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It’s Not Sex It’s Assault!

Cornell and Ithaca College teach “bystander intervention” to increase crime reporting

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Engman Suggests Myrick Backs Off Cuts to Youth, Parks Police City Residency

thaca Town Supervisor Herb Engman is attempting to take a stand in his tentative 2015 budget proposal. He proposes that the town’s contributions to community organizations and programs be cut back nearly $100,000, down to $325,414, including the elimination of the town’s annual contribution to TCAT, and reducing many other contributions to half of 2014 amounts. For instance, the town’s contributions to local parks would be cut down from $111,000 to $55,000. This aspect of Engman’s proposal, during the first public hearing for the budget on Monday, Oct. 20, surfaced as a point of contention among some board members. Councilperson Eric Levine questioned why an organization such as the Ithaca Youth Bureau had to be included in such cutbacks. “I would like to revisit cutting [contributions in half for the Ithaca Youth Bureau],” Levine said, “It’s different for them, as they have offered a couple of different things that other entities have not. One is offering a discount to town residents for programs, so we’d be getting a benefit for our residents.” Engman was Engman steadfast in his justification for his proposed cutbacks. He added that the end-goal of cutting back the town’s voluntary contributions would be “to expand the support base,” with the county being the most logical resource for added contributions, but that contributions from all entities and municipalities that benefit from the resources at hand should be sought. “The county has to step up in this case,” he said. “According to our projections,” he said, “we found out that, simply, we will not have general funds in four years if we continue to spend at the rate we have. I’ll remind people that this is a yearly allocation. If we continue giving an extra $55,000 a year like we have for the next 10 years, we just spent over a half million dollars. “The only way,” he continued, “that we’re going to get anything to change from contributions from other municipalities is to, one, stick to our guns with all of the continued on page 4

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when out-of-uniform Sgt. John Norman pulled a firearm on two African-American teenagers who were riding their bikes more than an hour after a night of criminal activity that included two arsons and a burglary. The intention of a city living requirement, Smith explained, would be to help bridge the “gap of trust in the community.” It is fair to wonder if requiring officers to live within the county, rather than the city, would do anything to move that effort forward. As it stands now, the department has three officers living in the city, and 37 living in Tompkins County. Another 23 officers are spread out amongst Schuyler, Cayuga, Cortland, Tioga, Seneca and Chemung counties. Smith added that the cost of living in the city and the impact such a requirement would have on the department’s ability to recruit were big reasons for switching the requirement from the city to the county.

hile Ithaca Police Department (IPD) officers might not soon be required to live within the city, as initially proposed by Mayor Svante Myrick, they might have to live within Tompkins County. Myrick had asked Alderperson Stephen Smith (D-4th) to look into the feasibility of requiring new officers to live within city limits. After having discussions with IPD and doing additional research, Smith, at the Wednesday, Oct. 15 City Administration Committee public meeting, pitched a five-year plan that would have new officers live in Tompkins County limits within their first six months on the job. He noted that this idea, while not ideal, would represent an improvement Chief John Barber, Deputy Chiefs Pete Tyler and Chris Townshend. (Photo: Michael Nocella) over the current Alderperson J.R. Clairborne (D-2nd) situation, which is no residency said Smith’s proposal “really doesn’t move requirement at all. Chief John Barber us to an improvement.” Alderpersons called Smith’s plan a “fair compromise” Seph Murtagh (D-2nd), Graham Kerslick and something he would fully support. (D-4th), and George McGonigal (D-1st) Deputy Chief Peter Tyler and Deputy echoed similar sentiments. Myrick said it Chief Chris Townsend were also in was important to consider that his initial attendance, and joined Barber in support proposal was unlikely to be approved of the plan. by Common Council based on previous Committee members, however, conversations, and that Smith’s plan was were less convinced such a requirement appealing. would accomplish what Myrick’s initial “I’m, of course, a proponent of the proposal set out to do. The policy was one of Myrick’s eight major reforms to continued on page 7 IPD following the incident of Aug. 9

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Cornell and Ithaca College have programs that encourage more people to report sexual assault

Comic Book Artist . ................. 17 Steve Ellis is another artist living locally who has an international reputation

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What is an issue that you think deserves more attention?

“Water pollution. A lot of urban pollution goes into the water.” —Erin Cantrell

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hough Mayor Svante Myrick’s 2015 city budget proposal includes additional staff for the Ithaca Police Department (IPD), the Ithaca Fire Department (IFD) will remain at its current roster of 63 employees. That number has been in decline since 2009, when the department had 72 employees. IFD Chief Tom Parsons, during the first public hearing for Myrick’s proposed budget on Wednesday, Oct. 15, stressed that his department has been more or less treading water for the last few years, and that a lack of increased manpower is beginning to take its toll, and that it is “living on a lean diet [of staffing].” “We’ve held the line in so many places—it’s now hurting,” he said. When asked by City Administration Committee members to prioritize what the department needs the most, Parsons struggled to order the need of more firefighters and updated equipment, noting, “It’s like saying, ‘I need a hip replacement; I need a heart replacement— it’s all a priority.” Myrick noted that IFD’s proposed budget of slightly more than $10 million, while down approximately $27,000 from this year’s budget, is still up more than $300,000 compared to 2013’s budget. He added that if the department feels understaffed, he would welcome a discussion with the union about getting the cost per firefighter down in order to add more. In his responses to the city’s “2015 Budget Review Narrative,” Parsons wrote a request for at least four more firefighters and one deputy fire chief.

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programs—because once you start not including one program [as part of the cutbacks], I don’t see any good reason to not do it with any one of them.” Councilperson Tee-Ann Hunter questioned whether holding out contributions was the best way to get more contributions from elsewhere, calling the tactic of holding back monies to receive help elsewhere a “very complicated issue.” Board member Rich DePaolo had similar reservations. “It’s the only way,” Engman said bluntly. “Nothing will happen with any other of these programs if we don’t cutback on them next year. We have to demonstrate that something’s going to happen. On the bright side, I think we can get other municipalities to start

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budget were denied. Those items were the replacement of 45 self-contained breathing apparatus cylinders ($37,350), replacement of an emergency response vehicle [deputy chief ’s SUV] ($55,000), and the replacement of a 20-year old pumper truck/engine. The last would cost more than half a million dollars. “The department,” Parsons said, “owns six engines, with four of them being first-line emergency response vehicles, and the other two being reserve engines. The engine being requested for replacement is 20 years old and has 108,000 miles. While this vehicle has been reliable as a reserve engine, it has been put in service more frequently as the other vehicles in the fleet are taken out of service more frequently for repairs. The reliability of this vehicle will become an issue Ithaca Fire Chief Tom Parsons. (Photo: Michael Nocella) the more it is used in front line service while other vehicles are out of service for repairs.” specialized training for new members Committee members expressed the in areas as technical rescue, hazardous unlikelihood of finding $550,000 for a new materials, and fire investigation. “I understand,” he continued, “the city truck or the funds for more firefighters. Alderperson Cynthia Brock (D-1st) is still under significant fiscal stress, but I believe that as more funding becomes sympathized with the chief, saying, “I wish available the fire department staffing must we could get you more firefighters.” The be increased back to pre-2012 levels. I am chief, who acknowledged he knew what requesting that the fire department staffing answers his requests were likely to get, be returned to prior levels by at least four said it was his “job to ask.” As for whether firefighters and one deputy fire chief. or not the union would consider taking Current staffing levels do not provide pay cuts to have more firefighters, that any excess in personnel to accommodate matter will not come up again until its retirements, extended leaves, injuries, or next negotiations with the city. The union illnesses.” is currently in its fourth year of a five-year Parsons also noted in his responses contract. • that his three proposed capital projects for the department in the 2015 city – Michael Nocella “Due to budget reductions,” he wrote, “in training and the increased use of overtime to cover vacancies, the department has had to severely cut back on the amount of staff development and outside training for the department’s officers and firefighters. In the last two years, training has been only approved to maintain individual certifications and qualifications. The department has not been able to fund all the needed

contributing, and most organizations will end up getting more support than they’re getting now. But nothing will happen—I guarantee it—if [we continue giving the same amount of money as we have in the past].” Engman unveiled the proposal earlier this month. It includes a 7.3-percent increase in the budget from $22,640,518 to $24,296,077, but a 0.3-percent decrease in property tax rate as a result of higher assessed values. Water bills will increase $4.06 for the homeowner with average water use, essentially meaning that most residents can expect their taxes to look just about the same in 2015 as they did in 2014. “Pretty much,” Engman said, “the typical taxpayer will break even.” Engman noted, however, that the town has increased its budget between 7 and 8 percent for the last five to seven

years and that such a trend was “very concerning,” and “unsustainable.” Given that trend, he is looking for places the town can cut back, and he wants other municipalities to help carry the load. While he hinted that some contributions could be eliminated completely for the 2016 budget, he said the town would reassess the situation at that time. Engman’s concern alludes to the town’s recent habit of dipping into its general funding. This year, the budget will take $600,000 from their general funds, taking it from $2.7 million in savings to $2.1 million. This is a steep increase, as the town used only $67,000 from its general funding for the 2014 budget. The town will use more than $1.2 million from its total funds, which will decline from approximately $10.1 million to $8.9 million. Engman noted the increase in the tax levy, which stemmed from new

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New Reverend Has “Big Eyes”

from other churches, is that way we say everything is equal before God. So there is nobody who can tell you what to think or what to believe. That’s why we have a democratic system that’s much like

he First Presbyterian Church of Ithaca is part of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Within this denomination, it is also part of the Geneva Presbytery. It belongs to the reformed tradition of Christianity, which according to its website, means its is “always trying to be open to the new ways God is calling us to respond.” While the church believes “all members are ministers of our church,” a committee of members recently selected its new senior pastor and minister, Reverend Kirianne Weaver Riehl. The Ithaca Times recently sat down with Riehl to see how she’s settling into her new position. Ithaca Times: When did you start? Kirianne Weaver Riehl: September 17 was my first day. September 14 was when I came before the congregation, so that was actually really fast. Usually in the Presbyterian Church, it takes a couple of months to say goodbye to your last congregation, to pack things up and make a move, but for me, September 17 was day one. IT: So how has your first month gone? KR: It has been so exciting. I have mostly been working with the leadership at this point, but what a wonderful congregation. I think this whole area is just very rich in resources. People here have wonderful ideas and are wonderfully well read on so many things. IT: Where were you before this? KR: Most recently I was in the southern Adirondacks. My husband and I grew up in New York City, and I ended up going to a number of different places in the world before coming here to Ithaca. IT: What brought you here to Ithaca? KR: That’s an interesting question. For the last year or so, my husband and I have kind of held hands and jumped. He works for New York State, and I work for the Presbyterian Church. And New York State works fast. And the church works slow. So he was canvassed for a position up at Taughannock Falls [State Park], and we decided to move to Ithaca for his position and just trust that everything else would fall into place. IT: For residents here not familiar with the Presbyterian Church, what are its core values and beliefs? KR: I would say the Presbyterian Church—the essence of what makes it different

America’s. Every person is given the right to, and expected to, bring their best ideas to the table, and to vote on them. We do all of our committee structure and all of our leadership meetings by a vote of the body. There are other things too. We hope everyone, as a collective whole, will bring as diverse opinions and perspective as possible, because that makes us stronger when we make our final decisions. At the same time, we are really intent on staying connected together, and not letting that diversity tear us apart. IT: When is the weekly service? KR: Every Sunday at 10 a.m. IT: And all are welcomed? KR: Absolutely. We are happy to give anyone a place to sit. Our worship has wonderful music. It’s a lot of fun. What I love about our worship is that there’s this wonderful beauty and transcendence of the liturgy tradition, but then also during our time of confession and the sermon, there’s a sense that transcendence does not mean that things are fake, or that we’re detached. IT: What tends to be the overlying message of your sermons? Obviously, I’m sure they’re each sending out a different lesson, or theme. But is there anything that they all share in common? KR: For me, when I craft a sermon, what makes me feel like I’ve really done my job is if I feel like I’ve gotten in somebody’s thoughts a little bit. I try to tease out a thought process that we use in everyday life that we maybe don’t pay enough attention to—those little moments where we’re asking ourselves questions. If you take these Bible stories apart, you can find little corrections about how we think about our life, our world. IT: Here in Ithaca, people tend to think a little bit differently about a lot of things. It’s a unique place, as I’m sure you’re coming to learn. What’s it been like trying to get inside those thoughts here? KR: You’re right. People here do think a lot about what they’re doing, who they are, and how they can live better [here in Ithaca]. That’s a very exciting place for God to be. When people are already asking those important questions, that’s exactly what God wants us to be asking and it makes my job that much easier, that much more exciting. IT: What are you hoping to accomplish here at First Presbyterian Church? KR: [Nobel Prize-winning Bengali writer] Rabindranath Tagore talked about how the foreigner has big eyes. What he means by that is that when you’re new to something, or somewhere, you see things differently than the people who have being doing it for a long time. You get to notice the things that are strange or difficult, or unique. When you’ve been in a family, a community, or church for a long time, maybe you start to lose sight of some of those things. So right now I’m trying to take advantage of my big eyes.

Kirianne Weaver Riehl (Photo: Michael Nocella

Ups&Downs ▶ Books for Students Only, All students 16 and older with a valid student ID are invited to shop at the Friends of the Library Book Sale on a special day when the sale is closed to the public. Wednesday, Oct. 22; 4– 8 pm. Over 70 categories of books are available – fiction and non-fiction – plus music CDs, films on VHS & DVD, vinyl records, computer software, and much more. Special Student Night prices are in effect during this event; no item costs more than one dollar! 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 ▶ Business Expanding Downtown, On Thursday, Oct. 23, the Downtown Ithaca Alliance and Mayor Svante Myrick will hold ribbon cutting ceremonies for three expanded businesses in downtown Ithaca. the Community Dispute Resolution Center in Center Ithaca, 171 The Commons (Suite 105-1, at 5:15 p.m.); One World Market, also in Center Ithaca (at 5:30 p.m.); and Toko Imports in the Dewitt Mall, 215 North Cayuga Street (next to Sola Gallery; at 5:45 p.m.) ▶ Top Stories on the Ithaca Times website for the week of Sept. 11-18 include: 1) Tburg’s Rongo is Back; Weekend Open House Ushers in New Era 2) Spencer School Board Member Arrested for Harassment 3) Boomtown Over Cayuga? Hundreds of Housing Units Planned in Lansing 4) Candor Neighbors Get the Assist in DWI Arrest 5) From Back of the Pack to Powerhouse: IC’s Rugby Renegades Will Destroy You For these stories and more, visit our website at www.ithaca.com.

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When Police Are Among Us T he proposal by City Administration Committee member and Alderperson Steve Smith to require officers of the Ithaca Police Department to live in the county is pointless. The intention of Mayor Svante Myrick’s original suggestion that officers be required to live where they work (in the city) was to ensure that the men and women who are meant to keep order in this community are a part of this community. Why did this come up after the Aug. 9 apprehension of two 15 year-old boys? Because the policemen and the teenagers were complete strangers to each other. Much was made of the fact that the sergeant who spotted the boys and followed them was out of uniform. After they were released, the boys told their parents that they had been afraid because they had no idea who the man following them was. But the most complete version of the story includes the observation that the bicycle-riding teenagers openly fled upon the arrival of the marked police cars. That is, they view the police as people to be distinctly avoided. “Community policing” is supposed to change this dynamic by having police officers interact with young people (and older people) on a regular basis outside the context of a scene of alleged wrongdoing. The theory of community policing asserts, if officers are not strangers, but rather people you know well enough to talk to, then the community will be safer. Much of the practice of community policing involves what officers do

while on their beats. But the residency requirement proposed by Myrick would have meant that city residents would be likely to see officers both in and out of uniform, on and off shift. And perhaps begin to see them more as human beings a bit more like themselves: people who take their kids to the playground, who go out to the movies and to restaurants, buy low-fat milk, and mow their own lawns. As things stand now, with only three members of the department (including the chief) live in the city, and a third of the department does not even live in this county. (It is perhaps not coincidental that is nearly the same percentage of the county workforce lives outside the county.) Which is to say, most city residents will never lay eyes on these men and women unless they are in uniform, carrying a gun, wearing wraparound reflective glasses that conceal their eyes, and driving in an SUV with a siren. This is much closer to the dynamic of an occupying military force than to a team of peace officers here to “serve and protect.” Some officers may have never lived in a city before. It seems sensible to insist that they experience some of the challenges that go along with living in even a small urban environment like Ithaca. Perhaps they would develop more sympathy for people who become frustrated, frightened, or even hopeless in a place where you regularly walk past dilapidated homes, constantly encounter idlers who give you a hard time, and continued on page 7

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Cornstarch Fail By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r

ld Elmira Road. The very name strikes a chord in the minds and hearts of adventurers around the globe, conjuring images of a windswept, rocky challenge as yet unconquered, though many have tried. For weeks, explorers, daredevils and romantics from all corners of the earth have been drawn irresistibly to Old Elmira Road, to do battle with backhoes, flagpersons, and the Common Council itself. The Holy Grail? Engaging in a single commercial transaction with a business between Meadow Street and the traffic circle. No fewer than five expeditions have been launched since construction began; none have met with success. Most recently in the news, of course, was the doomed attempt of Sir Wilfred Cornstarch, CVO, OBE, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Every schoolchild who’s ever daydreamed can recite Sir Wilfred’s achievements: survived a hyena attack in spite of a shattered right arm while collecting botanical samples in the Serengeti, discovered the lost city of Ubar in the Rub al Khali desert of Oman near Ash Shisr and the Yemeni border, solo circumnavigation of the globe in an inflatable wading pool. The world is still reeling from the news of Sir Wilfred’s tragic death while trying to conquer Old Elmira Road. Perhaps he set his sights too high. His stated purpose as he set forth with a party of four hardened explorers and a Sherpa guide: to purchase a large cheese pizza from Pudgie’s. Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. The recent discovery of Sir Wilfred’s diary details the calamitous last days of the expedition and conjures up all that is noble in the human spirit. The Ithaca Times, in a major journalistic coup, has scored a copy and with the Cornstarch family’s permission would share the following entries:

Day 1: The months of preparation seem to mock us in the face of the reality of the real Old Elmira Road. Still, undaunted, we embark. We have selected the northern route [from Meadow Street] as it will not require us to cross a lane of traffic, should we get that far. Our Sherpa, Ang, is visibly nervous, but determined to lead us to Pudgie’s. What a brave, pious, and jovial people these Sherpas are. Day 2: By the time we reached Mavis Discount Tire, our Toyota Sienna minivan had become irretrievably trapped. There was nothing for it but to abandon our vehicle and continue the journey on foot. The members of our company are nervous, but won’t say so. I can betray no nervousness on my own part or all is lost. I have observed even Ang glancing over his shoulder. Provisions are running low. Day 3: Our food is gone. We have been reduced to dividing a bag of Skittles retrieved from the A-frame at Augie’s Used Cars. Ang has become so unglued that I was compelled to sack him and lead the expedition myself from this point forward. The sea of orange cones has rendered two of our company temporarily blind. Progress is excruciatingly slow. Day 4: Position: Automotive Consultants. I do not think we can hope for any better things now. We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker, of course, and the end cannot be far. Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the story. Perhaps someday, some rugged, brave soul will accomplish what has been rendered seemingly impossible. Until then, we can only mourn and honor those who push the boundaries of human endurance. •

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Setting the Drone Record Straight

Mary Anne Grady-Flores sent in two corrections/clarifications regarding the article (“Drone Activist Appeals Sentence”; Oct. 1 issue) about her recent conviction for violating an order of protection for the commander of the Air National Guard Base in Dewitt. Grady-Flores received her order of protection after she was arrested at the Hancock base in Dewitt on Oct. 25, 2012. She allegedly violated the order on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, while she was 6 T

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taking photographs from the road in front of the base. All eight protestors (all of whom were acquitted) were beyond the stop line at the intersection in front of the base gates, not behind it, as reported in the original article. They symbolically poured ashes beyond them, farther out in the road. Grady-Flores was beyond the ashes. In other words, she was well out in the public crosswalk with her back close to the traffic on East Mallory Road.

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In Praise of Merchants By D ow n t ow n It h ac a A l l i a nc e Sta ff

hat distinguishes downtown Ithaca from all the other shopping venues in our region? According to Gary Ferguson of the Downtown Ithaca Alliance (DIA), “It’s the incredible quantity and diversity of shops and shop owners that you will find here. The more people discover these treasures, the more we come to realize how lucky we are to have such an interesting and exciting retail shopping district right in the heart of our community.” The raw data would seem to support Ferguson’s enthusiasm. According to the recently released Downtown Ithaca Fall Guide (now available at the Downtown Visitors’ Center, in brochure holders along the Commons construction fence, and at various downtown hotels and shops), downtown Ithaca boasts a total of 84 retail storefronts. That’s a remarkable number; for comparison, downtown Syracuse (the urban hub of a metropolitan area of 700,000 people) has about 64 storefronts This latest count of 84 stores represents a 9-percent increase from 2003—before the Great Recession and before online shopping became a 12-figure economic force worldwide. The downtown business district’s ground-floor vacancy rate has also been trending in the right direction; it now stands at 3.3 percent, compared to 5 percent in the year Commons construction began. The storefronts that now appear vacant— such as the former Race Office Supply on the west end of the Commons—will soon give way to the Harold’s Square project and its brand-new retail spaces. While the overall number of storefronts in downtown Ithaca has increased, so too has the variety of shopping options. While downtown, like the rest of the region, still needs to add to a few needed sectors

like women’s clothing and shoes, its other specialty niches have shown solid growth. In the last decade, downtown has added more children’s stores, sporting stores, and jewelers, and has gained regionally unique retail opportunities like a gift shop specializing in Ithaca-branded products (Sunny Days); a community-owned cooperative bookstore (Buffalo Street Books); and a full-service drugstore with an old-fashioned soda fountain (Green Street Pharmacy). In total, the Fall Guide’s shopping directory lists 24 mutuallyexclusive categories, from Antiques & Coins to Yarn & Sewing. The downtown Ithaca shopping district is also distinctive because nearly all stores are locally owned and operated; with the exception of our national anchor Urban Outfitters and a few small local or regional chains, downtown Ithaca’s shops are literally one-of-a-kind. All of downtown Ithaca’s largest and longest-lived storefronts— stores such as Contemporary Trends, Benjamin Peters, and Autumn Leaves—are independent businesses where more often than not you can find the proprietor behind the counter. So, too, with downtown’s newest and most compact retail startups: Amuse, Boxy Bikes, and Bramble, which are all located in Press Bay Alley’s recently constructed micro-retail environment. Beyond the quantity, diversity, and individuality of retail options, Commons merchants say that personal attention is what makes downtown a great place to shop. Says David Abdulky, owner of Mansour Jewelers since 1979, “We design, create, and restore pieces to suit thousands of customers’ needs. We are also known to repair items that nobody else can fix. We are a destination store, with a large and loyal customer base. You can never put a price on

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residency requirement for his department during Committee’s September public meeting. “I don’t completely agree with the plan as proposed,” Barber said last month. “I would offer, perhaps, an alternative. I would like to a plan where if a new officer is hired, within their first year, they are required to move into the city for the duration of three years. And that, thereafter, for the rest of their career, they would be required to either live in the city or somewhere in Tompkins County. “There is a fear of retaliation, and it’s very real,” he continued. “I’m not saying every officer will experience [retaliation]—I live in the city, and I haven’t had any issues. There are pros and cons, in my opinion to living here. But than again, I don’t often get on the street, I’m not making arrests and dealing directly with the criminal element

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city residency requirement,” the mayor said. “But some compromise will have to be reached. This compromise seems like a good one.” Myrick concluded the discussion by informing the committee that he will put out a call to city officials to form a small working group to work with City Attorney Ari Lavine to craft an actual resolution regarding an IPD residency requirement. That resolution, which figures to more or less resemble Smith’s plan, is expected to come to fruition in the next couple of months. Myrick’s initial proposal for a city residency requirement was met with lukewarm support from council members and residents, and strong opposition from IPD. Barber spoke out against a city

a good word from a customer.” Jerry Martins of Now You’re Cooking, also a downtown Ithaca merchant since 1979, adds that his store is a place where shoppers can go for expert guidance. “We carry a whole range of home kitchenware from basic to professional, including some unusual items, and we know our products and how to use them. We give advice on cooking techniques and equipment and can help customers decide on the right product for their needs. Downtown merchants can provide better quality and better service.” An independently-owned downtown store can also be a valued community gathering place, notes McKenzie Jones Rounds, who opened Bloom with Draya Koschmann in 2012. “Our play space is a haven for families. We offer a unique and beautiful space unlike anywhere else, where caregivers and kids can play and relax and take classes. We educate customers on the values of sustainable and ethical fashion and safe and natural childbirth parenting. When local shoppers support local businesses, they are helping out their neighbors.” Not content to rest on its laurels, the DIA is committed to growing and diversifying its retail base in the years to come. The DIA’s 2020 Strategic Plan states, “The public’s measure of a successful downtown it its street-level retail. Retail remains the face of downtown and is one of the key determinants of downtown character.” Among the plan’s action items are to organize retail recruitment initiatives that will help channel and direct priority retail business types into downtown (including general merchandise, family shoes and clothing, hardware, and electronics) and to nurture diverse entrepreneurs to open and operate downtown stores of all kinds. Concludes Ferguson, “As we move into the holiday season and we get to the tail end of the Commons reconstruction, it is important for us all to remember and appreciate our downtown retail community. It is an outstanding collection of small stores that would be a very welcome addition to most cities in America. We are fortunate to have such a great group of retail businesses and I urge all of us to make sure we rediscover this great community treasure in the weeks and months ahead.” • anymore. So, I would offer, that we at least pursue this a little differently.” During that same September meeting, Alderpersons George McGonigal (D-1st), Ellen McCollister (D-3rd), and Donna Fleming (D-3rd) expressed reservations about the policy. McCollister noted that she had “practical and physiological” concerns with such a policy and that while she was interested in exploring the implementation of the policy further, she agreed with the chief “that it needs to be discussed more.” Fleming added that she was “not convinced” the policy would make better police officers, and asked the question of “Why would we single out police officers?” – Michael Nocella

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generally get the feeling that you’ve drawn a short straw somehow. A baffling part of Smith’s proposal is that Chief John Barber had already agreed to consider the idea of having new officers live in the city for the first three years of their career at the IPD. Even if they then moved out of the city, they would at least have had the experience of living among city residents, and we would perhaps have seen them when they were not wearing guns on their hips. Why apply this requirement only to police? The fact that they wear guns is emblematic of the difference between police and other city employees (and frankly between police and just about everybody). These people have a job— crime prevention— that is dangerous and stressful in a way that is different from that known by firefighters, parole and probation officers. The argument is over whether living in the city will increase or decrease the danger and the stress. The police say ‘increase’ and Myrick says ‘decrease.’ It would be nice to see some data that defends one assertion or the other. •

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The four of us have served in Ithaca as city prosecutors, starting back in 1976. Hon. Michael Costello was an Assistant District Attorney from 1983 to 1990 and NYS Support Magistrate from 1998 to 2010, and Hon. M. John Sherman served 30 years on the bench both as City Court Judge and County Court Judge. We believe that we have a good feel for issues of justice in our city, and all of us strongly support Rick Wallace for Ithaca City Court Judge. We appreciate Rick’s broad legal experience, his strong ties to our community, and his calm and thoughtful judicial temperament. We are especially excited about his plans for Drug Court, which all of us support. We agree with Rick that it is underutilized, and we very much favor his ideas for improving access and making it a genuine alternative again. Rick recently received the assessment of “Highly Qualified” from the Independent Judicial Election Qualification Commission (IJEQC) for election to the judicial office of Judge of the Ithaca City Court in the Sixth Judicial District. As stated by IJEQC, this is the highest rating and it is based on his “outstanding professional ability, work ethic, intellect, judgment, and breath of experience” relevant to the office of City Court Judge. It is also awarded based on his “high reputation for honesty, integrity, and good character.” It just underscores the lifetime of distinguished work that has continued on page 12

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n the face of rising concern about sexual assault on college campuses, Cornell and Ithaca College have both embraced the Sexual Harassment and Assault Response and Education (SHARE) program, which is a onestop resource available to all students who are dealing with sexual misconduct of any kind. Both campuses are doing their best to get the number of reported cases of sexual assaults up. (Yes, you read that correctly). IC Director and Chief of Public Safety Terri Stewart and Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner emphasized that neither campus was naïve enough to think that the amount of reported sexual assault incidents per year were indicative of what is actually going on out there. According to Cornell University’s 2013 Annual Security Report (under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act), in 2013 the Cornell Police received reports of two forcible sex offenses on campus and two on non-campus property. In addition, other law enforcement agencies and campus security authorities (such as Title IX Investigators) reported nine forcible sex offenses on Cornell’s campus and three on non-campus property. This, Zoner said, reinforces that a criminal action is not the common reporting avenue for victims of sexual assault. She added that, to date in 2014, there have been two reported incidents. These numbers need to be considered in light of a study conducted in 2002 by University of Massachusetts professor David Lisak and Brown University professor Paul M. Miller, “Repeat Rape and Multiple Offending Among Undetected Rapists,” which states, “It is estimated that between 64 percent and 96 percent of all rapes are never reported to criminal justice authorities.” The study pooled data from four sample populations in which 1,882 men were assessed for acts of interpersonal violence. It reported on 120 men whose self-reported acts met legal definitions of rape or attempted rape, but who were never prosecuted by criminal justice authorities. It is also important to point out that those numbers, while stunning, only studied acts defined as “rape.” The term “sexual assault” is a bigger umbrella, and encompasses acts that, while not considered rape, still have no place in society. The United States Department of Justice defines “sexual assault” as “any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual activities as forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, incest, fondling, and attempted rape.” National Attention Initiatives in Washington within the last year are impacting the way both Cornell and IC are handling 8 T

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sexual assault prevention. The conversation about sexual assaults, which is constantly evolving, is now about taking a community approach to the issue. This approach, commonly referenced as “bystander intervention,” emphasizes that everyone around sexual assault victims should encourage them to come forward and talk about their experience. Bystander intervention is a social science model that predicts that most people are unlikely to help others in certain situations. A bystander is anyone who observes an emergency or a situation that looks like someone could use some help. They must then decide if they are comfortable stepping in and offering assistance. Bystander programs educate people to overcome this hesitation and become part of the solution. The goal is to create awareness of a crime that often goes unnoticed or unreported, so that future crimes of the same type will be prevented. Two Obama administration campaigns support such intervention: the “Not Alone: Together Against Sexual Assault” and “It’s On Us.” Both programs provide information for students, schools, and anyone interested in finding resources on how to respond to and prevent sexual assault on college and university campuses and in our schools. “Perhaps most important,” President Barack Obama said, “we need to keep saying to anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: you are not alone. We have your back. I’ve got your back. “An estimated one in five women has been sexually assaulted during her college years—one in five,” the President noted. “Of those assaults, only 12 percent are reported, and of those reported assaults, only a fraction of the offenders are punished.” The Local Situation “Sexual assault,” IC Chief Stewart said, “is always a priority no matter what [college] campus you’re on. This is my fifth campus. I think what you’ll find here is that the crime statistical data—for all crimes not just sexual assaults—is low. One of the things that we’ve done over time is acknowledge that the numbers are low, in part, because people aren’t reporting [sexual assaults]. So we’ve had a lot of programming and outreach to help get those numbers up.” Zoner said Cornell has the same goal, and has had it for quite some time. She added that reported incidences often come in long after they happen, which can skew the statistics. Cornell Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant noted that it is very important “to be careful when you’re looking at statistics because they really don’t tell the whole story, especially since [sexual assaults] are an underreported crime everywhere—not just at Cornell. We’re making efforts to make the process [of reporting sexual assaults] more accessible, trying to

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M o s t S e x ua l a s s au lt s a r e c o m m i t t e d b y s o m e o n e w h o k n ow s t h e v i c t i m . ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) make sure people understand how to go about reporting. We’re keeping careful track [of third parties] reporting something so that it’ll show up in our statistics even if we never get to speak with that victim directly.” That movement is taking place in Ithaca, and elsewhere. “Yes, there are drives out in the world right now,” Zoner said, “to get all colleges on board [with increasing sexual assaults report statistics]. But we’ve always been on board, knowing that it’s been something that’s always been underreported. We’ve always worked together, saying ‘Okay, we know its underreported, what about the process is still not working well? What can we change, what can’t we change?’” State-Of-The-Art Sexual Assault Prevention By all measures, Cornell Health Educator Nina Cummings is an expert in preventing, educating, and investigating sexual assaults. She too has noticed the topic becoming a hot button issue on a national level and is excited about using that added attention to gain ground in an uphill battle. “It is a moment now,” Cummings said, “that does have national attention—and we do appreciate that. Some of us are getting very old, and very gray, and have been doing this for many years. So now, suddenly, there is a spotlight on this issue. And we also know it’s finite. Something will draw the attention away from this. So it’s a wonderful opportunity to get support, to get attention, to get a lot of conversation going about an issue that a select group of us has been trying to do for years. It’s an exciting moment.” Stewart said the country was long overdue to play catch-up in the way it discusses and defines sexual assault incidences. “The [United States] didn’t change the definition of rape,” she said, “from 1929 until [2012], if you can imagine that. Before that, the definition of rape was only in regard to females—so it talked about vaginal penetration. Now it includes anal penetration, so it includes all genders, all sexual orientations. So that was pretty monumental.” Cummings expanded on the complicated history of rape in the United States, explaining that the attention to sexual assaults has evolved from being

reactive to proactive. She anticipates that A ‘One Stop Shop’ For Sexual Assaults will show students that there are many it will continue to become more proactive At both Cornell and IC, SHARE ways individuals can feel threatened, and moving forward. training epitomizes the bystander emphasis there is no singular experience. Within “If you look at the history of the rape that is now common across the nation. this campaign conversations about crisis movement,” she said, “it has evolved SHARE puts all related resources in one racism, homophobia and discrimination in terms of prevention. When it first centralized location. Anyone looking to towards gender non-conforming students, started, we report a sexual and sexism are vital to creating a better were very assault, or seek understanding about what it means to have busy telling information a safe campus climate—not just for yourself women regarding how to but also for your peers.” what to report, discuss or While it might seem like common do, which learn about sexual sense to many members of society, there we now violence, can do so in is still a surprising number of people, both call crime one place. on college campuses and in the world, prevention, IC President who do not completely comprehend how risk of the Student debilitating and traumatic sexual assault reduction, Government experiences are. Ithaca College media all the Association arts, sciences and studies professor Steve things that Crystal Kayiza Gordon explained that SHARE is about don’t lend said the recent breaking down that wall of ignorance. themselves implementation of “It is important,” Gordon said, “as there to what SHARE at IC is a have been many cases in U.S. Colleges of C o r n e l l J u d i c i a l A d m i n i s t r at o r we know big step in the right sexual assault and harassment that have M a ry B e t h G r a n t ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) about these direction regarding received public scrutiny because of the particular sexual assaults. way they were handled by the institutions. crimes. But in the old days, it was all crime Zoner, Grant and Cummings echoed There was also a ‘culture’ on many college prevention stuff. Then it sort of morphed those sentiments in discussing its place on campuses, which made it difficult for into these consciousness-raising groups, Cornell’s campus. students to simply define what constitutes where woman were saying ‘Wait a minute. “I think the bystander training,” assault or harassment and get help. The The person I know who did this to me, I Kayiza said, “is taking the right steps SHARE program will help because it is had a personal connection to.’ toward making sure students know that designed to communicate to students as “That led to the ‘acquaintance rape’ intervention can quickly change a situation. they enter Ithaca and remind them during research,” she continued. “Then we moved Just like we expect administrators, faculty, their time here that sexual misconduct will into the men’s phase where we realized it and staff to make not be tolerated and it doesn’t really matter what women do try to sure we feel safe defines what constitutes prevent the crimes because there are men on campus, the misconduct.” in their lives who are intent on doing this. student agency is Stewart added that So [then] the movement was men talking as vital to making SHARE is about making to men, how to talk to your friends, and sure the climate something that is hard understanding consent. of our campus is to deal with as easy as “Now, we’re in this new phase that, a safe space for possible, whether it’s rather than focusing [on sexual assaults] everyone. As the for the victim or a third from an individual approach, lets take a mission expands, party. community approach,” said Cummings. my hope is that “SHARE,” she “In fact, what we now know in terms of SHARE creates said, “takes all those the research, is that it is a minority of men a consistent efforts that we do C o r n e l l P o l i c e c h i e f K at h y who commit these crimes. Most men do dialogue across campus, such as Z o n e r ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) not commit sexual assault. But there is a surrounding different student and cultural backdrop, some peer influence that the many ways staff organizations, and can lead to sexual violence. So if you can students are confronted with sexual assault putting them in a one-stop shop for our go upstream instead, looking at the culture, and gender-based violence. students versus having to navigate a public looking at the environment, and challenge “I think,” she continued, “that there are safety website, or the counseling website. 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friendly]. So we worked with students in putting this together.” Cummings explained that bystanders are needed to support victims, but noted that such support is likely to come in all shapes and sizes. For some, reporting their experience might not lead to the best outcome. But by teaching the people around victims of sexual assaults to handle complicated situations, a good outcome can become more feasible. “There are very valid reasons,” Cummings said, “why people chose not to report. They watch Law & Order. They know what’s at stake. They know the stigma attached to people who report. “It depends on the individual and the circumstances,” she continued, “because reporting [sexual assaults] requires a fair and equitable process. And when it comes to reporting these crimes, I’m an old feminist. I would argue that it’s very difficult [to come forward]. These are very particular types of crimes—that makes it very difficult. “I would also argue that when it comes to delayed reporting, to understand, for any of us, that when [a sexual assault] happens, the first person you call is not going to be somebody in a uniform,” said Cummings, “It’s going to be your sister, a parent, your brother at another school, your best friend, your roommate. That makes perfect sense when you try to decipher why these people don’t report it.” If reports, as planned, do go up, both institutions are prepared for whatever the public perception of the statistics might be. “It sounds simple,” Stewart said, “when you say it’s just about awareness, but the bottom line is that we fully expect that the more that we educate, do outreach, and get our students passionate about this, that our numbers are going to go up. And the campus community is comfortable with that. We’re saying, ‘If our numbers go up, that’s a good indicator that we’re doing a better job.’ So if people know where they can report, or if third parties know where they can report something, or where confidential reporting can take place—if we get this information out to students— they’re more apt to use it.” Going Further Upstream Cummings emphasized the notion of going “further upstream,” and identifying the culprits of these crimes before they get the chance to come to fruition. That transition begins with debunking rape language and beliefs that are inaccurate, Grant said. “There are still myths about rape,” she said. “For instance, imagining the rapist who jumps out of a bush. While that does happen—it happened at Cornell a couple of years ago—the majority of sexual assaults and rape that take place on college campuses and at Cornell are with folks that are acquainted, who are in the circle of friends, or that they meet at a party,

I C P o l i c e C h i e f Te r r i S t e wa r t ( P h o t o : Ti m G e r a) someone that [the victim] has reason to trust. So the rapes are taking place in peoples’ bedrooms because people aren’t

questioning [who they’re with]. They might want to make out with them in someplace more private than the dance floor at a party, but that doesn’t mean they want to do everything.” “One of the recent parables,” Cummings said, “that we’ve all heard is that we need to go further upstream. Right now, there is a tremendous amount of attention to reporting. That’s, to use the same parable, that’s pulling people out of the river who are struggling. We need to be starting much, much farther upstream. So if you think of this not as an end crime, but the result of a continuum of an environmental problem, then we have to start looking at the behaviors and attitudes that can lead to these kinds of crimes. And that’s where I

think we’re moving. “The bystander,” Cummings continued, “how do you identify risk, what’s your responsibility to do something, and what are the skills you need to actually intervene. Right now, that’s still pulling the bodies out [of the hypothetical river]. I think the next step is going even further upstream.” Where To Go The aforementioned resources for sexual assaults at Cornell and IC are plenty easy to find. At IC, visit www.ithaca.edu/ sacl/share for information on preventing and reporting sexual violence. At Cornell, the same information can be found at share. cornell.edu. •

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All three candidates for Family Court Judge are excellent, but I have decided to support Seth Peacock. I was on the Ithaca Board of Education when Seth won election to the Board. He came to us cocky, devoted to single issues, and mildly arrogant. Ah, but he devoted himself to becoming a valued and trusted colleague. He paid attention to the issues, he practiced the art of judicious compromise, and he became an advocate for all youngsters, not just some. In short, Seth became a mature leader. He embraced his learning curve energetically — and still does. Seth’s life experiences, his love of an authentic concept of family, and his eagerness to keep on learning, are qualities I prize in a Family Court Judge. Seth will be an excellent judge. I hope he wins. – Roy Dexheimer, Town of Ithaca

Supporting Barbara Lifton I am writing this letter to urge everyone to vote for Barbara Lifton on Tuesday, Nov. 4. I have known and respected Barbara for over ten years. She is a tireless worker for the middle class and those who are struggling to make ends meet in New York State. She has taken the lead in working to protect the environment, improve our schools, and make healthcare available for all. Finally she and her staff are always available to assist anybody seeking help and guidance with constituent problems. – Ellie Stewart, Town of Ithaca

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Of Pumpkins and Pete Rose With a Remembrance of Jack Jensen By Ste ve L aw re nc e

very Halloween since 1997 I have individual. looked up at the clock tower at I have always been among those who Cornell to see if anyone has plunked agreed with the Hit King’s lifetime ban, as another pumpkin onto the spire. In recent he did bet on the game while managing years, I have been less diligent in recalling the Cincinnati Reds, thereby staining it. I that memorable prank—which drew press also wrote—in 2004—that Commissioner coverage from around the world—but Selig missed a golden opportunity to over the summer I address Rose’s had an experience confession that would make me appropriately. look at the stunt in When Rose finally a different way, and confessed—for the make it worthy of noble purpose of mention in a sports selling books—Selig column. should have said, In August, my “Okay, Pete, you 10 year-old daughter continually lied to and I were visiting protect your devious the Cornell campus, ass, dragging honest and as we walked and good men’s past McGraw Tower, name through the she asked if I had mud, and now, 15 ever been up to years later, you the top. I replied admit that you were that I had not, and a liar for the sake of she asked how one book sales. I hereby could gain access. declare that 15 years A Cornell police from today, you officer rode his bike will be re-instated Pumpkin impaled on McGraw Tower, October 1997. past, and I told my by baseball and daughter to ask him. therefore eligible for She mustered the induction to the Hall courage to do so, and he said, “Do you of Fame.” want to go up? Let’s go!” He unlocked the Of course, the next commissioner can door and accompanied us as we climbed still make such a determination, and Rose the 180-some stairs to the observation may someday be in Cooperstown (and room of the 173-foot tower. I looked at not just to hawk memorabilia for money). the dizzying 360-degree panorama and It might not happen, however, because thought back to the climbers who told Rose the Clueless continues to make light me how they affixed ropes, ascended of it all, standing on a stage and saying, “I that terrifyingly steep roof and stuck that want to tell you a story, but I might get in pumpkin on the spire in 1997. They made trouble … Oh, what the hell … what are me promise not to write about it until they going to do, suspend me?” He still they were long gone from Cornell, and doesn’t get it. when I realized how high up that spire • • • reaches, it made me realize that some Twenty-five years ago, I was trying serious climbing skills and equipment to break into the journalism business, were required to pull off such a feat. I am and I was reading the works of a lot of guessing the climbers would have loved local writers. A guy named Jack Jensen the notoriety, but the prospect of getting was a writer for the Ithaca Times, and arrested (and perhaps being held liable his stuff was so compelling that I sought for the $20,000 the university spent on out a phone book, looked him up, wrote removing the pumpkin) was likely not him a letter and asked if he’d be willing to very appealing, so they basked in the sit down and mentor me. He graciously limited and secretive glory of their inner complied, and it turned out that Jack circle of friends. was not just a great writer; he was a great • • • builder, organizer, dad and all-round With the World Series underway, and visionary. 2014 bringing the 25th anniversary of Pete Jack died unexpectedly last week at 58, and that hits a little harder, as it is how Rose’s banishment from baseball, the Hall young I happen to be. It seems he checked of Fame discussion is in the news. Again. out way too early, but he inspired a lot of CBS Sunday Morning just ran a feature people, built some really beautiful things, story (a fair and balanced one, I will add), raised some awesome daughters and will and Rose was portrayed as a proud, fiery, not be forgotten. • competitive and ultimately, a clueless

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fter eight meetings of the extended budget committee, on Thursday, Oct. 16 legislators finally settled on a version of the budget to move forward to the full legislature for consideration. The amended budget entails a 2.5-percent increase in property tax levy. Although the tax rate per $1,000 of assessed value will decrease by 3 cents, due to an increase in the median home value, the owner of a $165,000 median-valued home will pay $8.67 more in taxes for 2015. Legislators did not make any deletions from County Administrator Joe Mareane’s tentative budget, although they did make additions totaling $71,700 in levy spending and $88,000 in reserves spending. Mareane’s budget, which was generated when the county anticipated a 2.36-percent cap on the tax levy increase, included a 2.34-percent levy increase. Subsequent changes to the levy calculations increased the tax cap to 2.65 percent and then again to 3.14 percent. Since the amended budget comes in under

the tax cap, the state will refund the county-tax increase to property owners. Some of the additions legislators made to the budget were based on Over Target Requests (OTRs) submitted agency and department heads while others were made based on OTRs submitted by legislators. One of the OTRs submitted by legislators, which the committee unanimously approved, was $15,000 in one-time spending for a van pool in West Danby. In an interview, Legislator Dan Klein (D-7th), who advanced the van pool OTR, explained that Tioga County’s decision County Expanded Budget Committee Chair Jim Dennis to eliminate funding for its bus (Photo: Keri Blakinger) system has left West Danby with no public transportation service. the legislature’s contribution is one-time Klein explained Route 34/96, which goes funding drawn on reserves and not target through West Danby, is the only state funding to be included in future budgets. route entering the county that is not Another OTR submitted by a covered by TCAT service. legislator was for setting aside $20,000 in The van pool will involve working contingency funding to help support a with a company called vRide, which will future community outreach initiative in provide the van, insurance, maintenance, the downtown area. Chairman Mike Lane, and gasoline. The drivers will be the van who advanced the OTR, explained that the pool riders themselves. Klein said, “It will initiative—which would also be funded by be a comparable price to what bus fare the City of Ithaca—would involve having a is.” Klein noted that the Town of Danby caseworker on the street in the downtown has recommended $1,000 in funding for area. In an interview, he said, “Not the program in its 2015 budget. Because everything is fleshed out on it. What we’re this year’s service will be a pilot program,

looking for is how do we address problems that we’ve experienced in areas around the library bus stop, the Commons—and how do we do that without making it a police presence?” Because the initiative is not ready yet and more funding still must be secured, the $20,000 was put in contingency funding to be used once the project advances further. Some others among the more than a dozen OTRs that legislators approved adding to their amended budget were $6,855 in one-time funding for wetlands mapping, $10,910 in rollover funding for Youth Services training, $25,000 in onetime funding to the planning department to support updating the decade-old Housing Needs Assessment and Strategy, $5,000 in one-time funding for the county historian’s effort to commemorate the county’s bicentennial in 2017, an additional $30,000 increase in target funding (beyond the $36,000 increase in Mareane’s tentative budget) for the Soil and Water Conservation District, and $25,000 in funding to be used as the local match for a second Early Headstart teaching position in Dryden. After the full legislature begins considering the budget at the Tuesday, Oct. 21 meeting, there will be a public hearing at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 10 before the budget receives final legislative approval. • – Keri Blakinger

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t’s a completely new iteration of the Rongo. Everybody should understand, nobody here is Brooksie,” said Bob Thomas, referring to the legendary founder of the Rongovian Embassy to the United States, that bar that opened on Main Street in Trumansburg in 1973. “The Brooksie version of the Rongo will never be again.” Trumansburgers, however, just want their Main Street bar back. The Ulysses Town Council passed a resolution in whole-hearted support of the new Rongo’s liquor license application, which, Thomas said, was granted in an astonishingly short time. The Rongo reigned for more than 30 years, not just as a hub of Trumansburg nightlife, but as a place for Ithacans to get away to, a venue for local bands, and a good place to catch national touring acts on the leg between New York and Chicago. After Brooksie, it was owned by Eric and Mary Ott and thrived for many years, but then the Rongo fell on hard times: “undercapitalization and management problems caused it to shutter its doors in 2012,” as the town resolution delicately put it. “People had been dreaming of opening the Rongo again,” said Jessica Giles. “Bob Thomas took up the charge and said, Let’s do it.” “A couple of friends of mine and I thought, ‘Sure would be nice if somebody would open the Rongo,’” said Thomas. “The last thing any of us wanted to do was be in the restaurant/bar business. I’m retired.” “We thought, if somebody came along who had the know-how and the energy… and along came Jessica. She worked at the Stonecat Café for 14 years, and she was casting about for a new gig,” said Thomas. Giles used to work at Sheldrake Point Vineyard and Café, when she first graduated from Hobart William Smith. “This was where we came after work,” she remembers. After Sheldrake Point, she and her then-husband Scott opened the Stonecat Café, where she was general manager; when she and Scott split up, he remained with the business, and Giles moved to Trumansburg. Giles spent some time setting up Ithaca Beers’ pub and managing Atwaters’ Tasting Room in Watkins Glen. Thomas called her this May, and suddenly he had the manager they needed. “I said, I bet we could raise the money to do this with community investors,” he said. “We got 22 people, each putting in a chunk of money, including the owner of the building, Dan Scherer.” It was almost too easy, said Thomas: “I made a few phone calls and people were eager to jump

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years or so they would have controlling interest in the stock, and eventually own the business,” said Thomas. He has full confidence in their energetic new manager: “We call her Sparky,” he said. “She’s just as sparkling in person as she is on the phone. She keeps us going.” “They’ve been amazing,” said Giles of the Rongo team. “We’re here right now, working Monday to Friday, doing the renovations: we’re pushing through and renovating.” Giles and Personius plan to offer bar snacks: roasted olives, Cuban sandwiches, hand cut French Fries, pierogies. “We’re going for the gastropub thing; when the dining room opens we’ll have five to ten entrées, like pan seared rainbow trout. We want to have seasonal, local organic food.” For now, the Rongo briefly opened its doors for an Open House Cider Sunday on Oct. 12. The community filled the rooms and spilled out onto the sidewalk. The Rongo was back. • The Rongo will reopen on Thursday, Oct. 30

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Saving the Affordable Housing Fund

t its Tuesday, Oct. 7 meeting, the Tompkins County Legislature scheduled a public hearing about the 2015 budget, approved continuing to help fund the Tompkins County Housing Fund, and heard regular reports from administrators and legislators. Senior Planner Megan McDonald gave a presentation about the Housing Fund, which is currently in the final year of its Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the county. McDonald said, “Just to give you a little background, the Housing Fund is a joint effort between Tompkins County, the City of Ithaca, and Cornell University. Each of the partners these last six years has contributed funds.” She went on to explain that the program

has two components: assisting with predevelopment costs for affordable housing units and helping with land purchase costs, construction costs, and other hard costs of developing units that are affordable for low and moderate income families. “Housing affordability is a persistent and growing challenge in our community,” McDonald said. Typically, she explained, housing is defined as affordable if a household spends no more than 30 percent of income housing costs. In Tompkins County, 38 percent of households pay more than that. She noted that much of the new housing construction is geared toward students and thus out of the price range of working families. “To date we’ve had 88 units built [through the Housing Fund],” she said. An additional 119 have been awarded and are expected to continue toward construction. Thus far, more than $1 million has been drawn from the Housing Fund, while another $18 million in funding has come from other development

funds. McDonald noted that continuing to contribute monies to the Housing Fund coheres with the county’s comprehensive plan goals. Tompkins County Commissioner of Planning Ed Marx explained that before the money commitment is finalized, a MOU would come before the legislature for approval. In a unanimous vote, the legislature approved committing $600,000 to the Housing Fund over the next six years. However, the legislature’s final approval of the MOU is contingent upon continued funding commitments from Cornell University and the City of Ithaca. The legislature unanimously passed the consent agenda, which included an item that set a date for a public hearing regarding the 2015 proposed budget [see article on page 14] and the 2015 to 2019 Capital Program. The hearing is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 10 in the Legislature Chambers of the Governor Daniel D. Tompkins Building. • • • County Director of Finance Rick Snyder gave a report about a recent bond-

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omics are, perhaps, my favorite art form. And this week, we are going to consider an Ithaca-based comic book artist. One of the things I frequently write about Ithaca is that it has a huge, rich arts scene all out of proportion to the city’s small size. And, as a component of that, Ithaca has a vigorous comic art scene. A number of stellar comics creators live in the Greater Ithaca Area: Roger Stern who has written Spider-Man and Superman and The Avengers; Ethan Young, the creator of the awardwinning graphic novel Tails: A Life in Progress; the seminal underground cartoonist Jay Lynch; fantasy illustrator Storn Cook; Jon Haeffner, the creator of the web-comic Phantom Spiral; the brilliant postmodern cartoonist and painter Jim Garmhausen, and on and on. And that list includes the comic book artist and fantasy painter Steve Ellis. I’ve known Steve Ellis for some time. I first met him some years ago at an Ithacon, Ithaca’s annual (sometimes bi-annual) comic book convention. And I ran into him a few months back on a Gallery Night (an event where as many as 27 galleries throw simultaneous openings on the first Friday of every month in Ithaca) where he had an exhibit in the Artist’s Alley on Green Street. And I was knocked out by the paintings he had on display. They reminded me of Thomas Hart Benton’s somewhat cartoony World War II propaganda paintings (as outré as the work of the Zap cartoonist/painter Robert Williams), and the paintings of the comic book artist Michael Wm. Kaluta (collected in the Dragon’s Dream book The Studio). We here at the Ithaca Times attempt to time articles to coincide with the release of new work that the Reader can go to and see. We are fortunate that Steve Ellis just released the third issue of his web-comic The Only Living Boy on Oct. 15. (It can be seen at www.the-only-living-boy.com.) And, if the Art-Loving Reader goes to www. steveellisart.com, he or she can view an extraordinary digital gallery of Ellis’s paintings. I’m crazy about these paintings. I don’t exactly know why I find them so appealing. Perhaps it is because I am attracted to the lurid comic book subject matter. Things like … … a flying, ornately armored werewolf, with angel wings, firing big oversized blasters … an outrageously spiky Jack Kirby-style monster coming right at you … a beautifully designed demon with big red bat wings flailing a giant chain and firing missiles into camera … a fat, evil looking, neo-Tolkienian Orc creature … a thin, cartoony, blue reptilian creature with glowing eyes, aviator goggles and a smoking mechanical backpack … a black leather-clad warrior woman with a glowing red sword in a world of black, spectral towers, running from a giant, green, smoky, multi-skullfaced, H.P. Lovecraft-meets-Frank Frazetta creature … a very disturbing humanoid shark … a leaping monster bull and a werewolf battling in a fantasy Stonehenge of swirling mystic symbol-painted monoliths … and so on. And as I write these descriptions, it occurs to me that Steve Ellis has synthesized much from the realms of fantasy and science-fiction illustration and comic-book art and animation art and fine art into a fully integrated personal statement. It owes much to many sources … Jack Kirby and Frank Frazetta and the modern, continued on page 24

Steve Ellis, at work. (Photo by Tim Gera)

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Talking to Mack, it’s clear that for her, ’ve only seen a handful of Jodie Mack’s animation, music and art are all the same. animation shorts on her website— I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised jodiemack.com, natch—and spoken that she got into animation after growing to her once on the phone, but I really like up loving theater. She’s been making her energy. When I was a kid, I made a animated shorts for 10 years. And just as bunch of stop-motion experiments, but film has been declared dead in the age of Mack clearly kept on going. She told me that in addition to her cool short films, her digital everything, Mack still shoots her stuff on 16 mm film. “live ciné-performance” Jodie Mack: Let “Most of it’s shot in camera,” Mack Your Light Shine will also feature singing told me. “If there and rapping. If are any cuts, it you’re like me might be to get and you want rid of a mistake or animation to be join rolls together, more than just because it’s only CGI and talking 100 feet at a time. animals, you owe I still work on it to yourself to 16 mm. There check out Mack’s seems to be this show at 7:15 p.m. misconception Friday, Oct. 24 in that digital has Willard Straight replaced film, but Hall. really it doesn’t New Fancy have to be one Foils (12.5 min.; against the other.” 16 mm; color; Mack is based in silent) was made New Hampshire, using paper and sends her sample books film to a lab in discarded and Baltimore to be dumpstered developed. by long-gone “I grew up businesses; they in England in my undergo a series early childhood,” of sequential she said. “There experiments in was this children’s what Mack calls show called “pattern, rhythm, Button Moon that color, and had this creepy text(ure). synthesizer music, “In and it was this Undertone family made Overture (10.5 out of spoons min.; 16 mm; Jodie Mack will be at Willard Straight Hall on Friday, Oct. 24 for and they lived color; sound), a a live ciné-performance. (photo provided) in this space study of tie-dye ship. They didn’t swims out to the play The Grinch cosmos and back or anything like that. Classic Christmas again. animation in Great Britain was like the The centerpiece of the evening is Snowman.” Mack’s “epic,” Dusty Stacks of Mom: the The show is structured like a concert, Poster Project (41 min.; 16mm; color; with short films serving as opening acts, sound- live performance), a delightful main feature, and two encores. “They’re all and imaginative animated musical films that use discarded materials as a way documentary that examines the rise to examine abstract animation in general.” • and fall of a nearly-defunct poster and postcard wholesale business. Mack really Get advance tickets at mixes it up, using traditional methods, CornellCinemaTickets.com. shots staged as if they were made in the silent era, with looming irises. Follow Bryan on Twitter @ The filmmaker’s use of music is also bryanvancampen, and read his review of distinctive: Glistening Thrills (8 min.; 16 The Two Faces of January, opening Friday mm; color; sound) is divided into three at Cinemapolis at Ithaca.com. sections and features compositions for bowed vibraphone by Elliot Cole.

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played by two characters whose mutual dependence reminds one of Beckett’s hobos. Dietz and his characters reach for absurdity in the face of the overwhelming ow does one populate a stage (in this he echoes Paula Vogel’s AIDS play, with absence—absences—an The Baltimore Waltz). Carl tells wicked, accumulation of losses? hilarious stories of his imaginary jobs (such In Steven Dietz’s quirky yet strangely as a tabloid story about a woman who sees beautiful play Lonely Planet, being given Jesus in the wash suds on a plate.) Jody’s an iridescent production at the Kitchen part is to tell of his dreams, where he finds Theatre, the solution is chairs. himself accidentally expected to perform Jody’s (Nat DeWolf) first words miracles, dreams in which Carl invariably are about a chair that has mysteriously shows up. The two swordfight with map tubes. Yet for all the travel his store proclaims, Jody has coffined himself inside, not leaving it once over the weeks for fear of his future. Carl’s job is to either push him out into their disintegrating world or to push that world into the shop. The chairs disrupt the shop’s cozy order; the chairs resist forgetting and denial. Dietz extends this metaphor neatly as he folds in the quintessential absurdist Karl Gregory and Nat DeWolf star in Kitchen Theatre’s “Lonely Planet”. play, Ionesco’s The Chairs. (Photo by Dave Burbank) The play is incredibly layered with concerns about memory, knowledge, the fragility appeared in his map shop. It doesn’t belong of connections, the need to lie, to make there, especially in the view of this quite fiction. Maps lie (distort) even as they tell particular, almost punctilious middle-aged truths. Carl’s tall tales turn out to contain man who enjoys a sense of order. truths, and the play comes devastatingly But here’s this chair. Claiming his full circle in a way both alarming and gently attention. right. Carl (Karl Gregory) bangs into the Director Rachel Lampert deeply trusts shop with a breathless rant about how the poetry, letting the play breathe in a people are starting to bore him, even lustrous production that makes virtues of when he tries to imagine them in their the tiny space. A whole scene is invented to underwear. He’s a bit younger than Jody, bring more chairs onstage, to a mournful, more hip, sporting a sheen of cynicism that is the requisite glamour of the gay urbanite. jazzy, otherworldly soundtrack from designer Scott O’Brien. Kent Lynn Goetz’s Jody tries to pin him down about the set and Tyler M. Perry’s lights unfold from chair; Carl prefers to spin tales. the play’s most important map, a picture of The chair, it turns out, belonged to the Earth shot from Apollo 17. The globe is Bobby, Carl’s oldest friend. He didn’t want sunlit browns and blue against deep black. it thrown into the street when Bobby died. The warm wood of Goetz’s furniture gleams Soon chairs are crowding the shop while under Perry’s burnishing light, until it’s funerals proliferate. cast into the deep blues of night. Character Yes, this is an AIDS play. But let us and time are neatly marked in Hunter remember this is a highly varied category Kaczorowski’s costumes. that goes from the fury of Kramer’s The The acting is exquisite, DeWolf and Normal Heart to the apocalyptic and Gregory proving graceful and tight stage virtuosic wonders of Kushner’s Angels in partners. Gregory’s comic virtuosity mixes America. The advent of AIDS called a generation this time with alertness to the moment and a resonant sense of caring. DeWolf keeps of playwrights to new feats of imagination Jody’s heart foremost while allowing him as they tried to wrestle meaning out of his childishness, his petty squabbles, deep catastrophe, to put a voice to inconceivable fear and radiant kindness. They make of losses, to navigate something almost too the evening both a delirious romp and a large to contemplate. whispered prayer. • Lonely Planet seeks its way through seeming digressions, wandering games

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Landscapes Around Town berger canvasses the streets By Ar thur W hitm an

rendered in dark and yellowish greens, an etter known locally for his blackupright telephone pole (just the bottom and-white monotypes, Neil part) splits the whole scene into two Berger—of Ithaca and more lately of roughly equal parts. Coming in straight Brooklyn—is also a deeply compelling oil from the left and curling up towards the painter. As with his prints, Berger, though high horizon is a long strip of white and also a skilled portraitist, is most prolific pale purple-gray—a country road. The and accomplished in his landscapes and sky is a wan blue, minimally inflected. The cityscapes. He possesses a rich sense of horizon, distant, is covered in miniscule the range and complexity of the natural details: faint and built fussy trees, environments, almost scribbled and he and—to the weds this to right—farm distinctive, if buildings in far ranging, tiny blue-gray painterly blocks. imagination. Aurora Berger St. Bridge has shown is another his prints for particularly many years at striking the Ink Shop piece—a Printmaking Piranesi-like Center, where architectonic he has been Artist Neil Berger (photo provided). composition a long-time and Berger’s member. His characteristically paintings bold-subtle color giving memorable remain less often seen in the area. expression to this familiar local scene. (Although he has shown them in recent Above is a rhythm of broad arcs and years in solo shows in the region, I can’t zigzagging diagonals. At an oblique angle remember having seen any in Ithaca in the we catch a bridge: bands of pale pink and nine years that I have followed the local art weighty green with a bluish shadowed scene.) underside facing us. A woman crossing the This month the artist has sixteen of bridge—she appears to be checking her cell his oil landscapes hanging on the walls of phone—appears in tiny smudges. Below The Frame Shop on West Buffalo Street. The display crowds the shop’s modest front- is an upright wall, painted in blended offgrays. It bends in from the left, narrows room gallery with a handful hanging in in forcefully conveyed perspective until the back workroom. Additional, entirely it disappears, towards the right behind a worthy, canvases can be seen stacked here bridge pier and a tree branch dappled with and there. leaves. Below, are rocks and river, portrayed While his painterly, impressionistic in a tangle of thick paint that recalls the work is the opposite of photorealism, British expressionist Frank Auerbach— there is a striking sense of felicity in the olive, green, tangerine, pale blue, shadowy way Berger captures nuances of color and black. atmosphere. Indeed, on a quick glance The Frame Shop deserves ample credit some of these paintings can have an for making this exceptional and lesser-seen almost photographic verisimilitude that work available to Ithacans. That said, this quickly turns uncanny before dissolving is an awkward display. While the pieces are into a raw beauty. The tension between not huge by the standards of art on canvas, these heightened but plausible tonalities they are large—and many—enough to lend and the variety and sheer invention of and overstuffed air to the modest main his brushwork is key to what makes these room. There is no easy answer here: a show works so rich. of prints might have better fit the space or Six Mile Creek Woods pushes Berger’s fewer canvases could have been hung—as theatrics of light and dark to a point of dreamlike irrealism. Against a flatly painted, lovely as all of these ones are. It is exciting to see this work in shadowy black background, we see strokes Ithaca—and only appropriate, given the and patches of preternaturally glowing regional pedigree of most of Berger’s scenes greens as well as verticals—occasionally here. In the future, it would be interesting loose diagonals—in pale pink and white. to see a larger and more formal solo show The whole thing shivers and slips. with both the monotypes and the paintings Road to Seneca Lake is an eloquent, included as well as a mixture of portraiture quietly colored rural scene. In the and landscape work. • foreground, amid a large farm field

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agical music, enchanting dancing and a generous helping of spookiness inspire the two short ballets chosen as treats for the Halloween season. Ithaca Ballet dancers take the stage at the State Theatre for two performances, 2 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 25. First performed in the mid 1960s, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, choreographed to Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt, tells the story of the terrible consequences of ingratitude. Trenton Loughlin dances the dual roles of Trueson, the trusted schoolteacher in love with the mayor’s daughter Mara, and the inexorable Pied Piper. “I performed this role about 10 years ago, and it’s been enjoyable to revisit this role and do it again,” he said, explaining that in the intervening years he’s studied dance performance and choreography. This last has given him a particular appreciation for the Pied Piper ballet as choreographed by Alice Reid, founder of the Ithaca Ballet. “I’ve fallen in love with this piece of music, and the choreography goes seamlessly smooth with the music,” he said. “It’s rare you come across a dance piece where everything goes so well with the music and it’s so in synch with your body. It’s really enjoyable to watch.” To tell which role he’s playing, look for the hat—when it’s on Loughlin’s head, he’s switched from schoolteacher to piper. Cindy Reid, director of the Ithaca Ballet, said the costuming and backdrop, both designed and executed by her mother, Alice, are exceptionally beautiful. Set in a medieval village, the scenery features a clock tower in the process of construction— it’s finished during the dance. As for the costumes, she said, “They’re special, made of flannel in interesting colors. They have this funny elegance, it’s weird they can be so rough and tumble and really elegant. It’s a very attractive ballet.” Cindy Reid updated and expanded the story, adding dimension and additional choreography to what was originally a much shorter recital piece. “But I left a few things the same,” she said. “There’s a really goofy councilmenand-mayor dance, and I didn’t touch the

part where the Pied Piper leads the children to the hall of the mountain king. It’s spooky.” For this reason, Alice in Wonderland is the second half of the program, she said, because it’s a silly story and a bit lighter in theme. This ballet is one the company has performed in a variety of venues, including outdoors, where Alice falls asleep and, in her dream, follows the White Rabbit down a rabbit hole into a series of fantastical adventures. For this performance, the outdoors is re-created with a backdrop of giant mushrooms Cindy Reid can remember her mother painting, painstakingly copying her designs from a book on mushroom identification. Among the personages Alice, danced by Kateri Lickona, encounters are the badtempered Queen of Hearts, danced in drag by company dancer Allen MacNeill, the Mad Hatter, danced by Anatto McMillan, the broadly grinning Cheshire Cat, danced by Keara Soloway and the dormouse danced by Ayla Naghsh, who also dances Mara, the Mayor’s daughter in the Pied Piper. “I think the story is very mysterious,” said Kateri Lickona. “Every time I go in, I think about who I want Alice to be in the story. She’s got to be a little bit naïve and also very brave. I love playing Alice, trying to find out who she is and interacting with the characters.” Naghsh said she loves both her roles, though for a classical dancer, the dormouse can be the bigger challenge. “It’s a lot of acting, a cute, wonderful part,” she said. The dormouse, who falls asleep in her tea at the Mad Hatter’s tea-party, is still experimenting with how to fall asleep onstage while remaining mouse-like. “I’ve never played an animal before,” she said. Colibri McMillan, who dances the White Rabbit, joked he’s trying to experience his role by eating a lot of carrots. Said his twin brother, Anatto, “We kind of jumped into it without knowing what to expect – but it’s fun.” •

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rom the prehistoric Lamokan culture to present times, Finger Lakes residents have always lived off the land, finding a variety of sustenance despite long, cold winters and occasional meteorological surprises. “People are now going back to the original model of local production/local consumption,” said Thomas Pellechia, author of Timeless Bounty, just published by Burford Books in Ithaca ($18.95, illustrated). Pellechia will be reading from his book and signing copies at Buffalo Street Books on Sunday, Oct. 26 at 2 p.m. A 30-year veteran of the wine industry, Pellechia explained he became really tired of hearing the Finger Lakes termed an “emerging wine region.” “I thought we’d already emerged!” he said. “I understand that to a lot of wine writers, just discovering us, it feels new to them. Food and wine are both important agricultural products. In addition, to being a wine person, raised as an ItalianAmerican in Brooklyn, food has always been pretty important in my life.” He added, reflectively, “Maybe the food end is emergent.” As for wine, “The first grapes that were planted near Keuka Lake in 1829 were for table grapes and grape juice,” Pellechia said. “The first wines were produced in 1858, but it was not commercialized until 1860. That’s when the [local] wine industry really began.” Meanwhile, in other areas of the Finger Lakes, such diverse agricultural products as sauerkraut, buckwheat, and peppermint oil were being processed in quantities that spread locally grown specialties across the country. Better means of transportation, like the railroads and the improved Erie Canal, led to better distribution of Finger Lakes products as well as a means of getting improved production equipment where it was needed. While it’s difficult to impossible to mention every sort of food, wine innovation and type of enterprise these inspire, Pellechia writes about the major players who have left their mark on the region, from winemaking legends Dr.

Konstantin Frank and Charles Fournier to Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO of the company producing Chobani Greek yogurt. If there is a Finger Lakes food style, Pellechia, among others, would argue it is still in the process of emerging. Like the wine made here, “The products are there, they’re world class,” he said. “We’re not like the old European culture that was local and having nothing from outside the community. We’ve been very open culturally. I do think we have a history that defies that kind of limitation and I think that’s interesting. “One of the other interesting things in this region is the variety of soil and topography, the persistence you need as a farmer. You have to really want to do what you’re doing to work in that soil and make it work.” Still, he noted, “I see things happening that will surpass everything I talked about. The movement for local food is still young. This is an area that produces some of the best fruits in the world, and like our wine, the fruit has its own special qualities that comes from the climate in this region like a snappy acidity and well-rounded fruit flavors. I think fruit can become a bigger item than it has been.” And the extraction of grape seed oil and pumpkin seed oil, currently extremely expensive to produce, could be what Pellechia terms “A really potent industry,” especially when current research into extraction methods results in a more accessible process. Pellechia sees the potential for many additional by-product agricultural industries, including the repurposing of the raw materials of grain distilling, the spent mash, into livestock feed. “It’s kind of a new idea even though it’s an old idea,” he said. “I really believe Western culture has lost our way when it comes to being in contact with food and the earth,” he said. “And I really hope the next direction will be people thinking of local food, fresher food, fewer chemicals. I hope this book is part of that process; and right now Ithaca is the center of the Finger Lakes region for those kinds of movements.” •

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e play for fans of music, and hopefully that includes people who listen to jazz as well as other types or backgrounds,” said Ethan Iverson, the composer, pianist, and co-founder of the Bad Plus, who will return to Ithaca for a show at the Hangar Theatre on Friday, Oct. 24. The trio, which emerged from the turn-of-themillennium downtown jazz scene defies easy categorization, and has recently taken on everything from Igor Stravinsky to David Bowie’s “Life on Mars.” Inevitable Western, the group’s new record, is made up of entirely original material, but still draws elements of avant-garde and good old rock. “Whether we are playing [Black Sabbath’s] ‘Iron Man’ or an original composition from more than ten years ago, we try to present it in a way that captures the listener,” Iverson said. “We are prolific, and we had been playing [Stravinsky’s] ‘Rite of Spring’ for a few years, so that was over-due. With this record, we really just had a lot of new material. There are songs we may even play that are brand new.” He continued: “But [the last two] were companion pieces in a sense; one was a big commissioned piece, and Inevitable Western is what we do together most.” “Gold Prisms Incorporated,” a composition which is credited to the drummer Dave King, and which begins with a pulsing, repeated piano phrase that recalls early Radiohead, marches rapidly for a full two minutes before halting in a stutter or side-step, a 45-second diversion that makes way for a return at the song’s midpoint. “Both Dave and Reid [Anderson, the bassist] play the piano very, very well, so each composer writes the song, and then feeds it through the machine that is the band Bad Plus,” Iverson said. The music on Inevitable Western is cinematic in its scope, but is concise like the best pop music, and even the group’s

meanders feel purposeful. The inverse is true as well: when the trio tackles Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” the result increases the emotional intensity by emphasizing the refrain— subtly shifting the chorus up front, and returning a half-dozen times or more over the course of six minutes—by turns gently, stately, and tenderly. This is not a jazz jam band that deconstructs rock songs, as many other groups in the genre do. “We certainly do rock covers, but it was always a bit mystifying to me that we’re singled out for it because it has been done since around 1965,” Iverson commented with patience. “I think it may be due to the way that we approach the material.” For a trio that defies easy categorization, the Bad Plus are certainly mindful of the trends and constitutive parts of the material from which they draw. Another stand-out from Inevitable Western, “You Will Lose All Fear,” and one written by bassist Reid, is big and broad in the way that invokes George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”—as big and brassy as a trio without horns can possibly sound. Elsewhere on the record the Bad Plus draw from punk, pop, post-rock, modern classical, and more. But unlike most piano trios, the Bad Plus never sound like background music. Theirs is set for the stadium (an earlier record was called Prog and even covered Rush!), but most appropriate in intimate spaces. At the Hangar they’ll surely sound best. “We have been together for so long that there really is a back catalogue,” Iverson said. “It is the Inevitable Western tour, to be sure, but we’ll play a lot more. And possibly even some brand new ones.” •

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somewhat cartoonier comic-book styles … but Ellis has ultimately crafted a very powerful and wildly exuberant personal vision. (Using both traditional and digital painting techniques.) As a cartoonist I have always been attracted to the extreme use of black-and-white in comics. And it occurs to me that Ellis often uses the big, thick, black cartoon outlines and black masses of the comics in his paintings. (In conversation with him, during a visit to his home studio, I learned that he designs his paintings as if they were comic book black-andwhite ink drawings.) On occasion he eschews line, but I find these paintings appealing as well (for instance a big Iron Giant retro-robot being wonked

by a leather-clad warrior woman with a giant wrench that he painted as a cover for Heavy Metal magazine). Perhaps I will have to accept that the deep attraction I have to Ellis’s paintings is fundamentally mysterious. I really don’t know why I am programmed to love this stuff. I took a look at Ellis’s web-comic The Only Living Boy. It is a collaboration with the writer David Gallaher. (Full credits: Color flatting: Mike Paar, Lettering: April & Scott O. Brown, Website Design: Brock Beauchamp, Logo Design: Deron Bennett, Assistant: Laura Van Winkle.) Steven Spielberg once said that one should be able to tell the story of a movie in twenty-five words. Assuming this holds true for a comic book story, the twenty-five word scenario for OLB is: A twelve-year-old boy runs away from

home and unexpectedly goes through a reality warp ending up in a hostile fantasy world. (He’s sheltering from the rain under a big flat rock in a public park where he finds a teddy bear [that I suspect triggers the reality warp] and when he awakens the next morning he is in the fantasy world – which looks like a ruinedand-jungle overgrown New York City, with a dragon perching on the Chrysler Building, and a host of ravenous monsters and cute fantasy warrior girls, and a sadistic monster surgeon and weird alien overlords, and an arena with a three-headed dinosaur and on and on…) Only Living Boy is a brilliant work, a very engaging story. Ellis’s style is a bit cartooned which gives his art a sort of animated cartoon feel. And (as a former animation storyboard artist) I am impressed with the sequence

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of shots that Ellis uses to tell the story…an excellent succession of exciting and evocative shots that pull the Reader in and moves the story along at a breakneck pace. You can’t stop turning the pages (or, rather, clicking the cursor on the arrow to the next page, as these are modern digital comics). Only Living Boy is a very rapid paced, exciting story. (It would make a terrific film.) Another thing that impressed me is Steve Ellis’s design sense. His character designs are marvelous. And his designs for his fantasy landscapes and interiors are evocative and compelling. And there is a rambling, dream-like quality to OLB that I admire. The story lurches from one surprising set piece to the next as if the film director Federico Fellini had teamedup with the comic book artist Jack Kirby on a fantasy film. O.K. Here we might ask: Who is this guy? Who is this Steve Ellis? Here’s some info from his website: “After a life-threatening encounter with his ’77 Oldsmobile and a rogue telephone pole, Steve Ellis made a decision…to do what he loved rather than what he should. Since that fateful day…he has flung himself headlong into the exciting world of an illustrator and artist. Today he runs Hyperactive Studios where he takes on large projects for clients. He is co-founder/Chief Creative Officer of Bottled Lightning LLC which handles the creation of new properties, and works with Skinwalker Studios as co-founder and lead designer.” As for his education, we discover that “Steve was educated at the Syracuse University Illustration Department where he met and worked alongside painter/illustrator Donato Giancola, an inspiration and lifelong friend.” (And I might add here, that, on that visit to Ellis’s home studio, he showed me one of Giancola’s fantasy paintings, and it was mindboggling work, on a level with Lord Leighton or Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema or something.) The website tells us that Ellis has worked on “stories and artwork for most of the major media companies in the world”. He has worked as a comic book illustrator for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image and IDW. He has worked for toy and film and publishing companies including AMC, Disney, Random House, Scholastic Books, Blizzard Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast. He has worked on comic book characters such as Iron Man, Green Lantern and Captain America, and tabletop and video games such as Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering and The Walking Dead. “Among his creator owned properties are High Moon, The Silencers, The Only Living Boy, Box 13 and more.” In a section of the website called “Honors” we read: “Steve is considered a digital comics pioneer with Comixology on Box 13 [a digital phone web-comic], with AMC on the award-winning comic/online games Breaking Bad: The High Cost of Living, Breaking Bad: The Interrogation and Walking Dead: Dead Reckoning, and has received a Harvey Award [a major comics award] for High Moon and two nominations for Best Inker 2009 and 2010.” And, if all that wasn’t enough, Ellis finds time to teach at his old alma mater Syracuse University, Ithaca College, and the University of Connecticut, has his fine art represented in international galleries, and “lives with his wife and two children in Ithaca, N.Y.” We could give Steve an Overachiever Award. But it is, indeed, a life well spent. •

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Chaw Ei Thein | 3:30 PM-5:00 PM | Johnson Museum of Art, North Central Ave, Ithaca | Performance by Internationally acclaimed Burmese multimedia artist Chaw Ei Thein, who performs as part of the Burma/Myanmar Research Forum at Cornell. Members of the Cornell Baroque Orchestra | 8:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca | Features an evening of French Baroque chamber music, including cantatas by Clerambault and Jacquet de La Guerre and instrumental music by Telemann, Couperin, and Marais. Family Weekend Concert: Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensemble | 8:15 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | Symphonic Band: “Dance Around the World” Grainger/ Ragsdale: Molly on the Shore for marimbas and band | McCallister: Krump | Daugherty: Limerick Daydreams

John Haines-Eitzen, cello, with guest Matthew Bengston, piano and fortepiano | 3:00 PM- | Barnes Hall Auditorium, Cornell University, Ithaca |

Blue Tattoo | 7:00 PM-, 10/22 Wednesday | Cinemapolis, 120 E Green St, Ithaca | Songwriter Joe Crookston will perform original story songs, introduce the documentary film “Blue Tattoo”. Following the screening, Professor Jonathan Aaron Boyarin, Director of Cornell Jewish Studies, will join Crookston to facilitate a community conversation about the film and the relevant issues it raises. The Cinemapolis screening is co-sponsored by Cornell Jewish Studies. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret | 7:30 PM-, 10/23 Thursday | Regal 14 Cinema, The Shops At Ithaca Mall, Ithaca | A feature-length documentary following an intrepid filmmaker as he uncovers the most destructive industry facing the planet today and investigates why the world’s leading environmental organizations are too afraid to talk about it. X-MEN - Days of Future Past | 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, 10/25 Saturday | Groton Public Library | Part of Teen Night @ Groton Public Library. Pizza Games Computers Popcorn. For more information: 607-898-5055 director@ grotonpubliclibrary.org

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Marsalis: Well Tempered | 7:30 PM- | Anderson Center, 4400 Vestal Parkway East, Binghamton | Renowned Grammy Award winning saxophonist and Tony Award nominee/composer Branford Marsalis joins the highly celebrated Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia Marsalis Well-Tempered. Gamer Symphony Orchestra | 8:15 PM- | Ford Hall, Ithaca College, Danby Road, Ithaca | -

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Movie descriptions via rottentomatoes. com Dear White People | Winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, Dear White People is a sly, provocative satire of race relations in the age of Obama. | 108 mins R | Fri: 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Sat & Sun: 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Mon - Wed: 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 For No Good Reason | Experience 15 years in the life of acclaimed illustrator Ralph Steadman, whose surreal, often confrontational artwork is frequently associated with Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson thanks to such books as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Curse of Lono. | 89 mins R |Tue: 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 Kill the Messenger | Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation’s streets...and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S. | 122 mins R | Fri: 9:20 PM; Sat & Sun: 2:10, 9:20; Mon Wed: 9:20 PM; Thu: 2:10, 9:20. Microbirth | Presented by The Center @ 203 and Sea Change Family Chiropractic. Film screening followed by panel discussion featuring Rodney Dietert, Professor of Immunotoxicology, Cornell University, featured in the film | Sun: 3:00 PM. Men, Women & Children | Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives. | 119 mins R | Fri - Thu: 4:20 PM. 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 - Wed: 4:45, 7:00; Thu: 11:20 AM, 4:45, 7:00 Pride | It’s the summer of 1984, Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers’families. | 120 mins R | Fri: 4:25, 6:55, 9:25; Sat & Sun: 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25; Mon - Wed: 4:25, 6:55, 9:25; Thu: 11:20 AM, 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25. 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: 7:10, 9:10; Sat & Sun: 2:20, 7:10, 9:10; Mon & Tue: 7:10, 9:10; Wed: 9:10 PM; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:20, 7:10, 9:10. 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 | Sat: 1:30 PM. Telling Amy’s Story | Recounting a domestic-violence homicide in Central Pennsylvania on Nov. 8, 2001. | 60 mins NR | Wed: 6:30 PM The Two Faces of January | Screenwriter Hossein Amini (The Wings of the Dove, Drive) makes a stylish directing debut with this sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul, 1962, and adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s novel. | 96 mins PG-13 | Fri - Mon: 5:10, 7:15, 9:20; Wed: 5:10, 7:15, 9:20; Thu: 11:20 AM, 2:45, 5:10, 7:15, 9:20.

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Ithaca Shakespeare Company: A Shakespearean All Hallows Event | 7:30 PM-, 10/25 Saturday | Fall Creek Studios, 1201 North Tioga Street, Ithaca | This concert/performance event will feature performances of Halloweenthemed songs by Kristen Park, Melissa Snyder, and Elizabeth Frank. What Took You So Long? | 7:00 PM-, 10/27 Monday | The Kitchen Theatre, 417 W. State St., Ithaca | Leslyn McBeanClairborne, in her first solo performance in Ithaca, attempts to answer some of the more puzzling questions for her as a woman, such as, Who designated 40 as the butt-dropping age? and Why does peeing in public restrooms take so long? This one-hour performance will be one night only. The Snail and the Whale | 10:00 AM-, 7:00 PM- 10/29 Wednesday | Smith Opera House For The Performing Arts, 82 Seneca St, Geneva | A tiny snail longs to see the world, so she hitches a lift on the tail of a humpback whale. But when the whale gets beached, how will the snail save him?

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.

Meetings Ithaca Sociable Singles | 6:00 PM-, 10/22 Wednesday | Uncle Louie’s Backyard, 294 Tompkins St., Cortland | 607-898-3832 or spicechick2@verizon.net 25th NYS Assembly District Candidates’ Forum | 7:00 PM-, 10/22 Wednesday | Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N Aurora St, Ithaca | w/ Barbara Lifton and Herb Messer Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency | 8:30 AM-, 10/23 Thursday | Common Council Chambers, Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green St., Ithaca | The Landlords Association of Tompkins County | 4:30 PM-, 10/27 Monday | Ramada Inn, North Triphammer Road, Ithaca | Jack Little CPA - 1031 Intermediary Specialist and CCT Bank, giving a presentation of Identity Theft, Internet Banking and safety, Certified Bank check Fraud, electronic check - bank wire safety. Ithaca Town Board | 4:30 PM-, 10/27 Monday | Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Ithaca Board of Public Works | 4:45 PM-, 10/27 Monday | Ithaca City Hall, 108 E. Green Street, Ithaca |

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Saturday, October 25 – 12 p.m. Enough said, right? The area’s top brewers will take to Ithaca’s Restaurant Row on Aurora Street for the annual Oktoberfest, a competition for Best Beer. Will Hopshire Farm Brewery defend its Best Brew title in 2014, or will one of the local favorites – Bandwagon, Ithaca Beer or Bacchus Brewing – take the stein? Live music, beer, wine tastings and food. See you there.

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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. Pranic Healing | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 10/22 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | This class is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration is required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392. Job Search Tips for Older Workers | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 10/23 Thursday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Lincoln on the Civil War | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/23 Thursday | Newfield Public Library, Main Street,, Newfield | Read Lincoln’s Civil War speeches. Look at the events of the 1860’s and how they are revealed by Lincoln’s words. This reading and discussion series will be led by Gary Emerson. Cooking with Passion for Fall | 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, 10/23 Thursday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | In this class, professional chef Anita Devine will prepare a full vegetarian meal for you to enjoy, using the colors and tastes of fall’s bounty. Health Careers Presentation | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/23 Thursday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E. Main St., Trumansburg | Lucia Tyler will give a presentation on Health Careers. Job Corps Orientation and Application Interviews | 10:30 AM-, 10/24 Friday | Tompkins Workforce New York Career Center, 171 E State St, Ithaca | Call Admissions Counselor Tonia Butler at (585) 454-5130 to see if you are eligible, to reserve your seat and to find out what documents to bring. International Folk Dancing | 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, 10/26 Sunday | Lifelong, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca | Teaching and request dancing. No partners needed. $5

donation suggested. Genealogy Club | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/27 Monday | Cortland Free Library, 32 Church St., Cortland | Registration is not required, but appreciated. Tuesdays Microsoft Excel | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/28 Tuesday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | Astrology Learning Group | 6:30 PM-8:00 PM, 10/28 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, 10/28 Tuesday | Ithaca Friends Meeting House, 120 3rd St., Ithaca | For more info, email jesusianity@gmail.com or visit: www.facebook.com/groups/ JesusiansOfIthaca. Meet the Practitioner: Lupus and Scleroderma; Learn How to Fight Back | 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 10/29 Wednesday | GreenStar Cooperative Market, 700 W Buffalo St, Ithaca | Free and open to the public; held in the Classrooms@GreenStar, 700 W. Buffalo St. Registration required - sign up at GreenStar’s Customer Service Desk or call 273-9392.

Lectures 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. Talks at Twelve: Resident-to-Resident Elder Mistreatment in Nursing Homes: Findings from the First Prevalence Study | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, 10/23 Thursday | Beebe Hall, 2nd Floor Conference Room; Cornell University, Ithaca | w/ Karl Pillemer, Human Development, Cornell University. Communication and Treatment Planning among Older Adults with Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Naturalizing Europe: Symbols, Practices, and the Construction of Banal Authority in the EU | 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, 10/23 Thursday | Uris Hall -- G08, Cornell University, Ithaca | Reppy Institute Seminar with Kathleen R. McNamara, Director, Mortara Center for International Studies and Associate Professor of Government & Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Reconsidering Ronal Reagan: Politics in the Performance Society | 4:30 PM-, 10/23 Thursday | A.D. White House,

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Saturday, October 25 – 6 p.m. Swing-jazz band The Pelotones – featured in last week’s Ithaca Times – celebrates the release of their latest album, Breakaway, with a live show at Oasis Dance Club.

Cornell University, Ithaca | Lector by Peggy Phelan of Stanford University Working Hot: El Anatsui | 5:15 PM-, 10/23 Thursday | Johnson Museum Of Art, N Central Ave, Ithaca | Artist El Anatsui will speak in conjunction with the course Working Hot: Exploring Art Beyond Representation. Mineola Twins: Performance Encounter | 4:30 PM-, 10/24 Friday, 10/25 Saturday | Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca | Playwright Paul Vogel will visit Cornell with David Savran (Ph.D. 78), in a Film Forum. This event is free and open to the public. Latino Children and White Out-Migration from New Gateway School Districts | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, 10/28 Tuesday | Beebe Hall, 2nd Floor Conference Room; Cornell University, Ithaca | w/ Matthew Hall, Policy Analysis and Management Cornell on Trial: The University and the Creative Arts, Revisited | 4:30 PM-, 10/28 Tuesday | English Lounge, 258 Goldwin Smith Hall - Cornell University, Ithaca | Professor Chon Noriega, UCLA, Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media. Poetic Wisdom: Surrealism, Magic, and the Human Sciences | 5:15 PM-, 10/28 Tuesday | Johnson Museum of Art, N Central Ave, Ithaca | Lecture with Jonathan Eburne Jonathan Eburne from Penn State.

Nature & Science Guided Beginner Bird Walks | 9:00 AM-, 10/25 Saturday; 9:00 AM-, 10/26 Sunday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca | Meet at the front of the building. Please contact Linda Orkin, wingmagic16@gmail.com for more information. Tree Identification Walk with Akiva Silver | 2:00 PM-, 10/25 Saturday | Bock-Harvey Forest Preserve, Enfield | Co-hosted by the Finger Lakes Land Trust and the Cayuga Trails Club. Silver, a naturalist, landscaper, and outdoor educator, will lead a walk that will focus on identification, natural history, wildlife value, the role of invasive plants, as well as survival uses of trees and shrubs. Cayuga Trails Club Hike: Jim Schug Trail | 4:00 PM-, 10/28 Tuesday | EMS Parking Lot, 722 S. Meadow St, Ithaca | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a two-three hour, moderate hike on the Jim Schug Trail Dryden. 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

Special Events Schuyler Hospital Auxiliary Bags, Baubles and Beads Sale | 8:00 AM-1:00 PM, 10/24 Friday | Schuyler Hospital, 220 Steuben St., Montour Falls | To benefit Schuyler Hospital and the Seneca View Skilled Nursing Facility. National Food Day Festival | 3:30 PM-, 10/24 Friday | Owego Elks Lodge, 223 Front Street, Owego | This free event will feature food demos, tastings, hands on activities, free raffles and much more Downtown Oktoberfest | 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 10/25 Saturday | Downtown Ithaca, Restaurant Row, Aurora Street, Ithaca | See ithacaoktoberfest.com for more details Finger Lakes Beer Festival | 10/25 Saturday | Watkins Glen International, 2790 County Road 16, Watkins Glen | Finger Lakes Beer Trail and Watkins Glen International bring you 30 craft brews from 15 New York State craft breweries. Enjoy live music, food, beer and friends at this unique event. Cancer Resource Center’s 20th Annual Walkathon and 5K Run | 9:00 AM-, 10/25 Saturday | Cass Park, 701 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | Varna Playground Tear-down | 9:00 AM-, 10/25 Saturday | Varna Community Center, 943 Dryden Road (Rt. 366), Dryden | Varna residents and friends will take down the existing play structures behind the Varna Community Center. Have questions? Contact: Sue Heath (607-272-8919) Historic Ithaca’s Annual Halloween Graveyard Tour | 10:00 AM-, 10/25 Saturday; 10:00 AM-, 10/26 Sunday | Ithaca City Cemetery, University Avenue Entrance, Ithaca | Learn about the Ithaca City Cemetery’s evolution from village burying ground to Victorian garden of the dead. For more information call (607) 273-6633, email christine@historicithaca. org or visit www.historicithaca.org/ halloween/ Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library Fall Book Sale | 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, 10/25 Saturday, 10/26 Sunday, 10/27 Monday; 12:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/28 Tuesday | Friends of the Library Book Sale, 509 Esty Street, Ithaca | Pumpkin Carnival | 10:30 AM-, 10/25 Saturday | Waterman Conservation Education Center, 403 Hilton Road, Apalachin | food and lots of games and

prizes for carnival goers of all ages. Including a special game of “Spider I Spy”, face painting, carnival will be family friendly and feakishly fun. We are planning on a spooktacular day. IC Football: Salisbury at Ithaca | 12:00 PM-, 10/25 Saturday | Butterfield Stadium, Ithaca College, Ithaca | Old Fashion Halloween at Ward W. O’Hara | 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, 10/25 Saturday | Ward W. O’Hara Agricultural & Country Living Museum, 6880 East Lake Rd. Rt. 38A, Auburn | 2nd Annual Owego Zombie Fest | 2:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/25 Saturday | The Parkview Hotel, 145 Front St., Owego | The undead will invade Owego’s Parkview Hotel and Draper Park, located directly across from the Parkview. Owego’s Zombie Fest will be free to everyone who attends and will include activities for both adults and youth. 6th Annual Fall Festival | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/25 Saturday | Edith B Ford Library, 7169 North Main St, Ovid | Seneca County Farm Tastings, 6th Annual Apple Pie Contest, village Costume Parade for children, youth Halloween Party at Ovid Fire Hall. Americana Vineyards, 12th Annual Hallo-wine Spooktacular | 8:00 PM-, 10/25 Saturday | Americana Vineyards Winery, 4367 East Covert Road, Interlaken | Music from the DJs of Elephant Sound, ongoing East Hill Farmers Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/22 Wednesday | East Hill Plaza, Pine Tree Road, Ithaca | Trumansburg Farmers Market | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/22 Wednesday | Trumansburg Farmers Market, Corner of Routes 96 and 227, Trumansburg | Live music from local acts from 5 to 7 p.m. Downtown Farmers’ Market | 4:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/23 Thursday | 9:00 AM-2:00 PM, 10/28 Tuesday | Dewitt Park, North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Enfield Grange Farmers’ and Craft Market | 3:00 PM-7:00 PM, 10/23 Thursday | Enfield Center, Enfield Main Road, | Held every Thursday through October. Wisner Market | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 10/23 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, 10/25 Saturday | Steamboat Landing, Ithaca |

Health Alcoholics Anonymous | Multiple 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 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. DSS in Ulysses | 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, 10/22 Wednesday; 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, 10/29 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-, 10/22 Wednesday | Multiple Locations | A free group providing information and support for people with Lyme or their care givers. We meet monthly at homes of group members. 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, 10/22 Wednesday | Dryden Village Hall, Dryden | 7:00 AM-8:00 AM, 10/23 Thursday | First Unitarian Church Annex, 306 N. Aurora Street, Ithaca | 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, 10/25 Saturday | Ithaca Free Clinic, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/27 Monday | Just Be Cause center, 1013 W. State St., Ithaca | Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/22 Wednesday | First Congregational Church of Ithaca , 309 Highland Rd , Ithaca | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/27 Monday | Ithaca Recovery Center, 518 West Seneca St., Ithaca | Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/22 Wednesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | For more info, contact 229-4592. Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/22 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, AHIMSA Studio, 215 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Free every week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www. DamodarDas.com. Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 10/23 Thursday; 2:00 PM-6:00 PM, 10/27 Monday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 West Seneca St., Ithaca | First come, first served (no appointments). Ithaca Community Aphasia Network | 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, 10/24 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-, 10/24 Friday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 West Seneca Street, Ithaca | Successful recovery based on Dr. Kay Sheppard’s program Men’s Sweatlodge | Call for Location and time | Men’s Sweatlodge for healing & purification. Contact: hittak@yahoo.com for directions & info. Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 10/26 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, 10/28 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. 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-, 10/28 Tuesday | 124 E. Court St., 124 E. Court St., Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW with any questions # 607-272-1505 Pet Loss Support Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/28 Tuesday | 316 E. Court Street -- enter Linn Street side, 316 E. Court Street -- enter Linn Street side, Ithaca | For information and other details, call: Jane at 607-351-2740 or Cathie at 607-273-3063, or email petloss@gmail.com Coping With the Loss of Your Pet Group | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 10/28 Tuesday | Pet Loss Group, 316 E. Court Street, Ithaca | For more info, please call Jane Baker Segelken at 607-351-2740 or Cathie Simpson at 607-273-3063 or email petlossgroup@gmail.com

Books 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. The Language of War: A Dramatic Reading by the Tompkins County Civil War Commission | 6:45 PM-8:00 PM, 10/22 Wednesday | Tompkins County Public Library, 101 East Green Street, Ithaca | The Neoliberal Regime in the Agri-Food Sector--Crisis, Resilience, and Restructuring | 4:00 PM-, 10/23 Thursday | Mann Library Room 160, Cornell University, Ithaca | Rescheduled to 10/23. Book talk with Steven Wolf, associate professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell.

NoViolet Bulawayo / Mukoma Wa Ngugi | 4:30 PM-, 10/23 Thursday | Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, 29 East Ave., Ithaca | Reading by fiction writers NoViolet Bulawayo, a Cornell MFA alumna, and Mukoma Wa Ngugi. Deborah Emin | 7:00 PM-, 10/25 Saturday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 S. Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Deborah Emin visits to discuss her novels Scags at 7 and Scags at 18. Cynthia Falk Barns of New York Book Talk | 2:00 PM-, 10/26 Sunday | Dryden Village Hall, Dryden | Historic Ithaca, Inc. and the Dryden Town Historical Society will be jointly sponsoring this free book talk by author Cynthia Falk. Thomas Pellechia | 2:00 PM-, 10/26 Sunday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Author Thomas Pellechia discusses his latest book, Timeless Bounty: Food and Wine in New York’s Finger Lakes. Ann Starr | 6:00 PM-, 10/28 Tuesday | Buffalo Street Books, DeWitt Bldg, East Buffalo Street, Ithaca | Author Ann Starr discusses her latest book, Sounding the Depths: The Music of Morgan Powell Lake Country Book Club | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 10/29 Wednesday | Edith B. Ford Memorial Library, PO Box 410, Ovid | Internal Enemy by Alan Tyler select a few poems to share.

Arts CSMA Seeks Artist | 12:00 AM-11:59 PM, 10/22 Wednesday | Community School Of Music And Arts, 215 E State St, Ithaca | The Community School of Music and Arts (CSMA) seeks artists to participate in its Arts for All Marathon annual fundraiser for scholarships, November 7-24. Visit www.artsforallmarathon.org or contact info@csma-ithaca.org or 272-1474 for information. Wednesdays Botanical Illustration & Watercolor | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, 10/22 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. Explore negative space, light and dark and learn a few new tricks to create realistic and unique artwork. All materials provided for in-class work. The Big Draw: It’s Our World | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 10/26 Sunday | Johnson Museum of Art, North Central Ave, Ithaca | Join us as we close out Ithaca’s Big Draw month at this free family event, and participate in drawing activities throughout the Museum. Artist Talk w/ Diana Al-Hadid | 5:15 PM-, 10/27 Monday | SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Fine Arts Center, Corner of Graham

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The Ithaca Shakespeare Company presents A Shakespearean All Hallows Event, a concert and performance at Ithaca’s Fall Creek Studios. Enjoy Halloween-themed songs while ISC actors portray the ghosts, goblins, and witches of Shakespeare in scenes and speeches from his most well-known plays.

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he Mavericks, who will perform at the State Theatre Nov. 2., are from Miami by way of Nashville. Over the years they have added more Latin influences to what was always an eclectic sound. Fronted by Raul Malo, a Cuban-American who channels the great ghost of Roy Orbison, the group charted several times in the late 1980s and early ‘90s, offering classic country with a punk and garage rock ethos. The band broke up quietly around 2000, reconvened briefly in 2003 and, according to Paul Deakin, drummer and co-founder, “had no real inclination of getting back together.” But they were offered an “exorbitant” amount of money to re-group. The original guys found themselves sitting down over dinner and deciding to collaborate on new material rather than “cash in on the hits for 20 shows.” Deakin joked: “What started out as twenty dates may turn into another twenty years” In Time, released in 2013, was

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one of the finest reunion records of a five songs a week we’ll be fine. He said long decade of nostalgia tours. With the first week we’ll just be getting back influences as disparate as Celtic, ska, together so if we only get two, that’s fine.’ Tex-Mex, and classic country, the nine “And so the first day we went in—I tracks on that album bubble with the think it was on a Monday night—we same energy of the rest of the Mavericks’ planned to record and the first song discography. “When we stopped enjoying it around the new millennium, or around 2003-04, that’s when we called it quits” Deakin said. “During the time off I played with some great artists, but there’s nothing like the inexplicable chemistry—that seems to work with this band, and there are The Mavericks grace the State Theatre stage Sunday, November 2. many other bands like that. “[Malo] said that he didn’t want we did was “Back in Your Arms Again” to do any pre-production,” Deakin [the first single from In Time]. We got continued, “and … he just wanted to that track—and we ended up getting get together organically in the studio. nine songs in that one week, so we only He said, ‘We booked three one-week needed one week to finish the record— sessions, with a couple of weeks in so it just fell together. If you’ll forgive the between each, and if we get two to cliché it was just like getting on a bicycle

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; Sunday noon to 5 PM | Weaving Demo by June Szabo, 10/03 only | www.handwork. coop The Ink Shop | 330 E.State / MLK Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 | Tuesday to Friday 12 -6 PM, Sat 12-4 PM | In and Out of Sculptural Books, presented by Kumi Korf, up through October | 607-277-3884 | www.ink-shop. org

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Saturday and Sunday, October 25 and 26 – 10 a.m. This weekend, hit up Ithaca City Cemetery for Historic Ithaca’s annual graveyard tour. Learn about the cemetery’s evolution and its most famous (and infamous) occupants. Can’t make it this weekend? Another tour will take place 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1. See historicithaca.org for more information.

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Kids Art Classes for Kids | 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 Cuddle Up Storytime | 10:00 AM-, 10/22 Wednesday | Southworth Library Association, Main Street, Dryden |

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Sunday, October 26 – 3 p.m. Local jazz musician Don Slatoff plays an evening of originals and cover tunes at Cortland’s Grace Church. Slatoff will be joined by Steve Wood on double bass, Kenney Swingin’ Gates on piano, Jimmy Johns from Syracuse on drums, and special guest vocalist Venissa Santi from Trumansburg/ Philadelphia.

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rchitect William Henry Miller (1848-1922) never graduated from Cornell, according to Mary Tomlan of The History Center. “He left before there was a formal program in architecture,” she said. “He was doing specialized programs and already picking up commissions.” He worked mostly in Ithaca and on the Cornell campus, but designed buildings in Rochester, the Thousand Islands, Washington, D.C., Rutherford, N.J., and Detroit. Miller emerged from Cornell in the late Victorian era, but his buildings looked forward to the Arts & Crafts movement with its love of expanses of burnished wood, stained glass windows, polychromed trim, and other medievalisms. “He had a feeling for volume and relating one space to another,” said Tomlan. “It was a sensitivity to proportion, decoration of form, and nuanced spatial organization.” Some of his buildings, like the old Ithaca High School (now the Dewitt Mall) and Unitarian Church, are so much a part of the fabric of the city that they are perhaps taken for granted. Of the buildings he designed at Cornell, Risley Hall is perhaps the most prominent. But he is best known for designing residences, including that of Jane McGraw, the third wife and widow of John McGraw, a benefactor and trustee of Cornell University, and a house for McGraw’s daughter Jennie. These were designed in the 1880s, the ascending arc of his career trajectory. He was most active in the last two decades of the 19th century and the first decade of 20th century. After that he slowed down, but never really stopped working. The Ithaca High School building, a splendid example of the Collegiate Gothic style, was built in 1917, just five years before he died. Greycourt at 108 Eddy Street is an

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apartment building that he both designed and owned. It was originally a home for prominent widows. Tomlan describes it as having an “elegance of touch” but in a Renaissance mode rather than in the Victorian style. The terra cotta bas reliefs on the front façade are elements that he used frequently in his buildings. The walls are lined with a combination of oval and rectangular windows. Tomlan was delighted to notice that the Alan Chimacoff of ikon.5, who designed the Collegetown Terrace buildings, had picked up elements from nearby Greycourt and incorporated them into his own design. Miller’s own home—which he of course designed—is on Eddy Street three doors up from Greycourt Apartments. He married in 1876 and he and his wife had three children, two daughters and a son. His office was in the Sage Block at 137-139 E. State Street, now the first block of the Commons and the site of what was last Benchwarmers. Some his Generation work included remodeling Built for aofNew of Homeowners Built for a New Generation Homeowners the Clinton House to add aofMansard roof, which has since been removed. His East

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Hill mansion for Jennie McGraw burned to the ground in 1906. The “McGraw House” on South Geneva Street, a senior housing complex, is the modern descendant of a Miller-designed building at 512 S. Aurora St. (corner of Hillview Terrace), which is now student housing. The stone inscription “Old Ladies Home” is still visible on the façade of this Arts &

Crafts building, which is distinctive with its half-timbered Tudor Revival touches. Another lost Miller building is the original Women’s Community Building at the corner of North Cayuga and West Seneca streets. It was the predecessor of the one that was just torn down to erect Breckenridge Place. •

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