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zones, which has already occurred downtown, is meant to protect residential neighborhoods from “zone erosion.” “If you have a zoning line that cuts through the property then currently you are allowed to go 30 feet into the more restrictive zone,” said Cornish. “You can see the effects of that in the Elmira Road and Spencer Road area; when developers continually use the transition zone you begin to erode the residential area.” The elimination of transition zones has at least one developer urging the Common Council to shift zone boundaries between College and Linden avenues. Under current zoning Josh Lower’s proposed development Collegetown Crossing, which spans two zoning areas

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t their Monday, Feb. 24 meeting the Board of Public Works of the City of Ithaca accepted the lone bid from Vacri Construction of Binghamton for the construction of the Sasaki Associates design for the Commons. Vacri is the firm that undertook the second phase of the Commons project, which included replacing all the water mains and making sewer upgrades along East State Street and Bank Alley. The bid for that part of the project came in on budget. The bid for installing Sasaki’s design came in $3.8 million over budget, to bring the Commons renovation tab to $15 million, most of which is being paid for with federal and state money. “What is the reason for the increase in price?” Commissioner Bill Goldsmith asked project coordinator Michael Kuo. Kuo said that the contractor will not “open up their base bid” until they have been awarded the contract. At that time he and other city representatives will discuss several components of the bid in order to bring the price down. “This is a big error,” said Goldsmith. “Should we be affixing blame on Sasaki?” “I have already talked with Sasaki,” said Joann Cornish, director of planning and economic development. “And we will be discussing this with Vacri. We’ll continue working closely with [Sasaki]. We’re disappointed, but it’s not over.” “The spotlight will be on Sasaki,” said Kuo. “They want to know what went wrong too.” “They are proud of the design,” added Cornish, “so they will be a willing partner.” Commissioner Rob Morache asked about a rumor that a request from NYSEG would delay the project and he also wanted to know why there was only one bid. “We can’t explain it,” said Kuo in response to the second question. “We got the word out.” Of NYSEG he said, “They are opportunistic. They want to jump in the ground whenever they can. Their schedule is not factored in yet.” “Is the NYSEG delay an opportunity to re-bid the project?” asked Morache. “At this point it’s too late in the season to take that route,” said Kuo. “It’s not a simple project and there is a lot of construction going on elsewhere,” added Mayor Svante Myrick. “We need every day to finish on time before Thanksgiving,” Kuo said. continued on page 4

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t its Wednesday, March 5 meeting the Common Council will vote on the proposed Collegetown area “form district” rezoning of parts of Collegetown. The rezoning, which, in its current iteration, has been in the works since 2011, aims to increase density in two mixed use (MU-1 and MU-2) zones at the center of Collegetown, protect the character of residential neighborhoods at the margins from the encroachment of large development projects, and eliminate the transition zones that city director of planning, JoAnn Cornish, says lead to the erosion of neighborhoods through expanded commercial development. The most controversial Collegetown Square is proposed for the corner at right. The proposed rezoning would elements of the make the building 9 percent smaller and raise rents. (Photo provided) rezoning have been minimum and would include a GreenStar market on parking requirements and the elimination the first floor and residential apartments of transition zones in favor of strictly above, would be allowed to develop the delineated zones. At its February 12 commercial/residential hybrid in the lower meeting the Planning and Development density Linden Ave zone. Committee unanimously passed the “For properties like mine that run zoning on to Common Council with through the whole block, from College no required minimum parking in MU to Linden Avenue, the proposed new zones and the ability to develop in CR zoning would actually diminish existing (Collegetown Residential)-4 zones development rights, on the Linden Avenue without parking, provided the Planning side,” said Lower. “My project calls for and Development Board accepts a a mixed-use building extending slightly transportation demand management plan during site plan review. continued on page 5 The elimination of transition

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On March 1, dancers and local dance troupes will groove to the live music of The Destination, a nine-piece dance band that specializes in R&B, Latin jazz, swing and funk. Prizes will be awarded to the top-raising individuals and teams, including a one-night stay, $100 in services, and breakfast for two at LaTourelle Resort and Spa. Dancing for a Cause is their capstone event to celebrate their work and raise funds to keep it going. To sign up or for more information, visit the SPCS website or call 607-272-1505.

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FE K?< N < 9 Visit our website at www.ithaca.com for more news, arts, sports and photos. Bill Chaisson, MANAGING EDITOR E D I T O R @ IT H A C ATI M E S .CO M L o u i s D i P i e t r o, A S S O C I A T E E D I T O R A R T S @I T H A C A T I M E S . C O M Erin Barret t, REPORTER R E P O R T E R @ IT H A C ATI M E S .CO M Steve L awrence, SPORTS EDITOR ST E VE SP O RT SD U D E @G M A I L .CO M C h r i s H o o k e r, F I N G E R L A K E S S P O R T S E D I T O R SPORTS@FLCN.ORG Jus tin Zoll, PHOTOGRAPHER P H O T O G R A P H E R @I T H A C A T I M E S . C O M J u l i a n n a Tr u e s d a l e , P R O D U C T I O N D I R E C T O R / D E S I G N E R P R O D U C T I O N @I T H A C A T I M E S . C O M To m O l s o n , S E N I O R A C C O U N T R E P R E S E N T A T I V E T O L S O N @ IT H A C ATI M E S .CO M G e o r g i a C o l i c c h i o, A C C O U N T R E P R E S E N T A T I V E G E O R G I A @ IT H A C ATI M E S .CO M D u s t i n P a t t e, A CCO U N T R E PR E S EN TAT I VE D PAT T E @ IT H A C ATI M E S .CO M R i c k y C h a n , A CCO U N T R E PR E S EN TAT I VE R I C K Y @ IT H A C ATI M E S .CO M C a t h y B u t t n e r, C L A S S I F I E D A D V E R T I S I N G CB UT TN ER @ITHAC ATI M ES .CO M Cy n d i B r o n g , J u n e S e a n e y A D M I N I S T R A T I O N Rick Blaisdell, Chris Eaton, Les Jink s Jim Bilinski, PUBLISHER

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“Can we look at the value engineering here,� Morache went on. “Say, by simplifying the diagonal paving patterns or looking at the trees?� Value engineering is the consideration of cost versus function; reducing cost or improving function increases value. Cornish was quick to quash the idea of changing the paving pattern. “That is one of the most beautiful parts of the design,� she said. “We will try to save them. The trees are also not on the chopping block.� Myrick indicated that the elements that would be considered for omission in the third phase of the project would be those that could be added later, such as entrances ways and the playground. He said that he would be approaching “our non-profit partners� to raise the money. * * * The commissioners approved a onetime waiver of snow removal charges for a 95-year-old city resident who fell behind in the clearance of the sidewalks in front of their home. The fee for snow removal by the city’s machine is $50; residents are F

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tank and replacing Christopher Circle 13 pumps to supply the Sapsucker tank; installing a new pressure reducing valve from Sapsucker to the Dryden system; moving low-pressure Christopher Circle services to the SANCTUARY DR Sapsucker system; and replacing fourMEADOWLARK DR inch piping with TANK eight-inch. “Alternative “A� provides the CARDINAL DR minimum level of improvement to meet system pressure requirements,� said HANSHAW RD Hyde. Alternative “B� includes the recommendations of A in addition Location of Sapsucker tank (blue) and the suburban roads affected by low water presto watermain sures. A new tank will likely be installed next year. (Map: J. Truesdale) replacements to improve fire flow. three days’ water supply. “The results of the study will be used The study found several areas as a planning tool to prioritize and plan throughout the system with pressures projects to be included in the town’s multiabove 100 psi, but according to Hebdon year capital project plan,� said Hebdon. the high-pressure rate is a fact of the In its 2014 budget the town authorized town’s topography. “We have so many hills replacing the Christopher Circle tank and the terrain is so steep it’s hard to keep at a cost of $850,000. “We may push off up with the maximum psi of 100,� said the Sapsucker tank until next year,� said Hebdon. “To account for this all houses Hebdon, “but we’re hoping to have all the are required to have a pressure reducer.� XPSL EPOF JO UIF OFYU GFX ZFBST u r GHD project manager Nicholas Hyde presented two alternatives to the —Erin Barrett planning board. The first involves raising the elevation of the Sapsucker Woods SAPSUCKER WOODS RD

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charged more if more labor in form of shoveling by hand is necessary. Commissioner Govind Acharya raised an objection to the waiver. “I will vote against this,� he said. “I think we should raise the fees to deter people from trying to get away with [not shoveling their walks].� Commissioner Dave Warden, newly returned to the board, disagreed. “If there is a legitimate hardship case,� he said, “then I think it is a separate issue from the fees and the policy.� “A few people take advantage of the $50 cleaning fee,� said Ray Benjamin, the assistant superintendent of streets and facilities. “Most of them may be repeat offenders.� The other commissioners agreed that the snow clearance policy needed to be revisited. It was noted that the fee is $250 in New York City. Goldsmith recommended following the pattern of his proposed sidewalk repair policy wherein fees for non-repair escalated steeply with repeat offenses. * * * Chief of Police John Barber approached the board for permission to 2014

erect a memorial sign at 514 W. State St., where Ithaca policeman Mike Padula was killed in the line of duty on Nov. 17, 1996. He brought along a photo of a similar sign that had been erected by the Rochester police department. Initially only commissioner Claudia Jenkins objected, saying that it seemed rather morbid and disrespectful to the officer to erect the sign on a sidewalk surrounded by a lot of other clutter. She suggested naming a bridge for Padula instead. “I think it will become less morbid over time,� said Goldsmith, “and more like those New York State historical markers.� “Would a more neutral place compromise the intent?“ Warden asked Barber. “Could you put it somewhere else?� “Historically, it has been where [the event] happened. I consider it an honor to have the sacrifice honored in the place where it happened.� The board voted to approve the sign, but asked to approve the wording before it was erected. The ceremony is set for May 2 BU B N BU UIF TJUF r —Bill

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into the zone along Linden Avenue, which current zoning allows, but the proposed rezoning would not. To comply with the proposed new zoning, the building would need to be redesigned to be as much as 9 percent smaller, reducing the space available for a grocery store, other commercial offerings and residences, and making every square foot of rentable space more expensive.� According to Alderperson Ellen McCollister, D-3rd, under current zoning Collegetown Crossing would not be

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As for the amount of assistance you can recieve, I almost wonder if it’s better to beg off the street; actually, by the time you get done with the initial interview with the worker you almost feel ashamed of needing help in the first place. No, it’s not the workers fault, not by a long shot; it’s the list of things they must ask for, the requirements you need to get aid, and the mess that the public welfare system is in this state. I fell under the Safety Net Assistance program. Again, the original requirements for SNA are simple; you are either: a single adult; a childless couple; a child living apart from any adult relative; family of someone found to be abusing drugs or alcohol; family of someone refusing drug/alcohol screening, assessment or treatment; or a person who has exceeded the 60-month time frame for other assistance. Yes there is a time limit. But there’s also a catch. If any member of any household has used up their alloted 60month time span, the entire household becomes inellegible for aid because the entire household uses the time frame, not just one person. The public assistance office states that “cash Temporary Assistance in New York State is limited to a cumulative period of 60 months for any adult. No cash assistance (FA or SNA) benefit is granted to a family that contains an adult who has received a combined total of 60-month benefits under FA or cash SNA.� In other words, everybody else is caught in a catch-22. In the year I spent dealing with the continued on page 7

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t my Mindfulness Retreat our Awareness Coach, Lars, said that when we got home we should keep a Mindfulness Journal to record our efforts to stay positive, and present, and cultivate our innate capacity for maximum wakefulness. So be it. Day One‌ 9:05. I’m on hold to Time Warner Cable to find out why my bill is $181.55. Wasn’t it Gandhi who said that no matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, you do it as well as you can? Maybe it was the Slumdog Millionaire kid. I’m answering questions—asked by a robot—with an open heart. My wait time will be between 15 and 400 minutes, and this call may be monitored for quality assurance purposes. I will fully inhabit every single moment, including the music, which is being transmitted through a taut string and a tin can. No single instant of my life is without value if lived fully, even the next 53 minutes. 9:58. I talk to a customer service representative from another land. It turns out that TWC customers have to pay for Starter TV, Standard TV, Preferred TV, Regular TV, Universal TV, Signature TV and Essential TV in order to receive any TV at all. I am intensely aware of being a customer boned by a soulless monopoly. I let the sensation wash over me for several minutes, and feel refreshed. Life is a rich pageant. 10:41. Now I’m on the road to Wegmans to buy new, even more expensive garbage tags, focusing on every detail of the passing scenery. Relaxed and grateful for all that I have. That guy just cut me off, and he’s texting! He didn’t even see me! Before our training, I would have rolled down my window and suggested that his head was in an unlikely anatomical cavity, but I’m mindful now. I’m in my Zen place. Culminating complete connection with my surroundings. I roll down my window

and urge, “Be in the moment, asshole!� I’ve never felt so alive. 11:10. I’m driving on West Clinton Street, and I’m noticing my hands on the wheel and the sound of sleet on the roof. I’m supremely awake, sitting upright and stressfree. Breathing. I’m really, truly listening to my car rumble over the potholes. That was so definitely the sound of a strut breaking. I soak in the feeling, reveling in the present. I wonder how the suspension on Lars’ Mercedes handles craters like these. 12:16. At the retreat, Coach Lars said we should spend 20 minutes every day purposefully not thinking of anything. Freeing our minds of all distractions. Of course that annoying know-it-all that was always raising her hand chirped that she does that for half an hour, so I’m going to do 35 minutes. Maybe 40. I’ll show her ass who’s mindful. On my new organic zabuton meditation mat. That I spent $259.68 on. 12:19. I’m thinking of nothing. Here comes the dog, poor thing. I knew I should have shut the door. She’s at that stage in life called ‘flatulence.’ Oh, no, she’s cropdusting. Who came up with that, anyway? “Crop-dusting�. The dusting of crops. It’s so descriptive. Must empty my mind. Push all distracting thoughts out. Two hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty-eight cents. 12:20. Sweet Jesus, that’s awful. It smells like ferret urine and burnt hair. No, that’s being judgmental. Still, I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. I must do it mindfully. There’s that raisin I ate an hour ago. I should savor it again. I’d better let that dog out. I’ll do the other 31 minutes later. Then the phone rang, and it was my mother, and I can only talk to her if I’m playing freecell. A glass of wine doesn’t hurt, either. Yeah, February is no month to try to be too aware in Ithaca, New York. Maybe after the weather breaks I’ll give it another TIPU %PO U UFMM -BST r

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Among the critical services the AC provides are legal advocacy, such as assisting with orders of protection, support at court proceedings or social services, and accompaniment to law enforcement; medical advocacy through the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program at Cayuga Medical Center; crisis intervention through their 24 hour hotline; safety planning; shelter at a confidential safe house; emotional support in the form of counseling, case management, therapy services and referrals, and support and empowerment groups; and assistance with applying for NYS Crime Victims Board compensation. Although Campbell is new to the position she is not new to the center. “I spent 12 years as our education director, and so I spent a lot of time going out and speaking with people about domestic and sexual violence,” said Campbell. “People are often really shocked when they find out we serve over 1,400 victims of domestic and sexual violence in any given year. Those are local people, local children, local teens and local adults who experience trauma. We know this is just the tip of the iceberg, those are just the people that reach out to us, and we know there’s so much more need out there.” F

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So what does the whole iceberg look like? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that nearly one in five women and one in 71 men experience rape at some time in their lives, and “More than 3 million referrals of child maltreatment are received by state and local agencies each year—that’s nearly six referrals every minute.” In 2010, the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, conducted by the CDC, found that one in four women have been the victims of severe physical violence by an intimate partner, while one in seven men have experienced the same. Campbell explained that one aspect of her new role is to educate the public about the services the center provides. “There are so many barriers to people reaching out for services,” she said, “so we try to get the word out that the services are here, they’re free, and people can call anonymously.” According to current education director Tiffany Greco, the assumption that the AC will try to convince victims of domestic violence to leave their partner is a significant barrier to victims reaching out for services. “We don’t try to convince people to leave their partners,” Greco said. “That’s not our role. We’re here to offer the support and resources 2014

to help victims find safety, whether that’s with their partner or not.” Greco explained that most victims of domestic violence do not leave their abusers for many reasons, including love, safety concerns, children, or a lack of resources. But whatever their reason for staying, the AC offers them the support and resources to navigate the situation in ways that work for the them. “If I’m at a cocktail party and someone asks me what I do for a living, usually they respond: ‘Oh my gosh, how do you do what you do? It’s so hard.’ And it’s true, What we do is hard,” said Campbell. “We work with people who are afraid and in danger, people who have been hurt in really profound ways. I see what we do as hopeful; creating change in people’s lives is a very hopeful thing. But the education part of our mission is the most hopeful part of our work.” The AC works in a variety of capacities in middle schools and high schools, providing workshops, educating teachers and guidance counselors in identifying signs of abuse, and providing support to child victims of domestic or sexual violence. The center not only has an educational presence in every school in Tompkins County, but assists victims in every school as well. According to Campbell, research shows

that youth attitudes regarding violence to educate bystanders in the community to do and so said nothing. “When you and we’ve already made all the cuts in our continue to glorify violence and perpetuate through the newly launched “Enough look at the Sandusky case at Penn State, budget that we can without impacting core victim blaming. “Our culture supports Abuse� campaign. “The Advocacy Center there were so many bystanders who saw services.� victim blaming and not accountability [in Tompkins County] was selected as something and some of them saw things This year the AC is looking to for people who are abusing their intimate one of three counties in New York State to that were huge red flags, but because they raise a total of $85,000 locally through partners or sexually abusing or raping fundraisers, such as the upcoming other people. So our work with youth is Actors Workshop of Ithaca (AWI) gala critical and is really still a little radical,� event at the Hangar Theatre, sponsored Campbell said. “We’re looking at how we by Madeline’s Restaurant, Nail Candy, change the way people think about these Agava, and Avanti. For the second things. We have a youth educator who goes year in a row the AWI will perform the into middle schools and high schools and Nora and Delia Ephron play, Love, Loss talks directly with youth about healthy and What I Wore, as a benefit show for relationships and unhealthy relationships, a local non-profit organization. about sexual boundaries and consent.� “U n f o r t u n a t e l y v i o l e n c e On college campuses AC educators against women and physical and have been utilizing a research-based emotional abuse is incredibly program called “Bringing in the Bystander,� prevalent,� said AWI Director Eliza that focuses on sexual violence and VanCort. “I haven’t met a single woman rape prevention. Unlike most efforts to who hasn’t been affected by it in some change the culture around domestic and way. Everyone knows someone who sexual violence by educating victims or has been impacted by domestic or perpetrators, the concept of bystander sexual violence. One of the reasons we intervention calls attention to the fact decided to work with the Advocacy that most people are bystanders to sexual Center is because unfortunately people violence and as such have the ability to make don’t like to talk about this issue, and a difference. “The program educates people in order for any organization to raise about what they can do as bystanders to money there needs to be conversation. interrupt and prevent sexual violence. In I wanted to give back to them for all the post-tests we find a decrease in victim of the wonderful work they do in the blaming, an increase in acceptance of Th e C a s t o f ‘ L ov e , L o s s , & Wh at I Wo r e’: B e c k y L a n e , H o l ly A d a m s , community.� K at i e S pa l l o n e , E r i c a S t e i n h ag e n , E l i z a Va n C o r t, M i c h e l l e offender accountability and an increased All proceeds from the gala—which C o u r t n e y- B e r ry, a n d K r i s t e n S a d . ( P h o t o : P r ov i d e d) willingness to take bystander action, takes place Saturday, March 1 at the and that’s what we want to see,� said Hangar Theatre and features a cash bar Campbell. pilot the Enough Abuse Campaign,� said were unsure and there was a taboo, or there before the show and free savory and sweet But, according to Campbell, classroom Greco. “The CDC called the campaign ‘a was a supervision relationship involved, treats provided by Agava following the education is only one element of changing trailblazing effort to prevent child sexual they didn’t say anything. We want that show—will go to the AC. “At $22 a ticket, cultural perceptions of violence. “When abuse by building a movement of concerned not to happen in our community. So we’re it’s the cheapest gala you’ll ever go to,� said we look at how we create change, we citizens, community by community.’� empowering people to see those red flags VanCort. “It was important for us that understand that we have to work on all “We’ve trained 19 people who are that an adult is not safe with children and people who want to contribute in this fun levels. On college campuses that means going to partner with us to train adults in teaching them what to do next.� sort of way would be able to come. It’s a fun, working on policy, working in classrooms, this community,� said Campbell. “They’ll Most of the 19 volunteers trained by the upbeat play. Every woman will identify with working with student groups, and working be trained on how to identify and interrupt AC are already involved in youth work in the one of the monologues. Some of them will with the faculty and staff who help students chi ld ho o d s exu a l community, including folks make you cry, some will make you laugh, when there has been a report of sexual a b u s e . T h i s i s s o from the district attorney’s and everyone will enjoy the show.� violence. We’re involved in RA trainings, critical, because the office, the county attorney’s According to Campbell, community and we work with student activists in work we do with kids to office, law enforcement commitments to fundraising, such as the different clubs and organizations on talk about boundaries invest igators, C hi ld AWI’s gala, are particularly important to campus to sponsor workshops and events and different kinds Protective Services, the the AC. “There are some specific challenges and to support the work they’re doing to of touching and Ithaca Youth Bureau, and to us around fundraising. There’s still a organize on campus.� empowering them with the Ithaca City School taboo around talking about domestic In her time at the AC, Campbell has tools to be able to say District. “It’s a bit of a and sexual violence. It makes people seen a rise in local youth groups dedicated ‘No’ and tell, that’s all who’s who of people who uncomfortable,� said Campbell. “It’s one to talking to their peers about gender-based really important, but are involved with child of those things that people would rather violence, domestic violence, and sexual ultimately adults have safety in our community,� not think about, so it can be challenging violence. “There’s a group at Trumansburg to be responsible for said Campbell. to fundraise in that climate. This is a really called Femtastic! They organized themselves the safety of children. At the same time as wonderful community collaboration, not and then came to us and said ‘Hey, we want “ T h e r e’s o n l y the AC is launching new just with the Actors Workshop but with the to talk about this, can you help us?’ The so much we can do programs, their budget Hangar Theatre as well. The actors are really fact that it is a youth-driven group makes through education has decreased steadily amazing community activists in their own them effective in a very special way,� said staff, only so many programs we can run,� since 2008 due to cuts in government right who have donated their time to this— Campbell. “They’ve been meeting for four continued Campbell. “With this model our spending. “T h i s e c o n o m y h a s been there are all kinds of layers of community years. They have around 40 members, both hope and goal is that over the next couple really difficult for non-profits. Since 2008 JOWPMWFE JO UIF HBMB u r For tickets and more information about young women and young men, and they’re of years we’re really going to saturate the we’ve seen steady shrinking of government doing a ton of stuff in Trumansburg. They community by talking to Rotary Clubs, funding, which is the largest source of our the gala visit actorsworkshop.biz/love-loss. For hold community and school events, and PTAs, people’s bowling nights and church funding,� explained Campbell. “We’ve had information on the Advocacy Center, including they participated in the Take Back the Night groups. We’re empowering people to to cut 2.5 staff positions at the same time volunteer opportunities and support services go to theadvocacycenter.org. march and rally. This year we helped them identify when something is not OK and as we’ve seen client numbers increase. If you are experiencing domestic or secure a grant to expand Femtastic! clubs teaching them about what they can do to We’ve done all that we can to become more sexual violence or suspect someone you into other local high schools. The model keep kids safe.� efficient and meet the needs of our clients. know is being abused, the Advocacy Center they’ve created has been really sustainable, According to Campbell, it’s common, We’ve had an eight to ten percent decrease has counselors and advocates available 24 so we’re helping connect them with other after a disclosure of abuse, to hear from in our budget every year since 2011. If hours a day, seven days a week, for free and resources.� people who say they saw something one we’re not able to raise the local money we confidential help. The 24-hour hotline number Outside of schools the AC is working time or another but didn’t know what need, we end up with holes in our budget, is 607-277-5000.

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of the winning effort on four heptagonal championship teams, and she still holds the school record in the heptathlon and pentathlon. Jamie is one of only two threetime outdoor heps champions, and the fact that she is now among the world’s elite bobsled drivers is a real testament to her work ethic and her raw athleticism. Her efforts made her the second Cornellian to win an Olympic bobsled medal, as Dick Parke—class of ’16—did it in St. Moritz in 1928. * * * I have a piece of advice for any sports fan who happens to find himself or herself in Syracuse between November and March. I was in Syracuse on Monday, and I advise that you do not—as I did—say, “Wow, wasn’t it great to see Boston College beat Syracuse? That’s Steve Donahue’s team, you know, and we Ithacans love him.â€? I made that statement, people stared at me like I had two heads, and the answer was a collective and resounding, “No, it wasn’t great to see Boston College beat Syracuse. What is wrong with you?â€? Jamie Gruebel. (Photo: Cornell Photography) If you’re there, I also advise you not to share your surprise that Orange relieved to hear I’m not the only one.â€? coach Jim Boeheim lost his cool, went Okay, so it wasn’t really a support nuts, drew two technical fouls, and gave group; it was a party, but people were Duke four foul shots that cost Syracuse genuinely conflicted. They love the US of the game. Those Orange fans hold the A, but we locals have watched Rebecca coach in very high regard, and do not Johnston, Lautra Fortino and Lauriane seem to want to entertain the notion that Rougeau complete their four years in a such a conversation is worth having. On Big Red uniform and move on, and we one hand, such fierce loyalty irritated me, are looking forward to watching Brianne as it robbed the fans of any objectivity Jenner complete her time in a Big Red whatsoever, but I will admit it made me uniform. They feel like “locals,â€? and while miss the days when Newman Arena was we weren’t happy to see the U.S. lose, packed and everyone in town was bleeding we were thrilled to see those women get Cornell Red. Oh, I hope those days return. an Olympic gold medal. The game was * * * a thriller for the ages, worthy of all the Congratulations to the Ithaca College mega-hype, and it will be talked about Women’s Swimming and Diving team on for decades. Congrats to Laura, Brianne, its fifth Upper New York State Collegiate Lauriane and Laura. Swimming Association title in the last As for the men’s game ‌ we love the six years, and it’s 14th Empire 8 title. The USA, we love Dustin Brown, and that Bombers hosted the event, and coach game sucked. Paula Miller was named Coach of the * * * Year. Section IV athlete Emily Warfle of It was definitely exciting to see Jamie Owego took second in the 3-meter diving Greubel, Cornell class of ‘06, team up with competition, and I will add that while I was aware that Emily was a stellar softball her “pushâ€? Aja Evans to win a bronze in player, I did not know that she was a the bobsled competition. Jamie has been gone from East Hill for a few years, but the collegiate-level diver as well. As an Owego track and field community remembers her grad, I say, Way to represent, Emily w r as a great all-around athlete. She was a part

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And the thing I find so enchanting is that these are clearly 21st century people … Brian Keeler capturing the here and now of our lives. (And every time I see Keeler do something new like this, I am struck with what a 21st century master he is…) William E. Deats: Bolero, Perfect Poise, Dancer at Rest, & Back Stage (all oil on canvas). I have written of the Ithaca-based artist Bill Deats before, as well. I covered two previous shows of Deats’ that featured impressionistic landscapes and expressionistic works. These works are closer to Academic Realism with a touch of Impressionism: A ballerina in blue ((Perfect Poise), a red-toned Spanish dancer (Bolero), the soft, rainbow-hued Dancer at Rest, and the multiple female figures of Back Stage. I find these paintings especially beautiful. And, again, I am reminded of Degas and Renoir, although I think there is more of a feeling of fantasy in Deats’s work, as opposed to Keeler’s more documentary-like recording of our century. For sheer, joyous beauty, I

ince I returned like Odysseus to Ithaca after 30 years in the film industry in L.A., the one thing in Tompkins County that has never let me down is the Tompkins County Public Library. What a great library! And, in addition to all the books and music and movies and community programs and so on, the TCPL hosts marvelous art exhibits. The current exhibit, For the Joy of Dancing, is a wonderful thing. According to the most recent Gallery Night brochure, it “presents the work of eight artists using a variety of different media as they reflect on the joy of dancing. Featured artists include Glenda Blake, Raymond Dalton, Margaret Corbit, Brian Keeler, Bill Deats, Jari Poulin, Julie Prisloe and dancer/photographer Kurt Lichtmann.” Let’s wander around the library and see what we’ve got… Raymond A. Dalton: Jumpin’ Jive, Baile Conmigo (Dance With Me), Que Da La Vuelta (How One Swirls), and Tighten Up. These are big, somewhat cartoony drawings, rendered in graphite and gouache, or charcoal, pastel and gouache. They are of African-American couples dancing. (Or perhaps Afro-Cuban? Afro-Latin?) Why do these drawings fill me with such joy? Echo of a Waltz, by Brian Keeler I suppose it’s because I am a cartoonist. I respond to the joyous use of caricature, the cartooning, the sense of movement. recommend the photos of Julie There is a wonderful, Prisloe, particularly Dancers flowing, rhythmic quality Unlikely Dance, by Glenda Blake in Blue and Hold My Hand, in these works. (I think of both of which were shot at the Toulouse-Lautrec in the Trumansburg Conservatory of looseness and playfulness of Fine Arts. Hold My Hand shows the line.) five dancing little girls (five or And I love the sheer This was a revelation. I six-year-olds) in adorable, iridescent blue, frilly humanity of the pieces, realized that he was like dresses and floppy hats. Dancers in Blue shows the people portrayed. a Renaissance master four dancing girls (seven or eight-year-olds) And they seem a bit like … only here in the 21st wearing beautiful blue velvet gowns, their period pieces – evoking century. And now, seeing fantastically curled, Rococo hair flying. Back Stage, by William E. Deats another era—the 1920s or these dance paintings Little girls do seem to represent life at the 1930s perhaps—and at the TCPL, I realize its most playful and enchanting. And these something about that seems he is also like a great are incredibly lovely and endearing photos appealing to me. Impressionist master. … a medicine for melancholy, an antidote to Brian Keeler: Motion of Myrth – At the Whereas the figurative work I had seen depression and despair. Dance Flurry, Saratoga Springs (pastel), Echo was more like classical Renaissance painting, Glenda Blake: Unlikely Dance series: these paintings, of complex arrangements of of a Waltz – Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo, Green Skirt, Entry Hall, Golden Clouds, multiple figures dancing on various ballroom Md. (oil), and Light on Their Feet – At the Beethoven Oaks, Roundabout and Confluence floors, are at the edge of Impressionism, like, Dance Flurry (oil). I have written about Brian continued on page 17 say, if they were painted by Degas or Renoir. Keeler before for the Ithaca Times. I knew of T

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in our playroom, building some castle or fortress. The second my dad walked in the door from work, I would drag him down the hall and show him something wonderful I had built that day. hat a weekend. I’m back from I’ve been out of the Lego life for Nyack, where I finished my decades, but I’ve since seen it take over comedy class with an awesome my step-brother John and my nephew set at Levity Live. To celebrate, my pal Jackson. I’m sure I sound like a fuddy Jamie and I embarked on a movie crawl: duddy when I carp to Jackson about The Lego Movie, Robocop and 3 Days to all the amazing kinds of Lego kits and Kill, all in a 24-hour session. figurines he has today. We didn’t even have I’ll start with the Robocop reboot, the figurines, much less some of the fancier first IMAX film I’ve ever seen. Having building blocks. read about IMAX for 25 years, I’ll admit The Lego Movie is 1,000 times better I expected the screen to be bigger than it than you’d expect. The adventures of an was. The overall effect was akin to sitting anonymous Lego builder as he travels in the first few rows of a regular-sized through a seemingly endless world of screen, only closer. It was an interesting plasticized wonders and pop culture experience, but not one I’m inclined to characters has been rendered with a real pursue. love of what Legos can be in the hands At least the new Robocop earns its way of an imaginative child. Directed by Phil while paying tribute to Paul Verhoeven’s Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy With a 1987 over-the-top satirical Chance of Meatballs), the splatter-fest, albeit where it film has lots of subversive Ç* ;Xpj kf B`cc humor about the perils feels right to do so within `j Xefk_\i XZk`fe of group-think and one the new film’s PG-13 rating. Most of the overt of the neatest twists I’ve jXljX^\ n`k_ satire has been replaced seen lately. And if you can, X Yfi`e^ _`i\[ spring for the 3-D; The by Samuel L. Jackson as a futuristic Bill O’Reilly-type Lego Movie is some serious b`cc\i%Ăˆ commenting on the story. eye candy. Where the original was 3 Days to Kill is yet about privatization of the public sector, another Parisian action sausage from Luc Padilha’s version takes that as a matter of Besson, and his umpteenth riff on the hit course. man/fixer character. Sometimes you get Joel Kinnaman’s face gets a lot more The Professional or La Femme Nikita. This face-time here. He plays a man-turnedtime you get Kevin Costner in Paris, as machine in a constant state of reaction and boring a hired killer as he is a struggling revulsion. Gary Oldman is very effective dad, dying from movie cancer. Whenever and typically subtle as the designer of the you want Costner to stop coughing and new Robo suit, and Abbie Cornish has kick ass, he teaches his daughter Hailee more to do as Kinnaman’s oddly rendered Steinfeld to ride a bike and chats about widow and onlooker as the world’s QSPNT XIJDI BSFO U SFBMMZ B 'SFODI UIJOH r cameras welcome another compromised *** hero for our times. Read Bryan’s reviews of Enough Said and In I think we all have our Lego stories. a World on our website, www.ithaca.com. I can remember spending all afternoon Follow him on twitter @bryanvancampen.

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Marie Cummings) is an English professor whose research focuses on Phaedra, a character from Greek mythology with an all-consuming lust for her stepson who is killed by a bull after he rejects her advances. The books Bobby is helping sister Betty box up in the house (in the forest, dark and deep) moves the dialog along and establishes the siblings turf, or shall we say their “corners�, as they come out verbally “boxing� during the From playwright Neil LaBute’s 95 minute play, round after round. Introduction to In a Forest, Dark and We learn that Bobby, as a rough, Deep) aggressive “blue collar� carpenter, has read some literature during his life and is smart he Readers Theatre’s upcoming enough to have an opinion about it. He production of LaBute’s play, In a spits out the names of authors like Tolstoy Forest, Dark and Deep continues the and Dostoevski, claiming that Fitzgerald’s theme of bullying established with their The Great Gatsby has only two decent parts: November 2013 “when that guy got production of God of shot and falls into Carnage, where the the swimming pool, bullying took place and then when that between two couples, chick smashes up as parents coming the car and kills together to discuss that other chick.� a playground fight Overall Bobby between their sons. doesn’t respect Playwright LaBute’s fiction and baits In a Forest Dark his intellectually and Deep is about inclined sister two siblings, Betty saying, “Artists are a and Bobby, who waste of space!� and, bully each other as a “Nobody cares about familiar old routine your writing.� Anne Marie Cummings and Evan Stewart Eisenberg to “get at each other� The real reason about their shared of why Betty asked unhappy childhood Bobby to the house in dealing with their father, who was famous gradually comes to light as they box and (in their minds) for saying: “The truth hurts, unbox the books. Bobby constantly sniffs don’t it? Stings like a bitch.� around the joint: challenging Betty about Bobby appears to be their father her new economic and social circumstances incarnate; he psychologically strips his sister as a college professor, asking her harder Betty down to what he considers her core of and harder questions; he relentlessly digs promiscuity, while in his own self-satisfied deeper, sifting her words and revisiting her mind, “I’ve got a moral core.� This moral possessions. He sorts through the verbal core basically means, “.... for the public chunks she tosses at him, eventually teasing record� that he has “never cheated and I out the truth. It’s a difficult play to watch and stuck with that skirt in front of me until I was both actors do an amazing job of sustaining done with it.� the challenging fast-paced, often brutal, In trying to get a bead on Bobby (“a dialog that leads to “the monster� in the natural� Evan Stewart Eisenberg) the streetlabyrinth of that forest, dark and deep. smart brother, I reread Tennessee Williams’ Playwright LaBute: “Here it is a brother play, A Streetcar Named Desire, thinking and a sister who must negotiate the wreckage that Stanley Kowalski (famously played of their lives and try to find a ray of light in by Marlon Brando) is a similar character. UIF EBSLOFTT ur Stanley’s bullying method of extracting “the truth� from his wife Stella’s dissembling sister Directed by Cynthia Henderson. Stage Blanche Dubois (meaning White Woods) Manager One: AJ Sage. Stage Manager regarding their “Old South� family status, Two: Breanna Myers. Music by: Hank money, estate and her compromised position Roberts. Sound Designer: Josh Samuels as a high school English teacher is in the Performances will be at a new location: same vein. Cinemapolis, 120 E. Green Street, at 8 p.m. Blanche [to Stella]: “He acts like an on Friday and Saturday, March 7 and 8, at animal. Has an animal’s habits. Eats like one, 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 9. Tickets at moves like one, talks like one!� thereaderstheatre.com LaBute’s Betty (“ace dissembler� Anne

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that weren’t the usual red-backed variety, and you had a poster of the various types of clouds taped to your bedroom desk, then teaching elementary school students about nature either comes naturally or you can’t be bothered awakening the deep

fascination that came instantly to you. Rubin, on the contrary, admits up front that she came to nature study late, and this journeyman’s perspective makes the tone of her voice throughout the book humble and friendly. Rubin began teaching in 1987. In 2004 she was spending her fourth summer at the Literacy Institutes for teachers at the University of New Hampshire, when she decided to take a natural journaling class. She was immediately hooked. In the following school year she began integrating natural study into all parts of the elementary school curriculum. By the end of the year: “I am convinced that encouraging my students to observe and connect to the natural world is the most valuable set of lifelong lessons I can

deliver.” She is conscious that her integratedlearning-experience approach bucks the trend toward “skills-based” teaching encouraged by the No Child Left Behind Act after its 2001 passage. How does she fit nature study into a very crowded

curriculum? “I fit in nature study,” she writes, “because I am extremely motivated to do so.” Rubin gets her students out in to the field one afternoon a week for an hour and a half. To Look Closely is not a book of education theory; it is a practical how-to guide for use by teachers and less formal instructors (i.e. nature center and museum education staff, scout leaders, or even parents). After introducing her subject and explaining how she came to it, Rubin settles into giving the reader “Ten Tips For Getting Started.” Some of these are obvious, but important, but some of them are part of an approach the Rubin herself has come with. For example, Tip #3 “Pick a Secret Spot …” is not something that just anyone would come up with. Rubin found in the course of her own adoption of nature study that she enjoyed finding an out-ofthe-way place to sit and get to know. She did this not just by looking closely, but also by revisiting the place regularly to notice and identify changes through time, to get to know the place. By emphasizing this practice, Rubin is introducing secondgraders to the idea that there is a world out there that goes on without them, an important perspective on the road to adulthood. Some people never learn this lesson, to the detriment of the natural environment. Rubin devotes a whole chapter to explain her “moments of science” idea, which she candidly tells us she borrowed from her partner, who is a high school science teacher. He had gotten a question from a student that he couldn’t answer off the top of his head. When he got back to the student with the answer a couple days later, the student had forgotten the question. That’s when he realized that it continued on page 17

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ith the demise Burgers, beers and tradition at Rulloff’s of upper Collegetown’s bastions of the beer mug, Johnny’s Big Red Bar and Grill and The Palms, Rulloff ’s has slipped into the granddaddy slot of that strip’s character pubs. Students, faculty, and townies congregate, drawn by the coziness of the place, solid comfort food, On a recent evening Rulloff ’s Black shots, and pitchers. and Bleu Burger was thick and juicy, Your parents may have tipped a few beers and—horrors!—still a little pink inside here too. as requested, with generous toppings Undergrads start off their birthday of sautĂŠed onions, crisp bacon strips, pub crawls, flirt, engage in earnest mancrumbled bleu cheese, and a side of sweet to-man discussions on such deep topics potato fries. The barbecued chicken salad as the value of preserving culture and included shredded cheddar, tomatoes, ethnic identity, slug down a boilermaker or two, and rack up beer-besodden college black beans, tortilla strips, corn, cilantro, scallions, chunks of barbecued chicken, memories. Seated in its mullionedand ranch dressing, and was crunchy windowed front, catch a glimpse of and filling. Barbecued wings were just dancers pirouetting behind the bowsprit spicy and messy enough, and, paired window of Cornell’s Schwartz Center, with a beer, could have made a meal in the folks from neighboring Collegetown themselves. Rulloff ’s is known for its onion Bagels salting the sidewalks, or students soup blanketed in a rich layer of stringy trudging back up the hill through the melted cheese, and also for cheddarevening slush to toil in Cornell’s labs and topped chili, perfect for a slushy winter’s libraries. Founded by Ned Macksoud in the late day lunch or dinner. The specials: On Mondays burgers are ‘70s (since gone on to maple-syrup making $7 all day, Tuesdays gourmet burgers are in Vermont), Rulloff ’s has seen several $10, and tacos go for 75 cents a pop after generations of Cornellians and visitors 10 p.m. Thursdays, buy a burger and get a come and go, and not much has changed about the place since its inception. Named free beer, and Friday’s your day for fish fry. Feeling adventurous? Order the 20-ounce after an infamous and allegedly brilliant Monster Burger, $24.95, topped with local murderer, Edward Rulloff, the last cheese, greens, tomato, barbecue sauce person hanged in the State of New York, it and bacon, with a huge side of loaded fries retains its fern-bar deep green paint and and an entire pickle. Finish it in an hour its oddball collection of late nineteenth and you win a T-shirt and unpleasant century framed findings. The intricately carved back bar’s dark wood glows, and its rumblings from your stomach. Rulloff ’s Sunday brunches are famous, mirrors, beginning to shed their silvering, and though Johnny Russo lives in Rulloff ’s provide flatteringly hazy reflections in the fans’ memories (see his dedication over low, vaguely romantic light. No acme of mixology, the bar displays the piano), he plays there only very occasionally. More’s the pity. a full roster of flavored vodkas, a few Don’t bother with their website; it’s tequilas, and a single malt Scotch or two. two years out of date. The freshest info is The go-to cocktail is the Bloody Mary. on Rulloff ’s Facebook page. Find the place On tap, ten beers include something by at 411 College Avenue. For info, or to set the Ithaca Beer Company, Rolling Rock, up a catered event in their lower level, Yuengling, and a pull of comforting XIJDI TFBUT DBMM r Guinness. Yes, comforting—this place is everything a Collegetown bar should be, Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are simultaneously high-ceilinged and cozy, based on unannounced, anonymous with decent food and cold beer. visits. Reviews can be found at The menu is a friendly mĂŠlange ithaca.com/dining of burgers, wings, soups, and salads.

in the foreground. And in Moonlight Frolic, we see four fantasy figures dancing contin u ed from page 11 in a meadow in a nocturnal forest, with (all oil on canvas). Glenda Blake is a major a big full moon rising up through the treetops. There is a girl in a baby blue new discovery, a revelation ‌ nightgown like Wendy in Peter Pan, and These are large, tall, vertical paintings a woman in a lime-green gown, arms of people dancing—in ballrooms and rising in the air like flames, and a little guy entry halls, outdoors in parks, on city with bulbous yellow pumpkin shorts and streets, and church chapel lawns ‌ purple leggings and a When I first little purple porkpie saw these paintings, hat, arms writhing like through the orange root-flames, and windows of the a woman dancing in a TCPL, I assumed red dress and purple they were very large blouse. photographic blowThere are oddly ups. They are that squared-off tree stumps realistic. But, up in the forest as if the close, they are more stumps of rectangular impressionistic. trees. And the whole The colors flash and thing has almost an glow with light. And animated cartoon feel. the looseness of the Well. To wrap up: brushwork seems to For The Joy of Dancing covey movement. is worth your time (And motion is life, and attention, Faithful Dancer at Rest, by William E. Deats isn’t it? As long as Reader. Something we are alive we are to help us all like life in motion. We even a little better. Very move in our sleep.) important now that we I particularly are trying to get through this hideous, like Golden Clouds, a painting with cruel, Arctic weather we’ve been enduring dancing women wearing white jumpsuits here in Ithaca for the last couple of and flowing red-violet and purple scarves, months. kneepads glowing with knobs of light, the So you might well spend some time women flourishing with white cloth in the perusing The Joy of Dancing the next time air, catching the sun ‌ you’re at the TCPL returning a book, or Jari Poulin’s works are photographs. paying your library fines, or using the Some are quite compelling. Deep Internet or whatever. Remembrance (photographic montage) &OKPZ r is a photo of two elderly women, one in white, one in black, bent over to one The exhibition For The Joy of Dancing side in a matching dance pose ‌ while will be on display at the Tompkins County Be Here Now is a multiple image of a Public Library, 101 East Green Street, beautiful young woman (with short hair Ithaca, N.Y. until March 21. Call: (607) and rosebud lips, wearing a brown tank272-4557 or visit www.tcpl.org. top and jeans) dancing – the images overlapped and staggered, and the whole ÉKF CFFB :CFJ<CPĂŠ thing processed to give it a wood graincontin u ed from page 14 like texture. Kurt Lichtmann’s work is also photographs. Jumpswing: Kelly Douglass was more important to emphasize the captures a beautiful young woman in a red asking of the questions than the getting of skirt and dance shoes and black blouse the answers. This, after all, is the core of with polka dots leaping into the air in the actual practice of science: asking the what looks like one of those frenetic WW question. II era popular dances. While Hip Hop: Rubin began celebrating the Devan Johnson shows an attractive young insights that her students offered freely, woman wearing a red-and-black tank top, emphasizing their proactive making of cut-off sweat pants, red-and-purple-andconnections over their ability to answer white leggings and big black-and-whitequestions that she was asking them and-orange space-sneakers leaping into directly. One of her students notices that the air in what I presume to be a hipthe “fogâ€? on the sides of a 55°F fish tank hop dance. And Tripura: Liz Welch is a disappears when the temperature is raised multiple exposure medium-close shot of a to room temperature. Rubin scrambles beautiful young woman dancing (wearing to find the explanation, but the student a brown-and-white sparkly dress) in three is awarded a “moment of scienceâ€? for overlapped exposures‌making her look making the observation in the first place. like some multiple armed, Trimurti Hindu She admits that she would never have goddess‌ A beautiful and compelling noticed, but now thinks of the event and photograph. its explanation every time she turns on Margaret Corbit: Showtime 1, her car wipers to clear away condensation Showtime 2, and Moonlight Frolic. PO UIF XJOETIJFME r Corbit’s work functions almost like cartoons. In Showtime 1 & 2, bright blots Rubin will read from her book at of color convey an image of three dancers Buffalo Street Books on March 1 at 2 p.m. with drums on stage, and a show woman

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PM-8:30 PM | Felicia’s Atomic Lounge, 508 W State St, Ithaca | jazz Acoustic Open Mic | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Unwind Cafe, In the Ithaca Mall - near Best Buy, Ithaca | Bring your instruments. Cafe has a keyboard for piano/organ players available. Any style music welcome (original music and covers). The Hound Dogs | 6:00 PM-8:30 PM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Road, Ithaca | Highly danceable classic rock and swing. Professor Tuesday’s Jazz Quartet | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Brandon Lusk | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Crooked Rooster Brewpub, 223 Franklin Street, Watkins Glen | Los Finsteros | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Dorothy’s Music Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | original acid jug band raggrass Tomic-Evans Band | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Jazz and Grooving Music. Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds | 8:00 PM- | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Zydeco Trail Riders | 9:00 PM-12:00 AM | Two Goats Brewing , 5027 State Route 414, Burdett | The Backtalk Band | 9:00 PM-12:00 AM | Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby rd, Ithaca | Tenzin | 10:00 PM-12:00 AM | Agava , 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | -

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Whiskey Bridge | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM | Dorothy’s Music Room, 19 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Tink Bennett & Tailor Made | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | The Haunt, 702 Willow Ave., Ithaca | Under Construction | 8:30 PM-12:30 AM | JD’s Town Tavern, Rt. 223, Erin | Post Valentine’s Prom Night w/ Sanjuro Fields, The Sick Pleazures and Awesomesauce | 9:00 PM- | Night Owls, 3840 US Route 11, Cortland | Doors at 8 p.m. 21 w/ ID Infrared Radiation Orchestra | 9:00 PM-12:00 AM | The Eagle Hotel, 8300 Main Street, Lodi | Suited Stranger | 10:00 PM- | Agava , 381 Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Alternative, Funk, Progressive

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Opus Ithaca School of Music Faculty Recital/Scholarship Fundraiser | 4:00 PM- | St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | Music by Mozart, Brahms, Schumann, Copland, Prokofiev and more. Philip Glass | 7:00 PM- | State Theatre of Ithaca, Inc., 107 W State St, Ithaca | With special guest Tim Fain. “An evening of chamber music”. Dancing For a Cause | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | La Tourelle Resort and August Moon Spa, 1150 Danby Rd, Ithaca | w/ music by The Destination and performances from local dance troupes. To benefit Suicide Prevention & Crisis Service. Michael Hashim’s New York All-Stars | 7:30 PM- | Smith Opera House For The Performing Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | CU Winds | 8:00 PM- | Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca | CU Winds: Elizabeth Peterson, conductor. Features Julie Giroux’s Symphony of Fables, Henry Fillmore’s Americans We, and works by Markowski, Persichetti, and Biedenbender. Garnet Rogers | 8:00 PM-10:00 PM | The Nelson Odeon, 4035 Nelson Rd., Nelson | -

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=`cd Cutie and the Boxer | 7:30 PM-, 02/26 Wednesday | Smith Opera House For The Performing Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | Once a rising star in the ‘70’s New York art scene, 80-year-old “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara is prepping for his latest show, hoping to reinvigorate his career. His wife and de facto assistant, Noriko, seeks her own recognition through her “Cutie” illustrations. Triple Divide | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 02/27 Thursday | Unitarian Church, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | Investigative reporters from Public Herald, Joshua Pribanic and Melissa Troutman, will screen their feature-length documentary concerning environmental and health impacts from shale gas extraction in PA since 2007. Feed Your Head Movie Nights | 7:30 PM-, 02/28 Friday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Trumansburg | Feed Your Head: A Festival of Four Iconic Films from the Sixties. 02/28: Easy Rider

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Z`e\dXgfc`j August: Osage County | Tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them | 130 minutes; R | Fri: 6:55, 9:25; Sat: 2:10, 6:55, 9:25; Sun: 2:10 PM; Mon Thu: 6:55, 9:25 Gloria | Gloria is a “woman of a certain age” but still feels young. Though lonely, she makes the best of her situation and fills her nights seeking love at social dance clubs for single adults. Her fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo. | 110 minutes; R | Fri: 4:55, 7:05, 9:10 Sat: 2:30, 4:55, 7:05, 9:10; Sun: 2:30 PM; Mon - Thu: 4:55, 7:05, 9:10. Her | Spike Jonze takes the helm for this comedy about a withdrawn writer (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls in love with his computer’s highly advanced operating system. | 126 minutes; R | Fri: 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Sat: 2:00, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Sun: 2:00 PM; Mon - Thu: 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 In Secret (Therese) | Based on Émile Zola’s scandalous novel, Thérèse Raquin, In Secret is a tale of obsessive love, adultery and revenge set in the lower depths of 1860s Paris | 109 minutes; R | Fri & Sat: 4:50 PM; Mon Thu: 4:50 PM. Inside Llewyn Davis | Follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. | 105 minutes; R | Fri: 4:50, 7:10, 9:15; Sat: 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:15; Sun: 2:20 PM; Mon - Thu: 4:50, 7:10, 9:15. Omar | A tense, gripping thriller about betrayal, suspected and real, in the Occupied Territories. Omar is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girl Nadja. By night, he’s either a freedom fighter or a terrorist – you decide – ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli military with his childhood friends Tarek and Amjad | 98 minutes; NR | Fri: 9:05 PM; Sat: 2:35, 9:05; Sun: 2:35 PM; Mon - Thu: 9:05 PM.

Philomena | Based on the 2009 investigative book by BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith | 94 minutes; PG-13 |Fri & Sat: 5:00, 7:00 Mon - Thu: 5:00, 7:00. Under Our Skin | In this documentary, filmmaker Andy Abrahams Wilson speaks with six Lyme disease patients and the small but dedicated group of physicians who put their medical licenses on the lines in order to treat this disease. | 104 minutes; PG | 02/27 Thu: 7:00 PM. Zfie\cc Z`e\dX The Last of the Unjust | Decades after the interviews were conducted, Lanzmann has compiled a portrait of Benjamin Murmelstein, the last President of the Jewish Council in the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, the only “Elder of the Jews” not to have been killed during the war. | Wed 02/26 7:00 PM. 12 Years a Slave | Based on the true story of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York sold to a ruthless slave owner (Michael Fassbender) in Louisiana during the 1840s, the film follows Solomon’s extraordinary life from artistic ascendency (he was an accomplished violinist before being kidnapped) to depths of despair no human being should have to endure. | Thu 02/27 7:00 PM; Fri 02/28 7:00 PM, Sun 03/02 4:30 PM. The Hunger Games | Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence stars in the hugely successful adaptation of the Suzanne Collins novel set in a post-apocalyptic future where children fight each other to the death for the entertainment of the masses. | Fri 02/28 9:45 PM; Sat 03/01 9:30 PM. Kid Flix Mix | A rare opportunity to see the best of this year’s New York International Children’s Film Festival, featuring musical and narrative works from around the world that are sure to delight audiences of all ages. $4 adults, $3 children | Sat 03/01 2:00 PM. Funny Face |Only one of the greatest movie musicals could rhyme Sartre with Montmartre and keep your toes tapping all the time. Stanley Donen, winner of a lifetime Oscar, brings Fred

Astaire and Audrey Hepburn together in this fairy tale about the 50s fashion world. | Sat 03/01 7:15 PM; Wed 03/05 8:00 PM, Funny Face Fashion show w/ Petrune at 7:20 p.m. Sukkah City | Filmmaker Jason Hutt documents a one-of-a-kind design competition/art installation in New York City’s Union Square in September 2010. Competitors were asked to construct a sukkah, a temporary structure used during the Jewish festival of Sukkot. | Sun 03/02 11:00 AM.

JkX^\ Chinglish | 7:30 PM-, 02/26 Wednesday; 7:30 PM-, 02/27 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 02/28 Friday; 3:00 PM-, 8:00 PM- 03/01 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 03/02 Sunday; 2:00 PM-, 7:30 PM03/05 Wednesday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse | Written by David Henry Hwang and directed by May Adrales. A hilarious new comedy about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn’t the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011. Cock | 7:30 PM-, 02/26 Wednesda; 2:00 PM-, 02/27 Thursday; 7:30 PM-, 02/28 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 03/01 Saturday; 4:00 PM-, 03/02 Sunday; 7:30 PM-, 03/05 Wednesday | The Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | By Mike Bartlett. A love triangle for the 21st century, with every outrageous possible entanglement keeping this ultra-new theater piece moving forward at breakneck pace. Who do you love and why? Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 02/26 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs Free Improv Comedy Happy Hour | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 02/28 Friday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | with ComedyFLOPs Prince Igor | 12:00 PM-, 03/01 Saturday | Regal 14 Cinema, The Shops At Ithaca Mall, Ithaca | Borodin’s defining Russian epic, famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the Met for the first time in nearly 100 years. Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production is a brilliant psychological journey

through the mind of its conflicted hero, with the founding of the Russian nation as the backdrop. Love, Loss and What I Wore | 8:00 PM-, 03/01 Saturday | The Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughanock Blvd, Ithaca | Uses humor, warmth and sometimes sadness to illustrate the wide and varied experiences women have as we travel through our wonderful and complicated journeys. Show will benefit the Advocacy Center.

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D\\k`e^j Lansing Town Board Meeting | 6:00 PM-, 02/26 Wednesday | Town Of Lansing, 29 Auburn Rd, Lansing | Ithaca City Administration Committee | 6:00 PM-, 02/26 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca | Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency | 8:30 AM-, 02/27 Thursday | Common Council Chambers, Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca | Tompkins County Council of Governments | 3:00 PM-, 02/27 Thursday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Newfield School Board | 6:30 PM-, 02/27 Thursday | Newfield Central School District, 247 Main St, Newfield | Meetings in the Weaver Conference Room in the elementary school. Groton Board of Education Meeting | 6:00 PM-, 03/03 Monday | Groton Central Schools, 400 Peru Rd, Groton | Spencer Village Board | 7:00 PM-, 03/03 Monday | Village Of Spencer, 41 N Main St, Spencer | Tompkins County Legislature | 5:30 PM-, 03/04 Tuesday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome. Candor Village Board Meeting | 7:00 PM-, 03/04 Tuesday | Candor Village Hall, Main Street , Candor | Meeting of the board of trustees; public invited.

Efk`Z\j Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 02/26 Wednesday | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | Mentors commit to 3 hours per week for this school year, with the option to continue next year. The Mentor and Student meet twice a week at Boynton Middle School from 3:25 PM until 4:25PM.The Mentor-Student Program is an opportunity to make a positive impact in a young person’s life. An adult Mentor meeting regularly, one-on-one with a middle school student and read, do homework, play board games, and more. For more info, call (607) 272-2292 or email mentor. student12@gmail.com Call for Artists | Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 205 Genesee St, Auburn | For the Art Center’s Summer 2014 exhibit entitled cARTography: artists as mapmakers. The exhibit will run from June 6 - August 17. The Art Center is looking for artists for an exhibit related to maps and map making. Work may be in any medium. For details on how to submit artwork, please visit the Art Center’s website at www.myartcenter.org. If you have questions, please call 315.255.1553 or email mhastedt@schweinfurthartcenter.org. Submissions due by 03/28 Seneca Towns Engaging People for Solutions (STEPS) Forum | 6:00 PM-, 02/26 Wednesday | Lodi Town Hall, 8440 Main Street, Lodi, | This is a chance for all community members to share their ideas on how to make our community a better place to live. To learn more visit www.s2aynetwork. org or contact STEPS Assessment Coordinator M. Theresa Lahr at 315-651-9919 or mtlahr@gmail.com. Finger Lakes ReUse Volunteer Orientation | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM, 03/03 Monday | Finger Lakes Reuse, 2255 N Triphammer Rd Ste 30, Ithaca | Anyone interested in volunteering at the ReUse

C\Zkli\j Follow the Money: Responsible Investing for Climate Justice | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 02/26 Wednesday | First Presbyterian Church, 315 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Continuing the Inquiry to Action Speaker series, organized by local faith-based organizations. A dish-to-pass supper at First Presbyterian begins at 6 p.m. prior to each event and is open to the public. Tragedy and Trauerspiel: Holderlin and Benjamin | 7:00 PM-, 02/26

Wednesday | The A.D. White House, 27 East Ave., Ithaca | Seminar with Sam Weber, Avalon Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University. In room 110. When War is an Engine of Liberalism: The Social Meaning of War and the Deepening of Israel’s Democracy | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, 02/27 Thursday | Uris Hall, Room G08, Cornell University, Ithaca | Reppy Institute Seminar Speaker: Ronald R. Krebs (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota). The Legend of the Barkhamsted Lighthouse | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 03/04 Tuesday | Susquehanna River Archaeology Center, 345 Broad Street, Waverly | Presentation by Sheryl Robinson. sracenter.wordpress.com/

C\Xie`e^ Art Classes for Adults | Community School Of Music And Arts, 330 E. State St, Ithaca | For more information, call (607) 272-1474 or email info@ csma-ithaca.org. www.csma-ithaca. org. ESL Snack and Chat | 3:15 PM-4:30 PM, 02/26 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Free, drop-in sessions to help non-English speaking residents and visitors meet their personal goals through English conversation and language exercises in small groups. Held from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays in the BorgWarner Community Room at the Tompkins County Public Library. Ithaca Fixers Collective | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 02/27 Thursday; 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 03/01 Saturday | ReUse Center -- Triphammer Marketplace, 2255 N Triphammer Rd, Ithaca | Finger Lakes ReUse will begin hosting the Ithaca Fixers Collective on Thursday evenings in addition to regular Saturday meetings. The Ithaca Fixers Collective is open to anyone who has things to fix, wants to help fix items, and/or wants to learn how to repair items. For more information about the Fixers Collective, visit the website or call (607) 257-9699. Bike Maintenance Workshop | 12:00 PM-2:00 PM, 03/01 Saturday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | Bring your bike and learn how to do a basic bike tune-up in this free workshop. Kids, we are going to raffle the Five Star Bank Bikes at noon. Tompkins County Festivals Program Hosts Workshops For

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Thursday, February 27 – 7 p.m.

The fine folks at Standard Art Supply and Souvenir host an opening of screen printing work called OMG So Beautiful Sunsets at Standard headquarters,308 E. Seneca St., Ithaca. Sunglasses optional.

Hey, remember fracking? Two journalists from Public Herald do. They’ve spent the past few years investigating hydraulic fracturing in Northern Pennsylvania, combing through reports, talking with residents and, in one case, being illegally detained by gas pad workers. The fruits of their labor, a doc called “Triple Divide”, screens at Ithaca’s First Unitarian Church, and it looks pretty damn good.

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Planners | 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, 03/04 Tuesday | Downtown Visitors Center Center Ithaca, on The Commons, Ithaca | Improving the Tourism Impact of Your Event. Reserve your seating by emailing Vicki Taylor Brous at tcfestivals@gmail. com. For more information, email or call 607-277-8679. Astrology Learning Group | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 03/04 Tuesday | Crow’s Nest, Above Autumn Leaves, on the Commons, Ithaca | Open discussions appropriate for beginners to experts. Contact Tim at turecekt@gmail.com. Jesusians of Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 03/04 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | Not affiliated with any church or religious institution. For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www. facebook.com/groups/JesusiansOfIthaca or www.meetup.com/JesusiansofIthaca Business Planning Workshop | 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, 03/05 Wednesday | Corning Community College, Airport Corporate Park, Big Flats | This seminar will discuss the necessary steps to formalize your business, legal requirements, business structure, and business plan development. Pre-registration is required by March 3rd. To register or for more information, call the SBDC at 607-937-6861 or e-mail sbdc@corning-cc.edu

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the local community are welcome. Any monies made will be donated to the Newfield Fire Company. SVE Community Showcase | 1:00 PM-4:00 PM, 03/02 Sunday | Spencer-Van Etten High School Auditorium, , | Showcase for local business owners Traditional Board and Card Game Night | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 03/04 Tuesday | Unwind Cafe, Ithaca Mall, Ithaca | With a rotation on our own games or bring your own favorite to play. Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 03/05 Wednesday | The Glenwood Pines, 1213 Taughannock Blvd. (Rt. 89), Ithaca | 607-273-4421 or hhf2@ cornell.edu

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PM, 02/27 Thursday; 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 03/03 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments). Start Your Day Raw! Part 2 | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 02/27 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | For a more substantial breakfast, learn how to sprout grains and make live-oatmeal and sprouted buckwheat cereal. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 10:00 AM-11:30 AM, 02/28 Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location, | For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: (607) 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ ithaca.edu Seminar for Women in Separation/ Divorce Process | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 03/01 Saturday | Lifelong, 119 West Court St., Ithaca | For more information call: 276-3675 Big Horn Lenape/Delaware Tribe Events | 9:00 AM-, 03/02 Sunday | Call for Location, Newfield | Men’s Sweatlodge for healing and purification on 03/02 and 03/30 and Council Fire on 03/16. contact hittak@yahoo.com for information and directions. Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 03/04 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule an appointment or to ask for further information (607) 274-6604 Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 03/04 Tuesday | 124 E. Court St., 124 E. Court St., Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions # 607-272-1505

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8ikj fg\e`e^j Continuity and Disruption | 6:00 PM-, 02/27 Thursday | Handwerker Gallery, Gannett Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Artist talk with Katie Waugh OMG! at Standard Art | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 02/28 Friday | Standard Art Supply, 308 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | Opening at Standard Art Supply and Souvenir for OMG So Beautiful Sunsets, screenprints presented by Welcome Workshop. Workshops to be held 03/01 and 03/02. Opening at Corks and More | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 03/04 Tuesday | Corks and More, 708 W. Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Opening reception for Remnants, a collection of photo-prints by local artist Kristen Tordella-Williams. The series investigates how a person stores his or her belongings in a space that is not necessarily neat or tidy. w/ live jazz music. fe^f`e^ Amazima: Samite Studio & Gallery | 123 S. Cayuga St., Studio 302, Ithaca | 05:00 AM-8:00 PM Fridays and Saturdays | Dust & Water, opening reception 12/06 | www.samite.com Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Monday-Saturday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM; Thursday, 10:00-8:00 PM | 273-1371 | Paul Karakantas, paintings, new in February | www.benjaminpeters.com Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | Character Studies, illustrations by Jennifer Gibson and Johanna van der Sterre, opening 03/07

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Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services hosts Dancing for a Cause, a benefit event featuring performances from dance troupes and live music from the Destination. The show benefits SPCS and its programs. Hit the dance floor for a noble cause at La Tourelle Resort, 1150 Danby Rd., Ithaca.

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| www.buffalostreetbooks.com CAP ArtSpace | Center Ithaca, The Commons, Ithaca | Mon-Thu 9:00 AM-7:00 PM, Fri-Sat 11:00 PM-7:30 PM; Sun 12:00-5:00 PM | Roadside Fodder, photographs by Sarah Blodget | Like Sacral Figures, by Irina Kassabova, new in February | www.artspartner.org Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Sun-Wed 6:30 PM-8:00 PM; Thurs-Sat 6:30 AM-10:00 PM | The world through my eyes, paintings by Eric Draper, new in February | collegetownbagels.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | In Pieces, paintings by Michael Sampson, new in February | Discontinuities, work by Sorina Susnea, opening 03/07 www.csma-ithaca.org Corks and More | 708 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | open daily at 4 p.m., closed Mondays | Remnants, a collection of photo-prints by local artist Kristen Tordella-Williams, opens 03/04 | www. corksandmore.com Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center), Ithaca | Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00 AM-5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM. Closed Sun & Mon | Tectonics, new work by Barbara Page, opens 03/14 | www.cornersgallery. com Crow’s Nest CafÊ | 115 The Commons, Ithaca | Merideth Nieves: I Stand Alone (And Take Back Something Worth Remembering) | Love: an infinite gift opening, work from Chelsea Starkweather, new in February | (646) 306-0972 DÊcorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Patty L. Porter, paintings | Alan Cameron: True Expression, paintings, new in February | 319-0944 or visit www.decorum-too.com Gallery at FOUND | 227 Cherry Street, Ithaca | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM, closed Tuesdays | The Marriage of Art & Craft: Jewelry Boes and Mixed Media Paintings by Trina and Jim Bruno, through 03/02 | www.foundinithaca.com Gimme! Coffee | 430 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | Fructu Novarro, photographs | New work from Emily Finegan; new work from Daniel Dembrosky, both new in February | www.gimmecoffee.com/ Hirshland Exhibition Gallery at Carl A. Kroch Library | Mann Library, Cornell University | Now Scream! The Hip Hop Collection Exhibition, through 02/04 | rmc.library.cornell.edu/rabbithole The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday to Friday 12 -6 PM, Sat 12-4 PM | Druckwerkstatt |

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Prints from Berlin, opening 02/07 | 607-277-3884 | www.ink-shop.org Sarah’s Patisserie | 130 E. Seneca St., Ithaca | 9:00 AM-10:00 PM, daily | Tree Portraits by Christi Sobel, paintings | www.sarahspatisserie.com/ Silky Jones | 214 The Commons (E. State St.), Ithaca | Daily, 4:00 PM-1:00 AM | Eder Muniz, paintings, opening 02/01 through 02/28 | www. silkyjoneslounge.com Solå Gallery | Dewitt Mall, Ithaca | 10:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday-Saturday | Ann Day Watercolors, ongoing | New Works of Katie Baldwin, woodblock prints, opening 03/07 | www. solagallery.com Standard Art Supply & Souvenir | 308 East Seneca Street, Ithaca | 10:30 AM-5:00 PM Wednesday-Thursday; 10:00 AM-7:00 PM Thursday-Saturday; 10:00 AM-5:00 PM Sunday | OMG So Beautiful Sunsets, screenprints presented by Welcome Workshop, opening 02/28 State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | WednesdayFriday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | The 25th Annual

selection from “Glass Works,� “Einstein on the Beach,� something more contemporary. Glass composed “Partita for Solo Violin in Seven Movements� specifically for Fai. Asked why, he said simply, “Because he’s that good.� Glass often watches the young virtuoso from his piano, gazing as if in a trance. *** The music of old time stringbands is unofficially known as mountain trance, owing to the pulsing and droning quality of the rhythmic repetition. And anyone who has been to the GrassRoots Festival or Felicia’s on a Friday can attest to the vibe—a mad rush quality. Old Crow Medicine Show manages to maintain the dance quality of old-time while adding an authorship or brand that evokes the casual excellence of the Band. It’s been fifteen years since Old Crow took a brief Dylan refrain and made it their own. “Wagon Wheel� became an unexpected country hit in the hands of Darius Rucker from Hootie and the Blowfish, but OCMS was already selling out venues thanks to heavy touring. The act, which has roots both in upstate New York and in North Carolina, is a fine dance band, and their brand TFFNT UP POMZ CF FYQBOEJOH t

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Cuddle Up Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 02/26 Wednesday | Southworth Library, Main Street, Dryden | Lab of O Reading: A Place for Birds | 3:30 PM-, 02/27 Thursday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Adelson Library (second floor). Hands-on activities follow the reading. Preschool Story Time & Activity: Tactile Time | 10:30 AM-, 02/28 Friday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni, followed by art with invisible ink. Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca NY 14850. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600. Babies, Books, and Bounce Time | 11:00 AM-, 02/28 Friday | Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | Wreck It Ralph! | 7:00 PM-, 02/28 Friday | YMCA of Ithaca and Tompkins County, Graham Road West, Ithaca | Sciencenter Special Activity: Walking Gliders | 10:00 AM-, 03/01

Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 2:00 PM-03/01 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Family Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 03/01 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E. Green Street, Ithaca | The LEGO Movie Building Event | 11:00 AM-, 03/01 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Build a scene from the movie. This event is great for ages 4 and up. Space is limited. Please sign up with any bookseller. Library Lego Program | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM, 03/01 Saturday | Tompkins County Public Library, Borg Warner Room, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | For more information, contact the Youth Services Department at (607) 272-4557 extension 275. Sciencenter Showtime! Under the Sea | 2:00 PM-, 03/01 Saturday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | w/ Cornell’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Team. www.sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600.

Moto-Inventions | 1:00 PM-2:00 PM, 03/02 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Energy Explo! | 2:00 PM-, 03/02 Sunday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | Dr. Seuss Read Across America | 11:00 AM-, 03/03 Monday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Storytime Preschool Story Time & Activity: Math Time | 10:30 AM-, 03/04 Tuesday | Sciencenter, 601 1st St, Ithaca | It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw and learn about shapes with mix-and-match cards. www. sciencenter.org or 607-272-0600. Toddler Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 03/04 Tuesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E Green St, Ithaca | Caregivers and toddlers will have an opportunity to enjoy stories, songs, and fingerplays

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Store Closing-Everything Must Go

March 9th 1pm-3pm

607-387-6527 jfahs@lightlink.com

The Mark Downs Continue!

15% OFF Entire Check

Fine Spirit Studio

at Mitsuba with

Your home for yoga, dance

Kitchen/Bath Sale

Greenback Coupon

and massage in Fall Creek

50% OFF Cabinets

www.finespiritstudio.com, 342-2332

Crown Construction

4 Seasons Landscaping LLC

607-844-3993

Clothing, Jewelry & Accessories

Fibers Boutique Sale ends Feb 28 Dewitt Mall 215 N. Cayuga St.

Full line of Vinyl Replacement Windows

LANDLORDS

Free Estimates

Fall Clean-up, Gutter Cleaning,

South Seneca Vinyl

Mowing, Dumpster Rental

We Specialize in Apartment

315-585-6050, 866-585-6050

Mulching, Walkways, Patios Fertilizing & Weed Killing, Pruning

Building Insurance

WallinInsurance.com

Half OFF NYS Auto Inspection

Commercial/Residential fourseasons14850@twcny.rr.com

Representing Finger Lakes Fire & Casualty

with Greenback Coupon

272-1504

(607)734-8799

at Monro Muffler/Brake

LIGHTLINK HOTSPOTS

AAM ALL ABOUT MACS

HAVE THE LAST WORD!

Macintosh Consulting

Award-Winning Writer will Work with You to

http://www.lightlink.com/hotspots

How Will You Be Remembered? Craft a Factual Biography with Charm &

http://www.allaboutmacs.com

Pathos

280-4729

up to 5 toppings + cheese

Free 5-Year Update.

Email PeggyHaine.1@gmail.com

LPs 45s 78s ROCK JAZZ BLUES PUNK REGGAE ETC Angry Mom Records (Autumn Leaves Basement)

Saturday, March 1st, 4-6 pm

319-4953 angrymomrecords@gmail.com

1771 Dryden Road, Freeville NY Come check out the brewery and meet the

Careful Cut LAWN CARE

Author of

Detailed, Dependable Mowing and Trim-

The Great Northeast Brewery Tour!

ming.

And have some beer!

Now Taking New Lawns for Spring!

279-1243

Call Carl at 793-8977 INSURED

15% OFF Hibachi Dinner entrees with Greenback Coupon 722 S. Meadow near Tops Market Where POWER meets Bliss Ithaca’s downtown Power Yoga

MIGHTY YOGA CLASSES & WORKSHOPS FOR ALL LEVELS Open 7 days a week, 35+ classes weekly Visit www.mightyyoga.com, 272-0682

Only $11.00 Save $5.49 with

Wild Bird Seminar!

Greenback Coupon at

With Cean Laverty (aka Crazy Bird

Papa Johns

Hopshire Farm & Brewery Book Signing

Hibachi & Sushi & Asian Bistro

Voted Best of Ithaca 2011

Load it Up Any large Pizza with

Put some life into Your Obituary.

* BUYING RECORDS *

hotspots@lighlink.com

Tokyo

Lady) Saturday March 1st 10 am

Ithaca Ace

Men’s and Women’s Alterations for over 20 years

Learn about common backyard birds and

Fur & Leather repair, zipper repair.

helpful hints

Same Day Service Available

to turn your yard into a wild bird friendly

John’s Tailor Shop

habitat!

John Serferlis - Tailor

Refreshments and Prizes

102 The Commons

Call 319-4002 to reserve your spot!

273-3192

Ithaca Ace at Triphammer Marketplace

WINTER HOURS

in the

Space@ Saturdays 11­2

Starting Jan.11 running through March 700 W. BUFFALO ST. JUST NORTH OF GREENSTAR CO-OP

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