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The state We’re in

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In Charge of Fun

Ithaca Festival gets a new director PAGE 4

A finE Br ine Local Fer menters and their foods by Josh Brok aw

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projects after Tropical Storm Lee devastated portions of the Southern Tier in September 2011. A state official called to warn him, Myrick said, that the press release said Ithaca received $13 million for a dredging project, but that was surely a mistake because no one else got more than $1.5 million across the state. “He called back 15 minutes later to say ‘Congratulations, ’” Myrick said. “He aking affordable housing had learned through experience what development part of city law and was reasonable and what was logical. I’ve consolidating city and county learned that logic has its limits … We need law enforcement were among the priorities to retain that sense of wonder that comes Mayor Svante Myrick set out in his 2016 to the young State of the City naturally and address, delivered to young at heart.” Common Council Myrick on Wednesday, Jan. said that an 6. inclusionary Myrick, rezoning elected in November proposal would to his second be arriving at term, opened his the planning remarks by recalling and economic the “crumbling development infrastructure” and committee the largest budget in February. deficit in the city’s Under the history when he proposal took office four as Myrick years ago. He then described it, admitted that a developers “theme in these would include speeches is to affordable compare where we housing units were to where we within projects are” and promised in exchange to be more forwardfor approvals looking in future Mayor Svante Myrick delivers his State of the City address last for a “larger addresses. Wednesday. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) footprint.” “We’re a caliber The city,” Myrick said, Ithaca Police “that doesn’t need Department to compare itself to and Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office anyone but the ideal. Past performance is cost a total of $16.7 million for taxpayers, not a suitable benchmark for us—our new so pushing the consolidation proposal benchmark has to be what is perfect.” In his early time in office, Myrick said through to implementation “could strike a blow against high taxes, particularly in the his “naïveté was at some times an asset. city,” Myrick said. We undertook projects others wouldn’t A study has been funded to study attempt.” He illustrated this with an consolidation of the two law enforcement anecdote from spring 2012, when the state

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Homing the Homeless Measuring Ithaca By State Order Against an Ideal (?)

uman service providers across the state were taken by surprise by the executive order Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued on Sunday, Jan. 3 that directed local governments, state agencies, and police to “take all necessary steps” to identify homeless people “unwilling or unable to find the shelter necessary for safety and health in inclement winter weather.” "No one knew this was coming," Patricia Carey, Tompkins County's social services commissioner, said on Tuesday, Jan. 5. "We usually have many conversations with the state before this sort of policy change." Cuomo's order calls for "all local social service districts" and homeless outreach personnel "to work with local police in relation to the involuntarily transport of at-risk individuals who refuse to go inside and who appear to be at-risk for cold related injuries to appropriate facilities." Talk of involuntary commitment made law enforcement officers across the state nervous. Though the state's mental hygiene law does allow for commitments, the order raised the specter of police having to drag unwilling people off the streets. According to public information officer Jamie Williamson of the Ithaca Police Department, their official policy is "We will enforce all applicable laws to the best of our ability.” Williamson gave an example via email of why the governor's order, if taken literally to mean that everyone outside when the temperature is under 32 degrees Fahrenheit is not “a practical approach.” “A homeless person sitting outside on one of the benches on the Commons enjoying the cool, crisp air while the temperature is 31 degrees is just not sufficient to conclude that that person is a danger to him/herself,” Williamson wrote. “To mandate that we take all homeless people to a homeless shelter that likely is already overbooked, to use force if necessary to do so, and to mandate that they remain in the shelter until the temperature reaches 32 degrees is not sensible. What if the homeless person wants to leave the shelter? Are we expected to run after them and bring them back to the shelter, and to use force to do so if necessary? All this, of course, with no continued on page4

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of their work! With the explosion of online digital media and social networks, everybody who makes anything is struggling to reach and maintain an enthusiastic audience. The technology landscape is moving so quickly -- constantly introducing new platforms and capabilities -- that many people who just want an easy way to share their work have a hard time keeping up. Fortunately, there are plenty of simple, cost-effective ways to reach your target audience without being a social media power-user. (Read the rest of the workshop description at artspartner.org)

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What is your favorite fermented food or bacteria?

en Greenberg said he was probably spoiled by his early days of music management with Donna the Buffalo. “It was managing my family,” Greenberg said, who started with the group after his brother Jed joined in the mid-‘90s. “I started promoting concerts with my best friend. I got used to working in that way with people I care about. They care about me; there’s that level of trust.” Greenberg expanded his promotional career over the years. The first artist he signed was picked up by Clive Davis, record industry mogul, helping Greenberg’s work grow from finding “B and C markets” for emerging Latin concert artists to putting on A-list talent in stadium shows. With success, though, comes dealing with people who might have different priorities from one’s self. “As I expanded to all those artists, you don’t necessarily want to talk to all these people every day,” Greenberg said. “Spending hours on the phone with people you don’t want to talk to isn’t a great way to live. Whenever someone gets signed, it’s talking about haircuts and clothes—it’s not what I wanted in my ear.” Greenberg has pulled back his ventures to “where it’s comfortable, as opposed to feeling like I’m on a plane all the time.” While maintaining a permanent home in New York City, the Vestal native said he’s been “really exploring the idea of permanence here more than ever before.” So when Greenberg saw the listing for a new executive director for the Ithaca Festival on Facebook, he thought, “It could be a cool way to become more embedded in the community here.” He was announced as the festival’s new executive director in the last week of December. Applications for vendors, performers, sponsors, and artists for the 2016 Ithaca Festival are now live online and announcements are coming out on what to expect for next year. This year’s festival’s theme will be “Mix It Up” and the event is scheduled for June 3 through 5, with the parade to be held on Friday. Confirmed headliners are the Horse Flies on Friday night at the Bernie Milton pavilion on the Commons and Samite in the same place on Saturday night. Greenberg is also talking to people about changing the footprint of the festival to include Markle’s Flats, the park across the street from the Greater Ithaca Activities Center. “We would have a basketball tournament, another main stage for music in the grassy field, along with a kid’s play area and vending,” Greenberg said, with

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time. The last couple directors have done a good job digging out of that,” Greenberg said. “They’ve been dealing with construction for a couple of years downtown, and in a lot of ways it’s been handcuffed.” “I’d like to see the festival financially thrive,” Greenberg continued. “We want a model that long-term, is very secure and stable.” Many of the large events Greenberg has put on in his career have been free, and beer sales are part of that model. What he’d like to see is the festival bringing in a “handful of things from outside that make people say ‘Awesome,’” including headlining musical acts that can supplement the local talent already capable of convincing people to drive several hours to attend. “It will take a combination of everything being done optimally,” Greenberg said. “There’s always that chance of risk that you’re set up perfectly and you have a full washout. But you want to know that if we have sunshine, we’re going to thrive.” The Ithaca Festival is looking Ithaca Festival director Ben Greenburg (Photo: Josh Brokaw) to hire more help for this year. Anyone interested in working the Sim Redmond Band signed on to for the festival, volunteering, or play there. Adding a park full of grass just sharing their input is invited to a will “soften it up a bit,” Greenberg hopes, meeting at GIAC, 301 W. Court St., on encouraging people to bring a blanket and Sunday, Jan. 17 from 2 to 4 p.m. Anyone hang out for the day. with questions or suggestions can contact So far as the future of the Ithaca assistant director McKenzie Jones-Rounds Festival goes, Greenberg says his at mckenzie@ithacafestival.org. impression is the private nonprofit organization has “always been in financial – Josh Brokaw survival mode.” reporter@ithacatimes.com “There was a lot of debt for a long Hominghomeless contin u ed from page 3

extra funding to pay for the extra time it ties up our officers as well as the staff at the homeless shelters.” “The best way to look at it is that we have and will continue to monitor our homeless population and intervene when an officer reasonably determines that a person is in danger,” Williamson concluded. How far Cuomo will actually go in enforcing his order is still being clarified. An attorney for the New York City government immediately responded to the order that Cuomo would have to pass a law to enforce the policy, and a New York Times crew of reporters put on the street beat for the day found that many people don’t want to enter shelters. A room full of Tompkins County service providers gathered for the regular meeting of the Continuum of Care on Jan. 5 were all well aware that some people prefer to avoid shelters. Carey had some ideas about how the county would go forward in complying with the governor’s edict, after a clarifying call the day after

she awoke to an email from Cuomo with the order. “It can take a long time to have people consider coming inside,” Carey said. “We’re not going to force anybody to come in from the cold. If they make a decision to stay out and they’re able to articulate that, we’re not taking people in against their will.” The county can extend its Code Blue program, which funds motel room stays on nights 20 degrees or below, up to 32 degrees, Carey said. If someone is found sleeping outside in extreme conditions, is unresponsive and in danger, that’s the time to call law enforcement, she added. For those looking for shelter in Ithaca, the Rescue Mission at 618 W. State St. is the first-line emergency option and is staffed 24 hours a day. An earlier version of this story appeared on ithaca.com on Jan. 6. with the headline “Cuomo’s Homeless Sheltering Mandate to Get Local Interpretation.” – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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spacious teen hangout, a DIY makerspace, and even an oversized 3-D LEGO model are all in the works as Tompkins County Public Library gears up for renovations that will launch it into the 21st century. Soon the library’s young bookworms will enjoy the comforts of a brand new teen center, and lifelong learners of all ages will have a state-ofthe-art media center where they can take coding workshops, use a 3-D printer, take advantage of job search tools, and more. Ezra Cornell established the public library in 1864 to provide residents with a means for self-education. Today nearly 40,000 people have a library card, equal to about 40 percent of the county’s population. According to the Tompkins County Public Library Foundation’s current fundraising brochure, the library saves the county’s five independent rural libraries over $100,000 in materials loaned to their patrons. The Tompkins County Legislature provides roughly 75 percent of the library’s funding from tax dollars, and at a meeting Jan. 5 legislators voted without dissent to authorize an amendment to the 2015-2020 capital program to undertake renovations to the library. The resolution states that the preliminary estimated cost for the desired renovations is $1.1 million. That amount would be reimbursed to the county by the library foundation, while an additional $300,000, allocated to replace the library’s 15-year-old carpeting, will be fully borne by the county as part of its obligation to maintain the building in good repair. The next step is working with the county to hire an architect, hopefully by the end of of 2016, said Tompkins County Public Library Director Susan Currie. The library’s financial goal is to raise $2.75 million for the renovation with the creation of the 21st Century Learning Lab and new teen center at the top of the list of priorities. The learning lab will be located in the space that currently houses technical services, the behind-the-scenes office space—located across from the BorgWarner Community Meeting Room—where library staff requests and processes books, DVDs, movies, and other media. In contrast to the public computers currently available in the middle of the library, which users are only permitted to be on for one hour at a time, the lab will provide a setting for workshops, group instruction and self-paced learning. The tools the library hopes to make available to the public will encourage users to creatively express themselves in a variety of mediums, including digital video, graphic design, game creation, app development, podcasts and other forms of digital media. It will also house the “makerspace,” a collaborative learning

“Everything had to be built up and torn down after,” she said. “For workshops, we just don’t have the facilities right now to make it very easy.” The new lab will be designed to make events like Scratch Camp much easier. The library also plans to increase collections, the annual budget for which is nearly 100 percent privately funded. The renovation will Library staff in space formerly occupied by the Finger Lakes Library System. It will be the create additional space for the stacks new home for library technical services. (Photo: Jaime Cone) by knocking down a wall and utilizing environment to create, build and craft. the 6,112 square feet of empty space left There will be a 3-D printer, but that’s just by the Finger Lakes Library System when the beginning, according to Currie. “There it relocated last year. Part of the space will will be lots of other equipment,” she said. become the new technical services offices. “’Makerspace’ is a trendy new term, but Then there’s the second major project, libraries have always been makerspaces. the creation of the teen center, which will It’s just the next level up from the more move the teen area out of the youth services traditional activities.” section and into what is now the current Library staff said the new technology adult fiction section. The new teen area will allow the library to partner more with will house book collections and provide a range of educational and human services flexible spaces for reading, studying, and agencies, and they plan to host classes on collaborative programs for teens. The plans everything from coding to downloading are guided by research that found teens ebooks. With the way things are right now, are best supported in library spaces that it’s bit of a hassle to hold workshops in the let them “hang out, mess around, and geek library, they said. Regina DeMauro, teen out.” services librarian, used as an example the The additional space comes as a relief day-long video game-making workshop, to De Mauro, who said the young adult called “Scratch Camp,” that the library held fiction shelves are completely full. “We March 7. literally don’t have enough space. If it “It filled up within two or three days,” she said, adding that they were only able to continued on page 7 borrow enough computers for 18 children. stateofcity contin u ed from page 3

agencies, in part to fulfill the state’s requirement that counties have shared services plans. The mayor also revealed plans to make the Southside Community Center wholly a part of city government, like the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC), while maintaining its “independent mission.” In organizational business, Myrick is forming a committee to streamline unelected city boards and committees, which number over two dozen, and in some cases are hurting for volunteer members. In council business, the yearly renewal of the SWAT team shared-operations agreement between the city and Tompkins County was approved unanimously with no discussion. An ordinance to require “active uses” in “entry level,” first floor spaces on the Commons—in short, to require uses like retail and restaurants, and definitely not apartments—was sent back to committee for further consideration after John Yengo and Nathan Lyman of

Jason Fane’s Ithaca Renting cast doubt on the proposal during public comment. In Collegetown the first floors of some Ithaca Renting properties have been converted to residential use. “You will lose property taxes and sales taxes from vacant stores,” said a letter from Fane that Yengo read. “Any regulation you pass will either have no effect or raise the cost of doing business or make it illegal for some businesses to exist.” There will likely be discussion of this issue at the Jan. 13 planning and economic development meeting, along with discussion of changes to CIITAP. City controller Steve Thayer also reported that he’s anticipating an operating surplus for 2015, the first since 2008, in part due to good returns on building permits and lower pension obligations than expected. A previous version of this story appeared on ithaca.com on Jan. 7 with the headline “Myrick Calls for Perfection as Ithaca’s Benchmark in 2016.”

Ups&Downs ▶Burke vs. Reed, Ithaca lawyer Leslie Danks Burke will challenge State Senator Tom O’Mara of Big Flats in November. Danks Burke says she is building a campaign to challenge O’Mara and will have a formal announcement in the coming days. Burke ran for the Democratic nomination for Congress to go up against Congressman Tom Reed in 2012 but she lost that primary to Nate Shinagawa. She’s a lawyer and public interest advocate who serves on the Agriculture and Infrastructure subgroups of the Southern Tier Regional Economic Development Council. 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 ▶ Wells adds business, Wells College is pleased to announce the addition of a major in Business to the College’s program offerings. The major will provide students with the knowledge to build and manage successful businesses, engage them in the development of local and global communities, and encourage exemplary individual and corporate moral and ethical behavior. Having received approval from the New York State Department of Education, the College will begin to offer the major immediately. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Jan. 6-16 include: 1) The Year That Was: In 2015 Ithaca faced the future and blinked 2) Exclusive Ithaca Design Nikes Going Fast 3) CrossFit: A Combination of Strong and Fast 4) Ithaca Man Arrested for Aggravated Harassment of a Police Officer 5) What Will 2016 Bring for the City of Ithaca? For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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In fact, the setbacks described in your article provide a reasonable layer of protection to the public. They provide enough distance from a turbine to prevent harm from the unlikely event of a fire or tower collapse. Furthermore, wind has a safety advantage compared to conventional energy since unlike coal or oil (recall the Upper Big Branch mine or Deepwater Horizon drilling rig disasters) the energy source itself, in other words the wind, is not flammable. I would also like to address the question of birds, noise, and alteration of the landscape. Regarding birds, the National Audubon Society has publicly endorsed “properly sited” (in regard to the presence of birds) wind farms because of the much larger threat that climate change poses to the health of bird species. Regarding noise, I have visited and spent time at six different wind farms in our state and Ontario, and one of the questions I have examined is whether wind farms create significant noise that rises above background levels. From personal experience, I have found that, especially outside of the setback distance, moving turbines do not make excessive noise, and in any case in a high wind when they are rotating at top speed, other sound created by the wind drowns out the noise of the turbines. As for aesthetics, I personally find wind turbines interesting and attractive. I also recognize that not everyone would

hank you for your Dec. 23 coverage (“Enfield Wind Farm on the Defensive”) of the Dec. 17 Town of Enfield meeting to discuss the Black Oak Wind Farm. As an engineering educator who has been teaching, writing, and researching about wind farms for more than 10 years, I am writing to address some of the concerns raised. (Full disclosure: I am a small investor in the project, and also have a strong interest in it as an educational resource for teaching local college and high school students.) The first concern is safety. An operating wind farm is not inherently dangerous, any more than a car driving or airplane flying, as long as common-sense precautions are taken. I have toured working wind farms with students on several occasions and walked around the base of spinning turbines without any fear of injury. Previous occurrences of turbines catching fire or collapsing (as happened at the nearby Fenner wind farm) were cited at the Enfield meeting. However, these incidents are very rare, given that there are on the order of 30,000 to 40,000 large turbines all across the U.S. No industry is 100 percent perfect all the time. Mechanical failures, fires, and other accidents do occasionally happen. As long as industries play by the rules, the U.S. does a pretty good job of keeping industrial injuries and deaths to a minimum, and this includes the wind industry.

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thaca is home to a lot of ecologicallyminded people, whom I admire, and although I am not as scrupulous nor vociferous as many, I try to do right: reuse and recycle, use my car sparingly, waste not, and stay informed about environmental issues. Maybe I’m about average in such actions. I hope so, because—happily—the average seems to be rising. Polls show that, increasingly, average citizens—not just stalwart tree-huggers—are expressing concern about climate change and the future of the planet. These days you don’t have to be an extremist, nor even an Ithacan, to be an environmentalist. Ordinary citizens are leading the charge. That’s great, but leads me to wonder: why are the rich, in general, so silent about climate change? Don’t the rich have the most to lose? If you had a big house on the beach in East Hampton, threatened by rising oceans, wouldn’t you speak up to protect it? Wouldn’t you want political action? It might be cynical, which I hate, but I wonder: are the rich quiet about global problems because global problems are in their interest? Perhaps the rich don’t mind a little planetary destruction because this is attendant, even fundamental, to their status. Think about it. The banker’s house in East Hampton might indeed be in some jeopardy, but in the meantime, thousands of middle-class people, with more vulnerable housing already destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, are begging his bank for new mortgages, worth many millions. It’s an okay trade-off. Ruin is good for business. Scarcity is profitable, too. It makes remaining resources more concentrated, and more controllable by capital. In New York City and environs, postSandy, real estate is more valuable than ever. Entire demographic groups—basically, everyone but the most affluent—are priced out of home ownership (and, increasingly, even the rental market). In New Orleans, post-Katrina, the population has gone from majority black to white. While the poor had no choice but to flee—to Baton Rouge; to Houston—the rich

bought up the city. In Ithaca, problems are not so severe. No one is getting priced out of housing by weather. (Yet. Of course, we have widespread, historical problems with housing prices here.) But I have seen incipient signs of climate change in nature in my neighborhood, among wildlife— which I know very little about, actually, as I will now amply demonstrate; but see what you think. Sometimes on South Plain Street, where I live, I’ll see deer in backyards. But on a recent 60-degree winter day, I saw two walking—I mean walking, slow— down South Titus Street, in the middle of the asphalt. They seemed dazed and disconcerted, unaware of their (hazardous) surroundings. I wondered if it was the heat—the unseasonable, unreasonable temperatures—throwing them off, disrupting their metabolisms and rhythms. That got me wondering about other wildlife. Bear are supposed to be hibernating right now. But it’s supposed to be cold for hibernation, as it’s hardly been. One can imagine (or course, one must) their chagrin, in sweltering caves: “I’m supposed to hibernate in this? Ridiculous. I’ve got the cave wide open. I’m suffocating. “I haven’t hibernated a wink. I’m not retaining urine. I’m not recycling protein. I’m not living off my fat. “I lay here and think ‘come on, hibernate, hibernate,’ but that just makes it worse. “I’m supposed to be up in three months. How is that happening? I’ll be a complete mess in April.” Of course, I anthropomorphize extravagantly here, but one has to consider these creatures’ feelings, especially when the feelings are bad. Bear aren’t too crazy about us anyway. Our guns are bad enough. So are the big houses being built in their territory. Now our cars and other garbage are heating up the climate. It’s okay for us, we don’t have fur and need five months’ sleep. If you’re planning any hiking this spring, beware. There might be some cranky, sleepdeprived ursine denizens out there who know the score, and figure they have one to settle. •

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Beware Fast Food Claims

As a practicing physician who treats hundreds of patients with obesity and diabetes each year, I was dismayed to see the title of the article published by Prof. Brian Wansink out of Cornell this past week: “Fast Food, Soft Drink, and Candy Intake is unrelated to Body Mass Index for 95% of 6

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impacting our children. We can not afford to have poor science undermine the good work that the medical community is doing to educate patients on healthy behaviors that will improve quality of life and decrease cost of care in an age of “fast food, soft drinks, and candy”. – Kathleen A. Hallinan, M.D., Corning guestopinion contin u ed from page 6

Treman Lake, Upper Buttermilk State Park on Nov. 29 (above) and on Jan. 10 after 12 hours of rain (below). (Photos: Cassandra Palmyra)

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releases that ran with this study, but it does seem like a tremendous conflict of interest. This is a misuse of science and horrendous use of data. To utilize NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) data on food recall without incorporating calorie count or portion size seems at best intellectual malpractice, and at worst the public health equivalent of yelling “fire” in a crowded theater. Prof. Wansink should be well aware that these foods are in general calorie dense, and that giving the public carte blanche to take in these foods has the potential for undermining all of the work that the medical community is doing to stem the obesity epidemic. If anyone is looking for good data and responsible science, I am happy to supply them with any number of studies that fly in the face of the aforementioned study out of Cornell. We now have good prospective randomized data that show weight gain

increases with sugar sweetened beverage intake. As when Big Tobacco tried to convince us that smoking didn’t cause lung cancer, Professor Wansink is trying to convince the American public that they can continue with behaviors well-known to cause obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and the like. His study utilized “eating episode” data. They did not identify quantity of food eaten. So if a person with a BMI of 20 eats one Oreo and a person with a BMI of 35 eats a bag of Oreos, they are statistically considered the same thing in this study. Portion size is of utmost importance in weight management. People who maintain a healthy body weight do so because they manage their portion sizes. Six ounces of soda and 20 ounces of soda cannot be considered equivalent when making recommendations to the public, who is already conflicted as to the cause of their burgeoning waist size. This is an epidemic that is reaching into all socioeconomic groups and is

agree, and I respect the fact that opinions about aesthetics can differ. At some point, however, the right of one property owner for a certain kind of view should be balanced against the right of another to host a turbine on their land and earn royalties that come from generating wind energy. Turning to economics, I can attest to the potential community benefits of the wind farm mentioned in your article. Of the nine towns in Tompkins County, only Enfield has the quality of wind resource available at the site. If the wind farm is built, those that host turbines earn royalties in proportion to energy generated, those with a Good Neighbor Agreement (GNA) earn a flat annual fee, and the town on the whole earns a Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) payment. Opponents of the project voiced concern at the meeting that the substation would allow for eventual expansion of the project, but this might be a good thing: if the experience is positive, more turbines could be installed in the future, leading to more royalties, more GNA payments, and more tax revenue for Enfield. Other wind farms have gone this route. Furthermore, wind energy, like solar photovoltaic, is very consistent from year to year. One wind farm for which data are available is Lake Benton, Minnesota, and over an 11-year period annual output never varied by more than 18 percent from the average, and in most years not more than 10 percent. In closing, compare the wind farm to another energy opportunity in our region that has been getting press lately, namely fracking. When a fracking project is developed, it generates royalties for a time, but when the gas is used up, that is the end. The economic benefit of wind energy, by contrast, is available indefinitely. The wind will keep blowing and blowing. – Francis Vanek, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, and resident of the town of Ithaca Libraryrenovation contin u ed from page 5

doesn’t circulate for a year, even if I know it’s a really great book, it’s got to go.” The young adult books will likely be on the shelves closest to the entrance of the teen center area, as they tend to be popular not only with teens but also adults. One of the renovations’s biggest challenges will be the relocation of the stacks, as the staff is planning significant T

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changes to the library’s layout. “Fiction is our most heavily used section, and yet it’s in the back of the library,” said Suzanne Smith Jablonski, executive director of the Tompkins County Public Library Foundation. The adult fiction section will be moved to the front of the library where it’s more easily accessible. While the location was not ideal for housing the fiction stacks, the staff believes the space is the perfect out of the way setting for the teen center; the teens will have a space where they can talk and collaborate on projects without feeling like they’re being intruded on by adults, and the stacks should help muffle any noise. It’s a far better solution than the current arrangement, which forces the teenagers to share the children’s section, DeMauro said. Jablonski said she’s planning a familyfriendly community fundraiser that will give patrons a new perspective on the renovations. The library is partnering with UK company Bright Bricks to build a sixby-six-foot replica of the library. For a $50 donation, groups will be able to build one module of the sculpture, which will not have a roof so people can see the details of what the renovated library will look like on the inside. • –Jaime Cone southreporter@flcn.org

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ithaca com We got this comment at the website in response to the Dec. 30 Candor Chronicle article “County Rehires Negligent Medical Care Company for Jail” about a vote by the Tioga County Legislature. Whether it’s a contracted company or the jail itself, medical care for inmates is disastrous. If you get sick or injured at the Tompkins County jail, you have to submit a written request to see a doctor, then the corrections staff decides whether or not you need care. Diabetics are at the greatest risk, since they require a special diet, but the staff seems oblivious to that. My wife had to endure six days pre-trial under such conditions (the reason for pre-trial is immaterial here). Six times she requested and begged to be given her diet because she was hungry. After I bailed her out she was emaciated. She never got her diet. A friend of hers is a diabetic and spent almost a year in jail (again, the reason is immaterial). His only salvation was that he got to work in the kitchen and was able to prepare his own meals. Through it all and despite major objections, the legislature approved spending almost $1 million for seven additional beds at the jail. They would have done better taking care of the inmates. Punishment by incarceration may be necessary in some cases, but torture under any circumstances is unconstitutional. I still maintain that if everyone in the justice system, especially judges, magistrates and corrections officers, was forced to spend a week in that hell hole, there would be a lot less people there. – Jerry Dennis a n u a r y

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A Fine Brine

Fermented foods: turning excess into product B y J o s h B r o k aw

teps for creating a culture: First, place vegetables, fruit, or other live material in a bucket or barrel. Second, add water, maybe some salt. Wait for life to bubble up. If the life created isn’t one to your taste, change the climate by a few degrees. Adjust until desired results are achieved, or throw the whole thing over and start anew with a fresh batch of little organisms. Cajole and threaten them until they create something more to your liking. This process doubtless will lead to a mythology among the microbes doing the hard work of producing your pickles, your kombucha, sauerkraut, tofu, kefir, kim chi, and any other number of “fermented foods.” To them, the humans who we credit for the work are capricious beings with the capability of making life flourish or falter in the barrel that is their universe. “We’re the demigods of this vast civilization, just messing with them to see what happens,” says Anna McCown, selfdescribed “pickle elf ” for Crooked Carrot, one of several local makers of fermented food products. Fermentation, like so many processes rediscovered as “foodie culture” has grown, has garnered attention from the national press over the past couple years; the style sections have written of busdriving evangelists sharing their favorite bacteria on nationwide road trips, and Brooklynites begging their roommates to tolerate the pungency emitting from jars of kim chi under their beds. And the explosion in proponents of “probiotic” diets has also changed how many products with live cultures are marketed—bacteria, for so long something to be abhorred by hygienic Americans, are now featured by marketers, the presence of billions or trillions of the little things now proudly displayed on product packaging. Here in Ithaca, it seems that even the most unusual of traditional food processes have been preserved in one pair of hands or another while the nation forgot how to do what grandma learned in her toddler days. Tom and Shelley MacDonald have produced fermented foods, largely from their own organically grown crops, since 8

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the early ‘70s. In their son’s Ithaca house, they once found an autograph book from 1909; on one page, there was an inscription: “Where were you when the lights went out? Down in the cellar eating sauerkraut.” Given the local land’s bounty in these parts, if the lights ever do go out, if the system goes down, Ithacans might have to a n u a r y

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give up imported delicacies like grapefruit, olives, almonds, or avocados—anything Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott is guilttripping progressives about might not make it in on the trucks anymore. But we can reasonably hope there will still be plenty of pickles and sauerkraut, tofu and tempeh, kombucha and kefir to go around. • • • The MacDonalds discovered they

wanted to make pickles on a trip to New York City. “We went to the famous [Gus’ pickle place] and tasted the pickles right on the street, and brought some back,” Tom said. “We thought ‘Oh, pickling, we can do that. We have cucumbers.’” “And I was pregnant at the time,” Shelley added. The couple had heard about fermentation from true believers during their time in Boston in the late ‘60s. “Anything fermented was like magic,” Tom said. “So we knew it from a philosophical point of view—the idea we evolved from the ocean and crawled up onto the land and these salty, fermented foods are our connection back. We were very, very young listening to this and said ‘Oh that’s interesting.’ In those days you had to work hard to hear something different.” Shelley and her girlfriends started making sauerkraut in 1975, and Tom eventually met the late Gary Redmond, founder of Regional Access, who MacDonald said was “the first person I ever met who liked [pickling] as well.” When Joey Durgin of Ithaca Kombucha came from Philadelphia, New York to get a degree in exercise science at Ithaca College, he made a masseuse friend who introduced him to the fermented and carbonated tea drink. “It was a perfect fit for me. It wasn’t too sweet, it had that tart and pungent vinegar kick to it,” Durgin said. “I felt a little bit uplifted—I wouldn’t say drunk, but there was a buzz element that made me feel at ease.” The Crooked Carrot crew has its origins at Stick & Stone Farm on Trumansburg Road, where Silas Conroy and Johanna and Jesse Brown met and decided to start a community-supported kitchen as a business. “The idea at first was to make readymade dishes, that people with CSA shares could take home and they’d go with the produce—like aioli and bean dishes,” Jesse said. “But we were doing four different recipes in two weeks, which sometimes worked and sometimes it didn’t.” Fermenting foods involves lots of

experimentation as well, but unlike most kitchen adventures, the basic steps don’t boil down to heat and eat. If a historian ever writes a Decline and Fall of Pickle Barrel No. 49, Latin names will be as prominent as in Gibbon’s history of Rome, with Lactobacillus taking the lead role. There are vast numbers of happenings inside the ferment caused by bacteria, and at many points the fermenter can do little more than watch the organisms do their thing. “It was intimidating at first—I thought this was a very delicate, sensitive process,” Durgin said of his first brews. “But kombucha as a brewing process is very hardy. As long as you keep it covered with a rubber band, use a clean container and let the fermentation process get going, it’s difficult to mess up.” Interventions in the ferment do become necessary; largely the role is in saying to the microbes ‘You have gone far enough,’ often accomplished through refrigeration, which slows down their work to a standstill. In kombucha brewing, the SCOBY— which stands for “symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast”—will grow as long as it’s allowed, resulting eventually in a vinegar which isn’t much good for drinking and anyway has too much alcohol, up to about 3 percent, to sell in stores under current regulations. Sourdough, vinegar, and kefir all require similar cultures to the SCOBY, and all present their own management problems. Pickles, which became a massproduced and distributed food in the 20th century, are particularly difficult to get right, if one is determined to make the vegetable process itself without outside help. “You have to work incredibly hard to get pickling cucumbers right,” said Tom MacDonald. “From the customer point of view, the pickle is what everyone knows, and they have the most ideas about what a pickle should taste like. You have to get the pH down with the lactic acid and hope that two or three of those microorganisms that get in sometimes don’t flourish.” A cucumber, pickled whole, that has started going soft and sugary on the inside can present a minor danger to its overseer, according to Conroy. “If a cucumber is overly sugary, it becomes an active yeast fermentation rather than a lactobacilli one and it will give off CO2 and fill up the center of the cucumber with gas,” Conroy said. “We call them floaters. They can get to a point where if you bite into it, they will blow up.” For the most part, the pickling process requires only salt, sometimes in a brine solution. “In the case of kimchi and sauerkraut, the vegetable is so juicy it’s basically just salt added,” Tom MacDonald said. “People are always asking us at festivals, do you add anything? Well, no, we don’t. The microorganisms in and on the skin of the cucumbers, Lactobacillus plantarum is quite willing to start working and growing

Amish neighbors onto fermentation—which they’ve found to be preferable to canning. Durgin has a different model for using excess, with his barbecue and hot sauces made of what’s essentially a waste product, kombucha vinegar. • • • Further experiments in fermented foods will surely keep coming from Ithaca’s fermented food makers. Durgin said he’s experimenting with flavoring kombucha drinks, as he prepares to launch the drink for sale later this year. Flavoring kombucha requires a secondary fermentation with juice in the bottle, and his favorites so far include guava and passionfruit. A new sauerkraut with wild medicinals has proved popular for Crooked Carrot, and their spicy kim chi was rolled out after the white variety because they thought the latter might have a wider appeal. A n n a M c C ow n a n d A n d r e w Pa r k e r o f C r o o k e d C a r r o t (a b ov e) r e a dy “We were wrong about that,” t h e r o o t s f o r p i c k l i n g , a n d b a r b e c u e s au c e m a d e w i t h k o m b u c h a Jesse Brown noted. (b e l ow) . ( P h o t o s : J o s h B r o k aw) And the MacDonalds have found that their turnip and functions in a salty environment.” pack up a drum of product by hand in sauerkraut is garnering a following, along The MacDonalds closed their a day. Not all of their 20-ish products with a radish kim chi. business, went to California, then came are made in drums, but they did make Contrary to national trends, none of back and decided to start making 30 drums of the people interviewed here are putting pickles and sauerkraut again. sauerkraut in 2015. the health benefits of fermented foods “We decided we had to make Conroy estimated front and center in their packaging. some for ourselves,” Tom said. they fermented “It’s a pretty wide range what brings “But it’s hard to get a volume less 15,000 pounds of customers to us,” Brown said. “Some do than five gallons to come out how cabbage and over say ‘I started eating them when I was you want it. So we started making 30,000 pounds of five and they fixed every problem I had.’ barrels again, we started trading it, vegetables in total Others care that they’re really tasty or and then people have nothing to over the year, with unusual, or they care really strongly about give us but money. And we said, I all of those drawn local foods.” guess we’re back in business again.” from farms within “If you dig around, there are some There’s something of a a 30-mile radius really remarkable claims out there,” Goldilocks zone for fermented around the city of Durgin said, “but there is something products when it comes to Ithaca. to be said for us eating too clean. In production size. Quart jars aren’t Part of the poorer countries you don’t find so many the best way to ferment; according Crooked Carrot autoimmune diseases. We’re not eating to Conroy, neither is at a fully mission, Conroy from gardens, and we’re not getting gut industrial scale, which helps says, is to “absorb bacteria into our stomachs, and we’re Crooked Carrot’s chances. farm excesses.” taking antibiotics all the time.” “It does make it a very viable “Any given When the MacDonalds started business for us, because it can’t be year, we’re sourcing growing and fermenting organic scaled up that easily,” Conroy said. some crops that vegetables, they were well ahead of the “We do 55 gallon drums, and you are going to do current fascination with things microbial. could get somewhat bigger, but not extremely well—we “We’ve always been interested in a ton.” want to be there well-being and health. We’ve been organic Contrast that, Conroy said, to catch those,” farmers all our lives,” Shelley MacDonald with competing with your average Conroy said. Their said. “It helps give a lot of energy for us to California organic tomato maker— curtido, a pickled El work hard; there are long days of farming “They’re combining tomatoes and Salvadoran salad, and making this stuff.” dumping into a concrete moat.” is made of tender Working just as hard, in their limited The Crooked Carrot crew has no summer cabbage, which hadn’t worked universes, are the microbes. moats in their recently-moved-into well in their autumn sauerkraut ferment. “They’re a nice little food processing processing plant on South Hill, the former Over the years, Shelley MacDonald miracle,” Tom MacDonald said. • Oasis Dance Club. Two of the team can said, they’ve turned some of their T

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Cornell’s wrestling team in a grueling season By Ste ve L aw re nc e

must say that as I am doing my part to make sure Americans eat way too much over the holidays, I sometimes pause to offer up my thoughts to wrestlers, who are in the midst of a grueling season

and, given they are watching every pound, must be very disciplined with their diets. Both local collegiate programs dropped excruciatingly close matches this weekend, highlighted by Cornell’s 1-point,

last minute loss to Missouri, the #4 ranked team in Division 1. In Columbia, Missouri, the Big Red’s Brian Realbuto won a tough match at 174 pounds to put the visitors up by a 12-10 score, and Mizzou—having won 33 consecutive dual meets—needed to rely on its big men to keep that streak alive. They pulled it off—barely—and the hosts squeaked by on bonus point matches by a score of 18-17. Each team won five matches, but it was the bonus point matches that allowed Missouri to prevail. Cornell’s nationally-ranked wrestlers showed why that is the case, as Nahshon

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Garrett moved his record up to 24-0 on the season as he continues his quest for his first national championship. In a 133-pound rematch against Zach Synon—who beat Garrett in a dual meet previously—Garrett jumped out to an early 4-1 lead, then completed a convincing 12-5 thumping to stay on track. Missouri tested the true meaning of Brotherly Love when they pulled #4 Willie Miklus out of his anticipated match-up with #1 and defending national champion Gabe Dean at 184 pounds. The Tigers instead sent Miklus’ brother, Tim, to face Dean. It was a logical move—given they needed Willie at the higher weight class, and Dean was 3-0 versus Willie Miklus. Well, the family tradition did not take a turn for the better, as Dean destroyed the younger Miklus by an 18-1 margin. It may seem torturous to hang in there when getting roughed up so badly, but by not getting pinned, the younger Miklus actually saved the points the Tigers needed to prevail. That show of perseverance was also rewarded, as Willie Miklus, having been moved up to wrestle at 197, earned the victory that secured three more crucial points. • • • What a thrill it must be for the Ithaca College wrestling team to be able to say they beat Cornell at the National Duals by a convincing score of 34-9 ... No, not that Cornell … The Bombers—ranked fifth in the nation in Division III—put the hammer down on Cornell College at the National Duals, wrapping up an eighth place finish in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It was a good way to close out the meet, as Ithaca lost to SUNY Cortland and Augsburg College by identical 22-21 scores. • • • It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of any former Ivy League players who make it to the NFL, and of course, Cornell alums hold a special place in my football heart. When I learned that J.C. Tretter of the Green Bay packers would be making his first start at tackle in a playoff game (after many starts at center, guard and a few at tight end), I was pulling for the kid. (Football fans will appreciate that metaphor.) Tretter was a standout offensive tackle at Cornell, and he was taken by the Packers in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL draft. He would start the 1st round playoff game against the Washington Racial Slurs, replacing David Bakhtiari, who was out for the third consecutive game due to an ankle injury. Things started out on a rough note for Tretter, as he was beaten by a Washington player and the resulting sack in the end zone put the host team up 2-0. The Pack came back, however, and on ESPN Radio’s national show today, the host said that Tretter, in his first game as a tackle in the NFL, “played a fine football game.” The fact that the performance happened to be in a playoff game makes the effort even more commendable. Tretter and the green and gold will play next week at Arizona, hoping to avenge a rough loss to the Cardinals a couple of games back and

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able to see the film’s intriguing trailer, I did talk at length with Dan Driscoll, one of the film’s animation supervisors, who splits his time between Corning and Los Angeles. For you stop-motion buffs, Driscoll’s career goes back to MTV’s Celebrity Death Match. In addition to Anomalisa, he’s also worked on The PJs, Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole and the sublime Robot Chicken, which just wrapped up its final season. Schedule permitting, he will introduce and discuss Anomalisa at Cinemapolis on Feb. 5. Ithaca Times: How did the film come your way? Dan Driscoll: Well, I worked at Starburns Industries, the studio that produced the movie. I was the animation director on [Mary Shelley’s] Frankenhole, second season, which was Dino’s [Stamatopoulos} series on Adult Swim. And a lot of those episodes were directed by Duke Johnson (co-director of Anomalisa). I’ve

’m a big animation fan, but my interest doesn’t stop outside of the family entertainments, the Disneys and the Pixars and the Dreamworks stuff. I remember Ralph Bakshi and Heavy Metal and Persepolis. I’m not much into anime, but I’ll certainly admit that the genre has established classics like Akira and Ghost in the Shell. I still miss the animation anthologies that used to play every year at Cinemapolis and Fall Creek. You got to see amazing animated shorts in every conceivable medium, made by animators from around the globe. You might see a great Bill Plympton short, some oil-paint smeary piece from the Ukraine, and even a humble little pencil test from some kid named John Lasseter who would later become the head of animation at Disney and Pixar. So when I say I’m an animation fan, I mean I really believe in it as a medium for more than funny talking animals. I found out later in life that my late mother, Moma Orlene Crone, hated all the animated films she had to take me to when I was a kid. She did not like Lady and the Tramp as much as I did. She wasn’t much into movies, but she did love Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Bull Durham and … Ralph Bakshi’s Fritz the Cat. I wouldn’t even invite her to the latest Disney or Pixar joint, and every time I saw an animated movie that was outside the genre box, I would want to show it to her. But each time I packed up to visit, I wimped out and didn’t bring any DVDs with me. When I saw the trailer for the new Charlie Kaufman film Anomalisa, I wish my mother had lived to see it. Even if you know that Kaufman is the mind responsible for outside-

Top Left: Animators working on the film “Anomalisa” Above Right: A still from the film. (Photos Provided)

the-box movies like Adaptation, Being John Malkovich and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Anomalisa is still just about impossible to describe in 25 words or less. Even though it’s animated, it’s as far from funny talking animals as you can get and still call it animated—stopmotion animation to be precise. Picture Ray Harryhausen making a Wong Kar-Wei art film with no mythical creatures and you’ll start to get it. Anomalisa opens on Jan. 22 at Cinemapolis, and even though I’ve only been

worked with Duke in the past quite a bit. Yeah, this movie came along, and how can you say no? [Laughs] IT: Brett Brossard, who runs Cinemapolis, saw it in Toronto and I just watched his jaw drop as he tried to describe it. DD: [laughs] Yeah, it’s having the most amazing effect on people. To read these reviews continued on page 18

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I HAVE A DREAM

Delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, in the March on Washington D.C. for Civil Rights

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation’s Capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on their promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. 1963 is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials

and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.” I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood., I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plains, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. This will be the day when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning My country, ‘tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, From every mountain-side Let freedom ring. And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvacious peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, we are free at last.”

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The Vast Wilderness

New film shows epic scope with gritty realism By Br yan VanC ampe n The Revenant, co-written and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, playing at Regal Stadium 14; Bone Tomahawk (2015), written and directed by S. Craig Zahler, now on Blu-Ray and DVD.

or a time there, you couldn’t finance a Western unless you put a timetraveling DeLorean into the plot, or the word “Aliens” paired with the word “Cowboys” on the title page of the script. Clint Eastwood got out of the game in 1992 with Unforgiven, but not before triggering a bunch of bad copycat oaters like Jonathan Kaplan’s Bad Girls. But here I’ve seen three Westerns in the last three months: QT’s The Hateful Eight, perhaps his most theatrical film, and now The Revenant and Bone Tomahawk. If nothing else, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant will be a constant reminder that if me and my Facebook cat lovers had to make a living producing and trading fur pelts in the 1820s, the human race would never have survived. Despite its extremes in what Disney would like us think of as “The Circle of Life,” I found the film itself an exhilarating journey, but I wouldn’t have enjoyed working on the film itself. It looks like it was nigh impossible to make, cold and miserable. Iñárritu’s previous film, Birdman, was designed as a one-camera shot from beginning to end, and while he does edit shots more here, there are long set pieces that are shown from one constantly shifting angle. Point-of-view is critical when you’re a frontiersman named Hugh Glass on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s, and a bear is flinging you around like a rag doll. Given the severity of animal action restrictions and the limits of what can be done, I have no idea how this sequence was done, and like Birdman, the you-are-there aspects of the visual storytelling are in-your-face and brutal. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Glass, traveling with his Indian son, played by Forrest Goodluck. After he gets mauled and his team can no longer carry his stretcher, Tom Hardy and Will Poulter are left behind to care for him, and Hardy disobeys the first rule of action cinema: never leave the hero for dead. Iñárritu’s raw, epic vision recalls his earlier, multi-layered crime saga Amores Perros, but with a larger than life sense of man’s connection with the world around them. DiCaprio’s men and another crew of French pelters treat their pacts with the Indians as a loaded joke. In Iñárritu’s film, the Indians have opinions about that. Perhaps DiCaprio’s infected, bloody resurrection is the price to be paid for the American rape of the earth. Both Hateful Eight and The Revenant

were made with big budgets. S. Craig Zahler made Bone Tomahawk, a Western cannibal tale spanning 130 minutes and 70 locations, on a Roger Corman budget and schedule, and proves that stars like Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson and Matthew Fox will work for peanuts. Someone or

something kidnaps the town doctor and leaves mutilated corpses for Russell, the sheriff, to find. He and Wilson, Fox and the always-awesome Richard Jenkins saddle up and ride out to find them. Zahler only has enough money for a few gross-out gore gags and saves them till the end. Bone Tomahawk is all about that long journey to one’s destination. Lili Simmons, unknown to me before seeing this, is strong and oddly hilarious. You can tell the filmmaker is fond of B-grade genre stuff from the cameos by David Arquette and Sid Haig. Zahler has a knack

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Royal Refuge Beyond Hip

American comfort food done solid and right By J.F.K .Fi she r

he Royal Court Restaurant, attached to Meadow Court Inn on Elmira Road, may be suffering somewhat by association; surely the nice ladies in blue sweaters, who pulled out stacks of cards for a game after Thursday lunch haven’t heard the term “hot sheet joint” since before the Meadow Court was considered one. And if the hotel was one it’s glory days, the ladies have aged better than it has. However, that shouldn’t put you off the restaurant, which is clean and quaint in a mid ‘60s kind of way, with wall-to-wall fleur-de-lis carpeting and appropriately seasonal décor. To the right, the bar is separate from the large dining area; both have booths, and roomy tables with wooden chairs. Noise is muted, except for the time we went and the waitress was singing Sheena Easton in the back (we were the only patrons at 2 p.m.). We tried the Hawaiian Eye, a ham sandwich with melted cheese and a slab of pineapple on toasted pumpernickel bread, and thought it was pretty good. Pumpernickel, ham, pineapple: the three flavors are much more compatible than,

for instance, that infamous Californian corruption: ham and pineapple on pizza. Also, the tuna melt: classic, canned tuna and mayonnaise like mom used to do it, on marble rye with melted mild cheese. Pickles and fries or chips accompany the sandwiches. A turkey club sandwich on marble rye is a triple-decker you can still fit in your mouth, with bacon, lettuce and tomato in one layer and turkey in the other. The fried fish filet on a roll included a rather geometric cut of seafood and our filet was somewhat overcooked. But the scale of the sandwich was reasonable and the French fries that accompanied it were crisp and flavorful. Neither the fish nor the fries were the least bit greasy. This is a restaurant that changes its Fryolater oil frequently and keeps it hot. One standout on the otherwise serviceable and satisfying lunch menu was the patty melt. “How would you care for it?”, our attentive waitress asked. We ordered it medium rare, and within minutes she presented us with a patty melt truly fit for royalty. It was everything a patty melt should be: a juicy, hand-formed

burger sandwiched between griddled rye bread, oozing melted Swiss cheese and crowned with caramelized onions. As with all the sandwiches at the Royal Court, the patty melt was accompanied by the Royal Court’s signature crispy fries, and every bite was a delicious treat. When we return, this is what we will order. The same can be said for the Royal Court’s outstanding carrot cake, which also exceeded all hopes and expectations. Moist, dense, dark and not overly sweet, the cake was replete with shredded carrots and a hint of coconut, and studded with golden raisins. The classic cream cheese frosting was the perfect accompaniment, adding sweetness to each bite without being cloying. It would be difficult to find a better carrot cake short of making one ourselves, and even that is no guarantee. We crowned this cake the winner of the dessert selection. The Milky Way pie was exactly what it promised, with a layer of caramel on a light chocolate pie, crumbled Oreo crust, and whipped cream. The chocolate-peanut butter pie was made with surprisingly light peanut-butter custard poured into the same Oreo crust as above, with a ring of whipped cream around the periphery and flecked with shaved dark chocolate. Key lime pie: pretty good, and so was the lemon meringue. All in all, the Royal Court will take you back, if you remember the carpeted restaurants of yesteryear serving openfaced turkey sandwiches with gravy (which, alas, they do not have). And if you don’t remember, but would like a dose of heavily

A customer enjoys a “classic” meal (Photo J.F.K. Fisher)

American comfort food done exactly the way it should be (i.e. without irony), the Royal Court does it right. Vinyl records, after all, have come back into style. Mac and cheese is now the rage; the Royal Court, currently a refuge for the unhip, may soon be teetering on the brink of being cool. • Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on unannounced, anonymous visits. Reviews can be found at ithaca.com/dining

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The Wings of Destiny

Photo show highlights the moments in between By Ambe r D onof r io

ocal photographer Jon Reis’ work is an interesting combination of nostalgic enthusiasm and active surveillance, taking in what is around him and presenting it in ways that are aesthetically intriguing, while not losing their insightful anthropological edge. A longtime aviation enthusiast, fueled by his family’s frequent visits while growing up to Hartford, Connecticut’s Bradley Airport to watch the planes and by numerous drawings of airplanes and spaceships that speckled his childhood, what is unique about Reis is that his interest stems not in the mechanics of the aircrafts but in the culture that surrounds them. “I’m not inclined to just make a document of someone’s aircraft,” he makes clear. Rather his interest lies strongly in the sociological and anthropological aspects of the field, in the so-called micro-culture of people involved with aircrafts for work or hobby, and thus in a study of a microcosm of American culture. Aviation Anthropology, a show of Reis’ photography up at the CAP Artspace through January, skillfully portrays this

interest in photographing aviation culture in a display of work that ranges from the 1970s to present time. Older images, from the 1970s and ‘80s, cover one wall with black-and-white prints that display anything from the Good Year blimp flying among palm trees over Miami Beach to an officer on horseback riding under a plane’s wing during the Chemung County Airport’s Sesquicentennial Air Show. The more recent, color photographs are ones that especially focus on the people and stories involved with the aviation world. From a Wright Brothers memorial to a star-emblazoned missile leaning against a fence among tumbleweeds, some images that stick out most curiously are photographs of residencies, where planes are parked visibly in peoples’ garages. We rarely think about, how, as Reis describes, there are distinct neighborhoods created for people with personal planes, where they can buy a house one side of which faces a street and the other a taxiway from which they can take flight, exploring different locations for an afternoon just for the fun. Venturing to airports and communities

with a camera around his neck, Reis got his pilot’s license as a means of exploring flight and aviation even further. Aviation Anthropology stands as a testament to Reis’ lifelong desire to explore what interests him, but his photographs also reveal that he is an observer and photographer rather than a participant in the micro-culture. Certain “172 Departing Sedona” by Jon Reis (Photo Provided) instances, such as an “experimental aircraft” photographed in Yucca hung in relation to each other that strongly Valley are largely happenstance, sights that express his perspective. The former, taken intrigue Reis but that he knows little about. in Miami-Dade County, Florida, is a white “It’s things like that, of walking out hangar conspicuously empty of planes. and just being struck by something,” he said of his work. “For me, it’s also about the The details, however, are what draw you in: a helicopter looking miniature against content and the shape of the forms within the frame. That’s really all you have to work a distant wall, the straight lines of a ladder, the bright red of a fire extinguisher or fuel with when you have a camera, those four tank. The latter photograph of Sedona edges and how you’re going to frame it. focuses on orange chairs overlooking That’s the fun of doing photography. It’s Arizona terrain. There’s a plane in the seeing what the frame shows and what it distance, at first unnoticed, a blurry doesn’t show. It’s about where you stand.” speck of white with red and blue stripes The cultural aspects of Reis’ photography are interesting, but what really barely visible as it zooms past. In both photographs, the plane isn’t the focal point; makes the work successful is his own eye the environment is. This is fascinating to the lens, translating his curiosity and to see in a show focused on flight. These wonder into images that balance content photos force you to keep looking, to and form. Executive Jet Hangar and Cessna discover details hidden in the frame. • 172 Departing Sedona are two photographs

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he new mural at the Cornell Over the years she has painted many Laboratory of Ornithology is on a different kinds of birds, but the variety two-story wall in a sort of apse off that she needed to document on the the main lobby of the Imogene Johnson ornithology lab wall was a challenge. “The building. diversity is extraordinary,” she said. “I “I was doing one of the Bartel’s think amphibians and insects are the only Science Illustration internships,” said other groups that top birds in that regard.” artist Jane Kim, “and the director [of the Each bird had distinctive structure and lab, John Fitzpatrick] approached me because she was creating a work of art for because he had heard that I did largea laboratory full of scientists, each bird had scale installation work. He said to me, to be quite accurate. ‘Doesn’t this wall scream mural at you?’” “It’s remarkable how much Fitzpatrick’s initial idea, according to Kim, ornithologists rely on observation in the was for the wall to illustrate the evolution field,” Kim said. “When you see a bird fly of birds, but in Kim’s hands the concept away, to you it’s just a flash, but they know grew to include representation of first all exactly what it is because they are so in of the orders of birds—40—to illustrating tune with their subject when they look.” a member from all of the families of Kim used acrylic and latex house paint birds. In 2011, when Kim and the lab to give the birds color because of their staff began talking about the project, ornithologists believed that there were 231 extant families. By the time she began to work on the project in earnest in 2014, the number had grown to 243. Kim even brought in some extinct and precursor families so that when you visit the Lab of Ornithology today you can see representatives from 270 different kinds of birds and reptiles Artist Jane Kim working on the mural (Photo Provided) (or dinosaurs). Kim and her husband Thayer Walker are the personnel of a studio called stability in a setting like the lab’s lobby. Ink Dwell in San Francisco. Since the The space is very well lit with natural founding of the firm in 2012 they have light, but that means abundant ultraviolet specialized in doing commissioned public radiation striking the wall regularly, so she art installations. Kim, who has a BFA could not apply an undercoat; she had to from Rhode Island School of Design and paint right on the drywall. She also used a certificate in scientific illustration from the lightest colors possible in order to a program at California State Monterey reduce fading over time. The minute details Bay, handles the design and execution of each bird’s feathers were added using of the work, and Walker essentially does a “water brush,” which has a squeezable everything else, which includes looking for shaft filled with water that keeps the work and then negotiating the terms of the bristles wet and in a fine tip. Kim has arrangement. Walker’s prior professional created art in many different public spaces experience is in journalism, specializing in under quite variable conditions. She has writing about the outdoors. learned to select her materials to make sure As it says at their website, “Ink that her work lasts. Dwell’s mission is to inspire people to love “I like making public art because it and protect the Earth one work of art at a has a lot of reach and a lot of impact,” Kim time.” Walker’s passion for the outdoors said. “You want to tell a narrative about is paired with Kim’s fascination with the natural world. There isn’t really any depicting the natural world. As a child she substitute for just going out in nature, but got in trouble for painting flowers and birds you want to create a user experience of the on her bedroom wall. Now she gets paid natural world for people.” • for it.

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Into the Stratosphere

Electronic duo push beyond the ultraworld By C hr i s t phe r J. Har r ing ton The Electric Golem, BRIAN!, AVIATRIX, Motorcyclez, Friday, Jan. 15, 8:00 p.m., Sacred Root Kava Lounge

here I was. My body split in four, lying in some dark, sprawling, metallic chamber. It was a sudden and tremendous experience. Immediately, in some panic-stricken psychosis, I telepathically arranged for my various body sections to be frozen in some safe locale. It was an amazing performance. I had channeled some sort of netherworldlike-scientific-feat of feats. That is, I used my still functioning head section to call to some distant existence, and ask for help. Once frozen, all parts could then be joined by the dark Magus. The aphotic psychedelic synths of Ithaca’s The Electric Golem pounded as soundtrack. It was real and intense. And then I woke up. Nearly blind, but alive—and all in one piece. A record still spun on the turntable, skipping on the last groove. Sky Snails: a dark and transient, ambient-rich-almost techno like, psychedelic-gem, from that textural group in my dreams. I turned it off. I was still unsure of reality. My trip through space had been a strange and consternated one, a psychedelic experience gone awry. It was like some dimensional realm William Hurt transmigrated to in the film Altered States. Not altogether different from experiencing The Electric Golem in realtime actually.

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Trevor Pinch, one-half of the aforementioned electronic-duo, and a professor of science and technology at Cornell University, had told me recently that, “synths are the definitive soundtrack of space exploration, and yet our music has nothing formally to do with science. We simply follow the sound in an organic way. All are music is improvised.” Not bad, considering their weighty mindscapes, particularly the three compositions on Sky Snails, hold their own right up there with works by electronic masters like Tangerine Dream, The Orb, Biosphere, Kazunao Nagata, and Gas. “I’ve been playing psychedelic music since my early days in England, over 30 years now. I was raised on Pink Floyd, Hawkwind, and Tangerine Dream”, Pinch said. “I met Jim five years ago through some friends. We started rehearsing and thought the sound was really cool.” The “Jim” he spoke of is James Spitznagel, a visual and sound artist based in Ithaca. Together, the two forge varying eras of technology to bring futuristic sounds of portals and dimensions unknown. Some of these realms, like the one in my dream, tend towards the aberrant. Pinch plays a Moog Prodigy and has an array of homemade modular synthesizers, while Spitznagel weaves counterbalance through a plethora of modern digital devices like the Evolver synth, the Nintendo DSI, and the really wicked Tenori-on: an electronic

instrument that consists of a hand-held screen in which a grid of LED switches can be activated in different ways to achieve varying sounds. The two artists conjure up the inner-depths of two distinct worlds. Pinch is somewhat of a forefather of synthesizer technology. He is the coauthor of one of the definitive books on the subject, Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer. His knowledge of the instrument is heavy,

are as indiscriminate as its origins. “There are no pre-conceived notions of what the synthesizer should sound like. For the most part all our sounds are fresh, improvised, and hopefully improving”, Pinch said. The band headlines an excellent evening of experimental, electronic and avant-garde music on Friday night. The Ithaca based light-artist Leo Kang will be providing visuals to TEG’s set with

Trevor Pinch and James Spitznagel of The Electric Golem (Photo Provided)

like the equipment itself. “Modular synthesizers are physically, very heavy. I have a whole van full of them, and lug them to and from each gig. It’s a process. Not many bands around here use modular synths, it’s not very economical. Big Mean Sound Machine uses them, as does Michael Troutman’s excellent noise project, Weirding Module. Jim has a simple briefcase he carries to each gig that contains all he needs. It’s quite a contrast.” The methods of The Electric Golem

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and for people to call it the most human movie of the year … It was our intent to make something beautiful and touching. To read these kinds of reviews, it’s humbling. We knew we were making something, and to have hit the nerve that it hit, it’s more than any of us dreamed of, I think. IT: As excited as I was for a new film by Charlie Kaufman, I remembered Duke Johnson’s name from Community’s Christmas stop-motion episode, “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas,” which I think is one of the greatest things of all time. And several years ago when I didn’t have cable, I stumbled onto an episode of Robot Chicken when I was house-sitting for my parents, and I went out and bought the first two seasons the next day. Then I checked out your IMDb page, and you’ve worked on a lot of my favorite things. What’s your background? How did you get into this? DD: Kind of accidentally. I did go to art school. I went to RISD, and I loved animation, and I loved comic books. So I knew I was going to do something dealing with sequential imaging at the very least. And then I took a course on stop-motion, and I realized I could do something without having to draw the same thing over and over again. [Laughs] I graduated in 1997. When I was at school, it was all shot on film, so yeah, we shot on 16mm. I mean, that’s the great thing now with stop-motion animation is that you can go on YouTube

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and there are people with webcams shooting Legos. I mean, there’s some amazing Lego shorts now that people are making, and there are even apps for your iPhone that you can get, and you can do stop-motion animation with your iPhone. IT: So you graduate and then what happens? DD: I started out at a small studio in Boston called Olive Jar, which no longer exists, and from there, I guess my big break was probably Celebrity Death Match. [Laughs] IT: How does something like that land in your lap? DD: It’s funny. In school, I actually interned at MTV in the MTV animation department, telling people there that I love stop-motion, talking a lot about that. I guess they liked me enough that a year later after I graduated and Celebrity Death Match was starting up, they said, “Hey, there’s this kid …” Because at the time, there was The Nightmare Before Christmas, which was a few years before, and James and the Giant Peach, and that was about it. You know, MTV was trying to start out this low-budget, weird, violent cartoon in stop-motion, and they didn’t really know who to get. Almost all of us were fresh out of school. Once you can focus for 10 hours a day on some puppets, 10 hours a day, five days a week, you start to learn a few things. And that’s how it all really started. IT: Can you remember any particular Robot Chicken sketches that you worked on? DD: On the 100th episode, I did this fight scene. It’s a continuous shot of the chicken running up these staircases. I think it’s one of the longest shots in stop-motion history. We almost broke it on Anomalisa, but we added a little cut-in [shot]. It’s one of the longest shots you’ll probably find in stop motion, and it’s all hand-operated camera movement, just this puppet running around a staircase and fighting people. And that took a couple months to shoot. IT: I’m sure your duties change with each project, but could you describe the qualifications of an animation supervisor? DD: Sure. As animation supervisor, my primary responsibility was maintaining a constant style between all the artists. Every animator is an artist in their own right; every animator would do the same shot differently. So it was my job to work with each individual animator to figure out what they would need, and make sure they had the tools necessary to complete their shot. I also worked with Duke. We would act through the shots, we would kind of clear a space and basically act out the entire movie, or that shot for an animator, trying to figure out that shot, like how would he actually pick up this glass, or how would he sit down on his bed, shift his weight. How are they interacting with each other? IT: You said you kind of backed into this. Were you were an animation fan growing up? DD: Oh, yeah, I loved a lot of the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials, and when I was in high school, the Brothers Quay were pretty big, and even those stopmotion Tool videos that were on MTV, a n u a r y

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back when MTV still played music videos. [Laughs] Those were pretty impactful. And Jan Švankmajer, these European animators, too. IT: What’s your connection to Corning? DD: It’s funny. There was a period of time in the early 2000s where stopmotion kind of dried up. I was living in San Francisco at the time, and there just wasn’t a lot of work. My wife and I were trying to figure out what we could do, and she found a job that would pay for her move to New York, and so that’s kind of how we ended

its Wikipedia page. It’s a great show for preschoolers, and it was created by Drew Hodges. IT: It must feel great knowing you’ve done something with animation that isn’t funny talking animals. DD: You know, I worked on Robot Chicken for so long, and there are people that think, “Oh, it’s another season of Robot Chicken.” You know, I try to approach it like every day there’s something new, something weird. I think a lot about the movie Sullivan’s Travels, you know? That movie’s great on so many levels. This guy

Top: Animation Supervisor of “Anomalisa” Dan Driscoll working on a scene. Below: A scene from “Anomalisa” (Photos Provided)

up in Corning. She has family that lives in Bath, and her mother had actually just moved to the area as well. So as a young family, we thought maybe we could try out Corning. So we lived in Corning for a while and then I started traveling, animation started picking up, Robot Chicken happened. So we lived in Corning for a while, [then] we moved out to L.A., and a year ago, we realized out oldest daughter was about to start high school, and we thought, you know, Corning would be good for that. [Laughs] so we moved back to Corning about a year ago. IT: What are you working on now? DD: Actually, I’m still in L.A. It’s much cheaper living in Corning, so I can create my own schedule a little bit. I’m spending a month in L.A. I’m working on Tumble Leaf on Amazon. They’re in their second season, It’s about a fox named Fig, and each day he discovers adventure, friendship and love. [Laughs] I’m quoting that from

is a director, he directs these slapstick comedies, and he wants to make a serious movie. Through a series of events he winds up with amnesia in prison. He sees his own comedies in prison and he sees all these people around him laughing, even though they’re in jail. They’re at the lowest point in their lives, but they’re laughing. He realizes that he might not be the next Kane, but he’s helping people. And the movie he wants to make is called O Brother Where Art Thou, which the Coen brothers did. [Laughs] I try to look at “It’s not just another season of Robot Chicken.” It’s another season of people that need to laugh, and it helps. You try to do a service. Anomalisa is that chance to make that movie that entrances people in a completely unique way. I’ve been in my career very lucky and I’m proud to have been a part of something amazing. It’s definitely a high water mark, I think. Read the full interview with Dan Driscoll at Ithaca.com •

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more information visit: ithacacommunitychoruses.org The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers | 7:30 PM | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora St, Ithaca | A performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vespers. For tickets and more information visit: ithacacommunitychoruses.org The New Daze, Marcus Alan Ward, Sam Klass | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Organic Psychedelic Rage, Funk, Rock. Trivium, Breaking Solace, One Step From Falling | 7:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Metalcore, Hard Rock, Heady Metal.

1/18 Monday Blue Mondays | 9:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | with Pete Panek and the Blue Cats.

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

1/15 Friday 5 Mile Drive: Record Release Party | 6:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Blues, Psychedelic, Progressive, Covers. Our debut CD Victorious will be available for sale at the show. Additionally the first 20 people to arrive will receive a free download card from CD Baby. Limbs Bin, Sunken Cheek, Eating Scabs For Protein | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Angry Mom Records, 115 E State St, Ithaca, | Noise, Power Electronics, Punk, Grind, Power Violence, Avant-Garde. Battle of the Bands: Immortal Jellyfish vs. Radio London | 8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | One night only. Two bands face off. One stage, two bands, who will win. Motown, Blues, Swing, Rock, Country, Beatles, Chuck Berry, Byrds, and other Covers. Bittersweet | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Finger lakes Cider House, 4107 Hickok Rd., Interlaken | Country, Folk, Old-time, Blues, Rock, Americana. Bob & Dee | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Acoustic. Evan E. and the Flunk Schools | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Rock, Folk Rock, Blues. Iron Horse | 6:00 PM- | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Southern Rock, Blues, Rock. Jazz at the Bakery | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Ithaca Bakery, 400 N Meadow St, Ithaca | Jazz. Led Foot | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Company, 2471 Hayes Road,

Montour Falls | R&B, Blues, Classic Covers, Rock. The Electric Golem, BRIAN!, AVIATRIX, Motorcyclez | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Electronic, Synth, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock, Experimental, Avant-Garde. IU presents. The Tarps | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Live Jukebox Band. Top Shelf | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing Company, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Professional Cover Band focused on providing an up-beat atmosphere through a wide range of music. Tumbleweed Highway, Rare Breed | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Boogie, Outlaw Country, Zydeco, Memphis Shuffle, Southern Rock, Country, Rock.

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The classic sounds of the country band Laila Belle will have you longing for the open road with that warm sun beating down on your brow. They play Casita Del Polaris Friday 1/14 at 9:00 p.m. Come get some sun. (Photo Provided)

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vespers | 7:30 PM | St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 402 N Aurora St, Ithaca | The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers, under the direction of Gerald Wolfe, will give a performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vespers. For tickets and

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County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Thaler/Howell Programming Room.During this showing, especially for children with sensory challenges, TCPL will keep the lights on, the volume low, and offer noise-canceling earmuffs, weighted lap pads and fidgets. For more information, contact the Library’s Youth Services Department at (607) 272–4557 extension 275.

Wednesday 1/ to Tuesday 1/12 | Contact Regal Ithaca for Showtimes The Forest | A woman goes into the Suicide Forest to find her twin sister, which she is informed by paranormal forces. | 95 mins PG-13 | The Big Short | Four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predicted the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s decide to take on the big banks for their lack of foresight and greed. | 130 mins R | Concussion | In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play. | 123 mins PG-13 | Dady’s Home | A mild-mannered radio executive strives to become the best stepdad to his wife’s two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling and freeloading real father arrives, forcing him to compete for the affection of the kids. | 96 mins PG-13 | Joy | Joy is the story of a family across four generations and the woman who rises to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty. | 124 mins PG-13 | 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 |

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Friday, 1/15 to Thursday, 1/21. Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes 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 |

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| Mustang | Early summer. In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are walking home from school, playing innocently with some boys. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal that has unexpected consequences. The family home is

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Applicants may submit multiple designs. Please Send Delivery Entires: GIAC 301 W Court St Ithaca, NY 14850 IthacaMuslimMural@gmail.com. More info: Nagiane Lacka Arriaza, Project Coordinator GIAC (607) 272-3622 Caleb R Thomas, Member of Ithacans for Public Art (607) 273-5242 Montessori Philosophy Night: Setting Behavioral Expectations | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 1/13 Wednesday | Namaste Montessori School- Primary Campus, 1608 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Join us as we discuss practical tips for supporting your child in developing the social and emotional skills for making good behavioral choices no matter what stage of development they are in. E-mail info@namastemontessorischool.com or call (607) 272-0515 for childcare info. Trampoline Thursdays | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 1/14 Thursday | Buffalo St. Books Presents Trampoline Thursdays. Each contestant will be given 3 minutes to share their story and enter for a chance to be crowned the first ever Trampoline Story Champ. Chicken and Biscuit Dinner | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 1/16 Saturday | Newfield Fire Hall, 77 Main St. , Newfield | Serving: Chicken and gravy, biscuits, mashed potatoes, veggies, beverages and assorted desserts. Sunday Square Dancing | 7:00 PM, 1/17 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402

N Tioga St, Ithaca | Square Dancing is a low-impact aerobic activity that stimulates both mind and body. Easy and fun for people of any age. Sunday Squares is free and open to all. We dance to a wide variety of popular music, and learn dance steps used all over the world. Come alone or with a partner. No special dancing skills required. thaca Festival Open Meeting | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 1/17 Sunday | GIAC, 301 N Albany St, Ithaca | We will introduce you to our new executive director as we invite our community to be part of a conversation about visions for the 2016 festival. Please contact mckenzie@ ithacafestival.org with any questions. Amnesty International Ithaca monthly meeting | 7:30 PM-, 1/19 Tuesday | Cornell University Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Info: 273-3009, ewb2@cornell.edu. Always the third Tuesday. Come sign a letter, defend prisoners, stand up for human rights around the world. All welcome. angela.crowley@cortland.edu, crowley558@gmail.com The Enfield Volunteer Fire Company Blood drive | 1:30 PM-6:30 PM, 1/19 Tuesday | Enfield Fire Hall, 172 Enfield Main Rd, Ithaca | You can call for an appointment on January 19 by calling the American Red Cross at 273-1900. Walk-ins are always welcome.

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The Dock, Thursday, January 14, 7:00 p.m. 2015 was like a dream for Joshua Davis. From February through May, the Michigan singer-songwriter lived between Traverse City and Los Angeles, appearing each week on NBC’s “The Voice.” After making it all the way to No. 3 overall, Joshua Davis is back where he feels most comfortable – the road. The national spotlight has definitely raised Davis’ profile, but his music remains as true and as earnest as when he started playing live over a decade and a half ago.

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Learning Bridging the Gap Workshop | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1/13 Wednesday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | The Bridging the Gap Workshop will cover what is available locally for training, degree programs, certificates, and funding sources. It will also cover local labor market information to help provide the guidance needed to make such a valuable career decision. Healing Bone Broths | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 1/13 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Bone broth is rich in minerals that support the immune system and contains healing compounds that may help reduce intestinal inflammation. Katie Church will show you how to make it, and share nutritious recipes. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Jeanne Calabretta, N.D, A.A.S., CNHP, Nature’s Sunshine Manager | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 1/14 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 Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Ithaca College | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 1/15 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Come meet an Ithaca College Human Resource Representative, who will share their application process and the benefits of working at Ithaca College. Wegmans Meet the Employer Information Session | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, 1/15 Friday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Come meet a Wegmans Human Resource Representative, who will share their application process and the benefits of working at Wegmans. Build a career you’ll love! Winter Fly Tying Workshop | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 1/16 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 607-272-2292 (extension 139) ahs38@ cornell.edu

MArtin Luther KIng JR. Luncheon, Southside Community Center, Thursday, January 14, 11:30 a.m.

Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the bravest and most intelligent human beings to walk this earth. His non-violent approach to philosophy, interaction, and equality, followed in the footsteps of Gandhi and Jesus before him. The courage to use your mind in the face of death, cowardice, violence, and hatred – and to not only turn the other cheek, but to champion and attempt to help free the delusion and cowardice of your oppressors – is the absolute most courageous ,and human thing, anyone can attempt.

Special Events 31st Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon | 11:30 AM, 1/14 Thursday | Southside Community Center, 305 S Plain St, Ithaca | This annual tradition is a wonderful way to bring the community together to honor Dr. King’s legacy, enjoy the company of your friends and neighbors and have a delicious lunch. Please register by calling Lifelong at 273-1511 or send your payment or stop in at 119 West Court Street. Barnstorm for Bernie Sanders | 7:00 PM, 1/14 Thursday | The Space at GreenStar, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Join local volunteers and grassroots organizers at this rally with Zack Exley, a representative from the Bernie Sanders campaign. RSVP on the Bernie Events page, http://bit.ly/1IMxYSn . For more information, contact Sarah Nixon at nixon.sarah96@gmail.com. Falling Waters Music Camp | La Tourelle Resort and August Moon Spa, 1150 Danby Rd, Ithaca | Join us for a fun and inspiring weekend of instruction, jamming and performance. Runs January 15 through January 17. Contact Camp Director Rick Manning for information: 607-5924647; rick@wintervillagebluegrass.org 2016 GIAC MLK Community Breakfast | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 1/16 Saturday | GIAC, 301 N Albany St, Ithaca | The theme for this event will be, If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. FLRC - Winter Chill Run | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1/17 Sunday | Cass Park Rink & Pool, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | The Cayuga Trails Club: 6 Mile Hike |1/17 Sunday | Oakley Corners State Forest, , Owego | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 5 - 6 mile hike, snow shoe or cross country ski tour (depending on the snow conditions) For details, check http://cayugatrailsclub.org/ or call 585-975-9312.

Meetings Shade Tree Advisory Committee (STAC) | 4:00 PM, 1/13 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Building, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | STAC consults with the City Forester and the

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ou want some weird? You want some underground? You want some artists that move through the tunnels of separate dimensions? You also want some old-time nostalgia huh? Some bands that’ll remind you of the good oldButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid days. Well, here’s your best bets for this week in the alter-reality known as Ithaca. New Jersey’s grind-noise-one man terror Limbs Bin, and fellow noise constructors Sunken Cheek (Ithaca) and Eating Scabs For Protein (Ithaca) will be playing a special show at Angry Mom Records (probably the best record store ever) Friday at 6:00 p.m. sharp. Not only will you get avant-garde noise, power electronics, deep anxiety-turned happy-as-a-clam-tranquility, and sheer aural insanity, but you’ll get to browse a record selection that is both inimitable and tasteful. Also, you can meet the artists and grab some of their sick merch and underground cassettes. Playing along side The Electric Golem on Friday (see article) at Sacred Root Kava Lounge (8:00 p.m.) , will be the strange, dynamic, forceful, and very progressive trio BRIAN! Led by the multi-instrumental virtuoso, and Ithaca Underground man of all traits, Bubba Crumrine, this band lives in the edgy forests of confrontation. Not the in-your face-pin through nose-spitting at crowd-type of confrontation, but the

Board of Public Works regarding the implementation and enforcement of the provisions of Chapter 306 of the City of Ithaca Municipal Code (“Trees and Shrubs”). Tompkins County Health Department Meeting: Frank Towner, CEO, YMCA of Ithaca | 8:30 AM-9:30 AM, 1/14 Thursday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Rd., Ithaca | IURA Governance Committee (GC) | 8:30 AM-10:30 AM, 1/15 Friday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Third Floor Conference Room, City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca. GC advises IURA on issues such as budgeting and finance, personnel and committee membership, and strategic planning, Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Council (BPAC) | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 1/18 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | BPAC members regularly review ongoing and upcoming city projects and advise the Board of Public

break down your preconceived notions of what is truly possible-then the wicked groove hits you square in the chops-type of confrontation. Yup, it’s really excellent. And for those who need some beer chugging, foot thumping, return to the good old days-train robbing-rotten teeth having-gun fights a blazing-romantic horse drives through the prairie-kind of rocking tunes, theirs a nice selection including the bluegrass stalwarts Molly and the BadlyBent Bluegrass Boys, and the folky-Americana collective Whippoorwillow, playing The Ransom Steele Tavern, Saturday, at 7:00 p.m. Grab your cowboy hats, your Pin Head masks, your wallett, your penchant for the extreme, and make the rounds! •

Works, Common Council, the Planning & Development Board, the Parks Commission, and other appropriate City bodies on bicycle and pedestrian issues, including issues faced by people with disabilities, to ensure all city projects accommodate and encourage safe and legal travel by bicycles, pedestrians and people with disabilities Town of Ithaca Zoning Board of Appeals | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 1/18 Monday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca |

Art ongoing Buffalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Emily Koester: New Works, New Growth. Creating art is a process of exploration and expression. New Works, New Growth focuses on

Top: Molly and the BadlyBent Bluegrass Boys: Bottom Left: Bubba Crumrine of BRIAN!, Bottom Center: J.L. from Limbs Bin, Bottom Right: Rita Bliss from Whippoorwillow (Photos Provided) symbolic representation of time and change, through a medium similar to stained glass. All pieces in this 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 Elevator Music and Art Gallery | @ New Roots Charter School (116 North Cayuga Street/The Clinton House

elevator music | Ashley Click: Smoke and Mirrors. Visit newrootsschool.org or call (607) 882-9220 Handwork | (102 W. State/MLK St. | Handwork’s Annual Winter 2nds Sale begins FRIDAY, Jan. 15th and lasts through the month! www.handwork. coop Lot 10 | (106 S. Cayuga Street) | Dan Emerson, a recent BFA graduate from SUNY Cortland, will be exhibiting his work at Lot 10 during the months of January and February. State of the Art | 12o West St, Ithaca | “Lyric Visions: Artists Respond to Poetry” will open State of the Art’s 2016 year of exhibitions. Gallery members have created art work in response to the poetry of sixteen regional poets invited by Tish Pearlman, poet laureate of Tompkins Country in 2013 . The exhibition extends two months with half of the artists showing in January and the other half during February.

Call: 277-1626 or Visit: www.soag.org Sacred Root and Kava Lounge | 139 West State/MLK St. Geneva Street entrance | Photographer Judi Galgoczy shares an intimate view in “Becoming Shaman, walking the medicine wheel”. Call 272-KAVA or visit http://www. sacredrootkava.com Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Artist, filmmaker, computer technician, and electronic music producer Noah Kantor will be exhibiting his work throughout the upstairs and downstairs dining spaces.

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Finger Lakes Cider House, Friday, January 15, 6:00 p.m.

Ransom Steele Tavern, Friday, January 15, 8:00 p.m.

This Ithaca based collective plays an eclectic mix of songs from country, folk, old-time, blues, and rock - a genre contemporarily known as Americana. Their focus is on finding that (bitter) sweet spot where melody, harmony, guitar and dobro meet. They bring the energy and aura of the wide-spreading Finger Lakes Region, and mix it with the ideals of a time forgotten. Ih the face of the bitter cold - come out, drink, and be merry!

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Implement year-round youth development activities during out-of-school hours for elementary and middle school youth audiences for the Joint Youth Commission for the towns of Caroline, Ithaca, Villages of Cayuga Heights and Lansing. Plan & deliver school-based programs promoting life skill development. BA/S & experience in youth development programming. Part-time, grant-funded, w/benefits. More information at www. ccetompkins.org Application deadline: 1/21/2-016. CCE Tompkins is equal opportunity and affirmative action educator and employer.

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Petition and Notice of Foreclosure Index No. 2015-0915 The above captioned proceeding is hereby commenced to enforce the payment of delinquent taxes or other lawful charges that have accumulated and become liens against certain property. The parcels to which this proceeding applies are identified on Schedule A of this Petition, which is annexed hereto made a part hereof. This document serves both as a Petition of Foreclosure and a Notice of Foreclosure for purposes of this proceeding. Effect of filing: All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in such petition are hereby notified that the filing of such petition constitutes the commencement by the Tax District of a proceeding in the Court specified in the caption above to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described by a foreclosure proceeding in rem.

Right of redemption: Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the legal right thereto may on or before said date redeem the same by paying the amount of all unpaid tax liens thereon, including all interest and penalties and other legal charges which are included in the lien against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption. Such payments shall be made to Debra Parsons, City Chamberlain, City of Ithaca, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca, NY, 14850. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record. Last Day of Redemption: The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as Tuesday, March 15, 2016. Service of Answer: Every person having any right, title, or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in such petition may serve a duly verified answer upon the attorney for the Tax District setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure. Such answer must be filed in the Office of the County Clerk and served upon the attorney for the Tax District on or before the date above mentioned as the last day for redemption. Failure to redeem or answer: In the event of failure to redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person shall be forever barred and foreclosed of all his or her right, title and interest and equity of redemption in and to the parcel described in such petition and a judgment in foreclosure may be taken by default. Dated: 12/04/2015 Enforcing Officer: Debra Parsons City Chamberlain Krin Flaherty, Esq. Assistant City Attorney, Of Counsel On Behalf of the, City Attorney Attorney for the Tax District: City of Ithaca 108 E. Green St. Ithaca, NY 14850 607. 274.6504 Schedule A Year Tax Map Property Location Property Owner Total Due 2015 27.-5-8 410 Utica St STEVEN HERTZBERG $4,204.27 2014 27.-5-8 410 Utica St STEVEN HERTZBERG $4,509.26 2015 28.-5-20 821 Aurora St N BAR-

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