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t their Wednesday, Feb. 3 meeting, Common Council voted to make the “Officer Next Door” program

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One Ithaca Police Department officer already resides in West Village, the focal point of the program. Property owner Omni New York LLC agreed in October to provide housing free to police willing to live there. Another officer is expected to move into the 235-unit housing complex soon.

Three West Village mothers who spoke up in favor of the program before council said there has already been a noticeable decrease in crime and violence around their homes Melissa Meléndez spoke of the danger her children have faced on West Hill. She told the council that she has found needles on the playgrounds.

“My goal,” Meléndez said, “has been to get people to see that West Village has potential to becoming a great place to live again.”

Pamela Cruz told council her children have seen heroin “fiends” passed out on the sidewalks.”

“I never wanted my daughter to go outside,” resident Kristina Varner said. “[But] with the ‘Officer Next Door’ program, I don’t feel scared anymore.”

“These women are the heroes in this story,” Alderperson George McGonigal (D-1st) later said. “They have done more than anyone else to make West Village a better place for themselves and for their children.”

“We’ve been putting a Band-Aid approach on these problems,” IPD Chief John Barber told the council. “It’s working in the right direction to finding appropriate solutions.”

Before the council voted, some members voiced concerns about how quickly the program was formulated.

“I would like to see this program as a limited-time program that needs to be reviewed,” Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D-4th) said It was debated whether the IPD officers living in West Village should have to reapply to live in West Village now that the program has been made legal.

Mayor Svante Myrick said that he doesn’t want this to be the case, as it would “counter the spirit of the program.”

Alderperson Cynthia Brock (D-1st) told the public and fellow council members that the residents of West Village, “deserve and need a safe place to call home.”

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documented crimes against African Americans by police. In a low, calm voice, Ade concluded with a vision of “screaming loud, so loud that America cracks open.”

Ade then formally announced the launch of the local chapter of Black Lives Matter, reminding the audience that the national effort had been founded in 2012 by three black, queer women in the aftermath of the acquittal of George Zimmerman of the killing of Trayvon Martin. It began, he said, as a call to action, but has over time broadened to include addressing “all ways black people have been left powerless at the hands of the state.” Ade traced the root of local BLM-inspired efforts to the formation of the Shawn Greenwood Working Group in 2010, which came together after the

n a meeting that included a rap, a poetry recitation, a short speech that attacked capitalism, and a question and answer period, Black Lives Matter Ithaca was launched in the Beverly J. Martin Elementary School auditorium/library.

The Feb. 3 meeting began at 6:40 p.m. and drew over 50 people. It followed an event at Cornell where the founders of Black Lives Matter— Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Cullors—spoke.

Cornell professor Russell Rickford called the meeting to order and yielded the floor to local activist Jodi An, who briefly welcomed the crowd and thanked them for coming.

Enongo LumumbaKasongo, a Cornell student perhaps better known by her stage name Sammus, delivered Jodi An, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, Nicole LaFave and Dubian Ade a rap about the lack of Black Lives Matter Ithaca. (Photo: Bill Chaisson) of representation of people of color in video games, television shows, and toys killing of Greenwood by Ithaca and while she was growing up. “Kinda thing Dryden police officers when they tried to hurt me when I was small … Black girls apprehend him outside of Pete’s Grocery want a hero too … all kids tryin’ to get that in the West End. mirror …” Lumumba-Kasongo expressed In July 2015 a teach-in at Congo bitterness at the memory of being asked Square Market in South Side was to draw and remembering that the first organized under the BLM banner, and impulse she had was to draw blondein August 2015 Ithaca residents traveled haired, pink-skinned little girl. to Ohio to a BLM convention. Ade Dubian Ade then recited incantatory verse that cataloged the recent mediacontinued on page

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▶ Veterans Job Fair The American Legion Post 770 in Trumansburg is hosting their second Veteran’s Job Fair on March 24th from 2 - 6 PM. The Job Fair has been sponsored by Tompkins Trust Company and the Syracuse Department of Veterans Affairs. The Job Fair has had special concentration in local outreach to Veteran’s and their Families and is Open to the Public to attend. Door prizes will be drawn for those who attend and the first 20 Veteran’s (must present ID) will be guaranteed a door prize for attending.

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A New Varna . ................................ 8 Dryden hamlet near Ithaca may have a big future if it can take the first step

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he Tompkins County housing needs survey went live online Feb. 3.

According to Megan McDonald, a senior planner with the county’s planning department, the survey is part of the county’s efforts to update its housing needs assessment. The last full housing assessment was completed in 2006. The City of Ithaca has a chronically low vacancy rate, less than 1 percent, and the entire county has relatively few new houses available.

“We have a smaller population than some metropolitan areas [~100,000 people], so the census data and things like that aren’t a very finely-grained way to really look at our needs,” McDonald said.

“We want to find what types and price ranges we’re missing here, and then ask, ‘How do we get there?’”

Cornell’s Program on Applied Demographics creates population forecasts for the entire state, but they haven’t been very applicable to Tompkins County because of the unusual characters of its large employers (educational institutions) compared to the rest of upstate.

“They’ve always indicated the population should be starting to decrease,” McDonald said. “That’s never been the

“ It’s country-ish. A lot of farms.”

—Jasara Miller

“Why did the Dalai Lama move to Ithaca?

It’s near Varna.”

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stressed that BLM Ithaca would remain a grassroots organization without a board of directors, and he asked the audience to not consider the people on either side of him at the front of the stage to be “gatekeepers” to some sort of establishment. “It is time,” he said, “for a different organization, not the pursuit of respectability. We need to be accountable to the realities of our people.” Among the issues he said BLM Ithaca would address were poor housing, gentrification, food security, violence against women, LGBTQ oppression, and white supremacy.

Rickford spoke at greater length, addressing the historical societal problems that make Black Lives Matter necessary.

He began by describing a bimodal population made up of African Americans who had been in effect co-opted versus those who continued to be oppressed. He reminded people of the paradox of living in a society that began talking about the “end of racism” upon the election of a black president and yet racial incidents, both high profile and undocumented, continue unabated.

He placed the unofficial beginning of the local BLM effort at the teach-in held earlier this fall, held in the same

“Nothing, but housing sounds good.”

—Kiki and Casey

“It’s a hamlet! I lived there 3 years.”

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“I don’t know anyone from Varna.” ­—Noah Hirschel (of Ithaca)

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Downtown housing options: New Carey Building at left, Seneca Way in distance behind trees, Gateway Commons over the present Trebloc building, where more housing is proposed. (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

way it goes.”

The 2006 assessment was followed shortly by the 2008 recession, which meant “a lot of assumptions changed around here,” McDonald said. The new projection model will have more flexibility in changing its assumptions; it will be “more of a spreadsheet model.”

County planners hope the survey will be taken by as wide a range of people as possible, including commuters who work in Tompkins County and live in neighboring areas. The survey asks basic questions about housing cost, employment, and municipality, along with open format questions about what one

likes or does not like about housing in Tompkins County.

The survey will be only part of the data incorporated into the needs assessment, McDonald said. Other information will include data, interviews, and studies from large employers, landlords, and human service providers.

To take the survey before it ends on Feb. 22, visit e-input.com/surveys/ tompkins.htm or request a paper copy by contacting the county planning department at 274-5560.

auditorium and coinciding with unrest on the Ithaca College campus and elsewhere around the country. “We have to seize the political moment,” he said, “and determine how to sustain campus energy and channel it.” Rickford said that it was important for African Americans to develop a positive sense of identity and to build an “antiracist” movement based on agitation and education.

Fostering an anti-racist consciousness means more than not being racist, Rickford said. Simply claiming to be colorblind is passive and does not threaten a deep-rooted system of oppression.

“Anti-racism,” he said, “is a commitment to confrontation with the racist reality that surrounds us. You have to fight on multiple fronts, including in the streets.”

He urged solidarity among anti-racists of all colors; his audience was more than half white. Something has to be done about “the distress and insecurity that our people face every day in this decadent society,” he said. “We have to create a better future for our children.”

Rickford suggested that the first thing white people in the audience should begin to do is to listen. They also needed to become more self-conscious about their own privilege. “You need to think about yourself,” he said, “so that you can help someone else.”

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members began to ask questions at Ade’s invitation. A white audience member suggested that there was a difference between racism and prejudice and that teaching people the difference was important. The speakers would have none of it. An lamented that he might be suggesting that it was necessary for black people to teach white people about racism. As they had not invented racism themselves, she didn’t think they should be called upon to do such a thing. Rickford objected to characterizing the issue as an “awareness problem.” He compared “whiteness” to capitalism in that benefits were conferred to those who believed in it. “When you start to move against white supremacy, just as when you start to move against capitalism,” he said, “you are going to encounter resistance. So you can’t just go to the people who are resisting and say, ‘Let’s have a conversation about racism versus prejudice.’”

Further remarks from the audience could be divided into white people asking what they could do to help further the cause of Black Lives Matter and black people describing the difficulties they and other people of color face while living in Ithaca.

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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he Tompkins county legislature passed a resolution in support of Black Oak Wind Farm (BOWF) on Feb. 4, noting that the wind farm “constitutes a $40 million investment in clean, renewable energy,” is consistent with the County’s greenhouse gas emission goals contained in the 2015 Tompkins County Comprehensive Plan, and that “the Tompkins County Energy Roadmap documents that wind energy has the potential to provide a significant portion of electricity demand within Tompkins County while decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.”

However, residents of Enfield, where the wind farm is planned, objected, saying they have health and safety concerns that have not been addressed. Mimi Mehaffey, of Bostwick Road, said she lives in an earth-berm passive solar house. “Not a day goes by that I don’t wonder what more I could be doing to avert the doom of climate change,” she said. “[But] the health and safety issues with the wind farm are real. Slow down this process, and site the turbines correctly. Please allow the Enfield Town Board to work without interference.”

Mike Carpenter, of the Enfield town board, said that the board was poised to approve the wind farm when “a number

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Maguires Would Like Car Lot on the Water

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he Maguire Family of automobile dealerships has made no secret of its ambitions to expand over the past few years.

In late 2014 the Maguires withdrew a plan for an expansion in the Town of Ithaca along Route 13 at Seven Mile Drive.

The town’s zoning rule restricting outdoor retail put a kibosh on that idea.

Now the Maguires are prepared to make the case that another one of their dealerships belongs within the city, on Route 13, near the Farmers’ Market and adjoining the community gardens.

Rumors were reported in December by another Ithaca media outlet that Maguire was behind the purchase of the Carpenter’s Business Park, the empty property next to the community gardens, and behind the railroad tracks and the Mirabito gas station.

In an interview on Feb. 4, Phil Maguire, president of the family of

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of the residents said, ‘This is going to be Wales Brown. “Windmills don’t make an issue for us.’” Carpenter added, “I’m ashes, or smoke, or radioactive crud.” not sure the Enfield town board would “We don’t expect to make any money,” be able to do anything with the county’s said investor David Ritchie. resolution.”

Cyrus Amrigar, a resident of Caroline, Robert Tesori, whose house at 570 said his family travels to Iowa every Black Oak Road is the closest to the wind summer, where there are giant wind farms. farm site, said the nearest turbine would “The sound is really minimal. ... A setback be 975 feet from his house and 190 feet of kilometers is crazy.” from his property line. “We are not against the wind farm,” he said. “The law is inadequate.

We just want things safe. All we’re asking is, ‘Work with us.’”

Marcus Gingrich, who said he lives “in the shadow of the turbines,” was concerned about the sound the turbines would make. “Noise is a pollution,” he said.

Gingrich feared Enfield resident Mike Carpenter speaks while Black Oak Wind Farm president Marguerite that the turbine Wells listens at right with chin in hand. (Photo: Glynis Hart) noise would cause “chronic sleep deprivation” in his children, leading to “Get off the anti-wind websites and go “neuronal damage.” have lunch under a windmill. We did,” said A majority of those who spoke a woman from Caroline. in favor of the wind farm were small Other speakers noted that the wind investors who support the goal of reducing farm has offered a Payment in Lieu of greenhouse gas emissions: continued on page 10 “Our investment will never put us in the 1 percent of the power elite,” said dealerships, confirmed that rumor for the first time. Maguire said that his company bought the property in September but couldn’t divulge details until now.

The short of the proposal for the site is a $12 million, approximately 40,000square-foot dealership for Maguire’s Ford, Lincoln, and Nissan franchises. That move will allow space at the lot next to Wegman’s for a $5 million renovation to expand Maguire’s Hyundai and Subaru franchises. As brand representatives, Maguire said they are constrained as to where they can build a new lot.

“The manufacturers want to be in the primary market area,” Maguire said.

“We’ve been searching for a property for several years. The manufacturers put limits on space, size, and location.”

Maguire met with city planners and Mayor Svante Myrick on Feb. 2 to present the materials the dealership has prepared, including an economic impact report from Tompkins County Area Development that shows a total of 70 new jobs created.

From a planning perspective, Maguire acknowledges that the city’s comprehensive plan, adopted in 2015, calls for a more urban, walkable feel in the waterfront and Cayuga Inlet areas.

He said the architects and engineers drawing up the new dealership were tasked with creating “an inlet-worthy”

project that could pass the muster of Common Council, which will have a say in the matter if the proposed “planned unit development” status for the area is approved in March.

“The mayor’s been quoted saying they want housing and retail in this area. This is an automotive retail project,” Maguire said. “We fight the perception of being a big box retailer, but we’ve been a familyowned business since 1977.”

Plans for the new dealership features a green rooftop observatory, Boston ivy covering the back and side walls, rainwater harvesting for internal use, solar power usage, and an electric car charging station for community use at the current park entrance, next to the B&W Restaurant Supply store.

Maguire was explicit in his stance toward the community gardens, which are on a city-owned parcel of land: “We have no interest in uprooting any gardeners,” Maguire said, adding that gardeners would be free to use excess parking and the dealership’s facilities, like restrooms and an independent coffee shop. A sidewalk would be built along Route 13 as well, assuming Department of Transportation approval.

Ups&Downs ▶ So much more than canned goods, Aaron Munzer, the manager of the Ithaca Farmer’s market took exception to the lede in our cover story last week: “The only winter market in the Ithaca area, the Ithaca Farmers Market, offers hundreds of products, from local, greenhouse go fresh greens, meats, cheeses, fruit, wine, cider, bread, and more. We do not just sell root vegetables and home canned goods.”

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 ▶ Good quirks, The Museum Association of New York (MANY) announced that PRI will receive an Award of Merit for its Quirks of Nature exhibition, which was on display at the Museum of the Earth through June 8, 2015. The exhibition was designed around the amusing and informative comics of science communicator, Rosemary Mosco (birdandmoon.com). The award will be accepted by PRI Director of Exhibitions, Beth Stricker, at MANY’s Annual Conference in Lake Placid on Monday, April 18. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Feb. 3-9 include: 1) Jail Overwhelmed by Mentally Ill Patients 2) Customers Miss DaVinci’s in Spencer 3) TBurg JV Girls Revive Program 4) UPDATE: Cornell Student Charged with Attempted Rape Released on Own Recognizance 5) State $$ Infusion: Cornell will invest in greenhouse agriculture For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Ithaca’s Race Muddle T here were approximately 50 people in the Beverly J. Martin Elementary School auditorium last week when the local affiliate of Black Lives Matter officially announced its existence. Roughly half the people in the room were people of color, most of them African American. This is an unusual situation in Ithaca, where only 70 percent of the population is white, but where public meetings are nearly always over 95 percent white. (Reporters go to a lot of meetings; we take note of things like that.) More than one African American person at BJM that night said that the black community would prefer it if Ithaca would stop congratulating itself for being a liberal community, because when it comes to race, it isn’t particularly true.

According to the 2010 U.S. Census, out of 30,014 people living in the city of Ithaca, only 1,971 of them are African American. When you map ethnicity in the city, the African American population is highly concentrated in the South Side neighborhood. This isn’t true of any other ethnic group in the city; there is no equivalent of a “Chinatown” for Asian residents (the largest non-white ethic group in Ithaca) and residents of Latino/Hispanic extraction are also more scattered. In our cover story of this past August, which evaluated progress in police/ community relations one year after the unpleasant incident that saw an off-duty out-of-uniform chasing young African Americans through the streets and then advancing on them with his gun drawn

when he and uniformed officers caught up to them. The new director of the South Side Community Center Davi Mozie noted that Ithaca seemed to be “exporting its poor,” specifically poor African Americans from the historically black South Side. Former alderman J.R. Clairborne has commented much the same.

It appears that the South Side neighborhood is being integrated by the process of gentrification. At this point this “trend” is only hearsay. It needs to be documented, if only to address the concerns of the African American community, who are speaking to their leadership and their leadership is speaking in public. The other demographic issue that needs to be quantified has to do with describing the true relationship between being African American and being poor. In a city where students are (ironically) counted as “poor” because they have so little of their own income, it is difficult to get a read on this. An awful lot of white population is going to be counted as low-income residents, when they are in fact living on an allowance from their parents or a student loan check.

Cornell professor Russell Rickford has been a prominent spokesperson for the Black Lives Matter movement in Ithaca. One of his rhetorical themes is to warn against mere assimilation.

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By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

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eith Olbermann is a well-known television personality, undoubtedly the most famous to graduate Cornell, and I attended school here when he did, and remember him from WVBR, as well as a class or two.

One thing I didn’t know, although how would one, is that Mr. Olbermann is a lifelong fan of the comedy team of Bob and Ray. I learned it last week, when Bob Elliott died, at age 92, and Olbermann posted a note of tribute online.

Bob and Ray were already radio veterans by the time Olbermann would have heard them. (Ray Goulding died in 1990 at age 68.) They started together on radio in Boston the mid-1940s. Their heyday was probably the 1960s, when radio listenership was still broad, and they also appeared frequently on television.

They became a big influence on television comedy, particularly the more subversive kind, such as Saturday Night Live, or the ironic, such as David Letterman.

Bob and Ray themselves were not outwardly subversive. Certainly they were not countercultural. (As one critic noted, Bob looked like the manager of an appliance store, and Ray a salesman.) They did low-key interviews and sketches such as would be heard anywhere on radio or TV. But the interviews were Bob and Ray interviewing each other as characters they created, though portrayed as real-life, and the segments lampooned standard broadcast fare so subtly that you had to pay attention to get the full absurdity, which was actually quite thorough.

The outlier comedy they inspired in others relied a lot on shock value, or at least producing incredulity in the audience about what they were hearing or seeing, and

questions about the nature of wholesome broadcast. Bob and Ray themselves, however, never assaulted sensibility, even at their most anarchic. Their satire was profound (and delightful) because they played it as perhaps not satire at all.

Such as when roving reporter Wally Ballou (Bob) interviews a Maine farmer (Ray), who is astonished to learn, during the course of the interview, that cranberries are used to make juice; or when Ray interviews the president of the Slow Talkers of America, which turns out to be not so good for broadcast; or when the Bob and Ray Overstocked Warehouse offers for sale “chocolate wobblies”: chocolate Easter rabbits stored too close to an open steam valve - but guaranteed, Bob says, to be “edible” (“Real edible,” adds Ray).

I guess, upon consideration, Keith Olbermann’s admiration for Bob and Ray is no surprise. Olbermann built a good career lampooning the world of sports—later, politics—while ostensibly simply reporting on them, with a cold but twinkling eye.

In the spirit of Bob and Ray, Olbermann sought to blur the line between what was serious, or at least mundane, and funny.

It turns out that nothing in life is all that serious.

Olbermann also, like Bob and Ray, sends up the media that present so much folderol as weighty fare. And maybe us, too, to the degree that we buy it.

The chocolate wobblies are still for sale.

Bob and Ray know you can’t cheat an honest man, nor fool one who has a sense of humor.

Thanks to Mr. Olbermann for reminding us of that. And to Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding, masters of lines so fine they were blurry or clear, crooked or straight, depending on you, yourself. •

YourOPINIONS

Opposing the TPP

Contrary to a recent viewpoint (“No Armchair Quarterbacks” by Glynis Hart; Jan. 27 issue), I urge people to ask your U.S. senators and representatives asap to vote “No” on the TPP being voted on any time now. My TPP information sources conclude that this is a very bad deal for many reasons regardless of what Obama says. The TPP seriously weakens environmental protections of all U.S. “free trade” agreements (FTAs) since 2007. The Sierra Club states, “Past deals required FTA partners to ‘adopt, maintain, and implement laws, regulations, and all other measures to fulfill its obligations’ under seven core Multilateral Environmental Agreements.

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serious actions to decrease or prohibit illegal trade in plants and animals are required nor banning commercial whaling or killing endangered sharks for fins. There are numerous additional examples.

The TPP also limits sovereign rights of nations to make protective and beneficial laws. For example, any corporation that considers national or state laws limiting to its business (like banning genetically modified organisms - GMOs) can take that government to a private three judge TPP court where judgements cannot be appealed.

Already, provisions of NAFTA are allowing the Transcanada Corporation to sue our government for not allowing the Keystone XL Pipeline. The TPP further restricts continued on page 7

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establishment. He does not view the pursuit of peaceful coexistence as an immediate goal because racism in the United States, including Ithaca, is so institutionalized that it must be actively opposed until a majority of white people understands the extent of its grip on society.

The plight of the South Side community is an example of this conflict.

Planning policy is forcing assimilation by dispersal and by allowing gentrification, rather than building affordable housing and helping the African American community stay near the institutions and services they have built up over a century and a half.

During the question and answer period a few white Ithacans offered to help the cause, but they did not get the usual answers.

One man seemed to think that he could solve the problem of racism by teaching people the difference between racism and prejudice. “The whole premise that the problem is a lack of awareness,” said Rickford, “that’s a profound misunderstanding of the problem …

People benefit from white supremacy, and when you move against white supremacy, just as when you move against capitalism, people are going to resist you. You don’t go to the people who are resisting you and tell them ‘Let’s have a conversation about racism versus prejudice.’”

Racism, Rickford said, is deeply embedded in the structures of society. It is going to take at least an argument and perhaps a fight to overcome it.

Anyone who has attended a public meeting in Ithaca knows that Ithacans aren’t very good at arguments. They deliver speeches, fail to listen to the response, and then deliver a variation of the same speech again. Many Ithacans are very convinced of the rightness of their position, which most describe as liberal or progressive, so it is difficult to get them to listen.

But when the white people in the room at BJM saw that offering solutions to the activists was not received well, they began to ask, “So, what can I do?”

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nation’s rights.

I heard Dean Baker, director of the Center for Economic Policy Research, speak. He focused on how the TPP will force all member nations to pay U.S. prices for pharmaceuticals, at least twice as much as currently. He provided examples of how much profit is being made here from many medications, like one costing each user $84,000 per year while only costing $600 to make. TPP will extend corporate drug patents to twelve years instead of five, prohibiting cheaper generic versions from being sold sooner worldwide. TPP agreements will also prevent Medicare

from negotiating lower drug prices with corporations.

– Becca Harber, Newfield Editor’s note: the cited guest opinion did not actually endorse the TPP. Rather its main point was that Tompkins County legislators had no business wasting the public’s time discussing a resolution that opposed it.

What About Mental Health Court?

I would like to add to the excellent article written this past week (“Getting Access: New mental health money to shorten time to treatment,” Feb. 2 issue) on the lack of mental health services at the Tompkins County Jail. I thank your reporter for being at our Mental Health Family Forum in the first place and then following up with a comprehensive article.

There is one thing I would like to add, however.

At the beginning of the Forum I did mention that the ideal situation would be that no person struggling with any type of mental illness should end up in jail, but that we should be pursuing any appropriate alternatives to incarceration ... such as Mental Health or Behavioral Health Court.

Mental Health Courts are available in many communities across New York State, the closest being in Auburn. That court has been in existence for over seven years and has successfully diverted many individuals with mental illnesses who have committed misdemeanors and non-violent felonies to 18 months to 2 years of treatment instead of jail.

The treatment team meets regularly to discuss the best services for each individual and monitors his/her compliance with the program. If we did have such a court and more individuals could be diverted to treatment instead of jail, there would be more beds open for other types of individuals who have committed crimes.

Also, recently the County has administratively merged the Mental Health Department with the Health Department and saved about $66,000. ... So, in the meantime, until we have such a Mental Health Court, the County could hire a full time forensic social worker to provide more appropriate mental health services to those at the jail who desperately need that help.

Individuals with serious mental illnesses need treatment, not jail ... if at all possible.

Thank you for listening.

– Carol Booth, co-facilitator for Mental Health Family Forum; Mental Health Services Board Member, NAMI-FL Member

Think Big About Development and Energy

Stop the burning of coal! It makes no sense. The Ithaca Times published an impressive article on the plant’s toxic byproducts, which continue to pile up on and beyond the property. The contaminants continue to leach out of their shoddily constructed containment and escape into the soil, groundwater and Cayuga Lake.

It is what it is. It’s been done and now can only be monitored until new

technologies in the future can effectively remediate the damage done.

Let’s move on and think (and act) bigger! In the Feb. 3 edition of the [Syracuse] New Times the URI [Upstate Revitalization Initiative] funding results were revealed. $2 million dollars were allocated to convert the Greenidge power plant on Seneca Lake to natural gas burning.

This is a move in the right direction.

The same should be done at the Cayuga Operating Company plant on Cayuga Lake.

The gas pipeline can easily be extended from its current terminus in Lansing at Myers Point to the plant (and hopefully beyond).

There thousands of potential customers in that corridor expressing a desire to have natural gas at their farms, homes, and cottages along the lake. Churches, small businesses and communities would like to be utilizing natural gas, if available. Let’s do it.

The benefits alone at the plant would be immense. Not only eliminating the toxic byproduct “flyash” but reducing airborne polluting emissions by 50 percent.

That well maintained railroad line that runs from Ithaca to the power plant? A hidden gem. A part-time scenic tour rail and light rapid transit (LRT) rail line. The LRT would naturally be the most relaxing scenic commuter rail line in America, once again an environmental feather in the cap of the local community in numerous ways.

The slow moving, part-time scenic tourism train along the same route would also generate great benefits to the entire area. It would bring people and resulting revenue to Ithaca and Tompkins County.

The railroad corridor is also a fantastic right of way (ROW) for a parallel hiking trail for public use. Hikers, joggers, kayakers and canoeists could have dual R.R. and pathway ROW access.

When the plant is in operation, i.e. burning fuel to generate electricity, it utilizes millions of gallons of water from Cayuga Lake as a cooling agent.

The discharge water exiting the plant at the shoreline is the large waste of “free” continuous energy I’ve ever seen.

Install two or three vertical turbines in the discharge stream to capture this wasted power source. A fantastic and environmentally safe and green source of energy. It makes sense.

As a country, state, county, and community, we are continually searching for economical green sources of energy.

At present solar is at the top of the list.

The waste beds at Cayuga Operating Company’s property are expansive. They are much like a wide-open desert, exposed to the open skies with no trees, bushes or overhead obstructions. There could not be a better location for a large-scale wind and solar farm.

Solar primarily, because of its feasibility and lower cost over long term and no moving parts that over time are costly to repair (future technology could change that).

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In contrast, these proposals and ideas I have outlined for a transformation at the Cayuga Operating Company’s facility will create and maintain hundreds of jobs, increase the tax base coffers of regional and state government, reduce toxic waste and airborne residue, and improve our community and better people’s lives. I cannot be the only person having these thoughts. ­– J. Burgan, King Ferry

Teachers Deserve Better

The Ithaca City School District (ICSD) is playing a dangerous game. At a time when there is a statewide teacher shortage, and when Ithaca salaries are among the lowest in New York, the district refuses to acknowledge the growing salary gap.

The nominal “increase” offered by the district would actually place Ithaca even lower in state salary rankings since it does not match increases offered by other neighboring districts. As an additional slap in the face, the district is urging a minimal one-year contract that effectively treats teachers with professional degrees as though they were seasonal workers. Since teachers have been working without a new contract since last June, the one-year contract would expire almost as soon as the ink is dry, but, conveniently, after the forthcoming school board elections.

Let’s be clear, we teachers love working in Ithaca. This is one of the most exciting, and challenging, places to teach in the country. And this is not about a greedy grab for luxurious salaries. All we are asking for is parity with neighboring districts so we can staunch the flow of teachers leaving Ithaca for other districts, where they pick up increases of 8 to 15 percent in their salaries. Meanwhile we are hard pressed to replace the staff we are losing. A recent posting at Ithaca High School for a math teacher garnered just one applicant. A posting for two science teachers yielded … zero applicants. Why would a talented new teacher apply here, with one of the lowest starting salaries in New York State, when they could go elsewhere and make considerably more?

Teachers pay taxes too. They have student loans they need to pay off. They have children to raise. They have car loans and mortgages. It is not fair or reasonable to expect Ithaca teachers to continue to sacrifice a comparable professional salary just so they can teach in Ithaca, not when they can pick up a considerable increase by going almost anywhere else in New York.

And every district is looking for qualified teachers right now.

Ithaca teachers deserve a fair, longterm contract that offers comparable pay. Does the district want “world class” education, or “Walmart” education? And ICSD taxpayers deserve a clear explanation as to why their high taxes have not translated into equitable teacher salaries.

– Steve Weissburg, Danby

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Is a Dryden hamlet just outside Ithaca poised to grow?

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f you drive up Route 366 past Drive and Route 366.

Cornell University toward the It would essentially be the first thing town of Dryden, about a mile past you see on your left in Varna, if you are the university you descend a short coming from Cornell University. hill into the valley of Fall Creek.

There you encounter some mobile homes, and a few older houses strung along the O’Connor’s team has been attending highway. A little farther, you will drive town board meetings for the last six past an array of modest businesses: Bell’s months. Most of these meetings have Auto Care, Varna Auto, Strebel Financial been contentious. A few people attended Management, the Embassy Inn, Savage each of these meetings to stress their Creek Hair Salon, Prolawn Landscaping, concerns. Varna resident Cheryl Humerez and Antlers restaurant. is the most vocal of the group, as she is You are passing through the hamlet representing herself, her husband Eric, and of Varna, an unincorporated portion of speaking on behalf of in-laws who live at the town of Dryden. To some, this area is 904 Dryden Rd. Humerez herself resides nothing more than a place to commute to two houses down work from. To others, it is home. the road.

To developers and town planners, it In addition offers more to the imagination. to Humerez, More than 10 years ago, other neighboring amid the revision of its own residents are comprehensive plan, the Town voicing concerns of Dryden also created a separate about the project. comprehensive plan for Varna. The Director of Natural latter was completed in 2012. It is Areas for Cornell now 2016 and Varna looks—for all Plantations Todd intents and purposes—the same as Bittner broke it did four years ago, not to mention down—on several much farther back than that. occasions—issues This could change in the near Resident Cheryl Humerez with the project future. That’s the plan, anyway. as its proximity Developer and co-founder of impinges on valued Modern Living Rentals Charlie natural resources.

O’Connor, Modern Living Rentals “Two of Cornell Plantations managed strategist Todd Fox, and Noah Demarest natural areas, Park Park and Fall Creek,” of STREAM Collaborative are currently waiting to receive a final site plan approval Bittner said, “are immediately adjacent to the proposed 902 Dryden Road from the Dryden town board for their development. These natural areas are latest proposal: a 10-unit, 32-bedroom open to the public, provide research townhouse building at 902 Dryden Rd, and educational learning opportunities, which sits at the corner of Forest Home 8

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and help protect sensitive plant and legitimate concerns from a stormwater wildlife habitat, including significant standpoint, so we were very sensitive stretches of Fall Creek, the source of to that. Because this is kind of the first Cornell University’s water supply. Any project that’s going in there, we got the loss of [shoreline] habitat or development sense that we were going to have to scale within the floodplain, as the it back just so original 902 Dryden Road project people could feel proposed, would have had negative comfortable about environmental impacts on sensitive it.” areas and public use.”

Dryden’s town “Development and natural board will vote on resource conservation,” he the 902 Dryden Rd continued, “should not be mutually project’s site plan exclusive from one another, and to on Thursday, Feb. that end, we credit the developers 18. Because newly for modifying their original appointed Town plans to reduce the resource Supervisor Jason impacts to the floodplain and Leifer actually [shoreline] habitats. We have yet helped close the to review any formally submitted sale of the property Developer Charlie O’Connor revisions, including a stormwater a few years ago, management plan and the siting he has recused of the detention basin, but would himself from the hope that the final proposal would meet vote. Consequently, all four remaining the previously articulated goal of having town board members need to vote yes for no additional stormwater run-off than approval. is current and that stormwater retention “There are a lot of people watching would be provided outside of the Fall this project,” said Fox, “and you can only Creek floodplain.” imagine what will happen if this gets O’Connor and his team took all of shot down. I have a hard time imagining this feedback seriously. Their original anyone else will spend the time and proposal had called for 15 townhomes and money that we did trying to get something 40 bedrooms; they reduced the size of it to approved, and have something get denied decrease any intrusion into the floodplain. even though the zoning allows for it. We’ve “We were just trying to listen talked about this over the last few months: to everything everyone was saying,” had we known we would be spending the O’Connor said. “You don’t always time, energy and money that we have, necessarily agree with people and their we never in a million years would have reasoning, but you have to be sympathetic pursued this project.” to it. So you had some residents concerned Varna’s comprehensive plan calls with the size and number of bedrooms. for change. There are, however, Varna You had Todd Bittner who had some real residents who only want so much change

to occur.

“We bought our property on the grounds that it was a rural area,” Humerez said. “There are places in Varna that could be developed, that are more appropriate for this type of thing: the corner of Freese Road, Mount Pleasant, and Route 366, for example. Some of the broken-down houses would be great for redevelopment. To me, it’s always been location, location, location, and it’s not even a matter of it not being right [next door]. It’s a matter of certain areas could use that kind of development, and others can’t.”

O’Connor was caught off guard by the amount of negative feedback his proposal received. His team had another project proposed at the corner of Dryden and Freese roads before this. That project got nixed “because there was a ton of fill. There was like 15 feet of fill that was unstable, so you couldn’t even really build on it.”

This time, however, the problems seem to be less technical, and more personal.

“We definitely did not anticipate this much controversial feedback,” he said, “just because of the zoning. It was actually kind of shocking that we got the pushback that we did.

“It definitely [is an example of ‘not in my backyard’],” O’Connor added. “We’ve actually heard the Humerezes say, ‘This is a great project, just not next to us. Not in this area.’ They wanted it further down.

We’ve heard other residents say similar things.”

The Varna Comprehensive Plan

Varna’s comprehensive plan is accessible to anyone who wants to read it. It is readily available on the Town of Dryden’s website. The 78-page document is well structured, clearly written, and colorful.

A community survey was distributed to 423 Varna area residents and business owners. Town staff and the advisory committee developed survey questions around six areas: demographics, quality of life, transportation, streets, housing, and development. The town received 131 surveys back, a 31-percent return rate (which is regarded as quite good). The survey results indicated that 40 percent of respondents had lived in Varna for more than 20 years. Over half of the respondents own their own home.

Some of the concerns that residents voiced included opposing “too much development, too fast and changing the character of the hamlet from a quaint, rural area to a transient, strip-development corridor with significant traffic.”

The plan opens with a brief history of Varna.

“In the 1950s,” it states, “Varna has all the components of a traditional village: two churches, a post office, school, tavern, hotel, dance hall, grocery store and a carriage shop which was later converted to a garage and gas station. [Later] In the

A p p r o ac h i n g Va r n a f r o m It h ac a . 9 0 2 D ry d e n R o a d , w h e r e t ow n h o u s e d e v e l o p m e n t i s p r o p o s e d , i s n ow t h e s i t e o f g r ay h o u s e at l e f t. (A l l P h o t o s : M i c h a e l N o c e l l a) 1950s, Varna experienced several changes.

“It’s definitely the kind of project we The railroad that was used to connect the saw for that space,” he said. hamlet to larger communities and markets suspended service; the rail depot was privately purchased and converted into As Fox said, Varna’s immediate small houses.” outlook could hinge on the 902 Dryden The plan notes that little growth Road vote on Feb. 18. An approval would and development has taken place from officially put the master plan into motion. the 1950s to the Varna we know today: A denial could be a significant “Varna is unique in that step back. Leifer said he wasn’t it provides the comfort surprised there is hesitation to of a small-town village go through with the plan even with immediate access though the plan was heavily to the conveniences of supported during its conception. a city. Its proximity to Within the plan, types of neighboring Cornell and development the community Ithaca makes Varna a participants said they liked are desirable community for included and a “townhouse students, professors and development on Forest Home young professionals.”

Drive” is literally the first idea The document provides mentioned. “residents, business “When we developed owners, and developers Planner Ray Burger the plan, ” Leifer said, “the with a more detailed Varna community was vision for the future heavily involved. There were of the community, multiple meetings about this plan in the and provides for a more informed community center where everything was consideration of future development talked about and rolled out. I think what’s proposals.” going on is when the plan was developed, The plan identifies three areas for it was all conceptual and now things are redevelopment and development: the intersection of Route 366 and Freese Road, actually happening. That’s always a game changer in a way: now things are real.” the “Varna II, LLC” parcel adjacent to the Other development ideas the old railroad bed (both are shown in light purple on the map on p. 8), and residential community participants in the planning liked were townhouses along Dryden redevelopment areas that exist along the Road dubbed “Varna Hollow” and the north side of Route 366, and along Freese Varna Commons: a “village-green-type Road down to the bridge over Fall Creek. development with open space at the O’Connor’s 902 Dryden Road center of the development with cottage proposal fits the plan, Dryden Town homes, professional offices/businesses, Planner Ray Burger said.

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and townhouses surrounding the green.”

The latter is planned for the intersection of Route 366, Freese Road and Mount Pleasant Road, or “developed as a PUD” dubbed “Gateway Plaza,” an example that represents “a mixed-use development with green space” with a site design that includes mixed uses on the first floor, residences or offices on the second floor, facing a “park-like green on both corners.”

“Some of the plan calls for mixed-use residential structures,” Leifer explained.

“Although it didn’t happen on this particular project, that’s what we’re looking for going forward. We don’t want to have [all residential]. The idea is to, in the end, have a walkable community.”

Whether or not Varna becomes a walkable hamlet with downtown qualities, only time will tell. One thing is for sure: its location will likely always have residents, developers and politicians dreaming about what could be, or what could have been.

“The location is perfect,” Leifer noted, “because it’s right on the bus route. It’s a place where, if you’re going to have more, if you’re going to have a densely packed community, people can access a bus line that runs on a regular basis. It’s not one of the lines that come out once or twice a day.

It comes out a few times a day so people really can rely on mass transit.”

Varna offers several attractive qualities from a developer’s point of view.

“Look at the proximity to Cornell, the area’s largest employer,” said Fox. “You have a ton of faculty and staff that need housing. Then you look at the proximity to the agriculture and veterinary schools, so you’ll get a mix of students too.”

There seems to be optimism from O’Connor’s team that their site plan will be approved on Feb. 18. If they get approval, they hope to break ground on the project this year, and reach near completion.

If they don’t get approval, it is unlikely ground would be broken this year, even if they got their proposal approved at a later date.

The Modern Living Rentals team is not the only one optimistic about the latest 902 Dryden Rd. proposal. Burger, the Dryden town planner, is a noted fan of the plan. He sees not only this plan getting approved, but predicts it will be the first of several new Varna developments.

“I think the commercial businesses,” Burger, said, “are just waiting for there to be some kind of critical mass to assemble there. There have been a handful of other developers in recent months—at least four—looking at various properties in Varna vetting different ideas, and there’s potential there for more plans to be proposed [in the near future]. I think once we reach some kind of critical mass—which I don’t think is far off—the commercial businesses are going to especially start looking at the Freese RoadRoute 366 intersection. It’s got a lot of potential.

“I don’t see any big obstacles [to developing Varna],” Burger added. “I think it’s going to happen. •

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City planning director JoAnn Cornish said that at first glance, the city’s concern is that approving the dealership might “tip the scales toward what we’re going to see on the waterfront.”

“We’re hoping to do housing there,” Cornish said, “and a car dealership, even a beautiful car dealership, is still a car dealership with 600 cars parked there.”

“The mayor was pretty honest and said this is probably going to be a big concern for a lot of people,” Cornish continued. “This will get a lot more scrutiny and I think it will be an uphill battle for them. I’m just glad it’s public now, so we can get some input now from [Common] Council and from the public.”

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farm has offered a Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) agreement to the town.

“In other communities, like Lansing, you would have people clamoring to get it built,” said Theresa Alt, an Ithaca investor.

Still others said that BOWF has already modified its plans to accommodate the neighbors. “GE turbine guidelines are 1,000 feet [of setback]; Black Oak has increased that to 1,500 feet,” said Gretchen Herman, who lives on Bostwick Road.

In comments after the meeting, Marguerite Wells, project manager for BOWF, clarified: “It’s 1,500 feet on average.

We do comply with GE guidelines of 994 feet [for the size of the turbine and height of the tower].” Wells said BOWF is preparing a new proposal to submit to the town that will show the new layout is in

underneath, which disallows building but does allow parking.

“You could bury the lines or move them, but that’s hugely expensive, hundreds of thousands of dollars,” Cornish said. “It is a tough site to develop because of those constraints. I can see the pros and cons. We weren’t ever thinking it would be a car dealership. It’s really a paradigm shift to think through, how it would impact the waterfront development. I don’t know, but I don’t want to see it lay vacant for the next 20 years, either.”

Maguire said that his company would be bringing sketch plans to the city this month, with an appearance before the city planning board currently anticipated in April.

A earlier version of this story appeared on ithaca.com on Feb. 4 with the headline “A New Maguire Dealership on the Waterfront?”

– Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com compliance with those guidelines.

“One of the things that’s going to prove challenging is that we’ve already moved them as far away from property lines as we can,” said Wells. “So although many people who spoke said they’re not against the wind farm, we’ve sited it as carefully as we can and still have a wind farm.”

In the continental United States there are 50,000 wind farms, said Wells, “and not a single example of a human being hurt by a turbine.”

Legislator Jim Dennis, who represents Enfield along with Dave McKenna, said, “The only thing the measure indicates is that the Legislature supports renewable energy, which happens to be renewable energy in Enfield,” and he noted that the County has no other role in the issue.

– Glynis Hart editor@flcn.org

Higher Education

#BlackLivesMatter Founders Visit Cornell

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capacity crowd gathered in Sage Chapel on Feb. 3 to hear the thoughts of #BlackLivesMatter activists Alicia Garza, Janaya Khan, and Opal Tometi.

Some introductory remarks and a couple of performances opened the program. Community Unity Music and Arts Education ended their choreography to Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” a song about lynching, with the dancers’ backs to the audience, one arm stretched to the sky, the other clutched at the neck to simulate the noose.

Cornell president Elizabeth Garrett introduced the activists: she praised the impetus to institutional self-examination from #BlackLivesMatter. The movement, Garrett said, is “fighting a myth still held by too many people, since the days of the civil rights movement and judicial activism, that we’re somehow a post-racial society.”

Garza and Tometi, #BlackLivesMatter co-founders along with Patrisse Cullors, then joined Khan and moderator Sean Eversley Bradwell in pulling together two distant hightop bar tables to the chapel’s front-and-center for a panel discussion.

Khan, known as “Future” within the movement, took Bradwell’s first question about “the power of semantics” in making the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag resonate with people.

“They call me Future because I challenged the narrative where black people don’t exist in [the future],” Khan said. #BlackLivesMatter “turned into a vision because enough people believed in it. A movement actualized around it.”

Khan referenced the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther party and listed familiar names—Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur—to remind the audience of their own power.

“They weren’t remarkable; their times were remarkable,” Khan said. “They chose to be remarkable when they chose to fight on that side of transformation.”

Bradwell asked about the role of love in the movement, given the beginnings of #BlackLivesMatter as a “love note” to black people that Garza posted on Facebook after George Zimmerman was acquitted of Trayvon Martin’s killing in 2012.

“That’s why people choose to chain themselves to something, why people choose to break unjust laws,” Garza said. “It has to be rooted in a deep and profound love for us and what’s possible for us.”

Garza said she was in a “very public place” when she heard the Zimmerman verdict; she said as people were leaving they couldn’t look her in the eye.

“I wrote that letter as a result of wanting there to be more love for black people,” Garza said. “There was shame for

what we had become. There was not love for black people. As black folks we don’t have anything to be ashamed of. We didn’t build this system that puts a million of us behind bars. We didn’t build this system that kills children with impunity.”

Asked about the subject of violence, Garza said it was time to “retire the phrase ‘black on black crime.’”

“If people really cared about black on black crime, they’d have pilgrimages like we do to Haiti and Africa,” Garza said, “where you go to study abroad to do a good thing before going into the ‘real world.’”

Khan proposed a cyclical theory of revolution, with the needle coming

Janaya Khan, Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and moderator Sean Eversley Bradwell (Photo: Josh Brokaw)

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The academic processes, governance and other necessary elements of the new College will be determined over the next several months by faculty and leadership of the three schools, with input from alumni, student, and staff advisory committees.

Chris Barrett is the new deputy dean and dean of academic affairs for the college. “Academic institutions necessarily evolve,” he said, “regardless of administrative changes, but the merger may accelerate this.”

Barrett described a recent lunch with faculty members from the until recently separate schools. Many of them, he said, did not know each other. When they started talking about the courses that they offered, the professors were pleased and surprised at the breadth and depth of their

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offerings.

“We weren’t coordinating ver well beforehand,” said Barrett. “Each school was highly regarded on its own.

With good coordination imagine what we can do by massing our resources.”

Barrett, a professor of economics and director of the Dyson school, describes it as among Cornell professor Chris Barrett. (Photo: Dyson School) the most selective in the university, admitting only 7 Hotel Adminstration. His institute draws percent of its applicants. He described his links between hospitality and health care, students as quite ready for graduate-level so he was primed to be a part of a new colcourses that are offered at the Johnson lege that will focus on crossing over among School, but were not available to his studisciplines. dents because priority had been given to “The biotech industry needs financial MBA students. services, ” he said, “and hotel students want “When you put on the same jersey,” he to know more about business. In the Dyson said, “you play better together.”

School agribusiness majors get trained in The new dean said there were would environmental economics, but then on the also be budgetary advantages to the merger. career side they need a business education.

“If we are all separate,” he said, “then Verma said that informal ties had we don’t want students to go to another existed among all the schools, but he felt school, because the dollars go with them.” that merging them into a single college The broader, more integrated offerings will work better.

“We all try to recruit high that will be possible in the new college will quality faculty, ” he said, “and sometimes we serve the students, whom were doing it at the same Barrett, who is in his time.

We were looking early 50s, describes as diffor the same skills, but ferent for his own peers with a different focus.” in college.

Now, they will no longer “When I was a be competing with each student looking for a other for the best candijob,” he said, “most of dates. us were looking for a Verma said that when long-term job with status they begin college some and wealth. Now, these students are not sure students are looking for what kind degree they more than that. They care want. Moving around as much about meaning among degree programs as they do about money. within one college will be That’s an important much easier for them. change.”

This merger will The Dyson School is even make it easier for in the land-grant portion Cornell professor Rohit Verma (Photo: Twitter) industy, he noted. Right of the university and has now recruiters have to always had a mission to come to the Cornell engage students in the campus three times to “real world.” Now, said look for potential employees.

Barrett, they see governments trying to ad“The president and the provost went dress societal problems and having a hard to the board to start the process,” Verma time of it. He feels that we are in a “golden said.

“We need to change the bylaws of age of philanthropy.” each school, but we don’t want to set all the “Bill Gates is probably having a bigger parameters in stone. Now they need to go impact as a philanthropist than he did in to the faculty for input.” his role building Microsoft,” said BarThere are seven faculty committees. rett. “He becomes a champion and brings Verma is the chair of the group considergovernment agencies and others along. ing changes to undergraduate programs.

Governments are unable to do it alone, so They will meet regularly for the next three we must equip business leaders to confront to fourth months and send reports back to and solve societal challenges.” administration.

Because of the merger, he said, talents “Over time the faculty will get to know in the three schools can integrate better each other better and make changes,” than they had. As an example, he noted Verma said. “We will start new programs, that their were three teams of professors but the core of the school’s curricula are focused on finance who are now all in one likely to remain the same.” • college.

Rohit Verma is a professor in the Insti– Bill Chaisson tute for Healthy Futures in the School for editor@ithacatimes.com

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IC Matmen on Long Ride

what older guys think about during the super Bowl

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took a look at upcoming events last week, and I noted that the Ithaca College wrestling team was boarding the bus for the long ride to Williams College in Massachusetts for a quad meet against Wesleyan University, Oneonta, and the host squad, Williams. Knowing how beat-up wrestlers are at this point in a long season, I thought the ride home would be a long one.

I talked to head coach Marty Nichols upon the Bombers’ return, and I said, “So, coach … I am guessing that going 3-0 over the weekend made that bus ride seem a lot shorter.”

Marty responded, “It sure did.

Williams has a pretty tough team, and there were some tight matches, but we pulled it off.”

Nichols likes the way his team looks as the regular season winds down, and he hopes the injured Brian Israel takes the mat at full strength. “Brian has been hurt a couple of times this season, and he’s a pretty big gun,” Nichols offered. “We need him in there.”

The coach likes what he sees from junior Jimmy Kaishian, who is an impressive 34-3. “Jimmy’s doing a heck of a job at 145 [pounds],” he said. “[Also] Nick Velez, a sophomore, is ranked #8 at 165, and senior Nick Pak is wrestling great as well.”

Nichols looks forward to the match on Wednesday, Feb. 17, as nationallyranked and archrival SUNY Cortland, the Red Dragons, will visit South Hill at 7 p.m. The two teams tied earlier in the year, but Cortland won “on criteria,” and the Bombers want revenge. One of the highlights, Nichols said, would come at 197 pounds where freshman Jake Ashcraft will wrestle the returning national champ. “Jake wants another shot,” Nichols told me. “He’s excited.”

• • • I did a little Super Bowl prediction, and while checking my Facebook feed on Monday, I realized that I was right.

I knew that many older folks like me would bring a lot of enthusiasm to the game, hoping—against hope, according to some of the predictions—that Peyton Manning could somehow pull one more big game out of his worn and tattered bag of tricks and ride off into the sunset with a second Super Bowl ring. These fans appreciated MVP Cam Newton’s talent, but his “Look at Me! Look at Me!!” antics were off-putting, to say the least.

I knew that many of my younger friends loved Cam Newton’s flashy persona; they did not feel that his perpetual selfaggrandizement detracted from his transcendent talent, and they felt it was time the torch was passed.

Newton—to his obvious dismay—did not get to seek out the cameras to preen and flex and flash the pearly whites, but the cameras sure found him. His frustration was evident, and while there were—as always—a couple of questionable calls, the bottom line was this: Denver’s swarming, top-ranked defense was too much for the Panthers, and now Cam Newton is a wiser man than he was prior to the game.

197-pound freshman wrestler Jake Ashcraft of Ithaca College takes down an opponent. (Photo provided)

Some of the split between the Manning and Newton fan camps was clearly racially motivated as well, but that’s a column in and of itself.

Me? I knew that while Manning is a shadow of his former self, his longhoned game management skills would be adequate on the offensive side of the ball.

But I was most interested in seeing how the supremely talented Newton would respond to the pressure the Broncos stellar defense would surely bring. And bring it they did

Youth coaches always tell their athletes that anyone can hold their head high when things go well, but it takes a special kind of person to pick their chin up off their chest after a devastating loss and move on. Newton’s mentors—whoever they may be—are likely telling him that ten overthrows will be forgotten and forgiven, but the memory of him hovering over a loose fumble, looking like a guy that did not want to do whatever it takes to win, will need some work to erase.

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around to mass demonstrations and mass movements right now.

“This isn’t the time for a simplistic narrative of racism, where you’re either a racist or a good person,” Khan said. “The movement can’t grow unless you grow too. It’s time we grow up around some emotional complexity.”

“The incredibly daunting thing is it’s not just putting pressure points on legislation,” Khan continued. “We have to change because we determine what’s true in our lifetime. That’s my challenge to white people specifically.”

In a media session before their talk, Garza and Tometi addressed those who would be “white allies” of black liberation.

“They should listen to what black folks at the local level say their role should be, be certain to educate themselves on racism and their privilege, and be having really courageous conversations with their families,” Tometi said.

“Folks who want to be aligned with this movement who are white should absolutely be using the privilege that they have to effect change in direction for what’s best for all of us, not just white folks,” Garza added. “And they should also be taking concrete action to make sure that happens.”

An earlier version of this story was published on ithaca.com Feb. 4 with the headline “#BlackLivesMatter Founders Visit Cornell.”

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were getting older and giving more and more responsibility to winemaker Paul King.

“When [King] started working here about 15 years ago, he worked for the Boyce Tompkins Institute for plant research at Cornell,” Mark said. King was brought in by the Battistellas to give some advice on the vines, since his specialty was plant research, and Roger taught him everything he knew about making wine.

With all his experience, the Renodins said they’re glad King agreed to stay aboard under their ownership.

“It’s exciting and it’s scary, honestly,” said Mark of taking over the business.

“We’re getting the hang of everything now.”

Not only was the business transaction

New Owners at Six Mile Creek Winery

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After 40 years, the winery’s founders and owners Nancy and Roger Battistella

itself a strenuous process, Mark said, but the couple was immediately thrown into a challenging situation because early fall is right when the harvest season begins. “It starts at the beginning of September and runs all the way through almost all of October,” he explained. “We grow 30 percent of the grapes we use, and the rest we have to source from other Finger Lakes vineyards. We had two bad winters, so it was hard this season getting everything that we needed.”

The struggle to find grapes—they wound up finding enough—had the unanticipated benefit of connecting the Renodins with the Finger Lakes wine community. “All the people we have met from other wineries were

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fantastic—as helpful as can be,” Mark said.

The Renodins plan to add sparkling wine and rum to their product line; the winery is already equipped with a distillery and produces gin, vodka, grappa, limoncello, orangecello, and amaretto.

The two new additions represent Mark and Amy’s unique stamp on the business; Amy loves sparkling wine, and rum is Mark’s drink of choice—other than wine, of course.

Mark pointed out that sparkling wine is a natural fit given that Six Mile Creek is also a wedding venue. It hosts other events such as graduations, birthdays, and holiday parties as well. They can accommodate about 40 people inside, but in the summer the winery grounds host weddings, with multiple tents put up around the small pond located right next to the vineyard.

The first Six Mile Creek product that the Renodins said they feel they had a hand in crafting is the 2014 vintage Quintessence, their Bordeaux-style blend of Merlot, Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon.

“We picked out the barrels for it— which ones to use, which ones were not up to snuff,” Mark said, adding that King decided the exact ratios that went into the blend. He said King has been great to work with because he’s open to trying new things.

They would like to be able to cellarage their wines longer before they release them, but in order to do that they have to plan ahead. According to Mark, it won’t start making a difference until several years down the line.

The 2014 Quintessence, on the other hand, already tastes distinctly different from the 2013 version, the couple noted while sipping the wine, which has not yet hit the market. “What we like about this in general is the smokiness along with the fruit-forwardness,” Mark said, adding that they hope they can lend a fresh perspective on Six Mile Creek’s wines.

“We’re looking to do something a little more complex,” he said.

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Mars Ascending Henry V makes its way to the Hangar Theatre b y Wa r r e n G r e e n w o o d The Ithaca Shakespeare Company Stages Henry V at the Hangar Theatre

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illiam Shakespeare is the greatest writer in the English language.

There is nothing equivocal about this. It isn’t like Shakespeare is arguably the greatest writer in the English language. There is no argument about it.

He is. The—greatest—writer—in—the— English—language.

No one can match his insight into the human heart—or the pyrotechnics of his language.

And, in Shakespeare’s time, his most popular plays were an eight-play story cycle of history plays: Richard II; Henry IV, parts 1 and 2; Henry V; Henry VI, parts 1, 2, and 3; and Richard III. Once again, these were his most popular works. There were like a biopic mini-series of the era.

These plays are not much performed in our era, with the notable exception of Richard III—everybody loves a funny monster. They are certainly not performed as often as the plays that are burned into our collective consciousness: Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and so on.

The reason for this is that the audience in Shakespeare’s time were much more familiar with the characters from English history. It would be the equivalent, for us Americans, of plays about Washington and Jefferson and Madison—through to Lincoln and FDR—and ending up with the Kennedy and Bush dynasties and the Clintons.

So, here in the greater Ithaca area, we are fortunate indeed that the Ithaca Shakespeare Company (ISC) is performing the entire cycle.

They began the project back in February 2015, and it will wrap up this November.

The ISC’s artistic director, Stephen Ponton, who is a Shakespeare scholar, has cut the meta-story arc down to five plays, one for each king. Ponton has characterized the metastoryline as “The Original Game of Thrones.”

In the Richard II playbill he wrote: “Shakespeare’s cycle of history plays may be his greatest single achievement. Taken together they form an astonishing epic adventure that can rival any modern fantasy or adventure epic—and was a major inspiration for most of them.”

It is worth mentioning that the inspiration to do the meta-play cycle was to commemorate some Shakespeare anniversaries: 2014 was the 450th anniversary of the Bard’s birth, and 2016 is the 400th anniversary of his death.

Now, as for Henry V, what to expect?

Henry V continues the story of Prince Hal, who we met in Henry IV. Hal is a feckless, alcoholic ne’er-do-well who sobers up, becomes king, and launches a big, unnecessary war to distract everyone from domestic

(Top) Nick Shuman as Henry V. (Below) The siege of Harfleur (Photos Provided)

troubles.

(And, boy, is it hard not to think of former president George W. Bush in our own era. The more things change, the more they stay the same. In advice worthy of George H. W. Bush, Henry IV, in his last words, tells his prodigal son, “Busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels.”)

Not having read Henry V, and with a deadline looming, I was like a slack student

desperately turning to CliffsNotes. I read the chapter on Henry V in Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom’s book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human and an essay on Henry V in the Pelican Shakespeare series by UCLA Shakespeare scholar Claire McEachern.

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Hanging Out Watching Films under the radar classics to check out

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’ve always liked Kurt Russell, since I kind of grew up with him in his Disney films and then saw him grow up and star in films by the likes of John Carpenter, Mike Nichols, and Quentin Tarantino. Seeing Russell back-to-back in the Westerns The Hateful Eight and Bone Tomahawk sent me on a Netflix Russell jag in the last few weeks. Like Michael Douglas, Russell isn’t afraid of roles that might be considered unlikeable, and in Ron Shelton’s Dark Blue (2002), he nails all the complexities of a corrupt LAPD officer questioning the choices he’s made during a robbery-homicide investigation that all comes to a head on the day of the Rodney King verdict.

Based on an original story by James Ellroy and a screenplay by David Ayer (Fury, Suicide Squad), Dark Blue is nothing like the sexy, rueful sports comedies that Shelton writes for himself to direct—classics like Bull Durham and White Men Can’t Jump . This is tense, sweaty, and violent stuff; it is an ambiguous thriller about degrees of right and wrong.

Russell is well supported by a good ensemble cast, including Scott Speedman, Michael Michele, Brendan Gleeson, Ving Rhames, Kurupt, Dash Mihok, and Lolita Davidovich. Dark Blue would make an effective double bill with Mike Figgis’ 1990 film Internal Affairs, starring Andy Garcia and Richard Gere as the Iago of corrupt cops.

Actually, Kevin Bacon comes close to Gere and Russell in Jon Watts’ Cop Car (2015), a flat, dry, and powerful film about the power and danger of guns. James Freedson-Jackson and Hays Wellford are amazingly low-key and natural as two kids hiking in the fields who discover an abandoned cop car in the woods with the keys in it. They take the car on a joy ride, teaching themselves to drive as they go.

That’s when Bacon shows up as the town

Pictured Above: Kevin Bacon in Cop Car (Photo Provided)

sheriff, and we find out why he left the car in the woods and what might be in the trunk. The chase leads to the most powerful statement that could be made about police, gun violence, and gun control. Watts did such a good job here—co-writing the script with Christopher Ford—that he has been hired to oversee Marvel’s new series of Spider-Man films.

Two recent indies show teenagers forming unlikely friendships rooted in ingenuity, smarts, and creativity as protective covers against the harsh realities of the outside world. Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope (2015) follows in the grand coming-of-age flicks like Cooley High and House Party; it’s all about this geeky kid named Malcolm who plays in a band with his friends and whose intelligence will hopefully translate to a college scholarship that will get him out of the tough neighborhood he lives in.

When he and his friends get invited to a party, they end up with a backpack full of drugs that could be their ticket out.

Like a great club DJ, Famuyiwa is skilled at shifting from ambling teen comedy moments to aching romance and again to paranoid thriller tones. He likes all his characters, and there’s more ethnic and gender diversity in the film’s cast than the 2016 Oscar nominees.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) seems to be on the same wavelength as the events and approach of Dope. Thomas Mann and RJ Cyler play high school friends who make elaborate parodies of classic films. They befriend a classmate (Olivia Cooke) who has just been diagnosed with cancer. There’s a nice layer of film nerd references that might send young film fanatics scrambling for certain reference books, soundtracks, and Criterion Blu-rays, and as the guys make a movie about the girl, the story works to an emotional climax that’s both surprising and wholly earned. •

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A Return to Modernism

Ithaca College grad showcases new work

By Ar thur W hit m an

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ocated on the Commons, the Ithaca College-affiliated Creative Space Gallery is one of Ithaca’s newest and most unusual art exhibition venues. Run by undergraduates, the elegant, white-walled space opened last May and has hosted regular shows ever since.

Following a winter break hiatus, their first exhibit of the new year is “Carolyn Hoffman: Mind vs. Body,” which opened on Feb. 4 and runs through Feb. 28. Hoffman graduated from IC last year, and her show combines student work with more recent efforts.

Taking herself as a model and using a variety of drawing and painting materials, Hoffman constructs dynamic scenes in which bodies—herself, multiplied and fragmented—dance and jump and fight one another. Her backgrounds are abstract, filled with a flurry of intersecting arcs that recall the Cubists and Futurists of the early 20th century, and her paintings as whole pieces evoke post-Cubist painters as diverse as Oskar Schlemmer and Thomas Hart Benton, who sought to return to human storytelling.

She joins them in attempting to capture the way perception, movement, and the body fluidly intertwine. But while these earlier artists often radically dissected the figure, Hoffman’s are relatively whole.

Though Hoffman’s bodies are schematic and impersonal, they have a palpable weight; it feels as if they could hit you in the face.

All but one of the works in the show are on paper. They have been attached directly to the walls without any kind of frame or solid backing. The strategically casual hanging complements the rough facture of Hoffman’s larger pieces: dense layerings of gestural linework and areas of bold and electric colors. These color areas are sometimes opaque, sometimes transparent, evoking a tension between solidity and evanescence. Although they incorporate drawing media, these artworks are best thought of as paintings.

Infliction #1 and Infliction #2 are the show’s centerpieces. Both have been done on large, wide-format sheets and combine acrylic, gouache, charcoal, and pastel. #1 glows noctilucent with its bright and pale

yellows, blues, and purples helping to pull dragging—her victim, who lies helplessly the chaotic jumble of body parts out from below. Uncolored, charcoal-smudged the black shadows. margins on the left and right emphasize the #2 is the show’s most realized work. drawn foundations.

Rendered in black—with striking white Time is Hoffman’s sole piece on canvas highlights—we see two crouching women, here, and while it’s interesting, one gets more or less in profile and facing each a sense of why she has chosen to work other. Title primarily on paper. notwithstanding, The surface of the this is more dance upright oil and than fight. Their gouache painting is outstretched permeated by a dense arms merge with texture of vertical one another, and drips. they seem to be A crouched holding each figure holds down other up. The the lower left corner. pair’s symmetry In what reads as contrasts with the subsequent stages, intricate chaos of her body expands the background: outward and fin-like fragments upward—twisting, of earthy red, dull jumping—in an arc green, translucent that stretches towards white, and pale the upper right and orange. beyond. The painting Incorporating has an ungainly ingouache and your-face quality that charcoal, Pressure makes the artist’s eschews the overt others here seem “Pressure” by Carolyn Hoffman (Photo Provided) abstraction of staged, even classical, Hoffman’s other in comparison. paintings for a Past exhibits scene of dramatized violence reminiscent at the Creative Space have focused on of the Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio. undergraduate work. Seeing a more mature Densely inflected with charcoal lines, the artist here is a welcome development. scene is divided into a copper-tinted upper The best pictures in “Mind vs. Body” are zone and a turquoise lower one. Bent down, both thoughtful and visceral—and deeply the woman above is shoving—possibly engaging. •

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Bean and Irwin do their songwriting separately, then come together to play and record their music—to which the rock writer can apply standard descriptors like haunting, bleak, starkly beautiful,

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American Gothic, to be placed within the is Freakwater’s response: “We wanted to categories of alternative/folk/country in make sure all the new people playing on some combination. this like us,” Irwin said. “We wanted to be So where does your songwriting very, very nice.” inspiration come from, the rock writer “Make sure people remain hydrated in asks. the session, and keep them together until “Lack of sleep,” Bean said. “There are we get them into the van,” Bean added. a lot of songs about insomnia. That dark And where did the name of the new moment in the night before it’s going to album come from? get light out, when you’re wide awake “Scheherazade is such a beautiful counting all the stupid things you’ve ever word, and a nod to our Arab friends done. You have that s*** list you’re going around the world,” Bean says. “It’s just a through.” compelling story, the idea of this queen “The scroll of grievances,” Irwin having to tell these stories or else she dies.” added.

“There’s a political angle to that, “There’s a beautiful Welsh word,” Bean too,” Irwin says. “The narrator of Arabian said, and the word sounds like chee-air-ah, Nights, she has to keep the story going. “that’s specifically that moment of being The king she’s married to usually kills his awake before the dawn and just fretting.” wife on the first night, and she has to make Later, Bean comes up with a spelling – her stories sort of sledgehammery, so he uhtceare – and the word is Old English. won’t kill her. Janet and I both identify Irwin said the main theme in her with that slightly, the idea if you stop songwriting is “man’s inhumanity to man.” On “Bolshevik & Bollweevil,” for example, she was caught by the idea of a “people’s revolution betrayed by burning ideas.”

“That ties into the Dust Bowl and Woody Guthrie,” Irwin said, “but it’s not just about that. So many people had so much hope. People thought things were going to change radically during that universal revolution.

So many people had so much hope … one of my main themes is to destroy all hope.”

This is the sort of conclusion that has both women laughing.

The completely hopeless don’t tend to continue making art, so Freakwater yet has some work to do. The group will be visiting The Dock to open a tour in support of Scheherazade, released Feb. 5 on Chicago’s Bloodshot Records. It’s their first album since 2005’s Thinking of You … and features a larger group of players than Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin of Freakwater (Photo Provided) previous records. The album ranges from the simple “Take Me With You,” which, as the talking or stop making up stuff you’ll die. name implies, falls into a long thematic Or disappear.” tradition of ballads asking someone The pair agrees there is no external Get Me Out of Here; to the swirling “king,” driving them to create. psychedelic fuzz of “Down Will Come “The compulsion isn’t from outside,” Baby,” an ominous lullaby that would fit on Bean says. “It’s an inner torment inside.” the soundtrack of Dead Man. “We don’t need an external Freakwater is touring this album as a tormentor,” Irwin adds. “We’ve honed it six-piece group: Bean and Irwin are joined quite a bit.” on the road by long-time bass player Dave “Although,” Bean added—and both Gay; Morgan Geer of Drunken Prayer on women are making each other laugh guitars; Anna Krippenstapel on fiddle; and now—“we might have been more effective Neal Argabright on drums. in our careers if we had an external Ask a question about what the tormentor. But we’re left with our own “goals” were for the new record, and this torment.” •

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oing into the Kitchen Theatre I knew three things: Peter and the Starcatcher is a prequel to Peter Pan; its New York City production was acclaimed for dazzling use of simple stagecraft, and that it had a juicy comic role in Black Stache.

In my head, that signaled a modern fable with all the charm of the Barrie original, mixed to the strengths of the Kitchen for movement and theatricality.

What Rick Elice’s script (based on the book by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson) turns out to be is a scattershot mishmash of sensibilities: large swatches of Gilbert and Sullivan here, a dash of Dickens, the winking parody of the Pirates of the Caribbean series (it is a Disney property, after all) which at least in the first half of Act One shows a preference for overstuffed jokes and an antic pace over a clearly articulated story. Elice manages to bury, or at least misplace, the emotional center of the story: how the yearnings of two very different children, Molly and the Boy, combine to change both their lives.

Under co-directors Rachel Lampert and Sara Lampert Hoover, the Kitchen easily meets the swashbuckling and low comedy, yet with such amperage and similarity of tone that I found it hard to focus and to enter the story emotionally.

Act Two brings a change of pace and more intimacy, as a well as a delightful mermaid chorus (there is however a rather inept adventure with “cannibalistic” natives).

By then I’d accepted the evening as more of a lark, strung together comic bits, than something along the lines of a new Pan or Wizard of Oz. David L. Arsenault’s initial set—a surround of wooden planks and rigging— overwhelms the space in Act One; the planks disappearance after intermission is a relief, allowing the action to breathe.

Tyler M. Perry lights with his customary flair. Amanda Aiken’s colorful found costumes look like several theater trunks exploded, well aided by prop designer Elizabeth Frino.

Live music led by Nick Wilder provides the sound bed, helping with the

illusions of sea, ships and storms.

Malapropist Stache aches for a hero worthy of his villiany. Karl Gregory nimbly works this plum role, with vocal and physical aplomb and superb timing. Ably partnering him is Aundre Seals’ subordinate Smee, like a dog who must accommodate Stache’s lighting mood-changes.

Joey Steinhagen’s drag mermaid Teacher is full guru, while Mrs. Bumbrake is every lusty Cockney spinster, lithely partnered by Eric Brooks as a rough at the edges sea-salt.

Craig MacDonald finds both pomp and warmth in Lord Aster (Molly’s father); he and Brooks are easily the best at delivering narration, finding a small tonal shift that invites leaning in to listen.

Sergio Mauritz Ang, John D’Arcangelo and Zander Meisner fill out the ensemble of grownups with high flair.

These be the grown-ups in the origin story about the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up. Karl Gregory stars as Black Stache (Photo: George Cannon) Matt Bretschneider finds the gnarly dark corners and wicked flights of hope in the battered orphan missing out on a needed vulnerability. boy who learns to fly; there are constant While I find the evening mixed, emotional currents at play in his work. His there is high humor and great moments, fellow orphans Tobi Aremu and Connor including Molly’s descent into the bowels Briggs are boyish and appealing, Briggs of the ship, Peter drowning, and a most constantly landing laughs with Ted’s magical moment made with bright green hapless ways. umbrellas. Yet the evening still gets mired Emily Jackson etches out a strong in well-articulated details amid a boggy outline of the no-nonsense Molly, but script. • doesn’t allow her performing to relax,

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lenwood Pines, at its Route the ante, one of our dining companions 89 location since the 1940s, opted for the Montreal Angus sirloin has a family feel, a welcoming sandwich and proclaimed it delicious, unpretentiousness, and plenty of parking. breaking the bank at $7.95.

Even when the joint is jumpin’, as it was on My guilty pleasure—well, one of a recent Saturday night, there’s still time them—is jalapeño poppers, and the Pines’ for a friendly hello from owner/manager were properly oily and relatively mild, Ken Hohwald, who runs the place with his filled with runny yellow cheese, and with nephew, Corey Hohwald. Ken cheerfully considerable chew left in the surrounding dashes to seat people, wash glassware, or jalapeño pepper. Homemade potato salad do whatever else needs to be done. The bar was creamy and mustardy. But the star of has a noteworthy collection of bobblehead the fried-food sides was the corn nugget, figures, and the bar and waitstaff are quick, sweet and meltingly soft inside, fried to a friendly, and competent. What goes on in crisp outside. Mmmmmm. the kitchen? It’s a well-shrouded mystery, For dessert, a big bowl of rice pudding but the food comes out hot and fast, was sweet, mild, and comforting, but bland. unfussy and substantial.

The Pines’ New York-style cheesecake with So it’s not surprising that Pines has for years been the hangout for neighbors, hockey teams, sorority sisters, families with kids, summer lake people, or anyone in search of a good, reasonably priced burger or fish fry, both of which have won “best of ”s in local competitions.

And, in a neighborhood where the electrical service is subject to the occasional blackout, the Pines’ generator can power the place; on such occasions, neighbors congregate there for safety, solace, cold beer, and basketball games on the tube.

On a hectic Saturday evening, Customers enjoying Glenwood Pines (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra) the dining crowd filled the bar room and then spilled into a second large room known for its lake strawberry topping was cream cheese all views. A lower level can seat up to 50, the way—thick, uvula-grabbing cheesecake handling the overflow. It is also used for that typifies the New York style. But the special events and meetings, which the winner was the surprising maple-apple pie, Pines’ staff caters. In a corner of the bar which may or may not have, but tasted as room, tykes and their keepers joyously though it had, a shot of booze in it. It was skittered balls across the floor of the oldabsolutely delicious. Each of these came timey bowling machine, while older kids with a big glob of whipped cream, though rattled the arcade games. Colorful paper ice cream was an option for a-la-mode-ing placemats advertised some of Ithaca’s and the pie.

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concoction: a wild, rousing war story and a romantic comedy. The war is ended by the brokering of a royal marriage between young Henry and Princess Katherine of France. This seems, to me, something that only Shakespeare could pull off.

Harold Bloom, for his part, characterizes Henry V as a patriotic pageant, but he suggests that Shakespeare wrote it with some degree of irony. I also learned that Shakespeare had to be careful.

We take freedom of speech so cavalierly here in 21st century America that we sometimes forget that this is not the norm.

Of Shakespeare’s playwright colleagues, Bloom wrote: “When Shakespeare thought of the state, he remembered first that it had murdered Christopher Marlowe, tortured and broken Thomas Kyd, and branded the unbreakable Ben Jonson.”

As for Henry V, Bloom quotes the 19th century English critic and essayist William Hazlitt, who characterized Henry as “a very amiable monster”—although Bloom himself calls Henry “a great Shakespearian personality.”

Professor McEachern writes: “Henry V is both the capstone and the keystone of Shakespeare’s engagement with the English history play.”

We shall see.

Frankly, this is Unknown Territory for me, Faithful Reader—and I’m guessing for you, too.

• • • I visited a Henry V rehearsal on Feb. 3.

I drove there with Ithaca Times film critic Bryan VanCampen, who is playing the Bishop of Ely in the production. Ely is one of two bishops who manipulate Henry into invading France in a ploy to protect Church property.

It was the first rehearsal of the cast and crew at the Hangar Theatre. They had been rehearsing at their smaller venue, Fall Creek Studios, until then.

A young stage manager, Ivy Stevens, led a tour of the Hangar. Backstage, it is a dreamlike world of dolls, trees, artificial foliage, ladders, vacuum cleaners, boots, wires, power tools, first aid kits, catwalks, coiled rope, pianos, and—my favorite— those emblematic dressing rooms with the long mirrors and rows of bulbous lights.

I met the actor Michael Donato, who played the title role of Henry IV in the last play and is co-directing this production with Ponton. He told me that this is the biggest ISC production in the five years he’s been with the company.

Ponton arrived, and the company split up, Ponton directing the cast on the main stage, and Donato working with the cast on scenes in the hallway.

The third critical member of a kind of directing triad is Nick Shuhan. Shuhan played Prince Hal in Henry IV and plays the title role of Henry V in this production.

He is also the fight choreographer.

And there is an incredible amount of sword fighting in this production. Often the entire stage is taken up with multiple swordfights.

I couldn’t help but think how

demanding it would be to take on both roles and how appropriate, as Henry V was a hands-on warrior-king who actually led his troops in battles.

It was an amazing thing to see. The stage would be covered with actors doing a battle scene, and Shuhan would have them first do the scene without swords at “walking speed” (a kind of slo-mo), then at normal speed, and then add swords.

Then the cast would do these elaborate battle scenes with swords at half-speed,

Henry V (Nick Shuhan) and the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dave Dietrich) (Photo Provided)

over and over again. It was like watching a piece of film on a Moviola. Then they would do it full-speed.

And the swords were real swords—big, heavy steel things. Naturally, they are not sharpened, but they remain potentially dangerous objects.

It occurred to me how physical this play is, how demanding these sword battles are. Nick Shuhan joked that it was “gymnastics for all of us, including myself.”

• • • Despite the chaos of the first day on the set, I managed to talk to both directors, Donato and Ponton, who are fun people to hang out with.

Donato told me, “This is a full

production. We have 28 actors, some who are playing more than one role. There is going to be full period costuming and full battle scenes with real broadswords and real daggers. The idea is to put on as big a production of Henry V as is possible to put onto this stage.”

Speaking about the story, he said, “We compressed the story down so that it fits into approximately two hours. And that’s a challenge, because it’s such a wonderfully rich story.”

I mentioned the neo-romantic comedy ending, and Donato said, “It is quite funny.

The character of Katharine, princess of France, is quite warm and funny. And the romance they arrange to put together is actually quite touching.”

Donato is more enamored of Prince Hal than I am, and he elaborated, “Another great storyline is the personal development of Hal from a new king into a battleseasoned, confident monarch who not only takes another country by conquest, but knows how to win it over such that, after the war, he’ll be able to govern. … It’s not just shock and awe, but win their hearts and minds.”

Of the richness of the play, he said, “There’s plenty of comedy … and lots of wordplay. … There’s mourning over the loss of everyone’s favorite character, Falstaff. … There’s a lot of good people who die in battle … but at the same time there’s the triumph of people of good character.

“It’s got a lot of notes, a lot of colors … a lot of storylines to hold people’s interest,” Donato continued. “The play moves along very fast. I don’t think anybody is going to feel it’s dragging. If people are thinking about whether to go, and they think, ‘Oh, a history play. … I’m not gonna understand it.’ [Or,] ‘It’s like medicine; it’s boring.’ Oh, my God, are you gonna be surprised.”

• • • I managed to get in some Quality Time with uber-director Ponton too, who told me:

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“I think Henry V is a mix of so many things. There are these great violent epic battle sequences. There are the great speeches. There’s the romance. There’s the comedy. There’s the poignant aspects of the toll the war takes … and there’s the Chorus, which is a very meta-theatrical element. So I think it’s this really rich mix of different things … that makes it a great experience.”

Ponton also told me some specifics about why this production will be so interesting: “First of all, it’s a huge cast, which is not something you see very often in theatre around here. We’re going to be doing a lot with the light and sound capabilities of the Hangar and doing a lot of switching of the staging to suggest different locations throughout the play. It’s going to be a very exciting theatrical experience … in addition to the richness of the play itself … so come see it!”

• • • To conclude here…

I have written before that the ISC’s summer performances at the Cornell Plantations are the best thing that Ithaca has to offer in the summer. And, it occurs to me, that I could argue that the ISC’s winter performances at the Hangar Theatre are the best thing Ithaca has to offer in that bleak season.

For those of us who love theatre, it seems to me that the ISC’s performance of Henry V at the Hangar is a wonderful opportunity to see this rarely performed masterwork. We may not get the chance again for a long while—perhaps not in our lifetimes.

This is a lively introduction to a crowning masterwork by the greatest storyteller the human project has yet produced.

Henry V: the Port of Mars opens at the Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd., on Friday, Feb. 12. For performance dates and tickets, visit ithacashakespeare.org. •

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727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Roots, Rock, Reggae.

The Frontier | 8:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Alternative, Rock, Indie Rock.

2/13 Saturday Fall of Humanity, Nine Round, SaltLake, Dome, Borderline Suicide | 7:00 PM | Lost Horizon, 5863 Thompson Rd., DeWitt | Metal, Hardcore, Rock, Experimental.

NYC Ladies of Laughter | 7:00 PM | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | This show includes some of the true stand-outs from the Ladies of Laughter competition. It will be hosted by comedian and Huffington Post columnist, Elaine Williams.

RAQ | 9:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Progressive Rock, Groove, Rock, Funk, Psychedelic, Jam, Rock.

2/14 Sunday Music of Place | 2:00 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | A journey to realms with personal meanings for composers.

Composers include Takemitsu, Husa, Vaughan Williams, Enescu, Piazzolla, Sibelius, Ives. Performers include David Neal, Laura Campbell, John Greenly, Elisa Evett, Beth Kelly, Karen Melamed Smith and Bill Cowdery. Our tour guide

will be violinist William Hurley.

The Manhattan Dolls | 2:00 PM | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this Swing Style Female Vocal Trio! The sound of rock and roll, the cool beat of Motown and the sweet harmonies of girl groups.

Ronnie Seldin: Shakuhachi | 5:00 PM | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Shakuhachi concert and introductory workshop.

Film cinemapolis

Friday, 2/12 to Thursday, 2/18.

Contact Cinemapolis for Showtimes Where to Invade Next | To learn what the USA can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully “invades” them to see what they have to offer. | 110 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 | Southbound | Five interlocking tales of terror follow the fates of a group of weary travellers who confront their worst nightmares - and darkest secrets - over one long night on a desolate stretch of desert highway.| 80 mins | 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 2/10 to Tuesday 2/16 | Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes The Case of the Grining Cat with Chris Marker’s Bestiary | Paris 2002.

Yellow cats appears on the walls. Chris

Marker is looking for these mysterious cats and captures with his camera the political and international events of these last two years (war in Iraq.) | 59 mins NR | Spectre | A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE. | 148 mins PG-13 | 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 | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer. | 105 mins PG-13 | Man Up | A single woman takes the place of a stranger’s blind date, which leads to her finding the perfect boyfriend. | 88 mins R | L’Atalante | Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L’atalante along with the captain’s first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy. | 89 mins NR|

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Peter and the Starcatcher | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, 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 Trampoline Thursdays w/ Buffalo St. Books | 7:00 PM, 2/11 Thursday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | ISC Presents Henry V || Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Henry V features one of the largest casts of any ISC production, with 28 actors in all. Nick Shuhan continues in the role of Henry after playing Prince Hal over the summer.

The history sequence is being offered as part of ISC’s 3-year celebration of Shakespearean Milestones, in commemoration of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth in 2014 and the 400th anniversary of his death in 2016. Tickets are available at the Hangar Box Office by calling 607-273-2787, online at www. hangartheatre.org, or can be purchased at the door before performances.

Open Mic Poetry | 6:00 PM, 2/12 Friday | The Shop, 312 E Seneca St, Ithaca | Whiskey Tango Sideshow | 7:00 PM, 2/13 Saturday | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 North Tioga St., #2, Ithaca | Whiskey Tango Sideshow is an outrageous assemblage of burlesque dancers, singers, acrobats, musicians, and costume designers that will entertain you with their cabaret nouveau stylings.

Deathtrap | 7:00 PM, 2/15 Monday | Kitchen Theatre, 417 W State St, Ithaca | 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 42nd Street | 7:30 PM, 2/16 Tuesday | Clemens Performing Arts Ctr, 207 Clemens Ctr Pkwy, Elmira | The quintessential backstage musical comedy classic, 42ND STREET is the song and dance fable of Broadway with an American Dream story and includes some of the greatest songs ever written.

Community Cardiac Support Group: Save a Life: Family & Friends CPR Training | 7:00 PM-08:30:00 PM, 2/10 Wednesday | Cayuga Medical Center, 101 Dates Dr, Ithaca | Dave Jensen RN, CPR Instructor.

Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 2/10 Wednesday | Taste of Thai, 216 E State St, Ithaca | RSVP cw27@cornell.edu Ithaca Underground All-Volunteer Meeting | 7:00 PM-09:00:00 PM, 2/10 Wednesday | DIY (Do It Yourself) Resource Center, 115 E. MLK Street (the commons), Ithaca | Come one, come all to the next IU All-Volunteer meeting!

Reconnect, meet your IU Logistics, Outreach, & Fundraiser committees, hear about our 2015 successes, 2016 opportunities & needs – and where you can participate. Food & beverage will be served halfway through at the break. If you can’t wait until Feb 10th, sign up today! www.ithacaunderground.com/volunteer Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | CCE Education Center, 615 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:35 PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life.

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

Sunday Square Dancing | 7:00 AM, 2/14 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Square Dancing is a low-impact aerobic activity that stimulates both mind and body. Easy and fun for people of any age. Sunday Squares is free and open to all. We dance to a wide variety of popular music, and learn dance steps used all over the world. Come alone or with a partner. No special dancing skills required.

The Enfield Volunteer Fire Company: Chicken Barbecue | 11:00 AM, 2/14 Sunday | Enfield Fire Hall, 172 Enfield Main Rd, Ithaca | The Ladies Auxiliary holds a Bake Sale at each BBQ. Varna Pancake Breakfast | 8:00

Johnson Museum, Thursday, February 11, 5:15 p.m.

DEA Gallery, Cornell University Through February 18

Born and raised in Bangkok, this colorful artist is an avid collaborator with a wide-ranging artistic practice, exploring themes such as history, authenticity, self-representation, and tourism as a cultural transplant. He moved to the United States to study art at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Columbia University School of the Arts. He’s giving a talk about his current work up at the Johnson Museum, including the epic documentary-style film, Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3.

A memorial exhibition of paintings by the late Cornell Professor Emeritus Michael Boyd is on view in the DEA Gallery. During his lifetime, Michael Boyd mounted over 40 one-person exhibitions throughout the United States and in Europe and his work is included in over 400 public and private collections, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Albright Knox, Chase Bank, and the Vanguard Group. His work is abstract and focuses on light, form and color, elements that Boyd likened to musical composition. This is a dynamic exhibit that’s not to be missed.

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AM-12:00:00 PM, 2/14 Sunday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Includes Pancakes, French Toast, Ham, Bacon, Sausage.

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

Amnesty International Ithaca monthly meeting | 7:30 PM, 2/16 Tuesday | Cornell University Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave, Ithaca | Info: 273-3009, ewb2@cornell.edu. Always the third Tuesday. Come sign a letter, defend prisoners, stand up for human rights around the world. All welcome. angela.crowley@cortland.edu, crowley558@gmail.com CRC Walking Club | 5:00 PM, 2/16 Tuesday | Ithaca High School, 1401 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Walking, large muscle group strengthening, and gentle yoga.

The Ultimate Purpose: Free Speech Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM, 2/16 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.

info@namastemontessorischool.com or call (607) 272-0515 for childcare.

Sweet Treats with Coconut | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 2/10 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Coconut is a nutritional gift and a boon to health.

Want to learn more about why this is so? Fay Bunnell, RN, MS, will share the latest research, show you how to make gluten free, paleo-friendly sweet treats for Valentine’s Day and offer some delicious samples.

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

Master Composter training | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 2/11 Thursday | Cooperative Extension, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Become a MASTER COMPOSTER! Ten in-depth classes and volunteering train an enthusiastic group committed to promoting responsible composting.

More info and applications available online at http://ccetompkins.org/mc or contact Adam Michaelides by email or phone 607-272-2292.

Electrostatics | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 2/13 Saturday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Families will explore the phenomena and properties of slow-moving or stationary objects.

They will be able to see a Van de Graaf generator in action, as well as make a static flyer and an electrophorus. www. ccmr.cornell.edu/lending-library.

Winter Fly Tying Workshop | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 2/13 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 basic. All classes will be from 6:00-8:00pm. on Saturdays, through March 5. All students receive: complete tying kits (including vises, scissors and related tools); all tying materials necessary to complete the course and practice tying outside of the class, as well as a comprehensive introductory text on Fly Tying. - See more at: http://ccetompkins.org/ events/2016/01/09/fly-tyingworkshop-series#sthash.JPPb77Td.dpuf Info at 607-272-2292 (extension 139) ahs38@cornell.edu ASLCI: American Sign Language Learning Group | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 2/16 Tuesday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | ASLCI is a casual group for Ithacans of all signing abilities. We welcome everyone, Deaf or hearing, to learn more about Deaf culture and practice ASL. Our group meets every Tuesday at Barnes & Noble

Learning Art Classes for Adults | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Adult classes and private instruction in dance, music, visual arts, language arts, and performance downtown at the Community School of Music and Arts. For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca. org.

Montessori Philosophy Night: Montessori Math - Understanding the Language of Numbers | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 2/10 Wednesday | Namaste Montessori School - Primary Campus 1608 Trumansburg Rd, 1608 Trumansburg Rd, Ithaca | Join us as we explore the Montessori Math curriculum from Toddler Level through Sixth Grade. There will be plenty of hands on time for participants to explore the special materials at each level. Come experience Math in a whole new way. Everyone is welcome! E-mail

Online Calendar See it at ithaca.com.

The Mockingbeards are an acoustic folk quartet from Ithaca, who bring a fresh take on old-time music with their original renditions of bluegrass, soul, and rock influenced sounds. They play The Hopshire Brewery Friday, 2/12 at 6:00 p.m. Bring your drinking shoes! (Photo Provided) (614 S. Meadow St.) from 5-7pm, in the study area behind Starbucks.

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

Special Events The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour | 7:00 PM, 2/12 Friday | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Go on a big-screen expedition to exotic landscapes, learn about remote cultures and be inspired to explore the world outside. See the best adventure, environmental and cultural films from the most prestigious mountain festival in the world. For more information visit Baileytickets.com or call 607 255 6273.Tickets are available in person at Cornell Outdoor Education.

Cornell University Basketball | 6:00 PM, 2/12 Friday | Cornell U, Newman Arena, Ithaca | Vs. Princeton 2nd Annual Craft and Vendor Fair | 10:00 AM-4:00 PM, 2/13 Saturday | Candor High School, , Candor | The proceeds go to support Candor High School Jr/Sr. Prom and the Senior Class

Trip. kanderson@candorcs.org Cornell University Basketball | 6:00 PM, 2/13 Saturday | Cornell U, Newman Arena, Ithaca | Vs. Pennsylvania University Darwin Day Program | 7:00 PM-, 2/13 Saturday | Lifelong, 119 W Court St, Ithaca | Hosted by: Kol Haverim, The Fingerlakes Community for Humanistic Judaism. Is It Science vs. Religion or Something Else? We will examine and discuss what is really behind the repeated conflicts between science and the societies in which it operates.

Go to www.KolHaverim.net or email programs@kolhaverim.net for more information.

Varick Winery’s Sweet Sensation Weekend | 9:30 AM-6:00 PM, 2/13 Saturday | Varick Winery & Vineyard, 5102 State Route 89, Cayuga Lake Wine Trail, Romulus | Enjoy fine wines paired with complimentary sweet treats such as cheesecake, apple pie, chocolate, and brownies. www.varickwinery.com \ varickwinery@cnymail.com One Billion Rising V-Day Flash Mob to End Violence and Oppression Against Women and Girls | 12:00 PM, 2/14 Sunday | The Commons, East State Street, Ithaca | Join the Ithaca contingent of One Billion Rising, an

Banff Mountain Film Festival, Bailey Hall, Friday, February 12, 7:00 p.m.

Go on a big-screen expedition to exotic landscapes, learn about remote cultures and be inspired to explore the world outside. See the best adventure, environmental and cultural films from the most prestigious mountain festival in the world. The 2016 World Tour brings films from the 40th Banff Mountain Film Festival to about 400 communities around the world. From an exploration of remote landscapes and mountain cultures to adrenalinefueled action sports, films in this year’s tour are truly dynamic!

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international Valentines Day flash mob dance to call attention to violence and oppression against women and girls. www.onebillionrising.org, Isabella Gold at isabellagold22@gmail.com Wine & Cheese Lovers Getaway | 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, 2/14 Sunday | Keuka Lake Wine Trail, 2971 Williams Hill Road in Keuka Park, | Sample a variety of cheese-inspired foods paired with award-winning wines that best complement them on Valentine’s Weekend (February 14-15) at the Keuka Lake Wine Trail’s annual Cheese and Wine Lovers Getaway.

Circus Culture Workshop | 2:00 PM, 2/15 Monday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | During this free program, Circus Culture instructors will teach children and families of all ages and experience-levels how to juggle, hula hoop, walk on a tight wire, form basic pyramids and more. Contact Youth Services Librarian Kate DeVoe at kdevoe@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 277.

Meetings Shade Tree Advisory Committee (STAC) | 4:00 PM, 2/10 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Building,

615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | STAC consults with the City Forester and the Board of Public Works regarding the implementation and enforcement of the provisions of Chapter 306 of the City of Ithaca Municipal Code (“Trees and Shrubs”).

IURA Neighborhood Investment Committee (NIC) | 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, 2/12 Friday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | NIC meetings are ordinarily held on the 2nd Friday of every month at 8:30 a.m. in Third Floor Conference Room, Third Floor, City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca.

Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Council (BPAC) | 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, 2/15 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | BPAC members regularly review ongoing and upcoming city projects and advise the Board of Public Works, Common Council, the Planning & Development Board, the Parks Commission, and other appropriate City bodies on bicycle and pedestrian issues, including issues faced by people with disabilities, to ensure all city projects accommodate and encourage safe and legal travel by bicycles, pedestrians and people with disabilities Town of Ithaca Zoning Board of

Preston Frank Zydeco,

Rongovian Embassy Saturday, February 13, 8:30 p.m.

Remaining true to the old-time stylings of zydeco music, Preston Frank - born in Oberlin, Louisiana in 1947, is a standing bastion of a time when zydeco music included fiddles in the band. He plays old time songs with addictive beats that have a dynaimc energy that brings them to life. His original compositions – including Why You Wanna Make me Cry and Hey Trudy – have become staples of the modern zydeco repertoire. Preston is also the heartbeat of the Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival, in Trumansburg, NY, where he has performed every festival since its founding 26 years ago.

Appeals | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 2/15 Monday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM, 2/16 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Town of Ithaca Public Works Committee | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 2/16 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca |

Books Coloring: Stress Relief | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 2/10 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | GM Asha introduces you to the stress relief that is coloring.

Vijay Sephardi: 3 Sections | 7:30 PM, 2/11 Thursday | Clark Lounge, Campus Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, will read from his latest book, 3 Sections. The reading will be followed by a Q&A and book-signing and is free and open to the public. Contact ehenderson@ithaca.edu for more information.

Art Call for Entries for: A Sense of Place: Exploring Ithaca’s Built Environment | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E State St, Ithaca | Submission deadline: March 1. Area artists are invited to submit works that respond to Ithaca’s evolving built environment for a juried exhibition this April. A collaboration between CSMA and Historic Ithaca, the show asks artists to reflect on what a sense of place means to them and our community, and to address the relationships between old and new buildings and spaces, and how they shape our experiences of this city.

Complete guidelines and entry form available at www.csma-ithaca.org or contact gallery@csma-ithaca.org or christine@historicithaca.org for information.

Calling All Artists! Art in the Air 2016 | We want to see your art in the air! For Summer 2016, we want to try something new: we’re asking community artists of all walks of life to submit their own designs for a chance to see them printed on the banners.

Info at info@downtownithaca.com.

Michael Boyd Memorial Retrospective | DEA Gallery, First Floor, Martha Van Rennsselear Hall,

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ohesive group exhibits of photography are unusual in Ithaca’s galleries. Most local photographers support themselves with commercial work—fairly or not, thought of as other than art. Although it is common for them to pursue more personal projects, the lingering ambiguity in photography’s status seems to push them somewhat to the margins.

This Friday, Corners Gallery will be hosting a reception for “Photographing Cuba,” a fine exhibit featuring local photographers Laura Kozlowski, Rachel Philipson, and Sheryl Sinkow. All have a commercial photography practice based in Ithaca while Philipson and Sinkow frequently also exhibit frequently in local galleries.

Last November, the three spent a week in Cuba, visiting Havana, as well as the small town of Viñales and the surrounding areas.

The focus here is on urban street photography, with a smattering of portraits, interior scenes, and rural views.

The work is presented as archival digital prints. (All but two are in color.)

Kozlowski’s pictures are particularly compelling.

Her black and white Horses vs. Chevy is one of several pieces here to focus on the country’s eccentric transportation.

We take a driver’s-eye view, looking

Cornell University, Ithaca | A memorial exhibition of paintings by the late Cornell Professor Emeritus Michael Boyd is on view until February 18, 2016. Gallery hours are from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM Monday through Friday.

Artist’s Talk: Korakrit Arunanondchai | 5:15 PM, 2/11 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | The artist will discuss his work and the new exhibition The fire is gone but we have the light, which features his work alongside that of his friend and mentor, Rirkrit Tiravanija. The Museum is open tonight until 8:00. Free. 607-255-6464. museum.cornell.edu Richard Parrish: Aerial Perspectives of the American Landscape | 5:30 PM-, 2/11 Thursday | Rockwell Museum Of Western Art, 111 Cedar St, Corning | Continuing Parrish’s series of

down a long country road with a broad sky above, lushly clouded. In front of us—blocking the point where the edges of the street meet the horizon—is the back of a fifties car. Around it are four ricketylooking horse-drawn carts.

Kozlowski’s Bicycle Cart, like Philipson’s Buildings, Old Havana captures the eclectic and magisterial architecture of the city with its rainbowpainted facades.

Cuban Taxi Driver and the black and white Tobacco Farmer are the only real portraits in this show. Farmer is particularly compelling. A young man in pointed hat and white T-shirt faces off obliquely. He is surrounded by bundles of cigars and dried leaves in a pile beside him and hanging above.

Among other things, Sheryl Sinkow’s “Drive-by de la Revolucion” (Archival Print, 2015) Part of the exhibit “Photographing Cuba” Philipson is a distinguished photojournalist, having worked currently on view at Corners Gallery. for the Ithaca Times as well as national publications. Her spirals—seems to pierce the facade, rightwards. The plaza between them is work here uses unusual angles and the opening up into a different sort of space. shrouded at the edges with palms and dramatic manipulation of focus to create Sinkow’s diverse and well-travelled other lush foliage. densely tactile scenes. work is familiar through her long-time Car Repair places us once again One of Philipson’s artistic interests presence at the member-run State of the in the middle of a street, here aimed is an exploration of the surfaces of walls Art Gallery downtown. This is her second obliquely towards the upper left of the and buildings. These works tend towards exhibit at Corners. Her images here have image. At middle distance, we see the abstraction, echoing the work of her a subtle narrative humor, exploring the rear end of yet-another vintage car, cyan. husband, local painter Michael Sampson. way people relate to their environments.

In the foreground: a muscular, shortYellow Wall with Window, Central Drive-by – Museo de la Revolución haired man bends down—he faces right, Havana is a particularly striking example juxtaposes the stately classical rolling a tire. of this approach. The eerily luminous, architecture of the distant Havana “Photographing Cuba” runs from Feb. yellow-green wall fills the space of the museum—a former presidential 2 to March 5 at Corners Gallery. A reception image. We face it straight on, flat. Black palace—with the symmetry breaking for the artists will be held on Friday, Feb. 12 shadows enter from the corners. Towards profile of blue mid-century car, seen in from 5 to 7 p.m. • the lower right, a window with vertical the extreme foreground and headed bars—decorated with diagonals and

mapping American glass landscapes, this exhibition will comprise newly kiln-formed glass panels created for public debut in Corning.

Rockwellmuseum.org/events Studio Thursday: Islamic Tiles | 5:00 PM, 2/11 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Make an Islamic tile at this hands-on, drop-in workshop.

Space is limited but open to everyone.

The Museum is open tonight until 8:00 PM! Photographing Cuba | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 2/12 Friday | Corners Gallery, 903 Hanshaw Rd Ste 3, Ithaca | Work by Laura Kozlowski, Rachel Philipson, and Sheryl Sinkow.

For the Love of Art | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 2/13 Saturday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | What art gets YOUR heart? Show your love for your Museum favorites and celebrate

Valentine’s weekend at this affectionate afternoon with poetry and music inspired by art on view, plus samples of local food and drink. Share your favorite on social media with #heartsforart and #hfjmuseum this week and at the event! Free. 607-255-6464. museum.cornell.edu ongoing Buffalo Street Books | 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | BSB is happy to share the vibrant, multi-layered work of local painter Mary Beth Grable.

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

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Ronnie Seldin: Shakuhachi,

The Commons, Sunday, February 14, 12:00 p.m.

Community School of Music and Arts, Sunday, February 14, 5:00 p.m.

Shakuhachi grand master Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Selden will present a free concert and introductory lesson in playing the Japanese bamboo flute, the only melodic instrument used in Zen Buddhism. Mr Seldin holds two dai shihan menjo, grand master licenses, one at the ninth level (ku-dan) presented by Aoki Reibo, the only Shakuhachi National Treasure of Japan.

He is the first and only foreigner to receive this honor. In addition to being a Grammy and Oscar nominated artist, he teaches shakuhachi in Ithaca, Rochester and Buffalo. An introductory lesson will follow the concert.

Join the Ithaca continent of One Billion Rising: Revolution, an international Day flash mob dance to end violence and abuse against women and girls. The flash mob will take place on the Ithaca Commons in front of Center Ithaca, and is an event that not only stands as an essential and necessary visual reminder of the equality of all human beings, but showcases the dynamism of collective action, and the importance of physically using your body to show love, mindfulness, and spiritual growth.

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Kitchen Theater Company | 417 West State St, Ithaca | Sally Ryan “OPEN DOORS,” a collection of Ryan’s paintings, is on display in the Judith Holliday Lobby Gallery.

State of the Art Gallery | 120 W State St Ste 2, Ithaca |Lyric Viisions, Part II - 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 2pm. www.soag.org

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CAP Art Space | 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.

Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street | Michael Sampson “Re-Worked”. The artist put aside and returned to these oil paintings for two years. As time went on the paint became thicker–a concrete or stucco– he worked and re-worked the paintings, and they became denser. The end result is a thick impasto, which borders on relief.

Ink Shop | The Ink Shop Printmaking Center , 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.

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