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w s l i n e the corner or into the alley, so they shoot up fast.”

A supervised facility is also a place where “targeted treatment options” can be offered, Myrick said.

After hearing initial reports others also questioned the legality of a facility here for people to shoot illegal drugs.

“These are all questions we have to answer. We obviously can’t do this tomorrow,” Myrick said. “We have got to iron out what’s legal and what’s possible.

Our first priority has got to be saving people’s lives and our second priority is liability.”

Matt Curtis, policy director for

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Parking Spaces May Mayor Proposes Disappear on Tioga Legal Injection Site

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hen crews starting painting lines for new bike lanes on North Cayuga Street last October, a number of citizens became alarmed and protested the removal of parking spots on that stretch of city street.

This year, the city plans to repave the 300 and 400 blocks of North Tioga Street, between East Buffalo Street and Cascadilla Avenue. Once the streets are smooth, the plan is to draw new bike lanes on the two blocks, which would result in the removal of at least 13 paid parking spots and five 10-minute spots.

The late-breaking controversy about parking on Cayuga Street last year is leading the city to make sure its outreach about this proposal is “robust,” lead engineer Tim Logue told the board of public works (BPW) on Feb. 8.

A call for public input went out via email and on the city website on Feb. 11, with written comments accepted until March 14. Those can be emailed to engineering@cityofithaca.org or submitted in writing to City Hall, 108 E. Green St. A public hearing is scheduled for the March 14 BPW meeting.

All three alternate plans drawn up by engineer Kent Johnson call for removal of the 13 paid spots on the east side of Tioga between East Buffalo and East Court, and the five spots between East Buffalo and Seneca. In the design called for in the Bicycle Boulevard plan, a bump-out on North Tioga north of East Court Street would be installed to prevent cars from turning there. An alternative to that would be a speed hump between East Court Street and Cascadilla Avenue. The third alternative would install protected bike lanes on the stretch, removing all parking.

At the Monday, Feb. 22, BPW meeting, superintendent of public works Mike Thorne suggested that the city take a look at an option, which leaves some parking on those blocks for further study.

“That is important parking, convenient to the post office and town hall,” Thorne said. Director of engineering Tim Logue said that his department is looking at other options to put forward for discussion. • – Josh Brokaw reporter@ithacatimes.com

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thaca’s new comprehensive drug policy was released publicly on Wednesday, Feb. 24, after nearly two years of study from the Municipal Drug Policy Committee formed by Mayor Svante Myrick in April 2014. After an Associated Press report hit the wires on Feb. 22 revealing the plan proposes a supervised injection facility for heroin users, outlets nationwide picked up the story. There is no supervised injection facility in the United States; Vancouver, Canada has the only two in North America.

To answer one prevalent question raised in online comments and on the street, the drugs in a supervised injection facility would be “user provided,” Myrick said.

“There are people on hand Boxes for the disposal of used hypodermic needles next to the Southern Tier AIDS who can save you Prevention (STAP) office on West State Street. (Photo: Josh Brokaw) if you begin to overdose, if you get a bad shot,” Myrick said of the potential the HIV/AIDS and mass incarceration facility. “This facility is targeted more advocates VOCAL-NY, said of supervised toward people who live on the street injection: “There is no law anywhere in who inject outdoors or in unsafe places. the United States that says you can’t do They’re extremely vulnerable to attack, this.” to burglary, to assault. They’re often in a rush because the cops might come around continued on page 4

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What do you Think? of the mayor’s legal Heroin injection site?

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round 30 residents of the Ellis Hollow Apartments housing complex met Wednesday night, February 17, to hear a talk given by attorney Michael Danaher of the NYS Attorney General’s office. Danaher, who had traveled from Binghamton, explained the basics of the rental/lease contract to those assembled. The apartments, owned

by Conifer Realty, cater to low-income and disabled senior citizens.

According to resident Jim Weaver, who has lived in the apartment building for eight years, tenants are looking into forming a tenants’ association. “It’s not an official body,” said Weaver. “Right now we’re just fighting for survival. We wanted to focus on getting the staff to allow a tenants’ association to function.”

“The purpose of this meeting was to clarify that we have a right to form a group,” said resident Sheila Zipfel.

Danaher, in his presentation, said, “Part of my job involves speaking to organizations such as yours; the more you know, that makes my job easier. The name of the talk is ‘Landlords and Tenants Rights and Responsibilities.’” He reminded everyone “there are always two sides to every story. I try to be as objective as possible, as matter of fact as possible about what the rules are.”

He brought a copy of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s official booklet for tenants’ rights, which can also be found

“ A lot people say you’re just inviting the problem in. I think regardless, people are still going to do it.”

—Kristen Wiest

“If it’s legal, they should do it.”

—Myles Reminick

“I’m supportive of the idea. I’m wondering about the funding though. I know it has worked in various places.”

—Bruce Kornreich

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VOCAL-NY started campaigning with other organizations for supervised injection facilities about six months ago, Curtis said, and while no officials have yet offered public support, both the city and state health departments have “been very interested” in hearing any strategy to counter HIV/AIDS and the opioid epidemic.

The main challenge to a facility’s legality would likely come under the socalled “crack house” statute in the federal Controlled Substances Act, “designed for places where there’s simultaneously sales and use at the same time,” Curtis said.

“It’s obviously not designed to have any relevance to public health intervention,” Curtis said. “If an aggressive prosecutor wanted to screw with a pilot program, they might use [the statute] to shutter or otherwise interfere with that kind of program.”

Tompkins County District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson is on board; on Feb. 22, Myrick posted a quote in the AP story

“It seems very progressive. I’d like to read more about the details.”

—Andy Sciarabba

“I think it should be medically supplied.

Police officers know everyone who’s on it.” ­—Arthur Birnbaum

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online. “The general rule in New York is He also pointed out that they don’t need that landlords cannot prohibit tenants from the landlord’s permission to meet, although meeting together,” said Danaher. in the case of this meeting they did need However, several residents said that to follow the rules to sign up for use of the the property managers were making it community room. difficult for them. “You have the right to Weaver, however, said he had been get together and talk about stuff,” Danaher threatened with eviction for talking to other cautioned. “That doesn’t mean the landlord residents about forming an association. has to listen to you. Unless it comes to an According to letters to Weaver from district issue of safety and habitability, you can’t make them do anything.”

Tenants described three issues: a bedbug infestation, which they felt the managers had kept information from them about; advocating for disabled tenants, and contractors or Time Warner Cable being allowed into their apartments.

“I suspect there’s something in your lease to allow that,” said Danaher. The Tenants at Conifer’s Ellis Hollow Apartments hear their rights from attorney lease, he explained, Mike Danaher from the state attorney general’s office. (Photo: Glynis Hart) is the critical document setting out the relationship of tenant to landlord. property manager Monica Pritchard, other However, some of the residents said residents have complained that Weaver “is they were afraid of being evicted if they creating a hostile environment” and caused joined a tenants’ association. “Most of the a “disturbance” by inquiring about the tenants are in Section 8 (subsidized housing bedbug infestation. program) and there’s a feeling our basic Pritchard wrote, “Leaseholders have rights are in jeopardy,” said one man.

“A landlord cannot retaliate against you continued on page 7 for exercising your rights,” said Danaher. from Wilkinson multiple times on social media that read “Supervised injection won’t make more people will use drugs.

It will make them less likely to die in restaurant bathrooms.”

Ithaca Police chief John Barber said in a statement that he is “wary of Supervised Injection Sites” and would not “condone the illegal use of heroin, supervised or not.”

Beyond the supervised injection facilities, “The Ithaca Plan: A Public Health and Safety Approach to Drugs and Drug Policy” is a 64-page report that contains many other policy recommendations to implement a “harm reduction” approach to handling drug use. The report recommends the creation of an Office of Drug Policy, a phone hotline for parents and loved ones, and a treatment navigator, like those who help people navigate health care options.

More inpatient and outpatient detox options are called for in the “Ithaca Plan,” including a freestanding 24-hour crisis center where law enforcement and anyone else could voluntarily bring someone for care. A methadone clinic and more

widespread ability to prescribe Suboxone are also recommended, along with the continuance of practices like syringe exchange and disposal.

The report also gets into the social conditions that lead to drug use—in one survey the study cites, boredom was a “primary motivation.” Underemployment among the poor is also a problem.

Increasing community programs like those at GIAC and the Youth Bureau until there are “few or no gaps between them” to decrease the chances of youth picking up a drug habit is part of the overall plan, Myrick said.

“Kids who report feeling strong social connections, they’re less likely to use drugs,” Myrick said. “The strongest correlation is when they ask kids ‘Do you feel like your life is chaotic?’ and they say yes, they are far more likely to start using drugs. We need to wrap our young people in a cocoon of community,” the mayor concluded.

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Makeover Coming For Cass Park Rink

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uring the monthly Ithaca Youth Bureau (IYB) Advisory Board meeting on Feb. 9, City of Ithaca Recreational Facilities Director Jim D’Alterio, reported on the upcoming renovations to the Cass Park ice rink.

Starting in March, this 2016 capital project constitutes Phase 2, Year 1 of the rink’s remodeling process. Phase 1 occurred in 2010 with the restoration of the 38-yearold rink floor and refrigeration system.

The construction money for the 2016 roof renovations is projected to cost about $1.3 million, and the bid process is underway.

The roofing project will remove the low-emissivity ceiling, replace the metalhalide lighting fixtures with LEDs, and install insulation to the exterior of the roof. A membrane will also be heat-welded over the roof deck. The new roof will be made out of a PBC membrane. Five inches of insulation—a foam board that will follow the contour of the structure—will be added to the current metal decking, on top of which the membrane will be placed.

The rink’s shell will retain its appearance.

“The low-e ceiling,” D’Alterio said, “is in tatters and serves as habitat for birds and rodents. The roof leakage creates problems for the activities as far as water getting onto the activity surfaces.”

The LED lighting will be 70 percent more energy-efficient than the existing lighting. This change, D’Alterio said, is necessary for safety reasons, as the lighting levels at the current moment are “insignificant.”

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Schuyler County district attorney Joseph Fazzary sent a letter to Town of Reading judge Raymond Berry dated Feb. 10 asking the judge to drop cases against 111 people arrested for trespassing.

Fazzary has “painstakingly reviewed the evidence” in over 300 cases, he wrote Berry, and found that in the cases he’s asking for dismissal “individuals were either not trespassing on complainant’s property or that the evidence of trespass is

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“You have to have a baseline lighting season. We have the flexibility to do that if level to be able to have safe active activity. we wanted. I think it will be a much more We definitely need to increase those desirable space for events.” levels,” said D’Alterio.

D’Alterio stated that the rink can Phase 2, Year 2 of the renovation continue to operate as an open-air facility project calls for an enclosure project for the time being, and that the enclosure during which ventilation will be added project has potential but is not vital to the to the rink. IYB Director Liz Vance rink’s functionality. said that IYB is starting to work with “The work we’re having done this Friends of Ithaca Youth Bureau to create spring was really the most vital work to a fundraising campaign for the planned be able to continue to function,” he said.

2017 enclosure project.

“Anything that we can cover with fundraising helps the whole picture that the city is committed to this,” Vance said.

D’Alterio said enclosure is essential for dehumidification, as it is important to be able to remove moisture from the rink. In addition, “The rink end walls and side walls will have a metal Skating lesson at Cass Park Rink. Note damaged ceiling in background. framework and a (Photo: Diane Duthie) glass material to optimize natural light and retain the open feel that our current set up creates,” “This is what needed to happen to be able he said. to maintain the structure and operate as This portion of the project has yet to we’ve been operating.” be submitted, approved, or funded, but The targeted completion date for the D’Alterio said it could be proposed as early roofing project is early June, just in time as 2017, and that “we would schedule for Cass Park to be flooded with summer it to have as little impact as possible on day camps and people from all over programming.”

Tompkins County.

D’Alterio thinks the enclosure “We’re really hoping to have things project, if approved, will “open up a lot of continued on page 7 opportunities as far as increasing the rink insufficient.”

Over 400 people have been arrested protesting outside both the north and south gates of the Crestwood facility since October 2014, when the Houston company received Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval to store natural gas, or methane, in underground caverns that have been mined for their salt. A Crestwood proposal to store liquefied petroleum gas, or propane, at the facility has been before state Department of Environmental Conservation regulators for over six years.

Fazzary wrote the Reading judge that after reviewing survey maps, video, and photographs, he concluded that everyone arrested for protest at Crestwood’s south gate was on New York State land. The state has no desire to pursue prosecution, he said. In addition, some of the protesters at the north gate were also on state land, the district attorney said.

Sujata Gibson, an Ithaca attorney whose office hosts the “legal resource center” for arrested We Are Seneca Lake protesters, said defense attorneys have

been talking with Fazzary’s office “for quite some time about some of the cases ripe for immediate dismissal.”

“The legal team definitely applauds [Fazzary’s] decision to dismiss these cases,” Gibson said. “We believe the number needs to be greatly expanded. The district attorney’s office admitted last July they didn’t know where the property line was.

The trespass signs were not reflective of where the property line was, as we’ve been saying all along. If the district attorney’s office didn’t even know where the property line was, there’s no way the defendants could have known where it was.”

Since Crestwood put up “accurate signs,” Gibson said, no one has been arrested for trespassing.

“We appreciate the district attorney taking the time to go through cases and dismissing the ones he definitely agrees with us on,” Gibson said. “It’s unfortunate we’re only getting there now. People have gone to jail for this and paid thousands of

Ups&Downs ▶ Hot coders, Jorg Doku of Cornell University, along with his team members Yen-chieh Huang and Nikita Dubnov, won third place during Pearson’s third annual Student Coding Contest! Jorg won a cash prize of $1,000 for his app “Mint” and its ability to improve learning for students.

The contest encourages individual college students and teams to develop original innovative learning applications that integrate with Pearson Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

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 ▶ Goodbye Cayuga Power Plant, The New York Public Service Commission (PSC) chose to move forward today with electricity transmission upgrades that will make the troubled Cayuga coal-fired power plant in Lansing, New York obsolete. Due to the approved transmission upgrades, the Commission also rejected Cayuga’s proposal to support the plant with $145 million in ratepayer funds to repower the plant with coal and gas. The Commission’s decision to approve the transmission upgrades ensures the community’s electricity reliability needs are met, eliminates the need for further ratepayer subsidies. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Feb. 17-23 include: 1) Trumansburg Farmer Goes “Living Wage” 2) Missing Newfield Woman Found Dead Near Her Car 3) Ballinger Case Goes to a Grand Jury 4) New Escape from Octopus Planned 5) Eight Newfield Residents Arrested in Meth Bust For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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ournalists are a different breed. The best among us are able to balance suspicion with trust and believe strongly that there are two sides to every story. Seldom are we led astray because we did not ask enough questions.

So why then, in an attempt to sway our opinion, does a state board feel so strongly about regulating and controlling people whose job it is to reach out?

New York State’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) proposes to require public relations consultants to register as lobbyists if they talk to newspaper editorial boards or editorial writers, or if they write an op-ed piece about public policy issues.

The redefinition of lobbying to include contact between journalists and consultants, reported by Crain’s New York Business this month and since amended to apply only to editorials, passed the commission by a 10-3 vote.

“JCOPE is not attempting to regulate personal social conversation among those who happen to also work in and around government, but rather to ensure that those who are compensated for their political connections are exposed to the requisite sunlight,” according to the board’s website.

“JCOPE finds that anyone who makes contact with a public official, including preliminary communications to facilitate or enable the eventual substantive advocacy, is engaging in lobbying.”

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However, a civil rights attorney disagrees, arguing that the opinion was too vague and could be construed to apply to mere conversations with the press. That’s a dangerous situation.

“Given the structure of the First Amendment, governmental bodies should steer clear of conduct that amounts to oversight of the press in this critical role,” wrote attorney Andrew G. Celli Jr., representing the New York City law firm of Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady. “It is difficult for a PR professional seeking to persuade a reporter or editor to write or broadcast something about the professional’s client or position that could ever constitute ‘delivery’ of a client’s message to a public official.”

Celli hit the nail on the head when interviewed by Crain’s.

“We basically said, ‘You can’t possibly mean that talking to an editorial board or a reporter was lobbying, you can’t possibly mean that,’” he said. “So the staff looked at our letter and I believe they said, ‘No, no, that’s exactly what we mean.’”

All journalists, including those of us who ply our craft on a weekly, hometown-based level, interact with all levels of PR professionals almost every day. Do members of JCOPE truly think that if I discuss the merits of a major rezoning issue in the produce aisle with continued on page 7

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ou are what you eat, they say, which means in certain circles in Ithaca, you are kale and kombucha.

Personally, I don’t want to be either of these items. Kale is all right on its own, a simple leafy green, but is nasty in certain new guises devised by trendy food companies, such as kale flakes, dried stuff that looks like things you might find beneath your bed.

Kombucha is a beverage, allegedly, but (to me) only such as vinegar is, and I try never to be so off-putting or acid.

It’s not just about individuals: communities are what they eat—and offer up to eat—as well.

Ithaca is pretty wholesome this way. We have a flourishing locavore movement of clean food from regional farmers who care about what they grow and how they grow it, and sellers who care about what they offer and how they present it.

The restaurant scene here, however, is a bit hit or miss in reflecting who we are. It both does and doesn’t.

The quintessential Ithaca restaurant, Moosewood, is still in its original location (though elaborately expanded), thriving in its fifth decade. Its fine vegetarian fare reflects an Ithaca ideal of good health in homespun elegance.

Conversely—happily, I guess—there are only a bare few chain eateries (or drinkeries) downtown (as opposed to in the suburbs, or on Route 13): perhaps only three, by my casual count.

Years ago there was a McDonald’s on the Commons, but it closed. I once mentioned this to a European economist in Ithaca studying our vigorous civic promotion of our independent, local economy. He questioned me pretty tough.

“You are quite certain of this?,” he said.

“A McDonald’s close?”

“Yes,” I said. We were on the Commons.

“It was right … there.” I pointed.

He looked at me skeptically (an academic, you know). The look was practically a scowl. “Can I rely upon your word?,” he said, with close breath. “If so, it is quite remarkable. Because McDonald’s does not close. It opens.”

“Well, here they close,” I said.

Despite the dearth of chains, however,

there’s a distinct lack of diversity, or let’s say ethnic breadth, among Ithaca restaurants.

Early in my current tenure in Ithaca, 20 years ago, I was invited out to dinner with a group of new friends. “Somewhere casual, ethnic,” came the offer. “You choose. Any preferences?”

I’d come here from a stint in Washington DC. I rattled off the popular options you’d have there.

“Anyplace,” I said. “Chinese, Thai, Ethiopian, Salvadoran …”, until I was interrupted by laughter.

“What’s wrong?,” I said.

“Ethiopian, Salvadoran. That’s funny.”

I immediately realized I was in a new and different place.

It’s unfair, of course, to compare our small, remote town with the capital of the country, an international city 20 times bigger and a billion times better known. But it’s a popular boast in Ithaca that we have more restaurants per capita than any U.S. town our size. Maybe size is the key, or maybe it’s hyperbole altogether, but one would think that to the extent it’s plausible enough even to suggest, we could do better on the international front. Particularly because of the other popular boast (this one entirely plausible and proveable) that, because of Cornell, every nation on earth is represented in Ithaca.

I’m sure this is true. Of course, many such people are of the Cornell community rather than the Ithaca community per se.

Probably many venture downtown not at all, or not much. And no doubt they are too busy to think about opening restaurants, except in vague daydreams, when hungry and homesick.

As it is, we do have a lot of good Thai places. And good new Vietnamese places. We have a couple of fine Middle Eastern places, and for noshers nostalgic, a venerable Jewish deli.

And you can actually get Ethiopian and Salvadoran now. The Salvadoran is a little hard to find: tucked into a pizza place on Cayuga Street.

That’s pretty international itself, I guess.

In fact, I wonder if there’s any such in DC: that other cosmopolitan town. •

YourOPINIONS

Acting Like Adults in Caroline

I am writing as a parent of two children at Caroline Elementary School.

Media attention has focused on the recent publicized results of water testing at the school, which showed elevated lead levels in some of our water. Our children’s exposure to known neurotoxins is, of course, concerning. Inadequate and outmoded response protocols and the seeming 6

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passivity of Ithaca City School District personnel have also been distressing.

Without minimizing the urgency of the situation, I’d like to offer a perspective that is not being promulgated in all of the media attention focused on our school.

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a player on either side of the issue that my opinion will be irrevocably swayed?

What if I chat with a friend about my homeowner’s insurance policy, which he provided, and then write about the pitfalls of owning an older home?

I truly hope JCOPE does not summon the angel of death to punish me for impure journalistic thoughts.

I truly hope that neither New York, nor any state, interferes in First Amendment principles so basic to our freedom.

“Thank you very much JCOPE, but we’ll do our own fact checking; we’ll talk with our own independent sources, and we’ll make up our own minds on editorial positions,” wrote Michelle Rea, executive director of the New York Press Association. “We don’t need you to put a chill in the air by requiring people to register as lobbyists before talking with their local newspapers about public policy.

Influencing public policy by talking directly to policy makers is one thing.

Influencing public policy by educating and informing the public in the pages of an independent third-party newspaper is quite another. And if members of the public are then inclined to contact public officials, isn’t that how things are supposed to work? Members of the public (readers) aren’t lobbyists; they are citizens who are entitled to have a voice in their government.”

Talking to an editorial board isn’t an ethics violation that needs to be regulated.

David F. Sherman is managing editor of Bee Group Newspapers and a columnist for the Weekly Independent Newspapers of Western New York, a group of community newspapers with a combined circulation of 286,500 readers. Opinions expressed here are those of the author. He can be reached at dsherman@beenews.com.

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Elementary School is a wonderful learning community. As a parent I am continuously impressed by the professionalism and enthusiasm of the Caroline staff. Teachers, administrators and support staff involved in all aspects of the school contribute to a vibrant, child-centered, positive community. Students are engaged in their world, and take responsibility for the school in a way that is heartening to observe. The talents and interests of parents and caregivers are valued and utilized to the benefit of common school endeavors. Our teachers are leaders in their fields, designing curricula with case studies that have received both grant funding support and recognition. So, too, our outdoor wilderness campus, which has literally blazed a trail for experiential, place-based education. Our principal’s vision of a school where every child is seen, and learning is embedded in the world, culture, and community is

inspiring.

Our children are watching us, and learning all the time. Right now they are learning some important lessons: clean water is very, very important and not to be taken for granted; many relationships and technologies converge to make water systems work; cooperation and problemsolving on critically important, lifeaffecting issues is hard work; sometimes mistakes happen and there are difficult and dangerous unforeseen consequences; mitigating those consequences and that danger takes initiative and accountability.

We know that Caroline Elementary is hardly the only public school or municipal building with aging infrastructure that will face the issue of lead contamination.

In fact, because studies indicate that this problem may be widespread in the coming years, we have an opportunity to devise and model workable solutions, and to serve as a resource for other similarly afflicted communities. What parents at Caroline want the public and the ICSD to know is that Caroline is resilient, innovative and resourceful. With our teachers and our principal, we intend to take action as a community to lead the way forward toward constructive solutions. Our children are watching, and that’s what we want them to learn.

If anyone would like to help, one way to get involved is to donate reusable, sturdy water bottles to the Caroline PTA, to ensure every child has one to fill at the water coolers currently stationed at the school.

– Rebecca Schillenback, Brooktondale (Caroline Elementary School parent)

Clarifying Park Foundation Decison-making

I enjoyed the recent piece on Family Reading Partnership and am pleased that Brigid Hubberman’s vision continues to guide the organization. I do, however, want to correct a significant error in the article. Brigid did indeed meet with me not long after I became the Park Foundation’s first executive director in 1996. I was so impressed with her description of the critical reading gap in our community and her commitment to develop a “culture of literacy” for our children and families that I brought my first funding recommendation to the board of the foundation. But it was most definitely not my decision to make the initial investment of general operating support in FRP; it was the unanimous decision of the Park Foundation board members, including local residents Dorothy Park, Roy H. Park, Jr., and Adelaide Park Gomer. They recognized that a culture of literacy would promote strong families and strong communities, provide a solid foundation for lifelong learning and economic success, and drive civic engagement. When the Triad Foundation was formed in early 2003, Roy Park and his children were proud to take over responsibility for funding the core operations of FRP, and the Park Foundation continued to support specific FRP initiatives.

Thank you, Brigid – and thank you to

the board members of the Park and Triad Foundations – for your initiative and your wisdom. I will always be proud to have been a small part of FRP’s birth.

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wrapped up by then so that kids have a place to be,” said Vance. “Because that is their home base. These improvements are not only amazing for the ice season— bringing better, safer experience for ice skating; it does the same during the offseason for the campers and for roller derby events. It has really become a popular year-round facility.”

With renovations to the rink beginning in a few weeks, Juliana Garcia, a member of the BlueStockings, commented on behalf of her Ithaca League of Women Rollers team.

“We have three bouts scheduled at Cass Park Rink this summer. June 25, July 17, and Aug. 20,” Garcia said. “We have teams coming from Ontario, Rochester, and Oswego for the bouts, so it would be really unfortunate if we had to cancel the bouts due to construction.”

This is Garcia’s second season with the BlueStockings. The 2016 season started in early January, and they practice in Lansing at an old skate park behind Rogues’ Harbor Inn. D’Alterio said that he does not expect the roofing project to exceed the expected completion date of early June, but that the temporary closure is unavoidable.

“Cass Park is getting some much needed attention to keep it running,” said Vance. “It was time to take care of these needs.”

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the legal right to ask us to grant them the status of a ‘recognized tenants’ association.’

This is the term used in statute law under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985, Section 29.”

The Landlord and Tenant Act of 1985 was formally ratified by Parliament to codify the rights of tenants in England and Wales.

“Apparently,” said Zipfel, “some people are unaware that we are no longer governed

by England.”

The letter goes on to list conditions under which Conifer would “formally recognize” such a tenants’ association, including a list of the names and addresses of all the members.

However, John Gianuzzi, Vice President of Property Management for Conifer Realty, the company that owns the Ellis Hollow Apartments (along with Linderman Creek in Ithaca and Poets Landing in Dryden) said that Conifer would not ask for a list of the members.

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positive experience for our residents.”

Gianuzzi said Conifer had some concerns about “the way [Weaver[ is going about it,” but said that, overall, “tenants’ associations help us keep a pulse of their concerns.” He also encouraged residents to work with the Service Coordinator at Ellis Hollow Apartments to get help with disability accommodations.

– Glynis Hart editor@flcn.org

The Talk at

We received this comment from the subject of our Feb. 17 Speakeasy “Encouraging People of Color to Farm”: Hey thanks IT for your coverage of Groundswell and my retirement! I want to make one comment and one correction. First, I am grateful that Josh Brokaw focused attention on our efforts to increase racial justice in agriculture. But in reality most of Groundswell's trainees are white folks. It takes a lot of intentionality to get beyond a white audience, and it can be slow going. We still have a long way to go in this work. Also, Groundswell is part of the Center for Transformative Action which is NOT part of Cornell. CTA is a separate, independent 501-C3, it simply has an affiliation agreement with Cornell. Thanks again for your interest.

– Joanna Green In response to “Trumansburg Farmer Goes Living Wage,” which appeared in the Trumansburg Free Press on Feb. 17: Thank You! If more employees did this and had this attitude, our local taxes would go down, which means more money to spend locally. I will now buy your product anytime I see it available.

– Jerry

ourCorrections There were some errors in our Feb. 17 cover story, “A Good Read: Family Reading Partnership nationwide with Head Start”: Elizabeth Stilwell is incorrectly credited as author of At Home with Books; Katrina Morse is both the author and illustator.

The name of the Read-Aloud Challenge initiative is the "Books are my Super Power Read-Aloud Challenge" and the promotion for the Read-Aloud Challenge includes the Bear Family from At Home with Books. They have not written a new book called Books Are My Super Power.

The collaboration with Head Start begins this March 2016, with the ReadAloud Challenge during National ReadAloud Month, rather than fall of 2016.

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The historically African American Southside will have a different future

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Throughout much of the 20th century, the Southside Community Center and St. James AME Zion Church served as anchors to a neighborhood that was mostly made up of black families at its core, especially along Cleveland Avenue and Green Street between Plain and Meadow streets.

The neighborhood is still one of the few places in Ithaca where there is some density of African-American residents: U.S. Census Bureau data from 2000 to 2013 shows the block bounded by Green, Cleveland, Plain, and Corn as majority Black, with 58 percent of the 97 people living there identifying as “black alone.”

The 30 households in the next block south, between Cleveland and Center, also were majority black at the time. Immediately adjacent blocks show a significant AfricanAmerican minority, from about 20 to 40 percent; along with a few blocks in the Northside, the data show those as the only places where more than a household or two of black people reside in Ithaca; overall, the

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city’s population is only 6.7 percent African American.

Southside Recollected

Over the past several decades black residents have been leaving Southside though, as families have sold homes and moved away for a number of reasons.

“The Southside is now predominantly white,” Claudia Jenkins said.

Jenkins, née Cooke, is the fifth generation of her family to live at 515 W. Green St., in a home passed down through the matriarchal line since William and Agnes Brookes Payne bought the house in 1890 after moving here from Virginia.

Cleveland Avenue, Jenkins said, was “predominantly black” and Plain Street was “partly black” when she was growing up in the 1950s and ‘60s. There was always an ethnic mix on Green Street, Jenkins remembers, and she said that some black families lived across Clinton Street to the south, but not many.

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jobs in other places and never returned to their home.

“We didn’t have students living downtown like we do now,” Jenkins said.

There were a couple of Chinese families living on the Southside in Jenkins’ youth, she said: since then, whites, Asians, and Latinos have all moved into the neighborhood.

Gibrian Hagood was a Southsider who left Ithaca to live his life. He graduated from Ithaca High in 1982, and returned to his hometown four years ago. He sees an Ithaca that’s no longer there for those who are from here.

“I was shocked to see a Southside that’s no longer a mecca for black people,” Hagood said. “All of Ithaca is becoming a town for retirement and for the colleges.” A resident now of South Hill, he gestured to the students cavorting outside on a recent sunny weekend afternoon.

“Downtown is now their Collegetown,” Hagood said. “It wasn’t like that in the ‘80s.”

Jenkins said there’s less bustle on the street now than when she was young.

“If you took the bus, you were a rich kid, though it only cost a dime or 25 cents,” Jenkins said. “From second or third grade,

we walked in groups to school. All the schools were downtown. We could walk from the Southside Center to College Avenue in 15 minutes, when you had your hill legs built up.”

In an Ithaca, where there used to be at least three community centers, those youths close by took advantage of the Southside Community Center as their base of operations. Photographs of the center’s early days from its completion in 1938 show young black people shooting pool, playing ping-pong, and engaged in conversation.

Now, according to Davi Mozie, who became the center’s director in June 2015, students there are a diverse group in both ethnicity and the location of their home.

“The majority using our services and programs are coming from other areas of the city,” Mozie said. Of the dozen children in the Southside’s after-school program, only two that Mozie can think of actually can walk home.

Between the Southside and the Northside Community Center—now the Twelve Tribes group home at Third and Hancock streets—there was a rivalry, both Jenkins and Hagood said.

“It was a village where every parent parented the kids in the neighborhood,” Jenkins said. “If you did something stupid on one end of the block, you heard it from every one coming up the street.”

Hagood remembers a similar neighborhood from growing up on Green Street in the 1970s and early ‘80s.

“If you did some s*** on the block, somebody was going to see you,” Hagood said. “People were watching you to make sure you don’t step on the grass.”

People who started moving from the big cities 20 or so years ago saw Ithaca like the British saw the New World when they arrived on these coasts, Hagood said, an “undiscovered county” and a nice place to live and have a family.

“The city was unnoticed. Now it’s noticed and prices are going jack high,” Hagood said. “The students didn’t come downtown. We said ‘You’ve got campuses to go to.’ Now, the poor, black or white, are getting pushed out.”

“We didn’t live in Cayuga Heights, but there were people here just living their lives,” Hagood continued. “We were rich in love. Our generation was not going to

be confined by color. We were raised to be strong, proud human beings.”

Southside Now

People who have moved into the Southside in the past 25 years have noticed the neighborhood’s changing face.

“As a new person coming in I was seeing a blended neighborhood, as opposed to look at historically where it began, as a thriving black community,” said Gossa Tsegaye, who bought his house on Cleveland Avenue in 2001. “The previous generation did not come back to claim its past. It’s more a symbolic recollection than the actual presence of black people on the Southside.”

John Simon said that when he and his wife Lynne Jackier decided to buy a home on Cleveland Avenue in 1990, it was partly “because I grew up in a mostly black neighborhood in New York City, and wanted to have a similar experience for my own kids.”

“The neighborhood has been steadily changing,” Simon said. “As older people die, more and more white families are moving in. The houses are getting more and more expensive, and the heirs can’t really afford to stay. It becomes time to sell and get out, and it’s starting to snowball in that direction.”

Housing costs have undoubtedly increased in Ithaca.

A random sampling of home sales and assessments on Cleveland Avenue show the increases in value to have been particularly sharp in just the last 20 G i b r i a n h ag o o d years, much less going back to the 1970s.

In part, the increase in home prices has been because houses have been improved, along with the increased demand for housing as the universities have grown.

Simon’s house was bought for about $5,000 in the early 1980s and completely rehabilitated by the previous owners, he said; his family bought the home for $85,000 in 1990, and it’s now assessed at $150,000. A house on the 100 block of Cleveland was sold to the city for $0 in 1998; then assessed at $67,500, it’s now valued at $170,000. Other houses on that block include one bought by a bank at foreclosure in 1998 for $46,500, now valued at $180,000; a house sold in 2004 for $76,300 now valued at $195,000; and a house sold in 1999 for $39,635 is now assessed at $130,000.

Much of the renovation work has been done by Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS), which has rehabilitated and resold many houses downtown,

particularly in the Southside: an Ithaca Journal article from 2000 reported that a newly renovated home was the 14th of the 30 houses on Cleveland Avenue’s two blocks to get that treatment. According to INHS director Paul Mazzarella, when the non-profit was created in 1975, it was a response to “housing conditions deteriorating” downtown.

“A lot of that had to do with the fact that homeowners were leaving those homes and moving elsewhere. They became rental units, so there was less upkeep,” Mazzarella said. “A large part of the reason was based on the housing practices of banks. I can’t say which banks did which things, but the general concept of ‘red lining’ happened.”

Regulations developed by the Federal Housing Authority S t. J a m e s A M E Z i o n C h u r c h a n d S o u t h s i d e in the 1940s and C o m m u n i t y C e n t e r (O p p o s i t e ; D i a n e ‘50s were “blatantly D u t h i e) ; C l e v e l a n d Av e . (a b ov e ; J o s h discriminatory:” banks B r o k aw) ; j o h n S i m o n a n d C a l Wa l k e r would not lend to (p r ov i d e d) homeowners in mixedrace neighborhoods, contemporary newspaper accounts, during or else home-buyers could not get their 2000 developer William Lower demolished loans guaranteed by the FHA. From its three houses he owned there in an effort to beginning, INHS has been an alternative get the city to change zoning so he could lender for those unable “to get loans from build a bank the edge of the Southside on conventional banks,” Mazzarella said.

Clinton Street and Cleveland Avenue. A dead-end had been created on Cleveland Avenue in 1999 as part of negotiations among neighbors, the city, and Lower. The With the end of legal red lining developer ended up building a duplex at (helped by legislation like the Community 225 Cleveland Avenue and refusing a city Reinvestment Act of 1977), along with offer to buy his land to put in a park. That the end of discriminatory neighborhood dead-end has created what Simon called associations, African Americans were “an idyllic block,” a feeling abetted by the more able to move where they wished. picturesque iron streetlights installed in an Jenkins said she knew people who left the effort to deter a rash of street crime in the Southside both to find larger homes and ‘90s, improvements that increased the area’s to “downsize” after retirement; others, she desirability. said, returned to the South from where Despite the high cost of living, Jenkins they had migrated. said she finds it easy to live in the city by The INHS mission hasn’t changed, but staying within her family’s means. The its challenges have evolved. expectation that people can find rents “Twenty years ago a big part of what comparable more to rural areas than New INHS was doing was marketing the York City is outdated, Jenkins said – “All Southside and Northside as good places the places have gotten nicer.” to live, where people could buy property,” “If you want lower rents,” Jenkins said, Mazzarella said. “Now people want to live “you’ll have to move to the outskirts of here and buy homes here and it has driven Ithaca.” up the price so much its not affordable.”

Hagood tied the economic challenges “There was a good intention,” Tsegaye of contemporary times to the loss he said of INHS’ work in the neighborhood, perceives in community feeling among “but as they remodeled it made it more working people, black or white. expensive for people to live here. The “Everyone’s so busy making money to neighborhood was absolutely transformed.” pay the rent, it’s more about me-me than A planned physical transformation of us,” Hagood said. the neighborhood went partway to fruition “The natural beauty of Ithaca was between 1999 and 2003. According to always free. They’re charging for it now.” •

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Southside History Tompkins County historian Carol Kammen says that Southside was well located, in that it was between downtown and the inlet. In the first half of the 19th century, when Ithaca started becoming settled, the major sources of employment for laborers were either along the inlet, an industrial and shipping area, and at Edward Esty’s tannery along Six Mile Creek, near the intersection of Green and Tioga streets.

The boggy farmland along Six Mile Creek where the Southside is now was likely not the most desirable land to settle for more affluent whites who had their choice of locations to live. The Southside was integrated from its early days, Kammen said, as Irish immigrant laborers also lived in the area.

The black community’s tie to the area was cemented in 1836 with the establishment of St. James AME Zion Church, an important stop on the Underground Railroad. According to Claudia Jenkins, in her backyard on Green Street one can feel the ground move: that’s because the yard is above a tunnel that runs into her house from St. James used by people escaping slavery.

Commercial enterprises rarely flourished among Ithaca’s black community because “there was very little access to credit,” Kammen said.

“Barbering was a good job, but you had to decide if you’d barber only white people or black people.”

According to Kammen, it was hard for blacks to buy a house outside of the Wheat Street, now Cleveland Ave., area or around North Albany Street near GIAC’s current location. According to an oral history conducted by Ingrid Bauer in 2001, race-restrictive deed covenants were legal until 1948 and “common in new subdivisions near Cornell, as well as in the suburbs on West Hill and South Hill.”

So once Cornell opened in 1865, jobs for cooks and cleaners opened up for men and women on East Hill, but there was little chance of blacks living near their work unless they “lived-in” with a white family as a domestic servant.

Both the occupations and the locations of African Americans in Ithaca started changing more by the 1950s.

Lucy Brown remembered that all the waiters at the Ithaca Hotel were black in her childhood.

“That was an evolving process and at one time that was lily white too,” Brown told Deirdre Hazel Pauline Hill, who wrote a master’s thesis at Cornell on Ithaca’s black community in 1994.

In the census data, more black men start to become identified as “skilled” laborers by 1920, with jobs at Morse Chain, the gas company, the salt company, and the ‘Air Craft’ company.

Still, “opportunities for young black men, especially if upwardly mobile and with a skill, were probably not in Ithaca,” Kammen said. That made for a mobile population that never grew to a great size: those who achieved some prosperity were propelled into a “different social milieu” and often disappear from the records, Kammen said, having likely moved to other cities with larger black populations and more opportunities. • 2 4

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and it turns out they weren’t trespassing and shouldn’t have been arrested.”

The district attorney and defense attorneys had a deal worked out in April 2015 for numerous dismissals, but that was rescinded when 19 more people were arrested at the Crestwood gates on Earth Day, April 22.

Recent arrests by Schuyler County sheriff ’s deputies at protests have been on disorderly conduct charges, a charge which Fazzary said his office is “ready to continue with the prosecution.”

The dismissed charges stem from 11 separate protests, beginning in early November 2014 and going through September 2015.

The list of dismissals includes many Tompkins County residents: Of Caroline: Irene Weiser.

Of Dryden: Joan Jedele, Protester Camille Doucet declares her love for Seneca Lake on Valentine’s Day Nancy Koschmann. at the Reading gas storage facility. (Provided) Of Enfield: Martha Fischer, Arthur Godin.

Of Ithaca: Lisa Feldman, Greg Copeland, Keith Liblick, Ripperton, Todd Saddler, Jim Shaw, Tobi Phil Terrie, John Hoffman, Ariel Gold, Larry Hirshberger, Camille Tischler, Linda Finlay, Rebecca Elgie, Neil Golder, George Adams, Sylvia Bailey, Lisa DeBoer, Mariah Prentiss, Regi Teasley, Josh Dolan, Tessa Flores, Zan Gerrity, Ira Goldstein, Gabrielle Illava, Barbara Pease, Stephanie Redmond, James Ricks, Ba Stopha, Ann Sullivan.

Of Lansing: Karen Edelstein, John Dennis, Margaret McCasland.

Of Trumansburg: Rachel Kennedy, Kate Lamarre, Mark Scibilia-Carver, and two charges against Dan Burgevin.

Of Ulysses: Krys Cail, Joe Sliker, Ken Zeserson.

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Fab 5 Awards Recognize Hard Work The Fab 5 awards ceremony will be held at Coltivare, 235 S. Cayuga St., on Monday, Feb. 29 from 5:30 to 9 p.m.

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Ithaca is a smaller place, but as Tompkins Trust Company CEO Greg Hartz said, “There was a real sense that we had some great young professionals in this community. This is a special place, and it takes community leaders to make it that way.” And so the Fab 5 Awards were born.

Tompkins Trust sponsored the awards and the chamber collected the nominations in five categories.

Tompkins Connect, a local organization for young professionals, grew out of Ithaca Forward when the United Way and the Ithaca/Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce signed a memorandum of understanding that funded the group. Several members of this group fostered the idea of the awards and presented it to Tompkins Trust. “They made this possible,” said Ryan McCune, the membership services and program manager at the chamber of commerce.

While the Fab 5 Awards are not on the grand scale of “40under40” in other cities, the Ithaca recognition will be accorded for five specific categories, rather than plucking 40 folks at random from the business community. The categories are best entrepreneur, best business leader, best not-for-profit leader, best volunteer, and rookie of the year.

Rookie of the Year When Ducson Nguyen moved in here in 2009 he didn’t think that he would be pursuing elective office, certainly not only six years into his tenure here, but in November he found himself as the top vote getter for the race to be alderperson for the Second Ward. Describing himself as an “introverted software programmer,” Nguyen became more interested in government after being introduced to Alderperson Seph Murtagh (D-2nd) and Mayor Svante Myrick at a Tompkins Connect meeting. They did not seem like “obvious political types” to him in that neither had a background in political science or the law.

Nguyen is from New Jersey, across the river from Philadelphia and has an engineering degree from Rutgers University. He moved to Ithaca as a trailing spouse—his wife teaches psychology at Tompkins Cortland Community College— and found a job at Grammatech, a software company that does “innovative security research.” Raised in the suburbs, he loves living in downtown Ithaca.

Since his election to the Common Council in November Nguyen has been on

integrating other health-care providers, like psychologists and physical therapists, into the alliance. At this point this doesn’t include non-allelopathic practitioners like chiropractors, but said Lawlis, “Things are changing every year.

a learning curve. “It’s really fascinating,” he said. “There are more meetings than I anticipated, talking to people at non-profits and members of the public reaching out, but it has been a lot of fun and a lot of reading.”

Nguyen is an advocate for the construction of more housing downtown. He, for example, was a supporter of the proposed “Triangle Ducson Nguyen building” and will also work to change waterfront zoning from industrial to mixed-use. “I would like to get away from building on large lots,” he said. “I prefer a more urban style with retail on the ground floor and more on-demand manufacturing.”

Volunteer of the Year Emily Carroll has been in private practice as a massage therapist since 2003, and she began working with clients at Hospicare the following year.

“One of my former instructors at the Finger Lakes School of Massage told me they were looking for volunteers,” she said. “During school we had worked with seniors. Generally you use lighter pressure and, if they’re ill, you have to be more creative with positioning them to make sure they are comfortable.”

Working with hospice patients can be “very intense emotionally,” she said, especially Emily Carroll when she meets (Diane Duthie) family members in their home.

There are also special considerations regarding the patients.

“I have to be very alert with my communication cues from non-verbal people,” Carroll said. “I have to listen to the patient’s body for things like breathing changes.”

Carroll said her volunteer work is not a large time commitment, but her home visits mean that “family members can take a break.” She sees some patients for a month and a half and others for six months.

“It’s not uncommon for the imminently dying to pull away from touch,” she said.

“They have one foot in the other world, and when I get that cue, it’s time to stop.”

Business Leader of the Year Robert Lawlis is the executive director of the Cayuga Area Plan/Preferred and the Cayuga Area Physicians’ Alliance (CAPa).

CAPa partners with Cayuga Medical Center to own and manage the Cayuga Area Plan, Inc. and Cayuga Area Preferred, Inc. In other words, Lawlis manages the business side of health care in this region.

He does not, however, have a business or medical background. He has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from University of Maine, Orono and his master’s degree in systems engineering from Cornell.

He began working at Cayuga Medical Center four years ago and has been director of CAP since 2013.

His job is to design systems and processes that allow medical services and Robert Lawlis information to flow through the regional network of health-care providers as efficiently as possible.

Lawlis characterized the physicians’ alliance as a lot of different, independent organizations, large and small, trying to be a health network. “We are the glue,” he said.

“We’re a necesseary bureaucracy.”

The alliance serves as a governance mechanism and includes a number of governance committtees staffed by physicians. Lawlis works with the chairs of all the committees.

“I do a lot of analytics,” he said, “but I’m also the chief oiler of the operation.”

He noted that the doctors are competitors, but the alliance requires them to be collaborators.

Going forward Lawlis will be

Non-profit Leader of the Year David Shapiro is the president of Family & Children’s Services, which he describes as “the largest mental health outpatient clinic in town. We’re a voice for those without a voice.”

Shapiro said that the county mental health clinic serves people with more persistent problems and with a larger medical component. Family & Children’s is the county’s largest provider of services to children, but Ithaca College and Cornell students faculty are also referred to them.

“It’s unique to have a clinic of our size,” he said, “that serves so many demographics.” Part of Shapiro’s job is to be out in the community, speaking with his colleagues in other non-profits and government officials.

“When I see pockets of people who aren’t represented, then I wonder why,” he said. “Do we not have the right kind of outreach?” Right now he is working on expanding service to children in rural towns who are experiencing social and emotional difficulties, to homeless children, T

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Shapiro has been in Ithaca for five years, arriving here David Shapiro from New York City where he was running homeless shelters. He has his master’s degree in public administration from Baruch College in Manhattan.

Challenges ahead include drug treatment. He sees a problem with the separation of mental health and drug treatment funding. “I don’t think we’re funded enough,” he said, “and they’re funded less.”

Entrepreneur of the Year Joey Durgin has started up two businesses at almost the same time. In November 2015 he became a partner in Black Irish Boxing with his mentor and coach Patrick O’Connor, and in January he has launched the Ithaca Kombucha company Durgin came to Ithaca from the North Country to attend Ithaca College, earning a master’s degree in exercise science. He was doing small-group training at Island Health Joey Durgin & Fitness when he decided to start his own gym. The focus at Black Irish Boxing is half on boxing and half on strength and conditioning. “We give people the tools,” he said, “to create strength, to be more confident people.”

A massage therapist introduced Durgin to kombucha, a fermented tea. “I tried it and noticed that it fit my flavor palette,” he said. “I like things that are acidic rather than sweet, like dry wines and ciders.”

By 2012 he had his own smoke shed and was sharing his brew with friends.

“I started brewing more and selling out,” Durgin said, “and decided that this should be a legitimate business.”

Now he uses the kombucha vinegar mixture to make a barbecue and a hot sauce.

He decided to market the kombucha itself as an alcoholic drink (it has about 5 percent alcohol) rather than as a food, so his product is in the regulatory process now. But soon he will be selling starter kits for making your own kombucha and a salad dressing with a kombucha base.

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Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) is “a vital part of the overall economic and workforce development of our communities” and that currently state support for the TC3 is only 25 percent of the college’s operating budget, well below the 40 percent allowed by state law.

“Tompkins Cortland Community College’s current base aid, in spite of recent state increases, remains $78 per FTE (full-time equivalent) lower than it was five years ago and has not kept pace with mandated increases in health insurance and many other contractual obligations,” according to the resolution, which asks the governor to support a $285 per FTE base aid increase.

The vote came after a presentation about Tompkins Cortland Community

College by TC3 President Carl Haynes, who touched on a number of subjects, including a new $5.5 million childcare center.

The center would accommodate up to 80 infants and toddlers whose parents would be a mix of TC3 students, staff, faculty, and possibly a few community Rendering of planned daycare center at TC3 (Image provided)

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members if extra space is available. Hanes guessed about 90 percent would be the children of students.

The daycare would also be an opportunity for students in Early Childhood Education and other programs to have real-world training. The center would be located west of the college’s main entrance, between the main campus building and the college’s pond.

“It’s an exciting time for the early childhood education program,” said Carol Sammis, Early Childhood Education program chair.

There are multiple ways that it will enhance learning for students, but there are two principal things that will make a big difference, she said. One main advantage is that the new proposed center will provide infant care as well as daycare for preschool age children. Currently the campus childcare center can accommodate only 30 children, and it only accepts children who are more than 18 months old.

Also, there will be observation booths where students can view the children without having to be in the classroom.

“Our current childcare center rooms are very small, and if you put an extra adult body in the room it really changes the dynamic for the children,” she said.

Students in the Early Childhood program are required to fulfill 45 hours of infant care observation, 112 hours of participation in a preschool teaching team, and an internship. Currently TC3 partners with childcare providers in Cortland and Ithaca. “Having the access right here on campus is a real benefit,” Sammis said. “We do have a population of students that live here in the resident halls who don’t have reliable transportation to go off campus, so for them it’s hard to fulfill some of the requirements.”

Sammis said the childcare center that currently exists is mostly aimed at meeting the needs of TC3 students with children rather than new mothers or students in the Early Childhood Program. “That’s certainly an honorable objective, but this plan is just able to serve more students, continued on page 13

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Making Out Like a Bandit

JV club hockey team survives grueling faceoff

By Ste ve L aw re nc e

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ob Dylan was right… “The times, they are a changin’…”

I remember being a young sports fanatic, and if I wanted to play baseball, I walked a quarter of a mile to the Little League fields, where there was always a game in progress. If I wanted to play some hoops, I rode my bike over to the local Boys’ Club, about a mile away.

For the players on the Ithaca Bandits junior varsity club hockey team, it’s not quite that easy. On many occasions over the course of this season, the team piles into one of Ron Lower’s First Class Limousine buses, they drive to Buffalo for an 8 p.m. game, they get back on the bus at 10:30 p.m., and they drive back to Ithaca. One time, the team arrived back in Ithaca at 1:30 a.m. on a school day, but the coaches make sure that does not happen often.

My buddy Rick Kuhar’s son, Richie, plays on the team, and Rick told me, “Many high school programs do not have a junior varsity team, due to the expense, so kids and their families find other ways to play, like on these club teams.”

He added, “NY State High School Club Hockey is governed by AAU [Amateur Athletic Union], and we play in the Western NY High School Club Hockey League [WNYHSCHL]. In the WNYHSCL, there are 23 JV Club teams in four divisions based on school size.”

Rick pointed out that “We see a lot of teams from private schools, and there are some top-notch Catholic schools, so that makes for a real challenge.” I asked why, and Kuhar explained that private schools can essentially recruit players, and when you add in the fact that many TC3daycare contin u ed from page 12

particularly students with infants who can’t go back to school right now because they can’t get care,” she said. “It really expands the opportunities for more adults to consider being students.”

The college has always made an effort to keep the cost of childcare for students low while paying its childcare providers a fair wage, said Sammis. “There has been that commitment from the college, and I believe that will continue to be in place,” she said.

Bruce Ryan, TC3 Dean of External Relations, said preliminary plans for the $5.5 million project include a $1.5 endowment so to allow the college to offer childcare on a sliding scale based on

of the teams are from areas with a much larger population base, the Ithaca team is up against some real powerhouses. Rick laughed and said, “I often call this ‘The Little Engine That Could’ kind of team.”

For example, Rick said there was a particular team that had 18 kids try out … for goalie! This year’s Ithaca Bandits JV squad consists of 12 skaters and two goalies, making conditioning crucial, as opponents usually have a much deeper bench.

“We’re lucky if we get eighteen kids, period!” Kuhar said. “But somehow, we do well.”

Indeed they do. The team won the NY State Championship last year, and with their playoff victory last weekend at The RINK in Lansing, they learned that they are headed back to the State Championship Tournament for a shot at two consecutive NY State Championships.

Rick told me about a particularly grueling chain of events that really showed the team’s mettle. He said, “Last weekend we traveled to Buffalo to play a very tough St. Joseph’s team, and they clobbered us 4-nothing.” Given it was a best-of-three playoff, St. Joseph’s—bringing a whole lot of confidence after that lopsided win— came to Ithaca the next day to finish off the hosts and move on.

Kuhar, always one to provide a breathless play-by-play (I love him for that), said, “Facing elimination, somehow our team turned it up a notch and returned the whooping 3-0. This forced a “mini-10-minute game” to determine the winner. After 10 minutes, we ended 0-0. On to another 10-minute game. By this time, you would imagine our short

The Bandits, suited up. (Photo provided)

bench would be completely exhausted, being outmanned by the larger St. Josephs team. But somehow, we scored a goal at the three-minute mark and held on by sheer guts to preserve the victory.”

The Ithaca Bandits JV Club Hockey Team’s roster consists of: PJ Shager, Richie Kuhar, Dave Uhlig, Chris Kiely, Peter Estill, Brian Conuel, Ronnie Lower, Marshall McGrath, Trevor Bollinger, Connor Thayer, Ben Mclafferty, Jamie Weatherbee, Jack Travis, and Alek Travis.

The Head Coach is Russ Johnson, and the Assistant Coach is Conor Stokes.

Ithaca will play Canisius in the League Championship finale Saturday, Feb. 27 in Buffalo, and will play in the NY State Championships March 4-6 in Jamestown, New York.

• • • I wrote last week that the Ithaca High JV basketball coach was Jordan Buck, and I was mistaken. My apologies to coach Shane Taylor, and congratulations on a great season and STAC championship! We will change it in the online story. Sorry about that! •

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ability to pay.

The construction of the new building is projected to cost $3.5 million, and another $500,000 will be used to repurpose the space inside the main building where the childcare center currently exists.

TC3 will fund the project using $2.5 million in state funds; $2 million has already been raised in private funds, and the college plans to fundraise the remaining $1 million. According to Haynes, a fundraising campaign is set to launch in June.

Ryan said that if all goes as planned construction would begin in 2017 and end sometime in 2018 with doors opening by the beginning of the fall semester 2018.

Funds raised from this event will help to purchase a portable ultrasound machine that offers crisp, clear images of the heart and vascular structures. This helps clinicians evaluate cardiac concerns, improve care in defibrillator, pacemaker and cardiac catheterization procedures.

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Legislators Dave McKenna (R-Enfield), Glenn Morey (R-Lansing) and Dooley Kiefer (D-Lansing) voted no, and Legislators Mike Sigler (R-Lansing) and Leslyn McBean-Clairborne (D-Ithaca) were excused.

Legislature Vice-Chair Dan Klein (D-Ithaca), who is also chair of the county Government Operations Committee, introduced the resolution. Klein cited the census data, which asked people about whether or not they vote and, for those who didn’t, asked why. “The number one reason was that they were ‘too busy,’ so that’s one of the rationale behind this, to make voting easier for the residents of Tompkins County,” Klein said. Thirty-seven states have already adopted the practice of early voting, according to the resolution.

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t the Feb. 16 meeting of the Tompkins County Legislature, the board passed a resolution in response to a provision in the New York State budget that proposes counties should provide early voting sites for up to 12 days prior to elections. The board passed the resolution in a 9-to-3 vote, but several members noted that the county would have to foot the bill for the unfunded mandate.

Klein said the state government is proposing one voting site for every 50,000 registered voters, and Tompkins County has currently has 49,500, which means that if nothing changes there would only need to be one early voting site for the whole county. The number of elections varies each year, causing the expense to shift, but election commissioners estimated it would cost the county between $16,000 and $32,000 each year, Klein said.

As proposed by the governor, early voting would be provided for special, primary, and general elections only and will not include village or school district elections. If the state legislature passes it into law, it will go into effect in 2017.

New York State estimates that the cost to counties would be about $3 million to $4

million statewide, and the second part of the resolution states that New York State should reimburse counties for the added cost of the mandate.

“I’ve thought for a long time that this is something we should have been doing,” said Legislator Martha Robertson (D-Dryden).

“I’ve had the experience of young people coming into the community and talking to me about this and being shocked that we don’t have early voting.”

“We’d like to encourage voting during the three off years, not just presidential years when people make more of an effort,” she added.

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A Chat with Joan Folk heroine still burns for truth and justice

by G.M. Burns

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oan Baez is used to her life on the road as a folk musician, civil rights activist, and mother. Baez saw early in her career that her voice could be lent to the struggles of racial equality and justice.

Now 75 years old, Baez has worked against war and human rights injustice with her ringing voice on countless tours, and thus far has released 24 studio albums and seven live records in the U.S. Baez has embarked on an 18-city tour while teaming up again with the human rights organization Amnesty International to focus attention on the escalating injustice of mass incarceration within North America. Baez will perform on Feb. 28 at the State Theatre, and the Ithaca Times caught up with Baez to talk about this tour and her music.

Ithaca Times: You have been writing, singing, and touring in music for more than five decades, Ms. Baez, but can you say what has been the biggest change you’ve seen in music?

Joan Baez: Oh dear, that’s a big one. Well, taking it back to when I started, it’s immense. I mean, I started with two microphones, one for the voice and one for the guitar, and a big wire that went along a big ballroom in New York City and up to a tape recorder. So personally the changes are monumental. Then if you mean changes in the music we have been listening to, it’s gone through the changes we are all aware of.

For me, the beginning was very folky, and then it became electric, and then there was the invasion from Europe, from England, and heavier and heavier rock, and then at some point—I kind of lose track—I am aware that there was tremendous writing by “young women songwriters.” They were more visible than the guys who were writing, but really it was a lot of young people writing songs. And now it’s sort of like—I’m just mouthing off the top of my head—it’s almost as if there are two

Joan Baez at home (Photos Provided)

groups of music, and one of them is Taylor Swift. I saw this amazing quote by a guy who was commenting on her concert, here in San Jose: “Well, her voice is better, but I didn’t like the show.” You know, I thought, “Oh my dear, goodness.”

And at the same time there are more and more young people becoming aware of the status of the world and trying to match that with the music, which is difficult because it’s almost impossible to write an anthem, and it’s difficult to write a good song.

IT: What insights has music given to you about people? Anything?

JB: That’s kind of too big to deal with, you know. The first thing that comes up is my mother and classical music. It was a childhood of listening to classical music, and in the end, Mom ended a few years ago—attributing to her so much of my childhood of important music. My favorite opera singer is like a gift from her, and that was [Jussi] Bjorling from Sweden. And he was like our little pact; it was such gorgeous music. And, you know, sometimes the music probably doesn’t mean much to the person, it’s just what they have written.

IT: Do you think that folk music moves people more than other music, and if so, in what way?

JB: It depends. Some people are not interested in it. Some people really are moved by another kind of music. I mean, there are bluegrass festivals where people spend the entire time listening to bluegrass. I mean, they really must love it; it must do something for them. I like it, but it’s not something I’m going to the whole weekend of. Sure, that differs with people. A friend of mine says, “Oh, I can’t stand country and Western.” Well, I love country and Western. And she loves something else—Adele, who I also love. But somebody will get hooked on that and at the expense of all their other music. [Laughs] T

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JB: Well, I think it crosses not just the borders of countries, but the boundaries of people, who have themselves well-protected, and it probably brings them out of that and heals them. And even vibrations of certain music that is used for certain times in your life and the dying process. And those things I don’t even know a lot about or understand, but I just know they exist. And there are a million CDs of them. So that’s kind of the more graphic “how does it heal.”

For me there is no healing without it.

It’s just what makes my heart swell, and makes me weepy, and it can be just that. It can be just half of a CD. It can be something very meaningful. I was just listening now to Antony and the Johnsons’ song “Another World.”

Do you know the song?

IT: No. JB: O.K. Well, Antony changed her name and her gender recently—I didn’t know that.

But it’s just so plaintive—that it moves me. I don’t know how to explain it.

“I need another world. I need another place. Will there be peace?

I need another world. This one’s nearly gone. I’m going to miss the bees. I’m going to miss the snow. I’m going to miss the things that grow. I’m going to miss this world again.”

And it’s so over-poweringly sad and meaningful that it kind of determined my morning.

IT: Jumping into your tour, you have a long working relationship with the human rights organization Amnesty International, and you are currently working with the group again. Can you say how this came to pass for you?

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Through Panels of Dimension Gallery showcases the style of cartoonist/painter

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t might not be saying much, but Jim Garmhausen is probably one of Ithaca’s most widely recognized visual artists. A newspaper cartoonist turned painter, muralist, and mixedmedia maven; his distinctive style and iconography will be familiar to regular gallery goers and ordinary Ithacans alike.

Insistently droll, his art bridges the comicgrotesque storytelling of his print years with a gallery artist’s love of materials.

His latest exhibit, “The Otherworld of Jim Garmhausen,” is up this month and next (Feb. 5 through March 21) at eye, a recently opened gallery on the Commons founded and run by Julie SimmonsLynch. (It’s located at 126 East State Street, above Petrune on the Commons.)

It stands in marked contrast to Garmhausen’s last major downtown exhibit, which was held about a year ago at the Community Arts Partnership’s ArtSpace. The concision of that show— which featured large works on unframed canvas dropcloths—was well suited for the

gallery but less so for the artist. At eye, the visitor is confronted by the sheer range of Garmhausen’s work: a large black-andwhite piece on unframed paper, numerous smaller collage-paintings in scavenged frames, a folding screen, painted skateboards, altered books, even modified bottles and coffee cups. Put together in close collaboration with Simmons-Lynch, the presentation feels like a homecoming.

Four on the Floor is the show’s literal centerpiece. Painted with acrylic on canvas and sealed with polyurethane, the black-and-white piece rests in the middle of the main gallery room and is made to be walked on—or even lied upon, as some have been seen doing. Self-deprecating whimsy aside, the piece is ingeniously conceived, with four male figures, standing (perhaps reclined), oriented in alternating directions, encouraging a walk-around. Stiff, even corpse-like, the bulk of the artist’s attention has been lavished on their pale, mask-like, shuteyed faces.

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unframed paper, Black Market/Frankie the Rabbit Guy, (acrylic, ink) recalls the work from Garmhausen’s CAP exhibit but is perhaps better realized. Shown against an even black background, the piece is dominated by two large figures, seen facing each other in profile. (Like most of the artist’s non-animal characters, they appear to be male.) The fellow on the left has a flame-like curl of hair and dangles a (toy?) bunny by the ears.

His partner on the right wears a hood.

Smaller, peripheral figures—two of them smoking—enliven the composition. The figures sport demented grins and tubelike, robotic arms.

Although the artist has long worked on found, textured surfaces, the smaller hanging pieces here reflect a recent turn towards full-fledged collage. The acrylic and ink collage Where Does the Time Go? is notable for its cut-out deconstruction of his drawn and painted figures—an interesting direction in search of further development.

Some of these pieces are too “pop” for this highbrow scribe: the colors too strident or the cartooniness too simplistic.

Still, the best work here—particularly in black and white—needs no apology. And it’s difficult not to be won over by the sheer multifarious energy the artist brings to his work.

As a promotion for the show, Garmhausen has created his first comic strip in years. Marvelously drawn and plotted (if excruciating in its wordplay) it represents a partnership between the artist and Simmons-Lynch, who is a former editor of Heavy Metal magazine.

A new set of strips from one of our most distinctive artists is emblematic of the out-of-the-box thinking she is bringing in to Eye. According to the artist, another future direction may be a move into assemblage: three-dimensional constructions built from a variety of found materials. Pioneered by 20thcentury artists like Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Cornell, the genre has also attracted the attention of talented local sculptors such as Victoria Romanoff and Jane Dennis. (Somebody should put together a carefully selected group show.)

I hesitate to cheerlead for a local gallery, but it is difficult to miss the new energy that eye has brought to the accomplished but predictable downtown gallery scene. For her next exhibit, Simmons-Lynch is featuring Melissa Zarem, whose richly drawn and painted abstractions on paper have brought her increasing local recognition in the past few years. Not to be missed, of course. •

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Light artist strives for the distant and beyond

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You can’t help but think of the Greek philosopher Plato’s utterly mesmerizing allegory the “Myth Of The Cave” (part of n a dark corridor, behind a strange the Republic) when baby-stepping around corner, situated in a museum, atop Schreiber’s installation. Plato’s allegory, a hill, there exists—temporarily—a which purposes the idea that human beings passage into a sort of hallucinatory are much like prisoners—chained by their dimension that is caused by the necks, unable to turn or look in any other architectural placements of numerous direction, with an eternally lit fire to their laser beams. Once the door is opened to backs projecting shadows on a cave wall in this corridor, and you stroll on through to front of them—fits aptly with the illusions this illusory state, it may seem as if you’re Schreiber’s lasers omit. The shadows are walking straight towards the end of the the only reality for the prisoners in Plato’s universe, but alas, you’re not; a dark wall tale. In Crossbow, we have the chance stops you in your tracks, and you’re turned to mediate on this metaphor, churning around to face yet another geometric supposition like a science experiment. apparition.

Plato used the metaphor to illustrate how humans lack the comprehension to grasp the metaphysical. Schreiber proposes we have some fun with these uncertainties.

Crossbow changes structural form constantly. Depending on where you stand in the space, the laser beams dictate the reality—or illusion—you experience. As a viewer, you have the ability to move around; freely dictating your semblance. You can use the space to propagate your own A viewer immersed in Matthew Schreiber’s Crossbow (Photo Provided) celestial hopes, and perhaps this is the true ulterior motive of the exhibit: to locate your own specific illusions Matthew Schreiber’s light installation to morph through, bend, compensate, and Crossbow, meditating inanimately at the hope for. Like the stars that hover in the Johnson Museum of Art presently, serves great night sky, Schreiber’s constellations as a sort-of vivos usu, representative of the are both representational and melancholy; artist’s long-tenured methodology and the beams will turn off, but what about the science-fiction worship. As a work of art, impressions? the installation dips its electromagnetic The fact that Crossbow is both wings in varying academic templates and whimsical and scientific—invoking cultural behemoths, forging a brawny movements, specific procedures, and popcombo of learned trades, technical thrills, culture phenomena including Dadaism, theoretical possibilities, and kitschy Futurism, photorefractive keratectomy, fantasy—very noble and very lively. space exploration, photocoagulation, Schreiber served as chief lighting Star Wars, films like Tron and Dark Star, expert for the artist James Turrell for 13 books like Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, and long years. Turrell, the cowboy-ish lightCarrie Fischer’s jerk boyfriend Aleksandr mystic artist, is probably best known for Petrovsky (he was the light artist in Sex and his earthwork still in progress: the Roden the City, remember)—altogether makes Crater, located in Flagstaff, Arizona. The for an exhilarating experience that truly specifics of the piece involve the celestial, invokes the fundamentals in the pursuit of the spatial, and the financial. If you want to peace, love, and prosperity. view the earthwork you have to complete a A brave nostalgia is at the ultimate Turrell Tour, which involves seeing one of crux of Crossbow, one that meditates on the artist’s pieces in 23 different countries. the long search for meaning in a corrupt Yikes. Talk about science fiction. society, adheres to the dreaming of proton Schreiber, on the other hand, bends pulses of distant galaxies, and acts as the towards the accessible. Crossbow is very much Coney Island freak show, cross-link to a brilliantly crazy stroll along Boston Museum of Science fantasy, a boardwalk in the perfection of a summer and late ‘60s-era (think Star Trek, the night. It’s all hoot—specific, expanding, and original series) mysticism. And this is illusory. You can’t help but smile. • commendable. The best art is accessible,

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he Spring Buffet is not really a Chinese or even an Asian restaurant; it has a little bit of everything. Of the six freestanding buffet tables in the center of the restaurant, only one is wholly devoted to Asian dishes. In addition to these tables there is a sushi bar and a hibachi station, where meat and vegetables are cooked fresh on the grill after you select them. In yet another area there are four cauldrons of different soups next to a table that improbably juxtaposes cooked seafood on ice alongside pastries. The pastries are across the alcove from a freezer with a selection of six types of ice cream.

Like many of these restaurants, this is a very large space, with one dining room lit up by a wall of windows and another one entirely windowless but decorated with an enameled wood wall. The place is abundantly staffed; there is a maître d’ to seat you and servers who take your drink orders and whisk away your plates as you make return trips to the buffet, as almost everyone who visits will do.

The food itself is of uneven quality, both in preparation and presentation.

Because the entire staff would seem to be Asian, including those who replenish the bins and cook at the hibachi station, it is perhaps unsurprising that the Asian dishes here are uniformly good, even delicious.

The entrée that stands out in memory, even after sampling easily a dozen other offerings, is the pepper beef (sometimes called pepper steak). It is so easy to

overcook these thin pieces of meat, and yet these were done to perfection: tender, moist, and flavorful. The green peppers and onions that complement the beef retained just the right amount of crispness, and the sauce was savory and simple.

The spicy chicken was similarly good.

It certainly lived up to its name, being visibly red with cayenne pepper, but it was also cooked in apparently very hot, fresh oil, as the chicken was contracted into almost a popcorn shape and had retained its succulence while being smartly browned on the outside.

The General Tso’s chicken was a bit less appealing. It was literally swimming in a pool of its own sauce, saturating the egg and cornstarch coating around the meat so that it was sodden rather than moist. That said, it tasted good, made slightly spicy by chili peppers and sour by rice-wine vinegar.

From there things got a little rocky.

Their hot and sour soup tasted as if it were made with pork broth, which is not unorthodox, but in this case was a bit heavy-handed. Much of the seafood offered had been sitting under the heating lamps for too long. This was also the case for the deep-fried, breaded items—which includes seafood, chicken, and vegetables—that are only good, like French fries, if they are hot and fresh.

Attempts to present standard American dishes like macaroni and cheese come off as oddly accented. The mac and cheese was undeniably edible, but the texture was

Above and below: Customers and food tables at Spring Buffet (Photos: Cassandra Palmyra)

strange, as if it were made with American cheesefood rather than actual cheese. This

is perhaps quite acceptable to a majority of American diners, but the upsurge in artisan takes on American comfort foods has been entirely missed by the Spring Buffet.

The salad bar here features only iceberg lettuce (again, the dietary trend toward leaf lettuces quite ignored) and the other vegetables offered are heavy on the canned and light on the fresh side. This is fine if you are fond of prepared olives and “bacon” bits, and a little thin if you like carrots or radishes (which are absent).

The desserts are many, varying from a bin of chocolate pudding to something labeled as “apple pie” but much more akin to a strudel (and the more delightful for it). In between you’ll find fresh and canned fruits, macaroons, sugar cookies dyed a glow-in-the-dark yellow, and the aforementioned ice cream, complete with some sundae fixings.

In sum, this is an inexpensive ($11.99) feast for the gourmand, and has enough strengths to merit a visit. • Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are based on unannounced, anonymous visits. Reviews can be found at ithaca.com/dining

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Frey, who has the wonderful title of “director of history and heritage development and special projects” at WSKG television in Binghamton, worked on Harvest for two years.

“I was motivated by having done several films about industry,” Frey said, “and someone said, ‘I hope you do more, because that’s what this area is all about.’

And I thought, ‘Well, maybe the last

Early farm tractors (Photo: Verne Morton)

hundred years has been about industry, but the first hundred years was about farming.’”

The filmmaker writes, directs, produces, and edits his documentaries. For Harvest he spoke with about 30 people, 16 of whom appear in the film. Frey’s style owes something to that of Ken Burns, whose 1990 The Civil War miniseries introduced a new way of presenting historical documents and new footage. Like Burns, Frey intercuts among panoramic contemporary scenery shots, slow pans of historical photos, and interviews with historians, writers, and other germane people.

For Harvest Frey collected photographs and diaries from historical societies. For some of the aerial footage, Frey sought out drone owners. The latter provide part of the narration of the film. The filmmaker draws on the local theatre community for actors and actresses to read from the diaries.

Bill Gorman, a well-known local stage performer, narrates most of Frey’s films.

The score for Harvest is a spare acoustic piano accented by washes of synthesizer.

“Most of the people that I interviewed,” said Frey, “either grew up on farms in this area or they have studied farming.” Scott Peters, a sociology professor at Cornell, is in the latter category and will join Frey on this Saturday’s panel.

Frey himself does not come from a farming family. He grew up on Binghamton’s South Side and attended SUNY Plattsburgh, graduating with a degree in broadcasting. After a short stint in commercial broadcasting and some time working on freelance documentary films, he joined the staff at WSKG. A quarter century later he says that he has done nearly every job at the station, which, when you think about it, is a little like being a farmer.

With Harvest, which was originally shown during the fall pledge drive at WSKG, Frey hopes to show the changes that farming has undergone in the two centuries since the Haudenosaunee—also known as the Iroqouis—were driven onto reservations in New York, Canada, and Oklahoma. Frey begins his story of New York agriculture with the story of the 1687 French attack on the Seneca village of Ganondagan (near Canandaigua). JacquesRené de Brisay de Denonville, the governor general of New France, received astonished reports of the extent and quality of the Seneca’s corn, squash, and bean cultivated fields.

Although the story of the destruction of Iroquois farms by Denonville’s troops in the 17th century and the Sullivan Expedition in the 18th century was simply tragic, much of Frey’s documentary has a more elegiac tone. It looks back on an agricultural community that was once much larger.

“Farm Hill Days” (Photo: R.A. Randall)

“We continue to have a rich agricultural legacy,” said Frey. “People say that the farm family is gone, but that isn’t true. Ninety percent of farms are still family owned, but they have changed a lot.”

Industry began pulling young men away from farms in the second half of the 19th century, said Frey. Cornell University, as the regional land-grant institution, was there to help farmers cope with this loss of a labor force. The answer in many cases was mechanization, especially the introduction of the tractor.

“Horse culture went away,” Frey said.

“This had an impact on the farm, the family, and the community.” The decline in the labor force was followed by a decline in the number of farms, which began in the early 20th century and accelerated after World War II.

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At the end of Harvest Frey makes passing mention of the current state of the agricultural community, including the popularity of farmers markets, but he has left the rise of artisan, boutique, and CSA farming for another film.

In addition to Frey and Peters, the panel at the History Center will include Monika Roth of Cornell Cooperative Extension in Ithaca and Dan Carey, a member of the fourth generation to steward his family’s dairy farm in Groton. •

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Norwegian disaster film delves in the extreme

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Just in case I had forgotten some Belgian big-budget take on Earthquake, I figured I’d better run my theory past

my good pal Jamie Lewis, who is simply smarter than I am in all areas. Sure enough, he had something smart to say, and not because I had forgotten some obscure entry in a Leonard Maltin movie guide. He wrote me back: “Until the advent of CGI, disaster movies tended to be the sole prerogative of American cinema for three reasons: We didn’t have the money to blow s*** up.

Explosives are illegal in most of the rest of the world. Most of the rest of the world had already been blown up by America between 1939-1945.”

Interesting food for thought if, like me, you were raised on a steady diet of Airport movies and Irwin Allen’s greatest hits. (It

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just occurred to me that not only did I grow up absorbing the structure of movies like Airport and The Poseidon Adventure, but I was perfectly positioned in high school to appreciate Mad Magazine-style parodies like Airplane! and its sequel.)

Kristoffer Joner stars in The Wave as Kristian, a geologist about to leave his job at a seismic detection center for a more prestigious job in the city. He’s in the process of packing up his house

and moving his family out of town; his wife works at a high-rise hotel in a small Norwegian village called Geiranger. But as he’s packing up and saying goodbye, he notices several discrepancies with the sensors designed to provide ample warning for such calamities. Everyone else tells him not to worry, but a huge mass of rock tumbles into a fjord, setting off a huge 300-foot tsunami. With only 10 minutes to escape the approaching catastrophe, the villagers must rush to the mountains before the wave engulfs them all.

Interestingly for a film in this genre, Roar Uthaug’s 2015 film is based on actual data and Norway history. As stock footage and photographs show at the beginning of The Wave, Norway is a rockslide prone area and Uthaug’s gray, misty thriller is based on a rock-slide tsunami incident that destroyed a Norwegian town in 1934, killing 40 people. Prior to that in 1905, a similar incident triggered a tsunami killing 60 people, and 31 years later, another 74 lost their lives.

Uthaug is clearly a fan of Hollywood disaster films like Twister and Armageddon.

In this case, The Wave feels more immediate and intimate, and the humans reacting to the tsunami don’t get flattened in the process. Uthaug is already a better, more empathetic director than Michael Bay, and the challenge of making the film was to combine elements of the American genre film with the reality of the situation in Norway.

The Wave is more actor-friendly, more Deep Impact than Armageddon. If we keep it quiet, maybe we can avoid the obligatory impending American remake. •

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one day, and it just came up that there might be something I could do which does not involve 100 percent of my time, that can be useful in the world. And we went through a lot of possibilities, and then this one, I think, this one started in our heads after the bunch of assignations in South Carolina. “Well,” we said, “let’s try that.

What’s the best way to do it?”

We research a bunch of organizations, and Amnesty has people on the ground, and that is hugely important. Mostly young people that they can circulate in a crowd, inside and outside the hall, and just discuss it. You can join Amnesty; you can start a group—there are a number of things that people can do. A lot of people ask, “What can I do?” You pick something that moves you, and you try and see how people respond to this.

IT: Your current tour is bringing to light the problem with incarceration in the United States, because according to some sources America is number one in the world for its incarceration rate. Why has this problem mushroomed?

JB: I don’t know. People can’t figure out why Americans are so addicted to guns—absolutely addicted. This doesn’t happen in any other country. Anywhere.

So, it has to do with the make-up of this country, I guess. It’s all about protecting ourselves; it’s about bullying.

That’s why [Donald] Trump is so popular—because he’s a bully, you know.

He’ll say what he wants to say—it’s all basically nasty, what he has to say. And then those people at the moment with that mentality of kind of—they’ve taken the imagination of a lot of people who “want change,” but I don’t think they know what change is. I mean, any change for the better is certainly not what I hear spouting from Trump, or my values or the values of people I know, and the values of people all over the world, except some here.

IT: Do you think that’s more of an informational entertainment versus really helping and getting information out to people to make a change?

JB: Well, yeah, but it doesn’t mean he couldn’t be elected.

IT: Can you explain why there is such an increase in private prison companies?

JB: Money. It’s a really simple answer.

People can make money off of that kind of misery.

IT: Do you feel the American people control the prison system? How so?

JB: No, the private companies control it. It’s not the people. It’s government, and it’s … it’s the whatever is financially supporting it. I heard a whole long thing on it the other day on how one Mexican tried to get some care when he had a heart attack, and nobody knew and nobody cared, because with the privately owned prisons comes nothing. I mean no doctors.

There is one doctor for 3,000 people, and human life is not a priority.

IT: What can people do to remedy the high incarceration rates and work for justice?

JB: I think for me I want to see what

dictatorship—no comes out of our one could deal little program, with 200 letters whether it means coming to him joining Amnesty, in about this one which case you just prisoner, and help, among other they let out a lot things, organizing of prisoners. So I in groups what to don’t know what do. I mean, when the demands will Amnesty started it be and whether was all around letter we develop that as writing, which they we go along. discovered made Joining a difference. It was Amnesty is simply that some Joan Baez On the road (Photos Provided) something warden sitting in a actually people prison in Nicaragua can do, because it’s not just this issue, but did not want to receive—well, that’s a there are loads of things to actually do with bad example; let’s say in Brazil, under a

a part of your life.

IT: On a different note, you enjoy dancing, and the last time you were in Ithaca you went out to dance after your performance. Can you share your memories of that enjoyable evening?

JB: [Laughs]. I’m not sure which, because we go out and dance whenever we can. So, I’m not sure I’m going to be able to remember that exact time, but for me I had a reading once with a guy who was a medium, and he said, “Oh, I get it. You have a nice voice and everything, but the reason you are put on Earth is to dance.”

So I like that, because of the joy I get out of dance, and I lament that in most countries they don’t relate to it. I mean, in France they go out to eat after a show, and I prefer to dance. •

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3/01 Tuesday Music

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Ransom Jazz Collective | 7:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Jazz.

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Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock, Americana, Folk Rock, Country Rock, Roots.

The Hilltoppers | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Bluegrass.

The Tarps | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Live Jukebox Band.

Tru Bleu | 10:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Three musicians who are dedicated to writing, playing, and singing music with heart, soul, and meaning. latch (EP Release), Aviatrix, Kristina Camille | 8:00 PM-11:30 PM | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Electronic, Synth, Trip Hop, Jazz-Soul. Ithaca Underground presents.

2/26 Friday

BoomBox - Bits & Pieces Tour with Ben Silver | 9:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Rock and Roll, House, Funk, Psychedelic.

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

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

Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | With the Crucial Reggae Social Club. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser

Clint Bush | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Company, 2741 Hayes Rd., Montour Falls | Performing stripped down solo versions of the original songs Chris writes for the band Tractor Beam.

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

David Ramirez with Lucette | 9:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk, Americana.

Evan E. and the Flunk Schools | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Folk Rock.

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

Jennie Lowe Stearns | 9:00 PM | Casita Del Polaris, 1201 N Tioga St, # 2, Ithaca | Debuting new material. Folk, Indie, Pop. Liz Frame and the Kickers & Travis Rocco Duo | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Americana.

Rhythm & Brews | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 4, Burdett | Chris Fryzowski, Guitar and Vocals and Matt Szelig, Guitar, Percussion and Vocals.

The Felice Brothers with Better Barn Burning Bureau | 8:00 PM | The

2/25 Thursday DNA [First Among Equals] | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Social Music every Thursday 6-8 p.m.

Folk Night with Aaron Lipp and Friends | 6:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Folk, Singer Songwriter.

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Freiburg Baroque Orchestra w/ Christian Gerhaher | 8:00 PM | Bailey Hall, Cornell, Ithaca | Founded in 1987 by a group of musicians interested in

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Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers | 7:15 PM | Tompkins Cortland Community College, The Forum (Room 163, Main Building), Dryden | The chorus sings the music born of the struggles of slavery and the civil rights movement, of the joy of freedom and of the strength needed to move on. DCJS has more than 90 singers, including some of Ithaca College’s finest voice students soloing alongside community members of different ages (18 to 78), heritages and backgrounds.

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

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New York Young Men Singing | 4:30 PM | Sage Chapel, Cornell, Ithaca | Featuring the Cornell University Glee Club together with high school boys throughout the region, culminating their daylong workshop with Niall Crowley, one of Ireland’s leading conductors.

2/28 Sunday Jake Shulman-Ment performs with the Cornell University Klezmer Ensemble: An Evening of Jewish Klezmer Music | 7:00 PM | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Renowned klezmer violinist Jake Shulman-Ment returns to Cornell for an evening of boundary-breaking music, blending the sounds of East and West across the centuries, featuring both traditional tunes and original compositions by Shulman-Ment.

Contact tz95@cornell.edu for more info.

Joan Baez | 8:00 PM- | State Theater Of Ithaca, 107 W State St, Ithaca | Over 50 years into a remarkable career, her stunning soprano voice continues to enrapture audiences around the world.

Rick Pedro Ragtime Piano | 2:00 PM | Goodwill Theatre Firehouse, 46 Willow St, Johnson City | Local favorite Rick Pedro tickles the ivory with a mix of ragtime and contemporary music to suit all tastes!

Film Olive Branch Film Series: Ithaca Explores Palestine Through Films: Love, Theft, and Other Entanglements | 7:00 PM, 2/24

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B.D. Lenz | 6:00 PM-10:00 PM | Maxie’s Supper Club & Oyster Bar, 635 W State St, Ithaca | Contemporary Jazz.

Blue Skies | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM | Agava, 381 Pine Tree Rd, Ithaca | Folk.

Blues Plate Special | 4:00 PM-6:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | Bluegrass, Americana.

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

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

Kate MacLeod: WVBR Bound For Glory | 8:00 AM- | Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca | Folk, Singer Songwriter.

Ampersand Project | 3:00 PM-6:00 PM | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 4, Burdett | Acoustic Duo. Rock, Pop, Country.

Glacial Erotics, Ithaca Bottom Boys | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Rock, Post-Rock, Funk, Blues, Punk.

Glen Phillips of Toad The Wet Sprocket with Mike Brindisi and John O’Leary of The New York Rock | 8:00 PM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Alternative Rock.

Ire Clad Video Release show with Fox 45 and Undead Messengers | 8:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave, Ithaca | Heavy Metal, Doom Metal, Psychedelic Rock, Hard Rock.

Maple Hill | 10:00 PM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Pop Punk, Alternative Rock, Emo. The Spectacular Average Boys, Skribe | 8:00 PM | Ransom Steele

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Tavern, 552 Main St., Apalachin | Rock, Folk Rock, Roots, Alternative Rock.

Tim Sanphy | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Heavily Brewing Company, 2741 Hayes Rd., Montour Falls | Original Folk and Irish Music.

Zingology | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Golden Era American Jazz.

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

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

Irish Session | 8:00 PM-11:00 PM | Rulloff’s, 411 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Traonach

historical performance, the Freiburger Barockorchester tours worldwide and produces some of the very best recordings issued on the Harmonia Mundi, Virgin, Naïve, and Carus Verlag labels. The ensemble also excels in accompanying singers and presents an all-Mozart program of symphonies and opera arias showcasing German baritone Christian Gerhaher.

Wild Adriatic, Let’s be Leonard | 10:00 PM | Funk ‘n Waffles, 727 S Crouse Ave Ste 8, Syracuse | Rock and Roll, Blues, Soul, Rock.

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For info and showtimes visit syracusestage.org The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Runs 2/25 Thursday through 2/27 Saturday. Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield and Directed by Jeff Guyton. Tickets and info at http://events.cornell.edu/ Running to Places (R2P): Company: A Sondheim Spectacular | Lehman Alternative Community School (LACS) Blackbox Theatre, 111 Chestnut St., Ithaca | Exploring the depths of modern relationships through fabulous music and lyrics, and humor. Runs one weekend only: Feb. 26-28, Friday and Saturday at 7 PM, Sunday at 2 PM. Tickets are available at www.runningtoplaces.org and at the door. Call 607-216-8750 for more information.

WinterDance 2016 with the Ithaca Ballet | 7:30 PM, 2/27 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | WinterDance 2016 will showcase the absolute best in contemporary dance, presenting both brand new choreography as well as innovative pieces from the extensive Ithaca Ballet repertoire, some of which go back 25 years.

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Wednesday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | One show only, followed by discussion. Muayad Alayan’s 2015 black comedy about romance and desperation under the Israeli occupation. Stunningly filmed in sharply focused black-and-white. More information on the Olive Branch Film Series at http://olivebranchfilmsithaca. net/ Speciesism: Free Screening | 4:30 PM, 2/24 Wednesday | Goldwin Smith Kaufman Auditorium, Cornell, Ithaca | Director and producer Mark Devries explores the idea that being human is a good enough reason for human animals to have greater moral rights than non-human animal in his movie, Speciesism. Along the way, he meets and questions a remarkably broad range of people, including Peter Singer (one of the most influential philosophers alive), Richard Dawkins (evolutionary biologist), and Temple Grandin (designer of the animal handling systems used by over half of the slaughterhouses in the United States). cinemapolis

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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 | Son of Saul (Saul fia) | In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son. | 107 mins R |

Anomalisa | A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary. | 90 mins R | The Lady In The Van | A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that’s parked in his driveway. | 104 mins PG-13 | 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| A War (Krigen) | Company commander Claus M. Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria (Tuva Novotny) is trying to hold everyday life together with a husband at war and three children missing their father.

During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy crossfire and in order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that has grave consequences

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(or should we say paws?)! The new reel will feature approximately 100 cat videos culled from nominations by the public in the categories of Comedy, Drama, Animated, Musical, Action, Vintage, and Documentary. | 65 mins PG | Kid Flix 1 | A rare opportunity to see the best short animation from this year’s New York International Children’s Film Festival, work from around the world that is sure to delight young audiences. All films in either English or without dialogue. Recommended for ages 4+. | 60 mins NR | Racing Extinction | A documentary that follows undercover activists trying to stave off a man-made mass extinction. | 90 mins NR |

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Wednesday 2/24 to Tuesday 3/01 | Contact Cornell Cinema for Showtimes Day for Night | A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew. | 115 mins PG | The Second Mother | When the estranged daughter of a hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray. | 112 mins R | Meru | Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing. | 90 mins NR | Cowboy Bebop: The Movie | A terrorist explosion releases a deadly virus on the masses, and it’s up the bounty-hunting Bebop crew to catch the cold-blooded culprit. | 115 mins R | Internet Cat Video Festival | This year’s showcase features a new selection of videos curated by Will Braden, the creator of the Henri Le Chat Noir videos, so you’ll be in good hands

Notices Ithaca Sociable Singles Dinner | 6:00 PM, 2/24 Wednesday | The Boat Yard Grill, 525 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | RSVP Loisannethomas@hotmail.com Library Seeks Poetry Submissions | In anticipation of Poem in Your Pocket Day, Tompkins County Public Library is seeking original works from local poets of all ages. Poem in Your Pocket Day, held in recognition of National Poetry Month, is an initiative designed to spark interest and excitement in poetry by sharing free poems with the community. TCPL librarians will distribute free cards, featuring submitted poems, in the Library, on the Downtown Ithaca Commons and in additional locations throughout Ithaca on April 28. Individuals, creative writing groups and classes are encouraged to submit up to two poems of no more than 15 lines on or before March 18. All poems meeting these requirements will be included in the celebration. Submissions can be submitted at http://tcpl.org/ events-exhibits/poetry-submission.

Stage To Kill a Mockingbird | Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse | 7:00 PM, 2/24 Wednesday Harper Lee’s classic American story of courage and justice. In a small Alabama town, a black man, Tom Robinson, stands falsely accused of raping a white woman. Many townspeople would see him condemned, but attorney Atticus Finch defends Tom and demands justice. Through the trial, Atticus’ children Scout and Jem and their friend Dill come face to face with

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Ellis Hollow Nursery School Open House | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, 2/27 Saturday | Ellis Hollow Nursery School, 111 Genung Road, Ithaca | Come play with us at Ellis Hollow Nursery School’s Open House. Now enrolling students age 3-5. There will be crafts, story time, snacks, time to explore the school and meet the teachers. For more information email ellishollowns@ gmail.com.

Trumansburg Boy Scout Troop 13: 50th Anniversary Spaghetti Dinner | 4:30 PM, 2/27 Saturday | American Legion Post 770, 4431 Seneca Road, Trumansburg | This annual Spaghetti Dinner is our Troop’s largest fundraiser of the year. Donations raised are used to fund campouts, materials for over 130 merit badge subjects, equipment, and offer scholarship assistance for Scouts to attend Summer Camp at Camp Barton.

Trumansburg Middle School Fundraiser: WONDERLAND SCRAP METAL DRIVE | 8:00 AM-11:00 AM, 2/27 Saturday | Trumansburg Middle School, , Trumansburg | To help support the Middle School Theater Production of Trials of Alice in Wonderland. Bring all your junk and scrap metal, ferrous and non-ferrous to us and let us drive it to the Scrap Yard. Old bikes, slides, car parts, chairs, utensils, wire, rebar, etc. Clean out your garage and attic and drop it off! Simple as that.

Escape to Rongovia | 2:00 PM, 5:00 PM, 2/28 Sunday | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | The public is invited to enjoy an afternoon at the Rongovian Embassy to support the Trumansburg Community Nursery School. You will enjoy live music, snacks, drink specials, and a silent and live auction. There will be a wonderful selection of local items for auction, including a selection of wines, certificates to local restaurants and businesses, hand-crafted items, local produce, and unique goods and services. Music will be provided by Ken Zesserman and other local musicians.

The music and silent auction will be from 2-4 p.m. with the live auction starting at 4 p.m.

Sunday Square Dancing | 7:00 PM, 2/28 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Square Dancing is a low-impact aerobic activity that stimulates both mind and body. Easy

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In this fantastic cult-anime masterpiece, Rocker boy Spike and gruff elder Jet Black, accompanied by tough-as nails Faye and hacker girl Ed, comprise the motley crue of spaceship Bebop.

The bounty-hunters pursue evil on the Red planet, surfing the hybrid metropolis Alba City in search of hand-to-hand combat, loot and overall mod flick genre explosion. The film dazzles in an array of action, color, and odd nuance; one of the most popular anime series’ of all-time, this is an amazing chance to check the dynacism out on the big screen!

High school-aged male singers are the subjects of an all-day choral and a cappella singing workshop, culminating in a 4:30 PM concert in Sage Chapel. Guest clinician for this twelfth annual “New York Young Men Singing” is Niall Crowley (pictured), one of Ireland’s leading choral conductors. This annual event has helped to show hundreds of high school men the benefits and joy of singing, both in high school, college, and beyond. A leading light in music education and performance, Niall Crowley is based in Waterford, Ireland.

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The Ultimate Purpose: Free Speech Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM, 3/01 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.

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The Dream Deferred: A Community Conversation on the Black Lives Matter Movement | 6:30 PM-, 2/25 Thursday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | In recognition of Black History Month, Tompkins County Public Library, A Writer’s Alchemy and Cornell University’s John Henrik Clarke African Library will present The Dream Deferred: A Community Conversation on the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Creating an Inclusive Workplace Culture for LGBTQ Employees, Customers and Clients with Luca Maurer | 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, 3/01 Tuesday | BorgWarner Room, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | A workshop for supervisors and managers in all kinds of organizations. In cooperation with Family & Children’s Service of Ithaca.

Two HR CEUs available. Fee includes nutritious snacks and drinks. Visit www.hsctc.org/workshops for details.

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.

Meet the Practitioner: A Balanced Approach to Pet Wellness | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 2/24 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Dr. Carolyn McMaster, owner of Briar Patch Veterinary Hospital, will talk about alternative therapies to enhance a traditional western approach to preventative medicine and treatment of common pet ailments. Class is free and open to the public, and held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

From Scarcity to Abundance: Cultivating Diverse Leadership for Ecologically Sound, Inclusive & Just Communities | 9:00 AM-4:00 PM, 2/25 Thursday | Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County Education Center, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca | NLI’s highly acclaimed organizational & professional development series. Led by Margo Hittleman & Phoebe Brown. Contact Margo Hittleman at mjh17@cornell.edu or 272-2292, x 167. Session dates are Thursdays, Feb. 25, March 24, April 28, May 26 and June 23. 9 am – 4 pm (Feb

Special Events Black History Month Talent Show | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 2/26 Friday | GIAC, 301 N Albany St, Ithaca | Everyone has a hidden talent, show us yours! A wide range of performers and artistic styles will be featured, both from GIAC and from the community.

Mystery and Comedy During The Golden Age of Radio | Elmira Little Theatre, 1000 Laurel St, Elmira | Travel back in time! Mandeville Hall becomes an old-time radio studio, as ELT presents live recreations of three classic radio scripts. This year, we feature the romantic thriller, Laura – a murder mystery, based on the 1944 film, which starred Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Vincent Price. For tickets and showtimes visit elmiralittletheatre.com Create Your Day Wedding Expo | 11:00 AM-3:00 PM, 2/27 Saturday | The Shops At Ithaca Mall, Ithaca | The largest bridal show in the Ithaca area.

Brides can browse many accessory and photography styles, plan honeymoons and receive free consultations from local bakers and caterers. Brides can register online at www.theshopsatithacamall.com or call 607-257-5338 for registration assistance. For more information, visit www.theshopsatithacamall.com.

Grist Iron Winter Beer Invitational | 1:00 PM-, 2/27 Saturday | Grist Iron Brewing, 4880 NYS Route 4, Burdett | Grist Iron’s Winter Invitational is a

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Humane Society of Schuyler County: 4th Annual Mardi Gras | 6:00 PM-11:00 PM, 2/27 Saturday | Watkins Glen Community Center, Clute Park, Watkins Glen | Sim Redmond Band and Li’l Anne and Hot Cayenne will be performing. Hazlitt 1852 Vineyard, primary sponsor of this event, and Standing Stone and Wagner wineries will offer tastings of some of the area’s finest wines. Local breweries will provide samples of their award winning beers. A variety of Finger Lakes wine and beer will also be available.

Local chefs will provide an extensive offering of traditional New Orleans cuisine including appetizers, pulled pork, jambalaya, red beans and rice, cheese and shrimp grits. A silent auction will feature the work of many talented local artists, bed and breakfast getaways, hotel stays, restaurant gift certificates, Finger Lakes wines and more. All proceeds benefit The Humane Society of Schuyler County.

Lolla Palooza | 6:30 PM-9:30 PM, 2/27 Saturday | Ti-ahwaga Community Players, 42 Delphine Street, Owego | Annual Fundraiser with wine and beer tastings, a buffet dinner, live entertainment, silent and live auctions, prizes and give aways! $50 admission.

Info at info@tiahwaga.com, www. tiahwaga.com Cinemapolis: And The Winner Is Gala | 7:30 PM, 2/28 Sunday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | The cinema will open its doors for a special evening featuring fine food from Ithaca’s favorite restaurants; beer, wine, and signature champagne cocktails; and chances for cinephiles to take home prizes of their own with silent auctions and guess the winners contests. For more information, visit Cinemapolis.org or contact Executive Director, Brett Bossard - brett@ cinemapolis.org.

Meetings City of Ithaca Community Police Board | 3:30 PM, 2/24 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E Green St, Ithaca |

You know that song “Walk on the Ocean” by Toad the Wet Sprocket. Yeah you do. Well that’s Glen Phillips’ doing, and he’s making a rather rare solo appearance here in the jewel of Tompkins County. Starting Toad when he was a mere 15 years old, Philips has eclipsed and rounded back the world of alterative rock and folk, for three decades. He’ll bring this wisdom to the stage Saturday night, and heck, he may even play that song you know. t h a c a

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Coloring: Stress Relief | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 2/24 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | GM Asha introduces you to the stress relief that is coloring. Yes, coloring. All the rage these days, but many have known for years how taking a colored pencil to a page can ease the mind. We will have colored pencils and pages to color, or you can bring your own book.

Free and open to the public Author Bill Stratton | 4:00 PM-, 2/27 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Author reads from his new collection, These Things Too Have Shape.

Non-Fiction Book Club | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 3/01 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Join us in the Library’s Tompkins Trust Company Study Room for a discussion of In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin, by Eric Larson.

Wham Bam Poetry Slam | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 3/01 Tuesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Open mic Spoken Word/Poetry night led by Meredith Clarke, and featuring YOU! And your original literary works.

Kids Intergalactic Fun and Games | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 2/24 Wednesday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | The library hosts a time for playing board games. This is for youth, tween, and teens and includes Magic, Dungeons & Dragons, board

Nature & Science Introduction to Permaculture | 6:30 PM-8:30 PM, 2/24 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County Education Center, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca | We’ll look at living examples of plant guilds, polycultures, and shed light on some of the concepts that inform permaculture ethics and design in gardens and beyond. Call 272-2292 to register by phone, or go to ccetompkins.org/events to register online.

The Cayuga Trails Club: 6 mile hike in Danby State Forest | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 2/27 Saturday | For details, check http://cayugatrailsclub. org/ or call 607-280-5074.

Walking in a Winter Wineryland— Buttonwood Grove | 10:00 AM-1:00 PM, 2/27 Saturday | Buttonwood Grove Winery, 5986 State Route 89, Romulus | Enjoy a guided snowshoe hike through a vineyard landscape, wine pairing, cheese tasting, and a live bird of prey presentation. Space is limited. PRE-PAID RESERVATIONS REQUIRED prior to February 19th to guarantee your spot. Call the Montezuma Audubon Center at (315) 365-3588. montezuma@audubon.org / ny.audubon.org/montezuma Winter Garden - Kitchen Garden Tour | 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, 2/27 Saturday | Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County Education Center, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca | See how one family is using mini hoop tunnels and a walk-in hoop house (unheated greenhouse) to grow and harvest a variety of salad greens, cooking greens, and root vegetables throughout the winter. Address and directions available upon sign-up.

Please pre-register and pre-pay ($7) by calling Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County (607) 272-2292.

Gardening in Time | 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, 2/28 Sunday | Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County Education Center, 615 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Marlene Kobre will present a short video and slide show featuring the garden that she and Ron Denson have been cultivating for thirty-four years. Please call 272-2292 for more information, but there is no need to preregister.

Cayuga Trails Club Tuesday Evening Hike Series | 4:00 PM, 3/01 Tuesday | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a 4-5 mile hike every Tuesday evening at 4 PM. Hike locations vary each week. For current information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org.

Art Rachel Eliza Griffiths | 5:15 PM, 2/25 Thursday | Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell, Ithaca | Poet and photographer Rachel Eliza Griffiths will discuss her work. The Museum is open tonight until 8:00 PM! Trina Bartimer Bruno: Nature: Framed | Tompkins County Trust Co, Main Office Lobby, 110 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | Monday through Friday, 9 AM - 5 PM | Artist statement: Using varied textures and materials my focus is to connect the visual and emotional contrast of observing nature through

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Learn to Play the Fife or Drum | 7:00 PM-, 2/25 Thursday | Ithaca VFW Post 961, 423 W. State Street, Ithaca | Young people ages 8-21 are welcome to join the Finger Lakes Fife & Drum Corps. No experience necessary. Come to a rehearsal and find out more about this unique, fun experience. flfifedrum. com Storytime and Art Project | 10:00 AM, 2/25 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Every Thursday morning the Ulysses Philomathic Library will hold a storytime with an art project.

Sensory Storytime | 3:30 PM, 2/26 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | This program is free and open to children of all abilities; however, it is especially designed for children with sensory integration challenges. To register, please visit the Library’s website: http://tcpl.org/kids/ programs-sensory-storytimes.php Lego Build | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 2/27 Saturday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Make an awesome structure every Saturday at the library.

Sciencenter Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 2/28 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Invent contraptions that can move. Tinker with recycled materials and electricity to make whirling, moving machines. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Sciencenter: Lightapalooza! | 2:00 PM, 2/28 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Watch local high school students demonstrate optical illusions, bending light, and making sound waves visible.

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Town of Ithaca Planning Board | 7:00 PM, 3/01 Tuesday | Town Of Ithaca, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca |

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Local go-getters Maple Hill feverishly bring the emo-influenced pop-rock you know you love. And even if you don’t, you can’t fault these youngsters for really getting out there and trying to forge a path for themselves. Having released their debut LP Headspace a few weeks ago, the band is currently riding the fantastical joy of creation; and it’s primetime to check them out live. To be young, rocking, and emo - this is the state of Maple Hill’s reality. Explore it with them this Saturday night.

the window of my childhood, with the calm and richness of being surrounded by the natural environment in the present. 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 exist within a single character.

CAP Art Space | 171 The Commons, Ithaca | Elizabeth McMahon, “Dash, Lift, Slide” 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. Visit http://www.artspartner.orgVisit http:// www.artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street | Michael Sampson “Re-Worked” I put aside and returned to these oil paintings for two years. As time went on the paint became thicker–a concrete or stucco–and as I worked and re-worked the paintings, they became denser. The end result is a thick impasto, which borders on relief. Call 319-0500 or visit www.thecellardor. com Ink Shop | The Ink Shop Printmaking Center , 330 E State St Ste 2, Ithaca | Annual Members’ Exhibit.

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 Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Sun-Wed 6:30 PM-8:00 PM; Thurs-Sat 6:30 AM-10:00 PM | Kent Goetz: Branching Out. Kent Goetz explores the way tree limbs intersect and collide with each other forming intricate, organic shapes and revealing the drama implicit in the way

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eavily rooted in the alternative metal and hard rock universe that was birthed after Metallica’s Black Album in 1991, Tompkins County’s Ire Clad happily mix the predominant burly riffs and alternative thinking that said universe hangs its hat on. Combining the inter-woven methods and patterns of bands like Godsmack, Texas Hippie Coalition, and Pantera—and pulling pieces and occasional progressive hints from old-school dynamos like King’s X, Black Sabbath, and Saxon—Ire Clad create a beefy soup of tunes with an equally bluesy heart. They have some really excellent music videos as well. Saturday night at The Haunt they’re playing a show celebrating the release of their newest one, “Piece of Life.” Guitarist Jerrod Prevost talked to me about some happenings, some specifics, and some band history.

Ithaca Times: The three videos I’ve seen by you guys—“Death In Disguise,” “Little Middle Man,” and “Forevermore”— have all been directed by Brian Burpee.

What’s the process been like, working with someone doing the directing and writing? Is it an artistic struggle working with someone who’s not in the band?

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they integrate and conflict with the world they inhabit. Call: 273-2848 or Visit: collegetownbagels.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | BEN ALTMAN: SEEING MEMORIALS. Ben Altman addresses remembrance of intractable modern histories through 48 photographs of memorials, preserved sites, and evocative scenes and signs. Call: 272-1774 or Visit: csma-ithaca.org Elevator Music and Art Gallery | @ New Roots Charter School (116 North Cayuga Street/The Clinton House elevator music | Ashley Click: Smoke and Mirrors. Visit newrootsschool.org or call (607) 882-9220 EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca | The Otherworld of Jim Garmhausen.

Jim is no stranger to Ithaca, as his murals adorn the walls of many

was great. He’s easy going but focused.

He always considered any suggestions we had and would use them, but he would give us good reasons why we shouldn’t do certain things as well. It wasn’t a struggle working with someone outside the band. It was good to have someone objective, but who also liked our music.

“Forevermore” was actually a class project for Brian when he attended IC. We told him the premise of the song, and he wrote a storyline. We spent several days working and shooting it, compared to the others, which were pretty much shot in one day. Of course editing takes quite a bit longer.

IT: What’s the band’s story? Are you guys all from Ithaca? Is the lineup pretty stable? I see you guys changed bassists recently.

JP: Ire Clad formed in 2010 when Harrison [Rumsey] and I, previously together in a band called Patchwork Down in the ‘90s, started talking about creating a heavy-sounding band. We took about a year before we were ready to play out live, and then we worked on a fulllength self-titled album. We released our second album, God of War, in 2014. We call Ithaca our hometown even though none of us live in Ithaca proper. The Haunt is our stomping ground. We’ve brought on a new drummer and, as you mentioned, a new bassist, so things have changed; but we’re still going strong! We play heavy metal, so our intent is to give you a jolt at a show, but we also keep it melodic and groovy at times.

IT: I hear a lot of different variations in your songs—post-Black Album Metallica, mid-‘90s King’s X, alterative and nu-metal, southern rock, even death-metal-ish sections at times. Do you guys like playing around with different approaches? Is it safe to say you don’t

eateries and public buildings. His is a world unto itself with colossal-headed men and a fiery sense of fun. He has done some cracking new work for the show and it’s sure to excite. Call 342.4414 or visit eyeithaca.com Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | Central Ave., Ithaca | Tuesday-Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM , to 8:00pm Thursday | OPENING EXHIBIT - Revealed: WPA Murals from Roosevelt Island January 30-May 29 | The first public display of three conserved abstract murals from the future Cornell Tech campus in New York City. ONGOING EXHIBITS: The fire is gone but we have the light: Rirkrit Tiravanija and Korakrit Arunanondchai January 23-May 29 | Video and new work by Arunanondchai alongside a monumental print by his

have a defining sound and like experimenting with varying dynamics?

JP: I think we do like different approaches. We have different genres that we like within the rock/metal world, and they usually come out in the songs we write. I think you’re right, and we don’t have a defining sound.

When people ask who we sound like, it’s hard to say—a little of this and a little of that, you know. It keeps it interesting from an artistic standpoint.

IT: What are the dynamics and specifics of the new video?

JP: We worked with Randy Zaborowski of Guitarist Jerrod Prevost of Ire Clad in a creatively altered image from a Z Productionz video shoot in 2012. ( Photo from band’s Facebook page ) Videography and Photography. We’ve to work with. He is very passionate and done all these has a lot of excellent ideas. videos on shoestring budgets, and I think IT: 5 best albums of 2015, metal or they’re turning out great for what we other? have to work with. Luckily we’ve found JP: Iron Maiden, Book of Souls; David videographers that understand that we Bowie, Lazarus; High On Fire, Luminiferous; don’t make much money. We’ve tried to Syracuse’s own, One Step From Falling’s promote each other’s brands as much as The Wayside; and Dear Mr. Dead’s Eternal. • possible to help out. When writing the story for the video, we discuss the song’s To read the whole interview with lyrics and meaning and then collaborate Prevost visit Ithaca.com with the videographer. Randy was great

mentor, Tiravanija, showcase two generations of Thai artists. Tradition, Transmission, and Transformation in East Asian Art - January 23-June 12 | Works from the Johnson’s collection explore how Chinese cultural images and artistic styles were adopted and adapted in Korea and Japan. | www. museu cornell.edu

as a rotation, an overturning, in its Marxist sense, and as an action of a whirling mechanical device. The exhibit is made possibly in part by funds from the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County and the Tompkins County Public Library Foundation.

Other exhibits on display in the Avenue of the Friends include “Hats, Shoes and Accessories from the Downton Abbey Era” and the winners of the MLK Poster Contest. Call: 272 4557 or E-mail sgrubb@tcpl.org or visit http://tcpl.org | www.tcpl.org Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | Mon. Wed. Thurs.

11am-6pm; Fri. Sat. 11am-8pm; Sun. 11am-4pm; closed Tuesdays | LOST TREASURES FROM THE TITUS GALLERY COLLECTION. Original art and limited edition silkscreens by well known artists including Leonard Baskin,

Lot 10 | (106 S. Cayuga Street) | Dan Emerson, a recent BFA graduate from SUNY Cortland, will be exhibiting his work at Lot 10 during the months of January and February.

Tompkins County Public Library | East Green Street, Ithaca |Project for a Re-volution in New York features installations by 22 local, national and international artists. The Project asked artists to contemplate the meaning of revolution in all its connotations,

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Ithaca Underground is showcasing a sick lineup headlined by Northhampton’s alt-punk-throwbacks Potty Mouth. Equal parts Sonic Youth and Ex Hex, Pottty Mouth bring the energy and spirit of those good old days in the mid-90’s, when life was all head-banging and Wayne’s World. Sick acts: Stove, Shore Acres Drive, and Winston Bongo open up. It’s gonna rage y’all!!!

Cinemapolis is celebrating another year of great cinema and hosting Hollywood’s biggest award ceremony on the big screen. Lots of fun insues with Food, Drink, Raffles, Silent Auctions, and a “Guess the Winners” Contest for our signature fundraising event! Starting at 7:30pm until best picture is announced, the night promises to be the “optimum nocte in perpetuum,” for movie buffs and holloywood fanatics. Come out, get some popcorn, mingle, buy some merch. It’s gonna be fantastic!

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Groton, MA needs 2 temporary workers 3/1/2016 to 10/31/2016, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. $11.74 per hr.

Applicants apply at Workforce Central Career Center, Worcester, or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #6717412. Work may include but not limited to: worker will seed, transplant, maintain & harvest herbs & vegetables in all weather conditions.

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