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days a week, keeps its bathroom open with a sharps bin.

“Almost all of the businesses in the West End no longer have a public bathroom,” Brown said, “mostly because the toilets have become clogged with needles.”

Bill Rusen, CEO of Cayuga Addiction Recovery Services, said that addiction treatment is, “like many other health care systems, designed for people who are under-resourced” and can’t afford going to an expensive place like the Betty Ford Clinic.

“Hardly anybody thinks of it this way, but this is a health-care system,” Rusen said. “A really woefully resourced and unintentionally designed health-care system.”

In the Van: the Annual Addiction Services: Homeless Count Not Enough ... Yet t was recently reported by another local media outlet that the number of homeless people in and around Ithaca is greater than the homeless population of Syracuse.

Perhaps. But counting the homeless is a notoriously tricky business. And the count of homeless people that report was based upon is done on one night each year.

It is the annual “point-in-time” count, and it is a report Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires from each local Continuum of Care, the regional consortiums of agencies that receive federal funding to help out those living outdoors.

Tompkins County’s 2016 count took place on the night of Thursday, Jan. 28 into the morning of Friday, Jan. 29. A total of eight volunteers signed up to do two hour ride-along shifts with Ithaca and Tompkins County law enforcement, while a crew of four took the Rescue Mission’s Dodge Caravan out for an evening canvass of places where people sometimes sleep.

The point of having the count in late January, according to HUD, is to find those people who are most adamant about avoiding the shelter. The feds require that those who are “literally” homeless—that is, sleeping outside the very night of the count—be reported to them. It is this number that was recently to compare Ithaca’s homeless population to Syracuse’s.

The survey also reports those who are sleeping in one of the Rescue Mission’s 20 beds here, or anyone in transitional housing. The last three years of the pointin-time count have reported between 90 and just over 100 people in any of those situations in Tompkins County.

(The Syracuse Rescue Mission shelter, incidentally, has 183 beds.)

On this particular evening, those surveyors out with law enforcement had instructions to check out open and sheltered areas like the Triphammer Mall, laundromats, bus stops, and hotel lobbies.

Besides the third iteration of the Jungle, on the West End, it’s mostly a guess as to where someone might be sleeping.

According to Carmen Guidi of Second Wind Cottages, who was out with the Caravan crew, it’s been rare in his experience that the surveyors find anyone they don’t expect to be living outside— maybe, once, someone in the doorway at Tops. Even two years ago, when Guidi pulled a midnight to 4 a.m. survey

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ver the past couple years it has been admitted there is a heroin and opiate problem in Tompkins County. The question asked at a forum in the Tompkins County Public Library on Thursday, Jan. 28 was how to continue treating that problem.

The five panelists and a moderator from the service provider community were gathered together by the Community Coalition for Healthy Youth.

They agreed that resources are scarce, treatments must be tailored to every individual person, and cultural attitudes must change to stop encouraging addiction and to be compassionate toward the suffering.

Nicelee Hollenback of the Alcohol and Drug Council of Tompkins County Panel of addiction services professional assembled by the Community Coalition for said the first time Healthy Youth at the downtown public library. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) she told a patient “to keep on using Treatment, in Rusen’s view, is a small amount of heroin until we’ll get “discovery,” with 12 Step programs and you where you need to be,” she was fully aftercare the “recovery.” faced with the under-funded, unending “Treatment should give you skills challenge of treatment work that often has to manage your life, so you can remain to make compromises. a sober person for the rest of your life,” “I said, ‘What just came out of my mouth?’” Hollenback told a room of about Rusen said. “Like many other treatments for chronic diseases, it’s titrated up during 30 people. “It makes you very depressed the acute phase, plateaus, then titrates and very angry.” down.”

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aptain Ray Bunce, head administrator of the Tompkins County jail, spoke Tuesday evening to concerned county residents about providing care for inmates with mental health issues. He was the guest speaker for Tompkins County Mental Health Department’s family forum. The bottom line, he told the 20 people who attended the meeting, is that the jail simply does not have the resources to provide the level of mental health care he would like to see at his facility.

“We’ve been operating the Tompkins County jail in an overcrowded capacity for many years,” said Bunce, who has worked at the jail for 21 years. He made it clear during the forum that the jail has the bare minimum number of employees required by state law. That means if an inmate has to be watched constantly or needs to be transported to the hospital, it’s very difficult to fill the holes in the staff.

Some of his officers wind up working 65or 80-hour weeks. He estimated that the percentage of inmates at the jail who have some kind of mental health issue probably hovers somewhere around the national average of 60 percent, but he said it’s hard to determine the correct number because his staff needs to be better trained to identify problems.

Despite the high instance of mental illness among the incarcerated, the jail does not provide any one-on-one counseling or group therapy sessions, Bunce said. “That’s not going to happen from the jail at all,” he said. Someone who

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shift—after the bars closed and when people might be reasonably expected to be bedded down in their spot—he didn’t run into anyone sleeping rough.

Part of the reason, Guidi said, is that the people doing the counting are working and living with the homeless every day, so they have a pretty good idea where the handful of outdoor hardcores spend their nights. Earlier on the Thursday of the count, Guidi had guided Rep. Tom Reed to the Jungle for a visit with a couple of the residents there.

“I liked how he connected with who he talked to,” Guidi said.

Mike Foster of the Rescue Mission piloted the crew in the Caravan first past the intersection of West Clinton Street and Route 13, where there was a recent report of someone flying a panhandling sign—no one was still there a bit after 9 p.m. Then they made a pass through the big box

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to deal with that type of situation about three times a year.

It’s difficult to affect change at the state level, Bunce said, but he’s hoping there are some improvements that can be made that are within the county’s control. He said he’s looking at other municipalities like Cortland County as examples.

In Tompkins County there is Capt. Ray Bunce, administrator of the Tompkins County jail. (Photo: Jaime Cone) only one social worker who works at the jail roughly needs psychiatric services would have to six hours a week to receive that care from one of a number of supervise the mental health of the patients. local hospitals, including Cayuga Medical In Cortland County there is a full-time Center, where the inmate would have to be forensic social worker in the jail 40 hours accompanied by an officer. per week. Bunce said improvements like For those displaying symptoms of adding a new position would have to start mental illness too severe for jail staff to with the county legislature. handle, it generally takes about a week “We have to get mental health services to find a bed for the inmate outside the at the jail,” said Carol Booth, member of jail. The way the system currently works, the National Alliance of Mental Illness Bunce has to get a court order from a Finger Lakes. “Treatment: that’s what we judge saying the inmate is unfit to stand need,” agreed Bunce. trial, or he has to get a two-physician On intake, prisoners go through an order (wherein two doctors agree the evaluation by corrections officers and patient needs care the jail in not equipped then undergo a physical exam by a doctor, to provide). Bunce then calls the New Bunce said. Unfortunately, he added, it York State Mental Health Office to ask for often takes up to 24 hours for the jail to a bed, but until there’s one available the approve and receive medications. Drugs jail is responsible for the wellbeing of that and alcohol are often involved; people inmate, which means he or she will have who are addicted and going through to be watched at all times. “It’s incredibly withdrawal are a big cause for concern, taxing on our staff to have someone who and they require extra attention, Bunce has mental health issues acting out for a week,” he told the Ithaca Times after the continued on page 7 meeting. He estimated that the prison has lots in the southwest part of town, where it was thought one or two folks might be regularly sleeping in their cars. One vehicle was familiar to Guidi, but no one was in it at the time.

Next was a stop down along Route 13 just outside the city limits, where a newly moved-in resident of Second Wind once spent his days under the bridge that crosses the Cayuga Inlet. There were skateboarding ramps, a shopping cart, some debris and plenty of graffiti— recently edited for profanity by some enterprising Cornellians—but no one there at the time.

So it was downtown to take a walk around the spots where people are said to sometimes stay, in the parking garages and the bus shelter. Foster stopped to talk with one young man who was still sitting outside Starbucks on a second pass, but he was just “catching some WiFi.” The recently returned students walking around coatless in their T-shirts and dresses were obviously of no interest.

Finally, Chuck Newman of Second Wind, who was nursing a bad leg, sat down on the Commons, dead center. He called the crew, now up in DeWitt Park, with an update. He ran into a man familiar to all, who was downtown checking his mail and getting a shower.

The two-sided orange survey sheet was taken out, and they read through it together. It’s easy enough— basic demographic information, how long one has been in a particular living situation.

There was some conversation, and he had some jokes: “Did you know cigarette smoking is in the Bible? Sure. Abraham lit upon his Camel.”

After a while, the survey crew took its leave. They took a walk around the inlet, checking the bridges and a few nooks, with no sign of life in the more sheltered corners but a couple of beer bottles. It was then time to call it a night.

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he CommonSpot is a community workspace on the Ithaca Commons—an elegant shared office space, including a kitchen and lounge and two conference rooms, for local businesses and non-profits.

The CommonSpot is the creation of its director, Bob Rossi. Rossi grew up in Yonkers, New York and came to Ithaca 25 years ago, where he studied computer science, psychology, and information design at Cornell University.

Here in Ithaca, he helped create the Ultimate Frisbee League in 2002, and in 2006 helped create The Green Resource Hub and The SEEN (The Sustainable Enterprise Entrepreneur Network).

And, in 2015, he started the CommonSpot. I discovered the CommonSpot accidentally, while writing about an art show there in the summer of 2015, and was enchanted with the place.

Curious to know more, I interviewed Rossi in December…

Ithaca Times: Can you sketch in for the Reader exactly what the CommonSpot is?

Bob Rossi: The CommonSpot was born from the idea of supporting those businesses and organizations that are essentially one or two people … looking to do good … and often working from home.

There is also often a need for meeting space—places to meet or places to host small gatherings or small events. So we built the CommonSpot to meet two needs of this community: one, to provide a shared workspace specifically for missionminded businesses and non-profits and people who want to work alongside each other in that community, and two, to offer conference rooms for meet-ups and for board meetings for the non-profits … or even for wine-and-cheese events.

So, it’s a versatile space. The vision is to create a vibrant and inclusive community that can work alongside each other and also engage in evening events and build community connections.

IT: What about the future of the CommonSpot?

BR: It’s a co-working space now, but, as we build our membership, the vision long-term is to build in the kind of support services that will help those members thrive … based on what they need.

If people need help networking, we have networking events here. If people need help with cash-flow projections, we’ll pull in an accountant to create a workshop.

Or if people need coaching in social media marketing, we can handle that. Right now we are building some workshops on business development for early 2016.

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So, based on what the members identities in co-working spaces. One of need to thrive … we can build that the reasons researchers found that people programming. … That’s what makes working in co-working spaces have higher it something of an incubator coworker satisfaction is because of how working space. their identities relate to their work IT: I suspect the synergy of lives. the community-minded groups is When people work in a a good thing. typical office, they don’t have BR: It’s been pretty well people asking them what they do documented that with coin the office environment … If working spaces there’s much they did, it would be like, “I work higher employee satisfaction in payroll.” levels … even among people But if you’re doing it in a who work for large co-working space, you’re corporations, but are representing the company. doing so remotely And if it’s your own from co-working company—rather than spaces. being at home or in a Co-working solitary office—you’re spaces have a representing your different manner company and getting of engagement. more opportunities When people are for people who visit in an environment your co-workers to where they’re in ask, “What do you charge of their do?” and you can talk own projects, about your business. and they’re And that not competing increased opportunity against coto tell people what workers in the your business does, space, they and why you are function as each doing what you do, other’s support is something that network. is attributed to the People share desks. increased life satisfaction We all share a laser printer, that people have. a copier. We share the office It’s not for everyone. amenities and the Internet … This isn’t for people service, so we can reduce in, say, the food service our overhead. industry. But there are There are a lot of people some interesting options. out there who may work for Even someone who’s in, themselves, are freelancers, say, landscaping, who has or are the directors of a nonto be out in the field all the profit that doesn’t have its time, still sometimes needs own office. Those people often to meet with clients in a work at home in isolation. professional space.

They are often covering So we have meeting their entire overhead. They rooms, and you can host are supplying themselves with professional meetings. And their printing needs, or have to you have 24/7 access to the outsource it. They’re dealing space. with Internet access. They deal IT: The whole synergy with all the different elements thing is really exciting. of running a business.

BR: What excites And, instead, for much me about this is the less than it would cost to rent an office prospect of building somewhere, they can be community. To Bob Rossi (Photo: Bill Chaisson) on the Commons, part me, people coming of a co-working space, together is why we are reducing their overhead, here.

There are so many people who work and benefiting from all of the collective at home. Those people are the people I expertise in the room. This is impossible want to reach. So I’d like to encourage to do when you’re working alone. people to come and check out the space. • And, when you’re in a space like this, there is a much greater chance you’ll find The CommonSpot is located at 126 someone who is an expert in something ¾ The Commons, Ithaca; 607-592-2222; that you might be stuck on: Google docs, CommonSpot.org. spreadsheets, whatever. There are people who are whizzes at that, and they might be – Warren Greenwood having trouble with something else. We’re all in it together.

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▶ Boyce one of the best, Boyce Thompson Institute announced that it has been named one of the Best Companies to Work for in New York State for 2016. This is the second year that the Ithaca-based not-for-profit institute has been named to the list. “At BTI we strive to create a caring and nurturing culture. We have a great environment and offer challenging missiondriven work. We are proud to be recognized as one of 2016’s best companies to work for,” said Meredith Dessoye, Human Resources Manager..

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 ▶ Awards for Excellence, Nominations are now being accepted for Tompkins Trust Company’s 2016 James J. Byrnes Awards for Excellence, an annual program that recognizes outstanding individuals and volunteer-based non-profit organizations for their contributions in Tompkins County. For more information visit the bank’s website www.tompkinstrust. com or contact James McKenna of the bank’s Marketing Department at 845278-1041, or send an email to: JPMcKenna@tompkinsfinancial. com. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Jan. 27-Feb. 2 include: 1) Edge of Thyme in Candor Seeks New Owners 2) Wells Part-Time and Adjuncts Form Union 3) Solar Array Eyed for Ulysses 4) Ithaca Endlessly Refining a Food Truck Law 5) Some Go Away, Others Restructure For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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opportunities to learn more about harles Darwin was born on scientific efforts over the past 157 years Feb. 12, 1809, and his birthday to determine how millions of species is celebrated around the world that have inhabited the Earth are related as “Darwin Day” (see darwinday. to each other. It’s like tracing your family org). Ithaca’s annual “Darwin Days” genealogy on a grand, grand scale. celebration has been taking place since Darwin was the first to try to show 2006. Somewhat amusingly, it was cited how evolutionary relationships could be in 2014 as one of the reasons Travel expressed in branching & Leisure magazine picked Ithaca as one of diagrams, or “trees,” America’s “quirkiest” and today evolutionary towns, although many trees are essential other locations have tools for expressing similar events. our understanding of relatedness Quirky or not, it is among organisms. remarkable that Darwin’s Evolutionary trees birthday is celebrated as are widespread widely as it is. There is in textbooks and no global celebration of popular culture, and Newton Day or Pasteur they are part of the Day or even Einstein Next Generation Day. Why does Darwin Science Standards rate?

Because, almost (developed by the alone among the great National Research scientists of history, Council, the National Charles Darwin Darwin taught us about Science Teachers Association, the ourselves. Darwin American Association convinced the thinking for the Advancement of Science, and world that, as he put it, “species are not immutable,” and that all of them are Achieve). They are also increasingly connected genealogically—dogs and used to inform new biological research cats, dinosaurs and birds, clams and relevant to our everyday lives, such snails, humans and yeast. as determining the origin and spread This central idea of the evolutionary of infectious diseases, making crop interconnectedness of life is the basis choices in changing environments, for the theme of this year’s Darwin choosing organisms to investigate for Days celebration in Ithaca: “The Tree new medicines, and understanding the of Life.” Between Feb. 8 and 13, an continued on page xx array of events and activities will offer

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ho’s been drawing in my Mindfulness Coloring Book?!” Baika (formerly Susan) Cornstarch, stood in her living room, quivering with dudgeon and holding aloft a volume of anti-stress art therapy templates.

A cat, the only other being in the room, jumped down off the couch and twitched his tail. Baika’s eye caught another outrage.

“And is that my Awareness Play-Doh? The top’s off the container! What the hell is going on?”

Her husband Mark edged into the room. “Now, honey, don’t get excited,” he pleaded. “But while you were outside playing stress-reduction duck-duck-goose with your meditation group, Kyle got into your toy box.”

“First, it’s not a toy box. It’s a being-inthe-moment activity basket,” she seethed through clenched teeth. “And second, if that little turd got into my Mindfulness Legos, I’ll …”

“Honey, he’s four years old,” said Mark.

“Four, schmour. I’m telling you, he knows what he’s doing,” she countered. “And there’s such a thing as karma. I suppose you forgot about last week? He deliberately used my meditative finger paints. Remember the mess? And my colored waxen drawing sticks of purposefulness were all mixed up with his Crayolas. He wasn’t even sorry.”

“I did put him in the time-out corner,” Mark pointed out.

“I wish you had. You put him in my breathing space sanctuary corner, which is clearly labeled. Of course it didn’t work,” said Baika-Susan. “How in the hell can you expect me to find my center and be balanced when he’s colored outside the lines on every

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Weather Fails to Deter Marchers

Excited passengers from the Ithaca area and central New York expected to board two buses on Jan. 21 destined for Washington, D.C. to attend the 43rd annual national March for Life. Folks anticipated brutally cold conditions as part of the 24hour pilgrimage to the nation’s center of legislative decision making prepared to stand and march in subfreezing temps with hundreds of thousands of Life supporters from across the country as witnesses to Life.

A different plan unfolded for these pilgrims, however. The impending storm resulted in the Washington, D.C. area declaring a state of emergency. And on Jan. 21, hours prior to scheduled departure, the trip from Ithaca to the March for Life in Washington was cancelled. The majority of passengers were first timers to the March for Life and for others this would be their 6

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stinkin’ page?” She held out the coloring book for his inspection.

“Well, it’s been a little tricky, honey,” Mark ventured, kicking a mangled Empowerment Slinky under a chair. “We’re all figuring out boundaries. Remember at Christmas when you thought his Lincoln Logs were your notched four-foundationsof-mindfulness cylinders? He was actually pretty understanding about the whole thing.”

“Not that again. It was an honest mistake! My notched cylinders are all labeled now. Plus, I still think he “borrows” them when I’m not around,” she said, using air quotes. “Pretty sure I washed a booger off one of them.”

“Look, couldn’t you guys maybe share?” he asked. “How about that bead set you just got? I saw a set just like it at Alphabet Soup, and it said ‘ages four and up.’”

“If you’re referring to my transformative decorative object exercises … the whole goddamn point is stress reduction and creative accomplishment through the simple joy of making bracelets and necklaces!

Having a child in the room would be totally distracting. Honestly, Mark, sometimes I wonder if you’re taking my quest to become present in the moment seriously.”

Mark played his trump card. “I brought you a Serenity Now juice box and some Essential Graham crackers,” he said, gently. “And this … your package from the Garanimals catalogue came!” He held out a cardboard parcel.

“My yoga leggings! About freaking time!”

And so we leave the Cornstarch family to lurch down the path to fuller awareness …•

Send Letters to the Editor to editor@ithacatimes.com. Letters must be signed and include an address and phone number. We do not publish unsigned letters. third successive trip with the Ithaca to D.C. bus group to the annual March for Life.

The energy and enthusiasm of the people planning the D.C. trip quickly turned local as passengers and area residents began to organize an event in Ithaca. As a kick off, travelers were invited to attend the first ever Mass For Life held at Immaculate Conception Church where unknown to them, travel kits—zip-lock bags filled with snacks, tissue, water bottle, etc.—had been made for them. The main event would coincide with the national March for Life on Jan. 22, the anniversary continued on page 7

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When someone comes to him looking for help, Andy Taylor of the Southern Tier AIDS Program said “they don’t come into my office kicking the tires at first. They usually come into my office in crisis.”

Rather than “getting into anything that feels too clinical at first” and asking lots of questions, Taylor said that he applies lessons from trauma care to that first contact—“What’s happening right now?”

Brown echoed Taylor’s point: “Often people feel like they have to come directly in the door and tell their whole life story.

We try to short-circuit that.”

Once that first crisis is calmed, Taylor said then is the time to talk about life after initial treatment.

“When the plan is activated, you’re going to come out clean,” Taylor said of his conversations with clients. “Where are you going to live? Where are you going to work? What scares people into not going [to treatment] is thinking, ‘I’ll leave the world that I’m used to for a while and come back with even less than the nothing I have now.’”

Two comments from the crowd called for a “holistic approach” to treatment, a term that’s defined as taking into account the whole person and their environment.

It was agreed that service providers are far too strapped for cash and time to offer the ideal amount of treatment and recovery support. Taylor said he likes those who do recover to “stay nearby, because they’re incredibly resourceful, and I want them to encourage others.”

A tangible need for Tompkins County is a walk-in detoxification center. The closest is in Syracuse.

“How big would it have to be?” Taylor asked the group.

“The Old Library,” Hollenback responded.

Near the end of the discussion, Taylor commented that the policy committee put together by Mayor Svante Myrick in February 2014 to combat the heroin epidemic is “taking a painfully long time.”

Tompkins County District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson stood up to say the committee would issue a report on Feb. 24.

In the ‘90s, when she was an assistant district attorney, Wilkinson said she tried “case after case after case of felony drug sales made to undercover cops, and it didn’t cure their addiction, and it didn’t change the problem we have in our society.”

“There’s going to be a steering away from the prosecution model,” Wilkinson said. “It ought to be as easy to get into treatment as it is to get into jail.”

Rusen, a 40-year veteran of treatment services, ended the evening with positive hope for the current cultural climate. “I’ve never seen it quite so opportune,” Rusen said. “All the presidential candidates are for treatment instead of putting people in jail.”

“In 30 years, we might look back and see this is like where we were at with

AIDS in 1984,” Rusen continued. “Once we banished the stigma, that allowed us to put acceptable time, money, energy, and resources into the problem. We came up with effective treatment that’s widely available.”

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said. A medical professional is always made aware of the situation, he added.

“We’re going to call the doctor,” he said. “If somebody cuts their finger we’re going to make a record of that fact.”

Joanne Cipolla-Dennis, a former corrections officer, asked Bunce about the link between physical and emotional wellbeing in the prisoners and asked if they get daily exercise. Bunce said that one part of the jail formerly used for recreation will be transformed into additional cells, and a new recreation area has been constructed outside.

“It’s New York State, and in the winter it gets well below zero,” said CipollaDennis, who said she has nerve damage and can’t be in the cold for extended periods of time. She said she would have to stay inside, and the lack of activity would take its toll not just to her body but her mind as well. “For me, if I’m in jail, I look perfectly normal but I have a disability where I can’t be outside for an hour—that would likely kill me,” she said.

Bunce said that in the case of a medical condition like that of CipollaDennis, the jail would come up with a solution. “We would have them get a medical slip or something to say they need something special, and I would work with them to figure out what that might be,” he said. • – Jaime Cone southreporter@flcn.org guestopinion contin u ed from page 6

spread of invasive species.

It turns out, however, that evolutionary trees are not quite as straightforward to interpret as they may at first appear (see treeroom.org). For example, trees don’t show what species are “better” or “more advanced.” The most important thing they show is relative recency of splitting of ancestordescendant lines, what Darwin eloquently called “propinquity of descent.” Humans are not—as people frequently say— “descended from chimpanzees,” just as you are not descended from your first cousin. You and your first cousin (child of your parent’s sibling) share a more recent common ancestor (your grandparents)

Late 19th century commercial buildings on the Commons. (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra)

to watch live pre-march events and rally via simulcast and eating their pre-made bag lunches together. Reports came in that other cities around the nation held similar local events in lieu of their cancelled trips to Washington.

Over 50 people came out in support of the very first Ithaca March for Life.

Folks of all ages from stroller driven to octogenarians joined in the march. Local police, notified of the event, stood by to protect marchers, if necessary. Signs read, “Ithaca, NY LOVES LIFE” and “Defend LIFE”. “WE ARE THE PROLIFE GENERATION” could be heard chanted a few times. Marchers marched around the block encircling Planned Parenthood and paused at each corner to pray and bless it with holy water. Before departing each corner the group prayed The Lord’s Prayer in unison. Marchers received an outpouring of vehicular and truck support demonstrated by enthusiastic smiles and loud honking and thumbs up gestures.

than you do with your second cousin (child of your grandparent’s sibling).

Similarly, humans as a species share a more recent common ancestor with the chimpanzee than with any other living species, and this ancestry explains a huge amount of our biology.

Come celebrate the family. Learn more at ithacadarwindays.org. • Warren Allmon is Director, and Rob Ross is Associate Director for Outreach, at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca.

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date of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion in the U.S. Through email messages and Facebook posts, news rapidly spread that Ithaca would host its very first March for Life in solidarity with the national event in Washington. Plans included gathering

– Deborah Grover, Ithaca

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noting that Selah decided to take off the “golden handcuffs,” stop “working for the man” and devote himself to activism.

Given the comments he left at our website, one of our recurrent troll-commenters miscontrued all of this too. He could not have been the only one.

One has to wonder whether the same misunderstanding would have taken place in an article about a white activist.

In Josh Brokaw’s story on activist Umi Selah (“Getting Ready for the Revolution”; Jan. 27 issue), Selah was quoted as making a living “selling pills.” Brokaw did not add that Selah was a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company. Some readers somehow got the idea that he was a drug dealer, in spite of the next paragraph T

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n a recent gray day in late January, the wind was scattering snowflakes across Ithaca. Students walking about on East Hill had their hoods and mufflers pulled up and tight.

Inside the Guterman greenhouse, Maria Gannett and Hannah Swegarden were wearing neither gloves nor hats as they tended to various specimens of Brassica oleracea, the plant species that includes such tasty varieties of greens as kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and collard greens. The high-pressure sodium (HPS) lights above their heads were giving off enough heat to keep their charges, experiments in crossed Brassica strains, growing in the months when most farmers’ markets are offering nothing but root vegetables and home-canned goods.

According to Jonathan Allred, a master’s student in horticulture, the newer greenhouses are of a “Netherlands” style, with higher peaks that allow more heat to stay inside in winter and keep them cooler in the summertime. Expect to see more of these high-gabled sanctuaries for fourseason growing shoot from the soil soon on the Cornell campus. Plans for the $500 million Upstate Revitalization Initiative (URI) funding, which the Southern Tier won in December, include making the region a “world-recognized leader in agriculture technology.” Many of those technologies are meant to control crop growth against the harsh upstate elements.

“Yes, it’s not fresh,” Prof. Jan Nyrop, an associate dean of CALS, said of modern frozen food, “but it’s not like eating canned asparagus used to be. That was pretty awful stuff. There’s a way to freeze, pack, and preserve in a way that really extends seasonal availability.”

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One of the largest potential agricultural technology projects within all three regions is a new “Plant Science Innovation Center” at Cornell, where CEA development will continue.

The Southern Tier plan calls for $20 million in funding for the project over four years—since URI projects require a Jan Nyrop five-to-one (Cornell University photo) private match, that makes the innovation center an approximately $120 million investment, at least.

New York already ranks second in greenhouse vegetable production, according to 2012 numbers from the United States Department of Agriculture.

In that year, the state had 435 operations with 114 covered acres, with wholesale value on those vegetables of $27 million.

“I am particularly excited about the fact that three contiguous regions won the competition and that all three regions prioritized agriculture,” said Prof.

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This public is increasingly interested in purchasing tasty, local food.”

The Finger Lakes region, including Rochester, and central New York, including Syracuse, were the other winners in the $1.5 billion giveaway of funds liberated by New York State from the big banks in a $6 billion-plus settlement making amends for the 2008 recession.

Access to water—compared to the drought-ridden West—is a “philosophical” consideration in the plan the Southern Tier presented to decisionmakers in Albany in its bid for the funds. The proximity of upstate farmers to large consumer markets is another strength the Neil Mattson planners (Cornell University photo) tout.

“The market analysis is definitely there,” said Nyrop.

“The trick is to make sure everything happens simultaneously, so the capital to construct operations is there with the analytics. That’s one of the things the URI strives to accomplish.”

Nyrop expects part of this growth will continue to be in beer, wine, and liquor making.

“There’s no indication the plant-based

beverage industry has reached its limits,” Nyrop said. “Production of malt, barley, and hops has to continue to go up.”

One potential ready-to-go project includes an “Ultra Premium Beverage Center” in the Schuyler County business park, a logistical hub for “ultra-premium” wines. A “vineyard reclamation and replacement” program is mentioned as well, along with a potato vodka distillery in Steuben County.

The dairy industry will continue to evolve and processing technologies will continue to improve, Nyrop expects, including that of a high-pressure aseptic type.

Dr. Neil Mattson, a professor of horticulture at Cornell whose specialty is CEA, notes that “the acreage values might seem low compared to field crops,” but greenhouses are “intensive growing spaces.”

Facilities that might be built under the Plant Science Innovation auspices include semi-closed greenhouses, “which allow us to optimize plant carbon dioxide enrichment to enhance plant photosynthesis and yield while reducing the need for plant lighting,” Mattson said.

Another example he gives is “an indoor growth facility for research on light quality effects on production of high-value plant products, such as nutraceuticals and pharmaceuticals.”

Other work that could be done in the innovation center includes that of a research consortium called GLASE (Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering), in which Cornell is collaborating with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to “integrate dynamic LED plant lighting with carbon dioxide enrichment to improve plant quality,” Mattson said.

The aim is to reduce energy costs in greenhouse operations by 75 percent.

The innovation center will provide a place where you can have “unique production processes” to do specialized work like making a “cross between kale and Brussels sprouts, a little plant that looks like kale leaves that also comes in bunches,” Nyrop said. “You could design a LED lighting regime that is ideal for growing tomatoes under these conditions.

It would have the capacity to do what’s called plant metabolomics [the study of metabolites], with the small molecules in plants that are under genetic control.

Many of those molecules can be used in industrial practices.”

The Plant Science Innovation Center also will be a place where Nyrop hopes “translational research” can be performed—that is, work on ideas that are “pretty far downstream and close to being

implemented.”

That data can then Ideally, this be analyzed and work is done interpreted for better in partnership management. In with private greenhouse cities, businesses. robotics could take Nyrop on some of the predicted a manual labor. Drones number of could monitor open advances in field agriculture agricultural (this is already in technology the experimental that could be stage; see “Drones helped along by Overhead,” our research funded Nov. 12, 2014 cover Kathryn Boor (Photo: Rob Way/CALS) in part through story). And better the URI. Nyrop data collected provided the example of microsensors during food processing and distribution that can judge plants’ states and then could lead to real-time measurements of adjust their watering and nutrient regimes. freshness.

In a way, the nature of agriculture means the URI funding should have a good chance to stimulating success, Nyrop believes.

“It’s a very decentralized industry, so you don’t have one big plant. It’s not quite as simple to point to a big local project, and because it’s distributed, you end up having a lot of people thinking creatively about how to grow the sector. It’s like an investment portfolio with a lot of diversified opportunities, it adds stability to those investments.”

With other traditional growing regions across the country in trouble due to a changing climate, Nyrop says New York has the “moral obligation” and the resources to “rise to the occasion to meet this need.”

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That’s Mayor Svante Myrick’s first reaction when asked about the $500 million in Upstate Revitalization Initiative (URI) funding that will be coming to Tompkins and seven other counties over the next five years.

“I think they’re going to be looking for projects to give it to,” Myrick said. “We still have to send the projects to Albany for approval. The difference is we know how much money is there, and we know we’re going to be a winner.”

Since 2011 New York has been handling state grants from a variety of agencies through the “consolidated funding application (CFA),” which doles out awards for projects submitted to agencies like NYSERDA, Empire State Development, and Homes and Community Renewal. The Emerson Chain Works redevelopment received $1.5 million this year, but that was from NYSERDA funding for Cleaner, Greener Communities—essentially to remove trichloroethylene from the site. The various origins of CFA money will still be there year to year. Western New York, which includes Buffalo, still received $83.9 million in 2015 awards through CFA grants, despite not winning the URI monies and in addition to getting that famous Buffalo Billion a couple years back.

What the $500 million in URI money means is a whole lot more funding to help out projects that might need a boost in order to get going. For every dollar received in URI funds, five dollars must be matched from private, federal, or local monies. So it is likely that lots of funding goes to institutions and developers who already know how to navigate the complex and competitive systems of financing and funding. Yet, since there’s so much money,

small businesses with a good track record are likely to have a chance at getting some help.

An example of a small business that received funding is Hopshire Brewing, which received $50,000 in the initial round of itemized awards. That is one of the smallest amounts across the three regions that received URI funds, which totaled $30 million across the Southern Tier. Another $70 million will be disbursed throughout 2016.

“We proposed an expansion project of about $300,000, so we still have to come up with a lot of borrowed money as a business to do it,” said Randy Lacey, who owns and operates Hopshire with his wife Diane Gerhart. “This money doesn’t cause a business to do something you wouldn’t do anyway. There has to be a return on this investment. It causes you, in our case, and I think in a lot of other cases, to do something sooner than you would do otherwise.”

Hopshire will use the funding to add a room onto their brewpub. As they have added more events, with music every Friday, an area that was originally planned as an additional area for tanks has become an event space.

“We’re doing one batch of beer a week and we’d like to get to two,” Lacey said.

“With additional tanks we can brew twice a week and basically double production.”

Increasing production will allow Hopshire to add two full-time positions within three years, one of the terms in the grant. Right now, Lacey and Gerhart are the only full-time workers, with two parttimers working 16 hours a week.

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Notable Local Funding Grants and Proposals • • • • • • • • • • • •

$110,000 requested | Expansion for Groundswell’s farmer incubator. $7 to $10 million | Ithaca Hummus expansion with capacity to get into every grocery store on the East Coast by 2018. $1 million | Relocate the College Avenue (Ithaca) fire station so the property can be made into something mixed-use. $175,000 | A new canning line will be purchased and installed at Ithaca Beer, creating a more efficient distribution operation and meet the company’s growing demand. $50,000 | Aurora Shoe Co. renovations, $2 million | Renovations to the Eastman Business Park in Rochester. $500,000 | New light manufacturing building in Cornell Agriculture & Food Technology Park in Geneva. $1.5 million | Infrastructure improvements to support the new casino in Tyre. $500,000 | Village of Arcade (between Buffalo and Salamanca) to upgrade the sewer. $2 million | Convert the Greenidge power plant on Seneca Lake into natural gas. $3.45 million | 7 Hawley St. in Binghamton (presently a parking lot). $1 million | Upstate Shredding, Weitsman Recycling, in Owego.

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development outlined in the plan: (1) the Binghamton area; (2) investing in advanced manufacturing, especially transportation; (3) the food and agriculture industry; and (4) a somewhat nebulous category called “Promote the Southern Tier’s Innovative Culture,” in which cybersecurity, quality-of-life, and tourism are all commingled. Some of the funding, then, is likely to go to upgrades for infrastructure bits like high-speed Internet, according to Tom Schryver, current head of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute at the Johnson School of Business.

“As things stand now, I don’t know that someone would choose, say, Chattanooga or Kansas City over Corning

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Southern Tier’s proposed plan for the URI money.

“We’re a hop farm and [therefore] agriculture, [and] agri-tourism; that’s a big deal,” Lacey said. “Our project fit the whole program pretty well. That, and we’re not a new business. We’re open and doing well.”

How strictly the Regional Economic Development Committee or Empire State Development holds the lucky regions to their plans will be worth following as the years go on.

There are four focus areas for

or Ithaca or Vestal based simply on the availability of affordable gigabit Internet,” Schryver said. “However, in a few years, as fiber becomes more prevalent, I believe that not having it will be something that stands out as a negative as people consider where they would like to live.”

An example of the focus on investments leading to advanced manufacturing is upgrading the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), Schryver said, which has “helped catalyze a cottage industry of rapid prototyping firms in our area that have produced equipment CHESS needed and have gone on to sell products and services around the world.” An example of that sort of technology transfer is

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According to Michael Stamm of Tompkins County Area Development, who served on a committee of about 25 members that created the Southern Tier’s plan and is on the executive committee of 10 that will do much of the grunt work in vetting projects going forward, there will be priority given to projects that create jobs.

“For any kind of infrastructure project there needs to be jobs at the other end of line,” Stamm said. “Whether you’re extending a road, sewer, water, or rail.”

There is already some precedent for projects getting funded that focus on urban redevelopment: $3.5 million has gone toward renovating the fivestory Sibley Building in downtown Rochester; $3.5 million to redevelop Corning Hospital into a “downtown center for healthy living and health-based education;” and $2 million for waterfront development in Canandaigua.

Myrick says moving the Department of Transportation yard (presently on the Cayuga Inlet waterfront), a $10 to 15 million project with some countyfunded plans already out there, might be a candidate for URI funds.

However big or small the task, Stamm said that the committee stands ready to search out good projects and work with people to make better applications.

“We certainly don’t want them to waste their time submitting something that won’t be competitive,” Stamm said.

“The executive committee meets every month and we’ll be much busier than in the past. There’s quite a bit of funding out there that hasn’t been allocated. We’re looking for good projects.” •

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Cayuga Heights Mayor Kate Supron asked how CCA would affect the number of county households that produce their own electricity and sell it back to the grid. This process, called net metering, allows small businesses and homeowners to be credited for the power they contribute to the electric grid. Gava explained, “Net metering credits are outside of the CCA; you’ll still have a third party supplier.” That is to say, if NYSEG (the supplier) is crediting your household for 5,000 kWh a year, “folks that have those credits now would still have them.”

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In this area, Zone C for NYSEG, said Gava, “165,000 households have expressed interest. We’re imagining aggregating all these folks; all residents would be automatically enrolled unless they opt out.”

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I asked Jon how big it was to sweep the weekend, and he said, “Any road sweep is special, and it’s not easy to do, especially with a team as young as ours. We have eight freshmen, and you really don’t know what to expect.”

I pointed out the obvious—that a conference road sweep must be a major confidence boost for the Red—and he said, “No question. Every win is enormous, and we work so hard in practice to do what we need to do to win games. We fought through adversity, we stayed with it, and to get that validation is definitely a huge confidence booster and team builder.”

I asked the coach if other teams will be paying closer attention to Morgan after his hot start, and he said, “He’s a really talented kid, and I’m sure they will.”

He added, “Beyond the obvious scoring totals, we’re pleased that Matt is making really good decisions on the court. He’s learning to make winning plays, he’s not turning the ball over, and that’s great for a freshman.” •

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Teams go from middle-of-thepack to contenders when they are able to come back from deficits, and prior to this weekend, Cornell was 8-94 under Courtney when trailing with five minutes to play. They fought back twice last weekend, giving them a huge boost of confidence. In fact, Cornell trailed Dartmouth 70-61 with 3:43 to play, and during the final media timeout, Courtney and his staff cooked up a magic formula that would see the visitors outscore the Big Green 16-3 to nail down the big road win.

If anyone knows what it is like to go into rival gyms and play against Ivy League opponents, it is assistant coach Jon Jaques. Jaques was a key member of the 2010 team that won the Ivy League title for the third year in a row, opened some eyes by beating Temple in the first round of the Big Dance, and shocked the world by taking down Wisconsin—picked by many to go to the Final Four—to get to the Sweet Sixteen. After graduation, Jon played a year in Europe. Then he served as an assistant at Columbia, and another at Stevens Institute. He was then brought back to East Hill to serve on Courtney’s staff, and now, three seasons later, Jaques is responsible for game and practice planning, alumni relations, and a number

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or the Cornell men’s basketball team, it was not a “must win” weekend, but having started the Ivy League schedule with two tough losses, they knew they needed to win at least one game on their tough New England road trip. Harvard would be tough, as always, on Friday night, Jan. 29, and the Big Red would do the long bus ride to play Dartmouth on Saturday, Jan. 30. No Cornell team had swept that road trip since the legendary 2010 “Sweet Sixteen” contingent, but to stay relevant in any conversation regarding the Ivy League title, Bill Courtney’s team knew it had to step up.

Teams facing big challenges usually turn to the leadership of upperclassmen, and while the Red did get some of that, it was two big performances from freshman Matt Morgan that made the biggest difference. On Friday, Morgan’s freshman record 33 points helped take down fivetime defending Ivy champs Harvard, and on Saturday, for the second consecutive night, Morgan put up over 30 points, ending the night with 32 to go along with two blocks and one rebound. He finished 17-of-23 from the free-throw line and became the first Big Red freshman to score 30 points twice in a season, and the first Big Red player to score at least 32 points in consecutive games ever. Morgan is averaging 30 points per game in Ivy play, and such an auspicious start bodes well for a team on the rise.

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For example, here’s a teaser worthy of Mulder and Scully: A ten-story building!

Disappears into thin air! No one will say who’s to blame!

Admittedly, the State Street Triangle project proposed by Austin developers Campus Advantage did not yet exist in physical reality, but spend enough months watching the members of Planning Board: Ithaca take issue with a building, and one becomes invested in changes to the concept. A slimmed and shortened version of the Triangle was originally on the January agenda—96 feet tall and nine stories, down from 116 feet tall and 11 stories—until, on that Tuesday afternoon of Jan. 26, it wasn’t. The planning board watchers—mostly reporters—were

curious, and so started “streetscape and garden” proposal, which querying the relevant leaves green space along Cayuga Street, parties. and the “urban edge” option, which brings When reached for the building closer to the street. The comment from this former option covers 39 percent of the lot, diehard, Rosemary and the latter 46 percent; both are 46 feet Whaling of Campus tall and four stories high.

Advantage said, “We The ILPC and planning board were unable to come members all gave their thoughts on the to an agreement proposals, with calls for less parking— with the landowner.” there are 56 spots currently, with no All media inquiries parking required by zoning on the site— were directed to Rob and a less “boxy” design. Everyone was Colbert, owner of supporting the “streetscape and garden” Trebloc Development idea until the last speaker, Robert Lewis of Corporation, whose the planning board, shared his thoughts. family has owned DeWitt Park is an urban square, the 301 E. State St. defined by “hard edges,” Lewis said. “I’m “Triangle” property really scared of this little garden half-alley since purchasing nonsense hanging off the edge of the park.”

Site of planned “Triangle” building. Downtown Marriott rises beyond. it from the Ithaca Board member Jack Elliott pointed (Photo: Josh Brokaw) Urban Redevelopment out that neither of the proposed footprints Agency in 1975. seems to “reuse the existing library Reached via structure.” Reuse was a large bone of on Jan. 26 and actively not talking about phone, Colbert was willing to confirm that contention during comment over the site’s the Triangle, Campus Advantage CEO he did enter a prospective contract to sell fate at the county level.

Mike Peter tweeted out this W.C. Fields the land to Campus Advantage before the Michaels said, “If we’re not physically quote without further commentary: “If at Triangle project came before city decisionusing foundation, we’re hoping it can stay first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then makers the first time. That agreement was in place ... We haven’t had the structural quit. There’s no point in being a damn fool terminated in December 2015. He replied engineers fully address that, because we about it.” “yes” when I asked if he was “surprised to don’t have a footprint yet.”

Even without the Triangle, the see them come back” in January, and said Graham Gillespie of HOLT Architects planning board found plenty to talk he couldn’t comment further. said there was a possibility some of the about. A combined session with the Ithaca building envelope might be used as fill on According to project handler Scott Landmarks Preservation Commission site.

Whitham, who has led much of the effort (ILPC) was held, so the evening started Ithaca “For promotional purposes, rather in IthacaTimes for Campus Advantage, if the with a very full front table. At issue was than saying you’re reusing the building project “makes sense, we’d love to return” 2.4 x 5.5 the DeWitt House, planned for the Old foundation, say using the building with another proposal. One more tidbit: Library site at 310-314 N. Cayuga St. envelope on site,” Elliott said. “You’re not while the planning board was in session Kimberly Michaels, of landscape utilizing the body, energy, and strength of architects Trowbridge Wolf Michaels, told the building, but just leaving it there.” the room the developers need to know A lengthy schedule of meetings on the “footprint, massing, and placement” project, stretching into the summer, was for the DeWitt House in order to move appended to the plans, including two more forward in its planning. Over 50 rentals of these combined meetings. aimed at seniors, along with a new the medical team the medical team Lifelong office, are planned for the site.

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Fit in Both Mind and Body

Combining exercise with a spiritual practice

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he pursuit of fitness can be a purely physical undertaking. You go to the gym and work out with your headphones on, going through your repetitions while listening to podcasts.

You go for a run, still wearing your headphones, and do your route, perhaps trying to improve your time.

Then there are those people who couple the pursuit of physical fitness with a spiritual practice. This connection between the mind and the body is as old as Hippocrates in Western science and was made explicit in modern medicine

by Dr. Herbert Benson, with his formal documentation (The Relaxation Response, 1975) of the effects of meditation: slower breathing, reduced heart rate, and a quieting of brain activity. Meditation is often thought of as simply sitting still, but meditation is a vital part of the practice of Chinese martial arts and of yoga.

Locally we have many practitioners who combine fitness and a spiritual discipline, including LaMarr Peters of TC Waza, who uses martial arts principles to teach soccer, and the Taoist Tai Chi Society of Ithaca, who downplay the martial arts roots and emphasize the fitness and spirituality of their practice.

Endurance athlete and trainer Shane Eversfield first began to couple his mind and body through dance. “I was in college at the University of Maryland [UMD], Baltimore,” Eversfield said, “majoring in confusion through my first year. Then I realized the purpose of being in college was to learn how to learn.”

Eversfield happened to witness a modern dance practice and decided to join the class. “I figured out that I learned best through movement,” he said. “Modern dance involves thinking, but not in words.

It is mindful movement.”

T’ai Chi was offered at the UMD theatre department, but Eversfield was working nights for UPS and didn’t have time to take it. “I just decided, ‘I’m going to learn it,’ and I got a book,” he said. He was confident that going through the prescribed movements would generate an energy that would teach him how to do them.

It wasn’t until he was six years into his practice of T’ai Chi that he discovered Taoism through further reading. “I realized that my whole way of constructing experience is Taoist,” he said. The Taoist practice of t’ai chi chu’an is thought of as “stillness in movement” or moving meditation.

“Doing movements with no instruction had changed my mental environment,” Eversfield said, “but it was

role of the nervous system; it is what ties together his three centers of intelligence.

He noted that Western cultures generally overestimate the significance of the brain; there is important work being done—more appreciated by Asian cultures—elsewhere in the nervous system, notably in the heart and gut.

“A GPS works by triangulating between three satellites,” he said. “It the same thing with the three forms of consciousness; we draw equally from each them in order to orient ourselves.”

so profound that it didn’t register until I read the book [on T’ai Chi].”

Eversfield graduated from college and taught dance for a while, and then moved to the island of Hawaii to grow coffee for 13 years. It was there that he became passionate about endurance competition. His first race was the Hawaiian Ironman triathlon in 1999. He begins his book, Zendurance, with an Shane Eversfield account of overtraining for that competition. Surviving the ordeal made him realize he had to make a commitment to integrate being Because the an athlete with being a human being. pelvis is the “Gravity is the guru,” he said. “It’s seat of balance, always there, and we are always orienting the nervous ourselves to it.” system there is In the Hawaiian language he found Huck Ingles constantly sending the terminology he needed to create his information to “tri-Zen” system. He describes three the brain. “[The different types of intelligence that you gut] is close to the need to draw on in order to find the source of these thoughts,” said Eversfield, mindful stillness necessary for endurance “and it becomes the vessel that holds them.” sports. Mana’o,“the intelligence of skillful Eversfield, who teaches at Island means,” is centered in the brain; pu’uwai, “intelligence of integrity,” is centered in the Fitness, noted that conventional training heart; and na’au, “intelligence of activity,” is focuses on aerobics, and therefore your fitness peaks at age 30.“Then the aerobic centered in the pelvis or the gut. wall starts moving toward you,” he said, T’ai Chi emphasizes balance, and “and subsequent training is about pushing the Chinese teach that balance is rooted it back as it advances toward you.” in the pelvis. Eversfield emphasizes the

His “Zendurance” approach is an alternative. “We have infinite resources in mindfulness,” he said. While you can influence your metabolism and muscles through training, it is your nervous system that improves most in response to his training. “The evidence,” the trainer said, “is that you will be doing the work you want to do with less [expenditure of] energy.” Endurance athlete Peter Ralston has called this phenomenon “effortless power.” An important component of this power is proprioception: being aware of where each part of your body is at each moment.

“90 percent of your neural activity is to keep you upright with reference to gravity,” said Eversfield. “This work is being done by the central nervous system and what people call the ‘lower region’ of the brain. Your ability to focus on being mindful of every movement doesn’t decline with age. You will find yourself using less and less energy as you become more mindful.” He calls this “kinetic intelligence.”

Mathew “Huck” Ingles is a yoga instructor at Mighty Yoga. Several of the instructors at the studio mention “working on your practice” and otherwise speak about integrating yoga into your daily life, but Ingles makes it the centerpiece in every session. Unlike other teachers, there is no music playing during his classes, and the acrobatic complexity of poses is deemphasized in preference for learning fewer poses with— paradoxically—more attention to paying less attention. Ingles would like his students to pay less attention to how well they are doing the pose and, as Everfield urges, get to a place where the mind is at home in the body.

The root of the word yoga is yuj, continued on page 14

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which means “unity” or “yoke.” The aspect of yoga that provides the clearest connection between physical and mental fitness is its focus on breathing.

“Breath,” said Ingles, “is the only physical function that can be voluntary or involuntary at a moment’s notice.”

Echoing a point made by Eversfield, he continued, “Voluntary actions are an act of mindfulness, using our executive thinking. Involuntary actions are governed by a small portion of the brain and are not well connected to the voluntary. Think of it as your ego-driven autopilot. Since breath is truly connected to both, it is your ambassador to the inter-workings of the self.”

Ingles began to practice yoga as a teenager. At age 16 he already had a deep interest in Eastern philosophies, but a skiing accident at age 20 caused him to focus on the physical fitness component.

His yoga practice helped him recover.

Sitting in meditation was his main focus until his accident, but the movement through the poses became essential to his wellbeing afterward. He makes no distinction between sitting in meditation and yoga. “Yoga is a moving meditation,” he said. “It is a practice of mindfulness turned inward in an attempt to know who, what, where, and why we are.”

Both Eversfield and Ingles expect what you learn in their presence to pervade the rest of your life when you leave their classes. Ingles used a culinary analogy to get at the relationship: “Well, I guess you could say it’s like the relationship between eating out or cooking at home,” he began. “At the studio, we might learn and try new things. We have the support of a teacher and of our fellow yogis. At home it might be simple, quiet, and seasoned to your taste. It’s more like comfort food.”

In the 18 years since his accident, his yoga practice has influenced every aspect of his life. “First, it saved me from the pain of an accident,” Ingles said, “and then it made me stronger and more flexible. It’s like a maintenance plan for your body and mind. I grow stronger in many ways every time I practice. Over time the mental benefits of yoga far outweigh the physical.

“Once we realize yoga’s ability to heal the heart and mind,” he continued, “the physical benefits become simply a happy side effect.

Both Eversfield’s T’ai Chi and Ingles’ yoga emphasize balance, both literal and figurative. “Yoga,” said Ingles, again echoing Eversfield, “encourages the natural self-righting ability of the body and mind. Therefore, yoga is helpful for just about everything. But, on a base level, yoga is good for muscle tension, anxiety, lower back issues, injury recovery, hips, shoulders, and much, much more.”

So, from the perspective of a yoga instructor, what does it mean to be “fit”?

“To me,” Ingles said, “fitness means that your body and mind are well under your control. To me, fitness means that you have found the very best of yourself and brought

it to your own highest potential. I believe the word fitness should also include a very personal definition for your self. To be fit is a feeling, an emotion, a perspective on self.

Fitness is a place of content, of radical selfacceptance.”

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metering.” Remote net metering is generally used by businesses or organizations that buy acreage and erect ground-mounted solar panels to produce electricity. This electricity is then fed back into the grid and the business gains credits. “The CCA is limited to residential and small commercial entities,” said Gava.

Gerry Monaghan, of the Lansing village board, asked how the CCA would affect the county’s Gross Receipts Tax. “Some municipalities get discounts from NYSEG for their gross receipts,” explained Irene Weiser, who was chairing the meeting.

Gava said she didn’t know that one, and she would find the answer and get back to them.

She explained, however, that CCA is not just about cost savings. For instance, if a community wanted to buy 100 percent of its power from renewable sources, that can be done. Community Choice Aggregation is billed as enhancing consumers’ buying power in several ways: Communities can set energy priorities; Set up competitive bidding for residential energy options; Fund energy planning and enhancements, and Contribute to grid stability and reliability.

Although CCA is a reality in Illinois, if the PSC approves it, it will be new to New York. “The idea of opting out is significantly different from opt-in,” said Gava. Enrolling consumers en masse brings up the issue of consumer privacy; MEGA’s proposal to the PSC describes how privacy would be preserved. Opt-in aggregations, such as one in Western New York for natural gas purchases, “only get a 20 percent discount,” said Gava. That’s because, with opt-out, the energy services companies “don’t have to charge for customer acquisition. All their marketing costs are saved, and the savings passed on to consumers.”

According to MEGA’s petition to the PSC, “Our main point is that the aggregate utility data exist now, for free, to support the development of CCA programs. We explain in detail the process for securing supply and include specifics on program oversight, community education, ESCO selection and relationship, customer eligibility, data access and privacy protections.” For access to the petition, and to comment to the PSC, go to the PSC website and enter the case number, 16-M0015. • – Glynis Hart editor@flcn.org

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he coming classical music season is full of exciting events, including an unusual amount of music written for the voice. On Jan. 22 an extraordinary concert took place in Xalapa, Mexico, as the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club performed Cantares by Cornell composer Roberto Sierra along with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, conducted by former music director of our Cayuga Chamber Orchestra Lanfranco Marcelletti.

There was a recording made on the following day. The composer was present on both days, and the Cornell choruses sang an additional church concert during their visit.

But on to the coming events, with even more singing. Be sure to confirm dates and venues as schedules sometimes change.

Orchestra and Ensemble Presentations The season opens on Sunday, Feb. 7 with Ensemble X, directed by Xak Bjerken, in a program called “The Music Goes Pop,” which includes music by Oliver Knussen with guest soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, works by Steve Reich and Charles Peck, and a premiere

by Loren Loiacono. The ensemble also performs on April 15, with guest composer Stephen Hartke, and features his works plus compositions by Kate Soper, Jonathan Harvey, Toru Takemitsu, and Louis Chiappetta. Both concerts are in Barnes Hall.

Our acclaimed early music ensemble, NYS Baroque, will present “The Sun King” on Feb. 13 in the Unitarian Church, with music composed for Louis XIV’s private concerts, performed by audience favorites including soprano Laura Heimes and Deborah Fox on theorbo. The ensemble’s final concert, also in the Unitarian Church and called “Libby’s Four Seasons,” is on April 2 and will introduce English-Australian violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch and her joyful approach to music making.

On Feb. 14, Music’s Recreation, which aims for informal, family-friendly classical music, offers “Music of Place” at Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) downtown, a visit with composers and the places they portrayed in their music, while on April 17, also at CSMA, they will present “Musical Tales II,” with Ravel’s “Mother Goose Suite” and “Journey” by the late Ithaca composer and poet Ann Silsbee.

The Cornell Concert series presents the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in Bailey Hall on Feb. 26, playing an all-Mozart program that includes the four movements of Mozart’s “Linz” Symphony (K.425) interspersed with great arias from Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, and Le nozze di Figaro, sung by baritone Christian Gerhaher.

Director of the Cornell orchestras Chris Younghoon Kim is away on leave in Korea this semester, on an exchange with Korean conductor Kisan Sung. The Cornell Chamber Orchestra will perform two works

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by Benjamin Britten on March 4 in the new Klarman Auditorium under the direction of Sung, who will lead them again on May 7 in Barnes Hall.

The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra (CCO) introduces its third music director candidate, Cornelia Laemmli Orth, on March 5 in Ford Hall at Ithaca College, in a program that includes Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C major with soloist Clive Greensmith and Beethoven’s

The IC Chamber Orchestra on April 17 in Ford Hall plays Luciano Berio’s Folk Songs with mezzo-soprano Ivy Waltz and works with solos written for cellist Dave Eggar and singer Amber Rubarth. On April 24 both IC orchestras will join in a concert featuring famed soprano Dawn Upshaw, who will sing the Berio Folk Songs and the solo of the last movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G major. The ensembles will also participate in

(Top) The Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble (Bottom Left) Pianist Sara Davis Buechner (Bottom Right) Cayuga ChamSymphony No. 4 in B-flat major. The fourth ber Orchestra candidate Cornelia Laemmli Orth (Photos and final candidate, David Handel, conducts Provided) the orchestra on May 14, also in Ford Hall, in the Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor by Camille Saint-Saëns with soloist Geoffrey the Seventh Ithaca International Conducting Herd and the Symphony No. 5 in D major Master Class Concert on April 30 in Ford (“Reformation”) by Mendelssohn.

Hall, with Irish musician Sian Edwards, head The IC Symphony Orchestra, under its of conducting at the Royal Academy of Music conductor Jeffery Meyer, will celebrate Dana in London.

Wilson’s last year at the college with the performance of a new work by the composer, continued on page 21 commissioned by the orchestra, in a concert in Ford Hall on March 6, which also includes La mer by Claude Debussy.

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Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) and her husband Geoff (Tom Courtenay) live a fairly uncomplicated life together in the country, and the film takes place during the week leading up to their 45th anniversary party.

Like her marriage, Kate wants the strength of age things simple and unpretentious.

They see friends in town from time to time, but mostly their f a film like Brooklyn treats the lives days consist of tea together at Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years (Photo Provided) of humans like an epic journey, then the kitchen table, walking their Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, based on a dog and occasionally sneaking Their life together gets very 12-page short story by David Constantine a smoke out in the garden. (The opening complicated very quickly when Geoff and opening this week at Cinemapolis, goes credits pop on and off screen to the sound receives a letter from Germany. The great beyond what Paul Simon termed “the arc of of a slide projector clacking from photo to love of his life before Kate died in a hiking a love affair” for a small scale, intimate look photo.) accident years ago, and her body has been at a marriage that’s been around, well, for found. Kate has spent her life very much not thinking about the other woman that preceded her, and Geoff can’t stop thinking about her. Life at home gets more and more tense as neither one wants to discuss the elephant in the room. Getting more and more upset at her husband, Kate ventures into the attic where she finds Geoff ’s photos of the other woman, and watching them on the slide projector, she discovers a fact about her that hasn’t been divulged, and matters get deeper and more upsetting.

This is one of those personal, confined stories that could almost be a stage play.

Aside from a party planner and a few friends, 45 Years is virtually a two-hander between Rampling and Courtenay. Their easy, unforced chemistry is so convincing that it’s hard to believe they’ve never acted together before; they appeared in one previous film, but had no scenes together.

At a time when Carrie Fisher is getting age-shamed by the world’s Internet trolls—and shame on you, trolls—films like 45 Years and performances by the likes of Rampling and Courtenay are even more important and brave in the context of the culture. At a time when humans are more afraid of aging and death than ever before, seeing actors unafraid of acting their actual age feels like a revolutionary act. Rampling is no Botoxed former starlet, and she’s still striking as an older woman.

Courtenay follows suit with a surgery scar and distracted mood. There’s not a shred of vanity in these two performances. More power to them.

• • • Sicario is a very good, tough-minded thriller that has moments as scary as any horror film. It stars Emily Blunt as an idealistic FBI agent enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. What she is ordered to do feels chaotic and dangerous, but her boss (Josh Brolin) has no satisfactory answers as to what’s really going on, and when Blunt gets closer to the truth, it gives her no peace.

Benicio Del Toro steals the show as Locally Owned! a shady operative with his own agenda.

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Instructions and highlights from Ithaca’s mainstay

By Peg g y Haine

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aking up the better part of a full city block, the Ithaca Bakery, flagship store of the burgeoning Brous and Mehaffey culinary domain, is an attractive billboard for—itself! It is a bustling place, serving breakfast and lunch, and also offering take-home meals; baked-onpremises breads, bagels, cookies, cakes, and pastries; and help-yourself breakfast, lunch, and salad bars. It is a great place to garner

Customers at Ithaca Bakery (Photo Cassandra Palmyra)

a window table or stool and people-watch out on well-traveled Meadow Street or in at the cast of characters who are the bakery’s regular customers. Put in your order; take a number so that servers can bring you your food; grab a fresh New York Times, or this publication, and a seat; and you’re all set.

The place can seem chaotic, especially at lunchtime, when a roadmap might be useful for newcomers. Here’s how it works: you either fill a plate or a take-out container from the salad or breakfast/ lunch/soup bar, or grab a grab-and-go salad and a drink from a cooler, and find a place on their short line to cash out. There are many cashiers, and this is a quick way to get in and out.

You can also step up to one of the cashiers and order an item from their massive list of locally-themed sandwich options: the Flat Rock, commemorating a beloved swimming place (turkey, local goat cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, basil oil, and balsamic vinegar on a baguette); the Fulton Street Melt (tuna or chicken salad with tomato and melted cheddar, open-face on a bagel); or the Duke of Lansing (rare roast beef, Stilton, lettuce, tomato, and whole-grain mustard on pumpernickel).

Behind the cashiers, a gang of sandwichmakers bustles about in a toaster-andfridge-dotted alleyway behind the counter, somehow managing not to knock one another over.

Additionally, they can fix you a cappuccino or another of their good coffee drinks, teas, or smoothies. The options seem endless and can be a little overwhelming. My favorite Ithaca Bakery breakfast or lunch is a toasted bialy (a bagel on a diet) with a schmear of cream cheese (obliterating any hopes of eliminating calories) and lox (they are very generous with the lox), and a large ginger tea (good for what ails ya), but there are so many choices.

Among the hot entrees you might find grilled vegetables, thick slices of turkey breast or roast beef, macaroni and cheese, and a quartet of soups (Italian wedding, Southwest vegetable, turkey chili, and toasted cheese with tomato and bacon were the choices one recent day). Offerings change daily. On the cold side of the help-yourself-island there’s a cornucopian selection of salad items, including— among others—four kinds of greens; feta or cheddar cheese; the usual carrots, cucumbers, etc.; cold chicken; hard-boiled eggs; a selection of olives, grains, and grain salads; and a half-dozen salad dressings.

Established as a bakery in 1912, in a frame house at the current location, the Ithaca Bakery is one of the longestoperating businesses in Ithaca, perhaps bested only by Bool’s Flower Shop (est.

1894). Early owners were the Zazzara and Mazza families, who began by delivering their breads, rolls, and breadcrumbs to the restaurants and grocery stores in town by horse and wagon. The current building was constructed in the 1950s and expanded more recently by Brous and Mehaffey to its current size.

Besides providing bakery items for local restaurants and prepared foods for their Collegetown Bagels and Ithaca Bakery stores in Collegetown, Downtown, and northeast Ithaca, their kitchens are known for their catering.

For the rest of us, up against a hectic day with neither time nor inclination to cook, there are plenty of pre-made options in the Bakery’s refrigerated showcases, as well as grab-and-go salads and a nice selection of cheeses. And don’t forget dessert (best cheesecake!) and a fresh baguette or loaf of scallion and cheddar bread to take home. It is, after all, a bakery • Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on unannounced, anonymous visits. Reviews can be found at ithaca.com/dining

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The Movements of a Butterfly Changing forms is the natural way for musicians

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton Shore Acres Drive EP Release, Friday, February 5, 8:00 pm, Watermargin, Cornell / Powerdove, Jonny Dowd, Jitters, BRIAN!, Sunday, February 7, 7:00 pm, Cayuga Lodge

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orging anew. Building constructions atop the past. Looking into the crystal ball—picking it up, smashing it against the wall, watching its clairvoyant muck dissipate into oxygen and nitrogen.

This is the process of continuous artistic intent. If you’re in awe of an artist or group that spellbinds you—chances are they’ve consigned to oblivion quite a few crystal balls. Sidestepping this shattered glass is something two local bands are accustomed to.

“We’d say there is a pretty wide gap between the first EP and the new one,” said Shore Acres Drive guitarist and vocalist Charlie Fraioli. “It’s the first time all three of us were involved in the writing, so the music really reflects that. There is a lot more experimentation with dynamics, time signatures, and song structure that wasn’t really present on the first EP.”

Shore Acres Drive, an emo-influenced indie-punk band, who is releasing their second EP this Friday, started out as an acoustic project between Fraioli and James Manton, but has since transformed into something much more. “I met James for the first time at an Ithaca Underground [IU] show,” Faioli reflected. “He doesn’t remember this, but I saw him perform an acoustic set at IU’s ‘Big Day In’ and went up to talk to him after the show. The next time we met, I was performing for the first time at an IU show that he was playing as well. After that we really got talking, and we started playing shows together.”

The band’s sound and vision have grown tenfold since those early days. After acquiring Jake Burchard to play drums, the band morphed from a singular-sounding acoustic project to a full-fledged rock band, whose dynamics shift like tectonic plates.

“I tend to listen to a lot of different music, but in relation to this band and this album in particular, I was drawing on not only ‘90s emo and post-rock, but also slowcore bands like Codeine and Red House Painters,” Burchard said.

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Look for some excellently ripping Taking Back Sunday meets Saves The Day-like emo-raging Friday night, and don’t be surprised if the band’s sound has transformed even further; the jump from their early recordings to their first EP was a sizable one. Let’s hope their newest recording has found them building a spaceship.

Speaking of spaceships and interstellar matter, Annie Lewandowski’s avant-garde musical project Powerdove will be setting its sights on the alpha-quadrant at the Cayuga Lodge Sunday night. If you can picture a folk-humanoid playing her guitar in a clear bubble-cell, floating through the infinite reaches of interstellar space, you’d be visually close to Powerdove’s musical aesthetic.

“Since 2007, I have been interested in extending the limits of songwriting under the moniker Powerdove,” Lewandowski told me recently. “I initially performed my songs solo with instrumental parts stripped utterly bare. Since that time, I have brought my songs into many formats working with improvisers from diverse traditions, including computer noise musician Curtis McKinney, Thomas Bonvalet, Luciano Chessa and Luigi Russolo’s reconstructed Intonarumori instruments, Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich, and many others.”

That’s quite a list, and the Powerdove front-woman feels right at home playing with such experimental luminaries—while simultaneously molding compositions that retain a very humbled and simplistic folk structure. It could be remnants from her musical education, which was birthed in

the holy realm. “The religious references you’ll find in Powerdove songs are from a childhood and adolescence spent in the Lutheran church,” Lewandowski noted.

“Accompanying choirs, singing in choirs, singing in the congregation. My songs are most about memory, imagination, desire,

Powerdove (Assemblage by John Dieterich)

and the unconscious. There can be a lot of stillness in Powerdove songs, which suits the tranquility of churches.”

Powerdove changes musical forms like a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, breaking molds while echoing vividly through its shattered crystal ball’s infinite reflections. Similarly, Shore Acres Drive continues to adapt its colorful wings, moving from phase to stage. You can catch both acts this week thanks to Ithaca Underground. Do so; I see it in your future.

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Film Screening Panel Monday, February 8 | 7 pm Wednesday, February 10 | 5:30 pm David Attenborough’s First Life The Tree of Life: State of the Art Cinemapolis Goldwin Smith Hall 132

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The Light of Infinity

Two Thai artists dazzle at the Johnson Museum

By C hr i s tophe r J. Har r ing ton of a distinct weight. Tiravanija’s Untitled 2008–11 (the map of the land of feeling) is a 90-foot-long scroll that took three years and over 40 collaborators, including Arunanondchai, to complete. It reads of the visual mapping of the artist’s past 20 hile strolling through the years. In graphical coding, shadowy prints Everson Museum of Art in of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, abstract Syracuse the other day, I directions, passport printings, and strands stumbled upon some Josef Albers prints. of DNA-like mapping, the scroll recalls Jack The prints were nice enough, even Kerouac’s original On the Road manuscript: philosophical, but it was a particular piece a continuous delve into the experience of a statement by the artist that really left of living. It also calls to mind the early a dent in my supraorbital ridge. It said, Paleolithic cave paintings in Lascaux.

“If one says ‘Red’ (the name of a color), With its primitive abstraction detailing and there are 50 people listening, it can be intricate patterns, the scroll succeeds expected that there will be 50 reds in their through constant movement, echoing the minds. And one can be sure that all these dancing animals on the cavern walls in reds will be very different.” southwestern France.

The two giant denim paintings by Arunanondchai occupy a large space on the gallery’s floor. They’re inviting, playful, metaphorical, and interactive.

Visitors can climb upon one of them and sit down to view Arunanondchai’s newest film, Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3. The bewildering film is the epicenter and highlight of the exhibit for me.

Filmed primarily by drones; entrenched Rirkrit Tiravanija (Thia, born Argentina, 1961, Untitled in bright, luminescent, psychedelic colors; 2008-11 “The map of the land of feeling” (detail). Collection and accompanied by a mesmerizing of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art soundtrack of techno, electronic, and hip-hop; the film centers around the artist’s ubiquitous character, the Thai This heavy meditation got me thinking denim painter (Arunanondchai himself), and the youth, culture, wilderness, about the weight of not only color, but and abstraction of modern Bangkok. of thought—the gravity of it—and as I Arunanondchai moves with haste through walked into the new Johnson Museum the defining rise of modern capitalism exhibit “The Fire Is Gone But We Have in Thailand, with the denim as physical The Light,” my mind immediately became proof of this change, and the life of the sort of weightless, the color and action of denim painter, who is metaphorical and the collected works caused immeasureable rumination in all quadrants of my spherical represents the changing nature of an artist in a fluctuating society. The film reminds impressions. It was vast, illuminating, and me of the narrator-driven methodology of encouraging.

Chris Marker’s transcendent documentary Shards of Kerouac, Basquait, Euro Sans Soliel, while simultaneously equaling House, Damien Hirst, and Chris Marker the cinematic dynamism of Ron Fricke’s darted to and fro, in couplets at the speed masterpiece Baraka. of light, ricocheting from wall to wall.

Josef Albers’ prints were hugely The exhibit by the two Thai artists, Rirkrit concerned with subverting the limits of Tiravanija and Korakrit Arunanondchai, two-dimensional painting: look close is an effusively fluxing one. You can enough and you’re not quite sure as to turn your head here and there, touch what you see. The kind of heavy belief that Arunanondchai’s denim-built paintings with your hands, dream in Taiwanese color, carries the flame for “The Fire Is Gone But feel the techno of Harry Bornstein’s musical We Have The Light” lies in the theoretical acceptance of Albers’ main point. The score—and then return back home once again. You risk nothing at this exhibition, weight of the work is excessive upon initial even though you may feel—with all the encounter. It levels out once you begin to movement—that you’re missing something move around. The circular navigation of throughout.

Tiravanija’s scroll parallels Arunanondchai’s Arunanondchai studied under orbital film, and this dissipates the weight Tiravanija as a graduate student at evenly. The revelations herein bend towards Columbia University, and the two have the light of inspiration. And what more collaborated together in this exciting can you ask for from creation than to be show to bring the viewer inside the realm inspired. These guys are inspiring. • The Fire Is Gone But We Have The Light: Rirkrit Tiravanija and Korakrit Arunanondchai, Johnson Museum of Art, January 23 through May 29.

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’ve devoted most of my life to being a comedy nerd, so even I was surprised that I’ve never heard of Ross Bennett.

In February 1977 he dropped out of the United States Military Academy at West Point—“That was probably the greatest service I will ever do for my country,” he said—to pursue a career as a stand-up comedian. This was right when I was devouring Saturday Night Live and all the HBO stand-up specials. One of his contemporaries, the late Freddie Prinze, became a huge TV star at the age of 18.

“It was a jarring thing to me. [I thought] if I’m gonna do this thing … I had done some plays. I did a stand-up performance in the army once. I just had an inclination that this was what I should be doing,” Bennett said. He has since appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and has been called “a must-see for every comedy connoisseur.”

We’ll all get a chance to see Bennett when he brings his “Upstate Comedy Tour” to Cortland Repertory Theatre Downtown on Saturday, Feb. 6. He explained the show’s concept as, “I’m a New Yorker, but not from New York City.” He feels there is a big gulf between the Big Apple and the rest of the Empire State. Bennett spoke to me from Miami Beach, Florida. The next day, he went to work on a five-day cruise.

“When you’re a comedian like I am, I’m not a star, so I’ve got a calendar, and I’m trying to fill up my calendar with work,” he said. “Because I work either one-offs—I go some place, and I do a condominium or a corporate event or fundraiser—or I’ll work a club for four or five days or go on a cruise.

I just seek out places where people want to be entertained. It’s just one of many things I do.”

In his first year at West Point, Bennett was not allowed to watch television, so he

had no clue about all the amazing new comedy that was happening in the ‘70s.

“When I finally watched television, I saw Steve Martin and Saturday Night Live,” he said. “They were the biggest thing going on. They just seemed to be having so much fun.” Later, Bennett competed in a legendary San Francisco stand-up competition, where he saw Robin Williams for the first time.

Bennett moved to Los Angeles in the late ‘70s, just before the legendary comedians’ strike against Mitzi Shore and the Comedy Store franchise, well documented in William Knoedelseder’s excellent book, I’m Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy’s Golden Era. “It was a mess,” Bennett recalled. Another contemporary, Steve Lubetkin, jumped off the roof of a Hyatt Regency hotel next to Shore’s club.

“Everybody took it personally. Mitzi Shore took it personally, and wounds were caused that never healed, man.”

It’s all been stand-up for Bennett; he hasn’t branched out into screenwriting or writing for TV. For him, it’s all about getting on stage and keeping the audience laughing until he gets off stage. “I never categorized myself. I don’t like to analyze what I do. If you do that, you pull yourself out of doing it, and then you’re outside of yourself, analyzing what you do,” he said.

I’ve always figured it was other people’s responsibility to look at what I do and say what they think it is that I do. I always took great pride in that fact that I walked on stage by myself—there’s a stool and there’s a microphone—and I stand behind the microphone and I do what I do.”

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The Cornell Symphony Orchestra, directed by visiting conductor Sung, offers their first spring concert on March 12 in Bailey Hall, featuring Yujin (Stacy) Joo, winner of the 12th annual Cornell Concerto Competition, playing the first movement of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite.

Chamber Music Pianist Sara Davis Buechner performs in Barnes Hall on Feb. 10 as part of the Cornell Concert Series, in a program that includes music by Ferruccio Busoni and Liszt, plus a 2010 piece “Soliloquy”

by Takuma Itoh, Cornell DMA in Composition (2012). The artist gives a master class on Feb. 9 in IC’s Hockett Recital Hall.

On Feb. 21 the CCO Chamber Music Series offers works by Jonathan Larson, Eric Ewazen, and Ravel, while on April 17 the series features Jan Bach and the Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3. Both concerts are in the Unitarian Church.

The Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble performs an all-Schubert concert on March 6, featuring the Octet in F (D. 803), with guest artists Richard MacDowell, clarinet; Daniel Hane, bassoon; Alexander Schuhan, horn; and Janet Sung and Maureen Yuen-Mathai, violins. Their annual Mother’s Day concert, on May 8, features all French music—Debussy and Ravel—with guests Sung and flutist Barry Crawford. Both concerts are at the Unitarian Church.

The Shanghai String Quartet—with Wu Man playing the pipa—performs in the Cornell Concert Series at Bailey Hall on April 10, exploring the music of China with a new multimedia work by the eminent Chinese composer Zhao Jiping.

On April 12 at Ford Hall, the Rachel S. Thaler Concert Pianist Series presents the eminent and popular Jeremy Denk, performing an amazing feast of works

by J. S. Bach and Byrd; ragtime music

by Bolcom, Stravinsky, and Ives; and Viennese classical gems by Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert.

In an event added to the Cornell Concert Series, Joel Krosnick, retiring after 42 as years cellist of the Juilliard String Quartet, brings a program of contemporary American solo masterworks to Barnes Hall on April 27.

Cornell pianist and co-artistic director of Mayfest Miri Yampolsky plays music of Beethoven and Brahms on April 30 in Barnes Hall. Read about Mayfest under Special Events below.

Choral and Vocal Music The Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble’s Salon at 102 First St. on Feb. 14 presents “All about Love” with tenor Steven Nanni and pianist Michael Salmirs.

On Feb. 18 the Robert G. Boehmler Community Foundation Series at IC features the Nathaniel Dett Chorale of Canada in Ford Hall, dedicated to

Afrocentric music of all styles, including classical, spiritual, gospel, and folk.

“New York Young Men Singing,” this year on Feb. 27 in Sage Chapel, is a unique free concert featuring the Cornell Glee Club together with high school boys throughout the region, the culmination of a daylong workshop with leading choral conductor from Ireland Niall Crowley.

On March 8 and 9, the IC Madrigals and IC Women’s Chorale and Chorus perform in Hockett Recital Hall and Ford Hall respectively, with the Madrigals led

by Derrick Fox singing on March 8 and the Women’s Chorale and Chorus under Janet Galván and Fox performing on March 9.

The Cayuga Vocal Ensemble presents a special cabaret as part of their 40th anniversary season at the Lake Watch Inn on March 12, while their director, tenor Carl Johengen, sings a program at the Hockett Recital Hall on March 22.

Special Events From Feb. 26 through March 5 in the Dillingham Center theater, Ithaca College presents Handel’s oratorio Semele (1743), which is about Semele’s love for Jupiter and contains the well-known aria “Where’er you walk.”

The Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies at Cornell will hold a “Keyboard Networks” symposium in Barnes Hall, which includes a lecturerecital by Kenneth Hamilton with music of Chopin, Mendelssohn, and Liszt on March 4, and “Charles Burney’s Musical Tour” with a video and performances on organ, harpsichord, and fortepiano by Annette Richards and David Yearsley on March 5.

The Cornell Early Music Lab, the Chamber Singers, and guest soloists present a revival of Agostin Agazarri’s pastoral drama in music Eumelio in Klarman Auditorium on March 19 and 20. The 1606 opera, in three acts and based on the Orpheus myth, features spectacular music, nymphs and demons, rousing choruses, and a baroque orchestra.

Several unusual organ happenings are scheduled for this season. On April 8 in Anabel Taylor Chapel, guest organist Anne Laver presents “The 17th Century North German Organ Art: Music by Böhm, Sweelinck, Scheidemann, and Weckmann.” In mid-April St. Luke Lutheran Church on Oak Avenue sees the installation of an organ unique to the North American continent and modeled on those of 1890s France. Dedication and concerts will take place in September.

Our superb international chamber music Mayfest, now in its 9th year, returns on May 21 through 26, with six concerts, artistic directors Bjerken and Yampolsky, familiar faces such as violinists Tatiana Samouil and Xio-Dong Wang and cellist Zvi Plesser, and other guests including violist Gilad Karni. Mark your calendars now. This festival is always a major event.

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

General Hummels Jug, Pasty White and Doublewide | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Outlaw Country, Primitive Rock and Roll.

Hope Rainbow | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Folk.

Infrared Radiation Orchestra | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Progressive Rock, Garage Rock, Psychedelic, Rock.

Ithacats | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Company, 2471 Hayes Rd., Montour Falls | Originals and Classics in a vintage style.

Jazz at the Bakery | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Ithaca Bakery, Triphammer Marketplace, 2555 N Triphammer, Ithaca | Jazz.

Hip Hop Annihilation Party with Blackout, Lungz, Frontline, Mot Mind, Dice Dollaz, and others | 8:00 PM | The Bistro, 223 W. Water St, Elmira | Rap, Hip Hop. Rebecca and the Soul Shakers | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Blues, Soul, Rock, Psychedelic.

Scott B. Adams | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Two Goats Brewing, 5027 State Rte 414, Burdett | One of Hector’s Finest!

Shore Acres Drive (EP Release), Del Paxton, The Nudes, Teencat | 8:00 PM | Watermargin, Cornell Campus, Ithaca | Indie, Emo, Punk, Pop, Alternative, Rock. Ithaca Underground presents.

The Backtalk Band | 5:30 PM-8:30 PM | Hazlit 1852 Vineyards, 5712 NY-Route 414, Hector | Motown, Classic

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2/03 Wednesday Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz.

Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | I-Town Allstars are the House Band. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser

2/04 Thursday Ageless Jazz Band | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Jazz, Swing, Blues.

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

Marc Etc. | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Moosewood Thursday Night Live | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Local musicians.

Scott Adams | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing Company, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Singer Songwriter.

2/05 Friday Cabinet | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Americana, Folk-Rock, Bluegrass, Jam. Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM

Rock n’ Roll, 50’s-80’s.

Under Construction | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Rock and Roll, Soul, Blues, Country, Jazz, R&B.

2/06 Saturday Bob Marley B-Day Bash with SteroArk SoundSystem and Scopes Monkey Trial | 10:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Reggae, Dub, Vunyl, Hip Hop, Funk, Rock.

General Esquela & Tomahawk’s Bluez and Boogie Band | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Bovina Rock sound, Roots-Rock-Americana.

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StratCat Willie & The Strays | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Company, 2471 Hayes Rd., Montour Falls | Blues.

The New York Rock, Baku, Underwater Tiger | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Hard Rock, Pop. The Purple Valley | 9:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Blues, Swing, Rock and Roll, Country, Swing, Americana.

Top Shelf | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing Company, 4880 NYS Route 414, Burdett | Professional Cover Band.

2/07 Sunday Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor

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Cielle & All Sounds On | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Bluesy Folk Americana.

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

Jerome Attardo | 12:00 PM-3:00 PM | Moosewood Restaurant, 215 N Cayuga St Ste 70, Ithaca | Classical Piano.

O’Shanigans | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Contra Dance, Old-Time.

Powerdove, Johnny Dowd, Jitters, BRIAN! w/ Sarah Hennies | 7:00 PM | Cayuga Lodge, 630 Stewart Ave., Ithaca | Experimental Folk, Noise, Punk, Blues, Progressive Rock, Math-Rock, Experimental. Ithaca Underground presents.

WVBR: Bound For Glory: Christine Lavin & Don White | 8:00 PM | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Folk.

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Notorious String Busters | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Bluegrass.

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2/09 Tuesday I-Town Community Jazz Jam | 8:30 PM-11:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Hosted by Professor Greg Evans Intergenerational Traditional Irish

Session | 6:30 PM-9:00 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Calling all fiddlers, whistlers, pipers, mandos, bodhran’s, and flute players. All Ages & Stages.

Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach Open Mic | 9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | Madeline’s Restaurant, 215 E State St, Ithaca | Jazz.

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2/03 Wednesday Midday Music for Organ: David Yearsley | 12:30 PM | Anabel Taylor Chapel, Cornell University, Ithaca | Charles Burney among the Continental Organists features music from 18th-century Europe.

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Lot 10’s holding a Bob Marley Birthday Bash on Saturday, 2/06 at 10:00 pm.

StereoArk Sound System will be blasting the dub reggae grooves, and Scopes Monkey Trial will be laying down some fearsome funk! (Photo Provided)

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Shakespeare Behind Bars screening, Q&A with director Curt Tofteland | 7:30 PM | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Director Curt Tofteland’s bold documentary chronicles the nine-month process of a prison production of Shakespeare’s final play The Tempest. Inmates in Kentucky’s Luther Luckett prison cast themselves in roles reflecting their own experiences and incorporate their stories, including tales of real-life crimes, into the plot of the play.

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Music for two clavichords: Matthew J. Hall and Jonathan Schakel | 8:00 PM | The A.D. White House, 27 East Ave., Ithaca | Music by W. F. Bach, C. P. E. Bach, and Luigi Boccherini.

2/06 Saturday Hypnosis Presented By Michael C. Anthony | 5:00 PM | State Theater

2/10 THE AKAE BEKA (WITH CRUCIAL REGGAE)

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2/5 CABINET 2/12 MARTIN COURTNEY (OF REAL ESTATE) 2/18 TURKUAZ & PIMPS OF JOYTIME THE HAUNT

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Ithaca Festival Applications | Applications for performers, food vendors, artists, craft vendors, parade participants, and tablers are available at www.ithacafestival.org Click on the applications tab for a list of available apps. Please contact mckenzie@ithacafestival.org with any questions.

Registration for Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers’ Spring Semester | The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers, directed by Gerald Wolfe, will begin rehearsing Mozart’s Requiem on Wednesday Feb 3rd at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Ithaca. No Auditions.

Rehearsals run weekly from 7-9 p.m. until the concert on April 30th 2016.

Registration is on-line in advance or at 6:15 p.m. prior to the first three rehearsals. For more information or to register on-line visit: hithacacommunitychoruses.org Tompkins Workforce: Professional Opportunity Developers Group | 9:00 AM-11:00 AM, 2/04 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce, Center Ithaca, 2nd fl, Ithaca | Network with people who previously held executive-level or highly technical positions.

Workshop at CAP: FIND YOUR FANS: Relationship Marketing for Small-Scale Creators | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 2/04 Thursday | CAP ArtsSpace, 171 The Commons, Ithaca | Presenting a marketing workshop by Ryan Miga.

By the end of the series, participants should have a confident understanding of how to use social media to find and connect with their most dedicated supporters! (Although CAP is the arts council, you don’t have to be an artist to take this workshop. The info is general(Read the rest of the workshop description at http://artspartner.org/ content/view/for-artists-art-organizations.html. (or www.artspartner.org) Tompkins Workforce: Meet the Employer Session-Cornell | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | A Cornell human resources representative will discuss job search tips, the application process, and overall information about working at Cornell University.

The Cayuga Trails Club | 2/06 Saturday | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4 mile hike or snow shoe tour in Connecticut Hill. For details, check cayugatrailsclub.org or call 607-2805074.

Sunday Square Dancing | 7:00 PM, 2/07 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Square Dancing

supports herself by running an air courier service. | 143 mins G |

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Groundhog Comedy: Hacksaw Jim Duggan | 8:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Former WWF Superstar Hacksaw Jim Duggan is coming to Ithaca and he’s bringing tales and comedy!

La Bohème | 8:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | Syracuse Opera Co, 411 Montgomery St Ste 60, Syracuse | The Opera, based on Henri Murger’s newspaper serialturned-novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème, will be sung in Italian with projected English translations.

Peter and the Starcatcher | Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca | Winner of five 2012 Tony Awards, Peter and the Starcatcher is a swashbuckling, musical adventure!

This grown-up’s prequel to Peter Pan is an innovative theatrical extravaganza featuring a dozen actors playing over 100 unforgettable characters. For showtimes and more information visit www.kitchentheatre.org La Bohème | 2:00 PM, 2/07 Sunday | Syracuse Opera Co, 411 Montgomery St Ste 60, Syracuse | The Opera, based on Henri Murger’s newspaper serialturned-novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème, will be sung in Italian with projected English translations.

Deathtrap | 8:00 PM, 2/08 Monday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | Kitchen Sink Series and Homecoming Players presents Deathtrap by Ira Levin. A chip off the old writer’s block.

Directed by George Sapio. Performances Feb 8 and 15. Showtimes and tickets visit kitchentheatre.org

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Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Downtown Ithaca’s Chili Fest weekend!

VH1 calls him the best stage hypnotist on the planet. he’s been seen on CBS, ABC, NBC & Fox. He’s the Official hypnotist of The Illusionists 2.o.

Shemekia Copeland | 8:00 PM | Center For the Arts of Homer, 72 S Main St, Homer | Contemporary Blues, Roots, Soul, R&B.

with both table and tiered seating.

Don’t miss your chance to laugh yourself silly in the area’s most popular and longest-running Comedy Club.

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Ensemble X | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Xak Bjerken, director.

The Music Goes Pop features Hums and Songs of Winnie the Pooh by Oliver Knussen, with guest soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite, Charles Peck’s Fade for clarinet and tape, and a premiere for baroque instruments by Loren Loiacono.

2/08 Monday Emily DiAngelo | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Guests Sonya Williams, violin; Natalie Brandt, viola; and Zachary Sweet, cello, present a program of oboe and English horn quartets.

The Bud Light Comedy Club | 8:00 PM | Clemens Performing Arts Ctr, 207 Clemens Ctr Pkwy, Elmira | The best in stand-up comedy! A trio of hot comics entertain adult audience members in an intimate theater/night-club setting

2/09 Tuesday Shin Hwang | 8:00 PM | Barnes Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Features Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

Mickey B screening, Q&A with director Tom Magill | 8:00 PM, 2/04 Thursday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth, this adaptation tells the story of one prisoner’s quest for power through betrayal and murder, and the insanity and death that result. cinemapolis

Friday, 2/05 to Thursday, 2/11.

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 |

Anomalisa | A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary. | 90 mins R | Room | After five-year-old Jack and his mother escape from the enclosed surroundings that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a thrilling discovery. | 118 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| Youth (La giovinezza) | A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip’s birthday. | 124 mins R | 45 Years | A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receive shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives. | 135 mins R | Cornell Cinema

Wednesday 2/03 to Tuesday 2/09 | Contact Cornell Cinema for

Showtimes Piled Higher and Deeper: Still in Grad School | A comedy about life (or the lack thereof) in Academia. Two young scientists (a Quantum Physicist and a Molecular Biologist) search for significance in the high stakes world of Academic research. | 120 mins NR | The Assassin | An assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in seventh-century China. | 145 mins | Ip Man 3 | When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand. | 145 mins PG-13 | Oscar Shorts: Live Action! | Collective screening of the Academy Award nominated short films from the Live Action category for 2015. | 158 mins | Oscar Shorts: Aniamtion! | An exclusive feature-length presentation showcasing this year’s Oscar award nominees for Best Animated Short Film | 47 mins | Oscar Shorts: Documentary | An exclusive feature-length presentation showcasing this year’s Oscar award nominees for Best Documentary Short Film | 155 mins | Kiki’s Delivery Service | A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she

Notices Calling All LEGO Enthusiasts | The Tompkins County Public Library (TCPL) is completing a large fundraising campaign to support our 21st Century Library. As part of our campaign celebration, the library will coordinate a community-build of a minifig-sized LEGO version of the library building, this May and June. We are looking for people interested in helping with fundraising, publicity, planning and organizing the build, website maintenance, and several other areas.

If you’d be interested in helping make this unique event happen, please contact LEGO Build Coordinator Peter McCrackenat pete...@gmail.com by February 10, 2016.

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Peter and The Starcatcher,

EYE Gallery, Friday, February 5, 5:00 p.m.

Kitchen Theatre, Showing through February 21

The local cartoonist, illustrator, and fine artist, has created many characters particular to his unique vision.

Garmhausen’s murals cover the walls of many Ithaca digs, and his style is both particular and playful. His characters embody the world of large heads and fantastic realms.

He’s finished up some new pieces and will unveil them on Gallery Night. They’ll be music too. Mary Lorson of Madder Rose and Soubrettes fame will perform songs from her new album. Don’t miss out!

Peter and The Star Catcher is of the most hilarious-filled evenings of madcap fun to hit stages in a long time. In this 5 time Tony Award winning play, a dozen brilliant actors play more than 100 unforgettable characters using their enormous talent, ingenious stagecraft and the limitless possibilities of imagination. This swashbuckling grownup prequel to Peter Pan will have you hooked from the moment you let your imagination take flight.

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Cayuga Bird Club Meeting & Presentation | 7:30 PM, 2/08 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Eduardo E. Inigo-Elias will share his experiences and knowledge of the birds in this amazingly biodiverse country. Come a bit early for cookies and conversation at 7:15 p.m. Bird club business begins at 7:30 followed by the speaker presentation. All are invited and welcome.

Contact: (800) 843-2473, cornellbirds@ cornell.edu Dryden Senior Citizens Lunch | 11:45 AM, 2/08 Monday | Dryden Fire Hall, 26 North St., Dryden | Lunch is served at 12:15 pm with announcements starting at 11:45 am.

Please bring your own table service.

The menu will be scalloped potatoes with ham, green beans, tossed salad, rolls, and angel food cake with whipped cream. Our speaker will be Sandy Sherwood, Superintendent of Dryden School District who will talk about the budget.

Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 2/09 Tuesday | St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 17 Main St., Candor | CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 2/09 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

Ithaca Continent of One Billion Rising: Flash Mob Rehearsals | 6:30 PM, 2/09 Tuesday |The flash mob will take place on the IthacaCommons in front of Center Ithaca at 12:00 PM Valentine’s day, February 14, 2016.

Upcoming rehearsals for the flash mob will be, Tuesdays: 2/2 and 2/9 6:30-7:30 PM, BJM Elementary School Library stage, 302 W Buffalo St and Sundays:1/31 and 2/7, 2:00-3:00 PM, Ithaca Ballet Studio, 506 N Plain St. You can come to as many or as few rehearsals or just the V-Day flash mob.

For more information send an email to isabellagold22@gmail.com and go to onebillionrising.org.

The Ultimate Purpose: Free Speech Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM-, 2/09 Tuesday | The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 The Commons, Ithaca | Please

join us for tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future.

Every Tuesday Night at 7 O’Clock.

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2016 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture | 4:45 PM-6:15 PM, 2/03 Wednesday | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, two of the community organizers credited with beginning the online campaign that became a national civil rights movement, will be joined by Janaya Khan, an international ambassador for #BLM Network, at Cornell’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Lecture.

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

Learn to Knit, Learn to Sew at SewGreen | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 2/03 Wednesday | SewGreen, 112 N Cayuga St., Ithaca | Sign up now for SewGreen’s classes in knitting and sewing for adults and kids. Classes start January 27. The complete class schedule and an easy sign-up link can be found at www.sewgreen.org/classes For more information, contact Katie at sew@ sewgreen.org Katherine Jarriel: Small World Networks in the Bronze Age Cyclades, Greece | 6:30 PM-, 2/04 Thursday | Room 208, Ithaca College Center for Natural Science, Ithaca | The Finger Lakes Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association will host.

The Richard Cleaveland Memorial Reading featuring fiction writer Karen Joy Fowler and poet Ishion Hutchinson | 4:30 PM-, 2/04 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell, | Cornell Department of English Program in Creative Writing faculty Karen Joy Fowler and Ishion Hutchinson deliver the Cleaveland Memorial Reading as part of the Spring 2016 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series. Free and Open to the public. creativewriting@cornell.edu Energy Workshop | 10:00 AM, 2/05 Friday | Presbyterian Church, 75 N. Main St., Spencer | Learn how to lower your energy bills by low-cost and no-cost actions to reduce your energy usage.

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The indie-emo-punk rockers Shore Acres Drive have an EP release show at Watermargin on the Cornell Campus this Friday, 2/05, at 8:00 p.m. Joining them on the Ithaca Underground bill are Del Paxton, The Nudes, and Teencat. It’s going to rip! Read more about Shore Acres Drive on page 18. (Photo Provided) saving, and entry into drawing for special grand prize! Sponsored by NYSERDA and Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Ithaca Red Tent | 10:00 AM-3:00 PM, 2/07 Sunday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Ithaca Red Tent - A place for women, created by women, where we can explore all that it means to be a woman. Join us: first Saturday of every month from 10:00 – 3:00 PM. For more information, please visit www.

IthacaRedTent.com Winter Fly Tying Workshop | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/06 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 Science Cabaret Presents: In Celebration of Darwin Days, Reading the Tree of Life | 7:00 PM-,

2/09 Tuesday | Coltivare, 235 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Join us as we explore the many shapes of evolutionary trees used historically and that appear today in popular media, exhibitions, and textbooks.

T’ai Chi Classes | 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, 2/09 Tuesday | Lansing Community Library, 27 Auburn Rd, Lansing | John Burger - Instructor. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing.

Special Events Downton Abbey-Inspired Headband Workshop | 7:00 PM, 2/04 Thursday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | ompkins County Public Library will launch a month-long celebration of the final season of Downton Abbey in the Thaler/Howell Programming Room with a headband-making workshop for middle and high schoolers.To register, visit (http://bit.ly/TCPLheadband or contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at (607) 272-4557 extension 274 or rdemauro@tcpl.org.

Festival of Fire & Ice | 3:00 PM-6:00 PM, 2/06 Saturday | Ithaca’s Children’s Garden, Southern Tip of Cass Park,

Hacksaw JIM DUGGAN,

The Dock, Friday, February 5, 8:00 p.m.

If you’re like me, and was partly raised on 80’s WWF, this apperance by Hacksaw Jim Dugan is like a dream come true! Rising to fame in the Cold War–era 1980s, the former WWF superstar engaged in legendary feuds with some of the most legendary names in the sport, including the Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff, and Andre the Giant. In this who’s who of top-tier wrestling, Duggan reveals not only the high points of championship bouts but also the low points. A night not to be missed!

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The 18th Annual Great Downtown Ithaca Chili Cook-off | 11:30 AM-4:00 PM, 2/06 Saturday | The Commons, East State Street, Ithaca | Chili Cook-off features chili prepared by approximately 30 restaurants as they compete for the titles of Best Meat/ Overall Chili, Best Vegetarian, and People’s Choice Chili. In addition to Chili, there are other Chili related food items. The Chili Cook-off will feature a farmers market with vendors and local wineries, breweries, and farmer’s sampling their goods. All activities will take place on the Ithaca Commons and surrounding streets. Info at eventsdowntownithaca@gmail.com

Meetings City of Ithaca Common Council | 6:00 PM, 2/03 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Public is heard during privilege of the floor.

City of Ithaca Commons Advisory Board | 8:30 AM, 2/05 Friday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | City of Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM, 2/08 Monday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | City of Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission | 5:30 PM, 2/09 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca City Board of Education | 7:00 PM, 2/09 Tuesday | Ithaca City School District - Administration Building, Lake Street, Ithaca | Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission (ILPC) | 5:30 PM, 2/09 Tuesday | Common Council Chambers Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | The ILPC is charged with administering and interpreting the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Ordinance.

Art Call For Proposals For a Mural Celebrating Muslim Culture || Entires Due February 9, 2016. The Al-Huda Islamic Center of the Finger

18th Annual Ithaca Chili Cook-OFF, The Commons, Saturday, February 6, 11:30 a.m.

If you’re looking for some choice and abundant selection in the chili and beer department, downtown Ithaca is the place to be this weekend. You’ll be up chili and beer creak with a giant paddle. Tatiana Sy, Director of Events for DIA, spoke of some of the newer addition to the beloved festival. “This year’s presenting sponsor, The Tomkins Trust Company, will be utilizing Center Ithaca in a new way”, Sy said.

“They’ll be showcasing a Family Free Zone in the main lobby, with a ton a fun and activities.” Sounds like the place to be for everyone!

Lakes, the Greater Ithaca Activities Center, and Multicultural Resource Center are excited to announce a search for artists to paint a mural that celebrates any aspect of our immensely diverse Muslim culture.

Please Send or deliver entries to: GIAC 301 W Court St Ithaca, NY 14850 Info at IthacaMuslimMural@gmail.com Matthew Schreiber | 5:15 PM, 2/04 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Matthew Schreiber will discuss his work, in conversation with curator Andrea Inselmann, as part of the opening reception.

Opening Reception for Spring 2016 Exhibitions | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 2/04 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Celebrate the new exhibitions on view for the spring semester. The Museum is open tonight until 8:00 PM! First Friday Gallery Night | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/05 Friday |Downtown Ithaca | On the first Friday of each month, art galleries in downtown hold their opening receptions for exhibitions. Visit www. downtownithaca.com for details Carolyn Hoffman: Mind vs. Body | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | Creative Space Gallery, 215 The Commons/ E State St, Ithaca | Solo show by recent alumna, Carolyn Hoffman (BFA ‘15).

The mixed-media paintings explore relationships at play within oneself and the polarity that can exist within a single character.

Audrey Bialke: Animal, Land, Sky: Images of Good Life Farm | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | Finger Lakes Cider House, 4017 Hickock | Paintings.

Exhibit runs through April 1.

Elizabeth Wickenden McMahon | 5:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | CAP ArtsSpace, 171 The Commons, Ithaca | With a spontaneous play of color, shape, and line, Elizabeth Wickenden McMahon moves in and out of abstraction and reality in her new paintings, prints, and collages.

Ink Shop Annual Members’ Exhibition 2016 | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | Ink Shop Printmaking Center The, 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | The Ink Shop Printmaking Center’s Annual Members’ Exhibit features Ink Shop artists exploring many varied printmaking techniques. The Ink Shop has developed a solid reputation for providing professionally curated exhibitions. Each year the Ink Shop launches a Members’ show, giving our membership the opportunity

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eld at the beginning of every month, First Friday Gallery Nights are an excellent opportunity to see art after hours in a variety of downtown Ithaca venues, while getting the opportunity to speak with the artist(s).

The ability of Ithaca to sustain this sort of thing speaks well for its artistic culture.

Still, some events are more active and better attended than others. And the discerning eye familiar with the local scene will anticipate some exhibits more than the rest.

This Friday’s event—to be held on Feb. 5 from 5 to 8 p.m.—promises to be something of a re-birth after the January lull. (Not that there weren’t some fine shows, but Ithaca in early January is a cold, dead place.) Twenty-four venues are featured, most of them on or around the Commons.

Below, a few choice exhibits: Jim Garmhausen stands (or topples) at the unlikely meeting point where popular local taste meets my own.

Wielding a background as a newspaper cartoonist, he has built-up a solid reputation for his mural work as well as gallery exhibits of his paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works. His sensibility is distinctive, a mixture of the cartoonish and the grotesque.

“The Otherworld of Jim Garmhausen” is this year’s inaugural exhibit at Eye (126

to exhibit their newest work. This is always a popular show that gives the public the opportunity to see the new work coming out of The Ink Shop, only community printmaking of it’s kind in Central New York.

LITTLE GEMS—A collection of miniature paintings | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 2/05 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | New exhibit which features miniature works by more than 30 regional artists. Music will be performed by William Groome.

Lyric Visions, Part II | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | State Of The Art, 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Gallery members show work created in response to the poetry of sixteen regional poets. This exhibition features paintings, drawings, photographs, prints and sculpture. A poetry reading will take place Sunday, February 14 at

East State Street), a promising recent entry into Ithaca’s gallery scene directed

by Julie Simmons-Lynch. Among other things, the February-March show heralds Garmhausen’s return to comics.

The opening will also feature live performance by musician and composer Mary Lorson, from her new album Themes from Whatever.

Local abstract expressionist Michael Sampson has been having regular informal exhibits at the Cellar d’Or (136 East State Street), a wine and cider shop on the Commons. Several of these have also included work by friends—this one is a solo show. “Re-Worked” features twoyear-old paintings revisited with added layers of material—a relief-like approach that tends to suit Sampson’s approach quite well.

Elizabeth McMahon has returned to painting after a career of many decades as popular local children’s entertainer. Up through February, “Dash, Lift, Slide,” at the Community Arts Partnership’s ArtSpace Gallery (171 East State Street), is her first formal gallery exhibit in town since her career-change. Her playful, exuberantly colored paintings and works on paper find new life in the tradition of cubism and early abstraction.

Decorum Too (215 North Cayuga Street) is slightly off the main Gallery Night loop, located in the beautifully historic DeWitt Mall. Proprietor Alan Nemcek, who runs this store, dedicated to oriental rugs, has also been putting on some worthy casual art shows. His latest features area plein-air painter Carlton Manzano, whose work evocatively splits the difference between concrete representational detail and an expressive use of color and paint texture.

The Community School of Music and Arts (330 East State Street) has

2pm. www.soag.org Mary Beth Grable | 5:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | BSB is happy to share the vibrant, multi-layered work of local painter Mary Beth Grable.

Michael Sampson: Re-Worked | 5:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | Cellar d’Or, 136 E. State St., Ithaca | The Artists put aside and returned to these oil paintings for two years. As time went on the paint became thicker–a concrete or stucco–and as the artists worked and re-worked the paintings, they became denser. The end result is a thick impasto, which borders on relief. www. thecellardor.com Sally Ryan | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca | 5:30 PM-7:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | “OPEN DOORS,” a collection of Ryan’s paintings, is on display in the Judith

“Infliction #2” by Carolyn Hoffman. Her solo show “Mind vs. Body” opens up this Friday at the Creative Space Gallery located on the Commons. (Photo Provided) downtown’s largest and perhaps best exhibition space. Up through March, “Ben Altman: Seeing Memorials” extends the work he showed a year ago at Corners Gallery in Cayuga Heights. Altman is an ambitious photographer and his recent series is an inquiry in to the ways we mark and remember the Holocaust and other unspeakable social tragedies.

I risk using this space just to promote my friends (the ones that deserve it). In this regard, it’s worth noting the work of Carolyn Hoffman, a recent alumna of Ithaca College. “Carolyn Hoffman: Mind vs. Body” will be showing at the Creative

Holliday Lobby Gallery.

Project for a Re-volution in New York | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Poetry Readings from a Soap Box, by Melissa Tuckey, author of award-winning Tenuous Chapel. Film Screening of Last Year at Marienbad, directed by Alain Resnais, with live, improvised musical accompaniment

by GK2. Featuring installations by 22 local, national and international artists. tcpl.org The Otherworld of Jim Garmhausen, with Musical Guest, Mary Lorson | 5:30 PM, 2/05 Friday | Eye Gallery, 126 E State St, Fl 2nd, Ithaca | Jim is no stranger to Ithaca, as his murals adorn the walls of many eateries and public buildings. His is a world unto itself with colossal-headed men and a fiery sense of fun. He

Space Gallery (215 East State Street), an ambitious student-run venue that is the brainchild of IC professor Bill Hastings.

Although I’m not familiar with her paintings, “Mind vs. Body” promises to be more ambitious than the Space’s usual shows of undergraduate work.

Gallery Night is administered by the Downtown Ithaca Alliance. gallerynightithaca.wordpress.com for a complete listing of events or pick up a brochure – available at DIA’s headquarters at Center Ithaca (171 East State Street) and around downtown. •

in the galleries, then build your own.

Your Community Art Project | The Just Be Cause Center (1013 W. State/ MLK St.) | Shadow Portraits/Shadow Films: Somewhere Between Darkness & Light | On Wednesday January 27th, Art Club invited the town to participate in shadow themed visual art and film stations at the Tompkins County Public Library. On Gallery Night, we will proudly display these art pieces and films that were created by you, members of our community. Visit: yourartclub.com

has done some cracking new work for the show and it’s sure to excite.

International star Mary Lorson of Madder Rose and Soubrettes fame will perform songs from her 11th album, Themes from Whatever.

Thrive Ethical Fashion and House of Choclet Present First Friday Fashion Show and Exhibition | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 2/05 Friday | Thrive Ethical Fashion, 112 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Fashion show starts at 8:00 PM, followed by performances and poetry. tinyurl.com/thriveevent. For more Information: Draya Koschmann, Thrive Proprietor shopthriveny@gmail. com 607.342.1222 Art-Full Family Day: Dragons & Mythical Creatures | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 2/06 Saturday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Hear about mythical beasts at storytelling stations

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Ensemble X will return to Barnes Hall this Sunday with a program titled “The Music Goes Pop,” featuring guest soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon. The concert will open with two old-music selections, Hugh Ashtons’ Maske and William Byrd’s Have with You to Walsingame. These will be followed by a new work by graduate composer Loren Loiacono. All three compositions will be performed by Lucy Fitz Gibbon and baroque instruments. This is a crew worth checking out!

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