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record-breaking summer to City of Ithaca Planning and Economic Development Committee during its Wednesday, Oct. 8 public meeting. “Since 2000,” Stoff noted in a “market snapshot” memo, “room-supply growth has averaged 3 percent per year, roughly 60 rooms per year. There’s no new inventory coming to the market for the next two years.” While the latter statement is true, it is expected that, by 2017, a 160-room Marriott at the east end of the Commons (about to break ground), along with a 120room Hampton Inn at 320-24 E. State St. (still seeking final approval) will be up and running. Some board members questioned whether or not the market has room

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ew rules for how much noise you can make within the city could be approved as soon as November. The anticipated revision to the existing ordinance—a process that began in 2013— will include decibel levels that would be enforced through use of decibel meters by the Ithaca Police Department (IPD). During its Wednesday, Oct. 8 public meeting, the Planning and Economic Development Committee (PEDC) closed the public hearing regarding revisions to the ordinance. The ordinance, which has been spearheaded by PEDC Chair Seph Seph Murtagh Murtagh, has taken (Photo: M. Nocella) more than a year to come to fruition. The legislation was crafted by the city with help from an outside consultant. The major change, Murtagh noted, will be the implementation of decibel levels. “This started,” Murtagh said, “because [the city] realized that there were situations arising where we have these conflicts—mostly between commercial bars and restaurants and neighboring residents. We realized that in most cases these were ongoing noise conflicts, whether it be music from a bar or noise from an air conditioner of industrial facility. And our [current] noise ordinance is too subjective to resolve those types of situations. So [the proposed revision] we have has a provision that basically says that noise that’s considered ‘unreasonable’ from a distance of 25 feet is prohibited. “And there’s a list of different factors to help [IPD] decide if the noise is unreasonable,” he continued. “The type of facility, the time of day, the duration of the noise, and so on. Making a judgment off of those factors alone is a fairly subjective one. Noise that seems unreasonable to you might not seem unreasonable to me. So what we realized is that we had to have some kind of objective standard [in the ordinance] to help resolve situations that have become ongoing conflicts.” The ordinance includes “slightly more restrictive noise setting for residential areas in the city, and slightly less restrictive level for commercial areas in the city,” Murtagh said. In the proposed draft of the continued on page4

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t is no wonder hotel owners are champing at the bit for a chance to join the Ithaca hospitality market. According to Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) Director Bruce Stoff, the market enjoyed a “record summer,” during which one downtown property owner reported more than a 90 percent occupancy rate (available rooms that are sold divided by the number of rooms available) with an average daily rate (ADR) of more than $200. Stoff also noted that the city is looking at a 6-percent growth in demand, which could be even higher by the end of the year, with the “supply/demand equation turning in very profitable [results].” He added that Ithaca’s market revenue growth is Bruce Stoff, Director of the Ithaca/Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau about 20 percent (Photo: Michael Nocella) higher than the rest of the country. For more perspective, in May 2014 the for another 280 rooms. Stoff said that the market should have no problem ADR in the Niagara Falls region is $97.10 absorbing one of the projects, but that if with an occupancy rate of 70.4 percent, both projects come to fruition, the trend and in Binghamton it is $94.58 and 58.2 could change. An x-factor in making sure percent. In upstate New York in general, the numbers are $102.27 and 51.9 percent. demand increases with added supply, he noted, would be the upcoming second In August the local market boasted an tower for Hotel Ithaca. Though approved, ADR of $175 and an occupancy rate of 80.2 percent. Revenue, in the month alone, the tower has not yet seen a shovel break was $5.8 million, bringing the year-to-date ground, and its status currently seems total to nearly $30 million. continued on page 5 Stoff gave a presentation on the

▶ Hunting Season Opens, Bowhunting season for deer began on Sept. 27 in the Northern Zone and Oct. 1 in the Southern Zone. During the early archery seasons, big game hunters may use crossbows Oct. 15 through Oct. 24 in the Northern Zone and Nov. 1 through November 14 in the Southern Zone. The regular deer season begins Oct. 25 in northern New York, followed by Nov. 15 across the southern tier. Special muzzleloader seasons open on October 18 in most areas and run through October 24, followed by a late muzzleloader

season for deer from December 8-14 in the Northern Zone and for deer and bear from December 8-16 in the Southern Zone. Following the completion of the Black Bear Management Plan, bear hunting opportunities have greatly expanded throughout upstate New York. The early bear hunting season spans September 13 through October 17 in northern New York. The regular season begins October 25 in the Northern Zone and November 15 in the Southern Zone, and runs through December 7 in both regions. See www.dec.ny.gov for more info.

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PHOTOGRAPHER Ithaca Beer to Triple Production By Tim G e ra

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pparently, if there’s one thing that a city and town can’t have too much of, it’s beer. After a marathon town of Ithaca Planning Board meeting Tuesday, Oct. 7, board members approved preliminary and final site plans for a major expansion to the Ithaca Beer Co., the popular restaurant and brewery located off Route 13 at 122 Ithaca Beer Drive. The proposal involves the construction of a 23,800-square-foot addition on the north side of the existing building to increase production and space. Such an addition would more than double the size of the company’s existing 16,000-square foot facility, and would bring them to approximately 40,000-sqaure-feet of their allowed 65,000-square-foot capacity. According to Ithaca Beer founder and owner Dan Mitchell, the expansion would allow the brewery to triple its production from 30,000 barrels of beer per year to nearly 90,000 barrels of beer per year. The project will also include new loading docks, 33 employee parking spaces, a materials storage area, outdoor lighting, and stormwater facilities. Mitchell said construction for the expansion would begin “as soon as I get approval.” As a result of recent success, he added that currently, his business is “running out of room quickly.” In a memo titled “Ithaca Beer Packaging Hall Addition Narrative,” which was submitted to the planning board, it was explained that the rationale behind such an expansion is a booming business. “Ithaca Beer Company,” it notes, “has been experiencing tremendous growth over the last seven to 10 years, prompting the design and build-out of their current, 16,000-square-foot facility. The facility currently houses all operations, ranging from restaurant and pub, to brewing,

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revised ordinance, which can be found on the city’s website, noise in commercial areas is limited to 65 decibels during the day, while in residential areas it would be 60 decibels during the day. It adds that residential locations within 200 feet of a commercial zone would be included in the 65-decibel boundaries. The latter revision has caused complaints from residents. “We question,” resident Rajit Manohar said, “why the city would subvert its own zoning to encourage the development of noisy businesses along residential borders. We ask that the maximum permissible sound levels be consistent with current zoning.” Murtagh said he anticipates

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there was a discussion regarding the odor of increased production produced by the beer-making process. The odor, described by Mitchell as smelling like “baking bread,” has caused a few complaints from local residents. “It’s one of the most successful restaurants in town,” Mitchell said. “I don’t see a lot of people running because of the odor.” Concern over the odor, however, was not enough to derail the expansion’s approval, which passed 6 votes to 1 and took more than three hours to come to. Much of that duration was taken up by public comments from a neighboring resident of Ithaca Beer’s property, Cart Sosebee. He requested several “caveats and conditions” from Mitchell and the town before final approval be granted. “I am not against Ithaca Beer expanding,” Sosebee said. “What I’m The latest Ithaca Beer expansion will allow them to triple their production against is Ithaca Beer and hire 33 new employees. (Photo: Tim Gera) expanding without certain conditions being met.” ready itself for future expansion into new The first of Sosebee’s concerns was markets and increased wholesale demands.” many Ithaca Beer customers turn into The memo also notes that a “slight his driveway instead of the entrance for increase in truck traffic” can be expected, Ithaca Beer, and then are forced to make as daily visits from currently two tractora roundabout turn that damages his front trailers and two smaller box trucks yard. He also had an issues the early “may double in the upcoming years.” morning pickup of Ithaca Beer’s garbage, Construction, which could begin as soon how much added vegetation would be as mid November, could be finished by buffering his property from the expansion, late spring or early summer 2015. It is also and what hours construction workers will expected to allow the company to hire 33 keep during the job. All of those concerns, new employees—many of whom will earn in some fashion, were addressed as living wage. additional conditions to the resolution that Although the board’s State was ultimately adopted. • Environment Quality Review (SEQR) determined no substantial environmental – Michael Nocella impacts would be caused by the expansion, cellaring, packaging and shipping operations. “Since the completion of this initial build out,” it continues, “Ithaca Beer’s growth rate has increased exponentially from both the restaurant side and the wholesale side pushing the limits on our current facility. The new packaging hall addition would add much needed production space. The addition of this space would allow Ithaca Beer to keep up with their current customer’s needs and

recommending the 200-foot rule be removed from the ordinance. He explained that the revised ordinance would essentially act as a parallel option to the existing code. He added that he imagined the existing code would still be sufficient enough to handle between 90 to 95 percent of noise complaints going forward, and the revised ordinance is targeted at the remaining 5 to 10 percent of “rare incidences” in which subjective judgment would lead to an ongoing dispute. “We can still [deal with noise complaints] using the existing standard. So an officer has the option to respond to a noise complaint and give a ticket [based on their judgment of a noise within 25 feet]. However, if the officer desired, or if the city desired, he would also have the option to pull out a decibel meter and try to resolve the incident that way. So you

can basically think of it as another layer of protection. Over the years, Murtagh said the city has developed a habit of granting noise permits for repeated noisy events. However, such permits are typically intended to be for one-time events, such as a festival within the city. Recently, the mayor’s office has been issuing permits to some commercial establishments who have heard complaints from neighboring residents. Murtagh said decibel limits would help prevent permits from becoming commonplace. “Our hope is that by creating decibel standards it would put an end to that practice,” Murtagh said. “If we find out that the mayor continues to do that, we’ll have to revisit this and maybe change our permitting process.” • – Michael Nocella

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Solutions for Pained Commons Stores

ozens of Commons merchants filled the Common Council chambers to once more seek answers regarding the delayed Commons project, which has hurt many businesses. One week after business owners spoke out during an Oct. 1 Common Council meeting, Mayor Svante Myrick organized another meeting on Thursday, Oct. 9 for storeowners and city officials to discuss concerns more in depth. Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA) Executive Director Gary Ferguson noted DIA met with several of the merchant leaders who filed a petition and spoke out last week and DIA has since assembled a list of “potential mitigating actions and steps that might be both feasible and useful.” These actions would, in theory, help stores keep their heads above water while the project inches across the finish line. Originally given a completion date of July 31, 2014, the project may not be completed until spring—or even summer—2015. Project Manager Michael Kuo informed merchants that by Thanksgiving his team expects paving to be 100 percent complete on Bank Alley and the 200 block of East State Street, but that the 100 block would not be paved until the spring. Kuo noted that April 1 was the most likely date to pick things back up after the winter, but that, depending on the weather, it could be earlier or later. “The good news is, since September 8,” he said, “we’ve been really making a lot of progress on the surface program. You can see Bank Alley now [and it’s concrete surfacing coming together].” Of the 18 proposed mitigating actions, the following seemed to be the most attractive to storeowners: • An additional three cut-through cross walks to provide better cross foot traffic on the Commons. • It was expected that there would be a holiday lighting display in 2014, due to the existence of new light poles and new electrical outlets. In its current condition, there is nothing on which to hang holiday lighting. Adding outlets along the fence line on the 100 block to allow for festive, and other lighting, is a possibility. • For the duration of the construction, merchants have requested that the city provide free parking to downtown patrons in the Seneca and Green Street garages. Of these, to no one’s surprise, free parking was the most talked about option—and also the most complicated. While it is not clear yet what form it will

take, Myrick promised merchants that hours. Myrick said that such an option “[the city] will give you something on the could work, and that he would continue to parking.” work on the parking matter before coming “I know Gary [Ferguson] has put to an official decision soon. He noted that together a parking program,” he said, when the decision is made, it would be “where folks take a receipt from the crucial for the storeowners and the city to following locations, and they get to get out advertise the new parking regulations so free from the parking garages. So we will that customers could come take advantage accept stamped receipts directly from you of it. [for free parking]. It’ll be a receipt, but we Myrick assured merchants that the want to make sure it’s from you, so we’ll city would do everything it could to have to figure out something.” alleviate the strain on commerce caused by For some storeowners, this system the delayed Commons project. He added would not that the project be enough. has brought Some pleaded him both severe that it should headaches and simply be heartache, and free parking that merchants’ throughout frustrations downtown, were completely and in all the warranted. garages, until “I believe the project is that [the completed. Commons “Parking reconstruction] [in the city] is still a priority. is a very There are many complicated people in the city system,” said who think the Myrick. “We $15 million in Commons Project Manager Michael Kuo have office infrastructure (Photo: Michael Nocella) parkers who costs would be pay a premium better spent monthly rate [to park in garages]. If in their neighborhoods. I worked very we just made parking free in all the hard to convince people that downtown downtown garages, [other people would is worth investing in. And I worked hard camp out in those spots for reasons other to raise $7 million [for the project]. So I than shopping]. So not only would the city own this now. If you’re going to be mad lose revenue, but you’re not gaining any at somebody, be mad at me. But, before customers. With this, you buy anything you get mad at me, let’s figure out what on the Commons, you park free. It’s not as we can do for the next nine months to simple as free parking, but we hope it’s a speed up this project where we can, and to good incentive [for shopping].” make what’s left of this project, as good as One storeowner said it would be more possible.” • attractive to potential customers to make all parking garages free for their first two – Michael Nocella Hotelrecord contin u ed from page 3

to be in limbo. However, if and when it is built, its inclusion of a 15,000-square foot convention center would bring new business to all of the city’s hotels. No matter what, Stoff said, new hotels will eventually find their way to the city, whether its these projects or other projects, simply because the current market is so inviting for more business. “Developers will see these stats too,” he said. “The rooms are coming. It’s an economic certainty.” This summer, in an Ithaca Times cover story on the local “hotel boom,” Stoff said there’s no real way to know how many more rooms the city can take on, and that saturation is essentially a self-fulfilling business prophecy. If you build it, they will come—until they don’t anymore. “That’s the $64,000 question: [How many hotels is too many hotels?],” Stoff said in August. “How many hotels can you make until [the industry] starts cannibalizing itself? The growth numbers

that we’re seeing, it’s still growing relatively strong. What we’re seeing for the first time this year is that the growth in the rooms and the growth in the occupancy rate is spreading apart a little bit. It’s gone from a year-round average of 62 percent occupancy rate down into about 59 percent occupancy rate. Hotels want to be running around 60 percent to really be profitable. It’s hard to tell what the magic number is for [the highest amount of hotel rooms that Ithaca can have and be successful]. Is it 2,500 rooms? Is it 3,000? Nobody knows.” Until then, local hotels will let the good times roll. “2015 is going to be bigger,” Stoff said. “It’s likely to be our biggest tourism year ever. Major events include Cornell University 150th [anniversary], three swim championships, New York State wrestling championships, an international food security conference, and the usual slate of high-demand weekends.” •

Ups&Downs ▶ Cornell Raises TCAT Contribution, In a letter to Councilperson Seph Murtagh about TCAT funding Cornell President David Skorton writes: “ ... we fully recognize how vital TCAT’s service is to the health of our campus and the greater community, and Cornell will increase its annual payment every year over the next three years so that it is paying $500,000 more in the third year. Cornell will increase its annual payment by $250,000 in FY16, by an additional $125,000 (for a total increase of $375,000) in FY17, and by an additional $125,000 (for a total increase of $500,000) in FY18.” 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 ▶ Lots of Friends, While walking down the sidewalk on Sunday evening, a local resident happened to glance into an Ithaca Police Department squad car. He noticed that the officer was using his cell phone to access Facebook. Fascinated, the resident watched for several minutes until he grew tired of waiting for the officer to get back to work and so continued on his way. ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Oct. 8-14 include: 1) South Hill Neighbors On Alert as Coyote Sightings Increase 2) Ithaca Beer Expansion Gets Green Light 3) What’s the Holdup on the Commons? Downtown Merchants Pushed to Edge By Delays 4) You Might Have Met A Real Ithacan If... 5) Ithaca Pub Honors Mayor with ‘Legislative Session’ Beer For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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Do you plan to do your holiday shopping on the Commons? Please respond at ithaca.com. L ast Week ’s Q uestion: Have you ever seen a coyote in the greater Ithaca area?

71 percent of respondents answered “yes” and 29 percent answered “no”

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ill Chaisson’s and Glynis Hart’s article, “Making It Work as an Adjunct in a College Town,” (called “Servants of the Academy” in the Sept. 10 Ithaca Times) posted in your online edition 10 Sept. 2014, is a worthy addition to the growing coverage of the “adjunct situation” at colleges and universities throughout North America. However, both the article title and the accompanying picture with its caption indicating that adjuncting can be a fun, perhaps whimsical, pastime are misleading and diminish the hardworking, underpaid, underappreciated work of close to a thousand adjuncts in the Ithaca-Cortland area. Significantly, the adjuncts at Tompkins-Cortland Community College (TC3) are not mentioned. Their lives and their professional profiles match those described in the article, but their proportional representation at TC3 is significantly different from adjuncts at Cornell and Ithaca College: TC3 has 69 full-time faculty and 280+ adjunct faculty. The bulk of this semester’s courses are taught by adjuncts who comprise approximately 70 percent of TC3’s faculty. Yet, adjuncts have no voice in the institution that relies on them to teach thousands of students. Adjuncts at TC3 have no meaningful avenue through which to contribute to departmental or collegewide standards, policies, or decisions that otherwise affect the quality of community-college education in our area. And unlike Ithaca College adjuncts, who earn $3,900 per course,

TC3 adjuncts typically start at $2,610— below the national average (as reported in the article). At an institution like TC3, where a huge segment of the student population is non-traditional, studies show repeatedly that there is a strong tie between student success/student retention and the number of positive personal relationships that students are able to build with their professors. The high rate of adjunct turnover, caused in part by low pay and unreliable work, is detrimental to student success, so it is crucial for institutions like TC3 to invest with moral integrity in its part-timers in order to both attract and retain qualified and dedicated adjunct faculty for years to come: factors which have a positive impact on student achievement. Adjuncts, particularly those who have successfully served the college for some time, reasonably seek a modicum of job security, such as provisions for one-year appointments. After all, adjuncts are entrusted to teach the majority of the courses at TC3 each semester, yet on an institutional level they are commonly not regarded as essential members of the faculty, and therefore, not entitled to a voice that will be listened to. With an eye to strengthening the integrity of the community college experience, adjuncts at TC3 have begun working with NYSUT (New York State United Teachers) to organize a union, the TC3 Adjunct Association (TC3AA). continued on page 15

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Coyote in a Tree By St e ph e n P. Bu r k e

sually, if you see wildlife featured on a newspaper cover, the subject will be deer. Last week, though, in the Ithaca Times, it was coyote. The basic story about deer for many years is that there are too many of them, too close to us. Now this is the story with coyote, too. A South Hill resident told the Times about “a large pack” there, “at least one. You can hear them howling at night.” The Times ran a photo of a coyote trotting across a field at Cornell’s Equine Farm. People resent deer for eating their plants. But at least they’re vegetarian. Gentle and shy, they don’t attack things. With coyote, feelings pass resentment into fear. Coyotes travel in packs. They have big, sharp teeth. They kill and eat other animals. These are not endearing traits in a neighbor. Government and academic experts say don’t worry too much, that the coyote population has probably not risen; that they are just more comfortable showing themselves among people lately as we, too, encroach on their territory in exurban developments. The experts say that, despite their new proximity, coyotes are concerned about safe distances. They are resourcefully omnivorous, and natural areas provide all the food they need. They don’t need to put themselves at risk with Homo sapiens by coming after our gardens, garbage, or pets. It might take plenty of education to get people to relax about coyotes. We saw a sign of this a few years ago at this time of year, the start of hunting season. I was driving with someone on Route 96B, through Candor. She shrieked at the sight of “a German shepherd,” she said, strung up in a tree by its hind legs. At her insistence, we doubled back to see. It was not a German shepherd, but a

coyote. We needed gas anyway, so we stopped at the next station, about a minute away, and made an inquiry: anyone notice that coyote hanging from a tree up the road? There were unconcerned looks from staff and customers. Someone said something along the lines of, “What about it?” We had a brief conversation. It was civil, but mostly for what we didn’t say, which I will indicate with parentheses: “I mean, it just looks bad.” (Not as bad as a coyote eating your dog.) “It might be frightening to children.” (Not as frightening as getting caught by one.) Someone said, “Coyotes are a hazard. Maybe somebody’s trying to make a point.” (He sure made a point to this particular coyote. Beyond that, though, I don’t know. I guess coyote are observant, but I don’t know how analytical or self-referential.) I said so long and thanks. The next day I called a county official to ask about what I saw. Is it legal? The official said he didn’t know of anything to make it illegal. People do it with deer all the time, to dry them, he said. I said yeah, but at least there’s a purpose to that, and people won’t mistake a strungup deer for Fido. The official said, well, if you’re looking for practical purposes, maybe the guy was planning to take the pelt, and “hanging it in a tree keeps varmints from getting at it.” That actually satisfied me as a legitimate possibility, and I liked the official’s casual use of the word “varmints,” so I thanked him for his time and let it go, although my real thinking was that if the hunter really just wanted the pelt, and not to arrest traffic, continued on page 7

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Coyote Attractive

The cover story on coyotes had an opportunity to replace ignorance and fear of our country’s most persecuted carnivore with understanding and appreciation—but failed. Starting off with the unfortunate title “Coyote Ugly?” this article, which to its credit interviewed a couple of experts, neglected to mention resources and research that would help those who are interested in co-existing with this wildlife rather than eradicating it. Why co-exist? Coyotes are a keystone species, meaning that their presence or absence has a significant impact on the surrounding biological community. Carnivores, like coyote, keep wildlife numbers in balance and help prevent such 6 T

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diseases as wasting disease in deer, and rabies in raccoons and foxes. Coyotes are also an excellent rodent control. The article gave no advice on nonlethal ways of dealing with coyotes, and practically encouraged people to “take matters into their own hands,” which I read as going out and killing them. Where are the other options? Why don’t we work with our neighbors to instill a respect for wildlife? There are countless online resources available from groups like Project Coyote and the Humane Society, with flyers and tips on co-existence, templates for workshops on hazing (strategies for scaring continued on page 13

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25 Years of Vitamin L L By M a rjor i e O l d s

three more recordings by 1994. ocal musician Jan Nigro grew up in Janice has been the full-time director a musical family in the Bronx, the of The Vitamin L Project for 25 years. She son of a jazz trumpet player and the manages all aspects of the organization, brother of singer/songwriter Laura Nyro. from booking and organizing the concerts, Jan’s wife Janice grew up in Atlanta in a training the chorus kids, working with family deeply involved in the civil rights an enthusiastic advisory board, to grant movement. Much of her family’s time and writing and energy was fundraising to focused on keep the doors social justice open. Jan writes and the work all the songs of Dr. Martin and performs at Luther King, all the concerts. Jr. Jan and His other music Janice settled in work includes Ithaca in 1981, teaching guitar, not knowing directing that a unique the “Mostly opportunity to Motown work together Chorus,” and combine and teaching their love of songwriting in music and their schools with personal values the Hangar lay ahead. Theatre’s In their Vitamin L in 1990 with Janice and Jan Nigro at bottom right. Project 4. He first years in (Photo: provided) has also written Ithaca, Jan did and delivered a variety of personalized singing telegrams to many musical jobs, including teaching guitar, delighted customers. while Janice worked for local dentist Few couples combine their (and musician) Ira Kamp. Then in 1987 a teacher friend asked Jan, then 37 years old, professional and personal lives so seamlessly, and both work with creativity if he’d write some songs for elementary and commitment to keep Vitamin L afloat kids incorporating universal themes such financially. They have loved traveling with as peace, empathy, perseverance, and the chorus as far from home as San Diego, friendship. Jan wrote 17 songs for this Miami, and Atlanta and around New York friend to use with her curriculum. They State for concerts in schools, conferences were well received, and several people and community events. Rather than focus suggested that Jan’s songs should be on the financial challenges of keeping available to the public. Vitamin L going, Jan feels gratitude for the This led Jan and Janice to create good fortune to be part of this “magical, Vitamin L, a group of singers who joined charmed project. Any day I do a Vitamin Jan in recording his songs. The name L show feels like a good day because I feel “Vitamin L” was decided on at a living I’ve given the best of myself.” room brainstorming session with friends. Kids can audition for Vitamin L at Walk a Mile was their first recording. Jan’s the end of fifth grade; most stay active exuberant songs embodied what he and through 12th grade. The Nigros take great Janice believed. Released on cassette in August 1989, it featured Jan, two adult pleasure witnessing chorus members grow leads, three teen lead singers, along with as singers and performers. Some alumni a chorus of 13 local youth. “We were come back and join in a concert when they fortunate to record with established singers are in town. Kids who sang on the first Cass Morgan and Curtis King,” said Jan, recording are now in their 30s. Original “and our gifted producer/arranger, Jeff member Lester Frost has a daughter Waxman.” Bryanna who is in her fourth year as a News of the release was the cover second-generation chorus member. Twenty story in an August 1989 Leisure section years after starting this project, Jan and of the Ithaca Journal. The article led to an Janice are still in touch with many of the invitation for Jan and Vitamin L to perform original chorus members and other alumni at the awards ceremony of the Tompkins in the extended Vitamin L family. County Human Rights Commission. In 2012 Jan wrote compelling new That first appearance led to another, then songs about Dr. King, as well as a song another. Walk a Mile soon received a about the Freedom Riders for Vitamin L’s national Parents’ Choice Award, which fifth recording, Sing for Dr. King! Vitamin opened more doors, and they were able to L Songs for a Beloved Community. Working share their music in larger venues. In time on that recording brought Janice back to choreography was added and Vitamin L her roots and was deeply meaningful for began performing in elementary schools her. Dr. King’s daughter Yolanda, who around central New York. They released Janice knew from their childhood in

Atlanta, attended a Vitamin L concert in 2009 and was supportive of the project. Last November Vitamin L celebrated the milestone of 1,000 concerts with a joyful community concert at the State Theater. The kids and Jan belted out the songs with passion, and were joined on some songs by special guests Dorothy Cotton, The Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers, and some local third graders. The performers had a wonderful time in the process of conveying Vitamin L’s messages of love, integrity, and world family. Their dynamic music video “Step Up, Speak Out” premiered at the concert and is now on YouTube. Vitamin L celebrated their 25th birthday on Saturday, Oct. 11 with two thrilling shows at the Hangar Theater. Kids, parents, grandparents and longtime fans were on their feet singing and dancing along with amazing youth performers. Jan and Janice’s magic is still going strong, as original members returned to applaud their kids, who now belt out the most exciting and uplifting music one can find. Jan Nigro’s songs have enriched our community and your contributions in honor of this local treasure make it possible for kids all over the state and throughout the country to join Vitamin L spreading fun, hope, and peace. Vitamin L aims to raise $25,000.00 in

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ithaca com Every time I read about property taxes in Tompkins County I get the impression the legislators all think because they are rolling back tax rates they are able both to help keep taxes stable or even lower them and raise significant revenue at the same time. One person campaigning for re-election on TV actually brags about the County having the Lowest tax rates in the country, or state or the universe, and uses this as a reason to vote for her. Ha ha how I laughed when I saw that commercial! Mayor Myrick is out there peddling the idea that he’s going to save the typical homeowner $53 in taxes, raise revenue by 3.9%. Again, a great big ha ha ha! I’m pretty sure the taxers are all feeling pretty clever, and I’m about to explain why. I have researched four rental properties that were located within the re-assessment ring of fire (East Hill), as determined by the County Dept. of Assessment. In 2004, the City of Ithaca taxes for these properties totaled $8,339. In 2014 the City of Ithaca taxes for these properties totaled $14,629. In 2015 the City of Ithaca taxes for these properties will total $16,753, under Mayor Myrick’s tax rate roll-back plan. That’s a 14.5% increase in City of Ithaca taxes for these properties in just one year’s time, amounting to $2,124 increase. But this is only the City of Ithaca taxes. There are also the School Taxes and County taxes. In 2004 the Ithaca City School taxes for these properties totaled $13,191. In 2013 the School taxes for these properties toT

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honor of their 25th birthday. Please put down this paper and go to www.peaks.vitaminL.org. The first $5,000 raised will be doubled by the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust to provide scholarships for school concerts. Additional contributions will fund new music videos, which make Vitamin L’s messages widely accessible online. • Ithacanotes contin u ed from page 6

he would have hung it in back of the house, not front. We know that people fear many things they needn’t, like shoe-bombs and Ebola, and overreact. Sadly, I guess, it’s just human nature. While Ebola and coyotes make headlines and generate fresh new fear, don’t forget about the real hazard of deer on the roads this time of year. October through December is the time deer migrate and, you know, meet. They are a little crazy these days, so it is a time for careful driving, especially around dawn and dusk, when they are most active. Be alert, don’t speed, and try not to get distracted by anything, like far-off howling, or dogs hanging from trees. • taled $18,148. In 2014 (currently due) the School taxes for these properties totaled $22,842. This resulted in a convenient revenue windfall for the City School District of $4,694, or a 25.9% increase in one year’s time, even though the City School District has already rolled back tax rates to pre-2004 levels. In 2004 Tompkins County taxes for these properties totaled $5,565. In 2014 Tompkins County taxes for these properties totaled $8,015. In 2015 Tompkins County taxes, based on the proposed tax rates and solid waste fee, will be $9,315. This will result in a convenient windfall for the Town and County of $1,300 or a 16.2% increase in one year’s time. This all adds up to an increase property tax of $8,118 for the four houses. And I want to make it clear that this horrific tax increase comes AFTER the tax rates for City, County, and School have been rolled back ten or more years. An $8,118 tax increase for just four houses in one year is taking taxation to the level of terrorism. By the way, only three of the four houses actually had an increased assessment. It’s my opinion that the School, County, and City taxers have a pretty good game going, especially in my case, because the people most hurt by this are renters who are least able to “punish” the taxers for their abuses. I also note that some of these politicians seem to think that as long as they generate revenue from large developers and corporations (and a few people like me), they are doing no real harm. How wrong they are! This is what happens when you convert the Department of Assessment into the Department of Revenue. - TTerpening commenting on our online report “Forum Attendees Lament High Tax Bills During County Budget Presentation” c to b e r

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Lansing’s Suburban Future With hundreds of units proposed and under construction, the town has no full-time planner N Y S E G ru n s g a s a n d e l e c t r i c l i n e s d ow n Wo o d l a n d Pa r k b e t w e e n H i l l c r e s t a n d Wa r r e n R o a d s . ( P h o t o : B i l l C h a i s s o n)

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development pattern in Lansing allows it to be considered in three parts from south to north: (1) the Village of Lansing, carved out of the town in the 1970s in order to—in the face of construction of the “Pyramid Mall” (now the Shops at Ithaca Mall)—impose more regulation on local development; (2) the southern third of the town, which is a becoming a warren of subdivisions and cul de sacs; and (3) the northern, sparsely-populated farming community that still preserves an older version of settlement. Nearly all the development in the town of Lansing is taking place in that southern third. It is difficult to count the number of units that are in the various stages between subdivision of parcels and construction. A request to Rachel Jacobson, the clerk of the Town of Lansing Planning Board, for a list of current projects yielded a spreadsheet with nine lines. These totaled 160 units, 102 of them accounted for by the proposed townhouses at “Cayuga Farms” off Warren Road. Further research—otherwise

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known as driving around and looking for construction sites—revealed other active sites that were not on the provided list, which was for paperwork processed during 2013 and part of 2014. Two developments going forward off Hillcrest Road— Woodland Park and Cayuga Way—account for approximately 120 additional units. Perspective on the scale of this building boom can be found at city-data. com, which collects information on permits for new housing starts. Lansing has issued 21 permits in 2012 (the most recent data) with an average home price of $230,700. This is up from 6 in 2011, 9 in 2010 and 2008, 10 in 2006, and just 1 in 2004. This is double the numbers for most other towns in the county outside Ithaca. Ulysses, with 14 permits granted for new homes in 2012, comes the closest. In that year Groton had 12, Dryden had 11, Danby 10, Newfield 9, Enfield 5, and Caroline had none at all. The mean prices in all the towns (except Enfield) were substantially lower than Lansing’s average. Who is Building What?

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Twenty-one new houses in a year doesn’t sound like a lot, but development is a long process, taking years. It is easy to find construction in Lansing. Just drive around. There are two projects—Woodland Park and Cayuga Way— are off Hillcrest Road. Both projects have been underway for more than two years, so neither one of them were included on the list provided by the planning board clerk. One is further along than the other, but both are custom building the houses, finishing them as they find buyers for them. Cardamone Home Builders have been in business for 44 years. Steve Cardamone is in the business with his two sons. The elder Cardamone started building in Horseheads and then moved to Corning. There he built a subdivision called “Woodland Park.” He has given the same name to his new project in Lansing. Anewly paved road winds from Hillcrest to Warren Road through a former tree farm. In early October NYSEG was digging trenches and laying down gas and electric lines next to the road. Cardamone had already connected the new street into the sanitary sewer from Warren Road and

run water mains. When it is fully built out, Woodland Park will include 27 large single-family homes and a gated loop drive will be lined with 32 duplexes (64 units). The original Woodland Park in Corning was constructed for Corning Inc. executives. The loop off Woodland Park will be Lansing’s first gated neighborhood. Why put up a gate? “Well,” said Cardamone, “you never know. People don’t think of gates until something goes wrong. Then everybody says, ‘Boy, I wish …’.” Sixteen of the duplexes (they are 2,500 square-foot units) have been built, and all but one of them is occupied. They have been purchased mostly by retirees (medical professionals and Cornell staff), Cardamone said, who value the lack of maintenance responsibilities; Cardamone’s company also manages the properties, and he designs all the homes. The builder said that the demand for new homes—at least his new homes—is good. “Once you have been in business for this many years, if you take care of your customers, the word spreads,” he said.

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“Some people live in our houses for five, 10, 15 years, and we’ll go back and take care of them for nothing. We keep everybody happy.” Cardamone did not feel the effects of the Great Recession, and he agreed that this region was somewhat buffered by the presence of Cornell. He has remained a builder of residential properties. He began with a single apartment complex in Horseheads and expanded from there. The houses he builds now are for “executives,” which he broadly defines to include doctors and surgeons who, he said, tend to know each other and recommend him to peers as a home builder to work with. Each Cardamone home is custombuilt. “It is nothing,” he said, “for me to talk to the buyer three or four times a day. Some buyers want to get really involved and some buyers don’t.” In the bathroom for the second-story master suite in one house, there is a picture window over the place where the jetted tub will eventually go. The spindles under the banister of the front stairs are black wrought iron bent to mimic lathed wood. Kitchen countertops are made of stone. Depending on how they are finished, single-family homes in Woodland Park enter the market at between $600,000 and $900,000. The duplexes run over $400,000. • • • The developers creating “Cayuga Way,” up the hill from Woodland Park, are quite different from Steve Cardamone and his sons, although they too are a family company. Whereas Cardamone is a local builder, the WB Property Group LLC, is a New York City-based real estate development and management company. According to Tompkins County Director of Assessment Jay Franklin, this is a trend in the area. Downstate developers are purchasing local properties for high prices. Will Robinson, Field Operations Manager for R.B. Robinson Company of Candor, was on the site. His company had recently graded the road and they were preparing to pave it. The new road expands the Whispering Pines subdivision, looping around the north and west side of a hill. The south and east sides are already built out. Robinson is a contractor for Robert Weinstein, Jr., who is in business with his father. Their office is at 495 Broadway in Manhattan. According to the Candor contractor, the gas and electric utilities have been installed along half the length of the road. He pointed to a green box next to the still unpaved road, indicating that this was where NYSEG stopped work, and he did not know why they had not gone further. The water mains already run the full length of the street. This, said Robinson, is too far from the existing sewer system to hook in, and all the lots are well over an acre in order to accommodate septic systems. The area is wooded, but the trees are small, perhaps 30 or 40 years old. Most of the trees are maples and tend to be all the

A s a m p l e o f P r o j e c t s t h at h av e b e e n b e f o r e t h e L a n s i n g P l a n n i ng boa r d i n th e l ast two y e a rs. same size, but with occasional much older “wolf trees” scattered through, suggesting that this was used as a pasture until the 1970s. Robinson predicted that “70 or 80 percent” of the trees on each lot would be removed in order to build the homes. Like the Cardamone homes, these will be custom-built. The project was stalled for a year, according to Robinson, due to questions from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).

Construction had just resumed the previous week and the road was due to be paved later this month. According to the website for the development (cayugaway. com), the homes will start at $750,000. Does Anyone Want to Talk About This? Some members of the town board were asked to comment on the quantity of development in the town. Councilperson Robert Cree did not respond to an email message. Councilperson Edward LaVigne

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did respond. He disputed the amount of construction that was proposed or underway. In a May meeting Councilperson Dake spoke of 700 units being ready to hook up to sanitary system near Warren Road, but he did not specify whether they had been proposed, were under construction, or already built. LaVigne felt the volume of construction was being exaggerated, that much was proposed and much less was built. When it was pointed that a project off Warren Road proposed by Lucente Homes accounted for 300 units, he responded: “Please try to sort out the proposed from the actually under construction. An excellent source of information would be Lynn Day, our code enforcement officer. He has been [employed by the town] for twelve years and knows the ‘proposed developments’ from the actual ‘to be constructed developments’. LaVigne “If the numbers are (Photo: G. Hart) not even close to 700, LaVigne continued, “one might be inclined to pursue a ‘consultant for planning’ with no benefit package strapped to the taxpayers back forever.” When the Ithaca Times called the town offices to speak with Day, we were told that he was too busy to speak with the media. Larry Sharpsteen, a member of the town planning board for over 30 years, was reached by phone and stated that it was his policy not to speak to the media because he was only one member of the board. Tom Ellis, chair of the board, could not be reached for comment. • • • Town Supervisor Kathy Miller is also the liaison from the town board to the planning board. Miller suggested that the Lucente development was the largest now underway. (It was not included in the listed sent from the town’s planning department.) The Village Apartments are to be built in three phases, 130 units in phase I, more than 100 units in phase II, and the balance in the final phase. (Pat Lucente said she did not have time to comment on the Village Apartments expansion.) “It is a complex with pathways and a pullout for a bus stop,” Miller said Miller. “It is a kind (File photo) of a compound.” She said that this is not typical of residential development in the town and that most proposals were for single-family homes. (Melanie Garner, the senior rental agent at the Lucente complex, said they are in the process of building 12 new units, which should be ready by November. The one- or two-bedroom apartments are 1,000 square feet and rent continued on page 10

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including public relations work. At an August town board meeting, contin u ed from page 3 Highway Superintendent Jack French described serious flooding problems on for $1,150 to $1,450 per month. According Waterwagon Road and Autumn Ridge to Garner, many of the residents work in Drive, which are both on the sloping land the nearby Cornell Technology Park on between North Triphammer Road and East Brown Road.) Shore Drive. Floods had washed several Miller agreed with Cardamone driveways on Waterwagon and neighbors about the effect of the Great Recession. on Autumn Ridge were blaming each “After 2008 the rate of development was other for over-land flow and maintained,” she said. “There basement problems. was no major slowdown. Now “Flooding is becoming it is accelerating a little.” But she more of a problem,” said Miller. confirmed LaVigne’s argument. “The storms are incredible and Forget the Forecast! “Sometimes there is a major we have a lot more impervious subdivision,” she said, “and surfaces with development. This Be master of all mother nature has in they don’t all get built.” It is all a is something that a planner can store with Nokian All-Weather WRG3 very drawn out process because deal with. Some of them are permits need to be granted for Tires for your car, SUV or truck. stormwater gurus.” all the utilities, the roads, and Miller said that she was for stormwater runoff before any not concerned about the • Smooth ride on wet or dry pavement building takes place at all. effect of new construction • Stability at high speeds “The roads are dedicated on flooding because she felt • Relentless grip in rain, sleet and snow to the town,” Miller said, “even that the existing regulations, WithWith the the purchase of 4ofnew TiresTires purchase 4 new before the developer gets a which have recently been permit.” Cardamone, however, 334 Elmira Rd.Rd. 272-1179 (across from Hampton Inn) 334 Elmira 272-1179 (across from Hampton Inn) updated, prevented problems. having built the first gated Severe Service Rated She was more worried about neighborhood, has decided to Why Buy Snows? older developments where maintain ownership of the road L a r g e H o m e i n t h e E a s t L a k e s u b d i v i s i o n o f f stormwater retention and Go to Bruce’s for the best tire... that goes by his Woodland Park E a s t S h o r e D r i v e . (p h o t o : C . Pa l m y r a) COMMUNITY $$ CASH $$ discharge had not been for every season! duplexes. systematically considered. After the vote in May, Councilperson Repeated attempts at building a $5Elmira How Much Planning is Needed? 334 Road, Ithaca OFF Edward LiVigne said he felt that the municipal sewer system in the town have (across from Hampton Inn) Good or Better Like Lansing, the Town of Ithaca planners employed by the developers would failed. When they voted down the full-time Oil Change 607-272-1179 granted 21 permits for new single-family be sufficient. The newest member of the planner position in May, councilpersons homes in 2012. However, the planning $10 OFF Ithaca’s Favorite Ithaca’s Favorite board, Councilperson Doug Dake, equated Cree, Dake, and LaVigne all stated that ANY OIL CHANGE ANY OIL CHANGE department at the Town of Ithaca has a OilOil Change High Milage or Full Change (featuring Kendal oil) planning with the build-out of the sanitary it should be left to developers to install (featuring Kendal oil) Synthetic Oil Change director of planning (who also has training sewage system and stated his belief that the sewers. in groundwater hydrology) and three 334 Elmira Rd.Rd. 272-1179 (across from Hampton Inn) 334 Elmira 272-1179 (across from Hampton Inn) department of public works had that aspect Miller, originally a proponent of a good with any other discounts planners on staff. The Town of Lansing Not good Not with any other discounts. Expires 5/31/14 Not good with any other discounts of development well in hand. municipal sewage treatment plant, has doesn’t have a planning department at all. In the end, however, LaVigne, Cree, given up on the idea. “We can attach to The town board is divided into two and Dake agreed to continue the search for the Warren Road sewer line, which goes factions regarding development. Miller and a part-time planner, with Cree saying he through the village [of Lansing] to Cayuga Councilperson Ruth Hopkins believe the knew of interested parties. Heights,” said the Lansing town supervisor. town should employ a full-time planner. Miller continues to be firm in her “They have excess capacity. We would go to The balance of the town board, Cree, belief that the town should employ a fullthe city before we built our own treatment LaVigne, and the newest member, Doug plant.” Dake, believe that only The supervisor is a part-time consultant is also keen to see a new gas necessary. line run through Lansing In 2013, before Dake from Dryden. She said was elected, a town board that at present there is with a Democratic majority not enough natural gas began a job search for a to supply all the new full-time planner, which developments that are they believed was necessary planned. to maintain a handle on Miller said that the widespread building of extension of the Bolton roads and houses. Point inter-municipal At the time the town water system would government was employing be accomplished by a planner, Jonathan creating water districts. Kanter, on a “part-time” Th e O l d L a n s i n g i n t h e f o r e g r o u n d a n d t h e n e w i n t h e The residents within basis. Town Supervisor d i s ta n c e . ( P h o t o : B i l l C h a i s s o n) the district would Kathy Miller met him pay to construct the at a meeting of the time planner. “We need someone to get infrastructure, not the town as a whole. The New York Planning Federation and asked grants, to do traffic studies, which are paperwork associated with establishing a him to help the town. He had retired from needed because of all the development,” water district would be yet another task for his position as Director of Planning at the she said. “We need to know what areas of a planner in the employee of the town. Town of Ithaca. Kanter spent about two the town can handle [new development]. “I hope the new fellow, once he starts years working for the Town of Lansing No one on the staff has any expertise in to work,” said Miller of the part-time during which, Miller said, “he was putting grant writing.” She said that there are a lot planner, “will say that he needs more in far more than the originally specified of “internal projects” for a planner as well, hours.” • number of hours.” He recently moved to the Lansingdevelopment

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Hudson Valley to take another position and when contacted, refused to comment on his time working for the Town of Lansing. Last May, after the November 2013 election gave the town council a Republican majority, the board voted to discontinue the search. The incumbent Democrats— Miller and Hopkins—remained adamant that the volume of development required oversight by a trained full-time planner.

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habitat. Everyone by now is aware of the various difficulties over the deer population and the controversy surrounding the bait-and-kill policy that seems to be the preferred method of managing that population. I find it incomprehensible that the only solution that is ever put forward in situations such as this is to kill the animals in great numbers. I refuse to believe that there isn’t a better solution. Every wildlife specialist cited in the article seems to be in agreement that the coyote is a natural part of the landscape in New York State, and exists in virtually every county. They also seem to agree that coyotes largely prefer to avoid residential and commercial areas, and would rather retreat into their woods, away from humans. These are problems created by humans’ overdevelopment. It is a simple equation. We are seeing more of them because we are taking over their habitat, reducing their food supply, and putting pressure on them, pushing them out of their natural areas and into suburbia where they are bound to come in conflict with people and their pets. A solution could be equally simple; keep your pets indoors, or on a leash. Either that, or go out every Sunday with a shotgun, looking for something to kill. Which makes more sense? Also, I would like to add that I found the title of the article a bit offensive, especially once the derivation of the phrase was explained to me. Not so cool for a younger audience. – Alexei Aceto, Forest Home

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Ithaca city Democrats’ choice for City Court Judge should be Rick Wallace. Rick is an Ithaca native dedicated to important causes benefiting the city. Primary of these is his recognition of the need to revitalize the City Drug Court. The correlation between the diminished function of that court over the past few years and the increased crime rate in the city is demonstrable. From over three-score participants ten years ago, the Drug Court has dealt with fewer than 20 recently. The joint opportunities and resources offered by this system (mental health

The League of Women Voters of Tompkins County would like to thank people for registering to vote and to remind all voters of elections on Nov. 4. If you have any questions related to where to vote, call the Tompkins County Board of Elections at 607-274-5522. To learn more about all statewide congressional, NYS Senate and Assembly races as well as the three ballot proposals, we encourage you to visit a new resource: www.Vote411.org. Please join us on Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. for a forum with the two candidates for the 125th Assembly seat: Barbara Lifton (D-Ithaca) and challenger Herb Masser. This will be held at the Unitarian Church Annex, 208 E. Buffalo Street, Ithaca. To learn more about our activities, please visit: lwvtompkins.org. – Lucia Sciore & Amy Panek, CoDirectors, Voter Services, LWV-TC

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t the Tompkins County Legislature’s Wednesday, Oct. 8 community budget forum, County Administrator Joe Mareane gave a budget presentation to the 15 or so members of the public in attendance. Also, the 10 legislators who were present heard from five county residents, including two Ithacans who gave impassioned speeches on budgetary issues. The 2015 budget that Mareane is recommending to the legislature calls for a 2.34percent increase in the tax levy, which stays safely within the current tax-cap estimate of 2.65 percent. The budget includes a total of $180 million in expenditures (a 1.6 percent increase over 2014), $83.3 million of which will be locally funded. Although the tax rate will decrease this year—due to an increase in median assessed home value—the average taxpayer will still see a slight increase in county taxes. In 2014 the tax rate was $6.89 per $1,000 of assessed value, while in 2015 that number will decrease 5 cents to $6.84. However, because the median home value in the county increased from $163,000 to $165,000 (these numbers are larger for the city of Ithaca), the typical tax payer will still see an increase of $6.34 in county taxes. While the owner of a median-value home in 2014 paid $1,122 in county taxes, this year they will pay $1,129 in county taxes. Some of that increase will

be offset by a $4 decrease in the annual solid-waste fee. During his presentation, Mareane noted that there are “some contradictory trends” in the local economy at the moment, including both positive economic indicators and continued indications of underlying need. Unemployment—which Mareane noted is the lowest in the state—is falling, and there has been moderate growth in consumer spending. However, there has been a rise in the number of food stamp, temporary assistance, and Medicaid cases. Moving on, Mareane spoke about the goals of the 2015 budget. “We want to maintain current levels of service,” he said. That was a starting goal of the Attorney Ray Schlather 2015 budget.” (Photo: K. Blakinger) Another goal was to continue necessary capital improvements to county infrastructure. Achieving that goal accounts for a 0.5-percent levy increase. Another priority in the budget was addressing emergency policy goals, an aim which was achieved by funding the near-term recommendations of the Jail Alternatives Task Force and by helping more county contractors pay a living wage. Mareane noted that the budget achieves the goal of fiscal stability while using only about $600,000 of reserves. Some of the reserves that will be utilized will be for the purpose of stabilizing airport finances, a goal which the county will achieve by suspending $126,000 in administrative fees every year for the next three years.

During the public comment period, Sally VanOrman, who lives in the city of Ithaca, told legislators, “I’m here to ask for help with my budget.” VanOrman explained that, between an increased assessment value and a rise in city, school, and county taxes, her tax bill would go up by more than $3,000 this year. VanOrman explained that she lives on a fixed income and that her total tax bill, which will be over $7,000, represents more than three months of income for her. She said, “I don’t know how I can afford $7,400 this year … I don’t know what I’m going to do with this, and I’ve got to believe there’s other people in the same boat.” Ray Schlather, an attorney and a longtime city of Ithaca resident, applauded the 2015 budget as being “a very realistic budget,” but he also spoke about the need for countywide change. He said, “There are some systemic changes that I think ought to be addressed and somebody in this community has to take leadership—these are changes in the delivery of police services.” Schlather advocated for a consolidation that would create a single countywide police force, saying that the municipalities that do not have their own police force essentially get a “free ride” whereas municipalities that fund their own police force pay twice for law enforcement. He said that he hoped that legislators would “try to establish a countywide police force that will then equitably share the cost of police protection throughout the community.” • – Keri Blakinger Guestopinion contin u ed from page 6

The formation of a bargaining unit will give adjuncts the voice they currently lack. Like adjuncts all over the United States and Canada, TC3 adjuncts’ main concerns are job security, fairer pay, and

access to benefits for those that need them. We seek TC3 administration’s voluntary recognition of our union as well as their commitment not to misspend public monies on lawyers to delay the process unnecessarily. And, because TC3 is a community college, and therefore a public institution, funded in part by public money, adjuncts at TC3 want the public to be aware of employment realities that have an impact on students’ academic experiences. We encourage the public to support our effort by signing an online statement of support at www.tc3adjunctassociation. wordpress.com/supportus. They can also regularly check the TC3AA webpage for additional information about the campaign as well as upcoming events and different ways to help. In conclusion, while Chaisson’s and Hart’s article, “Making It Work as an Adjunct in a College Town,” made the public aware of significant background on the “adjunct situation,” Allison DeDominick’s story gave the picture a rosy glow. There are hundreds of local adjuncts whose stories approach a more sobering reality, a situation TC3’s adjuncts hope to change in order to improve the quality of higher education along the IthacaCortland corridor. – TC3 Adjunct Association, Organizing Committee The names of the organizing committee can be found at the tc3adjunctassociation. wordpress.com. [Chaisson and Hart would like to thank Allison DeDominick for being willing to on the record for our article. Adjuncts with less “rosy” situations feared losing their jobs if they spoke with us on the record, a sad fact that strongly supports Risa Lieberwitz’s point that the over-reliance on adjuncts is part of an assault on academic freedom by college and university administrations. –Ed.]

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ome decades back, in the Age of Disco, if you had a theater class at Cornell you went to the north side (the south side belonged to music) of Lincoln Hall, a red brick building built in1881 for the engineering college. Lincoln housed an MFA acting program, from which sprang such famous alumni as Jimmy Smits and Jane Lynch, and every evening the MFAs would cram in with talented undergrads in two large rooms under the dormer windows to rehearse shows that would be brilliantly shoehorned onto the Willard Straight stage. A black box theater graced Lincoln’s basement—Drummond Studio— named for the professor who built the drama program at Cornell during the first half of the century. Drummond was truly a space for the experimental, a site where the Ph.D. students frequently played, staging everything from Seneca tragedies to Japanese Noh drama. A young David Savran (Ph.D. ’78), now Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, staged the latter. Another grad student then, a funny, short woman, was busy writing plays; she premiered Meg there, a feminist take on A Man For All Seasons from the daughter’s point of view. Even then, Paula Vogel (M.A. ’76) was upending expectations about what a play could be, and winning awards (the 1977 American College Theater Festival National Student Playwriting Award, called the Paula Vogel Award since 2002.) Savran will interview Vogel in a

“performance encounter” next Friday, Oct. 24 at 4:30 p.m. at Cornell’s Schwartz Center. In conjunction with her visit, the Department of Performing and Media Arts is mounting her 1996 comedy The Mineola Twins (subtitled A Comedy in Six Scenes, Four Dreams and Six Wigs) Oct. 25 through 27, 31 and Nov. 1. Vogel won the 1998 Pulitzer for How I Learned To Drive (in part a comedy about incest). She’s famous for edgy work, often pushing boundaries about sex, class, gender, and sexuality in highly theatrical, non-realistic styles that draw on centuries of theater practice. Over her 28 years at Brown and six at Yale, she has also been an influential teacher of playwriting. Currently Playwright-in-Residence for Yale Repertory Theatre, Vogel graciously took some time out from her writing projects to answer a few questions via email. She is currently is at work on two projects: “Don Juan Comes Home From Iraq: my response to Odon Von Horvath’s Don Juan Comes Home from the War. We [director Blanka Zizka, and a team of actors and designers] worked for three years with veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, and then I wrote a first draft which was produced this past March at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia.” (“What theater should be. Theater meeting life in a head-on collision,” raved Philadephia’s City Paper.) “The second play is very much on my mind: when I finish typing this interview I am hoping to get back to my rewrites, Ross! Indecent has been three years in the process: it’s a play about an infamous play written in 1906: The God of

Vengeance, and spans the years from 1906 to 1952, from Warsaw to Bridgeport, Connecticut. I am thinking a lot of certain Tom Stoppard plays and how he structures epics. It is also about what we consider ‘indecent’ or obscene. The God of Vengeance was the center of a raging trial about obscenity—the first kiss between two women occurred on Broadway during the production of the script—and also how we as Americans censor that which disturbs our identity.” Vogel continued, “Please note (I am watching the clock hands turn as my writing time dwindles here at home this week) that the two plays I am currently working on both originated from my reading and research during my doctoral studies: the influence of the reading list and classes I was fortunate enough to receive from Bert States, Marvin Carlson and James Clancy will continue throughout my work for as long as I write.” She is at no loss for ideas, “I have a long, long list in my head, plays still from the 1970s, and I write those that will not go away and will not let me alone.” As to the state of our national theater: “There’s a very exciting generation of emerging/ mid-career playwrights right now. So many it’s hard to name. Of course I track the writers I’ve worked with: Christine Evans, Jennifer Haley (The Nether!), Christina Anderson, Meg Miroshnik, Dipika Guha, Martyna Majok, continued on page 23

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saltonstall artist returns with corners exhibit By Ar thur W hitm an

nspired by the materials and textures of her New York City home, Jane Sangerman’s mixedmedia abstractions evoke the urban landscape. Combining thin and textured acrylic with drawing, wax, collaged materials, and sometimes linoleum block printing, her best pieces have a dense but coalescent layering that suggests archaeology— ancient forms uncovered behind the familiar buildup of the everyday. An experienced artist, Sangerman came to Ithaca as a resident at the Saltonstall Arts Colony this past spring. During the summer, Saltonstall hosted a group exhibition of Remnant 5 by Jane Sangerman (via Corners Gallery) current and past residents at the CAP ArtSpace surface, filled irregularly with blob-stones. downtown. Sangerman A handful of large, wide-format pieces showed two paintings from her recent anchor the show—or attempt to do so, stay there and these caught the eye of often they seem rather inchoate compared Ariel Bullion-Ecklund, owner-director of to the smaller works. Corners Gallery in Cayuga Heights. Sangerman’s Digit series is so named Sangerman’s solo show, “Scratching the for the pieces’ fingerprint motifs, oversized Surface,” is up at Corners this month (from printed swirls that evoke a human presence Oct. 7 to Nov. 8). Here she continues her in the city—and toy with our sense of scale recent work on paper with large paintings as we project ourselves into these familiar on unframed sheets, as well as mostly but alien environments. smaller framed ones and paper-covered Two of these have been hung from the wooden panels. Her choice of surface is an apt complement for her varied textures and wall as loose sheets of paper. Not her most compelling work to begin with, Digit 1 and techniques—the paint has been variously Digit 3 might benefit from being framed or stained, sprayed, brushed, scraped, and attached to board, which provides a sense raked. Areas of untouched white—margins of sculptural solidity that adds heft to her and scattered punctuation—were taped off, other works here. An amorphous gray fog adding clean-cut graphic accents to these suffuses much of the former, obscuring the otherwise expressionistic works. grid structure—including a row of fingerThe work was selected by Bullionlumps that line the bottom. Unexpected Ecklund and includes pieces completed tints of pale pink and dull blue accent during the artist’s Saltonstall stay, as well as the gray in the latter, with its patterns other efforts from 2013 and 2014. seemingly thrown together: the dot grids, Perhaps the most distinctive thing the stones, a stiff scribble along the bottom about the show, taken as a whole, is edge. Sangerman’s austere palette: mostly shades Portal 7 is the most compelling of the of gray and gray-brown with dull tinges artist’s large pieces. (The frame seems to of color—and sometimes bolder accents help.) The main surface is gray-beige but posed against the grimy fields. richly inflected with flecks of pink and Hung behind the front-most desk as blue—and shards of paper white. A cool one enters the gallery, two small, upright gray bar floats up, detailed in faint white panels are particularly eye-catching. lines with a pattern of concentric circles. Remnant 6 improbably incorporates flatly Micro with Green Foam 2 is a small painted bright orange blobs, thick-raked square piece, particularly haunting. The gray, ghostly sprayed dots—and a piece of specimen-like work encloses a mossy dullcorroded metal. Road 3 incorporates two scraps of thickly textured yellow gathered from an actual road. A faint tinge of the continued on page 23 same color inflects the otherwise gray

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Writing Dangerously hower releases essay collection By Barbara Ad am s tensions, and salvation comes in the form of a Nazi physician. Hower’s life has been more eventful than most, and reading the essays, I felt grateful that he’d recorded these experiences, particularly those in other times and countries. There’s a long sketch about Belize and an account of trying to learn Spanish s we spoke about how American in Santiago, Chile. More deeply engaging students take their education for chapters reflect Hower’s years in India, granted, I was reminded of the especially Jaipur, as a Fulbright fellow homeless African boys in Edward Hower’s studying folk tales, a few of which are essay, “Forests of the Night,” so terribly included here. In various essays, he hungry for learning describes visiting in the midst of social a disabled village upheaval and chaos. sign painter, a This unforgettable lonely woman memoir is the longest seeking comfort in piece in his collection an unctuous guru, of 17 personal and and the foster child travel essays, What in Mumbai whose Can You Do, recently schooling he’d published by local sponsored. Cayuga Lake Books. Hower’s prose Hower already doesn’t indulge, even has eight novels when he ventures into and two volumes places most alien and of stories in print. disturbing to us, and to This is the first him—a witch temple compilation of where the insane are his essays, written brought to be healed; a from 1979 to this prison where children year. The pieces are kept near their originally appeared inmate mothers and in publications somewhat educated, ranging from The while in darker cells, New York Times to near-naked men are the Ithaca Times, Edward Hower, author of What Can You Do. crowded in subhuman from American Scholar (photo by Tim Gera) conditions. and Smithsonian to River One strand linking Styx. Many of them many of these essays recall the travels of an earlier self, a young is Hower’s investigation of belief and man desperate to escape what seemed a disbelief; of the spiritual world and its daily stifling and conventional home. presence; and of the yearning to exorcise We get brief, telling glimpses of this one’s demons, whatever their form. Another troubled and restless youth, but the real dominant theme, inflected by Hower’s focus is always on where he goes, what awareness of “a bubble of white privilege,” he sees—the “other” he’s searching to lose himself in. As a result, we view these distant is education—the fragile but luminous relationship between eager student and selfpeople and places with near-photographic doubting teacher. “Writing Dangerously” clarity. Hower’s style is straightforward and compellingly tells of teaching expressive journalistic, but his descriptions go beyond writing to prisoners at Auburn—where documentary in their sensitive detail. the men, he says, are “as sick of living in a The book opens on a voyage much vicious, unfeeling culture as I am of reading closer to home—the essay giving the about it.” book its title, which isn’t a question but But it’s the young man’s first faltering an admission of hopelessness. Living attempts at teaching in Uganda that, of all marginally, the college grad takes a job these memorable essays, will haunt you the selling frozen meat to the rural poor. This comical tale of how he, his hapless employer, longest. His students, Sudanese refugees, are boys with no possessions, separated from and fellow salesmen are all conned is so their families, excited to learn as a ticket to familiar, American, and painfully pathetic somewhere. Their voices and spirits simply that we welcome his eventual trips to blaze on the pages, and you realize Hower countries with fewer illusions. has, in fact, shown us what you can do. • Next follows a pleasant piece on being a supernumerary in the Metropolitan opera, Edward Hower reads from his new work then a memory of being feverishly ill as a at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 19 at Buffalo Street child in Guatemala, where gunfire in the Books. streets seems less threatening than parental

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s podcasts have become part of the culture, it shouldn’t be a surprise that podcasting starts informing other media. This year, we’ve already seen Kevin Smith’s Tusk, the first film to be inspired by a podcast. Graham Elwood and Chris Mancini of the “Comedy Film Nerds” podcast are editing their podcasting documentary Ear Buds. And now here’s Neil Berkeley’s Harmontown (on VOD), which follows Community creator Dan Harmon on a three-week bus tour of his popular podcast. Harmon has solid comedy credentials, and he’s also a shambling, alcoholic control freak who wants to please the world and yet doesn’t always treat those around him that well. In the documentary, Sarah Silverman goes on at length, describing the high quality of his writing on her Comedy Central series, and even then she had to fire him for bad behavior. I’ve been listening to the podcast for a while; like Harmon himself, the show teeters between brilliance and drunken chaos. The show is at its best when Harmon brings audience members onstage and allows them to vent about their problems and miseries, and Berkeley’s film is at its best when it reveals this huge audience being brought together in all kinds of dysfunction. And if Harmon is the Mr. Hyde of his own show, then Spencer Crittenden, the show’s hulking, hilarious Dungeons & Dragons master, is the Dr. Jekyll: a depressive guy with no inclination for performing, Crittenden showed up at a taping hoping to play D&D with Harmon just when Harmon was thinking about doing just that. Crittenden has been part of the cast ever since. Crittenden is a constant reminder of the audience: a non-pro who handles his first tour with more grace than Harmon. Jon Favreau’s Chef isn’t just one of the best family comedies of the year. It also joins the list of classic foodie films, right up there with Big Night and Chocolat. Make sure you have the most sumptuous meal you can rustle up before seeing it. It’s the kind of movie that can induce hunger pangs. Favreau plays a famous chef who gets fired from his restaurant after he flips out on a food critic (Oliver Platt) and the moment goes viral. He buys a food truck in Florida with his partner (John Leguizamo) and his son (Emjay Anthony), decides on a Cuban menu and then drives back to LA, stopping in cool cities to sell food. (Turns out that the kid is really good at social media, and becomes the de facto

head of marketing.) This is a tasty, sweet return for Favreau, making a smaller picture more like Swingers after taking on Iron Man and Cowboys & Aliens. He keeps the father-son scenario from feeling too

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four seasons offers delicious korean fare By J FK Fi she r

omewhere out of sight in the Four Seasons there are some seriously hot surfaces where meat and vegetables are cooked with remarkable speed and delicacy. Korean food was once known for its extreme spiciness, but that is not the overwhelming characteristic of the menu at this restaurant. While some of the dishes are certainly spicy, it is the crispness of the vegetables and the seared-in succulence of both meat Four Seasons on Eddy Street serves up Korean food done right. and fish that impresses. (photo by Tim Gera) Every meal begins with banchan, an array of vegetables and a spicy broth. Duk mandu side dishes that is brought out before the guk is really a thick soup with veggie entrées whether you order an appetizer or dumplings and thinly sliced rice cakes not. The dishes include a thin soup (guk), simmered with scallions, vermicelli, and firm tofu marinated in a soy sauce, potatoes beaten eggs in a beef broth. coated with something sweet and brown, Noodle dishes are yet another bean sprouts, broccoli, and that classic territory. Koreans enjoy vermicelli (like Korean stand-by kim chi (fermented napa the Vietnamese) and rice noodles (like the cabbage). The last is an essential dish. Not Japanese), but their buckwheat noodles are only does it taste good on its own, but it something of a national specialty. Korea is has the effect of cleansing the palate and colder than Japan or Southeast Asia, so they allowing you to more completely savor a grow a lot of buckwheat. This is a heartier new dish. grain than rice or semolina wheat and this Many of the tables at Four Seasons makes the noodles a bit more than just the have a grill built right into them. These are carbohydrate vehicle for various sauces over for the preparation of barbecue. In order meat and seafood. for them to do it at the table, however, Speaking of seafood, Four Seasons you must place at least two orders. There prepares salmon in a manner that is simple is a certain charm to this idea, but the and quite brilliant. Salmon gui or grilled theatricality of the Japanese teppanyaki salmon is coated with clarified butter and table is (mercifully) absent. Most Korean sprinkled with salt. The result is perfectly barbecue dishes are not spicy, and many are cooked interior with a thin crust that is over made with beef and seafood. so slightly brown and infused with the taste Nearly all the barbecue dishes at Four of butter that is miraculously not burned in Seasons are marinated in the “chef ’’s special spite of the obvious heat to which the fish sauce,” but the pork strips, dwaeji bolgogi has been exposed. gui, are cooked with a chili pepper-based The chef ’s specialties are an assortment sauce that is also slightly sweet. The pork of meat and seafood dishes (and a couple is thinly sliced and apparently cooked in of tofu-based vegetarian entrées) presented mere seconds at a very high temperature, with house-prepared sauces. Most of them as the meat remains incredibly tender. The are spicy. Again the spice is not out of pork is served on a bed of shredded green control at Four Seasons, and the Korean peppers, onions, carrots, and scallions. dependence on chili peppers (rather than The vegetables are not oily, over-cooked, something outrageous like habanero or or over-spiced. Instead there is just enough Scotch bonnets) insures that you will always oil to enhance the flavor of the still-crisp actually be able to taste the food. vegetables. Four Seasons serves alcohol, and you Another sector of the menu is given might as well try the various rice wines over to stews, chige. These are served piping that are available. The rice and potato wine hot in bowls; the contents are literally (so ju) is oddly reminiscent of vodka (it bubbling furiously when they arrive at the is probably the potatoes). Beware: it goes table. There is very little here for vegans, down more easily with each successive, tiny but vegetarians, particularly those who eat glass. • fish, will have a lot of choices. It is quite common for tofu to be mixed together with Ithaca Times restaurant reviews are several types of fish and shellfish. Other based on unannounced, anonymous stews include combinations of different visits. Reviews can be found at meats. Boo dae chige has ham, sausages, ithaca.com/dining and other meats—not specified—with

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women writers who founded The Kilroys in L.A. and are advocating women and contin u ed from page 17 writers of color to artistic directors and Caroline McGraw, Susan Soon-he Stanton, literary managers who claim there is no diversity in the ’pipeline.’” Quiara Hudes, Nilo Cruz and so many On the other others. Sarah Ruhl, of hand, “We still course! Dan LeFranc have not funded and Greg Moss. For the art making, and writers I am meeting theatre is on the on the page: Brandon bottom of the Jacobs Jenkins makes my arts in terms of pulse beat faster. His play prestige. The sense Octoroon will be coming of philanthropy back in New York this that existed 30 to spring. Anne Washburn’s 40 years ago has Mr. Burns A Postdied off with the Apocalyptic Play is genius last generation of …” (Her students Hudes patrons before the and Cruz are also Pulitzer Reaganomic war winners, and Ruhl is a on the middle class Macarthur “Genius.”) … And most of all, “The other pulse we are not funding that right now is driving education. Which the American theatre means that we’ve is younger writers lost the possibility demanding equality of class mobility in representation on and accessibility to American stages: look at the arts.” the Lilly Awards, founded I asked her by Teresa Rebeck, Julie what is a play Jordan and Marsha besides words. “I Norman. Bringing am about to write visibility to the inequity Paula Vogel (photo provided) my own book, that women playwrights How To Bake a face. In 1977 when I Play, a memoir/ started, 15 percent of all plays in the U.S. practicum, and I’m sure we’ll be talking were written by women. In 2013, it was 16 about these Aristotelian elements when I percent. Gawd. Makes me tired. Bless the come to Cornell. But suffice it to say that

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of all the elements that ‘bake’ a play, the most influential to me at this point in my life is grappling with the non-verbal: that which in the Poetics is perhaps known as ‘scene,’ but which I use the term ‘plasticity’ (thanks Meyerhold!) to try to encompass: the use of three dimensional space, ironically first conjured by a writer on a two dimensional page.” The Mineola Twins was written “as a bookcase play with [her Pulitzer winner] Drive.” In it, identical twin sisters (except the “good” one is “stacked” and the “bad” one “flat as a pancake”) played by the same actress travel hilariously through three decades of change. Winning an Obie for her performance in the off-Broadway production, Swoosie Kurtz quipped, “Between Myra’s 32Bs and Myrna’s 44Ds, my cups runneth over!” “One impulse was the work of Wendy Wasserstein.” said Vogel. “Another impulse was the work on twins and genetics (from scientists in Minnesota … I couldn’t call it the Minnesota Twins….) and the work of my wife, scientist Anne Fausto-Sterling, whose work on gender has had a huge impact on me.” Fittingly, the play’s director Beth Milles was assistant director to Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles on Broadway and spent a year as Vogel’s colleague at Brown. In her program note, Milles writes, “It is breathtaking to work on The Mineola Twins. The writing and theatrical landscapes are audacious and treacherous to traverse .… Paula Vogel’s work makes us uncomfortable. It is also wickedly funny.” •

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green scrap of material in squares-withinsquares, which act as if protecting borders. The green against the stony colors suggests the often-quiet presence of organic life against the pollution and the hard materials of the city. Remnant 2 and Remnant 3, from yet another series, explore similar territory to Micro with good effect. These are mostly gray and brownish and yet create a rich sense of depth through disparities of texture and pattern. Again, the central focus is on collaged “specimens.” Despite the unevenness of this show, Sangerman’s is memorable, ambitious work. Although it is distinctive, it has definite affinities with some of the other artists (local and otherwise) who have shown at Corners. Among these are the textured post-Pop sign-scapes of Steve Carver, the gestural lines and drippy paint of Melissa Zarem’s abstractions on paper, and the abstract-surrealist collages and drawings of John McLaughlin of Michigan. And while Bullion-Ecklund’s sensibility is ultimately more wide-ranging still, there definitely is one emerging at Corners. (We’ve seen it in several oneperson shows this year, and we should see it again in the upcoming “Line/Language,” a group show, which will close out the year.) This exercise of a discerning and independent individual taste is most welcome in a local scene in which the limitations of both the cooperatives and academically fashionable contemporary art are very much felt. •

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their self-image, and their love lives. | 119 mins R | Fri: 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Sat: 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Sun - Tue: 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Wed: 4:20, 9:20; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20. My Old Lady | Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he’s shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. | 107 mins PG-13 | Fri: 4:45, 7:00; Sat & Sun: 2:30, 4:45, 7:00; Mon - Wed: 4:45, 7:00; Thu: 2:30, 4:45 Pay 2 Play: Democracy’s High Stakes | PAY 2 PLAY follows filmmaker John Ennis’ quest to find a way out from under the Pay 2 Play System, where Politicians reward their donors with even larger sums from the public treasury -- through contracts, tax cuts, and deregulation. | 87 mins NR | Tue: 6:30 PM The Skeleton Twins | CWhen estranged twins Maggie (Kristen Wiig) and Milo (Bill Hader) feel they’re at the end of their ropes, an unexpected reunion forces them to confront why their lives went so wrong. | 93 mins R | Fri: 4:30, 7:10, 9:10; Sat & Sun: 2:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10; Mon Wed: 4:30, 7:10, 9:10; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:20, 4:30, 7:10. National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire | As Blanche DuBois’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace - but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski. | 180 mins NR | Thu: 6:30 PM. Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears (L’etrange couleur des larmes de ton cor | Thomage to the masters of classic Italian Giallo horror. Dan returns home to find his wife is missing. With no signs of struggle or break-in and with no help from the police, Dan’s search for answers leads him down a psychosexual rabbit hole. | 102 mins NR | Fri: 9:30 PM. Tracks | The remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson (Wasikowska), a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. | 110 mins NR | Fri - Wed: 9:20 PM; Thu: 11:20 AM, 9:20. cornell cinema Viola | A dazzling and delightful mystery about love and its follies from filmmaker Matías Piñeiro. | Wed 10/15 7:15 PM; w/ filmmaker Matias Piñeiro in person.

Northern Lights | Northern Lights recounts a North Dakota farmer’s effort in 1915 to organize the Nonpartisan League, which championed cooperative farming efforts over out-of-state corporate interests and banks that were quick to threaten foreclosure. | Thu 10/16 7:00 PM; Introdcued by Prof. Jeff Cowie, ILR school; Fri 10/17 7:15 PM. Ghost in the Shell | Mamoru Oshii’s meditation on the effect of runaway technology on the very human notion of individuality and existence lead the new wave of existential cyber-films. | Thu 10/16 9:15 PM; Fri 10/17 9:15 PM w/ Prof Walker White, CS; Sun 10/19 7:15 PM How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Five years since teaching the dragon-slaying Vikings to live in peace with their former foes, Hiccup and Toothless must once again come to the rescue when the evil Drago seeks to take advantage of the new human-dragon bond and create a dragon army of his own. | Sat 10/18 2:00 PM; Sun 10/19 4:30 PM The Lego Movie | FThat ubiquitous toy from childhood makes its way to the big screen with the tale of Emmet (Chris Pratt), an everyman who finds himself squaring off against the tyrannical President Business (Will Ferrell), whose evil plot is to glue the world in place. | Sat 10/18 7:15 PM and 9:30 PM.

Stage Lonely Planet | 7:30 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday; 7:30 PM-, 10/16 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 10/17 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 10/18 Saturday; 4:00 PM-, 10/19 Sunday; 7:30 PM-, 10/22 Wednesday | The Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | By Steven Dietz. At the height of the AIDS epidemic, with countless friends falling around them, Carl and Jody enlist their wit and sense of absurdity to navigate these new and troubling waters. A smart, touching exploration of the need for human connection and keeping memories alive. Church Basement Ladies The Last Potluck Supper | 7:30 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday; 7:30 PM-, 10/16 Thursday; 8:00 PM-, 10/17 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 10/18 Saturday | Merry-go-round Playhouse, 6861 E Lake Rd, Auburn | The Church Basement Ladies are back in the final installment of the series! It’s 1979 and the day of the church’s Centennial Celebration. As the parishioners gather for food and fellowship, the church ladies reminisce about their lives through a series of fun-filled flashbacks and brand new musical numbers. Share

in the hilarity as the church basement ladies sing and dance their way through the ages. Mr. Hart & Mr. Brown | 7:30 PM-, 10/16 Thursday; 7:30 PM-, 10/17 Friday; 7:30 PM-, 10/18 Saturday; 2:00 PM-, 10/19 Sunday | Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Highway 12, Greene | Based loosely on real historical figures and set in Nebraska in the 1920’s, during Prohibition, Two-Gun Hart is the only law for 300 miles. When a Dusenbergdriving alleged antiques deal with a mysterious past shows up looking for the legendary sheriff, young journalist Ambrose Healey smells a connection between the two men and a big story. Shackleton’s Antarctic Dream | 7:30 PM-, 10/17 Friday; 7:30 PM-, 10/18 Saturday | Trumansburg Elementary School, 100 Whig Street, Trumansburg | A Saga of Extraordinary Leadership & Survival. A one-act, one-person play by Louise Adie. Presented as a fund raiser for Encore Players Community Theater of Trumansburg. Open to the public. The Lying Kind | 8:00 PM-, 10/17 Friday; 8:00 PM-, 10/18 Saturday | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | by Anthony Neilson. Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one final duty to perform on Christmas Eve night, delivering tragic news to the London family at #58. Acting Out on the Hangar Stage | 6:30 PM-, 10/18 Saturday | Hangar Theatre, 801 Taughannock Blvd., Ithaca | Hangar’s annual charades benefit. Event attendees will enjoy this spectacle, a live auction of theatrical experiences, as well as complementary snacks, wine, and beer throughout the evening. David Garibaldi - Rock and Roll Paint Event | 7:30 PM-, 10/22 Wednesday | Auburn Public Theater, 8 Exchange St, Auburn | The Piano Lesson | 7:30 PM-, 10/22 Wednesday | Archbold Theatre at Syracuse Stage, 820 East Genesee Street, Syracuse | Haunted and haunting. August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. The past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Groundhog Comedy Presents Stand-Up Open-Mic | 9:00 PM-, 10/22 Wednesday | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Held upstairs

Notices Mentors Needed for 4-H Youth Development Program | 1 | Cornell Cooperative Extension Education Center, 615 Willow Avenue, Ithaca | For more info, call (607) 277-1236 or email

student.mentor@yahoo.com. Volunteers Needed for Migration Celebration at Lab of O | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | To sign up online and learn more visit www.birds.cornell.edu/ birdday or contact Anne Rosenberg at baj3@cornell.edu or (607) 254-2109.

Meetings Tompkins County Planning, Energy and Environmental Quality Committee | 12:30 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday | Ithaca Beer Company, Ithaca Beer Drive, Ithaca | mavashgaldjie@yahoo.com Ithaca City Administration Committee | 6:00 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday | Common Council Chambers - Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca | Community Theater Group | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/15 Wednesday | TBD | No experience necessary; most are beginners. Just show up, or email Dennis Dore at ddore@zoom-dsl.com for more info. Tompkins County Expanded Budget | 5:30 PM-, 10/16 Thursday; 5:30 PM-, 10/20 Monday | County Of Tompkins The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | expanded budget committee, crafting the 2015 budget Tompkins County Facilities and Infrastructure Committee | 10:30 AM-, 10/20 Monday | County Administrative Building - Heyman Conference Room, 125 E. Court St., Ithaca | Ithaca City Comprehensive Plan Committee | 4:30 PM-, 10/20 Monday | City Of Ithaca, 108 E Green St, Ithaca | Ithaca Town Board | 5:30 PM-, 10/20 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Legislature | 5:30 PM-, 10/21 Tuesday | County Of Tompkins - The Daniel D. Tompkins Building, 121 E. Court St., Ithaca | Public is welcome. Ithaca Town Planning Board | 7:00 PM-, 10/21 Tuesday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Tompkins County Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Committee | 3:30 PM-, 10/22 Wednesday | County Of Tompkins, 320 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Ithaca Community Police Board | 3:30 PM-, 10/22 Wednesday | City Hall -

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Learning 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. Fireside Chats with Alan Chaffee | 6:30 PM-, 10/16 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, Main Street, Newfield | 1816: The Year that Summer Never Came. Stop by, give us a call or email us to let us know which session you’ll be attending. Ghost Hunters of the Finger Lakes | 7:00 PM-, 10/16 Thursday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, Main Street, Ovid | Learn about paranormal activity around the Finger Lakes region with a team of investigators who use the latest technologies to track things that go bump in the night. Ithaca Flute Day and Guest Artist Recital | 8:30 AM-, 10/18 Saturday | St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 402 N. Aurora St, Ithaca | Open to all flutists. School age, college, teachers and amateurs welcome. Guest artist recital will conclude the day, including all participants. More info at http:// opusithaca.org/ International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 10/19 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5 donation suggested. Tuesdays Microsoft Excel | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/21 Tuesday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | Registration required. Astrology Learning Group | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 10/21 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, 10/21 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | For more info, email jesusianity@gmail. com or visit: www.facebook.com/ groups/JesusiansOfIthaca. Know Your Lands Resources Workshop Series | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/21 Tuesday | 4-H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca | Land Ownership

Lectures The Global Eradication of Smallpox: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Succeeded | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, 10/16 Thursday | Uris Hall -- G08, Cornell University, Ithaca | Reppy Institute Seminar with Erez Manela, Professor of History, Harvard University. Brown bag seminar luncheon. Co-sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Surrealism through the Mirror of Magic: Alternative Paths to Knowledge | 5:15 PM-, 10/16 Thursday | Johnson Museum Of Art, N Central Ave, Ithaca | Lecture w/ author Celia Rabinovitch. The Wisest One in the Room: How Five Core Principles of Social Psychology Can Make Anyone Wiser and More Effective in their Daily Lives | 4:30 PM-, 10/22 Wednesday | Goldwin Smith Hall - Lewis Auditorium, Cornell University | Cornell’s Phi Beta Kappa presents this semester’s Distinguished Faculty Invitational Lecture with Professor Tom Gilovich of Psychology.

Nature & Science Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 10/18 Saturday; 9:00 AM-, 10/19 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Binoculars are available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@ gmail.com for more information. Science and Nature in the Galapagos Islands | 7:30 PM-, 10/20 Monday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Monday Night Seminar w/ Irby Lovette, director, Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program, Cornell Lab Ornithology; Fausto Rodriguez, Galapagos Park naturalist and founder of Galapagos Best.

Saturday, October 18 – 8 p.m.

Friday, October 17 – 7 p.m.

The Cornell Glee Club – one of the nation’s premier men’s choirs – presents its annual Homecoming Concert in Bailey Hall. Led by Conductor Robert Isaacs (pictured), the program will include music ranging from Renaissance motets to Irish folksong to the present day.

Standard Art Supply and Souvenir presents their fourth annual Open Season art show, a one-night-only showcase with work from Ithaca’s best young artists and designers. The event will take place at 213 N. Aurora St., near Bool’s Flower Shop. Camo optional.

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Logistics and Opportunities on 10/21. Sign up for all sessions or just come to the one that interests you most; $5 per session. Call 607-272-2292 or email mjc72@cornell.edu Pranic Healing | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 10/22 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Cayuga Trails Club Hike: Six Mile Creek | 4:00 PM-, 10/21 Tuesday | EMS Parking Lot, 722 S. Meadow St, Ithaca | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a two-three hour, moderate hike in Six Mile Creek. Meet at 4:00 pm, Ithaca EMS parking lot, 722 S. Meadow St. For more information, call 607-339-5131 or visit www.cayugatrailsclub.org

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Historic Ithaca’s 5th Annual Fall Fundraiser and Alison Lurie Book Talk | 6:00 PM-, 10/16 Thursday | The Treman Center, 95 Hines Road, Newfield | An evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie, who will read from her new work of non-fiction. To purchase tickets or for more information call (607) 273-6633, emailchristine@ historicithaca.org or visit http://www. historicithaca.org/fallfundraiser/ Dryden Sertoma 27th Annual Spaghetti Dinner | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/17 Friday | Dryden Middle School Cafeteria, George Rd, Dryden | $6 adults, $4 kids 4 -12 yrs old. Net proceeds support youth soccer, Dryden Kitchen Cupboard & other charities. drydensertoma.org Woodlawn Cemetery Ghost Walk | 6:00 PM-, 10/17 Friday; 6:00 PM-, 10/18 Saturday | Chemung Valley History Museum, 415 East Water Street, Elmira | The Chemung Valley History Museum, in partnership with the Elmira Little Theater and the Friends of Woodlawn Cemetery, will present the eighth annual Woodlawn Cemetery Ghost Walk. More info at www.chemungvalleymuseum.org Cornell University Homecoming 2014 | 9:00 PM-, 10/17 Friday | Schoellkopf Field, Cornell University, Ithaca | Free & open to the public. Fireworks and laser light show Friday night. Enjoy the Big Red Fan Festival starting at noon and Cornell vs. Lehigh football game at 3pm on Saturday. For more information, please visit http:// homecoming.cornell.edu Tburg Senior Citizens Annual Bazaar | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 10/18 Saturday | The American Legion, 4431 Seneca Rd, Trumansburg | Baked goods, crafts, recycled jewelry & Grandma’s attic treasures will be for sale during the event. Plus, quilt raffle ticket drawing at 2:00 p.m. Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library Fall Book Sale | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, 10/18 Saturday; 10:00

AM-8:00 PM, 10/19 Sunday; 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, 10/20 Monday | Friends of the Library Book Sale, 509 Esty Street, Ithaca | Over 250,000 items (including books, records, CDs, DVDs, puzzles, games, and more), all easy to find in over 70 subject areas. Our already low prices decrease daily. For more information, find us at www.booksale. org, call us at 607-272-2223 or email us at info@booksale.org. Chestnut Festival | 12:00 PM-5:00 PM, 10/18 Saturday | Goose Watch Winery, 5480 State Route 89, Romulus | Each fall, we harvest the chestnuts grown right at Goose Watch Winery and host one of the biggest celebrations of the year! Come enjoy live music while you sample a variety of foods made from our own chestnuts. While you’re here, you can also have fun playing lawn games while overlooking the beautiful fall foliage on Cayuga Lake! Cornell Football: Lehigh at Cornell | 3:00 PM-, 10/18 Saturday | Schoellkopf Field, Cornell University, Ithaca | 4th Annual Tburg Pumpkin Fest & Big Truck Ruckus | 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, 10/19 Sunday | Trumansburg Fairgrounds, Trumansburg Rd. (Rt. 96), Trumansburg | Bring the family. Fun for all ages. Event features games with prizes, hay rides, a haunted house, face painting, craft activities, a cake wheel, food & refreshments, and of course, pumpkins for sale. New this year is the Big Truck Ruckus offering children of all ages a chance to explore 10 or more giant tractors, trucks, rescue vehicles and more. Look for Trumansburg Pumpkin Fest on Facebook, or contact sbrown@fltg.net or sandy_repp@ yahoo.com for more information. Danby Harvest Festival | 2:00 PM-5:00 PM, 10/19 Sunday | Dotson Park, Route 96B, Danby | pumpking pitching, hayrides, games, snacks and more. !Cultura! Lecture and Potluck | 6:30 PM-7:45 PM, 10/21 Tuesday | GIAC, 301 North Albany Street, Ithaca | Stories of Sustainability in Nicaragua by Las Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa, Nicaragua. Co-sponsored by !Cultura! and Taitem Engineering. Open to the public.

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music from local acts from 5 to 7 p.m. Downtown Farmers’ Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/16 Thursday | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 10/21 Tuesday | Dewitt Park, North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Enfield Grange Farmers’ and Craft Market | 3:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/16 Thursday | Enfield Center, Enfield Main Road, | Held every Thursday through October. Wisner Market | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 10/16 Thursday | Wisner Park, N Main Street, Elmira | Over 30 vendors offer a variety of products for sale, including fresh produce, cut flowers, candles, art, and crafts. Lunch is served throughout the park during the Market. Ithaca Farmer’s Market | 9:00 AM-3:00 PM, 10/18 Saturday | Steamboat Landing, Ithaca |

Health Alcoholics Anonymous | Multiple Meeting Dates and Locations | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/ meetings/PDF/IthacaMeetings.pdf DSS in Ulysses | 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, 10/15 Wednesday | Ulysses Town Hall, 10 Elm St, Trumansburg | walk-ins welcome. For info on SNAP, Medicaid, Daycare and Emergency assistance. CALL (607) 274-5345 with any questions. Lyme Support Group | 6:30 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | For information, or to be added to the email list, contact danny7t@lightlink. com or call Danny at 275-6441. Overeaters Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 10/15 Wednesday | Dryden Village Hall, Dryden | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 10/16 Thursday | First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 10/18 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/20 Monday Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/15 Wednesday | First Congregational Church of Ithaca , 309 Highland Rd , Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/20 Monday | Ithaca Recovery Center, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/15 Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592.

Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/15 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free every week. More at www. DamodarDas.com. Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/16 Thursday; 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 10/20 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca St., Ithaca | First come, first served (no appointments). La Leche League | 6:30 PM-, 10/16 Thursday | Bloom, 134 East State/MLK St., Ithaca | Breastfeeding Information and Support. La Leche League offers help with breastfeeding problems as well as community and companionship. Pregnant mothers especially welcome. Tick-Borne Illnesses Presentation | 7:00 PM-, 10/16 Thursday | Mecklenburg United Methodist Church, 6063 Turnpike Road, Mecklenburg | A presentation on Lyme disease and other tick-borne illness. Event includes special speaker, support group and Q&A. All welcome. Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 10/17 Friday | Ithaca College, Call for Location, | For more information, please contact: Yvonne Rogalski Phone: (607) 274-3430 Email: yrogalski@ithaca.edu Recovery From Food Addition | 12:00 PM-, 10/17 Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | Successful recovery based on Dr. Kay Sheppard’s program Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 10/19 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free. Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 10/21 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | 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-, 10/21 Tuesday | 124 E. Court St., 124 E. Court St., Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions # 607-272-1505 Support Group for Invisible Disabilities | 1:00 PM-3:00 PM, 10/22 Wednesday | Finger Lakes Independence Center, 215 Fifth St., Ithaca | Call Amy or Emily at 607-272-2433.

Books Teen Reads Group at TCPL | 4:45 PM-5:45 PM, 10/15 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 E

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Arts Wednesdays Botanical Illustration & Watercolor | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/15 Wednesday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | Learn & practice techniques with Laurel O’Brien to create detailed illustrations in pencil and then watercolor. SketchCrawl | 9:00 AM-, 10/18 Saturday | Multiple Locations | two-day, all-day sketch-a-thon. Schedule for 10/18: 9 a.m. Triphammer Falls; noon, break for lunch: 1 p.m. Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell U; 8 p.m. Moosewood Restaurant. Schedule for 10/19:9 p.m. Taughannock Falls; noon, break for lunch; Sunset Ithaca Falls on Fall Creek; 8 p.m. Applebee’s Art History in a Nutshell | 2:00 PM-, 10/19 Sunday | Johnson Museum Of Art, N Central Ave, Ithaca | Join Museum educator Carol Hockett for an art-history survey highlighting 19th-century American works of art in our newly reinstalled first-floor galleries. Free. Johnson Museum of Art, 607-255-6464. museum.cornell.edu !Cultura! Lecture and Potluck | 6:30 PM-7:45 PM, 10/21 Tuesday | GIAC, 301 North Albany Street, Ithaca | Stories of Sustainability in Nicaragua by Las Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa, Nicaragua. Co-sponsored by !Cultura! and Taitem Engineering. Open to the public. openings Thomas S. Buechner | 5:00 PM-7:30 PM, 10/17 Friday | West End Gallery, 12 W Market St, Corning | Opening reception for new exhibit featuring a selection of paintings by Thomas S. Buechner, with William Groome. Up through November 14. Opening: Work from Pamela Drix | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/17 Friday | Damiani Wine Cellars, 4704 State Route 414, Burdett | Opening: William Deats | 5:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/17 Friday | Leidenfrost Vineyards, 5677 State Route 414, Hector | Mid-show art opening for new exhibit by William Deats. Up through October. Standard Art’s Open Season | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM, 10/17 Friday | 213 N. Aurora Street, 213 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | Group art show, one-night

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Baltimore noise-rockers Dope Body headline this Fanclub and Ithaca Underground show at Watermargin Co-op, 103 McGraw Place, on the Cornell campus. Elsewhere on the bill: Krill, Lust and Tburg’s The Realbads.

Zephyr Teachout, the Democratic candidate for governor who gave Cuomo a scare in September’s primary, is in town this week. She’ll be at Buffalo Street Books and will discuss her new book “Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United.” (photo via Facebook)

Saturday, October 18 – 9 p.m.

Green St, Ithaca | For more information, contact Teen Services Librarian Regina DeMauro at rdemauro@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 274. Elliott DeLine Reading | 6:00 PM-, 10/15 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Elliott DeLine, a transgender writer and activist from Syracuse discusses his latest book Show Trans, as well as his previous works. Kwame Dawes | 4:30 PM-, 10/16 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall, 232 East Avenue, Ithaca | Born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica, Dawes is the award-winning author of seventeen books of poetry, most recently Duppy Conqueror, and numerous books of fiction, non-fiction, criticism and drama. Three visiting poets: Lisa Dordal, Kendra DeColo, and Melissa Cundieff-Pexa | 6:00 PM-, 10/16 Thursday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Reading and discussion Book Release: The Barter | 2:00 PM-, 10/18 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Celebrate the release of The Barter with a discussion by author Siobhan Adcock. Zephyr Teachout @ Buffalo Street | 1:00 PM-, 10/19 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Discussing her new book ‘Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United’ Edward Hower and Cory Brown | 3:00 PM-, 10/19 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, DeWitt Bldg, East Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Authors Edward Hower and Cory Brown discuss their latest books: Hower’s What Can You Do: Personal Essays and Travel Writing, and Brown’s collection of poetry, What May Be Lost Young Adult Book Watch | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 10/21 Tuesday | Edith B Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Join Cady to discuss The Maze Runner Katherine Howe | 6:00 PM-, 10/21 Tuesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Author Katherine Howe returns to discuss The Penguin Anthology of Witches. After Dinner Book Club | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/21 Tuesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | A Plague of Informers: Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III’s England | 4:30 PM-, 10/22 Wednesday | Room 107, Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca | Book Talk with Rachel Weil;

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only, with Laura Rowley & Nathan Lewis, Lauren Valchuis, Kadie Salfi, Workroom G, Kristina Paabus, Morgan Sims, Chris Rollins, Phoebe Aceto, Mara Baldwin, Sara Ferguson, Charly Fasano, Welcome Workshop, Print Club Boston, Isabel Reidy, Jackie Zdrojeski, Chris Oliver, Sam Mameli, Jenn Houle, Artemisha Goldfeder, Lindsey Glover, Kaleb Hunkele, Eli Mackendarfer. Tburg Conservatory Fall Art Show: Pas de Deux | 7:00 PM-, 10/18 Saturday | Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts, Corner of Congress and McLallen Streets, Trumansburg | Opening for fall invitational art show, this year called Pas de Deux: Three couples making artwork. The show takes place in the conservatory during the last two full weeks of October and the first weekend of November. The featured artists include: Fernando Llosa, who works in paint, assemblage, photography & bookmaking; Kim Schrag, drawing & painting on textural surfaces of paper and plaster; Dede Hatch, Photography; Jon Reis, Photography; Jim Bruno, woodwork; Trina Bruno, wall pieces focused on texture and pattern ongoing Benjamin Peters | 120 The Commons, Ithaca | Monday-Saturday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM; Thursday, 10:00-8:00 PM | 273-1371 | Carl Schofield: SchoPhoto, opening 10/03 | www.benjaminpeters.com Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research | 533 Tower Road, Ithaca | Monday-Friday, 09:00 AM-5:00 PM | 607-227-6638 | Fraom My Backyard, botanical portraits by David O. Watkins, Jr., up through October Buffalo Street Books | 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, daily | 273-8246 | Abandoned. Lost. And Rescued., oil paintings by Judy Keil, opening 10/03 | 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 | Overrun, woodcut prints by Clarissa Plank, opening 10/03 | www. artspartner.org Cellar d’Or | 136 E. State/MLK Street, on the Commons, Ithaca | 12:00 PM-8:00 PM Monday through Thursday; 11:30 AM to 9:00 PM, Friday; 11:30 AM to 8:00 PM Saturday; noon to 6:00 PM, Sunday | Michael Sampson, oil paintings, opening 10/03 | www.thecellardor.com Chemung Canal Trust | The Commons | photo series by Nancy Ridenour, up through 10/08; Finger Lake Landscapes, by John Whiting, opening 10/08 through 12/31

Encore a beautiful place and ages by lu k e z. fenchel

he band Rites of Spring would turn 30 years old this year, and though the preeminent protoemo act only performed fifteen shows and recorded approximately 20 songs, the moniker “emo” lives on as arguably among the most influential American styles of contemporary music-making, dwarfed only by hip hop’s hegemony. Based in Washington, D.C., and formed by Guy Picciotto appropriately enough at an Ian McKaye concert, Rites of Spring put out a 7” cassette, and full-length all on Dischord Records, Rites of Spring last smashed their instruments in 1985, but their earnestness, willingness to experiment, and their sheer intensity may all be heard by two large ensembles who will stop through town this weekend for performances at the Haunt Friday, Oct. 17 and 19. Both are basically all ages (all ages and 16+) and at punk price-points. Both bands are big — with makeups that vary from six to eleven members — and both are really on the rise. And neither represents your run-of-the-mill post-hardcore: their versions of emo

Collegetown Bagels | 203 North Aurora Street, Ithaca | Sun-Wed 6:30 PM-8:00 PM; Thurs-Sat 6:30 AM-10:00 PM | Leaf Art, images by Madeleine Ulinski; A Nature Walk, digital variations from Jacob O’Neil, both opening 09/05 through September | collegetownbagels.com Community School of Music and Arts | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | New Latin@ Art (Nuevo Arte Latino), work from 13 local artists, opening 10/03 | www.csma-ithaca.org Corners Gallery | 409 E. Upland Road (within the Community Corners Shopping Center), Ithaca | TuesdayThursday, 10:00 AM-5:30 PM; Friday, 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM. Closed Sun & Mon | Scratching the Surface, mixed media on paper, by Jane Sangerman, up through 11/08 | www.cornersgallery.com Dance/Memory Gallery | 108 W. State/MLK Jr. St. (second floor), Ithaca. | 09:00 AM-5:00 PM Mon-Fri | Platinum/Palladium and Ziatypes, recent photographs from Jari Poulin, opening 10/03 | www.jaripoulin.com Décorum Too | Dewitt Mall | Helena Cooper: Forms Interconnected, paintings, opening 10/03 | 319-0944 or visit www.

couldn’t be more different than that of Jimmy Eat World or Bright Eyes. They make surprisingly positive music out of some negative circumstances, and the style of their live performances— as approachable as they are often unparalleled—recall Rites of Spring shows. The World is a Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die, who headlined Big Day In last year, return to town courtesy of Ithaca Underground at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 17. With an anthem-via-shambles approach they can sound almost like Arcade Fire, but throttle back more and experiment more often. Their most recent record is a product of a long-time collaboration with the poet Christopher Zizzamia and their last record “Whenever, If Ever” felt incredibly hopeful for post-hardcore. “A lot of music starts to sound like chaos with so many members, but you hope it clicks,” said Greg Horbal, the ostensible front man for an act that rotates vocalists and instruments. “I got started with the band in 2009, when a kid named Tyler who recorded the original demo was out. They invited me, and since then we have recorded a lot, and I’ve seen people come and go.” “We always love playing Ithaca. Bubba has booked us now twice or three times,” Horbal continued. Friday night’s

decorum-too.com Elevator Music and and Art Gallery | New Roots Charter School, 116 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | 882-9220 | Celebrate People’s History – a visual journey through social movements past and present, opening 10/03 | newrootsschool.org Finger Lakes School of Massage | 1251 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca | FuLang: Let Go, paintings, opening 10/03. The Frame Shop | 414 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca | Tuesday-Friday, 10:00 AM-6:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM | Oil paintings by Neil Berger, opening 10/03 | www.theframeshop.com Gimme! Coffee | 506 West State Street, Ithaca | Buildings in our Midst: Their Souls and Stories, photography Exhibit by Michael Duttweiler, opening 10/01 through October | www.gimmecoffee. com Gimme! Coffee | 430 N. Cayuga St, Ithaca | New Work from Ryan B. Curtist, includes wood prints, opening 10/03 | www.gimmecoffee.com/ Handwork Coop | Commons, Ithaca | Monday throughSaturday, 10 AM to 6 PM; Thursday and Friday 10 AM to 8 PM;

Ages and Ages play The Haunt on Sunday, Oct. 19. (photo via Facebook) show will also include Posture & the Grizly (originally from Willimantic, Connecticut), emotive rockers The Hotelier (previously known as The Hotel Year), and highenergy noisy quartet from West Virginia, Rozwell Kid. • • • “Do the right thing / Do it all the time / make yourself right, never mind them,” might read more as a motto on an elementary school classroom wall than the lyrics to a potent pop song, but for the choral-rock group Ages and Ages, who will make a debut appearance on Sunday, October 19 at the Haunt, the mantra is the medium. “It is all about conviction,” Tim Perry, the front man to an act that bills itself as more a collective than a hierarchy, said by phone while on tour last week. “The Velvet Underground sang about addiction, about heroin, with passion,

Solá Gallery | Dewitt Mall, Ithaca | 10:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday-Saturday | Paintings by Patrizia Levi, opening 10/03 | www.solagallery.com State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | Wednesday-Friday, 12:00 PM-6:00 PM, Weekends, 12:00 PM-5:00 PM | Greater Ithaca Art Trail Preview Exhibition, opening 10/03 through 11/02 For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@soag.org Stella’s | 403 College Avenue, Ithaca | paintings by Jen Ospina, up through October | 607.277.1490 Sunny Days of Ithaca | 123 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Fairy Fun, mixed media by Erick Clasen, opening 10/03 | 319-5260 Titus Gallery Art & Antiques | 222 E State St, Ithaca | Tuesday-Thursday, 10:30 AM-6:30 PM; Friday- Saturday, 10:30 AM-8:30 PM; Sunday, 11:00 AM-4:00 PM | Celebrating Our Lakes, paintings by Brian Keeler, ongoing. | www.titusgallery.com Uncorked Creations |102 N. Tioga Street, 2nd Floor, Ithaca| New Fall Art Work and Open Paint Night, opening 10/03 | www.uncorkedithaca.com or 222-6005 Waffle Frolic | 146 East State/MLK Street, Ithaca | Prints by Clarissa Plank, up

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Kids Ulysses Philomathic Library: Story and Art | 10:30 AM-, 10/16 Thursday | Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main St., Trumansburg | Ksana Dragovich will read stories and Barbara Nowogrodzki will lead art projects. Awana Clubs | 6:30 PM-8:15 PM, 10/16 Thursday | Dryden Baptist Church, , | Every Thursday night for kids ages 3 to 8th grade. Any questions please call 607-898-4087. Preschool Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 10/17 Friday | Southworth Library , , Dryden | Story Time | 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, 10/17 Friday | Ford Edith B Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Children and infants will enjoy stories, songs and crafts. Parents can bring a snack or lunch and stay afterwards for play time. It Began with a Song | 10:00 AM-, 10/18 Saturday | Groton Public Library, 112 E. Cortland St., Groton | Author Katrina Morse with her children’s book “It Began with a Song.

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Sunday, October 19 – 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Ithaca musician Joe Crookston presents “Blue Tattoo”, the documentary film inspired by one of his songs, at Cinemapolis. The film relates how Crookston and Holocaust survivor Dina Jacobson of Elmira came together to form a unique friendship. The event will include a performance and facilitated discussion with Crookston and Professor Jonathan Aaron Boyarin Director of Cornell Jewish Studies.

Both Danby and Trumansburg are hosting family-friendly harvest parties this Sunday. In Danby’s Dotson Park, from 2 to 5 p.m., folks will be slinging pumpkins – quite literally, in fact; they fire pumpkins from a catapult – hosting wagon rides, games and more. Meanwhile, at Tburg Fairgrounds, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., it’s the 4th Annual Tburg Pumpkin Fest & Big Truck Ruckus. See “Special Events” for more information on both festivals.

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and music can make whatever topic more meaningful.” This is especially true about “Divisionary,” the title track of the Ages and Ages’ second full-length, which is by turns moving in a plaintive way reminiscent of early period Neil Young and a Sunday church spiritual. “Inclusive, communal, and all together” is how Perry described the music, which originated when the Portland songwriter was taking a ten-day spiritual “break from technology.” “It is not meant to be about a particular dogma” Perry emphasized. “The chorus of ‘Divisionary’ is a mantra, sure, but I think we are posing more questions than answers … a lot of pop music is shiny and it is about getting you to buy it, which is fine. But for us, that is not what we are about. Not so much as a reaction but as another conversation.” •

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ayne Gottlieb performed in a cappella groups for years. After he moved here from California 20 years ago, he was in singing groups in Ithaca for about a decade. “It was a mixed success,” he said. “You really need to stay with the same group of people. But around here you start getting really good and then someone would leave.” So he learned to play the guitar. The Pelotones (photo by Tim Gera) “I met Alex [Specker] through They recorded the basic tracks in Mike cycling,” Gottlieb Wellen’s home studio and then added said. “One day I needed someone to vocals and violin (courtesy of Harry’s perform with me and I asked him if he brother Eric) at Specker’s house. Gottlieb’s knew anyone who could play the guitar son, who lives in Queens, is a recording and he said, ‘I do.’ And I thought, ‘Oh engineer; he mixed and mastered the great, so he will just be strumming some album. The whole process from recording chords along with me.’ Then he showed to mastering took about six months. up and I was like ‘Whoa.’” Gottlieb had “We’re headed toward playing more just hooked up with one of the more rhythm and blues,” said Gottlieb. “I’ve accomplished jazz and blues guitarists in written jazz songs, but people like to dance Ithaca. With Specker on board it wasn’t to r’n’b.” The Pelotones add to their set list long before they added Mike Wellen on by looking at what they’ve got in the way of drums and Harry Aceto on bass. dance rhythm diversity and seeing if they “We’ve been together for three years are short in any category. “We play ‘Down now,” said Gottlieb. “At first we were in the Hole’ with a sort of rumba rhythm,” called ‘the Wayne Gottlieb Quartet’ and he said, “but we decided we needed more then ‘the No-Good Doneys’ and then shuffles, since we already play bossa [nova] we decided that I shouldn’t make up and we’ve got one waltz. the names anymore.” They became the He declared Oasis to be his favorite Pelotones, a reference to Gottlieb and place to play because of the size and Specker’s affection for cycling; a peloton is excellence of the dance floor. “But the the main group of riders in a bicycle road wineries are good too,” said the musician. race. “Although it’s too bad we didn’t use “It’s a nice audience; they just like to listen Harry’s name,” said Gottlieb, “which was to us.” The Pelotones also will play as a ‘Blood Filled Boots.’” trio at jazz brunches (at Agava and the The Pelotones began playing out with Stonecat). “That’s more quiet,” he said. sets of covers that had a firm focus on “People don’t pay as much attention, but blues, rhythm and blues, and swing dance it’s a big crowd.” music. In 2012 they put out a CD that They sell their CDs at their gigs. included their eight most often requested “We let people name their price,” said songs, leading off with Tom Waits’ “Down Gottlieb. “We let people know about the in the Hole” and ranging from Duke CD through Facebook too. I have paid the Robillard’s “(Do the) Memphis Grind” to extra money to ‘boost’ the post. We also Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.” get the word out through the Ithaca Swing “We tried to get a gig at Two Goats,” Dance Network.” You can also download Gottlieb said, “and they told us that they their music from pelotones.bandcamp. only book bands who play originals, com. because they don’t want to pay the “I love performing,” said Gottlieb. royalties. So Alex and I started writing. “And I love performing in a good group. He had written songs before, but I hadn’t.” We’re considering adding a vocalist or Eventually Specker had written some another solo instrument, maybe a violinist. and Gottlieb finished about 10, and they It would be nice to be able to do three-part figured they had eight between them that harmonies. • were worth recording. 28 T

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