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Pillar of the Community Levi Spaulding: Ithaca’s first African-American police officer

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Adjunct Lecturers Move Toward Union

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hen you think of a circuit breaker, you are usually talking about wiring—but now, when you think of a circuit breaker you can also think of a sizable tax rebate. Last month, Governor Andrew Cuomo proposed a new tax giveback with a name filched from an electrician’s toolbox. Much as regular circuit breaker prevents electrical overload, a tax circuit breaker prevents property tax overload.

In layman’s terms, Tompkins County Administrator Joe Mareane explained what the circuit breaker will mean for New York State residents: “It means that if your taxes exceed a certain point the state intervenes to provide relief and assumes some of that burden by giving you a credit on your income taxes.” Unlike the current rebate system, where homeowners get a rebate check, the circuit breaker rebates will come in the form of income tax credits.

Also unlike the current rebate system, the circuit breaker rebates could be rather substantial by the time the program is fully phased in. The current rebates for taxpayers in municipalities that stayed within the state-mandated tax cap are approximately equivalent to the amount that your tax bill increased over the last year. So for 2015 county taxes, the rebate for the average homeowner was probably under $10. The new rebates will be much larger; once the program is fully implemented, it is estimated that the average upstate homeowner’s tax credit will be around $800.

However, the full amount of the credit will not be available in the first year; the program will be phased in over a fouryear period. Dave Lucas, the director of finance and intergovernmental relations at the New York State Association of Counties, said, “Part of the phase-in is the percentage of the credit ramps up in value every year until the fourth year. It’s a relatively complicated formula.”

As with most rebates, not everyone qualifies. By the time it is completely phased in, the circuit breaker will provide tax rebates for homeowners whose total property tax bill (school and all municipalities) exceeds 6 percent of their gross household income. Also, there are income limits. Once it’s fully phased in, rebates will be available for those with incomes up to $250,000.

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three courses per year (studio classes are long), but other adjuncts may manage as many as four.

“You don’t know when you will get what,” said Burroughs, “so it is hard to plan your life. It isn’t as much of a problem at IC as at other places, but under-enrolled classes can be canceled at any time and you will receive no pay at all. e’ve been collecting cards for some Burroughs said that he has been at IC time,” said Brody Burroughs, “in some capacity or other” for 10 years and a member of the organizing an instructor for five. Some instructors that committee who wants to form a union he knows, however, have been there for 20 for adjunct instructors at Ithaca College. years. Adjuncts have not received a raise in “We have to get to the point where we’re five years. confident we have enough cards to file for “I would like to feel that I was building an election.” Burroughs said that his group something here,” he said, “and not feel stuck would like to collect significantly more than in a perpetual entry-level position.” is needed in order A year ago to show the college Burroughs got that a clear majority an email from of adjuncts want a SEIU (Service union. He said he Employees believes they reach International that point in “a Union). “At first month or two.”

I thought it was a Ithaca College phishing scam,” recently became he said, “but I aware that some looked into it part-time faculty and found out members have it was part of expressed an larger national interest in forming push to build a labor union,” said membership, Senior Associate and the upstate Director for Media New York and and Community Vermont part of Rachel Kaufman (Photo provided) Relations David it was underway.”

Maley. “It is yet to Burroughs be seen if a majority said the SEIU of the college’s part-time faculty will adopt representatives then visited the places where this view. This is an important issue, and they got the most responses to their email. the college encourages those involved to IC adjuncts sent them a lot of responses. get as much information as possible before The adjunct art instructor said that making a final decision.” The organizers the first stirrings toward unionization have to collect the signatures of 30 percent of began in 2011 when the student group the adjunct population in order to induce a Labor Initiative Promoting Solidarity ballot. They would like to reach 50 percent.

(LIPS) managed to pressure the college At IC part-time adjuncts are in a administration into asking Sodexo, the different category from full-time nonmultinational corporation that runs its tenure track instructors (“n-tens”). Partfood service, to raise the lowest wage in the time employment is capped at 58 percent kitchens to $11.11 per hour, which was at the of full time. For a studio art instructor like continued on page 12 Burroughs, this means he can only teach

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By Tim G e ra

What Have ads and commercials been telling you lately?

“ I don’t see or watch many of them these days.”

—Brian McGinnis

“I ignore ads.”

—Bruce Higgins

“I don’t watch too many commercials.”

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lternative Waste Services (AWS) announced that it would continue pursuing its plans to construct a waste transfer station. Although the town board proposed a law that would ban all solid waste management facilities— including transfer stations—the law included some exemptions. AWS owner Bob Mente and his wife Ashley attended the Thursday, Jan. 29 special meeting of the Newfield town board to explain how their proposed transfer station could fit those exemptions.

One of the exemptions reads, “Any bona-fide solid waste management facility previously in existence on the effective date of this Local Law shall remain exempt under the current terms and conditions of their operating permit.”

AWS is primarily known as a trash hauler but, as Ashley Mente explained to the board, they have accepted construction and demolition debris and would thus be considered a construction and demolition processing facility, which the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) defines as a type of solid waste management facility. The current construction of the proposed law explicitly states that it relies on the DEC definition of solid waste management facilities.

Furthermore, Ashley Mente pointed out that, because the DEC approved the company’s waste transfer station permit as of Jan. 6, the “current terms and

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qualify, Mareane offered a tip: “The rule of thumb that I’ve seen is that, if you live in Tompkins County, if your assessed value for your house is twice your income you’ll probably be in line for a credit.”

Another way in which the proposed circuit breaker rebates would differ from the current property tax rebate system is that circuit breaker rebates will be available to renters as well. Mareane said that, for renters, “If 13.75 percent of their rent exceeds 6 percent of their income, they’ll get a rebate.” He added, “If their rent is 45 percent of their household income or more, they should get a break.”

In addition to income limits, another requirement to qualify for the circuit breaker is that the schools and municipalities in which a taxpayer resides must be tax-cap compliant. For the 2016 county and town budget year that means municipalities must both stay within the state-mandated 2-percent tax cap and show a 1-percent savings through shared services and efficiencies. Initially, Mareane

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conditions of their operating permit” now Powers. After some discussion, the board include a waste transfer station. decided that at the February meeting She concluded, “We will be moving the board would set a public hearing for forward with construction and operation March and then likely act on the proposed of our transfer station, and request that the law in April. building permit be accepted.”

Regarding the upcoming Thursday, Moving on, the board turned to Feb. 12, public hearing about the proposed discussion of a possible noise ordinance. solid waste management facility ban, the Supervisor Jeff Hart said that, after board briefly discussed whether any law studying the ordinances in other nearby enforcement should be contacted for towns, he thought the Newark Valley noise added safety at the meeting. Councilman ordinance would be most suitable for Newfield.

The Newark Valley law sets 50 decibels as the noise limit between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. and 70 decibels as the limit between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. To give some basis for comparison, Ashley and Bob Mente at the Newfield town board meeting.

Hart (Photo: Keri Blakinger) explained that a Roy Trask expressed his hope that people babbling brook is about 40 decibels, a could remain civil, but ultimately the shower or a dishwasher is 70 decibels, a board decided to put the Tompkins vacuum cleaner is 75 decibels, a passing County Sheriff ’s Office on notice that diesel truck is 85 decibels, a squeeze toy is there will be a potentially volatile public 90, and an air raid siren is 135 decibels. hearing and that it might be good to have “Waste transfer stations can only be an officer in the area that evening. • 57 decibels at their border,” said Hart, turning to Bob Mente for confirmation.

—Keri Blakinger “I think it’s a good idea to move this forward,” said Councilwoman Casey read the language of the proposed bill to indicate that all taxing entities needed meet those requirements in order for taxpayers to see any rebates. He looked into it further, and thought that, if not all taxing entities are tax-cap compliant, taxpayers might still get rebates for those that are. But on his most recent visit to NYSAC he found that his initial suspicions were confirmed. He said it was unclear whether Tompkins County could be compliant because of the shared services requirement.

When it is fully implemented, the circuit breaker is estimated to cost New York State $1.66 billion. Where did that $1.66 billion come from? Mareane said that the newly available funds are partially a result of the stronger economy and partially a result of savings the state has realized through the Affordable Care Act. Although he acknowledged that the proposal has the potential for “meaningful savings” for some taxpayers, Mareane expressed some apprehension about the program. He said, “I have significant concerns, and it’s very much in keeping with what our concern has been in the past. If the state has $1.66 billion to spend

for property tax relief, I think the way to do that is to take over $1.66 billion of costs that it has shifted to counties.”

Also, Mareane noted that the circuit breaker fails to achieve the type of property-tax relief the governor wants.

“He has said that the property-tax burden is a detriment to economic development,” said Mareane, “but the way the circuit breaker works it doesn’t really have an effect on taxpayers who are businesses.

If the desire is to lift the burden from the business community and promote economic development, doing it our way would seem to have a greater impact.”

The circuit breaker is not a done deal yet—far from it. It has only just been proposed. Over the coming months, though, the state will decide on a 20152016 budget, which needs to be done by the start of the new budget year on April 1. If it goes into effect, the first tax bills to be affected will be the 2015-2016 school taxes. Lucas explained that taxpayers would see those rebates—and also possibly rebates from 2016 town and county taxes—in their 2016 income taxes. • —Keri

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By Keri Blakinger Beginning Jan. 5, William Troy made his private practice part-time and became the deputy county attorney for Tompkins County. Recently, less than a month into his tenure, the Ithaca Times sat down with him to learn more about him and his new post. Troy succeeds Steve Flash, but Flash’s title was “assistant county attorney.” None of the counties adjacent to Tompkins County have either an assistant or a deputy county attorney.

Ithaca Times: Starting with the basics, what does a deputy county attorney do?

William Troy: Obviously, assists the county attorney, but in this office my principal duty is to handle juvenile delinquency petitions and PINS petitions, involving young folks.

IT: What is the difference between juvenile delinquency and PINS? WT: Juvenile delinquency petitions involve conduct that, if committed by an adult, would constitute a crime.

PINS is Persons in Need of Supervision, so it might involve truancy.

IT: Juvenile delinquency petitions are for youth up to what age? That is, at what age do youth start to assume adult criminal responsibility in New York?

WT: Juvenile delinquency is for those under sixteen, assuming they admit or are found to have violated what would be a criminal statute if they’re an adult. They could get anything from probation, to placement in a foster home, to detention.

The purpose is not really to punish but to intervene and change the course of things.

The whole focus is not on punishment; it’s on fixing the problem before it becomes a punishable problem.

IT: So what about PINS? Can you explain that in a little more detail?

WT: Many of these cases first get referred to probation. A PINS petition can be filed by a school district, by a parent. They are more social disorder-type issues, where the child is not obeying the parents—habitually truant, maybe some minor drug use, bringing contraband to campus. It sort of opens the door to an examination of what’s going on in this young person’s life. It’s not intended to be punitive in nature.

IT: It still sounds like a potentially depressing job. Why the interest in juvenile justice?

WT: I was for seven years an A.D.A. [assistant district attorney] in Manhattan, and I enjoyed being a prosecutor. It’s probably the happiest seven years

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professionally I’ve had. It’s not that I took joy in putting people in jail, it’s that I like the whole process. When I heard that this position was open, it sort of resembles that.

IT: So why did you move?

WT: I met another assistant D.A., a cute redhead, and one thing led to another, and we had a baby, and I just didn’t want to raise a baby in Manhattan.

IT: Did you move up here for this job?

WT: No, I originally came up to practice civil law.

IT: So how long have you been in Ithaca?

WT: We moved here three weeks to the day after my oldest boy was born, so we’ve been here 23 years, 24 in March.

IT: Was being an assistant district attorney how you started your legal career?

WT: I began as a maritime lawyer—I’m now the only member of the Maritime Law Association in Tompkins County.

I went to Fordham for my law degree, and then I went to a maritime firm for five and a half years. I enjoyed it, but I realized I really enjoyed doing litigation.

So I applied and was accepted in the Manhattan D.A.’s office. … On March 12, 1984, I was sworn in as an assistant D.A. Two of us were sworn in that day—the other guy was named Andrew Cuomo.

IT: What was it that attracted you to the prosecution side of criminal litigation?

WT: I’ve done defense work until quite recently—a few weeks ago. And it’s a very valuable service you provide to people. I don’t dislike it. It helps you see the human side of what goes on in these cases. But somehow or other I ended up more on the prosecution side.

IT: Are there any changes you have in mind for the deputy county attorney’s office?

WT: Not really. The system is so heavily governed by statute, and we have two great family court judges. • —Keri

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Ups&Downs ▶ Another Top 10, Late last year career blog Talent Tribune compiled a list of the best cities in America to open a small business.

We noticed there were quite a few Northeast cities at the top of the list, and decided to do a Northeast-only list. They are happy to report that Ithaca is in the top 10! They looked at net small business growth, net small business employee growth, and percentage of businesses that are small businesses, and created a weighted overall score.

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

Heard&Seen ▶ City plows sighted, In November we asked “Have you ever seen a plow owned by the City of Ithaca?” Six people had and seven had not. It turns out that the minority is slightly sharper eyed. We were under the impression that the streets of the city were plowed by the county and the state. Not so. During the latest snowstorm we spotted one city plow (blue) clearing snow on West State Street. Later that evening we spotted a city plow (blue) descending East Buffalo Street. The city, it seems, has at least one plow of its own. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Jan. 28-Feb. 3 include: 1) Alternative Waste Services Plans to Move Forward Despite Proposed Ban 2) Cornell Employee Killed in Bus Accident 3) Felicia’s Opens Cupcakery Branch in Tburg 4) Coltivare: TC3’s New Farm-to-Bistro Experiment is Working 5) Victim of Route 96 Car Accident Identified as Cornell Student For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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t was a cautionary tale, and I learned it in public school.

Technically, I learned the lesson in New York City at the South Street Seaport, but it was a field trip with my high school Spanish Club that brought me there, so I’ll count it as extracurricular learning.

In our quest to experience everything New York City had to offer (we’d already purchased Yankees caps and a Kriss Kross cassette), a friend and I approached a hustler running a game of three-card monte on a cardboard box.

“Five gets you twenty.”

I shook my head, even after witnessing a stranger win twenty bucks right before my very eyes. My friend, however, was feeling lucky.

“I’ve only got a twenty.”

“I make change.”

My friend threw Andrew Jackson down on the box and the hustler, a stack of bills in one hand, slid the twenty beneath one of his cards. He flicked his wrists, rapped the table, and shouted. He made a big show before he pointed to my friend.

“Your call, big man.”

My friend picked wrong. The hustler never made change. The squabble that broke out between the stranger and the hustler ended as they overturned the table and chased each other down the street, which was all probably part of the con in the first place. We stood in

the street with our mouths gaping, $20 lighter in the pocket.

The lesson? Never trust a card shark. It’s stuck with me throughout the years, and I am reminded of it now as I consider New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s education policy proposals.

Make no mistake about it—Gov. Cuomo is a report card shark.

Lost in the shuffle of Albany’s awful

Travis Durfree (Photo provided)

politics this week are Gov. Cuomo’s recent education proposals. He threw his cards on the table, his latest attack on teachers, public education and the basic tenets of our democracy. If adopted by the state legislature, Cuomo’s policies would undermine the teaching profession, incentivize test-driven instruction and weaken local control of schools. Let’s evaluate each card at face continued on page 7

Stare Decisis*

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wo weeks ago, an Albany federal jury found that former Ithaca police officer Chris Miller is entitled to damages totaling $480,001 on the theory that the IPD retaliated against him for filing a discrimination complaint (ultimately dismissed) with the Tompkins County Human Rights Commission. Miller’s 2010 lawsuit alleged that he experienced race and sex discrimination in uneven disciplinary actions, as well as retaliation for filing the complaint.

The jury’s ruling came in two parts: it found the city owes damages of $220,000 for Miller being assigned less desirable patrol beats, then it found the city liable for another $220,001 for firing him in 2010. In addition to the damages it has to pay, the city likely will face big legal bills from both sides, including the employment-law attorneys hired to defend it, unless the verdict is overturned on appeal.

Mayor Svante Myrick termed the verdict “astonishingly inappropriate,” and noted that an arbitrator had concluded in 2013 that Miller “was employed as a police officer living a lie of having got the job under false pretenses,” an allusion to alleged omissions on his original job application. In a statement, Myrick said, “highlighting the absurdity of this verdict is the $220,000 award to Miller for the supposed indignity of having been assigned to walk the Ithaca Commons beat for thirteen shifts, each scheduled and fully paid, now with a jury-prescribed bonus of nearly $17,000 per shift worked.”

Our legal system being based on the principle that courts are obliged to respect the precedent established by prior decisions, local judges and juries have wasted no time in taking to heart the message in Miller v.

City of Ithaca.

In Krabappel v. Ithaca City Schools, Beverly J. Martin fourth-grade teacher Edna Krabappel was awarded $17,000

apiece for each of the three “professional development” workshops she was required to attend in 2014 at which she received training in the Common Core instruction model. The court found that the PowerPoint presentations at the workshops were “retaliatory and punitive in nature and likely fit within the UNCAT’s definition of torture.”

Similarly, in a class action lawsuit in which unreasonable expectations were alleged, Ithaca city snowplow operators won a $17,000 per-route-driven bonus for every plow driver for the 2013-2014 season. Said one of the plaintiffs, “If we’d known being snowplow operators meant plowing snow, we never would have signed up for the job.”

An arbitrator awarded members of Tompkins County road crews the sum of $17,000 per pothole filled because “it’s not their favorite part of the job”.

Software programmer Peter Gibbons was able to justify to a Tompkins County jury a $17,000 bonus from his employer Initech Corporation for each of two weekend days that his boss, William Lumbergh, asked him to “go ahead and come in for some catch-up work this weekend.”

In Dewey et al v. Tompkins County Public Library, the New York State Court of Appeals upheld a jury verdict awarding Tompkins County librarians damages in the amount of $1.7 million, representing a bonus of $17,000 for each of 100 shifts worked at the checkout desk. The evidence at trial was that workers were called upon to perform such unseemly and unpleasant tasks as handling books and engaging in conversations with members of the public.

“It just felt like I was being punished,” said lead plaintiff Melvil Dewey. continued on page 7

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In a recent issue of the Ithaca Times, Liam O’Kane wrote an interesting and thoughtful letter on the subject of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s bullying ways when it comes to educational reform. As a recently retired teacher in a neighboring district, I could not agree with Mr. O’Kane’s opinions more, but I would add the word “simplistic” to go along with the bullying. The governor’s understanding of the problems in education and how to solve them is very flawed and disappointing.

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motivated tact that only serves to demoralize a profession facing new challenges and obstacles every year; a profession, which I am proud to say, is dedicated to its students.

Complex problems require a broader view and understanding than what Gov. Cuomo offers. His obvious use of teachers as scapegoats should give every citizen of this state pause. Can we expect that our governor will opt for a need to blame and knee-jerk reaction with every complicated issue?

When it comes to education, could there be more to the problem than lazy, complacent teachers? Is it possible that there could be a genuine disdain for education, for continued on page 12

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served a four-year term on Ithaca’s Common Council as an alderperson and Alternate Acting Mayor from 2004 to 2007. During that time, one of Mayor Carolyn Peterson’s top concerns was pedestrian awareness and safety, because numerous pedestrians had been struck— many tragically—by vehicles. A committee (Pedestrian Awareness) was put in place, which I chaired.

With the mayor’s sign-off, I enlisted the help of several top seniors in the Park School of Communication at Ithaca College, where I was also a lecturer. The students worked closely with the mayor, numerous departments, drivers, cyclists, Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Council Michelle Courtney Berry (BPAC), officials, and various community and citizen groups. In 2005, what Mayor Peterson called the “Year of the Pedestrian,” we presented a “Pedestrian Awareness and Safety Campaign,” which included numerous communications strategies and plans for an educational campaign’s implementation across print, broadcast and community media.

The plan took into consideration that pedestrians and drivers are often pitted against one another and in turn, frustrated by the other. For ultimate success that saves lives, it’s essential to find ways to redirect the conversation towards “mutuallybeneficial solutions” instead of any “us vs. them” mentality, particularly since many drivers are also pedestrians!

The report received the unanimous endorsement of Common Council.

Some key report findings included: the lack of safe egress on foot to Ithaca College along the Route 96B corridor, driver and pedestrian errors, pedestrian lack of awareness (e.g., talking on cell phones while crossing the street and pedestrians jay walking, but often claiming that that was often safer than crossing at particular city intersections, etc.), vehicular speeding in residential neighborhoods, and police officers stating that if they began a program of more aggressive ticketing (of both pedestrians and drives) they would need the “backing” and unfaltering support of elected officials.

One of the most pressing suggestions was that drivers and pedestrians should be continuously exposed to a comprehensive educational awareness campaign, launched in tandem with the Town of Ithaca, the City of Ithaca and with the support of area campus administrations and student groups. The campaign would include, among other highlights: regular safety forums, frequent e-mail blasts to students

and residents, regular media appearances by the mayor with updates on how all “those on the road” can prevent mishaps, accidents and tragedies.

Since this time a dozen of my friends have been struck by vehicles, either while on foot or on bicycles. For the record, I’m a pedestrian who runs a local hiking group, a driver and a cyclist. I have almost been hit by a car while on my bicycle, which has limited my desire to ride my bike in the city. I have swerved also, to avoid a pedestrian, crossing without looking, in dark clothing while talking on a cell phone, against traffic.

Adding to these concerns, last year, one of my closest friends was cycling and was struck by a car while the driver was texting. She sustained several serious injuries, including damage to her brain that cannot ever be fully repaired.

Many of us have met with or called Mayor Svante Myrick to outline our concerns. Myrick, like Peterson, has also expressed both concern and dismay over the increasing number of pedestrian fatalities over the years, with the most recent loss of two members of the Cornell University community (one student, one staff member) within just a few days of one another this past weekend.

I urge our current mayor to move swiftly with an aggressive, comprehensive educational communications campaign for our campus and non-campus communities.

Certainly, some elements of a plan formulated over a decade ago will need some tweaking (for instance we weren’t tweeting back then!), but I am most hopeful that many broad strokes from the “older plan” generated in 2005 can be of use to his current administration’s efforts moving forward.

Increasing driver and pedestrian awareness and our overall safety should be a top priority for us all.

For truly it’s a matter of life and death.• - Michelle Courtney Berry, former City of Ithaca alderperson Guestopinion contin u ed from page 6

value.

Undermining the Teaching Profession Gov. Cuomo would gut tenure for all new teachers. Under his plan, new teachers would remain in probationary status until they received five consecutive effective or highly effective ratings on their Annual Professional Performance Review.

What sounds like a reasonable goal is effectively randomized, however, when he pegs these ratings to student growth as measured by standardized tests—an increasingly discredited method of assessing teacher effectiveness.

At least one researcher estimates that fewer than 50 percent of all new teachers would earn tenure in under six years under Cuomo’s proposal. Teaching would become a very high-risk profession.

You wonder who would choose to enter a profession when your livelihood is contingent upon a child’s performance on a Common Core exam that is meaningless to their education?

Incentivizing Teach-to-the-Test Gov. Cuomo wants more state control of our local classrooms, and would use state tests to blow down the doors. The governor proposed more than doubling the required weight of Common Core test scores in evaluating of teachers and building principals.

Further, Cuomo would consider two consecutive ineffective ratings as sufficient legal evidence of educational incompetence, even for effective, tenured teachers with decades of experience. In those cases, a teacher would be allowed to rebut charges of incompetence “only by clear and convincing evidence that the calculation of one of his or her summative ratings was fraudulent.” Proving “fraud” would create an impossibly high hurdle and in effect allow no rebuttal at all. A teacher’s tenure in the classroom would essentially hinge on effectiveness ratings that would be randomly determined by questionable state tests.

Make no mistake about it, the added emphasis on testing will lead to more teaching to the test. The result would no doubt stifle creative educators from developing collaborative, authentic curriculum. What will teachers risk otherwise when the ability to support their families rely on student success on Common Core tests?

By unfairly holding teachers accountable for factors that are beyond their control, such tests have been rejected by the types of statisticians who know best. Last year the American Statistical Association essentially labeled such valueadded modeling of teacher effectiveness by student test scores as junk science that violates the first commandment of social science research—conflating correlation with causation. Teaching and learning are more complicated than the policy wonk’s attempts to quantify education with effectiveness ratings and state test scores.

And the governor knows that this is bad policy. After compromising last year, Cuomo prohibited the state 3-8 Math and ELA exams from being used against students. He agreed to do the same for teachers—and even advanced a bill to hold teachers harmless—only to change his mind after the election and veto his own bill.

Weaken Local Control of Schools The overarching theme of Cuomo’s policies is to centralize power in Albany over local schools statewide.

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$1.06b if the state legislature adopts all of the proposed proposals, or b) New York State schools receive a 1.7-percent increase of $377 million if the Legislature does not adopt all of the governor’s ideas.

The governor wants power in his hands and he is using the strong-arm of state funding to take control.

Another of Cuomo’s power grabs would void all locally bargained agreements between teachers unions, school districts and school boards to be replaced by his misguided evaluation proposals. State-sanctioned “impartial observers” would be hired to evaluate classrooms statewide. In addition to being an unfunded mandate on districts, the proposal would remove the ability of locally-hired principals to serve as instructional leaders within their buildings.

Cuomo has fanned the flames on an exaggerated crisis in public education that cites as evidence plummeting test scores on recently changed learning standards.

Remember the good old days of 2011 when 53 percent of students statewide met the ELA standards and 63 percent met the standard in math? Compare that to the predicted and delivered drop in scores statewide after the first year of Common Core testing in 2012 when only 31 percent of kids were proficient in both math and ELA. Change the standards, rush the tests to the schoolhouse gates and assign blame when the scores drop.

Sounds like a hustle, or an opportunity for a self-proclaimed reformer to fix a manufactured crisis. Gov. Cuomo called his budget address the Opportunity Agenda, but his proposals would only benefit an opportunist like himself.

The governor claims that public schools are a monopoly to be broken.

He has it all wrong. Public education is central to our democracy and the ladder of opportunity for many New Yorkers. Public schools are transparent, accountable and democratically governed by locally elected school boards directly accountable to voters. Gov. Cuomo’s attempt to centralize power over public education in Albany would rip control away from parents and their local, democratically-elected school boards by forcing state standards and outside “impartial observers” on communities that know their kids deserve better.

– Travis Durfee, Watkins Glen Durfee is a ninth-grade English teacher in Watkins Glen Central Schools. He has written about testing and the Common Core for the Washington Post and reported on education for Metroland in the Capital Region.

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He came north to Ithaca from a Jim Crow South and settled in a place not altogether free of prejudice

By Charley Githler

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evi M. Spaulding was the son of slaves. He came north from the Deep South during the Jim Crow Era and became an established and respected pillar of the Southside and the larger Ithaca community. He was the Ithaca Police Department’s first African American patrolman, and the circumstances of his death in the line of duty in a dramatic murder case are revealing of both his standing in Ithaca and local racial attitudes at the time.

Born on Sept. 3, 1872 in Savannah, Georgia, Levi Spaulding was the oldest of the three children of Rebecca Spaulding, a freed slave from McIntosh County, Georgia. He spent his early years in the legally-segregated South, moving to Ithaca in at age sixteen in 1888, the same year the city of Ithaca, with a five-man police force, was chartered.

Every indication is that he was an industrious and purposeful young man. By 1894 he had married (Ora Spaulding) and opened his own barbershop in the Bates Block (southwest corner of North Aurora and East Seneca streets). As of 1903 he was also the manager of the Arion Orchestra, which operated out of the Sage Block on State Street, and which promised to provide “music for all occasions, dancing a specialty”.

The couple bought a house on Wheat Street (now Cleveland Avenue) and became active members of the Southside community and the St. James A.M.E. Zion Church. In 1912, they moved to the house that Ora would call their “homestead” on the southwest corner of South Plain and Green streets. In time, Levi relocated his barbershop to the basement under the Lehigh Valley ticket office (now Viva Taqueria) on the corner of North Aurora and East State streets.

What of the neighborhood and the Ithaca in which the Spauldings lived? By 1930, the city had a population of 20,708, of which 640 people (3.2 percent) identified themselves as black.

(Ithaca today, with a population of 30,000, is approximately 6.5 percent African American.)

Clues point to a certain cohesiveness among African Americans in Ithaca at the time. The NAACP chartered an Ithaca branch in 1921, and in 1923 the Monitor, a local newspaper “devoted to the interests of Colored People” published three issues in March, April and June.

Certainly, Ithaca was not the Savannah, Ga. that Spaulding had left. There were at least three lynchings in Savannah’s Chatham County between L e v i M . S pau l d i n g ( Th e H i s t o ry C e n t e r) 1880 and 1930, and schools that admitted both 8 The I thaca Times / Februar y 4- 11, 2015

black and white children were not entitled by law to any monies from the public school fund. For that matter, any teacher who taught both black and white children could not be compensated by the State of Georgia.

Still, although Ithaca nurtures a reputation for racial tolerance that predates the Civil War, the experiences of the African-American community were not really so different from those of blacks almost anywhere in the country. One looks in vain for a single African-American face in the pages of the 1929 Cornellian yearbook. In fact, Cornell conferred precisely one degree on an African American that year, and it was the unstated policy of the university in the late 1920s to exclude female African-American students from the dormitories.

The St. James A.M.E. Zion Church was organized in response to segregation in local churches. Even as late as the 1950s, nationally known singer, actor, and civil right activist Paul Robeson was refused a room at the Ithaca Hotel.

Service was denied in some local restaurants. A later African-American Ithaca Police officer, Lionel Martin (brother of Beverly J. Martin), allegedly threatened suit against the Villa restaurant before they would serve black customers.

Green Street was not the drag strip it is today. It was a narrower, less-traveled street with a generous number of shade trees, but the neighborhood around Green Street was ‘redlined’ by banks in those days and loans for home improvements were impossible to get. People ‘got by’. The Spauldings took in boarders, as many homeowners in the neighborhood did, and Mrs. Spaulding ran her hairdressing business out of the house.

Plain Street was still a dirt road sprayed with tar once a year to keep the dust down. Much of Titus Flats was still open land. The rural world was just down the street. Still, by all accounts, the Southside black community enjoyed a lively social life: dances, balls and coming-out parties.

The Servus League was established, after a year of fundraising, in 1928, in hopes of building “a social-health-educational-cultural and recreational center for all Negroes of Ithaca …nonsectarian and nonpolitical, with all efforts directed toward uniting the community for the betterment of each and every individual.”

The first Southside Community Center was a rented house at 221 South Plain Street, just a couple of houses from the Spauldings’ home. (The present building was constructed as a WPA project

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Though a businessman at the time, at least as early as 1911 Levi Spaulding had been acting as a “special officer” for the Ithaca Police Department. On Oct. 12, 1919 he became an official full-time and full-fledged member of the force, Ithaca’s first African-American patrolman.

Over the ensuing eleven years, Spaulding became a well-known and respected presence in the Police Department. One of his duties was traffic control.

“Roaring ‘20s” Ithaca was a time when fully half of the roads in the city were still unpaved, and the growing number of automobiles competed with horse-drawn vehicles, streetcars and bicycles. The first traffic lights weren’t installed until the late 1920s, and the busier intersections had to be manned by a live patrolman operating “semaphores”, which were basically handoperated signs directing traffic to ‘stop’ or ‘go’. Spaulding was particularly a fixture at

the busy intersection of Aurora and State Streets, the site of his former barbershop.

The Ithaca Police Department was often called upon to assist federal agents in enforcing Prohibition during the 1920s.

A detective’s notebook from the time makes frequent mention of investigations and events in ‘Silent City’, the area along Cayuga Inlet extending to Floral Avenue and the city line also known as the ‘Rhine’.

To modern eyes, though, the most jarring event to occur during that time happened in October 1925, when the Ku Klux Klan staged a rally at the ‘circus flats’ (roughly where the Titus Flats skate park is today) and a parade through the “business section” of downtown Ithaca.

The procession, several city blocks long, complete with floats, a band and nearly 500 marching Klan members was met with “frequent applause as well as occasional expressions of disapproval”.

The exact route is difficult to pinpoint 90 years later, but the proceedings concluded with the burning of a large cross. The

It h ac a P o l i c e i n 1 9 0 6 ( H i s t o ry C e n t e r) Ithaca Police Department was called upon to handle the considerable traffic congestion.

Perhaps Patrolman Spaulding’s most famous piece of police work was his last. On Tuesday, September 9, 1930 a brutal axe murder occurred in the very Cleveland Avenue house (then still owned by the Spauldings), which Levi and Ora had occupied before moving to Green Street. That evening, George “Curly” Barnes, a chef at Cornell’s Kappa Sigma Fraternity, went to the Cleveland Avenue house, where his estranged wife Alice was visiting her mother. An argument ensued and George retrieved an axe from the back porch with which he struck Alice in the head five times, leaving it embedded in her skull. He then fled on foot. Alice was pronounced dead at the hospital at 10:45 p.m.

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years. All available on-duty and offduty personnel were summoned and all possible avenues of escape were cordoned off. Every surrounding police agency was notified. Descriptions of George Barnes were broadcast by radio stations as far afield as Syracuse and Rochester. The Ithaca Police Department blotters for the next 36 hours make note of receiving numerous collect calls from other police agencies requesting information or providing leads. Police budgets were strict during the Depression and two-way radios and teletype systems lay in the future for the Ithaca Police Department.

Barnes was spotted near Washington Park at 2:15 a.m., and a patrolman fired several shots at him, waking up the neighborhood, but Barnes disappeared before being taken. Ultimately, a citizen spotted him coming out of the woods on the hill between Linn Street and continued on page 14

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hair yoga is an invented approach to learning to move and breathe that accommodates people who have difficulty getting up and down from the floor and those who have problems with balance. These are the limitations of both the old and the young. Senior citizens can lose mobility due to the effects of aging or poor health, while the very young have not yet developed full mobility and balance.

Caryn Sheckler teaches chair yoga at Lifelong where the focus is on senior citizens. “I am certified in Kundalini yoga, so that is the path I take,” said Sheckler. “I focus on movement with breath, and I want them to keep the mobility that they have.” She said that senior citizens can be intimidated by the idea of doing yoga on a mat, but doing it in a sitting position or holding onto the chair for balance allows them to benefit from learning the poses and to focus on their breath.

Sheckler has a very laissez-faire approach. Anyone can join her class at any time. “It’s all very easy stuff,” she said. “We start with mantra meditation. Then we begin with moving the feet and work our way up, hitting all the joints in order to keep the joints limber.” Anyone who cannot stand does not have to.

Sheckler, who is 53 years old, has been teaching chair yoga for three years and was certified for Kundalini in India in 2004. She said the seniors appreciate having a middle-aged teacher.

“I’m someone who suffers from pain sometimes, so I can identify with them,” she said, “as opposed to a younger, bouncier person.”

Diane Hamilton, who is 36 years old, teaches a chair yoga class called “Family Yoga” at Fine Spirit Studio. It is a place where children and their parents and grandparents can do yoga together. She finds very young kids take to yoga readily and she teaches “baby yoga” and “toddler yoga” to kids as soon as their parents as willing to let them try it. By age 2 kids can manage a decent “downward facing dog,” which requires you to stand on your hands and feet with your head hanging loose between your shoulders.

Her 45-minute family yoga sessions include children from 3 to 10 years of age.

She adjusts the tone of the class according to the age group present.

“For the very young we tell silly stories and do a lot silly poses,” Hamilton said. “If they are with a grandparent, then I make sure they interact with the child. With older kids we have more advanced stories

and more advanced poses.” Children take to the poses in part because many are named after animals.

“They can do so many poses before we think they can do them,” said Hamilton.

“I love to see them absorb the philosophy and language of yoga.”

Melissa Weiner teaches chair yoga at Island Health & Fitness and at Nate’s Floral Estates. “Every population should do yoga,” Weiner said, “no matter what

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physical condition they are in.” People with limited mobility can still benefit from the “breath work” and from any movement that heats up their bodies. She is also mindful of the limits that some chronic illnesses put on some of her yogis.

“Someone with high blood pressure,” she said, “shouldn’t do any pose that puts their head below their heart.”

Weiner sees clear health benefits for the people who take her classes. As their balance and strength improves they feel more confident about beginning an exercise routine. They feel more flexible, so their posture is better, which makes walking easier.

Weiner enjoys teaching chair yoga because she is required to get to know the participants to take into account their individual limitations. “I plan the lessons more carefully,” she said, “and change poses to suit them.” Weiner recommends that people attend classes at least twice a week in order to see the benefits of yoga.

“We are pretty attached to chairs as a culture,” said Hamilton, “which is, internationally, an anomaly. In school kids are always at their chairs, so chair yoga is a good way from them to learn how to move while they are sitting.” •

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time what Alternatives Federal Credit Union determined was a living wage.

Workers had been paid as little as $8.19 per hour.

At the time the student group had also done some work toward better working conditions for adjuncts, but nothing had come of it. Burroughs said that the faculty council at IC has also brought to the attention of the administration the issue of adjunct pay. He acknowledged though that the decision lies with the college’s board of trustees. He has been told that budget constraints and market forces prohibit changes in adjunct wages.

Burroughs likes SEIU because they are

not an educator’s union. “They seem like a good fit for us,” he said. “They will write rules that work for us and that fit the school.”

Because SEIU represents many different types of workers—in health care, custodial and maintenance, government workers, and public school employees—they will be flexible in their approach rather than trying to fit adjunct professors into an existing mold.

Rachel Kaufman, a part-time instructor in the writing department at IC, just got the last of her W-2 forms in the mail. She also teaches at Binghamton University and Elmira College. Her total (gross) income in 2014 from teaching six courses among three schools was $20,331. “According to MIT’s Living Wage Calculator,” noted Kaufman, “my total gross income from teaching is

below the gross living wage salary for an adult living in Tompkins County ($21,382) and less than half the gross living wage salary for an adult with one child, $45,146.”

Kaufman, who has taught at IC for three years, is also a member of the organizing committee at the college. Kaufman has a master’s degree in interdisciplinary humanities from Binghamton University and is “all but dissertation” in her Ph.D. in the Binghamton English department. Her focus is on “women, gender, and sexuality.”

She got involved in the unionization effort after getting an email from Burroughs. She said that a union has been “a long time coming” and that there are two basic issues.

The first is fairness. “Meaning how little I’m paid,” she said. “There is a big disparity between my wage and that of a tenure-track

professor teaching the same class.” The second issue is sustainability. Kaufman said that as a part-time adjunct she is not eligible for any professional development funds from the college and that adjuncts don’t have the same eligibility as tenure-track staff when it comes to applying for many grants.

Kaufman said that of the adjuncts that are members of the committee have reached out to over half of them have been “very supportive.”

Because Ithaca College is a private institution, unlike Tompkins Cortland Community College, which also has a unionization effort underway among its adjunct lecturers, it will turn in its list of signatures to the National Labor Relations Board. “Once we file,” said Kaufman, “they need to review the documentation, and then they will set the election date five to six weeks later. It will be a mail-in ballot. If we vote ‘yes’ then the college has to recognize the union.” • —Bill

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enlightenment in our society today?

Could it be that the allure of technology, its instant communication and quick as lightning access to easy answers has seduced us, most especially our youth?

Should education be relegated to a Google search? Many, I am afraid, would be quite comfortable with such a scenario.

Good teaching and good learning require attention, concentration and the time for development in making connections with a minimum of distraction. Learning must be approached with the student respecting the school as an institution and the teacher as a caring professional. There must be an appreciation of the fact that learning is essential to the student’s vision of himself and the world and not merely a basic requirement that has no real value or application. Not everything of value is a commodity that can be bought and sold.

We, as a people, are at a crossroads between the “traditional world,” as we have known it, and a new “virtual world,” the latter of which gains momentum by the day.

What we think we need to know and want to know is changing at breakneck speed.

Being a child of the ‘50s, I can scarcely keep up. The written word seems to losing ground to the image. Johnny cannot read because he is not reading.

Throw in the enormous social problems, such as economic disparity, unemployment, family disintegration, gross consumerism, and a devaluing of knowledge and you have a potent cocktail of distraction and disregard for what school has to offer.

Gov. Cuomo would be better served—we would be better served—by a less obvious, less blaming, less bullying view of educational reform. I should like to think that the governor of the great State of New York has not gone to Google for explanations and solutions to very challenging, complex problems.

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his year’s Chili Cook-off will cope with the Commons construction in the same way the rest of the downtown festivals have during the last year and a half: they will put it in the street and they will use the part of the Commons that they can.

“They just put the electricity in Bank Alley and the paving is done on a lot of it, so we can set up there,” said Patty Clark, the Director of Events for the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA). “We used the area in front of Center Ithaca for the winter festival and we can use that.” North Cayuga Street will also be closed down between Green and Seneca streets. Clark said that there is a map online at the DIA website that shows festival goers where everything will be.

The cook-off itself has over 30 entries this year. Tickets will be available at the festival for those who want to take part in the tastings and cast their ballots for the “People’s Choice” and “Best Presentation” winners. Last year’s winners for People’s Choice were Collegetown Bagels and the Cayuga Medical Center.

The judges, on the other hand, selected Just A Taste as the best chili overall. The judges include radio personalities, local food entrepreneurs, and folks from the beverage industry, according to Clark.

It is not entirely about chili. Felicia’s Atomic Lounge will be back with cupcakes, Life’s So Sweet will be selling chili chocolate, and F. Oliver is making popcorn using various oils and seasonings.

The Beer and Mustache Club is broadening the number of competitions it holds. This year there will be a fake facial hair contest along with those for mustache only, partial and full beards.

About half of the attendees are typically students. “The rest are locals,” said Clark, “who are interested in chili or just have cabin fever. This is the first big event after the holidays.” •

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Marshall and Captain William La France led the force and visiting police contin u ed from page 9 officers in a march two-by- two from Spaulding’s house to the St. James A.M.E. University Avenue at 7 that evening.

Zion Church. At the church, filled to All 19 members of the Ithaca Police capacity, tribute was paid by Treman Department and a posse of private citizens family scion Robert E. Treman (perhaps were put into service searching the area best known for having been married to throughout the night. Finally, at 6 on the film star Irene Castle), who delivered the morning of Sept. 11, he was spotted on eulogy, and Mayor Herman Bergholz, Aurora Street after having ventured into who extolled Spaulding as a leader the city to buy food and a newspaper and “among his own people”. A motorcade to after a foot chase (during which more Lakeview Cemetery shots were fired) he followed. Pallbearers “Immediately next to the was captured in the included members 300 block of Linn of the Knights of Sept.

14, 1930 Ithaca Journal Street. He was then Pythias Lodge, to transported to the story reporting the details of which Spaulding police station on had belonged, and North Tioga Street Patrolman Spaulding’s funeral members of the Ithaca (now the site of the Police Department.

Seneca Street parking is an advertisement for Big Boy, Immediately garage) in the next to the Sept. 14, the latest all-talking musical back of Patrolman 1930 Ithaca Journal Spaulding’s police comedy motion picture at the story reporting the car. details of Patrolman While Spaulding Spaulding’s funeral is State Theater.

Prominently was removing the an advertisement for handcuffs from featured in the advertisement is “Big Boy”, the latest Barnes at the police all-talking musical station, he handed an image of its star, Al Jolson, in comedy motion the keys to Sergeant picture at the State blackface.”

McCarthy and said, Theater. Prominently “For God’s sake, featured in the get me out of here.” advertisement is an image of its star, Al Those were his last words. Levi Spaulding Jolson, in blackface. fell to the floor, dying of an apparent heart That Levi Spaulding could come attack, and never recovered consciousness. to Ithaca and become a prominent The police surgeon, who was on the scene, citizen speaks well of him, the Ithaca attributed his death to the strain of the Police Department and of our city. It’s 36-hour search for Barnes. Spaulding was unlikely that he would have risen to such 58 years old. distinction in the South that he left. Still, That Levi M. Spaulding was a it bears remembering that prejudice and man of stature, mourned by the entire inequality were very much a part of the community, is obvious from his funeral landscape in Ithaca 85 years ago. • that Saturday. Police Chief William Levispaulding

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afternoon chamber music series continues on February 15 in Ithaca’s Unitarian Church, with music by Bach and Harrison plus the Dvorák “American” quartet, while on April 12 in the First Presbyterian Church, the program includes Bach and Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat.

NYS Baroque’s program, On the Road, Orchestral and Ensemble Presentations provides a string band tour of 17th century The Cornell Concert Series offers the worldEurope on Feb. 20 in the Unitarian Church, renowned Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, where we will see such familiar faces as Julie under the direction of Charles Dutoit and Andrijeski, David Morris, and, of course, with pianist Nikolai Lugansky, on Feb. 19 in Deborah Fox. On Feb. 26, 27, and March 1 in Bailey Hall, performing music by Stravinsky, Barnes Hall, Cornell pianist Miri Yampolsky Rachmaninoff, and Ravel. On March 1 the IC with guest violinist Adriadne Symphony Orchestra Daskalakis present a presents the Annual traversal of the ten sonatas Concerto Competition for violin and piano by Concert with works by Beethoven.

Gandolfi and Respighi, The Finger Lakes and concertos to be Chamber Ensemble’s announced soon. Music Spring Concert on March

by Brahms (Piano 1 at the Unitarian Church Concerto No. 1 with presents music for strings soloist Charis Demaris)

by Schubert, Mozart, and and Sibelius’s fifth Brahms, with guest violinist symphony are on the Janet Sung. On March 29 orchestra’s program for a Salon called “Romantic April 26. Both concerts Musings” features founding are in Ford Hall and members pianist Michael led by Jeffery Meyer.

Salmirs and violist Roberta The Cornell University Crawford playing music Symphony conducted by

by Vieuxtemps and Liszt at Chris Younghoon Kim home on 102 First St. The gives a concert on Feb. group’s annual Mother’s Day 28 in Bailey Hall with Concert at the Unitarian violinist Paul Huang, Church on May 10 presents winner of the 11th music by Debussy, IC annual Cornell Concerto composer Dana Wilson, Competition, and music Chris Younghoon Kim at a rehearsal of the Cornell Symphony Orchestra. (Photo Tim Gera) and Brahms, with two

by Lalo and Bernstein. guests, violinist Nicholas The orchestra also selected conductors and clinician Larry Rachleff, DiEugenio and clarinetist Richard MacDowell. performs in Cornell’s Charter Day celebration On June 7 at the Lodi Historical Society the in charge of orchestras at Rice University in concert on April 25.

Summer Chamber Concert offers Dvorák, Houston and music director of the Rhode Island The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, under the Prokofiev, and Brahms with guests Sung and Philharmonic. At Barnes Hall on May 5 the baton by music director Lanfranco Marcelletti, MacDowell, plus violist David Rose.

Cornell Baroque Orchestra, led by Paul Miller, plays Bach, Britten, and Stravinsky in Ford Hall The annual Shirley and Chas Hockett plays two works by Bach plus music by Telemann on March 14, while on May 2, the orchestra bids Chamber Music Series concert on March 5 and Galliard. farewell to Marcelletti, who conducts choruses in Ford Hall features pianist Jeffrey Kahane, Chamber Music from Cornell and Ithaca College in two major violinist Joseph Swensen, and cellist Carter Brey The gold-medal winner of the 14th Van works. See below for details. Also on March 14 in in piano trios by Mozart, Schumann, and Ravel Cliburn International Piano Competition in Bailey Hall, the Bryant String Quartet joins with plus Café Music by Schoenfield. Kahane and 2013, Ukrainian-born Vadym Kholodenko, age string players from both Cornell orchestras and Brey will give piano and cello Master classes on 28, performs music of Beethoven and Scriabin the Ithaca High School in performing music by March 6.

Vaughan Williams and Ravel, with Chris Kim on in the annual Rachel S. Thaler Concert Piano The major festival called “Environs Series concert on Feb. 10 in Ford Hall. He the podium.

Messiaen: Nature Rendered at the Keyboard” will also give a Masterclass on Feb. 11. Music’s Cornell’s Festival Chamber Orchestra, also Recreation presents a program called Nocturnes: runs March 5–9 and offers a wide variety of under Kim’s direction, will play orchestral works programs at Cornell locations. [We will feature a Music Inspired by the Night, which includes

by Cornell graduate composers on April 19 in full article on the festival in the Feb. 18 issue.] works by Chopin, Debussy, and Schumann, Barnes Hall. As part of the Cornell Concert among others, on Feb. 11 at the Community Series, famed viola player Jordi Savall and his continued on page 21 School of Music and Arts. The CCO Sunday ensemble Concert des Nations performs early he spring season features three important festivals. Here are the highlights. Be sure to confirm dates and venues as schedules sometimes change.

music on April 15 in Barnes Hall. The Cornell Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Kim, presents music of Tchaikovsky in Barnes Hall on April 19, along with cellist John Haines-Eitzen in a new work by Cornell composer Loren Lioacono. The IC Chamber Orchestra, with guest conductor Andreas Delfs and cellist Elizabeth Simkin, plays Bach’s G-major cello suite plus shorter works

by Ives, Glass, Adams, and others. For the Sixth Ithaca International Conducting Masterclass at Ford Hall on May 2 in the afternoon, the IC Symphony and CU Chamber Orchestras perform works by Sibelius, Brahms, and Tchaikovsky with

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Time Travel, Silly Action, and a Killer

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hose who know me know that I am pathetically vulnerable to movies about time travel. And it doesn’t matter what the time machine is—a phone booth, a DeLorean—I’m in.

(With the exception of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Timecop and The Time Machine, a particularly awful adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel starring Guy Ritchie.)

Dean Israelite’s Project Almanac gives time travel the “found footage” treatment: what we’re seeing represents an A/V essay for MIT made by a Poindexter type teenager Jonny Weston and his Scooby Doo gang (Sofia Black-D’Elia, Quinn Goldberg, Adam Le and Amy Landecker).

Weston funds plans for a time machine in the basement, and the group time-shift back and forth to get back at bullies and cheat on tests. Of course, one of them breaks the rules, resulting in several

disasters that keep changing the present.

The “found footage” aspect is negligible. Israelite cheats by cutting to angles in real time that couldn’t be covered by just one camera. But I don’t care. Once the paradoxes and dilemmas started piling up, I was leaning forward in my seat, enjoying the craziness of the tale.

• • • I may be a cult of one on David Koepp’s Mortdecai, but at least someone realized there’s no upside to re-booting Inspector Clouseau and the Pink Panther series. So why not create another wacky European oddball? Johnny Depp plays an effete art dealer living beyond his means with an amazing wife (Gwyneth Paltrow), and faithful manservant (Paul Bettany) in a huge mansion that’s about to be taken away to pay for his back taxes.

Koepp shows a real gift for silly action comedy. Mortdecai looks like it was actually made in 1968, with the accordant James Bond/Austin Powers/Ming Tea vibe.

Depp is our “hero,” yet his first instinct when trouble strikes is to dive under the

Bradley Cooper in American Sniper (Photo provided)

nearest table. I’m not the greatest fan of Paltrow, but she’s down for the silly here, and she gets to join the fun, rather than sit on the sidelines like most women in malecentric comedies. Bettany underplays his manservant bits; no matter how many times he gets shot, he keeps coming back for more, always grateful for the gig. Ewan McGregor also plays it largely real as a police inspector who hires Mortdecai to investigate a Goya art theft, despite being smitten with Paltrow.

Some folks won’t find it funny in the least, but if you’re tolerant of Depp’s goofier moments in cinema, just go with it. In the first scene, Mortdecai introduces himself and then introduces

Kyle.

I’m sure that Kyle saw some atrocious events while he was in country.

How could that not change a person?

Cooper’s Kyle turns into an emotionless, incommunicative thug who, if the film is to be believed, had a gun in his hand the day he was killed (another “detail” that the film fudges). It doesn’t matter how many times his fellow soldiers call him “The Legend.” Killing over 100 people doesn’t make you a hero. My brother Anthony VanCampen, who served 20 years in the Navy, survived the USS Cole hit in 2000 and didn’t kill a soul, is my idea of a real hero. •

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his moustache, and I can’t remember the last time I laughed so hard.

• • • Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper is effectively made, and it’s certainly more in his wheelhouse than Jersey Boys, but despite its boxoffice popularity, I can’t bring myself to recommend it.

Bradley Cooper does what Jason Hall’s simplistic script requires to play a very one-dimensional portrait of late Iraq war veteran Chris

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Check them out before the Academy Awards air on Feb. 22.

Animation 2014 As usual, the animation category includes shorts in wildly different mediums. CGI has become so ubiquitous that pieces that look like stop-motion might not be. There’s Torill Kove’s Me and My Moulton, a knowing, spindly reminiscence of a 7-year-old girl’s summer in mid-’60s Norway; a child’s request for a bicycle becomes as epic as a Lynda Barry comic. There’s nothing funny about Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees’ The Bigger Picture, a stark, striking piece about the struggles of caring for an elderly parent.

I really liked the brevity and snap of Marieke Blaauw, Joris Oprins, and Job Roggeveen’s A Single Life, which packs one woman, a magical vinyl record album and more mordant comic ideas into two tight minutes. Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi’s The Dam Keeper tells the tale of a young pig encumbered with an important job, and the meeting of a new classmate who changes everything. By the way, it makes its U.S. premiere at the New York International Children’s Film Festival this spring.

My pick for the win is Feast by Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed, which played as a curtain-raiser for Big Hero 6 last year.

This 6-minute look at a pet owner’s love life through the eyes of his dog and the meals they share takes you from laughs to tears and back again. Other shorts being

shown include Sweet Cocoon from France, Bill Plympton’s impressionistic nightmare Footprints, Glen Keane’s dreamy Duet and Bus Story, the tale of a neophyte school bus driver.

Live Action 2014 In Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger’s Parvaneh, a young Afghan immigrant travels to Zurich where she encounters a punk named Emily. Mat Kirkby and James Lucas’ The Phone Call boasts the most high-profile stars to appear in this year’s crop of shorts. The film follows Oscar nominee and Mike Leigh stock company player Sally Hawkins as a shy lady who works at a helpline call center. At work, she receives a phone call from a man (Oscar winner Jim Broadbent) that will change her life forever. Hawkins’ edgy performance meshes well with Broadbent’s turn.

Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney’s Boogaloo and Graham is a sweet piece of Irish malarkey in the vein of Roddy Doyle.

Two boys are presented with baby chicks by their dad, and we follow the raising of the birds as the kids bond with them; the title refers to the names of the chicks.

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant offer to photograph some Tibetan nomads in front of various backgrounds in Hu Wei and Julien Féret’s Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak. My pick for the win is a winsome, sweet and surprising meet-cute called Aya. Directed by Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis, the film begins with a woman waiting at an airport gate. A limo driver asks her to hold his sign, and when she meets the man—a prominent musician—she decides on the spur of the moment to pose as his driver. The bulk of the film is their ride to the hotel; the whole encounter feels like one of Richard Linklater’s real-time films like the Before series.

Cornell Cinema will also screen Oscar documentary nominees on Feb. 10.

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MONDAY FEB. 16 Lecture

“On Being Mortal: The Human Hand in How We Die,” a Gerontology Institute Distinguished Speaker Series talk by Holly Prigerson, director of the Center for Research on End of Life Care at Weill Cornell Medical College; 7:00 p.m., Emerson Suites, Phillips Hall.

TUESDAY FEB. 26 Art

“Alien Apostles: Hollywood, Race, and Little Green Men,” a talk by artist Katie Dorame on the Handwerker Gallery exhibit of her works fusing together imagery from the troubled legacy of American colonialism; 7:00 p.m., Handwerker Gallery, Gannett Center.

FRIDAY FEB. 27 Music

“The Gypsy in My Soul,” a performance by the renowned vocal ensemble Chanticleer celebrating the wandering spirit and the yearning for love, safety, and belonging shared by all people; free tickets available pre-show (limit two per person), 8:15 p.m., Ford Hall, Whalen Center.

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The concept of commemoration surfaces isualize this: a screen door, outside a lot in Altman’s work, but what is it that of which lies a field of trees and we’re commemorating? grass. You stare outside, admiring A grassy field won’t tell the entire the way the leaves glow in the afternoon story. It’s one piece in a history so light and how still and tranquil the world expansive—the history of everything, seems at this hour, as if nothing could of violence and human experience as fracture its beauty. Your eyes mindlessly a whole—that all we have left with are trace the little squares of mesh before glimpses of time confined to textbooks you, until abruptly stopped by a tear in and memorial sites as placeholders for the the pattern. Loose pieces of metal stick events themselves, out where a hole has and for the victims formed in the screen whose individual door and someone memories vanished stitched on another in the collectivity piece of screen to of battle. This site is keep out the flies. important; it’s where The mending is many died. But what purposeful, but it remains is an image distracts you. All you of leaves. can do is stare at its Snyder’s ragged edges. photographs, too, Screen Repair, carry this same a print by local level of complexity, photographer Laurie though perhaps Snyder, is but one not as violent as photograph worthy Altman’s in and of your attention in of themselves. In Corners Gallery’s Auschwitz by Ben Altman Sledgehammer, current joint for example, the exhibition showcasing tool’s broken handle is wrapped with projects by two Ithaca-based artists, Ben tape or cloth in an attempt to repair what Altman/Laurie Snyder: Projects in Black has snapped. Graffiti shows a wall with and White. Curated by the gallery’s owner, patchwork rectangles of paint covering Ariel Ecklund, the show includes blackwhatever defacement took place. Rather and-white work from Altman’s Seeing than dwelling on the ruined wall, however, Memorials and Snyder’s Mends, series that the new paint presents its own appeal, are separate from one another and yet introducing color (or in the photograph’s meld into a cohesive pairing. case, new shades of gray) into the mix. The While Altman’s work addresses the repair is somehow beautiful rather than dislocation between violence and memory obtrusive. in historical events such as the Holocaust, Each mend brings new life to the Snyder’s photographs deal with the desire object mended, restoring its practicality to fix and heal objects we often discard while simultaneously adding to its or replace. Subject matter spans from intrigue. Even when a photo produces Poland’s trenches to mended paintings, subtle discomfort from its details, such as from Hiroshima to blue jeans. the ragged wire of Screen Repair, Snyder’s It’s unsurprising that such a show work carries an air of optimism for each would elicit serious thought from its viewers, as each image carries its own story broken object’s recovery. Not all hope is lost. that delves much deeper than just ink on The irony of Corners Gallery’s paper. One photograph by Altman reveals Ben Altman/Laurie Snyder: Projects in a blurry leaf-strewn branch overhanging Black and White, then, is that though a grassy expanse. The location seems black and white in a literal sense, all ordinary—it could be anywhere—until photographs dwell in the gray in-between the photo’s title reveals its significance: of interpretation. Both artists achieve National Cemetery and Cemetery Hill depth in spite of the simplicity of their Battlefield, Gettysburg, PA. The events at Gettysburg undoubtedly compositions, and the thoughtfulness behind each photograph is reason enough helped bring forth the modern world as to go see them in person. • we know it today, yet there is a disconnect between then and now, between a memorial site’s historical importance and a Ben Altman/Laurie Snyder: Projects in Black and White will be on display at present-day experience of that same spot, Corners Gallery, 409 E. Upland Road, now changed by the passage of time and Community Corners, until Feb. 28. imbued with the expectation of empathy.

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album is overflowing with hits: the rapid aybe fifteen years into our career fire “Slow Descent into Alcoholism,” the we are finally beginning to take Badfinger-riffing “Mary Martin Show” and it seriously,” said Carl Newman, of course the Neko Case-sung “Letter from the founder and co-front-man of the an Occupant”.

New Pornographers. He was joking about While making a case for pop, making Brill Bruisers, his band’s masterful Newman and Bejar (Case provides her sixth record, a baker’s dozen of complex vocal chords, but doesn’t pen songs for pop songs designed to sound as satisfying as bursting packing bubbles. Tuesday, Feb. the band) also subtly argue for complex 10, the band—who sold out the State Theatre seven years ago—return to the same stage for an 8 p.m. show.

The New Pornographers’ album title nods to the Brill Building, which before the arrival of the Beatles served as the songwriting birthplace for most American Top 40 hits in the early ‘60s.

Newman captures the frenetic work ethic of the factory, The New Pornographers (Provided as described by Bob Stanley his massive arrangements. Echoing Burt Bacharach, history of pop music Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! that was published stateside last year: “Hits Brian Wilson and Ray Davies, the band offers a brand of sophisticated pop. Many came out of the Brill Building through of the songs on Brill Bruisers contain sheer hard work: writing to deadlines, many segments, and multiple harmonies. rewriting, rearranging, sweat and toil.”

And here’s Newman: “It took a lot of work, The title track begins with a six-part and I don’t think we ever practiced harder, harmony, and “Champions of Red Wine” shifts course halfway through. My favorite because there are a lot of crazy sounds on track, “Backstairs” winks at the band’s it.” popularity; Newman sings: “Before I knew And as Brill was in that bygone to choose the music of celebrity I sang era, a more perfect contemporary backups on the backstairs.” musical landscape would see the New Speaking by phone from his home in Pornographers at the top of the pops. As Woodstock, he described taking the band’s Stanley wrote: “[N]o one had yet come up with a better, more reliable way of creating canon on tour. “It is nice now that we are six albums in we can switch up a lot and classic modern pop.” make it really interesting.”

Though the band also includes Neko Bejar’s appearance in Ithaca will be Case, who will not be on tour for this date, and Dan Bejar, who will, it should be a treat for both the town and the band’s frontman. “When Dan doesn’t play with remembered that the New Pornographers are very much Newman’s band. Ostensibly us so many of my favorite songs get dropped from the set. There are songs that a collective (Three lead singers! Two Neko [Case] sings lead on, but we still do distinct songwriting approaches! A them, but … if Dan doesn’t sing a song it’s rotating roster of members!), the New not there.”

Pornographers adhere to Newman’s Newman continued: “We have been expansive pop sensibility. doing songs from Mass Romantic, and we Their debut album, Mass Romantic try to go back and play a couple of songs (2000), offered fifty minutes of pure bliss: from every record. I like those records, ecstatic joy on tape. The album’s opening and I think most people want to hear— title track was surely the best Side A, especially when a band has been around Track 1 song recorded that year; it still a long time people want to hear a trip stands as the best getaway song this side through the history of the band.” • of “Runaway.” And that only scratches the At the State Theatre on Feb. 10, 8 p.m. surface of the Pornographers’ debut. The

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Cornell basketball fans will recall n sports, when the pendulum swings that it was the convergence of another to its limit in either direction, there is unforeseen set of circumstances that a very good chance that the extreme helped the pendulum swing so far to swing is due to some convergence of the positive side a few years ago. Steve unforeseen circumstances or events. A Donahue had worked hard for years to “perfect storm,” if you will. bring in the right group of players, and When the Cornell men’s basketball team he had landed some first-rate players like walked off the floor after last season’s Ryan Wittman and Louis Dale. Imagine finale, everyone involved—players, Donahue’s surprise when a 7-footer coaches and fans—were happy to move walked in and said, “I’m Jeff Foote, I am on. The team’s nightmarish season saw leaving St. Bonaventure after one year, them win but one Ivy League game and one non-conference contest to finish 2-26. and I’d like to discuss playing for Cornell.”

Foote, of course, became a dominant big All-Ivy player Shonn Miller was injured man, and was by all accounts the missing and missed the entire year, and standout piece of the puzzle. Foote developed Galal Cancer also sat out the season. physically, mentally and emotionally, and The team was forced to rely heavily on his inspiring rise from bench warmer at inexperienced underclassmen, and the St. Bonaventure young players were to playing center often overmatched. for Cornell in the Some Sweet 16 is one of observers called the best stories in for head coach recent memory.

Bill Courtney’s • • • job, but he is back The Big and I still love his Red women are attitude. When playing some fine the Ivy coaches basketball as well, convened before and are sitting at the season and 12-6 overall and picked the Big 3-1 in the Ivy Red to finish last, League. Cornell’s Courtney said, “If Nicole Aniston is we’re the eighth the reigning Ivy best team in this Bill Courtney (Cornell Photographic Services) League Player of league, this league the Week, and must be as good as Nia Marshall has any league in the posted five double-doubles thus far on the country.” season.

Courtney’s players have refused to be • • • drawn into the pessimism as well. After Congratulations to Ithaca College splitting last weekend’s road games against sophomore Natalie Meyer, who won last Brown and Yale, the Big Red are 10-10 week’s pentathlon with a personal best overall and 2-2 in the conference. After performance of 3,094 points. Meyer upped beating Brown 57-49 Friday night, a win at 3-0 Yale would have tied the Big Red for her previous high score by 100 points, and her pentathlon total is currently eighth in the league lead. In a tough, 67-65 loss to NCAA Division III. the Bulldogs, Miller put up 15 points and • • • grabbed 11 boards, Devin Cherry scored I have watched all 49 Super Bowls, 14, and Cancer added 12 points.

Despite the fact that last year’s leading and the way the game ended on Sunday left me bewildered. When Seattle scorer, Nolan Cressler, transferred to completed that bizarre pass—that Vanderbilt, the Big Red looked poised pinballed around the receiver’s arms and to take a big step in the right direction. legs before being corralled—it appeared Harvard is loaded once again and is that the Seahawks would win another big picked to win the conference, but this game in miracle fashion, and the Patriots year’s version of the Big Red is worthy of a would lose another Super Bowl on a freak look. With a lot of pride and a fresh start, play. I was just waiting for “The Beast,” Cornell will fight to stay in contention.

Marshawn Lynch, to bull it in from the Newman Arena will come alive on Friday 1-yard line, but Seattle called a pass, it was and Saturday when Penn and Princeton intercepted and the Seahawks lost. Fairly come to town. Tip-off on Friday against Penn will be at 8 p.m., and Saturday’s game or not, Pete Carroll’s legacy will now be “the coach that lost a Super Bowl with the against Princeton tips at 6 p.m. worst play call in history.” • • • •

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On March 16 the Shuhan-Luk Trio—Elizabeth and Alex Shuhan, flute and horn, plus pianist Siu Yan Luk—with guest flutist Juliana May Pepinsky, perform works by Prokofiev, Turina, Dahl, and Doppler at Barnes Hall. Guest ensemble Sandbox Percussion presents music of Steve Reich and others in Barnes Hall on March 25 and are joined by composerartist Tonia Ko and percussionist Michael Compitello of Ko’s work Breath, Contained on March 25 in the Sibley Dome.

Cornell fortepianist Mike Lee, with guest violinist Wayne Lee (of the Formosa Quartet and no relation), play

music of Schumann and Beethoven at the Carriage House on April 6. The Louis K. Thaler Concert Violin Series offers the Weilerstein Duo—violinist Donald Weilerstein and pianist Vivian Hornick Weilerstein—playing music by Elgar, Ravel, Dvorák, and Romanian composer Enescu at Ford Hall on April 11. They will give a Master Class earlier that day. On April 12 a group of early musicians and vocalists present a program “They that sow in tears: Music and Faith in the Thirty Year’s War (1618–1648),” which features music by Schütz and Schein, plus organ improvisations and contemporaneous texts, in Anabel Taylor chapel. Cornell violinist Ariana Kim, with pianist Roger Moseley and guest Shane Shanahan, percussionist for the Silk Road Ensemble,

will perform on April 13 in the Carriage House.

Our glorious spring treat, Mayfest, Cornell’s 8th annual international chamber music festival, directed by pianists Bjerken and Yampolsky, will have six concerts this year from May 16 through 21, featuring a return of the Casals Quartet, cellist Clancy Newman, and clarinetist Chen Halevi plus violinist Yehonatan Berick, violist David Quiggle, and other outstanding visiting and local musicians. For more information, consult mayfest-cornell.org.

Choral Performances “New York Young Men Singing” provides a special free concert in Sage Chapel on Feb. 7, the highlight of a daylong workshop featuring the Cornell

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Glee Club and high school young men from throughout the region working together with guest clinician Greg Beardsell, who directs the Irish Youth Choir. The Cayuga Vocal Ensemble’s concert called “Isn’t It Romantic?” on March 8 and led by music director Carl Johengen, presents songs of love and romance, including the special Liebeslieder Waltzes by Brahms. The group’s annual exploration of poetry and American choral music, “Spring Writes–Poetry & Song,” will be on May 3. Both concerts are in the Presbyterian Church.

NYS Baroque’s grand concert of their season will be a presentation on April 17 in the Presbyterian Church of one of the world’s great choral works, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610. [We will present a preview on this performance in the April 15 issue.]

Cornell University celebrates its sesquicentennial this year, and a major concert for Charter Day weekend takes place on April 25. [We will present a feature on this concert in the April 22 issue.]

On April 28 the Cornell Chamber Singers, directed by John Rowehl, presents two works by Bach—Cantata #4, Christ lag in Totesbanden and the motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, in Barnes Hall on April 28. The two choral works for the CCO’s final concert of the season on May 2 in Ford Hall are Cantares by Sierra with the Cornell Chorus and Glee Club directed by Isaacs, and Orff ’s Carmina Burana with the Ithaca College Choir prepared by Janet Galván. The concert says farewell to Marceletti, the orchestra’s music director for the past seven years and someone who has always enjoyed working with the collegiate choruses.

Special Events and Music Plus The season provides has several dramatic presentations with music. From Feb. 19 through 28 in the Clark Theatre, IC’s School of Music and Department of Theatre Arts presents Mark Adomo’s opera Little Women (1998)—based on Louisa May Alcott’s story—and is directed

by Patrick Hansen, with the singers and IC Chamber Orchestra conducted by Brian DeMaris. Percy Browning will be the narrator in the CCO’s chamber music presentation on April 12 in the Presbyterian Church of Stravinsky’s Histoire du soldat (1918), based on a Russian tale. On April 26 at CSMA, Music’s Recreation presents “Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and Little Red Riding Hood,” with music by American composer Bruce Adolphe, and narration by Camilla Schade. And, of course, Jimmy Smits reads to music of Ernste on Charter Day at Cornell.

The final festival on August 5–9, sponsored by the Westfield Center and called Forte / Piano, celebrates pianos from every epoch of their 400-year history.

Over the five days there will be lectures, demonstrations, and, above all, concerts by some of the world’s most distinguished performers on these instruments. Mark your calendars now. •

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Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 2/04 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Home On The Grange with Lynn Wiles & Angie Beeler | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/04 Wednesday | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | The Bossa Nova duo is back.

Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 2/04 Wednesday | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www.cinst.org.

Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 9:00 PM-, 2/04 Wednesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca |

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Toivo | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM, 2/06 Friday | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Traditional accordion music of the Finger Lakes, Finland, Mexico and beyond.

The Pelotones | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM, 2/06 Friday | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Road, Ithaca | Glacial Erotics / The Ilium Works | 8:00 PM-, 2/06 Friday | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Cielle and All Sounds On | 10:00 PM-, 2/06 Friday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Original, Thoughtful, Bluesy Americana Big Upstate / Kites in Space | 10:00 PM-, 2/06 Friday | The Nines, 311 College Ave., Ithaca |

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Musical Menagerie Cancer Benefit for Beth Marsh | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/07 Saturday | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Featured entertainment includes The Hound Dogs Band, vocalist Mabel Welch, raffles, auctions and more.

Tino Navarra | 7:00 PM-, 2/07 Saturday | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Old-Time Square Dance Night | 7:30 PM-, 2/07 Saturday | Community School of Music and Arts, 330 E MLK/ State Street, Ithaca | Live music by Joe Damiano, Kalidy McMannis, Matt Noonan, Laura Taylor & Jason Zorn.

Nancy Spero calling squares Cornell Contra Dance Club | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 2/07 Saturday | Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall, Ithaca | CCDC presents an English country dance with music by Kathy Selby and friends and David Smukler calling.

The Lawn Boys: A Tribute to Phish | 9:00 PM-, 2/07 Saturday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The Cats | 9:00 PM-12:00 AM, 2/07 Saturday | Redder’s Bar & Grill, 1710 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Mosaic Foundation and Preach Freedom & Connect | 9:00 PM-, 2/07 Saturday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Roots, rock, and reggae.

Bobby Henrie Plays The Music Of Doc Watson | 9:00 PM-12:00 AM, 2/07 Saturday | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Grassanova | 10:00 PM-, 2/07 Saturday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Rockin’ Bluegrass & Country Harry Nichols Band / Luminous Beings | 10:00 PM-, 2/07 Saturday |

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Jon Kaplan | 12:00 PM-, 2/08 Sunday | Agava , 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Acoustic Indie An Evening with Pianist Ed Clute | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 2/08 Sunday | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Road, Ithaca | Mathias & the Can Kickers | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 2/08 Sunday | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Stone Cold Miracle | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 2/08 Sunday | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | Stone Cold Miracle is a soul music dance band featuring vocal sensation LaTrece Stevenson with Dustin Stuhr, Nick LaVerne, Andy Adelewitz, and Ian Cummings.

Bound for Glory: Cliff Eberhardt | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 2/08 Sunday | Bound for Glory, Cafe at Anabel Taylor Hall, Ithaca | Cliff is a really top notch writer, and a nationally traveling performer. His songs have incredible power, his playing is stupendous, and his performance will grab your attention. Come hear what Cliff has to say. He’s been on Bound for Glory a number ot times. cliffeberhardt.com Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM, 2/08 Sunday | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted

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Open Mic Night | 8:30 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Signups start at 7:30pm.

Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM-, 2/09 Monday | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats

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Brian Vollmer & Claire Byrne | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, 2/10 Tuesday | Maxies Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Ed Clute | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/10 Tuesday | Argos Inn, 408 East State Street, Ithaca | Join us every Tuesday for a lively performance from jazz piano virtuoso Ed Clute Viva Rongovia with MAQ | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/10 Tuesday | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | A quartet created by four long-time musical colleagues - Eric Aceto, Harry Aceto, Chad Lieberman and Doug Robinson. A wide-ranging repertoire of American, European and South American gems.

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 2/10 Tuesday | Corks and More, 708 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Traditional Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM, 2/10 Tuesday | Chapter House Brew Pub, 400 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM, 2/10 Tuesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted

by Professor Greg Evans Open Mic | 9:00 PM-, 2/10 Tuesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca |

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i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Argos Inn, 408 East State Street, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | live hot club jazz Home On The Grange! featuring

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Richie Stearns & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Canaan Institute, Canaan Road, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www.cinst.org.

Answer the Muse & Claire Byrne | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Reggae Night with the Ithaca Allstars | 9:00 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | concerts

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Greensky Bluegrass | 8:00 PM- | Westcott Theater, 524 Westcott St, Syracuse | w/ THE LAST BISON

2/06 Friday

Scott Helmer | 7:00 PM- | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | Support Your Cause Tour.

An exciting night of rock & country favorites, plus songs from Scott’s new album, ‘Wake Me When It’s Over.”

2/07 Saturday

New York Young Men Singing | 4:30 PM- | Sage Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | with guest clinician Greg Beardsell. Cornell University Glee Club; Robert Isaacs, director. High school-aged male singers are the subjects of an all-day choral and a cappella singing workshop at Cornell University, culminating in a 4:30 PM concert in Sage Chapel, which is free and open to the public.

The Country Jamboree | 7:00 PM- | Samuel Clemens Performing Arts Center, , Elmira | If you’ve ever wanted to take a trip back in time and spend a magical evening revisiting the glory days of country music, The Country Jamboree will take you there.

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Aztec Two-Step | 7:30 PM- | 6 On The Square, 6 Lafayette Park, Oxford | folk-rock duo Guest violinist Martin Davids | 8:00 PM- | Chapel, Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | w/ David Yearsley, organ. Features music from 17th-century Hamburg, with works by Johann Schop and Heinrich Scheidemann

2/08 Sunday

Sunday Music Series: Kohlton Pascal & The Suspiciously Frisky | 4:00 PM- | Auburn Public Theatre, 8 Exchange St., Auburn | Kohlton and his crew will play a mix of traditional and new-age music. You will enjoy both originals and covers as Kohlton wows you with his dexterity on the guitar and seduces you with his sultry, bluesy voice.

2/10 Tuesday

The New Pornographers | 8:00 PM- | State Theatre Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Acclaimed indie supergroup including A.C. Newman, Dan Bejar, and Neko Case, known for their pristine harmonies and ambitious takes on classic pop.

2/11 Wednesday

State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico | 7:30 PM- | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | Under the direction of Enrique Batiz, one of the most famous orchestra conductors in Latin America. The orchestra was founded over 40 years ago at the initiative of Maestro Batiz and the State Government of Mexico to promote music as a means of union and identification among Mexicans.

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Film cinemapolis The start date for the following schedule is Friday, Februrary 06. Movie descriptions via rottentomatoes.com Birdman | BIRDMAN or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. | 119 mins R | Fri: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Sat-Sun: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Mon - Wed: 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Thu: 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30.

Foxcatcher | The story of Olympic Gold Medal-winning wrestler Mark Schultz (Tatum), who sees a way out from the shadow of his more celebrated wrestling brother Dave (Ruffalo) and a life of poverty when he is summoned by eccentric multi-millionaire John du Pont (Carell) to move onto his estate and train for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. | 130 mins R | Fri-Thu: 9:30.

The Imitation Game | During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of ‘gross indecency’, an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. | 114 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Sat: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Sun: 1:45, 6:45, 9:45; Mon - Wed: 4:15, 6:45, 9:15; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15.

Microcosmos | Special screening, part of Museum of the Earth’s Darwin Days 2015.

Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou’s groundbreaking view into the insect life in meadows and ponds. The film uses close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography to explore the lives of bees, ladybugs, snails, spiders, beetles, and more. | 80 mins G | Sun: 3:00.

A Most Violent Year | In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city’s history. | 125 mins R | Fri: 4:20, 7:00, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30; Mon - Wed: 4:20, 7:00, 9:30; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30.

Two Days, One Night | Sandra, a young Belgian mother, discovers that her workmates have opted for a significant

pay bonus, in exchange for her dismissal.

She has only one weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job. | 95 mins PG-13 | Fri : 4:40, 7:10, 9:20; Sat & Sun: 2:35, 4:40, 7:10, 9:20; Mon - Wed: 4:40, 7:10, 9:20; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:35, 4:40, 7:10, 9:20.

Wild | With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail, alone. | 115 mins R | Fri: 4:25, 6:50; Sat-Sun: 2:00, 4:25, 6:50; Mon - Wed: 4:25, 6:50; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:00, 4:25, 6:50. cornell cinema L’Argent | Robert Bresson’s final film is one of his most powerful, a hair-raising sermon preached in detail shots, elliptical edits, and offscreen sounds. Based on a short story by Tolstoy, it details the consequences of the passing of a counterfeit 500-franc note, which sets in motion a chain reaction that destroys the life of an innocent truck-driver and leads to a mysterious and terrifying climax. | Wed 2/4 7:00 PM. Birdman | Birdman is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. | Fri 2/6: 7:00 PM; Sat 2/7: 9:20 PM; Sun 2/8: 7:00 PM. The Boxtrolls | Based on the children’s book Here Be Monsters, The Boxtrolls tells the tale of orphaned boy Eggs, who has spent his life underground raised by quirky, trash-collecting creatures called Boxtrolls. From the studio behind Coraline and ParaNorman. | Sat 2/7: 2:00 PM Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation! | Five nominees plus four additional films. | Thu 2/5: 9:45 PM; Sat: 2/7: 7:00 PM; Sun 2/08: 4:30 PM. Oscar Nominated Shorts: Documentary! | Five nominees. | Tue 2/10: 7:00 PM. Oscar Nominated Shorts: Live Action! | Five nominees. | Fri 2/6: 7:00 PM; Sun 2/8: 1: 45 PM. Sympathy for the Devil | Originally called One Plus One, Jean-Luc Godard conceived the film “literally as one plus one: a theme of construction (the Rolling Stones rehearsing “Sympathy for the

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Devil”), and one of destruction (the suicide of a white revolutionary when her boyfriend deserts to Black Power). Endless production problems and disgruntlement on Godard’s part turned it into a random collage which the viewer is supposed to ‘edit’ himself. | Wed 2/11: 7:00 PM .

The Young Girls of Rochefort | Jacques Demy followed up The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection.

Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher, long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. | Thu 2/5: 7:00 PM.

Stage In the Next Room, or the vibrator play | 2:00 PM-, 2/04 Wednesday; 7:30 PM, 2/05 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 2/06 Friday ; 3:00 PM-, 8:00 PM-, 2/07 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 2/08 Sunday; 7:30 PM-, 2/10 Tuesday; 7:30 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse | Fresh and funny new play about love, sex and marriage in the 19th century. It’s the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new instrument for treating “hysteria.” The device? A vibrator. In this genuinely touching, original, and wickedly funny play, Sarah Ruhl (The Clean House) explores relationships and sexual fulfillment while managing to stay discreetly beneath the crisp white sheets of Victorian propriety.

Cornell Concert Series presents Nrityagram Dance Ensemble | 8:00 PM-, 2/04 Wednesday | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Nrityagram: Songs of Love & Devotion; Nrityagram blends Odissi, a classical Indian dance, with contemporary concepts to transport viewers to enchanted worlds. In Songs of Love and Longing, two dancers explore the Gita Govinda, a romantic ballad about the immortal love of Radha and Krishna.

It is a song of love and longing that reflects the Vaishnava belief that all humankind is feminine energy (Radha) constantly seeking union with the one male godhead (Krishna). They appear with their live music ensemble.

Stella, Queen of the Snow | 10:00 AM-, 2/05 Thursday | Samuel Clemens Performing Arts Center See Clemens Center, Elmira | A Clemens Center Mary Tripp Marks School-Time Series production performed by Kids’

Entertainment/Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia.

The Lightning Thief | 12:30 PM-, 2/06 Friday | Samuel Clemens Performing Arts Center See Clemens Center, , Elmira | A Clemens Center Mary Tripp Marks School-Time Series production performed by Theatreworks/USA The Italian Girl In Algiers | 8:00 PM-, 2/06 Friday; 3:00 PM-, 2/08 Sunday | Forum Theatre, 236 Washington St, Binghamton | by Giaochino Rossini.

Presented by Tri-Cities Opera.

New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players | 7:30 PM-, 2/07 Saturday | Smith Opera House For The Performing Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | This show celebrates the timelessness of Gilbert & Sullivan and its legacy in modern musical theatre. For G&S and Broadway aficionados the piece is one delight after another, featuring favorites from Rodgers & Hammerstein, Bernstein, Sondheim, Lerner & Loewe, Meredith Willson, and Jerry Herman.

Jennie’s Will | 8:00 PM-, 2/07 Saturday; 3:00 PM-, 2/08 Sunday | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | A musical history in two acts. Written and performed by Cornellians, the show will be preceded by a short chimes concert. The event is sponsored by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, with the support of the Department of Music, as part of the university’s sesquicentennial celebration.

Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs.

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | all day, Wednesdays | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year.

The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The MentorStudent Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life. An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behindthe-scenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student. mentor@yahoo.com.

Meetings Ithaca Common Council | 6:00 PM-, 2/04 Wednesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public is heard during privilege of the floor.

Newfield Town Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 2/04 Wednesday | Newfield Town Hall, 166 Main St, Newfield | Tompkins County Legislature | 5:30 PM-, 2/05 Thursday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome.

Newfield School Board | 6:30 PM-, 2/05 Thursday | Newfield Central School District, 247 Main St, Newfield | Meetings in the Weaver Conference Room in the elementary school.

Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca | Ithaca Town Board | 5:30 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Trumansburg Central School Board of Education | 6:00 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Trumansburg High School - Rm. 313, Main Street, Trumansburg | Groton Board of Education Meeting | 6:30 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Groton Central Schools, 400 Peru Rd, Groton | Covert Town Board | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/09 Monday | Covert Town Hall, , Interlaken | Trumansburg Village Board | 7:00 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Trumansburg Village Hall, 56 E Main St, Trumansburg Lansing Board of Education Meeting | 7:00 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Lansing Central School District, 284 Ridge Rd, Lansing | Lansing Village Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Village Of Lansing, 2405 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Dryden Board of Education Meeting | 7:15 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Dryden Central School District, 43 E Main St, Dryden | Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission | 5:30 PM-, 2/10 Tuesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public Hearings to consider two local landmark designations for 421 N. Albany St. and the Titus-Wood Historic District. To be held in Common Council Chambers.

DARWIN DAYS 2015: Evolution in your backyard

Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee St., February 4 —15

Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Rd., Februrary 6 – 14

It’s the 1880s and electricity is all the rage. In a quiet home office, a doctor experiments with a new instrument for treating “hysteria.” The device? A vibrator. By Sarah Ruhl.

See calendar listing for show times by date.

& Presentation | 7:30 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road. To contact,(800) 843-2473, or cornellbirds@cornell.edu

A variety of events for the annual celebraton of Charles Darwin. This year’s festivities emphasize aspects of evolution right close to home.

Includes a 3p.m. Sunday screening at Cinemapolis of the wonderful movie on bugs, Microcosmos.

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Rehearsals for Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers | 2/04 Wednesday | St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N. Aurora St, Ithaca | The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers, directed by Gerald Wolfe, will begin rehearsing Brahms’ Requiem on Wednesday January 28th 2015 at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Ithaca. No Auditions.

Registration will take place at 6:15 p.m. prior to the first three rehearsals.

These will run weekly from 7-9 p.m. until the concert on April 25th. For more information or to register on-line visit: http://www.ithacacommunitychoruses.org. The chorus is supported by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, the Strebel Fund for Community Enrichment of the Community Foundation, and the PPG Industry Foundation.

Gloria Ann Barnell Peter Playwright Competition | 2/04 Wednesday | Morgan Opera House, Main, Aurora | Playwrights are invited to submit original scripts to the sixth Gloria Ann Barnell Peter Playwright Competition. Criteria include: the play must be an original work, previously unpublished. It must dramatize an historical event or an historical fiction. Submissions due by 3/2 Refer to www.morganoperahouse.org for clarifications. Direct inquiries to Ann Mathieson (annscott2268@gmail.com) or 315-364-7325.

IPEI Annual Adult Spelling Bee | Wednesdays | Ithaca High School Gymnasium, 1401 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held in the Ithaca High School Wellness Center Gym. Spellers and Sponsors Needed for March 1. Registration Open! http://ipei. peaksmaker.com/ Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 2/04 Wednesday | Coltivare, South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | RSVP m.friess@ yahoo.com; 6:00 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | The BoatYard Grill, 525 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | RSVP 818-961-6464 or mavashgaldjie@yahoo.com.

Community Theater Group | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM Wednesdays | TBD | Community Theater Group is now forming for a Spring 2015 production of the acclaimed “Spoon River Anthology”

by Edgar Lee Masters. Rehearse short, interrelated monologues in which dead citizens speak about their past lives. Free and open to all adults.

No experience necessary; most are beginners. Just show up, or email Dennis Dore at ddore@zoom-dsl. com for more info.

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Tioga County Legislature | 6:00 PM-, 2/10 Tuesday | County Of Tioga, 56 Main St, Owego | Candor Town Board | 7:00 PM-, 2/10 Tuesday | Candor Town Hall, 101 Owego Rd, Candor | Ulysses Town Council | 7:00 PM-, 2/10 Tuesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm St., Trumansburg | Ithaca City School District Board of Education | 7:00 PM-, 2/10 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | Spencer Town Board | 7:00 PM-, 2/10 Tuesday | Spencer Town Hall, 81 E Tioga St, Spencer | Groton Town Board | 7:30 PM-, 2/10 Tuesday | Town Of Groton, 101 Conger Blvd Ste 1, Groton | Public is welcome. townofgrotonny.org Ithaca City Planning and Development Board | 6:00 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Ovid Town Board | 7:00 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | Town Of Ovid, Main Street, Ovid | South Seneca School Board | 7:30 PM-, 2/11 Wednesday | South Seneca High School, , Ovid | Held at the Interlaken campus

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Art Classes for Adults | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca.org.

Winter Writing Through The Rough Spots | See website for location and meeting dates | www.

WritingRoomWorkshops.com Awaken Your Heart and Mind with Buddhist Meditation | 6:30 PM-, 2/04 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Pegasys TV Studios Orientation and Course Sign-Ups | 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, 2/05 Thursday | Pegasys Studios, 612 W. Green St., Ithaca | Training, studio and field equipment access, and a cable channel open to the public for free expression. Courses include Basic Studio Video Production, basic portable production, and Adobe Premiere editing.

Windows 8.1 | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/05 Thursday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid

| This 3-part class will move beyond the basics and allow job seekers to add Windows 8.1 to resumes as a marketable skill. Space limited, registration required. Laptops provided.

Sponsored by the FLLS Outreach Mini-Grant.

Valentine Workshop with Kathy Friedrich | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 2/05 Thursday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Corner of Congress and McLallen Streets, Trumansburg | Designed to accommodate adult-child (ages 10-13*) pairs as well as individuals 14 and up. All materials included.

Learn to Play Bridge or Practice Play | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 2/06 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, Clinton Street Plaza, Ithaca | Coaches are available to teach bridge to beginners or to give advice to more advanced players. No partner needed. No signups required.

Walk-ins welcome. This is the same group that used to meet at Lifelong.

Location: 609 W Clinton St. (park on east side (furthest from Route 13) of the shopping plaza, close to Ohm Electronics. Enter through door to the right of Ohm’s storefront. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall.

Take Your Child to the Library Day | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 2/07 Saturday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | Families are encouraged to visit the library this day to enjoy crafts and activities. Children can build with Legos and wooden blocks to create their perfect library.

Beginners Jewelry-Making with Tara Finlay | 12:30 PM-4:30 PM, 2/07 Saturday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen Street, Trumansburg | ages 14 & up.

Some materials provided; others available for purchase.

My House is in a Local Historic District in Ithaca--What Does that Mean? | 1:00 PM-, 2/07 Saturday | Historic Ithaca, 212 Center St., Ithaca | The event is part of Historic Ithaca’s ongoing Preservation Basics series of programs and workshops. It is free, with donations welcome. For more information call Christine O’Malley, Preservation Services Coordinator, 607-273-6633, or email Christine@ historicithaca.org.

Beginners Jewelry-Making with Tara Finlay | 12:30 PM-4:30 PM, 2/08 Sunday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen Street, Trumansburg | ages 14 & up.

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Wayfinding for Mission-Driven People | 1:00 PM-2:50 PM, 2/08 Sunday | Anabel Taylor Hall - Room 314, Cornell University, Ithaca | Are you searching for meaning & mission in your life? Join a Freeskool class to discuss Martha Beck’s Finding Your Way in a Wild New World to explore how we’re all connected to each other and the universe, how we can each find our callings — and how we can team up to heal the world. Please read the introduction before the first meeting on 2/8. RSVP to adrienne.masler@ gmail.com.

Sketching in the Greenhouse | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 2/08 Sunday | Cornell Plantations Plant Production Facility, 397 Forest Home Drive, Ithaca | During each class, participants will focus on drawing one or two plants. All ability levels, and children ages 12 and older, are welcome. Please bring a good quality sketchbook, erasers, and a few favorite pencils. Pre-registration is required.

International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 2/08 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5 donation suggested.

Watercolor painting | 10:00 AM-, 2/09 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Intermediate Spanish | 1:00 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Knit & Chat | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 2/09 Monday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, 7169 North Main Street, Ovid.

Beginning Spanish | 2:00 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library , 74 East Main St, Trumansburg | Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 2/10 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | A new discussion group for anyone interested in learning about and following the teachings of Jesus but who don’t necessarily believe he was the messiah. Open to adults of all ages, orientations, and religions (or lack thereof). Not affiliated with any church or religious institution. For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca.

Multi-Media Art for Youngsters | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Congress at McLallen Street, Trumansburg | Registration details and more info is at the TCFA web site. Call

17th ANNUAL GREAT DOWNtOWN ITHACA CHILI COOK-OFF Saturday, February 7, 11:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Chili prepared by some 30 restaurants, plus other chili-related food items and a farmers market with vendors and local wineries, breweries, and farmers offering samples of their goods. On the Commons and surrounding streets.

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Remedy Staffing: Job Help | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | Seneca County Workforce Development is here to help job seekers. Registration encouraged.

Sweet Success: Understanding the Pros and Cons of Sugar | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 2/11 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | In this class, licensed acupuncturist and herbalist Amanda Lewis will discuss the beneficial properties of the sweet flavor according to Traditional Chinese Medicine. This class is free and open to the public and will be held at the Classrooms@ GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo Street.

Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Special Events The Great Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-off | 11:30 AM-4:00 PM, 2/07 Saturday | The Commons, East State Street, Ithaca | The 17th Annual Great Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-off will feature chili prepared by approximately 30 restaurants as they compete for the titles of Best Meat/Overall Chili, Best Vegetarian, and People’s Choice Chili.

In addition to Chili, there are other Chili related food items. The Chili Cook-off will feature a farmers market with vendors and local wineries, breweries, and farmers showcasing their goods.

All activities will take place on the Commons and surrounding streets.

The Finger Lakes Comedy Festival | 6:00 PM-11:00 PM, 2/05, Thursday - 2/07 Saturday | Downtown Ithaca, Center ithaca, Ithaca | The Finger Lakes Comedy Festival is a 3-day comedy festival that consist of comedy showcases, open mics, and a comedy competition. All shows are scheduled to take place at various local business including Lot 10, Big Times Barbershop, Chanticleer, and Kilpatricks. The competition will consist of 20 comics who will compete for the title of Finger Lakes Comedy Festival. Prizes include a cash prize, the FLCF trophy, a professional photo shoot, and a future paid gig. The comedy showcases will consist of comics from all over the country, who will bring the laughter every night. The open mics will be free and open to all. To be held at various local business in Downtown Ithaca,

including Lot 10, Big Times Barbershop, Kilpatricks, Chanticleer

Nature & Science Darwin Days 2015--Evolution in Your Backyard | 5:00 PM-, 2/06 Friday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Multiple events and locations. Call 607-273-6623 or visit www.priweb.org for schedule & details.

Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 2/07 Saturday; 9:00 AM-, 2/08 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Binoculars are available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@ gmail.com for more information.

Beginning Beekeeping Workshop | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, 2/07 Saturday | Cayuga Nature Center, 1420 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Learn about honey bees and the joys of beekeeping, and network with beekeepers of all experience levels. Our speakers each have decades of personal experience with bees and beekeeping, and all enjoy sharing their love of the hobby. Preregistration ends on January 31, 2015. www.cayuganaturecenter.com Cayuga Trails Club: Connecticut Hill | 12:00 PM-, 2/07 Saturday | EMS Parking Lot, Ithaca | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-mile rugged snowshoe/hike on Connecticut Hill.

Meet at 12:00 pm, Ithaca EMS parking lot, 722 S. Meadow St. For more information, call 607-280-5074 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org Mineral ID Day | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 2/08 Sunday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Have you or your kids found a funny rock?

Curious about a crystal? Bring them to the Museum of the Earth as The Finger Lakes Mineral Club will be on hand with special equipment and experts to identify rocks and minerals for Museum visitors.

Cayuga Bird Club: Conjunctivitis in House Sparrows | 7:30 PM-, 2/09 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | This month’s speaker will be Dr. Andre Dhondt. Meetings are free and open to the public and anyone interested in birds is invited to attend.

For information, call 257-9459, email fishoak@gmail.com or refer to the bird club’s website: http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/

Books Rosaly Bass | 6:00 PM-, AD2/05 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, DeWitt Bldg, East Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Author and organic farmer Rosaly Bass discusses her new book “Organic! A Gardener’s Handbook.”

Laura Winter Falk Lecture and Book Signing Event | 5:30 PM-7:15 PM, AD2/06 Friday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Author Laura Winter Falk will explore the culinary history of the Finger Lakes region from the Haudenosaunee’s Three Sisters to today’s vineyards, farmers’ markets and farm to table restaurants.

Mark Coleman | 2:00 PM-, AD2/07 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, DeWitt Bldg, East Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Author Mark Coleman discusses his latest book “Time To Trust: Mobilizing Humanity for a Sustainable Future.”

The Modern Land-Grant University | 4:00 PM-, AD2/10 Tuesday | Mann Library Room 160, Cornell University, Ithaca | Book talk and Sesquicentennial Lecture by Robert Sternberg.

Arts opening Exhibit Opening: Botanical Cyanotypes | 02:00 PM-04:00 PM, 02/07 Saturday | Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Plantations, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | Laurie Snyder, former photography faculty, Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, will be exhibiting botanical cyanotypes (also called blueprints).

Most of the images were made in Ithaca with plant material collected near her home and from Cornell Plantations.

Johnson Museum of Art: Opening Reception for Spring Exhibits | 05:00 PM-08:00 PM, 02/05 Thursday | Johnson Museum Of Art, N Central Ave, Ithaca | Four new exhibits, refreshments, cash bar, and more.

Beginning tonight, the Museum will be open Thursdays until 8:00 p.m.through April, with special evening events and all the galleries open.

Opening: Impromptu Happening | 05:30 PM-06:30 PM, 02/05 Thursday | Tjaden Hall - Experimental Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca | Opening reception for Artist Emily Ryan, “Impromptu Happening: Perspectives in the Wistful Landscape”. Experimental Studio, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Celebrate love with ANSWER THE MUSE & CLAIRE BYRNE Wednesday, February 11 – 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Carriage House Cafe, 305 Stewart Ave Answer the Muse is gonna get ready for a season of love...all kindsa love! Driftwood’s own Claire Byrne will also be therestepping out solo with her music. Doors open at 7pm.

This collection is open to the public Monday (2/2) through Friday (2/6) from 8:00am to 4:30pm.

Opening: Trophies | 05:00 PM-08:00 PM, 02/06 Friday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Jeff Scuz’s exhibit, ’Trophies’, will open during Ithaca’s 1st Friday Gallery Night. Up through Feb 28.

Opening at Waffle Frolic | 05:00 PM-08:00 PM, 02/06 Friday | Waffle Frolic, 146 E State St, Ithaca | Opening reception for new exhibit by Christopher Loomis. Show runs Jan 1-Feb 28.

Opening at Silky Jones | 05:00 PM-08:00 PM, 02/06 Friday | Silky Jones, 214 The Commons, Ithaca | Kevin Cruz opens new exhibit at Silky Jones. The show runs through Feb. 28th.

Opening: Time | Manner | Place | 05:00 PM-08:00 PM, 02/06 Friday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Photography

by Craig Mains. Mains’ photos evoke found messages and associations in common places and daily life situations – intended, unintended, and misread, which typically go unnoticed. Curated

by Preston Buchtel for a show in Cleveland, and updated for CSMA by the artist. Ambient music during opening reception written & recorded by Billy Cote.

State of the Art Gallery Opening | 05:00 PM-08:00 PM, 02/06 Friday | State Of The Art Gallery, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Opening reception for group show. In the main gallery, State of the Art members will hold their first group show of 2015. On exhibit will be paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, collage, sculpture, mixed media and more. In the Salon, Ileen Kaplan presents “Painting Light,” an exhibition of her paintings.

Dual Opening at Ink Shop: Dirty Pictures / Something About Mary | 05:00 PM-08:00 PM, 02/06 Friday | The Ink Shop Gallery (2nd floor), 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca | Dirty Pictures: This portfolio was created in order to invite contemporary 21st century artists to make work that relates both directly and indirectly toprintmaking’s history of erotica, sensual images and downright dirty pictures. Parental discretion is advised. Also, Something About Mary Print Portfolio is a tribute to Mary Manusos, a beloved Ohio University teacher who won the 2014 Outstanding Printmaker Award this year.

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have a degree in photography [from the Cleveland Institute of Art], and as far as exhibits go I show primarily in printmaking [centered on] disasters or mishaps, but I have always tried to keep my camera with me, and I have a backlog of digital images.”

Coté and Mains met at Olin Library at Cornell, where they both work. “We came up in a particular type of art scene — he in Cleveland, and me in New York City — where there are a lot of collaborations among disciplines in a non-academic way,” Coté said last week during a wide-ranging conversation about Mains.

“The music I have made is generally very dark. But when I look at Craig’s work, it has a sense of humor, and playfulness. That forces me not go to my safe place, and stay away from minor chords, and create music that was curious about its subject but not overly happy.” The result is an evolving ambient piece that loops vocals, synthesizers, and other sounds that will broadcast during the opening.

Coté continued, “I think our approach to art is similar. If I hear someone say something interesting it will wind up in my work. That is how I go through my day scavenging or collecting these things.”

The images in “Time | Manner | Place”

Coté’s Collaboration

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The composer and multi-instrumentalist Billy Coté is best known for his jagged guitar, first with Madder Rose — an early ‘90s rock act based in New York City — and more recently in collaborations with local musicians, where he has provided transfixing textures and squalls of noise.

But those who haven’t spent much time in clubs probably haven’t heard Coté, which is a minor tragedy. Friday, Feb. 6, another audience will have a chance to be exposed to his work, in a collaboration with the visual artist Craig Mains that the Community School of Music and Art will mount for First Friday’s Gallery Night. The opening runs from 5 to 8 p.m.

The show, “Time | Manner | Place,” also finds a visual artist venturing beyond the work for which local audiences likely associate. Craig Mains, the director of the Ink Shop, and Coté’s collaborator, is himself most likely familiar to gallerygoing audiences as a printmaker, though he has a long history with photography. “I

Friday | Community Arts Partnership, Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Ithaca based artist Jessica Warner is exhibiting recent paintings, oil on canvas and oil on wood.

Opening: Ecovillage Life by Jim Bosjolie | 05:00 PM-07:30 PM, 02/06 Friday | Elevator Music and Art Gallery at New Roots Charter School, 116 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | other Craft Night at Handwork Co-op | 05:00 PM-08:00 PM, 02/06 Friday | Handwork, 102 W. State/MLK Jr. St., Ithaca | Make-your-own woven heart workshop with basket weaver and artist member Susan Reed. Hot Cocoa and snacks will be provided while you craft. www.handwork.coop An artists’ talk featuring Martine Barnaby, Lori Ellis, Paul Parks, Jaroslava Prihodova and Vaughn Randall | 05:00 PM-, 02/10 Tuesday | Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Fine Arts Center, Room 106, corner of Graham Avenue and Prospect Terrace, Cortland | An artists’ talk featuring Jeremiah

Donovan, Charles Heasley, Kevin Mayer, Jenn McNamara and Bryan Valentine Thomas | 05:00 PM-, 02/04 Wednesday | Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Fine Arts Center, Room 106, corner of Graham Avenue and Prospect Terrace, Cortland | Artist Talk: Art is Hard by Laurie Snyder | 06:00 PM-, 02/05 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Gannett Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Cortland First Fridays | 05:00 PM-08:00 PM, 02/06 Friday | Multiple Locations, Downtown Cortland, Cortland | First Fridays celebrate the art and culture of the local community on the first Friday of each month.

Coverlets: Uncovering a Part of History | 12:30 PM-03:00 PM, 2/05, Thursday | History Center, 401 E State St, Ithaca | Watch and talk with experienced textile experts Nancy Ostman and Kathy Carman as they document coverlets in The History Center’s collection.

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Craig Mains and Billy Coté (Image provided) center on lovely juxtapositions, and are titled in ways that are both clever but magnanimous. Three conical topiaries collude with an actual orange cone in “For Everything a Place;” construction objects are tethered together, animals join in the observation. Both Mains’ pet and Preston Buchtel, the curator of the Cleveland show, make cameos. In “Shipwreck,” Preston appears facing away from the viewer, a sweat-shirted explorer examining driftwood that has been washed ashore,

Cornell Plantations | Nevins Welcome Center, 1 Plantations Road, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, TuesdaySaturday | Plant Portraits Through the Season, digital prints by Margaret Corbitt, ongoing | Ögwe ö:weh Consciousness as Peace, in collaboration with Cornell’s American Indian Program, ongoing | Botanical Blue Prints by Laurie Snyder, up through February | Victus Acernis, by Jack Elliot and Cornell Students | Gourds Galore!, vessels, utensils and more made from gourds | www.cornellplantations.org Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM , to 8:00pm Thursday | “This is no less curious”: Journeys through the Collection, up through 04/12 | Margaret Bourke-White: From Cornell Student to Visionary Photojournalist, up through 06/07 | Staged, Performed, Manipulated, work by Gregory Crewdson, Carrie Mae Weems, Renée Cox, Katy Grannan, Justine Kurland, Nikki S. Lee, Meghan Boody, Anneè Olofsson, Yasumasa Morimura, James Casebere, David Levinthal, Kate O’Donovan Cook, Anthony Goicolea, and Barbara

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by Leo Villareal, ongoing | www. museum.cornell.edu The History Center | 401 E. State St, Ithaca | Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Captains, Commerce, and Community: The Impact of the Erie Canal on Tompkins County, up now | www.historicithaca. org or www.thehistorycenter.net.

Museum of the Earth at PRI | 1259 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | Monday, Thursday-Saturday 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sunday 11:00 AM-5:00 PM | Ongoing: The Animals of the Nature Center, Glacier Exhibit, Right Whale #2030, Rock of Ages/Sands of Time, Coral Reef Aquaria, A Journey Through Time, Discovery Labs, Hype Park Mastodon www.museumoftheearth.org Rockwell Museum of Western Art | 111 Cedar St, Corning | 9:00 AM-5:00 PM | On Fire: The Nancy and Alan Cameros Collection of Southwestern

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Ulysses Historical Society | 39 South Street, Trumansburg | Friday-Saturday 2:00 PM-4:00 PM; Monday 9:00 AM-11:00 AM | Civil War shawls, 1909 Brush car, Hoffmire Farm exhibit, Abner Treman exhibit, Ag exhibit, all ongoing Ward W. O’Hara Agricultural & Country Living Museum | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM; Wednesdays 11:00 AM-8:30 PM | 6880 East Lake Road Rt. 38A, Auburn | Central New York and Atlantic Seaboard Paintings, by Tom Hussey, ongoing.

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Coté has a history of scoring film soundtracks, but hopes to continue collaborating with other artists this year. “I am 50, and though I still like playing out in bars, I have done that for so long, it is hard to carry around gear,” he joked, adding that he expected to release new Madder Rose material, as well as other work.

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