May 3, 2023

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Ellis Hollow Residents Outraged Over Years-long Bed Bug Infestation

By Matt Dougherty

The Ellis Hollow Senior Living apartment complex on the outskirts of the city regards itself as a “Home for Possibilities” but senior residents living there say the only possibilities being o ered are unsafe living conditions. e apartments o er a ordable low income housing for senior citizens who say their concerns have not been adequately addressed by the property’s owners, Conifer Realty.

Residents at the apartment complex have voiced concerns about unsafe living conditions caused by bed bug infestations that have plagued the building since 2014.

When questioned about the ongoing bed bug infestation, property manager Virginia Goines said that there was no bed bug infestation and that Orkin Pest Control has come on several occasions to spray

the building with pesticides. Goines said that Orkin records could prove that there is no infestation, but never shared those records with the Ithaca Times.

e Director of communications for Conifer Reality, Kate Gri n responded to requests to comment on the situation saying that the rental o ce at Ellis Hollow was noti ed about the bed bug issue four weeks ago and “immediately contacted Orkin to treat the a ected units.”

Gri n said that she believes Orkin’s treatment has taken care of the situation, but that all 104 units at Ellis Hollow would be proactively inspected on May 8 and 9 “out of an abundance of caution.”

Gri n continued saying, “If bedbugs are discovered in any unit, we will provide the resident with information to prepare the apartment for treatment. In case the resident is not physically able to prepare the apartment, we will work with an outside agency for assistance and treat the apartment as soon as possible.”

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Enfield Drop Spot Opens May 6th

Tompkins County Recycling and Materials Management (TCRMM) is excited to announce the opening of a new food scraps recycling drop spot location at the En eld Town Clerk’s o ce at 168 En eld Main Road in En eld.

The drop spot will be open from 9:00 to 11:00 AM every Saturday morning starting May 6th. This timing coincides with the Saturday hours of operation for the En eld Food Distribution Center, just down the street.

“Food scraps make up approximately onethird of the waste stream and can be easily

recycled into a nutrient rich soil amendment through the process of composting” said Waste Reduction and Recycling Coordinator Jeremy Betterley. “We’re grateful to the Town of En eld for working with us to expand the program.”

Food scraps collected at drop spots are transferred to Cayuga Compost in Trumansburg for processing. The program helps residents save money on trash disposal costs, improves soil health, and combats climate change all while supporting a local business.

However, according to Ellis Hollow resident and Tenant Advocate Lisa Hoyte, “Orkin pesticides may not be working because pesticide resistance may be happening since residents are buying store bought pesticides to use as Conifer delayed any approach to treat.” According to Hoyte, management has been aware of the bed bug issue for much longer than four weeks. Additionally, she says that Orkin has been charging $1,000 every time they come to spay an apartment, and some apartments are being sprayed numerous times.

Despite Conifer’s recent statement saying they would work with an outside agency to help seniors prepare their units for treatment, Hoyte explained that building management has placed the burden of preparing apartments for extermination on the elderly residents of the building, instead of assisting them.

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Ithaca High School and incumbent School Board members. (Photo Credit: Josh Baldo)

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There is no cost to participate, and TCRMM provides free toolkits that include a kitchen caddy bin, informational brochures, and compostable liners. It is recommended that residents use a lidded bucket or purchase a transport container from the Recycling and Materials Management o ce to facilitate dropping o more than a gallon of food scraps.

Want to know more? TCRMM sta will be on hand during the rst day of the drop spot to explain the program and give out toolkits. Refer to RecycleTompkins.org/DropSpots for additional information.

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Ellis Hollow resident with beg bug bites covering his right arm. (Photo: Lisa Hoyte)

Tenant Advocate and Ellis Hollow resident Lisa Hoyte says that the apartment complex meant for low-income seniors has suffered repeated beg bug infestations going back to 2014. (Photo: Matt Dougherty)

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Investigation Into Overtime Fraud Allegations At Ithaca Police Department Finds No Evidence Of Wrongdoing

By Matt Dougherty

New York State Police have concluded an investigation into allegations that o cers at the Ithaca Police Department (IPD) have been engaging in overtime fraud as far back as 2014 nding no evidence of wrongdoing. e investigation spanned several months and was initiated a er an anonymous tip was emailed to members of the Ithaca City Common Council Cynthia Brock and Ducson Nguyen on December 10, 2022.

Given the serious nature of the allegations, Brock and Nguyen conducted an initial investigation and gathered information to bring to Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten.

According to Brock and Nguyen, “We recognized the seriousness of the allegations, and that it was our obligation and responsibility as elected o cials to bring it forward to the appropriate bodies with the authority to investigate it.”

Van Houten directed the case to the New York State Attorney General’s o ce to look into the allegations. However, the Attorney General’s o ce declined to take the case. Van Houten then sent the case to New York State Police for further investigation.

District Attorney Van Houten has said that “ e Attorney General’s O ce did not explain their rationale for deferring the investigation to the State Police.” He continued saying that the State Police investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing by any member of IPD and he expects to have a nal written report of the ndings coming sometime this week.

In response to the investigation nding no evidence of wrongdoing, Brock and Nguyen said that if they “had done nothing, we would be open to public accusations of intentionally ignoring reports of alleged fraud in the IPD.” ey continued saying that they “stand rmly with preserving the Ithaca Police Department and are committed to rebuilding trust and condence in our o cers and our institutions.”

While the state police investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing, the anonymous source has said that “Initially the State Police didn’t want to do this so I don’t know how thoroughly they’re going through it.”

e anonymous source alleged that o cers at IPD have been engaging in overtime fraud going back to 2014-2015, and that the practice was started by former Chief of Police Pete Tyler.

e source said that Tyler taught Acting Chief John Joly to engage in the practice and they suspected that Joly stopped the practice of fudging his overtime numbers when he was appointed to the position of acting chief. Additionally, the source said that for the past year Joly had come into work just one to three days a week and worked for an hour or two hours before leaving while still getting a full salary of $165,357.

As of April 21st, Joly has cleared his belongings out of his o ce at the department, indicating that he may be eyeing an early exit prior to his retirement.

e source has said that Joly has retained a lawyer to le a notice of intent to sue the City of Ithaca on the grounds of defamation for calling him a racist while revoking the Mayor’s appointment of him to the permanent Chief of Police position. Attorney A.J. Bosman from the Bosman Law Firm in Rome, New York has told the Ithaca Times that a FOIL request would have to be led with the City of Ithaca in order to get more details regarding Joly’s notice of intent to sue the city. e Times has submitted a FOIL request to the City and is awaiting a response.

Current IPD Lieutenant Jacob Young and Sergeant David Amaro were also ac-

cused of engaging in overtime fraud but have since been cleared of any wrongdoing by the state police investigation.

According to the sources now debunked claims, Jacob Young was supposed to make a salary of around $92,000 a year but according to public records on the website See roughNY.net he was paid a he y salary of $300,715 in 2022. at’s 365 percent higher than the average salary in the City of Ithaca, which is $65,886 and 399 higher than the city’s median salary, which is $60,322.

Sergeant Amaro’s salary for 2022 was supposed to be around $90,000 but he was paid $162,113. e source said that Amaro took time o from IPD on “stress leave” upon learning of the investigation into overtime fraud.

e source suspects that more o cers at the department are participating in overtime fraud, but that others within the department who know what’s going on are hesitant to speak up.

According to the source, “ ey come in on days o and say they’re doing training…if they get in at one in the a ernoon they leave at three, but they put in that they were there at eight and le at ve. ey all get overtime and they don’t do anything.”

e source also said that o cers engaging in overtime fraud are working what are essentially side jobs for the Depart-

“The doctrine of discovery.”

– Judy H.

“The holocaust.”

– Alejandro S.

“Belgian invasion of the Congo.”

– Sara S.

“The cold war.”

– Allegra C.

“The Nanjiing massacre.”

– Jonah B.

President of the Ithaca PBA Tom Condzella Former Acting Chief John Joly

County Ethics Investigation into Reimagining Public Safety Finds Violations by City of Ithaca and Former Mayor Myrick

By Matt Dougherty

The City of Ithaca’s reimagining public safety process that was initiated by former Mayor Svante Myrick following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police has been mired in controversy regarding alleged con icts of interests by those involved in the process since its inception. Now, more than two years a er the process began the Tompkins County Ethics Advisory Board (TCEAB) has released a report in response to the allegations of wrongdoing.

e County began its investigation following an ethics complaint by Common Council member Cynthia Brock on May 4, 2022 which requested an investigation into potential con icts of interest and misappropriation of municipal funds by the former Mayor — who began working for the liberal think-tank People for the American Way (PFAW) in 2017 while he was still operating in his position with the City.

Myrick eventually resigned from his mayoral position in February 2022 a er accepting a promotion to serve as Executive Director of PFAW, but his relationship with the think-tank — which lobbied in favor of the reimagining plan in March 2022 — has caused some to question if the process has been in uenced by outside sources.

e County Ethics Advisory Board found some of those concerns to have merit. e report calls out the City of Ithaca for failing to respond to county inquiries into the reimagining process. As a result, the board said they were forced to reach their ndings “based upon information obtained from other sources” which led them to make “several adverse inferences” against the city. According to the report, “an adverse inference permits a nder of fact to conclude that information was not produced because it would be unfavorable to the person or entity from which it was requested.”

e report found violations by both the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County for retaining the Center for Policing Equity without the required review, and several violations by former Mayor Myrick. e report found that Myrick violated the city’s “con ict of interest policy in receiving direct and indirect bene ts from an organi-

UPS DOWNS& Ups

The Ithaca VEX IQ Robotics team made up of students from the DeWitt and Boynton Middle Schools and the Lehman Alternative School quali ed to attend the world championship that was held from April 29 to May 3 in Dallas, Texas.

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The Upstate Free Tick Testing Program has been temporarily suspended due to lack of funds. The free tick testing program was made possible by generous funds from Upstate Medical University, Upstate Foundation, NY State grants, and public donations. However, with the increasing costs of reagents, labor, and not to mention the increasing number of ticks submitted to the lab, their existing funding model is not sustainable.

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zation with interests in City government.” In addition, it found an “appearance of a violation by Myrick for “using the position of Mayor for purposes of career advancement with a third party.”

e report found no violations by reimagining public safety working group members or leadership, and no violations by the Park Foundation, Center for Transformative Action or the Dorothy Cotton Institute.

In response to the county report, Myrick released a statement saying, “It’s important to remember that the city already conducted an entirely independent review of the RPS project, with an outside law rm, and found no ethics violations. Unfortunately, the Tompkins County Ethics Advisory Board’s process was not as independent and free from con ict of interest as the city’s was. e belated decision by the county board chair to acknowledge his con icts of interest and abstain from a nal vote on the ndings is a serious concern, given his role in driving the investigation. Moreover, the board admits in its report that many of its ndings cannot be corroborated with evidence and are ‘inferences’ the board has made. We believe the weaknesses in the county’s process and ndings are so severe that its report can’t be taken as a serious refutation of the city’s earlier ndings, which cleared the Mayor’s o ce of any allegations of wrongdoing.”

Current Mayor Laura Lewis and City Attorney Ari Lavine responded to the county report in a joint statement saying, “…the City commissioned an independent investigation that was exhaustively conducted by outside counsel Kristen Smith…[the] report found no ethics violations and shed light on welcome opportunities for improving City

policy and procedures.” ey continued saying that the County investigation “exceeded the lawful advisory scope permitted by New York law” which “rendered various City witnesses unable to participate in the interviews with the County.”

While the investigation by Ms. Smith, referenced by Myrick, Lewis and Lavine found no ethics violations, the report did reveal issues related to transparency in city government which prompted Mayor Lewis to outline legislation that she will bring before the Common Council in the coming year in an e ort to improve the “procedural guardrails of local government.”

Former Mayor Myrick and City o cials began to cast doubt on the County investigation a er it was revealed by Ms. Smiths investigation that Brock and County Legislator Rich John “had gone back and forth” discussing the ethics complaint “prior to it being submitted to the TCEAB.” In a letter to the Ethics Advisory Board on December 3, 2022, the City Attorney said, “Mr John is attempting to serve as judge and jury over an ethics complaint that he helped to create.” ose who question the county investigation have said that John should have removed himself from the board earlier for the investigation to be trusted.

Brock, John and the County Ethics Advisory Board legal counsel have said that there was nothing wrong with the actions that prompted the investigation, and that there was no need to call o the investigation or for John to step down. Regardless, John decided to abstain from the vote to approve the county report before it passed by a margin of 4-0.

Virginia State Police have charged Tatiana David’s abductor, Michael Davis, with kidnapping as well as attempted capital murder of a law enforcement o cer, eluding police and possession of a rearm by a convicted felon after he was released from a hospital in Virginia.

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The Ithaca Farmers Market East Hill satellite market will be open to the public on Wednesday’s from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. starting on May 3. This market is located on Pine Tree Road, in the eld next to Walgreens.

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Are you satisfied with how the City is living up to the goals of the Ithaca Green New Deal?

11.4% Yes.

34.3% No.

54.3% I have no idea what the goals of the Green New Deal are.

Is the Ithaca City School District doing enough to address staffing shortages in the District?

Visit ithaca.com to submit your response.

Former Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick Common Council member Cynthia Brock

With Zoning, We Know the Rules in Advance

By Dan Klein, Tompkins County Legislator

Ispoke at the April 5 Caroline Town Board meeting about zoning. Here is what I have to say about zoning, and what I tried to convey at that meeting.

I have recent experience with the Town of New eld, and a proposal to expand a facility there for homeless people. e proposal was going to be funded by Tompkins County through a committee that I am the chair of. So I had a front row seat to the whole process. Even though the Town of New eld rejected the proposal, I spoke in favor of it and voted in favor of it at every single step of the process. So the remarks in the April 19 guest opinion saying that I think we should not make accommodations for homeless people is just ignoring every single fact that shows otherwise.

I brought up this issue at the Caroline Town Board meeting because New eld, like Caroline, does not have zoning. I have heard people in New eld say what I have also heard people in Caroline say: you can’t tell people what they can do with their land.

When the proposal to expand the homeless facility in New eld came up,

suddenly a number of people who felt this way changed their minds about how they felt about zoning. It seems they don’t want anyone to tell them what they can do with their own land, but they are ok telling other people what they can and can’t do. at is not fair, and zoning is the way to make it fair.

For many of us, our homes and property are the single biggest investment we will make in our lifetimes. Like any investment, you should think about how to protect that investment. I chose to live in a town with zoning because I wanted to know what is possible and not possible on my land and on my neighbor’s land. ere are all kinds of things that could a ect my quality of life and the value of my property. You may or may not want something next to your house that would impact your investment: a marijuana dispensary, a bar, a gravel mining pit, a commercial dog kennel, a homeless facility, etc. I don’t care if you are for or against any of these things, but I want to know whether these things are possible or not in my neighborhood before I make the biggest investment of my life by buying a house. at is why I am in favor of zoning. With zoning, everyone knows the rules in advance, and that’s what makes it fair.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

A Question for President Biden

Why are we sending nuclear submarines to South Korea for the rst time in 40 years? You say it is because of “our commitment to extend a deterrence – and that includes the nuclear threat, the nuclear deterrent.” I thought our commitment was to democracy and peace, not to provocative nuclear threats. Consider what our nation’s response would be to China sending a nuclear submarine to Hawaii or Puerto Rico. Would that encourage us to negotiate or to escalate? I expect my government to work for life-enhancing health care, education, housing, clean environment, and diplomacy, not to threaten the planet with nuclear annihilation.

Ruth Yarrow

Flooding

When reading about ood insurance I am wondering why we don’t x the problem instead of forcing people to buy insurance.

e creek that runs along where the old PnC used to be is full. When I was a kid you could sh and swim in that creek. When I look at the creek now it is maybe a few inches deep. Why don’t we get the community to go in and dig out all the rocks and sediment that has built up. If we clean out the creeks in town we might not have any ooding at all. I have a creek in my yard and every year I have to go in and shovel out the rocks that have built up from the past year. e city needs to make this a priority and get backhoes in the creeks and dig out the rocks which could be used to ll in some place else.

e creeks should be deep enough to handle the rain, that is why we built up the walls.

Jason Peter

Buffalo Street Books Participating in Independent Bookstore Day

Bu alo Street Books is happy to announce our participation in the 10th Anniversary of Independent Bookstore Day!

is year, on April 29, Bu alo Street Books will be selling exclusive IBD merch and holding a giveaway for special prizes throughout the day. We’ll be hosting a

self-publishing workshop led by Cassandra Medcalf from 1:00 P.M. to 2:00 P.M. Be sure to stop by on IBD for the chance to nd the Golden Ticket, hidden somewhere in our store to win 12 free audiobook credits on Libro.fm!

“ ere are so many reasons to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day and indie bookstores like ours! We o er our communities so much, such as the opportunity to be in spaces full of diverse books to browse and gatherings to discuss books and the issues of the day. Plus, indie bookstores are proven anchors of downtowns all over the country, helping anchor local economies.” – Lisa Swayze, General Manager, Bu alo Street books.

Independent Bookstore Day (IBD) was established in 2013 to promote, celebrate, and highlight the value of the independent bookstore community. e day has been observed on the last Saturday of April every year since 2013. is year there are over 900 stores participating across the country.

Independent Bookstore Day is organized by the American Booksellers Association, a national not-for-pro t trade organization, that works with booksellers and industry partners to ensure the success and pro tability of independently owned book retailers, and to assist in expanding the community of the book.

Lisa Swayze

Response to Anna Kelles OP-ED on Public Transportation

Anna Kelles: “Our state is home to more millionaires and billionaires than most other states in the country, and they are paying a fraction in taxes compared to most middle and lower income residents.”

e facts: “ e state collected $67.2 billion in income taxes in 2021. Of that, the 200 wealthiest taxpayers accounted for 9.5% of the total, according to the tax department. e top 50% of earners accounted for virtually all of it — or 99.3%.” (Jon Campbell, writing for e Gothamist: “New York saw a 21% spike in millionaires in 2021, even as some ed”)

Omitted by Anna Kelles: In 2019 TCAT began investigating new sites for their bus garage. e second option was to renovate the then vacant Vanguard printing facility for $27 million. Instead TCAT moved forward with plans to build a brand new facility near the Tompkins County airport for a then estimated $52 million. Perhaps foreshadowing things to come, the TCAT press release at that time stated “the caveat from planning experts

A History of Women’s Advertisements

By Carol Kammen

As early as 1861, advertisements began appearing in the Ithaca Journal directed speci cally at women. ey were placed among other ads for remedies, such an Hunnewell’s Universal Cough Remedy promising to cure all throat and lung complaints, or for G.W. Merchant’s Gargling Oil, for Horses but was also “a universal remedy for diseases of the human esh.” e list of things that Merchant’s could cure is long and includes wounds, sprains, bruises, animal bites, rheumatism, and muscular strains. e list concludes with the words “caution to purchasers.” ese are not unlike television ads today.

e advertisements directed at women go under various names. “ e Great French Remedy,” created by Madam Boivin in the form of silver coated female pills, or Golden Pills for Females, available at local pharmacies. So advertised George W. Schuyler at 38 Owego Street, a store that would now be located on the Ithaca Commons.

that had unexpectedly stopped. One could buy them at the pharmacy or by sending $1 to the Ithaca Post O ce and “the pills would be sent con dentially and free from observation.”

Women were cautioned not to be fooled by counterfeits, making sure that the brand was endorsed by S. D. Howe, a doctor with o ces on West 36th Street in New York City. One would not, cautioned the advertisement want to purchase anything but genuine pills, nor would one want to be “humbugged out of your money.”

e ingredients, assured the ad, were known by druggists and “they will tell you they are safe, and will perform all claimed for them.” e pills were also available in “every city and town in the United States.”

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Opportunity Knocks

By Charley Githler

The City of Ithaca, Downtown Ithaca Alliance, Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Tompkins Chamber of Commerce are all welcoming four brand new businesses to the City of Ithaca, each scheduled to open their doors on May 1.

bleats. Parke said the idea came to him during a long brainstorming session at the Chanticleer on St. Patrick’s Day. “I know it sounds really, really stupid, like so stupid, but we think people are going to love it,” said Parke. e Masonic Temple building has sat as an empty, monolithic presence on a busy intersection for years. “We chose the space because it gives us an opportunity to expand when this thing takes o .”

ese pills were for all “uterine obstructions, monthly di culties, irregularities and all other diseases to which women, wife and mother is peculiarly liable.” ey were, in e ect pills that claimed to bring on menstruation when

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

(and they have), it’s because of corruption and ineptitude in our government, not because of a lack of taxation.

Jason Evans

Responding to Governor Hochul’s Proposal to Shift Medicaid Costs to Counties

Women have had to deal with unplanned pregnancies since the beginning of time. While the golden and silver pills of the 1860s might or might not have been e ective, today women can determine our own lives. at right, established rst in New York State, by Ithacan Constance E. Cook in 1970, assured women legal and medically safe assistance when needed. It is challenged today by people who want to legislate their religious values for all of us, rather than allowing women to determine the trajectories of our own lives. show these costs could increase substantially.” Does that type of decision making really match the picture Anna Kelles paints of a system unable to raise funds for public transportation?

Anna Kelles is right, those on tight budgets are hurting right now, but she should look in the mirror for the causes. Our state and federal governments spend and mismanage incomprehensible amounts of money. at mismanagement has in part become a major driver of in ation, impacting the poor and middle classes most acutely. According to the New York State Open Budget tool, State of New York spending has increased more than 27% since 2020. Can Anna Kelles say the same for poor- and middle-class incomes? None of the facts match the picture Anna Kelles paints. If the needs of the working poor and middle classes have been looked over as Anna Kelles claims

New York is already at the top for total tax burden and at or near the top for local property taxes. Which level, state, county, or local levies the taxes a ects only which form of tax we will pay, income, property, or other taxes. What matters is the total burden. If the state shi s more costs to counties, property taxes will rise because as our county legislators are politicians they will never really consider cutting spending at the county level to avoid further tax increases. ese can only drive more people, particularly people with high incomes who pay most of the taxes and businesses out of the state, taking wealth and jobs with them. NY is in a self in icted death spiral.

Henry Kramer

Noah’s Ark, a family-owned ood-preparedness retail store is ready for its grand opening next week. e business will be in premises on the Commons in the space previously occupied by the F. Oliver’s store. “We are thrilled to open our rst retail location in the heart of a city built on a former wetland,” said owner Noah S. Sherlock. A source for ood-related products such as sump pumps, pontoon boats, hip waders, giant sponges, and mops, the new addition to downtown hopes to be a destination for disaster preppers throughout the Finger lakes and Southern Tier. e ood theme is re ected in the store’s décor, as the walls are papered with enlarged new 2023 FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Maps for Tompkins County. “Climate change has been a godsend to the industry, and we want to ride that wave. Pun intended,” said Sherlock.

Another enterprise set to open downtown on May 1 is Schmitter, Inc., an ambitious online social media, microblogging, and social networking service. e company’s logo, the blue silhouette of a lamb, has graced the front of its new space at the Masonic Temple building at the Corner of North Cayuga and East Seneca Streets since renovations began in late March. “We identi ed a real yearning for an online platform for users to receive news, follow celebrities or stay in touch with old friends,” said co-founder Stuart Parke. “ ere’s nothing good like that out there.” Schmitter users will be able to post or reply to texts, images, and videos, known as “bleats”. Registered users can bleat, like, “rebleat” bleats, and Direct Message other registered users, while unregistered users will have only the ability to view public

Another new retail presence on the Commons is Grandma’s Mattress, a store providing materials for “alternative wealth repositories”. According to Cora Cornstarch, described as a ‘colorful octogenarian’ by Downtown Ithaca Alliance director Gary Ferguson, recent economic developments have created a demand among a growing number of people who want to get ‘back to basics’. “Land sakes,” Cornstarch said. “ e f***ing banks are failing, the stock market is a s**t show, and don’t even get me started on ’craptocurrencies’. I’ve always kept my assets in cash at home, and my own family called me a dumbass. Now, I guess other folks are catching on.” e store displays co ee cans, cookie jars, hollowed-out books, shovels, and the store’s namesake mattresses, and will be accepting payment only with cash or barter.

Peace of Mind Detailing, a specialty car modi cation business, is opening on the southwest corner of West Bu alo and North Fulton Streets. With its slogan “lest you blunder into the wrong driveway”, owner Simon D. Witt feels he has identi ed a new and burgeoning market for greater automotive safety. e shop o ers the installation of armor plating, bullet-proof glass, Kevlar tires, and other alterations to most models of domestic and foreign cars. “It’s not as expensive as people think,” said Witt, “and can you really put a price on safety when you get mixed up on an address?”

For more information on these and other downtown businesses, visit downtownithaca.com.

Public to Vote on ICSD Budget and School Board Elections on May 16

By Matt Dougherty

May is set up to be an important month for the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) as residents will be asked to vote on a 2023-24 budget as well as elections for the board of education.

A hearing on the budget will be held at 5:30 p.m. in York Hall at the Ithaca High School on May 9. School board elections as well as a vote on the budget will be held on May 16. Polls will be open on May 16 from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. Members of the public may join the May 9 budget hearing in person or remotely, via Zoom using the following link: us02web. zoom.us/j/89346405055

During their meeting on April 18, the ICSD Board of Education adopted a 20232024 budget of $158,588,080. at’s a 6.47% increase over the current year’s budget even though the tax levy is only increasing by 3.97%.

If voters defeat the school district budget on May 16, a district has three options: resubmit the same proposal or submit revised budget proposal that will be put up for another vote on June 20. Voters can also choose to adopt a contingency budget.

If residents vote down the budget a second time, the district will be forced to adopt a contingency budget. A contingency budget would have to levy the same amount of taxes as in the current year which would result in the district’s contingency budget being $3,960,852 less than the proposed 2023-24 budget.

BUDGET PROPOSITIONS ON THE BALLOT

Proposition one that has been proposed for the 2023-2024 Budget will allow voters to choose weather or not the Board of Education of the Ithaca City School District should be authorized to “expend an amount not to exceed $158,588,080 to meet the District’s estimated expenditures during the 2023-2024 school year, and to levy the necessary tax therefore?”

Budget Proposition two relates to appropriation and expenditure of Capital Reserve

Funds. It asks voters to decide whether or not the Board of Education of the Ithaca City School District should be authorized to appropriate funds from the District’s “2022 Capital Reserve Fund” in the maximum amount of $2,750,000 and to spend these combined funds for the following purposes:

1) Installation of a new electrical panel to power up to four bus chargers

2) Purchase of up to ve electric buses, utilizing rebates to defer costs of said buses.

3) Purchase of up to three ultra low emission propane buses

4) Purchase of up to six passenger vehicles for the purpose of transporting students and supporting student programming, including but not limited to Drivers Education, and supporting district departments, including but not limited to the Facilities Department?

e installation of new electrical panels for bus chargers would involve a new panel to be fed from existing electrical service in the building, using previously installed underground conduits from Phase 1 of the District’s 2019 capital project. It also calls for the installation of new chargers, electrical panels, communications to the building data rack, and so ware to support management of chargers.

SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER ELECTION

Four members will be elected to the ICSD Board of Education as a result of the expiration of the terms of Dr. Sean Eversley Bradwell, Christopher Malcolm, and Dr. Patricia Wasyliw and the June 2022 resignation of Nicole LaFave. Bradwell, Malcom, and Wasyliw are all running for re-election. e incumbents will face challenges from new candidates Joe Lonsky, Katie Apker, Garrick Blalock, and Adam Krantwwiss.

Dr. Bradwell has served on the Ithaca Board of Education since 2009 and as chair of the Board Policy Committee since 2010. rough his professional, research, and personal involvement in education, as well as his work with community organizations, Bradwell has indicated that he is “committed to working toward more meaningful learning and teaching.” Bradwell has said that sta ng shortages in the district “mirror regional, statewide and national shortages,” and that the board is working to “create more ways to inspire and incentivize working in the school district.”

Malcom was rst elected to the Board of Education in 2011 on a platform of helping to move the ICSD toward a time of inclusion, transparency, and excellence that

will support every child to learn and perform at a high level. He currently serves on the ICSD Audit, Finance, and Human Resources committees and is the Board of Education Liaison to Northeast Elementary School and Ithaca Public Education Initiative (IPEI).

Dr. Wasyliw has also served on the Board of Education since 2011. She serves on the Curriculum and Policy committees. She is the BoE Liaison to South Hill Elementary School and Ithaca High School.

Joe Lonsky, who is running for the Board of Education for the rst time, released a statement to the Ithaca Times saying that he is running “for the sole purpose of controlling spending.” According to Lonsky, voters have been intimidated into voting yes on increasingly high budgets over threats of “cuts to the kid’s favorite subjects.” He says that taxes are too high and he wishes to “reconnect the Board of Education with the community.”

Another rst time candidate, Garrick Blalock, is the husband of an Ithaca high school teacher and Associate Professor of Applied Economics and Policy at Cornell University. Blalock has said that if he is elected his “priority will be the hiring, development, and retention of teachers.” He says

Dr. Bradwell (left), Christopher Malcom (center) and Dr. Patricia Wasyliw (right) are running for re-election against Joe Lonsky, Katie Apker, Garrick Blalock and Adam Krantweiss (Photo: Ithaca City School District)

that recent progress with hiring bus drivers is promising, but that the district needs to take similar e orts for other positions. In addition to addressing sta ng shortages, Blalock says that another priority is to increase the district’s tax base. According to Blalock, “ e District must partner with higher education and area businesses such that District policies aid in building the tax base. Investments such as a wide o ering of advanced placement classes can contribute to the District’s economic vitality.”

Parent of two students in the District, Adam Krantweiss has also decided to run for the rst time to ensure that “all students have the best possible educational experience.” If elected, Krantweiss says that he wants to enact policies that would help current teachers feel “valued and supported.” He hopes that collaborating with board members and the community to nd “innovative solutions to increase employee retention,” in addition to increasing transparency about problems and solutions will help to address sta ng shortages that have taken a toll on the district.

Katie Apker has also said that transparency is something she would help the School Board improve on if she is elected. Apker believes her experience as an organizational leader, and diversity, equity and inclusion scholar will help the district reach its full potential. She has said that sta ng shortages have had a severe impact on both students and teachers and that the “number of teachers who are not returning to our classrooms next year speaks to the necessity of increasing the Board’s attention to this matter.”

e three candidates receiving the highest number of votes will each be elected to an at-large full three-year term from July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026. e fourthhighest vote-getter will assume the seat va-

cated by Nicole LaFave, expiring on June 30, 2024.

Individuals seeking to run for the ICSD Board of Education were required to le a nominating petition with the District Clerk by Wednesday, April 26, in order for their names to be placed on the ballot. In addition, a separate petition was required to nominate each candidate. Each petition had to be signed by at least 100 quali ed voters of the district and needed to state the name and residence of the candidate and each signer.

VOTING RULES AND REGULATIONS

To vote in the 2023 Budget Vote and School Board Election, you must be a registered voter and a citizen of the United States who is 18 years of age or older. As well as a resident within the district for 30 days immediately preceding May 16, 2023 — and not otherwise prohibited from voting under Election Law.

e voter registration deadline was May

2. If a quali ed voter has previously registered with the district or with the County

Board of Elections and has voted within the last four calendar years, they are eligible to vote in the May 16 District Meeting and Election without re-registering.

All others who wish to vote at the Annual District Meeting and Election must either pre-register with the district or be registered with the Tompkins County Elections Board to vote in general elections.

Quali ed voters of the district may download an absentee ballot application here or pick one up at the District O ce. Completed applications for the budget vote must be received by the District Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on May 9, if the absentee ballot is to be mailed to the voter. If a completed application is received a er 5:00 p.m. on May 9, 2023, the absentee ballot will not be mailed, but instead must be delivered personally to the voter.

Absentee ballots for the school board elections that do not reach the o ce of the District Clerk by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, will not be canvassed.

WHERE TO VOTE

On April 11, the Tompkins County Board of Elections noti ed the ICSD that the City of Ithaca had been redistricted. As a result of the redistricting, many voters’ ward and district numbers have been changed. In some cases, these changes also impact where voters vote in school district elections.

If you vote at the Lehman Alternative Community School, Tompkins County Highway Department, or the Linderman Creek Apartments in general elections, your voting location for ICSD elections is the Lehman Alternative Community School at 111 Chestnut Street.

If you vote at Titus Towers, Southside Community Center, GIAC or the Ithaca Town Hall in general elections, your voting location for ICSD elections is the Beverly J. Martin School at 309 West Bu alo Street.

If you vote at the Belle Sherman Annex, Alice Cook House, Beth-El Grove Com-

munity Center or Ellis Hollow Apartments in the general election, your voting location for ICSD elections is the Belle Berman Annex at 75 Cornell Street.

If you vote at the Caroline Center Church, Brooktondale Fire Hall or the Varna Community Center in the general election, your voting location for ICSD elections is the Caroline School at 2439 Slaterville Road.

If you vote at the First Congregational Church of Ithaca, Ithaca Reform Temple or Lansing Village Hall in the general election, your voting location for ICSD elections is at the Cayuga Heights School at 110 East Upland Road.

If you vote at the Danby Fire Station or New eld Fire Station in the general election, your voting location for ICSD elections is at the Danby Fire Hall on 1780 Danby Road.

If you vote at the En eld Community Center in general elections, your voting location for ICSD elections is the En eld School on 20 En eld Main Road.

If you vote at the Baptist Tabernacle Church or Alice Cook House in the general election, your voting location for ICSD elections is the Fall Creek School at 202 King Street.

If you vote at the Museum of the Earth or Franziska Racker Centers in the general election, your voting location for ICSD elections is the Franziska Racker Centers on 3226 Wilkins Road.

If you vote at TST BOCES or the Etna Fire Station in the general election, your voting location for ICSD elections is at the Northeast School on 425 Winthrop Drive.

If you vote at the South Hill School or College Circle Apartments in the general election, your voting location for ICSD elections is at the South Hill School on 520 Hudson Street.

If you vote at the Varna Community Center in general elections, your voting location for the ICSD election will remain the same.

If approved by voters on May 16, the Ithaca City School District’s budget will increase by 6.47% over last years budget while increasing the local property tax levy by 3.97%.

The vast majority of the budget (70.67%) will be allocated towards funding salaries and benefits for district staff.

‘Beige Fat’ Could Hold Key To Age-Related Metabolism Change

By Sharon Tregaskis Division of Nutritional Sciences

New research suggests a strategy to ward o age-related weight gain, which could prevent obesity and associated health disorders like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and chronic in ammation.

By stimulating the production of a certain type of fat cells, the e ects of a slowing metabolism could be reversed, according to a new study by researchers in Cornell’s Division of Nutritional Sciences, which is housed in the College of Human Ecology and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Mammals, including humans, have two main types

of fat: white adipose tissue (WAT), which stores energy from excess calorie intake, and brown adipose tissue (BAT), which burns calories to produce heat to maintain body temperature.

e study, published March 31 in Nature Communications, shows therapeutic promise in a third type of fat, a subtype of WAT: beige fat. Beige fat has the same cellular precursors as white fat and the same thermogenic properties as brown fat, which means it helps to reduce blood sugar and the fatty acids that cause hardening of the arteries and heart disease.

When a person experiences sustained exposure to cold temperatures, stem cells known as adipose progenitor cells form thermogenic beige fat cells within white fat. As people age,

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the response to that stimulus weakens, tipping the balance toward white fat production.

“ ere are seasonal changes in beige fat in young humans,” said Dan Berry, assistant professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences, “but an older person would have to stand outside in the snow in their underwear to get those same effects.”

In earlier work, Berry observed that the aging process impairs the formation of beige fat cells in response to cold temperatures. Identify the biochemistry behind the slowdown, he said, and the same process could be reversed to achieve therapeutic outcomes.

“ is is the ultimate goal,” said Abigail Benvie, lead author of the new study and a doctoral student researcher in Berry’s lab. “Without having to subject people to cold exposure for prolonged periods of time, are there metabolic pathways we can stimulate that could produce the same e ect?”

In the paper, they reveal the role of a speci c signaling pathway that suppresses beige fat formation in older mice by antagonizing the immune system. By suppressing that pathway in aging mice, the scientists were able to prompt beige fat

production in aged animals that otherwise would not.

e study was co-authored by master’s student Derek Lee, Benjamin M. Steiner, Ph.D. ’22, and doctoral student Siwen Xue, along with Yuwei Jiang from the University of Illinois at Chicago. e research was funded through a $2.2 million, ve-year grant from the National Institutes of Health. e grant also will enable Berry’s lab to delve deeper into the role of the pathway it has identi ed, as well as other molecular regulators of beige fat formation and elucidate how their levels and activity change during the aging process.

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blood pressure checked regularly. is can be done at most pharmacies. ere are important considerations for older adults in deciding whether to start treatment for high blood pressure, including other health conditions and overall fitness. Your doctor will work with you to find a blood pressure target that is best for your well-being and may suggest exercise, dietary changes, and medications. Call the marketing team at (607) 266-5300 to schedule a tour to see our facilities and learn more about lifecare at Kendal at Ithaca. Find us on the web at http:// kai.kendal.org/

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Sharon Tregaskis is a freelance writer for the Division of Nutritional Sciences.

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Everybody Wins

Cornell Outdoor Education Program Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary

By Steve Lawrence

It was standing room only at the Robison Hall of Fame Room at Cornell University on Saturday. e large room was packed with about 200 people, many of whom have had a major impact on the university. Coaches past and present, boosters, national championship players, Super Bowl alumni, athletic directors… all were there for the plaque dedication ceremony in honor of the late Richie Moran. I stood next to David Moriah, who told me, “I feel like a sh out of water here.” I asked why. David looked at the dozens of photos adorning the walls and replied, “Well, all these programs play to win, to take down an opponent. Our program is di erent. It's the antithesis of the win/lose orientation. On a successful day of climbing, we help one another. Everybody summits. Everybody wins.”

Moriah and I sat down the next day to talk about an upcoming event that will mean a great deal to him and to many others. From July 6–9, a few hundred people will return to Ithaca for Cornell Outdoor Education program's 50th Anniversary Celebration. Some will stay in dorms, some will stay with friends, some will rent hotels and many will camp out at the Homan Challenge Course, which houses the famed Moriah Hall (an upscale outhouse named for David Moriah, the revered founder of the program).

I asked David — my friend of 42 years — how it all began, and he said, “In the fall of '72, I was a senior at Cornell, and the physical education program o ered a pre-orientation experience — an opportunity to bond with other incoming freshmen in the woods. It was the rst such program in the country.”

Moriah had recently completed an Outward Bound program — a 28-day sailing

adventure o the coast of Maine — and he told me, “In the middle of that trip, I had an epiphany. is was what I was supposed to do with the rest of my life.” In his words, “With the arrogance of a 22-year-old, I approached George Patte, the director of physical education. Patte agree to pay the upstart to design outdoor education programs in the P.E. lineup, and David recalled, “It became my full-time job for the next 12 years, before I passed the torch to the highly capable hands of Dan Tillemans.” Tillemans, Moriah said, “Was a guy

with a NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) background and a big vision. at vision included world-class outdoor education facilities. He connected with generous donors, took them on trips and sold them on what a world-class outdoor education program would mean to the university, and as a result, the program built the Lindseth Climbing Center and the Ho man Challenge Course, a high/ low ropes course near Mount Pleasant.”

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David Moriah then and now. In between he helpedlead 50 years of The Cornell Outdoor Education program which provided students with an outlet to explore the outdoors and build leadership experience.

INVESTIGATION INTO OVERTIME FRAUD

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ment of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) doing “active shooter training” which they get paid for by New York State. However, they’ll bill the Ithaca Police Department for overtime on top of the pay from DCJS.

e source continued saying that “then they go do their instruction down in Kingston or Ulster and take time o from IPD, but they say they’re doing training for IPD. If it was a day o they get paid, plus the day o back, and then they get paid from DCJS, so they’re actually getting triple pay.”

According to the source, the Ithaca Police Department routinely pays out more than half a million dollars in overtime every year. “In one year it was $940,000,” the source said.

One factor that drives up overtime costs are low sta ng levels at the department which requires o cers to work mandatory overtime. President of the Ithaca

ELLIS HOLLOW RESIDENTS OUTRAGED

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Hoyte has said that elderly residents with “health issues and frailty have been expected to move furniture, pack up belongings, heat treat their clothes by washing in hot water, placing in bags and wiping down the walls,” which seniors struggle to do as a result of health and body limitations.

She continued saying that the situation is having a negative impact on residents’ mental health and the “health risks are plenty for the elderly” because skin infections caused by bed bug bites “can cause great harm.”

A report by the Connelly law rm said that seniors usually don’t react to bed bug bites as a result of medications that suppress their body’s response to allergens. However, the report continued saying that an elderly woman in Pennsylvania died in 2016 a er contracting sepsis from untreated wounds caused by bed bug bites.

According to Hoyte, “elderly residents here are not o ered hotel stays and the Best Western is right in our backyard! Nor does [Conifer] compensate for property loss at no fault of our own, nor do they o er help to seniors who are physically unable to get

Police Benevolent Association Tom Condzella has said, “Our patrol division should be sta ed with 45 o cers. We’re currently sta ed with 24. So it’s really created a lot of mandated overtime for the o cers.”

In response to the allegations that have since been proven to be unfounded, Lieutenant Jacob Young said that “the other involved o cers and I provided the NY State Police Investigator with hundreds of documents showing every hour of our time and…there was not one hour that was unaccounted for and not one hour where we were paid by two entities at once.”

Young said the anonymous source “provided no speci c dates or jobs worked” and that “only two of the three o cers that were alleged to have committed this violation actually had outside employment from IPD.” He continued saying that “neither of the two of us that worked on any outside training employment ever got paid by two entities at the same time.”

Young has said that these allegations were a “libelous attempt in order to try and put pressure on Acting Chief Joly to

apts ready for extermination causing willful delays and putting responsibility on us.”

“Residents are not compensated for any of their losses because management says they’re not responsible for personal property. Well, we’re not responsible for the bed bugs,” Hoyte said.

Teressa Silvers at Finger Lakes Independent Center has led a Fair Housing Complaint to the CNY o ce on behalf of residents at Ellis Hollow due to “discrimination, retaliation and bullying tactics from property management” against tenants who are trying to address important housing issues.

“We could potentially have a class action case regarding personal injury and property loss due to 9 year bed bug infestation that goes unabated and properly addressed by the property manager,” said one Ellis Hollow resident.

leave and smear our reputations in the meantime.” He also said that over $90,000 of his salary listed on See roughNY.net was “retro-active pay from 2014-2021 that was a result of the City of Ithaca settling with the PBA.”

According to Young, “In the Police eld we will look into anonymous complaints, but without something pointing to criminal activity or some detailed information from the source we cannot pursue them any further. is is the opposite of how we were treated here - political pressure was used to run a wild goose chase investigation, causing undue stress to those involved and wasting taxpayers money.”

In a statement released by President of the Ithaca Police Benevolent Association, omas Condzella, the PBA said that it is calling on District Attorney Van Houten to investigate the identity of the anonymous source so “they can be interviewed to determine if there are any other complaints against police o cers or city o cials that need to be investigated.”

According to Condzella, “my members and the public deserve to know the true motivation of the person that made this complaint…Based on the email alone, and the nding of the investigation, the only conclusion we can make is that this was a malicious personal and politically motivated attack.”

According to a story published by the Des Moines Register in 2014, a similar situation resulted in the owners of two apartment buildings in downtown Des Moines being forced to pay a $2.45 million settlement to elderly and disabled residents seeking reimbursement for “back rent, lost property and other hardships.”

e attorney who represented the seniors in that case, Je rey Lipman, said that the outcome “puts landlords on notice that they cannot ignore bedbug issues.”

He continued saying that if landlords fail to address infestations and don’t warn consumers that “they’re going to be held accountable.”

Despite the precedent set by this settlement, a Rutgers University report on bed bugs in a ordable housing in New Jersey found that one in eight low-income apartments had a bed bug infestation and more than half the time residents and building owners were unaware of them.

COUNTY ETHICS INVESTIGATION

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Following the approval of the County ethics report John released a statement saying, “during the course of the investigation, the Ithaca City Attorney and employees of People For e American Way (“PFAW”) made certain allegations that I had certain con icts of interests preventing his participation in this investigation. TCEAB thoroughly reviewed those allegations and concluded they have no merit. Nonetheless, to remove even the appearance of a con ict and to avoid undue collateral attacks on this investigation, there are four other independent volunteer members that have voted in favor of the advisory opinion.”

In response to the outcome of the investigation, Brock said “I’m deeply grateful and appreciative of the hard work and dedication of the members of the Tompkins County ethics advisory board. I know that none of them imagined the undertaking that was ahead of them when they agreed to serve in this capacity and I think that they have demonstrated the importance of their role to our community, and to building faith and integrity. In our support for our government systems.”

According to the report, bed bugs are common in low-income housing because of management hiring low quality pest control services that use ine ective treatments like “relying on sprays instead of IPM.” IPM stands for “Integrated Pest Management” which involves a number of non-chemical methods “such as heat treatment or freezing, or mattress and box spring encasements,” according to the EPA.

Cornell University, which is less than a mile away from the Ellis Hollow apartment complex, has a world renowned IPM program but has not been involved in treating this ongoing infestation. Hoyte has said that building management should be working with the professionals at Cornell instead of relying on Orkins methods of treatment that have proven to be insu cient.

While Conifer has shown no signs of working with Cornell’s IPM team, Grifn said that “we have contracted Orkin to randomly treat 10 apartments every month over the next year, and will work with residents to minimize disruption. We will also host an informational meeting for residents on May 12th to discuss the importance of reporting bedbugs, and ways in which to eliminate their spread.”

“…there was not one hour that was unaccounted for and not one hour where we were paid by two entities at once.”

—Lieutenant Jacob Young

“Residents are not compensated for any of their losses because management says they’re not responsible for personal property. Well, we’re not responsible for the bed bugs.”

—Ellis Hollow resident and Tenant Advocate Lisa Hoyte

Comic Chris Distefano Makes State Debut Saturday

By Bryan VanCampen

Chris Distefano has been making people laugh with his funny yet tortured family stories about his ex-convict father and ma oso grandfather since he quit doing physical therapy in 2013. He hosts his own podcast “Chrissy Chaos” and co-hosts the “Hey Babe!” podcast with Impractical Jokers’ Sal Vulcano. He starred in IFC’s “Benders” and co-hosted the Net ix game show “Ultimate Beastmaster.” He will make his Ithaca debut at the State eater on May 6 at 7 p.m. with his “Right Intention, Wrong Move” tour.

Chris Distefano talked to the Ithaca Times about his tour, his comedy philosophy, the comics that inspired him and his current relationship with his father.

IT: Tell me about your current tour.

CD: You know, all my comedy’s pretty much about my family and pretty silly. It’s one of those things where it’s like, my goal is always to get the audience to forget about their problems for an hour and just listen to mine instead.

IT: What you do with your life stories is like what Richard Pryor did.

CD: Yup. You know, everyone can always relate to family. I also feel like I’m positive my material is original as it can be if I’m telling you a story that actually happened to me from my life and my family. at’s why I like doin’ that stu . I feel like it doesn’t matter what race or religion you are. Everybody’s got a family, so [they] can identify in some way, shape or form.

IT: When did that hit you as a way of building your career?

CD: Really kinda from the beginning. I always wanted to do comedy about my dad, talk about my dad. I always had two goals. One: do comedy and talk about my dad. And the second goal is to sell out Madison Square Garden. So I’m one step closer. I’m doing Radio City [Music Hall in New York City] in September, and that’s sold out, and we added a show at the theater in Madison Square

Garden, and that’s almost sold out. I’m hoping that a er these two shows that I’m doing in September in the city, that I’ll maybe get the second part of my dream, which is doing the actual Garden. For me, and I think for most comics, the barometer is always ticket sales. It’s like, do you sell tickets and where do you sell tickets?

IT: Who made you laugh when you were a kid?

CD: I was a big Jim Carrey fan. Sam Kinison. Early Chris Rock, I loved. Bill Burr, Louis C.K. ose were really the guys that I would watch with my dad and my family and stu .

IT: How is your relationship with your dad now?

CD: It’s great. My dad’s one of those guys who’s been in my corner and he’s always been

very, very supportive of me. He’s an old school guy. Him and my mom got divorced when I was a kid, but he never said a bad word about her. He was always like, “ at’s the mother of my kids. You’re my kid, so you two will always be the most important people in my life, no matter what.” He’s got ways about him, the way he grew up, coming from that lower New York way of living. He’s very supportive of me and whatever I wanna do.

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Chris Distefano

“Right Intention, Wrong Move” Tour May 6 at 7 p.m. State Theater

107 West State Street

Chris Distefano will be bringing his “Right Intention, Wrong Move” comedy tour to State Theater on May 6.

Opera Ithaca’s Rollicking Orpheus

By Barbara Adams

In a burst of zzy folly, Opera Ithaca closed its 2022–23 season last weekend with a rollicking “Orpheus in the Underworld.” In two performances at the Hangar eatre, this production of Jacques O enbach’s comic opera reminded audiences just how outrageous theatre can be. And for that matter, always has been –– because although the original script (by Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy) has been cleverly modernized and translated (by Buck Ross), the show’s basic satirical mayhem dates back to 1858. “Orphée aux enfers” makes great fun of the classical myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. You recall –– she dies young, and he goes to hell to retrieve her but makes the mistake of looking back and losing her forever.

In O enbach’s irreverent version, this petty Orpheus loathes his wife and enjoys irritating her with his incessant ddling; both man and wife have other dalliances. (Of his marriage, Orpheus says, “Welcome to Hell.”) e couple seeks divorce Greek style, but the censorious gure of Public Opinion forces Orpheus to do his duty. Once Pluto, disguised as a shepherd, has made sure she’s spirited to his nether world, Orpheus is unwillingly forced to appeal to Jupiter himself to protest the abduction. Jupiter and all the gods, for their part, are bored out of their minds lolling about Olympus, and they’re only too eager to take a vacation far, far south of their border. What transpires when Heaven meets Hell is pure absurdity. ( is ludicrous lampoon found an early fan in Napoleon III, despite O enbach’s intent for the gods

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being a veiled critique of his court. In fact, the composer was mocking more than that –– French theater’s sti ing reverence for classical mythology as well as Gluck’s “Orfeo ed Euridice.”)

Opera Ithaca’s production is ably directed by Ben Robinson and handsomely supported by Grant Cooper’s small orchestra. As always, artistic director Robinson evokes the best from a talented cast. Madison Hoerbelt is a formidable Public Opinion, forcing Orpheus –– a satisfyingly sleazy Charles Calotta –– to her will. Francesca Federico’s Eurydice nimbly balances coquette and clown, her lovely voice charming both suitors and audience.

Even sleazier is Gabriel Hernandez’s deceptive Pluto, well matched as an antihero against Bryan Murray’s frustrated and rather incompetent Jupiter. Ava Dunton as Jupiter’s supposedly chaste daughter, Diane, is deliciously bold. As a dead king mourning his glory days, Jean Bernard Cerin is sweetly pathetic.

Kayla Oderah’s no-nonsense Cupid speaks her mind to her master but then amuses all with the delightful kissing song. Doing the gods’ bidding is also the role of Mercury the messenger, Rocco Scarselletta in ashing LED sneakers.

His out t is just one of dozens of inspired touches by costumer and props mistress Elizabeth Kitney. Most dazzling, of course, is her transformation of Jupiter into a y, complete with bulbous eyes and illuminated, gauzy wings. e libidinous god customarily assumes more impressive guises (like a bull or a shower of gold), but this time, he slips into the room where Pluto has locked Eurydice as a mere insect.

And lo! She’s impressed by his style, and they buzz buzz buzz a sexy duet while sitting in an in atable clamshell. Which brings us to the main items of scenery, provided by Norman Johnson and lit by Johanna Tackitt –– a plastic blow-up peach armchair everyone keeps tumbling out of, and four pastel balloon towers that suggest the festive e ervescence of champagne. Inevitably, some balloons spontaneously pop during the performance, and the actors aptly respond.

All the props are consistently comic, like the disgruntled gods’ protest signs, including “We’re tired of being vanilla.”

Between scenes, Evan Sacco moves the balloon towers around the stage in faux ballet mode, a itting nod to O enbach’s fairytale dances. ere’s also a mock minuet with the entire company (more critique of the staid aristocracy). And at the nal bacchanal –– because who else but Bacchus can resolve such problems? –– the gods chant the “Vive le vin!” song and join arms in a wild cancan –– the “Galop Infernal.”

Yes, that vigorous cancan tune that everyone now knows came from this work. And it’s just one rousing number in a comic opera over owing with tuneful pleasures. O enbach’s music throughout is lively and surprising, as playful as the action itself. Despite the attempts of one negative French critic, this work’s premiere was a roaring success. And with the current performers so committed to high nonsense, Opera Ithaca’s show was as well.

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

In Opera Ithaca’s production of “Orpheus in the Underworld” Brian Murray as Jupiter, Francesca Federico as Eurydicem brought a new twist to classic satire with various inflatable props. photo credit Rob Levine.

Cornell Concert Series Presents

ANDREAS DELFS, Music Director ZLATOMIR FUNG, cello Chabrier’s España, Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, and more

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Third Street Storefront Serves Italian Food with a Delicious Thai Twist

By Henry Stark

When you approach HaKaCha, you’ll notice the large parking lot o ering substantial free o -street parking in the 3rd Street lot that also serves the motor vehicle bureau and several other businesses.

e restaurant itself is long and narrow and is decorated with festive ceiling string lights and a black-and-white checked oor. e booths, tables and chairs used to be at Istanbul Turkish Kitchen, the restaurant that was most recently at that site. Tree branches along the wall add a bit of a rustic interest and large mirrors give it a light-hearted, open feeling. e restaurant itself is relatively small with a capacity for about three dozen diners.

HaKaCha is relatively quiet with pleasant, unobtrusive recorded classical guitar music playing in the background.

e restaurant is referred to as Italianai. However, looking at the menu, I couldn’t readily identify a national identity, so I asked a sta member who replied: “Oh, we just mix it up!” ere are two major sections: nine “Pasta” o erings and four “Ramen and ai Dish”s, each served in a bowl.

I ordered an appetizer that was the single best item I’ve had at HaKaCha: “Crispy Brussel [sic] Sprouts” ($6). ere were eight, on a at plate, cooked perfectly, tender and tasty and covered with tiny bits of fried onions and garlic. e portion was large enough to share. Even if you don’t like Brussels sprouts, you just might like these. ree pasta dishes I’ve recently tried are “Seafood Pasta” ($22.99), “Bacon Mushroom Pasta” ($21.99) and “Bread [sic] Chicken Green Curry Pasta” ($16.99).

e former comes attractively presented with two inedible clams in their shells along the perimeter, four large shrimp and two sea scallops. ere are mild traces of garlic, black pepper, lemon juice and sprigs of arugula. Except for the clams, I enjoyed the dish. It was a large portion and I took some home.

e “Bacon Mushroom Pasta” was listed as being in a cream sauce with bacon, onion, mushrooms and parsley. From the description, I expected a cream sauce like Italian restaurants o er with linguine Alfredo; however, the sauce was quite di erent — just a thin coating. e mushrooms seemed like shiitakes that were thickly sliced and there was a reasonable amount of them. e bacon was only partially cooked… not even close to being crispy. I wonder if a lot of the original fat was le on it so it could infuse the copious amount of spaghetti. In any case, it did spread unobtrusively throughout the pasta, giving it a subtle bacon avor.

“Bread Chicken Green Curry Pasta” included several long strips of beautifully breaded chicken breasts with carrots, mushrooms and green curry. I should add that it was mild because in ai cooking, green curry is made with fresh green chiles in contrast to the spicier red curry, which includes hotter dried red chiles. I really liked this dish and particularly enjoyed the crunch of the perfectly seasoned crust on the chicken.

Only two ramen bowls are o ered. I tried “Vegetarian Ramen,” which includes

At HaKaCha, you can get a variety of appetizers to go with various noodle- and pasta-based entrees.

Community Quiltmaking Center Opening

By Matt Minton

Fabric. Quiltmaking. Two words synonymous with community-building and the act of bringing people together.

e Community Quiltmaking Center its grand opening celebration on Sunday, April 23 from 1-5 p.m. at the ReUse MegaCenter, inviting the local community to check out the brand new space, sign up for free classes and workshops and meet other people. e Community Quilting Center is a community collaboration with Fingers Lakes ReUse. Attendees can expect to see a ribbon-cutting ceremony in recognition of the center’s opening, along with opening remarks. e event will also be honoring Peggy Dunlop at 2 p.m., who is notable for donating fabric to the Finger Lakes ReUse center to help get the Quiltmaking Center started. Dunlop has been a notable gure in the quilting community for over 50 years alongside her late husband, Dave Dunlop, who recently passed away.

Brigid Hubberman, longtime community volunteer in Ithaca, describes Dunlop as a reuse champion, sustainability champion and a passionate fabric collector and quiltmaker. Hubberman said that Dunlop’s dream was to open the door for everybody to be able to make quilts regardless of personal resources — increasing access, equity and opportunity in the process.

“[ e center] came out of Peggy Dunlop’s love for people, community, quiltmaking and giving back to the community, which she did throughout her life,” Hubberman said. “Peggy Dunlop herself is really the founder.”

Hubberman said another extraordinary thing is that e Finger Lakes ReUse center, upon accepting Hubberman’s donation, kept all of the fabric until the Quiltmaking

Center was ready to be o cially opened. Hundreds and hundreds of hours of volunteering and hard work will nally pay o .

“If you think about all the things that someone might need to succeed in this to make a rst quilt, they’re going to need fabric, tools and sewing machine access,” Hubberman said. “And they need encouragement and support.”

One particularly unusual thing, Hubberman explained, is that when people see a lot of fabric, they automatically assume it’s a quilt store and expect items to be for sale only.

“In this case, it’s a quilt center,” Hubberman said. “We want to support anyone who’s out there doing quiltmaking for good. We’ll be o ering community fabric grants to organizations.”

Attendees will be able to see past quilts that have been made at the grand opening event. One new initiative underway that will be showcased is called “Wrap Up and Read Quilts,” in which people have made quilts for young children to use while reading a book.

roughout history, quiltmaking has also been used as a tool for social change. One of the most infamous examples is the AIDS Memorial Quilt, which was created in November 1985 to honor the lives lost to the AIDS crisis.

“Traditionally, women’s work once done is undone,” Hubberman said. “Even early on in our history of the United States when women and people stitch their lives into quilts, it was with hardship and also hope, sorrow and satisfaction.”

Overall, experienced quiltmakers and those hoping to get started for the rst time alike are invited on Sunday. No prior knowledge is required.

“It’s time for a grand opening,” Hubberman said.

The Community Quiltmaking Center has set up its new home at the ReUse MegaCenter.

Hail Caesar

Ithaca College Stages an Informal Cross-Gender Version of Shakespeare’s Classic

By Barbara Adams

Political intrigue dominates world politics (and our news media), so Ithaca College’s updated “Caesar” is undeniably timely. An adaptation of Shakespeare’s “ e Tragedy of Julius Caesar,” this version is so skillfully trimmed that the Roman power struggles –– now two thousand years old –– disturb us anew.

Ably directed by Catherine Weidner, the drama ran only ve times last week in Ithaca College’s Hoerner eatre. e one drawback was the apparent absence of miking; some crowd and most female voices unfortunately never projected beyond the stage. But key speeches and the swirl of action succeeded in conveying the devastating story.

e cross-gender casting worked, with women playing many of the roles, chief among them Alaysia Renay Duncan as Caesar. Tall, lean and erce, she commands with the arrogant conviction of a world conqueror and battle-tested general. Jack Hopkins, as her loyal Mark Antony, e ectively delivers the famed funeral oration that stirs the Roman masses against her assassins.

e conspirators are instigated by Cassius, portrayed by Nick Mras from the start as over-the-top furious and uncontrolled. He’s so relentlessly resentful that we never see him crack until the intimate scene where he and Brutus reconcile. His eventual honor suicide (falling on his own sword) evokes pathos, in part because he is so awed a man.

Brutus, Caesar’s friend who crosses over to the conspirators’ plot, is played by Achille Vann Ricca as alternately doubtful and rm. His nobility and honesty, which the text advances, is shown

best in male friendship: his care of his servant Lucius (Gianluca Guarino) and his loyalty to the di cult Cassius. (So much so that we wonder how he was ever persuaded to forgo his rst allegiance, to Caesar.)

Powerful men’s wives are too o en le in their wake. ese roles are played here with dignity by Mia Gra as Portia, wife to Brutus, and Isabella Orrego as Calpurnia, whose warnings of terrible omens fail to keep Caesar from heading to the Senate.

The drama unrolls across a vast, nearempty space: the Forum, its marble platforms and columns against an endless blue sky. Daniel Zimmerman’s simple scenic design is drastically altered by Ashley Crespo’s lighting, particularly when Caesar is stabbed by the gang of senators and the world is drenched in blood. Later, when the conspirators are fighting Mark Antony’s forces in Greece, Brutus sits under a huge sulfur tent, and we’re easily transported to the battlefield.

Daniel Hewson’s contemporary costumes play a major role in bringing ancient politics home to the audience. In an early scene, we’re initially thrown o by Mark Antony in running shorts (for a public race), but quickly acclimate to the smooth elegance of Caesar’s attire; the suits of the senators; the soldiers’ camo uniforms. e large ensemble cast swi ly shi s to portray commoners and nobility, combatants and collaborators.

“Caesar” illustrates that when fear of dictatorship leads to rebellion and betrayal, the likely path forward is war

In Ithaca College’s cross-gender production of “Caesar” Caesar (Alaysia Renay Duncan) is a fierce commanding presence.

and bloodshed. But even once the eld is cleared, a new power elite inevitably arises: here the young Octavius (a forceful, canny Carolyn Best). Sobering reality, both then and now.

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tofu khan, shiitake mushrooms, arugula, fried garlic and scallions. Ramen is a noodle dish served in a broth and tofu khan is marinated tofu, baked and ready to eat. e tofu khan added a pleasant seasoning and texture di erent from the tofu I’m used to. e baking process added a rm texture and the seasoning kicked it up to another taste level. Ramen noodles can come in many shapes and sizes — these were long and thin, resembling vermicelli. Both the tofu, which came in two-inch slices, and the arugula, which was presented as full leaves with stems, required some chewing. e dish was mildly avorful and quite pleasant.

e alcoholic beverage o erings are adequate: a half dozen beers ($7) in bottles and just two Asian wines. You can also choose from the six non-alcoholic beverages, including “ ai Iced Tea,” CocaCola, Sprite, Diet Coke, “Raspberry Rose Soda” and “Blood Orange Peach Lemonade.”

HaKaCha, with a preponderance of pasta o erings, serves mostly Italian fare with a slight nod to ai. Spaghetti is a relatively inexpensive food, and consequently the prices here are low, with nothing over $25.99. e food is very good and attractively presented, and the atmosphere is understated and pleasant.

Tidbit: Are you curious about the unusual name of the restaurant and wonder what it means? Here’s a clue: e owner has three grandchildren: Hana, Kai and Chanaya.

by

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

William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Catherine Weidner.

Produced last week at Ithaca College’s Hoerner Theatre, Dillingham Center.

Self-Possessed Two Dead-Obsessed Movies Come to Life the Same Week

By Bryan VanCampen

It's some freaky coincidence that writer-director Lee Cronin’s “Evil Dead Rise” and Julius Avery’s “The Pope’s Exorcist” would materialize at the same time because they’re really working the same side of the street. The “Evil Dead” movies are all about some hapless souls who discover the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis and accidentally unleash an unstoppable army of malevolent undead creatures. If they possess you or injure you, they can turn you into a Deadite, and the only solu -

“Evil Dead Rise”

(Warner Bros. Pictures-New Line Cinema-Renaissance Pictures-Paci c Renaissance-Wild Atlantic Pictures, 2023, 97 min.) playing at Regal Stadium 14.

tion is total dismemberment. (Keep a chainsaw handy.)

Cronin has managed the not inconsiderable trick of taking the “ED” concept away from Bruce Campbell’s Ash and the isolated cabin in the woods to a new cast of characters in a decrepit urban apartment high-rise. The new film stars Alyssa Sutherland and Lily Sullivan as estranged sisters; Sutherland has three kids from a failing marriage, and Sullivan, a roadie, has just discovered that she’s pregnant. One of the kids finds one of the books of the dead, along with a vinyl record translating the text, and well, if you’re seen one of these movies, you know that things are about to go from bad to unspeakable. The evil force take Sullivan, and the rest of the film plays as a black comic mirror of parental mayhem and frankly, some of the most extreme gore I’ve seen to date.

“Evil Dead Rise” and “The Pope’s Exorcist” take a gorey and traditional take on horror movies, respectively.

It’s hard to believe this film actually got an R rating.

If you’ve never seen an “Evil Dead” picture, you’re in for a hell of a rollercoaster ride, and if you’re a fan, you’ll not only appreciate the ride but also Cronin’s glee in going for that Raimi funhouse feel — a very active comic book style that takes time and talent to emulate — and all the props, sound and gore FX and Easter eggs. True “ED” a cionados like me appreciate hearing the sound of buzzing ies at the beginning and end of the lm.

I suppose it’s a good thing that I nally got around to seeing “ e Exorcist,” because in many ways, Julius Avery’s “ e Pope’s Exorcist” is a virtual remake of the Friedkin picture. You can go down the checklist of elements: Adorable kid possessed by a demon? Check. Russell Crowe and Daniel Zovatto as a veteran and rookie priestly team, each man with a dark secret that the demon taunts them with? Check. Hideous phrases that etch themselves onto the victim’s esh? Check. An overall

“The Pope’s Exorcist”

(Sony Pictures Releasing-Screen Gems-2.0 Entertainment-Loyola Productions, 2023, 103 min.) playing at Regal Stadium 14.

meditation on the fragile futility of faith? Check.

Aligning Crowe’s character with Vatican City in Rome and his friendship with the Pope (Franco Nero) gives the picture a more traditional lm rooted in religious ritual, and the bulk of the exorcising takes place in a towering Spanish abbey with lots of dark, spooky corridors for Crowe and the cast to creep around in. ere are a few odd humorous touches: the story takes place in 1987, so we see Crowe wearing aviator shades, tooling around Italy on his Vespa as e Cult’s “She Sells Sanctuary” plays on the soundtrack.

If “ e Pope’s Exorcist” was the only game in town, I’d say check it out if you like exorcism movies. It hits all the beats fans expect from that subgenre. But with “Evil Dead Rise” playing right next door at the multiplex, I’d tell you that it’s the superior horror ick for taking Raimi’s horror concepts to the bloody hilt in a cool new setting. Compared to Avery’s Gothic traditions, “Evil Dead Rise” is seriously bugnuts.

RIP Harry Belafonte (“Carmen Jones,” “Kansas City,” “White Man’s Burden”) RIP Barry Humphries (“Bedazzled,” “Shock Treatment,” “Immortal Beloved,” “Finding Nemo,” “Mary and Max,” “ e Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”)

Since its inception, COE has provided adventures for thousands of students and hundreds of student leaders. With great pride, Moriah says, “I can't tell you how many people have told me that their experience as a student leader for COE was life changing. I am in no way denigrating or dismissing the value of academics, but the real-life responsibility that comes with leading a COE trip involves critical decisions that a ect the safety of one's peers, encouraging people, managing con ict, interacting with people in so many ways. Many have said 'My experience with COE provided some of the most important lessons I learned in college and served me well in my career and in my life.'”

David is also proud of the fact that his own passion for outdoor adventure has been passed on to his son, his daughter

and his two grandsons. “My son has visited all seven continents, and my daughter — who co-led COE trips with me — is a diplomat with the U.S. Foreign Service. My wife, Deborah, has said, 'If they didn't have a father like you, they wouldn't be so adventurous, and if they didn't have a mother like me, they wouldn't be alive.'” Believe me, David, in that room full of people who had a big impact on life at Cornell, you were by no means a sh out of water.

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Space does not allow me to list the vast number of adventure opportunities COE has provided over the past 50 years or the hundreds of destinations to which the program has brought students, but I highly recommend taking a look at the program's website. e program is, by any measure, world-class. https://scl.cornell.edu/coe.

Music

Bars/Bands/Clubs

5/3 Wednesday

Horns & Ivory | 6:30 p.m. | Salt Point Brewing Co., 6 Louis Bement Lane

5/4 Thursday

Singer Songwriter Series with Joe Lule | 6 p.m. | Atwater Vineyards, 5055 State Route 414 | Free

Songwriter Night hosted by Dan Forsythe | 6 p.m. | Hopshire Farm & Brewery | Free

Magz1lla & Yosh | | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St.

5/5 Friday

Go Gone | 4:30 p.m. | Deep Dive Ithaca, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd

Yam Yam w/ Sun Parade | 8:00 p.m. | Deep Dive Ithaca, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd

Bradford Allen Trio | 6 p.m. | BRU 64, 64 Main Street, Cortland

Friday Night Music - Erin and the Backwoods Blues Project | 6 p.m. | Hopshire Farms and Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd

Amber Martin | | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St.

5/6 Saturday

Dirty Gems | 2 p.m. | Deep Dive Ithaca, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd

Consider the Source w/ MJT | 8:00p.m. | Deep Dive Ithaca, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd

Art

Time, Art, Love, Money : 45 years of work by Steve Carver | 11 a.m., 5/3 Wednesday | corners gallery, 409 East Upland Rd | A sampling of over four decades of work produced by painter and illustrator Steve Carver.

I See You 2023 | Ithaca College and Cornell University Printmakers | 1 p.m., 5/3 Wednesday | The Ink Shop, 330 E. MLK/State St | | Free Bubbletrees and the Forest Fantasia | 12 p.m., 5/4 Thursday | State of the Art Gallery, 120 West State Street

5/7 Sunday

Jazz Guitar Brunch with Dennis Winge | 10:30 a.m. | Antlers Restaurant, 1159 Dryden Rd. | Free

Experimental Sight + Sound @ Grayhaven Motel | 8 p.m. | Grayhaven Motel’s gallery guest lounge, 657 Elmira Rd | Free

5/8 Monday

C23 Pre-Show- Mikaela Davis Plays Dead w/ Richie Stearns | 4 p.m. | Deep Dive Ithaca, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd

Jazz Monday with Dave Davies RhythmMakers | 5:30 p.m. | South Hill Cider, 550 Sandbank Road

Sarah Noell Album Release with Sunk Coast & Somer | | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St..

Concerts/Recitals

5/3 Wednesday

Student chamber music recital: CU

Music | 8 p.m. | Barnes Hall, 129 Ho Plaza | Free

Concert Band | Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.

5/4 Thursday

Midday Music in Lincoln, Early Music Lab: CU Music | 12:30 p.m. | Lincoln Hall B20, 256 Feeney Way | Free

Spring in to Summer Concert

Event | 7 p.m. | Ithaca High School Kulp Auditorium, 1401-1439 N Cayuga St | Free

Wind Symphony | Ford Hall | 8:15 p.m.

5/5 Friday

Theodora Serbanescu-Martin, piano: CU Music | 5 p.m. | Barnes Hall, 129 Ho Plaza | Free

5/6 Saturday

Cornell Wind Symphony: CU Music | 7 p.m. | Bailey Hall, 230 Garden Ave | Free

Binghamton Community Orchestra Concert, “Far East to Near East, North to South” | 7 p.m. | Maine-Endwell Senior High School Auditorium, 720 Farm-to-Market Road

The Clements Brothers in Concert | 7:30 p.m. | La Tourelle, 1150 Danby Road (96B) | $20.00 - $25.00

Ithaca Community Chorus & Chamber Singers Concert | 7:30 p.m. | St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N. Aurora St. | $20.00

Peggy Haine and the Lowdown Alligator Jass Band Live-streaming tickets | 7:30 p.m. | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, 1 Congress St | $10.00 (in-person tickets are sold out)

Augustana: EVERYDAY AN ETERNITY TOUR | 8 p.m. | Center for the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St

5/7 Sunday

Percussion Ensemble: CU Music | 3 p.m. | Lincoln Hall B20, 256 Feeney Way | Free

Trio Crane: A Chamber Music Concert | 3 p.m. | First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles, 97 E Genesee St. | Free

Jazz Stars Concert - Peter Rothbart | 6:30 p.m. | Savage Club Performing Arts Center, 1004 Auburn Rd | Free

BUBBLETREES AND THE FOREST

FANTASIA: OPENING RECEPTION

FRIDAY, MAY 5TH AT 5:00PM

State of the Art Gallery, 120 W. State St., Ithaca | It is First Friday Gallery Night! The SotG is excited to present this solo show of new work by Daniel McPheeters. Daniel’s

5/8 Monday

5/8 at The State: A Livestream of Dead & Company at Barton Hall | 7 p.m. | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 West State St | $35.00

Stage

Two of Cups: Experiments in Poetry, Movement, Music, Film, DJs & More | 8 p.m., 5/4 Thursday | Deep Dive Ithaca, 415 Old Taughannock Blvd | Two of Cups is a place where you’ll nd poets, musicians, lm makers, movement artists, and performers of all stripes sharing the stage and this is your invitation to blur the lines with us of what art can be and then, with full cups, dance until the day turns over. | Free

The Family Copoli: a post-apocalyptic burlesque and repopulation play | 7:30 p.m., 5/5 Friday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, 430 College Ave | See Weekend Planner for more info. | Free

Chris Distefano: Right Intention, Wrong Move | 7 p.m., 5/6 Saturday | State Theatre of Ithaca, 107 West State St |

“Crossing the Veil and Coming Back to Life” | 7:30 p.m., 5/6 Saturday | First Baptist Church in Ithaca , 309 N Cayuga St | Presenting an ensemble theater piece based on true stories of people who have reported near-death experiences. | $10.00 - $25.00

ComedyFLOPs Presents All You Can Eat Improv | 7 p.m., 5/10 Wednesday | The Downstairs, 121 W. State St | | $5.00

for Pay-What-You-Wish weekends, sponsored by BorgWarner, on the rst weekend of each month. | Free Entre Sombras / Between Seams | 1 p.m., 5/6 Saturday | The Cherry Gallery, 102 Cherry St | Entre Sombras / Between Seams is the newest Cherry Gallery installation, come view these wonderful works at the Gallery on Saturday and Sunday afternoons!

| See Weekend Planner for more info.

| Free

May ‘23 Gallery Night @ Grayhaven Motel! | 4 p.m., 5/5 Friday | Grayhaven Motel, 657 Elmira Rd | Presented by eyevee Arts + Media and hosted by Grayhaven Motel, we will be showcasing new works from painter Frank Shifreen from 4-7pm on Friday, May 5th. | Free

First Friday Gallery Night at New Roots | 5 p.m., 5/5 Friday | New Roots Charter School, 116 N. Cayuga St. |

Join us at New Roots Charter School as we open our doors to the wider community for First Friday Gallery Night, featuring local artist Jay Stooks along with work from our current art classes, live music, and YEM vendors! | Free Fluida Vida, by Yen Ospina: Gallery Night at the CAP Artspace | 5 p.m., 5/5 Friday | Community Arts Partnership’s CAP ArtSpace, 110 N. Tioga Street (on the Ithaca Commons, Tompkins Center for History and Culture) | “Fluida Vida,” an exhibit of new work by local artist Yen Ospina is in the CAP Artspace through May | Free Michael Sampson’s “Figure Sessions” | 5 p.m., 5/5 Friday | The Gallery at South Hill, 950 Danby Road | “Figure Sessions” is a collection of paintings done over the last two years working directly from the model. | Free

May First Friday at Cinch Art Space | 5 p.m., 5/5 Friday | Cinch Art Space, 75 E Court St | Cinch is highlighting Willauer Art for May’s First Friday. Willauer Art brings resin art, sculpture and lighting in funky, swirling goodness through orbs, pyramids, and more!

Pay-What-You-Wish-Weekends | 10 a.m., 5/6 Saturday | Museum of the Earth, 1259 Trumansburg Road (Route 96) | Join Museum of the Earth

Johnson Museum: Illuminated Letters | 3:30 p.m., 5/10 Wednesday | New eld Public Library, 198 Main Street | Explore one-of-a-kind Medieval hand-written illuminated manuscripts from 1100 to 1600 and design your own letterforms! Weds, 5/10 3:30 pm. Info: 607-564-3594, new eldpubliclibrary.org | Free

Film

Bloom Where You’re Planted! ...a lm by Rachel Lampert & Lesley Greene | 7:30 p.m., 5/4 Thursday | Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 W. State / W. MLK, Jr. Street | Chronicles the tenure of Rachel Lampert, KTC’s artistic director, from 1997 to 2017. Over thirty artists, KTC sta , and supporters were interviewed for the project. These interviews, plus never-before-seen archival footage tell the story of a period of growth and change for the theater. | $0.00 - $20.00

Legacies of Canoes - Book Talk & Screening @ Cinemapolis | 6:45 p.m., 5/6 Saturday | Cinemapolis, 120 W. Green Street. | Kick o  ITHACA CANOE FEST (May 7th @ Cass Park) with a combined book talk and lm screening examining family and community legacies through deeply personal canoe journeys. | Free

Cinemapolis

120 E. Green St., Ithaca May 5-May11 Contact Cinemapolis for showtimes. New lms listed rst.* (Additional lms not annouced as of presstime, please contact Cinemapolis for more info.)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3* | Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own - a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians if not successful. | 170 mins PG-13

15TH ANNUAL SPRING WRITES

LITERARY FESTIVAL

RUNS MAY 3RD - MAY 14TH

Various locations around downtown Ithaca | The 15th annual Spring Writes Literary Festival features over 120 (!) local and regional writers, and performers. 30 FREE events: group readings, panels, performances and workshops, both zoom and live. To nd the full schedule, artist bios, and registration information, visit SpringWrites.org. (Photo: Provided)

mesmerizing images showcase an artistic meditation on the nature of trees and forests using a variety of styles and techniques. (Photo: Provided)

R.M.N.* | A non-judgmental analysis of the driving forces of human behavior when confronted with the unknown, of the way we perceive the other and on how we relate to an unsettling future.| 127 mins PG-13

Showing Up* | A sculptor preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends. The latest lm from director Kelly Reichardt. | 108 mins R

Cornell Cinema

Films are shown at Willard Straight Hall on Cornell campus.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever | 5/03, 7:00 pm | On the heels of the unexpected loss of King T’Challa, the nation of Wakanda nds itself at a crossroads in its fate. The surrounding powers of the world look on with greedy eyes, eager to encroach upon Wakanda in its most vulnerable state.

Mystery Screening | 5/04, 7:00 pm| Join Cornell Cinema for a surprise screening to celebrate the end of the spring semester! Our rst-ever Mystery Screening is a risk—and a study break—worth taking. Tickets are just $5 and the secret will only be revealed when the lm begins! (Note: This lm is recommended for audiences ages 15 and up.)

Special Events

Foodnet Meals on Wheels 10th

Annual Mac ‘n Cheese Bowl | 4:30 p.m., 5/3 Wednesday | Ithaca Farmers Market, Steamboat Landing 545 3rd St | Who makes the best mac ‘n cheese in town? You decide! Local restaurants and vendors will be whipping up their version of everyone’s favorite comfort food. | $0.00 - $20.00

Spring Writes Poetry and Prose

Open Mic | 6:30 p.m., 5/4 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Join us for Spring Writes Open Mic! Local poets and prose writers will have the opportunity to showcase their work during a free virtual open mic event.

The Foundation of Light 50th Anniversary Celebration | 6 p.m., 5/5 Friday | The Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Road | 50th Anniversary Celebration at the Foundation of Light, May 5 and May 6, 2023: www. thefoundationo ight.org | Free Dragons, Unicorns, and the Monsters in Your Heart | 2 p.m., 5/6 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | With inspiring prompts and guided exercises, Dr. Katharyn Howd Machan,

longtime Ithaca College professor, will lead participants to create new ction and/or add to work they have already begun.

Kentucky Derby Party | 5 p.m., 5/6 Saturday | Finger Lakes Distilling, 4676 St Route 414 | Finger Lakes Distilling’s annual Kentucky Derby Party... Join us for Cocktails, Nickel’s BBQ, a Single Barrel Bourbon Release, music of The Notorious Stringbusters AND the Greatest Two Minutes in Sports! | $65.00

Drag Me To The Library: Femme and Pop Art Makeup | 4 p.m., 5/9 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Dizzy is a colorful character from Ithaca, New York who’s been stinking up stages since 2017. She loathes the spotlight but adores the applause, begrudgingly eager to make a spectacle of herself.

Books

15th annual Spring Writes Literary Festival (May 3 to 14) | 5:30 p.m., 5/3 Wednesday | Many locations, in downtown Ithaca or on Zoom | See Weekend Planner for more info. | Free Young Adult Art Open Hour: Poetry and Book Art | 4 p.m., 5/4

THE FAMILY COPOLI: A POSTAPOCALYPTIC BURLESQUE AND REPOPULATION PLAY

FRIDAY, MAY 5TH & SATURDAY, MAY 6TH AT 7:30PM

Center for

Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | TCPL is inviting patrons ages 13 - 24 to the Makerspace to make visual poetry from recycled books and magazines. Instruction and all materials will be provided.

Reading by Aimee Bender | 5 p.m., 5/4 Thursday | Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium (G70 Klarman Hall) , 232 Feeney Way | The Spring 2023 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series comes to a close with a reading by writer Aimee Bender | Free Spring Writes Poetry and Prose Open Mic | 6:30 p.m., 5/4 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Join us for Spring Writes Open Mic! Local poets and prose writers will have the opportunity to showcase their work during a free virtual open mic event.

Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library Spring Book Sale | 10 a.m., 5/6 Saturday | Regina C. Lennox Building, 509 Esty Street | The sale is ready for you. | Free Dragons, Unicorns, and the Monsters in Your Heart | 2 p.m., 5/6 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | With inspiring prompts and guided exercises, Dr. Katharyn Howd Machan,

longtime Ithaca College professor, will lead participants to create new ction and/or add to work they have already begun.

Ithaca Book and Zine Fair | 11 a.m., 5/7 Sunday | Bu alo Street Books and Dewitt Mall, 215 North Cayuga Street | Independent publishers, zinemakers, bookbinders, local authors, and more will show and sell their wares within Bu alo Street Books and Dewitt Mall to celebrate the freedom of expression and publishing outside the mainstream as a part of Spring Writes Literary Festival | Free Virtual Panel by Panel Graphic Novel Book Club | 6:30 p.m., 5/8

Monday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Adults are invited to celebrate their love of this diverse and subversive medium. Registration is required, and books will be provided for participants.

Jumpstart your Creativity! |

11:30 a.m., 5/9 Tuesday | Ulysses

Philomathic Library, 74 E Main Street

| Trumansburg author Rebecca Barry will help you nd your creative spark in this three-session writing workshop series! Call to register - 607-387-5623

Kids

Story Time with Miss Clay | 11:30 a.m., 5/3 Wednesday | Ulysses

Philomathic Library, 74 E Main Street | Join Miss Clay the Librarian for stories, songs, and activities! Best for children birth to ve and their caregivers. | Free Spanish Storytime | 4 p.m., 5/3

Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Children of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to join us for Spanish storytime - songs, rhymes, stories, and crafts - completely in Spanish!

Lego Club | 4 p.m., 5/3 Wednesday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St | Registration is required each month. Please sign up for one day only. Come join our Lego club & have some building fun! Each session we’ll have a challenge & a game.

Live in Ithaca: Welcome Home Wednesday at Purity | 5:30 p.m., 5/3 Wednesday | Have you relocated to the area in the past year to live or work in Tompkins County? | Free Clay and metal teen after school | 6:30 p.m., 5/3 Wednesday | Metal Smithery, 950 Danby Road | Join us for

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Lego Night at New eld Public Library | 6 p.m., 5/4 Thursday | New eld Public Library, 198 Main Street | | Free

Movie Night: The Bad Guys | 7 p.m., 5/5 Friday | New eld Public Library, 198 Main Street | Computer-animated comedy, a tale of a criminal gang that comes to see the light, and eventually realizes the bene ts of behaving in a better way, and helping others. PG. Info: 607-564-3594 | Free Lego Club | 10 a.m., 5/6 Saturday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main Street | | Free

Secrets of the Library: Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales - Writing Workshop with Anne Mazer | 10:30 a.m., 5/6 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Explore the secrets of the library in this in-person writing workshop for ages 8-11 given by author Anne Mazer. Sock Monkey Circus Puppet Show | 10:30 a.m., 5/6 Saturday | The Cherry, 102 Cherry St | Honey Goodenough brings her miniature puppet circus with clever monkeys, who are trained to juggle, dance, and swing on a ying trapeze! | $4.00 - $12.00

Playtime with the Finger Lakes Toy Library | 11:30 a.m., 5/6 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

Families Learning Science Together | 1 p.m., 5/6 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street |

PJ Library Administrative Assistant | 1:30 p.m., 5/7 Sunday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street | Young PJ Library families are welcome to join this event to get to know other young families. We’ll read some books, do some crafts, play and chat.

Family Storytime: Baby Doll Circle Time™ | 10:30 a.m., 5/9 Tuesday | New eld Public Library, 198 Main Street | Special Storytime Events! Baby Doll Circle Time™ children experience attachment, attunement, & social play for optimal brain development. Develops attention, impulse control, language, numbers, cooperation, & strengthens connections with caregivers and parents. Tue, May 2, 9, 23 and 30 10:30 am. | Free

SUNDAY, MAY 7TH, 10:00AM-5:00PM

Cass Park, 701 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | The inaugural festival reframes the International Finger Lakes Dragon Boat Festival to center historic and contemporary boating on Cayuga Lake. The schedule of events and programs explore some of the many ways people have boated on Cayuga Lake. (Photo: Provided)

Schwartz

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It is an exuberant, irreverent and dark exploration of entertainment at the end of days. (Photo: Provided)

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