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owntown development and housing will again take up much of the time at city hall in 2016, beginning with plans for the Old Library site, which has now been tentatively re-branded by Travis Hyde and Holt Architects as the DeWitt House. A combined meeting of the planning board and Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission on the 50some-unit condominium project that will also include new space for Lifelong is scheduled for Jan. 12. In November, the planning board took a preliminary look at the drawings, and they didn’t have any strong words—yet—against the project’s look, a good sign for an architect about to endure months of scrutiny from the critical eyes of John Schroeder, Jack Elliott, and company.

Campus Advantage’s proposed State Street Triangle project hasn’t appeared again before city boards in the past couple months, since Mayor Svante Myrick came out against the project as it was last proposed … a mishmash of facades with different heights and materials, intended to assuage the concerns of the planning board about massing one monolithic building on the east end of the New Commons. Don’t think that the Austin-based developer is abandoning Ithaca, though a look at their previous projects shows this sort of downtown, mixed-use development is a new frontier for a company accustomed to building student housing mostly in green fields in the South and Midwest. CEO Mike Peter was spotted downtown at Mercado in December talking to consultant Scott Whitham; it wouldn’t surprise if the company came back this year with something conceptually similar—lots of rooms, ground-floor retail—but a much different look.

One change that Campus Advantage might consider as an offering is including some units within the project that will be tied to a renter’s income. Inclusionary or incentive zoning will be a push from Myrick this year—quite possibly addressed in his Jan. 6 State of the City address, on which more next week. Under these zoning concepts, developers are mandated (inclusionary) or paid (incentive) to include units in their projects that are tied to a renter’s income; these are the kinds of units we refer to as “affordable housing.”

The city and county are working on housing studies, with the city’s most

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recent coming from Danter Company (Columbus, Ohio) in 2012, and so some new numbers—like that of the 0.5 percent vacancy rate—could be injected into the ever-swirling discussion on renting in Ithaca.

In other downtown development happenings, some of the smaller empty storefronts will start filling up, but

PREVIEW The City of Ithaca in 2016 merchants will look rather anxiously to see if Harold’s Square starts construction between the Green Street parking garage and the Commons. But the focus on newly proposed development will shift over to the waterfront and Inlet Island area, a part of the city zoned for density and designated as the first focus area in the second stage of the city’s comprehensive planning, which will drill down to neighborhood agendas.

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▶ Energize NY event, You are invited and encouraged to attend the January 7 launch of the new City and County “property assessed clean energy” (PACE) financing program for local commercial property owners, among the first programs of its type in New York State.

Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca have authorized Energize NY Finance to offer this long-term, low-cost financing for energyrelated building improvements to commercial property owners in Ithaca and Tompkins County, with repayments made through the annual City or County property tax bill.

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making Route 13 more boulevard-like, and a county study of the Department of Transportation yard by the Farmers’ Market was released, with several options for adding housing and retail in that area.

And the farmers’ market itself is looking seriously at building an indoor structure there, to become a four-season market instead of moving over to GreenStar’s Space for the winter months. The timeline for development at Johnson’s Marina, where the boats are gone but building the planned housing units hasn’t started, is an open question, and the potential of a car dealership along Route 13 will certainly bring out the opposition of planners who want to see that side of the city become less car-oriented. Ironically, Phil Maguire wants to build a new dealership in the Carpenter Business Park between the water and the railroad tracks.

When it comes to the eternal question of city and Cornell relations, someone, sometime, will come in with a plan that moves beyond complaining that the school doesn’t contribute enough and use available leverage to do something about the issue. Here’s betting it’ll be fire

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With the encouragement of the Chamber of Commerce, TCAD, and Cornell Cooperative Extension, the city and county recently granted Energize NY the authority to offer this unique PACE financing.

The kick-off event will be held Thursday, January 7, 5:30-7:00 p.m. at The Space @ Greenstar, 700 West Buffalo Street, Ithaca.

Energize NY Finance officials will be on hand at the event to talk about this program, and the support it provides for a wide range of energyrelated improvement projects.

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“Defeat the reptilian brain. ” —Hugh Mantellato

“Get organized.”

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“Record some funky blues music. ” —Teresa Behan

“Get six MMA fights and go pro.

And finish massage school.” ­—Tom Brink

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t their meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 22, the Tompkins County Legislature Government Operations Committee voted to give the Indian Creek Neighborhood Association until Jan. 15 to make an offer on the plot of county-owned land commonly known as the Biggs parcel.

Roy Luft, a member of the neighborhood association, said he would be willing to develop a portion of his 10 acres of open field, which is adjacent to the Biggs parcel, if the county would be willing to sell him the publicly owned land. His property is located at 1317 Trumansburg Roy Luft, an Indian Creek Road landowner interested in developing the Biggs parcel. (Photo: Jaime Cone) Road, south of Indian Creek Road. He told the committee that he would build a clustered subdivision on his open land burden on the most overused intersection, At the end of the meeting the and a portion of the Biggs parcel to the ‘octopus’ on [Route] 96, the busiest committee went into executive session to create individual owner-occupied homes intersection in the county at peak hours. discuss the matter. When they returned, geared toward senior citizens, something There’s a shortage of senior housing in Committee Chair Dan Klein (D-Caroline) that his land alone is not big enough to general and a desire said the county got back the results of a accommodate. None to increase the tax current assessment of the land but that the of the trees on the “I would have no base, but cutting down committee would not publicly share that wooded portion of the the woods is not the dollar amount at this time. interest in buying land would need to be appropriate way to do Legislator Rich John (D-Ithaca) cleared, he said. the woods if this that.” said that the county would be willing to Luft believes this [housing] wasn’t Luft estimated a consider offers below the 2009 assessment is a superior solution of the land, which was $340,000. to the one proposed going to go forward. project like this would probably take two In a vote of four to one with Legislator by the county in 2014.

I can’t afford to buy to three years to go Dooley Kiefer (D-Cayuga Heights) In that plan, NRP through the planning voting against, the committee approved the woods just to Properties of Cleveland, process. “And certainly the resolution to give the neighborhood Ohio, would have built protect it.”

I would have no interest association until Jan. 15 to make an offer an affordable housing —Roy Luft, Indian Creek resident in buying the woods if on the land. As of that date, the county will development on the this wasn’t going to go begin taking steps to list the parcel. former county health forward,” he said. “I can’t afford to buy the “The fact that we haven’t released a department property. The company woods just to protect it.” number yet, I don’t see how that limits withdrew its proposal after finding more Members of the Indian Creek them from making an offer,” said Klein. extensive wetlands on the land than Neighborhood Association have argued “We’ve been inviting them to make an expected. Members of the Indian Creek at previous Government Operations offer for a year and a half.” • Neighborhood Association asked that the county hold off on issuing another request Committee meetings that it’s difficult to know how much they should offer for the – Jamie Cone for proposals so that they could try to land without any indication of what the southreporter@flcn.org come up with a viable way to preserve the county would accept. woods.

At the recent meeting, Luft said senior housing would is a better fit for the area 2016Preview became loudly repeated, giving time for contin u ed from page 3 than affordable housing. “The key reason the college to assess itself and the leader the housing is for seniors is that we’re in to find another job. In the best of all protection. the Enfield school district, and children in possible worlds, the most ardent student So that’s City Hall on the minor stuff. the area have to be bused 13 miles to their activists on this issue at IC will see their As far as the big issue goes … chickens school,” Luft said. Gearing the housing widespread student support wane before will become legalized, in some manner of toward seniors would solve that issue, he expanding their campaign to demand pilot program, but an anonymous tipster said. (Luft was referring to the Enfield that IC divest from all investments in will report a backyard hog and council Elementary School, which is part of the private corporations and redefine itself as will spend countless hours on a swine Ithaca City School District, and ignoring a student and faculty-owned cooperative, ordinance. the Open Enrollment program, which a proposal which will be met with In Ithaca College news, President allows parents to choose any elementary amusement by the board of trustees, but Tom Rochon will not leave, at least not school for their children.) give the activists something to fight for, this calendar year. The pattern with no“The NRP project was not rather than against. • confidence votes of any stripe across the environmentally friendly,” he added. “It nation shows that if Rochon leaves at all, involved cutting down the woods, busing – Josh Brokaw it’s after a year or more since resentments children such a distance and putting a reporter@ithacatimes.com

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.R. Clairborne opted not to run for another term as Second Ward alderman in 2015, and ended his 10 years of service on Common Council on New Year’s Eve when his successor, Ducson Nguyen, was sworn into his former seat. His wife, Leslyn McBean-Clairborne, will carry on now as the only legislator in the family in her seat on the county legislature.

Clairborne, a native of Coffeyville, Kansas, moved to Ithaca in 1996 to take a job as the cops and courts reporter for the Ithaca Journal after graduating from Kansas State University.

He’s currently the advocacy director at Loaves & Fishes.

Ithaca Times: What do you see as your most notable achievement from 10 years on Council?

J.R. Clairborne: The best is the creation of Youth Council.

That was a promise by government that was fulfilled. When we started it again—it’s the fourth time there’s been one—there were a lot of problems with kids getting snatched up for shoplifting, and problems at school, particularly with youth of color. There were underpinnings of racism, classism, local youth getting short shrift everywhere. There was a big roundtable the year before with kids from GIAC, Youth Bureau, and the Southside Center, when we decided to start working on it. I was put in charge of a committee of the whole by [Mayor] Carolyn [Peterson] to put that together.

The big part of their job is to be the voice of youth to council, and they’ve taken it to a whole other level. They’ve had days of service where they led clean-ups in different places around the community … we cleaned up all of Press Bay Alley, and a couple years ago after the flooding they picked up the sandbags after the fact. People do a very good job of speaking for themselves when you give them an opportunity, especially youth.

That was the exciting thing about that.

IT: Any other legislative causes or happenings that you remember fondly?

JRC: I can’t call it a highlight, really,

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but we put in a posthumous honors protocol. That was a piece of housekeeping that hadn’t been taken care of. When Ben Nichols passed, the city did nothing.

When Ed Conley passed, we did nothing.

These are long-dedicated servants, people who are notable in our history. Their local value is at that level everybody should take pause at their passing. I did my research and we came up with legislation for a series of steps as small as asking for a moment of silence on the floor all the way up to lowering the flag to half-mast …

I was on the committee that put together the CIITAP [Community Investment Incentive Tax Abatement Program], because people said there needed to be more community benefits in the tax abatement program.

I know the scorecard aspect of that looked overwhelming to some folks, and then going through the similar process with IDA was two sets of hoops to jump through.

So they dropped that and replaced it with the CIITAP, a new form, and now for the past year they’ve been working on putting

community benefits back into the tax abatement program. There’s a demonstrated need now that we need to put more benefits in that program …

I’m glad we were able to show our support for the living wage program. The only credit I can claim with that is I was able to bring it forward to council so we could show our support …

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an affordable component in it. It’s been interesting to watch the arc going from developers saying they can’t make the numbers work, the budget’s too tight, to doing more building. I was one of the people on the Housing Fund, which is one funding stream available for building, and I do take pride in being part of the conversation in going from saying ‘We can’t make it happen’ to ‘How do we make this happen?’

IT: Is there anything you would have liked to get done that didn’t happen?

JRC: One of the things I lament is not putting in project labor agreements, for community benefits. It would’ve been great to have those in place for the Commons project. On big city projects, you negotiate for local labor, how much everyone is getting paid, how much of the labor is union or local small shops—they give everybody an opportunity to help build a community. Imagine if everyone working on the Commons was local … five or 10 years from now you can be bringing your child on the Commons and say ‘Hey, I built that.’ One of the things that might suck me back in is helping make something like that come to fruition.

IT: What sort of changes have you seen in your neighborhood, the Southside, over the last decade?

JRC: We’ve seen at least a couple of dozen homes, maybe more, turned over. Most of those homes were occupied by people of color, and I’d say less than half are reoccupied by black and brown people. The city of Ithaca used to be a place that was very diverse.

Southside is historically a black neighborhood, and it doesn’t look anything like that now. It’s pretty bad when white people complain about gentrification of the neighborhood— people moved here because of the diversity and now there’s not as much of it. You have a lot of people who moved from the neighborhood, but not that many have left the area—they’ve moved to the outer areas around the city.

IT: What do you plan on doing with the time you’re now not spending at city hall?

JRC: My daughter, Indira, is going to get a lot of it. She’s nine, and a lot of my decision not to run again was realizing she would be 14 when the term was done. We went to Cass Park the other day, and we both got on ice skates for the first time and figured it out together. I thought that was a pretty good start to the year. And there’s a whole lot of things around the house that have been neglected. We used to have two big barbecues in the summertime, and we haven’t done one in a long time. Now I won’t have an excuse not to clean up the yard. •

▶ Making parking kiosks ... easier?, This is just a quick note to let you know that the onstreet parking pay machines in downtown Ithaca are now enabled for Parkmobile, which provides a mobile payment service so you can pay for parking via a smartphone app, a toll-free number, or the web. No coins or cash are needed, you are saved a trip to your car to display a receipt or permit, and you can get reminders when your time is running low so you don’t ever have to get another parking ticket!

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

Heard&Seen ▶ Caring for the mentally ill, The National Alliance on Mental Illness, Finger Lakes is presenting Family-to-Family, a program specifically designed for families and other caregivers of people diagnosed with major mental illnesses. The free 12-week series of classes will be offered in Ithaca, beginning February 3 and continuing each Wednesday through April 20, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Finger Lakes Independent Center located at 215 Fifth St. Prior registration and an initial meeting with an instructor are required. Call 273-2462 or 3510888 or email namifl@hotmail. com. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Dec. 30-Jan. 5 include: 1) Ithaca Man Arrested for Stabbing Roommate 2) Obituary: Victoria Hesson 3) Readers’ Writes | Ithaca in Transition 4) Ithaca Man Arrested in Chestnut Hill Shooting 5) Fire on New Years Eve Ends a Busy Year for IFD For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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ere below, the dirt freshly turned, lies one version of the history of 2015.

Flipping through the nearly 2,000 pages we published in the past year reveals no mentions of Donald Trump, little analysis of the situation in the Middle East, and nary a debate on the merits of President Obama. Our news-gathering is focused on the governance, the people, and the happenings of this place, as best we can manage, and so we leave commentary on the Great Events of History happening outside this square of unreality to the experts, the demagogues, and your friends and relatives on Facebook.

The zeitgeist does make its appearance in the actions of Ithacans, of course, globally-minded as so many people are in these parts: for example, the issue of divesting from Israeli products at GreenStar inspired several people on both sides to vote thousands of times in one of our humble online opinion polls, and local climate activists continued to emphasize the links between the threat of global warming and the fossil fuel infrastructure that powers homes and businesses here.

Many Ithaca College students and faculty, in the fall semester, voiced their problems with current race relations on campus in a series of protest actions that attracted national media attention and echoed what was happening at many other institutions of higher learning.

The questions raised in these stories are still being answered: really, this “review” is more of a “where are we now” on a slew of topics that were notable over the past 12 months. Start showing up, and perhaps you will find your very own cause celebre here at this time next year.

S h e r i f f K e n L a n s i n g at M a r c h m e e t i n g o f t h e L e g i s l at u r e t o g o ov e r a f t e r - i n c i d e n t r e p o r t o n H o r n b r o o k R o a d S ta n d o f f ( P h o t o : B i l l C h a i s s o n)

The Danby Standoff Keeping it local does not forestall tragedy, as we were all reminded a year ago with the standoff in Danby that ended with the death of David Cady.

On Jan. 3, Tompkins County sheriff ’s deputies reported that David Cady, 36, a Danby man who had barricaded himself 6

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in his Hornbrook Road home, had been found dead. The events that led up to his death sparked an outcry from local residents and sparked a lawsuit, a federal investigation, and even a letter obtained by the Ithaca Times from a former undersheriff calling for the sheriff to resign.

On Dec. 30, 2014 around 7 p.m. the sheriff ’s department attempted to execute an arrest warrant at Cady’s home, according to the sheriff ’s report.

“The suspect was identified inside of the residence by deputies and refused to come out. Two children and a woman were also present inside of the residence,” the report read.

“Through verbal negotiations the family members were removed to a secure location leaving the suspect alone inside of the residence,” the report continued.

“Deputies attempted to negotiate with the suspect to come out of the residence.

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The suspect barricaded himself inside of his darkened residence. A firearm was discharged from the house at a patrol vehicle. Since that time law enforcement has remained on scene in an attempt to peacefully resolve the situation.”

It soon came to light that after a 60hour standoff, Cady had died of a selfinflicted gunshot wound, and it turned out that the warrant had resulted from a DUI charge. Deputies said there was no exchange of gunfire, only an initial shot fired by Cady when this incident began on Tuesday night. Authorities said they made repeated efforts to communicate with Cady but were unsuccessful.

Every seat in the house was full—and some people even sat on the floor—at the Monday, Jan. 12 meeting of the Tompkins County Public Safety Committee, where Sheriff Ken Lansing offered a timeline for the events that transpired during the police standoff on Hornbrook Road in Danby.

Before law enforcement representatives spoke, a number of members of the public stepped up to the microphone to comment, including Melissa Cady, the widow of David Cady.

She said all the rumors of her husband supposedly having an arsenal were “crazy.”

“Us driving to Pennsylvania for bullets is nuts. We’re from PA. We drove to Pennsylvania to see family,” she said.

“My husband needed help. I told the police from the beginning that he was suicidal.

He needed someone to help him and all they did is bring in more and more and more police.”

So what exactly happened? At the meeting law enforcement officials attempted to account for what transpired.

District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson, who was called to the scene of the incident, said, “After Mr. Cady discharged the rifle … it was not a situation that was going to result in storming the house in an effort to get him out because that would mean someone would die. That was never an acceptable outcome.”

Legislator Peter Stein (D-Ithaca) asked about the reasons for deploying the Rook, a type of armored vehicle used to remove the house’s walls. He asked, “Exactly what were you going to accomplish with the Rook?” Lansing replied, “Eventually there would have been no cover for him, and he would have had to give up or take his life as he did.”

At a March 16 Tompkins County Legislature Public Safety Commission meeting, Melissa Cady accused the sheriff ’s deputies of threatening to call Child Protective Services if David Cady did not surrender. She had also made this claim when police interviewed her on Jan. 1 about the initial encounter on Dec. 30: “Officer (sic) Vann said that I was going to be arrested and that my children could be taken away.”

Then in May a former undersheriff, Derek Osborne, sent a letter to members of the county legislature calling for the resignation of Sheriff Ken Lansing and Undersheriff Brian Robison. “I can no longer sit by and watch in complete

embarrassment the response of Sheriff Ken Lansing,” he wrote. “While watching the 03/16/15 meeting I was dismayed, but not at all surprised, to witness Sheriff Lansing publicly blaming me for him not being present at Hornbrook Road from the onset. Sheriff Lansing is not only being completely dishonest in his words, he is exhibiting the most cowardly of behavior for someone in such an important leadership position.”

And just in case you forgot there were landlords involved (it was, after all, a rented home), Bob Bartholf and Joe Petricola came into the Ithaca Times’ office in June to talk about the lawsuit they were planning against the Tompkins County sheriff ’s office for the irreparable damage made to their rental property at 127 Hornbrook Road.

The lawsuit was filed on Aug. 6 against the sheriff ’s office, the lead agency in the siege, and the county. Law enforcement “negligently and with excessive and overwhelming force fired a large number of explosive devices into the Premises,” the suit states, and was also “excessive and overwhelming” in its use of tear gas and using heavy machinery to contaminate and dismantle the home. It also claims the sheriff ’s office was “negligent in its direction and coordination of the other law enforcement agencies.”

Ithaca Alliance found private or semi-public sponsorship for features like the mobile reading room and the playground—really, the whole two blocks should have been completed in that bouncy, weatherproof flooring. Some might have wished the gateway signs had not been completed, as they appeared a bit too Brutalist for some, but they did spawn a parody Twitter account. And we answered the question about those 14 surveillance cameras on the Commons—they’re there mostly because people liked knocking off public art in the old Commons, according to city officials—a symbol of the longstanding complaints from some business owners and downtown residents about late-night hooliganism on the pedestrian mall. If you lose something, put in a freedom of information request with the city, and no, the police are not watching; Th e c o m p l e t e d n e w C o m m o n s j u s t a f t e r i t o p e n e d i n Au g u s t, Commons maintenance people are v i e w e d f r o m t h e E a s t. ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) probably the best to ask up front as they have the video feed available to them. ask for help, then you subject the project executives said, most of their employees In other development news, after the to meeting other well-meaning demands,” would prefer to be somewhere with a Tompkins County Industrial Development Ferguson wrote. large parking lot. Construction continues Agency (IDA) rejected an application Those demands include making in earnest on the Marriott, which is for Jason Fane’s proposed Clinton Street buildings green, projects, using local scheduled for an August 2016 open, along The Developing Downtown development in December 2014, Mayor labor and paying a living wage to those with the Carey Building’s expansion, The most obvious change for the Svante Myrick started off 2015 calling employed when the building is complete. which will accommodate an expanded downtown Ithaca habitue in 2015 was the for changes to the city’s tax abatement In response to these repeated concerns, Rev, the start-up generator, and marketcompletion of the three-year construction program (CIITAP). Gary Ferguson of in early July Legislator Will Burbank rate apartments. project that was the Commons (D-Ithaca) proposed Another project that saw movement rebuild. a moratorium on forward was the Old Library site at The Commons was essentially new abatements. We North Cayuga and West Court streets, complete by the beginning of took a look at the after much debate and deliberation in August, with an official opening issue in a September the county legislature chambers. There celebration the last weekend of the cover story that, in were three proposals put forward for month. Even as the pavers were short, recounted housing developments, with much of being put into place, the fatalism the argument over the neighborhood agitation for one that pervaded the last months of whether there’s from STREAM Collaborative that would the project could still be heard from enough local labor have reused much of the building, but business owners at City Hall— to build projects which had far less housing units than would it ever be completed?—and economically without the Travis Hyde proposal that was a check-in with merchants after a including the Syracuse eventually accepted. A 3-2 committee month or so of the New Commons and Binghamton vote in June advanced that plan, designed still had them warning cautiously areas.

by Holt Architects, to the legislature’s on declaring victory yet, with three By the time the consideration. There was a nearly fiveyears of losses to recoup.

CIITAP committee hour meeting on June 16 without any The reaction of the general reported their findings decision made, and a deadlocked 6-6 July public has been mostly favorable and recommendations 10 vote. The matter was kicked back to since the opening, with its 14,000 in December, they had committee—another deadlock, with three bulbs planted; almost 3,200 feet of found that all previous different resolutions proposed—and finally underground water piping (and local labor numbers the Travis Hyde/Holt design was accepted about the same amount of sewer); were pretty much a on Aug. 4 with Nate Shinagawa and Kathy the 1,480 square feet of granite “wild ass guess. ” Luz Herrera changing their votes. Now, the Th e l at e s t r e d e s i g n o f t h e Tr i a n g l e o r Tr e b l o c outside Center Ithaca costing a Both the Canopy plan for 50-some condos is before the city’s b u i l d i n g , a s s e e n f r o m t h e e a s t. half-million dollars; and the open Hilton hotel and the review boards. ( I l l u s t r at i o n : S T R E A M C o l l a b o r at i v e) design that’s reminded people there new Tompkins Trust Campus Advantage, an Austin-based are some nice-looking buildings headquarters applied student-housing outfit came to Ithaca with on the Commons, while allowing for the Downtown Ithaca Alliance expressed for abatements this year, the latter of which a proposal for a 600-plus unit 11-story easier access to the main service corridor frustration in a Feb. 18 column, that “there we covered at length in the June 3 issue— building at the State Street Triangle, the underground. Everything in the original is no entry point to discuss labor, building the bank’s decision to consolidate its site of the Trebloc building. The initial plan by Sasaki has been installed, except materials, energy efficiency” on projects employees in one headquarters downtown design, built within the 120-foot height for the water feature planned for that patch outside of the abatement area, which wasn’t made on pure economics, since it’s restriction but filling much of the block of gravel in Bank Alley. covers the State Street corridor, and parts estimated that building costs about four with a very same-y looking facade, was As budgetary issues popped up with of Collegetown and the West End. “But times as much to build downtown as out in continued on page 8 the project, the city and the Downtown when you build downtown, as soon as you a field somewhere, and, as Tompkins Trust T

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it without a monetary figure on the table, but if we had an offer, that could potentially spark negotiation,” he said.

The neighbors told him that it’s difficult to fundraise or put in a bid for the land if the county is not willing to give them a ballpark figure regarding the amount it might accept. “Right now, we don’t know. Should we raise $300,000?

Or we could raise $10,” said GraceKobas. “Are you willing to give it for a token price for a group that would raise money for stewardship, or are you looking for a great deal of money?”

“I have no expectation to what that [dollar amount] would be,” replied Klein.

It was agreed that the county would conduct a new assessment of the land to get a more accurate determination of its worth (the land was assessed at $340,000 in 2009, before the discovery of the additional wetlands.)

A month later at the committee’s December meeting, Klein told Roy Luft, an Ithaca resident and a member of the Indian Creek Neighborhood Association, that although the county had completed a new assessment he was not free to share the results.

Earlier in the meeting, Luft expressed his interest in buying the land; he proposed

13 miles to their school,” Luft said. Gearing the housing toward seniors would solve that issue, he said.

“The NRP project was not environmentally friendly,” he added. “It involved cutting down the woods, busing children such a distance and putting a burden on the most overused intersection, the ‘octopus’ on [Route] 96, the busiest intersection in the county at peak hours.”

Though the committee would not reveal the results of the assessment, Legislator Rich John (D-Ithaca) said that the county would be willing to consider offers below the 2009 assessment of the land.

The Continued Housing Crunch Much talk and some work on what to do about Ithaca’s perpetually tight housing market continued in 2015. In a March cover story, we focused on the issues of funding facing affordable housing development, particularly that of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, which has emerged as the only nonprofit P r o p o s e d f o u r - s t o ry m i x e d - u s e b u i l d i n g s at H a n c o c k a n d developer in town since its affiliation F i r s t s t r e e t s ( I m ag e : It h ac a N e i g h b o r h o o d H o u s i n g S e rv i c e s) with Better Housing of Tompkins County was completed this year. Developers looking to get into the affordable housing more wetlands on the property than 2015Review game, in short, have to deal with a lot initially reported, and residents urged the contin u ed from page 7 of applications to the state, which then county to hold off on issuing another RFP; funnels money from the feds, which comes (predictably) shot down quickly because they would like to see the land preserved from tax credits from private entities … it’s of the city planning board’s concerns, in its natural state. complex but important stuff. with “massing” a particularly worrying At a meeting on Nov. 24, Indian The tight margins, which affordable point. Several redesigns (tweaked by Creek member Linda Grace-Kobas housing development the omnipresent STREAM) have since gave a presentation to the has, were illustrated come before the board, to break up that Legislature’s Government by the decline of the monolithic feel, with the project in limbo Operations Committee.

Greenways project, an for the moment after the mayor came out She said she hoped that INHS for-sale condos against the design as it stood. environmental impact would development approved And, it’s not exactly downtown, but be emphasized in all decisionby the Town of Ithaca in it’s worth remembering the Chapter House making on the part of the April. INHS announced burnt down April 14, with construction county, and that if there was they were pulling the of a historically faithful replacement due public use of the space it would plug on the project in to begin this year; we recalled past times be as green space. She said the December due to rising there in our feature “A New Chapter “rich ecosystem” is home to an construction costs, the House” on August 5. array of wildlife such as wild fact affordable housing turkeys, foxes, and owls, and is still assessed at Biggs Parcel that the land is home to mature market rates, leading to One ongoing issue in Tompkins white pine, oak, and walnut higher property taxes, County that continued to be the subject trees. She also mentioned that and so on. of debate in 2015 is the potential the association has spoken Another INHS development of the former county health with four archaeologists who project at the old P&C department property. More commonly believe the land may have Fresh/Neighborhood referred to as the “Biggs parcel,” the 26historical significance as an Pride grocery store acre piece of county-owned land is a archaeological site. site at 210 Hancock partially wooded area located south of Planning Commissioner Street went through the Indian Creek Road and east of Harris B. Ed Marx said the Planning city approval process, Dates Drive near the hospital. This year, Advisory Board had already with proponents and the legislature continued its quest to find looked at the parcel’s opponents exchanging a proper use for a piece of land. Keri environmental value and influence at a series of Blakinger and Jaime Cone covered the found that the benefits of Th e “ ov e r b u i l d” o f t h e C a r e y B u i l d i n g b y Tr av i s meetings over a few issue in a series of stories. preserving the land as it is are h y d e i s p r ov i d i n g f o u r f l o o r s o f a pa r t m e n t s months. A mostly proIn 2012 the county decided to sell outweighed by the potential d ow n t ow n ( I l l u s t r at i o n : J o h n S n y d e r , A r c h i t e c t) Hancock development the property and put out a request for value of alternative use of the a plan wherein he would combine his own crowd associated with the group Northside proposals from developers. The plan for land and added that the county is not in adjacent 10 acres of land with the Biggs United showed up to the May planning affordable, eco-friendly housing drew a position to maintain ownership of the Parcel and build senior housing on the lot. board meeting, while neighbors who significant criticism and ultimately property.

Luft said senior housing would is a better weren’t happy about the size of the foura lawsuit from area residents, who “I suppose we could sell it to any fit for the area than affordable housing. story apartment building came out in formed the Indian Creek Neighborhood entity,” said Government Operations some force at July’s Common Council Association. Eventually developer NRP Committee Chair Dan Klein (D-Caroline), “The key reason the housing is for seniors is that we’re in the Enfield school district, meeting and continued to make their Properties, the lone RFP respondent, but he said that the entity would have to and children in the area have to be bused opinions known until final approvals were withdrew its proposal upon discovering make a monetary offer. “We can’t discuss 8

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granted.

The city approved its comprehensive plan, the first complete overhaul since 1971, which focuses on walkable urban density, alternatives to automobiles, and developing more mixed-use properties.

Form Ithaca held a series of design charettes in June that came out with similar goals, which will be feeding the development conversation with ideas for years to come, as is usually the case with such studies .. they make the rounds, people absorb some of it in truth and some not so well, and something far from it results.

Race Relations Questions of race and power continued grabbing attention in Ithaca throughout 2015. In August, Mike Nocella reported on the change in community and police relations (“Policing Reforms Lead to New Questions,” Aug. 12) a year since the day an out-of-uniform Ithaca Police Department sergeant drew his gun in a “low ready position” on four black teenagers, the same day as Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson, Mo. The same day we published that story, the mothers of the two boys detained in 2014 decided to sue the city, so the discussion is certainly not over. Part of the fallout from that event was an eight-point plan proposed by Mayor Svante Myrick that included adding body cameras to standard-issue IPD equipment, with the policy publicized in June before its initial implementation—the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office will be following much the same rules with their cameras.

At Ithaca College, several campus incidents set off a wave of protests during the fall 2015 semester. In our cover story “Dear White People: Race Leads to Tensions at IC,” (Nov. 11), editor Bill Chaisson described as the proximate causes of the protests a planned “Preps and Crooks” fraternity party, remarks made by security officers during a safety presentation, and the following incident: On Oct. 8 during a roundtable discussion that was part of the school’s “Blue Sky” experiment, fashion magnate Christopher Burch, a 1976 graduate of IC, insulted Tatiana Sy, an African American alumna. After she described herself as having a “savage thirst for learning,” he began referring to her as “the savage.” The ostensible host of the roundtable, Tom Kur (Class of ’70), not only didn’t call Burch to account, but instead picked up his cue and referred to Sy in the same manner. Subsequent efforts by the administration to smooth things over were regarded (as reported

by The Ithacan, the campus newspaper) as unsatisfactory, to the say the least.

The protests have led to no-confidence votes by students and faculty; strong majorities of both came out against IC president Tom Rochon. A walkout on Nov. 11 garnered some attention from national media as other groups on campuses across the country questioned the state of race relations.

An Oct. 24 meeting filled the

auditorium/ library at Beverly J. Martin Elementary School for a Black Lives Matter teachin addressing what Cornell professor Russell Rickford called the “new realities of structural racism,” with an emphasis on mass incarceration.

At that event, recapped in Josh Brokaw’s Oct. 28 article, “If You’re S t u d e n t p r o t e s t o r at It h ac a C o l l e g e c a l l s f o r Black in Ithaca, P r e s i d e n t To m R o c h o n ’s r e s i g n at i o n .

Your Blood is ( P h o t o : Ya n a M a z u r k e v i c h /t h e It h ac a n) Boiling,” speakers questioned the against the governor’s plan. Cuomo was pervasiveness present in effigy, as it were: a cardboard of post-racialism and the idea of diversity cutout of Andrew Cuomo shared the stage in institutions, with IC professor Sean with panel members. “Teachers Aren’t the Bradwell saying, “Organizations may want Problem,” read the sign around its neck. a face for a poster, but have little desire for Sue Casement of the Fairport change,” Teachers’ Union said they chose to offer Minerva Deland as a rallying place because Teachers Evaluations/Testing “smaller districts couldn’t do it.” Early In response to what they viewed as estimates of the rally were around 2000, a power-grab on the part of Governor “but that was before the buses started Andrew Cuomo, organizations like arriving,” said Casement.

“Because We Care,” a group of South Many of the protestors’ signs took Seneca, Trumansburg, Lansing and issue with the standardized tests: “Tests Ithaca parents, educators, and concerned are for lab rats, not children,” read one; community members, held forums with “My Kids Are More Than a Score,” read teachers and legislators. another. Cindy B., a fifth grader, took the As part of an education reform mic to tell about her fourth-grade testing package implemented in 2014, the experience. An avid and fluid reader, annual professional performance review Cindy said she got high marks from all (APPR) began scoring teachers’ teaching her teachers but, to her and their complete ability using a mix of classroom and shock, “totally bombed the New York peer evaluations and student test scores.

State test” and was therefore assigned to The teachers’ union has resisted the plan “additional reading support.” She was later to use students’ scores on standardized able to get the requirement for additional tests to count as 50 percent of a teachers’ reading support removed, because her performance score, but in early 2015 teachers knew the test score did not reflect Cuomo used his control of the budget her actual reading proficiency. process to force acceptance of the plan, William Cala, interim superintendent refusing to release either the estimates of Fairport Schools, encouraged parents for school aid (known in educational to opt out of their kids’ taking the tests. parlance as “the governor’s runs”) and “If you have a test and no one shows up… insisting that school aid will be contingent the entire system collapses.” Cala said that upon the legislature’s passage of his entire 60,000 students opted out of the tests last educational reform package. year, and estimated that a quarter million Districts in contract negotiations will do so this year. Cala said he wanted to with their teachers, such as Trumansburg see standardized test scores “uncoupled” and Newfield, faced the unsavory task of from the APPR. entering negotiations without knowing In Dryden, parents tried to do their how much money they would have to part in pushing back against Cuomo’s spend. As both the governor and the education reform by preventing their teachers’ unions retrenched, it appeared children from taking the tests, but the legislature would either have to call Superintendent Sandy Sherwood warned the governor’s bluff and force a shutdown them about potential ramifications. of state government or accept the APPR She shared her reservations over such a requirement and make other concessions movement during the Dryden Board of in order to get the budget done on time.

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“you have heard me talk about the need to stop the increased testing, stop tying ‘one and done’ tests to teacher assessment, and stop using school funding as a punishment for not meeting objectives set by people well outside of the education arena.”

But, she said “I would be remiss if I did not inform the board and the public at this time that this could have very negative consequences for our district.

The 95 percent participation rule is part of the federal regulations. Federal law says that failure to comply with these requirements can subject states and school districts to sanctions including the loss of Title I monies and other Federal funding including IDEA grants.”

On Nov. 19, a bipartisan conference committee, drawing members from the House of Representatives and the Senate, negotiated terms that will make major changes in the No Child Left Behind law and end many of the protracted arguments among teachers, school administrators, and parents that have bogged down local school districts, including the Ithaca city schools.

Under the new agreement all of the federal testing—administered annually in third through eighth grade and once in high school—will remain in place.

But now states and local districts will be allowed to judge what constitutes “poor performance,” and children will no longer be required to reach set proficiencies in reading and math at certain dates. The federal government will no longer have the power to force states to institute changes in academic standards like the Common Core.

In other recent developments, on December 15 members of the New York State Board of Regents voted in favor of a four-year moratorium on the use of state test scores as a component in teacher evaluations.

Independents Winning Elections The weeks before and after the November election were a little more interesting than usual in a city completely dominated by the Democratic Party. Two independents, Anna Kelles in Fall Creek and Rich John on East Hill, ran for and won the county legislator seats in those districts. Kelles defeated Nate Shinagawa, who had been an incumbent in the East Hill district, and John defeated Eli Kirshner, a Cornell student who received the party nomination in a caucus vote.

Kelles managed to get on the ballot between the time that incumbent Kathy Luz Herrera announced that she would not be running and the deadline to submit the required number of signatures on a petition. John, however, hesitated—he had told the county party that he would not run if not nominated— and was forced to run as a write-in candidate.

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Combination of Strong & Fast CrossFit: broad, general and inclusive by design

By Michael Nocella

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t’s practically an American tradition to walk into the New Year with one of your resolutions being to lose a few pounds. Most people just indulged in holiday meal goodness, but now it’s back to reality.

Luckily, in Ithaca, there are all sorts of options to get your conditioning back on track. From Planet Fitness to Island Fitness to the YMCA, finding a gym shouldn’t be too much work.

However, if you know the motivation needed to go to gym by yourself on a regular basis is going to wear thin, or that a treadmill or bench press simply isn’t providing the type of results or change you’re looking for, maybe it’s time to look for an alternative.

One of the trendiest forms of exercise in the country is CrossFit. CrossFit is promoted as both a physical exercise philosophy and also as a competitive fitness sport. Two locations in Ithaca offer CrossFit training and classes: CrossFit Pallas—located at 241 Cherry St.—and CrossFit of Ithaca—currently located at 618 Elmira Road, but slated to relocate next month to a space across from the Dunkin Donuts on West Green Street.

CrossFit of Ithaca owners Jared Jordan and Nina Cobb talked with me about the evolution of CrossFit, and its place in the Ithaca community.

“CrossFit is an exercise program,” Jordan explained, “that is constantly varied, functional movements practiced at a high intensity. The idea behind CrossFit

is the need for everyday movement varies in degree [of difficulty for each person”], not [in the kinds of movements]. We all do the same movements, but the stress or amount of those movements is different for each individual.

“CrossFit is about getting you generally prepared and fit for everyday life,” he continued. “There’s no specialty.

We don’t specialize in running or weight lifting. We try to do it all. That’s the everyday need in life—you need to be ready to do everything. The idea behind CrossFit is we try to make each individual as fit as we possibly can—meaning that they’re maybe not the fastest or strongest, but the combination of both in between [is what you need].”

Since their opening in February 2014, Cobb said enrollment trends have been up and down, but both she and Jordan anticipate their current location “out in the boonies” has played a role in that.

“It’s been up and down,” Cobb said.

“Summer is slow. Holidays are slow. After the New Year, from now through March, we definitely see an uptick. I think the people who pick it up and stick with it feel like it really pays off for them. They come in and tell us how much more energy they have. If they’ve had injuries, they talk about how much better those have become through doing CrossFit. Just being strong takes care of a lot of issues.”

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While CrossFit Pallas could not be reached for an interview, its website (crossfitpallas. com) provides plenty of information as to what their business model is all about.

“Our program,” they say, “delivers a fitness that is, by design, broad, general, and inclusive.

Our specialty is not specializing. Combat, survival, many sports, and life reward this kind of fitness and, on average, punish the specialist.

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A Future in Hockey

Dane Sciarraba, age 9, makes Express USA team

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get quite a few column ideas sent my way, and I recently received this, forwarded by a longtime friend, reader and hockey player and coach: “Dear Jay and Karen, Congratulations. Dane has been identified as a high level player at the 2006 age group and as such we would like to extend an invitation for him to participate with the 2016 DRAFTDAY Regional Express USA team.”

At first, I was a bit thrown off, because when I saw the “Draftday” tag, I saw the 2006 reference, and I thought that perhaps an Ithaca High hockey alum was being drafted nearly 10 years after graduation.

I took a closer look, and I realized that the letter was addressed to Jay and Karen Sciarabba, the 2006 reference was to their son’s year of birth, and that 9-year-old Dane had been invited to participate in an elite hockey tournament team. Wow, they start ‘em young these days …

“Yes, it really is an honor,” Jay told me. “The Regional Express program is a team from Western and Central New York,

there are several age groups, and they select players and coaches they want to represent the U.S.A. on a Regional basis.”

He added, “Is it a guarantee that these kids will keep moving up? No, but it’s an opportunity to keep playing and see some really good competition.”

Jay said, “At first, Dane was a bit shocked he was chosen, because he’s not really a big goal scorer.” I reminded Jay—a longtime friend and a guy with some Division 1 hockey experience—that big-time scorers are not always the most desirable players, and he added, “True …

Dane is a grinder, a player that is in the corners fighting for the puck. He’s a kid that makes the other players better, and he’s not a fancy guy or a kid that celebrates a lot after a goal.”

Dane plays in the new youth hockey league, and two weeks ago, the Ithaca Times reported, “In 2015 the Finger Lakes Regional Hockey Association (FLRHA) was launched in an effort to provide a different business model and

career at Brockport. I asked Jay a question he knew was coming, and he was ready. “Of course,” Sciarabba offered, “people talk about overplaying.

‘How much is too much?’ In Dane’s case, he plays guitar, he plays viola, he rides motorcycles, and he’s a nature kid. We do pay attention to it, and I’m feeling he’s a wellrounded kid.”

Dane Sciarraba (left), ace grinder. (Photo provided) As a guy who did go through the youth hockey ranks and the approach to youth hockey compared to the recruiting process, Jay knows that a parent longstanding methods of IYHA.” Jay said can actually do more harm than good Dane’s accomplishment of being selected to play for the Express Regional is a shared if over-invested and if the player is not internally motivated. He told me, “I asked one, and that it “reflects well on the level Dane a long time ago if he just played of coaching the kids are getting. Jordan hockey because his dad did, and I told Tietrus played pro hockey for the Elmira him he didn’t have to do this for me. I am Jackals and in Europe; Conor Stokes (six convinced it’s what he wants to do. He just seasons in the Ontario Hockey League) loves it.” has helped a lot; Russ Johnston (manager The Express will have their of The Rink); Jeremy Leroux (who played tournaments and practices in April and in the Detroit Red Wings organization); May, after the youth leagues have wrapped it’s quite a supporting cast.” up.

Jay said, “Dane’s really excited. We Again, I have been friends with Jay looked at the picture of the U.S.A. jersey for many years, and I knew that he was online, and he can’t wait to wear it.” Dane’s on Ithaca High’s 1987 state championship dad likes the focus of the Express program, team, played at Northwood Prep in Lake and told me. “It’s not about winning. It’s Placid, and then went on to play D-1 at about having fun and developing the skills Northeastern. After two years there, he the kids will need to keep moving up.” • transferred and finished his collegiate

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In an interview with the Ithaca Times while she was doing the introductory local media rounds—20 minutes, no more, no less—Garrett talked about her background, including her work as a provost for the University of Southern California, of which she said this:

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by moving to the district immediately before his run, couldn’t shake the appearance of being a carpetbagger. John did the door-to-door footwork and put out signs, but Kirshner’s disadvantage was his youth. Although an Ithaca native and veteran of Mayor Svante Myrick’s political campaign, he was also a 19-year-old sophomore at Cornell.

Perhaps most startling was the oddly off-point responses of the Tompkins County Democratic party itself, which in a series of guest opinions and letters to the Ithaca Times, painstakingly explained the election rules they were following to the letter. This came in spite of the fact that all of the public complaints were about how things appeared to be working.

For example, Luz Herrera announced her resignation a day before Shinagawa announced he would run for her seat.

The party denied that the action was coordinated, but true or not, most people simply didn’t believe them.

We also worked hand in hand with the mayor, the county commissioners, with all of local government, to ensure that our neighborhood was one that was good for all of us who lived there. In that way USC and Cornell are unusual private institutions in having this deep sense of commitment to the public mission. And think both of them had productive town-gown relationships, which not every university can claim.

Cornell The biggest change in Ithaca’s allimportant higher education scene in 2015 was no doubt the installation of Elizabeth Garrett as Cornell’s new president, replacing David Skorton after he decamped for Washington, D.C. to run the Smithsonian.

Garrett said that the university would be very active in economic development, but has no plans to increase the $1.5 million contribution it makes to the city coffers via a memorandum of understanding. The topic of Cornell’s contribution, so often mentioned in city meetings, popped up again this fall when local artist Caroline Byrne started tabling around town with a petition for Cornell to quadruple their giving for city services.

In other Cornell news, we covered the 150th anniversary “Charter Day” celebrations with a story from Keri Blakinger that noted the radical, secular, land-grant origins of Cornell, the non-

Cor n ell pr esiden t Elizabeth Garrett ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) religiosity of which was a controversial stance in 1865.

Food Business The economic potentialities of Ithaca’s food businesses kept gaining attention over the course of 2015.

Rosie, a grocery delivery app that moved into its own digs this summer after starting out at Rev, was profiled in a March

feature. We took a shopping trip of T-burg’s ShurSave with manager/ owner Bret Seafuse to see how people ordering from their phones or computers can have someone else do their shopping.

Producing so-called “valueadded” items is the next step in diversifying a food-based economy.

The Ithaca area has been growing and selling fresh produce since the founding of the Ithaca Farmers’ Market in 1973. In July, we profiled Ithaca’s growing food brands, with companies like Grainful, Emmy’s Organics, That Indian Drink, and Ithaca Hummus planning on continuing to expand their markets to cover the region, nation, or world.

In the autumn, in previewing the first Savor the Finger Lakes event and the Apple Harvest Festival, we took a look at the growing hard cider business around Ithaca. The short of it is we have a lot of crazily-named and very tasty apples around these parts—along with other fruits, like pears—along with some of the earliest people to join the cider renaissance in America. So if you want to get in on the ground floor of the next craft beverage boom, start visiting your local orchards and learning the difference between a Newtown Pippin and a Harry Masters Jersey. •

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I had to bail on Supergirl, Arrow and all the other safe, semi-soft comic book shows on the networks. How can you keep me down on the farm now that I’ve seen Marvel’s Daredevil and Jessica Jones on Netflix? These series play like 13-hour movies, and they’re much saltier, gritty and sexy than any of the Marvel movies.

Daredevil feels like a Martin Scorsese epic, sweaty and violent. Jessica Jones is a twisted love story about damaged heroes that are essentially rape victims, suffering from past mistakes and PTSD. Stories like these are only as effective as their villains, and DD’s Vincent D’Onofrio and JJ’s David Tennant are two of the most compelling, conflicted villains I’ve seen in any medium. These series are anything but kid’s stuff.

Dramas and Comedies I can’t remember the last time nearly three hours blew past me like a frigid blast of winter wind the way it did watching Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight. A throwback to the confined space of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino’s 70mm Western is half drawingroom mystery and half well-earned bloodbath.

Some say it’s too long. I say Tarantino earns every minute we see onscreen, and if you were just hearing the audience, you’d swear you were watching a full-on comedy. The ensemble is profane perfection, and I felt the film’s epic wintry setting in my bones. Most of all I found myself sitting forward in my seat, hanging on every foul, flowery line and wondering what would happen next. QT makes long films that never feel long, and H8 finishes a fine historical trilogy with Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.

Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service proves that you can have humor in your spy films, Daniel Craig. Based on a graphic novel by Mark Millar and Dave

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Gibbons, it’s an editorial reply, albeit one written by a horny teenage boy wondering what a Bond film would be like if it were rated R. This spy movie is self-aware within its own genre; while training a new agent (Taron Egerton), Colin Firth, a secret agent man for a new age, actually reminisces about the Bond legacy with the movie’s megalomaniacal baddie, a goofy, lispy tech genius played by Samuel L. Jackson. The violence goes so far over the top that it pretty much redefines the top. Genre fans will appreciate the metallic shears that Jackson’s assistant has in place of legs and feet, to say nothing of the Mark Hamill cameo.

Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s The Stanford Prison Experiment puts us right at the beginning of the ‘70s when Dr. Philip Zimbardo (Billy Crudup) and his team interviewed a bunch of kids, split the “winners” into prisoners and guards, and arrested them and confined them to a row of nondescript rooms in the basement of a Stanford hall. One of the guards (Michael Angarano) thinks he sounds like Strother Martin’s warden in Cool Hand Luke and becomes that character; to say that he gets a little too into character is an understatement.

The cast includes unknowns or journeyman actors, which increases the fear and intensity as guard and prison relations get stretched to the brink, and beyond. It all happened so fast …

Adam McKay moved from SNL head writer to writing and directing some of Will Farrell’s funniest comedies. McKay’s The Big Short is a quantum leap in quality and depth, a smart, snarky and witheringly cynical look at the 2008 financial collapse and how it happened. Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, and Brad Pitt lead a stellar ensemble through a complex and dense story, shot in a messy, intimate documentary style. McKay allows his ballsy brokers to break the fourth wall and disagree with the narrative and correct it. He also employs other hilarious and startling devices to explain the shaky accounting methods that led to worldwide financial disaster.

Above: Alicia Vikander in “Ex Machina”. Top Left: Colin Firth in “Kinsman: The Secret Service” (Photos Provided)

Pixar’s best films make you laugh your head off , break your heart and bring real tears to your eyes. They know when to sprinkle a spoonful of sugar and when not to. Given Pixar’s gift for touching our emotions, Inside Out is all about the emotions of an 11-year-old girl. The story lets us peek into the minds of her parents and other characters. Pixar’s skill for turning high concept notions into relatable, touching stories with surprises and twists that are never predictable keeps me from getting into details. The less you know going in, the better. Involving a kid is optional. Inside Out is that good.

I missed Mad Max: Fury Road this summer. Watching it at home on VOD, I thought, “This thing was designed to be seen big.” The new Max (Tom Hardy) is practically a mute witness to the real story, relegated to riding shotgun for Charlize Theron in one of her greatest roles as a rebel woman warrior searching for her homeland. There’s a magnificent prolonged car chase in the Miller style, a deeply felt feminist saga and post apocalyptic crazies with great names like continued on page 18

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Remembering a time so very long ago

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Gill Landry, Jan. 9, 7 p.m., The Dock

I was nearly destroyed then, only to be frozen and brought back to life now.

Human beings have assimilated with artificial intelligence. They share existence temporarily and eternally, with their computer counterparts. Occasionally, they kick back and listen to ancient music on ancient devices known as turntables. My

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We are in the year 3016. The world as we know it was destroyed 980 years ago from a combination of entropic entities.

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It brings me back to a conversation I had with Landry so many centuries ago.

“I would say the modern world is plagued by overpopulation and a tolerance, if not a celebration, of greed. But I don’t think the last part is new, “ Landry told me in the year 2015. “I’ve noticed we seem as a ‘culture’ to celebrate all kinds of insanity and wonder why the outcome is insane.

Also, the outcome of so many things seems more prized than the actual doing.”

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remind him of another ancient musician named Bob Dylan. Before I was frozen I thought of Gill Landry as something of a throwback. I suppose now he doesn’t seem so divisive. In fact, Bob Dylan and Gill Landry were actually of the same age. It’s only so clear now.

There’s clues to Trex’s enthusiasm for Landry’s material. “To inspire would probably be the greatest gift one could give.

It could also be a curse though, “ Landry had said. “I write songs because I love it and if it speaks to people in a positive way, I’m satisfied. But truly I’m satisfied even if it doesn’t. For me the best songs one can write, though they may be musically stylistic to a specific period in time, are ones that if the sentiment is true—it remains true at any given time.”

Trex tells me while listening to Landry it’s as if he’s seeing the distant past for the first time: a haunting, rustic, and lonely— yet hopeful, sort of place. “I think that in some degree we do have an infinite canvas for imagination, and I don’t think of art in terms of contemporary or in a sense of time, because everything becomes dusty bones.” Landry lamented. “Attempting to not be a plagiarist or to try and be completely unique and seemingly without influence, I don’t think it’s possible, and I think we live in a slightly difficult time because of all the work that can be found at our fingertips. There’s only so many variations of hunger and satisfaction before you’re retelling the same old story in a slightly different way.”

Landry had said that there was only so many artistic avenues to explore, and those configurations didn’t necessarily alter one’s art. I didn’t entirely agree with him at the time, but here we are in the year 3016, Trex is waxing faux-nostalgic listening to Landry’s records, and I’m rethinking my old viewpoints. Funny, how a halfandroid, half-human finds so much joy in this antediluvian music. Though sitting here listening to it with Trex, I find myself thinking about the old American highway, my travels across it, Kerouac’s travels, and all my old pain and confusion. I regret not going to see Landry when he came to Ithaca so long ago. I should have gone. In fact if I could travel back in time I’d tell myself to go.

“What do you know about time travel?” I ask Trex. •

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By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Die Choking, Sulaco, Twin Lords, Eating Scabs For Protein, Saturday, January 9, 7:00 p.m., The Loft at Chanticleer

jazz greats like Max Roach, Art Blakey, and Buddy Rich did on the kits, and the speed they did it with, and all the insane polyrhythmic attacks—just fills me up with tep inside the extreme-metal vortex, endless possibilities.” and before you get a chance to wipe Die Choking has a grindcore aesthetic, that condensation from your glasses, but their secret power lies in the inner the grindcore behemoths Die Choking will death-metal quality of their music. I feel have you eating your lungs and limbs— like this is where their lighting dynamism upside down. The music is that fast, that comes from. “Death metal is the reason brutal, and that wicked. “Live performance I have dedicated a HUGE chunk of my is really at the heart of it,” bassist and entire life to extreme music.” Herzog vocalist Paul Herzog said. “We have spent a said. “Death’s Scream Bloody Gore and lot of time honing our sound and assuring Pestilence’s Consuming Impulse really had that no matter where we play our sound a massive impact on me. I consciously and power translates.” wanted a mid-range vocal style reminiscent Die Choking’s form of death-grind of those early death-metal records but runs on the technical Dying Fetus-Misery adjusted for a faster, more reckless, and Index-ish side. And that means insane punk approach.” chops with milliseconds to achieve a The band released their third record deep and purposeful architecture. “We III in October 2015. A wondrous neckdefinitely aren’t looking to be progressive whipping brew of extreme death, hardcore, and philosophy, it showcases a transcendent network of three musicians who know their endgame. “I think we wrote most of III between October of 2014 and April of 2015. This was while we were actively touring and living our busy work-life and home-lives,” Herzog said. “We write and release consecutively.

The first song on Die Choking IV will be XXII (our 22nd song).

This is an easier way to see our progress as a unit and is also a cool set of markers and goals for us to hit/achieve. When we hit our 50th or 100th song that will have a lot of meaning for us.”

Bassist and Vocalist Paul Herzog of Die Choking (Photo: Jess Rechsteiner) Cohen spoke of the album’s process. “Actual recording time was about seven days in the in the traditional sense,” Herzog said. studio and a few broken up days mixing “We try to make sure heaviness and speed at Studio 4 with Will Yip. We all track are the focus. Truthfully, it’s difficult to separately in the studio. Because grindcore have ambience and depth in high velocity is more physically demanding than an aggressive music. We try to bring in a dark, average band’s music, and the fact we use odd, and menacing quality.” That said absolutely no triggers, we’ll collectively ambience and depth, which Die Choking track an entire song or two before I get back manage to find within the mix, highlights to drums the following day, as opposed to the particular form of quality that me sitting and just blasting through all the permeates their music. One in which the drums for the first two, three days. I find artists have the tiniest of opportunities to that tracking a single song or two and then do so, given the breakneck pace and speed allowing the guitars, bass, and vocals to be of their songs. Jazz overtones can help. You completed, gives me some time to freshen ever hear an Art Blakey drum fill? up before hitting the next round of takes, “For sheer inspiration, when it’s time and gives each song a fresher feel.” to create something new—it’s jazz all the You can count on some dimensional way for me the past couple years,” drummer breakthroughs on Saturday. “In grindcore, Joshua Cohen said. “Anything from the ‘30s there are no limitations from a creative or through the ‘60s—everything from cool even physical standpoint. As a person into to hard bop. I’ve really grown a disdain for extreme music this is very, very appealing. most triggered drum sounds and digital We beat ourselves up and put a lot of heart approaches over the past several years into this s***,” Herzog said. and watching and absorbing what these Advice: Leave your glasses at home. •

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woodcuts as well as rarely seen oils, both demonstrating his immersion in the modernist landscape tradition.

“Engaging the Edges” (the State of the Art Gallery: July 1 through Aug. 2) Two and three-person shows at the

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shows—unlike his co-exhibitor Barbara Mink, whose exuberant and ever evolving abstractions felt unexpectedly at home here.

Like Brill, Phillips is no longer with the gallery; unlike her, he remains in Ithaca and intends to exhibit more regularly in the

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articularly in Ithaca, shows of visual art have a way of floating by unremembered. Unlike the work of writers, filmmakers, and recording musicians, the art exhibit— while often an important focus of effort and appreciation—tends to fall apart into its component works after the closing date.

Part of my goal as an art critic is to memorialize local exhibits I think are worthy (or at least interesting). I’d like to take the space here to recall seven particularly memorable shows from the past year. This is a personal list and heavily focused on painting—although I think the merit of these artists should be broadly discernable and significant.

“Land Marks: on the way” (Community Arts Partnership ArtSpace: Feb. 3 through 28) Jessica Warner is one of Ithaca’s most sophisticated and compelling painters, merging the traditions of abstract expressionism and still-life with a vivacity that emerges from every detail. Her one-person show at CAP juxtaposed her airy, searching color drawings against her thicker, more corporeal work in oil.

“Duets: Reveling in Remembering” (The Ink Shop Printmaking Center: April 3 through May 30) My token photo show here, although also tellingly inclusive of collage and other mixed media. Laurie S. Snyder, who has long-standing roots in Ithaca, recently retired from teaching at the Maryland Institute College of Art. In her playful, multifarious work here, she paid homage to her late husband John Wood, himself a distinguished experimental photographer.

Honorable mention: Snyder’s twoperson show with local photographer Ben Altman “Projects in Black and White” (Corners Gallery: Jan. 9 through Feb. 28).

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Shop: May 1 through 30) Peter Kahn (1921-1997) is a legendary figure in local art circles. An influential long-time instructor at Cornell, he was accomplished in painting, calligraphy, and the graphic arts. A genuinely historical show of Ithaca art is the rarest of events.

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Not so this exhibit, which highlighted the divergent but complementary work of well-traveled artist friends Leslie Brill and Diane Newton. Brill showed expressionistic works on paper alongside her better-known lyrical, impressionistic oil landscapes.

Newton’s pastel landscapes bring an exacting realism to bear on natural—and most characteristically—man-made environments.

“Drawing Space” (SOAG: Sept. 2 through 27) Another two-person SOAG exhibit of unusual perspicacity. Stephan Phillips brings an austere and inward-looking sensibility to his oil still-lifes. He rarely

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“Four in Hand: A Quartet of Trumansburg Painters” (Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts: Oct. 17 through Nov. 1) My token out-of-town show. This expansive exhibit featured paintings and works on paper by four artists with Trumansburg roots. The crisply detailed realist acrylics and watercolors of Kathy Armstrong and the more atmospheric watercolor landscapes of Laura Butterfield are merely good.

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top this Jurassic World, I want to get off! I watched the latest Jurassic movie and found myself rooting for the dinosaurs because the characters and the story were so emaciated. This one does nothing for actors I like, like Chris Pratt and Judy Greer. If a dinosaur had eaten Bryce Dallas Howard or Jimmy Fallon, I’d call it the best movie of the year.

When Cameron Crowe’s brand of needle drop-driven-heart-on-the-sleeve rom com goes right, you get Say Anything and Jerry Maguire. When it goes wrong, you get Aloha.

Casting Emma Stone as a partAsian character was just one of a thousand poor artistic decisions.

(At least Crowe apologized.) The biggest mistake was thinking anyone wanted to see jerk military contractor Bradley Cooper find his mojo. Cooper sulks and then smiles.

That’s it.

I’ll pick my own heroes, and I can’t recommend Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper. Bradley Cooper does what the simplistic script requires to play a very onedimensional portrait of late Iraq war veteran Chris Kyle. It doesn’t matter how many times his fellow soldiers call him “The Legend.” Killing over 100 people doesn’t make you a hero.

I’m no Guy Ritchie fan, but in a movie year that already has Kingsman: The Secret Service and Spy, his retro espionage flick The Man From U.N.C.L.E. feels like a creaky Bond oldie. Charisma-free Henry Cavill and Arnie Hammer could use a shoe phone or something. They even look brassed off at the notion of a sequel.

I saw Pixels, so you don’t have to. My three-word review? Save your quarters. I didn’t feel one round of Joust’s worth of nostalgia. Go see Wreck It Ralph again.

Adam Sandler also whiffs out with The Cobbler, a simply wretched fantasia about a sad shoe repairman who discovers that his grandfather’s sewing machine allows him to become other people by wearing their shoes. The Cobbler reduces talented people like director Thomas McCarthy and Dustin Hoffman to real heels.

I had a spot all warmed up for Marvel’s Ant-Man, and then I saw Fox’s third attempt at a watchable Fantastic Four.

My two word review? Wrong adjective.

Next to it, Ant-Man looks like The Sting.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice is based on a Thomas Pynchon novel set in the Los Angeles beach community circa 1970, its plot and meaning shrouded in a giant cloud of sinsemilla smoke. On the surface it looks like the perfect synthesis of Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye

and the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski.

Unfortunately, Inherent Vice is like being lost in the city of angels without a map.

Anderson certainly hasn’t provided one.

Bill Pohlad’s Brian Wilson bio-pic Love & Mercy only gets half of the story right. Paul Dano is so spot-on as the young Brian producing Pet Sounds that it’s infuriating that the story of John Cusack’s older brother Brian—and his relationship with shady therapist Dr. Eugene Landy

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(Paul Giamatti)—plays like a cheeseball TV movie. (Cusack’s career of bad movies and miscasting continues with David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars.)

Hot Pursuit feels like a Goldie HawnCharo vehicle abandoned in 1974. Reese Witherspoon is too old, Sophia Vergara’s Latina Lucille Ball shtick stopped making me laugh after a few seasons of Modern Family, and the whole vehicle is a creaky compendium of hopeless buddy flick clichés. It’s no Thelma & Louise. It’s not

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No one gets taken in Taken 3 except the audience. You’ll believe that Forest Whitaker can eat a bagel.

Why didn’t John Cusack reprise his role in Hot Tub Time Machine 2? I submit the sequel as Exhibit A. Hot Tub Time Machine 2 gives a bad name to hot tubs, time machines and the numerical system that organizes the order of unfunny cashgrab reruns. I wish I had a hot tub time machine so that I could get my 93 minutes back. • T

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Rictus Erectus and Cheedo the Fragile. I was in the driver’s seat with Theron and Hardy. It’s an exhilarating view.

Sci-fi movies are usually thirty or forty years behind the novels and short stories, but Ex Machina, the directorial debut of Alex Garland, Danny Boyle’s longtime writing partner (28 Days Later), sure doesn’t feel like it’s lagging.

It reflects the current debate about artificial intelligence as Technology Run Amok. Questions that Blade Runner asked in 1982 are answered here. Domhnall Gleeson (Frank) plays a young programmer who wins a company lottery to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence, a female A.I. (Alicia Vikander) created by his company’s boss, played by Oscar Isaac.

Vikander is a striking and empathetic beauty with see-through forearms and legs, an unsettling human approximation visualized with outstanding visual effects.

There are no superheroes in Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria, but since the film is about an aging actress at a

painful and awkward crossroads in her career, she’s already played a superhero in the X-Men movies, because what are actors spending most of their time doing in movies these days? Such is the mordant commentary that Assayas slips into his new film. Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloe Grace Moretz get some of that All About Eve feel into Assayas’ closely observed melodrama.

Horror M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit plays like a classic Sam Raimi rollercoaster ride, where you laugh and then you get scared, again and again. Comedies and horror movies are hard to do right, and almost every comedy-horror film is usually neither scary nor funny. This “found footage” family thriller gets the mix just right. It’s Shyamalan’s most satisfying film since The Sixth Sense.

Pauline Kael wrote “Great movies are rarely perfect movies.” She could have been writing about David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. It violates its own story logic. It doesn’t actually end, it just sort of stops, and it’s a love letter to ‘70s horror flicks like Halloween and

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Phantasm, so it’s all kinds of politically incorrect. I don’t care, because It Follows is one of the most effective horror films I’ve seen in years. It may not ultimately make sense, but at its basest level, boy, does it work.

Documentaries What We Do in the Shadows is nothing less than the Spinal Tap of New Zealand vampire documentaries. Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi of Flight of the Conchords get the tone of two disparate genres absolutely perfect, and the visual and practical effects are stunning.

The scariest film I saw this year is Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. Gibney has done nothing less than fashion a three-act American tragedy that’s paced like a classic mystery thriller. Now let’s see if anything changes.

Crystal Moselle’s The Wolfpack is the best film I’ve seen about the importance of creativity to combat family dysfunction since Terry Zwigoff ’s Crumb. The Angulo brothers make art inside their cramped New York City tenement for a fairly astonishing reason that I will not reveal.

If you were a kid in the ‘70s, you ran to the National Lampoon when Mad Magazine stopped being hip. Want to know where all your favorite comedy people came from? Watch Douglas Tirola’s magnificent documentary Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon.

Jon Schnepp’s The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened? is a fascinating and exhaustive look at the 1998 Tim Burton- Nicolas Cage take on the Man of Steel that got scuttled

by Warner Bros. three weeks before production would have begun. (What did the WB spend that money on? Wild Wild West. Good job, guys.) Schnepp tracks down everyone involved except Cage: Burton, screenwriter Kevin Smith, studio

heads, wack job “producer” Jon Peters (Smith has been dining out on insane Peters stories for years) and concept artists and designers. Personally, I think the result would have been a cosmic trainwreck, but as with Jodorowsky’s Dune and Lost in La Mancha, the saga of Terry Gilliam’s abandoned Don Quixote project, we will never know …

If you love music, chances are very good that you’ve heard something the Wrecking Crew recorded. Danny Tedesco’s documentary The Wrecking Crew hits you with a barrage of melodies.

The sheer quality and quantity of all that music is mind-boggling. These musicians traded album credit for big paychecks, and they all arrived in L.A. at a time when most session players refused to play rock n’ roll. See the film and you’ll be amazed at how much of the music in your iPod they played.

Mark Hartley’s Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films tells the bugnuts story of the weirdest movie outfit of the ‘80s. Cannon founders Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus produced movies like sausages, but they were better at salesmanship than they were at quality control. Hartley’s film is worth seeing just for the priceless anecdote of Golan pitching a project to Clyde the orangutan, hot off a couple of Clint Eastwood movies.

Also recommended: Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, Jay Roach’s Trumbo, John Crowley’s Brooklyn, Marielle Heller’s The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Ridley Scott’s The Martian, Thomas Vinterberg’s Far from the Madding Crowd, Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck, Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America, David Gregory’s Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau, Robert Gordon & Morgan Neville’s Best of Enemies. • BESTART SHOWS contin u ed from page 16

several of her “Mad Sally” paintings, allegorical oils that fit elaborate OldMaster-ish landscapes around portrayals of the artist’s brazen alter ego. Young artist Madeleine Bialke also works primarily in oil. Her explosive landscapes alternate between observation and painterly imagination. Both artists fit complex art historical knowledge to idiosyncratic personal ends.

“This is How it Starts” (Corners Gallery: Nov. 10 through Jan. 30, 2016,) And, bringing us into the new year, this superb show, which features abstract works on paper by close collaborators Elise Nicol and Melissa Zarem. Nicol, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, is a former Ithacan who works in photography, printmaking, and drawing. Zarem is one of Ithaca’s worthiest—and lately most exhibited—abstractionists. Dialog, complexity, invention, and wit make this a show to revisit. •

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1/06 Wednesday Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz.

Bobby Henrie & Rick Manning: Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org.

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

1/07 Thursday Hoodoo Crossing | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Blues, Rock, Southern Rock.

Jazz Thursdays | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM | Collegetown Bagels, East Hill Plaza, Ithaca | Jazz.

Moosewood Thursday Night Live | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Local musicians.

The Humble Beginnings Band | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Hoopjack, Classic Rock, Blues, Alternative Country, Americana.

1/08 Friday Cielle | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311

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College Ave, Ithaca | Bluesy Folk, Americana.

City Limits | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Swing, Funk, Blues, Rock, Groove.

Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner. Dances are taught. Dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures.

Hopshire Happy Hour with Phlick | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Hopshire Brewery, 1771 Dryden Rd, Freeville | Phil and Rick. Acoustic.

Miller and The Other Sinners | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing Company, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Blues, Soul, Gospel.

Prof & Star | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Happy Hour Music.

Raised on Radio | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Rock.

The Mighty Jet Band | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Blues, Country, Rock, Folk, Swamp Pedal Steel Rock.

The Tarps | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Classic Rock, Covers.

Tovio | 5:30 PM-9:00 PM | The Finger Lakes Cider House, 4017 Hickok Road, Interlaken | Finnish, Tex-Mex, and Original Music suited to the traditional dances of the Finger Lakes Region.

Under Construction | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Swing, Country, Blues, Americana, Funk, Rock, Old-Time.

Wreckless Marci, The KiiL | 8:00 PM | Ranson Steele Tavern, 552 Main Street, Apalachin | Modern Rock, Classic Rock, New Rock, Alternative.

1/09 Saturday Band of Peace | 9:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Roots, Americana, Rock, World, Jam. Die Choking, Sulaco, Twin Lords, Eating Scabs For Protein | 7:00 PM | Chanticleer Loft, 101 W State St, Ithaca | Grindcore, Death Metal, Progressive Death Metal, Hardcore, Doom Metal, Noise, Power Electronics. Ithaca Underground Presents.

Gill Landry | 7:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Bluegrass, Progressive Bluegrass, Old-Time.

Louiston | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Alternative, Indie Pop, Acoustic.

NEO Project | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Co., 2471 Hayes Rd, Montour Falls | Funk, Soul, Jazz, Post Modern R&B, Rock, Afro-Caribbean, World Groove.

StratCat Willie and the Strays | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing Company, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Blues, Rock.

The Pelotones | 9:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | Jazz, Blues, R&B, Swing.

Whistling Dyl and the Wild Cowboys with Jaclyn Loberg | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W Main St, Trumansburg | Hillbilly Soul, Texas Waltzes, Old-Time.

1/10 Sunday Blue Skies | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM | Six Mile Creek Vineyard, 1551 Slaterville Rd, Ithaca | Vintage Jazz & Blues Standards.

Devin Kelly Organ Trio | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Doolin O’Dey | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert

1/29 GET THE LED OUT 2/06 HYNOTIST: MICHAEL C. ANTHONY 2/20 THE MOTH MAINSTAGE 2/28 JOAN BAEZ 3/5 GAELIC STORM 3/6 JUNGLE JACK HANNA 3/26 STEVEN WRIGHT 4/23 MAGICIAN: JEFF MCBRIDE WWW.STATEOFITHACA.COM

Rd, Interlaken | Celtic, Contra, Dance, Old-Time.

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

Trumansburg | Bluesy Folk, Americana, Singer Songwriter.

stop in the Tasting Room Monday thru Friday, 10AM-5PM to purchase tickets or for more information.

concerts

cinemapolis

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Friday, 1/08 to Thursday, 1/14.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes

Faces Of The Damned, Pale Green Stars, Wagner 3000 | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Punk, Metal, Hardcore, Swamp Rock.

Carol | Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman. | 118 mins R | Brooklyn | An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a new romance. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within. | 111 mins PG-13 | Trumbo | In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood’s top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. | 124 mins R |

1/08 Friday Die Choking, Sulaco, Conflagration, Nilexitence | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Grindcore, Death Metal, Hardcore, Doom Metal, Black Metal, Technical Death Metal.

1/11 Monday Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats.

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

1/09 Saturday Ice Nine Kills, Far From Over, Bruce Campbell | 7:00 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Post Hardcore, Metalcore, Alternative Rock, Rock.

New Years Eve Hip Hop After Party: Moneymars Tate, Sharp DeMarko, Ruhshikuh Lakor, Dice Dollaz, Mario Williams, and more! | 10:00 PM | American Legion, 236 Scottswood Ave., Elmira | Syracuse Promotions presents the New Years Eve Hip Hop After Party. Hip Hop, Rap.

1/12 Tuesday I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Intergenerational Traditional Irish Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages.

Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach Jorge T. Cuevas & the Caribe Jazz All-Stars | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Jazz, World Jazz, International.

Open Mic | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Tuesday Bluesday w. Dan Paolangeli & Friends | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Blues, Rock.

Cielle: Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St.,

1/10 Sunday Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble: Winter Chamber Concert | 4:00 PM | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | This All Schumann concert features the Fantasie Stücke for Cello and Piano, Dichterliebe for Baritone and Piano and the Piano Quartet in E-flat. For more information, find them at FingerLakesChamberEnsemble.org

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Treleaven Wine & Movie Night: Hook | 6:30 PM, 1/09 Saturday | King Ferry Winery, 658 Lake Rd, King Ferry | Please call 315.364.5100, email Marketing Manager, Michelle Kokot at marketing@treleavenwines.com or

1/9 GILL LANDRY (OF OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW) 1/14 JOSHUA DAVIS (WITH CHRIS MERKLEY) 1/23 THE BLIND SPOTS 1/27 MIGHTY DIAMONDS 2/13 FREAKWATER 2/26 DAVID RAMIREZ 2/27 GLEN PHILLIPS (TOAD THE WET SPROCKET) THE DOCK

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1/22 WILD CHILD 1/30 JOHN BROWNS BODY 2/5 CABINET 2/12 MARTIN COURTNEY (OF REAL ESTATE) 2/18 TURKUAZ & PIMPS OF JOYTIME 2/21 KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS 2/24 BOOMBOX BITS AND PIECES TOUR 3/12 DRIVE BY TRUCKERS 3/22 TITUS ANDRONICUS W/ CRAIG FINN T

Room | Escaping from the captivity in which they have been held for half a decade, a young woman and her five-year-old son struggle to adjust to the strange, terrifying and wondrous world outside their one-room prison. | 118 mins R | The Danish Girl | The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda’s marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili’s groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. | 172 mins R | Spotlight | The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. | 128 min R|

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“Point Break” is inspired by the classic 1991 hit. | 113 mins | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | A continuation of the saga created by George Lucas and set thirty years after Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). | 135 mins PG-13 | The Hateful Eight | In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters. | 187 mins R | The Revenant | A frontiersman named Hugh Glass on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s is on a quest for survival after being brutally mauled by a bear. | 156 mins R | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 | As the war of Panem escalates to the destruction of other districts, Katniss Everdeen, the reluctant leader of the rebellion, must bring together an army against President Snow, while all she holds dear hangs in the balance.| 137 mins PG-13 |

House, 315 Eddy St, Ithaca | Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner. RSVP lpd4@ cornell.edu 607-273-4013 Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life.

An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. Behind-thescenes help with programming very much needed. For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email student.mentor@ yahoo.com.

Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 1/07 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions.

Pancake Breakfast: Varna Community Center | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1/10 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Rd (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast or Waffles, Sausage & Bacon or Ham, Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Sausage Gravy & Biscuits, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages. And this season we’re serving homemade butter and whip cream.

Varna Pancake Breakfast | 8:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1/10 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast, Ham, Bacon, Sausage.

Scrambled Eggs, Hash Brown Potatoes, Fresh Fruit, Breakfast Breads & Beverages.

CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 1/12 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

Collaborative Solutions Network (CSN) | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 1/12 Tuesday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Please join the Collaborative Solutions Network (CSN) as we work together to build a family driven, culturally sensitive, youth guided and trauma informed system of care! serenaw@rackercenters.org The Groton Alumni Association meeting | 7:00 PM, 1/12 Tuesday |

Stage Running To Places Presents: Crazy for You | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | One of the most joyful musical comedies around, featuring tap numbers aplenty, outrageous comedy, romance, mistaken identity, singing cowboys. Runs January 8, 9, and 10.

For more info visit www.stateofithaca. com/events

Notices Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 1/06 Wednesday | Souvlaki

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Community Room of Center Village Court, 200 West South Street, Groton | If you have questions, contact Jane Rutledge at 898-3983 or Rose Tucker at 898-5867.

The Ultimate Purpose: Free Speech Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM, 1/12 Tuesday | The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 The Commons, Ithaca | Please join us for tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future.

Every Tuesday Night at 7 O’Clock.

Learning Jeanne Calabretta, N.D, A.A.S., CNHP, Nature’s Sunshine Manager | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 1/07 Thursday | The Jenkins Center, Suite 110, 301 South Geneva St., Ithaca | Topics include, The Gut::Brain Connection, Flower Essences and the emotional areas of the brain, Herbs that do not counteract medications, Lifestyle changes (at your own pace), and much more! Open to the Public. Reserve a place by calling (607) 277-7337 www.mhaedu.org Spice up Your Life | 8:30 PM- 1/07 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Can turmeric prevent Alzheimer’s and ginger treat arthritis? Discover the health benefits of spices with Amanda Lewis, L.Ac., and sample some delightful spice tea. This class is free

and open to the public, and is held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1/08 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed.

No signups required. Walk-ins welcome.

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

Electrochemistry: Family Science Program | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 1/09 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Participants will explore chemical reactions that use or produce electricity. Families will create a battery, experiment with metal on a coin, and split water into gases. To register, email ccmr_outreach@cornell. edu. https://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/ lending-library.

Winter Fly Tying Workshop | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/09 Saturday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | The Introduction to Fly Tying features nine two-hour sessions with several different instructors who will teach you the basics of tying the dry fly, wet fly, nymph and streamer patterns that are the most effective in our area.

Dates for the training-1/9-3/5/2015.

Space is limited so sign up now. http:// ccetompkins.org/events/2016/01/09/ fly-tying-workshop-series. Info at

73/IU: Youth Art Showcase Tompkins County Workers Center, Friday, January 8, 5:00 p.m.

Ithaca Underground and 73 Records, a local youth record and art distribution, are teaming up to start the new year off with a bang!

This evening will be host to local art, poetry, films, music, and more - all done by Ithaca’s energetic and creative youth. Veteran film makers Ken Jacobs and Vincent Grenier will be showing films they made in their twenties, followed by a poetry reading and music by some wicked local bands. Think Kerouac, Ginsberg, and the crew during their Columbia years, and you’ll be in the ballpark!

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607-272-2292 (extension 139) ahs38@ cornell.edu Some Dusty Gardens and Agriculture of South India | 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, 1/10 Sunday | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Dan Klein visited southern India last year and spent time with flowers and agricultural crops of this tropical region. Join us for a casual photo tour and stories of some dusty farms, crops, and garden shows. Please call 272-2292 for more information, but there is no need to preregister.

Ithaca Red Tent: A Place For Women | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 1/10 Sunday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | The Ithaca Red Tent seeks to help you find the answer to that question, and strives to BE that place for you: a place for ALL women, a place of safety and empowerment which is co-created by the women who enter the sacred space beyond the folds of the Red Tent. Come join us as we manifest this transformative place where women can speak and be heard, weep and be held.

Bad Habit Breakthru: Using Brain Science to Blast Thru Bad Habits with Rhonda Morton | 12:00 PM-1:15 PM, 1/11 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Come to this workshop with something you know you shouldn’t do, but you just keep doing. Or something you should do, but you don’t. By the

time you leave, you will have the means to blast through that bad habit.

ASLCI: American Sign Language Learning Group | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 1/12 Tuesday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | ASLCI is a casual group for Ithacans of all signing abilities. We welcome everyone, Deaf or hearing, to learn more about Deaf culture and practice ASL. Our group meets every Tuesday at Barnes & Noble (614 S. Meadow St.) from 5-7pm, in the study area behind Starbucks.

You may arrive and leave whenever you wish. For more information and resources for beginning signers, please visit our website: aslchatithaca. wordpress.com

Special Events Labyrinth Meditation Walk: Path of Prayer | 10:00 AM, 1/06 Wednesday | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | This is an indoor 40ft across labyrinth that is 1/3 of a mile walk inward and then another 1/3 back out. It is walked in candlelight with a background of meditative music.

Community Fire Ceremony | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM, 1/08 Friday | Foundation of Light, 391 Turkey Hill Rd, Ithaca | Energy clearings will be gifted at the fire! Join us at this new moon fire outdoors. Drums and rattles

Running to Places: Crazy For You,

State Theatre, Runs Friday, January 8 through Sunday, Jan. 10 Local youth theater troupe Running to Places (R2P) initiates 2016 with a sharp and steamy production of the Tony Award-winning musical Crazy For You. A tap-dancing, Broadway influenced, modern presentation of the journey of two powerful young people, the play promises to be a delightful invocation. Shows are playing Friday and Saturday night at 7:00 p.m., with a matinee on Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

welcome. www.connecting2spirit.com.

Annual Twelfth Night Community Celebration | 7:30 PM, 1/09 Saturday | First Unitarian Church Ithaca, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | An evening of story-sharing, merrymaking, and imagination, to mark the end of the holiday season. For further information: Phil Shapiro 844-4535, or pds10@ cornell.edu Trumansburg Music Boosters Variety Show | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 1/09 Saturday | Trumansburg High School, Main St, Trumansburg | Fundraiser for the Trumansburg Music Boosters which is dedicated to working together in support of all the music programs at Trumansburg Central Schools.

Meetings City of Ithaca Common Council | 6:00 PM, 1/06 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public is heard during privilege of the floor.

IURA Neighborhood Investment Committee (NIC) | 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, 1/08 Friday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 1/11 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | City of Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission | 5:30 PM, 1/12 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca City Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 1/12 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District - Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission (ILPC) | 5:30 PM, 1/12 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca |

Art First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM, 1/09 Friday | Downtown Ithaca | On the first Friday of each month, art galleries in downtown hold their opening receptions for exhibitions. Visit www. downtownithaca.com for details 73/IU: Youth, Art, Film, Music, and Literature Showcase | 5:00 PM-11:00 PM, 1/08 Friday | Tompkins County Workers’ Center, 115 The Commons, Ithaca | As part of First Friday Gallery Night, see fantastic art from many

HeadsUp The power of youth

by Bill Chaisson

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unning to Places will open its ninth season with a production of Crazy for You at the State Theatre.

Although the songs were written by George and Ira Gershwin in the 1920s and ‘30s for several different musicals (but primarily Girl Crazy from 1930), they were collected by Ken Ludwig in the early 1990s to make a new play. It opened at the Schubert Theatre on Feb. 19, 1992 and ran for 1,622 performances.

The following year it opened in London’s West End and ran for three years.

“This is some of the most glorious music ever put on stage,” said director Joey Steinhagen. “Crazy for You has that classic feel-good Broadway energy, but with a modern sensibility. The characters are more fully fleshed out and there is better development of the female characters.”

The “book” or story presented in this musical is a familiar one from countless other plays and films. A young man who always wanted a career on the stage is forced into a career in law, joining the family firm. He is sent to a small town to close down a theatre that’s going under, but of course is convinced by the local theatre community to put on “one more show” that is sure to make the money needed to keep the house open. And, as Steinhagen noted, hilarity, misunderstandings, and mistaken

young artists, music, poetry, and film.

Lyric Visions: Artists Respond to Poetry | 5:00 PM, 1/08 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Gallery members have created art work in response to the poetry of sixteen regional poets. The exhibition extends two months with half of the artists showing in January and the other half during February. www.soag.org ongoing Buffalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Emily Koester: New Works, New Growth. Creating art is a process of exploration and expression.

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identities ensue.“There are good member, it gives jokes in this show,” said the director. him a “remarkable “It is just the thing to fight off perspective” on the those mid-January, post-holiday productions. The pit blues. There are tap dancers, false orchestra includes mustaches, the whole bit.” some local high school The cast of Crazy for You is students, but is largely drawn from the middle and high composed of Ithaca schools of Tompkins County.

College students and In addition to about 40 people some adults from the appearing on stage, there are a community. dozen working behind the scenes Remarkably, the to make the show happen. Some sets are constructed of the kids float back and forth

by Deb and Jim Drew between onstage and back stage of Dryden. Their own work. children have grown Lisa Podulka, an 18-year-old up and graduated from senior, plays Polly Baker, the female Running to Places, but lead. Steinhagen was a bit awed they are still dedicated

by Podulka’s dedication to her to the company. craft. “You only have to teach her “The sets they make something once,” he said, “and next are affordable,” said week she’ll come back and be able Steinhagen, “and they to do it better than you can.” way they build them is Christian Henry will play Bobby inclusive. An untrained Child, the male lead role. “Christian student can make a came to acting relatively late,” said real contribution to the Steinhagen, “he really works at construction.” it. During breaks he goes around Steinhagen asking for pointers. There is a lot himself came to town of tap dancing in this show and he to attend Ithaca learned it all from Tucker [Davis, the College 20 years choreographer for the show] in the ago and will soon last couple of weeks.” be appearing at the The play includes some Kitchen Theatre in their Christian Henry (center) stars as Bobby Child with the Zangler Follies Girls instantly recognizable Gershwin production of Peter and songs like “Embraceable You,” in the Running to Places production of “Crazy for You.” (Photo: Provided) the Starcatcher along “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “I with Lisa Podulka, his Can’t be Bothered Now,” and “I Got Crazy for Love female Rhythm.” Some of these tunes are lead. “Her work ethic is The music is conducted by music fairly challenging to sing compared inspiring me,” he said. director Jeremy Pletter, an alumnus to modern popular music, and many Performances are at the State Theatre of both Running to Places and Ithaca of the actors take lessons outside the on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 8 and 9 at 7 College. Steinhagens feels that because production in order to be able to master p.m. and on Sunday, Jan. 10 at 2 p.m. See Pletter was an original company the songs. stateofithaca.org for ticket information. •

collection were created in 2015. Call 273-8246 CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Aviation Anthropology – the Micro-culture of Small Airports. Photographs by Jon Reis. Jon Reis has been studying the micro-culture of aviation since the late 1970s. This show contrasts B&W silver based photographs of aviation environments taken in the seventies with recent visually rich color views.

For more information, visit artspartner. org. Hours: Monday to Saturday, 10 to 6: Sunday, 12 to 5. CAP thanks our 2016 CAP ArtSpace Sponsor, the Tompkins Trust Company! Visit http:// www.artspartner.orgVisit http://www. artspartner.org Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Annual Open Show. Works

by 70 regional artists in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics, fiber art, and mixed media assemblage will be on view from through January at the Community School of Music and Arts’ much anticipated Annual Open Show. Curated this year by Terry Plater, a painter based in Ithaca, this exciting exhibition showcases a wide array of artistic talent and interests. Visit more than once to appreciate everything this show has to offer!| www.csma-ithaca.org

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