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everal people ended the workday Tuesday, Feb. 19 to an unwelcome sight: one or more of their cars’ windows had been smashed in, all around the Cayuga Street Parking Garage.

Most of the vandalism, it seems, happened in Cayuga Street Parking Garage on Tuesday afternoon. According to two victims, police told them as they reported the crimes that they had fielded complaints from many other people that day, as many as 12 according to victims, who all said they returned to their cars to find smashed windows. It's not clear if anything was taken from inside the cars. Both of those victims filed police reports.

While it may not reflect the actual amount of victims, since some may not have filed a police report, the Ithaca Police Department said they had received five reports of criminal mischief last Tuesday.

“There are five reports of criminal mischief that were reported during the B and C line shifts on 2/19/19 that are being investigated at this time,” IPD’s Loretta Tomberelli said.

“There was also a stolen vehicle reported. The stolen vehicle has since been recovered.”

It was not contained only to the garage, though. At least one other person's car was vandalized: an employee of OptiVision on the Commons, who said his vehicle had a window smashed on Tuesday, then had its back window and windshield caved in on Wednesday some time in the late afternoon when he was inside the store.

The car was parked in the alleyway behind OptiVision, off of Cayuga Street.

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Abatement shifted for Harold’s Square

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he downtown Harold’s Square project, which has been on a rollercoaster of ups and downs since being approved several years ago, received a requested tax abatement shift earlier this month, allowing the project another year before their tax breaks start to kick in.

With the myriad of delays that have beset the project, between struggling to secure

outside financing and a dispute between the developer L Enterprises, owned by David Lubin of Elmira, and construction firm Taylor, the Builders, the project has been delayed for at least a year, as of February. That would mean if the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency hadn’t accepted their request for a postponed start of their abatement, which runs for 10

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He’s currently on the Smile, You’re on Camera tour, and opening for

years, they wouldn’t have been able to maximize the first year (at least), since the tax break wouldn’t have been coming on the finished building.

“The developer wanted the abatement period to apply to the time when it is actually going to be open and operating,” TCIDA Vice Chair Martha Robertson said. “If the abatement started when it was supposed to start, it’d be a year or year and a half while it’s still under construction.”

The abatement’s approval comes even as some members

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Polaris on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. to show your skills, whether it be comedy, singing, dancing, juggling, whatever. We know that’s short notice, but don’t fret—the competitions will be going on weekly for the next several weeks. You can register at Ziggy’s World Bazaar in the Ithaca Mall, or send an email to ithacasgottalent@gmail.com.

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WHAT’S THAT ONE HOUSEHOLD CHORE YOU ACTUALLY DON’T MIND DOING?

“Um, none of them. Well, I guess I like mowing the lawn in the summer time.”

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“Sweeping or Vacuuming and making the bed. It’s nice to come home to a nicely made bed at night!”

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NYS bill seeks to strengthen animal cruelty laws

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espite spending most of the last few weeks frantically trying to put a state budget together, one member of the New York State Assembly is working on a piece of legislation that would have resounding effects throughout the state.

Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal has been working on the bill, named Bella’s Law (A00342), which seeks to not only enforce penalties on people who are being cruel to animals but also to reinforce the protections against animal cruelty that are already in place.

The goal of Bella’s Law is to get the protections that already exist moved to the penal code so law enforcement agencies would be able to enforce them on people who are neglecting animals. Despite there being

laws to ensure that animals are given food and water, there is no mention in the current laws of how they are to be enforced.

Andi Gladstone, a resident of Danby, has found herself embroiled in a situation where she was trying to get these laws to work in her favor but soon found the current rules were not going to suffice. Instead of being listed under the penal code, Gladstone discovered they are under agriculture and markets laws.

Another flaw of these protections, Gladstone found, is the absence of a law that says farm animals must be given shelter. She said these laws are lacking and change is imminent. Gladstone’s experience has yielded very few results but she has found that others are facing much worse challenges with the current system.

Children’s Garden

Ithaca Children’s Garden keeps growing in year 20 “I don’t mind doing the dishes…it usually means someone else cooked dinner!”

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This larger-than-life sculpture was built in 2005 by

concrete sculptor and artist Bo Atkinson on Cass Park land, owned by the City of Ithaca.

It overlooks Cayuga Inlet on

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“Somebody, I’ve met through this process has a horrendous situation right across the road from him,” Gladstone said. “He has made two complaints, but it’s a lot of animals so it’s hard for the animal control to grab them because they didn’t know what to do with them. The guy, who made the complaint, who has his own

animals and takes very good care of them has had his own animals killed by the neighbor, poisoned. He cannot get law enforcement to investigate.”

Despite attempts for a resolution, progress ends there.

Since it can be very hard to get conclusive evidence of

Future scientists examine top-secret pond samples. (Photo provided)

As times and seasons are such important themes in gardens, nature, and our own lives, a turtle was chosen as the logo for the Ithaca Children’s Garden (ICG), located right next to Gaia.

ICG was first organized in 1997 by Harriet Becker, Mary Alyce Kobler and Monika Roth. They heard Jane Taylor of the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden speak and were so inspired that they decided that Ithaca’s children also needed a special place to explore and connect to nature, designed especially for them. In 1999, ICG earned its non-profit status under the direction of founding director Meg Cole.

In 2004, a lease for three acres in Cass Park was secured from the City of Ithaca. From there, the program, staff, volunteers and Garden itself have grown, dedicated to its mission to “inspire, promote, and sustain youth and community stewardship of the natural environment through garden-based learning and discovery.”

Within the garden area are a variety of activities, set up within areas such as The

Taughannock Boulevard, and was made possible by the NYS Environmental Protection Fund and the Triad Foundation.

Every snapping turtle has 13 plates, or scutes, on its back, forming a lunar calendar. In Native American legend, the 13 central shields represent the 13 moons or lunar months in a year. The 28 outer shields represent the 28 days in each lunar month. The Iroquois tribe of this area used the snapping turtle’s back as their calendar.

Before the Inlet was developed in the 1800s, that area was made up of wetland habitats and was home to the common snapping turtle and many other animals, insects and plants. Snapping turtles are native to New York State and thrive in the Finger Lakes region. Turtles have been around for millions of years.

They live for decades and are often a symbol of longevity and Mother Earth.

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Town Hall

Border talk dominates Reed town hall in Groton

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epresentative Tom Reed, the incumbent Republican representative of New York's 23rd District in the House of Representatives, made the district rounds Saturday, making two town hall stops to talk with constituents about everything from social security reform to President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

It was Reed’s first extended event in the area since a visit to Enfield last year. His most recent visits to Tompkins County haven’t been particularly friendly, especially in 2017 when he held a town hall focused mostly on healthcare legislation that was hosted by the Southside Community Center in Ithaca. The Groton town hall event was his second of the day, having spent the early afternoon in Owego.

Reed started the town hall by addressing the crowd of about 30 people, which filled out the seating area, before any questions were posed. He tried to explain his position on the President's recent national emergency declaration, though he hedged his words by saying he probably would not have a final decision about the situation until a conference call he was holding with congressional colleagues later Saturday night.

On Tuesday, Rep. Joaquin Castro's resolution that seeks to halt the national emergency will come up for a vote. He did say that while the president was addressing a "legit crisis" on the border, Reed wanted to reduce the power and authority of presidential national emergency declarations in the future.

"What I'm eager to talk to my colleagues tonight about is how do we rescind that delegation of authority to the president, so that the president going forward, not only this president but future presidents, does not have the amount of discretionary authority that we see today," Reed said.

He also touched on his role as Republican leader on social security reform, though that topic would eventually take a backseat to immigration as he began answering questions.

The first audience question dealt with tax cuts, a topic on which Reed went back and forth with several audience members who argued the Trump tax cuts had primarily benefited the wealthiest people in the country and that the cuts had hurt the country's working class. Reed didn't delve too deeply to explain his position, but said he still supported them (Reed also helped write the cuts). He also said he supported cuts to the Internal Revenue Services' enforcement team, arguing that government has to keep shrinking to reduce spending. Overall, he said the national deficit is more of a government spending issue than a revenue issue. He also took a question regarding raising the federal minimum wage, but rejected the thought and said he would rather see individual states compete for workers by setting their minimum wages higher.

"That would put pressure on the states to compete, and if you're going to increase the minimum wage across the

board for everybody, you're not giving the nuanced approach that you could have with states recognizing the different cost burdens in different states," Reed said. He did say that one audience member's suggestion, of regionalizing the federal minimum wage so that different parts of the country could have different wage scales according to the costs of living there, had some merit.

He added that he was "open to the conversation" of raising the federal minimum wage.

After some time spent defending the State and Local Tax (SALT) cap changes, the topic of immigration was broached and would dominate much of the rest of the day.

First, Reed was challenged on the conditions for children detained by the United States and separated from their families when caught crossing the border illegally. Reed said he had been critical of the policy and remains opposed to family separation, but continued that the core issue is "the broken immigration system." Reed also said he was not aware if children were still being housed in New York State, a question prompted by several reports in the summer of 2018 that an Auburn-based social services agency in New York was caring for hundreds of detained children who had been separated from their parents.

"We should fix the law to make sure that these folks stick together, that is something I would love to work with people on," Reed said.

Reed's been a fairly staunch Trump supporter since early in the latter's campaign, when Reed became one of the earliest prominent Congressional Republicans to publicly endorse Trump’s candidacy. Since then, he's largely stayed in Trump's corner, and continued that on Saturday when asked about the national emergency declaration and generally about border

security. The meeting hit its most contentious point during this exchange, with arguments breaking out among individual audience members as several lobbed questions at Reed, who alternately dismissed some and attempted to answer a few.

"Why are these people being treated like criminals, being detained, when they're just trying to seek asylum?" one woman asked.

"Not asylum, that's completely different," Reed said.

"Asylum is different. What we're talking about is people who are illegally crossing the border that potentially represent a security risk to our citizens."

"But most of them are here to ask for asylum," another woman said.

"That is just not true, a lot of folks are illegally crossing the border, violating our border rules," Reed said. "Most are not seeking asylum, or have legitimate claims to asylum.

There are a lot of folks coming through the border that are coming here illegally and coming with criminal activity, with nefarious reasons to be here."

"Where are the statistics on that?" one man asked.

Reed, not having any statistics to show, said the statement has been "well-vetted" over the last six months.

"These are migrants, people escaping from really difficult conditions—they come up with their children and ask for asylum and they're stuck in Mexico?" another woman called out.

"Have you talked to these folks? Do you know what a 'coyote' does?" Reed said, employing a favorite talking point of President Trump's as he grew exasperated with the crowd. Audience members responded by accusing him of fear-mongering. Reed then asked if the audience believed "every single one of them is an innocent asylum-seeker." Many crowd members said they believe the majority are.

The conversation ended, and after a few more questions the event did as well, with a line of supporters queuing up to shake Reed's hand while others waited to get one further argument in to the congressman.

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▶▶ Thumbs Up - Prom season is approaching, and while the social pressure of prom is dumb, the pressure to spend oodles of cash on an outfit for the event is even worse.

Luckily, Layne Dann from Gee June Bridal is setting up a prom dress drive in order to provide used prom dresses for a much lower price than normal. Those interested can donate dresses at Gee June Bridal, Indigo Rose on the Commons and the Inn at Taughannock. ▶▶ Thumbs Up - Dominion Energy has announced their intentions to reduce its methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure by 50 percent over the next decade. In a press release about the announcement, Dominion’s spokesperson said that the move is an industry leading initiative, and will keep 430,000 metric tons of methane emissions out of the atmosphere. We’ll see if they’re up to the challenge. ▶▶ Seen - Remember all, election reforms have changed the schedule for the petition and campaign process. The process starts earlier now, with Feb. 26 the first day to start signing designating petitions and just over a month until the last day to authorize designations on April 8. Plenty of offices around the City of Ithaca and surrounding towns are up for grabs, so keep an eye open.

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Would you vote for Svante Myrick for a third term as Ithaca’s Mayor?

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On the New York Reproductive Health Act

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By Joa n A dl e r , C a rol i n e C ox, L i n da Hoffm a n n, C a rol K a m m e n, Ro s a l i n d K e n wort h y, Joyc e L . L e s l i e , Na ncy L . M i l l e r , Su e P e r l gu t, Ta f S qu i r e s ardinal Timothy Dolan’s severely damaged child without hope of a response, in the Wall Street future. For these women, New York shows Journal (Feb. 22, 2019), to its compassion and understanding. the passage of New York’s Reproductive Studies show, however, that most Health Act displays his and his church’s women who seek abortions are married concern for women. We assume that this women who already have children, or concern must include responsibility by are young women unable to provide for the church beyond counseling, to offering a child--who are unready or unable to be psychological and financial aid to women the best mothers they aspire to be. after the birth of the child, and continuing The New York Reproductive Health support until the woman is able to move Act does not mandate abortion for everyahead on her own. one, or anyone. It does not force women Most women greet pregnancy with joy to choose to abort. It gives those women and welcome a child into their world. for whom a pregnancy at that time is Some women, however, find themunthinkable. It is a way for each woman selves pregnant and are unprepared to to make a mature decision about her care for a child. A woman might already own body and life and to go on and have have a houseful of children for whom she children when she is ready to be the best cannot provide adequate food and shelter, mother possible. much less opportunities to higher educaThe New York Reproductive Health tion and meaningful lives. Some women Act treats all women as mature persons are in relationships where a child would who can decide what is best for them at not flourish; some women have problemthat time. For that, we are all grateful. atic pregnancies that would result in a

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pring cleaning is a simple tradition that hardly needs any hype, but Marie Kondo is an author and media star who has turned healthy household practices into religious ones, practically, with a best-selling book called “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,” and a barrage of lectures, television appearances, and how-to videos, capped by a new Netflix series (“Tidying Up With Marie Kondo”).

Ms. Kondo’s “KonMari method” teaches a decluttering regime of interacting with household items systematically, by category, then individually, and deciding which ones “spark joy.” You keep those and part with the rest. Once your home contains only objects you love, it becomes a place of clarity, caring, and strength.

Ms. Kondo presents her method so originally and appealingly that it has become a global phenomenon, but she herself points out it’s not new; it’s a series of concepts based on principles of order in Shinto shrines, where Ms. Kondo has worked. (If adoptees seem like spiritual acolytes, maybe there’s a reason.)

Nor is the phenomenon unique in popular culture. When I moved to Ithaca in the 1990s, I learned about a movement called “voluntary simplicity.”

Voluntary simplicity foreshadowed the KonMari method in many ways, but not in the search of joy. Voluntary simplicity sought no such sparks. It was somber, political, and didactic.

It proliferated in part through group

meetings that felt like school seminars, at least to me, when I attended one here in Ithaca, in the movement’s heyday, at a participating friend’s behest.

I didn’t want to go. I was afraid I would ruin the meeting, as I had just moved to Ithaca from a kind of bourgeois life, or at least a well-heeled one, in Washington DC, and had quite purposefully left behind almost everything from that life.

In terms of possessions, I had decided in principle to set up a residence here in Ithaca that I could, if I wanted to, move from in one day, with no help.

I related this to the group when invited to speak. I mentioned that anything I had that I couldn’t carry down a flight of stairs myself could be thrown out a window without breaking.

The room was quiet. I figured I needed to lighten things, so I said, “I know, I make Samuel Beckett look like Elton John.” (Beckett was possibly the most minimalist of artists, and persons. In his personal life lived in a cottage he built himself, with a bed, bookcase, chair, and table.)

Someone asked if I had anything I cared about, and I said yes: a guitar, a quilt a friend made for me and a plant.

There was a lull, until someone said, “You really should have more stuff.”

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YOUR LETTERS A Trump wall in Ithaca. Say it ain’t so!

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or decades ,international adults from all corners of the earth have gathered in Ithaca’s English as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms. There were few restrictions on who was eligible to enroll. Refugees from war-torn countries sat side by side with more prosperous Cornell connected students. The ESL program was a living, breathing example of Ithaca’s openness to a diversity of cultures.

Teachers felt honored to be in a position to assist the friendly and highly motivated students.

Over six months ago, TST BOCES, who oversees the ESL Program, had an administrative change that blew ESL’s inherent congeniality out of the water.

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keep up their standards of instruction but the BOCES administration, apparently ignorant of ESL teaching protocols, whittled away at the teachers’ effectiveness and morale. Numerous appeals to higher levels of BOCES administration fell on deaf ears.

The straw that broke the camel’s back was a recent decision by BOCES to restrict classes only to those adults who have permits to work in the U.S. This action eliminates a large percentage of students who were attending classes and precipitated some teacher layoffs.

Rather than having their solidarity cherry picked, the teachers chose to resign as a group. The alternative was to prop up a shell of a program that had little resemblance to its initial mission.

That BOCES, a publicly funded educational institution, could act so callously to teachers and students alike is a disgrace to the inclusivity that Ithaca strives for. continued on page 7

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Today, the principle and popularity of few possessions has burgeoned with the KonMari method, and reportedly been a boon to consignment and thrift stores. I went to some in Ithaca to see.

Every spot I visited said they’d had good business lately, but they’d figured it was due to New Year’s purging, and prespring cleaning, which happen annually.

One place mentioned KonMari. A worker noted the Netflix series, which started last month, and cited its popularity.

So people are selling things, I said. But does the phenomenon mean that people are slow to buy?

The workers considered. The consensus was no, as the movement doesn’t advocate spartanism or self-denial, but possession of things one truly loves (or at least really likes).

I thanked the workers for their time and said I’d look around the store. And I saw, indeed, that they had an alluring market, with plenty of things to love or YOUR LETTERS Contin u ed From Page 6

BOCES administration appear to be in concert with the Trump ethos-as an employee you have no voice, as a foreigner you are only valued if you have a work permit.

I strongly encourage anyone who would like to restore some small measure of civility to our international guests and respect the rights of teachers to contact BOCES administrators: Jeffrey Matteson, district superintendent, jmatteson@ tstboces.org. David Parsons, assistant superintendent of administrative services, dparsons@tstboces.org.

Tell them you are paying their damn salaries and demand a public accounting for their disastrous actions. As Ithacans, we deserve better than to allow a purported educational institution to build walls in our community.

Tom Stern

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They had a big Aladdin Mason jar with a spigot for dispensing drinks, for $20.

They had a rustic-looking little brown jug (like in the song) for $7. They had a set of four padded folding stools for $20. A picnic basket for $14. Authentic bread boxes.

They had a selection of cast-iron pans from the legendary Griswold company of Erie, Pennsylvania, which operated from 1865 through 1957.

They had a four-foot-high throne of a chair with a chrome bar, like the kind you put your foot on in a saloon, between the legs to climb into the seat. It had chrome studs on black upholstery and a distressed finish on the maple construction. Each of the wide, flat armrests had a built-in cupholder. It was manufactured in the U.S. by the singular Mikhail Darafeev company of Chino, California.

The chair was $350. I think it is worth a lot more, but I didn’t buy it. I already have a chair I like.

You see, one needn’t be unaware of things not to covet them. One needn’t be ascetic to be mindful.

The uncluttered life is not about lacking, but choosing. created by a single developer and allowing for individual homeowners.

Creating a inspection and permit policy that lessens the headache for smaller structures would also be an important step to accomplish this. The goal should be to enable people to build a 500 sqft home for under $75,000. The requirements for notarized architectural drawings and building standards focused on 1500 sqft+ homes, it would add another 10k to the cost just because of the bureaucracy. The current system is also focused against the DIY community, and smaller homes are much easier to DIY without creating dangerous or unlivable conditions.

Besides, poor soil not supporting much weight isn’t a concern for such small structures, and it would being a concentrated community of “hip” homeowners to the area who would be patrons of local businesses.

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he only reason Long Island never became Manhattan is because it is basically sand with no bedrock. You can’t build sky scrapers on sand.

Here you have sediment with basically no bedrock. Very much the same principle.

It can be done with piers and whatnot but VERY expensive.

Laurene Mongelli Gilbert, via Facebook he city needs to embrace the Tiny House movement. They could make a zoning district and allow large parcels to be sliced up into pieces that are much smaller than normally allowed. The result could be a community similar to Boiceville Cottages, but not

Well we need to do something with land-fills to reduce more trash way to much of it and for the sake of the environment and for the people who have to smell at there house near the landfill Andre Fraissinet, via Facebook

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Village Green, Rice Paddy Pond, and the Kids’ Kitchen, just to name a few. The Kids’ Kitchen is the heart of all the garden’s cooking, eating, meeting, special events, art projects and more. The Kitchen is 100 percent volunteer-built and was created at the 2013 GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance. Thanks to a solar array donated by Renovus Solar in 2014, camp snacks, program and events are powered by the sun.

The Hands-on-Nature Anarchy Zone, a partnership with the United Fish and Wildlife Service, invites visitors to take it to the next level and dig for worms, play with water, sand and clay, build forts out of straw bales and stumps, climb trees and more. In the process, happy kids (and often adults!) get muddy, wet and dirty while exploring their connection to nature. A storage shed houses tools and materials to be used during each program. Locust logs, straw bales, topsoil, river clay, cardboard, sand and boulders invite participants to play, create, destruct and have fun. In 2017, ICG was awarded the American Public Garden Association Program of Excellence Award for the Anarchy Zone.

The award “recognizes an Association member garden who has displayed a truly innovative spirit in the development of an original program.” ICG is the only independent children’s garden in the country to be recognized with this award.

ICG’s educational offerings invite individuals and groups of all ages and interests to investigate, explore and discover the wonderful natural world. In addition to ANIMAL CRUELTY Contin u ed From Page 4

neglected animals, the new law would be a welcome change to a flawed system, in Gladstone’s eyes. In trying to deal with her own situation, she found that more emphasis is placed on the owner’s privacy than the safety of the animals. Another issue, that strained the situation further, was the animal control officer was unable to get proper funding to do her job.

“We had an open investigation, which went on for several months,” Gladstone said. “My mistake was I thought once we had an open investigation the animal control officer would keep the animal safe, make sure they have water. But of course, she couldn’t do that because she was all over the county, not enough hours, not enough time. Sometimes she would visit maybe once a week, maybe she went once every two weeks, which was not enough to keep the animals safe when it comes to water and food, but more water for that matter.”

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featured programs, ICG offers support to school gardens, training in play work, field trips, after school enrichment and curriculum support for all grades. Some of the programs are fee-based, but ICG’s policy is to never turn anyone away for inability to pay.

The Fire and Ice event, held recently at ICG, was attended by more than 600 people from all walks of life, all braving cold and windy conditions for some winter fun.

Erin Marteal, executive director/program leader at ICG since 2011, has 18 years of experience, including working with the Cornell Garden-based Learning.

She developed permaculture education programs for children and schools at Durban Botanic Gardens in South Africa and received a master’s degree from Cornell University in public garden leadership. As a recipient of the Cornell University Dreer Award, Erin spent six months researching permaculture education in Australia, New Zealand and Trinidad. In 2015, she received the Florence Hoard Award for Community Beautification and was published in The Public Garden Journal as a young leader of note in the field of public horticulture.

“I am grateful on a daily basis to be able to serve, learn, and grow with our community and beyond through my role with ICG,” Marteal said. “Our human relationship with nature is critical if we are to make smart choices about how we manage our natural and human resources in the future. Kids are clearly at the center of what the future holds.”

- Gay Hu ddle be to manage. Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton is sure to review the bill once the budget is completed on April 1. However, she did have some comments on the bill’s future, particularly on some of the ways it could be reviewed and analyzed through community feedback.

“In considering this bill, I would want to hear from the many experts in our community, such as police, social workers, and child advocates, who deal with these issues in their day-to-day work, before I could reach a final decision,” Lifton said in a prepared statement. “Recent criminal justice initiatives supported by the Assembly, and also locally in Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca, have renewed the focus on alternatives-to-incarceration. At first glance, the imposition of harsher prison sentences in [Bella’s Law] runs contrary to the current thinking about prioritizing rehabilitation. For this reason, I would also want to consult with local governments in my Assembly district on this matter."

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By M att Bu tler arol Chernikoff wasn’t looking for a career in finance. She’d established a life for herself in her native Washington, D.C., working for the Smithsonian Institution and the National Parks Service and as a dance instructor.

Chernikoff came back to Ithaca, where she’d attended college, with the thought that she could quickly secure a job at the Johnson Art Museum at Cornell University. But two months after she moved, that had proven to be a more difficult job than anticipated. Feeling desperate, she took a job at Alternatives Federal Credit Union (AFCU or Alternatives) as a teller despite having no prior experience, and gave herself a six-month time limit to see if she could get a better job. She ended up not needing a better job, at least not at the time, as she fell in love with the culture of Alternatives and its overall mission, and has worked her way up over three decades to her current role as chief lending officer.

“Before those six months were up, I was completely taken by what was going on there,” Chernikoff said.

Chernikoff was drawn to the environment that Alternatives founder Bill Myers had built, even though the credit union was quite young at the time and resided up a flight of rickety wooden steps, according to Chernikoff, above Handwork on West State Street. Myers started the credit union at the behest of the nearly 30 coops in town who wished to organize their 8 T

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finances jointly but soon outgrew serving just the co-ops. Forty years later, the credit union now has a stately location on North Fulton Street, a far cry from its humble start.

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seems to be a common sentiment among Alternatives employees who stay there long-term: it might not be as high-paying as a larger bank with a bigger name and longer bankroll, but those interviewed for this article seem perfectly satisfied with the non-monetary benefits they’ve found there.

Part of Myers’ ability to craft such a mission stems from the fact that Alternatives is a credit union, and thus a non-

profit organization, so they are naturally geared to be more concerned with creating their desired impact on the community instead of a profit margin.

“He was unstoppable, a visionary at a time when he made it all up,” Chernikoff said of Myers. “He was not following anybody’s path. [...] That airplane was always taking off.”

The financial world was different at that time, with many employers organizing their own credit unions, which meant there were about two dozen in Tompkins County alone when Myers founded AFCU. It has changed around Alternatives, with the rapid expansion of faceless interactions becoming the norm instead of the exception and reducing the value people place on relationships, maybe especially in banking. During the same time period, credit unions have become far less popular than they were when Alternatives began, with many having merged together. That’s highlighted locally, where many of the organizations that existed when Alternatives began have either closed or merged with others, leaving just AFCU, CFCU Credit Union and Tompkins Employees Federal Credit Union still standing as separate entities, using customer service and their locality as the main ingredients to ward off larger banks.

“It’s in the water,” Chernikoff said of Alternatives. “It’s the way we work.”

Myers left in 2007 and Alternatives is now led by CEO Eric Levine, who previously served for over a decade as the credit union’s general counsel before being hired as the credit union’s leader in September

2018.

“I love the mission at Alternatives, and the culture,” Levine said. “Working for the underserved, and making a difference in people’s lives is really quite engaging. On top of that, the staff here are so wonderful to work with. You’re working with people who have dedicated their lives to helping other people.”

While a bank is a for-profit institution with shareholders and a bottom line to monitor, Levine said Alternatives is a particular type of credit union, categorized as community development, which gives them the flexibility and responsibility to work to better the community through their business.

“The underserved often are marginalized by the mainstream financial industry,” Levine said. “As a community development credit union, we’re here to specifically provide that access. We have programs where you don’t even need to be a member.”

Levine said the goals of Alternatives are flexible in that the purpose of the institution is to fill the gaps of access people may be facing in the financial world; as the needs of people change and adapt, so must Alternatives. Having a lower income, and the occasional desperation that can accompany that, can also lead to increased susceptibility to predatory financial agents, something that can become particularly dangerous with loans and tax preparation, Levine said. These are some of the populations that Alternatives feels it can best serve, and has for decades with community programs and research, most prominently the Living Wage Study that took place in 1994 and which is now celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Levine said the living wage study’s origins stem from the pleas of an entry-level employee who was having trouble renting an apartment on her own. Myers, who was with the organization at the time, remembers more specifics: He gave a ride home to a customer service representative who was living in an apartment in the Southside neighborhood. She was working fulltime, and yet mentioned that her mother was having to help her pay for her rent, which disturbed Myers. Along with others at Alternatives, he decided the subject was worth studying, and worked with Cornell Cooperative Extension to compile a statistic that could represent the plight of workers unable to fully support their own housing.

Once the study was finished, nobody wanted to help Alternatives publish and

market the results, Myers said. So they did it themselves.

“We thought, ‘What we’re going to do is publish it, and pay it ourselves,’” Myers said. “We were going to set a standard. It got picked up by lots of businesses, and picked up by unions too [...] It became a local standard of what it takes to live in the county. And it all started with, ‘We’re paying someone not enough to live on in the county,’ and to me that just didn’t seem right.”

Myers credits Alternatives’ former chief

need our staff to have financial wellness.”

That wasn’t the end of the community research and benefit programs Alternatives would develop. Myers said he and others in the organization felt that not enough people were taking advantage of tax return opportunities, primarily because many weren’t aware of the possible financial rewards they could reap by doing so. In response, they established a free tax preparation program for individuals who make less than $30,000 per year, or for families who make less than $55,000 per year,

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operations officer, Leni Hochman, with the study’s wide impact due to her work supporting and marketing the results. Since its initial publication, the research has been updated every two years. Levine said that since then, Alternatives has strived to pay their workers a living wage, viewing it as a necessity for them to help others achieve their own financial well-being.

“We support it with our staff, because we can’t expect our staff to help people deliver our mission to our members if they’re not living it themselves,” Levine said. “We

which connects people with volunteer tax agents who can help them file their taxes and, hopefully, maximize their return. The program is still active, and anyone meeting the criteria can schedule an appointment with a simple phone call. Additionally, Alternatives provides programs like financial wellness courses and small business consultation and training, plus the youth credit union program, which is Myers’ personal favorite.

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the stuff that was the most rewarding for me,” Myers said. “And hilarious fun, too.”

A common attraction of the smaller, more personal banking experience is the trust that can build through that relationship, something that can be especially valuable in the often cold, ruthless world of money. Levine said it is one of the things he most frequently hears when people talk about Alternatives: that they feel like more than a number when they come to the credit union, and are more comfortable with a local institution instead of a more corporate bank that exists on a larger, even global, scale. Of course, without a powerful brand or prominent name behind it, Alternatives can struggle with marketing and public awareness, something Levine acknowledged the credit union has found a challenging problem to solve. But, particularly in a place like Ithaca, there will likely always be people who are willing to sacrifice things like immediate convenience if they prioritize ensuring their money stays in the hands of people around them.

“I don’t think people necessarily want to be part of a ‘too big to fail’ banking system. They would rather keep their money locally and support the local economy,” Levine said. “When they deposit funds within a community development financial institution, they know those funds are being lent out to their neighbors and people in their community that are trying to live their best life. People want their community to have economic justice.”

Chernikoff also noted that Alternatives’ importance is bolstered by the level of importance, no matter how misguided, that American society places on wealth, or at least financial capability. It’s one of the elements that kept Chernikoff around as long as she has been, and has clearly permeated from Myers’ initial vision of the organization.

“Unfortunately, money is such a value in our society that people either feel success or failure based on their financial situation,” Chernikoff said. “If we can, and this is one of my personal goals there, empower people around their finances, which doesn’t mean put them on a budget or they’re going to get a new car, just empower them to take charge and think about their money and see that something else is possible [...] It is such a powerful tool to just feel that you have a handle on money and that you’re not a victim to your income or your debt.”

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I re me mbe r the we e k e n d l a st ye ar whe n I of f ic ially me t Pe te Mil lim an .

it when they traveled to Geneva to meet the Statesmen.

Two days after the opener, the Big Red would host Lehigh, and like Hobart, the Mountain Hawks had a two-game head start on Cornell. Milliman said, “Given we start practice on Feb. 1, there are some years that there is a good chance that we don’t even get outside (to practice) before the season opens.” Milliman noted they have been lucky this year, only needing one indoor practice.

illiman was, at that time carrying the title of interim head coach of the Cornell men’s lacrosse team, and it was a crazy time by any measure. First, the Big Red were in the midst of a turnaround season that would ultimately see them win the Ivy League Tournament and have a solid postseason.

They had been picked to finish fifth in the conference and started the season ranked well outside the Inside Lacrosse Top 20.

Another possibly distracting factor for a coach trying to establish himself was that three dozen of the storied program’s most revered alumni were in town, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Cornell’s legendary 42-game winning streak (a record that still stands).

Oh, yes, let’s also factor in the slightly distracting reality that Milliman’s wife, Meg (who is the women’s lacrosse coach at Wells College), was due to have their first child any day.

Yet it all turned out well. On that weekend, the Big Red made the alumni proud, rolling over Brown by a score of 19-5. The next weekend, the Milliman family’s daughter, Reese, arrived, and soon thereafter Cornell would beat Syracuse for the second time in 2018. A few weeks later, the nameplate on Milliman’s office door read, “Peter Milliman: Richard M. Moran Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse.” Yes, it was a good year.

Milliman was kind enough to invite me into his office the day before the Big Red opened their season against longtime rival Hobart, and we discussed that Cornell was looking to start the season with a win for the first time in five years. I admitted that I was puzzled by that losing streak—the longest in program history.

Never one to make excuses, Pete said,

The energy around the program feels different these days. On any given day, the players might see Richie Moran—the Hall of Fame coach whose teams won three national championships and for whom the head coaching position is named—and they are mentored by coaches who have played the game at a very high level. After a collegiate career as a three-time All-

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“A lot of the schools start practice as soon as they return to school in January. The Ivy League dictates that we can’t start practice until Feb. 1, and last year almost every Ivy school lost, or barely won against inferior teams.” Of the four straight opening day defeats, Milliman said, “it’s a horrible track record,” and it was clear that he and his charges were ready to do something about

American at Gettysburg, Milliman played Major League Lacrosse for four seasons, and both of his assistants are (or have been) pro players as well. Jordan Stevens and Connor Buczek both have MLL experience, and given the fact that both are former Cornell lacrosse All-Americans, they can offer some insight on how to balance Division I athletics and Ivy League academics.

Like any coach, Milliman wants to look forward as much as possible, but he was generous enough to indulge my questions about what it is like to coach a program with such an illustrious history, and to know that on any given day, he might be having lunch with the coach that built the dynasty that still holds the coveted winstreak record. Pete said, “It’s an incredible opportunity to be able to lead these guys.

When I was a kid, Richie came to speak at a clinic, and now it’s humbling to be around him and all those guys that were a part of it. Of all the college lacrosse programs, ours has the richest tradition.”

Addressing the pressure of officially taking over the program, the former Big Red assistant coach shrugged and said, “I have been here for some time, in fact last year was my fifth season. When I was given the opportunity to lead the program with two of the best assistants I could hope for, we were off and running.”

When the Big Red took the field against the Statesmen, they really hoped not to give up 16 goals. That is the number that found the back of the net, but Cornell’s vaunted offense was up to the task, pouring in 19 of its own to emerge victorious.

The elite attack trio of Jeff Teat, Clarke Petterson and John Piatelli showed why every opponents’ defensive game planning will be put to the test, as Teat had six goals and two assists and Petterson and Piatelli each had four goals and two assists.

On Sunday, I sat in the press box and noted that the Big Red looked a bit sluggish after Friday’s big contest. They fell behind 5-0 in the first period, but chipped away in the second and third periods, and exploded for seven unanswered goals to win 14-9.

Thirty-three goals in two games, with two wins. So far, so good.

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The Johnson Showcases Cornell Art Faculty Work

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By Amber Donofrio

t’s time for the Cornell Faculty show at the Johnson Museum, an exhibition that occurs every few years showcasing the studio artists who are also professors at the institution. The exhibition is “an opportunity,” accordingly to the show statement, “for both the university community and the broader public to reflect on the relationship between education and practice.”

Ithaca, including its general community and those teaching at the colleges it houses, is home to a myriad of working artists, and it is forever inspiring and fulfilling to witness the creative works produced here and by those with ties to our city. The Cornell Art Faculty 2019 show is simply inspiring, exhibiting a collection of thoughtful works that allow the viewer to appreciate both the technical merits and the deeper, more reflective messages the artists sometimes carry.

Bill Gaskins’ work “Black Mystery Month Clue #2” is a photograph behind glass a figure whose black-and-white image is blurred slightly with letters printed on plexiglass on top of the photo. The work is playful and historically relevant. Instructions ask you to look at the picture from your phone camera, reversing the image to reveal the hidden message, which spells out an important figure’s name.

Carl Ostendarp’s “Uh” presents a large gray outline of a question mark against a sparse background, in a clear illustration of the artist’s typically comical style. Beside the work is “Sunny Sky” by Leslie Brack, a detailed and photorealistic watercolor of a well-executed filing cabinet drawer. Sunshine presumably faces the drawer and casts shadows across the composition.

In “Dimensions of Presence,” video artist Anna Huff works in collaboration with performer Nancy Lee Kelly to create an interactive video work that is bound to catch your attention. While Kelly, an older woman sporting a variety of shirts throughout the video (ranging from a Marilyn Monroe emblazoned bodysuit to an oversized YMCA shirt), enthusiastically plays drums on screen, you the viewer are asked to join her by sitting down and playing along on a white Roland keyboard. The piece puts Kelly at the forefront as a subject to observe, while also prompting you to join along in a collaboration of your own.

Gail Fitzgerald’s “Super Nature” stuck out to me: a large sculptural box painted metallic pastel purple that protrudes from the wall.

The piece is made of wire mesh and plaster, and though it is technically a cube, its shape proves more organic as the sides sink inward and edges slope, creating a more poetic and intriguing end form.

Gregory Page’s lithograph “Motif from My Back Yard Large Burdock Leaves” is a lovely black-and-white print of leaves, focused on their details and veins, while Maria Park’s paintings (for lack of a better term) are

delightful and fun, including a plexiglass piece of text initially painted in reverse. Park’s work also includes the more sculptural “Field Diagram 1” created in collaboration with artist Brandon Hookway, in which small photorealistic mechanical hinge-like forms painted on thick plywood are joined by more abstract white shapes.

Michael Ashkin creates an intricate architectural structure out of thinly cut strips of cardboard, and Elizabeth H. Meyer’s collection of boxed intaglio prints are meditative works exploring the shadows of lost objects and the preoccupied memories of physical matter that can or cannot be found again. Meanwhile, “Gentle Opening Calls for Gentle Closing”

by Renate Ferro is perhaps the most poignant piece in the show. A repurposed card cabinet sits with each drawer labeled with a Freudian construct, including Libido, Separation Anxiety, Hysteria, Trauma, Ego and Dreams.

Each drawer contains small objects, such as marbles, a lace glove, etc., and viewers are encouraged to re-sort the items among the drawers, while a video plays of a narrator going through the drawers as well. The objects appear lonely, isolated and neglected in their drawers. They are someone else’s memories, but the vagueness of them also leads viewers to reflect on their own associations as well.

Other artists in the show include Robin Cameron, Joanna Malinowska, Chris Oliver, Dan Torop, Jaret Vadera, Christine Elfman, Roberto Bertoia, Barry Perlus, Jolene K. Richard and Stan Taft. The show is on display through April 7.

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Talent at Cornell

The display of work by Cornell faculty members is open until April 7, and features plenty of Cornellians showing off their artistic prowess. (Photo by Casey Martin)

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Testosterone

Good boy gone bad in dark Cherry comedy

By Barbara Ad am s

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xcessive male hormones are indicted as the source of all social woes in the Cherry Arts’ current dark comedy, “Testosterone.” But then, equally culpable are bad genes, bad upbringing, bad movies, capitalism, and any number of phenomena, including God himself. Or so we learn as the characters, both living and dead, blame these possible causes in unison. When in doubt, cast blame elsewhere.

The Cherry can be counted on to bring us new international work, and this is the first English-language translation (by Neil Blackadder) of Berlin-based playwright

Rebekka Kircheldorf ’s “dark parable.” It’s loosely based on the Brothers Grimm tale, “The Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear,” but in this contemporary update, the boyfrom-a-good-home has turned hitmanfor-hire.

Artistic director Sam Buggeln surprises us with the setting (by Daniel Zimmerman), unusual in The Cherry’s capacious space: a claustrophobic, carpet-lined box that serves as the living room of an upperclass family. There’s but one boarded window, which mostly opens as a TV screen where a newscaster (AJ Sage) endlessly delivers the nasty news from nearby Bad Neighborhood and Very Bad Neighborhood (“Assault on white slave ring fails; child’s corpse discovered in trash can.”)

This family’s bunker, however, is secured––by a network of surveillance systems, guards, three walls and two moats (one filled with hot tar, the other with crocodiles). Nothing succeeds like excess; Trump might take a note or two.

But of course the riff-raff from the outside easily infiltrate, ratcheting up the

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drama and social commentary. Kricheldorf ’s political critique cuts in every direction, in what I’d call sledgehammer satire.

Nothing subtle, including over-the-top storyline and visuals.

The paterfamilias, Fabian Klemmer (David Studwell), is a 70-year-old widowed physician who’s about to announce his will. His good son, Ingo (Benno Ressa), likewise a renowned if pusillanimous surgeon, plans to marry psychotherapist Solveig (Helen Clark); they’re in perfect patrician harmony, playing flute and cello duets (in delightful comic staging as they “sing” the notes).

Fabian’s prodigal son, for whom he can’t give a fig––or rather one fig, literally, which is what he bequeaths him––is Raul (Karl Gregory). This bad seed has long been lost to the Bad Neighborhoods, where he’s a ruthless hired gunslinger (who also slings knives, machetes, grenades, you name it).

The family’s trouble begins when Silvana (Lucy Gladstone), the Adopt-a-Whore they’ve charitably sponsored, escapes from her bondage and arrives seeking refuge.

She’s soon pursued by her depraved father, Slatko (Eric Brooks), the notorious mobster and pimp––Fabian’s family fortress proving most permeable.

Violence and viciousness, class conflict and consumerism, immorality and amorality––Kricheldorf decries it all, by blowing it up to Thanksgiving Day parade balloon proportions. Gory mayhem ensues, and the bloodstained dead haunt the living. At midpoint, the stage is strewn

with bleeding body parts. This is terribly funny, but wasn’t it often done on New York stages over a decade ago?

And despite all the comic lines, gestures and moments, the social satire is awfully familiar, right down to the survival and reproduction of the moneyed class. What do we learn that’s new? Or does it take hyperbolic delivery to arouse us?

Who this play is for seems unclear, but what does shine is the cast––some of Ithaca’s favorite actors doing their outrageous best, in TV-comic-skit style. It’s a pleasure to see Helen Clark back in town, and Karl Gregory is charmingly horrid as the not-so-wicked wicked son. With his first lines on arriving home––“What up, gutless dogs?”––well, he had me at “Hello.”

And I will have forever ingrained in my mind the vision of a florescent-pink-punkspiked Eric Brooks––tattooed, blood-spattered, leering, all while sensitively delivering romcom-inspired relationship advice to a confused Karl.

“Testosterone” by Rebekka Kricheldorf, directed by Sam Buggeln. With Karl Gregory, Helen Clark, Benno Ressa, David Studwell, and Eric Brooks. At The Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca, through March 3. Tickets at thecherry.org/tickets.

The Cherry dedicates this production to the memory of Ed Intemann. A talented and generous lighting designer, Ed is mourned by all Ithaca’s theatre-going community.

Barbara Adams, a regional theatre and arts writer, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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Double Trouble

IC’s Menotti operas are entertaining but problematic

By Barbara Ad am s

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andsome staging and solid singing distinguish Ithaca College’s annual collaboration between the Department of Theatre Arts and the School of Music: two one-act operas by 20th-century Italian-American composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti. Both are ably directed by recently retired theatre professor Norm Johnson. “The Old Maid and the Thief ” is an early work, from 1939, whereas “The Medium” was first staged somewhat later, in 1946.

Ithaca’s flexible Clark Theatre, set in three-quarter round, provides an intimate and compelling space for the action.

Senior designer Indigo Shea has created a streamlined environment suggestive of Italian Futurism. The glowing wood-plank floor (splendidly lit by Evan Morrison) features a perfect circular pit at its center where Christopher Zemliauskas’ six-person chamber orchestra performs.

The music is at the heart of the performance, both aurally and visually, while the performers command the periphery. The modernist white furniture is sparse, clean and simple, and a slender second level at the rear is reached by matching white staircases. In the background, a staggered row of vertical orange neon tubes gleams quietly.

Even the orchestra pit reflects the color scheme: the black piano and music stands, white sheet music, and warm polished

wood of the instruments. An utterly harmonious scene––from which discord emerges. In “The Old Maid and the Thief,” originally written for radio, an upper-class woman and her maid vie for the attentions of an attractive young wanderer; and in “The Medium,” a woman pretending to communicate with the dead bilks willing customers with rigged séances.

Menotti’s music is accessible and spirited, lighter at moments than you might expect, given the subject matter. It was a pleasure just to watch these capable musicians so closely. The performers’ singing was enjoyable, with an ensemble consistency. (Two different casts sang on alternate nights, so this review only reflects Thursday’s opening.) Occasionally voices at the rear of the stage were less easy to understand; even operas in English might be effectively captioned.

A curious quirkiness in the plot characterizes “The Old Maid and the Thief.” Over tea, distinguished Miss Todd (Margot Wegman) and her nosy neighbor Miss Pinkerton (Melodi Rinaldi) exchange superficialities about the weather. But soon Miss Todd’s life is complicated by the

arrival of an attractive wanderer (named Bob, played by Elias Husiak). She’s not a classic old maid and he’s no “beggar,” at least in this version. Todd’s maid Laetitia (Megan Jones) flirts with him furiously.

And before long he’s been given shelter and considerable attention.

To make Bob stay and yet protect herself from scandal, Todd claims that he’s a visiting cousin and forces him to remain hidden upstairs, where he grows increasingly bored. Meanwhile there are numerous thefts in the neighborhood, which, we learn, have been perpetrated by Todd herself (sometimes with Laetitia’s help).

The reason for this is ostensibly because she needs money to lavish on the lad, but this makes no sense––she’s clearly wealthy and socially influential. This odd plot point allows the story to unfold: Of course Bob grows bored with his caged-bird status. When Laetitia supplies him with abundant alcohol (the women have robbed a liquor store, another absurd touch), Bob gets rousingly, humorously drunk.

Eventually Bob gives Miss Todd her comeuppance and, with Laetitia, robs her thoroughly and departs for the freedom of the road. (The stuff and the maid being an encumbrance to his free spirit isn’t really addressed.) Another pure-hearted youth fares less well in “The Medium,” in which Madame Flora (Lindsey Weissman, as an icy film noir blonde goddess) gradually becomes unhinged. Having long feigned communing with the dead for profit, she’s now haunted by otherworldly voices driving her to desperation.

Flora’s assisted in her fakery by her daughter Monica (a sweet-voiced Syona Ayyankeril), who dons white gauze to impersonate the departed. (All costumes well-designed by Alexandra Nowicki.) The medium’s clients are touchingly hooked, desiring to see the lost children they so loved––a striking contrast to psychopathic Flora’s treatment of Toby, the mute street orphan she adopted and treats most cruelly.

Tristan Tierney’s Toby––adoring his half-sister and cowering before Flora’s whip––is expressive, childlike and completely loveable. In these works, Menotti, a gay man with an imperious mother, has over-indulged his idealization of pure young men and demonization of willful women. In “The Old Maid” libretto, he wrote: “The devil couldn’t do what a woman can––make a thief out of an honest man.” Watching these well-executed two short operas in tandem is entertaining musically, but thematically it’s still a double dose of misogyny.

“The Old Maid and the Thief ” and “The Medium” by Gian Carlo Menotti. Directed

by Norm Johnson; music director Christopher Zemliauskas. At Ithaca College, through March 2. Tickets at 607-274-3224.

Barbara Adams, a regional arts journalist, teaches writing at Ithaca College.

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other two the next day, as around $1000.

"I can't even see a picture of them, to be Contin u ed From Page 3 able to look out for them if I'm walking to my car," the employee said. "I don't even get out of here until it's dark out. [...] I don't know these kids' exact age. I don't know whether they have blonde hair or black hair or brown hair. I don't know their race. I don't know anything. I can walk out of here tonight and get beat up or stabbed. I'm really frustrated."

A manager at the garage, which is operated by All-Pro Parking, said the police were investigating and that the group of people were caught on the garage's camera surveillance system. He said he had turned over the video to police and could not comment further.

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of the public, always wary of tax abatements, argued that the building’s updated changes were impactful enough on the final state of the project to warrant at least another public hearing on the abatement.

There were also demands that a safety plan be implemented so the Commons playground could reopen in time for the warm weather. Tompkins County Area Development President Heather McDaniel said that though the agency knew of the changes, they felt they would be able to rely on more information submitted down the line to decide if a more in-depth review process is necessary.

“We are aware that some of the usage has changed in the building and they’re reconfiguring some of the internal spaces,” McDaniel said. “Once they give us their final construction budget, with square footages and what’s changed, we’ll make a determination on that and that will happen before two years from now when the PILOT kicks in [...] We don’t have the information yet with which to make a determination.”

McDaniel said eventually, the number of apartments or amount of office space might shift, but the project will likely still qualify for a tax abatement considering the rules of the City of Ithaca’s Community Investment Incentive Tax Abatement Program (CIITAP), as a mixed-use, multifloor building.

Vicki Taylor Brous, who’s serving as spokesperson and consultant on the Harold’s Square project, went into some further detail regarding the changes that have taken place to the building’s design and plans.

“The project was originally slated to have ground floor retail, mid-floor office, and then housing,” Brous wrote in an email. “This plan included micro units.

After an amount of office space became available, and housing studies indicated a great demand for more units, this plan was changed to add more micro units of housing. There has been a moderate softening in the housing market, and after inquiries from office tenants who requested spaces with additional natural light, the change was made back to office space. There have been some facade changes and the addition of balconies on the west side.”

Despite those changes, decision-makers do not seem concerned that the project will turn out significantly different than what has been submitted and discussed.

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“I wasn’t concerned about what I heard about the changes,” Robertson said, noting that she knew if there were substantial changes the Tompkins County Area Development team, led by Heather McDaniel, would have raised a red flag and potentially made Harold’s Square reinitiate the abatement process with a public hearing.

Meanwhile, though work was purported to have restarted on the project already after a delay to start the year, the construction has either been stalled or slowed until this week. In an update posted by the development team, they said construction would resume this week, although they maintain that work has been ongoing over the last several weeks, but has not been as visible since certain elements weren’t in use, like the large crane.

“Onsite work is set to restart on the Harold’s Square site next week,” the update said, available on the project’s website.

“There were some delays in re-issuing permits and insurances from the old to the new contractors, LeChase Construction, LLC [...] As the weather improves steel construction will continue and concrete will be able to be poured.”

According to the update, there will also be a meeting to update neighbors and downtown constituents, which will take place on Thursday, March 7, 2019 at 2 p.m. in City Hall.

Brous also addressed the Commons playground, which has been closed for months due to the nearby construction at the direction of the city’s planning department. When the playground was initially closed businesses on the Commons were irate, arguing that the closure would deter families with children from coming downtown for a night out, but the planning department wouldn’t budge.

There’s a tentative plan in place, Brous said, to reopen the playground by sealing the front of the building’s construction off from the Commons, but it remains to be seen if this will be effective and approved once implemented.

“We all want the playground to be opened as soon as it is safe to do so,” Brous said. “There are authorities that will not allow it while work is happening above.

Our goal is to enclose the front portion of the building as soon as feasible so that the play area can be opened. It will still need to be closed periodically as required for safety. The hope is to accomplish this by late spring.”

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Books

Dueling Reviews

By Jon ath an Frank e l

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udy Swann, a poet, essayist, editor, environmental activist (she neither flies nor drives), mother and resident of Ithaca, brings considerable gifts of intellect and humor to “Fool,” a book of poems, and “Stickman,”a collection of John Young’s 1979 comic strip with Swann’s hilarious and informative commentary.

“Fool” is delightful. A sense of play and wit shine through the syntactical twists and turns of each piece. Her subjects, cancer, the Midwest, “acid booze and grass,” sex and childbirth, are treated slantly, emotion breaking through without tawdry sentimentality. In contemporary poetry politics, aesthetics and morality are often conflated. Swann is a poet first, yet her politics, and the moral underpinnings, are there. Hers is a profane and beautiful world.

Each of “Fool’s” four parts displays a different phase of Swann’s Lunar muse.

“Working Class” is made up of poems about work and alienation, where war has replaced meaning, and we do not know what to talk about. “Jobs that pay the mortgage are not coming back,” she writes. The poem Krasnodar invokes the names of prisons and work camps: “Asked to name one thing we could do differently/ they lower the price of guns.” The poems are playful.

The title poem is about the muse (a recurring figure, and reminder of Swann’s deep poetic roots) who addresses the poet as Fool, “by which she means Innocent Child,” and whose repeated demand is love from the poet.

“Yeah Baby,” made up of prose poems, narrates the birth of her son. There is startling imagery (the mother’s pained face, etched on two bed posts, facing in opposite directions). The journey from conception to birth is presented as the stations of the cross, suggesting not just the road to Calvary but also states of being.

It ends with “The Return,” an apocalyptic vision of all the paraphernalia of raising an infant vanishing up a mountainside.

Swann’s poems are nervously chatty and contemporary, but underlying them is a craft steeped in tradition. Her pastoral is full of birds and farmers, images from her Iowa childhood. She creates vivid portraits

with a few lines. In the birthing poems the mother’s breast “turgidly obtrudes.

A web-thin thread of milk runs from it to a puddle on the floor.” The writing here is earthy and performative, wise and amusing, and her diction swerves around earthmother clichés.

“Love Summer” moves from desire to death. “The Cancer Fairy,” a few deft, slanted stanzas of carefully calibrated indirection, overflows with love, as sisters gather around their mother’s deathbed.

“All I Want” returns to family and politics. In “We Burned Incense,” a mother attempts to explain suicide. “Over It” is a tour de force in which words and language tilt against the vibrant sense-memory of having her hair washed by a lover. “High Intensity Lamp” is a poem of politics and consciousness, of the need to see things as they are, and ends with the line, Oh my god I am so alone, the loneliness of a poet in a world where people no longer get information in rhymed texts. “O Be Joyful” is an elegy to maternal joy, a growing child and that child’s simple love, even of his grandfather’s lymphoma nodes. Swann’s poetry contains everything, loves everything, accepts death and disease, pain and ignorance, as necessary stations in life’s progress, from birth, through love, to the grave. Always with a little humor.

“Stickman” is a collection of comic strips by John Young with Judith Swann’s commentary. From 1979-81, Young wrote and drew “Stickman” for his law school newspaper. It is a typical underground comic of the benighted seventies: surreal, existential, primitively drawn and very funny, even sometimes touching.

“Stickman” is a schlemiel. Swann writes: “Stickman is, like all good comics, a mixed genre, comprising mock-heroism, autofiction, satire, and caricature—unrepentantly rooted in the popular culture of its day.”

The comics, consisting of three to four panels, have been laid out across facing pages and Swann’s commentary is printed below, focusing on one or two of the panels. Many of the notes are informative, even when tongue-in-cheek, explaining phenomena like sonic booms. But the gold is in the balance of the prose and the mock erudition of the footnotes. Between

the strip and the commentary a rich pop history of the seventies emerges, which Swann relates to our continued struggles with racism, misogyny, environmental degradation and the host of horrors that continue to plague us and which show no sign of resolution. The ‘70s, as cynical and hopeless as they were, seem almost innocent here. By the end, Swann fully embraces her role as Kinbote to Young’s John Shade. Along the way the reader can expect to be entertained, and instructed, although where one ends and the other begins cannot be told.

Judy Swann is reading at Buffalo Street Books, from 2-3 p.m. on Saturday, March 30.

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present a recital featuring a brand new cycle of seven songs set to poetry

by Dennis Lee, Jim Henson’s longtime collaborator. McCullough also performs Messiaen’s Chants de Terre et de Ciel with Lucy Fitz Gibbon.

James McMurtry | 8:00 PM, 3/1 Friday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |

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Bars/Bands/Clubs

Wintersquabee 2019 | 11:00 AM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector

2/27 Wednesday

Genna & Jesse | 6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken

The Dennis Winge Trio | 6:00 PM, | Monks on the Commons, Ithaca

West Hillbillies | 7:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

Bound for Glory - Vance Gilbert | 8:00 PM, | Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca

Canaan Jam Session | 7:00 PM, | Canaan Institute, Brooktondale

Steve Southworth and the Rocka-billy Rays | 7:00 PM, | Eagles Club, Ithaca

3/4 Monday

2/28 Thursday

Zydeco Trail Riders | 7:00 PM, | Garrett’s Brewing Company, Trumansburg

Blackalicious | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $20.00 - $25.00

RootsCollider, Junkyard Theory, Hollings | 8:00 PM, | Casita Del Polaris, Ithaca

3/1 Friday Wintersquabee 2019 | 3:00 PM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector Blues & Brews With Dan Paolangeli | 6:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca

3/3 Sunday

Julia Felice and The Whiskey Crisis | 6:00 PM, | Hopshire Farm & Brewery, Freeville

Wintersquabee 2019 | 11:00 AM, | Stonecat Cafe, Hector

Andy Knapp and the Astro Cats | 7:00 PM, | The Westy, Ithaca Whistlin’ Dyl and The Wild Cowboys| 7:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett Dead Night: Planet Jr | 9:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $5 Jordan Ramirez & The Tribe | 9:00 PM, | The Range, Ithaca

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Mary Fahl, formerly of October Project | 8:00 PM, 3/2 Saturday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | | $25-$28

Open Mic | 8:30 PM, | Agava, Ithaca

3/5 Tuesday Professor Tuesdays Jazz Quartet | 6:30 PM, | ZaZa’s Cucina, Ithaca Open Mic Night | 8:00 PM, | Silver Line Tap Room, Trumansburg Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM, | Lot 10 Lounge, Ithaca Concerts/Recitals

Bert Salmirs - Jazz Piano | 1:00 PM, | Red Newt Cellars Inc, Hector

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Cayuga Blue Notes| 4:00 PM, | Two Goats Brewing, Burdett

Casting Crowns | 7:00 PM, 2/28 Thursday | Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena, 1 Stuart St, Binghamton | Family Life presents

The Savage Club of Ithaca - Annual Winter Concert | 7:00 PM, 3/2 Saturday | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Titled ‘Come In From The Cold’ and featuring a wide variety of music from Broadway, jazz and rock with acts that feature comedy and magic. | $12

Open Mic Night | 6:00 PM, | Ithaca Beer Co., Ithaca

back to BACK TO BLACK: Amy Winehouse Tribute ft. Remember Jones | 8:00 PM, | The Haunt, Ithaca | $15 Adv., $20 DOS

Backtalk Band | 6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken

Pat Kane - Irish Folk Music House Concer | 4:00 PM, | North Star Art Gallery, Ithaca

Wind Ensemble | 8:15 PM, 3/1 Friday | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Chris Hughes, conductor, Joseph Missal, guest conductor, the 2019 Arnald Gabriel Visiting Wind Conductor.

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Midday Music for Organ | 12:30 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Matthew Hall, organ. The English Organ Part I: music by Purcell, Blow, Locke, and more.

Ithaca College Jazz Ensemble with guest saxophonist Roxy Coss | 8:15 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | Ithaca College, Whalen Ctr, Ithaca | The performance will feature tunes from Coss’s new album “The Future is Female” which received 4.5 star reviews from Downbeat Magazine and All About Jazz.

Bob Weir and Wolf Bros Featuring Don Was and Jay Lane | 7:00 PM, 2/28 Thursday | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca |

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DSP SHOWS PRESENTS Vince Staples-Smile, You’re On Camera with JPEGMAFIA, Katori Walker | Fri · March 1, 2019 Doors: 8:00 pm

Casting Crowns Only Jesus Tour with Zach Williams and Austin French. | $83/$53/$43 Trombone Troupe | 8:15 PM, 2/28 Thursday | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Keith Kaiser and Aaron Burgess, conductors.

Anderson East | 8:00 PM, 3/1 Friday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | David Salsbery Fry and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough | 8:00 PM, 3/1 Friday | Barnes Hall, Barnes Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | Bass-baritone Fry and pianist MacEvoy McCullough

Vince Staples-Smile, You’re On Camera | 9:00 PM, 3/1 Friday | The State Theatre of Ithaca, 105 W State St, Ithaca | w/ JPEGMAFIA | $30 and up Cornell Wind Symphony | 3:00 PM, 3/2 Saturday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | The Ithaca High School Wind Ensemble also performs.

Music of the German Baroque | 4:00 PM, 3/2 Saturday | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Coming Home: A Tribute to War Veterans | 7:00 PM, 3/2 Saturday | The Center, 1 Hoffman St. , Auburn

Steve Earle | 8:00 PM, 3/2 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Percussion Ensembles | 8:15 PM, 3/2 Saturday | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Conrad Alexander and Gordon Stout, directors.

An A Cappella Afternoon | 2:00 PM, 3/3 Sunday | Willard Episcopal Church, 1393 Main St., Willard | Opus Ithaca Presents: Peter and the Wolf | 2:00 PM, 3/3 Sunday | Opus Ithaca School of Music , 402 N. Aurora St. , Ithaca | Narrated by Steve Stull, this kid-friendly performance

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features musicians from the faculties of Opus Ithaca, Ithaca College, Cornell University, and the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra. First time concert-goers are welcome!

Angela Yantorno - Classical Violin Recital | 3:00 PM, 3/3 Sunday | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Composers include Schubert, Bach, and Dvorak.

The Earls of Leicester | 8:00 PM, 3/3 Sunday | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Concert Band and Wind Symphony | 8:15 PM, 3/4 Monday | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Joe Missal, Col. Arnald Gabrial Visiting Wind Conductor; Benjamin Rochford, conductor; Alyssa Comeau, graduate conductor.

Madrigals and Chorus | 8:15 PM, 3/5 Tuesday | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Rd, Ithaca | Sean Linfors, conductor. The Chorus will perform Ariel Ramirez’s Misa Criolla, with tenor soloist Dann Coakwell.

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of Darrah Carr Dance for a whirlwind celebration of Irish music and dance.

Jersey Boys | 7:30 PM, 2/27 & 2/28 Wed & Thurs | Clemens Center, 207 Clemens Center Parkway, Elmira | Go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in the Tony Award-winning true-life musical phenomenon. | $49-$99

The Children’s Hour | 7:30 PM, 3/1 Friday & 3/2 Saturday; 2:00 PM, 3/3 Sunday | Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland , Cortland | The groundbreaking 1934 Lillian Hellman play focuses on Mary Tilford, a student in a small-town boarding school who refuses to accept the consequences of her perpetual disobedience. Tilford, in an effort to escape punishment, casts corrosive lies on the personal lives of her teachers.

Steve Martin & Martin Short | 8:00 PM, 3/2 Saturday | Landmark Theatre, 362 S Salina St, Syracuse |

Open Mic Comedy | 10:00 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Habla/Speak | 7:30 PM, 2/28 Thursday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | More dates through March 2, 2019.

A play created by the participants†a family-friendly exploration of what it means to be Latino or Latina in our community. | $5 Testosterone | 7:30 PM, 2/28 Thursday thru Saturday, 3/2 | Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca | Playwright Rebekka Kricheldorf will be on hand for talkback after the Friday performance. Matinees on Saturday @ 2PM and Sunday @ 3PM. Mamma Mia | 8:00 PM, 2/28 Thursday | The Central New York Playhouse, 3169 Erie Blvd. E., B201 , Syracuse |

Three Decembers | 7:30 PM, 3/1 Friday & 3:00 PM, 3/3, Sunday | TriCities Opera Center, 315 Clinton St., Binghamton | A 90-minute one-act opera based on Terrence McNally’s original script for Some Christmas Letters. The story takes place over three decades of the AIDS crisis each section recalling the events of a December, as the characters struggle to connect when family secrets are revealed.

Darrah Carr Dance: Ceilidh- An Evening of Irish Music and Dance | 7:30 PM, 3/2 Saturday | Smith Center for the Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Join the champion Irish step dancers

Art Art Honoring Dr. Dorothy Cotton Dedication | 5:30 PM, 2/28 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Jewels, a painting given in honor of Dr. Dorothy Cotton.

Artist Terry Plater, library director Annette Birdsall, community leader Aloja Airewele and others will gather near the entry rotunda of the Library to unveil and dedicate the painting, share remarks, and enjoy light refreshments. All are welcome.

Wild About Stewart Park: Photographs and Music | 7:30 PM, 2/28 Thursday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | A Benefit for Friends of Stewart Park supporting park revitalization. Experience stellar nature images by accomplished Ithaca photographers, presented on the big-screen, accompanied by live string

25th Annual Little Gems - Art Exhibit | 10:00 AM, 3/1 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | A beautiful collection of small artwork.

30th Annual Juried Photography Show | 12:00 PM, 3/1 Friday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 W. Martin Luther King, Jr./State Street, Ithaca | Digital, experimental and traditional photographs will be shown. Photographers from the Finger Lakes region and beyond are represented. Reception for the artists, Friday, March 1, 5-8pm.

Atlantic Arias: Coastal Ireland and Maine | 12:00 PM, 3/1 Friday | North Star Art Gallery, 743 Snyder Hill Road, Ithaca | Thru 3/31. Opening Reception is March 2nd noon to 5 pm. Keeler brings his rich textured treatment of light, sky, and water to the beauty of these two coastal regions.

I See You (IC/CU) 2019 | 12:00 PM, 3/1 Friday | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | A joint show of prints by students of two strong printmaking programs at Ithaca College and Cornell University.

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First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, 3/1 Friday | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca explodes with talent in different shops, restaurants and hotels. Nearly 20 businesses downtown become the home to different local artists and sometimes global ones, as well.

Photographs by Alex Colket | 5:00 PM, 3/1 Friday | New Roots Charter School, 116 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Using materials like glass and plastic to make photographs look more like paintings.

First Saturday on Greater Ithaca Art Trail | 11:00 AM, 3/2 Saturday | Art studios are open to you! Find the list of artists participating this month, and learn tons more at www.Arttrail. com.

Waterfalls of the Finger Lakes, and Beyond | 7:00 PM, 3/5 Tuesday | Kendal At Ithaca, 2230 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Held in auditorium. An illustrated presentation about the rich heritage of waterfalls we have here in the Finger Lakes, and then expand to

New York State, North America, and the world. Free refreshments will be available.

Film Cornell Cinema All films are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus.

The Wild Pear Tree | 2/27, 6:45PM; 3/3, 6:45 PM | An unpublished writer returns to his hometown after graduating, where he seeks sponsors to publish his book while dealing with his father’s deteriorating indulgence into gambling.

In Between (Bar Bahar) | 2/28 , 6:45 PM | Ithaca Premier. Three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.

A Star Is Born | 2/28, 9:15 PM; 3/1 & 3/2, 9:00PM; | A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

The Mystery of Picasso | 3/1 & 3/2, 7:00PM | A filmed record of Pablo Picasso painting numerous canvases for the camera, allowing us to see his creative process at work.

Mirai | 3/2, 2:00PM; 3/3, 4:30PM |$5/$4; under 12 free. A young boy encounters a magical garden which enables him to travel through time and meet his relatives from different eras, with guidance by his younger sister from the future.

Bogdan’s Journey | 3/4, 7:00PM |Ithaca Premiere w/ filmmakers in person. A Catholic Pole, determined to heal a historical wound, launches a crusade to reconcile Poles and Jews over a massacre that happened 69 years ago.

Cinemapolis Week of Friday, March 1 through Thursday, March 7. Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New films listed first.

Greta* | A young woman befriends a lonely widow who’s harboring a dark and deadly agenda towards her.| 98 mins R

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 AT 7:00 PM

The State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 W. State St. | Legendary musicians will perform classic Grateful Dead songs and more. This is a pretty stellar trio and it sounds like they are having a great time performing together to sold-out crowds around the country. What a treat to welcome them to Ithaca. (photo: Facebook)

Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell | A family-friendly exploration of what it means to be Latino or Latina in our community. The storytellers are sometimes heart-rending, sometimes heart-warming and take the audience through public events and private musings on what Latinidad means to them in this snowy upstate town. (photo: provided)

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finds herself trapped inside a romantic comedy. |88 mins PG-13

On The Basis Of Sex | The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and what she had to overcome in order to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.|120 mins PG-13

Happy Death Day 2U | Tree Gelbman discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead. |100 mins PG-13

The Favourite| In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. |119 mins R They Shall Not Grow Old| A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war. |99 mins R Regal Ithaca Wednesday, 2/27 through Tuesday, 3/5 Contact Regal Ithaca for showtimes. New films listed first. * Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral* | A joyous family reunion becomes a hilarious nightmare as Madea and the crew travel to backwoods Georgia, where they find themselves unexpectedly planning a funeral that might unveil unsavory family secrets.| PG-13

Februa ry 2019 2017 Osmote Seneca Lake Chardonnay ($21) – If Riesling is the undisputed queen of Finger Lakes whites, then Chardonnay is fast becoming its leading lady-in-waiting; Ben Riccardi crafted this wine with grapes from two Seneca Lake vineyards; 100% barrel-fermented with 80% new French oak, the wine is medium golden in color; the creamy entry is quickly buttressed by bright acidity and welldelineated fruit, good tension on the palate; a lively wine without the buttery and oaky cloyingness of most west coast Chardonnays.

Fighting with My Family | A former wrestler and his family make a living performing at small venues around the country while his kids dream of joining World Wrestling Entertainment. |108 mins PG-13

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Never Look Away* | German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime. | 188 mins R The Invisibles* | While Joseph Goebbels infamously declared Berlin “free of Jews” in 1943, 1,700 managed to

survive in the Nazi capital through the end of WWII. The stories of four young people who learned to hide in plain sight. | 110 mins Arctic | A man stranded in the Arctic after an airplane crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to

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Cold Pursuit | A snowplow driver seeks revenge against the drug dealers he thinks killed his son. | 118 mins R Alita: Battle Angel | A deactivated female cyborg is revived, but cannot remember anything of her past life and goes on a quest to find out who she is. | 122 mins PG-13 Isn’t It Romantic| A young woman disenchanted with love mysteriously

What Men Want | A woman is boxed out by the male sports agents in her profession, but gains an unexpected edge over them when she develops the ability to hear men’s thoughts. | 117 mins R The Prodigy | A mother concerned about her young son’s disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him. | R Bohemian Rhapsody| The story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid in 1985. |134 mins PG-13 Glass| Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. |129 mins PG-13 The Upside | A comedic look at the relationship between a wealthy man with quadriplegia and an unemployed man with a criminal record who’s hired to help him. | 125 mins PG-13 Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse | Miles Morales becomes the SpiderMan of his reality and crosses paths with his counterparts from other dimensions to stop a threat to all reality. | 117 mins PG Green Book | A working-class ItalianAmerican bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. | 130 mins

Special Events SUNY Cortland TransAction Day | All Day 3/1 Friday | SUNY Cortland invites you to a conference about the

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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World| When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn’t the only Night Fury, he must seek “The Hidden World”, a secret Dragon Utopia before a hired tyrant named Grimmel finds it first.| 104 mins PG

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | It’s been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space, wrecking everything faster than they can rebuild. |106 mins PG

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Cornell Cinema, 104 Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca | In 1955, Clouzot joined forces with his friend Pablo Picasso to make an entirely new kind of art film, “a film that could capture the moment and the mystery of creativity.” Discover the innovative technique the two devised together. (photo: provided)

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needs and experiences of transgender and gender queer students in the college environment.| $15 A “Dowd Family Picnic” Fundraiser | 5:00 PM, 3/1 Friday | Grayhaven Motel, 657 Elmira Rd, Ithaca | Johnny Dowd (& friends) CD release & family art show.

21st Annual Adult Spelling Bee | 2:00 PM, 3/3 Sunday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N Cayuga St, Ithaca, NY 14850, Ithaca | The IPEI Adult Spelling Bee supports the Grants Programs that help ICSD teachers expand handson learning and increase real world experiences that engage students.

WWE Road to Wrestlemania | 7:00 PM, 3/3 Sunday | The Oncenter, 800 South State St., Syracuse | AJ Styles vs. Daniel Bryan for the WWE Championship. Plus, Shinsuke Nakamura, The Miz, Charlotte Flair, Samoa Joe, The Miz, The Bar, The New Day, Asuka, Jeff Hardy, Bobby Roode and many more. | $15 and up

Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In honor of Will Eisner Week, TCPL will host a one-time graphic novel book club discussion for adults. Registration is required for this book club, as space is limited.

Participants will receive copies of the book.

Kids Baby Yoga | 10:00 AM, 2/27 Wednesday | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | For children ages 0-2 w/ a parent or grandparent Cuddle-up Infant & Toddler Library Time | 10:00 AM, 2/27 Wednesday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Toddler Yoga | 10:45 AM, 2/27 Wednesday | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | For children ages 2-5.

Families learn gentle stretches and yoga basics while enjoying stories.

Sciencenter Science Together | Sciencenter, 601 1st St. , Ithaca | Tue/ Th @ 10:30AM and Wed/Fri @ 3:00PM. | General admission fees apply

Books Lake Country Book Club | 3:00 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | Willard Episcopal Church, 1393 Main St., Willard | A Spark of Light by Jodi Piccoult “Chaucer’s Periodization”: The 40th Anniversary of the Paul Gottschalk Memorial Lecture by Suzanne Akbari | 4:30 PM, 2/28 Thursday | Guerlac Room, A.D. White House, 27 East Ave., Ithaca | This lecture explores how Chaucer and his contemporaries saw their own place in time, focusing on the House of Fame, the Knight’s Tale, the Man of Law’s Tale, and Troilus and Criseyde.

Van Etten Library Book Club | 12:15 PM, 3/1 Friday | Van Etten Library, 83 Main Street, Van Etten | A Double Life

by Flynn Berry Book Launch for David Nutt’s The Great American Suction | 7:00 PM, 3/2 Saturday | Lot 10, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Join us for a release party and reading to celebrate the publication of Nutt’s novel from Tyrant Books.

Book sales will be handled by Buffalo Street Books.

On a Sunbeam Graphic Novel Book Club | 6:30 PM, 3/4 Monday |

Teen Writing Workshops | 4:30 PM, 2/28 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Thursdays through May 2. These workshops are appropriate for people in grades 6-12.

Preschool Storytime at Southworth Library | 10:00 AM, 3/1 Friday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | A different theme every week!

Baby Storytime | 10:30 AM, 3/1 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Additional session† at 3:30 to 4:00 pm. Caregivers and babies up to 24 months embrace early literacy through books, music, movement and rhyming. The 10:30 storytime is followed by an hour-long Baby & Toddler Playtime at 11:00 am.

Storytime | 10:30 AM, 3/1 Friday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | All ages enjoy stories, songs and fun activities. Infants, toddlers, and school-age children are welcome.

Teen Writing Workshop (Fridays) | 4:30 PM, 3/1 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

WINTERSQUABEE 2019

FRIDAY, MARCH 1 AT 3:00 PM AND SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT 11:00 AM

Stonecat Café, 5315 State Route 414, Hector | It’s a homegrown Finger Lakes music festival, winter version, with more local musical acts than you can shake a stick at. Stonecat will be open this weekend only for this special event. Featuring food and drink specials, raffles, and over 30 bands playing throughout the weekend including Bob Robert’s Calamity (pictured) on Friday. (photo: Facebook)

Shadow Shorts for Kids: LilySilly Puppets | 10:30 AM, 3/2 Saturday | Cherry Artspace, 102 Cherry St., Ithaca | Hear the tale of the Cabbage Girl, see the dancing Robot Ballet and much more in this dynamic collection of short shadow puppet shows. Get a glimpse into how shadow puppets work with Lily and Matt after the performance.

Family Storytime | 11:00 AM, 3/2 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children of all ages and their caregivers are invited to celebrate reading and build their early-literacy skills. We meet each Saturday for stories, songs and family fun.

Sciencenter Showtime! | 2:00 PM, 3/2 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Take part in a lively presentation about different science concepts each week with local scientists, educators, and students. Topics range from chemistry to rockets and more. | General admission fees apply LEGO Building Program | 3:00 PM, 3/2 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Interactive Poetry Workshop for Tweens | 4:00 PM, 3/4 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Hosted by poet and writer Robert Danberg will offer an opportunity for participants to connect with their senses and each other to create poetry.

Maker Mondays for Teens | 4:00 PM, 3/4 Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Tutorials will be provided for the Makerbot 3D Printer, Epilogue Helix Laser Cutter, and Cricut.

Tuesday Morning Story Hour | 10:15 AM, 3/5 Tuesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | No Story Hour during holidays, School Closings or Bad Weather.

Family Story Time | 10:30 AM, 3/5 Tuesday | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Join us every Tuesday for stories, songs and fun.

There is a different theme each week.

Toddler and Preschool Storytime | 11:00 AM, 3/5 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Children ages 24 months to 4 years, along with their caregivers,

meet for early literacy-based stories, songs, finger plays, and much more.

After storytime, there is an hour of play and social time.

Notices Cabin Fever Writing Month | 12:00 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | Candor Free Library, 2 Bank St, Candor | Host Writer: Sue Heavenrich - sueheaven@ frontiernet.net Tips for Job Hunters Over 50 | 10:00 AM, 2/27 Wednesday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Discussion topics will include myths and stereotypes about the older worker, ways to overcome them and changes in job search methods and materials.

Ithaca Rotary Club Luncheon Speaker Series | 12:15 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Julie Hansen - School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University “Industrial Hemp in New York State” | $15 D&D Adventure | 3:00 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 N Main St, Ovid | Join Library Luke for an imaginative Dungeons and Dragons adventure.

Ages 10 and up.

PM Dinner: Chili’s (Ithaca Sociable Singles Mardi Gras Party!)Host: Loisanne P., RSVP: wlfd66@zoho.com GreenStar’s February Classes | 7:00 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | The Classrooms at GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St, Ithaca | Growing Solar: Community Solar for All Wednesday Night Ithaca Women’s Basketball Association | 7:00 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | Lehman Alternative Community School, 111 Chestnut St, Ithaca | The league is non-competitive and fun and involves pick-up style playing. Check out the league’s website for more information.

Social Networking | 9:00 AM, 2/28 Thursday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | Learn how to take advantage of social networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to help you in your job search. This workshop provides general guidance on building a presentable profile and presence Candor Senior’s Club Monthly Meeting | 12:00 PM, 2/28 Thursday | McKendree Church, 224 Owego St, Candor | Dish to pass, all are welcomed to join!

Soup & Hope Speaker Series | 12:00 PM, 2/28 Thursday | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Imani Majied

Dialogue on a Project of Public Philosophy | 5:00 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | The goal of the dialogue is to consider the challenges to a project of philosophy for nonphilosophers, to consider what public philosophy looks like, and whether public philosophy is a worthy goal.

There will be two sessions of dialogue: in English language from 5:00 to 6:00, and in Spanish language from 6:00 to 7:00.

Understanding Your Internet Presence | 2:00 PM, 2/28 Thursday | Tompkins County Workforce Center, Center Ithaca, Suite 241, | This workshop covers some topics relating to understanding your online presence and the potential negative and positive impacts it may have on your job search.

Open Hearts Dinner | 5:00 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | McKendree UMC, 224 Owego St., Candor | Come and join in the fun. Whether you are looking for fellowship or a free meal this one’s for you. Contact: Denice Peckins denicepeckins@hotmail.com

Star In Your Back Yard | 7:00 PM, 2/28 Thursday | Southworth Library, 24 W. Main Street, Dryden | Dick Berg from Virgil Observatory explains discovering stargazing right from home.

Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | 2/27, 6:00 PM Dinner: Fat Jacks. Host: Nadine L., RSVP: nlem1155@gmail.com. Also - 3/ 5, 6:00

Community Game Night | 6:30 PM, 2/28 Thursday | First Presbyterian Church, 315 N Cayuga St, Ithaca |

Advanced English as a Second Language Classes | 1:00 PM, 3/1 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Students will develop skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing. To register,

please contact Lifelong Learning at (607) 273-1511.

Street Shop Center - 3rd Floor, Waterloo | Registration is required.

Jean Dewey 659-9969 or jmdewey@ frontiernet.net

Let’s Garden Workshop | 8:30 AM, 3/2 Saturday | Ovid Firehouse, Community Meeting Room, 2136 Brown Street, Ovid | Beat down those winter blahs and start getting ready for spring! The Seneca County Cornell Cooperative Extension (SCCCE) Master Gardeners have organized a day of speakers, food and gardening information to help you prepare for the 2019 gardening season. | $30

Comic Book Club of Ithaca General Meeting | 7:00 PM, 3/5 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca |

Square Dance and Other Dancing | 2:00 PM, 3/1 Friday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Everyone Welcome (members and non-members). No experience or partner needed. For more information call 273-1511

Inside Yard “Rummage” Sale | 10:00 AM, 3/2 Saturday | Candor High School, Academy St, Candor | All proceeds to benefit the Candor St. Baldrick’s Event Saddle Up for Jesus Horse Riding Club | 7:00 PM, 3/2 Saturday | Brooktondale Baptist Church, 2311 Slaterville Road, Ithaca | A Christian, family-oriented riding club. We have club meetings, trail rides, horsemanship clinics for a variety of disciplines, cowboy devotionals and youth programs. Contact Lawrence Canfield at 607-539-6440.

Cayuga Bird Club Field Trip | 8:00 AM, 3/3 Sunday | Stewart Park, 1 James L. Gibbs Dr., Ithaca | An all-day trip around Cayuga Lake. Meet at Stewart Park to carpool.Dress warmly, bring lunch, drinks and a scope. All field trips are open to the public, both experienced birders and beginners.

Caring for Community: Safe Water Ghana | 12:00 PM, 3/3 Sunday | Finger Lakes Christian Fellowship, 83 Auburn Road, Seneca Falls | Join us as we learn more about the local nonprofit, Safe Water Ghana, and their mission to install water filters in Africa.

TCNS Bid & Bowl Auction Fundraiser | 1:00 PM, 3/3 Sunday | Atlas Bowl, 61 W Main St, Trumansburg | Entry includes bowling, music, snacks, and automatic entry for raffle prizes. Silent Auction 1-3pm with Live Auction to follow. Bid on a wonderful selection of items. Proceeds to benefit the programming and scholarship funds of this beloved parent-cooperative play based learning nursery school. | $10

S.A.I.L. Into Fitness | Juniper Manor, 24 Elm St., Trumansburg | Classes held at Juniper Manor, Lifelong, & Brooktondale Fire Station.

Contact Lifelong for specific days and times.

Yoga for Beginners | 9:00 AM, 2/27 Wednesday | Ovid Fire Hall, 2136 Brown St., Ovid | Donations appreciated. Registration required.

Midday Group Sing | 12:10 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Drop ins welcome.

Mid-Day Mindfulness Meditation | 12:15 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Shift out of “automatic pilot” mode and observe the workings of the mind, body, and emotions.

Free Screening & Discussion “Boys and Men Healing” | 6:30 PM, 2/27 Wednesday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Boys and Men Healing is a documentary about the epidemic of sexual abuse of boys, the impact on individuals, families, and society. This free screening and discussion is hosted by the Advocacy Center. Content Warning: This film discusses and depicts child sexual abuse which may be difficult or disturbing for some viewers. Advocates will be at the theater to provide support.

Exercise Class for Seniors | 8:30 AM, Every Tues & Thurs | Newfield Public Library, 198 Main St. , Newfield | Tai Chi | 2:30 PM, 2/28 Thursday | Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Rd, Lansing | Classes held at Lansing Library, Titus Towers, Brooktondale Community Center, and Lifelong. Contact Lifelong for specific days and times.

Take off Pounds Sensibly | 6:00 PM, 2/28 Thursday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Road, Candor | Contact

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