski: Coming Together; Brahms: Trio in B Major Jocelyn Arndt, Kaya and The Tellers | 8:00 PM- | Westcott Theatre, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | Blues, Indie Rock, Jazz.

Greg Allman / The Doobie Brotheres | 7:30 PM | CMAC, Marvin Sands Dr., Canandaigua | Southern Rock, Blues, Hard Rock, Soul, Pop, R&B. 22nd Chenango Blues Festival | 6:00 PM-11:00 AM | Chenango County Fairgrounds, East Main St., Norwich | www.chenangobluesfest.org Pickin’ In The Pasture 2014 | 12:00 PM-10:00 PM | Alexander Farm, 2515 Covert Road, Lodi | For line up see www.pickininthepasture.com Phish: Magnaball | Watkins Glen International, 2790 Cty Rte 16 , Watkins Glen | Three Day Festival, August 21 through August 23. Includes Farm-to-Table food setups, Post-Office options, Camping, and much more.

Progressive Rock, Hard Rock, Ambient, Post Punk, Psychedelic, Bluegrass, Trance, Heavy Metal, Dub, Reggae, Electronic, Barbershop.

8/22 Saturday

Skaneateles Festival: Roomful of Teeth & NOW Ensemble | 7:30 PM | Brook Farm, Route 41A, Skaneateles

8/21 GRAHAM NASH 11/13 INDIGO GIRLS SMITH OPERA HOUSE 8/20 THE JAUNTEE (PHISH PRE PARTY) 9/15 OF MONTREAL

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| Shaw: Partita (2013 Pulitzer Prize); Shaw: Ritornello (World Premiere); Greenstein: (World Premiere); Britelle: High Done No Why To; Garbus: Quizassa; Burke: How about NOW; Greenstein: Change Coracree | 7:30 PM-11:00 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Traditional Celtic, Old-Time, European, Folk, Dance.

Taughannock Falls Summer Concert Series: The Gunpoets | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Taughannock Falls State Park, Bath house stage, Trumansburg | CU Music: Glee Club and Chorus Orientation Concert | 4:30 PM-5:30 PM | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club; Robert Isaacs, conductor. Features a brief choral concert showcasing Cornell’s premier choral ensembles and their a cappella subset groups, After Eight and the Hangovers. Stick around afterward for a reception and information about auditions!

22nd Chenango Blues Festival | 12:00 PM | Chenango County Fairgrounds, East Main St., Norwich | Golden Novak Band, Albert Cummings, and many more | www.chenangobluesfest.org Pickin’ In The Pasture 2014 | 11:00 AM-10:00 PM | Alexander Farm, 2515 Covert Road, Lodi | For line up see www.pickininthepasture.com

8/23 Sunday

Moving Landscapes | 7:30 PM-8:30 PM | CRS Barn Studio, 2622 North Triphammer Road, Ithaca | Annual choreographers’ showcase.

Pickin’ In The Pasture 2014 | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM | Alexander Farm, 2515 Covert Road, Lodi | For line up see www.pickininthepasture.com

8/24 Monday

Three Chord Monty | 11:00 AM-1:30 PM | Sunny Days of Ithaca, 123 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Folk.

Film

Irrational Man | A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an existential act. | 96 mins R | The Look of Silence | A family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers. | 103 mins PG-13 | Mr. Holmes | An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman. Ian McKellen stars. | 104 mins PG | Ten Thousand Saints| Set in the 1980s, a teenager from Vermont moves to New York City to live with his father in East Village. | 113 mins R | regal theater

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Friday, 8/21to Thursday, 8/27.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Amy | A documentary on the late Singer-Songwriter Amy Winehouse, who died of alcohol poisoning in 2011. | 128 mins R | The End of the Tour | The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace’s groundbreaking epic novel, ‘Infinite Jest.’ | 106 mins R |

Wednesday 8/19 to Tuesday 8/25 Contact Regal Theater Ithaca for Showtimes Straight Outta Compton | The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood. | 147 mins R | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization,

Watkins Glen International, Friday, August 21, through Sunday, August 23 The Burlington, VT progressive rock quartet return to Watkins Glen International for it second festival at the famous racetrack, brining its diverse-genre-defying blend of modern music that lies heavily on the intricate chord progressions and wild soloing of its guitarist, Trey Anastasio. A Phish show is like no other concert experience, combining large arena spectacle, with intimate small club dynamics.

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Woods” comes a family comedy about the family! Call 800-427-6160 or visit cortlandrep.org to order tickets online!

Runs August 12 -22.

Escanaba in Da Moonlight | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Hwy 12 (3 mi S of Greene), Greene | Runs August 14 through September 6 | By Jeff Daniels. The great American hunting misadventure. For tickets and showtimes visit chenangorivertheatre. org eca St, Ithaca |

Notices Audition: Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 8/19 Wednesday | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Aauditions for all parts (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) on August 19th, 6-8 pm, at First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY (Dewitt Park). We’ll supply music, just bring yourself and your voice.

Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 8/20 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions.

Friday Market Day | 8:00 AM-2:00 PM, 8/21 Friday | Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N. Triphammer Rd., Ithaca | Farmer’s & Artisan’s Market at Triphammer Marketplace. Outside 8 a.m. to noon, Inside 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fridays through December.

Locally grown & produced foods and handcrafted items. Local seasonal produce, honey, flowers, baked goods, meats, pottery, woodwork, jewelry, glass, fiber arts and the Owl’s Head Fish Truck! Lots of variety, plenty of parking.

CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 8/25 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

Learning American Sign Language II (ASL II) | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/19 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | American Sign Language (ASL) is a useful and fun means of communication, and many signs can be easy to learn. ASL is used by people who are Deaf, hard of hearing, have difficulty speaking, or are non-verbal, as well as interpreters, family and friends, human service professionals, and people who want to

Common Railers,

Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, Friday, August 21, 5:30 p.m.

Ithaca’s own surf-rockabilly heroes bring their unique sound to Felicia’s this weekend for what’s sure to be an astounding night. Their take on modern Americana is diverse, dynamic, and a lot of fun; dancing the night away is something you can plan on if attending. Felicia’s is closing its doors in Ithaca at the end of this month, so be sure to come out and experience one of the city’s true gems before it’s done and gone.

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PHish: MAGNABALL,

which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons. | 116 mins PG-13 | Ricki and the Flash| A musician who gave up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom returns home, looking to make things right with her family. | 101 mins PG-13 | The Gift | A young married couple’s lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband’s past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light after more than 20 years. | 108 mins R| Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation | Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.| 131 mins PG-13 | Ant Man (3D) | Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world. | 117 mins PG-13 | Fantastic Four | Four young outsiders teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe which alters their physical form in shocking ways. The four must learn to harness their new abilities

and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy. | 100 mins PG-13 | Pixels (3D) | When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games. | 105 mins PG-13 | Trainwreck | Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy. | 125 mins R | Shaun The Sheep Movie | When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it’s up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home. | 85 mins PG | Vacation | Rusty Griswold takes his own family on a road trip to “Walley World” in order to spice things up with his wife and reconnect with his sons. | 99 mins R | Paper Towns | A young man and his friends embark upon the road trip of their lives to find the missing girl next door. | 109 mins PG-13 | Inside Out | Disney Pixar’s new film about a Midwestern girl whose life is turned upside down when she and her parents move to San Francisco. | 102 mins PG | Minions (3D) | Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.| 91 mins PG |

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be able to communicate with someone who uses ASL. Backyard Chickens with Gretchen Anderson | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 8/19 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Nationally known backyard chicken advocate, to address the issues involved in getting a resolution allowing small flocks through local governmental processes.

Art Classes for Adults | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 8/19 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@csma-ithaca. org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 8/21 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed.

No signups required. Walk-ins welcome.

The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza.

Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Ithaca College | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 8/21 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Come meet an Ithaca College Human Resource Representative, who will share their application process and the benefits of working at Ithaca College.

Cooperative Enterprise 101 | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/24 Monday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Why is the cooperative business model so unique? Join GreenStar staff for this informational session about all things cooperative. Free and open to the public, and held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Workers Rights Under Osha, Identifying Hazards in the Workplace | 10:00 AM, 8/25 Tuesday | Women’s Opportunity Center, 315 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Join us here at Women’s Opportunity Center as we welcome CARLOS from the Workers’ Rights Center. 8/25/15 @ 10am Workers Rights Under Osha. 8/27/15 @ 10am Identifying Hazards in the Workplace.

Workshops are open to the public. Due to space limitations we request that all interested individuals sign up by calling our office at 272-1520.

Special Events

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105th Annual Spencer Picnic | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 8/19 Wednesday, 8/20 Thursday, 7:00 AM-11:00 PM, 8/22 Saturday | Nicholas Park, , Spencer | Free entertainment, food, games, crafts. Friday fireworks, Saturday parade. Bingo, carnival. Family oriented. Alcohol free.

Little Voices Music & Motion Fall Registration Open | 12:00 PM-, 8/19 Wednesday | Jillian’s Drawers, Center Ithaca, Ithaca | Please register by September 5th. FALL INTO MUSIC, the nine week fall session of Little Voices Music & Motion, begins the week of September 14th with five different classes from which to choose. Locations include the Lansing Town Hall, the Ithaca Youth Bureau, and Jillian’s Drawers on the Ithaca Commons.

Please note that Little Voices classes are offered through the Town of Lansing Recreation Department, the Ithaca Youth Bureau, and independently at Jillian’s Drawers on the Ithaca Commons.

Doug’s Fish Fry | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, 8/20 Thursday | All Saints Church, Rt. 34B/Myers Rd, Lansing | Fundraiser at the All Saints Church, Lansing.

Food Truck Rodeo | 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 8/22 Saturday | Cayuga Museum, 203 Genesee Street, Auburn | The food truck craze is coming to Auburn. The Cayuga Museum has teamed up with the Syracuse Food Truck Association to hold a food truck rodeo. Live music will be provided by local favorites Molto Bene and Teenager. Featured trucks are Chicken Bandit and Toss N’ Fire Mobile Wood-Fired Pizza. Guests can choose from varied menus including Korean BBQ Chicken Tacos and 10” artisan pizzas. Cash bar for beer, wine, and soft drinks will be available in Theater Mack. Please call the Cayuga Museum, 315-253-8051, for more information.

Humans United for Global Equality (HUGE) Music & Art Festival | 12:00 PM-10:00 PM, 8/22 Saturday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Music and Arts Festival. Very impressive and not to be missed.

World Beer Festival | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 8/22 Saturday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Experience the Art of Beer at this one-day event with beer seminars & exhibits from nationally recognized beer experts on brewing beer, food & beer, beer history & other beer education sessions. All tickets can

Stargazing at Fuertes Observatory | 8:00 PM-12:00 AM, 8/21 Friday | Fuertes Observatory, Cornell, 219 Cradit Farm Dr, Ithaca | The Cornell Astronomical Society hosts stargazing at the historic Fuertes Observatory on Cornell’s North Campus every clear Friday evening starting at dusk. Free and open to the public; parking across the street. Call 607-255-3557 after 6 p.m. to see if we are open that night.

Second Annual FInger Lakes Permaculture Sites Tour | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, 8/22 Saturday | Ithaca College, 140 Phillips Hall, Ithaca | The Finger Lakes Permaculture Institute (FLPCI) presents the 2nd annual Permaculture Tour, showcasing the burgeoning practice of permaculture in our region. Last year’s tour drew over 200 participants from as far away as Pennsylvania. This year’s tours include 13 sites in Syracuse, Ithaca and the surrounding Finger Lakes region. The tours, which are free and open to the public, will culminate with a reception at the Good Life Farm & Finger Lakes Cider House from 5:00 to 8:00 pm with live music from Lloyd Graves and Friends. Site hosts include: Ithaca College Permaculture Garden, Shelterbelt Farm, Twisted Tree Farm, Permaculture Park – Tompkins CCE, Schuyler CCE Garden, Cayuta Sun Farm, Hawk Meadow Farm, Wellspring Forest Farm, Edible Acres, YB Forest Farm, Bread n Roses Collective, Rahma Forest Garden and Bitternut Homestead.

For more info go to fingerlakespermaculture.org Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 7:30 AM, 8/22 Saturday, 8/23 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. For more information, please visit http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ calendar.

Jauntee play Thursday 08/20 at 9 pm at The Haunt. (Photo Provided) be purchased at Tioga Downs Gift Shop and all Ticketmaster Outlets.

Gems From Your Attic | 11:30 AM-4:30 PM, 8/22 Saturday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Fifty historically significant artifacts (specifically donated for this event) will be on sale in order to help raise funds for The History Center. Items range from radios to rugs and portraits to plates. A wide selection of books from The History Center’s book store will be sold at this event at highly discounted prices!

Cortland Celtic Festival | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 8/22 Saturday, 8/23 Sunday | Dwyer Memorial Park, Preble | Seet www.cortlandcelticfestival.com Tioga Downs Antique Center And General Marketplace | 9:00 AM-, 8/22 Saturday | Tioga Downs, 2384 W River Rd, Nichols | Indoor marketplace and outdoor flea and farmers market.

Antiques, collectibles, furniture and more! Open every Friday 12 noon-5 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9 am-5 pm thru November 1, 2015.

Benefit Garage Sale: Tompkins Learning Partners | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, 8/22 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | 124 West Buffalo Street (corner of Buffalo and Geneva!) Questions or to donate: Sharon McGee, TLP Admin.

Assistant, 607-277-6442, tlpmcgee@ tlpartners.org www.tlpartners.org All proceeds to benefit TLP’s adult literacy programming in Tompkins County.

Since 1976, TLP has been helping adults and incarcerated youth learn to read, write, speak English, use

math and computers. Furniture, office equipment, housewares, rugs, lamps, books, artwork, puzzles, and so much more!

27th Annual Monster Marathon & Half-Marathon | 6:30 AM-, 8/22 Saturday | Robert H. Treman State Park, 105 Enfield Falls Road, Enfield | More info at fingerlakesrunners.org/ Valley Classic Car & Bike Show | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 8/23 Sunday | Newark Valley Fireman’s Field Grounds, Marean Road, Newark Valley | Family Friendly & Free! Food, Raffles, Vendors, Door Prizes, and Entertainment! Awards for every class and Best in Show for car & bike. All makes and models are welcome. Proceeds to benefit the Newark Valley Fire Dept.

Quilts, Vines, and Finger Lakes Wines Quilt Show | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 8/22 Saturday, 8/23 Sunday | Watkins Glen Community Center, Boat Launch Road, Watkins Glen | Various quilts from around the region.

165th Trumansburg Fair | Tuessday, August 25 through Sunday, August 30 | Trumansburg Fairgrounds, 2150 Trumansburg Road, Trumansburg | Annual fair features rides, food, a parade, demolition derby and much more. More info at trumansburgfair.info

Meetings Rental Housing Advisory Commission (RHAC) | 5:15 PM-, 8/19 Wednesday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | RHAC recommends to

Cortland Celtic Festival,

Kids Teen Reads Group at TCPL | 4:45 PM-5:45 PM, 8/19 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Hosted by the Tompkins County Public Library every third Wednesday in the Thaler/

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Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Opens Saturday, August 22

This festival, in its 15th year, guarantees epic fun for the whole family. With music, food, dancing, art exhibits, demonstrations, and vendors offering insight and wares from the Celtic tradition, not only is the festival educating, but it’s maddening fun as well. Some of the artists and musicians at this year’s festival include, Keith Ian Neal, Merry Mischief, Finger Lakes Pipes and Drums Band, Quona Hudson, and The Drumcliffe School of Irish Arts.

Common Council new steps to be taken to improve the accessibility, affordability, and quality of rental housing in the City of Ithaca.

Workforce Diversity Advisory Committee | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, 8/20 Thursday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Citizens are urged to participae and voice opinions.

IURA Governance Committee (GC) | 8:30 AM-10:30 AM, 8/21 Friday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Third Floor Conference Room, City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca. GC advises IURA on issues such as budgeting and finance, personnel and committee membership, strategic planning, regulatory and statutory compliance, and external communications.

City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 8/24 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Citizens are urged to participate.

Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 8/25 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Citizens are urged to particiapte, and to add ideas and concerns.

Planning and Development Board | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 8/25 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The Board reviews Site Plan Review applications, proposed Subdivision applications, proposed City ordinance revisions, zoning appeals, and other matters it is charged with reviewing.

The first museum exhibit to feature the drawings of the famous author are showcased by the collection of his daughter, Nanette. The work, entitled, So It Goes, shows another creative side to the man who penned such classics as Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, and Welcome To The Monkey House.

The drawings are spectacular and range from abstract expressionism, and graphic illustration, to cartoonish-editorial-style work. This is an amazing opportunity to see some dynamite work from a legend.

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Baby & Toddler Playtime | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, 8/21 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Early literacy program for the young ones. Meet in the Thaler/Howell room.

Babies, Books, & Bounce | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 8/21 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Free early literacy program.

Bring the young ones. Meet at the Thaler/Howell room.

Legos at the Library | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 8/22 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Weekly, free-build Lego program. Legos at the Library encourages children to use their imaginations or Lego books from the TCPL collection to create their own Lego art! All materials provided.

Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 8/22 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Every Saturday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Sciencenter: Lightapalooza! | 2:00 PM-, 8/23 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Watch local high school students demonstrate optical illusions, bending light, and making sound waves visible.

Sciencenter Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 8/23 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Invent contraptions that can move. Tinker with recycled materials and electricity to make whirling, moving machines. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Super Game On Summer | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 8/24 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This event will encourage participants to connect with other teens through the superhero-themed role playing game, Marvel’s Legendary, and a selection of other RPG and traditional board games.

Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, 8/24 Monday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play program for children 5 months to 5 years old and their parent/caregiver every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Go to IYBrec.com for more information or call 273-8364.

Stories in the Park | 11:30 AM-12:00 PM, 8/25 Tuesday | Dewitt Park, Dewitt Park, Ithaca | Stories for the whole family every Tuesday. If rainy or wet conditions, we’ll meet in the Thaler/

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by Warren Greenwood If this isn’t nice, what is?

– Kurt Vonnegut

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The extraordinary American artist Baby Gramps will be performing at the Nines in Collegetown on Thursday night.

If you love American music, and you haven’t seen Baby Gramps live, you owe it to yourself to catch this show. It will enrich your life. Trust me.

Baby Gramps is a great American original.

What sort of music does he play?

He described it to me (writing in my notebook) as “roots music/vintage jazz/ old blues/cartoon music/vaudeville/and old timey.”

And indeed, most of his repertoire has its roots deep in early 20th century American music. (I am reminded of Robert Crumb’s Cheap Suit Serenaders.

There is a similar love of American music of the 1920s and 1930s.)

Gramps cuts quite a visual figure.

He is a big, tall, bearded guy … looking like a Bohemian Santa Claus in a natty vintage suit with a big fedora and futuristic sunglasses and very cool boots.

And then there is the matter of Gramps’ voice. His singing voice is a vocal creation. He sounds a bit like a

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Books Mary Kay Worth | 7:00 PM, 8/19 Wednesday | Morgan Opera House, Main, Aurora | Mary Kay Worth presents a travel log, I Can Say I’ve Been to Africa. This program will feature a Travel Log experience with African treasures, photos, and personal stories.

Art When Needle, Thread, and Fabric Meet: Embroidery by the Chemung Valley Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 8/20 Thursday | Chemung County Historical Society, 415 E Water St,

cartoon character— reminiscent of Popeye in the animated Max Fleischer cartoons.

And, while he sometimes has other artists accompanying him, he is perfectly selfcontained as a solo act. He performs solo on a steel guitar and is completely captivating.

You will have a wonderful time.

Perhaps, on some level, Gramps’ work is so engaging because it is an extension of his personality. His onstage persona is deeply appealing … upbeat and generous and playful and amusing.

He is equally engaging offstage.

Curiously (full journalist’s disclosure), I know Baby Gramps as a friend. I met him in Ithaca, at (of all places) a laundromat on Cayuga Street, when he was on an East Coast tour in spring 2012.

He was with Christopher Yarrow, the son of Peter Yarrow (of the folk group Peter, Paul and Mary), who was on tour with him, backing him up on a washtub string bass.

And, hopelessly engaging personality that Gramps is, we became instant friends (he was fascinated that I was a cartoonist), and I went to his gig in

Elmira | The exhibit presents 61 works of embroidery including cross-stitch, needlepoint, and stumpwork by ten Chemung Valley Chapter EGA members.

At the reception, visitors will have the opportunity to view the embroidery and speak with some of the artists.

Light refreshments will be served.

The exhibit will be on display through September 30.

Humans United for Global Equality (HUGE) Music & Art Festival | 12:00 PM-10:00 PM, 8/22 Saturday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | Music and Arts Festival. Very impressive and not to be missed. ongoing State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Wednesday-Friday,

The Dock, Saturday, August 22, 8:00 p.m.

This self described dark-microwave-smear-pop band from Ithaca are indeed a unique blend of varying musical forms. Trip hop, electronica, new-wave, psychedelic, and post-punk collapse into a stylized little pool of sound, offering urban cool and science-fiction abstraction. Their sound is definitely dynamic and a welcome sight to the musical scene here in Ithaca. Don’t miss out on this engaging and up-and-coming band.

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Ithaca, and he took me to a performance of the excellent Dada-rock artist and filmmaker Purple Henry and her band at that marvelous loft club on the second floor of Chanticleer in downtown Ithaca.

(Gramps was friends with Purple Henry; she warmed up for him at his gig at the Nines and he warmed up for her at Chanticleer.)

Since that felicitous meeting, I’ve seen Gramps perform several times when he’s been on tour on the East Coast. (He lives in Washington State.)

12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Vrana and Spitznagel, Abstract Prints and Paintings | Runs August 5 through August 31 | For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@ soag.org CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Mon-Thu 9:00 AM7:00 PM, Fri-Sat 11:00 PM-7:30 PM; Sun 12:00-5:00 PM | Oil Meets Water, Sue Hertz presents oil paintings inspired by her travels throughout the world | www.artspartner.org Gallery at FOUND | 227 Cherry Street, Ithaca | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, closed Tuesdays | Dee Sprague: The Spirit of Ithaca. Oil Paintings, Folk Art, and other works. On Display August 7 through August 30 | www.foundinithaca.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Group exhibition of works

And now you can see him perform at the Nines here in Ithaca, Dear Reader.

I couldn’t recommend him highly enough.

Life can be extraordinarily painful and difficult … but there are wonderful things … and this is one of them.

Don’t miss it. • Baby Gramps will perform at the Nines, 311 College Ave. on August 20 from 8 to 11 p.m.

Visit: www.babygramps.com.

by CSMA’s visual arts faculty. Featuring paintings and drawings by artists Rob Licht, Kevin Mayer, Terry Plater, Miriam Rice, and Melissa Zarem. The variety is very impressive and showcases the School’s unique instructors. Runs throughout August and September. | www.csma-ithaca.org The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday to Friday 12 -6 PM, Sat 12-4 PM | Ian McCoy, Multi-Media Artist displays work from recent Family Fellowship. Through August 31 | www.ink-shop.org Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Road, Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM | Imprint / In Print, August 8 - December 20. So it goes: Drawings by Kurt Vonnegut August 22-December 20. More than thirty drawings by the beloved author,

in conjunction with Cornell’s New Student Reading Project selection of Slaughterhouse-Five. | www. museum.cornell.edu West End Gallery | 12 West Market Street, Corning | Monday-Thursday, 10:00 AM-5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-8:00 PM; Saturday,10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday,12:00-5:00 PM | GC Myers - Home and Land. New paintings from the collection of the artist. | www. westendgallery.com

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Miracle on South Division Street,

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The musician Baby Gramps (Illustration by Warren Greenwood)

This family comedy inspired by actual events tells the tale of a family whose grandfather was once visited by the Blessed Mother herself, and has since erected a 20-foot commemorative shrine that serves as a holy spot to the people of the urban neighborhood. When daughter Ruth decides to write a play about the miracle, many truths, turns, and questions arise. Don’t miss this excellent play’s last weekend at the Cortland Repertory Theatre. Bring the whole family!

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Fall Occupancy Downtown 1 Bedroom in Historic Building. Intercom/Security/ DW. Carpeted, Furnished. Bus near by.

Heat Included. Available August 1st.

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The City of Ithaca

is accepting applications for the following openings: Electrical Inspector: Currently, one vacancy in the Building Department. Minimum Quals & Special Reqs: Visit the City of Ithaca Website for further info. Salary: $53,610. Exam: An exam will be requried at a later date.

Residency: There are no residency requirements. Deadline: 8/26/15. Laboratory Technician: Minimum Quals & Spec Reqs: visit the City of Ithaca website for further info. Salary: $39,135. Exam: An exam will be required at a later date.

Residency: Applicants must be residents of Tompkins County. Deadline: 8/26/15.

Parking Lot Attendant-Temporary Position: Minimum Quals: Graduation from high school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma.

Special Reqs: Valid driver license. Salary: $13-15/hour. Hours: Mon, Thur, Fri 4pm-11:30pm. Tue and Wed 4pm-8pm. applications accepted until position is filled. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850. (607)2746539. www.cityofithaca.org:. The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.

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1 Bedroom Apartment Artist Garrett in Victorian House. Hardwood Floors.

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Spacious, Furnished 2 Bedrooms one with Balcony, Carpet and Hardwood Floors. Heat, Hot Water, w/s included.

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Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days r 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.26 per hr.

Applicants apply at North Central Career Center 978-534-1481 or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #5927823. May perform any combination of tasks related to the planting, cultivating, and processing of fruit and vegetable crops, including, but not limited to, driving or operating farm machines, maintaining buildings, preparing soil, planting, pruning, weeding, thinning, spraying irrigating, mowing and harvesting. May use hand tools such as shovel, pruning saw, and hoe. 1 month in experience in duties listed required.

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PPM Homes currently has 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments available to rent for the upcoming 2015/2016 year. All of our spaces are well-maintained, clean and located within walking distance of the Ithaca Commons. Full maintenance services and tenant online account management provided. Contact us today to schedule a tour. Website:ppmhomes. com Email: leasing@ppmhomes.com Phone: 607.272.1765

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3000 Square Foot + Deck & Dock. Parking Plus Garage Entry. Please Call Tom 607-342-0626

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Estate Sale - 2nd Release Model # 303 Little Rock $38,525 BALANCE OWED $15,900 ★ Model # 402 St. Louis $40,850 BALANCE OWED $17,000 ★ Model # 403 Augusta $42,450 BALANCE OWED $16,500 ★ NEW - HOMES HAVE NOT BEEN MANUFACTURED Make any design changes you desire!

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