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The Incident in Danby

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are the limits, respectively, at night. Sixty decibels is often cited as “the level of conversation in a restaurant,” so Ithacans should be mindful to keep to their “indoor voices” at all times. Trouble is, even objective standards require an authority figure to be on site laying down the law. A citizen disturbed by the neighbors’ ruckus will not be able to take a reading with a decibel-level app on their smartphones, text it to IPD, then receive an official judgment against the noisemakers with the ease one can now order a pizza from a solicitous robot. Murtagh admitted last Wednesday the noise law cannot be perfect, when

City of Ithaca

City Trash Fine System Unfair

Bring Noise Under Control at Last

thaca landlords pray the city will soon ease off the fine hammer for leaving bags of trash out front of a property. The rentiers say the city’s system doesn’t give them time to fix problems before they receive fines—sometimes big ones, all at once.

he impression is gained, sitting through a week of city hall meetings, that Ithaca’s government is the only thing that stands between public order and chaos. If the city’s ordinances were to be wiped off the earth, it seems that Ithaca’s commercial districts might fall into the appalling anarchy of a Mediterranean piazza: littered with abandoned chairs, overrun with jugglers, random BANG!s and BOOM!s filling the air. The noise ordinance passed by Common Council on Wednesday, Feb. 4 after Alderman Seph Murtagh (Photo Michael Nocella) two-plus years of deliberation is intended to be reinforcement against audible chaos. Alderperson Deborah Mohlenhoff The new noise law replaces the old mentioned the unreliability of these subjective “If it sounds too loud, it’s too seemingly objective apps. People will, loud” standard with official decibel limits. hopefully, still resolve their differences “This gives a clear, objective answer “in a neighborly way” before calling the for businesspeople when they say ‘What’s cops, Murtagh said, possibly by taking too loud?’” Alderman Seph Murtagh said. the radical step of knocking on a door “We can say ‘This is too loud.’” and asking politely the noise be turned “Too loud” is defined during daytime down. hours (7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.) as above 65 decibels in commercial districts and 60 continued on page in residential areas; 55 and 50 decibels

That’s Some Expensive Trash Landlords don’t think a stray trash bag on the porch, or a can lid that’s blown off, should cost them a ticket from the city on a consistent basis. “We want to make sure properties are maintaining a level of beauty,” said Herb Dwyer, chair of the Landlords Association of Tompkins County. Dwyer and fellow landlords say the city’s practice of fining frequently and heavily for left-out trash bags and open trashcans under the “Exterior Property Maintenance Ordinance” (number 178-3, for the curious) hurts their bottom line and causes rent costs to rise. They say these fines come well after the fact, with no immediate warnings that would allow them to show their willingness to fix a problem. “I got two notices on a Friday, in two separate envelopes: one was $25, and one was $50,” said Jim Klafehn, who owns a four-unit in downtown Ithaca. Klafehn was leaving for the weekend when he received the tickets for open garbage can lids. He continued: “On Wednesday, there’s a third bill for a garbage can lid. I got over there, and there was no can out. There was nothing wrong. I got a fourth (ticket) on Friday.” In late 2012, the cost of the first fine was knocked down from $50 to $25. That didn’t help, the landlords say, because the tickets are still their only notification, and those tickets must be processed and mailed by city court—which sometimes takes weeks and sends multiple violations in the same envelope. If the building inspector fines them for a problem four times in a row, every subsequent fine costs them $300 a pop for six months. Compare the fines for neglecting sidewalk shoveling or letting your grass grow high: $40 for the first offense, $60 for the second, and a high level of $100. One of Those Thinking Phone Things? Alderman Seph Murtagh (D-2nd) said the city has budgeted for a notification system, which is being put into place

▶ Lifton Holds Town Meetings, Assemblywoman Lifton (D/WF-125) will be holding her annual town hall meetings next week to discuss the budget with constituents, as well as listen to their concerns about state issues. The meetings will be held in locations all throughout her district. The dates for the town halls, which are open to anyone, can be found below. Members of the public with questions may contact LiftonB@assembly.state.ny.us.

The Incident at Danby .............. 8 What happened at Hornbrook Road?

Throne Game ............................... 15 Ithaca Shakespeare starts two-year cycle of the Bard’s “history plays”

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What have People done with all the snow?

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now. It will allow inspectors of all types to send pictures of a problem directly to the property owner and, hopefully, give them a chance to clean up the mess before citations get written. Immediate notice is something the landlords would relish, Dwyer said. “In this day and age, the city can take a picture, email it to the landlord, and say, ‘Here’s your warning,’” Dwyer said. “The landlord can email it to the tenant and say ‘Here’s your warning.” If the landlord blows off the city, or the tenant blows off the landlord, that’s when fines start happening.” As the system works now, those who receive tickets can argue their case with

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Whitham did mention the Hampton on Elmira Road is theirs, and Lighthouse regional manager Lisa Sheremeta says she manages five Hampton Inns in the Finger Lakes region on her LinkedIn profile. No Canopy hotels have actually been built yet. Ithaca is, by far, the smallest city to have one slated for construction. “These hotel chains are realizing there was another generation that wanted isit the website for the Canopy by to go to a suburban highway, pull in the Hilton chain, and you are promised car, and it’s very simple in the morning to a stay that is “positively yours” in grab their coffee and doughnut and leave,” a “thoughtfully local” space with service Whitham said. “I think people now want from team members who are “enthusiasts.” something that feels like Ithaca. They’re Whether the Canopy planned for 320reaching out to local 324 Martin Luther King Jr./E. artists and local vendors State St. will keep thinking of of food and drink local needs and pay enough to both service our to keep staff enthusiastic still restaurant, the rental remains to be seen. space, and in materials City residents questioned for hotel itself.” the hotel’s commitment to There will be a local labor and paying living restaurant for a tenant wages at a public information and a bar/restaurant/ session held Monday, Feb. cafe “more than likely 8, required for the project to operated by the hotel stay eligible for “Community itself,” Whitham said. Investment Incentive Tax When pitched by Abatement” (CIITAP) Edmonds on the idea of funding. That’s a tax break that an Outback Steakhouse, goes to projects that increase a Whitham replied property’s assessed value by at “Outback wouldn’t be least a half-million dollars. the most obvious choice The Ithaca Urban for this brand.” Renewal Agency (IURA) is Alt had another holding onto the property “little detail” to pitch right now, and expects to sell the developers, an idea it to developer Lighthouse picked up from a recent Rendering of the planned Canopy Hotel. This side faces Seneca Way. (Image provided) Hotels LLC, of Liverpool, N.Y. trip to Vancouver. An agreement between IURA “We stayed at one of and the developer says the these slightly boutiquey 123-room, seven-story hotel will create 44 hotels that try to localize,” Alt said, “and “What we don’t want to do is create such full-time equivalent jobs with at least 16 of a large checklist at such a cost it’s not they had three waste bins in the room. them paid at the local “living wage” rate of feasible for the project to move forward. One for garbage, one for recycling, and $12.62. All the positions are to be paid at one for compost. And we were so tickled.” The reason there’s an incentive here is least $9.75 per hour, or 120-percent of the The final site plan for the Hilton because there’s a financial gap.” state minimum wage. should be before the Planning and The developers have talked with “What if all the jobs could be living Economic Development board at their LeChase Construction, Whitham said, wage jobs?” asked resident Theresa Alt. Feb. 24 meeting, and Whitham said the though no deals are in place. “Wouldn’t that be the best?” hope is to bid the project during the Furman also asked what other hotels Residents Jeff Furman and Kirby summer and begin construction by fall. • Lighthouse manages; as is the wont of Edmonds both asked architect Scott many LLCs, Lighthouse doesn’t have Whitham, representing Lighthouse, a website advertising their properties. — J o s h B r o k aw

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whether any agreements were in place to ensure the developer works with local unions. Whitham said he couldn’t say anything definite on behalf of Lighthouse principal Neil Patel, who had car trouble and couldn’t make the meeting. Jennifer Tavares, president of the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, noted that any commitment to a developer using local labor requires defining what everyone means by “local.” “In most of rural upstate New York, it’s actually quite difficult to only use within say, 40 miles, contractors to build something of this size,” Taveres said.

the city prosecutor, Robert Sarachan, and often strike a deal. A streamlined notification system would relieve some pressure on Sarachan’s office and eliminate hassles like the one Tim Terpening of Lake Street Apartments had last fall. While out raking his leaves, the building inspector came by and wrote a ticket for a trash bag sitting out front that Terpening hadn’t filled up yet. “Obviously, no judge is going to force somebody to pay that fine,” Murtagh said. Though Terpening’s fine was dismissed, fighting the ticket in court gave him reason to do some digging in the city files. He says that from one day of writing tickets, he saw records for 68 citations that cost people $1,750, “give or take.” The issue will be before the Planning and Development committee on Feb. 11,

which might recommend a solution to Common Council. Dwyer, for one, awaits to see whether the city is more concerned about the law’s spirit, or its spoils. “Is the city using this to make money, or is the city using this as a way to enforce the law and make sure properties are maintained on the outside?” Dwyer said. It’s not that the landlords want to skate by with trash scattered over their lawns. They say they complain because this law is one that doesn’t work. “We should have a law administered in a spirit of helpfulness,” Terpening said. “Why not something that’s in the spirit of making the city cleaner, instead of something that’s enforced willy-nilly?” • —Josh

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Natural Gas Lines

▶ Eliminating the Gap, At a press conference in Albany on Tuesday, Feb. 10, the New York State Senate Majority outlined their plan to abolish the notorious Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) and its devastating impact on state funding to public schools. The Senate Republican Conference is proposing to return $1 billion to schools across the state by accelerating the complete elimination of the GEA in the 201516 state budget.

Dryden Gas Main Nettles Residents

he residents of West Dryden Road in Dryden and Farrell Road in Lansing have been getting visits from landmen since October. The landmen are working for NYSEG, which wishes to install a 10-inch pipeline to carry natural gas from the Dominion pipeline in Freeville to the Warren Road area of Lansing. Elected officials in Lansing, including Town Supervisor Kathy Miller have stated in public meetings that new residential developments in the town are taxing the existing gas supply. Our Ithaca-area natural gas distribution system is at its capacity,” said Clayton Ellis, the local Manager of Corporate Communications for NYSEG, “and needs to be upgraded to enable us to continue to provide safe, reliable service to existing customers. We also have numerous requests for natural gas service for new residential and business developments in the Ithaca, Lansing and Dryden areas. Without the new natural gas distribution main we have proposed, we will be unable to serve new customers in the area.” The project will create a loop in the local network of natural gas lines. “This distribution main will carry natural gas from an existing interconnection with DTI’s interstate pipeline in Freeville to the Town of Lansing,” said Ellis. “It will tie into our existing facilities at Warren Road to reinforce our local natural gas system. A new regulator station will also be built at Warren Road to regulate pressure in the new pipeline to Lansing. Once the new main is in service, property owners along the route will have an opportunity to obtain natural gas service. “People on West Dryden Road first received notification of NYSEG’s proposal in 2013,” said Dryden Town Supervisor Mary Ann Sumner, “when some were very involved in fighting the refueling of Cayuga [power plant]. An assumption was made that this project was related to that. NYSEG backed off for nearly a year. Meantime wellorganized West Dryden residents had begun to spread misleading, alarmist information.” Joseph Wilson is a Dryden resident and lives on Hunt Hill Road. He moved to the area in 2004 to become the principal of Ithaca High School. After he retired he started reading about hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and became an activist in the anti-”fracking” movement. “I started going to the town [board] meetings,” he said. “As I learned more about viable alternatives [to natural gas] I thought this information should be more widely known.” Wilson noted that all the current members of the town board ran for their positions not only as Democrats, but also on the “Protecting Dryden” line of the

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West Dryden Road looking east. Easements are sought for the south side of the road. (Photo: Tim Gera)

ballot. This was a reference to the lawsuit by Anschutz Exploration Company, which held natural gas leases in the town, but could drill because the town had changed their zoning to forbid heavy industry. Wilson believes that the town board should be protecting its West Dryden Road residents from a different part of the energy industry: NYSEG, an electricity and gas distributor, owned by the Spanish multinational corporation, Iberdrola. He acknowledged that two groups of residents have been attending the town board meeting since October: West Dryden Road residents and people who live elsewhere in the town, but are concerned about any expansion of the natural gas distribution network. Gay Nicholson, the president of Sustainable Tompkins and an Ithaca resident, has been encouraging the Dryden board to encourage the development of alternative energy technologies instead of continuing the local reliance on fossil fuels. Wilson practiced law in Delaware and California before becoming an educator. “I’ve read the town law and the franchise agreements [between the Town of Dryden and NYSEG],” he said, “and I see them differently [than Sumner]. I looked at the 1951 franchise agreement … it says if NYSEG proposes pipelines in the highways, streets, lanes and other public places, then if will work with the town to site them, hold the town harmless in the case of an accident, and follow all town laws.” Wilson believes that the last stipulation requires the utility to get a special use permit and go through the environmental assessment process. I have no reason to think this particular gas line is unsafe,” said Sumner. “It’s a 10inch wrapped-steel pipe carrying gas at less than 124 psi. A gas line in the Village of Dryden—which is smaller and older—was broken last year by unsafe construction activity. Gas leaked and traffic was held up, but no further damage occurred.” Further research led the former attorney to discover that standard practice when seeking an easement includes showing the property owner a scale drawing of the route and a “meets and bounds” description that

is pertinent to their property. He said that NYSEG has not provided these documents to the West Dryden Road residents, but has instead only shown them a simple schematic drawing. Ellis said that the landmen are NYSEG contractors who are working with company real estate representatives. They are simply asking for easements to a 15-foot right of way along the edge of the road. Although the landowners are presented with a generic NYSEG easement agreement, the terms of the easement, said Ellis, are negotiable. Wilson and other activists are concerned about the size of the pipeline, which they say seems over-built to supply the people along West Dryden and Farrell roads, and the identified residents of Lansing in the Warren Road area. Wilson noted that Tony Ingraffea, a local antifracking activist and Cornell engineering professor, said the pipe’s specifications greatly exceeded the needs for its described purpose. On a project like this,” said Ellis of NYSEG, “where new developments are on the drawing board [in Lansing], we certainly take into account the potential natural gas needs of those projects. We also plan for additional growth where it seems likely. It would be inefficient and wasteful to install a natural gas distribution main only to find out a short time later than it is of insufficient size.” Activists have also expressed concern that have a gas main in front of their home will decrease their property values. I have two slivers of evidence that a gas main may affect property values,” said Sumner, the Dryden town supervisor, [First,] a resident asked me when it would be completed because he’s selling his house and his broker suggested natural gas service would enhance the selling price. [And second,] Opponents say that Greg May [Vice President for Residential Mortgages at the TompkinsTrust Company] told them it might endanger their property value. It wouldn’t be hard to confirm or deny this—I just haven’t had time.” • —Bill T

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Heard&Seen ▶ In Good Shape, Upstate New York’s health insurance coverage rate for residents younger than age 65 continued to eclipse the national rate by more than 7 percentage points in the final year of U.S. census data collected just before federal and state exchanges were opened for business by federal health care reform, according to a report issued today by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Feb. 4-10 include: 1) Local Powerlifter Breaks World Record 2) Pillar of the Community: Ithaca’s First African-American Police Officer 3) TJ Maxx, Heritage Park Townhomes Given OK by City Zoning Appeals Board 4) Adjuncts Move Toward Union at Ithaca College 5) Report Card Shark For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Get Your Kids Vaccinated T he current measles outbreak that began in California and has spread to several other states highlights a problem that continues to grow in the United States—parents choosing not to vaccinate their children. Measles was once a common disease in this country. Before the vaccination program started in 1963, the CDC estimates that about 3 to 4 million people got measles each year in the United States. Of those, 400 to 500 died, 48,000 were hospitalized, and 4,000 developed encephalitis (brain swelling) from measles. Vaccine preventable diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella and pertussis (whooping cough) are on the rise because some parents choose not to vaccinate their children. Their decision threatens the health of their child and the health of the community. When 95 percent of the population is vaccinated for measles, for example, herd immunity is created that effectively prevents the spread of disease in the community and protects those few that cannot be vaccinated. These include those who cannot receive the vaccine for medical reasons and infants too young to receive the vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends all children get two doses of measles, mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine, starting with the first dose at 12 through 15 months of age, and the second dose at 4 through 6 years of age. Until the vaccine series is complete those children are unprotected and rely on herd immunity.

Measles is very contagious and can live for up to two hours on surfaces and in the air. According to the CDC, 90 percent of unvaccinated people in close proximity to an affected person will become infected with measles. Many of us are not old enough to remember when children regularly contracted these vaccine preventable diseases. Due to the success of the vaccine, measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000 by the CDC. However, every year measles are brought into the United States by unvaccinated travelers from countries where the disease still occurs or where outbreaks are occurring, including Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific. Even if you and your family don’t travel, you can come in contact with travelers anywhere in the community from the supermarket to a social gathering. We often hear parents deciding to not vaccinate out of fear the vaccine might harm their child. Let’s be clear. There is no scientific evidence that vaccines harm children. To the contrary, vaccines have been proven to eliminate diseases and are considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century. There is no vaccine controversy. Vaccines save lives. A decision to not vaccinate puts the most vulnerable within our community at unnecessary risk. • – Frank Kruppa, Public Health Director, Tompkins County Health Department

Dress in Black By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

over-boys and -girls, get moving. Valentine’s Day is here, and you have affection to win, or prove. Cupid is a hot-shot when loaded up with nice arrows, but otherwise tends to sleep, you know. In mythology, he carried arrows of gold, silver, and lead. You don’t want to mess with the lead, and probably not even the silver. Go for the gold, I think, in building your own personal mythology. Jewelry stores are like other stores: they have only a certain amount of good stuff. Procrastinate too long and you might get inventoried out. Go ahead and be smart and make restaurant reservations, too, while you’re at it. You know that Just A Taste will be packed. All the nice places will be. Not only is it Valentine’s Day, it’s Saturday night, for crying out loud. You don’t want to wind up in a sub shop somewhere (or, let us say, nowhere). (Let us note, though, on the subject on modest emporia, there is potential in practically anything, approached artistically. A few years ago, I laid the idea on my pal Mauricio, from Pizza Aroma, of heart-shaped pizzas for Valentine’s Day. It didn’t happen, but I still think it’s a good gimmick. I am writing this on 4 February; maybe I’ll visit him tomorrow and re-visit the idea with him.) I wish to present here a gimmick, for all unenlisted soldiers of love—i.e., singles—that might turn what can be an otherwise tough day for this camp into a day of opportunity. It is this: on Valentine’s Day, wear black. (Let me note, in preface, you might want to do this on 2/13, too, as 2/14 is a

Saturday this year, but 2/13 is a work and business day, with maximum people to try this out on in public. It is also fortuitous that it’s Friday the 13th, and this idea is to turn bad luck into good, have-nots into haves.) Wear black. Black slacks, black pullover, black jacket (or, of course, the iconic black dress)—so that, at work, at a coffeeshop in the morning, at lunch, at a bar or restaurant in the evening, at any place conducive to conversation—you are now wearing a calling card that announces, in inky tones, your somber situation. You say good morning to the office superstar, or good evening to the most fascinating-looking person at the bar, and mention that they are not wearing black for Valentine’s Day, which means (you say) that they must be attached. Black for Valentine’s Day, you explain, is the uniform of the single and bereft. (On Friday the 13th, you might substitute “unlucky” for bereft. Shucks, say “losers,” either day, if you think breezy self-effacement will assist.) You smile. You congratulate them on their status, and wish them luck. Maybe they are. Maybe they aren’t. Attached, I mean. This is how you find out. Also, about interest. The rest of the script depends on circumstances, and (now that I’ve got you started) is entirely up to you. Except for this. If anything happens, see if they have a fascinating female friend. Then call me. Maybe we’ll double-date. •

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Thanking the Anti-fracking Troops

It was seven years ago—thank you Ithaca Times for printing the “Clarion Call” on hydro-fracking. Unfortunately the State of Pennsylvania had already allowed the onslaught of landmen and women to bamboozle farmers and landowners as to the real nature of the type of hydrocarbon exploitation. Trenton/Black River [limestone formations] this was not, but the willful wasteful use of our precious fresh water resources. American energy independence this was neither. But the rush to supply the International market, hence the rush to build pipelines to export terminals—the same as the Keystone XL. At least a line in the shale has been temporarily drawn at New York’s borders. Cheers to the state of Vermont, Province of Quebec—Viva la France, Germany 6 T

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etc. (and most recently Scotland and Wales) for their hydro-fracking bans and moratoriums. Thank you Cornell professors, Toxic Targeting, Trout Unlimited, Catskill Mountainkeeper, Damascus Citizens, Theo Colborn (endocrine disruptor scientific research), and Mark Harvey, producer/ director of A Land Out of Time. Thank you citizens of Dryden and Barton for your bans. Thank you Onondaga Indian Nation, City of Syracuse, and New York City for safeguarding your watersheds. What’s good for the goose, so too the gander, the rest of New York State! Equal protection under the law. Let’s roll up the “Fossil Fuel Frenzy” and put Pandora back in her box. Bring on the solar renaissance with jobs in infrastructure, transportation, alternative energies of wind, tide, hydro, and geothermal.

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Most importantly thank you to the thousands of grassroots that grew and stood up, challenging the status quo. Roots that brought science to the forefront against greed, misinformation, non-disclosure and federal exemptions to the Clean Air and Water acts, and trade secrets. For now our wineries, cideries, and distilleries are protected, our farms, orchards, forests, springs, creeks and streams, and yes our dreams are safe—but the Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers’ watersheds are not. Frac wells are being drilled upstream [in the Susquehanna watershed] in Pennsylvania thus compromising the drinking water of thousands of New York citizens from Binghamton to Elmira. This is unacceptable and these wells must be plugged and sites remediated. In New York State the further buildout of fossil-fuel infrastructure must be curtailed and the Finger Lakes protected! Thank you governors David Paterson and Andrew Cuomo! Thank you Ithaca Times!!! – Roy Lackner (Delhi Class of 82’ A.A.S., Cornell University Class of 84’ B.S.), Binghamton

Respecting Chris Kyle

With all due respect to Bryan VanCampen, I believe it does a great disservice to our military for him to label the movie American Sniper as a movie about a killer, in VanCampen’s words (his column entitled “No Real Heroes Here” in the February 5 Ithaca Times). The killers in the movie are the men, and yes, even children, who have either unwittingly or voluntarily strapped bombs to themselves in order to destroy American soldiers. The American military snipers followed orders given to them to insure the safety of our American men and women, those who may be putting their lives in deadly jeopardy when reporting for duty. This heartbreaking loss of lives hit close to home, here in Ithaca, when the community at large mourned the passing of a young soldier, Christopher Bordoni, fatally wounded by bombs while on duty in Afghanistan. Chris Kyle, the American sniper played by Bradley Cooper in the movie, came home deeply scared with memories so horrible they threatened his personal life, his health, and his sanity. To regain a sense of place, and to find some peace, he volunteered to assist other military personnel suffering from the same afterwar affects, and it was while he was doing this that he was murdered. I am fully in support of first responders such as firefighters, police officers, and soldiers, and refuse to second-guess their actions if I am not standing there next to them, and I defend these brave people against careless and

displaced words written about what they do, as I am doing right now in this letter. American Sniper is not about a killer and it is very irresponsible for anyone to label this movie that way. – Gay Huddle, Danby – Editor’s note: the subheadline that included the word “killer” was written by the editor, not Bryan VanCampen, who did, however, say that Kyle was portrayed as “an emotionless, incommunicative thug.”

Proper Psychiatric Treatment

I am writing in response to the recent article published in your newspaper entitled, “The Myth of Mental Illness.” This article was written to highlight a new book written by Dr. David Schwartz, a resident of Ithaca, who says he wrote much of this book downtown at Gimme Coffee on Cayuga Street. I had also already heard his interview on NPR, so had some sense of his philosophy. Once I heard him describe the current delusion that serious mental illnesses are not medical or technical and that he espoused views of Thomas Szasz from 1960 I knew that I needed to add to this discussion. I have been an advocate for those struggling with serious mental illnesses and their families for 20 years … I have been a leader and member of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Finger Lakes Chapter, a Board Member to NAMI NYS, and a long time Tompkins County Mental Health board member. I worry tremendously when I hear anyone espouse the idea that serious mental illnesses do not have a genetic, biological basis in many cases and that research on the brain and consequent medications do not have a place in treatment. I certainly do not believe that medications alone are the answer, but I do know that in most cases of serious mental illnesses, such as clinical depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc., they enhance the quality of life for many individuals. I do acknowledge that psychiatric medications often have very difficult side effects and that individuals need to work closely with their psychiatrists to minimize these and enhance their effectiveness Along with psychotherapy, safe housing, positive daytime activities like volunteering or paid employment—medications, when appropriately prescribed, save lives. I do believe that we should meet people “off the couch” whenever possible, as Dr. Schwartz mentions and that is why the ACT Team (Assertive Community Treatment) is making such a constructive impact on people’s lives. Individuals are often met either in their homes or in other community settings. I believe in personcentered treatment, which involves input from the individual being served and, often, family members, but would never want to see medical treatment taken off the table. I hope that Dr. Schwartz does not dissuade people from seeking proper psychiatric treatment, most certainly to include psychotherapy and other supportive services, as well as medications

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if necessary. I think it is very dangerous to admit to patients that one does not believe in “mental illness” as a brain disorder and I would advise anyone struggling with psychiatric symptoms to get a proper evaluation from appropriate health professionals. Each situation is unique and will involve different approaches—but to say that mental illness does not exist—is not an approach to follow.

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Like noise, tables and chairs filling the Commons during the outdoor months mean good times for some and an irritation for others. The government’s job is to draw a line, which in this case can be made visible on the cobblestones. “One of our goals is to increase outdoor dining,” said Gary Ferguson, Downtown Ithaca Alliance director, at Friday’s Commons advisory board meeting. “Outdoor dining is the sign of a vibrant, happy community.” That’s so, but the advisory board feels keeping tables and chairs from creeping outwards into pedestrian space is also essential to a happy Commons. The board will be recommending to the Planning and Economic Development committee that lines be drawn to restrain those restaurateurs who consider the Commons their personal Lebensraum, and that offenders be assessed fines that range up to $1,000 or a loss of outdoor dining for a week. The outdoor dining rules, along with limited, metered morning parking hours also discussed Friday, are part of a general push to renovate Commons law before the project’s completion. In olden days, the Bergen County drum and bugle corps might have staged an impromptu performance sans permit, for only amplified sound was restricted. Now, street performers will have some rules they must follow, says City Clerk Julie Holcomb, with sound limits on louder acoustic instruments, like brass and percussion, and a “keep it moving” law. “They must move to a different location every 45 minutes,” Holcomb said. She cited the case of one particular musician who heard a businessman complain about his performance; the offended busker “stood in the same place outside the business for hours and played terrible music,” Holcomb said. “We want people to move and share the joy among everybody equally.” Whether the joy shall be shared equally with man’s best friend has not been discussed in full yet, Holcomb said, and she sees a “50/50 split” between those who would like to see the Commons ban on dogs lifted and those who want it to remain. Expect the barks and yips of that conversation to break the city’s new noise ceiling. • —Josh T

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Scott Paltrowicz of the NYS Campaign Against Isolated Confinement (center) (Photo Glynis Hart)

ccording to UN Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez, solitary confinement for longer than 15 days is torture. But the UN definition of torture is at odds with corrections policy in New York State, where over 4000 people are in solitary confinement on any given day. These may be people serving many-year sentences for violent crimes, or teenagers picked up by the police for running away from home. They may be new inmates serving a few days or a week for petty theft or drug use, placed in “administrative segregation” while corrections officers check their medical history for communicable diseases, or lifers like Billy Blake in Elmira state prison, now in his 27th year of solitary. The effects of solitary confinement have been well documented since Charles Dickens’ time, when a prison worker told Dickens that inmates being released from solitary “couldn’t even hold a pen” and that their “trembling” was more like a psychological derangement. The prisoners Dickens encountered had their heads covered with a black bag; modern prisoners in solitary confinement have never-ending light, a 6x10 cell, and, like their nineteenth century counterparts, one hour each day of solitary exercise under supervision. Inmates of local county jails and New York’s prisons routinely spend months, even years, in solitary. “The effects are devastating: sensitivity to light and sound, people start hearing voices; hallucinations. It’s basically sensory deprivation and lack of contact with other human beings,” said Scott Paltrowicz, of the New York State Campaign Against Isolated Confinement. The group will hold a public forum Wednesday, Feb. 18, in Ithaca. “Solitary affects city and county jails, so it’s important to focus attention on it.” The Ithaca Prison Justice Network and local chapter of Amnesty International are also participating in the event.

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The Incident in Danby What happened on Hornbrook Road? What they knew and when they knew it. By Keri Blakinger & Bill Chaisson

ccording to Ithaca Police Department (IPD) SWAT Commander Jake Young, there have been 34 barricaded suspect situations in Tompkins County since 1998—when the IPD tactical team was formed—and none of the others lasted nearly as long as the one at Hornbook Road between Dec. 30 and Jan. 2. Tompkins County Sheriff Ken Lansing, in an interview conducted weeks after the event, expressed surprise that the confrontation with David Cady on Hornbrook Road in Danby went as long as it did. What actually happened and when on Hornbrook Road? What is known about David Cady?

Timeline

The DWI arrest that ultimately led to a standoff on Hornbrook Road occurred in November 2013. While traveling to a friend’s house in Danby, Cady was pulled over. He failed a breathalyzer test and admitted to drinking five beers at home before driving. Cady pleaded to a “Driving While Intoxicated” charge, in this case a Class D 8

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Felony, since it was his third DWI. The prosecution requested one to three years in state prison, but instead, in December 2013, Cady was given interim probation pending sentencing. Lansing said that Cady had already spent 20 to 25 days in the Tompkins County Jail for his earlier DWIs; he had served the time on weekends. The following timeline is constructed from reports made to the Public Safety Committee (PSC) of the Tompkins County Legislature on Jan. 12 by Young, IPD Investigator and CINT member Michael Gray, State Police Lieutenant Todd Keister, and District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson and the interview with Lansing on Jan. 22. Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014 A bench warrant was issued after Cady missed a court appearance. Over the months that followed, according to Lansing, deputies repeatedly attempted without success to serve the arrest warrant. “Since October, we’d been there well over a dozen times,” said Lansing. Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014 7:46 p.m.: Two officers arrived at the 127 Hornbrook Road residence and made contact. Initially, his wife Melissa said that Cady was not home, but the officers insisted that they heard him inside.

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Eventually, Melissa Cady admitted that her husband was at home. She also told the deputies that her husband was armed. 8:33 p.m.: When the reportedly armed David Cady refused to come out of the house, the decision to request a SWAT deployment was made and SWAT Commander and Ithaca Police Department Sergeant Jake Young was notified of the situation. 8:47 p.m.: Chief John Barber texted an email approval authorizing the activation of SWAT. The SWAT was activated because officers on scene were told that David Cady had a loaded gun. Shortly after 9 p.m.: Melissa Cady and her sons exited the premises. Lansing said that Young made the calls for mutual aid on Tuesday evening, in part because of the weather. “Some of my officers were starting to feel that they were feeling hypothermia after half an hour,” he said. “That’s why he would call, not knowing for the weather.” Throughout the course of the standoff, a total of more than 100 officers were on scene (usually 30-40 at a given time), but Lansing said that had there been better weather it is possible that it would not have been necessary to call in so much help. 11:17 p.m.: Cady fired a shot out of

an upstairs window. In his report to the Public Safety Committee of the Tompkins County Legislature Young said that at this time Cady insisted that the lights aimed at the house be turned off or “someone was going to get shot.” At this time the Elmira SWAT team was on its way and Young requested deployment of armored personnel carriers (APCs or “BearCats”) from Syracuse city police and the Onondaga County sheriff ’s department. Midnight: By this time negotiators had spoken with Cady 14 times and had attempted to get in contact with him by phone 44 times. Morning, Wednesday, Dec. 31 2 a.m.: APCs owned by the New York State Police arrive. Over the next several hours the state police Special Operations Response Team (SORT) arrives at Hornbrook Road from around the state. 3:35 to 6 a.m.: At 3:35 a.m., Lansing said that officers prepared gas canisters for deployment. 4:16 a.m.: According to Lansing, the last direct contact with Cady was by phone at this time. Lansing said, “Cady stated that he’s armed up and come get him.” ~5 a.m.: Melissa Cady said she heard a shot at this time. Lansing said that

it could have been the police using of flashbangs—a non-lethal explosive device intended to disorient the subject—which began around 4:30 a.m. 5:45 a.m.: District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson arrives at the scene. 6 a.m.: Lansing arrives on the scene. No one attempted to contact Lansing in earnest, he said in a Jan. 22 interview, “because they didn’t know they needed me. These incidents usually end within hours.” According to department protocol, the sheriff said, “The SWAT team is initiated by our people on the scene. It’s housed in the city, so they contact [IPD Chief] John Barber and the mayor. Jake Young, the SWAT commander, called for mutual aid. They know all about this stuff. I don’t.” The sheriff was a mile and half from Hornbrook Road on Dec. 30, but he was in a location that was out of cell phone range. No one tried to reach him via a land line. He was checking his cell phone on his way to work at 6 a.m. on Dec. 31, saw the message and went immediately to the scene where his under sheriff, Brian Robison, was acting as “incident commander.” The first gas deployment occurred at this time. There have been differing accounts of how many canisters of gas were deployed, with the lowest number being around 70. Young reported to the PSC that the gas was ineffective because the canisters were fired into the ceilings per procedure. The house had dropped ceilings,

Road. Furniss said that he asked four more times—three times by phone, once in person—to make contact with Cady. “They turned me down,” the attorney said. “They kept saying that they didn’t have any way to communicate with him. I said, ‘Don’t you have a bullhorn, don’t you have a speaker system? The guy trusts me and I can help talk him out.’ The last time I talked to somebody they said, ‘We have made concessions for Dave, and he has not followed through on his part.’” IPD Investigator and negotiator Michael Gray has verified that concessions were made to Cady. Gray did not disclose the nature of the concessions, but said that he departed from training when he made them. Afternoon, Wednesday, Dec. 31 1:30 p.m.: Lansing said the state police SORT wanted to enter B i l l F u r n i s s ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) into the house. “I looked at them and said, ‘Gentlemen, I’m not manufactured by Ring Power, Inc., a comfortable with that,’” Lansing recounted. north Florida Caterpillar dealer, is an In the Jan. 22 interview the sheriff said armored BobCat with several attachments, he didn’t believe that the SORT team including a hydraulic breaching beam and could complete the operation before dark, a grapple claw.) which he thought made it too dangerous. Afternoon: Police heard the sound of Wilkinson was consulted in this decision, a washer and dryer being moved. It was and she concurred the last sound picked up by the throw with Lansing. phone monitor in the house. Wilkinson 5:47 p.m.: left the Hornbrook Road scene having Although the last been there since Wednesday morning. direct contact Evening: Lansing said officers began with Cady was using the Rook to remove the carport for early Wednesday better access to the home. morning, Lansing 8 p.m.: The removal operation is said in the evening stopped for the day. of that day officers Morning, Friday, Jan. 2, 2015 using binoculars 8 a.m.: Removal of the carport was saw him through resumed. the windows at 8:27 a.m.: The Rook removed a wall this time. of the house and officers were able to 7:43 p.m.: see Cady, who they quickly realized was A “throw phone” deceased. was launched into the house. It was equipped He will now forever be known for the with a audio unfortunate series of events leading up monitor, which to his death but, before all this, who was picked up the Th e R i n g p ow e r R o o k ( P h o t o : R i n g P ow e r) David Cady? We don’t really know. sound of Cady’s According to Furniss, “I knew he was movements. which, Young said, “caught” much of the married with two kids, was a hardworking At 9:30 p.m. police hear him coughing. gas. guy. ” He added, “He worked at the Auto (Throw phones provide a direct 7:40 a.m.: A BearCat armored vehicle connection to the negotiator in the Salvage right next to the house until they was used to pry open the back door of the closed up. I knew through the grapevine absence of a working cell phone.) house, and two reconnaissance robots was that they loved him.” Furniss said he’d 11:11 p.m.: The electricity to the sent in. They provided views of portions known Cady for at least seven or eight house is cut off. The land line telephone years, maybe longer. In fact, they lived of the first floor, but stopped transmitting remained functional; the throw phone data after a short time. monitor picked up the sound of its ringing near one another, which is why Furniss was so easily able to come to the scene 8:30 a.m.: After getting a voicemail when negotiators attempt to contact Cady. during the standoff. from Melissa Cady, Bill Furniss—David Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015 After Auto Salvage of Ithaca closed, Cady’s long-time attorney—arrived on 7:52 a.m.: Police heard Cady Cady went on to work at Willcox Tire and the scene. He said, “I identified who I was coughing and clearing his throat. Auto on Elmira Road in Ithaca. Tom Shea, and asked if I could try to speak to him. Morning: Pennsylvania State Police a mechanic at Willcox, said that he and So the trooper called his sergeant and they arrived with a Rook, an armored vehicle Cady had worked together for about two said they’d keep it in mind. I gave them that was used to create large openings years. “He was very outgoing, liked to fool my contact information and went home.” in the home’s exterior. (The Rook, around and have a good time,” said Shea. He lives only three miles from Hornbrook The I thaca Times / F

What We Know About David Cady

He added, “We miss him a lot. He was great.” Danby Supervisor Ric Dietrich said that he knew David Cady, in part because Cady had been regularly attending town board meetings. Dietrich, who described Cady as “very polite, very respectful” explained, “He was in the process … of starting a business venture in town.” Cady, along with his friend and business partner William Kuhns, was planning to open a new automotive shop, Eagle Automotive. “They had already started construction, right across from the old Danby market in the center of town,” said Dietrich. In her statements to the Danby town board on Jan. 14 Melissa Cady said, “My husband needed help. I told the police from the beginning that he was suicidal. He needed someone to help him, and all they did is bring in more and more and more police.” Lansing said, due to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) laws, he was not privy to any information about Cady’s mental health, but he would “assume probably” there were mental health issues. (The sheriff noted that he did not consider alcoholism in and of itself a mental health issue.) The arrest that led to the Danby standoff was not Cady’s first brush with the law. He had previously been arrested for DWIs in Chemung County in 2004 and in Tompkins County in 2008. While the first DWI was not a felony, the second was—and he was on probation for the second one when he was arrested in 2013 for the DWI that led to the standoff in December. Since the third DWI was a D felony, the maximum sentence would have been 2 ⅓ to 7 years.

What Is Being Done

Danby Town Supervisor has called for an independent investigation. Tompkins County Legislature Chair Mike Lane (D-14th) said, “As far as launching any kind of an independent investigation there are currently no plans to do that.” Lane said an investigation isn’t off the table though. For now, the next step is waiting for the full report from the Sheriff ’s Department. The sheriff is still waiting for the full autopsy results, although Lane said that information may not necessarily be included in the full report. Although Lane said that some things in it may not be public record, the report will come before the legislature’s Public Safety Committee. For his part, Lansing said that he is not opposed to an independent investigation: “To be honest,” he said, “if it would put people’s minds to rest that we weren’t covering up something … I have no problem with that.” • The Ithaca Times will publish a second article after the sheriff presents the county PSC his full report. e b r u a r y

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Talking About War and Love

his Valentine’s Day, all are invited to the Southside Community Center to share in One Love and celebrate the life and legacy of Bob Marley. Shammi Carr, founder and organizer of the first “One Love Ithaca” festival, said that recent racial problems both nationally and in her personal life made her decide “this is the right time to do a festival, something positive, something fun,

something to bring everyone together.” The One Love fest, besides celebrating Marley’s recent 70th birthday on Feb. 6, is “all about rasta,” Carr said. “Rasta means solidarity; it means awareness; it means education; it means taking care of your community.” Taking care of people by keeping food pure and clean is the primary focus of Jamaican dub poet Ras Takura, who will be the featured performer on Saturday. Takura’s first full-length album, Food War, will drop next Friday, Feb. 20, at a show at The Purple Lounge in Brooklyn. Takura’s first words on the album state his concern clearly: “The Science of Agriculture,” he intones over a dub beat. “The land, the seeds, and the man. What is the plan?”

Keeping food Ital is the plan that Takura prefers. “Whatever the thing is, it’s in its natural state,” Takura said of the Rasta word’s meaning. “Ital means no farm pesticide, chemical fertilizer, any type of hybridization that is a trick to the natural environment.” The Food War album’s title track was inspired by Takura taking a trip to Kingston after planting pumpkin seeds on his farm. When he returned from his trip after a couple weeks, he found a patch overgrown with pumpkins. “I got the same energy, the same vibe, of the food war poem,” Takura said. “I sit down on my farm and write the poem.” At the Dis Poem Wordz & Agro Festival that Takura founded in Portland, Jamaica, now in its fifth year, the ‘Seed

Ras Takura will be in town for the One Love Festival (Photo provided)

to Seed Exchange’ helps other farmers acquire seeds that will regenerate themselves with strong crops year after year. Genetically modified seeds might look the same as organic seeds, but they don’t reproduce themselves in strongenough forms to be reusable for more than a year, Takura said. “You replant from [genetically modified] seeds you reap, you might have second crop, but second crop is way less in quality in first crop,” Takura said. “We know traditionally a plant, a seed, can reproduce, consistently. There’s no stopping the reproduction with seeds. It’s the same pumpkin, the peanuts, the organic seeds that exist that have been growing for hundreds of years.” Through cross-pollination, the spread of genetically modified seeds has caused “natural organic farms” to “come up with a type of crop that is a bastardization,” Takura said. “GM crossing with natural organic seeds reduces the strength and vigor of that farm.” Takura thinks his Seed to Seed Exchange concept can serve as a way to maintain the vigor of farms in Jamaica and worldwide. Organic seeds from a crop that has regenerated itself for five or 10 years are those that Takura hopes get spread through exchanges, every farmer his own Johnny Appleseed—a name that a Boston radio host laid on Takura during a recent interview. “For that person to [call me Johnny Appleseed], that let me know this is not something regional,” Takura said. “This is something always in the atmosphere. I’m the vessel for this song in this time.” Takura will be bringing his poems and his knowledge to One Love Ithaca on Saturday, where he will present a workshop on “Taste and Nutrition of the Islands” followed by a performance at 5 p.m. Other workshops include Professor Locksley Edmondson of Cornell continued on page 11

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presenting on “Bob Marley and Rasta”; Professor Sean Bradwell, Ithaca College, presenting on the “Black History of Ithaca”; and Eldred Harris giving a talk on “post-civil rights.” One The spread Love Ithaca gets of genetically underway at noon on modified seeds has Feb. 14, caused ... a type with free Caribbean of crop that is a food available to bastardaridization the first 100 —Ras Takura attendees, as well as free Ben and Jerry’s “Satisfy My Bowl”-flavored ice cream. The festival will be “embracing young people with talent,” Carr said, with a talent show at 2 p.m. and facepainting and a hoop performance for the kids. (An example of a talented young person: 19-year-old artist Sabah Light designed the festival’s poster.) Those who can are asked to bring nonperishable items for the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, and there will be staff

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confinement in a local county jail for “boomeranging”—sending a letter to another inmate via someone in the outside world. (It’s against jail rules for inmates to write letters to other inmates.) Other than fifteen minute showers three times a week, she spent 23 hours a day locked in her cell. Her one hour of “recreation,” she said, was in a small rec yard. “In the winter months, a jean jacket (not a winter coat) and no boots provided, so it was physically impossible to take the allotted hour of rec time...” “I was sixteen years old and I had just been caught as a runaway. I’d been trying to escape bad situations and I was caught in Pennsylvania, where the cops who arrested me dragged me out from a medical office in handcuffs. They threw me in the back of a cop car and when we got to the station I had no idea where we were... I was shackled and handcuffed on a bench in the police station where they told me I was in a holding facility and that they were going to teach a runaway a lesson. They proceeded to leave me handcuffed and shackled to the bench and leave... They came back and threw me in an isolation cell for three days and made it a point to tell me they were not going to contact my parents. I kept track of the time by the food that was brought. ... I eventually lost it and started throwing myself against the wall to get a cop to come talk to me. No one showed up. I have never felt so much fear in my entire life.” (Name withheld) “In New York, guards gave out tickets like penny candy.” Five Mualimmak, who spent five years out of a nine-year sentence in solitary confinement, said all of his solitary time was due to “tickets”, or disciplinary write-ups for minor infractions: for having too many pencils for his artwork. For having too many stamps. Five said he received solitary as punishment for eating a whole apple, including the core, because apple seeds contain arsenic. “The next time I received an apple, I left it on the tray. I received a ticket for refusing to eat.” From his years in solitary he finds it hard to listen to music or watch TV, to be touched by other human beings, to sleep through the night. Now a prison reform activist, Five will be speaking at next week’s event. “There is a growing movement to recognize that this is inhumane as well as counterproductive,” said Paltrowicz. Adding that a larger proportion of the inmate population (than those outside) has mental illness, he notes: “When people already have mental illness, it exacerbates it. It can also cause mental illness.” “There is a growing statewide movement to halt solitary confinement.” The Halt Solitary Confinement Act (bill 44-01 in the Assembly, 26-49 in the NYS Senate) would ban solitary beyond fifteen days- under whatever name: administrative, punitive, or other segregation, as well as banning its use on the mentally ill and pregnant women. “We need to raise awareness of this legislation and encourage our policy makers to pass it.” “We need to stand up,” said Paltrowicz, “and say, we will not be torturing people.” • — Gly n is

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all the time,” he said. “A lot of them just ichael Oppenheim adopts older want a place to rest. They have a calmness, dogs. “It’s a fallacy that dogs and they are happy to have some peace.” from a shelter can’t be ‘yours,’” Some shelters that he has seen were in said Oppenheim. “That’s garbage. And constant states of pandemonium because when people say that an older dogs can’t the dogs were in cages facing each other be ‘yours,’ that’s garbage too.” and every time one dog was taken down He started adopting older dogs 12 the aisle, all the others began barking. years ago when he was living down in Animals in this kind of environment Piermont in Rockland County. “I was sometimes cannot cope, said Oppenheim, walking down the street in Nyack,” he but other dogs can weather it and are fine. recalled, “and saw a sign that read ‘Take He did caution anyone looking for a dog this dog for a walk’ and there was a at a pound to be on the look out for those woman standing there, holding the dog.” who had picked up bad habits. Oppenheim admitted that this was not He had high praise for the Schuyler a conventionally appealing dog; it had apparently been kicked in the face and one County shelter, which is relatively new and is constructed to keep the animals isolated of its eyes was out of its socket. from each other’s view, which maintains a “But as soon as I took the much quieter, more civil setting. leash,” he said, “I was An “older dog” isn’t necessarily that captivated. You know old. Oppenheim said that dogs that are how that happens old 3 and 5 years old are considered past sometimes when you the point of adoption by shake hands with many people, so there someone? This was like are plenty of them that.” to be found. But The dog, whose he has name was Lucas, was also delighted simply to be taken for a walk. When Oppenheim brought him back to the storefront, which was a dog groomer that also tried to find homes for animals, Lucas parked himself at his new friend’s feet. Rob LaLonde and Pedro (Provided) Oppenheim was leaving for a trip to England the next taken home 10 and 11 year old pit bulls— day, but was convinced to bring Lucas not generally a long-lived dog—and been home with him that night. “I woke up at 2 able to keep them alive and reasonably a.m. and he popped his head up to look at comfortable for another year or two. me,” he said, “and when I woke again at 6 These animals sometimes have more a.m., he did the same thing.” Oppenheim than their share of medical problems. already had two other dogs in his house One pit bull that Oppenheim owned had and Lucas got along with them without bad ear and eye infections, bad skin and incident. swollen feet when he found him in a New He took his trip to England and ten Jersey shelter. After a lot of care the dog days later collected the dog. It turned was able to walk for another two years and out that Lucas’s eye was out of the socket then Oppenheim carried him for another because of a tumor, not because of a kick. two. Oppenheim had it removed and Lucas How do you deal with the likelihood lived on for another nine years, passing that you will not have an older dog for as away in May 2011. “He wasn’t effusive,” long as you would a younger one? he said of the dog. “He was just great “Well, after they die, I think, ‘Wow, company.” that was great [to have them around],’ and Oppenheim believes that older dogs then I start thinking about the next dog have distinct advantages. “Most people in another shelter. Eugene O’Neill has a don’t really want a young dog,” he said, poem called ‘The Last Will and Testament citing their energy, lack of discipline, and of an Esteemed Dog,’ and he says that the need for attention. “Older dogs can be best testament to a dog is that you have to very unhappy about things, but they can get another when he dies.” • be very appreciative without being on you

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which people shave their heads to raise money for some cause. I always perceived these events as kind and generous gestures, but until last weekend I had never really “felt the power,” as it were. I am connected to the communities of Spencer and Van Etten. While I reside in West Danby, my kids went to school in the S-VE district. The communities are like many other small towns in America, but when it comes to generosity, they are a collective powerhouse. To illustrate this, I point out that a few years ago, the school budget failed to pass, and as a result, all sports were dropped. The communities pulled together and started fundraising to reinstate fall sports, did so successfully, and immediately started on saving the winter sports season. They secured winter sports funding, started on spring sports and reached their goal once again. When all was said and done, the two communities had raised $166,000. That is a huge number for a district that features a graduating class of less than 100. Dean Gabe at Lehigh (Cornell Photographic Services) On Friday, at the SpencerVan Etten versus Odessa-Montour girls basketball game, several folding chairs were set up in inflatable Ivy matches, their EIWA win streak pools (to catch the falling hair), and stands at 42, and they have not lost to an several volunteers took a seat to have unranked opponent in 61 contests. their heads shaved to raise money for One might ask why a team runs up two beloved coaches. One coach—a 30the scores so mercilessly, and the answer something young woman named Abby— is simple: Post-season tournaments are is a young teacher and mom, and she is coming up, the team has its sights on battling breast cancer. The other—a 40-ish a national championship, and several guy—is facing an as yet undiagnosed wrestlers are poised to vie for individual illness that is affecting him and his young titles. At this writing, Gabe Dean is family in many challenging ways. ranked #1 at 184 pounds, Nahshon Both coaches are homegrown S-VE Garrett is #3 at 125 and Brian Realbuto grads who came back to teach and coach sits at #6 at 157. in their hometown, and both are held Cornell returns to action in the first in very high regard. Both coached my round of the NWCA National Duals daughters, and did a fine job. against Drexel on Sunday, Feb. 15 at 2 It was amazing to see so many friends p.m. at Newman Arena. and students sitting down with a full head • • • of hair, and then standing up with none “Play hard, play smart, play together.” at all. I understand that for many people, – Dean Smith, legendary basketball coach their hair is a big piece of their identity, at North Carolina. and to just leave it in an inflatable pool to I will never forget the time the Tar help a friend is a powerful statement of Heels played at Newman Arena, and generosity over ego. Predictably, the S-VE royalty was in the house. Our house. Yes, basketball coach had his head shaved, as Smith’s tar Heels won two NCAA titles, yes, he won 879 games, yes, he will forever did the Athletic Director, and then the chants began for the opposing coach from be remembered as one of the greatest O-M to follow suit. To raucous applause, coaches ever, but here is the statistic that he did so. The guy does not even live in defines the man in my eyes: He graduated the district, but he took part anyway. 95 percent of his players. That matters. Once again, a sporting event became • • • a vehicle for something very powerful, I have written about and donated to and I was profoundly moved. Well played, several of those fund-raisers—I believe S-VE. • some are known as St. Baldrick’s—at

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am forever foisting my loves on the Perspicacious Reader of the Ithaca Times. But, if I could be indulged one more … that would be Shakespeare. And, here in Ithaca, we are fortunate indeed to have the Ithaca Shakespeare Company staging extraordinary performances of the Bard’s works throughout the year. (Their summer performances at the Cornell Plantations are not to be missed.) And this frigid February they are staging Richard II at the beautifully renovated Hanger Theatre. My personal favorites of Shakespeare’s oeuvre are the plays with fantasy elements like A Midsummer Night’s Dream or The Tempest. I’m not as familiar with the historical plays (which, with the exception of Richard III, don’t seem to show up in 21st century performance as much as the big monster plays like Hamlet or Macbeth or Romeo & Juliet and so on.) But, apparently, in Shakespeare’s era, the historical plays were among his most popular. In an opening phone conversation with the Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s Artistic Director, Stephen Ponton (who is directing Richard II), he told me: “Shakespeare wrote a whole sequence of history plays that form a continuous narrative. Richard II starts it off. And we’re going to do the whole sequence.” (This will be a two-year cycle running from February 2015 to November 2016.) The idea of the story cycle in a nutshell is: Richard is a bad king. Someone comes along and knocks him off the throne. And then another king comes along and knocks him off, and it starts this whole sequence (ending somewhere with Richard III and Henry VIII.) (What it reminds me of is gunfighters in the Old West: the reigning gunfighter is deposed by the new young Turk, who discovers that every aspiring gunfighter in the West now wants to depose him and on and on…) • • • I visited the Hangar Theatre on a couple of hellishly cold February nights and spent some time with the cast and crew of Richard II as they rehearsed (in a new, renovated, rather large, black box theatre with blood red seats). It was a tremendous amount of fun watching the actors work, building the performances. Director Steve Ponton guided them, blocking out their movements in the large space, suggesting physical movements, and even facial expressions. The crew worked on the (big, spectacular) sets, actors were costumed, sword fights were fine-tuned. All of which was fascinating to watch. I brought my faithful little Olympus digital voice recorder and managed to record some conversations with the cast and crew.

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the era when they were originally staged in Shakespeare’s time it would be as if you were doing plays about the Kennedy family or the Bush family or something…” “Exactly,” Ponton said. “These were famous people and fairly recent history for Shakespeare’s audience. One of the problems we have doing them today is that Shakespeare’s audience was very familiar with the situations and the background and the relationships between the characters and so on, and our modern audience is not. “So we actually have a short introduction to the production that introduces the characters visually and explains who they are … a sort of prologue as part of the production.” “Is there anything you really want to tell the audience?” I asked. “Yeah,” Ponton said. “These are my favorite of all of Shakespeare’s plays. I think they are absolutely fantastic plays … “I think a lot of people are afraid of them because they’re not familiar with them … they haven’t seen them staged or read them in school. If they have encountered Rehearsing “Richard II” in the Hangar Theatre. (Photo: Steve Ponton) them, they’re confusing because there are a lot of characters … “I just want to tell people— I managed to get five minutes of Director don’t worry about that—these are exciting, Ponton’s time, and he told me: “This was engaging, entertaining plays, and we will make designed to be part of a commemoration of the sure you understand what’s happening … Shakespeare anniversaries that are happening “And … when you put them all together, over the next couple of years. 2014 was the 450th when you get the whole arc, it’s like an epic series anniversary of his birth, and 2016 is the 400th of five novels. You get the full scope of the story anniversary of his death. So we wanted to do being told, and it’s really phenomenal… something special to mark these occasions. And “And it’s exciting to be able to do them …” doing this whole sequence of plays was the idea One of the real pleasures of hanging out at we had.” rehearsals was talking to the cast and crew … in I said, “I didn’t realize that they were all a some cases people I’d met before … in others, continuous cycle of plays.” people I was meeting anew … “They are very much connected,” Ponton I had met the actor Michael Donato last said. “Some characters show up in multiple summer when he played the ghost of Hamlet’s plays … so there’s continuity from one play to dad in the ISC’s production of Hamlet at the another.” Cornell Plantations. In Richard II he plays the I said, “The actor Michael Donato told me Duke of Gloucester, the incoming King Henry you coined the phrase ‘The Original Game of who will depose Richard. Thrones’ …” Donato spoke of Steve Ponton’s desire that Ponton laughed and said, “And that’s really the same actors could return to work through what it is. If you’re familiar with the plays and the entire five play cycle. you’re familiar with Game of Thrones and stories He said, “His inclination would be to like that, it’s very clear that these history plays of have continuation of the characters, so that Shakespeare were a major inspiration for those types of modern works.” continued on page 21 I added, “ I think Michael was saying that in

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subjects each week. “I give a lot of speeches, easily one every two weeks, and in those speeches, I like to recreate the sound of our radio show. I narrate live, and roll in quotes and mix music, all live. For years, I needed a mixing console and CD players to do this. But now I can do it with an iPad mini. The tech isn’t complicated.” Glass explained to the website LifeHacker last year. Glass is the master of the conversational. A wonderful video feature for the magazine Rookie catches Glass simultaneously making animal balloons and giving advice to children. The result is absolutely adorable, and this sort of intimacy is the norm for Glass. When you listen to him, it always sounds like he’s talking to just you. Those who are both familiar and unfamiliar with the show will surely enjoy what is likely to be one of the best live events in town this year. • • • Also on Valentine’s Day proper, the stirring blues singer Shemekia Copeland will stop by the Haunt. Her recent record, 33 1/3, plays with the songstress’ age, though her phrasing is imbued with the experience of singers more than twice her age. Her resumé suggests as much as well; Copeland has performed for President Obama and shared the stage with Mick

Jagger and Jeff Beck, but her stage presence is well-suited for a club setting. Sim Redmond and Nate Silas Richardson have been doing a Valentine’s Day show for more than a decade. If you’ve spent significant time in town, chances are you have a mixtape with a SRB song on it. Redmond explained that “[t]he songs [for the show] are more focused on romantic love, while I feel like the band’s songs are more encompassing love for human race as a whole.” Luke G. takes the holiday a little less seriously. “I want to diffuse the pressure of what people feel on the holiday. People are in different places in their relationships, and you might be on the outs with people but postpone a break-up, or feel pressure with someone new to do something big—I want people just to have fun,” he said. Latin rhythms and lovely lyrics are the focus of Venissa Santi’s songs, and she’ll bring the sultry repertoire to Bar Argos Saturday, Feb. 14 for a 7 p.m. show. She’ll be joined by Mike Stark and Brian Dozoretz, heartthrobs both. • • • Finally, for those who will be basking in the afterglow of Valentine’s Day Sunday, Feb. 15, or who will be just nursing a hangover, several area songwriters will gather for a special event at the recently reopened Rongovian Embassy. Amy Puryear will host special guests Joe Crookston, Mary Lorson, Tenzin Chopak, Laura Pendleton, and Richie Stearns from 1-3 p.m. at a songwriters’ circle that will feature brunch. “The songwriter circles at [GrassRoots and Blue Heron],” said Puryear, “always happen on Sunday late morning, when everyone is feeling good and tired from a long weekend of great music, good friends, and lots of dancing and parting. Bringing it all back down to such a sweet and intimate setting, with a handful of musicians sharing their songs bare bones is just the thing people love at that point.” The new owners agreed to give it a go. Puryear explained: “We will all be sitting on the stage together the whole time. No collaborations are planned, but I suspect that some will organically happen. Some harmonies here and there, maybe some banjo or guitar added here or there. It’s always great to play your song, just as it was written, voice and guitar and then hear a friend add their voice to it, their inspiration at the moment.” •

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Welcome back to Space: It’s Different This Time By Lu k e Z . Fe nche l Jupiter Ascending, directed by The Wachowskis, playing at Ithaca Stadium 14. ou know how posters for sciencefiction movies look like great science-fiction book covers, but sometimes the movie isn’t as good as the novel in your mind? For once, the movie Jupiter Ascending delivers beyond its marketing elements. For anyone who spots Terry Gilliam’s cameo as a wobbly, fusty office bureaucrat in the Wachowskis’ Jupiter Ascending, if you can see him behind the make-up and think about Gilliam movies like Time Bandits and Brazil and their influence on movies like The Matrix and Jupiter Ascending, you are the movie’s ideal audience. Having made the hugely risky and ambitious screen version of the David Mitchell novel Cloud Atlas with Tom Tykwer, a goofy space opera like Jupiter Ascending feels a bit like a step back for them, but it’s a fun step back. Mila Kunis stars as the title character, Jupiter Jones: a smart and capable woman of Russian descent who hasn’t been able

to connect with whatever her gift is; she spends her days getting up at 4:45 a.m. and scrubbing wealthy families’ toilets. Unbeknownst to her and the rest of the residents of Earth, life on Earth and countless other planets has been seeded by families of alien royalty for the purpose of harvesting the evolved living creatures once they reach a “Darwinian state of perfection” to produce a type of youth serum that allows them to live forever. When the matriarch of the most powerful of the alien dynasties dies, her children Balem (Eddie Redmayne), Kalique (Tuppence Middleton), and Titus (Douglas Booth) are at war over the inheritance. Jupiter Jones is the new heir. She meets Caine Wise (Channing Tatum), a genetically engineered interplanetary warrior, who came to Earth to reveal that her genetic signature—possessing the same gene sequence as the deceased matriarch— makes Jones royalty and heir to Earth. What a crazy plot. Luckily, the Wachowskis plow ahead with their tale, moving Kunis from Earth to galaxies, space palaces and all manner of sci-fi eye

candy as far as the eye can see. (I saw the 2D version, but I must confess that I’d be interested in seeing it in 3D while it’s still in town.) Lana and Andy Wachowski have never been shy about concealing their influences; at its core, The Matrix was a high-tech riff on Alice in Wonderland, and I was onto the parallels to Cinderella before anyone on the movie actually spoke the word. There are also thematic references in

Tatum does save Kunis’ bacon a few times, but it’s clear that Kunis is more interested in Tatum as a lover than a protector, and that when the ending comes, she deals with the situation on her own terms; as in the best Jane Fonda films of the era, Kunis’ Jupiter starts off in the film as something less and becomes something more. And while we’re waiting for Marvel and DC to make a female superhero movie, here’s one right here and now. Back to the eye candy: Jupiter Ascending is quite simply a splendid film to watch for the sheer imagination of the film’s production design, special effects, and art direction. Here is a movie that deals in well worked over tropes. We know we’re going to see intergalactic planets, spaceships, and weaponry. But just when you think artists have run out of ways to make new versions of things we’ve seen in hundreds of these movies, the technicians and Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum in Jupiter Ascending (Provided) craftspeople have found new shapes and ideas. Special Jupiter Ascending to Star Wars, The Princess kudos are in order for cinematographer Bride, Soylent Green, The Terminator and, John Toll, production designer Hugh oddly enough, The Matrix’s notion of using Bateup and the art direction by David humans as fuel. Allday, Dominic Hyman, David W. Jupiter Ascending is actually a rare Krummel , supervising art director Charlie example of a film starring a proactive Revai, Mark Scruton, Merje Veski, and heroine who doesn’t need a protective male Su Whitaker. Good work, folks. Jupiter to swoop in and save the day. Granted, Ascending is a fun film. •

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here are not a lot of works of fiction set in juvenile detention facilities. There are plenty of books set in castles, in restaurants, in random spots in New England, and in fantasy worlds. However, it seems that there are not a lot of authors interested in familiarizing themselves with and writing about the depressing reality of youth incarceration. Cornell professor Robert Lieberman was up to the task. The Boys of Truxton—Lieberman’s sixth published novel—details the intertwined lives of a teenager named Derek Gibson who is serving a life sentence, a Syracuse detective nicknamed “Shrek,” and a young scientist named Sheila who begins teaching at a maximum security youth prison. The book starts with an account of the crime for which Gibson is sentenced— but of which—it soon becomes apparent— he may not actually be guilty. Shrek, once the boy’s biggest advocate, ends up being largely responsible for putting the troubled teen behind bars. On the other hand, Sheila, who has little experience with the criminal justice system, decides to step in and help Gibson find redemption while battling demons of her own. In the hunt for redemption—both for Sheila and Shrek, as well as for Gibson— The Boys of Truxton explores themes of scientific fraud, personal loss, human error, injustice, judgment, and wrongdoing. As Lieberman observed, “This is a kind of wide-ranging book.” Without spoiling anything, it’s worth noting that the book’s dramatic conclusion could be read as a radical call for justice reform. Although he said he would not disagree with such a reading, Lieberman took pains to point out that political messages were not the aim of the book: “I’m more interested in writing about people

and the emotional life of people instead of political diatribes. All my books have a kind of moral core … but I don’t want to stand on a soapbox. I just wanted to write an interesting story.” In that respect he has undoubtedly succeeded. Without standing on a soapbox, the book does make some clear social and political points. For instance, Truxton, the facility that serves as the backdrop for much of the book, is described as a private prison, not a state-run facility. New York does not currently have private prisons, and the fact that this notably corrupt facility is specifically referenced as a privatized facility seems rather pointed. Lieberman conceded that it was: “I have a bone to pick with private prisons, with corporations running prisons—it is just absurd. It’s just a continuation of the corporatization of America.” In making Truxton a private prison, he said, “It was kind of an indictment of the corporatization of America.” When he’s not writing, Lieberman is a physics professor at Cornell. Right now, though, he’s off in Cambodia pursuing his film career as a documentarian. “I’m able to juggle a lot of balls. It’s a kind of schizophrenic existence,” he said. The current film, called Cambodia: Up from the Abyss, looks at the effects of the Khmer Rouge three generations later. This film follows a successful 2012 release, They Call It Myanmar, which looked at life in the isolated country once known as Burma. His next book, which is already completed, is called The Nazi, My Father, and Me. Despite the title, Lieberman asserts that the book is comedy. He said, “It’s about a German boy who comes to the U.S. with his father and thinks his father is a spy.” Look for it on bookshelves in a matter of months. •

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an Rosenberg’s poems are economical, generally between 10 and 20 lines long, each line often including only three or four words. Although there doesn’t seem like much there on the page, once you read the words, a whole experience or set of experiences is unlocked in your memory and your mind is flooded with a collage of images that make a tableau that is tantalizingly close to a coherent story. This failure to entirely coalesce lends mystery to these terse little verses. He is willing to address political issues with this approach, which is perhaps more impressive than taking on personal ones. Here, in its entirety is a poem called “Global Warming”: The ends of desire are filled past the mug’s brim with desire, an eye socket in a bowling ball you can’t bring yourself to throw. A strike: when nothing’s left standing’s a good thing.

Rosenberg uses punctuation and capitalization in a conventional manner (mostly), so that you can follow the sense of these statements even though he is breaking the lines in places that are designed to introduce a measure of discomfort to the experience of reading them. This is a sharp and deep willingness to engage in self-loathing: we are responsible for the destruction of the earth and ourselves and, with us gone, the earth will be a better place, albeit an empty one. Bill McKibben would approve. Rosenberg’s roots seems to reach down to Hilda Doolittle and William Carlos Williams. Their spare Imagist work had a way of conveying cascades of thoughts and memories that didn’t so much evoke a story as a peculiarly nuanced feeling that house a suite of emotions, almost never happily. so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water

beside the white chickens.

Williams’ much-anthologized “The Red Wheelbarrow” dispenses with punctuation and capitalization, but effectively leaves you wondering what in the world depends so much on the juxtaposition of wet garden tool and some livestock. One thing’s for sure: the next time you see some chickens and a wheelbarrow, it won’t be the same before you read this poem. The same goes for Rosenberg’s work: you aren’t going to stick your finger in the holes of a bowling ball quite so thoughtlessly, at least for a while. Another apparent influence is John Ashbery, who is much more prolix than Rosenberg, but favors the same sort of hallucinatory, free-associative tumble of imagery. Compare the first lines of Ashbery’s “Farm Implements and Rutabags in a Landscape”:

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(from “The Museum of Natural History”). Rosenberg doesn’t share Ashbery’s affection for 64-dollar words (“tangram”?), but they have similarly playful perspectives that give mundane locations (“that shoebox of an apartment” or a natural history museum) a place in a matrix of associations that are allows present for all of us, but are rarely brought to consciousness. That, of course, is the job of creative writing, particularly poetry, and Rosenberg does it well. This is old-fashioned stuff—hence my citing of Modernists like Doolittle and Ashbery—in that it lacks the sensationalism or need to shock of so many contemporary poets that are perhaps descended from the Beat tradition and its wild-eyed countercultural successors. His is a bourgeois perspective without the least bit of complacency; he is polite, but alienated. To wit, from “Finding Moderation,”:

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We’ve been raised in receptive hunger A knot opens into a pretzel behind our ribs. What fills the eye- and mouth-holes? Such questions keep us Like a house is kept.

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What Americans Love Pizza and Beer at the Scale House By Mich a e l Noc e ll a

he Scale House Brewery & Pub has built its business model on two of the most cherished commodities of the American people: pizza and beer. Let’s start with the former, as some might be confused as to why Scale House would serve pizza when it is next-door neighbors with North Wood Pizza. Well, as it turns out, that’s exactly why they serve pizza, as the two businesses work in tandem. In fact, there is no wall between the two establishments, and the walkthrough gives servers an extremely convenient commute from the pizzeria to tables.

The 2015 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture

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The Scale House Brew Pub (Photo: Tim Gera)

A talk about writing, war and pursing a passion”

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East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times

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Jeffrey Gettleman is the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his work from Africa. Jeffrey has worked for The New York Times for 12 years, covering everything from the war in Iraq to the annual possum drop in rural North Carolina. He has won several Overseas Press Club awards and a George Polk Award for foreign reporting. He studied philosophy at Cornell (class of 1994) and earned a master’s of philosophy degree from Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He has appeared as a foreign affairs commentator on the BBC, CNN, NPR and other networks. He has written for Foreign Policy, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The New Republic and GQ. Jeffrey lives in Nairobi, Kenya, with his wife and two boys. He is currently working on a memoir.

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Being a pizza lover myself and moving to Ithaca nearly a year ago, I have done quite a bit of research in finding the best local slice. While I haven’t been blown away by any establishment thus far, North Wood Pizza has been as good as any. It is a relatively thin pizza with a very thick chewy crust around the edge. Perhaps the best thing about these pizzas is the toppings available to put on them, and the sheer amount of options. During my last trip, my date and I ordered a “gourmet pizza” with broccoli, and feta cheese and garlic, and we were not disappointed. The broccoli and feta were perfectly proportioned just the right amount of garlic. However, garlic haters beware, this particular pie would not be for you. The fact that Scale House Brewery, a tiny storefront located in a strip mall, was a microbrewery was what initially piqued my interest the first time I passed it. It is certainly a different look than the rural presentations of neighboring microbreweries such as Ithaca Beer or Hopshire Brewery. But, hey, it’s what’s on the inside that counts, right? And what’s on the inside is reasonably priced, fresh beer. During my trips to Scale House, I managed to try its Indian pale ale, its red ale, and a stout. Of those, the IPA was my favorite, but I was pleased with all three. The IPA was particularly enjoyable as it was crisp, easy to drink, not too hoppy but noticeably more hoppy than the other

options on deck—a traditional IPA that didn’t try to do anything out of what beer lovers have come to expect from an India Pale Ale. Currently, Scale House is offering a pilsner, the red ale, a dark bock and a winter wheat. For those wanting to give all of Scale House’s beer offerings a try, there are beer tastings every Saturday and Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. where you can get three 5-ounce samples for $3 or six 5-ounce samples for $6. In addition to good beer and pizza, Scale House offers the kind of menu most pub goers have come to love. French fries, chicken fingers, quesadilla, mozzarella sticks, and specialty burgers are present, among others. For $10.95, you can get the “Blues Burger,” which is a 100-percent Angus beef burger that comes with lettuce, tomato and crumbly bleu cheese. In the appetizer department, the $6.95 “Bock Beer-Battered Mushrooms,” which are fried using Scale House beer, is another treat. However, if there is one food item that I would consider a “must order” at Scale House, it would be the “Our Famous Charbroiled Spiedie Wings” ($11.95 for a dozen). I’ve been to Buffalo Wild Wings and Wings Over Ithaca. These wings, in my opinion, are the best wings in the Ithaca area. The spiedie wings stood out with a rare crunch you don’t find on wings often, in addition to providing no shortage of —get this—chicken on a chicken wing. The unique charbroiled sauce gives the wings a unique taste you’re unlikely to find at other establishments, and should be conducive to most pallets: sweet, with a little bit of spice, neither being overwhelming. Besides a solid menu and beer brewed on site, Scale House’s other strength is its ambiance. With a wooden interior complete with a wooden bar, the feel of Scale House is comfortable and very casual—exactly how you want to feel while eating wings, pizza and beer. There are also Scale House regulars who are not shy, and if you really want to get the full Scale House experience, head over around 9 p.m. on a Wednesday night for some karaoke. After all, nothing gets people in the mood to sing like good beer and good food. • 23 Cinema Drive in the village of Lansing. Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on unannounced, anonymous visits. Reviews can be found at ithaca.com/ dining

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people who came for the first, second, and later shows will have that sense of familiarity and continuity … but it can’t be guaranteed. Life is … what it is.” I laughed. And Donato said, “Men plan. God laughs. Right? But that’s the hope.” Speaking of the cycle of plays he said, “What I found is that they are terrifically interesting plays in that they have complex human emotion, but they’re also based on real events. These are real stories of the way England’s history unfolded. They’re dramatized of course—it’s controversial how realistic they are—but they make for terrific drama. They were the drama miniseries of their day … “And I’ve read that Henry IV was Shakespeare’s most popular play in his lifetime. So these were not considered dry stuff.” He continued, “The story of this particular play is the event that launched The War of the Roses … where the old order of the divine right of kings and the idea that God selected his messenger on Earth to sit on the throne got usurped by Henry saying, ‘I’m gonna pay lip service to that idea—but it’s really might makes right’. And that led to a series of other people thinking, ‘Well, you know what—I’ve got enough might to be the King of England also.’ And the country was in turmoil for a long, long, time …” The Ithaca Times film critic Bryan VanCampen is performing the role of the Bishop of Carlyle in Richard II. (When he’s not doing stand-up comedy or producing films with puppets.) He described his character as “Richard’s right hand man, his religious man”, adding, “I’m on Team-Richard.” Explaining where they were at in the production, he said, “We rehearsed it at Fall Creek Studios … a considerably smaller space … and this is a big, threesided venue, so there’s a lot of adjustment that has to go on. Most of the emotional or story-telling work is done—now we’re just figuring out how to stage it …” He said, “Steve has been giving us emotional adjustments, but it’s really sort of secondary to being sensitive that you might not be in the right spot—‘Maybe over here would be better so everybody can see you …’” “That’s the great thing about being well directed,” VanCampen said, “I just feel like I’m a happy chess piece.” And I met a new crewmember, Emily Howes, a young woman from Ithaca who studied theatre at Middlesex University in London. She is working on Richard II as a costume person (and stood in playing Richard for two or three weeks until John Keese arrived from California). We talked at length of Shakespeare, and she said, “He just really got life.” She told me that Richard II is her favorite Shakespeare play and that Richard is her favorite Shakespearean character. She elaborated, “He’s a deeply human character. And in some ways he fits the profile of a tragic hero … but in a lot of

ways he doesn’t. King Lear is the definition of a perfect classic tragic hero … he brought his downfall on himself … “Richard took the crown at ten … and he actually was a pretty good king. But as he got older he didn’t know how to deal with people.” “Oh,” I said. “The Bubble Thing. What we’d now call “being in a bubble”.” And Howes said, “He just didn’t understand. He didn’t really have friends in the way normal people have friends. He was always surrounded by deceit and lies and court intrigue …” She said, “What I love about the play is it goes in these waves. There are points where you go, ‘He’s a horrible king, why would anybody ever support him?’ and then there are points were you do really feel sorry for him … “He thinks he’s doing what’s right. He’s trying to do right by his kingdom. And he also believed in the divine right of kings … that he’s God’s appointed minister. He believed he was meant to be king and was going to be king for his entire life … “He’s a very complex character. Yes, he brings the downfall on himself like any classic tragic hero … but then there are times where he’s very aware … and tries very hard … and you feel very bad for him … “There’s points where you look at him and go, ‘You’re ridiculous.’ But he’s also the most poetic king … he only speaks in verse. He’s beautiful … his reign was actually known for being a very poetic and art-filled reign … and that comes across … “He’s very sensitive as a king … which is a bit odd in the histories … they’re often a lot more bloody. And this particular play doesn’t have a fight until the very, very end, the last act…and that’s very fitting of Richard … “Richard himself doesn’t fight … he lets go of things very easily. And at the very end … at the very last scene these people come to kill him, and he finally stands up and says, ‘No!’ and he fights. And I think that’s something a lot of people can relate to … “And it’s really beautiful…” • • • Well. To wrap up here … Having watched the rehearsals, I can attest that Richard II is a riveting play. The cast is uniformly terrific. And I should make special note of the two actors in the two pivotal roles. John Keese is extraordinary as Richard (nicely evoking the otherworldly quality of someone who has been a king since he was ten—raised in a proverbial bubble). And Michael Donato is equally outstanding as the incoming King Henry who wrests Richards crown from him (with, by turns, great vigor, anger, confusion and humanity). And I think if the Reader loves Shakespeare as much as moi, this will be a rich theatrical experience—and the gateway to a whole cycle of plays to come in the next two years of this 450th anniversary Shakespeare celebration. •

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Visit cinema.cornell.edu for showtimes. Casablanca | Catch the legendary film that put “Here’s looking at you, kid” on the lips of millions of would-be Bogarts. | 2/14 Saturday. Kid Flix Mix | A rare opportunity to see the best short animation from this year’s New York International Children’s Film Festival, work from around the world that is sure to delight young audiences. All programs in English or without dialogue. Recommended for ages 4+. | 2/14 Saturday. Nightcrawler | Set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles, this thriller follows Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work, as he discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. | 2/13 Friday, 2/15 Sunday. The Soft Skin | Pierre Lacheney, a married, middle-aged editor and television lecturer, lives a dull, mechanized life until he meets an attractive airline stewardess on a flight to Lisbon and begins an affair. Lacheney’s wife hears of the affair and trouble begins. | 2/12 Thursday. Sympathy for the Devil | Originally called One Plus One, Jean-Luc Godard conceived the film “literally as one plus one: a theme of construction (the Rolling Stones rehearsing “Sympathy for the

Devil”), and one of destruction (the suicide of a white revolutionary when her boyfriend deserts to Black Power). | 2/11 Wednesday. The Tale of the Princess Kayuga | A tiny princess, the size of a finger, is found amongst some bamboo. As the teensy Princess Kaguya grows older, larger, and wiser, she meets many suitors, including the Emperor of Japan. | 2/12 Thursday, 2/14 Saturday, 2/15 Sunday. That Man from Rio | The legendary Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as an Army private spending a week’s leave in pursuit of his abducted girlfriend, played by Françoise Dorléac. The film navigates between comedy, romance, and adventure; spoofs the spy movie style promulgated by the Bond movies; and takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, and Paris. | 2/13 Friday2/15 Sunday. MET OPERA LIVE IN HD Shown at Regal Cinema, Ithaca Mall. Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta/Bartok, Bluebeard’s Castle | 12:30 PM-, 2/14 Saturday | Regal Cinema, Ithaca Mall.

Stage Comedian Sam Morril | 8:00 PM-, 2/14 Saturday | Auburn Public Theatre, 8 Exchange St., Auburn | Sam Morril, one of the fastest rising comics in New York City, was recently named a 2011 “Comic to Watch” by Comedy Central. Elmira Little Theatre presents Leading Ladies | 7:30 PM-, 2/13 - 2/15 Friday to Sunday | Samuel Clemens Performing Arts Center See Clemens Center, , Elmira | A farce about two down-on-their-luck actors who decide to pose as long-lost children Max and Steve to claim an estate worth millions, only to find that “Max” and “Steve” are actually “Maxine” and “Stephanie.” An Evening with Ira Glass | 8:00 PM-, 2/14 Saturday | State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 West State Street, Ithaca | Ira Glass is the host and creator of the public radio program This American Life. Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs. In the Next Room, or the vibrator play | 2/11 - 2/15 Wednesday to Sunday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee St | It’s the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new instrument for treating “hysteria.” The device? A

vibrator. See www.syracusestage.org for times and prices. Little Women | 8:00 PM-, 2/17 Tuesday | Clark Theatre, Ithaca College, Ithaca | The beloved story of four close-knit sisters coming of age in Civil War–era New England is transformed into an opera and chosen for the annual collaboration between IC’s School of Music and Department of Theatre Arts. NYC Ladies of Laughter | 7:00 PM-, 2/14 Saturday | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | Featuring standup comedy by finalists from the NYC Ladies of Laughter contest. See more at: http://www. goodwilltheatre.net Open Mic Poetry | 6:00 PM-, 2/13 Friday | The Shop, 312 E Seneca St, Ithaca | Rhapsody in Black | 7:00 PM-, 2/13 Friday | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | Let’s Talk About It Series with Leland Gantt. This poignant and funny show addresses the psychological and emotional effects of racism on black men growing up in America. Richard II | 2/13 to 2/15 Friday to Sunday | Hangar Theater, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The Ithaca Shakespeare Co. begins its 2-year trek through the Bard’s epic 8-play cycle of history plays chronicling England’s Time of Troubles. See www.hangartheatre. org for info. Trampoline Thursdays w/ Buffalo St. Books | 7:00 PM-, 2/12 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 126 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca |

Notices Community Theater Group | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM Wednesdays | TBD | Community Theater Group is now forming for a Spring 2015 production of the acclaimed “Spoon River Anthology” by Edgar Lee Masters. Rehearse short, interrelated monologues in which dead citizens speak about their past lives. Free and open to all adults. No experience necessary; most are beginners. Just show up, or email Dennis Dore at ddore@zoom-dsl. com for more info. Ethical Travel Association | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 2/13 Friday | 207 Giles St, 207 Giles St, Ithaca | Vegetarian Potluck and presentations on Ethical Group Travel and Tours. Game Club | 2:30 PM-4:30 PM, 2/12 Thursday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | All ages and skill

levels welcome to play chess, Munchkin Quest, and Ticket to Ride. IPEI Annual Adult Spelling Bee | Wednesdays | Ithaca High School Gymnasium, 1401 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held in the Ithaca High School Wellness Center Gym. Spellers and Sponsors Needed for March 1. Registration Open! http://ipei. peaksmaker.com/ Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | The BoatYard Grill, 525 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | RSVP 818-961-6464 or mavashgaldjie@ yahoo.com Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | All day, Wednesdays | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The MentorStudent Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life. An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behindthe-scenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student. mentor@yahoo.com. Museum Passes at the Trumansburg Library | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | As part of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI)’s Community Accessibility Program, two one-day family passes to the Museum of the Earth and to Cayuga Nature Center will be available for check-out from the Ulysses Philomathic Library for Trumansburg families. The passes can be borrowed for one week; available on a first-come, first served basis. Open Hearts Dinner | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | McKendree United Methodist Church, 224 Owego St., Candor | Every Wednesday. Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Soup and/or Chili Nights | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 2/17 Tuesday | Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, 17 Main St., Candor | Every Tuesday Night. With dessert and drink. Free Will Donation. SpinKnitters | 1:30 PM-, 2/12 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Open knitting group

Valentine’s Day Dress-A-Thon | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 2/14 Saturday | St John’s Episcopal Church, 210 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | A local effort for a day of making dresses out of cotton pillowcases and fabric, which are then provided to girls around the world by Hope 4 Women International.

Meetings Ithaca City Planning and Development Committee | 6:00 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | City Hall, 3rd floor. Agenda at http://www. cityofithaca.org/AgendaCenter/ ViewFile/Agenda/02112015-693 Ovid Town Board | 7:00 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | Town Of Ovid, Main Street, Ovid | South Seneca School Board | 7:30 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | South Seneca High School, Ovid | Held at the Interlaken campus. Energize NY Finance Public Workshop | 2:30 PM-3:30 PM, 2/12 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A public workshop with City and County elected officials, staff, and other key stakeholders with Joe Del Sindaco from Energize NY Finance. In the Borg-Warner Room. Public Hearing on Waste Transfer Station Ban | 6:30 PM-, 2/12 Thursday | A Public Hearing will be held by the Town Board on February 12, 2015 at 6 :30 p.m.at the Newfield Fire Hall, Main St., Newfield. Groton Public Library’s Board of Trustees | 7:00 PM-, 2/17 Tuesday | Village Of Groton, 143 E Cortland St, Groton | At the Library; public is welcome. www.grotonny.org

Learning Art Classes for Adults | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca.org. Winter Writing Through The Rough Spots | See website for location and meeting dates | www. WritingRoomWorkshops.com. Multi-Media Art for Youngsters | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen Street, Trumansburg | Registration details and more info is at the TCFA web site. Call 387-5939 or e-mail skl.tcfa@gmail.

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Hangar Theatre, February 13 - 15, 19 - 21

Willard Straight Theatre, Februrary 12, 14, 15

The Ithaca Shakespeare Co. begins their 2 year trek through “the original Game of Thrones:” the Bard’s 8-play epic cycle about England’s Time of Troubles and the Wars of the Roses.

Japan’s most famous folktale gets the royal treatment in a hand-drawn masterwork from Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata.

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com. Remedy Staffing: Job Help | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | Seneca County Workforce Development is here to help job seekers. Registration encouraged. Small Business Innovation Research Presentation | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Ithaca Startup Works, 314 E State St, Ithaca | Kirk Macolini, Ithaca’s SBIR expert, will talk about the Dos and Don’ts of putting together an SBIR application. Sweet Success: Understanding the Pros and Cons of Sugar | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Licensed acupuncturist and herbalist Amanda Lewis will discuss the beneficial properties of the sweet flavor according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Registration required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Windows 8.1 | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/12 Thursday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Learn how to navigate the new Windows operating system. This 3-part class will move beyond the basics and allow job seekers to add Windows 8.1 to resumes as a marketable skill. Space limited, registration required. Laptops provided. Sponsored by the FLLS Outreach Mini-Grant. Learn to Play Bridge or Practice Play | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 2/13 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St., Clinton Street Plaza, Ithaca | Coaches are available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. This is the same group that used to meet at Lifelong. Enter through door to the right of Ohm’s storefront. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall. Sketching in the Greenhouse | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 2/15 Sunday | Cornell Plantations Plant Production Facility, 397 Forest Home Drive, Ithaca | All ability levels, and children ages 12 and older, are welcome. Please bring supplies. Pre-registration is required. International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 2/15 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5 donation suggested. Not meeting 12/28 Watercolor painting | 10:00 AM-, 2/16 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Intermediate Spanish | 1:00 PM-, 2/16 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg |

Knit & Chat | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 2/16 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid | Swap stories and skills with this informal group. Youth are encouraged to attend. Beginning Spanish | 2:00 PM-, 2/16 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Teen Movie Night: The Giver | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/17 Tuesday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | Meet with friends to enjoy this great book turned movie. Free popcorn and time to chat afterwards. Sponsored by the Delavan Foundation. Mixed Media Art Journals | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 2/17 Tuesday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, | What is an art journal? Come to the first week/introductory session (2/17, 6:30-8:30pm) to find out more and visit TCFA web site. Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 2/17 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | Open to adults of all ages, orientations, and religions (or lack thereof). Not affiliated with any church or religious institution. For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.

Special Events

Nature & Science Darwin Days 2015--Evolution in Your Backyard | Through 2/14 Saturday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Multiple events and locations. Call 607-273-6623 or visit www.priweb.org for schedule & details. Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, Saturday and Sunday Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Binoculars are available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@ gmail.com for more information. Primitive Pursuits Adult Weekend Workshop | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | TBD, , | For more

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Fat Tuesday Benefit for United Way of Tompkins County | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 2/17 Tuesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Dixieland music by DixieKats, celebrity bartenders, & a silent auction, with all proceeds benefiting United Way. Legion Fish Fry | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/13 Friday | Candor American Legion, 90 Spencer Road, Candor | The American Legion Auxiliary Friday night Fish Fry. phone: 659-7395 on the night of the dinners. Lincoln’s Unfinished Work | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM, 2/11 to 2/13, Wednesday - Friday; 2/16 Monday | Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | Exhibition featuring Cornell’s manuscript of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution - one of only 14 copies signed by Lincoln - together with other rare documents and artifacts associated with Lincoln’s funeral. Seneca County Arts Council Mardi Gras Art Party | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 2/17 Tuesday | Seneca County Arts Council Gallery, 109 Fall Street, Seneca Falls | Participants will paint

and decorate a Mardi Gras mask. All supplies are provided. Cost is $25 per person. Contact SCAC via email at scac109@gmail or call Bev Lombardo, 315-568-6137. Space is limited, registration required. Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper and Mardi Gras Celebration | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 2/17 Tuesday | St. Marks Episcopal Church, 17 Main St, Candor | Good will donation. Call 659-7479 after 4pm on day. Tompkins County Workers’ Center Community Celebration | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 2/12 Thursday | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | The entire community is invited. Workers speaking from Workers’ Center victories will be speaking in a short program at the event. Refreshments served. www. TCWorkersCenter.org for info. Valentine’s Day Wine/Food Event | 2/14 Saturday | Bet the Farm Winery & Gourmet Market, 381 Main St, Aurora | Special wine and food pairings featuring cheeses, confections, and more. Contact Kit Kalfs, 315-2945643, for more information. Valentine’s Dinner/Dance | 6:00 PM-11:00 PM, 2/14 Saturday | Logan Ridge Estates, 3800 Ball Diamond Rd, Rte 414, Hector | Dinner 6:00-8:00 PM (reservation required); dancing, 8:00-11:00. Call 607-279-3293 to RSVP. White Birch Vineyards Valentine’s Day Specials | 2/11 - 2/15 Wednesday to Sunday | White Birch Vineyards, 18 W Genesee St, Skaneateles | Wines and desserts. Visit www.whitebirchvineyards.com for info.

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information, call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit online at primitivepursuits. com. Primitive Pursuits Free Monthly Primitive Skills Meet Up | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Call 607-272-2292 ext. 195 or visit us online at primitivepursuits.com to join the club. Cayuga Trails Club: Lime Hollow | 10:00 AM-, 2/15 Sunday | Lime Hollow, 338 Cortland-McLean Rd., Cortland | Join the Cayuga Trails Club for a two-hour snowshoe/hike through Lime Hollow. Meet at 10:00 am, Lime Hollow parking lot, 338 Cortland-McLean Rd., Cortland. For more information, call 607-564-3396 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org

Health Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592. Alcoholics Anonymous | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/ PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Rd, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information 274-6604. Chair Yoga | 10:00 AM-, Wednesday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free. DSS in Ulysses | 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, Wednesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm St, Trumansburg | walk-ins welcome. For info on SNAP, Medicaid, Daycare and Emergency assistance. Call 274-5345 with any questions. An Experiential Evening with Jenna Milner | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 2/17 Tuesday | Finger Lakes School of Massage, 1251 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Exploring what is the body and how to use awareness as a tool for healing.

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Family Yoga/Dance Workshops | 12:00 PM-, 2/14 Saturday | Anna’s Yoga Studio, 402 3rd St, Ithaca | Valentine’s Day workshops: 12:00-1:00pm (3-5 yrs), 1:15-2:15pm (6-10 yrs). Visit www.annasmovementarts. weebly.com for info. Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | This group meets several times per week at various locations. | For more information, call 607-351-9504 or visit www. foodaddicts.org. Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location | We are looking for stroke survivors who have aphasia (an acquired language disorder). For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, Wednesday | Multiple Locations | We meet monthly at homes of group members. For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink.com or call Danny at 275-6441. Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall, 5th floor lounge, Cornell University, Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca | Monthly Meeting: LGBT Group | 6:00 PM-, 2/18 Wednesday | LGBT Resource Center, 73 Main St, Cortland | Bring a dish-to-pass for a pot-luck supper. ( If you are unable to bring anything, just bring yourself ). Overeaters Anonymous | This group meets several times per week at various locations. | A worldwide 12-Step program for people wanting to recover from overeating, starving and/ or purging. Visit www.oa.org for more information or call 607-379-3835. Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | More at www.DamodarDas.com. Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St, Ithaca | Call Amy or Emily at 272-2433. Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, Tuesday | 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions, 272-1505.

Kroch Library, Monday-Friday, 9am - 5pm through February 16 Special Civil War and CU Sesquicentennial exhibition featuring Cornell’s manuscript of the 13th Amendment, one of only 14 copies signed by Lincoln, plus other items related to his funeral.

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Walk-in Clinic | This group meets several times per week. | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments). Winter Qigong | 5:15 PM-, 2/17 Tuesday | Office of Suicide Prevention, 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Meditative movement practices to enhance circulation, vitality, health and mood. Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 2/15 Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Email nishkalajenney@gmail.com or call 607-319-4138 for more information and reserve your place as space is limited. Yoga School Classes | This group meets several times per week at various locations--pre-registration required. | The Yoga School, 141 E State St, Ithaca |

Lectures Joel Salatin: Redeeming the Earth | 7:30 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, Ithaca | A third generation alternative farmer, Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms, has written extensively in magazines such as Stockman Grass Farmer, Acres, USA, and Foodshed. Reppy Institute Seminar: “The Risks of Ambiguity in Cyberspace” | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, 2/12 Thursday | Uris Hall, Cornell University, Uris Hall, Ithaca | Brown bag luncheon; Benjamin Brake, International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations. G-08 Uris Hall. http://pacs.einaudi.cornell.edu/ Brake_seminar for more information. Good Grief! What I learned from Loss | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, 2/15 Sunday | Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Big Flats, 48 Hibbard Rd, Ext N,, Big Flats | Join us for Elaine Mansfield’s “Ted talk” about her journey with grief and loss after losing her husband to cancer. The Stewart Park Merry-GoRound--A Conversation and a Month of Painting | 10:00 AM-, 2/17 Tuesday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays during February, Christie Sobel will be painting four horses from the Stewart Park Merry-Go-Round at The History Center.

Arts Coverlets: Uncovering a Part of History | 12:30 PM-3:00 PM, 2/12 Thursday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Watch and talk with experienced textile experts Nancy Ostman and Kathy Carman as they document coverlets in The History Center’s collection. Johnson Museum of Art: Film Screening | 5:15 PM-, 2/12 Thursday | Johnson Museum Of Art, N Central Ave, Ithaca | The documentary Art and Craft profiles an art forger who is undone by the very copies he donated to museums. Curator Lexie Palmer will introduce the film. Screening starts 5:30 PM. 170 min. Winter Recess Fiber Arts Festival | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 2/16 Monday | La Tourelle Resort and August Moon Spa, 1150 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Handmade & local! Artists have yarn, fiber supplies, hand knit items, hand made felt, wood & pottery, gifts, jewelry, art quilts, hand made soaps and more! Free coffee & tea while you shop and chat with the artists.

Museums Cornell Plantations | Nevins Welcome Center, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, TuesdaySaturday | Multiple ongoing exhibits; www.cornellplantations.org for info. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM , to 8:00pm Thursday | This is no less curious: Journeys through the Collection, up through 04/12 | Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist, up through 06/07 | Staged, Performed, Manipulated, work by multiple artists, up through 06/07 | An Eye for Detail: Dutch Painting from the Leiden Collection, through 06/21 | Cast and Present: Replicating Antiquity in the Museum and the Academy through 07/19 | New galleries featuring ancient Greek art through the 1800s, ongoing | Cosmos, by Leo Villareal, ongoing | www.museum.cornell.edu The History Center | 401 E. State St, Ithaca | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Captains, Commerce, and Community: The Impact of the Erie Canal on Tompkins County, up now | www.historicithaca. org or www.thehistorycenter.net.

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Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St A Fat Tuesday celebration. Zydeco, Creole, and Cajun Music from the Finger Lakes.

Museum of the Earth at PRI | 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Monday, Thursday-Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Ongoing: The Animals of the Nature Center, Glacier Exhibit, Right Whale #2030, Rock of Ages/Sands of Time, Coral Reef Aquaria, A Journey Through Time, Discovery Labs, Hype Park Mastodon www.museumoftheearth.org Rockwell Museum of Western Art |111 Cedar St, Corning | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM | On Fire: The Nancy and Alan Cameros Collection of Southwestern Pottery, through 04/2016 | Untouched by Chaos: Karl Bodmer and the American Wilderness, up through 03/2015 | Lock, Stock & Barrel, historic firearms, up through 01/2015 | www. rockwellmuseum.org Sciencenter | 601 First St, Ithaca | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; open noon Sunday. Closed Monday | New: Mars Rover exhibit, opening 11/04| www. sciencenter.org Susquehanna River Archaeological Center | 345 Broad Street, Waverly | Tuesday-Friday, 1:00 PM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Native American artifacts, ongoing | www. sracenter.org. Ulysses Historical Society | 39 South Street, Trumansburg | Friday-Saturday 2:00 PM-4:00 PM; Monday 9:00 AM-11:00 AM | Civil War shawls, 1909 Brush car, Hoffmire Farm exhibit, Abner Treman exhibit, Ag exhibit, all ongoing Ward W. O’Hara Agricultural & Country Living Museum | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM; Wednesdays 11:00 AM-8:30 PM | 6880 East Lake Road Rt. 38A, Auburn | Central New York and Atlantic Seaboard Paintings, by Tom Hussey, ongoing.

Books Writing Department Reading: Katharyn Machan | 6:00 PM-, 2/12 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Job Hall, Ithaca College. Valentine’s Day Book Party | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 2/14 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Celebrating the publication of Alice Fulton’s new poetry collection, Barely Composed. Readings and signing. Young Adult Book Watch | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 2/17 Tuesday | Edith B Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Join Cady to discuss The Maze Runner. After Dinner Book Club | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/17 Tuesday | Edith B.

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The New Old Folk of The Felice Brothers by Luke Z. Fenchel

he Felice Brothers, an itinerant gaggle of kids mostly from outside of Woodstock, N.Y., talk, sing, look and act as if they have emerged from the forest—Rip Van Winkle style—circa 1967. Or better yet—1867, or some other mythical time when “authentic” folk singers performed in chicken coops, were professional dice players and didn’t communicate much with the outside world. After a few years living out of a bus, and propagating their folk mythology through two self-released albums, the Felice Brothers broke big. They have performed in Ithaca regularly as their star has risen; they return to town Friday, Feb. 13, to perform at the Haunt. Famous for intense live shows, the group brings together a practiced sloppiness that is endearing. “We usually play around 90 minutes, but it depends

Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | This month, “Shadow Woman” by Thomas Perry.

on the crowd,” James Felice said. “I don’t think we do as much drinking as we once did, but the audience is certainly encouraged to.” On record, the music doesn’t merely wink at authenticity: earnestness is the band’s bread and butter. Their records share their backwoods American story; imagine Twice-Told Tales: The Musical. Yonder is the Clock, an early record, was titled with a phrase drawn from the pages of Mark Twain but is full of common folk themes, dealing with love, death, betrayal, train stations and jail cells. Favorite Waitress is a poppy and peppy return to folk. Lead singer Ian Felice does a fair amount of screaming. When he’s not crooning or speaking, his vocal stylings can sure pack a wallop; think Bob Dylan by way of Conor Oberst. The rest of the band is made up of Ian’s brother the accordionist and pianist James; bass player (and dice player) Christmas (no joke!), and some fellow named Greg. The Felice Brothers’ finest song, “Frankie’s Gun!” is a rambling and ramshackle tale of roadtrips and betrayal—heavy on the slide piano and accordion. But the tradition in which the Felice

for babies and toddlers. Stay after for play time. Caregivers are required to stay with their child(ren). Kids Club at Michael’s | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 2/14 Saturday | Michael’s, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | 30 minutes of creative craft fun. Ages 3 and up are welcome to this event. Sunday Science Demonstrations | 2:00 PM-, 2/15 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Local high school students demonstrate awe-inspiring science with colorful chemical reactions, fun with physics, and more! Visit www.sciencenter.org/calendar. html for specific programs and dates. Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 2/15 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Invent contraptions that can move. Tinker with recycled materials and electricity to make whirling, moving machines. Materials provided by Cornell Xraise. Natural Journaling for Kids: Animal Tracking | 1:00 PM-2:30 PM, 2/14 Saturday | Mullholland Wildflower Preserve, Giles St, Ithaca | Meet in the parking area just off Giles Street. Journals will be provided or bring your own. Contact Laurie (272-8491) or Anna (379-0924) for more information.

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Brothers are working encourages recontextualizing: “If you listen to the Delta Blues musicians, or other old time players, they were always reinterpreting the songs of others. And Bob [Dylan] of course was as well. He still sort of does it; but the first few albums were basically songs that were rewritten from the folk tradition.”

Paper Crafting - Beginner Instructor’s Choice | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Michael’s, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Contact store for syllabus. Supplies not included. School’s Out Activities: Cooking | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 2/16 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Ages 5-12. Registration appreciated. School’s Out Activities: Science Day | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 2/17 Tuesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Ages 5-12. Registration appreciated. Science Together | 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, 2/11 Wednesday and 2/14 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Parents with their little ones (2 – 4 years old) explore science through hands-on activities, reading and songs. Sciencenter Preschool Story Time & Activity: Bubble Bubble | 10:30 AM-, 2/13 Friday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | For toddlers and preschoolers, hear the story Bubble Bubble by Mercer Mayer and then make a bubble wand. Sciencenter Preschool Story Time & Activity: Tracks in the Snow | 10:30 AM-, 2/17 Tuesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | For toddlers and

preschoolers, hear the story Tracks in the Snow by Wong Herbert Yee and then use paint and stamps to create your own hand print “tracks.” Sciencenter Showtime! Under the Sea with CUAUV | 2:00 PM-, 2/14 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Can a submarine drive itself? Learn about the amazing underwater robot built for competition by Cornell’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team. Story Time | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, 2/13 Friday | Edith B Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Children and infants will enjoy stories, songs and crafts. Parents can bring a snack or lunch and stay afterwards for play time. Sunday Science Demonstrations | 2:00 PM-, 2/15 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Local high school students demonstrate awe-inspiring science with colorful chemical reactions, fun with physics, and more! Visit www.sciencenter.org/ calendar.html for specific programs and dates. Tot Spot | 9:30 AM-11:30 AM, Thursday, Saturday, Monday, Tuesday | City Of Ithaca Youth Bureau, 1 James L Gibbs Dr, Ithaca | A stay and play

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